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So we turned the calendar to the
final year of Hulk Hogan. In TNA

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twenty thirteen, Yes, starts with
the January third Impact, where we learned

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that Austin Ares is the latest to
pay off aces and Ates, this time

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to attack Bobby Rude. I guess
the aces and Ates, despite being outlaws

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and banned from the building, are
also for higher by everybody who is a

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legit to my arrest speaks no fucking
sense. Speaking of which, Divon is

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in the back with all the girls
and they're asking Ken Anderson. Hey,

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I know you're enjoying yourself, but
we need an answer that is here,

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here, here, you want it. You want to hear him say it.

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No, but you want to hear
him say it. Come on again,

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man on, kid, may I
know you're enjoying yourself, but time

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is running away. Come on man, Yeah, I'm look, I know,

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I know, but we meet an
answer. No, you can't,

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come on, you can't fight what
we're giving you, bro. The harder

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that you guys work to make me
convey instant this is a good idea.

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The more fun we're all having,
right, beautiful, let's just chill.

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Let's all have a good time and
just let's think about this a little while

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longer. Besides, I really enjoy
your recruitment process. Oh I'm glad.

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Hey kid, what the is it
gonna be Staves coming back tonight? Are

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you in or are you out?
Because we need to know right now what's

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wrong with this. This is great
stuff, very entertainment. If we're going

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to do this, I need to
make sure that none of us show sting

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even announce of fear. Devon christ
to laughing like he's such a fool.

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Don't forget your little buddy. This
is great, this is good news.

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Gentlemen. Let's go see what Stay
has to offer you. Stay here a

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prospect. You see my bet prospect. Damn Yeah. Someone commented that clearly

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we had not seen Sons of Anarchy. Yeah, no, shit, and

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it's because I don't want to.
That was a sarcastic tweet. If he

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didn't catch that, oh it was. It was sarcastic. Yes, they're

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making fun of the idea that like, because it was on Sons of Anarchy,

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that means it's like fair going to
just name, you know, to

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just reference drop. But it's not. No, it's not stupid clearly.

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And also, yeah, I'm sorry, Kenny Anderson not a biker. What

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happened to this guy? Man?
He was money in the beginning. He

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was I was going in a trucker
hat. He's like, oh, he's

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a fool. He also not bleaching
his hair anymore. Complete fucking I think

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there was like a movie along the
way that changed his look for and he

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um and he dresses like he works
in air apostle, for Christ's sakes,

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probably does what are you doing?
Dog? And he's getting probs touched by

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all these blondes. Oh, I
know, because that's it. See See,

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that's the way you get to somebody. He wants them to be a

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badass for your crew. Give him
give him hookers, right, any great

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heel turn in pro wrestling is involved. You know, the people who convinced

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him to turn heel getting him hookers. Hogan joined the nWo, for instance,

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in ninety six, and Nash got
him hookers, right. It was

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it was Luthez and U Kyoshi Tamara, but you know and and uh uh

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Metsuda as well. Of course great
hooker. They did a deal where Austinari's

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called out Brooke. Hogan of course
walked in while they were on the couch

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and jumped up and Bully flew out. Tell me what's going on? Brother?

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You haven't trusted me from day one? Do you really want to know

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all that shit? Him going face
to face with Hogan and Brook. Asked

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by Jason Hervey backstage, um if
she has talked to her dad since she

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kissed Bully, and of course she
has no comment. Kurt Angle later avows

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to unmask every single one of those
sons of bitches uh in aces and ates

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with his back with his backing of
Samoa, Joe west Briscoe, and Garrett

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Bischoff. So this guy sure knows
how to pick him just I mean,

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can you make can you make Kurt
Angle more of a dickhead? Can you

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already look? He already has a
head in the shape of it? Right,

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I mean, doesn't you watch any
of these aces and Ate skits and

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go, you know what, that
guy's hair looks a lot like West Briscoes.

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Maybe I should ask him Hogan's out. First off, I apologize,

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Yeah, you know this starts off
better. It starts off way better.

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All right, let's cut the crap. Okay, the we're gonna be I've

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been waiting, Terry. It's three
years. Now is finally time to cut

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the crap. All right, Let's
cut through all the craft and get right

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down to business. First off,
I want to apologize to everybody here in

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the Impact zone for pulling a disappearing
act and not showing up last week.

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But I kind of got caught off
guard when I was leaving two weeks ago

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and I saw Bully Ray and my
daughter making out in the parking lot.

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So please excuse me for just walking
away for a week. Just tell me

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you decided to let things go down
in the public eye. I'm here and

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I'm gonna take care of business right
now, and we might as well take

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care of business right here in the
public eye again. So Bully, if

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you're back there, which I know
you are, and oh, by the

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way, Brooke, if you happen
to be back there, I'd like to

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have both of you guys come down
here right now. On He's so over

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protective that he doesn't even know if
Brooke is in the building. Now,

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I think it's been established Hogan doesn't
trust Bully Ray general manager quit advance when

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deciding whether it's personal or business.
He told Bully, your personal ps has

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turned into my business. Absolutely and
now the hawkster calling out. Watch a

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lot of the brook touching its base
in the impact zone. This, Mike,

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Mike, get awkward here, boys, Well, I just telling the

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building it's gonna get awkward, bullet
for weeks, you know, not for

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weeks, for months and months,
You've been coming out here telling me how

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much respect you have for me,
and you wanting me to give you the

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same respects. Well, girl,
I've seen you in the back, shaking

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hands, talking about old school,
about how this business goes down. You

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know, I've seen you trying to
help the young guys. But at the

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end of the day, there's something
just who seemed right to me. A

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week after week, month after month, I've been looking at you and trying

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to say, what's the truth?
Brother? You know, there's a code

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in this business, people that live
and breathe this business and have it in

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their blood. There's a code of
ethics, a law, a man code,

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a brother of the Road code.
And by the way, you tell

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me what, Yeah, I was
going on, So now I know exactly

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where you two are. Exactly one
question In that question, he gets very

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Why because she's got picked tits?
Yeah, because she looks like Linda should

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be asking you, Terry, why
Yeah, I just looked at your Twitter

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ulk. Yes, you're right,
Okay, we are brothers. Oh I

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should have come clean with you?
Does that make I then have told you?

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Is on me? Brother? You
know, I've been trying to tell

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everybody in this locker room know who
you are. I've been trying to tell

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everybody from day one that you're no
good. I've been trying to tell each

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person in this business that will listen
to me what your m is, what

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you're all about. And when you
talk about breaking the code, you don't

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even belong in this business. Boy, Ray, And it's far. This

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isn't about you right now. This
is about me and him. And as

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far as I'm concerned, you wanting
this and you wanting that from me.

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If this was twenty years ago and
we were talking about some title belt,

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we would have already been to war. Brother, If this was twenty years

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ago, one of us would have
already been gone. But since you brokes

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the code and we're not playing by
those rules anymore, I guess we'll play

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by your new set of rules.
Lawyers, lawsuits, and general managers to

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do what general managers should do.
So as of this point, you are

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suspended the hell out of my ring. Let me tell you something from you

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made your decision, so go live
with it. Get the hell out of

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my ring too. Now this is
pro wrestling. I have to agree with

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you there. I mean, let's
pause on the amazing insight into Hogan's psyche

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circa twenty thirteen. We got right
there, ye, played by your new

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set of rules. When Holks says
your he means his right, my new

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set of rules. Lawyers, lawsuits. Right, those are all his rules,

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right, those are Hulks rules.
And what does he use? He

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uses the contrast of if this was
whatever twenty years ago and we would talk

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about a world title, that would
be one thing. He's still geared towards,

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like sending little signals to the crowd
that he's fully aware that you want

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him to be world champion again.
Yeah right, and he just can't do

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it. So he's going to be
world champion in a court of law.

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Yeah, well, hey, you
know what I believe in Supreme Court justice

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hell Hogan. Oh, I totally
agree. So that's all we get from

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that, And then later it's Joe
and Anger Versace's Nates Divon. Of course,

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the sergeant at all? What's he
been telling people about Bubba? By

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the way, and curious, I
remember, I don't know what he's been

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telling people. I've iver really seen
him do anything. So what's he telling

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people about Bubba? What's who telling
about Bubba? Hogan saying he's telling everybody

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who he Bubba really is. I
think what's really all about? He's someone

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pretending to be nice and pretending to
be having good intentions towards Brooke and respect

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for help, but really he's just
a snack. Okay, it's it's the

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ultimate like Hulk was write all along
storyline, you know, and he he

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gets bit in the ass for trusting
somebody else. I mean he should know

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better anyway. Yeah, well it's
the story of his life at this point,

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right it is? Um. I
wonder if really Bully got this opportunity

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because he used to be named Bubba
and Hulk needed a heel to baby to

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turn on him like the actual Bubba
bub Oh. If that's the case,

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that's just a whole level. So
there's Diva on the sergeant into arms of

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aass and nights in case you forgot
with a TV title anger. So I'm

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so tired of of it. That's
so I'm so tired of black jeans.

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Yeah, you know what I mean, that's that's we're almired. I'm so

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tired of of of of ases and
eights. He always pronounces the end of

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eights eights. So it's a cage
match. Angle enters and Doc slams the

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door on. Angle had plenched to
one mask all of the aces and eights

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one by one and said he'd get
him early in the clubhouse. Doc changed

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the door shut, and it takes
all day. I mean, I don't

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know why wrestling companies wwon down don't
figure out how to like game a lock

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so that we don't have time standing
still every time these guys have to actually

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pad lock something. But it's always
a process. I don't know why the

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refs to stay in there and try
to not stop him from locking the cage

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door shut. Joe is trapped in
there, and Joe is jabbing away at

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both It's Knucks and Devon in there
by the way, Joe tries rattling the

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door. No dice, it's not
gonna open. I guess he just can't

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climb the cage, so he's out
of options. He's now trapped Joe dodges,

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knucks is Larry and hits Devon,
tries to facewash and Devon pounces him.

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Run a nice spot there, sending
Joe into orbit. Heels take over.

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Devon whispers smack me, and of
course he does. Angle, of

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course, similarly, incapable of climbing
the cage, just has to resort to

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standing there rattling the chain linked door. We want Angle, they chant,

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Geez, can you guys get these
guys an actual match? Yeah? You

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know, let me rephrase that,
you give these guys an actual match,

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and all they want is Kurt Angle, who's not in the marriage rights.

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That's impact, Like, right,
yeah, that's that's cool that there's something

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happening in the ring, But like, what about what's not happening in the

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ring? Right? Tas calls an
exploder souplex a high collar t bone soup

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plex. Excuse me, that would
that be a rugby as opposed to polo

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soup plex? I mean it's I
mean also, I mean the fact they

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call it a t bone soup plex. It always gets me hungry. Angle

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finally realizes he can climb the cage. He tries to be Also, by

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the way, Joe's Joe for the
most part. Here he seems fine without

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Angle. Business takes care of the
needs Angle. Um, it's so funny

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how Joe like when they run out
of like things to like make impact,

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fans think it still might be the
T and A they loved. They just

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like, go Joe with the mix
again. So so sad the position he's

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in so sad. I mean,
this man should be world champion for thirty

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six months, okay, at least
thirty six years. Even This isn't us

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going out on a limb. This
is us saying, hmmm, when was

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Tenna doing its best business and receiving
its highest critical acclaim when Samoa Joe was

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on top. Not complicated, folks, But I wouldn't vince Russo it's so

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bad. Uh Doc cuts him off, Angle kicks him in the nuts.

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Tess calls it the yam bag.
It's another test. Isn't can't stand test.

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Angle gets the key and U gets
in, throw some lariats and missile

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drop kick. He's gonna unmask one
of the aces and eights nuts that is,

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and Tess says he's gonna do d
hood him. Uh Doc then slams

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the door into angle, and then
um Joe kicks the door out and Doc

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is knocked backwards. They forced a
Bellator three sixty read and there Bellator three

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sixty being the the recap television show
that was coming on after Impact. Oh

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really, yeah, they right in
the middle of all this high drama,

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Like Todd Kennelly has to just read
copy. He doesn't have a name.

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Don't give him a name, okay, the other guy, the other announce

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her idiot. He's idiot, announcer. I never bother to find out his

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name until you just fucking mentioned it
his face. It can't It's fine,

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it's fine. He's professional. He
looks like he's not. He's a fucking

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He's a fucking doormat this piece of
shit. Angele has done the only thing

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that gives him purpose. Run the
razor's right eating here and Impact knox Or

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is the idiot. Announcer calls him
the huge member of Aces and Eights.

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I think I think it wouldn't that
be Devon? That's right? Uh so

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divid missed the headbuts off the ropes. All everybody's down in time for Divon.

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It takes the Germans pretty funny to
see Divon like flail in the air

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with his vest on. Yeah,
oh yeah. It makes even like wrestlers

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crying hard look ridiculous when the outfit, I mean they look, I mean,

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no no good, no good.
Shit has ever come out of people

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wearing wearing vests and black jeans in
the ring for never a right, Like,

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it's just it's just fucking Disciples of
Apocalypse, but a bad one.

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And that's saying something just makes yeah
exactly, it just seems it just reeks

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of not trying. Yeah, um, and I'm sorry. I've never gonna

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be able to watch Ace's Nates again
without thinking about the Marine five first and

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formal. That's right, that's right, Okay. So Taz says it takes

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a lot to peel off Germans.
So that's his verb for what happens at

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a German suplex. You peel it
a joe with an inverted atomic drop to

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nuts and then angle hit some of
the angle slam one two, three,

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Kurt angles, Samoa Joe beat the
Aces and Eights in the cage, and

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its promised even these guys lose,
that's gonna make them strong. Like why

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are these guys such a menace?
If like every time they get in the

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ring, they get their ass handed
to him. Yeah, why do they

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care about winning matches and titles so
much if they lose nothing when they lose

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matches, right, why do they
feel like they would gain anything on the

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other end? And and since like
Cogan is the general manager, can he

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just, um, I don't know, freeze these guys out of matches and

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off book I understand, can't.
Why does he? Right? Why?

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Why? Why is there all this
lack of power, Like you know,

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you can't you really can't go to
the ring without having permission, you know.

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Yeah, well they won't access to
the impact zone on whatever it was

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bound for. Doesn't mean they won. They didn't win booking, No,

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it's true, you know they can
Okay, they can come into the building.

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Doesn't mean they have to have matches. It's like like they do one

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angle to explains in a logical thing
and then they never reemphasize it, and

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it goes for like two months,
three months, and you're asked to remember

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some random thing someone said backstage,
like that's that's TNA. You know.

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It's like, yeah, they check
the box if you pay very very close

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attention. But the fact that you
still find yourself asking the question means they

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didn't really check the box. That
they rather, they check the box in

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the most cynical way possible. Let's
let's do this. Can't say we didn't

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even though it clearly didn't occur to
us as a shortcoming in the story when

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we were sitting down and crafting our
story bible or whatever the fuck it is.

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So angele lewis with the mask,
Evon stops and Doc gets in and

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the rest of the clown car and
then empties into the cage. Ken Anderson,

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dressed like he's going to brunch at
ringside, just looks on. We

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want sting chance breakout even though he's
not there. But there he is with

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the bat. It's yet another new
year. It's another sting return. Yep.

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He comes intoing the good on January
third, No less, Oh yeah,

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I think he'd done the same date
the year before, something quite similar.

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Um, January fourth was the Hogan
he believe, January third, three

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years after that fateful first Hall Coogan
impact. And this is the state of

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affairs, This is where we're at. Yeah, it doesn't feel like two

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steps forward, No, it does
not. It feels more like a half

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step back. Actually, Yeah,
yeah, I mean I would it would

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be it'd be generous to say that
they had made a linear step. Yep.

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So Sting gets in the ring and
starts doing those goofy jabs to the

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gut with that ball batas says,
that ball bat, ball bat. And

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they said he promised he was going
to return to take care of Aces and

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Nights, and here he is another
Sting return. This has been about twenty

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Sting returns and TNA by this point
if you have bat even way before Hogan's

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arrival. And yes, it was
the one three thirteen campaign. Okay,

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they just can't stop with this.
They got all that heat because he's the

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wrong word. They got all that
attention because w WAU was doing the the

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Undertaker return date promos and people thought
it was Sting that WrestleMania, remember that,

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just slashing the date on the screen. And now TNA just drives that

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into the fucking ground. So there's
one guy from Aces and Nate's still trapped

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in there. A bat shot drops
him and they they screamed, do it,

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Kurt, do it? He does
take it off. I got this

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whole thing for you. This is
one of the most anti climactic fucking reveals

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of all time. What the hell
face not knocks knocks. I don't know,

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no knocks, it's a hard knocks
life shit. I mean, boss,

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this is this is the reveal.
Are you not entertained? We've got

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Luke Gallows and we've gotten Mike Knox
so far. I must you know when

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the business has passed me by,
because this big ship and I can't appreciate

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it. This is one of the
biggest problems with this whole storyline. A

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bunch of people nobody gives a flying
fuck about. I mean, like Luke

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Gallo. That's money to reveal before
you launch the storyline. Okay, yeah,

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exactly you need I mean, for
lack of a better term, you

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need a third guy. Have the
third guy ready and waiting before you fucking

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launched this ship definitely needs to be
somebody you know from outside the company,

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and I guess Mike Knox and Gallows
qualify, but somebody who I mean,

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you can actually go for the world
title. I mean, Luke, Luke

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Gallows. You know it was fastest
and then the fucking you see him punk

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oh yeah thing and that was it, like he never did anything. I

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think at this point it's pretty clear
the budget is tapped out that there's not

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going to be a new you know, pot of two million dollars to fall

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out of this guy to bring in
someone with actual relevance, you know,

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someone that actually has game changing ability. And so I think that's what we're

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seeing is because they have to count, this is the best they can do

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in terms of reveals. I would
say these guys are bad pro wrestlers.

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I'm not saying it was nothing that
they came to TNA, but we as

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fans are conditioned to expect a certain
level of surprise when you do reveals of

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identities, right, Yeah, and
this just so watered down the idea.

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Right, It's like I never cared
about another reveal and TNA again, if

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the announcers are screaming at the top
of their lungs because this is Mike Knox,

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you know what I mean, it's
like the next time they turn not

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be excited. I'm just not going
to go there. Right. That's a

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very precious commodity. It is the
anticipation fans you know, are allowed to

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have for big reveals because you delivered. Is it's very important that that it's

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done right and done well and that
you can trust the bookers that when they

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do a reveal, they know what
you think is going to be a big

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deal. They're not going to try
to present you with something as a big

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deal that you don't feel is so
there. It is. M Devon's fuming

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that another mask has been lost.
Mike Tenay says, they feel their masks

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are their power, and amidity is
power, and they just took the power

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away from Maces and Eates. I
wish they then please keep the fucking masks

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on. I don't need to see
these faces. Impact started twenty thirteen at

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one point six two million viewers here
for this January third episode, which was

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the best one point six two million
viewers, which was the best number they

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had done since August of two thousand
and twelve. So good start to the

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year for TNA. The hul Cogan, Brook Hogan and Bully Race segment at

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the top of the hour was a
monster, according to The Observer, gaining

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four hundred and fifty five thousand viewers
to one point three one. Meltzer writes,

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I can't remember the last time TNA
had a segment that brought so many

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people in, and it's pretty clear
that this along with the sting return is

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why the rating was up. So
Bully Ray has the right to bat himself

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on the back for this business because
he, you know, he stepped into

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that spot where he's rising to the
occasion. No one's really looked at him

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as justifying this level of like stardom
where he has the top storyline in the

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company and carrying that the load and
the mic. Like, if Bully doesn't

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deliver the nuances on this thing,
it's a total disaster. Brooks is also

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quite capable, so it's it's showing
positive signs. We go to general We

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got to generally tenth impact where Carl
Carl Anderson Ken Anderson explains UM that he

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joined Aces and Eights because nobody had
helped him when he was attacked by them

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in October. So long term storytelling, I guess you know what, I

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don't remember it happening so right,
And they don't really either. They sort

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of like put these things in the
probably didn't even happen, probably didn't even

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happen. Yeah, can either confirmed
or deny. I don't think that was

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a pay per view. We even
bothered to look at UM. I would

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never want I would never buy a
pay per view called Ken neither confirm or

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denied either. You know what I
could see TNA naming a show that I

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really could. It's just a show
where Hull Kigan gets deposed two hours.

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I would watch a two hour Hulk
Cogan deposition. Would you sold me?

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You know if you told me that
Hull Kelgan was going to subject himself to

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a three hour deposition by someone who
investigated every one of the lies he's ever

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told. Yes, I would buy
that for two hundred dollars on paper view.

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I'm not really kidding. Absolutely,
if I could see Hulkogan flutter and

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be nervous, I would for that
for now, to do it for sure.

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Yep. So, hey, Terry, if you know, if somehow

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you get way laid by circumstance,
if somehow the big man upstairs see to

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it that you got to hit some
more hardship, that's some money you're leaving

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on the table. Boss. Ye
just know that you don't have to sue

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somebody. You can just set up
a lie detect her test somewhere. That

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was with the Vince Russo's one great
idea he never got to television. I'll

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have a lie to detect the test
on Raw. Bro Anderson wrestled his return

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match, first one after joining aces
and Ates at the January paper view,

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Genesis defeating Samoa Joe after interference from
Knox and the rest of aces and Ates.

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This Impact starts off with Brooke and
her golf cart going to talk to

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her dad and air out the dirty
laundry. She says she's on the cell

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phone, and she says to the
camera he's going to listen this time,

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and she tells the phone Mark,
I'm here, or she walks through start

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or is it Bubba? I'm pretty
sure it's Bubba. Ye, Okay,

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not a Mark Welcher. No comment. Oh. Later on Impact, here's

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Joe Parkin and jumps excited. This
was tremendous. This is one of the

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funniest fucking things I've watched this whole
goddamn journey. Excited, of course,

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I'm excited. I've been waiting for
this opportunity to training my butt off at

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OVW. I'll tell you what I
want to thank the partners at Park Parking

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Park for allowing me to put my
legal practice on the backburner. Way hat

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on my business or legal I'll tell
you something else. When I walk in

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this building. To Nancy Hawk Cogan, it's not gonna be as own attorney.

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It's gonna be as a wrestler.
The door is locked. Now it's

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funny, awesome. Let me tell
you this is you know, he is

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really he's I if Sting is the
hero of the Tenag Journey, he's the

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sidekick. He's up there. Abyss
is the sidekick. He's up there because

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whether it's the cringe worthy bad stuff
or the incredible stuff here with Joseph Parks,

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he's a reason to watch this.
And he's someone you associate exclusively with

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t NA you know, yes,
no, what, Yeah, I mean

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he's He's given us so much,
hasn't he. Yeah, And again the

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psyche here like it's all about lawyers. Everything has something to do with someone

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leveraging the legal system somehow. It's
all about legality, Yeah, illegality exactly.

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It's so funny. I think it's
just so reflective of where Hulk Coogan's

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at in his life and how he's
the lens through which he's viewing the world.

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Now, you know, these are
the these are the new hul Hogan

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sunglasses that he's putting on the lenses
are see everything through a lead the lens,

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like he's looking at things and I
can just see like like a motions

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being typed up on the screen,
you know, like Terminator looks at something

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and makes a calculation. Um.
So back in the clubhouse of ass nates,

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women under all their laps and Ken
Anderson's in the shadows. He says,

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Hey, everybody having a fun time. I enjoy having a good time.

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But there's a time and a place
to have a good time right now,

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ain't it. He says, something
has to be done about that,

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uh cyborg in the ring. I
don't know who's so corn angle his VP.

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You know what, You're right,
but tonight it's not personal beef.

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It's club business. Let's take it
to the table. I'm gonna fucking that's

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it. I'm done. Let's take
it. I mean, they're just talking

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in such a such such a closed
off culture way. I'm just so drawn

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into this fraternity of mystery and tradition
mixed with respect, mixed with the let's

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just say, you see, it's
very obvious you're not you're not in tune

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with the coolness of bike culture.
I mean, I would love to sit

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down with an actual biker Hell's angel
and have him watched this and and see

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what he says. I think he's
on our side. I think so too.

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I think I think he's going to
see these guys are fucking clowns,

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so right, it's I would be
willing to bet that he would look at

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me and just say, dude,
you're more of a biker than these fucking

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idiots. Well, let me let
me show you some photos of a guy

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by the name of Eric Bishaw.
Here. He is at hog Wild.

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So they kicked the girls out because
it's time to take club business to the

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table. So stupid. They all
walk in the room with the head lamps

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and Prospect closes the door, and
and I think to myself, wait a

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minute, this guy was partying with
strippers with that mask on. Of course,

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fucking fun can you have Kane?
Kane does that? That's true?

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All right, Kane. If Mayor
Kane is going to uh, you know,

402
00:30:55.640 --> 00:31:00.200
is going to to visit the the
local the local strip joint, he

403
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:06.160
ain't going, you know. And
his fucking uh cardigan sweater, that's a

404
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.079
great right, you know what,
he's gonna wear his mask and his wig.

405
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.279
I feel like Mayor Glen Jacob's absolutely
orders food at a strip club.

406
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.680
Oh for sure, he goes.
He goes in for the lunch special.

407
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:22.839
Come on, folks, there's a
lunch buffet every every uh, every Tuesday

408
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.519
and Thursday at noon. It's great
stuff. He says, something like,

409
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:34.200
don't mind if I do. As
he tucks into a burger, and it's

410
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.920
like seeing his seeing like you know, one of you. I don't know,

411
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:42.759
the treasurer of the town, like
God, take her clothes off on

412
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:48.559
the fucking stage. It's like it's
like two in the afternoon, but it's

413
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.920
pitch black in there except for the
black lights, and it smells like a

414
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.880
fruity fragrance from like bass and body
rights right exactly, Like it's just a

415
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:06.480
little too powerful because you are trying
to to hide the stench of of sweat

416
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:10.240
and pussy. Speaking of which,
the VP says, boys, the first

417
00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:13.920
order of business tonight. As you
he points at Knox, did you forget

418
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.000
your mask? I'm thinking, what
is this COVID? He says, oh

419
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.240
that, he said, Oh,
that's right. Someone took it from you

420
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.319
so faster than we sat at this
table. They took it from you and

421
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.720
just said, don't lose our masks, you got something to say for yourself,

422
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.799
and Nux says, I was left
in the middle of the situation with

423
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.359
these guys, and no one wants
to hear it. He says, I

424
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.279
always love the situation, so I
don't want to hear it either. When

425
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.640
people ask for an explanation and then
cut off someone giving the explot we don't

426
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:45.799
want to hear it. Oh.
I wasn't gonna say anything exactly. I

427
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:50.319
was perfectly fine not saying anything.
Um. When DC lost his mask,

428
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.400
they said, Doc, he went
out and earned his spot back at this

429
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.240
table. So tonight knucks you get
the same chance. You either make it

430
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.880
right or you make it gone.
I think I know which one I'm rooting

431
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.119
for. I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm
ready for gone. Joe Park's in the

432
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:10.359
ring. Any thoughts? Uh?
Oh, I'm back from wrestling camphasis on

433
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.839
camp by the way? Yeah?
Right here we go. Well, I'm

434
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:25.200
I'm back from wrestling camping and thankfully
in one piece. I thought past the

435
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:30.039
bar exam was difficult, but how
about rings the bar? At this point

436
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:37.480
in time, I would respectfully request
that the general manager of Impact Wrestling come

437
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:50.000
down to this ring, right now
please, mister Hulk Hogan, please hol

438
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:55.920
please, hol, I thought Pat, I thought raising the bar exam was

439
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:05.319
difficult, but here it comes.
Hyeah feel that music class. Oh god,

440
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:17.320
wo wow wow wow wow wow wow. This is get this song track.

441
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:29.599
Let's go into a PINMI author wild
world wide. When he replied,

442
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:39.280
I was wadin o wow wow,
facility music over the the goodness of the

443
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:50.679
h reader. Mister gas conference stood, bring the brown brown my wife.

444
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:57.239
Wow wow wow. I don't stop
stop alright, alright, alright. I

445
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:01.039
want to be the first one to
your graduate Joseph on this short stint you

446
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:05.239
just put in at wrestling school.
I'm very proud of you, brother,

447
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.920
But we got business at hand,
So what can I do? I realize

448
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.719
that you have a lot more pressing
matters at hand to deal with, So

449
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.719
I'll be brief just to get a
couple's going on? Any idea? What's

450
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:21.400
going on back there? Most sir, I don't Hulk, how about half

451
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.960
a chance? Yeah? I just
wanted to tell you something. I wanted

452
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.039
to thank you for giving me the
inspiration and the motivation to set aside my

453
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:34.639
legals practice and go to wrestling camp
and be trained professionally. All right.

454
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:39.679
I'd also I'd also like to thank
mister Danny Davis and Ohio Valley Wrestling for

455
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.639
for whooping me into wrestling shape and
providing me with a solid foundation from which

456
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.400
I can grow from. Hulk.
Now, I realize, Hulk, that

457
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:54.320
I'm still considered a green hornet and
this whole thing. But I'm asking you,

458
00:35:54.440 --> 00:36:00.840
Hulk. I'm standing here tonight in
front of you, not asking you.

459
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:06.920
I'm begging here. Yes, I'm
not standing here, dude, as

460
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:12.559
a lawyer, Hulk. I'm standing
here right now as a wrestler. Brother

461
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:15.440
exact, Where Bro, what are
you doing next? Stakes? I mean,

462
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.239
come on, you need a couple
more years. It took me two

463
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:23.400
years with Matsuda. It's getting my
brains. You're driving me crazy with a

464
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:36.840
sing Hulk, Hulk, Hulk,
Hulk, just listen to it. Say

465
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:43.559
anything, Joseph, what what is
it? Hulk? I did everything that

466
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:45.559
you asked me to do. I
went to wrestling camp. Heck, even

467
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.639
the partners at Park Park and park
If graciously stepped aside to allow me to

468
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:54.360
handle my business, Hulk, and
my business is right here at Impact Wrestling

469
00:36:55.119 --> 00:37:00.880
and with those aces and eights,
Bullians, do you want what do you

470
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.679
want? I want that match that
I deserve, Hulk, I want whatever

471
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.000
you want. You can have whatever
match you are got the match. Just

472
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:19.920
give me a break, OKAYI hub
okay, I mean stuff. Joseph Park's

473
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:25.679
wide eyes, his shaking hair.
Oh he's he He's such a fucking goofball

474
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:31.559
But it's purposeful, you know,
It's like it's not incidental goofballdness, Like

475
00:37:31.639 --> 00:37:38.679
it is absolutely tremendous. I love
his goofballiness. Yeah. Really talent in

476
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.559
this guy, you know, yep, I'm sure you know. You have

477
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.679
to know him backstage to even see
this in him, because the Abyss character

478
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.960
did not show this for a second. No, no, So he bounces.

479
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:52.199
Hogan looks at him and hoof stashes
and on the screen. Dad,

480
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.320
Dad, I've tried calling you in
text and you have a few voicemails you

481
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:59.039
won't answer. You really want to
deal with this in public? Fine,

482
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:00.920
I'm coming out here right now.
Do not move. We are handling this.

483
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.960
And here comes Brooke Hogan and she
like, you know, say what

484
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.159
you want? She's coming through.
I got I got it. That is,

485
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:16.840
you haven't answered my text messages.
I've left you voicemails. You've never

486
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:22.000
done this to me my whole life. Huh, you're my father always on

487
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:25.239
the cell phone? Dad? I
know, brother? Will you I have

488
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:29.920
a question for you, Dad,
and how you answer it is going to

489
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:38.840
determine our relationship for a very long
time. Who are you? Why don't

490
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:43.960
you ask me your question? I've
been asking a lot of questions. We

491
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:45.639
just love the lad I've been answered, So go ahead and ask me.

492
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.119
Are you going to reinstate Mark?
Or are you going to keep this up?

493
00:38:53.199 --> 00:39:06.440
Like get some personal vendetta. Fans
are falling for it too, and

494
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:08.440
that's the question you want to ask. You come out here and ask me

495
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:14.159
if I'm going to reinstate Mark.
Yeah, I've got your answer. No,

496
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:22.519
I'm not going to reinstate bully.
Okay, knocking to reinstate Bully,

497
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.639
Brother, not happening. Who cares? Brooke with her head in her hand

498
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.039
in the ring like, oh my
god, like she's gonna cry, Oh

499
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:35.079
my god. She's backstage on the
phone saying to whomever I think Mark that

500
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.559
I know he's difficult. What can
I say? He's a dad? No,

501
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:38.679
it's not a good idea for you
to come here. Trust me.

