So we turned the calendar to the final year of Hulk Hogan. In TNA
twenty thirteen, Yes, starts with the January third Impact, where we learned
that Austin Ares is the latest to pay off aces and Ates, this time
to attack Bobby Rude. I guess the aces and Ates, despite being outlaws
and banned from the building, are also for higher by everybody who is a
legit to my arrest speaks no fucking sense. Speaking of which, Divon is
in the back with all the girls and they're asking Ken Anderson. Hey,
I know you're enjoying yourself, but we need an answer that is here,
here, here, you want it. You want to hear him say it.
No, but you want to hear him say it. Come on again,
man on, kid, may I know you're enjoying yourself, but time
is running away. Come on man, Yeah, I'm look, I know,
I know, but we meet an answer. No, you can't,
come on, you can't fight what we're giving you, bro. The harder
that you guys work to make me convey instant this is a good idea.
The more fun we're all having, right, beautiful, let's just chill.
Let's all have a good time and just let's think about this a little while
longer. Besides, I really enjoy your recruitment process. Oh I'm glad.
Hey kid, what the is it gonna be Staves coming back tonight? Are
you in or are you out? Because we need to know right now what's
wrong with this. This is great stuff, very entertainment. If we're going
to do this, I need to make sure that none of us show sting
even announce of fear. Devon christ to laughing like he's such a fool.
Don't forget your little buddy. This is great, this is good news.
Gentlemen. Let's go see what Stay has to offer you. Stay here a
prospect. You see my bet prospect. Damn Yeah. Someone commented that clearly
we had not seen Sons of Anarchy. Yeah, no, shit, and
it's because I don't want to. That was a sarcastic tweet. If he
didn't catch that, oh it was. It was sarcastic. Yes, they're
making fun of the idea that like, because it was on Sons of Anarchy,
that means it's like fair going to just name, you know, to
just reference drop. But it's not. No, it's not stupid clearly.
And also, yeah, I'm sorry, Kenny Anderson not a biker. What
happened to this guy? Man? He was money in the beginning. He
was I was going in a trucker hat. He's like, oh, he's
a fool. He also not bleaching his hair anymore. Complete fucking I think
there was like a movie along the way that changed his look for and he
um and he dresses like he works in air apostle, for Christ's sakes,
probably does what are you doing? Dog? And he's getting probs touched by
all these blondes. Oh, I know, because that's it. See See,
that's the way you get to somebody. He wants them to be a
badass for your crew. Give him give him hookers, right, any great
heel turn in pro wrestling is involved. You know, the people who convinced
him to turn heel getting him hookers. Hogan joined the nWo, for instance,
in ninety six, and Nash got him hookers, right. It was
it was Luthez and U Kyoshi Tamara, but you know and and uh uh
Metsuda as well. Of course great hooker. They did a deal where Austinari's
called out Brooke. Hogan of course walked in while they were on the couch
and jumped up and Bully flew out. Tell me what's going on? Brother?
You haven't trusted me from day one? Do you really want to know
all that shit? Him going face to face with Hogan and Brook. Asked
by Jason Hervey backstage, um if she has talked to her dad since she
kissed Bully, and of course she has no comment. Kurt Angle later avows
to unmask every single one of those sons of bitches uh in aces and ates
with his back with his backing of Samoa, Joe west Briscoe, and Garrett
Bischoff. So this guy sure knows how to pick him just I mean,
can you make can you make Kurt Angle more of a dickhead? Can you
already look? He already has a head in the shape of it? Right,
I mean, doesn't you watch any of these aces and Ate skits and
go, you know what, that guy's hair looks a lot like West Briscoes.
Maybe I should ask him Hogan's out. First off, I apologize,
Yeah, you know this starts off better. It starts off way better.
All right, let's cut the crap. Okay, the we're gonna be I've
been waiting, Terry. It's three years. Now is finally time to cut
the crap. All right, Let's cut through all the craft and get right
down to business. First off, I want to apologize to everybody here in
the Impact zone for pulling a disappearing act and not showing up last week.
But I kind of got caught off guard when I was leaving two weeks ago
and I saw Bully Ray and my daughter making out in the parking lot.
So please excuse me for just walking away for a week. Just tell me
you decided to let things go down in the public eye. I'm here and
I'm gonna take care of business right now, and we might as well take
care of business right here in the public eye again. So Bully, if
you're back there, which I know you are, and oh, by the
way, Brooke, if you happen to be back there, I'd like to
have both of you guys come down here right now. On He's so over
protective that he doesn't even know if Brooke is in the building. Now,
I think it's been established Hogan doesn't trust Bully Ray general manager quit advance when
deciding whether it's personal or business. He told Bully, your personal ps has
turned into my business. Absolutely and now the hawkster calling out. Watch a
lot of the brook touching its base in the impact zone. This, Mike,
Mike, get awkward here, boys, Well, I just telling the
building it's gonna get awkward, bullet for weeks, you know, not for
weeks, for months and months, You've been coming out here telling me how
much respect you have for me, and you wanting me to give you the
same respects. Well, girl, I've seen you in the back, shaking
hands, talking about old school, about how this business goes down. You
know, I've seen you trying to help the young guys. But at the
end of the day, there's something just who seemed right to me. A
week after week, month after month, I've been looking at you and trying
to say, what's the truth? Brother? You know, there's a code
in this business, people that live and breathe this business and have it in
their blood. There's a code of ethics, a law, a man code,
a brother of the Road code. And by the way, you tell
me what, Yeah, I was going on, So now I know exactly
where you two are. Exactly one question In that question, he gets very
Why because she's got picked tits? Yeah, because she looks like Linda should
be asking you, Terry, why Yeah, I just looked at your Twitter
ulk. Yes, you're right, Okay, we are brothers. Oh I
should have come clean with you? Does that make I then have told you?
Is on me? Brother? You know, I've been trying to tell
everybody in this locker room know who you are. I've been trying to tell
everybody from day one that you're no good. I've been trying to tell each
person in this business that will listen to me what your m is, what
you're all about. And when you talk about breaking the code, you don't
even belong in this business. Boy, Ray, And it's far. This
isn't about you right now. This is about me and him. And as
far as I'm concerned, you wanting this and you wanting that from me.
If this was twenty years ago and we were talking about some title belt,
we would have already been to war. Brother, If this was twenty years
ago, one of us would have already been gone. But since you brokes
the code and we're not playing by those rules anymore, I guess we'll play
by your new set of rules. Lawyers, lawsuits, and general managers to
do what general managers should do. So as of this point, you are
suspended the hell out of my ring. Let me tell you something from you
made your decision, so go live with it. Get the hell out of
my ring too. Now this is pro wrestling. I have to agree with
you there. I mean, let's pause on the amazing insight into Hogan's psyche
circa twenty thirteen. We got right there, ye, played by your new
set of rules. When Holks says your he means his right, my new
set of rules. Lawyers, lawsuits. Right, those are all his rules,
right, those are Hulks rules. And what does he use? He
uses the contrast of if this was whatever twenty years ago and we would talk
about a world title, that would be one thing. He's still geared towards,
like sending little signals to the crowd that he's fully aware that you want
him to be world champion again. Yeah right, and he just can't do
it. So he's going to be world champion in a court of law.
Yeah, well, hey, you know what I believe in Supreme Court justice
hell Hogan. Oh, I totally agree. So that's all we get from
that, And then later it's Joe and Anger Versace's Nates Divon. Of course,
the sergeant at all? What's he been telling people about Bubba? By
the way, and curious, I remember, I don't know what he's been
telling people. I've iver really seen him do anything. So what's he telling
people about Bubba? What's who telling about Bubba? Hogan saying he's telling everybody
who he Bubba really is. I think what's really all about? He's someone
pretending to be nice and pretending to be having good intentions towards Brooke and respect
for help, but really he's just a snack. Okay, it's it's the
ultimate like Hulk was write all along storyline, you know, and he he
gets bit in the ass for trusting somebody else. I mean he should know
better anyway. Yeah, well it's the story of his life at this point,
right it is? Um. I wonder if really Bully got this opportunity
because he used to be named Bubba and Hulk needed a heel to baby to
turn on him like the actual Bubba bub Oh. If that's the case,
that's just a whole level. So there's Diva on the sergeant into arms of
aass and nights in case you forgot with a TV title anger. So I'm
so tired of of it. That's so I'm so tired of black jeans.
Yeah, you know what I mean, that's that's we're almired. I'm so
tired of of of of ases and eights. He always pronounces the end of
eights eights. So it's a cage match. Angle enters and Doc slams the
door on. Angle had plenched to one mask all of the aces and eights
one by one and said he'd get him early in the clubhouse. Doc changed
the door shut, and it takes all day. I mean, I don't
know why wrestling companies wwon down don't figure out how to like game a lock
so that we don't have time standing still every time these guys have to actually
pad lock something. But it's always a process. I don't know why the
refs to stay in there and try to not stop him from locking the cage
door shut. Joe is trapped in there, and Joe is jabbing away at
both It's Knucks and Devon in there by the way, Joe tries rattling the
door. No dice, it's not gonna open. I guess he just can't
climb the cage, so he's out of options. He's now trapped Joe dodges,
knucks is Larry and hits Devon, tries to facewash and Devon pounces him.
Run a nice spot there, sending Joe into orbit. Heels take over.
Devon whispers smack me, and of course he does. Angle, of
course, similarly, incapable of climbing the cage, just has to resort to
standing there rattling the chain linked door. We want Angle, they chant,
Geez, can you guys get these guys an actual match? Yeah? You
know, let me rephrase that, you give these guys an actual match,
and all they want is Kurt Angle, who's not in the marriage rights.
That's impact, Like, right, yeah, that's that's cool that there's something
happening in the ring, But like, what about what's not happening in the
ring? Right? Tas calls an exploder souplex a high collar t bone soup
plex. Excuse me, that would that be a rugby as opposed to polo
soup plex? I mean it's I mean also, I mean the fact they
call it a t bone soup plex. It always gets me hungry. Angle
finally realizes he can climb the cage. He tries to be Also, by
the way, Joe's Joe for the most part. Here he seems fine without
Angle. Business takes care of the needs Angle. Um, it's so funny
how Joe like when they run out of like things to like make impact,
fans think it still might be the T and A they loved. They just
like, go Joe with the mix again. So so sad the position he's
in so sad. I mean, this man should be world champion for thirty
six months, okay, at least thirty six years. Even This isn't us
going out on a limb. This is us saying, hmmm, when was
Tenna doing its best business and receiving its highest critical acclaim when Samoa Joe was
on top. Not complicated, folks, But I wouldn't vince Russo it's so
bad. Uh Doc cuts him off, Angle kicks him in the nuts.
Tess calls it the yam bag. It's another test. Isn't can't stand test.
Angle gets the key and U gets in, throw some lariats and missile
drop kick. He's gonna unmask one of the aces and eights nuts that is,
and Tess says he's gonna do d hood him. Uh Doc then slams
the door into angle, and then um Joe kicks the door out and Doc
is knocked backwards. They forced a Bellator three sixty read and there Bellator three
sixty being the the recap television show that was coming on after Impact. Oh
really, yeah, they right in the middle of all this high drama,
Like Todd Kennelly has to just read copy. He doesn't have a name.
Don't give him a name, okay, the other guy, the other announce
her idiot. He's idiot, announcer. I never bother to find out his
name until you just fucking mentioned it his face. It can't It's fine,
it's fine. He's professional. He looks like he's not. He's a fucking
He's a fucking doormat this piece of shit. Angele has done the only thing
that gives him purpose. Run the razor's right eating here and Impact knox Or
is the idiot. Announcer calls him the huge member of Aces and Eights.
I think I think it wouldn't that be Devon? That's right? Uh so
divid missed the headbuts off the ropes. All everybody's down in time for Divon.
It takes the Germans pretty funny to see Divon like flail in the air
with his vest on. Yeah, oh yeah. It makes even like wrestlers
crying hard look ridiculous when the outfit, I mean they look, I mean,
no no good, no good. Shit has ever come out of people
wearing wearing vests and black jeans in the ring for never a right, Like,
it's just it's just fucking Disciples of Apocalypse, but a bad one.
And that's saying something just makes yeah exactly, it just seems it just reeks
of not trying. Yeah, um, and I'm sorry. I've never gonna
be able to watch Ace's Nates again without thinking about the Marine five first and
formal. That's right, that's right, Okay. So Taz says it takes
a lot to peel off Germans. So that's his verb for what happens at
a German suplex. You peel it a joe with an inverted atomic drop to
nuts and then angle hit some of the angle slam one two, three,
Kurt angles, Samoa Joe beat the Aces and Eights in the cage, and
its promised even these guys lose, that's gonna make them strong. Like why
are these guys such a menace? If like every time they get in the
ring, they get their ass handed to him. Yeah, why do they
care about winning matches and titles so much if they lose nothing when they lose
matches, right, why do they feel like they would gain anything on the
other end? And and since like Cogan is the general manager, can he
just, um, I don't know, freeze these guys out of matches and
off book I understand, can't. Why does he? Right? Why?
Why? Why is there all this lack of power, Like you know,
you can't you really can't go to the ring without having permission, you know.
Yeah, well they won't access to the impact zone on whatever it was
bound for. Doesn't mean they won. They didn't win booking, No,
it's true, you know they can Okay, they can come into the building.
Doesn't mean they have to have matches. It's like like they do one
angle to explains in a logical thing and then they never reemphasize it, and
it goes for like two months, three months, and you're asked to remember
some random thing someone said backstage, like that's that's TNA. You know.
It's like, yeah, they check the box if you pay very very close
attention. But the fact that you still find yourself asking the question means they
didn't really check the box. That they rather, they check the box in
the most cynical way possible. Let's let's do this. Can't say we didn't
even though it clearly didn't occur to us as a shortcoming in the story when
we were sitting down and crafting our story bible or whatever the fuck it is.
So angele lewis with the mask, Evon stops and Doc gets in and
the rest of the clown car and then empties into the cage. Ken Anderson,
dressed like he's going to brunch at ringside, just looks on. We
want sting chance breakout even though he's not there. But there he is with
the bat. It's yet another new year. It's another sting return. Yep.
He comes intoing the good on January third, No less, Oh yeah,
I think he'd done the same date the year before, something quite similar.
Um, January fourth was the Hogan he believe, January third, three
years after that fateful first Hall Coogan impact. And this is the state of
affairs, This is where we're at. Yeah, it doesn't feel like two
steps forward, No, it does not. It feels more like a half
step back. Actually, Yeah, yeah, I mean I would it would
be it'd be generous to say that they had made a linear step. Yep.
So Sting gets in the ring and starts doing those goofy jabs to the
gut with that ball batas says, that ball bat, ball bat. And
they said he promised he was going to return to take care of Aces and
Nights, and here he is another Sting return. This has been about twenty
Sting returns and TNA by this point if you have bat even way before Hogan's
arrival. And yes, it was the one three thirteen campaign. Okay,
they just can't stop with this. They got all that heat because he's the
wrong word. They got all that attention because w WAU was doing the the
Undertaker return date promos and people thought it was Sting that WrestleMania, remember that,
just slashing the date on the screen. And now TNA just drives that
into the fucking ground. So there's one guy from Aces and Nate's still trapped
in there. A bat shot drops him and they they screamed, do it,
Kurt, do it? He does take it off. I got this
whole thing for you. This is one of the most anti climactic fucking reveals
of all time. What the hell face not knocks knocks. I don't know,
no knocks, it's a hard knocks life shit. I mean, boss,
this is this is the reveal. Are you not entertained? We've got
Luke Gallows and we've gotten Mike Knox so far. I must you know when
the business has passed me by, because this big ship and I can't appreciate
it. This is one of the biggest problems with this whole storyline. A
bunch of people nobody gives a flying fuck about. I mean, like Luke
Gallo. That's money to reveal before you launch the storyline. Okay, yeah,
exactly you need I mean, for lack of a better term, you
need a third guy. Have the third guy ready and waiting before you fucking
launched this ship definitely needs to be somebody you know from outside the company,
and I guess Mike Knox and Gallows qualify, but somebody who I mean,
you can actually go for the world title. I mean, Luke, Luke
Gallows. You know it was fastest and then the fucking you see him punk
oh yeah thing and that was it, like he never did anything. I
think at this point it's pretty clear the budget is tapped out that there's not
going to be a new you know, pot of two million dollars to fall
out of this guy to bring in someone with actual relevance, you know,
someone that actually has game changing ability. And so I think that's what we're
seeing is because they have to count, this is the best they can do
in terms of reveals. I would say these guys are bad pro wrestlers.
I'm not saying it was nothing that they came to TNA, but we as
fans are conditioned to expect a certain level of surprise when you do reveals of
identities, right, Yeah, and this just so watered down the idea.
Right, It's like I never cared about another reveal and TNA again, if
the announcers are screaming at the top of their lungs because this is Mike Knox,
you know what I mean, it's like the next time they turn not
be excited. I'm just not going to go there. Right. That's a
very precious commodity. It is the anticipation fans you know, are allowed to
have for big reveals because you delivered. Is it's very important that that it's
done right and done well and that you can trust the bookers that when they
do a reveal, they know what you think is going to be a big
deal. They're not going to try to present you with something as a big
deal that you don't feel is so there. It is. M Devon's fuming
that another mask has been lost. Mike Tenay says, they feel their masks
are their power, and amidity is power, and they just took the power
away from Maces and Eates. I wish they then please keep the fucking masks
on. I don't need to see these faces. Impact started twenty thirteen at
one point six two million viewers here for this January third episode, which was
the best one point six two million viewers, which was the best number they
had done since August of two thousand and twelve. So good start to the
year for TNA. The hul Cogan, Brook Hogan and Bully Race segment at
the top of the hour was a monster, according to The Observer, gaining
four hundred and fifty five thousand viewers to one point three one. Meltzer writes,
I can't remember the last time TNA had a segment that brought so many
people in, and it's pretty clear that this along with the sting return is
why the rating was up. So Bully Ray has the right to bat himself
on the back for this business because he, you know, he stepped into
that spot where he's rising to the occasion. No one's really looked at him
as justifying this level of like stardom where he has the top storyline in the
company and carrying that the load and the mic. Like, if Bully doesn't
deliver the nuances on this thing, it's a total disaster. Brooks is also
quite capable, so it's it's showing positive signs. We go to general We
got to generally tenth impact where Carl Carl Anderson Ken Anderson explains UM that he
joined Aces and Eights because nobody had helped him when he was attacked by them
in October. So long term storytelling, I guess you know what, I
don't remember it happening so right, And they don't really either. They sort
of like put these things in the probably didn't even happen, probably didn't even
happen. Yeah, can either confirmed or deny. I don't think that was
a pay per view. We even bothered to look at UM. I would
never want I would never buy a pay per view called Ken neither confirm or
denied either. You know what I could see TNA naming a show that I
really could. It's just a show where Hull Kigan gets deposed two hours.
I would watch a two hour Hulk Cogan deposition. Would you sold me?
You know if you told me that Hull Kelgan was going to subject himself to
a three hour deposition by someone who investigated every one of the lies he's ever
told. Yes, I would buy that for two hundred dollars on paper view.
I'm not really kidding. Absolutely, if I could see Hulkogan flutter and
be nervous, I would for that for now, to do it for sure.
Yep. So, hey, Terry, if you know, if somehow
you get way laid by circumstance, if somehow the big man upstairs see to
it that you got to hit some more hardship, that's some money you're leaving
on the table. Boss. Ye just know that you don't have to sue
somebody. You can just set up a lie detect her test somewhere. That
was with the Vince Russo's one great idea he never got to television. I'll
have a lie to detect the test on Raw. Bro Anderson wrestled his return
match, first one after joining aces and Ates at the January paper view,
Genesis defeating Samoa Joe after interference from Knox and the rest of aces and Ates.
