What's good everyone we are back
Major League Pod is reloaded dare I say I'm Rob Cameron of the MLW Confusion
podcast and with me the Burgermeister of Buffalo Muppins Martinez back with
more MLW action we are talking about reload this past week the first of the
premium YouTube events is that what we're calling him now of the new year so
hoping to start YouTube off with a bang I mean this is this is this has to be
like the worst idea I've ever heard from any company do something like this
instead of going weekly like everybody else does with episodes and how you
monthly pay for you you decided to go okay well you know we're gonna save one
money we're gonna do a different way we're gonna do our monthly pay review and
before that we'll do the tapings from 7 to 8 and then more tapings from 10 to 11
and then oh let's do it as a monthly free YouTube and being sports attraction so
so give us the weekly shows now is by weekly every two weeks now we get to see
wrestling from Alma W or you can just see them for one one Saturday a month and
then another Saturday on YouTube I guess that's the new thing to do again and
yeah I think and I've made my displeasure for this known because just
because of MLW's business habits will say that they're that they tend not to
hype things up terribly well during an offseason and whatnot and now that now
they're now they're having an offseason like every other week but you know it's
you know I'm a fan of it I don't think it's a giant negative necessarily
speaking except for like people like me who like to do content every single
week and now like I really can't do that on the MLW front but that that's just
that's my biased you know opinion on that one well I'm a W and WA and donates
on the break till February 6th when everything goes into their app CW app and
now this year so I'm just sitting here waiting for the for to do our shows and
maybe on the week now and now I'm uploading the old interviews into
story or to hit the RSS and everyone who's who's hasn't able to see our
interviews on YouTube now you could listen to them so that's why you had to
stress stuff out and I will put out you know if we're gonna cheat plug things
like I have moved on to giving a spotlight to a smaller indie every other
week now to you on the off weeks so this past week I gave a shout out to Mid
States Wrestling who works primarily out of like the Southern Missouri Arkansas
Oklahoma area their show was fun to watch and I look to continue this going on
until I don't know whenever we got something going on but I will say but
yeah as I said like I think I don't think it'll make it like I don't think it
will hurt MLW business big picture you know it may be just to the diehards who
are really trying to pay attention to and keep track of things every week I
think the only time it would probably be a detrimental to the brand is if that
event isn't very good or is kind of mediocre and spoiler alert or at least
in my humble opinion you know I didn't I wasn't feeling this year events in
terms of like the overall I shouldn't say presentation but just how the matches
flowed and some of the progress lack of progression or differing progression of
the stories like I just wasn't feeling it so like for me like the every other
week thing kind of hurt me now because now like the only cool thing going on
was the big event on fight TV Triller TV whatever we're gonna call it and there
isn't like there isn't a way to maintain you know to rebuild that momentum for
another couple of weeks so if you're so at least with when Fusion was on every
week if Fusion was terrible you know if you know hopefully the next week we could
rebuild some of that momentum and now we got to wait a little bit longer leaving
possibly leaving a poor taste in somebody's mouth and now we have to wait
to February 3rd which is two weeks from now to see something new but again this
again like this is this is more like sour okay maybe not sour grapes is not
the best term but it's just more just like a weird Brando opinion of a guy
who's overlooking and overthinking the product which is what I pretend to get
paid to do anyway let's I mean I mean I must see okay I'm not seeing any
residuals from my appearances here but I'm making about a couple of coffee a
month off of on my finances allowed so let's get back on track let's talk
about this here reload featherweights had a had a we're surprisingly well
represented in terms of time overall time on the show we start start off the
opening contest with the magnificent Mimi and the feather at Zeta steel what
did you think muffins I actually enjoy the match I wouldn't say and I don't want
to be too like crazy about it but I think it was the first time I've seen Mimi
actually look good in the ring I've always had an issue with Mimi is she
looks good she looks tall enough and I forget anything else about her only
that she's a redhead that's it that's all I see Mimi as but this past week she
actually put in a good effort and I actually like her being part of the
the Federal Division you know hopefully she'll get signed in the future and we
see more her but so far I mean we definitely seeing a lot of Mimi here
say that did what she's supposed to do I mean we knew Zeta was going to win this
match to keep her momentum going for the featherweight title but overall I really
really enjoyed the match and you know hopefully you could see more of Mimi this
type of mean yeah I thought the match is kind of clunky myself and I thought it
was interesting that they did the heel versus heel dynamic and kind of like
tried to out heal each other but I don't know if it was just that's just too
younger workers or and so there was really no one to lead properly or if
they just I don't sometimes people just don't gel but like I thought the match
was a little clunky in that front especially when Mimi missed that spin
kick yes like that like it wasn't just like oh wrestling's fake missed it it
was like she airballed it like Zeta was already like going to the quarter when
he was in the second time and stuff like that yeah you know and like you saw the
age definitely has to do something with it I'm pretty sure I want I think both
of them are under 22 maybe yeah so yeah you can you know you're gonna get with
