Euro Clutch #9: The Year That Was 2025 In Brief

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[SPEAKER_00]: Happy New Year and welcome back to the Euroclutch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Ian Hamilton and this episode I want to go through a lot of what happened in 2025 but first we won weekend deep into New Year and I want to make a bit for mention about the Rev Pro Lord Wemley because Rev Pro had their first show of the year this past weekend, Live in London 103 at Port Chester Hall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, it's a solid show but a few Southern-flicited wounds you'd say in the main event on a certain second half of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: and granted we were what 7 months away from V showed Wembley, but I'm a little concerned about the direction of the world that's taken to get there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So top two matches on V live in 103 cards, we had a British cruiseway title match at Joel Landort defending his title against Danny Black.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was a CFF collide kind of match and
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a storyline, but you have it being some mumbling site, you want to wind a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, in 2024, the first three-nogal trio's company, CPF-1, and we got there three trophies to get, one of the matches we wanted, Danny Black cached his in, to get another shot at Avionglund's early last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mavic Mayhew cached his in, to get a match with Colnuman in Steve and his last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Jolando used his to get a shot at Neil Bryan's Crusoe title which he won at the end of 2025.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he gave a whole thing where even more, you know, Maverick May, he used his trophy and, you know, got a match himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Danny Black took on British for fact that Jolando used for trophy on him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Backed caused some consternation between the two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This story which, if you wrote it down, made sense, but just how quickly it went from being yeah, they were fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Literally, it had feed December, I'm in London show, play out with Joel and we're getting with title, and it was like post-match promos, you know, internet interviews,
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[SPEAKER_00]: because we're weak between live lunch and show and the uprising show and Cardiff, you know, where they had the scramble with all hundreds of independent gangsters, including Danny Black.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just felt completely rushed to meant to go to, you know, the first show of the year, don't Danny Black any entitled shots.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just felt so no completely rushed where you had CPF, you know, fighting amongst themselves, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not teasing and a full break and Ben.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have a match with friends again And like the storyline itself was fine, and if like say if not extremely rushed But the match itself just did not land like you know, I was watching the stream live on the rep on demand and Ben went with CPL group where you have a lot of That's a extremely vocal fans, you know, I'm sure we've heard Red Post shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll hear the fans and all shrieks But I don't know what they do
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was largely quite much, and is one of those where just felt me that, you know, very like CPF against us, but not against each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it almost made me go back for days, these are reference for long time fans, of two and limited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, we have poor back and day, you know, had those two Irish lads, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not if in landed and there's kind of a play, kind of a way here, but I say it's a machinal in land or can't stand black, just didn't work, there's just too many bits where, you know, if you're trying stuff which just looks cheap like there's one bit where, things that Danny Black was, you know, getting to his feet and being just felt was back so we could just not take a shooting style elbow job, which again, is fine, but it's one of those universe breaking things and, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, but match doesn't work for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a match for just felt like, OK, we're done with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, you know, wording can be taken on mobways, but when you hear, you know, we have pull after the score.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We hope that's for the last time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See if we have fight each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's something we can be taken both ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to take the way of, I just don't want to see these two against each other again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stick with tags.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That seems very forte, you know, Joel Andles, Quizway Trump, you know, he's going to be singles for a bit, but to me, they just don't seem to be ready of, you know, fishing in singles as rep, trying to be present at the moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elsewhere, main event on what live in London, one or three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You had Jay Josh who was second title defense now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jay Josh who won the belt from Charles Samuels at uprising.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had an instant dream match for instance three two weeks later at the season Speetings live and have Hampton show which you know on paper just if I was no one just didn't add up for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, after the uprising show you had Charles Samuels doing poor molts, you know, backstage of, almost not actually he was done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, it's Jay Josh was time now then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You quickly pivot to, you know, you're having a title match, you're pivoting to, you're having an instant rematch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this one way, you know, it was solid, but again, it's one of those way, you know, on a one of the male rank and file show, you're not expecting the world title to change two weeks later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not the list, you know, folks have really lost the head of something major Scotland or some one side to contract somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, it was the first defense to the solid, it's kind of cemented Jay Joshua as, you know, the guy, you know, he's beaten the former champion twice in a row, and then the post match you had, uh, set up for the match we had at the London last weekend against Mike Locke, which, you know, on one side, it's like, well, are you, you know, rushing to the momentum as a challenger, or are you also running out of credible challenges?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because one of the main issues we had coming out of a pricing,
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[SPEAKER_00]: was great, Jay Josh was the champion, but who's next?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had Mike Locke, who, you know, sings per annually around the title, picture, and that is something, which you can maybe, you know, point fingers at, like, Rev.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2026, badly need to, you know, have people in a spot where they are already able to, you know, charge for belts at a moment, so now just rather than have, in what we've had last year of the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of a short notice, certain title, tournaments, or contenders tournaments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here this one, we had Oku and Jay Joshua, and this is one where it just, this was ref-pro doing WF and historically they are known to do that, you know, there's three famous one in your call couple years, back where Andy Kulton doing the boxing polls against he
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[SPEAKER_00]: but we have to pull up for what we want to do and we still have to be able to have small sense of time and things and it fell in here, the match was solid but we finished just completely over roads ever and ever before that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So towards the end of the match, you had the OQ with Jay Josh from the half-crab and all beat on the verge of the missing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then all of a sudden, OQ means a video place, no bell, but when you have the ring announcer Francesco announced and all of a sudden he was your winner and then you, you know, the contender