This Impact starts off with Brooke and her golf cart going to talk to
her dad and air out the dirty laundry. She says she's on the cell
phone, and she says to the camera he's going to listen this time,
and she tells the phone Mark, I'm here, or she walks through start
or is it Bubba? I'm pretty sure it's Bubba. Ye, Okay,
not a Mark Welcher. No comment. Oh. Later on Impact, here's
Joe Parkin and jumps excited. This was tremendous. This is one of the
funniest fucking things I've watched this whole goddamn journey. Excited, of course,
I'm excited. I've been waiting for this opportunity to training my butt off at
OVW. I'll tell you what I want to thank the partners at Park Parking
Park for allowing me to put my legal practice on the backburner. Way hat
on my business or legal I'll tell you something else. When I walk in
this building. To Nancy Hawk Cogan, it's not gonna be as own attorney.
It's gonna be as a wrestler. The door is locked. Now it's
funny, awesome. Let me tell you this is you know, he is
really he's I if Sting is the hero of the Tenag Journey, he's the
sidekick. He's up there. Abyss is the sidekick. He's up there because
whether it's the cringe worthy bad stuff or the incredible stuff here with Joseph Parks,
he's a reason to watch this. And he's someone you associate exclusively with
t NA you know, yes, no, what, Yeah, I mean
he's He's given us so much, hasn't he. Yeah, And again the
psyche here like it's all about lawyers. Everything has something to do with someone
leveraging the legal system somehow. It's all about legality, Yeah, illegality exactly.
It's so funny. I think it's just so reflective of where Hulk Coogan's
at in his life and how he's the lens through which he's viewing the world.
Now, you know, these are the these are the new hul Hogan
sunglasses that he's putting on the lenses are see everything through a lead the lens,
like he's looking at things and I can just see like like a motions
being typed up on the screen, you know, like Terminator looks at something
and makes a calculation. Um. So back in the clubhouse of ass nates,
women under all their laps and Ken Anderson's in the shadows. He says,
Hey, everybody having a fun time. I enjoy having a good time.
But there's a time and a place to have a good time right now,
ain't it. He says, something has to be done about that,
uh cyborg in the ring. I don't know who's so corn angle his VP.
You know what, You're right, but tonight it's not personal beef.
It's club business. Let's take it to the table. I'm gonna fucking that's
it. I'm done. Let's take it. I mean, they're just talking
in such a such such a closed off culture way. I'm just so drawn
into this fraternity of mystery and tradition mixed with respect, mixed with the let's
just say, you see, it's very obvious you're not you're not in tune
with the coolness of bike culture. I mean, I would love to sit
down with an actual biker Hell's angel and have him watched this and and see
what he says. I think he's on our side. I think so too.
I think I think he's going to see these guys are fucking clowns,
so right, it's I would be willing to bet that he would look at
me and just say, dude, you're more of a biker than these fucking
idiots. Well, let me let me show you some photos of a guy
by the name of Eric Bishaw. Here. He is at hog Wild.
So they kicked the girls out because it's time to take club business to the
table. So stupid. They all walk in the room with the head lamps
and Prospect closes the door, and and I think to myself, wait a
minute, this guy was partying with strippers with that mask on. Of course,
fucking fun can you have Kane? Kane does that? That's true?
All right, Kane. If Mayor Kane is going to uh, you know,
is going to to visit the the local the local strip joint, he
ain't going, you know. And his fucking uh cardigan sweater, that's a
great right, you know what, he's gonna wear his mask and his wig.
I feel like Mayor Glen Jacob's absolutely orders food at a strip club.
Oh for sure, he goes. He goes in for the lunch special.
Come on, folks, there's a lunch buffet every every uh, every Tuesday
and Thursday at noon. It's great stuff. He says, something like,
don't mind if I do. As he tucks into a burger, and it's
like seeing his seeing like you know, one of you. I don't know,
the treasurer of the town, like God, take her clothes off on
the fucking stage. It's like it's like two in the afternoon, but it's
pitch black in there except for the black lights, and it smells like a
fruity fragrance from like bass and body rights right exactly, Like it's just a
little too powerful because you are trying to to hide the stench of of sweat
and pussy. Speaking of which, the VP says, boys, the first
order of business tonight. As you he points at Knox, did you forget
your mask? I'm thinking, what is this COVID? He says, oh
that, he said, Oh, that's right. Someone took it from you
so faster than we sat at this table. They took it from you and
just said, don't lose our masks, you got something to say for yourself,
and Nux says, I was left in the middle of the situation with
these guys, and no one wants to hear it. He says, I
always love the situation, so I don't want to hear it either. When
people ask for an explanation and then cut off someone giving the explot we don't
want to hear it. Oh. I wasn't gonna say anything exactly. I
was perfectly fine not saying anything. Um. When DC lost his mask,
they said, Doc, he went out and earned his spot back at this
table. So tonight knucks you get the same chance. You either make it
right or you make it gone. I think I know which one I'm rooting
for. I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm ready for gone. Joe Park's in the
ring. Any thoughts? Uh? Oh, I'm back from wrestling camphasis on
camp by the way? Yeah? Right here we go. Well, I'm
I'm back from wrestling camping and thankfully in one piece. I thought past the
bar exam was difficult, but how about rings the bar? At this point
in time, I would respectfully request that the general manager of Impact Wrestling come
down to this ring, right now please, mister Hulk Hogan, please hol
please, hol, I thought Pat, I thought raising the bar exam was
difficult, but here it comes. Hyeah feel that music class. Oh god,
wo wow wow wow wow wow wow. This is get this song track.
Let's go into a PINMI author wild world wide. When he replied,
I was wadin o wow wow, facility music over the the goodness of the
h reader. Mister gas conference stood, bring the brown brown my wife.
Wow wow wow. I don't stop stop alright, alright, alright. I
want to be the first one to your graduate Joseph on this short stint you
just put in at wrestling school. I'm very proud of you, brother,
But we got business at hand, So what can I do? I realize
that you have a lot more pressing matters at hand to deal with, So
I'll be brief just to get a couple's going on? Any idea? What's
going on back there? Most sir, I don't Hulk, how about half
a chance? Yeah? I just wanted to tell you something. I wanted
to thank you for giving me the inspiration and the motivation to set aside my
legals practice and go to wrestling camp and be trained professionally. All right.
I'd also I'd also like to thank mister Danny Davis and Ohio Valley Wrestling for
for whooping me into wrestling shape and providing me with a solid foundation from which
I can grow from. Hulk. Now, I realize, Hulk, that
I'm still considered a green hornet and this whole thing. But I'm asking you,
Hulk. I'm standing here tonight in front of you, not asking you.
I'm begging here. Yes, I'm not standing here, dude, as
a lawyer, Hulk. I'm standing here right now as a wrestler. Brother
exact, Where Bro, what are you doing next? Stakes? I mean,
come on, you need a couple more years. It took me two
years with Matsuda. It's getting my brains. You're driving me crazy with a
sing Hulk, Hulk, Hulk, Hulk, just listen to it. Say
anything, Joseph, what what is it? Hulk? I did everything that
you asked me to do. I went to wrestling camp. Heck, even
the partners at Park Park and park If graciously stepped aside to allow me to
handle my business, Hulk, and my business is right here at Impact Wrestling
and with those aces and eights, Bullians, do you want what do you
want? I want that match that I deserve, Hulk, I want whatever
you want. You can have whatever match you are got the match. Just
give me a break, OKAYI hub okay, I mean stuff. Joseph Park's
wide eyes, his shaking hair. Oh he's he He's such a fucking goofball
But it's purposeful, you know, It's like it's not incidental goofballdness, Like
it is absolutely tremendous. I love his goofballiness. Yeah. Really talent in
this guy, you know, yep, I'm sure you know. You have
to know him backstage to even see this in him, because the Abyss character
did not show this for a second. No, no, So he bounces.
Hogan looks at him and hoof stashes and on the screen. Dad,
Dad, I've tried calling you in text and you have a few voicemails you
won't answer. You really want to deal with this in public? Fine,
I'm coming out here right now. Do not move. We are handling this.
And here comes Brooke Hogan and she like, you know, say what
you want? She's coming through. I got I got it. That is,
you haven't answered my text messages. I've left you voicemails. You've never
done this to me my whole life. Huh, you're my father always on
the cell phone? Dad? I know, brother? Will you I have
a question for you, Dad, and how you answer it is going to
determine our relationship for a very long time. Who are you? Why don't
you ask me your question? I've been asking a lot of questions. We
just love the lad I've been answered, So go ahead and ask me.
Are you going to reinstate Mark? Or are you going to keep this up?
Like get some personal vendetta. Fans are falling for it too, and
that's the question you want to ask. You come out here and ask me
if I'm going to reinstate Mark. Yeah, I've got your answer. No,
I'm not going to reinstate bully. Okay, knocking to reinstate Bully,
Brother, not happening. Who cares? Brooke with her head in her hand
in the ring like, oh my god, like she's gonna cry, Oh
my god. She's backstage on the phone saying to whomever I think Mark that
I know he's difficult. What can I say? He's a dad? No,
it's not a good idea for you to come here. Trust me.
I know my dad more than you do Mark, and that she says,
I'm fine, will you just pick me up outside the office. I don't
know. I don't know if you know your dad better than a Mark.
Yeah, I would be careful, like just a Chrusaders still out there.
So it's Ken Anderson versus Cornangle. Later on the show, u Anerton gets
the mic. He waves in tonight absolutely astonishing pounds. He brother wave tonight
add an absolutely astonishing two hundred and three rep by okay hell from from please
he he is the golden gloss a liliast on miss sounds like Kennedy Scott.
Your bookers use it using the impact faithful using his dead name. Yeah,
isn't know what to do. I know he's so nervous. Kurt Angle all
gassed again. Oh man. His neck thickened substantially from the perk Angle era,
So I don't know. Oh for sure he pulled that off, probably
with the an injection of substances into his buttocks. Let me let me ask
you a question. When that injection time comes, what would that hound finn
come on? When you inject antibolics, that's it because it's it's not because
the muscle forms as it leaves the needle. It inflates like a balloon exactly.
It's not shooting out to staster, shooting out basically air, and he
shooting out just exactly, just muscle mass comes out of there. There's something
about the the chemical reaction with the with the liquid coming out of the needle,
and it creates instant muscle. So that's what Kurt did. Um.
They face off, Anderson vales, Angle grabs the mic says, hey,
asshole, when need to turn it? When did you turn into a bitch?
Why don't get your ugly ass in the ring? It all says,
watch your language. Pretty funny because they are live because I think he says
it is a shoot watcher like he's very Kurt forgot they weren't pre daming so
at Helms, I mean Ken Anderson pacing and her side. He does look
like an Elms now with his fucking brown hair. Then Nux gets in with
a beanie. It's a ball peen hammer to the head of Kurt Angle.
I can't I know, fucking hammer just what I need. Mike Knox and
a beanie. Yeah, Garrett Bischoff and West Briscoe run out. Joe too
to save Angele. There is no heat at all for any of this.
I mean, you can only hear cat calls, nothing else. They hover
over Kurt like he's dead, and his hand shaking Kurt pretending like he was,
you know, just knocked half dead, like Nancy Pelosi's husband or something.
And he gets stretchered out and then sting music plays and out he comes,
and he talks to Garret Bischoff and West Briscoe and gets in the ring,
and of course the aces Nate standing there forever waiting for the self to
develop these guys for a for an invading force. They sure stand around while
people make their entrance in shit, stingy shit. You give me Knox call
if your troops, I'll call off mind. Devon says you better whip his
ass Knucks and waits the entire commercial break to get in the ring. So
we have a Knucks first Stings. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
I would do that too if I was looking to, you know, basically
run rough shot over an entire company and building Nucks gets in Sting chabs the
gut hebner with a hammer in one hand and a bat in the other,
just like what the supposed to do with a gimmicks on the ring. Nux
capitalizes on a distraction and piles on Sting tas calls Knox a big, rugged,
nasty man, just so large be six eight excuse me, well over
three twenty. Sting takes over on the floor and throws knucks into the steps.
People still love Sting man, I'll tell you Sting, Sting Moon,
They just still love this guy. And they do a shot at the bat
in the corner. Sting tries to screen because they need something. Fans need
something, you know what I mean. And Sting is really the only one
that has not disappointed anybody, right, He's the only one that like tenas
overpaying for and you know what I mean, still coasting off past glories,
who could actually still go, right, I know, that's the beauty of
it, the fact that he's able to do what he does. Hogan can't
go and the whole thing falls apart. Sting can actually go. He can
go in some ways just well as he ever could. I mean, he
doesn't have the same exact vertical leap and the dynamism of the surfer Sting,
but he kept the he kept the raw material of that scorpion, the crow
character and how the crow worked. You know. Yep, so sting twice
a scorpion, it gets kicked off, knocks with a barge sting No Cells
whips him in sting or splash to the back death drop one two three.
Knucks loses because Aces and Nates are just so scary and domineering, staying with
a ball of ten and then he smashes the arm payback time for what they
did to him the arm of Knucks. Steven grabs the mics's hey sting and
we find out that Brooke has been kidnapped. There she is in the arms
of Aces and Nights, And then I'm thinking to myself, Yeah, why
did she stop being afraid of Asis and Eates? Remember they were creeping on
her and then she just stopped caring and just yeah coming out to the ring
to argue with her dad all the time. Yeah, and they took advantage
of it. See the smart stuff by them. Devon says, the next
time you see Brookie will not recognize her, which is just that's kind of
that's horrified, low Graphic. You thought you were through a tough earlier.
Shut up, bitch, he says to her. There's this invisible wall between
the ring and where they stand, apparently the Aces and Ates. You cannot
just walk up to them and stop them from doing this to bro. They
they seem to be able to do whatever they want, and they have their
clubhouse which kind of goes wherever the show goes, and you realize this is
just another example. It's just same thing Bischoff did when he was pleading with
a Biss not to kill Dixie Carter in the crowd. No, no is
there that comes from. It's the same thing again, same position in the
Impact Zoe, and the same idea the damsel in stress. I mean,
I understand that, you know, there's only so many new things under the
sun, and you know, Eric Bischoff shouldn't be raked over the coals for
repeating things that worked in WCW. But how about you not repeat something that
didn't work an Impact a year ago? How about is that okay to criticize
somebody for having the same exact idea in the same company, and just,
I mean, come on, So that's what's going on. Don says twenty
thirteen was going to be Aces and Eights or Devon says, that's sorry.
Devon says it the twenty thirteen is going to be Aces and Aces year,
and he promises that they will reign supreme just like we did before. Everyone's
making a claim on twenty thirteen. I'm noticing, Yeah, I mean,
no one's gonna while by the time the twelve months is on, and I
don't think it's gonna be as in demand. When push comes a chef,
well It comes out with his chain to break things up, goes into the
crowd, starts throwing shots. Brooke gets free from the Aces and Eights,
and Hogan comes out with a hoofstash. It takes him a long fucking time
to do anything about this. His daughter and under siege. It comes out,
crosses his arms and stands there with the shades on and does the mustache
stroke. I don't think a dude like, yeah, he's making the same
face like he would make if you know he saw promo by a heel about
coming for his belt, but his daughter was just kidnapped, and he's like
right, He's like wondering, like, what's the angle here? Brother?
Um take a break up? Not digging creative brother. No, they come
back at Hogan's in there. Well, I guess I'm supposed to thank you
out here. I got it, I think any here. Well, I'm
guess I'm supposed thank you for putting my daughter's life in harm's way. And
I guess I'm sorry. What I know he's he's well, I'm guess I
should thank you for putting my daughter life a little less rattling in that gimmick
bag at this day. Yeah, I'm supposed to bow down and kiss his
rear end because of all the chaos you now have cost in my life.
I'm looking at you, I'm looking through your eyes. I don't believe you.
You're not a real and you're not the man for my daughter, or
would listening conviction, Let's believe this off, Mike square Head. You're so
wound up that you're even talking trapped to one of your best friends. You're
crazy, Hulk, you God, this all wrong. Tell you something.
I've been in this business for twenty years and wrestling is my life, Okay,
Russa, Seriously, all I've ever cared about was being like the best
professional wrestler I could ever be and maybe one day be as good as him
or as great as you. Brother. I'm love this business, this business
means everything to me. I never thought I would love anything as much as
I did throw wrestling and he takes books time. And then your daughter came
in my life, and then you came to my daughter brother. All right,
you know what the crazy thing is. She came into my life because
she was apologizing for you. She was apologizing for you being such a hard
ass with me, for you not trust in me, even when I had
your brother's back until the end. You know, I'm almost I'm so wound
up right now that I'm almost at a loss for words. I kind of
don't even know what to say. I know that this has happened entirely too
quick. Help slaps the bike out of his out. I can throw down
a microphone also, you know, I'll throw out his hard work side.
I know this has happened really really quick. You know what, screw it?
Come here, pulls Brook in front of him. I'm not real good
at all this feelings stuff and all this emotions, and like, I'm a
hard ass, and I know I'm a hard ass. Let's going wrong,
dude. When I'm with you, things are different. You make me,
you make me laugh. You may you know, uh, he's having a
knee. Uh what it befront the whole coolan no, less, I that's
the right. I think that before she's a h all I know is this.
I love you. I know our entire relationship has played out in front
of the entire world. I don't care. I want everybody to know how
much I care for you, how much I love you, and I want
you to marry me. Brother. She's all smiles and she kisses Bully right
and holding space. I don't believe this. He shoots her a glare for
the agent. You know that wasn't play out hoofs like you've never seen.
Only do I want you to marry me, but I want to do it
right here. Next week in front of everybody. She acts like, oh
this is great wrestling. Next week is crazy? Oh my god, all
he is. I know, Bully, I never would have expected this.
This is crazy. Next week, I kissing, we got a wedding.
The reaction, look at the face of the hawkster just human. You can
I do to believe? Oh my god, Seving, yes, Seving,
what do you think of the execution? I mean, I don't know.
I don't, I don't. I don't like this kind of stuff. To
begin with in wrestling, I think it's stupid. I mean, yeah,
the only one that's ever done well in my opinion, Savage. You know,
that's the only one that really resonated. And you were talking about a
guy and a gal who had been related on screen since like nineteen eighty five,
right exactly, and it just comes across as stupid and phony, and
which is I'm just not alessly more interesting because now we know that they actually
dated, even if briefly, right, it just it still comes across as
phony. Yeah. Yeah, it was rushed to create a Like we talked
about high rating for the premier of Bellatur, so you know, when you're
working backwards from we got to come up with something because we need to deliver
a good rating for the show after us. It's right, that's a problem.
It's tough. And then Bishop's mind immediately goes to weddings. He loves
wrestling weddings. He did the Eric Young one, he did the He also,
of course did the Chuck and Billy wan on SmackDown where he was revealed
to be the the reverence. Such a disappointment. He's a he's a creative
genius for one thing. Yeah, right, of course, having you seen
those headshots where he's like he has the steely gaze of visionary in a leather
jacket, he is he is a visionary or how many people have told him
in his life that he's a true visionary more than one, I guess.
