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And we are very much back Laps
fan Wrestling podcast WWE Royal Rumble two thousand

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and eight, This Hoppers on the
House and this deep dives for you Boss.

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Yes, yes it is. Oh
my God twenty seven nine eight in

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Attendants Wow five seventy five thousand on
pay per view for the Bye Right.

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That was a big jump from the
two thousand and seven Rumble, which is

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only four hundred ninety one thousand.
That was, of course, a record

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setting year for WrestleMania that year.
I heard a lot of people bought after

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after number thirty came out. Is
that what it was? Must have been

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late Buys Street Late Bys paid seventeen
thousand and three eighty two at the Garden

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for a one point Cenus pack by
the show, isn't it? Isn't it

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almost over? It doesn't matter.
It's John Cena kind a good show.

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Call your friends like in the Nitro
days. All right, call your friends,

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tell them what's on TV. You
know that's shoot now though, because

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if you buy something on streaming,
you can just start at the next morning,

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and if you hear about it mid
show, it's not really that big

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of a deal to buy at mid
show because you can still watch the whole

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thing. I mean, and you
know, so much of this stuff is

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done in such a different way now
anyway, Like you know, like with

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all the pay per views and stuff, you can just you know, in

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the middle of the show just turn
it on. And that's true. Yeah,

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I wasn't thinking about free Peacock.
I was thinking like UFC and AW

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where you have to pay for every
show. Oh yeah. Still it's kind

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of like I won't. And then
you're on Twitter or you're on social media.

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It's like this fight's incredible. It's
like, well, and the available

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buy it and I'll watch the rest
tomorrow. All right, it happens.

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Aw's talked about. It's a real
thing. I mean, it's it's just

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it's easier, you know, it's
way easier. Oh yeah, even fucking

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with the remote control on your TV. Yeah, it really is. And

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it's so much more a peace of
mind to know what's sitting there is a

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streaming file instead of like a cable
outage or some stupid shit with your DVR.

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Exactly right. So that was seventeen
thousand and three eight two paid in

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the building twenty thousand, seven ninety
eight attendants for one point three to eight

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million at the gate. I don't
know. Twenty thousand and seven. Nine

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d eights sounded about capacity to you. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, maybe

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a little no, that's about right. I mean it. Yeah, yeah,

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I'm trying to think it definitely fit
that now. But I think even

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back then, I don't think they
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they did the renovations. Maybe a
few, I forget the whole deal,

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but that does sound right. Twenty
thousand anywhere around twenty thousand is pretty accurate

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in the garden, and we opened
with visions of the New York City Subway.

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The ad campaign that year were your
favorite WW superstars and trunks. Sorry

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one one thing. So first,
there was a dark match. Oh,

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Jimmy Wang Yong and Shannon Moore defeated
Deuce and Domino. Was that on heat?

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Were they doing that still? I
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dark match. I'm on the Wikipedia
page. That's big. Yeah, it's

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really big. It is, It's
huge. It is so yeah NYC subway

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and you know, guys in trunks
get on the subway and start fighting.

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I was very curious. I was
very curious about which, like what if

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there was I wanted to see if
they actually used real subway stuff, and

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so I was just kind of like
looking very pausing a lot at the beginning

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and just trying to see, like
because to me, I'm going to say

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that that that opening tracking shot probably
CGI. I'll bet at CGI, but

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it looks like it's in Queens,
I would get. I don't think they

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would just build like a fake interior
on a set somewhere. I mean,

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that was a pretty good background if
that, you know, even for I

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don't know, I think I think
you'd be cheaper doing CGI. Yeah,

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less work. But the uh it
was ah underground. It was a one

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two three train station, so the
uh one two three trains? And then

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uh, what else did I see? Oh? I A, well,

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you you keep going because I don't
say when the when the when the family

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open, when the family comes in? I saw what go ahead, go

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ahead? It was a fourteenth Street
stop. Oh okay, they're like they're

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they're they're from what I gathered,
they are cutting and pasting the entire like

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subway like nothing nothing matches. If
that was a Queen's train, it's not

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a one two three train at all, right, you know, it's it's

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it's it's it's it's wacky and uh
Shan Waltman wasn't even in the company.

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That's a very good point. But
you it's what it's a kind of like

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a throwback to those old paper you
know that could have been. That could

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have been a tag team with him
and Matt Bloom one two three train three

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train Matt Bloom. Oh, Matt
Bloom. I was thinking of Matt Bourne

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for some reason. He was the
a train, yeah, or ice train.

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That's rest in peace. But it's
one of those throwback ads where it's

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like the but we Royal Rumble and
it's like comedy and they have actors and

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they have people with wide eyes and
everything, and they create a scenario.

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Right, it's like their sensibility.
Yeah, yeah, we'll just make a

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little mini movie here. You know, in many many vignette, what we

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like to do is showcase the lighter
side of what we do. Well,

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you know what I mean, let's
let's let's have a little fun, you

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know, I mean, that's what
the w is all about, putting smiles

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on faces and having fun smiles on
faces, read my face. That's right.

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But Pritchard said in his podcast,
this is like The concept is what

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would happen if WW What would people
think would happen if WW wrestlers got on

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a subway train and so they go
from there. You know, It's funny.

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It's not a thought that I ever
crossed my mind. You see,

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I would think if w W wrestlers
got in a train, like any other

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human being, they just sit there
until their next stop. Right. It's

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funny how they make always makes such
a big deal about the oh, we're

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in New York City, like you
know, you don't see other pay per

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views kind of have in these very
very city specific type of things. I

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mean when they go to La I
suppose, but you know, other places

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don't nearly get this much kind of
very It's like, well, and then,

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well, we're gonna have subway.
Subway is going to be the theme,

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oh big time of the Royal Rumble
this year. And what we have

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is we're also going to have a
running train car for all of the graphics.

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To me, that's more Chicago.
That elevated line like that that you

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can see because it looks like it's
you know, I mean that that is

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it is like that in Queens and
Brooklyn, Yes, true, which do

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go above ground. But it's not. It's not completely common. It's that

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it's just not signature New Yorks.
It doesn't scream signature New York City Subway

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to me totally. I mean New
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they are at Madison Square Garden.
It's all undergrounds. It's hard to depict

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an underground rail road for the bottom
of third of your screen, but not

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really. You could do that anyway. So next stop Addison Square Garden and

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you get the fuzzy shots and some
called to pass rumbles with JR. And

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Gorilla and Fink and all those voices. There's no Madison Square Garden. No,

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there isn't Square Gardens. It's it's
Penn Station. Penn Station. Yeah,

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they show I loved I'll tell you
what. This was one of the

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best Rumble video packages. They picked
really good callbacks, really good callbacks,

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and also no shots of Battle Royals. Oh. That's always so infuriating,

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isn't it. It's the most infuriating, the most infuriating. Yeah, if

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you're doing a Rumble package and you're
including that opening match from Wrestling You fourteen,

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you're doing it wrong. They always
use you know, it's funny.

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One of the ones they always use
is a shot from like a nineteen ninety

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four raw. Yeah, it's like
a weird fucking battle Royal, Like of

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all the ones, it's so odd, you know. It's also odd.

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Is my brother sent me a meme
that's going around? I guess it's been

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a meme for a while of Steve
Austin flipping off Sean Michael's in the middle

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of the ring at Wrestling fourteen during
their match. Yeah, and it's like

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really tightly cropped to Michael's and Austin
And in the background is my dad's white

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hair. This is like apparently been
a meme for years. And there he

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is, and you can see me
off to the left with my black baseball

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hat on. Did you tell your
dad's he's a meme? I haven't yet.

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I'm sure he's been told. I'm
sure he's like, sure, he's

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fucking thrilled if sure knows exactly what
that is. They even include Tony Shavanni's

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voice in those like voices from nineteen
ninety the one rumble he called that's really

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surprising to me. Yep, but
there was a period of time where he

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kind of flirted with going back.
I don't think it was two thousand and

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eight, but that they were talking
to him about like a production job or

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something and he ended up not taking
it. He just thought they were hiring

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him to fire him again, which
is probably true. Flair Michaels Vince.

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They show Austin and they show you
know, Austin winning and Caine going crazy

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and triple H and O two ray
winning, Michael Cole screaming Pyro for the

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Mania sign and for for Mania,
and it's like that ac DC sounding song

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with the guys. Yeah, is
it? It sounds like AC No.

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I don't think it is, though. I didn't even look up the the

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song. They got so much mileage
out of whatever whatever shoot. This was

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where they had all the guys standing
in front of those floodlights. You know

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what I'm talking about? Yes,
Oh my god. They use those over

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and over and over again. So
fucking two thousand and two, two thousand

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and three. I think this was
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It could be wrong, that's true. They probably did. You're right,

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but I mean, I mean sort
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It's just like the idea of like
round lights behind the guys. Yeah,

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I mean they still do, they
still use that footage. I mean,

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I don't know if they still do, but I remember very recently at least

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on his on his Titan Tron video, like brock Lesners still has some of

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that footage. Yeah, right,
you know. And so they got Findley

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with hornswoggle between his legs and of
course rock and roll. Yeah, and

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then the subway closes and Omaga goes
nuts in the subway and Batista busts Randy

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Orton through one of the windows,
and Ray does a sick nine using one

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of the posts inside the subway.
The Triple h throws his sledgehammer through a

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window. But that's like separate from
the from the subway. It's like they

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attacked Triple h On at the end
what I think happened, because if you

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watch the ad and we played it
for this rumble, did we play it

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in part one? The actual full
ad with all the I don't remember,

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well in case in case we didn't, I'm forgetting here here It is strength

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Thanks Toba, Padison, Square Nard
Royal Rumbo Live Sunday, January twenty seventh,

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only on paper View. So they
don't include Michael Buffer saying let's get

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ready to and R at the end
there where you hear Michael Buffer say let's

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get ready to. Yeah, they
didn't include that on the Peacock opening.

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Oh yes, did you you watched
the Peacock version right of this? Yes?

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I did. I don't have another
version yet for this. It wasn't

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easy to find a version for this. It turns out no one gives a

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fuck about preserving uh, you know, first run stuff after it stopped being

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better. What a surprise that is. Yeah, but you know, my

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best guess is that you know,
Buffer only agreed to a certain amount of

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times so that they could use let's
get ready to rumble. That's all I

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wonder too, if if really it
didn't make sense for the actual pay per

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view, if it was just on
the you know, because they used the

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video package, but they didn't you
know, maybe they didn't use him for

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the for the actual video package because
it goes into the whole the whole Royal

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rumble thing. I think so.
But that but to me, that explains

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that totally strange and disconnected tack on
of triple h there at the end,

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Like, what's that about? Yeah, unless they're trying to make up a

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few seconds or something. Yeah,
I don't know, but that's that.

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It's the twenty first. The theme
song, by the way, stand up

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for Rock and Roll by Airborne.
Excellent. Yeah they could they shout them

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out later in the broadcast, I
think, Oh, okay, I didn't

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play attention to that. I never
pententioned the theme songs. Hey, there's

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that garden roof and the pyro Yes. So this is the first w w

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HD pay per view and we get
that gray w W e h D little

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button in the top left. It's
so fucking weird to to deal with.

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It's such a you know, it's
such a you know, it's so funny

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you had to announce the US.
You know, it's like nobody cares about

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four K, Like it's just it's
just you know. But I know,

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I know a lot of it had
to do with the fact that it was

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a permanent change from having a box
TV into having a widescreen TV. Yeah,

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you know, there does there is, there is that, But still

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it's like, hey, we're an
HD DI amn't. Oh, they're very

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they're very proud of themselves. They
had no choice, but they're very proud

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of themselves. And that the logo
was no longer in the far left corner.

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Oh, I know, it was
like in the middle because they still

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had to compensate for for those analog
TVs. Yeah, I should say,

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whatever however you were displaying it.
I hated that so much. I know,

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it's really hard to uncomfortable. It
was like, it's like seeing like,

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I guess this is where my TV
used to be, and here's some

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extra I felt like I bought like
an extra backstage pass or something. I

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can see more of the ring.
I can see more now, guys,

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Uh, we want to be working
towards the middle of the frame because they

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were in a new era. You
can picture them going over it. Oh

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god era as well a gentleman I
wanted to just go over a couple of

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things. And we are in a
new era, right we are. We

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are now an hd UH accepting organization, vehicle vehicle organization, a huge dick

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accepting organization. And basically what you
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are in the ring, all right, I need you all to keep a

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very very very close eye on the
hard cameras, all right, because now

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the dimensions are different, all right, We're no longer in a square.

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We're now in a rectangle, but
we still have to cater to those who

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have not evolved to the HDTV.
So please keep a close eye on the

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hard cameras, all right, and
do your best to stay in the middle

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of the frame. Just what you
need to be thinking about when you're putting

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on a fake fight. I keep
in mind the lens is like, you

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know, like six inches tops,
right inches, and they're like, you

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know, one hundred feet away from
it. There's no chance thinking, all

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right, right, work towards the
center, damn it, Work towards Are

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you screaming at me? Or are
you screaming at Congress? Come on,

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uh, work towards the center of
the ring. Yeah, oh god.

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They love nothing more than to like
take what wrestling is and like come up

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with like rules of TV to impose
on it. You know, it's so

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stupid, so goofy, so stupid. And you know there were camera idiots

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that stuff about how a lot of
the spray tan the guys would use in

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an HD environment would start to leak
and bleed and look completely ridiculous. That's

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right, remember that, so wasn't
it too? Didn't They also work a

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little stiffer yeah, apparently. Yeah, the blows didn't look as realistic.

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Okay, so they had to start
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The thing is, I can actually
see the millimeter of space between your hand

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in the face, so we got
to actually have complete impact. And uh

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and you know, if you hurt
somebody, you hurt somebody. So Michael

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cole welcomes us for the twenty first
time to the Royal Rumble, but for

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the first time ever in HD.
And look there in the front row with

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the red hat on backwards is red
hat guy rich Ochburger. Do you ever

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tell you my rich Ockburger story?
Oh? I saw him at Mania twenty

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four leaving in Orlando with his chair
in his hand, and he had been

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on like a dealer, no deal
and stuff, and any WB fan would

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know him as a fixture in the
front row. And I said, hey,

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man, what's going on? He
looked at me like he looked at

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me like you've never seen more wide
eyed concern that someone had been noticed.

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Hey, buddy, if you don't
want to be noticed, stay the fuck

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home, how about that? Or
don't wear a red hat? Right?

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Calling cards stayed in full Gammick.
It's like I feel like these super fans

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are terrified of being asked how they
have their tickets because they know there's some

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subterfuge at play. Like fact,
they know that there's some illegality going on.

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Even the Vlad documentary it had got
into it, but it never ends

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the question how he was able to
get those and still able to get those

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tickets? Never answer the question.
I remember I remember reading an article years

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ago and I think I read it
on the show. I think I might

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have read it Survivor series ninety six
when we did that, and I remember

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him like a guy that this guy
went up to an asked him and started

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talking with him, and he said
something like like I know a guy or

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something like panic panic sets in.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like

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I mean, I wouldn't doubt that
he was that he at one point,

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I don't know, maybe he uh
maybe he actually even even because he was

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always well built, he might have
even, uh, you know, done

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a tryout or something. Yeah.
Well they talked a little bit about that,

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you trek about Lad, right,
I didn't see I never saw the

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documentary. Yeah. Yeah, he
kind of did fancy himself as a potential

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wrestler. I'm not sure, they
gave him a tryout per se. They

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did involve him at an angle one
time where he you know, picked all

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Cogan as the partner. Yeah,
Roddy Piper, Like, who's gonna fight

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Roddy Piper? When he picked hell
Cogan and it was a big pot up.

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They kind of rubbed him in.
But yeah, maybe I don't know,

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maybe he's got Pat Patterson on speed
dial exactly. That would that'd be

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one way. So anyway, we
see the Mania logo and the sun coming

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up in Orlando and we see Justin
Roberts announcing we do we do? This

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is uh pre uh pre bullying,
I guess, or at least pre I

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think probably in the middle of it
middle a bullying, Yeah, I mean

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like pre exposing bullying. Yeah.
He would go on to write a book

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about his time in the company,
and uh yeah, what a reality he

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was not he has yet to be
bullied into unemployment over a to a w

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Yeah, so he's mid raing career
threatening match. What did you think of

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this flair run? Oh? You
know, I couldn't stand it. They

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had such an opportunity here, like
they had the opportunity to make incredible shit

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happen like to really to really celebrate
Rick Flair, and they just dropped the

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fucking ball. How awesome would it
have been? I like, like they

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they had it for like two seconds
and then they lost confidence in it,

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and it's like you could have they
could have gone all the way with it.

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Oh yeah, and actually had and
created a compelling story that I know

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wouldn't fit into the plans, so
to speak, that they had. But

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if you're going to force Rick Flair
into retirement, you could have done it

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in a much much more dramatic fashion
and actually had him do what he should

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have done and gone for the title. I've I always thought that like that,

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like the fact that he had these
one off pay per view matches,

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as as like the threat, the
career threatening, it's so stupid. It

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should have been every fucking week.
It wasn't. It wasn't every not after

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That's how it started. And then
it just sometimes I don't think he was

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even on raw. Oh so you're
saying there were weeks he didn't wrestle at

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all. Yeah, there were weeks
that isn't there. And and and given

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this this animosity that that Vince had
for Flair on on television, it should

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have been every week. He should
have been bringing out guys exactly, and

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I think I think a great way
to kind of fuck him over would have

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been I've always thought this. I
mean, you know, I had lengthy

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conversations about it. I'm curious if
you remember. But he should have been

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number one in the Royal Rumble and
one. Oh my god, that fucking

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amazing. Could you imagine, Oh
my god, people would have lost their

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fucking mind exactly if he fucking went
in there all right, number one.

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And then you're like, Okay,
I guess they're gonna fucking kill him tonight.

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And here's the question. Do you
establish ahead of time that he at

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the Rumble counts for his career?
Match? Absolutely that that's you have to

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But do you do you establish ahead
of time he's number one? Yes?

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All of it? Wow, Back, your selling point, like your whole

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selling point of the Rumble is Rick
Flair is number one and his career is

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on the line, and people will
be gunning for him, right because he

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keeps winning and winning, and Vince
gets so frustrated. I mean, how

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much you know, you get twenty
nine fucking people and then and then he's

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in this incredible predicament because because kind
of hey, fantasy booking, but because

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Flair wins the Rumble, and it's
like, but now he's got a quote

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unquote contracted WrestleMania match, so even
if he loses, like it creates an

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incredible amount of drama, Like yeah, you know it's it's so I like,

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it could have been amazing and there's
and if you're gonna do that,

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you do that with Ric Flair,
you know, and and I think you

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and I even said at one point, then you know, he goes in

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the main event, he wrestles for
the title, and he should win.

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Wow, he should say you know
what, and then you know what,

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leave it and then say you know
what, I'm gonna I'm gonna retire anyway

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and relinquish the belt. How hard
is that? It's unreal? You know,

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their egos when they're ye ends and
business and pans and we have ideas

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that we want to move forward.
You also got two world Championship belts.

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You couldn't spare one for the big
old one that never meant anything unless he

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had it, Like I mean what
I mean that would have been that would

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have been the most compelling television.
Yeah, that's a good point. I

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think what happened was this became a
monster that they didn't quite plan on.

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You can't forget there was a period
of time where the edict was Rick could

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not talk for more than ten seconds
on the microphone. Remember that period where

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they literally weren't letting him talk.
It's like and and and then you wonder

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why he was such a fucking revelation
in Tnah a place. Yeah, they

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cut him loose. I mean,
you know, he wasn't gonna color in

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the lines, and they were very
much about that, like message control and

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the mic. Back then, they
would carefully script everybody would say, and

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you would be rewarded and you would
be you know, it was it was

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a merit in your category if you
could deliver the lines perfectly. So that's

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what they were looking for. So
it's so disgusting, Yeah, it really

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is. It's like and you know, they they didn't want I don't think

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personally that they wanted the Flair retirement
to be as big as it ended up

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being. I know, I don't
think I agree. I mean, again,

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they or at least they they dropped
it at least because again it seemed

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like a big idea when it was
announced in What the Fall, I think

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something like that. Yeah, and
it seemed like a big idea. But

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then I think they now if I
heard, if I was reading between the

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lines when Pritchard was talking about it
correctly, I think they started it without

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a destination. I don't think they
knew how long they were going to go

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for it. I don't think they
saw it as one of the key matches

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at Many against somebody of Ric Flair's
caliber, you know, Sean Michael's caliber.

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Sorry, I just don't understand what
the fuck they're thinking. You know,

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you and I have always said this
about Rick Flair, even during this

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period. You've got one of the
greatest wrestlers under contract and you never fucking

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use him. And it was so
discouraging because you know, I mean,

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I'm not saying Flair was at anywhere
near his his peak in the ring,

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but he still could go. I
mean, the Shawn Michael's match was was

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beyond decent, surely better than his
fucking last match, right, you know,

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I mean it just really, uh, well, here it comes.

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I friend, Flair loses, he's
forced to retire, and you know they

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have the set, they have that
traditional hard camera MSG entrance way with the

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fans understand, don't you clearly don't
have to do it that way. Wrestling

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and twenty proves it right, and
whenever they go to raw, whenever they

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did raw, do raw or SmackDown
in the garden, it's always the regular

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thing. I never understood. I
mean, I guess, I guess you're

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getting more people. Obviously, yeah
you're not. You're not killing seats with

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the stage and ship, but it's
systeways seemed weird to me, like,

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well, why like or if you're
going to do it that way, do

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it the way all the time.
I remember the first time I did it

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wrestleming Ya ten, I was so
uncomfortable. Oh god, yeah, it's

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and you know to hear like Pritchard
bitch about like he didn't like the look

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of the set. It's like,
guys, you had so many options,

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like why did you do it that
way? Then? So there's no set,

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it's no set. All it is
is a fucking wall with a door.

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You know, there's no real set
to it. But every time they've

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done MSG since WrestleMania ten, not
like for a pay per view outside of

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WrestleMania, that's what they've done and
you don't like it. I don't like

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it. It's very uncomfortable. I
like. I don't like it because it

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just, yeah, I like I
like having the ramp. I like it

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being I don't like seeing it back
there. It's just really yeah, pretty

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I were saying. One of the
hates is like you can see people that

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have nothing to do with the match, but you have to walk around there

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for production purposes exactly. You can
see people shuffling around and I don't know,

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to me, it kind of makes
it a little more lively in almost

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more real. I feel like the
garden setting kind of it makes it less

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like I'm watching some like fantasy World
and more like I'm watching a sport happening

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with spectators and people acting normally in
the background. To me, that's like,

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I mean, there is an element
of that. I also don't like

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it because it feels like it's so
close. I know that it's not crazy

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close, but because of the zoomed
in shot from the hard camera, it

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feels like it's like right there.
It feels like it's like a smaller walkway

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than when they have the ramp.
Yeah, they talk about probably be a

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smaller walkway, but it's it's definitely
longer than it looks on screen. You

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know, if you consider where you
know, I'm thinking about the garden,

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and it's like, you know,
they came in. I mean, they

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basically came in. I wonder if
this has got something to do with it

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too. They basically they came in
ish from around where the locker rooms are,

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and I wonder if that's the thing. Maybe they fucking wanted to be

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in the Nickson Rangers locker room.
Maybe yeah, maybe that was it.

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I don't know, but it was
like, yeah, they talk about his

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first match being December tenth, nineteen
seventy two in Race Lake, Wisconsin.

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Yeah, I got Michael talking about
that shit. I'm December nineteen seventy two,

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Rick Flayer made his in ring debut
in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. He

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battled George Getaskey to a ten minute
troll. Well tonight thirty five years one

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look and seventeen days later mark the
end of the Nature Boys career. You're

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a crown And what was George Kadaski's
nickname? What cunt face cut face?

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Yep. I can't believe that they
would refer to him that way. Oh

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scrap iron it was ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, you got it. Face.

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They don't even call him George cunt
Face Kadaski. They just call him

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cunt face one day. Sometimes in
some in some territories they call him the

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cunt face that come in the mask
mask of like a dirty pussy, a

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mask of one. Again. That's
I want to make sure I heard that.

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That's pretty pussy. That's gonna even
just like a just a nasty,

405
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:37.920
you know, yeasted pussy. Oh, Kadasky is going to the new tin

406
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:42.160
Hornbaker book on Flair. Was one
of verne Gania's most trusted employees. Oh,

407
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:48.200
I'm sure, and so uh since
Kaski I do like Kevin, uh,

408
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.599
I like havin cunt Face around,
he would match him up with his

409
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.759
greenest of rookies. All right,
all right, so everybody had their run

410
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:59.640
with a scrap iron. He was
his uh uh brad rangings of the day.

411
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:04.119
Yeah right, essentially, Yeah,
for sure. But this is this

412
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:10.359
is also from the book. Let's
see Paterra was hyped. Mm hmm.

413
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:12.440
Perhaps it was ginde as ideal to
bop his new star by touting his initial

414
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:18.119
bout all over the territory as a
promotional tactic strop attention either that. Okay,

415
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.079
this confusion about when Ken Petera debuted
Ken Petero was somebody else that Vern

416
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.160
trained up for the business coming off
the Olympics. This confusion actually complicates the

417
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.559
details of Flair's own pro debut,
and as much as Petera's first match was

418
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.519
glorified and misreported, it was the
complete opposite for the former Wayland Academy that

419
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.880
being Ric Flair athlete. The complication
stems from the fact that nearly every source,

420
00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:41.400
including his own personal biography, claims
that Rick Flair made his probe debut

421
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.599
his first pro appearance December tenth,
nineteen seventy two, Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

422
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.759
His opponent was Kadski, as noted, and he went to a ten

423
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.160
minute draw. But Gania didn't promote
Rice Lake on that date, oh,

424
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:57.720
but instead Minneapolis, and Kadski was
the opponent of George Scott on that night.

425
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:03.960
Brother least that's what the Minneapolis Tribune
reported. Hornbacker writes the Rice Lake

426
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:08.200
show was on December eleventh, and
the local newspaper stated that Gadaski wrestled Petera,

427
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:12.839
not Flair. Not only that,
but the Rice Lake Chronotype newspaper featured

428
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:17.039
a photo of a wrestler, supposedly
Petera, hoisting Kodaski up for a slam.

429
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.480
Although the grappler is turned away from
the camera, his body shape and

430
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:25.839
hairstyle matches Petera more than Flair Wow
and seemed to prove further that the late

431
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.960
latter's first match didn't happen on that
occasion. If Flair didn't have his first

432
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.200
matches reported, when did he really
make his debut. The entire situation is

433
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.400
muddied by inaccurate, real time reporting
and inconsistent facts that have lingered for decades.

434
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.200
While there is no definitive answer,
there are several possibilities. There's a

435
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.799
small chance Flare wrestling Cadski in a
brief contest in Rice Lake on December eleventh,

436
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.279
that, when unreported by the local
newspaper, it would have been Gadaski's

437
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.880
second match that night, and while
unusual, it wasn't unheard of. Another

438
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.960
possibilities at Flare wrestled Cadski in a
random small town in either Minnesota or Wisconsin,

439
00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.200
and an account of the match has
gone undiscovered by historians for the last

440
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.920
fifty years, but it should be
recognized that some rural towns didn't have dailier

441
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.240
weekly newspapers, and if that was
the case here, any search for contemporaneous

442
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:12.160
proof of his debut will forever be
in vain. So you tell me,

443
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:18.079
folks, but it's repeated here.
Nineteen seventy two, flarees out in a

444
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:21.640
yellow and gold robe and Jonathan Coachman
and Michael Coher at ringside announcing things for

445
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.680
Raw, they for SmackDown. They
had the Raw team, the SmackDown team,

446
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:30.519
and yes, Boss, the ECW
team of course. Awful. Coach

447
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.559
says, nature boy, what's going
through his body right now? I can't

448
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:40.119
imagine whatever it takes to get up
for the match exactly. You know,

449
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:44.160
I'll tell you I don't know.
I in terms of look, I know

450
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.400
he can certainly move better, but
in terms of his actual look and appearance,

451
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.759
he doesn't look much better than he
did the other week on AAW when

452
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:55.240
he got beat up there Rick Rick, Oh, come on, I don't

453
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:56.079
think it looks that much in terms
of I mean, he's out there with

454
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.519
no shirt on. You know,
he in terms of work, in terms

455
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:04.279
of his like moveability, but like
I'm talking about his face, well yeah,

456
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.039
yeah, the face didn't change much. That's true. He's a disaster.

457
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.119
This is like when that hair first
started to thin. Yep, this

458
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:13.599
is and he started when he when
he started like wetting his hair before coming

459
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:19.279
to the ring. That's where the
problems started with like the squirt gun.

460
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:25.960
Yeah, yeah, you know,
like he had this like the problems slipped

461
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.640
back hair, you know, like
as if he's a fucking you know,

462
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:35.519
mafia goomba. You can see so
much of his scalp. Yeah exactly.

463
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:37.240
I mean there's and then and then, and then he just gave up on

464
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.519
that, you know, on wetting
it, and it just became that matted

465
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.640
disaster. I was thinking of you
when Sting had his last match and yeah,

466
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.640
he submitted one of the young bucks
and then put his hand through his

467
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:58.200
hair, and oh did it fall
off right away? So how can you

468
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.799
put your hand through that fucking hair? Yeah, it's like it kind of

469
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:02.759
like you want to run your hands
through it, but it like stops short.

470
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:06.519
Is that like you can't actually put
your fingers through it because it's just

471
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:12.160
like the wall is created Steve Borden, you picked him without face painting that

472
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:17.519
hair. I wonder if I wonder
if you'll actually stop dying it and let

473
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.799
it now that he's not tired unless
you let it go gray or white and

474
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:29.920
right, have some normal fucking body
to it instead of that awfulness the bob

475
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:36.200
the bob like and that and that
just it just looks so stiff, so

476
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:43.200
stiff and uncomfortable, and so Flair
grabs the mic and they all woo and

477
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.200
Flair gives him one and he says, I want to tell you once again

478
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.039
what a great honor it has been
to have all these years wrestling in Madison

479
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:52.839
Square Garden. You got to have
him say it absolutely. I want to

480
00:33:52.960 --> 00:34:01.440
tell you once again what a great
honor it has been wrestle all these years

481
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:13.039
in Madison Square Gardens. They say, there's no place like it anywhere in

482
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:22.880
the world. Almost have to agree. I had my first match year in

483
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:35.559
March of nineteen seventy six, long
before most of you were born. And

484
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:42.079
I have to tell you, I
have to tell you that the level of

485
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:53.800
respect that you have paid me all
these years is unbelievable. That really was

486
00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:59.119
is goodbye to the garden. Yeah, yeah, ever wrestled in the building

487
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:02.800
again as far as I know.
Yeah, and and yeah, that was

488
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:06.280
another thing. They really underdid,
and they did it with stinging to an

489
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:10.039
aw. They underdid this is my
last time in this city. Ye didn't

490
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:13.639
promote it a lot ahead of time
that this was the last time you had

491
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.960
Superric Flair wrestle. It's like,
come on, probably they could leave their

492
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.000
options open if they didn't want to
deliver it. But but he talked about

493
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:27.119
that debut. It took place during
that really curious time where Vince Senior got

494
00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.639
back with the NWA, and you
know there were supercards where the WWWF champion

495
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:35.000
and the NBA champion will wrestle each
other, like you know Backland and Race

496
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.239
or Graham and Race. And yep, the funks even came through, as

497
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:40.719
we talked about in the Lapsed Funk, for just a couple of shots when

498
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:46.159
there was that that alliance going on. And yeah, Ric Flair was coming

499
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:52.599
up under Verne of course, and
then went over to Carolina to Charlotte mid

500
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:54.960
Atlantic and that's where the connect was
to get him to come up to the

501
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:59.559
Garden. Dusty was coming through of
course, working on top with Superstar,

502
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.159
as were a host of others.
Kurt Henning was there before he was ever

503
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:07.800
Kurt Henning well he was. You
get my point, So Teddy Biassi,

504
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:10.320
all these guys who wanted to be
superstars at the Hasbro era had these like

505
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.239
matches in the garden like fifteen years
before when they were like skinny nobody's And

506
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:21.360
here's a little sense of Flair taking
the ring against Pete Sanchez in nineteen seventy

507
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.880
six. Is reference play on that
run over went a part of Ric Flair

508
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:40.239
super flex. The man hear that
ring, it's all over. So Rick

509
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:49.559
Flair, well a bit whoa Victoria
is there in Modison Square dark, very

510
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.599
tough match, very tough. Maagine, dude, let's take a look at

511
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:57.119
Acty so only a moment ago.
Here Rick Flair putting the finishing touch on

512
00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.159
Pete Sanchez. Up pile go imagine
the ordinary neck Greggor crashing down to the

513
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:12.599
campus. Let's go up and get
do a fisher work Leetimer West Nick Rands

514
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.639
at ten minutes twenty one seconds,
the winner, Thank you boy, Nick

515
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:23.519
Cla, doctor boy, Rick Flair. I mean, I think the most

516
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:27.840
surreal thing is hearing Vince Mrickman called
Ric Flair match in nineteen seventy six,

517
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.440
that's exactly right. I mean,
he was just like to be commenting on

518
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:35.559
Ric Flair before he was anywhere near
you know, the owner of the territory

519
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:39.559
and king Maker, just observing Flair
like he observed just anybody else who came

520
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:46.719
through the garden in the business wild
do that actor Seymour Castle did re announcing

521
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:52.519
work absolutely as he did. He
saw a lot more than Castle. And

522
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:55.159
that neck breaker Vince referred to that
Flair finished him with was a vertical suplex,

523
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.480
of course, but you heard the
rattle of the msg ring. God,

524
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:04.760
it's like sucking building blocks just fucking
collapsed. So I was looking,

525
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.199
you know, obviously, I just
was like doing a quick skim to see

526
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.760
if I could find any kind of
coverage of a Rick Flair match. Not

527
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:14.039
not that I'm saying Hornecker didn't do
any fucking solid well, of course,

528
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:15.719
but you got it. But I'm
always like it was, I'm let's see

529
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.480
if I can find But you know
what I did find because and this is

530
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.920
what I find to be weird.
So so he he grew When did he

531
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:28.440
move out of He was in Minnesota
for a long time, right mmmm,

532
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:37.400
like during like early like before he
gatually he debuted with a with uh in

533
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.800
Ververn's camp there he did, yeah, seventy three. I think either way,

534
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:47.639
what I'm when I'm seeing here is
that there was a a theater director

535
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:59.280
named Richard Fleer spelled the same way
in Minneapolis who was directing a play starring

536
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:05.039
a guy named Oscar Backlund. Well, the Backland one surprised me. But

537
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.599
you didn't know that Rick Flair's dad
was a theater owner. I did not

538
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.280
know that in addition to being a
physician, he indeed was, and he

539
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:14.960
was a Richard Flair. That's him, that's him. Ah, I did

540
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:16.679
not know that. This is news
to me. And his mom was a

541
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:20.840
big I think a concert pianist or
something. She was like a big theater

542
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.119
person too. I had no fucking
idea. I don't know how much of

543
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.280
this was known. I mean he
talked about in this book, but I

544
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:30.079
don't know how much was known before
the Hornbaker book did what you're doing right

545
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:34.639
now, which is, yeah,
really dig into Minnesota newspapers to find you

546
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:38.639
know, his parents' public profile before
he became Ric Flair. That's crazy.

547
00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.360
Yeah, they were like local theater
people. No shit kind of explains a

548
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.039
lot, doesn't it. It does, Actually, it does there's like I

549
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:51.760
can see the kind of the showmanship
then like kinda he's very because he's just

550
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.079
very theatrical. He really is.
He has that showmanship like from just naturally.

551
00:39:55.239 --> 00:40:00.360
It seems like just like an instinct. So here comes m VP.

552
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:06.800
That is Rick Flair's opponent here for
his last match in MSG. A notice

553
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:09.079
I cut that out of the clip. I was not gonna suffer through that

554
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:14.559
again. One two. You hear
the clock ticking, TikTok, you're about

555
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.400
to stop living. One two,
buckle my shoe, TikTok. I want

556
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:21.679
you to remember me, TikTok,
but the day don't have no memory.

557
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:28.039
I'm coming. I'm coming, brother, Bro, will you whoa whoa whoa

558
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:34.199
whoa? Dude? Whoa coming for? What exactly? Dude? Brother?

559
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.280
What are you coming for? Dude? Where are you coming? Dude?

560
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.960
I'm just I'm trying to get an
idea of exactly what's going on right now?

561
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:46.159
Brother? Yeah, that was that
goes out saying Terry, that's about.

562
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.360
That's kind of like your status quo
is wondering what's going on, but

563
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:54.679
you know he has to announce it
every fucking time. Dude. I'm just

564
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:58.239
trying to get you know, I'm
just trying to put one two in front

565
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:00.320
of each other, all right,
dude, kind of get you know,

566
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.360
Crynico from point A to point B. Figure out exactly what the fuck is

567
00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.800
going on? And then then you
come at me with this theme song,

568
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:08.719
dude, coming at me, wide
open by the way, coming at me,

569
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:12.239
brother, And one to two you
hear the clock ticking, and I'm

570
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.559
like, I'm hul Hogan, like, dude, wow, what clock?

571
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:19.519
Like what's why is it ticking?
Like? Why why am I being time?

572
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.880
Brother? Exactly? Dude? You
know, are you like clocking exactly

573
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.239
how far? How long it takes
me against someplace? Dude? Or you

574
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.480
you know? What's I guess what
I'm trying to ask, really, dude,

575
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:31.639
is why is that your theme song? Brother? I just want to

576
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:35.800
know what the dizz is? Brother? Right? Did you have a conversation

577
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.559
with Vince about making that your theme
song? Dude? I got the you

578
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:44.239
know, m v PiZZ and say
enviz PiZZ the m viz PiZZ brother,

579
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:45.679
And I'm like, I don't even
know, you know, I don't know

580
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.840
where this guy is coming from.
But all I know is that now,

581
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.920
all of a sudden in his theme
song, he says he's going for Hult

582
00:41:52.960 --> 00:42:00.280
Hogan. That's all I know.
You can't blame me, but that's being

583
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:01.400
all line know. I mean,
you know, you can call me Paranald

584
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:04.519
all you like, brother. But
he put it in his song. He

585
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:10.719
said, I'm coming for Hulk Hogan. That's a rib like it just you

586
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:14.519
know, they play the song Hogan's
in the company, maybe he's in the

587
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:16.880
rumble, Okay, Hogan's in the
ring, and then MVP's music plays and

588
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:23.440
it goes, I'm coming for Hulk
Hogan something like that. You see you

589
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.079
see that that kind of you know, when he's when he's been in the

590
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:29.199
ring, when Hogan's been in the
ring a little bit, and so his

591
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.199
hair is, oh, sweaty hair, and he's like, he like,

592
00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:35.000
here's that and he like jerks his
head too. The camera's like his hair

593
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:43.599
and in the sweat flies from it. Y's a normal human noise. I

594
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.360
don't really understand why that would be
a thing. But so outcomes MVP.

595
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:51.079
At the time, he was the
United States champion with his chain and he

596
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.559
has a real chain on and his
T shirt is has a chain printed on

597
00:42:53.639 --> 00:43:04.039
it too. Roughly Charles Robinson from
smackdowns. I never I never understood I

598
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:10.800
never understood the appeal of MVP at
all. I never dug him. I

599
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:14.880
never. I think he's more interesting
now. Is he still there in the

600
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:15.880
company or is he gone? I
don't even know, you know, it's

601
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:17.840
been a long time. I don't
know if he's still working for them or

602
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.079
not. When they turned lashly face, he was kind of sol But I

603
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:27.159
I liked him better in that in
that regard than I ever did. Or

604
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:30.320
he's a good talker, he's a
good talker. He's fine. Yeah,

605
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.800
I just don't care. Like there's
nothing he's ever done that's made me care

606
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:38.559
about him. Yeah, he's supposed
to be like this, this like blue

607
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:44.440
chip like recruit, you know,
blue chip recruit. Yeah, like this.

608
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.719
He was supposed to be like this
hot free agent that everybody wanted.

609
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.880
And he was somebody that you know, carried himself like a like the number

610
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.280
one pick in the NFL draft.
You know, that was kind of like

611
00:43:53.360 --> 00:44:01.639
his gimmick. But I guess,
yeah, I just I'm like, there's

612
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:09.599
nothing about him that sees that makes
me see value. Yeah. No,

613
00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:12.800
I don't think he's I don't think
he's wonderful. I don't think he's bad

614
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.079
either. He's a good talker and
he's a good worker. It's fine.

615
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.280
Guys with those combinations should have a
place in the business. I agree.

616
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:23.400
But they just put him on like
these high profile angles and then they gave

617
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:27.400
him a loser gimmick. Yeah,
and they fell in and out of love

618
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.760
with him over the years, for
sure, definitely. Ah, I just

619
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:37.599
yeah. So coach says MVP wants
to increase his career with a wind tonight.

620
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:39.840
I suppose that would be the opposite
of what Flair, the position Flair

621
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.159
finds himself in. I guess he
would. Yeah, I guess he's decreasing

622
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.000
a career. It's like I immediately
remembered all the reasons why, Like it

623
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:51.920
was never going to work for Coachman
on commentary. Now he's just he's not

624
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:57.280
good. So Cole says MVP will
learn about passion here tonight. Ah.

625
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.679
I see. So it kicks off
the two thousand and eight rumble that is,

626
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.880
are they busy? I don't understand
he's getting late or something. Yeah.

627
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.159
I don't know what that was supposed
to mean. I don't know if

628
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.480
it played out before our eyes or
after the cameras around something like that.

629
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:15.280
Sure, yeah, I mean we
need to hold open the possibility, especially

630
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.960
now let me know the truth of
that company. Oh especially the and yes

631
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:22.880
in a post nine to eleven America
as well. Right, that's a good

632
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.119
point I think of that speaking of
New York, right, yeah, yeah,

633
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:29.239
I can't believe we went this long
without talking about the fact that this

634
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:37.000
was seven years after nine to eleven. So relevant. Oh yeah, that's

635
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:39.400
what I love when you just kind
of cash of course. Yeah, that's

636
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:49.159
a very good point. So KNT
cant not. Oh man, I'm going

637
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:54.000
to deploy it strategically. VP in
Miami Hurricanes colors for what it's worth as

638
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.199
Flare dances and circles a bit and
struts with his hands through what's left of

639
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.800
his hair and uh lock up,
push off, tackle down, goes Flair.

640
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:07.639
Got to get those fundamentals in early. Yeah, let's get spots that

641
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.440
right before the point of impact.
Somebody claps, that's right, you know,

642
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:14.440
and you know a Flare when he
when he when he kind of does

643
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:19.559
the circle around, he always slaps
both shoulders, get the blood flowing.

644
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:22.199
M VP does that ball in like
jump shot hand motion. After he drops

645
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.000
Flare on the tackle. Flare enters
with a wou lock up to the corner.

646
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:29.400
They break under, saying, so
he's so he's he's a football player,

647
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:32.079
but he's a basketball player. It's
true. He's like an all all

648
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:36.239
points athlete. He played. Does
he ever? Does he ever do baseball

649
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.320
as well? And soccer? Yeah? Don't you remember that raw where he

650
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:46.760
came out in a full catcher's uniform. Look at my fucking Norman Smiley with

651
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:54.280
a knuckleball Schwartz coming out first.
So yeah, sm So coach says,

652
00:46:54.880 --> 00:47:00.840
increase again as regards m VPS prospects, and his voice trails off again,

653
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.639
almost cluelessly. As you can tell
Vince is just barking in his ear.

654
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:09.880
God, shut up, coachman Solitch, say say your lines, Pal,

655
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:14.280
say what I tell you to say, dammit. And at first I thought

656
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:15.239
it was just col and Coach doing
the whole show. And then you look

657
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.920
down and you can see j R's
cowboy hat. He's there, everybody.

658
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:27.639
I mean, the royal rumblin sound
is a fucking shit show. Six guys,

659
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.639
six guys. I mean that's like
where Big Show goes for a lunch.

660
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:45.880
That's not Yeah, he definitely needs
an extra guy. Ah right.

661
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:51.760
Well, let's look, do I
need any more evidence than that of six

662
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:55.119
guys Burger? I believe before he
placed the order. Uh, the the

663
00:47:55.239 --> 00:48:02.840
emit hants was ah right, because
that's tell you. That's how you let

664
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:09.719
them know you're really hungry. So
lunch trivia aside Cole and Cole says Rick

665
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:15.039
Flair is a global spokesman for this
industry. Fuck all right, Michael Ohe

666
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.960
needs you to be a favor and
you gotta say that Rick Flair is a

667
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:23.320
global spokesman. I don't care what
just don't don't ask questions, just say

668
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:32.039
it to say he's a global spokesman
for for entertainment properties. Right in case

669
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.960
people are wondering what what's meant by
that, say he's a global spokesman for

670
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:42.400
entertainment properties. He's also a global
spokesman for fucking cannabis and uh and also

671
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:46.079
he's a global sportsman, a spokesman, a global sportsman, that's true.

672
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:57.239
Yeah, for for entertainment products and
the lottery in cannabis and popped up energy

673
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:01.400
drinks and fucking and way oh god, have you seen when he opens the

674
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:12.079
thing and he goes, who can
we not? Can we not? Let

675
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:16.639
pass the fact that we were able
to discover how Rick Flair says wings and

676
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:29.480
it sounds like this wing. You
know, Conrad needs to take better care

677
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:36.960
of his look. I don't see
a problem with him wearing shoes without socks

678
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.480
all day every day. Right,
Oh my god, we don't want to

679
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:47.800
see his ankles shriveled up like brittle
bone. Flair he took a knee to

680
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:51.519
the head in the Sting retirement match
and lay there dead for the rest of

681
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:55.639
the match. It probably was for
a moment. Ah, God, this

682
00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.159
Conrad said there was nothing he wanted
more than a turn heel on Sting one

683
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.639
last time in his last match.
I have no doubt about it. Of

684
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:14.360
the nuts, that's what the final
nitro. That's what WW came down to.

685
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:15.800
It's like, how can we,
you know, really pay tribute to

686
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.199
what WW meant? Well, I
mean, if you want to really distill

687
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:34.519
it down, it's Rick Flair screaming
Sting for fucking twenty five years, beat

688
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:39.920
red face. He's on so much
cocaine. Who I'm taking that one all

689
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:45.880
the way. They go to bring
some woo Wings to Philly, Yeah,

690
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:51.199
that would be a good idea.
Actually, we'll hear a lot of wooings

691
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:57.840
at itself before crowd always doing a
wooing. Hopefully no booing, that's true,

692
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.880
man, I don't know. So
all of that is to say,

693
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:06.880
Rick Flair is a global spokesman for
this industry who we will fire because we

694
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.760
don't allow him to talk. Quite
a spokesman who will fire because he's he's

695
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:15.400
loaded on a two K panel.
Here's the thing, Rick, listen,

696
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:17.199
I love you, you know,
you know I'm going way back nineteen seventy

697
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.199
six even, but you know,
here's the thing. The fact is is

698
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:30.360
that you're just I think you're just
you're losing it on the mic, all

699
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.320
right, Like you just don't have
it anymore. You know, when you're

700
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.960
out there, you say a few
words every now and again, and it's

701
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:40.719
just not deliverable. A picture of
Vince like the character and happy Madison.

