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It's business time, baby. You
are listening to sounds. It's such good

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shit. Mama monster coud woman.
You got grown ass wrestlers in the back

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going out Twitter. Oh my god, we're only an hour in. Eric

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Fish is the idiot. We have
two more hours of this and maybe the

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single stupidest idiot that ever got into
wrestling. I don't want out of my

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contract if I don't get what I
want. I was watching this video earlier

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of John Morrison knocking out this YouTuber
Epic meal Time, who I guess is

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best known for eating a lot of
bacon in a boxing match. Knocked him

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out in the third round at Creator
Clash two, which is a charity boxing

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event made up of Twitch and YouTube
content creators. I guess my invitation got

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lost in the mail. They don't
want none of this. But he cocked

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out Bacon Boy, and then he
called out KSI to a fight. I

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hope KSI accepts and he boxes Morrison
while dressed as a Prime Energy bottle,

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just like he did at Wrestlemanium.
But Morrison, really he bolted up for

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this thing. I swear when I
saw him walk out, it looked like

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Bart Gunn walking into the Brawl for
All, and you have to see this

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entourage that walked him out to the
ring. He had his wife with him,

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Tie a Valkyrie, which he would
expect, but he had Josh Barnett

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carrying Cross and Scarlett, La Night
Mojoe Rawley, Vic, Joseph and Hack

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Saw, Jim Duggan two by four
and all the most random faction of all

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time. If I did a be
the Booker segment on my streams for factions,

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I feel like this is something it
would spit out at me. But

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this is episode eight o four of
The Salom Monster Sounds Off for Sunday,

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April sixteenth, two twenty three.
I am the Salom Monster. John Morrison

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already has a better fight record then
CM punk does unless you count Brawl Out,

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and then I guess they would be
tied. Punk is back in the

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news again and I'm gonna be talking
about that, plus the return of Jeff

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Hardy to AEW King of the Ring
over it looks like before it even started.

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The latest on the AW video game
Dark Side of the Ring is coming

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back. So we got a lot
to get into here. So if you

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are relaxing on a Sunday, sit
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more reps. If you're out running
and doing cardio, I want an extra

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three miles out of you. Let's
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Night Stalker, Nief Alsafar, John
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Brian Pisarah, Beast Mode Brought,
Joseph, the Chicago Slayer, Willie Eichard,

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Velvet Revolver, Robert Murray, The
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Soapp, New York Punk, Arnold
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Keith Hart, Kevin Renfield, McCarron, Oh, I hate you for

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that one Road Warrior Roderick Welch.
I hope this week is better than last

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week was for you, my friend
and king keiks and Rique Hernandez who also

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wanted to know what I thought of
Alex Wright in WCW. I do mention

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him from time to time, dos
Wunderkin. I thought he was entertaining with

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the dancing, especially when he would
interrupt the Nitro girls to do his own

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dance. I thought that was funny. I thought he was going to be

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a bigger star than he turned out
to be. They kind of tried with

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the Berlin makeover when he shaved the
sides of his head, he got the

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mohawk, he had an entourage,
but it just didn't work. But thank

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you, Enrique. I am going
to be back to the Live SmackDown review

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this week. I had some house
of Glory business to tend to. On

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Friday, we had Willie Mack challenging
Jacob fat two for the World heavyweight title.

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They had a hell of a battle, but two reigns on for how

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much longer? Though? Because Matt
Cardona, the Indie god himself, is

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going to be making his house of
Glory debut on May nineteenth at the NYC

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Arena and airing live on Fight TV, this time challenging Fat two for that

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very championship, and the Motor City
Machine Guns are coming to Hog for the

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first time ever against main event Midas
Black and Jay Lyon. Then we've got

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the Kingo coming in for our June
sixteenth show. And all of that is

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to say nothing of the great roster
of all that we have that you may

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not know right now, but you
will suit. It's a great mix of

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talent. I hope you can make
it out and it'll be good to split

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my commissioner and commentary duties again when
we're back live on Fight. You know,

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nobody told me this commissioner stuff was
going to be easy, and I

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am quickly learning why that is.
Let's start with cmpunk, our top story

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of the week. All signs now
more than ever, point to cmpunk being

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back on AW television very soon,
with an announcement coming as early as next

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month, and it apparently ties into
this new Saturday show that Warner Brothers Discovery

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has greenlit for them, which would
give AW two more hours of television,

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which would give them this new show
probably called Collision, Dynamite, Rampage,

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Dark Dark, Elevation, All Access, plus their quarterly Battle of the Belt

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specials, their pay per views,
and two hours of Ring of Honor every

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Thursday. That's a lot of wrestling, and it sounds like Warner Brothers Discovery

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is all in on AW. I
would be surprised if they don't sign a

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new deal soon to extend them many
more years into the future. If they're

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giving them more programming now. Punk
is believed to be coming back, but

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the issues that existed before with him
and the members of the AW locker room

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have not been resolved at all.
It's like you can see the plane taking

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off from the runway even though both
engines are smoking, and there's nothing you

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can do but just watch and wait
for the crash. Now, per Fightful

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Punk said, or Punk is said
to have laid out numerous scenarios in which

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he would return. Among those is
a willingness to work with Kenny Omega and

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the Young Bucks, but at least
adds of a few months ago. The

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Elite we're not keen on doing that
for obvious reasons. I mean, they

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were publicly slandered by this guy.
It was not a work. It was

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not done as a way to start
an angle, and after being told,

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if you have a problem with me, come find me, they did so.

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But they brought along the company's head
of legal. Now I don't know

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about you, but if you were
going to supposedly kick down someone's door to

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harass them or to start a fight, would you bring the head legal counsel

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for the company that you work for
with you. I feel like that's a

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fact that sometimes gets overlooked in this
whole mess. It did lead to a

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scuffle, with Punk allegedly throwing the
first punch, Nick Jackson allegedly getting hit

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in the eye with a chair,
and Kenny Omega being bit by Man's best

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friend, I mean Punk's best friend. Everyone got suspended, and so the

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fact that they might not be too
keenot working with this person doesn't sound unreasonable.

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Maybe they just don't want to have
anything to do with him. Maybe

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they don't trust him, as Punk
does not trust them. He called Hangman

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Page an empty headed, dumb fuck
who never did anything in the business.

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He said this about a former aw
world champion, someone who Brian Danielson put

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over in a pretty big way,
right, someone who has had classic matches

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in this company, against the Bucks
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And yes, he was wrong to
do what he did with that workers' rights

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promo, which had absolutely nothing to
do with the build to their double or

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nothing match. One unprofessional act deserved
another, I guess because Punk sat at

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home for three months and he stewed
about it, and the first thing he

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did when he came back was go
on live television to give him a receipt

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and that wasn't enough. He had
to single him out again at the scrum.

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It's no wonder that none of these
people trust each other. It's not

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hard to see why. And if
there's no trust, that makes for a

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terrible work environment. Now I said, I understand the elite not wanting to

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work with Cmpunk, I didn't say
anything about them not wanting to meet with

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him. There needs to at least
be a meeting between all the parties involved

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to see if their differences can be
worked out first before Tony Kann starts booking

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Creative Out for the next six to
nine months. Punk has been trying to

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push for such a meeting, but
it doesn't sound like there's been any progress

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made. Towards making that actually happen, and Tony kh has to be careful

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here because Omega and the Bucks right
now as we speak, are both in

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the middle of contract negotiations. You
know, push them too hard and they

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might want to go test the free
agent waters somewhere else. But if they

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go to WWE, they won't be
EVPs. If they enjoy their status as

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EVPs and having a level of creative
input and creative freedom, that is not

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something they're going to get working for
WWE. So they need to weigh the

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pros and cons of whatever decision it
is that they're going to make. There

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is a meeting planned with Punk and
Chris Jericho, which is a must.

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After Jericho called Punk a cancer after
brawl Out, Punk went on Instagram a

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few weeks ago called Erico a stooge, which was a very stupid thing to

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do for someone who wants back into
the company. Why would you go on

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social media and call Chris Jericho a
stooge even if it was true, Even

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if it was true, why would
you do that. I understand that Punk

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was refuting something that Dave Meltzer said
in a message board post when he lashed

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out the way he did, but
there was no need to air out your

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feelings about Jericho at the bottom of
that post. Save it for the eventual

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meeting, Save it for the face
to face. But for someone who wants

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back in, it's like pad locking
the door shut and throwing away the key

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and then banging on the door shouting
for somebody to let you in. Doesn't

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make any sense. By doing that, all he is doing is fanning the

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flames. Punk is his own worst
enemy. But they need to get together

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in a room and see if they
can work together, or at least be

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cordial to each other and coexist in
the same locker room. Because even this

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idea of separate rosters, I mean, think about the absurdity of this.

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If these reports are to be believed, AEW might be starting a brand new

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show just to accommodate Cmpunk and give
him a place to work, to keep

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him apart from Jericho and the elite
in all of their friends. What a

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stupid idea that would be. I
hate the concept of a brand split in

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general. They basically do want already
with a ring of honor, but I

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hate how restrictive it is. I
like the idea of opening up as many

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match possibilities as you can with the
people that you have. Otherwise, I

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just feel at places unnecessary handcuffs on
you when you're trying to book your shows.

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If it's more of a soft split
where a handful of talent and stories

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end up being mostly exclusive to that
show, they already have a show like

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that, it's called Rampage. Or
they could always do a WWE style split

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and just ignore the fact that a
brand split even exists. But then if

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they do that, it would defeat
the purpose of keeping certain people on the

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roster away from each other. If
you need to create an entirely new show

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and start a brand split just to
avoid conflict between one man and the other

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members of your roster, that would
seem to be a very big problem.

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What Tony Khan does not need is
to divide the roster into factions. That

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is not healthy and that is only
going to lead to more drama and more

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conflict. And that might be good
for the wrestling news websites, and that

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might be good for podcasts, but
that would be terrible for aw The Fightful

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says that Punk has expressed his willingness
to return to the company and keep completely

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separate from the elite, and there
were some talent who were of the belief

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that this rumored Saturday show could be
used to help facilitate that with some separation

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to the roster. Andrews Arian of
The Mattman Podcast has since reported that new

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show will be premiering, likely on
TNT in June as a two hour program

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from eight to ten pm Eastern Time, with that first show being held in

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Chicago. Now, if Tony Khan
doesn't already have other people helping him on

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the booking end, and I think
he's talked about having people that do give

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input, and I don't know what
the exact creative structure is in that company,

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the impression I have is that it
is still largely on his shoulders.

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He has people who contribute ideas,
probably some of the agents. I don't

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know if Chavanni might have a role
in that as well. He already wears

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a lot of hats in the company. But Tony Kann is still pretty much

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the end all be all when it
comes to creative among all of the other

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jobs and responsibilities that this guy has. So if he doesn't already have other

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people who can step in and help
him on the booking end, he adds

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another two hour live show on top
of what he already has. I don't

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see how he can handle this all
on his own. He's going to burn

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himself completely out and the product is
going to suffer because of it. Now,

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AW has a Dynamite in Chicago at
the Wintrust Arena on June twenty first,

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that Fightful says could be a date
for a Punk return. So even

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if Punk was to come back and
end up on Collision, you would probably

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bring him back and maybe debut him
on Dynamite right to get the biggest audience

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possible, and then you could transition
him over to the new show. So

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the twenty first on Dynamite could be
a return date for Cmpunk. That is

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possible. Tickets for that show go
on sale this week, and the WarnerMedia

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Upfronts are being held May seventeenth at
the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which

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could be where they announced this new
show. In fact that it would seem

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to me that, I mean,
unless they make some kind of announcement this

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week, that would be the place
for them to announce this new Collision show.

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Saturday from eight to ten pm is
a terrible time for a weekly show

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that would instantly become their most dvard
show, even more than Dynamite, especially

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on TNT, given how often it
would be preempted for sport. And we're

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heading into the summer months now less, where people spend more time outside.

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You know, this is another reason
why a brand split does not work.