So this Impact did one point three zero million viewers, So a huge drop
off from the week before. Uh. Not not good, because that's the
story at TNA. Every time they do something that seems to pop the rating
a bit, it goes way down and all they do is continue what apparently
had the week before. But they're not good at keeping people. They're not
good at setting the hook. They're just not Yeah, although Taz is setting
the red hook as it were, January seventeenth impact a big one here,
I would I think I'm prepared to say, unless I lost perspective on what's
coming up to the end of twenty thirteen and Hogan's run in TNA, that
this is the last Impact of Consequence Ever, this is the last one where
it seemed like they had a hot angle and a shot to do, like
a really good rating punch above their weight in terms of doing something that actually
resonated and drew new people to the table. They had a new act they
were positioning in Bully Ray that might have charted a new course for the company.
Hogan is being used in a different, in my opinion, more effective
way, not just as this you know mascot that runs out every every other
segment, but somebody who's got personal stakes and his daughter right, a sort
of a note he hadn't quite played before ever in wrestling as the dad,
and this is it, this is it is it's going to get for them.
I'm afraid. Yeah. We opened with wedding music and the cake and
the flowers and the gifts, the invite. Here you go, this fucking
moron, That idiot announcer shares that the wedding is happening. Welcome. Oh
wait you know what, No, there's this this thing first that's in the
arena. My bad. You can share what you were sharing before. I
had that bell's tolling. They get the Bully chain and the invite. They
got an engagement picture they shot of Brook and Bully Bullies backstage on his phone.
On zips his tucks as he makes his arrival. I guess at the
impact zone, saying to himself, I don't believe it. He moves the
suit from one hook to another backstage for what we don't know, and suddenly
here comes Spike Dudley. Hold on, let me give him the idiot announcer
now, and then I'll go to Bubba. Maybe all the extravagant preparations for
tonight's sure he is celebration and ladies and gentlemen. Tonight on this very special
edition of Impact Wrestling Live, the entire world is invited to witness the wedding,
the wedding of Brook Hogan and Bully Ray. That history making event is
tonight. And then I got Bubba for you, Bubba in this back there,
I don't believe. Oh I want god, are you married? You
going pro? Look at you? You still hearing no from they still fit
me. It's hello, hello you at this time you're early after last night,
I think, oh my god, so so guys. Listen, I
got your tuxes and everything you txes when I went tied, I went for
you double small and one for you double wide. I can't even believe.
I can't believe. I can't believe everyone's me. I can't believe you get
married nights you every night, thank you guys so much for being my bride.
I'm really nervous actually work, you're gas coming right. I don't know.
Oh powerful stuff. I saw the Heather Cold tape. He is Impact
Piro shooting off between the cake park gives Bully a box of fine Cubans.
Oh yeah, I got all these fucking things. This is so fucking ridiculous,
Bully. I know that we've had our differences in the past, but
if it weren't for you, going to Hulk Cooke and I'll never be a
member of the Impact roster. I just wanted to thank you and wish you'd
have it today on your nuptials. And for you a box of fine,
fine Shibins. Please keep those on the downbow. I got him for a
front at the airport to not exactly street legal ka fab Thank you for this
guy. Get out of here. He's trying to work a freed out fade.
That's pretty good man, that's pretty funny, ka fab Yeah, and
there's that Jesus Christ. Kay fabulous is more like it. Yes, And
he goes to sting. Yeah, um does building this one? Are you
the only guy in this company that trusts me and has my back? And
He's a huge night for me and Brook. That girl needs to be happy.
The only thing that's going to make Brook happy is having her father walker
down the aisle. I want Brook to be happy. I can talk to
Hulk. He won't return my phone calls, no tech, so I can't
talk to him. Please, he asks. Sting convinced him to be by
his daughter's side tonight. Sting says, because of what you mean to me.
Yeah, I will try. He's digging his heels in, but I'm
going to try. And Hule Cogan arrived at the impact zone of the parking
lot on the phone. Of course, they say, hey, he do
you have for the wedding Tonight's what? Listen? Listen to him? I
mean, it's just well the whole thing there he is, Come on,
let's go, let's go. What Hey, hey, Hal, are you
here for the wedding tonight? Are you here for the wedding? How are
you gonna are you gonna give? Are you gonna get for ak away tonight
at the wedding? Better to get that camera out here. I don't believe
he's gripping a format too as he walks. Yeah, now, isn't isn't
didn't Hogan hire as GM. Wouldn't he have hired these camera guys to do
exactly what they're doing, like ask tough questions to the guys as they come
in and out. Now, apparently there's some like extra extra judicial force that
has the right to wander around the impact his own lot and just interrogate people
because like I mean, if you're the guy in charge of it, that's
what they're here for. So true. Um, yeah, the past,
we've seen him work with them at the table. Remember the first time he
got the Aces and eights letter delivered to him with the cards in it and
freaked out. Yeah. Yeah, he's sitting with these people doing an interview
for them. So I guess it's like that's what he doesn't want to be
questioned. It's like he's tolerating their existence. But other time obviously he can't
write. He can't Yeah, he uh can't take what he dishes out or
whatever the fund the phrases there. So Bully says, Spike looks like he
did in tooth Out. It looks like double O seven rather and he's his
dreamer looks like double O nine. Yeah. I think I think I got
this one too, there's so much shit. Here comes dazz Look at how
good you look like? Double O seven? Are you good to get dressed?
I was seeing my going out like this or no, oh no,
I don't want star look black music when you walk here? Everything I was
working. Sorry, someone's gonna work around it. So listen, what's the
deal? No, Paul, I don't I don't get it. He called
Paul, he said, he called me back in five minutes time. Yeah,
seriously, is holding the show? It's his daughter's winning. Are they
talking about triple h oh? Paul Hayman? Oh okay, no joke about
how why wanted to blow you off? He take Clay back in five minutes?
I bro um, dude, she's a wreck. She's a wreck.
Like she's been texting me and I can read right through it. She's she's
not good. She wants her father here. I want him here. You
know, she just wants him to be by her side. It's her wedding.
You know how these you know, wedding is to wait. It's the
biggest day of life. Washing Man, he's got a squash. Bro's tough.
He's a dad. He's in a tough you know. You know it's
it's just this tough all the way around. I spoke to Sting and basically
I kind of beg Staying to talk to him for me. Sting said he
would. I hope he does. Bottom line, Hulks here, we're not
here. I'm marrying Brook tonight, and I'm glad that you're here. You're
here, and you're here. That's all I care about. My three guys,
my brothers are here with me to night. Put it on. I'm
gonna put it on the other Look, weren't there like a thousand dead Lease,
yeah there were. Dick is dead, Big Dick is dead. Okay,
what about so I'm sure Brook is depressed about that. I'm sure Stating
comes out. Oh my god, you've arrived at a very special evening,
he says. Tonight, It's not just an ordinary night, of course,
it never is. In the impact tone is a huge night. I mean
love is in the air. I think, yep, here, I got
this too, Greg, So you've arrived on a very special evening. Tonight
is not just an ordinary night, of course, it never is. An
impact zone. It's a huge night. I mean love is in the air.
It's like George Carlin in the seventy year. It's like, what was
he fucking Jim Carrey with all the loved around and all the characters. Well,
there's some tension in the air, and Bully Ray has asked me to
address that tension. And that's what I want to do right now. So
Bully, if you're a praying man, you better start praying right now.
Okay, because Hulkamania please come on out him? How does it call him?
Sting Moon and wall Ball? And then think about betweetly r dress dress?
I love that? Why wow? How it took uses line? The
first thing? Why don't you just cut the craft? I mean I heard
you want from you want this? I mean, why don't we cut right
to the chase and get down to business together, because you're not gonna pull
the wool over my eyes. You have been in this business a long long
time, brother, and we've brustled all over the world, and we've traveled
up and down every single road you could possibly travel, business wise and personally.
And we've both had people that have looked us in the eye and told
us that they loved us and then they walked away. And we both have
people that have told us that they're our best friend and then they stabbed us
in the back. So why don't she just slay this out real straight so
I can understand exactly where you're coming from. Okay, I'll lay it out
straight for you right now. Bully Ray has come to my aid umpteen times.
He's been my tag teen partner. He's come to your aid umteen times
most important for you. He's hey, listen, this is this is not
this, this is He's come to Brooks aid umpteen thousand times, and I'm
saying, what more is it gonna take before you let this thing happen tonight?
Period. It's not just me. You know how many people you know
the social media thing that I don't know anything about day and night. Brother,
They're saying, Hogan, you're right, Hogan, don't let your guard
down, Hogan, don't trust bah. Bah. It's not just me standing
up and making a stand here. It's everybody out here, brother, telling
me to watch out for myself, for you, and for my family.
So when it comes down to in and out, I call him like I
see him. When I look the guy in the eyes, there's something that's
not right. When I get around Bully, there's an energy there's a vibe
that comes off him that I will not accept. So as far as I'm
concerned, brother, I will never trust Bully Ray. Okay, then I'm
gonna throw it all out there, just like you asked me to do originally.
I'm gonna say, you need to do this for you, and most
important, you need to do this for Brooke. Tonight, they're saying,
do it, do it, do it, do boy, just instead of
just telling you, I'm gonna tell everybody in here that I always do the
right thing. Brother. Oh okay, I think we know where that's going.
It's funny. He's talking about all these people telling them not to trust
Bully, and every single fan in that building is telling him to trust Bully.
Right, and you realize that the people who are telling him that,
you know, to not trust Bubba, that's proxy for Eric Bischoff, who
to this day is saying that, you know, he always thought Bubba was
it of influence on Hulk, and you know it probably was incredibly concerned that
Bubba was a better friend to Hulk than he was. I mean better not
in terms of how he treated him, but in terms of how close they
got. Sure, that doesn't work for Eric. But um, but yeah,
I mean that's what this is. This is I've now decided that this
is Hogan Bishop sitting down. How can we angle this thing? I mean,
Bubba's still out there right now, I mean, Bubba the love sponge.
How can we get this into the rustling ringe? What if we do
Bubba Ray by Ray brother And again it all revolves around Hogan Psyche and his
personal shit, the whole company, or at least the driving story land of
the company. That it's good stuff, it's money. Well, it's it's
worked for three straight years, so I can't blame him. I mean that's
people were all interesting his personal life on Hogan's knows best. So Rix in
New York is the site of Bubba's bachelor party. We get a quick look
at that elvet rope, and then all the strippers are posing with him,
were told this is last night, and so he goes up to New York
to fucking go to the strip club, to come back to Florida to get
married. Okay, yeah, because there's not enough strip clubs in Tampa.
That's the right, right, I'm sure there's even a fucking ricks in in
in Tampa. I bet there is is there Ricks in New Orleans, so
vell Yeah right, probably, honestly, there's probably a Rix in every city
in the country. Uh. Later on that show, Velvet Sky wrestles Gail
Kim and her new catwoman gear and guess what, twenty thirteen is gonna be
her year as well? She does the wrap around. I think that is
gonna be my year. Yeah, my year to stop doing TNH. There
you go ten years ago where decade on makes some sense. Jesus, and
we're just about the same chronology too, I mean time wise by the time
we end, Jesus. I uh so. Uh yeah. So she's doing
this new like wrap around X Factor finisher that she calls in your face.
Maybe it wasn't new, I don't remember, but she has a new look,
a new presentation, a new push. They're talking about her in commentary
like she's going to be, you know, the face of the Knockout's Division
in twenty thirteen, which I'm sure has nothing to do with Bully rise to
the top. And she doesn't sit down Pedigree as her finisher for the one,
two three that that's the new finisher to sit down Pedigree, Um backsage
Dixie. Dixie's back and she's meeting with Brooke and she's acting like her mom
because of course Linda's know where to be fund Why why couldn't Brooke invite Linda
to the wedding. It's her wedding, for Christ's sakes. No brother,
dude, no, dude, that would have been a segment. Can you
imagine, Dad, I invited Mom to the wedding? Linda and Hogan have
like a stare down backstage. Lary Es we're talking. That would be fucking
month or Hogan and was he still married to Jennifer this time? He was
Hogan and Jennifer and Linda and whoever she's fucking Oh, Charlie Hill, Yeah,
she's Charlie Hill. Run in would be something? Oh man, could
you imagine? That'd be nuts? But here here's Dixie for you. You
look so beautiful things odd. I can't believe that, just like last March
we started talking about you coming here. I would have never, in a
million years, I know, thought something like this would happen. Thank you
for supporting me with everything too, really means a lot. But of course
you're happy the right. Yeah, he makes me really happy. And no
matter what, no matter what happens to mine. You know your dad loves
you very much. No Aday, I'm proud of you. I'm proudly I'm
getting married. I'm so excited. Get your mon out there. Okay,
all right, it's wonderful. It's all you got to say. I mean,
what else is there? I think Dixie cried real tears. I think
Dixie's so kayfe in herself that she thinks she's like part of Hohkhgan's family and
and help. Meanwhile, Hulk is just making sure the check leader, saying
whatever it takes. You know, I know, I know she's like falling
for your brother, you know, do your family. Dude, you you
you're kind of life. You know, Dixie in so many ways, you're
actually like Brook's mom brother. You know he said something like that, Yeah
I'm married. Would didn't put it exactly like that. Well, Dixie,
of course calling back to how she kind of brought Brook here. You know,
it's kind of her, kind of because of her that she's on TV
even I know, I've heard that country music career really took off. Yeah,
everything's going great for her. Um in the office, hulkan Sting,
Yeah, hulkan Stinger in the office and DNA bite Hige. Yes, indeed,
results I feel it with every piece of life in my body. This
is what I've tried to protect my whole life, protect her from the evils
of this business, the personal tragedies that you and I both suffered, all
the bad stuff. I've tried to keep it away from her. This isn't
about Bully. He's not a bad guy. It's not about him. He's
one of us. We're all the same personnel. Huh. But for Brooke,
what the fuck are you talking about? This movie ends? There's no
question that this this business has jaded both of us. And I'm not gonna
deny anything that you just said. A matter of fact, I'm going to
agree with everything you just said. But have you ever thought that you've done
such a good job of raising your daughter, such a good job of protecting
her. Keep going that maybe, just maybe she can see something in a
Bully that you can't because this business has blinded you. What what what do
you? You're wrong, You're wrong about Bully and you need to walk Brooke
down that in style and profile. Yes, you know, brother, it's
been a long day. I'm gonna pack my stuff up and get out of
here. But I always do the right thing, Stinger for this business and
for my family in that order, just as long as you know that.
Yeah, hell, it's either what's right for the business or right for your
family. There's no such thing as both. And no, no, dude,
there is no such thing as both. This is like, by the
way, this is the TNA Hill Coke in Cadence. What he says,
you know, brother, it's been a long day that that you know what
I mean? That way of like saying that phrase at the ends a kind
of wraps it up is how he wraps things up. Yeah, Like there's
an ellipsis there? Yep? To the ring. The wedding music plays,
and Tanay says, you are sitting in on history and Bully steps out in
his tuxedo looking boyish, looks like such a fucking idiot, a big false
white tooth smile. Unbelow. I can't stand his smile. It is maybe
the most annoying thing. Well, fortunately he knew that about himself and leveraged
it in that direction. But you say so. Dreamer comes out with Miss
Tess Mocker on his arm. Tommy Dreamer looking like every dad in New York
who's ever walked his daughter down the aisle. Yep ye and multiple times as
well. This time it's for real and he really does and Rick, I
just can't say how excited I had to have he was part of the family
salute. Now everybody enjoyed the Italian wedding suit at the Young Kings. We
have to you again again, exactly third time in four years. I'm gonna
tell you, you know what for the special occasion, I gave him the
recipe for my mother's meet boss. I mean the first the first husband,
you know, it was a high school crush and um, we're all young,
we make mistakes. The second one, you know, we fell some
hard times and he had some depression problems and then we pray for him.
But this third one, let me tell you, sweetheart, this guy he
owns his own limousine company. It's been divorced only once. And I can't
wait to see the beautiful life you built together. I can't wait to have
more grandchildren. I can't wait for you to open up a shop that makes
more to Dell or something. Time. Folks, Folks, the pursuit has
been important. Yea, all right, Tom Dreamers like Tommy Dreamers. The
dad in New York that has like six kids, and all of them suck,
like all of them drug addicts. Yeah, they all, they all
make they all make constant mistakes. Yeah, you know, live with them
as often as they don't, you know, exactly exactly. Whenever one of
them gets divorced, they move in for like about three years. Oh my
god. Then they you know, then then they get married again. They
leave for about two months and they get every every girlfriend they have still has
eighties hair. Yeah. Yeah, all the you know, the daughters,
all all merry people who fucking cheat on them. Within like three months,
they all married guys that look like big casts. Yeah. Uh, have
like two two decent visits to the to the family house for a barbecue.
Yeah, right, right on, like the um the deck that's made out
of wood that like gets dark when it gets rained on. Yes, honey,
come here, come here. I'm so sorry, Oh baby, I'm
so sorry. It's so good. What happened? What happened? Oh my
god, this is so right, this feels so right, Like, oh
my god, it's like everyone guy, say you want, six generations has
lived in this house, right, five generations has lived in this house,
and the six generation is just complete disaster. Yeah, a complete disaster.
Hey, you want some bikes eat? I guess some big the bell household
from bigger, faster, stronger, nothing little bigs eat. He can't.
I want to make you lasagnia. I'll make you lasagna from scratch. Let
me get them, let me get the eggs. By the way, he
must be Italian, but his last name is Lawfulin. He's probably not even
Italian, but he's from Yonkers. He's got black hair. Let's fucking go.
Did he work in a pizzeria? I thought, I'm very hearing matter
or something like that, that I fucking worked pizza. There's no chance Tommy
Dreamer hasn't delivered pizza at something, for sure. I think he did it
last week. But the box with like the red chef doing the like that,
you know what I mean, I mean, like the yep um yep.
So Dreamer comes out with test mocker uh, and Spike comes with Mickey
down the aisle. Of course, he was known in Tena as brother Runt
because they just know how to name him in TNA and then fucking but then
today immediately calls him Spike the ground Chance Spike over and over again. Well
and Today, says it, Tony says it, and Hogan's concerned that the
network might have the ball again. What was going on, dude, spike?
Brother? What would you? Who's spike and who? Brother? You
gonna spike the You're gonna spike TNA, Dude, you're gonna spike our clearance?
Brother? Do you spike the punch? Did you spike the ball?
Brother? Did you spike the punch? Did you no? Terry, I
just ducked it. Get it again. Taz comes out with Christy Hemmy Taz
in the wedding as well, looking like he's laying on a sarcophagus but standing
up Jesus Christ. Taz like, I don't know how he could ever button
a shirt around his non existent neck, Like it's just chin, it's chin
then fucking body than Torso. And it's like, I mean, you need
to have like a thirty you know, like like a thirty inch shirt to
fucking get around that that that you know, he's like, I mean,
yeah, obviously he's fat now, but he's still not like crazy huge.
But because of that fucking no next situation, right, he needs to have
the biggest shirt of all time get around that's a BuzzFeed slide show wrestlers in
the no next situation. I'm sorry. When Taz stands in the middle of
the ring in TNA in this era, he looks like a fucking mister potato
head. Oh yes, totally um bullet cat calling each one as they get
in the ring like it's high school graduation. You know, John Sullivan,
So you know that kind of graduation. Yeah, exactly. So we'll be
back with the entrance to the bride, but we'll up H walker to the
ring, the original, the real Triple H, the first Triple H come
back. We see that a bully has his as they say, extreme groomsmen
in place. Oh god, they hit. Here comes the bride to an
all female pop. I don't think there are any women in an impact zone,
but you heard them all here. Yeah. Ed Brook steps out through
the impact tunnel and then she pauses at the ramp and looks to the back.
