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00:00You know it's all over the world!
00:06It's all over the world!
00:09You know it's all over the world!
00:14Due to injuries, this man suffered this past Thursday night
00:18at the hands of Kyle Fletcher.
00:20Adam Cole, not medically cleared,
00:24and he, of course, to vacate the TNT Championship.
00:28And Nigel, this has to be an extremely difficult walk to the ring for Adam Cole.
00:39You can see it on his face, can't you? The emotion. Clear as day. Water in his eyes as well.
00:49It's going to be absolutely heartbreaking after silence, all the doubters coming back from his injury.
00:58He's unable to add any more length to his reign as TNT champion, but call-aheads have prevailed certainly.
01:13You can say what you want about professional wrestling, what this is, what this isn't, the very physical realities.
01:19Clear as day, Adam Cole. And I think for his health, the title suspended.
01:28For now, we will get a new TNT champion shortly.
01:33It's really hard to put this into words.
02:02But I wanted to come out here and talk to you all.
02:06Very sorry that I let everybody down and I can't wrestle tonight.
02:10I have some health issues going on at the moment that not only will not allow me to defend this championship tonight, but I am going to be gone for a while.
02:18And, uh, I don't even want to think about talking about retiring because I am not in the right headspace, but I wanted to have this opportunity to come out and talk to you all if this is indeed goodbye because you are the best damn wrestling fans in the world.
03:43With my, with my highest moments and recently my lowest moments, all of you have been so supportive every step of the way.
03:52And damn it.
03:53I will love you forever.
03:54Thank you so much.
03:55i don't want to take up any more of your time because we have the best damn wrestling pay-per-view
04:09you've ever seen happening right now we're gonna have a new a new tnt champion tonight
04:16once again you will continue to watch aew do pay-per-view like nobody else in the world does
04:23and from me honestly from everybody at aew thank you for making aew what it is thank you for making
04:37aew so special and thank you all so damn much for changing my life i love you always
04:53thank you
05:00thank you
05:10very difficult news to deliver
05:39for adam cole we wish him all the best in his recovery and we most certainly hope that
05:49this is not a goodbye just to see you later
05:52the title reign did not last that long and of course the tnt championship has changed hands
05:59many many times but i thought it was a great title reign i thought he was a great champion
06:03he represented us he represented tmt with respect with pride great kid really is a great kid
06:13we all know him very well
06:16i'm a very special athlete but i've had the pleasure of knowing and calling his matches for well over a decade
06:26i know adam cole one of the toughest men in our life
06:39one of the toughest men in our life
06:51one of the toughest men in our life
07:06I think Reid Lips there, but heartfelt sentiments certainly from Daniel Garcia who suffered with injuries himself in his career.
07:23We all know the dangers and the risks associated with it wouldn't make it any easier.
07:36Daniel Garcia as you mentioned former GMT champion the man Adam Cole defeated to win that title now with a chance to reclaim the GMT championship.
08:04I'm sure not under the circumstances that Daniel Garcia wished for, but in this sport, you cannot take opportunities like this for granted.
08:14Next from Houston, Texas, weighing 203 pounds, here's one half of the Ring of Honor World Tag Team champion, the Spanish God, Sammy Guevara!
08:39Manny Guevara, proud Texan, second man to enter this four-way match here, joined here at the desk by Daddy Magic, Matt Menard.
08:47And Matt, I have to ask, could you, do you care to reveal what you and Adam Cole shared at the top of the ramp?
08:55Just a little, a little I love you? And that was about it, right? Life goes on right here. I hate to sound cold with it, you know?
09:05What's that expression? You stay ready so you don't have to get ready. And that is the epitome of this right here tonight, boys.
09:11Yeah, absolutely. An opportunity here that nobody had any idea was going to be. Certainly not this man.
09:18Next from Austin, Texas, weighing 230 pounds, here's the Ring of Honor World Tag and World Six Fan 19 champion, the natural, Justin Rose!
09:41To Nigel's point, Tony, we began our night with the all-in Texas zero-hour broadcast.
09:51And Sammy Guevara, Dustin Rhodes, alongside Ross and Marshall Bond-Erik, they were victorious to start out the night,
09:58but now returning to the ring to compete against one another, as well as two other opponents for the TNC Championship.
10:08And they wrestled last night, as well, and Supercard have on it. That's, that's what you call just being gamers and nothing else.
10:18Wanting to win a title, there's a hug. They know they'll probably have to do battle before this is over.
10:24Not the first time they've done battle twice. Rhodes and Guevara have clashed one time for the TNC title.
10:31Well, Guevara, a three-time former champion. Will we see him claim the gold again tonight?
