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Jim Cornette Reviews AEW Dynamite (January 7, 2026)

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Jim Cornette Reviews AEW Dynamite (January 7, 2026)", an episode of Official Jim Cornette published January 14, 2026 (56 min, about 8,893 words). It mentions 37 people, works and ideas, including John Moxley, AEW, MJF, Bandido, Swerve.

What this episode is about

Jim Cornette critiques the January 7, 2026, episode of AEW Dynamite, expressing disappointment over the show's production quality and content choices, particularly highlighting Jim Ross's return to commentary and lamenting the program's decline from its former glory. He contrasts Ross's seasoned professionalism with the amateurish elements present in the broadcast, while also taking a jab at fellow commentator Tony Schiavone's performance.

Key takeaways

  • Jim Ross' return is bittersweet; from wrestling's voice to cable access commentary, nostalgia has its price.
  • Moxley's match with Shelton showcases a deeper issue: fans cheer for chaos, not character consistency or logic.
  • Two heel factions wrestling each other? AEW's creative confusion leaves no room for clear babyfaces or villains.
  • Moxley may have a cult following, but can his 'barely-there' wrestling style survive critical scrutiny?
  • Wrestling logic in 2026: Draws might be the only guaranteed finish, but that won't help AEW's narrative clarity.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: John Moxley, Jim Ross, AEW, Dr. Danny Benjamin
  2. – 10:00: John Moxley, Jake Doyle, Kevin Knight, Ricochet
  3. – 15:00: Stokeley, Rocky Romero, Don Callis, Jake Doyle
  4. – 20:00: John Moxley, Jake Doyle, Johnny Sheffield, MJF
  5. – 25:00: Mercedes, Bandido, Willow Nightingale, Sammy Guevara
  6. – 30:00: Bandido, Tulsa
  7. – 35:00: Bandido
  8. – 40:00: Factor
  9. – 45:00: Factor
  10. – 50:00: Factor, Willow Nightingale
  11. – 55:00: Swerve, Adam Page, Powerhouse Hobbs, Cinder Blocks
  12. – 56:12: Swerve

Notable quotes from "Jim Cornette Reviews AEW Dynamite (January 7, 2026)"

