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So we moved into the month of
May in the final year of our Lord

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TNH. Guess who's out off the
top? Yeah, I know who it

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is. It's nice two of this
particular taping. So we have to use

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b rold crowd reactions because folks are
quite as excited to hoax or a second

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time. Oh you know, that's
that's a really sad state of events.

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If if if or affairs, if
we're not excited for Hulkogan the second time

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around, I would have been excited
for Hogan, Like if he came out

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four times, if I saw him
come out every hour during one of those

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four hour, month long marathon tapings
back in the old days, I would

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have lost my ship. Yeah yeah, he probably didn't. He probably just

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came out once on those marathon tapings. If it probably didn't, I would

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have lost my ship. I would
have. I would have cheered as uproariously

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because because it didn't used to be
better. The reason you would have cheered

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more uproariously is not because it used
to be better. Right, So here

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he comes in a black holp.
He made me a T shirt. Now

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he it's all smiles again, and
the announcers put over the huge reaction he's

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getting again, and he's doing the
outsider pointing of course, and here I

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got it for you. Okay,
guys, Oh, I guess I got

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it for the very end you if
you have more intro, Oh yeah,

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just a little bit. They put
him all over stepping into the ring and

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standing his ground after his recent knee
surgery, and say called it one of

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the most memorable moments in the history
of impact, which I don't even remember

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n surgery, so it must not
have been his knee surgery. Yeah,

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just getting into the ring after the
throwing punches, I guess. So he

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grabs them, Mike to a chorus
of chance. Yeah, here we go.

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Apparently you'll like the drama brother,
because after went on last week,

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things almost came to blows between me
and the singer and the best thing we

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could do is get sting out here
right now. What's up there is the

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Icon there, hell out of my
ring and we're rounding third. It was

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the actions of aces and ages in
general, Holy Ray in particular, that

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have driven a wedge, a huge
wedge between the icons and the immortal One

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would be huge wedge exactly. It
broke two eagles collide and you're looking at

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them right now, flat square in
the middle of that ring. You know

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that's the truth today because one thing
we know, Taz cannot lay flat squares

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between you and me is already out
on the street. So let's call it

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straight up like we see it.
A little week didn't end with a little

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pretty picture between you and I,
my brother at the end of my face

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and close at the end of the
day down that rock, I know what,

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I'm right, it actually hurts.
I'm bad and him caught up between

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a bunch of personal stuff with my
family, with my daughter and taking care

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of business here at impact rustling and
at the end of the day, when

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it came to rusting people, when
it came to making choices, I was

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wrong. And when it came to
pulling my friends closer, some of the

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ones I ran off and the one
that I made the biggest mistake with was

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you. And right now I want
to apologize and let you know I made

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a huge mistake when I pushed you
away. I made a huge mistake when

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I pushed you. I should have
pushed me brother. But one of the

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biggest mistakes I made when I pushed
you away wasn't stead I should have been

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pulling us closer together because of the
loyalty, the trust in the man that

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you've always been. We should have
been working together. We should have been

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taken care of this Aces and Ace
thing together. And I want to let

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you know that one was on me
too. We should have stayed together.

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The way I see it, we
aren't together right now? All right?

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Where we are together? Right?
Oh, that's good. Oh that's good.

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Water under the bridge and Hulk,
I gotta ask you. I'm gonna

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ask for your permission because you are
the general manager. I'm saying, let's

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get Aces and Eights involved in a
six man tag. You let me put

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together a team for next week because
we've got to take it to these guys.

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We gotta try to get rid of
Aces and Eights now, Stinger,

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as far as I'm concerned, you
put your army together, you get that

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six man tag ready, But that
is on you, my brother. What

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I need to do tonight before this
show is over is find out who's gonna

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go against the world's heavyweight champion Bully
Rates. Need to figure I mean,

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also, shouldn't this all be done
backstage, you know, like in private

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at this quote unquote production meeting they
have in the afternoon, and then by

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fucking idiot, United Hustling needs that
Morgan is ratings Matt Morgan An Matt Borden's

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erupted by the blueprint. Matt Morgan. He promised to be an answer for

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a price like the blueplate special mats
the ball here. Let's guess how this

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one's gonna turn out. This is
the part when you just hand this jerk

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off another world, isn't it?
Have you not funny how you handle Bully

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Radio? Pretty funny, Matt Morgan. The biggest fall you have is running

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your mouth all the time before you
really know what's going on. Because as

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I look into my crystal ball,
there are gonna be no more mistakes.

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There are gonna be no more handouts
around here. In Anybody that gets a

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spot, deserves a spot, and
wins a spot is gonna have to earn

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it. You cut up in my
face, just getting ready to say.

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The man that's gonna go against Bully
Ray at Slammiversary is not gonna be Stinger.

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It's not gonna be handed to him. It's not gonna be handed to

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the Great Matt Morgan. The man
that's going up against Bully Ray at Slammiversary

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is gonna be the man that wins
the main event match tonight, and that

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match is gonna be between Matt Morgan
and Stinging tonight. All that's what I

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see in my crystal Ball brother.
I mean, you know, brother,

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I've been sitting in the back,
Dude, I've been looking at my crystal

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Ball man, and I'm wondering exactly
what the future and holds brother. And

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I'm telling you, dude, the
future and holds are double biz brother,

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right in my fucking face, the
future and holds. I mean that what

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a mess that segment was. What
a mess TNA is? I mean what

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I think happens here. I think
this is where we can timestamp what he

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was referring to in his deposition when
he was talking about insisting on being paid

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for another Sting match, and you
know that obviously being falling on deaf ears

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because I'm looking here and I'm thinking
he goes one week from Sting pointing the

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bat at, I'm looking to kill
him right right, and then the next

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week, all of a sudden,
it's just like this ham fisted like undoing

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of the story. Like in the
space of two weeks, he sting wants

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to kill him, and then all
is we're given, which I mean even

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even an impact that's a little too
abrupt of a turn in a sting.

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Yeah. So I guess if we
are to take him at his word that

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it was a sting match that he
asked to be paid for in his final

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year of TNAT paid extra four actually
might have been a sting operation, actually

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exactly. Yeah, that's true too, That's very true. But at the

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same time, it's not really we
haven't really quite reached the point where John

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Gaburick, who Hogan said he was
talking to about this in addition to Dixie

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Carter, has sort of been like
formally you know, publicized as being the

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new head of talent relations at TNA. It's still still kind of Bruce Pritchard,

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but I don't know, maybe maybe
it was slightly before it became public

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that he was dealing with him.
Yeah, because as we'll talk about,

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Gaburick first comes in, you know, in theory to help out with television

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production, to sort of be there
Kevin Dunn, not not to take over

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the job of you know, dealing
with a talent like like Pricks doing so

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it's uh, it's my best guess. It's also also to this this this

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you know, I don't know if
I brought it up before or not.

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It's been a long journey, but
this weird friendship with Hogan and Sting,

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like it's very bizarre, it really
is. It's so weird to me because

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they weren't really friends. Were they
were friends? I guess they were friendly,

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friendly, friendly, but like they're
acting like they've been best friends forever.

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Like I mean, and I know, I know in wrestling world,

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you know, the wrestling world.
It's it's like you know that that that

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doesn't always exist, you know,
like you think about it, and all

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these guys that we thought were that
best friends on camera, you know,

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may not even Hell, they may
have hated each other for all weeks,

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sure, but it's just it just
comes across as such a weird, such

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a weird thing. And it's been
this, it's been the whole time.

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And it's even weird when all of
a sudden, Hogan just starts saying Sting

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is the greatest wrestler of all time
every week. Yeah, Like what the

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fuck? Like, of all the
things to say, you got to say

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something that's so patently false. That
we just don't believe anything else you say

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about Sting, you know, right, I don't know. It's a very

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strange. I would love to know
sort of the contrast between how they interfaced

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with each other in WCW and how
they interfaced in TNA, because it seems

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like completely different, Like this is
not a Hull Hogan who would say Sting

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isn't too t isn't tan enough to
win the world title. You know,

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clearly he's right several times under the
Hogan Bishop regime, and he's wearing a

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T shirt the whole time. So
you know, I just don't I don't

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know for for them to be as
close as Hogan is portraying, like,

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there's no way that you could be
that close and have the history they had

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around start, right, I think
of these two at odds, you know,

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really exactly then, you know,
I think of them as always being

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you know, they had they had
two years where they were on the same

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side, and then the rest of
the time they were enemies, Yeah,

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bitter enemies and never really in the
thing is further like that's on television,

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and there's also no sense that they're
actually particularly close behind the scenes at all,

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Right, they're like ships passing in
the night for the most part,

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Like right when Hogan's on top,
Sting is way in the background, and

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when Stings on top, Hogan's way
in the background. And there right well,

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I mean he's home collecting his check
or exactly even before he came to

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WW. Of course. Yeah,
it's very it's very curious. I would

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love to know, like what's reality
and what's just like we're the two biggest

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baby Face legends under contract, so
we're just going to pretend to be best

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friends all the time. On television, Bischoff talked about how Sting really he

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saw a different side of Sting,
and I'm not sure he was saying he

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saw it at TNA as much as
just saw it later in his dealings with

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him, But he said Sting is
a guy that you think is like all

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serious and all business, but then
once you get him goofing around, he's

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actually one of the funnest guys to
be around in the business. But it's

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not every single time, every single
interaction. It just takes it takes a

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certain en wi to get him joking
around and doing voices and doing faces.

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And clearly they discovered that to some
degree at TNA because they just flip his

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presentation on its head in twenty eleven. Oh, I know, it's so

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true. It had to be some
sort of tender moment in backstage where they're

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like this, this is a great
guy. You know. You know,

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dude, I'm I'm seeing here a
whole different version of Stizz Will dude right

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in front of me. Dude,
And who even though who knew that Stiz

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could do this? Brother, Stiz? Did you call him Stiz? Stiz

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in what company? I'm so mad
that you hadn't turned me on to how

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fun this can be grabbing these little
bites at the beginning, because I would

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That was one of the first things
I watched researching episode TNAH. It's him

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and in the Bubba studio with Bischoff
in the earliest months of Impact. They're

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joking about how Linda should go work
for Vince Linda Hogan and then oh god,

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opposite, She's coming to take Terry
and Terry's like the tis like that

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Terry Brother. It's a Tampa thing, dude. Yeah, it's a tea

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It's a tea brother, tea bab
brother, tea biz brother. What's ta

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bizz brother? Not Apropos. Brother, I've been living down in Tea biz

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for a long time. So what
I need to do is, yeah,

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I got and that's even more awkward. We're gonna make up and just cut

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off this whole thing, this intrigue
from last week. And now I have

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to worry about the world title and
here's Matt Morrigan. It's like, fucking

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guys, this should stop. I
mean, just can you can? Can

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someone please just fire that big fucking
oath so it'll be Sting versus a pair

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of True Religion jeans and an Affliction
graphic T shirt. Later on Bully backstage,

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did you guys see Hogan sitting out
there? They're all talking and ignoring

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him. Hey, my brothers,
i'd see you. I see Hogan and

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Sting mocking me. Nobody mocks us. Now I gotta worry about Morgan and

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Sting. I ain't warned about either
one. No matter how I get to

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Boston, I'll get the job done. So this is to deter who faces

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Bully right for the title Slam Aniversary, which takes place in Boston Beantown.

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According to tisel Um, he says, Bully does that Kurt Angel has been

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a thorn in the club side since
day one, so keep but he keeps

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getting back up, so he wants
him taken out. And who's it gonna

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be? Devon is he gonna do
it? West has put me in.

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I were to beat Kurt three times, Garrett Bischoff says, let me go

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out there and finish him off with
a with a chain in his hand.

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Oh god, and nothing like that
chain I know, the biker chain off.

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Hew de la Brown says, I'm
the one. Oh great, that's

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who we need. He's going to
take the honor of destroying the Olympic gold

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medalist and bullying and kid welcome,
welcome to again here in two thousand and

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all over again. No shit,
Delo Brown and Curt angle if they're taking

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dealough less than seriously, and Bully
says, you're gonna get it done,

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guarantee it. They lift beer bottles, they clink them. You swear on

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your colors, he says, Todlow
and they clink again, to some awkward

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silence. On your colors, boss, Why would you call something that's only

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black and white your colors? That's
gang that's gang talk, man, like

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the lack of colors. I mean
to be one time so you're gonna wear

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your colors, dude, you gotta
wear your colors versus later to me,

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to me, that's that's that's as
offensive as a cut I was. I

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was involved in in a in a
like it's it's weird. I don't never

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understood that the whole term about it. And maybe someone else can. Who's

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who's more into you know, you
know, gang culture such as it is,

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slang and whatever, but like,
you know, because I was part

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of of a theater company in LA
that treated itself more like a club a

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gang than it was so awful.
Man, it was so about Jesus.

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Oh dude, No, it wasn't
even dude. It was like so it

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was this guy. Um, they
were they the the the name of the

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theater group was the Street School Artist
Club. I mean, how cool is

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that? Oh? No, right? And you know the guy, the

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guy who headed it up. He
he grew up with with uh with Josh

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Brolinka. All right, they're friends
from way back. And this guy is

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is a hanger honor for for for
for Josh Brolin. Yeah, easy,

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at least he was. I don't
know, I haven't I've I've definitely cut

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ties with him after years because I
mean when I quit, I was like

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I could get out of here.
He like theater. A lot of theater

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organizations. I'm not sure what it
is like now, but a lot of

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theater groups in la Are you have
to pay dues to them. And that's

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not just this one. Like a
lot of theater companies. You have to

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pay dues to belong and then you're
kind of guaranteed a spot in a show

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you know, or whatever show you
want to be in. You don't get

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paid, but japay, wow,
yeah, it's it's it's really it's it's

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really crazy. Um. And this
was one of them, and it was

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extremely expensive and there was no there
was no, Um, we didn't put

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on a show. I was there
for like a year and a half,

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never a show because he would write
it all be original work. This guy

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would do. Name is Vince Riverside, by the way, Vince Riverside.

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And he treated it because he was
like a He was the frontman for like

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a band called, oh god,
I don't remember what the fucking because you

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know it's some kind of garage band
thing. Yeah, um and uh yeah,

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So he would very much treat it
like a gang and like a like

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you know, you he would want
if people were going to uh, if

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people were going to a thing,
um to like an event, if we

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were all going to an event together, he would want. He would want

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guys to he would want us to
fucking sport our colors if we had you

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know, swag basically, Oh boy, you know it's basically you know,

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in essence, it's like the LAPS
fan like you know, basically you go

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around, you wear a shirt to
an event, you're supporting our colors.

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Yeah, you know, that's what
it is. But it's it's like,

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oh, this guy was a fucking
nightmare and he uh he uh he tried

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you know, when I when I
just said I wanted to quit, he

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was not happy, and he basically
tried in so many fucking ways to get

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me to not quit because he wanted
my cash. You know, yeah,

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that's that's rackets. Yeah, you
know, he wants he wants he wants

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everybody's cash. Who's who's there.
But like literally we go to this fucking

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meeting and all he'd do is talk
like nothing would actually happen, like we

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wouldn't actually produce any theater. You
know, be sure they didn't all end

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up taking their lives on a compound
somewhere in Montana. They might have.

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There might have been a bunch of
that, did we all there was?

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There was a mass exodus when I
left, like a bunch of people followed

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suit. Yeah, and and we
all departed, And it was like,

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God, so fucking that's what this
must be very triggering to you. Then

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the faces and ate stuff, Oh
totally. I actually I didn't even really

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final I didn't even thought about it
actually for a while. But yeah,

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this is uh, like, we
had a fucking blowout. We had a

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fucking blowout this guy and I when
I when I was talking when I wanted

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to quit, I had to go
up to his fucking apartment in um Sierra

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Madre. It's like a fuck an
hour away from my home, fucking drive

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up there to fucking meet with this
clown, and and like he made me.

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He asked if I would stay for
like another like two months or something.

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And we did a showcase in front
of in front of Josh Brolin,

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and he had I mean, listen, I don't I don't think Josh Brolin

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would have done this on his own, But Josh Brolan fucking came out to

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me after the performance and did nothing
but like talk my ass off and like

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like and and give me like crazy
ass compliments. And I was like,

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oh my god, think of myself. Like the whole time is he's like

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saying this to me. Fucking hey, he fucking put you up to this,

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like he fucking had you. He
said, compliment the shit out of

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this kid, so he won't go
it's a great story. I could tell

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it. I could tell it.
That's kafabe. Oh totally. Well.

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I mean that's the thing, like
we always mock pro wrestlers for being such

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shallow manipulators who think they're so much
better than they are it like lying and

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convincing people that they're telling the truth. But fuck actors like oh yeah,

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dude, good luck. They are
really good at making you think. Of

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course here, of course incredible you
know is like table stakes, like unless

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you can be fake, since here
you can't even be an actor. Yeah

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no, And that's just it exactly. You need to you need to make

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people buy in to what you're what
you're selling literally, you know, I

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mean in more ways than you know, not listen, listen. I don't

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think if if, if, if
we were trying to get an interview with

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Vince Riverside on you know, and
he asked for one hundred bucks for it.

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He would not go for less than
a hundred bucks. Yeah right,

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We we couldn't talk him down to
fifty. It's like a corns, right,

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he wouldn't go for that. Like
he's he's smarter than that. Yeah,

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I will give him that. He's
a smart guy. He's a smart

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guy. He's just extremely egotistical and
and like transactional. Oh yeah, yeah.

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So it's like going up to Brian
Nobbs at a convention and asking for

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an interview. It's like, okay, exactly, oh oh, we're talking

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about his price here, right right, But again, Vince Riverside wouldn't fucking

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get talked down. He'll get top
dollars. Well, speaking of that,

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Delo Brown versus curd Angle, Yeah, this is exciting. It was to

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know that basically this was Dilo Swan
song and TNA as he's about to be

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fired as part of the budget cuts. Awesome. Delo grabs the mic and

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says, I told my brothers I
was gonna beat you in the middle of

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the Turning Angle. I told my
brothers earlier tonight that I was gonna beat

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you in the middle of the ring. But as I stand here before you,

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that's just not gonna be good enough. I need to humiliate you so

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tonight I want to do something no
man's ever done before. I'm gonna beat

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you in an eye quick match.
He just he doesn't have it. Man.

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I'm sure he's a nice guy,
he's a hard worker. But he

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does and hab it. No,
not at all. I mean it sounds

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like a moron. He does.
Yeah, I mean he does. He's

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got like that. I know.
I'll tell you. You know that that

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has always bothered me as it for
fucking since nineteen ninety six or whenever the

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fuck he first came into the company. That fucking slope of a head that

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he has, Ah, it bugs
me so much. You're got to be

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honest around here. I know it's
a dickish thing to say, but look,

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hey, he you know he could
have done something about that. Fucking

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shave that bone down, brother,
Oh, it could have done something about

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it. He could have shaved his
fucking skull off. It's so it's so

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unattractive. It just it just makes
him look kind of like a goofy,

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kind of like almost like cone head
guy to me, right, I know,

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it's hard to shut shut that out
of my mind. It really is

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head haircuts where it's less noticeable than
TNA's I know, right, I mean,

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you just see the entire shape of
his fucking dome and it's like,

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dude, you gotta do something about
that. Please, Um it hurts.

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So yeah, he says he's got
to humiliate him, so he wants to

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fight him in an equip match.
It's like, why why we know that's

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the opposite, right, Like,
right, you're gonna get humiliated in this

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because that's what happens here. And
he taps Kurt on the head with a

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microphone like like a little bitch.
And then uh oh, he's in his

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hoodie and short sleeve vest in his
jeans and he does the leg lariat and

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and then Brian Hebner grabs the microphone
puts it in Kurt's face. No,

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he's got a fucking quit after that. Uh then now Anderson comes out there

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in distracts so that Dee look and
blindside Kurt angle snaps off a suplex to

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the floor. They go Angles thrown
into the post and outcomes the us his

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brother take a look, Jesus he
does like a fucking cult master. Oh

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my god, he looks like um
oh, it looks like a like an

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roah manager and some kind of indie
wrestler guy that like all the girls love

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all the yeah of course, yeah, yeah, you know he's like,

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yep, yep, yep, Like
girls with tattoos in their shoulder love this

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guy, yep, and like and
women like his wife with massive fake tips.

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Absolutely is La just exploding, Let's
be clear. Um So, Angele

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snaps off a souplex to the floor
throne of the post. Outcomes the ball

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peen hammer. Gelo swings it but
misses and it clinks rather pathetically on the

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ring post. Curtis then run shoulder
first into it. Um hm, never

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mind, I'm just reading my notes
and do you go keep going? Of

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course, Task calls Kurt's arm,
the wing, Come on the wing,

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the wing, the wing. Um
Dealo works the arm for the longest time.

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Of course he does. He sees
it. I called Delo the uh.

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Basically in this match, he just
took up his old post as the

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wide receiver of losses for for a
fucking stable. That's what he does.

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That's his job. Just you know, the stable needs to have. Someone

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needs to needs to lose a couple
of matches, So put Delo in the

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fucking put Dealo in the fucking cockpit
of that. It's so funny because he

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loses this match and is clearly part
of writing him out. But it's like

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he has a story now, you
know what I mean. It's like I

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actually, for the first time,
might actually want to see what happens next

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to the Delo, but they intended
it to get me to no longer want

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to see him anymore. But I
want to see him now more than when

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he just was sitting in the background
in the clubhouse. Well that makes one

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of us, yeah, doing nothing. So Delo drops him with the leg

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lariat, pathetic drop down across arm
breaker with the course crossed applied by old

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Dilo. As kurts like, hell
no, I'm not going to tap to

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that. Tas calls it the Judika
Tommy, which is nice of him.

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Yeah, and here's ta Tas ribs
Delo, and well Dealo looks for the

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ribs but that's not here. And
fun fickle is a great condition, but

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like I'll like a machine and now
he's fucking stuff. He's clearly having fun

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at this point, he's like,
oh yeah, it's like he's just trying

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to pop Everyone at the table and
they talk about, um, you know

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what part of the arm is being
worked with this armbar and Tas goes bicep.

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My friend, you're looking for the
word bicep. He's trying to tear

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his bicep, and I'm like,
I don't think that's what you do.

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It's not how an armbar works at
all. Right, across arm breaker breaks

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the arm at the elbow right you
want to, you want to you want

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to hyper extend the elbow and then
break at His judo training doesn't always translate

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to jiu jitsu knowledge. I'll just
put it that way. Taz's knowledge doesn't

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translate well at all. He doesn't
translate well, no, he does not.

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Um but ankle Kurt Angle finds an
ankle in this position. He gets

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kicked off and Ela cuts him down
with a clothesline, though before he can

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put the ankle lock on. Then
he puts on a cobra clutch kind of

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submission and asked the refer to ask
him for a sign of quitting. Angle

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gets free Ducks the German Ducks goes
into the German as Delo goes for the

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ride in jeans, I believe he
yes at this moment. Actually, uh,

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Kurt, actually he took He took
him home to grab his phone,

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and he went to www dot Lufthansa
dot com, where he proceeded to purchase

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a one way ticket for mister Delo
Brown to the country of Germany. I'm

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surprised, j I've never said he's
got a one way ticket on Lufton's KC

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Jr. Saying like that he got
him hooked up. He's telling him a

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one way ticket down the toms Dom
to Germany. Damn it, Durspiegel says,

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Peter shits on my ass. Yes, that says Angle got his hips

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lower than Delo. Yes, we
gets hip, We get grips and popping

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hips. Grips and grips, hips
and biceps. Oh yeah, like German

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shiples, puff of those hips.
Hold on for dear life. Succession of

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the problem. The problem is that
Kurt Angle's got his hips lower than Helo's.

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Gotta try and plot that. You
want a gets his hips for now

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your hips. You go for a
line. You gotta get some grip control

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for you and break that grip just
like I allocatorime here. Yes, it's

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holding onto that waist lock. Well, it's a Greco Roman style deal.

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He's got that gut wrench and just
keep rolling back into a flu session.

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Go quick quit. Just whoa,
that's a negative. That means no,

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that means he's not quitting. Just
for those out there that don't that couldn't

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figure it out even know where he
is. Complex Dealo's brains gotta be just

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getting scrambled out there so funny.
Oh my god, he goes hips lower

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than Kurdile's got his hips lower than
than Dealo. And he's got that grip,

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that Quicko Roman grip around his waist
and then he's gotta popped the hips.

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I think he said Greco Roman styled
deal. Greck, a Roman styled

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deal. You gotta get at gonna
handle him my grip pass. Just don't

403
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:55.680
even bother like seriously, I mean
it's just like it's so patently absurd,

404
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.279
and I mean, you don't what, And then I tell you what.

405
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.920
I gotta get out on a ship
tonight. I gotta I got a grip

406
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:21.440
on a ship and pop my hips
on a ship, dash pass. I'm

407
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:26.200
death long ta tough for nothing,
he's at a cruise. He's on a

408
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:32.279
cruise dinner boat with his sweetheart.
I got my sweetheart next to me.

409
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.160
Look, I'm an anniversary Okay,
I don't want to give autographs right now.

410
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.160
Look Look you know, look,
can you tell I got a nice

411
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.440
even though it doesn't button at the
top. I got a nice shirt on,

412
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.079
all right. I got no neck, but I got a shirt on

413
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:49.319
a button down, and I'm not
fucking do autographs. The fucking red hook,

414
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:56.960
Brooklyn, you'd say that again.
So Angel drops the straps but not

415
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:02.680
the tag belts. Uh hooks the
ankle Dealo rolls and kicks off, right,

416
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:09.640
because that's gonna happen, because fucking
fucking uh fucking Patti Melt Delo Brown

417
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:19.359
here can fucking break the ankle lock. All right, that's funny. Well,

418
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.640
I'm to Patty Melt. I'm curious
where did that come from. I

419
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.880
don't know. I'm just looking of
something greasy and cheesy that he could have

420
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:36.759
eaten before this fucking match. Greasy
and cheese. It's kind of like Taza's

421
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:42.799
call. Dude's greasy and cheesy that
he could have eaten before the night.

422
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.319
Did you just call him? Patty
melt delo. That's tough to recover from.

423
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:53.680
Man, I feel bad for the
guy. Wasn't that Pat Kearns nickname

424
00:32:53.720 --> 00:33:00.240
in bellator Pie Patty Mike. Oh
No, that's what it was there at

425
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:10.759
t melt pat tunamel eating motherfuck pant
tunamel eating bitch Curran, that's my nickname.

426
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:19.079
No, he fucking I'm a Patti
Melt side of fries onion rings,

427
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:24.839
friesion rings. Fuck. Oh,
we have a boardwalk, eat an ice

428
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:35.799
cream cone? Pass on pass.
Oh, that's like buying like a T

429
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.319
shirt at one of those uh stands
on the boardwalk where they like press it

430
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:43.279
in front of you. Yep,
yep, yep. Absolutely, you know,

431
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.599
you know, absolutely, like it's
something anyone's ever said before. You

432
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:53.880
know, you know it has a
collection of like of of fucking um uh

433
00:33:54.480 --> 00:34:01.200
airbrushed fucking T shirts from Coney Island, all right, Like he's spent many

434
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:07.000
a summer Coney Island and like get
so many fucking airbrushed custom shirts, so

435
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:12.840
much, so many summers on Coney
do it? Oh yes, pockets and

436
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:23.000
him Nathan's eating a hot dog.
It Dud's fucking living, you know,

437
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:29.519
because he again, like you see
how his cheeks just somehow gel into his

438
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:35.079
shoulders. Right, there's no there's
no neck, so just like his cheeks

439
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:43.280
just go right down to his shoulders
and just become torso truly amazing. So

440
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:49.920
um watching him walk down the beach, that fucking giant fucking head, getting

441
00:34:50.239 --> 00:35:04.320
fucking hot dogs and fried dough,
going on the scissla. It came on,

442
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.119
It's going to wonder wheel. Look, I did it when I was

443
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:14.880
a kid growing up in Red Hook. Idiot, all right, it's fine.

444
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.199
So uh After Angle kicks off Delo, Um, Angle charges and gets

445
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.079
lifted into a big time Samoan dropped
by Delo because he's a worker. Now,

446
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.599
I can't stand the fact that when
was the last time he fucking was

447
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:30.199
in a match? Years at the
Delo Brown Right, and he can fucking

448
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:36.920
hang with Kurt Angle Yeah in jeans
and Jean invest Yeah. Um, he

449
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.760
hits the moving Brian Hebner asks Angle
if he quits after he gets hit with

450
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:44.679
a Samoan drop. Taz even calls
the ref on that one. Tas says

451
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.760
to tud Kenney, I gotta wish
God, I wish you'd say I quit.

452
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.159
I wish I wish that fucking idiot
would too. He's the worst,

453
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.559
goes for power bomb, but Angle
rolls through a beautiful transition. You always

454
00:35:55.559 --> 00:36:00.360
notice that an MMA and pro wrestling, every transition is quote beautiful, beautiful

455
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:07.960
transition. Beaut it's if it's if
it's smooth. If it's smooth and no

456
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.000
hiccups, it is a beautiful transition. Or it's just a basic transition.

457
00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.360
It's just a mean right, if
it's basically, if it's not messed up.

458
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.920
So even if it's completely adequate,
right and not special, it's beautiful

459
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.880
because no one fucked up. Look, I'm not one to pick at the

460
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:27.679
beauty of Kurt locating an ankle in
transition, and that's what we have here.

461
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.360
That's right. As he hooks the
ankle, Dealo tries fighting it off,

462
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.159
but Angle scissors in the leg when
he drops down with it at a

463
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:36.920
start of the match. That's right. Dealo screens from dog Got and taps,

464
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.000
but there's no taps this as I
quit, and then Anderson and Doc

465
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:43.320
are just watching not try to help
Dealo at all, and he screams,

466
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.920
I quit, I quit, and
the microphone and Kurt Angle gets the victory.

467
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.320
Wonderful, Ken Anderson and Doc bounce. So clearly Delo has not only

468
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.079
let down Aces and Ates, they
didn't even feel like he was worth helping

469
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:58.880
out down the stretch. Then on
the ramp, Christy Hemming's there, Well,

470
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:01.159
Christy, he's just another battle of
the war with Aces and Eates.

471
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.719
Kurt tells her, but right now, I got my mind on somebody else,

472
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.280
and that's aj you get your butt
out here. So this is like

473
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.159
one of those let's let let's move
on from Delo. Let's like, not

474
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:15.639
even let the lasting visual be Delo
losing. Let's move right into another piece.