what you pay for and with the youth movement these things that you're gonna
get with like you mentioned too younger talent and no one is leading the other
person well and as you kind of put it to like with Mimi like at least you
remember what a Mimi is like you may not have been impressed with what she was
doing in the ring yes but you know you get like hey it's the redhead like so
you at least identify her in the future I mean that's that may not be the best
way to look at a talent but but it's but it's better than nothing because that's
how I remember her from NXT Sloan Jacobs was all the redhead I mean when she was
there and she wrestled in NXT and she had her couple of matches there was nothing
special that jumped out okay why do I remember Mimi for like who was Sloan
Jacobs at that time and there wasn't much of anything as a face there's a redhead
now that's the only way I remember who she was because it was she was just there
was there was nothing ever special that grabbed you and go okay I remember her
now and again these are both two young workers they need to get in the best way
to get better is to get your reps in so so and I will also put over like Zeta like
I really like Zeta like I like presence character wise like she's getting it and
so once you know once she gets that in her case especially once you get the
some of that experience under the belt and you can like lead things like once
it clicks with her it's gonna click hard because she's already getting some of
that character stuff down she's got that she's already got the presence on the
mic and so we're just waiting for the rest of the stuff to fall in place and
that just takes time and I like her backstage stuff you know they have a
dude stuff she's funny I mean I like her whole attitude her acting I like
everything about her so that's how you stand out more than anybody else is when
us fans can gravitate oh I know I don't say that yeah Zeta doesn't listen to this
and then you go to Mimi and you go like I don't know her but she's the redhead the
tall redhead you know and that's you know that's kind of bad about it but yeah
yeah fun fact if you want to stand out and get under her skin start yelling
start yelling for Mr. St. LaRot when you see her at live events because she'll
figure out who you are rather quickly than way any who was the fat guy at
exactly so yeah moving on from there we got news coming in for intimidation
games which is the end of February Minoru Suzuki is returning angry murder
grandpa is returning to MLW I will you know I will be happy just to see him
back and I kind of like a sick part of me kind of wants him to fight love Doug
they've not a mouth who he's facing yet but I want I want to see him take on
love Doug just because they now they had they do technically have MLW history
because it's done got the taste slapped out of his mouth on the street oh god
this is gonna be out that's gonna be a total murder if I have oh and it'll be
the best murder I love love Doug but like these are also matches that like that
I could live for too yeah that being said there are also a bunch of other
veritable dream matches to be had in MLW involving the Nero Suzuki whether it's
the likes of the one called Manders I roll my eyes at but I think they would
gel rather well yeah almost any member of WTF I think would would be a fun
matchup you know they have they have they have a whole roster of folks I
would make for good matches with my cause I jump you side yeah I think a good
good match will be aiming against riddle yeah I just avoid talking about him
though because I'm a true yeah we can move on but but yeah but yeah I yeah so
Suzuki's coming back so I'm a fan so great times on that our next match I'm
curious to hear your thoughts on this muffin Steph DeLander versus good brother
number three baby I hated this match I didn't know I didn't know what the hell
was going on I will solve all I didn't think it was a match if they were just
doing improv inside the rain it was they were living out there fetish that's
what they were doing they could have done this as a backstage segment you know
or pre-tape somewhere else yeah this was just a total waste of anything and
everything basically just this is the last time we'll see Steph DeLander
unless Cardona comes back but yeah I I never got this I was so lost I was so
happy when it was over because I was just like what is going on here I was
watching it and I'm like I love this but I but I'm so they're going man
muffins is gonna hate this oh god dude I I was so lost like I literally I
rewonder a couple of times just okay what because I my brain just cannot
figure what the hell is going on so I have to go back and start already in I'm
like okay what is this about again and what the point of this like I don't get
this so yeah man that was horrible I'm sorry it was horrible oh no I knew like
it was nothing but shtick so I knew you're gonna hate it like regardless if
you thought you got it or not it was nothing but meta commentary and dare I
say a couple living out their fetishes in front of everybody
they took some wrestling time from somebody else I mean we could see a
young tag team or somebody have a good match you know lucky 13 or somebody be
out there doing something even if he gets squashed you know at least has some
something important happening this was not important to anything yeah why yeah
and if I have one complaint about it is that it was almost its own little island
like that it didn't it didn't further the good brother number three WTF viewed it
you know it was long yeah as I said I really enjoyed it I thoroughly enjoyed
it but it's it's this this is the kind of match that I'm referring to about this
is why we need a fusion or weekly television because you're gonna have
you're going to market a special event and you have this and like this is gonna
turn off I would say probably about 50% of your wrestling audience because it's
way too sticky yeah yeah and so so I get it I thought it was entertaining but
then again I you know I am also a lot of times the lowest common denominator as
well and just the thought of and I enjoyed the concept of good brother
number three doing a strict doing a striptease and just like the man said I