They chant, Brooke, she's looking behind her, just like her dad
taught her. Never walk anywhere, dude without looking behind brother And I gotta
say, what a pop? What hull Coogan and a tuxedo and a black
dew rag steps out to walk his daughter down the aisle. What a pop
for the pop? What did you think of this moment? You know,
it's fine, Yeah, it's fine. I'm glad, you know. I
mean, I'm glad people are into it. I suppose I don't get why
they're into it. Yeah, I don't get why they fight. I mean,
I guess they've done a It's it's very hard. I just think all
of this this just isn't wrestling to me. It's just so stupid. Yeah,
it's like beyond soap opera. Well, it's them telling themselves that,
like if we have to pop a rating, there's no possible way we could
do that with wrestlers, like in a wrestling match, like it has to
be which is wrong. Yeah, I can. I mentioned there's a wedding
in the middle of the nWo angle. Oh it's been a fucking disaster,
but a disaster. Dressed like he's going to testify in court or something.
He looks like that. He looks like he did in that picture with with
Once Your Dolly Parton goes up to Brooks as I love you, I'm sorry,
Hogan. Chance looks like he's walking into a courthouse. He got dressed
pretty quickly because I remember he was just talking to Sting in the office like
leaving but going home ten minutes ago. And even though it got a nice
Papa it was a good moment, they didn't get anywhere near what they could
have out of that, Like if Bully proposed two months ago, and it
was like, I know, the question week after week after week if Hulk
is going to finally, but we had like this is TNA in a nutshell,
We had like seven days to wonder if he's going to walk her down
the aisle right if that, it doesn't even I don't know it. It
didn't occur to me as like the dramatic hook until really this episode of impact
itself. So maybe even less than an hour we had, I mean you
could have had and yeah, Shamley couldn't give it even three weeks. Yeah
yea. So they're all in there, Bully saying thank you to everybody,
shake his hand, they chant, Hogan ignores that he does not shake Bulli's
hand, and the reverend welcomes everyone that Justice has. Whatever he is we
had gathered looks like actor Mike Landers from Diehards, the the guy who plays
the cop and goes send in the car, Send in the car. That's
a deep cut here, I this whole fucking thing. We welcome everyone.
Yeah, we are gathered here today in the presence of all of you friends
and family, to celebrate of ignission to the beauty of love and to unite
Brooke and Mark and holy matrimony. Okay, let us begin. Who presents
this woman? I do ah, he puts a home in Bullis, Brooke
and Mark. There are no obligations on earth sweeter or more tender than those
you are about to assume. You were born into this world as individuals,
and during your life you've learned to live together with your fellow man in harmony.
As you got older, what do you learn to both give and receive
love in your lives? Learning to love and live together is one of life's
greatest challenges with rewards, and is the shared goal of a life of marriage
together. There is no institution more sacred than marriage. The state of matrimony
is based on a deep, invisible union of two souls who seek to find
companion in one another. You understand, oh, clue, yes, yes.
In front of your family and friends, Brook, Mark, you may
now express the love that you have family for one another with your vows.
Mark, I can't believe I'm standing in front of you right now, me
too, exchanging vows with you in the middle of a wrestling ring. But
you came into my life like a burst of light, and I can trust.
I feel like I'm safe. You're my best friend. You definitely know
how to make me laugh. And I have no idea what I was doing
before I met you. But I can't imagine my life without you. Now.
I love you. You have to see how COVID's face still for sure
Brooke. Earlier today, I took out a piece of paper and I started
writing things down. I just said this to myself, what the hell are
you doing? She doesn't deserve words on paper. She deserves me to speak
from the heart. Oh yeah, from the moment I knew, I knew
you were the one. I'm a different person when I'm around you. I'm
a happy person when I'm around She's miserable all the times. Velvet sky Box
stalls Watch the Happiest Girl in the World. The bottom line is I fricking
love you now. Is there anyone that has just cause that these two individuals
should not be legally married? Speak now or forever? Hold your peace.
I'll take that as a no. Do you have the rings? Do you
Brook take Mark to be your lawfully wedded husband, promising to love and cherish
through joy and sorrow, sickness and health, and through whatever challenges you may
face, for as long as you both shall live? What do you Mark
take Brook to be your lawfully wedded wife, promising to love and cherish through
joy and sorrow, sickness and health, and through whatever challenges you may face,
for as long as you both shall live. I do, and now,
by the power vested in me, I'll hold on a second. Hold
on? Took back a hold on? Hold on? I have two questions.
You know I can't take this. I have two questions. I know
you're a long time we go way back, We're like brothers. Don't just
hold on? Do you you shure you want to do this? Are you
sure you want to do this? No, but it's none of your business.
Are you sure you want to do this? What do your okay?
You want to do this? The second question I have is is it just
me? Or is it freaking hot? In here? Off covers the blazer
and it's a ass and ates fast? Oh my god? What don't what
the house. This is an storms the wedding and the damns its let's come
out, He'll hit We just see my cases and eights coming from from every
part of the arena put everywhere Rod. The impact on what put the kids
coup two by those aces. It eates Um, oh my come so there
holding bro Hostagen there, Yeah, did you notice possible her tis pops out
your husband during that moment, she's clutching to her sick right breast herself the
whole time that boobs out, that booms her out. Bork chuck on board.
Oh god, oh god, your brother, Brook, I see your
chips, dude. She learns to call it too. She like hides her
face and says to my boobs are out because she's like wow, because Hulk
has been laid out. He's down on the ground and she kind of gets
free from the clutches of gallows and no, and she's like, I mean
you can tell like for the moment she gets grabbed, she is like covering
herself up, like she's holding herself absolutely. And so she goes up to
Dad and she's like using kind of like the apron to like hide what she's
doing. Uh, And she says that to Hulk to explain like why she's
not going to bully like the script calls for right away. So that's kind
of a fun moment in there. So I should like, would rather have
Daddy with her boobs. I think she's just a She's just letting him know
not to panic that she forgot what to do next. She's just handling this
business. I'm Brooke, you're shooting on the segment on Brother? What did
you? Why do you come up? Brook? Why? Why are you
coming up? Brother? I'm on my back, dude, Brook, I'm
my back, Dude, your tits are out? What's going on? Brother?
Are you shooting? Dude? Brook? Are you gonna cover me?
You cover me with your brother? Hold on? Whoa? Let's Brookly Dallas
thing back in? Dudents somebody? What's going on? Brother? You knew
you weren't supposed to approach me when I'm on my back. Dude. Just
why I'm screaming out you lot? Did somebody tell you to Why did you
come up to me when I was on my back? Brook? Brother?
Didn't I tell you to pin me? Dude? Are your tits really out?
Brother? Are you fucking with me? I mean were you. You
know, I'm just wondering what exactly is going on, dude. You know,
I'm sitting here, brother, we're kind of doing this whole thing,
you know where here we are. But all of a sudden, dude,
you come out, brother, and it's like, oh, look, you
know here I am tit's out, brother, and I'm on my back selling
tell him, you know, selling mc gizz brother, And all of a
sudden, I got a double biz in front of me, brother, from
my own daughter, double bizz, double biz. I mean he's concerned,
so for sure. So I think I think the execution is great. See
do it again? Talk this one two TRINOLLI why did you come up for
the wedding? This? Sometimes I voice is Steve beside me screaming over the
sign of its deafening to a brisk you anywhere you'll hold your you know,
listen, try you can't bring this. Oh shit. I think people say,
no doubt they're all gonna doubles on this now. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's deafening all right, Dixie. This could all even if I
lose it on the air. Oh Jesus Christ, I mean that's Tnah right
there, baby. Yeah, so yeah, that Taz is revealed as having
an aces and A's veston under his tucks and then all hell breaks lose,
And I think it's a hell of an execution. They really, yes,
you know, like Bully, especially, his body language is perfect as someone
who like in an instant goes from shock to realizing like, oh shit,
we're under siege, and like and I go ahead, could and they like
shake the camera in a way that gives just some sense of like impending chaos,
and then they just stormed the ring at once, and it's like and
I think even too, what I thought was the most effective is that they
had me. They had me completely convinced it was a wedding, and I
didn't even think about about there being a twist or swerve or or you know,
an angle at the end, right, I was just totally into the
wedding. And also, honestly, at this point, Aces and Eights was
so fucking mid card. Yeah, yeah, you know, way down the
pecking older under this this angle, right, you know, I just really
didn't even think they would even make an appearance in this. Yeah, they're
like losing matches, They're like concerning themselves with my right knocks it's like staying
as fighting them like and just running them out of town, right yep,
So it was it was it was a stroke co genius. I mean it
didn't it didn't go down that way because it you know, it didn't lead
to much. But on that night, it was like, good for them,
actually get you know, they actually delivered something that was memorable and watchable
yep, and something you didn't see coming. Where they didn't do it just
for the sake of no one will see it coming. They did it in
a way that now I want to see what TAZ is about and how that's
going to change the you know, the tenor of the announced booth every week
and which it's awful. Yeah, exactly. That's t NA. Anytime they
do something effective that shows a little spark of life, the follow up is
always so bad that you're just like, Okay, Taz is so worthless,
Like I can't get heat on the guy. You can't write that's the thing,
like because he yeah, well he's so used to being you know,
he's so used to doing commentary and kind of neutral commentary that that's what he
does, even except with an occasional aces and eights favoritism right, but he's
like almost like change. He's doing like a mockery of commentary the whole time,
which he was doing anyway in a weird way, but he was just
making a mockery of commentary exactly. So he doesn't he doesn't like go hard
to the side of like I'm just going to be this cheerleader for aces and
eights and rule breakers. He's still he's still telling jokes first, you know,
right, right, that's bad. But I think you know, they
needed a swerve and they needed to twist, and they saw this in him.
This is another I think page out of the book I talked about before
where it's like they're doing big angles with people they already have doing something else
in the company on payroll, you know, so they don't have to add
cost. You know. It's like, how can we deliver a big surprise
that having to hire somebody new just about which I don't mind as much.
Like it's actually I like the I like that that Taz was doing this.
I do too. I think it's again, it's the it's the aftermath,
it's the follow up that just doesn't resonate. Yeah, and that's something I
think everyone agrees on. And even like Bully on that eighty three weeks show
that he did there a big off and Conrad talks about how it was kind
of tough because you couldn't get heat on tasks. I mean, frankly,
Taz became an announcer because he was medically disqualified from ever getting touched again because
of the delicate nature of his neck. I mean, it's he goes on
the air after this and talks about being teflon Tazz and it's true, like
you cannot touch him without being sued. It was well understood and and so
they play with that in Nace's Nates, but it's also kind of like a
limiting factor. It's kind of like, well, and it's interesting because you
know they had those moments of like subterfuge where you know, Bully, they'll
have these moments of subterfuge where Bully comes out and Taz finds a reason to
be away from the announced booth after returns on Bully, Yeah, thank you.
That for a couple of weeks, and it's like, wait a minute,
if he's teflon Taz, like if nobody can touch him because they're gonna
get sued, then why doesn't he just stand there and taunt them with that
fact. You know, why does he disappear what he does? But that's
that's to come. So what did this what did this angle do? What
did this all amount to? One point six zero million viewers identical with two
months? Okay, so I mean sorry, if the bully Brook Wedding isn't
going to do the biggest number you've done in years, there's something rotten at
the core. You've failed. It's over. The show peaked with the wedding
itself at one point eight two million viewers, very respectable, but far cry
from the three plus million that Hogan did in his segment for the January fourth,
twenty ten debut impact. That was, that was the market opportunity.
Those people, whoever they were, whatever, constituted that bulus of people.
You failed to keep them interested. You had them, you know, don't
say we couldn't go on the road. They weren't spending money on the tapings.
You had them in the impact zone watching maybe one thing. If they
never you know what I mean, if they never drew that kind of number.
So that's that. We moved to the January twenty fourth Impact. The
top of the show. They showed, but a post footage after the wedding
where Brooke is hovering a Bully and holks on the canvas and reaches his hand
out and he and Bully actually join hands having been laid out in the ring,
and everyone comes out trying to help Hulk out of the ring as they
chant Hogan and Bully helped out of their two to dramatic slow music. Pretty
good follow up. They get right to the heart of it next week and
yeah, they show Brook backstage covered in a jacket, just horrified by all
this, and Joseph Park had come out helping as well. And we started
in the announced desk with there's an empty chair where Tas usually sits, like
to Nay says. In ten years plus I've been with this company, We've
had our sheriff surprising moments, but from a personal standpoint, I've never been
more shocked than I was at the actions of Tas. Quite honestly, Tas,
I can not wait to hear what you have to say, And of
course they do it immediate jump cut, not let that emotion sink in to
all the Aces and Nates in the parking lot clapping like little children on a
parade. Route. As the bikes start rolling in one after the other,
and they now have a Nace's Nate's hands signal, God help us, five
fingers up on one hand, three on the other. What I mean,
come on obviously, So they stream out into the impact zone. And here's
as leading the charge, and a flannel and wind pants and a beanie and
again a potato and here a mister potato head in the ring. That's right
to deliver the following promo. Here we go. Everybody's asking me all week
long? Hey, Taz, why are you what Aces and Ace life is
about? Opportunity? How can I pass up on the opportunity to be part
of the machine known as Aces and eight? How can I not be part
of a group of men that have an agenda, an agenda and individual agenda
to get revenge and redemption? And most importantly, how can I not pass
on the opportunity to take direction and to live by the vision of a higher
power? How can I pass on that? And there's the other thing last
week, last week bullying and Brooke Hogan's wedding. I'm I'm a whole Hogan's
daughter. I'm Brooke, I'm gonna get married. Shut up. Give me
a break, boy, he's all smitten with Hawk's daughter. Let me tell
you something. All that wedding was was an opportunity for us to stand on
your face and make our president snow thrown to a higher level. That's exactly
what we did. You were just another victim, that's all you were.
And last thing I want to point out, Miss Dixie Carter tena president tena
front office shadow will manager Huk Hogan. You know my contract that I signed
several years back. You need to look at the language in that bad boy,
and the language of that thing basically says that I'm freaking bulletproof. If
somebody touches me, if somebody puts a hand on me, one stinking finger
me, I will own this frigging place. I'm Taflon, I'm tathlon Tasks.
So the sun this sting up. We are races and eights and we're
driven to rule over you, and we will. You'll deal with this pair
of rage behind me. You'll deal with the connage, but we will put
out what these men will put out, Bullying Brook, You're just collateral damage.
Good luck dealing what these guys and the higher power see you ya,
Palla that's a lot. That is a mouthful. So now I think they've
decided that Bully is going to be the leader of Asis and Eights. Now
they're starting again after not mentioning it for several several weeks. This idea of
a higher power is coming up. So Bully and Brook arrived in the building.
They stop up in there and he glares at the cameraman says, we'll
do our talking in the ring. Get that camera out of my face.
So another successful backstage interview, bullying Brook come out. Yeah, they're really
doing well with this, fucking with these interviews. Yeah, the hit rate
is not high. Taz had returned in the announced booth after cutting that promo,
but now he's missing. A Bully comes out into the building and Tony
tells his bully came to no He tells bullies. Bully walks over to the
announced desks looking for Taz that he got a phone call. Tas says he
got a phone call brother, and then Mollie gets in the ring. Last
week should have been the greatest night in our lives. But if he really
does talk like fucking oh yeah, Vince Russo and you know people have said,
oh god, I can't believe that. You guys think everybody from Long
Island sounds like that. We don't. It's like, now, we don't
think everybody sounds like that. But you don't think I'm imitating someone from Missouri?
Would I do that? Let'll tell you. It's just like Boston,
you know, like yep, you walk around Boston itself. It's sometimes it
can take you a while, depending on where you are, to find anybody
who has the quart Boston accent. So um, every reality last week turned
into a night. Mary says. A lot of people were hurt last week.
Bully says, Divon, I expected this from you, tas you scumbag.
I never expected this from you. Where is he nothing but a friking
cow? It my best man, my brother, my confidence. This is
what you do to us. I don't care so much that I got hurt.
It's the people that you hurt around me. The only man that has
trusted me is Sting, the man have been trying to get to trust me
forever whole Cogan. You heard him. But most of all, the one
that you hurt the most was the woman that I love. And he grabs
her by the hand. And that's so dare you ruin our day, our
biggest day. The things that I'm going to do to Devon Tas, every
single member of Asis nates. I can't even talk about it. I can't
even say it on national television. Every single one of you better sleep with
one eye open, and Brooke nods she likes that. Look at my frigate
eyes. I guarantee you I will not sleep one fricking week. That's enough,
freaking guys, it's enough right now. Stop it until I kick every
single one to your m f and asses. I think he says, pretty
great stuff he's delivered. This is kind of promo you should do after you
get wrong, like that, leaning on the ropes, looking right into the
hard camera while he's doing it. And then he says, but I can't
do any of that unless whole Cogan lifts my suspension. Hogan, I know
you're not here tonight and you're taking care of business, your home resting up.
I need you to reinstate me. Lift the suspension, Hulk, lift
the suspension. And what's he gonna do? I guess he can't wrestle,
So the only way to get revenge just to have a formal sanction wrestling match.
I don't know. Oh, of course, that's one thing we've learned
over the course of TNA. Totally makes sense, staying, hey, he
didn't say lower the suspension. The whole world knows. Triple h doesn't helk
Hogan doesn't do anything halfway, does he. He goes all the way to
the very top, no matter what he does. But Hulk, I know
right now you're watching, Sting says, getting well, but you've only come
halfway because you walked your beautiful daughter down the aisle and handed her off and
gave her away to your new son in law, Bully Ray. I'm thinking
to wait, they're actually married because they well they said I do. Yeah,
but they weren't to play a husband and wife. Yeah, but they
said I do. If we learn anything from the Princess Bride, that's what
matters them. I see a good point now, Hulk. It's time for
you to go all the way, which is what you do exactly. You're
the best of all times. Sting says, Now away, next week we're
going to be in the UK, all of us together. Sting says,
this is what I believe. In the UK, you will announce to the
whole world that your new son in law, Bully Ray will be reinstated,
and Bully hugs Sting and Bully does another one of those stone faced hugs over
Brook's shoulder where he's making that face like you know, I don't know if
we can still trust this guy. Later in the show, Enterson in the
clubhouse and says, hey, hookers, shut up. He calls them hookers
and they all sound like a bunch of cackling hens, he says. In
the main event, Jeff Hardy pins Chris Daniels. Jeff Hardy still the world
champion of TNA, by the way, with both belts and TAZ on the
call of this match gets up from the desk. Bully can't find him now,
I guess, and he wants to get an interview. What are you
going to do in the act? Funny, he can't. He can't do
him when he's on fucking TV, like right, he's right there. Hey
know you were looking for him before there he is anyway, tass us to
Jeff Hardy, what are you gonna do when Aces and Needs destroys everything around
here? And then a guy in a mask hits Jeff Hardy in the leg
with a hammer and he does the Nancy Kerrigan and we do an identical rating
through the prior week. So if they got buzz for this hot wedding angle,
it did not build the rating from the week before, which again in
and of itself, was a disappointment considering they did a much higher rating for
um Hogan and Bully Ray going face to face kind of for the first time
over this whole thing Impact January thirty first again, we're going to the UK
every January February now for TNA. They're falling in love with the idea,
as they should. It's a great market for them, with great crowds here
there in UK and the Manchester Arena. And it says a hashtag Impact Live
instead of Live in the top corner of the screen because they're not quite live,
but it's still an episode of Impact Live. And they had that big
scrolling marquee above the ring on the scoreboard when they went to the UK and
Magnus comes out on this show. Magnus is going to find himself stepping into
the foreground and the who Yeah, well the current Nickoldus remember seeing him rustle
a Cody Rhodes at all in now Cody wins the NWA champion Jack Briscoe belt.