502
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:45.840
I know my dad more than you
do Mark, and that she says,

503
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:47.679
I'm fine, will you just pick
me up outside the office. I don't

504
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:50.920
know. I don't know if you
know your dad better than a Mark.

505
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:54.440
Yeah, I would be careful,
like just a Chrusaders still out there.

506
00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:00.239
So it's Ken Anderson versus Cornangle.
Later on the show, u Anerton gets

507
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:07.880
the mic. He waves in tonight
absolutely astonishing pounds. He brother wave tonight

508
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:25.320
add an absolutely astonishing two hundred and
three rep by okay hell from from please

509
00:40:27.000 --> 00:41:06.000
he he is the golden gloss a
liliast on miss sounds like Kennedy Scott.

510
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:30.920
Your bookers use it using the impact
faithful using his dead name. Yeah,

511
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:36.519
isn't know what to do. I
know he's so nervous. Kurt Angle all

512
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.480
gassed again. Oh man. His
neck thickened substantially from the perk Angle era,

513
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.400
So I don't know. Oh for
sure he pulled that off, probably

514
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.079
with the an injection of substances into
his buttocks. Let me let me ask

515
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.159
you a question. When that injection
time comes, what would that hound finn

516
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:20.320
come on? When you inject antibolics, that's it because it's it's not because

517
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:28.639
the muscle forms as it leaves the
needle. It inflates like a balloon exactly.

518
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.760
It's not shooting out to staster,
shooting out basically air, and he

519
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:36.840
shooting out just exactly, just muscle
mass comes out of there. There's something

520
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:43.840
about the the chemical reaction with the
with the liquid coming out of the needle,

521
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:47.119
and it creates instant muscle. So
that's what Kurt did. Um.

522
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.039
They face off, Anderson vales,
Angle grabs the mic says, hey,

523
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.239
asshole, when need to turn it? When did you turn into a bitch?

524
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:57.639
Why don't get your ugly ass in
the ring? It all says,

525
00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:00.719
watch your language. Pretty funny because
they are live because I think he says

526
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.880
it is a shoot watcher like he's
very Kurt forgot they weren't pre daming so

527
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:13.480
at Helms, I mean Ken Anderson
pacing and her side. He does look

528
00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.760
like an Elms now with his fucking
brown hair. Then Nux gets in with

529
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.400
a beanie. It's a ball peen
hammer to the head of Kurt Angle.

530
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.119
I can't I know, fucking hammer
just what I need. Mike Knox and

531
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:28.679
a beanie. Yeah, Garrett Bischoff
and West Briscoe run out. Joe too

532
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:30.559
to save Angele. There is no
heat at all for any of this.

533
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:32.360
I mean, you can only hear
cat calls, nothing else. They hover

534
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.360
over Kurt like he's dead, and
his hand shaking Kurt pretending like he was,

535
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:39.199
you know, just knocked half dead, like Nancy Pelosi's husband or something.

536
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:45.559
And he gets stretchered out and then
sting music plays and out he comes,

537
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.360
and he talks to Garret Bischoff and
West Briscoe and gets in the ring,

538
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:51.559
and of course the aces Nate standing
there forever waiting for the self to

539
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.440
develop these guys for a for an
invading force. They sure stand around while

540
00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:00.360
people make their entrance in shit,
stingy shit. You give me Knox call

541
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.159
if your troops, I'll call off
mind. Devon says you better whip his

542
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:08.239
ass Knucks and waits the entire commercial
break to get in the ring. So

543
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:12.800
we have a Knucks first Stings.
That makes sense. Yeah, yeah,

544
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.159
I would do that too if I
was looking to, you know, basically

545
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.880
run rough shot over an entire company
and building Nucks gets in Sting chabs the

546
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:22.480
gut hebner with a hammer in one
hand and a bat in the other,

547
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:27.639
just like what the supposed to do
with a gimmicks on the ring. Nux

548
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:30.960
capitalizes on a distraction and piles on
Sting tas calls Knox a big, rugged,

549
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:36.760
nasty man, just so large be
six eight excuse me, well over

550
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:42.159
three twenty. Sting takes over on
the floor and throws knucks into the steps.

551
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.840
People still love Sting man, I'll
tell you Sting, Sting Moon,

552
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:50.679
They just still love this guy.
And they do a shot at the bat

553
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:53.559
in the corner. Sting tries to
screen because they need something. Fans need

554
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.559
something, you know what I mean. And Sting is really the only one

555
00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:00.320
that has not disappointed anybody, right, He's the only one that like tenas

556
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:06.199
overpaying for and you know what I
mean, still coasting off past glories,

557
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:08.719
who could actually still go, right, I know, that's the beauty of

558
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.960
it, the fact that he's able
to do what he does. Hogan can't

559
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.079
go and the whole thing falls apart. Sting can actually go. He can

560
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:19.079
go in some ways just well as
he ever could. I mean, he

561
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.880
doesn't have the same exact vertical leap
and the dynamism of the surfer Sting,

562
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.679
but he kept the he kept the
raw material of that scorpion, the crow

563
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:32.880
character and how the crow worked.
You know. Yep, so sting twice

564
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.559
a scorpion, it gets kicked off, knocks with a barge sting No Cells

565
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.719
whips him in sting or splash to
the back death drop one two three.

566
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:45.920
Knucks loses because Aces and Nates are
just so scary and domineering, staying with

567
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:50.000
a ball of ten and then he
smashes the arm payback time for what they

568
00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.840
did to him the arm of Knucks. Steven grabs the mics's hey sting and

569
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.039
we find out that Brooke has been
kidnapped. There she is in the arms

570
00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.360
of Aces and Nights, And then
I'm thinking to myself, Yeah, why

571
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.400
did she stop being afraid of Asis
and Eates? Remember they were creeping on

572
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.880
her and then she just stopped caring
and just yeah coming out to the ring

573
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.840
to argue with her dad all the
time. Yeah, and they took advantage

574
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:13.760
of it. See the smart stuff
by them. Devon says, the next

575
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.039
time you see Brookie will not recognize
her, which is just that's kind of

576
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:21.360
that's horrified, low Graphic. You
thought you were through a tough earlier.

577
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:23.079
Shut up, bitch, he says
to her. There's this invisible wall between

578
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:27.000
the ring and where they stand,
apparently the Aces and Ates. You cannot

579
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.519
just walk up to them and stop
them from doing this to bro. They

580
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.719
they seem to be able to do
whatever they want, and they have their

581
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:36.800
clubhouse which kind of goes wherever the
show goes, and you realize this is

582
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.039
just another example. It's just same
thing Bischoff did when he was pleading with

583
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.639
a Biss not to kill Dixie Carter
in the crowd. No, no is

584
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.639
there that comes from. It's the
same thing again, same position in the

585
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.360
Impact Zoe, and the same idea
the damsel in stress. I mean,

586
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:52.320
I understand that, you know,
there's only so many new things under the

587
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.400
sun, and you know, Eric
Bischoff shouldn't be raked over the coals for

588
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:58.880
repeating things that worked in WCW.
But how about you not repeat something that

589
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:02.840
didn't work an Impact a year ago? How about is that okay to criticize

590
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:07.440
somebody for having the same exact idea
in the same company, and just,

591
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.559
I mean, come on, So
that's what's going on. Don says twenty

592
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.039
thirteen was going to be Aces and
Eights or Devon says, that's sorry.

593
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:17.280
Devon says it the twenty thirteen is
going to be Aces and Aces year,

594
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:22.559
and he promises that they will reign
supreme just like we did before. Everyone's

595
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.840
making a claim on twenty thirteen.
I'm noticing, Yeah, I mean,

596
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:28.599
no one's gonna while by the time
the twelve months is on, and I

597
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:34.000
don't think it's gonna be as in
demand. When push comes a chef,

598
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:36.320
well It comes out with his chain
to break things up, goes into the

599
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:40.280
crowd, starts throwing shots. Brooke
gets free from the Aces and Eights,

600
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.400
and Hogan comes out with a hoofstash. It takes him a long fucking time

601
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.159
to do anything about this. His
daughter and under siege. It comes out,

602
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.400
crosses his arms and stands there with
the shades on and does the mustache

603
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.760
stroke. I don't think a dude
like, yeah, he's making the same

604
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.440
face like he would make if you
know he saw promo by a heel about

605
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:02.960
coming for his belt, but his
daughter was just kidnapped, and he's like

606
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.599
right, He's like wondering, like, what's the angle here? Brother?

607
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:13.679
Um take a break up? Not
digging creative brother. No, they come

608
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:15.960
back at Hogan's in there. Well, I guess I'm supposed to thank you

609
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:21.000
out here. I got it,
I think any here. Well, I'm

610
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:29.559
guess I'm supposed thank you for putting
my daughter's life in harm's way. And

611
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:37.039
I guess I'm sorry. What I
know he's he's well, I'm guess I

612
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:42.320
should thank you for putting my daughter
life a little less rattling in that gimmick

613
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:46.280
bag at this day. Yeah,
I'm supposed to bow down and kiss his

614
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:52.880
rear end because of all the chaos
you now have cost in my life.

615
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:58.960
I'm looking at you, I'm looking
through your eyes. I don't believe you.

616
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:04.599
You're not a real and you're not
the man for my daughter, or

617
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:21.840
would listening conviction, Let's believe this
off, Mike square Head. You're so

618
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:27.440
wound up that you're even talking trapped
to one of your best friends. You're

619
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:31.280
crazy, Hulk, you God,
this all wrong. Tell you something.

620
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:39.000
I've been in this business for twenty
years and wrestling is my life, Okay,

621
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:45.880
Russa, Seriously, all I've ever
cared about was being like the best

622
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:52.039
professional wrestler I could ever be and
maybe one day be as good as him

623
00:49:52.800 --> 00:50:01.480
or as great as you. Brother. I'm love this business, this business

624
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:07.599
means everything to me. I never
thought I would love anything as much as

625
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:17.000
I did throw wrestling and he takes
books time. And then your daughter came

626
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.159
in my life, and then you
came to my daughter brother. All right,

627
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.719
you know what the crazy thing is. She came into my life because

628
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:37.440
she was apologizing for you. She
was apologizing for you being such a hard

629
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:43.840
ass with me, for you not
trust in me, even when I had

630
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:53.679
your brother's back until the end.
You know, I'm almost I'm so wound

631
00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.880
up right now that I'm almost at
a loss for words. I kind of

632
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:02.480
don't even know what to say.
I know that this has happened entirely too

633
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:13.159
quick. Help slaps the bike out
of his out. I can throw down

634
00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.840
a microphone also, you know,
I'll throw out his hard work side.

635
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:28.079
I know this has happened really really
quick. You know what, screw it?

636
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:34.239
Come here, pulls Brook in front
of him. I'm not real good

637
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:45.159
at all this feelings stuff and all
this emotions, and like, I'm a

638
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.519
hard ass, and I know I'm
a hard ass. Let's going wrong,

639
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:53.360
dude. When I'm with you,
things are different. You make me,

640
00:51:54.840 --> 00:52:07.760
you make me laugh. You may
you know, uh, he's having a

641
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:30.920
knee. Uh what it befront the
whole coolan no, less, I that's

642
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:38.119
the right. I think that before
she's a h all I know is this.

643
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:50.000
I love you. I know our
entire relationship has played out in front

644
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:54.039
of the entire world. I don't
care. I want everybody to know how

645
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:59.119
much I care for you, how
much I love you, and I want

646
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:06.280
you to marry me. Brother.
She's all smiles and she kisses Bully right

647
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:12.239
and holding space. I don't believe
this. He shoots her a glare for

648
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:17.480
the agent. You know that wasn't
play out hoofs like you've never seen.

649
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:22.199
Only do I want you to marry
me, but I want to do it

650
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:29.840
right here. Next week in front
of everybody. She acts like, oh

651
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:45.519
this is great wrestling. Next week
is crazy? Oh my god, all

652
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:46.880
he is. I know, Bully, I never would have expected this.

653
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:53.679
This is crazy. Next week,
I kissing, we got a wedding.

654
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:59.920
The reaction, look at the face
of the hawkster just human. You can

655
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.440
I do to believe? Oh my
god, Seving, yes, Seving,

656
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:12.760
what do you think of the execution? I mean, I don't know.

657
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.960
I don't, I don't. I
don't like this kind of stuff. To

658
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:21.599
begin with in wrestling, I think
it's stupid. I mean, yeah,

659
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:28.440
the only one that's ever done well
in my opinion, Savage. You know,

660
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:31.480
that's the only one that really resonated. And you were talking about a

661
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:37.079
guy and a gal who had been
related on screen since like nineteen eighty five,

662
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:46.159
right exactly, and it just comes
across as stupid and phony, and

663
00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:51.199
which is I'm just not alessly more
interesting because now we know that they actually

664
00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:55.360
dated, even if briefly, right, it just it still comes across as

665
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:59.719
phony. Yeah. Yeah, it
was rushed to create a Like we talked

666
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:04.079
about high rating for the premier of
Bellatur, so you know, when you're

667
00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:06.960
working backwards from we got to come
up with something because we need to deliver

668
00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:09.280
a good rating for the show after
us. It's right, that's a problem.

669
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:13.039
It's tough. And then Bishop's mind
immediately goes to weddings. He loves

670
00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.480
wrestling weddings. He did the Eric
Young one, he did the He also,

671
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.480
of course did the Chuck and Billy
wan on SmackDown where he was revealed

672
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:24.800
to be the the reverence. Such
a disappointment. He's a he's a creative

673
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.960
genius for one thing. Yeah,
right, of course, having you seen

674
00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:34.079
those headshots where he's like he has
the steely gaze of visionary in a leather

675
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.559
jacket, he is he is a
visionary or how many people have told him

676
00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:43.440
in his life that he's a true
visionary more than one, I guess.

677
00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:46.480
So this Impact did one point three
zero million viewers, So a huge drop

678
00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:52.079
off from the week before. Uh. Not not good, because that's the

679
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:53.719
story at TNA. Every time they
do something that seems to pop the rating

680
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:59.639
a bit, it goes way down
and all they do is continue what apparently

681
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:02.519
had the week before. But they're
not good at keeping people. They're not

682
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:10.840
good at setting the hook. They're
just not Yeah, although Taz is setting

683
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:15.079
the red hook as it were,
January seventeenth impact a big one here,

684
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:20.400
I would I think I'm prepared to
say, unless I lost perspective on what's

685
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:22.800
coming up to the end of twenty
thirteen and Hogan's run in TNA, that

686
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:28.440
this is the last Impact of Consequence
Ever, this is the last one where

687
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:30.559
it seemed like they had a hot
angle and a shot to do, like

688
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.679
a really good rating punch above their
weight in terms of doing something that actually

689
00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:38.119
resonated and drew new people to the
table. They had a new act they

690
00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:42.239
were positioning in Bully Ray that might
have charted a new course for the company.

691
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:45.199
Hogan is being used in a different, in my opinion, more effective

692
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.679
way, not just as this you
know mascot that runs out every every other

693
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.559
segment, but somebody who's got personal
stakes and his daughter right, a sort

694
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:57.079
of a note he hadn't quite played
before ever in wrestling as the dad,

695
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:00.719
and this is it, this is
it is it's going to get for them.

696
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.719
I'm afraid. Yeah. We opened
with wedding music and the cake and

697
00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:07.519
the flowers and the gifts, the
invite. Here you go, this fucking

698
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:15.000
moron, That idiot announcer shares that
the wedding is happening. Welcome. Oh

699
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:16.960
wait you know what, No,
there's this this thing first that's in the

700
00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:22.079
arena. My bad. You can
share what you were sharing before. I

701
00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:25.039
had that bell's tolling. They get
the Bully chain and the invite. They

702
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:30.480
got an engagement picture they shot of
Brook and Bully Bullies backstage on his phone.

703
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:32.880
On zips his tucks as he makes
his arrival. I guess at the

704
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.760
impact zone, saying to himself,
I don't believe it. He moves the

705
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:42.119
suit from one hook to another backstage
for what we don't know, and suddenly

706
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:45.760
here comes Spike Dudley. Hold on, let me give him the idiot announcer

707
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:57.679
now, and then I'll go to
Bubba. Maybe all the extravagant preparations for

708
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:02.519
tonight's sure he is celebration and ladies
and gentlemen. Tonight on this very special

709
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:07.760
edition of Impact Wrestling Live, the
entire world is invited to witness the wedding,

710
00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:13.719
the wedding of Brook Hogan and Bully
Ray. That history making event is

711
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:20.679
tonight. And then I got Bubba
for you, Bubba in this back there,

712
00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:36.400
I don't believe. Oh I want
god, are you married? You

713
00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:39.559
going pro? Look at you?
You still hearing no from they still fit

714
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:49.440
me. It's hello, hello you
at this time you're early after last night,

715
00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:52.880
I think, oh my god,
so so guys. Listen, I

716
00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:57.559
got your tuxes and everything you txes
when I went tied, I went for

717
00:58:57.639 --> 00:59:02.360
you double small and one for you
double wide. I can't even believe.

718
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:07.119
I can't believe. I can't believe
everyone's me. I can't believe you get

719
00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:15.360
married nights you every night, thank
you guys so much for being my bride.

720
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:32.679
I'm really nervous actually work, you're
gas coming right. I don't know.

721
00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:43.000
Oh powerful stuff. I saw the
Heather Cold tape. He is Impact

722
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.360
Piro shooting off between the cake park
gives Bully a box of fine Cubans.

723
00:59:46.519 --> 00:59:51.639
Oh yeah, I got all these
fucking things. This is so fucking ridiculous,

724
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:53.679
Bully. I know that we've had
our differences in the past, but

725
00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:57.760
if it weren't for you, going
to Hulk Cooke and I'll never be a

726
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:00.119
member of the Impact roster. I
just wanted to thank you and wish you'd

727
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.480
have it today on your nuptials.
And for you a box of fine,

728
01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:07.920
fine Shibins. Please keep those on
the downbow. I got him for a

729
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:20.039
front at the airport to not exactly
street legal ka fab Thank you for this

730
01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:23.400
guy. Get out of here.
He's trying to work a freed out fade.

731
01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:29.000
That's pretty good man, that's pretty
funny, ka fab Yeah, and

732
01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:32.280
there's that Jesus Christ. Kay fabulous
is more like it. Yes, And

733
01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:37.039
he goes to sting. Yeah,
um does building this one? Are you

734
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:39.840
the only guy in this company that
trusts me and has my back? And

735
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:43.239
He's a huge night for me and
Brook. That girl needs to be happy.

736
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:45.320
The only thing that's going to make
Brook happy is having her father walker

737
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:47.639
down the aisle. I want Brook
to be happy. I can talk to

738
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.320
Hulk. He won't return my phone
calls, no tech, so I can't

739
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:53.000
talk to him. Please, he
asks. Sting convinced him to be by

740
01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:57.079
his daughter's side tonight. Sting says, because of what you mean to me.

741
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:59.639
Yeah, I will try. He's
digging his heels in, but I'm

742
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:01.800
going to try. And Hule Cogan
arrived at the impact zone of the parking

743
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:04.719
lot on the phone. Of course, they say, hey, he do

744
01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:07.719
you have for the wedding Tonight's what? Listen? Listen to him? I

745
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:09.880
mean, it's just well the whole
thing there he is, Come on,

746
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:16.159
let's go, let's go. What
Hey, hey, Hal, are you

747
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:28.119
here for the wedding tonight? Are
you here for the wedding? How are

748
01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:30.920
you gonna are you gonna give?
Are you gonna get for ak away tonight

749
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:37.920
at the wedding? Better to get
that camera out here. I don't believe

750
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:45.000
he's gripping a format too as he
walks. Yeah, now, isn't isn't

751
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:50.239
didn't Hogan hire as GM. Wouldn't
he have hired these camera guys to do

752
01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:53.360
exactly what they're doing, like ask
tough questions to the guys as they come

753
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:59.280
in and out. Now, apparently
there's some like extra extra judicial force that

754
01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.760
has the right to wander around the
impact his own lot and just interrogate people

755
01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:05.760
because like I mean, if you're
the guy in charge of it, that's

756
01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:09.039
what they're here for. So true. Um, yeah, the past,

757
01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:12.440
we've seen him work with them at
the table. Remember the first time he

758
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:14.760
got the Aces and eights letter delivered
to him with the cards in it and

759
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.119
freaked out. Yeah. Yeah,
he's sitting with these people doing an interview

760
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:21.840
for them. So I guess it's
like that's what he doesn't want to be

761
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:24.320
questioned. It's like he's tolerating their
existence. But other time obviously he can't

762
01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:32.480
write. He can't Yeah, he
uh can't take what he dishes out or

763
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:36.960
whatever the fund the phrases there.
So Bully says, Spike looks like he

764
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:38.360
did in tooth Out. It looks
like double O seven rather and he's his

765
01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:42.880
dreamer looks like double O nine.
Yeah. I think I think I got

766
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:46.199
this one too, there's so much
shit. Here comes dazz Look at how

767
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:52.639
good you look like? Double O
seven? Are you good to get dressed?

768
01:02:52.639 --> 01:03:00.679
I was seeing my going out like
this or no, oh no,

769
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:07.159
I don't want star look black music
when you walk here? Everything I was

770
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:09.760
working. Sorry, someone's gonna work
around it. So listen, what's the

771
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:13.559
deal? No, Paul, I
don't I don't get it. He called

772
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:19.440
Paul, he said, he called
me back in five minutes time. Yeah,

773
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.760
seriously, is holding the show?
It's his daughter's winning. Are they

774
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:29.800
talking about triple h oh? Paul
Hayman? Oh okay, no joke about

775
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:31.840
how why wanted to blow you off? He take Clay back in five minutes?

776
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:37.920
I bro um, dude, she's
a wreck. She's a wreck.

777
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:42.199
Like she's been texting me and I
can read right through it. She's she's

778
01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.079
not good. She wants her father
here. I want him here. You

779
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:47.880
know, she just wants him to
be by her side. It's her wedding.

780
01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.800
You know how these you know,
wedding is to wait. It's the

781
01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:53.039
biggest day of life. Washing Man, he's got a squash. Bro's tough.

782
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:55.559
He's a dad. He's in a
tough you know. You know it's

783
01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:00.599
it's just this tough all the way
around. I spoke to Sting and basically

784
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:03.239
I kind of beg Staying to talk
to him for me. Sting said he

785
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:06.360
would. I hope he does.
Bottom line, Hulks here, we're not

786
01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:10.960
here. I'm marrying Brook tonight,
and I'm glad that you're here. You're

787
01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:13.960
here, and you're here. That's
all I care about. My three guys,

788
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:18.440
my brothers are here with me to
night. Put it on. I'm

789
01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:27.320
gonna put it on the other Look, weren't there like a thousand dead Lease,

790
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:31.599
yeah there were. Dick is dead, Big Dick is dead. Okay,

791
01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:38.320
what about so I'm sure Brook is
depressed about that. I'm sure Stating

792
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:44.639
comes out. Oh my god,
you've arrived at a very special evening,

793
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:45.480
he says. Tonight, It's not
just an ordinary night, of course,

794
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.719
it never is. In the impact
tone is a huge night. I mean

795
01:04:47.840 --> 01:04:50.880
love is in the air. I
think, yep, here, I got

796
01:04:50.960 --> 01:05:09.079
this too, Greg, So you've
arrived on a very special evening. Tonight

797
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:13.159
is not just an ordinary night,
of course, it never is. An

798
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:17.599
impact zone. It's a huge night. I mean love is in the air.

799
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:23.039
It's like George Carlin in the seventy
year. It's like, what was

800
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:28.920
he fucking Jim Carrey with all the
loved around and all the characters. Well,

801
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.760
there's some tension in the air,
and Bully Ray has asked me to

802
01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:36.119
address that tension. And that's what
I want to do right now. So

803
01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:40.719
Bully, if you're a praying man, you better start praying right now.

804
01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:46.480
Okay, because Hulkamania please come on
out him? How does it call him?

805
01:05:46.519 --> 01:06:54.000
Sting Moon and wall Ball? And
then think about betweetly r dress dress?

806
01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:16.719
I love that? Why wow?
How it took uses line? The

807
01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:23.119
first thing? Why don't you just
cut the craft? I mean I heard

808
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:30.280
you want from you want this?
I mean, why don't we cut right

809
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:33.920
to the chase and get down to
business together, because you're not gonna pull

810
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:40.440
the wool over my eyes. You
have been in this business a long long

811
01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:44.960
time, brother, and we've brustled
all over the world, and we've traveled

812
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:50.679
up and down every single road you
could possibly travel, business wise and personally.

813
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:56.760
And we've both had people that have
looked us in the eye and told

814
01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:01.559
us that they loved us and then
they walked away. And we both have

815
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:06.000
people that have told us that they're
our best friend and then they stabbed us

816
01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:14.119
in the back. So why don't
she just slay this out real straight so

817
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:18.000
I can understand exactly where you're coming
from. Okay, I'll lay it out

818
01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:23.119
straight for you right now. Bully
Ray has come to my aid umpteen times.

819
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:27.199
He's been my tag teen partner.
He's come to your aid umteen times

820
01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:30.800
most important for you. He's hey, listen, this is this is not

821
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:34.560
this, this is He's come to
Brooks aid umpteen thousand times, and I'm

822
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:39.680
saying, what more is it gonna
take before you let this thing happen tonight?

823
01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:48.159
Period. It's not just me.
You know how many people you know

824
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:51.640
the social media thing that I don't
know anything about day and night. Brother,

825
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:56.520
They're saying, Hogan, you're right, Hogan, don't let your guard

826
01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.840
down, Hogan, don't trust bah. Bah. It's not just me standing

827
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:06.239
up and making a stand here.
It's everybody out here, brother, telling

828
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:12.520
me to watch out for myself,
for you, and for my family.

829
01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:17.479
So when it comes down to in
and out, I call him like I

830
01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:23.119
see him. When I look the
guy in the eyes, there's something that's

831
01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:27.720
not right. When I get around
Bully, there's an energy there's a vibe

832
01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:30.359
that comes off him that I will
not accept. So as far as I'm

833
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:40.920
concerned, brother, I will never
trust Bully Ray. Okay, then I'm

834
01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:43.800
gonna throw it all out there,
just like you asked me to do originally.

835
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:48.479
I'm gonna say, you need to
do this for you, and most

836
01:09:48.560 --> 01:10:15.199
important, you need to do this
for Brooke. Tonight, they're saying,

837
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:30.039
do it, do it, do
it, do boy, just instead of

838
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:36.119
just telling you, I'm gonna tell
everybody in here that I always do the

839
01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:41.800
right thing. Brother. Oh okay, I think we know where that's going.

840
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:45.520
It's funny. He's talking about all
these people telling them not to trust

841
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:47.439
Bully, and every single fan in
that building is telling him to trust Bully.

842
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:51.800
Right, and you realize that the
people who are telling him that,

843
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:57.319
you know, to not trust Bubba, that's proxy for Eric Bischoff, who

844
01:10:57.399 --> 01:10:59.520
to this day is saying that,
you know, he always thought Bubba was

845
01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:03.319
it of influence on Hulk, and
you know it probably was incredibly concerned that

846
01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:06.800
Bubba was a better friend to Hulk
than he was. I mean better not

847
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:10.039
in terms of how he treated him, but in terms of how close they

848
01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:14.439
got. Sure, that doesn't work
for Eric. But um, but yeah,

849
01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:17.760
I mean that's what this is.
This is I've now decided that this

850
01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:21.279
is Hogan Bishop sitting down. How
can we angle this thing? I mean,

851
01:11:21.319 --> 01:11:25.159
Bubba's still out there right now,
I mean, Bubba the love sponge.

852
01:11:25.359 --> 01:11:27.600
How can we get this into the
rustling ringe? What if we do

853
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.840
Bubba Ray by Ray brother And again
it all revolves around Hogan Psyche and his

854
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:34.840
personal shit, the whole company,
or at least the driving story land of

855
01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:39.079
the company. That it's good stuff, it's money. Well, it's it's

856
01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:42.239
worked for three straight years, so
I can't blame him. I mean that's

857
01:11:42.359 --> 01:11:46.359
people were all interesting his personal life
on Hogan's knows best. So Rix in

858
01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:49.359
New York is the site of Bubba's
bachelor party. We get a quick look

859
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:54.119
at that elvet rope, and then
all the strippers are posing with him,

860
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:58.079
were told this is last night,
and so he goes up to New York

861
01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:00.880
to fucking go to the strip club, to come back to Florida to get

862
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:04.840
married. Okay, yeah, because
there's not enough strip clubs in Tampa.

863
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:09.039
That's the right, right, I'm
sure there's even a fucking ricks in in

864
01:12:09.359 --> 01:12:14.359
in Tampa. I bet there is
is there Ricks in New Orleans, so

865
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:18.079
vell Yeah right, probably, honestly, there's probably a Rix in every city

866
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:23.399
in the country. Uh. Later
on that show, Velvet Sky wrestles Gail

867
01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:27.199
Kim and her new catwoman gear and
guess what, twenty thirteen is gonna be

868
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:31.399
her year as well? She does
the wrap around. I think that is

869
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:35.039
gonna be my year. Yeah,
my year to stop doing TNH. There

870
01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:40.560
you go ten years ago where decade
on makes some sense. Jesus, and

871
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:43.479
we're just about the same chronology too, I mean time wise by the time

872
01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:46.800
we end, Jesus. I uh
so. Uh yeah. So she's doing

873
01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:49.560
this new like wrap around X Factor
finisher that she calls in your face.

