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In this episode we discuss the end of show scene as the Worlds Collide event ends with a showdown between Omos and Oba Femi, Will Osprey warns WWE about their counter programming strategy, and Malakai Black has shed his persona and is returning to his roots!

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03:40That being said, tonight, there's a lot to talk about.
03:43Look, first, let's start with some sad news.
03:45Rick Atchberger, who is WWE's sign guy.
03:48This guy has been to so many shows over the years.
03:51And he kind of, if you tune in often, you'll see him right near the, like, the entryways in, like,
03:57a blue workman shirt, red hat, you know, he holds up signs to the crowd and stuff.
04:02And he became super, super well-known.
04:04You know, there's that guy in the green shirt people always know.
04:08You know, he'd go to, like, 40, 50 shows every single year.
04:12Unfortunately, it was announced that he did pass away today.
04:15A guy named Lance Peterson broke the news on Twitter saying that it's with a heavy heart that I announced
04:19the passing of WWE's sign guy, Rich Atchberger, today, Sunday, 9, 27, 26.
04:24He was an absolute great guy and loved talking with the fans at the shows.
04:28He tackled some health problems a couple of years ago, but last month began to go downhill rapidly.
04:32Rest in peace.
04:33And that's exactly what we'd like to send out there to his friends, families, and otherwise.
04:37You know, sad news always.
04:38Hate to see, you know, these types of things happen.
04:41And the WWE family, I'm sure the wrestlers all over the company will respond to this because he's one of
04:46those guys that they would always try to interact with.
04:48So just sad news for the world of professional wrestling when one of their own, one of the big fans,
04:54unfortunately, has passed.
04:56Moving on to WWE and AAA Worlds Collide.
05:00Look, the show was taped yesterday, going head-to-head with All Out.
05:04I'm not going to give all the spoilers to the show because, I'll be honest with you, the show, really,
05:08there's nothing of great newsworthiness.
05:11This to talk about.
05:13The few matches, you know, I'll do this.
05:15There's a couple matches I'll bring up.
05:17The Reina Duranas championship match between La Catalina and Roxanne Perez.
05:20I actually thought they might put the belt on Roxanne.
05:23They did not.
05:23La Catalina retained.
05:25The Lucha Brothers were back in action as a tag team, which is always exciting to see.
05:30They defeated Daga and Berto by disqualification when Angel and Carmen Petrovic interfered.
05:35So that's kind of cool stuff.
05:36The rest of the show is relatively uneventful.
05:39Dragon Lee defeated Jack Cartwheel, which is kind of cool.
05:41But in the main event, CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, El Grande, Americano faced off against Jadon McDonough, Omos, and Dominic
05:47Mysterio.
05:48Now, the reason I'm bringing this up is Punk, Mysterio, and Americano win.
05:52I don't think that's a surprise.
05:53What I find interesting is what happens after the match, where Oba Femi comes out.
05:59He gets in the ring, and he has a stare down with Omos, and the fans erupt.
06:05They are just wanting to see these two throw down.
06:08And at one point, Oba starts talking trash right in his face, and Oba shoves him.
06:12He ends up backing up for a minute, and then, you know, they go for, like, one of these things
06:15where it looks like they're both going to hit each other.
06:16But instead, Oba ducks Omos' strike, hits the ropes, comes across, and hits a clothesline, knocking Omos over the top
06:24rope,
06:24and really setting up a tease for an Omos versus Oba Femi match, which I think everybody in that arena
06:30was really excited for the prospects of.
06:32Maybe WWE pulls the trigger on this, because it went viral.
06:35It's all over.
06:36You can find it on YouTube.
06:36You can find it on Twitch.
06:37You can find it all over the place.
06:39This was exciting, and it was like a little tease of what could be.
06:43And, you know, Omos looks great right now.
06:45He's in some of the best shape of his career.
06:47I'd like to see the match, just as my opinion, but we'll have to wait and see how things play
06:51out.
06:52Also that night, you know, I have an episode that came out with the all-out results.
06:57But that being said, I'm going to rehash something I said in there.
07:00Will Ospreay's comments during the media scrum afterwards where he said,
07:03don't step to us again, basically cautioning WWE.
07:06And he probably had some expletives in there that I'm not going to repeat.
07:11Just got to address that, because one,
07:12coming off the heels of the World's Collide show being taped and not played live for the fans
07:19and not outside of the arena, it is going to be shown this Wednesday night.
07:24You know, and that's huge because that's Dynamite's time slot.
07:28So they're still messing with AEW.
07:31Now, AEW, what are they going to do?
07:32They're going to do, you know, Grand Slam France and all this kind of stuff going head-to-head with
07:35NXT.
07:35Like this counter-programming thing goes both ways.
07:39It's never going to stop.
07:41It's a business.
07:42McDonald's has no problem putting their restaurant across the street from Burger King.
07:46That's the way it works.
07:48And then you get to choose.
07:50You have options as a fan.
07:5110,000 people said, I want to see AEW All Out yesterday.
07:55Congratulations.
07:56They got to see a phenomenal show.
07:5913,000 people said, hey, I'm not paying for that show.
08:03I'm going to go to this WWE show, World's Collide.
08:05It's really a AAA show.
08:07They thought it was going to be live.
08:08It was not, but it's still going to get streamed.
08:10And they got to see a really good show also.
08:13Nowhere near as good as All Out.
08:16I'm just being honest.
08:19It's 50% at best of what All Out was.
08:23However, WWE is doing what WWE does.
08:26This is something all businesses have done all throughout the business.
08:30So, um, Will Ospreay could say it all he wants.
08:33Of course, they're going to keep stepping to him.