702
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:50.320
You suck, you suck while he's
trying to talk. So yeah, MVP

703
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:52.559
slaps Flair in the corner and Flare
chops and punches away, drops him with

704
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.599
a chop headlock push off tackle.
Flare on the move now into the drop

705
00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.000
toe hold of MVP, and MVP
weights and waits and then hits a running

706
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:04.199
Akouza kick and a neckbreaker for two. Flair comes up chopping MVP with a

707
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.199
snapmare. They figure out how to
do an MVP sucks chant, even though

708
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:10.599
yeah, it's not the easiest thing. It's yeah, it definitely is not.

709
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:14.440
But it means enough to them that
they figure it out, don't they

710
00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.119
They do, they do. You
got to give that New York crowd credit

711
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:21.840
for that, Coaches, Ric Flair
is the epitome of what sports entertainment is

712
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:27.000
all about. That's what That's how
I always thought about them. That's his

713
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:31.280
legacy sports entertainment. Cole runs down
the countries that are watching tonight is Ric

714
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:37.119
Flair is the star of the world
over exactly and again, so weird to

715
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.159
hear Vince talking now through the vessels
that are Michael Cole and Jonathan Coachman.

716
00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:44.440
It's just so much more obvious now
for some reason to me, Oh god,

717
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.840
I agree. Actually, like watching
this show, I was like,

718
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:52.239
holy shit, Yeah, these guys
are not sentient beings. They're no,

719
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.960
they're just they're stand ins. They
are vessels for verbiage. Yeah, you

720
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.119
heard Vince call the Flair match in
seventy six, that's pretty much. That's

721
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.519
what it is, right, except
he's forcing others to say it, and

722
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:06.440
he has, you know, a
larger menu of things he wants to hit

723
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:09.360
because so much has happened and he
owns the whole company. But further to

724
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:13.760
that point, I think what's also
happened is we've watched now like a full

725
00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:19.719
year plus of WWE without Vincent announcer's
ears, and we realize how different it

726
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.480
actually sounds. Yeah, And when
you go especially with Cole, like you

727
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:29.199
compare Michael Cole in particular, it's
like there is something he is drastically withholding

728
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:34.000
himself here. He seems to be
enthusiastic actually about the whole fucking what he

729
00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.239
does. Oh he loves it.
Yeah, Like he actually seemed enthusiastic,

730
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:38.199
right, and he had that in
him all this time? Who knew?

731
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:45.559
Right? But I remember all I
remember is is someone that there was a

732
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.719
yes, yes, sir mister McMahon
right, Well, I know that,

733
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:57.880
But there was some DVD where you
could access alternate commentary hmm and for the

734
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:02.480
match, and it was Mick Foley
and Michael Cole, and I have heard

735
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:07.119
I remember hearing that it was just
like Michael Cole was amazing. I like

736
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.400
this period, I've never heard about
it, about this Michael Cole was just

737
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.760
like he was just loathed, loathed
because he just sucked so much. But

738
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:20.840
then you've heard him, like you
heard him off the you know, without

739
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:22.480
free Reign, and all of a
sudden, he's like, yeah, he's

740
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:28.360
actually a great he's actually a great
commentator. Well, he actually cares about

741
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:31.119
the matches like you would think,
like they made him seem like somebody who

742
00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:35.119
was just there to deliver marketing messages, right, And that's fine. If

743
00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:37.840
the guy really doesn't have an affinity
for wrestling and really couldn't muster enthusiasm,

744
00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:40.159
it's still not fine, but you
get my point. It's at a more

745
00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:45.079
understandable. But the fact that he
was a guy who actually could call wrestling

746
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.360
matches with passion and had it in
him to deliver lines that you would remember,

747
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:51.079
like I never expected that from this
guy. Yep. But as the

748
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:52.480
years went he figured out ways to
make calls. They were like, all

749
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.719
right, that was Wrestlemanium worthy there
right there. Sure, the way you

750
00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:00.679
frame that closing scene, you know, the way he called Bianca versus Sasha

751
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.599
that year and stuff, it's like
that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah,

752
00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:07.320
what do you call he did?
He did the Daniel Bryan thing. That

753
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:08.760
was great, Russ many thirty,
Yes he did, Yes, he did.

754
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:13.559
He rose to the occasion. So
anyway, Flaire tries to figure four

755
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:16.880
but gets kicked off. Another attempt
at inside cradle is botched big time.

756
00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:21.639
It is not the finest inside cradle
off a figure four attempt you've ever seen.

757
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:23.480
No, it's not. It gets
too Cole says, MVP is perhaps

758
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:30.760
a better conditioned athlete, and there's
no doubt that's event saying that a better

759
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.840
conditioned athlete, He says, just
like that with his glasses down by his

760
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:38.440
nose, by lamplight at gorilla.
What does he say again? Make sure,

761
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:43.360
Cole, make sure you say that
MVP is a is a better conditioned

762
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:54.360
athlete. Talk about his conditioning and
how he's a conditioner. He's got a

763
00:55:54.719 --> 00:56:01.400
bottle of head and shoulders. He's
a better conditioned athlete. Yeah. Corner

764
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:05.599
to corner, whit players backdropped out
of the corner, a running boot scores

765
00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:08.519
and flare does a flare flop goes
for a cover. They woo as he

766
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:13.840
gets his foot on the rope as
Charles Robinson still slap three. I don't

767
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:15.519
know if that was on purpose or
not, but yeah, yeah, uh

768
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:20.239
yes, just back when the referees
and I think they still are, we're

769
00:56:20.360 --> 00:56:22.079
encouraged to count three. If the
guys failed to kick out. Yeah,

770
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:24.519
you wouldn't get any heat, of
course you really, of course you would,

771
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:29.239
but they just wanted to avoid that
awkward ref holds the two up for

772
00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:32.920
no reason. Yeah, like a
fucking Rock and Angle at no way out

773
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:38.440
in two thousand and one exactly,
Yes, good example. So it's one

774
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:44.039
of the most embarrassing one time.
I'm so glad you remember that because Rock

775
00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:46.719
is so pissed, is he really? I don't remember this? Yeah,

776
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.760
because like he and he's like so
pissed, and so he does the exact

777
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:57.679
same fucking sequence that he did before
and then gets the pin. Oh my

778
00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.559
god, you can just see it
in his face. He's just furious.

779
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:02.079
Oh I remember, right, because
he's supposed to win the match, the

780
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:06.480
title, right, He's supposed to
win the title and the match like,

781
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:10.280
yeah, I remember this now,
and like Angle didn't move, his shoulder

782
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:14.280
didn't move, and I don't know
who it was. It must have been

783
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:19.599
Hebner and Hebner fucking didn't register the
three count Rock is furious? Right he

784
00:57:19.639 --> 00:57:23.519
thought Angle was supposed to kick out? Yeah, right, right for some

785
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:28.360
reason. Yeah, that that's what
happens, by the way, when the

786
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:31.559
uh, the basics, the basic
structure of every single pay per view matches,

787
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:35.320
Let's kick out of each other's finisher
at a certain point, exactly.

788
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:38.800
You run that risk, you know. But something tells me if you kicked

789
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:42.360
out of the finisher twice a year, if only once a year, the

790
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.320
ref would never get it wrong.
Course he did it at a specific show,

791
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:47.360
right, you know, if he
did it WrestleMania when it mattered,

792
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:51.719
they would not they would not mistake
this is the night when someone kicks out

793
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:53.760
of it. But when it happens
every single month, then it's kind of

794
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:58.920
kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't
it kind of law too or smack down?

795
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.920
Right? Yeah, I say I
think about that, So, yes,

796
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:06.880
I totally remember that one. Now
that's a good one. So MVP

797
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:08.800
gets in Charles Robinson's face about that
whole thing and Flare rolls him up for

798
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:10.719
two. And then if he close
lines him down and gets a two,

799
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:15.760
can I know, Well, hey, he did it? What do you

800
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:21.400
mean brother, who's who's rolling up
for two? Dude? Michael Cole assigns

801
00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:24.159
kudos to Charles Robinson for letting the
match continue even though he was the one

802
00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:28.679
that completely blew the the count,
Like, why are you going to give

803
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:30.159
kudos to the guy who counted three
when he shouldn't have? But anyway,

804
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:35.480
MVP with the Butterfly Suplex gets to
and Michael Cole asks, does it begin

805
00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:37.039
to feel like we're watching the last
match of Ric Flair's career? And all

806
00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:42.599
Jonathan Coachman can say is I certainly
hope not, and he leaves it there,

807
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.400
says nothing else. He's speaking in
about four or five sentence phrases,

808
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:49.880
and that's it. Yes, Yes, Flair's perched on the top rope a

809
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.360
middle rope superplex by MVP Rocks the
nature boy that gets to of course,

810
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:55.119
Flares well on his way to bumping
in the fucking money in the bank and

811
00:58:55.159 --> 00:58:59.559
shit, so he had already done
that, but yeah, my point that

812
00:58:59.599 --> 00:59:01.840
already but he's you know, so
it was a middle rope super pleax didn't

813
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:05.719
have the the oom if you might
have fought in two thousand and eight for

814
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.440
Flair taking it, so they replay
the moment with the foot on the rope

815
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:12.519
earlier Jonathan Coach, who says,
it's obvious the MVP will do anything to

816
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:16.000
win this match. That's obviously Vanski
pauses, and then he says in Rick

817
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:19.880
Flair will do anything to not have
his career come to an end. I

818
00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.480
mean you could actually hear the pregnant
pauses as he's trying to listen to what

819
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:28.639
Vince is telling him to say.
Now, hold on, I've got a

820
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:34.519
I've got a couple. I'm producing
my announcer. Damn it, I got

821
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:39.880
a here. So Coach, your
line is its great is wrestling is what

822
00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:43.840
it is. But I fell in
love with this kid. I don't know

823
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:47.480
about you. Is MVP will do
anything he can to win and hold on,

824
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:52.079
wait wait wait, wait wait say
that now say that now, fucking

825
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:55.880
say it all right? Stops off, wait wait wait wait wait wait say

826
00:59:55.880 --> 00:59:59.519
anything else yet, and then hold
on, hold on, damn it,

827
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:09.079
what I said? Shot all right? And then say wait, yeah,

828
01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:19.320
Rick Flair will do We'll do whatever
he can to to to not to to

829
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:27.440
to not have to force himself into
a retirement situation. Leave it nice and

830
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:30.840
easy to remember and the match is
fucking over by the time he's done telling

831
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:36.280
Jonathan Coachman what to say. So
m VP slaps Flare, heet him up

832
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:38.320
in a fireman's carry and Flair is
supposed to drop down behind him, but

833
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:42.920
he just falls on his ass whip
to the corner. They butt heads and

834
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:45.519
both at the canvas. Flare shoots
a chop inside cradle gets two two.

835
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:51.000
I wonder if I do wonder you
know, you definitely saw in in here,

836
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:54.480
like some some sloppiness at the end
here, especially even leading into wrestlating.

837
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:59.239
But I do I wonder, I
really wonder if he if there had

838
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:05.960
been some enthusiasm, some like real
focus about about this this retirement run,

839
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:12.360
that it it that he that he
would not have made these kinds of mistakes,

840
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.320
that he would have been a little
more. I don't know. I

841
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.679
mean, you can't control you know, you know, your the way your

842
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.639
body withers away as you get older. But I just I feel like a

843
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:28.719
lot of this has to do with, you know, that classic Flair feeling

844
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:32.199
worthless type thing. Yeah, yeah, his lack of confidence could be he

845
01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:36.159
didn't blow anything in the Shawn Michael's
match from what I remember, so oh

846
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:38.000
he absolutely did. Oh my god, he did. But he did h

847
01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:43.679
the bridge, the bridge out here. It's a tough call. That's a

848
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:47.719
stupid idea. I mean he should
have. I mean again, I feel

849
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:51.519
like there's so much that he could
have done it if it had been done,

850
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:55.320
if if they cared. Wow.
Wow. So Backslide gets due and

851
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:59.880
then MVP fires out with a punch. Michael Cole says he believes MVP just

852
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:02.519
truck Wick Flair right in the Adams
Apple. That's definitely Vince talking. No

853
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.800
one else would say that on Planet
Earth. I think, you know,

854
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:08.760
I think it's better if we go
a little more detailed than just a throat

855
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:15.440
thrust talk about the the the Adams
Apple. Can you do that please?

856
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:21.000
If you insist, I mean,
it's it's the weirdest fucking thing, but

857
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.119
I'll say it. MVP then tries
the playmaker and Flair counters with a figure

858
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.079
four. It's locked out and patented, and what do you know, m

859
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:31.559
VP taps to the figure four,
one of the rarities, absolutely one of

860
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:37.000
the rare taps. And they say
that's won Flair Championship after championship, and

861
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:39.599
I'm thinking, no, no,
I mean, he isn't that how he

862
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:45.119
won the second belt against Savage?
Yes? Other than that zero times,

863
01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:51.880
I mean, he certainly didn't beat
I don't know how he beat Dusty Rhodes

864
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:55.199
first first championship. Uh wasn't that
a top rope cross body block? I

865
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:59.599
believe well that was I it's hardy
race. I don't know about Oh,

866
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:00.800
but I think it was Dusty too. I think he beat Dusty with the

867
01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:08.079
top rope cross body So we know
that happened next time he won, excluding

868
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:15.400
all the losses international ones he got? Was it was it? Uh?

869
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:21.119
Eighty six? Was it? Was
it fucking thirty seven? Rather? Yeah?

870
01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:23.599
Well he lost the belt, but
there's that count when he lost to

871
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:27.320
Dusty but didn't lose it to Dusty? Does that now? Was a breach

872
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.159
of the thing? Okay? So? But then so we lost it to

873
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:34.719
uh Ron? Ye? Did he
beat him with it? No? I

874
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.960
think he howd he beat him?
Incade? Yeah? I don't remember.

875
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:40.159
I don't remember either. It was
a figure for I feel like it was

876
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:49.639
a top rope thing again. Hmm, let's see it all right? All

877
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.000
right? Finish like they're gonna show
me just a finish. I'll get it

878
01:03:52.079 --> 01:04:02.760
here. Stand by everybody, and
then he holds it until he loses it

879
01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:09.760
to sting. Does he hold it
that long? Really? Yeah? He

880
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:15.519
does, Yeah he doesn't. And
that's a that's a fucking you know,

881
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:21.599
that's a roll up all right inside
cradle. And then next time he loses

882
01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.360
it, it's a strip from him. Oh yeah, that's right. He

883
01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:28.800
hot shots Garving into the cage.
He runs him backwards and then pins him

884
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:34.519
one, two, three, yeah, yep. And then obviously the rumble

885
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.599
and then this that yees. So
I'm gonna say the first one was savage,

886
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.719
the only one. Yeah, I
think, I'm pretty sure the only

887
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.960
one title after title. I don't
know what they're talking about. Yeah,

888
01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:50.360
maybe they mean the US title.
Maybe. Anyway, they're up for Flair.

889
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:54.480
They like that finish Flare's career,
still alive and well, and he's

890
01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.840
he cries because he gets to live
for another day. That's right, Flair

891
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:00.760
scientists Claire will never die. That
was true. Yeah, yeah, well

892
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.920
uh, and then Coach sets up
Michael Cole for one. You know,

893
01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:09.480
we talked about some bad ones.
Here's not a really fucking bad one.

894
01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:20.639
Michael as standing ovation and the world's
most famous arena for the world's most famous

895
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:31.599
sports entertainer. What this is a
great line. This is the best wrestling

896
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:34.199
to people. There are people out
there we heard from PAV. I mean

897
01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:41.280
this is their childhood. This is
Michael Cole parroting Vince on the headset Jonathan

898
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:45.199
Coachman on the call. Listen.
You can't say he's a wrestler, say

899
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:48.760
he's the most famous sports entertainer.
If you don't do it, Cole,

900
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:54.239
I will shoot you in the head. Actually, I'll start with your with

901
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:57.239
your wife. Yeah, I'll tell
you what. I've got your wife right

902
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.360
here, she's next to me.
I have a gun pointed at her head.

903
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:04.199
Do you want her to die?
Or do you want to say wrestling?

904
01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:08.440
Or do you want to say sport? That Rick Flair is the most

905
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:17.199
famous sports entertainer. I'm waiting.
I am waiting. It's your call,

906
01:06:17.320 --> 01:06:26.760
Cole. Literally that sounds like my
decision really to some MVP hassles with Charles

907
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:29.719
Robinson in the I away over his
foot on the rope and all that,

908
01:06:30.119 --> 01:06:33.599
and Flair emotional looking around kissing him
as the rope when you figure for your

909
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:41.440
dumb ass kissing MSG goodbye is the
nature boy and and apparently MVP in June

910
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:45.039
beats Flair with the Playmaker had beaten
Flair and with a Night of Champions,

911
01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:49.280
so they were like playing that up
big anyway, Congrats to Ric Flair,

912
01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:55.119
Who're going to fight another day,
Vinces with Hornswoggle. Oh yes he is.

913
01:06:55.239 --> 01:07:00.719
I've got this whole thing for you. Looks like Ric Flair's continues,

914
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.960
right. But speaking of luck,
that would bring us tonight, that would

915
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:08.480
bring us to the look of the
Irish. When you think about the Irish

916
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:11.719
and Madison Square Garden, you have
to go all the way back to my

917
01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:15.280
grandfather who promoted in the previous Madison
Square Garden. To my dad, one

918
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:19.920
of the all time great promoters and
Hall of famers to me and of course

919
01:07:20.360 --> 01:07:25.079
them to other members of my family. When did his dad start promoting again,

920
01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:38.119
I want to say, like forty
eight in the New York area.

921
01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:43.119
Yeah, so his dad also was
in the old Madison Square Garden. This

922
01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:45.639
is this yeah, yeah, it
was built in the nineteen sixties, so

923
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:48.960
okay, yeah, for sure,
yeah he was, Which would now bring

924
01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:59.400
me to you, my only bastard
son. We think that's true these days,

925
01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:03.400
I don't know, oh h.
As the days go on and your

926
01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:09.920
participation in the Royal Rumble. You
realize it's every man for himself, and

927
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:15.239
you realize that you can't trust anyone, and I mean anyone you can't even

928
01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:20.920
trust. You can't even trust Findley. You can't trust a soul out there.

929
01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:25.560
But I expect you to win.
You get that, Huh, you're

930
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:30.159
my son, your last thing is
but man, I expect you to win.

931
01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:36.800
Well prep talking, Yeah, just
kind of getting it on you,

932
01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:42.479
explaining you know that you know you
can't trust anybody out there. That's where

933
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.199
it's kind of extreme. Explained to
the young man. He's kind of kept

934
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:49.319
me all excited to your last names. He is nervous. You can't trust

935
01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:57.039
anyone. Hey, what exactly do
you mean by that? What I mean

936
01:08:57.119 --> 01:09:02.680
by that is that you can't trust
the little guy make turn on you out

937
01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:06.119
there, Royal rumble. Well keep
that in mind. Good luck to go

938
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:29.560
to you. You forget you forgot
butt heead. So that's the noise that

939
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.039
a child I guess is he supposed
to be a child? Is that?

940
01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:35.720
I mean? I don't, I
mean he's supposed to be a leprechaun?

941
01:09:39.720 --> 01:09:45.199
Yeah? Is that the noise a
leprechaun makes? I guess also sounds like

942
01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:49.960
like an eager animal breaks like a
like a dog excited to see its food.

943
01:09:50.680 --> 01:09:56.520
Imagine this guy growing up in Wisconsin, Dylan Postel, and it comes

944
01:09:56.600 --> 01:10:00.279
down to him looking at Vince backstage
at MSG with the cameras rolling and looking

945
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.880
at me in the eye, going
you're my son. Yep, you are

946
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:12.479
my illegitimate child. You have been
born from illegitimate sperm that was taken from

947
01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:23.439
me by another woman. What was
really confusing was everything on WWTV is illegitimate.

948
01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.640
So what does it really mean for
Vince to say that Hornswaggle is his

949
01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:35.119
illegitimate son. Well, I mean, I guess the illegitimacy has canceled themselves

950
01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:41.479
out right and illegitimate child, right, So perhaps Hornswaggle is Vince's only legit

951
01:10:41.680 --> 01:10:45.039
child if we use the logic,
maybe you are the son of Linda.

952
01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:55.279
Maybe maybe legitimacy runs in your blood. Doubtful. So we get our establishing

953
01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:58.560
shot of the Empire state building,
and yes we do. JR. Is

954
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:00.680
on the call now, Thank God, Yes, thank Christ. But oh

955
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:08.920
man, oh, he's going to
introduce us to one of the biggest disasters

956
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:14.399
of the two thousands. What would
that be. What is it, Jim,

957
01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:16.600
We're excited to not to introduce to
the newest member of the w W

958
01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:20.800
broadcast team, an oak friend of
ours when we're NFL running back. We've

959
01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:25.520
got to know of this man at
during our XFL days back for a network

960
01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:30.039
broadcaster. Where do you allowed to
say? XFL isn't a taboo word at

961
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:34.640
this point? I guess not.
Please, welcome to the ww Mick at

962
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:39.880
him, Hey, Jr. And
King, it's good to be reunited once

963
01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:45.199
again. And how about it for
the nature boy Rick Flair? Congratulations.

964
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:50.960
I'm pitching myself to see if I'm
awake because I saw his very first match

965
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:57.680
back in nineteen seventy six right here
in Madison Square Garden. Unbelievable. Hey,

966
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:02.840
where would you rather be than right
here now? Spectacular crowd, unbelievable

967
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:10.800
electricity and electric is a perfect word
to describe the issues between Chris Jericho and

968
01:12:11.159 --> 01:12:21.239
JB L. Their rivalry has become
very very personal. Take a look what

969
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:30.800
nothing. I thought? It was
great, very excited, very excited to

970
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:32.479
have Mike Adam Lee on the call. Do you think he saw Rick Flair's

971
01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:35.039
first match in the garden? No? I think that's a. I think

972
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:39.680
what do they call that a lie? That is I think that is a

973
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:43.880
fabrication. Is that part of the
entertainment portion of the broadcast? I don't

974
01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:47.239
think so actually told I didn't seem
like it. I cutly wasn't entertained by

975
01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:51.359
it, you know, I mean, I mean, let's see here he

976
01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:56.279
played well no, no, no, because he was playing for the Chicago

977
01:12:56.359 --> 01:13:01.439
Bears in nineteen seventy six, so
seventy five, and then it's in the

978
01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:09.239
off season. I guess, yeah, I don't know. I don't think

979
01:13:09.319 --> 01:13:12.960
he was there. I think that's
a lie. I think that's something you

980
01:13:13.039 --> 01:13:16.960
know, you you you tell your
child when you want them to think better

981
01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:21.159
of you, when you're really not
a better person. He wanted to have

982
01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:25.920
dementia and brain addled CT issues and
everything. Did he did? He?

983
01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:30.720
Really? Oh yeah? Oh no. Not a sad not a happy ending

984
01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:32.239
for this guy. I mean,
I hate to say it, and it's

985
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:34.960
going to sound really cruel, but
it sounds like he has dementia. Then

986
01:13:35.199 --> 01:13:39.159
it does make you look back on
that time period and be a little more

987
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:42.359
gentle on him because he was just
so bad, like he was awful,

988
01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:47.239
was disconnected from how he was like
he couldn't speak properly, you know,

989
01:13:47.439 --> 01:13:50.159
like it was just like he kept
flubbing up words like how do you do

990
01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:56.520
that? How are you an announcer
like on for the NFL, Like how

991
01:13:56.560 --> 01:14:01.479
did you work at NBC Sports and
flub line like that and like flub verbiage

992
01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:03.399
like you can't do that. I
don't think it did. I think that's

993
01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:08.079
the point. Yeah, I mean
it's a very he had dementia. That's

994
01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:12.000
crazy. And he has dementia and
he looks like Vince. That's another thing.

995
01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:14.159
He kind of like he's kind of
like a stand in for like I

996
01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:18.039
don't know the general of WAW of
Vince McMahon as the announced you know,

997
01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:21.079
he looks like him to me,
like he doesn't resemble him, like do

998
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:24.239
where you mistake him on the street
for Vince. What I mean is,

999
01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:28.039
ever since Vince left the booth,
there was never like that guy like that

1000
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:33.560
that had that presentation you know right
right that he had and yep, and

1001
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.119
they always love that host in the
audience. It never worked for me,

1002
01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:39.439
like the Pet and Gale role.
I never got what they were going for

1003
01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:43.399
with that, but I know they
used to love that shit. Oh my

1004
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:45.880
god. Like remember the Miz was
the host too. Oh, and they

1005
01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:51.399
always have to do the host of
WrestleMania watch award shows and they can't help

1006
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:54.920
themselves, right, But it's like
they don't do any hosting, like they

1007
01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:58.479
just they come out at the beginning. I may have a moment maybe later

1008
01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:00.439
on, but like, what are
they hosting? Like they're not introducing the

1009
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:02.800
matches like, honestly in a weird
way, yeah, they should be.

1010
01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:06.520
They should be the ring announcer for
for the wrestlma yac. That's the closest

1011
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:11.760
thing to a host that wrestling has. Yeah, exactly. That'd be a

1012
01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:15.880
nice message to get if you're Samantha
Irvin or Lily and Garcia or something.

1013
01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:19.239
Mike Rome, sorry guys, you
guys, but we're gonna have the news.

1014
01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:21.640
It's a big show and we need
a big host. And uh,

1015
01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:26.800
it's a big show and we need
the big show. He's gonna host,

1016
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:30.680
Mike Adam Lay And after he after
he completely failed at this, they put

1017
01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:34.600
him in the announcemooth to call him
matches I know, And then he failed

1018
01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:39.640
at that and then they made him
broad general manager. Oh oh my god,

1019
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:42.359
because if he's heat, right,
I might as well making the heel

1020
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:45.720
general manager so everyone can do.
And he delivered the heel lines with the

1021
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:48.239
exact same cadence as what you just
heard, because he's just not that kind

1022
01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:53.000
of guy. No range, no
acting skills, not no clue, no

1023
01:15:53.159 --> 01:16:00.880
clue clue none, tremendous stuff.
Pal Oh and I'm he's so epileptic too?

1024
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:03.760
Oh really? Oh no, yeah, I saw. He kind of

1025
01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:05.880
sounds like some of this had a
seizure or two, doesn't he Yes,

1026
01:16:05.960 --> 01:16:11.880
he does. I can definitely.
I would imagine he has seized. Problem

1027
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:21.840
is he can't seize opportunities when they
come. Yeah. Okay, so well

1028
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:27.000
more from him later, unfortunately,
so he pitched to the very personal rivalry

1029
01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:30.439
between JBL and Jericho. Jericho would
just come back in November of seven.

1030
01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:33.600
Not it wasn't personal at all.
Well, he called out, he said,

1031
01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:38.000
you know your kids are ashamed of
you. What do you say about

1032
01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:41.560
his kids? He said, your
daddy is gutless and spineless. Look at

1033
01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:45.279
that coward you call daddy. And
and he hung him. He hung him

1034
01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:49.159
by his throat by the raw announcement, by the raw entrance set. Yeah,

1035
01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:53.119
which was a little, uh,
a little too much. You know.

1036
01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:55.720
I mean, this is the year
of ben Wah. Good point.

1037
01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:58.560
That's a good point too. I
don't remember anybody who's saying that, but

1038
01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:01.119
that's a good point. Yeah.
It was like it was like the second

1039
01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:05.119
y two J countdown. Yeah,
yes, I remember. It's like all

1040
01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:09.840
blue and white and digital. Oh
yeah, I was actually a big fan.

1041
01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:15.520
I liked this. I was I'll
tell you what I remember. I

1042
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:25.000
remember that when you were the one
who told me number one that it was

1043
01:17:25.039 --> 01:17:27.960
going to be Jericho who came back
with those weird Yeah, they started with

1044
01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:30.359
very generic videos where you really couldn't
tell right away, and you were like,

1045
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:33.880
this is Chris Jered, like you
you knew it was Chris Jericho and

1046
01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:45.359
and then uh. I was really
excited because I remember reading something where he

1047
01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:50.079
was quoted as saying, the only
reason I'm going to come back is if

1048
01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:55.479
I is if I if I get
a run with the belt. Yeah.

1049
01:17:55.720 --> 01:17:59.720
I was really excited because I'm like, holy shit, but I knew.

1050
01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:08.079
I knew that we were in for
tribled times. The moment he challenged Randy

1051
01:18:08.199 --> 01:18:11.279
Orton right away, I was like, okay, I mean happening, so

1052
01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:14.520
all right, Yeah they're not They're
not going to strap him up in his

1053
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:16.760
first match. No, of course, not not when you're still running.

1054
01:18:16.920 --> 01:18:21.079
You know, you barely you barely
even touched the Randy Orton experiment. That's

1055
01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:24.760
very it's very triple H. I'm
not saying you had anything to do with

1056
01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:27.960
it, but smells like triple H
to me. Aw, it's like,

1057
01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:30.880
yeah, and it seems like for
a quick for a quick by rate or

1058
01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:33.119
whatever. It's like, you know, like an easy thing, like to

1059
01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:36.239
bring put the new guy in right
away, and it's like, Okay,

1060
01:18:36.680 --> 01:18:40.960
make him feel like he's accomplishing something
because he's in the pay per view made

1061
01:18:40.960 --> 01:18:44.039
event for the belt right away,
right And that's just not it. I

1062
01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:45.359
mean, it's just not how it
works. No, it just took him

1063
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:49.079
reinventing himself to do it. And
you know, yeah, and he had

1064
01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:51.600
to you know, swim upstream to
get that turn. He didn't really,

1065
01:18:53.239 --> 01:18:55.439
that isn't how they programmed it.
He he really pushed for it. And

1066
01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:58.680
then he started wearing the suit and
we're off to the races yep, yep.

1067
01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:01.079
And he changed he changed the tights
to the uh, you know,

1068
01:19:01.439 --> 01:19:05.479
the speedout trunks. Yep. Just
completely all I need to say right,

1069
01:19:05.560 --> 01:19:09.800
boss is Jericho in a suit?
Yeah? And then there you are?

1070
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:15.800
Right? Ah. That was That
was probably one of the last times I

1071
01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:19.479
was just so excited about right.
Why why because he was just awesome?

1072
01:19:19.560 --> 01:19:24.319
He was great because because you know, this is the thing, Jericho,

1073
01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:30.720
We've said it a thousand times.
He is the greatest at reinventing himself and

1074
01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:36.560
seeming fresh. Like, honestly,
he's as he's almost he's almost making a

1075
01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:41.399
mockery of that now because he reinvents
himself every three weeks. That's funny.

1076
01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:44.239
Yeah, he really does. But
you know, at least you know,

1077
01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:50.279
during during this period, he was
able to change the whole his whole thing

1078
01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:57.760
and become uh yeah, right,
And that was the inspiration Winnipeg kid,

1079
01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:00.520
Is it really? I didn't know
that. Yeah. I love that run

1080
01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:03.560
and those matches, like the whole
and the way it was set up too.

1081
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:08.840
It was set up so brilliantly and
so subtly. Because this is why

1082
01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:14.159
I liked it too, because they
had this incredible booking post Mania for Shawn

1083
01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:19.359
Michaels, Batista and Jericho, really
good stuff. It was so good because

1084
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:25.680
then you had you had Batista resenting
Sean for retiring Flair, which was awesome,

1085
01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:31.439
and then you had and then after
that Jericho came on for that.

1086
01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:35.119
He was a straggler on for that. It was so funny. And then

1087
01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:42.399
he traded like he kept trading with
them between Batista and Jericho, uh uh

1088
01:20:43.399 --> 01:20:46.000
throughout the spring and early summer.
And then at the very end it was

1089
01:20:47.399 --> 01:20:56.279
it was just hardcore Jericho. And
then when Jericho won the belt, I

1090
01:20:56.479 --> 01:20:58.359
was like, I mean, I
was so happy. I was. I

1091
01:20:58.520 --> 01:21:01.479
was very pissed off about the cmpunk
scenario because I was like I was,

1092
01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:05.720
I was like really wanting him to
be, you know, a long term

1093
01:21:05.960 --> 01:21:10.800
champion at the time, but I
was also happy that what's them funk scenario?

1094
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:15.079
Do you remember? So they had
the that ridiculous concept the uh so

1095
01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:19.640
remember Punk he wins money in the
bank, Punk one money in the bank

1096
01:21:20.279 --> 01:21:27.880
and he cashes in and wins,
and he cashes in on Jericho. No,

1097
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:30.279
no, no, Before Jericho had
the belt, I forgot to be

1098
01:21:30.359 --> 01:21:34.520
cashing on he cashed whoever was world
champion because he had the big gold belt.

1099
01:21:34.640 --> 01:21:40.000
Undertaker. No, I don't think
so interesting. I remember I remember

1100
01:21:40.039 --> 01:21:43.359
who take or lost it to before
that too. I'll look it up either

1101
01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:45.239
was it was it? Uh?
I guess, I guess I am lapsed.

1102
01:21:46.039 --> 01:21:47.800
That was the last. That was
the next year when he when he

1103
01:21:47.880 --> 01:21:53.680
beat he'd beat Jeff Hardiford and was
booed because this time people were really were

1104
01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:58.439
really thrilled for it spelled money in
the b A n K E right,

1105
01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:04.119
the bong the bunk, right,
that's what it is. Of course,

1106
01:22:05.119 --> 01:22:12.279
after Baptista beat down Edge and won
the title. What okay, Punk Cashen

1107
01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:15.800
twenty third for his first time in
raw following the following week after the draft,

1108
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:18.880
Punk cash is in money in the
bank. After Batista beat down Edge

1109
01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.479
and won the title, making his
first defense later that same night against JBL

1110
01:22:24.479 --> 01:22:29.279
who had challenged him shortly after his
win. So I guess Punk wins the

1111
01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:31.359
belt and then defends it that same
night. Okay, okay, and then

1112
01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:38.800
but then they remember that at all. I don't remember that, but I

1113
01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:42.720
remember at the Fall paper at the
September pay per view, they had what

1114
01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:46.279
the fuck was that? The scramble
was a scramble that that was breakfast But

1115
01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:49.600
I don't let me see here.
They had like a it was like a

1116
01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:55.720
scramble match or something where you had
championships. Scramble here, it is scramble.

1117
01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:59.760
Yeah, you have five guys,
and so you kept pinning everybody and

1118
01:22:59.840 --> 01:23:02.960
whoever had whoever that's right had the
most recent pin. When the time limit

1119
01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:09.680
ran out one they would be the
the champion and Jerich and so before that,

1120
01:23:10.239 --> 01:23:17.279
Randy Orton had had beaten up and
punted see him punk, and so

1121
01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:24.760
he was out of the match.
So fucking suck dough and so Jericho was

1122
01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:27.359
a last minute replacement and he won
the belt and that got him the belt

1123
01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:30.079
right on the belt and he was
like such a fucking worm and it was

1124
01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:33.399
so great, and it led to
that incredible ladder match between he and UH

1125
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:41.119
and Sean Michaels knocked out Sean's wife
by mistake. Ye SummerSlam. That's a

1126
01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:46.119
hot angle. That was so good. Fuck. But this is before that

1127
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:49.119
he had the short hair. Did
that alarm you of the short hair?

1128
01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:53.560
No? No, I was.
I was okay with it, really,

1129
01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:58.000
I was okay with it. I
I yeah, because I remember I'd seen

1130
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.840
him too, I'd seen pictures of
him on the internet, and I knew

1131
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:02.279
he had his short hair, so
it wasn't Yeah, we were braced for

1132
01:24:02.359 --> 01:24:05.560
it. I was. I was
ready for it, and yeah, I

1133
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:13.800
mean it's really better than it is
now, that scraggly, thin, long

1134
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:19.359
just like the hair of a of
like a witch. He got his hairlined

1135
01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:23.000
back. I don't know how he
pulled that off. He was receding and

1136
01:24:23.039 --> 01:24:24.840
all of a sudden, there it
was, right in the front of his

1137
01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:30.840
forehead. Again, he's probably folding
it over. He's something man, the

1138
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:34.520
state of the man is something.
So here he is and uh, but

1139
01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:39.119
he's lost weight because he looks so
awful. Well he loses and he gets

1140
01:24:39.159 --> 01:24:41.079
it back. I don't know.
I mean, what kind of a zempeic

1141
01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:46.479
he's using, But it's the chubby
The chubby age Rocker was the best look

1142
01:24:46.520 --> 01:24:50.680
he's had in recent years. Like
he just should have fucking kept that because

1143
01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:59.600
like his his thin wayfish look just
completely. It accentuates his depleted chest,

1144
01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:12.000
you know, the cavernous abysso's chest. Oh my god, Oh my god.

1145
01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:15.560
The wrestling puts you in the ground
with a big fucking dent in your

1146
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.640
the middle of your chest, Like
what the fuck is this thing? Like

1147
01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:25.439
what a disaster? You know,
like no one's gonna look at you appropriately

1148
01:25:25.520 --> 01:25:30.920
again, You're just you're just a
fucking you're like you're you're disfigured. Yeah,

1149
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:34.319
exactly what the fuck is wrong with
you? Put up on your chest,

1150
01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:43.000
dude? What at the barbecue?
Dude? Putting your shirt back on?

1151
01:25:43.159 --> 01:25:45.039
Please, you can't go in the
pool like that. I'm afraid you're

1152
01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:51.800
gonna develop a puddle and drown in
your own I mean, actually, I

1153
01:25:51.880 --> 01:25:55.159
think I've said that. Did I
say? I think I said about Cope

1154
01:25:55.239 --> 01:26:05.199
Kinks and probably put cereal in there
booty os to be clear. So yeah,

1155
01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:10.760
the whole program was JBL mocking Jericho
as a dad watching TV, all

1156
01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:14.840
right, just laying back and he's
fucking scooping out cereal from his chest.

1157
01:26:14.920 --> 01:26:20.119
Disgusting, so file Landy could only
dream, uh huh. So yeah,

1158
01:26:20.279 --> 01:26:25.159
the whole thing was JBL calling Chris
a pointless dad and a gutless daddy.

1159
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:27.399
And you see what I did to
your daddy. I don't know. They

1160
01:26:27.479 --> 01:26:30.319
must have gotten some notion that like
I want to be I want this.

1161
01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:34.319
I want this program to be about
daddy, all right, and I want

1162
01:26:34.399 --> 01:26:39.720
him to be a daddy figure and
I want daddy to be the key phrase

1163
01:26:40.520 --> 01:26:44.560
of the feud. I wonder why
that? Why that would be. But

1164
01:26:44.760 --> 01:26:49.199
uh, I mean, I don't
have enough. And you know, Chris,

1165
01:26:49.359 --> 01:26:51.920
Chris Kamier, I had a thought, but you know, and give

1166
01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:57.159
me your honest feedback on this.
What if we renamed you Leo Lupton?

1167
01:26:59.800 --> 01:27:01.239
Well, what if we what if
we renamed you? All? Right,

1168
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:05.760
hold on them, Let's just don't
don't don't dismiss me before before you go

1169
01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:11.680
off. Can I just picture picture
Jericho's face and picture him coming to the

1170
01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:15.640
ring and picture the graphic on the
bottom of the screen saying, Leo Lupton,

1171
01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:21.119
we're thinking when you come back that
you you be a different character altogether,

1172
01:27:21.319 --> 01:27:25.159
right, and people will recognize you
as Chris Jericho. But I think

1173
01:27:25.359 --> 01:27:30.439
it's it's important that we, you
know, reorganize your character, you know,

1174
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:33.319
kind of give it a fresh take. So we're thinking, what if

1175
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:39.279
right, bear with me, So, Leo Lupton? Right, what if

1176
01:27:39.319 --> 01:27:49.199
we do daddy Leo Lupton or bad
Daddy or bad daddy or your daddy Leo

1177
01:27:49.319 --> 01:27:59.439
Lupton, Daddy hit me Leo Lupton
or daddy. Don't call me father Leo

1178
01:27:59.560 --> 01:28:04.720
Lupton. I'm thin, rolls off
the tongue, rolls off my brain.

1179
01:28:04.960 --> 01:28:09.159
Tell you that I like to introdced
your valet, Vicky by the way,

1180
01:28:12.359 --> 01:28:15.000
all right, fine, well how
about a compromise, Leo Lipton. Then

1181
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:17.479
we can sell iced tea advertiser.
You know we can do we can do

1182
01:28:17.560 --> 01:28:23.520
a brand integration with Lipton iced Tea
and you can always come down with a

1183
01:28:23.560 --> 01:28:27.239
glass of iced tea like we could
wear like a you could wear you know,

1184
01:28:27.279 --> 01:28:30.640
one of those kind of a light
a light suit with a scarf,

1185
01:28:31.600 --> 01:28:38.640
you know. Leo Lipton, Daddy
O Leo Lipton, Daddy O Iced Tea

1186
01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:46.800
King. Fuck, okay, there's
a shirt, Daddy Leo lip Daddy O

1187
01:28:47.279 --> 01:29:01.560
Leo Lipton, the ice Tea King. I think we I think we landed

1188
01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:05.920
on something. I mean, I
think we're talking about money. I think

1189
01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:12.880
we're gonna land on a nice bed
of hot, sweaty cash. So the

1190
01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:18.079
blue and white Jericho Countdown Jericho is
coming shows up on the screen, and

1191
01:29:18.159 --> 01:29:23.680
then you get the Pyro and then
he Jericho save us to Jay, you

1192
01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:27.880
know I've got you. And now
he comes small business march into the ring.

1193
01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:30.760
He's now I can see this being
like a Vince thing where it's like

1194
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:31.840
we need, we need you to
show a little bit more toughness. A

1195
01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:35.119
little more ruthlessness, Chris, So
they were you are a little too shiny

1196
01:29:35.159 --> 01:29:39.000
around the edges. We you just
find find that that dog in you.

1197
01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.039
I want to hear the I want
to hear the big dog, all right,

1198
01:29:43.159 --> 01:29:47.840
the big daddy dog for that brass
ring. You do that for me,

1199
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:51.159
Pal, You're gonna get it done. I'm gonna get back to texting.

1200
01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:56.760
Jay runs down the titles. Jericho
is one and says he's a loving

1201
01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.079
father and no coward Lily and Garcia
the announce for this one. G he

1202
01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:01.760
comes out ting ting ting ting,
ting, ting ting ting ting, nun

1203
01:30:02.039 --> 01:30:38.239
but none but King Kang, King
King. So it's such a good one.

1204
01:30:38.319 --> 01:30:41.760
For that, such a good one. That's one thing I couldn't hate

1205
01:30:41.760 --> 01:30:44.680
on is his entrance music. Oh
it was so great and like I love

1206
01:30:44.800 --> 01:30:49.399
this rip rip off of Magnificent seven
theme. Yeah, so good. Just

1207
01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:57.560
picture his face with the hat like
coming out smiling. Remember you used to

1208
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:00.119
do a little dance too. For
some reason, he did that fucking dance.

1209
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:08.199
You's got two step whatever, you
idiot's chippling bits. It's jibbling bits,

1210
01:31:09.279 --> 01:31:17.039
mother fucker. Ye he's like jibbing
bitch tits like Texas oil money,

1211
01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:20.680
and now he gets facials in Manhattan, you know, exactly. Now he's

1212
01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:32.399
a he's a he's a he's got
stock knowledge trading cattle futures. Exactly.

1213
01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:41.319
He takes advantage of price arbitrage.
God. Okay, by the way,

1214
01:31:41.359 --> 01:31:45.159
the Flara MVP match lasted U seven
minutes forty eight seconds on the time check.

1215
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:50.600
And now it's yeah Jericho and jbl
here at the two thousand and eight

1216
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:54.600
Royal Rumble, so lawrus Is,
Jericho's own kid looked at him and said,

1217
01:31:54.640 --> 01:31:57.840
Daddy, is it true? Are
you a coward? You picture kids

1218
01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:02.000
saying that, are you a coward? Dad? Yeah? Whaddy? Are

1219
01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:06.880
you a coward? Daddy? I
heard you're a coward. You know,

1220
01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:11.399
it's still sticking with me. Like
part one, when Vince got in Ashley's

1221
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:14.720
face, he let a little that
North Carolina out and he goes, you

1222
01:32:14.760 --> 01:32:19.600
go, Crayra, Can you imagine
you know how like people that get the

1223
01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:23.520
Boston exent out of their system,
it comes back and they're drunk. Yeah.

1224
01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:27.079
Picture like Vince, like everyone knows, like when he's mad, and

1225
01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.439
yeah, all he's done is try
to get rid of that fucking any essence

1226
01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:33.560
of that. I mean he comes
in when he's screaming at you. Yes,

1227
01:32:34.119 --> 01:32:41.159
because it brings him back to Leo
Lupton. Yeah, yep, yep,

1228
01:32:41.279 --> 01:32:45.239
depth, the depth of depravity.
He gets all Leo on people,

1229
01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:51.479
le you? Is that what you're
asking of me? Are you saying,

1230
01:32:51.560 --> 01:32:58.479
Vince? I want you to go
all Leo on me? Because I will

1231
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:06.399
break you down? Wow, just
like I was broken down. Oh I

1232
01:33:06.479 --> 01:33:12.199
will go there and I will destroy
you like I was destroyed. Oh,

1233
01:33:13.800 --> 01:33:15.159
boss, hear all of a sudden, you're electrifying me. I wasn't ready

1234
01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:21.920
for this at all. Should have
known it was coming up. He's bubbling

1235
01:33:21.960 --> 01:33:26.680
out of the surface for weeks,
you know, lapsed. Funk wallpapered it

1236
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:30.640
over, Virgil wallpapered it over.
We had all these reasons to not let

1237
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:35.960
it show through. But April seventh
is coming too fast, not fast enough.

1238
01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:40.039
So why do a chance? Earlly
jbl with a resting bitch face?

1239
01:33:40.079 --> 01:33:43.960
But what else is new? Lawl
are standing up for Jericho. He's got

1240
01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:53.279
such a fucking weird ass faced gibble. Like the picture is like it's like

1241
01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:58.680
it's like somewhere along the way it
got deformed, you know, like you

1242
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:02.479
look at you look at him as
Bradshaw, and you know, a p

1243
01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:05.479
a Bradshaw and he's like, okay, you know obviously you got the the

1244
01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:11.439
dyed hair. But he looks like
kind of a normal big hoss kind of

1245
01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:16.079
person. But as Gibble, he
just like there's something like his eyes are

1246
01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:23.680
like his eyelids are like a little
twitchy, lazy, lazy eyelids, and

1247
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:27.880
ship like he just takes out his
incredulous face when he's looking at like what

1248
01:34:28.159 --> 01:34:31.239
what do you mean? What's not
supposed to make face? Like right now,

1249
01:34:33.960 --> 01:34:39.560
like pretending pretending to be a good
guy and then like completely humiliating you

1250
01:34:40.039 --> 01:34:43.199
of course, like you're only a
good guy to him if you can give

1251
01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:51.199
him something, just trash because he's
a New York stockbroker king. So here's

1252
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:56.520
Jay Jerry Lawler standing up for Jericho
for the unfounded comments that JBL made about

1253
01:34:56.600 --> 01:34:58.600
him. Hey, what happened to
my heel? Announcer? By the way,

1254
01:34:59.000 --> 01:35:01.960
not not this, not this Jerry
Lawler. Nope, post like the

1255
01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:04.760
whole announced booth, all three brands, they don't have a heel among them.

