AEW WrestleDream & NXT No Mercy Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #711 – 9/28/23

0:00 It's still up. Welcome everybody. Welcome. So this week's Editionisto Realta Show Episode number seven, eleven September twenty eight T Doctor twenty three, Welcome to your NXT no mercy in eight and w rest three preview and prediction edition of ass r T with You. I am one after show. I am Jeff Peck. Typically joined every single week on my cost one only doctor Trey Franklin.

0:44 I typically asked Doctor Trey, what is up, my friend? But no Doctor Trey right now. This is just a solo show with yours truly here on this week's edition of s r T. You for those of you that have been long time I'm fans of this podcast. From time to time we do a solo show. It's it's kind of like an old school sports radio type edition of SRTU where I just talk to myself and y'all listen. I give my thoughts while we're recording, obviously duh. And then at the end of the show, I say thanks for listening, I hang up the podcast I stopped recording, and you guys go on your merry way with the rest of your day and listen to whatever podcasts that come your way next, So solo edition of SRTU seven eleven. Of course September twenty eight, twenty twenty three, no Mercy preview predictions, aw Wressell Dream preview and predictions.

1:41 So yeah, we'll cover professional wresting as best we can here on a one man solo show edition of SRTU, and of course we we kick things off with what I deem to be the biggest story, one of the biggest stories this week, as MWe officially has signed former AW TBS champions and Jade Cargill to a contract. It was announced on ESPN. ESPN broke the news that Jade card Gill had signed with WWW on a multi year deal. They broke it on Tuesday morning around ten am or so. Mark Rimaldi from ESPN broke the story, and uh, you know, we had heard rumors that Jade was going to be heading to WWE from AW. That she wrapped up that loss that she had with Chris Statlander on Rampage and rematch from the TBS Championship match, The Hug, the Goodbye, that that was her swansong in AW and that ended a little over a two year run in All Elite wrestling.

2:44 She has always come off as someone that was like a WWE talent in all elite wrestling, So I don't think it's it's too surprising that she has officially landed in WWW. You know, Jade card Gill is a star. Like visually you can see like, this is someone that can be in professional wrestling in five for five years, and then after those five years could hit Hollywood and become one of the biggest action stars, movie stars, what have you in the world of entertainment. If Jade card Gill wanted to host a daytime talk show, I could see it. If she wanted to compete in a reality TV show like Survivor, I could see it. If she was the co leading lady in some badass action movie that hits the summer months, I could totally see it. Jade Cardgill is an absolute star. The professional wrestling has definitely had our critiques as a wrestling fan. It's always difficult for me in a chair that does a podcast and be like, yeah, you know, you could tell that she's a little bit green because I've never wrestled in my life and she has more athleticism her pinky than I do in my entire body. But it's obviously visible for a long time wrestling fans that from an in ring standpoint, she's not a fully complete package, but from an outside visual standpoint, she is. As a character. She's great when she gets

4:16 on the microphone, cuts a damn good promos. She's phenomenal, and she has been a figurehead for all elite wrestling in these last two years, especially in the Win's division. I mean, it was just always poised that when they gave her the undefeated streak, when they gave her the TBS championship, when she held it as long as she did, it was like, all right, how are they going to get this title off of versea that she gets a run as the ad AW Women's World Champion. That was always the vibe that I got. I thought that she would be an AW for a longer period of time than she was and then would potentially make the switch over to WWW. I think the timelines happened a lot faster than any of us would expect, and WWW is getting a talent that maybe under their umbrella working out at the performance center, working at with some of the producers or some of the other women in the on the roster, could become a finished phenomenal talent when her current WE contract comes to an end. This to me, has really big ramifications in the w w E, AW battle for supremacy and professional wrestling that we don't really talk about or want to talk about. Both promotions say they don't want to talk about, even though sometimes each of them do. But this is a huge get for WE from AW because this is

5:51 the first homegrown AW talent that has jumped over to the w E side, and to me, the biggest thing in this all. And we talked about this several years ago when Cody made the jump to WE was our Cody's quote, guys, are his people? Are they going to be starting to come over to w w WE once they see how successful Cody Rhodes has been, or is there are other talents that may not be quote Cody's people that are looking and saying, man, he's been so successful AW, I've maybe hit a ceiling or I've only reached a certain amount of money that I can make and some many eyes that I can that can see me. Do I go over to the competition? Do I go over to w WE? And will I have the same success or do I get buried? I think Cody showed that you won't be buried. Instead, you will be pushed up the chain as is maybe the number one guy in the company right now on the baby face side, and that's very appealing. So Jade Cargill, who is close with Cody Rhodes, saw what was going on and made that jump, she said in an interview with The Ringer via Wrestling Inc. Cargill Quote. Cargill then confirmed that Cody Rhodes, who was instrumental in bringing her to aw in twenty twenty, played an equally vital role in persuading her to leave Tony CON's promotion for WE. Cargill believes Rhodes laid out the blueprint for others looking to jump from AWWE. Following his return at Wrestling thirty eight, twenty twenty two,

