What's good everyone major league pod we are back after two weeks cuz you know and
I'm Rob Camber host of the MLW confusion podcast and with me as always ever present the megatron
of wrestling news muffins Martinez muffins how are you doing this afternoon and the megatron
now I'm at a septic on now good God I was wondering if we could skip the whole thing
and just go right to the main event cuz I have a lot to say about this you know it's
weird like comparatively speaking like there was so much news coming in like that came
out of the show like it totally overshadowed like the match listing so yeah like we let's
just jump right into things I got my props ready so yeah I wish man now we do it right
let's do the right way man cuz a lot of those a lot of the stuff was good especially that
first match each bond and a sugar rocky hermeto you know this is the show started good man
show started good well and I will like I will argue there was nothing inherently wrong with
the show by itself like without every match almost every match had some some some return
or some like giant news piece to come out of it like the only one that really didn't
win was well to the first two matches didn't have anything big come out of it come out
of it the two out of three falls and then the host fight second year crew mangers versus
a well I was very surprised that each Iban didn't win to be honest with you I thought
that he would have won the belt I thought that personally I thought that made more narrative
sense like the whole point of the story was each bond had been fighting the numbers game
and now we have a match that is literally a numbers game in two or three two out of
three falls and rocky beat and clean like outside of like I mean outside of a two bits two spots
of you know some chicanery but like overall like you know he pinned him pretty darn clean
so unless like unless this feud is not over yet which I which thanks to the again I'm
gonna rag on this until they fix it thanks to the new taping schedule like who like we
won't find out whether this this is the end or not for at least two weeks unless they
pop something up on on YouTube well let me ask you a question like does this hurt each
you've been going forward I mean since he lost clearly in the last set or the last pinfall
there I mean like can he come back from that I mean he can like he's not like he's not
damaged goods I don't think and let but like any any feud and any loss I don't think one
loss will hurt any individual it's the follow-up to that loss especially in these big situations
so you know each of on so as long as each of on like basically comes right back and is
in like immediately establishes himself basically will say just ignoring basically ignores that
the loss ever happened like he's comes in and he's still a ball of fire because he's
got himself over like the crowd is thoroughly behind yes you know so the only way like he's
gonna be damaged is basically if there's no follow-up to this whatsoever I'll compare it
to Kope Kingston losing the World Heavyweight Championship there is no shame being squashed
by Brock Lesnar especially with that size differential what hurt Kope is that as soon
as he lost like basically he's like hey former new former WWE heavyweight champion I'm happy
to be here have a pancake you know he didn't he didn't keep any of that fire he had throughout
the championship he just ignored like he just ignored anything he didn't want revenge he
didn't want to title back he just went back to playing with the new day and so like if
as long as each of on acknowledges and like you know shows the fire and keeps you know
keeps the ball rolling and saying like we're not done yet or you like yes you got me this
time but I will be back stronger you know he will be fine because obviously he'll get
the crowd behind him no matter what he does and then like you mentioned a big house fight
there which was a big humongous house fight yeah that was I mean I'll be honest that
was a really really really good match I'm happy that Debbie Boy Smith is back you know
100% I had a conversation with the was his name the one who lost to Debbie Boy Smith
Manders yeah so no yeah yes yes like you know how he got beat and he got you know the destroyer
whatever and then he tweeted back saying you know well I still got up yeah they got up
and I get up next I was like I don't know about that but well and I think that was and
that was really the story of the match because yeah he did get dominated a big match but
to his credit and you know this didn't come from me to his credit you know he did he didn't
like stay down he got up until he until he passed out and even passing out he let the
ref know what he thought about it yeah and before he went out and then he got in like
even then as soon as like the match is over he was he was starting to get up before he
got blindsided too so and I thought you would be happy with him losing so yes unless you're
revenge yeah so like I you know it told the story like again we're looking at this as
a story based narrative it told you know it told a good story and again we'll see what
comes after it you know MSL did reference going after the tag titles well again but yes
what should be interesting and one thing we forgot to mention is how the show started
and Max Stryker is no longer yeah we jumped that I did have that first in my notes and
then we just kind of like you know yeah I got salty about things I was surprised I was
surprised and happy at the same time because they never referenced it during the issues
on the internet or anything I down Twitter but at least they did good on it he replaced
them like we don't know what happened but I'm pretty sure they say okay we gotta you
gotta move gears here and they brought the guy which I remember him from when they did
the Lucha stop down in Mexico he was doing there with a brusky so I think you're working
good you know I like this guy yeah no it was a welcome change and I for one like a lot
of the internet wrestling community for better or for worse they are awfully hard on Matt
Stryker and like I've always I've always thought he was decent at times like I don't think
he deserved a lot of the hate that he will say usually got but I'm I definitely well
we've heard on this very podcast and then on confusion my thoughts of what he said on
Kings of Coliseum and we definitely needed a response and we at a certain level never
really got that response and actually visually speaking we don't even know if this was a response
I mean let's let's face it nobody said anything it's just like hey here's Christian Cole but
