Episode 113 - Wrestle Kingdom 14 and Brock Lesnar

Hi everybody and WELCOME, to a Brock Lesnar rumbling, long-term story line building, Japanese kingdom of wrestling episode of the Brothers...of Discussion! We’re going to talk everything from the most shocking entry into the 2020 Royal Rumble, the return of the World’s Largest Athlete, and much much more!

Wrestling Stuff

• Brock Lesnar in the Royal Rumble

• Kenny Omega responds to Women’s Division criticism

  • “Lately, most “criticisms” I read are incredibly ignorant,” he responded to one fan who specifically asked about them as a whole. “Depressing the number of fans that have absolutely no class. That being said, I do try to sift through those to get to the actual constructive criticism.”

  • In response to another fan who said they felt like AEW failed to make their women’s division mean something last year, Kenny replied: “We’ve had fantastic performances from our women that had our arenas shaking. Literally the loudest reactions on the show at times. Where was the failure? What were you hoping to see?”

• Big Show returns!!

Wrestle Kingdom 14

• 10 Hours of Wrestling where I knew very little of what was going on

• Naito, Switchblade Jay White, Ibushi, and Okada put on four awesome matches

  • Naito wins the small tourney to become IC IWGP and IWGP Heavyweight Champ

  • Kenta crashes the party (not a fan of this moment, but was impressed by Kenta earlier)

• Jericho has a solid match, but forgettable

  • Ends with a few minutes of Walls of Jericho

  • He’s getting old and it’s fine

• Moxley made Juice Robinson look like he should’ve been let go by NXT

The state of WWE

• Commitment to long-term storylines is encouraging

  • Lashley v Rusev

  • Orton v Styles

  • Murphy v Aleister

  • Bray v Daniel Bryan

  • The rebuilding of McIntyre vs the field

    • Where did that crowd reaction come from?? 3..2..1..Claymore!

Top 3 from another edition of Wednesday Night Wars

AEW

• Orange Cassidy pop

  • Brings the house down, commentary team comments on it

  • Gets a boo for Luchasaurus!

• Nightmare Family v Lucha Bros

• DDP gets a 10-minute yoga commercial

  • Loved MJF’s reaction

  • Crowd chants “yoga, yoga, yoga!”

• Moxley teases Inner Circle alliance for way too long

NXT

• Rhea Ripley, Toni Storm, Candice LeRae vs. Kay Lee Ray, Io Shirai, Bianca Belair

• Keith Lee vs Dijakovic vs Cameron Grimes vs Damian Priest

• Imperium defeating the Forgotten Sons

  • Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner