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Ups & Downs - AEW NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

Ups & Downs - AEW NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

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Ups & Downs - AEW NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

Ups & Downs - AEW NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

Ups & Downs - AEW NJPW Forbidden Door 2024

Monday, 1st July 2024
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walked across a ladder bridge to squeeze Jack Perry's

20:02

nibbles which was funny but still saw him and

20:04

Martin take horrible falls. Rush dove through a ladder

20:06

to take out Takesha. Mark went for another mad

20:09

jump when he was made to land on the

20:11

table but instead hit the side of the thing

20:13

and it actually had a meltdown because I thought

20:15

he was dead but apparently he's fine. Takesha hit

20:17

a power bomb on Leo Rush through another ladder.

20:20

He also took ELP and hit the

20:22

least devastating move in all of sports

20:24

entertainment. The blue thunder bomb threw a

20:27

bunch of tables. I've had people messaging

20:29

me going haha Simon it's not the

20:31

least devastating move anymore is it? And

20:33

I respond saying well no it is because did

20:35

it win? No it never does. There is a

20:38

reason for this though because Briscoe grabbed Takesha and

20:40

gave him a trade driller through another ladder as

20:42

I started to just cry because I couldn't believe

20:44

what they were doing. When Jack Perry

20:46

was here he was like I have all the weapons

20:48

and I'm going to hit all of you very hard.

20:50

He was then able to climb the damn thing and

20:52

become the TNT champion which was the right result because

20:54

now the elite hold all the gold. But

20:57

if you have 20 or so minutes today just

20:59

go and watch it. And in terms of ladder

21:01

matches over the last few years I think this

21:03

may be right up there because not only did

21:05

it have major stakes these guys wanted to win

21:07

that belt but it was also so dangerous and

21:09

that should be the idea of the ladder match

21:11

as long as everybody is okay. This was pretty

21:13

damn fantastic and it is getting an up. It

21:15

wasn't for the main event it would probably get

21:17

the golden up but people have asked me to

21:19

keep golden up to win a show so I

21:22

like to listen. But it was Mercedes Monet vs

21:24

Stephanie Vakare for both the NJPW Women's Strong title

21:26

and the TBS title and honestly Stephanie is going

21:28

to have to go out there and get a

21:31

massive truck because that cash is coming. The first

21:33

thing she did was headbutt Mercedes when we got

21:35

to angry arm drags and pin attempts. Honestly it

21:37

took about 10 seconds for my brain to go

21:39

wow they both really want to win. Monet went

21:41

for the bank statement if we can call it

21:43

that but Vakare had no interest so they went

21:46

to the outside. It's when she grabbed Mercedes and

21:48

essentially threw it into the side of the ring

21:50

which is technically the ring apron but also technically

21:52

not but I bet your ass it was still

21:54

hard. She was here cross body from the top

21:56

because this thing was flying and even when Mercedes

21:59

went for the three amigos. And the last one

22:01

for care was like, well, no, I don't want

22:03

this to happen to me. So I'm going to

22:05

get instant revenge. Because basically she grabbed Monet's head

22:07

with her legs and just smashed it into the

22:09

ring canvas over again. And this is where we

22:11

got the big old change. Because I think the

22:14

New York fans went, oh, wow, we like this

22:16

for care. Also, Mercedes from Boston. So they started

22:18

to boo her and chant the Celtic suck, which

22:20

is very niche, but I very much enjoyed it.

22:22

So I just love madness like this. It makes

22:24

wrestling really fun. Mercedes didn't care. She hit the

22:27

double knees. She hit the DDT, and she almost

22:29

got a three. That rhymes. There's also

22:31

a one, two, oh. After a missed pile driver,

22:33

two both women just clashed into each other when

22:35

they did double kip-ups, which is always going to

22:37

get a pop. Which then led to a strike

22:39

battle when Mercedes was able to apply the face

22:41

of the crosses. Once again, all the fans were

22:43

like, boo, boo. And they weren't saying the words.

22:46

Monet didn't care though, so she hit all the

22:48

backstabbers to the point where it has to be

22:50

sold out. And poor Stephanie the Care's back is

22:52

probably never going to work again. She also went

22:54

for the frog of the splashes, but she totally

22:56

missed. That's when we did a little bit of

22:58

a tease. Because in revenge, Stephanie hit the most

23:00

violent dragon screw you've ever seen. And you know

23:03

it must have connected with the fans, because it

23:05

was just a dragon screw. But every single one

23:07

of this 11,000 crowd went, oh my gosh, that's

23:09

disgusting. Monet was in a panic though, so she

23:12

was able to apply the submission again. But when

23:14

that didn't work, she went for the Monet maker.