like the timing of it is of course very suspect and Mr. Stryker is no longer on Twitter yeah
okay so yeah so we could assume that he quietly and whispered he got swept away under the
rug and let's just kind of say that he never happened he was never here kind of thing yeah
which is honestly for the best because that was the only thing people were talking about
last month yes what was the third match after that third match was the dream match uh UG
Nagata versus Jacob Pottu yes whoo and that was a fun match overall I'm surprised it didn't
go longer just because of just the guys involved um the only thing I'm going to complain about
and I have my old man yells at clouds moments like pile drivers being kicked out of and
there were three pile drivers kicked out of not like I kept count or anything uh not this
match just in general um but like Nagata spent all this time working the arm in the match
and then Pottu did the hand spring me salt and that made me salty but you know stuff
like that just irks you like you doing all this to work on a body part to take a move
away but you still hit the move perfectly so what's the point of doing all this if he's
doing to be able to do a hand spring elbow thing and not even show any type of wear and
tear on the arm that's being worked on yeah you know but that's the things that kind of
gets you upset like what's the point then but overall it didn't ruin the match for me
um but I was kind of surprised like they didn't make it seem a bit more epic because they
really kind of hyped this as a dream match especially since uh Nagata is a legend and
then like as we are slowly potentially finding out that uh this is this is Pottu swan song
as well like he's he's going to be he is a free agent he's currently a free agent it's
not precluding him necessarily from working mlw but he's implied that he's not working
mlw because I think he was a free agent right on Thursday and he put it out there and he
wrestled Saturday and that which is classy of him to do yeah and and then we saw what
happened afterwards when he grabbed the microphone to kind of give us a speech and we saw the
flag of country come out that that got chef back excited again and and talking wrestling
and we saw like 27 different uh what they call the sentai yeah sendai yeah and then
we saw you know max kruger or aka cruel and the indies you know kind of picking up picking
up the mantle coming in and kind of decapitating yeah like that that was a very strong visual
like saying what I wanted about the you know the myriad of nameless schools that came out
through everything uh the whole faux decapitation thing really really uh stuck with me and it
was a very a very effective visual and what I would like to happen now is that oh you
know max kruger was burned in the last match almost two years ago blah blah blah now he's
being reincarnated now his back as cruel you know use that name that he's been carrying
down the indies and hopefully he could bring in his country unit that he's been using now
in the indies for the last two years because he's actually been the main guy carrying the
whole contra unit thing out there away from the main shows and still keeping it alive
and if they do I mean he has an impressive crew out there down in southern southern heritage
wrestling I believe that that's where all that stuff happens um you know and he has
a female manager he has he has like four other guys with him so hopefully slowly they'll bring
those guys in because I don't you know now if if two is actually gone that's the biggest
guy that was in contra unit gone and then who will you bring from the past that was
there before so I guess totally time we'll see and I'm pretty sure like you mentioned
we'll see some kind of rematch at the ferry 29th intimidation games yep they've they've
made that official it's signed by somebody before then and they say now come on we're
gonna take you down yeah it's a Baclae brawl yeah but I wasn't aware he was still carrying
the flag of Contra but I'm not familiar with his southern work like I see him work a bit
more northeast and the northeast he doesn't really carry the crew with him so much yeah
yeah it's a sort of southern honor wrestling he does the whole contra unit thing he has
a Alex some AC Mac one of the guys from the infantry and then one other guy and then a
female who has like his manager spokesperson who also wrestles and she's a beast so yeah
then he's got a hat for you I can't transfer the screens that alright but he's also doing
championship wrestling for Memphis where he's been there the last two or three episodes
he won the the Royal Rumble type match and now he's gonna go after Brad Michaels the
gun show for the title so as the contra unit so he's definitely bringing the stuff out
there if you know if myself you keep yourself up to date on everything wrestling you see
him but like you said you know if you only step to one side you know when you single
and got a body issues YouTube because your best friend yeah well and there's there's
a handful of blind spots in my wrestling repertoire and the deep south is one is one of them no
I'm I'm going to you know humble brag on this one I should have known something was up because
I'm being monitored online again by contra so that's been a handful of years since that
happened so I should I should know something was up be careful with that then I've said
if you catch the old episodes of confusion I've said it various times like if you hear
me mouth off too much and I'm mysterious to disappear there's a chance that I'm in a bunker
in Siberia or the death pits of Cambodia or any or yeah or any other place that Joseph
Samayel like to talk about yes pro pro pro pro that was one of the biggest surprises to
me was cruel coming back I was like later on now now yeah because I mean they've only
did they've only done like like two maybe three like flashes of that of the black flag
of Contra so I figured yeah I figured like we'd pull it out a little bit more but I guess
I guess with part two leaving I guess they decided like either a this is the plan all
along and I mean fought you obviously should be involved if Contra's coming back in some
way shape or form so I don't know whether they pulled the trigger early on it or if
this is just the plan all along with it but I mean either way I'm I'm but I am very curious
to see where Contra goes with this because I definitely like I hope he bring like bring
I shouldn't say necessarily brings you might have it who knows who are all under those masks
but I definitely hope he gets he gets he definitely I'm definitely hoping he has like named compatriots
in the group.
