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We roll on total NonStop action,
total NonStop Hogan, Boss. It's two

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thousand and eleven, and it's time
for us too once again. I'm afraid

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to tell you grapple with the realities
of impact in realities, you're talking about

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realities and the fantasies and the falsities
of impact. We've touched on it a

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bit. Broad strokes were building to
Hogan, Sting you excited by the time

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you're done watching this bow liss of
episodes. I don't know about excited,

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but there's definitely something there. I
think, you know, they do have.

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Sting does a good job. You
know. I hate saying that,

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I really do because I don't want
I don't want any you know, I

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don't want that to be a thing. But he does do a good job.

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I'm kind of, you know,
entertaining a thesis here that as much

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entertainment as Rick Flair gave us in
twenty ten, it didn't really go anywhere.

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It particularly is regarded Hogan. I
think Sting might be the hero of

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the ten h journey. He might
be. I mean, he's really he's

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at least proven to me. There's
a lot there that he was not um

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uh like he wasn't how to say
it, uh that that there's a lot

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more there than I think he was
ever given credit for or get or was

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allowed to give it a chance to
show. Right, Yeah, the character

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of Joker Sting really brought a side
of his personality out that, you know,

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the characters he played in the past
really had no reason to act that

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way or show that kind of you
know, just psy psychosis. He was

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just like silent or he was like
a nabulliant baby kissing baby face. And

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right, you can't really show the
you know, the twisted kind of multiple

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personality schizophrenic type thing that apparently live
somewhere within Steve Borden. I mean,

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I guess it's I guess it's there. I guess it's there. So twenty

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eleven Dons in TNA. Last time
we were with you, we talked about,

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you know, the year ending with
Jeff Hardy as champion, hul Coogan

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uh kind of on the shelf due
to the laser spine treatments and the eventual

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fusion surgery, as well as the
series of skits in which it was announced

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that Dixie Carter was going to try
to get her company back in a court

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of Law. After Hogan and Bischoff
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turn heel created the megahel faction,
and we're just running rough shot over

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the program again. As twenty eleven
dons, they get started with the Genesis

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pay per view and the first Impact
after Genesis on January thirteenth does one point

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seven million viewers, which was the
best number one months. So there was

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interest as twenty eleven dons into what
you know they were doing on pay per

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view and who's what, But unfortunately
the show patterns still aren't so great there.

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They're losing a lot of viewers from
high rated segments, but they're still

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doing the biggest rating since the post
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ten. No kidding, but the
numbers pattern indicates that in both cases,

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every fan who sampled the show out
of curiosity had quit. By the end

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every show, every fan who sampled
it over the typical average. So while

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there's a reason to celebrate for the
overall show average here in one of the

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early numbers of twenty eleven, the
ratings pattern doesn't indicate that the people that

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are checking in or sticking with the
show throughout all of its two hours now,

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Kennedy, who wins the championship the
Jeff Hardy Belt from Jeff Hardy at

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Genesis, burries that championship belt on
television, really saying they were going to

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get rid of it and bring out
the new TNA World Championship. Even though

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Dixie Carter is supposed to be fighting
for control of our company in court.

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If you go to a TENNA how
show in England in January twenty eleven,

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she's coming out and thanking everybody for
coming to this TNA show announcing being announced

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this TENDA president And what are you
saying? It's it's all work perhaps what

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stingers on the shelf. And as
you know, it's part of contractual negotiations

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that he would go through just about
every year and tenas he would only sign

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one year deals. We talked last
time about how Kevin Nash and book or

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t we're negotiating with TNA to be
part of this, you know stable of

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Maine of entners that would come back
and try to rest the company from Hogan

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and Bischoff for Dixie Carter. Sting
also awaiting a contract to participate in that

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angle. But ultimately Dixie had Kevin
Nash pretty much secured, but then let

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him go to WWE. They're in
the twenty eleven a Royal Rumble as you

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remember, yea, and that becomes
history there that they be in Kevin Nash

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and book or T but Sting doesn't
go. But I don't know that pattern

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really made people think he was coming, you know, when you see Nash,

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when you see book Or I think
they even had a couple more TENA

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personnel around this time. You think
suddenly a door is open. Yeah,

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sure, of course, this is
the year Boss. This is the year

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where they did a series of videos
that indicated that they were going to do

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Undertaker versus Sting in Atlanta. Yes, people were so in love with the

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idea of that match. Yep.
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kind of weird, like everyone calls
the dream match and I'm like, is

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it? I mean, I guess, but I never thought that was never

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the first That was never the match
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for a w crossover match. Ever, Yeah, it was kind of like

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a you know, the two supernatural
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And of course the novelist Rustling in
WWE was stings supernatural, I guess,

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coming out of the ceiling and with
the crows and everything and the lasers,

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lasers, you know, when he
came out at Starcade, he used the

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closest thing the Undertaker that w step
didn't have like powers like Undertaker supposedly had

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lightning powers and shit, that's true. He was brooding, long trench coat,

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you know, silent but violent.
People were very excited about the possibility,

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and they were doing a series of
videos and they turned out to be

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promoting the return of the Undertaker,
not the coming of Sting And they were

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like, all right, you know, edgewise about what it was about.

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There were very those vague videos,
right, and wasn't there there was a

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lot of stuff that seemed very like, yeah, like stingish, weren't there

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like crows and stuff in it,
something heavy black and white scheme, a

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lot of like storms. It looked
like the videos that they did before Starcade

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ninety seven of him in the rain
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yeah, it was like a two
twenty one eleven. That was the date

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that the videos promoted, and all
that ended up being as the announcement of

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the return of the Undertaker. TNA
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they're about to get Sting back into
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campaign of T's videos, hyping three
three eleven, Oh my God, which

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was the day that the first on
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TV and featuring the return of Sting. So they really even duplicated a lot

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of the look and feel and elements
of those Undertaker videos that ww is doing,

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with the same rain and some dude
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But Stinging at an interview around this
time with a Daily Star saying that when

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he did the Angle with himself and
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quit, he did expect to be
brought back to continue the angle in January,

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so he committed to doing another year. There was a contractual issue that

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they didn't finalize right away, so
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few months into two thousand and eleven, and it did open the doorframe to

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have an unofficial discussion with WWE.
But once TNA came back to finalize the

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deal, he agreed to go to
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about to chronicle on the March third, twenty eleven Impact to win the championship.

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Meanwhile, they released Jay Lethal because
fuck everything he did in two thousand

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and ten. What a bitch?
Right? What do you do? Nothing?

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Start promoting they again. Remember in
the clip we played from Age Styles,

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he says it again. They're still
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be Fortune turning baby Face. That's
they So as the world turns in total

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NonStop action wrestling. There was a
data announced that Hogan was supposed to return

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in February. That came and went
and he didn't return. As indicated in

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the quote that we read from the
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a kind of a setback in terms
of how quickly he expected to be able

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to get back in and due to
the back fusion surgery. But once he's

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back, he's all the way back. Jack and Fortune feuding with the Mortal

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apparently was always the plan according to
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The feud was going to be Fortune
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which was to be like I said, Sting, Kevin Nash Book or

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t probably Kurt Angel and some others
Scott Steiner, who they eventually ended up

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bringing in any way. But instead
of waiting for that whole thing with those

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main e enters to run its course
in fortune turning face, they just did

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it and fortune means nothing for the
rest of the year, I mean nothing.

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They start positioning Bobby Rude to go
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single star. I remember that as
being a thing. I do remember that

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kind of in a way of like, oh, really we're going They're going

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there. Okay, you remember being
excited or just I didn't watch the show,

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Yes, it's enough too. There
was something about Bobby Rude. I

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don't know why I was. I
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Again, I never watched the show, but it tells me a lot

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that you even were aware of it, because back then it was very hard

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for them to do anything that would
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a wrest of the town. Uh. Yeah, I definitely remember. I

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mean I must have read about it
and stuff, but I was aware of

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it, for sure. We'll talk
about a lot of it. But they

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did a series of really great vignettes
Kevin Sullivan, not that one the production

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Kevin Sullivan put together for TNA where
you know they did the whole life stories

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has been my dream, talked to
the family, show the kids. He's

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like us, you know, sports
kind of inspirational treatment, and it was,

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it was, It was brilliant.
It was a lot like although of

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course on a smaller scale, the
series of bits and angles and videos they

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did for Cody leading into WrestleMania this
year, and you better believe the outcome

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was exactly the same. Bobby Rudy
shit and loses his opportunity and loses his

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chance to actually matter as champion.
He gets the belt eventually, but you

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know how that goes when you don't
win him that first opportunity of that first

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time, it's a comp waste.
Yeah, it's like nowhere, you're not

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fooling anybody when you do that and
act like it's for story. You're not

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fooling anybody. You've decided to deprive
them of the moment because somebody at the

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last minute God in your ear and
convinced you that that's not the move to

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ming like always in wrestling. But
that's way ahead of us here. As

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we turn the page to February,
Tiene is still doing strong ratings at one

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point three on February third, two
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audience in the Thursday night history of
Impact. So they're doing really well.

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This episode had no big plunge at
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Cogan's nowhere to be found on these
shows. Wow, this is a problem,

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brother one. I mean, what
well, brother, I was there,

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dude, I know you weren't.
I was the Curt Angle Jeff Jarrett

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Karen angle storyline that's doing pretty good
numbers as they go through all their hijinks.

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Why, I don't know. I
think people were pretty clicked into the

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idea that it was real life spilling
into the ring and that was a little

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more compelling than your run of the
mill angle that tena put together kind of

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like the edge mad hearty leader thing. Sure, and it came to the

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point where they did a stipulation where
custody of Kurt's kids who were on the

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line, and after they did that, match ratings momentum for this feud subsided.

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That wasn't bridge too far for folks, I think is a fair read

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of it. But if these kind
of numbers are getting put up for Impacts

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without whole coken on the screen.
That's gonna have to be remedied real fucking

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quick, and indeed it is against
all odds. The February pay per view,

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Jeff Hardy takes back the TNA title
from mister Anderson, just to make

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sure Anderson really gets momentum winning that
championship and a ladder match, and they

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start talking about the network all the
time. We telegraphed it a bit when

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we played that that sound bite in
part one of you know, the switch

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over to the Blue Ropes and the
Impact Wrestling Wrestling Matters branding campaign. But

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suddenly, you know, if they're
not going to have Dixie versus Hogan,

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Dixie versus Bischoff and Hogan, they
got to have somebody opposing the tyranny of

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the Hogan Bischoff regime. Yeah,
so they just start talking about the network.

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The network actually had the trump card
the whole time. I don't know

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where they've been. Well, fucking
Dixie got totally ram rotted in court and

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lost our whole company. I don't
know why they had nothing to say until

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now I know. And they never
say Spike, and Bischoff wanted to say

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Spike, but Spike kind of didn't
like the idea of being named in particular

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on the air. Why. I
don't know. I don't know what their

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problem was with it. I think
there might have been a concern that it

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really makes it seem like they're I
just want to be them. I mean,

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Eric, I appreciate Listen. I
like any kind of publicity for the

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for the you know, for for
for Spike and any any in New York.

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Now they're not the national network anymore, so you might want to put

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the the Brad Seagle voice on.
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I listen. I love I love
the idea that that we get. You

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know that you talk about the you
know, talk about the network on TV.

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That's great. Listen, I'm all
about I think. I think any

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kind of publicity for Spike is good. It's it's really it's really original,

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even though it is Paul Haymon did
it in nineteen ninety nine and the same

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network. I think, I think
what you know, I think the the

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idea of of of kind of bringing
in that that kind of a reality situation.

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Listening all three people in New York, Bishop on the front of Nashville,

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by the way, all about that
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been discussing it since you was since
you ran in the idea of bias.

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But you know, here's the thing, this is, this is what what

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it kind of comes down to,
and we got to balance a lot of

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interest here Eric in the TV business
as Yeah, there's that, But I

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also don't want to listen. I
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and disparage any of our programming,
right, you know, because I think

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all of it is valuable. All
of it brings in something obviously, you

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know, whether it be viewers or
any kind of financial reward. You know,

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all of our programming is either like
our children, all right, we

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consider that we consider every one of
these uh, every one of our shows

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to be our own, our own
child. But you know, saying Spike

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on the Impact Show, I it's
just embarrassing, you know. I just

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don't think that that we want to
really acknowledge the fact that Spike owns a

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wrestling company. Well, we don't
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a TV show on. You know, I don't think we want to acknowledge

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that on on on to I know
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I mean, honestly, if if
it weren't commonplace, I take the logo

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off the show, you know,
in the corner, I wouldn't have the

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Spike logo. I think that's you
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we're part of the Viacom family here, we've got it's not just I

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mean, it's not just us,
it's it's it's paramount. It's the lea.

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All right, you know what,
what's he gonna say? If you

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know Spike is a is a is
a baby face and a wrestling show,

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you know, you know exactly like
like they're gonna be like, well,

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what are your character you? We
do? We take you seriously like I

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don't understand, like what And look
I have I've had a glimpse into my

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crystal ball here. I've seen the
future. I've seen the way you've talked

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about being associated with wrestling in your
bankruptcy hearing you understand what it means to

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be ashamed to have anything to do
with the right. I mean, look,

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I I know you know where we're
coming from because I know that outside

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of outside of the wrestling world,
you don't talk about it, right,

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you just talk about Hervey and exactly
talk about your reality shows. And then

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listen. I'm with you, man, Yep, absolutely, we're excited about

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a lot of the concepts you've brought
to us. I think what past week.

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I wish to god we didn't have
wrestling on Spike, all right,

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I wish to god we didn't have
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It's not even real. It's not
even real. Did you know that,

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Eric? Did you know that that
what you produce isn't real? It turns,

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it turns hostile on Eric. Eric's
trying to get off the phone.

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Now, Yeah, the network,
Okay, the network is doing things too

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so fucking awful, pull a trump
card. Including It's like, why why

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do we have to keep going to
things that aren't wrestling to try to make

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this wrestling show work? Because the
people who make the most money other guys

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who can't go in the ring necessarily, So we got to build a company

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around the idea that what really moves
the ship here is the talking and the

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intrigue of the people to make the
biggest salaries. Listen, I don't I

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don't mind the talking in the intrigue, but why do you have to involve

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the network? Like why can't it
be somebody else. Why can't it be

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uh, you know, why can't
Sting? You know? Why are there

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always elements you can't control? Right? You know? Right the people who

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have the power never right in front
of your eyes, seems like right.

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Meanwhile, Jeff Hardy still has his
drug trafficking case out of North Carolina that

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gets continued to March twenty first,
and the thought is they put the championship

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back on him because they realized with
that delay, that continuance, which is

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now becoming high comedy, how many
times they delayed this thing that they have

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enough time to get the title off
him if need be. So they're actually

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booking the ten if I'm reading this
right. They're booking the tena title around

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when Jeff Hardy has court dates and
when he might predictably be sentenced to prison.

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What's wrong on that? I mean, it's perfectly fine if you ask

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me, absolutely and insane behavior.
But now, in fact, he loses

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the championship he just won back from
Anderson, who whose first reign and only

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reign. I think now he wins
it later, but it meant nothing.

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Hardy does drop the belt to the
returning Sting. The show takes place February

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twenty fourth in Faithful, North Carolina. But that's taped for the March third

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Impact. They taped two, I
believe not three, two episodes of Impact

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going on the road for the first
time. And yeah, the thought is,

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well, let's gets Bolt often because
if he pleads guilty, he's not

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going to be our tompion at the
time. Yeah, February twenty fourth,

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twenty eleven, Impact does one point
five five million viewers, so it's starting

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to come in a little bits.
Twenty eleven, early twenty eleven begins to

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unfold, and in fact, at
actual viewers they are below they're twenty oh

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nine average, even though Spike picked
up several million homes over the past year

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in terms of exposure. So there
are many ways to slice indise the numbers,

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and there are some bright spots,
but you always have to anchor back

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to where were they before Hogan and
Bischoff came in and what was a reasonable

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expectation for growth because they're involved and
there's no growth, So you tell me.

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We turned to the March third Impact
lie atmosphere, huge screens, three

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of them, as a matter of
fact, one lifts up in the center

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and in the entranceway. That's right. What do you think of the set?

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I think it looks pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, no, listen,

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I think I think it looks fine. No problem at all. JB

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welcomes us, and uh, the
moment of truth has arrived this episode.

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Fuck no, no, no,
no, no no no no no no

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no no no no no no.
Times sometimes bid me out kind of what

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Oh hang hang hang hang hang hang
hang. Dixie Carter is back on TNA

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television. After all those rights,
she's here, and she's here to tell

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us the decision by the judge in
Texas, even though we're in North Carolina,

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to the outcome of the court struggle. Remember Bishop and Hogan had her

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signed a piece of paper that gave
them the company, and she was like,

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no, that's not going to hold
up. And she's got a friend,

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remember on Thanksgiving, I got a
friend in the court. It's gonna

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help me. And uh, what's
the result, what's the outcome? For

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some reason, it takes till March, some random day in March to announce

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this, and she comes out looking
sad in her brown leather coat, and

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for some reason, she holds so
cal VAL's hand climbing the ring What the

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fuck is that about? She drunk? It just felt I just whenever you

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I hear that, I think of
just a Titan tron video of her walking.

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That's it's walking, walking, walking, sometimes power walking in heels.

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Yeah. Um, it's federal judge
decision time. Okay, the ruling waiting

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for. What's she crying about?
I didn't actually know what she was crying

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about. It's like, what the
fuck is this about? She was crying

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because she lost the companies, Oh
my god, or she lost in an

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attempt to get it back. So
at this time too in real life or

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Twitter account has had been suspended.
You know why? Oh, please tell

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me she added the verified Twitter checkbox
to her background or her page when she

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wasn't actually verified. Oh god,
does that sound familiar today? What the

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fuck? I mean? That's just
like a hint of things to come.

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She had to go, you're gonna
pay for that verification now. First of

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all, I wanted to say thank
you. You're Oh you know, I

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can't. I can't hang hang,
I can't pass up a fucking Dixie.

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First of all, I wanted to
say thank you. I wanted to say

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thank you so much to each and
every one of you who reached out to

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me over the last several months for
your kind words and support and what digital

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formats, your emails, your tweets, your Facebook messages, and especially talking

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to you in person around the world
few weeks has meant the world to me.

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Your support has given me strength and
I am very, very grateful.

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I'm here tonight. I'm here tonight
to share with you the outcomes of the

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legal proceedings that started back in November
and the court ruling that came down this

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morning. And while things did not
go as I had hoped, I can

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promise you I WoT this music.
It's so bad. It's like that wo

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rumans. I gotta tell you,
Michael Dixie stuff dispositions. I here bas

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at the moment when Dixie Carter,
who's gonna go public with the judge's ruling

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the imperance of the mortel Eric fishaw
not Hardy got hurting. I don't even

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know I have the fucking people are
this immortals, So the dirtiest players play

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making their way to the bringion has
that got to agree with you? Listening

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to Dixie watching your body language doesn't
look positive? DISI also an ar Fish

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offs his disposition. His body language
is kind of blocking and fucking fun's at

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Dixie. Dixie, when we agreed
earlier today to let you come out here

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and say goodbye to all of your
fans, that didn't mean we wanted you

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to come out here and try to
do your pr spin and spread your Dixie

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dusts around. I try to twitter
your why wow out of the reality of

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the facts. You see, we're
very busy guys, and we got a

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lot to do tonight, and but
Franklin time is more valuable than that.

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So before we see you go,
I just want to say, Dixie,

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I respect you book a man.
I've learned so much from you I can't

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begin to tell you. And even
though I know you're a woman, Dixie

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sounds like you have one massive set
of boss. Are you starting to understand

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that you are to that young lady. She's so free things to be called

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flair country. You got that vibration
and they all know that had you taken

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my room key that night, nor
we would have avoided all this, and

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you would have been on a long, year long ride and steady and steading.

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You elect to text, tweet,
email, voicemail. Stop the gross

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you dude, because you think that
they're gonna love to you. If that

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but gets you off your don't you
understand we get them off, don't get

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us off. And you know what
catch be off libbs rag shits like kidstand

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We really women that want to go
whoa, oh my lord. And to

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get that, you gotta have money. You gotta have money. That means

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you gotta have power. And if
we gotta have the power, we want

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your money, your time, your
energy, We want everything you have.

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That's who we are, so want
do the most toys wins the game.

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Now if you really want to hear
what the legally wants, say Dixie,

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And by the way, there's a
hold and right down the road, Bill,

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I reduced to the legend the man
that makes your mott hu hug getting

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buller while a yat guy the right, while a rat yard right now small

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a right, war a right a
right Wi s t time come down y,

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that's show yes right, yes,
yes, yes not hunter moved do

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do domes happened to me? And
we will be before you to get used

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to my friend, because it seems
like they mean it. You know what

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I noticed here too, Hogan's skin
so dry that looks so walks. My

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opinion, it seems like he's the
man in shocks, you know something.

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Maybe act here we go. Maybe
I'm all amped up because the electricity in

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this building, or maybe my trino
clams that I'm not fishing straights. But

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seeing how I was in that courtroom
with you today, Dixie Carter, I

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think it's safe to say that I
now control one hundred percent now, so

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it confirms your thoughts. It's all
the assurance. He's gonna court room,

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He's going a lot of things going
on at the same time, from everything

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that happens in this ring to everything
that happens in my office in Nashville.

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I make all the decisions. Yeah, like he's going to Nashville playing you,

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Dixie. Well, you you're just
unemployed. You know, somewhere along

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the way you kind of became delusional. You know they talk about me being

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an egomaniac, the well, nobody
blieves their own hype like you do,

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Dixie. That's a fact. And
when I think about the way you spoons

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that all these fans made him believe
in you. We used you, Dixie,

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Eric and I used you to get
right back on top of the wrestling

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business. Somewhere along the way while
you were being I'm sorry, on top

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of the wrestling business, on top
of what excuse me, well, what

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was going to be on top of
Dixie? If I oh god, all

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this time, you've forgot what your
place in Tena is wasn't always will be.

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You supply the money period. Do
you understand that, Dixie? You

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supply the money period. This thing
wasn't about you and me being partners.

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This whole thing was about me and
my real partner, Eric Bischoff, using

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you to get back on top of
the professional wrestling business. You know,

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one of the MCCUs having to being
gay when Dixie, because you're a weak

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woman, we used you in your
whole family and the only thing that you

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have left is your dignity, and
like they say in Nashville, we are

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fixing to take that away right now
too. Let's come to them. But

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you know, you do have one
thing, like Dixie Carter. You've got

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all these fans out here, okay, But you know something, Dixie,

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these fans out here that love you, if you don't have much to say

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about it, now do they?
You don't have a damn thing to say

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about it. The Fox are this
Jack, it's you and me and I

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run this company. Just you and
me in here, Dixie. That's it

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next time on TNA. Also,
why is he calling you out? What

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did you do? I know he
calls her Jack all of a sudden,

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Hey, is is he being kind
of mean to her? In a whole

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cogen way? Yeah? At right? I mean she's sitting her crying like

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a child who lost her toy in
the at the theme park, I mean

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exactly, And that's kind of what
happened the theme park being Universal Studios,

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you're a weak woman. Well,
I'm like your boss, but I'm just

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endlessly and true tell you. I'll
tell you what. I can't wait to

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see the matches, what happens next? Exactly the match I mean, isn't

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a twist supposed to be? Not
a continuation of the state of play.

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I mean, like, why is
this such a big deal if we're exactly

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where we were before she came out
here? Right? Exactly? Nothing has

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changed, nothing has changed. So
basically there was a pause in the goings

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on from November until now. That's
the same ship. Sounds like they put

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00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.599
the whole thing on hold till health
was ready to show up In person brother

406
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:09.839
one. At least we have that
immortal plus fortune music, and now we

407
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:15.039
have new fortune music Fortune four.
They say, oh Jesus Christ, can

408
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:15.720
you pull that up for me?
I want you to listen to it and

409
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.920
read. All right, we can't
see what we get here for fortune A

410
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:24.480
fortune theme? Fortune four? Was
it? The TNA fortune? AJ comes

411
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:29.200
out at this point in the show
and his boy band Blazer. They throw

412
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:35.960
the hands signals up stop. Kaz
has the X title Storm and rude to

413
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.039
have the tag titles. AJ has
no title and that will be the there

414
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:59.599
we go. Stay, don cares
fortune four four? Oh what is fortune

415
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:08.599
four? Are? We're about to
change things? Okay? Four fu please?

416
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:20.239
Thanks? Were about to change things. Uh the way we dress,

417
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:23.480
we dress, the way roll mean
look, Ty's music is fucking shit.

418
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:31.320
Okay, really it is always so
fucking like not to change things. Uh,

419
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.559
hang him on my hand hand wrap
rock. I'm here to say the

420
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:45.000
thing. Boo boo boo delted dingan
Ah, you're a little bit of French

421
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.800
there wa wa A J says we
can do this the easy way or the

422
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:51.880
hard way. We like to do
it the hard way. But there's a

423
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.159
man in the ring because Aerian,
he's not talking about you, a Bishop,

424
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:55.880
because Arian cuts in and says,
now we're talking about Dixie Carter.

425
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:00.519
What a lady we care deeply about. Okay, now they can about Dixie

426
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:02.840
Carter. Since when the same lady
that gave us all an opportunity here at

427
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.320
TNA, and this same already lady
that brought us to give you an opportunity.

428
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:12.360
What's that? But Jared gave you
an opportunity here to Fayetteville, North

429
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:15.719
Carolina, and they pop for that. Get out of the ring. Dixie

430
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:16.719
Bishop says, you have her.
We've had our fun. You can have

431
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.920
her Today says it's just so tough
timing and watch Dixie Carter deal with this.

432
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:25.079
No, Mike, it's tough having
to hear you and pretend to feel

433
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:29.320
for these angles. You know what, Mike, Actually it's tough being a

434
00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.039
TNA fan. Yes, Dixie Carter, Boss, I don't know if you've

435
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:44.000
forgotten Dixie Carter. Okay, emails, tweets. Damn. It gets to

436
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:47.800
the point that Flair is screaming different
means of digital communications at her in the

437
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:54.719
ring, and this is supposed to
be one of the big text email They

438
00:35:54.800 --> 00:36:00.559
think it's such a. They think
it's such a burn, no right to

439
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:05.719
talk about sixy being on her phone
all day. Um, so this is

440
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.280
one of those moments in twenty eleven
where Robert Rude suddenly steps into the foreground

441
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.599
and we're supposed to go, wait
a minute, this guy's getting a little

442
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:15.880
uh spotlight. He's stepping up.
Yeah, I got I got some.

443
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:21.159
I got him leading into the uh
the end of the end of the promos,

444
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.039
right, Just who the hell do
you think you are? Jokay,

445
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:30.960
he think he's my friend. Hey, hey, talking to you? You

446
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:37.000
think you are? You are talking
to me? Yeah? Yeah, no,

447
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:44.800
you're talking to god. Oh God, don't ever cracking on Wogan?

448
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.159
You kiss his ass? Do you
kiss my ass and you keep walking?

449
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.159
You know where, Ricky? How
about a stait of kissing your ass?

450
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:13.519
We kick your ass? She's out
of arms? Why he first words out

451
00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:17.880
of his mouth after that showed down
between Flair, What a goofball? I

452
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:21.360
want? You know? Hulk took
his shades off as soon as Rude started

453
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:23.920
talking to him. Oh so he
was serious or he takes them seriously.

454
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:28.199
Okay, good says, I can't
believe you were the reason I became a

455
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.599
professional wrestler, Hulk. You know, there's an old saying, Hulk,

456
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.679
that you should never meet your ridles, because at the end of the day,

457
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.119
although going to just let you down, and as sure as I'm standing

458
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:39.239
here today, that statement couldn't be
any more true. Hogan makes the face

459
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:44.239
brother just too when the hell do
you think you are? And that's when

460
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:46.840
Flair says, he thinks he's my
friend. He thinks he's my friend,

461
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:50.719
which is not exactly the kind of
thing you want to say, Flair,

462
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:54.559
unbelievable. He thinks he's my friend, So is he not? Are you?

463
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:58.840
Are you swerving him? Now?
Flair? What's the deal? Pal?

464
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.480
I had? Hurts, So there's
a night drop. Bishof says,

465
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:05.199
get him out of here. There's
booze as Fortune is held back from hitting

466
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:10.000
the ring, there is booze.
I'll tell you that immortal telling himself are

467
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:13.840
stepping on the ropes, taking them
on, So Holk's comfortable taking a rope,

468
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:17.239
which is a step forward. Yep
um. They show backstage Hogan strutting

469
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.239
with the crew and more backstage meetings. They got Bischoff bitching about this network

470
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.920
guy not telling him who Jeff Hardy's
opponent's going to be tonight. They're all

471
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:35.559
talking about the network. H as
hell, But I'm not anymore brilliant brilliant

472
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:42.519
drop. That's the new miss test
mocker, fucking network. Hogan goes,

473
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:46.360
they know I'm in charge of anything
wrestling related in rings. What I read

474
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:52.679
Bishop's contract. That's not true,
Terry Hogan backstage, Um on the phone

475
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.559
in the office. Yeah, guys, I know this business. Yeah,

476
00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:00.480
I got him, I got him, can't not have him? Yeah,

477
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.360
guys, I know this business.
Believe me just as well as you do.

478
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:08.360
In the Eiffel Tower where you're sitting
right, does defend the title on

479
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:14.159
a regular basis. He's a fighting
champion Theiffel Tower, idiot. No,

480
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:19.119
no, no, you know it's
not the fact that he has to defend

481
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.760
the belt. It's the guessing game. You know, Anderson would be the

482
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.840
perfect match. He would be the
perfect guy for ratings, if that's what

483
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.400
you want. But hide the ball. You know we are on the same

484
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:34.800
team. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, but you know I don't

485
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.880
agree with surprises equal ratings. You
know, we need to plan things out,

486
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:44.679
we need to be ready. Nothing
surprise. You don't surprise business with

487
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:50.079
Okay, I get it. You
do, yes, sir, I get

488
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:54.559
it. Okay, we'll be ready, thank you. Man. Yeah,

489
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:57.960
I mean I agree. Man,
I don't. I don't know why they

490
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:02.840
have these fucking I can't. It's
so we're back to the ship. It's

491
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.000
like there's nothing they came up with
in the interim that's any better than what

492
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.840
they were doing before. It's so
stupid. I mean, it's so stupid.

493
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:20.119
I don't like these these I don't
know where they think that this sort

494
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:24.320
of stories are these sort of stories
are interesting, Like nobody cares about conversations

495
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.559
with the television networking executives, all
right, Like I mean, is this

496
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:35.039
show sponsored by like Cisco network engineering, like in enterprise phone systems? You

497
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.559
know, I know, why would
Hope be so concerned about surprises anyway?

498
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.320
What how about what his Eiffel Tower? Well, actually he may have been

499
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.559
talking about what what him and Warrior
want to do with Linda. Maybe that's

500
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:50.360
what he's talking about. But as
I said, dude, you want to

501
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:52.840
Aniffe tower, Linda Brother, I
know that's not how you feel up in

502
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.320
your Eiffel Tower, all right,
Terry Eiffel Towers, moron. So yeah,

503
00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.280
the Silver Dome yeah, now work
is not roping him in, dude,

504
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.159
not letting him know. Later on
with Jeff Hardy, Hogan says,

505
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.480
I know we talked about a vacation, brother, but the company's on a

506
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.239
roll. Brother. Yeah, Jeff, Jeff's gonna take a vacation, all

507
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.320
right, yeah, oh yeah,
oh yes he is. So he tells

508
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:15.519
Jeff, we need you to step
up again tonight. I don't know if

509
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:19.199
you have this, but Jeff's in
a suit and tie, and no,

510
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:21.719
I don't have this one. Hogan
says, you cannot tell the network to

511
00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:24.360
tell me who you're who are going
to be wrestling. Hardy says that incredulously.

512
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:28.440
So I'm not trying to throw this
off on anybody. But the network

513
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.639
smells blood. They smell ratings every
time you get in the ring. Hulk

514
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:38.679
Hogan is the manager of the Santa
Land level of Gimbals in elf. Yes,

515
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:44.800
yeah, yeah, coming from my
job's code word, Santa's got a

516
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.920
brand new bag, Terry Hogan's got
a brand new bag. Brother, all

517
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:51.679
right, dude, look we're all
in this together. Brother. Heye these

518
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.079
ratings when you were gone, Terry, Yeah, a little too good,

519
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:08.679
brother. I think they're bringing in
professional work. That's so awesome. Does

520
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:13.599
that qualify l for under the cinemat? Maybe every time you get in the

521
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.239
ring and they think a big surprise
is going to put this thing over the

522
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.239
top. Jeff, that's the problem
in jeff'sons. You of all people want

523
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.800
me to come out and defend against
the unknown. It's a good one.

524
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.480
It's the unknown. I love you, man, like you're like a son

525
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.719
to me. We are in this, We're you're in as much jeopardy as

526
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:31.400
we are or something. If I
knew who he was your opponent, I'd

527
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:34.840
set him up, leave him laying
up the road at the seven eleven.

528
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.000
For you. It must be abyss
wow, I'll say if it was,

529
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:42.159
if it was a buss, he'd
already be at the seven eleven. Hogan

530
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:44.679
tells Jeff Hardy, you're the one
we wanted. You stepped up and won

531
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.960
the title. You're our guy man, all right. Later, there's a

532
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:52.280
meeting with Kennedy where Hogan produces a
back brace. For some reason. In

533
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:54.840
the spring of twenty eleven, Hogan
is bringing his back brace to television and

534
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.920
showing it on screen. Of course, why not, Brother and Anderson math

535
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:01.280
off to him and he goes,
let me know next time you slam a

536
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:08.719
seven hundred pound giant asshole, Terry. We read the laser spine deposition.

537
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:14.880
We know you don't think he's actually
seven hundred pounds Jesus Christ. So the

538
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:16.280
main event comes on the March third, twenty eleven Impact and it's going to

539
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:22.360
be Jeff Hardy defending the championship against
the network chosen mystery man. That's right,

540
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.119
and the diva's title is back.
By the way, the Jeff Hardy

541
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.239
Special, Um no more modest to
the top anymore for Jeff Hardy's interesting.

542
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:36.920
That's weird. That other another lifeward
you will never see. Oh God,

543
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:42.760
poetry, you say that again,
speaking poetry. Jemmy Borash takes the microphone

544
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.159
and now introducing his opponent. Yeah, I got that because it was a

545
00:43:45.199 --> 00:44:01.639
good reaction when he came out,
now introducing his opponents. H's the video

546
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:30.400
they'll play better take off Hang Hang
Kangang Gang Gang. It says three three

547
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:53.400
eleven on the screen, even though
they take it all twenty four hang hang

548
00:44:53.480 --> 00:45:09.480
Hall harn y'all hundred party two pis
there he is, He's back. You

549
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:14.360
know the beginning of his song always
sounds like Randy Orton's old theme. Sure,

550
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:21.400
hey, hi, there he is
in red black white paint with a

551
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.840
roon and gold rob on. Yeah, started this back, turned the aisle

552
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:27.719
to the ring, turns to face
Jeff, who's selling like, oh shit,

553
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.199
here we go. Says that Jeff's
about to vomit because he has to

554
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:34.320
face thing. I think he has
to vomit for other reasons. I'll be

555
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:38.639
at Victory road test strobe lights going
off. Is Sting doing it for the

556
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:44.079
network? That's my question today,
says Sting walked away from T and a

557
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.679
hell deal with Hulkgan and Company.
But the network has spoken and the network

558
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:55.320
has chosen Sting. Somebody asked Kevin
Kay, Hell, I'm not going anymore.

