👍 Thumbs up the vid it'd really help us out 👍 Well hellooo! Cheers for the birthday wishes brothers 🎂🎉🎈 Hope you enjoy our XL bullyboy Night 2! Recorded straight after part 1, it was a mammoth 6 hour recording sesh! Thanks so much/sorry Matt! See ye in 5 years for the next WWE ppv review 😆 Re: me not reviewing Logan Paul's match - i just think he's a huge tw at! Imagine if James Corden started doing 450 splashes ----- Original note: Hey guys I'm trying a new thing to trigger copyright, so it can be cleared. I expect this to be blocked but if you're seeing this it hasn't yet! Fingers crossed 🤞Enjoy
@@Zluster123 we've never reviewed See No Evil! We've mentioned it here and there (maybe in a different WWE film review) or u might be thinking of a different review channel!
@@OSW kanes movie? I swear to god you guys mentioned it back in the day and said it would be on the Patreon like one of the first things you ever posted
@@Zluster123maybe you're thinking of The Condemned with Austin? We did that for Lionsgate aaaages ago but only put it on our own channel somewhat recently ruclips.net/video/WNcQP7qmPb0/видео.html
@@aadilharoon1807 He's not entirely wrong. To be fair, if you look at three of the most successful (if not the most successful) wrestlers of all time: Hulk Hogan is not a good person...behind the scenes or in real life. Austin beat his wife and Ric Flair's behavior on a plane is only one lowlight in a career full of them. Then you have people like Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man, Shawn Michaels, and others. Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff, and other promoters also tend to be bad people as well. The list goes on.
So Seth's entrance requires a bit of explanation. My family is from Philly and those are the Mummers. They appear in parades and public events. The practice of mumming is a very old Germanic tradition that's similar to wassailing as it's really just a way to spread cheer by dancing and singing and wearing fun outfits together. The tradition came on the boats from Europe to the US and in the Dutch German Pennsylvania communities, groups of Mummers started to band together for holidays. Now there's an annual Mummer's Parade and they appear in all the famous Philly parades. It's just for fun, and the definition of festive.
I am so glad this comment was made! The Mummers are a fantastic but little known tradition, and I loved that Seth brought their festivities to Wrestlemania!
You know that Bayley is the ultimate real life babyface because when she won like 20 different wrestlers on Twitter were like “yay my best friend won!”
I loved the Priest cash in. I think they played it perfectly. It elevated everyone involved. Drew continues his story, and will win again and it'll be even bigger. Drew's whole story is winning in front of a crowd, and just when he gets it, it's snatched away. It's perfect. It will fuel his character for the next year. Damian is elevated. I loved it.
@@sukibhamra5086 It really wasn't forced. Drew cost Punk his opportunity to fight Seth by kayfabe putting him in rehab, now Punk cost Drew his moment. Both of those guys knew the Night 2 match was going to be super free given that Seth was put together with duct tape and string and he just had a match where he (kayfabe) tried to take most of the beating to be Cody's shield. Plus his mind is definitely not on this match, everyone knew the title will change but who exactly will walk out of Philly with the belt. I think it was perfect. Damian was the last thing on Drew's mind because he was preoccupied with the belt, his "Wrestlemania moment", and rubbing it in Punk's face. Completely ignored that he's the most vulnerable right after the match and with Punk within earshot to capitalize. It makes Damian look smart af for timing everything just right, it gave a new dimension to the Punk/Drew feud, and it allowed Seth to take a clean loss without it actually hurting him physically or booking wise. Also that was the most gorgeous South of Heaven I've ever seen Damian do.
Random story arch idea. Undisputed wwf/wwe championship. Vengeance 01-Summerslam 02. So much good stuff to cover. The merging of the belts, Flair vs Vince, nWo in wwf, X8, the brand split, get the f out, Austin’s walkout and most importantly, Lesnar VS Test!
I pitched that same story arc but shorter. That's wayyyyy too long. It should be Brock Lesnar debut (night after wm 18) to summerslam 2002. What youre suggesting would take probably 3 years
You’ve got a keen eye for detail 😂, rolling watching this segment again with forlorn OOC in the background. “All By Myself” playing would’ve been the cherry on top.
Cheers! McKodem put that in himself and I died when I saw the animatic. He also pitched having Matt (a Canadian) being animated like a Canadian from South Park and I lost it. Well done Adam, smashed it mate 🍻
Imagine the stress levels and anxiety of having your boss literally in your ear/head for decades. Frosted tips Cole will forever be a boy in my stable but we should finally acknowledge the voice talent and creativity of current untethered Michael Cole.
And the fact Cole is able to express himself freely also really adds to the some of the wrestler's personalities and characters, like his absolute blind seething rage he has for Dirty Dom, I'm convinced if given the chance, Cole would throw hands with Dom
Jay seeming to completely miss the whole point with Drew and the cash-in was surprising. All Drew had to do was kiss his wife and walk to the back, but he couldn't help himself and HAD to rub it in Punk's face. It's a heel showing his biggest character flaw and it cost him everything.
Drew’s heel character is basically the idea that he cant help himself with his obsessions and grudges that it costs him big at the worst possible time.
I think I was just super bummed for Drew the person. 23 year vet - just give him 8 days with the belt. Even just to go home and spend a night as champion and have his moment. The lads talked kayfabe, I talked shoot, if that makes sense. Will he ever win the world title at Mania again? Maybe, hopefully...probably not. Give him his day in the sun
Seth Rollins' entrance partners were Philly icons the Mummers. Yes, Mummers, as in "of the same tradition as the subject of a Loreena McKennitt song." Party atmosphere is kinda their thing; they were a part of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl victory parade some years ago as well. They also have a big parade in the city as well, including the band shown here. And yes, they do dress like Elton John from the '70s all the time.
30:00 The Prime ENERGY DRINKS are banned for containing too much caffeine. The plastic bottle drinks ARE NOT energy drinks. They're likely just as bad to be fair, but they're two different products.
