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Hello, Eito, Hello, we
too, Hello, we thought this is

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me Chokolata Radio Rumber ninety seven point
Boston. Yes, the podcast, this

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podcast called the episode this is a
different one, and it is a different

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one because when could you rock star
in a different format. This is the

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guy to define where the rock star
looks like, sounds like without being an

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actual singer, without being an actual
artist, well, a different type of

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artists, if I would, I
gotta tell anything for anything Sea Cantante,

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he wasn't a singer, but he
was actually someone that brought singers to the

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actual wrestling. The w w E
champion, the Heartbreak Kid makes a noise

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with us talking about next for mister
Shaw. Mike calls, Wow, pleasure

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to have you. Thank you very
much. Obviously, Uh, I appreciate

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the interduction. Um, yeah,
I don't. Yeah, I'm not sure

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how much. Certainly, earlier in
my career I felt like I definitely brought

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a rock atmosphere. Obviously, as
I got older, change is melded up

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a little bit to a little country
and Western. But obviously we are from

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NXT thrilled about the NXT Battleground Premium
live event coming to Lowell, mass On

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Sunday, May twenty eight, You
know what I mean, at the Song

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Center looking forward to uh, you
know, being our first time ever having

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a premium live event in Massachusetts.
So NXT is filed about coming there,

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and that is actually the NXC Champion
Comarl and Haz's backyard, So obviously he's

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excited about it, and just everybody
here to NXC and the men and women

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that uh, you know, performed
for this brand are excited about coming to

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Lowell and just obviously just having a
fantastic time on May twenty eight. Sean,

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how it doesn't feel being one of
this groundbreaking type of performers. And

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again I have to emphasize the whole
you bringing that the whole rock star status

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to wrestling in general, and then
being bart of this new era with NXT

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and so on and so forth.
Look, obviously when you're when you're in

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there doing it, you know what
I mean. And it look, we

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had an absolutely and I started with
it. I loved to push the envelope

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and that was. Look, we
really felt that we were doing innovative stuff

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back in the nineties, right,
and it was just something, as you

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say, you know, was a
different look and to the side of the

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WWE, and it was Look,
it was not easy to come by.

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A lot of people pushed back because
we pushed against the tradition um and a

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lot of the I don't know,
those deep seated things that you were sort

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of never supposed to do, those
taboo things that you were never supposed to

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do. And we just felt like
it was time to push that envelope.

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And thankfully, uh, you know, as we finally broke that ceiling um,

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you know, it all came crashing
down, but all in a really

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good way, you know, I
mean, it just opened up, uh,

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you know, obviously into the attitude
era and and you know it's taken

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obviously, uh you know, the
ww to where it is today to a

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multi billion dollar entity. And obviously
NXT is a big part of that.

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And that's something that you know,
I would be a hypocrite if I didn't

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teach these young men and women here
look looking for that next level, you

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know what I mean. I mean, on one hand, obviously you never

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get away from basic um, you
know what I mean, and what you

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know foundationally always works from this line
of work. But at the same time,

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striving to carve yourself a new and
different future and to separate yourself from

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everybody else. So that's one of
the big things we do here in the

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XT and obviously you know and in
Lowell and on the twenty eight man,

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that we're going to see a bunch
of performers from NXT going out their battleground

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and again showing them, showing everybody
in Lowell, Massachusetts and all around the

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world what the future has for the
WWE I attition, attition at see on

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the whole world, the whole mass
and Connecticut's going to be coming down.

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New Hampshire is going to be coming
down, Man, is gonna be coming

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down to this NXC. And I
like something that you just mentioned, and

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it is the fact that the traditional
ways meet the new ways in creating your

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own way. Is this what's NXC
is trying to do? Absolutely again,

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because I look, I think all
of you and myself, even as a

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fan UM, I appreciated those those
performers that would take risks and and try

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things, you know what I mean. And then look, every sport,

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every form of entertainment, UM is
always trying to be innovative and cook deal

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and again and take it into the
future. And the WWE is no different.

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And that's one of the things here
at NASC that we have got to

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encourage. This is like, this
is the future of the WWE UM And

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you know, look, on one
hand, you always want to, like

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I said, pay attention to your
you know, to your foundational principle.

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But at the same time, I
think the fans are really loving the action,

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the excitement, uh, you know
that NXT brings. And like I

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said, when we come to Lowell
on the twenty eighth, man, we're

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just gonna We're gonna go out there. We're gonna tear the house down.

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These young men and women. You
know, again you are looking at people

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that are hungry, uh, and
they are just incredibly excited about trying to

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carve their way, especially with the
draft just happening, you know. I

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mean, they see that opportunity to
be out there on raw and SmackDown.

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You know, they're so so close
they can taste it, you know what

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I mean. So you gotta go
to songcenter dot com you get your tickets

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because the battleground on the twenty eighth
is gonna be a major blowout and it's

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gonna be a fantastic show. Battleground
on the twenty eight, Lowell is ready

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and I think that you're going to
have a mixture crowd over here, a

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lot of Spanish folks a endo because
we love wrestling. Latino's love wrestling.