am now divorced because that's what happens when good brother number three
does a striptease yeah moving on from there we have our clash of styles Jimmy
Lloyd taking on number one Ichiban Selena de la Llorenta made her first proper on
screen appearance for this match as well Ichiban picks up the wind despite the
shenanigans so he's continued looking strong and then the fallout from this
match is that Ichiban does get his match with Azuka with Rocky Romero for the
middleweight championship yes which I think I think it's time to take the
title off Azuka and give it to Ichiban number one there so I definitely see a
title switch coming up at the next show this match was decent I mean I actually
I didn't hate it but I didn't like it that much but I did like the resting
aspect of it and I like the finishing maneuver from the top of the cage or I'm
to the ladder yeah I thought that was kind of cool because his finishing
maneuver already looks weird as it does but this is made it kind of look even
weirder and then you think that was kind of cool so yeah so and then all those
shenanigans that happened now getting his title match so yeah I mean it wasn't
bad but it wasn't that great but I did enjoy it I'm just so sick of all these
hardcore matches man you know ladder just coming in out of the blue for Norwegian
at all and other kind of shit I could deal for what one match a show I just
not every time well and this is like my pet peeve with one of my pet peeves with
MLW and their matchmaking right now too is that they've never explicitly ever
said like we are now you know there's no DQs or whatever or weapons are legal it
never said that it's just like occasionally like randomly here's a match
with with with chairs here's a random match with ladders in it for no you
know discernible reason but that being said yeah the match itself was like if
you're gonna look at it a pure wrestling aspect was it was all right but it did
what it's supposed to do it helped put Ichiban over he got he fought through
the shenanigans and we got the next beat of the story so we are going to see
the next match in that well in that series in the storyline so he is going
to get his title shot of course Jimmy Lloyd losing this match is also probably
gonna get a title shot because that's what Jimmy Lloyd does in MLW loses a
man loses matches gets a title shot for no good reason so I court I'm still
available I have no wins in MLW too so I will know I will fight for the
and no appearances at the show but I'll definitely get a title much yeah I have
one less win than Jimmy Lloyd so I could totally go for the open weight
championship because I have been wait you you might get it on the May 11th you
know I try I try I tried to win the tag team titles this weekend and I will
work out for me and I'm not down there justice didn't show up there's some
other cowboy the wife doesn't support me in these endeavors because she wants to
take the titles from me so I can't actually win I can't win a title because
she's just gonna 24-7 it off my waist anyway there you go when you sleeping
you laugh but she's already said it we have we have we have recorded evidence
for those of you at the MLW Confusion page a patreon where we have at home.exe
the patreon exclusive podcast which I host with her and we spent the spoiler
alert we spend most of it bickering but but but I've been but I've
implied that I am going to win the title and then she's pretty much just
you know said that she's gonna beat me for it anyway just either either 24-7
rules or as soon as I win it she's just gonna invoke a challenge and take off me
because I am not over the slightest I didn't want to say once you get married
it's 50% but yeah she gets her you get yours so once you get it she's gonna get
back from you that's simple just let it go. She's more over than I am anyway so
you know she should have the title. Following this we have our TJWP
there we go spit it out spit it out Rob. Mokumi Imodo versus now Kukuna a special
exhibition match yeah I you know I also didn't think this match was like that
great either like again like I didn't necessarily think our opponents
gelled very well together I didn't think it was a touch on the clunky side and
then and then personal opinion wise Moku's spot where she does the karate
chop totally fell flat with me like don't get wrong like I love me a good
karate chop but don't spend five minutes thinking about it thinking about it
like if you spend that much time thinking about it and you miss it like it
makes you look terrible or in the case where she actually hit it it didn't
lead to the finish anyway so you spent like five minutes measuring the exact
spot you are going to chop your opponent and it didn't finish them off like you
know did you really measure you know measure twice cut once yeah this this is
where you kind of go to yourself okay there's there's start on wrestling all
females there's a bunch of different all other females and then you have the
TJPW promotion and then you cut the ladies and you go okay this is the
reason why that match looked like that there's our young brand new maybe
been wrestling for a year maybe two if that so like you said we're gonna get
what you're gonna get they're gonna get experienced as they go and you know they
did the best they could it was it was funky from the beginning even when they
ring the bell and the referee could go and like go and they just kept looking
at each other like and the referee and referee going like go go and they just
kept looking at each other and like go go like it's already right let's go so
yeah but you know that's I mean I enjoy it because at least we got to see some
female wrestling young you know future wrestlers that might not see ever again
the States we might see them again ten years from now you know in a bigger role
and you go I remember her I remember her from we low I watched that on YouTube you
know and you go like oh my you know she's blue now and she's better now but you
know those are the type of partnerships that you get I'm still upset that we
keep getting people from other promotions here but you know you can just
keep people from MW go to other shows to portray there I mean why isn't J.