7:27 Jade said, he's a phenomenal man. I've seen what the business did for him. I've seen him just be the stellt athlete that he is. I didn't see it any different for myself, but yes, he was one of the guys that led me to a great decision. So here's Jade Cargill flat out saying I saw the success that Cody Rhodes had leaving AW the competition and going to w E, and it's something that I want to do. It's something that I want to sink my teeth into and have the same success. And if there's anybody that was in AW on September one, including Jade Cargill, that could have that same equal success in WI, there's only handful of them. Jade Cargill is one of them, and I fully believe that her time in w will be very successful. I think you could already pencil her in as someone that will be in a top WrestleMania spotlight in six months from now in Philadelphia. Unless she herself holds herself back, I think the sky's the limit for Jade Cargill. But again, the big news here is Cody Rhodes. Cody helped bring her into WWE. Jade saw Cody success like AW has made so many major signings away from w whether the releases or people that their contracts rolled off, whether b Adam Cole Moxley, Brian Danielson, They've made a lot, and those people have made just as equal of an impact. Cody is the one name that came from AW to WWE, and

9:00 I thought that was a really big played move by awor excuse me, WA to take him because they wanted to show that what you may think in AW about w E has changed. You can be a star over in AW and when you come over here, look at what happened with Cody. It was a very calculated signing, a very calculated move, and the creative behind Cody has been very calculated because it's it's opening the door to potential, not only Jade Cargill, but others. And we could talk about some of those others here in just a second. So I thought that move was very telling. And now here's the first domino effect. Jade Cargill, one of Cody's people, jumped from AW to w A. Somebody who's been a homegrown talent in AW did not know about her pre AW and I actually had a tryout, did not get signed by w A, and here she is successful in AW.

9:58 Karen then over to w E and we rolled out literally the red carpet for her signing, something we have not seen them do for any signings in quite some time. Cargill an interview with ESPN once again via Wrestling Ink, on Cody being one of her top three reasons to join WWE, She said, quote top three reasons, and Cody Rhodes was top two. Cargill said, Cody is a phenomenal wrestler, He's a phenomenal father. He's very honest, even when he has to get brutal with it. I respect Cody, I respect him trusting the system, and when I first came into AW was one of the few people that sat me down and was honest with me about this entire industry. And I appreciated that. So one thing I'm not going to do is let him down. I'm a come in here and do the work and show them why I'm a great pick. Again. Jade Cargill is flat out saying Cody Rhodes is one of the reasons why I'm there. I don't know what the top three other reasons were that she listed. Maybe it's the ceiling, the doors that open up by coming to w E put her top three reasons. At least the top two. One of them was Cody being there, So here we are again the domino effect. Cody's people.

11:05 Who are some of those others that that stick out? I think if you go back to his farewell speech in AW, he mentions Jade. Who else is in there? Maxwell Jacob Freban MJF the current AW World champion. Where will he go come January? I think how I feel right now in September, the way that he's being booked, in the way that he has talked about and carried that company, it would lead me to believe that he has either resigned or is planning on resigning with AW, because it's like, why would you talk about that engine that could and not stick with the company. Ricky Starks is another Cody Rhodes person. He was backstage at the Rumble twenty twenty three. We saw the mostly probably saw the security cambradge footage. He was there support Cody Rhodes. Wardlow is another guy that is someone that is under that Cody Rhodes banner. If you will you know, and I think from a behind the scene standpoint, I was kind of surprised that QTM Marshall, who is one of Tony Kahn's right hand men behind the scenes, was not in line for potentially joining W. I know he just signed a short term extension. I don't know if that leads to a long term extension, but I wouldn't be surprised if QT Marshall from a behind the scene standpoint, who still co runs the Nightmare Factory with Cody Rhodes, could end up in WW at some point. So, you know, I think those are some of the big names right there, Ricky Stark's MJF. Wardlow as folks that could be jumping over from AW to WE. Next year's contracts is already being