475
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:17.960
I love it. I fucking love
it. And that was what we

476
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.480
toget about people. And they'd actually
put them on TV to forget about them,

477
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:24.039
like you know some of those gut
check guys and others. They would

478
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:28.199
like fire them for real on the
air, like the feaster fired briefcase match

479
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.119
or one of the three briefcases was
getting fired. Really yeah, they'd actually

480
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:34.760
be fired on TV. It wasn't
an angle. It's like what the fuck,

481
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.639
Yeah, that's okay. They used
to do it that way. It

482
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.840
was kind of like this is how
we'll write you off. You'll get the

483
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.920
feaster fired briefcase and you'll be fired. It's like every single time it makes

484
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.119
the crowd sympathetic to them and expect
them to come back and prove, you

485
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:54.119
know, prove them wrong. Never
happened. AJ comes out, You go

486
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:57.599
in the easy way out? He
asks, Kurt. Does you're the reason

487
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.840
why I came to Impact because I
knew if I wrestled AJ Styles, we'd

488
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:01.960
have one of the greatest matches of
all time. I know you're going through

489
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.760
a drug time, AJ, but
me and Sting I need to know if

490
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.440
you're with us or against us.
And then he whispered something in his ear,

491
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.719
and then he says, if you're
against this, we're gonna have some

492
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:15.800
problems by next week. The choice
is yours, and AJ just stands there

493
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.320
as boring as he can possibly be. Bully later on said he robbed his

494
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:22.679
colors de Loo did and then he'd
quit, so forget about him. We

495
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.920
got a six man next week.
I'm telling you who's stepping up. It's

496
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:31.320
me you. It's me, Bully, you, Ken Anderson and you Divon

497
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:36.480
Later Matt Morgan's in the purple blassy
robe. They still remembered that he stole

498
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.519
that from Hogan's beach shop. They
didn't mention it for four and a half

499
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:45.280
months, but they didn't forget either. Staying in a T shirt puts him

500
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:49.079
to sleep with a scorpion deathlock in
their match later that night. To determine

501
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.679
who gets the shot. At Slam
Anniversaries, the announcers put over the amount

502
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.360
of record time that Matt Morgan was
in the scorpion deathlock before passing out.

503
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.840
This apparently required a couple of takes
on the taping and was They're awkward because

504
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.519
you know, Matt Morgan's legs are
so long, it wasn't easy for Staying

505
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.079
to lock it and hold it in
long enough to make a credible pass out

506
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.119
angle. And what you actually see
on this episode is more Matt Morgan whisper

507
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.360
as he's supposed to be out cold
on the match. Earl Hebner like,

508
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:15.239
what are you doing? Like call
for the bell? What are you doing?

509
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:17.559
Really? Oh yeah, But what
Matt Morgan is here, boss,

510
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.280
is Steve Auston at Rustlemania thirteen.
Right of course, right, That's exactly

511
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:23.360
what he is. That's what I
think of. I mean, how did

512
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:28.719
Steve Auston get over? They told
themselves one day, So this is definitely

513
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:34.480
step one in that direction. Yeah, but you know, no no,

514
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.039
so hebner lifts Morgan's hand twice and
then he goes, what are you doing

515
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.559
like? In other words, he's
supposed to call for the bell and spos

516
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:46.039
be out cold and aces Nate's menace, staying to close the show. This

517
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:51.440
impacted the total viewers at the lowest
of the year and the second lowest in

518
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:55.599
several years at one point one zero. Not going well. Time to start

519
00:39:55.599 --> 00:40:00.280
abandoning ship, time to start throwing, you know, flots him in jets

520
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:06.000
off overboard. Yeah a nineteenth and
two below Mississippi kicks off with Angel and

521
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.800
Sting and their Sting said his goals
to show up at Slam reversary and strip

522
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.360
believe his power by taking the title. We're back to this shifting in.

523
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:15.840
But he does want to wait for
June second. Why he asked for a

524
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.519
six man tag tonight. When you
want to assemble a team, you get

525
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.880
the best, he says. I
had to go for the best of the

526
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:22.599
best, and I went straight to
the machine. Kurt angle, I was

527
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.679
deceived just like anybody else last week. I made Dilo's ass tap out.

528
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:32.320
Kurt says, Dilo's ass tapped out. Yeslo, his ass tapped out.

529
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:36.519
There's a guy that could turn the
tide in the fight with Aces and oh

530
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:43.039
yeah, I'm ade Delo's ass tap
out? Isn't that's something to brag about?

531
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:50.960
Oh yeah, um, what's up? Says there's a guy that could

532
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:52.519
turn the tide and the fight with
Aces and Nates is Kurt talking a guy

533
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.199
confronted last week. It's Aj Styles
and he calls him to the ring,

534
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.960
and Staying tells him the Aces Andnates
are systematically taking apart TNA and we need

535
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:05.280
you Aj and we need the old
Stone cold and AJ steps away and ends

536
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.400
up brawling with Angle because he's so
pissed that A's trying to walk away from

537
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:14.519
this, and then the Aces and
Eights attack Sting backstage. I don't know

538
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:16.320
if they're talking about Dealo, if
Dilo was there, I wrote, didn't

539
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.199
know that there was a Oh yeah, Dilo didn't know there was a get

540
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:25.639
together going on with you guys backstage, clearly being marginalized. Oh. They

541
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.280
tell him we got some club business
to attend to and they leave him standing

542
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:32.159
there backstage holding his dick. They
tell him turn in his colors as a

543
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:38.559
matter of fact, take that cut
off your back, and others actually forcibly

544
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:42.760
rip it off of Dilo Brown and
they hassle him and take that fricking shirt

545
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.400
off your disgrace to this club.
And while hell Coggan's in his office.

546
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.840
Okay, this thing's way beyond business
for me. Angle, you can't do

547
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.519
it. You know what your doctor
said, Staying, Let's stay the course

548
00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:00.400
this time earlier today, your doctor
said you can't period, can't fight tonight.

549
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:04.239
Okay, he said, Okay,
you're right, you're right, but

550
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:06.519
but you know what, I've been
holding back some info on you guys.

551
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:10.639
Hulks says, oh, I've got
a wild card call today. This guy

552
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:15.239
comes in here. Oh I think
they're telling I'm sorry. Angle and Staying

553
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:20.760
are telling Hogan he can't fight because
of what the doctors are telling Hogan.

554
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:22.639
Okay, okay, And then Hogan
says, I got a wild card.

555
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.719
I got this guy who comes in
here and says he can sit back and

556
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.920
watch the ass Snates get destroyed.
And Kurt says this is a sure thing.

557
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:32.119
He says, yeah, that bastard
aj is out who we're going to

558
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.920
count on. He says, it's
got to be Magnus, Kurt and me.

559
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:37.679
Kurt says Magnus is ready, and
Hogan says, he's on fire,

560
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:42.920
top of his game, and if
you guys feel comfortable, if you believe

561
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.760
in him, I'm good with it. Then not quite the whole cogod endorsement

562
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.079
we've got accustomed to. So they
say Magnus is going to be the guy,

563
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.320
and then of course later on an
impact, Magnus is found laid out

564
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.519
in the back, so it's not
going to be Magnus good stuff. So

565
00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:59.199
they start pan if you're behind the
curtain, and Angle says he's got to

566
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:00.639
go out and fight back against the
wall, even if we don't have a

567
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.440
third man, because it's always about
the third man. Third Man's always about

568
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.880
the third man. Bit Shov's booking
and we see Hogan on the phone.

569
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.119
He goes, where the hell are
you? So he's talking to whoever this

570
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.760
third person was? This ace in
the hole. So it's Angle and Sting

571
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.440
and a mystery partner against Bully Divon
and Ken Anderson and there's no third man

572
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.159
yet does the bell sounds? And
today's talking about Sting winning the title,

573
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.199
shifting the balance of power at Slam
Aniversary Angle and Divon slug it out.

574
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.559
Early Bully comes in, misses a
corner slap and goes into Kurt Angle's arm

575
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.239
drag ken and sting it in,
mix it up, inverted atomic drop and

576
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:35.480
a drop kick by the Stinger.
Tessa's Mike Tiney has a gambling problem and

577
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.719
asks him what the odds are of
this match? He does have a gambling

578
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.679
problem, you know that. Of
course, Tenay dives right in and cites

579
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.840
the three on two advantage and that's
right, maybe it's sixty two to one

580
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.840
odds. Tenay says. He comes
back at Tenay and today says that's not

581
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:52.320
funny. Devon comes in and takes
over on Angle Anderson with a hyena laugh

582
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.760
out in the apron to Angle Bully
in. It's multiple avalanches in the corner,

583
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:59.840
and there's a reverse three D on
Kurt Angle, and then we cut

584
00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:01.760
to a camera in the back and
we see the aces and eights are laid

585
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.000
out and in a heap. TAZ
is losing its visual let. We see

586
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:08.000
a pair of shoes walked by at
the top of the screen, but I

587
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.679
think that was unintentional, and they
go to a break saying who did this

588
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.719
about thirty times. Who cares when
we come back, Bully, Ray,

589
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.400
I'm here to tell you with a
phenomenal drop kick. Yes, indeed,

590
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:28.199
he's like six point four two hundred
ninety pounds. Rip starts a scanning drop

591
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:34.239
kick like he spilled miss, and
I'll tell you why I talks you well,

592
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:39.719
Bully. I talked you well.
Brother, left your feet like today,

593
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:45.840
It's great. There, today's off
the leash. He fucking does a

594
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:47.400
standing, fucking drop kick. It's
really good. Impressed. It's not like

595
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.639
a like a kind of like a
mocking like. I know I don't do

596
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:53.880
drop kicks, so let me do
one, just like Earthquake used to do.

597
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.360
What's that like Earthquake used to do? Right? That's a good when

598
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.800
he do it. He basically it
was just like, yes, you can

599
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:07.440
get off his fucking feet. But
John impact about seeing his where he landed

600
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:08.960
on his hip every time. It
was so bad for him. I don't

601
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.159
remember that at all. Yeah,
John Cena drop kick. It's not something

602
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.480
you want to see more than once. Jesus Devon comes in with a slow

603
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.679
hangman's news neckbreaker and slithers over to
cover for two. Devon with the back

604
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:23.679
elbow scores that gets too and then
he does the leg drop and mocks Hulk

605
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:28.239
Cogan with the ear cupping and everything. What do you even doing? Just

606
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.760
like him to Steven Brother, we
didn't, Brother, we didn't talk like

607
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:31.559
that, dude. We didn't talk
about that. Dude, what's going on?

608
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:36.960
That's diva. I'm gonna talk to
your brother, yea, I'll call

609
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:40.119
you right hey, d Viz brother, Brother, can we talk? Did

610
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:44.480
real quick? I said something I
wanted to go over, dude. You

611
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:46.199
know, I'm telling you something,
dude. I just want to talk about,

612
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.519
you know, Connie your performance tonight. Brother, it was really strong

613
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.800
for the most party. I appreciate
that. Yeah, dude, it was

614
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.880
you know, you know de vissil. It was very strong, Brother,

615
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.079
big fan of everything he did,
except you know one thing that kind of

616
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:06.599
took the crowd out. Brother.
I was kind of taking by surprise myself.

617
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:08.639
I was thinking by surprise, Brother, and you know, more importantly,

618
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:10.679
you know, the crowd was kind
of not into it, dude.

619
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.000
I could definitely sense that, Brother, and they were a little confused,

620
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.400
like, wait a minute, is
this whole Cogan or is this divon right?

621
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:21.800
Like people kind of losing a little
bit of a you know, not

622
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:23.639
sure what's going on, brother,
So I just want to know, you

623
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:28.760
know what, you know, I
just want to talk about and what you

624
00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:30.119
know, what kind of brought that
on? What made you say? Hey,

625
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:32.960
you know what I wanna I'm wanna
be whole Cogan here, Oh,

626
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:35.960
Terry. I just thought it was
a nice tribute to you. I thought

627
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:37.559
I could get some heat you know
where we're trying to go against you and

628
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.360
oppose you, Terry, And I
thought that, uh, if I dropped

629
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:43.360
the leg in the match, who
would be you know, send some heat

630
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:47.800
on one, dude. But you
know, I totally understand, brother,

631
00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.039
I totally get that. But do
you know what that does? It kind

632
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:57.079
of diminishes the power of the leg
drop. Brother. You know, it

633
00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.880
just really just didn't. That wasn't
basically, dude, wasn't. I mean,

634
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.599
were you? Did you ask you? I mean, I'm just curious,

635
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.960
brother, are you You know?
I just want to make sure on

636
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.679
the same level. Yeah, I
understand, Yeah, because because because I

637
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:13.760
just want to you know, when
it comes to what happens to the ring,

638
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.400
I definitely, you know, more
or less trust you guys. But

639
00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:22.119
I just you know, this kind
of took me off guard, and I

640
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.320
was like, whoa, where's it
coming? Where's it? You know,

641
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:30.079
where's it coming from? Somebody?
You know? I mean, did did

642
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:32.400
somebody tell you to do that?
Brother? You know, like, did

643
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.840
somebody? Because I know I didn't
tell you to do that. Brother,

644
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.760
I'm wondering, you know, maybe
somebody, you know, did Bischoff say

645
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.800
it? Dude? Didn't Harder say
it? Brother? Are you sure?

646
00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:50.480
I'm sure it wasn't told me to
do that? I mean, brother,

647
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.639
I mean, we can just talk
turkey here, dude. I mean,

648
00:47:52.719 --> 00:48:00.760
wasn't Brutus, brother, No,
it wasn't Brutus the knobs Terry. It

649
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:16.880
was. It was Bubba and not
Bully. Brother. What are you saying

650
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:22.400
here? Dude? Look, I
know you're eventually gonna say anyway, so

651
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.239
I might as well be straightforward with
you. You're saying, it's been talking

652
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:35.199
about the Love Sponge, You've been
talking a bus of the Love Special.

653
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.679
Dude. Absolutely yes, says he's
got an opportunity for me, and I

654
00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:44.400
didn't want to whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa Wait? Brother, what's the

655
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:49.639
opportunity dude? I don't know yet, but I told him what what?

656
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:54.400
Excuse me? You know what what
I think I need Big John in the

657
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:58.559
room before we continue this conversation,
just for both of our protection. You

658
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:00.039
know, I want to make sure
there's a witness to this conversation. Whoa

659
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:04.840
whoa? Brother? Brother? I
mean we're talking, dude, We're talking

660
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:09.800
turkey right now. Brother, what
do you what? I have to go?

661
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.480
No, No, you can't feel
boxing, brother, because I feel

662
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:15.880
boxing. Dude. We both can't
feel box in. Brother. No,

663
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:19.440
I feel boxing. You can't take
that from me. Brother. You already

664
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.519
trying to take my life out there
in your ring. Dude. You trying

665
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.440
to take my life, my family. Brother, You're trying to beat me.

666
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.719
Dude. No, I'm boxing,
brother, You can't box in.

667
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:38.840
I box in, Terry, What
do you want from me? Whoa?

668
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.800
What do you want from me?
Brother? I don't want anything. You

669
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:45.159
accosted me. I was coming to
this. I'm a matter of costing,

670
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:52.079
dude. You're accosting me money brother, little little No, I'm not gonna

671
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.079
take this. Who is your brother? Who? No, buddy, Terry,

672
00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:01.320
don't worry about it that bubba brother, I'm gonna babba. Is that

673
00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:17.440
you fucking well? I need to
lay out, why don't you repeat that

674
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:27.599
for the solar system. I'm just
trying to get heat on the gimmick,

675
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.079
Terry Paul, What are you getting, dude? You can't get heat on?

676
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.119
Brother. I taught you the language, dude. I taught you everything.

677
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:38.519
Brother. You can't teach me nothing, Dude, Terry, I work

678
00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:43.559
matches, n ez W. What
look, I'm up on YouTube. They're

679
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:45.519
up there. I learned how to
reverse the heat. I know how to

680
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.119
work. I know how to shoot. I know when someone's working. I

681
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:51.599
do when someone here. You can't
work me anymore. I know. I

682
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.079
saw that Kade, who's non disclosure
agreement order? You had me? Sad?

683
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.960
I just got better than a brother. I'm you're right now. I'm

684
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:04.480
muna tell you're right now. Brother. You reverse in the heat, dude.

685
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.320
It's gonna be just like Saddam hus
Saints rain over Kawad. Brother,

686
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:14.880
it's gonna happen in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, you're reversing shit on me,

687
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:19.960
brother, Terry Capon back on the
phone. Who I'm devon? Brother?

688
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:35.400
What I saw a hammy through my
legs? Brother? Who like devons

689
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:45.320
got? He just lets him have
the phone? Okay, brother, Who's

690
00:51:46.079 --> 00:52:00.639
what muh huh, hold on,
hold on, hold on, huh who

691
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:15.159
what what? I can feel the
gas tank going to empty on Tnah.

692
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:22.159
I can actually feel it. The
essence of tnh the essence of Hulk Hogan,

693
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.840
who was her brother? I can
feel it, dude, who is

694
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:36.519
her brother? I'm not alone?
Wow, just when you thought you were

695
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:43.000
right. So yeah, all that
to say, Devon hits a leg drop.

696
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.159
Tess says, um, Devon might
have bigger traps than the Hulkster.

697
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:51.159
Todd said, I don't. I
don't think he's got anything on the twenty

698
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:53.519
four inch pythons, and Tess starts
saying, take your vitamins. Says,

699
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:59.760
Um, you have to Todd,
you have to take your announcing vitamins.

700
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.280
He says, oh my god.
Angle Ducks, said Larryott, And also,

701
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:07.559
Hogan's got political traps behind the scenes. That's right as well. Bully

702
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:09.079
tries to slap in the corner Angle
Ducks and hits an angle slam on the

703
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.840
champion tag to sting at tack Devon
Stingo and nuts in there. Stinger splash

704
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:17.280
in the corner, Death Drop drops
Devon Ken Anderson breaks up the pin Stinger

705
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:20.800
splash in the corner on him and
then a bulldog and to cover one two

706
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.559
when Bully breaks it up and there's
a face off between Sting and Bully as

707
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.519
we build here to slam Aversary.
They slug it out, hands absolutely flying

708
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:31.440
between two flying double egg hooks,
flying double egg by stinging hooks, the

709
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:36.400
scorpion death drop hardon me, the
scorping death lock, and Tony's screaming.

710
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:40.800
Turn him over and make him tap
yeah, okay, and we go to

711
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.360
a break that's going to happen because
as Sting turns it over, Ken Anderson

712
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.480
sneaks up and hits the mic check. And when we come back at table's

713
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:52.360
being fed into the ring and then
music hits and everybody freezes, and whose

714
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:54.840
music is it? Who is the
third man to assist Kurt Angle and Sting

715
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:01.760
Abyss Abyss is back and not Joseph
park Abyss If that is a four circle

716
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:07.400
on TNH, I'm all right,
he's wearing the kane the cane wig too,

717
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:12.280
right. The King King King King
King King Kane King King King King

718
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:16.199
King King actually has new music.
Oh and the music has played so loud

719
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:19.920
it drowns out any pop there might
have been for his surprise return and he's

720
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:22.599
coming out swinging and everybody double clothesline
on um Team three D. And then

721
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.320
why would they play different music for
him? What's that? Why don't they

722
00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:30.480
play different music for him? It
just wouldn't they want to recognizable music too?

723
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:34.559
They were so bad as music.
TENA was the dirt worst, the

724
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.199
dirt worst. They had a couple
of happy accidents, like the Beautiful People's

725
00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:42.480
Song and the aj Styles theme,
but for the most part, every single

726
00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.360
Kardanle theme is good. I don't
know what you're talking about. I think

727
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:53.840
their music is great. Fucking hell, um boots were both ken gets in

728
00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:58.639
he gets goozled and choke slam through
a table by abyss abyssed in. There

729
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:04.840
was his mouth wide open. But
what else is new head? The ribs?

730
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.079
Yeah, he's fucking that's what you
want to call what he did to

731
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:12.880
the ribs. It's five of me
anyway, hits a black hole, slam

732
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:15.320
on de Hunt and covers him for
the one two three. So Abyss sting

733
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:17.760
in kron Angle, ba aces Nates
here and tas this this is Hogan's fault.

734
00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:22.639
This is whole Cogan's fault. That's
who he was talking to. And

735
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:25.559
because Abyss did this to Nay,
screams, Hope is back in TNA.

736
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:39.840
Listen to this fucking phony. Just
wna time. I thought Abyss just came

737
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:45.360
back. I thought this was back, not Hope, Hope, Hope solo

738
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:52.000
from the I mean, like,
why is this match so important? There's

739
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:58.280
not even any stipulation, like are
taking the million falls? Why is this

740
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:02.880
one? It's so stupid, Kennelly
says in the War with Ace's Nates,

741
00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:06.599
I didn't like our odds coming in, but now I say we've got a

742
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.480
monster of a chance to do.
What to keep winning matches? I mean,

743
00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:14.679
you guys beat him all the time, all the time. Impact May

744
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:19.239
sixteenth, Hogan kicks it off,
put over the poppy gets and he's out

745
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.199
there cupping and all smiles. Oh, actually not, I don't have this

746
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:27.119
one. I'm shocked at Hoglemania.
Is this crazy lad tuple of Mississippi?

747
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:31.239
Brother, And I'm also just as
shocked that the way Aj Styles walked away

748
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:35.880
last week from stinging Kurt Angle.
But you know what, Aj walked away,

749
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:39.639
The cyborg Kurt Angle took the fight
right to him. Brother. So

750
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:45.440
Aj Styles go ahead and join Ace's
Nates if you want because who cares exactly?

751
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:51.639
How right? Yeah? Because way
it goes, Kurt Angle is going

752
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:57.960
to keep the chains, keep chains
right to slam Anniversary. Brother, So

753
00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.840
I hope you're listening, because from
my mouth to these Holkamaniacs years, it's

754
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:07.519
going to be you Aj versus Kurd
Angle at Slammiversary. Oh would By the

755
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:10.000
way, speaking of tonight, we're
going to have a contract signing for the

756
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:14.000
main event. There's no pot for
that, and I'm not ashamed to say.

757
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:17.199
Holt says that TEENA has been under
the microscope as of late, and

758
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:21.199
out of nowhere. A man who
came out here in this darkest hour,

759
00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:23.559
our darkest hour and saved the day
for all of us here and Impact Wrestling

760
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:27.800
was Abyss. And I want to
call him out here right now to ask

761
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:31.079
prouded me to shake his hand and
thank him, man to man. So

762
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:36.599
a business new music hits, which
awkwardly has this bell tolling throughout it.

763
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:39.960
I don't know what that's intended to
achieve, Perhaps the hunchback of Notre Dame

764
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.039
Ilk standing there waiting the music fades
out, Hulk says something music plays again

765
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:50.920
and instead of Abyss outcomes Yes,
Joseph Park, his brother. Of course,

766
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:57.559
Tessa's most attorneys are monsters, so
it kind of connects Impact with Hogan.

767
00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:00.440
There is about attorneys. I think
we've gotten that by now that we

768
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:04.039
know, we know that for sure. Park says, I stayed at home

769
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:07.639
last week on my couch, and
I watched and shock at amazement as my

770
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:10.360
brothers returned to Impact. That's that's
not unusual, No, not at all.

771
00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:14.119
He's been known to spend a lot
of time on his couch. Because

772
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:15.760
I couldn't believe it all this time, I've been looking for him. Hogan,

773
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:20.079
standing there, flummixed that he's trying
to convince him that it's not actually

774
00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:22.679
a biss, standing before him,
says, I can't believe he was here.

775
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.079
My brother was here, and hogans
is Joseph. I'm not playing brother.

776
00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:28.440
We need a biss here now more
than ever. And if anybody knows

777
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:30.480
where he could be, that would
be his brother. And then the Aces

778
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:34.159
and Nates music hits, and they
come out, and Devon says, Hogan,

779
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.840
we're not coming here after you.
We want abiss. Hogan steps between

780
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.800
Devon and Joseph Parks says, a
biss stuck his nose in club business.

781
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:49.199
He also stuck his nose at the
club backstage. He wasn't a legal guy.

782
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.559
Actually, he didn't stick his nose
in it. A club stuck itself

783
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:57.639
in him. Listen to Kate's complaining
about being pinned by the non legal man

784
00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:00.880
and a six man. Actually he
is illegal man, ridiculous. He's very

785
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:04.760
much a legal man. He's a
lawyer. He's a man of the law.

786
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.119
That's right, and I make him
legal as far as I'm concerned.

787
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.199
You need to get a biss out
here right now. And Joseph parksys,

788
00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:14.239
who, when the hell do you
think you are talking to the immortal Hulk

789
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:16.039
Coogan like that? Devon calls him
fat boy. Parks says, you talk

790
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:20.280
about family business. If it wasn't
for you in the pathetic band of thugs

791
00:59:20.480 --> 00:59:22.559
with you, I never would have
been there to look for my brother.

792
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:24.880
Abyss, you two are really starting
to piss me off. As he starts

793
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:29.239
to get clammy and his eyes start
to get wide, he's basically hulking up

794
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:32.119
as one of business. Joseph Parks
is doing right Hulgan's brother. As he

795
00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:36.320
does this, Parks says, I've
had it with you and all your little

796
00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:37.440
buddies. So let's do it right
now. You and me in a match

797
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:40.480
right now in Tupelo. And he
takes off his blazer and Divon makes noises

798
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:44.159
and says shut up and says,
who the hell did you ever beat?

799
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:46.559
And you don't make matches around here
for you have to prove yourself. And

800
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.039
Di Loo is who's out there as
well, So let me kick his ass

801
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.119
tonight. Somehow, I don't think
that's gonna go well for Dilo as Hulk

802
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:55.079
Coogan, Yeah, says Dilo,
You better be careful what you wish for,

803
00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.719
because, as far as I'm concerned, that match tonight, Joseph Parks

804
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:04.000
against Elo Brown Stelo just the head
thing. Devan says, He's got all

805
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.880
the belief in the world. Fucking
talking names is so funny because he can't

806
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:14.199
ever remember people's names, especially Joseph
park especial Parks, Samoe and Joe,

807
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:19.360
Samoe and Joe. There's so many
of them, Sting Moon and whoever is

808
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:27.599
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever
that guy is. The fuck is wrong

809
01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:45.559
with that guy? One two so
good, no doubt. We were just

810
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:53.920
hitting the Hogan buttons and then all
of a sudden, no doubt, no

811
01:00:55.039 --> 01:01:01.800
so good bitch off. What the
fuck are please such a up my TV?

812
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:07.119
I seriously Dilo, Hogan says,
you better be careful what you wish

813
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:09.760
for as far as I'm concerned that
matches tonight, um La says he's got

814
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:14.639
belief in in Dilo. I don't
know why you tell the best. When

815
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.039
I find him, I will promise
I'll take a chunk out of his ass.

816
01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:22.920
Mmm. I mean, okay,
that's a that's a lot. Ogan

817
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:24.960
says, you know something, I'm
gonna make this real easy for you,

818
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:29.280
Divon, because after Joseph Park beats
Dilo, like I said, I'm gonna

819
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.519
give him the green light to tear
you apart anytime he wants. So the

820
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.480
way it goes, that's another at
the end of the day. So the

821
01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:38.079
way it goes, So the way
it goes at the end of the day,

822
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:43.280
brother, if you're gonna have if
we're talking, dude, I'm tired

823
01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:47.400
of playing you know, stick for
Tamali up the ass, brother. I'm

824
01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:53.079
tired of playing hide the ball,
dude. I'm tired of playing strangle the

825
01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:59.239
hose. Brother. Oh my god. Shout out to Sean on Twitter for

826
01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:08.599
this litany. M hmm. Watch
the dog ride the Uni cycle. Point

827
01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:20.519
out the stereotype bock the raccoon.
How about this one? Can e Omega

828
01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:29.800
staining abron sleep in the castle,
raise the hammock, fart on the table,

829
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:37.440
block me on Twitter. That's a
real one, right, and finally

830
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:43.960
open a berest to stand ba there. It's time to stop playing take it

831
01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:50.079
a walk in the morning. It's
time to stop playing scramble the eggs knobs

832
01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:58.079
knobs what So the way it goes
is you're gonna have the whole Park family

833
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:01.119
on your back, Jack, so
testify to that. My brother. Later,

834
01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.159
Brooke Hogan is with Mickey. She's
still running the knockouts. I mean,

835
01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:07.119
your voice sounds fantastic. What was
up with this? I have this

836
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:13.320
here, but it was up with
it? Like it happened after Velvet Sky's

837
01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:16.679
introduction to the ring. They just
kind of cut away, and I don't

838
01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:21.039
think Mickey was facing her. Interesting, I didn't notice. It's very weird.

839
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.480
Yeah, I mean, your voice
sounds fantastic. I think the video

840
01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:28.039
is incredible. I'm so excited about
your music. Twitter's blowing up about it.

841
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:30.280
I mean, I'm so excited.
This is incredible. It's overwhelming.

842
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:34.079
Congratulations, Thank you. I really
appreciate that. Yeah, but I also

843
01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:37.679
would have appreciated perhaps getting a little
bit more of the spotlight this anniversary.

844
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.239
What, girl, I have the
biggest shows of the year. I knew

845
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:43.480
you were going to say that.
And you have to understand why I had

846
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:45.880
to let Taryn and Gale Duke out
there, crazy as it was clouding the

847
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.280
whole knockout division. All right,
just have to let them do their thing.

848
01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:52.119
But you know what, I know
how bad being on top of the

849
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:54.400
Knockout's division. I know how many
want that. I know how important it

850
01:03:54.519 --> 01:04:00.719
is to you. So I want
you to have another match again Velvet next

851
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:04.880
week for the title. Awesome,
Okay, okay, so better yeah,

852
01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:08.719
okay, cool? Get ready for
it. I will, I'll be ready,

853
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:14.599
all right, thank you? Absolutely
you gonna get ready there? What

854
01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:23.360
are you doing here? Who are
your favorite touts? Tell Dad that when

855
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.519
I call Sting out to the ring
tonight, it's not going to be so

856
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:33.239
much of a contract signing as it
is going to be a contract negotiation.

857
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:40.480
You better negotiate a divorce, honey. How many times so I have to

858
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:47.239
tell you I will never ever divorce
you until death do us put God get

859
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:51.639
out of my face. Of course, He walks around backstage from the title

860
01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:55.320
on his shoulder at all time,
of course, like what cool guys do?

861
01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:59.559
Come on, ye if fans can
do that, you know who haven't

862
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:03.960
even earned to championship belt. Certainly
the champion can do that, who has

863
01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:12.840
earned the belt. So he is
just torturing this woman. It's awful.