that guy tonight Kai or or tell me exo I really imagine TJPW and then you know we
can see it here as one of the part of the shows all you know Yami was just a
part of the show is to full match and you give to full match they haven't done
that yet with any except for a suga because you're already there you know
speculation for me like again I don't have the I bought backstage by Yusuf
I just assume that MLW is booking folks as they're in America rather than like
rather than it being like an actual like full-on partnership I just assume
like oh hey Rocky's and tell you Rocky is available in the US these days which
happen to go inside with our show yes you know whatever like don't go wrong I
think I mean I think there is some pen to paper ish stuff because like the
official Twitter like the official social medias of the other companies are
referencing this partnership it's just we're not seeing it but we're not seeing
a talent exchange out of it we're just it was just court bringing folks in and
then they just mentioned the one with the Australian company yeah so how are we
looking over are we gonna see guys from Australia coming over are we gonna send
anybody from MLW over there you know I would like if it's gonna be a partnership
then make it a partnership like really send some people over for a few and
let us you know tell us what's going on on a weekly basis or whatever on your
social media that's what social media therefore use it right well well maybe
maybe we'll get a talent exchange because after the match love dog got
himself a date I'm sorry I was mad about this I was really upset about this how
do you go from being the fanboy of Becca the number one pop artist out here
saying that you are her his admirer for what for months and months and months and
now all of a sudden do you drop Becca like that and jump to the other one oh
I've been a secret admirer you're for what how you met her that's his possible
that's his thing that he is wrestling skewpity yeah he has enough love for
everyone he loves everyone that's what love Doug is love Doug is love well at
least I was happy that he got a yes yeah and honestly I had been with striker I
don't think she understood half of the questions I was being asked her but she
might be saying you know something else and he said yes and they were from there
I hope they kind of pick up where they left up and actually shows an actual
date on YouTube that would be on on social media like what happened
afterwards they went out on a date you know what they went to see really that
would be that'd be kind of cool if they do that you know just give us something
on social media or on the you know just cut it here and there and you know oh
we're just next tomorrow we'll show you the second part of the day that'll be
fun I mean I would love to see that that would be a lot of fun and I hope they
did do something like that the wife speculates she said yes just to get a
free meal before she went back to Japan she's just using Doug for free food
he'll at least find his cheese steaks yeah you go yeah you know it's America you know things are different this time so she
probably is trying to get a free meal before she has back cuz that's that's a
long flight yeah really she sticks are good so she might you know she might take
some for the flight to there you go following this following up on our
backstage is Zeta talks we had a rather interesting skit with Zeta's things
going missing only to discover the notorious BRG Brett Ryan Goslin in the
bathroom with Zeta's stuff like curling his hair and it's in this guy's
supposedly Becca's boyfriend yeah and he's going through like that was my thing
it's like he is you know supposedly hot and heavy with someone else and now he's
just going through some other woman stuff you so for her car to do his hair and
then they're gonna go shopping yeah cuz they share the same the same love of
whatever like perfume that was that he had never seen in person before but Zeta
had on national TV on back to back segments we haven't seen Becca in
months because of house arrest and now she lost her secret mirror and lost her
boyfriend and she's not has it been there to win anything about this so I
don't know man I just that one that one just like was out in left field yeah
that is not right that's not where I thought that segment was going to go
no for better or for worse yes yes for worse than anything anything anything
that dicks over Becca is the worst but speaking of more featherweights but more
featherweight action really short match tiara James versus delmi exo like I
was really surprised how this match turned out like it was really it was it was
almost a squash like like James like James got some offense in and then just
got rolled up and that was it and yeah I thought and it was weird because
commentary was really putting over James too and they said like she'd never been
pinned in MLW which I don't think yeah which I don't think I was gonna say like
I don't I thought didn't she lose to Becca yes like she's also a bunch of people
yeah and like someone like I know a couple like this so like the one was like a
triple threat match so that only half counts that only half counts but they're
like she's never been pinned and I'm like I think she got pinned in her debut
yes but they were really like really trying to put over James just for her
to get rolled up very quick and right next to the ropes so not only did she
lose like out of nowhere she also lost in a way that she that was like a hundred
percent preventable like I'm pretty sure she could have grabbed that rope if she
really wanted to and the way that she got rolled up too was kind of weird
because she stopped she definitely stopped there and she couldn't move away
from being rolled up she could have taken a step forward and the match could get
going and she just kind of stopped felt and looked and went through her like this
and got rolled up I'm like okay I don't know what yeah like the
happen like almost may almost almost made me wonder if she got hurt like
somewhere but but I haven't heard anything one way another but I just I just
really struck me odd is that they were really putting over tiara is like future
the feather weights and then they just and yeah and then they just pin her and
then to make matters worse like I'm a firm believer that loss wins and losses in
and of themselves don't necessarily matter that much but it's how you it's how
you frame the wins and their losses this loss I felt hurt tiara because one it