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If you have a show on Wednesdays
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know, on average, Dynamite now
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hundred and fifty thousand live viewers on
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million, but that's rare. I
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outside of maybe the first one,
which people would watch out of curiosity more

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than anything else. Even if their
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show, that would get them Dynamite
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just don't see how that show would
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But if we assume that it won't, you don't end up with a

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roster split. You end up with
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two hour rampage on Saturdays. Basically
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time slot, especially if they're going
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exactly what happens with Rampage now on
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probably be even worse. So how
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split gets dropped in favor of mixing
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against WWE pay per views, UFC
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about any Saturday aw pay per views, even though most of their shows now

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were on Sundays, but Full Gear
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You can forget about that. But
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star power on the show would have
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it would completely indegate the need for
Rampage. Now. They're not going to

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go to Warner and say, hey, give us less television. You know,

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let's get rid of the Friday's show, but they should the same thing

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with WWE. WWE is not going
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the show would be better at two
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chop off the third hour, right, That's not even their call to make,

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that's a USA call. And maybe
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I would certainly hope. So I
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their while because it has made RAW
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to how it used to be.
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not going to go to USA and
say, hey, give us less TV,

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right. I understand that's not how
it works. I wish it would

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be two hours, but it is
what it is. But that doesn't mean

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that that is not what they should
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two hours on Wednesday, and they
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you have the YouTube shows. You
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there on Thursdays and that's more than
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Dax Harwood or FTR Bald, which
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who counts cm punk among his very
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He spoke about Punk and a possible
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reason I am fantasy booking, and
he was talking about the Elite against Cmpunk

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and FTR as a potential main event
for all In at Wembley Stadium. So

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the reason I'm fantasy booking is because
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the biggest name in professional wrestling right
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in AW. So if we want
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if we are here to work for
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professional wrestling better because of AW,
the way you do that is to take

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the biggest star that you have and
one of the biggest stars in the world,

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and you put them on the car
to you make money with them.

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On top of that, I will
say that I talked to Punk almost every

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day, and Punk Missus Wrestling.
That's your headline, Punk Missus Wrestling,

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and Punk wants to come back and
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He wants to give back to wrestling. So I will leave it at

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that. Then we also got a
rare statement from FTR hair, who usually

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stays out of this stuff. Cash
Wheeler took to Twitter yesterday to defend his

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partner from criticism that he has gotten
for being too outspoken about this whole situation,

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and he said Dax is one of
the best people you could ever meet,

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passionate about wrestling and family, protective, over his friends, especially when

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people don't know everything. He is
not afraid to speak up and not to

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do it anonymously, honest to a
fault. We all need to do better

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to fix this situation. Everyone involved, no fingers pointed. No one is

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completely innocent. I respect everyone involved, and I want the best for AW.

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I am tired of reading negativity from
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Real life is more important enough.
Dax brought up the Wembley Stadium show.

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All end tickets don't go on sale
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if the presale registrations or any kind
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at least fifty thousand tickets was conservative. PW Insiders says they have so far

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exceeded fifty thousand presale registrations. And
look, that's just to get the code.

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Those are just people who signed up
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The presale is on May second.
Not all of those people will end up

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buying tickets, right, Maybe half
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of those people buy it, that
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you assume maybe half or more of
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seats. Well, you got fifty
thousand right there. You know one thing

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that it has going for it are
the ticket prices. They don't sound unreasonably

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high. Live Nation has tickets being
priced as low as thirty pounds or thirty

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seven dollars to as much as five
hundred pounds or one yoko zoom. That

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would be a top price of six
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That's for ringside seating, which sounds
really low to me, But that

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was the choice Tony Khan was going
to half to make. Is it more

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important to make as much money as
possible or to fill as many seats as

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possible to update tendency make it look
great on TV. It looks like he

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wants to make the show as affordable
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And yet I hear people saying aew
needs cmpunk if they want to sell tickets

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to Wembley Stadium. This company is
on its way to selling fifty thousand tickets

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four months in advance without a single
match being announced. With or without cmpunk,

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all In is going to do just
fine. Can he help them sell

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more tickets? Sure? Can he
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cmpunk helped get them their first million
dollar gate last year. But to listen

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to some of these people, you
would think that without Punk they would sell

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twenty thousand at best, and with
Punk they would sell another fifty. Wheelers

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said, he wants what's best for
AW. That's what cash Wheelers say.

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Well, i'll tell you what.
All this social media sniping is not what

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is best for a Brandon Cutler quote
tweeting a dead Spin editorial about cmpunk gaslighting

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the company and saying someone gets it
before deleting the tweet and taking his account

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private. That is not helping AW. Cutler was suspended for just being in

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the room when shit went sideways last
year, and he's buddies with the Bucks,

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so he feels the need to comment, But he is not helping when

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he does stuff like that. Were
he not friends with the Bucks, he

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wouldn't even have a job there.
And if he pulls a stunt like that

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again, then he should be x
AW star Brandon Cutler, and I use

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that term star very loosely. This
is exactly the kind of thing that Tony

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Kann does not need right now.
It feels like a civil war is about

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to erupt in this company. The
Punk stuff happened to die down. We

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all knew this was going to happen
because eventually he was going to recover from

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the injury, and Tony Kahn was
going to have to make a decision do

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I keep this guy or do I
not keep this guy? So things got

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quiet there for a while until the
Instagram shoot a few weeks ago blew it

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all up again. And now here
we are. So we knew this was

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coming. We knew he had a
decision to make. But it feels like

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there's a civil war that's about to
blow up behind the scenes in this company.

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So I say this, it's like
Tony bringing Jeff Hardy back. He

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knows what he is getting into by
doing this. It is a risk that

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he feels is worth taking because Punk
can help his business. Punk can help

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his bottom line. At what cost? That is the question. Take the

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elite stuff out of it for a
second. Punk is coming off back to

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back major injuries. Both times they
put their world title on him. He

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ended up having surgery within days.
Can his body even hold up to another

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run? I would keep him away
from that championship. You could do the

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rematch with MJF. At some point
he could challenge for it, but do

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not put the belt back on him, because all you're doing is inviting trouble.

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Bron Breaker on NXT this week said
that I don't want the NXT Championship

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again because it was a curse.
It was a curse on me. That

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aw title in the hands of cmpunk
is a curse now as far as the

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elite and Hangman Page and Chris Jericho
and John Moxley, Jesus Christ, how

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many people is this guy pissed off? As far as they go, as

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far as all those people go.
If Tony is bringing back cmpunk, he

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needs to get them all in a
room. And I'm sure he's either about

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to do this or is trying to
make this happen. He's got to get

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them all in a room to at
least have an adult conversation. If the

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elite does not want to meet with
him, they're EVPs. They are not

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just talent on the roster. Who
can tell Tony I don't want to work

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with this guy. They wanted executive
positions in the company and they got it.

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Tony did not strip them of those
titles. When brawl Out happened,

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and as EVPs, they have an
added responsibility in situations like this to put

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their own personal feelings aside for the
good of the company and make sure that

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everybody can code this peacefully. Even
if they do not want to work with

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Punk, if they don't want to
work a program with him, if they

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don't trust him, that is their
right. Cmpunk against Kenny Omega would do

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big business. They could even have
Larry the Dog hanging above the ring in

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a cage. Cmpunk and FTR against
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They can even let the fans pick
sides, let them choose who the

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baby faces and who the heels are. But if the president of the company

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says I'm bringing back cmpunk, or
if Warner Media wants cmpunk back and he

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says, look, we're making the
announcement next month, this is happening whether

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you like it or not, they
need to come to the table now and

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hear what he has to say.
All cards on the table, no lawyers,

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no legal threats, no dogs that
includes a steel If Punk wants to

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bring him to watch his back,
put a fucking muzzle on his face and

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get this shit sorted out. For
the sake of the company and for the

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sake of the fans. There was
some confusion this week about Kenny Omega's contract

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status after an interview that Conan gave
to Nick Housman explaining why Omega was not

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booked for tonight's Triplemania show. He
wanted Omega originally to wrestle with the Kingo,

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but Conan said Omega's contract negotiations with
AW prevented it from happening. He

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said, originally we were going to
bring in Omega, but he was still

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negotiating with AW and he wasn't sure
if he was going to stay or not,

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so we couldn't commit, and he
didn't want to come here until he

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signed, so that was out the
window. And he went on to say

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that he's assuming that Omega has resigned
with AW, and you know what happens

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when you assume things. Dave Meltzer
later noted that Omega has not signed a

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new AW deal. His current contract
was set to expire three months ago,

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but it was extended due to the
nine months he missed from all of his

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injuries, so he's still working off
of the existing deal. How long it

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was extended for, we don't know. Exactly. The belief is that he

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is under contract through either November or
December, and Tony conn is going to

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try to lock him down to a
new deal. I'm sure you know well

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before that he would be crazy not
to. VI Kingo instead is defending his

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Triple A Mega title tonight against Swerve, Strickland, Rich Swan and Commander in

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a four way match. Commanders getting
around man. Let me tell you Commander's

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gonna be back on Dynamite Is Wednesday. He's gonna be wrestling Switchblade J White.

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And on the subject of contracts,
I've got even more contract news.

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Cash Wheeler announced the live crowd in
Milwaukee during the Rampage taping that ftr's new

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deal with AW is for four years, after which they both planned to retire

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unless Cmpunk asked them to stay,
and then they'll stay for another four years.

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And Brian Cage, after much speculation
about his future, heading into the

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Supercard of Honor pay per view last
month at midnight that night, he would

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have become a free agent. Then
he and the Embassy went out that night

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and retained their Ring of Honor six
man tag team titles, with Cage being

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the one to score the winning fall, which seemed like an odd thing if

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Tony Khan thought the guy was leaving
the company. Per Fightful, Cage put

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pen to paper this week on a
new long term contract that will keep him

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with AW and Ring of Honor for
years to come. Meltzer says it is

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a five year deal, but Fightful
says Tony Kahn has the option on him

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for a sixth year. They really
didn't want to lose Brian Kaye. It

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sounds like one of those like Mets
type contracts where they give like they give

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a player or a pitcher, like
they don't want to give him that many

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years. They'll only sign for like
five years. They end up signing him

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for five or six years. They
break down after two. Cage is almost

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forty. Hopefully he can hold up. Six years is a long time for

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Brian Cage, but they got him
locked down. He would be forty five

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years old by the end of that
deal. Fightful was told that several top

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talents in AW push for Cage to
resign. They were also top talents in

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WWE who were angling for him to
end up there. WWE was said to

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have some interest in him, but
he liked the offer that AW made to

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him and he took the deal,
and it is quite the turnaround from where

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he was before, when it felt
like he had gone into the witness protection

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program and when his contract was coming
to the first time, Tony Khan had

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the option of rolling over his deal
for another year, and he did so,

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which was a surprise even to Cage
himself, because Tony was not doing

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anything with him. Now at least
he's been more visible on TV, and

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I guess the money was to his
liking, so he decided to resign.

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Tony Khan did take care of him
when he first signed him. Cage was

406
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.799
injured, you know, when he
signed with AW He signed in January whatever

407
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.799
it might have been twenty twenty,
but he signed in January. He didn't

408
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.680
debut until May because he was recovering
from a torn bicep that he suffered working

409
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.559
for someone else's company. But Tony
signed him anyway, and he paid him

410
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:55.119
that entire time. He took care
of Cage, which is why it was

411
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.240
bizarre the way he just sort of
dropped off the face of the earth there

412
00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:02.039
for a while, and he just
wouldn't do anything with him for almost a

413
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:04.279
year. It was like nine or
ten months that went by, he did

414
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:08.000
nothing. I don't think he worked
a single match on any I don't want

415
00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.319
to say any of the shows.
Maybe he popped up on Dark, but

416
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.599
you know, his body of work
in aw was next to nothing for that

417
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.559
entire period. Yeah, there aren't
too many guys on that roster that look

418
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.000
like Brian Cage. He's not a
big man, He's really not. And

419
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.599
even he himself has talked about this
before, how he's not like a tall

420
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.880
guy. You know, he's not
big in that way, but he's got

421
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.160
the jack physique and he can move
around like a lightweight. And I've always

422
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:41.119
said the man's achilles heel are his
promos, which is why he's always had

423
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.880
somebody with him to do the talking. Even when he first came into he

424
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.559
was part of Team Taz. Right
from the moment he came into the company,

425
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.599
he was part of a faction.
Now he's with the Embassy and he

426
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:56.400
has Prince Nana doing most of the
talking for him. The last time Jeff

427
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.440
Hardy set foot in a ring was
a year ago. Next month against the

428
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:06.039
Young Bucks at Double or Nothing.
Two weeks later, he was busted for

429
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:11.920
duy, his third in the last
ten years and he was suspended without pay

430
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.880
by aw Tony Khan knew he was
taking a chance when he signed him.