559
00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:01.159
Next time someone sees Kevin Kay asked
him if he chose Sting Lemon see

560
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:06.760
as when the network chose Sting.
Task makes reference to a lot of rubers

561
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.599
and speculation over the past several weeks
about Sting where he would end up or

562
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:12.920
not. Well, folks, he's
not going anywhere. He's right here mentioning

563
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:15.320
you know the ww speculation tests.
Jeff Hardy's about ready to vomit, like

564
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:20.719
you said, because it doesn't want
to face Sting. They assume Hulkken and

565
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:22.119
Ark Bishof must be livid at this
turn of events as hard He gets up

566
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.639
on the apron and is yanked in
for the opening bell clotheslines and Hardy SCRAMs

567
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.719
and his Neon green belt to get
out of the ring. Neon green belt

568
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.960
not a problem, just checking,
No, no, yeah, it's total,

569
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:36.800
total problem. Well it's a problem. After this staying moving swiftly around

570
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.639
the ring, looking pretty good,
he looks ready to go. Sure sure

571
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:43.760
Red Padding on the thighs back in
and Hardy kicks the gut and slugs away.

572
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:45.360
Tries to suplex, but Sting puts
the block on double legs Jeff.

573
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.199
Hardy steps through, turns him over
into the scorpion deathlock and sits down.

574
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.000
But Hardy makes the ropes to break
and rolls out of the ring. Sting

575
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:54.199
chase up the aisle way, sup
plexes Jeff on the ramp, takes him

576
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:59.119
around the rails and then splash in
against the rail that always misses. Sting

577
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:01.599
never learns. He never hits the
splash on the floor. He always hits

578
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:06.960
the rail. And that happens again
here impact ye proud lively with chance,

579
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.039
that's for sure. So they're really
getting some bump out of that live audience

580
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:13.280
element. Can't deny that. Back
in, Jeff with a sleeper tries to

581
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.880
twist of fate, but he's pushed
off and he slugged. Sting begins to

582
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.079
hulk up and beats his chest and
starts slinging hands at Jeff. Hardy Teney

583
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:27.559
says, when they got to the
striking game, its advantage. Sting really

584
00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:31.559
is Ta's version of undertakers. I
guess so Sting with running up pier,

585
00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:37.320
the best pier striker in total NonStop
action, looks the death drop and scores,

586
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:39.920
but only gets two on the cover
off the scorpion death drop, Stings

587
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:45.039
paint is peeling and Jeff dodges a
stinger splash in the corner. Stings stumbles

588
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.320
into a back elbow and Jeff hits
the whisper and the wind. It goes

589
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.800
for the whisper in the wind,
but he's tripped and crotched in the top

590
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.320
rope, and then Sting does a
scorpion death drop off the top rope.

591
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:55.599
I like that. I like that
a lot. Actually, I've never seen

592
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:58.159
him do that before. I don't
know if he's on that before, but

593
00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.159
I never saw it. Thumbs up
up to the center ring. Sting hooks

594
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.800
him again in the Scorpion deathlock.
Now, pardon me, the Scorpion death

595
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:07.800
drop in scores and I don't know. Something so lame about the teena ring

596
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.400
noise. I don't know what it
is. Yes, probably because it's in

597
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:14.320
a fucking studio. In this case, it isn't. Oh yeah, they're

598
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:15.360
live right, Yeah, I'm on. I don't know. Then, I

599
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.639
don't know. Well, whatever it
is, it's good for the one,

600
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:23.400
the two, and the three.
I'm gonna pick him up again. Stingstop

601
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:49.239
done, scorpion drop. So many
title changes, I know, what does

602
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.960
it? Fucking sounds like nine Vince
Russo. It's almost like Vince Russo still

603
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:57.880
book in the company. At this
point, the Sting hoists the Divas title.

604
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.159
How about that Sting with that Jeff
Hardy belt. You know the fact

605
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:05.400
that he still has the belt after
this night that always bothers me. Yeah,

606
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:07.599
get rid of that fucking belt,
get the other one back. Jeff

607
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.400
crawls out of the ringing Tazas on
a night where Whole Coken gain control of

608
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:15.400
TNA and Immortal loses the only the
holy grail known as the TENA Heavyweight Championship.

609
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:17.239
I thought, but the belt lent
the power though, that's what they

610
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:24.400
say, And somehow Hogan and Bishoff
are still peg keen about winning the company

611
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:28.119
in court even though they don't have
the belt. Well, I guess we'll

612
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:30.119
see so again. These took place
in Fayetville, North Carolina, these set

613
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.239
of tapings, and according to the
Observer, did thirty five hundred fans in

614
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:38.079
attendance with three fifteen paid, so
a huge success considering, you know,

615
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:42.360
grading on a curve for TNA.
That's a very very good crowd for them.

616
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:45.880
And their rating was very good,
one point eight five million viewers,

617
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.400
the highest rated episode of Impact since
October fourteenth of twenty two. And they

618
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.880
even beat out a UFC show that
was running head to hand on the much

619
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:58.159
lower profile Versus cable channel that evening, which did six hundred eighty one thousand

620
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.119
viewers, So they were able to
yeah, up, puff their puff their

621
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.599
chest out about you know, doing
better than UFC for a week. Of

622
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.239
course, they would ride that horse
all year, but it was it was

623
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:12.639
a success for sure. The March
Shirt third show, and if there's one

624
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:15.119
thing we know about TNA boss,
especially in this era, they can have

625
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:19.039
nice things, right, No,
they don't have to immediately watch nice things

626
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:22.480
fall off the shelf and shatter on
the floor. Right Oh they's they have

627
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.360
to completely ruin everything they have.
It's nice. It's time for Victory Road

628
00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:29.800
twenty eleven. Well, I don't
even know where to begin with this fucking

629
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:31.159
thing. What did you know about
this, if anything ahead of time?

630
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:37.480
Nothing? Christ All I saw was
a guy stumble out to ring who I

631
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:43.280
immediately knew was fucked. You could
tell, Oh, yeah, he fucking

632
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:46.920
stumbled around like he looked like a
disaster. TNA, TNA. Oh god,

633
00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:51.800
it's time for our Victory Road made
event in the Impact Zone. And

634
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:54.679
of course the graphics still has Jeff
Hardy holding the title belt. It's Jeff

635
00:50:54.719 --> 00:51:00.000
Hardy taking on Sting for the TENA
title a week after that episode of Impact

636
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.519
There so that we just talked about
main event of Victory Road pay per view

637
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.920
Tale of the Tape and I don't
know. The announcer seems somewhat distracted as

638
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.960
they read copy for the Tale of
the taps to tape. Sorry Hardy coming

639
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:14.800
in at six, one, two
or twenty five pounds. Of course,

640
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.039
the Swanton Bomb is his finisher sting
at six two two fifty. I guess

641
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.360
he gained four pounds or five pounds
since the March third impact Scorpion death Drop

642
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:28.079
is the finisher stings shocking return leads
to title win. That's part of tale

643
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:30.639
of the tape with Hogan and Dixie. With Hogan in control, it says

644
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.599
can immortal regain gold. That's another
part of the tale of the tape.

645
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:37.480
The tape is being told, I'll
tell you that. It also says no

646
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:44.679
excuses tonight for Jeff Hardy. We'll
see about that. Hardy comes out well,

647
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:47.599
his music hits and get a kind
of a mild pop from mostly girls

648
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:51.800
in the Impact zone. Another me
is what there will never be another life

649
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:54.280
like this. You'll never see.
We can only hope because what emerges from

650
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:58.400
the tunnel is well. He says, also, I want to end,

651
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:04.960
and I agree, I want to
end. Please. The camera's trained on

652
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.960
the entranceway, no one's coming out, and then suddenly there he is.

653
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:14.239
Look at the movements like molass.
He like yeah, he he barely moves,

654
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.880
he stumbles. I mean, I
was just like, he's got to

655
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:22.920
be fucked up. He needs to
be completely utterly fucked up. He's singing

656
00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:27.760
into the camera and almost floating down
the ramp going left to right when he's

657
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.639
supposed to be going straight and face
paint chewing gum. He looks like,

658
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:35.719
how why did they let him go
out? If he if he was really

659
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:37.440
fucked up? Don't think we're going
to get to that, all right,

660
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:43.079
I know. Jeff is grabbing at
ringside fans, probably to hold himself up

661
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:45.199
more than anything. He even tries
to lean on the ringside post and almost

662
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:49.519
falls down the ring post gets up
to the apron has his heart. He

663
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:53.760
didn't have ample time to prepare for
sting last time, and apparently this is

664
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:57.559
what he does with ample time to
prepare ample time. You know, you

665
00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.159
gotta be careful to ample time for
Jeff Hardy a little too has advantage of

666
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:04.480
ample time. So well, yeah
he does. He puts his arms out

667
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:06.880
like he does when he takes the
corner, but he does it so awkwardly

668
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.199
you can see everything's off. Oh
yeah, everything slightly off. Stings music.

669
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:13.559
He steps out with the Jeff Hardy
belt in his hand and hoists it

670
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:15.000
up in the air. Why has
he got Jeff Hardy's belt. It's been

671
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:20.599
a weak stop trucks changed it hard. He's limping around incredulous to Sting.

672
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:22.119
You can just tell he's uncloud nine. He leaves the ring of Sting,

673
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:24.920
gets in and lifts the belt.
They talk about how many more matches are

674
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.360
left in this man? They mean
Sting, by the way, not Jeff

675
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:32.119
Hardy. That's the funny thing there. Yeah, there's um uh yeah,

676
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:36.320
I got, I got that conversation
because it's it's a weird it's it's weird

677
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:40.400
the way that it's it's phrase by
Tonay, the words that I keep going

678
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:46.719
back to. Sting told us the
fire he's not going out. I mean

679
00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:52.840
when will go out? When will
the fire inside? Gets pretty outlet but

680
00:53:52.840 --> 00:54:00.880
this legendary restler, when will the
fire go out? And Sting? Okay,

681
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:04.079
Taz, if you said the same
thing three times, you don't have

682
00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:09.360
to change your inflection like that fire
just fucking christ Man, Like what the

683
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:13.679
fuck Jeremy Boris, let us know
that reefree. Brian Hebner will be presiding

684
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:15.599
with the championship in his hand.
Sting hits the ropes, introducing first in

685
00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:19.000
the corner of my left is he
Oh yeah, he's down there on the

686
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:23.760
floor. Jeff Hardy flips him off
and it's pixelated, or at least someone

687
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:28.719
flips him off. I'm in a
notation and he does this wild eyes thing,

688
00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:31.639
threw his paint into the camera.
Charismatic indigna. Jeff Hardy, he

689
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:34.920
waited in this morning at two hundred
and fifty eight pounds. I love that

690
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:37.000
this morning, right this morning.
What are you weighing now? Ye?

691
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:43.960
Sting gets some booze in cheers as
he's introduced to people, and Sting looks

692
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.400
to the aisle and what's going to
happen here? Well before that, Taz

693
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:53.239
says that Sting shocked the world,
and we know Sting isn't the first wrestler

694
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:57.199
to who shocked the world. Hey, that's right, I shocked the world.

695
00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:00.400
Thank you. Yes, that is
a tea. We shocked the world.

696
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:02.719
We're about to shock the world in
a very small but dramatic way here

697
00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:07.440
at Victory Road. This is shock
him again. I was in Mexico off

698
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.880
the grid. It's like Jeff dranks
and marijuana. Jess. Hey, you

699
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:16.639
know, you know I've I've I've
had I've done alcohol and I've drunk marijuana.

700
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:20.639
Okay, good, did you ever
do that? No, No,

701
00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:27.039
that's a magical substance there. So
Stingo and something's amiss, right, something's

702
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:31.159
not someone doesn't have to go ahead
to proceed. And suddenly Eric Bischoff,

703
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:36.960
who is supposed to be aligned with
Hogan, So I guess maybe he's coming

704
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:38.360
out to support Jeff. That's what
you would think, stomps out to the

705
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:42.639
ring, gives a wave of a
hand in the time out signal. As

706
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:45.760
Jeff starts taking off his shirt to
wrestle. My Bischeff takes the mic,

707
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:49.400
insists light chaine of plans here,
ladies and gentlemen. I'm like, okay,

708
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.320
what he said. See, we
had a little situation on March third

709
00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:57.000
with a network got involved in our
business. Wait the network, you haven't

710
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:05.880
met all with the primal forces of
nature. And he DAPs up Jeff.

711
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.320
And when he does that, you
can tell that he's whispering directions, that

712
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:14.480
he's communicating a change in plans to
these wrestlers. Well, you know,

713
00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:17.519
in the disguise of this promo that
I will say, neither Sting or Jeff

714
00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:21.960
Hardy knew was coming. Oh my
god. He taps up Jeff, gives

715
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:24.079
him the finish, Bishoff sucks chant
Jeff's in the corner chewing gum, trying

716
00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:28.360
to pop process what he was just
told. Bischoff wants Sting to know I'm

717
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:30.840
going to be fair to night.
He puts his hand out and when Sting

718
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.159
shakes it, he whispers the finished
to Sting as well. Um. Sting

719
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.639
mouths, you got to tell me
what to do first. I swear I

720
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:42.239
saw that Hardy's in motion with his
back to the corner. Bischoff says,

721
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:45.920
to make this the level playing field. What's what's un level about this playing

722
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:47.800
field? I got? I got, I got this whole promo because it

723
00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:52.320
was so fascinating to me. In
order to make this a level playing field,

724
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:59.199
here's what we're gonna do. Had
a chance to talk with mister Hogan

725
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:04.199
exact, get producer to level the
playfield. And since mister Hardy wasn't able

726
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:08.119
to prepare for you. On March
third, we got together with mister Hardy

727
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:13.119
let him know that we were gonna
change this match. Add a little stipulation.

728
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:17.559
We're gonna make it a no disqualification
match. Mister Hardy has been able

729
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:27.039
to prepare for That's why it is
okay. Then there, Yeah, Staying

730
00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:30.320
drops Bishof and he could tell the
announcers have no idea where they go at

731
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.719
this thing. Um, so yeah, that's mister Hardy's been able to prepare

732
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:37.119
for a no disqualification match. How
do you prepare? Just go in the

733
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:40.039
backyard and get people over the heapen
things or get beaten up to make sure

734
00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:44.800
you grow callouses on your back.
So he drops bish Off, He stomps,

735
00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:46.679
and Bishof hits the floor. The
bell sounds. Jeff turns his back

736
00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:50.960
to Staying with his shirt like he's
gonna throw it into the crowd, and

737
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.599
Jeff just goes into this drug induced
like thing with the shirt. It lasts

738
00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:00.440
like a minute. Oh, he
turns and looks at Staying teases throwing into

739
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:02.360
the crowd again. Stings standing there
with his hands on his hip and Jeff

740
00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:06.440
T's is throwing it to the crowd
again, and Stings starts circling him,

741
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:10.079
and Jeff keeps doing these fake T
shirt throws into the crowd. What is

742
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.239
he? I mean? My god? Finally Sting closes in and Jeff begs

743
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.920
off in the corner ducks his head
under the ropes. Hardy does the T

744
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.320
shirt thing again, Test says,
what the hell is Jeff Hardy doing here?

745
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:28.679
Finally just drops the shirt on the
canvas. They lock up, Sting

746
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:32.559
yanks him back, kicks the gut
right and Chop grabs him by the hair

747
00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.159
drags him in the middle of the
ring. Stings here is a disaster in

748
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:38.079
this match too, by the way, yeah, that's the last thing I

749
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:40.679
noticed, But okay, good,
I noticed. I noticed, by the

750
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:44.320
way, you know, one other
thing too before he get to the you

751
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.159
know, finish with this match.
It's such a fast one. I was

752
00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:52.079
actually kind of surprised that they let
Sting have a title. He's very not

753
00:58:52.360 --> 00:59:00.719
tan, yes exactly. Dixie apparently
doesn't care as much about that, so

754
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:01.480
well, Yeah, he drags him
in the middle of the ring, hits

755
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:05.880
the scorpion death drop in really sloppy
fashion. Jeff doesn't even really seem to

756
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.440
know what's coming, and he covers
him tight one, two, three,

757
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:13.840
and Jeff clearly tries to kick out. Yeah, which solves a great mystery

758
00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.239
to me, like, could these
wrestlers actually keep your shoulders down for three

759
00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:19.480
if you didn't want them to?
And at least in the case of Sting

760
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:22.840
and Jeff Hardy, yes, is
the answer, because Jeff apparently was not

761
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.239
expecting this to be the finish.
But it's very clear that the edict was

762
00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:29.840
even if Jeff does kick out slap
three, but Sting manages to keep the

763
00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:31.880
shoulders down, and yeah, it's
a minute, a minute and a half,

764
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:36.800
whatever it is, and Steing becomes
the champion. Sting obertains the title.

765
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:39.440
I should say he does the pin
the way you have to do it

766
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:43.760
for that, which is the locking
of the hands. You know, if

767
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:45.960
you're able to eat. Once you
put your chest on the guy and you

768
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:51.079
roll, you and you hook a
leg and you roll, you put your

769
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.679
hand, your other arm under the
shoulder and through the arm. It's hard

770
00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:58.360
to kick out. That's interesting hands. Yeah, so it's over. And

771
00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:00.440
I just got to ask you,
since you don't the backstory, what did

772
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:09.320
you make of this? I mean, I I had nothing. I mean,

773
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:13.679
I was just I was very shocked. I was actually, in a

774
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:17.719
weird way relieved because he thought I
was making you watch a thirty minute staying.

775
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:22.599
No, not even not even because
of that. It was mainly because

776
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:28.480
he was he was so fucked up. Yeah, and he wasn't fucked up

777
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:31.559
like Davy Boy, who I could, you know, kind of see as

778
01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:37.559
carriable, like he looked uncarriable,
right, And I was a little nervous

779
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:39.280
that that something really bad was going
to happen. So I was kind of

780
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:44.639
grateful that it ended as fast as
it did. It was shocking, but

781
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:46.280
I was glad that it ended as
fast as it did. Jeff on his

782
01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:50.760
ass looks incredulously off to the side
after the bell sounds, staying with his

783
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:53.639
hands in front of his face,
has handed the belt. He's kind of

784
01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:58.960
like frozen faced. Jeff gets in
Hebner's face, no selling whatsoever of the

785
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:01.760
scorpion death drop. Sting's arm is
raised. Jeff just stands in there and

786
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.920
does nothing with Sting right there in
the ring with him. They're just standing

787
01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:08.559
in the ring. Ye Instant leaves
his arms raised in the aisle way.

788
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:12.599
His eyes are wandering in the aisle
trying to deduce what to do and say.

789
01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:15.400
Someone says this is bullshit, and
he answers back, I agree,

790
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:20.920
does the stinger? Yeah? Yeah. Because it was so short and truncated,

791
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:22.920
the announcers are forced to recap essentially
the whole show. Oh, it

792
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:28.280
was such a nightmare. It was
such a fucking nightmare to go over the

793
01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.840
whole show again to fill time as
they fade out. And not only that,

794
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:34.679
but they you know, they have
all these replays that are going through

795
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:39.000
as well. So what happened here? Yes, what does it say about

796
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:43.800
the state of TNA under the Hogan
Bishop regime in March about twenty eleven.

797
01:01:44.159 --> 01:01:47.760
It says that things are under control, Things are great, and you know,

798
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.360
we just sound decisions are being made
exactly exactly, and that we know

799
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.559
what we're doing, we know where
we're going, and there's nothing to worry

800
01:01:55.599 --> 01:02:00.239
about. We know how to assign
consequences to talent that cost us from a

801
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:04.559
reputation standpoint, so it doesn't happen
again exactly, and we'll get into it.

802
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:07.760
Of course. Eric Bischoff, as
we mentioned as a February early February

803
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:10.559
twenty eleven, is executive producer.
At least Bischoff every entertainment is of TNA

804
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:14.559
impact, so he's got a widened
role. He's sort of in charge.

805
01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:20.239
Bruce Prichard is inching into more prominent
roles. He said that he actually knew

806
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.159
he was in for the job of
head writer and head of talent relations even

807
01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:27.920
before all the formalities even as early
as this point in time, so he's

808
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.599
sort of someone in charge backstage.
Vince Russo's head writer, still he's kind

809
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.880
of in charge. And Dixie Carter, of course is the president of the

810
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.519
company. She's there as well and
in charge. So it's time to do

811
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.920
what we do best here at TLF
and triangulate many lies to try to detect

812
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:45.639
the truth. What are the concentric
circles here along all these different accounts of

813
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.800
this infamous ninety and a history.
We're going to start with Bischoff on his

814
01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:52.880
podcast eighty three weeks talking about it
with Conrad Thompson, boss ad Eric Hardy.

815
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:59.079
One. Let's start at the beginning. When did you first see Jeff

816
01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:08.079
Hardy this day? About three minutes
before he walked out. Jeff's mo at

817
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:15.559
the time was to get get to
the lot Universal Studios, check in,

818
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:23.039
and go hide until he was absolutely
necessary and it was either interview time or

819
01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:27.320
match time. But he I don't
even to this day, I don't know

820
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.360
where he did. But he found
a little nook in a cranny somewhere where

821
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:35.599
he could I can tell you.
On this night, I think it's safe

822
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:39.199
to assume he was hiding wherever he
was hiding and doing whatever drugs he brought

823
01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:45.639
with him. Okay, so you
got that. Cat yep, didn't see

824
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:47.760
Jeff Hardy till three minutes after he
went out because he was hiding. I

825
01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:51.840
don't believe that, all right,
make a note of that. Next up,

826
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.239
we go to Bruce Pritchard on Something
to Wrestle, talking about the situation.

827
01:03:54.360 --> 01:04:00.480
Bruce on Hardy or we were you
know, we're at Orrel and it's

828
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:02.639
time for the match and we're looking
for Jeff. Where the hell's Jeff?

829
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:06.320
Where the hell's Jeff? So we
just playing where the hell's Jeff? Jeff?

830
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:16.360
And so I ran out the studio
and I see two guys carrying Jeff.

831
01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:23.840
I thought he was passed out they
have been, but he's over both

832
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:27.800
that are you know, his arms
over their heads and they're dragging him in.

833
01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:32.800
His feet are just dragging the ground
behind him and around. What happened?

834
01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:40.039
Found him in his locker room?
Oh god, like, see awake?

835
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:45.280
Is he what? Jeff? And
he was yeah, and just out

836
01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:51.719
of it? So like holy shit. So I ran back and Eric was

837
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:57.480
ais thing was arras man. I
do we can't send him? We can't

838
01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:01.559
We can't do this. I don't
even know that he can. He can't

839
01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:06.320
walk. They're carrying him right now. And so they get him through the

840
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:12.599
door and they're like throwing water in
his face and just trying to get him

841
01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:16.360
to drink something and all the stuff, and he's out of it. Russell

842
01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:23.760
was in was in the truck,
and I want to say, I think

843
01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:26.079
Dixie was in the truck too,
but I'm not trying to talk to him

844
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:30.280
and tell him what's going on.
We gotta make a call, right yeah,

845
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.280
And Eric's there and like Dixie doesn't
want to cancel the match. I

846
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:39.480
wanted to cancel the match. I
was like, we need to come up

847
01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:45.360
with something else, whether we send
Anderson out or something. And so then

848
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:48.159
Eric and I talked and I was
like, dude, I don't think he

849
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:54.159
should should send him out. And
then Jeff comes walking up and he's swaying

850
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:57.760
and he's like, well, you
know, and then they hit his music

851
01:05:58.199 --> 01:06:00.960
and he goes and I'm like,
oh, fuck man, this is gonna

852
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:05.280
be bad. Dude, and Eric
and I were talking and we talked to

853
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:13.639
Sting and Sting was livid, livid, and we're trying to figure out what

854
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:15.360
we're doing, trying to talk to
Dixie, trying to talk to Russo and

855
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:19.639
everybody on headsets and like their city. And I will say this kind of

856
01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:26.320
pissed me off, but at the
same time I also understand it. They

857
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:31.960
sat in the truck. Nobody came
to see it for themselves. Actually,

858
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.719
you know, looked in Jeff's eyes
and went, oh god, we've got

859
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:44.440
got an issue here. Um and
Dixie finally, you know, to her

860
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.079
credit and to Russo's credit, they
were like, you know, make the

861
01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:56.000
call, all right. So they
sit in the trailer. They don't come

862
01:06:56.039 --> 01:06:59.960
out. This is Achie keeps giving
Jeff chances, and everybody says, well

863
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:03.039
it to mother, Jeff Hardy and
all of that. So she sits in

864
01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:08.159
the truck scared out of her fucking
mind to make a decision. Russo is

865
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:13.360
not. And that's the state of
play. Just that visual of Jeff's feet

866
01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:16.159
dragging minutes before he has to go
out for the main event and pay per

867
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:27.039
view. What the fuck Eric Hardy
too? Please? Knowing and hearing that

868
01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:30.679
they were having a difficult time of
finding Jeff, I kind of made my

869
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:34.039
way over to Gorilla. When I
saw Jeff approaching, I didn't really notice

870
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:38.599
Jeff being twisted up as much as
I noticed the look on the agent's face.

871
01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:43.360
And that's kind of what brought me
in closer to Gorilla, just to

872
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:45.679
try to figure out what the fuck's
going on. So Pat makes the approach

873
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:47.559
and he said to you, what
the fuck are we gonna do? Or

874
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:49.880
you can just see it on his
face. No, by that time,

875
01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:54.119
once I got close to Jeff,
it was obviously was fucked up, and

876
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:58.480
I'm identifying Pat. I'm not sure
if it was Pat, but whoever the

877
01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:03.119
agent was essentially said he's fucked up, he's too fucked up to work.

878
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:09.119
And then it became okay, who's
calling this? Because it wasn't my job.

879
01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:12.599
You know, I was the executive
producer of the television show. I

880
01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:20.239
technically had whatsoever official role in the
paper view unless I was ship or unless

881
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:29.680
I was asked to, which was
not always. Just I'm kind of standing

882
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.600
there waiting for somebody to make a
decision. Who decisions are being made?

883
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:42.279
What a bit? Eric Hardy three. Yeah, there was no captain of

884
01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:45.760
the ship in Gorilla, okay,
and Dixie would have I think Dixie was

885
01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:53.720
close because she was she was there, and it was my exchange with Dixie.

886
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:58.640
That was the catalyst for me to
say, fuck it, everybody else

887
01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:01.159
is going to do anything, shits. The bell's gonna ring, and it

888
01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:04.680
can't go down like this. I
just didn't. And I don't want to

889
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:10.840
make this sound like I'm putting myself
over or I cared so much about Staying,

890
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:15.920
or it was the show. I
was concerned about the show. I

891
01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:19.199
didn't want Sting going out there and
trying to have a match with a guy

892
01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:26.479
who was completely fucking wasted. Number
one. I wasn't worried about Sting getting

893
01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:30.439
hurt because Sting was able to take
care of himself, but the match would

894
01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:33.239
have been the shits, and I
didn't want Sting to be in that position.

895
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:38.800
Sting didn't know that Jeff was gonna
He had no idea that Jeff was

896
01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:41.840
gonna show up fucked up? What
was he was? Where was Staying when

897
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:46.399
you see Jeff Hardy making the approach
with Pat Kenney backstage? So he was

898
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:50.479
gorilla? Is there a verbal communication
or do y'all just lock eyes and realize,

899
01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:55.520
oh this is bad? Blocked eyes
okay, And then I'm looking for

900
01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:59.159
a decision for somebody to come up
with an idea, what do we do?

901
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:01.880
Clocks ticking? We don't have a
lot of time. Folks can't call

902
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:08.039
the meeting, can't call Dallas.
Somebody's got to call the ball. Who's

903
01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:15.479
going to call it? Crickets?
Bucket? Yeah, crickets, fun,

904
01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:20.880
crickets? Fuck it? Eric Hardy
four, Well, I knew what I

905
01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:25.319
was gonna do. Well, there
were two things that were crossing my mind,

906
01:10:25.520 --> 01:10:30.119
okay, and it were happening simultaneously. My first instinct was because I

907
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:35.920
was a heel, right, I
thought I might and this is gonna sound

908
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:40.720
like tough guy shit. By the
way, my daughter could have knocked out

909
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:49.399
Jeff Hardy right at that point,
So this is bullshit. Could from ringside

910
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:53.000
to go in and punch Jeff in
the mouth and he would have dropped like

911
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:58.920
a rock, right, Okay.
So my first thought, because it seemed

912
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:02.840
like the easiest, most direct line
between A and B, is for me

913
01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:08.520
and my heel character to go out
and just knock him out, just drop

914
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:15.239
him and then have the referee called
the match and disqualification and whatever we could

915
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:18.000
come up with. What the fuck. By the time I walked through the

916
01:11:18.079 --> 01:11:23.720
curtain, by the time I got
halfway up down the aisle. I realized

917
01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:29.640
that wouldn't work because of the no
DQ thing, so I started improving a

918
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:34.479
story in laying out a promo that
I could, and what I was trying

919
01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:38.760
to do is by time to figure
out how to communicate to both Jeff,

920
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:45.520
the referee and Sting, because now
I got to rewrite the show while I'm

921
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:50.760
in the ring and the show's happening
and one of the people in the match

922
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:58.239
is completely disabled and not able to
continue. So I did what I did.

923
01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:02.359
I basically, you know, told
Jeff take his finish. We're gonna

924
01:12:02.359 --> 01:12:06.560
shorten us up. Take his fucking
finish. I went to Sting. Now

925
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.680
that's where I got I had to
get a little more creative because I was

926
01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:13.319
trying to talk to Sting at the
same time I was trying to cut a

927
01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:16.399
promo, yes, and trying to
hide it all and make it look like

928
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:20.199
it was part of the show,
right. But I basically told Sting,

929
01:12:20.439 --> 01:12:24.359
hit him with your finish, get
him the funk out of here, let's

930
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:27.960
go home. Sting was able,
I think, to communicate with the referee.

931
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:30.920
I didn't have to talk to the
referee, so that was it.

932
01:12:35.560 --> 01:12:42.520
Go ahead. I mean, he
caught himself in a big fucking lie.

933
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.239
What do you mean? And Matt, he announced the no DQ thing,

934
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:48.640
But no, there's no DQ thing
prevented him from knocking Jeff Hardy out.

935
01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:54.079
Why would he knock out Jeff Hardy? I mean, I get his point

936
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:57.479
is that like Jeff could fall over
like it, But why would Bishoff,

937
01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:01.840
representing Bischoff Hogan regime knock out Jeff
Hardy? And why would that? Makes

938
01:13:01.920 --> 01:13:05.439
no sense at all? Why would
he want to disqualify Jeff in favor of

939
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:09.800
sting right? And you had the
power to make it no DQ. You

940
01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:14.640
had the power to just not say
no DQ. That's you know, that's

941
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.039
a Bischoff, like, yeah,
trying to express that he's so mad at

942
01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:20.319
Jeff and then concocting a story to
where actually could have knocked you out,

943
01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.920
you know, And I understand he
did. He did issue the proviso that

944
01:13:24.960 --> 01:13:27.359
he's not trying to sound like a
tough guy that his daughter could have knocked

945
01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:30.880
out Jeff Hardy. But Okay,
didn't happen. Didn't go through your mind,

946
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.159
Eric, didn't happen now, right? Um, maybe it's going through

947
01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:39.479
your mind now exactly. That's a
big difference. So if you're taking careful

948
01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:42.199
notes, I want you to compare
the beats of that story with one last

949
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.319
piece of sound here from Bruce Pritchard
in his recollection On the night Bruce n

950
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:49.840
Hardy two was that was an embarrassing
night to be in the business. Horrible,

951
01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:55.880
just so unprofessional and horrible. The
thing was, we had all seen

952
01:13:56.039 --> 01:14:00.359
Jeff what throughout the day. Excuse
me, we saw him throughout the night.

953
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:04.520
The show started, he was just
Jeff Hardy bouncing around and Jeff I

954
01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:10.159
thought he was in hiding and whatever
he did, whatever it is, he

955
01:14:10.239 --> 01:14:15.760
took hit him right at that moment, and it was it was terrible.

956
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:19.399
That was a horrible black guy.
Yeah, it was pretty damn bad.

957
01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:29.119
Yeah, it was the I guess
the part about it that was so bizarre

958
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:34.960
was that everyone had seen Jeff,
everyone had spoken to Jeff just and interacted

959
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:45.239
with him, and there was no
sign of anything. And then he's just

960
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:48.720
not there. When it's time to
go out for the match, and you

961
01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:51.520
know, walk out and see those
guys dragging him. I'm like, oh

962
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:59.520
my god, it was two big
guys dragging him. The fact that he

963
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:01.680
walked too, I like, I
don't know what it was. It made

964
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:06.159
him catch a snap either whether you
know they're given him water, they're given

965
01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:11.000
him coke, they're throwing shit in
his face and he's like, yeah,

966
01:15:11.039 --> 01:15:18.560
okay, I'll be fine. The
quote was people we interacted with him all

967
01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.359
day long. I think it's what
Bruce Pritchard just said. Believe that's what

968
01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:25.199
he just said. Yes, but
what did Eric say? Didn't he's in

969
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:30.000
hiding. I see he's in obviously
almost like the version of the story i'd

970
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:35.199
come up with if I wanted to
excuse myself for not taking action earlier in

971
01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:41.279
the day. But you know,
to each his own, what a fucking

972
01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:47.359
shit show. Staying hard I've spoken
sparingly about it, but they did do

973
01:15:47.439 --> 01:15:53.239
one of those Jeff Hardy comes back
from the Brink of Self Destruction documentaries one

974
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:56.479
time where they got Staying to sit
to talk about it in Jeff Hardy to

975
01:15:56.560 --> 01:15:59.840
talk about it. So this is
sort of a a rough brush of what

976
01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:01.960
these two would say if you were
to ask them about this Victory Rode twenty

977
01:16:02.199 --> 01:16:11.960
eleven debacle. Here's Sting Hardy,
so I have it, should have it?

978
01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:15.960
Oh yeah, I do? All
that's right. Yeah, he was

979
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:25.279
in no condition to have a match, so pin him. Get it over

980
01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:30.359
with quick. I had to wrestle
Sting, one of my all time favorite

981
01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:33.520
wrestlers of all time, and I
couldn't even perform. I was all summing

982
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:36.640
up and he had to like pretty
much thumb me down to the mat.

983
01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:40.720
All right, now, look at
that wowing off the mats. Be in

984
01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:45.119
that drop. If you're going play, you got him? Great? Wow,

985
01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:48.000
God, I was just out of
my mind. I was like a

986
01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:54.960
damn zombie out there. I wasn't
even mad at him. I was disappointed.

987
01:16:55.079 --> 01:17:02.560
Yeah, I mean everybody was disappointed. I agree. I agree.

988
01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:11.279
I wasn't. Bruce Pritchard, Sting
was livid Sting. I wasn't even mad

989
01:17:11.319 --> 01:17:15.239
at him. Yeah right, right, Um, it was Solma's if you're

990
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:19.359
wondering, and that's what's mid nineties
shit. Jeff is really going hard if

991
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:24.039
he's on Soma's in two thousand and
eleven, not even at the show,

992
01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:26.800
No, on top of it,
right, that's probably where there's extra supply.

993
01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:31.279
That's probably there probably was a we
probably just opened up Nash's locker for

994
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:35.039
the first time. But you know, it's fine. He uh goes on

995
01:17:35.159 --> 01:17:39.640
to have a great career and walk
out during a tag team match in w

996
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:45.159
W and UH twenty twenty one,
and subsequent word that he was being urged

997
01:17:45.239 --> 01:17:49.560
to attend rehab and refuse. Now
I'm pretty sure he has denied that,

998
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:51.880
but that's, you know, very
much in the air. Anytime Jeff already

999
01:17:51.920 --> 01:17:56.680
makes an about departure, he goes
to a w UM which of course isn't

1000
01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:00.079
a problem, and get suspended without
pay after being arrested for driving under the

1001
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:04.119
influence and just came back to AW
a couple of weeks ago, so it

1002
01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:08.800
continues to be perfectly fine. I
just don't I don't understand why they get

1003
01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:14.159
this guy so many chances, Like
what do they what do they think?

1004
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:18.640
Do they think that if they keep
him here that he's gonna at least he's

1005
01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:26.680
under your umbrella and a good one, Because like, I don't understand it.

1006
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:30.199
I just don't think it doesn't end
the way I'm afraid it will.