was just a flash out of nowhere and it looked totally preventable and two and
less we're gonna see something on social media which we won't or at the next
event which is a maybe there's no follow-up she just went like oh I lost and
wandered off and yeah she just kind of looked around and rolled up and whoop
yeah like there was no like you got me this time but next time like she she
wasn't allowed any defense and that is more that is more of a burial than
losing a match like as I said like losing a match doesn't necessarily hurt
anything it's it's the follow-up to it and if there's no follow-up and you look
like a chump in the process like yeah that's when it gets hurt like this is
like when Kofi like to use the WWE thing like when Kofi Kingston lost the
World Championship like the fact that he lost a Brock Lesnar by itself wasn't a
burial it wasn't a bad thing it's Brock Lesnar for crying out loud like he comes
in there wrecks things and leaves that's what he does the problem was but the
problem was is that like right after that Kofi's like hey everyone I used to be
champion pancakes like that that's what losses matter is when you do stuff like
that for a while yeah like that like that's that's how you that's what that's
one losses so when you make losses look like they don't matter and it's terrible
but they but moving from her to Delmi exo we had Delmi got on the mic she's
ready to be back in title contention what and she's back under winning her
ways so like she looks like she she's broken that losing streak so it looks
like she's ready to go on but Jenae Kai was ready to be a fighting champion she
she gave Delmi the option to pick a date later or go right now yes and then of
course Zeta came out and had words for everybody yes and it broke down from
there she called my girl a blue a smurf bitch or blue bitch or blue hair bitch
oh hell no slapper slapper right now Selena but yeah so like that broke down
really quick but for me the most interesting thing actually coming out
of this is the lucha goons made it to the ring our lucha bodyguards whatever
you want to call them the old guard of say sardar ran gave gave gave Delmi a
key and a cell phone so last month delmi got an envelope so we looks like we got
things in motion because we don't we don't see the we don't see those guys
like front and center terribly often like that we've seen them a bunch in the
background specifically when Selena de renta de la renta is on screen they are
usually looking in the background or during matches she's involved in they
will actually I don't want to say surround but they will be posted on the
other on one on each side of the stage yes you know they don't do anything they
just stand there and so hey where's Walden a couple of times and backstage
stuff just standing there away from the cameras they say okay here we go yeah
little sprinkle a steak a lucha yeah so yeah things things are starting to pick
up and obviously yeah they're well you you drop the phrase that's tech a lucha
thing things are are moving towards as tech a lucha which coincidentally is
the name of maze events so as tech a lucha for sure is coming back you will
see what form it will take and it looks like in some way shape or form well we
got mistico is coming in with his part well maybe not part of that but it's
part of the story because Selena had no I had no part of him coming in which
upset her because she is she is the luchador liaison and then now and now
we have delmie exo getting a cell phone and key and in one thing the light
don't me a foot speaking because I actually got scared when she lost the
belt against an icon couple of months ago and I thought she was going her way
out of the company so yeah don't don't you don't let delmie leave so and then
she had a couple of when she lost the triple threat with tiara James and
and Becca I was oh no this is this is not good but then goodness that she's
still here she got to talk and I'm happy yeah I like I I would be rather not
happy if delmie was leaving just because like I don't like people I don't
like people who hold the championship just to lose the championship just to
leave and I know how contracts work and like these things happen but I don't
think it's a good look for the company that it basically looks like the person
only lost the belt because they were leaving the company not because not
because someone else was being anointed with the title which luckily in our
okay at least I will eat crow on this one and be and I'm happy to do it because
you know delmie you know kept things moving when Tyra was mostly like it was
like half absent or we knew she was not with the company because she's a
period on AEW live and whatnot it's still take over email Lauren at this again
but yeah so tell me still what this and it looks like that she's gonna be
figuring into some plans in the future we'll just have to wait and see what's
going on there but speaking of plans and things we have our tag team match with
our fast food breakfast sandwich and our world heavyweight champion Alex Kane
taking on the World Titan Federation new dream team they referred to them I
don't think that's another official name but they called themselves the new
dream a new dear dream team in their promo which I loved I loved that WTF
Tom Lawler Josh Bishop promo this a weird parody of 1980s tag team promo
oh it tell him and they just kept telling him back it's all right I love it
which I mean I Tom Lawler is one of my boys he has a technology yet but he's
one of my boys and Josh Bishop actually has some personality when he's allowed
to show it which he hasn't really been allowed to show it that much in MLW
yet but he's also kind of fun guy to watch but that promo is great the match
you know it was a match the thing you want to get yeah but what I want but I'm
gonna make the complaint that I've been making pretty much like every time we've
had a show you know the last like six weeks two months is that when it comes
time to have a high-profile match WTF choke like again like you know not that
they can't you know especially Tom Lawler who's talented enough to you know
turn turn anything into a pro he's allowed to either have the microphone or
have some screen time but like how again I stress how many times can you you know
lose a big match and still have that aura of a threat like they keep trying to
make it sound like WTF is a big deal and it should be a big deal again I
stress WTF should be a big deal just because of the alumni who's walked
through that stable in its you know four months of existence and what do they