Oh yeah, as it for his dad looks to the ceiling. Yeah,
Nick, nickoldus champ then coming in right, and uh, what's that
was it? I don't remember, don't remember what it was a great match?
I was, yes, it was fantastic. You say so? And
then we have and he said Mackey James husband as well. I think they
actually met right at this point in time in TNA. So they're started pushing
him hard and in fact, in the scramble to figure out what to do
post Hogan, Agnes is going to become TNA World Heavyweight Champion boss and two
what yep, I'll credit to the guy. But that's a jump the Shark
moment, if you ask me, distinctly remember it as it sort of coincides
with the realization that Spike is not going to renew TNA. But here he
is in the UK, comes out and so this is the groundwork being laid
for what that would come to be. Does a promo on Chris Daniels and
Kazarian. They talk about him as a potential world champ on the call,
and he beats Steven via DQ because you know, again the Aces and Nates
keep winning, and then he fends off the Aces and Nates all by himself
and this homecoming. So that's a really strong piece of baby face positioning.
There, got a little bit of Bruce Pritchard handywork on that whole thing.
Later, Stink tells Bully and Brook he's got a it's a message. He's
received a message saying I'll be there. I guess he's talking about from Hogan.
Oh yeah, Brook says he's always pulled through, so he always does
the right thing. It's about phones, she keeps saying, to try him
from my phone. Phone. Yeah, that's right about the phone. Al
arrives and he's on the phone. Bully and Brook come out. They make
no bee lane for Tazz this time to spend looking for him last week.
You know it's funny, Um, you see you see Brooke. You don't
realize how giant Brook is right until you see her next to to to Bubba,
because like you see your next to Hogan, you know, you kind
of forget the whole dynamic women but right, but then when you see her
next to next to Bully, holy shit, she is huge. She insists
on wearing like the tallest heels every week. I know she's got to get
to get the shells, got broad shoulders like you got the whole fucking thing.
Oh for sure. Absolutely love the fucking Decca like fucking found its way
into her. Yeah you can put it that way, you could, Uh,
Brook, I love you, very says, And I guess that's my
dicka. Huh, the Dicka would actually be fighting it, Sider, depends
who you're talking about. They got me suspended, they boo by your dad.
But hope we are family now when we have a condimend and common enemy.
Hope that enemy is the Aces and Eights. We got to bury all
our problems. Brother, what I need you to lift my suspension? Brook
me? Yeah, people can't get you to do Oh the people can't get
you to do this. Um, they can't get Holk to do it.
Only one man can. And that's the Stinger we want. Hogan chants.
Bully gets some chance Sting Sting Sting instead, and the music hits. Sting
comes out a sparkly road. He says, it's good. It feels good
now because Sting's part of it. Oh no, I don't have it,
but I got news for you, Bully, you're wrong about one thing.
I don't think I quite had the stroke to pull Hogan out here, but
I know you people do. So forget about the sting chant. He says,
let's get a Hogan chant going, and they oblige, and the music
hits. The foam fingers go up, the hope many signs in the crowd.
They are still exciting. Wah wa wah wana wah, wah wah waha,
wah wa wah wana wah, wah, wah wa wah wah, wah,
waa, wah, wah, wah wa wah wah wah waa waa,
waa, waa, waa water bah waaah waa, what wana wah wa wah
waha wah wah wah wa wow Wanna wah wah wow wan waw waw wana wa
wa wow whaa wa wa wa wow wow Wow. Keep going. Just gonna
associate it with just like just the stream of things we've had to watch for
this jar. Every time I heard that music is because you know, all
we did was watching the Hogan segments for the most bar. It's just that
song over and over. Oh, I'm just gonna associate it with such forced
enthusiasm, you know, like all right, we gotta you know, we
got a Hulk up to get excited about this now, because you just have
to keep plowing through this ship. And I'm always going to associate that with
like drudgery. Now that song it's so rough yep. And a year after
he had what turned out to be his final professional wrestling match in this country
as part of this same tour, Hogan returns here to the UK and red
and Yellow with the Hoof stash for the crowd as he walks down the ramp
today, says, there's nothing like the reaction to a Hulk Cogan entrance.
Just an example of the worldwide popularity of the Immortal Hulk. Hogan says,
I don't care if you're in Mantist, England or Manchester, New Hampshire.
The reaction to our impact, General Managers Hult Rogan is always off the charts.
Why might just have to say all that? Okay? Bully holds the
ropes open for Hogan and he gets a hug from Brook and Hogan and chant
breaks out as the music fades and stings his Hulk. We got a war
zone going around here with the aces and eights we're back together in the UK,
and so I can't figure out a better place for you to make things
right with Bully right here and right now. You know something, sting man,
Oh there's a war going on around here at t Anda. Why don't
you tell me something I don't know? Brother, with the resting bitch face.
Oh totally. But at the end of the day, whether you and
I have been friend or foe, I always do the right thing. As
far as this woman right here goes. The day of her wedding, she
was still my little girl, brother, and I did the right thing when
I walked her down the aisle. I as far as my family goes,
I always do the right thing because at the end of the day, I
said it again, when my family's on the line, I always do the
right thing. He says it again. That's why Bully is reinstated, brother,
and they pop wow Ally celebrates, makes a face like I can't believe
it. Brooke hugs him. Hogans is the one thing that makes me a
little crazy when I get confused with business and family. I'm going to do
the right thing because for this business next week, I'm going to make a
match with you guys from Maces and Nates and you Stinger and Bully my new
son in law. But to make sure that I take care of all the
business, the family biz, and the wrestling biz. Next week, this
tech match is going to be a tables match. Brother, So wait a
minute, he could make matches to punish Aces and Nates all this time,
and he chose not to. Remember, that's a choice. We'll tell Dixie
has a major announcement. This just continues. This is now a total laughing
stock. This major announcement cards here, Well, we got this here,
we got that for you. You want our announcement? Yeah, this is
what This is what consuits a major announcement. By February twenty thirteen. For
the past eight years, the most amazing wrestling fans out there today have traveled
from all over the world to come see us at Universal Studios in Orlando.
Now it's time for us to take the cameras to you. I'm so excited
to announce. But the television tapings for Impact are going on the road permanently,
and we're going to do that starting March fourteenth, when we go live
from Chicago at the Sear Center Arena. And we couldn't have done any of
this without you. So from all of us at TNA, thank you,
thank you for the bottom of our hearts for everything, and for making impact
wrestling of gliable success. And we will see you in your hometown very soon.
I hope not. She has to say it's a global success because she
can't say success in the US domestically. Yeah, what about that Sear Center,
same place wherey W got started. I guess they're going on the road
with taping, So again another thing Bischoff says they didn't ever do and should
have done. They actually did, and it's did not work. Going on
the road full time with tapings. They've experimented, of course, we've talked
during the twenty you know, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, how they
went to like Huntsville, Alabama and Knoxville into tapings in the UK as well,
And it was it was additive, It was good. It was.
It did add an atmosphere, no question, it made the shows better,
but not that you would really notice it, not that it at all reversed
the downward ratings momentum for any appreciable length of time with any consistency. So
whatever you think having a live crowd would add to the actual bottom line of
what Spike is. Looking at the numbers on paper, it's wrong. It's
wrong because it turns out, boss, if you don't do a good angle,
it doesn't matter if it's in the Impact Zone or if it's before four
thousand people in Knoxville. Yeah, I think I told you that, so
Helpless backstage. At the end of the day. What significant about Dixi's announcement
day to me is not that they're going on the road, but that they're
telling Impact fans, impact Zone regulars to go fuck off. You know,
they're now deciding that that's this is the time to do that, I mean
seriously, which is which is amazing in its own right. Holk's backstage at
the end of the day. He's really not a bad guy, he says,
a bully. We really are the same person. I don't get that
all of us staying bullying myself. But when I thought about the way he
fought and the beatdown he took for me and my daughter, he's okay in
my book. So when I felt what the Stinger felt, I think I
got this one too, all right, brother. At the end of the
day, At the end of the day, He's really not that one is
at it. Of course it is a bad guy. We really are the
same person, all of us, stingerly on myself. But you know what,
when I thought about the way he fought and took the beat down for
me and my daughter, he's okay in my book. So when I felt
and I felt what Stinger felt, I always do the right thing for my
family, and polvious now my family, and no matter what happens, we're
in this thing together. So I figured I might as well give my son
in law a little wedding present. They let him kill some of the Aces
eight guys table match brother, and I know Stinger can follow his lead quite
well. That was handy to a child, was the tables right? So
I wanted to murder He just repeated everything you just said in the ring.
First of all, I know, I know, I love it. I
love it. That's that's that's it right there. That's that's the fucking money.
Backstage, bisch Off, Garrett bitsch Off, West Briscoe and Ken Anderson
are hovering over um someone Joe Smoll. Joe's on the floor and garat bish
office assigned to go grab paramedics and West says, you come with me,
and there's a table overturned as Joe was screaming in agony, and Bischoff and
the lowest key voice you've ever heard, the least planic tone you've ever heard,
says, get a goddamn doctor. Damn it. Wherever he said,
nobody cares to manage expectations. They replay their banging lockdown match where Kurt was
about between Kurt and Ken Anderson because Kurt and Ken Anderson about to wrestle on
this show, and so we'll just bring up, like, you know,
one of those insane matches TNA's had, just to you know, get people
appropriately calibrated for what's to come showing you know, Kurt saying, fuck it,
he's about to go an entry hiatus and moonsalting off the top of the
cage, and just you know, one of the most preternaturally talented guys ever
to step in the ring, a guy who got it to a degree,
and it would have speed and efficiency that no one else has ever had in
wrestling, And the only way he can get aybody to care is to moonsalt
off a cage. Yeah right, that's it. That's what he's good for.
Anderson versus Angle, and the only thing it's less electric compared to that
first match is well, Anderson's dressed in a vest and a T shirt and
jeans. It's wrong, nice, this would be a great match. He
has a white T shirt, by the way, under the vest and baggy
jeans in a beanie tast tries to compensation. He looks great. It's all
good, it's fantastic. It's entertaining. Kurt Angle comes out with West and
a blazer in his corner, doing that cool shot from behind that they did
when they went to the UK as they walked through the tunnels. Ken Anderson
is still not over that time I beat him in the guarden. No,
Kurt Angle isn't over that time I beat him in the garden. So when
I called back there from Tas to a royal rubble two thousand, okay,
I mean, I guess that's what and Anderson seizes on Kurt right away.
The absolute state of the man at this point. What happened here with with
Ken Anderson? Man, Oh my god, because you know it was so
weird when we first encountered him in TNH. Right right after the regime arrives,
he comes in and they push him strong and he's cutting hot promos.
He's someone off the television that like he he checks more boxes than most and
that not only was he big on their TV, he has this kind of
like underdog kind of like what could have been right feeling around him. Yeah.
Ye, he never got the shake he should have for the charism he
has, and here he might actually do it. And then by the but
I remember when we were going through it. I'm like, why do I
know it all goes to shit? Because I'm watching this back. I'm like,
this guy's got spark, and I couldn't remember like wearing along the line
it would get compromised. And now I don't even think about him as a
factor in the coin. I know, I remember that's the prevailing feeling that
I should have about Ken Anderson and NTNA, that it was a big dud
Yep, exactly that's what it was. Now we're a big confronted with failure.
Look what he's wearing. For God's sakes, I mean, look what
happened to him. He just fucking he became because at this point he joined
the Aces and AIDS at a time when it wasn't beneficial to anybody. Yeah,
and he went to that whole goofy storyline where he was like he was
taking time off for a concussion, and they made that the storyline, and
like Matt Morgan was counseling him, he's basically playing Chris Nowinski. Remember that
whole ass backwards thing. It's so goofy, you know, just let the
guy disappear for a little while and come back like anybody else that hurt him.
So yeah, again, those vests, those aces and Nate's vests make
them all look like jobbers. Period. It's not a garment befitting a wrestler
and reminds me of something market angles and Peril fires back with the missile drop,
kick off the middle ropekurd Angle, chanp breaks out, Angle hits the
angle slam, and No goes for the angle slam, but it's countered by
the rolling samoan drop of ken, Anderson gets to both eat the fence,
Angle slam off. Anderson hitting the fence gets to Anderson rakes the eyes and
a clothesline drops card angle. Anderson climbs the cage, Angle goes up,
cuts them off. They slug it out up there, Anderson drops and angles
crotched on the top rope or the yam bag, as Test puts it.
One. Now, that's good for two. Anderson climes, angle, walks
up, angle slam off the top rope. That looked awesome. Um,
well the crowd thought so too, and they're saying it's awesome. I don't
give a shit. They were all about that chant in TNA. Man that
that got to Mike check for Ken Anderson. Yeah, what are you telling
yourself when that's when you keep sucking having to say that? Huh? I
know it's they're playing their part, you know. That's this is like kind
of that earliest example of the crowd not not really reacting organically. But we'll
put it this way, if they did react organically, it was hard to
tell the difference between that and they're feeling like this is the point in the
show where TNA needs us to chant this. Sure, um. Anderson then
climbs kirt, cuts them off, sneaks in, and U power bombs h
Anderson off the ropes. That gets two uh, Angle goes to the ankle.
Lock West's standing got I gotta say so, so you send me when
you know when when when you send me? Breakdowns of what I need to
watch for each episode, all right, and it's from It's from Alvarez,
right for the most Yeah, and so you know, after I try not
to read what he's said until i've watched it, but then I weeded afterwards.
I'm curious about his thoughts and I am absolutely amazed at the amount of
shit that he actually likes. Yes, that we've watched, That'll tell you
what. I'd like to watch it week to week over three years instead of
you know, in the rapid fire succession over six months like we've been doing
it. It's a much different experience because yeah, you know, it's like
with the space in between episodes and just comparing how cohesive the storytelling is here
to when Russo was in charge, like, you know, because he's you
know, Brian's also reporting on the backstage. He knows that Russo was offering
a lot of the stuff, and obviously he had made his decision about whether
Russo was was worth a ship. He wrote the death DCW and basically pinned
the whole downfall on him, which I don't think is the wrong call,
but uh or at least it's um it's not a totally miss misallocated target,
and so yeah, as long as Russo was booking TNA, everything was going
to look better by comparison, which I actually don't disagree with, but I
think that's kind of what's going on here. It's it's almost like a cyder
of relief for when Impact was just this like pointless series of twists and turns
and goofy ask chemmick matches and storylines, and all of a sudden, it's
like, oh, well, I mean they are kind of I mean,
is that is that really what you're at where what he'd seen is so bad?
Yes, that even something that is slightly better is good, and everyone's
patting themselves on the back. Meanwhile, none of the business metrics are going
in a direction that indicates, you know that anybody's actually gonna be making more
money anytime soon, right, And in fact, less money is coming in
terms of budget. So yeah, I mean the retrospect is it all sucks
because it doesn't move anything, right, But at the time, it's like,
if I got to watch Impact, is this better than last year?
Yes? Right? Does it feel like something that is booked with a game
plan in mind? Yes, as opposed to every week is a is a
new blank slate, and maybe we'll pay attention to what happened last week.
Maybe we won't. It just depends in our prerogative and what way the wind's
blowing this week and what we feel like. You know, we'll please the
people above us this week, so you know, I'll give them that Hogan's
being used more effectively. Sure you know he's not just sort of cutting these
promos about backstage intrigue and politicking. He's involving himself, you know, as
a human being in these segments instead of this sort of like mascot. Is
the best way I could put it. Yeah, I mean, I'm I
don't disagree with you there. It's it's some of the easier watches we've had
on TNH, the whole Bully right era. Uh sure, I gets fair.
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we don't have
much left in terms of there's not much else that we have to wait to
review here before we can make the call. I mean, what was more
watchable throughout the entire body of T and A that we've watched than the Bully
Ray stuff? Flair Like I'm talking about like a storyline like Flair did like
two almos that were hilarious. That was about it. Yeah, I mean,
yeah, I suppose you're right. I mean Watchable is a very we
gotta like watch powerful week after week and everything ends up just devoid of life.
Yeah you know, I mean yeah, Like I said, it's like
they end up in a place they should have been in the beginning in terms
of right launching something right and sink your teeth into because I guess that's part
of the problem is that at this point it I don't fucking care. Actually
problem the ratings are telling you it's the goose is cooked. If this doesn't
work. It's like you stru to see where they can go next, you
know, as you already know the limits of their vision and their budget.
So it's good stuff. Yeah, right, So as this is going on
again, Anderson climbs, Kurt cuts him off, power bombs him for two
big power bombs. There, Angle goes to the ankle lock and then west
Briscoe we see suddenly standing on the ramp and and then Angle drops down,
scissors the leg and Anderson taps so Kurt Angle beats Ken Anderson here in steel
cage. Angle says something on his back like he heard his ribs or something,
which is probably legit injury. He probably came in somewhat hurt. This
is another one of those like precursors to Angle taking a hiatus to heal things.
Yeah, so the Aces Nates are climbing up the cage and we get
no explanation as to why no one could stop it. West unlocked the door,
gets in there and look locks it again. The Aces and Nates now
enter the cage. West is in there with a key next to Kurt and
they take the mask off and mask off. It's it's Garrett bish Off.
Angle looks at West Briscoe like, what the fuck you knew about this?
No? No, No. Angle steps forward and West chop blocks him from
behind. Tas starts laughing. I love it when a plan comes together.
This cage match was a means to an end. Is West takes off his
suit jacket to reveal and Aces and Eights vest hits the worst running nee ever
As. These two men As are smart, they get it, they're progressive,
they understand where the power is. Okay, announcers to cry all the
time Kurt Angle spent with Garrett Bischoff and West Briscoe trying to break them in
and teach them the ropes, and all they do is turn on them in
this episode of Impact and join the aces of AIDS Boss. Another marquee addition
to this mega stable. Another fucking bunch of goof walk again, watch in
there, get him tremendous. We're going to react at home. Look at
it. I love it, man, I love it. When the play
comes together, we see boys. This cage match, it was just as
we really wanted to do. Isolate her, angles and the Holy High A
lot of them set up such good stuff. This impacted one point five eight
million viewers. As Meltzer noted, the last two weeks of tape shows ended
up with higher ratings than almost all the live shows since they started going live.
How the fuck can they not do live TV? Can't do it from
the UK? I understand that. Oh yess, that's true. And they
were. They were doing Impact live every week. Another thing that people act
like they never did that they fucking did. It didn't work or didn't make
enough a difference on this episode. That moment with the Hogan and Sting and
Bully and Brooke in the ring and Bully getting reinstated was big ratings again.
Four hundred and thirty six thousand viewers over the prior quarter Wow, which according
to the Observer, was one of the largest jump segments in TNA history at
a one point three eight quarter So, yeah, maybe they got him back.
Maybe they set the hook. I would say. Now, yeah,
we'll see a betting man knows where to place his wager. There. We
moved to the February seventh, twenty thirteen Impact Aces and Eights are out led
by the masked VP. He's the only one still masked, by the way.
And now Garrett Bischoff and West Briscoe, fresh into the stable, are
in there. And I'm thinking, aren't they supposed to be in trouble for
losing their masks? I don't. I thought that was a whole problem as
this Tenay should come to the ass Nates meetings to learn what they're doing.
Devon Grabs, the mic says, I said ACES Nates would dominate twenty thirteen.
Not only are we dominating, but we're kicking the freaking door right into
TNA as they lose match after match after match after match, including the Court
Anglican Anderson match that was the precursor to the West brisco Garrett Bischoff reveal it
would it be that hard to just have Aces Nates win all the time.