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[SPEAKER_00]: come to Zack and like as well as I can in a second, there's no bell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Rephyr universe, they have the bell, if it's the MP3 of a physical bell, and just everyone falling for, or some of the music played, and then constantly come to your video picture cuts to a guy in a temporary or a mask, it's kind of mills underneath a hood, and it's just, you know, the most convoluted destruction thing, which
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can have pro, they don't do a good job of protecting their referees like whether it's Oscar Harding or Chris Hatch, or you know, ref half back when he was around, they would almost always make referees with all guys to a point where if something was done to make you know, referees looks stupid, the refs would be made like the feel like Chris Hatch drink more than not, of a never, seems to be, you know, the whole guy for weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this time you had ref or skirt, no, actually, no, making a point of saying, I didn't ring a bell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, what the hell's going on?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is everybody being stripped of my, lose my mind, say, body gone crazy, it's just me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But just made everyone around the product just look absolutely stripped when you could see the ref, we're not, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Potesting to what was going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just going on with a lot of music explained so it must be fine Oh well, no, but content is handing the belt over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been announced like you just made everyone look so stupid with a sake of a finish But took the wind out for live crowd and of course matches Well, we started carried on Jay Josh for getting the wind moments later, but it just felt me as like Why you confusing your audience for sake of a nangle like this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it really took down the crowd alive, you know, on the streams, people know what and was like, what the hell, this is absolutely stupid and like, the other thing is, it's also also cementing your keeping micro-occurment, connoisement as a direction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if Wemby was in two, three months, time great, except since seven months.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I would have fought with all cool mills would have been one of the big matches for Wembley because yeah, you've just done it at the uprising, but it's not a match that we've posted on today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, you're also doing, you know, the feud, last month, you're kind of done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, do you really trust Wembley to keep this going and fresh for the next seven months?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Granted, you know, our storylines cross Wembley will touch on them later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: where no people come and go, but all-kun mills are pretty much never made, showing micrologue you can never get them off these shows feels like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just one of those where you need to keep your power to drive a stuff like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that you're still going in deep on all-kun mills, you know, I mean, one of the nine food genres I'm recording with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just feels like they've got the plans, but if it is for Wembley match, you've set of way too soon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be sat outside Wembley way down in an empire way for weeks and months.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as we've seen before, in wrestling with the magic of storylines and fields or rivals or whatever, sending them you want to use, is he peak your story after I time?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, it feels like this one, if it is Wembley thing, and I don't know why the hell
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've just pulled the trigger in this way too soon, but I'm always want to be improving along and we'll see if they put a pin in this and try and revive this going into some of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just for me, it feels like, you know, if this is for RF Pro World Wembley, right now, it feels like a very bumpy dirt truck, and it's not what I want to have in a full car, 7 of a sound, and not, don't be ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't feel like that they have anything even being teased.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of the problem, I feel like, is for Shadow of O'Running.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a graphic post today, it was week by RF Pro with their complete schedules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, we already knew that, you know, we've got,
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[SPEAKER_00]: live in London, live in commentary, live in Southampton, live in Sheffield, show, so we've got season ticked through our roles, but they're running 27 shows before Wembley.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These aren't betraying these shows, but you're looking like regular trips to, obviously, monthly trips to Portchester, Holland, London through In Sheffield, every month, we're in Coventry a few times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, South Hampton every one of them on states in, in Wolverhampton, there have been other states in Carterfield, Valorino again, which, you know, I sincerely hope as an AEW tour to be announced because back to me, Phil's on wise during two shows in Carterfield.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with nothing to, you know, have Western fans and town already, you know, they're doing donkastric in which to me I felt a bit of surprise given how at least initially the lack cluster of the sales were, I mean, obviously we've opened up a walk-ups of the, you know, the late sales did well, but you know, at one point in two of that first show from say it is money, you know, barely doing half full, there's maybe sandwich, okay, accentuating circumstances
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, back to me, points which, you know, it is a time of death or one to do, they need to run a lot more and, you know, maybe part of the phrase needs to eat shit for a while to build a crowd up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have Provee, have also got Sheffield, Steve and the states, so I think that's 41 shows, Nunkland trainee shows on the box for 236, no mentioning yet for stuff, you know, outside of the UK, you know, they have done the double impact shows with GDWF Berlin, although last year's shows were a bit of a call to took you when it came to crowds, market makeouts,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the shows in Barcelona will again, I mean, we're hearing now what news matters for months from the Trio's company, that second trade is quite unusual, still not available.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know whether something's happened with the guys in Barcelona, maybe the iPhones all collapsed, but you know, when you've got something that's such a big storyline device as well as Trio's company trophies,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels a bit weird, but the show just came out, just not to not show title defense to then do like another match up for back about, but the actual Trio's Grand Prix to me just doesn't seem to be having a natural landing spot at least in 2020-26, and the fact that in 2020-25s is very much lost to be even as we sit here, perhaps underscores that again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in terms of tempo shows, obviously we have the live and wherever is which, you know, don't get the fancy names, you know, put these dates in your calendar March 21st and Wolverhampton, April 12 in Cardiff, May 17th and don't cast it in a following week, May 24th in TBC, go back for one second because there was a room about a certain venue for that one, June 27th, Stephen, July 25th, Wolverhampton, August 16th and Cardiff, that's two years before Wembley, which again, it just feels a bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, like, you can have a lot of fans traveling to Wembley for age of a weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Vard is going to be a show in Cardiff where you can be really pulling from the fans in and around South Wales, because you really can be getting fans traveling to Cardiff and then doing Wembley, especially the elevated kick price, especially the big age will be a show all later on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know how it was age, but it takes time to even on sale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if this is a...
