Banned From Ringside #486: NJPW; AEW; WWE/Crown Jewel predictions

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Welcome to Visionaries Global Media, your number one source for podcasting entertainment. Visionaries Global Media, envisioning excellence on a global scale.

Zach Polman (0:14)

This is Band From Ringside.

Jason Cornelius Bell (0:16)

Tonight on the Band From Ringside podcast, we're gonna break down the New Japan Power Struggle card from the weekend, AEW, Blood And Guts, Blood And Guts, and did I say Blood And Guts? And then we're gonna break it down on the three count with a little WWE Crown Jewel still going on. We're gonna have some predictions and wrap it all up this week on the Band From Ringside podcast.

Yeah, two tries don't hurt. I'll be okay. We'll work it out. I'll be fine. Ditch that nine to five. It's time to fill live. What up, Marks? And welcome to another edition of the Band From Ringside podcast. I'm your special guest host, JCB, Jason Cornelius Bell, AKA the Big Blue Nami. And over there on the west side, my man, 50 Grand. We know him as Three Beers, Zach Polman. Zach Polman, tell me something good, baby boy.

Zach Polman (1:14)

I just want to give my condolences to the friends and family of Darby Allen.

I don't know that he's dead, but he definitely could be. You could say that anytime. That guy's crazy. He ran a marathon this weekend, and then he did a Blood And Guts match and did a Mick Foley spot. Yeah. That's crazy. We'll talk about him.

Jason Cornelius Bell (1:39)

Yeah.

He's a crazy man. Yeah. We will definitely talk about it. Speaking of talk about it, obviously, we are missing one man, one William H. Boddy, aka Billy the Kid, aka Bill Vagie. He is not with us this evening, so I figure, I don't even know the reason why, but because I'm a petty guy and I like to make fun of individuals whenever I get the chance, we can sing that song.

SPEAKER_4 (2:04)

P-O, P-T-O, P-T-O, P-T-O.

Jason Cornelius Bell (2:10)

Bill Vega will be back next week. I'm sure he has done the kindness of dropping some Crown Jewel picks with us, so we'll be doing that later on in the podcast. But like I said, we're going to do things a little differently just in a second.

SPEAKER_4 (2:27)

What do I want to sing this week?

Jason Cornelius Bell (2:29)

What do I want to sing this week?

Let me think about that for a second. We'll get back to that in a second. We're going to do things a little differently this week. One count, we're going to do New Japan because we haven't done New Japan for a while. Two is AEW and then three, Wwe. We will wrap it up with the Crown Jewel Predictions. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (2:49)

Oh, love to love you, stardom.

Jason Cornelius Bell (2:53)

And on that living note, I'll ask the congregation to bow their heads as I read from the latest edition of Band from the Inside Podcast, volume 486, chapter 3, verse 14 of The Good Smart Sayeth, hashtag Boo The Heels. It's all good, baby. Listen, share, subscribe, repeat. The Holy Trinity of BFR. So we said last week, not a lot going on this week. There's some shit going on and we're not going to fuck about any longer. Let's get to that three counts.

So like I said, the one count this week, Zach and I talked about it before we started to record. We're going to switch things up because the boss ain't here. We're going to do something different and we want to do something different. It's something fun to watch and it will ultimately lead us into the two count which obviously is AEW. So this weekend, power struggle from New Japan occurred, I guess it was Sunday, Monday, November 3rd, it was the day before the election day.

SPEAKER_4 (3:49)

Late Monday night.

Jason Cornelius Bell (3:50)

Late Monday night, thank you. The 10 match card, if I'm not mistaken, highlighted by the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, Taichi versus Gabe Kidd.

I want to start right here because this is one of my three matches of the week. I told you I would come back with matches of the week. I just came back with one more than I anticipated because this one was completely off the chain. 30 minutes and one second bell to bell. Gabe Kidd retains in a match that I personally was not really anticipating to be excited for. I was excited for the fact that this was obviously a moment for Taichi for those who have followed the podcast for quite some time. Taichi has kind of come become a cult hero of ours right along with Tomohiro Ishii for their G1 escapades. And the fact that Taichi was left off the last couple of years has kind of rubbed us the wrong way. But obviously opened doors for the likes of Aaron Wolfe, Yuya Uemura, obviously the reigning champion in Ryohei Onwai. We'll talk about him here in a little bit as well. But nevertheless, when Gabe Kidd defended the last time, I guess it was, if I remember correctly, it was Shota Umino that he defended the title against in another just trade wreck of a match. Taichi came out, threw down the gauntlet, and now we have, which was another surprise, was the main event of the card. This joker did not disappoint. About halfway through, I think, that was the power driver spot where Taichi took the power driver from Gabe Kidd, and Gabe Kidd came up busted up with his back cut up and shit, and I was just shaking my head right then. I was like, okay, now it's officially on. We have a official New Japan match because we have a table that has been used and crushed in along the way. This was, like I said, a banger of a match. I was ultimately caught myself rooting for Taichi, was thinking that he might pull this off. Unfortunately, not the case. Gabe Kidd, like I said, gets the win and retains. I believe this is a V3 for Gabe Kidd. I didn't have a chance to write it down, but neither here nor there.