1007
01:18:30.279 --> 01:18:33.880
But it's gonna end that way.
I mean, I'd want him as far

1008
01:18:33.920 --> 01:18:39.000
away from me as possible. So
Tena sends him home after this, not

1009
01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:42.359
much in the way of like communication
is to actual you know, discipline or

1010
01:18:42.359 --> 01:18:44.439
anything like that. He just sort
of disappears for a while. He's got

1011
01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:46.279
the court case coming up anyway,
right, so he's getting bombed. I

1012
01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:50.680
would get bombed on national television too
if I had a prison sentencing date coming

1013
01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:57.159
up for trafficking. What the fuck? So what a fucking lunatic um.

1014
01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:00.600
They TENA offers to any fan who
purchased the pay per view six months of

1015
01:19:00.600 --> 01:19:04.359
free access to their website than on
demand streaming library at the time as a

1016
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:09.239
mate good They posted this on their
website. TENA Wrestling strives to give fans

1017
01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:11.880
who purchase our pay per views as
close to a full three hour event as

1018
01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:15.600
possible. This Saturday's TENA victory wrote
fell short of that standard. Your support

1019
01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:17.920
of TNA has never taken for granted
to show. Now they talked about there.

1020
01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:20.760
They recapped the whole show for a
half hour half Yeah, they try

1021
01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:25.199
to get there. You know,
we got the whole We got three hours

1022
01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:29.600
worth of content. And this in
a way is historically relevant as regards TNA

1023
01:19:29.840 --> 01:19:32.880
because it's Jeff Hardy's sudden absence from
the scene due to this debacle that opens

1024
01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:38.119
the door for a heel spot.
And it's here that Bully Ray steps into

1025
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:42.920
the Foreground as one of the main
singles Heels and TNA really suddenly he was

1026
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:45.840
scheduled for a big push after feuding
with Divon, but it gets accelerated and

1027
01:19:46.239 --> 01:19:48.479
suddenly we're gonna have to grapple.
I think a lot more here in the

1028
01:19:48.520 --> 01:19:53.560
TNAH series. Boss with the reality
of Bully Ray. No, well,

1029
01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:56.760
I mean I've I've again never seen
it, but I've I've heard that it

1030
01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:00.199
was Okay. Yeah, I'm not
trying to I'm not trying to f cast

1031
01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:01.960
that it's going to be bad or
anything. I'm interested in getting your thoughts.

1032
01:20:02.039 --> 01:20:06.399
But he's going to be you know, he's already sort of insinuated himself

1033
01:20:06.439 --> 01:20:10.479
under the creative process backstage at TNA. We've seen, you know, glimpses

1034
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:13.920
of him at the meetings and stuff, and he definitely has won over Bischoff

1035
01:20:13.960 --> 01:20:17.079
and Hogan as somebody that's a good
idea guy and passionate about the business.

1036
01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:21.680
So it's about to exert that influence
and it would last. It doesn't hurt

1037
01:20:21.960 --> 01:20:28.279
you when you when you when you
basically make a handshake promising I will never

1038
01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:33.319
stand behind you. Yeah, yeah, that's the first lesson learned. I'm

1039
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:39.520
behind you, Terry, but not
in that way. I'm behind you,

1040
01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:42.960
but I will never stand behind you. Meanwhile, AJ's watching all this with

1041
01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:45.000
no role, you know what I
mean, hardly any anything to do,

1042
01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:50.279
and he's remembering the last one of
the last TENA pay per views before Hogan

1043
01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:55.079
and Bischoff took over, where Aj
pin Sting to win the world title in

1044
01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:58.000
the main event was hoisted on the
shoulders of the whole roster at a time

1045
01:20:58.319 --> 01:21:00.960
that they were doing pretty much the
same writing they're doing now in twenty Who

1046
01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:05.159
are you talking about? And he
said in an interview around this time,

1047
01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:09.079
I don't know the whole thing with
staying and I the torch was supposedly passed,

1048
01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:12.079
but here he is back again as
world champion. I don't know if

1049
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:14.640
there is a torch to be passed
anymore, because so many people change their

1050
01:21:14.720 --> 01:21:20.399
minds about whether they're staying or going
or retiring DNA. That's right, so

1051
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:25.119
we keep moving. The March thirty
first Impact had Hogan and Bischoff watching a

1052
01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:30.560
monitor, so that's great. They
had a cage match with Sting already and

1053
01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:36.560
Anderson versus Bubba Abyss and Jeff Hardy. This is only significant because It's some

1054
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:40.840
of the first physicality we see from
the Holster since returning from backfusion. He

1055
01:21:40.880 --> 01:21:43.640
definitely had been in the ring as
we mentioned and doing promos and stuff,

1056
01:21:44.039 --> 01:21:48.279
but here he throws some punches on
mister Anderson at ringside and rams him into

1057
01:21:48.279 --> 01:21:54.880
the fence and it's basically cracking whip
on mister Anderson with the back brace on,

1058
01:21:54.960 --> 01:21:58.800
and they're playing up the back brace
too for some reason. Anderson shoves

1059
01:21:58.920 --> 01:22:00.319
Arbready off the top in this case
match, and there's a bubba bomb from

1060
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:03.520
Bully Ray on RVD for the one
two three. Anderson then opens the door

1061
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:06.079
and gets the hell out of there
if they continue insulting RVD and staying,

1062
01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:10.640
at which point Fortune four make the
save. Flaire comes out locks the door.

1063
01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:13.439
They do the old school heat where
the cage is locked and the baby

1064
01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:16.840
Faces are getting killed, and that's
when Christopher Dale turns TNA jumps the cage.

1065
01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:19.279
My God, does a plunch off
the top of the cage on to

1066
01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:24.600
everybody and joins fort Now it's just
get out of here, right seriously.

1067
01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:28.239
Afterwards, on React with those reaction
style shots. Reaction has been canceled,

1068
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:30.520
but they're still doing those that style
of production and inserting it into the main

1069
01:22:30.600 --> 01:22:34.199
body of the show. Rick Flaire
goes, who is that piss aunt who

1070
01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:38.720
jumped off the cage at us?
Oh my god? And Bully Ray says

1071
01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:41.399
another pretty boy, and Flair goes, he weighs one hundred forty pounds.

1072
01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:45.960
What just happened? We're moving out
of the April twenty first Impact. This

1073
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:49.520
be Impact after Lockdown twenty eleven,
in which Hogan had fed a pipe through

1074
01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:53.199
the cage door to Rob Van Dam
but Vandam refused to use it through it

1075
01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:55.960
back at him. Doesn't want to
win. That the first time that RVD

1076
01:22:56.039 --> 01:23:02.000
ever refused to pipe, and it's
on twenty one no less all right,

1077
01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:06.239
we have it you and RVD refused
to use a pipe on four twenty Now

1078
01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:13.279
only Impact was on Monday Nights.
Oh Man a low interest to take the

1079
01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:15.159
pipe and crack RVD with it,
and then Sting hit a scorpion death drop

1080
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:20.520
and retain the champions and crack Lockdown
US in Cincinnati this year as they continue

1081
01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:23.520
to put you know, a couple
shows a year on the road and the

1082
01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:28.359
Triple threatnained events. Sting retains the
championship and then um, you know does

1083
01:23:29.119 --> 01:23:30.800
a gesture to Hogan like we're gonna
fight Hogan saying we're gonna do it on

1084
01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:34.920
my time, and and they're starting
the tease there to Hogan and Sting.

1085
01:23:35.600 --> 01:23:41.279
As early as April m on this
episode of Impact, Hogan comes out with

1086
01:23:41.319 --> 01:23:44.640
the pipe to his music and he
talks about how Hogan. They talk about

1087
01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:46.479
Hogan's not going to be in a
good mood with all that's happening, and

1088
01:23:46.640 --> 01:23:51.880
TNA um a lot of his immortal
folks are losing matches and RVD turned down

1089
01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:56.119
his his entry Dees. Of course, as they say this, Hogan has

1090
01:23:56.159 --> 01:24:00.680
all smiles on his way to the
ring. There's nothing quite like the the

1091
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.560
Schizophreni of Hogan TNA where he comes
out and just acts like baby Face Hogan

1092
01:24:04.600 --> 01:24:06.720
every time on the walk and then
it gets in the ring in as a

1093
01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:12.279
whole heal routine. Absolutely, he
has no idea who he is. Welcome

1094
01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.000
to the h two Araboss where he's
got the H on his bandanna and the

1095
01:24:15.039 --> 01:24:17.319
two like squares. Oh I'm not
a fan, really, I'm not a

1096
01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:23.800
fan. No, no, no, just knock it off. Takes some

1097
01:24:23.920 --> 01:24:26.439
mice. Is the man who made
pro wrestling, who runs the show around

1098
01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:28.800
here is standing right in front of
you. He goes face to face with

1099
01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:31.239
Van Damn and says, you're a
few fries short of a happy meal,

1100
01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:38.039
which disappoints Abyss. You had your
chance to become a mortal at lockdown.

1101
01:24:38.199 --> 01:24:44.720
What oh my God already had full
fries, Harved smiles. Hey, Huk,

1102
01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:48.840
remember back in the day before you
re such a heel, when fans

1103
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:51.800
all over and the boys gave you
mad love for being the men that carried

1104
01:24:51.840 --> 01:24:58.479
pro wrestling into all our lives.
And just every storyline is about how we

1105
01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:02.560
watched you as a kid. Remember
that, and remember oh man, and

1106
01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:05.880
you disappointed us. That's the story, like it all has to be about

1107
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:09.760
I was a hulkimaniac, or I
wanted to be a hulkimaniac, or I

1108
01:25:09.800 --> 01:25:15.640
hated Hulk Hogan. That's every minimum
storm Huac. But then you turn your

1109
01:25:15.680 --> 01:25:23.319
back on everyone for ratings or ratings
top das Hulks. So instead of going

1110
01:25:23.359 --> 01:25:26.000
down in the history for greatness,
everyone just kind of wishes you'd get the

1111
01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:29.119
hell out of the business. That
gets a pop needle to stay. This

1112
01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:33.319
is the end of the nag run
on top. So Hogan, you know,

1113
01:25:33.520 --> 01:25:38.960
brother, you're on borrowed time.
I heard about r v E Body

1114
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:43.159
Slam and Giants indoor dens. Right, God, he's got to go to

1115
01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:45.560
that fucking place. What the hell
have you done? R VD? Oh

1116
01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:49.880
dude, come on. Then Sting
comes out of this hang Hang Hang Broker

1117
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:54.159
with the now the original TEENA heavyweight
title, the Jeff Hardy Belt is now

1118
01:25:54.159 --> 01:26:00.359
officially gone by April, so we
don't see it anymore God and goes to

1119
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:02.199
Hogan. Did I think we say
RBD was a mid card wrestler. We're

1120
01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:05.880
really doing this, We're really Hogan
is calling RBD a mid carter Now,

1121
01:26:06.119 --> 01:26:11.720
okay, um, what's the problem. You know, when you kind of

1122
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:14.279
break that fourth wall, you gotta
kind of you know, you know,

1123
01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:16.680
shades of grade. Brother. Sting
says that's a little bit hard to digest

1124
01:26:17.039 --> 01:26:19.399
because he's going to be in the
main event with me at Sacrifice, So

1125
01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:24.520
yeah, there's that. They're fucking
they're having Hulk can call the main eventor

1126
01:26:24.560 --> 01:26:28.039
of their next pay per view of
mid carter on television. What's wrong?

1127
01:26:28.399 --> 01:26:31.680
Brother goes, wait a minute,
are you high? To Stinger smoking the

1128
01:26:31.760 --> 01:26:34.560
same crap he's been smoking, and
they all crack spiles. They think it's

1129
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:42.119
funny when Hogan says that be smoking
crack brou Because if you are, give

1130
01:26:42.199 --> 01:26:44.920
me some, He says, Hulk, I want to be delusional too.

1131
01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:47.479
I want to be like a fruitcake
out here. Jerry. I think he

1132
01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:50.520
said you still got planning in the
medicine cabinet from the laser spine days.

1133
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:55.960
I think I think I think there's
enough fruitcake and you're fucking what about them

1134
01:26:56.039 --> 01:26:59.760
Fetti's Hulk Sting says, no,
health. I'm not delusional because I went

1135
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:01.439
came back to TNA in March third. I came back here knowing that the

1136
01:27:01.560 --> 01:27:06.279
Spike Spike network. He says,
it put a clause in my contract.

1137
01:27:06.359 --> 01:27:11.600
It's about clauses, Santa clauses.
That's what DNA is, the Santa clause.

1138
01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:15.039
I could choose the opponent if I
won the title, and that's who

1139
01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:17.079
I'm choosing. RVD. That's what's
gonna happen. Hoaxes, you, you're

1140
01:27:17.119 --> 01:27:20.720
the network are all floating on a
cloud. And then he says, hide

1141
01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:27.159
the ball, ying Yang, yes, no high low here today, gone

1142
01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:30.680
tomorrow. I think someone needs to
hide the eight ball from this guy.

1143
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:35.239
I mean, what hide the ball. He says this over and over during

1144
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:41.079
this time period. You gotta add
that to the Hogan lexicons. Back on

1145
01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:45.279
track. Hide the ball, you
got hide the ball, dude, which

1146
01:27:45.359 --> 01:27:49.560
means, I guess you know,
operate in secret, behind the scenes to

1147
01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:58.239
mitigate the Ying Yang. Yes no, Yang ying Yang. Brother, Yes,

1148
01:27:58.399 --> 01:28:01.560
no, dude, that's where are
we going? Brother? What's that's

1149
01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:05.359
him revealing that when you say something
to him. What's creative, right,

1150
01:28:06.479 --> 01:28:10.359
that's him revealing him when you say
something to him, he immediately considers the

1151
01:28:10.399 --> 01:28:15.239
possibility that what you mean is the
absolute opposite of what you said. Sting

1152
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:19.960
says, Look, the exacts might
not. Oh no, come on,

1153
01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:26.239
since the network exacts, Hulks says, aren't here and you are the dream

1154
01:28:26.279 --> 01:28:29.319
match with RVD that's happened a hundred
times. Guess what. RVD has got

1155
01:28:29.359 --> 01:28:32.600
a big problem tonight. He's got
to face the man that flayed him like

1156
01:28:32.680 --> 01:28:45.119
chop sirloins Hey, no chopped Sirloine, Chop Sirloine. No more, hide

1157
01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:51.800
the ball, No more yin Yang
yes, no high you know, no

1158
01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:58.800
more. No more goats and sheep
too, you know, no more chasing

1159
01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:01.039
around the monkey. Brother. It's
too much. Man, he's just off

1160
01:29:01.079 --> 01:29:05.000
the fucking you know no no more, you know, no more ring around

1161
01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:12.479
the gutterball dude. H Later,
everybody gets nailed by a pipe by Abyss

1162
01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:15.840
and a black hole slam for the
one two three Jesus and Hogan gets him

1163
01:29:15.840 --> 01:29:21.560
with the pipe and rvd's held open
and Crimson. We see glimpses of this

1164
01:29:21.680 --> 01:29:26.560
guy, Crimson, who was a
Tommy mercer, a worker they brought in

1165
01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:29.359
gave a big push to. At
first, they cast him as amazing red

1166
01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:31.760
older brother. Yeah, a good
look in some size, couldn't kint a

1167
01:29:31.800 --> 01:29:34.119
promo, worth the ship, and
wasn't a great worker, but they over

1168
01:29:34.159 --> 01:29:36.800
pushed him in twenty eleven as part
of an attempt to make people, and

1169
01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:45.000
Crimson makes the Save and True Religion
genes and spears. Abyss great says he's

1170
01:29:45.039 --> 01:29:48.479
first in line to get um said. He says on this episode of Impact,

1171
01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:50.600
he's gonna be the first to get
in line to get Jeff Hardy back

1172
01:29:50.600 --> 01:29:55.319
in t NA because he's one of
the best of all time. So clearly

1173
01:29:55.399 --> 01:30:01.079
Jeff's coming back, oh man.
And he just starts, he starts sting,

1174
01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:06.039
starts letting out these these random laughs
that he never used to. It

1175
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:10.199
starts here, he starts going out
of nowhere, like what was that?

1176
01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:14.119
But he's not thinking the face yet. He's just starting to let these little

1177
01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:19.039
verbal ticks show. It's pretty pretty, pretty amazing, um. And he's

1178
01:30:19.079 --> 01:30:24.479
feuding with Anderson. Anderson lays out
sting and Hogan says that Innerson is sparted

1179
01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.279
than he looks, making it so
long in this damn business. Lockdown was

1180
01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:30.399
his last chance, though, to
become immortal. It's his demise. And

1181
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:33.079
he says, this whole network thing
is just coming at me like a double

1182
01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:38.159
fisted gangaroo. Brother. Hey,
I understand, dude, I totally get

1183
01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:44.319
it. I'm so tired of the
network playing hide the ball. I'm You've

1184
01:30:44.359 --> 01:30:47.319
got to explain to us if you're
gonna say it four times at per impact

1185
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:51.439
on means. I'm telling you,
brother, I'm so sick and tired of

1186
01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:56.439
the network playing hide the ball all
the time, dude, And what the

1187
01:30:56.560 --> 01:30:59.760
fuck problem? Yeah, that's what
I'm saying. I'm hide the ball,

1188
01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:02.239
he says. Dixie's in some rest
home in Nashville, waiting every Sunday night

1189
01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:05.239
for the grand old Opera to come
her way. And here I am dealing

1190
01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:09.720
here, I am trying to fucking
find the ball. He says. The

1191
01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:12.279
network has to show their face.
When they grow as set, they're going

1192
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:16.159
to realize how bad they screwed up. Intrigue impact may fifth Hogan and company.

1193
01:31:16.159 --> 01:31:19.760
In the ring, you got all
of Immortal Bully Ray, Rob Terry

1194
01:31:20.159 --> 01:31:24.640
Gunner, Murphy Abyss, Matt Hardy. I mean, where do I sign

1195
01:31:24.760 --> 01:31:28.720
up? Why do they have all
these fucking I mean, it's the NW

1196
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:31.079
all over again. It's it's fucking
totally NW Hollywood. The B Team's the

1197
01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:35.800
fucking B Team all over again,
Absolutely the same thing. So there's a

1198
01:31:35.800 --> 01:31:41.479
continue the Sting RVD feud stings as
you can hide behind these clowns all you

1199
01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:45.039
want, but no more idle threats. If there's a network rep that's going

1200
01:31:45.119 --> 01:31:45.760
to come here in my show and
try to tell me what to do,

1201
01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:48.840
I want to know about it,
he says. Bully Ray sucking a lollipop

1202
01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:53.239
the whole time. I don't know
what that's about to help with you in

1203
01:31:53.319 --> 01:31:56.079
your head games staying, Hogan says, I'm not going down that road anymore.

1204
01:31:56.119 --> 01:32:00.800
Oh really, no more head games. We'll see about that, get

1205
01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:03.039
ready, He screams at Sting.
If you know something I don't know about

1206
01:32:03.079 --> 01:32:10.039
this rep. You better tell me. Oh, Rep Sting says, Hey,

1207
01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:13.079
Hulk, I know quite a bit, but I don't have to speak

1208
01:32:13.079 --> 01:32:15.239
for the network because next week a
rep from the network is going to talk

1209
01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:18.199
face to face. And then he
knows she he says, he says,

1210
01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:21.800
she will deal with you. Then
Hulk it ends up being mcfoley, So

1211
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:25.960
I don't know what the fuck that
she was about. And then Hulk gets

1212
01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:30.880
paranoid, drops the microphone and what
And then Hu gets so paranoid he levels

1213
01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:35.000
Delo Brown with the right hand.
Wow, I mean that's about time.

1214
01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:40.680
Little bumps hard and then they all
jump on the agents. And by the

1215
01:32:40.720 --> 01:32:43.279
way, Hulk has found a pair
of red and yellow sneakers, so he's

1216
01:32:43.319 --> 01:32:47.760
gonna be work knows for a while
in TNA, and uh yeah, here

1217
01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:51.439
comes up Fortune, who I like
to call the button up Brigade. Back

1218
01:32:51.479 --> 01:32:57.760
in twenty eleven, they clear the
ring and Rude gets another star. Turn

1219
01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:00.760
Hey Hoe, he screams at Bobby
Rude, does it Cogan? Hey Hogan,

1220
01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:02.760
you coward who does the slow turnaround? Turn around to listen to me,

1221
01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:04.399
you son of a bitch. Ooh, he's trying to get over.

1222
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:08.960
Oh, Bobby Root says, I've
listened to you talk over the last six

1223
01:33:09.039 --> 01:33:12.399
months and I've had it, and
it's time for you to start listening to

1224
01:33:12.479 --> 01:33:14.439
somebody else. And that's going to
be me, and that's going to be

1225
01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:17.359
right now. And don't worry,
holk, I'm not going um to sit

1226
01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:20.560
here and talk about how me and
my buddies here built this company from scratch.

1227
01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:24.520
This company once again, take a
take a shot. I mean,

1228
01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:29.000
these are these are important things.
You know, you gotta we gotta you

1229
01:33:29.039 --> 01:33:30.680
know you gotta you gotta worry about
the company or how you have a Bischof

1230
01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:33.720
and Ric Flair cashed in our blood, sweat and tears over the last eighteen

1231
01:33:33.720 --> 01:33:36.479
months. When I'm gonna talked about
from my heart is I thought I knew

1232
01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:41.760
you. What I thought I knew
here was a guy who was a child,

1233
01:33:41.920 --> 01:33:44.279
who is a child, taught say
my prayers, eat my vitamins,

1234
01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:48.880
the who has inspired me. What's
going on to become a child to become

1235
01:33:48.880 --> 01:33:53.279
a professional wrestler. Hogan screens,
you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for

1236
01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:59.279
me, you clown. But they're
totally too, totally different people, clown,

1237
01:33:59.760 --> 01:34:01.239
We're two totally different people, I
guess, he says, Oh my

1238
01:34:01.439 --> 01:34:05.039
god, the one you do not, and it's a little who has with

1239
01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:09.000
something you do not, and it's
a little thing called pride, Hulk Hogan,

1240
01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:11.680
what you see. I'm proud of
the fact that each and every week

1241
01:34:11.720 --> 01:34:14.000
I lace up the boots, getting
into this ring and bust my ass.

1242
01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.399
Okay please, And I do not
do it just for me and not for

1243
01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:19.920
these fans, but every human being
that is associated with this great wrestling company

1244
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:23.359
company. What do you mean,
fans, brother, I'm proud of the

1245
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:25.800
fact that I earned my dollars around
here and at the end of the day,

1246
01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:28.640
when I fly home and I'm able
to put food in my kid's mouths

1247
01:34:28.680 --> 01:34:30.520
and clothes on their back, that
is the most gratifying feeling a man can

1248
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:32.920
have. Yeah, because everybody on
the tena roster can do that. He's

1249
01:34:32.960 --> 01:34:35.920
got a good point. If they're
getting paid, they're still tweeting about we

1250
01:34:36.039 --> 01:34:40.720
won, we won, we qualified
for food stamps. Isn't this amazing that

1251
01:34:40.840 --> 01:34:45.960
happened? By the way, Jesse
neil Um, it's called blue collar work,

1252
01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:47.760
he said. He says, I'm
a blue collar worker, brother.

1253
01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:53.000
What who do you say you're a
worker? Is that what you saying?

1254
01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:56.279
What do you work? What do
you mean blue Who are you a blue

1255
01:34:56.319 --> 01:35:03.560
collar and elbow worker? Brother did
when you say when you do? When

1256
01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:08.560
you say when you do? When
you get? He doesn't say what you

1257
01:35:08.640 --> 01:35:10.560
do? He just say what you
say? He just was. He never

1258
01:35:10.640 --> 01:35:15.399
finishes the thought. Brother's his half
of America or blue collar workers. He's

1259
01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:16.960
Canadian. He's Canadian, by the
way, and they are proud of the

1260
01:35:17.039 --> 01:35:20.800
fact that they earned their key.
Who's working? But what the hell have

1261
01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:25.520
you earned, Hulk Hogan? He
says, Hogan takes the shades off.

1262
01:35:25.840 --> 01:35:28.159
I don't know who the hell you
think you are. Rude gets up on

1263
01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:30.079
the ropes. Let me tell you
what you've learned. You haven't earn a

1264
01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:32.199
damn thing. The only thing you've
done last eighteen months is rape and steal

1265
01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:36.119
from my wrestling company. Oh it's
his company, now, okay, it's

1266
01:35:36.159 --> 01:35:40.279
gonna be somebody's rape and steal from
these fans. You ruin people's lives,

1267
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:44.680
Hulk. You took this wrestling company
right out from under the feet of Dixie

1268
01:35:44.760 --> 01:35:49.600
Carter, and you didn't blink an
eye. Who you crush people's dreams?

1269
01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:54.439
He told them, and then they
actually called this out on their own air

1270
01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:57.039
waves. Last week, a close
personal friend of mine was fired by you,

1271
01:35:57.199 --> 01:36:00.960
Jay Lethal. They say that on
the air. Wow a man,

1272
01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:02.520
a warrior that would come to work
each and every week and be proud of

1273
01:36:02.560 --> 01:36:04.920
the fact that he wrestled in this
company. I don't know. You need

1274
01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:09.000
to listen. My friend j Lethal
comes to work every week and he was

1275
01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:13.359
told what he did. He did
what you're supposed to do, and did

1276
01:36:13.399 --> 01:36:15.239
it with a smile on his face. Whether it sucked, whether it was

1277
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:19.800
great, what sucks, brother,
or difference? So I guess he's he's

1278
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:23.079
telling us all is mister Rude here, that it's all a work that you

1279
01:36:23.199 --> 01:36:26.079
come to the you come to the
wrestling show and you get told what to

1280
01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:30.520
do, and then you do it. Goes. Guess what you're next?

1281
01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:34.000
Oh god, Rude goes. The
games are over over. Hulks. Let

1282
01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:38.359
me properly introduce myself to you.
My name is Bobby Rude. Hulks like,

1283
01:36:38.439 --> 01:36:42.720
brother, what what are you,
Rud? What are you? Rick?

1284
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:51.920
Rude? Are you? Are you? What do you hold on?

1285
01:36:53.039 --> 01:36:55.279
Dude? Let's dole of it back
in, brother, what are you?

1286
01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:58.920
What are you? Saying, dude, who are you? Brother? Bobby

1287
01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:02.720
rude? What? How do you
spell rude? Are? What do you

1288
01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:06.800
o? D hold on, here's
my question, brother, why are you

1289
01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:18.479
rude? Who's being rude? Who's
being screwed? What? I watch you?

1290
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:26.079
I didn't know why you brought that
up? Brother? I love I

1291
01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:33.800
love this one. Ready? Why'd
you? Why'd you? And then he

1292
01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:36.720
goes and I'm the man who's gonna
stand up to you, you selfish son

1293
01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:41.479
of a bitch. What I'm gonna
be the man to stand up to you

1294
01:37:41.479 --> 01:37:44.279
because next week things are going to
change again. Things are gonna change.

1295
01:37:44.319 --> 01:37:46.800
Everything's gonna change every three months in
DNA. Oh, enough is enough,

1296
01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:53.039
It's time for a change. Broking
four and we get a nice shot of

1297
01:37:53.119 --> 01:37:57.039
Hogan with the chit with the tattoo
of cursive on the blade of his forearm,

1298
01:37:57.199 --> 01:38:00.399
furthering my theory that you have to
save a person before or they get

1299
01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:02.359
a tattoo on the blade of their
hand or the blade of their forearm.

1300
01:38:03.039 --> 01:38:06.600
Yes, it's too late once they
go down that road. Um, So

1301
01:38:06.800 --> 01:38:12.239
that's that. And of course the
next guy to be ascended to single start

1302
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:15.039
him has to have something to do
with Hulkogan and it's Bobby Roodstern Boss.

1303
01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:18.279
He's going to go through the Hulkogan
wax treatment before he comes out of the

1304
01:38:18.640 --> 01:38:21.199
car. Horse. I don't see
the problem. We'll see about that.

1305
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:24.880
So Hogan a bish Offer in the
back. I've been way too laid back

1306
01:38:24.960 --> 01:38:29.479
and it felt great to hit De
Lo hoaks as And if I have to

1307
01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:30.840
take out everybody in this roster,
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm sick

1308
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:38.640
of this crap with the network crap. So they're wondering who could it be?

1309
01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:40.640
They say it could it be Flair? For some reason, they are

1310
01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:45.840
pictures of Rick Flair all over Hulkogan's
office and it's driving him nex. Him

1311
01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:47.319
and Bischoffer debating who the network could
be and Holk just as you know,

1312
01:38:47.439 --> 01:38:50.159
that's not how Rick Blaze. He's
the dirtiest player in the game. This

1313
01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:54.880
is a little too subtle for that. Let's think it through, he says

1314
01:38:54.920 --> 01:38:59.880
to bish Off. Let's go down
this Huldy figure this out. Brother.

1315
01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:02.159
Let's kind of go back to you
know, to day one, dude.

1316
01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:05.840
Let's kind of let's go you know, let's let's go back over our tracks,

1317
01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:09.600
dude. You know, let's let's
kind of find that a ball.

1318
01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:12.680
Brother, Let's kind of find the
ball, dude. You know what I'm

1319
01:39:12.720 --> 01:39:15.199
saying, Brother, We got to
kind of go back, you know,

1320
01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:19.560
kind of stop playing these games of
of of of turtle and mouse. All

1321
01:39:19.640 --> 01:39:24.600
right, dude, kind of bring
it back, dude. You'll stop climbing

1322
01:39:24.640 --> 01:39:29.079
the tree. You know, enough
of the ying and the yang, brother,

1323
01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:32.479
No more hiding the ball, dude. All right, this is about

1324
01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:35.880
you and me, brother, and
we're talking about you know, we're talking

1325
01:39:35.920 --> 01:39:41.239
about the carnivore versus the herbivore.
Yes, you know what I'm saying,

1326
01:39:41.319 --> 01:39:44.079
dude, that's what we got to
figure out. Brother. Where are we?

1327
01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:48.840
Who are we? What the fuck
is going on? They speculate,

1328
01:39:48.880 --> 01:39:51.439
how about a referee? Maybe he's
the network? And then Bishop says,

1329
01:39:51.439 --> 01:39:58.439
what about Jack Welch, the fucking
CEO of General Electric? What about Donald

1330
01:39:58.479 --> 01:40:00.399
Trump? He says, there's a
a lot of people out there that know

1331
01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:04.720
a lot about the wrestling business more
than the network. And they're going back

1332
01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:09.239
and forth, but I don't know
about the wrestling business. Brother. The

1333
01:40:09.359 --> 01:40:13.359
closing scene of this episode of Impact, Hogan and Bischoff are going back to

1334
01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:17.520
the dodge charger to leave the impact
zone lot and someone spray painted your next

1335
01:40:17.600 --> 01:40:23.039
on the car. Oh no,
and they go get the hell out of

1336
01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:26.720
here. He's dead and gone.
Next week can't come soon enough? Brother,

1337
01:40:26.840 --> 01:40:30.359
What the hell Goldberg does mean?
Goldberg's coming? They say it,

1338
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:34.159
They say it, they say it, and they speed away with the car

1339
01:40:34.239 --> 01:40:38.319
spray painted. And then we find
out that it's these young punks, the

1340
01:40:38.399 --> 01:40:42.720
Young Bucks and Amazing Red and Brian
Kendrick. They tagged the card or laughing

1341
01:40:42.760 --> 01:40:45.960
at Hogan thinking that it's going to
be Goldberg. You imagine you imagine that

1342
01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:50.119
being the end of your impact.
You teachase Goldberg, and then you immediately

1343
01:40:51.079 --> 01:40:58.239
tell people that it's these teenager X
Division guys that tagged Hogan's car. Yeah,

1344
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:01.880
good problem. You know it's not
a problem. The May twelfth,

1345
01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:06.159
eleven Impact is called The Network's Revenge. Yeah. I saw that one.

1346
01:41:09.359 --> 01:41:11.640
Do you have any sound on this? I don't know. I don't have

1347
01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:14.960
any sound on that, but I
saw the title Hogan's with a pipe?

1348
01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.279
What are you doing, man?
I'm waiting for the Network rep can attack

1349
01:41:18.359 --> 01:41:21.439
him with a pipe. Bischoff says, come on, man, there's gotta

1350
01:41:21.439 --> 01:41:25.760
be a better place to do this
going back and forth this ye, you're

1351
01:41:25.840 --> 01:41:28.159
kidding me, over and over.
That's a big one. Flair says that

1352
01:41:28.239 --> 01:41:30.560
Hogan says that bischof, are you
kidding me? That's their go to phrase,

1353
01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:33.600
and they don't know what to say. Flair's power walking. They confront

1354
01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:35.800
him as to whether he's the network. He's just up in arms. Are

1355
01:41:35.840 --> 01:41:40.720
you kidding me? Eric is in
a v neck like never before, and

1356
01:41:40.760 --> 01:41:45.159
then Hogan immediately apologizes for he's so
paranoid. He goes, you disappeared for

1357
01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:48.720
the last two damn weeks, where
Flair, I'm what, what the hell

1358
01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:51.319
have you been? What are you
doing? Dude? He says, I

1359
01:41:51.399 --> 01:41:56.439
knew it was you, man.
I called Delessandro's office and you canceled your

1360
01:41:56.520 --> 01:42:02.439
damn appointment. Hogan is what the
fuck? Hogan's telephoning around to see if

1361
01:42:02.520 --> 01:42:06.119
Rick Flair is making his appointments to
build the case that he's the network,

1362
01:42:06.359 --> 01:42:10.560
and he gives up on this theory
within twenty five seconds of the same segment,

1363
01:42:10.600 --> 01:42:14.000
and I've phone calls, dude,
I don't know where you've been,

1364
01:42:14.359 --> 01:42:15.720
I don't know who you've been with. Brother. What the fuck is going

1365
01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:20.800
on? Dude? Who wait?
A minute. Why Then he apologizes.

1366
01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:24.239
He says, this is the biggest
damn thing we've come up against yet.

1367
01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:27.520
I'm telling you it's had us rattled
twenty four seven. We have to find

1368
01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:31.680
out who it is. Brother,
Hogan says, the games are over?

1369
01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:34.159
How many times are the game is
going to be over? Oh, the

1370
01:42:34.279 --> 01:42:39.119
games are never over. I run
this place. You've got to be around

1371
01:42:39.159 --> 01:42:42.520
here somewhere. And they just keep
teasing. The network representative is going to

1372
01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:47.239
show his face, and they talk
and they talk and they talk, and

1373
01:42:47.399 --> 01:42:49.680
Hogan says, the games are over. I want to know who the network

1374
01:42:49.760 --> 01:42:54.079
representative is. I run this damn
company and I want them right now.

1375
01:42:54.159 --> 01:43:00.600
In my ring Pantom Padham pound potum
patam pound click, click, bang bang,

1376
01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:06.359
both hands on the wheel and something
high way. Mcfol's back and Hogan's

1377
01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:10.079
mouth is wide open, and Mick
is in a blazer that he got from

1378
01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:14.439
like a thrift store, and he
says, you never thought you were the

1379
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:16.239
smartest in the history of the business, And maybe you were. Things are

1380
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:19.000
going your way. But March third, things started to unravel, didn't they.

1381
01:43:19.079 --> 01:43:23.800
Hulk Immortal came together, Hardy was
the champion, and then someone known

1382
01:43:23.880 --> 01:43:26.840
as the network got on the way, introduced sting, and your plans started

1383
01:43:26.840 --> 01:43:30.000
to unravel, didn't they. Somehow, they're there to check the mat every

1384
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:33.600
step of the way. Check Matt
Woll, checkmate you. I'm sorry,

1385
01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:36.840
someone has been there to checkmate you
every step of the way, Hulk,

1386
01:43:36.920 --> 01:43:43.119
to make sure your grasp on TNA
was not concrete. That someone is me

1387
01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:46.960
and they don't pop Why, Yeah, nobody cares, no one that's not

1388
01:43:47.119 --> 01:43:53.680
interesting. Pie faces down there Aschoff
says, I'll know you'll drop me help,

1389
01:43:53.760 --> 01:43:59.000
but I might get get up and
if I do, you and your

1390
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:02.880
network here, you'll never You'll you
and your crew will never work here again.

