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TNH rolls on we turned the calendar
to twenty twelve. There we're going a

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jolly old London, England, aren't
we, Boss, Oh god, yes,

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a troop right spot in twenty twelve. For TNA, we've made reference

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about the course of the journey that
they were especially strong on UK television.

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They had a very strong network they
were on and television clearance. They were

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able to brag they had bigger numbers
than w WE okay, because the station

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they were on was just available in
that many more homes. Of course,

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no comparison when it comes to the
amount of people they could draw bringing the

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show to said country. But for
impact, the UK was always a bright

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spot. And for the first time
in the first quarter February and to be

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exact or January rather late January of
twenty twelve, they bring their television tapings

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to London. And this is all
TNA capital outlay. This isn't Spike TV

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paying for this. This is the
Impact budget trying to find the money it

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takes to bring the show on the
road. Because I think you'd agree,

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Boss, bringing the show on the
road makes a difference. Uh sure.

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I mean, if if we're talking
in terms of like crowd reaction and whatever.

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Absolutely and making it seem like the
angles are actually clicking and the personalities

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are over. Yes, I mean
it's like maybe they should move to fucking

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England, you know. Not the
worst idea actually, considering how the real

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nerve center of the independent wrestling boom
came out of Europe just around the time

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TNA fell from the mainstream wrestling picture
and got on much lower tier television clearances

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here in the United States, it's
actually a hell of a thought you had

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there. But they did a five
thousand, four hundred and four and attendance

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under January twenty eighth taping, which
Meltzer reported was set up for six thousand,

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five hundred fourteen, So that's a
gate of three hundred and fifty three

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thousand dollars, which is a tremendous
gate for TNA. WOW very much embraced

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so forgetting the dying days of WCW
two that they were still doing really good

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European tours and Australia tours. There
were markets where they hadn't caught on to

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the fact that WCW totally fucking sucked. In a chat the bed, they

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didn't necessarily get exposed to the highest
heights of WCW storytelling ability in the nWo

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days, and they were still able
to draw really healthy gates going over there

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with some of the stars that people
remembered in particular from you early to mid

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nineties. WWF. Meltzer wrote,
one thing positive you have to say about

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TNA as their cruise ability to make
a crowd look big. I've been told

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it was seven thousand, and it
was more than believable watching on TV,

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and it could have passed the way
it was shot from being a raw sellout

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at a major US arena with thirteen
thousand anyway, that means they couldn't have

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sold more than about five thousand tickets
when they made the announcement that it was

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going to be their biggest live attendant
in the history the company, when in

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reality they were on track to come
nowhere close, but five thousand and four

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or four in the building was the
final tally. And of course, as

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part of promoting this, that's when
Hogan does the interview we mentioned where he

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said he was going to be in
a Metallica for the Son of the UK.

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He's doing British media and another thing
he's saying is just just a further

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help morale, right, he says, after all the times of saying the

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talent in TNA this is Meltzer is
equal to that of we and just need

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exposure. He said, the company
lacks guys who are the complete package,

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like a rock and scene of type. Oh my god. Um, he

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says. There are a lot of
guys who can do five star matches and

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do flips and crazy things, but
that's a small part of wrestling, maybe

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ten percent. They don't have the
other ninety percent, Hogan said, which

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is talking to the media and doing
national TV commercials. He then pointing to

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Abyss, saying that Abyss, who
Hogans hand picked for stardom last year,

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has the look in the work,
but the problem is how he's been used

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and it's not his fault. It's
not. I mean, you're fucking controlling

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it, dude, you brother,
I have no control over so reason you're

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inferring that I what do you have
control? You trying to say on the

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book or dude, did you who
do you? Who are you talking to?

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Brother? Exactly see, I didn't
think that that was public knowledge.

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Dude, I don't I don't book. I show up at the building and

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I try to help out and occasionally
put the kai bosh on Bobby rud winning

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the world title and they may have
End of the Biggest Show. I've never

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put a kbosh or anything, brother, I just simply vote X. You

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know, shared an opinion. Brother, While you're bringing brook in, Terry?

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What why are you bringing brook In? Brook Who? Brook Teeney?

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Are you talking to my daughter?
Brother? Yeah? Why are you bringing

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her in? Why are you talking
to my daughter? Brother said, I'm

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talking about your daughter? Why are
you talking to my daughter? Haven't talked

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for you? You gay? Is
that the only reason I would talk to

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her? What is that about?
Well? How gay are you? Brother?

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I've already had roommates, dude,
I tell you, Terry, I'll

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admitted. I went up to her
on the beach with my TikTok rolling and

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I said, kissing me her pass
to the next person and double it.

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Were you doubling? Brother? One
to ten? Smash her pass? Are

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you doubling? Brother? Are we
talking like? Waits dude? A you

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doubling? Wait? Brother? You
what do you mentioned? Brother? Right

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up on Terry and try to do
one of those with the road microphone reels.

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See how that goes for you.
Brother, Bro, there's nothing real

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about this. That's the problem.
The reels is we're gonna hung up.

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He said. It has the look
and the work, but the problem is

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how he's been used and it's not
his fault. He said. Everything is

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fixable, but you have to recate
the guys. He said, the TENA

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originals are so used to having five
star matches and their mindset is so screwed

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up. They were going to have
five star matches ten years from now and

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never draw any money. Brother.
You don't have to have five ten star

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matches. Brother. What you gotta
have is is character, right, Brother,

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you can have one five star match. You can have five one star

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matches. Dude, which which are
the two? Do you think? You

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know? What? What do you? How much you know? Think about

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like this? Brother? You can
have one five star match, Dude,

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do you have five one star matches? Brother? How much money are you

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making on that one five star match? How are you making on five one

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star matches? Anywhile this guy never
had hardly anything above three stars, and

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he can't fucking walk, okay,
he can't move. There were reports kurn

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Engel said that he had this well
as an undertaker, brother, that's true.

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I mean, come on, so, he said, they'll all they're

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all second tier players, mid carters, and even if you put them in

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main events, they still do the
same thing. He said he hopes they

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are still working with Spike a year
from now, because Spike understands the product.

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Melton knows the teenage contract with Spike
expires in the fall. Um.

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He said he hoped people like aj
Styles and Bobby Rude would use their skills

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outside the ring to make themselves bigger
stars, and he said that in a

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year, TNA will be much more
competitive. It's always a year out.

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You noticed that. I know,
I know, there's always it's always another

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year. All use one more year, dude, And I'm telling you we're

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gonna be on my We're going back
on Frock. So what does your contract

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expire? Terry? Remind me,
uh, I h one year. And

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I don't brother, I'm not sure
exactly the you know, the the specific

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language, brother, This whole thing
turns around, isn't that, brother,

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I'm telling you, dude. All
I can tell you, brother, is

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that is a teenage's gonna to a
round, Dude. We're going to kind

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of bring the nose up on this
thing, brother, and we got it

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all figured out, dude. I
loved how I don't know what it was

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now, what interview it was,
but Linda doing the book tour, doing

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the fuck Hulk Hogan tour, still
let turn the nose up on this thing,

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slip into her own vocabulary, and
she said it without it being a

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reference to I love that. I
look at Hulks phraseology. She pretends to

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hate him, but then two weeks, three weeks later, she finds she's

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complete. He is completely embedded in
her brain. I mean, let's be

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honest here, all right, that's
the reality of it all, he said.

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In a year, a TNA will
be much more competitive because Dixie Carter

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is on track and has the right
feel for where the company should be going,

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which means do Bischoff's fucking reality television. We got it, dude,

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we got it, brother, bat. It's a London phase of the Impact

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Invasion. We're told as the February
second, twenty twelve Impact opens, that's

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where we're going to start here tonight, TEENA Wrestling, Mike Tena says,

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makes a global impact. There's a
lot there, biggest audience in company history.

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You hear the echoes of a real, honest to goodness arena here.

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This is Wembley Arena, not Wembley
Stadium, of course, but the arena

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Abbi Rout is still your champion.
And Bischoff, they talk about his son

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his fantasy becoming a pro wrestler.
Um. Bischof tells him it's never gonna

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happen, and I'm disappointed in you, Um, And Garrett's talking about how

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Bischoff Eric is upset with who he
chose to be his trainer. So we're

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building intrigue in the beginning of twenty
twelve around who is training Garrett Bischoff to

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become a wrestler. We noted the
last time that he did the big turn

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on his father at Bounded for Glory
twenty eleven after revealing that he was the

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referee Jackson James, but in fact
was Garrett Bischoff all along. And Garrett

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tells Bischoff here in the Sebary second
Impact, to take it up with a

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guy who's training him if he's got
a problem. Eric says, you want

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to can these people to think he's
coming here to back you up. He's

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not going to be he They keep
referring to he wondering, you know,

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I know who it is. Now
Bischoff is sort of intimating that he knows

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who it is, but he doesn't
believe Garrett that Hogan would train him.

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But there was a thing we didn't
cover it here in our prep. There

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was a segment they did once where
Garrett was sort of in the gym or

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the dojo training, and they did
this hogy thing where Eric kind of looks

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off camera because Eric is there,
kind of looks off camera and does like

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a wide eyed like he can't believe
who he sees there. But once they

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get in the ring here in this
impact in London, it's almost like Bischoff

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is saying, like, even though
I saw that it, I don't believe

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that he's training you, and I
certainly don't believe that he cares enough about

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you to make the trap sorry or
is he rhet conning it could be?

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And even if he was in the
gym that day, not going to make

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a trip all the way to London
for you, brother doesn't see anything in

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you. You're as delusional as anyone
I've ever met. You know, he's

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not coming here, he tells Garrett
as the Hogan, chance just thunder.

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They know exactly what this is setting
Yeah, oh yeah they do. Suddenly

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Garrett gets a cell phone call and
man or those sideburns on Garrett plunging to

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the Southern Hemisphere. I mean,
my god, do they like is he?

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Is he trying to be rock in
nineteen ninety eight? I don't know,

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but those sideburns start in London and
they end around Bournemouth as far as

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I'm And whoever was on the phone
that was him, he is in the

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building. Brother intrigue seeds planted.
You have to tease them and bring them.

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Who's the third guy, dude?
Again, we're doing this again.

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Who's your trainer, brother, Garrettude. I'm wondering, bro, who's your

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trainer dude? Because I mean,
we talked about this the office talked about

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that's kind of the way we should
go with a dude. I was told.

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I was told that I'm going to
be your trainer and storyline dude.

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But I wonder if that's actually who
you have in mind when you're out there

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with a live microphone. I mean, are you because you know I'm just

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telling you when you're out there,
when you're out there thinking about it.

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Brother, I can't tell who you're
thinking. I'm reading the look on your

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face. Dude. I feel like
you're sort of wondering. I think I

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kind of think you're thinking as mister
Anderson. Brother. Now, are you

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gonna see I don't like that look
either, dude? Look me in the

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eye. Brother, Brother, we
had an agreement. Do you know who

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I am? Brother? Do you
know who your trainer is? Dude?

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I came to London, Brother,
shoot this angle to get you over the

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top or you to really get this
blocket fuel? Who SI are you on?

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Brother? Now, I'm starting to
wonder if you're going to go out

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there and double cross me and say
someone else is your trainer? Dude?

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Are you are you? Brother?
You've been talking to Leno? Dude?

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Can I can I see your phone? Brother? What's the Burbank called?

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Can you give me what's burbank?
Carrother? That that was my dad called

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Jay. It's my fucking phone out. Just your fucking phone, dude,

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brother fish Dude, I want to
see what's this fucking California number? Brother?

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I see three one, Dude,
I gotta flip phone. Brooks got

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a sidekick? What the fuck is
this thing? Dude, what is this

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ship? Brother? Was was this
iPhone? Dude? I think your phone

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sucks? This a Burbank area code? Dude? Tell me now, brother,

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what's this a one eight number?
Dude? You fucking tell me what

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this a one eight numbers? Brother? Are you talking? Brother? Is

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this Tonight show? Dude? Is
NBC? Brother? I'm gonna call it,

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dude, Please please don't. I'm
gonna call it. Fuck you brother,

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Fuck you dude. You on your
fucking chance, dude, NBC?

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How can I help you? Brother? I knew this was it, dude,

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I knew you. She's new your
NBC brother. You're fucking trying to

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get Little on my ass? Dude. You fuck you brother? Fucking BC

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dude like Jay Lenow got shit?
Huk Hoogan? Brother, here's everything?

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Okay? Oh yeah, you fucking
it. You're talking to me like you

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don't know who the fuck is going
on? Brother. I'm gonna tell you

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right now, dude. I'm gonna
fly over there right now from London.

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Brother, I'm gonna kick Jay Little's
as I have this number here is connected

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to a Bishop Hervey. Yeah,
you're damn brother, are you dude?

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I'm gonna tell you who the fuck
are you? Brothers? Who the fuck

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are you? Dude? I want
to know what an NBC you are?

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Brother, n Universal Career you NBCU? Brother? Now I understand. Um.

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We get calls from this number every
week pitching the reality show. Is

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there is there a brother? What
do you what? Come? Brother?

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All right, I'll tell you what, brother. You know what? I

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had a show on v H one. Brother, I think it's time to

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make it be. I have ever
heard of micro champions up wrestling? Dude?

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Brother, you don't. I'm gonna
tell you, brother. Do you

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know Brook Hogan? Dude? First, let me apologize for the way I

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acted. Brother. First of all, I want to say that was you

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know what, here's the thing,
brother, I'm Terry Balaya. Dude,

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you were talking to Hulk Hogan Bullers. He goes, within seconds goes,

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has have you heard of Brook Hogan? Dude? He's always trying to find

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a way to make that thing a
success. It's like the one hang up.

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It's like, so yeah, that's
kind of how it goes. It's

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going for reality, right, we
gotta put that on the screen. Oh

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my god, what did Bruce Prichard
say in that gut check clip? We

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played in part one in a world
of reality. Oh yeah, that's where

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you guys live in. Fucking fuck
off. Later on this episode of Him,

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Pat James, Storm and Bobby Rude
finally have their rematch for the TNA

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title, and Bobby Rude wins with
a spear after Bully Ray interferes on Bubba's

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behalf at A bit of an alliance
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Bully steps more into the foreground as
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Later on the show, here comes
Garrett again. Yeah any more. They

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do this production element where they follow
the guys from behind through the aisle way

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that certain You can't, brother,
You can't do that with me, brother,

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brother, you know, before we
wrap this production meeting folks, and

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I really appreciate the time, Dude, I just want to talk about one

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one tweek we're making here on the
format, dude, I noticed and production

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notes Keith Mitchell, brother uh and
everybody else involved on the production side,

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dude, and the truck and whatnot. It looks like we're gonna put cameras

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behind the wrestlers as they come through
the curtain through the tunnel. Is that

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right, Yeah, Terry, that's
what we're thinking. Yeah, we think

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it'll be a nice, yeah,
differentiated kind of perspective on the guys as

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they come through the tunne. I
just want to brother, I just want

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to put this out there, dude. Section eleven sub paragraph of you brother,

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right all right? Not digging creative
dude. So what do you propose

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we do, Terry? You want
us to stop to just scratch it all

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together or just just not shoot scratch
it brother all together? Why doesn't it

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work for you just out of curiosity
because it's none of your fucking business.

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Well, your your creative control is
to not be unreasonably withheld. I know

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the rest of the clause. Brother, I'll tell you what, dude.

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While that's correct, Brother, I'm
not unreasonably withholding anything, right. All

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it takes. All it takes for
a finding of fact that I'm not being

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unreasonable is for me to say I'm
not being unreasonable. I'm actually, Brother,

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it is within reasonable reasonable reasonability,
dude, that I can withhold information,

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brother, within reason to question.
Why you would even bring up that

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part? Brother? Why don't you? I mean, what's your reasoning?

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Brother? How you know? Why
is it what you're asking reasonable. I

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don't think it's reasonable to ask me
what is reasonable? Brother? Scratch the

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camera, trick. Brother. So
it's over, dude. Right now,

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here's the people I want to see. I want to see you fucking do

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it, dude, and I want
to see you doing I want to see

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you xerox as shit, brother,
and you pass it around everybody. Everyone's

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gonna know that this ship is off
the table. No camera from behind,

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dude, do you want to?
I don't think I was born yesterday,

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brother, Dude. I know Keith
Mitchell. Brother. I'm looking your high

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dude, and I see exactly what's
going on. Brother. I know exactly

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what you want, dude. And
you want to go home, and you

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want to tell all your families,
brother, And you want to tell your

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fans on Twitter, brother, and
all your Facebook friends that you roll up

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Hogan from behind with a fucking camera, dude, and ain't gonna happen.

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I don't care how production element tell
you, dude. We're not playing fucking

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hide the ball anymore. Brother.
Now, we're not playing the Ying and

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the Yang, Brother, We're not
playing it. We're not playing eat the

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Tomato. Okay, dude, we're
talking is down to business. Brother,

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Well fuck this. If this leaves
the room. At that point, Taz

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though leans in, eat the tomato? Who eat for nothing? Brook Adams,

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We we gotta go. You know, we got a lot of rit

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tomatoes and red hook what tomato we
eat? And a lot of people don't

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like taz um. So here comes
Garrett again. Later on this episode of

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Impact Plane, leave the Garnish behind
brother. Okay, dude, Facebook dot

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com slash Impact Wrestling. It says
on my screen case you were wondering follow

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Impact Wrestling on Facebook? How desperate
are they? Oh my god, that's

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what matter who you talk about when
they look back on TNA, even if

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they were bitter enemies, Russo,
Pritchard, Bischoff, Jarrett, everybody,

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Dixie and fucking being obsessed with social
media. Big problem. So gross.

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So Garrett gets in the ring and
he's drowned out by false crowd noise and

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he thanks the crowd for supporting him
through all this, and I'm thinking,

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oh, what you fucking turn on? Your dad punched him in the face,

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and you've been riding high support.
There's been no support, pal like

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You've come up against no adversity.
If you started working a year ago,

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you might have support to thank for. And then he says, without any

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further ado, the man that's been
training me, all right, I got

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this ship for your pal, Because
that reaction is one for the books.

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First of all, I'm like the
stone Off by saying thank you, dating

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every single one of you guys for
having my back and supporting me through all

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that real pad noise. Yeah right, thank you, But without any further

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ado. The man who's been training
me, the man that I look up

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to here, he's like, oh, maybe daddy is gonna squirrel a moment,

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look like Gary fish All who his
trainer is. He's interrupted by his

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father, who's not alone, by
oh, hell, I'm not coming alone

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immortals Boss Eric Fishoff, accompanied by
immortals mister Intensity Gunner, who, by

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the way, is the individual who
hospitalized Garrett fish Off with that fishes pile

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driver on the concrete that was orchestrated
by his own father. Garrett's look,

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we've got spies with eyes in the
back of their heads. He's not here,

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he's not coming, so give it. If there's two of us and

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one of you, why don't you
give this up before you get hurts?