431
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:22.000
Even the way Jeff left WWE the
last time was not without controversy and concern

432
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.880
over his state of mind in refusing
to go to rehab and it was a

433
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:32.440
whole ordeal, but Tony Khan signed
him anyway, and it only took three

434
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:37.519
months for him to get burned.
He learned the same lesson that Dixie Carter

435
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.440
learned and Vince McMahon before her,
the same Vince McMahon who approved the storyline

436
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:48.160
based around Jeff Hardy being an alcoholic, and that lesson is buyer beware when

437
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.400
it comes to Jeff Hardy. He's
been given a very long leash over the

438
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.480
past twenty years by promoters because of
how big of a star he is,

439
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.039
and when you are a big star, you're going to get more chances and

440
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.559
most that's just the way it is. And that's not just in wrestling,

441
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.359
that's in pretty much any form of
entertainment that you could think of, but

442
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:12.319
that includes pro wrestling. He is
a big star with a huge fan following,

443
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.039
and he seems like a nice enough
guy. He's had a lot of

444
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.599
people rooting for him to kick out
of all these problems. You know,

445
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.640
addiction is a bitch, and she
doesn't care how big of a star you

446
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.960
are, or what you look like, or what the color of your skin

447
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:29.680
is, or what nationality you are, how much money you have in your

448
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:35.400
bank account. But it's when that
addiction begins to create hazards for other people

449
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:39.720
as well that someone needs to step
in and say enough is enough. Maybe

450
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:45.880
this isn't something Jeff Hardy should be
doing anymore. Maybe there are safer ways

451
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.640
for him to contribute to the wrestling
business other than taking bumps and diving off

452
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:55.480
ladders. On Wednesday, Jeff Hardy
returned on aw Dynamite. He got a

453
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.480
big reaction coming out to the aid
of his brother and Isaiah Acidy, who

454
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.920
were being attacked by the firm.
His brother Matt, on his podcast said

455
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.359
the whole thing came together only in
the last few days. Jeff had surgery

456
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:13.440
on his eye recently. He is
still not completely recovered from that. He

457
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.640
can see his vision is okay,
but it's going to take another six to

458
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.200
eight weeks before he's back to one
hundred percent or whatever one hundred percent means.

459
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.000
For Jeff Hardy these days, considering
how I'm sure how beat up his

460
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:30.200
body must feel. His DUI case
in Florida that was officially closed a few

461
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.680
months ago, he could have faced
jail time. It was his third DUI

462
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.160
felony in Florida, third DUI.
He was driving with a suspended or revoked

463
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:44.400
license, and so he was facing
potential time behind bars. Instead, he

464
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:50.440
was credited with time served and he
accepted a plea deal. His driver's license

465
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.240
is suspended for the next decade,
but that clearly didn't stop him from getting

466
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:57.799
behind the wheel last time. Considering
the charges against him, he got a

467
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.720
slap on the wrist. The embat
harrassment and the shame of it all was

468
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.920
worse for him than any punishment that
the court dealt to him. But Tony

469
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.760
Khan said his return would be contingent
on him completing treatment, which he has

470
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:14.519
done. I don't think Jeff Hardy
should be in the ring anymore, and

471
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:16.800
what I think doesn't matter. If
Jeff wants to wrestle, Tony Khan is

472
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:21.280
more than happy to let him wrestle. And if it wasn't Tony Kahn wwe

473
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.920
would take him back in a heartbeat
because he is a star who can draw

474
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:30.360
them money. But that's how I
feel. Even before the last dui,

475
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.840
it was painful watching Jeff in the
ring. His best days are clearly behind

476
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.800
him. Every move he made look
like he was in agony. I think

477
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.360
being in the ring is the second
worst place for him to be, the

478
00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.400
first being behind the wheel of a
car. Tammy Sitch is a great example

479
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.559
of that. She was back in
court on Thursday for a pre trial hearing.

480
00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.719
She's facing a dui manslaughter, charged
for killing someone that could have easily

481
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.400
been Jeff Hardy in that courtroom.
I hope for his sake this was the

482
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.559
wake up call that he needed.
But said the same thing many times before.

483
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:05.639
A lot of people have I sound
like a broken record. You know.

484
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.280
The destination is to get the aw
tag team titles on the Hardies,

485
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.559
right. It's the last set of
tag team belts they've never held. This

486
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:17.840
is probably their last big run in
a national company. Matt Hardy has been

487
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:22.639
treading water with the Androde family office
stuff, which led to the firm storyline.

488
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.960
And believe me, nobody is happier
to see Jeff back than Matt Hardy.

489
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.760
Matt said something else on his podcast, I want to bring up here.

490
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.360
He said, this is the most
work I have ever seen him do

491
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.559
to himself, and he had ten
months. He seems different, and once

492
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.639
again I don't want to sit here
and vouch for him. I don't want

493
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.039
you to take my word for it. I don't want you to take anyone

494
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:46.960
else's word for it. I want
you to watch him and follow his actions,

495
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:50.960
and then he'll make you a believer
if that's what you need. I

496
00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:53.760
am confident in his actions and his
conduct and his behavior will make people a

497
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:58.920
believer. He's made me a believer. I got to see a lot of

498
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.079
him. I got to follow his
journey. I know the work he's put

499
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:05.360
in, and I know how dedicated
he's been to legitimately changing and trying to

500
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.440
get his ship together once and for
all. All I can say is I

501
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:13.199
am just so extraordinarily proud of him, and he has done great. He

502
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.320
doesn't say what Jeff has done to
change and make him think this time will

503
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:22.719
be different. It's always these sort
of vague generalities. This time feels different.

504
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.880
This time he's going to make people
believe. I hope, so I

505
00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.400
would love to believe that. I
really would. Matt has had his own

506
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.639
issues with addiction in the past.
He knows better than anyone how difficult it

507
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.280
is. It has to be incredibly
frustrating for him to see his brother fall

508
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:44.480
down over and over and over again. He wants this to be the turning

509
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.760
point for him. History would say
otherwise, but it's his brother, and

510
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.239
I look, I wouldn't expect him
to say anything different. Jeff is very

511
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.639
fortunate to have that hearty name,
because if it was almost anyone else,

512
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.599
they would not have gotten as many
chances as he's had. And if he's

513
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.559
going to be in the ring,
I hope he is at least smarter about

514
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:08.559
the risks that he takes on Rampage. Friday night, Matt Hardy challenged the

515
00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:13.400
firm to what he's calling a firm
deletion match at the Hardy Compound, with

516
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:19.000
Matt and Jeff and Hook and Isaiah
Cassidy against Ethan Page, Big Bill le

517
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.199
Moriarty and Stokely Hathaway. He didn't
say when this would take place, but

518
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:25.840
a cinematic match is the safest kind
of match for Jeff Hardy to be it

519
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:31.000
Now, we still have about seven
or eight weeks before double or nothing but

520
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.840
the early card for the pay per
view. So far it looks to be

521
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.519
MJF defending the aw World title in
a four way against the other pillars of

522
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:45.960
the Company in Darby Allen, Jungle
Boy and Sammy Gavara, the Elite against

523
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.760
the Blackpool Combat Club. My guests
would be they do Anarchy in the arena

524
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.239
since that ended up, you know, doing so well last year. It's

525
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:54.880
actually one of my favorite matches of
the year. I had a lot of

526
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:59.559
fun watching that match. I could
see that becoming an annual thing. Chris

527
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:06.159
Jerry clearly being primed for a singles
match with Adam Cole Keith Lee against Swerves

528
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:09.320
Strickland. That would seem to be
an appropriate place to blow off their feud.

529
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:14.719
Possibly j White against Ricky Starks.
If they could hold out that long,

530
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.760
they could do the match there.
Jamie Hayter, she'll either be defending

531
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.599
her championship or in a six woman
tag against the Outcasts. It seems to

532
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:27.000
me, I see there's no number
one contender that seems clear cut to me

533
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.199
right now. Unless they do her
in Soria or something like that. It's

534
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.119
more likely, I think, to
be probably a multi woman match and Jay

535
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:40.320
Cargill defending the TBS Championship against Tie
of Valkyrie. The Owen Heart Tournament,

536
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.239
the Owenhart Foundation tournaments. Are they
doing them this year? I am of

537
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.840
the impression that this is going to
be an annual thing. They are going

538
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:52.239
to do them, But they have
a huge Canadian tour coming up at the

539
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.519
end of June into July, so
I'm thinking we haven't heard anything about Double

540
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.559
or Nothing in the Owen even though
they did the finals at the Double or

541
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:06.159
Nothing Show last year. I could
see them holding off on it in doing

542
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:10.280
the Owen in Canada on one or
a combination of those Canadian shows. So

543
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:14.000
I don't know if it'll be a
Double or Nothing, but I do expect

544
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.800
them to resurrect it again this year. Now, I've got an update on

545
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:24.119
the release date for the aw Fight
Forever Game or Forever delayed, whichever name

546
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:27.960
you want to use, and if
you were hoping to be playing the game

547
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.159
in the next couple of months,
the update is not good. This game

548
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:37.639
was first announced in November of two
thou twenty as the as they called it,

549
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:43.960
the spiritual successor to WWF No Mercy. It is now April of two

550
00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:47.079
twenty three, and we are no
closer to knowing the release date than we

551
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:52.400
were back then. There was an
item in last week's Observer that said the

552
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:55.639
game is basically ready, it's just
up to the business people to announce the

553
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.960
date. Add to that what Kenny
Omega said back in Fbruary on the Swerve

554
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:05.280
City podcast when he said the game
has been done but was trying to get

555
00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:08.199
its ESRB rating finalized at the time, which it has since gotten. It

556
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:12.880
will be rated T for team,
So that's taken care of. Tony Kann

557
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.920
at the media scrum after the Revolution
pay per view said the release date was

558
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:22.840
coming soon and that the game is
finished THHQ Nordics Global Senior Community Manager per

559
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:28.960
Hollandbro, which is that's a hell
of a name too. Per Hollandbro has

560
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.360
now pushed back on this and had
this to say on Twitter. I mean,

561
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.320
if you want an unfinished game,
sure we could release now. The

562
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.920
game is doing really well and is
getting there, but not one hundred percent

563
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:45.280
yet. So yes, just another
rumor on Twitter, I fear. I

564
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.360
mean the president of the company said
this just to some rumor on Twitter.

565
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.840
This is what Tony Kahn said.
Anyway, he said there are tons of

566
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:59.840
things to take into consideration when developing
a game, submission, quality, assurance,

567
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.519
ratings, optimization, polish, coding, and much more so. Even

568
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.760
if a game looks finished to some
people, if it misses one of those

569
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:13.000
steps, it is not finished or
ready to release. And later on on

570
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.000
his twitch stream he elaborated some more
said for a publisher, the game is

571
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:20.320
not finished until it is released.
Basically, a lot of people are having

572
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.400
a massive problem understanding that, which
is kind of sad because it creates this

573
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:28.159
thing that everybody now suddenly believes,
Oh my god, these guys lied.

574
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:31.840
No they didn't. So hopefully it'll
get sorted out soon. The game is

575
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.480
in a good state. As soon
as we do launch it, I think

576
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.440
people will be happy. Then everybody
will just forget about all the other stuff

577
00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:42.400
and everybody will be happy and enjoy
it. Again. I am part of

578
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.519
the industry, so for me,
that's normal that I don't expect everything to

579
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:51.440
be instantly done. All three houses
YUKES, THHQ, Nordic, and AW

580
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:53.840
we are taking our time. We
want to do this the best we can.

581
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:59.000
We want to make sure it goes
through a long QA process and a

582
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.960
long submission process. All these things, and people are instantly like, oh,

583
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:06.480
but we want the game now.
Yeah, but you can't have both.

584
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.079
You can't have a game that's outright
away and then have a good game.

585
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:13.400
I do not believe anybody lied.
I do not believe there is any

586
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.760
kind of miscommunication in any shape or
form. I believe that simply some people

587
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:20.800
look at it differently because they don't
look at it through the lens of a

588
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.920
publisher. A lot goes into it, and for me, as somebody who

589
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.800
is part of the publishing house,
it is very different from me what completes

590
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:32.360
a game and what doesn't. I
don't think Tony kindled, but it sounds

591
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:37.280
exactly like a miscommunication. I don't
know what he's talking about. That's exactly

592
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.519
what this was. It was a
miscommunication to the point where this guy felt

593
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:46.679
the need to clarify it. Hollandborough
spoke with the gaming website Kotaku and added

594
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:52.280
even more information, saying the game
has to pass quality assurance test, get

595
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.280
localized in seven languages, which the
article says would be English, German,

596
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:05.880
French, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Simplified, Chinese and Japanese. It

597
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:09.199
has to get polished. They need
retailer and shipping deals. Has to get

598
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:15.239
submitted to first party platforms like PlayStation
four and five, Xbox PC and Nintendo

599
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:22.599
Switch and all have unique requirements for
said devices. It has to get optimized

600
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.960
on every platform. They need marketing
and public relations plans, which I will

601
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:30.079
tell you as a public relations person, as long as they have been promoting

602
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:35.440
this game for really, from the
moment they announced in twenty twenty that the

603
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.599
game was coming, they should have
been working on marketing and PR plans.