874
01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:51.680
Maybe it wasn't new, I don't
remember, but she has a new look,

875
01:12:51.720 --> 01:12:55.399
a new presentation, a new push. They're talking about her in commentary

876
01:12:55.479 --> 01:12:57.399
like she's going to be, you
know, the face of the Knockout's Division

877
01:12:57.439 --> 01:13:00.159
in twenty thirteen, which I'm sure
has nothing to do with Bully rise to

878
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:02.640
the top. And she doesn't sit
down Pedigree as her finisher for the one,

879
01:13:02.680 --> 01:13:08.479
two three that that's the new finisher
to sit down Pedigree, Um backsage

880
01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:12.640
Dixie. Dixie's back and she's meeting
with Brooke and she's acting like her mom

881
01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:20.319
because of course Linda's know where to
be fund Why why couldn't Brooke invite Linda

882
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:24.279
to the wedding. It's her wedding, for Christ's sakes. No brother,

883
01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:27.960
dude, no, dude, that
would have been a segment. Can you

884
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:30.960
imagine, Dad, I invited Mom
to the wedding? Linda and Hogan have

885
01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:38.079
like a stare down backstage. Lary
Es we're talking. That would be fucking

886
01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:43.000
month or Hogan and was he still
married to Jennifer this time? He was

887
01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:47.119
Hogan and Jennifer and Linda and whoever
she's fucking Oh, Charlie Hill, Yeah,

888
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:50.920
she's Charlie Hill. Run in would
be something? Oh man, could

889
01:13:50.920 --> 01:13:56.840
you imagine? That'd be nuts?
But here here's Dixie for you. You

890
01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:02.920
look so beautiful things odd. I
can't believe that, just like last March

891
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:05.279
we started talking about you coming here. I would have never, in a

892
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:10.039
million years, I know, thought
something like this would happen. Thank you

893
01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:14.079
for supporting me with everything too,
really means a lot. But of course

894
01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:18.920
you're happy the right. Yeah,
he makes me really happy. And no

895
01:14:19.079 --> 01:14:24.359
matter what, no matter what happens
to mine. You know your dad loves

896
01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:32.199
you very much. No Aday,
I'm proud of you. I'm proudly I'm

897
01:14:32.279 --> 01:14:40.640
getting married. I'm so excited.
Get your mon out there. Okay,

898
01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:54.520
all right, it's wonderful. It's
all you got to say. I mean,

899
01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:58.560
what else is there? I think
Dixie cried real tears. I think

900
01:14:58.840 --> 01:15:02.439
Dixie's so kayfe in herself that she
thinks she's like part of Hohkhgan's family and

901
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:05.439
and help. Meanwhile, Hulk is
just making sure the check leader, saying

902
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:09.520
whatever it takes. You know,
I know, I know she's like falling

903
01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:13.039
for your brother, you know,
do your family. Dude, you you

904
01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:15.840
you're kind of life. You know, Dixie in so many ways, you're

905
01:15:16.039 --> 01:15:21.039
actually like Brook's mom brother. You
know he said something like that, Yeah

906
01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:25.720
I'm married. Would didn't put it
exactly like that. Well, Dixie,

907
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:28.520
of course calling back to how she
kind of brought Brook here. You know,

908
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:30.119
it's kind of her, kind of
because of her that she's on TV

909
01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:35.079
even I know, I've heard that
country music career really took off. Yeah,

910
01:15:35.159 --> 01:15:39.079
everything's going great for her. Um
in the office, hulkan Sting,

911
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:44.800
Yeah, hulkan Stinger in the office
and DNA bite Hige. Yes, indeed,

912
01:15:44.920 --> 01:15:48.880
results I feel it with every piece
of life in my body. This

913
01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:55.359
is what I've tried to protect my
whole life, protect her from the evils

914
01:15:55.399 --> 01:16:01.760
of this business, the personal tragedies
that you and I both suffered, all

915
01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:06.039
the bad stuff. I've tried to
keep it away from her. This isn't

916
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:10.439
about Bully. He's not a bad
guy. It's not about him. He's

917
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:14.920
one of us. We're all the
same personnel. Huh. But for Brooke,

918
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:18.760
what the fuck are you talking about? This movie ends? There's no

919
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:23.840
question that this this business has jaded
both of us. And I'm not gonna

920
01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:27.439
deny anything that you just said.
A matter of fact, I'm going to

921
01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:31.600
agree with everything you just said.
But have you ever thought that you've done

922
01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:38.399
such a good job of raising your
daughter, such a good job of protecting

923
01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:43.520
her. Keep going that maybe,
just maybe she can see something in a

924
01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:51.600
Bully that you can't because this business
has blinded you. What what what do

925
01:16:51.680 --> 01:16:58.760
you? You're wrong, You're wrong
about Bully and you need to walk Brooke

926
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:03.760
down that in style and profile.
Yes, you know, brother, it's

927
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:08.279
been a long day. I'm gonna
pack my stuff up and get out of

928
01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:15.000
here. But I always do the
right thing, Stinger for this business and

929
01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:17.920
for my family in that order,
just as long as you know that.

930
01:17:19.920 --> 01:17:23.199
Yeah, hell, it's either what's
right for the business or right for your

931
01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:26.000
family. There's no such thing as
both. And no, no, dude,

932
01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:29.640
there is no such thing as both. This is like, by the

933
01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:31.000
way, this is the TNA Hill
Coke in Cadence. What he says,

934
01:17:31.319 --> 01:17:33.920
you know, brother, it's been
a long day that that you know what

935
01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:36.680
I mean? That way of like
saying that phrase at the ends a kind

936
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:39.720
of wraps it up is how he
wraps things up. Yeah, Like there's

937
01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:43.920
an ellipsis there? Yep? To
the ring. The wedding music plays,

938
01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:47.880
and Tanay says, you are sitting
in on history and Bully steps out in

939
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:53.800
his tuxedo looking boyish, looks like
such a fucking idiot, a big false

940
01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:58.600
white tooth smile. Unbelow. I
can't stand his smile. It is maybe

941
01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:02.640
the most annoying thing. Well,
fortunately he knew that about himself and leveraged

942
01:18:02.720 --> 01:18:08.319
it in that direction. But you
say so. Dreamer comes out with Miss

943
01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:12.880
Tess Mocker on his arm. Tommy
Dreamer looking like every dad in New York

944
01:18:12.920 --> 01:18:16.359
who's ever walked his daughter down the
aisle. Yep ye and multiple times as

945
01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:24.680
well. This time it's for real
and he really does and Rick, I

946
01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:27.319
just can't say how excited I had
to have he was part of the family

947
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:35.880
salute. Now everybody enjoyed the Italian
wedding suit at the Young Kings. We

948
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:42.159
have to you again again, exactly
third time in four years. I'm gonna

949
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.119
tell you, you know what for
the special occasion, I gave him the

950
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.560
recipe for my mother's meet boss.
I mean the first the first husband,

951
01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:53.199
you know, it was a high
school crush and um, we're all young,

952
01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:56.000
we make mistakes. The second one, you know, we fell some

953
01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:59.359
hard times and he had some depression
problems and then we pray for him.

954
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:02.319
But this third one, let me
tell you, sweetheart, this guy he

955
01:19:02.399 --> 01:19:09.800
owns his own limousine company. It's
been divorced only once. And I can't

956
01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:14.600
wait to see the beautiful life you
built together. I can't wait to have

957
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:20.159
more grandchildren. I can't wait for
you to open up a shop that makes

958
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:28.720
more to Dell or something. Time. Folks, Folks, the pursuit has

959
01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:32.000
been important. Yea, all right, Tom Dreamers like Tommy Dreamers. The

960
01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:34.760
dad in New York that has like
six kids, and all of them suck,

961
01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:40.439
like all of them drug addicts.
Yeah, they all, they all

962
01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:44.760
make they all make constant mistakes.
Yeah, you know, live with them

963
01:19:44.760 --> 01:19:47.760
as often as they don't, you
know, exactly exactly. Whenever one of

964
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:55.640
them gets divorced, they move in
for like about three years. Oh my

965
01:19:55.840 --> 01:19:58.680
god. Then they you know,
then then they get married again. They

966
01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:02.439
leave for about two months and they
get every every girlfriend they have still has

967
01:20:02.520 --> 01:20:11.680
eighties hair. Yeah. Yeah,
all the you know, the daughters,

968
01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:16.600
all all merry people who fucking cheat
on them. Within like three months,

969
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:26.439
they all married guys that look like
big casts. Yeah. Uh, have

970
01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:30.439
like two two decent visits to the
to the family house for a barbecue.

971
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:33.199
Yeah, right, right on,
like the um the deck that's made out

972
01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:40.439
of wood that like gets dark when
it gets rained on. Yes, honey,

973
01:20:40.479 --> 01:20:44.039
come here, come here. I'm
so sorry, Oh baby, I'm

974
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:49.760
so sorry. It's so good.
What happened? What happened? Oh my

975
01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:59.840
god, this is so right,
this feels so right, Like, oh

976
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.880
my god, it's like everyone guy, say you want, six generations has

977
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:05.760
lived in this house, right,
five generations has lived in this house,

978
01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:10.560
and the six generation is just complete
disaster. Yeah, a complete disaster.

979
01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:16.000
Hey, you want some bikes eat? I guess some big the bell household

980
01:21:16.119 --> 01:21:20.560
from bigger, faster, stronger,
nothing little bigs eat. He can't.

981
01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:30.359
I want to make you lasagnia.
I'll make you lasagna from scratch. Let

982
01:21:30.399 --> 01:21:35.399
me get them, let me get
the eggs. By the way, he

983
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:38.960
must be Italian, but his last
name is Lawfulin. He's probably not even

984
01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:42.960
Italian, but he's from Yonkers.
He's got black hair. Let's fucking go.

985
01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:47.399
Did he work in a pizzeria?
I thought, I'm very hearing matter

986
01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:51.039
or something like that, that I
fucking worked pizza. There's no chance Tommy

987
01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:55.119
Dreamer hasn't delivered pizza at something,
for sure. I think he did it

988
01:21:55.239 --> 01:21:59.399
last week. But the box with
like the red chef doing the like that,

989
01:21:59.560 --> 01:22:03.039
you know what I mean, I
mean, like the yep um yep.

990
01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:06.640
So Dreamer comes out with test mocker
uh, and Spike comes with Mickey

991
01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:10.960
down the aisle. Of course,
he was known in Tena as brother Runt

992
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:15.520
because they just know how to name
him in TNA and then fucking but then

993
01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:17.880
today immediately calls him Spike the ground
Chance Spike over and over again. Well

994
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.199
and Today, says it, Tony
says it, and Hogan's concerned that the

995
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:25.720
network might have the ball again.
What was going on, dude, spike?

996
01:22:25.920 --> 01:22:29.640
Brother? What would you? Who's
spike and who? Brother? You

997
01:22:29.720 --> 01:22:32.520
gonna spike the You're gonna spike TNA, Dude, you're gonna spike our clearance?

998
01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:35.119
Brother? Do you spike the punch? Did you spike the ball?

999
01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:40.600
Brother? Did you spike the punch? Did you no? Terry, I

1000
01:22:40.680 --> 01:22:45.359
just ducked it. Get it again. Taz comes out with Christy Hemmy Taz

1001
01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:48.199
in the wedding as well, looking
like he's laying on a sarcophagus but standing

1002
01:22:48.319 --> 01:22:55.279
up Jesus Christ. Taz like,
I don't know how he could ever button

1003
01:22:55.359 --> 01:23:00.760
a shirt around his non existent neck, Like it's just chin, it's chin

1004
01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:05.079
then fucking body than Torso. And
it's like, I mean, you need

1005
01:23:05.159 --> 01:23:10.880
to have like a thirty you know, like like a thirty inch shirt to

1006
01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:13.920
fucking get around that that that you
know, he's like, I mean,

1007
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.840
yeah, obviously he's fat now,
but he's still not like crazy huge.

1008
01:23:16.920 --> 01:23:24.319
But because of that fucking no next
situation, right, he needs to have

1009
01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:31.399
the biggest shirt of all time get
around that's a BuzzFeed slide show wrestlers in

1010
01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:36.800
the no next situation. I'm sorry. When Taz stands in the middle of

1011
01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:42.119
the ring in TNA in this era, he looks like a fucking mister potato

1012
01:23:42.199 --> 01:23:45.520
head. Oh yes, totally um
bullet cat calling each one as they get

1013
01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:50.640
in the ring like it's high school
graduation. You know, John Sullivan,

1014
01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:57.560
So you know that kind of graduation. Yeah, exactly. So we'll be

1015
01:23:57.640 --> 01:24:00.920
back with the entrance to the bride, but we'll up H walker to the

1016
01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:06.960
ring, the original, the real
Triple H, the first Triple H come

1017
01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:11.000
back. We see that a bully
has his as they say, extreme groomsmen

1018
01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:15.239
in place. Oh god, they
hit. Here comes the bride to an

1019
01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:17.199
all female pop. I don't think
there are any women in an impact zone,

1020
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:23.000
but you heard them all here.
Yeah. Ed Brook steps out through

1021
01:24:23.039 --> 01:24:26.039
the impact tunnel and then she pauses
at the ramp and looks to the back.

1022
01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:29.800
They chant, Brooke, she's looking
behind her, just like her dad

1023
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:36.279
taught her. Never walk anywhere,
dude without looking behind brother And I gotta

1024
01:24:36.319 --> 01:24:42.920
say, what a pop? What
hull Coogan and a tuxedo and a black

1025
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.279
dew rag steps out to walk his
daughter down the aisle. What a pop

1026
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:49.199
for the pop? What did you
think of this moment? You know,

1027
01:24:51.920 --> 01:24:55.840
it's fine, Yeah, it's fine. I'm glad, you know. I

1028
01:24:55.920 --> 01:24:59.880
mean, I'm glad people are into
it. I suppose I don't get why

1029
01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:02.479
they're into it. Yeah, I
don't get why they fight. I mean,

1030
01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:06.800
I guess they've done a It's it's
very hard. I just think all

1031
01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:11.800
of this this just isn't wrestling to
me. It's just so stupid. Yeah,

1032
01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:15.000
it's like beyond soap opera. Well, it's them telling themselves that,

1033
01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:18.239
like if we have to pop a
rating, there's no possible way we could

1034
01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:21.560
do that with wrestlers, like in
a wrestling match, like it has to

1035
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:29.399
be which is wrong. Yeah,
I can. I mentioned there's a wedding

1036
01:25:29.439 --> 01:25:32.720
in the middle of the nWo angle. Oh it's been a fucking disaster,

1037
01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:40.840
but a disaster. Dressed like he's
going to testify in court or something.

1038
01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:45.479
He looks like that. He looks
like he did in that picture with with

1039
01:25:46.199 --> 01:25:51.199
Once Your Dolly Parton goes up to
Brooks as I love you, I'm sorry,

1040
01:25:51.399 --> 01:25:55.800
Hogan. Chance looks like he's walking
into a courthouse. He got dressed

1041
01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:58.520
pretty quickly because I remember he was
just talking to Sting in the office like

1042
01:25:58.680 --> 01:26:02.079
leaving but going home ten minutes ago. And even though it got a nice

1043
01:26:02.119 --> 01:26:04.600
Papa it was a good moment,
they didn't get anywhere near what they could

1044
01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:09.359
have out of that, Like if
Bully proposed two months ago, and it

1045
01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:12.680
was like, I know, the
question week after week after week if Hulk

1046
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:15.079
is going to finally, but we
had like this is TNA in a nutshell,

1047
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:19.439
We had like seven days to wonder
if he's going to walk her down

1048
01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:24.520
the aisle right if that, it
doesn't even I don't know it. It

1049
01:26:24.560 --> 01:26:27.800
didn't occur to me as like the
dramatic hook until really this episode of impact

1050
01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:30.319
itself. So maybe even less than
an hour we had, I mean you

1051
01:26:30.359 --> 01:26:32.600
could have had and yeah, Shamley
couldn't give it even three weeks. Yeah

1052
01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:35.760
yea. So they're all in there, Bully saying thank you to everybody,

1053
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:40.119
shake his hand, they chant,
Hogan ignores that he does not shake Bulli's

1054
01:26:40.159 --> 01:26:45.439
hand, and the reverend welcomes everyone
that Justice has. Whatever he is we

1055
01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:51.960
had gathered looks like actor Mike Landers
from Diehards, the the guy who plays

1056
01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:57.079
the cop and goes send in the
car, Send in the car. That's

1057
01:26:57.079 --> 01:27:03.239
a deep cut here, I this
whole fucking thing. We welcome everyone.

1058
01:27:03.560 --> 01:27:09.920
Yeah, we are gathered here today
in the presence of all of you friends

1059
01:27:10.520 --> 01:27:16.199
and family, to celebrate of ignission
to the beauty of love and to unite

1060
01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:30.560
Brooke and Mark and holy matrimony.
Okay, let us begin. Who presents

1061
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:47.920
this woman? I do ah,
he puts a home in Bullis, Brooke

1062
01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:56.279
and Mark. There are no obligations
on earth sweeter or more tender than those

1063
01:27:56.399 --> 01:28:00.359
you are about to assume. You
were born into this world as individuals,

1064
01:28:00.800 --> 01:28:05.520
and during your life you've learned to
live together with your fellow man in harmony.

1065
01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:12.159
As you got older, what do
you learn to both give and receive

1066
01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:18.359
love in your lives? Learning to
love and live together is one of life's

1067
01:28:18.439 --> 01:28:29.279
greatest challenges with rewards, and is
the shared goal of a life of marriage

1068
01:28:29.319 --> 01:28:44.119
together. There is no institution more
sacred than marriage. The state of matrimony

1069
01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:49.880
is based on a deep, invisible
union of two souls who seek to find

1070
01:28:50.039 --> 01:28:57.279
companion in one another. You understand, oh, clue, yes, yes.

1071
01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:04.399
In front of your family and friends, Brook, Mark, you may

1072
01:29:04.479 --> 01:29:09.760
now express the love that you have
family for one another with your vows.

1073
01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:23.640
Mark, I can't believe I'm standing
in front of you right now, me

1074
01:29:23.720 --> 01:29:29.600
too, exchanging vows with you in
the middle of a wrestling ring. But

1075
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:36.600
you came into my life like a
burst of light, and I can trust.

1076
01:29:38.479 --> 01:29:43.399
I feel like I'm safe. You're
my best friend. You definitely know

1077
01:29:43.479 --> 01:29:55.359
how to make me laugh. And
I have no idea what I was doing

1078
01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:59.880
before I met you. But I
can't imagine my life without you. Now.

1079
01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:08.399
I love you. You have to
see how COVID's face still for sure

1080
01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:12.319
Brooke. Earlier today, I took
out a piece of paper and I started

1081
01:30:12.359 --> 01:30:15.640
writing things down. I just said
this to myself, what the hell are

1082
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:20.399
you doing? She doesn't deserve words
on paper. She deserves me to speak

1083
01:30:20.520 --> 01:30:31.520
from the heart. Oh yeah,
from the moment I knew, I knew

1084
01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:36.840
you were the one. I'm a
different person when I'm around you. I'm

1085
01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:43.159
a happy person when I'm around She's
miserable all the times. Velvet sky Box

1086
01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:50.640
stalls Watch the Happiest Girl in the
World. The bottom line is I fricking

1087
01:30:51.119 --> 01:31:08.319
love you now. Is there anyone
that has just cause that these two individuals

1088
01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:14.359
should not be legally married? Speak
now or forever? Hold your peace.

1089
01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:35.399
I'll take that as a no.
Do you have the rings? Do you

1090
01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:42.920
Brook take Mark to be your lawfully
wedded husband, promising to love and cherish

1091
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:50.279
through joy and sorrow, sickness and
health, and through whatever challenges you may

1092
01:31:50.399 --> 01:32:01.880
face, for as long as you
both shall live? What do you Mark

1093
01:32:02.359 --> 01:32:09.079
take Brook to be your lawfully wedded
wife, promising to love and cherish through

1094
01:32:09.239 --> 01:32:15.000
joy and sorrow, sickness and health, and through whatever challenges you may face,

1095
01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:28.720
for as long as you both shall
live. I do, and now,

1096
01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:31.479
by the power vested in me,
I'll hold on a second. Hold

1097
01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:36.159
on? Took back a hold on? Hold on? I have two questions.

1098
01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:39.560
You know I can't take this.
I have two questions. I know

1099
01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:42.600
you're a long time we go way
back, We're like brothers. Don't just

1100
01:32:42.720 --> 01:32:46.640
hold on? Do you you shure
you want to do this? Are you

1101
01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:51.239
sure you want to do this?
No, but it's none of your business.

1102
01:32:51.279 --> 01:32:55.600
Are you sure you want to do
this? What do your okay?

1103
01:32:55.640 --> 01:32:59.800
You want to do this? The
second question I have is is it just

1104
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:04.920
me? Or is it freaking hot? In here? Off covers the blazer

1105
01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:14.199
and it's a ass and ates fast? Oh my god? What don't what

1106
01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:20.439
the house. This is an storms
the wedding and the damns its let's come

1107
01:33:20.479 --> 01:33:26.920
out, He'll hit We just see
my cases and eights coming from from every

1108
01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:36.079
part of the arena put everywhere Rod. The impact on what put the kids

1109
01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:47.079
coup two by those aces. It
eates Um, oh my come so there

1110
01:33:47.119 --> 01:33:53.600
holding bro Hostagen there, Yeah,
did you notice possible her tis pops out

1111
01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:15.439
your husband during that moment, she's
clutching to her sick right breast herself the

1112
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:27.800
whole time that boobs out, that
booms her out. Bork chuck on board.

1113
01:34:28.039 --> 01:34:33.159
Oh god, oh god, your
brother, Brook, I see your

1114
01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:36.439
chips, dude. She learns to
call it too. She like hides her

1115
01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:43.279
face and says to my boobs are
out because she's like wow, because Hulk

1116
01:34:43.319 --> 01:34:46.279
has been laid out. He's down
on the ground and she kind of gets

1117
01:34:46.359 --> 01:34:49.159
free from the clutches of gallows and
no, and she's like, I mean

1118
01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:53.600
you can tell like for the moment
she gets grabbed, she is like covering

1119
01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:57.600
herself up, like she's holding herself
absolutely. And so she goes up to

1120
01:34:57.720 --> 01:35:01.560
Dad and she's like using kind of
like the apron to like hide what she's

1121
01:35:01.600 --> 01:35:06.159
doing. Uh, And she says
that to Hulk to explain like why she's

1122
01:35:06.199 --> 01:35:11.359
not going to bully like the script
calls for right away. So that's kind

1123
01:35:11.359 --> 01:35:14.119
of a fun moment in there.
So I should like, would rather have

1124
01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:19.399
Daddy with her boobs. I think
she's just a She's just letting him know

1125
01:35:19.479 --> 01:35:23.119
not to panic that she forgot what
to do next. She's just handling this

1126
01:35:23.239 --> 01:35:27.800
business. I'm Brooke, you're shooting
on the segment on Brother? What did

1127
01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.920
you? Why do you come up? Brook? Why? Why are you

1128
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:33.880
coming up? Brother? I'm on
my back, dude, Brook, I'm

1129
01:35:33.880 --> 01:35:35.880
my back, Dude, your tits
are out? What's going on? Brother?

1130
01:35:36.439 --> 01:35:40.279
Are you shooting? Dude? Brook? Are you gonna cover me?

1131
01:35:41.319 --> 01:35:46.840
You cover me with your brother?
Hold on? Whoa? Let's Brookly Dallas

1132
01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:51.000
thing back in? Dudents somebody?
What's going on? Brother? You knew

1133
01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:54.000
you weren't supposed to approach me when
I'm on my back. Dude. Just

1134
01:35:55.199 --> 01:35:57.960
why I'm screaming out you lot?
Did somebody tell you to Why did you

1135
01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:00.399
come up to me when I was
on my back? Brook? Brother?

1136
01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:03.600
Didn't I tell you to pin me? Dude? Are your tits really out?

1137
01:36:03.720 --> 01:36:15.560
Brother? Are you fucking with me? I mean were you. You

1138
01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:18.880
know, I'm just wondering what exactly
is going on, dude. You know,

1139
01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:21.920
I'm sitting here, brother, we're
kind of doing this whole thing,

1140
01:36:23.199 --> 01:36:25.960
you know where here we are.
But all of a sudden, dude,

1141
01:36:27.079 --> 01:36:30.239
you come out, brother, and
it's like, oh, look, you

1142
01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:33.600
know here I am tit's out,
brother, and I'm on my back selling

1143
01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:40.079
tell him, you know, selling
mc gizz brother, And all of a

1144
01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:42.399
sudden, I got a double biz
in front of me, brother, from

1145
01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:50.680
my own daughter, double bizz,
double biz. I mean he's concerned,

1146
01:36:51.960 --> 01:37:00.560
so for sure. So I think
I think the execution is great. See

1147
01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:11.640
do it again? Talk this one
two TRINOLLI why did you come up for

1148
01:37:11.680 --> 01:37:21.880
the wedding? This? Sometimes I
voice is Steve beside me screaming over the

1149
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:41.239
sign of its deafening to a brisk
you anywhere you'll hold your you know,

1150
01:37:41.479 --> 01:38:20.199
listen, try you can't bring this. Oh shit. I think people say,

1151
01:38:20.439 --> 01:38:27.000
no doubt they're all gonna doubles on
this now. Yeah, yeah,

1152
01:38:27.159 --> 01:38:34.319
yeah, it's deafening all right,
Dixie. This could all even if I

1153
01:38:34.479 --> 01:38:39.920
lose it on the air. Oh
Jesus Christ, I mean that's Tnah right

1154
01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:44.840
there, baby. Yeah, so
yeah, that Taz is revealed as having

1155
01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:47.319
an aces and A's veston under his
tucks and then all hell breaks lose,

1156
01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:49.760
And I think it's a hell of
an execution. They really, yes,

1157
01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:54.439
you know, like Bully, especially, his body language is perfect as someone

1158
01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:58.680
who like in an instant goes from
shock to realizing like, oh shit,

1159
01:38:58.840 --> 01:39:02.000
we're under siege, and like and
I go ahead, could and they like

1160
01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:06.439
shake the camera in a way that
gives just some sense of like impending chaos,

1161
01:39:06.560 --> 01:39:10.000
and then they just stormed the ring
at once, and it's like and

1162
01:39:11.119 --> 01:39:14.399
I think even too, what I
thought was the most effective is that they

1163
01:39:14.520 --> 01:39:20.079
had me. They had me completely
convinced it was a wedding, and I

1164
01:39:20.199 --> 01:39:27.439
didn't even think about about there being
a twist or swerve or or you know,

1165
01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:30.119
an angle at the end, right, I was just totally into the

1166
01:39:30.199 --> 01:39:34.680
wedding. And also, honestly,
at this point, Aces and Eights was

1167
01:39:34.760 --> 01:39:39.399
so fucking mid card. Yeah,
yeah, you know, way down the

1168
01:39:39.520 --> 01:39:43.319
pecking older under this this angle,
right, you know, I just really

1169
01:39:43.359 --> 01:39:45.319
didn't even think they would even make
an appearance in this. Yeah, they're

1170
01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:49.800
like losing matches, They're like concerning
themselves with my right knocks it's like staying

1171
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:55.000
as fighting them like and just running
them out of town, right yep,

1172
01:39:55.159 --> 01:39:57.279
So it was it was it was
a stroke co genius. I mean it

1173
01:39:57.359 --> 01:40:00.760
didn't it didn't go down that way
because it you know, it didn't lead

1174
01:40:00.760 --> 01:40:02.640
to much. But on that night, it was like, good for them,

1175
01:40:03.079 --> 01:40:08.199
actually get you know, they actually
delivered something that was memorable and watchable

1176
01:40:08.600 --> 01:40:12.520
yep, and something you didn't see
coming. Where they didn't do it just

1177
01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:15.720
for the sake of no one will
see it coming. They did it in

1178
01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:17.159
a way that now I want to
see what TAZ is about and how that's

1179
01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:20.000
going to change the you know,
the tenor of the announced booth every week

1180
01:40:20.600 --> 01:40:26.399
and which it's awful. Yeah,
exactly. That's t NA. Anytime they

1181
01:40:26.439 --> 01:40:29.079
do something effective that shows a little
spark of life, the follow up is

1182
01:40:29.079 --> 01:40:31.760
always so bad that you're just like, Okay, Taz is so worthless,

1183
01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:38.119
Like I can't get heat on the
guy. You can't write that's the thing,

1184
01:40:38.319 --> 01:40:45.199
like because he yeah, well he's
so used to being you know,

1185
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:53.600
he's so used to doing commentary and
kind of neutral commentary that that's what he

1186
01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:59.199
does, even except with an occasional
aces and eights favoritism right, but he's

1187
01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:02.079
like almost like change. He's doing
like a mockery of commentary the whole time,

1188
01:41:02.960 --> 01:41:05.039
which he was doing anyway in a
weird way, but he was just

1189
01:41:05.119 --> 01:41:09.560
making a mockery of commentary exactly.
So he doesn't he doesn't like go hard

1190
01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:13.960
to the side of like I'm just
going to be this cheerleader for aces and

1191
01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:16.840
eights and rule breakers. He's still
he's still telling jokes first, you know,

1192
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:19.920
right, right, that's bad.
But I think you know, they

1193
01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:23.359
needed a swerve and they needed to
twist, and they saw this in him.

1194
01:41:23.399 --> 01:41:25.760
This is another I think page out
of the book I talked about before

1195
01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:30.119
where it's like they're doing big angles
with people they already have doing something else

1196
01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:31.640
in the company on payroll, you
know, so they don't have to add

1197
01:41:31.720 --> 01:41:34.199
cost. You know. It's like, how can we deliver a big surprise

1198
01:41:34.239 --> 01:41:39.279
that having to hire somebody new just
about which I don't mind as much.

1199
01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:43.319
Like it's actually I like the I
like that that Taz was doing this.

1200
01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:45.720
I do too. I think it's
again, it's the it's the aftermath,

1201
01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:50.560
it's the follow up that just doesn't
resonate. Yeah, and that's something I

1202
01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:55.319
think everyone agrees on. And even
like Bully on that eighty three weeks show

1203
01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:58.000
that he did there a big off
and Conrad talks about how it was kind

1204
01:41:58.039 --> 01:41:59.920
of tough because you couldn't get heat
on tasks. I mean, frankly,

1205
01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:03.760
Taz became an announcer because he was
medically disqualified from ever getting touched again because

1206
01:42:03.760 --> 01:42:08.119
of the delicate nature of his neck. I mean, it's he goes on

1207
01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:10.760
the air after this and talks about
being teflon Tazz and it's true, like

1208
01:42:11.199 --> 01:42:15.880
you cannot touch him without being sued. It was well understood and and so

1209
01:42:15.960 --> 01:42:17.279
they play with that in Nace's Nates, but it's also kind of like a

1210
01:42:17.359 --> 01:42:20.720
limiting factor. It's kind of like, well, and it's interesting because you

1211
01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:27.880
know they had those moments of like
subterfuge where you know, Bully, they'll

1212
01:42:27.960 --> 01:42:30.800
have these moments of subterfuge where Bully
comes out and Taz finds a reason to

1213
01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:34.239
be away from the announced booth after
returns on Bully, Yeah, thank you.

1214
01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:35.760
That for a couple of weeks,
and it's like, wait a minute,

1215
01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:40.399
if he's teflon Taz, like if
nobody can touch him because they're gonna

1216
01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:42.960
get sued, then why doesn't he
just stand there and taunt them with that

1217
01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:46.319
fact. You know, why does
he disappear what he does? But that's

1218
01:42:46.560 --> 01:42:49.600
that's to come. So what did
this what did this angle do? What

1219
01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:55.119
did this all amount to? One
point six zero million viewers identical with two

1220
01:42:55.159 --> 01:43:00.319
months? Okay, so I mean
sorry, if the bully Brook Wedding isn't

1221
01:43:00.319 --> 01:43:05.239
going to do the biggest number you've
done in years, there's something rotten at

1222
01:43:05.279 --> 01:43:11.760
the core. You've failed. It's
over. The show peaked with the wedding

1223
01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:15.840
itself at one point eight two million
viewers, very respectable, but far cry

1224
01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:19.159
from the three plus million that Hogan
did in his segment for the January fourth,

1225
01:43:19.199 --> 01:43:28.079
twenty ten debut impact. That was, that was the market opportunity.

1226
01:43:28.319 --> 01:43:31.319
Those people, whoever they were,
whatever, constituted that bulus of people.

1227
01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:36.319
You failed to keep them interested.
You had them, you know, don't

1228
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:40.439
say we couldn't go on the road. They weren't spending money on the tapings.

1229
01:43:41.079 --> 01:43:45.640
You had them in the impact zone
watching maybe one thing. If they

1230
01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:48.760
never you know what I mean,
if they never drew that kind of number.

1231
01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:55.439
So that's that. We moved to
the January twenty fourth Impact. The

1232
01:43:55.479 --> 01:43:58.399
top of the show. They showed, but a post footage after the wedding

1233
01:43:59.079 --> 01:44:00.840
where Brooke is hovering a Bully and
holks on the canvas and reaches his hand

1234
01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:05.279
out and he and Bully actually join
hands having been laid out in the ring,

1235
01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:08.600
and everyone comes out trying to help
Hulk out of the ring as they

1236
01:44:08.680 --> 01:44:12.720
chant Hogan and Bully helped out of
their two to dramatic slow music. Pretty

1237
01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:15.119
good follow up. They get right
to the heart of it next week and

1238
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:18.880
yeah, they show Brook backstage covered
in a jacket, just horrified by all

1239
01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:23.880
this, and Joseph Park had come
out helping as well. And we started

1240
01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:27.520
in the announced desk with there's an
empty chair where Tas usually sits, like

1241
01:44:27.640 --> 01:44:29.640
to Nay says. In ten years
plus I've been with this company, We've

1242
01:44:29.640 --> 01:44:31.720
had our sheriff surprising moments, but
from a personal standpoint, I've never been

1243
01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:34.840
more shocked than I was at the
actions of Tas. Quite honestly, Tas,

1244
01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:39.119
I can not wait to hear what
you have to say, And of

1245
01:44:39.199 --> 01:44:42.840
course they do it immediate jump cut, not let that emotion sink in to

1246
01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:45.640
all the Aces and Nates in the
parking lot clapping like little children on a

1247
01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:47.560
parade. Route. As the bikes
start rolling in one after the other,

1248
01:44:47.640 --> 01:44:51.359
and they now have a Nace's Nate's
hands signal, God help us, five

1249
01:44:51.439 --> 01:44:55.760
fingers up on one hand, three
on the other. What I mean,

1250
01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:59.840
come on obviously, So they stream
out into the impact zone. And here's

1251
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:02.000
as leading the charge, and a
flannel and wind pants and a beanie and

1252
01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:06.960
again a potato and here a mister
potato head in the ring. That's right

1253
01:45:08.319 --> 01:45:13.920
to deliver the following promo. Here
we go. Everybody's asking me all week

1254
01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:21.159
long? Hey, Taz, why
are you what Aces and Ace life is

1255
01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:27.279
about? Opportunity? How can I
pass up on the opportunity to be part

1256
01:45:27.840 --> 01:45:32.840
of the machine known as Aces and
eight? How can I not be part

1257
01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:39.840
of a group of men that have
an agenda, an agenda and individual agenda

1258
01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:46.319
to get revenge and redemption? And
most importantly, how can I not pass

1259
01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:53.159
on the opportunity to take direction and
to live by the vision of a higher

1260
01:45:53.359 --> 01:46:01.279
power? How can I pass on
that? And there's the other thing last

1261
01:46:01.359 --> 01:46:08.720
week, last week bullying and Brooke
Hogan's wedding. I'm I'm a whole Hogan's

1262
01:46:08.760 --> 01:46:11.520
daughter. I'm Brooke, I'm gonna
get married. Shut up. Give me

1263
01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:15.920
a break, boy, he's all
smitten with Hawk's daughter. Let me tell

1264
01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:20.680
you something. All that wedding was
was an opportunity for us to stand on

1265
01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:27.880
your face and make our president snow
thrown to a higher level. That's exactly

1266
01:46:28.359 --> 01:46:32.279
what we did. You were just
another victim, that's all you were.