  • But I'm embarrassed for him when he has to sit down there and watch this.
    about Jim Ross · at
  • Face versus alleged baby face and I It's no wonder that you can't position anybody in this company because it just they just indiscriminately book these [ __ ] matches and nobody can get a consistent reaction.
    about AEW · at
  • His matches are terrible. And again, there's a fan base that thinks his promos are good, too. Moxley is one of the worst professional wrestlers I've ever seen. He also has one…
    about John Moxley · at
  • Miss him in AEW yet because it would be what it would be. But nevertheless, and there's the only the newest thing in AW right now is MJF's hair.
    about MJF · at
  • Moxley didn't get beat for a year and a half and he did like [ __ ] four jobs in a row with the same thing. Mercedes never gets beat and suddenly she's getting beat like a government mule.
    about Mercedes · at
  • Annual appearance on Dynamite, who it was in a single match against Bandido.
    about Bandido · at
  • Up the scenery and give a braver performance. He needs something to chew on, Brian. That's what I'm saying. I wonder if MJF knows about our friends over at Factor. Do you think?
    about Factor · at
  • The whole thing of this. it was powerhouse Hobbs and Hook against Adam Paige and Swerve.
    about Swerve · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • John Moxley — Person · Core topic · 10 mentions · first at
    Central subject of criticism: match structure, in-ring communication, and inconsistent crowd reactions; also tied to title scene and booking logic.
  • MJF — Person · Core topic · 1 mention · first at
    Featured as AEW champion and focal point of an angle with Bandido; discussed positively relative to others for promo ability and match-calling.
  • Bandido — Person · Core topic · 10 mentions · first at
    Wrestles Sammy Guevara and is positioned as MJF's title challenger; criticized for unclear character and overused contrived suplex spot.
  • Swerve — Person · Referenced performer · 7 mentions · first at
    Works the main-event lights-out match; criticized for match 'stupidest things' and staple-gun obsession; involved in cinder block spot.
  • Mercedes — Person · Referenced performer · 5 mentions · first at
    Central to the cake-comedy segment; criticized for over-the-top acting and sudden booking shift from 'never loses' to frequent losses.
  • Willow Nightingale — Person · Referenced performer · 3 mentions · first at
    Celebrated as new TBS champion in a cake/party segment that the hosts criticize as indulgent babyface comedy.
    You're getting. It's just like it makes you appreciate the acting on Glow when you see this. And I like Willow. Willow her promo is just doesn't I don't know.
  • Dr. Danny Benjamin — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Opposes Moxley in a stipulation match; used as the 'test' opponent to evaluate Moxley's match quality and crowd reactions.
    But it was still the people liked it when Shelton threw him around like a sack of [ __ ] which he gave him probably 15 [ __ ] German zuplexes.
  • Adam Page — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Teams with Swerve in the lights-out match; involved in chain/neck tie spot and criticized interference sequence with 'ops dojo' teens.
    I wish the lights had been off through the whole thing of this. it was powerhouse Hobbs and Hook against Adam Paige and Swerve.
  • Powerhouse Hobbs — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Competes in the lights-out main event; takes a major cinder-block spot and is framed as the 'big monster' who is protected by finish logic (criticized).
    I wish the lights had been off through the whole thing of this. it was powerhouse Hobbs and Hook against Adam Paige and Swerve.
  • Jim Ross — Person · Referenced figure · 4 mentions · first at
    Discussed as returning commentator in Tulsa; hosts express embarrassment and sympathy, contrasting his legacy with current AEW presentation.
  • Jake Doyle — Person · Referenced performer · 4 mentions · first at
    Debuts as a new heel aligned with Don Callis' group; criticized as a confusing debut alongside another similar-looking wrestler.
    Why do you debut two people in the same goddamn it just it's a mess.
  • Don Callis — Person · Referenced figure · 1 mention · first at
    Leader/manager figure of an expanding heel faction; criticized as not taken seriously and contributing to 'goofy' presentation.
    But anyway he spoiled the hood being popped then he popped the hood we already knew who it was another member of the Don Fallus family.
  • Tony Shiovani — Person · Referenced figure · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a negative comparison point on commentary style; criticized for overly positive delivery and possibly losing his voice.
    It's crazy to think that was the original Dynamite announce team. Jim Ross, Shiovani, and Excalibur.
  • Mark Davis — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Appears as 'fat ass Davis' paired with Jake Doyle; also listed as part of Don Callis Family; criticized for similarity in look/gear with Doyle.
  • Sammy Guevara — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Wrestles Bandido; discussed as a once-hot 'pillar' now diminished in audience interest and sporadic appearances.
    It was just a few years ago he was one of the pillars of the company and then he got he looks more like Stonehinge the bad side.
  • Kevin Knight — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as attacked and not medically cleared, then later appears with taped-up body parts during a chaotic post-match brawl.
    Apparently, old Kevin Knight and Hong Kong Fooy had been viciously attacked in the back and they weren't medically cleared. So, old jungle jackoff didn't have.
  • Stokeley — Person · Referenced figure · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in a wheelchair with FTR; criticized as never being presented seriously, contributing to comedic tone that undermines heel heat.
    Is happening, apparently he's got his contractual ducks in a row. Now FTR comes out on the stage with Stokeley in a wheelchair.
  • Chris Statlander — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Aligned with Willow despite prior feud; saves the cake and participates in the comedic payoff against Mercedes.
    Forgot why that they're not anymore because I forgot why they were to begin with, Chris Statlander.
  • Ricochet — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Appears as part of a six-man tag setup with 'two stooges'; match described as repetitive flips and floor brawling.
    And I Brian, I know you'll find this hard to believe. Well, not you cuz you saw it, but they started the match with a sixway on the floor and a bunch of flips.
  • Johnny Sheffield — Person · Referenced historical figure · 2 mentions · first at
    Brought up in a comedic comparison to mock Jack Perry's size; identified as the child actor from MGM Tarzan films and Bomba series.
    That may have something to do with his lack of verility looking cuz I bet you right now Johnny Sheffield when he was 14 could have kicked the [ __ ] out of jungle Jack Perry.
  • Harley Cameron — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Presented as Willow Nightingale's friend/support in the TBS celebration segment.
    Was in the ring with Willow Nightingale who was supported by her friend Harley Cameron and her new friend who they were enemies for a while and I forgot why that they're not…
  • Excalibur — Person · Referenced figure · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of the original Dynamite announce team, used to frame commentary decline/choices over time.
    Find out that now five years later they've kept the two that we really didn't like and they just brought well nevertheless Jr's had health problems and they did five minutes of match plugs and nonsense and blah.
  • Kylo Riley — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as someone Moxley lost to; used to question continuity and disappearance of talent after being positioned strongly.
    [snorts] He showed he was averse to adversity to you know get past those losses to Kylo where's Kylo Riley.
  • Lance Archer — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Listed as a member of the Don Callis Family during a rundown of the faction's bloated roster.
    How what's that now? 14. Brian, do you do Who's in the Don Fall family right now? And we talk about this every week.
  • Okada — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of the Don Callis Family, illustrating faction sprawl.
    How what's that now? 14. Brian, do you do Who's in the Don Fall family right now? And we talk about this every week.
  • Rocky Romero — Person · Referenced performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Named in the Don Callis Family roster rundown; used to emphasize how many people are in the group.
    That's nine. Who am I forgetting?
  • Teesha — Person · Referenced performer · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the Don Callis Family list; no further detail provided.
    How what's that now? 14. Brian, do you do Who's in the Don Fall family right now? And we talk about this every week.
  • Josephine Camel — Person · Referenced comparison · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a metaphorical comparison for Mercedes without makeup ('unfiltered'), emphasizing the hosts' critique of her segment presentation.
    She's just lost her mind over this losing this belt or whatever cuz she had no makeup on. So my god, that was Josephine Camel unfiltered and just in and screaming.

Companies & orgs

  • AEW — Company · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    The episode is a critical recap of AEW Dynamite (Jan 7, 2026), focusing on booking, production issues, and talent usage.
  • Ring of Honor — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the origin of a stipulation idea attributed to Delirious, used to critique AEW's match structure/time-limit logic.
    And if I'm not mistaken, I believe that is a an old idea that Delirious had for Ring of Honor.

Concepts & topics

  • Cinder Blocks — Concept · Match prop / spot · 1 mention · first at
    A key weapon spot in the main event; criticized for awkward setup time and contrived violence used to pop near-falls.
    And then HubS ended up power slamming swerve on the cement blocks. They got a twocount before Paige made the save.

Places & events

  • Tulsa — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Host city for the Dynamite episode; used to highlight mismatch between Spanish promo and local audience comprehension.
    It went a while and nobody understood in the building what the [ __ ] he was saying. They're in Tulsa. They weren't in Corpus Christi or whatever.

Media & podcasts

  • MGM Tarzan — Media · Referenced media · 1 mention · first at
    Cited to identify Johnny Sheffield and to make a comedic size/physicality comparison to Jack Perry.
    Course. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're a small child in the audience, Johnny Sheffield played boy in the MGM Tarzan movies with Johnny Weisser and later on got his own series…
  • Bomba the Jungle Boy — Media · Referenced media · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced as Johnny Sheffield's later series; used to ridicule Jack Perry by claiming 'Bomba' could beat him up.
    I say Bomba the Jungle Boy could kick the [ __ ] out of jungle Jack Perry.
  • Star Wars — Media · Referenced media · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced to contrast Mercedes' acting reputation elsewhere with the hosts' negative assessment of her acting in AEW segments.
    It's bad acting, too. I know Mercedes is on a one of the Star Wars series. I haven't watched it, but I didn't hear anyone complain about her acting. I don't know what she did, but she's a.
  • Glow — Media · Referenced media · 1 mention
    Used as a benchmark to say AEW segment acting makes one appreciate the acting on 'Glow'.
    You only see one. But this [ __ ] where you only get one take, that's what you're getting. It's just like it makes you appreciate the acting on Glow when you see this. And I like Willow. Willow her promo is just doesn't I don't know.