1391
01:44:03.560 --> 01:44:10.079
Fully says, I'm a network executive. This is so dumb. I

1392
01:44:10.119 --> 01:44:14.159
mean, it's so so dumb.
And he's this show is about wrestling,

1393
01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:17.159
and so Mick is going to be
the steward of the wrestling matters thing.

1394
01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:20.520
Hogan puts the shades up as soon
as he says this show is about wrestling?

1395
01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:26.079
Do you wrestling matters? Once again, Fully says to Hogan, it

1396
01:44:26.199 --> 01:44:28.840
mattered when I was a kid in
Madison Square Garden and saw you in the

1397
01:44:28.920 --> 01:44:31.720
world title. It mattered when I
saw you and Ricky Steamboat put in forty

1398
01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:35.239
eight minutes in East Rutherford. He's
pointing it Rick Flair when he says that

1399
01:44:35.399 --> 01:44:42.039
not old COVID, I didn't What
are you saying what? And sometimes fully

1400
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:44.880
says, we forget the fact that
wrestling matters. So I'm saying it now.

1401
01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:47.359
From now on, this show is
about wrestling, and this show is

1402
01:44:47.439 --> 01:44:56.479
no longer TNA wrestling. What it's
what Impact wrestling. Oh No, you

1403
01:44:56.600 --> 01:44:59.000
can't do that, and fully says, I just did. And every time

1404
01:44:59.000 --> 01:45:02.680
you hear the name impact at every
time you hear the word chanted, they

1405
01:45:02.680 --> 01:45:06.319
don't chant impact wrestling. They're not
ready to do that yet. You'll think

1406
01:45:06.359 --> 01:45:11.439
about this day and remember, this
was the day when you stopped making a

1407
01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:14.600
difference, Oh, Mick. As
it regards the Holtster, that was long

1408
01:45:14.680 --> 01:45:16.560
ago. Yeah, what was the
last day made a difference? January four,

1409
01:45:16.680 --> 01:45:20.239
twenty ten. I think if my
math is I don't I guess.

1410
01:45:20.399 --> 01:45:23.039
I mean, if you want to
give him that much credit, sure,

1411
01:45:23.119 --> 01:45:25.479
And to show you that wrestling matters, Mick says, and show all of

1412
01:45:25.520 --> 01:45:28.479
you what impact is all about.
Tonight he books a new main event of

1413
01:45:28.520 --> 01:45:31.840
twenty five man Battle Royal to get
the politics out of it. The winner

1414
01:45:31.880 --> 01:45:35.399
gets the world title shot number one
contender. That's that and that's wrestling.

1415
01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:40.520
Oh and because you're gonna be wrestling
on Sunday night, Jeff Jarrett, who's

1416
01:45:40.520 --> 01:45:43.279
in the ring as well, I'm
gonna tell you, I call the shots

1417
01:45:43.600 --> 01:45:46.560
and you gotta it's gonna be you
and Karen in a tag match against Kurt

1418
01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:53.560
Angle and a mystery partner at Sacrifice. You know who Kurt's mystery partner was?

1419
01:45:54.680 --> 01:46:00.920
China? No, are you serious? They bring in China? Why?

1420
01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:19.920
Why? That's awful? Why would
they do that? Ah? A

1421
01:46:20.039 --> 01:46:29.279
bunch of fucking morons. Um.
There was some woman that was in the

1422
01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:32.199
developmental program that they had, or
that was in development, I should say.

1423
01:46:32.560 --> 01:46:35.439
She was like seven foot tall and
she was a big bodybuilder. She

1424
01:46:35.600 --> 01:46:40.840
was of freakish proportions and they wanted
to push her, but she wasn't ready.

1425
01:46:41.600 --> 01:46:46.079
So they called Joni Lauer uh to
do this tag match and it is

1426
01:46:46.119 --> 01:46:49.920
all right. She lasted one show. She said zero words on the microphone.

1427
01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:54.640
She did like two spots in the
match and then disappeared again. Did

1428
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:56.840
she get a pop at all?
Like when she came she did? Yeah,

1429
01:46:57.199 --> 01:47:00.800
that's one thing TEENA was always reliable
for if you were with WWE your

1430
01:47:00.840 --> 01:47:03.439
first night, you're going to get
a huge pop. And then they stopped

1431
01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:09.359
caring about you immediately. It was
like the damnedest thing. Probably Folly coming

1432
01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:11.239
in had a lot to do with
it. He was very close with her.

1433
01:47:11.319 --> 01:47:15.279
And there's even a scene in this
Impact where their backstage and Mick even

1434
01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:17.079
makes a joke. There's always been
vague sexual tension between the two of us.

1435
01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:23.239
So when Mick skips TNA immediately after
this, so does China. I

1436
01:47:23.279 --> 01:47:28.199
don't think those two things are coincidental. Now that wrestling matters, mister Anderson

1437
01:47:28.239 --> 01:47:30.680
says later, I've been saying it
all along. Pro wrestling is real.

1438
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:35.399
People are fake. Excuse me what? And the Battle Royal, Anderson steps

1439
01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:39.960
up and does the Chris Benois Royal
Rumble two thousand and four guillotine to muscle

1440
01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:42.720
out Bully Ray and win the Battle
Royal, and he's now the number one

1441
01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:47.600
contender and sacrifices the first Blue Rope
to pay per view. Oh Man,

1442
01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:54.439
But again, as we talked about, they're in a tough spot because mcfole

1443
01:47:54.600 --> 01:48:00.159
leaves TNA after doing this promo and
they're stuck with this new set, in

1444
01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:03.319
this new marketing campaign, in this
new slogan that's supposed to be antagonistic towards

1445
01:48:03.359 --> 01:48:06.640
Hoult Coogan and Eric Bischoff. This
idea of wrestling matters is supposed to be

1446
01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:12.079
an attack on their vision. But
Folly's gone. So they like we played

1447
01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.119
last time. They have Bischoff come
out and say, well, Hogan talks

1448
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:18.479
some sense into the network and they
took Hogan's side over mcfoley, And if

1449
01:48:18.520 --> 01:48:21.600
the network wants to create a new
look, field, design and slogan for

1450
01:48:21.640 --> 01:48:26.159
TNA, we're a one hundred percent
behind it. I mean, this happens

1451
01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:30.199
in like two weeks. It's the
It's like these guys, it's like,

1452
01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:32.920
you guys have to lock up people
before you build a whole fucking you know,

1453
01:48:33.039 --> 01:48:36.119
story arc around them. What the
fuck is wrong? Seriously, that's

1454
01:48:36.319 --> 01:48:40.960
that's atrocious. During all this,
there's no attention on the X division whatsoever.

1455
01:48:41.439 --> 01:48:43.800
But they still have the Destination Next
pay per view on the calendar as

1456
01:48:43.840 --> 01:48:46.760
they do every year. And here's
a little sound of how they were promoting

1457
01:48:46.800 --> 01:48:51.680
it this year in twenty eleven,
Boss hit Destination X please right, But

1458
01:48:51.880 --> 01:48:57.800
them have showed in competition in every
corner of the globe, both as friends

1459
01:48:57.840 --> 01:49:00.560
and foes over the years. Now, the question is how well do they

1460
01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:06.840
know each other? What is their
mindset going into this matchup? Who was

1461
01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:12.640
able to get the edge and this
incredible evening? Well they don't each other

1462
01:49:12.840 --> 01:49:16.760
so well? Did you pick up
that chant I did? That's daring the

1463
01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:28.680
destination next show? That's really uh
pathetic wrestling. Yayoo. I hope that

1464
01:49:28.800 --> 01:49:31.439
was like somebody in there, Like
I got like a fucking you know,

1465
01:49:32.119 --> 01:49:39.520
like a a crowd member or something, you know, like or like somebody

1466
01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:43.159
it was, you know, one
of their um like like like borash fucking

1467
01:49:43.760 --> 01:49:45.439
having them do that, oh like
putting them up to it. Yeah,

1468
01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:56.880
they brought the six setted ring back
for this show. It's unacceptable push for

1469
01:49:57.000 --> 01:49:59.960
Daniels to interview live audio wrestling around
this point in time. Sauce I was

1470
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:01.000
walking in and out of the back
as some of the shows going on,

1471
01:50:01.079 --> 01:50:03.600
and to hear the reaction from the
people that were in the building. If

1472
01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:06.239
that is indicative of what happened outside
the building, if that's indicative of the

1473
01:50:06.279 --> 01:50:10.039
pay per view buys of the fans
that watched, then I feel like their

1474
01:50:10.119 --> 01:50:12.840
voices have to be heard. You
know, the people were very energized tonight.

1475
01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:15.520
They were energized for everybody. They
were energized for the action. That's

1476
01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:18.520
what I think brought the buzz to
TNA in the first place, having that

1477
01:50:18.640 --> 01:50:21.359
difference from everything else that was going
on. You know, hopefully people look

1478
01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:25.840
at the results tonight and they go, you know what, this is the

1479
01:50:25.920 --> 01:50:28.720
direction that we should follow. This
is the direction that we should put some

1480
01:50:28.800 --> 01:50:35.000
effort into. Okay, Destination Next
actually does better than Slam Aversary by five

1481
01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:39.199
hundred buys, coming in at eight
thousand yep, is it really? And

1482
01:50:39.239 --> 01:50:43.319
it does better than a Hardcore Justice
as well with sting verst carin Angle in

1483
01:50:43.319 --> 01:50:47.520
the main event. So people actually
do when you tease them, with the

1484
01:50:47.640 --> 01:50:50.359
X division being the heart of the
product, respond but we have to pretend

1485
01:50:50.399 --> 01:50:55.319
we don't see it. And that's
TNA. As for the young Bucks,

1486
01:50:55.359 --> 01:50:58.279
they're out, as they're write in
their book. The next time we came

1487
01:50:58.279 --> 01:51:00.720
back to Orlando, we were book
from a match on a explosion and while

1488
01:51:00.760 --> 01:51:03.319
talking over the match, our producer
couldn't remember whether Matt and I were baby

1489
01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:08.159
faces or heels. At that moment, we knew our time was coming to

1490
01:51:08.199 --> 01:51:11.640
an end. That night, instead
of keeping quiet like we usually had done,

1491
01:51:11.680 --> 01:51:14.560
we expressed our anger and disappointment online. We tweeted about multiple things.

1492
01:51:14.600 --> 01:51:16.760
We were upset about j Lethal's firing, late payments, and are bad creative.

1493
01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:19.199
It was so unlike us, but
we were beyond frustrated, and it

1494
01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:23.119
felt like nobody would listen to us
whenever we voiced our concerns. We had

1495
01:51:23.119 --> 01:51:26.159
simply had enough. Naturally, this
made us quite unpopular in the office,

1496
01:51:26.159 --> 01:51:28.960
and word was Bruce Pritchard had a
ton of heat with us. We finally

1497
01:51:29.039 --> 01:51:30.199
decided the next time we were booked
to be in Orlando, we would ask

1498
01:51:30.199 --> 01:51:33.840
for Teenage to release us from our
contracts. We'd officially had enough. Matt

1499
01:51:33.880 --> 01:51:36.039
put up bluntly to me, We've
got to get out of here before they

1500
01:51:36.079 --> 01:51:40.600
completely kill us. On July tenth, twenty eleven, before the Destination Next

1501
01:51:40.680 --> 01:51:43.920
pay per view, we set outside
Bruce's trailer in the hot Orlando's sun for

1502
01:51:43.960 --> 01:51:45.840
what seemed like hours, waiting for
him to come out. I practiced exactly

1503
01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:47.880
what I was going to say to
him in my head over and over again.

1504
01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:51.159
Finally he appeared, as Matt shook
his hand Bruce went to walk away,

1505
01:51:51.239 --> 01:51:54.720
but Matt held on, we need
to talk. I don't know much

1506
01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:57.239
time, so we're gonna have to
walk and talk. Bruce answered, I've

1507
01:51:57.239 --> 01:52:00.560
got a baby on the way and
girl losing money and talk. Oh,

1508
01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:03.840
he's Bruce Brichard is a master of
walk and talk. And then Matt says

1509
01:52:03.840 --> 01:52:06.039
to him, I've got a baby
on the way and I'm currently losing money

1510
01:52:06.119 --> 01:52:10.079
working here. This is well,
You and your brother would probably be getting

1511
01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:13.039
booked more if you didn't complain about
everything on Twitter. Bruce replied, wow,

1512
01:52:13.520 --> 01:52:15.239
he repeated to us verbatim what we
had tweeted. We apologize for the

1513
01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:18.079
tweets. We really did feel bad
about them, but it didn't change the

1514
01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:21.199
fact that our bookings had been atrocious
and mismanaged, and that we were both

1515
01:52:21.279 --> 01:52:25.479
broke. By this point, the
conversation had turned into more of a loud

1516
01:52:25.560 --> 01:52:28.000
argument, and we happened to be
standing right in front of catering where half

1517
01:52:28.000 --> 01:52:32.199
the locker room was sitting and watching. Right, Yeah, that's where half

1518
01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:36.399
the half the locker room is always
better believe is anything but turkey legs on

1519
01:52:36.439 --> 01:52:41.239
the menu? By the way,
what do you think Jeff Hardy talking Turkey

1520
01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:44.039
legs station. Nobody were talking turkey
legs. Yeah. Where do you think

1521
01:52:44.079 --> 01:52:48.800
Jeff Hardy had at the Impact Zone? Oh? Man, imagine Brian Kendrick,

1522
01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:51.960
who knew the contents of this conversation, walked by and rubbed both Matt

1523
01:52:51.960 --> 01:52:55.479
and my shoulders and whispered, you
guys are doing great. Brian gave me

1524
01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:57.840
the bet boost of confidence I needed. I looked at Bruce and said,

1525
01:52:58.159 --> 01:53:00.159
you want another point of this conversation. We want our release. His eyes

1526
01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:03.720
got big and he went completely silent. It took him by total surprise.

1527
01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:06.600
It was unusual for wrestlers to ask
for their release at this time. Jobs

1528
01:53:06.640 --> 01:53:10.520
and wrestling were limited, and once
you got in somewhere, you held on

1529
01:53:10.600 --> 01:53:14.319
for dear life. Bruce shook shook
off rather the surprised look in his face,

1530
01:53:14.359 --> 01:53:15.560
and said he grant us our release
from our contracts and that he'd do

1531
01:53:15.640 --> 01:53:19.239
it instantly. We got what we
wanted a few minutes later, we approached

1532
01:53:19.239 --> 01:53:23.159
our boss, Dixie Carter and told
her we were leaving one time at an

1533
01:53:23.199 --> 01:53:26.880
offsite promotional of entering a pay per
few weekend, Dixie mistook Matt, I'm

1534
01:53:26.920 --> 01:53:30.880
sorry, who are you exactly?
Dixie? Mistook Matt as a fan ah

1535
01:53:31.319 --> 01:53:34.560
and mentioned he had a great look
and should consider getting into the wrestling business.

1536
01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:38.800
Oh my god. So needless to
say, we didn't feel like Dixie

1537
01:53:38.800 --> 01:53:42.880
was too affected by our big news. So long to the Young Bucks.

1538
01:53:43.000 --> 01:53:46.119
Off to other things. Let's say
r VD and the Miami Hero old around

1539
01:53:46.119 --> 01:53:48.520
this time was talking about a match
he had with Jerry Lynn and then said

1540
01:53:48.560 --> 01:53:54.439
this, and this followed the Young
Bucks for a decade in the business and

1541
01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:59.800
actually provided a launchpad for the gimmick
that created millions of merchandise sales and created

1542
01:53:59.800 --> 01:54:05.880
AW Essentially, he says, quote
one asked about TNA and whether the younger

1543
01:54:05.920 --> 01:54:11.119
wrestlers in the organization should be asking
older wrestlers veterans to watch their matches and

1544
01:54:11.159 --> 01:54:15.039
give advice. Quote that ever happens
enough. Some of the young guys who

1545
01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:18.119
are or were there, I don't
want to mention any names. There were

1546
01:54:18.159 --> 01:54:20.760
two young guys who just left and
looked like they were out of high school.

1547
01:54:21.039 --> 01:54:24.720
The whole time they were here.
They never introduced themselves or shook my

1548
01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:30.079
hand. Things are way different than
they used to be. Yeah, don't

1549
01:54:30.119 --> 01:54:35.520
think, don't think that Rvd's be
getting an AW contracting in time. So

1550
01:54:35.760 --> 01:54:41.159
Id's like the number one guy to
complain about stupid locker room metice right.

1551
01:54:41.399 --> 01:54:43.880
You hear his interviews about his w
W run and everything, it's like he's

1552
01:54:43.920 --> 01:54:46.279
turning into Shawn Michaels, his least
favorite person in the whole world. That's

1553
01:54:46.319 --> 01:54:53.239
really funny. Pumas power who So, yeah, the young bucks don't shake

1554
01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:56.079
hands. That would be a thing
for years with them is they don't walk

1555
01:54:56.119 --> 01:55:00.760
around the locker room and shake hands. So that happened and I those little

1556
01:55:00.840 --> 01:55:08.359
fucking those, those stupid fucking rules
that nobody really totally who cares? What's

1557
01:55:08.399 --> 01:55:13.000
your dumb ass rule? Absolutely disgusting. So they're building and we get to

1558
01:55:13.039 --> 01:55:16.880
the June ninth impact and there's blue
ropes everywhere, and we we find out

1559
01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:20.800
that papers had been served to Eric
the week prior and the parking lot and

1560
01:55:21.600 --> 01:55:25.439
we're like, what were the papers? Right? What what could those who?

1561
01:55:26.239 --> 01:55:29.359
What could they be? Who cares? Well, there's that too,

1562
01:55:29.479 --> 01:55:34.520
that's stop asking the tough questions.
Um yeah, And we find out that

1563
01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:40.800
those papers were just what I just
mentioned, the announcement that everything's hunky dory

1564
01:55:40.960 --> 01:55:45.680
with the the network and that they
now are in Hogan and Bishop's corner and

1565
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:54.640
it's fine. And obviously Hogan steps
out with a blue bandana, white shades,

1566
01:55:54.680 --> 01:56:00.119
and its Impact Wrestling blue all the
time. I can't heal that.

1567
01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:03.840
You know, wrestling may matter,
but impact doesn't matter. You will stand

1568
01:56:03.880 --> 01:56:12.000
for it now. So yeah,
the network papers are revealed and Hogan welcomes

1569
01:56:12.039 --> 01:56:15.840
all you held comani Ya. I
got this one. Welcome all you hold

1570
01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:20.800
Comaniac to Impact Wrestling. Brothers.
You know the rules are the same,

1571
01:56:21.000 --> 01:56:26.600
dude, nothing's changed, Nothing ever
changes around here, brother, except the

1572
01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:31.600
fucking names, dude. And now
the network moving forward, they realize they

1573
01:56:31.680 --> 01:56:36.239
don't need a stooge, they don't
need some watchdog looking over Eric's in my

1574
01:56:36.399 --> 01:56:42.359
shoulders. Brother. From this point
on, the network finally realized what Eric

1575
01:56:42.439 --> 01:56:46.760
and I said all along about the
selfish, evil agenda that the former network

1576
01:56:46.800 --> 01:56:53.079
representative had. So from this point
forward, it's smooth sailing, brother,

1577
01:56:53.560 --> 01:57:01.720
and we got one hundred percent confidence
get us from the network. Oh,

1578
01:57:02.960 --> 01:57:06.680
based on that, it's Bischoff's turn
says, we're gonna work hard to maintain

1579
01:57:06.760 --> 01:57:12.239
the confidence. I was on the
phone with the network. I can't,

1580
01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:16.279
can we stop? I'm done?
And they made it clear they saw through

1581
01:57:16.399 --> 01:57:21.439
mc foley as hell, but I'm
not gonna take this anymore. They were

1582
01:57:21.520 --> 01:57:26.960
impressed with the fact that it is
now impact wrestling. You have meddled with

1583
01:57:27.079 --> 01:57:31.800
the primal forces of nature and I
won't have it. Bischef says. They

1584
01:57:31.920 --> 01:57:35.039
love the fact that wrestling matters,
and God, by God, so do

1585
01:57:35.159 --> 01:57:42.479
we network. One thing. One
thing they made very clear. Who made

1586
01:57:42.479 --> 01:57:45.680
it clear network is the X Division
is something that's near and dear to them

1587
01:57:45.720 --> 01:57:47.960
and high on their agenda. So
I want to assure every one, Bischof

1588
01:57:48.039 --> 01:57:50.720
says, We're going to maintain our
integrity and present the X Division in a

1589
01:57:50.800 --> 01:58:01.359
fair and balanced manners. Fucking uber
heels like they talk about EX Division every

1590
01:58:01.920 --> 01:58:05.399
quarter as something like we're going to
start giving to you, because then they

1591
01:58:05.560 --> 01:58:10.720
never do it. But the fact
that they have to keep carving out time

1592
01:58:10.760 --> 01:58:15.800
on their airwaves to give voice to
it is like an irrefutable piece of evidence

1593
01:58:15.880 --> 01:58:17.600
that that's where the heart of TNA
is, that that's the only thing,

1594
01:58:18.319 --> 01:58:21.479
that's the only horse you're ever going
to ride to create a promotion that has

1595
01:58:21.520 --> 01:58:26.560
a goddamn chance of meaning something in
the business in twenty eleven, and they

1596
01:58:26.760 --> 01:58:30.840
just keep finding themselves in this position
of having to acknowledge that there's this,

1597
01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:33.720
um, this direction they could be
going that would make it. I mean,

1598
01:58:33.760 --> 01:58:38.199
they could have been a w they
how do the fucking wrestler st w

1599
01:58:38.359 --> 01:58:42.119
end up having for the most part
and colding access to Ocada early and often,

1600
01:58:42.199 --> 01:58:45.199
by the way, and not to
say anyone's going to see anything in

1601
01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:47.079
Ocada in twenty eleven, including New
Japan by the way, which was lost

1602
01:58:47.119 --> 01:58:50.600
to history that he wasn't even presented
that strongly in New Japan at the time.

1603
01:58:51.079 --> 01:58:56.600
But what win came back. But
it's just so um, I don't

1604
01:58:56.640 --> 01:59:01.399
know, it's just amazing, It's
amazing how willfully blind they are. Oh

1605
01:59:01.479 --> 01:59:03.920
yeah, now to the signals coming
to them, Like, this is where

1606
01:59:03.960 --> 01:59:06.279
you need to place the emphasis.
This is something that when you do it,

1607
01:59:06.359 --> 01:59:11.920
you actually notice an uptick or you
notice an increased passion from the audience.

1608
01:59:12.399 --> 01:59:15.640
You just notice something a different vibe
altogether. And clearly the current vibe

1609
01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:18.880
isn't getting you anywhere. Um that
they're like three days out from the Slam

1610
01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:21.800
Anniversary pay per view and just starting
to promote the card and just starting to

1611
01:59:21.920 --> 01:59:26.960
announce the card even and Anderson's in
his face and he's got a lollipop too.

1612
01:59:27.039 --> 01:59:30.079
Is there like a bowl near the
entrance at the Impact I don't understand

1613
01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:32.840
what the fuck this is. Tenay
comes out a thing comes out rather with

1614
01:59:32.920 --> 01:59:35.720
the belt, and Tenais's want has
to wonder how the Clog and Eric Bischoff

1615
01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:41.720
power regime will influence our World Championship
out. One has to wonder, does

1616
01:59:43.159 --> 01:59:47.319
one have to yes, actually it
is it was they did to send out

1617
01:59:47.399 --> 01:59:50.920
like a a mailer out to everybody
in the world. So again, Hogan

1618
01:59:51.000 --> 01:59:55.439
Bishoff kind of have to kind of
turn baby face to keep this Impact Wrestling

1619
01:59:55.840 --> 01:59:59.880
Wrestling Matters alive, and he says
to both of them, Harbdy and Amerson,

1620
02:00:00.680 --> 02:00:02.560
you know, guys, I'd like
to thank both of you guys for

1621
02:00:02.720 --> 02:00:08.000
coming out here because we seem to
be in kind of a sweet spot on

1622
02:00:08.399 --> 02:00:13.359
one heck of a roll brothers,
and now that Eric and I have rebranded

1623
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:19.399
this company to Impact Wrestling and it's
on fire because wrestling matters. I wanted

1624
02:00:19.439 --> 02:00:24.720
to make one thing perfectly clear to
the two of the most important players in

1625
02:00:24.800 --> 02:00:28.520
this company. See, Eric and
I are not going to go through what

1626
02:00:28.720 --> 02:00:34.119
we went through again with the Network. Brother all Right, dude, I

1627
02:00:34.319 --> 02:00:38.079
sat me off as a week ago
in New York, and I gave the

1628
02:00:38.199 --> 02:00:43.960
network my word. I sat me
off the hood. I gave the Hulk

1629
02:00:44.039 --> 02:00:48.760
Hogan word that I would run this
company in the most professional manner possible.

1630
02:00:49.039 --> 02:00:53.560
And when I gave my word,
I'm meant it. So when it comes

1631
02:00:53.600 --> 02:00:58.760
to Slam Anniversary time, I promised
the network you have metled with the primal

1632
02:00:58.960 --> 02:01:04.279
forces of nature, there would be
a winner and there would be a loser.

1633
02:01:04.439 --> 02:01:09.760
Dudes, there would be no tricks, no gimmicks, no agendas,

1634
02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:14.439
no runnings, no mothers, no
sisters, no brothers, no aunts,

1635
02:01:14.520 --> 02:01:18.640
no uncles, no no no,
no daddy's with the long legs or anybody

1636
02:01:18.720 --> 02:01:24.520
else who may be related to the
either two of you brothers coming down interfering

1637
02:01:24.560 --> 02:01:29.279
in the biggest main event in the
history of Impact wrestling. Now that I've

1638
02:01:29.319 --> 02:01:32.640
made myself perfectly clear, if you
got a problem with with it, or

1639
02:01:32.680 --> 02:01:35.239
if you get a problem or you
got something you want to say, I

1640
02:01:35.439 --> 02:01:42.399
suggest you speak now or forever hold
your peace. Okay. That that was

1641
02:01:42.439 --> 02:01:45.880
a lot and nothing at the same
time. Tricks, gimmicks, agendas,

1642
02:01:46.199 --> 02:01:51.159
hide the ballin and yang, yes
and no, now, brother, We're

1643
02:01:51.199 --> 02:01:56.399
not gonna play hide the guinea pig. Dude. All right, man,

1644
02:01:58.279 --> 02:02:01.520
we're not playing. We're not playing
stick the stick up your ass, brother,

1645
02:02:01.760 --> 02:02:09.319
Pinning the tail on the gimmick,
We're not playing. We're not playing

1646
02:02:09.840 --> 02:02:15.199
pinning the pin on the fucking gimmick, man talking about the tire. We're

1647
02:02:15.279 --> 02:02:19.239
here. We're are your tissing aying
brother, impizzle brother, all the fucking

1648
02:02:19.359 --> 02:02:30.520
way because wrestling Mattizzle's dude, what
an idiot. Of course, Anderson's hand

1649
02:02:30.560 --> 02:02:33.199
goes up like a little schoolboy during
this segment. Oh he's such a you

1650
02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:41.560
know, I'm like, it's over. I like there are certain parts of

1651
02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:45.600
his kind of like carefree gimmick thing, his assholeness that I kind of enjoy.

1652
02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:50.239
But then at the same time,
he just doesn't feel like anything right

1653
02:02:50.880 --> 02:02:54.359
at all. No, because he
you know, he's all right in the

1654
02:02:54.399 --> 02:02:57.000
ring, but once he gets past, once you realize, oh, he's

1655
02:02:57.039 --> 02:03:00.279
just gonna repeat this thing over and
over forever, it's like, Okay,

1656
02:03:00.399 --> 02:03:02.720
well that was you know, maybe
for six months it was all right,

1657
02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:08.399
but yeah, he's done. He's
so boring now and he's like wearing a

1658
02:03:08.439 --> 02:03:12.239
T shirt and jeans and like a
mesh hat every week, and he looks

1659
02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:15.000
like a JABRONI I know, I
know. And he died his hair for

1660
02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:18.359
a movie role and that took away
like that peroxide blonde thing he had gone

1661
02:03:18.439 --> 02:03:23.119
for him. He's clearly dialed down
on the I don't know the stuff it

1662
02:03:23.199 --> 02:03:26.239
takes to have the physique, which
is, you know, good for him.

1663
02:03:26.319 --> 02:03:29.079
I hope it improves his health and
well being, and I hope he's

1664
02:03:29.079 --> 02:03:30.279
living a longer life as a result
of it. But I don't know.

1665
02:03:30.439 --> 02:03:36.880
He just looks like some guy that
works at a universal right right, looks

1666
02:03:36.920 --> 02:03:40.159
like he's going to be there to
fucking, you know, let people in

1667
02:03:40.279 --> 02:03:43.720
on rides, absolutely sustaining. I
don't know if you're aware of this or

1668
02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:45.960
not, but I've been coming out
here imitating you, mocking you, sting,

1669
02:03:45.079 --> 02:03:46.960
making a joke out of you.
Do you know why? Because everything

1670
02:03:46.960 --> 02:03:49.640
you stand for is a joke.
Oh you say you're a fighting champion,

1671
02:03:49.640 --> 02:03:51.600
all about these people? Who are
you trying to kid man? At least

1672
02:03:51.640 --> 02:03:55.279
I'm an asshole enough to admit that
I'm in this for me and me and

1673
02:03:55.399 --> 02:03:57.920
only me. And here's what's going
to happen on Sunday night, I'm going

1674
02:03:57.960 --> 02:04:00.199
to get my hand raised and be
the new champion Champion. Be in.

1675
02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:01.840
He hands the mic to Sting and
then drops it, and Hulk has the

1676
02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:04.920
cutout holes in the back of his
impact. Sure if you're wandering, Oh

1677
02:04:05.159 --> 02:04:09.439
god, I do appreciate the champion
Champion thing that he did. Yeah,

1678
02:04:09.560 --> 02:04:12.479
I will take that, sure,
Holgan hand Sting the mic. Sting,

1679
02:04:12.560 --> 02:04:15.000
you talk. Sting says, you
talk as though I'm not going to be

1680
02:04:15.039 --> 02:04:16.039
able to do anything about that,
Kenny, I'm going to be able to

1681
02:04:16.079 --> 02:04:18.399
do a whole lot about that.
If you want to fulfill your destiny,

1682
02:04:18.439 --> 02:04:21.880
you gotta beat me first. I
can't lose. This is the only thing

1683
02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:26.439
that stands between Hulko and and Eric
Bischoff making complete mockery of this company.

1684
02:04:26.479 --> 02:04:31.319
The belt. Yeah. I don't
think that's stopping that from happening at all.

1685
02:04:31.359 --> 02:04:34.920
It just happened. Well. They
had to retro fit an explanation for

1686
02:04:35.000 --> 02:04:39.840
why they're on board with the Wrestling
matters, a rebranding campaign that that that

1687
02:04:40.239 --> 02:04:43.359
so floored them. A week ago
or two weeks ago. He says,

1688
02:04:43.359 --> 02:04:45.640
I'm gonna have to come out of
the victory in that match, and I'm

1689
02:04:45.680 --> 02:04:47.359
not leaving the victor in that match, and I'm not leaving this place either.

1690
02:04:47.439 --> 02:04:49.279
I've got a lot of things,
Sting says, I want to do

1691
02:04:49.439 --> 02:04:53.000
here. One of two things needs
to happen before I leave this place.

1692
02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:56.039
Hulk. Either you keep going down
the road you're going down a nice stay

1693
02:04:56.079 --> 02:04:59.359
in your face the whole way,
making your life miserable until you disappear.

1694
02:04:59.399 --> 02:05:02.479
Or number two, this would be
my choice that the real Hulk Hogan,

1695
02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:08.000
Sting says, would stand up again, and Hulk shakes his head with a

1696
02:05:08.039 --> 02:05:10.600
smirk. I'm talking about Hulk Cogan, the wrestler, Sting says in the

1697
02:05:10.680 --> 02:05:15.159
back that everybody idolized many did.
I'm talking about the Hull Cogan. That

1698
02:05:15.239 --> 02:05:17.399
many of these fans idolized Hulk.
They bought Hulk Hogan T shirts. They

1699
02:05:17.439 --> 02:05:21.119
bought Hulk Coogan action figures and lunch
boxes and sleeping bags, and on and

1700
02:05:21.239 --> 02:05:26.359
on it goes. As Hogan makes
the hoof face and you slap them on

1701
02:05:26.439 --> 02:05:29.359
the face, Hulk, maybe I
should also slap you on the back,

1702
02:05:29.640 --> 02:05:31.600
Slap you back and return the favor, Knock you back into reality, Hulk.

1703
02:05:32.840 --> 02:05:36.640
But when you cut through all the
years and get a clear view and

1704
02:05:36.800 --> 02:05:41.920
understand what's really going on around here
and where the true infection is. Sting

1705
02:05:42.039 --> 02:05:45.880
says, the kind of infection that
Eric Bischoff is that history says, breeds

1706
02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:49.760
a slow and miserable death. I'm
talking about you. Eric gets in his

1707
02:05:49.840 --> 02:05:54.119
face, Hulk, take the scalpel
out of your pocket, Sting says,

1708
02:05:54.159 --> 02:05:56.960
and cut away the cancer before it's
too late, and tell me you don't

1709
02:05:57.000 --> 02:06:00.279
have a choice. Okay, Paws, you do, Sting wants. They

1710
02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:10.079
all Cogan back. That's it.
Uh. Later in the show, Hernandez

1711
02:06:10.479 --> 02:06:15.159
approaches um Hogan's office with his fellow
teammates in Mexican America, which was a

1712
02:06:15.199 --> 02:06:20.399
stable in TNA that had Hernandez and
Anarchia and Rosita and Sarrita. I believe

1713
02:06:20.520 --> 02:06:28.880
Rosita or Sarta no rositare um Oh
my god, I forgot her name.

