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00:00 Fox banned the controversial WWE group.

00:02 Are the Young Bucks starting an anti-CM Punk storyline?

00:06 And my review of AEW Dynamite.

00:08 I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:18 The early days of the pandemic forced WWE to be, what's the most polite way of saying

00:24 this, creatively bold.

00:26 With no fans in attendance, and the Thunderdome still months away, they booked things like

00:31 Stone Cold Steve Austin kicking Byron Saxton in the dick, The Street Profits and Viking

00:35 Raiders being attacked by a sea monster in a dumpster, and Rey Mysterio getting his eye

00:39 gouged out one month to be hurled to his death off the top of a building the next.

00:43 Don't worry though, there was a smaller roof underneath the roof he was thrown off

00:48 to catch him.

00:49 But it was the August 3rd, 2020 episode of Raw where Vince McMahon appeared to have totally

00:55 lost his mind.

00:56 It's easily one of the most crazy episodes of wrestling TV I've ever seen, because

01:01 it debuted two bold new ideas.

01:04 Shane McMahon's Raw Underground, a quasi-Fight Club style basement complete with sexy sexy

01:10 dancers and also…

01:13 Retribution.

01:15 The faction of masked and hooded characters invaded WWE programming, with crimes that

01:19 ranged from throwing a Molotov cocktail at an electricity generator to tipping over boxes

01:25 backstage.

01:26 It's worse.

01:27 Meanwhile, the real world had plenty of its own unrest, with protests and riots breaking

01:32 out across the Western world.

01:34 One of the real world factions in that civil unrest was Antifa, and at the time, many drew

01:39 comparisons between Antifa and Retribution.

01:42 And it turns out, with pretty good reason.

01:45 Former Retribution member Mason Madden, formerly known as Mace, formerly known as Mace, formerly

01:50 known as Dio Madden, has previously spoken about Retribution's creative beginnings.

01:55 Where somebody in WWE saw Antifa and thought "look at all those little nerds, wouldn't

02:00 they be great villains for our TV show?"

02:02 Now in a new interview with WrestlingNews.co, Madden has revealed that after the group debuted

02:07 on the Fox ad SmackDown, Fox put a stop to that real world tie-in.

02:12 When Fox, because it was on SmackDown, found out that there was an Antifa angle on SmackDown

02:17 on their Fox program, they said "hey stop", so confusion happened.

02:22 The group quickly became a more cartoon villain group, featuring go-faster stripes and supervillain

02:27 masks during the Thunderdome era of WWE, with character names that included Slapjack and

02:32 T-Bar.

02:33 But WWE isn't the only promotion that uses real life to fuel pro wrestling storylines.

02:38 Let me introduce you to…

02:42 The Young Bucks.

02:43 After returning at the end of the 10th January AEW Dynamite episode, setting themselves up

02:48 as Sting's final opponents ever for Revolution in March, they had a sit-down interview with

02:52 Renee Paquette on this week's show to establish their new heel personas.

02:57 They appear to be playing the roles of creators gone mad, obsessing over the early days of

03:02 AEW, which they founded, and how it used to be a force for good.

03:06 But that's changed as of late.

03:09 We were changing the world.

03:11 Somewhere along the way, we did lose our way.

03:14 It was like the culture shifted, and the toxicity creeped into the locker room.

03:19 The perception of the company was just different.

03:22 I think it's because we started to lean on yesterday's self-serving, superficial,

03:28 cancerous superstars.

03:31 While that could just be totally unconnected wrestling promo speak, a lot of the language

03:35 choice is very connected to their former colleague and reported brawl out opponent CM Punk.

03:41 Seth Rollins infamously called Punk a 'cancer' before his return to WWE, and Punk himself

03:46 once promised to "change the culture" on his WWE backstage debut.

03:51 Also using the word 'superstar' rather than 'wrestler' is more of a WWE terp.