I don't know why that wasn't. I just don't understand why it's a problem
addressed after what we did last week to Kurt, Devon says, I'm sure
each and every one of you would love to see that again. He pitches
to the highlight package and then he says, Ken Anderson, when I told
you we had a plan, I was also right. And they're wating the
hell out of Devon. They do not want to hear from this man on
the mic, but with no further ado, they interview introduced rather the new
members of ass Nates Garrett Bischoff and West Briscoe. Bischoff grabs the mic does
the hand of the heart like his dad used to do. That's what I'm
talking about. Complete disrespect. So to hell, all of you. You
can't wrestle. Chant I think breaks out. He says he's got a new
family. It's Aces and Nates. West Briscoe says, you want to know
the reason I did this is because of you, Hawk Hogan, Hawk,
but you're an answer my phone calls for two years, and then you told
me I had to start from the bottom, a brisco on the bottom.
They're chanting something out of I can't tell what it is. I wouldn't fucking
answer your phone calls either. You're a horrifying looking individual. Yea, then
you want me to throw me in a gut check match and it does this
terrible laugh. West is just miserable on the mic, just so bad.
He sucks so bad. You forgot something, Hogan, who gave you your
first pair of wrestling boots? He says, your memory us to fail you.
It was my father. Okay, this is the respect you want to
show me. Well with the real hats on my back, that's the ticket
to climb the top of that ladder. I'm not really interested in anything that
you have to do, not really. I'd rather you go away. Jerry
Briscoe did tell that whole story on Tales from the Territories on Vice about um.
I think he talked about giving Hogan his first pair of wrestling boots,
but he certainly talked about, you know, sort of like an outsider's perspective
on Hogan coming in and working with Matt Suda on what was and wasn't bullshit
there, So sure, Jerry Briscoe's full of shit too, but you know
everyone's less full of shit than Home. So I'll take it. I'll fold
it into the mosaic. Yeah, you can't wrestle Chance all over West,
I mean yeah, I mean you've been presenting him as someone that barely knows
what he's doing in the wrestling ring, and now he's supposed to be like
this huge impact player that he's joined the Heel stable. He still can't.
Divan says, So if I was you, Kurt Angel, I wouldn't dare
think about coming back. TNA say that again, He says, Hogan,
you want to pursue us with a tables match. That's fine, surprised us
rather with the tables match. I understand these is and ads are always in
a position to have backup. We will always have an ace under our sleeve.
Now you can testify to that. Testify. Later on, Tara goes
into brook Hogan's office backstage and she's there looking at papers and yeah, during
all this, by the way, brook Hogan still knockout in charge. Yeah,
I'm right. Let's not forget that she has a job todays administrative duties
boss. Right, of course, Tara complains that she's had to fly and
coach over here. She's a power couple, her and Jesse Godders. They
shouldn't have to do that. She says, she sounds so petty, so
selfish. Do you have any idea what I'm dealing with around here? Tara
said she did not get her beauty sleep because of the plane situation, and
her muscles haven't recovered, and and she's still wrestling tonight. What about the
time zone where we have time zone storylines here this week, she says.
For now, Brooks says to Terry, you can go get me a coffee?
Awesome? Does she go to costa package? They talk about? What
the hell they talk about? Oh, they're doing them a British boot camp
for reality television out there. They had a show called British boot Camp where
they found the next TNA star. This is where rock Star Spud comes from,
who is a hell of a little personality and a guy who contributed to
TNA for years. Also on the show was a Marty Skirl, the future
Marty Skirl and some others. And so we see UM just like a highlight
package of this UM significant because Dixie Carter and Cole Coogan figured prom prominently into
the show with Hogan, you know, basically serving as like Steve Austin un
tough enough, you know, giving his speech to about the business and the
winner gets a contract and all that. Oh yeah, it was the Blossom
Twins as well as a Marty Scroll and Rockstar sput and you have Dixie Carter
picking spud with Hogan at the desk, so they're doing like a deliberation kind
of deal. But this, the show itself, did not here on the
United States, but it's something that if you were a fan of TNA back
then in the UK, you knew a lot about. Backstage, Bruce Prichard
is with Dilo Brown and he says, what's Bruce goes the last person I
would ever expect to do what they did. Dilo agrees. Prichard says,
you know, Garrett, after everything everyone has done despite his last name,
to make him feel welcome, and then Wes using Kurt to even get us
to consider him for the gut check. He said, I've known West since
he was a little kid. God forbid when Kurt Angle comes back, because
I know it's cliche, but there will be hell to pay. And at
the end, of the day. We don't have to look in the mirror
as to who's responsible for him being here. So this is supposed to be
like a little bit of you know, Dilo being duplicitous and two faced.
Yeah, acting like he was as shocked as anybody that Bischoff and briss COACHOINTI
nates seeds being planted, But are they being watered appropriately? Yeah? Right?
Are they getting enough sun? Back stage bullies saying they're going to be
chanting? You remember how to do it right? Get the tables. Hogan
walks in, Sting says, you guys, work this out, Brook,
Maybe you and I need to go this way, and Sting leaves with Brooke.
Hogan looks like Bully in the eye, says it's good to see in
Law has his head in again. His tailor made for you. This whole
table's thing, just the circumstance you want. This is the end tonight.
This is all on you to make sure that you can prove to everybody how
wrong I really am. Because nothing would make me happier, Bully Ray,
than if you prove to the whole world that you really are the good guy
that you say you are. Bullies is good with all the respect, Hulk,
I ain't no good guy. Just because I'm good to your daughter doesn't
make me a good guy. I don't forget about Aces and Nates and what
they did to you, to sting your little girl and my wife on our
wedding day. Hope, do you know who I am? Hopeful smirks,
because PASSI mock Bully for saying such things are what. I ain't no good
guy. I'm a very bad one. Ogan says, well, for our
family, say I hope I know who you really are. Because if your
family, this is right up your ally. This ends tonight and it's on
you to end it for all of us. Consider it done. They fist
bump, Bully calls him dad, Hogan makes noises and laughs since it's perfect,
and then Brooke later hugged Bully backstage. She's excited. She says to
him, You're so close, so close. Boston returning to the t and
A Ring as a sanction wrestler as a reinstated ten A Superstar, and Bully
thus walks to the ring for the main event, Divon and Doc versus Bully
and Sting. Bully comes out with the paint the Sting paint on. They're
doing that again. They hit the ring with fist flying. We want tables
chant immediately. Tas to chries the nepotism and whole Cogan lifting. Bully rays
suspension, which is a fair point. So tas a little bit of jesse
here, a little bit sure he's now deputized to call out hypocrisy like that,
beating the shit on him our Bully and staying. Bully does the woo
like staying and does the stinger splash and spills out of the ring. His
eyes look wide and pretty great through the black paint. The way he does
his face paint, Bully, he look kind of different, looks kind of
wild. Yeah, I liked it. That's fine. I'm okay with it.
Sting nails Stevon with a splash as well. They're stacked up in the
corner and a double clothesline. Sting drops both of them, sending him to
the floor. Bully drops Doc with a yakus a kick and does the hook
him horns and people are with him on pretty much everything he does. He
misses n elbow and DC hits the running boot, dropping Bully to the canvas.
What's up to Devons says he's gonna put his nose right in Divon's business.
No comment, Oh god. Bully fishes out of table. They literally
in the ring and attack double supplex on Sting, but Bully moves the table
out of the way so that Sting doesn't crash through it, keeping the match
alive. Tasa his yam bag again yambag. Sting is placed on the table.
Doc goes up to the top rope he's cut off, knocks, moves
the table again as Sting hits a superplex, but not through the table on
Doc. They hold Sting up, the hold Sting open rather in Devon levels
knocks by mistake when Sting moves out of the way, scorpion death drop on
Doc by the stinger, and then Bully starts hulking up from his knees.
Is Devon's Landing punches on him. I suppose Bullymania is running wild. That's
I guess. This is what we're told saying. He's acting just like the
Hulks rohmself. You are attribute, they say to our great general manager.
It's like a tribute to our dear leader. You know, Oh my god,
it's so ridiculous. So he starts doing the Hogan routine, blocking the
right hands, loading up whip in a boot. Oh there's a moment that
I that I that I missed from earlier here, Uh listen, this is
well, just listen. Oh yeah, this proud in Manchester in Unison starts
to see a couple of fans. That yeah, universal language, international language,
even here in England. Everybody's screaming for Bully Ray and staying and get
the team. I hope ful COVID out general manage. I hope he's happy
right now. This is all Hogan's fault because he reinstated fully. He set
this thing up. It's collusion, it's lipotisms, it's everything legal. Stevon
still feel the effects of fully raised massive cranium snitch into Yanbag earlier, Chris
mbag. This does not look good for the icon. This is definitely good
for Austin's race. The ye coach sting about to get driven right through that
wood and now it's Stevon director's traffy stay down, fully go away. Wow,
couples shot there both bag former brothers, former fires going for the same
thing, former brothers. Maybe the fucking it's hilarious. Did they right?
Did they disassociate league. I mean did they I mean right, did they
divorce? Divorce your right? You know, I wasn't sure how the proceedings
went. Well, what the proceedings were is that ultimately Bully chokes lams Devon
through the table in this match to get the win for him and Sting and
Hogan comes out clapping with Brooke by his side, and they all raise their
forearms together in the ring and Brooke hugs Bully as he falls to a knee
in exhaustion. Hogan does the outsider's point and his son in law, his
newly reinstated son in law, and Mike Tenay says, it's a fantastic night
for Impact Wrestling for TNA here in Manchester, England. While Boss the wedding
may not have gone as planned, but it's it's Valentine Stay and Impact Wrestling.
Yeah, well he's always promised to be something good Every fourteenth, twenty
thirteen. Impact comes from London now the Wembley Arena and they say, you
know that's hosted the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and they welcome
tonight the wrestling world's equivalent, Mike Taney says, and Hulk Hogan Hogan comes
out for a promo at the top to a big pop and full effect cupping
and posing. I think it's safe to say, yeah, that's the problem.
It's never safe to say our fish. It's safe to say so we've
done some ten A maniacs right here in London. Brother one two FOLI you
know, yes, you know. I heard noise when I was Simon Giants.
I heard noise when I was winning titles. But this sounds pretty damn
sweet. Brother Helps in his arment, you know, we got business at
hand in sense or on fire here in London with T and A. I
got a couple of big things going down right now. First off, the
fate of the TNA title hangs in the balance, and that's gonna go down
in Lockdown. In the back there there's so much talent, there's so many
hungry wolves. I finally found eight guys that rose right to the top.
In tonight, we're gonna have four matches to find out who I pick to
be the number one contender. A Lockdown, you're gonna see the whole and
show r Fee d well Hen a superkick by the cowboy James Storm, and
then you're gonna see some guy that thinks he's a superhero named Christopher Daniels go
against the guy that I think I'm gonna put my money on, and I
might even put your money on in his name is Magnus. And then it's
gonna get real nasty out here because the human cyborg Curt Angle ha ha ha.
He's gonna take on Samoa Joe. And just to make sure my feet
fly about one hundred feet off the ground, the final two champions are gonna
be pitted against each other. These former champions are gonna be tearing each other's
eyes out because we've got the in factor Bobby Rude. He's gonna be taken
on a double customary story. And at the end of the night, I'm
gonna be hoosting to the crowd end here. I'm gonna be watching all the
matches. At the end of the night, I'm coming back out here,
Jack and I'm picking the number one contender to take on Jeff Hardy at lockdown
the night ut of the Hall. The other business at hand, it's gonna
get real nasty. It is the business of aces and eights. Aces and
eights called out the whole ten a roster, and they want to have a
war to end all wars and lockdown. So I thought about it for about
a half a second, made a phone call to my brother from another mother,
and I made him the captain of Team TNA, and I want you
to hear from him right now. The greatest wrestler of all time, the
icon Stamum the money, I'm I'm for Western News by the Holster, four
huge matches and I'm gonna who it is, gonna impress whole Hogan and erna
shot at the world title at Hockdown. Yeah. So eight guys got an
opportunity to impress the whole shop and not one of them is an ace IS
and ex member, compleat PS and usual. Well in terms of momentum in
the ongoing war between t and A and Aces and eight past last week was
huge st Bully Ray to win the tables back and they sent a message to
year Aces and ACE a message they didn't pat Wrestling is not gonna be intimidated.
It is showtime London, Jesus Hulk. I think you'll agree that the
fans here in London are not just some of the best in the UK,
but some of the best in the whole wide world. All right, now,
those scumbags aces and eight, you made your challenge, and I'm here
to tell you challenge accepted. So I'm gonna do the same thing Hulk's gonna
do. Look up and down that roster and find myself three killers to be
on my team at lockdown. And I can promise you this, We are
gonna tear some hits off at lockdown and put it in two aces and eights.
And all I gotta say is aces and eights. What's she gonna do?
What a Stayer run wild on? Oh? Real original Sting, Good
job, original, Thanks thanks to task. So another omnibus segment from our
general manager Hold Pilgan, where he covers about sixteen different agenda like I listen
and I love I do, I love Staying. I think Sting has been
so great, but you know some still his like uber enthusiasm. Yeah,
it just is so fucking stupid. I think he gets a little overenthusiastic because
there's an actual crowd that's happy to see him here. Like yeah, of
size of scale, Yeah, you can just tell. I mean it gives
a boost in a step to these guys when they feel like, you know,
maybe there is actually a silent majority out there, right, and if
we actually go to these towns, in these cities, they were crazy for
us. Yeah, and we're sort of bound by our you know, impact
zone surroundings and that's our sense of scale as far as how big we are,
but not bound for glory, that's for sure, not at all,
not at all. So this, uh, that kind of reaction to Sting
I think maybe supplanting the notion present today that they should do Stings retirement match
at the Wembley Stadium w Show coming up in August. I was like,
why why would you do that? Like what did Sting mean to England?
But oh, I think he means to England for sure, it is.
I guess it's just like, ah, I mean they you know. I
gotta say. It's both amazing and sad how the UK fans get so excited
for TNA. Oh yeah, yeah, it really is. It was it
was always um something legit they could point to was that they really hit a
stride there. They had a great TV clearance. It'd be like if they
were on USA and w W was on like show Time in the US.
That was kind of like the level of general penetration in terms of the channels
they were on, respectively, So Tena had a great position and I think,
I don't know, I feel like the UK was a little more receptive
to stars of the vintage that Tena was stalking up on in terms of like,
I don't think they would see as much desperation using a Hogan or a
Ken Anderson or a a Sting or Dudley boys. I feel like they were
less sick of those guys than US fans were, so that probably voted well
for them as well. Sure, totally. Later on this Impact, Magnus
defeats Christopher Daniels with a top rope, elbow drop and the one two three
as they positioned him very strong and as a hint of things to Magnus,
x H bullies with Brooklane in her lap, she's massaging Inky's head here on
Valentine's Day. Bully says, this is what the way it was supposed to
go down. I'm so disappointed in myself. I never thought an injury would
ever stop me, and now it has. I wanted two things, he
says, to marry you, Brooke, and to win the world heavyweight title.
I pride myself on being a warrior in the ring just like your father.
Things were going perfectly. The wedding got screwed up, but everything has
been so great, and Brook says, I feel so bad for you.
I don't know what to say, and Bully says, you know what,
it's Valentine's Day. They didn't really even explain why he's hurt. It's not
like he got a time he didn't write. I mean he sells like a
leg injury suffered during the course of the tables match the week before, but
he didn't really get laid out. There's a company where like, right,
no one's actually hurt unless they're you know, nailed to the wall with a
barbed wire board and six nail guns, you know. So here he is
in a deep depression because he won a match last week. I know,
it's like you really not. Yeah, they don't get injured unless they've got
like a fucking spear through the middle of their forehead. Bull, he says,
you know what, it's Valentine's Day. And word in London is trouble
going off the couch, but he does. He says, I'm not going
to let this ruin our time together. She's dressed like van a white for
some reason for someone sitting around backstage all Valentine's Yeah, he's like, pull
my pants down and get to work, That's what he says. He says,
buy that pair of shoes you want. We'll go out in the town
and a fancy restaurant you like with Italian food. I get it. Don't
you have to be at work? Oh? What the fuck? Would he?
Mark like him? And we're going dancing, he says, because it's
nineteen fifty six. We're going dancing, and you're going to be careful on
that leg, she says, And where you're reading wedding ring? Please,
that's a little tell he forgot his wedding ring, he says. Oh,
Brook says, I found it in the bathroom sink in the hotel room this
morning. And now he says, he's sorry kissing a hug and he's in
pain. And they actually have a cut in with me too. What's that
me too? Yeah? I mean yeah, we actually have a cut in
live from the bellatorre arena, because Bellator's showing fights live after Spike by this
point, and Dixie's actually there on site bellatur Or. She makes the announcement
that Jeff Hardy was returning February twenty eighth, they had signed him to a
long term deal. Boss, I invite you again to consider the tenas once
again put the world title on someone they did not have contractually locked up.
I had to make it announce what their fucking world champion signed. Fuck is
wrong with these people? I mean, seriously, absolute failure. Well,
put the belt on somebody that agrees to a multi year contract. I don't
care if that person isn't someone you think should carry them. Well, we
just we have people who are championship caliber talent, and can't you mother him
without being the world champion. The problem is the problem is I'm not aware
of contracts. Yeah, that is the problem. You could say that again,
Dixie. I don't I don't follow. I don't make the contracts.
I don't follow the contracts. I don't know how long contracts last. Look,
I didn't have that responsibility. I wouldn't look, honey, I wouldn't
want that response. It's right, you know. So I just don't see
why it's always my fault. So she talks about King Mo too. Um,
they're still pretending that that a Bellatour fighter in pro wrestling crossover is going
to work we'll see about that. So Joe Park is on the move backstage,
and he says, I bully gave me good advice, and I sure
hope this works. Goes to Hogan's sword. Oh yeah, I got this
one. I got always got a park a Park segment for us. Always
gave me some good advice. I hope this works. Stop for a minute.
I don't mean to bother you, but I know you're looking for other
oponent for Jeff Hardy at lockdown for that World tight off. And some of
the boys told me that if I want to get anywhere in this company,
I need to learn how to politic. So Hawk, brother, you're okay
with me. You don't have to politics, Okay, Hawk. I went
out my hired a campaign manager and everything I got buzz made posters, made
vote for Park World Heavyweight Champion twenty thirteen. Had stop. Stop. Did
the boys tell you that's what politicking is, being like a politician and getting
posters and stickers and a campaign manager. That's just what I assumed it was.
I've represented a few politicians. Do you know what a rib is?
A rib does, not a barbecued rib, not a baby back rib.
You need to calm down and go ask the boys with a rib is okay,
I'll do that right away. You give with me. Thank you,
how you go? And can I count on your vote? Yeah, Joseph
Elboe, Thanks, okay, thank you so much. See it all right,
Brook, you push way too hard for stuff. I mean, it's
all there. It's all there, Every little bit of it is there.
You've been talking about a biss knocking down racks of ribs since week on one
of Team. We've been talking about fucking any of those fucking clowns just going
to town on ribs and they just they just lay it out there. Not
amazing. For years we've been talking about fat guys eating ribs and that's just
Oh I had ribs, I had I had a double rock. Come on
now, double bizz. Yeah there's a double riz. I don't know.