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Hardys wah wa wa. Style was
that well was l Sky was teena ten

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tenequeni tenaqueni tenaquenys teenaquenny TEENAQUENNI while I
was while I was whack out, Sky

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was that while I was wat whole, while I was way, while I

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wh wh who boo, I was
that wol I was West style, I

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was out. Style was why Sky
was a style was wild. My my,

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my mind, my mind, my
mind, my mind, my my,

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my mom's time. I call talk
Cat, Talk Cat. You're gonna

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do lean a bad way. Olay
you guys. Oh, it's gonna go

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some bad worse Mr Father. Now
it's just follow that. So a big

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pop for the Hulkster coming back to
Ard and he makes a lot of hey

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later about how many years it's been
in the eight years of whatever he said,

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since he's been there, or thirteen
years whatever he says. We'll get

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to the back there, yeah and
uh yeah. So that was Gunner who

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came out with Eric Bischoff and got
ping pong back and forth between the Hulkster

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and Garrett Bischoff. So Hulks trying
to give Garrett the rub. And I

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was just reading in the Observer here
that a lot of the crowd noise there

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was drowning out the booze that Garrett
Bischoff received when he took the mic in

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the first place. Makes a lot
of sense to me. Um. But

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yeah, when he parts the curtain
man and the light blue bandana and the

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black impact cut off shirt, that's
a real pop. They're jam excited to

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see him. What do they want? I want Hogan to rustle, thank

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you. There's all this vintage and
gear and the crowd, although they were

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very confused when Garrett kept talking about
his trainers. They thought I was talking

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about his sneakers. But that's neither
here nor they. He cuts the year

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and does the hoof on both sides
of the steps. You heard the you

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or the rights and the who?
Yeah, I know they were, they

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were, They're ready for it and
you heard every already. See fucking hulk

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Hogan take on Gunner. Eric kind
of scurries away, and there's a sign

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red yellow Hogan holding a Union Jack
Holcomania forever. He takes all four sides

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of the ring cup in his ear
to his music and that he tears the

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shirt and that's working for him.
Man, It worn't it boun for glory?

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Against day and really, I mean
it's it seriously, is like it

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it gives people the warm and fuzzies. Yes, and they go totally Nazi

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gives Garrett a hug and and you
can tell Holk's really feeling this moment and

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good for him. They power walk
up the aisle talking into the camera the

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whole time. Hulk pointed to Garrett
like he's, you know, like this

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is the man almost and then we
do the Hogan on the fly backstage interview

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where he's shirtless, which end it's
we heard because he's also like it's been

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edited, so it's not even on
the fly because it's like they've got footage

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like over it. But here here
it is. This is a mouthful,

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Yes it is. Derek Finshop goes
right from wrong. He's been playing on

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the wrong side of them, so
now that he's crossed the line, he

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knows he's got this monster target on
his back. And what better way to

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reinforce it than thousands and thousands of
tena Hall the Maniacs right here in one

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and telling him how bad he is
and how bad he's gonna get his butt

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kicks. So at the end of
the day, you can run but you

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can't hide because hear him. They're
still looking for him. I mean,

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if he runs in the back and
hides, I wouldn't be surprised if all

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these one in the whole Camaniacs grab
him by the seat of the pants and

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throw him right at mine and Garrett's
backing feet. Did you see the look

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on his face when helps he's a
hit? It was like somebody else walked

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over his grave. And I love
it. You know what. He didn't

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believe me, He didn't buy it. He wasn't thinking straight. He found

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out quick tonight. I mean he's
a marked man, that is what I'm

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saying. And if we're gonna hunt
him out, sniff him out, or

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if the Hulkamaniacs have to throw him
out like yesterday's garbage, is gonna end

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up in my feet. So Eric
Bischoff, you could about that must time

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left, brother, about that must
time, about the same size as everything

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else you got eighteen years? Eighteen
years? What can I say? We

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don't need no preen up here.
The love affair lives on eighteen years since

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I've been out from my UK Hullkomaniacs. It's not stopping here. They're loyal

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to a fault. They're with me. And when I put the hunting dogs,

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which I'm gonna do in a minute, I'm gonna go back out there

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and I'm gonna tell him my maniacs
to sniff this dirty dog out. I'm

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gonna have him sniff Eric Bischoff out. When they sniff him out, it's

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not gonna get pretty because the first
thing I'm gonna do is feed him to

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his son, and then I'll take
the leftovers. No problem. Brother.

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Well you know, I don't even
think TNA really understands how great they are,

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their destiny, their birthrightness to me, a thousand times greater than they

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are right now. I can see
it. I can smell it, I

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can feel it. I smell blood
with TNA. They're right on the first

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the cutting edge, are rolling right
off the top of the mountain onto what

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we call the greatest company of all
time. To disclose. TNA is dis

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close because they're doing everything right and
there's no stopping them. Now. I

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got my feet back underneath me.
If I gotta be the hood onner it

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that you put on the front of
the ship to bust through the ice jube,

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to see through the fog to feel
through the darkness of the night.

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I can be the guy because I
smell the greatness already, and if they

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don't smell them, I'm gonna take
everybody at TNA and I'm gonna stuff their

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heads in it, because greatness is
their destiny at TNA, and that's what's

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next for TNA, nothing but total
greatness. Wow. I mean, he's

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like, you don't fucking crack really
well, maybe he maybe he did.

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Maybe he knows where the bulllog got
it from. Maybe maybe he knows his

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dealer now. So it's like I
always get kind of torn with sh like

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this because I do appreciate the fact
that they do need to sell. You

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know, whatever company or whatever you're
doing is being yeah, a big deal

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otherwise, because like if you don't
think it's a big deal, then why

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should I think it's a big deal. But at the same time, it's

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all bullshit. Yeah, Well he's
trying to like he's trying to say that

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every single thing that happens in TNA
is like indicative of this whole thing,

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you know, growing by leaps and
bounds. It's like to show me,

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just show me, because if it
was impactful, as impactful as you say

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it is. You wouldn't have to
say it in such flowery, verbose,

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over the top verbiage. You would
just be a parent that things are clicking

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and it's a good show and talent's
getting over and more people are watching.

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But when you have to look into
the camera and basically shout what you hope

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to be true into existence, signed
a desperation, right. I hear a

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whole Coogan there who is so sick
of doing this speech already, and it's

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just trying to find new ways to
say the same thing. It's it's February

403
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:17.119
of twenty twelve. He signed to
this company I think technically signed to like

404
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.960
june O nine or something like that. I mean, come on, can

405
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.279
you still really be saying they're that
close what they're further away close to mine?

406
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.559
I mean, maybe he's talking about
the average rating going up in twenty

407
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:34.359
eleven and down for Glory doing pretty
well but relatively well, But what is

408
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:37.720
he talking about. I mean,
he's saying that they're they're they're on the

409
00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:42.160
verge of being the biggest company.
They're not even on the verge of being

410
00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:47.640
as big as they were from a
visibility standpoint before you got there, I

411
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:52.079
mean substantially, so I don't know, I don't know. It's just it's

412
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.200
it's amazing that this is still because
you know, when you're watching it over

413
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.960
fifty two weeks as it happens,
you kind of don't realize that he said

414
00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:00.400
the same thing four weeks ago,
you know, But when you go on

415
00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:04.240
it like this, you're like,
this guy is just he's just playing the

416
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:10.720
same tune, yeah, every time
from the same ship for fucking two years.

417
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:12.039
And he must feel a little extra, you know, win did his

418
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.799
sales because he's got that live London
crowd going absolutely ab shit. It was

419
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.000
eighteen years is he referenced there since
he claimed to have last been before his

420
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:23.960
Hulkamaniacs in London when he saw the
kid that that last Hultimaniac whatever his name

421
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:32.880
was, the last Hulkimaniac. There's
a fucking movie for you. That's it.

422
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.440
And uh and you know it's they're
on the road. They're doing a

423
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.039
well attended television taping. The crowd
is hot. London make you know,

424
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.160
England makes them feel like they're odd
to something, always has, so I

425
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.799
can see why he's got an extra
pepping his step a little more base in

426
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.319
his voice. But when you break
down the composite pieces of what he's saying,

427
00:30:52.359 --> 00:31:03.640
it's it's a little something like this, Papa uh bopapp I spread it

428
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:11.000
in the paper. I saw it
on TV. I guess with him down

429
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:18.519
to his heat. But I'm just
Wembley hearing the shirts. But now I've

430
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:30.240
torn my heart with maniac right from
the very starts. Brother, where my

431
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:52.640
friend and I'll see it again.
Brother, I'm zovivin will again. The

432
00:31:52.880 --> 00:32:07.720
world just lost another Hulka maniac and
his name was Garrett Bitchoff. They're still

433
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.680
coming off the London still, you
know, producing shows off the London taping

434
00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.319
Sting and Hogan and Garrett or backstage, and Holgan says, you don't worry

435
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:19.480
about what they think. Oh oh
hold on, I got this because this

436
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:23.680
is another bizarre fucking segment here.
You don't worry about what they think for

437
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.519
what they say anymore because you've made
a statement. Now you're on your own,

438
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.880
brother. So when you're on your
own, you walk no way.

439
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:42.799
Oh yeah, who I had to
come in and give you see you again,

440
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:51.079
clean again, and thank you so
much for making me be myself again.

441
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:54.839
Brother. I you so much weird. But thank you, your brother.

442
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:58.200
Can you give me just one second? Yeah, no problem, Thanks,

443
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.759
I'll getting right back on. Well, well, alright, kids on

444
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.160
track? Brother, he is you
my friend? Have taken it to a

445
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.640
whole another level. Brother, turning
to the general. You're leaving this thing,

446
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.920
brother, I am so proud to
say you're my friend, brother,

447
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.519
and let people know how I feel
because I've watched what you've been doing from

448
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:20.359
Afar. You've get trash and you
get this company on track and the young

449
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.680
guys are finally listening to your brother
and you're kidding you. Yeah, I

450
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:27.079
know, I know you got to
kill him in the button stay on them,

451
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.880
tell you get that done. That's
the most important thing. I got

452
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.839
one problem though, watching this thing
from Afar. I don't think you really

453
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.400
understand what's going on. You have
a target this big on your back.

454
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:43.319
You're a marked man, brother,
and what you don't understand? Do you

455
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.559
do you understand? Oh? No, I get it, believe me,

456
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:47.799
I get okay. But what you
don't get is how big is a target

457
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.519
you do have? Because they're coming
for your brother, and they're gunning for

458
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.240
you, and they're going to do
anything they can to try to cut your

459
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:59.000
legs out from underneath you. So
I just want to let you know because

460
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.839
of what you did for me,
and because of what this business has done

461
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:06.319
for me. Between you and this
business, these are the only two things

462
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:08.039
that have ever stuck with me,
no matter how bad things have got,

463
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:13.239
no matter how good things are.
The business and a friend like you has

464
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.719
been the only thing that's ever been
with me. So if there's anything you

465
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:21.199
need from me, I will do
be their safe fight, go down with

466
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:22.320
you, go all the way to
the top of you. Just remember to

467
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:25.599
counting me if it gets too heavy
and you need some help. Brother,

468
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:30.599
I'm here for you. All I
can say is you took a big load

469
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.119
off my plate. I mean the
way to the world is off my shoulders.

470
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:37.000
And I mean that I envy you
for what you did for so long.

471
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:40.360
I get it. It's tough.
It's kind of like having a monkey

472
00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.440
taking off your back. Really definitely. Thing is once this goes down,

473
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.920
Hey, guys, you know what, how about half a chance? You

474
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.079
don't give us a break? Just
get out, okay, just half a

475
00:34:52.199 --> 00:35:00.760
chance? You know you don't even
understand something. Chance? What does that

476
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.840
mean? Half a chance? It
is another phrase like the ball. He

477
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:12.159
started saying a phrase half a chance
of what half a chance of you know,

478
00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:14.920
popping a writing. Yeah, that's
about all they got at this point.

479
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:20.000
And he does. I mean,
he's still doing the only thing that

480
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.239
ever stocked me. Line he took
from New York and the Wrestler essentially the

481
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.960
spirit of it he took from there. I think, you know, I'm

482
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.599
so like, why does Sting sound
like a fucking idiot? You know he's

483
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:37.119
trying to keep he sound like a
buffoon, Like he sounds like, you

484
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.760
know, he sounds like he's got
some kind of a of a mental issue.

485
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:51.800
Yeah, the way he's talking,
Wow, whole state Steve, It's

486
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.159
I mean, like Steve at a
showing you know, right right now.

487
00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.679
I know this is a little u
but you guys will see the potential because

488
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:02.519
you're a young, hip couple.
Take a look at this space. I

489
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.079
can see you guys have the right
eyes for a place. Like other words,

490
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:08.920
by this piece of shit off me
commission. We got well, we

491
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:14.000
got here, you know, we've
got Look. I know it looks like

492
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.360
a two, a two and a
half bath, three bedroom, but really

493
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.079
you can make this into a four. But only you could do it because

494
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:27.840
you guys have THEYSLI can tell you
know, I can tell you guys have

495
00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:32.480
been watching that HGTV. You guys
know what's going on. We know what's

496
00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:37.320
going on rep the carpet out and
via the hardwood floor. I think you

497
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:42.920
guys, I think you guys can
put the stinger in this house. I'm

498
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.400
feeling the sting of this fucking journey
right about now. So that Hogan,

499
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.159
it's like all of a sudden gets
paranoid about the cameraman and closes the door

500
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:50.880
because what he's about to say the
sting next? What are you? What

501
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.480
are you doing? Dude? What
are you doing? Bro? They never

502
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:53.480
find out what that is, and
one think it was half a chance,

503
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:58.280
dude, And they replayed that Hogan
rant from last week, that breathy rant

504
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:02.280
we just played for the hood ornament, see through the fog? What fog?

505
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.880
What is it? What is his
metaphor? Is it? Yeah?

506
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.159
I'm wondering if this is the one
I have here? Is this feel?

507
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.880
Well? You know, I don't
even think TNA really understands how great they

508
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.760
are. Their destiny, their birthright
is to be a thousand times greater than

509
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:20.880
they are. Right now, I
can see it. I can smell it.

510
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:24.119
I can feel it. I smell
blood with TNA. They're right on

511
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:29.480
the thirge, the cutting edge,
and the rolling right off the top of

512
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:34.599
the mountain onto what we call the
greatest company of all time. That they're

513
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:38.639
just close. TNA is this close
because they're doing everything right and there's no

514
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:43.239
stopping them. Now. I got
my feet back underneath me. If I

515
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.840
gotta be the hood owner it that
you put on the front of the ship

516
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.679
to bust through the ice cubes,
to see through the fog, to feel

517
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.440
through the darkness of the ice,
I can be the guy because I smell

518
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.760
the greatness already. And if they
don't smell them, I'm gonna take everybody

519
00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.280
at TNA and I'm gonna stuff their
heads in it, because greatness is their

520
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.159
destiny and that's what's next for TNA, nothing but total greatness. He smells

521
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.960
blood. What does he sniff in
their accounting statements? I mean they are

522
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.159
bleeding all right. Later on the
show Hogan's music Hits, they show the

523
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:17.639
most schizo crowd pans you've ever seen, because this is the second time or

524
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:22.519
whatever third time he's come out before
the same crowd, so the crowd reactions

525
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.079
are way down from when he came
out as that a revealed trainer of Garrett

526
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.360
Bishoff. Bischoff live in his lifelong
dream, they say, of becoming a

527
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:32.039
professional wrestler. He cuts the ear
to a bit of a tepid response,

528
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:36.679
and he takes his time before saying
a word, pointing to all sides of

529
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:38.000
the ring. Cup in the ear, and they're going nuts again. Eventually

530
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.440
as Hogan takes inner stage and there's
some sides they find that are totally screaming

531
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:45.760
yeah. When it's their turn,
Hogan says, that is exactly what I

532
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.960
expected. The greatest wrestling fans in
the world writer in the UK, brother

533
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.039
got I got this one for you
too, dude, I got all these

534
00:38:52.079 --> 00:39:42.159
wonderful moments. It's Cup in the
air. What he do that when you

535
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:50.159
know something character is exactly what I
affected from the greatest rustling hands in the

536
00:39:50.239 --> 00:40:09.599
world right here in the UK.
You know, I didn't know what to

537
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:15.159
expect last week when I came out
here because it had been eight teen years

538
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:22.280
since I wrestled in the UK.
But after last week I told Jared it's

539
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.840
exactly what I thought would happen.
That the loyal tea, the love,

540
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:34.320
the respect, the greatest darned fans
in the world. They showed up again

541
00:40:37.360 --> 00:41:00.000
that they made me real the whole
comedia was gonna live forever. You know,

542
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.679
you guys don't surprise me one darn
bit, because I know what happens

543
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.639
when people dedicate their lives to something. I know what happens when people get

544
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.400
in this business and they give their
blood, sweat and tears to get ahead.

545
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:21.239
And I really appreciate everything you guys
have done for me. But now

546
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.280
I'm gonna ask you, guys one
favor. Everything that you've given to me,

547
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:34.559
I want you to give to him
old nice. Yeah, here's the

548
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:40.519
reason I've known Garrett ever since he
was a little teeny hawkmaniac. I've known

549
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.760
Garrett since day one when I met
his dad. In this business. His

550
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:52.960
dad, Eric Bischoff, is on
one side of the coin, and his

551
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:58.480
son, Garrett Bischoff, is on
our side of the coin. He's the

552
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:02.360
same, it's everybody else here in
this building. Garrett fish Off is a

553
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:10.840
wholesome mediacor. The only thing Garrett
has ever wanted from day one was an

554
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:16.599
opportunity to step in this ring and
prove that he had the wrestling business in

555
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:22.599
his blood, and from day one
his father stood in the way. I

556
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:31.559
just have one very simple civilized question, just who the hell do you think

557
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:40.199
you are? What is you the
right to interfere in my family business?

558
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:46.840
Who you think you are? Brother? What do something? There is?

559
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:54.679
This day isn't about you anymore.
This is about your son in his future,

560
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:06.760
okay, brother, who if I
have my way, he won't have

561
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:12.039
a future. And either to you, your time is coming gone. It's

562
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:17.599
time to step aside, ride that
horse off into the sunset and dream of

563
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.159
days gone by, and let me
healing this pump. You do not have

564
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:34.239
the rights you or you don't understand
this business? Quiet as well as I

565
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:38.239
thought you did, my brother,
Because not only do I have the rights,

566
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:45.960
I got something called the hulk a
Mania stroke. Brother, Okay,

567
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:53.239
because since I've seen the air my
ways around here and I'm back in good

568
00:43:53.360 --> 00:44:01.280
graces with all these hulk a maniacs
here, and then you can't. I

569
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:07.800
talked to a real good friend of
mine who seems to be running the shore

570
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:14.559
around here. I sat down with
a Stinger brother in Sting gave me the

571
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:21.119
rights to a book a match,
A match it against where we've got the

572
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:24.719
future of this business, Garrett Bishoff, because now we want to deal fun

573
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:34.480
book matches one against Gunner brother and
not only are they gonna go one on

574
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:46.039
one, hey, oh, may
not have to Bishop super a low blueful

575
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:52.599
behind on Hogan. Now Garret Bishops
just getting rich right here by Gunner.

576
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:58.920
This was Eric Bischoffs the team playing
from the outset. He told Gunner a

577
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:04.679
company needed the and we're gonna take
your Hogan rule and on Garrett fish Off

578
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:24.519
from row. Wait a minute,
Eric fish Off down, and Hawkin's attention

579
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:36.280
turned to the sound over the top, roping round over, really watching the

580
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:43.480
background there of his shop, and
Garret fish Off for down site said on

581
00:45:43.719 --> 00:46:10.000
Eric fisher Off, you want to
hear more talk with the How many years

582
00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:19.239
have gone by that kid? I
mean, just how many years? It

583
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.199
just drags on and on. It's
excruciating. So Gunner shoved him, Hogan

584
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.440
gun between him. Bishoff low blowed
Hulk and then Gunner knocks down. Garrett

585
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.800
stomps the hell out of him.
Hulk is crawling around rough roffing Hogan chant

586
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:31.360
hoof. He does the face as
he pulls up on the rope. So

587
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:36.000
they go Nuts, taps Bishof on
the shoulder and drops him with the right

588
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.000
hand. Bischoff goes down. Then
he grabs Gunner by the hair, and

589
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:42.679
course Gunner acts completely paralyzed by the
fact that Hogan has a handful of his

590
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.920
hair. And then Hogan sends Gunner
out of the ring. They scoop up

591
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.199
Eric Hulk holds him open, and
there's a fake pop as Garrett Bischoff cock

592
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.960
fist, cocks his fist and nails
his dead. Just great stuff. You

593
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:59.639
can tell. There's no sound sweetening
required. Whenever Garrett has a shine moment,

594
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.039
these people are working go completely insane. He's ready, He's obviously ready.