1256
01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:09.560
I do want to say, I'm
trying to remember when when Lawler like

1257
01:35:09.680 --> 01:35:15.800
it really started at maybe like two
thousand five or six, like he started

1258
01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:19.000
really shedding the heel. It's just
like a regular guy, and it's so

1259
01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:26.800
listen. I'm not I'm not a
huge fan of Jerry Lawler as a heel

1260
01:35:26.840 --> 01:35:30.439
commentator eat anyway, but I'll take
it rather than this fucking passive shit.

1261
01:35:30.479 --> 01:35:33.920
Yeah's such a wasted opportunity to not
have a heel on the call. Yeah,

1262
01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:38.119
it's awful. So they lock up
several times. Jericho fires off a

1263
01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:41.960
flying form and takes JBL down and
starts punching away again, showing that kind

1264
01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:45.079
of street fighting, tough streak kind
of thing. JBL tries a short arm

1265
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:48.119
clothesline. It's ducked. Jericho goes
to the walls, but JBL gets to

1266
01:35:48.159 --> 01:35:51.640
the ropes. You were going for
the lariat from Purgatory? Is that what

1267
01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:58.319
it was? Yes, Purgatory,
the clothes line from Hell. Oh my

1268
01:35:58.479 --> 01:36:02.159
god, lariot from Gatory. It's
fucking I couldn't it couldn't be. It

1269
01:36:02.279 --> 01:36:05.319
changed like the clothes line from Wall
Street or something like clothes line from Hell.

1270
01:36:05.439 --> 01:36:11.439
Like you're you're not associated with you
see a difference. I don't.

1271
01:36:11.520 --> 01:36:13.760
I don't, but that I think
that would have been funny though, because

1272
01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:19.920
like he's not associated with the there's
no ministry anymore, there's no you know,

1273
01:36:20.319 --> 01:36:24.359
like that was the whole idea that
clothes line from Hell came from him

1274
01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:30.760
being part of the Undertaker's thing,
and it's like now it's just close line

1275
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:35.039
from Hell. Yeah, with with
this goof it's true your cowboy like he

1276
01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:40.239
should be. It should be the
the million the million dollar clothes line,

1277
01:36:40.319 --> 01:36:44.199
like the million Dollar Dream or the
clothes line from from Wall Street. I

1278
01:36:44.199 --> 01:36:45.760
think would be really funny. I
think I think the fact that it's not

1279
01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:49.479
that it's so wordy and chunky,
I think that makes it better. You

1280
01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:59.760
should have called it like the Reservations
of Peter Luger's clothesline or something resient carbones

1281
01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:09.079
so JB. JBL notes No Jr. Notes JBL severe back problems coming into

1282
01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:11.399
the match, which led to all
that heaviness. He pretty much had a

1283
01:37:11.600 --> 01:37:15.479
retired after losing to Mysterio at WrestleMania
twenty three. It was a shock.

1284
01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:17.880
It was a shock to see him
back in the ring because he was he

1285
01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:21.760
was just an announcer right up until
up until he screwed Jericho out of the

1286
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:26.000
belt. So White to j the
baseball slide out and on the floor.

1287
01:37:26.119 --> 01:37:31.680
JR. Says JBL was not safe
at second With that one. JR calls

1288
01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:41.079
Gibble the millionaire maller a few times. I don't remember that nickname, and

1289
01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:45.960
I wish i'd never heard it so
I could forget it again. The millionaire

1290
01:37:46.039 --> 01:37:50.600
maller, by the way, yes, also in attendance for the first Nitro

1291
01:37:50.760 --> 01:38:02.520
he owned the place. Would that
make Vince McMahon the billionaire brawler, I

1292
01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:11.000
don't know, but it would make
Vader the millionaire mall developer. I mean,

1293
01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:15.800
you could have Deebs in WCW.
You could be the trillionaire troller maybe,

1294
01:38:17.279 --> 01:38:25.399
but Paulbero is a millionaire paller.
I mean, it's all there.

1295
01:38:25.439 --> 01:38:28.960
I mean, that's what we're trying
to say. For some reason, the

1296
01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:31.239
top foam strip of the guardrail is
peeled off. I don't know who did

1297
01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:34.520
this, but it's hanging there.
As they hit the floor. Back in,

1298
01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:39.960
Jericho charges and gets hot shotted throat
first across the top rope the laryx.

1299
01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:44.039
As they say, of course,
Jericho had been damaged. The laryix

1300
01:38:44.319 --> 01:38:47.560
short on clothesline by JBL. Here's
the millionaire maller line. You talked about

1301
01:38:48.359 --> 01:38:54.640
awful. We love psychology that calls
back to moments when body parts were softened,

1302
01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:58.840
don't we as wrestling fans, absolutely
there's necessary. We like when body

1303
01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:01.720
parts are softened but not broken.
No, exactly exactly. We like to

1304
01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:06.039
know that that there is a chink
in the armor. Right. You know

1305
01:39:06.640 --> 01:39:10.560
JB puts a sleeper on j R. Sis jbl as well, you guessed

1306
01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:15.079
it, dictating the pace. Take
a shot, yeah and pace yourself.

1307
01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:17.680
Let me tell you, Yeah,
that's right. I think Jan went to

1308
01:39:17.680 --> 01:39:30.359
Pace University and in his favorite salsa
is pace. That's probably true, and

1309
01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:39.680
is his second favorite sport is pasteball. Oh that's sun. I can picture

1310
01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:44.560
j R. Scooping salsa on a
tortilla ship and just loading it into his

1311
01:39:44.680 --> 01:39:47.840
face. But you know, it's
not like it's it's it's crappy salsa.

1312
01:39:47.960 --> 01:39:51.520
He loves crapp does. He likes
it to taste like ketchup almost. Yeah.

1313
01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:57.159
He doesn't like you know, he
doesn't like authentic like restaurant style salsa.

1314
01:39:57.239 --> 01:40:02.680
He likes just plain old tostitos with
with like you know, chunky pay

1315
01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:08.720
salsa. You know that's it.
His pecante sauce, right, and then

1316
01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:13.560
a fucking blunt besides the out of
a jar. He like scoops it out

1317
01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:16.880
of a jar. Oh, and
then a blunt the size of a traffic

1318
01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:19.720
come. Yeah, he's got that
like hanging out of the corner of his

1319
01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:28.800
mouth and he slides in fucking chips
with salsa and his his lips in a

1320
01:40:28.920 --> 01:40:33.000
desperate attempt not to drop the fucking
the fucking blunt, just like they push

1321
01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:38.600
off so much of the tomato and
and the salsa all over his his his

1322
01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:42.000
shirt when Jim gets the munchies.
They got to go to uber x on

1323
01:40:42.079 --> 01:40:46.199
the door dash because you can't it
can't fit it at a standards of Dan

1324
01:40:46.560 --> 01:40:53.199
I don't know. And it's it's
like you know, and and he and

1325
01:40:53.359 --> 01:41:00.199
he needs it, he needs it
yesterday about Jr. He like he way

1326
01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:03.800
too late. Do you picture living
in an apartment like Matt Damon lives in

1327
01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:10.439
and The Departed? No, it's
way too nice. Okay, I picture

1328
01:41:10.439 --> 01:41:15.279
it more like actually the the girlfriend's
apartment. Okay, that's a good one.

1329
01:41:15.359 --> 01:41:18.279
Yeah, or like where the genius
lived when he sent us that cameo.

1330
01:41:18.680 --> 01:41:23.199
Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah,
yeah, like tope with wal to

1331
01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:29.159
wall. That's where JR lives.
And you know he's got like a he's

1332
01:41:29.199 --> 01:41:33.239
got like a you know, like
a small little living room setup. You

1333
01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:38.039
know, he's got a chair,
He's got his chair and like you know

1334
01:41:38.520 --> 01:41:41.640
a deck that he knit. It
is like loaded with fucking storage shit.

1335
01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:49.239
Yeah, his chair like so judging. You know, his chair, it's

1336
01:41:49.319 --> 01:41:56.279
awesome. You know if you sit
in his chair, Jericho while in the

1337
01:41:56.319 --> 01:42:00.840
sleeper and I shit you not,
JR says, fights back up to verticality

1338
01:42:04.520 --> 01:42:10.119
as he knocks down JB with a
forearm clothesline. Thing. One more thing

1339
01:42:10.159 --> 01:42:16.920
about about Jr's apartment. The wall
to wall is just soaked in pot smoke,

1340
01:42:19.239 --> 01:42:23.760
Like you can't you you could never, like I think of he rips,

1341
01:42:23.800 --> 01:42:27.239
butts do he does? He really
smoking on his podcast? Yeah?

1342
01:42:27.239 --> 01:42:30.600
Are you used to at least no
ship ripping. But I didn't know.

1343
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.560
I didn't know he did that.
I uh, because I imagine it's smelling

1344
01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:42.720
like the the the oak Woods apartment
that build them Ott and I shared in

1345
01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:50.640
and you met build him out last
week on the program and he and he

1346
01:42:50.720 --> 01:42:54.680
and I like, I think I
told this before, but I'll say it

1347
01:42:54.720 --> 01:43:00.680
again. He and I would we
so we when we lived in this place,

1348
01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:05.119
we first went to LA for the
Emerson LA program. We we started

1349
01:43:05.159 --> 01:43:09.800
off smoking outside. We had like
a little patio area, right Yah,

1350
01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:13.520
started smoking out there, you know, and being very respectful. And then

1351
01:43:13.560 --> 01:43:15.960
as time went on, it was
like, all right, we'll just we'll

1352
01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:23.279
smoke inside, and we'll just we'll
keep the window. We'll keep the window

1353
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:26.000
open at least so like you'll air
out. Yeah, And then at some

1354
01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:31.600
point it just stopped. A closed
window, just smoking galore. Oh so

1355
01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:38.479
bad. We had we had uh, we didn't have an ash tray.

1356
01:43:39.880 --> 01:43:45.680
So what we would what we would
use is we would have a paper or

1357
01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:50.399
a plastic cup, okay, and
we'd put like a little bit of like

1358
01:43:50.720 --> 01:43:55.760
water at the beginning and the bottom
so that you just throw it in there

1359
01:43:55.800 --> 01:44:00.880
and it goes out. But at
some point we were just so fucking like,

1360
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:05.000
it's disgusting, amazing how lazy you
could be at that age. Yes,

1361
01:44:05.479 --> 01:44:13.119
we're just so fucking lazy that the
cigarette butts would pile up, Yes,

1362
01:44:13.279 --> 01:44:17.760
yes they would. So we'd have
like maybe think about like a mountain.

1363
01:44:18.039 --> 01:44:21.079
Look, they've got to be they've
got to be emptied. But today

1364
01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:25.039
is today really the day. I
really need to do it today, so

1365
01:44:25.079 --> 01:44:29.600
I need to get up and move
fifteen feet. Oh fucking don't. And

1366
01:44:29.840 --> 01:44:32.920
and and it was like you're probably
like two inches above the rim of the

1367
01:44:33.119 --> 01:44:38.079
uh of of of the cup.
And it was just like, oh,

1368
01:44:38.319 --> 01:44:43.760
man, I mean we yeah,
it was bad. It was bad,

1369
01:44:44.880 --> 01:44:48.880
and we uh And I remember a
year later, I was at a get

1370
01:44:49.000 --> 01:45:00.399
together and somebody overheard my name being
spoken and they were They were Emerson's students

1371
01:45:00.479 --> 01:45:04.000
at the LA program a year after
I was there, and they knew who

1372
01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:08.479
I was. And I said,
did you live You lived in this We

1373
01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:12.600
live in your apartment at the Oak
Woods And I said how fuck do you

1374
01:45:12.680 --> 01:45:15.479
know where I lived? And they
said, well, because we get your

1375
01:45:15.600 --> 01:45:25.239
Entertainment weekly the magazine was still coming
there and and and they said, the

1376
01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:30.039
the apartment smells. It's atrocious.
It's absolutely awful. Like what did you

1377
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:34.199
do? Oh, it's in the
fibers, honey, I hate to tell

1378
01:45:34.239 --> 01:45:38.960
you. It's in all the furniture, like the you know, like like

1379
01:45:39.039 --> 01:45:44.960
cause we just fucking sit on the
furniture on on on couches and just smoke

1380
01:45:45.039 --> 01:45:50.279
cigarettes. Like what is this nineteen
eighty two? Seriously wal' to wall carpeting,

1381
01:45:51.000 --> 01:45:55.079
all right, just what I mean? Oh, it was awful.

1382
01:45:55.600 --> 01:45:59.159
It's funny. You got Entertainment weekly. I got the Observer Sports Entertainment Weekly

1383
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:08.399
exactly. So there's that. Oh
Jesus Christ. Yeah. Like I saw

1384
01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:12.000
like an address list for myself one
time, and and because of the Observer,

1385
01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:15.800
there it was my fucking po box
at on campus. You know,

1386
01:46:15.840 --> 01:46:19.000
we used to have those little like
individual mailbox addresses as Oh my god.

1387
01:46:19.159 --> 01:46:21.720
Of course I must have talked about
this before, but I used to get

1388
01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:27.119
so stressed out because sometimes it would
come a week late, sometimes it wouldn't,

1389
01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:31.199
and sometimes sometimes it would be put
in the wrong box and it'd be

1390
01:46:31.239 --> 01:46:35.359
one you know. I remember one
time our pal Danny Eggsam slipped it under

1391
01:46:35.399 --> 01:46:40.960
my door and what a day that
was, Oh my god. But other

1392
01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:43.760
because kids would load the mailbox and
they could give a fuck. You just

1393
01:46:43.880 --> 01:46:47.239
mentioned how lazy they were, yeah, and it was like where is it?

1394
01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:49.600
Like you don't understand where is it? And I used to go there

1395
01:46:49.680 --> 01:46:55.399
with baited breath to open that thing, this little small gold box you know,

1396
01:46:56.000 --> 01:46:59.600
couldn't be any bigger than you know, your hands. It's a po

1397
01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:02.359
box, you know, it's like, yeah, it'd open it and there

1398
01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:09.600
there was that white like folded over
a little ye gift for me so I

1399
01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:14.039
could stay connected. So nervous,
so nervous because there had been weeks.

1400
01:47:14.079 --> 01:47:16.159
I just didn't get it, and
Dave was kind enough to email it to

1401
01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:17.960
me. But I didn't want to
be that guy. And now you know

1402
01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:21.039
me, I wanted that paper copy. Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't

1403
01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:25.640
know he did that. Yeah,
yeah, he would do customer service for

1404
01:47:25.760 --> 01:47:29.560
sure. I hope he did it
for everybody. I had a unique challenge

1405
01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:32.000
because it was such an unpreftable mail
situation. And then you'd have breaks,

1406
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:34.880
Right, you have a month where
you're not there, and like how do

1407
01:47:34.920 --> 01:47:38.359
you get it to come to the
house. That was a big shenanigan.

1408
01:47:38.760 --> 01:47:41.399
You have to do like a change
of address for a while. Yeah.

1409
01:47:41.520 --> 01:47:43.199
Yeah, I would tell him like, can you please send it here for

1410
01:47:43.239 --> 01:47:45.640
the next few weeks? And oh
my, I mean high stakes because you

1411
01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:48.720
know how seriously I took that shit. I was like a monk, look

1412
01:47:48.800 --> 01:47:54.199
it's it's it was right. It
was like reading the Bible really was like

1413
01:47:54.279 --> 01:47:59.640
translating the Bible or like reproducing it, you know, reading eighty five thousand

1414
01:47:59.680 --> 01:48:04.439
words text. So Jericho fights back
up to verticality. I think we've established

1415
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:09.119
that, yes, Knox downd JR
with a forum closeline deal, and they're

1416
01:48:09.159 --> 01:48:13.039
just gabbermouths calling out spots at this
point. I know, maybe because it's

1417
01:48:13.199 --> 01:48:16.279
HD, maybe HD somehow picked it
up more clearly. JBL gets the big

1418
01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:19.119
boot up, and JBL gets the
big boot up, and JR says and

1419
01:48:19.199 --> 01:48:25.359
I quote, and perhaps the wrestling
side of this confrontation will begin to disintegrate

1420
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:30.600
with the emotional level that these two
men have come to Madison Square Garden here

1421
01:48:30.680 --> 01:48:35.880
tonight. I want to repeat that, perhaps the wrestling side of this confrontation

1422
01:48:36.039 --> 01:48:41.560
will begin to disintegrate with the emotional
level that these two men have come to

1423
01:48:41.640 --> 01:48:46.439
Madison Square Garden here tonight. Poetry, it's pure poetry. That's one way

1424
01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:49.960
to say that they're now wrestling a
little harder than they were a minute ago.

1425
01:48:51.800 --> 01:48:56.199
JBL throws Jericho's shoulder first into the
post, and Jericho, what does

1426
01:48:56.199 --> 01:48:57.920
he do? Boss? You know, there's a couple of things you can

1427
01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:00.279
do right to leave an impression in
the garden. You can, you know,

1428
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:04.359
put put superhuman strength on display,
like Bruto sim Martino. You can

1429
01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:09.439
absolutely razzle dazzle the crowd like Hulkogt
in eighty four, as we talked about

1430
01:49:09.520 --> 01:49:12.399
not too long ago. Or you
can do what men do, or you

1431
01:49:12.439 --> 01:49:15.640
can do it Chris Jericho did on
this night. Why don't you tell people

1432
01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:30.319
what it was? Ladies and gentlemen, we have color. He ran the

1433
01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:33.600
fucking razor. I'm surprised to see
color in two thousand and eight. Really,

1434
01:49:34.399 --> 01:49:39.039
this is the first h D blade
jobs. It absolutely is holy shit,

1435
01:49:39.399 --> 01:49:45.399
Wow, so Jericho gets color and
h you know what, what is

1436
01:49:45.479 --> 01:49:50.079
someone too? It's dripping color too? Yeah, it really was was intense

1437
01:49:50.119 --> 01:49:55.359
blade job. Fucking it's not just
you know a little you can tell they

1438
01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:58.720
were going for like the Jericho Austin
moment right where he like fights through the

1439
01:49:58.760 --> 01:50:01.279
blood and you realize he sacks a
bad ass. They're going for that,

1440
01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:05.199
I feel like, But just as
at a sideboss. What is someone who

1441
01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:15.960
says mean streaks and JBL have in
common? What they both have pronounced mean

1442
01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:28.479
streaks? Huh? Any thoughts?
Uh? No? I agree? I

1443
01:50:28.560 --> 01:50:35.159
guess Jericho with the blood on the
chest mood a scale blood almost is JBL

1444
01:50:35.159 --> 01:50:38.640
works him over in the corner.
But then he starts firing out with those

1445
01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:41.359
shots, and Jericho's going off and
they're trying to show him, you know,

1446
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:45.119
being like one of those fiery baby
faces, and then they they cut

1447
01:50:45.199 --> 01:50:49.039
to something and there's a lot of
booze and you realize something. I'm messed

1448
01:50:49.079 --> 01:50:51.079
up and we're going to tell you
what it is here in just a minute.

1449
01:50:53.000 --> 01:50:56.399
But very sneaky with the peacock edits, I have to say, very

1450
01:50:56.520 --> 01:50:59.680
fucking sneaky. I would love to
still have the old network to see if

1451
01:50:59.680 --> 01:51:03.199
they did it there. And I
said I wasn't able to get my hands

1452
01:51:03.199 --> 01:51:05.640
on an original broadcast copy of the
show. I didn't think it would be

1453
01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:10.720
very necessary. But they're sneaky little
fucks, and there's a whole bunch of

1454
01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:13.199
stuff I think that people on DVD. I wonder if you could have got

1455
01:51:13.279 --> 01:51:15.720
in DVD. That's a good one. But you know, who's to say

1456
01:51:15.720 --> 01:51:17.680
they wouldn't have edited off that as
well. I don't know for sure.

1457
01:51:18.600 --> 01:51:21.680
I mean, yeah, true me
what it is first, and then I'll

1458
01:51:21.680 --> 01:51:24.840
tell you every was because all of
a sudden, there's like a gem cut

1459
01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:30.079
and they're screaming, you fucked up? Oh you can't see why Jericho with

1460
01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:32.319
the lion scored and he saw it. He scores but comes up a little

1461
01:51:32.359 --> 01:51:35.840
loopy. And then there's a double
clothes line as both spill up over the

1462
01:51:36.399 --> 01:51:40.720
ropes to the floor, and and
and let me tell you this, and

1463
01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:46.119
Jericho is able to get to his
feet pretty quickly, and Laller Lawler has

1464
01:51:46.199 --> 01:51:56.319
this to say, go ahead,
how old was he? I'm not going

1465
01:51:56.359 --> 01:52:00.239
to say Jerico was old by any
means, but he was thirty seven.

1466
01:52:02.039 --> 01:52:09.520
Play the clip. Play the clip
again. I this young guy. Not

1467
01:52:09.680 --> 01:52:16.239
to mention he's already had a fourteen
year career minimum. Young guy, young

1468
01:52:16.319 --> 01:52:19.960
guy, thirty seven, thirty seven
year old guy. But he cut his

1469
01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:23.279
short. He cut his hair short. So you're nice. Nice, that

1470
01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:27.800
buys you a decade. Fucking uh
uh Marcus Bagwell, Rookie of the year,

1471
01:52:27.840 --> 01:52:31.880
fifteen years old. Oh my god, young guy, young guy,

1472
01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:38.279
because you want him to be.
JBL slams Jericho hard into a desk at

1473
01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:43.920
ringside, but on the Joey Styles
ECW table and there's blood splatter on it

1474
01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:46.960
now and JBL turns around and wham. As soon as he does, Jericho

1475
01:52:47.199 --> 01:52:50.880
fucking kills this guy with a chair
shot to the head. He waffles him

1476
01:52:51.039 --> 01:53:00.199
like this is post Benoir. Yeah, huh and and yeah, I'm not

1477
01:53:00.279 --> 01:53:01.720
sure it was post he had the
brain of an eighty three year old,

1478
01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:06.640
though, I still I mean,
but even what happens next, I mean,

1479
01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:12.760
he fucking grabs an electric cable and
chokes JBL like he's Nancy. Oh,

1480
01:53:14.520 --> 01:53:17.119
Like I remember they stopped doing that
for a while. Yeah, I'm

1481
01:53:17.159 --> 01:53:20.640
sure they did, and they eventually
stopped doing chair shots to the head,

1482
01:53:20.680 --> 01:53:25.239
but I guess it wasn't right away. Do you remember too? You know

1483
01:53:25.319 --> 01:53:32.439
one thing that I forgot until just
now that they obviously banned the crippler cross

1484
01:53:32.479 --> 01:53:39.079
face. Yeah, but then at
Survivor series when Michael's face Orton. This

1485
01:53:39.199 --> 01:53:41.560
is how I know. I remember
we were together watching this because you and

1486
01:53:41.680 --> 01:53:46.920
I were both shocked. Yet when
Sewn Michaels did the cross face on Orton,

1487
01:53:47.600 --> 01:53:53.199
this is like, oh seven,
that was O seven? Oh what

1488
01:53:53.399 --> 01:53:58.279
is months after it happened, and
they after and all, not only that,

1489
01:53:58.399 --> 01:54:08.239
but after a specific that they said
they banned it m really really awful

1490
01:54:08.279 --> 01:54:11.039
stuff. They couldn't handle it.
They couldn't help themselves. I mean,

1491
01:54:11.079 --> 01:54:15.239
you got to realize, like they
did. They did Randy Orton driving dead

1492
01:54:15.359 --> 01:54:21.720
Eddie Guerrero's low rider into the into
the set and blowing it up like a

1493
01:54:21.800 --> 01:54:26.720
month after he died. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, okay a fuck.

1494
01:54:26.960 --> 01:54:33.840
They had his widow as like a
heel within months on TV. Jericho's standing

1495
01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:38.479
there with the blood flowing mouth open, jumps. JBL gets back in and

1496
01:54:38.560 --> 01:54:41.439
he throws the chair. JBL gets
back in the ring, and Jericho throws

1497
01:54:41.439 --> 01:54:45.640
a chair from the apronto JBL's head
and donks him. Starts throwing some punches

1498
01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:46.840
and fishes out of TV cable and
they pop for that. And yeah,

1499
01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:50.840
like you said, he wraps the
cable around JBL's throat. He jumps over

1500
01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:55.720
the top rope and then he stands
on the UCW table and yanks on the

1501
01:54:55.800 --> 01:55:00.960
cord with JBL still in the ring. Tri murder, Tricia Murderer. Yeah

1502
01:55:01.159 --> 01:55:11.079
right, I mean it's not unlike
the you know, the exertion described with

1503
01:55:11.239 --> 01:55:17.279
Ben Want or the sun m months
months later. Vince is obsessed with it.

1504
01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:23.199
Yep, that's my conclusion. Yep. And Jared put even what are

1505
01:55:23.239 --> 01:55:26.920
we talking about? What happened in
July two thousand and seven. I know

1506
01:55:27.079 --> 01:55:30.880
it was it June, late late
June. We're talking less than like we're

1507
01:55:30.880 --> 01:55:36.880
talking basically a half year later.
Come on, now, a lot of

1508
01:55:36.960 --> 01:55:42.199
darkness, friends, a lot of
darkness. So Jericho makes off with a

1509
01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:45.560
bloody scowl up the aisleway and Jared
says, don't talk to it man's children.

1510
01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:49.520
And on this night jbl played paid
the supreme price. So what was

1511
01:55:49.520 --> 01:55:51.960
the booing all about? What was
the U fucked up all about? What

1512
01:55:53.159 --> 01:55:55.319
was the booing? Please tell me? Turned to the best in the world

1513
01:55:55.359 --> 01:55:58.600
at what? I have no idea
Jericho's book. I had initially wanted to

1514
01:55:58.600 --> 01:56:00.000
come back as a heel, but
Stephanie mc man was convinced that since I

1515
01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:02.800
didn't been around for a while,
people wouldn't want to cheer for me for

1516
01:56:02.800 --> 01:56:04.880
a few weeks. She was right, but the bloom was fading off,

1517
01:56:04.960 --> 01:56:08.439
the baby face rose, and I
knew it'd have to make a change quickly

1518
01:56:08.439 --> 01:56:10.760
if I had any chance of staying
relevant. For now, I was still

1519
01:56:10.760 --> 01:56:13.479
waving the good guy flagon and Randy
Orton. I had a great heal to

1520
01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:15.199
work with a army Geddon in Pittsburgh. That's the match we were just talking

1521
01:56:15.239 --> 01:56:18.239
about. There. He's an amazing
worker. In his timing, selling,

1522
01:56:18.319 --> 01:56:21.199
ara, and believability are all off
the charts. Plus with the RKO,

1523
01:56:21.279 --> 01:56:24.800
he has one of the best finishers
in the biz. He helped me knock

1524
01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:27.359
the rest of the ring rust off
pretty quickly that day, and we had

1525
01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:30.319
a good match despite a dead Pittsburgh
crowd. I was starting to feel comfortable

1526
01:56:30.359 --> 01:56:32.479
in the ring again and hit all
my patent moves with crispness, crossbody to

1527
01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:35.079
the floor, second rope, prop
kick to the apron in ziguri, and

1528
01:56:35.159 --> 01:56:39.199
my brand new codebreaker. Toward the
end, he threw me over the announced

1529
01:56:39.199 --> 01:56:42.520
desk and to commentator John Bradshaw,
Layfield and the former world champion who decided

1530
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:45.199
to make an in ring comeback a
few minutes later. This is what we

1531
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:46.800
were also talking about when I had
Randy lock on the walls of Jericho in

1532
01:56:46.840 --> 01:56:49.000
the middle of the ring, JBL
ran in and gave me this wicked clothes

1533
01:56:49.039 --> 01:56:51.520
line from how Orton was disqualified.
I got the win. More important,

1534
01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:55.640
this was the start of the White
two j vers JBL program that was going

1535
01:56:55.680 --> 01:56:58.000
to take us to wrestle Mania.
But something funny happened on the way to

1536
01:56:58.039 --> 01:57:00.399
the Forum, or in this case, the Mania Stadium. I'm not sure

1537
01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:02.840
why our program didn't click and John
and me you had two excellent talkers who

1538
01:57:02.880 --> 01:57:05.079
knew how to build a match and
had good Kevin's street in the ring before

1539
01:57:05.079 --> 01:57:09.279
whatever reason, our feud never took
off. Maybe it was because we had

1540
01:57:09.279 --> 01:57:12.119
both just returned, or the lack
of a real issue between us, But

1541
01:57:12.199 --> 01:57:15.000
the bottom line was we only had
enough steam to last through one pay per

1542
01:57:15.079 --> 01:57:17.760
view, the Royal Rumblind Madison Square
Garden. It was a largely forgettable match.

1543
01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:21.680
Would the only two highlights be me
getting majorly busted open and ah the

1544
01:57:21.800 --> 01:57:28.279
days of blood and missing jbl completely
on a bulldog attempt? Oh no,

1545
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:31.840
he bumped anyway, leading to a
huge you fucked up chant from the crowd,

1546
01:57:31.920 --> 01:57:35.920
still the most embarrassing chant to endure
as a performer. Afterward, I

1547
01:57:35.960 --> 01:57:39.880
asked Vince what he thought, and
he said, well, you lost the

1548
01:57:39.920 --> 01:57:44.039
crowd on that bulldog, didn't you. Oh that was pretty rotten. I

1549
01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:47.439
mean, I'll tell you Christ you
know what, and the crowd is that

1550
01:57:47.600 --> 01:57:51.720
you fucked up. I mean I
have to go back. Joe tell Rouman

1551
01:57:51.760 --> 01:57:56.359
think about that. Fol I think
what you should do right now is you

1552
01:57:56.439 --> 01:58:00.439
don't take a flight home and consider
you're a future did you do if you

1553
01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:02.640
were me? I mean, do
you think that the position you've put me

1554
01:58:02.720 --> 01:58:06.640
in now? I mean again in
you, Chris, I think you've been

1555
01:58:06.760 --> 01:58:13.279
selfish tonight by allowing yourself to make
an error of such a large capacity.

1556
01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:18.039
I mean, what is it exactly
that you want for me? Now?

1557
01:58:18.119 --> 01:58:20.319
What is it exactly that you plan
to do to make it up to me?

1558
01:58:20.399 --> 01:58:23.960
Chris? I mean the thing is, can you make it up to

1559
01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:28.039
me? Or? Really? Did
I make a huge error? Did I

1560
01:58:28.159 --> 01:58:32.680
fuck up myself by bringing you back? That's a conclusion you want me to

1561
01:58:32.720 --> 01:58:38.680
reach, Chris. I mean I
would like you to go home, you

1562
01:58:38.760 --> 01:58:41.720
know, maybe mull it over with
your wife and decide exactly what it is

1563
01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:49.239
you want to do on Monday because
he missed a bulldog. And I'll tell

1564
01:58:49.239 --> 01:58:56.199
you what to make it extremely easy
for you. Yep, I will let

1565
01:58:56.279 --> 01:59:00.600
you know that this morning, before
I came to the arena, I went

1566
01:59:00.680 --> 01:59:08.000
to your house and I fornicated with
your wife. So how do you like

1567
01:59:08.079 --> 01:59:14.439
that? Why don't you make a
decision as to where it is your future

1568
01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:19.479
lives? Because I know what's in
my future, and that's another illegitimate child

1569
01:59:19.560 --> 01:59:31.359
from your wife. Talk about zero
to sixty. I get this guy in

1570
01:59:31.479 --> 01:59:36.840
a levy. Any progressive punishment ever? Is it always? Wait a minute,

1571
01:59:36.840 --> 01:59:40.880
He hadn't he hadn't fucked the bulldog
up yet, and you took a

1572
01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:45.800
flight down in Tampa and closed the
deal with whatever her name is, something

1573
01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:54.000
Irvine. Don't look at the Twitter
brother. After that, I stopped asking

1574
01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:59.279
Vince what he thought of my matches
for a while. He said it was

1575
01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:01.359
deja vol over again. When I
first arrived in w W ninety nine,

1576
02:00:01.359 --> 02:00:03.840
I had a massive build up and
a legendary feud with the Rock, but

1577
02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:06.880
a scant few months later I was
feuding with China and losing to Gangrail on

1578
02:00:06.960 --> 02:00:11.319
Sunday Night Heat. This time I
returned with another massive build up top of

1579
02:00:11.319 --> 02:00:14.439
the Mountain, big money contract,
a verbal duel with the world Champion,

1580
02:00:14.760 --> 02:00:17.079
but a scant few months later I
was getting you fucked up Chance and Madison

1581
02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:20.760
Square Garden against a recently returned former
commentator. As a wise man once said

1582
02:00:20.840 --> 02:00:25.079
enough was enough and it was time
for a change Wow. After the Lesson

1583
02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:29.079
Classic MSG match, the program with
JBL was scrapped, leaving me directionless.

1584
02:00:29.279 --> 02:00:31.520
I pinned him quickly the next month
in an elimination chamber match before getting eliminated

1585
02:00:31.600 --> 02:00:33.640
myself, and that at WrestleMania twenty
four, I was one of the eight

1586
02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:35.960
guys and the money in the bank
match. That don't get me wrong,

1587
02:00:36.479 --> 02:00:40.880
Money the bank matches are always fun. How I co created the damn thing,

1588
02:00:41.119 --> 02:00:43.600
but to be in one at WrestleMania
means you have no relevant angle to

1589
02:00:43.640 --> 02:00:49.479
speak of. It was almost busy
work. So that's there's a bit of

1590
02:00:49.520 --> 02:00:51.840
a career crossroads here. Who knew
what the two thousand and eight Rumble for.

1591
02:00:53.279 --> 02:00:56.720
It makes sense though, actually,
honestly, given the change that he

1592
02:00:56.880 --> 02:01:04.119
did have. I remember two when
he won in he somewhere sometime between some

1593
02:01:04.399 --> 02:01:11.880
raw between between the Rumble and WrestleMania, he won the intercom Meal title again,

1594
02:01:12.840 --> 02:01:15.119
and it was just like, ah, he's back to where he was.

1595
02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:17.359
Yep, totally, I remember that. He's just back to where he

1596
02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:23.359
was. He can't do it,
They can't go with him. I was

1597
02:01:23.439 --> 02:01:27.560
so depressed. They had such a
problem with that for so long. Yeah,

1598
02:01:27.800 --> 02:01:30.680
we did. They'd be funny to
go up to Jericho Nanograft signing with

1599
02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.279
a shirt that says, well,
you lost the crowd on that bulldog.

1600
02:01:33.319 --> 02:01:39.399
Didn't you would be amazing? I
get it. So the music fades and

1601
02:01:39.439 --> 02:01:45.079
JBL's out on the mat anyway,
just like just just like the uh the

1602
02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:50.800
uh you know, just black shirt
with the white lettering. Right, oh

1603
02:01:50.920 --> 02:01:55.239
yeah, as as plain as can
be. Make it very clear to him

1604
02:01:55.279 --> 02:01:59.079
that this shirt was only made the
highlight that the statement was once made,

1605
02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:04.720
not not for design purposes. Well, you sure lost the crowd. Well

1606
02:02:05.399 --> 02:02:10.119
you lost the crowd on that bulldog, didn't you. Well, you lost

1607
02:02:10.239 --> 02:02:15.159
the crowd. I'm that bulldog,
didn't you? Comma comma didn't you?

1608
02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:18.000
Yes, And then he says that
was pretty rotten, but that might make

1609
02:02:18.000 --> 02:02:23.960
the shirt to wardy oh, and
there's a comm after well, just saying

1610
02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:28.720
so. The music phades and JBL's
on the mat and Lily and Garcia announces

1611
02:02:28.720 --> 02:02:31.359
the winner of this by his qualification
is John Bradshaw Layfield and they boo so.

1612
02:02:31.479 --> 02:02:34.119
In nine twenty three, nine minutes
and twenty three seconds, John Bradshaw

1613
02:02:34.159 --> 02:02:39.439
Leyfield defeats Christjiericho on the back it
should say that that was pretty rotten.

1614
02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:44.960
Hey, it's good. I think
that's good. It's our Royal Rumble two

1615
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:47.800
thousand and eight collection. That's right, who doesn't have a Royal Rumble?

1616
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:53.079
Two thousand and eight collection, Oh
God, oh no, Cut to the

1617
02:02:53.159 --> 02:03:00.079
back. Ashley Masarrow, Ashley Masara, Ah, I just I just I

1618
02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:08.560
feel her pain. I feel her
pain, and I want to tell her

1619
02:03:08.880 --> 02:03:17.520
that that there somebody must love her
and please be just go with God.

1620
02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:21.279
No, don't go with God.
Actually, just read the quote I just

1621
02:03:21.359 --> 02:03:27.159
sent you that Paul London said on
a podcast. I do remember specifically many

1622
02:03:27.239 --> 02:03:30.720
times. I wait, I don't
why it does that it comes up in

1623
02:03:30.760 --> 02:03:33.199
the blue thing anyway. I do
remember specifically many times when she would be

1624
02:03:33.319 --> 02:03:39.960
crying to me because Vince was propositioning
her to fly on the jet with him,

1625
02:03:40.239 --> 02:03:45.880
London said, Kevin Dunn, bucktooth, Bucky. We'll be telling her

1626
02:03:45.000 --> 02:03:48.399
that she has to fly on the
jet with them. Every now and then.

1627
02:03:48.479 --> 02:03:53.880
They'd always put the divas up at
like the TV hotel or whatever.

1628
02:03:54.399 --> 02:04:00.800
He'd be knocking on her door and
trying to get her to answer. And

1629
02:04:00.920 --> 02:04:09.720
here girl is just like her value
like she's being told how like that she's

1630
02:04:10.039 --> 02:04:15.640
only valuable to be pretty much a
sex toy. At the very least,

1631
02:04:15.720 --> 02:04:20.600
you have to play along with this
like this Vince thing, you know,

1632
02:04:21.119 --> 02:04:27.279
that's so gross, so fucking vile. And so she's you know, cleavage

1633
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:30.359
all over the place on the screen, knocking on Maria's door. We see

1634
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:31.720
it, says Maria on the door. And not only I don't know if

1635
02:04:31.720 --> 02:04:35.399
she had I'm not trying to make
an assumption about it, but she just

1636
02:04:35.600 --> 02:04:43.199
looks very, very, very depressingly
thin. I've always thought that about her.

1637
02:04:43.239 --> 02:04:45.560
I thought like she looked alarmingly like
she can't possibly be healthy, almost

1638
02:04:45.600 --> 02:04:48.359
like Angelina Love. And when I
say healthy, you know, I understand

1639
02:04:48.399 --> 02:04:51.960
that that that's what they wanted from
these women, that they had to put

1640
02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:56.319
themselves through torture to look like they
did on TV. But to your point,

1641
02:04:56.399 --> 02:05:00.239
she was like thin to the point
where that looks like it like could

1642
02:05:00.239 --> 02:05:03.560
be a medical emergency. It just
looks very right, it looks it looks

1643
02:05:03.640 --> 02:05:09.079
unhealthy thin, you know, like
cause and I remember, because I remember

1644
02:05:09.239 --> 02:05:13.359
like when I when she first came
in, I thought she was like awesome

1645
02:05:14.039 --> 02:05:19.880
from a from a physical yeah,
you know, place sure, but I

1646
02:05:20.439 --> 02:05:24.239
it's just like looking at her hair, like she just she just looks she

1647
02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:27.800
looks not only I mean, she
was what at this time she would have

1648
02:05:27.840 --> 02:05:32.800
been. So she's she's not even
thirty. She's twenty nine. No,

1649
02:05:33.000 --> 02:05:36.640
not even she's twenty eight years old
at this point. Okay, she's twenty

1650
02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:45.560
eight years old, and she she
just looks old and not old old,

1651
02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:49.880
but she looks at least ten years
older than what she is and just looks

1652
02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:53.840
like someone who's been through some shit. Yeah, I forget. This is

1653
02:05:53.920 --> 02:05:58.840
like two years after the thing in
Kuwait happened. It's amazing that she worked

1654
02:05:58.840 --> 02:06:00.880
for so long for them atter after
that. Yep, not so long,

1655
02:06:01.000 --> 02:06:03.399
but longer than a month, you
know what I mean. Yeah, and

1656
02:06:03.520 --> 02:06:08.159
it's sad like that a year later
after she committed suicide that her brother did

1657
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:12.039
too, so sad. It's just
no, he was using for so he

1658
02:06:12.119 --> 02:06:15.479
was murdered, sorry, and they
knew he was gone, but yeah,

1659
02:06:15.479 --> 02:06:20.800
I wasn't sure. It's just so
fucking this is supposed to be after all

1660
02:06:20.840 --> 02:06:24.439
of the the vice was out of
the business and the guys are playing video

1661
02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:28.159
games right no the yeah, well
no, let me tell you, the

1662
02:06:28.239 --> 02:06:30.119
Vice is never out of the business, correct, Yeah, what are they

1663
02:06:30.159 --> 02:06:36.319
going on? Five seasons now?
So then Santino, who was playing kind

1664
02:06:36.359 --> 02:06:41.039
of like a what a GM manager. He was like a he's like a

1665
02:06:41.119 --> 02:06:44.079
guy that managed the divis almost it
seemed like or he was always in the

1666
02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:46.199
middle of them. He's in a
relationship with Maria, wasn't he back then?

1667
02:06:46.520 --> 02:06:49.199
So that's what this is doing.
Yeah, he was in a relationship

1668
02:06:49.279 --> 02:06:54.439
with with Maria. And I'm pretty
sure this is like roughly the time period

1669
02:06:54.479 --> 02:06:57.039
where punks started going out with Maria. And that's heat because he's not a

1670
02:06:57.119 --> 02:07:00.479
headliner, and that's always been a
big thing with them. They've always been

1671
02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:05.319
like extra pissed if the hottest women
in the company showed any interest in mid

1672
02:07:05.399 --> 02:07:12.399
carters. I'm I'm fucking Maria.
See him punk and fuck Maria because I'm

1673
02:07:12.479 --> 02:07:15.680
fucking Maria. It's like, we
have this thing about dating wrestlers, like

1674
02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:19.159
don't do it. What all that
really means is only make yourself available to

1675
02:07:19.239 --> 02:07:23.720
the top guys, because that's sort
of like a almost like a perk we

1676
02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:26.479
can offer our top guys, you
know, yeah, because like, oh

1677
02:07:26.600 --> 02:07:30.760
wait a minute, it's not like
what are the sex trafficking I mean remember

1678
02:07:30.840 --> 02:07:32.960
Orton would have these huge fits when
like Amy Weber didn't know who he was

1679
02:07:33.039 --> 02:07:38.760
and stuff. This is all as
told too. But that was like a

1680
02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:43.279
huge thing that like you you had
to genuflect towards the top guys when you

1681
02:07:43.359 --> 02:07:46.439
were a woman in the company,
you had to like basically basically had to

1682
02:07:46.520 --> 02:07:49.800
carry yourself like you thought they were
hot, you know, and and to

1683
02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:54.800
get into a relationship like Jackie Gata
did with Charlie Hass or you think about

1684
02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:58.640
Kidman and Tory Wilson or Punk at
the time in his part of the card

1685
02:07:58.960 --> 02:08:03.039
with Maria Ya. That's instant heat. In that company, they can't have

1686
02:08:03.159 --> 02:08:07.119
that because they think they know what
kind of guy commands that kind of girl,

1687
02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:09.479
and they can't compute that. That's
not how it works. It just

1688
02:08:09.479 --> 02:08:16.079
doesn't. They don't allow for that. Unbelievable, unbelievable when we really look

1689
02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:18.840
back at what was happening. And
then you know, people talking about how

1690
02:08:18.920 --> 02:08:22.479
Kevin Dunn would basically listen to a
big pitch for somebody and then say,

1691
02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:24.359
I don't I don't think we can
do it with her. She's not pretty

1692
02:08:24.439 --> 02:08:28.119
enough, or she's I don't think
she's pretty. It's like, this is

1693
02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:31.840
Kevin done. Kevin Kevin does,
This is Kevin done. Kevin Dunne has

1694
02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:39.840
no he's the one to say anybody
talk about anybody's attractiveness at all, as

1695
02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:46.560
long as he's got his fucking Nosferatu
teeth, fucking Max Shrek over there,

1696
02:08:50.000 --> 02:08:54.840
count overlock sitting around looking at eight
x tens, making making faces at Vince.

1697
02:08:58.560 --> 02:09:01.000
So she knocks on Maria's dors.
Tina comes out says, can I

1698
02:09:01.079 --> 02:09:05.000
help you? Maria can't talk,
can't tal talk right now? And he's

1699
02:09:05.119 --> 02:09:07.000
preparing for a high definition kiss cam
because they were doing the kiss cam back

1700
02:09:07.000 --> 02:09:09.640
then, where they would cut to
two people in the audience. Oh and

1701
02:09:09.720 --> 02:09:13.079
this one was a doozy also known
as a guy with a girl embarrassed to

1702
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:16.159
be at a wrestling show, right
exactly. It doesn't really work in ww

1703
02:09:16.399 --> 02:09:22.359
like it does in real sports.
Now here, I got yes some of

1704
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:26.720
this for you. So Maria can't
talk right now. She's preparing for the

1705
02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:31.439
first ever high definition of kiss cam. Why anyone would want to see ugly

1706
02:09:31.479 --> 02:09:35.039
sweating New Yorkers kissing is beyond me. But Maria, I'll do it.

1707
02:09:35.399 --> 02:09:37.960
You see, that's my Maria.
You ask her to do anything and she'll

1708
02:09:37.960 --> 02:09:41.880
do it. She can't say no
to anything or anyone. That's probably why

1709
02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:46.960
she's still with you, Santino.
You can't talk to me like, okay,

1710
02:09:48.079 --> 02:09:50.479
no reaction. Let me save you
the bother Maria is not interested in

1711
02:09:50.640 --> 02:09:56.560
you or your booby magazine. Okay. I wish I could vote out of

1712
02:09:56.640 --> 02:10:05.680
the WWE, just like they did
on Survivor. The grunt as he closes

1713
02:10:05.760 --> 02:10:07.640
the door is probably my favorite part. Yeah, he was something else.

1714
02:10:09.520 --> 02:10:11.159
But we can't watch any of this
stuff anymore, can we? No?

1715
02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:18.439
Because everything is like a double entendre
Evince trying to get his jolly's on.

1716
02:10:18.039 --> 02:10:20.199
We always knew that was part of
it, but now that we know how

1717
02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:26.079
sort of direct he was about the
women in particular, everything we've ever said

1718
02:10:26.119 --> 02:10:31.399
about Vince on screen being the real
Vince is we've been one hundred percent vindicated.

1719
02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:33.720
We've been telling you for ten years, yes, don't look at up,

1720
02:10:33.760 --> 02:10:39.640
don't look at us, So,
oh my god, that's that.

1721
02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:43.560
So then we always say it's the
inner monologue of the person, exactly right.

1722
02:10:45.319 --> 02:10:48.039
And of course this was the flow
ride of year for this is the

1723
02:10:48.039 --> 02:10:50.520
full ride of era for WrestleMania songs. But they had to dub that over

1724
02:10:50.560 --> 02:10:54.319
on the Peacock version. It's like
the sixty three days left. Curiously enough,

1725
02:10:54.359 --> 02:10:56.359
they leave that in the broadcast,
like why even leave it in?

1726
02:10:56.600 --> 02:11:00.199
Like why didn't need to know Wrestlemandia
was sixty three days away? I know,

1727
02:11:00.319 --> 02:11:01.479
it is kind of weird, like
if you're editing out all this other

1728
02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:05.880
random shit, what is this?
What is is that? The year?