Yeah, I'm okay with the new old guys too but but it definitely shouldn't be Mads Kruger
and a bunch of nameless ghouls because yeah that that'll be that'll be really lame in
my humble opinion which Kruger for better or worse kind of had some problems getting
at various points in MLW getting over and staying over consistently because his book
his book he's been so inconsistent and he doesn't need a bunch of nobody's taking beatings
when he's eight feet tall and which most the roster under his boot heels for fun.
That's true yes yes but but and then the other point is we've been talking we've been talking
about it and now this is popped up too.
MLW is very heel stably at the moment and he'll stay stable.
I want to take over the promotion.
I mean Salina De Laurenti's promotion is to Rada's is kind of we'll call it distracted
the moment with our next with our next big surprise but like we still have WTF who wants
to overrun MLW Contra in the past well for a brief period of time successfully took over
MLW going into the pandemic era and then before this coming distraction promotion on
his Dorada was trying to stake a claim as like the the true ruler and matchmaking power
of MLW some kind of like I'm curious to see where this goes because we have like three
different stables who's been bent on MLW takeovers and destruction and and and then
the surprise being the fourth one coming up now.
So yeah our next match which or okay so okay we skipped or skipping a match but we'll go
ahead and talk about it now it's fine we can come back we can come back come back to the
other but but going along with the surprise going into our lucha exhibition match mistico
versus a verno they didn't even wait for the end of the match for the surprise to this
yes we started the party with the return of Cesar de Ran.
Actually they've been dropping hints for months upon months and they've just flat out announced
that the May show is as tech underground so I mean we kind of had to put two and two together
on that because he was the only one who you know used the as tech lucha you know branding
everybody else everybody else you know had some other form of branding to go along with
it but is but is official as of Saturday Cesar de Ran is back he brought he officially brought
in mistico he is ready for violence.
Now this match was everything that I always wanted I seen these guys and you know when
you bring two guys from Mexico who's worked together for a while is basically bread and
butter you let them go and they do everything they do the thing that upsets me the most
is that they have announced this for I want to say last month you know so I'm excited
oh we're gonna get some CML guys especially mistico and of course Tony Khan from another
company decides well you know I could do that too I'm gonna bring in earlier than you guys
and have them the same week that you're having your show on Saturday I want to have them
coming on Wednesday then I'm gonna have them all get on Friday and I have one of the guys
rest on Saturday while you having a show so that kind of got me upset because you know
Mexico was in a bigger promotion bigger channel out there and those guys were out there burning
it live and you know now you come down to LMAW you little smaller in Philly you know
and they still did this shit if you love Lucha wrestling this is definitely one of the matches
that you gotta see a lot of high flying a lot of turning of moves a lot of grappling
everything that you want to see it is there I love the match I just hated that somebody
else took the thunder away from them a couple days earlier yeah I mean if nothing else we
can try to silver lining this and say well if you saw him on AEW now now it can bring
extra eyes to MLW because like oh hey mistico is also going to be on MLW especially if like
they went to AEW first and then popped over here I mean it's kind of like the Matt Cordona
thing get it gets his spots in the rest of the country granted he well he was kind of
doing stuff he does stuff like every week so like yeah kind of the same but like yeah
like I mean that I mean yeah it did get some of the thunder stolen I think but like I mean
good wrestling is good wrestling and I think if you are going to follow your favorite wrestlers
or follow a type and style of wrestling like you're not necessarily going to miss out of
it and I know I know a handful of people who are really happy that lucha is coming back
full form in MLW they're just kind of sad that you know that it's not all on YouTube
anymore and we have it there it's behind it's behind a paywall such as last night but you
know a lot of companies work behind that paywall now so you know that's I think it's an it's
ultimately net neutral it's just whatever streaming services you are going to choose to
afford at the moment and the thing is now the forbidden door thing that's that's already
over with now there's no such thing as a forbidden door because every week somebody from somewhere
that you never thought was going to be there is there yeah but yeah and really like the
forbidden door thing is I mean I think is we'll call it kind of passe anyway it's the
forbidden door only really existed within the realms of the wwe because they were the
only company that was refusing to work with anybody else like huge new japan work with
people all the time it works with people all the time like that's not it's not really that
big of a deal I mean it is like it is I mean it is mildly you know important to see like
some of the top tier guys but like on the flip side of some of those top tier guys already