1714
02:06:28.920 --> 02:06:34.960
That's so so incredibly sad. Selena
Vega in uh in wwe what Selena Vega

1715
02:06:35.520 --> 02:06:40.920
here in TNA is part of Mexican
America and here if you can, Hogan,

1716
02:06:41.000 --> 02:06:45.279
Mexicans. I don't know, just
just amazing that this this exists in

1717
02:06:45.319 --> 02:06:50.239
the archives, considering the future state
of U of Terry Bala. Did you

1718
02:06:50.319 --> 02:06:57.399
just see what happened out there,
Homes. At the beginning of this show,

1719
02:06:57.560 --> 02:07:01.079
you said that this is an even
plain fields. So now I got

1720
02:07:01.119 --> 02:07:08.840
a question for you. Is sir, your thing? Why don't we have

1721
02:07:09.000 --> 02:07:15.000
a tag team title shot? Is
it? Because? Oh, I don't

1722
02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:21.880
know where mexicanan. Let me tell
you something, Punk, you better be

1723
02:07:23.000 --> 02:07:27.840
careful what you're saying who you're talking
to, because the word racist is getting

1724
02:07:27.840 --> 02:07:30.920
ready to come out of your mouth. It's gonna be a real big issue

1725
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:34.479
with me and mister Bischoff, nobody
else, anybody nothing around here. And

1726
02:07:34.600 --> 02:07:38.720
if you and you're familiar, think
you're gonna come in here and tell me

1727
02:07:39.159 --> 02:07:43.239
how to run my company, you
need to think about it real good,

1728
02:07:43.319 --> 02:07:46.600
brother, because I just might turn
into the real life terminator and play a

1729
02:07:46.720 --> 02:07:51.600
game a Holster says, with your
two beautiful Latin ladies, and then we'll

1730
02:07:51.640 --> 02:08:00.880
have a real And when you at
least expected homes, that's right, said,

1731
02:08:01.159 --> 02:08:11.520
When you least expected, said Hogan, what the fuck nowhere? Of

1732
02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:16.439
course they'd never attackled, nothing ever
happened. The word racist is getting ready

1733
02:08:16.479 --> 02:08:20.359
to come out of your mouth.
Dude, I've got I've got a surreptitiously

1734
02:08:20.399 --> 02:08:28.439
recorded conversation in a bedroom and to
play for you, brother Jesus, Remember

1735
02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:33.680
when he said that, uh that
Russo's bashed at the beach promo, implied

1736
02:08:33.720 --> 02:08:35.840
he was a racist because he was
holding down Booker and and that that's the

1737
02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:41.600
same thing as calling Martin Luther King
a racist because on the website it said

1738
02:08:41.600 --> 02:08:46.800
that Hulk Hogan was um like the
Martin Luther King of wrestling on the ww

1739
02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:54.920
site or something that website. I
mean, the guy is I don't know,

1740
02:08:54.479 --> 02:08:58.520
he just he should. He reveals
so much about himself while trying to

1741
02:08:58.600 --> 02:09:03.720
preemptively defend himself from future talks.
Absolutely know it's so true. He's just

1742
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:09.279
because I mean, the conversation with
Bubba's wife where he says all the racist

1743
02:09:09.319 --> 02:09:11.880
things, it's already it's already been
recorded, He's already said them, and

1744
02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:16.560
there I don't know, there might
be reason to think that by this point

1745
02:09:16.600 --> 02:09:20.399
in twenty eleven, he's aware of
the possibility that those tapes may surface and

1746
02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:24.479
that they're and that the tapes that
Bubba made are out in general circulation and

1747
02:09:24.560 --> 02:09:30.479
being shopped around. Is things you
can buy and publish. So I don't

1748
02:09:30.520 --> 02:09:33.720
know, just fascinating that little moment
there. Later on in the show,

1749
02:09:33.800 --> 02:09:39.800
they have Gunner pins Sting. Okay, I repeat, they have what's wrong

1750
02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:41.760
with that? I'm going to build
stars and they know how to pick him.

1751
02:09:43.800 --> 02:09:48.479
Staying chases Kennedy into a trailer backstage
on this episode and beats his ass

1752
02:09:48.920 --> 02:09:50.760
and screams at him, you want
to mock me, puts him on a

1753
02:09:50.800 --> 02:09:54.760
table. It collapses, you want
to mock me. Sting takes out red

1754
02:09:54.800 --> 02:10:00.840
face paint and smears it on the
lips and face of mister Anderson, thus

1755
02:10:01.399 --> 02:10:05.880
further graduating the stage joker character into
existence. Kennedy is flailing, says,

1756
02:10:05.880 --> 02:10:09.960
you're gonna mock me. Huckkenny.
It's laughing a little bit, still,

1757
02:10:09.039 --> 02:10:11.359
just a little bit. Staying still
pretty much keeping it together, but he

1758
02:10:11.399 --> 02:10:16.039
has these moments of breakdown. And
the lips are The way he puts the

1759
02:10:16.079 --> 02:10:18.640
red lip with the red paint on
the on the lips is very much like

1760
02:10:18.800 --> 02:10:24.800
Keith Ledger. Yes, Jesus Christ. They launched the Bounce of Glory's series,

1761
02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:28.720
which is not complicated at all.
It's a multi month tournament to determine

1762
02:10:28.720 --> 02:10:31.600
who gets the title shot for the
world titled Down for Glory twelve wrestlers involved.

1763
02:10:31.640 --> 02:10:35.079
They're in a wrestle in a series
of matches over the next three months.

1764
02:10:35.960 --> 02:10:39.319
Of course, what's hilarious is nobody
in the tournament has an even number

1765
02:10:39.399 --> 02:10:43.439
of matches. That some people have
to wrestle thirteen times, others only wrestle

1766
02:10:43.520 --> 02:10:46.279
three times. It doesn't make any
sense. That's wrong, I'm man.

1767
02:10:46.880 --> 02:10:52.720
But there's a point system, the
highest one. I guess I don't understand

1768
02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:58.520
why. Like, it's just wrestling, It doesn't matter. I'm trying to

1769
02:10:58.560 --> 02:11:01.920
build it up just whatever. People
wrestle a certain amount of times and other

1770
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.479
people wrestle another amount of times.
It's like it doesn't matter how many times

1771
02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:07.880
you wrestle. Just well, but
if you get here, you have to

1772
02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:11.720
realize you get ten points for submission
win, seven points for pinfall win,

1773
02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:16.199
five points for count out win,
three points for a DQ win to But

1774
02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:20.039
but if I want anyone to just
fucking get more points or just add them,

1775
02:11:22.399 --> 02:11:24.239
you know, if I realize that
the fucking points are all are all

1776
02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:26.640
fucked up, I'll just have them. It doesn't matter. But if everyone's

1777
02:11:26.640 --> 02:11:30.960
trying to win this Bound for Glory
series, and this guy's got five matches

1778
02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:33.239
to try to win ten points.
The other guy only gets two chances.

1779
02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:35.159
They guy with two chances, no
matter how well he does, is never

1780
02:11:35.199 --> 02:11:37.760
going to compete. But then I'll
just change it. And nobody really,

1781
02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:43.439
nobody really wants the stuff. They
want it because we're telling them, you

1782
02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:46.920
know, because we're telling a story. It's just fake. You're absolutely right.

1783
02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:52.600
It doesn't matter, you know,
We'll just we'll fudge the numbers if

1784
02:11:52.640 --> 02:11:58.680
we have to. It's not hard. Like I was paying attention staying looks

1785
02:11:58.680 --> 02:12:03.640
at Hogan backstage. He goes,
you know what, this is one time

1786
02:12:03.720 --> 02:12:07.159
I can tell by looking in your
eyes that you actually mean what you say.

1787
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:11.239
Ogan says, you know, you
and I have a history that around

1788
02:12:11.319 --> 02:12:13.479
this. This is this is a
good I got this thought. This whole

1789
02:12:13.560 --> 02:12:18.239
thing here with that, with including
the Jarret bit. Oh yeah, this

1790
02:12:18.359 --> 02:12:22.279
Jarrets in the office. Yeah,
I'm just telling you da big enough for

1791
02:12:22.399 --> 02:12:26.920
both of us. One of us
is going tonight. Thanks for making that

1792
02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:33.960
official. The network was blown away
by your exchange. You're ten times and

1793
02:12:33.000 --> 02:12:39.359
I bet I'm betting on you,
brother. Thank you in Mexico. You

1794
02:12:39.439 --> 02:12:48.319
are too much. Oh, Jarret
is the king of Kings Mexico. Fu

1795
02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:54.600
singer I'm gonna honor your contract,
brother, I was just coming to find

1796
02:12:54.640 --> 02:13:01.680
you what the laws everything in your
contract. I'm gonna take it by the

1797
02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:05.159
book, by the n and on
the fourteenth spot. Dude, you're gonna

1798
02:13:05.199 --> 02:13:11.199
get your rematch brother against mister Anderson. It's totally done you and Anderson.

1799
02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:18.239
Wow, I'm a man of my
word, brother. This is one time

1800
02:13:18.319 --> 02:13:22.359
when I can tell by looking in
your eyes you actually mean what you say.

1801
02:13:22.680 --> 02:13:26.720
You know, staying, we have
a history that nobody around here notes

1802
02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:31.920
about. Yeah, that's right and
I owe that much to you. Wow.

1803
02:13:31.319 --> 02:13:39.159
Okay, does this mean that the
real hull Coken is back? Answer

1804
02:13:39.239 --> 02:13:43.640
my question? This is the real
Hull cokeing brother. I mean, come

1805
02:13:43.720 --> 02:13:48.880
on, a little shred of honor
and and dignity is it still there?

1806
02:13:50.680 --> 02:13:54.479
Come on, Hulk, not get
off likes. Don't get it, do

1807
02:13:54.680 --> 02:14:01.039
you? I'm trying to make this
work, my way scene work. The

1808
02:14:01.199 --> 02:14:05.159
fans will always be there, staying, you know that you know what you're

1809
02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:09.119
You're forgetting. You're forgetting that I
have a history with you. You're forgetting.

1810
02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:11.800
I remember what it was like the
day you came in, what your

1811
02:14:11.880 --> 02:14:16.239
mindset was like when you came to
WCW. You came in with a positive

1812
02:14:16.279 --> 02:14:20.359
attitude. You wanted to be a
positive influence to WCW, to all the

1813
02:14:20.439 --> 02:14:26.479
wrestlers there. I remember that you
had respect for me. You had respect

1814
02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:31.159
for the groundwork that I had already
laid. I respected you. I wanted

1815
02:14:31.239 --> 02:14:35.439
to follow in your footsteps. Remember
what I was talking about a few weeks

1816
02:14:35.479 --> 02:14:39.239
ago, when I was talking about
all the fans buying all your stuff,

1817
02:14:39.720 --> 02:14:45.079
all the wrestlers that worship the ground
that you walk on, did that matter

1818
02:14:45.119 --> 02:14:52.159
to you at all? Say your
prayers, take your vitamins. Did you

1819
02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:58.199
say that just for the money?
Is this the legacy that you want to

1820
02:14:58.279 --> 02:15:03.479
leave behind? This? Is it
right here? Is this the legacy you

1821
02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:11.640
want to leave for all the wrestling
fans, all the wrestlers. Let me

1822
02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:16.880
ask you a question. Is this
the legacy that you want to leave behind

1823
02:15:18.159 --> 02:15:31.399
for Brooke and Nick Brother? That's
enough? That's enough. I struck a

1824
02:15:31.520 --> 02:15:33.680
nerve, didn't I? Who the
hell do you think you are? I'm

1825
02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:39.319
a stayer, That's who I am. I'm a stayer and I'm not done

1826
02:15:39.399 --> 02:15:43.319
yet. We'll get the no,
no, no, no, I'm not

1827
02:15:43.960 --> 02:15:50.000
I'm not done. Oh I'm excited
this is good. Who Terry, I

1828
02:15:50.159 --> 02:15:56.000
am not Terry. No, I
am not finished. I'll leave what I

1829
02:15:56.159 --> 02:16:03.800
want to leave, Jerry Stawn,
Terry, you want to wear a mask.

1830
02:16:05.119 --> 02:16:09.640
You want to be a masquerade around
here and put on a facade for

1831
02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:16.039
everybody. Terry, let me just
put the facade on for you, buddy.

1832
02:16:16.359 --> 02:16:26.039
From come on, you all have
you out wearing your mask? Is

1833
02:16:26.119 --> 02:16:46.680
this? What a lacy? You
know what? You have only yourself to

1834
02:16:46.840 --> 02:16:52.760
blame this time. You don't got
a choice, Terry. You can change

1835
02:16:52.799 --> 02:16:56.920
things. You got the power to
do it, but first you gotta make

1836
02:16:58.000 --> 02:17:13.680
the choice. Wow. Oh whoa
yes, Holy shit. And then in

1837
02:17:13.799 --> 02:17:26.479
the fucking like Hogan like he's fucking
It's like he's getting a blowjob. So

1838
02:17:26.600 --> 02:17:30.520
what that was my Sting just getting
up in his face and smearing the red

1839
02:17:30.559 --> 02:17:33.920
paint all over him. Yeah.
And then after Sting leaves, we don't

1840
02:17:33.920 --> 02:17:35.159
see Hogan. He's out of frame. I swear to god, You've never

1841
02:17:35.239 --> 02:17:39.040
seen a funnier thing in your entire
line. It's the fucking funniest thing.

1842
02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:48.559
Hogan's head leans into the frame and
his bandanna is balanced on the top of

1843
02:17:48.600 --> 02:17:54.520
his head like a dense cap.
It's like my like my like my uh

1844
02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:58.879
um, you know, like my
my great uncle's like my, my grandmother's

1845
02:18:00.079 --> 02:18:03.920
brother is wearing fucking baseball hats.
You know, they just kind of like

1846
02:18:03.280 --> 02:18:05.959
put it on their head, so
there's about three inches of space between the

1847
02:18:07.040 --> 02:18:11.000
top of them, and they're fucking
dome. And he's got red smear around

1848
02:18:11.040 --> 02:18:16.879
his lips. Oh god, and
he looks like the biggest fucking weirdo you've

1849
02:18:16.879 --> 02:18:37.799
ever seen in your life. I'm
looking about picks right now, what exactly

1850
02:18:39.319 --> 02:18:43.600
I mean, truly alarming. I
mean he's such a dufest. Look at

1851
02:18:43.639 --> 02:18:48.879
that fucking moral institutionalize this man,
John Wayne Gacy, sorry, Terry Wayne

1852
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:52.159
Gacy right here, Yeah, right
exactly. So stings pretty much Joker Sting

1853
02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:58.319
is in full effect. Terry Hulk
and Gaycy. That sounds like an LA

1854
02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:07.840
Lock credits sequence. I mean,
this is weird stuff. I'm so glad

1855
02:19:07.840 --> 02:19:09.959
you captured that sound because yea,
all of us. And that's the thing

1856
02:19:11.000 --> 02:19:13.920
about TNA, Like whenever they hit
on something interesting, like it's always a

1857
02:19:13.040 --> 02:19:18.319
backstage fucking deal, right. They
never have these like really like important character

1858
02:19:18.399 --> 02:19:22.799
development moments in front of the people. No one of the people. It's

1859
02:19:22.879 --> 02:19:26.879
like all the usual taglines. So
weird man. Here it is Barrett in

1860
02:19:26.920 --> 02:19:31.719
a random episode of impact and May
of or June is it um of twenty

1861
02:19:31.959 --> 02:19:35.760
eleven? Not oh yeah, June, it's June yet June sixteen, sixteenth,

1862
02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:39.719
if you're looking for it. Um
Sting turns the corner and acts completely

1863
02:19:39.840 --> 02:19:48.920
fucking psychotic yep, packed on June
twenty third has a bit of follow up.

1864
02:19:48.120 --> 02:19:52.440
Sting is pissed off, I mean
Eric Bischoff rather is pissed off,

1865
02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:56.280
calls him an ungrateful son of a
bitch, and Sting I didn't I've got

1866
02:19:56.440 --> 02:19:58.280
some I've got I've got some sound
here, I don't know what. Okay.

1867
02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:03.040
Actually, Labeling has a little bit
of extra paint in the corner of

1868
02:20:03.120 --> 02:20:05.200
his mouth, so maybe we're about
to star it in his voice. If

1869
02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:11.760
it is Sting you're about to play
it is I think you take care of

1870
02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:18.120
him tonight. Pieces of Sting's ass? Is that before afterwards? I talking

1871
02:20:18.120 --> 02:20:20.079
about yeah, okay, yeah,
all right, I'll say it with him,

1872
02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:20.879
gets in his face and it says, unlike you, I'm not a

1873
02:20:22.000 --> 02:20:24.920
coward. They cut to Sting with
his mouth agape, I'm a coward with

1874
02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:28.719
his arms open, so bizarre Bishof
lets us know he was taking a leak,

1875
02:20:28.840 --> 02:20:33.479
a leak when Sting got in Hogan's
face. That's a that's a refrain,

1876
02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:37.200
isn't it. Whenever Bishof gets caught
alone, Hogan's taking a leak.

1877
02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:41.040
Whenever Hogan gets caught alone, Bishop's
taking a leak. I really don't care

1878
02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:45.760
impacts on him in the sandwich when
whenever impact, I don't turn it on.

1879
02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:50.799
How about that impacts on my television's
off right? When impacts on I'm

1880
02:20:50.879 --> 02:20:54.040
usually you know, choking myself.
Sting smiling creepily, and Bishof says,

1881
02:20:54.040 --> 02:20:56.879
do you think for a second,
I don't watch my own show, the

1882
02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:01.799
show I produce that I star in. And then he calls him an ungrateful

1883
02:21:01.799 --> 02:21:05.319
son of a bitch again, and
Sting gets wide eyes and looks at the

1884
02:21:05.399 --> 02:21:07.719
mat. Bischeff says, we did
nothing. Betweat you with the respects since

1885
02:21:07.719 --> 02:21:09.799
to day one? How much more
slack do I have to cut you?

1886
02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:13.959
What do you want? And Sting
is crying. What hurts most are my

1887
02:21:15.079 --> 02:21:18.319
feelings, he says. They all
laugh the rass off. He goes,

1888
02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:24.799
Eric, you you cussed it me, you verbally abused me. That's so

1889
02:21:24.959 --> 02:21:30.000
great, whatever shall I do?
And he looks down and cringes and hello,

1890
02:21:30.120 --> 02:21:33.040
before I snap your scrunning little neck, and then he starts coughing and

1891
02:21:33.120 --> 02:21:35.360
laughing. You know, it's like
that joker, like he's acting funny and

1892
02:21:35.440 --> 02:21:39.680
silly, but he's saying like he's
gonna fucking disembowel you, right, and

1893
02:21:39.879 --> 02:21:43.680
that that's exactly what I plan on
doing. And he looks off into space

1894
02:21:43.879 --> 02:21:48.399
and he says, I'm gonna tell
you why you and I never got along.

1895
02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:50.559
It's because you're a calm artist.
He says to b You're a thief,

1896
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:52.879
a liar, a low life,
a losers some of the earth,

1897
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:56.559
a dirt bag. You're a really
bad virus. Eric, You're a cancer.

1898
02:21:58.040 --> 02:22:00.280
And like the cockroach that crawled in
between the bottom of the door on

1899
02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.040
the floor you ended appeared Impact wrestling
and it makes wide eyes and he goes,

1900
02:22:03.079 --> 02:22:05.360
you know what cockroaches do. They
spread disease. You're a disease,

1901
02:22:05.479 --> 02:22:07.239
Eric, and that disease is spread
to Hult. But it's only a matter

1902
02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:11.000
of time before Hult's eyes are open
and the real Hulk Cogan stands up again.

1903
02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:15.040
Bischoff doesn't like that it's not going
to happen, he says. No

1904
02:22:15.159 --> 02:22:18.000
matter what you try, it's always
going to be Hogan and Bischoff, he

1905
02:22:18.079 --> 02:22:20.040
says, and he's right, we
are a team. This is never going

1906
02:22:20.120 --> 02:22:24.440
to change. There's nothing you're going
to do and say that's going to change

1907
02:22:24.440 --> 02:22:26.280
any of that. So you can
give that up right now. The only

1908
02:22:26.360 --> 02:22:28.680
thing that's going to change, Bischoff
says, is you, and you're going

1909
02:22:28.719 --> 02:22:31.840
to change because of me and what
I'm about to do. So you may

1910
02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:33.799
have a contract and a rematch for
the world title in July fourteenth with mister

1911
02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.200
Anderson right here on Spike, but
I have the ability to change that.

1912
02:22:37.280 --> 02:22:39.920
So you've got a match tonight with
the best to make sure that even if

1913
02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:43.719
you get to July fourteenth, you
won't be in any shape to win a

1914
02:22:43.799 --> 02:22:46.399
belt. And Sting says, you
said that with such conviction, like I

1915
02:22:46.479 --> 02:22:48.239
got a price to pay. You're
wrong, Eric, because you're the one

1916
02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:52.319
that's got the price to pay.
And he shakes his shoulders and takes off

1917
02:22:52.360 --> 02:22:58.120
his jacket. Tests this guy's unstable
broiler and then Sting starts strutting around the

1918
02:22:58.200 --> 02:23:03.280
ring almost like a dance, and
he walks bish Off back into the corner

1919
02:23:03.319 --> 02:23:05.760
and he's laughing, and he grabs
him by the face and plants a right

1920
02:23:05.840 --> 02:23:09.239
hand right in the gut of bishof
wow, and it doubles him over and

1921
02:23:09.280 --> 02:23:11.399
he does the walk with his shoulders
bunched up, does Sting and throws another

1922
02:23:11.520 --> 02:23:16.559
right hand, and hul Coken's nowhere
to be found. And Sting hits bish

1923
02:23:16.600 --> 02:23:18.680
Off with the scorpion death drop right
here in impact and takes out the paint

1924
02:23:18.760 --> 02:23:22.280
and puts bish Off in the corner
and smears the corners of his mouth and

1925
02:23:22.360 --> 02:23:24.959
then his whole face with red paint. There it comes away and Sting does

1926
02:23:26.000 --> 02:23:28.639
the strut again. And better he
did this, I guess after he saw

1927
02:23:28.680 --> 02:23:33.399
a dark night than yeah, better
to do this after you see dark knight

1928
02:23:33.440 --> 02:23:37.079
than shoot up a movie theater,
you know. Yeah. Single leg turns

1929
02:23:37.200 --> 02:23:41.239
Eric over in a scorpion deathlock and
Bischoff's stomach is exposed for the world to

1930
02:23:41.360 --> 02:23:48.360
see. Nobody wants that. That's
the further character development as Joker Sting comes

1931
02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:54.520
into relief June thirtieth, Impact Hogan's
backstage with Scott Steiner, old on,

1932
02:23:54.600 --> 02:23:58.000
let me play that audio though from
the oh yeah you had something yells at

1933
02:23:58.559 --> 02:24:03.239
is too well it's abyss to.
This is funny, but yeah, I

1934
02:24:03.319 --> 02:24:07.959
know, I remember what it is. Now you take care of him tonight.

1935
02:24:09.159 --> 02:24:15.040
I want to see bits and pieces
of Sting's ass. I do not

1936
02:24:15.479 --> 02:24:20.440
want him walking out of the arena
to stand me. Get it done,

1937
02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.639
get out of my sight. Yeah, give me an ass brand, give

1938
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:28.319
me a till, give me something. This is killing me for God's sake,

1939
02:24:31.399 --> 02:24:33.760
pieces of his ass? Bits off? Is uh, let's say,

1940
02:24:33.799 --> 02:24:39.000
gotten to by this new Stinger?
Yes so yeah. June thirty Compact Hoken's

1941
02:24:39.000 --> 02:24:41.799
backstage with Steiner and Company. Oh
yeah, I got I got that cop

1942
02:24:41.920 --> 02:24:48.440
starting off this fucking thing. Brother's
right to Welcome to my nightmare. You

1943
02:24:48.000 --> 02:24:54.000
have now made immortal, really immortal. Thank you, Thank you, Van,

1944
02:24:54.040 --> 02:24:56.879
you the man. It's time to
kick some ass once again, the

1945
02:24:56.959 --> 02:25:00.120
man. You take care of it
all tonight. Man, I love got

1946
02:25:00.239 --> 02:25:11.959
Steiner Booty. Terry. Yeah,
hey, Terry, you nervous. You're

1947
02:25:11.959 --> 02:25:16.200
afraid of the nast time a movie
screen tween four year out the next corner,

1948
02:25:16.399 --> 02:25:20.360
Terry. You know kind of like
when you were a little kid,

1949
02:25:20.760 --> 02:25:26.040
you were sleeping in your van and
you thought there was a monster underneath you,

1950
02:25:28.000 --> 02:25:33.040
and then you come to find out
he was never there. Why because

1951
02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:37.840
he was right here all along,
Terry, it's me, let's stay here.

1952
02:25:39.000 --> 02:25:41.479
Well, the show is getting ready
to start. Any vay it now,

1953
02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:50.120
Terry, Yeah, it's gonna start. Beat nervous, what because she

1954
02:25:50.319 --> 02:26:05.719
should be brother? What? He's
watching a monitor and Sting has his back

1955
02:26:05.760 --> 02:26:09.079
to the camera the whole time,
and then he turns around with the new

1956
02:26:09.120 --> 02:26:13.440
paint on. Now he's got the
full joker paint, no lines up and

1957
02:26:13.559 --> 02:26:16.840
down his face. He's just got
ship going left to right out of his

1958
02:26:16.440 --> 02:26:24.159
lips, and he's out of his
mind. And um, Hulk doesn't know

1959
02:26:24.200 --> 02:26:28.520
what to make about this video appearance
of Stinger backstage. But he just come

1960
02:26:28.520 --> 02:26:31.479
out to a pop with a big
pyro and his arms folded, and tasn't

1961
02:26:31.479 --> 02:26:39.239
today talk about Sting disturbing Hule Cogan
in a real way, And they say,

1962
02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:43.079
yeah, he's renting real estate,
and whole Cogan's head again, on

1963
02:26:43.120 --> 02:26:50.479
went Steve Boorden know about renting real
estate? Brother Hogan says, I just

1964
02:26:50.520 --> 02:26:52.520
don't get how someone who used to
be so great could work could be such

1965
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:58.159
a coward. Hide the ball peekaboo
here today gone, Yeah, I got

1966
02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:01.680
I got, I got this one. I got this one. I have

1967
02:27:01.840 --> 02:27:07.040
this one. I just don't get
how someone that used to be so great

1968
02:27:07.360 --> 02:27:13.680
could be such a coward behind the
ball the Baku Boo, Here, Today,

1969
02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:20.000
gone tomorrow. Marco Polo. Let
me tell you some steaks you gotta

1970
02:27:20.079 --> 02:27:22.639
take with me, brother, and
I'm gonna take care of you on my

1971
02:27:22.799 --> 02:27:30.040
own time, in my own way. Your day's coming. What the fun

1972
02:27:30.440 --> 02:27:35.920
Polo was added this time, Marco
Polo. Dude, you know Reba Rumba

1973
02:27:35.079 --> 02:27:46.399
brother King coming, Godzilla Dude.
Tacos and burritos brothers here. So there's

1974
02:27:46.440 --> 02:27:56.799
Anderson and your papa's eating the tangerines. Brother going to Tangatown. And then

1975
02:27:56.879 --> 02:28:00.840
later there's a noise of someone getting
beaten up backstage, and they cut backstage

1976
02:28:00.879 --> 02:28:05.159
and Sting is slapping people with a
bat and making silly sounds and going running

1977
02:28:05.200 --> 02:28:05.920
and saying, you're not going to
stop me. I want to talk to

1978
02:28:05.959 --> 02:28:11.920
the Hulkster tonight. We're gonna have
a little chat. And Hogan is shown

1979
02:28:13.000 --> 02:28:16.360
with his mouth agape at the sight
of a laid out Bubba and Abyss Scott

1980
02:28:16.399 --> 02:28:20.200
Steiner. Sting has just taken names
back there and laughing. The whole time,

1981
02:28:22.079 --> 02:28:24.920
and then Sting's music hits and they
light up Sting in the ring and

1982
02:28:24.959 --> 02:28:28.959
he nails Hogan in the knee with
a bat Oh. I guess something else

1983
02:28:28.159 --> 02:28:31.399
when he comes out with Anderson,
though, I actually have a I have

1984
02:28:31.440 --> 02:28:33.600
a sound here for you. Um
what the referee was going to do?

1985
02:28:33.959 --> 02:28:41.680
I see for Anderson? The referee
was getting ready to cow one two?

1986
02:28:45.680 --> 02:28:50.360
The fuck is this guy talking about
ninety percent of the time? What is

1987
02:28:50.440 --> 02:29:07.120
he talking about? The referee was
getting ready to cow one two. It's

1988
02:29:07.319 --> 02:29:15.000
so fucking weird. I rewound that
many times, Like what, I'm trying

1989
02:29:15.000 --> 02:29:22.079
to figure out if there's anything you
know that makes sense for no reason.

1990
02:29:24.079 --> 02:29:35.319
The referee was getting ready to cow
one two? Brother, hide the ball

1991
02:29:35.879 --> 02:29:46.840
Fornoli, you know, dude?
Fuck? What the absolute FUCKI Stromboli?

1992
02:29:48.000 --> 02:29:58.159
Brother fast five? Dude, dude, beef stroking off brother with your clam

1993
02:29:58.399 --> 02:30:05.840
sauce. You know Twoli you played
again? Just to be clear, the

1994
02:30:07.000 --> 02:30:20.040
referee was getting ready to cow one
two. I'm assuming the spelling is th

1995
02:30:20.440 --> 02:30:26.719
h R E N O L.
I wasn't Threnoli on the pasta mania menua?

1996
02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:31.120
I believe so, And I think
there was yeah, uh, there

1997
02:30:31.239 --> 02:30:43.840
was beef that. Yeah, well
what a complete lunatic. So after Sting

1998
02:30:43.959 --> 02:30:46.120
lays out the guys in the back
like the lights go out to come on,

1999
02:30:46.200 --> 02:30:50.840
and Sting nails so good in the
knee with the bat and Anderson bales,

2000
02:30:50.879 --> 02:30:52.520
and Sting grabs the mic and says
to an ailing Terry, wait here

2001
02:30:52.559 --> 02:30:56.600
for a second. Yeah, I
think I get the whole thing, Ancellent.

2002
02:30:56.959 --> 02:31:01.920
I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm
I think there's stuff before that.

2003
02:31:03.159 --> 02:31:07.200
Now that's okay, let's let's go
for it. Yeah, this is man,

2004
02:31:07.319 --> 02:31:15.079
I'm trying to get through to your
Hulk. Listen. I I'm gonna

2005
02:31:15.079 --> 02:31:18.760
be the first to admit it.
Okay, I was a Hulk Hogan,

2006
02:31:18.280 --> 02:31:24.479
Mark I was. Yeah, you
know what. I was at the sports

2007
02:31:24.559 --> 02:31:28.360
arena way back when when I started
my career. And then I'm telling you,

2008
02:31:28.840 --> 02:31:39.479
they had those red and yellow bandanas
and T shirts fine like cream red

2009
02:31:39.520 --> 02:31:45.959
and yellow, Kilo fellow red Hulk
and I go way back. I'm just

2010
02:31:46.079 --> 02:31:48.079
trying to get the real Hulk Hogan
to stand up again. Come on,

2011
02:31:48.719 --> 02:31:56.000
not the Hollywood one, the real
Hulk Hogan. Now, I've tried every

2012
02:31:56.040 --> 02:32:01.399
approach I know how to do.
Terry but I'm thinking maybe we should go

2013
02:32:01.479 --> 02:32:07.920
with maybe something a little more visual. Okay, you said train hard,

2014
02:32:09.040 --> 02:32:13.399
say your prayers, and take your
vitamins. That's what you said. Okay,

2015
02:32:13.239 --> 02:32:18.879
it wasn't just a tagline. I
know that it's obviously you've been trained,

2016
02:32:18.959 --> 02:32:26.680
because when you used to talk about
going down PC in California with those

2017
02:32:26.760 --> 02:32:31.959
twenty one ins pythons hanging out those
eight hangers. Man, I'm telling you

2018
02:32:31.040 --> 02:32:35.000
what you're obviously working out. There's
still twenty one in pythons right there.

2019
02:32:35.399 --> 02:32:43.920
You're a mark. Okay, that's
a whole part of the show, something

2020
02:32:43.959 --> 02:32:48.559
about taking your vitamins. Let's go
with the more visual approach here it comes

2021
02:32:48.600 --> 02:33:03.840
to tech nutrition tablets. Ah,
brother, I can't breathe binding time with

2022
02:33:05.040 --> 02:33:07.559
the Hulkster. Hey, let's do
some bottlemins now, okay, come here,

2023
02:33:09.600 --> 02:33:13.760
I'm free. You can do here. One for me, yeah,

2024
02:33:13.879 --> 02:33:20.280
one for you for you? Fwallow
it. Anybody having water here? I

2025
02:33:20.399 --> 02:33:28.079
need a bottle of water? Somebody? Hey, alright, I'm on hair

2026
02:33:28.159 --> 02:33:37.760
take I'll take some heart. I'm
a couple of met Hey, am I

2027
02:33:37.840 --> 02:34:03.440
get thirty about saying? Stick?
Not done? My god? Oh my

2028
02:34:03.600 --> 02:34:09.680
no? Enough The Scorpion hook,
I'm a scorpion, and god, he

2029
02:34:11.040 --> 02:34:20.479
Hagan over so many back operations,
so how many back operations's had? So

2030
02:34:20.680 --> 02:34:24.719
jabs him in the knee and they
got the ribs with the bat and just

2031
02:34:24.239 --> 02:34:31.239
does some ah, oh, you
broke my fucking ribs, dude, and

2032
02:34:31.360 --> 02:34:35.360
then does some character work, does
the stinger. He does fistfuls of tight

2033
02:34:35.479 --> 02:34:41.399
nutrition pills right down Hogan's gullet and
um. Then immortals music hits. Enough,

2034
02:34:41.559 --> 02:34:45.479
it's Bubba with the whole Cogan change
t shirt on saying get away from

2035
02:34:45.559 --> 02:34:48.280
him. Bubba is sick and tired
of making of Sting, making a mockery

2036
02:34:48.280 --> 02:34:52.319
of Hulk Kegan took you long enough, Uh, you're all right fucking torturing

2037
02:34:52.399 --> 02:34:56.120
him for thirteen minutes. He does
maybe have the I'll sell you a line

2038
02:34:56.159 --> 02:35:01.959
that actually made me laugh out loud
when he he talks about when Bully Ray

2039
02:35:01.120 --> 02:35:05.440
talks about hating bullies. Oh,
he really nailed that character as a guy

2040
02:35:05.479 --> 02:35:09.799
who would say things like that,
would take on Bridge with things others were

2041
02:35:09.840 --> 02:35:13.120
doing that he does all the time. Right, he actually embodies, Yeah,

2042
02:35:13.159 --> 02:35:15.120
that was that was pretty good stuff
when he was doing back then.

2043
02:35:15.760 --> 02:35:20.799
Sting laughs at that and there's a
mock salute to all of them. Says,

2044
02:35:20.840 --> 02:35:22.440
you impose your will on people.
What you did to bishof last week

2045
02:35:22.559 --> 02:35:26.200
was deplorable. That's a five syllable
word, you psycho, He says to

2046
02:35:26.360 --> 02:35:28.959
him. Tonight, you and Scott
Steiner are going to wrestle, and that

2047
02:35:28.959 --> 02:35:33.040
was another thing Bully would do as
he talked big and then volunteer somebody else

2048
02:35:33.120 --> 02:35:35.719
to fight the fight. Yeah,
that's really awesome. That's great. It's

2049
02:35:35.719 --> 02:35:39.799
good. Cut cut that damn music. Let me tell you something, Sting,

2050
02:35:39.959 --> 02:35:43.760
that's the last time he Hulk says, you're ever going to embarrass me

2051
02:35:43.200 --> 02:35:46.680
before tonight's over, I'm gonna wipe
that stupid smile off your stinking face,

2052
02:35:46.760 --> 02:35:50.559
and Sting acts like ooh with his
back stiffen, and then he bounces,

2053
02:35:52.440 --> 02:35:54.399
and then Hulk late later on at
the back you see him walking around tape

2054
02:35:54.440 --> 02:35:58.120
in his fists, mumbling about showing
you how to get hurt in my world,

2055
02:35:58.239 --> 02:36:01.920
thirty five years of hate, you
won't be laughing anymore. Sting beat

2056
02:36:01.959 --> 02:36:05.760
Scott Steiner later in the main event
with the Scorpion death drop for the one

2057
02:36:05.799 --> 02:36:09.239
two three, and then they all
attack Sting. Hogan's music. Hancy comes

2058
02:36:09.280 --> 02:36:11.360
out with the tape fists and they
hold Sting open and Holk peppers them with

2059
02:36:11.399 --> 02:36:16.000
shots to a course of booze,
and then Karnegal hits the ring for the

2060
02:36:16.000 --> 02:36:22.959
saving cleans house and Holk bounces July
seventh impact Um they're coming off destination.

