{"id":96992,"date":"2020-05-05T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=96992"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:10:31","slug":"5-4-aew-road-to-double-or-nothing-star-wars-theme-a-ton-of-q-t-marshall-a-shida-video-ddp-and-jack-evans-tops-a-very-strange-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/05\/05\/5-4-aew-road-to-double-or-nothing-star-wars-theme-a-ton-of-q-t-marshall-a-shida-video-ddp-and-jack-evans-tops-a-very-strange-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/4 AEW ROAD TO DOUBLE OR NOTHING: Star Wars theme, a ton of Q.T. Marshall, a Shida Video, DDP, and Jack Evans tops a very strange episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3711942561\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>ROAD TO DOUBLE OR NOTHING<br \/>\nPOSTED ON YOUTUBE.COM<br \/>\nMAY 4, 2020<br \/>\nREPORT BY ZACH GRAHAM, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ROAD TO Double Or Nothing | 5\/4\/20\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsJRmnco_44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cody Rhodes was walking down a hallway in his wrestling gear wielding a green light saber as dramatic music played. Tony Schiavone was shown holding a red light saber as he looked through a dark hallway. Through a window you could see Cody and Schiavone battling with the light sabers, with some generic light saber sounds. QT Marshall walks through a door at the end of the hallway and sees them fighting in the dark. He walks in and turns on the light to reveal Cody standing on the conference room table and Schiavone on the floor as the two whacked plastic light sabers together. QT laughed and said \u201cOh I get it, because it\u2019s Star Trek Day. Which one of you is Sergeant Spock?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Road To Double or Nothing was shown in the signature Star Wars style font.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Cody, Schiavone, and Marshall were now sitting around the conference table. Cody yelled hello to Shida, who appeared on a Zoom video call next to them and waved. Cody asked her how she\u2019s doing and she said she\u2019s doing good. Shida was sitting in front of a piano and Cody said he and QT have heard her play, but Tony hasn\u2019t so Cody asked if she\u2019d be willing to play. Shida played a song on her piano for them for a solid minute, it was very good. Cody noted in the middle that she sings as well. All three marveled at her talent as she continued with her song. Schiavone said something in Japanese to her and she responded in kind. They thanked her and told her to have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A package on QT Marshall aired. He said he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019d do with his life if he didn\u2019t have professional wrestling. He said when he started with AEW, in the back of his mind he knew he wanted to perform, but the biggest question was his neck. In 2016 he had six screws put in his neck, but deep down he knew he could do it. He acknowledged he knew where he was needed, though and that was behind the scenes. Clips aired of him producing during a taping were shown. The clip of him coming out with Cody for a match then aired with Justin Roberts announcing them to the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall said teaming with Cody was, by far, the greatest night of his professional career and the most stressful situation he\u2019s ever been in as well. Commentary from Ross and Schiavone aired and marveled at him as he dove through the ropes in that match. A clip of Cody aired from an interview they did after that match and Cody said he\u2019s sorry that he didn\u2019t want him as a partner, but any time he wants to ride again he\u2019s happy to do it. Marshall said becoming a member of the Nightmare Family isn\u2019t something that happened overnight and Cody looks at him as somebody that he trusts.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall said he does have some doubt about whether he belongs with them because their last name is Rhodes. He said Dustin pulling him aside to ask if he wanted to partner with him put a lot of pressure on him because he\u2019s probably one of the best in the company still, so there\u2019s a big gap between himself and Dustin with a lot of the roster in between them in terms of talent. Because of that, Marshall said there\u2019s a lot of pressure on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Luther said there are a lot of stars in the AEW dressing room who do not know their history, specifically the history of \u201cthe original death dealer.\u201d Pictures of Luther tormenting opponents with barbed wire and chairs were shown, all of them showing both opponents covered in blood. Luther said they do not know the history of all the doomed souls that have laid beneath his feet withering in pain. He said \u201cbe warned, be very warned because those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.\u201d He pointed and talked to a picture of Jimmy Havoc on the wall behind him. He said the original death dealer has not forgotten about Jimmy as video of his backstage attack on Havoc was shown. Luther said they started a fight that they have not yet finished. Luther said he\u2019s been thinking a lot about life and about Jimmy\u2019s life and it always ends in blunt force trauma. He said when Havoc least expects it, when he turns his back, he will attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The TH2 entrance song played. Angelico popped up and said that TH2 are the most original, diverse, and unique tag team currently in pro wrestling, but of course you wouldn\u2019t know that because the moment they got to AEW, they\u2019ve been under used, undervalued, and underappreciated. He said that every other member of the AEW roster is sent a professional camera man to help them film their home segments during quarantine, but not them. He said that doesn\u2019t surprise them because the yard stick for success has nothing to do with hard work or performance, but it\u2019s about friendships and favoritism. He said there is no clearer example of this than the Best Friends.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-4167598887\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Jack Evans said that everyone has lost faith so they must lead the All Elite Inquisition and he has named Chuck Taylor and \u201cthe other one\u201d as heretics for their transgressions against \u201cthe two true hybrid gods of wrestling.\u201d Evans said that their retribution shall be their humiliation until their names are forgotten from the very annals of wrestling history because it\u2019s no longer worth remembering. Evans said \u201cI knock out, by pin fall or submission, the heretic, the blasphemer, and the best friend alike just to be cleansed of the sin of existence.