worked for new japan anyway so like I mean is there truly a new dream match to watch
can you omega take on someone from new japan because he spent like 15 years there if casual
fans don't watch new japan wrestling they won't see it if they don't get up at three in the
morning on a Friday night or stay up that late to watch you know watch a live yeah you know
I'm saying is then you know you have no choice like oh my god what well kind of gives new
gives Kenny in AEW oh that's the forbidden door for you I never seen that but you know
us we've seen it because we stay on top of everything that happens all over wrestling
so to us it's just a regular thing but somebody knew was like oh wow that's the dream match
I never wanted that now I want so yeah I mean I buy that but the flip side given how much
information and streaming media is out there nowadays like if they really wanted to get
it a lot of stuff is on demand I mean yes it's great to have it for on free TV or well
we'll go up quasi free TV because you still gotta get cable most of the time for that
at the bare minimum but you know if you if you really want if you really wanted it it's
out there in some way shape or form and then after this match we found out that misty coach
gonna challenge a suit of rope car metal for the L my W middleweight champions middleweight
champion intimidation games so that right there should be interesting to see if mystical
takes the belt and takes it back to Mexico which has been there already with Rocky Romero
so it'd be interesting to see if they do that type of you know title change there so
yeah well and and on top of it regardless it'll be a good match because Rocky obviously
can work the style and and missed it like mysticos big problem working in America was
working against American style wrestlers when he's putting there with other lucha guys it's
like oh you know he's the misty code old just just a touch slower because that was 15 years
ago but yeah place but he's still like he's still amazing just considering but yeah so
he got his family in Mexico you know when he came here he was in Kara so the mystical guy
he never came to the United States until now so you know so it is still is still something
new to us even though we see them wrestle under a different gimmick for all this time under
a mask well now we're watching him wrestle well yes but now watching him wrestle as his
you know his original you know persona kind of gives you that good but like oh she is
mystical even though he's been here before but it's really mystical now well and he's
he's gotten his footing back because I know like after he got fired like he still had some
problems getting on his feet and kind of like I don't know if he's regaining his confidence
or if they're just other people weren't working well with him because he famously had a terrible
match with Ramsterio and that's before Ramsterio started you know you know what a bathing in
virgin blood or whatever he did to like totally change his body because because he because
he was pretty pretty run down for a time too and then just you know through through a couple
of surgeries and lost a bunch of weight too like you almost can't tell like he's ever
lost a step as well yeah and he's been out but he should be coming back pretty soon as
to you so you know whatever he got left in the tank he's gonna give it out there and
you know and keep flying till the body says okay we can't anymore yeah just like just
like any good professional wrestler I mean how many of them truly retire man exactly
so which which match do we skip we skipped the death machine rules match okay I know
which I figured that was partially a farty and slip on your part because it's not really
your style of match well this one is not what I was intrigued but I was like Sammy Gallaghan
I like his work already now I don't like his spitting and I kind of shit that he does that
I just kind of like dude come on man just stick to wrestling you know do your job get you know
get the heel pop play with the crowd you know get them upset I love his work and I love
the work he did with Tesla Blanchard down in the impact days there so you know before
all that shit happened but you know I've always been impressed with Sammy and Akira you know
he always since that one match he had with Azucar I see him in a whole different light
now I still don't like this whole hardcore all this blood everywhere nonsense thing but
I will one match a show I'm fine with that I just can't have it back to back or stuff
like that and overall like they were pretty light on it as well just because Sammy has
kind of moved away from the pure death match stuff himself and he's done more he does more
of these hardcore ass bros yeah and and it was like yeah they brought out the barbed
wire but really like there was it wasn't it wasn't done in a way to draw blood and let's
also face it the Moodalock with the barbed wire was pretty gnarly so like they like they
got innovative with the stuff and I did like his mouth to where he was opening yeah I'm
like oh dude I come on man yeah I also liked using an Akira 8x10 to do the paper cut spots
I thought that was odd and then they they did glossed over it and didn't focus on it but
Akira Mooda Mooda missed it because Sammy with a lemon too this was course after Sammy
used the lemon on him and on his paper cuts those guys gotta hurt oh yeah as a connoisseur
of death match wrestling I know I've known a handful of guys like would have the death
matches with and usually the lemon lemons are involved with like they call it like pits
of death and and so like they'll have the regular stuff and then they'll be like lemons and hot