12:39 shaped up as one of the biggest contract years ever in professional wrestling. W RE signed a ton of people five years ago in twenty nineteen when AW launched to prevent them from going to AW. So now that aw A is a formable competition to them that offers equal, if not more money to WW, folks are going to start potentially make in that jump. I think I saw the names of like Becky Lynch, Shamus, we all know about Edge, Drew McIntyre, who's getting a little bit of a push lately. These are folks that could be available on the w E side, we'll WWE sign them up, or will AW swoop in and take some shots at the Armor of w E as well, And then on the AW side, obviously the big one is m JF. To me, that would be a crushing blow, but I don't think it's out of the remo possibility because to me, Jade Cargill, for the longest time, sans maybe Britt Baker was always positioned that company as the number one A or one B woman on the roster. She was a homegrown talent. She's someone that you did not know about pre aw again and here she is two years later, a superstar signed with w E and the sky is the absolute limit for her. So it's an exciting move for WWE. It's former aw star. To me, that felt like a WE talent in that in all elite wrestling, and I think this is a good fit for her. I think this is a great fit for WWE,

14:11 and if all the only thing really is if she can fine tune that in ring ability. I think Jade Cardial is going to be an absolute star for World Wrestling Entertainment going forward. So big signing by WWE obviously a blow to a w but they'll recover. I mean they always do, just like WWE always recovers when they lose a big name as well. But being that WWE has only had so few many top aw names come over to their way, this is this is a big blow. You know, Cody and Jade are are in the WWE banner and that's that's why all to think about it, especially three years ago when this all started. I think she made her debut probably like November twenty twenty to set up that match in February twenty twenty one, Mark twenty twenty one where it was Cody and Brand versus Shack and Jay.

15:01 That was her introduction. So great run so far for Jade Cargill. Again, if she could just fine tune that in ring ability, Uh, nobody is going to stop that ceiling. I think sky's the absolute limit for Jade Cargill. It's funny because we've often compared her to Tiffany Stratton over an NXT, who is starting to pick things up lately as well and is not looking as green as she has as of late. So it's the while that that women's roster and rold wrest Entertainment is top down an absolute all star roster from SmackDown a Raw to NXT. They're they're really putting it together and hopefully that pushes AW to do the same because there's a lot of great women wrestlers in AW and we just hope that they can give us this equal entertainment and entering product that we see from the w w E side as well. One thing that was obviously big last week, I think it was announced last Friday, so post recording, of course, w WE had one of those days where it's always unfortunate where talent have been released and cut from their contract.

16:12 W made several cuts through the main roster in the NXC system. Did not hear of any producers that were let go. It just seemed like it was basically main roster and NXC talent. Those names, and we'll go through the list here, starting with Matt Riddle, Dolf Siegler, Shelton, Benjamin, Elias, Mussafa Al Lee, Emma Riddick, moss A, Leah Topdala, Rick Boogs, Mace Monsour, Dana Brook, Dobacado, Shanky, Ikey Manjiro Louisa, leon Quincy, Elliott Bryson, Mantana, Montana, Kevin Ventura, Cortez, Daniel MacArthur, Alexis Gray, Brooklyn Barlow, and Abaduel Abadie Fitzgerald were all released from World Rest of Entertainment Week. I think the ones where you start here is the most surprising obviously looking at this list, it's surprising, but almost not surprising because of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes around the news, one being Matt Riddle. WWE has given Matt Riddle the keys to the car a lot to be very successful. I remember listening too.

17:23 I think it was something to wrestle with and it may be the ones that were on the WE network. And Conrad Thompson asked Bruce Pritchard, who heads creative or is one of the creative heads in WE, who can you see on the current roster right now that could be the next John Sena for the next fifteen twenty years something along those lines. It was it was definitely like who's the next Sena? And he said, without question, Matt Riddle. He saw Matt Riddle being the next face of the company, which is an absolute huge thing to be said by someone who is literally writing the creative books for w WE and lead you to believe since Bruce got back involved, that he felt that same way because of the storylines that Matt Riddle was given Riddle when he came over from NXT to the main roster. I think it was the SmackDown side during the beginning stages of the pandemic. It was like this big touted debut over he kind of floundered a little bit on that brief period of time it SmackDown. I think once he was moved to raw, things started to pick up, and obviously we know where things went for him with r K Brow. RK Brow was one of the best odd couple pairing tag teams that we've seen since since Team hell Now. They were extremely over, extremely fun, got a lot of great stuff out of Randy Ornt that we hadn't seen in some time, got a lot of great stuff out of Matt Riddle, and it just felt like that the eventual lead to all this

18:56 was going to be pre or before Randy Orton got hurt, was to lead to a Matt Riddle Randy Warn't match. I would believe it would happen at something like a Summer Slam or a Wrestlemanian. I'd believe there had been pitches it sometimes that they wanted to turn on Matt Riddle and Riddle would be the bayface or it would be the heel. They'd have a great, let's say, three to four month feud and that would help elevate Matt Riddle up as as a main event talent. That obviously didn't happen because Randy Warton got hurt. He's been out since. And then you know, Riddle that point was had matches with Roman Reigns. It was one of the most more recent Roman Reigns title defenses on network television on SmackDown Great Match. Then he went on to feud with Seth Rollins for a little bit, and again there you go.