Sponsors

  • Factor — Company · Sponsor / Ad segment · 9 mentions · first at
    Mid-episode ad read promoting Factor Meals; framed as a solution for busy schedules and nutrition goals.

Full transcript with timestamps

We should talk, I guess, just to get it over with if nothing else about the AEW program from this this past Wednesday night. We are back covering, ladies and gentlemen, in the new year of 2026. Back covering the current wrestling programs as they exist on the air. And this was January 7th of 2026, the AEW Dynamite program. They opened it up cuz they were in Tulsa and Jim Ross is back at the desk. He was walking slow down the ramp, but he's back. And I know JR loves to work. He loves commentary. He loves what he does. He, you know, really wants to be involved.

But I'm embarrassed for him when he has to sit down there and watch this. Like the the girls with the cake and the choo choo train dance and the [ __ ] fderall. It's just like it's he's doing cable access and it it hurts me to see that he was once so he was once the voice of the hottest program on the air and now he's a a witness to an amateur hour audition. It's just I it hurts my feelings. He was the voice to multiple hottest wrestling hours on the air in different times in different decades.

But you know what? He's uh he's still Jim Ross. He's doing what he can. He's not killing them on commentary like he did in the past. And

at least he's not Shiovani just sitting there telling you how great everything is and how happy he is to be there and how it's the best it's ever been and everything's great and he's terrible.

Tony sounds like he's losing his voice. Or maybe he's just maybe he's he's old. He's older than me. For [ __ ] sake. That's almost impossible. He shouldn't have these long hours without rest.

It's crazy to think that was the original Dynamite announce team. Jim Ross, Shiovani, and Excalibur.

That Well, that is crazy. find out that now five years later they they've kept the two that we really didn't like and they just brought well nevertheless Jr's had health problems and they did five minutes of match plugs and nonsense and blah blah blah and then they opened up with Dick the Boozer himself versus Shelton Benjamin in the the stipulation on this was if Shelton either won or got a draw then he got a title shot against Moxley. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe that that is a an old idea that Delirious had for Ring of Honor.

But we didn't have Moxley at that point in time or we wouldn't have set 20-minute time limits. Jesus. I watched this unlike most Moxley matches because it's Shelton and I thought, "Okay, here's the test. If if anybody can have a match with him, it'd be Shelton. But the answer I got was not in the affirmative because Moxley was still calling it. Not only was he calling it, but my god, I've I've been on dates with girls I didn't whisper in their ear as much as Moxley did with Shelton in this [ __ ] match on camera. I don't know what he was trying to tell him. give and maybe he was trying to explain the whole Death Rider goddamn gimmick to him, but it was a Moxley match. They they went out in the bleachers in the arena and fought on the stairs and around the ring for five minutes at a time with [ __ ] referee just standing there waving his arms.

They buried the referee variety of several different ways and it was a Moxley match. It looked better because Shelton is better than most of the opponents Moxley has. But it was still the people liked it when Shelton threw him around like a sack of [ __ ] which he he gave him probably 15 [ __ ] German zuplexes. But this also Sheldon Benjamin the herd syndicate are baby faces and have been for some time at this point. But Moxley again inexplicably they started cheering him because he was wrestling the other heels and now he's just he's wrestling a baby face and they're still cheering him. So it's baby face versus alleged baby face and I It's no wonder that you can't position anybody in this company because it just they just indiscriminately book these [ __ ] matches and nobody can get a consistent reaction except when they're breaking furniture.

Uh they had to milk the the draw and they went like 1955 or whatever. And they both can do some decent [ __ ] but the finish was Shelton got a an arm bar kind of almost like a crossarm breaker on him and Moxley just leaned up on him and covered. One, two, three with five seconds left. And then they shook hands and Moxley did did he do something to turn baby face? Did he save someone? Did he goddamn turn on his heel cohorts? Did he come out and admit that he had been wrong in all of his actions over the last couple of years? Or did he just get cheered against the other heel and and give a rahrrah speech about how great AEW was?

Well, yeah, his unit is still heels and he's a babyface now clearly and he just had some tough matches and he lost a few times and he showed a lot of adversity or he overcame a lot of adversity. [snorts] He showed he was he was averse to adversity

to uh you know get past those losses to Kylo where's Kylo Riley. But anyway, um

well, who knows? He just beat the guy that nobody beat in [ __ ] ages a couple times and then disappeared.

John Moxley's work is terrible. I'm sorry. I know people I know they like him. You can't take away that AW fans really like him.

What about the girly punches out on the floor to Shelton's head, but it was just embarrassing.

The punches you said he was talking. I mean, we give it to Cena for talking. This was more than that. This was more egregious than that. didn't care if anyone saw it and just everything he does in there looks bad and then he just does the funny walk and then he sets up something that looks bad. His match layout is always bad. Those stupid forearms that always look bad.

He does them at the worst part of the match. All right, we've done all this other crazy [ __ ] Now, let's do this again.

His matches are terrible. And again, there's a fan base that thinks his promos are good, too. Moxley is one of the worst professional wrestlers I've ever seen. He also has one of the biggest cults of personality around him, and that's why people like him. But god damn, his work is awful.