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I mean, you you learn one
of the best Holezeotario, right, And

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I got this question for you East
possibility of NXT eventually are going to to

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Latin countries and try to do it
there as well, just the same way

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he's going to happen here on the
twenty eight. Look, as you know,

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growing up in Texas, man,
you know, I grew up on

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Luc Libre and yeah, like you
mentioned, uh you know, trained by

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Jose and a Theaty. So look, it's always had uh you know,

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an incredible you know aspect, uh
and impact on my career. Um,

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just something that I absolutely loved.
And look and that's what again even stylistically

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in NXT, we you know,
we you know, we have Dragon Lee

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here now and he's just got such
right future and he is going to be

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there and you know what I mean
in lower lasts, um, you know,

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showing everybody what he's what he's made
up. And look, you know

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the WWE and certainly from an NXT
standpoint, we're looking to expand all over

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the world. So I will always
say this to me, we have so

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many uh as, you know,
fantastic Latino stars that it's to me it's

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come and sense, you know what
I mean, to try to uh you

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know, to go into those you
know, aspects of the country this year.

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Look, they got a big show
in Puerto Rico. Um, but

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we from an NXT standpoint, nothing
would thrill me more than someday to have

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a you know what I mean,
an NXT regular stop uh going down you

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know in that neck of the woods. You know what I love to see,

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I mean, especially looking at Bad
Bunny now incorporating with WWE. I

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love to see Bad Bunny also coming
to an NXT advent of that nature,

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and so on and so forth.
What does it mean for you that the

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actual Lightning artists have incorporated themselves now
where we're wrestling you being in here for

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so many years, you being a
massive I mean the original rocker for real.

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Let's let's get to that. Well. Look, yeah, I mean

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I grew up on you know,
Scorpions and Judas Priests and at DC.

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So you know again, and I'll
tell what I really appreciate about guys like

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that Bunny um is. Again,
it's just the sincerity um at which they

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appreciate um what we do, you
know what I mean. I mean,

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he is a guy that is absolutely
you know, he's a huge megastar,

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and he could come in and just
kind of phone it in and do whatever

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he wants. But I'm telling you
what that guy works so hard at and

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again a true trying to understand and
and and uh, you know, perform

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what it is we do, you
know, I mean, he's I mean,

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he's had a ring set up at
his place, he's training all the

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time, and again he's the guy. Look, I would you know,

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I would argue that you know what
I mean, he wouldn't have to you

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know what I mean, Wow,
he could go to do whatever he wants.

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But I thought I really like about
guys like him and Logan Paul.

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I mean, they have really they
don't want to just come in and have

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a payday and do something to help
their own ran. They want to be

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good at what it is we do. They have such a respect, you

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know what I mean for what it
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that they want to be a big
part of it, and they want to

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They want to be good. They
want the fans to enjoy their performance as

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much as they do the you know, the regular uh full time you know

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WW superstar. And again I would
say that that's that's something that's really changed

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from way back in the day.
You know, there have always been people

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that have wanted to cross over into
our line of work, but I don't

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know if they had quite the dedication
um that you know that the crossover performers

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have today. Again and again,
I have a great deal respect for Bad

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Bunny obviously and what he's accomplished on
on his own, but what he does

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and what he gives and the effort
he puts forth um to really be a

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good WW superstar enforce in the enforcing
wrestling, it's crazy. It's crazy,

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definitely, it is, Sean and
and I want to I want to interject

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there because the seriousness of wrestling,
I think has been overlooked by some folks.

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But on the twenty eight in Lowell, what's going to happen Because according

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to what I'm saying, according to
what I'm my services say, this is

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going to be sivy it is.
It's gonna be that absolutely huge yeah,

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I'm telling you right now, man, you need to get out the song

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Center dot com uh and pick up
your tickets because we are coming. I

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mean, Carmelo Hayes. He's from
that Negather Woods. He is the NXT

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Championship champion. Looks is that he's
going to be, you know, defending

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that title against a very fired up
and a very angry broun breaker who's just

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a athlete and looks as of last
night we just heard that again, we're

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gonna be crowning a new NXT women's
champion by Lowell, Massachusetts, obviously,

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and so look it's gonna be a
huge night and you gotta watch up obviously

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NXC on the USA Network every Tuesday
night at eight o'clock to find out what

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Morris coming there Lowell mask because we're
gonna blow it out at NXT Battleground on

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the twenty eight All right, NST
Battleground on the twenty eighth at NXT Battleground

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in Lowell, Massachusetts, laid it's
a pleasure for me to choke all out

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the radio, to beat with a
psar, would be with a legend,

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be with a guy that that defining
the content. Because by the way,

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you were one of those guys that
defined content before content became content. You

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define the whole being a rock star, aside from doing music before it's time,

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definitely a pioneer, definitely and through
visionary and definitely someone that understands that

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given that the up and coming artists, up and coming UM wrestlers, opportunity,

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it's all about. Thank you mister
Shaw, Michaels and the twenty eighth

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once again take it away with that, we're going to be in Lowal.

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Thank you so much for having me
nah, thank you, thank you for

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the w W E also for making
this possible to lp oh my gosh room

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by ninety seven point seven. Nobody
got them Boston, Let's go