604
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:42.079
That is not something that you say
for the last minute. So I have

605
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:47.000
to think whatever marketing and PR plans
they have are already done. I would

606
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:52.320
hope so. And he says if
just one of these things is not finished,

607
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.880
the game, in a publisher's eye, is not yet ready to be

608
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:01.000
shipped. When Kotaku reached out to
t HQ Nordic for comment about how far

609
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:07.599
along Fight Forever is in its development
process, their PR team responded by saying,

610
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:13.239
a ew, Fight Forever will be
released when it's done. There you

611
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:17.400
have it. There it is.
The game will be released when it's done.

612
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.559
If it rains outside, you're going
to get wet. There you go.

613
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.880
If you didn't know now you know, don't forget. There is still

614
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.800
a pending trademark dispute with GCW over
the Fight Forever, a name that could

615
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.079
also be holding things up even longer. But one positive I guess is that

616
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:38.039
by the time this game comes out, cmpunk will be back and they'll be

617
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.960
able to use the original cover again. Hey Solomonster listeners, It's Chris fan

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Fleet and this week on my podcast
Insight with Chris fan Fleet, I sit

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down with the very awesome and always
positive Renee Paquet to talk about what made

620
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her sign with aw and also what's
her favorite John Moxley Batch. I mean,

621
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it's her husband, so she has
to have it a opinion, right.

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I'm also joined by the boat Natalia, who gives me her Canadian Mount

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Rushmore and I'll give you a hint. Yes, of course, Brett Hart

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is on there. Also check out
some of my recent interviews with The Undertaker,

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l A Night, Yeah, Dolph
Ziegler, and The Rock. You

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can find Insight with Chris Van Vleet
wherever you're listening to this podcast right now.

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Always good to listen to Chris,
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Insight with Chris Van Vleet available on
all major podcast platforms and on YouTube as

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well if you want the video interviews
that he does, which are great.

630
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WWE has not held a King of
the Ring pay per view in over twenty

631
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.000
years, and now it looks like
it maybe another twenty before we get one.

632
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:50.440
Their next Saudi Arabia show on May
twenty seventh, was originally announced as

633
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:57.000
WWE King and Queen of the Ring
in Jetta, but on Thursday, WWE

634
00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:05.360
suddenly changed They changed course to WWE
Knight of Champions and WWE has not done

635
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:09.280
a Knight of Champions show since twenty
fifteen, when Sting wrestled Seth Rollins for

636
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:15.199
the championship. After that they changed
it to Clash of Champions. We don't

637
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.360
yet know why the change was made
or if they're completely abandoning the idea of

638
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.039
a King and Queen of the Ring
tournament this year. Maybe they still do

639
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.119
the finals for both tournaments on that
show instead of building most of the show

640
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:29.960
around it. But when you realize
Vince McMahon is the one who killed off

641
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.000
King of the Ring in the first
place as a pay per view years ago,

642
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.159
it does make you wonder this probably
doesn't bode well for Sammy's Hay and

643
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:42.880
Kevin Owens run as undisputed tag team
champions if they're having Knight of Champions with

644
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.760
all champions defending their titles since neither
of them have ever worked any of the

645
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:52.199
Saudi Arabia shows, I'm thinking the
reason for the change, more than anything,

646
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:53.880
has to do with me. Twenty
seventh being the same day that Roman

647
00:46:53.920 --> 00:47:00.719
Reigns hits a thousand days as champion, hence them wanting to use the United

648
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:04.599
Champions name. They decided that they
want the show built around him for reaching

649
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:08.000
that milestone. So we don't know
that King of the Ring is completely dead.

650
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.280
I hope not, because I still
have a soft spot for it.

651
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:16.039
If done correctly and not just as
a TV gimmick with a bunch of three

652
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:20.559
minute matches and the winners walking around
for the next year with the silly crown

653
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:22.920
in the robe. I think it
could be used to set somebody up for

654
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:27.159
a championship match on a major show. It's not what King of the Ring

655
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.760
was originally meant for. It was
created as a house show gimmick in the

656
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.079
eighties to push tickets. That's how
King of the Ring started, you know,

657
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:37.599
even in ninety three, when they
turned it into a pay per view

658
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.079
for the first time. It was
basically a consolation prize for Brett Hart after

659
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.079
that WrestleMania nine finish, he didn't
go to Summer Slam and challenge for the

660
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:51.079
title. Owen did in ninety four, Mabel did in ninety five, But

661
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.760
then you had Austin In, Triple
h and Ken Shamrock and Billy Gunn,

662
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:59.119
none of whom went to SummerSlam or
any other show that year to challenge for

663
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:04.079
the world title. Kurt Angle did, Edge did not, and then brock

664
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:07.519
Lesner did before they did away with
the entire show. But I think that's

665
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:09.119
what it should be used for.
I'm a believer that a lot of what

666
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:15.360
we see on television should be built
around your top championship to make that the

667
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.360
most important, precious thing in the
entire world, right or I guess I

668
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.360
should say titles, not just title. The Royal Rumble winner challenges for the

669
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.400
title of WrestleMania. The money in
the Bank winner can cash in for a

670
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:29.360
shot at the top title. King
of the Ring should be used in the

671
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.119
same way, although ideally I think
that there should be some more separation between

672
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:36.639
the dates for King of the ring
and money in the bank, you know,

673
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:37.960
but money in the bank is more
open ended. You have up to

674
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:40.719
a year to cash in. Just
because you win the briefcase does not mean

675
00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:45.239
you're going to cash in right away. But I do think that there should

676
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:47.199
be more separation. So maybe maybe
they push it back and we have a

677
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.840
King and Queen of the Ring in
the fall, and maybe that's the better

678
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.039
time for it. I just I
hope they don't completely abandon the idea just

679
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.920
to have, you know, a
giant circle jerk in Saudi Arabia, if

680
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:02.920
for Roman Reigns hitting a thousand days
as the champion. Travel issues led to

681
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.199
a lot of Raw stars either making
it to the show late on Monday when

682
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.559
it was already live on the air, or not making it at all,

683
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:14.920
which led to a lot of rewrites. Second week in a row of rewrites

684
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.440
before the show, only this time
it was not due to the mustache Madman.

685
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:22.719
He was said to be back at
the Tower in Stamford, but he

686
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:24.760
did make changes to both shows this
week, some of which had to do

687
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.760
with the verbiage and wording of certain
promos, so his influence is most definitely

688
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:36.880
there. Nick Cohn did an interview
with Lightshed Partners, which is a research

689
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:39.079
firm based out of New York City. He did this last week, but

690
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:44.679
the transcript was posted this past week, and he noted that Vince McMahon sent

691
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:50.360
out a company wide email stating that
Paul Lavec was the sole head of creative

692
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:54.599
and that he himself would not be
seeking input on creative decisions. Of course,

693
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:59.360
he doesn't have to seek it.
He doesn't have to ask for anything.

694
00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:02.760
He just does. It's like a
tornado moving in that causes destruction and

695
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:08.239
then disappears. Con said on Monday. He's talking about the Monday after WrestleMania,

696
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:13.519
when this deal was officially announced,
Vince sent out a company wide email

697
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:17.159
to our thousand or so employees,
including myself, and specifically he articulated that

698
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:24.760
Paul Avec remains the sole chief creative
officer soul. So that means the very

699
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:30.000
day that he sent that email out
was the night that he was said to

700
00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:32.719
have been rewriting the show and making
changes even as the show was on the

701
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:37.760
air. I swear, you cannot
make this shit up. In a business

702
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.599
where people make shit up all the
time, the timing of this you just

703
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:47.159
could not do it, but he
was not physically there This week, Sammy'sae,

704
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:51.000
Matt Riddle, Damian Priest who was
supposed to be on the show to

705
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:54.480
address his attack on Bad Bunny,
Ria Ripley, the street prophets Legato del

706
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:59.519
Phantasma. They were all booked on
the same flights from Orlando to Seattle.

707
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:04.400
They did not get there until hour
three of the show. Zane and Riddle

708
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.559
did do a running at the very
end to save Kevin Owens from the bloodline,

709
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.199
but it sucked for everybody else because
instead of being on the road that

710
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.000
weekend like they usually would be,
you know, was Easter Sunday, they

711
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.800
had no shows. Instead, they
booked their flights wwe did for the first

712
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.199
thing Monday morning instead of having them, you know, fly in let's say

713
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:27.760
the night before, and all it
takes is one flight delay or one mechanical

714
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.760
failure to make for a very bad, very long day. They flew cross

715
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:36.760
country. They got there late,
only to then turn around and be booked

716
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.079
on a red eye back to Orlando
when the show is over. Such is

717
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:45.079
the life of a professional wrestler.
Bronson Reid was there, but he did

718
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:47.840
not make it make out much better. He said on Twitter that he was

719
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:52.360
sick all week with the flu,
which would explain why he looked so ghast

720
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:54.360
at the end of his match with
Bobby Lashley. I commented on it during

721
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:57.400
my review. I said, look, he looked tired in a way that

722
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.480
we don't normally see him, So
that would why I had no issue with

723
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:04.039
them doing a double count half finish
in their match, because I want to

724
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:06.920
see these two go out of it
again this time when Reid is not sick.

725
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.280
Finn Balor worked his match with Ray
Mysterio with fourteen staples in his head

726
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.800
from the Helen a Cell match at
WrestleMania, plus he still cannot be one

727
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:20.920
hundred percent from the calf tear that
he went into WrestleMania with and nobody knew

728
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.639
about until this week. The doctors
told him it would be six to eight

729
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:28.760
weeks to recover. He made it
back in three because he did not want

730
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:31.840
to miss the show. He had
to put that young Buck Edge over at

731
00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:37.440
WrestleMania. Edge wins at WrestleMania,
then disappears from TV. Baaler, though

732
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:39.360
who lost, is still full time
and he's right back on TV working.

733
00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:45.519
Why did Edge have to win that
match again? I guess when you look

734
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:49.039
at the card for Night Too,
he was one of the only baby Faces

735
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.239
to actually go over, So maybe
they just felt like, well, he

736
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:57.239
has to win because Ronda and Shana
they won the showcase match, and Gunther

737
00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.920
retained his title, and Roman reigns
going to retain his title. So let's

738
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:06.920
give people some joy on a mostly
joyless Night Too, and we'll have edge

739
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:09.639
Wynn because otherwise the wrong man won
that. I still feel the wrong man

740
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:12.800
won that mat. I don't give
a shit. The wrong man won that

741
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:17.880
match period. At end of story
Now. Ray Mysterio was a guest on

742
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.719
Logan Paul's podcast, Logan Paul has
resigned as expected with WWE. They called

743
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:27.440
it a multi year deal. The
last one was a multi event deal.

744
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.159
This one is a multi year deal. But Ray was on his podcast he

745
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:37.599
teased the idea of challenging his son
to a mask versus hair match. Where

746
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:40.360
have I heard this idea before?
He said, maybe I put my mask

747
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.480
on the line against his hair,
which is some Luca culture, and if

748
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:46.119
I lose, I take my mask
off, and if he loses, he

749
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:50.760
shaves his hair off. That might
be interesting. He talks a lot of

750
00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:54.320
craps, so why not back it
up. I think that would be a

751
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:59.840
great attraction for Summer Slam. We
almost had a hair match at Summer Slam

752
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.239
few years ago. They announced one
between Mandy Rose and Sonya de Ville and

753
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:07.360
then it got changed to loser Leaves
WWE. But we did get a hair

754
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:12.079
match once upon the time at Summer
s Lam back in nineteen ninety eight between

755
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:16.119
x POC and Jeff Jared. Jeff
Jared got a haircut. Waltman was always

756
00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:20.480
laugh when I mentioned that match,
or I think about that match. Waltman

757
00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:25.119
was pissed about his payoff for that
match, so he complained to management about

758
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:30.400
it, and I think he actually
said, if I remember the story correctly,

759
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:36.599
he called Vince maybe, and just
the way he opened the conversation,

760
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.199
Vince was like, well, I
can see, I can see where this

761
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.079
conversation is headed. Just you know, you should talk to JR. So

762
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:45.559
I think he talked to Jim Ross. They ended up giving him an extra

763
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:50.639
five thousand dollars just to shut him
up. But I said, a while

764
00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:52.480
back, you know, Dominic has
been growing his hair out because they must

765
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.639
be setting up for a hair match. So again, just because Ray mentioned

766
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:58.840
it here in the interview. Doesn't
mean that it's set in stone, but

767
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:01.400
it just seems I mean, it
seems like such an obvious attraction to me.