595
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:08.320
They'd run Hogan and Bischoff. Garrett
that is on the fly your day,

596
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:15.719
talk about running wild, carnage,
chaos, malice. He just will

597
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.920
not stop at anything. I thought, against all odds, would beat the

598
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:21.960
straw that breaks the camel's back.
But he cheap shot at me. And

599
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.000
for those who would who don't have
a newspaper, he says, I mean

600
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:29.800
I got that too, Yeah,
I got I mean everything Hogan related this

601
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:34.840
because it's so trotrocious. You know
what you're gonna stop and we can't stop

602
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.599
it fast enough because your dad talk
about running wild, carnage, chaos,

603
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:43.119
malice. He just will not stop
at anything. I thought, against all

604
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:45.280
odds, would be the straw that
broke the camel's back. But he jumped

605
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.239
the gun on us again. He
cheap shot of me. That's why he's

606
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:52.320
in the corner. And for those
that don't have a newspaper, a telephone

607
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:55.840
or a telegraph or the Internet,
We're gonna put it into Eric Bischoff's demise

608
00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:00.360
so that you can have a future
in this business. He's in a corner.

609
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:05.159
It's gonna be you against gunner,
and I'm not gonna let your dad

610
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.800
interfere. What does it mean to
put an end to Eric Bischoff's demise?

611
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:14.559
Does that not mean to keep him
alive? Also? Who Internet? Or

612
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:16.920
well, my god, to get
the Internet in there? I don't love

613
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.920
this Internet, dude. I'm you
know, brother, I don't know if

614
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.039
it's gonna if it's really gonna con
I don't know if the internet's got legs.

615
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.760
Brother, got Internet in that thing? Dude? What do you get?

616
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:28.400
What do you got there? Dude? Is that an internet phone?

617
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:37.000
Brother? What most of us call
it a smartphone? Terry, on the

618
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:43.880
other hand, who just referred to
Carnage chaos malice. It's his internet phone

619
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:52.519
brother, Carnage Chaos malice. I
don't know where he gets the verbal conclusions

620
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:59.159
he can reach. Oh, he's
such a fucking so clearly this is setting

621
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:02.519
up Garrett show versus Gunner at the
February twelfth Against All Odds pay per view

622
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.559
with Hogan and Garrett's corner and Eric
and Gunner's corner, and the package on

623
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.760
that show shows Garrett boxing and doing
the pulling on the ropes thing whatever you

624
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:15.639
call those big ropes you lift and
whip down and training, and Gunner comes

625
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.800
out with Bischoff Eric that is,
he's got a wrap towel I guess from

626
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.079
Supercuts in his hand. We find
out the towel later is for when they

627
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.960
feel like they've got to throw the
towel in and stop the match. Yeah,

628
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.039
no one fucking talks about that shit. Oh for Garrett to throw in

629
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:34.840
if he needs it. The ropes
are read again on TENA pay per views

630
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.159
and the TENA logos are everywhere,
So we're a reminder for those who forgot.

631
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:43.760
Only the television show is Impact Wrestling
and All Blue not the entire company,

632
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:46.599
just to confuse you. Bischoff trying
to get to the camera to show

633
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:49.880
something in the front row that a
fan is holding, but he doesn't get

634
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.599
it off in time. From Clearwater
Beach, Florida, Garrett Bischoff comes out

635
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:59.440
with Hogan again, you know again, and this is it. This is

636
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:04.159
where it really got me because because
they do this recap package of Garrett and

637
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:15.599
Gunner and they're treating this is where
they treat Garrett like he's this scrappy underdog

638
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.679
kid who who worked his ass off
and constantly tries to win, and you

639
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.920
know, we'll get these fluke wins
or whatever, you know, you know

640
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:29.440
normally, you know, he gets
assaulted and then he got to meet the

641
00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:31.840
heroes come back like this. This
could have been an interesting story, and

642
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:36.719
it could have been neat to also
have it to be to be like,

643
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.920
you know, Bischoff's son trying to
get away from his dad's shadow or whatever.

644
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:45.440
But you can't do it in a
couple of months, rushing so much.

645
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.239
Yeah, you gotta you gotta find
a way to get these people to

646
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:55.280
fully react to him as a legitimate
wrestler. It's very Bischoff like and that

647
00:50:55.639 --> 00:51:00.440
all of the stretching out and the
subtlety, and that is all in the

648
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:04.000
misdirection. It's all in the he's
the referee that we don't identify for a

649
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.679
year. That's what they have,
a year's worth of discipline and telling that

650
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.679
story. But as soon as the
reveal happens, the discipline goes right out

651
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:14.079
the window. Now it's like,
Okay, we did our slow build,

652
00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.360
we checked that box. Now let's
have a main eventer please, And it's

653
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:21.039
like, that's not how it works, like you actually we starting a new

654
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:25.199
slow burn now right exactly. But
here he is Hogan and the red and

655
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:30.719
yellow and black T shirt with the
pyro shooting off and the guns, and

656
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:37.320
Garrett comes out and pants not the
best pants either to wrestle in Hogan slapping

657
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:39.360
us back and whatnot on the way
a nice little poperhole Cogan. Sure,

658
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:43.519
man, does it sound different back
in the impact zone setting here than it

659
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:46.599
did in London? An impact Holt
takes his place ringside and says to the

660
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.679
crowd him right here, brother Hogan, nodding like hide the ball brother.

661
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:53.920
Come on, dude, you know
we gotta we gotta, we gotta hide

662
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:58.199
the ball, brother, we gotta, you know, take the fall,

663
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.719
dude, eat the He's the Nana's
brother. Take the fall. I don't

664
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.039
think so, you know what,
maybe you have to take the fall,

665
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:08.400
brother. What do you We don't
have to do anything this sort. M

666
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:13.159
What do you do dude? For
some reason, Jeremy Borash is on the

667
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:16.239
call with Mike Tenay on this one
again. Garrett has leather pants with a

668
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.039
white and red stripe running down the
side, and red and white wrist tape,

669
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.960
and Hulk Cogan his advisor, his
trainer, hopefully not his financial advisor.

670
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.039
So we get underway here. Garrett
versus Gunner to Nay, says,

671
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:32.400
if you think Gerret Bischoff thinks of
the time you spent taking away from this

672
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:37.920
building, I think of the time
you spent taking away from this building in

673
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.519
an ambulance. If you're Garrett Bischoff, you think about this, Okay?

674
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:43.079
Yes? Because he had been beating
up an assaulted at the best of his

675
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:45.079
father and taken away in an ambulance, so it's supposed to be his motivation.

676
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.679
Gunner comes out with two arm dragged
in a quick dropkick that sends Gunner,

677
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.599
pardon me, that sends a Garrett
into the corner. Earl Hebner is

678
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:54.920
getting in there and presiding, trying
to prevent Garrett Bischoff from swarming. Gunner

679
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:58.880
in the corner. Cut away to
Hulk and he's saying things like, come

680
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:01.599
on, Garrett, don't let him
get in your head, Hulk the coach,

681
00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:05.679
choke the coach. Yeah, that's
what we need to write. Gunner

682
00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.639
to the waist takedown and paintbrushes.
Garrett a bit or ash talks about how

683
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:13.280
Garrett Bischoff had a match in Norfolk, Virginia. Yeah, I got I

684
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.599
got this one here because I thought
this was kind of interesting. This laps

685
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.639
Friday night in Norfolk, Virginia.
GARTO rush the match, and you know,

686
00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:22.400
I was told make sure and get
videotape. Garrett wants to see the

687
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:24.400
match, You wants to study it. They went over it together after and

688
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:30.480
you know, as this continues to
progress, as the training continues. You

689
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:31.760
know, he's a student of the
game, there's no question about it.

690
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:36.519
And he has a great advisor.
Watching videotapes. That's what it takes,

691
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.880
right tape. Can I get tape? Please? Oh? Yeah, here's

692
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.360
the tape. Study very I would
like to watch tape. Please, pretty

693
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.119
bad punches from Bischoff. He's still
got these like winging things that land extra

694
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.199
soft by the time they reached their
destination. Yep, and his hair,

695
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:57.039
his hair is a disaster. Oh, snap in the punches, gotta work

696
00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.519
on that. Shouldn't be on television
to you get snap in your punches.

697
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:01.760
Gunner turns Garret BSh Off to the
corner. They go for clean break.

698
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:08.199
Nope, Garrett Bischoff does a duck
underneath in an arm drag Garrett to the

699
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.599
arm barn an arm ringer, and
Gunner headbuts his way out of that and

700
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:15.079
whole Cogan says, get him out
of there clean. Gunner to the corner,

701
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:17.880
digs his shoulder to the gut of
Garrett Bischoff. Garrett's now throwing to

702
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.039
the gut. That was one of
his spots. He would just like throw

703
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:23.559
six body shots in a row,
rights and lefts. But Gunnar goes to

704
00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:27.320
his gut and reigns down a shot, bringing Bischoff to a knee. Hogan

705
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:31.320
with the hoofing stash. As this
turn of events takes place, Garrett hits

706
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:35.480
the robes and his dad grabs his
leg, so Gunnar strikes on the distraction,

707
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:38.000
and Hogan goes over and he's pointing
at Eric Bischof, with Earl Hebner

708
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.360
getting in front of him to stop
him from attacking Bischoff with the go behind

709
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.599
and a duck's a flying chop.
There's two or three of his own.

710
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.199
And then there's some come on,
Garrett, it's coming out of the crowd.

711
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:53.239
He's got some supporters in Orlando.
Back backslide rather sloppy for two drop

712
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:57.159
to hold to the front. Facelock
goes Garrett Bischoff, and it's here where

713
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:02.199
whole Coogan's japan sensibilities kick in.
Keep your base. He yells to Garrett,

714
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.159
old, good, good, good
job, brother, don't let him

715
00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:10.280
back up. It's hilarious to see
Hogan like he's fucking Matt like he's on

716
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:14.400
the mat at the NCAA National Finals. You know, of course, isn't

717
00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.920
he. Gunner lifts and gets free
from the hold. Corner charge is dodged.

718
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.519
Bischoff rolls him up and then comes
with an invertic. It gets too

719
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:24.400
comes with an invertic atomic drop,
and hardly any noise from the crowd does.

720
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:28.360
He rallies him offense. Kind of
sad here does see Garrett kind of

721
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:31.559
flail about, and when people just
like you can't make me care about Garrett

722
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:35.440
Bischoff. You just can't do it. It's hard, you know. It

723
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:39.440
just is like you know again,
they're they're forcing this guy down our throats,

724
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:44.719
and it's like, I'm sorry,
he just can't do that. You

725
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:49.480
know he's gonna be You can't,
you can't do it. I mean,

726
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.800
I understand he's been emancipated from his
father, but that's not a good enough

727
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:55.239
reason for me to want to see
him win wrestling matches. That's a good

728
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:58.599
enough reason for me. You want
to see him punch his dad out.

729
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:01.800
But now I have to be excited
about his wrestling career, and that's a

730
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:07.119
completely different matter. We haven't really
addressed why I should care about his upside

731
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:10.519
as a professional wrestler rather than his
personal story as the son of Eric Bischoff.

732
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.280
But here it is Bischof's pulled him
to the corner. Buckling Rabbit lariot

733
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.920
by Gunner drops him big stomp by
Gunners. Now Bischoff is playing baby face

734
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.880
in peril. He tries going to
the body again if Gunner, but he

735
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:24.960
gets cut off. Hogan screams to
the ref, watches shot and slaps his

736
00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:29.760
hand Garrett Bischoff down in front of
Hogan. He just whispers back to your

737
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:31.320
feet. As Gunner stumps the shit
out of the kid in front of the

738
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:35.719
Holster, who stands there with his
hands on his hips. Bischoff goes back

739
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:39.400
upstairs with some right hands. No
responds as he landed these aimless punches.

740
00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:43.920
Gunner lifts the knee of the gut
and you can hear Eric Bischoff cackling at

741
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:47.599
his son's misfortune over the abject silence
of the impact zone crowd. Gunner working

742
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.639
the neck, riding down Garrett very
nice. Tully Blanchard styles snaps suplex by

743
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.599
Gunner, who they saw him upside
and obviously they went out of their way

744
00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:59.079
to put him over in the Bound
for Glory Series tournament in twenty eleven,

745
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:05.480
even pinning eventual champion uh Well soon
to be champion James Storm Robert Rude,

746
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:09.000
so they they were trying to keep
Gunner hot. I don't know precisely what

747
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:12.079
they saw on the guy. He's
pretty much out of the business now,

748
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:16.159
but that's good for two. Hulk
keeps saying, back to your bass bula

749
00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:21.280
basse. I'm thinking what Gunner charges
into kind of a flapjack move. Who

750
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:23.239
picked him off like a spinebuster to
Garrett Bischoff, but dropped him on his

751
00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:29.800
face instead of his bat up.
More bad rights from Garrett. Gunner cuts

752
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:31.840
him off with a swinging neck breaker, and Eric Paint brushes his own son

753
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:36.639
across the ropes. Hogan comes over
behind Eric, turns him around and drops

754
00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:37.880
him with a big right hand will
pop, and then just walks away,

755
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:45.199
just fucking bodies Eric Bischoff and just
walks back to his perch. Some Hogan

756
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:46.920
chance to break out his Garret Bischoff
comes out of nowhere with an inside cradle

757
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.119
for two. Gunner stays on him. No Gunner with a hangman's noos neckbreaker.

758
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:53.440
Very nice execution from Gunner. I'm
seeing some chrispness in there. For

759
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:55.840
what it's worth. Hogan says,
Garrett, you've got to get back up

760
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:02.199
Christmas, Thanks, Hulk. Let's
go about Christmas. Crispness, Christmas,

761
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:12.239
Let's go Garrett. Chant gets some
traction as check feels like a crowd by

762
00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:17.960
Gunner. All it does is breaknecks
in this fucking match. Yeah, and

763
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:24.079
and hearts as well. This.
You know, we've had past tena pay

764
00:58:24.079 --> 00:58:28.400
per view crowds that are still somewhat
hostile to the Hogan Bishop regime. They're

765
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.280
still channing we want six sides as
ladies in the middle. By now,

766
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.039
this crowd, I'm assessing here it
against all odds twenty twelve. There's nobody

767
00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:40.039
left at the Impact Zone that would
ever care enough to pipe up with like

768
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:45.559
a yeah, a contrarian chant like
that, right, I mean, now

769
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:49.599
you see it. A crowd that's
just like, it feels like they're they're

770
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:52.960
out of obligation, which makes no
sense. But I bet a lot more

771
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.679
people than you would realize would say
I just felt like I had to come

772
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.519
here. I mean, I had
nothing else to do. Why Gunner raining

773
00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:06.840
down punish Hogans know, I'll come
a wrestling fan, absolutely nothing better to

774
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:08.880
do. TNA. Yeah, going
to TNA show has kind of forced you

775
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:14.079
to really, you know, face
up to the fact that you got a

776
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.639
problem that's a wrestling fan like you
should not be going seriously, yeah you

777
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.239
shouldn't. You just shouldn't be Hogan
screaming Garrett, you gotta fight back or

778
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:23.920
I'm gonna stop this thing. So
that's the drama here that Hogan's going to

779
00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:28.840
stop the fight another hangman's news attempt, but Garrett Bischoff holds out of the

780
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:30.480
rope, so Gunner takes the bump
Hogan to the steps with the towel even

781
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.400
though Garrett blocks another neck breaker.
Hogan's gonna throw in the towel as Garrett

782
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:39.280
actually has an opening to come back, like it's such a mess, Garrett,

783
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.320
you gotta fight back. Looks to
the crowd. They're like, yeah,

784
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.440
please throw the towel and home,
let's end this thing. But this

785
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.400
only serves to distract Garrett bish Off
and he turns around into Gunner's DDT and

786
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:52.719
that's the one, the two,
and the three, Gunner pinning Garrett Bischoff.

787
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:57.199
Here at the Against All Odds pay
per view in February of twenty and

788
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.599
twelve, Hogan puts his hands up
like what just happen? We cut to

789
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:04.599
Bischoff, Eric's face coming out of
the deep like Vince at Wrestlemanian nineteen over

790
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.960
the apron, laughing maniacally and Hogan, Yeah, right, I know,

791
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:12.639
he does. He does do that. It's kind of forced, it's completely

792
01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.760
forced. He's a joke and Hogan
kneels over Garrett Bischoff and scowls at Eric

793
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:20.559
and Gunner and brother. That's the
end of the Garrett Bischoff experiment. If

794
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:23.360
you ask me why he couldn't be
put over Gunner, I don't know.

795
01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:28.199
I know it does seem kind of
weird, like why why can't you put

796
01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:31.039
your why can't you put him,
you know, put Why can't you give

797
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.679
him the win over this fucking client? I don't get it. Now is

798
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:37.960
after you've done the things you've done
to like make Hulk Hogan his trainer.

799
01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:43.519
Now is not the time to have
him start losing to everybody like you've tried

800
01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:45.679
to skip that step. Stick with
it, right, don't now try to

801
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:51.760
build him in a traditional way after
you've literally made Hulk fucking Hogan his shaman

802
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:57.679
or his sense. March forward to
the March twenty second, twenty twelve Impact,

803
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:01.480
all right. They opened the show
with a ref to of Bobby Rude

804
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.239
pulling Dixie out of the crowd at
the Victory Road pay per view when he

805
01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:08.039
was wrestling Sting, and then Root
smack Sting with a chair while Sting is

806
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:13.079
trying to tend to Dixie. And
then they show Rude getting very aggressive towards

807
01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:16.360
Dixie and actually like physically manipulating her
a bit, like shoving her around.

808
01:01:17.480 --> 01:01:21.840
This is obviously an attempt to get
Rude over the top as a title carrying

809
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:25.480
heel top star. Dixie looking more
and more like Nancy Pelosi every week,

810
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:34.960
and of course stings her beloved Tna
White Knight that she tries to prevent Bobby

811
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:39.159
Rude from duct taping Sting's hands to
the ropes for further damage. And they

812
01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:45.320
do some freeze framing because there was
a strict prohibition from Spike against women on

813
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:51.320
men on women violence, which they
tied my hands, Bro. I couldn't

814
01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:53.960
even have a guy slap a bitch
across the face, Bro, like she

815
01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:59.000
deserved. So they kind of freeze
framed this because they didn a pay per

816
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:02.440
view or it wasn't a problem when
when Rud's getting physical with Dixie, kind

817
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:05.480
of it kind of works. It's
kind of it kind of makes it seem

818
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.360
like, so you actually miss something
if you bought the paper view right right,

819
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:13.079
if it's too hot for TV when
they get back to television, and

820
01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:15.679
yeah, so that's um, that's
kind of the attempt to put Rude over

821
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.320
the top, he's still the champion, and they show later Dixie stepping out

822
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.920
of a back room somewhere. She's
here the show opened. Then Dixie comes

823
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.760
out to no music, just doing
the walk, biting your lips, disappointed,

824
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:29.760
But I want to give you music
anyway. Oh yeah, I'm sure

825
01:02:29.760 --> 01:03:16.320
you do here place inside me and
out so good. Isn't it wonderful?