23:16

When they were flipping around the face, when Mercedes

23:18

finally hit the Monet maker, actually transitioned right into

23:21

the cross face. By this point, Stephanie the Care

23:23

was like, well, I have nowhere else to go.

23:26

I might as well go home. She tapped out. She

23:28

is going to do all right though, because she is a great wrestler.

23:30

This built something super huge. Because not

23:32

only is Mercedes-Benz now a double champion,

23:34

but as we kind of celebrated a

23:36

little bit too long, which was the

23:38

point, Brit Baker's music hit, and the

23:40

DMD is back. She got an absolutely

23:42

huge response too, and I don't think

23:44

we've seen her for over a year.

23:46

And this probably means we are going

23:48

right into Brit Baker versus Mercedes-Benz. And

23:50

you damn right. Let's not stand on

23:52

ceremony here, Mr. Wayne. I'm going to

23:54

be dead one day, and

23:56

give me all the good stuff. This was a really good last

23:58

five minutes. Let's get it up. When expectations did whip

24:01

our ass a little bit. It

24:03

happens. I haven't said this for a

24:05

while but I think it's the best way to sum

24:07

it up. And sometimes you do just write a match

24:09

on a curve. Because yeah, you do have certain expectations.

24:12

And even if people do have a good match, if

24:14

it doesn't feel like your expectations have been hit, you

24:16

feel a bit disappointed. That doesn't make

24:18

any sense but it's true. But it was your

24:20

Moxie vs Naito for the IWGP Championship. And listen,

24:22

it is a more than fine match. You'll have

24:25

a good time. But given what I thought

24:27

it was going to be, I don't know. You

24:29

swing and you miss and things don't click. That's

24:31

kind of what happened here. I also just think it

24:33

comes down to the fact that Naito was given so

24:35

much to pro wrestling over the years. He is slowing

24:38

down. Again, Father Time is going to kick off our

24:40

asses. Although saying that, he did walk up to John

24:42

Moxie and went hok poo. And he spat on his

24:44

face. I mean, you know, he gave him the hok

24:46

toy. Jim Ross was also on commentary during this which

24:49

I thought was wonderful because he hasn't been going through

24:51

health woes recently so I hope he is okay. And

24:53

Moxie was so mad that he had been hok-toward. He

24:55

started to throw a bunch of chairs in the ring

24:58

when red shoes was the reference. Like, why do you do

25:00

this to me? Now I've got to get rid of him.

25:02

This is when Naito did it again. Say,

25:04

you must really enjoy that meme. This is where

25:06

Moxie decided right. I'm now going to break your

25:08

bones. That's what he tried to do. He was

25:10

going to snap him. He also hit a power

25:12

driver as he told Naito to slap him. Which

25:15

Naito did. And then Moxie was mad.

25:17

So funny. It was like this. Simon,

25:19

my dear boy, what do you want for your birthday? I

25:22

really love a wrestling belt. Haha, here you go. How dare

25:24

you, you piece of shit. Mox didn't rate Naito's

25:26

back, which I'm always a big fan of because the game bring back

25:28

the 80's move. And they went to

25:30

the outside and they smashed through Barricade. And they

25:32

were doing neck breakers. As always, they want to

25:34

break people's necks. In revenge, Mox then tried to

25:36

choke this guy out, but he hit a Destino.

25:38

And when he went for another Destino, that didn't

25:40

work. And he got paradigm shifted instead. At that

25:42

point, everybody was down. Another thing

25:44

that happened a lot on this pay-per-view. Mox then hit this

25:47

huge lariat though and did get the paradigm shift for a

25:49

very good 1-2-oo. And given

25:51

it didn't work, he just went back to his original

25:53

plan. It's like, screw it, I'm getting a chair. Don't

25:55

choose their face palm because you already told him about

25:57

this. And even though he was going to do that move in.