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[SPEAKER_00]: A bit for weird ones for me, like it's a 10-pull show of the sake of them, but we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: September 12th, in Stevenhood, Baker pardon, October 17th, Wolverhampton, and then last one of the year, December 13th, in the car, if now, real thing I would say is, not all these are going to be like a tent pole, no revolution, rumble, high stakes, surprising, like especially for Steven's ones, and there will be probably a bunch of Jacob there, and one of those were very much likely to be a fantastic company, UK you'd expect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've made 24 shows a big-for-head scratch of all because there was speculation that Nottingham was going to be getting a show, finally Kanji, you know, wrestling in Nottingham and you know, finally be properly introduced as Nottingham's own in Nottingham on a ref pro show who had a fun kit, but apparently he's going to be curled, but the one venue that you will see jumps out of can speak with by its absence on this, know your call on the on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in the past, you know, I think Sandy Quildman, some of his interviews last summer before the anniversary show, did make a point of saying, but you all call and particularly greater on these days at least in terms of returns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it was coming to something along the lines of, you know, Rev Pro will be at best breaking even, running your call, which, you know, is that because you
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've probably managed to get your call to run Western effectively in Nova Scotia, you know, a lot of big moments in your call and the fact that now it was the last your call show, as he says doing a cage match on air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That last year, your call show, you're looking at, would have been when is it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would have been the June of 2025 Revolution Rumble,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, as it stands, you know, you're looking bit, you know, unless you've made 24 shows, you all call, you're potential looking at least 80 months of out of his, there, which is a bit of a crying shame, especially when you think was at the Luchelie Bay World, you know, they've run back to back sell outs, and expected to maybe make money with a lot of imports, you know, the El Santo court and court retirement shows, nobody ever ties with course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, certainly, you know, the Rev Pro introduced your call to once a year because they can't make it pay yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Usually, they're world with all those fly-ins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, no, it's not for me to speculate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, if anything's gone on, but it seems very weird that Rev Pro's expansion outside of London, the South seems to be coming at the cost intentionally, otherwise, of perhaps their biggest venue from their, you know, first 15 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if this was like a flagship plus would be like a free minute song in Cloté, but I'm not all about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I am going to do is touch across a load of European Western promotions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to them in 2025?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, main touch points for pluses and alliances.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And since we just spoke about Repro, Meselo keep that thing going, because Repro, you would have to say for all of their weaknesses this past year, they are still the premier destination for all of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If we work weight grabs in UK and Europe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And guess still technically the unofficial outpost for new Japan and AWS, we haven't had a real quest for a while.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course we have pro with Fair Connections.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can say that we, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The ability to book world class towns, you'd say, still a match and certainly, you know, I'm saying it's money for all of the pros and cons, which have been covered up to deficit this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly, we've got a lot of fresh eyeballs in Repoi, even if I didn't fully translate at the box office.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we could shave and have been brought in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's uprising for the, a national title, defense fair, but, you know, booking you would not have expected.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At least not with fair, we could say, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: we've worked for before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I guess for biggest criticism, kind of ties into Mercedes Monais stuff is the fact that they had their wooden title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On someone who wasn't in the company meant that while he had wooden division no fighting to be a challenger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because money's, the payments weren't quite, let's say, scheduled, it meant that you were having, you know, uneven builds, shall we say, you know, you're getting people getting wins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But because we're not sure she was on wasn't there, it was very hard to keep, not even meant going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when you had like the fall starts and Danny Luna winning that, you know, the endless gauntlet match at high stakes and then back turn to nothing, you know, and even right now, you know, we had, it was some of the, you know, one contenders to them, but stuff I read won.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to get the matter of money and then as we've saw back in the last year you know slowly starting to build you know kanji up as the next contender and you know standard put to not too obvious hints about all she's no good and multiway matches and if you're okay quite well that means you're gonna have you know Mercedes money catching two of us in a four way that's where she loses the belt right no nothing that's something
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we've kind of had an issue with, you know, obviously you had a lot of surprising back end of, not even one, of course you were caught where money retained against real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, days later, money dropping the belt too, Alex Swins and Matt, to me kind of, kind of underscores for issue with working with emotions and, you know, if you just book in a portions town for one of Matt,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know what you're getting?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a chance to put spotlight in your guy, but ultimately your guy is probably going to lose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When your belt is in the hands of an open motion, no, whether it's officially or in formally, you end up with stuff like this, where, you know, you can build whatever heck you want, you can tease Danny Luna, you know, being with Chanton or well, she's contracted TNA, but it's politically awkward, where you can no do a long build for Rio or Canji.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if, you know, the master's a w in this case wanted pull the trigger on, you know, the downfall of Ultimo Monet, and for you, you can end up with, you know, a w, you know, doing stuff, which kind of doesn't drive with what you are showing your emotions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember when the results from the Manchester collision taping came out, but Alex wins the one we're about on was essentially the second half of a collision show, but it was a little bit two days out of time, so it's like, yeah, the fact that it's on collisions, not the A show, but it's a no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: an out of time source collision, it wasn't going to get much and way viable, and at least on TV at least wasn't a house sure, but it's like, how this could have played out to me, you never going to get, and I'm saying it's money losing two cans, you won on one in a ref post show, but the fact that it was an obeyed away, it's not going to be a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on an A, it will be sure that, okay, you can say A, it will be exposed, but at this point, you know, the belt's still with A, W, and the scalper of beating Alex wins for the belt, isn't going to be anywhere new as big as the scalper of beating money for belt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it just feels a bit disappointing how that played out, you know, given how an or static food and distribution has had to be around the tadpid, I mean, the grandeur fat a lot of faces come through, but with no bell to fight forward and even know when you can be able to fight for a belt, it has been a lot of a wheel spinning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, the men's division, you know, Jay Josh, we've rise in the top of the end