826
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:23.639
It's a terrific song. You want
to get out there and prove people wrong

827
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:28.719
exactly, that is the spirit of
it. They chant, Dixie, Dixie.

828
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:32.280
The announcers to cry Rude's unforgivable behavior. She says, over the past

829
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:36.840
six months, Bobby Rude each week
has been more and more disrespected, uh,

830
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.360
disrespectful towards this company, the fans, each and every one of you,

831
01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:44.400
everyone who loves wrestling. Fire Bobby
chant breaks out, she says,

832
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:46.119
but what he did at Victory wrote
last Sunday, you have disgraced this company,

833
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.159
this company. There does again take
a shot, folks, There we

834
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:52.320
go all they have done this entire
week, She says, He's talked to

835
01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:55.280
attorney, so here we go outside
attorneys. She made the point of saying

836
01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:00.519
outside attorney's like we care about the
distinction. What is the fuck me like?

837
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:01.880
You know, the in house attorney
can handle this. It's a very

838
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:08.519
serious matter, my management counsel,
She says, we're talking again about passing

839
01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:15.079
of papers. Let her head office
memorandul you know, deals, demos,

840
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:21.159
memos, meetings, bagels, croissants, coffee, you know, breakfast meetings.

841
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:27.079
Fuck those Cisco phones with the omnidirectional
mics. Where she you know,

842
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:30.039
she takes a fucking stuff you know
we've talked about before, where she takes

843
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:32.840
a bite of a fucking donut and
she's like, oh, I'm so I'm

844
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:35.239
good. Oh my god, I'm
stuffed. It's so good. Though,

845
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:39.119
where did you get those? Oh? I know, this great place.

846
01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:45.159
Fuck off? So they weigh the
pros and cons, trying to make the

847
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:48.840
right decision. Here she says,
what decision? What you to fire Bobby

848
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:53.119
Root? Is it stings music?
As she was about to say, you've

849
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:55.719
only given me one option something She's
gonna fire Bobby Root, But here it

850
01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:58.320
comes staying. He comes out of
black T shirt and jeans and shades and

851
01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:00.679
Dixie embracisting as he enters, and
he says, Dixie, I've never given

852
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:03.920
you a reason not to trust me, but I want to agree. I

853
01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:08.119
have to disagree that firing Bobby Rude
is the answer. They'll clap, and

854
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:11.000
he says, hold on, now, I'm firing Boby Rude is letting him

855
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:14.440
get off too easy, the easy
way. She wouldn't know anything about that.

856
01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.239
I don't get the right kind of
revenge if you do that, Dixie.

857
01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:20.360
He says, this is what about
James Storm. He's supposed to wrestle

858
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:23.679
Bobby Route for the title at Lockdown. If you fire him, you're taking

859
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:27.039
that opportunity away from him, and
trust the fans into supporting him, not

860
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.920
actually Sting manages rather to turn the
fans into supporting Bobby Rude, not being

861
01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:35.000
fired. So I guess they Yeah, they didn't know what they wanted,

862
01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:39.360
right what, No, fans never
do. That's the thing. You gotta

863
01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:42.320
remember that fans never know what they
want. Yeah, we want revenge,

864
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:45.440
and Stings starts screaming the right kind
of revenge and because he's afraid, I

865
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:49.880
guess that offends like some biblical tenet
or something. Now, he says,

866
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:53.480
regarding other choices and decisions being made
around here, I got to talk to

867
01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:58.280
you about the GM position. The
GM position there is one what is this

868
01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.920
like a fuck? It's like brought
to you by Monster dot Com. It's

869
01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:05.519
like fucking hr on television. Very
important because it's just not working, he

870
01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:10.840
says. Because remember Sting has been
the general manager Hogan after turning back baby

871
01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:13.360
Face at Bound for Glory. The
next Impact comes out in the red and

872
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:16.599
yellow and kind of gives Sting is
blessing and leaves and then we just totally

873
01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:20.199
transition to a future of Sting being
involved in Bobby Rude's business and Hogan is

874
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:27.800
totally fucking gone. And that's that. So um Stings here to tell Dixie

875
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.039
Carter that he doesn't want to be
the GM anymore. Says, I need

876
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:32.400
to do this publicly, and they
chan't. Please, don't go like he's

877
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:35.119
going to retire again. He says, Dixie, you put all your faith

878
01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:38.880
and trusting me to run this company, this company. You gave me the

879
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:40.760
ball and you told me to run
with it, and I did the best

880
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.800
I could. And up to this
point, I think I've done everything I

881
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:46.000
could possibly do. But at Victory
Road, something changes within this company,

882
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:50.199
this company, at Victory Road,
it came alive. Stop saying, this

883
01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:56.960
company came alive, Dixie, Dixie, I came alive. I came hard,

884
01:06:57.280 --> 01:07:00.639
exactly, and he realizes that he
can long gonna be a part time

885
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:04.519
wrestler and energym At the same time, he says, I can't do both

886
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:08.719
as they chance, you still got
it, especially if I'm going to compete

887
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:12.079
at Bobby Rude's level, and Dixie
is tearfully shaking her head at this revelation.

888
01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:14.519
Stings says, as a result of
trying to juggle too much, I

889
01:07:14.519 --> 01:07:16.599
suffered a concussion and now I've got
to go home and rest. I'm gonna

890
01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.119
get better and I'm gonna get stronger, and I promise you, Dixie,

891
01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:21.519
I'm going to come back better,
better than I've ever been. Dixie,

892
01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:29.960
Dixie, can I promise you?
Do you hear when Brooke called out Dixie

893
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.039
Hogan and Dixie Hogan, I'll tell
you, Dixie Cargan that interview and the

894
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:38.199
hosts are pretending to know who the
fuck Dixie Carter is. No one knows

895
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:41.159
the Dixie Carter is. All right, nobody knows. I promise you when

896
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:43.599
I come back, Stings says,
I'm gonna put my boots on and I'm

897
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:45.239
gonna fight. I'm gonna be one
hundred percent nothing else but a wrestler,

898
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.679
and they pop for that, and
he says, I'm gonna continue because they

899
01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:50.079
don't want him to be a general
manager, because they don't want in general

900
01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:54.800
manager because it's boring. Right,
I think it's boring. It always is.

901
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:57.239
It always gets boring. If it's
not boring, it's going to be

902
01:07:57.280 --> 01:07:59.880
in two months. So just don't
even do it. I'm going to continue

903
01:07:59.880 --> 01:08:01.960
to fight for this company and for
you, he says, but in a

904
01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:04.679
different capacity, which means I'm sorry, man, But at this very moment,

905
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:08.559
right now, Dixie, I got
to step down as GM of this

906
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:11.719
company. And Dixie says, what
am I supposed to do? Oh,

907
01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:14.559
she's such a little bitch. Sting
says, I'm not going to leave.

908
01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:18.439
Hey, run your company right.
Stop relying on these fucking men to do

909
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:23.760
it right. Is there no?
You actually cannot put on a wrestling show

910
01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:27.520
if you don't have a wrestler walking
around barking orders at people. Is that

911
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:31.760
what you're saying, he says.
She says, I'm not going to leave

912
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:35.760
Dixie Carter hanging. I'm gonna let
them fangs hang. However, I've got

913
01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:40.880
the right man for the job,
he says, somebody that knows how to

914
01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:45.960
take wait for it, this company
all the way to the very top.

915
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:50.119
Dixie, I'm talking about somebody that
can read every single personality that comes into

916
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:54.840
this place like the back of his
hand, just like a book. I'm

917
01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:57.880
talking, Dixie, about one of
the greatest of all times, somebody who

918
01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:01.720
can devote one hundred percent of their
time to be the general manager. And

919
01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:06.920
they start changing Hogan. They know, they know, they know that there

920
01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:12.319
can only be one storyline at DNA, and it's is Hogan in control or

921
01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:20.720
not of TNA. Such a farce. We're back here already again, Dixie.

922
01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:24.359
Oh yeah, Dixie, you have
to let me take the keys to

923
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:27.640
the car and hand them off.
You've got to let me give the power

924
01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:32.600
of impact wrestling to the real Hulk
Hogan. O. They pop. Dixie

925
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:36.000
looks away because she's conflicted him in
the last time and the position of power.

926
01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:40.600
She fucking lost the whole thing,
right, and then Sting finally wanted

927
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:43.279
back for and then Stings like,
can you get it back to please?

928
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:46.640
This sucks. I'm kind of done. I'm over absolutely. I mean to

929
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:51.239
say the least that we're back here
is just nauseating in such a reflection of

930
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:57.520
a lack of creativity, a lack
of inspiration, and an indictment on anybody

931
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:01.880
who's been entrusted with making impact wrestling
interesting television show. They continue to fail.

932
01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:05.880
Stings takes her by the shoulders,
Dixie, look at me. You

933
01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:09.279
trust me. I'm not going to
let you down. Dixie. You know

934
01:10:09.359 --> 01:10:11.840
how much I trust you. Dixie
says, you know how much I trust

935
01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:15.199
you. They chant Hogan, Chance, they chant we want Hogan, and

936
01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:17.319
later backstage on the Fly, it's
Dixie Carter. I don't even have response

937
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:19.880
to tell you. I don't know
how I feel yet. I understand why

938
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:23.680
Sting feels that way, but I
can't believe that I'm dealing with this.

939
01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:26.640
I don't know what I'm gonna do. You know, she's so conflicted.

940
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:29.159
But I think at the end of
the day, the thing that Dixie Carter

941
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:33.560
can trust is that the only way
she can hold her head up high is

942
01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:35.880
to risk at all, even if
she loses. And I think that's the

943
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:40.239
way it will see to night Boss, who cares. The end of the

944
01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:43.000
show, Sting comes out again to
his music. She's making a face like

945
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:45.199
you're going to convince me, aren't
you. All of a sudden, she's

946
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:47.920
had a change of heart. Her
demeanor is completely different about what Stings about

947
01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:51.279
to do, and Sting does it. He's just a second segment. Is

948
01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:55.520
this is the exact same segment.
They just do it again. You know

949
01:10:55.600 --> 01:11:00.359
why do they do this all the
time. They always fucking do this because

950
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:03.159
they don't trust that they have interesting
enough talent to carry you know, however

951
01:11:03.239 --> 01:11:08.319
many fifteen minutes segments make up the
broadcast. They just don't. I've known

952
01:11:08.399 --> 01:11:10.920
Hulk Hogan for twenty years, Sting
says, and ever since Bound for Glory

953
01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.640
last year when he cut Eric Bischoff
out of his life, We're starting to

954
01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:16.119
see the real Hulk Hogan. I've
looked into his eyes, I know his

955
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:18.920
heart. He is the real deal. And I'm telling you that I trust

956
01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:25.039
Hulk Hogan. So in that spirit, Dixie, I'm asking you to trust

957
01:11:25.119 --> 01:11:29.680
Hulk Hogan. Chant Dixie says,
you know how much I trust you.

958
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:32.560
It's been you and me from the
very beginning. You've never let me down,

959
01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:36.640
never steered me wrong. And if
you believe in him, she waits,

960
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:41.880
I believe in you. We're a
team. Let's do the right thing.

961
01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:45.439
Let's do this, do what.
I don't know what what are you?

962
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:50.159
What are you doing? Sting says, I've been going, but I've

963
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:53.880
been running with the Hulkster all day
long. Sting says, he's here tonight,

964
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:59.640
Hulk. I know you're watching the
back they call him Hulkamania. Come

965
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:03.640
on, I'll so the real Hull
Cogan please come on out. The music

966
01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:14.439
up. Wattles on Whang Poem poddles
on the Impact No no, no,

967
01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.600
no, no, no, wow
wow, the Impact T shirt, blue

968
01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:23.920
bandana, pyro showered, Dixie smile
and Hogan, Huggan staying Huggan, Dixie

969
01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:28.880
Hogan Chance. He puts the hands
out like why he's going for the whole

970
01:12:28.920 --> 01:12:33.199
thing? Wha stings as Hulk.
It's obvious to the whole wide world that

971
01:12:33.279 --> 01:12:36.359
you made the Stinger a believer.
And it's obvious you made Dixie Carter a

972
01:12:36.439 --> 01:12:42.079
believer. Yeah, okay, not
exactly. She's only had she's only consented

973
01:12:42.119 --> 01:12:44.680
to this for like the past two
minutes. The rest of the time she

974
01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:47.720
was in complete agony about this decision. And I'm talking about believer, and

975
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:51.520
I'm talking about a believer in Hulk
Hogan Hulk standing there meditatively. A sting

976
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:56.279
continues to carry on. He says, now, I think it's only fitting

977
01:12:56.319 --> 01:12:59.159
you hear it from all these people
right now, and they chant Hogan and

978
01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:02.359
stings as they bel leave. We
all believe what is he sanna, Yes,

979
01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:06.560
he gets them channing Hogan like crazy. Though Hogan stands there in the

980
01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:11.119
center of the ring on Impact strokes, the foo man chew and they sign

981
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.720
off. He doesn't. He doesn't
give an answer. We'll see you next

982
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:17.680
time. Arch twenty ninth, Impact
Dixie says, Holcus agreed to meet me

983
01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:21.560
offsite. Oh, this is so
fucking stupid. We'll find out later.

984
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:26.079
His answer, I can't stand this
fucking moment. We get we get a

985
01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:30.159
hidden camera that's somehow got tremendous audio
quality. Yeah, like, what are

986
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:34.439
they? What are they in?
The fucking uh the conversation with fucking Gene

987
01:13:34.479 --> 01:13:42.079
Hackman, Jesus Christ Hogan sh sit
on a park bench and say this to

988
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.199
each other. Yeah, fucking picnic
lunch here or something. Thanks for meeting

989
01:13:45.239 --> 01:13:49.840
with me to day. I just
wanted to get away from everything. And

990
01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:55.800
God, I owe you that much
after all the craziness. I owe you

991
01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:00.279
that much. Listen. I find
this pretty ironic that I'm sitting here asking

992
01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:05.560
you to come back to Impact wrestling
after everything that's happened. And two years

993
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:13.039
ago was a highlight in my life
and my career, and you know,

994
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:15.439
things have taken a big turn here. But I'll tell you. You know

995
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:19.439
I never I never trusted Eric,
and I told you that. Now,

996
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:23.600
let me just say this. We
had a good run. I mean,

997
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:27.720
we had two years with some dynamic
stuff going on. We had a lot

998
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.239
of good times and we had some
bad times. I get into some bad

999
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.920
stuff and I don't want to put
it all off on Eric, because it

1000
01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:39.399
takes two to tango. And I
was definitely brought into the mix of this

1001
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:42.279
bad stuff and I participated, so
I have to own up and I had

1002
01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:45.199
to claim my life and stand up
for what I was part of. But

1003
01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:50.880
you, separating yourself from that told
me everything. It really did. And

1004
01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:56.159
I know you've been talking to Staying
over these last five months since Bound for

1005
01:14:56.239 --> 01:15:00.640
Glory, and you know, he
tells me and he believes he's like Dixie,

1006
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:03.520
this is the true whole Cocon and
he knows you so much better than

1007
01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:10.399
I know you, and I need
that true whole COCD. You know I

1008
01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:15.239
need to have that, well,
Dixie, it bound for glory. When

1009
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:18.880
I saw what I had become and
when I saw the path Eric was going

1010
01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:21.680
down, I knew I couldn't beat
that. I'm not that, I never

1011
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:25.640
was. That made a great decision, I know I did, and I

1012
01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:30.720
walked away and I made peace with
you. I made peace with the fans.

1013
01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:32.840
I made peace with the guys,
the knockouts. You know, there

1014
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:35.560
was a lot of ground to cover
because I left a lot of people hanging.

1015
01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:39.640
But you don't realize, Dixie,
I'm still a piece with that,

1016
01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:43.439
and my life isn't. He didn't
leave me peace. You did not leave

1017
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:46.760
me a peaceful situation. And if
you're taking responsibility, which I appreciate,

1018
01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:51.600
be responsible for fixing it. I
mean right now, Really, you're the

1019
01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:56.840
only person that can do that.
You know that. But I don't think

1020
01:15:56.920 --> 01:16:00.720
you realize how good Sting is.
I don't think you understand it's not me.

1021
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.159
I do realize that. I love
Sting. I think he's fantastic,

1022
01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:06.840
But you heard what he said.
He doesn't think he can do both.

1023
01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:11.479
He wants to get in there and
fight. I know what Sting thinks well,

1024
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:13.319
what about what I think. I
mean, I think I've had in

1025
01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:16.319
my day. I mean, I
think I was great for this business when

1026
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:20.000
I was in the middle of the
battle. But right now you're asking me

1027
01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:25.159
to step back in to a dark
cloud. And I've been around a long

1028
01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:27.600
time. Dixie, you're asking me
to step in the middle of the dark

1029
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:30.359
cloud, and I have never seen
anything like this. Bobby Rude, has

1030
01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:35.520
your company turns so far upside down? I don't know. I wouldn't know

1031
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:39.439
who in the world can fix the
stings. Your best shot, Well,

1032
01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:43.000
here's the deal. He's not going
to be doing this. He said,

1033
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:46.039
he needs to step away. You're
my only shot. You help get me

1034
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:49.960
in this situation. I have no
options. I'm here, this is my

1035
01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:58.119
company, But help get me out
of it. Please, Dixie, will

1036
01:16:58.119 --> 01:17:01.319
you at least think about it.
Wait, you're a very persuasive lady,

1037
01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:06.119
or a very gorgeous lady. In
your heart and your being and your soul.

1038
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:14.880
It's something that it'll for me to
step back in now. Now,

1039
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:18.359
I mean the fans, the people
in the back, the boys. You've

1040
01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:23.680
heard those fans last week that told
me everything, that told me what they

1041
01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:30.079
wanted, that needs to tell you
what you need to do. That this

1042
01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:36.079
ship has already sailed way too far
without me. But in all due respect

1043
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.199
for you and everything you've done for
me and my family and this business,

1044
01:17:42.479 --> 01:17:45.960
I'll think about it. I will
definitely think about it. Well, I'm

1045
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:48.880
here because you asked me, and
because Sting asked me. I definitely owe

1046
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:50.920
you that much. I'll think about
it. Just do me a favor.

1047
01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:54.960
We've got to show tonight. I
know it's not a lot of time,

1048
01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:59.760
but if you'll at least show up
there, okay, and we'll take this

1049
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:05.359
further. Please, I will think
about it. It's like leaning into the

1050
01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:12.399
wind right now, but I will
be there tonight, and I'll make sure

1051
01:18:12.439 --> 01:18:14.520
that we put a period at the
end of the sentence one way or the

1052
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:19.239
other one. I'll do the best
I can. I'll see you later today.

1053
01:18:19.399 --> 01:18:25.399
Thanks, Thanks Budd, Thanks Bud. Did you hear that too?

1054
01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:31.560
I can't stand that went on for
fucking five six minutes. Do they tell

1055
01:18:31.640 --> 01:18:38.520
themselves is interesting about that? I
don't know. I really don't know.

1056
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:48.399
It's it's it's embarrassing, really is
I mean, we're back here again.