864
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.559
Joseph Parks later sees his own blood
and goes nuts against Delo Brown and beats

865
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:19.599
him with a black hole slam,
further burying Delow six feet under with a

866
01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:23.559
one two three. Bully comes out
with a contract signing, Uh, I'm

867
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:27.519
here, m I got it for
you. Do you know who I am?

868
01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:30.400
I'm so over that it's not even
a good catch race. It's not

869
01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:36.280
it's not like it's so it's not
good, it's not I'm not I'm not

870
01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:42.480
like I'm genuinely annoyed. Yeah,
in a in a in a non good

871
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:53.639
wrestling way, like shut up,
m him boy, Ray, I'm from

872
01:05:53.760 --> 01:06:01.000
God's Country, Hell's Kitchen, New
York City. Okay, another thing they

873
01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:10.239
make such a like I get that
He's Kell's Kitchen hasn't been a rough neighborhood

874
01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:16.079
in quite some time. Wow,
you know it's I know that they do

875
01:06:16.199 --> 01:06:19.119
it because of the name. Yes, but if you've been in New York,

876
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:23.800
Hell's Kitchen is nice. It's fine. It's like it's not like,

877
01:06:24.760 --> 01:06:29.440
you know, swanky or anything,
but it's it's definitely up there. I

878
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:30.559
mean they have I mean, maybe
this is why he's from Hell's Kitchen.

879
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:34.280
They do have, like restaurant row. I was gonna say, yeah,

880
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:39.639
it's more of the kitchen with him
than the right because I mean they do

881
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:44.159
have a lot of really you know, nice and different and kind of you

882
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:49.599
know, I don't I guess trendy
restaurants, but like it's not dangerous,

883
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:58.519
is it at all than Red Hook? Uh? No, No, I

884
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:00.199
think I think red Hook. I
don't know. I mean, well,

885
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:05.760
time he looked up red Hook,
it's it's it was pretty rough there there

886
01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:12.000
you go. But I don't I
don't think I forget what the fucking deal

887
01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:16.679
was with red Hook, Red Hook, Red Hook Brooklyn, Red Hook Brooklyn

888
01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:25.719
like about I know also, you
know that get up when they go to

889
01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:29.159
Boston. But I'm the guy that
defeated Hope. Well you probably have this

890
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:40.639
anyway. I'm the president of the
I am the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

891
01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:49.559
I'm the guy that defeated Jeff Hardy. I mean a lot of guys,

892
01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:57.760
guy that took Jeff Hardy out at
his own game, full metal maham.

893
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:15.800
I'm also the guy that will defeat
Sting at Slammiversary. Sting, I know

894
01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:19.680
you're back there. I know you're
listening. I know all of your fans

895
01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:28.239
can't wait for you to get out
here. But like I told Brook a

896
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:32.920
little earlier on, this is gonna
be more of a negotiation, not so

897
01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:36.319
much of a signing. And I
know you've probably got a couple of things

898
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:40.680
you want to say to me.
Sting, you probably got some sticks,

899
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:46.600
so don't keep us Wayne, Stinger, come out out here. I'm all

900
01:08:46.720 --> 01:09:08.600
ears, brother, Let's be honest. For the future of DNA and the

901
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:13.760
future of Impact Wrestling, it does
not get any bigger. It does not

902
01:09:13.960 --> 01:09:17.920
get any more important than the world
title match at slam Aniversary June the second,

903
01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:23.800
and Bosses a chance to get that
power in control, to regain it

904
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:29.199
for Tnah. Whoa whoa, whoa
stop right there, shut his music off,

905
01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:36.199
don't take one more step. I
want this to be official. I

906
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:45.039
don't want any discrepancies, so holding
holding you may want to step out here

907
01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:51.720
and wants you to this. Come
on out, dad, here we go

908
01:09:54.000 --> 01:10:09.000
Ki Holy Ray saying this isn't gonna
be a contract signance, gonna be a

909
01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:14.119
negotiation, and he wants the heir
of that man, the general manager who

910
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:18.439
hooking himself to make it all official
here tonight, Tess, what's the story's

911
01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:24.039
I don't know. I have no
idea. You know what, I just

912
01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:31.600
realized this is actually the first time
me and you were face to face since

913
01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:39.880
I screwed you over I was wanna
say screwed Brook. Yeah, since I

914
01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:48.960
screwed came over and everybody knows how
bad I guess screwing his daughter over there

915
01:10:50.159 --> 01:11:00.239
it is. You're probably looking for
an apology, right, well you wait

916
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:11.800
getting one. I really don't.
I don't care about your apology. You

917
01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:16.399
know when you get to Boston.
You should. You should take my arm

918
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:26.640
and snap it into what you should
pull my kneecap off, okay, dislocate

919
01:11:27.039 --> 01:11:30.920
my elbow. You should. You
should google me? Really you shouldn't.

920
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:35.800
You should just rip my throat right
out. I would take your finger and

921
01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:43.079
gouge my eye out. You you
should make me bleed. What the hell

922
01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:45.760
is what the hell's wrong with you? Do you want me to break your

923
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:49.359
arm, break your leg, make
you bleed? Why would you be telling

924
01:11:49.479 --> 01:11:53.600
me to do that to you?
What the hell is wrong with you?

925
01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:00.319
Because if you don't do it to
me, I'm gonna do it to you.

926
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:08.880
Stay because I don't care if it's
in the ring, if it's out

927
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:12.039
of the ring, if it's in
the concession stands, if it's up in

928
01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:17.640
the rafters, if it's into the
crowd, I am gonna make you bleed

929
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:33.840
in Boston. You so, I
didn't really have any demands, but since

930
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:39.119
you're asking for a demand, here's
my demand. I want to know holds

931
01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:48.560
barred match in Boston. I believe
it's called nod huh yeah exactly. Probably

932
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:55.840
think you got me just where you're
wanting me. I bet these people all

933
01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:06.840
over the world would love to see
me bully at your hands. I'll tell

934
01:13:06.920 --> 01:13:17.159
you watch Sting. You got your
no holds barred match on one condition.

935
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:31.119
You agree, you swear you sign
that when I beat you in Boston,

936
01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:43.800
you never ever wrestle for the World
Heavyweight Championship again. WHA hold on a

937
01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:48.720
minute, dude, such your mouth
don't talk. I ain't done yet.

938
01:13:48.880 --> 01:13:54.279
I'm sickond tight you stepping on me. Say it up, don't do I'm

939
01:13:54.319 --> 01:14:00.439
not saying you gotta retire. What
I'm saying is that I don't want you

940
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:06.800
to retire. I want you to
have to wrestle until the day you die,

941
01:14:08.720 --> 01:14:15.159
knowing that you can never wear this
championship around your waist. A dead

942
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:21.039
sting. I'm running the shore around
here, not him. You don't have

943
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:32.079
to do this, sting, don't
do it. There he goes again,

944
01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:38.600
making decisions. Sawyer, running your
career, running your life, telling you

945
01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:45.119
what to do. What's it gonna
be? Sting? Man up, no

946
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:49.760
holds good burst, the championship of
the rest of your life. Yes or

947
01:14:50.520 --> 01:15:14.520
no? Yes, still accepts the
challenge and out. Champion and challenger go

948
01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:18.159
at toe to toe center of the
ring. You talk about physicality at Slam

949
01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:23.079
Anniversary. It's gonna be no volts
part with so much on the line.

950
01:15:23.159 --> 01:15:26.239
Man, we'll see you next week
in Tampa. Sounds like just hear the

951
01:15:26.319 --> 01:15:32.479
stomping al. Those people sound so
excited. I'm thrilled. I can't wait.

952
01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:38.960
By the way, I should let
you know that apparently, uh uh,

953
01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:44.439
it's Red Hook is okay nowadays.
I guess the uh, the crime

954
01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:50.439
the crime rate has decreased eighty three
point one percent between nineteen ninety and twenty

955
01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:58.479
eighteen, So in thirty years,
it's it. It became a decent place

956
01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:00.520
to live. Doesn't mean what he
thinks it means. Huh. I guess

957
01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:04.079
not. I guess it's not as
dangerous. So there we go. They're

958
01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:08.479
not, you know, I mean
also, I mean, you know,

959
01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:12.000
the way they make New York City
everyone, it's funny. I feel like

960
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:15.960
whenever you say New York City,
people think of like the New York City

961
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:18.600
of the eighties and the seventies and
ship and it's like, oh, it's

962
01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:23.479
dangerous, big fucking city. It's
like, no, it's fucking disney World.

963
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:28.119
Disney World now pretty much, you
know, yeah, thanky, that's

964
01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:30.439
that's what New York is. It's
fucking Disney World. I mean, yash,

965
01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:34.159
you're they're rough areas and stuff,
but like it's not, you know,

966
01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:43.560
it's it's it's such a it's not
like you know, fucking far to

967
01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:47.840
the thirteenth part eight, where where
there are where there are fucking trash cans

968
01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:55.159
full of toxic waste. Oh,
Yeah, Yeah, that's a realistic vision.

969
01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:58.560
It's so fucking funny. I wondered, did is that coming soon?

970
01:16:58.840 --> 01:17:00.680
It should come soon anywhe Honestly,
got I gotta find a way to make

971
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:09.439
that come soon because because that's such
a great, fucking it's so awful.

972
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:13.479
It's so great though, cinemat Baby
always a landing place for those kind of

973
01:17:13.520 --> 01:17:16.640
things. It's right. So they
move impact now to Hogan's backyard of Tampa

974
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:18.840
starting with the May twenty third episode, and this is a big deal.

975
01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:24.680
They had a press conference rold Restaurant
for this yea is at the University South

976
01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:30.680
Florida Sundome, and you better believe
that they brought the gimmicks to this other

977
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:33.119
venture that Terry finds himself involved in. You know, we've talked a lot

978
01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:42.279
on TNAH about the many different avenues
the Holster is constantly finding to to work

979
01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:46.039
the people, to work the angles, to work the pocketbook. And here,

980
01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:50.880
um, not only does the hoaxer
hold court in front of his hometown

981
01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:58.720
people, but we also were going
to run a little his angle with cases

982
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:03.800
and eights is what would a what
would a wrestling press conference be without phoniness?

983
01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:20.000
And this first, why is this
higrophone work brother there, so it's

984
01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:25.399
conscious of the building. So thank
you guys are coming out rapper down and

985
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.560
uh this is a huge deal of
horse um and half he am hacking on

986
01:18:29.640 --> 01:18:33.039
the Tama my hometown. Um,
it's a huge deal. Yeah, I

987
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:38.359
haven't been back since the ES when
I was up a good friend of my

988
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:44.640
little shop. But uh, let's
really huge deal over us because recently just

989
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:48.439
move going, we were going all
of our shows at the sound stage,

990
01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:54.680
pretty small building. After call you
probably got enough on, We've got enough

991
01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:59.199
frashtion and we kind of made made
your forwards and wrestlings. So now we're

992
01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:02.359
crying all our on the country every
week the long run, I know when

993
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.359
you can come to the sun of
them, I'm twenty third of Hay with

994
01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:12.000
all the energy of all the damn
Bay residence, the performance like Max through,

995
01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:14.680
You're gonna turning the playtown. It's
like this one. Thank you guys

996
01:19:14.760 --> 01:19:17.720
t one for coming today. Thank
you so much for helping me with poking

997
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:26.199
speech. You guys go yeah,
want to hang so much and help me

998
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:29.319
with the load speech because it's the
first time I was trying to do a

999
01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:31.399
restaurant with my name on you guys. It's so supported one. Thank you

1000
01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:43.279
very much, thank you sir.
But anyways, tickets one said the dam

1001
01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.359
so you gave him towards you game, looking forward to the rank route.

1002
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.039
You can keep on out out of
the hoak speech half on nature and every

1003
01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:53.039
Thursday, you guys watch him back
to eight gam. I love the guys,

1004
01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:56.640
and thank you for sicky movie through
your thinking. Then you guys are

1005
01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:17.880
awesome. He fucking played thing.
Wah wa wa wa wa wa wah a

1006
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:24.439
Hoxter in his element. They're in
Tampa rights one last moment of serenity under

1007
01:20:24.479 --> 01:20:29.159
the TNA banner for the Hoxter there
with with with the beach and the waves

1008
01:20:29.279 --> 01:20:31.319
lapping in the background. They did
this outdoors in the pattio of this press

1009
01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:38.079
conference at Hogan's Beach. And uh
and yeah, so he's he's got he's

1010
01:20:38.119 --> 01:20:43.760
got a lot going on, he's
got a lot to dial in and he's

1011
01:20:43.800 --> 01:20:45.680
gonna lot to get back on track, to get back on track. So

1012
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:48.600
we've got to shoot an angle on
this thing, right, We absolutely have

1013
01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:53.359
to. It's otherwise how do you
move tickets? And it's one of those

1014
01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:59.199
classics where you know, people just
sit around and by the way, did

1015
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:00.399
he say this is the first time
I put my name on a restaurant?

1016
01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:06.520
Yes? Is that true? Does
posta Mania not count? I guess his

1017
01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:11.079
name isn't on that one? Is
it? Isn't it Hulk Hogan's posta Mania?

1018
01:21:12.039 --> 01:21:17.119
Oh my god? Why would you
say that? It's just begging people

1019
01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:23.079
to be like what I think the
video because basically Murburt Hunter's breath is not

1020
01:21:23.199 --> 01:21:27.600
true when he said it's the first
time he's been back in Tampas and money,

1021
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:32.439
you know he it's because no.
I mean, well, let's see

1022
01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:36.920
here it says Hulk Hogan's posta Mania. Yeah that counts. Yeah, brother,

1023
01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:56.359
it's wand dude, great question.
And so shoot, this guy's a

1024
01:21:56.479 --> 01:22:13.359
planet. What's going on here?
Grab the drinks and so still shop and

1025
01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:21.359
nuts this party? Hey, what
the hell do you think that you're gonna

1026
01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:45.359
make it to Tampa this month?
Yeah? Right now, make yell,

1027
01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:56.920
come on, bro, trying to
get the sun. We're trying to have

1028
01:22:57.039 --> 01:23:23.159
no fun around Oh like that good
sith? Yeah, yeah, seriously,

1029
01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:26.319
people were taking it. People are
standing it's like, you know, standing

1030
01:23:26.359 --> 01:23:29.399
tables like those. Hey, you
know what it's Oh my god, it's

1031
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:34.319
aces and it's as everybody, everybody, did you hear me? It's acess

1032
01:23:34.479 --> 01:23:40.000
almost positive it was a planted person. And everyone's just standing there smiling,

1033
01:23:40.159 --> 01:23:44.119
laughing at this angle like, oh
god, it's cords, it's wrestling,

1034
01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:49.279
Oh my goodness, exactly. Well
you know that's there. You go.

1035
01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:59.039
That's kind of funny. Mm hmmm. Well that's nice. One more homestand

1036
01:23:59.079 --> 01:24:01.680
for the Hulkster, one more warm
embrace from his beloved home city, the

1037
01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:05.479
city that was there for him even
when everybody else was not. And he

1038
01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:10.119
steps out like Tanay says, there's
a Hogan pop, and there's a hometown

1039
01:24:10.239 --> 01:24:15.800
Hogan pop. Tanya says, uh
here whenever hul Cogan. This is where

1040
01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:19.039
hul Cogan attended school and was discovered
by Jack Briscoe and Jerry Briscoe and trained

1041
01:24:19.039 --> 01:24:24.279
by Hiro Matsuda. His wife Jennifer
is in the front row, and he

1042
01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:30.399
gets in that ring and he lets
Tampa here from their favorite son, without

1043
01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:33.520
a doubt. It's great to be
home right here in Teatown. Here we

1044
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:36.840
go. Yes, I got this
one. Sorry, thought was without a

1045
01:24:36.920 --> 01:24:42.920
doubt. Brother, It's great to
be home right here in Teatown, Pampa,

1046
01:24:43.039 --> 01:24:48.760
Florida. Brother, I mean,
you know something, Jack, I

1047
01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:53.920
knew it was gonna be special talking
to you about Jerry on the beaches,

1048
01:24:54.880 --> 01:24:58.479
Hogan's Beach Shop, the world was
on the street. It was gonna be

1049
01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:04.199
heavy in the Sundow tonight. On
the way over, when I was crossing

1050
01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:10.479
the causeways, I stopped at Hogan's
Beach to throw a couple back to calm

1051
01:25:10.560 --> 01:25:16.119
my nerves, and all the sudden, soft sharp boy swimming up through Tampa

1052
01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:19.640
Bay and sat with him at the
bar, and he pounded a couple with

1053
01:25:19.800 --> 01:25:25.039
me. So I knew tonight it
was gonna be crazy here at the Sundome

1054
01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:35.199
because makes me feel like family.
Guys. This is my home and you

1055
01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:42.119
guys are my family. But also
I've got the TJA Impact family in the

1056
01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:48.279
back. And we got one guy, aj Styles who apparently has made a

1057
01:25:48.359 --> 01:26:00.079
decision to cross over to the other
side, brothers aj Styles with Jeremy Borashu,

1058
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:03.800
my witness, has decided to go
over to the side with aces and

1059
01:26:03.880 --> 01:26:09.560
eights. But you know, I'm
not gonna dwell on that, because that's

1060
01:26:09.600 --> 01:26:14.439
a trickle in the greatest sand on
our beach. I'm talking about our family

1061
01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:18.239
right here that sticks together through thick
and thin, and one of my brothers

1062
01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:24.399
that's been with me from day one, is on my side from dust till

1063
01:26:24.479 --> 01:26:28.600
dawn, and I want to bring
him out right now. His name is

1064
01:26:28.680 --> 01:26:36.920
sing So come on out here,
brother. No no no, no no

1065
01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:46.680
no no no no no no,
no, no no no. Who in

1066
01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:56.520
ten days time gets his shot at
boy Ram move that balance of power back

1067
01:26:56.560 --> 01:27:01.239
to TNA Wrestling. We witness the
negotiation and for Staying, the personal stakes

1068
01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:05.760
could not be hired. The world
title match against Bully raised to too Slam

1069
01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:10.119
Aniversary in Boston. It's going to
be a no holds barred match. But

1070
01:27:10.319 --> 01:27:13.880
remember Staying is agreed. If he
doesn't win the title, he can never

1071
01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:20.039
challenge for the World Championship again.
You know something, Stinger. Before you

1072
01:27:20.119 --> 01:27:24.359
get all fired up out here,
brother, I just gotta let you know

1073
01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:29.439
one more time. I appreciate what
you're doing for the Fairy, but this

1074
01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:33.880
whole stipulation of no title match ever
again, this whole thing that was laid

1075
01:27:33.880 --> 01:27:38.159
out of Slam Anniversary, it does
not have to go down that way,

1076
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:43.600
brother, because Bully is not in
charge. I'm the general manager Jack in

1077
01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:51.000
this place. Brother. I respect
every single thing that you're saying hope,

1078
01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:55.319
But the truth is, I don't
want you to change anything. I want

1079
01:27:55.359 --> 01:28:00.159
you to keep it just the way
it is because I told you to us,

1080
01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:02.479
Bully Ring, I'm gonna carry some
of this weight with you, and

1081
01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:08.199
I know that I need to show
up in Boston at Slam Anniversary take the

1082
01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:15.800
world title from him and also take
the power from him. I only need

1083
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:19.159
one chance to get this done,
hole, And to be quite honest,

1084
01:28:19.600 --> 01:28:27.279
if I don't take the title and
take the pride, I don't take Oh

1085
01:28:27.399 --> 01:28:30.079
my gosh, I want this to
happen so bad I can't even talk right

1086
01:28:30.119 --> 01:28:35.119
now. I'll say, if I
can't take the title from you, Bully,

1087
01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:41.079
and if I can't strip you of
your power, then I don't deserve

1088
01:28:41.479 --> 01:28:49.399
to ever be champion again. And
that's just the way it is. You

1089
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.520
don't have to go that far,
brother, You've got nothing to prove.

1090
01:28:54.840 --> 01:28:57.760
We know where you're gonna fight,
truth, thick and thin. You don't

1091
01:28:57.800 --> 01:29:01.560
have to put that stipulation online.
Like I said, I am running the

1092
01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:06.119
show here, not that no good
Bully Ray, that's hiding the back jack.

1093
01:29:11.520 --> 01:29:31.720
Here we go say watching one.
I'm coming through name. Now,

1094
01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:42.960
Okay, what does that even mean. This is so hard for me to

1095
01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:47.720
say. I don't want to see
either of you taking the blame for what

1096
01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:51.479
I did. I fell in love
with that jerk, then you shouldn't have

1097
01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:55.800
to fight him. Because I was
a dumb girl that fell for the bad

1098
01:29:55.840 --> 01:30:00.560
boy Fuller, I drove a wedge
between you and my day. You guys

1099
01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:04.960
have known each other for twenty years. You've been friends forever. I took

1100
01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:11.600
a wegs between my father and myself
over this jerk Brook. You don't need

1101
01:30:11.720 --> 01:30:15.159
to go there. We can handle
this whole situation. Dad, I'm serious

1102
01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:18.760
about what I'm about to say.
I am the fly in the ointment.

1103
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:24.079
I was the catalyst for this whole
company going up in smoke, and I'm

1104
01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:27.119
sick of seeing you take the blame
for it. I'm sick of seeing Sting

1105
01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:30.359
take the blame for it. Because
you guys are professionals. You've been in

1106
01:30:30.439 --> 01:30:31.439
this business for a long time,
and Dad, I want to make you

1107
01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:41.479
proud, but I'm so proud of
the Knockcounts and we've grown the division so

1108
01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:45.920
much. Girls are so talented and
they make me so proud, and I

1109
01:30:45.079 --> 01:30:48.640
love being here with TNA. But
I can't help but feel like I have

1110
01:30:48.920 --> 01:30:55.039
ruined everything, So I think that
it's best for me to resign as the

1111
01:30:55.079 --> 01:31:00.560
brook Anything I have. You just
refocus, UK. I'm here to help

1112
01:31:00.600 --> 01:31:05.000
the Knockout Division and that you have
now move forward, move beyond bully and

1113
01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:09.199
take care of business the way you
know how to take care of business.

1114
01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:26.520
Dad, I promised Dixie that I
would handle stick about there. Isn't that

1115
01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:35.279
chit. I'm not a world heavyweight
champion. It's up, brother? What's

1116
01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:42.720
up? My men? Why are
the three of you sitting out here and

1117
01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:50.840
taking the blame for everything? Huh? It's not your fault things are this

1118
01:31:51.039 --> 01:31:58.439
way. Huh, it's not your
fault things in this wasting And Brookie,

1119
01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:04.439
it's not your fault things in this
way. Understand one thing. When it

1120
01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:15.319
comes to whose fault it is,
it's mine. It's my fault. It's

1121
01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:21.039
my fault that you don't know how
to run this company. It's my fault

1122
01:32:21.359 --> 01:32:28.680
that I stab you in the back. I'm the one who turn this entire

1123
01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:33.199
company upside down. Make no mistakes, Dad, I run the show around

1124
01:32:33.279 --> 01:32:44.920
here, Jack. But I gotta
tell you something. This one person in

1125
01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:57.199
that ring that I do blame me
and Brooke it's you hold on. I

1126
01:32:57.479 --> 01:33:08.079
blame you for me your hands off
of my wife. I blame you for

1127
01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:14.000
making me fall for you. The
bottom line is this, Brook. Every

1128
01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:17.119
time I wake up in the morning, I think of you, and every

1129
01:33:17.239 --> 01:33:21.159
night I go to bed, I
think of you. Powerful stuff, and

1130
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:26.119
we have a connection. And you
know what I'm trying to say right now.

1131
01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:30.119
You can look away all you want, but you know, damn well,

1132
01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:45.439
Brooke, I still love you and
I will always love you. That's

1133
01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:54.239
why I will never take this off. Loves that pussy yep, So here

1134
01:33:54.279 --> 01:33:56.840
we go. I still will always
love you. So here's the twist in

1135
01:33:56.880 --> 01:34:00.960
the story. Kind of makes you
think that Brook's gonna turn on Hult,

1136
01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:04.000
doesn't it. It does. He
makes off Brooks crying. Later book,

1137
01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:06.520
Bully and Brooker backstage and she says, Mark, what do you want?

1138
01:34:06.600 --> 01:34:12.359
Why you did you? Do you
mean you still love me? What does

1139
01:34:12.399 --> 01:34:14.960
that mean? But he says,
what does it sound like? It means?

1140
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:16.800
Brook? Yes, I still love
you, and then he leaves her,

1141
01:34:16.880 --> 01:34:19.479
kind of looking off into the distance. So she's he's really fucking with

1142
01:34:19.560 --> 01:34:24.600
her head now, and they cut
immediately from that to Velvet Sky That can't

1143
01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:30.840
be by mistake. Oh yeah,
that's that's what he's fucking right. Yep.

1144
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:36.840
During a Kurt versus h Ken Anderson, AJ Styles arrives with a big,

1145
01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:40.600
fat wheel style moped. I don't
know what you call those things,

1146
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:43.520
but I guess they thought I'd make
them cool to arrive in one of those

1147
01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:48.600
things. He comes out and um
Anderson hits a low blow because he's distracted

1148
01:34:48.640 --> 01:34:53.920
by AJ Style's arrival as Kurn angle
for the one two three, but AJ's

1149
01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:58.800
in the house. Staying backstage teaches
Joseph Park some of the boys U,

1150
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:02.359
you know, language because of course, you know, he was very confused

1151
01:35:02.399 --> 01:35:05.920
about what was meant by Ribs and
everything else in the past. And there's

1152
01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:11.640
another page out of that book.
Biss reports. Joseph Park reports the boys

1153
01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:15.800
thanking him about getting the strap.
Um, now, I sais they're thinking

1154
01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:19.159
about me getting the strap. Joseph
Parks says, sounds like it kind of

1155
01:35:19.239 --> 01:35:21.800
hurts, and Sting says, no, no, it's a good thing.

1156
01:35:21.840 --> 01:35:27.920
I promise Parks like, god,
gosh, you know, I'll tell you

1157
01:35:28.039 --> 01:35:31.680
you'll learn something new every day.
And Staying wants brother Abiss coming back,

1158
01:35:31.720 --> 01:35:35.279
and Parks said he won't even talk
to me, and Sting says, you're

1159
01:35:35.279 --> 01:35:38.920
just gonna kayfab me on this thing
all the way to the very end,

1160
01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:45.199
aren't you? Stings says, yep. He says it wants Parks to be

1161
01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:46.720
his partner. How else will justice
be served? He says, and they

1162
01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:50.760
shake on it. Later on the
show, Mickey DDT's Velvet Sky and takes

1163
01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:57.159
the knockouts with the You know,
I don't know, you know, unless

1164
01:35:57.159 --> 01:36:00.119
Sting is involved in a very is
like being serious about a storyline, He's

1165
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:05.119
not good. I lose some thunder
from him. Yeah, he's got to

1166
01:36:05.159 --> 01:36:12.720
be really intensely into the opportunity in
front of him. This like extracurriculars,

1167
01:36:12.760 --> 01:36:17.520
these little side stories he gets involved
with that're going nothing to see Aces Nates

1168
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:20.439
come back out. They're going to
patch Aj into the club. They have

1169
01:36:20.520 --> 01:36:24.640
a vest for him, a cut. Mike Tenay says, it's a dark

1170
01:36:24.720 --> 01:36:29.720
day for TENA for one of the
original ten A wrestlers to join Aces and

1171
01:36:29.840 --> 01:36:31.479
Nates. Bully, do you know
who we are with a unit that runs

1172
01:36:31.520 --> 01:36:34.039
TNA and when someone in this club
screws up, they pay for it.

1173
01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.600
That's exactly what happened to Dillo Bully
says, Dilo is nothing but a disappointment.

1174
01:36:40.520 --> 01:36:42.720
But as much as he was,
there was one guy that stepped up

1175
01:36:42.760 --> 01:36:45.880
and proved himself, and that is
Ken Anderson. But tonight is about a

1176
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:49.520
guy we are going to initiate.
And he calls out AJ styles get ready

1177
01:36:49.560 --> 01:36:54.960
to fly, walks out, gets
in the ring. Everybody wants you,

1178
01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:58.720
Aj, Hogan wants you. Even
Fortune wanted to reform to have you.

1179
01:36:58.880 --> 01:37:00.800
But you know better, don't you. He hands him a bottle, a

1180
01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:03.640
beer bottle. He says, you
know, Aj, it's not a stupid

1181
01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:05.920
but you don't drink and never had
a sip in your life. And AJ

1182
01:37:06.079 --> 01:37:08.960
kind of nods at that, and
he says, I want you to cheer

1183
01:37:09.039 --> 01:37:12.600
and drink with me. Let this
be a sign you can give your heart

1184
01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:15.199
to Jesus, but your soul belongs
to the club. I'm sorry now,

1185
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:19.600
Aj a very religious man. They
clink and he chugs. AJ chugs and

1186
01:37:20.239 --> 01:37:25.920
the beer spills out of his mouth
and Bully loves it. And Bully says,

1187
01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:28.520
I didn't even finish mine. I
couldn't even finish mine. Look at

1188
01:37:28.520 --> 01:37:32.880
you give our brothers colors. There's
a use old doubt chance your colors and

1189
01:37:33.039 --> 01:37:41.159
cut and oh what is this fucking
ac more so they give it to him

1190
01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:45.720
and then Angles music plays and he
says, I had to see it with

1191
01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:48.680
my own eyes, your legacy here
a j a teenage just went straight down

1192
01:37:48.720 --> 01:37:53.880
the crapper. I can say that
again. That started, I believe January

1193
01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:58.119
fourth, twenty ten off my Matthews. I love you, know you?

1194
01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:06.760
Hearing Angles say like, um,
you know, not like the the PG

1195
01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:12.840
thirteen swears right, curse words,
It's just so fucking weird. It's just

1196
01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:15.359
very uncomfortable, like I almost want
him to just say the real shit or

1197
01:38:15.399 --> 01:38:19.159
not just say it at all.
Yeah, oh yeah, down the crapper,

1198
01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:26.720
Like, oh dude, I mean
right, like there are a million

1199
01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:30.279
ways to fucking say that. Verbiage
says, does this make you feel warm

1200
01:38:30.359 --> 01:38:33.720
inside? AJ? All right,
fine, take your damn cut, put

1201
01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:36.079
the patch on it, and be
part of the scumbag group. You're going

1202
01:38:36.119 --> 01:38:41.159
to see me at Slam Aniversary anyway. Ray says it's exactly what he wants,

1203
01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:44.640
and he puts the vest on AJ
and they all hug you sold out,

1204
01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:47.479
chant bull. He raises AJ's hand
and suddenly Kurt is rolled into the

1205
01:38:47.560 --> 01:38:50.399
ring by some invisible force. We
find that it's a doc who ran up

1206
01:38:50.439 --> 01:38:54.399
behind Kurt and they hold him open
and beat the shit out of him.