19:47 I mean, you're in the ring with Roman Rains, You're in the ring with Seth Rollins. Obviously the company thinks highly of you, and they ran with that feud for a while and it was a very personal, intense feud, you know. And then he was brought back recently and did some stuff with Drew MacIntyre before obviously being released. The stuff that's on the opposite side of this end of this is same time during the pandemic, during the Me Too movement, Matt Riddle was accused of sexual assault. It went to court by a former co worker at Evolve Wrestling, Candy Cartwright, a fellow wrestler. They had an affair and she was claiming sexual assault. That went to a court case or was in litigation. All of that led to eventually, I presume Matt Riddle's personal life taking the same hit where his wife had divorced him. They had about three or four kids together and they went their separate ways. Riddle also had some drug test failures that harpened him from coming back. He was in rehab for a little bit, and then most recently, the belief is that he may have been somewhat inebrad intoxicated during an incident in JFK where he accused a TSA agent or Port Authority police officer belief for sexually assaulting him, and that seems to have been the final straw. And

21:19 w WE had given Matt Riddle so many chances, and I think the reports that were out there recently was he went through all of his chances. So this is one of those cases that you see from time to time in WE where it's like someone has given the keys to the city and they don't know what to do with it, and they kind of self destruct. They lose that opportunity. Sometimes they regain it and get a second chance, and sometimes they don't. I immediately think of folks out there like Rye Back. Right Back was given the Keys to the City at one point, and he's gone with the company and has never been brought back. But here we are Matt Riddle, and what happens next with him is pretty important. I don't think AW would sign him. I know that there are some MMA promotions, according to Dave Meltzer, that are interested in him, but I don't know where he goes from here. I think he's kind of damaged goods at this point and he needs to kind of self reflect, get his stuff together and see if professional wrestling is the direction he wants to go. It really goes one or both ways for me, in my opinion, I think either Riddle ends up in wween cleans up his act and cleans up his image is or morseful for his previous sins, or he just leaves professional war wrestling all together, and maybe he does a couple of matches here and there, but we never really see Matt Riddle again, and then like ten fifteen years from now, he's doing some sort of shoot interview or signing autographs at some sort of comic

22:51 book con or wrestling function. But in the meantime it was surprising, but also not surprising. Was surprising was Dolf Sigler being released. But again, also you can make the case not surprising. He is one of the most, if not the most underutilized professional wrestling talents we've ever seen. This is a world champion quality wrestler who for whatever reason, could not get the time of day, the light of day to ever be a consistent main event player. There were times that he had gone up the card, had a World Championship run and Matt was it and nothing ever came of it. One of the best money in the bank moments of all time, the Cash in the Night After Wrestling Mane twenty nine. He was a beloved superstar from a lot of wrestling fan standpoints, but he just couldn't crack it in the creative side of w W. WE all knew if they gave him the ball, he'd knock it out of the park. So such a joy to watch and a damn shaman he's in WWE. But if there's one talent on this list who would really benefit from AW, it is without adult Dolf Sigler. I would also throw in Shelton Benjamin is someone I would love to see an AW.

24:07 I think he'd be great, even at his age He's still kicking ass a ton of fun to watch. Elias was somebody that I think was a big w w wheat or excuse me, a bit sick man type talent, big guy, great gimmick, cut a good promo, had a really cool air about him. Decent ent ring performer as well, but in the new regime he just couldn't catch on. And it's kind of similar to what happened with Rick Boogs as well, which I believe Boogs basically insinuated in the YouTube video. Another big surprise was Mustafa Ali. I mean he's was slated for a title match at NXC No Mercy this Saturday against Dirty Domastereo. Had been really enjoying his run on NXT. He was starting to do the character that I guess he was pushing to do when he just before he had asked for his release. Mustaf Ali is a highly coveted town that I think if AW snatches up and hope that they snatch up, can be very, very very successful.

25:06 He is a great creative mind from what I've seen, great and ring worker, and I just really always enjoyed watching Mustafa Ali. I felt bad for Emma and top Dollah, who recently came back to the company, especially Emma, who is a high quality female talent female wrestler. No idea why they brought her back for like maybe two three months and then took her off television. Riddick Moss had had some run in there that I think could have been good, but again I think with the way that Triple H does some booking that maybe Riddick Moss fell off a little bit as well. And then on the NXC side of things, where if there was any type of shock, I mean, they had danham Brooke on television recently and she had a little bit of a bit more of an edge of her on her characters, So that's kind of shocking when it's somebody that's frequently on television like Mustafa Ali.