I can't I can't figure out what the personality is. I'm Well, nevertheless, uh then again, we had the Lollipop Guild back together again. Apparently, old Kevin Knight and Hong Kong Fooy had been viciously attacked in the back and they weren't medically cleared. So, old jungle jackoff didn't have partners for the six-man tag with Ricochet and his two stooges. But then suddenly out came the Hardley boys. And now we've got again the three friends from California playing with the, you know, the other flippy guy that they like and his two stooges that are just happy to be there.

And I Brian, I know you'll find this hard to believe. Well, not you cuz you saw it, but they started the match with a sixway on the floor and a bunch of flips. And I said, "Well, let's see how long it takes me to fast forward through this." It's the same thing. It's always the same thing. So, after about 15 minutes, the the kids won. And then I know these baby faces don't know how to get over themselves, but it seems like somebody would be able to catch him and stop him for but but who knew they would. The idiots they win the match and then they they kneel down and and especially that closeup on old jungle jack. He kneels down and leans over the second rope to talk into the camera so that the other guy, the new heel, Jake Doyle, has made his debut.

Get out of the way for old Jake Doyle. He's got a big old fat boil right on his neck and it's about to pop. Old Jake. Anyway, his partner is now fat ass Davis and they came in the ring and and they jump the [ __ ] baby, but they're having to kick Jungle Jack from behind while he's leaned over the rope. They didn't even stand up where they could get glommed from behind and be ready to feed or take a bump or do something. They're just and they got sloppy lackluster heat in quotation marks. And there was another one of the masked guys that he's got, Callus, and some of the miscellaneous heels are out there.

And they kick [ __ ] out of these guys for a couple seconds. And then here comes again Spitball Bailey and Kevin Knight with parts of their bodies wrapped up. And one of them's got a hockey stick and the other one has what was that? A barbed wire wrapped [ __ ] Cricut bat or whatever. And they try to make A SAVE, BUT THE LIGHTS GO OUT. And by the way, that's going to be a problem later on in the evening. But this apparently they can turn all of them out and all of them back on, but they can't turn Well, you've heard that old saying, Brian, you can turn some of the lights on some of the time and some of the lights on all of the time, but you can't turn all the lights on all the time or something like that.

It's dark forever. Lights come back on. There's a guy wearing a mask and a suit in the ring and he starts beating up the baby faces and Sockface is so [clears throat] I don't even know what the word is. so anxious, so eager to reveal this that he told people it was Andre before Andred took the mask off and revealed it was Andre and I know that somebody will say probably Sockface, well I know the guy and I've seen him dressed in that and I knew it was that that's where you [ __ ] number one if they had the proper layout of the segment the guy lights would have come on the you would have seen the guy and he'd have done boom boom in 10 seconds and laid two people out with two moves and then you could have said it but that's where you [ __ ] stretch a little bit and go wait a minute I I THINK I KNOW WHO THAT IS BUT IT CAN'T BE HE can't be here now why and just [ __ ] but anyway he spoiled the the hood being

popped then he popped the hood we already knew who it was another member of the Don Fallus family. How what's that now? 14. Brian, do you do Who's in the Don Fall family right now? And we talk about this every week.

We did this before and as more people All right. Uh Lance Archer. Okay. Teesha.

Uhhuh. Fletcher. Uhhuh. Okada. Rocky Romero. Uhhuh. Mark Davis. Is that Chicherero in or am I thinking of someone else?

Yeah. No, it's it's the clone. The clone. That's right. I forgot about him. Uh, hold on. The clone. The uh Jake. He used to be Jake something. What's his new name? Jake. Uh,

Doyle. Jake Doyle. He's Johnny Doyle's brother. I don't know about that. Uh, but Jake Doyle. That's nine. Who am I forgetting? Can't believe I said nine people and I still feel like I'm forgetting people.

Well, because there's more depending on the whims of the week. But anyway, so and while this joyous reunion with Andre is happening, apparently he's got his contractual ducks in a row. Now FTR comes out on the stage with Stokeley in a wheelchair. And they're just looking and why why are they looking? Who are they looking at? What the? And Stokeley in a wheelchair. Yes, he took the bad bump, but now you've got a funny visual. And again, I remind everybody, whether it was me being funny or Jimmy Hart being funny or whatever about an injury, it was after we had heat and it was at a time where we were constantly having more heat put on us and then we would do something to blow a little off and then get some more back. Stokeley's never been treated seriously, taken seriously, presented seriously, acted seriously. Neither is Callus. They don't, none of them have any heat.

They're just doing the funny [ __ ] that makes them a funny comedy flunky and at the same time drags the stature of the guy that they're with down because it's just goofy [ __ ] So, there's 18 people out there and they just they just debuted. And by the way, Jake Doyle looks a lot like Davis.

They're wearing the same outfit. They're wearing the exact same outfit. They're both gigantic.

Well, yeah. And but I mean, even facially, hair-wise, whatever, it should have made him the Davis brothers. If nothing I don't know where Doyle comes from, but nevertheless, you've just introduced this guy into the they they did a pretape at the top where they here's Jake Doyle. He's here and then he comes in and gets a little bit of heat and then the other guy comes in. Why do you debut two people in the same goddamn it just it's a mess. So there's 15 [ __ ] people out there. your your thoughts on anything related to that?

Who's that wrestler dressed like Andrade? It's it's it's Andrade. And I don't know. I mean, how much can you pop for Andrade at this point when he randomly shows up and now he's just another guy that's the 10th guy uh just that we've come up with today in this group with a heel manager you don't take seriously. Doesn't work ringside. even if he did, you wouldn't take him seriously because you see what his instincts are. And then as far as the match, Jack Perry, he almost looks less like a wrestler now than he did a few years ago as Jungle Boy. Cuz now that he's not just some young kid, he hasn't grown. He hasn't gained a pound.