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[SPEAKER_00]: has been a perfect fresh air, you know, I remember wasn't back long ago, he was a fresh face and a pro, but a fact vigil you've had, you know, whatever's going through with, you know, we've shot Samus and we've teased off a fake retirement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, ultimately, we issue you have with the titles, we touched on with some last episode, is you just seemed to be having, you know, quote, quote, quote, challenge the month end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I would like to see where I've put during 2026 is the SmackDown 6th, if I spoke about in the past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have, you know, four, five, six names, a-naged vision that you are going to push and not have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, these were six, but when everybody else leaves, but have them kept relatively strong, so that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you do have a big shock about no end, just spoken way, have got a fairly locked-down current for this year, you're not going to be surprised by, or crap, we've got big name coming in, we need to have many children of next three shows, Harry, Harry, but yeah, it's kind of in way, just things are working, but we also don't feel like they're, or we're not certainly not coming across like the planned out, which is always a bit for negative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elsewhere, of course, had the young guns and all they would be main tag team champions this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They won the belts back in March from Connells and J. Joshua, a few to CPF throughout the summer, which then came and spoke with the young veterans at the 13th anniversary, but then kind of peated out, you know, what are the hex, gone to vitrials, gone pre, bit mud, tors again, is just seem to be, I don't know, young guns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Champions without a mate fret, and as I say this, yes, we did lose the Lycos gym on that first life, London show, which is wield title shop this weekend in Sheffield.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let's be frank, you know, the Lycos gym if you win, it would be what the hell that's, you know, Tim, it's barely using ref pro, but it may be what's the first start and you have no young guns chase, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, for this, I grew up post-tax vision maybe the weakest, just because you don't have the dirt of it, so the number of established teams that you would have had before are certainly credible as established teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a cruise weight vision cost to all and all and yours champing had neemal Brian's rare for bats um... but that's one way you could really make the cruise weight division like your tent pole uh... sort of marky division no as much as i'm not a fan of cp for singles and a half note to all and one top but about it any black in and say you know underneath changing only on cage neemal Brian's no cruise being brought in ruby ex-nope perennial light bulb the spectres he is
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, late and buzzer is being positioned for that vision.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, that's where there's your six names where, out of few more to, I'll say make up a numbers but a few more to, you know, keep things varied.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's your cruise weight vision salt and now you just need to have your weights and, you know, you should be laughing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, they're pro, they seem to have a lot of visuals locked down so you know, where you can be getting stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My only concern is do they have the content to put on my shows that is going to make people want to go and watch whether it's at the if the gate or, you know, on the laptop on their TVs because right now,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of the shows they're doing just seem to be stop-offs and not must see TV and you know it's somehow, you know, had a bit of a gripe about, you know, breastless content.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're doing wrestling shows every week, great, it's not great for, you know, wrestlers, you know, they're getting a regular pay check if they're, you know, certainly on the roster and being booked regularly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as a fan, if you're watching a lot of weekly shows and that's not much to think you're teeth into, it's wrestling for sake or wrestling and maths, unfortunately, one of the worst things you can do in wrestling is just have content for sake of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Staying in the UK can have a quick touch upon progress wrestling and promotion without say is largely stabilized this year or they are far cry from what they were and again looking back at the past, looking back at what people were was always going to be the fee for the old drawing of that kind of comparison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, progress, they're not tuned as much these days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, by doing the rest of the many show they do, is be sure in Manchester for ballers or in a, you know, fee for the level of wrestling conventions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We may do one or two shows outside of London, but for this point, they are largely London-centric promotion for the better of a worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Miss Pascio, you know, Man Lake Dries, was the guy who rules for top, you know, winning Super Strong style.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He beat Luke James and TLC much to, you know, claim the title.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the video, we have a couple of turns Cowenwise in our backsbud guy, Spectra Ray, now Baxa Good Guy, which, as opposed, works, or at least in terms of its different, but yeah, I kind of need a lot of convincing on Spectra Ray's a good guy, Cowenwise as a heel, that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've never been told on Cowanwana first place and, you know, Cowanwana is a bad guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It isn't going to do it for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a guy who's very big on promos and unfortunately, pretty crazy in 2026, it's very much a promotion where you need to have, you know, seeing where you need to have, at least some permabiltures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, you need to have your eat, your thing where, you know, people can hang the hats on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cowanwana being with a silent guy with no of a scowl to me just doesn't cut it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elsewhere, because we had the Atlas titles being focused as big, hey, this is a big thing we have, nobody else has, bounced around a bit and over, Axel Tisha had the belt for a long while then went to make the vehicle before he got signed, went to Jane Moneyvent will cruise a man, start the year, will cruise, drop him a belt, sacks and hooks on Noah's new year, show which,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, great, but Saxon Hugsiafings only had one progress booking in the past, so There'd be interesting to see where we go over there because again, it's not like this progress roster is stacked with big guys And the fact that Hugsiafings first offends things to be against Axel Tisha Was all this new again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things I do want to call off from F1226, I'll be going into this year, is Super Strongest Health 16.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they kind of found for Trump, the WWE has in terms of, he, we've got this thing, but it's primarily for men, of male wrestlers, and, you know, we've put in a lot of folks on our, you know, women's roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we don't have this tempo thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what we've been announced last year was we're going to do women's