1207
01:38:54.760 --> 01:38:57.640
And then Ray takes the hammer and
he hands it to a J and he

1208
01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:00.119
says, fulfill your destiny, take
out good angle. This is sting.

1209
01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:10.960
This is sting. nWo right here, absolutely absolutely it is. And yes,

1210
01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:13.319
so AJ grabs the hammer and slams
hert across the lake with it,

1211
01:39:13.439 --> 01:39:15.359
kicks him out of the ring,
so it looks like he'll turn confirmed.

1212
01:39:16.199 --> 01:39:19.159
They put up the Aces and Nates
hand sign, and they face the crowd

1213
01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:24.239
with their backs to the hard camera, and AJ's all smiles throughout this,

1214
01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.319
but then he stopped smiling as they
all pose for the camera for the crowd,

1215
01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:31.279
and then just goes off and starts
slugging all the members of Aces and

1216
01:39:31.359 --> 01:39:34.399
Nates with the hammer, and once
he's dropped as many as he can before

1217
01:39:34.399 --> 01:39:38.119
they catch up to him, he
bounces and runs out of the ring doing

1218
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:42.000
his hand sign with the you know, the imprinted logo on the inside of

1219
01:39:42.079 --> 01:39:45.279
his batting gloves that he wore.
I think this is the first time he

1220
01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:48.520
kind of debuted that batting glove.
It's definitely the look he carried into the

1221
01:39:48.600 --> 01:39:50.960
Royal Rumbull and into w t B
in the early days in New Japan.

1222
01:39:53.680 --> 01:39:56.960
The blue the black tights with the
blue trim, the boots one on the

1223
01:39:57.399 --> 01:40:00.279
shin guards. Yeah, so he's
doing that whole handstand up the aisle and

1224
01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:04.439
they're screaming on commentary how he has
no allegiance to anybody and how crazy that

1225
01:40:04.640 --> 01:40:11.119
is. And he does walk alone. And they also broadcast Alan because the

1226
01:40:11.680 --> 01:40:15.319
baby wasn't back, right, they
announced that they're moving again from eight to

1227
01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:21.159
ten back to nine to eleven PM
on Spike on Thursday nights. This is

1228
01:40:21.199 --> 01:40:28.159
the old time slot. So every
single experiment they tried, they undid every

1229
01:40:28.239 --> 01:40:30.560
single box someone said they had to
check to take the next step. They

1230
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:35.439
checked and then unchecked everything that people
pretended would have made a difference and justify

1231
01:40:35.520 --> 01:40:41.319
Hagen and Bischoff's existence did not.
Yes, we moved to the Sam Anniversary

1232
01:40:41.359 --> 01:40:45.079
pay per view Baby June second,
twenty thirteen. Aganis Arena on the campus

1233
01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:48.960
of Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. And you better fucking believe your boy

1234
01:40:49.079 --> 01:40:54.239
was there. You were there.
Indeed, Wow, there the only time

1235
01:40:54.279 --> 01:41:00.720
I went to a t I'm not
surprised me. You were you were always

1236
01:41:00.760 --> 01:41:05.159
good about getting into that ship at
a problem back then. And it's the

1237
01:41:05.319 --> 01:41:09.319
Boston Strong crowd because it's mentioned before, this was the year of the bombing,

1238
01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:12.279
so there was a lot of that
going on and right, and this

1239
01:41:12.479 --> 01:41:14.840
is going to be a very interesting
night. A lot of things happening.

1240
01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:16.680
Chris Saban comes out. Okay,
well, here's here's the intro. By

1241
01:41:16.680 --> 01:41:27.399
the way, the intro to the
show fucking fascinated me as a dream special

1242
01:41:27.479 --> 01:41:31.159
evening. It's an evening that revolves
around history and history on so many fronts.

1243
01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:43.359
Begin interrupt you regularly scheduled program.
You a dose of reality. No

1244
01:41:44.039 --> 01:41:50.319
warrior one who turned this entire company
upside down? You have destroyed your hero.

1245
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:56.199
We have seized the most prized possession. What the hell of we just

1246
01:41:56.359 --> 01:42:01.640
witness? I am the leader?
Shut off? I am good Na Well

1247
01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:10.520
anyway, Champion, he will destroy
your home. We will take your daughters,

1248
01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:18.199
slave your king. Get some nets
out here. Parties hurt, but

1249
01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:24.840
the job is not finished. There
are still a couple of heroes standing four

1250
01:42:25.279 --> 01:42:34.159
and tonight I am here to slay
my god holes bar So, sit back,

1251
01:42:35.479 --> 01:42:42.880
relax and joy to the end of
an era. I can't wait to

1252
01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:49.199
make sure you never get to wrestle
for the World Heavyweight Championship again. Giving

1253
01:42:50.720 --> 01:43:06.760
disruptive you won them. Do you
know? Guess I'm Bully so dumb.

1254
01:43:08.359 --> 01:43:18.199
TNA Wrestling presents Slanniversary and now my
ass will shoot out TNA. Yeah,

1255
01:43:18.199 --> 01:43:23.000
I remember. This is sort of
like the the Bully Ray as Champion pay

1256
01:43:23.079 --> 01:43:25.239
per view. You know, we
want it lockdown, we lost it down

1257
01:43:25.319 --> 01:43:28.319
for glory, but here it was
kind of like, this is the Bully

1258
01:43:28.359 --> 01:43:31.119
era. This is like what it
feels like to tell ourselves that bullies carrying

1259
01:43:31.159 --> 01:43:34.119
this company, right, And you
know, being there in the arena,

1260
01:43:34.199 --> 01:43:39.760
it felt like it was working.
It didn't feel like it was a sparsely

1261
01:43:39.800 --> 01:43:42.159
populated crowd. This has to be
one of the biggest ones they did.

1262
01:43:42.199 --> 01:43:45.199
I don't think it was capacity,
but it was. It was fairly How

1263
01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:47.680
big is the how big is the
space there again, as I think,

1264
01:43:47.800 --> 01:43:50.119
is like ten thousand seats and we
take a look. I don't know what

1265
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:57.159
the configuration is necessarily for wrestling as
opposed to other things. Yeah, eight

1266
01:43:57.199 --> 01:44:00.399
thousand seats, seventy two hundred seats. M W, which also went to

1267
01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:05.119
had their second ever Dynamite taping at
the Aganis Arena and Boston as well.

1268
01:44:05.960 --> 01:44:10.439
Yeah, a lot of a lot
of overlap between the is you could imagine

1269
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:14.239
makes sense the venues that a W's
running and ones that TENA did when they

1270
01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:17.760
went on the road, and and
yeah it was it was full for that

1271
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:20.039
too, but it was it was
a good crowd. I didn't go there

1272
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:23.680
feeling like this is a dead show. What am I doing here? There

1273
01:44:23.720 --> 01:44:25.960
are a lot of people there that
knew what TENA was and we're excited to

1274
01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:30.319
see Hulkogan. Boston very strong market
for secondary wrestling promotions. Remember sure World

1275
01:44:30.359 --> 01:44:34.680
Class used to go to Boston.
Of course, so did crockett Us go

1276
01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:39.840
to the Garden. So um,
so interesting to see that take shape then.

1277
01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:46.800
And of course, uh it's also
um a great set up for Bully

1278
01:44:46.880 --> 01:44:50.800
because he can wear his Yankees hat
and it's instant heat. Of course actually

1279
01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:54.239
matters in that city. If you're
from New York. I guess you could

1280
01:44:54.239 --> 01:44:56.319
say, yeah, right, I
was gonna say, it's like that's actually

1281
01:44:57.479 --> 01:45:00.439
you can get heat there, so
nobody else really gives a get heat.

1282
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.000
Um. So here he comes Chris
Saban and this he'll become a very important

1283
01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:08.520
figure here in our story and the
last leg of Teenage Journey. It's an

1284
01:45:08.600 --> 01:45:14.399
ultimate yea Ultimate X match to kick
off the the show, okay, and

1285
01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:18.000
which we haven't seen one of these
yet, right, this is the first

1286
01:45:18.079 --> 01:45:21.239
time I think we've seen this.
I think you're right. Actually, yeah,

1287
01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:24.359
I mean there have been all the
next matches on the shows that we

1288
01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:27.600
did matches on, but we didn't
break one down cover it. I can

1289
01:45:27.680 --> 01:45:30.439
actually watch it, right, Yeah, So it's like ladder match rules,

1290
01:45:31.000 --> 01:45:40.359
right basically, it's except you gotta
you gotta fucking crawl or or run a

1291
01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:45.680
rope like you're fucking uh the wet
bandits And yeah, that's gonna be a

1292
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:47.800
good analogy. Yeah, you climb, you know, you grab her open,

1293
01:45:48.680 --> 01:45:53.800
Yeah, just kind of try to
walk yourself across with your hands dangling.

1294
01:45:54.600 --> 01:45:57.840
And it's fucking weird. Big match
with Chris Saban. This is first

1295
01:45:57.880 --> 01:46:00.680
match back in TNA Sincy tours a
cl doing a pescato dive to the floor.

1296
01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:03.760
What's the what's the what's the match? What's the stupid match with the

1297
01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:10.680
big cage where you getta that we
did a long time ago the Asylum where

1298
01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:14.479
Homicide got stuck on the top on
the very first Impact we did. Yeah,

1299
01:46:15.079 --> 01:46:17.760
yeah, that was the Asylum cage. And uh so this is a

1300
01:46:17.800 --> 01:46:21.399
big return for Chris Sadman after a
long rehab and they did a series of

1301
01:46:21.479 --> 01:46:29.159
videos before this rocking up his comeback
drugs. Uh No, not that kind

1302
01:46:29.199 --> 01:46:32.479
of rehab as far as I know. And he was dating Velvet Sky or

1303
01:46:32.840 --> 01:46:35.560
they were putting them together on television. I'm pretty sure they dated in real

1304
01:46:35.640 --> 01:46:40.600
life as well. But yet a
fucking taste of that person, I think

1305
01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:47.199
that's absolutely accurate, absolutely, and
face deep in that fucking tang pretty much

1306
01:46:47.239 --> 01:46:50.640
a standard backdrop to the floor that
caused a tear at his ACL one of

1307
01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:55.880
those wow, classic wrestling injuries where
you're not really doing something particularly risky and

1308
01:46:55.880 --> 01:46:59.399
it causes the most serious and debilitating
injury you can imagine. Of course,

1309
01:47:00.159 --> 01:47:03.079
says this is actually the thirtieth Ultimate
X Match and TNA history red ropes and

1310
01:47:03.119 --> 01:47:06.079
the red TNA logo still for the
pay per views, it's still TNA.

1311
01:47:08.000 --> 01:47:11.399
They don't do the blue Impact wrestling
except for the Impact Wrestling television show itself

1312
01:47:11.479 --> 01:47:15.960
still and calling him the TNA Champion
and calling him the TENA Champion. That's

1313
01:47:15.039 --> 01:47:18.800
right, saying there were stones throw
from Fenway Park, which is accurate.

1314
01:47:19.239 --> 01:47:23.720
Let's bus right down the street.
True, that's true, that is accurate.

1315
01:47:24.079 --> 01:47:26.800
Suicide is in the match, and
he's t J. Perkins future WW

1316
01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:30.720
Cruiserweight Champion when they had the two
oh five Live brand and now when New

1317
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:32.760
Japan, I believe or impact.
I don't know if that is. Yeah,

1318
01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:38.159
and Chris Saban and Kenny King as
well in the triple Threat Ultimate X

1319
01:47:38.199 --> 01:47:41.720
Match for the X Division title to
kick off Slam Aversary twenty thirteen. You

1320
01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:44.800
might be asking why the hell we're
doing this match, but you'll see the

1321
01:47:44.840 --> 01:47:48.479
relevance here quite soon, because yeah, it does. I was wondering the

1322
01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:50.319
same thing. I was wide,
was like, what the fuck are we

1323
01:47:50.359 --> 01:47:54.960
doing with this ship? And it's
kind of legendary because I realized Hogan is

1324
01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:59.520
in rare form after this one.
Oh he really is. It's actually I

1325
01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:03.760
mean, he let me tell you
something. He knows, he knows how

1326
01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:09.279
to hide the ball with. Chris
said, indeed double hiptoss on Kenny King.

1327
01:48:09.319 --> 01:48:12.119
Early Suicide takes off with an ankle
scissor, snapping both over to the

1328
01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.479
floor. There's a weird piece of
wood on top of the announced table,

1329
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:18.520
just like a brother a dark wood
panel that they put to I guess you

1330
01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:23.720
guard their notes. What's going on
here, dude, big question? Yeah,

1331
01:48:23.800 --> 01:48:27.399
hid brother suicide. He's going to
do a dive, but hustles like

1332
01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:30.000
a hid my mom. Dude,
you hide and missus bala brother, it's

1333
01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:38.079
behind that desk. What who?
What did you get that wood? Would

1334
01:48:38.119 --> 01:48:46.680
you get that wood? Firm?
Brother? Mom? Ruth Ruther who Ruther

1335
01:48:46.920 --> 01:48:55.199
reins Kenny King with a running drop
kick kind of a shotgun style, sent

1336
01:48:55.279 --> 01:48:58.520
a suicide into the corner and they
capture a big high cradle. Soup play

1337
01:48:59.319 --> 01:49:01.600
Um marks out for for that,
as it's reminiscent of the soup plexes he

1338
01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:06.319
used to throw tas. I mean
also again here displaying no heel commentator skills

1339
01:49:06.520 --> 01:49:13.880
whatsoever? Are down and that's the
key, right, you want to wear

1340
01:49:14.000 --> 01:49:17.439
down bents to try to work your
way up to the Palmist structure in the

1341
01:49:17.600 --> 01:49:24.720
Ultimate Dex match to game that that
title, that championship belt so annoying said

1342
01:49:24.720 --> 01:49:28.319
a lot, but I'm not sure
if he actually said anything like but,

1343
01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.439
I mean, but but also why
are you not a heel commentator here?

1344
01:49:31.640 --> 01:49:35.720
Right? Like? If anything,
I would actually be very I would love

1345
01:49:35.760 --> 01:49:40.840
it if if if, if Taz, you know, unless there was a

1346
01:49:40.880 --> 01:49:43.079
match involving aces and eights is kind
of like, you know, can we

1347
01:49:43.159 --> 01:49:45.600
move on with this ship? Can
we hurry this up? It would be

1348
01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:47.039
nice, you know, play that
up a little bit. You know,

1349
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:50.239
I don't think you would diminish the
match because you're playing you know, you're

1350
01:49:50.279 --> 01:49:59.720
part of a sign a particular groups
in this seven thy hundred seat venue slamm

1351
01:49:59.720 --> 01:50:01.319
a verse story, so not that
great. TENA was always really good though,

1352
01:50:01.359 --> 01:50:04.840
at hiding empty seats and shooting in
a way where the building looked full.

1353
01:50:05.880 --> 01:50:10.239
I think they're better than aw Is
at it, frankly, really yeah,

1354
01:50:10.319 --> 01:50:13.880
like when people leave after the Dynamite
show and they tape rampage afterwards,

1355
01:50:13.920 --> 01:50:15.920
and you can always tell sometimes it's
really bad. At one time, a

1356
01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:18.199
couple of weeks ago, I think
it was in Las Vegas, they had

1357
01:50:18.239 --> 01:50:23.279
to shoot the hard cameras so tight
that so you couldn't see any seats above

1358
01:50:23.279 --> 01:50:27.000
the heads of the wrestlers. That
it looks really oh, that's weird.

1359
01:50:27.039 --> 01:50:29.720
It's like they put I think they
even maybe even put the camera closer,

1360
01:50:29.880 --> 01:50:33.479
but it was it was really bad
that nobody there. Um, so Kenny

1361
01:50:33.520 --> 01:50:39.159
does a why don't you move people
over? What's that? You know?

1362
01:50:39.239 --> 01:50:43.119
Why don't they move people over?
There's nobody to move over. They do.

1363
01:50:43.560 --> 01:50:45.000
They move as many people over as
they can, but it's gets really

1364
01:50:45.079 --> 01:50:49.680
late on those tapings, and it's
it's not it's not really mar Key matches

1365
01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:54.479
that they tape for the Rampage show. So it gets it gets, it

1366
01:50:54.479 --> 01:50:57.199
gets kind of dicey. I mean're
adding a third show too. Now they're

1367
01:50:57.239 --> 01:51:00.079
adding a third show, but that's
live on Saturday night, a little easier

1368
01:51:00.119 --> 01:51:03.399
to get people in the building for
that than hoping they stay on a Wednesday

1369
01:51:03.560 --> 01:51:10.720
night until like midnight to watch the
uh the TNT show get taped after Dynamo?

1370
01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:14.439
Are they are they dropping that show? Sorry? Are they gonna drop

1371
01:51:14.560 --> 01:51:19.359
Rampage? Um tbd. I think
they're gonna reconstitute it somehow to where it

1372
01:51:19.479 --> 01:51:24.640
might not be like kind of a
live action arena show anymore. It might

1373
01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:27.399
be more tents amount to like they
just have a show that used to showcase

1374
01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:30.640
like up and coming talent called Dark
if they taped it before. Dyna might

1375
01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:33.720
like these to tape those other YouTube
shows. They're dropping it makes a big

1376
01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:36.520
difference, I think in terms of
crowd energy. Yeah, that's true too.

1377
01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:40.399
Like I'm like, like what Raw
used to do with the Heat.

1378
01:51:40.720 --> 01:51:45.039
It's very tough though on the West
Coast because you're talking about starting a taping

1379
01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:46.479
at three o'clock in the afternoon,
you know, because they go on the

1380
01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:51.520
year live at five on the on
the West Coast, So the company do

1381
01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:58.119
that with Raw though they do the
same thing. But but they would.

1382
01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:00.000
But back in the day, they
used to film tape Heat before it in

1383
01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:04.199
May. Was it before? Yeah? I think it was before. I

1384
01:52:04.279 --> 01:52:09.800
thought it was before. And they
must have gone really early, that's crazy,

1385
01:52:09.920 --> 01:52:13.439
but they must have started taping.
It rolls on at nine, so

1386
01:52:13.479 --> 01:52:15.960
it would be four o'clock. But
still it's early. I don't Monday,

1387
01:52:16.039 --> 01:52:24.439
yeah, I mean that's four,
yeah, I mean yeah. And the

1388
01:52:24.520 --> 01:52:27.520
Heat tapings too. Yeah, the
Heat show was an hour, but the

1389
01:52:27.640 --> 01:52:31.640
matches were like a twenty minutes worth
of actual match time, so maybe like

1390
01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:35.000
four thirty and the rest of the
packages and stuff. Next stage interviews,

1391
01:52:38.439 --> 01:52:43.079
so let's see Saban with a brainbuster
on suicide. They mentioned that Saban is

1392
01:52:43.119 --> 01:52:45.199
in his first ultimate X match since
two thousand and three. And that he

1393
01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:47.720
hasn't held the X division title since
two thousand and seven, when he had

1394
01:52:47.800 --> 01:52:50.359
kind of a run where he was
defining the division for a while. There,

1395
01:52:50.840 --> 01:52:54.880
let's go, Sabin Chant breaks out, he suplexes Suicide onto Kenny King,

1396
01:52:54.920 --> 01:53:00.880
and then Saban gets on the ropes
and shoved off. Task points out

1397
01:53:00.000 --> 01:53:04.760
that Suicide is wearing the gloves.
Suicide is wearing in his costume or a

1398
01:53:04.840 --> 01:53:12.479
real advantage in this ultimate X environment
and toys. Oh god, so why

1399
01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:16.279
they all wouldn't wear gloves? Such
an advantage on me? Right? Why

1400
01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:20.600
don't you all want to have advantages
with that grip triple submission? That an

1401
01:53:20.600 --> 01:53:30.000
atomic drop right on the old lobster
roll tas says, lobster rolls more Maine

1402
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:34.640
right than Boston. It really is
like I actually, you know, yeah,

1403
01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:40.000
there's the James Hook Lobster Company and
a Rose Wharf, but really,

1404
01:53:40.079 --> 01:53:43.640
like you kind of struggle to think
of, like where you get the lobster

1405
01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:45.960
roll in Boston. You don't,
Yeah, you don't. It's not every

1406
01:53:46.039 --> 01:53:51.279
menu, but it's not like right
there aren't like you don't go for that,

1407
01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:56.680
You don't go to Boston for that
clam chowder. Now, maybe we're

1408
01:53:56.720 --> 01:54:00.640
talking now, we're talking you an
Oyster House? Now, how about it?

1409
01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:02.560
Boss? What's up? What's up
with that? Is the time?

1410
01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:09.119
Now I America's oldest restaurant. I
tell you can I tell you something you

1411
01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:16.960
can? There is nothing I love
more, you know when when the time

1412
01:54:17.039 --> 01:54:19.479
that we come into you know,
when we come into Boston. We used

1413
01:54:19.520 --> 01:54:23.560
to do it whenever, whenever my
wife and I would come into come into

1414
01:54:23.600 --> 01:54:27.640
Boston, we would go when we
were dating or anything like that, when

1415
01:54:27.640 --> 01:54:29.439
we were on the eas coast,
would always make a trip to Boston.

1416
01:54:29.479 --> 01:54:38.239
We would always go to uh,
We'd always go to uh the Union Oyster

1417
01:54:38.319 --> 01:54:44.119
House. That's like our fucking place. And I there is nothing, there

1418
01:54:44.279 --> 01:54:50.279
is nothing better, okay than just
a bowl of clam chowder from that place

1419
01:54:51.199 --> 01:54:57.840
and a caesar salad, chicken caesar
salad place like it's just heavenly. It's

1420
01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:00.439
just fucking heavenly. I don't know
what the rest of the menu is,

1421
01:55:00.479 --> 01:55:04.079
because when I go there, that's
what I want. It's the best fucking

1422
01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:11.439
clam chowder. It's so good that
and I, you know what, and

1423
01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:15.479
I always I get a beer.
Oh sure, it's a it's a beer

1424
01:55:15.439 --> 01:55:19.279
chowder. And then they get that
cornbread too. Fucking Christ they do.

1425
01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:26.760
Oh, and we say at the
bar too. I love sitting, yeah,

1426
01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:29.720
exactly where all the people are fucking
doing their oysters and shit. And

1427
01:55:29.800 --> 01:55:34.640
like, oh, used to go
there with Alex Burnham when we were in

1428
01:55:35.279 --> 01:55:39.159
the used to go there quite a
bit. Tuck into a clam chowder.

1429
01:55:39.279 --> 01:55:45.319
Magic, yeah, steaming, Let
the let that clam, the creamy clam

1430
01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:49.720
tickle your nose hairs as only it's
the only seafoot. I'm actually shocked.

1431
01:55:49.760 --> 01:55:53.399
Yeah, I mean, because I
know you're such an aficionado of clam chowder,

1432
01:55:53.479 --> 01:55:56.359
but you can't stand seafot otherwise.
That's why I can't stand see it

1433
01:55:56.439 --> 01:56:00.680
otherwise. But I love that.
Be a lesson of clam chowder. Oh,

1434
01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:02.560
in New England style. None that
fucking Manhattan shit. None of that

1435
01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:09.239
fing Rhode Island show, watery bullshit, fucking brothy garbage, the red out

1436
01:56:09.279 --> 01:56:11.560
of it too, thank you very
much. What are you doing, guys?

1437
01:56:11.600 --> 01:56:17.640
Oh? No, that that that
creamy New England clam chowder. Oh,

1438
01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:27.279
come on, in a bread ball? Fuck it all right? Well

1439
01:56:27.800 --> 01:56:31.079
you know that. Um. I
think in the last year of his presidency,

1440
01:56:31.680 --> 01:56:35.239
Barack Obama came to Boston to speak
at the Labor Day breakfast, and

1441
01:56:35.840 --> 01:56:42.000
afterwards his limousine went to the Indian
Oyster House and he stopped that. He

1442
01:56:42.199 --> 01:56:47.680
well, how about yeah, I
haven't been here in yours. So he

1443
01:56:47.800 --> 01:56:53.279
goes in there, folks, No, that's someone else, and he and

1444
01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:55.840
and you see him saying, folks
like that though a little bit too,

1445
01:56:55.880 --> 01:56:58.920
he's got a little yeah. Oh
he definitely does, folks. Now,

1446
01:57:02.880 --> 01:57:05.920
my bob is really I haven't done
it in years. I used to do.

1447
01:57:08.239 --> 01:57:11.800
It's just short. It's a short, you know, it's very like

1448
01:57:12.000 --> 01:57:25.119
short, you know, uh oh
yeah. So he's he's classic with this

1449
01:57:25.239 --> 01:57:28.000
bullshit, you know, his whole
like shit, you know, oh yeah

1450
01:57:28.079 --> 01:57:30.600
uh and he uh and he goes
in there and uh it's a big to

1451
01:57:30.720 --> 01:57:38.000
do. And they did this,
but they took like gallons of clam chowder

1452
01:57:38.159 --> 01:57:43.079
into the limousine. How do you
eat clam chowdermousine that seriously? To do

1453
01:57:43.239 --> 01:57:45.600
that? What do you fucking have
like a fucking keg of it? And

1454
01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:49.560
just like fucking spoon out of the
keg. I could just picture like him

1455
01:57:49.600 --> 01:57:53.680
and all his aids, you know, where like Jay Crew, like you

1456
01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:59.920
know, like like oh, Boston
clam chowder, Like they're all, we

1457
01:58:00.039 --> 01:58:06.239
gotta have some an oyster house.
Georgetown brads are like talking about talking about

1458
01:58:06.239 --> 01:58:12.600
Americana. I mean seriously thinking they
live in an Aaron Sorkin movie or something,

1459
01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:18.920
and they're all trying to like gracefully
eat clam chowder. The back of

1460
01:58:18.960 --> 01:58:26.640
a limo going over the potholed streets
and the cobblestone such a fucking disaster everywhere.

1461
01:58:27.159 --> 01:58:30.399
It's like all over the fucking I'll
tell you what, the limo got

1462
01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:34.319
more fucking clam chowder than the people. Fucking limo was thrilled. That's so

1463
01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:38.560
good. I just I love that
image of them forcing themselves to have like

1464
01:58:38.720 --> 01:58:41.680
local but they couldn't sit in the
restaurant because that would be ridiculous. He's

1465
01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:44.319
the president a night. Well,
they didn't scope it out, you know,

1466
01:58:44.479 --> 01:58:46.720
right, So instead they're just spilling
clam chowder all over the floor the

1467
01:58:46.760 --> 01:58:51.079
presidential limo trying to fish. It's
like piping hot too. It's like,

1468
01:58:51.159 --> 01:58:56.159
hey, hey, it's President Obamber. Obamber's coming in. We gotta give

1469
01:58:56.199 --> 01:58:59.640
him some clam chowder. Bro Honey, you won't believe it just came in

1470
01:58:59.640 --> 01:59:05.399
the town, into the noise the
house obomber, A bomber another one.

1471
01:59:11.039 --> 01:59:15.640
Yeah, yeah, fucking bomber.
So good, fucking fucking piece of shit.

1472
01:59:16.359 --> 01:59:26.439
Fucking moron. No, President Obama, we got some work to do.

1473
01:59:29.359 --> 01:59:33.000
Some chowdered heat in my favorite moment
of the Obama presidency. And I

1474
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:36.279
know this sounds so trite and stupid. I don't know if people remember this

1475
01:59:36.399 --> 01:59:44.119
like I do, but it's you
gotta find it. He was. He

1476
01:59:44.279 --> 01:59:46.760
was doing a State of the Union
speech, huh, and he was talking

1477
01:59:46.800 --> 01:59:51.800
about how kind of foolish the DC
bureaucracy can be in terms of like overlapping

1478
01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:57.000
missions, like why do we have
two departments that do this? Why do

1479
01:59:57.079 --> 02:00:00.960
we have three departments to do this? And it He's lighthearted, you know,

1480
02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:06.119
he was joking, and he said, I'm just gonna pick two departments.

1481
02:00:06.159 --> 02:00:13.199
So let's say Fishing Game and uh
department Environmental Protection. I'll just make

1482
02:00:13.560 --> 02:00:19.079
make that up. So he says, take salmon, for instance. If

1483
02:00:19.159 --> 02:00:28.119
the salmon is in freshwater, it's
Fishing Game Department. If it's in salt

1484
02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:32.840
water, it's Environmental Protection. And
then he goes, I understand it gets

1485
02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:43.279
even more complicated when you smoke it. Even John painter who hated his guts

1486
02:00:43.319 --> 02:00:46.439
to the Republican leader's laughing and they
can't not laugh at that. He's cracked

1487
02:00:46.479 --> 02:00:50.800
his smile. And then they cut
to the guy who runs the department that

1488
02:00:50.920 --> 02:00:55.000
he was mocking, and the guy's
just like, there's no idea how to

1489
02:00:55.039 --> 02:00:57.960
react. He's just like, still, you know, he's not wrong.

1490
02:00:58.119 --> 02:01:02.159
It's wrong thing, man, It's
that's what we need. Everyone's like I

1491
02:01:02.359 --> 02:01:06.840
just said that, Like, that's
so fucking jeezy. I understand it.

1492
02:01:06.920 --> 02:01:13.720
It's even more complicated when you smoke
it. Well, then that department of

1493
02:01:14.279 --> 02:01:18.760
of of of Jewish Cuisine, it's
a whole fucking there's a whole thing.

1494
02:01:21.039 --> 02:01:30.199
I think you or City is one
of those. Got the department on locks.

1495
02:01:32.239 --> 02:01:34.840
It's a smear campaign. We know, we do all the tricks.

1496
02:01:38.199 --> 02:01:41.239
Oh my god, are the masters
of the smear campaign? Hide the mats

1497
02:01:41.279 --> 02:01:45.119
of ball? Brother, I'm tired
of playing Hide the mats of ball?

1498
02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:51.479
Dude. There's a smear campaign.
Brother. Oh, we gonna locks this

1499
02:01:51.600 --> 02:01:57.720
ship up, dude. We don't
want to. We don't want to risk

1500
02:01:57.760 --> 02:02:00.800
it, brother, Brother, Dude, I think we gonna change the name

1501
02:02:00.800 --> 02:02:08.000
of the pay per view t NA
locks down, Brother, oh my god,

1502
02:02:08.039 --> 02:02:15.800
we can't risk it with the brisket
dude. So good, okay,

1503
02:02:16.000 --> 02:02:21.319
great? So anyway, ultimate X, as I was saying, but by

1504
02:02:21.319 --> 02:02:25.880
the way, coincidentally, ultimate X
also gets even more complicated when you smoke

1505
02:02:25.920 --> 02:02:41.000
it much. That all right,
So let's go saving chant Um. He

1506
02:02:41.079 --> 02:02:43.720
suplex a suicide on the Kenney King
and then get chumped off the ropes.