And he just looks so tiny. Any wrestler, any female wrestler could take Jack Perry. And the Young Bucks, they're back. All of a sudden, they're just being the babyfaced Young Bucks. Like, it all didn't happen.

You know, I'm thinking old old Jungle Jack there. It may be the loin cloth. That may have something to do with his lack of verility looking cuz I bet you right now Johnny Sheffield when he was 14 could have kicked the [ __ ] out of jungle Jack Perry.

I don't disagree. Is Johnny Sheffield still alive? Of course. Ladies and gentlemen, if if you're a a small child in the audience, Johnny Sheffield played boy in the MGM Tarzan movies with Johnny Weisser and later on got his own series Bomba the Jungle Boy and when he was, let's see, they found him in the plane crash in 1939 and by Tarzan and the mermaids that kid had to be 15 years old. He towered over Jack Perry when he was 15. I say Bomba the Jungle Boy could kick the [ __ ] out of jungle Jack Perry.

You know, to me, one of the big themes all night and and of course there are some big highlights to come, but we've been saying it. It really more and more every week it hits me just they're they're stuck in terms of getting new talent. You know, we're seeing the same people, you know, with a with a injured wrestler rotated back in every now and then, but it's the same people doing the same things every single week. It's been years now and there's no big stars coming in. There's no one coming in. Who? Even if they bring Jericho back, that ain't going to help.

He's not new there. The biggest thing the biggest benefit to the WWE Jericho is going to be is he's so new because he they miss him because he went away. I don't think they really miss him in AEW yet because it would be what it would be. But nevertheless, and there's the only the newest thing in AW right now is MJF's hair. And in terms of the Callus family, it's ridiculous and it's a gigantic endless group. But it was even more ridiculous when the I guess the Samoa Joe group or whoever the ops trainee.

Oh, did you SEE THOSE TEENAGERS? YEAH. WELL, I'LL WAIT till we get there. But it was like, what the [ __ ] is this?

LIKE [ __ ] SUDDENLY THE daycare center descended on. All right, we'll we'll get there in a minute because we got to we got to skip over some other nonsense. Um Renee Moxley, she of the unfortunate name this week. Uh was in the ring with Willow Nightingale who was supported by her friend Harley Cameron and her new friend who they were enemies for a while and I forgot why that they're not anymore because I forgot why they were to begin with, Chris Statlander. Because Willow is the new TBS champion because now like again Moxley didn't get beat for a year and a half and he did like [ __ ] four jobs in a row with the same thing. Mercedes never gets beat and suddenly she's getting beat like a government mule.

But they had the ring set up with a table and the party supplies and a big cake for Willow's celebration as new TBS champion. Again, I'm not the person to knock having a party with a cake on TV as a celebration. if you're a heel or potentially if it's going to the tables are going to be turned on the heel, I think is the the better way to do it because baby faces seem kind of indulgent and stuck up and arrogant if they have a party with cakes and party favors for themselves. It's kind of a heel move, but nevertheless, again, this is something where you've got to have some you can't just do it out of nowhere. And they've done parties out the ass and they've done cakes in the face on this show recently.

I remember seeing them a few times, I think. Yeah, few times. But you've got to have some setup to it. You've got to have heat on the [ __ ] heel that's going to get caked. Yes. But also, there needs to be some legitimate purpose rather. We're going to have a [ __ ] party here and and Mercedes came out on her own in a ring full of baby faces in a goofy outfit where she looked like a squished banana cream pie. And apparently she's doing a deal where she's just lost her mind over this losing this belt or whatever cuz she had no makeup on. So my god, that was Josephine Camel unfiltered and just in and screaming.

But she clears off the table and turns the table over. But Statlander had saved the cake. And then Mercedes runs at Willow, who just moves and Mercedes trips and cakes herself. She falls in the cake. And then Willow picks her up and powerbombs her back in the cake. And then they all get in a conga line, including the interviewer, and dance around the cake lady. It's just it's comedy. It's just a rib. It's just it's not even it's it's sketch comedy kind of. It doesn't even really have a coherent thread through it.

It's bad acting, too. I I know Mercedes is on a one of the Star Wars series. I haven't watched it, but I didn't hear anyone complain about her acting. I don't know what she did, but she's a horrible actress. Well, that's there's I I can tell you from officially being a movie star now that I am. They can take that [ __ ] all day long and you only see one. But this [ __ ] where you only get one take, that's what you're getting. It's just like it makes you appreciate the acting on Glow when you see this. And I like Willow. Willow her promo is just doesn't I don't know.

This whole segment was a bad idea. And then Mercedes, just the over-the-top acting. Ah, so yeah, lot lot to look forward to there.

Well, let's go on back over the top and down the other side because we got to give him room to breathe. So, we're going to bring out Sammy Guavara for his annual appearance on Dynamite, who it was in a single match against Bandido. And again, I guess we'll talk about it in a minute, but apparently they're pushing Bandido as a single. I thought he and Brody King were Broaddildo or whatever. They were the tag team champions, but now we they're going to use him as a single. So now he doesn't even have a partner that can halfway do a promo.

And I I know a lot of people, oh, he does such great moves, but I don't. Bandido there. What is his personality? What is his I hate to sound like JR in an old WWF creative meeting. What is his motivation? What? Why? We don't know what he looks like. We don't know who he is. We don't know. They did instead of giving us a kind of a legitimate biography of uh Bandido and what he's done in Mexico, they had him at like Silver Dollar City having shootouts with the goddamn gimmick cowboys. Remember in those videos? So, it's just it's a cartoon and we're supposed to be taking him as a challenger for the world title here.