03:56 The Bucks made it clear they were not talking about Sting, their opponent for the pay-per-view,

04:01 and then promised to take out any similar people after they'd retired Sting, potentially

04:05 using their opponents as storyline proxies for their frustrations with Punk.

04:10 CM Punk to AEW confirmed.

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05:55 Now it's time for my review of AEW Dynamite… in about 5 minutes.

06:00 After a promo package hyping up Samoa Joe vs Hook to open the show, consider this guy

06:05 HOOKED.

06:06 I wish I had his hair.

06:13 Maybe I could just transplant more hair onto my head.

06:15 The action kicked off first with Christian vs Dustin Rhodes for the TNT title.

06:20 They had a really good back and forth match.

06:22 Rhodes got almost as much offence in as he did against Swerve Strickland at World's

06:26 End, even after his ankle was shattered with a cinder block.

06:28 Which is to say, a surprising amount of offence.

06:31 But it worked great here against Christian's heel shenanigans, mostly comprised of Nick

06:35 Wayne interference.

06:36 Dustin got a nearfall so close off a cross Rhodes, I nearly had to call 2.999 for the

06:42 VAR police.

06:43 Is that how sports works?

06:44 Rhodes managed to kick out of a spearing killswitch combo, but Christian hit a second killswitch

06:49 to win.

06:50 When they spoke to Swerve Strickland backstage, who cut an awesome promo putting over Hangman,

06:54 saying Paige would have a chance at wrestling God, JBL to AEW confirmed.

06:58 But Swerve's beaten him twice already, and he has no desire to do it again.

07:02 You're not convincing anyone, Swerve.

07:04 Just kiss already.

07:05 Renee then interviewed Jericho, who was angry with the Callous family for Powerhouse Hobbs

07:09 costing him and Sammy Guevara the tag team titles.

07:12 Enter Matt Sydal to challenge Jericho with the overly keen energy of a musical theatre

07:16 kid who can't really act, but can sing amazingly.

07:19 So they keep him around.

07:21 This isn't you Jericho.

07:22 I know you better than that.

07:24 I know you better.

07:26 The Best Friends beat Penta and Commander in a fun match, with Trank continuing to show

07:30 his more aggressive side.

07:32 This segment was more about the angle afterwards, though, as the Undisputed Kingdom's Roderick

07:36 Strong went face to face with the International Champion he's promised to defeat.

07:41 Orange Cassidy, in his aloof way, said "I'll defend it right now", giving Strong a big

07:45 advantage.

07:46 Cassidy had just wrestled a match.

07:48 Roddy is completely fresh.

07:50 Instead of accepting though Strong, said he'll wait until the Revolution pay-per-view on

07:54 the 3rd March - 45 days away - to make Cassidy mentally suffer.

08:00 This motivation didn't work at all for me.

08:02 Firstly, do you even know what an Orange Cassidy is?

08:05 His whole gimmick is not caring.

08:07 But perhaps there's a story to tell there where Strong does slowly get in his head.

08:11 Second though, and more importantly, the Undisputed Kingdom told me they're going to change

08:16 AEW.

08:17 Right now, that's happening at an almost imperceptible pace.

08:20 In lieu of Adam Cole being an active wrestler, I would've had Strong win the International

08:24 title by now to get over their threat.

08:27 And Strong's reason for stalling and not taking the advantage here being mind games

08:32 is generic wrestling.

08:33 He could've instead said it's to make more money on the bigger show, clearly separating

08:38 his faction's motivation from the more babyface winning titles goals.

08:42 Renee spoke to Hangman Page backstage, who said he does not think about Swerve at all

08:46 - I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT HIM, OK - when he so obviously does.

08:50 Mark Briscoe led an incredibly touching tribute to his brother Jay, who tragically passed

08:54 a year ago.

08:55 His niece was in the car accident that killed Jay, and doctors said she wouldn't walk

08:59 again.

09:00 But Mark welcomed her out, and she walked in by herself.