sauce and salt and the wrestlers will say like the thing that actually hurts the most is
like lemon juice just because I believe the lemon juice and the salt but what white the
hot sauce have you ever gotten hot sauce in a place it shouldn't be I hope I'm not because
I'm not I've been friend on hot sauce but shit I mean I put the hat on little story story
time I have burned my face with a Carolina Reaper oh straight up Reaper I thought I was
being haved I had gloves on but evidently there was a micro tear in my glove and I didn't
wash my hands in between removing my glove and wiping my eye actually I like I itched
right here and yeah I burned my face pretty darn good I burned it up I had to go shower
and there's quasi video of it on the internet if you go to my and if you go into my real
YouTube channel which is also the Nova of Cass that I have a video of me play all playing
with the peppers and so I'm like so I'm talking about making like pepper flakes and hot sauce
and whatever but like at the very end is like an extra like I didn't record me wiping my
face and you know screaming but I showed like the aftermath and like I had like well team
and that that's just from the pepper like and that there was no cuts on my face that it was
that was just skin contact and well I'll stay from the house all then Jesus so yeah ladies
and gentlemen wash your hands wash your hands before you touch any pepper after you've done
touching peppers and then we got the surprise of Raven coming out yes Raven made his return
which I'm still trying to figure out why now yeah we think that he's gonna side with the calling
because that's why he started and he sizes there with Akira so what the hell's going on there
yeah that's rather interesting and I'm hoping we will get get an actual explanation as to why
so I'm hoping Raven will stick around which which he didn't really do before but yeah because he
did kind of like the calling like welcomed him from the stage like they all like taped Akira up
and pointed to the stage and then he walked out and I'm sorry my phone is exploding evidently
real life is popping up okay it's it's ultimately fine uh non-emergency it's just
there there is a family group chat going on and some traveling so it's one of those like hey I'm
safe and then everyone's chiming in like great yes so um yeah but yeah um I thought that was
interesting uh Raven making his return because he's been MIA like and it almost like the entirety
of the calling's run and they did like reference him being gone and Ricky Champage basically taking
over for him so I mean there's some places they can go with it but again it's only going to make
sense if Raven stays around if it's just gonna be like Raven's gonna be like I never advocated this
throne you took it from me yes you know and then he disappears again like it really didn't mean a
whole lot anyway yeah exactly just what was the point of you coming for yeah but I did I did at
least think it was interesting and and added it was a nice little twist as a way to keep the
feud going without making it necessarily feel stale but we'll see like like the theme earlier we'll
see what the follow-up is to see how it makes sense and fits into the narrative I just hope that that
title the middleweight title gets defended sometime because good lord oh the open national open weight
yes he's defending it on those tapings so Jake Chris is coming up with Jake yeah because you
know he hasn't defended the title in months yeah he is he is defending I assume we'll see it at
burning crush I believe it the next YouTube show is this month that was part of the tapings
that didn't that didn't make it all I know is this if by May whoever's the champion I'm praying and
I'm gonna petition to core power to give you a title shot where you are the show because
everybody's coming in getting title shots is nearly woody then when you're gonna be there in person
I'm gonna petition him to give you a title shot because you just you just I'm gonna go for I'm
gonna go for all the titles too because if a second year crew still have the tag team titles I
got bone to pick with the one called manders as well I my wife will no no she doesn't like
tolerating my bullshit so you will not partner title shot while those bells gotta come to your
to you you need a title shot court I know you heard muffins court I guess we're gonna go this way
there we go you heard muffins court I know I know you got feelers when I watch this show
no one ever admits it because I'm loud and obnoxious but we know I'm gonna go Twitter
things matter things magically appear after we complain about it sometimes yes uh I'm petitioning
that every week Nova Alcazar needs a title shot on May 11 so yeah so he is defending the title he
did he is he has defended the title at the tapings that is the Jake Chris debut which I am excited
to see because Jake has killed Jake has been killing it for years and he's been one of the
better kept secrets and wrestling like when they came into impact back then I said oh wow they're
bringing some new fresh guys and you know and then like they all will do you know they go from being
hard to being cold to being on the appreciated get stuck with some dumb story lines and you
think wow that turned back quick yeah and I will put over Jake I mean specifically Jake because
he's like since his original run in impact like he's had a total body change like yes he has dropped
a small person amount of weight um because we know like I had a those who pay attention to the con
I've had him on the show he's a friend a friend of the show and we talk extensively about some of