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the time, people were suspecting, well, it is just going to be a full-on 16-person tournament.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When is it going to be held?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is it going to be its own thing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what's for the outcome?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because, you know, super strong style weekend now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For progress has become a two-day event.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a far cry for me three days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Such a lot of power is back to the original two days of the ballroom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's the way progress solved, the moment in terms of popularity, and what they've done is they've decided to run two tournaments in parallel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what that means is you're not going to get two 16-person tournaments back to back to don't be stupid, you know, you're not going to be a electrical volume for two full days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What we are doing is first rounds are going to be held across promotions outside the progress for most part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I believe the WXW in, uh, roof and tonight they've got bobby guns, I'll say this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have got bobby guns and leave bloom in the 1st round match next weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Peter Tahan in Saltan, uh, squash a job in Italy, very doings it iron and kanji in 1st round.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we're getting a promotion in, you know, some of these with ties on the progress on the man's service.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what this means for always you're getting, it's not super strong style 16 is one term that's two super strong style 8 effectively in a week and which, you know, it's fine for what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but it's also not taken a massive step away from what super-strong style 16 initially was of the sake of doing what we were in having no amendments, rubble on the same show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's about progress same that they don't have confidence in being able to sell out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, the ballroom for two weekend is maybe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we couldn't get the dates and this is very good, but you the fault you've had with stuff locked down before you do the announcement and all that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see how it goes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, you know, two tournaments back the same weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a lot of tournament wrestling and yeah, it's going to be a kind of thing where
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not going to be a hard seller search because I don't know they're going to have a lot of names in return and in these first round match where you think we're going to have no shot of being there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to be honest I think it's going to be interesting because you know Bobby Guns is the only guy who's had much of a past no again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where if you know a progress fan base with larger than they know page to honey, you know did have that one or two matches in the national progression series as we're coming out to COVID.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Leo Bloom and Zaltana are completely alien or completely unfamiliar, I should say, to the modern progress cloud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see where that goes and obviously Kanji, you have as the absolute favourite of that tournament, especially since progress are heavily leaning towards Alexis Falken, conformance title which you'd suspect would be completely outside of his format.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Missiles say in England, a pooristly need, and he's an open motion, it's a kind of form-way vehicle turned format and said, so this past year, if they've leaned in a lot into their ties with AWS, thanks to reproducibility, and not having been one of their short live notes pretty good atmosphere, a problem is this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this
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[SPEAKER_00]: Almost, I don't say we're lines, but the fact they're getting a lot more age names in means which you're running the risk of having people on turning up those age blue names.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we had Nail, we were also championed or Chris Stuttlander, you know, as well well all night in Gale, so you've got names for who people do want to conceive, but problem is that they're on most every show, you're going to have the peaks and malice in terms of ticked sales, just some degree, it's not going to be like, one choice could be sold out and you have one in your is an empty room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you are going to see all the differences where the stars are and where the stars aren't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, the problem with that is just the pacing and general of how and when the court and court starts coming like heck right now tonight is I'm a court in this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eve are doing where she won't turn it now originally for those who are going back to her assistant's gallery in Bethlehem Green.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She won was four shows in two days, wrong Robin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and not a single one of those tournaments they were able to complete without somebody getting injured so you change a format it's now a you know one of the middle single elimination tournament except this year they've decided to split it over two shows and I know there were some folks a little bit disgruntled at how that format changed like original was going to be you know the January show was going to be quarter semis and finals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eve decided to change that soul for you, Sean, January or getting me quarterfinals in the semis and I think there's also playing much as well because why the heck not?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it means for people who've no grandfather way to fly and get a hotel, go to show they normally wouldn't have gone to for the she won.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to do it all over again next month for the finals if you want to see even.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Owned by way in March, there will also be Indigo or FiO2 for a rest of the quaint and that big show which, you've not seen, tick sales is doing absolute gangbusters for like 600 tickets sold.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're now literally standing in the morning at that point, so that is going to be a
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a very star-laden show, a lot of buzz, you know, things like, you know, Harley Cameron per major reason involved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, you can begin a lot more matches, and I think that's when I'm not be stunned, pay a bit more attention when you're going to be getting actual matches on me shows, rather than, you know, hey, he's a graphic of, you know, name who's going to be on the rest of the Queen show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well we're for keep in line, and I guess if you're the kind who likes dipping in and just seeing them names in a different environment, you know, if you want to mind on YouTube, you know, all the shows alive and you've got a big back catalog as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If we're for keep in my own, but no certainly back end is 2025, but we're some grumble stun to come up with booking uh particularly with how
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not predictable some of the, you know, sorry lines of gotten, but just how maybe one note stuff were getting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But one thing I did pick up on for sure I was at in November was just how you know, Eve has attracted the crowd, which reacts to anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you'll get wrestlers come out, feel like effort, you know, reported,