2061
02:36:22.040 --> 02:36:26.520
Next backstage, Hogan hits Sting and
Sting shakes it off and makes a woo

2062
02:36:26.639 --> 02:36:31.879
noise and then Hogan lands are right, and they're actually imposing punch sound effects

2063
02:36:31.920 --> 02:36:39.000
like the movies for it's so bad. It's so and the only reason they

2064
02:36:39.040 --> 02:36:43.319
do this is so that they have
an explanation as to why Sting doesn't run

2065
02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:46.079
out later on when when you might
expect him to. They totally like blow

2066
02:36:46.120 --> 02:36:50.040
off the physicality of Hogan coming back
on Sting and some pre taped backstage thing

2067
02:36:50.159 --> 02:36:56.319
that is an afterthought and serves like
and it's just a beat in someone else's

2068
02:36:56.360 --> 02:37:01.760
story, and it's so hokey because
he picks up and hits him with them

2069
02:37:03.200 --> 02:37:07.840
and grabs a bat and swings it
barely and just he swings it in a

2070
02:37:07.879 --> 02:37:11.200
way where like the camera trick is
still like hi, the fact there's no

2071
02:37:11.280 --> 02:37:13.280
impact kind of like how Kevin Dunn
cuts away from the point of Impact all

2072
02:37:13.280 --> 02:37:18.000
the time, right, and then
there's a voice over if Holgan's voice saying,

2073
02:37:18.040 --> 02:37:20.159
I told you Sting, you'll never
embarrass me again. It's just so

2074
02:37:20.360 --> 02:37:24.040
potally produced, so hokey. It's
such a strange piece of follow up.

2075
02:37:24.079 --> 02:37:26.959
I don't understand the point of it, but it's very strange. So he

2076
02:37:28.040 --> 02:37:31.239
beats a ship out of Sting and
leaves him laying in the back so later

2077
02:37:31.280 --> 02:37:33.680
they can explain that Sting's not there
for the main event. And then Anderson

2078
02:37:33.719 --> 02:37:37.760
turns on Angle and joins a mortal
I shit, you're not. Hogan's out

2079
02:37:37.760 --> 02:37:41.559
there clapping, and this is all
to build up the July fourteen Sting Anderson

2080
02:37:41.639 --> 02:37:46.799
title match. So July fourteenth comes. They named this episode of Impact Midsummer's

2081
02:37:46.920 --> 02:37:50.799
Nightmare, and it kicks off with
a mortal all coming out in tuxedos and

2082
02:37:50.879 --> 02:37:54.840
everything, including Abyss with a cut
off tuxedo and mister Anderson in a fucking

2083
02:37:56.639 --> 02:38:01.280
tuxedo that looks like it was made
out of you know. They were still

2084
02:38:01.319 --> 02:38:03.920
time. I was looking for titles. I couldn't find titles. Looking for

2085
02:38:05.040 --> 02:38:09.680
titles, oh of the shows showing
them at the beginning. Yeah, oh,

2086
02:38:09.159 --> 02:38:13.719
it's just this is the only one, like it was actually tagline Midsummer's

2087
02:38:13.799 --> 02:38:18.360
Nightmare. And then Anderson comes out
in a tuxedo that's made out of like,

2088
02:38:18.520 --> 02:38:20.959
you know, the the camouflage you
wear while hunting the green kind of

2089
02:38:22.000 --> 02:38:24.200
like whatever the fuck like Steve Auston
used to wear the hat and stuff.

2090
02:38:24.200 --> 02:38:26.920
Oh yeah, a whole tuxedo made
out of that. I don't know if

2091
02:38:26.959 --> 02:38:30.520
that's about Okay, Hope looks like
he's about to the Hall of Fame induction

2092
02:38:30.559 --> 02:38:33.399
and a full tuxedo with a fucking
bow tie on and a bandana. Of

2093
02:38:33.520 --> 02:38:37.959
course. Tess's bubble tuxedo looks like
my uncle Tony from the fifties. Bischofs

2094
02:38:39.000 --> 02:38:41.280
still v necked, however, and
there's a bunch of ladies around, so

2095
02:38:41.319 --> 02:38:43.399
they're acting like it's a big formal
occasion for Immortal. What they're trying to

2096
02:38:43.440 --> 02:38:48.840
do is like a mafia induction ceremony
basically for Ken Anderson, because he's now

2097
02:38:48.920 --> 02:38:54.200
joined Immortal, and Bischoffs has really
here to night dressed in festive spirits because

2098
02:38:54.600 --> 02:39:01.360
Ken Anderson came out here, came
out there himself, and premature. Oh

2099
02:39:01.440 --> 02:39:03.000
it's bad. It's such a bad
pun of m I'm gonna it's so stupid

2100
02:39:03.040 --> 02:39:07.239
the things Bischoff says here. Um, well, now I need to know

2101
02:39:09.000 --> 02:39:13.040
he came out here and threw himself
a party and no one came, Ken

2102
02:39:13.159 --> 02:39:16.159
Anderson, he had done that earlier. He had like a win and he

2103
02:39:16.319 --> 02:39:18.840
came out in the ring and he
had like a table set up with snacks

2104
02:39:18.879 --> 02:39:20.760
that like it was going to be
a party, and no one was there.

2105
02:39:20.959 --> 02:39:24.319
So stupid, and I think Gunner
like beat his ass something random.

2106
02:39:24.760 --> 02:39:28.399
And then then Bischof says, it's
kind of like a premature party lation e

2107
02:39:28.639 --> 02:39:33.079
party lation if you will, as
in premature ejaculation. Yeah, I mean

2108
02:39:33.120 --> 02:39:39.959
you've never heard less people make noise. I mean you know he loves Eric

2109
02:39:39.040 --> 02:39:43.120
Bischoff loves ejaculate to night. Ken. We're gonna make it up to you,

2110
02:39:43.200 --> 02:39:45.280
he says, because now you're part
of our family, and when you

2111
02:39:45.360 --> 02:39:46.959
are, that comes with love,
respect, dignity, and most of all,

2112
02:39:48.079 --> 02:39:56.799
solidarity. Brother what Jesse solidarity hebe? We believe in what mattel Vince

2113
02:39:56.879 --> 02:40:01.799
dude, I'm I knew what was
you, Terry? I knew all the

2114
02:40:01.879 --> 02:40:03.959
time. I got him in a
deposition. I got you, I got

2115
02:40:05.079 --> 02:40:09.040
I got Vince McMahon in a deposition
saying it was Hulk Hogan sworn testimony,

2116
02:40:09.280 --> 02:40:13.680
sworn testimony. What do you got? My lawyer says, Oh, yeah,

2117
02:40:13.719 --> 02:40:18.680
well he told you that Jesse was
thinking about unionizing the boys before wrestling.

2118
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:24.879
To Hugan hesitation at all, not
even a moment's thought there. I

2119
02:40:24.000 --> 02:40:28.799
had to find out in a deposition. I had to find out through a

2120
02:40:28.959 --> 02:40:35.639
third part, essentially. So Hogan
says to Ken Anderson in the tuxedo,

2121
02:40:35.719 --> 02:40:39.079
I love the look, my brother. You've been called a lot of things

2122
02:40:39.159 --> 02:40:41.239
in this short time you've been here, and you and I haven't always seen

2123
02:40:41.319 --> 02:40:46.719
i'd eye and been kind of a
rocky road. Would this be in this

2124
02:40:46.920 --> 02:40:48.760
thing being the same way. One
thing has been a constant is the fact

2125
02:40:48.799 --> 02:40:52.639
that you and I have always tried
to be the best we possibly could be.

2126
02:40:54.280 --> 02:40:56.440
I want to formally welcome you and
into our family, my brother,

2127
02:40:56.600 --> 02:41:00.600
and he DAPs him up, and
all this shit's going on on, and

2128
02:41:00.719 --> 02:41:03.959
then the lights go out, and
when they come back on, Sting is

2129
02:41:03.000 --> 02:41:07.399
sitting at the poker table that Immortal
has arranged in the ring as part of

2130
02:41:07.440 --> 02:41:13.040
this ceremony, and he says gamble. Did I hear someone say gamble?

2131
02:41:13.799 --> 02:41:16.239
And Bischof says Sting, I don't
know what the hell you're up to.

2132
02:41:16.200 --> 02:41:20.559
You must have forgotten our history.
I've always respected you as Sting the stand

2133
02:41:20.639 --> 02:41:22.719
up guy, but this is nuts. You accuse me of being a cancer.

2134
02:41:24.040 --> 02:41:26.719
I don't think so. I think
you are a CanCERN tonight you have

2135
02:41:26.840 --> 02:41:31.520
Anderson in the ring, you freak, And Sting says, would you like

2136
02:41:31.639 --> 02:41:35.520
me to bet on that one?
Eric? Are you a betting man?

2137
02:41:35.959 --> 02:41:37.840
I got a poker table for crying
out loud? He licks his lips a

2138
02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:41.159
lot, now does the joker Sting? Yes, yeah, yeah, I

2139
02:41:41.200 --> 02:41:46.159
caught. That's what That's what he
fledged. Okay. I see things coming

2140
02:41:46.200 --> 02:41:50.040
out a whole lot different than you
do, Eric. I see me becoming

2141
02:41:50.040 --> 02:41:54.479
the heavyweight champion once again. That
gets a pop, and as part of

2142
02:41:54.559 --> 02:41:56.399
my crusade to bring the company back
to its right, Felon or Dixie Carter,

2143
02:41:56.559 --> 02:42:01.719
so he's still even in this beautiful
transition name dropping Dixie Carter, Dixie

2144
02:42:01.799 --> 02:42:03.840
Carter, Hogan. Let me tell
you something, Sting, don't push it

2145
02:42:03.959 --> 02:42:09.239
any farther or I'll strip this Tucks
off and he teach you a lesson I've

2146
02:42:09.280 --> 02:42:13.319
never taught before. No whatever that
means, not only are you going all

2147
02:42:13.319 --> 02:42:20.120
the way down? What they And
then Sting springs up from the poker table

2148
02:42:20.159 --> 02:42:22.120
and goes, oh no, no, no, no no. He says,

2149
02:42:22.159 --> 02:42:26.239
I'm starting to worry about me.
Helkamania, you're wrong about that.

2150
02:42:26.319 --> 02:42:28.479
He calls him, Howkamania, that's
funny, that's funny. That's very fun

2151
02:42:28.600 --> 02:42:31.319
because I've got kind all kinds of
aces in the hole. You see,

2152
02:42:31.319 --> 02:42:37.319
I've got the network Ace look Ace
and network ACE. I recall the network

2153
02:42:37.399 --> 02:42:43.040
told you in Bishoff you're on a
very short lease leash, very thin short

2154
02:42:43.120 --> 02:42:46.639
lease. Now that's the other side
of his business. It could be that

2155
02:42:46.760 --> 02:42:50.920
too. Not a whole lot of
room for error anymore for you guys,

2156
02:42:50.959 --> 02:42:54.959
Sting says, A month to month. Yeah, are you sure, a

2157
02:42:54.000 --> 02:42:56.360
stinger, there's not a whole lot
more room for Bishof and Hogan to make

2158
02:42:56.479 --> 02:42:58.719
errors. I don't know. I
wouldn't put my money on that one,

2159
02:43:00.440 --> 02:43:03.079
he says. Let's just say the
slightest bit of shenanigans from any of you,

2160
02:43:03.680 --> 02:43:05.840
and there's a lot bigger bite than
a bark around here. That's a

2161
02:43:05.879 --> 02:43:07.840
whole other story. I'm gonna leave
it here tonight. I'm gonna leave here

2162
02:43:07.879 --> 02:43:11.799
tonight, the world heavyweight champion,
not leaving in a body bag or a

2163
02:43:11.879 --> 02:43:15.840
stretcher. I've got all these aces, look at another and another. Those

2164
02:43:15.879 --> 02:43:18.399
are called my magic bullet aces,
he says to him. So you know

2165
02:43:18.479 --> 02:43:24.040
why they're called magic whole comania because
they're going to appear before your eyes.

2166
02:43:24.079 --> 02:43:26.079
Look, look, look, nothing. And then the lights go out,

2167
02:43:26.440 --> 02:43:31.120
and when they come back on.
In the balcony, there are clowns in

2168
02:43:31.239 --> 02:43:37.799
the catwalk, people dressed up like
killer clowns walking around. Yeah. Eric

2169
02:43:37.840 --> 02:43:43.120
goes, you're a freak, stinses
thank you, and then he says,

2170
02:43:43.159 --> 02:43:46.079
that's the nicest thing you've ever said
to me. Eric. These are my

2171
02:43:46.200 --> 02:43:48.760
friends, and tonight they're gonna watch
my back. And tonight I'm going to

2172
02:43:48.879 --> 02:43:52.760
leave the world heavyweight champion. You
talk about the clowns or his friends,

2173
02:43:52.440 --> 02:43:56.159
Let's just say I'm all in.
And he flips the table over and the

2174
02:43:56.280 --> 02:44:01.559
lights go out and Mike Tenego's evil
clowns up in the rafters, turning Impact

2175
02:44:01.680 --> 02:44:05.159
Zone into a fun house. Oh
that'd be something new. I'm sorry what

2176
02:44:05.719 --> 02:44:07.559
it's about a long time since.
Impact has been a fun house, Sin's

2177
02:44:07.600 --> 02:44:13.680
for sure, and yep, Hogan
takes the jacket off, ready to fight.

2178
02:44:13.760 --> 02:44:18.920
Sting is gone, holds like brother
where and in that main event,

2179
02:44:18.959 --> 02:44:22.559
stats on the scorpion deathlock bully blindsides
him and then a guy in an evil

2180
02:44:22.600 --> 02:44:26.959
clown outfit comes out, takes him
out, hits him of the bat lights

2181
02:44:28.000 --> 02:44:31.319
go out again, Anderson's alone in
the ring. Um Sting hits a scorpion

2182
02:44:31.360 --> 02:44:37.600
death drop on Anderson. Roferee climbs
in one two three, stings the champion

2183
02:44:37.079 --> 02:44:45.360
once again, and then the clown
peels off his mask and it's Kurt Angle.

2184
02:44:46.399 --> 02:44:50.680
So whatever. This is where that
scene comes from. Where Kurt looks

2185
02:44:50.840 --> 02:44:54.120
like all strung out and like ultra
thin face. It's when he takes the

2186
02:44:54.159 --> 02:44:58.239
clown mask off and he's got like
stubble and no hair. He's got like

2187
02:44:58.280 --> 02:45:03.760
the hair or all comfort. Oh
my gosh, so disturbing. Glass is

2188
02:45:05.159 --> 02:45:07.120
this moment. I'm sure there are
many moments he looked like that, but

2189
02:45:07.239 --> 02:45:11.840
this is the one you see freeze
frame most often. He takes the clown

2190
02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:15.360
mask off at the top of the
ramp. This was a big impact.

2191
02:45:15.360 --> 02:45:16.280
They built it up. They gave
it a name to put the world title

2192
02:45:16.360 --> 02:45:20.440
on the main event Stings teena title
win. Ellie did one point five eight

2193
02:45:20.520 --> 02:45:26.120
million viewers. Normal range has to
be disappointing. I'm sure there not great

2194
02:45:26.159 --> 02:45:31.040
signs going into the fall for a
total NonStop action. We moved to July

2195
02:45:31.200 --> 02:45:35.600
twenty eighth. There's an in ring
confrontation between Hulk Hogan and Kurt Angle.

2196
02:45:35.440 --> 02:45:39.079
Um, if you get at Hogan
Angle, that'll get us most of where

2197
02:45:39.079 --> 02:45:46.040
we need to be. Okay,
Hogan, Let's get one thing clear.

2198
02:45:46.399 --> 02:45:52.559
I'm not Kenny Anderson. I can't
be bought. When I sigh with Pixie

2199
02:45:52.600 --> 02:45:54.280
Carter five years ago, I promise
her I'd be the best rusher on the

2200
02:45:54.360 --> 02:45:58.559
roster, and I take pride knaw. But if you want to go all

2201
02:45:58.559 --> 02:46:01.239
the way back back to Hull Comedian, let's go back to Hull Comedia.

2202
02:46:01.559 --> 02:46:05.440
Yeah. I paid to see you, just like everybody else. You know

2203
02:46:05.559 --> 02:46:11.319
why, because you were great,
You were something different, you were something

2204
02:46:11.360 --> 02:46:16.680
that no one's ever seen before.
And now, twenty five years later,

2205
02:46:16.440 --> 02:46:22.159
the name Hulk Hogan brings on a
whole new meaning because the fact that you

2206
02:46:22.440 --> 02:46:26.079
can't go anymore. You know something, Brother, you're crossing the line right

2207
02:46:26.200 --> 02:46:33.120
now into some real dangerous territory.
And if you're thinking that I'm gonna climb

2208
02:46:33.159 --> 02:46:37.559
in this ring and wrestle again,
well I'm gonna tell you right now,

2209
02:46:39.079 --> 02:46:45.040
I'm never gonna step in this ring
and wrestle again. I had to make

2210
02:46:45.079 --> 02:46:50.000
a choice. After thirty years of
being the greatest wrestler to ever step in

2211
02:46:50.079 --> 02:46:56.000
this ring, eight back surgeries,
need replacements, and hip replacements. I

2212
02:46:56.159 --> 02:47:01.600
had to make a decision my life
or no life, and I chose quality

2213
02:47:01.639 --> 02:47:07.760
of life. Brother, Wow,
Sting was right. I lit a fire

2214
02:47:07.840 --> 02:47:11.440
under your ass, didn't I.
You know what, Hogan, You're right,

2215
02:47:11.559 --> 02:47:13.719
just like in the Olympics, I
want to go back to the Olympics.

2216
02:47:15.319 --> 02:47:18.719
The older we get, the more
the fire burns. There's no doubt

2217
02:47:18.760 --> 02:47:22.159
in my mind you can still go. But you need to prove that to

2218
02:47:22.280 --> 02:47:26.680
yourself. Well, you know,
Kurt, why don't you just spit it

2219
02:47:26.760 --> 02:47:31.680
out? Why don't you just talk
straight to me and quit beating around the

2220
02:47:31.719 --> 02:47:37.440
bush. What are you trying to
say, Kurt angle, Well, let's

2221
02:47:37.479 --> 02:47:41.079
see, Hogan, Um, you
want to pay me a great deal of

2222
02:47:41.159 --> 02:47:48.159
mighty to take out Sting? Why
don't you take out sting brother. Listen,

2223
02:47:48.280 --> 02:47:56.040
Hogan, every great warrior has one
more fight left in So why don't

2224
02:47:56.040 --> 02:47:58.719
you prove it to yourself and to
everybody in this world? You can still

2225
02:47:58.799 --> 02:48:07.399
do it and don't call me again. So they're going hard now, I'll

2226
02:48:07.440 --> 02:48:09.639
say, they built it up like
it's gonna be a baby face. It's

2227
02:48:09.639 --> 02:48:16.479
the strangest thing right here. I'm
gonna send you something because this is what

2228
02:48:16.719 --> 02:48:20.000
this is, what this is.
What more than that image of Kurt Angle,

2229
02:48:20.120 --> 02:48:26.959
which yeah, I understand, is
the fact that they actually made this

2230
02:48:28.479 --> 02:48:33.719
and sold those figure looking like that
with you know, like what the fuck?

2231
02:48:37.760 --> 02:48:41.159
Like who buys that? I mean, Oh god, I mean I'm

2232
02:48:41.159 --> 02:48:48.440
gonna this is even this is almost
worse. This one window here, like

2233
02:48:48.920 --> 02:49:00.239
what the fuck? I mean,
like, come on, who, let's

2234
02:49:00.239 --> 02:49:03.799
see the problem. Did they make
a Hogan figure with the red paint in

2235
02:49:03.879 --> 02:49:07.239
his face and the bandana floating on
his head? My god, that would

2236
02:49:07.239 --> 02:49:11.840
be absolutely tremendous, the greatest thing
they ever fucking did. As for Kurt,

2237
02:49:11.879 --> 02:49:15.840
Well, come September twenty eleven,
he's arrested in Woodstock, Virginia,

2238
02:49:15.959 --> 02:49:22.200
charged with driving while intoxicated. But
it's fine because his blood alcohol content ended

2239
02:49:22.280 --> 02:49:26.399
up although above the legal limit.
He had to take a second test at

2240
02:49:26.399 --> 02:49:28.920
the headquarters, at which time it
came in below the legal limits. So

2241
02:49:30.040 --> 02:49:33.440
nothing to see here, even though
they had an interview with hul Coogan on

2242
02:49:33.520 --> 02:49:35.840
a serious radio and what he ended
up saying is, you know, I

2243
02:49:35.920 --> 02:49:39.440
talked to his ex wife and he
said he's a horrible driver, that's why

2244
02:49:39.520 --> 02:49:43.280
he was swerving. Oh my god, Well I heard that, you know

2245
02:49:43.360 --> 02:49:46.719
what, dude, I heard that
that Vince Russo was actually in the Carbreller.

2246
02:49:46.840 --> 02:49:50.920
That's why he was swerving down right. That's where he learned how to

2247
02:49:50.959 --> 02:49:52.559
do it. The whole time they
were married. She wouldn't even let him

2248
02:49:52.600 --> 02:49:54.600
drive the kids. He texts when
he drives. He's great in the ring

2249
02:49:54.600 --> 02:49:58.159
as far as focusing, but his
people's skills are horrible. He's got two

2250
02:49:58.239 --> 02:50:01.200
left feet, and it translates into
was driving about making any excuses for him,

2251
02:50:01.200 --> 02:50:03.280
But I want to know what the
facts are before I passed judgment.

2252
02:50:03.799 --> 02:50:05.559
But I'm also making a lot of
excuses for him. Brother and Kurt Angle

2253
02:50:07.000 --> 02:50:11.200
Karen Karen Jarrett Angle later posted people
should never make false statements and say they

2254
02:50:11.239 --> 02:50:16.159
had conversations with people they didn't.
That's good except for Kogan, Karen,

2255
02:50:16.360 --> 02:50:22.000
except for Hulko. What Later Eric
gets another note from get Ready the network

2256
02:50:26.159 --> 02:50:30.639
hid as hell, But I'm not
take this anymore, says based on the

2257
02:50:30.799 --> 02:50:33.479
current success of the Extivision and pay
per view, our network expects you to

2258
02:50:33.520 --> 02:50:37.600
build and brand the X division this
out loud. We further expect you to

2259
02:50:37.680 --> 02:50:41.840
hire more Extivision wrestlers. I do
this, Wow, I don't know.

2260
02:50:43.479 --> 02:50:48.319
Hogan comes in, breaks in,
barges in it all stops now angles a

2261
02:50:48.399 --> 02:50:50.360
dead man on the agenda tonight,
takes off the shades. The only thing

2262
02:50:50.399 --> 02:50:54.319
I care about is cutting Kurt's throat
and eliminating him. Why is he so

2263
02:50:54.440 --> 02:50:56.040
mad? What did Kurt say?
All he said was I think you can

2264
02:50:56.159 --> 02:51:03.200
fight. I think you can do
it. What? What? What do

2265
02:51:03.280 --> 02:51:07.079
you that at this point? Sting, what are you saying? First into

2266
02:51:07.120 --> 02:51:09.920
the room with a red blazer and
he's got a big cage with a black

2267
02:51:11.000 --> 02:51:13.799
tarp over in his hand. Oh, I have this one. I got

2268
02:51:13.840 --> 02:51:26.639
this one for you, So fucking
get him on the phone, put him

2269
02:51:26.840 --> 02:51:33.879
through now phone conversations network. Oh
me, I'm fine, I'm perfect,

2270
02:51:33.079 --> 02:51:39.360
I'm just freaking dandy. How are
you. The only way that I could

2271
02:51:39.399 --> 02:51:43.440
be better is if I wasn't being
disrespected, humiliated and treated like garbage.

2272
02:51:43.920 --> 02:51:50.399
But the network who I'm working with, I'm Avid, Eric Bischoff. Do

2273
02:51:50.600 --> 02:51:54.399
you know what we mean to your
company? Do you know what we mean

2274
02:51:54.479 --> 02:51:58.680
to your network? Remember what we're
capable of doing for you? And then

2275
02:51:58.079 --> 02:52:05.799
to insult us, disrespect the greatest
by having Stay name is your network consultant,

2276
02:52:05.840 --> 02:52:07.959
to your network executive, or whatever
the hell it is you think you

2277
02:52:09.120 --> 02:52:16.319
need. You think were your problem, he's your problem? What what do

2278
02:52:16.399 --> 02:52:22.760
you mean? You haven't talked to
Stay in weeks story? I don't understand.

2279
02:52:22.959 --> 02:52:31.000
I'm no, no, I'm confused. I'm your here. Um,

2280
02:52:31.520 --> 02:52:52.479
I'm I'm. I'm gonna claim that
I'm sorry suddenly, I'm trying to get

2281
02:52:52.559 --> 02:53:00.520
my composure. Eric. I I've
had this stuff story just it's been bottled

2282
02:53:00.600 --> 02:53:05.159
up inside me, this whole show, and I can't hold it anymore Ready

2283
02:53:05.239 --> 02:53:11.000
it does. I know that the
truth sets free, and so I'm gonna

2284
02:53:11.040 --> 02:53:22.719
pass up right now. Okay,
I'm I'm, I'm not. I'm not

2285
02:53:22.879 --> 02:53:28.399
the network exact. It's so fucking
crazy. I'm not the network exact.

2286
02:53:30.399 --> 02:53:37.239
The Ultimate X Match and the cage
hatch. So sorry, he go,

2287
02:53:37.399 --> 02:53:39.520
so sorry. It was all just
right here in my head. It was

2288
02:53:39.559 --> 02:53:52.760
just concocted in my head. I
got made a love art. But you

2289
02:53:52.840 --> 02:53:56.920
know what boggles my mind. What
boggles my mind is what happens when you

2290
02:53:56.000 --> 02:54:03.479
wear a nice suit for Sawchi.
It's Italian four thousand dollars. It sounds

2291
02:54:03.479 --> 02:54:09.600
like Jim Carrey. Listen to you
get your way. You got stuck and

2292
02:54:09.719 --> 02:54:20.399
it feels good. But this is
good, feel good for you. Remember

2293
02:54:20.479 --> 02:54:24.360
the Hitchcock movie The birds. Yeah, they're just pack pack pack pack pack

2294
02:54:24.399 --> 02:54:28.600
pack pack pack pack pack pack pack
pack pack pack pack away at you don't

2295
02:54:28.639 --> 02:54:30.719
move, that's when they want to
get you. He'll go right for the

2296
02:54:30.799 --> 02:54:33.920
eyeballs. It's okay, you're gonna
get along good with him because these birds

2297
02:54:33.959 --> 02:54:39.600
have six cents making smell of garbage
from a mile away. Eric got a

2298
02:54:39.719 --> 02:54:43.360
key an outdoor lock. I'm gonna
go watch a cage match. See you

2299
02:54:43.559 --> 02:54:50.840
stack down you stick stick stick sick
stick stick. It's not like he was

2300
02:54:50.879 --> 02:54:56.440
saying stick stick stanks take sick time
time. I mean, it's what it

2301
02:54:56.520 --> 02:55:01.799
sounds like. He takes out a
c in Bischof's office. The thing flies

2302
02:55:01.840 --> 02:55:05.719
and lands on Bishop's monitor. It
was really funny, and Bishop's too afraid

2303
02:55:05.840 --> 02:55:09.440
to move, and so he's frozen
in place backstage, while Sting continues to

2304
02:55:09.520 --> 02:55:16.040
carry on his lie told earlier the
night that he's been designated the network wrap

2305
02:55:16.159 --> 02:55:20.360
and has power and starts making matches. Bischoff realizes on the phone call that's

2306
02:55:20.399 --> 02:55:24.520
bullshit, but now can't do anything
about reversing the things. Sting is set

2307
02:55:24.559 --> 02:55:28.120
in a motion because he's trapped in
his office because of this bird. Yeah

2308
02:55:28.719 --> 02:55:33.600
right, it's here. Erica reflect
on this h this dimmick in this segment

2309
02:55:33.680 --> 02:55:37.120
on his podcast eighty three Weeks,
Eric Crowe Sting. I loved it.

2310
02:55:39.079 --> 02:55:43.040
I was great. We did.
I remember a scene that we did backstage

2311
02:55:43.040 --> 02:55:46.159
where I was sitting in my desk
scene, he says, and Sting came

2312
02:55:46.200 --> 02:55:48.600
in and he had a vulture.
I think, Yes, it was silly,

2313
02:55:48.639 --> 02:55:52.520
but it was fun. Oh fuck, it was a riot. Yeah.

2314
02:55:52.639 --> 02:55:56.000
I had so much fun with that, and Sting loved that character.

2315
02:55:56.120 --> 02:56:00.360
He had a blast because he got
to do something different. Yes, and

2316
02:56:01.120 --> 02:56:05.440
kind of expand his repertoire, so
to speak. But stay loved it.

2317
02:56:05.239 --> 02:56:09.319
I had a blast doing it,
and it was really interesting. It was

2318
02:56:09.319 --> 02:56:15.440
an interesting spin on the Crow character. No pun intended staying. In an

2319
02:56:15.440 --> 02:56:18.399
interview with The Ringer recently with Cameron
Hawkins, in which he talked about this

2320
02:56:18.719 --> 02:56:22.479
period of his career, he said, quote, that's really an extension of

2321
02:56:22.559 --> 02:56:24.600
me. Most people don't see that
unless you get to know me. But

2322
02:56:24.680 --> 02:56:28.440
I do have a personality and I
love to have fun. I love that

2323
02:56:28.479 --> 02:56:30.280
kind of stuff. I don't know. It was something that I felt like

2324
02:56:30.319 --> 02:56:33.559
I needed to do again, evolve
and try something different and step out of

2325
02:56:33.600 --> 02:56:37.319
the box and take risks. You
talk to somebody like Kevin Nash, Marcus

2326
02:56:37.360 --> 02:56:39.159
bag While, Lex Luger, the
Steiner Brothers, I'll tell you it was

2327
02:56:39.200 --> 02:56:43.799
just kind of who I was.
I was constantly doing impersonations, doing voices

2328
02:56:43.840 --> 02:56:46.479
and accents. I can remember playing
cards with Randy Savage in the dressing room.

2329
02:56:46.520 --> 02:56:48.520
Every hand I was beating him,
and every hand I was playing the

2330
02:56:48.559 --> 02:56:52.479
part of a different person. And
I was just on him and on him

2331
02:56:52.520 --> 02:56:54.719
and on him, and he got
so mad because I was taking his money

2332
02:56:54.719 --> 02:56:58.479
and Eiels knock it off. I
feel like I'm playing ten different people.

2333
02:56:58.559 --> 02:57:01.079
It's not fair. I love that
kind of stuff with the joker, sting

2334
02:57:05.920 --> 02:57:09.200
it kind of Sting is a fucking
weirdo. I was. I fucking love

2335
02:57:09.280 --> 02:57:15.159
it, all right, exactly,
alright or right right, right, right

2336
02:57:15.360 --> 02:57:20.959
right, Steve, I don't know
who am I playing with right now?

2337
02:57:22.159 --> 02:57:26.000
My playing with Sting? Am I
playing with Psycho? Fuckar? Too many

2338
02:57:26.079 --> 02:57:31.440
moving pieces. There's so much going
on right now, and I'm not making

2339
02:57:31.520 --> 02:57:35.920
any money. Oh I know is
that I keep giving it to somebody else

2340
02:57:37.319 --> 02:57:43.399
and I don't know where it's going. Freak out, freak out, fuh

2341
02:57:43.879 --> 02:57:56.200
what? Fine? All right,
what I'm gonna deal all right, all

2342
02:57:56.280 --> 02:58:05.399
right, all right, new chord
game, gonna take it from the top.

2343
02:58:05.959 --> 02:58:11.159
We're gonna play war. That's it. No poker, all right,

2344
02:58:11.319 --> 02:58:16.600
nothing else, simple to the t, all right. We're gonna do it

2345
02:58:16.760 --> 02:58:22.639
one way. I'm not asking Look, hey, Steve, I'm not asking

2346
02:58:22.680 --> 02:58:24.639
you to say anything. I don't
want you to get excited. I want

2347
02:58:24.680 --> 02:58:31.879
you just play. You and me, Randy Poffo, Steve Borden, We're

2348
02:58:31.959 --> 02:58:35.520
just playing chords, all right.
I like that. Alright, Mano Imano,

2349
02:58:37.239 --> 02:58:43.280
you know what I mean. You
get the fuck away from you right

2350
02:58:43.399 --> 02:58:48.120
now. This is Manportan right now, alright, alright, alright, here

2351
02:58:48.159 --> 02:58:54.639
we go, just simple, simple
war. You win a hand, you

2352
02:58:54.799 --> 02:58:58.559
make money. I may I win
a hand, I make money. It's

2353
02:59:00.040 --> 02:59:07.879
it's gonna be all right, all
right, flipping the cards war? Wait

2354
02:59:07.920 --> 02:59:16.159
a minute, Who the fuck are
you now? You're making me nervous right

2355
02:59:16.239 --> 02:59:22.079
now? Right I'm wondering exactly where
I am. That's your problem. I

2356
02:59:22.120 --> 02:59:26.159
don't know why I met. Playing
ten different characters disrupts your sense of where

2357
02:59:26.239 --> 02:59:33.280
you are. You're somebody else entirely. Right now, I'm wondering exactly what

2358
02:59:33.479 --> 02:59:37.239
I'm doing here with you. Did
I come here? Did you drive me?

2359
02:59:39.959 --> 02:59:46.879
I'm wondering where exactly I am right
now? Okay? Did I come

2360
02:59:46.000 --> 02:59:58.440
here? Did you drive me?
That? Did you drive me? It's

2361
02:59:58.520 --> 03:00:07.120
kind of whole fucking point. That
is the question, hmm. That communicates

2362
03:00:07.200 --> 03:00:11.959
the essence of the macho man Randy
side. Did you drive me right into

2363
03:00:11.000 --> 03:00:18.559
a tree? You know I'm looking
around. I only see two people?

2364
03:00:18.680 --> 03:00:24.120
Is that you see? Mean?
All right? I don't know what's what.

2365
03:00:24.680 --> 03:00:28.879
I don't know who is who,
I don't know where's we're all might

2366
03:00:28.959 --> 03:00:31.959
know was that you and I are
playing cards right now. I didn't come

2367
03:00:33.040 --> 03:00:35.399
here on my own accord. I
don't know if I even gave permission to

2368
03:00:35.440 --> 03:00:41.479
come. I think I came here
in my own accord. However, I

2369
03:00:41.559 --> 03:00:45.120
didn't come here on my own accord, but I maybe you came in and

2370
03:00:45.239 --> 03:00:52.840
with your accord. Check the parking
garage. Check it out, Chick,

2371
03:00:54.000 --> 03:00:56.799
where we are? Chick? What's
going on? I don't know. I

2372
03:00:56.879 --> 03:01:01.040
don't see Elizabeth. That makes me
nervous. I don't see you right now.

2373
03:01:01.120 --> 03:01:09.239
It makes me nervous. I see
invisibility. I see invisibility, or

2374
03:01:09.280 --> 03:01:11.760
that explains it. I don't see
you right now. He's looking at You've

2375
03:01:11.799 --> 03:01:16.079
been talking to you, and that's
what he says. I don't see you

2376
03:01:16.319 --> 03:01:22.840
right now. And what do you
see? I see invisibility. I see

2377
03:01:22.879 --> 03:01:26.680
a cornfield right see the person made
out of water? I see your corn

2378
03:01:26.879 --> 03:01:33.920
field. I see the fall.
I see exactly the things that you're nerves

2379
03:01:33.959 --> 03:01:45.319
supposed to see with a human eye. I see clowns. Yeah, that

2380
03:01:45.399 --> 03:01:52.440
was last week on Impact. There's
carn angle. Actually we see clown infrastructure.

2381
03:01:54.760 --> 03:02:01.120
Okay, shut the fucking station down, hold the fall, stop the

2382
03:02:01.239 --> 03:02:09.000
presses, back up, the DTG
printers, pause, pause all production,

2383
03:02:11.760 --> 03:02:16.799
pause all production processes. I want
not another T shirt. To come off

2384
03:02:16.879 --> 03:02:26.319
the press until we've printed ten thousand
of the following the Randy Savage silhouette at

2385
03:02:26.360 --> 03:03:09.799
the top, I see clown infrastructure. H oh shit, what I mean?

2386
03:03:15.319 --> 03:03:20.760
What does that look like? I'll
tell you this is what I picture.