1057
01:18:49.479 --> 01:18:57.239
I mean this is kafka esque.
We never fucking leave this ship, you

1058
01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:00.800
know. But before he does something, he's got to set up a situation

1059
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:04.479
where someone begs him to do it, right. He's begged to be the

1060
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:09.720
old Hulk Coogan, or he's begged
to, you know, just give a

1061
01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:14.319
give another pose for the people,
or he's begged to come back and run

1062
01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:16.800
TNA, even though he knows he's
going to do it. And I don't

1063
01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:20.039
know to hear Dixie in those comments
you read off in part one, it

1064
01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:24.039
seems like they didn't script these right. So they're sitting down and try to

1065
01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:27.960
be like channel. They're improving what
they would really say if they met with

1066
01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:33.800
each other in a park bench to
talk business, sitting with Brett after Owen's

1067
01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:43.640
funeral, in the parks and in
Calgary, right, I mean, are

1068
01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:50.039
we supposed to care if Dixie Carter
feels like she has a good surrogate to

1069
01:19:50.159 --> 01:19:56.279
run TNA? Does she think she's
like a baby face here beyond just being

1070
01:19:56.359 --> 01:20:01.439
a company ambassador? Does she really
think like people are rooting for her to

1071
01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:10.039
make smart administrative decisions as part of
like why they watch Impact? Sure?

1072
01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:12.960
Why not? Well, she says, thanks Bud, He leaves, and

1073
01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:16.359
she texts later on in the episode, Hogan makes the walk and its decision

1074
01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:21.239
time. Dixie's in the ring and
invites him. Now, I'm tretty sure

1075
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.039
I got this one for you because
we need this ship. What's the decision

1076
01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:28.319
going to be, Hulk? Oh
wait, no, I don't have this

1077
01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:30.600
one. I actually didn't care about
this one. I was actually like,

1078
01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:32.239
fuck this, I don't blame you. After that said, I actually wrote,

1079
01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:36.560
I really can't with this shit.
Like all it is is fucking stuff

1080
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:45.159
just keeps getting fucking you know,
just rehashed and rehashed. Yes, it's

1081
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:51.479
so boring, so it reveals so
much about all Coogan. It really to

1082
01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:55.319
naysaying. In my opinion, you
have to give Hogan credit for thinking things

1083
01:20:55.399 --> 01:20:59.680
through. Most people being given all
powerful positions would react instantly, but Hulk

1084
01:20:59.760 --> 01:21:01.840
thinks it through. Oh he sure
does, and he always comes to the

1085
01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:08.000
conclusion then in cases his power,
Dixie, I know, taking over for

1086
01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:11.079
Sting as GM is a big decision. It's a big decision for me too.

1087
01:21:12.520 --> 01:21:15.399
But looking back on last week,
I realized I told Sting, if

1088
01:21:15.439 --> 01:21:17.079
you believe in him, then I'll
believe in you. But what I failed

1089
01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:20.399
to say to him is that I
do believe in you. She says to

1090
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:26.079
Hulk, I want you to take
this position. Do you hear these people

1091
01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:30.680
out here and they cheer? But
I do need a decision, Dixie says,

1092
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.960
I mean to us, and Hulk
wants to thank you so much and

1093
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:40.399
Sting that's the reason I'm here,
all the fans. I can't say enough

1094
01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.359
what this whole ride is meant to
me. He's doing another fucking speech about

1095
01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:46.680
this whole ride. He's always talking
like it's over, but it's always just

1096
01:21:48.920 --> 01:21:54.640
run. But it's right. But
it's no secret. We mean earlier,

1097
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.960
we met earlier today. Like I
said, I came here with a lot

1098
01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:00.079
of great things happening, and then
I got cut up in st if.

1099
01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:02.520
I'm not real proud of what's he
talking about? Just being a heel what

1100
01:22:02.880 --> 01:22:06.000
not? Trying to blame Eric Bischoff
because I had my fingerprints on it too.

1101
01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:11.359
He gets very weird about blaming Bischoff, and even in cafabe, I

1102
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.720
know, like it's so weird,
like what are you doing? Man?

1103
01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:18.760
Like who it's fucking fake? Like
interjects to defend Bishoff, like he's on

1104
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:23.760
an actual shoot radio interview or something. I had my fingerprints on it.

1105
01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:26.000
Two But when Bound for Glory went
down. I didn't want to be that

1106
01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:30.359
guy. I was made peace with
Sting, myself and you and Dixie.

1107
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:32.439
I've already closed the book on this
part of my life. And they boo

1108
01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:38.920
and Sting comes out and he's got
Jeff Hardy and Matt Morgan and Anderson and

1109
01:22:39.039 --> 01:22:41.039
Garrett with him. I don't know
what that's supposed to be about. He

1110
01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:45.000
gets in the ring, does the
pathetic outsider's finger point at Hogan while encircling

1111
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:49.399
him, aj and Storm James Stormer
out as well. Hardy embrace his mother

1112
01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:53.720
Dixie in the ring. Of course, Sting says, let's just get to

1113
01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:56.600
the chase here, Hulk, you're
not going to deny me, deny Dixie,

1114
01:22:56.640 --> 01:22:59.000
and I know you're surely not going
to deny all these people. The

1115
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:00.199
writing is on the wall. So
what's it gonna be, Hulk, Yes

1116
01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:06.880
or no? And yes in Unison
before Daniel Brian made it a thing.

1117
01:23:09.439 --> 01:23:15.840
Oh it's true. Hogan does the
hoofstash and he goes, are we talking

1118
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:24.800
about a totally clean slate? Here
we go? You guys are making this

1119
01:23:24.960 --> 01:23:28.079
really tough. I mean, I
need to know one thing before I make

1120
01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:31.119
this decision. Impact Wrestling, it's
got a huge dark cloud. You guys

1121
01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:35.359
are in really really deep with what's
going on here. No matter how heavy

1122
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:39.640
things are, no matter how violent, how deep the water gets, I

1123
01:23:39.720 --> 01:23:44.000
need to know one thing to take
to my grave. Will the Stinger watch

1124
01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:47.800
Hulk Hogan's back? Jack? Does
that even mean? They cheer? No

1125
01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:50.640
idea what they're cheering, but they
cheer. Yeah, they have no fucking

1126
01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:54.720
close stinks? Is that's an easy
one? The answers, yes, But

1127
01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:59.399
are you Hulk Hogan gonna run this
and be the GM and take the keys

1128
01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:01.760
to the car like the eye of
the Tiger kind of Hulk Hogan? And

1129
01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:05.199
they pop at that. Jeff Hardy
nodding like it makes sense. This all

1130
01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:12.479
makes sense to him somehow, if
it makes sense to be concerned. Wasn't

1131
01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:16.840
he a big heel last time?
Nah? He came back and and repented

1132
01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:19.800
for being a drug addict, remember
that after he did did jail time.

1133
01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:25.039
Yeah? No, I don't really
don't care, Hogan says. If you're

1134
01:24:25.119 --> 01:24:30.439
saying that you got my back,
you might as well tell everybody. Impact

1135
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:35.239
Wrestling, as of this moment,
has a brand new general manager brother brother,

1136
01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:39.960
and they pop and Dixie hugs him, and she pulls the sleeves of

1137
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:44.520
her top down because she's preoccupied with
making sure that her shoulders are on display.

1138
01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:47.279
These are important things, and Hogan
says, now that the Stinger has

1139
01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:53.479
my back, what you're gonna do? The brand new GM runs wild on

1140
01:24:53.640 --> 01:24:58.920
you. Oh motherfucker my watch.
I think we're back to January four,

1141
01:24:59.119 --> 01:25:03.239
twenty ten. Wrong about that.
I just don't understand. We want to

1142
01:25:03.279 --> 01:25:05.880
know the future of Impact Wrestling is
in good hands and whole Cogan is the

1143
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:15.880
boss. Packed April fifth, they
opened the show with Stinging Dixie in the

1144
01:25:15.960 --> 01:25:17.439
ring, surrounded by the whole roster. It's a new day here at Impact

1145
01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:21.840
Wrestling, Tess says, is Dixie
welcomes us to introduce the man who needs

1146
01:25:21.880 --> 01:25:26.920
no introduction, Hulk Cogan. She
introduces him here, I got I got

1147
01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:30.439
this whole ship for you, because
you know you can't not all the wrestlers

1148
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:32.439
are around the ring. I'll say, this is gonna be a different um

1149
01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:41.359
um this I must have done.
I must have done this on a different

1150
01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.960
day, like watch this stuff after
I watched stuff before, because I was

1151
01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:47.000
just like so over it before.
Yes, I was able to record this

1152
01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:50.720
ship. So here we go.
Let me tell all the maniacs, it's

1153
01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:56.600
nice to be the general manager and
be back in the saddle and right here

1154
01:25:56.680 --> 01:26:02.039
on Impact. Brother, I hear
you. You know I have to thank

1155
01:26:02.119 --> 01:26:06.880
the stinger, brother, because there's
no way on God's green Earth, I

1156
01:26:06.920 --> 01:26:11.680
would have stepped in this ring without
you watching my back, brother, without

1157
01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:18.079
a doubt. And Dixie Carter,
thank you so much for the second chance.

1158
01:26:18.520 --> 01:26:23.239
I really appreciate it. You know, guys, we got a lot

1159
01:26:23.279 --> 01:26:27.800
of business we need to take care
of because Impact is on a fast track

1160
01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:31.479
and it feels like the wheels are
coming off the train. So we got

1161
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:35.399
new ideas. I met with Creative
today. We got a lot of new

1162
01:26:35.479 --> 01:26:41.880
segment, a lot of new things
happening with this company. But the business

1163
01:26:41.960 --> 01:26:47.199
at hand right now is lockdown.
So the new general manager is gonna take

1164
01:26:47.319 --> 01:26:57.680
care of some lockdown business right now. Brother, So a big man Morgan

1165
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:03.239
and you Crimson. I'm gonna locks
you two monsters in a steel cage and

1166
01:27:03.399 --> 01:27:15.319
this is officially gonna end at lockdown
between you two. Thank you now.

1167
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:20.840
On the more lockdown business, our
TNA knockouts, Champ Gail, I've been

1168
01:27:20.920 --> 01:27:27.960
having a hard time with all the
competition here at Impact Wrestling, I can't

1169
01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:31.479
figure out who the number one contender
is. I can't figure out who should

1170
01:27:31.520 --> 01:27:40.199
be in the ring with you.
That's why tonight we're gonna have to knockouts

1171
01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:46.680
Championship Challenge. I'm gonna find out
who deserves to be the number one contender

1172
01:27:46.880 --> 01:27:50.279
and who's gonna get in the ring
with our champ And we're gonna find out

1173
01:27:50.319 --> 01:28:01.600
tonight. To move forward with some
other business, one of the things I

1174
01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:08.439
need to handle right now before I
go any farther is I need to get

1175
01:28:09.239 --> 01:28:13.039
Eric bish Off out here right now. You and I need to talk about

1176
01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:19.119
something right this minute here. Hey, hey, heating out here? Brother,

1177
01:28:20.319 --> 01:28:25.039
Yeah, he telling everybody what to
do. You don't tell nobody what

1178
01:28:25.199 --> 01:28:30.800
to do. Let me tell us
something far you don't tell me. Yeah,

1179
01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:32.279
I'm gonna tell you something. To
tell him now, because I'm the

1180
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:36.479
new general manager here. They don't
have bish Off here. Well, you

1181
01:28:36.640 --> 01:28:41.560
better get him here, and I
get if you're speaking fer bishof you better

1182
01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:50.840
make sure he's here tonight. Rick
Flair Edward Bishop back in the hospital.

1183
01:28:50.920 --> 01:28:56.399
He tells him, Oh, it's
such a little prick. Oh, so

1184
01:28:56.880 --> 01:29:00.359
what do you what do you say, boss? Are you galphintized by Cogan?

1185
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:02.920
Is GM? I mean, look
at the electricity he's bringing, just

1186
01:29:03.039 --> 01:29:06.720
to this opening segment, talking about
the champs, talking about the neborn contentors,

1187
01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:11.760
talking about lockdown, you know.
And I was a kid laying my

1188
01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.520
hasbros. Roddy Piper was w WF
president. Yes, and I do a

1189
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:18.119
pay per view and the next night
on Raw. The tradition was Roddy Piper

1190
01:29:18.159 --> 01:29:21.079
would come out and the next announce
all the matches for the next pay per

1191
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:26.840
view and that would decide my storylines
and matches between that X pay per view,

1192
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:29.720
right right, So that's all.
That's what whole Cogan does for the

1193
01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:33.119
next several months. In TNAS,
he comes out and he debates and announces

1194
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:39.880
the next series of matches, and
that's all he does all I need him

1195
01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:49.119
to do. So stupid, so
fucking stupid. I'm so over it.

1196
01:29:53.479 --> 01:29:57.600
You can ask the film. That's
good. You don't tell me what to

1197
01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:03.479
do. That's really good to do
that sometimes it just happens. That's the

1198
01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:09.680
alchemy of the happens. Yeah,
I love I love, I love Flair

1199
01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:18.199
telling his boss that he doesn't tell
him what to do. So awesome.

1200
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:26.520
So then Bobby Rude comes out in
a suit with his championship and his bodyguards,

1201
01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:30.479
and Hogan's is nice of you to
join us, he says, I'm

1202
01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:34.800
not really getting off on you being
fashionably late. Yeah, that's good.

1203
01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:39.640
It's according to the champ. I'm
right on time, according to the Champs.

1204
01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:42.520
Watch, I do what I want
when I want, et cetera.

1205
01:30:43.119 --> 01:30:45.239
Oh, there we go, and
I'm here tonight. I want to plut

1206
01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:47.199
you on notice. You can ask
the former GM how things went when he

1207
01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:55.760
pushed his uh cards too much towards
the champ. There's nothing nobody that will

1208
01:30:55.800 --> 01:30:59.960
stop me from being remembered as the
most dominant world champion in history this company,

1209
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:01.800
including you. And if you don't
believe that, you can ask Dixie

1210
01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:05.760
Carter. This is my only obligation
from this point forward is April fifteenth,

1211
01:31:05.840 --> 01:31:10.199
lockdown and I walk into the steel
cage is to annihilate and embarrassed and succesfully

1212
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:15.560
defend my world title and have a
heavyweight championship against James Storm. So until

1213
01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:17.199
then, helks for the Champs.
Out of here, Hogan, whoa,

1214
01:31:17.359 --> 01:31:20.640
whoa, whoa, my late my
brother, Bobby Rude, impact champion.

1215
01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:26.600
Maybe he didn't hear, but things
are changing around here. Brother heard again,

1216
01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:30.399
did you not say that to Scott
Hall two years ago? This is

1217
01:31:30.439 --> 01:31:35.199
a different time, things are changing. You know, we're different guys,

1218
01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:40.399
dude. Oh, mister Anderson,
come now, he's the same guy,

1219
01:31:40.520 --> 01:31:44.560
but he's saying the same thing now, Hulk Cogan saying this is a new

1220
01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:47.399
time, new day. No pop
at all for that whole line. Hulk

1221
01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:50.600
shakes hands with mister Anderson, talking
about what the fans want. The fans

1222
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:54.439
want to see you, the Champion
go head to head with mister Anderson tonight.

1223
01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:56.640
Okay, if you say so,
Hulk. He just makes matches and

1224
01:31:56.720 --> 01:32:01.600
decides that like he had this,
you know, this referendum from the crowd

1225
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:04.479
to do this, you know,
like he has an edict. Now he

1226
01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:09.039
has a mandate to make these matches. And the fans are like, what,

1227
01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:14.960
we didn't even we didn't even know
to want that. Annoyingly pathetic Rude

1228
01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.239
explodes at the suggestion that he has
to wrestle mister Anderson tonight. I don't

1229
01:32:17.239 --> 01:32:21.600
have to do this and tells one
of his jabronis and suits tell him no,

1230
01:32:21.960 --> 01:32:26.119
and so the guy says no,
like he isn't a power and he

1231
01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:29.119
goes, screw you, Hogan,
and Hogan says, that's what the fans

1232
01:32:29.239 --> 01:32:32.600
want. And it looks like mister
Anderson likes it very much. But speaking

1233
01:32:32.640 --> 01:32:35.800
about someone else who might not like
it very much, mister Kurt Angle,

1234
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:40.520
he turns to him angles at ringside
with all the other wrestlers. Heard your

1235
01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:43.560
running your yap that you won't going
to wrestle Jeff Hardy had locked down.

1236
01:32:44.199 --> 01:32:46.159
It's true, It's really true.
You're not going to wrestle Jeff Hardy had

1237
01:32:46.199 --> 01:32:53.119
locked down. Jes like, brother, Well, I'm listening to the fans.

1238
01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:56.000
What the fans are saying, Oh
my god, is that they want

1239
01:32:56.079 --> 01:32:59.960
Ken Anderson to wrestle Jeff Hardy tonight. No Kurt Angle, sorry to wrestle

1240
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:02.600
Jeff had No one, No one
wants Ken Anderson to do anything anymore.

1241
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:10.119
Sorry, but this Mike tiny quote. It has taken only one meeting to

1242
01:33:10.279 --> 01:33:15.479
confirm that Hogan is a man of
action. Okay, this is supposed to

1243
01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:20.479
be a meeting, is it not. Hulk sends Sting home. Just go

1244
01:33:20.640 --> 01:33:25.239
home and get healthy, says Flair
in ner Bishoff. We have worked so

1245
01:33:25.359 --> 01:33:29.479
hard to get control of this place, don't screw it up. At Bischoff

1246
01:33:29.920 --> 01:33:33.520
starts piping up, calls himself the
psychological Ninja, says, I'll put whole

1247
01:33:33.560 --> 01:33:36.680
Cogan in a tiny little box he'll
never get out of. This is to

1248
01:33:36.800 --> 01:33:42.279
make this clear, This is Bischoff
and Flare backstage commiserating over what Hulk Cogan

1249
01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:48.760
has done tonight, Bishoff Hogan,
the confrontation is Nax who cares Hogan's in

1250
01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:55.760
the ring with Shade. It's a
lame is alive and the action is going

1251
01:33:55.840 --> 01:33:58.960
crazy even in the back. Man. I think I got this one too

1252
01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:03.600
for you. You know, this
place is alive and the action's going crazy

1253
01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:08.680
even in the back. Man.
When these guys come to the back,

1254
01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:14.079
they are ready for lockdown, no
doubt. And as we take care of

1255
01:34:14.199 --> 01:34:18.239
all the business here, it m
tip wrestling. The man that's so conveniently

1256
01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:24.840
wasn't here earlier. I heard a
little bird tell me he's arrived. So,

1257
01:34:25.520 --> 01:34:30.159
mister Eric Bischoff, come on down, my brother. That little berner

1258
01:34:30.199 --> 01:34:32.960
hooks to that the Twitter logo in
the corner of the screen. By the

1259
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:42.800
way, Wow, when you think
up the history between Hope Hogan and Eric

1260
01:34:42.880 --> 01:34:45.359
Bischoff, guys like I need.
He goes back to something like twenty years.

1261
01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:50.239
Who would have ever thought that he
reached this point the compretation between the

1262
01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:54.239
two when Coogan is the boss,
Oh my gosh movie. I mean,

1263
01:34:54.279 --> 01:34:58.600
listen to the tip to sen Hogan
a bishof for best friend who their business

1264
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:02.079
boss. Everything I mean, and
now that's just gone. Now who knows

1265
01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:08.279
it's gonna have the pulp pleas?
I don't know. Ironic comes to mind

1266
01:35:08.960 --> 01:35:14.600
that you and I are here at
this point on opposite ends of the spectrum,

1267
01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:18.199
so to speak. I mean,
who would have ever imagined, looking

1268
01:35:18.279 --> 01:35:23.600
back at our careers, in our
lives, that someone would come to us

1269
01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:29.920
and says, you know, two
thousand twelve, you guys are gonna be

1270
01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:35.359
facing each other across an arena,
on opposite sides of the fence, actually

1271
01:35:35.640 --> 01:35:41.640
trying to undermine each other. Who
would have ever thought that? Not me?