1729
02:11:07.000 --> 02:11:09.119
Hey, I heard you were a
wild one? That song? I think

1730
02:11:09.159 --> 02:11:15.640
that I don't remember I Cold with
jet black hair at Ringside, I know

1731
02:11:16.079 --> 02:11:18.600
wants to thank our good Friend's Airborne
for the stand up for rock and Roll

1732
02:11:18.600 --> 02:11:22.399
official theme song of Roy Rumble two
thousand and eight. And they do a

1733
02:11:22.439 --> 02:11:28.680
story about Edge and Ray with a
package Vicky had, you know, come

1734
02:11:28.760 --> 02:11:31.640
on, well, Edge had sort
of romantically involve himself with Vicky because she

1735
02:11:31.680 --> 02:11:35.640
was smacked down general manager and his
ticket to the top and Hawkins and Ryder

1736
02:11:35.680 --> 02:11:37.079
as the Edgeheads were joining with Edge
at that time. You remember that,

1737
02:11:37.880 --> 02:11:41.159
I do remember that. It's wild
Vicky was in a neck brace, and

1738
02:11:41.279 --> 02:11:46.680
I am I'll tell you, I
am a big fan of when guys have

1739
02:11:48.239 --> 02:11:54.039
protegees like that, like Alex Riley
in the Miz Yeah, to a lesser

1740
02:11:54.119 --> 02:11:56.880
extent, but I was never at
that level. Again, I know,

1741
02:11:56.359 --> 02:12:01.840
I know, I loved, like
like Charlie Haws and Shelton Benjamin with with

1742
02:12:03.039 --> 02:12:09.000
Kurt Angle. Yep, it's fucking
awesome. Yep, I liked, I

1743
02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:13.520
mean to a lesser degree because maybe
because they well no Ted dbs, it

1744
02:12:13.560 --> 02:12:18.199
didn't go anywhere. But I wasnna
say, like the the Randy Orton,

1745
02:12:20.319 --> 02:12:24.359
oh legacy legacy thing, but if
they had a name though, which you

1746
02:12:24.479 --> 02:12:26.720
know, that kind of takes away
from it. Whereas these guys were really

1747
02:12:28.039 --> 02:12:30.920
lackeys, lackies. Yeah, that's
the thing. They have to be kind

1748
02:12:30.920 --> 02:12:35.119
of like goofy, right, the
supporting cast, and there was nothing goofy

1749
02:12:35.359 --> 02:12:37.479
thing. They gotta be the only
way to make it. It's kind of

1750
02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:43.399
funny the way to make it work. And like the Alex Roley thing,

1751
02:12:43.199 --> 02:12:46.359
I mean, I don't know,
I don't really remember any kind of what

1752
02:12:46.520 --> 02:12:50.199
his talent was or anything like that, but really the way to make that

1753
02:12:50.439 --> 02:12:56.960
work is not to make him a
babyface like they did. If you're gonna

1754
02:12:56.159 --> 02:13:00.680
when you break them up, which
I know you kind of sandow. Yeah,

1755
02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:07.840
I mean he was, they just
he But with the Riley thing,

1756
02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:11.319
he should have actually turned heel on
the miz and they should have made the

1757
02:13:11.359 --> 02:13:13.920
miz baby face because I think that
would have worked better. I think him

1758
02:13:13.920 --> 02:13:20.319
as a heel like kind of like
trying to take the Mis's spotlight and miss

1759
02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:22.760
giving him the rub would have been
better off. He would have been better

1760
02:13:22.840 --> 02:13:26.079
off. It's interesting. I don't
know. I mean I look at him

1761
02:13:26.079 --> 02:13:35.560
and I can't imagine really Alex Riley
being anything worthy. Yeah, outside of

1762
02:13:35.600 --> 02:13:39.920
being the Lackey, yeah, which
you know I couldn't. I couldn't really

1763
02:13:39.960 --> 02:13:41.880
for at the time, for Ryder
and Hawkins either. Yeah. Yeah,

1764
02:13:43.520 --> 02:13:46.399
they had a roll, you know. So Vicky was in a neck brace

1765
02:13:46.439 --> 02:13:48.880
at the time in a wheelchair,
and they show like Edge of the playground

1766
02:13:48.920 --> 02:13:52.279
with her and making out whe her
and they're on the swings and shit,

1767
02:13:52.119 --> 02:13:54.319
they did a beat the clock challenge
on SmackDown to get the title shot.

1768
02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:58.560
The word rumblin. Batista has taken
out everybody for Ray to bring them interfering

1769
02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:01.680
and then under Taker comes out,
turns the lights out. When they come

1770
02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:03.439
back on Edges on the ropes in
position for the six one nine, and

1771
02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:05.439
Vicky says, I know we've been
through a lot of stuff. I still

1772
02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:09.239
care about you. What's up with
Edge? She scowls, you don't know

1773
02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:11.840
Edge. He loves me, he
makes me feel special. Ray comes back

1774
02:14:11.920 --> 02:14:15.359
to say Edge doesn't love you.
This is on smack Done in the week's

1775
02:14:15.399 --> 02:14:18.760
leading up. How dare you tell
the love of my life? I don't

1776
02:14:18.840 --> 02:14:24.199
love Edge? And Edge always needs
a woman. He stole to be over.

1777
02:14:24.359 --> 02:14:26.560
Let's not forget that always needs a
woman. He stole to be over.

1778
02:14:28.399 --> 02:14:33.159
And these were a SmackDown clips,
So we get the WWHD in the

1779
02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:37.159
margins because all the old clips are
not HD exactly. Everything like leading up

1780
02:14:37.199 --> 02:14:41.279
to this is so that was the
story leading up to the match. Yeah

1781
02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:46.079
you think you know me? Strolled
lights, yes, and he just got

1782
02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.439
the belt back and army gedding and
they talk about it as a plan that

1783
02:14:50.600 --> 02:14:52.920
came to fruition after months of planning
with Vicky Guerrero, who's wheeled out by

1784
02:14:52.960 --> 02:14:56.600
Teddy Long, who was kind of
like the assistant general manager. SmackDown now

1785
02:14:58.439 --> 02:15:00.960
calls as many people are saying Edge
is the recent Vicia Guero is still here

1786
02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:03.479
at World Wrestling Entertainment. He says
the whole thing, not ww World Wrestling

1787
02:15:03.560 --> 02:15:11.039
Entertainment, and then Ryder and Hawkins
walk out Rider in a beanie indoors and

1788
02:15:11.199 --> 02:15:15.520
man the gear and these guys now
compared to them, all three of them,

1789
02:15:16.000 --> 02:15:22.560
they are so thick now compared to
these scrawny little it's unbelievable. A

1790
02:15:22.800 --> 02:15:26.000
rider with a pathetic pyro burst from
overhead in that tiny entrance way out of

1791
02:15:26.159 --> 02:15:28.600
Ray. Sorry not writer, Ray, I'm sorry, I wrote Ray.

1792
02:15:31.079 --> 02:15:33.720
They can't really replicate that big game
pyro in the small No. No,

1793
02:15:35.800 --> 02:15:37.560
it's like you can. It's almost
funny to watch him try. Honestly,

1794
02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:43.680
just don't do it here they come. Yeah, Ray has like a medieval

1795
02:15:43.760 --> 02:15:46.279
mask on, like he's a fucking
legionaire. I don't know what he's doing.

1796
02:15:48.239 --> 02:15:52.760
Meanwhile, Indie guy's performing at American
Legions, and there's a sign that

1797
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:58.960
says Mysterio Square Garden. That's that's
funny. Actually, I like that Mysterious

1798
02:16:00.039 --> 02:16:03.880
Square Garden. That's pretty cool.
Vicky J. Former WSW referee, Mickey

1799
02:16:03.920 --> 02:16:07.520
J. Now Mickey Henson and ww
hoists the big gold for this next contest.

1800
02:16:07.319 --> 02:16:09.399
Sounds like a bit of a mixed
reaction for Ray when they say from

1801
02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:11.520
San Diego. But then we come
to find out that everyone showed up in

1802
02:16:11.640 --> 02:16:16.039
MSG to fucking Boo Raymond Stereo tonight, right, like, what the fuck

1803
02:16:16.159 --> 02:16:18.199
is that about? Edge gets a
huge pop. I don't know. They

1804
02:16:18.319 --> 02:16:22.399
just thought Edge was cool and some
that's the garden man. If they think

1805
02:16:22.439 --> 02:16:26.359
a heel's cool, there's no one
less cool than the baby face he's wrestling

1806
02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:28.359
that night. I think of Sid
and Sean at Sarrivors Serres ninety six and

1807
02:16:28.479 --> 02:16:33.200
so many examples like that. It's
nothing against Ray, it's just tonight we

1808
02:16:33.319 --> 02:16:35.920
decided Edge is a really cool heel
and the other guy therefore has to be

1809
02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:39.399
a bit you know, right right? Cole declares, did a big fight

1810
02:16:39.440 --> 02:16:43.959
feel in a place that's hosted more
than any there's Edge Chance and Coach says

1811
02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.399
Edge was going to leave WW a
couple of months ago, and Vicky talked

1812
02:16:46.399 --> 02:16:50.760
to him into coming back, and
now he's the champion. Edge versus Raymond

1813
02:16:50.799 --> 02:16:54.719
Sterio here the owait rumble. Of
course, former tag champs and a great

1814
02:16:54.760 --> 02:16:58.239
tag team. They were, yes
and close friends. Cole runs down all

1815
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:03.920
the belts Edges has held for some
reason and Ray two eight time tag champ

1816
02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:07.280
and all that, and they reference
their history together. Let's go Edge Chance.

1817
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:09.040
Ray starts kicking the legs and that
draws Booze right away so it's very

1818
02:17:09.120 --> 02:17:13.840
clear immediately what side and they're on. Oh, I know, it's crazy.

1819
02:17:13.159 --> 02:17:16.079
It's not like it develops. During
the match, Ray tries a metal

1820
02:17:16.159 --> 02:17:18.159
rope spring Boardana almost blows it,
almost loses the spot, which gets him

1821
02:17:18.159 --> 02:17:20.200
even more heat from the crowd,
and Cole says, the chances are the

1822
02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:24.239
winner of this match, we'll defend
it at Mania, pretending the rumble winner

1823
02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:28.799
is going to pick this belt.
Cole says, the New York City fans

1824
02:17:28.840 --> 02:17:31.680
surprise every time we're here. That's
a reference to Ray being booed, of

1825
02:17:31.760 --> 02:17:35.920
course, coming straight from Mince,
no doubt. If it was Toronto,

1826
02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:39.840
they would have to call it.
What bizarro world, You're damn right.

1827
02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:43.239
Edge sends right to the floor under
the bottom rope they pop it. Ray

1828
02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:46.440
Land's on his feet instead of going
splash on the outside baseball slide drop kicked

1829
02:17:46.440 --> 02:17:50.200
by Edge, and then Hawkins and
Ryder come over to get at Ray Masterio,

1830
02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:52.399
but Mickey Jay catches them in the
act and tosses them from ringside,

1831
02:17:54.760 --> 02:17:58.280
and Coach points out that they didn't
even touch Raymisterio. Yet they're being ejected,

1832
02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:01.479
which is a decent point why they're
allowed out there in the first place

1833
02:18:01.600 --> 02:18:05.079
is the real question, so Ray, because they didn't do anything, They

1834
02:18:05.120 --> 02:18:09.360
just stood there and pretended to almost
interfere and then got punted. Did you

1835
02:18:09.520 --> 02:18:13.479
hear, also, Cole, what
did Cole say? Cole sit called Mysterios

1836
02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:16.799
mask to be like a Knight's mask. Yeah, like the Centurion thing or

1837
02:18:16.840 --> 02:18:22.159
the Legionaire mask. But it's it's
uh, it's certainly inspired by Russell Crowe's

1838
02:18:22.200 --> 02:18:24.200
mask and his helmet and Gladiator.
That's what it is, right, Yeah,

1839
02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:30.639
absolutely, that's not a night and
Knight has like the face is covered.

1840
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.319
Yeah, yeah, right, they
have like a different thing, but

1841
02:18:35.479 --> 02:18:37.360
like I don't know, like he's
got the same kind of like if you

1842
02:18:37.399 --> 02:18:41.920
look at Russell Crowe's mask or his
helmet in those first Gladiator battle, it's

1843
02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:46.280
the same exact look yep, that's
right. So Ray puts Edge in the

1844
02:18:46.319 --> 02:18:48.559
middle rope and Edge ducks to the
floor befoorking, get hit and anything.

1845
02:18:48.600 --> 02:18:52.440
Ray follows up though with a pescado
taking out Edge on the outside, and

1846
02:18:52.440 --> 02:18:56.399
then the springboard bombs away sentan splash
back in the ring gets too. Ray

1847
02:18:56.440 --> 02:18:58.600
then is launched into the corner lands
in the middle rope though like they used

1848
02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:01.719
to do as a team where he
would like launch Ray up into the super

1849
02:19:01.760 --> 02:19:05.000
Herkin rana. Yeah, Edge kicks
him out the kne though before he can

1850
02:19:05.040 --> 02:19:07.280
launch him a piece of offense,
and of course that's a surgically repaired knee.

1851
02:19:07.280 --> 02:19:11.040
As Michael Cole points out, of
course we do need to know that

1852
02:19:11.559 --> 02:19:16.840
it wasn't repaired by nature. No, it was repaired by doctor James Andrews,

1853
02:19:16.879 --> 02:19:20.360
and it's in the process boss of
being softened. And further to that

1854
02:19:20.440 --> 02:19:26.680
point, half crab by Edge,
it was repaired by surgicality. Rough gets

1855
02:19:26.719 --> 02:19:28.639
free and sigury Edge lands in the
middle rope and Ray limbs so we can't

1856
02:19:28.719 --> 02:19:31.959
quite do the six one nine at
full speed. That allows Edge to catch

1857
02:19:33.000 --> 02:19:35.799
him in a snap power slam for
two. Nice spot there. I'm okay

1858
02:19:35.840 --> 02:19:39.600
with that very nice Edge with the
pointless lucha leg stretch mufflers submission that I

1859
02:19:39.639 --> 02:19:41.920
hate so much where you put the
leg around your neck and then he tries

1860
02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:46.680
a half assed ankle lock. Let's
see Coachman says, take away his aerial

1861
02:19:46.760 --> 02:19:54.639
offense, but it sounds like you
said his areola offense. Edge starts taking

1862
02:19:54.639 --> 02:19:58.000
the knee brace of Ray mysterio off
and Coachman says, is that legal?

1863
02:19:58.079 --> 02:20:01.159
Michael, I'm I'm not sure.
Uh, you know, to do some

1864
02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:13.680
aerial offense myself. That's right on
anybody, any woman please now will bear

1865
02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:16.959
a pickup bulldog by Ray. Of
course, of booze breaks out. I

1866
02:20:18.120 --> 02:20:20.520
know it's so crazy, well ies, Ray wore those baggy pants to hide

1867
02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:24.319
the knee braces. That's why,
yes, so much brasage under there.

1868
02:20:24.879 --> 02:20:28.159
Ray selling the knee big time,
but still throwing some kicks. Edge tries

1869
02:20:28.200 --> 02:20:31.319
a sunset flip it. Ray rolls
through and kicks him in the head,

1870
02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:33.639
but the good leg. Michael Cole
points out that gets too. Ray climbs

1871
02:20:33.719 --> 02:20:37.520
up Edge like a power bomb almost
but lands in the sent on on his

1872
02:20:37.600 --> 02:20:43.399
head for two Edge his head.
It's yeah, they keep saying Ray's last

1873
02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:46.719
gasp. It isn't that much left, they say that over. I'm just

1874
02:20:46.840 --> 02:20:52.159
so surprised about this because Ray is
one of those guys that's just universally beloved.

1875
02:20:52.799 --> 02:20:58.520
Yeah, and you know, there
are guys I totally get. Listen,

1876
02:20:58.600 --> 02:21:01.120
I get the New York crowd,
I get the they that they you

1877
02:21:01.239 --> 02:21:05.520
know that there is a different mentality. But like to me, Ray has

1878
02:21:05.520 --> 02:21:09.959
always been like a sting, you
know, or a ricky steamboat. You

1879
02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:18.040
just always cheer for him. You
can't booth them. I'm just I was

1880
02:21:18.120 --> 02:21:20.879
shocked to hear this. Yeah,
yeah, and I forgot about it.

1881
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:24.000
He was kinda he was kind of
neutered after we won the title. I

1882
02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:28.120
O six. You know, it's
kind of like it was so clear that

1883
02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:31.200
he actually, really really wasn't going
to be pushed as a top guy for

1884
02:21:31.280 --> 02:21:35.879
any duration of time that I feel
like some of the smarter crowds were just

1885
02:21:35.920 --> 02:21:37.159
like, stop forcing this guy on
us. We know you don't mean it.

1886
02:21:37.280 --> 02:21:39.799
You know it's you know, he's
being put out here just to get

1887
02:21:41.159 --> 02:21:46.559
us to go yeay yay. But
you'd think, though, you'd think that's

1888
02:21:46.639 --> 02:21:50.639
not his fault, and oh,
it's not that you'd you'd want to keep.

1889
02:21:50.440 --> 02:21:54.159
It's not like they're they're they're throwing
somebody. It's not like they're they're

1890
02:21:54.159 --> 02:21:58.280
pushing John Cena down your throat.
Like everyone loves Ray, like the more

1891
02:21:58.360 --> 02:22:00.920
main events in him, the better. Yeah. I don't know. I

1892
02:22:00.959 --> 02:22:03.280
think he may he may have overstayed
his welcome just to touch you know.

1893
02:22:03.399 --> 02:22:07.120
He was one of those guys that
always benefited from going away for a while,

1894
02:22:07.760 --> 02:22:09.840
sure, but most do. I'm
not saying that that's like a mark

1895
02:22:09.920 --> 02:22:13.680
against him, but he just he
was so consistent from the time he came

1896
02:22:13.719 --> 02:22:16.840
in the company in terms of like
staying in front of the people that I

1897
02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:18.920
do feel like, come two thousand
and eight, people were a little sick

1898
02:22:18.920 --> 02:22:22.040
of it and like, Okay,
now he's gonna do this six one nine,

1899
02:22:22.120 --> 02:22:24.840
you know, but if he goes
away for a year, it's like,

1900
02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:28.239
oh my god, Ray's back.
This is fucking huge. I forgot

1901
02:22:28.280 --> 02:22:31.680
that someone of his caliber was on
the shelf. Jericho ran into that too,

1902
02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:37.000
over and over again after a while. So where were we? So

1903
02:22:37.559 --> 02:22:41.600
Ray goes to the top rope,
gets cut off and knocks back edge does

1904
02:22:41.639 --> 02:22:46.280
a double footstomp, interesting choice considering
his bad wheel. Yeah, Cuda gra

1905
02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:50.239
just cored torso that gets too.
Then the hurrican ron on ed to the

1906
02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.520
floor and an unusual combination of hope
and pain from Ray. Michael Cole says,

1907
02:22:56.079 --> 02:22:58.760
talk about unique and unorthodox. As
he does a baseball headslide to the

1908
02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:03.799
floor or on into a D D
T baseball slide into a M D D

1909
02:23:03.920 --> 02:23:07.440
T on the floor, he does
you know, Ray does seem off like

1910
02:23:07.559 --> 02:23:11.040
he's kind of fucked up a couple
of moves in this match. Yeah yeah,

1911
02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:15.120
Cole calls that a belly baseball slide. By the way, what Ray

1912
02:23:15.200 --> 02:23:18.079
did to get to the d D
t okay? Great? Thanks? Back

1913
02:23:18.120 --> 02:23:20.120
in cover gets two, Coachman says, how many two and three quarters two

1914
02:23:20.120 --> 02:23:22.920
and a half have we had?
I know, coach, I always think

1915
02:23:22.920 --> 02:23:26.319
they should put that kind of stuff
on a scoreboard. In a wrestling match,

1916
02:23:26.799 --> 02:23:31.280
Ray charges into the Big Boot and
he's mowed down by Edge. Corner

1917
02:23:31.319 --> 02:23:33.079
Spirit tempt by Edge, but he
misses Ray with a tilts and whirl Head

1918
02:23:33.079 --> 02:23:35.600
sayser on Edge, who sends him
into the rope six to one nine scores

1919
02:23:37.639 --> 02:23:46.520
all on. Because you gotta hear
Michael Cole say some horse shit. Okay,

1920
02:24:00.639 --> 02:24:11.440
New York's kind of new the area
code, why do you hmmm?

1921
02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:16.719
I would just say that you think
it's cool? Yeah, of course it

1922
02:24:16.840 --> 02:24:22.000
is. I think it's cool.
Okay, I stand corrected. Then I'd

1923
02:24:22.040 --> 02:24:28.399
say it, you know, fucking
area code. What an idiot? And

1924
02:24:28.479 --> 02:24:33.440
I know it's not his fault.
Uh when he had that one might be

1925
02:24:33.639 --> 02:24:39.040
his, I don't know. Uh, when he has six one nine,

1926
02:24:39.079 --> 02:24:46.799
say that New York City has a
new area code. Uh col all right,

1927
02:24:48.840 --> 02:24:56.040
wait, hold on, I've got
some verbiage. I've got to I've

1928
02:24:56.079 --> 02:25:01.760
jotted down some notes of some high
ideas and thoughts that I thought you might

1929
02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:11.440
be able to convey to the to
the ww universe via commentary uh syn transmission.

1930
02:25:15.680 --> 02:25:22.600
Uh here all right, So when
when Ray, yes, when Ray

1931
02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:31.479
hits the six one nine, I
think you can claim that the New York

1932
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:39.760
City Metropolitan Area has a new area
code, and you can claim that New

1933
02:25:39.840 --> 02:25:43.479
York City has now become part of
San Diego. And I want you to

1934
02:25:43.559 --> 02:25:50.799
say the New York City Metropolitan Area
bath use the yes, New York City

1935
02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:58.280
Metropolitan Area has now become the San
Diego East, right. Can you say

1936
02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:05.360
that and say that this is a
this is a a government ruling that Manhattan

1937
02:26:05.440 --> 02:26:13.079
has now become a district of San
Diego of California. Imagine that headline,

1938
02:26:13.840 --> 02:26:24.920
Manhattan votes to become part of San
Diego, California, with no explanation of

1939
02:26:24.079 --> 02:26:28.040
how it's going to work. All
of a sudden, it's all phone numbers

1940
02:26:28.040 --> 02:26:31.760
have to be six. Manhattan doesn't
move, San Diego doesn't move. They

1941
02:26:31.959 --> 02:26:37.120
just decide that this little part of
New York City is now actually California,

1942
02:26:37.319 --> 02:26:41.879
decided that it's a California territory over
here. We're going to bring in some

1943
02:26:43.440 --> 02:26:48.159
Royceshire promoting. We're going to bring
in some palm trees. Have them,

1944
02:26:50.559 --> 02:26:54.440
have them, you know, planted
up and down Broadway. Can you picture

1945
02:26:54.479 --> 02:27:01.239
of palm trees in Lake Times Square? Oh my god, how fucking But

1946
02:27:01.399 --> 02:27:05.600
not in New York. No,
no, no. Ray climbs does the

1947
02:27:05.680 --> 02:27:09.000
hands free splash that gets to Vicky. Then he yanks referee Mickey Jay out

1948
02:27:09.000 --> 02:27:13.120
by the ankle, and Michael Cole
gets all hot and bothered about how I

1949
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:15.520
thought Vicky was in a wheelchair.
I thought she needed a wheelchair. That

1950
02:27:15.639 --> 02:27:18.000
was all a bunch of bullshit.
She's general manager and she can do what

1951
02:27:18.079 --> 02:27:22.760
she wants. So unlike a Hawker, Hawk, Hawkins and Rider, they're

1952
02:27:22.799 --> 02:27:26.520
not She's not gonna get tossed out
of the match. So yeah, because

1953
02:27:26.520 --> 02:27:30.680
technically the referee works for her right
to the middle rope, Ray hits a

1954
02:27:30.680 --> 02:27:33.799
six one nine, but as he
goes for it, Vicky jumps up on

1955
02:27:33.840 --> 02:27:37.159
the apron and covers Edge's body with
hers, so Ray actually ends up kicking

1956
02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:39.520
Vicky in the back. Of the
head. I I like that actually quite

1957
02:27:39.559 --> 02:27:45.159
a bit. They executed it well, yes, yes, So Vicky collapses

1958
02:27:45.200 --> 02:27:48.719
to the floor and Ray totally loses
his focus for a second, realizing what

1959
02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:52.079
he's done, but he still goes
to follow up from the apron. He

1960
02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:56.440
springboards. No, yeah, I
know, right, tugging at his heart

1961
02:27:56.479 --> 02:28:01.639
strings, he springboards, he launches, Yes, he does, an Edge

1962
02:28:01.760 --> 02:28:05.120
spears him out of mid air.
That's right. Tremendous finish, good stuff.

1963
02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:09.639
One two, three, twelve minutes, thirty four seconds. Edge defeats

1964
02:28:09.680 --> 02:28:13.200
Randy Orton to retain the World Heavyweight
Championship at the two thousand and eight Royal

1965
02:28:13.280 --> 02:28:16.040
Rumble, with no small bit of
help from Vicky Guerrero. Edge then panics

1966
02:28:16.040 --> 02:28:20.360
when he realizes what happened to Vickian
hits the Florida check on her. Zach

1967
02:28:20.440 --> 02:28:22.520
Ryder and Kurt Hawkins also come out
to do the same, and Michael Cole

1968
02:28:22.600 --> 02:28:28.719
says there's an old song Love Hurts, an old saying love hurts. Okay,

1969
02:28:28.920 --> 02:28:31.399
so a cool replay of Right hitting
a splash and they slow it down

1970
02:28:31.559 --> 02:28:35.280
just as he gets his hang time. Yep, yeah, they would do

1971
02:28:35.360 --> 02:28:37.840
that. At the time they outload
Vicky back into the wheelchair, and Coachman

1972
02:28:37.879 --> 02:28:41.600
says, how can you deny that
she needs a wheelchair? Now? Cole

1973
02:28:41.639 --> 02:28:48.159
says, that's what I just said. They go in the back and Flare

1974
02:28:48.719 --> 02:28:50.760
just came out of the shower.
He's got a towel on his waist.

1975
02:28:50.079 --> 02:28:56.000
Where's Missy Hyatt? I know?
And then Kennedy enters the frame, slow

1976
02:28:56.079 --> 02:29:00.559
clapping for Flair. This would be
mister Kenneth Kennedy. Kennedy known as Ed

1977
02:29:00.639 --> 02:29:11.719
Helms. Oh God, and it's
awesome, great job, gives him a

1978
02:29:11.760 --> 02:29:16.040
woo, says after I went a
romolo night. This is Kennedy chewing gum.

1979
02:29:16.239 --> 02:29:18.159
I can only think I'm gonna have
so much time on my hands between

1980
02:29:18.159 --> 02:29:24.479
the nWo, between the WO,
between no Mercy in WrestleMania. I just

1981
02:29:24.360 --> 02:29:28.280
love nothing more between now and WrestleMania. What the hell am I talking about

1982
02:29:28.319 --> 02:29:33.200
No Mercy now in WrestleMania that I
would just love nothing more. Before he

1983
02:29:33.200 --> 02:29:37.280
can finish the sentence, HBK pops
his goofy face into the frame. Don't

1984
02:29:37.360 --> 02:29:43.799
let me interrupt. I find this
fascinating Kennedy with his Midwest no no no,

1985
02:29:45.680 --> 02:29:46.760
And see you later, Rick,
and see you too, and he

1986
02:29:46.879 --> 02:29:52.680
leaves, and then and then Kennedy
says, I mean I can Michael says

1987
02:29:52.719 --> 02:29:58.760
this, I can you believe that
a loud mouth of noxious trash talking platinum

1988
02:29:58.760 --> 02:30:03.479
blood hair with a catch raised these
kids today that gimmick will never work.

1989
02:30:05.159 --> 02:30:09.479
Okay, Sean, you see what
he did there, because he's talking about

1990
02:30:09.559 --> 02:30:11.680
Rick Flair. I get it.
You see, you get it though,

1991
02:30:11.719 --> 02:30:15.600
because like he's it's any and when
you say gimmick, you see he's breaking

1992
02:30:15.639 --> 02:30:18.120
the fourth wall and acknowledging that wrestling's
fake to the thing. And it only

1993
02:30:18.200 --> 02:30:22.520
helps Ken Kennedy to call him a
derivative of Ric Flair. That's always a

1994
02:30:22.159 --> 02:30:26.479
yeah, So it's like an homage. Yeah, and uh, it's a

1995
02:30:28.520 --> 02:30:33.799
you know, it's it's it's really
smart, smart writing. Flair says,

1996
02:30:33.840 --> 02:30:35.639
last year came so close. I'm
hungry for the world title. I know

1997
02:30:35.719 --> 02:30:39.680
to night, no one can beat
you in your quest. Sean came so

1998
02:30:39.920 --> 02:30:43.559
close. Oh my god, you
came so close. You wouldn't take her

1999
02:30:43.600 --> 02:30:46.719
at the end there, and uh, he just like me and Luger,

2000
02:30:50.120 --> 02:30:58.920
Oh my god, Luger, he
doesn't get old. Batista comes in,

2001
02:31:00.120 --> 02:31:03.440
WAPs up. Flair says, hey, Dave I mean all I said about

2002
02:31:03.479 --> 02:31:05.959
how Sean's the man to do it
and no one can beat you. Tonight,

2003
02:31:05.040 --> 02:31:09.159
I met on the raw brand because
you know Batista also being the rumble,

2004
02:31:09.159 --> 02:31:13.319
can take that personally. And then
Trip steps in with his feathery hair,

2005
02:31:15.440 --> 02:31:20.600
going back to the long hair.
So we got we have like we've

2006
02:31:20.639 --> 02:31:24.120
got a mix of d X and
evolution going on here. We really do.

2007
02:31:26.440 --> 02:31:30.159
And HbA, with his goofy,
little fucking face, says, a

2008
02:31:30.159 --> 02:31:35.319
little awkward, such a such a
dufus trip light looks flair and so as

2009
02:31:35.319 --> 02:31:37.600
I've told you this a million times, for the love of God, man

2010
02:31:37.680 --> 02:31:41.559
put your pants on, because they're
all friends. It's okay, it's funny.

2011
02:31:41.760 --> 02:31:45.360
Yeah, as far as tonight goes, the best man will win,

2012
02:31:45.440 --> 02:31:46.959
and Batista steps to triple ah and
says, I agree, the best man

2013
02:31:48.000 --> 02:31:50.239
will win, and Sean says,
I think we can all agree on the

2014
02:31:50.319 --> 02:31:52.680
very best man will win. And
without a doubt, he's going to be

2015
02:31:52.719 --> 02:31:56.920
wearing the new HBK T shirt available
on shopww dot com. Fuck this shirt

2016
02:31:58.239 --> 02:32:01.559
stop, it's awful. Triple he
says. If there's one thing I hated

2017
02:32:01.719 --> 02:32:05.319
chilling, I'm thinking he fucking won
the World Series for the Red Sox man

2018
02:32:05.399 --> 02:32:09.879
like you have to give him a
little bit of a break. Sean says,

2019
02:32:09.959 --> 02:32:13.840
I don't think that was a good
time. Flaire says it was great.

2020
02:32:15.040 --> 02:32:16.639
And they smile and that's the end
of it. Okay, it's fun

2021
02:32:18.000 --> 02:32:22.639
comedy between friends or among friends.
Jr. Says you had the perfect view

2022
02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:26.399
of this huge, bright Times Square
billboard from his hotel room last night,

2023
02:32:26.440 --> 02:32:30.079
so he gets a little complaint in
there. As they show the establishing shot

2024
02:32:30.120 --> 02:32:35.200
outside the building, Cranky Jr.
The best, the best, Oh yeah,

2025
02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:39.559
and for the first time it's historic. Boss the Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy

2026
02:32:39.559 --> 02:32:41.520
takes on the ww World Champion Randy
Orton here at the Rumble. As it

2027
02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:45.040
historic because this happened to the Rumble
for the first time. Yeah, yeah,

2028
02:32:45.079 --> 02:32:48.719
pretty much. But before that,
Maria has to come to the ring

2029
02:32:48.799 --> 02:32:54.479
and here she comes again. My
good medicine. Every Bretz he tacked manin,

2030
02:32:56.200 --> 02:33:05.799
do not it out it on and
d in shut off my TV.

2031
02:33:07.680 --> 02:33:11.719
All this bullshit. I want to
read them from the pay per view.

2032
02:33:11.079 --> 02:33:18.000
It sounds ten years old. Uh
all right, awful? What's up all

2033
02:33:18.040 --> 02:33:22.760
you stars and studs in New York? Oh stop it first ever will rumble

2034
02:33:22.840 --> 02:33:28.079
kiss cam. You know, there's
a reason why there has never been a

2035
02:33:28.159 --> 02:33:31.879
kiss cam before this, and they
have stupid idea. Two people. This

2036
02:33:31.959 --> 02:33:35.079
woman's like no, no, no. This guy turns toward and she's not

2037
02:33:35.200 --> 02:33:39.959
gonna do it. No. I'm
like, I think it's hilarious. Number

2038
02:33:41.000 --> 02:33:48.120
one, She's like no, but
then she kind of eventually relents because like,

2039
02:33:48.520 --> 02:33:52.799
I don't understand, why why are
you there together? These people?

2040
02:33:52.879 --> 02:33:54.639
Couples are not. I can never
tell. I can't. I can't tell

2041
02:33:54.719 --> 02:33:58.840
the the next one, the second
couple they are, they go right for

2042
02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:03.079
it, and then the guy grabs
her tit. Are you serious? I

2043
02:34:03.200 --> 02:34:07.639
missed that? Curious he grabs her
tit, he goes and then cops a

2044
02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:11.799
feel and she like pushes him away
from it, like like his hand is

2045
02:34:11.840 --> 02:34:15.600
like he goes right for it.
Amazing. I was like, holy shit,

2046
02:34:15.920 --> 02:34:20.639
fucking going for it? Uh.
And then this third couple they're they're

2047
02:34:20.680 --> 02:34:24.840
reluctant, but then all of a
sudden, there's like massive tongue action going

2048
02:34:24.920 --> 02:34:28.079
on, just like grotesque almost.
And the last one she kisses her hand

2049
02:34:28.159 --> 02:34:33.520
and plants it on his fucking cheek. I can't tell which one doesn't want

2050
02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:37.159
to do the kiss cam because at
one moment it seems like he wants it

2051
02:34:37.280 --> 02:34:41.520
and she doesn't, and then later
on it's almost like he she wants it

2052
02:34:41.600 --> 02:34:43.440
and he doesn't want it, and
it's just like, you know what,

2053
02:34:43.920 --> 02:34:48.799
not a good idea. All right, let's not do it. I mean

2054
02:34:48.799 --> 02:34:52.520
because you older don't know. Yeah, what if you do come across two

2055
02:34:52.559 --> 02:34:56.799
strangers, like that's disgusting. Yeah. I kind of think like that's like

2056
02:34:56.840 --> 02:35:00.600
a real risk, Like you don't
know that you assume someone's a couple.

2057
02:35:00.639 --> 02:35:01.479
I don't know if you give these
people the heads up or not. But

2058
02:35:01.479 --> 02:35:05.159
it doesn't in a couple of cases, it does not seem like it.

2059
02:35:05.719 --> 02:35:11.959
Yeah, but Ashley interrupts before this
can get out of control as Maria says,

2060
02:35:11.000 --> 02:35:15.680
thank you so much New York and
of course her song I'm Gonna love

2061
02:35:15.799 --> 02:35:20.520
you nice, I'm gonna do here, right. I pulled up the uh

2062
02:35:20.840 --> 02:35:28.399
uh the lyrics for Maria's song,
so here we go, h here she

2063
02:35:28.520 --> 02:35:35.959
comes again like good medicine. Every
step she takes, my blood is flowing.

2064
02:35:37.840 --> 02:35:43.959
Okay to wear go on and on
for days. She that's her promo.

2065
02:35:46.440 --> 02:35:50.159
She's got a hold on me.
I need the remedy. Sleep.

2066
02:35:50.559 --> 02:35:54.959
Hold her would be a cure for
me. I can't keep going on this

2067
02:35:56.120 --> 02:36:00.239
way. She's at the top of
her game. She don't know my aim.

2068
02:36:01.000 --> 02:36:05.040
The future is looking bleak. She's
out of my league. Look Out,

2069
02:36:05.520 --> 02:36:09.680
She'll tear your heart out. Look
Out, She'll rock your world.

2070
02:36:11.079 --> 02:36:16.319
There's no doubt she comes and goes
when she wants to. I do anything

2071
02:36:16.440 --> 02:36:22.559
she wanted me to. Who would
blame me with legs like that? And

2072
02:36:24.040 --> 02:36:33.680
just for Ashley, please, let's
get Let me light the hard all right,

2073
02:36:35.479 --> 02:36:43.360
light a fire Ashley Masorrow. You
better hold on tight, because I'm

2074
02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:48.360
gonna love you nice. I'm gonna
do it right. Let me light a

2075
02:36:48.440 --> 02:36:58.760
fire in you tonight. Brother?
What are you the sportatorium? What my

2076
02:37:00.120 --> 02:37:03.879
eyes have never seen someone who looked
like you. I wonder if you dream

2077
02:37:05.239 --> 02:37:09.719
of my hand loving you? Oh
my god, this is Vince. Yeah,

2078
02:37:09.879 --> 02:37:13.360
because I know I do every day
and every night, and I know

2079
02:37:13.639 --> 02:37:20.360
I'll lose control if I can't crush
this appetite. Oh my god, this

2080
02:37:20.600 --> 02:37:26.639
dream is eating me alive. Can't
you see I'm burning up inside. I

2081
02:37:26.879 --> 02:37:31.399
pray I will not be denied.
Oh my god, Let's let a fire

2082
02:37:31.479 --> 02:37:35.120
tonight. Let's play the music loud. Let's build the flames up high and

2083
02:37:35.280 --> 02:37:39.319
burn into the ground. You better
hold on tight, because I'm gonna love

2084
02:37:39.399 --> 02:37:43.639
you nice. I'm gonna do it
right. Let me light a fire in

2085
02:37:43.799 --> 02:37:48.200
you tonight. I've got a perfect
plan to have you in my arms today.

2086
02:37:50.440 --> 02:37:54.680
You're so well in doubt, and
there's no price I won't pay.

2087
02:37:54.440 --> 02:38:05.040
Wow, And then it repeats,
it's the chorus repeats, Wow, Jim,

2088
02:38:05.799 --> 02:38:09.639
I've had lyrics. I need you
to make a song for Ashley.

2089
02:38:11.559 --> 02:38:22.479
My lyrics, your notes, Let's
create. What's the album. I'm gonna

2090
02:38:22.479 --> 02:38:31.239
be called Vince. It'll be Forcible
Entry too. She gets the mic,

2091
02:38:31.280 --> 02:38:33.799
what's up, New York? Sorry
to have to come out like this cares.

2092
02:38:33.879 --> 02:38:39.280
I feel so bad. I also
feel bad like that she gets she

2093
02:38:39.639 --> 02:38:41.639
gets killed out there. Sorry,
that's a bad, bad way to say

2094
02:38:41.680 --> 02:38:46.520
it. But like she just and
you know what, usually and it probably

2095
02:38:46.600 --> 02:38:52.120
is because of her unfortunate demise,
but like normally like oh, get off

2096
02:38:52.159 --> 02:38:54.639
my fucking TV. But here I'm
just like I just feel bad for her,

2097
02:38:54.799 --> 02:38:56.600
Like I just I feel awful.
And again, like I said,

2098
02:38:56.639 --> 02:39:01.239
I always kind of liked her.
I always thought she was you know that

2099
02:39:01.399 --> 02:39:05.559
she was that I always liked her, and I was I was. I'm

2100
02:39:05.600 --> 02:39:09.920
not happy that you know how it
all ended up for not at all?

2101
02:39:11.680 --> 02:39:13.559
Well, she says, sorry to
have to come out here like this is

2102
02:39:13.639 --> 02:39:16.040
really you know. I got a
call last week, she says, from

2103
02:39:16.079 --> 02:39:20.680
Hugh Hefner, and he wanted to
know Maria if you were interested in deposing

2104
02:39:20.719 --> 02:39:24.280
for Playboy. Before she can answer, Santino comes out with someoneysing the pocket

2105
02:39:24.719 --> 02:39:30.200
that's to come, that's still to
come, and Santino behind him is flanked

2106
02:39:30.200 --> 02:39:33.879
by someone with the underneath the black
blanket and just a sense of Santino's theme

2107
02:39:33.959 --> 02:39:52.719
song, if you could uh d
go on? Could you play it please

2108
02:39:52.760 --> 02:39:58.159
in your ear butts and do it? Yeah, it's been a fucking quarter

2109
02:39:58.280 --> 02:40:03.200
in that jukebox. I hope our
fans April seventh come with pocket change.

2110
02:40:03.000 --> 02:40:11.680
That's all I can say. In
Philly jukebox doesn't take paper money pal like

2111
02:40:11.920 --> 02:40:20.879
a fucking greasy Spoons diary. But
the song is entitled Victoria. We're about

2112
02:40:20.920 --> 02:40:26.159
to blow this thing up. He
is really big fucking commercial. Stop it,

2113
02:40:26.479 --> 02:40:30.280
stop it. I don't want your
commercial. I don't need your product.

2114
02:40:31.280 --> 02:40:35.040
Grammarly will help you write emails that
make it sound like you paid attention.

2115
02:40:39.239 --> 02:41:41.760
Here we go, here we go, Oh ship something, send me

2116
02:41:41.840 --> 02:41:58.000
memorial gat sor oh very very nice. You're sitting there into the night,

2117
02:42:01.079 --> 02:42:15.879
fucking Sentino. Are they saying Italian
words in there? I mean, I

2118
02:42:15.920 --> 02:42:22.680
don't know, you know what.
Let's uh Santina Morella, Oh my god?

2119
02:42:24.399 --> 02:42:52.879
Lyrics? Uh yeah, Robbie do
her me he so no corneal show

2120
02:42:54.040 --> 02:42:58.520
folk cool. So there are words
in there. There are words. Let's

2121
02:42:58.520 --> 02:43:03.760
see what it's translated to. The
victory is mine. It is mine,

2122
02:43:03.000 --> 02:43:09.280
It's mine. And evil the sun
who burns the world with his fire and

2123
02:43:09.399 --> 02:43:13.639
the air and the light which lasts
forever over time, I will reach my

2124
02:43:13.799 --> 02:43:18.079
day. I will possess the power. Victory is mine. I bow to

2125
02:43:18.319 --> 02:43:22.000
history, to all the colors that
have shown the way, sacrificing everything.

2126
02:43:22.559 --> 02:43:26.680
And Evil, the sun that burns
the day with its fire and the air

2127
02:43:26.799 --> 02:43:33.280
and the light which lasts forever over
time. My turn to write the story

2128
02:43:33.360 --> 02:43:37.079
again. Victory is mine. I
feel the sun who burns the world with

2129
02:43:37.200 --> 02:43:41.239
his fire, and I see the
light that lasts forever. And now it's

2130
02:43:41.319 --> 02:43:46.200
my turn to write the story again. I will reach my day. I

2131
02:43:46.280 --> 02:43:50.239
will possess the power. The victory
is mine. The victory is mine,

2132
02:43:50.399 --> 02:43:54.760
It's mine. And the sea,
the sun who burns the It's unbelievable.

2133
02:43:56.079 --> 02:43:58.600
It's fire and the air and the
night. It's all in fucking you know.

2134
02:44:00.319 --> 02:44:03.479
But this is the translation, which
lasts forever over time, and the

2135
02:44:03.600 --> 02:44:07.440
evil and I like the evil in
the sun who burns the world with this

2136
02:44:07.559 --> 02:44:11.319
fire and the air and the light, which lasts forever over time. Wow,

2137
02:44:13.399 --> 02:44:18.000
as heavy and I expected. Yeah, it's definitely got some dark undertones

2138
02:44:18.120 --> 02:44:22.040
or just random verbiage. Really.
Santino comes out says the answer is no

2139
02:44:22.200 --> 02:44:24.680
to what I don't know. But
he says, nobody wants to see Maria

2140
02:44:24.719 --> 02:44:28.319
with no clothes on, and they
pop and she makes her smiley face like,

2141
02:44:28.360 --> 02:44:33.239
of course you do. Don't listen
to these people. Of course they're

2142
02:44:33.360 --> 02:44:35.239
going to cheer. They're from New
York. They have nothing to cheer for

2143
02:44:35.319 --> 02:44:39.760
it, and he goes to the
Mets and the Yankees chokers. Yeah,

2144
02:44:39.040 --> 02:44:43.040
the whole I'm a mosquito. I'm
scared to lose the play Let's lose the

2145
02:44:43.079 --> 02:44:46.200
playoffs, so you get all that
heat on them and Nickson Rangers not even

2146
02:44:46.200 --> 02:44:48.040
good enough to be called chokers.
In fact, the only thing you have

2147
02:44:48.040 --> 02:44:50.120
to cheer from is the football team
from a New Jersey. In here,

2148
02:44:50.200 --> 02:44:54.159
he goes this little, this whole
thing here, Yeah, I got that.

2149
02:44:54.600 --> 02:44:58.760
In fact, the only thing you
have to cheer for he's a football

2150
02:44:58.799 --> 02:45:09.840
team from New Judy. Oh woo. Eli Bath and Plaxica say some more

2151
02:45:09.959 --> 02:45:16.280
like blessers than athletes. For me, the only thing giant about that Tim

2152
02:45:16.760 --> 02:45:20.479
is the giant chunk job they're going
to pull in the Super Bowl. Mark

2153
02:45:20.559 --> 02:45:26.600
my words. Oh they didn't hurts, they didn't choke. Let's go Giants,

2154
02:45:26.719 --> 02:45:31.840
chant centenais nobody cares about the giants, and Lawler says, why is

2155
02:45:31.159 --> 02:45:37.000
Maria still with this guy? And
decision time for Maria? Are you interested?

2156
02:45:37.120 --> 02:45:39.200
She's handed the mic, She milks
the reaction. She goes, I

2157
02:45:39.239 --> 02:45:39.959
don't know. I mean, do
you guys really want to see me pose

2158
02:45:41.000 --> 02:45:46.959
for Playboy? See my bare breath? And vagina and sadly and I don't

2159
02:45:46.000 --> 02:45:50.559
know, I'm actually shocked the crowd
cheers for it. Yep, like all

2160
02:45:50.639 --> 02:45:54.280
these men here would like to see
her naked, absolutely, and sintinais Maria.

2161
02:45:54.360 --> 02:45:58.120
These people are like cheap if you
were to ask them who would like

2162
02:45:58.200 --> 02:46:03.280
hepatitis? They're all going to cheer
you do. Look, she says,

2163
02:46:03.319 --> 02:46:07.959
Look, actually I have the roll
rumble to prepare for which I'm going to

2164
02:46:07.040 --> 02:46:11.399
win. This is Santino talking in
the meantime. I have something for you,

2165
02:46:11.559 --> 02:46:15.200
Ashley, my special friend. Please
come into the ring. And so

2166
02:46:15.280 --> 02:46:18.399
this ghostly apparation makes its way into
the ring, the ghost of Christmas Future

2167
02:46:18.479 --> 02:46:20.559
or whatever. Santino says, Since
you people like to see the boobies,

2168
02:46:22.319 --> 02:46:26.319
I got something for you. And
he rips off the black planket and underneath

2169
02:46:26.760 --> 02:46:31.319
this is fucking chubby oaf big Dick
Johnson. Is it? Oh? Really?