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[SPEAKER_00]: regardless of where the good guy or bad guy will react according to you in the match and match the kind of thing which is not good for an atmosphere but in terms of the nuts and bolts of wrestling can be very all good if you've just got a crowd trained to react to box-handed cues rather than watching a product by testing it and reacting as you organically work so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say we have a goal, but there are certainly in the first few months of this year with all the big shows we've got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll keep an eye on and you'd expect as well they'd be doing a, you know, court and court big show around ageably weekend, where they can get a venue and certainly you know, some to stand out from the big, one-be-shoulder, we're opposed to doing as well, but we will keep an eye on the name as well going throughout 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go across to Germany now and west side extreme wrestling of course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to look more depth on behalf of your press podcast but it's keep it right here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It works to be you because based out of Gelsenkurshinen or the House of Nord winers failure, celebrate the 25th anniversary of this past year and by all in terms of perhaps still going way strong like the 25th anniversary to a second half last year doing good numbers and a lot more shows when they typically
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, when the 16-cow Goldton is about 10-pull event, one last year by one called Manders, who would then go on to win the vacated Unified World Wrestling title, again, 16-cow Goldner always has a really solid line of, I mean, in terms of fly-ins for last year, scouty-hard, you know, cycle-clown, obviously, Manders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You had, you know, Daisuke, Sakamoto, Zaki-Motorzuki, Adam Pooze, so, you know, it's not just a tomb, just of locals, new pains on the backs, we do do a good job of, you know, having names in, from, you know, Faber Field and, you know, the line of it got, uh, it's next year, you know, you are looking at, you know, a similar array of times, you know, you've got,
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[SPEAKER_00]: like such a hero Hashimoto in line up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got, you know, Tetsuya and Nighto and Bushi, we're for all, you know, post and cons, but you know, that's the separate argument where, you know, we've got a Nighto, Bushi and Mnorsuzuki, not return, but across for weekend, OXD even's Thomas Shire, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, you've got a lot of names who, this is works with four-tailed fairies, count weekends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got the homegrown stars, you've got the names from further feel to grab you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, had this, you know, where we were tagging festival, post and grand prix, last year, where you had dragon kid and dragon die, coming in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's no juice and fresh eyeballs from fans who, you know, wouldn't normally have been watching to backstop you, but you know, that's how this stuff works.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, so, you know, carrot was, you know, I think hands down the turn of the year with a lot of good matches in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, a hidden gem, if you want to go back on your trilogy to be able to explain our subscription.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Accultation loans from mudweekend, you know, went extremely invigorated because it was two local ads.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think one of the other things in terms of like the next, and this is obviously going to be an ongoing thing of the independence is how to actually lost two real tentapal names coming out of COVID.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I go blank, just popping up on an X-Sweak as Ilya Leflur.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mike DeVecchio, who hasn't popped up on TV yet, which may be a little bit nervous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a bit, you know, he's going under his real name, Mike DeRuda.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As I was well, you know, Clancy Lawson, a big, flexible name, but he did do a few matches there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Leon Slater, you know, he's, you know, supposedly slipping away as well, gone by, how he's been booked on TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like the books we haven't re-built from the ground before, but it is a little bit disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've had fruit or two, three, four real big names that have had various different rules in the books to you gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In case of microvehials well, we had the inches of opportunity, it wasn't really like it could really do the
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, have him really, you know, put someone over strongly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you did have a run of him in Nick Shire, but kind of pivoted into the tag team of Lawrence Romney's for grind, but, you know, for most probably weren't able to get the big, not passing the torch, sort of speak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For our turn from the home, it works for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Leo Blument, who of two guys who really slot the Manders was the champion, but for the guys who were all around for us with two who continued to battle each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you have no current champion pitch to Han is one A when Blument, who of a one B and one C, you can argue with each other, he won't for us too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be a definitely who you would say be rest of the year if it was in 2025, a lot of good matches on the against bloom and there was a doomed rounds on the Instagram and TikTok and we against the manders, the Larry Fitzcent, who would deepen for crowd and all his gotten some eyeballs which
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't know how many of us people are shooting or tuning to see who are of back-cut log in all the means to be seen, but the fact that it's an all-book now can take out content and sort of speak is always a good thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elsewhere, no target visions, a little bit hit and mess and I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's something I've been complaining about on their after press podcast as well is It works at least tag division similarly a little bit Another steepest at once was and I'm planning to do I had built for a while Norman house knocks you could big bucks had a bell too, but injury can't do it all that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The greedy souls had a belt for weeks, or enough time for a coffee in the brought first in Hamburg.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we're entering 2026 for the grinders champions, and I think this video kind of needs to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some kind of rebuild job before and just to avoid what we had to come into the end of 2025, where it felt like a lot of the grinders can plan to continue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to suppose much as well, you know, a bit of variety, you know, was kind of starting to,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how we'll go elsewhere in Germany, on the German Western Federation of Berlin, we have a promotion way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're on pretty much monthly where Berlin shows a free on YouTube, so, you know, what's better than free, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, again, the constant issues with, you know, people who, you know, looking to these kind of things,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and constant issues with G2bf, tends to be a lack of clear short show booking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we'll have some things where it's like, we'll build, we'll show some stuff online, but most of the time, particularly beyond the card, it's stuff that seems to be announced on the day, there's no really like big feuds or big rivalies with carry-on, which