So. After a lawsuit in the EU (facilitated by Belgium, of all countries), they found Prime to be even WORSE for your caloric and caffeine intakes than most energy drinks.
Folks, it isn’t because they’re getting old that OSW doesn’t know Meek Mill, IShowSpeed, or Yeet: the OSW guys have existed in this weird side universe since they started recording! Even in their late 20’s they were only referencing Alan Partridge and No Limit by 2 Unlimited.
44:00 very good chance that Matt is correct. Iyo is a team player. In 2016-17, as it was clear that she was going to E, she turned on her long term partner Mayu Iwatani, formed heel group Queen's Quest, and pretty much crowned Mayu as the new Ace of Stardom in Summer that year...but Toni Storm hurt Iyo's neck earlier in the year and WWE decided to sign her the following year. So for 2017-2018, she won stardom's secondary belt, Wonder of Stardom, and put over her protege Momo Watanabe right as she was properly signed to WWE. One of her final acts was to also introduce Utami Hayashishita to the company. So yeah, Iyo does the job at the right time. I admire that about her.
Also if your goal is to bring young fans into wrestling why would the guy you're using to do that lose on the show that draws the most casual fans of any show in the wrestling business?
58:20 that edit really hit me hard. I gave up my birthday presents to be able to buy that PPV and watch it live and to hear that music again just sent me back to 12 years old. Holy shit.
I think that story of Arnold pranking Jessie was on the DVD specials of "Predator". Great stuff. The amount of testosterone floating around whilst shooting this movie must've been enormous.
I always imagined that any female that showed up to the predator set was immediately impregnated by osmosis via the thickness of testerone in the air 😂
Adrenaliiine In my soul, Rock shut your mouth and Know your role, Gonna get the people Off their feeeeeet, Time is here, Time is now, Gotta lay the smacketh down, Lights go down The Taker’s come, your doooone WOOOHOOOOOHOOO!
30:08 or so: I'm reminded of possibly the most American piece of trivia I've ever heard. Pepsi (before the era of the energy drink) once sold a more highly-caffeinated version of standard Pepsi and marketed it as a, "breakfast soda." ...umm... do with that information what you will. Also, awesome show - Matt's a fantastic addition and fits more seamlessly into the general OSW craic than anyone I can think of except _possibly_ Allison (certainly if you allow for the fact that she knew frig all about wrestling first time around) so a can of Pepsi A.M. to him - hopefully it kept as well as Homer's Billy Beer.
1:08:44 This is when Jay thrives. When he does his run downs on a match. I haven’t watched WWE in over 5 years(not AEW related) and it felt like I never missed any of the story of this match. In my opinion, no one does it better. It’s perfection.
I've been watching you guys for damn near a decade and I still cant believe the insane jump in the quality of the videos you guys put out. Good job boys! That said: Rollins was the MVP of Mania XL by a mile imo...dude could barely even climb into the ring during the main event.
I always think "man if i was on OSW I'd be charming and funny while sneaking in as many classic OSW refs as possible", and then Matt goes off and does it sooooo good. Great eps boyos!
I rewatched the New Gen Arc recently and he absolutely _nailed_ the, "[Texan Accent] Bulldog here..." gag from one of those episodes. Popped me good and proper.
Dude made an absolute banger! Made our main event package feel so much bigger! We only had a snippet on the vid but if u wanna hear the full song ruclips.net/video/VHCxcYA-7fc/видео.html ☝️
1:09:15 Until this Moment, I NEVER would have thought of Reigns Revenge moment when the Sheild ended.Its PERFECT. The ONLY change i would have wanted was Michael Cole pointing out after the match during the Highlight reel that Reigns ONLY MISTAKE was being Greedy and getting revenge on Rollins OVER taking care of Cody Rhodes. That “easter egg” would have clicked and made even MORE SENSE to the average fan as to why Reigns did it.
add to this, out of all 31 title defenses... one was by DQ... Royal Rumble 2022 - Against Seth Rollins. What was Rollins wearing? SHIELD gear. How'd he win by DQ? Roman couldn't let go and wailed on him with a chair.
Sláinte brother hope ya enjoyed it! U mentioned it on twitter but I'd loooove to see some wrestling game Critiques, GameCube WWE especially needs love!
The original Four Lokos in America were different. If you drank 2 you'd be legless, to borrow a term from our Irish pals. At some point, there was legislation to change the formula and make it less intoxicating. Original Fours were something different though. And figured my Jesse impression was too low pitched and more conspiracy theory Jesse. RIP me LUL
I like to think Taker was in the middle of a podcast. “Hold on a sec- gotta go clean the yard.” Teleports to Mania, takes out Rock, teleports back. “Sorry about that. Now where were we?”
Even if it wasn’t perfect, I’ve rarely had more fun watching a night of wrestling. Whole weekend was a blast but hot damn the opening and closing matches Sunday night will be seared into my brain forever.
Bayley's selling of the knee was so good that watching it live I genuinely thought she'd got hurt for real and they were wrestling the rest of the match on the fly.
Man......I LOVE OSW Patreon!!! Thank you so so so so much!!! That Mania was soooooooo awesome!! Thank you Thank you Thank you guys!!! Jay - a winner is YOU 👍🏆🥇💰
Wearing headphones while watching this, and you guys doing the Shield intro gave me ASMR tingles 😂 Also, love the touch that Matt’s skeleton avatar animates like a South Park Canadian with a flapping head in the Undertaker section
I think Rollins is doing a lot to redefine masculinity in pro-wrestling, and I'm honestly here for it. He keeps coming out with these colorful, camp entrances and costumes and it's fantastic! Drew's social media game has been absolutely incredible, but I'm not sure it CAN get better than that initial, "I prayed for this and it HAPPENED." It doesn't matter what happens next in the feud, that was an all-time line with an all-time delivery.
Shawn Michaels was a Male Stripper who graced the cover of Playgirl. He already did a lot to redefine masculinity in pro-wrestling. Also won't stand for Vito erasure 😂.