2387
03:03:22.040 --> 03:03:28.079
I picture a a a glass skyscraper, sure, shiny glass, very

2388
03:03:28.159 --> 03:03:35.239
tall skyscraper. And in front,
go ahead. Is it isn't any bitty

2389
03:03:35.280 --> 03:03:43.440
car? Is it? What?
An any batty car? Just just clowns

2390
03:03:43.520 --> 03:03:48.159
coming out and going into the building
in single file. That's cloon in single

2391
03:03:48.239 --> 03:03:58.760
file, in single file, funny
assembly line through the family glass door of

2392
03:03:58.920 --> 03:04:09.319
this funhouse skyscraper, also known as
clown infrastructure, this building building, this

2393
03:04:09.559 --> 03:04:18.360
clown infrastructure because they're walking into it. How they're tiny thumbnail sized car.

2394
03:04:20.159 --> 03:04:28.040
Oh shit, Oh my god,
my head hurts so bad. Right,

2395
03:04:28.360 --> 03:04:31.799
I know we crossed the line from
laugh to your silent laugh to where like

2396
03:04:33.200 --> 03:04:43.680
you're having an episode. Oh your
body's trying to shut down. Oh is

2397
03:04:43.719 --> 03:04:48.399
that that podcast where they say clown
infrastructure and laugh for twenty minutes? Yes,

2398
03:04:48.520 --> 03:04:54.040
it is, you fucking bitch.
Oh And if you don't like it,

2399
03:04:54.120 --> 03:04:58.920
you don't know what it's good for
you. D So the Hardcore Justice

2400
03:04:58.959 --> 03:05:01.639
pay per view. Hogan was going
to hit Sting with a chair in his

2401
03:05:01.680 --> 03:05:03.399
Magic against Kurt Angle, but Angle
grabbed it away in Cracksting with a twin

2402
03:05:03.479 --> 03:05:09.399
the title new champ Kern Angle,
and then Immortal turns on Ken Anderson,

2403
03:05:09.440 --> 03:05:16.319
so it's fine impact August elev The
fuck goes on in the thin Gaunt World

2404
03:05:16.399 --> 03:05:20.399
Champion Kurt Angle, who's pretending he's
going to try for the Olympic team again,

2405
03:05:20.440 --> 03:05:24.959
which was hilarious because only pro wrestling
even paid attention to his proclamations.

2406
03:05:26.079 --> 03:05:28.440
No one in the him, which
a wrestling community covered for a second,

2407
03:05:28.920 --> 03:05:31.920
the former nineteen ninety six Olympic gold
medalist saying he's going to try to make

2408
03:05:31.959 --> 03:05:35.760
a comeback because that's how far away
from possible. It was said that three

2409
03:05:35.840 --> 03:05:39.440
days before Hardcore Jestice, someone called
me who has been talking to Karen and

2410
03:05:39.520 --> 03:05:41.520
Jeff and they know what they did
was unjust. But this person explained,

2411
03:05:41.559 --> 03:05:46.600
all wrestlers our scumbags. They have
no ethics. Jeff saw a beautiful woman

2412
03:05:46.639 --> 03:05:48.399
and Karen and he went forward even
though she was married. It doesn't matter.

2413
03:05:48.719 --> 03:05:52.000
That's the way this business is.
Kurn Angle says the third person has

2414
03:05:52.079 --> 03:05:56.120
blood on their hands, a third
party. He says. That third party,

2415
03:05:58.760 --> 03:06:01.840
Kurt Angle reveals was Dixie Carter,
and he crushes around. He says,

2416
03:06:01.840 --> 03:06:05.280
three years ago, the Reform Party. She's not there, but I'm

2417
03:06:05.319 --> 03:06:09.719
not the reformed part of the Reform
Party. Three years ago, I came

2418
03:06:09.760 --> 03:06:11.639
to you and told you about Jeff
and Karen, and you told me you

2419
03:06:11.680 --> 03:06:13.879
didn't know anything. You told me. I was paranoid. Well, Jeff

2420
03:06:13.920 --> 03:06:16.319
and Karen told this individual. You
knew everything. I was going to break

2421
03:06:16.360 --> 03:06:20.399
Jeff's neck, but I didn't want
a pr disaster for you, so I

2422
03:06:20.479 --> 03:06:24.079
took the high road for you.
Sting was your ally and your friend.

2423
03:06:24.120 --> 03:06:28.120
I had to eliminate him at Hardcore
Justice with this chair. When I came

2424
03:06:28.159 --> 03:06:30.399
here, Dixie, you wanted me
to be the centerpiece of this company and

2425
03:06:30.479 --> 03:06:33.559
surround me with young talent. I'm
going to take that young talent and hurt

2426
03:06:33.639 --> 03:06:35.600
them one by one. Here we
go again, and I'm going to send

2427
03:06:35.639 --> 03:06:39.319
them home, Dixie, until no
one has left but Kurt Angle. Dixie

2428
03:06:39.360 --> 03:06:41.959
Carter, as long as Kurt Angle
is here, you will never ever get

2429
03:06:41.000 --> 03:06:46.959
your company back again. So for
some reason, they've got to sit down

2430
03:06:46.000 --> 03:06:50.559
a storyline reason why Kurt Angle is
at odds with Dixie Carter again by finding

2431
03:06:50.600 --> 03:06:58.399
out that she knew Jeff was absolutely
obliterating Karen Angle from every possible position before

2432
03:06:58.559 --> 03:07:03.600
admit it to Kurt. I don't
know what that's about, but that's the

2433
03:07:03.680 --> 03:07:09.200
story they're telling. Okay, just
a pulse check on TNA September sixteenth,

2434
03:07:09.239 --> 03:07:11.680
they run Rahway, New Jersey,
and they draw three hundred and twenty five

2435
03:07:11.799 --> 03:07:18.040
fans, less than New Japan Pro
Wrestling, which had essentially no television exposure

2436
03:07:18.040 --> 03:07:20.159
in the United States back then,
could draw in the same building. So

2437
03:07:20.319 --> 03:07:28.280
it's not all it's not all great. September fifteenth Impact Hogan is there for

2438
03:07:28.360 --> 03:07:31.559
Angle and defense against Sting at No
Surrender, which was September eleventh show,

2439
03:07:31.600 --> 03:07:33.600
and there's red, white and blue
ropes and everything because it's the tenth anniversary

2440
03:07:33.600 --> 03:07:37.239
of nine to eleven and the action
hit ringside. Sting goes into the rail.

2441
03:07:37.319 --> 03:07:41.520
Hogan pops up out of the crowd
and spray paint something in Sting's eyes,

2442
03:07:41.559 --> 03:07:43.639
allowing Angle to the Angle Slam one, two three and retain against Sting

2443
03:07:45.440 --> 03:07:50.040
and embraces Angle afterwards. I'm gather
they're letting sting. You hold onto those

2444
03:07:50.079 --> 03:07:56.680
whims seriously, and there were some
rigamarole too, where like sting and angle

2445
03:07:56.479 --> 03:08:01.120
love to finish they had and then
Hogan shows up at the last minute.

2446
03:08:01.120 --> 03:08:05.479
If Vince Russo tells this story and
starts messing around with the finish even though

2447
03:08:05.399 --> 03:08:09.239
he was gone all day and couldn't
be bothered to go to the production meetings

2448
03:08:09.319 --> 03:08:13.760
or at least stick around after the
production meetings and see things very busy.

2449
03:08:13.280 --> 03:08:16.639
He's very busy. He's got the
things things to this. So on this

2450
03:08:16.719 --> 03:08:20.520
episode of Impacts number fifteenth, Flair
comes out to start the show in his

2451
03:08:20.600 --> 03:08:24.680
black and blue robe and uh oh
yes he does, holds out his most

2452
03:08:24.719 --> 03:08:28.040
storied rival, staying one more time. He does, here, I got

2453
03:08:28.120 --> 03:08:31.760
this, I got most of this. I think for you save there it

2454
03:08:31.959 --> 03:08:46.239
is. Say it's an age,
you boy, and I'm gonna talk to

2455
03:08:46.360 --> 03:08:52.760
you one last time. Come on, come on boy, come on,

2456
03:08:52.879 --> 03:09:00.680
let meet you maker. Come on
boy, you can run, but you

2457
03:09:00.840 --> 03:09:13.600
can I we're doing it. We're
doing the stinging. Rick Flair in twenty

2458
03:09:13.799 --> 03:09:20.600
eleven. Now I was flare,
he said ten years after the Final Night

2459
03:09:20.639 --> 03:09:30.239
trail in the final he shouldn't he
didn't sit well, come on, it's

2460
03:09:30.239 --> 03:09:39.600
time. It's on, It's on. Get un It's time tonight, Tonight,

2461
03:09:41.600 --> 03:09:50.000
you versus God, the franchise icon
versus God. One man walks on

2462
03:09:50.319 --> 03:09:56.360
this ring either retired for life,
or one man goes to the hotel and

2463
03:09:56.479 --> 03:10:01.719
gets drunk. Okay, okay,
but I want back. I want back

2464
03:10:01.760 --> 03:10:05.559
to the light I was in.
And I sworn to Hulk Hogan that I

2465
03:10:05.600 --> 03:10:11.000
would beat you against odds. And
you know who I am. Brother,

2466
03:10:11.120 --> 03:10:18.120
The name's Nature more ric Flair,
sixteen times your world champion. Tonight I

2467
03:10:18.399 --> 03:10:22.200
beat you. You go home and
the older. The way you get the

2468
03:10:22.319 --> 03:10:30.200
Hogan is over my dead body,
saying, okay, good, It's the

2469
03:10:30.319 --> 03:10:33.879
only way that I can get to
Hogan. It's over your dead body.

2470
03:10:33.479 --> 03:10:41.319
You die tonight, Rick, You're
gonna die tonight, Rick, you were

2471
03:10:41.399 --> 03:10:46.239
gonna die. Hit my hands.
You know who I am. I am

2472
03:10:46.360 --> 03:10:52.479
the stand and I'm gonna put the
scorpion death luck on you. I'm gonna

2473
03:10:52.520 --> 03:10:58.600
scorpion death drop you. I'm gonna
throw you off the top route. I'm

2474
03:10:58.639 --> 03:11:05.360
gonna make your life. I'm leaving
hell starting Nah, take your robot freak.

2475
03:11:05.760 --> 03:11:09.719
No, Hey, why don't we
just do this go right now,

2476
03:11:09.840 --> 03:11:15.360
up the figures that big blood swap
tears for your ass. I'll blake that

2477
03:11:15.520 --> 03:11:18.440
figure off. I'm telling you,
ready to off. Let's go. Now,

2478
03:11:18.559 --> 03:11:22.559
what do you take? Come on, come on, let's go right

2479
03:11:22.639 --> 03:11:33.000
now, let's turn them off.
Stings ready to do battle. I just

2480
03:11:33.159 --> 03:11:45.600
called your blusket yea once again?
Horse you you look done again, you

2481
03:11:45.799 --> 03:11:54.760
looked gone again. Gonna get who
We're gonna do it again. Ten years

2482
03:11:54.799 --> 03:12:03.319
after the final Nitro Flair versus Sting, I don't know why, I'm Impact,

2483
03:12:05.040 --> 03:12:07.879
they came up with this little wrinkle
to the Hogan story that Flair is

2484
03:12:07.920 --> 03:12:09.239
standing up for Hogan and you got
to go through me to get to Hulk.

2485
03:12:11.000 --> 03:12:15.879
Why, I don't know. There
were some stuff in The Observer about

2486
03:12:15.879 --> 03:12:18.399
how the idea was that when they
had the Sting Hogan matchup, bound for

2487
03:12:18.479 --> 03:12:20.799
glory of Hogan was too limited physically
when he got there, that Sting pardon

2488
03:12:20.879 --> 03:12:24.840
me, Flair in Hogan's corner on
the floor could do a lot of bumping

2489
03:12:24.879 --> 03:12:28.200
for him and keep the action up. But that plan went out the window

2490
03:12:28.239 --> 03:12:31.360
real quick because on this episode of
Impact, guy fucking doing that. I

2491
03:12:31.440 --> 03:12:35.159
know, as in this episode of
Impact or In the match with Sting,

2492
03:12:35.280 --> 03:12:41.680
Flair suffers a very bad shoulder injury
and it's out off a superplex for some

2493
03:12:41.840 --> 03:12:46.120
time. In addition, on this
Impact Jeff Hardy is back and he's walking

2494
03:12:46.200 --> 03:12:52.760
around personally apologizing to several members of
the roster, including aj Styles and Kurt

2495
03:12:52.799 --> 03:12:56.000
Angle, and they chew him out. So they're basically putting on television the

2496
03:12:56.079 --> 03:12:58.879
apology tour that he had to make
in real life to get back into the

2497
03:13:00.200 --> 03:13:11.319
Impact locker room. So that's good
stuff. I'm just I've done it's Flair

2498
03:13:11.440 --> 03:13:16.600
versus thing. How did you think
of this one? Uh? Yeah,

2499
03:13:18.520 --> 03:13:31.959
I mean it I don't I don't
know why he wrestles Flair, yeah anymore.

2500
03:13:31.120 --> 03:13:35.079
I mean it's just it's like,
you know, I'll tell you what

2501
03:13:35.639 --> 03:13:39.680
the thing that I gotta wait that
I got that. I really there are

2502
03:13:39.719 --> 03:13:45.559
two things that really struck me from
this match. Number One, at the

2503
03:13:45.680 --> 03:13:52.280
very beginning, when Flair smiles,
there is an element where he is going

2504
03:13:52.440 --> 03:13:56.200
to be You imagine that he's excited
to do this with Sting one more time,

2505
03:13:56.360 --> 03:13:58.760
right, because they've done it so
many times. So you know,

2506
03:14:00.239 --> 03:14:03.600
there's a part of me that's like, yeah, this this should be fun.

2507
03:14:05.120 --> 03:14:09.520
It should be fun. It's not
gonna be, but it should be

2508
03:14:09.680 --> 03:14:20.879
fun in theory. And then the
other thing is I'm in awe of Sting

2509
03:14:20.280 --> 03:14:28.840
in this match. He makes Flair
look way better than he has any right

2510
03:14:31.000 --> 03:14:35.360
to look in this match. Well, Flair starts getting a look on his

2511
03:14:35.440 --> 03:14:37.840
face halfway through the matches before the
shoulder injury, where it's like he's focusing

2512
03:14:37.879 --> 03:14:43.360
on his breathing and he's oh,
he's like spaced out. It's not unlike,

2513
03:14:43.600 --> 03:14:46.440
honestly, the look you saw in
his face when he had that disastrous

2514
03:14:46.479 --> 03:14:50.559
last match experiment. Yeah, I
mean, he looks completely out of his

2515
03:14:50.680 --> 03:14:58.319
element. He looks out of his
element, and it's amazing because like you

2516
03:14:58.399 --> 03:15:05.879
watch him throw he tries to throw
a Sting around and it's like wow,

2517
03:15:07.280 --> 03:15:13.319
it's like he's got no effort.
There's nothing behind what he's doing. It's

2518
03:15:13.360 --> 03:15:18.040
all Sting running as fast as he
can because he's not you know, he's

2519
03:15:18.079 --> 03:15:22.360
still gut something. Sting even does
a kip up in this match at his

2520
03:15:22.440 --> 03:15:26.719
age. Yeah, yeah, he
does. It's not great, but it's

2521
03:15:26.799 --> 03:15:30.719
it's a lot better than all the
ship that Flare's doing. Yeah, because

2522
03:15:30.760 --> 03:15:33.520
they're going through all the spots they
did a million times in those great WCW

2523
03:15:33.639 --> 03:15:35.200
matches. Right, there's just something, like you said, that's so much

2524
03:15:35.239 --> 03:15:39.040
softer touch about Flair at this point. It's like he can't he can't do

2525
03:15:39.079 --> 03:15:43.680
anything with conviction. He just can
kind of do. It's rough. It's

2526
03:15:43.760 --> 03:15:48.440
really rough. And when they go
up for the Superplex, Flair falls because

2527
03:15:48.479 --> 03:15:52.000
he had torn his left tricep and
you can see he holds the arm and

2528
03:15:52.079 --> 03:15:56.440
kind of like at ad L shape
at his side after absorbing it. So

2529
03:15:56.559 --> 03:16:01.399
it's tough to watch knowing that that's
happening to the to the man, because

2530
03:16:01.440 --> 03:16:03.399
he looks frail enough as it is. But you know, they go back

2531
03:16:03.440 --> 03:16:09.280
and forth, they do the figure
four exchanges and um, you know,

2532
03:16:11.319 --> 03:16:15.120
Flair does the begging off. He
hits the floor and yeah, he is

2533
03:16:15.239 --> 03:16:18.399
egos from the motions and it's fine. But when Flair lands in the Superplex,

2534
03:16:18.440 --> 03:16:24.040
he comes up with the right arm
and absolute absolute agony. You can

2535
03:16:24.079 --> 03:16:28.600
see him try to straighten it out
and it's not cooperating and just tucks the

2536
03:16:28.719 --> 03:16:31.879
arm. Hogan comes out, Bully
comes out, Anderson comes out. Um

2537
03:16:33.040 --> 03:16:35.600
runs off Bully with a chair.
Hogan feeds Flair brass knucks. Flair can

2538
03:16:35.639 --> 03:16:39.280
barely get them because he canna use
one hand on his on his fingers,

2539
03:16:39.319 --> 03:16:41.559
and he slugs staying with him and
drops him, put him in his trunks.

2540
03:16:41.600 --> 03:16:46.200
Flair actually blesses himself before he drops
and hooks the leg one two sting

2541
03:16:46.280 --> 03:16:50.600
lifts the shoulder. Um Flair comes
up, hair frayed like never before.

2542
03:16:50.479 --> 03:16:54.959
That flare. It's a bad place, very bad. I mean, just

2543
03:16:54.040 --> 03:16:58.639
described very bad. He's just mean. He just looks awful. It's expanding

2544
03:16:58.680 --> 03:17:01.639
east to west, you know.
It's yeah, yeah, it's pushing out

2545
03:17:01.680 --> 03:17:05.680
and there's nothing on top. It's
like it's so much thinner on top than

2546
03:17:05.840 --> 03:17:11.200
it looks when he combs it.
Mhm, what is he doing? It's

2547
03:17:11.239 --> 03:17:26.000
so embarrassing doing It's just it's so
embarrassing, like what why why? Why

2548
03:17:26.120 --> 03:17:33.000
did he do this to himself?
Awful flair flop when he tries to protect

2549
03:17:33.040 --> 03:17:37.360
a broken arm is not a pretty
thing. Basically, he does it and

2550
03:17:37.440 --> 03:17:41.559
then he has to leap onto the
mat. He can't fall straight down like

2551
03:17:41.639 --> 03:17:45.000
a timbering tree. He takes a
jump and land on the mat to keep

2552
03:17:45.040 --> 03:17:50.079
the other rob a goof. He's
such a goofball Hogan is standing in the

2553
03:17:50.120 --> 03:17:52.959
aisle with his mouth open watching this
play out, trying to say something to

2554
03:17:52.040 --> 03:17:56.040
herds and he hit Flair brass nucks
or something like that. Shot Fla,

2555
03:17:56.239 --> 03:18:01.079
I think that's a shoot there.
He's in shock. Yeah, this fucking

2556
03:18:03.159 --> 03:18:07.159
this ship show that's going on in
front of him. It's uncomfortable enough watching

2557
03:18:07.200 --> 03:18:09.840
Flair try to put brass knuckles on
a hand with the other arm is broken.

2558
03:18:09.959 --> 03:18:13.000
How about trying to get turned over
in his scorpion deathlock and you're just

2559
03:18:13.120 --> 03:18:16.680
worried about planting that arm the whole
time. And they say he tapped,

2560
03:18:16.719 --> 03:18:20.520
but he can't because Nevin arm right. Sting defeats Rick Flair to get to

2561
03:18:20.600 --> 03:18:26.200
Hogan here in the September fifteenth the
Impact Hogan staring at Sting, Sting staring

2562
03:18:26.239 --> 03:18:30.319
back at him. Tenay says,
Philadelphia, get ready, it's Sting versus

2563
03:18:30.360 --> 03:18:33.760
whole Cogan it bound for glory.
Hulk says, your day is coming.

2564
03:18:33.719 --> 03:18:39.120
As for as for Flair, yes, he doesn't ergo surgery for left torn

2565
03:18:39.559 --> 03:18:48.639
trisep from the superplexum. And he
also is the subject of a very unflattering

2566
03:18:48.719 --> 03:18:50.920
article on grant Land. Oh my
god, really, there's a laundry.

2567
03:18:50.959 --> 03:18:58.239
List of the issues that have resulted
from his many public spats um loans he

2568
03:18:58.280 --> 03:19:03.920
didn't pay back that resulted in lawsuits, I RS, troubles being built by

2569
03:19:03.959 --> 03:19:07.360
friends for money problems, and marriages
living beyond his means. Come on,

2570
03:19:09.040 --> 03:19:11.559
that just all all comes out.
This is also the time when high spots

2571
03:19:11.600 --> 03:19:18.680
Susan for money owed and uses the
world title is Collateral and they find out

2572
03:19:18.760 --> 03:19:22.239
that the title of Flair used the
title is collateral for another loan. Oh

2573
03:19:22.639 --> 03:19:26.440
no, really, Flair gets He
goes on the bus it tries to get

2574
03:19:26.440 --> 03:19:31.000
a cash draw and they deny him
the money and he has a has a

2575
03:19:31.120 --> 03:19:35.559
fit about it. It's just it's
just so so unflattering of a year for

2576
03:19:35.680 --> 03:19:41.239
him in that regard impacts a number
twenty second stings is one way or another.

2577
03:19:41.280 --> 03:19:43.799
I will get the real whole Going
to stand up again, I hope

2578
03:19:43.879 --> 03:19:46.440
like I told you, I'm never
going to wrestle again. You don't deserve

2579
03:19:46.520 --> 03:19:50.559
to be in the same Wait a
minute, you told me I told you

2580
03:19:50.760 --> 03:19:54.239
I'm never going to wrestle again.
What okay? You don't deserve to me

2581
03:19:54.319 --> 03:19:56.520
in the same ring with me and
bound for glory. You're not even going

2582
03:19:56.559 --> 03:19:58.920
to make it to the building because
you're messing with the wrong people. Brother,

2583
03:20:00.120 --> 03:20:01.879
cut the cancer away. I love
you, Hoax or see you a

2584
03:20:01.879 --> 03:20:03.399
bound for Glory. I don't know
what that's about. He made playing head

2585
03:20:03.440 --> 03:20:07.319
games. I guess the Sting comes
out and a whole Cogan T shirt and

2586
03:20:07.360 --> 03:20:09.879
jeans and he's got a contract in
his hand and times are good. Sting

2587
03:20:09.959 --> 03:20:13.479
says, he beat Flair and it
opened a wide line to Hogan. It

2588
03:20:13.520 --> 03:20:16.360
bound for glory, something everyone said
will not happen is going to happen,

2589
03:20:16.440 --> 03:20:22.239
I promise you, and he gets
a good Hogan chant going the music.

2590
03:20:22.440 --> 03:20:26.559
Hogan comes out. Tony says the
days of hulkoke and refusing to get in

2591
03:20:26.600 --> 03:20:31.280
the ring with Sting have come to
an end once and for all. Okay,

2592
03:20:31.440 --> 03:20:35.239
and he grabs the mic away and
says, haha, very funny.

2593
03:20:35.319 --> 03:20:45.360
Sting the dog and pony show the
smoke and mirrors singing in the rain.

2594
03:20:46.479 --> 03:20:48.840
Brother, you're delusional. This is
not going to happen. And my pants

2595
03:20:50.000 --> 03:20:54.399
brother, you know, talking up
a storm, dude, walking and bugging

2596
03:20:54.479 --> 03:21:05.360
around, brother around Mark Polo hide
the ball, yes and uh and Yang,

2597
03:21:07.040 --> 03:21:11.600
I'm not medically cleared. Sting,
you gotta be kidding me. Sting

2598
03:21:11.680 --> 03:21:15.040
takes a bump and kicks his legs
out At that suggestion, Sting says,

2599
03:21:15.040 --> 03:21:16.959
I got some footage. I'm confused, but let's just get a bird's eye

2600
03:21:18.079 --> 03:21:20.879
view. Roll the footage. They
show Hogan smacking Sting with a chair and

2601
03:21:20.959 --> 03:21:26.719
dropping him with punches, and Hogan
says, you don't I run the show

2602
03:21:26.719 --> 03:21:28.639
around here. I did not clear
that footage to be shown. This is

2603
03:21:28.719 --> 03:21:33.639
not funny. Sting said, it
happened. There's nothing you can do about

2604
03:21:33.639 --> 03:21:39.120
it now. Sting says, I
can see the vascularity there in your arms,

2605
03:21:39.239 --> 03:21:41.959
Hulk, see the biceps coming out
again. And I took a haymaker

2606
03:21:43.040 --> 03:21:45.719
from you not too long ago,
and you still got it. Hulk.

2607
03:21:45.719 --> 03:21:48.239
You knocked me silly, So don't
tell me you're not ready to rustle me

2608
03:21:48.280 --> 03:21:54.559
a bound for glory. Hogan says, it's what it's time to knock it

2609
03:21:54.600 --> 03:21:58.600
off. Sting to end the game. Oh, I got nothing to approved,

2610
03:21:58.680 --> 03:22:01.799
brother. You've been chasing me your
whole career, and you never quite

2611
03:22:01.840 --> 03:22:03.600
caught up to Holkamania. So I'm
not going to give you a bonus package.

2612
03:22:03.639 --> 03:22:07.959
I run this company. I'm the
businessman. You have to realize that

2613
03:22:07.159 --> 03:22:13.079
paper you've got that isn't going to
hold up with me. Brother, Sting

2614
03:22:13.159 --> 03:22:15.680
says, it's forget about bound for
glory. Then let's do it right now,

2615
03:22:15.799 --> 03:22:18.120
right here. Hogan begs off to
the audience, whoa, whoa,

2616
03:22:18.159 --> 03:22:22.079
whoa like Hollywood Hogan would his hands
out all paranoid, and Bischoff's music hits

2617
03:22:22.120 --> 03:22:26.920
and I go, yes, fuck
yes, just what I wanted. Bischof

2618
03:22:26.920 --> 03:22:28.799
says, I don't want to hear
any more of what I'm hearing in that

2619
03:22:28.920 --> 03:22:31.719
ring. Who the hell do you
think you are? You are talking to

2620
03:22:33.120 --> 03:22:35.399
every reason you even have a job. You're talking to the very reason you

2621
03:22:35.440 --> 03:22:37.920
have a job, responsible for the
fact that this industry even exists. I'm

2622
03:22:37.959 --> 03:22:41.360
talking to you, damn it.
Sting, did you say something? And

2623
03:22:41.479 --> 03:22:45.200
then Sting clocks him, and Bischof
takes a bump. It's awesome. And

2624
03:22:45.280 --> 03:22:48.239
then Hogan gets all pissed at that, and he kicks the ropes and frustration

2625
03:22:48.319 --> 03:22:52.159
and sells the back. When he
kicks the rope, Sting says, did

2626
03:22:52.200 --> 03:22:54.440
you catch that one? Right there? He kicks the rope and mock and

2627
03:22:54.520 --> 03:22:56.879
that he mocks Hogan selling his own
back. He still got at Holkamania.

2628
03:22:56.959 --> 03:23:01.159
No matter what it's want to happen, there will be a match between you

2629
03:23:01.239 --> 03:23:05.120
and me. It Bound for Glory. Nothing's going to stop it. Believe

2630
03:23:05.200 --> 03:23:09.239
me, Tata for now. Hogan
looks down to Dirk Bischoff's carcass and a

2631
03:23:09.280 --> 03:23:13.639
sting holds out a contract that has
the Impact logo ontop and all it says

2632
03:23:13.719 --> 03:23:16.959
is, I'll It's printed on the
piece of paper is twenty eleven Bound for

2633
03:23:18.319 --> 03:23:22.959
Glory match. Contract sounds good to
me and you can see the gears are

2634
03:23:22.000 --> 03:23:26.079
turning in Hogan's head as he walks
around, and later on Bischoff is backstage

2635
03:23:26.239 --> 03:23:31.879
icing his face talking about loop holes. Hogan says, I got this.

2636
03:23:31.959 --> 03:23:35.840
I'm gonna drop a bombshell on this
company next week. It's going to change

2637
03:23:35.520 --> 03:23:41.959
this business forever God, and he
goes to praying hands. September twenty second,

2638
03:23:41.959 --> 03:23:46.399
Impact Sting comes out in Hogan's shirt, calls out Bobby Rude says,

2639
03:23:46.399 --> 03:23:48.639
I've done everything it takes and I'm
proud of you and I believe you can

2640
03:23:48.680 --> 03:23:50.399
beat Kurt Angle. Bobby Rude as
they built their match at Bound for Glory

2641
03:23:50.479 --> 03:23:54.600
for the title. I believe I'm
looking at championship caliber right here. But

2642
03:23:54.639 --> 03:23:56.360
you've got to stay focused, he
tells Rude. You got to convince me

2643
03:23:56.399 --> 03:24:00.360
you're ready. Root says you're the
man Sting, this is your time right

2644
03:24:00.399 --> 03:24:03.639
now, though. Bobby Sting replies, thirteen years in this business. I

2645
03:24:03.719 --> 03:24:07.079
promise you in these people, but
most of all myself. Route says that

2646
03:24:07.120 --> 03:24:09.520
come down for glory. I'm gonna
walk out of there the next world champion.

2647
03:24:09.959 --> 03:24:11.799
Sting goes nuts trying to get them
up for that prospect. In the

2648
03:24:11.879 --> 03:24:15.760
crowd, he says, that's what
I want to hear, Bobby, next

2649
03:24:15.799 --> 03:24:18.760
world champ chant breaks out and he
promises him is going to give him everything

2650
03:24:18.799 --> 03:24:22.159
he's got, and you need to
make a promise, Staying, Promise me

2651
03:24:22.159 --> 03:24:24.639
you'll take care of Hulk Hogan.
Bobby Rude says, then together you and

2652
03:24:24.680 --> 03:24:31.319
I Sting will finally get this company
back to her belong. Aj Styles gets

2653
03:24:31.319 --> 03:24:33.200
involved too. He says, I
haven't had a title shot. I beat

2654
03:24:33.239 --> 03:24:35.920
Kernangl to be the world champion.
Because unless you're friends with the right people

2655
03:24:35.920 --> 03:24:39.120
around here, Brother, he says, who knows when you're gonna get another

2656
03:24:39.159 --> 03:24:41.399
shot? So do it, Bobby
Rude, do it for me. And

2657
03:24:41.559 --> 03:24:46.840
aj dapts rude, and then Flair
is ranting to Hogan backstage. You're talking

2658
03:24:46.840 --> 03:24:48.840
about doing something that's completely unacceptable.
Flair says to Hogan, You're going to

2659
03:24:48.920 --> 03:24:52.239
change the history of this business if
you do this, your whole Cogan,

2660
03:24:52.280 --> 03:24:54.559
you're the franchise and industry. You
cannot do this, and Hogan says,

2661
03:24:54.559 --> 03:24:58.840
I'm doing it. Rick, this
is not a good decision. You're Hulk

2662
03:24:58.879 --> 03:25:03.959
Hogan. What is the thing he's
going to do. Hogan comes out to

2663
03:25:03.000 --> 03:25:09.879
close the show. I feel like
there's been I want to retire, brother.

2664
03:25:11.200 --> 03:25:13.920
I feel like there's been a million
pounds lifted off my shoulders. He

2665
03:25:13.000 --> 03:25:16.159
tells the crowd. This is um
an impact that was taped on the road.

2666
03:25:16.239 --> 03:25:22.440
By the way, they did Huntsville, Alabama late in September, and

2667
03:25:24.959 --> 03:25:26.920
is it Pikeville, Kentucky. They
did another shot to somewhere else down there,

2668
03:25:28.479 --> 03:25:31.879
puts the shades up. I did
a lot of soul searching the last

2669
03:25:31.879 --> 03:25:33.879
couple of months. I realized everything
in life is about a run. Remember

2670
03:25:33.920 --> 03:25:39.920
that from the body by by how
much how much fun was it? How

2671
03:25:41.000 --> 03:25:43.760
good was it? Really? The
run? I realized that whole Cogan,

2672
03:25:43.799 --> 03:25:46.520
the whole Cogan run and all the
whole the Maniacs has been the best run

2673
03:25:46.600 --> 03:25:50.079
of all times. And they start
clapping like, oh man, he's he's

2674
03:25:50.120 --> 03:25:54.719
going to give us a heartfelt goodbye
speech. You know, guys, when

2675
03:25:54.760 --> 03:25:56.399
I started thinking about the things,
we go back way over three decades,

2676
03:25:56.440 --> 03:26:00.239
and I started thinking about the very
first day when I got in this and

2677
03:26:00.280 --> 03:26:03.639
Harramatsuda broke my leg. He taught
me respect, what it meant to step

2678
03:26:03.719 --> 03:26:05.600
up and be a man in this
ring. I wrestled in little high schools,

2679
03:26:05.600 --> 03:26:07.639
did road trips. I got lucky. I got the big break,

2680
03:26:07.680 --> 03:26:13.600
a chance to Wrestlandreane for a ninety
four thousand people. And the more I

2681
03:26:13.680 --> 03:26:16.120
started thinking about how good things were, I couldn't help but think how many

2682
03:26:16.159 --> 03:26:18.520
times Madison Square Garden had been sold
out. Mister t Cindy Lapper, Roddy

2683
03:26:18.600 --> 03:26:22.719
Piper wore to settle the score and
they cut the sting. Watching backstage kind

2684
03:26:22.760 --> 03:26:26.799
of incredulous as to what hul Coogan
is saying. But at the end of

2685
03:26:26.840 --> 03:26:30.360
the day, this thing with Ulkamania
could go on forever. So then I

2686
03:26:30.399 --> 03:26:33.639
had a chance at the lifetime.
After all the indoor tenants records SkyDome in

2687
03:26:33.719 --> 03:26:37.479
Canada, records at the Egg Dome
in Japan. Oh my god, every

2688
03:26:37.559 --> 03:26:41.879
single guy that helped to get me
here for over twenty years. I had

2689
03:26:41.879 --> 03:26:45.719
a chance of a lifetime to come
to Impact Wrestling with over three decades of

2690
03:26:45.799 --> 03:26:48.079
knowledge, to step into this company
and make a difference. All I saw

2691
03:26:48.520 --> 03:26:54.959
where eyes, and these eyes were
hungry. I've been here almost two years,

2692
03:26:54.040 --> 03:26:56.959
and when I see these guys like
Rude and Storm and Kazarian and Daniels

2693
03:26:58.000 --> 03:27:03.639
and a j R VDJFF finally back
on track, I realized that every moment

2694
03:27:03.719 --> 03:27:05.719
I spent here was worth it.
Well, you guys don't see is what

2695
03:27:05.799 --> 03:27:09.719
goes on backstage. I taught them
everything I knew about getting by in this

2696
03:27:09.879 --> 03:27:13.280
ring, not getting hurt, told
him everything I would tell I would.

2697
03:27:13.360 --> 03:27:15.799
I told them things I wouldn't tell
my best friend about how to survive in

2698
03:27:15.840 --> 03:27:18.879
this business. I gave them soul, my life, my blood, everything

2699
03:27:18.920 --> 03:27:20.600
I knew. A lot of them
took the information. A lot of them

2700
03:27:20.680 --> 03:27:24.879
didn't need a lot of it.
I felt I did everything I could to

2701
03:27:24.959 --> 03:27:26.920
help Impact. And they show Sting
again in the split screen and he says

2702
03:27:26.920 --> 03:27:31.399
to the camera, am I the
only one that sees this. He says,

2703
03:27:31.399 --> 03:27:33.280
the first time I saw him in
Suburban Commando, I knew he was

2704
03:27:33.319 --> 03:27:39.239
a phenomenal Hulk. You get an
oscar for that one, he says to

2705
03:27:39.280 --> 03:27:41.280
the TV, and then we jump
cut for some reason back to Hulk in

2706
03:27:41.319 --> 03:27:46.799
mid sentence, and they jump cut
earlier when they did the sting Wick flair

2707
03:27:46.840 --> 03:27:48.639
in ring confrontation. There was a
report that when they first went out to

2708
03:27:48.680 --> 03:27:52.239
the ring and did it, they
were like referencing, like, I beat

2709
03:27:52.280 --> 03:27:54.600
you so bad you had to run
to New York. And they're like talking

2710
03:27:54.600 --> 03:27:58.200
about their flair leaving for the w
w F one. Sting was on top

2711
03:27:58.239 --> 03:28:01.360
and they had them redo that,
edited that out, thank you very much.