1272
01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:48.279
But here we are. And now
that I recognize it and I realize

1273
01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:53.119
it, it makes sense really when
you think about it, because the differences

1274
01:35:53.159 --> 01:35:59.720
between you and I are well too
numerous to mention. Let's leave it at

1275
01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:04.239
back. But the one key difference, the one, the most important difference

1276
01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:10.600
between you and I Hulster is it. You're not a leader. You're not

1277
01:36:10.720 --> 01:36:14.640
the type of person that people will
follow into battle. You're not the type

1278
01:36:14.680 --> 01:36:18.720
of person that has a vision that
others will base their lives and their careers

1279
01:36:18.800 --> 01:36:26.000
on. Now, you're an opportunist. You tag into whatever situation is the

1280
01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:30.720
easiest and most likely to benefit you
are hot On the other hand, I

1281
01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:36.000
make true leader of men, good
vision, but the power and the intensity

1282
01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:42.640
of fortitude to make real. That's
who I am. And you are also

1283
01:36:43.279 --> 01:36:48.319
the leader of blowing hot air into
a huge room like the Impact zone.

1284
01:36:48.680 --> 01:36:54.640
And you also Jim Paul hot air
on and on and on. And you

1285
01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:59.760
know something, Eric, since you're
such a great leader, brother, we're

1286
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:05.560
taking care of all the hawkdown business
right now today. So instead of your

1287
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:11.520
son, Garrett and Gunner in a
steel cage, why don't we find out

1288
01:37:11.960 --> 01:37:17.439
what kind of leader you really are. Why don't you lead the Eric Bischoff

1289
01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:24.279
team. Why don't you put together
Eric Bischoff's finest And you know what,

1290
01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:28.760
I'm gonna talk to Garrett, and
I'm gonna have Garrett put together a team.

1291
01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:32.359
In one way or the other,
We're gonna make sure that all the

1292
01:37:32.479 --> 01:37:43.399
business gets taken care of the hawkdown
because darn rot with me holding all the

1293
01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:46.600
cars in the deck as a general
manager, I'm gonna lay it to you

1294
01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:51.199
just like this, brother, If
your team wins, the team that you

1295
01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:58.880
put together, Garrett will never ever
be on the roster again here at Impact

1296
01:37:58.960 --> 01:38:05.680
Wrestling. But on the other hand, if Garrett's team wins, you are

1297
01:38:05.760 --> 01:38:13.520
gonna hit the road. Brother.
And to make things really really interesting,

1298
01:38:14.199 --> 01:38:19.560
if Garrett's team wins, you'll never
ever use Eric Bishoff name again. I

1299
01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:25.680
don't care if you're at the mall
signing autographs. I don't care if you're

1300
01:38:25.720 --> 01:38:30.720
on an independent wrestling show shaking and
hiding in the corner like you do best.

1301
01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:34.479
If your team loses, you're out
of here and you will never ever

1302
01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:44.439
use the Bishoff name again. How
about it, brother, Do we have

1303
01:38:44.640 --> 01:38:48.000
a deal. Oh yeah, we
got a deal. You damn right,

1304
01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:56.640
we got a deal. Okay,
Bishoff Eric Bishoff. So in Lockdown one

1305
01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:06.880
way or the other. This thing
between you and Lockdown, Lockdown, it's

1306
01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:14.520
a tradition, it's a Lockdown pay
per view. But the ten higher,

1307
01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:18.479
I mean, finally, this bishof
Hogan thing comes to a head. I

1308
01:39:18.560 --> 01:39:21.800
mean, thank god, you know. I've been I've been wondering if and

1309
01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:26.680
when it's ever gonna happen. Why
did Eric agree to this whole thing?

1310
01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:33.479
I have no mon. Hogan just
says that in bishof just acknowledges and and

1311
01:39:35.039 --> 01:39:39.359
adheres to it. So you're not
going to be able to see the word

1312
01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:43.520
the name bishof on TV anymore.
Is that what he said? I guess,

1313
01:39:43.560 --> 01:39:47.880
I mean that always works. It's
just so stupid. There's reports in

1314
01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:54.359
The Observer that they originally planned on
Hogan and Garrett versus Eric and Flair for

1315
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.399
the Lockdown pay per view, but
in typical Hogan fashion, um, in

1316
01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:01.279
terms of the TNA run the time
we get there, it's a late mocked

1317
01:40:01.560 --> 01:40:04.479
creative there. Sure he just couldn't
do it. Who's gonna take the bombs?

1318
01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:10.159
Right, Bob? I'm just thinking, brother, right, what's the

1319
01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:13.479
deal, dude? So they're not
where this thing isn't perfectly dialed in for

1320
01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:15.640
the hoster, so he's not going
to wrestle at Lockdown. Instead, as

1321
01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:19.000
mentioned, it's going to be Team
Eric versus Team Garrett, which can't go

1322
01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:24.319
wrong. It's April fifteen, twenty
twelve, ten a Lockdown from the Nashville

1323
01:40:24.439 --> 01:40:27.840
Municipal AUDITORI in the same building.
Rick Flair just had its final match in

1324
01:40:29.720 --> 01:40:34.079
and because it's such a hot issue, Team Gunner a Team Garrett versus Team

1325
01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:39.119
Eric opens the show and a lethal
lockdown match, and what a joke that

1326
01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:42.079
is, you know, wait to
wait to fucking make that thing matter.

1327
01:40:42.319 --> 01:40:45.039
Put Rude and Storm in a cage
on last where a Rude wins in a

1328
01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:49.560
total fluke when James Storm super kicks
him through the door and accidentally hands Bobby

1329
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:54.239
Rude the victory. Yet another example
of a last minute change of heart from

1330
01:40:54.279 --> 01:40:57.760
TENA management, much like they took
the title went away from Bobby Rude the

1331
01:40:57.800 --> 01:41:00.960
last minute to Pound for Glory.
According to reporting at the time, they

1332
01:41:00.039 --> 01:41:03.880
took the title away from James Storm
in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee at

1333
01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:08.439
the last minute as well. Well, he didn't deserve it. He's just

1334
01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:15.560
a little bit right. So here
we go. It's Lethal Lockdown Team Garrett

1335
01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:23.600
versus Team Erik, and Garrett is
the first guy in for his team because

1336
01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:26.520
that's what you want to do,
right right, Tess said, he's got

1337
01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:32.000
a him, not really. Gunner
comes out to music. There's three minute

1338
01:41:32.039 --> 01:41:38.039
time periods in these lethal lockdown matches
and rotate every two minutes until all ten

1339
01:41:38.119 --> 01:41:42.640
have entered both sides of five.
I know you love this format, boss,

1340
01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.960
I know you love these Lethal lockdown
matches are true worthy successor to the

1341
01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:49.600
war Games. I cannot stay with
the weapons hanging from the roof on the

1342
01:41:49.640 --> 01:41:53.560
ceiling. I hate it. I
hate it. I hate it, I

1343
01:41:53.680 --> 01:41:59.399
hate it, I hate I hate
the fucking yes, I hate the fucking

1344
01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:04.239
um um the one ring. I
hate the way it's done, I hate

1345
01:42:04.279 --> 01:42:08.600
the weapons. And you don't want
to know something too? What what I

1346
01:42:08.680 --> 01:42:14.159
hate about this particular lethal lockdown match
is that I'll tell you what we've seen,

1347
01:42:14.840 --> 01:42:25.760
having seen pretty much every worthy War
Games match available, Yes, I

1348
01:42:25.880 --> 01:42:30.520
can say this. We've seen some
bad ones, no question. We've seen

1349
01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:34.800
some bad incarnations of the war games. We've seen bad official War Games matches.

1350
01:42:35.680 --> 01:42:42.279
But you know what I've never seen
until this, fucking until this,

1351
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:50.680
uh lethal lockdown, I've never seen
a boring one. Wow, And I

1352
01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:56.399
was bored out of my fucking minds. Fucking go. This was so fucking

1353
01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:02.680
lame, all right? The Garrett
Garrett should not Why are they making him

1354
01:43:02.680 --> 01:43:10.680
wrestle the longest he should be wrestling
the shortest all right, Like he should

1355
01:43:10.720 --> 01:43:15.199
not be in there from the beginning. He's not ready yet. I don't

1356
01:43:15.199 --> 01:43:16.439
know if you'd ever be ready or
not, but he's definitely not ready now.

1357
01:43:18.119 --> 01:43:21.399
And then the whole, the whole
fucking thing, it just was so

1358
01:43:24.000 --> 01:43:30.000
I mean, they didn't play up
this very simple heat factor of it all.

1359
01:43:30.680 --> 01:43:33.199
You know, it's like the moment
a baby face would come in to

1360
01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:36.920
even the odds before you know what, the heels have the advantage again,

1361
01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:43.279
like they just start taking over.
There's no actual moment where the the you

1362
01:43:43.399 --> 01:43:48.760
know, having them the more men
actually works for the heels. Usually.

1363
01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:53.920
We declined the lack of the animal
double clothesline spot. They don't even forget

1364
01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:56.880
it, the spot you know it
because they did something other than the double

1365
01:43:56.920 --> 01:44:00.439
clothesline, but they still do the
spot where the face gets attacked by two

1366
01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:03.000
guys and he fights back. Here, they didn't get those spots in.

1367
01:44:03.359 --> 01:44:08.399
No, the only thing that was
worthwhile in this in this match was aj

1368
01:44:08.560 --> 01:44:12.159
styles. Yeah, that was it. He was great. It was phenomenal.

1369
01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.359
Actually, as you say, no
joke, yeah, no pun intended

1370
01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:18.279
or wherever the fucking all right,
I mean he was really, really good.

1371
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:25.560
He had the energy, he had
the everything going for him. Well,

1372
01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:28.079
he can keep doing five star matches
till his heart's content, but he's

1373
01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:30.039
still going to be in the same
place he is now if that's all he

1374
01:44:30.119 --> 01:44:31.680
thinks there is. You know,
here's the thing. He's not gonna make

1375
01:44:31.680 --> 01:44:35.920
any fucking money. It looks like
an empty building. By the way,

1376
01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:40.199
it wasn't a great crowd in Nashville. It's kind of this long, horizontal

1377
01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:44.399
look to the building. Gunner ducks
the charge and fires out and there's some

1378
01:44:44.479 --> 01:44:46.239
cat and mouse between him and Garrett. Dropped down drop kick by Garrett not

1379
01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:49.039
so great. Gunnar goozles him in
the corner. Garrett comes off the middle

1380
01:44:49.079 --> 01:44:53.279
rope of the dropkick not too bad
count down on the screen, Gunner runs

1381
01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:55.520
him over with the clothes line to
naysays it could be the last time we

1382
01:44:55.520 --> 01:44:58.920
see Garrett Bischoff and Impact Wrestling because
him or his dad had gone for good

1383
01:44:59.159 --> 01:45:02.000
from this organization. Schnefter tonight's matchup, So did I not paid off attention?

1384
01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:04.920
Did Hogan slap on If Garrett loses, he's out of TNA as well?

1385
01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:09.479
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Team
Eric here we go have the man

1386
01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:14.039
advantage they had wanted this past Thursday. As the countdown reaches and Bubba Bully

1387
01:45:14.159 --> 01:45:16.359
Ray comes out to Saboo's music,
a Sabo remix they gave him in TNA.

1388
01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:19.600
Don't ask. It's weird. I
like how they show the tunnel and

1389
01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:23.880
at the they follow him behind the
whole time. I like that. Look.

1390
01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:29.279
Actually, Tests, it's fine,
it's fine. Test says, strategy

1391
01:45:29.359 --> 01:45:33.479
is to single out Garrett. We'll
see about that. And Gunner starts with

1392
01:45:33.479 --> 01:45:36.399
those punches to the gut. They
cut him off. Bischof occasionally fires up

1393
01:45:36.399 --> 01:45:40.640
for a second, but keeps getting
cut off. To your point, they

1394
01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:45.000
chan Austin Airies, not Garrett Bischoff, Yeah nor shit, And there he

1395
01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:46.720
is. He comes out with a
cape that says the greatest man who ever

1396
01:45:46.800 --> 01:45:50.039
lived. The big push for Austin
Airies is underway. He's ex division champion

1397
01:45:50.119 --> 01:45:53.560
at the time, but will be
much more than that as twenty twelve develops.

1398
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:56.039
He gets in the ring, goes
off on Bully with right hands,

1399
01:45:56.039 --> 01:45:58.720
cornermount rapid fire punches, jumps off
and then hits Gunner as he tries to

1400
01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:00.800
cut him off. Bubba hits Gunn
by mistake. Ari's charges into a Bubba

1401
01:46:00.880 --> 01:46:05.600
boot Bubba does nkom horned another countdown. Here comes Kaz to a fucking dead

1402
01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:09.560
crowd. I mean they are deceased. There is no one who care,

1403
01:46:09.640 --> 01:46:13.920
who sucks anyway, who gives about
it, and they ship on him for

1404
01:46:14.000 --> 01:46:18.000
his haircut. Good they should Bischoff
and significant peril Garrett. That is is

1405
01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:21.079
Bully's standing on his throat in the
bottom rope and he's whipped into a flying

1406
01:46:21.159 --> 01:46:25.720
gun or clothesline off the strands.
Trending now, we're told on the screen

1407
01:46:25.880 --> 01:46:29.000
is Garrett Bischoff. Okay, I'll
believe that when I see it. That's

1408
01:46:29.079 --> 01:46:32.760
before people were hipped to like the
trend is tailored to you, like right,

1409
01:46:32.800 --> 01:46:35.920
I understand, Like that's how trending
for everybody. That's trending for someone

1410
01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:41.399
in the back who is one of
six people looking up TNA on their phones

1411
01:46:41.479 --> 01:46:45.079
on this particular riding. Right,
heels are in control as the countdown hits,

1412
01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:46.760
AJ styles to your point, comes
out to a nice pop, slams

1413
01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:49.439
the cage door to kass Head on
the way end he's cooking with all of

1414
01:46:49.479 --> 01:46:54.000
the kicks and all the high flying
stuff he does. Bully runs him over

1415
01:46:54.079 --> 01:46:56.920
in record time. Though his task
calls it a running apartment building right to

1416
01:46:56.960 --> 01:47:00.800
the body of AJ. Another countdown, Nils comes in Christopher Daniels for the

1417
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:04.720
heel side. For the Bischoff side, AJ and aries are tossed violently into

1418
01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:10.800
the cage wall. Garrett sent in
like a torpedo, and they chant one

1419
01:47:10.880 --> 01:47:15.079
more time. They want Bischof to
get it again. Garrett. Oh man,

1420
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:17.119
this is gonna be all those fucking
die Rocky dye things, isn't it.

1421
01:47:17.640 --> 01:47:25.840
Yeah? Yeah, They want him
off the television. Okay, nope,

1422
01:47:26.439 --> 01:47:29.159
bubb it as a double sledge off
the top. Okay, what's that

1423
01:47:30.279 --> 01:47:34.000
not? Okay or Garrett? Another
countdown? Here comes Ken Anderson comes in,

1424
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:39.399
blows some basic moves early AJ with
a rather pointless double leg lifting slam,

1425
01:47:39.479 --> 01:47:43.119
but ends up getting stopped down because
he hurt himself doing the move and

1426
01:47:43.199 --> 01:47:45.960
it takes a high back, double
backdrop as only he can. Another countdown.

1427
01:47:46.039 --> 01:47:51.760
Here comes h Eric Bischoff and a
black T shirt. He looks like

1428
01:47:51.920 --> 01:47:56.239
such a fucking mor un. It
looks like such a big dash as Bischoff

1429
01:47:56.319 --> 01:47:59.720
is well versed in competing. What
excuse me? One on Monday nights head

1430
01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:04.359
to head on cable shove holds up
in Garrett so Bully can shop away out.

1431
01:48:04.600 --> 01:48:06.840
This is fucking crazy. I love
this, this is I got.

1432
01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:13.920
I got this audio for you because
it's so fucking crazy. Did you notice

1433
01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:19.439
where that slap was delivered to right
across that Bishoff tattoo? That chuck was

1434
01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:24.479
on point and again the brother,
what's covering body? I'm telling you,

1435
01:48:25.960 --> 01:48:30.479
oh my god, that's a little
way to lose an ariola that it is

1436
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:32.880
that it is tests Hey, you
noticed despiping his trainer and shit, who's

1437
01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:39.199
a mile away from this ice cold
lethal lockdown? Opener? Brother? Where

1438
01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:41.960
is he? Dude? I got
deal hope in New York. This is

1439
01:48:42.159 --> 01:48:44.800
guy. You hear a face off
with Flare Later, I got, I

1440
01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:48.000
got you know, brother, I
just dude, I'm in New York.

1441
01:48:48.079 --> 01:48:55.520
Brother started dud, Sorry, who
did you? What? I didn't?

1442
01:48:55.680 --> 01:49:02.560
Garrett kas kicked Garrett bish face?
God, Eric barking? Um, what

1443
01:49:03.079 --> 01:49:06.239
what a fucking shit show. There's
such a silence in the crowd that when

1444
01:49:06.279 --> 01:49:10.840
Bishoff's barking things like you'll never be
me, you can hear it echo in

1445
01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:15.760
the building. Another countdown and Rob
van Dam who just returned to Impact Thursday

1446
01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:18.000
night, joined the team. Who
knows why he disappeared this time. I

1447
01:49:18.079 --> 01:49:23.479
just don't have the energy RVD with
the trademark offense for all rolling thunder on

1448
01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:27.840
Bully Ray Bischoff cowering behind a turnbuckle
for the remainder of the match, Anderson

1449
01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:30.279
calls for the mic. That's pretty
funny, actually, I'll give him.

1450
01:49:30.279 --> 01:49:33.720
That was actually pretty fucking funny him
him like hiding in the corner, the

1451
01:49:33.840 --> 01:49:42.439
corner, that's pretty funny, funny
bit off a funny so that Anderson does

1452
01:49:42.479 --> 01:49:45.479
the thing where he reaches fall from
the ceiling, but instead of the mic,

1453
01:49:45.479 --> 01:49:48.840
here come your favorite, Here comes
your favorite roofed cage boss. I

1454
01:49:49.479 --> 01:49:54.319
just don't understand a ladder of trash
can let a guitar, a kendo stick,

1455
01:49:54.399 --> 01:49:59.720
all hanging, all hanging intimidatingly from
the chain link as it comes down

1456
01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:03.760
to form a roof over the cage
at lethal lockdown, loaded with every type

1457
01:50:03.760 --> 01:50:10.720
of weapon like Aleko potato load I
wish, And then all of a sudden,

1458
01:50:10.720 --> 01:50:13.399
it would appear the roof has stalled
for a moment and it doesn't come

1459
01:50:13.439 --> 01:50:16.680
down far enough. It takes forever, and they finally just climb on the

1460
01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:23.079
top rope and grab at things to
get them so fucking dumb. AJ Smack

1461
01:50:23.119 --> 01:50:25.960
and Bully with a goalie stick they
put up there a golie his stick from

1462
01:50:26.000 --> 01:50:31.279
hockey trash can lid shots and they
reference that the Predators are doing well against

1463
01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:35.079
the Red Wings and the playoffs.
It's like, it's like again, it's

1464
01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:41.560
just a weird thing. I just
I've never seen a boring War Games homage.