I remember watching OSW's hell in a cell 2014 or 1 of those 'modern' shows with maffew & distinctly recall seeing the dust brothers (gold & star) against some other tag team & thought to myself "wow, this stardust guy is amazing, shame his lisp etc is probably gonna hold him back from ever being in the main event picture" similar to OOC's "prove me wrong". A few months later he leaves to start AEW & after following his career (following not even watching wrestling for years) this whole time here we are. He's won the big one AT the big one. Love to see it. To say he deserves it is an understatement...
awesome review as always. Gotta say the French crowd was the best of all time. The Attitude era crowds where crazy with all the stuff thrown around and the signs, but being THIS dedicated and committed and vocal, while being so disciplined thats just a whole other level.
@@OSW WE ARE LEGION! Talkin' 'bout OSW SUPREME we like to cream jeans! Have you ever been worked on by 2 guys who are hot for your snatch? That's what I'm offering you! Then you feel a tickling on your head It's V1 with a feather and the French tickler. Look out, baby, he got the tools. And then you feel somethin' down by your feet It's you, it's Jay, he's suckin' upon your toes. They don't mind suckin' on toes! Watching OSW with V1 and Jay (and that other guy can't be bothered but we got special guest BROTHER MATTY BRUTAI!!!) Now you're talkin' double team supreme!!!
The editing and production of these reviews are so polished that I forget it’s just a couple of lads from Ireland. Which is why I always chuckle when I hear you guys say “Meek Mill, I don’t know who that is, Ishowspeed, I don’t know who that is, Yeet?! I don’t know what that means.” It comes across as very Art Donovan “How much does this guy weigh” 😂
Fan from Philadelphia! Keep on with the OSW Reviews! A couple notes: Seth Rollin's entrance = Philadelphia's Mummers Parade and The Rock/Stone Cold would've been the best case of long-term storytelling (25 years in the making) because they were the main event of the last Wrestlemania in Philadelphia (XV). Cheers!
Im dying laughing at this episode already. Shame you don't think Priest cashing in was good Jay, personally thought it made the most sense and i even had him down to cash in even if Seth retained as the last person to cash in at Mania was Seth back in 2015.
Growing up on Matt's content in the SBF play and the podcast they did funnily enough lead me to OSW back in the day. So I'm always buzzing to see Matt pop up love you guys
17:03 Honestly one of my favorite moments in wrestling ever. Felt like this was a moment where someone flew too close to the sun and almost but DIDN’T get burnt. Felt like a hungry hyena going after the tired lion while the pack watched.
gotta say...i don't care what logan has done. he's a GREAT professional wrassler and i'm all in to see him do it every week (yanno if i actively watched WWE). like it's insane how he's taken to it. just instantly GOT IT.
I agree with the idea that Bayley has been miscast for the past few years - she was an ok heel, but she's one of the best pure babyfaces out there, up with Sami Zayn. Bayley is like the female version of Sting to me.
Overall two very fun good reviews and I am glad you covered this year's Mania. I got just a few small nitpicks. 1.In the interest of fairness I wish you talked about the CM Punk MMA hour interview. The last OSW AEW reviews you guys are understandably anti-Punk and he never does interviews so I think it would have been fair to present his side of the story of his fallout with AEW and then yall can opinionate on it and let the audience make their own conclusions on the CM Punk OSW mini-arc. 2. I wish there was more expansive deep dive on the main event of Night 2, like a how we got here. Too me it felt brushed over like your assuming the audience knows all the Cody Rhodes lore and his run as Stardust to founding AEW to leaving AEW and then how we got here. Just felt like we could have spent a little more time dissecting the build before the match. Also never discussing Cody wrestling in Hell in the Cell with a torn pec is the equivalent of never talking about the Austin 3:16 promo when discussing Stone Cold. Both events catapulting them into babyface stratopheres. 3. To piggyback on the last point, the lore of the Bayley vs Iyo match was way more expansive then just, Japanese girls being mean to Bayley. IMO it was the second best build outside of the Bloodline. This goes back to how dastardly Bayley used to be when her and Sasha kayfabe retired Kairi Sane. Then she forms Damage Control which is meant to keep Bayley at the top but eventually Iyo realizes Bayley has been holding her back and there was long term tension and it wasn't until Kairi Sane came back to poison Iyo's friendship with Bayley. I just felt like a lot of the review felt kinda rushed when normally older OSW reviews are very detailed and introspective. It was even played off as a joke when the Bobby Lashley and Kross match was 30 seconds of commentary and move on. Despite it all thank you for all the good work that you and the crew do and I look forward to Elden Ring OSW.
Appreciate the detailed feedback brother! Just to answer ya - we didn't cover much of Punk as I find him to be extremely obnoxious, and the general discussion around AEW/Punk to be so very abrasive and off-putting. By the time we finished the AEW videos we were done talking about him (and AEW PPVs) for a good while. Him getting injured before Mania was very much an "eh we can deal with him next time we cover WWE then". Cody/Iyo build-up, it's a fair point. I wasn't as taken with Bayley's build as you were and Cody I felt Night 1 covered it. I suppose we could've done a full career history but I felt we hit the major points during the previous episode, the matches or in post-match. As a side note, the podcast was recorded 10 minutes after Night 1 was finished, so it's a bit of a test of endurance talking for almost 6 hours! XL was an impromptu gigantic project while producing 3 other major videos. I'll give ya all I got and I hope it's good enough :) Anyoo thanks for the discerning response brah!
@@OSWto your credit as well; I greatly enjoyed that we reached the main event at only 45 minutes into this review! The quicker pace for this review made it so fun to watch. The Punk interview wasn’t directly related to Wrestlemania so I fully support eschewing it in order to keep the review rolling. You guys went into great detail on Cody’s story after the main event review as well. Great job
I love this review! The editing/pacing felt like we broke out of the template that the TNA reviews have been in. The shortest reigns digression was fun and interesting and the show continued at a steady pace throughout the review.