1267
01:46:33.279 --> 01:46:39.600
And last thing I want to point
out, Miss Dixie Carter tena president tena

1268
01:46:39.800 --> 01:46:45.640
front office shadow will manager Huk Hogan. You know my contract that I signed

1269
01:46:45.680 --> 01:46:47.880
several years back. You need to
look at the language in that bad boy,

1270
01:46:48.640 --> 01:46:54.199
and the language of that thing basically
says that I'm freaking bulletproof. If

1271
01:46:54.319 --> 01:46:59.760
somebody touches me, if somebody puts
a hand on me, one stinking finger

1272
01:47:00.159 --> 01:47:10.279
me, I will own this frigging
place. I'm Taflon, I'm tathlon Tasks.

1273
01:47:11.319 --> 01:47:15.600
So the sun this sting up.
We are races and eights and we're

1274
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:21.039
driven to rule over you, and
we will. You'll deal with this pair

1275
01:47:21.159 --> 01:47:27.039
of rage behind me. You'll deal
with the connage, but we will put

1276
01:47:27.079 --> 01:47:32.159
out what these men will put out, Bullying Brook, You're just collateral damage.

1277
01:47:32.880 --> 01:47:41.960
Good luck dealing what these guys and
the higher power see you ya,

1278
01:47:42.119 --> 01:47:46.399
Palla that's a lot. That is
a mouthful. So now I think they've

1279
01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:48.880
decided that Bully is going to be
the leader of Asis and Eights. Now

1280
01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:54.720
they're starting again after not mentioning it
for several several weeks. This idea of

1281
01:47:54.760 --> 01:47:59.640
a higher power is coming up.
So Bully and Brook arrived in the building.

1282
01:47:59.640 --> 01:48:01.239
They stop up in there and he
glares at the cameraman says, we'll

1283
01:48:01.279 --> 01:48:03.439
do our talking in the ring.
Get that camera out of my face.

1284
01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:09.199
So another successful backstage interview, bullying
Brook come out. Yeah, they're really

1285
01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:15.720
doing well with this, fucking with
these interviews. Yeah, the hit rate

1286
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.840
is not high. Taz had returned
in the announced booth after cutting that promo,

1287
01:48:18.920 --> 01:48:21.279
but now he's missing. A Bully
comes out into the building and Tony

1288
01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:26.079
tells his bully came to no He
tells bullies. Bully walks over to the

1289
01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:28.560
announced desks looking for Taz that he
got a phone call. Tas says he

1290
01:48:28.600 --> 01:48:32.239
got a phone call brother, and
then Mollie gets in the ring. Last

1291
01:48:32.319 --> 01:48:38.159
week should have been the greatest night
in our lives. But if he really

1292
01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:42.239
does talk like fucking oh yeah,
Vince Russo and you know people have said,

1293
01:48:42.279 --> 01:48:45.119
oh god, I can't believe that. You guys think everybody from Long

1294
01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:46.279
Island sounds like that. We don't. It's like, now, we don't

1295
01:48:46.319 --> 01:48:50.239
think everybody sounds like that. But
you don't think I'm imitating someone from Missouri?

1296
01:48:50.319 --> 01:48:54.199
Would I do that? Let'll tell
you. It's just like Boston,

1297
01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:57.359
you know, like yep, you
walk around Boston itself. It's sometimes it

1298
01:48:57.399 --> 01:48:59.640
can take you a while, depending
on where you are, to find anybody

1299
01:48:59.680 --> 01:49:03.720
who has the quart Boston accent.
So um, every reality last week turned

1300
01:49:03.720 --> 01:49:05.840
into a night. Mary says.
A lot of people were hurt last week.

1301
01:49:05.960 --> 01:49:10.279
Bully says, Divon, I expected
this from you, tas you scumbag.

1302
01:49:10.279 --> 01:49:12.880
I never expected this from you.
Where is he nothing but a friking

1303
01:49:12.960 --> 01:49:15.199
cow? It my best man,
my brother, my confidence. This is

1304
01:49:15.239 --> 01:49:17.359
what you do to us. I
don't care so much that I got hurt.

1305
01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:19.720
It's the people that you hurt around
me. The only man that has

1306
01:49:19.720 --> 01:49:23.199
trusted me is Sting, the man
have been trying to get to trust me

1307
01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:25.760
forever whole Cogan. You heard him. But most of all, the one

1308
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:28.119
that you hurt the most was the
woman that I love. And he grabs

1309
01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:30.600
her by the hand. And that's
so dare you ruin our day, our

1310
01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:33.720
biggest day. The things that I'm
going to do to Devon Tas, every

1311
01:49:33.760 --> 01:49:36.079
single member of Asis nates. I
can't even talk about it. I can't

1312
01:49:36.119 --> 01:49:40.039
even say it on national television.
Every single one of you better sleep with

1313
01:49:40.159 --> 01:49:45.479
one eye open, and Brooke nods
she likes that. Look at my frigate

1314
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:47.840
eyes. I guarantee you I will
not sleep one fricking week. That's enough,

1315
01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:51.279
freaking guys, it's enough right now. Stop it until I kick every

1316
01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:57.239
single one to your m f and
asses. I think he says, pretty

1317
01:49:57.279 --> 01:50:00.920
great stuff he's delivered. This is
kind of promo you should do after you

1318
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.640
get wrong, like that, leaning
on the ropes, looking right into the

1319
01:50:02.640 --> 01:50:05.159
hard camera while he's doing it.
And then he says, but I can't

1320
01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:08.720
do any of that unless whole Cogan
lifts my suspension. Hogan, I know

1321
01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:14.399
you're not here tonight and you're taking
care of business, your home resting up.

1322
01:50:15.600 --> 01:50:17.800
I need you to reinstate me.
Lift the suspension, Hulk, lift

1323
01:50:17.960 --> 01:50:28.159
the suspension. And what's he gonna
do? I guess he can't wrestle,

1324
01:50:30.119 --> 01:50:31.960
So the only way to get revenge
just to have a formal sanction wrestling match.

1325
01:50:32.039 --> 01:50:34.239
I don't know. Oh, of
course, that's one thing we've learned

1326
01:50:34.319 --> 01:50:39.159
over the course of TNA. Totally
makes sense, staying, hey, he

1327
01:50:39.199 --> 01:50:43.359
didn't say lower the suspension. The
whole world knows. Triple h doesn't helk

1328
01:50:43.399 --> 01:50:45.640
Hogan doesn't do anything halfway, does
he. He goes all the way to

1329
01:50:45.720 --> 01:50:47.520
the very top, no matter what
he does. But Hulk, I know

1330
01:50:47.680 --> 01:50:51.600
right now you're watching, Sting says, getting well, but you've only come

1331
01:50:51.680 --> 01:50:56.479
halfway because you walked your beautiful daughter
down the aisle and handed her off and

1332
01:50:56.640 --> 01:50:59.920
gave her away to your new son
in law, Bully Ray. I'm thinking

1333
01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:03.039
to wait, they're actually married because
they well they said I do. Yeah,

1334
01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:05.640
but they weren't to play a husband
and wife. Yeah, but they

1335
01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:08.960
said I do. If we learn
anything from the Princess Bride, that's what

1336
01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:12.840
matters them. I see a good
point now, Hulk. It's time for

1337
01:51:12.880 --> 01:51:15.439
you to go all the way,
which is what you do exactly. You're

1338
01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:20.520
the best of all times. Sting
says, Now away, next week we're

1339
01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:24.039
going to be in the UK,
all of us together. Sting says,

1340
01:51:24.119 --> 01:51:26.079
this is what I believe. In
the UK, you will announce to the

1341
01:51:26.159 --> 01:51:29.279
whole world that your new son in
law, Bully Ray will be reinstated,

1342
01:51:29.319 --> 01:51:31.199
and Bully hugs Sting and Bully does
another one of those stone faced hugs over

1343
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:35.279
Brook's shoulder where he's making that face
like you know, I don't know if

1344
01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:39.640
we can still trust this guy.
Later in the show, Enterson in the

1345
01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:43.239
clubhouse and says, hey, hookers, shut up. He calls them hookers

1346
01:51:44.479 --> 01:51:46.399
and they all sound like a bunch
of cackling hens, he says. In

1347
01:51:46.520 --> 01:51:49.840
the main event, Jeff Hardy pins
Chris Daniels. Jeff Hardy still the world

1348
01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:55.600
champion of TNA, by the way, with both belts and TAZ on the

1349
01:51:55.640 --> 01:51:58.640
call of this match gets up from
the desk. Bully can't find him now,

1350
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:00.560
I guess, and he wants to
get an interview. What are you

1351
01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:01.880
going to do in the act?
Funny, he can't. He can't do

1352
01:52:02.000 --> 01:52:04.840
him when he's on fucking TV,
like right, he's right there. Hey

1353
01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:11.000
know you were looking for him before
there he is anyway, tass us to

1354
01:52:11.039 --> 01:52:13.520
Jeff Hardy, what are you gonna
do when Aces and Needs destroys everything around

1355
01:52:13.560 --> 01:52:15.840
here? And then a guy in
a mask hits Jeff Hardy in the leg

1356
01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:18.560
with a hammer and he does the
Nancy Kerrigan and we do an identical rating

1357
01:52:18.560 --> 01:52:23.640
through the prior week. So if
they got buzz for this hot wedding angle,

1358
01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:26.239
it did not build the rating from
the week before, which again in

1359
01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:30.359
and of itself, was a disappointment
considering they did a much higher rating for

1360
01:52:30.640 --> 01:52:34.039
um Hogan and Bully Ray going face
to face kind of for the first time

1361
01:52:34.079 --> 01:52:38.920
over this whole thing Impact January thirty
first again, we're going to the UK

1362
01:52:39.079 --> 01:52:42.199
every January February now for TNA.
They're falling in love with the idea,

1363
01:52:42.239 --> 01:52:45.560
as they should. It's a great
market for them, with great crowds here

1364
01:52:45.560 --> 01:52:49.720
there in UK and the Manchester Arena. And it says a hashtag Impact Live

1365
01:52:49.800 --> 01:52:53.800
instead of Live in the top corner
of the screen because they're not quite live,

1366
01:52:54.800 --> 01:52:59.000
but it's still an episode of Impact
Live. And they had that big

1367
01:52:59.079 --> 01:53:03.039
scrolling marquee above the ring on the
scoreboard when they went to the UK and

1368
01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:09.680
Magnus comes out on this show.
Magnus is going to find himself stepping into

1369
01:53:09.720 --> 01:53:14.840
the foreground and the who Yeah,
well the current Nickoldus remember seeing him rustle

1370
01:53:14.880 --> 01:53:21.399
a Cody Rhodes at all in now
Cody wins the NWA champion Jack Briscoe belt.

1371
01:53:23.520 --> 01:53:26.720
Oh yeah, as it for his
dad looks to the ceiling. Yeah,

1372
01:53:26.800 --> 01:53:31.399
Nick, nickoldus champ then coming in
right, and uh, what's that

1373
01:53:31.680 --> 01:53:35.880
was it? I don't remember,
don't remember what it was a great match?

1374
01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:40.119
I was, yes, it was
fantastic. You say so? And

1375
01:53:40.239 --> 01:53:44.079
then we have and he said Mackey
James husband as well. I think they

1376
01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:49.119
actually met right at this point in
time in TNA. So they're started pushing

1377
01:53:49.199 --> 01:53:53.520
him hard and in fact, in
the scramble to figure out what to do

1378
01:53:53.640 --> 01:53:58.079
post Hogan, Agnes is going to
become TNA World Heavyweight Champion boss and two

1379
01:53:59.279 --> 01:54:03.560
what yep, I'll credit to the
guy. But that's a jump the Shark

1380
01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:08.560
moment, if you ask me,
distinctly remember it as it sort of coincides

1381
01:54:08.600 --> 01:54:13.199
with the realization that Spike is not
going to renew TNA. But here he

1382
01:54:13.319 --> 01:54:15.920
is in the UK, comes out
and so this is the groundwork being laid

1383
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:17.039
for what that would come to be. Does a promo on Chris Daniels and

1384
01:54:17.119 --> 01:54:19.920
Kazarian. They talk about him as
a potential world champ on the call,

1385
01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:24.239
and he beats Steven via DQ because
you know, again the Aces and Nates

1386
01:54:24.319 --> 01:54:29.319
keep winning, and then he fends
off the Aces and Nates all by himself

1387
01:54:29.399 --> 01:54:31.960
and this homecoming. So that's a
really strong piece of baby face positioning.

1388
01:54:32.039 --> 01:54:35.399
There, got a little bit of
Bruce Pritchard handywork on that whole thing.

1389
01:54:36.119 --> 01:54:44.359
Later, Stink tells Bully and Brook
he's got a it's a message. He's

1390
01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:46.479
received a message saying I'll be there. I guess he's talking about from Hogan.

1391
01:54:46.920 --> 01:54:50.399
Oh yeah, Brook says he's always
pulled through, so he always does

1392
01:54:50.479 --> 01:54:55.319
the right thing. It's about phones, she keeps saying, to try him

1393
01:54:55.359 --> 01:54:58.159
from my phone. Phone. Yeah, that's right about the phone. Al

1394
01:54:58.319 --> 01:55:01.640
arrives and he's on the phone.
Bully and Brook come out. They make

1395
01:55:01.720 --> 01:55:04.439
no bee lane for Tazz this time
to spend looking for him last week.

1396
01:55:04.760 --> 01:55:13.640
You know it's funny, Um,
you see you see Brooke. You don't

1397
01:55:13.680 --> 01:55:18.520
realize how giant Brook is right until
you see her next to to to Bubba,

1398
01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:21.760
because like you see your next to
Hogan, you know, you kind

1399
01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:29.600
of forget the whole dynamic women but
right, but then when you see her

1400
01:55:30.399 --> 01:55:35.199
next to next to Bully, holy
shit, she is huge. She insists

1401
01:55:35.239 --> 01:55:40.079
on wearing like the tallest heels every
week. I know she's got to get

1402
01:55:40.199 --> 01:55:44.960
to get the shells, got broad
shoulders like you got the whole fucking thing.

1403
01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:50.880
Oh for sure. Absolutely love the
fucking Decca like fucking found its way

1404
01:55:50.920 --> 01:55:57.000
into her. Yeah you can put
it that way, you could, Uh,

1405
01:55:57.399 --> 01:55:59.840
Brook, I love you, very
says, And I guess that's my

1406
01:56:00.199 --> 01:56:02.920
dicka. Huh, the Dicka would
actually be fighting it, Sider, depends

1407
01:56:02.960 --> 01:56:06.520
who you're talking about. They got
me suspended, they boo by your dad.

1408
01:56:06.800 --> 01:56:11.000
But hope we are family now when
we have a condimend and common enemy.

1409
01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:13.439
Hope that enemy is the Aces and
Eights. We got to bury all

1410
01:56:13.479 --> 01:56:15.960
our problems. Brother, what I
need you to lift my suspension? Brook

1411
01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:23.920
me? Yeah, people can't get
you to do Oh the people can't get

1412
01:56:23.960 --> 01:56:26.840
you to do this. Um,
they can't get Holk to do it.

1413
01:56:26.920 --> 01:56:29.880
Only one man can. And that's
the Stinger we want. Hogan chants.

1414
01:56:30.680 --> 01:56:34.560
Bully gets some chance Sting Sting Sting
instead, and the music hits. Sting

1415
01:56:34.640 --> 01:56:42.800
comes out a sparkly road. He
says, it's good. It feels good

1416
01:56:44.960 --> 01:56:46.399
now because Sting's part of it.
Oh no, I don't have it,

1417
01:56:46.800 --> 01:56:49.000
but I got news for you,
Bully, you're wrong about one thing.

1418
01:56:49.039 --> 01:56:51.279
I don't think I quite had the
stroke to pull Hogan out here, but

1419
01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:54.880
I know you people do. So
forget about the sting chant. He says,

1420
01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:58.399
let's get a Hogan chant going,
and they oblige, and the music

1421
01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:00.920
hits. The foam fingers go up, the hope many signs in the crowd.

1422
01:57:00.960 --> 01:57:06.319
They are still exciting. Wah wa
wah wana wah, wah wah waha,

1423
01:57:06.479 --> 01:57:12.039
wah wa wah wana wah, wah, wah wa wah wah, wah,

1424
01:57:12.640 --> 01:57:16.560
waa, wah, wah, wah
wa wah wah wah waa waa,

1425
01:57:17.159 --> 01:57:30.920
waa, waa, waa water bah
waaah waa, what wana wah wa wah

1426
01:57:30.279 --> 01:57:39.359
waha wah wah wah wa wow Wanna
wah wah wow wan waw waw wana wa

1427
01:57:39.479 --> 01:57:47.399
wa wow whaa wa wa wa wow
wow Wow. Keep going. Just gonna

1428
01:57:47.439 --> 01:57:53.119
associate it with just like just the
stream of things we've had to watch for

1429
01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:55.560
this jar. Every time I heard
that music is because you know, all

1430
01:57:55.560 --> 01:57:58.000
we did was watching the Hogan segments
for the most bar. It's just that

1431
01:57:58.159 --> 01:58:02.319
song over and over. Oh,
I'm just gonna associate it with such forced

1432
01:58:02.720 --> 01:58:05.800
enthusiasm, you know, like all
right, we gotta you know, we

1433
01:58:05.880 --> 01:58:09.880
got a Hulk up to get excited
about this now, because you just have

1434
01:58:09.960 --> 01:58:12.640
to keep plowing through this ship.
And I'm always going to associate that with

1435
01:58:12.760 --> 01:58:16.600
like drudgery. Now that song it's
so rough yep. And a year after

1436
01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:19.920
he had what turned out to be
his final professional wrestling match in this country

1437
01:58:19.960 --> 01:58:24.359
as part of this same tour,
Hogan returns here to the UK and red

1438
01:58:24.399 --> 01:58:26.760
and Yellow with the Hoof stash for
the crowd as he walks down the ramp

1439
01:58:26.960 --> 01:58:29.359
today, says, there's nothing like
the reaction to a Hulk Cogan entrance.

1440
01:58:29.640 --> 01:58:31.840
Just an example of the worldwide popularity
of the Immortal Hulk. Hogan says,

1441
01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:34.039
I don't care if you're in Mantist, England or Manchester, New Hampshire.

1442
01:58:34.039 --> 01:58:36.920
The reaction to our impact, General
Managers Hult Rogan is always off the charts.

1443
01:58:38.720 --> 01:58:42.760
Why might just have to say all
that? Okay? Bully holds the

1444
01:58:42.840 --> 01:58:45.560
ropes open for Hogan and he gets
a hug from Brook and Hogan and chant

1445
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:47.479
breaks out as the music fades and
stings his Hulk. We got a war

1446
01:58:47.560 --> 01:58:50.079
zone going around here with the aces
and eights we're back together in the UK,

1447
01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:53.600
and so I can't figure out a
better place for you to make things

1448
01:58:53.720 --> 01:58:57.720
right with Bully right here and right
now. You know something, sting man,

1449
01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:01.039
Oh there's a war going on around
here at t Anda. Why don't

1450
01:59:01.039 --> 01:59:05.680
you tell me something I don't know? Brother, with the resting bitch face.

1451
01:59:06.279 --> 01:59:09.680
Oh totally. But at the end
of the day, whether you and

1452
01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:12.439
I have been friend or foe,
I always do the right thing. As

1453
01:59:12.479 --> 01:59:15.119
far as this woman right here goes. The day of her wedding, she

1454
01:59:15.199 --> 01:59:16.319
was still my little girl, brother, and I did the right thing when

1455
01:59:16.319 --> 01:59:21.239
I walked her down the aisle.
I as far as my family goes,

1456
01:59:21.239 --> 01:59:24.399
I always do the right thing because
at the end of the day, I

1457
01:59:24.520 --> 01:59:27.239
said it again, when my family's
on the line, I always do the

1458
01:59:27.319 --> 01:59:30.920
right thing. He says it again. That's why Bully is reinstated, brother,

1459
01:59:31.000 --> 01:59:34.760
and they pop wow Ally celebrates,
makes a face like I can't believe

1460
01:59:34.800 --> 01:59:39.000
it. Brooke hugs him. Hogans
is the one thing that makes me a

1461
01:59:39.039 --> 01:59:42.279
little crazy when I get confused with
business and family. I'm going to do

1462
01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:44.880
the right thing because for this business
next week, I'm going to make a

1463
01:59:44.920 --> 01:59:46.760
match with you guys from Maces and
Nates and you Stinger and Bully my new

1464
01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:49.000
son in law. But to make
sure that I take care of all the

1465
01:59:49.039 --> 01:59:51.319
business, the family biz, and
the wrestling biz. Next week, this

1466
01:59:51.399 --> 01:59:56.039
tech match is going to be a
tables match. Brother, So wait a

1467
01:59:56.079 --> 01:59:58.720
minute, he could make matches to
punish Aces and Nates all this time,

1468
01:59:59.439 --> 02:00:02.319
and he chose not to. Remember, that's a choice. We'll tell Dixie

1469
02:00:02.359 --> 02:00:05.640
has a major announcement. This just
continues. This is now a total laughing

1470
02:00:05.680 --> 02:00:10.479
stock. This major announcement cards here, Well, we got this here,

1471
02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:12.880
we got that for you. You
want our announcement? Yeah, this is

1472
02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:17.159
what This is what consuits a major
announcement. By February twenty thirteen. For

1473
02:00:17.279 --> 02:00:21.479
the past eight years, the most
amazing wrestling fans out there today have traveled

1474
02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:26.600
from all over the world to come
see us at Universal Studios in Orlando.

1475
02:00:27.079 --> 02:00:31.000
Now it's time for us to take
the cameras to you. I'm so excited

1476
02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:35.960
to announce. But the television tapings
for Impact are going on the road permanently,

1477
02:00:36.439 --> 02:00:41.199
and we're going to do that starting
March fourteenth, when we go live

1478
02:00:41.520 --> 02:00:45.680
from Chicago at the Sear Center Arena. And we couldn't have done any of

1479
02:00:45.800 --> 02:00:48.880
this without you. So from all
of us at TNA, thank you,

1480
02:00:49.399 --> 02:00:53.920
thank you for the bottom of our
hearts for everything, and for making impact

1481
02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:59.920
wrestling of gliable success. And we
will see you in your hometown very soon.

1482
02:01:00.399 --> 02:01:03.000
I hope not. She has to
say it's a global success because she

1483
02:01:03.079 --> 02:01:09.760
can't say success in the US domestically. Yeah, what about that Sear Center,

1484
02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:14.159
same place wherey W got started.
I guess they're going on the road

1485
02:01:14.199 --> 02:01:18.119
with taping, So again another thing
Bischoff says they didn't ever do and should

1486
02:01:18.119 --> 02:01:21.840
have done. They actually did,
and it's did not work. Going on

1487
02:01:21.920 --> 02:01:26.880
the road full time with tapings.
They've experimented, of course, we've talked

1488
02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:29.520
during the twenty you know, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, how they

1489
02:01:29.520 --> 02:01:33.479
went to like Huntsville, Alabama and
Knoxville into tapings in the UK as well,

1490
02:01:34.319 --> 02:01:36.319
And it was it was additive,
It was good. It was.

1491
02:01:36.800 --> 02:01:40.640
It did add an atmosphere, no
question, it made the shows better,

1492
02:01:42.760 --> 02:01:45.960
but not that you would really notice
it, not that it at all reversed

1493
02:01:46.119 --> 02:01:51.479
the downward ratings momentum for any appreciable
length of time with any consistency. So

1494
02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:57.079
whatever you think having a live crowd
would add to the actual bottom line of

1495
02:01:57.199 --> 02:02:00.319
what Spike is. Looking at the
numbers on paper, it's wrong. It's

1496
02:02:00.359 --> 02:02:02.960
wrong because it turns out, boss, if you don't do a good angle,

1497
02:02:03.720 --> 02:02:06.720
it doesn't matter if it's in the
Impact Zone or if it's before four

1498
02:02:06.760 --> 02:02:11.920
thousand people in Knoxville. Yeah,
I think I told you that, so

1499
02:02:12.119 --> 02:02:15.039
Helpless backstage. At the end of
the day. What significant about Dixi's announcement

1500
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:16.840
day to me is not that they're
going on the road, but that they're

1501
02:02:16.920 --> 02:02:20.680
telling Impact fans, impact Zone regulars
to go fuck off. You know,

1502
02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:26.319
they're now deciding that that's this is
the time to do that, I mean

1503
02:02:27.079 --> 02:02:32.319
seriously, which is which is amazing
in its own right. Holk's backstage at

1504
02:02:32.319 --> 02:02:34.079
the end of the day. He's
really not a bad guy, he says,

1505
02:02:34.079 --> 02:02:36.279
a bully. We really are the
same person. I don't get that

1506
02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:41.039
all of us staying bullying myself.
But when I thought about the way he

1507
02:02:41.159 --> 02:02:45.000
fought and the beatdown he took for
me and my daughter, he's okay in

1508
02:02:45.079 --> 02:02:47.359
my book. So when I felt
what the Stinger felt, I think I

1509
02:02:47.439 --> 02:02:49.840
got this one too, all right, brother. At the end of the

1510
02:02:49.960 --> 02:02:54.399
day, At the end of the
day, He's really not that one is

1511
02:02:54.399 --> 02:02:58.239
at it. Of course it is
a bad guy. We really are the

1512
02:02:58.399 --> 02:03:02.600
same person, all of us,
stingerly on myself. But you know what,

1513
02:03:02.760 --> 02:03:06.560
when I thought about the way he
fought and took the beat down for

1514
02:03:06.720 --> 02:03:13.159
me and my daughter, he's okay
in my book. So when I felt

1515
02:03:13.600 --> 02:03:16.720
and I felt what Stinger felt,
I always do the right thing for my

1516
02:03:16.840 --> 02:03:21.399
family, and polvious now my family, and no matter what happens, we're

1517
02:03:21.479 --> 02:03:26.399
in this thing together. So I
figured I might as well give my son

1518
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:30.640
in law a little wedding present.
They let him kill some of the Aces

1519
02:03:30.680 --> 02:03:34.880
eight guys table match brother, and
I know Stinger can follow his lead quite

1520
02:03:34.960 --> 02:03:41.239
well. That was handy to a
child, was the tables right? So

1521
02:03:41.359 --> 02:03:44.319
I wanted to murder He just repeated
everything you just said in the ring.

1522
02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:45.399
First of all, I know,
I know, I love it. I

1523
02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:49.119
love it. That's that's that's it
right there. That's that's the fucking money.

1524
02:03:51.159 --> 02:03:55.439
Backstage, bisch Off, Garrett bitsch
Off, West Briscoe and Ken Anderson

1525
02:03:55.479 --> 02:04:00.039
are hovering over um someone Joe Smoll. Joe's on the floor and garat bish

1526
02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:02.560
office assigned to go grab paramedics and
West says, you come with me,

1527
02:04:02.720 --> 02:04:09.399
and there's a table overturned as Joe
was screaming in agony, and Bischoff and

1528
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:12.399
the lowest key voice you've ever heard, the least planic tone you've ever heard,

1529
02:04:12.439 --> 02:04:14.920
says, get a goddamn doctor.
Damn it. Wherever he said,

1530
02:04:15.239 --> 02:04:21.000
nobody cares to manage expectations. They
replay their banging lockdown match where Kurt was

1531
02:04:21.039 --> 02:04:26.159
about between Kurt and Ken Anderson because
Kurt and Ken Anderson about to wrestle on

1532
02:04:26.199 --> 02:04:28.600
this show, and so we'll just
bring up, like, you know,

1533
02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:31.159
one of those insane matches TNA's had, just to you know, get people

1534
02:04:31.239 --> 02:04:35.359
appropriately calibrated for what's to come showing
you know, Kurt saying, fuck it,

1535
02:04:35.399 --> 02:04:38.760
he's about to go an entry hiatus
and moonsalting off the top of the

1536
02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:43.479
cage, and just you know,
one of the most preternaturally talented guys ever

1537
02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:45.039
to step in the ring, a
guy who got it to a degree,

1538
02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:47.439
and it would have speed and efficiency
that no one else has ever had in

1539
02:04:47.479 --> 02:04:50.840
wrestling, And the only way he
can get aybody to care is to moonsalt

1540
02:04:50.880 --> 02:04:56.640
off a cage. Yeah right,
that's it. That's what he's good for.

1541
02:04:57.399 --> 02:05:00.560
Anderson versus Angle, and the only
thing it's less electric compared to that

1542
02:05:00.640 --> 02:05:08.039
first match is well, Anderson's dressed
in a vest and a T shirt and

1543
02:05:08.520 --> 02:05:13.520
jeans. It's wrong, nice,
this would be a great match. He

1544
02:05:13.640 --> 02:05:15.520
has a white T shirt, by
the way, under the vest and baggy

1545
02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:21.279
jeans in a beanie tast tries to
compensation. He looks great. It's all

1546
02:05:21.359 --> 02:05:27.560
good, it's fantastic. It's entertaining. Kurt Angle comes out with West and

1547
02:05:27.600 --> 02:05:30.199
a blazer in his corner, doing
that cool shot from behind that they did

1548
02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:33.680
when they went to the UK as
they walked through the tunnels. Ken Anderson

1549
02:05:33.760 --> 02:05:36.319
is still not over that time I
beat him in the guarden. No,

1550
02:05:36.439 --> 02:05:40.079
Kurt Angle isn't over that time I
beat him in the garden. So when

1551
02:05:40.119 --> 02:05:43.399
I called back there from Tas to
a royal rubble two thousand, okay,

1552
02:05:43.640 --> 02:05:48.560
I mean, I guess that's what
and Anderson seizes on Kurt right away.

1553
02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:51.840
The absolute state of the man at
this point. What happened here with with

1554
02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:56.680
Ken Anderson? Man, Oh my
god, because you know it was so

1555
02:05:56.840 --> 02:06:00.520
weird when we first encountered him in
TNH. Right right after the regime arrives,

1556
02:06:00.560 --> 02:06:03.800
he comes in and they push him
strong and he's cutting hot promos.

1557
02:06:04.199 --> 02:06:09.079
He's someone off the television that like
he he checks more boxes than most and

1558
02:06:09.159 --> 02:06:12.199
that not only was he big on
their TV, he has this kind of

1559
02:06:12.279 --> 02:06:15.319
like underdog kind of like what could
have been right feeling around him. Yeah.