2170
02:46:31.920 --> 02:46:41.200
Akaww writer Christopher to Joseph and a
thong oiled spelling over his belt line

2171
02:46:41.280 --> 02:46:45.719
with the Patriots logo painted on his
stomach and nineteen and zer on his ass

2172
02:46:46.000 --> 02:46:50.120
and a Tom Brady jersey cut off
like a middriff yep. And it was

2173
02:46:50.159 --> 02:46:54.440
funny to them that he would be
naked, half naked, dancing around and

2174
02:46:54.559 --> 02:46:56.200
be fat. No, I think
it's funny to say, to say a

2175
02:46:56.239 --> 02:47:05.559
fat guy jingle his belly on DVD. Alright, fat fuck ha, look

2176
02:47:05.559 --> 02:47:09.840
at look at me? Look at
Chris, get over Chris, get over

2177
02:47:09.879 --> 02:47:11.399
here. Cat Me tell you something, somebody. We're gonna have fun making

2178
02:47:11.479 --> 02:47:15.559
fun. Pal, We're gonna have
you. We're gonna have fun making fun.

2179
02:47:15.680 --> 02:47:20.120
Pal let me Hey, Hey,
uh uh uh, Johnny get over

2180
02:47:20.200 --> 02:47:24.879
here. Come on, boss,
what's up? Boss? Yeah? Did

2181
02:47:24.920 --> 02:47:26.959
you get ahold of Lord and Michael? Where is he at? What?

2182
02:47:28.799 --> 02:47:31.799
Seawn Michaels, Hi, Sean Michaels, Sewn Michaels. He's over in the

2183
02:47:31.879 --> 02:47:35.360
back. He's getting ready for the
royal rombo. No, no, damn

2184
02:47:35.360 --> 02:47:41.200
it, you idiot. I want
Lorden Michaels here. Who oh imagine putting

2185
02:47:41.280 --> 02:47:46.639
John Laurie edis in charge of getting
Lorne Michaels to the show. Get me

2186
02:47:46.719 --> 02:47:48.920
Lord Michaels. I want to him
that I can be a writer for something

2187
02:47:48.920 --> 02:47:52.799
in my life. You got the
wrong Lord Michaels. How the fun did

2188
02:47:52.879 --> 02:47:58.360
you find somebody else named Lad?
I found a guy named Yeah. What

2189
02:47:58.079 --> 02:48:07.319
you were looking for? Michael's right? You were looking for corn on the

2190
02:48:07.440 --> 02:48:16.360
cob by Michaels right? What huh? I just I don't know. It

2191
02:48:16.440 --> 02:48:20.479
gives him a bag of clothes,
you said more. Michael's right, gives

2192
02:48:20.520 --> 02:48:24.000
him like craft gives him crafts.
Yeah, he said, you wanted me

2193
02:48:24.079 --> 02:48:31.040
to get some stuff at Michael's.
You're more morn paint at Michael's. Right,

2194
02:48:33.680 --> 02:48:39.559
No, I wanted to go to
Rockefeller Center and get me lorn Michaels.

2195
02:48:41.959 --> 02:48:52.079
Oh I didn't do that, that's
clear. I wonder what Dick ever

2196
02:48:52.159 --> 02:48:54.440
saw, by the way, thinks
of his old pal Vince these days.

2197
02:48:56.159 --> 02:49:00.920
I don't asked him what he thinks. So said, Now there's rubber chickens

2198
02:49:00.959 --> 02:49:03.600
in the ring, and Ashley beats
up Big Dick Johnson with them and wears

2199
02:49:03.639 --> 02:49:05.760
them out. I mean, and
then her music. I guess she won

2200
02:49:05.840 --> 02:49:11.000
this battle. I guess she throws
up her hands and her music plays so

2201
02:49:11.200 --> 02:49:13.639
sad it hurts, it really hurts. And they go to an ad Kelly.

2202
02:49:13.760 --> 02:49:18.000
Kelly's on a beach chair and another
shirtless wonder if fat guy they have

2203
02:49:18.680 --> 02:49:22.040
sidles up to her lifeguard chair,
trying to get her attention, but she

2204
02:49:22.840 --> 02:49:26.120
but she's not paying attention, so
he pretends to be drowning and they get

2205
02:49:26.159 --> 02:49:30.040
this glamorous you know, glamorous,
I should say, a bay Watch shot

2206
02:49:30.079 --> 02:49:33.600
of Kelly running with a smile on
her face. She does chest compressions,

2207
02:49:33.680 --> 02:49:39.239
and finally he needs CPR. And
then instead of Kelly Kelly administering at his

2208
02:49:39.319 --> 02:49:41.680
plan, May Young comes in and
sticks her tongue down his throat and they

2209
02:49:41.719 --> 02:49:45.440
have a shot where she like wiggles
her tongue in front of the camera lens

2210
02:49:45.479 --> 02:49:50.559
for a second and he's convulsing.
And this is a WrestleMania ad by the

2211
02:49:50.600 --> 02:49:52.719
way, if you're wondering in case, in case, yeah, so you

2212
02:49:52.799 --> 02:49:58.600
got this whole, this whole piece
of shit thing happening, and it's for

2213
02:49:58.680 --> 02:50:03.239
WrestleMania, right because it's in Orlando
near the beach, when if you go

2214
02:50:03.319 --> 02:50:05.280
to where that stadium was, it
couldn't be further from the coastline. Man

2215
02:50:05.399 --> 02:50:11.479
not to mention the fact that Baywatch
took place in Malibu. So stupid.

2216
02:50:13.120 --> 02:50:16.520
And then back to Adam Lay speaking
of stupid, let's hear we go.

2217
02:50:18.079 --> 02:50:26.200
Wow. You hear that he's laughing? Wow? Oh wow, hit it

2218
02:50:26.239 --> 02:50:31.200
again. Huh listen to the laugh
at the beginning. Yeah, I mean

2219
02:50:33.239 --> 02:50:43.319
wait, come on, yeah,
there we go. No, h sometimes,

2220
02:50:48.319 --> 02:50:54.479
wow. Twenty thousand plus fans,
of course, Madison Square Garden has

2221
02:50:54.559 --> 02:51:01.799
been sold out for weeks and everyone
in anticipation of tonight's rubble here. Another

2222
02:51:01.879 --> 02:51:07.319
man who's been waiting anxiously with anticipation. His name is Jeff Party. In

2223
02:51:07.559 --> 02:51:13.440
fact, in fact, in fact, it could be said that Jeff Party

2224
02:51:13.920 --> 02:51:18.639
has waited all his life for tonight's
golden moment. It has proven, certainly

2225
02:51:18.760 --> 02:51:24.200
in recent weeks, if not his
entire career, that he will do anything,

2226
02:51:24.879 --> 02:51:35.399
I mean anything to make history.
You thought that was pat want I

2227
02:51:35.479 --> 02:51:41.120
know something? What that clip you
just played off the peacock's feet, Yes,

2228
02:51:41.120 --> 02:51:46.959
doctored. Oh it was even worse. Oh my god. Another man

2229
02:51:48.559 --> 02:51:56.360
who's been waiting anxiously with anticipation.
His name is Jeff Harmy Party. Another

2230
02:51:56.479 --> 02:52:03.600
man who's been waiting anxiously with anticipation. His name is Jeff Harmy Party.

2231
02:52:05.120 --> 02:52:13.760
Jeff Harvey, Harvey Harvey. He
says, yes, they ken hard to

2232
02:52:13.840 --> 02:52:18.680
find a original pay per view broadcast, so I took that from a YouTube

2233
02:52:18.760 --> 02:52:22.840
video that somebody made a compilation of
Mike Adami fails if you want to find

2234
02:52:22.879 --> 02:52:28.040
it. Oh my god, Jeff
Harvey, come on first night in the

2235
02:52:28.120 --> 02:52:35.200
job. Another man who's been waiting
anxiously with anticipation. His name is Jeff

2236
02:52:35.280 --> 02:52:41.520
HARMI Party, Now play yours again
and hear how slickly they edited it,

2237
02:52:41.600 --> 02:52:45.920
but you can still hear the booze
from the crowd jumping on them for getting

2238
02:52:45.920 --> 02:52:50.920
it wrong. Wow, twenty thousand
plus fans. Of course, Madison Square

2239
02:52:50.959 --> 02:52:56.639
Garden has been sold out for weeks
and everyone in anticipation of tonight's roil rubble.

2240
02:52:56.719 --> 02:53:03.000
Here. Another man who's waiting anxiously
with anticipation. His name is Jeff

2241
02:53:03.079 --> 02:53:09.479
Party. In fact, in fact, in fact, it could be said

2242
02:53:09.520 --> 02:53:16.680
that Jeff Party has waited all his
life. Another man who's been waiting anxiously

2243
02:53:16.879 --> 02:53:22.959
with anticipation. His name is Jeff
Harmy Party. I mean. Also the

2244
02:53:22.000 --> 02:53:26.680
fact that they also took away the
song for whatever reason. Well that song

2245
02:53:26.879 --> 02:53:31.399
was added by the YouTuber. Oh
I see, yeah, that's why I

2246
02:53:31.520 --> 02:53:35.680
made that that point. Yeah,
but that's why he had to say three

2247
02:53:35.760 --> 02:53:39.600
times and and and because they were
just boot him out of the building.

2248
02:53:39.799 --> 02:53:43.920
It's bad, I mean, and
I feel awful for him now too,

2249
02:53:43.079 --> 02:53:48.799
because of his dementia. Yes,
yes, that he potentially had this dementia.

2250
02:53:50.079 --> 02:53:54.239
You know that is fucking football career
caused concussions and ship That's all there.

2251
02:53:56.879 --> 02:54:01.479
So we go to a package for
Orton versus Hardy Buzz cut Orton all

2252
02:54:01.559 --> 02:54:05.639
skinny. Oh, this is the
this is the neck like a stack of

2253
02:54:05.719 --> 02:54:09.799
dimes. Uh uh uh. Randy
Orton kind of yep. When I was

2254
02:54:09.840 --> 02:54:11.000
young, my dad told me I'd
be the greatest wrestler in the world.

2255
02:54:11.079 --> 02:54:15.639
They show picks of him with his
dad and Ernie Ladden under the Giant and

2256
02:54:15.680 --> 02:54:18.680
Hulk Cogan backstage, and then him
training in OVW. I knew what I

2257
02:54:18.760 --> 02:54:20.760
was gonna do, what I was
meant to do, bread to do,

2258
02:54:22.760 --> 02:54:24.680
and they show him throwing just these
god awful punches at a punching bag.

2259
02:54:26.319 --> 02:54:31.360
Well, his dad holds it.
Yeah no. And then Vince gives Randy

2260
02:54:31.399 --> 02:54:35.000
his first opportunity on SmackDown and he
pins a hardcore Holly and they show triple

2261
02:54:35.120 --> 02:54:39.079
hing. Randy Orton is every gift
a man can be given, and how

2262
02:54:39.120 --> 02:54:41.360
he breathes wrestling and it's in his
blood and he has confidence because he knows

2263
02:54:41.399 --> 02:54:46.280
he's good. The man of Destiny
they called him. And then the the

2264
02:54:46.319 --> 02:54:50.959
point in his life where he was
the evolution of this business. Oh my

2265
02:54:50.079 --> 02:54:54.559
god. They show that one clip
they have of Bob Orton Sr. For

2266
02:54:54.600 --> 02:54:56.760
a second, that black and white
clip, and then they show Wharton beaten

2267
02:54:56.840 --> 02:55:00.440
fully if the world and then for
the world title getting the VIC they don't

2268
02:55:00.440 --> 02:55:03.280
show ben Wa of course, or
not to show him hoisting the belt at

2269
02:55:03.280 --> 02:55:07.559
SummerSlam, and then that ticker tape
celebration they did and rk owing legends like

2270
02:55:07.680 --> 02:55:11.959
Jake Roberts and Nick Foley and Harley
Race and spitting at them and Piper.

2271
02:55:13.639 --> 02:55:16.440
He even rk hul Cochin in the
back of a car to set up that

2272
02:55:16.479 --> 02:55:20.479
Summer Slam match, if you remember, I do, And then they flashed

2273
02:55:20.520 --> 02:55:24.600
to Jeff with the guitar chords.
My main concern is going out there,

2274
02:55:24.639 --> 02:55:28.120
and I mean it's like this,
this whole, this whole fucking Jeff Hardy

2275
02:55:28.159 --> 02:55:31.719
thing. It's like this, this
music, the song, it sounds like

2276
02:55:31.760 --> 02:55:37.159
a leftover song from like a nineties
movie montage sequence. It's unbelievable. You

2277
02:55:37.239 --> 02:55:39.280
know. They go back and show
him as a kid too, and clips

2278
02:55:39.319 --> 02:55:45.120
of him on home video playing and
getting ready for the for wrestling. And

2279
02:55:45.200 --> 02:55:48.120
the song is called Don't Look Down
by Scott Nikolai and Ronald A. Dunlap.

2280
02:55:48.959 --> 02:55:52.440
And you better believe if you look
this song up on YouTube, all

2281
02:55:52.479 --> 02:55:54.600
the comments are here for Jeff Hardy. Do you remember this Jeff Hardy song,

2282
02:55:54.680 --> 02:55:58.159
Oh my God, I play this
when I have self doubt or whatever.

2283
02:56:00.360 --> 02:56:05.440
Oh fuck that the lyrics. Yeah, outside, its raining and I'm

2284
02:56:05.479 --> 02:56:11.639
still warm and dry. Everybody's complaining, but I'm so happy I could cry.

2285
02:56:11.719 --> 02:56:16.079
Never needed a reason to make this
a better place, even when there's

2286
02:56:16.120 --> 02:56:18.840
no pleasing, gonna put a smile
upon my face. Don't look down,

2287
02:56:20.159 --> 02:56:22.959
never let go, don't look down. You'll know all there is to know.

2288
02:56:24.840 --> 02:56:26.719
Have you ever been lonely? Has
the world brought you to your knees?

2289
02:56:28.200 --> 02:56:31.760
Your dedication and faith will set you
free. Never needed a reason to

2290
02:56:31.879 --> 02:56:35.520
let somebody in. It's surely going
to please you, might even change the

2291
02:56:35.559 --> 02:56:39.959
state you're in. Don't look down, never let go, don't look down.

2292
02:56:39.280 --> 02:56:43.680
You'll know all there is to know. Don't look down, never turn

2293
02:56:43.719 --> 02:56:46.360
away. Don't look down, no
matter what they say, don't look down,

2294
02:56:46.479 --> 02:56:50.200
never let go. Don't look down. You'll know all there is to

2295
02:56:50.319 --> 02:56:52.079
know. Don't look down, never
turn away. Don't look down, no

2296
02:56:52.159 --> 02:56:56.399
matter what they say, don't look
down. And during all that song,

2297
02:56:56.479 --> 02:57:00.440
they show him taking the middle rope
with the gun thing, or it's right

2298
02:57:00.479 --> 02:57:05.479
boss, and I can't stand climbing
various ladders, and as they show this

2299
02:57:05.639 --> 02:57:09.879
dreamy sort of like inspirational sequence and
Orton cuts in, he keeps talking about

2300
02:57:09.120 --> 02:57:16.639
like, yes, he's talking about
how you know, like basically, you

2301
02:57:16.760 --> 02:57:20.319
know, not knowing if he was
gonna like come out of these moves alive.

2302
02:57:20.399 --> 02:57:22.200
And it's like, then, why
are you fucking doing it? Man?

2303
02:57:22.760 --> 02:57:26.200
Because I have to live on the
edge. I just have to fuck

2304
02:57:26.319 --> 02:57:28.760
off. I was born to live
on the edge. It's just something they've

2305
02:57:28.799 --> 02:57:33.000
said ever since I was a kid. I can't I just don't understand.

2306
02:57:33.040 --> 02:57:37.440
And I think tonight I'm going to
become WW champion and realize the dream I've

2307
02:57:37.479 --> 02:57:39.760
had ever since I was a kid, and never thought I you want well,

2308
02:57:39.840 --> 02:57:45.079
you know, you know some see
the writing on the wall. I

2309
02:57:45.200 --> 02:57:46.799
understand that, but I understand,
I think, but I think what you

2310
02:57:46.879 --> 02:57:52.399
need to do right now is just
to kind of stay modest. That's right,

2311
02:57:52.000 --> 02:57:54.559
stay modest to the top. Then
they show work and cutting in with

2312
02:57:54.639 --> 02:57:58.760
that like ECW effect, and now
he's getting dark in this package jumping off

2313
02:57:58.760 --> 02:58:03.319
the top and tron is is Jeff
Hardy. They show him like losing his

2314
02:58:03.440 --> 02:58:07.840
mind and doing things to try to
kill Randy Orton and Randy says something about

2315
02:58:07.879 --> 02:58:11.120
Matt's appendix. He hurt Matt Matt's
appendix, And the closing shot is him

2316
02:58:11.120 --> 02:58:15.600
in a neck brace Jeff Hardy that
is being carded out for something he did

2317
02:58:15.639 --> 02:58:20.040
to himself, throwing himself off the
fucking Titan tron. So here comes Jeff

2318
02:58:20.040 --> 02:58:24.280
Hardy out at MSG with the intercontinal
title on his waist and the paper toilet

2319
02:58:24.319 --> 02:58:28.000
paper hanging out of his ass.
JR. Says, I hope you can

2320
02:58:28.040 --> 02:58:31.559
feel this special moment. Seriously,
like it's two thousand and eight and he's

2321
02:58:31.559 --> 02:58:37.079
still he has a rag sticking out
of his ass pocket. Looks like he

2322
02:58:37.159 --> 02:58:39.159
had an ass of rags get out
of his ass pocket. Probably whatever last

2323
02:58:39.239 --> 02:58:43.920
week. This top guy though,
uh look at him. Look how badly

2324
02:58:43.000 --> 02:58:48.840
the people want him to be WW
champion boss listen to them. I didn't

2325
02:58:52.280 --> 02:58:54.319
like no fucking I mean, I
didn't even. I didn't. Here's the

2326
02:58:54.360 --> 02:58:58.959
thing, I didn't even when when
this, when they were building this up,

2327
02:59:00.120 --> 02:59:03.440
I didn't even Not only did I
not want them to do it,

2328
02:59:03.479 --> 02:59:05.799
I knew they weren't going to pull
the trigger on it. I knew there

2329
02:59:05.879 --> 02:59:11.200
is no fucking way they're pulling the
trigger on it. Wow, Jerr says,

2330
02:59:11.239 --> 02:59:13.399
I hope he can feel the special
moment. Thirty six men have held

2331
02:59:13.399 --> 02:59:16.840
the ww title. Can this man
realize that dream? Sign? Proud of

2332
02:59:16.879 --> 02:59:20.719
you, Jeff, only Warrior in
Triple H? Jerrer point out, really,

2333
02:59:20.280 --> 02:59:24.120
what only thirty six men? That's
what he said. Yeah, it's

2334
02:59:24.200 --> 02:59:28.159
interesting, and only two had held
both the IC and World at the same

2335
02:59:28.239 --> 02:59:33.760
time, Warrior and Triple H.
And uh when did Triple H hold both?

2336
02:59:35.040 --> 02:59:37.440
That's a good question. I guess
you could say when he cashed in,

2337
02:59:37.600 --> 02:59:41.120
No, cashed in when he converted. No, he didn't have the

2338
02:59:41.280 --> 02:59:43.879
Icy belt. Then it's because he
refused to win the Icy belt. He

2339
02:59:45.000 --> 02:59:46.799
you know what? Oh my oh
god, don't I don't think I want

2340
02:59:46.840 --> 02:59:52.520
to know this. They're counting this
as him hold us when he beat Caine

2341
02:59:52.760 --> 02:59:56.719
or RVD, when they when they
when they get rid of all the secondary

2342
02:59:56.760 --> 03:00:01.680
belts, Oh, emerge all the
time I can think of. But also,

2343
03:00:01.760 --> 03:00:05.040
wasn't the WDE title. No,
it wasn't. That's true world title.

2344
03:00:05.280 --> 03:00:09.559
So that doesn't does that? Really? Oh my god? Hold on,

2345
03:00:09.920 --> 03:00:13.000
I got a man, I'm trying
to think of any other time that's

2346
03:00:13.040 --> 03:00:16.920
a that's a really good guess.
The only other time that he held the

2347
03:00:16.959 --> 03:00:24.879
intercontinental title, you know, when
he was world Champion caliber was with Austin

2348
03:00:24.719 --> 03:00:28.959
so Triple H. You know,
when they split the belts for the first

2349
03:00:28.000 --> 03:00:31.159
time and Brock had it on SmackDown, Triple H not only refused to win

2350
03:00:31.360 --> 03:00:35.399
the intercontinental title and carry it his
Ross title, but he insisted on bringing

2351
03:00:35.440 --> 03:00:39.840
back the world title, and then
he merged the Intercontinental title into that belt

2352
03:00:39.879 --> 03:00:43.159
anyway, So he still wanted to
win the intercontinental title. Let's not like

2353
03:00:43.200 --> 03:00:46.879
he said, all right, the
accindal titles for a different purpose, you

2354
03:00:46.959 --> 03:00:50.239
go serve that purpose. No,
I'm not going to win it. You're

2355
03:00:50.239 --> 03:00:52.840
going to make a new belt and
then I'm going to take that belt out

2356
03:00:52.879 --> 03:00:56.399
of the equation for all the other
guys. I'm sure he had nothing to

2357
03:00:56.440 --> 03:01:00.479
do with it. I'm sure it
was all uh Vince's decision. I'm sure

2358
03:01:00.520 --> 03:01:03.120
it was made by committee and he
wasn't even in the room, et cetera,

2359
03:01:03.159 --> 03:01:09.680
et cetera. I mean, the
fact they as a thing sad to

2360
03:01:09.760 --> 03:01:13.399
put that on the par with how
monumental it was that warrior had both belts

2361
03:01:15.159 --> 03:01:20.239
and how huge that was. It's
it's where we get this whole idea that

2362
03:01:20.319 --> 03:01:24.600
the intercontinental title is a stepping stone
to the world. Yeahim and Savage really

2363
03:01:26.120 --> 03:01:28.600
right, nobody else really did it
and made the jump. I mean,

2364
03:01:28.600 --> 03:01:31.719
I guess Pedro, but I mean
it wasn't really a thing. It was

2365
03:01:31.719 --> 03:01:35.719
like that was your level. I
don't know. So, uh. He

2366
03:01:35.799 --> 03:01:39.319
throws the toilet paper to the crowd
when it takes the ropes. It's kind

2367
03:01:39.319 --> 03:01:41.159
of like a keepsake. And then
hey, dudn' dn't dun dun dun dun

2368
03:01:41.280 --> 03:01:50.600
dun dun. Hey, Hey,
nothing you can say, nothing's gonna change

2369
03:01:50.680 --> 03:01:54.479
what you've done to Hey, now
it's time to shine and I'm gonna take

2370
03:01:54.520 --> 03:02:00.920
what's mine. Take was made.
He hated that song, by the way,

2371
03:02:01.719 --> 03:02:05.639
Hey, what was that? He
hated that song? Did he really?

2372
03:02:05.719 --> 03:02:07.520
I remember him saying he's him saying
it once? Yeah, Oh my

2373
03:02:07.639 --> 03:02:11.520
god, that's hilarious. And he
saw the spinning title even though Sena wasn't

2374
03:02:11.520 --> 03:02:15.040
the champ. Well that was that
was the belt. Don't forget it was.

2375
03:02:16.440 --> 03:02:20.559
That's all it is. But it
always seemed like it was just a

2376
03:02:20.959 --> 03:02:24.639
long way back to Sina as long
as they didn't change the belt design.

2377
03:02:24.680 --> 03:02:26.520
It was like Okay, I know, right, you always knew this is

2378
03:02:26.559 --> 03:02:31.920
an interregnum run and knew. Jared
calls him one of the most naturally gifted

2379
03:02:31.959 --> 03:02:41.479
he's seen. I'm gonna say,
yeah, this is I'm looking here and

2380
03:02:41.639 --> 03:02:48.600
I believe that Yeomen and Yemen and
Yemen and it's a mistake. The only

2381
03:02:48.719 --> 03:03:01.840
triple h championship, the Interconnal Championship
brain that coincided with a world title was

2382
03:03:03.760 --> 03:03:13.959
was that one? It was,
Well, why isn't it all? Yeah,

2383
03:03:13.959 --> 03:03:18.440
because that women ninety eight? Yeah, yeah, no, nope,

2384
03:03:18.559 --> 03:03:28.319
that's it. That's the one they're
including when Caine p Kane. Yeah yeah.

2385
03:03:28.479 --> 03:03:37.360
And oh and this that's the Oh
no, that's the match. That's

2386
03:03:37.399 --> 03:03:39.799
the match where he had to take
his mask off. Yeah, that's right.

2387
03:03:46.079 --> 03:03:48.920
Well, if Randy Orton was the
legend killer, then Jeff Hardy is

2388
03:03:48.959 --> 03:03:56.159
the legend thriller. I believe they
said that. And what j R.

2389
03:03:56.319 --> 03:04:03.040
Asked Jerry Lawler what Jeff Hardy winning
the world title would mean? Right?

2390
03:04:03.399 --> 03:04:07.559
Hang in your opinion, what would
it mean or the era of Jeff Hardy?

2391
03:04:07.559 --> 03:04:11.959
Who know the mean? Or to
all the great fans for w fans,

2392
03:04:13.040 --> 03:04:16.200
oh to us, what do you
think would mean? That Jeff Hardy

2393
03:04:16.280 --> 03:04:20.479
became. But w W mean champion
here tonight? Well, first of all,

2394
03:04:22.239 --> 03:04:24.799
you say the words here tonight.
It wouldn't be a better place,

2395
03:04:24.840 --> 03:04:30.520
It wouldn't be a more fitting location
to have that happen than right here in

2396
03:04:30.600 --> 03:04:33.680
the hallowed halls of Madison Square Garden. But what would it mean to Jeff

2397
03:04:33.719 --> 03:04:37.879
Hardy? What would mean the fulfillment
of a lifelong and I mean lifelong dream?

2398
03:04:41.120 --> 03:04:46.680
Hey, fat ass, why don't
you ask the king, the gentleman

2399
03:04:46.760 --> 03:04:50.879
next to you, what he thinks
this time? Championship would mean? Right

2400
03:04:52.239 --> 03:04:56.319
for Jeff Hardy? Anything out,
anything else, events besides just that.

2401
03:04:56.440 --> 03:04:58.200
That's all you wanted to say to
No, I want to I got things

2402
03:04:58.200 --> 03:05:01.840
I'm gonna have him say. You
and King, what I want you to

2403
03:05:01.879 --> 03:05:05.680
do is I want you to say, well you know something, you fat

2404
03:05:05.799 --> 03:05:11.120
fuck, your piece of shit lard
ass bitch. It's gonna mean a lot

2405
03:05:11.200 --> 03:05:16.479
more when you're not around me,
when you don't sit next to me like

2406
03:05:16.559 --> 03:05:24.520
a fat fuck, like a the
still faced bitch, stay on a message

2407
03:05:26.239 --> 03:05:30.879
that Lawler, Lawler, do you
want a job tomorrow? Do you want

2408
03:05:30.959 --> 03:05:35.600
to be employed tomorrow? Say it
to that mother fucking oath next to you,

2409
03:05:37.879 --> 03:05:48.040
that cow, that bovine when they
dressed him up in the sailor's outfit,

2410
03:05:48.760 --> 03:05:56.280
that let's do everything we can to
make him look like a bitch.

2411
03:06:00.159 --> 03:06:03.920
He humiliated the guy. I mean, seriously, they just like all they

2412
03:06:03.959 --> 03:06:11.319
wanted to do was was was just
make him it just they I have no

2413
03:06:11.520 --> 03:06:28.360
doubt that that Vince mick Man's goal
in the abuse of the Oh my god,

2414
03:06:28.479 --> 03:06:33.959
he looks like such a dope,
such a dope. He's so unhappy

2415
03:06:35.040 --> 03:06:39.920
to be in the outfit, fucking
like idiot Taz over there and that fucking

2416
03:06:41.799 --> 03:06:46.840
oh Man. I like, you
know, I Vince mric Man really wanted

2417
03:06:48.000 --> 03:06:56.239
to do. You know, I'm
almost positive he wanted to to to send

2418
03:06:58.159 --> 03:07:03.399
j R. To a mental Hospit
like he wanted to drive him that fucking

2419
03:07:03.479 --> 03:07:07.920
crazy that he just have to go
away. Then he pay him visits.

2420
03:07:07.000 --> 03:07:11.280
What's up, pal? Hey pal? How's it going? Looking good?

2421
03:07:11.399 --> 03:07:13.360
Leave you well? Actually, I
can't say. You look like you lost

2422
03:07:13.399 --> 03:07:16.280
well, you look like you gained
weight. Huh. How is it in

2423
03:07:16.399 --> 03:07:20.120
here? Pal? They treating you
well? How's the food? Yeah,

2424
03:07:20.159 --> 03:07:22.559
exactly, you have barbecue sounds on
that Huh? Good or bad? You're

2425
03:07:22.600 --> 03:07:26.440
eating it. Huh, you can
see that? Let me poke you.

2426
03:07:26.280 --> 03:07:31.159
Oh shit, your little dough boy
who said, oh you bet eating lately?

2427
03:07:31.200 --> 03:07:35.440
A ship? Pal? I see
your face still doesn't move. Huh.

2428
03:07:37.559 --> 03:07:41.760
Didn't fix that. I thought that'd
be in the mental asylum though.

2429
03:07:41.799 --> 03:07:45.440
That'd be the first thing they'd do, is is Uh, he's working on

2430
03:07:45.520 --> 03:07:50.840
that face. So you could,
you know, emote properly. But nope,

2431
03:07:50.079 --> 03:07:56.159
still you're still expressionless. You think
you know what we're going to get

2432
03:07:56.159 --> 03:07:58.239
out of here? Pal, I
mean, listen, I'm gonna tell you

2433
03:07:58.280 --> 03:08:03.760
something. I'm I'm actually considering telling
them to put a muzzle on you.

2434
03:08:05.319 --> 03:08:13.360
How do you feel about that?
Because he doesn't just want to do it,

2435
03:08:13.680 --> 03:08:18.639
He wants to give the guy the
idea that he actually can prevent it

2436
03:08:18.680 --> 03:08:24.719
before he does it. Anyway,
do you have any thought suggestions? I

2437
03:08:24.799 --> 03:08:28.440
think he says. I think he
says, I've been thinking about having them

2438
03:08:28.479 --> 03:08:35.920
put a muzzle on you. How
do you feel about that? How do

2439
03:08:35.000 --> 03:08:39.639
you think I feel about it?
And before we get to the match,

2440
03:08:39.760 --> 03:08:50.520
just look one more time at the
picture, please. I imagine he goes.

2441
03:08:50.120 --> 03:08:54.440
I imagine that he is in a
dressing room. He puts himself in

2442
03:08:54.479 --> 03:09:03.639
the Mayor and he went, work
here. Why do I work? Man?

2443
03:09:03.760 --> 03:09:09.200
Oh man? Exactly? He trace
half like kind of a light sensibility

2444
03:09:09.239 --> 03:09:13.719
about it. So good, all
right, Brandy Orton verus Jeff Hardy for

2445
03:09:13.760 --> 03:09:20.360
the WW Championship. Yeah, let's
go Hardy, Let's go Wharton fifty to

2446
03:09:20.399 --> 03:09:22.600
fifty. Right, they pop for
Jeff, but they also have an Orton

2447
03:09:22.760 --> 03:09:28.799
contingent. There's an Orton. There's
an Orton contingency. They lock up and

2448
03:09:28.920 --> 03:09:31.600
roll over the ropes before the break
and Hardy shoves him into a headlock and

2449
03:09:31.639 --> 03:09:33.920
a push off and a tackle down
goes warton headlock takeover by Jeff Hardy.

2450
03:09:35.680 --> 03:09:41.000
Jerry Lawler says, yep here,
yep, yep. The excitement, the

2451
03:09:41.079 --> 03:09:46.360
thrill of having over twenty thousand great
fans here inside whoa inside Madison Square Garden.

2452
03:09:46.360 --> 03:09:50.360
There's something about the WW. I
mean, we're you with it's high

2453
03:09:50.440 --> 03:09:52.840
definition era. It's a it's like
a new beginning cut here for town.

2454
03:09:54.440 --> 03:09:58.399
And what what would it be like
to have that young man Jeff Hardy lead

2455
03:09:58.479 --> 03:10:01.559
us into a new era, a
new era because of some TV equipment we

2456
03:10:01.680 --> 03:10:07.120
bought. I mean, I also
hold on, I gotta hear how he

2457
03:10:07.159 --> 03:10:16.360
said it exactly the thrill of having
over fans here inside who inside Madisons worker.

2458
03:10:16.399 --> 03:10:20.639
And there's something about the ww There's
something about the WWE. Yep,

2459
03:10:20.760 --> 03:10:26.879
there is take that and take that
however you want. Oh my god,

2460
03:10:26.159 --> 03:10:30.639
Jair says, dictate a fast paced
take a shot or with the heads or

2461
03:10:30.680 --> 03:10:33.600
account of the headlock. And Jair
puts over Wharton's long legs as a unique

2462
03:10:33.600 --> 03:10:39.040
asset that he has back up inverted
atomic drop and Hardy does that awful I

2463
03:10:39.120 --> 03:10:43.120
know that awful ankles to the growing
thing he does. Oh yeah, he

2464
03:10:43.239 --> 03:10:45.760
jumps up in the air and lands
on you with the heels of his feet.

2465
03:10:46.000 --> 03:10:50.200
See the dropkick gets to get your
shot glass ready, Jair says.

2466
03:10:50.200 --> 03:10:56.920
A flurry of offense, quickly paced, huge running dropkick under the ropes,

2467
03:10:56.920 --> 03:11:00.799
and Orton flies into the wall like
crazy and kind of a Crims's neck.

2468
03:11:00.840 --> 03:11:05.440
The way he lands against the wall. Oh my god, that maybe again

2469
03:11:05.559 --> 03:11:09.680
this is this is the Orton.
I will never I will never take away

2470
03:11:09.719 --> 03:11:16.559
the fact that Orton, that Randy
Orton always finds ways to sell moves in

2471
03:11:18.840 --> 03:11:22.719
a way that looks threateningly real.
Yeah, the way he sold the brass

2472
03:11:22.760 --> 03:11:26.639
knuckles punch an elimination chamber from Logan, Paul refolded his ankle underneath his body.

2473
03:11:28.079 --> 03:11:33.000
Yep, he does it so well
like it's it's really his greatest gift.

2474
03:11:33.319 --> 03:11:37.959
The thing is the fact that he
he just I think of the super

2475
03:11:39.079 --> 03:11:45.680
kick from Sean Michaels. It's absolutely
this now. The way he just lands

2476
03:11:45.719 --> 03:11:52.040
with his neck all like twisted and
broke looking, it's really he's really an

2477
03:11:52.120 --> 03:11:58.079
incredible There's no person who better sells
a kill shot, I agree, than

2478
03:11:58.159 --> 03:12:03.440
Randy Orton. Yeah, like a
stunner from Kevin Owens or any of that

2479
03:12:03.520 --> 03:12:07.639
stuff. He's he just sells a
kill shot like he got killed. Oh

2480
03:12:09.600 --> 03:12:11.440
so replays take a little bit of
the um fat of it, unfortunately,

2481
03:12:11.520 --> 03:12:16.079
because you realize that Orton had his
hands down first before he hit the floor

2482
03:12:16.079 --> 03:12:18.639
and went into the wall, so
we had like not nearly as much momentum

2483
03:12:18.680 --> 03:12:22.399
as at first seemed like. I'm
always against replays in wrestling that make the

2484
03:12:22.440 --> 03:12:24.559
move look more fake than the live
take. Did. I agree? Sometimes

2485
03:12:24.600 --> 03:12:28.000
they can't help themselves, are just
too late, but when they realize it.

2486
03:12:28.040 --> 03:12:31.239
Anyway, Hardy levels him on the
outside where the pescado dive and then

2487
03:12:31.239 --> 03:12:35.280
the lawler says he's got an adult
Randy Orton. What kind of adult are

2488
03:12:35.319 --> 03:12:39.680
we talking about? An adult Randy
Orton? A drug adult Randy Orton,

2489
03:12:39.760 --> 03:12:43.959
maybe, instead of a child Randy
Orton. An adults Randy Orton speaking of

2490
03:12:45.040 --> 03:12:48.680
a child, Randy Orton stumbles over
to time keeper Marky Eaton and snatches the

2491
03:12:50.120 --> 03:12:52.600
belt away from him, and then
Hardy cuts him off as Orton looked to

2492
03:12:52.639 --> 03:12:56.520
be taking off and just quitting the
match. The exchange in the aisleway into

2493
03:12:56.520 --> 03:12:58.520
the table goes Randy Orton into the
ring and the action goes and Hardy tries

2494
03:12:58.559 --> 03:13:03.079
to springboard back in, but Randy
Orton cuts him off with a dropkick in

2495
03:13:03.120 --> 03:13:07.200
mid flight. Yes he does.
They like that. Orton suplexis chef on

2496
03:13:07.239 --> 03:13:09.399
the floor, brings him back in
for two count, does some garving stumps

2497
03:13:09.440 --> 03:13:13.559
and a knee drop and gets another
two. Orton to the crowd, you

2498
03:13:13.680 --> 03:13:16.799
believe in him. I love that. I'm okay with them talking to the

2499
03:13:16.840 --> 03:13:20.840
crowd, just not talking to each
other with dialogue. Absolutely, I love

2500
03:13:20.920 --> 03:13:22.920
them talking to the crowd. That's
what they're supposed to do. Yep,

2501
03:13:22.520 --> 03:13:28.319
is he your hero? He should
say, look at him Hardy side steps

2502
03:13:28.360 --> 03:13:31.840
and Orton hits the floor. Jr. Says Orton tastes the concrete and Madison

2503
03:13:31.879 --> 03:13:35.879
Square garden even though there's matts and
carpet everywhere covering every square inch of the

2504
03:13:35.959 --> 03:13:39.559
concrete completely covered. I've seen the
MSG concrete and this is not it.

2505
03:13:39.879 --> 03:13:45.440
That's right. They never have the
concrete exposed during events like this. Hardy

2506
03:13:45.479 --> 03:13:50.479
the apron and launches with a clothesline. The only time it's ever exposed is

2507
03:13:52.079 --> 03:14:00.440
during the summer. YEP. During
the summertime it's exposed because there's no ice.

2508
03:14:00.479 --> 03:14:03.879
But even then they usually put the
matt coverings on top to protect the

2509
03:14:03.920 --> 03:14:09.520
floor. Yep. Indeed launches with
the clothesline off the apron to Jeff Hardy.

2510
03:14:09.559 --> 03:14:11.319
That scores back in. He gets
a two misses, a corner charge

2511
03:14:11.959 --> 03:14:16.879
and Orton gets too off. That
then gets a sleeper hold and then a

2512
03:14:16.959 --> 03:14:20.360
power slam. That does Randy Orton
that gets too Wharton does that bulldog choke

2513
03:14:20.399 --> 03:14:24.319
type sleeper not the straight sleeperhle Yes, when we kind of tuck you under

2514
03:14:24.360 --> 03:14:28.319
his armpit and just squeezes. How
that How that isn't an illegal choke?

2515
03:14:28.479 --> 03:14:31.879
I still don't. I don't know
well, because it just depends. Is

2516
03:14:31.920 --> 03:14:33.600
it around the throat or is around
the chin? Always around the throat.

2517
03:14:37.799 --> 03:14:41.879
I think JR. I could be
wrong. I could have misheard. I'm

2518
03:14:41.959 --> 03:14:45.559
willing to accept that I misheard,
but I'm pretty sure I heard JR.

2519
03:14:45.680 --> 03:14:50.360
Call Randy Orton a simple son.
Oh I missed that one. A simpleton?

2520
03:14:50.440 --> 03:14:56.600
Maybe it definitely it wouldn't fit either. I could be wrong. Maybe

2521
03:14:56.639 --> 03:15:00.040
he says something else, but I
could have sworn I heard him say that

2522
03:15:00.120 --> 03:15:03.280
Randy Orton was a simple son.
We have to ask Bob Orton Jr.

2523
03:15:03.360 --> 03:15:09.479
I guess was he simple or was
he very difficult? Right? Hardy gets

2524
03:15:09.559 --> 03:15:11.840
up and elbows out of the sleeper
hold Orton with an Irish whip, but

2525
03:15:11.920 --> 03:15:13.840
Hardy turns it into kind of a
sling blade takedown, and j R.

2526
03:15:13.879 --> 03:15:18.079
Says Orton is on the way to
being the best ww mean champion ever.

2527
03:15:18.440 --> 03:15:22.319
Oh fuck me, in history.
I cannot stand that ship. That's such

2528
03:15:22.360 --> 03:15:28.399
a Vince Nickman thing of calling anybody
who like It's like, no, dude,

2529
03:15:28.520 --> 03:15:31.079
he's not. He's not even close. Like Vince is still trying to

2530
03:15:31.079 --> 03:15:35.959
get over losing Hogan. You know
by exactly this is what it seems like

2531
03:15:35.120 --> 03:15:41.680
like it's it's it's there's always been
that that thing that every you know,

2532
03:15:41.879 --> 03:15:43.520
every champ whoever is like the face
of the company. This time is the

2533
03:15:43.559 --> 03:15:48.959
greatest champion of all time, right, or like you know every WrestleMania is,

2534
03:15:50.040 --> 03:15:54.600
this will be the greatest Wrestmania of
all time. And it's like they

2535
03:15:54.600 --> 03:15:56.559
always say it before, right,
the returns are in. You know,

2536
03:16:00.120 --> 03:16:03.280
so Hardy with a forearm and a
clothes line in a back yelbow. Guess

2537
03:16:03.319 --> 03:16:07.879
why Jarrisy is quickening the pace?
Actually, he says, and I quote

2538
03:16:09.079 --> 03:16:13.159
Hardy again, you can feel it, see it, Hardy trying to quicken

2539
03:16:13.239 --> 03:16:16.920
the pace. It's all about pacing
for Jeff. Hardy. Quicken the pace

2540
03:16:16.280 --> 03:16:20.360
takes some chances. He said,
all those things back to back, just

2541
03:16:20.440 --> 03:16:22.479
like that. In my life,
it's just atrocious, it's insulting, it's

2542
03:16:22.840 --> 03:16:28.200
unnecessary, it's it's bullshit. Hardy
with a great whisper in the wind out

2543
03:16:28.200 --> 03:16:33.000
of the corner that gets a very
close one two after he levels Randy Orton.

2544
03:16:33.040 --> 03:16:35.440
Then Jeff with a push up drop
kick in the corner, takes the

2545
03:16:35.479 --> 03:16:37.680
shirt off and the ladies pop gets
up top it. Orton rolls out to

2546
03:16:37.719 --> 03:16:41.719
the apron, so Jeff can't hit
him with the swanton. However, says

2547
03:16:41.799 --> 03:16:45.040
just rolling all over the floor,
Orton hangs out in the apron, and

2548
03:16:45.120 --> 03:16:46.360
that allows Jeff to jump off the
top rope and hit him with the missile

2549
03:16:46.399 --> 03:16:50.079
drop kick, knocking Randy Orton off
the apron. Well, and then there's

2550
03:16:50.479 --> 03:16:56.840
there's this whole thing here, this
dialogue between lawler and and JR. About

2551
03:16:56.840 --> 03:17:01.440
what Jeff's doing, and Jr's responds
to a little dark If you ask me,

2552
03:17:01.840 --> 03:17:07.319
what's he contemplating? Who knows?
Only Jeff Harty knows this suicidal offense.

2553
03:17:09.120 --> 03:17:13.399
It's more than high rest Yikes,
Yeah, I'm no, JR.

2554
03:17:13.440 --> 03:17:16.280
It's a little rough pell At least
the TV cords have been used already,

2555
03:17:16.360 --> 03:17:20.040
so they're not going to go there. Yeah, that's true. And then

2556
03:17:20.120 --> 03:17:22.280
Jeff, with is back to Orton
on the floor, decides, you know

2557
03:17:22.360 --> 03:17:26.040
what I mean, we got a
sacrifice, right, I mean? What

2558
03:17:26.239 --> 03:17:31.520
is what good am I? Right? What purpose do I serve in the

2559
03:17:31.559 --> 03:17:35.280
world? What more can you do? Unless I'm taking flight exactly with a

2560
03:17:35.360 --> 03:17:39.479
high risk of destroying my body and
the rest of my life. And so

2561
03:17:39.639 --> 03:17:43.360
Jeff climbs back to Orton on the
floor Moon salt press, something he almost

2562
03:17:43.440 --> 03:17:48.719
never does, and actually came up
quite a bit short. But I think

2563
03:17:48.719 --> 03:17:50.639
it's safe to say at the Royal
Rubble two thousand and eight, Jeff Hardy

2564
03:17:50.680 --> 03:17:54.719
Moon salted for the industry, I
would say, yes, that he is

2565
03:17:54.799 --> 03:18:01.559
here to sacrifice and sacrifice for the
great are Good Jr. As you can

2566
03:18:01.600 --> 03:18:03.719
imagine, calls it a leap of
faith, and after barely connecting on the

2567
03:18:03.719 --> 03:18:07.360
moon saw, Jeff Hardy rolls Red
New Orton back into the ring at the

2568
03:18:07.440 --> 03:18:09.200
count of about eight, and as
soon as he does that, he goes

2569
03:18:09.239 --> 03:18:13.120
for the boot to the gut,
going for the twist to fade, and

2570
03:18:13.319 --> 03:18:18.840
just like this, Orton breaks free
RKO one two three, nice finish RK.

2571
03:18:18.959 --> 03:18:22.719
I want to nowhere. This maybe
one of the first times it was

2572
03:18:22.760 --> 03:18:24.719
said in such blunt terms, I
think so. I think this is definitely

2573
03:18:24.760 --> 03:18:30.239
before the meme started, right absolutely. It was fourteen minutes and three seconds.

2574
03:18:30.399 --> 03:18:33.159
Randy Orton defeats Jeff Hardy to retain
the WWB Championship at the two thousand

2575
03:18:33.159 --> 03:18:37.200
and eight Royal Rumble. Good match. Maybe one or two times a year

2576
03:18:37.399 --> 03:18:39.840
I go back and just go through
a whole bunch of those in those arcades.

2577
03:18:39.879 --> 03:18:43.920
I don't know where that just they
are so great. They're so awesome,

2578
03:18:45.120 --> 03:18:50.840
like the like in Catching a Plane. Yeah, so fucking funny.