Are we getting older or are we becoming fewer in numbers as Tenacious D-listers?? I refuse to believe Tenacious D not heavily involved in the pop culture pantheon.
@@Intheknow12 Maybe both. Post Pick of Destiny I feel like Tenacious D isn't as hot as it was. Plus Jack Black and Kyle ain't doing cameos in shows and movies anymore
@@Kalilalex fair summary! We’re clearly in the bubble of invested fandom and even with Black’s strong social media/game streaming/vlogging presence, it’s more fans of him and not the band.
Why is there only 2 songs EVER commonly played on bagpipes? All you ever hear is whatever that song is that Drew came out to and Amazing Grace. At least in America anyway. Is it like this elsewhere that bagpipes are played.
The week b4 mania at house show I went to Drew did that putting the table back spot vs Cody during the entire match.. it was hysterical.. crowd loved it then Cody finally put him thru table
Glad someone mentioned that Cena’s look is simply ridiculous at this stage in his life wearing that gear. I honestly think he looks like a cartoon character infront of all the other wrestlers who’ve got cooler looks.
michael cole without vince micromanaging him and controlling everything he says has been so good. espeically with pat, it seems like he's out there genuinely having FUN. it's crazy to think this version of him was always around but buried until a pile of vince.
👍 Thumbs up the vid it'd really help us out 👍 Well hellooo! Cheers for the birthday wishes brothers 🎂🎉🎈 Hope you enjoy our XL bullyboy Night 2! Recorded straight after part 1, it was a mammoth 6 hour recording sesh! Thanks so much/sorry Matt! See ye in 5 years for the next WWE ppv review 😆
Re: me not reviewing Logan Paul's match - i just think he's a huge tw at! Imagine if James Corden started doing 450 splashes
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What ever happened to your see no evil review on patron I never got to see it I joined after you guys took it down I guess?
@@Zluster123 we've never reviewed See No Evil! We've mentioned it here and there (maybe in a different WWE film review) or u might be thinking of a different review channel!
@@OSW kanes movie? I swear to god you guys mentioned it back in the day and said it would be on the Patreon like one of the first things you ever posted
@@OSW not mad about it at all love your guys stuff been watching since day one
@@Zluster123maybe you're thinking of The Condemned with Austin? We did that for Lionsgate aaaages ago but only put it on our own channel somewhat recently ruclips.net/video/WNcQP7qmPb0/видео.html
Quote of the year candidate from V1 “if you’re going to be a shit person, you’re in the right fuckin business” 😂😂😂 32:41
I feel like the shittier you are as a person, the more successful you'll be in wrestling.
@@aadilharoon1807 He's not entirely wrong. To be fair, if you look at three of the most successful (if not the most successful) wrestlers of all time: Hulk Hogan is not a good person...behind the scenes or in real life. Austin beat his wife and Ric Flair's behavior on a plane is only one lowlight in a career full of them. Then you have people like Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man, Shawn Michaels, and others. Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff, and other promoters also tend to be bad people as well. The list goes on.
Man, Dark Side of the Ring exposed so many fucked up people.
So Seth's entrance requires a bit of explanation. My family is from Philly and those are the Mummers. They appear in parades and public events. The practice of mumming is a very old Germanic tradition that's similar to wassailing as it's really just a way to spread cheer by dancing and singing and wearing fun outfits together. The tradition came on the boats from Europe to the US and in the Dutch German Pennsylvania communities, groups of Mummers started to band together for holidays. Now there's an annual Mummer's Parade and they appear in all the famous Philly parades. It's just for fun, and the definition of festive.
I am so glad this comment was made! The Mummers are a fantastic but little known tradition, and I loved that Seth brought their festivities to Wrestlemania!
I remember them saying that on the broadcast. That's one thing about Mania I love is when wrestlers will incorporate local ties to their entrance.
@@alstover Yes me too! Like when they went to Japan and Seth slaughtered a dolphin
@kidneystonermusic damn you sir. I read this at 6.45 and laughed out loud, thought I'd wake my wife and son.
they explained all of this on the commentary. I don't know why these 3 ignored it
You know that Bayley is the ultimate real life babyface because when she won like 20 different wrestlers on Twitter were like “yay my best friend won!”
Awkward. When people are your best friend, but you have 20.
I loved the Priest cash in. I think they played it perfectly. It elevated everyone involved. Drew continues his story, and will win again and it'll be even bigger. Drew's whole story is winning in front of a crowd, and just when he gets it, it's snatched away. It's perfect. It will fuel his character for the next year. Damian is elevated. I loved it.
The right moment for him to get that win is in Scotland. They won’t find a better time/place.
Honestly felt like Jay was just saying that to get his title reign segment in after, felt a bit forced
It would have been funny if they changed the plates to Drew's, then changed them to Priest's.
@@sukibhamra5086 It really wasn't forced. Drew cost Punk his opportunity to fight Seth by kayfabe putting him in rehab, now Punk cost Drew his moment. Both of those guys knew the Night 2 match was going to be super free given that Seth was put together with duct tape and string and he just had a match where he (kayfabe) tried to take most of the beating to be Cody's shield. Plus his mind is definitely not on this match, everyone knew the title will change but who exactly will walk out of Philly with the belt. I think it was perfect. Damian was the last thing on Drew's mind because he was preoccupied with the belt, his "Wrestlemania moment", and rubbing it in Punk's face. Completely ignored that he's the most vulnerable right after the match and with Punk within earshot to capitalize. It makes Damian look smart af for timing everything just right, it gave a new dimension to the Punk/Drew feud, and it allowed Seth to take a clean loss without it actually hurting him physically or booking wise. Also that was the most gorgeous South of Heaven I've ever seen Damian do.
That woman won the Slim Jim car and $75k and youd think she just won a free Slim Jim.
She was thinking about all the tax she has to pay on it
Random story arch idea. Undisputed wwf/wwe championship. Vengeance 01-Summerslam 02. So much good stuff to cover. The merging of the belts, Flair vs Vince, nWo in wwf, X8, the brand split, get the f out, Austin’s walkout and most importantly, Lesnar VS Test!