1560
02:06:15.560 --> 02:06:18.000
Ye, he never got the shake
he should have for the charism he

1561
02:06:18.079 --> 02:06:21.680
has, and here he might actually
do it. And then by the but

1562
02:06:21.760 --> 02:06:25.399
I remember when we were going through
it. I'm like, why do I

1563
02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:27.800
know it all goes to shit?
Because I'm watching this back. I'm like,

1564
02:06:27.880 --> 02:06:30.720
this guy's got spark, and I
couldn't remember like wearing along the line

1565
02:06:30.720 --> 02:06:34.680
it would get compromised. And now
I don't even think about him as a

1566
02:06:34.760 --> 02:06:40.399
factor in the coin. I know, I remember that's the prevailing feeling that

1567
02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:43.520
I should have about Ken Anderson and
NTNA, that it was a big dud

1568
02:06:43.720 --> 02:06:46.960
Yep, exactly that's what it was. Now we're a big confronted with failure.

1569
02:06:47.600 --> 02:06:49.880
Look what he's wearing. For God's
sakes, I mean, look what

1570
02:06:49.920 --> 02:06:57.159
happened to him. He just fucking
he became because at this point he joined

1571
02:06:57.600 --> 02:07:02.039
the Aces and AIDS at a time
when it wasn't beneficial to anybody. Yeah,

1572
02:07:03.239 --> 02:07:06.720
and he went to that whole goofy
storyline where he was like he was

1573
02:07:06.760 --> 02:07:10.479
taking time off for a concussion,
and they made that the storyline, and

1574
02:07:10.560 --> 02:07:15.359
like Matt Morgan was counseling him,
he's basically playing Chris Nowinski. Remember that

1575
02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:19.119
whole ass backwards thing. It's so
goofy, you know, just let the

1576
02:07:19.119 --> 02:07:23.880
guy disappear for a little while and
come back like anybody else that hurt him.

1577
02:07:25.159 --> 02:07:28.960
So yeah, again, those vests, those aces and Nate's vests make

1578
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:31.680
them all look like jobbers. Period. It's not a garment befitting a wrestler

1579
02:07:31.760 --> 02:07:36.359
and reminds me of something market angles
and Peril fires back with the missile drop,

1580
02:07:36.439 --> 02:07:39.560
kick off the middle ropekurd Angle,
chanp breaks out, Angle hits the

1581
02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:42.880
angle slam, and No goes for
the angle slam, but it's countered by

1582
02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:45.359
the rolling samoan drop of ken,
Anderson gets to both eat the fence,

1583
02:07:45.560 --> 02:07:49.479
Angle slam off. Anderson hitting the
fence gets to Anderson rakes the eyes and

1584
02:07:49.520 --> 02:07:53.239
a clothesline drops card angle. Anderson
climbs the cage, Angle goes up,

1585
02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:56.119
cuts them off. They slug it
out up there, Anderson drops and angles

1586
02:07:56.159 --> 02:07:59.039
crotched on the top rope or the
yam bag, as Test puts it.

1587
02:08:00.119 --> 02:08:03.039
One. Now, that's good for
two. Anderson climes, angle, walks

1588
02:08:03.119 --> 02:08:05.039
up, angle slam off the top
rope. That looked awesome. Um,

1589
02:08:05.560 --> 02:08:11.000
well the crowd thought so too,
and they're saying it's awesome. I don't

1590
02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:13.119
give a shit. They were all
about that chant in TNA. Man that

1591
02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:16.079
that got to Mike check for Ken
Anderson. Yeah, what are you telling

1592
02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:20.000
yourself when that's when you keep sucking
having to say that? Huh? I

1593
02:08:20.119 --> 02:08:24.199
know it's they're playing their part,
you know. That's this is like kind

1594
02:08:24.239 --> 02:08:30.039
of that earliest example of the crowd
not not really reacting organically. But we'll

1595
02:08:30.039 --> 02:08:31.359
put it this way, if they
did react organically, it was hard to

1596
02:08:31.399 --> 02:08:35.920
tell the difference between that and they're
feeling like this is the point in the

1597
02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:39.880
show where TNA needs us to chant
this. Sure, um. Anderson then

1598
02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:43.680
climbs kirt, cuts them off,
sneaks in, and U power bombs h

1599
02:08:45.520 --> 02:08:48.279
Anderson off the ropes. That gets
two uh, Angle goes to the ankle.

1600
02:08:48.359 --> 02:08:56.039
Lock West's standing got I gotta say
so, so you send me when

1601
02:08:56.560 --> 02:09:03.279
you know when when when you send
me? Breakdowns of what I need to

1602
02:09:03.359 --> 02:09:07.760
watch for each episode, all right, and it's from It's from Alvarez,

1603
02:09:07.920 --> 02:09:18.359
right for the most Yeah, and
so you know, after I try not

1604
02:09:18.520 --> 02:09:22.960
to read what he's said until i've
watched it, but then I weeded afterwards.

1605
02:09:24.000 --> 02:09:28.720
I'm curious about his thoughts and I
am absolutely amazed at the amount of

1606
02:09:28.760 --> 02:09:33.560
shit that he actually likes. Yes, that we've watched, That'll tell you

1607
02:09:33.640 --> 02:09:37.279
what. I'd like to watch it
week to week over three years instead of

1608
02:09:39.239 --> 02:09:41.279
you know, in the rapid fire
succession over six months like we've been doing

1609
02:09:41.359 --> 02:09:46.720
it. It's a much different experience
because yeah, you know, it's like

1610
02:09:46.479 --> 02:09:52.239
with the space in between episodes and
just comparing how cohesive the storytelling is here

1611
02:09:52.279 --> 02:09:54.680
to when Russo was in charge,
like, you know, because he's you

1612
02:09:54.760 --> 02:09:58.560
know, Brian's also reporting on the
backstage. He knows that Russo was offering

1613
02:09:58.600 --> 02:10:01.880
a lot of the stuff, and
obviously he had made his decision about whether

1614
02:10:01.960 --> 02:10:05.600
Russo was was worth a ship.
He wrote the death DCW and basically pinned

1615
02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:07.279
the whole downfall on him, which
I don't think is the wrong call,

1616
02:10:07.800 --> 02:10:13.319
but uh or at least it's um
it's not a totally miss misallocated target,

1617
02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:18.239
and so yeah, as long as
Russo was booking TNA, everything was going

1618
02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:22.199
to look better by comparison, which
I actually don't disagree with, but I

1619
02:10:22.239 --> 02:10:24.359
think that's kind of what's going on
here. It's it's almost like a cyder

1620
02:10:24.359 --> 02:10:28.840
of relief for when Impact was just
this like pointless series of twists and turns

1621
02:10:28.920 --> 02:10:33.119
and goofy ask chemmick matches and storylines, and all of a sudden, it's

1622
02:10:33.119 --> 02:10:37.560
like, oh, well, I
mean they are kind of I mean,

1623
02:10:37.119 --> 02:10:41.239
is that is that really what you're
at where what he'd seen is so bad?

1624
02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:46.960
Yes, that even something that is
slightly better is good, and everyone's

1625
02:10:46.960 --> 02:10:50.079
patting themselves on the back. Meanwhile, none of the business metrics are going

1626
02:10:50.119 --> 02:10:54.279
in a direction that indicates, you
know that anybody's actually gonna be making more

1627
02:10:54.319 --> 02:10:58.479
money anytime soon, right, And
in fact, less money is coming in

1628
02:10:58.680 --> 02:11:01.960
terms of budget. So yeah,
I mean the retrospect is it all sucks

1629
02:11:03.000 --> 02:11:05.399
because it doesn't move anything, right, But at the time, it's like,

1630
02:11:05.399 --> 02:11:07.640
if I got to watch Impact,
is this better than last year?

1631
02:11:07.800 --> 02:11:13.479
Yes? Right? Does it feel
like something that is booked with a game

1632
02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.079
plan in mind? Yes, as
opposed to every week is a is a

1633
02:11:16.159 --> 02:11:20.079
new blank slate, and maybe we'll
pay attention to what happened last week.

1634
02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:22.680
Maybe we won't. It just depends
in our prerogative and what way the wind's

1635
02:11:22.680 --> 02:11:24.239
blowing this week and what we feel
like. You know, we'll please the

1636
02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:30.079
people above us this week, so
you know, I'll give them that Hogan's

1637
02:11:30.079 --> 02:11:33.800
being used more effectively. Sure you
know he's not just sort of cutting these

1638
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:41.239
promos about backstage intrigue and politicking.
He's involving himself, you know, as

1639
02:11:41.239 --> 02:11:46.000
a human being in these segments instead
of this sort of like mascot. Is

1640
02:11:46.039 --> 02:11:48.439
the best way I could put it. Yeah, I mean, I'm I

1641
02:11:48.479 --> 02:11:52.399
don't disagree with you there. It's
it's some of the easier watches we've had

1642
02:11:52.439 --> 02:11:58.199
on TNH, the whole Bully right
era. Uh sure, I gets fair.

1643
02:12:00.359 --> 02:12:01.800
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we don't have

1644
02:12:01.920 --> 02:12:05.159
much left in terms of there's not
much else that we have to wait to

1645
02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:07.680
review here before we can make the
call. I mean, what was more

1646
02:12:07.760 --> 02:12:11.640
watchable throughout the entire body of T
and A that we've watched than the Bully

1647
02:12:11.760 --> 02:12:20.880
Ray stuff? Flair Like I'm talking
about like a storyline like Flair did like

1648
02:12:20.920 --> 02:12:24.840
two almos that were hilarious. That
was about it. Yeah, I mean,

1649
02:12:26.680 --> 02:12:31.039
yeah, I suppose you're right.
I mean Watchable is a very we

1650
02:12:31.119 --> 02:12:35.720
gotta like watch powerful week after week
and everything ends up just devoid of life.

1651
02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:43.439
Yeah you know, I mean yeah, Like I said, it's like

1652
02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:46.439
they end up in a place they
should have been in the beginning in terms

1653
02:12:46.479 --> 02:12:50.119
of right launching something right and sink
your teeth into because I guess that's part

1654
02:12:50.159 --> 02:12:54.760
of the problem is that at this
point it I don't fucking care. Actually

1655
02:12:54.560 --> 02:12:58.199
problem the ratings are telling you it's
the goose is cooked. If this doesn't

1656
02:12:58.199 --> 02:13:01.479
work. It's like you stru to
see where they can go next, you

1657
02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:05.119
know, as you already know the
limits of their vision and their budget.

1658
02:13:09.039 --> 02:13:13.920
So it's good stuff. Yeah,
right, So as this is going on

1659
02:13:13.479 --> 02:13:16.760
again, Anderson climbs, Kurt cuts
him off, power bombs him for two

1660
02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:20.079
big power bombs. There, Angle
goes to the ankle lock and then west

1661
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:26.520
Briscoe we see suddenly standing on the
ramp and and then Angle drops down,

1662
02:13:26.600 --> 02:13:31.600
scissors the leg and Anderson taps so
Kurt Angle beats Ken Anderson here in steel

1663
02:13:31.640 --> 02:13:35.880
cage. Angle says something on his
back like he heard his ribs or something,

1664
02:13:35.920 --> 02:13:37.800
which is probably legit injury. He
probably came in somewhat hurt. This

1665
02:13:39.000 --> 02:13:41.640
is another one of those like precursors
to Angle taking a hiatus to heal things.

1666
02:13:43.399 --> 02:13:46.039
Yeah, so the Aces Nates are
climbing up the cage and we get

1667
02:13:46.079 --> 02:13:50.199
no explanation as to why no one
could stop it. West unlocked the door,

1668
02:13:50.039 --> 02:13:54.199
gets in there and look locks it
again. The Aces and Nates now

1669
02:13:54.359 --> 02:13:56.399
enter the cage. West is in
there with a key next to Kurt and

1670
02:13:58.199 --> 02:14:01.960
they take the mask off and mask
off. It's it's Garrett bish Off.

1671
02:14:03.199 --> 02:14:05.439
Angle looks at West Briscoe like,
what the fuck you knew about this?

1672
02:14:05.840 --> 02:14:09.199
No? No, No. Angle
steps forward and West chop blocks him from

1673
02:14:09.239 --> 02:14:13.199
behind. Tas starts laughing. I
love it when a plan comes together.

1674
02:14:13.279 --> 02:14:15.720
This cage match was a means to
an end. Is West takes off his

1675
02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:20.279
suit jacket to reveal and Aces and
Eights vest hits the worst running nee ever

1676
02:14:20.680 --> 02:14:24.359
As. These two men As are
smart, they get it, they're progressive,

1677
02:14:24.600 --> 02:14:30.840
they understand where the power is.
Okay, announcers to cry all the

1678
02:14:30.880 --> 02:14:33.840
time Kurt Angle spent with Garrett Bischoff
and West Briscoe trying to break them in

1679
02:14:33.920 --> 02:14:35.399
and teach them the ropes, and
all they do is turn on them in

1680
02:14:35.439 --> 02:14:39.319
this episode of Impact and join the
aces of AIDS Boss. Another marquee addition

1681
02:14:39.680 --> 02:14:46.800
to this mega stable. Another fucking
bunch of goof walk again, watch in

1682
02:14:46.920 --> 02:15:11.920
there, get him tremendous. We're
going to react at home. Look at

1683
02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:16.760
it. I love it, man, I love it. When the play

1684
02:15:16.920 --> 02:15:22.600
comes together, we see boys.
This cage match, it was just as

1685
02:15:22.680 --> 02:15:28.560
we really wanted to do. Isolate
her, angles and the Holy High A

1686
02:15:28.640 --> 02:15:37.119
lot of them set up such good
stuff. This impacted one point five eight

1687
02:15:37.159 --> 02:15:39.680
million viewers. As Meltzer noted,
the last two weeks of tape shows ended

1688
02:15:39.760 --> 02:15:43.960
up with higher ratings than almost all
the live shows since they started going live.

1689
02:15:45.039 --> 02:15:48.720
How the fuck can they not do
live TV? Can't do it from

1690
02:15:48.720 --> 02:15:52.399
the UK? I understand that.
Oh yess, that's true. And they

1691
02:15:52.479 --> 02:15:54.159
were. They were doing Impact live
every week. Another thing that people act

1692
02:15:54.239 --> 02:15:58.199
like they never did that they fucking
did. It didn't work or didn't make

1693
02:15:58.279 --> 02:16:03.199
enough a difference on this episode.
That moment with the Hogan and Sting and

1694
02:16:03.239 --> 02:16:07.479
Bully and Brooke in the ring and
Bully getting reinstated was big ratings again.

1695
02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:11.279
Four hundred and thirty six thousand viewers
over the prior quarter Wow, which according

1696
02:16:11.319 --> 02:16:13.119
to the Observer, was one of
the largest jump segments in TNA history at

1697
02:16:13.159 --> 02:16:18.039
a one point three eight quarter So, yeah, maybe they got him back.

1698
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.600
Maybe they set the hook. I
would say. Now, yeah,

1699
02:16:22.840 --> 02:16:28.119
we'll see a betting man knows where
to place his wager. There. We

1700
02:16:28.239 --> 02:16:31.840
moved to the February seventh, twenty
thirteen Impact Aces and Eights are out led

1701
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:35.399
by the masked VP. He's the
only one still masked, by the way.

1702
02:16:35.799 --> 02:16:39.000
And now Garrett Bischoff and West Briscoe, fresh into the stable, are

1703
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:41.360
in there. And I'm thinking,
aren't they supposed to be in trouble for

1704
02:16:41.440 --> 02:16:45.799
losing their masks? I don't.
I thought that was a whole problem as

1705
02:16:45.879 --> 02:16:48.639
this Tenay should come to the ass
Nates meetings to learn what they're doing.

1706
02:16:48.360 --> 02:16:52.200
Devon Grabs, the mic says,
I said ACES Nates would dominate twenty thirteen.

1707
02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:54.719
Not only are we dominating, but
we're kicking the freaking door right into

1708
02:16:54.760 --> 02:16:58.079
TNA as they lose match after match
after match after match, including the Court

1709
02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:03.479
Anglican Anderson match that was the precursor
to the West brisco Garrett Bischoff reveal it

1710
02:17:03.520 --> 02:17:05.680
would it be that hard to just
have Aces Nates win all the time.

1711
02:17:05.719 --> 02:17:09.000
I don't know why that wasn't.
I just don't understand why it's a problem

1712
02:17:09.079 --> 02:17:13.440
addressed after what we did last week
to Kurt, Devon says, I'm sure

1713
02:17:13.520 --> 02:17:16.600
each and every one of you would
love to see that again. He pitches

1714
02:17:16.639 --> 02:17:18.399
to the highlight package and then he
says, Ken Anderson, when I told

1715
02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:22.319
you we had a plan, I
was also right. And they're wating the

1716
02:17:22.440 --> 02:17:24.680
hell out of Devon. They do
not want to hear from this man on

1717
02:17:24.719 --> 02:17:28.440
the mic, but with no further
ado, they interview introduced rather the new

1718
02:17:28.479 --> 02:17:33.719
members of ass Nates Garrett Bischoff and
West Briscoe. Bischoff grabs the mic does

1719
02:17:33.760 --> 02:17:35.520
the hand of the heart like his
dad used to do. That's what I'm

1720
02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:37.799
talking about. Complete disrespect. So
to hell, all of you. You

1721
02:17:37.879 --> 02:17:41.840
can't wrestle. Chant I think breaks
out. He says he's got a new

1722
02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:43.079
family. It's Aces and Nates.
West Briscoe says, you want to know

1723
02:17:45.000 --> 02:17:48.360
the reason I did this is because
of you, Hawk Hogan, Hawk,

1724
02:17:48.760 --> 02:17:52.559
but you're an answer my phone calls
for two years, and then you told

1725
02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:56.440
me I had to start from the
bottom, a brisco on the bottom.

1726
02:17:56.079 --> 02:18:00.239
They're chanting something out of I can't
tell what it is. I wouldn't fucking

1727
02:18:00.280 --> 02:18:03.680
answer your phone calls either. You're
a horrifying looking individual. Yea, then

1728
02:18:03.760 --> 02:18:07.520
you want me to throw me in
a gut check match and it does this

1729
02:18:07.680 --> 02:18:11.760
terrible laugh. West is just miserable
on the mic, just so bad.

1730
02:18:13.000 --> 02:18:16.879
He sucks so bad. You forgot
something, Hogan, who gave you your

1731
02:18:16.920 --> 02:18:20.399
first pair of wrestling boots? He
says, your memory us to fail you.

1732
02:18:20.559 --> 02:18:24.760
It was my father. Okay,
this is the respect you want to

1733
02:18:24.760 --> 02:18:28.200
show me. Well with the real
hats on my back, that's the ticket

1734
02:18:28.239 --> 02:18:33.319
to climb the top of that ladder. I'm not really interested in anything that

1735
02:18:33.559 --> 02:18:37.360
you have to do, not really. I'd rather you go away. Jerry

1736
02:18:37.360 --> 02:18:41.360
Briscoe did tell that whole story on
Tales from the Territories on Vice about um.

1737
02:18:41.719 --> 02:18:43.000
I think he talked about giving Hogan
his first pair of wrestling boots,

1738
02:18:43.040 --> 02:18:46.200
but he certainly talked about, you
know, sort of like an outsider's perspective

1739
02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:50.159
on Hogan coming in and working with
Matt Suda on what was and wasn't bullshit

1740
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:52.239
there, So sure, Jerry Briscoe's
full of shit too, but you know

1741
02:18:54.799 --> 02:18:58.760
everyone's less full of shit than Home. So I'll take it. I'll fold

1742
02:18:58.799 --> 02:19:01.600
it into the mosaic. Yeah,
you can't wrestle Chance all over West,

1743
02:19:01.680 --> 02:19:05.639
I mean yeah, I mean you've
been presenting him as someone that barely knows

1744
02:19:05.639 --> 02:19:07.239
what he's doing in the wrestling ring, and now he's supposed to be like

1745
02:19:07.360 --> 02:19:11.559
this huge impact player that he's joined
the Heel stable. He still can't.

1746
02:19:13.479 --> 02:19:16.360
Divan says, So if I was
you, Kurt Angel, I wouldn't dare

1747
02:19:16.360 --> 02:19:20.520
think about coming back. TNA say
that again, He says, Hogan,

1748
02:19:20.520 --> 02:19:22.280
you want to pursue us with a
tables match. That's fine, surprised us

1749
02:19:22.360 --> 02:19:26.360
rather with the tables match. I
understand these is and ads are always in

1750
02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:28.120
a position to have backup. We
will always have an ace under our sleeve.

1751
02:19:28.200 --> 02:19:31.920
Now you can testify to that.
Testify. Later on, Tara goes

1752
02:19:31.959 --> 02:19:35.879
into brook Hogan's office backstage and she's
there looking at papers and yeah, during

1753
02:19:35.920 --> 02:19:41.000
all this, by the way,
brook Hogan still knockout in charge. Yeah,

1754
02:19:41.000 --> 02:19:43.120
I'm right. Let's not forget that
she has a job todays administrative duties

1755
02:19:43.159 --> 02:19:46.079
boss. Right, of course,
Tara complains that she's had to fly and

1756
02:19:46.159 --> 02:19:48.559
coach over here. She's a power
couple, her and Jesse Godders. They

1757
02:19:48.559 --> 02:19:52.040
shouldn't have to do that. She
says, she sounds so petty, so

1758
02:19:52.159 --> 02:19:54.159
selfish. Do you have any idea
what I'm dealing with around here? Tara

1759
02:19:54.159 --> 02:19:58.799
said she did not get her beauty
sleep because of the plane situation, and

1760
02:19:58.719 --> 02:20:03.200
her muscles haven't recovered, and and
she's still wrestling tonight. What about the

1761
02:20:03.280 --> 02:20:09.520
time zone where we have time zone
storylines here this week, she says.

1762
02:20:09.760 --> 02:20:11.120
For now, Brooks says to Terry, you can go get me a coffee?

1763
02:20:13.280 --> 02:20:22.879
Awesome? Does she go to costa
package? They talk about? What

1764
02:20:22.040 --> 02:20:28.520
the hell they talk about? Oh, they're doing them a British boot camp

1765
02:20:28.920 --> 02:20:33.120
for reality television out there. They
had a show called British boot Camp where

1766
02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:35.120
they found the next TNA star.
This is where rock Star Spud comes from,

1767
02:20:35.159 --> 02:20:39.200
who is a hell of a little
personality and a guy who contributed to

1768
02:20:39.280 --> 02:20:43.079
TNA for years. Also on the
show was a Marty Skirl, the future

1769
02:20:43.159 --> 02:20:48.559
Marty Skirl and some others. And
so we see UM just like a highlight

1770
02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:54.520
package of this UM significant because Dixie
Carter and Cole Coogan figured prom prominently into

1771
02:20:54.559 --> 02:20:56.399
the show with Hogan, you know, basically serving as like Steve Austin un

1772
02:20:56.440 --> 02:21:00.799
tough enough, you know, giving
his speech to about the business and the

1773
02:21:00.840 --> 02:21:03.719
winner gets a contract and all that. Oh yeah, it was the Blossom

1774
02:21:03.760 --> 02:21:07.879
Twins as well as a Marty Scroll
and Rockstar sput and you have Dixie Carter

1775
02:21:07.040 --> 02:21:11.079
picking spud with Hogan at the desk, so they're doing like a deliberation kind

1776
02:21:11.120 --> 02:21:13.680
of deal. But this, the
show itself, did not here on the

1777
02:21:13.799 --> 02:21:16.159
United States, but it's something that
if you were a fan of TNA back

1778
02:21:16.200 --> 02:21:20.440
then in the UK, you knew
a lot about. Backstage, Bruce Prichard

1779
02:21:20.559 --> 02:21:24.520
is with Dilo Brown and he says, what's Bruce goes the last person I

1780
02:21:24.600 --> 02:21:26.920
would ever expect to do what they
did. Dilo agrees. Prichard says,

1781
02:21:28.280 --> 02:21:31.319
you know, Garrett, after everything
everyone has done despite his last name,

1782
02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:35.200
to make him feel welcome, and
then Wes using Kurt to even get us

1783
02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:39.000
to consider him for the gut check. He said, I've known West since

1784
02:21:39.040 --> 02:21:41.360
he was a little kid. God
forbid when Kurt Angle comes back, because

1785
02:21:41.360 --> 02:21:45.399
I know it's cliche, but there
will be hell to pay. And at

1786
02:21:45.440 --> 02:21:46.399
the end, of the day.
We don't have to look in the mirror

1787
02:21:46.799 --> 02:21:50.840
as to who's responsible for him being
here. So this is supposed to be

1788
02:21:50.879 --> 02:21:54.559
like a little bit of you know, Dilo being duplicitous and two faced.

1789
02:21:54.079 --> 02:22:00.239
Yeah, acting like he was as
shocked as anybody that Bischoff and briss COACHOINTI

1790
02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:07.520
nates seeds being planted, But are
they being watered appropriately? Yeah? Right?

1791
02:22:07.920 --> 02:22:11.360
Are they getting enough sun? Back
stage bullies saying they're going to be

1792
02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:15.120
chanting? You remember how to do
it right? Get the tables. Hogan

1793
02:22:15.200 --> 02:22:16.559
walks in, Sting says, you
guys, work this out, Brook,

1794
02:22:16.639 --> 02:22:20.159
Maybe you and I need to go
this way, and Sting leaves with Brooke.

1795
02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:26.079
Hogan looks like Bully in the eye, says it's good to see in

1796
02:22:26.159 --> 02:22:31.040
Law has his head in again.
His tailor made for you. This whole

1797
02:22:31.079 --> 02:22:35.680
table's thing, just the circumstance you
want. This is the end tonight.

1798
02:22:35.319 --> 02:22:39.680
This is all on you to make
sure that you can prove to everybody how

1799
02:22:39.760 --> 02:22:43.840
wrong I really am. Because nothing
would make me happier, Bully Ray,

1800
02:22:43.879 --> 02:22:46.440
than if you prove to the whole
world that you really are the good guy

1801
02:22:46.520 --> 02:22:50.719
that you say you are. Bullies
is good with all the respect, Hulk,

1802
02:22:50.719 --> 02:22:54.879
I ain't no good guy. Just
because I'm good to your daughter doesn't

1803
02:22:54.920 --> 02:22:58.399
make me a good guy. I
don't forget about Aces and Nates and what

1804
02:22:58.440 --> 02:23:01.360
they did to you, to sting
your little girl and my wife on our

1805
02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:05.200
wedding day. Hope, do you
know who I am? Hopeful smirks,

1806
02:23:05.200 --> 02:23:11.319
because PASSI mock Bully for saying such
things are what. I ain't no good

1807
02:23:11.399 --> 02:23:15.559
guy. I'm a very bad one. Ogan says, well, for our

1808
02:23:15.600 --> 02:23:18.040
family, say I hope I know
who you really are. Because if your

1809
02:23:18.120 --> 02:23:20.399
family, this is right up your
ally. This ends tonight and it's on

1810
02:23:20.520 --> 02:23:24.120
you to end it for all of
us. Consider it done. They fist

1811
02:23:24.200 --> 02:23:30.360
bump, Bully calls him dad,
Hogan makes noises and laughs since it's perfect,

1812
02:23:31.479 --> 02:23:35.000
and then Brooke later hugged Bully backstage. She's excited. She says to

1813
02:23:35.120 --> 02:23:37.399
him, You're so close, so
close. Boston returning to the t and

1814
02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:43.040
A Ring as a sanction wrestler as
a reinstated ten A Superstar, and Bully

1815
02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:46.520
thus walks to the ring for the
main event, Divon and Doc versus Bully

1816
02:23:46.600 --> 02:23:50.079
and Sting. Bully comes out with
the paint the Sting paint on. They're

1817
02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:52.280
doing that again. They hit the
ring with fist flying. We want tables

1818
02:23:52.360 --> 02:23:56.040
chant immediately. Tas to chries the
nepotism and whole Cogan lifting. Bully rays

1819
02:23:56.079 --> 02:24:00.799
suspension, which is a fair point. So tas a little bit of jesse

1820
02:24:00.959 --> 02:24:05.120
here, a little bit sure he's
now deputized to call out hypocrisy like that,

1821
02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:09.760
beating the shit on him our Bully
and staying. Bully does the woo

1822
02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:11.639
like staying and does the stinger splash
and spills out of the ring. His

1823
02:24:11.760 --> 02:24:15.760
eyes look wide and pretty great through
the black paint. The way he does

1824
02:24:15.799 --> 02:24:18.159
his face paint, Bully, he
look kind of different, looks kind of

1825
02:24:18.280 --> 02:24:20.319
wild. Yeah, I liked it. That's fine. I'm okay with it.

1826
02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.280
Sting nails Stevon with a splash as
well. They're stacked up in the

1827
02:24:24.319 --> 02:24:26.719
corner and a double clothesline. Sting
drops both of them, sending him to

1828
02:24:26.760 --> 02:24:28.959
the floor. Bully drops Doc with
a yakus a kick and does the hook

1829
02:24:30.040 --> 02:24:31.799
him horns and people are with him
on pretty much everything he does. He

1830
02:24:31.879 --> 02:24:35.840
misses n elbow and DC hits the
running boot, dropping Bully to the canvas.

1831
02:24:35.079 --> 02:24:39.040
What's up to Devons says he's gonna
put his nose right in Divon's business.

1832
02:24:39.079 --> 02:24:43.399
No comment, Oh god. Bully
fishes out of table. They literally

1833
02:24:43.399 --> 02:24:46.719
in the ring and attack double supplex
on Sting, but Bully moves the table

1834
02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:48.360
out of the way so that Sting
doesn't crash through it, keeping the match

1835
02:24:48.399 --> 02:24:52.719
alive. Tasa his yam bag again
yambag. Sting is placed on the table.

1836
02:24:52.799 --> 02:24:56.399
Doc goes up to the top rope
he's cut off, knocks, moves

1837
02:24:56.440 --> 02:24:58.280
the table again as Sting hits a
superplex, but not through the table on

1838
02:24:58.520 --> 02:25:03.639
Doc. They hold Sting up,
the hold Sting open rather in Devon levels

1839
02:25:03.719 --> 02:25:05.920
knocks by mistake when Sting moves out
of the way, scorpion death drop on

1840
02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:09.360
Doc by the stinger, and then
Bully starts hulking up from his knees.

1841
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:13.959
Is Devon's Landing punches on him.
I suppose Bullymania is running wild. That's

1842
02:25:15.000 --> 02:25:18.120
I guess. This is what we're
told saying. He's acting just like the

1843
02:25:18.200 --> 02:25:20.719
Hulks rohmself. You are attribute,
they say to our great general manager.

1844
02:25:22.840 --> 02:25:24.520
It's like a tribute to our dear
leader. You know, Oh my god,

1845
02:25:24.600 --> 02:25:28.479
it's so ridiculous. So he starts
doing the Hogan routine, blocking the

1846
02:25:28.559 --> 02:25:31.479
right hands, loading up whip in
a boot. Oh there's a moment that

1847
02:25:31.600 --> 02:25:35.680
I that I that I missed from
earlier here, Uh listen, this is

1848
02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:48.559
well, just listen. Oh yeah, this proud in Manchester in Unison starts

1849
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:54.760
to see a couple of fans.
That yeah, universal language, international language,

1850
02:25:54.959 --> 02:25:58.479
even here in England. Everybody's screaming
for Bully Ray and staying and get

1851
02:25:58.559 --> 02:26:01.719
the team. I hope ful COVID
out general manage. I hope he's happy

1852
02:26:01.879 --> 02:26:07.280
right now. This is all Hogan's
fault because he reinstated fully. He set

1853
02:26:07.399 --> 02:26:13.440
this thing up. It's collusion,
it's lipotisms, it's everything legal. Stevon

1854
02:26:13.559 --> 02:26:18.399
still feel the effects of fully raised
massive cranium snitch into Yanbag earlier, Chris

1855
02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:24.639
mbag. This does not look good
for the icon. This is definitely good

1856
02:26:24.719 --> 02:26:30.959
for Austin's race. The ye coach
sting about to get driven right through that

1857
02:26:31.079 --> 02:26:39.920
wood and now it's Stevon director's traffy
stay down, fully go away. Wow,

1858
02:26:41.000 --> 02:26:46.440
couples shot there both bag former brothers, former fires going for the same

1859
02:26:46.559 --> 02:26:52.479
thing, former brothers. Maybe the
fucking it's hilarious. Did they right?