09:04 AEW are very good at sincerely honouring stories like this.

09:08 Then we got the brilliant Young Bucks interview, where they established their new heel characters

09:12 and make him not-so-subtle allusions to CM Punk in the process.

09:16 In a later short film promo, Sting and Darby Allin announced they wanted to win the tag

09:20 team championships, so expect them to beat Ricky Starks and Big Bill to have those belts

09:24 on the line for the Bucks match.

09:26 Speaking of titles that need rehabbing, the Ring of Honor six-man belts changed hands

09:30 next when the Gang Bang Gang beat, erm… let me just check…

09:37 The Mogul Embassy.

09:39 They were the champions.

09:40 Brian Cage and the Gates of Agony.

09:42 This was a really fun, frankly weird match, as it had Jay White working babyface.

09:47 He even got a hot tag run, and he's really good at it, connecting with the crowd.

09:51 Just thought I'd never see White as a good guy.

09:53 In a nice story beat, Anthony Bowen stopped Prince NaNa interfering, letting White hit

09:57 the Blade Runner to win and become the new champions.

10:00 I'm interested to see how this will further Bullet Club Gold's frenemy relationship

10:04 with the acclaimed, and how it'll debut a new set of 12-man tag titles.

10:08 Adam Cole hyped up Wardlow backstage in the Undisputed weighting game.

10:12 Then it was time for the compulsory quarterpast the second hour women's match.

10:16 Deonna Purrazzo and Toni Storm maximised their limited minutes, with Deonna tapping out Anna

10:20 J in her awesome Venus de Milo finisher, and Toni joking on commentary.

10:24 Top Flight and Private Party had a decent tag, initially based on mutual respect of

10:28 either side having a partner out with injury for ages, for it to turn sour when Mark Quinn

10:32 hooked the rope to get the heel pin.

10:34 It's a good bit of substance for the undercard.

10:36 And the main event saved the best for last.

10:40 One of my favourite matches of the year already.

10:43 Samoa Joe defending his AEW World title against Hook.

10:48 Feeling big time from the start with the entrances and the ring introductions, Joe's first

10:53 title defence captured the best of Joe from TNA for me - which is the best Joe has ever

10:57 been - a violent, swaggering, unbeatable monster.

11:03 He hit a Sikorin Agi on Hook on the corner of the announcer's table, then strutted

11:07 around the ring as everyone chanted Joe.

11:09 Hook then put both middle fingers up at him, so Joe powerbombed him on the ring apron.

11:13 Joe never looked in trouble.

11:15 Hook always looked in trouble, yet somehow they both looked absolutely awesome in every

11:20 single moment of this match.

11:22 Joe's snap powerslam kick out at two.

11:24 Joe's Death Valley Driver kick out at two.

11:27 Joe's Muscle Buster finisher kick out at one.

11:30 Hook had a comeback so good and well-timed, it might propel him back to where he should've

11:34 been a year ago with adequate follow-up.

11:36 AEW really could have Lightning in a bottle with him.

11:39 Joe eventually made him pass out, though, in the Coquina Clutch.

11:42 Hook kept standing up afterwards, showing his heart, so Joe would keep hitting Muscle

11:46 Buster after Muscle Buster.

11:48 This brought down Hangman Page for the save and revealed Swerve lurking in the crowd,

11:52 and the reality of title defences seemed to start dawning on Joe's trembling face.

11:57 The crowd continued to chant 'Swerve's house' as Strickland and Hangman stared

12:02 at each other after pretending this whole episode they want nothing to do with each

12:06 other.

12:07 When all they really want to do is make sweet, sweet love.

12:09 I mean fight.

12:10 I mean fight.

12:11 Calm down, Oli, those Tumblr shipping days are behind you.

12:14 This was a fantastic episode.

12:16 This week's Dynamite is 92%.

12:18 But there was a crisis backstage at this week's Raw.

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