10:40In the stars of the stars, look for one of the shots, the Pirates.
10:45From Sydney, Australia, weighing 239 pounds, the Proto Star, Kyle Lester!
11:05The number one contender for the TNC Championship, and I have to imagine the favorite in this match,
11:18but the thing you have to remember is Daniel Garcia, former TNC Champion, Sammy Guevara, three-time former TNC Champion,
11:26and the natural, Dustin Rhodes, has come within a hairspray multiple times throughout his AEW career of claiming that TNC Championship.
11:38That was a semifinalist in the original TNC Championship Tournament. That was five years ago at the towel throw, man.
11:45He's challenged three other times for the final as Dustin, remember, to be the number one contender for this match,
11:52Kyle Fletcher beat Daniel Garcia. Sure did. That was one week ago.
12:00Daniel Garcia still not 100% from that contest. I understand that.
12:04And Daniel Garcia was very open about his run of bad luck as of late, and how things just weren't clicking for him.
12:14But right now, Garcia with a massive opportunity to turn things around in one fell swoop.
12:20You've got to just put everything behind you, have a short memory, and get to work, and that's what we're going to see right here right now.
12:26I think you're right, though, Kyle Fletcher, no question. He's the—got to be the favorite here.
12:31Sammy is coming with so much momentum.
12:35And fans, this TNC Championship four-way match is presented by Eidre.
12:41Fletcher, starting things out with the natural. Dustin Rhodes, Dustin, the boot. Dustin and Sammy actually working in concert.
12:50This is the third match for these guys within 24 hours, right?
12:53Absolutely it is.
12:54Oh! Flying knee there from Dustin Rhodes. Sammy Guevara standing moonsault press.
12:59Kyle Fletcher retreats to the outside. Remember, it is first pinfall or submission.
13:07The man that gets that will be the next TNT champion.
13:11But right now, Garcia and Guevara trying to push the pace here for quick covers, quick pinfall attempts.
13:20He's the Fletcher on the outside. He's just waiting. He realizes he's very unlikely to get a three count at this juncture.
13:29That's smart. You want to pick your spots. Double dropkick right there.
13:35I would imagine being wrestling here in Texas with Sammy Guevara, even though it's the third time within 24 hours.
13:44We're getting cute here, Tony.
13:45Yeah, we're getting cute.
13:47Of course, former members of the JAS here.
13:49I was going to say, Danny Magick, but much like yourself, Garcia, Guevara, no strangers to one another.
13:56Pick him in the face, Danny.
13:57You didn't like that dance, I recall, when it first came out.
14:01The fans love it. I'm not a huge fan of it.
14:03Okay. Sammy going to try.
14:05There you go.
14:06That's a Texas version.
14:09Fletcher, back into the proceedings.
14:12Sent into the rubs, runs through.
14:14Oh, yeah.
14:15Well, Danny and Sammy smokes.
14:16A lot of intensity on the face of Kyle Fletcher, but a lot of right hands on the face of the Nats.
14:24Dustin, or the fist on the face of Sammy Guevara.
14:27Absolutely.
14:28He's certainly going to be feeling it tomorrow.
14:31He's had his opportunities, as we've talked about, for the TNT title before.
14:35But this one, coming seemingly out of thin air, you know, might just be the one, they say.
14:42When God closes a door, he opens a window.
14:45And I saw, I saw, I saw, I'm sorry, Nigel, I saw Dustin when he was, when he first arrived at the arena this morning around 8 a.m.
14:53Welcome time.
14:54And I asked him, I said, how you feeling after last night?
14:56He said, man, I'm sore.
14:57Well, understandably, right?
14:59I mean, you're sore after a match.
15:00That's after one match.
15:01That's right.
15:02Little did he know that he had two matches coming up today.
15:05It's not, not just one match, it's the accumulation over his, his Hall of Fame-worthy career.
15:12Kyle Fletcher gaining control of this match, occupying the center of the ring.
15:19And you've got to be impressed with Kyle Fletcher.
15:21I'm not a fan of him personally, but my God, does he have it together right now?
15:27Incredible shape.
15:28He's built up so much momentum here.
15:30He's starting to develop or garner a reputation for big matches.
15:35Like his former friend, Will Ospreay, to whom he took to social media, saying,
15:41Ascend and surpass, now that he has no longer any need for Ospreay's friendship.
15:49He just got decked, man.
15:51Look at that.
15:52He's, he's wadling.
15:53Oh, boy, there you go.
15:55We're just going to trade shots here on the apron.
15:57Remember, no disqualification in a four-way match.
16:00They can fight on the outside.
16:05The match has to be won inside the ring.