26:00

into a chair as the red one was getting

26:02

rid of it, kind of Naito hit a modified

26:04

Destino, and they got back up to their feet,

26:06

hit a brain buster when he hit a proper

26:08

Destino, and he got the one, two, three. And

26:11

that does make him the brand new IWGP

26:13

champion, but the finish was just a

26:16

little bit strange and I don't know why. Now it

26:18

does make sense, because with the G1 coming up, you

26:20

want the champion involved, which is usually the way, and

26:22

this was just all right. It wasn't bad by any

26:24

stretch of the imagination, but it puts me in a

26:26

very interesting position. I'd like to give it like a

26:28

finger in the middle, because like I say, I enjoyed

26:31

the match, but there was something missing from it, so

26:33

I'm gonna do what I always do. I

26:35

am going to wuss out, giving it up, and I'm giving

26:37

it down. But sometimes, if that's the

26:39

way my tush feels, what am I meant to

26:41

do? Who are we yelling at,

26:43

it? Let's just move on. You can forget about

26:45

all of that though, because we did get to

26:47

the main event, and as I've already hinted at,

26:50

good grief, this was incredible. But it was Swerve

26:52

Strickland versus Will Osprey for the AEW World title,

26:54

and just take it from your board friend, you

26:56

need to go and see this. Osprey also dedicated

26:58

this match to his grandma, who had recently passed

27:00

away, so thoughts with his friends and family. And

27:03

as soon as the bell went ding, ding, ding,

27:05

it just went so fast, 100 miles an hour, and

27:08

it was you hitting me and I hit you, and I could barely

27:10

keep up with the thing in a good way. So

27:12

in about two minutes, I was totally invested.

27:15

When they both realized they were at Stelmate

27:17

2, they did the whole Stair Town thing.

27:19

Everybody went crazy. 7.24

27:21

stars in the Tokyo Dolls. We've been wrestling tennis for

27:23

a little bit of while, as we did go back

27:25

and forth, and just as Swerve was about to get

27:28

the upper hand, or he had the upper hand, Will

27:30

went nope, and he hit the most absurd hurricane randy

27:32

you've ever seen. He followed up with a stun gun

27:34

when Strickland came back with a big boot and a

27:36

backbreaker. I was like, what the flub is

27:38

gonna happen now? It was like this the entire time too,

27:40

because Will missed the hidden blade and Swerve missed the house

27:42

call. But man, when Osprey went for the

27:45

Oz cutter, Strickland cut him off in midair

27:47

with this Swerve stomp, that was utterly ridiculous.

27:49

You then saw Daniel Garcia watching from a

27:51

crowd, and why wouldn't you want to be

27:53

observing this? When they did a bar driver,

27:56

I went to Barry Barricade, in terms of

27:58

people assaulting Barry on these pay-per-view. This

28:00

could have been the worst one. This all

28:02

then led to some one-two ooze as Will

28:04

hit not one Ozcutter buck too. When it

28:06

all went off again, moves were being blocked

28:08

and even though Swerve was gonna snap Williams

28:10

arm somehow Osprey avoided it. There was then

28:13

more Ozcutters and a Stormbreaker that Swerve Strickland

28:15

kicked out of and go and listen to

28:17

the fan reaction. To that, they couldn't believe

28:19

it. They then saw MGF watching on as

28:21

well as we started stealing maneuvers because Swerve

28:23

Strickland hit the most brutal hidden blade you've

28:25

ever seen. And that pissed off William because

28:27

he went to return fire and

28:29

he hit the ref instead. Whoops! Almost instantly

28:31

Don Callis right now. He was trying to

28:33

give a screwdriver to Osprey. So bring down

28:35

the crime counter and add a one because

28:37

you can't do that. This is when Prince

28:39

Nala got involved and he pushed Don Callis

28:41

down. Everybody cheered but William must still be

28:43

in love with Don because he got him

28:45

Prince Nala face. He was gonna drive a

28:47

him with the screw when he realized, wait

28:49

a minute, I'm a good guy and he

28:51

didn't. I should have mentioned too before all

28:53

of this, Will, Osprey did actually have the

28:55

match won. But again, that referee was down.

28:57

But it just meant in the interim Swerve

28:59

was able to take his Phoenix down. And

29:01

when Osprey got back in the squared circle,

29:03

he hit him with the most brutal house

29:05

call I've ever seen. And I'm pretty sure

29:07

I just said that. So within seconds he'd

29:09

outdone himself. And if Will's head has fallen

29:11

off, I would totally believe it. And when

29:14

Swerve hit the Swerve stomp and only got

29:16

a one-two-oo, honestly, it's one of the best

29:18

near-fours I've seen in ages. It's basically because

29:20

afterwards Will got to his feet. He was

29:22

all woozy-goosy and he went to hit the

29:24

hidden blade and he just fell into Strickland's

29:26

arms. Don't you tell me again that AW

29:28

don't tell no stories. Osprey was essentially toast

29:30

here though, so it was time to butter

29:32

him up. And after he'd been hit with

29:34

another house call, Strickland hit this devastating big

29:36

pressure. And that's right. He beat Will Osprey

29:38

for the one-two-three. And even though there were

29:40

some shenanigans, my word, it made Swerve come

29:42

across like he was the greatest champion ever.

29:44

This was bloody fantastic. It's the same with

29:46

Will as well who just isn't human when

29:48

it comes to wrestling. And we made sure

29:50

to see Carl Fletcher out there comforting the

29:52

man. So that's gonna head in a certain

29:54

direction, but you've already figured it out. I've

29:56

already told you. It doesn't just get up.

29:58

It gets a golden up.

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