768
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:07.400
Cody Rhodes issued a challenge to Brock
Lesner for a match at Backlash.

769
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:12.159
Brock will be on Raw tomorrow night
to respond, and hopefully he will have

770
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:15.440
a better explanation for why he did
what he did than what they've been offering

771
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:20.519
up on commentary that he was upset
with his spot opening up the WrestleMania card

772
00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.199
this year. You know, it
would be more believable if Brock found out

773
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:28.320
that Cody made more money than him, since we know Brock cares about the

774
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:31.440
money above all else. All right, a little birdie told him that Cody

775
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:35.880
was making more than him at wrestle
Madie, his WrestleMania payoff was going to

776
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:38.679
be bigger because he's in the main
event, And it just pisces him off

777
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:43.800
to no end that this fucking guy, after leaving could come back and take

778
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.559
money out of his own pay day. See, that would be more believable

779
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:52.360
than him being upset with going on
first. But with no Roman Reigns on

780
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:54.800
that pay per view, this looks
to be the main event for Backlash,

781
00:55:55.519 --> 00:56:01.639
with Owen's Zane and Riddle likely challenging
the Soos and Solo Sakoa. We do

782
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:07.000
have new tag team champions though,
new women's Tag team Champions and Live Morgan

783
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:09.559
and Raquel Rodriguez. They beat Becky
Lynch and Trish Stratus, who was a

784
00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:15.119
late sub for Leda, who was
taken out earlier in the night by a

785
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:20.320
mystery attacker backstage. Trish took her
place and ended up taking the losing fall

786
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.320
for her team. They had a
lousy match. I mean, there's no

787
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:27.679
other way to describe this to this
was a lousy match. Everybody seemed off.

788
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.960
The crowd didn't give a shit.
I was struggling to give a shit.

789
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.440
This just wasn't good. And after
the match came the heel turn with

790
00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:38.840
Trish attacking Becky. This also looked
bad, a very weak attack. Then

791
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:43.159
came the chick kick, and now
we wait for the U People promo from

792
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:46.480
Trish, which I'm sure we'll be
hearing from Trish tomorrow night. I'm waiting

793
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:51.280
for the U People line. Somewhere
in this promo we'll see why she did

794
00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:52.880
what she did. I think the
stories that she got tired of being the

795
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:58.880
third wheel in their act. I
think she wrestles Lida first. Then comes

796
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:00.639
the match with Becky. M Slam
is a long time off, though they're

797
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:05.559
gonna wait until Summer Slam to do
the first match. I just think it's

798
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:09.480
gonna be tough keeping things interesting until
then. And to follow up on the

799
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:15.719
women's tag team titles, I wanted
to mention this. Corey Graves on WWE's

800
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:22.320
After the Bell podcast had the following
critique of the women's tag team division and

801
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.079
hat tip too fightful for the transcription
here. He said, as far as

802
00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:30.159
the women's Tag Team Championships go,
I'm probably going to catch hell for this.

803
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.119
It's never been a strong division.
It's sort of been an amalgam of

804
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.079
thrown together tag teams. I'm going
to team with this person tonight. We

805
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:39.960
have a tag title match. We
didn't win. Okay, time to get

806
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:46.480
a new partner. It always has
been a very transient and constantly influx division.

807
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:51.719
I am talking the entire existence of
the title since the very beginning.

808
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:57.039
And he's not wrong about the whole
idea of oh well, we lost,

809
00:57:57.079 --> 00:58:00.159
I'll just find a new partner.
I think Natalia, I think has won

810
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.360
the tag team titles once. I
want to say it was with Temina,

811
00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:08.800
but I think Naddy has had like
five different partners in the Life and This

812
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:12.880
division. I mean, the tag
titles were resurrected. It was four years

813
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.360
ago, which is not that long, and I think she's had five different

814
00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:20.719
tag team partners. And that's just
Natty. I mean, you could probably

815
00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:23.199
find the similar examples with other people
as well, So he's not wrong when

816
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:27.559
he says that. He did go
on to praise the new champions, Rickell

817
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.840
and Live. He said that they
have what it takes to solidify the division,

818
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:35.079
whether or not. I mean,
it doesn't matter what. It doesn't

819
00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:37.599
matter how good or bad of a
team Rickell and Live are, It does

820
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:43.599
not matter. What matters is the
overall booking situation. If that is not

821
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:46.760
going to change, they're not going
to solidify anything. He also said the

822
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:52.719
closest to a serious tag team to
hold the titles was the Iconics back in

823
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:57.239
twenty nineteen. Serious is not a
word I would associate with the Iconics and

824
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.400
their act, but I get what
he's saying. The Iconics were actually the

825
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:04.239
only real full time team to ever
hold those titles in the history of the

826
00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:08.920
titles since they were resurrected in twenty
nineteen. The only real full time team

827
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:15.079
were the Iconics. Every other team
has been thrown together. All Graves is

828
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:19.320
doing here is articulating what I and
a lot of other people have been saying

829
00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:23.519
for years. There is no women's
tag team division and there has been no

830
00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:29.239
real purpose in even having those titles. We have had nineteen Women's Tag Team

831
00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:34.079
Championship reigns in the last four years. Of those, how many can you

832
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:37.000
name? How many of those have
really stuck in your head and have been

833
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:43.880
memorable and stand out to you,
or how many of those have benefited the

834
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:47.400
people who held them in some meaningful
way. Sasha Banks and Naomi they walked

835
00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:52.639
out of the company because of frustrations
with their booking as the tag team champions.

836
00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:55.840
Ronda Rousey went off on the old
men who booked the women's division and

837
00:59:55.920 --> 00:59:59.559
have no idea what they're doing.
Only a few weeks ago, that's when

838
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:02.079
she was t about her Few but
Live Morgan. But this has been an

839
01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:06.599
overall frustration with the state of the
women's division. Even people within the company

840
01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:10.679
now are publicly levying critiques and we're
not just talking about the women's tag team

841
01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:15.559
titles. Now we're talking about the
women's division as a whole. In totality.

842
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:21.159
The booking going into the two women's
championship matches at WrestleMania was horrendous.

843
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:28.000
The matches were great, no thanks
to the six weeks of television that preceded

844
01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:31.159
them, but the matches were great
at least. I'm still not sure why

845
01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:35.840
they resurrected the belt after Sasha and
Naomi walked out. They were on ice

846
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:37.920
for three months. They should have
kept them there if they didn't have like

847
01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:40.840
fucking Encino man. They should have
kept them there if they had no plans

848
01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:45.079
for them, but they brought them
back. I've tried to think of a

849
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:50.239
solution, and there is no good
solution other than building up actual tag teams.

850
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:53.199
And the best women's team they have
in the entire company is still sitting

851
01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:59.079
in NXT. That's Cayden Carter and
Katana Chance. They are a great tag

852
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:00.960
team. I just saw them debut
another new move the other day. I'll

853
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:05.639
level up some pretty innovative stuff.
I saw the clip popped up in my

854
01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:07.239
timeline. I said, what's this
and I watched it. I said,

855
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:13.320
I don't think I've ever seen that
before tandem offense, they actually work together

856
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:16.719
as a legitimate tag team. I
have no idea why they're still down in

857
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:21.159
Orlando, and they should already be
on Raur SmackDown. Maybe they will be

858
01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:23.960
after the draft. They should be, but it's going to take more than

859
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:29.519
just one team to fix things.
And they already broke up Toxic Attractions,

860
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:34.320
so they're not even an option.
I thought Carmela and Chelsea greenhead potential as

861
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:37.960
a team, but Carmela's out again, so they've substituted Sonya Deville in her

862
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:43.079
place. Is that pairing gonna last? Probably not. Part of the problem

863
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.920
is the lack of focus on the
women's mid card. None of these women

864
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:51.079
individually are over to begin with,
so then you jam them together into these

865
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:57.199
makeshift teams and still nobody cares.
And I thought about that, if junking

866
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:00.320
the tag team titles in favor of
a women's mid card title, not adding

867
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:05.239
a mid card title and keeping the
tag titles, but junking the tag belts

868
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:07.760
and having a women's mid card title, if that would make sense. You

869
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.960
know. Dana Brooks said last month
that she pitched the idea of transitioning the

870
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:17.559
twenty four seven title when she had
it into a women's intercontinental title to keep

871
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:23.599
it relevant, but the idea never
went anywhere. But with two rosters unless

872
01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:28.239
the champion floats, that just doesn't
work because there's no need to have two

873
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:31.280
women's mid card titles when they don't
pay attention. They don't pay enough attention

874
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:34.719
to the women's mid card to begin
with, How are you going to have

875
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:39.840
two mid card women's titles. If
there was one mid card champion who could

876
01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:44.119
float between shows, I would be
in favor of that over what they have

877
01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:45.360
now, but then you would need
to do the same thing for the top

878
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:51.039
titles. You have one champion who
goes between shows, either Bianca bel Air

879
01:02:51.159 --> 01:02:52.360
or rear Ripley, but not both. But they're not going to do that.

880
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:58.440
You know, they have a pretty
good pipeline of female talent right now

881
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:02.039
in n X State. I've talked
about this before. They're not already right

882
01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:05.880
now, but the future looks good. The talent is there, but it

883
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.559
all comes down to the booking,
as it always does with these things.

884
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:14.000
You could have the greatest roster in
the world, but if you don't know

885
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:19.880
what to do with it, it
does not matter now. On SmackDown Friday

886
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.840
Night, we learned the dates of
the upcoming draft. It begins on the

887
01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:29.639
April twenty eighth episode of SmackDown in
Corpus Christi, Texas. Oh no,

888
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.119
the draft is coming to Corpses Christie. They always get yeah. I have

889
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.719
a few people who listen to the
show who live there, and actually a

890
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:40.159
couple of the people agree with me, and they think it's the funniest thing

891
01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:43.800
whenever I mentioned their city. But
some of them get offended. But look,

892
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:47.559
it's just the fact, I'm sorry. They go to Corpus Christie and

893
01:03:47.599 --> 01:03:50.880
it sounds like a bunch of Corpses
in the crowd. So that's where the

894
01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:53.119
draft is coming. On Night one, it's going to be Corpses Christy,

895
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:57.559
and then it continues on Raw the
following Monday, May first in Fort Worth.

896
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.119
Although I will to be fair,
to be fair to the people in

897
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:04.719
Corpus Christi, there have been other
crowds recently. I just talked about that

898
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:10.400
women's tag team title match on Monday
where it was deathly silent, So you

899
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:12.800
could say the same thing for some
of these other places too. But they

900
01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:17.800
are notorious for the lack of reactions, but there was nothing of any real

901
01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:20.920
note that happened on the show on
Friday story wise, but we did end

902
01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:25.400
up with a lot more wrestling and
the draft. Maybe why it's pointless to

903
01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:30.079
build anything long term beyond backlash if
they're doing a draft in two weeks,

904
01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:35.480
right, I mean, even though
again the draft is largely pointless unless they

905
01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:41.920
take it seriously. The rematch for
the undisputed tag team titles between the USO

906
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.199
Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens is also
taking place on that April twenty eighth SmackDown.

907
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:51.039
La Night lost again to Xavier Woods, who is challenging Gunther this Friday

908
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.679
for the Intercontinental title. I mean, it's bad enough we have two members

909
01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.199
of the New Day on the injury
list. We're about to add a third.

910
01:04:59.719 --> 01:05:02.440
All these losses only make me feel
even stronger that La Night is winning

911
01:05:02.480 --> 01:05:08.239
money in the bank this year.
Although usually they save all the losing for

912
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.840
after someone wins the briefcase, in
this case, he's losing before. But

913
01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:15.920
they could have Look, there's multiple
options here, you know, La Night

914
01:05:16.039 --> 01:05:19.599
is not the only option. They
could have Cody Rhodes win and announce that

915
01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:25.800
he's cashing in its SummerSlam. They
could have Jusso win and get week's worth

916
01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:29.320
of television out of Roman Reigns having
to look over his shoulder wondering if his

917
01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:31.199
cousin is going to cash in on
him, right, I mean, there's

918
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:35.400
a few ways money in the bank
could go this year. Shinsky, Nakamura,

919
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:39.199
he made his return. He's going
to be feuding with Carrying Cross.

920
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:43.840
I know the two of them trained
together in the same dojo class. Cross

921
01:05:43.920 --> 01:05:47.039
posted a photo of them together on
Twitter. I don't know that they'll bring

922
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:50.599
that up on TV. They probably
won't. Both guys need a good program

923
01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:55.679
to get them going on this show, especially Cross. He really needs to

924
01:05:55.760 --> 01:06:00.559
get something going here because this run
has been very uneventful, and people joke

925
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.440
about hit Row and you know,
even someone like Teagan Knox or Candice and

926
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:09.480
some of these returns, you know, Triple Ad brought talent back that had

927
01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:12.320
left the company or been cut,
and you know a lot of them have

928
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.199
been a bust so far. Cross, you know, he's kind of in

929
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:19.920
the middle, but leaning on the
down downward part of that list because he

930
01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:24.519
came back, He's got the superstar
entrance, he's got Scarlet with him,

931
01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:28.239
you know, they do these vignettes. They're very well shot, but he

932
01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:32.400
just doesn't have anything going on.
Nakamura has tenure on that roster that Cross

933
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:38.079
doesn't have, so he'll be fine
either way. But Cross, you know,

934
01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:40.760
Cross has to get something going.
Maybe this will be it for him

935
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:44.960
and another win in the main event
for Solo Sucoa over Matt Riddle. They

936
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.360
continue to book Socoa super Strong.
He's been the one constant that Roman Reigns

937
01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:54.159
can trust. He's been the one
constant that Roman can depend upon. He's

938
01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:58.440
the one who helped Roman keep his
title against Drew and Cardiff. He's the

939
01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:02.239
one who helped Roman keep his title
against Cody at WrestleMania. So when Roman

940
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:06.559
does drop the championship, they could
be setting up for Solo Soko to be

941
01:07:06.599 --> 01:07:12.239
the one who finally says no and
turns his back on Roman Reigns when he

942
01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:15.000
needs him the most in his time
of need, which leaves Roman all alone

943
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:18.039
without anyone to help him. And
that's when it all comes crumbling. Now,

944
01:07:18.159 --> 01:07:23.639
once he loses Solo, I think
it's all over. But I love

945
01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:28.360
the Hayman promo in the ring when
they were doing the introductions, the entire

946
01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:31.760
bloodline Roman Reigns. Who wasn't there. They were all in the ring and

947
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:36.639
Hayman was cutting a promo and he
announced the USOS would be challenging Owens and

948
01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:41.440
Zane in two weeks for the tag
team titles, and he guaranteed they would

949
01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:46.440
lose those titles. Owens and Zane
would because the tribal chief is losing patience

950
01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:51.039
with the two of you. And
when he said it, he turned to

951
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:57.119
stare at Jimmy and Jay and they
were completely oblivious to this. They know

952
01:07:57.199 --> 01:08:00.320
sold because they didn't see it.
They just assumed Hayman was still talking Owens

953
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.079
and Zanes. So it was sort
of this ominous warning that went right over

954
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:09.000
their heads because they weren't even paying
attention. Drew McIntyre missed the show for

955
01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:12.119
the second straight week. I don't
believe he was scheduled to be on the

956
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.679
show this week, but it's the
second week in a row he was not

957
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.520
there. We have not seen or
heard from him since the triple thread at

958
01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:20.720
WrestleMania. He went on Twitter immediately
after. He posted a bunch of waving

959
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:25.560
emojis and that's the last thing he
posted. He is said to be dealing

960
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:29.439
with some sort of injury issue.
Although he was doing promotional work locally for

961
01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:31.680
the SmackDown Show this past week.
He then was not on the show and

962
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:36.640
he blacked out his profile on Twitter, which got a lot of people talking.

963
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:42.279
Even though his Instagram hasn't changed,
his Twitter has, his profile picture

964
01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:45.640
has gone black, his bio whatever
was there before, and he WWE mentions

965
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:50.119
is completely gone. With all the
talk of him and WWE being far apart

966
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:55.039
on money and his deal being up
later this year, naturally people are going

967
01:08:55.119 --> 01:08:58.319
to talk, Oh, what does
this mean? You know, did they

968
01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:01.239
hit an impass and their negotiates.
I think this is just Drew leaning into

969
01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:05.840
all the gossip and just playing with
people's heads. His contract has many more

970
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:09.359
months left on it, apparently,
you know. I asked the question last

971
01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:12.960
week. We don't know. I
could Drew show up at Wembley if things

972
01:09:13.039 --> 01:09:15.159
go south with the negotiations, if
his contract is up, could we see

973
01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:20.720
Drew McIntyre making an appearance for AW
at Wembley Stadium? Apparently contractually that will

974
01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:25.359
not be possible. So that tells
me his contract is probably going through to

975
01:09:25.439 --> 01:09:29.399
the end of the year, which
gives them plenty of time to work out

976
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:32.560
whatever differences that they may have.
If it's an issue of money, I

977
01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:36.199
am sure that the way this ends
is with Drew McIntyre getting, you know,

978
01:09:36.520 --> 01:09:41.680
something that makes him happy and staying
right where he is in WWE.

979
01:09:41.800 --> 01:09:45.520
I don't see him leaving other news
and notes. Last week I said there

980
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:50.439
was a mysterious video that was posted
on the social media accounts for a New

981
01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:55.560
Japan, All Japan and Pro Wrestling
Noah teasing something. I figured it was

982
01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:59.800
some sort of interpromotional event, and
that's exactly what it is. On Wednesday

983
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:04.920
morning, all three promotions announced All
Together Again, the sequel of sorts to

984
01:10:05.079 --> 01:10:11.960
the first Altogether, taking place June
ninth at Ria Goo Kusumo Hall, English

985
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.239
and Japanese commentary will be available.
It'll be airing live on New Japan World

986
01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:18.840
as a pay per view. A
portion of the proceeds will be going to

987
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:25.520
charities or a charity with details to
follow soon. Tickets go on sale April

988
01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:29.000
twenty third. At the press conference
to announce the crossover, New Japan was

989
01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:34.520
represented by Hiroshi Tanahashi, Noah was
represented by former GHC champion Kaito Kiamia,

990
01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:41.079
and All Japan by Kento Miahara All
Together was a pair of shows. The

991
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:45.439
first one was held in August of
twenty eleven and the second one in February

992
01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:49.560
of two twelve, that were held
in response to a magnitude nine point zero

993
01:10:49.640 --> 01:10:56.159
earthquake that devastated Japan early in twenty
eleven and the tsunami that then followed.

994
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.359
It was the worst earthquake to ever
hit Japan, killed over twenty thousand people.

995
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.920
All proceeds from the two shows went
to the Japanese Red Cross. They

996
01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:09.239
were made up of mostly six and
eight man tag team matches. It wasn't

997
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:12.560
like it was some kind of big
dream card with big singles matches. It

998
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:16.079
really wasn't about that. It wasn't
about championships being on the line or anything.

999
01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:19.680
It was a bunch of multimn matches. So now they're doing another one,

1000
01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:24.600
and you look at the calendar in
June here for New Japan, June

1001
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:27.319
is shaping up to be a crazy
one for them. They've got Dominion,

1002
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.520
which is a big annual show for
them on June fourth, All Together five

1003
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:36.439
days later, and Forbidden Door on
June twenty fifth, and that all leads

1004
01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:43.039
into the start of the g One. The following month, and Dark Side

1005
01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:46.920
of the Ring. Season four now
has a premier date on Vice TV Tuesday,

1006
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:51.680
May thirtieth at ten pm Eastern.
The fourth season is going to consist

1007
01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:56.760
of ten episodes. We do not
yet know what all ten episodes will be

1008
01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:01.399
covering, but seven of them are
Chris Candido and Tammy Sitch, the car

1009
01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:08.319
accident that ended magnum Ta's career,
Marty Janetti, Bam Bam Bigelow, The

1010
01:12:08.479 --> 01:12:14.279
Sandman, Mike Awesome and Abdullah the
Butcher, per pw Insider, Nick Foley,

1011
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:18.319
Terry Funk, Jim Cornett, Tazz
and Hack Saw Jim Doug Boy Hack

1012
01:12:18.359 --> 01:12:24.159
Saws. Everywhere, isn't He's in
He's cornering John Morrison for a boxing match,

1013
01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:26.760
and now he's going to be on
Dark Side of the Ring. And

1014
01:12:27.119 --> 01:12:30.479
I think he was on the Jericho
Cruise. He was your WrestleMania over WrestleMania

1015
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:34.079
Weekend. But Hacksaw, Jim Duggan
all were among those interviewed for this season.

1016
01:12:34.199 --> 01:12:36.760
I said this on Wednesday. Somebody
asked me about it in the super

1017
01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:40.000
Chats. Which one I'm looking forward
to the most, I said, the

1018
01:12:40.079 --> 01:12:43.800
magnum Ta one, because he's he
is one of the great what if stories

1019
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.920
in wrestling, but the Marty Janetti
one is the one that scares the hell

1020
01:12:46.960 --> 01:12:50.680
out of me. This is the
same man who went on Facebook to ask

1021
01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:55.039
the Internet if it was okay for
him to sleep with a girl he thought

1022
01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:59.520
was his daughter until two weeks before
that when he got a DNA test that

1023
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:02.600
proved she wasn't his. So even
though I thought she was my daughter,

1024
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:06.479
she ain't and she's hot, so
it's okay, right, and he put

1025
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:13.199
this on Facebook. They could dedicate
an entire episode to his Facebook posts alone.

1026
01:13:13.239 --> 01:13:16.039
I don't know how they're going to
condense his entire life into forty some

1027
01:13:16.199 --> 01:13:20.840
odd minutes, but that one is
going to be insane. With their spring

1028
01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:25.479
breaking show in a couple of weeks, Tuesday's NXT was about setting up the

1029
01:13:25.640 --> 01:13:30.439
first challenger for Carmelo Hayes and the
NXT Championship. We had a very good

1030
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.840
main event four Away with Grayson Waller, Dragon Lee, JD McDonough and Duke

1031
01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:41.239
Hudson. And how Hudson ended up
in that match is during a Chase University

1032
01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:45.439
segment of the Ring earlier where Andre
Chase awarded Hudson with a trophy for most

1033
01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:48.960
Valuable Player for how he helped them
beat the schism at Stand and Deliver.

1034
01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:55.159
During that segment, bron Breaker randomly
walked out to the ring and interrupted,

1035
01:13:55.239 --> 01:13:58.359
and he said, everybody must be
wondering why I'm not in the fourway match.

1036
01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:01.760
Later in the show, he said
he doesn't need the title because it

1037
01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:05.680
was a curse on his career.
He said that he also doesn't need the

1038
01:14:05.720 --> 01:14:10.760
approval of the scumbag fans anymore.
So if you were wondering whether that was

1039
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:14.079
an actual heel turn last week,
there's your answer. You know, it's

1040
01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:19.159
weird because he had every right to
destroy Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams for cheating

1041
01:14:19.239 --> 01:14:23.920
to beat him at Stand and Deliver
and basically stealing his title, and yet

1042
01:14:23.960 --> 01:14:27.239
they're cheered. Is the baby faces
and Braun is the heel for retaliate?

1043
01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:32.600
Or Braun Braun? Think braun Stroman
Braun is the heel for retaliating. It's

1044
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:35.960
it's kind of asked backwards. But
he called the fan scumbags, and so

1045
01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:41.800
that makes him a heel now.
He then politely offered the open fourth spot

1046
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:46.920
in the Number one Contenders match to
Duke Hudson and Hudson accepted, and Breaker

1047
01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.439
went to go give him a spear. Andre Chase ended up eating the spear

1048
01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:55.600
instead, and Hudson high tailed it
out of the ring with his trophy,

1049
01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:59.840
So poor Andre took the bullet for
him. As hokey as it is,

1050
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:03.039
you know, Hudson finally found something
that works for him with this Chase use

1051
01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.760
stuff, which is good for him
because I don't think he had many chances

1052
01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:11.199
left if this failed. It kind
of reminds me of Tyler Breese and he

1053
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:15.439
used to talk about how he tried
so many different things and went through different

1054
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:19.800
kind of personalities and gimmicks and developmental
and nothing was sticking. And I don't

1055
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:23.239
know if he was told this or
if he just felt this way that he

1056
01:15:23.279 --> 01:15:27.680
had one shot left. And it
was the Tyler Breeze gimmick that basically saved

1057
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.840
his career and led to him working
there for many more years and getting a

1058
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:33.880
run on the main roster. And
so for Duke Hudson, you know,

1059
01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:38.199
you try these different things and they
don't work, and you just get to

1060
01:15:38.239 --> 01:15:42.039
a point where if this doesn't work, there's a lot of people nipping at

1061
01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:44.479
your heels who could take your spot
and this may be the end. You

1062
01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:46.680
know, he had a cup of
coffee on the raw roster in the early

1063
01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:50.279
days of the pandemic. He was
tagging with Shane Thorne as a couple of

1064
01:15:50.439 --> 01:15:55.079
MVP's associates. That was back during
when he was going by the name Brendan

1065
01:15:55.119 --> 01:15:59.119
Vink. That didn't last long.
Then he got sent back down to n

1066
01:15:59.239 --> 01:16:01.600
XT and he got branded his Duke
Hudson and they gave him a poker gimmick.