1860
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:56.200
Did they disassociate league. I mean
did they I mean right, did they

1861
02:26:56.040 --> 02:27:03.120
divorce? Divorce your right? You
know, I wasn't sure how the proceedings

1862
02:27:03.200 --> 02:27:05.959
went. Well, what the proceedings
were is that ultimately Bully chokes lams Devon

1863
02:27:07.040 --> 02:27:09.200
through the table in this match to
get the win for him and Sting and

1864
02:27:09.319 --> 02:27:13.280
Hogan comes out clapping with Brooke by
his side, and they all raise their

1865
02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:16.280
forearms together in the ring and Brooke
hugs Bully as he falls to a knee

1866
02:27:16.520 --> 02:27:20.840
in exhaustion. Hogan does the outsider's
point and his son in law, his

1867
02:27:20.959 --> 02:27:24.600
newly reinstated son in law, and
Mike Tenay says, it's a fantastic night

1868
02:27:24.639 --> 02:27:30.399
for Impact Wrestling for TNA here in
Manchester, England. While Boss the wedding

1869
02:27:30.440 --> 02:27:33.719
may not have gone as planned,
but it's it's Valentine Stay and Impact Wrestling.

1870
02:27:35.159 --> 02:27:39.200
Yeah, well he's always promised to
be something good Every fourteenth, twenty

1871
02:27:39.239 --> 02:27:43.120
thirteen. Impact comes from London now
the Wembley Arena and they say, you

1872
02:27:43.159 --> 02:27:46.000
know that's hosted the Beatles, the
Rolling Stones, the Who and they welcome

1873
02:27:46.040 --> 02:27:50.760
tonight the wrestling world's equivalent, Mike
Taney says, and Hulk Hogan Hogan comes

1874
02:27:50.799 --> 02:27:54.639
out for a promo at the top
to a big pop and full effect cupping

1875
02:27:54.719 --> 02:27:58.920
and posing. I think it's safe
to say, yeah, that's the problem.

1876
02:28:00.040 --> 02:28:05.280
It's never safe to say our fish. It's safe to say so we've

1877
02:28:05.360 --> 02:28:16.079
done some ten A maniacs right here
in London. Brother one two FOLI you

1878
02:28:16.200 --> 02:28:31.040
know, yes, you know.
I heard noise when I was Simon Giants.

1879
02:28:31.360 --> 02:28:35.959
I heard noise when I was winning
titles. But this sounds pretty damn

1880
02:28:35.120 --> 02:28:43.000
sweet. Brother Helps in his arment, you know, we got business at

1881
02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:46.879
hand in sense or on fire here
in London with T and A. I

1882
02:28:48.040 --> 02:28:52.639
got a couple of big things going
down right now. First off, the

1883
02:28:52.840 --> 02:28:58.680
fate of the TNA title hangs in
the balance, and that's gonna go down

1884
02:28:58.719 --> 02:29:03.000
in Lockdown. In the back there
there's so much talent, there's so many

1885
02:29:03.159 --> 02:29:09.479
hungry wolves. I finally found eight
guys that rose right to the top.

1886
02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:15.719
In tonight, we're gonna have four
matches to find out who I pick to

1887
02:29:15.920 --> 02:29:24.639
be the number one contender. A
Lockdown, you're gonna see the whole and

1888
02:29:24.760 --> 02:29:37.959
show r Fee d well Hen a
superkick by the cowboy James Storm, and

1889
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:48.360
then you're gonna see some guy that
thinks he's a superhero named Christopher Daniels go

1890
02:29:48.959 --> 02:29:52.879
against the guy that I think I'm
gonna put my money on, and I

1891
02:29:54.000 --> 02:30:03.159
might even put your money on in
his name is Magnus. And then it's

1892
02:30:03.200 --> 02:30:11.280
gonna get real nasty out here because
the human cyborg Curt Angle ha ha ha.

1893
02:30:13.959 --> 02:30:31.200
He's gonna take on Samoa Joe.
And just to make sure my feet

1894
02:30:31.520 --> 02:30:35.559
fly about one hundred feet off the
ground, the final two champions are gonna

1895
02:30:35.600 --> 02:30:41.399
be pitted against each other. These
former champions are gonna be tearing each other's

1896
02:30:41.440 --> 02:30:50.000
eyes out because we've got the in
factor Bobby Rude. He's gonna be taken

1897
02:30:50.079 --> 02:30:58.000
on a double customary story. And
at the end of the night, I'm

1898
02:30:58.079 --> 02:31:03.239
gonna be hoosting to the crowd end
here. I'm gonna be watching all the

1899
02:31:03.399 --> 02:31:07.280
matches. At the end of the
night, I'm coming back out here,

1900
02:31:07.440 --> 02:31:11.559
Jack and I'm picking the number one
contender to take on Jeff Hardy at lockdown

1901
02:31:16.399 --> 02:31:20.399
the night ut of the Hall.
The other business at hand, it's gonna

1902
02:31:20.479 --> 02:31:31.559
get real nasty. It is the
business of aces and eights. Aces and

1903
02:31:31.719 --> 02:31:35.879
eights called out the whole ten a
roster, and they want to have a

1904
02:31:37.079 --> 02:31:43.520
war to end all wars and lockdown. So I thought about it for about

1905
02:31:43.600 --> 02:31:48.680
a half a second, made a
phone call to my brother from another mother,

1906
02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:54.639
and I made him the captain of
Team TNA, and I want you

1907
02:31:54.760 --> 02:32:00.680
to hear from him right now.
The greatest wrestler of all time, the

1908
02:32:01.159 --> 02:32:22.360
icon Stamum the money, I'm I'm
for Western News by the Holster, four

1909
02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:26.719
huge matches and I'm gonna who it
is, gonna impress whole Hogan and erna

1910
02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:30.760
shot at the world title at Hockdown. Yeah. So eight guys got an

1911
02:32:30.799 --> 02:32:33.959
opportunity to impress the whole shop and
not one of them is an ace IS

1912
02:32:33.959 --> 02:32:39.799
and ex member, compleat PS and
usual. Well in terms of momentum in

1913
02:32:39.920 --> 02:32:43.399
the ongoing war between t and A
and Aces and eight past last week was

1914
02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:48.319
huge st Bully Ray to win the
tables back and they sent a message to

1915
02:32:48.559 --> 02:32:54.120
year Aces and ACE a message they
didn't pat Wrestling is not gonna be intimidated.

1916
02:32:54.239 --> 02:33:05.799
It is showtime London, Jesus Hulk. I think you'll agree that the

1917
02:33:05.959 --> 02:33:11.600
fans here in London are not just
some of the best in the UK,

1918
02:33:11.559 --> 02:33:20.840
but some of the best in the
whole wide world. All right, now,

1919
02:33:22.680 --> 02:33:30.600
those scumbags aces and eight, you
made your challenge, and I'm here

1920
02:33:30.639 --> 02:33:37.840
to tell you challenge accepted. So
I'm gonna do the same thing Hulk's gonna

1921
02:33:37.879 --> 02:33:45.520
do. Look up and down that
roster and find myself three killers to be

1922
02:33:45.639 --> 02:33:54.799
on my team at lockdown. And
I can promise you this, We are

1923
02:33:54.879 --> 02:34:01.920
gonna tear some hits off at lockdown
and put it in two aces and eights.

1924
02:34:01.319 --> 02:34:05.479
And all I gotta say is aces
and eights. What's she gonna do?

1925
02:34:07.399 --> 02:34:13.879
What a Stayer run wild on?
Oh? Real original Sting, Good

1926
02:34:13.959 --> 02:34:20.920
job, original, Thanks thanks to
task. So another omnibus segment from our

1927
02:34:22.000 --> 02:34:28.639
general manager Hold Pilgan, where he
covers about sixteen different agenda like I listen

1928
02:34:28.760 --> 02:34:31.200
and I love I do, I
love Staying. I think Sting has been

1929
02:34:31.319 --> 02:34:37.440
so great, but you know some
still his like uber enthusiasm. Yeah,

1930
02:34:37.360 --> 02:34:43.280
it just is so fucking stupid.
I think he gets a little overenthusiastic because

1931
02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:46.760
there's an actual crowd that's happy to
see him here. Like yeah, of

1932
02:34:46.959 --> 02:34:50.399
size of scale, Yeah, you
can just tell. I mean it gives

1933
02:34:50.440 --> 02:34:54.040
a boost in a step to these
guys when they feel like, you know,

1934
02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:58.079
maybe there is actually a silent majority
out there, right, and if

1935
02:34:58.120 --> 02:35:01.120
we actually go to these towns,
in these cities, they were crazy for

1936
02:35:01.280 --> 02:35:05.159
us. Yeah, and we're sort
of bound by our you know, impact

1937
02:35:05.280 --> 02:35:07.920
zone surroundings and that's our sense of
scale as far as how big we are,

1938
02:35:09.000 --> 02:35:11.600
but not bound for glory, that's
for sure, not at all,

1939
02:35:11.120 --> 02:35:15.000
not at all. So this,
uh, that kind of reaction to Sting

1940
02:35:15.760 --> 02:35:20.760
I think maybe supplanting the notion present
today that they should do Stings retirement match

1941
02:35:20.760 --> 02:35:24.200
at the Wembley Stadium w Show coming
up in August. I was like,

1942
02:35:24.559 --> 02:35:26.280
why why would you do that?
Like what did Sting mean to England?

1943
02:35:26.399 --> 02:35:30.200
But oh, I think he means
to England for sure, it is.

1944
02:35:31.040 --> 02:35:35.920
I guess it's just like, ah, I mean they you know. I

1945
02:35:35.040 --> 02:35:45.680
gotta say. It's both amazing and
sad how the UK fans get so excited

1946
02:35:45.760 --> 02:35:48.200
for TNA. Oh yeah, yeah, it really is. It was it

1947
02:35:48.360 --> 02:35:52.440
was always um something legit they could
point to was that they really hit a

1948
02:35:52.559 --> 02:35:56.600
stride there. They had a great
TV clearance. It'd be like if they

1949
02:35:56.639 --> 02:36:01.159
were on USA and w W was
on like show Time in the US.

1950
02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:05.079
That was kind of like the level
of general penetration in terms of the channels

1951
02:36:05.120 --> 02:36:09.760
they were on, respectively, So
Tena had a great position and I think,

1952
02:36:09.879 --> 02:36:13.559
I don't know, I feel like
the UK was a little more receptive

1953
02:36:15.000 --> 02:36:18.360
to stars of the vintage that Tena
was stalking up on in terms of like,

1954
02:36:20.760 --> 02:36:24.639
I don't think they would see as
much desperation using a Hogan or a

1955
02:36:24.719 --> 02:36:30.120
Ken Anderson or a a Sting or
Dudley boys. I feel like they were

1956
02:36:30.840 --> 02:36:37.680
less sick of those guys than US
fans were, so that probably voted well

1957
02:36:37.719 --> 02:36:41.239
for them as well. Sure,
totally. Later on this Impact, Magnus

1958
02:36:41.520 --> 02:36:45.120
defeats Christopher Daniels with a top rope, elbow drop and the one two three

1959
02:36:45.200 --> 02:36:48.520
as they positioned him very strong and
as a hint of things to Magnus,

1960
02:36:50.719 --> 02:36:56.040
x H bullies with Brooklane in her
lap, she's massaging Inky's head here on

1961
02:36:56.159 --> 02:36:58.159
Valentine's Day. Bully says, this
is what the way it was supposed to

1962
02:36:58.159 --> 02:37:01.479
go down. I'm so disappointed in
myself. I never thought an injury would

1963
02:37:01.520 --> 02:37:03.120
ever stop me, and now it
has. I wanted two things, he

1964
02:37:03.239 --> 02:37:05.680
says, to marry you, Brooke, and to win the world heavyweight title.

1965
02:37:05.760 --> 02:37:09.840
I pride myself on being a warrior
in the ring just like your father.

1966
02:37:09.120 --> 02:37:13.559
Things were going perfectly. The wedding
got screwed up, but everything has

1967
02:37:13.600 --> 02:37:16.399
been so great, and Brook says, I feel so bad for you.

1968
02:37:16.440 --> 02:37:18.040
I don't know what to say,
and Bully says, you know what,

1969
02:37:18.600 --> 02:37:20.600
it's Valentine's Day. They didn't really
even explain why he's hurt. It's not

1970
02:37:20.639 --> 02:37:24.840
like he got a time he didn't
write. I mean he sells like a

1971
02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:28.760
leg injury suffered during the course of
the tables match the week before, but

1972
02:37:28.799 --> 02:37:31.360
he didn't really get laid out.
There's a company where like, right,

1973
02:37:31.639 --> 02:37:35.319
no one's actually hurt unless they're you
know, nailed to the wall with a

1974
02:37:35.600 --> 02:37:39.040
barbed wire board and six nail guns, you know. So here he is

1975
02:37:41.399 --> 02:37:43.079
in a deep depression because he won
a match last week. I know,

1976
02:37:43.159 --> 02:37:48.360
it's like you really not. Yeah, they don't get injured unless they've got

1977
02:37:48.440 --> 02:37:52.680
like a fucking spear through the middle
of their forehead. Bull, he says,

1978
02:37:52.680 --> 02:37:56.360
you know what, it's Valentine's Day. And word in London is trouble

1979
02:37:56.399 --> 02:37:56.879
going off the couch, but he
does. He says, I'm not going

1980
02:37:56.959 --> 02:38:01.440
to let this ruin our time together. She's dressed like van a white for

1981
02:38:01.479 --> 02:38:05.479
some reason for someone sitting around backstage
all Valentine's Yeah, he's like, pull

1982
02:38:05.559 --> 02:38:09.280
my pants down and get to work, That's what he says. He says,

1983
02:38:09.399 --> 02:38:11.280
buy that pair of shoes you want. We'll go out in the town

1984
02:38:11.600 --> 02:38:15.600
and a fancy restaurant you like with
Italian food. I get it. Don't

1985
02:38:15.600 --> 02:38:18.079
you have to be at work?
Oh? What the fuck? Would he?

1986
02:38:18.239 --> 02:38:24.280
Mark like him? And we're going
dancing, he says, because it's

1987
02:38:24.399 --> 02:38:28.520
nineteen fifty six. We're going dancing, and you're going to be careful on

1988
02:38:28.600 --> 02:38:31.159
that leg, she says, And
where you're reading wedding ring? Please,

1989
02:38:31.239 --> 02:38:33.639
that's a little tell he forgot his
wedding ring, he says. Oh,

1990
02:38:35.559 --> 02:38:37.959
Brook says, I found it in
the bathroom sink in the hotel room this

1991
02:38:37.040 --> 02:38:43.559
morning. And now he says,
he's sorry kissing a hug and he's in

1992
02:38:43.639 --> 02:38:48.200
pain. And they actually have a
cut in with me too. What's that

1993
02:38:48.200 --> 02:38:50.799
me too? Yeah? I mean
yeah, we actually have a cut in

1994
02:38:50.879 --> 02:38:56.600
live from the bellatorre arena, because
Bellator's showing fights live after Spike by this

1995
02:38:56.760 --> 02:39:01.159
point, and Dixie's actually there on
site bellatur Or. She makes the announcement

1996
02:39:01.440 --> 02:39:05.520
that Jeff Hardy was returning February twenty
eighth, they had signed him to a

1997
02:39:05.600 --> 02:39:09.239
long term deal. Boss, I
invite you again to consider the tenas once

1998
02:39:09.239 --> 02:39:13.399
again put the world title on someone
they did not have contractually locked up.

1999
02:39:13.600 --> 02:39:18.520
I had to make it announce what
their fucking world champion signed. Fuck is

2000
02:39:18.639 --> 02:39:24.879
wrong with these people? I mean, seriously, absolute failure. Well,

2001
02:39:26.120 --> 02:39:30.319
put the belt on somebody that agrees
to a multi year contract. I don't

2002
02:39:30.360 --> 02:39:33.120
care if that person isn't someone you
think should carry them. Well, we

2003
02:39:33.360 --> 02:39:46.280
just we have people who are championship
caliber talent, and can't you mother him

2004
02:39:46.319 --> 02:39:50.200
without being the world champion. The
problem is the problem is I'm not aware

2005
02:39:50.280 --> 02:39:54.760
of contracts. Yeah, that is
the problem. You could say that again,

2006
02:39:54.879 --> 02:40:01.680
Dixie. I don't I don't follow. I don't make the contracts.

2007
02:40:01.760 --> 02:40:07.639
I don't follow the contracts. I
don't know how long contracts last. Look,

2008
02:40:07.719 --> 02:40:11.399
I didn't have that responsibility. I
wouldn't look, honey, I wouldn't

2009
02:40:11.440 --> 02:40:16.559
want that response. It's right,
you know. So I just don't see

2010
02:40:16.600 --> 02:40:24.000
why it's always my fault. So
she talks about King Mo too. Um,

2011
02:40:24.319 --> 02:40:28.680
they're still pretending that that a Bellatour
fighter in pro wrestling crossover is going

2012
02:40:28.719 --> 02:40:31.719
to work we'll see about that.
So Joe Park is on the move backstage,

2013
02:40:31.719 --> 02:40:33.600
and he says, I bully gave
me good advice, and I sure

2014
02:40:33.639 --> 02:40:37.639
hope this works. Goes to Hogan's
sword. Oh yeah, I got this

2015
02:40:37.760 --> 02:40:43.239
one. I got always got a
park a Park segment for us. Always

2016
02:40:43.280 --> 02:40:54.719
gave me some good advice. I
hope this works. Stop for a minute.

2017
02:40:56.639 --> 02:40:58.920
I don't mean to bother you,
but I know you're looking for other

2018
02:41:00.000 --> 02:41:03.920
oponent for Jeff Hardy at lockdown for
that World tight off. And some of

2019
02:41:03.959 --> 02:41:05.280
the boys told me that if I
want to get anywhere in this company,

2020
02:41:05.559 --> 02:41:11.680
I need to learn how to politic. So Hawk, brother, you're okay

2021
02:41:11.719 --> 02:41:13.600
with me. You don't have to
politics, Okay, Hawk. I went

2022
02:41:13.639 --> 02:41:16.440
out my hired a campaign manager and
everything I got buzz made posters, made

2023
02:41:16.719 --> 02:41:22.079
vote for Park World Heavyweight Champion twenty
thirteen. Had stop. Stop. Did

2024
02:41:22.159 --> 02:41:26.920
the boys tell you that's what politicking
is, being like a politician and getting

2025
02:41:26.959 --> 02:41:31.719
posters and stickers and a campaign manager. That's just what I assumed it was.

2026
02:41:31.760 --> 02:41:33.200
I've represented a few politicians. Do
you know what a rib is?

2027
02:41:33.440 --> 02:41:39.559
A rib does, not a barbecued
rib, not a baby back rib.

2028
02:41:39.360 --> 02:41:43.879
You need to calm down and go
ask the boys with a rib is okay,

2029
02:41:45.520 --> 02:41:46.760
I'll do that right away. You
give with me. Thank you,

2030
02:41:46.840 --> 02:41:52.120
how you go? And can I
count on your vote? Yeah, Joseph

2031
02:41:52.159 --> 02:41:54.399
Elboe, Thanks, okay, thank
you so much. See it all right,

2032
02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:03.479
Brook, you push way too hard
for stuff. I mean, it's

2033
02:42:03.520 --> 02:42:07.200
all there. It's all there,
Every little bit of it is there.

2034
02:42:07.319 --> 02:42:13.840
You've been talking about a biss knocking
down racks of ribs since week on one

2035
02:42:13.879 --> 02:42:16.239
of Team. We've been talking about
fucking any of those fucking clowns just going

2036
02:42:16.280 --> 02:42:20.159
to town on ribs and they just
they just lay it out there. Not

2037
02:42:20.239 --> 02:42:31.600
amazing. For years we've been talking
about fat guys eating ribs and that's just

2038
02:42:33.719 --> 02:42:37.920
Oh I had ribs, I had
I had a double rock. Come on

2039
02:42:39.200 --> 02:42:46.000
now, double bizz. Yeah there's
a double riz. I don't know.

2040
02:42:46.239 --> 02:42:50.200
Yeah, bro, you're having a
double riz. Dude, a double rizz,

2041
02:42:50.239 --> 02:42:54.399
A riz got the riz. What
would you write yourself on a scale

2042
02:42:54.479 --> 02:42:58.559
one to ten? Do you think
people would agree double letter passed the next

2043
02:42:58.600 --> 02:43:05.920
person or every fucking video. So
meanwhile, Abyss would double and pass it

2044
02:43:05.959 --> 02:43:11.120
to the next person. Oh,
absolutely, double y double deep. So

2045
02:43:11.639 --> 02:43:13.959
yeah, so the idea is it's
funny that, you know, Joseph park

2046
02:43:15.079 --> 02:43:18.760
is learning the business and guys in
the locker room are lying to him about

2047
02:43:18.760 --> 02:43:22.159
what kfabe terms mean and he doesn't
understand what politicking means. He doesn't,

2048
02:43:22.319 --> 02:43:26.159
of course, welcome to TNA.
We're politicking is supposed to be something we

2049
02:43:26.239 --> 02:43:31.239
all understand, as if as if
we fucking so mean, Like come on,

2050
02:43:31.120 --> 02:43:37.000
why aren't we talking like this,
like we gonna fucking act like all

2051
02:43:37.079 --> 02:43:41.799
this shit, Like people know what
you're talking about? Right? No one,

2052
02:43:41.120 --> 02:43:45.040
no one wants to know about.
No one wants to talk about politicking

2053
02:43:45.079 --> 02:43:52.399
in your fucking wrestling show. Oh
no, I mean cold you watch Can

2054
02:43:52.520 --> 02:43:56.120
these fucking decision makers just watch us
boarding event once in a while instead of

2055
02:43:56.280 --> 02:44:01.239
just like drama and fucking I know
you know what I mean, scripted television,

2056
02:44:01.639 --> 02:44:05.959
just watching sporting event and realize that
that's what this is supposed to be.

2057
02:44:07.399 --> 02:44:09.840
Like, that's supposed to be the
conceit of it all. And yeah,

2058
02:44:09.920 --> 02:44:13.680
you can have storylines and crazy characters
and shit happen, but it's like

2059
02:44:13.760 --> 02:44:16.959
the whole point that everyone shows up
in the building is not to talk backstage

2060
02:44:16.000 --> 02:44:20.440
to each other. They show up
to participate in the sporting event, and

2061
02:44:20.559 --> 02:44:24.079
then the dramas unfold as a direct
consequence of the tensions that sport creates.

2062
02:44:26.520 --> 02:44:28.120
It's like these guys show up and
it's like, how are we going to

2063
02:44:28.159 --> 02:44:31.319
script you know, law and Order
this week? Right? Exactly? Fuck

2064
02:44:31.360 --> 02:44:35.159
yourself, guy, seriously, the
verdict is in and it's a failed way

2065
02:44:35.200 --> 02:44:41.920
to do wrestling. So uh,
Dad, he's got that in factor that

2066
02:44:41.079 --> 02:44:45.319
made you an icon. He wants
hurt. He wants it so badly.

2067
02:44:45.559 --> 02:44:50.200
Here here, Dad, He's got
that little thing inside of him that you

2068
02:44:50.360 --> 02:44:58.079
have that made an icon. Stop
pushing so hard, brother, I know

2069
02:44:58.159 --> 02:45:01.079
about her. If you're in this
business, everybody works hurt. But I've

2070
02:45:01.120 --> 02:45:05.239
got eight other guys I'm looking you
didn't. They all had the IT factor.

2071
02:45:05.440 --> 02:45:07.239
And by the way, I'm going
out to watch a match right now

2072
02:45:07.559 --> 02:45:11.280
with the IT factor in Austin,
AIS. I have to keep an open

2073
02:45:11.360 --> 02:45:18.159
mind. Dad. You know,
I have found out so much about my

2074
02:45:18.319 --> 02:45:22.079
husband the last three days that we've
been here. What are you doing?

2075
02:45:22.200 --> 02:45:26.559
Dude? You probably don't want to
know that he got into this business because

2076
02:45:26.600 --> 02:45:28.879
of you. Brother. He wants
to be just like you. There we

2077
02:45:30.000 --> 02:45:33.920
go on. He wants it so
badly. He's never even been champion.

2078
02:45:35.399 --> 02:45:37.440
I mean, I know that you're
trying to be general manager and everything and

2079
02:45:37.600 --> 02:45:43.239
be business oriented, but soften up
a little bit. Daddy's family family.

2080
02:45:45.360 --> 02:45:48.719
Okay. If you want me to
say, I'd love to have a son

2081
02:45:48.760 --> 02:45:52.719
in law that's a world's heavyweight champion, Okay, I would. But Brooke,

2082
02:45:52.200 --> 02:45:56.959
I have to remain objective. Just
chill for a while, Okay,

2083
02:46:00.040 --> 02:46:07.200
will take it under advisement. Who
says he's going to be fucking you know

2084
02:46:07.959 --> 02:46:11.479
whatever? He said, Well,
it's a new day and things are different.

2085
02:46:11.200 --> 02:46:18.799
Well, new day's not here.
So Brooke is now ball faced ly

2086
02:46:18.639 --> 02:46:24.000
walking into her dad's office and trying
to get her husband the top contender to

2087
02:46:24.040 --> 02:46:28.159
the world title spot. Yeah,
and that's supposed to make her a baby

2088
02:46:28.200 --> 02:46:31.399
face, supposed to be fine that
she's doing this. I mean, that's

2089
02:46:31.559 --> 02:46:35.719
what any good wife would do.
So, you know, the Macavellian plan

2090
02:46:35.879 --> 02:46:41.239
is coming together. We'll realize in
retrospect why Bully is trying so hard to

2091
02:46:41.280 --> 02:46:45.719
win over Brook because he and somehow
he can, somehow forecast in this crystal

2092
02:46:45.799 --> 02:46:48.200
ball that this is going to result
in him getting a title shot. Before

2093
02:46:48.760 --> 02:46:52.840
jumping the line so to speak,
to get a title shot, and Hogan

2094
02:46:54.000 --> 02:46:56.319
tremendous. I mean, we're right
back to the abyss thing for you know

2095
02:46:56.440 --> 02:47:00.440
one thing. It's the same fucking
thing grew up. You know, we're

2096
02:47:00.479 --> 02:47:05.559
idolizing you, Hulk. How many
is there any anybody? Is there anybody

2097
02:47:05.760 --> 02:47:09.520
who didn't anybody's ever gotten over playing
in that role from fucking Dave Sullivan all

2098
02:47:09.520 --> 02:47:15.680
the way through. So Hulk's backstage
would sting here? This is crazy?

2099
02:47:15.680 --> 02:47:20.239
I mean this was kind of they're
talking starcade nineties seventies, all about being

2100
02:47:20.319 --> 02:47:24.559
in the crosshairs you starcade, you
and I taking each other's heads off.

2101
02:47:24.799 --> 02:47:30.000
Oh I just sat down with my
daughter and she threw out family son in

2102
02:47:30.120 --> 02:47:33.520
law, a world title business all
on one. I mean, give me

2103
02:47:33.559 --> 02:47:35.319
a break, Broad. Yeah,
I know, bullies out of it because

2104
02:47:35.360 --> 02:47:37.520
it was injury. I mean,
you got some of the best talent right

2105
02:47:37.559 --> 02:47:41.479
here under this TNA umbrella to choose
from. Glad. It's not my decision,

2106
02:47:41.840 --> 02:47:46.760
it's all on it whole Coogan's shoulders. Well, I make that decision

2107
02:47:46.840 --> 02:47:48.559
right now. But you know what, I'm still going to listen to those

2108
02:47:48.600 --> 02:47:54.840
people out there, brother, all
right on Glad it's not me. Thanks

2109
02:47:54.920 --> 02:47:56.719
staying, don't be nervous about it
all. I am nervous. Your whole

2110
02:47:58.000 --> 02:48:07.319
wrong way? What's wrong way?
Oh? Thanks? Happy decision making?

2111
02:48:09.920 --> 02:48:20.719
Thanks who fucking talks like this happy
decision making? Whole coomania. I just

2112
02:48:20.799 --> 02:48:22.639
sucked out my daughter. She threw
out family, son in law, world

2113
02:48:22.680 --> 02:48:28.239
title business, all in one,
double bizz brother. I mean, I

2114
02:48:28.319 --> 02:48:33.520
mean, also, like how lightly
they're talking about Starkade ninety seven when they

2115
02:48:33.559 --> 02:48:39.719
were literally and beyond mortal enemy.
He's just like, way to fucking kill

2116
02:48:39.799 --> 02:48:43.280
each other. And I suppose that
shows progress in their relationship. But yeah,

2117
02:48:43.399 --> 02:48:48.159
yeah, I'm like, what the
fuck? And I don't know,

2118
02:48:48.360 --> 02:48:50.639
man, it seems to me like
that was an adelaide where Hogan walked out

2119
02:48:50.639 --> 02:48:54.920
the wrong way of the office.
Yeah, I think I think there's some

2120
02:48:56.360 --> 02:48:58.799
I think he's losing it, kind
of like earlier what Joseph Park tried to

2121
02:49:00.040 --> 02:49:03.159
open the door and it was locked, and it made for a hilarious moment,

2122
02:49:03.200 --> 02:49:05.520
But I don't think it was supposed
to go down that way. Yeah,

2123
02:49:05.719 --> 02:49:07.399
yeah, because he says it's locked
with a look on his face like

2124
02:49:07.680 --> 02:49:13.639
cut you know, yeah, yeah, like it's an outtake. But whatever.

2125
02:49:13.159 --> 02:49:18.719
Yeah, make comedy, make something
out of make chicken shit out of

2126
02:49:18.799 --> 02:49:22.200
chicken salad if you have to.
That's what they do. That's what they

2127
02:49:22.239 --> 02:49:26.200
do. They get some chicken salad
whipped up and the bully w Bully Ray

2128
02:49:26.319 --> 02:49:28.319
wedding and the rest of it.
Yeah, and it's like, well,

2129
02:49:30.200 --> 02:49:33.680
brother, it's a general manator.
Just text you seriously, what the fuck?

2130
02:49:33.760 --> 02:49:35.079
I'm like, what is going on
here? I don't even have an

2131
02:49:35.079 --> 02:49:41.159
alert for that, Like, what
is this noise? It's fulkster brother when

2132
02:49:41.159 --> 02:49:46.440
he comes to the ring. It's
not about me anymore. Come on,

2133
02:49:46.680 --> 02:49:52.959
if it's hoking, I got it. Generally, my guys, it's been

2134
02:49:52.440 --> 02:50:09.719
crazy in the back energy hoof,
hoof. You know what, guys,

2135
02:50:09.799 --> 02:50:13.399
I appreciate it, but it's not
about me anymore. It's about those eight

2136
02:50:13.520 --> 02:50:18.879
guys that poured their hearts out here. Now do you understand why it's so

2137
02:50:20.120 --> 02:50:26.319
hard to pick the guy this gonna
face Hardy? It's actually not we're playing

2138
02:50:26.440 --> 02:50:30.399
something. It's decisions to be the
one facing Hardy. Each and every one

2139
02:50:30.440 --> 02:50:33.479
of those guys out here. Tie
wants to be the man. But now

2140
02:50:33.600 --> 02:50:39.280
I have to pick one guy to
go against our champ. Jeff Hardy at

2141
02:50:39.360 --> 02:50:48.159
lockdown. I want to let everybody
know what's going on here? What do

2142
02:50:48.239 --> 02:50:54.319
you mean it's going on? What
do you mean just gonna run out to

2143
02:50:54.399 --> 02:50:58.920
get a decision become the number of
faces at each hey coming from everywhere here,

2144
02:51:00.000 --> 02:51:03.360
Webley ringing now surrounding Hogan in the
ring. I told here's a little

2145
02:51:03.520 --> 02:51:07.000
ps that Hulk did not give an
opportunity one of our guys. How does

2146
02:51:07.000 --> 02:51:11.440
this look happens? This is home
school? This is very bad for Hulk

2147
02:51:11.440 --> 02:51:16.760
Hogan completely surrounded here and where were
you're reading? What the bully you?