26:02 Most of these names were not on television recently, so it wasn't too much of a shock. But I would also say Quincy Elliott was being pushed in NXC for a while. I had a good connection with the fans. It was a gold Desk esque type character that I guess did not translate over the last couple of months. If there was one thing about Quincy Elliot was obviously the in ring work was not fully there from my perspective as a fan, so no longer employed by w E. And then I think, really, who is going to be the most successful post WE? I would say, I'll give you three names. I'm gonna go with Dolf Siegler for everything that I mentioned before. I think he goes to AW and as an upper card top talent, mustaf Ali because he is highly creative and a great in ring worker. And then I'm going to say Emma because I think her addition to the female roster of an AW would be very, very very beneficial.

27:07 So I'm gonna say Ziggler, Emma, and mustaf Ali will be the most successful post WWE fall on their release. Always a shame when when folks lose their jobs, But I think the bright side here is is that several of them can be very successful post World rest Entertainment. I think Zach Ryder Matt Cardona has shown that you could be very successful post ww release, and I don't see why they can either. I think to me, mustaf Ali is like the most comparable to Matt Cardona on the success that he could face post WWE release. I think I think he can go into any promotion and uses social media and be very very uber popular depending where he where he picks up.

27:57 So why did these releases take place? Dave Meltzer wrote in the wrest Of Observer newsletter via Wrestling and Inc. That it was quote well known there would be massive cuts end quote with plants who cut back on fifty two one hundred million expenses on the W side of TKO Group holdings. He also noted that most of the cuts have been made due to quote duplication of work on the endeavor side of things, an issue more commonly referred to as redundancy. Employees were poorly told that all major cuts made were related to the merger, So there you go. They wanted to cut some money. There were some folks that weren't being utilized in WW felt it was best to instead of writing out a paycheck or finding ways to use them, to let them go.

28:47 And I know this has been a topic of discussion. I know Tony con addressed it recently in his media call I believe with for Wrestle Dream that there were folks that are on again the tribalism and wrestling folks that are on the W side, saying it's great that de wit releases them because they can go out and be on their merry way and carry on their career have a little bit of buzz behind them, versus the AW side where they continue to pay you, don't use you and let your contract expire, where there is no buzz coming off of entering the free agency. I don't know where I sit there. I think I kind of agree with the W side of things. There's no easy way to fire a talent, especially those that are extremely talented, like the names I said. But I guess give them a little bit of a buzz. You give them ninety day pay. You know, now people are counting down the days and the hours until Dolphs can become a free agent, mussaf Ali can be a free agent, and they could use these next three months to kind of reboot themselves and get ready for the next chapter in their careers. That I hope they're very, very successful in so W we made in a recent round of talent cuts. Hopefully that is the end of it for the rest of this year. Some surprise, some not surprising, and always some shout outs to to see who can be the most successful post of we feel free to chime in at SRTU podcast on Twitter slash x or Facebook dot com Slash the realt Still Real to Us Show. With that said, let's get some preview predictions in. If we get doctor Treys,

30:22 we'll post it up on our Facebook page, Facebook dot com slashes the realto Show and maybe throw them up on Twitter as well. Then on next week's podcast, the first podcast for the month of October. October the fifth, we will recap and review everything from Nxcino Mercy and aw Russell Dream. So let's start with the Saturday show. N Xtino Mercy Preview Predictions is Saturday from the Mechanics Bank Arena and Bakerville, Bakersfield, California. The first match here is a fatal four way match for the NXC Tag Team Championships. Did d'angela family take on OTM, Lucian Price and Broco Neema? The Creed brothers Brutist Creed and Julius Creed, and I don't know if they're going by Loso Thorios anymore. They were promoted as Carreo and Angel Garza, so on Britio Correo and Angel Garza. I liked the D'Angelo family in this one. I could make a play for one of these teams to steal the championship from the D'Angelo family and become the new tag Team champions. But I feel like they're going to keep the titles on the D'Angelo family a little bit longer. I think that will be the best It's it's pretty good. I think it's a pretty good opportunity for the D'Angelo family gets this runs as NXC Tag Team Champions, So I like the D'Angelo family winning and retaining. Next match, here is no am Dar defending the XC Heritage Cup in a British rounds rules match against Butch. I really enjoy the Global Invitational tournament that they had, and I