I pitched that same story arc but shorter. That's wayyyyy too long. It should be Brock Lesnar debut (night after wm 18) to summerslam 2002. What youre suggesting would take probably 3 years
@@heyyoitsmebrian my suggestion would only be 4 more shows then what you have. This TNA run is more episodes
Just as a bonus and them saying that they would love to do it (see the GGW episode), WrestleMania XIX as well.
1:00:49 Mr. OOC looking through the window of the recording booth absolutely killed me. whopper animated segment and great episode lads. loved it.
I wish .. the animator had maffew with OOC
You’ve got a keen eye for detail 😂, rolling watching this segment again with forlorn OOC in the background. “All By Myself” playing would’ve been the cherry on top.
Cheers! McKodem put that in himself and I died when I saw the animatic. He also pitched having Matt (a Canadian) being animated like a Canadian from South Park and I lost it. Well done Adam, smashed it mate 🍻
Cole is so much better without Vince in his ear. Seeing him actively enjoy the show makes it more enjoyable for the viewers.
Imagine the stress levels and anxiety of having your boss literally in your ear/head for decades. Frosted tips Cole will forever be a boy in my stable but we should finally acknowledge the voice talent and creativity of current untethered Michael Cole.
And the fact Cole is able to express himself freely also really adds to the some of the wrestler's personalities and characters, like his absolute blind seething rage he has for Dirty Dom, I'm convinced if given the chance, Cole would throw hands with Dom
Just me who thinks he's still awful if not worse, just giving out to Roman all night like a bitter fanboy crybaby.
Michael Cold will never know his role. Needs to be put in place every 10 min or so
Cole can be a fantastic commentator when you just let him go and do his thing. I first realized this when he called the Mae Young Classic years back.
Jay seeming to completely miss the whole point with Drew and the cash-in was surprising. All Drew had to do was kiss his wife and walk to the back, but he couldn't help himself and HAD to rub it in Punk's face. It's a heel showing his biggest character flaw and it cost him everything.
Jay seems a little grumpy about this review tbh. Maybe he just misses OOC
Drew’s heel character is basically the idea that he cant help himself with his obsessions and grudges that it costs him big at the worst possible time.
And the parallel with Roman's choice of hitting Seth in the main event instead of hitting Cody.
@@Sky_BlazeSometimes?
I think I was just super bummed for Drew the person. 23 year vet - just give him 8 days with the belt. Even just to go home and spend a night as champion and have his moment. The lads talked kayfabe, I talked shoot, if that makes sense. Will he ever win the world title at Mania again? Maybe, hopefully...probably not. Give him his day in the sun
27:18 The Mizard of Oz! I loved that move. But I think V1 was thinking Miz's other finisher, the Reality Check. The running knee into the neckbreaker
Seth Rollins was working with 1 HP left when the night was over
Innit tho
THAT FOOKIN EDITING!! The shot where Seth hits Roman and there's a jump cut to the impact of Roman hitting Seth!
Spooge!
Actually the best part of the show. And thats saying alot for an OSDub production
Seth Rollins' entrance partners were Philly icons the Mummers. Yes, Mummers, as in "of the same tradition as the subject of a Loreena McKennitt song."
Party atmosphere is kinda their thing; they were a part of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl victory parade some years ago as well. They also have a big parade in the city as well, including the band shown here. And yes, they do dress like Elton John from the '70s all the time.
30:00 The Prime ENERGY DRINKS are banned for containing too much caffeine. The plastic bottle drinks ARE NOT energy drinks.
They're likely just as bad to be fair, but they're two different products.
So. After a lawsuit in the EU (facilitated by Belgium, of all countries), they found Prime to be even WORSE for your caloric and caffeine intakes than most energy drinks.
Folks, it isn’t because they’re getting old that OSW doesn’t know Meek Mill, IShowSpeed, or Yeet: the OSW guys have existed in this weird side universe since they started recording! Even in their late 20’s they were only referencing Alan Partridge and No Limit by 2 Unlimited.
44:00 very good chance that Matt is correct. Iyo is a team player.
In 2016-17, as it was clear that she was going to E, she turned on her long term partner Mayu Iwatani, formed heel group Queen's Quest, and pretty much crowned Mayu as the new Ace of Stardom in Summer that year...but Toni Storm hurt Iyo's neck earlier in the year and WWE decided to sign her the following year.
So for 2017-2018, she won stardom's secondary belt, Wonder of Stardom, and put over her protege Momo Watanabe right as she was properly signed to WWE. One of her final acts was to also introduce Utami Hayashishita to the company.
So yeah, Iyo does the job at the right time. I admire that about her.
Logan retaining makes complete sense because if he's going to lose the belt he has to lose it to a top baby face clean 1 on 1 (LA Knight)
Also if your goal is to bring young fans into wrestling why would the guy you're using to do that lose on the show that draws the most casual fans of any show in the wrestling business?
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It's also probably in his contract to have a title run that lasts X amount of days ....
Well well well. That happened in Cleveland, in front of a go-away heat crowd literally 35 minutes from Logan's hometown.
I was there, thank you for this upload today. I'm struggling with depression but this helps me remain based!
Keep fighting the good fight brother. Your OSW boys are rooting for u 🤘🙂
58:20 that edit really hit me hard. I gave up my birthday presents to be able to buy that PPV and watch it live and to hear that music again just sent me back to 12 years old.
Holy shit.
I think that story of Arnold pranking Jessie was on the DVD specials of "Predator". Great stuff. The amount of testosterone floating around whilst shooting this movie must've been enormous.
Baby oil stocks were through the roof during the 80s-90s action move era.
I always imagined that any female that showed up to the predator set was immediately impregnated by osmosis via the thickness of testerone in the air 😂
Yeah, it was on the special features
@@Intheknow12 Good times.
Fun fact: The Duchess was WWE Warrior Award recipient Sue Aitchison
Hats off to V1 for carrying this review on his back.
