 That's good y'all, it's your boy Ross. Back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out AEW just potentially ended itself. WWE reactions to AEW CM Punk of backstage footage and the whole targeting of Triple H by Will Osprey on his promo last night on Dynamite and other wrestling related news. This should be very interesting. Obviously, this is a trending topic right now. What AEW Dynamite pulled off last night. A lot of people are saying this is the beginning of the end. Me personally, I don't know if this is the beginning of the end, but it's not looking too good. They're gonna have to do something to kind of change their trajectory right now because the general perception of AEW at this present moment, it's not looking too good. So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love, support. Let's get right into this one, man. What is going on guys? It is WrestleMania here. Back with another video. Join us now as we look at the most controversial episode of AEW Dynamite, as well as the wildest news stories and rumors you need to know, including why AEW just ended itself. Why this was not a good idea. Ross Bray takes a shot at Triple H. AEW looks to have regret ever doing this. WWE's reaction backstage. A WWE star still not signed. WWE scaling back sets and much more. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Also check out our new videos on WrestleMania XL. As always, we won't recap the show, but just look at the good, the bad, and oh boy, they're downright ugly. As always, we start off with the good at more words, Swerve Strickland and Joe Heat. AEW is doing many things wrong, but not for its build up for Swerve Strickland versus Samoa Joe. Last night's brawl between Swerve and AEW World Champion turned up the heat in their already sizzling program, adding anticipation for their clash at Dynasty. Number two, Jericho Hooks. I definitely did enjoy that. I watched that. I've been loving what they've been doing with Joe and Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland. I've been loving what they've been doing with them. I just think they should be, that should be the focus right there. They have something in Samoa Joe and Swerve. Focus more on that instead of everything else. This is a big, big time match and they have something there. I just feel like they're dropping the ball with that. I mean, what they did was cool, but I just think if they would have put that more energy into this feud that they got going on, I think it could be even better. So that's just my personal take on it. But I love what they're doing so far, but they need to focus on that. storyline takes a twist. All Jim Ross wasn't around to say it. It looks like business is about to pick up on the ongoing storyline between Hook and Jericho. Jericho Hook may crash on takeoff if things continue like they did this week when a mistake caused Jericho Hook and Shibata after Shibata missed his opponent and leveled the Ocho. Judging from the match's finish, Hook may opt to team with Shibata instead of Jericho and this could even turn out to be a ploy by one or both wrestlers to embarrass Jericho. Number three, Julia Hart, a beacon of hope. Julia. I'll be honest with y'all, not really, not too invested in what they got going on there. That's just my personal opinion. Maybe some of y'all are, but I just, just haven't really been that invested. Haven't really been that invested in what Jericho's been doing for a while now actually. Hart is a rare beam of light in AEW's otherwise bleak women's division. Hart's promos and ring work are entertaining and she's must see television, a rarity in both women's division and AEW itself. Although Julia Hart is too young to be leading AEW's women's division, she continues to show that it's only a matter of time before she does and an exciting ride. Pentale Zero versus Adam Copeland was an exciting ride that did we say it had AEW fans on the edge of their seats? While Pentale is best known for his tank team work, AEW has established him as a viable singles competitor, so this was a match where Pentale was presented as a threat, even if fans knew AEW was unlikely to take the title off Copeland so soon. That was a good, what about the bad? It's number one, the whisper bit has to go. What did Tremper rather whisper to Chris Stathlander backstage? Well, who cares? Once again, professional wrestling has found a way to take a clever idea, creating suspense by showing a wrestler whispering into another wrestler's ear and running into the ground by using it over and over again. I like how he said, well, who cares? Give a fuck? That's the thing, if you're gonna do something like that, it gotta be a storyline or a feud or a situation that people are already, they've sunk their teeth into it, they're invested. No one's gonna really care that much if you whisper into someone's ear and no one heard it if they're not invested in the characters. Oh, okay, next, I don't give a fuck. W's Brody King conundrum. A Brody King is apparently ready to take Adam Copeland's TNT championship. The problem is that while King has all the goods to be a top star, size, look, and in-ring ability, his continued portrayal as one of AEW's many big men jobbers makes it impossible to take him as a threat to Copeland. Number three, another worthless show. Last night show was an example of how AEW can take advantage of a hook. Here, AEW likely hoped it could attract laps fans and new fans with the promise of the CM Punk footage and get them in to check out the AEW product. Unfortunately, the majority of Last Night Show was as disappointing as a Punk footage turned out to be. Last Night Show was another