16:07Sure.
16:08Oh, no, look out here.
16:09Daddy, come on!
16:10Oh!
16:10The Spanish fly off the apron as Garcia crashes and burns, but Garce, Guevara not faring much
16:20better.
16:22A little game on those mats on the outside.
16:24Just watch.
16:24Oh, could you see the impact there?
16:27I mean, this works out for both guys in the ring right now.
16:31Kyle Fletcher, the scoop.
16:32Oh, the Michinoku driver planning Dustin Rhodes.
16:35Oh, but Dustin, a quick kick out.
16:37Trying to show something there.
16:38Rhodes, the veteran.
16:39I did it ever, though.
16:40Fletcher made his entrance to this match.
16:44New track by his friends, Hot Mulligan.
16:47Now, feeling confident, feeling like he is all but the next TNT champion.
16:57I mean, he's taking his time here, isn't he?
16:58He's certainly the number one contender, and Dustin Rhodes, when you talked about the
17:04accumulation of injuries, Dustin, he's been very, very open when talking backstage.
17:09Both of his knees in terrible shape, his shoulder in terrible shape, yet he has the grit, the
17:14heart, the tenacity to fight through it all.
17:17But can he endure this figure four from Kyle Fletcher?
17:21But Garcia.
17:23What have you got going here?
17:25Double figure four.
17:26Double figure four leg locks indeed.
17:29How about this?
17:29Who's going to give him?
17:31Squeeze it, Danny.
17:33Well, you mentioned Dustin Rhodes.
17:3536 years, 2,800-plus matches, five different decades he's wrestled.
17:42A champion over and over again.
17:45Hell of a career, and that has certainly put a little toil on his body.
17:50You can see the knees of Rhodes there.
17:54Taped up underneath.
17:55Hold on a second.
17:56Reversing.
17:57Fletcher and Garcia now finding themselves.
18:01Don't you tap, man.
18:01Don't you tap.
18:02You're a pussy, don't you?
18:04Oh!
18:05Look at this, guys!
18:09It was locked in the inverted figure fours.
18:12And now, finally, Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara separate after Fletcher and Garcia just paint-brushing one another.
18:20Daniel Garcia said, no, I'm not going to tap, you tap.
18:23That was tremendous.
18:24One has to think, though, fellas.
18:26We've talked about it.
18:27This really is Carl Fletcher's match to lose.
18:32And he's got to feel, Jep, in a sense of he prepared for his one-on-one contest.
18:36But there is that.
18:37And he also, it was very emotional for Fletcher.
18:40He talked about all-in Wembley Stadium two years ago.
18:44Feeling as though Adam Cole embarrassed him on that stage.
18:49Taking the Ring of Honor tag team titles from him at that point.
18:54This is personal for Fletcher.
18:59Uppercut.
19:00Oh!
19:02Sammy Guevara thought he had matters handled with Daniel Garcia, but Fletcher out of nowhere.
19:07And now Fletcher.
19:07That's such a long reach for those legs.
19:11That's Fletcher.
19:12Fletcher's going to the floor.
19:13And now Sammy Guevara looking to go to work.
19:15Back inside the ring.
19:16The springboard.
19:16Oh!
19:17He goes to the outside!
19:19Wow, I didn't see it coming so suddenly.
19:22God, Fletcher was on the way.
19:24That's what it's going to take here.
19:25You've got to take a risk if you want to win it all.
19:27And Sammy's been known to take crazy risks.
19:29We know that from the very, very first match ever in AEW on TNT.
19:36Daniel Garcia, though.
19:37With Sammy Guevara in his grip, Garcia.
19:40Be careful up there, Danny.
19:41Dustin's behind you.
19:43Garcia making the climb to the tippy top.
19:47Big time superplex.
19:50He likes to keep these going.
19:54Garcia.
19:55High risk, high impact.
19:56Turns the hips, pumps the legs.
19:58And now, maybe for a second one on Sammy Guevara.
20:03Damage to Guevara, but it's damage to Garcia as well.
20:07I'm up there.
20:07All right!
20:08Woo!
20:12Garcia.
20:13Well, Danny was in a lot of pain.
20:15I could see through that.
20:16Yeah, taking a moment.
20:17We're going for three here.
20:18Yep.
20:19A moment to collect himself before looking for the third.
20:22I mean, that is not easy to lift a guy like that three times in a row.
20:25Oh, the impact.
20:27As Fletcher intervenes, and I just noticed in the bottom corner of your screen, Dustin Rhodes
20:33talked about his knee injuries.
20:35He's trying to work out some kinks while these three men are battling as Garcia looks for a...
20:41He's got a double here.