2579
03:18:52.840 --> 03:18:54.639
The girl falls on her face in
her kitchen. Yeah, of course right,

2580
03:18:54.920 --> 03:18:58.840
like appears in the in the in
the window, in like the window,

2581
03:19:00.319 --> 03:19:05.799
so fucking bizarre. Oh God,
that's how you protect the finish by

2582
03:19:05.799 --> 03:19:09.520
the way that you hit it,
like you know, when the when the

2583
03:19:09.559 --> 03:19:13.479
guy's completely on full energy and closing
it in a victory. But if you

2584
03:19:13.520 --> 03:19:16.280
can just get that RKO off,
you take all of his progress away from

2585
03:19:16.319 --> 03:19:20.120
him and pin his ass yep,
And you can't kill a push with a

2586
03:19:20.159 --> 03:19:22.319
cleaner pin if you ask me,
And I'm okay with it. Randy Orton

2587
03:19:22.360 --> 03:19:26.479
retains good match. Orton music comes
down. They give Hardy his moment with

2588
03:19:26.559 --> 03:19:28.680
silence so we can get up to
a standing ovation. Wow. They give

2589
03:19:28.719 --> 03:19:33.360
it to him and some hearty ch
consolation prize to the fact that you know

2590
03:19:33.040 --> 03:19:37.760
we didn't pull a trigger. Yeah, and there's Joey Styles for the first

2591
03:19:37.799 --> 03:19:41.600
time of the whole broadcast. No
no ECW matches, but we're here for

2592
03:19:41.639 --> 03:19:46.879
the royal rumble telling us for a
couple of minutes. Check Joey absolutely ultimate

2593
03:19:46.920 --> 03:19:52.840
opportunity to thirty w B superstars tonight. Yeah this this is hearing Joey Styles

2594
03:19:52.879 --> 03:19:56.159
recite Vince McMann verbiage is tremendous.
Really and then it gives and this is

2595
03:19:56.639 --> 03:20:00.520
it leads to a nice little Well
I don't know if it's nice yet,

2596
03:20:00.520 --> 03:20:03.920
but did you include the whole package? Not the whole package, just the

2597
03:20:03.000 --> 03:20:11.639
PA statistic the only match in WWE
that affords the ultimate opportunity to thirty WWE

2598
03:20:11.760 --> 03:20:15.079
superstars in a single night. But
you want to talk stats, check this

2599
03:20:15.239 --> 03:20:18.959
out. The past seven winners of
the Row Rumbo Match have gone on to

2600
03:20:18.040 --> 03:20:26.000
the main event of WrestleMania and won
the championship. Uh not true, really

2601
03:20:26.360 --> 03:20:30.120
true, Taz Well, neither The
Undertaker Norway Mysteria were in the main event

2602
03:20:30.239 --> 03:20:37.319
of their WrestleMania matches. You don't
understand whatever, No matter where in the

2603
03:20:37.399 --> 03:20:41.440
card, it is the rumbel winner
going for the title is a main event.

2604
03:20:41.959 --> 03:20:46.079
Yeah no, sorry, it's not
how it works. No, no,

2605
03:20:46.719 --> 03:20:50.200
no, Actually, the last two
years they were not in the main

2606
03:20:50.280 --> 03:20:54.440
event. It was it was not
a main event match, del rio.

2607
03:20:56.040 --> 03:21:01.000
And guess what this one also not
a main event match, and let me

2608
03:21:01.079 --> 03:21:03.760
think you're two and nine? Yeah, next year, isn't that? That's

2609
03:21:03.840 --> 03:21:09.040
Chamouse? I think who won and
not a main event match. I didn't

2610
03:21:09.079 --> 03:21:15.040
close. Wasn't it the opener?
Yeah? Yeah? Oh god, yeah.

2611
03:21:15.079 --> 03:21:18.520
They introduced two belts and the rumbles
ceased to meet as much instantly.

2612
03:21:18.559 --> 03:21:22.520
Not necessarily true. I don't know. I don't necessa agree with that because

2613
03:21:22.200 --> 03:21:31.399
I think, you know, brock
Lasner winning it was uh was fine.

2614
03:21:33.000 --> 03:21:39.719
Yeah. What I mean is that
the rumble winner going for the title has

2615
03:21:39.799 --> 03:21:45.000
to compete with another quote unquote world
title. Yeah, sure, in terms

2616
03:21:45.040 --> 03:21:48.479
of like perception of main event,
whereas if it was one belt, you

2617
03:21:48.559 --> 03:21:52.000
know, there wouldn't be this sort
of like, well, which of the

2618
03:21:52.079 --> 03:21:54.200
two title matches is actually the main
event? Bullshit? You know, sorry,

2619
03:21:54.440 --> 03:21:58.680
it wasn't Shamuz. It was Randy
Orton in two thousand and nine,

2620
03:21:58.760 --> 03:22:01.280
he did win, He did not
win the championship, but he was in

2621
03:22:01.360 --> 03:22:09.719
the main event. Okay, Edge
won. The following year, he did

2622
03:22:09.799 --> 03:22:15.360
not main an event WrestleMania twenty six. Alvaltril did not main event, Shamouse

2623
03:22:15.559 --> 03:22:20.319
did not main event, John Cena
did main event, Batista main evented.

2624
03:22:20.760 --> 03:22:26.040
Roman Reigns main invented. Randy Orton, I don't even know. He didn't

2625
03:22:26.079 --> 03:22:31.879
main an event WrestleMania thirty three,
did he He's never made event in his

2626
03:22:31.000 --> 03:22:35.520
life really yet? Wasn't that a
Roman Brock match? Why is there no

2627
03:22:35.920 --> 03:22:41.159
ro room for Wrestlmingia thirty two?
Yeah? Roman, Well Triple H won

2628
03:22:41.159 --> 03:22:46.479
the world title in that. Oh
yeah, could they face Roman? Right?

2629
03:22:46.680 --> 03:22:50.120
But he won the championship by doing
that? Yeah? He won a

2630
03:22:50.200 --> 03:22:54.440
title in the in the match.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. WrestleMania

2631
03:22:54.520 --> 03:23:03.719
thirty three was Rome and and Undertaker
in the main event. Right, and

2632
03:23:03.239 --> 03:23:07.639
so ran Yorton did not main event. He had that Bray Wyatt fucking special

2633
03:23:07.639 --> 03:23:15.639
effects match. Right. Schinsucky did
not main event seth Rawlins definitely did not

2634
03:23:15.760 --> 03:23:18.719
make an event at Wrestling YA thirty
five. Don't forget right opening match again?

2635
03:23:20.120 --> 03:23:24.000
Yep, yep. Drew McIntyre main
invented. Does that count? No?

2636
03:23:24.719 --> 03:23:31.239
No Edge Edge main invented? Yea
god? Edge is a two time

2637
03:23:31.360 --> 03:23:39.040
Royal Rumble winner. Sure is?
Oh my god? Uh, Brock Brock

2638
03:23:39.000 --> 03:23:43.040
main invented. Yeah, and Cody's
main invented. We'll see if Cody made

2639
03:23:43.079 --> 03:23:48.719
events this year. Maybe maybe he
won't. Maybe he'll open WrestleMania for day

2640
03:23:48.799 --> 03:23:52.600
one. Oh my god, imagine
Roman versus Cody is the opener and job

2641
03:23:54.239 --> 03:24:01.559
Oh and then they put like Seth, they put Seth versus l a night.

2642
03:24:01.559 --> 03:24:03.479
No, no, no, what's
gonna happen? Is this? So?

2643
03:24:03.719 --> 03:24:09.760
So they put Cody Cody and Roman
Reigns opens WrestleMania on Saturday. On

2644
03:24:09.959 --> 03:24:18.200
Saturday, okay, and the final
match is Roman Reigns versus Rock on Sunday.

2645
03:24:18.840 --> 03:24:20.760
Why can't Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins
be the last one? That's what

2646
03:24:20.840 --> 03:24:24.000
we all came to see. They're
gonna be in the middle of the card

2647
03:24:24.040 --> 03:24:30.360
on Sunday. Oh oh, it's
gonna be a sad state of affairs coming

2648
03:24:30.479 --> 03:24:33.079
up. Oh man, they do
a big by the Numbers package. You

2649
03:24:33.159 --> 03:24:35.399
know, I canna go through all
the numbers. I like those. I

2650
03:24:35.559 --> 03:24:39.600
like that do a good job with
them. Yeah, I've always liked the

2651
03:24:39.000 --> 03:24:43.680
those are those are fun? Five
hundred and sixty nine men since eighty eight.

2652
03:24:43.680 --> 03:24:46.959
I tried, but this this,
this, this thing does include a

2653
03:24:48.000 --> 03:24:50.760
clip of a Battle Royal from nineten
ninety four. This one does. Yeah,

2654
03:24:50.200 --> 03:24:54.920
yep, and they you also weird
too. They're playing all this stock

2655
03:24:54.120 --> 03:25:03.479
NFL music want to make like inside
the NF well a little London, NFL

2656
03:25:03.559 --> 03:25:11.559
films percent Why why are these guys
seeing their breath you know, bum the

2657
03:25:11.600 --> 03:25:18.200
little the little, a little London. They say that five hundred and sixty

2658
03:25:18.319 --> 03:25:22.239
nine men since eighty eight boom boom
boom boom bur boom boom boom bura boom

2659
03:25:22.239 --> 03:25:28.600
boom boom boom boom boom boom pur
boom boom boom boom boom bura boom boom

2660
03:25:28.639 --> 03:25:33.360
boom boom boom bur boom boom boom
bum boom boom boom boom boom bura boom

2661
03:25:33.360 --> 03:25:39.440
boom boom boom bura boom boom.
They say, sixty two twelve is the

2662
03:25:39.479 --> 03:25:43.319
record for Ray that has since been
eclipsed by Gunter. I think, right,

2663
03:25:43.680 --> 03:25:48.680
yeah, I believe Gunter. And
and then did Cody break it again?

2664
03:25:48.719 --> 03:25:50.639
I don't even remember now, just
fucking watched it. No, but

2665
03:25:52.799 --> 03:25:56.879
hold on, because what about Daniel
Brian in the Greatest Royal Room? Does

2666
03:25:56.920 --> 03:25:58.879
that not count? No? They
would say, yeah, another shit traditional

2667
03:26:00.040 --> 03:26:05.280
rumble matches. Oh I see,
Oh my god, the greatest rumble They're

2668
03:26:05.319 --> 03:26:09.200
so fucking stupid, I swear to
God, so pathetic man. There's not

2669
03:26:09.280 --> 03:26:13.319
a single like meaningful thing they can't
just like render meaning Listen, I know

2670
03:26:13.559 --> 03:26:18.000
they just they need to ruin everything
they really do. They're just let's see

2671
03:26:18.000 --> 03:26:26.399
here, so most victories that doesn't
matter I need Oh wow, runner runners

2672
03:26:26.479 --> 03:26:31.000
up. Wow. Roman Reigns has
the most runners up positions. He was

2673
03:26:31.079 --> 03:26:37.719
runner up four times. Four times. That's fascinating, heartbreaking if you're Roman.

2674
03:26:39.440 --> 03:26:46.079
Longest time spent in a single Royal
rumble, yes, Gunta Gunta has

2675
03:26:46.280 --> 03:26:52.520
the traditional record at I don't know
how the fuck seventy one minutes, seventy

2676
03:26:52.559 --> 03:27:01.319
one minutes and forty seconds. God, that's nauseating. But Daniel Bryan has

2677
03:27:01.440 --> 03:27:07.440
the record at seventy six minutes five
seconds at the greatest Pral Crumble. Yes,

2678
03:27:09.520 --> 03:27:13.399
amazing, amazing. So yeah,
they go through all this kind of

2679
03:27:13.440 --> 03:27:18.920
stuff and they say seventy three percent
of winners win the big one at WrestleMania.

2680
03:27:18.120 --> 03:27:22.920
So that's great. I did tell
you what that that track record would

2681
03:27:22.959 --> 03:27:28.719
go downhill starting that year. Yes, that would be that would begin not

2682
03:27:28.840 --> 03:27:33.319
to go back into it, but
here we go. John Cena lost all

2683
03:27:33.399 --> 03:27:37.600
right, he lost not only did
he lose the WrestleMania match, he also

2684
03:27:37.680 --> 03:27:41.000
lost the No Way Out match where
he cashed in. All right, Randy

2685
03:27:41.159 --> 03:27:54.920
Orton lost to Triple h Edge.
Edge lost the year after alberteldel Rio lost

2686
03:27:54.959 --> 03:28:00.959
the year after Chamouse was the next
one to win. So between sixteen,

2687
03:28:01.040 --> 03:28:07.760
seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, losers, losers, losers, chamoose. Oh

2688
03:28:07.840 --> 03:28:13.600
yeah this and then if you look
at it, yeah, it's ridiculous.

2689
03:28:13.680 --> 03:28:16.799
Like you know, for a while, it was like all they did was

2690
03:28:16.959 --> 03:28:20.680
win, win win, win,
win win, no matter what. Like

2691
03:28:20.200 --> 03:28:24.680
you know, Yokozuna won, Brett
Hart won, Sean Michaels didn't, but

2692
03:28:24.760 --> 03:28:31.600
he won the next year, you
know, like they's just the it's just

2693
03:28:31.719 --> 03:28:33.600
ridiculous, like to have you should
never have. Let me put it this

2694
03:28:33.680 --> 03:28:39.479
way, you should never have FOREI
in a row lose. That diminishes the

2695
03:28:39.520 --> 03:28:43.040
purpose of the Royal Rumble totally.
You should never have. I'll tell you

2696
03:28:43.159 --> 03:28:50.000
what. You can have one loss
like every three years, but you should

2697
03:28:50.040 --> 03:28:56.200
all they should always win, They
should always win. Otherwise what's the fucking

2698
03:28:56.239 --> 03:29:03.879
point? So true? H Well, that's that. And they say that

2699
03:29:03.200 --> 03:29:07.520
only four men of coming at number
twenty seven to win, John Studd Yokozuna,

2700
03:29:07.600 --> 03:29:11.639
Brett Hard and Stone Cold, Steve
Austin, Yes, and uh here

2701
03:29:11.719 --> 03:29:15.799
we go. Odds are they conclude
this will be the greatest Royal Rumble yet.

2702
03:29:15.840 --> 03:29:16.559
I don't know how they get that
from everything they just said, but

2703
03:29:16.639 --> 03:29:24.559
that's what they said. And Michael
Buffer is in the WWE ring. He

2704
03:29:24.719 --> 03:29:33.680
sure is, and provides his only
Royal Rumble intro and it is surreal to

2705
03:29:33.799 --> 03:29:37.000
see him in the ring. You
would think you would have been a natural

2706
03:29:37.079 --> 03:29:39.840
for this for the beginning. I
know, I know, you think you

2707
03:29:39.840 --> 03:29:43.680
would have been a Royal Rumble guy
from the very beginning. But here he

2708
03:29:43.760 --> 03:29:48.239
goes. I know, usually do
this, no, take it away.

2709
03:29:48.239 --> 03:29:50.719
It's historic, all right. He
is historic. That's the only reason why

2710
03:29:50.760 --> 03:29:54.600
I record its. Usually I let
you do this one. But oh,

2711
03:29:56.120 --> 03:30:05.680
ladies and gentlemen from the mecca Swarts
and Entertainment, Madison Square Garden Entertainment.

2712
03:30:05.719 --> 03:30:11.360
Their power is the moment the world
has been waiting for, the two thousand

2713
03:30:11.399 --> 03:30:18.639
and eight Royal Rumble. The rules
are as follows. The superstars who drew

2714
03:30:20.000 --> 03:30:26.159
number one and number two will start. Once the match begins, another superstar

2715
03:30:26.280 --> 03:30:31.479
will enter every ninety seconds based upon
the number drawn earlier tonight. This will

2716
03:30:31.520 --> 03:30:39.360
continue until all thirty superstars have entered
the ring. The only way to be

2717
03:30:39.639 --> 03:30:46.399
eliminated is to be thrown over the
top rope with both feet hitting the ground.

2718
03:30:48.079 --> 03:30:52.479
The last man in the ring will
be declared the two thousand and eight

2719
03:30:54.200 --> 03:31:01.319
Royal Rumble Winner, and along with
his triumphant place in his he will be

2720
03:31:01.719 --> 03:31:11.600
awarded a championship match at WrestleMania twenty
four. And now the time has arrived.

2721
03:31:11.760 --> 03:31:20.639
Thirty superstars shall enter this ring,
but only one will be victorious.

2722
03:31:20.319 --> 03:31:30.760
Are you ready, Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA? Are

2723
03:31:31.959 --> 03:31:48.440
you ready for the sold out standing
room only thousands in attendance here at the

2724
03:31:48.520 --> 03:31:58.079
Garden and the millions watching around the
world, Ladies and gentlemen. Let's get

2725
03:31:58.360 --> 03:32:11.760
ready to rumber. Amazing, amazing, it really is. He had done

2726
03:32:11.920 --> 03:32:15.799
I think his very first w W
appearance on a Saturday Night's main event August

2727
03:32:15.840 --> 03:32:18.680
thirteen, two thousand and seven,
Madison Square Garden, where Vander Holyfield boxed

2728
03:32:18.680 --> 03:32:22.799
Matt Hardy. Oh my goodness,
they brought him in as the voice.

2729
03:32:22.840 --> 03:32:28.280
Yeah, I have don't recall that
at all. And he main events.

2730
03:32:28.239 --> 03:32:31.520
Yeah, that's when they first brought
it back when they got back with USA

2731
03:32:31.680 --> 03:32:35.559
and started doing him again. Yep, but yeah, this is it for

2732
03:32:35.639 --> 03:32:43.719
him in WW I used to do. That's how I used to to to

2733
03:32:43.840 --> 03:32:50.319
bring people into the uh my Madison
Square Garden tours. I would I would

2734
03:32:50.440 --> 03:33:01.200
end my my opening spiel with let's
get ready to When I say, like,

2735
03:33:01.440 --> 03:33:05.200
walk through Madison Square Garden, the
world will same like surdly worry,

2736
03:33:07.440 --> 03:33:09.879
you know, and and people would
ask me, are you that guy?

2737
03:33:09.520 --> 03:33:13.799
Oh no, they would ask that, but what yes? Yes, Idiots

2738
03:33:13.840 --> 03:33:18.079
from that's stupid, from from fucking
you know, like the middle of nowhere

2739
03:33:18.200 --> 03:33:24.040
of run down rundown States would say, are you that guy? No?

2740
03:33:24.799 --> 03:33:28.920
You sure? Actually yes, I
am that guy. Sorry, I forgot.

2741
03:33:30.159 --> 03:33:33.280
Oh here's the thing. I'm actually
not sure. I've been you know,

2742
03:33:33.319 --> 03:33:35.399
I've been trying to figure it out. I'm not completely sure, but

2743
03:33:35.399 --> 03:33:39.479
I'm pretty sure I'm not. But
I'm not one hundred percent certain that I'm

2744
03:33:39.520 --> 03:33:41.440
not I could. I'm not one
hundred percent certain that I I'm not the

2745
03:33:41.479 --> 03:33:46.000
guy who stands in the middle of
boxing rings and screams that I could could

2746
03:33:46.000 --> 03:33:50.559
be me. I just don't remember
could be me. I'm just unsure at

2747
03:33:50.559 --> 03:33:52.239
this time. Yeah, when someone
asks you a question like that, the

2748
03:33:52.319 --> 03:33:58.040
best answer is I don't remember.
That'll that'll leave him thinking for a while,

2749
03:33:58.479 --> 03:34:01.799
give you a chance to make a
getaway. That's funny. How funny

2750
03:34:01.840 --> 03:34:05.799
is the triple H mocked Michael Buffer
all those years in DX, and now

2751
03:34:05.520 --> 03:34:11.239
the crowd is like loving the guy. Yep, yep, But there it

2752
03:34:11.360 --> 03:34:16.479
is, and our first entrant dome
and they go nuts. The Undertaker entrant

2753
03:34:16.520 --> 03:34:20.239
number one, after winning at number
thirty. He's a rumble curtain jerk.

2754
03:34:20.440 --> 03:34:24.040
I'll say the two thousand and eight
rumble. Take the word curtain out by

2755
03:34:24.120 --> 03:34:28.879
the way, yep, flames above
the entrance way and coming at number two.

2756
03:34:30.159 --> 03:34:31.879
Oh, by the way, when
uh one Undertaker comes out, what

2757
03:34:33.040 --> 03:34:37.639
is Michael Cole the first thing out
of his mouth representing SmackDown? For God's

2758
03:34:37.680 --> 03:34:43.840
sakes, you know he's actually representing
his own agenda, is what he's representing?

2759
03:34:45.000 --> 03:34:48.600
Right? Absolutely? Entrant number one, the Undertaker, and we hear

2760
03:34:48.719 --> 03:34:54.920
Michael Buffer say it. He doesn't
say Undertaker, he says the Undertaker.

2761
03:34:56.280 --> 03:35:00.479
It's so bizarre the way he does
the names. It's never he like,

2762
03:35:01.200 --> 03:35:03.920
it's like he doesn't know how to
say w W prest names, you know,

2763
03:35:03.159 --> 03:35:05.760
like he was he was comfortable with
WCW guys, but he does not

2764
03:35:07.000 --> 03:35:13.440
know how to say uh WWE names, not at all. Undertiger, he's

2765
03:35:13.479 --> 03:35:18.280
like he emphasizes the RS so bizarre
dude. Again, all three commentary teams

2766
03:35:18.319 --> 03:35:22.879
and play for this. This will
go well. They say, every ninety

2767
03:35:22.920 --> 03:35:26.360
seconds a new entrant. That's a
depressing sound. We'll see about that,

2768
03:35:28.559 --> 03:35:33.120
and uh yeah, it definitely gets
to be like sixty seconds, forty five

2769
03:35:33.159 --> 03:35:37.399
seconds at some point I didn't take
note, but some of these entrances are

2770
03:35:37.639 --> 03:35:41.760
so fucking fast. Taker takes his
hat off and has the eyes rolling the

2771
03:35:41.799 --> 03:35:45.120
back of his head, and then
we hear number two is this nemesis Shawn

2772
03:35:45.159 --> 03:35:52.639
Michaels. That was a little rematch
from the year previous, and Buffer introduces

2773
03:35:52.719 --> 03:36:00.760
him as HBK the hard Bread Kid, and that's it, say Shawn Michaels.

2774
03:36:01.959 --> 03:36:03.360
Seriously, you see, like what
the fuck? Like he doesn't know

2775
03:36:03.440 --> 03:36:07.840
what the fuck to do you think
Sean Michael's wrestling name is the Heartbreak Kid?

2776
03:36:09.319 --> 03:36:13.719
Heartbreak? Yeah? You get that
right, isn't it? Can I

2777
03:36:13.799 --> 03:36:20.920
remind you something here to think that
these two rumble fights happened a year and

2778
03:36:22.040 --> 03:36:26.399
two years prior to the WrestleMania fight. Wow, it took that long to

2779
03:36:26.520 --> 03:36:28.799
like kind of get him together for
that one on one yeah, or nanny

2780
03:36:30.280 --> 03:36:33.840
domination. I mean it's just crazy. Yeah, you watch the seven Rumble

2781
03:36:33.879 --> 03:36:39.040
and you feel like that's where they're
going exactly. You really do nothing further

2782
03:36:39.120 --> 03:36:43.319
from the truth. Wow. And
then this year, what does Michael's doing?

2783
03:36:43.360 --> 03:36:48.399
Oh he retires Flair and and and
despite not winning the Royal Rumble and

2784
03:36:48.479 --> 03:36:52.799
to take her main events WrestleMania.
Yeah. They asked Pritchard on the show

2785
03:36:52.840 --> 03:36:54.600
about the Flare retirement slot, and
he's, you know, if it wasn't

2786
03:36:54.639 --> 03:36:58.680
going with Michaels, who got to
go to and he floated Triple Ah.

2787
03:36:58.799 --> 03:37:01.000
I don't think he said that necessarily
because that was ever the plan, but

2788
03:37:01.079 --> 03:37:03.319
you know the way Triple LH was
kind of shoehorned into the scene the match

2789
03:37:03.360 --> 03:37:05.600
after seeing me the comeback, you
do have to wonder if at one point

2790
03:37:07.479 --> 03:37:11.360
Sean was free, you know,
and they reshuffled the deck because Triple H

2791
03:37:11.479 --> 03:37:13.799
was gonna work Flair. I'm sure
he would love nothing more than that spot.

2792
03:37:13.639 --> 03:37:18.440
I don't know. Yeah, So
they mentioned that only one guy had

2793
03:37:18.479 --> 03:37:20.280
ever won at number two, and
that was Raymisterio. So it's gonna be

2794
03:37:20.319 --> 03:37:24.559
tough for Shawn Michaels. Here they
face off, the bell rings, Taker

2795
03:37:24.600 --> 03:37:28.879
puts the dukes up, Undertaker would
love to strike. They say, okay,

2796
03:37:30.239 --> 03:37:39.559
okay, okay, all right.
So he when the bell rings,

2797
03:37:41.440 --> 03:37:46.959
Taker looks like he's about to start
shadow boxing. He's like moving his head

2798
03:37:48.040 --> 03:37:52.840
dark no yeah, oh yeah,
I mean he looks like a complete idiot.

2799
03:37:54.120 --> 03:37:58.520
He does. He looks so fucking
dumb. And then JR. Says

2800
03:37:58.680 --> 03:38:03.239
this, and I mean both these
statements about it's just awful, would love

2801
03:38:03.319 --> 03:38:13.280
to strike, was gonna move and
dart, He's got to move in dart.

2802
03:38:13.319 --> 03:38:20.079
What's the problem? Mhm what?
Mark Callaway is a complete goof.

2803
03:38:20.879 --> 03:38:28.479
He's such a fucking idiot because he
has his hands up. Yeah, he's

2804
03:38:28.520 --> 03:38:37.120
a striker. Ah, he's strikingly
annoying is what he is. I wish

2805
03:38:37.159 --> 03:38:39.319
you would go on strike. I
know, I wish you would. I'm

2806
03:38:39.360 --> 03:38:43.399
glad he's retired. Idiot, go
fucking make your YouTube videos, your fucking

2807
03:38:43.479 --> 03:38:46.520
loser. So he tries to close
it on MI show, talk about how

2808
03:38:46.559 --> 03:38:50.399
you're how you're such a tough guy. Yeah, he's gonna be from what

2809
03:38:50.440 --> 03:38:52.559
I understand, pretty much across the
street from us in Philly this year,

2810
03:38:52.719 --> 03:38:58.840
not the same night, of course, but in interesting his venue, he's

2811
03:38:58.840 --> 03:39:01.399
still doing those. I can't believe
it. I can't beie. We're still

2812
03:39:01.399 --> 03:39:03.200
people are still going to it,
Like do they not know what a fucking

2813
03:39:03.319 --> 03:39:07.079
fraud it is. That was just
a bad night. Yeah, that was

2814
03:39:07.079 --> 03:39:09.959
probably the best night. We were
just a bad crowd. We were cranky

2815
03:39:11.000 --> 03:39:13.520
because we had to wait outside in
the cold for four hours to get in.

2816
03:39:13.879 --> 03:39:24.120
Oh fucking with some good fucking character. Oh yeah, yeah, oh

2817
03:39:24.239 --> 03:39:28.920
yeah, some guy. It's not
his fault that, you know, the

2818
03:39:28.280 --> 03:39:33.639
like the power went out or something
like that. He's the electrical worker.

2819
03:39:33.959 --> 03:39:37.840
Yes, remember that dude, fucking
like nothing. I can do, nothing

2820
03:39:37.879 --> 03:39:39.959
I can do. Remember that guy
passed out and like almost died in this

2821
03:39:39.959 --> 03:39:45.440
ce minute, This giant simoan man
passed out and like in line, in

2822
03:39:45.639 --> 03:39:50.040
line, supposed to wait till you're
in the ring to pass. Yeah,

2823
03:39:50.120 --> 03:39:52.840
right, so take your looks to
close it on Michael's in the corner.

2824
03:39:54.239 --> 03:39:56.120
Michael starts out of the way,
throw some chops. Whip is reversed and

2825
03:39:56.239 --> 03:40:00.159
Michaels goes inside out and the corner
turn buckle right out of the game here

2826
03:40:00.200 --> 03:40:01.399
at the rumble, and then he
gets goozled and dropped into the corner.

2827
03:40:01.719 --> 03:40:16.159
Taker starts throwing those soup bones.
Boss, let's not forget coach has been

2828
03:40:16.200 --> 03:40:20.079
in rumble matches style, says,
I think lots of people have forgotten the

2829
03:40:20.200 --> 03:40:26.600
coach is Madewell, that coaches has
been. Sean gets hammicked across the top

2830
03:40:26.680 --> 03:40:28.079
rope and kicked into the crotch and
take her missus are running boot and ends

2831
03:40:28.120 --> 03:40:31.680
up on the apron in his own
right. Sean charges, but he gets

2832
03:40:31.719 --> 03:40:35.920
google goozled and Taker climbs over the
top rope. Hbk gets free and the

2833
03:40:35.000 --> 03:40:39.440
countdown begins for the first time.
Four three two one, and a big

2834
03:40:39.479 --> 03:40:56.239
boot puts down Seawn Michaels as Santino
with no single lead hits the ring absolutely.

2835
03:40:58.360 --> 03:41:03.280
Now we've got some people in play, We've got a field underway.

2836
03:41:03.280 --> 03:41:09.239
Yeah, come on, this man
has yet to enter. But this is

2837
03:41:09.280 --> 03:41:18.440
a Royal Rumble featuring hardcore Holly and
anyone who caught our two thousand and five

2838
03:41:18.520 --> 03:41:26.399
Royal Rumble show that was what time
it is? No one talks better shit

2839
03:41:28.639 --> 03:41:35.120
than Bob Holly Pang. And what
that means is we're going to dip back

2840
03:41:35.200 --> 03:41:39.920
into this tradition as Rumble Entrance make
their way to the ring for the two

2841
03:41:39.920 --> 03:41:45.239
thousand and eight edition. I'm going
to turn to Hardcore Holly's book for a

2842
03:41:45.319 --> 03:41:50.479
little bit of insight into what makes
most of them total fucking assholes, Because

2843
03:41:50.559 --> 03:41:56.760
Hardcore Holly looks around and he's pissed
and he thinks you suck, and he's

2844
03:41:56.799 --> 03:42:01.040
pretty sure you fucked him one way
or another, and you don't deserve a

2845
03:42:01.159 --> 03:42:05.639
push over him. He's been here
to goddamn long. That's right. He's

2846
03:42:05.680 --> 03:42:07.079
a fucking veteran. He started off
in the Royal Rummel. Come on,

2847
03:42:07.559 --> 03:42:13.040
Hardcore hall Is. He's not happy
for anybody. He's just pissed for people

2848
03:42:13.200 --> 03:42:16.280
who didn't get the opportunity instead of
the other guy. And he's looking for

2849
03:42:16.360 --> 03:42:20.079
people to take it out on.
And it's that simple now. Sean Michaels

2850
03:42:20.159 --> 03:42:37.719
is already in the ring. YEP. I talked to him a few months

2851
03:42:37.760 --> 03:42:39.959
before I left WWE, Sean that
is, and told him we're gonna have

2852
03:42:41.079 --> 03:42:45.479
fucking you know you like dueling Banjos
and delivers. We're gonna have dueling hardcore.

2853
03:42:45.760 --> 03:42:50.159
Indeed, indeed, so be it. I talked to Sean a few

2854
03:42:50.159 --> 03:42:52.040
months before I left WB, and
I told him, you know, I

2855
03:42:52.079 --> 03:42:56.040
didn't like you when I first got
here. He laughed and said, I

2856
03:42:56.079 --> 03:43:01.840
don't remember how he laughed and said, I remember half my life. I

2857
03:43:01.959 --> 03:43:05.639
was so fucked up. I told
him about the whole deal with him.

2858
03:43:05.719 --> 03:43:09.440
Yeah, say that. You say
that so we don't have to take any

2859
03:43:09.479 --> 03:43:16.040
responsibility for what you did. That's
why very simple wrestlers always forget for that

2860
03:43:16.120 --> 03:43:18.200
reason. No, no, why
why do you say I don't I didn't

2861
03:43:18.239 --> 03:43:18.920
like you when I first came in, Like, why do you say that?

2862
03:43:20.239 --> 03:43:22.719
You know? It's fuck is wrong
with you? Bob Holly is a

2863
03:43:22.760 --> 03:43:26.239
guy that wants you to know he
doesn't like you, right, you know

2864
03:43:26.280 --> 03:43:28.680
what I mean? Or that there
was a time he didn't like you,

2865
03:43:30.079 --> 03:43:33.040
or that, Yeah, yeah,
exactly, there was one time you pissed

2866
03:43:33.120 --> 03:43:35.520
him off. I want to make
sure that we're clear here. It's so

2867
03:43:35.799 --> 03:43:48.600
true that there was there between between
October one of nineteen ninety four and July

2868
03:43:48.440 --> 03:43:54.920
fifteenth, nineteen ninety six, I
hated your guts. Wow. So the

2869
03:43:54.000 --> 03:44:07.840
Countdown's on and here comes Sanino take
Santino Morella. He's a funny gimmick and

2870
03:44:07.920 --> 03:44:28.760
that's about it. Hey, put
you back? You are you get that

2871
03:44:28.840 --> 03:44:43.559
back? Larry? Double no doubt
foward You're like wow, like a lot

2872
03:44:43.639 --> 03:44:52.719
of very good Okay. Oh,
by the way, here's one for you.

2873
03:44:52.879 --> 03:45:00.120
Can you call me back in twenty
minutes? Are you serious? You

2874
03:45:00.200 --> 03:45:05.440
save that one? And that's a
shoe And I just heard it's a shoe

2875
03:45:07.040 --> 03:45:13.959
Papa Sarrow last week. Yeah,
yeah, oh I stand in awe of

2876
03:45:13.000 --> 03:45:18.079
that one. I don't know if
I can match you. I can try,

2877
03:45:18.159 --> 03:45:24.239
though. There's a particular podcast.
There's a particular there's a particular there's

2878
03:45:24.239 --> 03:45:35.879
a particular there's a particular podcast called
time Lapsed Fan. There's a particular podcast

2879
03:45:37.000 --> 03:45:43.440
called time Lapsed Fan. Can you
call me back in twenty minutes? Dumb,

2880
03:45:45.760 --> 03:45:58.799
no doubt? I guess lados are
very good wrestling. What is the

2881
03:46:00.079 --> 03:46:18.239
in that ass? Larry? Wrestling
fans? Why fucking those buds? Fucking

2882
03:46:18.360 --> 03:46:28.000
things? So it's over, Jenny, it's over. It was off here

2883
03:46:30.280 --> 03:46:54.760
wrestling fans, ask Larry twenty minutes
crotch okay, in the interest of my

2884
03:46:54.879 --> 03:47:01.200
gut and time respectfully request that we
keep it. One heart GIRLI song,

2885
03:47:03.520 --> 03:47:05.760
but I think you just got it
all out of your system, and I

2886
03:47:05.799 --> 03:47:11.040
think everyone's the better for it.
Take Santina Morella. He's a funny gimmick

2887
03:47:11.040 --> 03:47:20.040
and that's about it. Hollie.
His face, picture's face, pissed off,

2888
03:47:20.440 --> 03:47:26.079
all sours, sitting in the locker
room with his hands on his hips,

2889
03:47:26.159 --> 03:47:28.600
pissed. They put the IC belt
on him in his first week,

2890
03:47:28.639 --> 03:47:31.520
and he's also been the US champion
since then. I'm a better wrestler.

2891
03:47:31.639 --> 03:47:35.799
I look better, So I find
myself wondering exactly what it was that stopped

2892
03:47:35.840 --> 03:47:41.360
me getting used at the same level. I looked and performed like an athlete,

2893
03:47:41.399 --> 03:47:43.600
and you can't tell me those facts
were at rendered completely irrelevant because I

2894
03:47:43.680 --> 03:47:48.040
wasn't great at promos. Still,
it's the only thing I can figure Santino

2895
03:47:48.120 --> 03:47:50.520
has on me. I don't begrudge
him as success, but I would like

2896
03:47:50.600 --> 03:47:52.920
to know why I never got an
opportunity, a good opportunity, to be

2897
03:47:54.040 --> 03:47:56.760
more of a player. I want
people to understand that if they were in

2898
03:47:56.879 --> 03:48:01.719
my shoes, they'd ask, that's
what he thinks when he seats? Yes,

2899
03:48:03.319 --> 03:48:09.879
that's his face all the time when
he sees Santina Morella. Of course

2900
03:48:09.280 --> 03:48:13.159
that makes sense to me, so
uh. Santino gets in there and makes

2901
03:48:13.200 --> 03:48:16.719
the face all nervous, flexes his
arms and eats chin music from Shawn Michaels,

2902
03:48:16.280 --> 03:48:20.360
and then gets dumped by Undertaker.
Jerry Lawler calls him spaghetti breath,

2903
03:48:22.319 --> 03:48:26.319
and Taker dumps Santino yep, and
Sean tries to sneak up on oo Undertaker,

2904
03:48:26.760 --> 03:48:30.200
but he gets stopped and drops.
Santino throws his arms up as he

2905
03:48:30.239 --> 03:48:33.000
stumbles back up the aisleway. Very
effective in the rumble. I will say

2906
03:48:33.040 --> 03:48:37.440
to see the exit because you can
watch the eliminated competitors skulk back to the

2907
03:48:37.479 --> 03:48:39.959
walker from Yeah there's there. There's
something about that. I'll give you that.

2908
03:48:39.120 --> 03:48:41.920
Taker goes up for high school,
but Shawn Michaels drags him off the

2909
03:48:41.959 --> 03:48:46.799
top rope. Shawn Lynn old school. We're old school school, okay,

2910
03:48:46.920 --> 03:48:48.879
yeah, yeah, certain when he
started calling it old school, I got

2911
03:48:48.959 --> 03:48:52.440
it all right, So that's when
it starts. Yeah, So like anything

2912
03:48:52.559 --> 03:48:56.120
I forgot. I thought it actually
actually had to be the ninety one to

2913
03:48:56.200 --> 03:49:00.079
be old school. No, no, no, that that's new school and

2914
03:49:00.200 --> 03:49:05.680
new the new school, that's new
school, and then middle school is like

2915
03:49:05.719 --> 03:49:13.120
you know, middle school's like mid
nineties. High school is attitude era,

2916
03:49:13.520 --> 03:49:18.760
got it, and then old school
is uh is when he started calling it

2917
03:49:18.840 --> 03:49:22.120
old school. How fucking stupid is
that that he called his little walking on

2918
03:49:22.200 --> 03:49:26.600
the ropes old school? That's what
they call it? Old say, I'm

2919
03:49:26.680 --> 03:49:33.600
going old school? Like, oh
yeah, Undersellar, you're such a fucking

2920
03:49:33.639 --> 03:49:39.639
badass because you walk through the ropes
like like like a fucking like a tight

2921
03:49:39.760 --> 03:49:43.879
rope walker, like I don't care
no, like like like seriously, dude,

2922
03:49:46.000 --> 03:49:48.399
if if I were in a real
fight with you, I would not

2923
03:49:48.479 --> 03:49:54.000
be waiting for you to to to
step up there and walk across the ropes.

2924
03:49:54.000 --> 03:49:58.760
I would have fucking pushed you off
and killed you. That's because your

2925
03:49:58.799 --> 03:50:01.799
new school, I guess Sean with
an inverted atomic drop and some chops on

2926
03:50:01.920 --> 03:50:05.559
Undertaker. As the countdown hits Sean, that would be he opened. Yeah

2927
03:50:05.600 --> 03:50:09.079
he did, That's true. He
just had least a building to open up

2928
03:50:09.120 --> 03:50:15.159
his San Antonio, Texas chop House's
correct countdown hits Sean hits a flying forearm,

2929
03:50:15.239 --> 03:50:18.959
Great Collie hits the ring, and
Undertaker choke slam Shawn Michaels. This

2930
03:50:18.120 --> 03:50:26.200
is before the that song before the
yeah, like the like the Bollywood song.

2931
03:50:26.440 --> 03:50:28.520
Right, this is just like that
menacing song used to happen. Yeah,

2932
03:50:28.639 --> 03:50:37.200
Dave Kapor out there with the Punjabi
nightmares they call him and nightmare say

2933
03:50:37.280 --> 03:50:41.760
that again, that's really not okay. They referenced the history between Undertaker and

2934
03:50:41.799 --> 03:50:43.719
colleague, and Taker jumps on.
But Collie with the big overhand chop dropping

2935
03:50:43.799 --> 03:50:48.040
Undertaker. You know how they they
they always used to do this in the

2936
03:50:48.120 --> 03:50:50.959
rumblehere. They would talk about how
many former champions are in the Rumble.

2937
03:50:50.120 --> 03:50:54.760
Yeah, I can tell you that
at this point eight of the participants,

2938
03:50:56.479 --> 03:51:03.719
so nearly a third, are former
world champions. Stunning, although although if

2939
03:51:03.760 --> 03:51:09.159
you wanted to include the e c
W Championship as a world title, that

2940
03:51:09.280 --> 03:51:13.440
brings the total to thirteen. I
don't, but I'm interested in that point.

2941
03:51:13.840 --> 03:51:20.840
There are five e CW former e
c W champions in the Royal Rumble.

2942
03:51:22.239 --> 03:51:26.719
Styles mentions Collie actually won a Battle
Royal, including Tommy Dreamer, to

2943
03:51:26.840 --> 03:51:30.079
become world champion in his own right. Styles trying to like, you know,

2944
03:51:30.239 --> 03:51:35.639
say things about the actual history of
these guys in the ring to accentuate

2945
03:51:35.760 --> 03:51:37.360
their chances in the rumble, and
everyone else is like, that's not story.

2946
03:51:37.760 --> 03:51:41.920
God love him, God love him
for trying. I mean I I

2947
03:51:43.239 --> 03:51:46.200
I remember being probably one of his
few fans when he was commentating, w

2948
03:51:46.559 --> 03:51:52.840
he felt fresh to me, Yep, you can't wrestle chance fire off at

2949
03:51:52.879 --> 03:51:56.440
Collie. This is that moment we've
talked about. Oh it was a colleiae.

2950
03:51:56.440 --> 03:51:58.520
I thought it was a shoun Michaels. Yeah. They've decided to tell

2951
03:51:58.520 --> 03:52:03.319
seawann agay wrestle at this junction.
Take her on, Collie, exchange Collie.

2952
03:52:03.360 --> 03:52:05.639
Goozle's a charging Take what you think
about it. None of the guys

2953
03:52:05.719 --> 03:52:11.799
in the ring can actually wrestle.
Well, that's true. Take answers with

2954
03:52:11.840 --> 03:52:13.600
a goozle of his own to the
ropes. They go standing there and standing

2955
03:52:13.680 --> 03:52:18.360
there, and who knows what Collie
is waiting for. Finally he breaks free,

2956
03:52:18.440 --> 03:52:20.479
goes for its shop taker dodges it
and dumps Collie out of the rumble.

2957
03:52:20.719 --> 03:52:24.959
That's right, Sean. Now to
the mittal rope, mounted punches,

2958
03:52:24.000 --> 03:52:26.959
but he gets shoved off, flips
over in his head, and jumps back

2959
03:52:28.000 --> 03:52:31.120
on it four three two one as
Sean Michaels is lifted up by Undertaker for

2960
03:52:31.159 --> 03:52:33.399
the last ride. Instead of hitting
him in the ring, he kind of

2961
03:52:33.399 --> 03:52:37.639
brings him out onto the apron,
which here comes hard Core Holly, the

2962
03:52:37.680 --> 03:52:48.040
next entrant in the Rumble, and
both Sean and Taker are up on the

2963
03:52:48.120 --> 03:52:50.319
map by the time he hits the
ring. Take her shoots Holly into the

2964
03:52:50.360 --> 03:52:56.520
corner, clothesline, punches, reverse
wet, Big Boot puts down to make

2965
03:52:56.600 --> 03:53:03.600
me, to make me chuckle Jr. Talks about the possibility of hardcore Holly,

2966
03:53:03.639 --> 03:53:09.360
wouldn't the Royal Rumble? Can only
imagine for an athlete like Hardcore Holly

2967
03:53:09.600 --> 03:53:13.520
don't win the Royal Rubble match and
a headline of WrestleMania, I guess the

2968
03:53:13.639 --> 03:53:20.559
champrit of his choice. One can
only imagine how small the attendance would be.

2969
03:53:20.719 --> 03:53:24.760
Exactly if hard Holly was in the
main event of WrestleMania. Oh my

2970
03:53:24.920 --> 03:53:28.959
god, can you imagine? But
he gets put down with the Big Boot

2971
03:53:28.000 --> 03:53:31.600
by Undertaker. Taker with a fireman's
carry on Sean to the ropes, Shawn's

2972
03:53:31.639 --> 03:53:35.159
clutching, and Taker's trying to shake
him off. Sewan, that's a bit

2973
03:53:35.159 --> 03:53:39.840
of the wily veteran Bob. Hardcore
Holly. Yep, Sean has a bit

2974
03:53:39.840 --> 03:53:43.079
of a crucifix hold on until Holly
comes over with the boots to basically save

2975
03:53:43.200 --> 03:53:48.760
him from elimination. Sean and hardcore
Holly exchange chops for three to two one

2976
03:53:48.879 --> 03:53:58.760
next to the Royal Rubble. John
Morrison correct relationships with other people in wrestling

2977
03:53:58.840 --> 03:54:01.440
don't work a lot of the time
either. It's not something that will get

2978
03:54:01.440 --> 03:54:03.079
you in trouble with the office,
but it could compromise how you're seen by

2979
03:54:03.079 --> 03:54:07.319
the company and by your peers.
Molina, Molina and Batista had something going

2980
03:54:07.360 --> 03:54:11.760
on when she was with John Morrison. John was an idiot for being okay

2981
03:54:11.840 --> 03:54:13.719
with that. What man in his
right mind would be okay with the girl

2982
03:54:13.760 --> 03:54:16.879
he lived with messing around with another
one of the boys when he found out,

2983
03:54:16.879 --> 03:54:20.680
he should have been a fucking man
and just whipped Batista's ass. John

2984
03:54:20.719 --> 03:54:22.360
could have taken Batista in a fight, for sure. He was just afraid

2985
03:54:22.399 --> 03:54:26.520
he'd lose his job because Batista was
one of the top guys and was living

2986
03:54:26.559 --> 03:54:33.719
in Hunter's colon. I don't get
why I don't I don't get why Morrison

2987
03:54:33.760 --> 03:54:37.760
didn't just drop it. Molina,
nobody liked her anyway, so he would

2988
03:54:37.760 --> 03:54:41.559
have earned her a lot more respect
for walking away. Wow, Bob Holly

2989
03:54:41.680 --> 03:54:45.959
Dishing, don't be fucking weak around
this guy, That's right. They do

2990
03:54:46.040 --> 03:54:50.040
a camera shot where the top left
shows the Rumble entrance being opened as these

2991
03:54:50.079 --> 03:54:56.239
guys work in the ring, and
Styles says that the tag team champions at

2992
03:54:56.280 --> 03:55:00.479
the time, which were the Mizzen
Morrison, were mobbed earlier by five hundred

2993
03:55:00.479 --> 03:55:03.079
female fans in the limo, and
he immediately gets cut off by Cole saying

2994
03:55:03.280 --> 03:55:07.799
that has nothing to do with with
this, that's Vince talking, and Style's

2995
03:55:07.840 --> 03:55:09.799
like, Actually, the point I
was trying to make is they were up

2996
03:55:09.799 --> 03:55:13.239
all night partying and they were going
to be tired and not as effective in

2997
03:55:13.280 --> 03:55:16.920
the Rumble. And by that point, well no, noah, yeah,

2998
03:55:16.959 --> 03:55:18.799
by that point they've decided he's on
a tangent, even though it's a perfect

2999
03:55:18.840 --> 03:55:22.079
lease. Can we can we turn
his mike off for the rest of that

3000
03:55:22.360 --> 03:55:24.959
God forbid him trying to steer the
actual characters of a mid card or into

3001
03:55:26.000 --> 03:55:28.000
a story for the Rumbull. Can't
have that. No, no, no,

3002
03:55:28.040 --> 03:55:31.600
no, no, what's he talking
about? These were missed? What

3003
03:55:31.680 --> 03:55:33.239
the fuck is that all about?
Ken? Who the fuck is missed?