his demons and one of the things he's most proud of is his weight loss where like he was actually
bigger than me like in terms of weight like at his worst and he's and he put out like that's the
one I was wearing the vest and all that stuff like I was close to 240 pounds and he's only like 5'8
like he's not that big of a dude height wise and carrying I was 240 I'm 6 feet I wish I was 240
but but yeah he then he had his epiphany and went to the you know goes to the gym every day now and
his all for gym life takes the selfies to prove it too and again like killing it in wrestling
revolver um he had he had like a one-shot back in tna as well where he had that viral moment
yeah hitting that cutter midair on uh allen angels which was crazy go back again for like I know
they for a while there with uh sammy and then one same we left every side is i live i mean and
his wife navia i mean she's she's an awesome talent she should be hopefully you know maybe you
know hit a match or two there mlw i'll be happy yeah i can always use more feather weights
yes this but yeah so we got off topic i mean but you know again we're still talking about mlw
and mlw and and the debut of jake christ um but yeah so yeah raven's coming back uh speak and
don king made a one night return as well uh they might have actually they might have actually taped
something new for him i'm not entirely sure it's a new because i could swore i've heard that same
speech i mean it's always the times he's been there i mean it's always approximately the same
speech but he did add in i don't remember him ever saying bow mya is for the people because he's mostly
during like the straight up heel phase of the bow mya fight club and didn't really hasn't we haven't
seen much of him since they became i know face ish tweeners tweeners baby face yeah they're
surprised of dunking the shambling corpse of don king was brought back for 30 seconds ladies
or ai bow mya bow mya bow mya so i don't know if that was actually dunking or just a ai
disguised as dunking it could be either way they probably had to pay out the law zoo for it if it
is for that yeah for 30 seconds if it's not if it's not actually him and they got permission to
use him like that can become cheap or the ensuing lawsuit of using him for that permission that's
not going to be a hologram it's a hologram but yeah so that led us into our main event and you
said you and you got it you got things to say about it so uh so i i'm going to go along and eat my
bread drink my beer as you preach brother you know and my issue is the kojima you know i love kojima
he's been there you know he is a you know a veteran you know he's he's a door in japan
but you know you haven't come here he's 53 years old i'm expecting he's going to be a good match
heart-hitting he's going to put king up more and evade more and for some reason he was the belt
which just totally took me by surprise now my thing that i'm thinking is like why did this happen
the guy lives in japan it's not like he's going to be here on a regular basis defending the title
even though now we know that he will be defending the title uh in the fair 29th initiation game on
a thursday against uh susuki gun so you're you're you're a man they're uh murder i am very happy
with this match i'm happy about this too and i was doing enough for the lmw title but what
i mean there was the reason like story wise like what does this do for the title i mean
they like to me this makes no sense so i went on twitter you know like i will do a friday putting
stuff you know my disappointment on it and one of the talents from the show kind of hit me up
uh on the dms which i was surprised and kind of you know telling me that this is a good move
and he's looking forward to the fairy 29th show blah blah blah you know we go back in
forward and then he left me a big voicemail you know telling me that that this is the right move
for lmw right now at this moment to kind of get somebody else to come in the house of bigger name
trying to do some stuff there especially now with uh susuki coming in in february and hopefully in
the future you know like things will change and for me the trustful process of how things are
going to go in the future i told them bro i believe you but i'm a couch gm forget that i'm a fan we are
internet neckbears ladies you know saying i'm a couch gm people have said the rock just came in
into kori rose spot i don't care about that same thing that happened there's everything here
you know i'm saying so another old guy comes in takes the title from a young guy to defend it
against another old guy another show coming up before the other month that's going to be a hard
hitting match and by god i'm looking forward to this match by no means necessary i am looking
forward to this match because this is going to be hard hitting but you're gonna have two over
50 yo guys wrestling in a main event for a title and then what happens is it's gonna keep the title
is susuki gonna take the title from him and then what's gonna happen in march who's gonna
defend it against who it's just too many questions in my head not enough time and my head cannot take
all these different scenarios i'm already a libra and we think already as it is but last thing i want
to do is wake up in the morning six thirty in the morning because i have to get ready to work and
the first thing in my mind is why they can't lose the belt why kojima why susuki why you know i got
too much stuff kramer yeah i mean don't get wrong like i i am an abashed satoshi kojima guy i had
my bread got my beer just like he told us to at the end of the show and so i am definitely