forgettable edition of Dynamite and even worse, AEW was so desperate to have you wonder if they booked Dustin Rhodes versus Samoa Joe to capitalize on Cody's recent big win at WrestleMania. That's what I kind of felt like, too. When I saw that, I was like, huh, huh. We got Dustin going against Samoa Joe, who's the champion. We just saw Cody damn near go against all the Samoans that are in WWE right now. Hmm. Very interesting, very interesting. Wasn't a bad match, but it was just the timing of it. It felt like, yeah, the timing of that, the Rhodes brothers trying to go for the top championship. Yeah, you could tell, just a bit. That was the good and the bad. What about the downright ugly? Oh, you know it. It backfired badly. AEW did it. The promotion, which has been in a downward spiral for the last 18 months, finally achieved its version of the finger poke of doom by airing the footage of CM Punk's backstage altercation with Jack Perry at last summer's All In Paper View. Airing the footage seemed like a bad idea, but AEW found a way to make it even worse by trying it to turn it into an angle to build up the Bucks versus FTR match at Dynasty. Having the young Bucks insinuate FTR was behind the punk Harry incident as a ploy to gain an edge over them at All In was absolutely asinine. Actually, this move was worse than the finger poke of doom and seems more like a combination of that and the dreadful decisions that led to David Arquette and Vince Russo becoming WCW champion. And this is clear that WWE is in a new era, while AEW is in a WCW era. What do you guys think of AEW Dynamite last night? Let us know in the comments down below. I saw a lot of people comparing them to WCW. Even Tony Shavani, they had a clip of Tony Shavani just looking just down and out from back in his WCW days and then you see a clip from last night after that whole promo segment. We're not promo segment with the video footage that was released. You can just tell he just looked like just dejected. Like what the fuck was that? He just looked out of it, which I completely understandable because why? This does nothing. You essentially buried technically. You buried technically Jack Perry that's still on your roster. You make him look weak as hell. And then the whole situation of you was fearing for your life, that doesn't even look like that would be something you would fear for. You basically turned nothing into something that ended up being nothing. If that makes any sense. That's all I'm saying. Like this wasn't, this was nothing to be honest with you. And it just, it put a bad light on a situation this happened months ago to try to spin into a storyline. It didn't work. Did not work at all. Now let's move on to the news. Our first story looks at AEW just ended itself. At the top of the day's news is the fallout from Tony Khan's decision to air the backstage footage from the duster between punk and Jack Perry at last summer's all in pay per view. In case you missed it, the footage which has no sound shows punk confronting Jack Perry. Punk shoves Perry twice and then takes him down briefly before punk is separated. No footage was shown to verify or debunk AEW's president Tony Khan's claim that he felt his life was in danger. Dave Meltzer is reporting on some of the fallout from AEW airing the footage saying, I asked around that the basic thing was like, look it's over and done with this bad chapter in the history of AEW and it's over. And no point when he can say whatever he wants. Who cares? There was a couple of people who were going like, Adam Page never got to answer back and won't and will never answer back because he doesn't wanna be whatever. But most people just like, we're over it. It's not part of our lives. It's not part of our company. Forget about it. They discussed what they heard from people in AEW. Now here, as soon as Tony Khan did that, then I started to hear from people and it was like people who were just really frustrated going like, now it's back. You know, the whole thing is back and there's this thing that have happened. People have been made to look bad now and they can't answer back. And because you don't want to, you know, it opened up a wound that needed to be closed. They need to move past this. This doesn't do AEW any good. And I mean, if I'm punk, I'm laughing about it. Honestly, I'm laughing about it. It's likely this will only give more ammunition. Which he was. Which he was. He laughed about it. He posted on the story of George Bush on like some type of battleship. And then on the top of it or something, I don't know if he was a battleship or arena, wherever he was, on the top it said mission accomplished. He didn't care. I think everyone that voiced their opinion back there was like, yeah, let's just kind of move past. Who cares what he says? It doesn't matter. Let's focus on our show. That's what you're supposed to do. But instead Tony said, no, this would be good. Why? To get a temporary rating boost. And this rating boost better be something great because if it's not, then this was just a waste of fucking time. For the WWE and punk to level AEW in the media, the WWE blasted AEW in the press during WrestleMania week and maybe thinking how to spin this to its advantage. Punk even took to Instagram to post this right after AEW Dynamite. He definitely is just laughing about this. Next up, Tony Shivani's reaction. How did Tony Shivani feel about AEW airing the punk footage or footage of surface showing Tony sitting at the ounce desk and he doesn't look thrilled when AEW cut to the footage segment? He's definitely having some PTSD from those WCW days. In fact, he did the same reaction at Bash at