Hello and welcome to the A.A.W. Dynamite Preview and Michael Sitch, which joined by fellow

Dudleyboy Michael Hanford to discuss everything that's in store for us on tonight's show.

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of course on wrestler culture. Hanford, this is a stacked dynamite tonight. It's a two-star.

It's stacked and jacked. So why am I not jacked up for it? It's weird this. The CM Punk

pen announcement that dropped last night seemed to have this strange tipping point effect with

people. I was super excited personally about this match. Your mileage may vary based on how

much you like the wrestlers, et cetera, et cetera. But I was really excited by this match.

And then the more I kind of poured over this card this morning, because as we often talk about

we're nerds that love this, whether or not we're recording or not, the more suddenly I kind

of lost interest in some of the things underneath it. Again, to somebody I was listening or indeed

yourself, it might be the punk pen that match specifically. But what was two or three days ago

feeling like the kind of perfect television show has now started to feel a bit much

and full before I even started eating? Yeah, I don't know what the the goal here is or what

the ambition is here. And this is just speculation, but I don't know why they're doing a seven

match card, which I believe might be an 80W dynamite record, with a promised brief overrun

to look out for. Is this kind of a response to panic among certain portions of the 80W fandom

of, oh, there's a new sort of headhunt show as part of this merger. That's happened. This is a

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