have two minds about this because on one hand i am as a pure fan just as someone who watches who's
watching the product without it without worrying about going on my podcast getting on the camera
here and talking with my bros doing a write-up for we like sports you know but as a pure fan like i
love this move like i love satoshi kojima like he is a certified legend in the business etc like that's
great but as someone who's like you trying to put things together being armchair quarterback or armchair
gm like there's i definitely have some questions about it uh just just because kane has been so
dominant and like where where do you really go from here especially since we don't know the details
of the talent contract so we don't know how long kojima is going to be to be here uh i compared it
i've compared it at least in my head to uh me playing uh total extreme warfare or extreme warfare
revenge for stat nerds and game nerds out here where playing as a small playing as a small
company i i my world champion kept getting signed by this is a long time ago so either wwe
or tna they kept stealing my world champion because i couldn't afford i couldn't afford a written
contract i couldn't afford to lock them down and so just to keep my belt basically within my company
and keep a belt on a real person without having it vacated every month i finally just put it on a
65 year old tito santana that's that's almost kind of how i feel about this just because like again
like yes he's a certified of the legend yet now he is the first two he was the first real
there's an asterisk to that because shane douglas threw down the shane douglas was the first mlw
world heavyweight champion and he threw the belt down because court bauer likes to rehash things very
well uh but satoshi kujima was the first person to actually win and hold on to the mlw world
heavyweight championship and so now he's the first two-time champ which i i do understand the appeal
of doing something like that and let's also face it kujima is very over with the crowd at least in
philly uh is he that over elsewhere i don't know but he's also but he has made appearances in you
know for other companies on a large scale he wrestled cm punk and cm punk gets to kind of say
who he wants to wrestle like however regardless of how you feel about cm punk uh he doesn't want
to wrestle someone he's not going to do it and this was going to be in new york yeah um and
i'll go ahead well sit then got away from philly oh oh yeah yeah we are starting the tour phase of
mlw we're bringing back the tour phase so we got new york we got florida and we got chicago
yes coming up yes but i i am overall curious and it was very surprised that they chose to drop the
title off of kane in the way that they did like like yes it still took two larrys to put him down so
well i'll get we'll give him credit for that but again we look at like the everything else and is
kujima going to be around long enough to make it worth everyone's while to give them the bump that
they need it and as such like really like if you're looking to pivot to somebody with some
name value or some buzz about them i feel like he that kane should have dropped the title a couple
months ago either to richard holiday who is fresh off of oh my god he's back in mlw and this is his
first this is his first appearance on a major promotion since uh since his return uh from from being
declared cancer-free or matt cardona who is belt collecting and coming around the internet because
i don't see kujima holding the title for very long to be realistic like whether he dropped like
do i see him dropping it to susuki probably not but where does he go from there was kane get his
rematch in april or you know what's i i i just kind of like i'm not sure where where to pivot
from kujima especially if i don't if we don't see kujima necessarily as a long-term champion
and maybe kujima is going to be a long-term champion maybe he is will you know he has an
agreement to come in and work because especially with mlw he'll be taping once a month like he only
needs to come in for a weekend and do his thing and then he can go back to japan or you know do
small tours of the us or whatever it is he wants to do um but i'm just really surprised you know
that's the direction that they've gone that they're going to go especially how how much that like they've
really invested in kane and how and how he like how he has held the title he's been a very dominant
champion defeating like most of their previous champions in the form of tom luller jakefattu
and alex hammerstone uh and then we have our secondary set of questions is what's next for
bow mya what's yet next for alex kane especially since we already know that he is not going to get
his rematch immediately unless there's like some hidden match at uh burning crush that we that we
are not aware of yet because i've avoided that much spoilers anyway um you know does he like
what does he do does he yeah does he sit and lick his wounds like is he going to be hammerstone and
just f off for a handful of months is he going to come back right is he going to come back right
away and just like tear things down because this wasn't fair to him or like this is not who he was
or you know is he going to just is he going to be kopey kingston and just be like that's okay
bow mya that's okay bow mya um but i know at least i and i thought it was interesting also i should
have known something was up because of the bow mya crew that surrounded that usually surround kane
like wasn't there like the actual members of the bow mya fey club that wasn't that that wasn't