31:53 thought it was a good way to develop a new number one contender. My only drawback was, why aren't you doing the British rules rounds matches, like if you're trying to get going for the NEXC Heritage Cup, like, do those style matches for the right to take on the NEXC Heritage Cup winner or trophy holder. I thought that was the only thing that was strange. Nonetheless, I like Butch winning this one. If there was a time for an NXT talent to defeat a main roster talent on this card. It would be this match because I think the metaphor could help distract or interfere in this one and help No m Dar retain, which noem Dar has been phenomenal. Metaphor has been really good. They have found some great stuff there with great stuff for utilizing oral mensa lash legend who had been on the roster for a little bit really not doing much, and Jakar Jackson is very talented. So the metaphor stuff has been very entertaining and fun. And it's read that you could see a stable where there's equal mounts men and women. So I like what they're doing on NXT, but I do have butch retaining this one. Next matches for the NXC North American Championship is Dirty Domasterio Defense against Trick william with Dragon Lee as a special guest referee. Good way by we to get things going here after msaf Ali was let go and where they were going to move from this point forward, and they put all together with the NXC episode this past week. The Trick Williams character has been very compelling as of late.

33:24 I think this could be a really turning point show for Trick Williams as a character in both wins or losses. In this instance, I do have Dirty Dom masterial retaining. I think Dragon Lee being a special guest referee is added to this one because it plays a big factor, whether that is accidentally costing Trick Williams the match or you know, leading to a rekindling of the feud between Dirty Dom and Dragon Lee. Is the way I could go, and it just feels like Dragon Lee is the guy that is poised to win the championship eventually from Dirty They had a great match on Raw and I just feel like the way the things are going and that is the plan. But I don't think it'll be the last of Trick Williams at Nxcino Mercy. Next match here is Braun Breaker versus Baron Corbyn. This feud has kind of been met at best. It's been lacking a lot, and it was like concerning heading into the show of where things were headed, and then they picked it up this past Tuesday. I really enjoyed that final sequence, that final segment on NXEY Television that closed out the show with them battling around that car. They did. They absolutely destroyed that car, and I thought that was a good way to hype up their match. It saved a little bit that got my interest and intrigued in this one. So I braun Breaker defeating Baron Corbyn on Saturday Night, and that was just a weird feud because they're both heels right now. I mean, they're both not well liked by the audience, so it's rare that you see a heel versus heel feud happening. Would have figured

34:58 one of them would have been a baby face and I would have actually believed Baron Corbyn. Next match, here's an extreme rules match for the NXEY Woman's Championship. Is Becky Lynch defends against Tiffany Stratton. I like Becky Lynch retaining and winning this match, but I think this has one of those really cool instances that you see from time to time where this veteran wrestler gets the most out of a young star in a very violent match. And I think of two thousand and four hardcore rules match of Mick Foley and Randy Orton in their feud, and I don't know if that has the same degree to it, but I think Becky Lynch helps elevate Tiffany Stratton to become a bigger star following this pay per view. In a loss, sometimes a loss does as much as a win, So I like Tiffany Stratton putting on a good show.

35:45 I feel like this match is gonna be very physical and violent, but I still like Becky Lynch retaining and I think she helps elevate the game of Tiffany Stratton on Saturday Night. And then finally, Carmelo Hayes defends the NXC Championship against Elia Dragonoff. I'm going to take dragging Off to win and become the new NXC champion. I think this is where you see Trick Williams turn on Carmelo Hayes cost him the championship, and we have a new NXC champion. I can't see a world right now where Elie Draggonoff leaves nxcy No Mercy without the title. I think his character has been on the rise and it would be a slight to him if he doesn't win the championship. I think the time is now to pull that trigger, and then that would also add to a Trick Williams Carmelo Hayes feud where if Trick Williams cost Carmelo the loss and the championship, Trick can come out and say that the only time he ever won was because of me, and now you can't win without me. And there's been this little seeds planted over the last couple of weeks. We sound it kind of saw it going a little bit more of an overdrive on Tuesday's edition of NXT where Trick Williams was talking to Carmelo Hayes and he was very into his phone and reading whatever notes or maybe the contract heading into the contract signing with Eli Draggonoff and then Carmelo Hayes talking about all the opponents that could not stop Elia Dragonoff that he is no Wesley, he is no Trick Williams, which got an O from the crowd and got a little bit of a reaction. I thought that was a nice little sea that was planted, and I think we fully see it executed on Saturday show where a Trick Williams turn

37:17 on Carmelo Hayes takes place. Because if not now same thing with the only dragon Off with the championship, then when like when do you pull the trigger on this? And I think you've got to do this at a big event like a PLA. So I fully expect that Eli Draggonoff will walk out of nxcn No Mercy as the new NXC champion, all thanks to Carmelo Hayes excuming Trick Williams for costing Carmelo Hayes the title and the match all right, then, shifting gears to AW Wressell Dream Preview and Predictions is Sunday from the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The first match he's a four way tag team match for a future AW World Tag Team Championship match whenever they want.