the beach 2000. So you definitely know what he was thinking about this segment. Next up, WWE's reaction backstage to the CM Punk footage. Now there has been a recent update on what the WWE actually thought about the promo. This is thanks to 5 All Select who reported within WWE there were plenty of people talking about the situation but most we spoke to were exhausted after the insane WrestleMania week. We had no particularly surprised reactions or anything that happened that anyone didn't expect. CM Punk is not getting punished. Scolded or anything of like within the company. There were a few wrestlers who considered the video of a cell phone and others who said that they simply didn't care and watching out of curiosity. They also mentioned that a wrestler who's been both in WWE and AEW said that there was no worse than anything that happened during the Monday Night War era. Next up, no, this was not a good idea. Yeah, right. So fuck, WWE's doing some of their best numbers right now. Popularity wise, show attendant wise, like they're doing some of the best stuff. Storyline wise, they'll give up. They literally just came off of one of, if not, some would say the best WrestleMania of all time. Don't think, they're not worried about that. They're worried about the future. Though fuck, that's just so wrong. If we consider social media as a valid measurement of public opinion, it appears that many fans feel that it was a mistake to run this footage. Even fans claiming to be AEW die hard seemed to be confused as to what the purpose was to air the footage. Many of these comments discuss how the footage did nothing to dispute Punk's account of things, and while it seems to show Punk being the aggressor, Punk never denied this. In fact, even the live reaction from the crowd in AEW had CM Punk chance after it. That's when you know that things couldn't be as bad as they could possibly be. The day Meltzer weighed on this decision to run the video. I don't think it was a good idea. I never did think it was a good idea, but I thought, look, you gotta give them the benefit of the doubt, see what happens. Meltzer pointed out how airing the footage quickly bit AEW in its backside. Here's the thing, later in the show, when fans were chanting CM Punk, it was like, well, this one sure backfired. You don't want people chanting the name of someone from another promotion during your show, and sometimes it's gonna happen, and you just can't avoid it, but this was one you brought on yourselves. Next up, Doug Day's ahead. At 2024, we're supposed to be the year that AEW turned things around, and while AEW dug a huge hole for themselves thanks to its bad booking, the company's recent slew of signings of top-free agents like Willow Spray, Okada, and Mercedes-Benz Monet suggested some hope. However, this footage flop just erased any goodwill AEW had with its fans and its locker room. AEW has dug a hole for itself and may not be able to escape from. Considering just how badly this has already turned out, one has to wonder if anything can be done to save AEW, and at one point, Shahid Khan takes the keys away from Tony Khan. Next up, Willow Spray takes a shot at Triple H. Ironically, AEW's airing of the all-in footage occurred the same night as Willow Spray showed how to roast the competition with a promo. Osprey took time during his interview with Renee Packet to respond to Triple H's recent remarks that WWE doesn't want a high-wrestlers who aren't willing to enjoy the WWE grind. Omsley didn't name names, but fans took his comments as a shot against wrestlers who claimed they had signed with AEW due to the lighter schedule. Osprey told Renee, this is rumour that I'm afraid of the grind, and I'll be honest, I have no idea where this conversation has come from because I'm one of the only guys that are travelling every single week to the UK and America, eight 10-hour flights every single week, and I'm delivering one of the best professional wrestling matches this world has ever seen. Brav. But he wasn't through though, and unloaded with some haymakers. And normally I wouldn't rise to this type of bait, but seeing as the guy that said it is only in the position he's in because he was grinding on the boss' daughter, you're in no position to tell me what the grind is all about, my friend, because you have no idea what I fight for. So let this be a painful jab back, and a gentle reminder that you do not throw stones and an assassin with a machine gun. While fans differ on whether promotions should take TV or pay-per-view time to criticise the competition, Osprey's interview is an example of how the blast arrival in a way that exposes their weaknesses and plays to your strengths, as something that CM Punk footage didn't either of. Next up, Williams. It was an entertaining segment, like an entertaining, I guess you could say, you know, promo that he was delivering. The only thing is it's just a timing of it. It was just a timing of it because of the whole CM Punk footage, and it just comes off as, oh, this is just a WWE, we're mentioning WWE-related wrestlers today on tonight's show. Instead of talking about ours as much as possible, we're gonna send jabs and mention them. Granted, Triple H did, you know, say what he said, and it was, Triple H said it without saying it, you know what I'm saying, who it was, but it kinda came off as the people that were recently signed with AEW, so people can easily put two and two together. So, I mean, it's fair game. If someone wanna say something, I know some people are, oh, there they go mentioning WWE, but this was a situation where, you know, he felt like, you know, he had to respond, and maybe this