1507
02:02:43.760 --> 02:02:45.239
Like I said, tas points out
the gloves. Yep, okay, uh

1508
02:02:45.720 --> 02:02:49.680
lobster role got it? Suicide climbs
um. He gets yanked down though he

1509
02:02:49.760 --> 02:02:53.239
tries to walk across the ropes.
What do you what you call that hand

1510
02:02:53.279 --> 02:02:56.239
walking? What would you I don't
know what you're crawling? But he like

1511
02:02:56.560 --> 02:03:00.520
fucking using the monkey bars, but
I don't know it like hanging by your

1512
02:03:00.560 --> 02:03:04.439
hands from a string or a rope
and you know, going like one hand

1513
02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:08.199
by one hand across it. I
don't know scaling, you know that would

1514
02:03:08.199 --> 02:03:13.800
be going up traversing, I don't
know, gets yanked down and Kenny King

1515
02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:15.439
drops him with a right hand saving
with a bit of a musclebuster if you

1516
02:03:15.520 --> 02:03:17.760
will, on Kenny King. And
then he looks to climb as well,

1517
02:03:17.800 --> 02:03:20.800
but suicide gets underneath him and hits
him with an electric chair drop under the

1518
02:03:20.800 --> 02:03:26.119
canvas, and then Kenny King leg
drops him as well. Suicide like a

1519
02:03:26.199 --> 02:03:29.399
cat is a power He does a
power bob and rolls and there's a springboard

1520
02:03:29.439 --> 02:03:32.079
blockbuster by Kenny King catches a Chris
Sadan, so it's a triple down spot

1521
02:03:32.119 --> 02:03:34.600
and everybody gets up in applauds.
Then they get up and there's a full

1522
02:03:34.640 --> 02:03:38.800
throated TNA chant going on here in
Boston. It's almost like the answer was

1523
02:03:39.119 --> 02:03:43.399
here all along as to what to
give people to actually want them to enjoy

1524
02:03:43.520 --> 02:03:46.800
t TNA. That is to say, anyway, great springboard, missile,

1525
02:03:46.960 --> 02:03:51.840
seated dropkick from the ropes to the
apron knocks from Suicide, great move knocks

1526
02:03:51.880 --> 02:03:56.319
both to the floor. Triple suplex
Tower of Doom Spot has says it's like

1527
02:03:56.359 --> 02:04:01.079
a damn car wreck out here.
On ninety three. King is climbing upside

1528
02:04:01.079 --> 02:04:05.720
down and he gets wrapped and gets
trapped up there, and then Suicide meets

1529
02:04:05.800 --> 02:04:11.479
him. They're both like facing off, hanging from the from high up and

1530
02:04:11.560 --> 02:04:15.079
there's a rake of the eye and
I think it's Suicide that falls down.

1531
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:18.800
Saban gets to the center of the
ultimate X and wraps his legs over it.

1532
02:04:18.880 --> 02:04:20.960
That was a big thing in these
in these matches as you kind of

1533
02:04:21.000 --> 02:04:26.640
like, you know, hug the
ropes there and suspend your legs around the

1534
02:04:26.720 --> 02:04:30.199
cables. Ye try shoul drop of
the neckbreaker, but Saban say stays put.

1535
02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:33.520
So King, who's trying to neck
break Saban has both hung upside down

1536
02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:36.520
up there, didn't bring Saban down
with him and just crashed to the canvas.

1537
02:04:36.680 --> 02:04:41.920
Saban then is able to hang upside
down with his legs wrapped around the

1538
02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:45.560
center of the x where both ropes
meet. He's able to unsnap the Exhibition

1539
02:04:45.640 --> 02:04:47.960
championship through his legs and hang upside
down with the championship. In victory,

1540
02:04:48.279 --> 02:04:53.279
Chris Saban defeats Kenny King and suicide
to become the new Extavation Champion. Here

1541
02:04:53.319 --> 02:04:57.399
in the first match at Slam Reversary
twenty thirteen, Mike Tenay's says its affirmation

1542
02:04:57.800 --> 02:05:00.560
and confirmation that Chris Saban is back. And there's a bit of a cut

1543
02:05:00.600 --> 02:05:03.560
on Chris Aben's hair line and a
trickle of blood. As Mike Tiney's screaming

1544
02:05:03.600 --> 02:05:08.880
about this being an emotional moment,
is it? Chris Saban makes his way

1545
02:05:08.960 --> 02:05:12.720
up the aisle with his newfound hardware, and who is about to come out

1546
02:05:13.079 --> 02:05:17.960
to endorse this, Michigander. What
an incredible matter you see, Saband?

1547
02:05:18.039 --> 02:05:31.279
That price substitches, I remember this
being big. People did not expect Cogan

1548
02:05:31.319 --> 02:05:40.159
to come out at this point.
You don't have a seller place and without

1549
02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:57.560
the Halkster, well that's really nice. Second for the extra chip that enforcement

1550
02:05:57.960 --> 02:06:06.640
from the general manager. Hold him
hope, don't get given him a scamp

1551
02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:12.600
of approval. Sabans certainly earned it. And you see the rap on Hulks

1552
02:06:12.640 --> 02:06:20.760
hand as a result of a recent
accident. You know something, I don't

1553
02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:28.079
want mister Saban, the new champion
to hear what my Boston mediac sound like.

1554
02:06:28.239 --> 02:06:38.760
Brother. Well, you know,
mister Saban, I gotta give this

1555
02:06:38.920 --> 02:06:45.479
guy props because I've been in Boston
for many many years, fighting many wars

1556
02:06:45.560 --> 02:06:49.239
in this town. And the one
thing I can say, mister Saban is

1557
02:06:49.439 --> 02:07:00.159
Boston loves champions just like you,
brother. So for now on Champ,

1558
02:07:00.800 --> 02:07:05.880
every time you come out here,
this crowd is gonna scream just as loud

1559
02:07:06.239 --> 02:07:12.399
as the first time whole Cogan beat
up Andrea the giant in Boston. Brother,

1560
02:07:13.960 --> 02:07:19.319
did that ever? Happen. But
him beating Andrea and Boston is the

1561
02:07:19.520 --> 02:07:25.319
future of our business right here,
and you know something to make a great

1562
02:07:25.479 --> 02:07:30.319
night even better, mister Savan,
I want to let you know that just

1563
02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:38.000
like they're happy to see him,
yes, and they don't care about Chris

1564
02:07:38.039 --> 02:07:45.760
save anymore. That right, Like
I was trying to say, just like

1565
02:07:46.119 --> 02:07:51.319
last year, brother, the ex
division champion is gonna have a shot this

1566
02:07:51.560 --> 02:07:59.279
summer at the TNA World title at
Destination X. Well it worked for Austin

1567
02:07:59.359 --> 02:08:03.880
Areas last The way things are going
and with the momentum you have, Champ,

1568
02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:09.119
and with all my maniacs behind you, now I'm betting on you this

1569
02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:15.199
summer to have a shot at the
TENA world title. We love your brother,

1570
02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:26.680
and congratulations, thank you. Okay, now here we go. We're

1571
02:08:26.800 --> 02:08:39.439
getting down to Boston and Paul Cogan
business. You know, Chris Sabans a

1572
02:08:39.560 --> 02:08:45.479
great champion, but you know we
got something else going down right now.

1573
02:08:46.039 --> 02:08:52.319
We gotta talk about tonight and what's
going on. It's sammiversary, macho man.

1574
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:16.039
What hey, all these guys should
know how to crash a crash a

1575
02:09:16.079 --> 02:09:18.239
party, don't do so they make
a party good. That's my brother.

1576
02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:30.399
In my basis and agel mister Anderson
right there by the way in told West

1577
02:09:30.479 --> 02:09:35.800
Crischool and my whole boy Garrett fish
Off, Oh, we might want to

1578
02:09:35.840 --> 02:09:52.319
tuck your tail and get the hell
out of Doshway Sweet Holgans Boston and Boston

1579
02:09:52.680 --> 02:10:13.359
Wollston Holgan. That's just goes my
ginlets. Okay, Ken, There's only

1580
02:10:13.399 --> 02:10:22.680
one thing you need to recognize,
Sun, and that is that tonight he's

1581
02:10:22.600 --> 02:10:35.319
he's gonna You're a pretty tall feller, but you're gonna be even taller tonight

1582
02:10:35.319 --> 02:10:41.159
because you're gonna be standing on top
of a mountain of impact wrestlers because he's

1583
02:10:41.399 --> 02:10:50.760
in it. He's gonna steal the
show better. Well, you know something,

1584
02:10:50.880 --> 02:10:56.479
mister Anderson, I think you might
have forgot where you're at. Brother,

1585
02:10:56.720 --> 02:11:07.720
forgot you're in Boston, Jack.
Number one, nobody in Boston is

1586
02:11:07.800 --> 02:11:13.439
scared of no ghosts. Number two, we sure as hell ain't afraid and

1587
02:11:13.800 --> 02:11:26.840
stinking terrorists, huh. And number
three, we're not afraid of free dear

1588
02:11:28.079 --> 02:11:33.239
mother, brother, brother. Now, that was not nice. That was

1589
02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:41.600
not nice. So the way it
goes, man, this is not Aces

1590
02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:50.399
and Eights night. The way it
goes Joseph Park is gonna start a role

1591
02:11:50.920 --> 02:11:56.159
by taking finish the ship for maces
and eights in Devon. He got a

1592
02:11:56.199 --> 02:12:03.680
bunch of the roles from Legal Seafood. Yeah, you don't care. You

1593
02:12:03.800 --> 02:12:07.000
just need to shut the hell up. I just might bitch slap your ass.

1594
02:12:09.560 --> 02:12:13.359
Folkster fired up tonight. I love
it. You're a bitch and your

1595
02:12:13.399 --> 02:12:24.880
old man's a bit fun that comes
from Yeah. The second thing that's gonna

1596
02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:33.600
happen is the greatest wrestler in this
stamp business. Stay. I think it's

1597
02:12:33.600 --> 02:12:39.600
a little drunk think o cow boy
ray and bring the power back to ten

1598
02:12:39.680 --> 02:12:43.319
A. Brother, I think you
might have hit the purple shamrack after the

1599
02:12:43.399 --> 02:12:54.560
Unions and you guys seem to be
foaming at the crotch started waits to Linda

1600
02:12:54.680 --> 02:13:00.319
because you three, Garret, Brisco
and you and you're in a sit man

1601
02:13:00.520 --> 02:13:11.880
right now? What magness? Magness? No dude gives magness? You can't

1602
02:13:11.920 --> 02:13:16.560
remember us Hogan uncensored tonight at slab
Reiversary and the GM laying down the law,

1603
02:13:18.159 --> 02:13:22.199
the hello sis about Hogan class give
me a breaking coming out. He

1604
02:13:22.279 --> 02:13:26.079
with his party belt. That's horrible
and I'm ready to go out here.

1605
02:13:30.960 --> 02:13:35.760
Magnus is gonna add a little help
from the most dangerous man in this company,

1606
02:13:37.159 --> 02:13:43.880
Samoa Joe Brother. Come on now, Magnus, think of when they

1607
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:48.039
have in common toime. Absolutely a
lot of hatred, a lot of history,

1608
02:13:48.279 --> 02:13:52.880
were bases and aches and a lot
of months on the shelf as a

1609
02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:58.000
result of brutal feedings from axes and
eights. Oh yeah, Show and Magnus,

1610
02:13:58.079 --> 02:14:03.880
they got hate back on their mind. I don't like this, this

1611
02:14:03.119 --> 02:14:07.359
whole right here. I'm not a
fan of this whole thing. But come

1612
02:14:07.439 --> 02:14:16.399
on, Joe has absolutely erupted back
on the scene and before announced the third

1613
02:14:16.479 --> 02:14:22.039
man. That's gonna turn man again. Third man. Let everybody knowing here

1614
02:14:24.000 --> 02:14:33.439
get ready to tear the rough down
because with Joe in Magnus India Enigma Trouble

1615
02:14:33.560 --> 02:14:41.399
Brother, he's a fucking mess.
I think he's probably on some kind of

1616
02:14:41.239 --> 02:14:45.640
like loopy drugs to treat his hand
condition. You saw his hand wrapped.

1617
02:14:46.199 --> 02:14:48.039
Yeah, you know what he did? What did he do? Now?

1618
02:14:48.119 --> 02:14:52.880
Burned himself on a radiator? Such
a fucking idiot. What do what do

1619
02:14:52.920 --> 02:15:03.199
you say? A hundred Beacon Street? Yeah, the Parker professional wrestl Hogan

1620
02:15:03.199 --> 02:15:09.159
tussled with the radiator. This weekend
and lost. According to Newsday, fifty

1621
02:15:09.199 --> 02:15:11.720
nine year old former Hogans best star
we don't named, Terry Ballet, was

1622
02:15:11.760 --> 02:15:13.960
rushed to a hospital after severely burning
his left hand in a household accident.

1623
02:15:15.039 --> 02:15:18.840
On Sunday, Hogan tweeted pictures of
the gristly injury, posting photos of his

1624
02:15:18.920 --> 02:15:28.439
badly blister digits with the caption's ouch
and double ouch. Ogan resumed his documentation

1625
02:15:28.479 --> 02:15:31.479
while in the emergency rome in the
Tampa General He snapped the photo of a

1626
02:15:31.520 --> 02:15:37.239
surgeon working to remove the scalded tissue
from his hand. The fuck skinned like

1627
02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:41.439
a cat, Hogan tweeted, putting
up a photo of his fingers bloodied and

1628
02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:52.079
shorn of skin. Would you like
it rare? I mean, according to

1629
02:15:52.199 --> 02:15:54.199
what you this article, it's well
done, Actually, Terry, it's not

1630
02:15:54.399 --> 02:15:58.039
rare at all. Right, It's
not the only thing well done during his

1631
02:15:58.119 --> 02:16:01.720
tena run. And also it's not
rare either, because it's pretty common that

1632
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:05.560
you injure yourself. Imagine, fuck
does it ever end with this fucking guy?

1633
02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:09.920
And then he's he loves documenting his
like his personal dramas. He's doing

1634
02:16:11.079 --> 02:16:15.960
videos like bro Ventnel inside the Back
Surge, and he's Oh my god,

1635
02:16:16.039 --> 02:16:20.000
this guy. Um you know brother, Um, you know dude. We

1636
02:16:20.119 --> 02:16:24.800
go again, brother, we go
again. Uh, this show is this

1637
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:28.520
record? Hull COVID history website shows
that he did rustle Andre on February sixth,

1638
02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:33.000
nineteen eighty eight in Boston, so
they had a singles match, but

1639
02:16:33.120 --> 02:16:37.120
also wrestled in nineteen eighty when he
was a heel in Boston two times did

1640
02:16:37.159 --> 02:16:41.520
he win that one Though he lost
those two, he won in eighty So

1641
02:16:41.200 --> 02:16:46.239
I'm not sure that that's enough for
him to like talk about him versus Andres

1642
02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:50.200
being a thing in Boston. I
mean, I wouldn't doubt that he that

1643
02:16:50.319 --> 02:16:52.719
he thinks he's in Detroit, right, Yeah, he's no idea. I

1644
02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:54.959
think. I think I'm pretty sure
that he thinks he's always in Detroit.

1645
02:16:56.799 --> 02:17:01.360
That's why I love Chris Saban.
Yeah, so, oh there you go.

1646
02:17:01.079 --> 02:17:03.399
That was That was quite a road
we traveled there with the hulture.

1647
02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:09.799
I mean, foaming at the cross, Foaming at the Cross. Oh,

1648
02:17:09.600 --> 02:17:13.479
it's fucking hilarious. Jeff Hardy is
coming back for the first time in two

1649
02:17:13.520 --> 02:17:18.840
months here because I'm want to know
what fucking uh what Bishop thought of that?

1650
02:17:20.000 --> 02:17:22.959
I hope he called the bitch who's
back there called I'm a bitch Holks

1651
02:17:24.000 --> 02:17:26.399
Loopy, lay In Amy Terry.
It'll be good stuff. Yeah, yeah,

1652
02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:31.680
yeah, you do with Garrett Garrett. You don't do it, Garrett.

1653
02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:37.120
You don't do it with Garrett Garrett. You know. Uh. Later,

1654
02:17:37.239 --> 02:17:39.399
Boor ashes back to this as a
price of a gallon of milk was

1655
02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:43.120
a dollar sixty. It wasn't a
bit, and I didn't want to be

1656
02:17:43.200 --> 02:17:46.719
a bitch. Kelly Clarkson was an
American idol. Later on the show,

1657
02:17:46.760 --> 02:17:50.040
Abiss takes the TV title off Devon
Dudley Abyss himself coming back as a surprise

1658
02:17:50.159 --> 02:17:56.760
to wrestle. Uh. Dixie comes
out later to her music and her bangs

1659
02:17:56.840 --> 02:18:11.760
are now in full effect. She
announces the inductee of the TNA Hall of

1660
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:18.040
Fame for twenty thirteen is Kurt Angle, and everyone's out there awaiting the announcements

1661
02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:22.159
that they all start applauding Kurt Angle
is Dixie. Carter has a feel good

1662
02:18:22.200 --> 02:18:26.440
moment here in the middle of the
pay per view, How nice for her?

1663
02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:31.319
Absolutely ill lad run. Jeremy Bull
After is doing an interview when Brook

1664
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:33.920
steps in and says, this year
has made me so proud. The Knockouts

1665
02:18:33.959 --> 02:18:37.200
have absolutely stood up to the plate. We've grown the division like never before.

1666
02:18:37.879 --> 02:18:41.719
He is the TNA Last knockout Standing
matchup and my guest at this time,

1667
02:18:43.239 --> 02:18:45.639
Vice President charge of the Knockouts,
Brook Hogan. Come on, and

1668
02:18:45.799 --> 02:18:48.000
what a year it has been for
you? What a year it has been

1669
02:18:48.319 --> 02:18:50.079
for the TNA Knockouts. Tell me
about it. Oh my gosh, this

1670
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:54.920
year has made me so proud.
The Knockouts have absolutely stood up to the

1671
02:18:54.000 --> 02:18:58.840
plate um. We've grown the division
like never before. I think it was

1672
02:18:58.840 --> 02:19:03.239
a great decision to bring Terrence Roll
in for a wreath, and she's done

1673
02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:05.600
so well with that. But I'm
telling you, I think her calling is

1674
02:19:05.600 --> 02:19:11.479
actually doing the wrestling. So fighting
Gail Kim in the first ever Last knock

1675
02:19:11.520 --> 02:19:13.719
Outstanding match So this is an exciting
night for me. You want to be

1676
02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:16.559
brought off, no question about it. Hey, you know a lot of

1677
02:19:16.559 --> 02:19:20.559
people been asking me. Bully Ray
time and time again has said that he

1678
02:19:20.760 --> 02:19:24.920
still loves you, And my question
for you is, Brooke, get it

1679
02:19:24.959 --> 02:19:31.200
out there. Do you do you
still love him? Jab? I think

1680
02:19:31.200 --> 02:19:37.600
we're gonna have to end a shit. Sorry, Roller did a good job

1681
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:39.559
there. Yeah, I had a
trumping over her words, I don't do

1682
02:19:39.639 --> 02:19:43.559
that on purpose, but it was
good. Yeah. And somewhere with this,

1683
02:19:43.959 --> 02:19:46.920
they show Bully with his backstage with
his back to the camera and turns

1684
02:19:46.920 --> 02:19:48.600
around and says no holds barred sting. I'm not quite sure you really thought

1685
02:19:48.639 --> 02:19:52.399
about this before you opened your mouth. There's one move that wrestlers will still

1686
02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:56.280
stay away from and try not to
do to each other because they know about

1687
02:19:56.280 --> 02:19:58.280
the consequences. That is the pile
driver, and that sting is the move

1688
02:19:58.479 --> 02:20:01.840
I'm going to beat you with.
I'm gonna break. Why didn't they fucking

1689
02:20:01.920 --> 02:20:05.079
build up the pile driver, like
over the course of a couple of weeks,

1690
02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:09.000
like they decided last minute that this
was going to be the stray match,

1691
02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:15.000
Like it would have been neat to
really, because you know, as

1692
02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:18.760
much as the pile driver is such
a you know, it certainly is a

1693
02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:26.440
dangerous move. You know, outside
of the real incidents that have happened,

1694
02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:31.159
it's it's it became a transition move, you know, it was kind of

1695
02:20:31.239 --> 02:20:33.959
it was very common, right,
you know, it was a really finisher

1696
02:20:35.000 --> 02:20:43.000
in the WWF to Lalla came in
and Sean Michaels used it for a while

1697
02:20:43.159 --> 02:20:46.680
too. But but even by by
then everyone was doing it right. You

1698
02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:50.479
know, it wasn't really uh seen
as a match ender, so it would

1699
02:20:50.479 --> 02:20:56.280
have been it would have been good
to really establish it as being devastating and

1700
02:20:56.440 --> 02:21:00.360
have some people have bully used it
a couple of times and have people really

1701
02:21:00.399 --> 02:21:01.079
sell it. Well. I think
what it was. It's kind of a

1702
02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:05.479
page out of the book of like
how Russo in the early days of TNH

1703
02:21:05.559 --> 02:21:07.319
would have guys smack each other over
the head full force with chairs. It

1704
02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:11.879
was like WWE was not doing this, and there was a moratorium on pile

1705
02:21:11.920 --> 02:21:16.559
drivers in WWE because they were deemed
two changers. So I think that was

1706
02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:18.520
kind of what they were leaning on, was counting on the fans to know

1707
02:21:18.680 --> 02:21:22.799
that and to think of it as
some sort of like a naughty thing that

1708
02:21:22.879 --> 02:21:26.040
pile drivers were in play for this
one. I guess Sting comes out in

1709
02:21:26.079 --> 02:21:28.799
a T shirt. It strikes me, you know what, as he comes

1710
02:21:28.840 --> 02:21:31.600
to challenge for the world title.
All TNA is is Sting chasing the world

1711
02:21:31.639 --> 02:21:35.959
title. Yes, they never quite
get beyond that as a story. That's

1712
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.040
that's kind of the go too,
really is. And I'm talking years before

1713
02:21:39.079 --> 02:21:43.920
Hogan ever came in. Yep,
fittingly, the steps are no title match

1714
02:21:45.000 --> 02:21:48.760
ever again for sting as I make
that remark to myself saying right, no,

1715
02:21:50.319 --> 02:21:52.959
no, In fact, it wouldn't
be the case within the body of

1716
02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:58.559
what we're about to cover, let
alone with the passage of time. But

1717
02:21:58.840 --> 02:22:01.680
yeah, I guess they were cognisant
to that, and it made that stipulation

1718
02:22:01.239 --> 02:22:05.760
hilariously. Bully of mean dogs at
Boston cop on his way through the crowd

1719
02:22:05.840 --> 02:22:09.159
of the ring, and the guy
tries not to laugh as wow, he

1720
02:22:09.239 --> 02:22:13.840
looks at him with his New York
Yankees Beanie on Tessash five. Oh here

1721
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:18.159
this fucking guy. Hi, this
whoa whoa? All right, hey,

1722
02:22:18.239 --> 02:22:22.120
you know what Yankee to guy,
he says, Yankee sah full grown man,

1723
02:22:22.280 --> 02:22:33.200
Yankee suck a cop. Don't don't
fucking mess with us here in Beantown,

1724
02:22:33.280 --> 02:22:41.200
bro God officer like Kenneally going back
to Way three batteries at Blackjack,

1725
02:22:41.479 --> 02:22:46.719
Mansa and the Garden, like a
cop who pretends he doesn't like I was

1726
02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:50.079
here when uh, you know,
I was here when when Roddy Pipe I

1727
02:22:50.200 --> 02:22:52.840
faced Bruno in the case. Oh
you know who was great Roddy Pipe?

1728
02:22:52.959 --> 02:22:56.719
Right, Yeah, who's a bad
guy, But who's my favorite? He

1729
02:22:56.959 --> 02:23:00.760
was he you know, he he
spoke like a local and he wore a

1730
02:23:00.840 --> 02:23:05.639
kilt like a local too. As
far as the Celtic core and and the

1731
02:23:05.719 --> 02:23:11.799
police drum fife band, whatever the
it is fucking police marching bands right,

1732
02:23:11.280 --> 02:23:15.559
wearing the kilts and the bagpipes.
But yeah, Ted says, we've had

1733
02:23:15.559 --> 02:23:18.360
our issues in the past. That's
another story. Back in the late nineties.

1734
02:23:18.360 --> 02:23:22.600
I think he's talking about the Mass
Transit incident where New Jack sliced a

1735
02:23:22.639 --> 02:23:26.200
newcomer open in Rivera with an exact
do knife and cause him to bleed out

1736
02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:31.360
so badly that the kid's dad sued
ECW. That would be probably what he's

1737
02:23:31.399 --> 02:23:37.239
referencing. Did he get money from
Paul Hammond the kid? Yeah, I

1738
02:23:37.319 --> 02:23:39.680
think there was a settlement. I
can't remember actually what the outcome was mean,

1739
02:23:41.200 --> 02:23:45.360
did he actually get money? What's
that? Did he actually get paid

1740
02:23:45.600 --> 02:23:48.319
is the question? Well, he
probably did if it was CORE ordered.

1741
02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:58.879
Let me see Mass Transit ECW settlements. Maybe he got an autograph instead,

1742
02:23:58.959 --> 02:24:01.520
Yeah, probably so. Yeah,
I'm not sure how that resolved. It

1743
02:24:01.639 --> 02:24:05.239
was well covered on the New Jack
episode of Dark Side of the ring.

1744
02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:09.079
Yeah, so hilariously. Yes,
he has this face off with the cop

1745
02:24:09.239 --> 02:24:13.440
and Tess says, it's well documented
people in Boston love New Yorkers. I

1746
02:24:13.600 --> 02:24:18.280
drive around here with New York plates
and a Cadillac. Try to cut me

1747
02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:20.280
off. Horrible drop in my Cadillac
and they're all trying to cut me off.

1748
02:24:20.319 --> 02:24:24.639
The horrible drives and he DAPs up
Bully and it was a good entrance

1749
02:24:26.799 --> 02:24:30.600
or ash with the particulars. State
Event Time Slam Aiversary twenty thirteen Bully Ray

1750
02:24:30.639 --> 02:24:33.959
in defense of his title against the
Stinger. Bully takes the corner to hoist

1751
02:24:35.000 --> 02:24:37.479
the championship as he's introduced, and
Sting seizes that opportunity with a Stinger splash

1752
02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:41.319
and the fight hits the floor right
away, staying bouncing him around the ring.

1753
02:24:41.600 --> 02:24:45.319
He still got it. Chant breaks
out for the stinger. Sting charges

1754
02:24:45.360 --> 02:24:48.159
for the splash on the rail.
Bully kneels him over the lariat as he's

1755
02:24:48.840 --> 02:24:50.760
closing the distance. Bully tears the
shirt and chops the chest of Sting.

1756
02:24:50.840 --> 02:24:54.639
Test says he thinks that chop was
hard, so hard it blew out stings

1757
02:24:54.719 --> 02:24:58.479
knee because Stings selling the knee.
Brother, we want tables Chane early they

1758
02:24:58.479 --> 02:25:01.280
talk about how has his pile had
a pile driver put him out of action

1759
02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:05.760
for nine months? He says it's
a rule. Yeah, he says,

1760
02:25:05.879 --> 02:25:09.120
yeah, here's that that whole thing
here. Pol driver put me out of

1761
02:25:09.120 --> 02:25:11.440
commission. Almost had in my career, and I was out for nine months.

1762
02:25:11.959 --> 02:25:15.879
And to this day, I'm terrified
of that move. And that's no

1763
02:25:16.079 --> 02:25:18.479
joke, and most wrestlers are.
And it's just like an unwritten rule of

1764
02:25:18.680 --> 02:25:24.079
business not to mess around with the
pile driver, and it's a good reason

1765
02:25:24.159 --> 02:25:26.280
for it. I'm still not the
same and that never will be. I

1766
02:25:26.319 --> 02:25:28.559
mean, I think it's a written
rule. In who he is it not?

1767
02:25:30.399 --> 02:25:35.639
It's a written rule. Yeah,
it's very much written. Earlier to

1768
02:25:35.000 --> 02:25:43.440
h Bubba was whipping sting with the
belt and then hand it over to Taz

1769
02:25:43.520 --> 02:25:46.719
and then this happened. I got
the champ, I got it, I

1770
02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:50.760
got all sorts of stuff. I
got everything out of here. And you're

1771
02:25:50.799 --> 02:25:52.559
not worried about fully Ready using the
world title belt as a weapon, are

1772
02:25:52.600 --> 02:25:56.319
you. HEA's the champion. Why
wouldn't he it's his belt? Look out

1773
02:25:56.360 --> 02:26:07.200
again here, guys chopping, chopping, tass, bully swings, a chair

1774
02:26:07.200 --> 02:26:09.440
and misses and hits the post.
Todd says he was trying to clear the

1775
02:26:09.520 --> 02:26:16.120
green monster with that shot and goes
off the rep chair. Uh, the

1776
02:26:16.200 --> 02:26:18.680
rip shirt, all these local references
please. The rip T shirt shows that

1777
02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:22.239
Sting actually doesn't look too bad in
the singlet, so it's kind of weird

1778
02:26:22.280 --> 02:26:28.280
that shirt are doing fine. You
look at an idiot rushing in a T

1779
02:26:28.399 --> 02:26:31.799
shirt that he really does. I
mean, he looks more like a fool

1780
02:26:31.879 --> 02:26:35.440
with the fucking T shirt than he
does with the you know, absolutely,

1781
02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:41.159
and Hogan must have convinced him that
he wasn't cosmetic enough so he had to

1782
02:26:41.159 --> 02:26:45.559
wear a T shirt. Then Brooke
Hogan comes out and she looks scared.

