Chapter 1: What are Tommy Dreamer's thoughts on the Go-Home episode of AEW Dynamite?
Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark Podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer. The go-home episode of Double or Nothing, and I'm going to talk about it right now.
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There's a lot going on since I left you today, and I'm going to talk about that after Don Callis joins the show, because I just got to do my job and talk about the go-home episode to Double or Nothing, or as we now and will forever be known as, The Don. Um... Right off the bat, I love the promo with Jericho the Young Bucks. And I got to say, this show... AEW has great momentum right now.
And it continues. Obviously, going into $15,000 sold out... is cool. It's cool for the locker room. It's cool for the buzz. But this buzz continues for AEW. And I love it. Like I said, Wednesday, let it be AEW's night. Sunday, let it be AEW's night as well. And
The reasons why I feel AEW, when they first burst upon the scene as the alternative, as the much-needed product in pro wrestling and had the buzz, was exactly like an episode I saw tonight. I mean, it was next-level exciting.
Yeah.
if it's a precursor show, the go-home show, where old school used to take it easy, but there is no taking it easy. So we start off with a very entertaining promo with Chris Jericho. and the Young Bucks, they also acknowledge the past. And if there are vets for this stadium stampede match, it's Jericho and it's Nick and Matt Jackson. I love the promo. They went back and forth with the name.
It was a beautiful day in New York. It was a beautiful day, obviously, in Portland. And the back and forth banter, what the name's going to be, it's funny, ha-ha. But then it's also like, you know, and comedy and wit is really what also got Chris Jericho over a lot in his career.
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Chapter 2: How does Tommy Dreamer feel about the promos featuring Jericho and the Young Bucks?
Chris Jericho, one of the you know, he's a Hall of Famer, but he's, you know, a guy who helped
solidify you know AEW when he showed up on that podium that day as and I view him him as the Terry Funk he gave the that company if Terry Funk was involved in ECW you knew it's going to have some legs and if uh Chris Jericho is involved in this company you know it's going to have some legs um and it has and it continues to to do well um So they had their back and forth.
I personally like Bucks of Jericho, if I'm asking, if it's taking my vote. So now we get to the match. And the match was... Freaking awesome. I mean, I tell you guys all the time, we had a team mentality in the original ECW. I have tried to preach my best for every locker room I've ever been in, especially in TNA. Like, we are a team, and you're only as good as your parts in the ring. And that...
opener with the tag match was so so good on so many different levels i also gotta say watching the young bucks work um really like i love the young bucks how they blow their comebacks and it's always unique it's always different both guys also have gotten themselves in such
good shape you know and i want to see them continue the way uh they do in the ring and then um but just the uniqueness and it's always different and you never know um what they're going to do. And they're facing guys who all have a unique, different style with the Don Callis family and Ricochet. Everybody could do different things, but there are different styles out there.
And in the beginning, and I feel this is a match where everyone got over. In the beginning, it was very, very Young Bucks and Jericho-centric. Why? It just gets the people into it. And it also shows Chris Jericho still got it. The Young Bucks are still so, so innovative. Andrade and Mark Davis are really doing their best stuff with this. And Ricochet, you're always going to have some great stuff.
So it was a really, really entertaining, fun show. Action-packed six-man to open up. They go for heat with a distraction again. Big Dunkaroo comes for the chair and referee catches it. Outside interference from the rest of the Don Callis family and the participants for this big match, stadium stampede.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Tommy Dreamer provide about AEW's momentum?
Which is going to be hard because that's a hard match to follow. And sometimes it's been on the end, sometimes it's been in the beginning. But let's see where they place it on the card on Sunday. But just wild chaos to go off that first match there. Obviously, the Don Cal's family is victorious and just a wild brawl because it's, again, a precursor to what you're going to see on Sunday.
And if that is a precursor to what I'm going to see on Sunday, here's my money. Here's my money, HBO, because that match was awesome. It really and truly was. I enjoyed it so, so much for so many different levels. Also, I thought tonight the commentary team was really on point, let us in. They tell some really, really great stories.
There's a lot of bodies out there, but they all did their job, and adding Don Callis on commentary is always wonderful. Because he is so good at that. And he's also good at talking about his guys as well as talking about everything Don Callis. So exciting aspect of that first match. Now I got to go to the second match. I go to the second match. And I'm sitting here watching it.