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, if it's, you want to sit down and watch and, you know, not think too much about fair enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to sink your teeth into a cheeseburger, if that is the one thing that you can maybe point to finger at as, hey, this for one part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, if it maybe could do better at it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not talking about the ongoing blue spuder, blue spuder prospects.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just seems to have gone absolutely nowhere in the past year or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Especially since we tried to close the bad bonds in 2024, it was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the big thing coming out of 2025 was the crowning, I guess, of Rambore's champion now, in the backstreet he's been a bit of the meme as the tag partner of Metahun, or getting more of the reaction of the Metahun for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In Gidler, he's finally gotten his roles as sort of speak and fierce champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: successful defense against Peter Hanwey and Veer means that, you know, he's, I'll say without equal, but certain is one was where this feels like it's title on which isn't going to be he for a long time, but it's going to be he for a good time and certainly one worth keeping an eye on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Going back to the UK, I've got ICs up in Scotland, not going to be speaking too much on the slot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a bit for reset this year, we've moved out of the asylum in Glasgow and we're now going back to the garage for most of our shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a good move in one sense, because if you sign or think only health like 80 people and looked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly from some angles, some live teams look very small-time, podcasts look out, there's a bit bigger, and you get in the inverse problem where, you know, if it's not full, it's screens, but it's not doing well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some New Year's Rio was championed, she'd be Kenny Williams, and not success, we'd fend it against him at feeling loving the end last year, so she is a big one on top in ICW.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we have a chance for some old faces there, uh, Mark Coffee Joe, Coffee Wolfgang, from Egalos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're back in the ice, literally, but of a Wolfgang now has been, things for zero, zero G champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, not exactly like being shoved down your thoughts, as you would have maybe feared when have three, uh, big guys of old who've come good at back on the scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's one good thing for haven't you know, from that trap of, hey, he's some guys who've been
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... women's division keeps tickin' along's well-a Angel Hayes currently on top having won battied on a ladder match for the end of last year but yeah if you might see w we've got a lot of uh... names on which maybe won't see elsewhere and that's very typical to graphical thing of England and review k-sob speak
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, names in Scotland don't tend to travel too far down south, better for worse, but certainly seeing him, you know, it's well of keeping that, especially the young names coming through, you know, especially, you know, I see, don't tend to do that much more away, I mean, so I'm gonna get in the big crowds of old, so we had it be high to all those years ago, but certainly some of the worst keeping tabs on it for only for the new generation coming through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of promotion, it hasn't hit the heights that they once did, or TT and I, and again, this one barely can a scuff on because nothing very seem to do seems to break in attainment sort of speak like unless you're following your TT YouTube, they're not getting or TT Twitter even, you're not getting anything in terms of, like, you know, seeing much of some people going for shows and I pictures that you see, you know, there are people going,
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[SPEAKER_00]: but it just whatever they do and just isn't as violent once was and again that's a lot to do with no chasing way, a lot of the fans, they had the word, no screaming from the rooftops, no june speaking out and if you have pandemic, you have big demos, being championed by throughout the whole of 2025 and
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think part of you have come as well with OTT and you've seen this before the pandemic as well so it's not just a brand new thing is they are struggling to find and retain a major venue or regular venue in Dublin so part of a makeup that is very troubling throughout island but it means you're getting a lot of different crowds a lot of the time and yeah it
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't agree with any danger of OTT getting back to the heights they once were.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At least not, I'd be stunned if it's in 2026 just because of one biz no, you're not getting like a typically where if you had people traveling there every month, you know, sometimes in the blood for their shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, certain names were, but right now this must be something which is seen with very much content in and of itself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Granchdi have had some more TT guys do progress, talk matches, some Irish guys are over in Germany as well, but certainly it's very much no ticking along, so it's big love and about to get on fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: over in Denmark, body-slam per wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, their biggest shoe seems to be just actually getting footage out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, some of their website early today, they have been on to members who I'd be TV and last show they had up there was from February of 25.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So unfortunately, there's one of these where you keep it up with cage match results and whatever
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be fair, they did have a quick turnaround with the show they had of them say this money in Dr. Torba when she beat Alasink to add to her ever growing up a time collection of belts, but it's one of these promotions where it's very hard to keep on top and very hard to even generate balls when the show turn on is just, I don't know, basically, actually at this point, like, if you're lost fully, you'll surely show on your, you know, the club for me, are touting as official as a year old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you may as well, and you're pretty much out of playing a front-of-your-home crowd which isn't a bad thing, but in terms of getting birds and getting eyeballs outside, they ain't great when the footage simply ain't there for people to comment on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: North Wrestling, back in the UK, based in around Newcastle-Year-Boo, they've been kind of a dialing of an oven seen lately and, you know, they run out of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, earlier in 2025, they did tease going live on Trilliver had things with one or two shows, but then that was abandoned against one of those things where you're, you're, you're um, in coming extra cost and if you're not, uh, getting that back of the gate or through your partners, it's, you know, why spend the money when the method they've been working with now is putting shows on Triller and on their Patreon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That seems to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The big thing this year was Leon Slater being on seat of this champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gene Money won at Slice for the Struck 3, that's a big annual show at the Walker Dome in one of Superb's new castle, it can guess where by the name of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The second half here hasn't quite been as tumultuous, you know, Gene Money's been defending against rampage, brown males came and see or knocks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not headline-clawing names, sure, but, you know, Norfolkorn's strong and steady, really had a bit on drug-instead and over in the UK for, I guess, a British version of Shark Tank for you folks in America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, certainly, Norfolk promotion, you should absolutely keep an eye on going into 2021-26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If only because, you know, Trilogy TV pluses long spots around, you know, you still get in stuff there, and return on's not too bad, I would certainly know any levels of body slam.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Attack poor wrestling wave, most of you are not a card of impistol, they came back sort of a year or two ago, but I would say they are not quite of levels if they were pre-pandemic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly the wackiness has been largely dialed out on a powerful religion of bloom for wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some flowers, you know, some people in the side would have heard of that description and we have gone around a fuck fist and tuned out, what I would say is that attack is, I would say like a feel good promotion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say you're not getting the anti-fund police, so that's probably the best release takes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's more per promotion where you've got your storylines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about not taking itself too seriously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a wrestling son Claus, what do you expect?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to me, it does feel like a tack does kind of sit in a weed spot like enough motion going to touch on in the moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, coverage seems to have stormed their funder as the wacky, he's all the gimmicks, he's all the bells and whistles to motion, where's the tack?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Very much DIY.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of local ads, a lot of names that face you'd expect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've done the ICW thing where they've