Jay was really off his game in this one I thought. Weird episode
Adrenaliiine
In my soul,
Rock shut your mouth and
Know your role,
Gonna get the people
Off their feeeeeet,
Time is here,
Time is now,
Gotta lay the smacketh down,
Lights go down
The Taker’s come, your doooone
WOOOHOOOOOHOOO!
Ha ha, this is brilliant. Had to sing it to test it obvs
30:08 or so: I'm reminded of possibly the most American piece of trivia I've ever heard. Pepsi (before the era of the energy drink) once sold a more highly-caffeinated version of standard Pepsi and marketed it as a, "breakfast soda."
...umm... do with that information what you will.
Also, awesome show - Matt's a fantastic addition and fits more seamlessly into the general OSW craic than anyone I can think of except _possibly_ Allison (certainly if you allow for the fact that she knew frig all about wrestling first time around) so a can of Pepsi A.M. to him - hopefully it kept as well as Homer's Billy Beer.
Plot twist: People did actually pay to see Drew defend the WCPW world championship, which was booked by the Cultaholic lads xD
Sunday, big meal and a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWW OSW episode. Feels right and nice. Thanks, Fellas!
1:08:44 This is when Jay thrives. When he does his run downs on a match. I haven’t watched WWE in over 5 years(not AEW related) and it felt like I never missed any of the story of this match. In my opinion, no one does it better. It’s perfection.
I've been watching you guys for damn near a decade and I still cant believe the insane jump in the quality of the videos you guys put out.
Good job boys!
That said: Rollins was the MVP of Mania XL by a mile imo...dude could barely even climb into the ring during the main event.
I try to watch ASAP, before it may(or may not get taken down) loved it. Keep up the great work.
Props to admitting being wrong about Cody losing last year. I’ll admit I thought the same and I’m glad WWE proved me wrong.
27:49 “You made me swallow my gum.”
“It’s gonna be in my digestive tract FOR 7 YEARS!!”
Love it :)
The subtle, unstated cut to Frank Langella as Skeletor at 49:56 is pure gold.
I always think "man if i was on OSW I'd be charming and funny while sneaking in as many classic OSW refs as possible", and then Matt goes off and does it sooooo good. Great eps boyos!
I rewatched the New Gen Arc recently and he absolutely _nailed_ the, "[Texan Accent] Bulldog here..." gag from one of those episodes. Popped me good and proper.
That Zombie Thirteen Roman cover with the run down of his title reign was so good.
Dude made an absolute banger! Made our main event package feel so much bigger! We only had a snippet on the vid but if u wanna hear the full song ruclips.net/video/VHCxcYA-7fc/видео.html ☝️
Fun bit: A wrestler I train with got to be one of the sword-wielding extras for Drew's big entrance!
Which one? And where can we view/support your friend?
@Intheknow12 I don't think you can see him in this video, so I'd have to scour the original footage to spot him and point him out.
@@JackgarPrime are there any shows/matches online we can watch? In fact, I should be asking about yourself as well!
I love how the editor perfectly timed the footage to Matt's 'YEAH!' when talking about Drew and LA Knight.
We need ooc back,he is like Charles Barkley of inside the nba,crisp opinions of him makes review exciting
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought for a second Mox was showing up.
I knew there was no chance, but for just a second, I thought "If they were ever going to do it, it would be now."
My dumbass thought it was gonna be Roman
@@antichaos I would have been very impressed.
@@antichaos no, but like. How insane would that have been!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. I hope you liked it and don't give out too hard on undertaker showing up.
'holy christ' is an amazing call
As someone who was in the building night 2, I can confirm everyone was shocked and worked into a frenzy when Takers dong hit us in the face.
1:09:15 Until this Moment, I NEVER would have thought of Reigns Revenge moment when the Sheild ended.Its PERFECT. The ONLY change i would have wanted was Michael Cole pointing out after the match during the Highlight reel that Reigns ONLY MISTAKE was being Greedy and getting revenge on Rollins OVER taking care of Cody Rhodes. That “easter egg” would have clicked and made even MORE SENSE to the average fan as to why Reigns did it.
add to this, out of all 31 title defenses... one was by DQ... Royal Rumble 2022 - Against Seth Rollins. What was Rollins wearing? SHIELD gear. How'd he win by DQ? Roman couldn't let go and wailed on him with a chair.
Thank ya kindly, Jay!
Sláinte brother hope ya enjoyed it!
U mentioned it on twitter but I'd loooove to see some wrestling game Critiques, GameCube WWE especially needs love!
Hoping for more Black Adder 😊 So thankfull you guys are puting so much work into this
I liked the editing in this one I'm not sure if you did anything different but it really stood out to to me this time
Thanks brother, it's probably the fantastic NiesTimes!
I love Matt McMuscles. It will never be the same show when OoC is gone, but Matt is solid in his stead.
Diddnt expect Jay to pull out an Alister Thorne quote nearly 5 years after Game Of Thrones ended. But then again our watch doesn’t end until we die.
"Who's the Final Boss now? Boss Man."
51:47 for a split second I thought the screen was saying "Duchess of Queensbury: Roman Reigns" and I laughed 😂
The original Four Lokos in America were different. If you drank 2 you'd be legless, to borrow a term from our Irish pals. At some point, there was legislation to change the formula and make it less intoxicating. Original Fours were something different though. And figured my Jesse impression was too low pitched and more conspiracy theory Jesse. RIP me LUL
I like to think Taker was in the middle of a podcast.
“Hold on a sec- gotta go clean the yard.”
Teleports to Mania, takes out Rock, teleports back.
“Sorry about that. Now where were we?”
Matt: “They’re okay with Four Loko in America…”
Me: *drinking a Four Loko watching this review* 😳
That's capitalism for ya!
The Sparky Plugg LA Knight entrance had me in tears 😂😂😂😂 - great video guys, brilliant having Matt as a guest also.