1465
01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:44.000
And they have a ladder at a
table on top of the roof and

1466
01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:47.840
they don't do anything with it.
RVD with an uninspired running chair dropkick the

1467
01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:53.199
Bully in the corner. They show
welts across Garrett's back from several shots.

1468
01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:57.720
AJ and Aries pull Eric into the
fray. Now Aries lifts Eric and slams

1469
01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:01.680
them down and then Bishe learns how
to slap the mat on impact to absorb

1470
01:51:01.760 --> 01:51:05.279
the blow. It's funny to watch. RVD comes up, he's tripped.

1471
01:51:05.560 --> 01:51:09.479
Ari says a drop kick on Gunner
into the corner and tries a brainbuster,

1472
01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:12.520
but Bully blocks it. Ari's charges
into a guerrilla press lamb by Bully.

1473
01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:16.279
Ray into the wall goes Austin Aries
as Bubba is cut off on the metal

1474
01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:21.520
rope and mister Anderson does a rolling
simo and drop dropping a bubba onto Christopher

1475
01:51:21.600 --> 01:51:26.760
Daniel's chest. Ajan kaz are fighting
on the top rope. Kaz puls across

1476
01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:31.560
the ceiling and just goes well and
falls and bumps as they're up there,

1477
01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:35.760
and then aj does an elbow off
the ceiling of the cage. Then RVD

1478
01:51:35.920 --> 01:51:40.119
is a five star frog splash on
Kazarian and Bully hits a yaka's a kick

1479
01:51:40.159 --> 01:51:44.039
that levels Aj. It's time for
big moves here in Lockdown. RD courts

1480
01:51:44.039 --> 01:51:46.680
a chair in a bully's face after
Bully utters son of a bitch. Chris

1481
01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:51.479
Daniels sas RVDU with the Angels wings. Bishop is now trying to survive out

1482
01:51:51.520 --> 01:51:56.279
on the apron. Eric that is
tas says he's literally shaking and it's now

1483
01:51:56.359 --> 01:52:00.119
time for Garrett to take center stage. Boss. He counters the angel his

1484
01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:03.319
wing from the diamond cutter. Is
that what it is? I think so?

1485
01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:09.520
And then Eric gets in and starts
smacking Garrett to no response whatsoever.

1486
01:52:09.960 --> 01:52:14.079
Yeah, it's truly awful. As
Eric wears out his kid with a kendo

1487
01:52:14.239 --> 01:52:18.960
stick for no fuck, there's no
problem. Yeah, no, no,

1488
01:52:19.119 --> 01:52:23.560
problem with this at all. I
told you, I told you. Then

1489
01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:29.840
Garrett's back wrecked bishof just gloats forever
Eric. And then you hear him go

1490
01:52:30.239 --> 01:52:32.720
now Garrett. Now out of the
corner of his mouth, he's calling spots,

1491
01:52:38.079 --> 01:52:42.039
ladies and gentlemen. Eric Bischoff spots
spot called. Finally he makes a

1492
01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:45.399
decision right. The last spot he
called was scorpion death drop in the middle.

1493
01:52:45.439 --> 01:52:49.960
It's over in a minute, Jeff. So here we go this this

1494
01:52:50.199 --> 01:52:56.880
um what I'm what I'm digging though, is that is that you get um

1495
01:52:58.119 --> 01:53:02.439
the crowd chance for Hogan? Oh
yeah, yeah right, and then you

1496
01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:15.199
know I'm not taking creative brother in
the crowd. Then starts channing this I

1497
01:53:15.359 --> 01:53:20.920
missed that. I was like,
are you fucking we want brook weird?

1498
01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:30.239
She lives in Yeah, I know
she's in coming. Who I'm right now,

1499
01:53:30.479 --> 01:53:31.640
Brooks not coming anywhere? Brother?
Are you gay? Dude? Ow

1500
01:53:31.680 --> 01:53:35.000
gay? On the gay scale of
one to ten, a skill of one

1501
01:53:35.079 --> 01:53:40.279
to gay. How gay are you
exacting? Yeah? Exactly. You either

1502
01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:45.439
are or you aren't. Terrence.
So Bischoff is there gloating, standing there

1503
01:53:45.520 --> 01:53:47.800
waiting for her son to pick up
his queue, and when he does,

1504
01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:51.159
he grabs a guitar. Eric turns
around, takes a guitar shot to the

1505
01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:57.079
head, falls on his ass like
a goose belly, and one, two

1506
01:53:57.239 --> 01:54:02.800
three Bischoff takes the fall in the
new bat ells and Garrett Bishoff wins the

1507
01:54:02.880 --> 01:54:06.640
lethal lockdown, breaking a guitar over
his dad's head and pinning him. What

1508
01:54:06.760 --> 01:54:12.159
a Google winners, What a fucking
loser, Garrett my sene, Garrett Garrett

1509
01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:18.560
bullshit Garrett Garrett, Garrett group or
they recall, They recall the announcers that

1510
01:54:18.720 --> 01:54:21.920
now Bischoff is he gone from TNA
and can't use the name. It's almost

1511
01:54:21.920 --> 01:54:26.760
like an afterthought that fucking STIPs of
the match. I mean, what a

1512
01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:30.039
what a tragedy he can't use the
name. I'm thinking, why both stipulations?

1513
01:54:30.079 --> 01:54:32.880
Doesn't want negate the other? Does
it matter that he can't use the

1514
01:54:32.960 --> 01:54:36.800
bishof name anymore? If he's fired? I know, well he can't go

1515
01:54:36.880 --> 01:54:41.000
to indie shows. You can't go
to the flea market or ever he said,

1516
01:54:41.479 --> 01:54:45.640
he can't go to fucking he can't
go to you know ow and fucking

1517
01:54:47.640 --> 01:54:54.319
can't do that anyway. So the
whole baby faced team Garrett gets up.

1518
01:54:54.319 --> 01:54:57.600
They all raise each other's hands in
the ring, and they're all holding up

1519
01:54:57.640 --> 01:55:00.800
Garrett's arms like anyone cares, like
he's the superhero in Tony's talk about the

1520
01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:08.399
respect Garrett bishop ern tonight. Uh
okay. Later in the broadcast, for

1521
01:55:08.560 --> 01:55:13.520
no reason at all, Rick Flair
comes out, this is this is this

1522
01:55:13.880 --> 01:55:18.399
is splendid. Get a masterclass and
how make people care even when they're inclined

1523
01:55:18.479 --> 01:55:21.680
not to? Like what a fucking
I mean here? I mean, I

1524
01:55:21.760 --> 01:55:28.399
got it, I got the whole
exchange, and I just I die.

1525
01:55:30.199 --> 01:55:36.680
Yeah, do you have any idea
you just walk in this ring? Yes?

1526
01:55:39.119 --> 01:55:45.279
I do. No. Hey,
hey, hey, hey hey,

1527
01:55:46.119 --> 01:55:54.039
I'm asking you a damn serious question. You you're in the front row,

1528
01:55:54.640 --> 01:56:03.560
fat boy, you know you with
no teeth. You know who I am.

1529
01:56:15.199 --> 01:56:31.399
I am the nature boy Rick Flair
whose life gets greater and bigger every

1530
01:56:31.560 --> 01:56:42.439
day. You know you know why? You know why? Because I'm that

1531
01:56:42.760 --> 01:56:55.479
damn good. That's why I am
a special kind of cat. And tonight,

1532
01:56:56.840 --> 01:57:02.119
this guy, instead of being the
touchy or the palm, is down

1533
01:57:02.239 --> 01:57:11.399
here telling you I'm pissed off.
And when I'm pissed off, that ain't

1534
01:57:11.439 --> 01:57:19.880
good for who I'm pissed off at
Hogan. You just won't leave me alone.

1535
01:57:20.119 --> 01:57:30.520
Hogan. You ended Eric Bischoff's career. Oh, he didn't have nothing

1536
01:57:30.560 --> 01:57:34.840
to do with them. Yeah,
who wasn't even funny? That ain't funny

1537
01:57:34.880 --> 01:57:39.640
any man. That ain't funny to
me. Buddy, you in the yellow

1538
01:57:39.680 --> 01:57:45.560
T shirt? You're fat too?
How does your wife possibly do that with

1539
01:57:45.720 --> 01:58:01.640
you at night? Yes, yeah, I'm talking to you. Come on,

1540
01:58:01.800 --> 01:58:15.319
big man. Here comes to general
manager, Here comes hold Harding.

1541
01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:21.680
You know you need to go motorian
here in Nashville, Tennison. You're pissing

1542
01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:34.560
me off. No what toot the
general manager's music brothers. Yeah, you

1543
01:58:34.840 --> 01:58:46.000
pissed me off, brother brother other
guy in the screen and spits mountain at

1544
01:58:46.039 --> 01:58:59.279
the parts of his houses Olga Hogan, Ganging, you have pissed me off,

1545
01:58:59.479 --> 01:59:09.600
brother, mister Flair. As the
general manager of Impact Wrestling, I

1546
01:59:09.800 --> 01:59:16.600
have to admit one huge fact.
Okay, you single handedly are the greatest

1547
01:59:17.119 --> 01:59:25.359
wrestler of all time. Agreed,
single handedly, single handedly. I just

1548
01:59:25.439 --> 01:59:30.000
wanted to come the girl the single
handedly. Do you mind if I your

1549
01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:34.119
ringma minding it all? Because I
gotta talk to you. I gotta talk

1550
01:59:34.199 --> 01:59:39.880
to you real quick. Valve get
your ass up here and over the rope

1551
01:59:39.920 --> 01:59:51.199
for oh my God, holding with
the stash. Smile well, mister Flair,

1552
01:59:53.319 --> 02:00:00.000
as the general manager of Impact Wrestling, If you've got to complaints or

1553
02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:04.840
some type of whim with the way
I'm running this company, I suggest you

1554
02:00:04.960 --> 02:00:16.760
express your grievances right here and right
now. I've had a problem with you

1555
02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:23.680
for thirty years, and I don't
like the way you're running this company.

1556
02:00:24.520 --> 02:00:30.199
And I don't like the way you
manipulate my friends like Bishop, he didn't

1557
02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:38.760
blowing that regulars. You put him
in a position to fail. That don't

1558
02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:43.119
work for me. You got it, and I am. I am working

1559
02:00:43.279 --> 02:00:46.720
for you, But God only knows. The day I get two pissed off,

1560
02:00:47.159 --> 02:00:55.479
I'll just flat out kick your ass. All right. Well, since

1561
02:00:55.600 --> 02:01:00.960
you came out here and asked the
Impact fans a question, just to start

1562
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:08.119
this charade, as sees Hillvill's nothing
you asked them. You asked them if

1563
02:01:08.199 --> 02:01:12.840
they knew who you were. I
told him who I was. You got

1564
02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:16.319
it. I don't ask you nothing. I tell you, you ask them.

1565
02:01:16.680 --> 02:01:19.760
Okay, Well, I guess I
need to ask you a question.

1566
02:01:20.560 --> 02:01:29.000
Do you know where you're at what
you do? All right? Lethal lockdown

1567
02:01:29.159 --> 02:01:35.680
brother who said, and all is
fair in love, in war, in

1568
02:01:35.960 --> 02:01:45.279
styling and profiling, and at lockdown. So because all is fair at lockdown,

1569
02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:50.640
Eric Bischoff will never be part of
Impact Wrestling again. It's number one,

1570
02:01:54.079 --> 02:02:00.520
number two. Eric Bischoff can never
ever ever you the name Bishoff again.

1571
02:02:00.960 --> 02:02:06.720
I don't care if he's at a
flea market selling baseball cards. And

1572
02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:16.319
everybody in this building knows that if
you and I hook up right now,

1573
02:02:17.399 --> 02:02:27.600
we will tear the roof off this
building. So I'll suggest, I suggest,

1574
02:02:28.199 --> 02:02:31.359
if you got a problem with me
in the way I run this company,

1575
02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:43.000
you better do something about it right
now. Brother, you have just

1576
02:02:44.119 --> 02:03:02.279
really pissed me off. Fat called
the bluff play great shame and hugging them

1577
02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:09.560
les the big shot MC knocks Flaire
right on his back. Three decades of

1578
02:03:09.680 --> 02:03:14.840
plutus between these two days. Get
back to here, Come here, come

1579
02:03:14.920 --> 02:03:17.479
here. He starts taking the boys. Had you're holding you? He pop

1580
02:03:17.680 --> 02:03:26.720
flair of the flare is taken off
the jacket and the fun is it all

1581
02:03:26.800 --> 02:03:30.680
shoeing, swelling his shoes over the
wall of the top pipe. I love

1582
02:03:30.720 --> 02:03:35.479
it. The many traps, a
knee in the ring, Rick Flair and

1583
02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:43.560
being driven crozy by what happened earlier
tonight to leave the lockdown with Eric Bishall

1584
02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:50.039
his team losing the match and and
Eric bish Off being taken great from the

1585
02:03:50.159 --> 02:04:04.960
peck wrestling and Flair is going nuts. Then that one for you who are

1586
02:04:05.319 --> 02:04:10.399
gone, What do you think of
that segment? I mean, it makes

1587
02:04:10.439 --> 02:04:15.720
no sense worsoever. This is TNA, right, exactly. You got something

1588
02:04:15.800 --> 02:04:17.159
no one asked for, with no
build, no connection, anything else.

1589
02:04:17.680 --> 02:04:23.000
But it's Hogan dropping Flare in front
of a non Orlando crowd and that's all.

1590
02:04:23.399 --> 02:04:26.720
It's the biggest pop of the show
and no one cares about anybody else

1591
02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:30.720
on the show, right, And
you got Flair just looking like a psycho

1592
02:04:30.800 --> 02:04:33.600
with his eyes wide open. Yeah, exactly, completely drunk out of his

1593
02:04:33.720 --> 02:04:38.960
fucking mind. He hits the ropes
and they fade. Awhile, this is

1594
02:04:39.079 --> 02:04:42.760
t It's just it's it's exactly,
That's exactly what it is. This is

1595
02:04:42.880 --> 02:04:45.760
TNA. So we moved to the
next Impact, which was April nineteenth,

1596
02:04:45.800 --> 02:04:47.840
twenty twelve, and Bobby Ruth comes
out in the suit with the championship and

1597
02:04:47.880 --> 02:04:51.600
a bandaged up forehead, having been
super kicked out of the cage by James

1598
02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:56.640
Storm in the main event of Lockdown
to retain his championship. When whole Cogan

1599
02:04:56.720 --> 02:04:59.079
pops up on the video screen and
says, I want you and all the

1600
02:04:59.159 --> 02:05:02.319
champs out there tonight. And when
he uses the name Eric Bischoff Boss,

1601
02:05:02.359 --> 02:05:08.079
they bleep the word Bischoff wow,
because you can't use the name anymore.

1602
02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:13.439
That's hilarious. The stipulation was adhered
to for all of one week because Bischoff

1603
02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:16.760
leaves tena elevated on the next Impact. So backstage, Hogan goes up to

1604
02:05:16.920 --> 02:05:20.560
RVD my boy, my boy,
DAPs him up, thank you so much

1605
02:05:20.560 --> 02:05:25.079
for Lockdown and putting a bullet and
that no good Eric for me. Oh

1606
02:05:25.199 --> 02:05:27.560
my god, I've got something really
hot going on at night. Number one

1607
02:05:27.600 --> 02:05:30.960
Contenders match between Jeff Hardy and mister
Anderson. I want to make it a

1608
02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:33.039
three way. I'm looking for somebody
special holdings just walking around making matches.

1609
02:05:33.079 --> 02:05:36.359
He gets right, that's what he
does. They went from like, let's

1610
02:05:36.399 --> 02:05:40.279
bring back the top ten system and
try to make like a tournament structure that

1611
02:05:40.520 --> 02:05:45.840
batters to hulk Hogan walks around the
Impact of the lot and just makes matches.

1612
02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:48.840
Dude, what blind brother? Everybody
says, say no more, if

1613
02:05:48.880 --> 02:05:51.319
only there was a champion who never
lost the title in the first place.

1614
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:56.239
The first time I can remember,
they tried to play off the fact that

1615
02:05:56.359 --> 02:06:00.439
RVD left in twenty ten without losing
the belt two years later and in an

1616
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:02.479
offhanded remark backstage, it could be
the whole storyline for his return. It

1617
02:06:02.560 --> 02:06:08.600
should be right looking back, that's
where they lost me. Yeah, was

1618
02:06:08.640 --> 02:06:11.760
when RVD went away in the fall. It never lost the belt. When

1619
02:06:11.800 --> 02:06:17.000
he came back, had no no
uh compunction about it, no no fire

1620
02:06:17.079 --> 02:06:19.479
in his eye to get it back. Yep. It's like, okay,

1621
02:06:19.520 --> 02:06:21.560
well fuck this then, Like,
if he's not going to be based that

1622
02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:25.560
he never actually lost the belt,
then I'm not going to actually try to

1623
02:06:25.680 --> 02:06:28.720
watch this as I would a fan
that's supposed to care. I'm gonna watch

1624
02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:30.560
it for the comedy show that it
is. Fine. That's what you want,

1625
02:06:30.600 --> 02:06:33.840
that's what it is, that's what
we get, that's what we deserve.

1626
02:06:34.159 --> 02:06:36.560
And when he says he never lost
the belt, Hogan into Jacksons has

1627
02:06:36.560 --> 02:06:42.000
never been pinned what because he knows
in his mind that that belt did not

1628
02:06:42.239 --> 02:06:45.000
that lineage did not stop with Rob
Van Dam. He's not going to allow

1629
02:06:45.039 --> 02:06:47.239
that, and then he does the
RVD thumbs and he puts the shades on

1630
02:06:47.359 --> 02:06:51.000
and he says thank you RVD,
and it does this little shimmy off camera,

1631
02:06:53.479 --> 02:06:57.399
and then he comes out for the
moment that he's asking all these wrestlers

1632
02:06:57.399 --> 02:07:00.640
to be in the ring. Four
Austin Arry's out there opping his head to

1633
02:07:00.680 --> 02:07:02.520
the Hogan theme, which I thought
was rather funny. That's really funny today,

1634
02:07:02.520 --> 02:07:06.239
says Hogan has really taken to this
new role. As GM the Pyro

1635
02:07:06.399 --> 02:07:10.720
shower, they find plenty of people
planted in the audience wearing whole Cogan gear

1636
02:07:10.800 --> 02:07:14.159
to cut away to, including someone
who's paid to hold a sign that says

1637
02:07:14.159 --> 02:07:17.800
Hogan rules in the front row.
Always very suspicious when Hogan, who never

1638
02:07:17.920 --> 02:07:23.279
wears red and yellow during most of
the TNA run, attracts these people who

1639
02:07:23.359 --> 02:07:27.039
just happen to get front row who
are always wearing sunglasses indoors. You can't

1640
02:07:27.079 --> 02:07:30.600
tell who they are. I mean, in a red and yellow in the

1641
02:07:30.840 --> 02:07:34.920
boas and holding the signs. This
guy say you watch it, just says

1642
02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:39.159
in the camera Hogan, with no
conviction at all, into the camera.

1643
02:07:40.720 --> 02:07:45.880
It's going on another Yeah, another
Bishop special. H You've got women in

1644
02:07:45.000 --> 02:07:48.720
like, you know, nightclub dresses, like tight evening gown like cocktail dresses.