Yeah, bro, you're having a double riz. Dude, a double rizz,
A riz got the riz. What would you write yourself on a scale
one to ten? Do you think people would agree double letter passed the next
person or every fucking video. So meanwhile, Abyss would double and pass it
to the next person. Oh, absolutely, double y double deep. So
yeah, so the idea is it's funny that, you know, Joseph park
is learning the business and guys in the locker room are lying to him about
what kfabe terms mean and he doesn't understand what politicking means. He doesn't,
of course, welcome to TNA. We're politicking is supposed to be something we
all understand, as if as if we fucking so mean, Like come on,
why aren't we talking like this, like we gonna fucking act like all
this shit, Like people know what you're talking about? Right? No one,
no one wants to know about. No one wants to talk about politicking
in your fucking wrestling show. Oh no, I mean cold you watch Can
these fucking decision makers just watch us boarding event once in a while instead of
just like drama and fucking I know you know what I mean, scripted television,
just watching sporting event and realize that that's what this is supposed to be.
Like, that's supposed to be the conceit of it all. And yeah,
you can have storylines and crazy characters and shit happen, but it's like
the whole point that everyone shows up in the building is not to talk backstage
to each other. They show up to participate in the sporting event, and
then the dramas unfold as a direct consequence of the tensions that sport creates.
It's like these guys show up and it's like, how are we going to
script you know, law and Order this week? Right? Exactly? Fuck
yourself, guy, seriously, the verdict is in and it's a failed way
to do wrestling. So uh, Dad, he's got that in factor that
made you an icon. He wants hurt. He wants it so badly.
Here here, Dad, He's got that little thing inside of him that you
have that made an icon. Stop pushing so hard, brother, I know
about her. If you're in this business, everybody works hurt. But I've
got eight other guys I'm looking you didn't. They all had the IT factor.
And by the way, I'm going out to watch a match right now
with the IT factor in Austin, AIS. I have to keep an open
mind. Dad. You know, I have found out so much about my
husband the last three days that we've been here. What are you doing?
Dude? You probably don't want to know that he got into this business because
of you. Brother. He wants to be just like you. There we
go on. He wants it so badly. He's never even been champion.
I mean, I know that you're trying to be general manager and everything and
be business oriented, but soften up a little bit. Daddy's family family.
Okay. If you want me to say, I'd love to have a son
in law that's a world's heavyweight champion, Okay, I would. But Brooke,
I have to remain objective. Just chill for a while, Okay,
will take it under advisement. Who says he's going to be fucking you know
whatever? He said, Well, it's a new day and things are different.
Well, new day's not here. So Brooke is now ball faced ly
walking into her dad's office and trying to get her husband the top contender to
the world title spot. Yeah, and that's supposed to make her a baby
face, supposed to be fine that she's doing this. I mean, that's
what any good wife would do. So, you know, the Macavellian plan
is coming together. We'll realize in retrospect why Bully is trying so hard to
win over Brook because he and somehow he can, somehow forecast in this crystal
ball that this is going to result in him getting a title shot. Before
jumping the line so to speak, to get a title shot, and Hogan
tremendous. I mean, we're right back to the abyss thing for you know
one thing. It's the same fucking thing grew up. You know, we're
idolizing you, Hulk. How many is there any anybody? Is there anybody
who didn't anybody's ever gotten over playing in that role from fucking Dave Sullivan all
the way through. So Hulk's backstage would sting here? This is crazy?
I mean this was kind of they're talking starcade nineties seventies, all about being
in the crosshairs you starcade, you and I taking each other's heads off.
Oh I just sat down with my daughter and she threw out family son in
law, a world title business all on one. I mean, give me
a break, Broad. Yeah, I know, bullies out of it because
it was injury. I mean, you got some of the best talent right
here under this TNA umbrella to choose from. Glad. It's not my decision,
it's all on it whole Coogan's shoulders. Well, I make that decision
right now. But you know what, I'm still going to listen to those
people out there, brother, all right on Glad it's not me. Thanks
staying, don't be nervous about it all. I am nervous. Your whole
wrong way? What's wrong way? Oh? Thanks? Happy decision making?
Thanks who fucking talks like this happy decision making? Whole coomania. I just
sucked out my daughter. She threw out family, son in law, world
title business, all in one, double bizz brother. I mean, I
mean, also, like how lightly they're talking about Starkade ninety seven when they
were literally and beyond mortal enemy. He's just like, way to fucking kill
each other. And I suppose that shows progress in their relationship. But yeah,
yeah, I'm like, what the fuck? And I don't know,
man, it seems to me like that was an adelaide where Hogan walked out
the wrong way of the office. Yeah, I think I think there's some
I think he's losing it, kind of like earlier what Joseph Park tried to
open the door and it was locked, and it made for a hilarious moment,
But I don't think it was supposed to go down that way. Yeah,
yeah, because he says it's locked with a look on his face like
cut you know, yeah, yeah, like it's an outtake. But whatever.
Yeah, make comedy, make something out of make chicken shit out of
chicken salad if you have to. That's what they do. That's what they
do. They get some chicken salad whipped up and the bully w Bully Ray
wedding and the rest of it. Yeah, and it's like, well,
brother, it's a general manator. Just text you seriously, what the fuck?
I'm like, what is going on here? I don't even have an
alert for that, Like, what is this noise? It's fulkster brother when
he comes to the ring. It's not about me anymore. Come on,
if it's hoking, I got it. Generally, my guys, it's been
crazy in the back energy hoof, hoof. You know what, guys,
I appreciate it, but it's not about me anymore. It's about those eight
guys that poured their hearts out here. Now do you understand why it's so
hard to pick the guy this gonna face Hardy? It's actually not we're playing
something. It's decisions to be the one facing Hardy. Each and every one
of those guys out here. Tie wants to be the man. But now
I have to pick one guy to go against our champ. Jeff Hardy at
lockdown. I want to let everybody know what's going on here? What do
you mean it's going on? What do you mean just gonna run out to
get a decision become the number of faces at each hey coming from everywhere here,
Webley ringing now surrounding Hogan in the ring. I told here's a little
ps that Hulk did not give an opportunity one of our guys. How does
this look happens? This is home school? This is very bad for Hulk
Hogan completely surrounded here and where were you're reading? What the bully you?
I thought he's gonna dancing the how's he doing in his k hurry rain?
You can see him dripping here to the ring. That cloud injury coming out
here. Oh my god, he gotta be Canful's down. Time's day.
It'll be a same down times day. Massaica. You got a lucky bully.
You went holl and Fortunately for Hulk Hogan, bully rang with the steel
chain hit his hands. He's there to support and the bus the back.
I'll Hogan. Just when it looked like Asess and Ets we're gonna attack once
again. Of course, fully mets a weapon. He needs an equaliza.
How many guys do you have? We gotta lie. Wait a minute,
hell now stinging the multiple faceball Batch. It looks like a freaking said Ricka.
And you want to talk about equalizers a cricket cart, it's the reader
of teams teachIn a stinger. Hey, why not? We're an engling.
That's what we talked about earlier. Football Manum put the wind on the side,
coup the Impact Wrestling roster after that, cute tables Batch win one week
ago and Impact Wrestling roster and loved the room will knock back down. They
will not be intimidated by aces and eighth the battle lines are drone and yes
the war will happen to balked down, but the decision must not announced.
Who is gonna face Word Campion Jeff Harney. So many questions to be answered
and guys coming up next on pilatour MMA lives so much great actions, Sean
Lan Jimmy Smith taken away. I mean, how lame is that? That's
an awful ending? How fucking lame is the terrible, terrible ending? Oh
awful? It's a cricket bat. There's there's there's that, all right,
So sure what one last impact here in twenty thirteen from London, It's Fabruy
twenty first and Hogan's out one more time. It's has to chrise the typical
political crap from whole Cogan and not letting Aces and Nates get into the title
picture. Hogan takes the middle of the ring and says, I feel like
this is home for me, right here in London Town. Brother. Oh,
here here we go. Sorry, yep, I'm here. I got
you. I've been thinking about it. Yeah, I feel like this is
home for me right here in London Town. Brother. You should relocate and
move here for good. You know, I have some tough choices to make
the last time I was out here, and it was really good to have
everybody in this building involved in my choice. But things didn't exactly pan out
the way I thought they would. All of a sudden, when I was
in the decision making process and I had the number one contender dialed in right
up here, Brothers A siss and Eights decided to stick their nose in T
and A business once again here. But you know, something out of everything
really really bad comes something really really good. And it gave me a whole
week to think about all the guys that poured their hearts out here trying to
get that number one spot for Lockdown against Jeff Hardy. And after one long
week of thinking about who the man should be to take on our champ,
Jeff Hardy, After one long week of thinking about who the number one contender
should be, I decided that man stood out a of everybody else hands some
tales, he rose to the occasion. He made it clear that he is
the only man for that job. So now I give you your number one
contender to go against Jeff Hardy for the world title a Lockdown. I give
you Bully Ray what he fell for it? Yeah the dumb bitch. Wow,
the hoster calling a bit of an audible here, my Bully, he's
a surprises me and stand other members of the pack rustling roster. No one
has been more dedicated than fully Ray. Stop think about think about it like
you'll the ongoing war against pieces and sounds repeatedly, I's gone above and beyond
the call of duty, and Hulk Hogan, you hear the decision from Hulk
Hogan. Bully Ray gets the title shot against Jeff Hardy and Lockdown. Can
Mike, can you be a bigger salesman towing the company line. I'm just
curious. I know, I'm talk's gonna sit here right defense, but you're
gonna sit there a code of company line. This is a lord of Milwaukee.
This guy will stay with him in the mansion. She doesn't compete.
It's just boll am I room hope exactly. I don't well, I don't
even. I don't even. I don't even know what to say. I'm
in shot right now. You know I'm hurt, right you know? You
know I partially tore my my quad muscle in the tables match a couple of
weeks ago. Right now, I didn't know that, so we cut in
this company. I don't even know what to say. But thank you.
There were so many great guys fighting in this ring last week that deserved the
shot more than I do right now. Thank you so much. All I
ever wanted to do was make you proud. All I ever wanted was your
respect. And the greatest day of my life is when I married your daughter.
You know, I love your daughter. I want to make you happy.
I want to make her happy, and I want to become the world
heavyweight champion. But Hulk, we got bigger business to take care of right
now. I know you're the general manager. So this is just a suggestion.
What do you say tonight in the main event right here in London in
front of the loudest NA fans in the world. This is the suggesting to
you a six man tag team match on one side of the ring, three
members of the Aces and eighth and on the other side of the ring,
Bully Rain my tag team partner, step and let's see, let's see.
We need one more guy, we need we need brother. What do you
do? No, dude, No, you know something, Hulk, I
think that guy should be Why dodde? Why what do you say? Dad?
Let's kick some aces and eight times? Brother? Dad? Whats gonna
do? Brother? Who? This isn't outrageous? Is we kicking it?
What do you say? Dad? Brother? He guess it? Dad?
Or is it? Brother? Brother? Dad? What's going on here?
So? Do we have a commitment from Hulk coke in to wrestle one more
time here an impact? We have a commitment in front of a crowd that's
just saw it the year before in twenty twelve, and so maybe led to
believe that it will actually happen were declaring it Holt's final match, Last time
No So. Later, with a brook at ringside, Velvet Sky X factors
Gail Kim for the one two three to win the Knockouts Championship, with brook
a plotting and handing her the title, Hogan and staying backstage. This one
feels a little weird to me. Got to keep an eye on the back
of an old man's in the hallway. Did you talk to him? He
says to Sting. He's cool, Yes, with everything. I ain't trying
to sound cheesy, but it definitely is cool to be tagging with you and
him, he says to Sting, and Sting says, we put an end
to the Aces and Eights at Lockdown. No, we put an end to
the Aces and Eates tonight. Lockdown isn't even going to happen. I'm thinking,
well, it's bad news to everyone at San Antonio. That's fine exactly.
They put a graphic up for the six Man like Hulk is going to
be in the ring and Hulk is going to wrestle on this episode of Impact.
Later, Brooks says, there's no turning back. It's done. Are
you sure you have to do that? And Holk has wrist tape on Boss,
so you know it's all right? Yeah here if Lka, if Helk
is going to wrestle, Brook has to have the you know, the daughter
gonna have the We're gonna have it. And here it is here. There's
no turning back now, Brooke, it's already done. Okay, Actually,
are you sure? Are you sure? You don't have to do this?
Brook, I have been humiliated and pushed around, sit on threaten. Our
family has been beat down. The greatest rustle that lives in the ring of
me. Tonight I need to do this for myself, that for our family.
Tell them to protect you. I love you, but be careful and
have fun. Okay. They say Holk's got the eye of the Tiger,
which of course he came out to last year. That's right in London history
in the making tonight. Perhaps, No, No, this is so just
can you know better? Still doing this? Yeah? I got this?
No, this isenty are going through the same motions. So stupid ass Nates
were told of growing with their heavy hitters. It's Devon doc and Anderson Tenaceys.
They're becoming a force, very difficult to deal with. Really, they've
been dealing with them just fine for months. I mean, they don't win,
so what's the force today? Says their goal is to take over TENA
wrestling and the threat that has to be stopped. I'm like, not really,
they're not really weak till weak doing anything. No, they're pretty awful.
So they're no longer like stalking anybody. They're not. They're pretty much
a joke. Yeah, TESSAs were a machine fueled by rage, anger and
violence. I mean it's the least scary rage, anger and violence that I've
ever seen ever, so so yeah, it's main event time is Hogan gonna
wrestle while Sting comes out and as partner, the general manager of Impact right
Sling Hulk Hogan and they hover on the entrance away and he doesn't come out
like today says, we've been anticipating it for nearly a year and a half,
but nothing. Hogan does not emerge. Tess is maybe their second thoughts,
he's not coming. Hogan's music goes down, chorus of booze and they
start up the music again and they says, how can you call Hogan yellow?
I'm thinking, well, I don't know. He's been wearing the color
for fucking thirty years and that yeah, exactly. So we wait, we
wait, and there's nothing and the music goes off as Aces and Nate's blindside
sting and Bully Ray in the ring. So there is no Hogan. But
I ask you a question if Hulk Cogan was booked to be in this match,
and if in fact the match took place even though Hulk Cogan never appeared
before the people, because as we find out, he's laid out backstage,
but the match still commences with Hulk Cogan on the bill. Is this a
Hulk Cogan match? No? Thank you just want to address the potential aster
risk that we could introduce to the Wikipedia by the time I've done here.
No, no, So uh if if if he came down, and yes,
is that the thing? Yeah, he'd have to do some kind of
real Uh. He would have had to come down and like even save the
day and that would have been okay. Like when wrestlers like I think,
who did Becky Lynch attack in the aisleway at Rumble? She'd attacked anybody to
take her spot? Oh, she didn't attack her. She was injured.
It was um Lana. So Lana wasn't in that royal rumble, no to
this logic? Okay, no, no, got it all right? So
um, today's we need word now in the status of Hulk Coogan a little?
Did he know that he was just forecasting what was going to be said
in the TNA offices in Nashville within six months? Yeah. Bully runs over
Divon and Carl Anderson with a double clothesline. He's limping around the rings selling
the injury. Sting with a splash on Doc Bully drops him the clothes line.
Tas recalls remembering last week that the Sting had to tell Hulk which way
to go, because remember, he was confused leaving the office. Maybe help
just got lost what he clearly has trouble with the caverns of this building?
Brother, are you heat on? Bully from the heels, Devon does a
crotch chop and step. Suck it. Who's what? Suck it? He
says to Sting, I mean, just what are you doing in tween thirteen?
Now? What are you doing? I mean you're all like fifty year
old men. Sad? No. Stop. Bully hits the back on Divon.
Devon grabs the ankle and stop. The tag of Bully Taggs and Carl
Anderson in his white tshirt dock in swinging on him. Bully comes alive with
chops. They exchange with some hard blows. Nice exchange between Doc and Bully.
A couple of hosses tack to stay and Doc breaking it down. Here,
Sting comes in, hauling off with the right hands, puts the scorpion
death luck on a scoping death drop on Doc. It's one two. When
Ken say yes, yes he does, save, Sting slams us. They
do the what's up? Head butt to the crotch. Cut to the ramp.
I mean they finally doing the whiny doing what's up? I mean the
move fine, but they're playing the greatest hits. This is the Reunion Tour.
This is you know what I mean, that's TNA. So they cut
to the ramp Reunion Tour for like three years, I know, at the
heart of the matter. But they have Hulk and they have Brooke Knocks,
but basically as a sleeper hold on broken Bubba limps up the ramp and Hulk
is left in a heap with a torn T shirt, screaming about his knee
hurting brah as a Sting puts the scorpion deathlock on Carl Anderson, but Doc
comes in with a running Yakuza kick to Sting's head and covers him for the
one two three, My God as his an eights win to match. Holy
Shit Brook hovering over Hulk as he grips his knee on the rampway grip Holl
He tends to Hulk as they gang up on Sting. Tess says, this
was not our fault, This was not our idea okay to have Hulp involve
himself physically like this, Aces and Nates raises their arms. His task says,
it's a good day to be a bad guy. This episode did one
point three to five million viewers. Meltzer said that rating has to be a
big disappointment given the entire show was built around Hulkkegan's first match on television since
his TENA debut three years ago and first match overall since the twenty eleven Pound
for Glory. They spent the entire show pushing it and then did the injury
angle at the end of the show to explain him not being in the main
event match. Sorry, Hulkogan is not a draw anymore. Nope, the
TV show. Meltzer wrote built around his first match back in years only drew
one point three zero million viewers a few weeks back. This is a him
writing in retrospect the TV show after they established he was not going to be
on the air during the opening scene, did significantly better. It is now
it is now possible to make the case at telling the people Hulk won't be
on the show is a bigger rating straw than him being on the show.
Oh my god. And if that lens, you can see that ratings pattern
in TNA Man when he goes away for his injury hiatuses and his surgeries,
ratings do not go down. They actually go the other way. It's really
fucking like, I don't know how he even handles that ship. I know,
well, he's gotta find an exit plane. He's gotta, you know,
start collecting reasons why it's somebody else's fault or why you know what I
mean? Well, brother, See the thing is, dude, I'm trying
see when I'm in the building, brother, right, it's like what it
is, I keep getting you know, people, people keep changing the plans,
Brother, interesting building tuning in wondering where's Hulk Hogan when they don't Brother,
people looking, people looking for Hulk Hogan and so. But when they
bring me in, Brother, they don't. By the time I come in,
Dude, they're like, well, Hulk Hogan's not coming on the show.
So while I while they're watching, Brother, but there's this whole thing,
dude, that's going on, this crazy comin energy. People don't realize
that they got the backwards Dude. They they tune in trying to find me
when I'm not there, Brother, But then while I'm there, Dude,
they don't. They don't. They're like, well, I guess he's not
coming in this time. Well, they realize how crazy people are about this
thing, Dude. Here's the facts. Brother. When they see that I'm
there, dude, and you notice it's high quarters. Brother. But once
they know I'm there, they're not interested in the rest of the show.
Brother. It's the shows I'm not there, right, Dude. They want
to see that. That's the thing. Though I'm curious about when I'm gonna
show up. They watched the whole two hours, so Dixie, I know
that might sound counterintuitive, Brother, but I think we need to talk about
a big race for the Hulks or in less dates because if I'm drawn Moreland.
I'm not on TV. Brother, I mean, if I'm I mean,
here's the thing, dude, if I'm drawn, if I'm drawing more
where I'm not even in the building. Brother, We're gonna think about dude,
how who else is doing that? Right? You know? What are
the guys increasing ratings when they're not on TV? You know that's something pretty
significant, brother, that I can actually increase the show's ratings when I'm not
in the building. Wow, this is great. Look at these ratings,
man, John Cen is really hitting. They're really up and flares in the
corner. You know the reason that ratings up because I wasn't on the show,
right, and everybody's waiting to see if I'd come out. How about
that? To some backlaid psychology and wrestling, it's kind of like the nWo
argument, you know, like they'd come out at any minute. And that's
why everybody watched every minute of Nitro never knew when they would show up in
those early days at the nWo. Fucking nuts. So that's the state of
Hogan for every twenty eighth Impact Brook and Bully arrived back at the Impact Zone.