\u201d Angelico said \u201cbefore you go, just remember that when it comes to talent, there are many, when it comes to the best there are a few, but when you talk about the greatest, then there\u2019s only TH2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A black truck pulled up to a house and QT Marshall got out. He walked up to the front door and Diamond Dallas Page walked up to the front door. Without opening it, he yelled through the door and told QT to go around back. Marshall opened the back yard fence and entered the back yard. DDP mumbled under his breath \u201cdoes he really think I\u2019m going to let him come in the house?\u201d Marshall stood at a window in the back yard and talked to DDP who sat down in a chair. DDP yelled and pointed at a chair outside telling Marshall to grab it, so he did and he sat down. DDP called him, but Marshall ignored it thinking it was someone else. DDP held up his phone and yelled \u201cdude, it\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall took out his phone and they talked through the phones. DDP sarcastically asked if he could hear him through the glass, obviously not, which is why he called instead because he\u2019s taking \u201cthe COVID thing\u201d very seriously. Marshall apologized and said that, with Dustin incapacitated right now, he\u2019s just looking for a little mentorship. DDP said no more wrestling for him, he\u2019s done. DDP asked if he was trying to tag and Marshall said no. DDP apologized for cutting him off before he could finish and said he\u2019s not doing that (tag teaming) again and laughed. Marshall said he\u2019s getting an opportunity with Archer on Dynamite, but people are discounting him right away.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall said if he has Cody or Dustin with him at ringside, the fans are on board, but when he\u2019s alone people think that \u201cdue to nepotism, he\u2019s just on the show again.\u201d DDP said you can\u2019t talk to him about nepotism, Eric Bischoff was one of his best friends and the bottom line is, that didn\u2019t help him at all, if anything it made it harder on him and he had to work five times harder.<\/p>\n<p>DDP said he can\u2019t really help Marshall with the part he\u2019s asking him to, with the fans, because there are no fans right now, but he said they\u2019ll react to his self-confidence. He said that Marshall will hit a move, then pop up and look surprised at what he just did, but he needs to come up and own it. DDP said when Page Joseph Falkinberg stopped trying to be Dallas Diamond Page, the over the top performer, Diamond Dallas Page started taking on the characteristics of him as a person. He said that\u2019s when he career started taking off because he knew who he was and where he belonged and Marshall needs to do the same thing. Marshall thanked him and said \u201cwe\u2019ll see what happens with Archer.\u201d DDP said good luck and Marshall walked off. DDP said \u201cyou\u2019re going to need it\u201d to himself as he got up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL THOUGHTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some segment by segment thoughts as I don\u2019t really have any cohesive thoughts this week:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The nod to Star Wars was really well done and it didn\u2019t overstay its welcome. If it was more than just that little Cody\/Schiavone play fight and the Road To graphic, I think it may rub people the wrong way especially with the tone that the Road To series has had in the past. Given that it was so short, I think it\u2019s fine even though it makes Cody and Schiavone look pretty ridiculous to some.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1704031984\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; I thought the Shida segment was utterly worthless. She\u2019s a fantastic piano player and I thought her playing was great, but what purpose did it serve? She just played then Cody\/Schiavone\/Marshall said thank you and she left? What purpose did it serve? Maybe it will go somewhere, but it just felt so random I don\u2019t know what you can do with it.<\/p>\n<p>There was a ton of QT Marshall on this episode, it was almost jarring. He was with Cody and Schiavone for the Shida segment, he had a video package, and then he met with DDP at the end. I didn\u2019t even know he had a match with Archer on Dynamite this week until he was talking to DDP about it. I assume that it\u2019s happening this week? I guess I\u2019m still not sure. The video package was well done, but kind of random. I\u2019m not sure what purpose it served especially with his talk with DDP on the same episode. I like stuff like the video package and meeting with a wrestling legend for advice separately, but when it\u2019s the same person doing both, I\u2019m not sure why both have to be on the same show?<\/p>\n<p>So the strangest thing on this show was the TH2 video. I\u2019m still trying to wrap my mind around what Jack Evans was doing. He was speaking so strangely and then he started talking about heretics and blaspheming and I was almost disoriented trying to keep up with him speed talking as I wrote this report. I don\u2019t know what the goal was in speaking like that, unless it was to seem crazy. If that was the goal, mission accomplished. I thought Angelico did a great job, until his cheesy tag line at the very end: &#8220;Just remember that when it comes to talent, there are many. When it comes to the best, there are a few. But when you talk about the greatest, then there\u2019s only TH2.\u201d Some may like that, I thought it was horrible. I hate cute catch phrases or tag lines like that. It conveniently rhymes and I just roll my eyes. If I just take out that final line, I loved Angelico\u2019s message, but between that final line and the Jack Evans portion, it\u2019s a disappointment for me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH UP&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/04\/28\/4-27-aew-road-to-tnt-championship-jake-roberts-and-dustin-preview-semi-finals-of-archer-vs-dustin-darby-bluntly-says-hes-not-star-struck-by-facing-cody-anymore\/\">4\/27 AEW ROAD TO TNT CHAMPIONSHIP: Jake Roberts and Dustin preview semi-finals of Archer vs. Dustin, Darby bluntly says he\u2019s not star-struck by facing Cody anymore<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2412079340\"><div id=\"pwtor-4244236764\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>ROAD TO DOUBLE OR NOTHING POSTED ON YOUTUBE.COM MAY 4, 2020 REPORT BY ZACH GRAHAM, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR &#8211; Cody Rhodes was walking down a hallway in his wrestling gear wielding a green light saber as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/05\/05\/5-4-aew-road-to-double-or-nothing-star-wars-theme-a-ton-of-q-t-marshall-a-shida-video-ddp-and-jack-evans-tops-a-very-strange-episode\/\" title=\"5\/4 AEW ROAD TO DOUBLE OR NOTHING: Star Wars theme, a ton of Q.T. 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