2148
02:51:18.559 --> 02:51:24.440
I thought he's gonna dancing the how's
he doing in his k hurry rain?

2149
02:51:24.479 --> 02:51:28.440
You can see him dripping here to
the ring. That cloud injury coming out

2150
02:51:28.520 --> 02:51:31.440
here. Oh my god, he
gotta be Canful's down. Time's day.

2151
02:51:31.559 --> 02:51:35.479
It'll be a same down times day. Massaica. You got a lucky bully.

2152
02:51:35.719 --> 02:51:41.680
You went holl and Fortunately for Hulk
Hogan, bully rang with the steel

2153
02:51:41.799 --> 02:51:46.079
chain hit his hands. He's there
to support and the bus the back.

2154
02:51:46.280 --> 02:51:50.600
I'll Hogan. Just when it looked
like Asess and Ets we're gonna attack once

2155
02:51:50.639 --> 02:51:54.239
again. Of course, fully mets
a weapon. He needs an equaliza.

2156
02:51:54.920 --> 02:51:58.319
How many guys do you have?
We gotta lie. Wait a minute,

2157
02:52:00.120 --> 02:52:07.000
hell now stinging the multiple faceball Batch. It looks like a freaking said Ricka.

2158
02:52:07.959 --> 02:52:13.000
And you want to talk about equalizers
a cricket cart, it's the reader

2159
02:52:13.079 --> 02:52:16.239
of teams teachIn a stinger. Hey, why not? We're an engling.

2160
02:52:16.360 --> 02:52:20.120
That's what we talked about earlier.
Football Manum put the wind on the side,

2161
02:52:20.239 --> 02:52:26.040
coup the Impact Wrestling roster after that, cute tables Batch win one week

2162
02:52:26.120 --> 02:52:31.319
ago and Impact Wrestling roster and loved
the room will knock back down. They

2163
02:52:31.360 --> 02:52:37.319
will not be intimidated by aces and
eighth the battle lines are drone and yes

2164
02:52:37.479 --> 02:52:39.760
the war will happen to balked down, but the decision must not announced.

2165
02:52:39.799 --> 02:52:50.120
Who is gonna face Word Campion Jeff
Harney. So many questions to be answered

2166
02:52:50.440 --> 02:52:54.920
and guys coming up next on pilatour
MMA lives so much great actions, Sean

2167
02:52:54.239 --> 02:53:01.440
Lan Jimmy Smith taken away. I
mean, how lame is that? That's

2168
02:53:01.440 --> 02:53:07.040
an awful ending? How fucking lame
is the terrible, terrible ending? Oh

2169
02:53:09.159 --> 02:53:13.360
awful? It's a cricket bat.
There's there's there's that, all right,

2170
02:53:13.719 --> 02:53:18.000
So sure what one last impact here
in twenty thirteen from London, It's Fabruy

2171
02:53:18.079 --> 02:53:22.079
twenty first and Hogan's out one more
time. It's has to chrise the typical

2172
02:53:22.120 --> 02:53:26.760
political crap from whole Cogan and not
letting Aces and Nates get into the title

2173
02:53:26.840 --> 02:53:28.520
picture. Hogan takes the middle of
the ring and says, I feel like

2174
02:53:28.600 --> 02:53:33.200
this is home for me, right
here in London Town. Brother. Oh,

2175
02:53:33.399 --> 02:53:35.959
here here we go. Sorry,
yep, I'm here. I got

2176
02:53:35.040 --> 02:53:41.000
you. I've been thinking about it. Yeah, I feel like this is

2177
02:53:41.079 --> 02:53:46.559
home for me right here in London
Town. Brother. You should relocate and

2178
02:53:46.639 --> 02:53:50.520
move here for good. You know, I have some tough choices to make

2179
02:53:50.879 --> 02:53:54.440
the last time I was out here, and it was really good to have

2180
02:53:54.719 --> 02:54:03.600
everybody in this building involved in my
choice. But things didn't exactly pan out

2181
02:54:03.680 --> 02:54:07.600
the way I thought they would.
All of a sudden, when I was

2182
02:54:07.680 --> 02:54:13.120
in the decision making process and I
had the number one contender dialed in right

2183
02:54:13.239 --> 02:54:20.760
up here, Brothers A siss and
Eights decided to stick their nose in T

2184
02:54:20.920 --> 02:54:26.040
and A business once again here.
But you know, something out of everything

2185
02:54:26.239 --> 02:54:33.040
really really bad comes something really really
good. And it gave me a whole

2186
02:54:33.120 --> 02:54:37.879
week to think about all the guys
that poured their hearts out here trying to

2187
02:54:37.920 --> 02:54:43.120
get that number one spot for Lockdown
against Jeff Hardy. And after one long

2188
02:54:43.280 --> 02:54:48.520
week of thinking about who the man
should be to take on our champ,

2189
02:54:48.959 --> 02:54:54.920
Jeff Hardy, After one long week
of thinking about who the number one contender

2190
02:54:54.959 --> 02:55:01.000
should be, I decided that man
stood out a of everybody else hands some

2191
02:55:01.200 --> 02:55:07.239
tales, he rose to the occasion. He made it clear that he is

2192
02:55:07.319 --> 02:55:11.639
the only man for that job.
So now I give you your number one

2193
02:55:11.760 --> 02:55:18.600
contender to go against Jeff Hardy for
the world title a Lockdown. I give

2194
02:55:18.719 --> 02:55:28.159
you Bully Ray what he fell for
it? Yeah the dumb bitch. Wow,

2195
02:55:28.280 --> 02:55:37.200
the hoster calling a bit of an
audible here, my Bully, he's

2196
02:55:37.280 --> 02:55:48.760
a surprises me and stand other members
of the pack rustling roster. No one

2197
02:55:48.920 --> 02:55:56.200
has been more dedicated than fully Ray. Stop think about think about it like

2198
02:55:56.440 --> 02:56:03.399
you'll the ongoing war against pieces and
sounds repeatedly, I's gone above and beyond

2199
02:56:03.520 --> 02:56:09.319
the call of duty, and Hulk
Hogan, you hear the decision from Hulk

2200
02:56:09.360 --> 02:56:13.760
Hogan. Bully Ray gets the title
shot against Jeff Hardy and Lockdown. Can

2201
02:56:13.159 --> 02:56:18.120
Mike, can you be a bigger
salesman towing the company line. I'm just

2202
02:56:18.239 --> 02:56:20.479
curious. I know, I'm talk's
gonna sit here right defense, but you're

2203
02:56:20.520 --> 02:56:24.639
gonna sit there a code of company
line. This is a lord of Milwaukee.

2204
02:56:24.879 --> 02:56:28.040
This guy will stay with him in
the mansion. She doesn't compete.

2205
02:56:28.680 --> 02:56:43.440
It's just boll am I room hope
exactly. I don't well, I don't

2206
02:56:43.479 --> 02:56:52.680
even. I don't even. I
don't even know what to say. I'm

2207
02:56:52.719 --> 02:56:58.200
in shot right now. You know
I'm hurt, right you know? You

2208
02:56:58.319 --> 02:57:03.040
know I partially tore my my quad
muscle in the tables match a couple of

2209
02:57:03.079 --> 02:57:11.000
weeks ago. Right now, I
didn't know that, so we cut in

2210
02:57:11.040 --> 02:57:18.799
this company. I don't even know
what to say. But thank you.

2211
02:57:20.239 --> 02:57:26.559
There were so many great guys fighting
in this ring last week that deserved the

2212
02:57:26.719 --> 02:57:30.879
shot more than I do right now. Thank you so much. All I

2213
02:57:31.159 --> 02:57:37.719
ever wanted to do was make you
proud. All I ever wanted was your

2214
02:57:37.760 --> 02:57:41.840
respect. And the greatest day of
my life is when I married your daughter.

2215
02:57:46.959 --> 02:57:48.920
You know, I love your daughter. I want to make you happy.

2216
02:57:50.319 --> 02:57:54.239
I want to make her happy,
and I want to become the world

2217
02:57:54.600 --> 02:58:03.159
heavyweight champion. But Hulk, we
got bigger business to take care of right

2218
02:58:03.239 --> 02:58:09.879
now. I know you're the general
manager. So this is just a suggestion.

2219
02:58:11.000 --> 02:58:22.200
What do you say tonight in the
main event right here in London in

2220
02:58:22.559 --> 02:58:33.559
front of the loudest NA fans in
the world. This is the suggesting to

2221
02:58:33.760 --> 02:58:39.559
you a six man tag team match
on one side of the ring, three

2222
02:58:39.719 --> 02:58:48.200
members of the Aces and eighth and
on the other side of the ring,

2223
02:58:48.920 --> 02:59:05.600
Bully Rain my tag team partner,
step and let's see, let's see.

2224
02:59:05.680 --> 02:59:13.920
We need one more guy, we
need we need brother. What do you

2225
02:59:15.280 --> 02:59:24.280
do? No, dude, No, you know something, Hulk, I

2226
02:59:24.639 --> 02:59:37.239
think that guy should be Why dodde? Why what do you say? Dad?

2227
02:59:37.799 --> 02:59:43.479
Let's kick some aces and eight times? Brother? Dad? Whats gonna

2228
02:59:43.600 --> 02:59:48.799
do? Brother? Who? This
isn't outrageous? Is we kicking it?

2229
02:59:48.079 --> 02:59:52.959
What do you say? Dad?
Brother? He guess it? Dad?

2230
02:59:52.040 --> 02:59:54.239
Or is it? Brother? Brother? Dad? What's going on here?

2231
02:59:54.680 --> 02:59:58.040
So? Do we have a commitment
from Hulk coke in to wrestle one more

2232
02:59:58.120 --> 03:00:03.200
time here an impact? We have
a commitment in front of a crowd that's

2233
03:00:03.280 --> 03:00:05.559
just saw it the year before in
twenty twelve, and so maybe led to

2234
03:00:05.600 --> 03:00:11.319
believe that it will actually happen were
declaring it Holt's final match, Last time

2235
03:00:13.079 --> 03:00:18.319
No So. Later, with a
brook at ringside, Velvet Sky X factors

2236
03:00:18.360 --> 03:00:20.239
Gail Kim for the one two three
to win the Knockouts Championship, with brook

2237
03:00:20.280 --> 03:00:24.840
a plotting and handing her the title, Hogan and staying backstage. This one

2238
03:00:24.959 --> 03:00:28.840
feels a little weird to me.
Got to keep an eye on the back

2239
03:00:28.840 --> 03:00:31.920
of an old man's in the hallway. Did you talk to him? He

2240
03:00:33.000 --> 03:00:35.360
says to Sting. He's cool,
Yes, with everything. I ain't trying

2241
03:00:35.360 --> 03:00:37.680
to sound cheesy, but it definitely
is cool to be tagging with you and

2242
03:00:37.799 --> 03:00:41.600
him, he says to Sting,
and Sting says, we put an end

2243
03:00:41.639 --> 03:00:43.959
to the Aces and Eights at Lockdown. No, we put an end to

2244
03:00:43.959 --> 03:00:46.879
the Aces and Eates tonight. Lockdown
isn't even going to happen. I'm thinking,

2245
03:00:46.920 --> 03:00:50.760
well, it's bad news to everyone
at San Antonio. That's fine exactly.

2246
03:00:50.399 --> 03:00:52.760
They put a graphic up for the
six Man like Hulk is going to

2247
03:00:52.760 --> 03:00:56.479
be in the ring and Hulk is
going to wrestle on this episode of Impact.

2248
03:00:56.399 --> 03:01:00.559
Later, Brooks says, there's no
turning back. It's done. Are

2249
03:01:00.600 --> 03:01:03.120
you sure you have to do that? And Holk has wrist tape on Boss,

2250
03:01:03.120 --> 03:01:09.040
so you know it's all right?
Yeah here if Lka, if Helk

2251
03:01:09.159 --> 03:01:11.680
is going to wrestle, Brook has
to have the you know, the daughter

2252
03:01:11.799 --> 03:01:15.520
gonna have the We're gonna have it. And here it is here. There's

2253
03:01:15.559 --> 03:01:18.680
no turning back now, Brooke,
it's already done. Okay, Actually,

2254
03:01:18.799 --> 03:01:20.000
are you sure? Are you sure? You don't have to do this?

2255
03:01:20.360 --> 03:01:24.680
Brook, I have been humiliated and
pushed around, sit on threaten. Our

2256
03:01:24.719 --> 03:01:31.840
family has been beat down. The
greatest rustle that lives in the ring of

2257
03:01:31.920 --> 03:01:35.520
me. Tonight I need to do
this for myself, that for our family.

2258
03:01:35.760 --> 03:01:43.719
Tell them to protect you. I
love you, but be careful and

2259
03:01:43.879 --> 03:01:48.079
have fun. Okay. They say
Holk's got the eye of the Tiger,

2260
03:01:48.120 --> 03:01:52.680
which of course he came out to
last year. That's right in London history

2261
03:01:52.680 --> 03:01:58.639
in the making tonight. Perhaps,
No, No, this is so just

2262
03:01:58.719 --> 03:02:03.280
can you know better? Still doing
this? Yeah? I got this?

2263
03:02:03.559 --> 03:02:13.120
No, this isenty are going through
the same motions. So stupid ass Nates

2264
03:02:13.120 --> 03:02:16.639
were told of growing with their heavy
hitters. It's Devon doc and Anderson Tenaceys.

2265
03:02:16.639 --> 03:02:18.840
They're becoming a force, very difficult
to deal with. Really, they've

2266
03:02:18.840 --> 03:02:22.719
been dealing with them just fine for
months. I mean, they don't win,

2267
03:02:22.040 --> 03:02:26.639
so what's the force today? Says
their goal is to take over TENA

2268
03:02:26.760 --> 03:02:28.319
wrestling and the threat that has to
be stopped. I'm like, not really,

2269
03:02:28.760 --> 03:02:33.360
they're not really weak till weak doing
anything. No, they're pretty awful.

2270
03:02:33.559 --> 03:02:37.040
So they're no longer like stalking anybody. They're not. They're pretty much

2271
03:02:37.040 --> 03:02:41.479
a joke. Yeah, TESSAs were
a machine fueled by rage, anger and

2272
03:02:41.600 --> 03:02:50.760
violence. I mean it's the least
scary rage, anger and violence that I've

2273
03:02:50.799 --> 03:02:56.000
ever seen ever, so so yeah, it's main event time is Hogan gonna

2274
03:02:56.000 --> 03:02:58.959
wrestle while Sting comes out and as
partner, the general manager of Impact right

2275
03:03:00.040 --> 03:03:03.200
Sling Hulk Hogan and they hover on
the entrance away and he doesn't come out

2276
03:03:05.280 --> 03:03:07.120
like today says, we've been anticipating
it for nearly a year and a half,

2277
03:03:07.520 --> 03:03:11.680
but nothing. Hogan does not emerge. Tess is maybe their second thoughts,

2278
03:03:11.719 --> 03:03:16.639
he's not coming. Hogan's music goes
down, chorus of booze and they

2279
03:03:16.680 --> 03:03:22.639
start up the music again and they
says, how can you call Hogan yellow?

2280
03:03:22.719 --> 03:03:24.719
I'm thinking, well, I don't
know. He's been wearing the color

2281
03:03:24.840 --> 03:03:28.200
for fucking thirty years and that yeah, exactly. So we wait, we

2282
03:03:28.360 --> 03:03:33.479
wait, and there's nothing and the
music goes off as Aces and Nate's blindside

2283
03:03:33.520 --> 03:03:37.760
sting and Bully Ray in the ring. So there is no Hogan. But

2284
03:03:37.840 --> 03:03:41.200
I ask you a question if Hulk
Cogan was booked to be in this match,

2285
03:03:43.559 --> 03:03:46.760
and if in fact the match took
place even though Hulk Cogan never appeared

2286
03:03:46.920 --> 03:03:50.840
before the people, because as we
find out, he's laid out backstage,

2287
03:03:50.280 --> 03:03:54.879
but the match still commences with Hulk
Cogan on the bill. Is this a

2288
03:03:54.959 --> 03:04:01.680
Hulk Cogan match? No? Thank
you just want to address the potential aster

2289
03:04:01.799 --> 03:04:03.799
risk that we could introduce to the
Wikipedia by the time I've done here.

2290
03:04:05.040 --> 03:04:13.559
No, no, So uh if
if if he came down, and yes,

2291
03:04:13.760 --> 03:04:16.879
is that the thing? Yeah,
he'd have to do some kind of

2292
03:04:16.000 --> 03:04:20.600
real Uh. He would have had
to come down and like even save the

2293
03:04:20.719 --> 03:04:28.959
day and that would have been okay. Like when wrestlers like I think,

2294
03:04:28.840 --> 03:04:35.000
who did Becky Lynch attack in the
aisleway at Rumble? She'd attacked anybody to

2295
03:04:35.079 --> 03:04:37.920
take her spot? Oh, she
didn't attack her. She was injured.

2296
03:04:39.000 --> 03:04:43.280
It was um Lana. So Lana
wasn't in that royal rumble, no to

2297
03:04:43.399 --> 03:04:46.760
this logic? Okay, no,
no, got it all right? So

2298
03:04:48.079 --> 03:04:50.040
um, today's we need word now
in the status of Hulk Coogan a little?

2299
03:04:50.079 --> 03:04:52.840
Did he know that he was just
forecasting what was going to be said

2300
03:04:52.879 --> 03:04:58.440
in the TNA offices in Nashville within
six months? Yeah. Bully runs over

2301
03:04:58.559 --> 03:05:01.840
Divon and Carl Anderson with a double
clothesline. He's limping around the rings selling

2302
03:05:01.879 --> 03:05:05.520
the injury. Sting with a splash
on Doc Bully drops him the clothes line.

2303
03:05:05.559 --> 03:05:09.600
Tas recalls remembering last week that the
Sting had to tell Hulk which way

2304
03:05:09.639 --> 03:05:13.799
to go, because remember, he
was confused leaving the office. Maybe help

2305
03:05:13.879 --> 03:05:18.559
just got lost what he clearly has
trouble with the caverns of this building?

2306
03:05:18.879 --> 03:05:22.920
Brother, are you heat on?
Bully from the heels, Devon does a

2307
03:05:22.959 --> 03:05:28.200
crotch chop and step. Suck it. Who's what? Suck it? He

2308
03:05:28.280 --> 03:05:31.959
says to Sting, I mean,
just what are you doing in tween thirteen?

2309
03:05:31.040 --> 03:05:35.639
Now? What are you doing?
I mean you're all like fifty year

2310
03:05:35.680 --> 03:05:41.200
old men. Sad? No.
Stop. Bully hits the back on Divon.

2311
03:05:41.319 --> 03:05:43.079
Devon grabs the ankle and stop.
The tag of Bully Taggs and Carl

2312
03:05:43.159 --> 03:05:46.600
Anderson in his white tshirt dock in
swinging on him. Bully comes alive with

2313
03:05:46.680 --> 03:05:50.760
chops. They exchange with some hard
blows. Nice exchange between Doc and Bully.

2314
03:05:50.840 --> 03:05:54.520
A couple of hosses tack to stay
and Doc breaking it down. Here,

2315
03:05:54.600 --> 03:05:56.719
Sting comes in, hauling off with
the right hands, puts the scorpion

2316
03:05:56.760 --> 03:05:58.440
death luck on a scoping death drop
on Doc. It's one two. When

2317
03:05:58.520 --> 03:06:03.079
Ken say yes, yes he does, save, Sting slams us. They

2318
03:06:03.120 --> 03:06:05.559
do the what's up? Head butt
to the crotch. Cut to the ramp.

2319
03:06:07.239 --> 03:06:11.639
I mean they finally doing the whiny
doing what's up? I mean the

2320
03:06:11.760 --> 03:06:16.399
move fine, but they're playing the
greatest hits. This is the Reunion Tour.

2321
03:06:16.520 --> 03:06:20.840
This is you know what I mean, that's TNA. So they cut

2322
03:06:20.840 --> 03:06:28.440
to the ramp Reunion Tour for like
three years, I know, at the

2323
03:06:28.479 --> 03:06:31.639
heart of the matter. But they
have Hulk and they have Brooke Knocks,

2324
03:06:31.680 --> 03:06:35.440
but basically as a sleeper hold on
broken Bubba limps up the ramp and Hulk

2325
03:06:35.520 --> 03:06:39.200
is left in a heap with a
torn T shirt, screaming about his knee

2326
03:06:39.239 --> 03:06:45.360
hurting brah as a Sting puts the
scorpion deathlock on Carl Anderson, but Doc

2327
03:06:45.399 --> 03:06:48.079
comes in with a running Yakuza kick
to Sting's head and covers him for the

2328
03:06:48.120 --> 03:06:50.760
one two three, My God as
his an eights win to match. Holy

2329
03:06:50.959 --> 03:06:56.520
Shit Brook hovering over Hulk as he
grips his knee on the rampway grip Holl

2330
03:06:56.559 --> 03:06:58.879
He tends to Hulk as they gang
up on Sting. Tess says, this

2331
03:07:00.200 --> 03:07:03.440
was not our fault, This was
not our idea okay to have Hulp involve

2332
03:07:03.520 --> 03:07:07.239
himself physically like this, Aces and
Nates raises their arms. His task says,

2333
03:07:07.280 --> 03:07:11.520
it's a good day to be a
bad guy. This episode did one

2334
03:07:11.559 --> 03:07:13.399
point three to five million viewers.
Meltzer said that rating has to be a

2335
03:07:13.479 --> 03:07:18.959
big disappointment given the entire show was
built around Hulkkegan's first match on television since

2336
03:07:18.000 --> 03:07:22.079
his TENA debut three years ago and
first match overall since the twenty eleven Pound

2337
03:07:22.079 --> 03:07:26.559
for Glory. They spent the entire
show pushing it and then did the injury

2338
03:07:26.600 --> 03:07:28.559
angle at the end of the show
to explain him not being in the main

2339
03:07:28.639 --> 03:07:33.680
event match. Sorry, Hulkogan is
not a draw anymore. Nope, the

2340
03:07:33.760 --> 03:07:37.000
TV show. Meltzer wrote built around
his first match back in years only drew

2341
03:07:37.040 --> 03:07:41.639
one point three zero million viewers a
few weeks back. This is a him

2342
03:07:41.680 --> 03:07:45.479
writing in retrospect the TV show after
they established he was not going to be

2343
03:07:45.559 --> 03:07:50.399
on the air during the opening scene, did significantly better. It is now

2344
03:07:50.319 --> 03:07:54.959
it is now possible to make the
case at telling the people Hulk won't be

2345
03:07:56.079 --> 03:07:58.639
on the show is a bigger rating
straw than him being on the show.

2346
03:07:58.719 --> 03:08:05.239
Oh my god. And if that
lens, you can see that ratings pattern

2347
03:08:05.319 --> 03:08:07.479
in TNA Man when he goes away
for his injury hiatuses and his surgeries,

2348
03:08:09.120 --> 03:08:13.440
ratings do not go down. They
actually go the other way. It's really

2349
03:08:13.559 --> 03:08:18.840
fucking like, I don't know how
he even handles that ship. I know,

2350
03:08:20.120 --> 03:08:20.760
well, he's gotta find an exit
plane. He's gotta, you know,

2351
03:08:20.920 --> 03:08:26.559
start collecting reasons why it's somebody else's
fault or why you know what I

2352
03:08:26.639 --> 03:08:28.319
mean? Well, brother, See
the thing is, dude, I'm trying

2353
03:08:30.319 --> 03:08:33.680
see when I'm in the building,
brother, right, it's like what it

2354
03:08:33.799 --> 03:08:41.079
is, I keep getting you know, people, people keep changing the plans,

2355
03:08:41.200 --> 03:08:45.959
Brother, interesting building tuning in wondering
where's Hulk Hogan when they don't Brother,

2356
03:08:46.040 --> 03:08:48.719
people looking, people looking for Hulk
Hogan and so. But when they

2357
03:08:48.799 --> 03:08:52.079
bring me in, Brother, they
don't. By the time I come in,

2358
03:08:52.239 --> 03:08:54.280
Dude, they're like, well,
Hulk Hogan's not coming on the show.

2359
03:08:54.319 --> 03:08:58.399
So while I while they're watching,
Brother, but there's this whole thing,

2360
03:08:58.479 --> 03:09:01.440
dude, that's going on, this
crazy comin energy. People don't realize

2361
03:09:01.440 --> 03:09:05.559
that they got the backwards Dude.
They they tune in trying to find me

2362
03:09:05.639 --> 03:09:07.479
when I'm not there, Brother,
But then while I'm there, Dude,

2363
03:09:07.559 --> 03:09:09.520
they don't. They don't. They're
like, well, I guess he's not

2364
03:09:09.639 --> 03:09:13.159
coming in this time. Well,
they realize how crazy people are about this

2365
03:09:13.239 --> 03:09:16.040
thing, Dude. Here's the facts. Brother. When they see that I'm

2366
03:09:16.079 --> 03:09:18.159
there, dude, and you notice
it's high quarters. Brother. But once

2367
03:09:18.239 --> 03:09:20.200
they know I'm there, they're not
interested in the rest of the show.

2368
03:09:20.239 --> 03:09:22.959
Brother. It's the shows I'm not
there, right, Dude. They want

2369
03:09:24.000 --> 03:09:26.639
to see that. That's the thing. Though I'm curious about when I'm gonna

2370
03:09:26.639 --> 03:09:28.719
show up. They watched the whole
two hours, so Dixie, I know

2371
03:09:28.840 --> 03:09:31.600
that might sound counterintuitive, Brother,
but I think we need to talk about

2372
03:09:31.600 --> 03:09:35.120
a big race for the Hulks or
in less dates because if I'm drawn Moreland.

2373
03:09:35.159 --> 03:09:37.559
I'm not on TV. Brother,
I mean, if I'm I mean,

2374
03:09:37.639 --> 03:09:41.840
here's the thing, dude, if
I'm drawn, if I'm drawing more

2375
03:09:41.879 --> 03:09:45.079
where I'm not even in the building. Brother, We're gonna think about dude,

2376
03:09:45.159 --> 03:09:48.440
how who else is doing that?
Right? You know? What are

2377
03:09:48.479 --> 03:09:54.639
the guys increasing ratings when they're not
on TV? You know that's something pretty

2378
03:09:54.680 --> 03:09:58.840
significant, brother, that I can
actually increase the show's ratings when I'm not

2379
03:09:58.040 --> 03:10:01.680
in the building. Wow, this
is great. Look at these ratings,

2380
03:10:01.799 --> 03:10:03.840
man, John Cen is really hitting. They're really up and flares in the

2381
03:10:03.879 --> 03:10:07.200
corner. You know the reason that
ratings up because I wasn't on the show,

2382
03:10:07.319 --> 03:10:11.399
right, and everybody's waiting to see
if I'd come out. How about

2383
03:10:11.440 --> 03:10:15.799
that? To some backlaid psychology and
wrestling, it's kind of like the nWo

2384
03:10:15.959 --> 03:10:18.159
argument, you know, like they'd
come out at any minute. And that's

2385
03:10:18.159 --> 03:10:24.000
why everybody watched every minute of Nitro
never knew when they would show up in

2386
03:10:24.040 --> 03:10:28.239
those early days at the nWo.
Fucking nuts. So that's the state of

2387
03:10:28.280 --> 03:10:33.840
Hogan for every twenty eighth Impact Brook
and Bully arrived back at the Impact Zone.

2388
03:10:33.879 --> 03:10:37.000
Now we're home from London, Brooks's
dad's doing better. It was really

2389
03:10:37.079 --> 03:10:39.959
serious injury and he's still at home. There really is no updates. He's

2390
03:10:39.000 --> 03:10:43.159
just healing and bullies is not a
lot needs to be said. He's messed

2391
03:10:43.200 --> 03:10:46.840
up really bad. Bully stomps out
to the ring to announce to the announce

2392
03:10:46.920 --> 03:10:50.760
booth, asking where's Taz again.
Taz has decided to run away again.

2393
03:10:52.159 --> 03:10:54.840
He's again afraid of being out there
when Bully's out there, despite a month

2394
03:10:54.879 --> 03:11:00.360
of TV going by where he did
nothing to avoid him. Sign the crowd.

2395
03:11:00.559 --> 03:11:05.440
Bully in Law's take that that's funny
bull He says, it's pretty dunk

2396
03:11:05.479 --> 03:11:09.319
cool to be back da back in
the Impacts. EM I gotta say,

2397
03:11:09.799 --> 03:11:18.760
I gotta say damn cool to be
security in fact zone. But I also

2398
03:11:18.920 --> 03:11:24.319
gotta say that I have never been
more pissed off in my life. Well,

2399
03:11:26.360 --> 03:11:30.920
paces and aches. For the past
year, you've been running rough shot

2400
03:11:31.200 --> 03:11:37.680
oh the TNA. First you took
out Huk, then you took out Staying,

2401
03:11:37.079 --> 03:11:43.600
you took out Magnus, you took
out just about everybody. You're ruined

2402
03:11:45.159 --> 03:11:56.040
my wedding to brook Everything. Last
week should have been a huge week for

2403
03:11:56.280 --> 03:12:01.520
t and A. We were all
gonna see the return of Hulk Hogan to

2404
03:12:01.639 --> 03:12:09.399
the middle of the ring. Oh, I've never said that, Butcher just

2405
03:12:09.479 --> 03:12:13.879
gonna suggest what It didn't happen.
And it didn't happen because of the aces

2406
03:12:13.920 --> 03:12:22.600
and eights, haces and eights Devon
especially. I swear to God, I

2407
03:12:22.719 --> 03:12:28.200
am going to get my hands on
you. I'm gonna get my hands on

2408
03:12:28.360 --> 03:12:37.159
you Devon so bad you will never
ever want to step foot in a wrestling

2409
03:12:37.319 --> 03:12:46.959
ring again. Now, there is
one guy that I also want to speak

2410
03:12:48.000 --> 03:12:52.879
to, and it's the one guy
that everybody here has been waiting to see

2411
03:12:52.280 --> 03:13:01.200
for the past four weeks. He's
another guy that he says an eight took

2412
03:13:01.280 --> 03:13:05.959
out, and he's the guy that
I will be facing at lockdown for the

2413
03:13:07.120 --> 03:13:16.200
TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Ladies and
gentlemen, the World Heavyweight Champion. Jeff

2414
03:13:26.879 --> 03:13:33.840
Hi Hi, Jeff. Never in
my wildest dreams, bro Never in my

2415
03:13:35.000 --> 03:13:39.879
wildest dreams that I ever think that
me and you would be standing across from

2416
03:13:39.920 --> 03:13:46.799
one another, one another, getting
ready to wrestle for the most prestigious singles

2417
03:13:48.159 --> 03:13:56.559
World Heavyweight Championship and professional wrestling.
Let the build begin. How the fuck

2418
03:13:56.680 --> 03:14:01.239
did he? How do we move
that face? What's that? How did

2419
03:14:01.280 --> 03:14:07.680
he say that with a straight face? That being the most prestigious singles title

2420
03:14:07.760 --> 03:14:16.399
in the fucking world. Well,
you disagree slightly. I think my mom's

2421
03:14:16.399 --> 03:14:20.799
got a more prestigious belt than that. My mom's got a more prestigious belt

2422
03:14:20.920 --> 03:14:30.879
from fucking from it was saved from
fucking Macesar Jordan Marsh much better, so

2423
03:14:31.079 --> 03:14:35.000
much better than my sug so much
better, or from Fine Lean's basement.

2424
03:14:35.239 --> 03:14:43.479
So we have moved from Bully Brookhogan
to Bully now faced face with the world

2425
03:14:43.600 --> 03:14:46.239
champion building the lockdown made event for
the title. And I know that that's

2426
03:14:46.319 --> 03:14:50.559
the storyline, is that Bully doesn't
really deserve this, and we find out

2427
03:14:50.600 --> 03:14:54.040
later it was subterfuge at work.
But I don't know, it feels a

2428
03:14:54.040 --> 03:14:58.920
little abrupt to me that like,
all right, right, this is this

2429
03:14:58.040 --> 03:15:01.440
is gonna be it really like Bull
he's really gonna get the title shot.