Now we're home from London, Brooks's dad's doing better. It was really
serious injury and he's still at home. There really is no updates. He's
just healing and bullies is not a lot needs to be said. He's messed
up really bad. Bully stomps out to the ring to announce to the announce
booth, asking where's Taz again. Taz has decided to run away again.
He's again afraid of being out there when Bully's out there, despite a month
of TV going by where he did nothing to avoid him. Sign the crowd.
Bully in Law's take that that's funny bull He says, it's pretty dunk
cool to be back da back in the Impacts. EM I gotta say,
I gotta say damn cool to be security in fact zone. But I also
gotta say that I have never been more pissed off in my life. Well,
paces and aches. For the past year, you've been running rough shot
oh the TNA. First you took out Huk, then you took out Staying,
you took out Magnus, you took out just about everybody. You're ruined
my wedding to brook Everything. Last week should have been a huge week for
t and A. We were all gonna see the return of Hulk Hogan to
the middle of the ring. Oh, I've never said that, Butcher just
gonna suggest what It didn't happen. And it didn't happen because of the aces
and eights, haces and eights Devon especially. I swear to God, I
am going to get my hands on you. I'm gonna get my hands on
you Devon so bad you will never ever want to step foot in a wrestling
ring again. Now, there is one guy that I also want to speak
to, and it's the one guy that everybody here has been waiting to see
for the past four weeks. He's another guy that he says an eight took
out, and he's the guy that I will be facing at lockdown for the
TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Ladies and gentlemen, the World Heavyweight Champion. Jeff
Hi Hi, Jeff. Never in my wildest dreams, bro Never in my
wildest dreams that I ever think that me and you would be standing across from
one another, one another, getting ready to wrestle for the most prestigious singles
World Heavyweight Championship and professional wrestling. Let the build begin. How the fuck
did he? How do we move that face? What's that? How did
he say that with a straight face? That being the most prestigious singles title
in the fucking world. Well, you disagree slightly. I think my mom's
got a more prestigious belt than that. My mom's got a more prestigious belt
from fucking from it was saved from fucking Macesar Jordan Marsh much better, so
much better than my sug so much better, or from Fine Lean's basement.
So we have moved from Bully Brookhogan to Bully now faced face with the world
champion building the lockdown made event for the title. And I know that that's
the storyline, is that Bully doesn't really deserve this, and we find out
later it was subterfuge at work. But I don't know, it feels a
little abrupt to me that like, all right, right, this is this
is gonna be it really like Bull he's really gonna get the title shot.
It makes Hulk look a total bitch. Oh yeah, I I mean,
I don't know everybody knows about your history, Jeff. It's so I I
mean, what would what would you suggest they do? Honestly? I mean
I don't Yeah, you know, he can still turn on Hulk in the
end with it. I mean, he got reinstated, that's all he was
looking to do. The whole manipulation of getting brooked to believe that he loved
her was to get reinstated as a wrestler. That's enough. Then he can
actually, you know, earn the title shot if they want to do this
angle as the as the you know, main event with him holding the belt
high. I don't know, I guess you know, it's not bad,
it's not actively bad. It's just it's it's abrupt to me. It kind
of it is abrupt. I mean I wish in a weird way, you
know, because what makes it kind of weird is that there's no concern about
the and I mean, I guess again when you think about it, there
really would be no concern with aces and eights, right, but people who
were screwed in the projec Yeah right, I mean, well, fortunately there
was no fucking James Storm bullshit to his fucking voice. Yeah yeah, yess.
It depends who they would select to be that person. But no,
it's just it's classic TNA. You know, they have something that's very consequential,
like you see a main event of the biggest payer for you of the
year or one of you want to be able to trace back to the angle
or the moment where that match was made and feel like that was big to
trace back why Bully Ray got this title shot. It's like one throwaway line
on one episode of Impact where Hogan just says it's him and then make a
deal out of it. I'm not saying they don't emphasize it, but as
the weeks go, they don't. You know, as the weeks go,
it becomes like more and more of a distant thing that it almost seemed like
they did because they had to force a pivot to Bully, not because the
plan and was Bully you know, yeah, yep. And now it's just
about like the Bully Jeff Hardy history, as Bully says, everybody knows about
your history, Jeff. But to be honest, I don't feel right about
this. I don't want to get the title shots because I'm Hulk's son in
law. There are a lot of other guys who might have been better choices
than me. Hulk set up all these matches and he said he was going
to make decisions based on who impressed him the most, and it wasn't me,
man, and I'm not sure that this is the way I want to
face you. I'm not positive if I'm the right guy to face you would
lockdown and Hardy says, first of all, it's great to be back in
the impact zone, Hardy Chance, I love the fact Hogan shows you say
so we have to get Jeff Hardy endorsing Bully getting the title shot, and
I don't that'll help. Of course, I guess that helps something. Yeah,
I'm fine with the guy who can't even walk on a strain quad,
who won no matches to get this shot taking me on for the belt.
It's fine. I would have you know. We swung a lot of chairs
together, he says, climbed a lot of ladders, and we broke a
lot of tables. Now we take it to the cage. We reinvented ourselves
at Lockdown. We're going to reinvent our history. May the best man win
and Christ Daniels and Kazarian come out. Because in his scarf and his Spider
Man comic T shirt, a cast still very much in the untucked button up
brigade. That was tna okay, Bully says, you did not hear this
title shot. You're not earn this title shot. They tell, Bully,
you tropeed anybody to get it. Yep, it's true. Daddy and law
Thunder lips himself. They say, gave you this title shot just like he
gave you his daughter. I can't blame him for that. Somebody has to
rub tanning lotion on Brooks back and tweet tasteless photos of her. They say,
well, be you, Daniels and Bully. They call him Bully Raymond.
That's funny. Everybody loves everyone hates Bully Raymond. I had a been
a T shirt. That's funny. The only person who deserves to be in
the lockdown main event less than you is um You. He points to jeff
Hardy and calls him Jefferson. You guys suff He says he has an apple
to Jefferson, Jefferson Hardy. Jefferson Hardy, Jefferson Hardy sounds like a founding
father, of course. Chris Daniel says the appletini in his hand while he's
doing all this. That was his gammick. He says. Last month,
I out wrestled you like luth as his favorite son. And the only reason
you've got your hand raised is because of the poisonous pigment on your skin.
I had an allergic reaction to it, and you know it. Of course,
I'm happy to wrestle each other. Of course you're happy to wrestle each
other, you two, because neither one of you want a piece of real
men like us. And so if you're done glad handing each other, he
says, get out of my ring, because it's time for bad influence,
which was the Daniels Kazarian team name. To give the people what they want,
and that's permission to worship us. Okay, is that it? Well?
He takes the mic, sucks the appletini all the way down, spits
it out back into a cup, and he says, real men don't drink
Appletine's and throws it out to a pop and challenges them, of course,
to a tag team match. Later on Joseph Parkson Hulk's office. Oh here,
just I stand in awe of what I'm seeing, Yes, as you
should. What am I seeing? Delicious? Sting? You know what a
rib is? Now? Right? Yes, Dan, I know what a
rib is. This just happens to me in my lunch. But I digress,
Sting, I know that you're looking to fill that team before to take
on aces and eights at lockdown inside the cage, sting, choose me.
I know I'm still a green horn in this whole thing, but I'm here
staying, and I'm gonna fight with you. I know you. I take
those rule against tay Fab the Ribs. I'm gonna consider you, math,
I'm gonna consider you. Excuse me, tay Fab the Ribs, tay Fab
the Ribs, tay Fab the Ribs, tay Fab the Ribs, double Biz,
I mean, tay Fab the Ribs. I mean, there's just too
much shit going on here. I mean he I really can't fucking He makes
the exact noise you make when you do someone pigging out on food. It's
exactly Annoysi macau. He's actually eating food like that's the sad part here.
He has a full tray of ribs, not just like a rack or two
like little bits he's holding in his hand. He's got a full tray still
because he's fat. I mean, this is this is listen, this is
this is what he does. This isn't this isn't for comedy, right,
This isn't this isn't like for for a character thing, he said. It
just happens to be a lunch. This is his fucking food. Come on,
man, this is what he does. Fucking go he does this better
than anybody else in the fucking business. Gave me the guy king ribs?
What what did I do with the rib stinger? Kay? Fab the ribs?
This company is hopeless. They really are on TV. I mean,
what is wrong with him? They're such a Yeah, if I've done alcohol
and I've done marijuana, I agree. I believe that's what they do.
Wrestling fans have been tricked again. Drugs. Fucking thing sucks. Those boults
are as smooth as anks. A lot do a live, no doubt the
ribs. Oh my god, you're a I've done alcohol one two? Can't
fab the ribs? Okay, that is a shoot. Oh my god,
can't fab the ribs? What's that sting? Can't fab the ribs? A
fucking idiot? Exactly, fucking morons running this fucking shit show. Oh my
god, dude, Oh my god, seriously, he fab the ribs.
He's eating ribs, easy fucking ribs. He really is. Yeah, We've
been talking about that for a decade. Na. Oh my god, I
can't. I can't handle it, these fucking idiots. I'm out of I'm
out of I'm out of gas. I'm like fab the ribs, fab the
ribs. And who's on there looking to be noticed? I've got an opportunity
for you. Step up to the plate. Oh it's Matt Morgan. He's
what you for? The ribs up my ass? What happened to Matt Morgan
for stealing the Uh? No, I said, kave fab the rigs.
Not eat them as fast as you can. That's how kave fab means God
at this candidate meal without looking like the dogs in Christmas Story. I mean
he leaves it murdered on the floor. Matt Morgan's back boss, if you
needed a reason to plug back into this thing. So no consequence for stealing
the Freddy Blassierra robe from Hogan's beach shop. Remember that whole thing nowhere.
It's like everything else they've ever tried to do with Matt Morgan. Why does
it hating it? We're looking to be noticed, and I got an opportunity
for you. Step up to the plate. Joined team T and against the
aces and eight, He says, Let me guess, Holster put you up
to this. Maybe he should have thought about that before. He didn't name
me number one contender. Anybody who's got anything to do with Hull Cogan is
just guilty by association in my eyes. So my answer is no big fucking
loss, Matt get lost. Yeah, I'm throwing you know, Jim fuck.
I guess we've got to rethink the whole fucking strategy. Back to the
drawing board. Hey, do you know that Hulgan went another surgery? I
hope with this back to the not drawing board. How about yes, yes,
exactly, Hulk had another surgery. What he tweeted a pick of it
and they showed it on the air, and he tweeted something like aces and
Ates payback will be hell on Earth and he puts an apostrophe between h and
LLL. So the aces and Ate stream out Devon grabs the mic. You
believe you have a team that's going to take on the Aces and h You
honestly think you have a team that's going to be able to dominate this club,
staying I don't know what you're thinking, but what I think is that
you're drinking that cool aid that Hogan has been dishing out all these years.
Well, Not only do these idiots in the Impact zone believe that, but
those jackasses sitting home as well. I told you before, this is the
team that will dominate TNA. This is the club that will dominate in twenty
thirteen. This club right here, Doc knocks Anderson with a toothpick like a
bitch and Bischoff Garrett Bischoff now in a bandana Art Garrett a lot, Yeah,
exactly, Gret G E A R I T. Garrett along with myself.
All you're doing. Sting is given a lot of empty dreams and broken
necks and shattered dreams. What you suck? Chant breaks out after all that
intricate you know dialogue from the good and verbiage. They just say you suck.
Adam good On said, it's no different than Bound for Glory with Asis
and Eates waiting Supreme at the end. It's going to happen again at lockdown.
Think about that, sting um is that you're going to lead your team
to the slaughter. Now you testify to that. Sting comes out is my
first teammate. It's going to get a killer response from all of you because
he is a killer. Talking about Samoan Joe Samoan Joe. He doesn't say
Samoan, that's Hogan, Samoan Joe. Um, sorry about you, And
then then he says sorry, and Devon says sorry about what you miserable moron,
Sorry about what buss, Sorry about your canned duck, your damn luck.
Here comes the deer skin and beer drinking Johnny Cass listening James Storm.
He's part of the team tacking. He like what is in torn jeans.
I just don't understand his face, his beard, his resting bitch face.
I mean, he's such a fucking his leather cowboy hat, his country music,
he sucks his walking, his children on the horseback. There are so
few people in TNA who have pissed me off for just being themselves. That's
not true. But he's at the top of the list, like always kind
of lodd Nobody talks right exactly, like you know, like he you can
tell he had about four beers is before walking out to the ring. That
makes him a baby face and right because he's a beer drinking guy. He's
just a regular guy on my fucking cowboy And pity for you because you're fucking
luck. A beer works, but it's got to be in the can folks.
Okay, yeah, right, this is a Nate drinks out of the
brown bottles. It sucks. James Storm drinks out of the bottles, it
sucks. It's got to be a Steve Auston or Sandman cann of beer.
That's just exactly exactly this fucking bottle of beer with the right with with the
fucking stirrups on your on your boots or whatever. And you're yeah, and
listen, I'm not I'm not interested in the fucking drinking cowboy, all right,
anywhere, right, show me the door, Yeah, exactly, if
you come, if you fuck, if you come fucking in, and I
hear the sound right because your stirrups are fucking jingling at it, I'm out,
all right, down right, fuck yourself, go fuck yourself. You're
not intimidating your bitch. Oh and by the way, this is just a
wonderful piece of business. Some wrote us after, you know, covering the
Genesis of Aces and Eates on the last show and said, you know,
the idea that darc Holiday was holding the aces and ates when he was killed.
And someone wrote us back and said, well, you're almost there.
It wasn't It wasn't Darc Holiday. It was wild Bill Hiccock, who was
a folk hero of the American Old West, a frontier soldier and very much
part of the mythology of the Old West that Bischoff likes to talk about.
And I thought to myself, Man, aren't you right? It wasn't Darc
Holiday that had aces and ads in his hand when he was killed. Where
the hell what I've gotten that idea from. It's not like I'm any kind
of you know, hobbyist about this time period in history. I haven't studied
it before. Who Oh, it was Eric Bischoff himself who completely misappropriated the
whole aces and eates thing in terms of where that comes from, you know,
while in the same breath claiming to be such just a huge fan of
that mythology. Of course he's he's a huge fan of all that's one hundred
miles from his house or whatever he said. This happened. It wasn't even
Dark Holiday. What you don't know, You don't know what you're talking about.
He knows, he knows better than you. Well, clearly, don't
ask. Don't even next. Come on, I'm like, where the hell
did I get that from? I don't know Doc Holiday from Bill Hancock or
whatever the fuck his name. His hiccock for saved my life, So why
would I John Hancock. I assume Bischoff knew because he said this was his
whole I never assume, never assume he knows. So next person on Team
TNA, Sting announces making his victorious return to the Impact Zone. It's Magnus
being placed in a very prominent position after a huge run in England on the
on the last tour. Now was going to be on Team TNA at lockdown,
and who earlier on the show had told Sting in a back to back
in a backstage heart to heart segment that he was to eat a mentor to
him. Our fifth person, Sting says, is someone put out at the
hands Here you go. This is this same Stop telling you what I'm thinking
out of the box. I'm thinking something new. I'm talking about somebody who
has put out by the hands of aces and eights something like you. Just
please get to the points. I'm with Canes and for the first time I'll
tell you what then will be showtime. I'll tell you that at your catch
freeze plush your other partner, I say, she'll time ye shut your catch
freeze, push your other fricking partner. Shoo whoo. He's back. This
contract that expired and kind of disappeared for a little bit, but they brought
them. People just don't like they're the worst when it comes to contracts.
Oh god, As Meltzer wrote when Eric's contract was coming up. Shortly before
this, he had written, rather Eric Young did I'll be there on a
how show coming up could be my last live shows of TNA, Come and
get crazy with me. Melta reports the two sides are far apart on money.
UM said to be the last time Young's contract was up, there was
a similar situation wherever he was coming to. This is the situation actually when
it came to Eric Young and his contract and how far apart they are on
money. Eric Young wants money and TNA doesn't have any doesn't have any right
or at least they got to tell Eric Young they don't have any. UM.
And this is coming off, you know, months year plus of him
being a total comedy game there with odd being nothing but right opening act comedy
routine. Despite being you know, warmly embraced by longtime impact fans on the
level of you know, a James Storm or a Bobby Rude or any of
those contemporaries, Chris Daniels. But they bring him back and bring him back
strong in this position, and he would never sniff that mid card comedy again,
at least in TENA. In fact, Eric Young is soon to become
TENA World heavyweight champion, if you can believe it. And so this is
the Eric Young. Really really, it'll take a while, but he'll get
get his flowers as well. But again we mentioned the TV show he did
Meltzer rights. Those internally said that this had been expected. There was incredible
internal jealousy within the company regarding Young real named Jeremy Fritz thirty two, because
of the success of his television show Off the Hook. Extreme Catches, a
comedy fishing show on Animal Planet. The show, which debuted on July twenty
nineteen, twenty twelve, rather sorry, was something several and TENA were against,
and the company promoted very little. After the first show was a ratings
hit, the company contacted the station and wanted to get involved in cross promotion,
an Animal Planet showed no interest. There was no The silly idea for
a phishing show was far more successful than shows involving Whole Coogan and Eric Bischoff,
and I did very little to promote his show and rarely used him on
television from that point except doing the Ray Stevens Absentee Husband Angle. He came
back once but was not used again. Can you imagine? Yes? I
can actually now this isn't this is a reality hit that we don't have anything
to do with. Yeah, Jason, so let's marginalized this chump bitch.
Yeah, he doesn't matter. Don't think that he does. Don't act like
he does. He's a joke. So I'm sure it's all coincidence. What
brother, So after this reveal of the full suite of Team Tename members,
the full slate, I should say, the Aces Nates are sent packing,
and later in the show, Angle is stocking the Aces and Nates and screaming
at him backstage, and it's amazing that no one has thought to do this.
Kurt Angle locates the Aces and Nates clubhouse, this mysterious remote location,
Yeah, hidden broom closet that these guys have been meeting in their little tree
house. I mean, listen, Universal Studios. Isn't that fucking big?
Okay? I see the lot they shoot on. Come on like tree house
where they jerk each other off and blow each other has now been located by
Kurt Angle just walks right up to it. This is supposed to be weak,
months and months of mystery here as to where this thing is, and
here he just finds it. Here, he goes, You're ready ready for
this? Should listen to the noises he makes? Are you? Let's see
that? Who you are? Let's see who you are? That's all?
How could you? Man? How could you? Are you free? Who's
else wrong with you? Baby? Riding dirty? Aces and Nates riding dirty?
What the fuck? The final masked member of Aces and Eights has been
unmasked by Kurt Angle on this episode. It's two weeks out from the twenty
thirteen Lockdown pay per view or Team TNA and Teammates and Eates will battle for
supremacy. Who was under the hood? Nobody cares? What does the future
have in store for the Bullie Ray Jeff cattle match? It was you?
What will Hulkogan have to say upon his return from yet another beatdown and instigated
hiatus? And what will Lockdown twenty thirteen mean to the unfolding story of Hulk
Hogan and TNA. We will determine that and so much more on the next
leg of our journey as we complete the final year of Hulk Hogan and TNA
Impact Wrestling Next week on Total NonStop Hogan Get his Ass