00:01and we are kicking and dropping a big way here two females making their canoes
00:05you heard gustin say it representing ohio is for killers
00:26nevaeh the killer queen scott an unbelievable professional wrestler well and and brad we
00:32know it's a best of seven tournament here tonight match number one is pivotal it's crucial
00:39if you lose match number one you're fighting from behind and you don't want to start off like
00:45that you want to take this momentum and ride it much like jody threat rides a skateboard
00:53segway no it's a skateboard scott not a segway
01:13brad i cannot stress enough how smart i think this is on both team canada
01:19and team usa's part both of these women had to have knots in their stomach both of these women
01:25are entering the first ever canoosa classic both teams want to get those women to get get those
01:30jitters out early and put them together against an opponent who's also experiencing the same things
01:35that you are but brad who has more pressure in this match we've got jody threat who's been around
01:43here in smash wrestling for a while now that now entering her biggest match in the history in her
01:48history here in the company which is nevaeh who's managed to make her canoe to debut debut i can't
01:54even stop right now you're so excited i am excited she's making her smash wrestling debut all in one go
02:00who has more pressure i think because of that scott nevaeh has much more pressure on her
02:06she's wanted to be in the canoosa classic she's wanted to be here in smash wrestling now she has
02:10the opportunity to do both
02:14well brad ever since last year when jody threat watched canoosa classic from the sidelines
02:19she made this her goal to get here one day one year later here we are
02:24and she has a chance to get team canada on the board early
02:30that's that all important momentum
02:34well this is the other thing that the canoosa classic brings is these first ever matches
02:40there's the opening bell nevaeh versus jody threat to kick off the 2018 canoosa classic
02:48who do you give the advantage to here scott boy i think it's a stalemate at this point brad and
02:53that's the point that i was trying to make earlier is that this is so smart on behalf of both
02:57teams when
02:57they were putting together the order of who is going to compete when tonight
03:01that strategy plays a massive part in the canoosa classic you got to be careful about
03:05who you're matching up against uh and where and where you're putting each other to put these two
03:11first to get the jitters out early not not only to mention worst case scenario brad let's say
03:16hypothetically your team does lose this match there's still margin for error it's best of seven if you
03:22if you lose the first match the tournament's not over plenty of time to come back but that being said
03:26momentum is a big thing in a best of seven you're right momentum is huge you want to be able
03:31to
03:32pick up that first win and and be able to afford a lot not that you want to lose any
03:37matches but you
03:37want to have that comfort zone
03:41you see a bit of a stalemate as again brad the jitters have to be going through both of these
03:46women
03:47absolutely but you're right scott the jitters it's good that these two are out first because if they
03:53had to sit in the back and watch match after match those jitters were just filled and filled and
03:57filled well and that's it and i i think to it to an extent a lot of those jitters go
04:01away the second
04:02they hear that opening bell ring and now frazz is going to get a test of strength between canada and
04:08usa
04:12nevaeh and jody threat this could also be a stalemate here well they are now in a greco roman knuckle
04:18lock and jody threat getting the early advantage here and fans here in smash pressing are used to
04:25seeing this from jody press but now nevaeh is the experience advantage of nevaeh able to kick jody
04:33threat's hand right into the greco roman knuckle lock and transition into a side headlock but jody
04:37threat wisely muscling nevaeh into the corner forcing a break
04:43up and over jody threat landing on the apron oh and a straight forearm shot right to the jaw there
04:50from the wild child oh and a knee to the face jody threat whoa rolls your way back in and
04:58the drop kick
04:59and down goes nevaeh crushing harder in the corner nevaeh back to the vertical base jody threat
05:07oh what a clothesline there from nevaeh looks like threat might be looking spear hang on a
05:11cover here and a kick out of one there from threat
05:16this is the other thing to consider too brad neither one of these women wants to be the one
05:20that puts their team behind no absolutely and especially jody threat here representing canada
05:26in her home country considering that team usa won this tournament last year the last thing you want
05:32to do is come out and start canada out from behind jody threat she's got the weight of a nation
05:38riding on
05:38her shoulders here but at what point brad do you have to block that out at what point does this
05:44become
05:44just another match ideally as soon as the bell rings but i think it's got to be in the back
05:55of her mind
05:56on both their parts absolutely there's no way you're representing your nation you're representing
06:02professional women's wrestling
06:06as a whole snap suplex there from nevaeh and brad it's also hang on a sec here cover here from
06:12nevaeh
06:13that kick out again at one from joey threat it's it's also worth pointing out you talk to a lot
06:18of
06:18i'm going to make a hockey analogy here you talk to a lot of a lot of hockey players and
06:21a lot of them
06:22value representing their nation representing their country in the olympics a lot more than
06:26than winning a stanley cup and that's just what it means to be able to put a country's flag on
06:33your
06:33back and that's what both these women have an opportunity for the first time ever to do here
06:37tonight and canoe says that one time a year where you know you might not be friends with everyone in
06:41the back but when the national pride is on the line you rally together for a better cause
06:46one two three there's nevaeh now trying to wear down jody threat
06:56taking some liberties with the rules here she's got the five seconds but the referee can disqualify
07:02within the five seconds if he feels that the rules are being broken too much it's interesting to see how
07:08this plays out here well i i don't think you're going to see anything but being called right down the
07:13middle from the official this tournament's too big i think there's going to be a lot of leeway given on
07:20both sides i would imagine so
07:24because the last thing that an official wants to do is insert insert himself into this tournament
07:29and make it about himself but right now jody german superlinks into a cover kick out there from nevaeh
07:36not much of a kick out there more rolled out of that cover well sometimes that's all you need
07:40to use the body weight to hold your momentum out of the out of the cover she landed hard in
07:45the back
07:46of her head and neck and even then that expends less energy than physically kicking out
07:53now this thing she's breaking down to a slugfest
07:58forearm shots from both women
08:05just back and forth this thing's breaking down forget technicalities this is just a fight now you
08:12made the hockey analogy earlier this is like a hockey fight
08:17now here comes joey threat she got caught though oh that might be it both women are down
08:26and nevaeh unable to capitalize though brett
08:31threat is down nevaeh is down at the very least nevaeh has given herself a breather
08:36nevaeh is at least moving jody threat finally starting to stir
08:43two and jody threat able to get the shoulder up just took too long there brett
08:48you gotta wonder if the seconds it took to start stirring for nevaeh just cost her the match
08:54well they at least cost her that opportunity to end it irish look there
08:58a spear from nowhere jody threat hits a spear
09:05and she's sensing and the end is near jody threats
09:11police dean of the power of her shoulders the power of jody threat f5 connecting
09:17threat into the cover two and that's it team canada on the board early
09:37we cannot understate how big that victory is for jody threat it will put canada on the board
09:43early absolutely jody threat giving canada the early advantage giving canada that leeway
09:50that all-important momentum to build towards perhaps winning this whole tournament well and but it's not
09:57only momentum it's also margin for error exactly i mean all it takes is three seconds we know that
10:07the last two and now usa after winning the tournament last year
10:11you
10:11you