1067
01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:06.000
That didn't last very long. So
then he got dragged into the relationship

1068
01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:12.880
stuff with Persia Parada and Dexter Loomis
and Indie Heartwell when NXT was going through

1069
01:16:12.920 --> 01:16:18.199
its horny phase, and then he
ended up joining Chase University. But for

1070
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:21.319
Braun, you know, him calling
the NXT title a curse and saying that

1071
01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:26.119
he doesn't want to challenge for it
is still it still has me thinking he

1072
01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:29.840
is destined for a main roster call
up very soon, possibly in the upcoming

1073
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.680
draft. And I think him getting
called up as a heel is better than

1074
01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:35.760
him getting called up as a baby
face. I like it. I like

1075
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:39.039
the heel turn. He'll have more
fun as a heel. He'll get to

1076
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:41.600
cut promos, as a heel,
which I feel he'll be really good at.

1077
01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.560
He has that intensity about him,
He's very loud. I just think

1078
01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:49.119
that that will lend itself better to
him cutting heel promos and over time,

1079
01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:53.000
you know, if he gets over
the eventual baby face turn will mean more,

1080
01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:56.479
I will say. Cora Jade came
out later on in the show.

1081
01:16:56.560 --> 01:17:00.279
He cut a long promo cutting or
calling out the women's division. She talked

1082
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:05.399
about Zoey Stark and Roxam Perez and
Gigi dol and Tiffany Stratton and de Hartwell

1083
01:17:06.319 --> 01:17:12.680
and the weird Bird Lady or the
Weird Bird Girl, Lyra Valkyria, who

1084
01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.800
finally came out to shut her up. It established her as the top heel

1085
01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:20.399
of the women's division. And with
Braun going heel, I'm not saying it

1086
01:17:20.479 --> 01:17:25.439
has to happen now. I don't
even think he'll be down there long enough

1087
01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:29.359
for it to happen in NXT.
But Braun and Cora, you know there

1088
01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:31.239
and Idam in real life, the
two of them is an on screen heel

1089
01:17:31.319 --> 01:17:40.439
couple could get some great heat.
Von Wagner lost to Ilya Dragonov like he's

1090
01:17:40.439 --> 01:17:44.760
been losing most of his matches recently. Only this time Robert Stone added the

1091
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:48.159
stipulation that if Wagner lost, he
would lose Stone as his manager. And

1092
01:17:48.199 --> 01:17:53.239
that's exactly what happened. So not
only has he lost most of his recent

1093
01:17:53.319 --> 01:17:58.399
matches, he lost his manager.
Now it definitely feels like they have soured

1094
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:00.560
on this guy, and we have
a triple h and Shawn Michaels in the

1095
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:04.840
past say that if guys don't show
improvement in six months, they have these

1096
01:18:05.079 --> 01:18:11.079
six month evaluations, they're gonna cut
bait and move on. So I would

1097
01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:14.199
be worried i fire were him.
Frankly, I would be just as worried

1098
01:18:14.199 --> 01:18:18.920
to fire was Robert Stone. But
here's the thing with Old Vaughan. He's

1099
01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:24.960
not bad. He's not bad.
He can work, and he's got size,

1100
01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:29.880
which they like. But he's boring
and he should not be within ten

1101
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:32.560
feet of a microphone. He needs
to have a manager. If it's not

1102
01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:35.720
going to be Robert Stone, then
it needs to be somebody else. But

1103
01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:39.800
the other thing he needs, and
I'm being serious when I say this,

1104
01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:44.800
he needs a mask. And I'm
not saying the man is ugly. I

1105
01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:48.000
think that if they go for the
cane vibe with him, where he doesn't

1106
01:18:48.039 --> 01:18:51.840
speak. He has someone else speaking
for him, but he just stands there

1107
01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:57.239
all tall and intimidating, and you
got to get the mannerisms down. But

1108
01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.800
if he does that, he does
power spots where he just destroys people.

1109
01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:04.119
I think he would get over easier. I really do. Put a cool

1110
01:19:04.199 --> 01:19:10.840
looking mask on this guy, have
him start destroying people and only his manager

1111
01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:13.680
can control him and stop him,
and I think it would do him a

1112
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:17.960
world of good. See there's something
I bet you were expecting to hear Solo

1113
01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:21.399
Monster coming to the defense of von
Wagner and trying to save this guy's job.

1114
01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:26.680
I'm just trying to look out for
the guy. Tiffany Stratton against Soul

1115
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:29.560
Ruka, they had a match on
Tuesday that is going to be one of

1116
01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:31.199
those matches we look back on,
I think in three to five years when

1117
01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:35.199
they're wrestling each other on the main
roster and thinking this is where it all

1118
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:41.920
started. These two are two of
the brightest female standouts they have in developmental

1119
01:19:42.039 --> 01:19:45.119
right now. Ruka, her athleticism
is off the charts. I mean it

1120
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:48.279
is ridiculous. She just hasn't put
it all together yet because she hasn't been

1121
01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:54.119
doing it for very long, and
this match here was meant less to be

1122
01:19:54.199 --> 01:19:57.640
a showcase for her and more for
Tiffany Stratton, who I still think is

1123
01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:00.279
going to be the NXT Women's champion
soon. So she picks up the wind

1124
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:05.960
with the Christopher Daniel's best moonsault ever. We also had a couple of debuts

1125
01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:10.760
on the show. Eddie Thorpe,
the former Carl Fredericks out of the New

1126
01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:14.800
Japan La Dojoe. He was also
the waiter who got a bottle smashed over

1127
01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:19.159
his head by Roman Reins in the
Bloodline Goodfellows parody. After four years with

1128
01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:23.560
New Japan, he decided not to
renew with them. He signed an NXT

1129
01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:28.800
deal in January. He has incorporated
his Native American heritage into his character.

1130
01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:33.520
The Thorpe name comes from Jim Thorpe, the first Native American to win a

1131
01:20:33.560 --> 01:20:38.399
gold medal for the US and the
Olympics. He's got a ways to go,

1132
01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:42.479
but he started out here with a
win. And then later on in

1133
01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:45.960
the show, we had the debut
of Tank Ledger. What a fucking name,

1134
01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:50.760
Tank Ledger. This is Joe Spivak. He was signed as part of

1135
01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:56.880
the company's first nil class Next in
Line where they signed athletes right out of

1136
01:20:56.960 --> 01:21:00.279
college. I believe he is the
first from the NIL program to make it

1137
01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:05.600
to TV. He's a six foot
three hundred pound football player from Northwestern.

1138
01:21:06.479 --> 01:21:11.039
He's got a little over a dozen
matches under his belt so far. He

1139
01:21:11.159 --> 01:21:14.720
has spent most of that time on
Level up. This was his first match

1140
01:21:14.800 --> 01:21:16.600
on the main NXT show, and
I'll tell you what. He showed some

1141
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:20.600
good explosiveness in the ring. He
showed good charisma in his loss to Joe

1142
01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:24.920
Coffee, and even in the back
before the match, you know he was

1143
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.600
showing good charisma. He's got a
long way to go to This was only

1144
01:21:28.680 --> 01:21:31.800
his first appearance, but I think
there's promise there. In the main event

1145
01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:35.199
four a Way, it was another
good night for Dragon Lee. He looked

1146
01:21:35.239 --> 01:21:39.079
even better on the television show in
the last couple of weeks than he did

1147
01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:42.520
in the five way at Stand and
Deliver. He actually had the match one

1148
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:45.920
after a power bomb. When Grace
and Waller snuck back into the ring hit

1149
01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:49.079
him with a rolling stunner, Lee
fell out of the ring and Waller stole

1150
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:53.840
the pin on Duke Hudson to earn
the right to challenge Carmelo Hayes for the

1151
01:21:53.960 --> 01:22:00.520
NXT Championship next Tuesday. We've already
seen Waller challenge twice for the NX title

1152
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.680
this year, and both times he
failed, and then he failed against Johnny

1153
01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:08.880
Gargano would stand and deliver. Hayes
just won the title, so he's not

1154
01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:12.520
dropping it this quickly. What I
will draw your attention to is the date

1155
01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:15.760
of this match, April twenty fifth, which is only what three days or

1156
01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:21.479
so before the start of the WWE
draft, where they have said every superstar

1157
01:22:21.640 --> 01:22:26.119
is eligible to be drafted. There's
no reason that shouldn't include NXT talent.

1158
01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:30.880
So this looks to me like them
getting one last match out of Waller before

1159
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:32.840
he gets the inevitable call up.
And if they have a list of NXT

1160
01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:36.960
talents that they're calling up or considering
calling up, there really is no reason

1161
01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:43.920
that he shouldn't be at or near
the top of that list. You have

1162
01:22:44.079 --> 01:22:46.720
questions for the mailbag, you can
email me the solom Monster at gmail dot

1163
01:22:46.760 --> 01:22:51.239
com. We got some to go
through here some of your emails. We'll

1164
01:22:51.279 --> 01:22:57.600
start here with Abanov from Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. Been a fan for

1165
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:00.079
almost a decade now and I'm in
my third year of college, you got

1166
01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:04.800
me feeling old? How do you
think I feel? My question for you

1167
01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:09.560
is how much do you think the
perception of a wrestler plays in how people

1168
01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:13.720
react to them online? For example, if CM punk said the words I'm

1169
01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:17.520
doing this guy a favor and I
could have gone to SummerSlam with the damn

1170
01:23:17.560 --> 01:23:21.920
belt if I wanted to, he
would be crucified. But when John Moxley

1171
01:23:23.039 --> 01:23:26.640
says it, nobody cares. And
what is your take on hangman page seeming

1172
01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:30.800
to escape any blame for the situation
when you argue you could argue that he

1173
01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:33.640
started it all. I think it's
because of Hangman's reputation and perception that he

1174
01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:38.840
is just the nicest guy. But
if someone were more controversial, like Dax

1175
01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:43.800
or MJF, if they said it, they would be called out more well.

1176
01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:45.479
First of all, I was one
of the ones who did call John

1177
01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:50.279
Moxley out for saying that. I
thought it was disrespectful to Tony Kahn to

1178
01:23:50.359 --> 01:23:55.000
say something like that when Tony bent
over backwards to give Moxley what he wanted

1179
01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:59.920
last year and allowed him to work
without a contract against his better judgment because

1180
01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:01.000
he didn't want to put pressure on
him. You know, he just got

1181
01:24:01.039 --> 01:24:04.399
out of rehab, and all the
reasons that Moxley in the interview with Renee

1182
01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:09.560
talked about not wanting to put pen
to paper right away. Tony didn't have

1183
01:24:09.640 --> 01:24:13.119
to do that. He should not
have done that. It is insane to

1184
01:24:13.199 --> 01:24:15.640
put your world title on somebody knowing
that they are not under contract. But

1185
01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:19.199
he did it anyway. So why
Moxley felt the need to go and articulate

1186
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:21.159
that in the podcast and say,
oh, you know, I could have

1187
01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:26.159
taken this and walked into SummerSlam that
weekend. As I said then, that

1188
01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:29.479
was a very stupid thing for him
to say. So I was one of

1189
01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:31.880
the people who know my eyebrows went
up when I heard him say that.

1190
01:24:33.359 --> 01:24:35.800
As far as you know, to
answer your question, I think perception,

1191
01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:40.439
of course it plays a role.
Yes, if someone is well liked,

1192
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:43.840
they're going to get the benefit of
the doubt more than somebody who people think

1193
01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:46.359
as an asshole or someone who does
not have as good of a reputation.

1194
01:24:47.359 --> 01:24:50.560
As far as Hangman, what he
did was stupid and it made no sense

1195
01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:54.560
in the context of the storyline.
But two wrongs don't make a right.

1196
01:24:55.039 --> 01:25:00.600
Nobody has blamedless in that whole fiasco
Daniel from Poland. WWE has changed their

1197
01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:04.800
next Saudi Pli name to Night of
Champions, given it's probably connected to the

1198
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:10.000
celebration of Romans one thousand day title
reign. Do you think this is the

1199
01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:15.520
best moment to finally unify the WWE
and Universal belts and present the new title

1200
01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:18.520
design that we have heard rumored about. What I personally think they will do

1201
01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:23.439
is introduce one new title and present
Roman in the same manner as the previous

1202
01:25:23.560 --> 01:25:29.119
record holding champions and forget about the
Universal Championship. Probably that's why he carries

1203
01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:32.199
the WWE title around his waist and
not the Universal title. They seem to

1204
01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:38.239
care about that lineage since they started
mentioning Bruno, Hogan and Backland more often.