mr thomas wasn't there uh kaiju uh shane edwards wasn't there and i know for sure j buji wasn't
there because he did a live reaction of him of kane losing the title and are ritarily tagged
to be in it for whatever reason i i think it was a mistype and there's just enough overlap between
mlw and mlw confusion that or he wanted to get the word out there from a legitimate wrestling
journalist could be that too i don't know um but yeah so like that was kept pretty under wraps and
i definitely like it caught a lot of people off guard again is it going to be the wrong decision
again i'm not sure because again like kojima is a big name but i'm not i don't but i'm not sure this
makes narrative sense overall that's the theme of the show the narrative and i don't i'm not
entirely sure how that fits in with the overarching narrative well guess how we'll tell and we'll see
what happens in two weeks yeah i guess as i said like if nothing else i mean we're unless something
happens in two weeks we're going to one way or another we were getting kojima versus tzuki
which is going to be a great match i have no problems that with that being for the title
i really like as much as i'm a fan of tzuki like i or of kojima i'm okay with like i'm okay with
tzuki winning the title too like i honestly it almost might be refreshing to have like a handful
of very short reigns and almost like a batch of transition reigns because so for the last years
like people have been holding the belt for over six months plus and like yes like long title reigns
can be it can be good but if everyone gets a long title reign like it takes some of the i
think it takes some of the excitement it can take some of the excitement out of it looking at you
my head does light bulb just went off because what you said right now so tzuki wins the bell
fairy 29th for kojima he's the new lmw champion the first opponent love dog i mean i'm down for it
i they have history after what happened a couple of months ago outside the you know of uh the easy
easy w arena why not yeah thank no and i and that is something that's missing uh when you don't do
a weekly television product is you don't have like you lose almost some of the unpredictability
or like taking out some of the novelty out of the championship matches because when you do it
when you have tv every week you can you know you can have your whole kogan come in for a squash
match you know and call it good i mean yes this isn't 40 years ago brother jack dude but you know
you can have those little like fun little matches that are just styles clashes just to kind of like
pad up the champion's record because because you know champions need to defend their title
and like yes if you're only running like once or twice a month like obviously that that makes things
a little bit difficult but otherwise you get your brock lesnar's and your roman reigns who hold the
belt for you know a year and a half or in the case of roman like three years but the number of
defenses is less than 30 you know does it you know are you really that great of a champion
i just say dog comers yeah i just saw he said 999 wins from all televised non televised house shows
so he's he's winning records 999 wins he won short from hitting a thousand wins i mean that's
an impressive number i mean and but whole kogan was doing that in a year brother
he went five years uh yeah well uh you know um but again like being a fighting champion is much
different than you know taking months off at a time as well um and again like mlw you're getting
a title defense every month so that's not necessarily an issue but also running that once a month
like kind of takes away from some of like some more interesting matchups i think even though if you
know what the know what the outcome is going to be like watching susuki and love dog would be great
but people are going to poop all over that if you do it as like a thriller pay per view
if something you have to spend real money for people are going to poop all over it but if you
have fusion you can do it yes a taping match yeah but now rob i want you to share uh the
good news that happened to you last week when you wrote the report there that you did oh okay uh
i know it's i know it's my mlw related but it's still kind of cool well i actually i i dropped a
second article uh yesterday uh so i have been brought on as a contributing writer to uh we
like sports i believe it's dot com um so uh i will the there's no deal in place it's just articles
as i see fit like uh they when they ask they they ask me aboard and i'm like one i don't really watch
sports ball two i notice on your background that you guys really only talk about wwe and aew and
i don't pay i pay attention but i don't know if i pay enough attention to it to have good opinions
on it or at least in terms of like weekly roundups or whatever and they're like no just do you know
just do whatever it is you want to do we are looking to get some you know get some exposure to
the indies i'm like cool uh so uh i did i have two articles over the last couple weeks uh one is uh
uh kind of talking about the most random participants in royal rumble history uh so
what those names i forgot about when i read that i was like they're they are out there and and
spoiler for no good reason i did put uh jordan grace on there just to throw a bone because i
didn't really throw anybody on the women's side but we've really never had a wtf like women's
you know women's person outside of maybe santina morella but um and then uh yesterday we all
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