37:57 The Young Bucks taken on the Guns Luch Brothers and Orange Cassidy and Hook. FTR has been down the road with the Young Bucks for a little bit, so I don't think we get another FTR Young Bucks match. They've done their stuff with the Guns as well, though, I feel like the Guns could be the winners of this one. Luca Bros. We've seen them take on I believe as well, not recently though. To me, the outlier here's Orange Cassidy and Hook. I would not be shocked if they go with Orange Cassidy and Hook and what's going on with them? Maybe that odd couple weird pairing tag team playing out that we talked about earlier in the show with like an RK bro playing out on Ali Wrestling Television. So I'm gonna go with Orange Cassidy Hook to win this one and to have an eventual aw ROLD Tag Team Championship match. Next match Here's for the AWTBS Championship is Chris Statlaner takes on Julia Hart. Let me first by saying that I've watched the last couple Julia Hart match. I think she had a match on Rampage and Collision recently.

38:53 I think back to back nights, she has really come a long way. I really like her submission finisher. A lot of times in submission finishers they don't look like they actually hurt the person hers does, and it looks really really legit. Got a figure that maybe Maliki Black played a little bit of a role in there behind the scenes to help give her a really cool submission finisher, and her in ring work has really really improved. With that said, I do like christ Atlanta retaining, but I think this match surprises us on Sunday Night. Next match here's for the ROH World Championship in New Japan. Strong Open Weight Championship. He has Eddie Kingston defense against Katiora Shabata, the current ROH Pure champion. I'm really looking forward to this one big Shabbata fan, but I don't think you put the championship on Kingston ten days ago for him to lose the Shavada on the very first pay per view.

39:45 So I have Eddie Kingston retaining, but I think this is gonna be a really, really fun match. Shabata is so much fun to watch, one of my favorites, Like I just wish he got more praise and opportunity to to be out there as much easy is. But that's probably a lot to do with his his injury that nearly cost him his life. But thankfully he's he's still with us and it's a miracle that he's wrestling today. Next match, here's two out of three falls. Match for the AWT and T Championship is Christian Cage defense against Darby Allen. I went back and forth on this one. I was like, man, I can see Darby Allen, but they just put the T and T Championship on Christian Cage in a really good triple threat match. Really enjoyed the booking where Cage pins Lucasaurus of all people.

40:32 Following the Coffin drop, Lucasaurus is starting and like you know, he held the championship for the first time. He's starting to realize that, like, hey, that was a lot of fun. That was cool. Maybe I'm being used by this guy. So I don't think they want to execute that storyline just yet. I think it plays out somewhere. Lucasaurus obviously plays roles here and helps Christian Cage retain, but we're starting to see the ground crack a little bit where Lucasaurus will eventually turn Christian Cage. So I got Christian Cage retaining. Next match, here's christ Jericho and the Golden Elite of Kenny Omegan, Cody a Bushi taking up members of the Don Callis family, Kenosk Takeshka, Sammy Cavarr and Will Losprey. I've got the Don Callis family winning this match. I just think that the Kenny Omega Coda Jericho els are adding to this feud a lot more and it's getting the booze from Don Callis's family and Don Callis to be even louder, and I think that could should continue. So I've got the don callis family winning this match. And I should also say that we are recording this just before AW Dynamite on Wednesday night, so if there's any new matches, which I'm sure there will be.

41:38 It is an AW pay per view. There's only nine announced. They usually like to have eleven or twelve. Unfortunately we can't preview here on this edition of the podcast, but we obviously will recap review it on next week's edition of the show on October the fifth. Next matchers for the ROH World Championship Better than You, Baybay Adam Colin MJF defending against the Righteous of Vincent and Dutch. Obviously, we don't know the severity of Adam Cole's injury. They could be announcing right now that he is out for the next six months for all I know, and this match has been canceled and it will be a vacant ROH World Championship match instead. But I'm going on the premise that he is good to go. I have not seen any report saying otherwise other than he went to the hospital than came out of the hospital on crutches. Hopefully there is no break. Hopefully there is no tear and it was just a tweak for Adam Cole, but I tend to believe that it's probably not a tweak. My biggest gripe in this should the match take place, is the Righteous being in this. I'm a fan of Vincent and Dutch, but how do you go on and on of pushing the Kingdom of Matt Tavan and Mike Bennett, of having issues with Adam Cole and better than U Baba as they're tied to the hip with Roderick Strong being a really fun phenomenal act on AW television lately, and not give them this match but include them in the nor Win Contenders match. Very very weird that they did that booking, but nonetheless they decided to go with the Righteous and I like better than U bebe retaining again, I just find it weird that you had that opportunity to give us better than Ubbe and the Kingdom and a pay per view you didn't do it.