08:34And here's the thing.
08:35And I hate to break this to Will Ospreay or to Tony Khan or anybody else who thinks otherwise.
08:41WWE putting an NXT or a AAA show head to head with AEW and drawing as many or more fans.
08:50AEW can claim victory.
08:52They had a far better pay-per-view or show or whatever.
08:54But the fact that 13,000 people went to the competitor instead of staying home and watching
08:59your incredible show on pay-per-view should say something.
09:01And here's the other thing.
09:03Their counter-programming is usually with just that, NXT or AAA.
09:07Now, look, I think that makes AAA and NXT look bad because you're never going to be AEW's
09:12premium product.
09:13You're just not.
09:14Not those shows.
09:14Not really.
09:15But what are you...
09:17Will Ospreay needs to think before he talks sometimes.
09:19And I love Will.
09:20I'm not knocking Will for anything in the ring.
09:22But when it comes to business, AEW has yet to go head to head with the main roster of
09:29WWE.
09:30You don't see AEW counter-programming Raw.
09:33If they did, they'd lose their shirt because Raw is going to blow them out of the water and
09:37get millions of views live.
09:38Plus many thousands, tens of hundreds of thousands more on streaming after the fact.
09:43You know, AEW is not at WWE's level.
09:46They've got some of the best wrestling in the world, sure, if that's your kind of wrestling
09:51you want to watch.
09:52But two to three million people, four million people some weeks are saying they'd rather
09:57watch WWE.
09:58There's a reason for that because people like the storytelling.
10:01They like all that drama.
10:03They like the Dan Housen-esque characters and The Miz and things like that.
10:07Not everybody wants to see the same physicality that AEW puts out there.
10:10I do.
10:11I love all of it.
10:12And those who know me on a personal level know that I'm a school teacher during the day.
10:16I had a student who's a huge wrestling fan say to me the one day, they're like, what
10:19wrestling are you watching today?
10:20I was like, look, let's talk about the weekly schedule.
10:22Monday, Netflix Raw.
10:24Tuesday, NXT.
10:25Wednesday, Dynamite.
10:26Thursday, TNA.
10:27Friday, SmackDown.
10:28Saturday, I always watch Collision and I try to throw in some other independent things.
10:35WXW or Progress or something like that.
10:37Sunday, I always throw something.
10:38If there's a pay-per-view on Saturday or Sunday, I'm always watching those.
10:41And if not, then that's when I catch up on my New Japan or CMLL stuff.
10:44I have pull stuff up on YouTube.
10:46I watch so much wrestling, it's obnoxious.
10:48I don't even have time for more of it to be put into my schedule.
10:51And I rarely get to watch Ring of Honor, though I love watching it when I can and things like
10:54that.
10:55Heaven forbid, I get a chance to check out GCW, even though they have crazy spots like they
10:59did this past weekend, throwing a guy off a stage onto a chair.
11:03Horrible spot.
11:04That's ill-advised, to say the least.
11:06Blood sport stuff.
11:08There's so much wrestling out there.
11:10So, you know, for Will Ospreay to get upset with WWE, don't step to us.
11:14Of course they're going to.
11:15And they should.
11:16Because they have a different product.
11:18And right now, their product sells more than yours does.
11:20And their goal is to shut you down.
11:22Now, just stay the course.
11:24AEW just needs to worry about AEW.
11:26Don't bring up WWE.
11:27Don't challenge WWE.
11:28What you're going to end up doing is, at some point, you're going to irritate TKO.
11:31And they're going to go, from now on, let's move SmackDown to Wednesday nights.
11:35And let's shut down Dynamite all together.
11:37Oh, they'll move that to Tuesday.
11:38Okay, let's just keep bouncing stuff around to keep messing with you.
11:42Don't challenge WWE.
11:44Stick to what you do well, which is taking care of your own.
11:46You know, which, by the way, speaking of their own, Wardlow.
11:50Promo aired during All Out that Wardlow was on his way back.
11:52Thank God, it's about time.
11:53It's like two years since he's been in the ring.
11:55And before that, he had like one night before he got hurt again.
11:58Before that, he was out for like a year.
11:59Like, this guy was on fire.
12:01He was on like Goldberg-esque level at one point in AEW as an organically grown talent.
12:05Now, he's been gone so long.
12:07I'm scared he'll never rekindle that kind of excitement.
12:10I hope he does.
12:10I genuinely want him to.
12:12I love Wardlow as a wrestler.
12:14I'm just worried about his endurance and his ability to stay healthy.
12:17We'll have to wait and see how that plays out.
12:18But he is on his way back.
12:21And got to talk about Malachi Black.
12:23He ends up losing the Progress Championship that he won 21 days prior to Cara Noir.
12:29And that's, you know, they've had a couple matches leading up to this one.
12:32He finally loses the championship.
12:33But after the match, he makes an announcement through a promo that Malachi Black is gone.
12:38And he's returning as Tommy End, his original persona pre-WWE.
12:42And I'm excited about this.
12:44That he can get back to his roots.
12:45And hopefully, you know, he can really do some revolutionary stuff with his original Tommy End character.
12:51Get rid of all the black face paint and all.
12:53We don't need all that.
12:54Go out there and just tear people up, man.
12:57Just be that stud you've always been.
12:59I'm a huge fan of Malachi Black's.
13:01I hope he does very well changing his persona back.
13:03Get his wife on some of those shows.
13:05She deserves to be out there.
13:06Zelina is an incredibly talented female wrestler.
13:08And I don't care what anybody says.
13:10Never got the credit she deserves for being a phenomenal talent in WWE.
13:13That being said, that's all the time we have for this episode.
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