Bully went on to say that there’s a way to execute the Joe vs. HOOK title clash, where the FTW Champion still comes out of the bout with “the heart of a lion,” without blasting through all of Joe’s offense. Ray asked “Busted Open” host Dave LaGreca how he would have felt if HOOK had been helped to the back by Taz, his father, following that championship encounter.

LaGreca felt that moment would have “grabbed everyone by the heartstrings” if AEW had signed off “Dynamite” with that. Bully later said that AEW would be foolish if they didn’t build on HOOK’s memorable performance on Wednesday night. He then spoke about a potential rematch between Joe and HOOK.

“After everything that I saw last night, if HOOK and Joe were to have a rematch, HOOK could not be beat by any of [Joe’s] moves now,” the multi-time tag team champion said. “He’s already proven that Joe couldn’t beat him.” Moving forward, Bully wants to hear from the reigning AEW World Champion, because he believes Joe can get HOOK over more than HOOK can. Ray explained, “If Joe says, ‘That kid’s got heart. That kid took everything I had and he…’ Remember when Tony, Apollo Creed’s trainer, told Apollo — I’m getting goosebumps, man — when he said, ‘Champ, that man, you hit that man with everything you had, and he kept coming back.’ … So if Joe says it, in a Joe, heel, bad mothertrucker way, wow. Now the kid’s over.”

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