was a conversation they had behind the scenes, who knows. So, I didn't have a problem with it. I thought it was pretty entertaining. It's just a timing of it was bad. If this was like the only little reference, cool. But even then, you know, it still kinda takes away from what he's trying to do. You know what I'm saying? Like, he could have alluded it, like worded it a little bit more where it fit into his upcoming match with Bryan Danielson. You know, he could have did something like that, where it integrated into, you know, him building up the hype for that match with Bryan Danielson, but it kinda was, I gotta talk about this first, now let me get to Bryan Danielson, and it kinda was disjointed, but overall, I didn't have a problem with it. It was entertaining for me, but it's just a timing of everything. Young Bucks and Will Osprey opposed to the promos though. A new report suggests that the Bucks and Will Osprey didn't come up with the idea for the respective promos against Punk and WWE, or rather Triple H. PWTorch's Wade Keller is reporting, regarding the Bucks, I've been checking with people in AEW and I've been told that this was not something that the Bucks were in favor of doing. It wasn't their idea. It was Tony Khan's idea that he wanted this out there. As for Osprey, Keller commented, I'm also told that this was an idea presented to Osprey. I don't know about Osprey's enthusiasm for it or against it, but it wasn't something he did on his own. He didn't wing it. It was something that hours before the interview took place was proposed to him. That's what I'm hearing from AEW. While Keller's story hasn't been confirmed, it's not a good sign for AEW if it turns out to be true. Next up, AEW. Yeah, if it definitely turns out to be true, then it's like, you know, even if the wrestlers are not trying to, if you have the booker, the head guy in charge saying, hey, I need you to do this, they gotta fucking do it. So it's just like, I don't know, man. I don't know what Tony got going on over there. AEW looks to have regret this decision. Now, it seems that AEW is making copyright infringement claims against anyone who airs the footage, including the MMA hours, Ariel Helwani, who tweeted it, not very nice. Some lawyer out of Jacksonville got my account locked momentarily and DMCA'd the video I posted, which contains CCTV and interview footage from my show. Just felt like the CCTV needed some narration, you know? Anyway, here's Punk's seemingly very accurate P.B.P. Not only that, but they even cut the video out in their own video on YouTube, a video that has more dislikes than likes. Next up, a WWE. And that's one of the reasons why yesterday I did not put the video up here on YouTube because I had a feeling they were gonna be trying to strike people and take down the video of the stuff that they posted themselves. That's the thing, like they posted it themselves and then was taking down the videos everywhere as if they didn't want other people to see it, but you posted it, you hyped it up before the show. Days before the show, like what do you thought was gonna happen? Like, I don't know, it's just, it's crazy. Stars still not signed. As Dream McIntyre signed a new deal with WWE. Well, not according to Fightful Select, which reports there were plans for McIntyre and the company and they plan on retaining him. It's believed that McIntyre is confident he can succeed wherever he works, but even though his contract is ending soon, they don't seem to think that McIntyre will leave. And finally, WWE scaling back sets. Last but not least is the WWE changing up its sets for live events like Raw and SmackDown. That's a report coming from PWInsider.com saying, the SmackDown and Raw set up scene over WrestleMania weekend will be the norm going forward as a way to roll back certain aspects of production in favor of packing more fans into the arenas. Even MSG will feature the smaller production set up for the 28th June SmackDown taping. There may be exceptions to this, but this will be one of the changes as part of the endeavor era. The WWE has been selling out many of its recent Raw and SmackDown shows, so it's no surprise that endeavor will wanna maximize ticket sales, even if it means adjusting the show's sets. But they have it, folks. That's crazy, bro. That's crazy. That's how big WWE is getting now, especially for the live attendance. They're selling out shows. Monday Night Raw had over 20,000 people in there. And I think SmackDown is potentially probably gonna be sold out too this week, which means they're gonna adjust for the set to make it so people can fit more, they can fit more people in there. WWE, bro, they're banking right now, bro. I think it's like, is it like 17 consecutive shows of complete sellouts? Sellouts. 20,000 people on a Monday Night Raw is insanity, by the way. That's just crazy numbers. That's a pay-per-view level number, so. Amen. WWE is cooking right now. But comment down below, let me know how y'all feeling about this whole AEW releasing the footage debacle, because essentially that's what it is on social media. How do y'all feel about it? Are you guys rocking with what Tony Khan did by dropping the footage? Or do you guys feel like it was a grave mistake? Let me know how y'all feeling about this. It's been a few hours since it's dropped, so let me know what's your thought process on this whole situation. And did you guys enjoy AEW Dynamite last night? Also, let me know as well. But I appreciate all the love, support. Road to 150K, and I'm Stingens. Be the YouTube Wrestling Champion of the World. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See you in the next one. Peace.