1783
02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:48.920
I'd be too. Sting goes up
to her and shakes her and says,

1784
02:26:48.920 --> 02:26:50.399
you got to go back. So
we're supposed to think, you know that

1785
02:26:50.399 --> 02:26:54.000
Brooks actually getting concerned that bullies being
hurt out there, but she listened to

1786
02:26:54.000 --> 02:26:58.239
sisting and she leaves. And again
I'm I'm tempted to think they're thinking to

1787
02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:01.959
go Stephanie McMahon with her at this
point, turning on her with supple h

1788
02:27:01.079 --> 02:27:05.079
but yeah, turning on you know
her dad with triple h I Bully with

1789
02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:07.280
the low blow on Staying. Bully
wears him out with a chair, dense

1790
02:27:07.360 --> 02:27:11.079
it in fact across his back and
throws it to catch and Winston catches the

1791
02:27:11.159 --> 02:27:13.639
cherry, boots it in his face
and then hits the dreaded pile driver.

1792
02:27:13.760 --> 02:27:18.120
And that's only good for two.
Bully sets up a table and Stay bounce

1793
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:24.840
his back corner mount and Bully power
bombs. They howl out of Sting through

1794
02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:33.920
the table covers him up one two
still lifts, Yep, it's good going.

1795
02:27:33.959 --> 02:27:37.680
Well yeah, Well Bully has a
knife. Yeah, yeah, that

1796
02:27:37.799 --> 02:27:41.200
man's what you do a knife and
a no holds barred match, And what

1797
02:27:41.239 --> 02:27:45.319
does he do with it? He
cuts away the strings connecting the apron too,

1798
02:27:45.360 --> 02:27:48.159
the ring. Because you certainly don't
want to kill Staw. You don't

1799
02:27:48.159 --> 02:27:52.200
want to use a knife and an
holds barred match. Yeah, he starts

1800
02:27:52.239 --> 02:27:54.000
cutting these ropes, these pull ropes
that pulled them. Matt tout across the

1801
02:27:54.079 --> 02:27:58.799
padding and he starts peeling it back
and they chain ec dub but of course

1802
02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:01.159
has never happened then ec, but
he's doing it. And then he pulls

1803
02:28:01.200 --> 02:28:03.600
back the foam padding and just tosses
it out of the ring. Man,

1804
02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:07.559
where have we come in this business? Boss? Where they wanted us to

1805
02:28:07.600 --> 02:28:11.000
believe it was a hard surface ring
and they thought it was a big kape

1806
02:28:11.079 --> 02:28:15.600
secret that there was a pad under
there. Now they're ripping it out and

1807
02:28:15.639 --> 02:28:18.920
throwing it into the crowd during a
match. They don't give a shit.

1808
02:28:20.360 --> 02:28:22.639
I remember this being the first time
I saw this, where you actually expose

1809
02:28:22.719 --> 02:28:26.559
the plywood boards and the base of
the road. I've never seen it before.

1810
02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:28.879
I've never seen it before. For
sure it's probably been done, but

1811
02:28:28.959 --> 02:28:30.920
I never saw it, so I
was like, whoa, this is something

1812
02:28:31.159 --> 02:28:33.120
probably done in some you know,
bullshit promotion, right, Yeah, it

1813
02:28:33.159 --> 02:28:37.000
wasn't I don't think done at a
high level. And he kind of stomps

1814
02:28:37.040 --> 02:28:39.280
on the boards to establish that they're, you know, as hard as they

1815
02:28:39.360 --> 02:28:43.520
look, and it's like a deck
like decking. And as he's doing that,

1816
02:28:43.559 --> 02:28:46.360
stingos for splash. But missus and
you better believe, Bully hooks up

1817
02:28:46.399 --> 02:28:50.040
a pile driver and spikes sting on
the wood to a big pop. That's

1818
02:28:50.120 --> 02:28:52.040
right. And what I like about
Bullies in this incarnation is he does things

1819
02:28:52.120 --> 02:28:56.760
very intentionally, very fast, like
he doesn't he doesn't try to like milk.

1820
02:28:56.840 --> 02:28:58.440
The moment that he's about to do
something high impact and like delay and

1821
02:28:58.559 --> 02:29:01.600
tea, he's out there looking like
he's just trying to, you know,

1822
02:29:01.920 --> 02:29:05.840
set off as many bombs and Sting's
face as he can to try to beat

1823
02:29:05.920 --> 02:29:09.600
him, keep scrambling and going for
like more violent things. Yeah no,

1824
02:29:09.760 --> 02:29:13.760
I mean, I'm I'm all for
it, like he's trying to but even

1825
02:29:13.799 --> 02:29:18.000
pile driving him on the exposed woodl
and it gets two tries another and Sting

1826
02:29:18.079 --> 02:29:22.319
backdrops and Sting tries one of his
own, and he's backdropped and Bully absolutely

1827
02:29:22.399 --> 02:29:24.879
soars with a cent on backsplash off
the middle rope. He could do that

1828
02:29:24.959 --> 02:29:28.719
so brilliantly for a guy of his
size. I don't know where that a

1829
02:29:28.799 --> 02:29:31.079
letticism came from, because there was
a weird he did have, I'll tell

1830
02:29:31.120 --> 02:29:39.079
you, especially in this run,
I will admit that he had a significant

1831
02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:46.120
amount of oh for sure, for
like just really surprising how how agile he

1832
02:29:46.440 --> 02:29:54.840
was. Yep, you know hecas
I don't recall him being that agile in

1833
02:29:54.159 --> 02:29:58.520
WWE. Someone asked him that question. I think it was the Conrad podcast,

1834
02:29:58.559 --> 02:30:01.159
and he was kind of bristling at
the idea that he was able to

1835
02:30:01.280 --> 02:30:03.120
do more because he lost so much
weight in TNA. Physically in the ring.

1836
02:30:03.280 --> 02:30:05.600
Yeah, I mean sure, I
could kind of get that. It's

1837
02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:09.760
kind of like I could always do
what I was doing is Bully Ray just

1838
02:30:09.879 --> 02:30:11.559
people were chalking it up to the
weight loss without realizing I used to do

1839
02:30:11.600 --> 02:30:15.719
that when I was three hundred pounds
too. I don't recall that. I

1840
02:30:16.399 --> 02:30:18.239
definitely recall him doing the scent on
backsplash off the middle rope. That was

1841
02:30:20.040 --> 02:30:24.280
that was as far back as the
ECW Dudley's He was sure, but nobody

1842
02:30:24.360 --> 02:30:28.360
home on that and he crashes stumbles
into the wood and then yeah, and

1843
02:30:28.559 --> 02:30:31.920
kind of the other the other kind
of high flying cell jobs that he does,

1844
02:30:31.040 --> 02:30:35.079
like it's really impressive. And I
don't know the way he moves around

1845
02:30:35.120 --> 02:30:37.559
the ring, just you know,
closing distance and the way he steps um.

1846
02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:41.879
But after that, after missing the
scent on sting lines him up so

1847
02:30:41.920 --> 02:30:43.840
we can hit the scorpion death drop
in the back of a Bully's head hits

1848
02:30:43.840 --> 02:30:48.799
the exposed wood cover one two No, because Garrett Bischoff slides in the ring

1849
02:30:48.840 --> 02:30:52.280
and today with the damn It Jazz
points out it's snow holds barred, it's

1850
02:30:52.319 --> 02:30:54.719
fine, and Sting starts kick him
in the balls and dropping him all all

1851
02:30:54.760 --> 02:30:56.639
these his nates guys. But he's
exhausted and I mean to shoot exhausted his

1852
02:30:56.719 --> 02:31:03.879
Sting. And then I'm sure is
launched over the top rope and flatbacks on

1853
02:31:03.920 --> 02:31:07.040
the ramp. What so he's bumping
for the industry. He seeking to prove

1854
02:31:07.120 --> 02:31:11.719
himself, seeking to justify his position, and in that away accusition, accusations

1855
02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:16.559
of nepotism by soaring through the sky
and crashing on a hard surface for the

1856
02:31:16.600 --> 02:31:20.120
industroller. That's right. And let
me tell you, Boss Sting's hair is

1857
02:31:20.120 --> 02:31:24.280
in a state. Oh I'm not
talking about Massachusetts. I'm gonna say it's

1858
02:31:24.280 --> 02:31:28.840
definitely not in Massachusetts. And some
hair this deep into the match, it's

1859
02:31:28.920 --> 02:31:37.040
so bad, frizze that because I
mean, you know, he's obviously spent

1860
02:31:37.559 --> 02:31:43.559
his hair must be just dead because
he's spent so much time coloring it.

1861
02:31:43.799 --> 02:31:48.319
You know, he's heir, you
know, but like, well no,

1862
02:31:48.479 --> 02:31:54.680
but even now I imagine that he's
got white hair or graying hair, so

1863
02:31:54.840 --> 02:32:00.319
he's now dying at brown and it
just it has no life in it at

1864
02:32:00.319 --> 02:32:05.719
all, he's completely fried. His
hair just a disaster. Like remember remember

1865
02:32:05.879 --> 02:32:11.239
like in uh In in ninety five
ninety six, and he you know,

1866
02:32:11.280 --> 02:32:15.639
he had like a good solid head
of hair when he grew it out from

1867
02:32:15.719 --> 02:32:22.280
the uh from from the bleach blonde
spike dude. But nah, not anymore.

1868
02:32:22.360 --> 02:32:26.639
Man, shit's over. I mean
he is a mess of it.

1869
02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:33.600
So you've a late stage stings hair. Oh, it's so, it's it's

1870
02:32:33.719 --> 02:32:41.479
just it's it's offensive. It's an
offensive thing to look at and and it's

1871
02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:46.239
just awful, like the way it's
like still cut in the back. Right,

1872
02:32:46.879 --> 02:32:52.680
It's like he's got this weird he's
got this weird haircut and I just

1873
02:32:52.879 --> 02:32:56.040
don't understand its hairs, but it's
his hair cut. It's so it's both.

1874
02:32:56.159 --> 02:33:01.079
It's it's both because because it's like
if he had if he had shorter

1875
02:33:01.200 --> 02:33:05.600
hair, all right, and just
kind of because that's kind of what he

1876
02:33:05.639 --> 02:33:07.159
does now, right. His hair
is shorter now right, and he just

1877
02:33:07.200 --> 02:33:11.680
slicks it back like if he did
that then. But for some reason he

1878
02:33:11.879 --> 02:33:18.920
needs to have this like shoulder length
bob cut. And it's like why why

1879
02:33:18.959 --> 02:33:20.840
do you need to look like he? Man? You know, why do

1880
02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:24.840
you need the fucking he man cut
and then not only that, but your

1881
02:33:24.879 --> 02:33:31.680
hair is just is just ridiculous.
It's just it's at the top of the

1882
02:33:33.920 --> 02:33:35.600
the face paint up higher and higher. Or is the hair like I know,

1883
02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:41.799
I know, I mean sometimes he
doesn't and it's just weird. It's

1884
02:33:41.840 --> 02:33:46.440
like it's like this one sometimes an
inch between the fucking his hairline and in

1885
02:33:46.520 --> 02:33:48.520
the paints. Like oh come man, stop it, dude. I mean

1886
02:33:48.959 --> 02:33:52.959
you brought us something I never thought
about, and it would be money.

1887
02:33:52.120 --> 02:33:58.200
If this guy has like white hair, yeah, that would look cool,

1888
02:33:58.239 --> 02:34:03.360
like stings pain with the white hair. I mean, he's now he's now

1889
02:34:03.559 --> 02:34:05.920
got to be I mean even what
could be cool too, is if he

1890
02:34:07.000 --> 02:34:13.399
reversed the paint he had like black
paints and the white details. He is

1891
02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:18.840
now in his sixties, all right, there is no way right that his

1892
02:34:20.040 --> 02:34:22.479
hair is this dark. I mean
even then, I mean, look,

1893
02:34:22.399 --> 02:34:28.760
I'm what am I I'm forty two, all right. I've got like some

1894
02:34:30.600 --> 02:34:35.120
crazy salt and peppering going, like
there's just you know, there's still more

1895
02:34:35.200 --> 02:34:39.280
pepper than salt. But man,
it's you know, the salts, the

1896
02:34:39.360 --> 02:34:48.200
salts gaining gaining fucking traction all right, and so he's in his sixties.

1897
02:34:48.920 --> 02:34:54.360
I mean, but even but now
even then he's he's in his he's in

1898
02:34:54.440 --> 02:34:58.559
his fifties. Dude, your hair
is not that color. It's just not

1899
02:35:00.000 --> 02:35:03.000
I think, I mean, I
don't his hair is offensive. I think

1900
02:35:03.399 --> 02:35:09.120
it is it. I mean,
it's really it's it's it should be illegal.

1901
02:35:09.399 --> 02:35:13.319
It's so hard to age gracefully as
far as the hair goes, because,

1902
02:35:13.360 --> 02:35:18.440
like guys, I don't know,
it always looks fine when you let

1903
02:35:18.479 --> 02:35:20.440
it grow white, it always looks
fine. Yeah, yeah, but they

1904
02:35:20.520 --> 02:35:24.799
just they think that they're gonna get
away with coloring it. And then it's

1905
02:35:24.840 --> 02:35:28.520
not guys, it's not the color
of your hair, it's the texture of

1906
02:35:28.600 --> 02:35:33.040
your skin. Dark hair with wrinkly
skin does not work. No, and

1907
02:35:33.159 --> 02:35:37.479
just not. I mean, also, who are you fooling for? What?

1908
02:35:37.760 --> 02:35:39.200
Like, boy, you gotta fuck
because you have dark hair, you're

1909
02:35:39.239 --> 02:35:43.280
gonna get pussy Like what the fuck
is wrong with you? Jesus? Like

1910
02:35:43.520 --> 02:35:46.799
come on, man, and that
fucking and that fucking uh goatee too,

1911
02:35:46.959 --> 02:35:52.479
like you know he obviously paints that
as well. Oh my god, you

1912
02:35:52.600 --> 02:35:56.440
know that the hair dyes running like
a sweat drip. Balls, Oh can

1913
02:35:56.479 --> 02:36:01.239
you I'm surprised that that we haven't
seen any real leaks like fucking like that.

1914
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:07.000
Uh yeah, Guliani, I feel
like I did see that in Rest

1915
02:36:07.239 --> 02:36:09.559
once, but now I'm struggling to
remember who it was. I mean,

1916
02:36:11.840 --> 02:36:18.239
just just be a human being,
all right, don't be a fucking lunatic.

1917
02:36:18.440 --> 02:36:22.879
And and and and it's like gosh, I mean because like God,

1918
02:36:24.000 --> 02:36:35.280
I mean you can you imagine touching
that fucking airy, frizzy falsity so awesome,

1919
02:36:35.440 --> 02:36:39.799
like the texture of Sting's hair,
Yeah, just like like you you

1920
02:36:39.959 --> 02:36:43.319
press on it and it like it
like it doesn't even touch a bone like

1921
02:36:43.440 --> 02:36:48.239
it, Oh, doesn't go away
if you touch it too much, it's

1922
02:36:48.280 --> 02:36:56.399
gonna fall out all you know,
Hogans did, right, Like can I

1923
02:36:56.399 --> 02:37:01.840
can imagine being his wife and like
you know, like trying to be uh

1924
02:37:01.159 --> 02:37:07.120
intimate and just like stroking his hair
and it's like, oh fuck, stops

1925
02:37:07.159 --> 02:37:16.280
abruptly at the bottom of his skull. It's like that fucking Sting's face without

1926
02:37:16.319 --> 02:37:24.360
glasses, like without paint, like
without paint. Oh, he's fucking hilarious.

1927
02:37:24.520 --> 02:37:35.920
Sting eating eating Sabeans pussy so much
fucking stank on that soul patch to

1928
02:37:35.079 --> 02:37:43.559
be clear. So yeah, Bishop
bumps all I wrote it. Stings hair

1929
02:37:43.760 --> 02:37:50.399
is in a state, and we
went about twenty five minutes. We don't

1930
02:37:50.440 --> 02:37:54.200
rest until we fully described what it
is that strikes us about his hair.

1931
02:37:56.079 --> 02:38:05.000
It's just one of the more pressing
things about professional wrestling. Him and Rick

1932
02:38:05.079 --> 02:38:09.600
Flair's hair literally are the like when
he's busted opened in TNA. Oh,

1933
02:38:11.399 --> 02:38:15.440
it's like all balled up top but
it's flying out of the sides. Oh,

1934
02:38:16.360 --> 02:38:22.639
you just say, what happened?
You know, you guys used to

1935
02:38:22.719 --> 02:38:28.000
command respect and now you look like
this and you cut yourself. Oh,

1936
02:38:28.079 --> 02:38:41.440
it's so funny. Oh my god, fucking you know, elderly man they

1937
02:38:41.479 --> 02:38:46.760
are. It's funny because they they're
elderly man. So Sting with the hair,

1938
02:38:46.920 --> 02:38:50.680
the shirt torn, the paint peeling, and then Tads from ringside throws

1939
02:38:50.680 --> 02:38:54.520
a chain to Bully, but it
goes over Bully's head and Sting catches it

1940
02:38:54.559 --> 02:38:56.520
and he smashes Bully in the head
with it. Cover one two No divon

1941
02:38:58.000 --> 02:39:01.879
the anks, Ruffer heading her out
of the ring, and then Ken Anderson

1942
02:39:01.920 --> 02:39:03.600
shows up behind the steps. We
can tell he's sneaking around to do something,

1943
02:39:03.639 --> 02:39:07.600
but the camera misses what he actually
does. Suddenly Bully has the ball

1944
02:39:07.639 --> 02:39:11.920
peen hammer. I assume Anderson fed
it to him, and Sting comes card

1945
02:39:11.959 --> 02:39:15.000
off the top for like a cross
body, but in midair he gets swatted

1946
02:39:15.040 --> 02:39:18.959
in the face by the ball peen
hammer cover by Bully Ray one two three,

1947
02:39:18.000 --> 02:39:22.840
it's over. I just imagine that, like you know, that hammer

1948
02:39:22.959 --> 02:39:31.600
like crushing skull. So it's such
an acute, like small blast zone almost

1949
02:39:31.639 --> 02:39:39.520
like it almost pokes a hole like
an ice fish so bad cracked, like

1950
02:39:39.639 --> 02:39:43.920
you know, right, like you
imagine like a golf ball size hole among

1951
02:39:43.040 --> 02:39:46.959
his skull. You know, it
doesn't it doesn't crack the whole thing.

1952
02:39:48.120 --> 02:39:54.680
It's just a very it's a very
isolated, you know, a cute you

1953
02:39:54.760 --> 02:40:03.639
know, wound or whatever. Oh
so bad. And like it makes when

1954
02:40:03.719 --> 02:40:07.000
he like just just touch your skull
right, sound like touch the top of

1955
02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:11.639
your head and just like Maine,
give it a little pressure, oh imagine,

1956
02:40:11.680 --> 02:40:18.040
but a fucking hammer right there,
Like you almost feel like you can't

1957
02:40:18.079 --> 02:40:20.520
talk for a second. You're like, oh, oh, it's bad,

1958
02:40:24.159 --> 02:40:26.639
and it's good enough here for Bully
ready to retain the championship for the one

1959
02:40:26.680 --> 02:40:30.079
and only time on TNA pay per
View, here at Slam Reversary twenty thirteen

1960
02:40:30.120 --> 02:40:31.360
with a lot of help, and
they celebrate with sting down. And I'm

1961
02:40:31.399 --> 02:40:33.760
sitting here thinking when to Hogan gonna
come out? He doesn't. He just

1962
02:40:33.840 --> 02:40:37.360
sits in the back. He's already
done his piece. He's already talked about

1963
02:40:37.479 --> 02:40:41.000
Yeah, he's probably passed out on
a couch, buzzed like a motherfucker.

1964
02:40:41.040 --> 02:40:45.559
He's already talked about, uh,
you know, foaming at the crop.

1965
02:40:46.319 --> 02:40:48.159
Can we do I'm just thinking to
dude, you know what I'm I'm really

1966
02:40:48.239 --> 02:40:52.520
hurt, brother, you know,
I'm thinking what we could do is com

1967
02:40:54.440 --> 02:41:00.239
get a little heads up on the
on the schizzl brother. I'm gonna kind

1968
02:41:00.239 --> 02:41:05.559
of do my thing when I come
out with Saban, brother, and then

1969
02:41:05.719 --> 02:41:07.920
just kind of transition, you know, do the you know, kind of

1970
02:41:09.000 --> 02:41:11.399
do the whole, the whole shabizzel
brother, and then hey out, dude,

1971
02:41:11.399 --> 02:41:15.879
I gotta go, I gotta I
gotta catch a nap brother. He

1972
02:41:15.920 --> 02:41:22.840
said he's gonna do Theleiz. I
don't know. I want to. I

1973
02:41:22.920 --> 02:41:26.520
want to because brother, after this, dude, after I do my thing,

1974
02:41:26.639 --> 02:41:31.200
Dude, I want to head up
to the Union. Oyster Oysterhizzel and

1975
02:41:31.319 --> 02:41:33.959
I want to go it up to
cow to cow, Liz Dude for a

1976
02:41:33.000 --> 02:41:37.840
little bit. Absolutely sagas wings.
We get some of that, gets some

1977
02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:43.760
of that, fucking Fried Ribs brother, some of that what Fried Ri ribs?

1978
02:41:46.000 --> 02:41:58.120
This is interesting, Fried Rabs is
that what? Oh I'm hungry like

1979
02:41:58.239 --> 02:42:01.360
go off the air with This is
Nate celebrating and Todd Kennedy saying it's the

1980
02:42:01.479 --> 02:42:05.879
end of an era. Damn it
is it? Yeah, apparently it is,

1981
02:42:07.280 --> 02:42:09.920
but they don't know why. Yeah. Impact next one June third,

1982
02:42:11.680 --> 02:42:16.120
the Bully comes out brag and Hulk
cuts him off. Sixth sorry, sixth

1983
02:42:16.879 --> 02:42:22.440
the white glove like Michael Jackson on
Hulk Hogan's hand. We're in Atlanta,

1984
02:42:22.639 --> 02:42:26.319
right down the streets from where the
Hole's Bard was shot and Vince was shot

1985
02:42:26.440 --> 02:42:30.840
up with steroids, and Hulkan says, this sounds to me like this is

1986
02:42:30.840 --> 02:42:35.079
straight up Hulk the Mania Country Bully. Ogan says he can't believe how Stings

1987
02:42:35.079 --> 02:42:37.280
slipped on a b an an appeal
with all the King's horses and all the

1988
02:42:37.399 --> 02:42:39.760
King's men, and those are all
the ones that really beat the Stinger again

1989
02:42:41.159 --> 02:42:43.360
and did you just say, Bully, right, that there's no more competition

1990
02:42:43.440 --> 02:42:46.639
here at Impact. Brother, he
said, you heard me. Damn well,

1991
02:42:46.799 --> 02:42:50.600
Dad, he goes, well,
my son of a bee, all

1992
02:42:50.639 --> 02:42:54.479
summer long, TNA is going to
Impact is gonna be hot with competition.

1993
02:42:54.559 --> 02:42:58.040
The Boundful Glory Series season is going
to run all summer and we're gonna have

1994
02:42:58.079 --> 02:43:00.879
a selection show coming up to see
who all the twelve guys will be in

1995
02:43:00.920 --> 02:43:05.200
the bound for Glory Series. And
Jeff Hardy comes out as a monster ladder.

1996
02:43:05.239 --> 02:43:07.840
He says he'll be in the ring
and that'll leaven the playing field.

1997
02:43:07.879 --> 02:43:11.760
It'll be tit for tat And as
Jeff Hardy produces a ball peen hammer for

1998
02:43:11.879 --> 02:43:16.120
the show down, still to come
between these two, how wonderful more ball

1999
02:43:16.319 --> 02:43:22.159
peens, peen and balls. Absolutely
and then what was at the time a

2000
02:43:22.280 --> 02:43:28.639
tremendous face off was so promising and
what absolutely nowhere between Kurt Angle and MMA

2001
02:43:28.680 --> 02:43:33.000
superstar Quentin Rampage Jackson, Oh sure, who was with Bellator and had signed

2002
02:43:33.000 --> 02:43:37.479
to debut fighting Tito Ortez November two
on Spike. I think they did on

2003
02:43:37.520 --> 02:43:43.040
pay per view, Actually I don't
remember. Anyway. Rampage, huge pro

2004
02:43:43.120 --> 02:43:46.040
wrestling fan his whole life, built
a lot of his MMA style around wrestling,

2005
02:43:46.120 --> 02:43:50.239
brought the power bomb to MMA to
great highlight success, and just grew

2006
02:43:50.319 --> 02:43:56.040
up a huge wrestling fan in Memphis. And really it was a great idea

2007
02:43:56.079 --> 02:43:58.399
to pair him with Kurt because it
was like, okay, like he can

2008
02:43:58.479 --> 02:44:01.479
do, you know, rampage.
He can't pro wrestle, although he was

2009
02:44:01.520 --> 02:44:05.399
training a bit, but he can
go in there, and you know,

2010
02:44:05.440 --> 02:44:07.200
as he was a high level high
school wrestler, he could do amateur exchanges

2011
02:44:07.520 --> 02:44:11.399
and he could convince you with slams
and stuff. And kurtch the kind of

2012
02:44:11.440 --> 02:44:13.360
guy that can figure out a way
to get a match out of a guy.

2013
02:44:13.000 --> 02:44:16.040
But I never went anywhere. They
had a great face off, and

2014
02:44:16.120 --> 02:44:20.200
then they just went in a totally
different direction with Rampage and the fucking main

2015
02:44:20.239 --> 02:44:22.399
event Mafia. I couldn't believe my
eyes. Oh I know what a fucking

2016
02:44:22.680 --> 02:44:26.000
what is going And Teo or Tease
comes out and turns on him, and

2017
02:44:26.120 --> 02:44:31.319
Tito has like no charisma for pro
wrestling whatsoever. Oh my, he's a

2018
02:44:31.440 --> 02:44:35.520
yeah, he's a he's a fucking
stick. Yeah, really such a stiff,

2019
02:44:35.959 --> 02:44:37.399
but a huge hockleymaniac and a wrestling
fan in his own right. So

2020
02:44:37.520 --> 02:44:39.840
probably thought he'd take to it as
well. But he's not even close to

2021
02:44:39.920 --> 02:44:43.120
Rampage in terms of, you know, fitting in seamlessly. The King Moe

2022
02:44:43.200 --> 02:44:48.079
experiment went nowhere. He was supposed
to be a crossover athlete and do pro

2023
02:44:48.200 --> 02:44:50.879
wrestling and MMA at the exact same
time. The first to do that.

2024
02:44:50.159 --> 02:44:54.000
No, just stop, stop exactly
And it was such a ham fist that

2025
02:44:54.040 --> 02:44:58.799
attempt by really Spike to find a
way to promote Bellatoor to the Impact Wrestling

2026
02:44:58.799 --> 02:45:03.040
gu audience. But you don't do
that by making these guys wrestlers on the

2027
02:45:03.079 --> 02:45:05.280
show. It's just not the way
it's gonna work. But they tried just

2028
02:45:05.360 --> 02:45:09.760
a little bit of that, and
uh, this is where that happens,

2029
02:45:09.760 --> 02:45:13.520
and it goes nowhere. Bully and
Ken are talking in the back and it

2030
02:45:13.559 --> 02:45:16.319
says, the best thing that ever
happened to the club is get rid of

2031
02:45:16.399 --> 02:45:20.000
Delo. Do that mean? Okay? Great? Right? The VP slot

2032
02:45:20.120 --> 02:45:24.079
is now vacant. Bully says,
why should I have to face Jeff in

2033
02:45:24.079 --> 02:45:26.120
a ladder match? If I have
I've already done that already. There's no

2034
02:45:26.159 --> 02:45:30.280
ways Nates with a player in the
game. And there's a beer bottle in

2035
02:45:30.360 --> 02:45:31.879
their hand, and Kenn asks,
you need us to do any politicking?

2036
02:45:33.280 --> 02:45:37.840
Oh yeah, I do have this
one? Disgusting. This is so bad.

2037
02:45:37.079 --> 02:45:45.200
It's just it's just horrible. Pretty
good scene or heard from Delo good

2038
02:45:45.200 --> 02:45:52.719
a headache. The best thing that
ever happened to this club is that we

2039
02:45:52.799 --> 02:45:58.559
got rid of him. What did
you agree? Working out? Pretty good?

2040
02:45:58.760 --> 02:46:03.799
And that means that the VP slot
is now vacant. You know any

2041
02:46:03.879 --> 02:46:15.200
suggestions? Listen? Hogan thinks he
has us right where he wants us.

2042
02:46:16.000 --> 02:46:20.079
Why should I have to face Jeff
Hardy tonight in a ladder match? Who

2043
02:46:20.120 --> 02:46:24.520
should? Why should I have to
climb a ladder to grab a hammer to

2044
02:46:24.719 --> 02:46:30.879
bass Jeff Hardy over the head with
stupid? Haven't I done that already?

2045
02:46:31.559 --> 02:46:39.000
Why would Hogan risk taking the number
one most beloved guy in all the TNA

2046
02:46:39.239 --> 02:46:45.920
out Maybe he's goods up against Jeff? And why aren't we represented in the

2047
02:46:45.959 --> 02:46:50.399
Bouncilorie series? Why don't the aces
an Ace got a player in the game.

2048
02:46:52.360 --> 02:46:56.079
I need to take care of that. Yeah, and I'm gonna take

2049
02:46:56.159 --> 02:47:01.239
care of it. Hey, sneaking
a witch, you need us to do

2050
02:47:01.360 --> 02:47:15.200
any politicking politicking assistance tonight? He
and Jeff it's your call. Good VP

2051
02:47:15.399 --> 02:47:24.520
knows how to make that call.
Does that mean I'm VP angle alert brewing

2052
02:47:24.600 --> 02:47:31.200
between Ken Anderson and Bully boring?
Totally boring, what a bad choice.

2053
02:47:31.840 --> 02:47:39.959
It's seriously come on like and Acy's
notes now anyway. In a six man

2054
02:47:39.040 --> 02:47:41.959
tag, Chris Saban, Gunner and
James Storm beat the team of Kinney King

2055
02:47:43.040 --> 02:47:46.840
and Austin Orris and Bobby Rude when
Saban pins King, so Saban building momentum

2056
02:47:46.879 --> 02:47:50.399
here to say the very least.
Tarn asks Brooke Hogan if she's still in

2057
02:47:50.479 --> 02:47:52.680
love with Bully, and Brooklyn answer
her either and says, let's just give

2058
02:47:52.719 --> 02:47:56.159
it about wrestling, and Taran apologizes, says she shouldn't have asked and rolls

2059
02:47:56.159 --> 02:48:01.440
her eyes. Abyss attacks knucks in
the back back and silhouette, which is

2060
02:48:01.520 --> 02:48:07.360
kind of a strange production decision to
shoot it that way, and uh,

2061
02:48:07.440 --> 02:48:11.559
it's Jeffer's Bully in the main event. Um. Bully scrambles to the back

2062
02:48:11.600 --> 02:48:16.360
to try to escape selling and Hogan
comes up front and he's going to hit

2063
02:48:16.399 --> 02:48:20.479
him with a hammer, and brook
runs down and says, daddy know it's

2064
02:48:20.520 --> 02:48:24.280
pretty good? Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it was all right.