43:08 Anyway. Next match here's for the AW World Tag Team Championship is FTR take on Assie Open, Cole Fletcher and Mark Davis. This should be a fun one. I honestly went back and forth in this one because I think Aussie Open deserves around with the AWU Tag Team Championship, especially when they took the l at all in just to put over better than you babe for the ROH World Tag Team titles. But I do think FTR continues to go a little bit with these championship. I mean, as I'm even saying this, I'm very tempted to pick Aussie Open, but I'm gonna go with FTR retaining. So I'm gonna have FTR retaining a World Tag Team champiship. But I could see a world where Aussie Opened wins Young Bucks win that fatal four way and then that goes on and on and on. But nonetheless, I'm gonna stick with FTR, so I'm gonna go FTR to retain. Next match is Hangman Atam Paid Chicken on Sport Strickland. I'm really excited for this one.

43:59 Such a fun on like mid card upper mid card feud with two guys that were our great talents and kind of flounder a little bit here and there, could use some new stuff, and this is a fresh coat of paint for both of them in a feud that has the poise to being very very good talking about guys who have been released by w WE that have had success post WWE release, Swerve Strickland is one of them. Swerve Strickland has been awesome in All Elite Wrestling. I think he's been there now for it's almost two years now. I mean he's been great, and he's put on some muscle, he's put on some mass. His in ring work has always been there as Microphone, he's even more confident than he was ever before. I know he's always Serve confident, but he's so much more confident. His act with a Mobile Embassy and Prince Nanah is super over. He is great. He is a great heal and professional wrestling and a great in ring worker. I'm so happy for him. I could see this guy next year being an All Elite Wrestling world chan being. Even with that said, I think this is the first match to help a rise sort of Strickling into the next level of aw's ladder. And I'm going to take him to defeat Hangman in a page on Sunday Night, and then that takes us to the dream match. Two of the best technical wrestlers of all time, Brian Danielson taken on Zach Saber Junior from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Fully expect a lot of wristlocks, a lot of great phenomenal this is awesome chance, a lot of amazing chain wrestling,

45:30 a lot of hard kicks. This is going to be a lot of fun, folks. This is something that wrestling fans have wanted to see for a long time. When Brian Danielson, then known as Daniel Bryan, was commentating during the Cruiserweight Classic and Zach Saber Junior was in the tournament for wa all I could think of was like, man, could you imagine ZSJ taken on the American Dragon? And it looked like at that point, obviously with Danian Bryan and retire, that it would never happen. And then he has come out of retire, he was in w E Zack Saber Junior tearing up in New Japan RevPro wherever, and it seems like it could never happen. Daniels comes to a w and I feel like this has been a dream match in the waiting for a long time. So Danielson seems to be checking off a lot of boxes. If this is his last run as a full time active performer. He did Okada a couple of months ago. He's got CSJ this Sunday, and this match is going to be a ton of fun and I'm gonna take Brian Danielson to get the victory again. I'm tempted to pick ZSJA, but I think Brian Danielson walks out of his hometown the winner at Ali Wrestling wrest of Dream, the first ever Russell Dream pay per view.

46:38 So there you go. There's our preview and predictions. Again. We will recap and review it on next week's edition of the podcast on October fifth, and if we get doctor Trey's predictions, we will post it up on Twitter or on our in on our Facebook page, so thenbody has caught up and then we'll hopefully recap and review it together on next week's edition the podcast. With that said, let's get a couple of plugs and spots. So the way you can Downlos show every Thursday or Friday at Real Guy Radio dot com, Russell chatting out on Twitter, and the still relto Show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to Helplet's Call the Charts on iTunes. You can fall us individually on Twitter for myself at SRTU Jeff, and for doctor s Tray Franklin at the Doctor Trey. And of course don't forget to call a show on Twitter at SRTU podcast. Usually I throw it over to doctor Trey. He is not here this week. He will hopefully be back next week. Until then, thank you for making us part of your week. Thank you for downloading. Thank you for bearing with me over the last forty five minutes of show or so of me just talking on a show by myself until next week. For Doctor Trey Franklin, I am Jeff Peck.

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