have to show for it next to nothing you got a really good you got a really good
Cardona run out of it match they've been I get they've picked up wins here or
there but like nothing yeah nothing that's considered an important match
they've lost every single one of their title matches and like they've been
exclusively like like bow guarding the title scene for the most part and and
you know nothing they haven't won the world title they haven't they have they've
gotten at least one shot at the tag team titles nothing like they'll win a match
here or there like Josh Bishop did technically defeat
match justice in a match you know they look you know all big and bad like
before like beforehand like or after the matches because they will they tend to
hold their own in brawls but like but they don't win the match when you when
they need to two things that I like is holiday still there thank goodness and
David Boyce Smith Jr. comes back next show so he's part of WTF so at least it's
another big name profile name back with the group so hopefully with with him
being there on holiday with Lawler we might see some different things happening
going forward on hold and and goodness that David Boyce Smith Jr. made it out
yeah he's back a hundred percent and he's back to a wrestling I'm really happy
that he's back so he's definitely gonna add some star power to the WTF again well
well big again to my point is WTF doesn't necessarily need the star power
they they need success and do I think David Boyce will win his return match I
do then they will get they will find they will have their return of their
rematch with Kane and Kane will beat him yeah they'll they'll David Boyce will get
his flowers in a match that me will mean next to nothing and then when it comes
time for David Boyce to win it when the big one he'll fail to you well they
need to push the WTF the same way they did with the column exactly the same
sideway that the title tag team title and one of those you know single either
middle way or the open way for a month or two or whatever three months and then
you know go from there but you know the calling they won titles yeah I mean they
held it they held like they held all the men's titles except for the world
except for the world title and wow wrecking the backstage area yeah we
didn't care like why I didn't give a good guy titles and look how fast they got
them folded yeah but he's not with Sammy Callahan being there they become
athletic and you know so someone serious but yeah that's but that's the thing
it's bothered me from day one with WTF like like we can joke about like no one
really wants to watch MSL but like I thought I do find a lot of the backstage
things mildly entertaining in some way shape or form of course again Tom Lawler
will turn anything golden but like there's not there but there but there
there's been no st there's been no sizzle to the stake like there's like oh
they're big and bad no they aren't they should be big and bad because you're
right they're big and bad except the big part is out and they just bad yeah which
makes me sad because again like look at that roster former world champions on
that roster and they can't get they can't get a win that hammer stone they
they have Lawler who are both former World Heavyweight champions Davey Boy
Smith junior well he only half counts because he got he had the battle
in the Tiber Tickey Lytus before he got to really do much of anything but like
they haven't really let the turn Bishop loose yet Cardona failed when it came
time to really hammer down at least he won part of a feud and yeah like yeah but
I mean the only positive thing about WTF is Sada yeah she's taking in all of her
parts so she definitely you know she's taking it all in like this is me I'm
gonna take this I'm gonna kill it as much as I could get it before it ends and I
will argue the the two people that have the most to gain from WTF like
regards to how it turns out is going to be Zeta and Bishop just because Zeta well
both of them are really young into their career but like but like but both of them
will have the benefit of being around people who've had success in the industry
and or currently still like doing very well like I mean Lawler still does quite
well throughout the Indies I assume Holiday still hitting up the independent
or get the spy being back with that but I haven't heard too much I haven't heard
as much coming from him since he came back yeah in terms of the Indies you
know but yeah so both of them like you know just having just being able to
hang out with your Tom Lawlers your Matt Cardona's etc is going to be a boon for
them if they you know take care you know if they've watched and done their
study well there was one more match left I believe right
yes so we have our main events Satoshi Kojima number one contender for the
World Heavyweight Champion taking on Sammy Callahan the death machine the
death machine um yeah I enjoyed the match I like I like Sammy Callahan's whole
vibe when he goes out there he knows I have to his job they hate him they pull
him he knows what needs to happen to get the crowd against him and get the
Kojima you know that shine he did his job Kojima did his job you know he chopped
the shadow him later on the match which I loved and I look forward to seeing
Kojima against Kane even though we know Kane is going to win this match but that's
going to be a nice fight fest and I want to see something I want to see Kane's
chest after the match right I'm looking forward to that but yeah I mean it
was supposed to do Kojima won so he's he's getting you know he's getting going
in a right foot into next into a show and Sammy Callahan he lost this doesn't
do anything for me that no man doesn't care if he wins and loses he just wants
to do his job so this is not a bad thing that he lost he doesn't care about all
that stuff he just wants to hurt people and just remain and he'll be happy with
that yeah I he kind of advanced the callings you know MO with even within
the loss because he he took Kojima to that limit the only thing like and and
the match did fall just a touch on the flat with me because they just because
Callahan really went for some of the cheaper heat stuff yeah and like like
and I said it on the con is that like okay like I'm not a big fan of spitting
in general just like even in even like even in a scripted environment like it's
not my thing but there's a but with any sort of with anything in life there is
a law of diminishing returns and just the amount of times Callahan hawked a