2430
03:15:01.479 --> 03:15:09.680
It makes Hulk look a total bitch. Oh yeah, I I mean,

2431
03:15:11.040 --> 03:15:16.159
I don't know everybody knows about your
history, Jeff. It's so I I

2432
03:15:20.000 --> 03:15:22.680
mean, what would what would you
suggest they do? Honestly? I mean

2433
03:15:22.840 --> 03:15:28.280
I don't Yeah, you know,
he can still turn on Hulk in the

2434
03:15:28.399 --> 03:15:33.120
end with it. I mean,
he got reinstated, that's all he was

2435
03:15:33.159 --> 03:15:37.360
looking to do. The whole manipulation
of getting brooked to believe that he loved

2436
03:15:37.399 --> 03:15:41.479
her was to get reinstated as a
wrestler. That's enough. Then he can

2437
03:15:41.520 --> 03:15:43.959
actually, you know, earn the
title shot if they want to do this

2438
03:15:43.079 --> 03:15:46.360
angle as the as the you know, main event with him holding the belt

2439
03:15:46.440 --> 03:15:50.680
high. I don't know, I
guess you know, it's not bad,

2440
03:15:50.760 --> 03:15:54.360
it's not actively bad. It's just
it's it's abrupt to me. It kind

2441
03:15:54.440 --> 03:15:58.000
of it is abrupt. I mean
I wish in a weird way, you

2442
03:15:58.079 --> 03:16:03.239
know, because what makes it kind
of weird is that there's no concern about

2443
03:16:03.440 --> 03:16:09.600
the and I mean, I guess
again when you think about it, there

2444
03:16:09.840 --> 03:16:15.479
really would be no concern with aces
and eights, right, but people who

2445
03:16:15.520 --> 03:16:20.799
were screwed in the projec Yeah right, I mean, well, fortunately there

2446
03:16:20.879 --> 03:16:26.200
was no fucking James Storm bullshit to
his fucking voice. Yeah yeah, yess.

2447
03:16:26.239 --> 03:16:28.719
It depends who they would select to
be that person. But no,

2448
03:16:28.840 --> 03:16:31.840
it's just it's classic TNA. You
know, they have something that's very consequential,

2449
03:16:31.040 --> 03:16:33.319
like you see a main event of
the biggest payer for you of the

2450
03:16:33.399 --> 03:16:35.760
year or one of you want to
be able to trace back to the angle

2451
03:16:35.840 --> 03:16:39.120
or the moment where that match was
made and feel like that was big to

2452
03:16:39.360 --> 03:16:43.120
trace back why Bully Ray got this
title shot. It's like one throwaway line

2453
03:16:43.159 --> 03:16:48.479
on one episode of Impact where Hogan
just says it's him and then make a

2454
03:16:48.559 --> 03:16:50.959
deal out of it. I'm not
saying they don't emphasize it, but as

2455
03:16:50.000 --> 03:16:52.000
the weeks go, they don't.
You know, as the weeks go,

2456
03:16:52.159 --> 03:16:56.799
it becomes like more and more of
a distant thing that it almost seemed like

2457
03:16:56.879 --> 03:16:58.639
they did because they had to force
a pivot to Bully, not because the

2458
03:16:58.719 --> 03:17:03.920
plan and was Bully you know,
yeah, yep. And now it's just

2459
03:17:05.000 --> 03:17:07.920
about like the Bully Jeff Hardy history, as Bully says, everybody knows about

2460
03:17:07.920 --> 03:17:09.840
your history, Jeff. But to
be honest, I don't feel right about

2461
03:17:09.879 --> 03:17:11.559
this. I don't want to get
the title shots because I'm Hulk's son in

2462
03:17:11.639 --> 03:17:15.079
law. There are a lot of
other guys who might have been better choices

2463
03:17:15.120 --> 03:17:16.319
than me. Hulk set up all
these matches and he said he was going

2464
03:17:16.399 --> 03:17:20.559
to make decisions based on who impressed
him the most, and it wasn't me,

2465
03:17:20.680 --> 03:17:22.440
man, and I'm not sure that
this is the way I want to

2466
03:17:22.479 --> 03:17:24.920
face you. I'm not positive if
I'm the right guy to face you would

2467
03:17:24.959 --> 03:17:26.760
lockdown and Hardy says, first of
all, it's great to be back in

2468
03:17:26.760 --> 03:17:33.040
the impact zone, Hardy Chance,
I love the fact Hogan shows you say

2469
03:17:33.440 --> 03:17:35.200
so we have to get Jeff Hardy
endorsing Bully getting the title shot, and

2470
03:17:35.239 --> 03:17:39.200
I don't that'll help. Of course, I guess that helps something. Yeah,

2471
03:17:39.239 --> 03:17:41.600
I'm fine with the guy who can't
even walk on a strain quad,

2472
03:17:41.639 --> 03:17:43.479
who won no matches to get this
shot taking me on for the belt.

2473
03:17:43.520 --> 03:17:46.879
It's fine. I would have you
know. We swung a lot of chairs

2474
03:17:46.920 --> 03:17:50.280
together, he says, climbed a
lot of ladders, and we broke a

2475
03:17:50.360 --> 03:17:52.719
lot of tables. Now we take
it to the cage. We reinvented ourselves

2476
03:17:52.760 --> 03:17:56.639
at Lockdown. We're going to reinvent
our history. May the best man win

2477
03:17:56.639 --> 03:18:01.680
and Christ Daniels and Kazarian come out. Because in his scarf and his Spider

2478
03:18:01.760 --> 03:18:05.719
Man comic T shirt, a cast
still very much in the untucked button up

2479
03:18:05.799 --> 03:18:09.159
brigade. That was tna okay,
Bully says, you did not hear this

2480
03:18:09.600 --> 03:18:13.280
title shot. You're not earn this
title shot. They tell, Bully,

2481
03:18:13.559 --> 03:18:16.719
you tropeed anybody to get it.
Yep, it's true. Daddy and law

2482
03:18:16.840 --> 03:18:20.120
Thunder lips himself. They say,
gave you this title shot just like he

2483
03:18:20.239 --> 03:18:24.200
gave you his daughter. I can't
blame him for that. Somebody has to

2484
03:18:24.280 --> 03:18:26.879
rub tanning lotion on Brooks back and
tweet tasteless photos of her. They say,

2485
03:18:28.040 --> 03:18:33.440
well, be you, Daniels and
Bully. They call him Bully Raymond.

2486
03:18:33.360 --> 03:18:39.559
That's funny. Everybody loves everyone hates
Bully Raymond. I had a been

2487
03:18:39.600 --> 03:18:41.760
a T shirt. That's funny.
The only person who deserves to be in

2488
03:18:41.799 --> 03:18:46.799
the lockdown main event less than you
is um You. He points to jeff

2489
03:18:46.799 --> 03:18:52.479
Hardy and calls him Jefferson. You
guys suff He says he has an apple

2490
03:18:52.520 --> 03:18:56.959
to Jefferson, Jefferson Hardy. Jefferson
Hardy, Jefferson Hardy sounds like a founding

2491
03:18:58.000 --> 03:19:01.639
father, of course. Chris Daniel
says the appletini in his hand while he's

2492
03:19:01.680 --> 03:19:05.360
doing all this. That was his
gammick. He says. Last month,

2493
03:19:05.360 --> 03:19:07.840
I out wrestled you like luth as
his favorite son. And the only reason

2494
03:19:07.920 --> 03:19:11.959
you've got your hand raised is because
of the poisonous pigment on your skin.

2495
03:19:13.360 --> 03:19:16.440
I had an allergic reaction to it, and you know it. Of course,

2496
03:19:16.479 --> 03:19:20.120
I'm happy to wrestle each other.
Of course you're happy to wrestle each

2497
03:19:20.159 --> 03:19:22.680
other, you two, because neither
one of you want a piece of real

2498
03:19:22.760 --> 03:19:26.559
men like us. And so if
you're done glad handing each other, he

2499
03:19:26.639 --> 03:19:30.200
says, get out of my ring, because it's time for bad influence,

2500
03:19:30.239 --> 03:19:33.520
which was the Daniels Kazarian team name. To give the people what they want,

2501
03:19:33.639 --> 03:19:37.840
and that's permission to worship us.
Okay, is that it? Well?

2502
03:19:37.879 --> 03:19:41.920
He takes the mic, sucks the
appletini all the way down, spits

2503
03:19:41.920 --> 03:19:45.159
it out back into a cup,
and he says, real men don't drink

2504
03:19:45.200 --> 03:19:48.799
Appletine's and throws it out to a
pop and challenges them, of course,

2505
03:19:48.840 --> 03:19:54.600
to a tag team match. Later
on Joseph Parkson Hulk's office. Oh here,

2506
03:19:54.239 --> 03:19:58.120
just I stand in awe of what
I'm seeing, Yes, as you

2507
03:19:58.159 --> 03:20:01.520
should. What am I seeing?
Delicious? Sting? You know what a

2508
03:20:01.639 --> 03:20:07.799
rib is? Now? Right?
Yes, Dan, I know what a

2509
03:20:07.920 --> 03:20:13.879
rib is. This just happens to
me in my lunch. But I digress,

2510
03:20:15.000 --> 03:20:18.719
Sting, I know that you're looking
to fill that team before to take

2511
03:20:18.799 --> 03:20:24.399
on aces and eights at lockdown inside
the cage, sting, choose me.

2512
03:20:24.600 --> 03:20:26.200
I know I'm still a green horn
in this whole thing, but I'm here

2513
03:20:26.280 --> 03:20:30.799
staying, and I'm gonna fight with
you. I know you. I take

2514
03:20:30.840 --> 03:20:33.479
those rule against tay Fab the Ribs. I'm gonna consider you, math,

2515
03:20:33.600 --> 03:20:37.360
I'm gonna consider you. Excuse me, tay Fab the Ribs, tay Fab

2516
03:20:37.440 --> 03:20:41.840
the Ribs, tay Fab the Ribs, tay Fab the Ribs, double Biz,

2517
03:20:45.479 --> 03:20:50.760
I mean, tay Fab the Ribs. I mean, there's just too

2518
03:20:50.840 --> 03:20:54.760
much shit going on here. I
mean he I really can't fucking He makes

2519
03:20:54.799 --> 03:20:58.440
the exact noise you make when you
do someone pigging out on food. It's

2520
03:20:58.479 --> 03:21:03.360
exactly Annoysi macau. He's actually eating
food like that's the sad part here.

2521
03:21:03.520 --> 03:21:07.440
He has a full tray of ribs, not just like a rack or two

2522
03:21:07.559 --> 03:21:09.600
like little bits he's holding in his
hand. He's got a full tray still

2523
03:21:09.600 --> 03:21:13.479
because he's fat. I mean,
this is this is listen, this is

2524
03:21:13.600 --> 03:21:18.760
this is what he does. This
isn't this isn't for comedy, right,

2525
03:21:18.319 --> 03:21:22.319
This isn't this isn't like for for
a character thing, he said. It

2526
03:21:22.399 --> 03:21:26.200
just happens to be a lunch.
This is his fucking food. Come on,

2527
03:21:26.360 --> 03:21:30.040
man, this is what he does. Fucking go he does this better

2528
03:21:30.120 --> 03:21:33.399
than anybody else in the fucking business. Gave me the guy king ribs?

2529
03:21:39.280 --> 03:21:43.719
What what did I do with the
rib stinger? Kay? Fab the ribs?

2530
03:21:46.920 --> 03:21:50.799
This company is hopeless. They really
are on TV. I mean,

2531
03:21:52.760 --> 03:21:58.680
what is wrong with him? They're
such a Yeah, if I've done alcohol

2532
03:22:00.000 --> 03:22:03.559
and I've done marijuana, I agree. I believe that's what they do.

2533
03:22:07.920 --> 03:22:13.680
Wrestling fans have been tricked again.
Drugs. Fucking thing sucks. Those boults

2534
03:22:13.680 --> 03:22:20.600
are as smooth as anks. A
lot do a live, no doubt the

2535
03:22:20.719 --> 03:22:35.799
ribs. Oh my god, you're
a I've done alcohol one two? Can't

2536
03:22:35.840 --> 03:22:48.440
fab the ribs? Okay, that
is a shoot. Oh my god,

2537
03:22:50.200 --> 03:22:58.120
can't fab the ribs? What's that
sting? Can't fab the ribs? A

2538
03:22:58.239 --> 03:23:07.559
fucking idiot? Exactly, fucking morons
running this fucking shit show. Oh my

2539
03:23:07.719 --> 03:23:11.879
god, dude, Oh my god, seriously, he fab the ribs.

2540
03:23:11.920 --> 03:23:18.479
He's eating ribs, easy fucking ribs. He really is. Yeah, We've

2541
03:23:18.520 --> 03:23:24.399
been talking about that for a decade. Na. Oh my god, I

2542
03:23:24.559 --> 03:23:33.079
can't. I can't handle it,
these fucking idiots. I'm out of I'm

2543
03:23:33.079 --> 03:23:37.879
out of I'm out of gas.
I'm like fab the ribs, fab the

2544
03:23:37.000 --> 03:23:41.760
ribs. And who's on there looking
to be noticed? I've got an opportunity

2545
03:23:41.799 --> 03:23:46.600
for you. Step up to the
plate. Oh it's Matt Morgan. He's

2546
03:23:50.559 --> 03:23:58.000
what you for? The ribs up
my ass? What happened to Matt Morgan

2547
03:23:58.079 --> 03:24:07.159
for stealing the Uh? No,
I said, kave fab the rigs.

2548
03:24:07.799 --> 03:24:31.879
Not eat them as fast as you
can. That's how kave fab means God

2549
03:24:31.040 --> 03:24:37.280
at this candidate meal without looking like
the dogs in Christmas Story. I mean

2550
03:24:37.360 --> 03:24:41.799
he leaves it murdered on the floor. Matt Morgan's back boss, if you

2551
03:24:41.879 --> 03:24:50.159
needed a reason to plug back into
this thing. So no consequence for stealing

2552
03:24:50.200 --> 03:24:54.360
the Freddy Blassierra robe from Hogan's beach
shop. Remember that whole thing nowhere.

2553
03:24:54.440 --> 03:24:58.079
It's like everything else they've ever tried
to do with Matt Morgan. Why does

2554
03:24:58.120 --> 03:25:01.840
it hating it? We're looking to
be noticed, and I got an opportunity

2555
03:25:01.879 --> 03:25:03.840
for you. Step up to the
plate. Joined team T and against the

2556
03:25:03.879 --> 03:25:07.200
aces and eight, He says,
Let me guess, Holster put you up

2557
03:25:07.239 --> 03:25:09.000
to this. Maybe he should have
thought about that before. He didn't name

2558
03:25:09.040 --> 03:25:11.959
me number one contender. Anybody who's
got anything to do with Hull Cogan is

2559
03:25:11.959 --> 03:25:16.559
just guilty by association in my eyes. So my answer is no big fucking

2560
03:25:16.639 --> 03:25:20.479
loss, Matt get lost. Yeah, I'm throwing you know, Jim fuck.

2561
03:25:20.520 --> 03:25:22.680
I guess we've got to rethink the
whole fucking strategy. Back to the

2562
03:25:22.799 --> 03:25:26.360
drawing board. Hey, do you
know that Hulgan went another surgery? I

2563
03:25:26.520 --> 03:25:31.200
hope with this back to the not
drawing board. How about yes, yes,

2564
03:25:31.600 --> 03:25:35.479
exactly, Hulk had another surgery.
What he tweeted a pick of it

2565
03:25:35.520 --> 03:25:39.200
and they showed it on the air, and he tweeted something like aces and

2566
03:25:39.360 --> 03:25:43.159
Ates payback will be hell on Earth
and he puts an apostrophe between h and

2567
03:25:43.360 --> 03:25:48.520
LLL. So the aces and Ate
stream out Devon grabs the mic. You

2568
03:25:48.559 --> 03:25:50.639
believe you have a team that's going
to take on the Aces and h You

2569
03:25:50.680 --> 03:25:52.239
honestly think you have a team that's
going to be able to dominate this club,

2570
03:25:54.239 --> 03:25:56.200
staying I don't know what you're thinking, but what I think is that

2571
03:25:56.239 --> 03:25:58.040
you're drinking that cool aid that Hogan
has been dishing out all these years.

2572
03:25:58.120 --> 03:26:01.879
Well, Not only do these idiots
in the Impact zone believe that, but

2573
03:26:01.959 --> 03:26:05.000
those jackasses sitting home as well.
I told you before, this is the

2574
03:26:05.040 --> 03:26:09.399
team that will dominate TNA. This
is the club that will dominate in twenty

2575
03:26:09.719 --> 03:26:13.040
thirteen. This club right here,
Doc knocks Anderson with a toothpick like a

2576
03:26:13.120 --> 03:26:18.479
bitch and Bischoff Garrett Bischoff now in
a bandana Art Garrett a lot, Yeah,

2577
03:26:18.520 --> 03:26:22.680
exactly, Gret G E A R
I T. Garrett along with myself.

2578
03:26:22.719 --> 03:26:24.840
All you're doing. Sting is given
a lot of empty dreams and broken

2579
03:26:24.920 --> 03:26:30.079
necks and shattered dreams. What you
suck? Chant breaks out after all that

2580
03:26:30.159 --> 03:26:35.280
intricate you know dialogue from the good
and verbiage. They just say you suck.

2581
03:26:35.440 --> 03:26:39.159
Adam good On said, it's no
different than Bound for Glory with Asis

2582
03:26:39.200 --> 03:26:41.600
and Eates waiting Supreme at the end. It's going to happen again at lockdown.

2583
03:26:41.959 --> 03:26:45.079
Think about that, sting um is
that you're going to lead your team

2584
03:26:45.120 --> 03:26:46.799
to the slaughter. Now you testify
to that. Sting comes out is my

2585
03:26:46.879 --> 03:26:50.600
first teammate. It's going to get
a killer response from all of you because

2586
03:26:50.600 --> 03:26:54.239
he is a killer. Talking about
Samoan Joe Samoan Joe. He doesn't say

2587
03:26:54.280 --> 03:27:03.399
Samoan, that's Hogan, Samoan Joe. Um, sorry about you, And

2588
03:27:03.479 --> 03:27:07.159
then then he says sorry, and
Devon says sorry about what you miserable moron,

2589
03:27:07.280 --> 03:27:16.000
Sorry about what buss, Sorry about
your canned duck, your damn luck.

2590
03:27:16.319 --> 03:27:20.600
Here comes the deer skin and beer
drinking Johnny Cass listening James Storm.

2591
03:27:20.639 --> 03:27:26.840
He's part of the team tacking.
He like what is in torn jeans.

2592
03:27:26.600 --> 03:27:31.559
I just don't understand his face,
his beard, his resting bitch face.

2593
03:27:33.200 --> 03:27:37.520
I mean, he's such a fucking
his leather cowboy hat, his country music,

2594
03:27:37.959 --> 03:27:41.760
he sucks his walking, his children
on the horseback. There are so

2595
03:27:43.479 --> 03:27:50.000
few people in TNA who have pissed
me off for just being themselves. That's

2596
03:27:50.079 --> 03:27:54.319
not true. But he's at the
top of the list, like always kind

2597
03:27:54.399 --> 03:27:58.360
of lodd Nobody talks right exactly,
like you know, like he you can

2598
03:27:58.479 --> 03:28:01.520
tell he had about four beers is
before walking out to the ring. That

2599
03:28:01.600 --> 03:28:03.760
makes him a baby face and right
because he's a beer drinking guy. He's

2600
03:28:03.760 --> 03:28:09.959
just a regular guy on my fucking
cowboy And pity for you because you're fucking

2601
03:28:11.120 --> 03:28:13.399
luck. A beer works, but
it's got to be in the can folks.

2602
03:28:13.559 --> 03:28:16.239
Okay, yeah, right, this
is a Nate drinks out of the

2603
03:28:16.319 --> 03:28:18.239
brown bottles. It sucks. James
Storm drinks out of the bottles, it

2604
03:28:18.319 --> 03:28:22.000
sucks. It's got to be a
Steve Auston or Sandman cann of beer.

2605
03:28:22.120 --> 03:28:26.559
That's just exactly exactly this fucking bottle
of beer with the right with with the

2606
03:28:26.639 --> 03:28:30.399
fucking stirrups on your on your boots
or whatever. And you're yeah, and

2607
03:28:30.520 --> 03:28:33.680
listen, I'm not I'm not interested
in the fucking drinking cowboy, all right,

2608
03:28:35.479 --> 03:28:41.879
anywhere, right, show me the
door, Yeah, exactly, if

2609
03:28:41.920 --> 03:28:43.280
you come, if you fuck,
if you come fucking in, and I

2610
03:28:43.399 --> 03:28:50.239
hear the sound right because your stirrups
are fucking jingling at it, I'm out,

2611
03:28:50.559 --> 03:28:54.239
all right, down right, fuck
yourself, go fuck yourself. You're

2612
03:28:54.280 --> 03:28:58.360
not intimidating your bitch. Oh and
by the way, this is just a

2613
03:28:58.440 --> 03:29:01.760
wonderful piece of business. Some wrote
us after, you know, covering the

2614
03:29:01.840 --> 03:29:05.719
Genesis of Aces and Eates on the
last show and said, you know,

2615
03:29:05.879 --> 03:29:11.079
the idea that darc Holiday was holding
the aces and ates when he was killed.

2616
03:29:11.639 --> 03:29:15.440
And someone wrote us back and said, well, you're almost there.

2617
03:29:15.639 --> 03:29:18.920
It wasn't It wasn't Darc Holiday.
It was wild Bill Hiccock, who was

2618
03:29:20.040 --> 03:29:26.840
a folk hero of the American Old
West, a frontier soldier and very much

2619
03:29:26.920 --> 03:29:31.799
part of the mythology of the Old
West that Bischoff likes to talk about.

2620
03:29:31.840 --> 03:29:33.680
And I thought to myself, Man, aren't you right? It wasn't Darc

2621
03:29:33.760 --> 03:29:37.520
Holiday that had aces and ads in
his hand when he was killed. Where

2622
03:29:37.639 --> 03:29:41.600
the hell what I've gotten that idea
from. It's not like I'm any kind

2623
03:29:41.639 --> 03:29:45.600
of you know, hobbyist about this
time period in history. I haven't studied

2624
03:29:45.639 --> 03:29:52.520
it before. Who Oh, it
was Eric Bischoff himself who completely misappropriated the

2625
03:29:52.559 --> 03:29:56.920
whole aces and eates thing in terms
of where that comes from, you know,

2626
03:29:58.000 --> 03:30:00.559
while in the same breath claiming to
be such just a huge fan of

2627
03:30:00.639 --> 03:30:03.719
that mythology. Of course he's he's
a huge fan of all that's one hundred

2628
03:30:03.719 --> 03:30:05.520
miles from his house or whatever he
said. This happened. It wasn't even

2629
03:30:05.600 --> 03:30:09.200
Dark Holiday. What you don't know, You don't know what you're talking about.

2630
03:30:09.319 --> 03:30:11.559
He knows, he knows better than
you. Well, clearly, don't

2631
03:30:11.639 --> 03:30:15.559
ask. Don't even next. Come
on, I'm like, where the hell

2632
03:30:15.600 --> 03:30:18.120
did I get that from? I
don't know Doc Holiday from Bill Hancock or

2633
03:30:18.159 --> 03:30:20.360
whatever the fuck his name. His
hiccock for saved my life, So why

2634
03:30:20.399 --> 03:30:26.040
would I John Hancock. I assume
Bischoff knew because he said this was his

2635
03:30:26.120 --> 03:30:31.120
whole I never assume, never assume
he knows. So next person on Team

2636
03:30:31.159 --> 03:30:35.920
TNA, Sting announces making his victorious
return to the Impact Zone. It's Magnus

2637
03:30:35.319 --> 03:30:39.520
being placed in a very prominent position
after a huge run in England on the

2638
03:30:39.719 --> 03:30:41.680
on the last tour. Now was
going to be on Team TNA at lockdown,

2639
03:30:43.879 --> 03:30:46.639
and who earlier on the show had
told Sting in a back to back

2640
03:30:46.159 --> 03:30:50.120
in a backstage heart to heart segment
that he was to eat a mentor to

2641
03:30:50.280 --> 03:30:52.399
him. Our fifth person, Sting
says, is someone put out at the

2642
03:30:52.399 --> 03:31:00.399
hands Here you go. This is
this same Stop telling you what I'm thinking

2643
03:31:00.479 --> 03:31:03.840
out of the box. I'm thinking
something new. I'm talking about somebody who

2644
03:31:03.959 --> 03:31:09.280
has put out by the hands of
aces and eights something like you. Just

2645
03:31:09.000 --> 03:31:16.639
please get to the points. I'm
with Canes and for the first time I'll

2646
03:31:16.680 --> 03:31:22.639
tell you what then will be showtime. I'll tell you that at your catch

2647
03:31:22.680 --> 03:31:30.440
freeze plush your other partner, I
say, she'll time ye shut your catch

2648
03:31:30.520 --> 03:31:48.159
freeze, push your other fricking partner. Shoo whoo. He's back. This

2649
03:31:48.360 --> 03:31:52.840
contract that expired and kind of disappeared
for a little bit, but they brought

2650
03:31:52.879 --> 03:31:56.920
them. People just don't like they're
the worst when it comes to contracts.

2651
03:31:58.639 --> 03:32:03.319
Oh god, As Meltzer wrote when
Eric's contract was coming up. Shortly before

2652
03:32:03.399 --> 03:32:07.920
this, he had written, rather
Eric Young did I'll be there on a

2653
03:32:07.959 --> 03:32:11.360
how show coming up could be my
last live shows of TNA, Come and

2654
03:32:11.399 --> 03:32:15.959
get crazy with me. Melta reports
the two sides are far apart on money.

2655
03:32:16.399 --> 03:32:18.360
UM said to be the last time
Young's contract was up, there was

2656
03:32:18.360 --> 03:32:22.639
a similar situation wherever he was coming
to. This is the situation actually when

2657
03:32:22.639 --> 03:32:26.879
it came to Eric Young and his
contract and how far apart they are on

2658
03:32:28.000 --> 03:32:33.719
money. Eric Young wants money and
TNA doesn't have any doesn't have any right

2659
03:32:33.440 --> 03:32:37.799
or at least they got to tell
Eric Young they don't have any. UM.

2660
03:32:37.399 --> 03:32:41.639
And this is coming off, you
know, months year plus of him

2661
03:32:41.680 --> 03:32:46.559
being a total comedy game there with
odd being nothing but right opening act comedy

2662
03:32:46.639 --> 03:32:52.319
routine. Despite being you know,
warmly embraced by longtime impact fans on the

2663
03:32:52.440 --> 03:32:56.159
level of you know, a James
Storm or a Bobby Rude or any of

2664
03:32:56.159 --> 03:33:00.559
those contemporaries, Chris Daniels. But
they bring him back and bring him back

2665
03:33:00.559 --> 03:33:05.040
strong in this position, and he
would never sniff that mid card comedy again,

2666
03:33:05.079 --> 03:33:07.079
at least in TENA. In fact, Eric Young is soon to become

2667
03:33:07.319 --> 03:33:11.440
TENA World heavyweight champion, if you
can believe it. And so this is

2668
03:33:11.520 --> 03:33:20.280
the Eric Young. Really really,
it'll take a while, but he'll get

2669
03:33:20.639 --> 03:33:28.239
get his flowers as well. But
again we mentioned the TV show he did

2670
03:33:28.959 --> 03:33:31.159
Meltzer rights. Those internally said that
this had been expected. There was incredible

2671
03:33:31.200 --> 03:33:37.680
internal jealousy within the company regarding Young
real named Jeremy Fritz thirty two, because

2672
03:33:37.719 --> 03:33:41.280
of the success of his television show
Off the Hook. Extreme Catches, a

2673
03:33:41.360 --> 03:33:43.680
comedy fishing show on Animal Planet.
The show, which debuted on July twenty

2674
03:33:43.719 --> 03:33:48.799
nineteen, twenty twelve, rather sorry, was something several and TENA were against,

2675
03:33:48.959 --> 03:33:52.079
and the company promoted very little.
After the first show was a ratings

2676
03:33:52.200 --> 03:33:56.840
hit, the company contacted the station
and wanted to get involved in cross promotion,

2677
03:33:56.120 --> 03:34:01.120
an Animal Planet showed no interest.
There was no The silly idea for

2678
03:34:01.200 --> 03:34:05.879
a phishing show was far more successful
than shows involving Whole Coogan and Eric Bischoff,

2679
03:34:07.000 --> 03:34:09.920
and I did very little to promote
his show and rarely used him on

2680
03:34:09.000 --> 03:34:13.559
television from that point except doing the
Ray Stevens Absentee Husband Angle. He came

2681
03:34:13.600 --> 03:34:18.319
back once but was not used again. Can you imagine? Yes? I

2682
03:34:18.440 --> 03:34:24.360
can actually now this isn't this is
a reality hit that we don't have anything

2683
03:34:24.399 --> 03:34:30.559
to do with. Yeah, Jason, so let's marginalized this chump bitch.

2684
03:34:30.760 --> 03:34:33.920
Yeah, he doesn't matter. Don't
think that he does. Don't act like

2685
03:34:33.000 --> 03:34:37.440
he does. He's a joke.
So I'm sure it's all coincidence. What

2686
03:34:37.760 --> 03:34:41.520
brother, So after this reveal of
the full suite of Team Tename members,

2687
03:34:41.559 --> 03:34:43.920
the full slate, I should say, the Aces Nates are sent packing,

2688
03:34:43.959 --> 03:34:46.959
and later in the show, Angle
is stocking the Aces and Nates and screaming

2689
03:34:46.959 --> 03:34:52.399
at him backstage, and it's amazing
that no one has thought to do this.

2690
03:34:52.959 --> 03:34:58.399
Kurt Angle locates the Aces and Nates
clubhouse, this mysterious remote location,

2691
03:34:58.719 --> 03:35:03.440
Yeah, hidden broom closet that these
guys have been meeting in their little tree

2692
03:35:03.479 --> 03:35:07.879
house. I mean, listen,
Universal Studios. Isn't that fucking big?

2693
03:35:09.040 --> 03:35:13.079
Okay? I see the lot they
shoot on. Come on like tree house

2694
03:35:13.120 --> 03:35:16.840
where they jerk each other off and
blow each other has now been located by

2695
03:35:16.879 --> 03:35:20.399
Kurt Angle just walks right up to
it. This is supposed to be weak,

2696
03:35:20.479 --> 03:35:24.680
months and months of mystery here as
to where this thing is, and

2697
03:35:24.239 --> 03:35:28.280
here he just finds it. Here, he goes, You're ready ready for

2698
03:35:28.319 --> 03:36:03.360
this? Should listen to the noises
he makes? Are you? Let's see

2699
03:36:03.399 --> 03:36:11.280
that? Who you are? Let's
see who you are? That's all?

2700
03:36:13.639 --> 03:36:18.319
How could you? Man? How
could you? Are you free? Who's

2701
03:36:18.399 --> 03:36:46.639
else wrong with you? Baby?
Riding dirty? Aces and Nates riding dirty?

2702
03:36:46.799 --> 03:36:50.120
What the fuck? The final masked
member of Aces and Eights has been

2703
03:36:50.200 --> 03:36:56.280
unmasked by Kurt Angle on this episode. It's two weeks out from the twenty

2704
03:36:56.360 --> 03:37:01.040
thirteen Lockdown pay per view or Team
TNA and Teammates and Eates will battle for

2705
03:37:01.120 --> 03:37:05.200
supremacy. Who was under the hood? Nobody cares? What does the future

2706
03:37:05.239 --> 03:37:09.239
have in store for the Bullie Ray
Jeff cattle match? It was you?

2707
03:37:09.120 --> 03:37:13.840
What will Hulkogan have to say upon
his return from yet another beatdown and instigated

2708
03:37:13.920 --> 03:37:22.760
hiatus? And what will Lockdown twenty
thirteen mean to the unfolding story of Hulk

2709
03:37:22.799 --> 03:37:26.280
Hogan and TNA. We will determine
that and so much more on the next

2710
03:37:26.360 --> 03:37:31.360
leg of our journey as we complete
the final year of Hulk Hogan and TNA

2711
03:37:31.440 --> 03:37:35.479
Impact Wrestling Next week on Total NonStop
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