More on that in a minute. Is Sammy Guavara Brian the Chvy Chase of AEW? First year he was hot as a firecracker. Everybody was going crazy over him. Then everybody figured out he was a [ __ ] dick and now he pops up every once in a while. Nobody cares. It was just a few years ago he was one of the pillars of the company and then he got

he looks more like Stonehinge the bad side that he disappeared off TV. So anyway, they took about 15 minutes with the entrances and Bandido won with that that stupid suplex. It's ridiculous because this since he did it here about four or five times in this overall segment, it's exposed. Unless you are being frisked by the police or about to be [ __ ] in an alleyway, there is no reason for anybody to be in that position that everybody has to get into and hold stock still while he gives them this flippy [ __ ] suplex. Am I lying? Is it unnatural and ridiculous looking?

It's a cool looking thing if it happened every once in a while because of a situation that developed where the guy was like that. But it's every match where the guy does it and you notice that he's there for a while. Bent over like that.

Yeah. Bent over and greased up and ready to go. So he won with the suplex and then here came MJF and that's where I said, "Oh god, no." MJF and Band apparently next week for the AEW title. But then when you think about it, who else can he can he beat on this roster that would even mean anything? But and I I wrote down MJF has some guy with him. Apparently the guy's name is Jonathan Cruz and he is going to serve as the translator here in a minute. But MJF cut the promo that he was a bigger lucha legend and a bigger star in Mexico than Bandido cuz he'd sold out and beat Mystico or did this and that and the other thing.

And then Cruz did the promo in Spanish and apparently Brian, you told me this. He's the guy that was dressed like Abraham Lincoln when MJF was in Mexico.

That's right. And but now that he doesn't have the Abraham Lincoln outfit on, he's about [ __ ] 60 years old. But he did the he did the promo in Spanish and it didn't get a lot of response because it went a while and nobody understood in the building what the [ __ ] he was saying. They're in Tulsa. They weren't in Corpus Christi or whatever. But during this part of the promo, did you see security come over and get signed from the front row?

Oh no, I missed that. the sign. The guy in the front row was holding a sign in front of the railing. It said MJF blows goats and I've got proof.

Oh, I did see the sign. I didn't see them come get it. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, they they snatched it in the middle of his promo cuz you see the uh you see the security guy just reach into the frame and the guy just gave it up no problem. He's like, "Okay, I'm busted."

They don't want to piss off the GOAT fans. But anyway, MJF says, "Hey, basically I've got six diamond rings." So, he's closing up these loopholes. I got six rings and you got one, Bandido, and it belongs to me. So, hand it over. Skip this match next week and we'll all be copathetic. And finally, Bandido took the microphone and I speak English, you stupid son of a [ __ ] and MJF kicked him right in the balls.

That was a good spot, you know, a good moment when he said that after the whole

Yes. And that was the thing because if he'd have if he'd have spoken any longer and tried to get it out, he would have lost him. But he got a pop on that. And then MJF as it kicked him in the balls and took the ring off and went for the punch and Bandido ducked and MJF leveled Cruz who was holding Bandido. And then Bandido kicked MJF into balls and took the ring back. And then I think he gave Did he give Cruz the suplex first or whatever the [ __ ] But then MJF had to grab the rope and again assume the butt [ __ ] position and freeze there and Bandido gave him the suplex.

And I get that they have to build somebody up for MJF, but it just, you know, he just won the thing and he's, you know, getting mugged and flopped around by this guy. I actually When they were doing that, I thought, you know what? If after MJF kicked Bandido in the balls and [ __ ] took the ring, if he'd have nailed him and busted him open, then somebody like Osprey had come back down the aisle to save Bandido and that was the angle. And we're leading to a pay-per-view match, that would have been great. But MJF is going to have to [ __ ] do some of Bandido [ __ ] which is going to hinder his normal performance and then, you know, it's somebody for him to beat.

But I don't really care about seeing it. But they could have set something up with a real star and and it would have would have been okay.

You do some of that Bandido [ __ ] like what? Like the self-induced concussion.

They had a promo earlier in the show. I think it was earlier than this from Kenny Omega, a videotape cutting a promo on MJF. So, they're setting that up already. Even I don't

Okay, I must have zipped through that when I was trying to avoid some of the other nonsense.

I don't know when they're planning it, but that's something where they had a match a few years ago, but that's it. There's never been a feud. Not that it would be the greatest thing because it's, you know, Kenny and his instincts are Kenny's.

Yeah. But that could be something. MJF versus Kenny Omega. If you're not getting other main event talent coming in, two guys that have never had a feud doing something, could be something.

Well, and also if Kenny now is watching what he's doing, then he could listen to MJF, who could actually call a wrestling match and make people give a [ __ ] about it and doesn't have to do all the [ __ ] that he normally does because he can't anymore. It might work out well.

MJF could have a match with him that would probably be the easiest on his body, but not disappoint fans of Kenny Omega. The question is, can Kenny Omega stop himself from doing all the things that he thinks Kenny Omega needs to do?

What do you think of uh what's his name here? Jonathan Cruz, the Abraham Lincoln manager. What do you think of his role with MJF here now? We've seen him in America.

I like the idea that MJF has a flunky with him. Yeah, I you can't really call him a manager because he should in no way have any control over MJF or his contract or anything like that. And and besides the manager well is poisoned here because of the other managers. But if MJF has a flunky, if this guy is not only his translator, but he's driving him, he's carrying his bags. Maybe he's he's his personal chef. He's some He's a He You go to MJF's house and he's on the [ __ ] mower out in the front yard. He's the guy that MJF throws in the way and and sacrifices him to save his own scalp whenever there's something going on. That is a a guy like MJF can, you know, there's a lot of Tully Blanchardishness when you think about it in MJF2.

