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or reviewing Rampage, really nice to get a different perspective on that Sidge. How are you feeling about tonight's Dynamite though?

Not particularly excited on more than one front, the general vibe of the last however many weeks of Dynamite, and this is not a hot take, has been absolutely tremendous in ring action.

MJF Danielson, particularly the last week, is really heating up. Everything else, story-wise, I'm just not into Mox Hangman, yes, I'm sure there are others at the top of my head,

but it's not February 2020, it's not the summer of 2021, the in-ring action has never, ever been hotter, or better, but I'm still lacking the trifecta.

Tonight, I really want some out of nowhere. Whoa, that's happening a revolution. That's the feeling I want, just to reiterate, I want to feel this exact thing tonight when I watch the show tomorrow morning.

That's happening a revolution. Tates. That sounds like the absolute, that sounds like the absolute tates that does. I haven't had that yet outside of the MJF Danielson stuff.

A week is ages. I was going to say a week is ages in wrestling, but I realize a week is ages in A.W, because, yeah, thanks to Scott specifically for saving me and Wilbur from having to watch. I mean, remind us I was what happened on Rampage, for Friday, and like...

That was one good thing. Yeah, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. Like, brand loyalty with W-W-E, because it's just been around longer, if nothing else, is such that one good thing could happen on W-W television, and like for years there wasn't even really that one okay thing would happen, and it's going to be like, well, there's two hours, 55 minutes of raw, another two hours of SmackDown, but that five minutes, get me to next Monday, like one of the best in-ring episodes of the television show ever, last Wednesday. That was seven days ago, and I don't know.

I have the brand loyalty, instead of me in A.W, it's only four years old. Come on A.W, play your finger out and give us a better dynamite. It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous. Like, we talk about, it's okay to apply. It is okay to apply different expectations to these things. Like, definitely we've got more money. W-W-E's got less money? I don't know, the billionaire that owns A.W's richer. But like, the point is, it's like the expectations of A.W. is a wrestling show. We're higher.

W-W-E's got more money, it can play with.

One's a wrestling show, one is WWE. That's long been the case now, and you kind of want and expect different things from that.

But it is crazy that like, last week's dynamite, and this is me saying this, but last week's dynamite just had this awesome in-ring, and like a talking point of nothing else for me and event, and loads of interesting directions that some of the, some of which you weren't really expecting, and then seven days goes by, and you look at this card, and it's a bit bland on paper and you think, what's happened to?

A-W-E, and then some more morning, that old A-W-E.

It's so weird in that regard, but it's a normalized seminal.

Yeah, it is normalized seminal. That was a period in 2021, even before the fight full select rumor, or the all-butt confirmation, as it turned out to be, where there was just an iconic moment that happened on that TV show every single week.

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