Even if it wasn’t perfect, I’ve rarely had more fun watching a night of wrestling. Whole weekend was a blast but hot damn the opening and closing matches Sunday night will be seared into my brain forever.
Bayley's selling of the knee was so good that watching it live I genuinely thought she'd got hurt for real and they were wrestling the rest of the match on the fly.
Man......I LOVE OSW Patreon!!! Thank you so so so so much!!! That Mania was soooooooo awesome!! Thank you Thank you Thank you guys!!!
Jay - a winner is YOU 👍🏆🥇💰
Wearing headphones while watching this, and you guys doing the Shield intro gave me ASMR tingles 😂
Also, love the touch that Matt’s skeleton avatar animates like a South Park Canadian with a flapping head in the Undertaker section
Thanks for noticing! Thought it'd be fun to do a bit of left-right panning 🙂
What a way to spend my Sunday morning. Thank you OSW.
The greatest album to never come out. WHAT BAR$
Can of coke to you sir. But we would need a self professed wrestling fan/rapper. I can envision Action Bronson or maybe Open Mike Eagle.
Huzzah! We're back for Night 2... I can't wait lads
I think Rollins is doing a lot to redefine masculinity in pro-wrestling, and I'm honestly here for it. He keeps coming out with these colorful, camp entrances and costumes and it's fantastic!
Drew's social media game has been absolutely incredible, but I'm not sure it CAN get better than that initial, "I prayed for this and it HAPPENED."
It doesn't matter what happens next in the feud, that was an all-time line with an all-time delivery.
Shawn Michaels was a Male Stripper who graced the cover of Playgirl. He already did a lot to redefine masculinity in pro-wrestling. Also won't stand for Vito erasure 😂.
I remember watching OSW's hell in a cell 2014 or 1 of those 'modern' shows with maffew & distinctly recall seeing the dust brothers (gold & star) against some other tag team & thought to myself "wow, this stardust guy is amazing, shame his lisp etc is probably gonna hold him back from ever being in the main event picture" similar to OOC's "prove me wrong". A few months later he leaves to start AEW & after following his career (following not even watching wrestling for years) this whole time here we are. He's won the big one AT the big one. Love to see it. To say he deserves it is an understatement...
awesome review as always. Gotta say the French crowd was the best of all time. The Attitude era crowds where crazy with all the stuff thrown around and the signs, but being THIS dedicated and committed and vocal, while being so disciplined thats just a whole other level.
Get in!! Can't tell you how desperate I've been to see part 2. Nice one lads! OSW 4 LYF!
I've been following Zombie Thirteen since last time you featured him. So good.
One of the 6 tenacious D fans here to make my presence known to Jay
We're up to 4!
@@OSWmake that 5. I am always down for some D!
Oh, stop booing! There's nothing wrong with it! There are dozens of us! ... DOZENS!!!
@@OSW WE ARE LEGION! Talkin' 'bout OSW SUPREME we like to cream jeans! Have you ever been worked on by 2 guys who are hot for your snatch? That's what I'm offering you! Then you feel a tickling on your head It's V1 with a feather and the French tickler. Look out, baby, he got the tools. And then you feel somethin' down by your feet It's you, it's Jay, he's suckin' upon your toes. They don't mind suckin' on toes!
Watching OSW with V1 and Jay (and that other guy can't be bothered but we got special guest BROTHER MATTY BRUTAI!!!)
Now you're talkin' double team supreme!!!
The editing and production of these reviews are so polished that I forget it’s just a couple of lads from Ireland. Which is why I always chuckle when I hear you guys say “Meek Mill, I don’t know who that is, Ishowspeed, I don’t know who that is, Yeet?! I don’t know what that means.” It comes across as very Art Donovan “How much does this guy weigh” 😂
What a reference
@@zachburhans7615 Thanks haha. Hearing Jay and V1 ask so many questions gave me flashbacks to King of the ring ‘94!
Just rewatched that episode last night lolol
The state of ya Art Donovan
Saying that art Donovan actually had some talent at something 😂
Fan from Philadelphia! Keep on with the OSW Reviews!
A couple notes:
Seth Rollin's entrance = Philadelphia's Mummers Parade and The Rock/Stone Cold would've been the best case of long-term storytelling (25 years in the making) because they were the main event of the last Wrestlemania in Philadelphia (XV).
Cheers!
Im dying laughing at this episode already. Shame you don't think Priest cashing in was good Jay, personally thought it made the most sense and i even had him down to cash in even if Seth retained as the last person to cash in at Mania was Seth back in 2015.
I'm more geared up for this than the entire Ultimate Maniacs storyline
So you’re near cardiac arrest levels of nose candy too? 😂
Growing up on Matt's content in the SBF play and the podcast they did funnily enough lead me to OSW back in the day. So I'm always buzzing to see Matt pop up love you guys
17:03 Honestly one of my favorite moments in wrestling ever. Felt like this was a moment where someone flew too close to the sun and almost but DIDN’T get burnt. Felt like a hungry hyena going after the tired lion while the pack watched.
Triple H wasn't talking about Ospreay but the interweb ran with it. Hilarious.
Ospreay HIMSELF ran with it, which made it even funnier.
I gotta say I really love that small rock cena montage, that was beautiful
gotta say...i don't care what logan has done. he's a GREAT professional wrassler and i'm all in to see him do it every week (yanno if i actively watched WWE). like it's insane how he's taken to it. just instantly GOT IT.
Great stuff, as always.
Honestly, both Night 1 & 2 together are my show of the year so far. So much fun to watch.
I agree with the idea that Bayley has been miscast for the past few years - she was an ok heel, but she's one of the best pure babyfaces out there, up with Sami Zayn. Bayley is like the female version of Sting to me.
52:12 "If we were the last three humans on Earth, I'd be trying to start a family with Baldrick."
The mummers are a Philadelphia institution every New Year’s Day.
"Mizzard of Oz", holy cow lmao! now i need Miz's next actor joke to be about almost landing a role on Broadway for Wicked a la Ruff Ruff Ref
Overall two very fun good reviews and I am glad you covered this year's Mania. I got just a few small nitpicks.