1205
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:42.800
Well, the reason they mentioned Bruno
and Hogan and Backland more often is

1206
01:25:42.840 --> 01:25:46.760
because that title has a lineage that
goes back longer than seven years. The

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01:25:46.920 --> 01:25:51.560
Universal title has only been around for
seven years. Roman is the longest reigning

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01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:56.479
Universal Champion of all time, which, when you say that is not impressive,

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01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:00.840
you know, but the title that
ounce towards this long reign, it

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01:26:01.039 --> 01:26:08.840
started with the Universal title right The
only long runs though to really compare him

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01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:14.319
to all come from the WWE title
side. If they eliminate the Universal title,

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01:26:14.439 --> 01:26:17.000
Roman has no run because that's where
the thousand days comes from. He's

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01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:21.279
only held the WWE Championship. It'll
be over four hundred days next month.

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01:26:21.680 --> 01:26:25.199
And if it was anybody else,
I say, only four hundred days,

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01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:29.399
that would be impressive, but that's
not impressive as compared to a thousand.

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01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:32.880
There's no point in even mentioning Bruno, Hogan and Backland if they just jump

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01:26:32.960 --> 01:26:36.199
the Universal title because that's where the
length comes from. So it would just

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01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:40.680
be silly if they did that.
You know, if they truly wanted to

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01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:45.600
unify the titles as one singular WWE
title, that's fine. They could do

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01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:50.800
the floating champion deal, but with
somebody who works full time and can work

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01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:56.720
both shows, not this part time
business where Roman appears on RAW three times

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01:26:56.760 --> 01:27:04.439
a year from Columbus, Georgia.
With WrestleMania at forty being held in Philadelphia.

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01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:09.319
Can you see ww inducting Paul Hayman
into the Hall of Fame as the

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01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:13.159
headliner next year? And if he
is inducted, who would you like to

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01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:16.960
see induct him? Hayman has said
he doesn't want to go into the Hall

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01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:21.039
of Fame until at least until this
run that he's on now is over.

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01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:25.359
He thinks he could. You know, there's no rush to put him in

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01:27:25.399 --> 01:27:28.199
the Hall of Fame. But yeah, I would headline. I would headline

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01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:31.359
Philly with Hayman unless they can get
the Rock or somebody much bigger. If

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01:27:31.399 --> 01:27:34.600
you can get the Rock, you
know, or even if Batista Patissa were

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01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:38.359
to come in and finally say,
Okay, I'm here, I want to

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01:27:38.399 --> 01:27:43.279
have my official Hall of Fame induction
finally, then you would headline with somebody

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01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:45.640
like that. But otherwise, I
mean, I think Hayman would be worthy

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01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:49.960
of headlining. It would probably be
Roman Reigns doing the induction, but it

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01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:54.640
really should be Brock Lesner. You
know, those two were like peanut butter

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01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:58.960
and jelly together for so many years, really from the moment that Brock debuted,

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01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:00.600
even if you take out the eight
years that Brock left the company,

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01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:05.119
if you add up all the years
they spent working together on screen, either

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01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:11.399
as friends or as enemies. Because
Hayman turned on Brock once before. However,

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01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:16.159
they were working together. They lasted
longer together working together than the entire

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01:28:16.279 --> 01:28:21.439
length of ECW. Five years ago, I would have said there's no chance

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01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:25.920
of Brock giving a speech for anyone
at the Hall of Fame, maybe not

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01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:30.640
even himself. But he's more chatty
these days, and I think for Hayman

1244
01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:32.279
he would do it. I don't
know if Hayman would ask him, or

1245
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:34.640
if the company would ask him,
but I think if somebody came to him

1246
01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:38.840
and said, look, we want
you to induct Paul into the Hall of

1247
01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:41.600
Fame, I think Brock would do
it. And I think he would be

1248
01:28:41.640 --> 01:28:45.680
a better choice than any of the
ECW people would be. There's so much

1249
01:28:45.840 --> 01:28:47.479
distance now. I mean, I
get that it's Philly, so there's the

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01:28:47.560 --> 01:28:51.039
ECW tie in. So some people
may disagree and say, well, it's

1251
01:28:51.079 --> 01:28:55.680
Philadelphia, you should have an ECW
person do it. If they were going

1252
01:28:55.720 --> 01:28:59.720
to have an ECW person do it, I think Joey Styles would be the

1253
01:28:59.720 --> 01:29:03.279
best person you could go with an
RVD. I wouldn't go with a Tommy

1254
01:29:03.399 --> 01:29:06.760
Dreamer. I mean, he's working
for impact anyway. But yeah, ever

1255
01:29:08.079 --> 01:29:11.920
since I heard that insane story where
you know, Dreamer said he was he

1256
01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:15.520
was such a just a headcase at
the time that he had this plan to

1257
01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:20.119
assassinate Paul Hayman. He was going
to shoot him with a gun and then

1258
01:29:20.159 --> 01:29:25.720
I think turned the gun on himself
at WrestleMania seventeen, and I think it

1259
01:29:25.800 --> 01:29:28.479
was a phone call from Jim Ross
that talked him out of it, like,

1260
01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:31.720
Yeah, we don't need to see
Tommy Dreamer given a speech for Paul

1261
01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:35.079
Hayman at the Hall of Fame.
Could it be RVD? Yeah, it

1262
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:39.600
could be. I guess, I
mean you could. I guess there's any

1263
01:29:39.680 --> 01:29:42.960
number of ECW people that you could
go with. I think Styles would be

1264
01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:45.479
the best one to do it.
But who do I want to see do

1265
01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:49.079
Paul Hayman's eventual induction into the Hall
of Fame. It would be brock Lesner

1266
01:29:49.119 --> 01:29:56.399
because I just feel like he's the
most appropriate person. Luke from Maricopa,

1267
01:29:56.560 --> 01:30:00.359
Arizona. I read that Sonny and
Sable had heat with each other in nineteen

1268
01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:03.760
ninety eight, which is part of
why Sonny was released from WWE that year.

1269
01:30:04.399 --> 01:30:09.079
Why was their heat between these two
and why was Sonny fired and not

1270
01:30:09.239 --> 01:30:15.399
Sable? So depending on who you
ask, you get a different answer about

1271
01:30:15.439 --> 01:30:17.800
her heat with Sable. Jim Ross
was the head of talent relations at the

1272
01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:20.880
time, he says jealousy played a
role, which, of course it did.

1273
01:30:23.199 --> 01:30:26.960
Of course jealousy played a role.
Tammy always denied that it did.

1274
01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:30.800
Her stock answer was always no,
no, no, I wasn't jealous at

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01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:31.800
all. I had no issue with
her. We all had a role to

1276
01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:35.279
play, you know. Her role
was Yeah, then she would you know,

1277
01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:39.640
demean her and say, you know, I was the person who was

1278
01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:43.279
like the girl next door that you
know your mom would want you to marry.

1279
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:46.079
And Sable was the one that you
would take to the motel for two

1280
01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:48.840
hours and then kick to the curb. You know. That was That was

1281
01:30:48.920 --> 01:30:53.680
one of her stock answers in these
interviews. But now, of course jealousy

1282
01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:57.760
played a role. If you if
you were not the shiny new toy anymore

1283
01:30:57.800 --> 01:31:00.359
and they replaced you with someone who
was getting more tension and more screen time

1284
01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:06.279
and someone who wasn't a wrestling person
like Tammy was, then of course there's

1285
01:31:06.319 --> 01:31:11.039
going to be some professional jealousy there. That Tammy has told the story and

1286
01:31:11.119 --> 01:31:15.359
it's Tammy sitch, so just keep
that in mind. But she has told

1287
01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:21.159
the story before of the heat really
originally stemming from something that Sable said to

1288
01:31:21.279 --> 01:31:26.439
her and Terry Rynolds. So I
guess somebody could ask Terry if Terry can

1289
01:31:26.479 --> 01:31:30.079
confirm the story something that Sable said
to the two of them in the dressing

1290
01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.319
room one day. Sabel used to
bring her daughter on the road with her,

1291
01:31:33.079 --> 01:31:36.720
and they knew that Mark Merrow was
not the girl's father. So one

1292
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:43.039
day they're in the locker room and
Sonny asked Sabel where the girl's real father

1293
01:31:43.279 --> 01:31:46.439
was, and Sable told them that
he died in a car accident when their

1294
01:31:46.520 --> 01:31:50.359
daughter was just the baby. And
Sonny was like, oh my god,

1295
01:31:50.600 --> 01:31:55.279
I'm so sorry, and she claims
that Sable said, no, no,

1296
01:31:55.399 --> 01:31:58.319
it was the best thing that ever
happened to me, because if he never

1297
01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:02.279
died, I never would have met
Mark. And Tammy said that at that

1298
01:32:02.359 --> 01:32:08.359
point she lost all respect for her. She actually called it the most selfish,

1299
01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:12.560
cruel thing that a person could say. I can use those same words

1300
01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:15.119
to describe Tammy for getting behind the
wheel, smashed and killing someone. But

1301
01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:19.199
as far as why Sonny was fired
and Sable wasn't, Sable didn't refuse to

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01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:27.039
go to rehab and start no showing
events, which is why Tammy was fired.

1303
01:32:28.279 --> 01:32:30.479
I think there was even a time
where she allegedly told Lynda McMahon that

1304
01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:35.279
she suffered a miscarriage and that's why
she missed a show, and she couldn't

1305
01:32:35.279 --> 01:32:41.000
produce any sort of proof for medical
documents or anything like that. It was

1306
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:45.920
just excuse after excuse after excuse.
So that's why that and Sable was a

1307
01:32:46.039 --> 01:32:49.640
draw. If it came down to
Sonny or Sable at that time and WWE

1308
01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:54.720
was forced to choose, Sonny would
have needed a nose job. That door

1309
01:32:54.760 --> 01:32:58.560
would have smacked, shutting her face
so fast. Sable looks. Say what

1310
01:32:58.680 --> 01:33:01.079
you want to about Sable and her
run was relatively short. I know she

1311
01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:04.199
came back at h three, and
even then she wasn't around for very long.

1312
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:10.399
Say what you want about Sable A
lot of people have, but she

1313
01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:13.600
was over. I mean, you
talked about top names in the Attitude era

1314
01:33:13.720 --> 01:33:17.680
and people who were popping numbers and
ratings and doing business and the Playboy deal

1315
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:20.720
and everything. Obviously Austin is going
to be at the top of that list.

1316
01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:26.680
Rock Rock ended up not doing too
shabbily either. Sables right there with

1317
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:30.359
them. You gotta you think of
Austin, you think of Rocks. Sable

1318
01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:34.000
is right there with them. That's
how popular and how over she was for

1319
01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:36.479
a period of time, and the
Playboy covers, you know, had a

1320
01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:41.239
lot to do with that. But
she was just you know, I mean,

1321
01:33:41.319 --> 01:33:45.079
she was she was the one that
the people gravitated to and that the

1322
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:48.920
people paid to see. So yeah, if you if you gave WWE a

1323
01:33:49.039 --> 01:33:53.640
choice gun to head, pick one
over the other, Sonny would not have

1324
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:59.279
been there very long. And Adam
from Newport News, Virginia, do you

1325
01:33:59.359 --> 01:34:02.399
have any guilty pleasure matches? Matches
that are generally looked down on or got

1326
01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:08.600
a bad rating, but that you
still enjoy watching. Definitely the Blindfold match

1327
01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:14.399
from WrestleMania seven with Jake Roberts and
Rick Martel. I've always enjoyed that match

1328
01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:17.199
we LC from Extreme Rules. I
forget which year, I think it was

1329
01:34:17.239 --> 01:34:24.399
twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen, but
the WELC match with El Trito against Hornswoggle.

1330
01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:28.800
I enjoyed that way more than I
thought I would. So good stuff

1331
01:34:28.840 --> 01:34:31.279
there. Keep sending in those questions
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01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:56.880
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01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:02.039
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Vince McMahon was not backstage for SmackDown. Suppose Vince McMahon was at an

1343
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:20.439
Eagles cuts. I am sure,
no doubt rewriting the songlin Joe Walsh can

1344
01:35:20.520 --> 01:35:24.039
take him on tour with him.
They can have Vince go out there and

1345
01:35:24.159 --> 01:35:29.359
performs stand back to warm up the
Crowns. I don't care where he is

1346
01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:31.760
so long as he is away from
these shows and he is not in the

1347
01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:36.640
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