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[SPEAKER_00]: largely avoided having the, hey, we've got friends in high place extra week, guys, about all of our shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not getting that, you know, you are largely getting guys, from the well-seen, with likes of no additions, from likes of Kanji, of who went via as champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jay Joshua again, another name that made his name on a Taken for moving elsewhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you're looking down the cards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they just had a four day missile tube at the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, they were able to do four days back to back to back to back to back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, tells you, there's a lot of interest in that scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some of the names might not be a swimming portion, we've got another blind plubbers or three of them, you know, someone regular in attack, you know, again, former attack champion Tommy Villain named it stand to come up, you know, again, making his base in attack and stand to peer, you know, that come much in pro, you know, we have pro-bake a pardon, and he's standing in a spudel swaying to the certain south of England
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, former Elijah now, gone by Math Gattlin, you know, a name that's a, you know, a very much part of the French and attacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, a lot of names, which would be, I mean, if you've not done any loona wedges, not taping for TNA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, not names, which you'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's not just not his little trainees, with the original big name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has tacked most of our shows and streamed life if we were in New York as well, so I was a bonus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you have a Stephanie I, if you know, the glitter of, you know, massed gimmicks of all to put you off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely tax one worth putting on the back burner very least this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and nor close out with a right cover, I guess we've drawn up a tack so to speak very run in the club and grand in South London.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have to say this is pretty much what a tack was but with a lot more polishing plates.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me I would say it's very much not my grabs hashtag just because
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's impossible, but it really doesn't take itself seriously, but also where we all did is I don't think it's nonexistent, we do have one, it's somewhere on page and I believe But outside the showdays, it's one of the most motions you don't hear about much of You know, you look at like a lot of books like they had 90s British TV star Mr. Globy, they keep digging up put on shows
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've had storylines and with no gene where you don't know who done it after tape may fairs were shot, but it's a lot of no ridiculous silly stuff and it's not like no a ridiculous point where you turn off and go, I can't be bothered with this too stupid, but at the same point it's also a kind of thing where I call it a lot of purpose dressing the booking has kind of started 12th- the end 12th year, I mean
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Shovey had the end of December, you had a lot of title chains, so Rai Kaburay had the spent things over a year with Nina Bryant being, that's only in England, not a Nikwanjlobackey part in being built up to become champion, finding one to build at the forbidden door, show someone's not the middle in August.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I finally won the belt for Mark Andrews and, you know, first, you know, big, not real, big show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the head of the year, it was the belt to spikes away in an ODQ match, who then lost the child's Crowley who was, you know, brought back to the company because of the Christmas wish gimmick, which, yeah, it's just to me just feels like one of these where, when you've spent a year building someone up to be champion and then they lose, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, first, you know, first, second show afterwards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of had a sort of a po and Luke Jacobs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of placed a certainly for a certain group of fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also makes you lose faith in them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've actually been able to build anybody up because if you've invested the year, you know, on the rise of Nico Wangelow and Ben, boom, he's gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of makes me feel stupid for investing in a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not sure if he's got any impact in an ecological dog he's lost any fans in, but it is going to make it very hard for promotions like Paul and I quite have been having everybody investing in for a long term because last time you did it, this would be what we got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, it's one of those where, you know, if I cover it, it very much not my kind of rest of a certain one, where at least keep nine results and see what they're getting up to your noveurs, the slambal, tagging division they do, where you win by hitting the most body slams in a match against ridiculous, but it works with a right covering, if you did that in a rev pro, I think one and you couldn't have it cast up, I'm suggesting that, try that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's one of all's where it's certainly a motion, it has its limits and things very comparable work on the intervals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're getting good crowds, but not doing the thing of running too often to dilute themselves down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is and they're very happy with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, but I'll do for my runway 235 in around the most of you being wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of my restoration mishears just try and keep tabs and lot more promotion, especially walls which are not making their footage accessible as a true quest out of York should be able to start the weekly televised show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Based we do not know all the things we are calling one short split in a few episodes but well we are giving a look there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's on TRULATV plus as well, so I think we'll collect episodes in, so again we're digging in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Especially since KHmuch doesn't tend to be that hot on update and true good stuff, again it's one of the small with motion but no, again we'll work for short.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, 2026 we're in a new year, a lot of big shows on the agenda already, and we do have a rep for Wembley, which we'll be speaking about, AdNodden, we've fed with me, talked about this by the time we get to the summer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... vessel queen and the end of your two know sixteen cow gold in all the house in the mart a lot of big stuff in the rice and it's time for these promotions to live but it's time for me to sign off thanks listening everyone and it will be back uh... much in a few weeks he know how we're poor know serious roadwembley and so it comes out of the you pin since well thanks listening and we'll see you shortly