A guy wearing nice clothes and [ __ ] the belt tucked under his arm and the sunglasses and dashing and you know he's he's got to have a flunky around him somewhere. So that might be interesting, but I don't know about

Well, yeah, because I Jimmy Hart is obviously a Hall of Fame manager now, but when he first started, people forget for the first six months when he was just Lawler's manager. It was the same as really Lawler and Sam Bass back so many years ago or Lawler and Mickey Pool in the summer of 77. Lawler had a manager as as as and kind of his living for an object. Lawler did his own promos. The manager would just talk when Lawler asked him a question and, you know, answer in whatever affirmative manner he needed to. The manager was there to interfere, to pass Lawler a gimmick and take it back or to throw the boot in or to pull a leg or to draw the referee. It was part of it. It wasn't like a full me and the Midnight Express or Bobby Heenean and anybody or whatever where we were talking for the guys and it was a flunky and Lawler worked well off of flunkies and then when Lawler broke his leg, Jimmy had to swim in the deep end of the

pool. But nevertheless, MJF having a flunky could add a little something. He's carrying his belt for him. He's [ __ ] if he was Gorgeous George, he could spray the perfume. That type of thing. Anyhoo, oh, we're still moving on this television show, aren't we?

You know, everyone thinks of it in wrestling the term valet as being one of the girls, but there used to be male valets for like Gorgeous George or other wrestlers, too. I mean, Lord James Bleers, lots of people had them.

Well, yes. Someone should bring that back. As a matter of fact, hold on here. Wrst. I'm in the American Heritage Dictionary, third edition.

Oh, they finally added you. Interesting. No, I'm not. I'm in in it looking in it instead of in it. You know what I'm saying? But I'm looking up valet uh valley forge valor valerezo valuable value. Where do I pastor? Ah, very valet. A man's male servant who takes care of his clothes and performs other personal services or an employee is in a hotel who performs personal services for guests. Valet was the valet were originally men and that gorgeous George had what was one of the name Jeff, right?

And before he got uh he got his wife in the act. And then Gorgeous George Jr. when he first came to Tennessee, I can't remember, he had a guy with him, I think the the first time that he was here, and then brought his wife, it was Susette. Uh but the male and female, I believe, in those days were distinguished by his valet. if he was a male was V a l e t and if it was a female it was v a l e t but in technical terms the valet is a male right cuz every manager in a goof stoke you can't take seriously donish you can't take seriously you can't add another figure that may be a comedy figure at any time into that mix but if it's a valet it changes the whole relationship ship.

Well, but but and again, it doesn't have to be the valet. It can actually it can be the stoogge. It can be the assistant. It can be, you know, whatever name they want to come up for it, but it or something different every week. This week he's my chauffeer, next week he's my cook, next week he's my proctologist. I don't know. Whatever the [ __ ] But, uh, always to be demeaned, made fun of, and and the cannon fodder for the baby faces. And MJF, you know, gets off scot-free. And then at some point it's tailor made that finally the guy says "No."

And MJF [ __ ] him up and a big baby face comes to save him. And then the guy's in the baby face's corner cuz he knows all the tricks and he'll cheat MJF out of the [ __ ] blah blah blah whatever. But that would be too much like wrestling.

Yeah. Or it could be a long-term rewarding relationship. Well, you could do both. You could have a long-term rewarding relationship until you stab each other in the back and want to [ __ ] kill each other.

You know, you would think we would kill a manager that was dressed like Abraham Lincoln, but I was so intrigued by the whole thing, you know, just the whole thing of going to a show of Mexico dressed like Abe Lincoln. It it worked with the there's the evil American MJF is draped in the red, white, and blue against the national hero of Mexico and it MJF brings honest abe with him to lie and cheat and etc. That that kind of worked. I don't know if Abraham Lincoln would work if they were here like every week in Cleveland or whatever.

You know what the problem is, Brian? MJF doesn't have anything he can sink his teeth into. He doesn't have anything thick and meaty and juicy and bubbling with flavor that he can just snatch his teeth into and chew on and really chew up the scenery and give a a braver performance. He needs something to chew on, Brian. That's what I'm saying. I wonder if MJF knows about our friends over at Factor. Do you think?

Oh, I don't know. Uh, that's actually a very good suggestion I could say cuz their food is delicious. I've been eating factor meals, I guess we should say. Factor meals. I've been eating them for quite a while.

You've been eating factory. I am. You've been eating very factory. I very much enjoy their food and MJF probably would. I think everyone would. All the listeners would. All the people out there wonder all over the world. Yes. I The Dalmatian flanks are excellent. But no, folks, I'm telling you what, if MJF doesn't know about this, we'll tell him now and we'll tell you at the same time. Our friends at Factor have basically eliminated the problem you've got when you got you got it's a new year. There's big goals in your life. You got work, you got school, you got the the old lady needs attention every once in a while, you got to walk the dog, you don't have time to cook, so you just take factor and you pop it in. They're fully prepared meals designed by dieticians and crafted by chefs. You see, Brian, I didn't say chef craft again because they changed instead of chef crafted which caused the problem before.

Yes. It's crafted by chefs. Yes, it is. So, that's easier to say rather than chef crafted.

Crafted by chefs and delicious for humans. By chefs. Chefs. By chefs. God damn it, I messed up. They're chefs and chefs and don't let the ships pass you by. You need a good meal. You need to make sure that you get the right meal for you. And they have lots of great plans and lots of great meals. And we're good friends of Factor.

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They've got a geo. No, they won't. No, they won't. Let's just not tell people they will do that. And I don't think that's the Mediterranean diet.

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In that case, it's your goddamn fault and we're not going to do a thing about it. They'll be ready in about two minutes with no prep and no stress. No refined sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no refined seed oils. And you know, especially those some of those seed oils, Brian, they can make you test negative or positive or whatever it is on on the drug tests. You've said, "Well, they're not going to put any heroin in these meals from factor folks."

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If we're going to eat this type of stuff and then we then you can too. Who the [ __ ] are you better than we are? Yeah. See

factor. Here's another factor of people who are not any better than we are. the main event. I've never seen this before, Brian. They had a lights out match where they turned the lights on and couldn't or turned the lights off and couldn't get them to come back on. They now that somebody has told them the story about how the lights out match originated, that the idea was that it's a nonsanction match. The promotion is only giving the the the time in the ring to the participants to settle their issue. The promotion's not responsible if anybody gets hurt. It's not an officially sanctioned match. It's not going in the record books.