And I've been in a hardcore match with Mark and Jay Briscoe. And I knew how good the Briscoes were when they were up-and-comers. I mean, I've literally known them when they first started wrestling. And holy crap. What a hardcore anything-goes match with... Jay... I'm sorry, Mark and Tommaso Ciampa. They crushed it.
I, Tommy Dreamer, who's probably been in more matches than most people in their career in that style, and I would give that like... It's in my top 10 of those type of matches. I think at times it was brutal. It was violent. It was exciting. It had suspense. It had comedy. It had everything you want in those type of matches. And Mark continues to shine. He is such...
A great, different type of character. And Tommaso Ciampa also, like, I mean, he really did. He always does. But, like, he takes the match to the next level. A bloodbath. Such innovative spots. So many things I loved. And it was, like, the crowd you see those reactions... with the staple gun, with the paper, you know, the notes that Excalibur has. Not one, but two.
And really staple gunning him in his head. And then the other part, like the innovative with the drop-told into the bottom step, where the step breaks, and, you know, all the stuff with the ladder, and then taking the screwdriver and stabbing Tommaso...
To have the double blood fest, the knee pad with the tacks on it, pulling out the table, and then the table has, you know, there's a surprise, and it's a staple gun with the barbed wire, and... how they're staple gunning it and taking time to get back to what they're doing. Guys are able to actually sell, register what's happening. And then the finish. Holy crap.
Frigging... It had desperation for your baby face and despair where you wanted to see your baby face... do something and you're like, God, please don't do this. Don't do this. Then when your baby face does it to the heel, it's that ultimate joy and ultimate rejoice. Those two guys crush it. Like I said, They had such great psychology in matches like that. It wasn't too barbaric.
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Chapter 4: What makes the match between the Young Bucks and Don Callis' family stand out?
Because if Speedball wins, then hey, he's a new champ and I guess he faces MJF. But they really sold something between social media that Max is doing and even explaining why Darby cares about this. If Max does all these pressers, walks a red carpet, he's going to be bald. He's obviously nervous about his hair. They did a great job selling the hair. The two guys have a great match.
Darby wins again. Also, by the way, love how quickly Darby hits his finish, even in despair. It's like cough and drop out of nowhere. And it works. And it works specifically for Darby, really enjoying it. They also told the story of how many title defenses this guy's had. So at the end of the day, This dynamite from Portland sold me on what?
The go-home show sold me that Double or Nothing is going to be one hell of a show, and I'm looking forward to it. Coming up next, I speak with the leader of the Don Callis family, Don Callis.
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Now, though he's a little late, which is on par with Donald Callis, I want to welcome a... I'm shocked that you're here and that you wanted to come back on. Welcome to Busted Open After Dark. Don Callis joins the show.
What a pleasure, Tommy. You know, when they told me that I would get to come on a radio show... With Tommy Dreamer, in the middle of the night, I said, how can I possibly pass this up? I am so shocked that not only did someone let you have your own show where you talk uninterrupted for one hour, you're actually getting paid for it and people seem to like it. I don't know what's going on.
I've been in a car with you and I've never heard you talk longer than 20 minutes. And I wanted to stick my head in it. when I heard that. So 60 minutes is a long time, Tommy. I don't know how you're doing it, but like everything else with you in the business, you got to horseshoe up your ass, you fall ass backwards into opportunities. It's tremendous. And you're always the baby face. St.
Paul. Donald, are you there? Oh my God, you son of a bitch. You think you could just pull over? You think you could give the nation enough money Respect and love. You don't join me on Zoom, but you think you could pull over, and I know you're listening, and you got your stooge driver. He's driving you. You could pull over. You're driving through Portland. They don't have great Wi-Fi up there.
By the time you get to your hotel, or probably you're driving to, let's see, if you're Don Calzano, you wouldn't want to drive to Boston. Well, hopefully... Shut up! Hello!
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Chapter 5: How does Tommy Dreamer evaluate the hardcore match featuring the Briscoes and Tommaso Ciampa?
He's cheering me on here.
Well, we weren't the tightest in ECW. You're a bit of an asshole, and you're doing deliberate things to try to injure me. So not a fan of that. Got us canceled off of television. So, hey, there's a lot of history there, and it's not also the best. Catch the full three hours of Busted Open every day of the week at 9 a.m. Eastern on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7, channel 156.