Lugi at something whether it was whether it was the referee whether it's his own
hand whether it was Kojima he did it enough times that like I just instead of
being like oh no we're on now like it just became like do you love again yeah
and like so like that was like like some of my complaint was just like he did
certain he did certain things like the spitting like entirely too much and it
did bring the match down for me like it was a totally serviceable match like I
was like it didn't like totally turn me off I'm not I actually I'm not a big
Callahan I'm not a Callahan hater he is kind of hit or miss for me in front of
the camera but the do like like but let the guy be on screen as long as it means
that he gets to be part of the creative team because the guy's got a good good
mind for the business I thought he is no he is yeah he is he is he is backstage
now and that for me that's the trade-off of like I will handle Sammy Callahan
maybe stinking up a segment or two as long as like he's backstage with the book
or part of the book because he I think because I he as long as he's listened to
like he will make he will make things better it's just sometimes during
matches he does he may bring down the match because again like all the
spitting like I just stopped caring like he was a good spot he runs a pressing
revolver okay PRW yes yeah yeah yeah PRWR yes yeah yeah PRWR depending on
whichever thing you whichever thing you're looking at it sometimes it's just
WR sometimes it's just the wrestling revolver
but yeah that's out of Illinois or Chicago or it's it's main base is Clive
Iowa outside of Des Moines but they but they are running like random places
like they they alternate a lot between Iowa and Dayton Ohio which is Sammy's
home base when he's not out in the Midwest or I guess Ohio's kind of in the
Midwest but but they they're doing a show in Texas they've done a couple of
shows I think in Cali and then like they tend to do a show wherever
WrestleMania happens to be like yeah yeah I saw them like team with somebody else
yeah but yeah but like yeah and if you have and if you have a thriller TV and
thriller plus you can actually watch revolver too and get caught up on things
like they actually they do run a good show and it's definitely like the
definition of circus wrestling and I don't mean this is a bad thing so I
think every I think a good wrestling company is like a circus because if you
don't like the jugglers there's the trapeze artists if you don't like the
traspese artists there's the clowns if you don't like the clowns here's the
lion tamers and I feel like that that I think that's the best analogy for good
wrestling they they run the full gamut of wrestling styles because they'll bring
in bring in some flippy flop guys the gringo loco hangs out there quite a bit
they're bringing in our a's for their next their show in Texas they have they
have the deathmatch guys in there or guys that do a lot of deathmatch types
stuff Jake Chris Alex Cologne and then to a lesser extent the second year crew
who do a lot of a mangers or man specifically does a lot of deathmatch
east up mangers is more hardcore brawley but like he will do some deathmatch
adjacent time it matches and of course Matthew Justice is happy as long as he
jumps off things you know but but they have and they have what's left of the
rascals they come in quite a bit mosh a slap of it a slam of it who does who does
very good technical wrestler when she's not doing some deathmatch stuff like they
they're all over the place yeah I'm surprised about her like she said she's a
good technical wrestler but you see a lot of deathmatches well those are the
best deathmatch wrestlers because they understand like I feel like they
understand wrestling psychology and so deathmatches don't have to be like for
the garbage wrestlers like it's an art form like you just it's just you got to
have people who aren't garbage doing it and that's the problem with a light bulb
it's an art form yeah oh shit whatever man you lost you on that one I do not agree
on that one but yeah you know it has its place do I think it should be all the
time oh yeah but but again there there's a big difference on who's swinging that
light tube as well because I guess I you know you know a kid I'll look at an MLW
Akira Akira is a guy that I watch deathmatch all the time because he's good
he knows what he's doing he could do creative spots safe creative spots for
the most part you know and everything makes sense within this context he's not
he's not one of those garbage guys who just come in and just swings every
light tube known to man you know or like oh I don't know what to do so cut here
here's a weedwhacker cut me bro like he's not you know he's not one of those and
neither is in neither is Masha you know so they have guys that know what what
they're doing with the deathmatch stuff like so I mean and she's young too I
think she's like 22 yeah she's like that man I don't know man I'm like whoa
you too young for that but but yeah so like yeah revolver revolver you know if
you guys have Triller plus she plugged for them I'm not being paid for it because
no one pays me for anything really no but revolver does do a good show and like
actually when I went I went in September this past year had the what was
labeled the funnest match ever which I don't you you'll either love it or you'll
hate it muffins there's gonna be no in between you're not gonna you just you're
not gonna be like Matt you're either gonna be like that is hilarious I love
it or you're gonna be like that is utter bullshit and it shouldn't be in a
wrestling ring but it was much it was Matthew Palmer who's kind of like a
half comedic guy in revolver he's actually based out of Texas he owns
Metro Metroplex wrestling in Texas so if you've heard of that I'm not watching
their shows but I just know he runs that but he does he's he's professional
wrestling's monster hunter so he's kind of like almost like a D&D character kind
of come to life Dan the dad who's a midwestern worker who's he's your
father's favorite wrestler yes one of my favorite autographs when I got his
eight by ten because he's proud of me and a rare in the appearance of Tyler
Breeze but it was labeled as the funnest match ever and it was all the
shtick all the stupid stuff like as a pure wrestling match it's garbage but
it's just for me it's it was just so bloody entertaining and so like I
muffin you'll either if it's revolver redacted if you have fight plus and that
match like I loved it but it's but you'll either love it or you'll hate it