And as Eddie Graham would do, since it's it was a called a lights out match because they would symbolically turn the ring lights out at the end of the regular card and then turn them back on to signify that the show had ended and now this is something extra. And that became the lights out match. And then people forgot a lot of that pageantry surrounding it. But now somebody has told them the story over there because it was a lights out match. No time limit, no disqualification, anything goes booking. And they actually had old smiley Roberts say the lights will go down to send signify that our show is over and then it will come back up and then we're not responsible for anything.

and they turned the lights down and they wouldn't come back on. And now for like the first two [ __ ] minutes of the match, the only light of around ringside or above the ring was the handheld spotlights that they had that they could shine on each guy individually as long as he didn't move. I know that there are a certain kind of Well, let me say this and then you chime in because you may be going in this direction. I know that there are certain kinds of arena lights that if you turn them off, I think they're like vapor lights or whatever, but that they they take a certain amount like five minutes or whatever to either cool down or recharge or where they would come back on, but I don't know what kind of [ __ ] television lights that they were cuz they did happen twice.

and and but at one point they had a blackout and then they had they because they had the lighting problem earlier in the Willow Nightingale match when something just went out for no reason and came back on.

It was the same kind of lighting there. Yeah, but they probably they probably had tried it and hit the wrong queue or something. I don't know. But I don't know what kind of TV lights they would have been using that they could turn off and turn back on one time and then turned off and couldn't get back on the next time is what I'm saying. But nevertheless, so it was a true lights out match. There was one, god damn it, Izzy Slappitz's son had emailed me one time an old Eastern Kentucky outlaw show where they actually they forgot when they had the outdoor show that they had scheduled it to start in daytime, but it would be dark afterwards or something and they had them turn the goddamn the car lights on the match.

No, as a matter of fact, that was the story he said where the guy turned the lights out in the building because that's the way that it was advertised, a lights out match, and he wouldn't let him turn it back on because he wanted to give the people what they'd advertised and he wasn't smart to the business. So, they had a [ __ ] match in the dark that went 90 seconds and then [ __ ] just counted one, two, three and left. Anyhow, I wish the lights had been off through the whole thing of this. Um, it was powerhouse Hobbs and Hook against Adam Paige and Swerve.

And okay, we know then that the Heels aren't going to win, but the idea is that Paige and Swerve are teaming up, blah blah blah, but why does it have to be a garbage match too? And they did the same. They started right at the overrun really at 10 o'clock. Chairs and the fighting on the floor and then finally they got the lights back on and they had tables in the ring and a staple gun and fake spots and then I swear you got a kick out of this. But Swerve and Paige get outside and get under the ring and and pull out a flat of of like six or eight cinder blocks, quote unquote, and they can't get it in the ring. It's stuck on the apron skirt or it's stuck under the rope or whatever. They took forever and these other guys just having to lay around and wait till these chuckle [ __ ] get this thing in the ring.

And then HubS ended up power slamming swerve on the cement blocks. They got a twocount before Paige made the save. And then and more [ __ ] with chairs or whatever. And then that's when the ops dojo came out. I know they're just using local independent guys, but did they is there a Tulsa branch of Mac rats? These guys were all 14 years old. It looked ridiculous. and just all of them nondescript long-haired teenagers with op shirts on just jump page and kick the [ __ ] out of him in front of the referee. Well, I say kick the [ __ ] It looked fake as [ __ ] but they were interfering, but it's no DQ.

And then they got the chain, the big logging chain and fake tied swerve and paged together by their necks. Where the closeup you could see that the chain was in no way tied around their necks and that they were sitting there and cooperating while these guys couldn't figure out how to get the chain wrapped around them. And then finally, because they had a a cool spot they'd thought of, Nana gets up and throws coffee in Hobs's face, and Paige and Swerve make a little comeback while they're tied neck to neck and then do a little flippy thing to where Paige gets out of it.

But it's just ridiculous. And then Swerve and Paige gave Hobbs a spike dead eyee on the cement blocks to get take him out of the picture. Okay, you're saving the big monster with this devastating thing. You were going to beat the other guy. So Hobbs rolls over and lays there. But then they they got hooked and they roughed him up and they punched him in the head with the chain and then Swerve kicked him in the head and then they walked around and Paige hit the buck shot on him and then wrapped the rope around his neck and threw him and hung him over the top rope and hook tapped out from being hung by the neck until semide over the top rope.

What the f? They can't get out of their own way. You gave Hobbs the big move, so he's down. The big guy can't save Hook. Hit him with a double team and pin him. One, two, three, right then. But it's it's the the chain and the kick and the bookshot and the hanging and the And Brian, one more question. If if you've got a chain around your neck and you're being hung by it, do you do you have the energy to tap out?

I wouldn't think so. Has it happened in the UFC? Have they hung anyone who tapped out?

Not officially. [sighs] What' you think of that last Oh, it was an embarrassment. It was awful. It was terrible. I hated everything on this show JUST ABOUT EXCEPT FOR EXCEPT FOR THE MJF uh the manager the not manager his promo guy doing the Spanish promo. I thought that was great. But this show was a big ball of nothing for me. The

confusion that's what the show is today. You know, Swerve, at this point, I've become used to the fact that Swerve's matches usually have some of the stupidest things you'll ever see. And he's obsessed with the staple gun now, I guess. And

yeah, you know, just not good. I don't know how many people would have stayed around if we had quarter hours because of uh Yeah, I just don't know how many people would have stayed around for this. I guess that's all. You took the life out. I had so much like enthusiasm talk wrestling and [ __ ] dynamite.

Yeah. Well, we had to get it out of the way. Well, that was AW Dynamite.

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