20:42He's got a double here.
20:42He's got a double.
20:43He's got a double.
20:43Superplex in.
20:44It's a two-for-one.
20:46Woo!
20:49Get a pin, Danny.
20:49Get a pin.
20:51Garcia covers, but Guevara able to kick out.
20:55An awkward-looking cover from Garcia, and I dare say that Garcia injured himself slightly.
21:01Just watch here how all three men land.
21:04Look for the hips, for the legs.
21:05Ooh!
21:07Clattering into the match.
21:09Must have pulled his back, pulling those two up right there.
21:13Wow.
21:14Guevara back to his feet, but Garcia continuing to apply pressure.
21:18One, two, three.
21:20You've seen...
21:21Austin, rabbit punches to the back of the neck.
21:23Got hit.
21:24You've seen Garcia use this big series of punches.
21:29Give it to him, Danny!
21:30I gotta say, Garcia's got a lot of life in this match.
21:33I think it's because he realizes he's got a second chance now.
21:36Absolutely, Tony.
21:37After losing last week on collision, didn't think he had a shot at the TNT title.
21:41Excalibur, he's got a shot here tonight to get it back.
21:43Certainly does!
21:46But so does the natural, Dustin Rhodes, a chance to claim the TNT championship for the first time.
21:52The smart veteran waiting in the wings.
21:54Pick the spot.
21:57Fletcher.
21:59Trying to take it.
22:00Oh!
22:01Dustin!
22:02The Destroyer!
22:04Boy, this could be in here.
22:06And cross!
22:08Rhodes!
22:09No, no, no, Danny!
22:11Oh!
22:12Oh, that was close.
22:13That was close.
22:14Dustin gave his big shot that time.
22:16It's got to go right back at him again.
22:18He waits for it.
22:19For Rhodes, who's come close before, as we talked about, to winning the TNT title.
22:25Will this work out any more differently?
22:27Oh, wait a second.
22:28Oh, no.
22:31Setting up.
22:33Fletcher.
22:35Dustin with Fletcher in the ropes.
22:38I mean, it's a four-way match, Tony.
22:40You identified it.
22:41Yep.
22:41This is not where you want to be.
22:42No disqualification, but the...
22:44Oh, Danny Garcia intervenes.
22:49Danny, what do you care?
22:52Yeah, this is perplexing.
22:54Really?
22:55I see it.
22:56I don't know.
22:57Hold on.
22:59Dustin Rhodes short.
23:00Oh, Danny wants to do it.
23:02Is that it?
23:02I don't know about turning your back like that.
23:04No!
23:05Darcyn delivers an unnatural kick of his own.
23:08I think Danny was saying, give me the first shot.
23:10Sammy Guevara.
23:21Here we go.
23:22Oh, there's no need for this.
23:24This is just vicious.
23:25Come on.
23:26True and unusual punishment.
23:28Fletcher.
23:29It's a good time.
23:29Yes.
23:30Don't you kind of wish it was Don Callis tied up in those ropes?
23:33Now, that would be something.
23:34That would be something.
23:36And the fans behind Dustin now.
23:39They want to see it.
23:39A message delivered on a number of levels by Dustin Rhodes.
23:49Oh, down goes the Protostar great.
23:52Oh!
23:53Oh, no.
23:54Oh, wait.
23:54Was that a miscalculation?
23:56Oh, no.
23:56I had a friendly fire.
23:57I think Garcia stepped out of the path of Sammy Guevara.
24:01But now...
24:02Turn him over, Danny.
24:04Garcia.
24:05Guys, this is our chance here.
24:07That's right.
24:07You've got Dustin down.
24:08You've got the Protostar on the outside.
24:10This is it now.
24:11Garcia turns the corner.
24:12Sammy Guevara trapped on the Boston Crab.
24:15And you notice how Garcia, Nigel, he's rocking back on those heels, trying to apply even more
24:20pressure to the spine, the legs.
24:22Pull it, Danny.
24:23Pull it.
24:23Sit deep.
24:24You can see Guevara twisting to his shoulder to take the pressure off with the hips.
24:29Good call, Nigel.
24:31The up kick delivered by Sammy.
24:33And now Guevara.
24:39Look out here.
24:39He's looking.
24:40G.
24:41T.
24:42H.
24:421.
24:432.
24:44Oh, Dustin.
24:47Roach wants the title.
24:49Well, what do you expect, Sammy?
24:51Well, exactly.
24:52It's every man for himself.
24:53We've said it so many times.
24:55It's repetitive.
24:56But yes, you can't get mad at this.
24:58I mean, this is what it is.
24:59Well, Roach was saying, you kicked me in the corner.