3004
03:55:33.479 --> 03:55:37.239
Can Styles talk about momentum instead?
Please? Why is he talking about We

3005
03:55:37.280 --> 03:55:41.440
don't care about the tag team champions. We care about momentum. We care

3006
03:55:41.479 --> 03:55:46.360
about momentous momentum. Momentarily momentous momentum
is what we're trying to brain right,

3007
03:55:48.079 --> 03:55:52.920
what's so hard to understand about that
Morrison as a former ACW champion? They

3008
03:55:52.920 --> 03:55:54.319
point out, Yeah, that was
right out at the time Ben Wad did

3009
03:55:54.360 --> 03:56:00.840
the deed. Ashley Shawn then tries
to dump Morrison almost on the body slam.

3010
03:56:01.600 --> 03:56:03.159
And here's a match we never got
sewn, Michaels versus John Morrison.

3011
03:56:05.000 --> 03:56:07.639
Yeah, but a chew one sewn
climbs and drops an elbow. Taker has

3012
03:56:07.719 --> 03:56:13.280
a hardcore Holly on the ropes and
Sean turns it up as the countdown starts

3013
03:56:13.319 --> 03:56:16.559
and his kick is caught, tunes
it up rather for the superkick yep,

3014
03:56:16.959 --> 03:56:20.719
and Morrison kind of an insigury that
just touches Hbk's shoulder. Not the greatest

3015
03:56:20.799 --> 03:56:28.319
kick in the world. Countdown expires
and it's Tommy Dreamer Don Don's He comes

3016
03:56:28.399 --> 03:56:33.680
in swinging like hell champion. Yeah, Thomas Dreamer, the DC dub chant

3017
03:56:33.760 --> 03:56:41.239
is live in effect Thomas. They're
happy to see Thomas Thomas Dreamer Qui and

3018
03:56:41.520 --> 03:56:43.920
they talk about Yonkers and how he
grew up. Coming to the Garden,

3019
03:56:46.360 --> 03:56:50.040
John Morrison to the Apron, sent
to the Apron by Shawn Michael Suplex hot

3020
03:56:50.120 --> 03:56:56.600
shots and Sean tries to save himself. Another countdown and Battista is next to

3021
03:56:56.639 --> 03:57:05.559
hit the ring. A few of
the boys have tried their hand at MMA

3022
03:57:07.520 --> 03:57:09.280
when they got done with the wrestling. Oh my god, Dave Batista had

3023
03:57:09.280 --> 03:57:13.200
a great look for wrestling, but
I wasn't sure how well MMA would work

3024
03:57:13.200 --> 03:57:16.440
out for him. Once, when
I was playing around with Dave in the

3025
03:57:16.520 --> 03:57:20.559
ring before a show in Louisville,
I tied his ass up. Kevin Ferdick

3026
03:57:20.600 --> 03:57:22.200
and a bunch of other boys saw
this go down. Dave started panicking and

3027
03:57:22.280 --> 03:57:28.600
yelling let me go. Everybody laughed. He started it on Booker at another

3028
03:57:28.639 --> 03:57:31.959
point, and Booker knocked his ass
out cold. Oh my god, look

3029
03:57:33.000 --> 03:57:35.120
at Batista. Don't get me wrong, I like Dave, but when they

3030
03:57:35.159 --> 03:57:37.920
started this huge push, he was
one of the worst wrestlers ever to step

3031
03:57:37.959 --> 03:57:41.079
into the ring and couldn't talk either. What's this in a book? Ah?

3032
03:57:41.719 --> 03:57:45.040
He didn't prove a time because he
learned from one of the very best

3033
03:57:45.079 --> 03:57:46.360
in Hunter. But in the beginning
he was still too green for his spot

3034
03:57:46.399 --> 03:57:50.000
and only got the big push due
to his impressive look and Hunter bringing him

3035
03:57:50.000 --> 03:57:52.920
into his inner circle. And make
no mistake, everything goes back to what

3036
03:57:52.040 --> 03:57:56.239
Hunter wants. It's all a game
to him. Oh my god, he's

3037
03:57:56.360 --> 03:58:01.639
so bitter. That's the best wrestler
to be like this guy. Yeah,

3038
03:58:01.760 --> 03:58:07.959
So he comes in and spine busts
Tommy Dreamer does Batista Lariot's hardcore Holly,

3039
03:58:07.200 --> 03:58:11.360
I believe he would have a shine
moment here. That's where that's exactly what

3040
03:58:11.440 --> 03:58:16.399
it is. He clotheslines Shawn Michaels, who's been busted open by the way,

3041
03:58:16.399 --> 03:58:18.639
apparently from a boot to the face
by you guessed it, hardcore Holly.

3042
03:58:20.440 --> 03:58:24.280
Oh he is his hardcore m Dreamer
and hardcorel should go out of there

3043
03:58:24.319 --> 03:58:30.040
both. Yeah, hardcore. Let's
fly that flag right. There's a backdrop

3044
03:58:30.079 --> 03:58:33.040
on Morrison who goes face to face
with the Undertaker. Tommy Dreamer steps up

3045
03:58:33.040 --> 03:58:35.440
and tries to DDT Batista and he
gets tossed out of the ring. Hard

3046
03:58:35.920 --> 03:58:39.840
Batista spears Morrison hard as well,
the coach asked, would you consider teaming

3047
03:58:39.920 --> 03:58:43.079
up to get rid of him if
you were in that ring? And Test

3048
03:58:43.120 --> 03:58:46.280
says, well, those allies don't
last long in a rumble. As Vince

3049
03:58:46.280 --> 03:58:50.120
said earlier, what's that not?
For nothing? For nothing? Vin said

3050
03:58:50.120 --> 03:58:52.559
earlier, who can you really trust? Absolutely no one can downs back on?

3051
03:58:52.680 --> 03:59:01.360
And here comes horn Swaggle. Lawler
says, here's horny. Oh yeah,

3052
03:59:01.399 --> 03:59:03.239
but what about what about the rest
of the guy coming in the ring?

3053
03:59:03.959 --> 03:59:07.040
Hornswoggle takes off his hat and makes
smaller. Also, Jerry, put

3054
03:59:07.079 --> 03:59:11.920
your pants back of Jesus corning.
Okay, his his bare ass and the

3055
03:59:11.000 --> 03:59:16.399
leather chair, oh, the office
chair, you know exactly like he's you

3056
03:59:16.479 --> 03:59:20.680
know, he's got a little bit
of shit. Oh god, it was

3057
03:59:20.799 --> 03:59:22.120
cold, it was cold on his
ass cheeks when he first sat down.

3058
03:59:22.760 --> 03:59:28.639
Now it just now now because of
the heat and because of because of the

3059
03:59:28.680 --> 03:59:33.040
hank of the little the little uh
bit of shit, it just smells like

3060
03:59:33.280 --> 03:59:39.840
warm. Oh it's it's it's room
temperature like a McDonald's cheeseburger. Yep,

3061
03:59:39.319 --> 03:59:45.559
oh vile hardcore. Hornswoggle takes off
his hat and makes his eyes like he's

3062
03:59:45.600 --> 03:59:48.479
ready to fight. But then just
scurries under the apron, then disappears shades

3063
03:59:48.479 --> 03:59:52.959
of Jerry Lawler. Jim Ross points
out. Meanwhile, Batista spears the hell

3064
03:59:52.959 --> 03:59:54.600
out of Undertaker and works to get
him out of the ring. I meanwhile,

3065
03:59:54.760 --> 03:59:58.600
Hardcore Holly with a suplex on John
Morrison backdrops Sewn Michaels in a clothes

3066
03:59:58.680 --> 04:00:03.200
line to Shawn Michael's reflies over that
top rope. It looks like a very

3067
04:00:03.239 --> 04:00:07.920
close elimination there. Yep for Shawn
Michaels. But another countdown hits and you

3068
04:00:09.000 --> 04:00:15.559
will remember me. It's your boy
in brown pants with a bandana, looking

3069
04:00:15.639 --> 04:00:20.079
like he's like he's trying to be
fucking Rambo. In First Blood, it's

3070
04:00:20.319 --> 04:00:30.040
Chuck Palombo. I remember chasing Sean
O'Hare and his partner Chuck Palumbo through Madison

3071
04:00:30.040 --> 04:00:33.440
Square Garden. The two of them
had just interfered in a match and beaten

3072
04:00:33.479 --> 04:00:35.760
up the WWF guys, so a
bunch of us went out there to chase

3073
04:00:35.840 --> 04:00:37.440
them off. They tried to escape
into the crowd, but we blocked their

3074
04:00:37.479 --> 04:00:39.399
way, got them back in the
ring and beat the hell out of them.

3075
04:00:39.760 --> 04:00:43.239
It was the very first time any
of the WWF guys got their hands

3076
04:00:43.280 --> 04:00:46.719
on these invaders, and I'll tell
you something. And that ring that night

3077
04:00:46.440 --> 04:00:54.639
it was one potato, two potato, three potato more. Oh god,

3078
04:00:54.000 --> 04:00:56.959
the agent said, it's TeV,
just lay it in there. We knew

3079
04:00:58.000 --> 04:01:03.559
what that meant. It was seek
and destroy. These two were the artific

3080
04:01:03.719 --> 04:01:05.680
sacrificial lambs. And the beating they
took, and they took a hell of

3081
04:01:05.719 --> 04:01:09.680
a stiff beating was a message to
the rest of the new WCW guys to

3082
04:01:09.840 --> 04:01:13.959
know their position. There was no
real reason why it was shat Ohre and

3083
04:01:15.040 --> 04:01:18.200
Chuck Plumbo specifically who took the beating, at least, not a reason I

3084
04:01:18.280 --> 04:01:22.719
ever heard of. Oh tremendous.
He's the man for the job. Get

3085
04:01:24.040 --> 04:01:26.600
he's a man for the job.
But he's not doing the job. He's

3086
04:01:26.600 --> 04:01:30.840
got a Chuck Plombo a hanky hanging
out of his brown pants as well.

3087
04:01:31.319 --> 04:01:33.920
Oh my god. Another countdown graphic
shows the name before we can see him.

3088
04:01:33.959 --> 04:01:37.959
It's Jamie Noble, number eleven,
and he was at the enemy of

3089
04:01:39.040 --> 04:01:41.120
Chuck Plombo at the time, we're
told, and it had suffered a brutal

3090
04:01:41.120 --> 04:01:43.879
attack on the most recent SmackDown.
I guess having something to do with n

3091
04:01:43.879 --> 04:01:46.520
Idio. So Nobel hits the ring
and goes off on Chuck Palumbo with taped

3092
04:01:46.559 --> 04:01:50.639
ribs, and there they mentioned Michelle
McCool as being involved in this whole scenario

3093
04:01:50.719 --> 04:01:54.200
as well, before she got with
Undertaker. Oh my god, Jamie Noble

3094
04:01:54.280 --> 04:01:56.239
chance breaks out, Plumba, puts
Hi on the apron and kicks him in

3095
04:01:56.239 --> 04:02:01.799
the face and he's out of the
Rumble. Pretty simple, un fucking believable.

3096
04:02:01.879 --> 04:02:03.799
Ruffrey Marty Elias on the floor calling
for a trainer to tend to the

3097
04:02:03.840 --> 04:02:07.639
injured Jamie Noble, We're told as
we can see one of said doctors scurry

3098
04:02:07.680 --> 04:02:11.639
down the aisle at the Garden and
another countdown takes place four three, two

3099
04:02:11.719 --> 04:02:16.440
one, and as John Morrison is
almost sidestepped out of the Rumble by Sean

3100
04:02:16.520 --> 04:02:20.600
Michaels making his first Royal Rumble appearance. Boss, it is CM Punk.

3101
04:02:20.959 --> 04:02:28.639
Yes, you're gonna say huh?
Are you gonna say? Nah? I

3102
04:02:28.799 --> 04:02:33.680
just said, holy shit. A
few years after I left WBE Punk brought

3103
04:02:33.760 --> 04:02:35.520
my name up at a promo on
Raw saying that he was in an arena

3104
04:02:35.520 --> 04:02:39.520
where I'd hit him so hard that
I'd given him a permanent blind spot in

3105
04:02:39.559 --> 04:02:43.280
his eye. This Scouy doesn't forget
a single person ever accusing him of being

3106
04:02:43.319 --> 04:02:46.600
stiff. Nope, nope, and
where's it as a badge of honor.

3107
04:02:46.719 --> 04:02:48.840
I have no idea why he brought
me up in that promo, but I

3108
04:02:48.920 --> 04:02:52.319
doubt he meant it as a negative
thing or a complaint. I can't even

3109
04:02:52.360 --> 04:02:54.319
remember the match he was talking about
because I worked with him so many times.

3110
04:02:54.639 --> 04:03:00.280
He is, Yes, you get
all these little little injury used to

3111
04:03:00.319 --> 04:03:01.680
get here, here and there,
and they all blend together. It wasn't

3112
04:03:01.680 --> 04:03:03.879
a one sided thing either. Punk
kicked me in the face a bunch and

3113
04:03:03.959 --> 04:03:07.280
just about crack my skull with this
finisher a few times, but that's just

3114
04:03:07.360 --> 04:03:09.399
part of wrestling. You don't whind
about getting hurt or about somebody hitting you

3115
04:03:09.440 --> 04:03:13.360
too hard. If you do,
you're in the wrong business. Punk never

3116
04:03:13.399 --> 04:03:15.559
complained that I was working too stiff
with him, and I don't remember him

3117
04:03:15.600 --> 04:03:18.120
going for medical aid after a newer
matches, so it couldn't have been that

3118
04:03:18.280 --> 04:03:20.559
bad. If he was really that
pissed about it, he would have tried

3119
04:03:20.559 --> 04:03:22.159
to bury me in that promo by
saying something more negative about me. I

3120
04:03:22.319 --> 04:03:24.639
was glad to hear he brought up
our match. We had some good ones.

3121
04:03:24.840 --> 04:03:31.920
Maybe he misses me, misses the
physical abuse Jesus Christ. Punk still

3122
04:03:31.959 --> 04:03:35.360
with the long black hair at the
time. Oh yeah, this is well

3123
04:03:35.399 --> 04:03:39.360
because he was still fresh. You
know. He absolutely this is a third

3124
04:03:39.520 --> 04:03:41.680
year, no second year. He's
in the middle of a second year.

3125
04:03:41.000 --> 04:03:46.200
We're told you he just qualified the
night before the SmackDown. Wow comes in

3126
04:03:46.239 --> 04:03:48.479
and throws a knee in the corner
and Chuck Palumbo, hm k Morrison and

3127
04:03:48.520 --> 04:03:52.120
then he steps to Undertaker and kicks
free and then a Nita, Sean Michaels

3128
04:03:52.159 --> 04:03:56.719
and a Bulldog. But as he's
going to Bulldog Shawn Michaels, Hundertaker absolutely

3129
04:03:56.799 --> 04:04:00.879
takes his head off as he's running
with a clothesline. Punk right back up,

3130
04:04:00.959 --> 04:04:03.399
though doesn't really sell malaria. It
tries to dump Sean Michaels, a

3131
04:04:03.479 --> 04:04:05.760
Chuck Palumbo lifts pump up Punk up
in a power bomb. Punk drops behind

3132
04:04:05.799 --> 04:04:09.760
Palumbo, hangs on, eats a
Punk knee and is eliminated from the brumble.

3133
04:04:11.520 --> 04:04:13.479
Punk takes his shirt off and continues
flighting. He had the black and

3134
04:04:13.600 --> 04:04:18.079
yellow trunks, kind of like Boston
Bruins colors. Yep, I'm sure this

3135
04:04:18.360 --> 04:04:20.760
black Hawks fanatic would love to hear
that. Yeah right, Ah, then

3136
04:04:20.799 --> 04:04:24.319
Punk has Sean Michael's on the rope
trying to eliminate him. At at number

3137
04:04:24.399 --> 04:04:35.840
thirteen, Cody rhoades, that's right. I had another surgery scheduled, so

3138
04:04:35.959 --> 04:04:39.920
we finished off the storyline with Cody
and they wrote me off TV. Remember

3139
04:04:39.000 --> 04:04:41.520
they were tag champs for a little
while, those two. Remember that we

3140
04:04:41.600 --> 04:04:45.719
did a switch. Cody turned heel
on me and started teaming with Teddy Biassi.

3141
04:04:45.920 --> 04:04:48.440
They ended up with the titles and
I got my surgery. It bothered

3142
04:04:48.520 --> 04:04:50.639
me that Cody didn't call me to
thank me for my help or to wish

3143
04:04:50.719 --> 04:04:56.440
me well after my surgery. God, he's so fucking bitter. I taught

3144
04:04:56.479 --> 04:05:00.280
that little bastard a lot, so
his lack of gratitude bothered me. He's

3145
04:05:00.360 --> 04:05:03.200
using the Alabama Slam sometimes these days. I'd like to think that that's a

3146
04:05:03.239 --> 04:05:05.799
shout out to me, But who
knows. He hasn't beat anyone with it

3147
04:05:05.879 --> 04:05:07.959
yet from what I heard, so
I guess he's not doing it right.

3148
04:05:07.319 --> 04:05:13.120
Oh, he's such an asshole.
Cody gets in and it's an atomic drop.

3149
04:05:13.200 --> 04:05:16.520
Tries to dump see him Punk.
At the time, they were you

3150
04:05:16.600 --> 04:05:20.639
know, the tag champs him in
a hardcore Holly had been tack champs.

3151
04:05:20.319 --> 04:05:24.760
First rumble ever here for Cody Rhodes. Has he going to be a two

3152
04:05:24.799 --> 04:05:28.200
time winner? Yeah, which I
wouldn't have expected back then. I know,

3153
04:05:28.440 --> 04:05:33.159
Cuman like not at all all.
And Cody hits to take her from

3154
04:05:33.159 --> 04:05:35.760
behind and tries to take on Undertaker
and take her charge around like bruh and

3155
04:05:35.840 --> 04:05:41.840
then take her exactly. Taker goozles
him and Cody breaks free though and drops

3156
04:05:41.920 --> 04:05:43.559
Undertaker with a drop kick. So
Cody gets to drop the Undertaker in the

3157
04:05:43.600 --> 04:05:46.639
rubble. That's a big thing.
I was like that, there's something there

3158
04:05:46.760 --> 04:05:50.879
then. I don't know if it's
uh. I don't know if Undertaker respects

3159
04:05:50.200 --> 04:05:56.200
Cody or if he's just respecting Daddy
right at that moment, but that was

3160
04:05:56.239 --> 04:06:01.239
pretty wild. Count Down from there
a number fourteen. It is Umaga and

3161
04:06:03.120 --> 04:06:09.959
Umanga and the Rumble. At mid
two thousand and eight, We're down at

3162
04:06:11.000 --> 04:06:13.799
a show in Bakersfield, California.
I needed some pain meds because my neck

3163
04:06:13.879 --> 04:06:18.200
was herding and I needed yet another
elbow surgery. So I asked Ken Anderson

3164
04:06:18.239 --> 04:06:20.840
if he had anything. He said
sure and gave me some meds. He

3165
04:06:20.840 --> 04:06:22.879
then said if I needed any more
later, I should just go in his

3166
04:06:22.000 --> 04:06:24.879
bag and get them. That's normal. I can't tell you the number of

3167
04:06:24.879 --> 04:06:26.879
times Ken came to me saying,
have you got anything? And I told

3168
04:06:26.959 --> 04:06:31.360
him help yourself. Everybody in the
locker room helps each other. It's an

3169
04:06:31.440 --> 04:06:33.239
unwritten rule. The office knows what
happens, but they turned a blind eye.

3170
04:06:35.040 --> 04:06:39.120
They know we need it sometimes.
He writes, that's right. Later

3171
04:06:39.159 --> 04:06:41.639
that day in California, I needed
some more meds. I finished doing my

3172
04:06:41.719 --> 04:06:43.799
pre tape interview and went into the
locker room. About fifteen people were in

3173
04:06:43.879 --> 04:06:48.200
there. I grabbed another few pills
from Ken's bag. He came in with

3174
04:06:48.399 --> 04:06:52.600
Umaga moments later, so I told
him I'd taken four pills and would replace

3175
04:06:52.600 --> 04:06:54.879
them when I got my next prescription
field. He said that was fine,

3176
04:06:54.040 --> 04:06:56.719
and what about getting some pills for
Umaga. I thought that was the end

3177
04:06:56.719 --> 04:06:58.799
of it, but then a week
or so later, a rumor started floating

3178
04:07:00.239 --> 04:07:03.959
that I'd gone into Kent's bag without
permission. Of course called him at home

3179
04:07:03.040 --> 04:07:07.159
to ask what was up, and
he assured me that everything was fine.

3180
04:07:07.399 --> 04:07:11.879
Next time I saw him at TV, what's going on, bro, exactly?

3181
04:07:11.879 --> 04:07:15.440
I talked to him about this rumor
again and he said he didn't anything

3182
04:07:15.479 --> 04:07:18.799
about how it started. In the
end, I got a call from Johnny

3183
04:07:18.840 --> 04:07:20.520
Laurie and IDAs asking me what was
going on. I told him what had

3184
04:07:20.559 --> 04:07:24.639
happened, and he said that it
wasn't what he'd heard. I found out

3185
04:07:24.680 --> 04:07:30.239
afterwards after talking to Johnston and Shawn
Michaels, the rumor had started when Omaga

3186
04:07:30.639 --> 04:07:33.399
had told a couple of people that
I had gone into Ken's bag to get

3187
04:07:33.479 --> 04:07:37.879
pills. Wow, of course would
die of a pill overdose, among other

3188
04:07:37.959 --> 04:07:41.319
things. First man of qualified from
the rumble for raw we're told for whatever

3189
04:07:41.440 --> 04:07:46.600
that means is Omaga great point to
make? Who cares? Oh so pathetic?

3190
04:07:46.639 --> 04:07:52.079
How least to shoehorn that stuff in
back? Then? Oh exactly,

3191
04:07:52.879 --> 04:07:58.159
like stop, it's so stupid.
Maga spikes hardcore Holly out of the ring

3192
04:07:58.200 --> 04:08:01.680
in the Rumble. Up that's it
for him, but not the last we've

3193
04:08:01.719 --> 04:08:05.959
heard from him. I can assure
you that good. That's good ass attack

3194
04:08:05.040 --> 04:08:09.280
on Batistas well from Omaga. And
then Cody almost back drops out Sean Michaels

3195
04:08:09.280 --> 04:08:11.760
from the Rumble. Sean's climbing the
ropes for god knows what reason and see

3196
04:08:11.799 --> 04:08:16.559
him punk for god knows what reason
Press lambs him into the ring instead of

3197
04:08:16.600 --> 04:08:22.000
trying to eliminate him. Number fifteen
is Snitsky. Oh g R. S

3198
04:08:22.120 --> 04:08:26.520
HD has given Snitzky's teeth a new
personality. And then they say, what

3199
04:08:26.600 --> 04:08:30.920
do they say? I wouldn't want
to share a subway car at midnight with

3200
04:08:31.000 --> 04:08:35.760
Snitsky. This, yes, because
fucking Taz Calton. This is actually pretty

3201
04:08:35.760 --> 04:08:46.360
fucking funny. We got the big
psycho lunapics on. Snitsky's Teeth had an

3202
04:08:46.520 --> 04:08:52.680
entirely new personality. I like to
share a subway about midnight somewhat sunwich.

3203
04:09:01.879 --> 04:09:05.879
Is it all about food? Or
are we just making that up? And

3204
04:09:05.959 --> 04:09:07.840
I'll tell you what. I'll tell
you what right now, I can tell

3205
04:09:07.879 --> 04:09:11.040
you from what I know, Sniskey
wouldn't let anyone share a subway sandwich.

3206
04:09:11.680 --> 04:09:16.440
Good luck? Did you hear that
real laughter from the other guys. I

3207
04:09:16.600 --> 04:09:20.479
love that moment of actual levity because
they fucking know how much Snsky eats.

3208
04:09:22.360 --> 04:09:26.520
He orders like three subway sandwiches,
and they know it means something. If

3209
04:09:26.639 --> 04:09:30.479
JR. Isn't gonna it's afraid to
ask you for a bit of the sandwich.

3210
04:09:30.559 --> 04:09:33.760
It's a man, you know.
Just think he he takes the sandwich,

3211
04:09:33.799 --> 04:09:39.079
he says, please don't cut it
in half? All right, undoes

3212
04:09:39.159 --> 04:09:46.440
it and he holds it up and
just opened his mouth and just inserts,

3213
04:09:46.840 --> 04:09:50.079
do you want me to cut it? Along this fault line? Jean,

3214
04:09:54.200 --> 04:09:56.559
it's not my fault. Look at
his face. Oh I can't. He's

3215
04:09:56.559 --> 04:10:01.639
such a it's such a I wouldn't
want to share a subway sandwich, Jr.

3216
04:10:01.719 --> 04:10:05.680
Says because Shim said it right.
Oh man, of course, you

3217
04:10:05.760 --> 04:10:09.319
know, because like he's actually asked
to share a subway sandwich in them.

3218
04:10:11.639 --> 04:10:20.879
Didn't happen, Jean Snitzky, What
are they doing? What is wrong with

3219
04:10:20.079 --> 04:10:26.440
him? Like? What is you? Gene Allan Snitzky? All right,

3220
04:10:26.760 --> 04:10:30.559
I'm at least happy to know that
he's I was, you know. Yeah,

3221
04:10:30.559 --> 04:10:33.280
I always get nervous when you see
when you see clowns like this and

3222
04:10:33.360 --> 04:10:39.360
they end up being younger than I'm
glad that he's not fifty. He was

3223
04:10:39.399 --> 04:10:43.399
like fifty back then. Yeah,
Oh my god, such a fucking idiot.

3224
04:10:45.040 --> 04:10:46.799
So Cody immediately leaps over Snitzky's back
and tries to pull him out of

3225
04:10:46.799 --> 04:10:52.440
the rumble. He's been in movies. Yeah, he has not good ones,

3226
04:10:52.559 --> 04:10:56.479
but still he'll be coming soon.
I guess. I guess so.

3227
04:10:56.159 --> 04:11:01.399
Jean Snitchkey both land on the apron
to Ody and Snitzky, and Jerr says

3228
04:11:01.799 --> 04:11:05.719
John Morrison looks like a young Shawn
Michaels athletically blah blah blah. Ugh,

3229
04:11:05.440 --> 04:11:09.879
there's always another They're always there's always
a next Shawn Michaels. There always a

3230
04:11:09.959 --> 04:11:13.840
new generation, right, kind of
like a death nell that he called that

3231
04:11:13.959 --> 04:11:16.319
by the way. Meanwhile, seeing
Punk lifts that John Morrison up into the

3232
04:11:16.399 --> 04:11:22.639
GTS and number sixteen is the Misz, the other half of the Rating Tag

3233
04:11:22.719 --> 04:11:26.840
Champions along with God And I guess
so before all this fucking old theme music,

3234
04:11:26.879 --> 04:11:31.000
it's very drowing. See him punk
too, is before he had ye

3235
04:11:31.120 --> 04:11:35.079
the cull to personality personality, Yeah, when he had the original ECW theme.

3236
04:11:35.120 --> 04:11:46.440
So the mis hits the ring.
You play your best guys in the

3237
04:11:46.479 --> 04:11:50.280
big game. But the main event
of WrestleMania in twenty eleven was John Cena

3238
04:11:50.360 --> 04:11:54.559
versus the Misz, and it was
horrible. Despite the fact that John is

3239
04:11:54.559 --> 04:11:56.399
pretty much the hardest working man in
the WW, he's not a good wrestler.

3240
04:11:58.000 --> 04:12:00.959
Miss isn't much better. He's improved, but he nowhere near good enough

3241
04:12:00.959 --> 04:12:03.200
to be w B champion and main
eventing the biggest show of the year.

3242
04:12:03.479 --> 04:12:05.399
Meanwhile, you had Dolph Zigler working
underneath on that same card for about a

3243
04:12:05.440 --> 04:12:09.600
minute. Miss couldn't even carry Dolph's
bags. That goes to show you something

3244
04:12:09.719 --> 04:12:15.840
is fucked up in that company.
God. Meanwhile, Dolph would go on

3245
04:12:15.959 --> 04:12:20.200
to really carry missus bags like as
his friend take her show. Throws Umaga

3246
04:12:20.200 --> 04:12:24.440
to the apron and then lays down
and kicks away, trying to get AMaGA

3247
04:12:24.159 --> 04:12:28.760
out of the ring, but no. As Morrison and Miss double team Punk

3248
04:12:28.879 --> 04:12:33.719
clumsily to stop that from happening,
and then number seventeen Shelton, Benjamin and

3249
04:12:33.799 --> 04:12:37.280
Shelton immediately jumps to the top rope
in one motion and slams Morrison and Miss,

3250
04:12:37.280 --> 04:12:41.559
who are on the rope hop rope
metal rope rather down on the ropes

3251
04:12:41.600 --> 04:12:45.680
on both sides, but neither gets
eliminated. Then Shelton hits a downward spiral

3252
04:12:45.760 --> 04:12:48.520
and se him Punk and then Sewn
Michaels super kicks Shelton as they're going on

3253
04:12:48.719 --> 04:12:52.840
about how he's a pure athlete and
all that shit, I'm talking about his

3254
04:12:52.920 --> 04:13:00.959
purity and he's like dump in seconds, he's gone, fucking joke taking Sean

3255
04:13:01.040 --> 04:13:05.479
Superkicks extended. That guy's run by
a decade. I really hate when they

3256
04:13:05.559 --> 04:13:11.360
do. Listen, you have one
of those in the matter in a rumble,

3257
04:13:11.399 --> 04:13:15.559
it's fine, but I really hate
when you get guys who come in

3258
04:13:15.760 --> 04:13:18.120
do two things that get kicked out. Yeah, I really hate it.

3259
04:13:20.600 --> 04:13:24.360
You have to be very careful with
that. There goes Shelton number eighteen,

3260
04:13:26.040 --> 04:13:28.959
super fla. Jimmy Snuka, I
shit, you not comes back to the

3261
04:13:30.040 --> 04:13:33.760
garden. I'm I mean he's wearing
a bodysuit for good reason. Oh my

3262
04:13:33.959 --> 04:13:39.120
god, is he can tell?
His body is just like deteriorated and he

3263
04:13:39.200 --> 04:13:43.040
looks like an old grandma with one
tit showing it really does. He looks

3264
04:13:43.120 --> 04:13:48.719
like a fucking grandma mom. Do
we really have to Jimmy, I really

3265
04:13:48.760 --> 04:13:52.319
don't want to see grandma and Jimmy, Oh, she scares me. She

3266
04:13:52.479 --> 04:13:58.639
looks at me with wide eyes and
just doesn't speak. Makes me feel really

3267
04:13:58.760 --> 04:14:03.639
uncomfortable. The cane, honey,
don't worry about it. So everyone then

3268
04:14:03.760 --> 04:14:07.879
just steps to Jimmy Stook and takes
their honorary punches and chops and headbutts.

3269
04:14:07.079 --> 04:14:13.760
You can he he looks like he
could fall apart at any moment, Like

3270
04:14:13.120 --> 04:14:16.520
you know, if you push him
with your index finger, he'll follow.

3271
04:14:16.680 --> 04:14:22.719
It looks like like he he to
me, he resembles the leg lamp in

3272
04:14:22.840 --> 04:14:28.200
a Christmas story after it's been shattered
and together's like, you know, he

3273
04:14:28.280 --> 04:14:33.200
puts it on one piece too long
and it just crumbles, and he's like,

3274
04:14:33.360 --> 04:14:35.680
you know, all the tape kind
of like that's what he's that's his

3275
04:14:35.920 --> 04:14:39.399
that's where he's at right now.
And he's standing there in the rumble and

3276
04:14:39.479 --> 04:14:43.760
people are running into his punches and
like, yeah, exactly, he can't

3277
04:14:43.760 --> 04:14:48.000
even fucking extend. And then Taker
tries to head on him and then take

3278
04:14:48.040 --> 04:14:50.879
her stumbles around because he's, you
know, got a hard head, right

3279
04:14:50.280 --> 04:14:56.840
because he's a he's an islander.
Way to fucking uh re uh reignite that

3280
04:14:56.959 --> 04:15:03.040
seventeen year old rivalry as asolutely.
Jimmy Snooker doesn't forget WrestleMania seven. Hope

3281
04:15:03.159 --> 04:15:05.479
you don't, No, he does
not. He doesn't. He doesn't like

3282
04:15:05.559 --> 04:15:11.600
the fact that he that he begapped
the streak. Then mystics and big chops

3283
04:15:11.639 --> 04:15:16.120
and testa snook and miser too complete
human beings, he says, I'm sorry,

3284
04:15:16.159 --> 04:15:18.600
excuse me. Number nineteen is Roddy
Piper, Snooker and Piper again face

3285
04:15:18.680 --> 04:15:24.360
to face in the garden the big
pop there. Piper is one of those

3286
04:15:24.719 --> 04:15:28.600
This is this is during the era
of Piper's massive belly. Oh, it's

3287
04:15:28.760 --> 04:15:35.000
just like he has a medical condition. It's like it's it's like he had

3288
04:15:35.360 --> 04:15:41.600
a barrel surgically implanted inside his body. It's unbelievable. And what's what's even

3289
04:15:41.879 --> 04:15:46.079
greater is he is just one of
those guys who can gain weight in his

3290
04:15:46.200 --> 04:15:50.200
torso. But you doesn't even touch
his face, yeah, or his shoulders

3291
04:15:50.319 --> 04:15:54.600
or his pecks. His pecks aren't
saggy at all. He's just like everything

3292
04:15:54.639 --> 04:15:56.760
else in his body looks the way
it always has. But his belly is

3293
04:15:58.079 --> 04:16:03.120
massive, massive. Me I gain
weight, it's all my face. Yeah.

3294
04:16:03.159 --> 04:16:07.079
I never understood people who fucking who
fucking put on weight and they don't

3295
04:16:07.120 --> 04:16:10.520
get it in their face. It
is. It's a real curious thing.

3296
04:16:10.600 --> 04:16:14.879
Or people who like they don't get
like, they don't gain weight in their

3297
04:16:14.920 --> 04:16:17.840
appendages, they just gain weight in
their belly, but like their arms and

3298
04:16:17.920 --> 04:16:21.440
their legs in their neck. I
guess you're saying the same thing. It's

3299
04:16:21.520 --> 04:16:26.639
thin. Here's Piper, and I
mean you think about how kind of not

3300
04:16:26.079 --> 04:16:30.559
cosmetically primetime ready he was in three
when he came back and interfered in the

3301
04:16:30.600 --> 04:16:34.520
Hulk Vince match. This is eight, now, this is eight. My

3302
04:16:34.639 --> 04:16:38.840
belly has only gotten bigger. Yeah, everyone has, unless you like,

3303
04:16:40.040 --> 04:16:45.120
get divorced or something. Right,
So here he is, and you gotta

3304
04:16:45.120 --> 04:16:49.000
be kidding me. They say,
he rips the leather jacket off and the

3305
04:16:49.120 --> 04:16:55.440
belt comes off, and you know, people going nuts. They are,

3306
04:16:55.680 --> 04:16:57.399
I mean, Masis squre Garden is
going crazy. Jared picks up on it.

3307
04:16:57.440 --> 04:17:03.280
Piper came to fight. Piper gets
on the apron, making the eyes

3308
04:17:03.280 --> 04:17:06.760
at Snucker points at him. Snuker
like brought a big eyes and response that

3309
04:17:06.799 --> 04:17:11.000
they have this big moment. Yep, Ford it's worth a purcher. On

3310
04:17:11.079 --> 04:17:12.840
his podcast when he's asked about this
part of the rumble, just basically chucked

3311
04:17:12.840 --> 04:17:17.440
it up to Brian Gowertz was of
course an important creative force at the time

3312
04:17:17.440 --> 04:17:19.280
in the company, just being such
a fan of this era of WWF and

3313
04:17:19.360 --> 04:17:25.479
and in particular least good Yeah,
no, the snuk of Piper, Piper

3314
04:17:26.200 --> 04:17:29.479
Coconut Angle that he was a big
part of why guys of this vintage were

3315
04:17:29.520 --> 04:17:32.399
in this rumble. So they face
off and Piper gets in Snuck. His

3316
04:17:32.479 --> 04:17:34.879
hands go up and Piper charts and
hits Snuoker but he's not budging. No,

3317
04:17:36.719 --> 04:17:37.799
there's a head butt. It's almost
like they're kind of making fun of

3318
04:17:37.879 --> 04:17:42.120
him a little bit. There definitely
is some like some there's a there's a

3319
04:17:42.280 --> 04:17:48.440
goofy factor here, can there they
they are jabbing. This to me is

3320
04:17:48.520 --> 04:17:53.879
the I feel like that that maybe
the Gourts thing was was an attempt to

3321
04:17:53.959 --> 04:17:59.040
do an homage to these guys and
really celebrate them. But then Vince can't

3322
04:17:59.079 --> 04:18:02.360
have that, and so he's gonna
he's gonna stop the match, which is

3323
04:18:02.399 --> 04:18:07.760
what happens. Everybody fucking stops.
And then these guys do this. They

3324
04:18:07.879 --> 04:18:12.040
they fight and it you know,
they're just not they just can't do it

3325
04:18:12.079 --> 04:18:18.399
anymore, you know, like they
just can't do it because they're old and

3326
04:18:18.719 --> 04:18:26.520
they're decrepit and they're falling apart.
It's not their fault, but it might

3327
04:18:26.559 --> 04:18:30.200
be Sissy's fault too, but you
know, they're old, you know and

3328
04:18:30.280 --> 04:18:33.079
they and they put their bodies through
hell over the years, and so what

3329
04:18:33.319 --> 04:18:40.280
do you expect from them? But
let's not showcase them like this. Okay,

3330
04:18:41.040 --> 04:18:44.600
no dignity, no dignity because of
it's like, as I have no

3331
04:18:44.680 --> 04:18:47.440
respect for them, I actually have. Oh yeah, yeah, of course,

3332
04:18:48.120 --> 04:18:52.280
it's just that they it's an embarrassment
to themselves. They look like fools.

3333
04:18:52.399 --> 04:18:56.760
They look like they look like it's
like it's like May Young and Mulah

3334
04:18:56.319 --> 04:19:00.840
rolling around. Yeah, they gotta
look senile almost right exactly. They're doing

3335
04:19:00.920 --> 04:19:06.680
head butts or trying head butts,
and then down goes Piper. Piper pokes

3336
04:19:06.719 --> 04:19:11.079
the eyes and boxes a bit and
the countdown number twenty, it's Caine from

3337
04:19:11.159 --> 04:19:15.000
SmackDown. At number twenty, Michael
Cole says, it's Kane kanematally dumb snooker

3338
04:19:15.239 --> 04:19:18.760
and Piper. So at least they
still were able to take a pump over

3339
04:19:18.799 --> 04:19:22.479
the top rope. It's not Iron
Iron Chicke wrestle man. He's seventeen,

3340
04:19:22.840 --> 04:19:26.239
exactly. Kane chokes lambs. Miss
Kane has been in every year since ninety

3341
04:19:26.319 --> 04:19:30.799
nine, they point out, And
I'm thinking, at which point does that

3342
04:19:30.959 --> 04:19:34.319
become not a thing to brag about
but an indictment of how incapable of winning

3343
04:19:34.360 --> 04:19:38.639
the rumble you are that than that
mending you still haven't figured it out right,

3344
04:19:40.079 --> 04:19:44.239
U taker waiting for the choke lamb
instead of lunging for him, making

3345
04:19:44.280 --> 04:19:45.799
you think he's gonna attack Kane,
but instead of going for Kan when the

3346
04:19:45.840 --> 04:19:51.319
moment arises, he actually turns and
just grabs Sean Michaels by the throat and

3347
04:19:51.399 --> 04:19:52.719
gets cut off. So it's sort
of like, you know, he's actually

3348
04:19:52.760 --> 04:19:57.200
working in concert with Kane in this
rubble right number twenty one. Carlito.

3349
04:20:04.760 --> 04:20:11.760
I couldn't understand why they went with
Carlito at all. He was boring,

3350
04:20:11.200 --> 04:20:15.479
he was slow in the ring,
he wasn't a good worker. He telegraphed

3351
04:20:15.479 --> 04:20:18.239
everything he was going to do.
I just didn't get what they saw in

3352
04:20:18.360 --> 04:20:21.239
him. He would complain backstage all
the time and threaten to quit, and

3353
04:20:21.319 --> 04:20:23.159
for a while they catered to him. He got a good mid card push

3354
04:20:23.159 --> 04:20:26.959
and made some decent money, probably
more than his talent and attitude deserved.

3355
04:20:26.399 --> 04:20:30.760
Hardcore Holly, He's fine if he's
not making a lot of money, as

3356
04:20:30.840 --> 04:20:33.799
long as no one else is making
a lot of money. Exactly exactly.

3357
04:20:33.280 --> 04:20:37.040
He should have been grateful for it, but all he did was complain.

3358
04:20:37.559 --> 04:20:40.120
There were guys at his level,
like Shelton Menjamin who were so much better

3359
04:20:40.120 --> 04:20:42.040
at what they did, but they
went with Carlito and he was still always

3360
04:20:42.120 --> 04:20:45.840
unhappy. I never understood that.
Yep, if they went with you,

3361
04:20:47.000 --> 04:20:49.360
Bob and you were still unhappy,
you'd understand too, because you would be.

3362
04:20:49.639 --> 04:20:53.760
He still wouldn't. He would understand
why you He can totally understand why.

3363
04:20:53.959 --> 04:20:57.520
You know. I get well,
I'm unhappy, but this fucking clown,

3364
04:20:59.120 --> 04:21:02.079
Yes, never be unhappy. So
Carlito gets in the ring and spits

3365
04:21:02.120 --> 04:21:06.440
in Cody's face with the apple thing
going current legend, current legend. Yes,

3366
04:21:06.520 --> 04:21:11.879
it's exactly right, LW. Spiritual
Advisor. It really it really,

3367
04:21:11.239 --> 04:21:15.680
It really bothers me that he is
he is held up to like legend status

3368
04:21:15.959 --> 04:21:22.879
when he has had less than a
legendary career. Absolutely, So he spits

3369
04:21:22.920 --> 04:21:26.520
in Cody's face and there's a very
full ring at this point, very full

3370
04:21:26.600 --> 04:21:30.360
ring, nice mix of old and
new. Sure what we're looking for.

3371
04:21:30.040 --> 04:21:33.879
Carlito would the mid rope springboard,
but he's caught by Morrison and Punk.

3372
04:21:33.360 --> 04:21:37.879
But he kicks off the top rope
and does a backflip to prevent them holding

3373
04:21:37.959 --> 04:21:40.639
onto him for very long and dumping
him out of the ring, and he

3374
04:21:40.719 --> 04:21:42.879
hit to backstabber on punk. So
that was a hot entrance. And then

3375
04:21:42.920 --> 04:21:48.159
we go to number twenty two and
it is mc foley who were told made

3376
04:21:48.200 --> 04:21:51.479
the drive in from Long Island in
his flannel vest with a cactus jack leopard

3377
04:21:51.520 --> 04:21:55.520
printfest underneath that one. He's wearing
like fucking eight layers or something, and

3378
04:21:56.120 --> 04:22:07.360
like, I'm miserable for him.
Alise and I was more easy going than

3379
04:22:07.399 --> 04:22:10.680
Steve. He hung out with Mick
Foley a lot, and the two of

3380
04:22:10.760 --> 04:22:18.120
them loved going to carnivals. There
was one particular carnival in Austin, Texas

3381
04:22:18.159 --> 04:22:22.159
that led to a really interesting situation. They are carnies, after all.

3382
04:22:22.239 --> 04:22:25.040
We had to go to Houston for
TV the next day, and al suggested

3383
04:22:25.040 --> 04:22:26.319
that I drop my rental car off
and jump in with them. I don't

3384
04:22:26.319 --> 04:22:29.120
want to go to the carnival,
so I told him I'd keep my rental

3385
04:22:29.159 --> 04:22:32.959
and travel alone. Alan Mick kept
asking me until I agreed. We would

3386
04:22:32.959 --> 04:22:34.399
eat drop my rental car and go
to the carnival for a little bit.

3387
04:22:34.719 --> 04:22:37.719
Then we would drive on to Houston. Hell, I liked roller coasters as

3388
04:22:37.760 --> 04:22:41.479
much as the next guy, so
I wouldn't have minded going. They jumped

3389
04:22:41.479 --> 04:22:42.920
in their car, I jumped in
mind, and we headed to the airport.

3390
04:22:42.959 --> 04:22:45.639
They took off, but I couldn't
keep up because of the traffic.

3391
04:22:45.680 --> 04:22:48.840
I got to the airport in the
end, returned my rental and stood in

3392
04:22:48.879 --> 04:22:51.479
the forty degree cold, freezing at
the curb, waiting and waiting. No

3393
04:22:51.639 --> 04:22:53.520
owl, no, Mick. I
waited for over an hour before I gave

3394
04:22:53.600 --> 04:22:56.680
up. I had to re rent
my car, so it cost even more.

3395
04:22:56.079 --> 04:22:59.159
I got to the arena in Houston
the next day and Al came over

3396
04:22:59.200 --> 04:23:02.399
to apologize. Didn't he said,
I thought we were going to the carnival

3397
04:23:02.440 --> 04:23:04.159
first. I told him that that
wasn't what we'd agreed to. Why would

3398
04:23:04.159 --> 04:23:07.920
I keep the rental car longer just
to go to a carnival that he was

3399
04:23:07.959 --> 04:23:10.719
going to go to anyway? And
when they didn't see me pull up the

3400
04:23:10.760 --> 04:23:12.319
carnival, didn't they you figure something
was wrong and then I must be at

3401
04:23:12.360 --> 04:23:15.760
the airport. Mick said, Oh, I didn't think of that, So

3402
04:23:17.440 --> 04:23:19.399
they just went into the carnival without
thinking about me freezing my balls off at

3403
04:23:19.399 --> 04:23:22.840
the airport. Mick still didn't think
he had done anything wrong. Road warri

3404
04:23:22.879 --> 04:23:26.280
Or Hawk overheard all this and blew
a gas get. He was about ready

3405
04:23:26.280 --> 04:23:29.120
to kill Foley. He went off
on him, telling him you never leave

3406
04:23:29.159 --> 04:23:30.639
your boys hanging, at least of
all for a fucking carnival. He was

3407
04:23:30.680 --> 04:23:33.040
so furious, I thought he was
going to jump on Mick and beat the

3408
04:23:33.079 --> 04:23:36.559
hell out of him. Even I
told talk to calm down, and he

3409
04:23:36.639 --> 04:23:37.959
kept shouting, fuck him. He
doesn't do the fucking boys like that.