2712
03:28:03.000 --> 03:28:11.559
When I feel the pounds, the
pounds poundage, when I feel the

2713
03:28:11.600 --> 03:28:15.319
weight off my shoulder, I made
the decision enough is enough. This is

2714
03:28:15.399 --> 03:28:16.879
for me. This is the end
of the road, guys, Hogan says

2715
03:28:18.159 --> 03:28:20.360
to a course of booze. But
when I sat down and made the decision

2716
03:28:20.399 --> 03:28:28.680
to say this is what I wanted
to tell people that that followed me and

2717
03:28:28.879 --> 03:28:31.120
were loyal and supported me the most, That's why I wanted to tell you

2718
03:28:31.280 --> 03:28:33.799
fans. First, I haven't even
told Jennifer. Yet because at the end

2719
03:28:33.799 --> 03:28:37.680
of the day, when everything went
down and I bottomed out, when I

2720
03:28:37.760 --> 03:28:43.040
lost my family, when financially I
bottomed out, when I lost my uh,

2721
03:28:45.680 --> 03:28:50.959
when I lost my something and had
eight surgeries in a row, the

2722
03:28:50.120 --> 03:28:54.200
only thing that I didn't lose were
the fans. I lost. My smile

2723
03:28:54.520 --> 03:28:58.399
absolutely is doing the whole thing,
and they find women to kind of way

2724
03:28:58.440 --> 03:29:01.040
to crying in the crowd, so
credit to that. The only thing Hulk

2725
03:29:01.159 --> 03:29:05.760
says that has ever been with me
since day one and never turned their back

2726
03:29:05.799 --> 03:29:07.799
on me was you guys. But
I never turned my back on you,

2727
03:29:07.879 --> 03:29:11.520
no matter how far down I went. All I knew was when I walked

2728
03:29:11.559 --> 03:29:15.000
out those doors of the house,
you guys were there. After I lost.

2729
03:29:15.040 --> 03:29:18.319
Those guys in the back were there
for me. That's the part.

2730
03:29:18.399 --> 03:29:20.959
You guys. I thought that was
part of the problem. I know,

2731
03:29:22.280 --> 03:29:24.440
but they're always there. I made
the decision. It's the end of my

2732
03:29:24.559 --> 03:29:28.200
run. My time is done here. There's nothing more for me to do.

2733
03:29:28.920 --> 03:29:31.760
The Roods, the Storms, the
Kazarians, the Ajs, the up

2734
03:29:31.840 --> 03:29:35.159
and run. They're up and running. They're the stars of the future.

2735
03:29:35.280 --> 03:29:39.520
The Zahoreans are the stars of the
Future. Cut to Sting. He's crying

2736
03:29:39.639 --> 03:29:45.200
backstage, and he says, next
week in Knoxville the Civic Coliseum, I'm

2737
03:29:45.239 --> 03:29:48.520
inviting all the fans, my friends, people that have been part of my

2738
03:29:48.639 --> 03:29:50.639
life. I want everybody to be
there because we're going to have a celebration

2739
03:29:52.559 --> 03:29:54.479
because Hulk Hogan is going to make
a formal announcement next week in Knoxville,

2740
03:29:54.479 --> 03:29:56.440
and that will be the last time
you ever see me in this ring.

2741
03:29:58.440 --> 03:30:00.760
Thank you, guys, I love
you with all my heart. Hogan chance

2742
03:30:00.799 --> 03:30:05.040
explode. Cut to Sting. Okay, all right, well he's talking about

2743
03:30:05.040 --> 03:30:07.479
friends. I'm one of his good
friends, and believe me, I'm going

2744
03:30:07.520 --> 03:30:09.760
to be in Knoxville front row.
I'm going to celebrate with the Hochster.

2745
03:30:11.559 --> 03:30:18.000
It's showtime. As for Jeff Hardy, he was finally sentenced on September eleventh

2746
03:30:18.719 --> 03:30:22.520
of Well know he was arrested on
a Nutber eleven, three thousand and nine.

2747
03:30:22.520 --> 03:30:28.639
We mentioned that already Viking and the
Maxwell House coffee can that was the

2748
03:30:28.920 --> 03:30:31.840
the thing. More details come out. He would meet a wrestling fan in

2749
03:30:31.879 --> 03:30:35.959
Florida and if the fan offered him
pills, he accepted it, and they

2750
03:30:37.000 --> 03:30:41.040
would mail Jeff the pills in a
Maxwell House coffee can. But the postal

2751
03:30:41.239 --> 03:30:45.680
service and inspected the can because I
thought it was suspicious that two hundred twenty

2752
03:30:45.760 --> 03:30:50.120
six two hundred and sixty two pills. Yes, so they sealed it up

2753
03:30:50.120 --> 03:30:52.280
and delivered it back to Hardy to
see if he take delivery, and he

2754
03:30:52.360 --> 03:30:56.319
signs for it. So they raided
the house because they had probably they got

2755
03:30:56.399 --> 03:31:00.120
hundred soma is five hundred and fifty
milli laters of annabolic steroids, some out

2756
03:31:00.200 --> 03:31:07.319
or cocaine, drug paraphernalia. Let's
go. He checks himself into jail that

2757
03:31:07.479 --> 03:31:15.120
Jeff Hardy on October third of twenty
eleven and serves about ten days in jail.

2758
03:31:16.280 --> 03:31:18.959
He didn't have any bookings during that
period. He had melted her notes

2759
03:31:18.120 --> 03:31:22.120
and wanted to get it taken care
of him. He only got he only

2760
03:31:22.120 --> 03:31:26.799
get booked into prison. He got
booked that right and his brother Matt gets

2761
03:31:26.879 --> 03:31:33.000
arrested that week after a raid on
his home, announcing a three month rehab

2762
03:31:33.200 --> 03:31:37.399
stint. Did Matt Hardy after the
Morse County Sheriff's Office raided his home on

2763
03:31:37.399 --> 03:31:43.079
September fourteenth, eleven, after they
had come to his house eight days prior

2764
03:31:43.120 --> 03:31:46.319
to check in an appearance suicide note
tease that he put up on the internet.

2765
03:31:46.319 --> 03:31:50.559
According here to the Observer, Deep
but he searched the home twenty miles

2766
03:31:50.600 --> 03:31:54.639
and a bolos one dose of ecstasy, nineteen hundred dollars in cash, drug

2767
03:31:54.719 --> 03:32:01.200
paraphernalia is Safe charged with possession with
intent to sell her delivery Schedule three and

2768
03:32:01.360 --> 03:32:05.840
Abolo's possession of Schedule one ecstasy,
maintaining and dwelling to keep control substances,

2769
03:32:05.879 --> 03:32:09.680
and possession of drug paraphernalia. Melzer
notes it was his fourth arrest in recent

2770
03:32:09.719 --> 03:32:15.399
weeks, the other being for driving
infractions. Yeah, it's problem. His

2771
03:32:15.559 --> 03:32:18.200
girlfriend made a nine one one call
saying my Hardy was strung out on pills

2772
03:32:18.239 --> 03:32:26.959
and needed help. Impact October sixth, What a fucking lunatic emotional gravity music

2773
03:32:28.040 --> 03:32:31.399
to start with Hulk and SloMo doing
T and A things and slapping hands.

2774
03:32:31.440 --> 03:32:37.040
Over the months, just walking and
absolutely walking, slapping hands, maybe shaking

2775
03:32:37.079 --> 03:32:39.239
his head on the phone backstage.
Just thing could go on forever. They

2776
03:32:39.319 --> 03:32:41.600
recall from last week. I made
the decision enough is enough for me.

2777
03:32:41.639 --> 03:32:46.479
It's at the end of the road. Knoxville Coliseum on the banks of the

2778
03:32:46.520 --> 03:32:50.520
Tennessee River, and it looks a
lot smaller than Fayetteville. When they had

2779
03:32:50.559 --> 03:32:52.680
gone on the road last time,
it looked like a bigger building. This

2780
03:32:52.760 --> 03:32:56.120
kind of looks even smaller than the
Impact zone from some angles. But they

2781
03:32:56.159 --> 03:32:58.920
reflect back on Hulk moments throughout the
broadcast, of course, going back to

2782
03:33:00.200 --> 03:33:03.799
January fourth, but the March eighth
match with Abyss, the March that are

2783
03:33:03.799 --> 03:33:09.399
twenty eleven thing where Dixie Carter declares
um, where they declare victory over Dixie

2784
03:33:09.479 --> 03:33:13.559
Carter in court, which was definitely
a whole Cocon highlight. I guess um,

2785
03:33:13.879 --> 03:33:16.840
of course, Yeah, I mean
you know, I don't understand.

2786
03:33:16.879 --> 03:33:20.159
Why why are you? Why are
you why? Why why are you giving

2787
03:33:20.239 --> 03:33:24.559
him a hard time? Well,
all right, Jesus, fine, let's

2788
03:33:24.559 --> 03:33:28.680
step back and let's give the man
his flowers, because he's not going to

2789
03:33:28.719 --> 03:33:35.200
Wrestless Sting. He's coming to Knoxville
to call it a career here after just

2790
03:33:35.239 --> 03:33:39.159
about eighteen months in Impact Wrestling,
and Boss, I'd imagine you have some

2791
03:33:39.239 --> 03:33:41.360
sound from this one. I do, I have, I have this this

2792
03:33:41.520 --> 03:33:46.680
whole ten h And let's turn it
over to Hogan for some wistful commentary as

2793
03:33:46.920 --> 03:33:50.959
he faces down Bound for Glory.
Very familiar promo starting too. By the

2794
03:33:52.040 --> 03:33:56.760
way, you know, I knew
that what happened in Nashville without a doubt.

2795
03:33:56.840 --> 03:34:31.440
Brothers. You know that's royal double. As I was saying, When

2796
03:34:31.559 --> 03:34:35.920
my feet hit the ground this morning
and I woke up, the very first

2797
03:34:37.000 --> 03:34:43.600
thing, I realized that today was
the final day I would be in the

2798
03:34:43.639 --> 03:34:54.639
wrestling business. You know, after
the thirty plus year run that I've had.

2799
03:34:56.120 --> 03:35:00.280
That was a tough cup of coffee
for me to swallow first in the

2800
03:35:00.360 --> 03:35:03.479
morning. But you know what,
guys, I put on my game face.

2801
03:35:05.360 --> 03:35:11.000
I came to Knoxville, and from
the moment I walked through the airport,

2802
03:35:11.200 --> 03:35:16.959
everybody in Knoxville welcomed me with open
arms. I mean, the love.

2803
03:35:39.680 --> 03:35:43.040
All I gotta say is you guys
made me feel so much love today.

2804
03:35:43.280 --> 03:35:48.719
I felt like it was my first
day back in this business in Knoxville.

2805
03:35:48.000 --> 03:35:56.879
Thank you very much for that.
You know, it's just been so

2806
03:35:56.079 --> 03:36:01.639
crazy trying to explain to my family
that, guess what, I'm back home.

2807
03:36:01.719 --> 03:36:03.319
I'm gonna be hanging out a lot. You know, I kind of

2808
03:36:03.399 --> 03:36:07.239
started thinking today what am I gonna
do with myself? You know, it's

2809
03:36:07.280 --> 03:36:09.719
kind of like I've been on the
road for so many years, I just

2810
03:36:09.920 --> 03:36:15.120
really didn't think about when I formerly
retired, what was I gonna do?

2811
03:36:15.319 --> 03:36:18.680
Start golfing or go out fishing.
I mean, I gotta find something that's

2812
03:36:18.680 --> 03:36:24.000
gonna replace the love that I feel
in each and every one of these buildings.

2813
03:36:24.079 --> 03:36:30.840
I'm telling you, Yeah, you
know. It got so crazy today

2814
03:36:31.200 --> 03:36:33.680
because I was going through Twitter and
looking at Facebook. I had some fans

2815
03:36:35.120 --> 03:36:37.319
on the Twitter going, Hogan,
if this is really your last night.

2816
03:36:37.440 --> 03:36:41.920
We have a ten hour drive.
We want to know if you're really retiring.

2817
03:36:41.280 --> 03:36:45.719
And I had to answer each and
every person back that yes, this

2818
03:36:45.959 --> 03:36:48.680
is the end of the line.
This has been the greatest career I could

2819
03:36:48.680 --> 03:36:52.639
have ever dreamed of. And because
of all the fans, everybody at home

2820
03:36:52.959 --> 03:36:58.040
and at all these arenas, thank
you, guys, thank you for everything.

2821
03:36:58.559 --> 03:37:30.479
Thank you, thank you, thank
you. At the end of the

2822
03:37:30.639 --> 03:38:07.479
day, there have been generations and
generations. Brother, why dude, why

2823
03:38:07.639 --> 03:38:24.239
dude? Why you know, guys, this could go on for another thirty

2824
03:38:24.319 --> 03:38:28.239
years. But at the end of
the day, Talkamania had the longest run

2825
03:38:28.680 --> 03:38:35.520
of anybody in this business. And
now it's time to put Talcomania to rest.

2826
03:38:39.120 --> 03:38:43.120
And there's only one thing left.
Guys, we might as well left

2827
03:38:43.200 --> 03:39:16.639
the celebration began, Guys, hold
a Hogan says, let the celebration begin.

2828
03:39:18.520 --> 03:39:22.120
But Sting coming to the rain.
I'm gonna ask your cast, is

2829
03:39:22.200 --> 03:39:28.079
this a tribute to Paul Covid from
Sting? Even see icon is pusting out

2830
03:39:28.120 --> 03:39:31.159
the red and yellow tonight. You
never know what stink stinking whom as I

2831
03:39:31.239 --> 03:39:35.280
can't answer that movie thot stinks thinking, But this puss it is. Folks

2832
03:39:35.360 --> 03:39:41.639
woman, you are not welcomed out
here, and you're not gonna turn this

2833
03:39:43.159 --> 03:39:50.479
into a damn clown show. Paul
crap. Listen, listen, I I

2834
03:39:50.879 --> 03:39:54.520
really am am so sorry to come
out here and and and bring a little

2835
03:39:54.559 --> 03:39:58.920
bit of rain to this lovely and
momentous evening. But I just gotta ask

2836
03:39:58.000 --> 03:40:03.200
this question. Is there anybody in
Knoxville or anywhere else in the whole wide

2837
03:40:03.239 --> 03:40:13.200
world this buying this stuff about retirement? Brother, You know you need to

2838
03:40:13.280 --> 03:40:22.040
understand one thing. Nothing lasts forever
in this business, and you need to

2839
03:40:22.159 --> 03:40:26.000
know when it's time to leave me
alone. I'm officially done. I've said

2840
03:40:26.079 --> 03:40:33.040
my goodbyes. I'm retired. My
brother, I supput no no, No,

2841
03:40:33.200 --> 03:40:37.879
hold on, I suppose there's a
good chance that I've just become so

2842
03:40:39.200 --> 03:40:41.920
jaded because of this business, so
hardened and callous, that I just can't

2843
03:40:41.959 --> 03:40:46.920
let you have your just do.
I'm sorry about that, Holtan World.

2844
03:40:46.959 --> 03:40:50.879
Fine, but but then what again? Maybe maybe it's that I know you

2845
03:40:50.040 --> 03:40:56.000
better than anyone on the face of
this earth. Hogan. Yes, maybe

2846
03:40:56.079 --> 03:41:01.440
it's true, Hogan. Yes,
you know something. It's all really amazing

2847
03:41:01.879 --> 03:41:05.639
about all the cameras that are on
every corner in every building, on every

2848
03:41:05.719 --> 03:41:13.200
street, everywhere, including this building
right here. Brother, It's amazing.

2849
03:41:13.799 --> 03:41:20.920
There is nothing hunked A's sacred in
this business any longer. No, I've

2850
03:41:20.959 --> 03:41:26.040
got some compelling footage on you.
Yes, you're caught on what whoa whoa?

2851
03:41:26.120 --> 03:41:31.440
Well? Hold on, games are
officially over. If you would now

2852
03:41:31.600 --> 03:41:35.440
leave, I've got one last thing
I have to say, and this party's

2853
03:41:35.479 --> 03:41:39.040
over, brother, Okay, I'll
leave after we play the footage, and

2854
03:41:39.040 --> 03:41:45.719
I promise it's gonna be ugly.
Hulkster, please play it now. Do

2855
03:41:45.879 --> 03:41:48.760
you really think they bought the fact
that I'm retired tonight? Er, I

2856
03:41:48.799 --> 03:41:58.000
mean, please, I'm so worried
something. You know, I've heard a

2857
03:41:58.040 --> 03:42:01.079
lot of feedbackers. Some people are
saying, are you sure you're really doing

2858
03:42:01.120 --> 03:42:03.639
this? To Twitter has been born
up saying okay, we're driving eight hours

2859
03:42:03.680 --> 03:42:07.159
if this is your last night.
We fooled everybody. I mean, I

2860
03:42:07.239 --> 03:42:11.440
get the head of the Netfork calling
me any why did you tell us in

2861
03:42:11.479 --> 03:42:15.399
advance? How could you do this
to us? I can forbody, and

2862
03:42:15.479 --> 03:42:18.639
these hill billies here and next knox
Field. I mean they're mortgaging your trailer

2863
03:42:18.799 --> 03:42:24.120
home so they can go out and
buy oh COVID, remember billiam Hersman basis,

2864
03:42:24.399 --> 03:42:28.200
I'm worried about tonight walking the Walking
Canada. We're in Mouthfield till c

2865
03:42:28.719 --> 03:42:33.200
we wrote the women don't even have
a te fear and dude, what a

2866
03:42:33.280 --> 03:42:37.280
play all that an you retire from. Go to the wye, catching a

2867
03:42:37.319 --> 03:42:39.040
little bit of some tan, take
them out to the beach, throw a

2868
03:42:39.079 --> 03:42:45.639
few coconuts around, maybe somebody you
one of those. That's just for your

2869
03:42:45.680 --> 03:42:50.520
mental hands off. That's enough.
It's not that damn footage. T turn

2870
03:42:50.639 --> 03:42:56.200
that off. You know something,
Please cross the line staying do you have

2871
03:42:56.399 --> 03:43:01.639
cross the line? You're broken every
damn all. You ruined everything in this

2872
03:43:01.799 --> 03:43:05.600
wrestling business. I am so sick
of you. I can't stand you.

2873
03:43:05.959 --> 03:43:09.120
You want to rustle Hell no,
I'll never wrest you out, but you

2874
03:43:09.239 --> 03:43:13.440
push me so far. You want
to fight, I'll fight you, Stinger.

2875
03:43:13.719 --> 03:43:16.840
I'll fight you at confer going,
and if you can beat me,

2876
03:43:16.440 --> 03:43:24.120
I'll get the company back to you. Fixty Carter, Well, slip of

2877
03:43:24.200 --> 03:43:30.719
the tongue there. I don't want
to talk to offer now. So lame

2878
03:43:30.879 --> 03:43:35.040
riveting television, huh has reflected in
the ratings. UH. This episode of

2879
03:43:35.040 --> 03:43:39.799
impacted one point three eight million viewers, the second lowest number of viewers of

2880
03:43:39.840 --> 03:43:46.840
twenty eleven. Nobody cares about the
about the status of fucking TNA impact whatever.

2881
03:43:46.280 --> 03:43:52.159
You don't care about no, because
no one. I mean seriously,

2882
03:43:54.000 --> 03:44:00.319
it's amazing that they wasted that angle, Like Sting Hogan was ready set,

2883
03:44:00.399 --> 03:44:03.760
it was fine, Like why did
they have to add this thing where he

2884
03:44:03.840 --> 03:44:05.360
retires in the last two weeks and
then was lying to the people, Well,

2885
03:44:05.360 --> 03:44:09.319
what's the point of that. I
mean, that's something you can save

2886
03:44:09.360 --> 03:44:13.159
for down the road, a really
hot angle, you know, yeah,

2887
03:44:13.239 --> 03:44:16.760
absolutely play out the retirement for a
long time. But they just like cram

2888
03:44:16.879 --> 03:44:20.680
it in yea on the go home
for what already will be their biggest pay

2889
03:44:20.680 --> 03:44:24.879
per view of the year anyway,
such bizarre decision making and in such a

2890
03:44:24.959 --> 03:44:28.600
wasted emotion because you can't go back
out there ever again and do the retirement

2891
03:44:28.639 --> 03:44:31.879
speech after that. You can't.
No, no, no, you can't.

2892
03:44:33.040 --> 03:44:37.520
I mean you can try, but
you've lost what's so important to a

2893
03:44:37.639 --> 03:44:39.719
dynamic like that, and that being
the first time you've heard someone utter those

2894
03:44:39.799 --> 03:44:43.799
words on the microphone. Ye,
yep, Alkamani's not going anywhere. It's

2895
03:44:43.840 --> 03:44:46.719
all a gimmick, brother, And
he got those peep, he got them

2896
03:44:46.719 --> 03:44:50.159
all. You heard him, didn't
you. Yeah? Oh, he got

2897
03:44:50.200 --> 03:44:56.079
everything in there aboutely all thought they
all wanted to have a moment yeah where

2898
03:44:56.120 --> 03:45:00.399
they were licensed to cheer for Hull
Coogan like they actually want to. Yeah,

2899
03:45:01.760 --> 03:45:03.879
not allowed, folks, because we're
doing because we're opening this thing wide

2900
03:45:03.920 --> 03:45:09.879
open, brother, taking this to
a whole other level. These are middling

2901
03:45:09.959 --> 03:45:13.399
numbers for impact going into the biggest
show of the year built around whole Coogan.

2902
03:45:13.280 --> 03:45:24.639
Not great for Terry houpebolea clown and
I'll take it definitely. And then

2903
03:45:24.680 --> 03:45:26.959
he's got micro Championship Wrestling on True
TV and that's going down every week.

2904
03:45:28.040 --> 03:45:31.639
Eight hundred seventy thousand viewers in September
twenty first, which was twenty that's still

2905
03:45:31.760 --> 03:45:35.239
going on. Well, he was
promoting it, but it didn't actually come

2906
03:45:35.280 --> 03:45:41.319
out until September. Why was all
right? How long did it last?

2907
03:45:41.200 --> 03:45:46.000
Eight weeks? I think it was. It's twenty one percent below True TV's

2908
03:45:46.000 --> 03:45:52.159
primetime average. Jesus, what a
fucking what a goofball? What a fucking

2909
03:45:52.280 --> 03:45:56.799
loser? Well, let's go hometime. Yes, it is, because I

2910
03:45:56.799 --> 03:46:01.360
wish the leopard spots have been exposed. The Emperor has no clothes and whole

2911
03:46:01.399 --> 03:46:05.440
Cogan while there's nothing now between him
and staying in bound for glory and wrestling

2912
03:46:05.520 --> 03:46:09.639
one more time, or as he
puts it, fighting one more time.

2913
03:46:09.760 --> 03:46:11.959
Yeah, I mean that's that's a
smart because he ain't gonna be a wrestling

2914
03:46:13.000 --> 03:46:16.520
match, that's for sure. You
heard him carve that out, And that's

2915
03:46:16.559 --> 03:46:20.319
big because you know, last year
approved in Hogan's entirety andigh run, it's

2916
03:46:20.319 --> 03:46:22.879
like it's always, even that March
match with Abyss, it's always touch and

2917
03:46:22.959 --> 03:46:26.600
go. You know, there's always
some out they need to have in case

2918
03:46:26.639 --> 03:46:30.559
Hogan wakes up one morning and can't
fucking move. You know, it's oh

2919
03:46:30.600 --> 03:46:33.440
no, dude, not feeling this
one bro the very real possibility at all

2920
03:46:33.520 --> 03:46:35.920
times. Wait, wait, I
didn't I just want to say it.

2921
03:46:37.000 --> 03:46:39.520
You know, I didn't know.
I wasn't being serious when I say I

2922
03:46:39.600 --> 03:46:43.360
fight sing dude, right, I
mean I was kind of just being being

2923
03:46:43.479 --> 03:46:48.200
facetious, you know, kind of
taken, you know, you know,

2924
03:46:48.319 --> 03:46:52.680
kind of playing hide the ball.
Yeah, I think one ball I should

2925
03:46:52.680 --> 03:46:58.520
have hid. You know, I
understand someone getting you so upset that you

2926
03:46:58.559 --> 03:47:01.799
say I will fight you even though
I said I wouldn't. But why do

2927
03:47:01.879 --> 03:47:05.319
you then follow it on with and
I'll give you the entire company? Like

2928
03:47:07.399 --> 03:47:11.159
why why did he blurt that out? And why is that binding? I

2929
03:47:11.239 --> 03:47:13.680
mean, I know the fact that
he just said it. You know,

2930
03:47:15.120 --> 03:47:18.719
Bischoff and Hogan had to get a
document signed under false pretenses to get the

2931
03:47:18.760 --> 03:47:22.319
company. But Hogan can just give
it back to Dixie by saying two words

2932
03:47:22.360 --> 03:47:26.879
in the ring that he didn't mean
to say. Doesn't he have to sign

2933
03:47:26.000 --> 03:47:30.079
something too? Very bizarre, very
lazy? That's the problem. What do

2934
03:47:30.120 --> 03:47:33.120
you You don't know what you're talking
about? Just you know, Hogan wrestling

2935
03:47:33.159 --> 03:47:35.360
sting is enough. You don't have
the layer on the future of t a

2936
03:47:35.440 --> 03:47:41.079
A. But I guess you do
one of the They fucking suck, is

2937
03:47:41.120 --> 03:47:46.360
what the problem is. Impact October
thirteenth, Go home time, they do

2938
03:47:46.440 --> 03:47:50.000
a contract signing in the ring.
Jeremy Borash says, this Sunday Bound.

2939
03:47:50.840 --> 03:47:54.120
I hate him, I hate him, I hate him. I hate him

2940
03:47:54.840 --> 03:48:00.559
so much. Well, they're so
stupid its ink to be put on paper

2941
03:48:00.639 --> 03:48:05.239
here, which is actually the most
Hogan segments, because you know what,

2942
03:48:05.399 --> 03:48:09.959
like they're there there there, you
know that it's gonna be something's gonna happen,

2943
03:48:09.079 --> 03:48:13.559
right, you know, because if
you if because why don't we have

2944
03:48:13.760 --> 03:48:18.600
contract signings for every single fucking match? So true? You know Crockett used

2945
03:48:18.600 --> 03:48:22.799
to do it well in the boardroom
and they would talk shit. But it

2946
03:48:22.879 --> 03:48:26.360
isn't It shouldn't be physical, it
should be verbal, right right, But

2947
03:48:26.680 --> 03:48:30.799
here Bores says this Sunday Bound for
glory. The very future of this company

2948
03:48:30.879 --> 03:48:33.159
hangs in the balance. One match, one night to determine it at all.

2949
03:48:33.200 --> 03:48:37.520
And here it comes hole to a
chorus of booze. He's in front

2950
03:48:37.559 --> 03:48:39.920
of the same crowd that he just
turned on. They taped two weeks of

2951
03:48:39.959 --> 03:48:43.920
television in Knoxville, so they really
hate him Hulk standing there with the forearms

2952
03:48:43.959 --> 03:48:46.440
folded like whatever, good, that's
that's smart. Then, yeah, that

2953
03:48:46.600 --> 03:48:48.799
was smart, and it's it's really
good for go home shows, for big

2954
03:48:48.840 --> 03:48:52.680
pay per views, you know,
creates energy around the product. Sure,

2955
03:48:52.840 --> 03:48:58.079
only people would watch the show.
Making the scowl face. As he walks

2956
03:48:58.120 --> 03:49:01.319
to the ring, too many mistakes, man signs his Whole Comania hashtag fail

2957
03:49:03.479 --> 03:49:05.399
wow. Put his foot in his
mouth tests as unlike usual when he puts

2958
03:49:05.440 --> 03:49:09.559
his foot in someone else's mouth,
that they're shooting them off. Oh look

2959
03:49:09.600 --> 03:49:11.440
at that, look at that.
Sting comes out, makes the walk to

2960
03:49:11.559 --> 03:49:15.479
Nassis. For several years, Sting
has asked for one thing, the chance

2961
03:49:15.559 --> 03:49:18.920
to fight Whole Cogan, and that
opportunity presents itself this Sunday. They both

2962
03:49:18.959 --> 03:49:22.959
take a seat. Has he asked
for years? Huh? Has he asked

2963
03:49:24.000 --> 03:49:28.879
for years? Um? I don't
know. I guess not. I mean

2964
03:49:28.399 --> 03:49:33.360
he's wrestled him several times. Yeah, not that we've seen. I know.

2965
03:49:33.440 --> 03:49:35.799
They act like he only wrestled them
once at Starcade. I mean he

2966
03:49:35.879 --> 03:49:41.520
wrestled him February at the following February
and then they wrestled at Fallbrawl nine.

2967
03:49:41.079 --> 03:49:46.520
Did so? I don't see what
the big deals. So they both take

2968
03:49:46.559 --> 03:49:48.959
a seat at the table with JB
between them. He tells them, you

2969
03:49:50.040 --> 03:49:52.360
both have agreed to the terms of
this contract. That is now time to

2970
03:49:52.399 --> 03:49:56.159
make it a weird looking motherfucker.
Jeremy borash yes, oh yeah, he

2971
03:49:56.440 --> 03:50:01.040
really concerns me. Ester Hogan,
if you would please, Hogan, with

2972
03:50:01.120 --> 03:50:03.079
his elbows on the table, just
stands there. Sting flips open with his

2973
03:50:03.200 --> 03:50:09.000
weird red gloves that he wears and
signs the contract again. Jeremy Boris says,

2974
03:50:09.040 --> 03:50:11.760
mister Hogan, if you would please, chorus of booze, looks off

2975
03:50:11.799 --> 03:50:16.120
into space, does the mustache face, and finally Hogan flips it open and

2976
03:50:16.200 --> 03:50:20.159
signs. As they chant, Hogan
sucks. It is official. Final words.

2977
03:50:20.879 --> 03:50:24.319
Do we have some final words from
the principles? We do have final

2978
03:50:24.399 --> 03:50:31.440
words from our principles. I do
have something to say. I've been watching

2979
03:50:31.559 --> 03:50:37.559
you dance around Paul Togan for over
thirty years. Sting, we had a

2980
03:50:37.680 --> 03:50:43.840
brief encounter, but she were really
happy when that moment was over with brother,

2981
03:50:43.840 --> 03:50:48.360
So here we are again. I've
watched your song and dance. I

2982
03:50:48.520 --> 03:50:52.079
wrestled all over the world. Brother, you could have chased me, and

2983
03:50:52.159 --> 03:50:56.239
you could have found me, because
I'm not hard to find. Brother.

2984
03:50:56.159 --> 03:51:01.760
But for you to come here to
TNA in the twilight of my career,

2985
03:51:03.559 --> 03:51:07.159
when I was here to help this
company, when I was here to make

2986
03:51:07.239 --> 03:51:13.239
things right, where I was here
with Eric Bischoff, to get this company

2987
03:51:13.360 --> 03:51:20.840
back on track, something at you
and all your little TNA originals couldn't get

2988
03:51:20.920 --> 03:51:26.760
done. The kind of man that
you are staying. You dug down as

2989
03:51:26.840 --> 03:51:31.280
low as you could go. You
went ahead, danced around my career,

2990
03:51:31.799 --> 03:51:35.479
hid from the monster Hulk Hogan,
and finally, in the eleventh hour,

2991
03:51:37.520 --> 03:51:43.120
when I was at peace with my
career, you dropped your down card with

2992
03:51:43.319 --> 03:51:48.000
the big scary man face on it. So I'm here to tell you,

2993
03:51:48.600 --> 03:51:56.360
if you don't understand you wanted Hulk
Hogan, You've got the real damn Hulk

2994
03:51:56.440 --> 03:52:07.879
Hogan. Now that's all you ever
wanted. Hall, that's all you ever

2995
03:52:07.000 --> 03:52:15.000
wanted. I want here to tell
you be careful what you wish for one

2996
03:52:15.079 --> 03:52:22.079
more time for the record book.
My wrestling career is over. But for

2997
03:52:22.239 --> 03:52:26.200
you to insult me in front of
all these people that love me, for

2998
03:52:26.360 --> 03:52:35.559
you to embarrass me, for you
to embarrass me the way you have in

2999
03:52:35.719 --> 03:52:39.200
front of all these people that support
me and are loyal to me. I

3000
03:52:39.440 --> 03:52:43.559
want to let you know this is
gonna be the fight of your life,

3001
03:52:43.639 --> 03:52:50.360
my brother. And there's gonna be
no games played. There's gonna be no

3002
03:52:50.600 --> 03:52:56.760
interference. There's gonna be no pieces
of a puzzle that you can't figure out

3003
03:52:56.840 --> 03:53:01.959
staying. It's gonna be you and
me and on man one of us walks

3004
03:53:03.000 --> 03:53:07.319
out out this ring and one of
us dozens. You've got my word on

3005
03:53:07.440 --> 03:53:20.879
it. Man on man, Brother, Yeah, okay, man on Man,

3006
03:53:22.159 --> 03:53:28.159
You and me, nobody else.
I hope you're ready. Oh whoa,

3007
03:53:28.360 --> 03:53:33.879
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There's one little teas some business

3008
03:53:35.399 --> 03:53:39.719
seeing you laid your hands on me
two weeks ago. And if there's anything

3009
03:53:39.959 --> 03:53:46.040
left over, but how ko he
gets done with you? I'm good kid,

3010
03:53:46.440 --> 03:53:52.840
You're destruction and enables hooge. You
come up from behind, hope of

3011
03:53:52.920 --> 03:53:58.479
this? Her tears on? Come
up from man? Brother? What come

3012
03:53:58.559 --> 03:54:01.959
up from? Oh behind? What
did you just turn about? Fair play?

3013
03:54:03.040 --> 03:54:05.680
Dude? Whoa stinger? Oh?
Sorry about that out there? Brother,

3014
03:54:05.760 --> 03:54:07.959
and I get you hard way in
the back of the head. Dude.

3015
03:54:09.040 --> 03:54:11.920
Look, I'm real sorry. I
came from behind, Dude. I

3016
03:54:11.079 --> 03:54:15.719
wonder if you think that that justifies
you maybe doing the same to me a

3017
03:54:15.760 --> 03:54:18.360
bound for glory and if we need
to have a talk about that eventuality.

3018
03:54:18.399 --> 03:54:20.680
I mean, you know, I
just want to talk. You know,

3019
03:54:20.719 --> 03:54:24.360
we'll talk turkey about that. Brother. I'm all about storylines con playing through,

3020
03:54:26.000 --> 03:54:26.920
you know, to the pay per
view, Brother, But you know,

3021
03:54:28.840 --> 03:54:31.840
I got a little I'm just wondering, dude. You know, I'm

3022
03:54:31.879 --> 03:54:33.520
wondering we could maybe pull a twist
on the fans. Dude. You know

3023
03:54:33.559 --> 03:54:37.360
they're gonna maybe expect you come on
from behind, brother, But what if

3024
03:54:37.440 --> 03:54:41.000
you didn't, if you just came
out. Let's talk about that, if

3025
03:54:41.040 --> 03:54:43.799
you just came out from front,
brother, and we just kind of had

3026
03:54:43.799 --> 03:54:46.920
a straight match instead of you,
you know, like you're just you got

3027
03:54:46.959 --> 03:54:52.040
the honored thing going on. I'll
see in Philly, dude, Brother,

3028
03:54:52.680 --> 03:55:00.879
Brother, I'll see in Philly what
you mean Philly, dude,