2065
02:48:24.440 --> 02:48:28.159
It was all right, and and
she just doesn't like she uh, you

2066
02:48:28.239 --> 02:48:31.559
don't know. She's watching Hogan lying
in wait to smash Bully backstage over the

2067
02:48:31.600 --> 02:48:37.239
head, and which is kind of
weird like that she's waiting. He's waiting

2068
02:48:37.319 --> 02:48:41.399
for Bully and she's waiting for Hogan
to hit Bully. Right. That's like

2069
02:48:41.680 --> 02:48:46.799
she's almost like standing there trying to
feel if she's going to feel compelled to

2070
02:48:46.879 --> 02:48:48.600
save Bully or not. And she
does, right, Daddy know, and

2071
02:48:48.639 --> 02:48:52.159
they'll just stand there frozen at the
awkward staring at each other, like it's

2072
02:48:54.000 --> 02:49:00.280
like it's fucking the opening scene in
Halloween with uh, you know, when

2073
02:49:00.360 --> 02:49:03.600
the parents unveil Michael Myers is having
killed his sister. I mean, just

2074
02:49:03.760 --> 02:49:07.680
kind of stare at him. It's
a good that's a good analogy, Michael.

2075
02:49:09.760 --> 02:49:16.520
This seems fucking weird. Brother brother
what brother Sting comes out for promo

2076
02:49:16.799 --> 02:49:22.000
on the June thirteenth Impact Now,
yep, A man, I got it

2077
02:49:22.159 --> 02:49:26.200
for entertainment for you. You know, I just can't help myself. I

2078
02:49:26.280 --> 02:49:37.319
gotta say this. It's really good
to be back in Atlanta, Georgia one

2079
02:49:37.440 --> 02:49:41.440
year ago. It's Slam anniversary.
I was the first wrestler to be inducted

2080
02:49:41.479 --> 02:49:45.520
into the t and A Hall of
Fame. And it's a night that I'll

2081
02:49:45.680 --> 02:49:52.840
never forget. But a lot has
happened in this last year since then,

2082
02:49:54.200 --> 02:50:01.840
the Great Deception headed off by Bully
Ray, which leads to Slave Anniversary twenty

2083
02:50:03.280 --> 02:50:07.479
thirteen, where I was given exactly
what I wanted, that was one shot

2084
02:50:07.559 --> 02:50:15.959
and one only against Bully Ray for
the world title. And everybody knows that

2085
02:50:16.159 --> 02:50:24.200
I failed. Now because I failed, that means that I can no longer

2086
02:50:24.840 --> 02:50:35.440
wrestle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
again a Slam Aniversary. Bully, you

2087
02:50:35.639 --> 02:50:43.639
sent wave after wave after wave after
wave until I was overwhelmed, my strength

2088
02:50:43.840 --> 02:50:48.639
ran out, You took over,
and the rest is history. You won.

2089
02:50:50.559 --> 02:50:54.719
And there's one other fact that I
cannot let go of that I will

2090
02:50:54.799 --> 02:51:00.719
never forget, and that is this
that I was left out there to fend

2091
02:51:00.920 --> 02:51:05.520
for myself. There wasn't one wrestler
who came from the back to help me

2092
02:51:05.879 --> 02:51:15.079
when I was in dire straights.
But that's okay, that's okay. I

2093
02:51:15.200 --> 02:51:22.319
don't mind at all. Bully you
and aces and eights, You're You're like

2094
02:51:22.760 --> 02:51:26.719
a fine tune machine. You you
you got each other's backs. I mean

2095
02:51:28.239 --> 02:51:31.719
you, no matter what it all
costs, no matter what, you got

2096
02:51:31.799 --> 02:51:37.879
each other's backs. What a great
example. You are. Just like family.

2097
02:51:39.680 --> 02:51:54.000
Family. Yeah, family, just
like family. Family. Okay.

2098
02:51:54.879 --> 02:52:01.639
Oh, just just when I thought
I was out, they sucked me right

2099
02:52:01.719 --> 02:52:05.440
back in. I realized, now
I gotta go to a place where I

2100
02:52:05.520 --> 02:52:15.000
never thought i'd go again, and
that's to create my own family, a

2101
02:52:15.159 --> 02:52:22.200
family I can trust and they know
they'll be able to trust me. My

2102
02:52:22.399 --> 02:52:35.440
own new family, or shall I
say my own new mafia? Oh,

2103
02:52:35.600 --> 02:52:46.399
whoa, whoa, whoa, my
own new made events mafia loan It's very

2104
02:52:46.479 --> 02:52:54.840
soon main event Mafia, the new
made event Mafia will rise aces and eights.

2105
02:52:54.680 --> 02:53:00.840
You're gonna fall? Do you hear
that? Wait? Of stinks?

2106
02:53:00.920 --> 02:53:05.319
Family? His an old family,
her family. What is he talking about?

2107
02:53:05.760 --> 02:53:09.719
He's got old friends he's talking about
He's talking about a dude made up

2108
02:53:09.760 --> 02:53:13.319
bed coffia. No one likes to
Scott, who's he got? No one

2109
02:53:13.440 --> 02:53:16.440
came out for the lock from that
helped up before all guys talk to him?

2110
02:53:18.399 --> 02:53:28.559
Made a bet mafia? Who we
a break? Um? I I

2111
02:53:28.639 --> 02:53:31.639
don't, I don't really, I'm
not familiar with the main event of Mafia.

2112
02:53:33.000 --> 02:53:35.440
So yeah, it was the stable
before Hogan came in. It was

2113
02:53:35.479 --> 02:53:39.840
book Or T, Kevin Nash and
kurn Engel and Sting I believe, and

2114
02:53:41.000 --> 02:53:45.440
they were you know all right,
there's like like the Millionaires Club and w

2115
02:53:45.559 --> 02:53:50.760
STWU in two thousand, which yeah, okay, it's just going nowhere.

2116
02:53:50.040 --> 02:53:54.239
Book Or T. H was so
infamous in that run for like goofing off

2117
02:53:54.360 --> 02:54:00.520
and just practicing his accents on commentary
and every bit of offense he threw in

2118
02:54:00.559 --> 02:54:03.840
the ring was like so pantomimed and
foolish, and he was just like he

2119
02:54:05.000 --> 02:54:07.959
was trying to like bring it to
the ultimate test, like how how much

2120
02:54:09.000 --> 02:54:13.280
can you throw back in a company's
face? How a lot? Seriously you

2121
02:54:13.360 --> 02:54:16.920
take it and still stay paid.
He set the ultimate example I think in

2122
02:54:16.000 --> 02:54:20.360
the main event Mafia. But it
disbanded just about a time you know that

2123
02:54:20.559 --> 02:54:24.719
the Hogan Bishop regime came in and
staying you know, one on another sort

2124
02:54:24.719 --> 02:54:28.600
of like will he won't he sabbatical
contractually? They lost Booker. He went

2125
02:54:28.680 --> 02:54:33.319
over to do the Royal Rumble of
course, right, and the rest is

2126
02:54:33.440 --> 02:54:35.760
history. But yeah, the main
event Mafia, and this would not be

2127
02:54:35.879 --> 02:54:39.000
a long lived version of the Stable, but it would be Magnus in a

2128
02:54:39.079 --> 02:54:41.600
suit, Samoa, Joe in a
suit, staying in a suit, Angle

2129
02:54:41.639 --> 02:54:43.799
in a suit, all with their
shades and doors, and now Stings going

2130
02:54:43.840 --> 02:54:48.799
to drop the face paint and where
like the oak sunglasses in the suit indoors.

2131
02:54:48.840 --> 02:54:52.239
Now that's the new look. So
that's the cool thing. I guess,

2132
02:54:52.319 --> 02:54:54.840
huh, kids are doing. That's
what Stings doing. I wouldn't call

2133
02:54:54.879 --> 02:54:58.319
him a kid, but I's supposed
to get Magnus over. Not a bad

2134
02:54:58.319 --> 02:55:01.040
idea. I kind of like four
Horsemen, you know, Wyndham Luga.

2135
02:55:01.159 --> 02:55:05.120
Sure, sure, um, but
it just it falls apart like everything else

2136
02:55:05.159 --> 02:55:09.360
in TNA in twenty thirteen, as
you can't can't have nice things in TNA

2137
02:55:09.440 --> 02:55:13.559
in twenty thirteen, you just can't. Yeah. Later, Austin Arias won

2138
02:55:13.600 --> 02:55:16.200
the X Division Championship from Chris saman
Is Manic, which was like the alter

2139
02:55:16.319 --> 02:55:24.319
ego of Suicide and Cashes in his
Options seem, which is when you have

2140
02:55:24.360 --> 02:55:26.959
the Exibition title around Destination Act,
you cashing you can get a world title

2141
02:55:26.000 --> 02:55:30.040
shot, you get the world title
of shot. That's an aries, but

2142
02:55:30.079 --> 02:55:33.360
Saving actually ends up winning it back
by telling Bully um, you might be

2143
02:55:33.399 --> 02:55:37.360
looking at the new world champion.
So Saban gets the X division title back

2144
02:55:37.399 --> 02:55:41.959
and now tells Bully that he's gonna
challenge him, just like Arias did the

2145
02:55:43.040 --> 02:55:46.399
year before, gave up the X
title Gopher the world title as his right

2146
02:55:46.000 --> 02:55:50.440
at Destination X, which this year
in TNA is actually a free television show

2147
02:55:50.479 --> 02:55:52.840
and not a pay per view as
they've cut. Yeah, they've got quite

2148
02:55:52.840 --> 02:55:56.959
a few of those now, but
this like they have. It's funny how

2149
02:55:58.000 --> 02:56:00.239
they still hold the pay per views, but just on TV, right,

2150
02:56:00.360 --> 02:56:03.319
Yeah, they still have those,
Like they still orient their booking around a

2151
02:56:03.360 --> 02:56:07.159
big magasue, which is why I
always found it so amusing when Bishoff would

2152
02:56:07.200 --> 02:56:11.799
talk about how much of an albatross
having to do the pay per views were

2153
02:56:11.959 --> 02:56:15.639
for them and how outmoded pay per
view was. It's like, guys,

2154
02:56:15.760 --> 02:56:18.079
you don't know any other way to
book besides to build a pay per view,

2155
02:56:18.200 --> 02:56:22.959
So stop pretending that there's another way, another palatable way to book wrestling.

2156
02:56:24.159 --> 02:56:26.040
There isn't. That's what the fans
want. They want to feel like

2157
02:56:26.079 --> 02:56:28.920
they're building to a big show,
and even when they didn't have to do

2158
02:56:28.000 --> 02:56:31.120
pay per views, they still had
to do pay per views because it's just

2159
02:56:31.239 --> 02:56:35.360
they can't. They are what to
do unless there's a pay per view on

2160
02:56:35.399 --> 02:56:39.520
the calendar. And they were also
desperate to pop some above average ratings for

2161
02:56:41.399 --> 02:56:43.600
Spike, especially over the summer where
things get a little harder to draw,

2162
02:56:45.399 --> 02:56:50.239
so you know, slapping a coat
of paint on a television show making it

2163
02:56:50.319 --> 02:56:52.239
feel like a supercard, which is
something Impact still does to this day.

2164
02:56:52.280 --> 02:56:58.319
They still have free shows on an
Access TV and the Impact Plus app that

2165
02:56:58.040 --> 02:57:01.559
have names but aren't pay shows,
and others that are pay shows. It's

2166
02:57:01.680 --> 02:57:05.520
very, very confusing to me what
they do. But this, I would

2167
02:57:05.600 --> 02:57:11.479
argue, is the point where the
snowball starts rolling downhill for Impact. Yeah,

2168
02:57:11.639 --> 02:57:16.680
summer, as we enter June is
where all of the players and our

2169
02:57:16.840 --> 02:57:20.520
grand drama that's taken up the entirety
of twenty twenty three here at the lapsed

2170
02:57:20.559 --> 02:57:28.840
fan begins to crumble. We're reaching
that point now where folks are abandoning ship.

2171
02:57:28.239 --> 02:57:33.680
The gig is up, the word
is out. Someone came in and

2172
02:57:33.760 --> 02:57:37.200
turned the lights on, and all
the rodents and the insects and the critters

2173
02:57:37.239 --> 02:57:43.600
are scrambling for darkness, and the
first one to go in so many ways

2174
02:57:45.639 --> 02:57:48.879
to this theme is none other than
Bruce Pritchard. I took some time off,

2175
02:57:50.479 --> 02:57:52.440
and while the while I was taking
time off, they were sending out

2176
02:57:52.719 --> 02:57:58.120
release letters to talent, not asking
me, not telling me nothing, sending

2177
02:57:58.200 --> 02:58:07.680
out letters and having the travel guy
calling fire people who Doc Gallows, uh

2178
02:58:07.520 --> 02:58:13.239
superstar now, um Lisa Marie?
Sure? There were a few. Yeah,

2179
02:58:15.239 --> 02:58:20.239
And so it's you know, and
they're calling me going, hey,

2180
02:58:20.319 --> 02:58:24.040
what the hell? I like,
I don't know, but I'm on vacation.

2181
02:58:24.360 --> 02:58:26.280
So then when I get off vacation, they call me and they said,

2182
02:58:26.319 --> 02:58:28.600
what's your decision? I said,
Well, my decision is the same

2183
02:58:28.639 --> 02:58:33.239
decision it's always been. So,
well, here's the deal. You need

2184
02:58:33.319 --> 02:58:39.760
to be here by the end of
next week, living here, or we

2185
02:58:39.920 --> 02:58:43.239
just don't have anything for you.
I said. So you're saying if I'm

2186
02:58:43.360 --> 02:58:48.680
not moved out of Houston and living
in Nashville by next Friday, that I'm

2187
02:58:48.719 --> 02:58:54.840
fired. Said yeah, so,
well I guess I'm fired. Ain't gonna

2188
02:58:54.840 --> 02:58:56.360
happen. What month in the year
was that, and who's telling you that?

2189
02:58:58.040 --> 02:59:03.120
July twenty thirteen and conversation. The
initial conversation was with Dean Broadhead,

2190
02:59:03.760 --> 02:59:09.520
mister s and I had had many
conversations with Dixie too, and Dixie's always

2191
02:59:09.520 --> 02:59:18.000
said we'll work something out and yeah. And then the next thing I know

2192
02:59:18.399 --> 02:59:24.200
is I'm reading online that i'd been
fired and that me and d Low Brown

2193
02:59:24.280 --> 02:59:28.399
had both been fired. And so
I see that was an agent let time,

2194
02:59:28.559 --> 02:59:33.079
Yes, And so I called Dixie. Of course she didn't take my

2195
02:59:33.200 --> 02:59:35.639
calls. When I sent her a
text, I said, it's really great

2196
02:59:35.719 --> 02:59:41.079
to read about my demise on the
internet. And I still haven't even gotten

2197
02:59:41.120 --> 02:59:43.879
spoken to speak to you, and
she sent me back, I'll call you

2198
02:59:45.000 --> 02:59:48.760
tomorrow. And didn't know you have
spoken to Dixie since then? Yeah,

2199
02:59:48.760 --> 02:59:52.479
I have. Yeah, Yeah,
you guys are okay. Terms now I

2200
02:59:52.520 --> 03:00:01.319
don't know. Yeah, they owe
you any money? You know. They

2201
03:00:01.440 --> 03:00:07.920
did something that was um, really
bad. I had uh got some financial

2202
03:00:09.040 --> 03:00:13.120
issues and they were supposed to pay
back and to the government and so on

2203
03:00:13.200 --> 03:00:18.920
and so forth, and he didn't
do it. They garnished things from my

2204
03:00:18.079 --> 03:00:22.479
check. So you had withholdings from
the federal government, right, and they

2205
03:00:22.520 --> 03:00:28.200
were they were that didn't weren't included
in your checks. But then they didn't

2206
03:00:28.200 --> 03:00:31.319
actually pay the government correct. And
then the government came after me for payment.

2207
03:00:31.440 --> 03:00:35.040
They still your money? Yeah,
how much money there still? Firm

2208
03:00:35.079 --> 03:00:39.479
me? Oh, that was about
it was. It was only about ten

2209
03:00:39.520 --> 03:00:43.479
thousand dollars still, but still just
the thing you never got it, the

2210
03:00:43.600 --> 03:00:46.000
arrogance. Well, it wasn't coming
to me, but the government final the

2211
03:00:46.040 --> 03:00:50.239
government finally got it because it was
the government coming after me for the money,

2212
03:00:50.319 --> 03:00:52.760
and you were and you showed them
prove hey from me. Here's where

2213
03:00:52.799 --> 03:00:58.079
they took it. I did my
part. So I don't know because I

2214
03:00:58.200 --> 03:01:03.440
never heard the end of it other
than the government was satisfied. And it

2215
03:01:03.639 --> 03:01:07.040
was just those those kind of little
petty things that didn't have to happen,

2216
03:01:07.120 --> 03:01:11.760
though it made you kind of feel
dirty at the end. What a shit

2217
03:01:11.840 --> 03:01:16.959
show. I mean, I'm okay
with them doing that to him, right.

2218
03:01:18.520 --> 03:01:22.920
His thing about moving too, was
that his wife cancer and there was

2219
03:01:22.000 --> 03:01:26.799
like a like a high end treatment
center for her in Houston that they really

2220
03:01:26.000 --> 03:01:30.360
believed and entrusted in. And it's
like, I'm not moving, and it's

2221
03:01:30.399 --> 03:01:33.719
it's obviously, you know we want
to fire you. We know you won't

2222
03:01:33.719 --> 03:01:37.879
move to Nashville, so we'll come
up with like this thing where it's actually

2223
03:01:37.920 --> 03:01:43.840
your fault. You got fired because
it's not because we're undergoing financial distress and

2224
03:01:43.920 --> 03:01:48.399
cutting back. We can't admit that. But the checks that kind of tells

2225
03:01:48.440 --> 03:01:50.959
the story, doesn't it, You
know it does. He also talks on

2226
03:01:52.280 --> 03:01:56.799
the podcast with with Conrad about how
checks were postmarked that they said they'd sent

2227
03:01:56.440 --> 03:02:01.959
arriving in FedEx envelope, so you'd
get like talent being told we sent the

2228
03:02:01.040 --> 03:02:03.680
check, Well we didn't get the
check, and then when they get the

2229
03:02:03.799 --> 03:02:09.280
check, it would be like postmarked
for the day that they were supposed to

2230
03:02:09.319 --> 03:02:09.959
have gotten them, and it's like, well, if you sent them,

2231
03:02:09.959 --> 03:02:22.479
then how'd you get them? WHOA
well, you know, uh, I

2232
03:02:22.600 --> 03:02:31.959
mean exactly imagine I imagine that the
phone call, uh with with Dixie went

2233
03:02:33.159 --> 03:02:37.680
something like this with with with him, I had, Dixie. You know,

2234
03:02:37.520 --> 03:02:41.280
I'm just wondering about you know,
Am I am? I? Am?

2235
03:02:41.319 --> 03:02:48.159
I am? I fired? Oh
what do you I mean? These

2236
03:02:48.200 --> 03:02:50.079
are things that well, Dixie just
answered the question. Am I fine?

2237
03:02:54.200 --> 03:03:00.360
You've reached Dixie Carter's voicemail Sometimes I
feel voices deep inside me screaming out so

2238
03:03:00.559 --> 03:03:03.600
loud over the silence, and it's
deafening, telling me what to do.

2239
03:03:03.920 --> 03:03:09.399
You know, what to do?
Dude? Unbelievable, Dixie, I know,

2240
03:03:09.840 --> 03:03:16.280
I know that you're there. It's
very tna too, by the way,

2241
03:03:16.399 --> 03:03:20.159
like to have it come out on
the internet websites, your fire,

2242
03:03:22.120 --> 03:03:24.479
that's so dirty, and then like
turn around and always say the internet's wrong

2243
03:03:24.479 --> 03:03:28.440
about your company, even when they
totally are, Like Meltzer totally scooped them

2244
03:03:30.239 --> 03:03:33.040
on the fact that they were leaving
Spike and going to Destination America, a

2245
03:03:33.159 --> 03:03:39.319
much lower tier station, and they
denied that man until they were red in

2246
03:03:39.360 --> 03:03:43.559
the face. It just they just
could not acknowledge that someone actually had done

2247
03:03:43.600 --> 03:03:48.639
some reporting and got the confirmation before
they were ready to give it, like

2248
03:03:48.840 --> 03:03:52.920
you know that. That's why I
always look very askance at this idea that

2249
03:03:52.000 --> 03:03:56.159
Dixie was some kind of pr maven
because whenever I've heard her sort of trying

2250
03:03:56.159 --> 03:04:01.440
to flex that muscle, like the
script we read where she was trying to

2251
03:04:01.479 --> 03:04:05.120
advise Hulcogan on what to say during
the Steep scandal and what Renaissenter would want

2252
03:04:05.120 --> 03:04:09.000
to hear and what I would say
if I was counseling you, and and

2253
03:04:09.159 --> 03:04:15.600
things like the way she handled media
reporting on her company and criticizing her product.

2254
03:04:16.120 --> 03:04:20.879
It's like this she's not a pr
strategist. She's waiting. No,

2255
03:04:20.040 --> 03:04:24.360
she's not um but yeah, I
mean, I mean, you know she's

2256
03:04:24.520 --> 03:04:30.159
uh, she's just she's just Daddy's
a little girl. I'm sorry, I

2257
03:04:30.280 --> 03:04:33.440
know. It's it's so that's what
she can work a room. She's got

2258
03:04:33.520 --> 03:04:37.200
personality, but that that doesn't a
lot of people have that those qualities.

2259
03:04:37.319 --> 03:04:39.799
Yeah, right, you know,
if you don't have, if you don't

2260
03:04:39.840 --> 03:04:46.200
have some fucking backbone behind you or
some kind of you're just gonna get walk

2261
03:04:46.239 --> 03:04:50.280
I mean, it's proofs in the
pudding here. She just got fucking walked

2262
03:04:50.319 --> 03:04:54.719
over by these fucking carnies. Well
she thought she she thought there was a

2263
03:04:54.799 --> 03:04:58.360
way that she could be what she
was and not get her hands dirty.

2264
03:04:58.159 --> 03:05:03.000
You know, that she could just
talk about like that. People would always

2265
03:05:03.120 --> 03:05:07.719
have an appetite for her line about
how actually we're doing better than people realize.

2266
03:05:07.600 --> 03:05:11.559
The obituary of our company has been
written so many times already, and

2267
03:05:11.680 --> 03:05:15.239
we're proud of the fact that we're
still going. Like people are done caring

2268
03:05:15.280 --> 03:05:18.799
about that, Dixie. Like,
we just heard Hulkogan for three years tell

2269
03:05:18.920 --> 03:05:22.399
us that we're just one step from
the really launch in this thing. We

2270
03:05:22.479 --> 03:05:26.000
heard him pathetically at that press conference
audio we played at as beat Shop talking

2271
03:05:26.000 --> 03:05:31.639
about how you know much of a
step forward incrementally, it was that they're

2272
03:05:31.680 --> 03:05:35.120
on the road now. Meanwhile,
all the evidence is it's making no difference

2273
03:05:35.159 --> 03:05:39.479
in ratings. It clearly isn't drawing
enough ticket buyers to justify the cost,

2274
03:05:39.000 --> 03:05:43.239
and it's just it's hurting TNA to
be on the road, hurting them.

2275
03:05:43.959 --> 03:05:46.760
So it's not hurting the atmosphere of
the television shows, but the ratings for

2276
03:05:46.799 --> 03:05:50.760
the shows aren't going up. And
that's what people were banging the drum saying

2277
03:05:50.840 --> 03:05:54.040
was going to happen if we made
the investment to go on the road.

2278
03:05:54.239 --> 03:05:56.000
And they do and it makes no
difference. Oh they're waiting two weeks.

2279
03:05:56.040 --> 03:05:58.680
Okay, Well that was in twenty
twelve or whatever. Here we are in

2280
03:05:58.719 --> 03:06:03.920
twenty teen, there on the road
every week, and the ratings are not

2281
03:06:03.040 --> 03:06:07.040
appreciably different than they were the Impact
Zone every single week, except you're spending

2282
03:06:07.079 --> 03:06:11.879
six to seven hundred thousand dollars or
perfectly to do the tapings on the road

2283
03:06:11.959 --> 03:06:16.680
live. I'm sorry, it's not
there's no there there. Like the ceiling

2284
03:06:16.799 --> 03:06:20.440
is established, you're not going to
break through it. You had a small

2285
03:06:20.479 --> 03:06:22.959
window of opportunity January four, twenty
ten, when they did like three and

2286
03:06:22.959 --> 03:06:26.879
a half million people for the Hogan
and Outsider's bit. Whatever was going on

2287
03:06:28.040 --> 03:06:33.440
there told us that there was a
contingency of people that were willing to let

2288
03:06:33.559 --> 03:06:39.399
TNA be a serious number two,
and they did not like what they saw

2289
03:06:39.440 --> 03:06:45.079
and they never came back, I
know. And the checks are starting to

2290
03:06:45.719 --> 03:06:48.799
become a very serious problem. Pritchard
says. There were even instances where talent

2291
03:06:48.840 --> 03:06:52.840
couldn't afford to park their car at
the airport to get on the plane to

2292
03:06:52.920 --> 03:06:56.520
make the shows because money was so
late in arriving that they had counted on.

2293
03:06:58.239 --> 03:07:03.600
Talent would let weeks and weeks go
by without getting their paycheck as they

2294
03:07:03.639 --> 03:07:07.040
expected, but then they wouldn't complain, and then by the time they complained,

2295
03:07:07.120 --> 03:07:09.000
so much debt had been built up
that it was so much harder to

2296
03:07:09.120 --> 03:07:15.200
kind of check to make them whole. So just snowballed. And Bruce's head

2297
03:07:15.200 --> 03:07:16.639
of talent relations the person that talent
is supposed to go to, and they

2298
03:07:16.639 --> 03:07:20.239
have issues with payroll. He talked
about Dean Broadhead. Dean Broadhead was the

2299
03:07:20.280 --> 03:07:24.959
CFO at Panda Energy, which was
the parent company, Dixie Carter's parents company

2300
03:07:24.680 --> 03:07:28.760
that owned TNA, and so they
would kind of put the Panda Energy office

2301
03:07:28.799 --> 03:07:31.440
staff part of their remit. Their
responsibility would be the TENA books and the

2302
03:07:31.520 --> 03:07:37.120
TENA budget and TENA payroll, those
kind of you know, functions are centralized,

2303
03:07:37.719 --> 03:07:41.200
and so Bruce is supposed to be
the liaison between the talent and that

2304
03:07:41.360 --> 03:07:45.799
office. And they're telling Bruce the
checks went out, Tell the talent the

2305
03:07:45.840 --> 03:07:50.799
checks went out, and come to
find out later they probably didn't because they

2306
03:07:50.840 --> 03:07:52.559
were postmarked on the date that someone
said they went out, but they still

2307
03:07:52.600 --> 03:07:56.040
had them in their possession. If
they went out and weren't returned, what

2308
03:07:56.120 --> 03:08:00.719
are you talking about? Bruce said. Even Hogan had some issues with his

2309
03:08:00.760 --> 03:08:03.559
pay along the line, but wasn't
really specific about it. And he concluded

2310
03:08:03.600 --> 03:08:09.239
they sure as hell didn't care about
talent, and they viewed the wrestling business

2311
03:08:09.319 --> 03:08:13.280
just like they'd view the power plant
business, and that you know, a

2312
03:08:13.360 --> 03:08:16.319
wrestler is the same as a plumber
we hire to work at one of her

2313
03:08:16.360 --> 03:08:22.159
power plants, and they could be
replaced, of course, be encounter mentality,

2314
03:08:22.239 --> 03:08:31.399
baby, And they're having meetings with
talent because you know, the discontent

2315
03:08:31.479 --> 03:08:35.200
around pay and unpredictability around pay is
is starting to leak out in the wrestling

2316
03:08:35.239 --> 03:08:39.959
media and amongst the boys they're talking, there's definitely some discontent. Bruce leaves

2317
03:08:41.799 --> 03:08:46.719
time to, you know, for
Dixie to do some messaging, you know,

2318
03:08:46.959 --> 03:08:50.120
because she can always words smith her
way out of her problem. Her

2319
03:08:50.120 --> 03:08:54.159
track record is flawless in that regard. So well, here's Eric Bischoff on

2320
03:08:54.239 --> 03:08:58.040
eighty three Weeks the podcast talking about
one of one of these meetings and just

2321
03:08:58.319 --> 03:09:01.479
just how sad it was getting.
There was a couple of meetings that I

2322
03:09:01.559 --> 03:09:07.399
remember. One is they had this
little attorney, he's just a dob,

2323
03:09:09.479 --> 03:09:18.200
just ab and he came. Now, imagine this, you call a meeting

2324
03:09:18.639 --> 03:09:24.040
with a bunch of talent, many
of whom have been getting to run around

2325
03:09:24.079 --> 03:09:30.680
when it comes to their pay for
weeks or months in the anxiety and the

2326
03:09:30.760 --> 03:09:39.319
stress and the anger that creates morale, single word morale, and you have

2327
03:09:39.479 --> 03:09:46.920
this little jag off attorney show up
that comes in and immediately starts putting himself

2328
03:09:46.000 --> 03:09:50.239
over and talking about how smart he
is and how good he is at suing

2329
03:09:50.399 --> 03:09:54.920
people. Who's the jack Off attorney
name names? I'm not gonna name him.

