Riho

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they trialed at, uh, EVE Global Thunder: Queens Attack at the beginning of this month with Kay Lee Ray, Alexis Falcon, Emerson Jax, Holly Barlow, Lucy Sky, Molly Spartan, Riho, and Skye Smitson.

Which I probably would like to watch more than who else-

Yeah

Yeah, it's crazy.

But the eight women who were part of this very first Clockwork Carnage were Riho, Har- Holly Barlow, Skye Smitson, Emerson Jane, Kay Lee Ray, Molly Spartan, Lucy Deathmatch, and Alexis Falcon.

And all of these women, extremely talented.

There was a really scary spot in this match with Emerson Jane [laughs] where she basically lawn darted herself on a suicide dive into the chairs, and it was the m- nastiest thing I think I've seen, and that's saying that after seeing Emerson Jane get darts put in her mouth [laughs] not that long ago, so.

Paul.

Uh, probably the smallest woman in all of AEW history, who is Riho?

Who is Riho is correct.

Paul has a lead, 400 to Shep's zero.

Come on, Shep.

I'll give you a little, I'll give you a little life here, Paul.

Um, I'll go with, I'll go with one of the, uh, OGs.

I'll go with Riho.

A lot of people called it out as one of the best matches on the show.

And as I said, like Hikaru Shida, Riho...

Yuka Sakazaki, and there was also Aja Kong was in it, Ryo Mizunami, who would spend a bit of time there.

Emi Sakura was in it as well.

Yeah.

The pandemic sort of put the brakes on that a lot because I think most of them ended up back in Japan.

I think Riho was wrestling for stardom through the pandemic, if I remember correctly.

I know Yuka was wrestling for Tokyo Joshi Pro, I believe.

And it's important that, you know, that respect goes all the way around to include the audience who are kind enough to then support us when we go onto this platform and, and show everyone, hey, you know, there's an audience, especially when it comes to an all women's product.

So like, like I was saying before, the one thing that I loved about this matchup, uh, from Friday was the different rivalries that you highlighted, like Riho and Holly Holm.

Uh, like they've been going at it, and think of the little underdog story with Holly is just so great and so riveting that I've been enjoying that, and them going back and forth and her getting the win on Riho to eliminate her I think furthered that story.

You also had, uh, Kay Lee Ray and Emerson Jane, who have a long history with one another in EVE.

So what did you think about that opportunity to tell those different stories and call back to like 2017? You guys did a great job on-

So everything that you said there, um, very kind and appreciated, but I've gotta throw that on, on, onto Will, uh, 'cause Will deserves the credit on that.

Um, and it made my life and Abby's life doing commentary so much easier because you already have, you know, these backstories that you can play up to.

And then like you said with Holly Holm, you know, scoring the pinfall over Riho, which is, you know, an upset pin, uh, which is the kind of the basis of their feud, uh, anyway.