1.In the interest of fairness I wish you talked about the CM Punk MMA hour interview. The last OSW AEW reviews you guys are understandably anti-Punk and he never does interviews so I think it would have been fair to present his side of the story of his fallout with AEW and then yall can opinionate on it and let the audience make their own conclusions on the CM Punk OSW mini-arc.
2. I wish there was more expansive deep dive on the main event of Night 2, like a how we got here. Too me it felt brushed over like your assuming the audience knows all the Cody Rhodes lore and his run as Stardust to founding AEW to leaving AEW and then how we got here. Just felt like we could have spent a little more time dissecting the build before the match. Also never discussing Cody wrestling in Hell in the Cell with a torn pec is the equivalent of never talking about the Austin 3:16 promo when discussing Stone Cold. Both events catapulting them into babyface stratopheres.
3. To piggyback on the last point, the lore of the Bayley vs Iyo match was way more expansive then just, Japanese girls being mean to Bayley. IMO it was the second best build outside of the Bloodline. This goes back to how dastardly Bayley used to be when her and Sasha kayfabe retired Kairi Sane. Then she forms Damage Control which is meant to keep Bayley at the top but eventually Iyo realizes Bayley has been holding her back and there was long term tension and it wasn't until Kairi Sane came back to poison Iyo's friendship with Bayley. I just felt like a lot of the review felt kinda rushed when normally older OSW reviews are very detailed and introspective. It was even played off as a joke when the Bobby Lashley and Kross match was 30 seconds of commentary and move on.
Despite it all thank you for all the good work that you and the crew do and I look forward to Elden Ring OSW.
Appreciate the detailed feedback brother!
Just to answer ya - we didn't cover much of Punk as I find him to be extremely obnoxious, and the general discussion around AEW/Punk to be so very abrasive and off-putting. By the time we finished the AEW videos we were done talking about him (and AEW PPVs) for a good while. Him getting injured before Mania was very much an "eh we can deal with him next time we cover WWE then".
Cody/Iyo build-up, it's a fair point. I wasn't as taken with Bayley's build as you were and Cody I felt Night 1 covered it. I suppose we could've done a full career history but
I felt we hit the major points during the previous episode, the matches or in post-match.
As a side note, the podcast was recorded 10 minutes after Night 1 was finished, so it's a bit of a test of endurance talking for almost 6 hours! XL was an impromptu gigantic project while producing 3 other major videos. I'll give ya all I got and I hope it's good enough :)
Anyoo thanks for the discerning response brah!
@@OSWto your credit as well; I greatly enjoyed that we reached the main event at only 45 minutes into this review! The quicker pace for this review made it so fun to watch.
The Punk interview wasn’t directly related to Wrestlemania so I fully support eschewing it in order to keep the review rolling. You guys went into great detail on Cody’s story after the main event review as well. Great job
You guys have to review the backlash in France it was insanity !
They should and do a retro recap of all the oversea special events.
Retro recap of all the UK-exclusive cards WWF/E ever did.
I love this review! The editing/pacing felt like we broke out of the template that the TNA reviews have been in. The shortest reigns digression was fun and interesting and the show continued at a steady pace throughout the review.
I am 100% one of those Tenacious D fans in the comments!
Are we getting older or are we becoming fewer in numbers as Tenacious D-listers?? I refuse to believe Tenacious D not heavily involved in the pop culture pantheon.
@@Intheknow12 Maybe both. Post Pick of Destiny I feel like Tenacious D isn't as hot as it was. Plus Jack Black and Kyle ain't doing cameos in shows and movies anymore
@@Kalilalex fair summary! We’re clearly in the bubble of invested fandom and even with Black’s strong social media/game streaming/vlogging presence, it’s more fans of him and not the band.
We’ll have to get a new tenacious d tattooooooooooooo ooowoooooo
She has songs of wildebeest and angels
She has soared on the wings of a demon
Happy fookin birthday to ya, lad! Loving this show more everyday.
Crazy how this happened just a few months ago and it's still the best main event I've ever witnessed. Good job on the review, lads❤
Why is there only 2 songs EVER commonly played on bagpipes? All you ever hear is whatever that song is that Drew came out to and Amazing Grace. At least in America anyway. Is it like this elsewhere that bagpipes are played.
Our (Port Vale) half time song is Triple H's the game theme. I mark out every time!
The week b4 mania at house show I went to Drew did that putting the table back spot vs Cody during the entire match.. it was hysterical.. crowd loved it then Cody finally put him thru table
1:00:45 Matt with the Canadian talking head from South Park was such a good choice
Love the animated segment with OOC sadly peering through the window
Been a real fan of Cody since Mustache Cody and I was looking forward to Night 2 of Wrestlemania since that day
17:50 I think the ref reciever box is the only reason Buh Buh's wearing a belt 😹
Man that edit on "Finish... The... Story" with the photos of Cody through the years, incredible. Really brings the gravity of the win full circle.
I was hoping OOC would show up for a modern day WWE, but i forgot his part-time contract
And the checks from Tony Khan. 😂
Glad someone mentioned that Cena’s look is simply ridiculous at this stage in his life wearing that gear. I honestly think he looks like a cartoon character infront of all the other wrestlers who’ve got cooler looks.
There's a meme going around where someone posted Cena looks like that Family Guy episode where Joe gets legs, and it's on point
people got tired of trips and hbk doing campy dx stuff like they are not in their 50s. cena should do the same and come out as the peacemaker
I only have one question from wrestlemania... WHAT BAR IS BOBBO? He is Shenanigans bar in Liverpool
57:00 man that’s all gonna hear whenever Solo interferes with the thumb
The lines leading up to "podcast taker" have me fucking howling. hahahahaha
michael cole without vince micromanaging him and controlling everything he says has been so good. espeically with pat, it seems like he's out there genuinely having FUN. it's crazy to think this version of him was always around but buried until a pile of vince.