3410
04:23:38.799 --> 04:23:41.719
Taker got word of this, and
then all of a sudden, there was

3411
04:23:41.760 --> 04:23:48.360
a call for wrestler's court. Wrestler's
Court was already in the WWF locker room

3412
04:23:48.360 --> 04:23:51.600
when I got there. Are you
serious? It doesn't happen anymore because they're

3413
04:23:51.639 --> 04:23:53.079
too corporate, But in the nineties
and early two thousands it would happen now

3414
04:23:53.079 --> 04:23:56.079
and then only at TV or pay
per view. If one of the boys

3415
04:23:56.120 --> 04:23:57.120
screwed up and got a lot of
heat, they would get called up and

3416
04:23:57.159 --> 04:24:00.479
chewed out in front of everybody else. It was just for the boys,

3417
04:24:00.520 --> 04:24:08.040
no office staff or officials. Undertaker
was the judge usual usually with Bradshaw's prosecutor,

3418
04:24:08.079 --> 04:24:11.239
and Ron Simmons is the defending attorney. Ron as a man a few

3419
04:24:11.239 --> 04:24:15.559
words, wouldn't really ever try to
defend anyone. It's a humbling experience,

3420
04:24:15.639 --> 04:24:18.200
a humiliation. I would definitely not
want to be in wrestler's court. Al

3421
04:24:18.239 --> 04:24:21.559
didn't want any part of it,
so we tried to get Mick to apologize.

3422
04:24:21.920 --> 04:24:25.479
Al hadn't really caused the problems.
He was guilty by association. Apparently

3423
04:24:25.520 --> 04:24:27.200
he'd kept saying to Mick, We've
got to find Bob, but Mick wasn't

3424
04:24:27.200 --> 04:24:30.600
worried about it. Hawk told Mick, you need to pay Bob back the

3425
04:24:30.639 --> 04:24:33.079
money for the rental car, his
hotel, his food, and his gas.

3426
04:24:33.040 --> 04:24:36.760
In the end, Al convinced Mick
that he didn't want to be in

3427
04:24:36.760 --> 04:24:40.280
wrestler's court, so he gave me
five hundred dollars. Mick is so tight

3428
04:24:40.559 --> 04:24:45.319
that you couldn't drive a pin up
his ass, so so it must have

3429
04:24:45.479 --> 04:24:48.760
killed him to pay me that money. And when he did, he said,

3430
04:24:49.840 --> 04:24:53.719
I still don't think I did anything
wrong. That's right. That was

3431
04:24:53.840 --> 04:25:00.200
quite something. God, he's such
a lunatic with a big power bomb on

3432
04:25:00.280 --> 04:25:07.639
Batista and fully DDT's king fucking lunatic. He's just a judge of character,

3433
04:25:07.799 --> 04:25:10.959
not a good or bad one.
I'm just telling you, he's a judge

3434
04:25:10.959 --> 04:25:15.680
of Garrett, just a judge.
He's so pissed off right now. Exactly.

3435
04:25:17.559 --> 04:25:18.479
He's the kind of guy that would
like get behind someone in the line

3436
04:25:18.479 --> 04:25:26.559
at a grocery store and see them
like buy something, splurge on something with

3437
04:25:26.760 --> 04:25:30.719
like an EBT car to get pissed
off. You know, what do you

3438
04:25:30.799 --> 04:25:33.600
do? Exactly? I can't afford
that. If I'm not buying that,

3439
04:25:33.680 --> 04:25:37.879
why are you buying that? Exactly? And that's the thing. While being

3440
04:25:37.399 --> 04:25:42.399
billed for Mobile Alabama because that's where
he moved in his latl he's from.

3441
04:25:42.520 --> 04:25:47.719
He's from fucking California. Yeah,
and lived in the Pacific Northwest most of

3442
04:25:47.799 --> 04:25:49.799
his life. Yeah, that's funny. He isn't never a Southern accent at

3443
04:25:49.799 --> 04:25:53.000
all. He just lived in Alabama
because he was pursuing the racing stuff.

3444
04:25:53.760 --> 04:25:59.479
But but yeah, that's what was
that was that legit? It was.

3445
04:25:59.600 --> 04:26:03.079
Yeah, he was a serious competitor. And I'm not saying he was a

3446
04:26:03.120 --> 04:26:06.360
great race or anything, but he
was in meets and he would They made

3447
04:26:06.399 --> 04:26:07.239
a deal when he first came in
to give him, you know, a

3448
04:26:07.319 --> 04:26:11.200
lot more time off than the average
guy so that he could race and promote

3449
04:26:11.280 --> 04:26:14.520
WWF on the race circuit at the
same time. Yeah, he's got a

3450
04:26:14.559 --> 04:26:15.959
pretty good book. I would recommend
it. He had an interesting career even

3451
04:26:15.959 --> 04:26:19.120
though it didn't really go anywhere.
He saw a lot, you know,

3452
04:26:19.799 --> 04:26:23.879
and he's not afraid to record his
thoughts about things that he wasn't directly involved

3453
04:26:23.920 --> 04:26:29.360
in. So, uh, take
her with a big power momb on Batista

3454
04:26:29.440 --> 04:26:33.399
fully DDT's Kane and Nomogadas the Samo
and drop on undertaker. Folly's working over

3455
04:26:33.479 --> 04:26:36.479
John Morrison in the corner, and
Jr. Says that the star studdedness of

3456
04:26:36.520 --> 04:26:40.360
this rumble is pretty damned impressive.
As John Morrison with a springboard kick to

3457
04:26:40.440 --> 04:26:47.799
mcfoley's head. Number twenty three,
it's Ken Kennedy. Twelve guys in the

3458
04:26:47.879 --> 04:26:51.639
ring. Now, wow, twelve
guys with Kennedy. That's fucking wild.

3459
04:26:52.159 --> 04:26:56.239
Then and now no, no,
no Kennedy, Kennedy. Here he comes,

3460
04:26:56.719 --> 04:27:10.120
Cannady. They were busy giving Ken
Kennedy a good starting push and he

3461
04:27:10.200 --> 04:27:12.559
was winning these Battle Royals. One
night in Italy, we got back to

3462
04:27:12.600 --> 04:27:15.159
the locker room and Ken didn't thank
the guys in the match for putting him

3463
04:27:15.159 --> 04:27:18.680
over. Uh. Oh, thanking
the guys who put you over. It's

3464
04:27:18.719 --> 04:27:19.920
the very first thing you should do
after a match, because they just made

3465
04:27:19.959 --> 04:27:23.040
you look good. Absolutely, come
on, man. I gave Ken several

3466
04:27:23.079 --> 04:27:26.079
minutes to do this and nothing happened. I called him out in front of

3467
04:27:26.120 --> 04:27:29.559
everybody. He said he would have
gotten around to it. I told him,

3468
04:27:29.600 --> 04:27:32.479
you don't go and do whatever else. First, you thank the people

3469
04:27:32.520 --> 04:27:36.840
who put you over and shake their
hands. Bob loves rules like this gives

3470
04:27:36.879 --> 04:27:42.319
him a reason a boss ball.
He fucking loves rules. Oh, he

3471
04:27:42.680 --> 04:27:48.440
loves rules. The next night,
at another arena in Italy, when Ken

3472
04:27:48.559 --> 04:27:51.399
came in, I marched right over, grabbed his bag and threw it in

3473
04:27:51.479 --> 04:27:53.079
the hallway, saying, get the
fuck out of my locker room. You're

3474
04:27:53.120 --> 04:27:57.000
not changing in here until I say
you can. Ken never told Numaga that

3475
04:27:57.079 --> 04:28:00.360
he said I could and when.
Oh, this is back to the story

3476
04:28:00.360 --> 04:28:06.360
about AMaGA saying that he took the
drugs from his bag and that got Holly

3477
04:28:06.440 --> 04:28:08.680
in trouble. And one of the
reasons it pisses him off Holly that is,

3478
04:28:10.520 --> 04:28:11.559
is that Ken never came around and
said actually Omagga, Well, he

3479
04:28:11.600 --> 04:28:14.760
did take the drugs from my bag. I told him I could do that.

3480
04:28:14.959 --> 04:28:18.399
He just kind of let it sit
there. Ken never told him Maga

3481
04:28:18.440 --> 04:28:19.680
that had that. He had said
I could, And when the rumor started

3482
04:28:19.680 --> 04:28:22.680
spreading, Ken could have stopped it
by saying I told Bob it was okay,

3483
04:28:22.760 --> 04:28:26.159
but he didn't. He'd been lying
to me the whole time, claiming

3484
04:28:26.200 --> 04:28:29.520
he didn't know what was going on, and then not admitting that he hadn't

3485
04:28:29.520 --> 04:28:33.840
squashed the rumor. It was self
preservation for Ken. Word had spread that

3486
04:28:33.840 --> 04:28:36.520
I'd taken stuff from Ken's bag,
and when the rumor reached management, Ken

3487
04:28:36.559 --> 04:28:40.280
could have gotten in trouble, so
he stooged me out. You don't stooge

3488
04:28:40.319 --> 04:28:42.479
the boys out, and you always
try to help each other. Everybody knows

3489
04:28:42.559 --> 04:28:45.639
this. Maybe Ken didn't get the
memo. All he needed to say was

3490
04:28:45.639 --> 04:28:48.840
that it did. All that a
misunderstanding. He'd have got a talking to

3491
04:28:48.959 --> 04:28:52.399
and that would have been it.
I guess Ken wanted to look like a

3492
04:28:52.520 --> 04:28:57.120
victim. Ken really kicked me when
I was down. Ooh. I told

3493
04:28:57.200 --> 04:29:00.360
him a lot of things that were
going on with me, with my divorce

3494
04:29:00.440 --> 04:29:02.799
and everything. I needed him to
be a friend, and instead his actions

3495
04:29:02.840 --> 04:29:06.040
could have had serious implications from my
career. As it was, I got

3496
04:29:06.159 --> 04:29:07.319
a slap on the wrist from Johnny
and that was that, But it could

3497
04:29:07.360 --> 04:29:11.040
have been a lot worse. I
confronted Ken and called him every name under

3498
04:29:11.079 --> 04:29:12.319
the sun. I even tried to
get him to come outside and settle it

3499
04:29:12.399 --> 04:29:15.600
with me, but he wouldn't.
For years after that, I wanted to

3500
04:29:15.799 --> 04:29:18.319
get even with Ken, But now
all I want him to do is look

3501
04:29:18.360 --> 04:29:21.920
me in the eye and give me
an explanation about why he did what he

3502
04:29:22.000 --> 04:29:26.719
did. I doubt I'll ever get
one hardcore Holly, you're right. You're

3503
04:29:26.760 --> 04:29:30.319
right about that, pal. So
Kennedy gets into rumbling stomps Cody to a

3504
04:29:30.360 --> 04:29:33.879
pop. The ring is now full
to where there's almost nowhere to fall and

3505
04:29:34.000 --> 04:29:37.000
there's still though a downward spiral on
mizz and see him punk with a mic

3506
04:29:37.120 --> 04:29:41.000
check as he used to call it. Yeah, yep, this is this

3507
04:29:41.120 --> 04:29:45.120
is a great Yeah, Taz says
this, which is really awesome. Kennedy's

3508
04:29:45.920 --> 04:29:48.680
different a process and all the man
that we've seen it in the Spana.

3509
04:29:49.440 --> 04:29:53.520
He's picking his spots. Now.
See, I thought everyone picked their spot.

3510
04:29:55.000 --> 04:29:59.399
They called them, I can tell
you that. Yeah. So Kennedy

3511
04:29:59.440 --> 04:30:02.319
then stops Undertaker a bit and bad
mouths him to his face. Remember they

3512
04:30:02.319 --> 04:30:04.879
had an intense view of the year
before, and Undertaker and put Kennedy over

3513
04:30:04.879 --> 04:30:10.360
a couple of times. Yeah.
Taker then goozles him and rises and chokes

3514
04:30:10.440 --> 04:30:14.760
lams Kennedy. Kennedy takes the big
bump. Taker then crushes three guys in

3515
04:30:14.799 --> 04:30:17.200
the corner, stacking them up like
Cordwood As Jr. Says he has,

3516
04:30:17.319 --> 04:30:21.520
says Taker as that capability of pacing
himself. Cole says, Taker has learned

3517
04:30:21.600 --> 04:30:25.280
to adapt over the years and change
his style. Oh my god, a

3518
04:30:25.399 --> 04:30:27.040
number twenty four Big Daddy V,
who I forgot was even in the company

3519
04:30:27.040 --> 04:30:30.840
in two thousand and eight, assigned
to ECW at the time. I believe

3520
04:30:30.159 --> 04:30:36.040
he's an extremist. He is a
Big Daddy V over a quarter ton of

3521
04:30:36.120 --> 04:30:41.559
poundage. Snitsky is dump by Undertaker, and Taker is then all of a

3522
04:30:41.600 --> 04:30:44.680
sudden out of nowhere, while Big
Vis is still making his way to the

3523
04:30:44.760 --> 04:30:48.200
ring and his music is still playing. Super Kicked out of the Rumble by

3524
04:30:48.200 --> 04:30:51.879
Sean Michaels. Just like that,
Yep, Undertaker is gone. It's like,

3525
04:30:51.920 --> 04:30:53.360
you can't even believe they did it. When they did it, I

3526
04:30:53.479 --> 04:30:56.280
know, well they did that.
This like a triple header here they have

3527
04:30:56.680 --> 04:31:08.559
yeah, they do uh Snitsky then
then take her. Then Michaels Michaels,

3528
04:31:08.680 --> 04:31:15.639
Michaels amazing, and then Kennedy sneaks
up and dumps Sean Michaels. Yep,

3529
04:31:15.920 --> 04:31:18.959
no build up. They're just gone
sewn and Undertaker number one and two.

3530
04:31:19.079 --> 04:31:22.520
Sean waits for tak her to look
at him, and then Sean starts running

3531
04:31:22.520 --> 04:31:26.319
away. He stands around though,
forever, until Undertaker remembers he supposed to

3532
04:31:26.319 --> 04:31:29.959
look at him and then take her. Yeah, take her. So Pissy

3533
04:31:30.000 --> 04:31:33.360
puts Snitzky on the SmackDown table and
the leg drops him through it. It

3534
04:31:33.520 --> 04:31:37.879
kind of breaks, but Kennedy then
tries to toss Cody Cody skins. The

3535
04:31:37.959 --> 04:31:42.319
cat gets stopped and then comes up
again and almost like scissors, Kennedy out

3536
04:31:42.319 --> 04:31:45.799
of the ring. Kennedy holds on
number twenty five. Somebody's going to get

3537
04:31:45.799 --> 04:31:57.200
their ass kicked. It's Mark Henry. Look at Mark Henry. He was

3538
04:31:57.239 --> 04:32:03.239
basically a nothing guy for fourteen years. Oh my god. Then the company

3539
04:32:03.280 --> 04:32:04.159
figured out how to use him.
And got behind him, push the hell

3540
04:32:04.159 --> 04:32:07.559
out of him. He was suddenly
world champion. Good for Mark, but

3541
04:32:07.680 --> 04:32:10.239
why did it take the company so
long to figure it out? He's still

3542
04:32:10.280 --> 04:32:14.079
pissed off. He's so pissed off
without the machine behind you, he says,

3543
04:32:14.120 --> 04:32:18.200
you're going nowhere, Bob Holly,
Hornswoggle emerges from under the ring,

3544
04:32:18.319 --> 04:32:22.280
remember him, Oh God, here
we go. This is where the shit

3545
04:32:22.559 --> 04:32:27.520
kind of goes. It's Missus hanging
on and he pulls miss down, eliminating

3546
04:32:27.600 --> 04:32:33.680
him. Yep, he's called Hornswoggle
McMahon. Uh. And then vis and

3547
04:32:33.760 --> 04:32:36.959
Henry kind of do a double headbutt
to see him punk and Viscera has Morson

3548
04:32:37.000 --> 04:32:41.200
and Kennedy and the ropes at the
same time grabbing the trunks and other assorted

3549
04:32:41.239 --> 04:32:51.680
finger foods and reheatables. Were twenty
six. Chavo Guerrero, fresh off stealing

3550
04:32:51.799 --> 04:32:56.360
the ECW championship. Joey Style says, yes we all care about Chavo is

3551
04:32:56.840 --> 04:33:00.520
dewey ECW Champion. Can I tell
you you know what one of the weird

3552
04:33:00.559 --> 04:33:06.560
things they did here they really I
completely forgot that Batista's still in the match.

3553
04:33:06.759 --> 04:33:11.599
Yeah, they've done so little with
acknowledging him in this match. Interesting,

3554
04:33:11.000 --> 04:33:15.720
it is very weird, Yeah,
very weird. So Chavo and Punks

3555
04:33:15.759 --> 04:33:18.599
mix it up because they have heat
already. Morrison goes to the apron from

3556
04:33:18.639 --> 04:33:23.599
Cane and a big boot sends him
off. There goes Morrison. He'd been

3557
04:33:23.680 --> 04:33:26.040
in at number six so had a
long run. Jair points out, so

3558
04:33:26.119 --> 04:33:29.840
they kind of you know, every
year there's that guy that goes longer than

3559
04:33:29.880 --> 04:33:33.080
you expect. Yeah, yes,
I guess it was John Morrison this year,

3560
04:33:33.400 --> 04:33:37.159
I guess. Cody is teetering and
Swaggle comes out again. This time

3561
04:33:37.240 --> 04:33:40.479
Mark Henry snatches him and brings him
in the ring. Visa grabs him,

3562
04:33:40.599 --> 04:33:44.520
Mark Henry grabs him, and then
fit Finley runs in the Great Protector,

3563
04:33:44.599 --> 04:33:48.400
swinging his Chilele. Yep. Oh, this is where the Shenanigans really happen.

3564
04:33:49.040 --> 04:33:59.959
Yep, because they you know what
they're not. It just he's gone.

3565
04:34:00.400 --> 04:34:03.319
Yeah. They say he jumped the
time clock. That Finley right.

3566
04:34:03.439 --> 04:34:06.000
They didn't know though, if he
was necessarily next to come out or not,

3567
04:34:06.200 --> 04:34:07.479
so it's not like they said this
was the spot where Finley was supposed

3568
04:34:07.479 --> 04:34:11.439
to come in. He just shows
up and leaves with the Swaggle and they

3569
04:34:11.479 --> 04:34:14.919
wonder if Swaggle is out and if
he ever went over the ropes. He

3570
04:34:15.000 --> 04:34:18.080
did not, but they didn't really
see it. They don't do anything about

3571
04:34:18.119 --> 04:34:21.439
it. It's just to this day, to this day, he's not been

3572
04:34:21.479 --> 04:34:22.959
eliminated. So I went back and
watched it, and indeed, when Finley

3573
04:34:23.040 --> 04:34:27.439
ran in, Hornswaggle went under the
bottom rope on the on the on the

3574
04:34:27.759 --> 04:34:32.560
near side of the ring, very
clear. So that's that. I mean,

3575
04:34:32.599 --> 04:34:34.040
I don't think Hornswoggle could take a
bump over the top rope even if

3576
04:34:34.040 --> 04:34:37.720
he wanted to. They have to
have someone like probably get killed, but

3577
04:34:37.000 --> 04:34:41.639
yeah, toss him out. But
they didn't bother doing that either. So

3578
04:34:41.720 --> 04:34:44.479
that's like a big Rumble trivia question. Is like, who's the guy in

3579
04:34:44.520 --> 04:34:47.880
the Rumble history who's never been eliminated, never been eliminated? Yeap, who's

3580
04:34:47.880 --> 04:34:49.439
still in the match. They put
over how much size is left in the

3581
04:34:49.520 --> 04:34:52.880
ring, and coach says, maybe
it's time to start teaming up. That's

3582
04:34:52.919 --> 04:34:55.439
his one line in the rumbles.
Are these guys going to team up?

3583
04:34:55.479 --> 04:34:59.080
Are they not going to team up? Oh my god, Jerr says Finley

3584
04:34:59.159 --> 04:35:02.279
was actually just qualify for using the
le so he's out of the Rumble for

3585
04:35:02.360 --> 04:35:06.240
that, Yeah, which is weird
because it's a nody Q match. Right,

3586
04:35:06.959 --> 04:35:08.919
they didn't say anything about what that
meant for Yeah, why didn't Cactus

3587
04:35:10.040 --> 04:35:14.240
or Terry get DQ in ninety eight
for yeah, right, swinging weapons at

3588
04:35:14.240 --> 04:35:17.799
each other for fifteen minutes Number twenty
eight. Don't waste my time? This

3589
04:35:18.000 --> 04:35:22.119
theme song says, although you could
fool me, it's Elijah Burke and his

3590
04:35:22.319 --> 04:35:30.599
pugilistic proficiency. Time wasted. Ah
from ECW Batista on the floor. Yeah,

3591
04:35:30.639 --> 04:35:33.439
he got hurt there. They don't
know what happened. At first.

3592
04:35:33.439 --> 04:35:34.799
They thought maybe he got eliminated and
they missed it, which would have been

3593
04:35:34.840 --> 04:35:37.119
a big no no. Yeah,
no, that would have been a big

3594
04:35:37.240 --> 04:35:41.919
no no. But I saw it
because I rewounded and watched it myself.

3595
04:35:42.000 --> 04:35:45.639
Oh they show replay too. Oh
do they show replay? I don't even

3596
04:35:45.639 --> 04:35:48.119
remember that. Yeah, they show
replay. The Mauga spikes him and then

3597
04:35:48.119 --> 04:35:52.799
he kind of collapses and rolls under
the bottom rope. This robe be the

3598
04:35:52.840 --> 04:35:56.639
trees lamon Kane shabout trying to kind
of do the the guillotine that Ben Went

3599
04:35:56.759 --> 04:36:00.240
did to win the four Rumble.
Want to see him punk and he does

3600
04:36:00.279 --> 04:36:03.000
it. Yeah, he gets punk
out to kind of a tepid response.

3601
04:36:03.040 --> 04:36:07.319
What punk is eliminated by Chovo Guerrero
and then they show those small spiked Batista

3602
04:36:07.680 --> 04:36:11.639
another countdown number twenty nine, second
to last enter to a big pop.

3603
04:36:11.799 --> 04:36:26.880
It's Triple H and he's out spitting. Can you do the honors on this

3604
04:36:26.000 --> 04:36:30.360
one? Oh? Fuck yeah,
because this is the doozy. Oh my

3605
04:36:30.520 --> 04:36:41.959
god, he loves Triple H.
Of course he does. And make no

3606
04:36:41.080 --> 04:36:45.279
mistake, everything goes back to what
Hunter wants. It's all a game to

3607
04:36:45.360 --> 04:36:52.279
him. He wasn't satisfied just being
in the business. He wanted a lot

3608
04:36:52.400 --> 04:36:56.799
more and he set out to get
it. This is just my perspective inter

3609
04:36:56.880 --> 04:37:00.919
seeing how everything played out backstage.
Mind you, vince like he ended up

3610
04:37:00.959 --> 04:37:03.200
doing an angle in which he married
the boss's daughter, and when she started

3611
04:37:03.240 --> 04:37:07.919
to have real feelings for him,
what do you think he was going to

3612
04:37:08.000 --> 04:37:14.680
do. I'm sure he does genuinely
love her now, but I'm not sure

3613
04:37:14.799 --> 04:37:19.360
how genuine he was with her at
the very beginning. I think he was

3614
04:37:19.439 --> 04:37:25.479
in love with the business and saw
it as his way to the top of

3615
04:37:25.560 --> 04:37:32.880
the industry. He's a smart fucker. He's both good and bad for business.

3616
04:37:33.000 --> 04:37:37.439
He's a great wrestler who knows what
to do in the ring. I

3617
04:37:37.560 --> 04:37:41.799
recently watched one of my matches against
him from back in the Attitude era,

3618
04:37:41.119 --> 04:37:45.959
and it reminded me of just how
good he is. He was always very

3619
04:37:47.000 --> 04:37:49.119
gracious to me in the ring,
very unselfish, and that's because he understands

3620
04:37:49.159 --> 04:37:56.799
how wrestling works. But he bases
too many of his backstage decisions on how

3621
04:37:56.919 --> 04:38:02.520
he feels about somebody. Vince bases
his decisions on how much money he could

3622
04:38:02.560 --> 04:38:07.720
make from a person or situation.
That's the difference. I want to like

3623
04:38:07.840 --> 04:38:11.000
the guy, I really do.
He's great in the ring, nice to

3624
04:38:11.080 --> 04:38:17.759
your face, and fun to be
around, but it's hard to like him

3625
04:38:18.040 --> 04:38:25.159
when you know about all of his
backstage maneuvering and how he's screwed with people's

3626
04:38:25.279 --> 04:38:32.759
lives. Hunter has buried many a
good worker just because he didn't like the

3627
04:38:32.840 --> 04:38:37.880
guy. He nearly killed Sena right
from the get go. When you think

3628
04:38:37.919 --> 04:38:41.240
that Sena has been the company's biggest
cash cow for the last decade, it

3629
04:38:41.360 --> 04:38:47.119
shows you how much Hunter knew about
the deal. He always buried Jericho,

3630
04:38:47.240 --> 04:38:51.360
he nearly got him fired so many
guys could have been a lot more than

3631
04:38:51.400 --> 04:38:59.040
they ended up being. Cain Booker, RVD all buried by Hunter. Rob

3632
04:38:59.119 --> 04:39:02.159
van Dam could have been here huge
see him. Punk is one of the

3633
04:39:02.200 --> 04:39:07.200
top guys now, but he could
have been the guy even though Hunter never

3634
04:39:07.400 --> 04:39:08.959
liked him. They had no choice
but to go with Punk because he got

3635
04:39:10.200 --> 04:39:14.360
over. He'll notice that Hunter made
sure to go over on him though,

3636
04:39:14.959 --> 04:39:19.400
to make sure everybody knew Punk wasn't
on Hunter's level. Where's the sense in

3637
04:39:19.479 --> 04:39:25.240
that it just took away Punk's momentum
when he was the hottest thing going.

3638
04:39:26.319 --> 04:39:30.759
Punk could have made so much more
money for the business if Hunter had had

3639
04:39:30.840 --> 04:39:36.599
the balls to put him over.
It's got to be insecurity. It's strange

3640
04:39:36.639 --> 04:39:41.000
because he's such a great wrestler,
he's such a great mind for the business,

3641
04:39:41.959 --> 04:39:45.000
and he's actually a decent guy,
as he showed when he took us

3642
04:39:45.040 --> 04:39:49.000
all to that zoo in Australia.
But when it comes to company politics,

3643
04:39:49.040 --> 04:39:52.919
if he doesn't like you, he'll
fuck you over, no matter how good

3644
04:39:52.959 --> 04:39:57.720
you are. It's a crying shame. Face to face, he acts like

3645
04:39:57.799 --> 04:40:02.119
you're like yeah, he acts like
he's your best friend, but as soon

3646
04:40:02.159 --> 04:40:08.720
as you turn away out comes the
knife. I'm not gonna mention names because

3647
04:40:08.759 --> 04:40:14.639
the people in question still work for
the company, but I was told several

3648
04:40:14.759 --> 04:40:23.560
times by several people that Hunter used
to bury me directly to Vince in meetings

3649
04:40:26.000 --> 04:40:30.319
once he was in power. I
was going nowhere, especially after the incident

3650
04:40:30.360 --> 04:40:34.599
with Dupre. I wish you'd had
the balls to tell me what he really

3651
04:40:34.680 --> 04:40:40.680
thought of me to my face.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a

3652
04:40:40.840 --> 04:40:48.639
coward for never giving me any indication
that there were something wrong between us.

3653
04:40:49.720 --> 04:40:53.840
And with that said, Triple h
hits the rumble and starts dropping everybody.

3654
04:40:55.080 --> 04:40:59.400
You're damn fucking right. Cody absolutely
launched out of the rumble by the game

3655
04:41:00.159 --> 04:41:03.520
like what a fucking foreshadow? Oh
my god, it's too much to bear

3656
04:41:04.799 --> 04:41:07.840
facebuster from Triple Ah with his knee
on vis. And then he dumps the

3657
04:41:07.919 --> 04:41:11.959
big man. No problem, how
about one for AMaGA yep, And he

3658
04:41:12.040 --> 04:41:17.880
clashes with Foley and they hype that
big time is those two exchanging in rumble

3659
04:41:18.000 --> 04:41:21.360
in this building. That's right.
It gets a big pop. Fully throws

3660
04:41:22.439 --> 04:41:26.720
Make into a clothes line, and
then both Fully and Burke eliminated from the

3661
04:41:26.799 --> 04:41:30.040
rumble as well. The game,
the game, the game, eliminating everybody

3662
04:41:30.639 --> 04:41:34.479
that's right now, he fucking clean
clears out the whole fucking ring. Waller

3663
04:41:34.599 --> 04:41:38.799
says, it, Uh, what's
that with all these dumps everybody? Yeah,

3664
04:41:38.880 --> 04:41:42.720
makes everyone look like total bitches When
he gets in there, Waller says,

3665
04:41:42.759 --> 04:41:45.040
looks like a pile up. A
ninety five has correct it. Says

3666
04:41:45.080 --> 04:41:48.119
the l I E. Ninety five
isn't too close to here, and they

3667
04:41:48.159 --> 04:41:55.200
all cackle. Yeah, yeah,
I guess that's true. Jr. Says

3668
04:41:55.200 --> 04:41:57.119
there's a lot of beef and a
lot of superstar power still left in this

3669
04:41:57.240 --> 04:42:02.119
matchup. Got that one for you. There's a lot of beef and a

3670
04:42:02.200 --> 04:42:07.080
lot of superstar power still looked in
this metto in the moment he said that.

3671
04:42:07.159 --> 04:42:08.759
I don't know if you saw this, but I saw what he said,

3672
04:42:08.799 --> 04:42:11.880
a lot of beef. I saw
Mabel pick up the pace to go

3673
04:42:11.959 --> 04:42:17.439
to the back, Triple h walking
around, dinging everyone with right hands.

3674
04:42:17.840 --> 04:42:22.080
It's such a he's such a fucking
asshole. I'm so glad Holly puts it

3675
04:42:22.159 --> 04:42:26.080
that way. Manah, this is
this is also so easy to forget who

3676
04:42:26.119 --> 04:42:30.759
this guy is. No, it's
not not. If you're with us but

3677
04:42:30.840 --> 04:42:33.959
you know what I mean, like, this is the fucking whole generations come

3678
04:42:34.040 --> 04:42:37.720
up thinking he's like the benefactor of
all benefactors, you know, right right,

3679
04:42:38.240 --> 04:42:45.479
Oh, it's so disgusting. He
is just a it's you gotta remember

3680
04:42:45.599 --> 04:42:52.360
what a what a fucking asshole he
is, because that's what he is.

3681
04:42:52.680 --> 04:42:56.319
He's an asshole. Bob Holly the
most lapsed wrestler I think I can ever

3682
04:42:56.439 --> 04:43:03.240
think of. Absolutely, he's sitting
there pissed off. I imagine him watching

3683
04:43:03.319 --> 04:43:07.799
wrestling like even today with acause I
got a beer in his hand. Yeah,

3684
04:43:07.080 --> 04:43:10.639
yeah, the ship and he's just
shaking his head. Yep, he

3685
04:43:10.720 --> 04:43:14.720
has pissed. His house looks like
a country music video. You know it

3686
04:43:14.759 --> 04:43:18.279
does. Yes, it does.
A lot of wood, a lot of

3687
04:43:19.240 --> 04:43:27.119
there's a lot of like uh uh, you know, like heavily lacquered wood.

3688
04:43:27.680 --> 04:43:34.200
It's tremendous. Omaga misses a corner
splash and Omaga sent up onto the

3689
04:43:34.240 --> 04:43:37.040
post. Actually he jumps up onto
the post like Slaughter used to do.

3690
04:43:37.479 --> 04:43:40.959
Yeah, and then it's a pedigree
on Omaga from the game. Thank you

3691
04:43:41.080 --> 04:43:45.520
very much. I don't see the
problem. As JR Puts over how many

3692
04:43:45.560 --> 04:43:48.279
obstacles triple h had to overcome to
get into the rubble in the first place.

3693
04:43:48.360 --> 04:43:51.400
We mentioned the three matches in one
night on Raw, for instance,

3694
04:43:52.400 --> 04:43:56.360
and then here it is number thirty. Yep. The moment countdown hits,

3695
04:43:56.360 --> 04:44:00.560
there's a pause and then you see
Sena's chain on the screen yep, and

3696
04:44:00.639 --> 04:44:04.279
they pop huge. It's a massive
pop. Happy to see him. To

3697
04:44:04.279 --> 04:44:08.680
put it lightly, it's John Cena
and he's got his arms crossed at the

3698
04:44:08.720 --> 04:44:14.520
wrists. Ye looks up from his
hat and that's a huge moment right there

3699
04:44:14.799 --> 04:44:18.599
is It's a really incredible moment.
Jr. Rises to the occasion. The

3700
04:44:18.720 --> 04:44:23.919
roof is exploding on Madison Square Garden. Perfect call Johnson to the thirtieth entrant.

3701
04:44:25.599 --> 04:44:29.639
Jr. Is doing what he does. That's right. Business just picked

3702
04:44:29.720 --> 04:44:33.479
up, we're told. Scena makes
a remember me face to the camera and

3703
04:44:33.599 --> 04:44:36.479
everyone freezes a. Scena gets in
there, jaw jacking with triple H,

3704
04:44:36.560 --> 04:44:40.919
rips his shirt off and gets in
there throwing like a madman and going off

3705
04:44:40.959 --> 04:44:48.200
on Mark Henry as well. A
healthy mix of booze and cheers for Sean

3706
04:44:48.279 --> 04:44:53.400
Michaels party for John Cena. I
mentioned Sean because there's a hardcore HOLLI thing,

3707
04:44:53.439 --> 04:44:57.319
I'll skip it's not that great.
But he just says, how much

3708
04:44:57.439 --> 04:45:03.000
like SNA isn't that good? But
we already heard that though, But he

3709
04:45:03.040 --> 04:45:06.319
points to that sixty minute match that
Sean got out of Johnsena and Ron London.

3710
04:45:07.200 --> 04:45:11.200
Yeah, example of how good Sean
was so seen a Tooss's Carlito Tossis

3711
04:45:11.279 --> 04:45:14.000
Chavo sneaks up on Henry, who
was hanging out near the ropes for some

3712
04:45:14.119 --> 04:45:17.360
reason. They are they running,
They're running no one time. It seems

3713
04:45:17.439 --> 04:45:23.000
like suddenly dumping people like nobody's business. Absolutely, So Henry's out, Triple

3714
04:45:23.000 --> 04:45:26.119
Ah goes face to face with him. Looks like a complete recovery, they

3715
04:45:26.159 --> 04:45:30.240
say, from the torn pectoral muscle. Seen a Triple Ah come face to

3716
04:45:30.279 --> 04:45:33.279
face. No snows the Mania signs
in the background as they face off and

3717
04:45:33.360 --> 04:45:36.400
they haul off with each other,
it's like, you know, yep,

3718
04:45:36.639 --> 04:45:38.599
they're having this moment, like as
if we've never seen them wrestle before.

3719
04:45:38.759 --> 04:45:42.680
You know, it makes me think
they're going this way from Anium I know,

3720
04:45:42.959 --> 04:45:48.119
which we already saw. Like it's
weird they do this and and you

3721
04:45:48.200 --> 04:45:52.240
know, it's kind of the same
thing with I know, I know it's

3722
04:45:52.279 --> 04:45:56.919
like it been h you know,
it's been a minute since Triple H and

3723
04:45:57.080 --> 04:46:04.159
Rock wrestled each other. But when
they when they were teasing that at that

3724
04:46:04.240 --> 04:46:11.919
WrestleMania there whatever one it was it
thirty one, I guess where Aaron Rock

3725
04:46:12.000 --> 04:46:15.520
came out. And it's like,
but like we've seen Triple H and Rock

3726
04:46:15.959 --> 04:46:22.159
a million times, a million times. Yeah, there's very little face offs.

3727
04:46:22.240 --> 04:46:23.959
Triple H can have that mean anything? Now, why do I care?

3728
04:46:25.000 --> 04:46:26.479
And also like Batista that year in
New York, it's like, no

3729
04:46:26.520 --> 04:46:30.880
one cares about this Batista. That's
what are you doing? We've seen you

3730
04:46:30.959 --> 04:46:34.159
guys, because again we've seen you
guys do this, Like we've seen it's

3731
04:46:34.240 --> 04:46:41.799
not a unique thing. I mean, we just saw Triple H and and

3732
04:46:41.279 --> 04:46:48.319
seen a main event WrestleMania two years
prior. What's the big deal? And

3733
04:46:48.400 --> 04:46:52.319
people shot in the match, you
know, they didn't shoot on the quality

3734
04:46:52.319 --> 04:46:53.400
of the match, but they shot
on Sena winning. It's not like it

3735
04:46:53.520 --> 04:46:57.439
was something that people were you know, over the moon about having seen and

3736
04:46:57.479 --> 04:47:03.200
wanted to see again. Anyway,
here it is, yeah, and they

3737
04:47:03.279 --> 04:47:06.919
slug it out and it's pretty intense, and then Triple H whips scene in

3738
04:47:06.959 --> 04:47:10.080
and gives me a kick, charges
into a spinebuster to a pop does uh

3739
04:47:10.319 --> 04:47:14.880
sina from the guys there. They
definitely pop for a scena getting spine busted.

3740
04:47:15.279 --> 04:47:18.360
Of course they're hungry. Omaga kills
Triple Ah to the big Downtown shot

3741
04:47:18.360 --> 04:47:22.319
and goes for the spike, but
Batista spears him. We forgot about Batista,

3742
04:47:22.439 --> 04:47:25.520
they say, exactly, that's that's
that's kind of the thing. I

3743
04:47:25.560 --> 04:47:30.159
don't understand why we have forgotten about
Batista the baptist. Oh, he makes

3744
04:47:30.200 --> 04:47:33.119
a bid for for a memorable moments, says. Batista clotheslines mister Kennedy out

3745
04:47:33.119 --> 04:47:37.040
of the Rumble and then Umaga as
well, But then Kane snatches Batista and

3746
04:47:37.080 --> 04:47:41.000
Triple H with a double goozle.
They both kick free though and toss Kane

3747
04:47:41.040 --> 04:47:45.040
out of the Rumble. Evolution reunion
perhaps down to three just like that,

3748
04:47:45.240 --> 04:47:48.560
Like you said, they go warp
speed here, Yeah, warp speed.

3749
04:47:48.720 --> 04:47:52.520
It really seemed like there's a problem, like they're they're they're werenning low on

3750
04:47:52.639 --> 04:47:56.360
time. Batista, Triple H,
and Sena are the other final guys.

3751
04:47:56.880 --> 04:47:59.720
Seene Aapatista Triple H is going to
WrestleMania Jr. Says. They pause for

3752
04:47:59.759 --> 04:48:02.720
the big pop for all three,
their eyes darting around to figure out what

3753
04:48:02.759 --> 04:48:04.720
they're going to do next. Triple
H looks at Batista like they're going to

3754
04:48:04.759 --> 04:48:10.479
make an allegiance, and Batista smirks
and does the thumbs down gesture to decline

3755
04:48:10.520 --> 04:48:14.080
Triple H's overture. YEP. Sina
with the can't you can't see me to

3756
04:48:14.159 --> 04:48:15.560
both of them, and Triple H
crotch chops him in response, and they

3757
04:48:15.599 --> 04:48:21.159
all start brawling. Whip is reversing, is dropped by Batista, running clothesline

3758
04:48:21.200 --> 04:48:22.919
in the corner and drops him.
They double team on Batista bit double whip

3759
04:48:22.959 --> 04:48:26.279
and Batista drops them with the double
clothes line. Seene As whipped into the

3760
04:48:26.279 --> 04:48:29.919
corner, gets a boot up on
the charging Batista and then charges right in

3761
04:48:30.799 --> 04:48:36.439
yet another spinebuster. Power Velocity Intensity
Jr. Says excuse me, Triple H

3762
04:48:36.599 --> 04:48:40.400
tries a pedigree and Batista ba Batista
breaks free and spine busts him a liver

3763
04:48:40.639 --> 04:48:47.599
quivering, spine jarring spinebuster were told
by Jim ross uh uh Okay. Batista

3764
04:48:47.639 --> 04:48:51.240
then kicks Sina seen a backdrops out
of the power mom and then Triple H

3765
04:48:51.400 --> 04:48:56.200
nails him with the clothes line.
Batista's out of the rumble. Triple AH

3766
04:48:56.279 --> 04:49:00.439
eliminates Patista is actually a pretty wild
elimination. You know, there is something

3767
04:49:00.840 --> 04:49:06.040
I will say about Batista. He
know, he he is able to really

3768
04:49:06.240 --> 04:49:10.639
he's sometimes it's I'm amazed how he
leaves his feet. Yeah, you know,

3769
04:49:11.279 --> 04:49:14.479
like when he got closing out of
the ring there by by Triple H,

3770
04:49:14.599 --> 04:49:17.479
it was like he was as light
as a feather. Yeah, that's

3771
04:49:17.479 --> 04:49:19.959
a good point. He deserves some
credit for that. He carried so much

3772
04:49:21.040 --> 04:49:23.279
muscles, man, he yeah,
tear shit all the time and everything,

3773
04:49:25.520 --> 04:49:29.119
so he didn't take those bumps lightly
down to two. They face off crowd

3774
04:49:29.159 --> 04:49:30.639
red hot. Triple H points to
the sign. Scena does too. They

3775
04:49:30.720 --> 04:49:33.639
pause and look at the crowd.
Why come on, stop with the fucking

3776
04:49:36.040 --> 04:49:38.520
uh. Triple Ah to the boot, to the gut, throwing some rights.

3777
04:49:38.720 --> 04:49:42.119
We're going for it. We're going
for it. Seeing the fires back

3778
04:49:42.159 --> 04:49:47.040
to a course of booze taking over. Boo yeah, boo yeahs They exchange.

3779
04:49:48.040 --> 04:49:51.759
Triple H pulls ahead, Scena ducks
with the backsuplex the lightning rod is

3780
04:49:51.840 --> 04:49:55.520
John Cena Jr. Says. Sina
says, we're back in the sum bitch

3781
04:49:55.560 --> 04:49:59.680
and then does that you can't see
me and drops the five knuckles shuffle gets

3782
04:49:59.720 --> 04:50:03.400
them up for the FU, but
Triple H drops down, goes for the

3783
04:50:03.439 --> 04:50:07.000
pedigree no seeing a twist out of
that, Triple H ducks the line and

3784
04:50:07.080 --> 04:50:10.959
both are hit with a double clothes
line, double down. Spot crowd into

3785
04:50:10.959 --> 04:50:15.560
it. Triple Ahton gets up,
charges scene it gets the boot up.

3786
04:50:15.200 --> 04:50:19.119
J R. Says it's all about
the desire, your heart, your soul.

3787
04:50:21.759 --> 04:50:26.479
SCENEA lifts Triple H for the FU. Triple H reaches for the top

3788
04:50:26.599 --> 04:50:30.159
rope, grabs it. He pushes
off the top rope to get off,

3789
04:50:30.200 --> 04:50:33.479
see his shoulders and plant Seen in
the canvas with a big DDT. Yes,

3790
04:50:33.560 --> 04:50:36.720
he does triple hs, then lifts
Seen into his shoulder. Either way,

3791
04:50:36.759 --> 04:50:38.000
the crowd roars for that. Oh
yeah. They have a great back

3792
04:50:38.040 --> 04:50:41.439
and forth. At the end they
do Triple H lifts Seen on his shoulder

3793
04:50:41.439 --> 04:50:45.439
and attempt to eliminate him Seen.
He grabs the ropes, preventing himself from

3794
04:50:45.439 --> 04:50:49.360
getting too close, drops down from
behind, lifts Triple H and the FU

3795
04:50:51.799 --> 04:50:56.360
and AA's and right out of the
ring to the arena floor. Yep,

3796
04:50:56.680 --> 04:51:00.479
And with that a massive pop.
In fifty one minutes and twenty five seconds,

3797
04:51:00.599 --> 04:51:04.240
John Cena wins the two thousand and
eight Royal Rumble, eliminating trouble h

3798
04:51:04.439 --> 04:51:07.680
Michael Buffer. Ladies and gentlemen,
the two thousand eight Royal Rumble win are

3799
04:51:08.720 --> 04:51:11.400
and he points to the sign and
points to the peck as well, the

3800
04:51:11.439 --> 04:51:15.119
surgical scar, which, un like
Cody's, is almost impossible to see on

3801
04:51:15.240 --> 04:51:18.000
John Cena's body. It's kind of
there, a thin line. But yeah,

3802
04:51:18.520 --> 04:51:25.880
it's not like the fucking mark that
that uh that Cody has. John

3803
04:51:26.119 --> 04:51:32.959
sna big long pronounced announcement from buff
It's so crazy, Jerre says. When

3804
04:51:33.000 --> 04:51:36.360
we started, the last person I
thought was Sina. We didn't think there

3805
04:51:36.439 --> 04:51:38.000
was anything. We didn't think it
was physically able to return to combat.

3806
04:51:38.680 --> 04:51:44.759
And how wrong, how wrong I
was, And they have the The announcers,

3807
04:51:44.799 --> 04:51:47.799
by the way, noticed the others
totally laid out for the finish once

3808
04:51:47.840 --> 04:51:51.919
it came down to the last three. Joey Styles, Taz Cole Coachman,

3809
04:51:52.000 --> 04:51:55.799
nothing to say, nothing, nothing, It's all j are selling that ship

3810
04:51:55.919 --> 04:51:59.400
because they owe the truth, all
right. Sina points to the sign.

3811
04:51:59.479 --> 04:52:02.599
The replay JR. Puts over how
superhuman strength of Scena to lift trip Late

3812
04:52:02.639 --> 04:52:04.080
out of the pedigree the way he
did and toss him out. Great finish,

3813
04:52:04.919 --> 04:52:07.919
and they send the pyro screaming from
the ceiling and seen it gives the

3814
04:52:07.919 --> 04:52:14.319
salute as the book. It's not
Taker Michaels from the year before. All

3815
04:52:14.439 --> 04:52:17.919
right, it's not that, but
still it's it's it was a good it's

3816
04:52:17.959 --> 04:52:22.840
a thumbs up rumble. Yeah,
it's fine, and it's done, and

3817
04:52:22.919 --> 04:52:26.959
it's in the books and it's on
the shelf courtesy of the Hopper, the

3818
04:52:27.040 --> 04:52:30.919
Magic of the Hopper. Thanks to
Path, Thanks to everybody for listening.

3819
04:52:30.720 --> 04:52:33.360
And we covered a lot of ground
in this one. Man, this was

3820
04:52:34.840 --> 04:52:38.560
we cannot We got to go into
these vent shows eyes wide open, going

3821
04:52:38.639 --> 04:52:44.479
forward. You're damn right. For
now, we're going to close hardcore Holly's

3822
04:52:44.479 --> 04:52:45.759
book and we're going to close the
book on the two thousand and eight rumble.

3823
04:52:45.799 --> 04:52:52.040
We'll see you next time on that
fucking cast bitch as a TJ to

3824
04:52:52.119 --> 04:53:02.000
Santa's production, its contents is intended
for private use only. Baa bumba bana

3825
04:53:02.200 --> 04:53:04.279
bum badam bad banda