because it's it's so much shtick there's so much stick involved because they're
all quasi-comedic wrestlers you know Dan Dan Dan will do his thing where he's
hopping around with them with his mug yep and Palmer's doing his weird D&D
cosplay stuff and the cosplay gets even weirder for that that that thing too but
yeah um but yeah we're getting way off topic on that but yeah so Sammy
Callaghan's company so like he does run a good good he's a good backstage
mind but actually the thing that caught me out of all this I don't know if you
caught you saw it I had to I rewind it but just as we're getting ready to go
into our we'll call it exit video package hyping up the next event the
black flag appeared for like three frames the ladies and gentlemen ladies and
gentlemen if MLW is not being overrun enough yes between WTF the calling and
promotion is Dorado the black flag of Contra appeared on screen and I am I am
curious to what's going on here because Jacob Fattu like on Twitter kind of
implied like implied that his next match is going to be his last again
vague vague posting well it's a mean it's he's saying goodbye to Philly because
they find living Philly and going out into the real world away from Philly or
is it his last match the I saw it well see I figured it was his last MLW match
but then the Contra flag happened so I part of you wonders if this is goodbye
handshaking baby kissing Fattu yes and the return monster of yeah the monster
the werewolf the guy who ran rough shot over the wall the roster because let's
face it Jacob Fattu happy go lucky you know make a difference Fattu with the
with an edge to him hasn't had that much success outside of a outside of a brief
run with the open weight championship well and also since my arch nemesis
Joseph Samael left and last time he was on he was in a trunk of a car getting
somewhere to a different country he has Jacobs Fattu has not been the same since
that happened so I know I told chef and chef kind of got happy when when I told
him about the black hand of Contra little thing so hey a lot of things
changes but to two years after almost three years it makes sense but where is
this all gonna fit with yeah you got you know there are a new child this is
gonna be this is gonna be crazy whatever happens yeah and I'm but I'm just
curious of like what we're gonna see like out of this return to Contra is
Samael coming back are we getting like are we getting like a new Contra like
or like they'll have like is it Fattu and a you know in a batch of newbies or it
is Mads Kruger the former cruel coming back because the last time we saw him he
got his you know he got his face half blown off and then he was handed a new
mask which is now what he wears on the on the and I still see him in these
cool and he's been you know making a name for himself on the
you know so you know and cruel considered himself like the last bastion
of Contra so is he you know is he on his way back which I always felt he kind of
got a raw deal in MLW he's one of those guys who had all this potential and
despite being prominently featured really didn't get to do much of anything
like he had a couple he had a couple of banger matches but a lot of his matches
just like they didn't they were met more for story than they were anything else
and so they were just kind of like tapered off did he ever win a title no so
maybe it's time that he comes back he's the leader for the new badge and he
finally you know becomes a champion of the company I mean damn you're sitting
you're actually selling toys those with him on it while I was with him after he
left so might as well at least I'm selling some stuff of people that are
actually here like everything they sold is of people who are no longer there I
laughed so hard every time I see a toy commercial for MLW because the only
person with the still with the company is far too every other person left yeah
before the toy even came out like and some people like they like I don't even
know why they bothered like Killer Cross like he's like never had okay he has
had matches in about you like he's only had like two MLW matches in the last five
years yeah I think it was one or two the last time he was here and like one match
they hyped another match and then he was he fell victim to the calling back when
the calling yes off and then and then I called them the calling card killers
because all you saw was unconscious bodies with the card on them yeah the
career killers okay here is the card go to WWE or go to AEW yeah and this is
your this is your past to get up so everybody who got a pass on them a
cart they're no longer there but crazy yeah and just for like every toy to just
be guys that aren't in the company for some you know for whatever reason it was
a little midget kind of toy yeah like micro it's a terrible doesn't even look
like him yes it's not even it doesn't even look like Microman doesn't have a
singlet it's not the right mask I don't know man like I think they just tried to
rush a toy and then they let him go anyway yeah but thank God I was happy
about that one so I didn't care about that one get out get him out of here
sick it's all that they don't do but yeah so I'm curious to see what's going on
the contrary like for me like like that that is one of the little things that
saved this event for me because for like for my humble opinion like you know
reload didn't do a whole lot for me I felt the matches were for the most part
meh like they weren't terrible like they weren't garbage matches they weren't duds
but they were just like a bunch of like two-star matches that didn't seem to have
that didn't necessarily that also didn't necessarily help further any stories
either because like that that's the secondary thing like this is kind of
why you need to have like a fusion because you don't I feel like you don't
when you don't want to hype up an event and then have it be no offense really
truly intended because it's not as bad as I make it sound but like as mediocre and
meh as this you know this pretty you could have three episodes of fusion and it
would have often and next week for linear for the Saturday show and it would
and it would have softened the blow but instead you're hyping this up as like a
premium event yeah and it was free free yeah a free a premium event you know but
like they're hyping is this a big deal and then we have a bunch of like two-star
matches that didn't further any stories really but yeah but we've beaten that
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