2330
03:09:54.959 --> 03:10:00.479
He's gonna name his name. He
knows who he is. And I

2331
03:10:00.559 --> 03:10:03.399
remember sitting there and I, you
know, I showed up at this meeting

2332
03:10:03.639 --> 03:10:07.920
and I and Garrett was there at
the time, and he was sitting over

2333
03:10:09.000 --> 03:10:11.520
on the other side of the group. I was I was wait, I

2334
03:10:11.639 --> 03:10:13.360
wasn't even part of the group.
I was there, but I was separate

2335
03:10:13.440 --> 03:10:16.799
from the group because I wasn't talent. I didn't want to sit with talent,

2336
03:10:16.959 --> 03:10:22.760
right And I'm sitting there and I'm
listening to this attorney putting himself over

2337
03:10:24.159 --> 03:10:30.000
and basically threatening anybody that spoke out
about some of the things that were going

2338
03:10:30.040 --> 03:10:35.360
on if they spoke up publicly,
and making sure they all knew that if

2339
03:10:35.440 --> 03:10:39.079
that was the case, he was
going to sue them. And I'm thinking

2340
03:10:39.120 --> 03:10:43.280
to myself, this is just insane, this is insane. I remember looking

2341
03:10:43.319 --> 03:10:50.000
over at Garrett and he looked at
me as this little due was pounding his

2342
03:10:50.159 --> 03:10:52.799
chest and trying to make him sound
like a tough, scary guy because he

2343
03:10:52.920 --> 03:10:56.840
was an attorney. I hate when
people do that. It's just let me

2344
03:10:56.879 --> 03:11:03.520
get me hot right away and have
a little do weeb. Attorneys start talking

2345
03:11:03.680 --> 03:11:09.920
starts threatening me. Anyway, I
looked over Garrett and his eyes are just

2346
03:11:09.200 --> 03:11:13.239
rolling in the back of his head. And I look over and I see

2347
03:11:13.239 --> 03:11:18.319
a couple other guys that I had
a relationship with. It're just it's just

2348
03:11:20.799 --> 03:11:24.239
I can't describe the feeling. It
was the worst thing in the world to

2349
03:11:24.319 --> 03:11:26.319
do, and then to have Dixie
come in and try to spin it.

2350
03:11:28.079 --> 03:11:33.399
It was mind boggling, as she
had a whole litany of reasons, like,

2351
03:11:33.520 --> 03:11:37.840
you know, we're behind on pay
because we had to tape like,

2352
03:11:37.319 --> 03:11:41.239
you know, twelve shows at once
before we lost the impact zone to fulfill

2353
03:11:41.479 --> 03:11:46.000
you know, international pay per view
obligations and other kinds of things that we're

2354
03:11:46.040 --> 03:11:50.440
sort of whose whose problem is that? That's exactly. It's just so she's

2355
03:11:50.479 --> 03:11:54.559
now entering the phase where every problem
that emerges is temporary, and she has

2356
03:11:54.600 --> 03:11:58.920
a reason to make you think it's
temporary until it happens again, and then

2357
03:11:58.959 --> 03:12:01.879
it happens again, and then it
happens again, and the reason is always

2358
03:12:01.000 --> 03:12:05.840
changing, but the reason is always
the same, right, the problem is

2359
03:12:05.840 --> 03:12:09.840
always the same. They don't have
their ship's all. She's a real fucking

2360
03:12:09.879 --> 03:12:15.319
piece of work. Yeah, she's
you know, there came a point clearly

2361
03:12:15.399 --> 03:12:18.319
where her mom was like, no, like, we're not going to spend

2362
03:12:18.360 --> 03:12:24.079
any more than we're making, and
that was why not, mom, Mom?

2363
03:12:24.600 --> 03:12:28.520
It's a very curious family dynamic,
and no one really in the wrestling

2364
03:12:28.559 --> 03:12:33.319
side was able to really sort of
pierce it and understand it. But that

2365
03:12:33.479 --> 03:12:37.040
the edgewise comments that have been made
seemed to indicate that, like, it's

2366
03:12:37.040 --> 03:12:39.959
a very strange relationship she had with
her with her mother, like and her

2367
03:12:41.079 --> 03:12:45.600
father too, Like it wasn't it
was very like formal. I get the

2368
03:12:45.680 --> 03:12:48.559
feeling. It wasn't like a kind
of thing where she would ever push back,

2369
03:12:48.840 --> 03:12:52.399
you know, wow, like I'm
I'm the boss until my mom picks

2370
03:12:52.479 --> 03:12:56.680
up the phone and exactly because you
know why, because because if she fucking

2371
03:12:56.799 --> 03:13:01.600
talks about why he had a friend
like this, Oh my god, I

2372
03:13:01.760 --> 03:13:11.520
had a friend. Okay, I
had two friends and in la and they

2373
03:13:11.680 --> 03:13:20.639
ended up getting together and she was
she was Jewish and he was not.

2374
03:13:22.040 --> 03:13:28.239
And her parents were like, no, this is fine if you want to

2375
03:13:28.280 --> 03:13:31.680
have a little fling with this guy, but he's not Jewish, you're not

2376
03:13:33.120 --> 03:13:35.200
like they fell in love. They
fell in love. They were together for

2377
03:13:35.360 --> 03:13:43.079
years and they love each other and
they wanted to get married, and the

2378
03:13:43.600 --> 03:13:50.600
guy was going to convert. Not
good enough for her her parents, and

2379
03:13:50.639 --> 03:13:58.600
push came to shove because they said, look, you gonna stay with this

2380
03:13:58.719 --> 03:14:05.479
guy. Okay, you're cut off
financially. There we go and and that's

2381
03:14:05.520 --> 03:14:09.719
it. You know. It's like
when you got when you got someone,

2382
03:14:09.959 --> 03:14:13.280
when you got parents paying your fucking
bills. They got the hooks in,

2383
03:14:13.840 --> 03:14:16.440
they get exactly, and they have
the fucking They may have more say than

2384
03:14:16.520 --> 03:14:20.399
you want them to have. You're
not an adult, right if you if

2385
03:14:20.440 --> 03:14:22.879
you have your own money, you
don't have enough to fund this fantasy that

2386
03:14:22.920 --> 03:14:30.319
you're an executive exactly, or this
fantasy that you're don't don't act like you

2387
03:14:30.440 --> 03:14:33.799
can, don't act like you can
live in a fantasy where you actually take

2388
03:14:33.879 --> 03:14:37.440
care of yourself. A lot of
people walking around telling themselves that they have

2389
03:14:37.879 --> 03:14:43.040
autonomy without being honest about the fact
that, like, yeah, they're actually

2390
03:14:43.079 --> 03:14:46.600
one or two people in your life
that could pull your trump card like that,

2391
03:14:46.840 --> 03:14:52.159
and you'll just be helpless, helpless, because that's how America works.

2392
03:14:52.959 --> 03:14:56.520
Leverage, baby, it's all about. There's a word. There's a reason

2393
03:14:56.559 --> 03:15:01.079
the word leverage is a synonym for
debt. Yep, I'm saying yes,

2394
03:15:01.000 --> 03:15:07.079
because debt is leverage. Debt is
the ability to make sure what you want

2395
03:15:07.159 --> 03:15:11.520
to happen happens. And you can
let people walk around deluding themselves into thinking

2396
03:15:11.600 --> 03:15:16.399
that they have free will, but
as long as they're indebted to you,

2397
03:15:16.959 --> 03:15:20.440
when the actual key time comes that
they're going to do something you don't want

2398
03:15:20.479 --> 03:15:24.200
them to do, you can want
a stop to it. Look look all

2399
03:15:24.280 --> 03:15:26.079
right, and that's what money buys
you. Bottom the bottom line is this,

2400
03:15:28.600 --> 03:15:31.479
Nothing is free correct, all right? You don't have free will,

2401
03:15:31.959 --> 03:15:39.159
really free will. It's you have
you just allowed to exercise free will up

2402
03:15:39.239 --> 03:15:43.639
until the credit card bill comes in
or whatever the case. Yes, that's

2403
03:15:43.639 --> 03:15:50.479
correct. Freedom costs, okay,
and perhaps Dixie's learning Just ask, just

2404
03:15:50.639 --> 03:15:56.239
ask, you know the miss they'll
tell you. So those kind of meetings

2405
03:15:56.239 --> 03:15:58.799
are starting to happen, and the
spin is starting to get a little hard

2406
03:15:58.840 --> 03:16:03.760
to swallow. There's not much to
show for all they've tried in the last

2407
03:16:03.840 --> 03:16:11.079
three years. That really isn't They
bring in David Lagana to work with Matt

2408
03:16:11.120 --> 03:16:15.159
Conway, David Lagonna from the w
B reading team to start handling creative and

2409
03:16:15.239 --> 03:16:18.280
it's like Okay, that's not Bischof's
remit anymore. Pritchard's gone, though he

2410
03:16:18.399 --> 03:16:22.079
wasn't really that hands on with the
creative, he did have a role there.

2411
03:16:22.319 --> 03:16:24.360
Russo has been gone for a while
now, since January twenty twelve.

2412
03:16:24.399 --> 03:16:28.399
I believe Matt Conway is sort of
like the the soldier that was right,

2413
03:16:28.520 --> 03:16:33.000
you know, the key cog in
the wheel writing the shows alongside whoever the

2414
03:16:35.079 --> 03:16:39.159
you know, executive DuJour was that
was producing it, and Bischoff now is

2415
03:16:39.200 --> 03:16:43.879
starting to feel a little a little
uncertain and basically, but you know,

2416
03:16:45.079 --> 03:16:52.799
Hogan is Bishoff's Janie Carter. Yes, like there's absolutely no world and which

2417
03:16:52.840 --> 03:16:56.440
Hogan leaves TNA and Eric isn't right
behind him, there is no world,

2418
03:16:56.520 --> 03:17:00.959
and which Hogan gets fed up with
TNA and leaves and bish Off stays no

2419
03:17:01.200 --> 03:17:07.559
chance. The only reason he's around
is because it keeps them the the allegiance

2420
03:17:07.639 --> 03:17:11.600
with Hulk Hogan bonded together tightly,
and that that's my opinion, but I

2421
03:17:11.719 --> 03:17:18.799
think the pattern supports that. So
in this in this series of maneuvers,

2422
03:17:18.920 --> 03:17:22.920
this John Gaburick name starts to emerge, and on June twenty seven, twenty

2423
03:17:22.159 --> 03:17:26.559
thirteen, It's announced that John Gilburck
has been named executive vice President of Television

2424
03:17:26.559 --> 03:17:31.680
Production for Tenna Entertainment, effective immediately. Now. If you watch the WW

2425
03:17:31.760 --> 03:17:33.479
Tough Enough reality show, John Geburck
had kind of a role on that.

2426
03:17:33.600 --> 03:17:37.000
He was like cast as a you
know, a scout, somebody that would

2427
03:17:37.639 --> 03:17:41.760
yeah remember it, yeah, kind
of like red hair, an assistant to

2428
03:17:41.120 --> 03:17:45.440
Kevin Dunn and worked very much more
on the television production side. You know,

2429
03:17:45.479 --> 03:17:48.959
the look the first time I said
header just insufferable. I mean the

2430
03:17:50.040 --> 03:17:52.600
guy like once he took over fully
they did like an ass John segment and

2431
03:17:52.639 --> 03:17:56.000
impact on their website with Jeremy Borash, and the guy just gave the most

2432
03:17:56.159 --> 03:18:01.440
like vanilla answers, like the most
like like pretending to be an executive.

2433
03:18:01.600 --> 03:18:07.120
But you could tell us learning on
the job on how to talk to well,

2434
03:18:07.280 --> 03:18:09.479
you know, you know, what
are you thinking about pushing some of

2435
03:18:09.520 --> 03:18:13.680
the Well, I just want to
say, you know, we're really excited

2436
03:18:13.719 --> 03:18:16.840
about everybody that we have on the
roster and tea and uh and you know,

2437
03:18:16.959 --> 03:18:22.559
we're just we're just waiting for that
one superstar to really uh make that

2438
03:18:22.680 --> 03:18:28.120
reach for that brass ring. You
know, that's that's all we can do.

2439
03:18:31.840 --> 03:18:35.920
You know what you see what I'm
putting down there? You dig?

2440
03:18:37.799 --> 03:18:41.799
But I remember at one point somebody
said it must have been Dixie said,

2441
03:18:41.840 --> 03:18:46.040
hey, I want you and Big
to go to Dallas Biggest John Godberick's nickname.

2442
03:18:46.239 --> 03:18:50.239
Yes, we want you and Big
to go down and meet with my

2443
03:18:50.399 --> 03:19:00.799
mother in Dallas. Oh God again, huh what you know? And I

2444
03:19:01.040 --> 03:19:03.440
had I had refused to do it
before. You know, Dixie had tried

2445
03:19:03.440 --> 03:19:07.040
to get me on a conference call
with her mother, you know, probably

2446
03:19:07.040 --> 03:19:07.840
a year or two before that.
And I said, Dixie, I'm not

2447
03:19:07.920 --> 03:19:13.360
doing that. Now. You're now
you're sucking me into a role or part

2448
03:19:13.399 --> 03:19:18.719
of a conversation that I don't even
really want to have. But now I'm

2449
03:19:18.760 --> 03:19:22.959
being asked to go to this meeting
with Big and I. And I did

2450
03:19:24.040 --> 03:19:26.079
because I wanted to be a team
player. I didn't want to be a

2451
03:19:26.159 --> 03:19:28.639
dick um. So I said,
okay, let's just we'll see how this

2452
03:19:28.799 --> 03:19:33.239
goes. And it was actually a
kind of a fun meeting, and I

2453
03:19:33.559 --> 03:19:37.799
actually kind of Doug Janis, you
know, I mean, her personality,

2454
03:19:37.920 --> 03:19:41.680
she's a very she was, at
least to me, a very confident,

2455
03:19:41.799 --> 03:19:46.600
outwardly going you know, she wasn't
shy, and I appreciated that about her.

2456
03:19:46.879 --> 03:19:50.079
At the end of this meeting,
everything's going great, everything's kind of

2457
03:19:50.159 --> 03:19:54.559
upbeat, positive. And I find
out at the very end of the meeting

2458
03:19:54.639 --> 03:19:58.360
that the reason that I was called
there is because there was a desire to

2459
03:19:58.559 --> 03:20:05.440
rese structure T and A, and
they wanted me to report to Gaburick,

2460
03:20:05.879 --> 03:20:11.319
which would have been number one,
a change in my contract because it's enough

2461
03:20:11.360 --> 03:20:16.319
the way my contract was set up. And number two I just thought no,

2462
03:20:18.600 --> 03:20:22.280
not that I didn't like John,
but no. And we got out

2463
03:20:22.319 --> 03:20:26.319
of that meeting, and I remember
we we got out and we were getting

2464
03:20:26.319 --> 03:20:28.719
ready to jump in our car to
take us to the airport, and Big

2465
03:20:28.840 --> 03:20:31.719
looks at me, he goes,
Eric, this is gonna be great,

2466
03:20:33.920 --> 03:20:37.680
right, I mean, it'll be
you and me. You know. He

2467
03:20:37.840 --> 03:20:39.959
knew that Janis wanted me to report
to him, and John was like,

2468
03:20:41.040 --> 03:20:45.479
this is gonna be awesome. I
said, John, it really won't because

2469
03:20:45.479 --> 03:20:48.479
it's not going to happen not doing
it. I'll just think about it,

2470
03:20:50.239 --> 03:20:52.959
Okay, I'll think about it,
and then I'm gonna tell you I'm not

2471
03:20:52.000 --> 03:20:56.239
gonna I'm just not doing that.
I'm not changing my relationship with the company

2472
03:20:56.799 --> 03:21:01.399
because the company wants to restructure and
I don't want to report to you.

2473
03:21:01.479 --> 03:21:05.360
Um, it's just not my thing. So what he came here for And

2474
03:21:05.600 --> 03:21:09.879
that was pretty much the end of
it, and shortly thereafter I was on

2475
03:21:09.000 --> 03:21:16.639
my way out. So moves being
made. We need somebody who just complain.

2476
03:21:18.440 --> 03:21:24.360
That's so John okay. And you
can imagine too, like just the

2477
03:21:24.440 --> 03:21:26.040
sadness of like, can you please
do a conference call with my mom?

2478
03:21:26.319 --> 03:21:30.600
Like she's not saying please, but
she's at But that's like that's a tough

2479
03:21:30.680 --> 03:21:35.399
moment for Dixie. You know.
Well, like what's his uh, you

2480
03:21:35.479 --> 03:21:39.559
know, I don't know outside of
that the scouting deals that he would do.

2481
03:21:39.639 --> 03:21:43.000
What what does his expertise in wrestling
come in? There is none?

2482
03:21:45.159 --> 03:21:48.520
Who the fuck is heh Yeah,
it's a TV producer. He worked in

2483
03:21:48.600 --> 03:21:52.120
like the truck on a production side, and that he was brought in like

2484
03:21:52.360 --> 03:21:56.280
this idea that we needed, Kevin
Donne. We need someone to not not

2485
03:21:56.399 --> 03:22:01.600
bookstorylines and manage talent, but just
pull the television um production together and make

2486
03:22:01.639 --> 03:22:03.959
it, you know, look better
and runs more smoothly from a you know,

2487
03:22:05.040 --> 03:22:07.879
shooting backstage segments and everything. It's
kind of like the producer role that

2488
03:22:09.000 --> 03:22:11.760
that they said Pritchard was brought in
for, and then pretty soon he's running

2489
03:22:11.760 --> 03:22:16.239
talent relations and Ryan point of contact
for everybody, and Gaberk basically, honestly,

2490
03:22:16.319 --> 03:22:20.280
when Pritchard leaves, comes in and
tries to become Pritchard, except he

2491
03:22:20.399 --> 03:22:24.399
also wants to be Bischoff at the
same time in terms of like executive producing

2492
03:22:24.440 --> 03:22:28.840
the show and booking the show with
no experience and you can, you know,

2493
03:22:28.399 --> 03:22:33.719
and once he leaves impact it's just
it's so it's so flat, you

2494
03:22:33.799 --> 03:22:35.600
know. In terms of like creativity, He's just not to say Bischoff was

2495
03:22:37.959 --> 03:22:41.760
an overflowing fountain of a creative inspiration. He certainly was not. But there's

2496
03:22:41.799 --> 03:22:46.959
no reason to like, there's no
vision John Gaburk is presenting that anyone buys

2497
03:22:46.959 --> 03:22:50.559
into. He's a little more playing
nice with Spike, you know, Spike

2498
03:22:50.600 --> 03:22:56.079
would get a little more of like
a look at where they were going creatively

2499
03:22:56.239 --> 03:23:00.159
and like more systemic planning. He
seemed a little more interested in bringing them

2500
03:23:00.239 --> 03:23:03.879
under the tent creatively because Spike was
always kept and they didn't mind. This

2501
03:23:03.079 --> 03:23:05.920
pretty far away from like who's winning, who's losing, who's pushed, who's

2502
03:23:07.000 --> 03:23:09.600
not decisions. They were more just
interested in, you know, the little

2503
03:23:09.639 --> 03:23:16.319
ways they could make money off Impact, like sponsorships and renaming an Impact wrestling

2504
03:23:16.399 --> 03:23:18.520
to make it more interesting to sponsors, and just you know, taking the

2505
03:23:18.600 --> 03:23:22.440
demo numbers they were doing and trying
to find match it with with dollars.

2506
03:23:22.639 --> 03:23:26.520
That's all they really cared about.
If something could help that and then go

2507
03:23:26.719 --> 03:23:30.600
for it. We might even chip
in, but we don't really consider ourselves

2508
03:23:30.680 --> 03:23:33.399
wrestling bookers, you know, and
we're not we're not looking at big foot

2509
03:23:33.399 --> 03:23:37.239
around even though we're financing basically this
entire operation. From a creative standpoint,

2510
03:23:37.360 --> 03:23:43.040
this probably didn't even interest them even
if they had that option to get that

2511
03:23:43.120 --> 03:23:46.479
involved. So good Burke, he's, you know, he's just one of

2512
03:23:46.520 --> 03:23:48.920
those like, you know, facilitators. He's one of those guys that,

2513
03:23:50.040 --> 03:23:54.280
like, you know, they don't
they don't have anything they do especially well,

2514
03:23:54.440 --> 03:23:58.639
but they know how to manage sixteen
different relationships at once and try to

2515
03:23:58.719 --> 03:24:03.760
like keep everyone happy and feel heard. That's kind of my impression of the

2516
03:24:03.879 --> 03:24:07.760
role he ultimately ended up playing.
But it's it's it's clearly it's clearly a

2517
03:24:07.840 --> 03:24:11.600
tough situation, and Bischoff is realizing, you know that, like it's if

2518
03:24:11.639 --> 03:24:16.520
I get deeper into this, then
suddenly I'm owning all kinds of problems that

2519
03:24:18.600 --> 03:24:20.879
maybe I helped author I don't know
financially. You know, it's kind of

2520
03:24:22.040 --> 03:24:24.440
probably part of why he doesn't wanted
to do with this, because he'd have

2521
03:24:24.520 --> 03:24:28.239
to face the music of what the
profit and loss has been on the expenditures

2522
03:24:28.360 --> 03:24:31.920
under his watch from Spike in and
from an impact because you can, you

2523
03:24:31.959 --> 03:24:35.399
know, you can say that you
could say it's Spike paid the cost,

2524
03:24:35.600 --> 03:24:39.920
but it's like if they hadn't paid
the cost of Hogan and Bischoff, would

2525
03:24:39.959 --> 03:24:45.799
that money have just gone into TNA's
budget. Maybe, you know, it's

2526
03:24:45.840 --> 03:24:50.360
money spent on TNA just the same
that they did. Spike just reduce the

2527
03:24:50.399 --> 03:24:54.159
budget by the amount they were paying
Hogan, Sting and Bischoff and give TNA

2528
03:24:54.319 --> 03:24:58.799
less. Quite possibly, what's the
difference at that point, I'm just saying,

2529
03:24:58.840 --> 03:25:01.559
we don't write, you know,
the budget would budgetarily, Yeah,

2530
03:25:01.559 --> 03:25:07.040
I don't think Spike is pulling money
over and above what they would have given

2531
03:25:07.319 --> 03:25:09.959
to TNA. Maybe they were,
maybe they were, but at this point,

2532
03:25:11.000 --> 03:25:13.280
they're not seeing a return on that
investment. I think that's clear.

2533
03:25:13.440 --> 03:25:18.559
So all this is happening. Bischoff
his um as we talked about, he

2534
03:25:18.639 --> 03:25:22.040
reached a deal to become executive producer
of TNA in February of two thousand and

2535
03:25:22.079 --> 03:25:24.920
eleven, and that sort of brought
an end to that period where he was

2536
03:25:26.000 --> 03:25:28.559
just exclusively involved to help book Hull, Cooke and stuff and didn't care about

2537
03:25:28.559 --> 03:25:33.959
what anybody else was doing. That
was all responsibility, and suddenly he's taken

2538
03:25:33.000 --> 03:25:41.360
over the whole thing and Russo's gone
because they are getting along again and they

2539
03:25:41.479 --> 03:25:45.719
exercised TNA had done a one year
option on Bischoff's contract as that one was

2540
03:25:45.760 --> 03:25:50.239
coming due in February of two thousand
and thirteen, so Bischoffs deal was extended

2541
03:25:50.239 --> 03:25:54.280
out to March thirty first of two
thousand and fifteen, at the top of

2542
03:25:54.319 --> 03:25:56.639
the year here. So yeah,
he probably should probably try to meet Luganis

2543
03:25:56.639 --> 03:26:01.120
because that's a lot more years left
suddenly that that he could lose out on

2544
03:26:01.639 --> 03:26:05.920
on money for if he doesn't play
ball a little wow. So he's kind

2545
03:26:05.959 --> 03:26:11.040
of stuck there, whereas Hulk seems
a little more free to walk yeah,

2546
03:26:11.360 --> 03:26:13.319
yeah, I'm sure if they I
mean they signed the exact same sort of

2547
03:26:13.440 --> 03:26:18.879
like contracts from a timing standpoint him
in Bischoff, So I'm not sure if

2548
03:26:18.920 --> 03:26:22.760
they sought to extend the option and
didn't or what that whole story was.

2549
03:26:22.920 --> 03:26:26.360
But you know, we have sufficient
to tail I think on that with Hogan.

2550
03:26:26.120 --> 03:26:30.159
Um. But but he's on the
hook, Bishop's on the hook,

2551
03:26:30.200 --> 03:26:33.760
but he's he's he's just looking for
the exit at this particular point in time,

2552
03:26:33.799 --> 03:26:37.440
and it's just starting to snowball.
And I think in a lot of

2553
03:26:37.479 --> 03:26:39.920
ways, the ultimate kick in the
teeth is the one thing they have that's

2554
03:26:39.959 --> 03:26:46.079
going pretty well. Yeah, the
Brook Hogan Bully intrigue at sure where it's

2555
03:26:46.120 --> 03:26:50.159
going next is pretty much the only
interesting question being posed on impact every week.

2556
03:26:50.239 --> 03:26:56.680
And sure it's probably supporting whatever ratings
the show is doing and how Hogan's

2557
03:26:56.680 --> 03:27:01.639
going to react. It's still there's
still possibilities there, but not so fast

2558
03:27:01.959 --> 03:27:05.879
because you know how Bully keeps flashing
the wedding ring and Brooke's face to taunt

2559
03:27:05.920 --> 03:27:09.799
her and say, you're still married
to me, and I'm never going to

2560
03:27:09.879 --> 03:27:15.680
give you a divorce. You can
never marry anybody else. July one,

2561
03:27:15.840 --> 03:27:22.040
twenty thirteen, ap Wire. Brook
Hogan, the daughter of wrestler Hulk Coogan,

2562
03:27:24.319 --> 03:27:28.840
is engaged to Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman
Phil cost Oh my god, the

2563
03:27:28.959 --> 03:27:33.280
former reality TV star and recording artists, announced that the cost are proposed over

2564
03:27:33.319 --> 03:27:37.120
the weekend in Las Vegas. Pictures
posted on Hogan's Instagram page show Cost of

2565
03:27:37.200 --> 03:27:41.959
popping the question happiest moment of my
life? I am marrying my best friend.

2566
03:27:43.000 --> 03:27:45.840
I wouldn't choose anyone else. I'm
so lucky and so grateful, She

2567
03:27:45.920 --> 03:27:52.239
wrote, Wait does that mean it's
face exactly? So? Do you wonder

2568
03:27:52.319 --> 03:27:56.200
why when we're watching these shows,
boss, all of a sudden, Bully

2569
03:27:56.319 --> 03:28:01.120
is with Brooks test Mocker instead of
Brook Hogan? Oh wow? Because of

2570
03:28:01.239 --> 03:28:05.760
this shit? Who the fucking angle? Because not only did she go ahead

2571
03:28:05.760 --> 03:28:11.079
and get engaged, she didn't think
about TNA for a second before Instagram and

2572
03:28:11.159 --> 03:28:13.760
the shit out of that engagement picture
and letting the whole world know that's right,

2573
03:28:15.079 --> 03:28:18.360
that's what happens. That's what happens, and that's t NA. You

2574
03:28:18.520 --> 03:28:24.840
damn right, because that tells you
how seriously TNA deserves to be taken if

2575
03:28:24.879 --> 03:28:30.000
the talent you know, and Brooks
talent at this point, more than talent.

2576
03:28:30.120 --> 03:28:33.239
She's kind of an executive, right, don't even stop for a second

2577
03:28:33.319 --> 03:28:37.600
to think, well, I mean, I'm not saying not get engaged,

2578
03:28:37.360 --> 03:28:43.200
but maybe maybe not put an Instagram
post out about maybe maybe wait till you

2579
03:28:43.280 --> 03:28:48.600
know you're you know you can get
out of the storyline and then getting exactly

2580
03:28:50.040 --> 03:28:54.319
or or then announced you've been engaged. You know, you can't control when

2581
03:28:54.319 --> 03:28:56.200
someone pops the question, right,
no, no, no, no,

2582
03:28:56.479 --> 03:29:00.399
that's tru right right right, just
announcing, But that doesn't matter to her.

2583
03:29:00.479 --> 03:29:05.319
To it matters more whatever congratulatory messages
she'd get on Instagram. And you

2584
03:29:05.399 --> 03:29:09.040
better believe this marriage went nowhere that
they I don't even think they got married

2585
03:29:09.239 --> 03:29:15.079
ultimately, but it wasn't just enough
to do. I don't think she has

2586
03:29:15.159 --> 03:29:16.959
been married now now. I think
Hulk cracked the whip at one point.

2587
03:29:16.959 --> 03:29:20.200
He ended up saying later when when
that when he broke off, that he

2588
03:29:20.360 --> 03:29:24.120
was absolutely not for this guy.
This guy was bad news for his daughter,

2589
03:29:24.280 --> 03:29:24.719
and I think he was kind of
a shit head. I mean,

2590
03:29:24.760 --> 03:29:28.000
I don't want to say too much
because I didn't look into it too closely,

2591
03:29:28.879 --> 03:29:31.479
but I'm not sure he had the
best reputation either. There were the

2592
03:29:31.799 --> 03:29:37.559
red flags that I think Hulk was
that the Hogan knows best, brook knows

2593
03:29:37.639 --> 03:29:39.559
best. Hulk. Hogan was very
much within his rights to what be concerned

2594
03:29:39.559 --> 03:29:45.040
about anyway. The point of that
is, all of a sudden, Bullies

2595
03:29:45.079 --> 03:29:48.920
got nothing. Now Bully can't go
on TV and you know, say to

2596
03:29:48.000 --> 03:29:52.399
her, I'm still married to you
and I'm never gonna make you free and

2597
03:29:52.520 --> 03:29:56.000
you still love It's all dead.
It couldn't have been a worst storyline for

2598
03:29:56.079 --> 03:30:01.079
this to happen to Ah, It's
not like they played the card to like,

2599
03:30:01.120 --> 03:30:03.959
well, they never really got married, they never really consummated, so

2600
03:30:03.120 --> 03:30:07.760
Brooks and so Bully's just torturing her. No, the whole thing is,

2601
03:30:07.799 --> 03:30:13.079
I will never let you marry somebody
else. I will never get a divorce.

2602
03:30:13.120 --> 03:30:18.280
And then here she is, got
acknowledge it. I mean, do

2603
03:30:18.319 --> 03:30:22.360
you have to acknowledge it? Can't
she just come on TV and just separate

2604
03:30:22.440 --> 03:30:26.360
her character from what everybody knows about
her real life and just keep carrying on

2605
03:30:26.600 --> 03:30:30.399
like she's under siege under Oh no, brother dude, exactly. She had

2606
03:30:30.440 --> 03:30:35.639
to kay Fabot and she failed.
Who gives a fuck at this point kay

2607
03:30:35.719 --> 03:30:41.280
fab the ribs. Togan's looking for
the exit sign Brooks more beyond done,

2608
03:30:41.079 --> 03:30:45.879
Oh god yes pretty soon. So
well the TNA that whole. Cogan has

2609
03:30:45.920 --> 03:30:46.120
reigned over for three years.