25:02A little bit of payback there.
25:04Boys, not everything's personal here.
25:06They're going to go at it, though.
25:09This might be my only shot.
25:11Here we go.
25:12Now Garcia, too.
25:13Well, Dustin got bumped to the head hard that time.
25:16Sammy and Dustin, their heads clattered.
25:19And now Sammy, for a suplex of his own.
25:24Stringing them together here.
25:26Garcia trying to fight against it.
25:27But Sammy.
25:29No snap suplex that time.
25:32You can feel it.
25:33This thing's starting to break down now.
25:36That is anybody's match at this point.
25:38Feels like they're ripe for the pickings now.
25:41It could be somebody's match.
25:43It could be Sammy's.
25:45The frog slash.
25:46No.
25:47Garcia, the knees up.
25:48The boy.
25:49Keep the cover.
25:49No.
25:51Garcia steps through.
25:53Dragon Tamer.
25:54Turns the corner.
25:55Dragon Tamer.
25:56Oh, no.
25:57He slips out of it.
25:58Well done, Sammy Guevara.
26:00Kicking to try to make sure.
26:03And with Fletcher there, no way we're going to see a submission.
26:05Yeah, the protostore laying it away just like MJ up was.
26:09Oh!
26:14Nope.
26:15Swing it up and missed by Guevara.
26:17It was Fletcher who injured Adam Cole.
26:20He's going to hurt some other people here.
26:25How explosive is Kyle Fletcher?
26:27And Dustin Rhodes might have just been about to go out, but Kyle Fletcher catching him on
26:32the descent.
26:34Sammy and Danny are done for here.
26:36And Fletcher.
26:37Again, steaming in with the high boot.
26:43Wait a second.
26:44Fletcher lined up for the brain buster, but he spots Sammy Guevara.
26:49Coming in and Guevara catch him in a cutter.
26:52Picking up the loose change here.
26:55Piledriver delivered by Garcia.
26:56And Dustin Rhodes, the crucifix, the cover, Garcia, the escape.
27:01Great job, Dustin, getting in there.
27:03All right, Rhodes opening up for those Oza hand shots.
27:12Oh, Sunset flip.
27:13No, Garcia rolls through.
27:15Dragon Tamer.
27:16Keep it on.
27:17On the natural.
27:18This time he's got it on fully.
27:20And it was a big man to have that hold on.
27:22Those knees of Dustin have been punished, Tony.
27:25And nobody on the outside to help him.
27:27Everybody is down.
27:29The pain etched on the face of Rhodes, not just the lower back.
27:33But the midsection, the ribs, so difficult to breathe in this position.
27:38Third match in 24 hours.
27:40It's amazing.
27:41You know he's laboring.
27:42Oh, wait.
27:42But Dustin.
27:44No, what?
27:44Oh, my goodness.
27:46What?
27:46No.
27:48Here's your winner.
27:50And the new TNT champion.
27:54The national Dustin Rhodes.
28:00I said we might see something special.
28:04And it doesn't get much more special than that.
28:06He did it.
28:08Dustin Rhodes did it in Texas.
28:12Hell yeah.
28:12For the first time in his career, Dustin Rhodes can call himself a champion in all elite wrestling as Globe Life Field rises to their feet.
28:32How many times did he fall short?
28:38But he did it to Christian.
28:40To Brody.
28:41In the tournament.
28:46Overcome with emotion.
28:48Rhodes finally ascends the title.
28:52Yes, sir.
28:52We all thought Fletcher was leaving with the TNT title.
28:59The odds aren't favored, Nigel.
29:01By, I think, almost any account.
29:03But Dustin Rhodes defies the odds.
29:08I've noticed.
29:09Defies age.
29:11Defies expectations.
29:14And claims the TNT championship.
29:16This is Texas.
29:18This is one of the best moments we've ever witnessed.
29:20Ever.
29:20I've known this man since he was a very young boy.
29:25They had a front page story in the Dallas Morning News on the Rhodes family yesterday.
29:32His nephews are out with him.
29:33Wayne and Wyatt Rhodes.
29:36Grandsons of the late great Dusty Rhodes.
29:39LeVon Erichs, Ross, and Marshall.
29:42Also after the ring to celebrate.
29:44Unbelievable.
29:45Three matches in 24 hours.
29:46It is.
29:47Walking away the new TNT champion.
29:49What dreams.
29:50This may come.
29:54Thank you, gentlemen.
29:56Thanks, Matt.
29:58You can tell.
29:59This man is spent.
30:02This man.
30:03Is hurt.
30:04He's sore.
30:05But damn it, he's a champion.
30:06He's a champion.
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