1645
02:07:48.760 --> 02:07:51.760
I should say in the crowd as
well, because that's you know,

1646
02:07:51.880 --> 02:07:55.399
just the kind of crowd DNA attracted
to the Impact Zone. I don't know

1647
02:07:55.399 --> 02:07:59.199
what the problem is so he can
get to the ring, you know something,

1648
02:07:59.239 --> 02:08:03.319
Impact wrestling fans. When I'm right
on the money and change is definitely

1649
02:08:03.399 --> 02:08:07.880
in the air starting next week,
here we go. Things are changing around

1650
02:08:07.960 --> 02:08:13.000
here, dude. It's a special
episode Nobody's Got Boss. Once a month,

1651
02:08:13.520 --> 02:08:16.600
It's going to be Open Fight Night
on Impact. The fuck is this

1652
02:08:16.720 --> 02:08:24.560
shit? What is this Open Fight
Night? Apparently, it's a concept in

1653
02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:26.840
which a piece of talent from outside
of the TNA roster will get an opportunity

1654
02:08:26.920 --> 02:08:31.479
to come here and show up and
wrestle and have a chance to tell their

1655
02:08:31.520 --> 02:08:33.319
story, have their match, and
be judged by a panel of three judges.

1656
02:08:33.359 --> 02:08:37.279
This is the gut check thing.
So he is conflating the Open Fight

1657
02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:41.479
Night concept with the gut Check challenge. That was definitely a thing with Hogan

1658
02:08:41.520 --> 02:08:45.439
and TNA because he'd go out there
free flowing, you know, which is

1659
02:08:45.479 --> 02:08:48.800
bullet Prince, and he would forget
to mention key things that would happen often,

1660
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.880
and I think you've forgot to differentiate
between Open Fight Night and gut Checked

1661
02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:56.319
on this promo. So yeah,
the idea of being on the gut check

1662
02:08:56.359 --> 02:09:00.560
side three judges get an impact contract
if you impress them. And also an

1663
02:09:00.600 --> 02:09:03.399
open fight Night, anybody on the
TENA roster, if they get challenged,

1664
02:09:03.399 --> 02:09:05.720
they have to come out and fight. So that's what open fight Night is.

1665
02:09:07.199 --> 02:09:09.039
Anybody can come out and you have
I don't know. Basically, if

1666
02:09:09.079 --> 02:09:13.079
you don't answer someone's challenge, you
get fired. That's if you read between

1667
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:16.359
the lines, that's what he's saying. Of course, if someone called out

1668
02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:20.399
Bobby Rude, the world champion,
and he didn't come out and defend,

1669
02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:30.399
nothing would happen to him. So
there's that. I don't now I'm saying

1670
02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:33.199
that facetiously. I'm not saying they
said that. But the point is they

1671
02:09:33.279 --> 02:09:37.000
never explain what happens to somebody if
they don't answer the Open Fight Night challenge.

1672
02:09:37.920 --> 02:09:43.800
Right, there's just some apparent leverage
that the office and Hogan has over

1673
02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:48.560
these these wrestlers that will force them
into having matches just because it's Open Fight

1674
02:09:48.680 --> 02:09:52.640
Night, but not every other weird. I don't know why the agents weren't

1675
02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:56.319
more picky about adding that clause to
the contract when Hogan took the corner office.

1676
02:09:56.399 --> 02:09:58.840
But some things have to remain a
mystery. I suppose. He says,

1677
02:10:00.039 --> 02:10:05.119
you called out here at Impact Wrestling, nois Yeah, nowhere to hide?

1678
02:10:05.000 --> 02:10:09.680
Um and uh Rude comes out,
Who the hell do you think you

1679
02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:11.279
are? And Hogan goes, well, let me see. Do you really

1680
02:10:11.319 --> 02:10:16.560
want me to answer that? Hogan? Chance Root says, I'm the only

1681
02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:18.000
I'm the world champ. Nobody tells
me what to do and when to do

1682
02:10:18.079 --> 02:10:22.479
it. Hogan says, you know
something, champ, not only an open

1683
02:10:22.520 --> 02:10:26.239
fight night, is uh the whole
roster going to get called out? The

1684
02:10:26.359 --> 02:10:28.039
champs need to be ready to step
up and defend. If you get called

1685
02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:31.840
out, you better be ready to
go. And that might just happen to

1686
02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:37.560
you, Uh too, pretty lady. He's pointing to m Gail Kim because

1687
02:10:37.640 --> 02:10:41.399
all the champions are out there and
she's the knockouts chimp. Well, glad

1688
02:10:41.439 --> 02:10:43.079
that's happening. Gail speaks up and
says, hold on, who decides this?

1689
02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:46.000
And help goes, uh decides this? I got I got this part

1690
02:10:46.039 --> 02:10:48.079
for you because this is kind of
this was kind of funny to me.

1691
02:10:48.439 --> 02:10:52.039
Well yeah, hold on, let
me see if I got the whole thing.

1692
02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:54.800
I don't know if I do or
not. But here who decides this?

1693
02:10:54.680 --> 02:11:05.319
Brother? I decide? But you
know something, guys, I really

1694
02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.479
want to hear what the fans have
to say. So you know, maybe

1695
02:11:09.520 --> 02:11:15.960
you guys tweet me, you know, facebook me, because I really want

1696
02:11:16.000 --> 02:11:18.279
to hear what the fans want to
see, and I want to find out

1697
02:11:18.479 --> 02:11:26.439
which champion you want to see?
Go out of here me too. You

1698
02:11:26.600 --> 02:11:31.159
heard that they inserted tweet me in
post right, No, lady again,

1699
02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:41.159
listen, who decides this? I
decide who the fans there titled? But

1700
02:11:41.399 --> 02:11:46.920
you know something, guys, I
really want to hear what the fans have

1701
02:11:46.119 --> 02:11:52.640
to say, So you know,
maybe you guys tweet me, you know,

1702
02:11:52.960 --> 02:11:58.000
facebook me, because I really want
to hear see and I want to

1703
02:11:58.039 --> 02:12:03.199
find out which champion you want here. You must have said twitter me or

1704
02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:11.279
forgot I'll altogether to the social platform
that Dixie Carter is literally mushing into powder

1705
02:12:11.359 --> 02:12:15.439
and snorting up her nose every teneriously. So there's that, you know,

1706
02:12:15.560 --> 02:12:22.279
tweet Hulk Hogan and I don't know
integreat social media into our content programming strategy.

1707
02:12:22.479 --> 02:12:26.880
That's crazy. So Devon, who's
the television champion at this time?

1708
02:12:26.960 --> 02:12:30.920
Devon Dudley, in a baby face, agrees with everything. Hulk says he

1709
02:12:31.279 --> 02:12:33.439
but I'm thinking to myself, no
one's going to pick you, Devon,

1710
02:12:35.079 --> 02:12:39.880
No one cares, he says,
I consider myself fighting champion, and by

1711
02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:41.640
God, however, whoever you put
in that ring with me, Devon says,

1712
02:12:41.680 --> 02:12:48.520
I will testify all over their ass. Brother. Okay, Hogan says,

1713
02:12:48.560 --> 02:12:50.159
I'm so glad you stepped up and
testified. Ever since I was a

1714
02:12:50.239 --> 02:12:54.600
teeny weening little Holster, the TV
title has been defended each and every week.

1715
02:12:56.279 --> 02:13:00.279
I couldn't I couldn't get behind this
defended every week? What or toroy?

1716
02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:01.760
Did he grow up watching? When? Did? When did he even

1717
02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:05.680
know what a TV title was?
Right? Was there a TV title when

1718
02:13:05.720 --> 02:13:09.159
he was a teeny wheennie Hulkster?
I don't think so, And now it

1719
02:13:09.239 --> 02:13:13.319
will no matter what my brother.
Of course, Devon would disappear shortly after

1720
02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:16.039
this, uh for for a little
while, and Devon says, oh,

1721
02:13:16.119 --> 02:13:22.720
my brother testify and old ship.
And I'm thinking to myself, you know,

1722
02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:26.239
if you wanted to, you know, defend your title every week.

1723
02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:30.600
If you were just dying for the
opportunity to be called out, why don't

1724
02:13:30.600 --> 02:13:31.640
you just defend your title every week? Like? Why did you have to

1725
02:13:31.720 --> 02:13:37.159
wait for Open Fight Night? Right? Right? Anyway, Hogan said,

1726
02:13:37.159 --> 02:13:46.600
I promised you change. We're still
doing change or I mean changes. Here.

1727
02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:50.479
We got an open fight night and
everybody fights brother and he poses and

1728
02:13:52.520 --> 02:13:56.479
Austin Airis the X division champ,
and Devon Dudley the television champ, are

1729
02:13:56.520 --> 02:14:01.399
excited and others aren't, including us
at home. Who gives a shit?

1730
02:14:01.560 --> 02:14:07.000
Apricis is their idea. This is
their big you know, re reimagining of

1731
02:14:07.079 --> 02:14:11.399
what Impact wrestling can be. April
twenty six, Impact Hogan's backstage with the

1732
02:14:11.520 --> 02:14:16.119
champs, and I don't know if
you have this, but I've got I've

1733
02:14:16.159 --> 02:14:18.560
got one quote from him that I
found to be so fascinating. Holds court.

1734
02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:22.479
Okay, everybody's there. He's welcoming
all his champions to the first ever

1735
02:14:22.560 --> 02:14:26.119
Impact Open Fight Night. Anyone can
challenge anyone, So he revisits all the

1736
02:14:26.199 --> 02:14:31.199
rules and everything like that. Yeah, and this is where he admits that

1737
02:14:31.239 --> 02:14:33.520
all of his champions are worthy,
right, Yeah, and then but his

1738
02:14:35.079 --> 02:14:37.960
his word choice seems a little off
to me though, But here we go.

1739
02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.800
Oh, my champions can deliver.
That's why you got the straps,

1740
02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:48.960
because everybody's carrying their load. Brother, Well, I guess it depends how

1741
02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:52.319
long they've been holding out, brother
Gil. Kim's pretty funny that she like

1742
02:14:52.359 --> 02:14:56.560
grumbles under her breath like particulous.
Yeah, yeah, she's not happy with

1743
02:14:56.640 --> 02:15:01.600
this new rule. The tag champs
are Magnus and Samoa Joe, who Hogan

1744
02:15:01.640 --> 02:15:05.159
calls Samoa and Joe as he goes
around the room and praises everybody. He

1745
02:15:05.199 --> 02:15:09.760
even calls him the greatest digname of
all time. What a goof, and

1746
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:11.960
Shoe laughs at that. I know
all my champs can deliver. Everybody's carrying

1747
02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:15.239
the load like he just played.
And I know something, mister rude,

1748
02:15:15.279 --> 02:15:20.319
I know how bad you want to
prove yourself night after night, Gail says.

1749
02:15:20.359 --> 02:15:22.279
He does. Definitely, So they're
all trying to angle to get someone

1750
02:15:22.359 --> 02:15:28.039
else to be the champion that gets
called out and not them. He calls

1751
02:15:28.079 --> 02:15:33.039
him Samoa and Joe. He says, I really feel something. Okay,

1752
02:15:33.319 --> 02:15:35.880
He points to Joe and Magnus.
You guys need to shut up or put

1753
02:15:35.000 --> 02:15:39.920
up, and Hogan says, the
problem I'm having is there's so many teams

1754
02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:43.199
that want to challenge the champs.
I'm going to listen to a lot of

1755
02:15:43.279 --> 02:15:46.920
whining and complaining and people stepping up
to get their spot. You realize,

1756
02:15:46.039 --> 02:15:52.560
Boss, that part of the conceit
of this era of TNA is that we're

1757
02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:58.840
going to prominently feature and build story
around wrestlers whining and complaining backstage. It's

1758
02:15:58.880 --> 02:16:03.920
not just showing the backstage, it's
it's showing the wrestlers being petulant about getting

1759
02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:07.399
their way. I think that's important. Why is it important? I think

1760
02:16:07.399 --> 02:16:13.720
it's important to show wrestlers who are
you know that they can't have everything they

1761
02:16:13.800 --> 02:16:16.960
want. Oh, I see all
right, you know we need to just

1762
02:16:16.159 --> 02:16:20.199
they need to be put in check. Hogan keeps twirling around and facing the

1763
02:16:20.279 --> 02:16:24.159
camera and keeps it rotating to face
the wrestlers, and he's all action backstage.

1764
02:16:24.319 --> 02:16:28.880
Maybe it could be in machine guns
Anderson and Hardy Odb and Eric Young.

1765
02:16:28.840 --> 02:16:33.639
Gail laughs at that one. And
you know what, Kazarian and Daniels,

1766
02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:37.719
they smell blood. I'll let you
know. He tells the champions right

1767
02:16:37.760 --> 02:16:41.879
before bell, Tim who you're defending
against, so get ready. They're like

1768
02:16:43.000 --> 02:16:46.600
okay, and he says, welcome
everybody to Impact. Open fight night,

1769
02:16:46.680 --> 02:16:50.159
Let the fighting begin. Brother.
Later in the show, backstage, we

1770
02:16:50.360 --> 02:16:58.159
learned that this is going to be
Eric Bischoff's farewell impact. Yes, we've

1771
02:16:58.200 --> 02:17:01.959
had to deal with a lot of
easy over the course of TNH Boss A

1772
02:17:03.079 --> 02:17:05.360
lot, a lot, so much
more than I remember, which tells you

1773
02:17:05.479 --> 02:17:09.120
how memorable A lot of the stuff
he did actually was more than people deserve.

1774
02:17:09.280 --> 02:17:16.280
Strumming guitars, getting punched by Garrett, Garrett pretending to be at odds

1775
02:17:16.319 --> 02:17:22.680
with Hulk, making Dixie signed papers
that transferred ownership of the whole company.

1776
02:17:22.760 --> 02:17:26.840
A Thanksgiving dinner and which he holds
court and presents a toast. It's been

1777
02:17:26.879 --> 02:17:30.680
a wonderful ride, but on this
impact, it's going to end in terms

1778
02:17:30.719 --> 02:17:33.799
of the on screen roll for Eric
Bischoff, and of all people, someone

1779
02:17:33.840 --> 02:17:37.040
if we fucking sued in nineteen ninety
eight for not showing up, Rick Flair

1780
02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:43.319
is the person kissing his ass the
most seriously, was that a rib?

1781
02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:46.159
For that? They were getting along
just fine, Flair. You know,

1782
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:52.879
when Flair realizes that the shortest path
between him and a five figure deposit.

1783
02:17:52.120 --> 02:17:56.239
Is you you're his friend? Again, It's really not complicated. And so

1784
02:17:56.399 --> 02:17:58.399
in this era of his life,
Bischoff became his very good friend. And

1785
02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:03.200
and that's that's he's a transactional person, and that's that man. Good for

1786
02:18:03.319 --> 02:18:05.079
him, I don't you know,
might as well be if you're a pro

1787
02:18:05.159 --> 02:18:09.319
wrestler for fox sake. But yeah, I never I never sense that anything

1788
02:18:09.440 --> 02:18:13.000
lingered between these two, especially after
they work together at w W all those

1789
02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:16.360
years. Okay, so well,
here he is, Rick Flair backstage,

1790
02:18:16.440 --> 02:18:20.200
Jason Hervey behind the camera with the
on the fly style shooting. Here,

1791
02:18:20.559 --> 02:18:24.280
I got it for you. This
is just so talking about Eric. Yeah,

1792
02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:26.760
I certainly am. And why are
you asking me? You'd think I

1793
02:18:26.840 --> 02:18:31.799
know to pro party and Rick Flair
fen party every day for sixty three years?

1794
02:18:31.639 --> 02:18:35.399
Yeah about that? Every day?
Right? I haven't slipped since I

1795
02:18:35.559 --> 02:18:37.280
was twenty years old? How about
that? Am? I thought a party

1796
02:18:37.319 --> 02:18:41.319
for Rag Bishoff? Not only an
impact tonight, but all night long.

1797
02:18:41.840 --> 02:18:48.760
We're gonna rock Orlando. He's the
greatest promoter in the history of wrestling and

1798
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:54.200
a single handedly made Impact what it
is today. Am I going to have

1799
02:18:54.239 --> 02:19:00.920
a party for him? Hell?
Yeah? Whoa, that's the greatest promoter

1800
02:19:01.120 --> 02:19:03.200
ever has got to be you know, I mean, that's absolutely hilarious,

1801
02:19:03.239 --> 02:19:07.600
having some fun. I laughed every
time I heard it. I was preparing

1802
02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:11.959
for this, and he says he
made impact what it is today. That's

1803
02:19:13.000 --> 02:19:18.079
going to be a rip too.
That's the problem, right exactly. So

1804
02:19:18.239 --> 02:19:20.000
Yeah, still to come. Rick
Flair host Eric Bischoff appreciation night. They're

1805
02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:24.840
not bleeping it this week because they're
writing him off TV. And as part

1806
02:19:24.879 --> 02:19:28.559
of this, Jeremy Borash, who's
been under the thumb of the Hogan bishof

1807
02:19:28.639 --> 02:19:31.280
regime. We've seen that reflected occasionally
over two years here in TNA. He's

1808
02:19:31.319 --> 02:19:33.879
got something to say. If this
is going to be Eric Bischoff's final night,

1809
02:19:35.440 --> 02:19:39.040
yeah, this was I got this
one too. Let's go JB all

1810
02:19:39.120 --> 02:19:43.520
right, here he goes, I
forget. I've been here longer than anyone.

1811
02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:50.120
I have more seniority than anyone in
this company. And I can tell

1812
02:19:50.200 --> 02:19:56.879
you that it's universally known from the
cameraman to the sound guys, so the

1813
02:19:56.920 --> 02:20:00.440
wrestlers in the back, that there
has not been a bigger pre to come

1814
02:20:00.440 --> 02:20:09.200
along in this company in the last
three years than Eric Bischoff awesome, unreel

1815
02:20:11.440 --> 02:20:16.280
and if this is going to be
his last night here and this is open

1816
02:20:16.479 --> 02:20:26.239
fight night, instead of oh,
I don't know, getting liquored up and

1817
02:20:26.319 --> 02:20:31.479
going on my Facebook page and demeaning
other employees, what I would like to

1818
02:20:31.600 --> 02:20:35.200
do is Eric Bischoff, if this
is your last night, I would like

1819
02:20:35.319 --> 02:20:37.680
to call you down to ringside so
I can look you face to face in

1820
02:20:37.760 --> 02:20:56.719
the eyes and extend my fist and
throw it down your throat. So Bishoff,

1821
02:20:56.920 --> 02:21:03.719
put down your BlackBerry. It's open
fight night. Get you out here

1822
02:21:03.920 --> 02:21:13.200
right now. Wow, it's pretty
crazy. JB's fucking awesome. So I

1823
02:21:13.239 --> 02:21:16.520
haven't really been that impressed with him, but I was impressed with this.

1824
02:21:16.719 --> 02:21:18.399
Yeah, he's got that side of
him where I'll just flip out, or

1825
02:21:18.440 --> 02:21:22.239
he's capable of flipping out if you
give him the creative license to do it.

1826
02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:26.360
And you know, you gotta remember
Borash worked under Bishof at WCW and

1827
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:31.040
was there as WCW just fucking fell
apart in the working for the Internet division

1828
02:21:31.079 --> 02:21:35.840
and doing their WCW live streaming audio
show, and so he's got a lot

1829
02:21:35.920 --> 02:21:37.760
of um, a lot to draw
from when it comes to negative animus,

1830
02:21:37.760 --> 02:21:43.479
towards Bischoff, and one person who
worked hand in glove with in WCW in

1831
02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:46.920
that division was Bob Ryder, who
was part of the formative team along with

1832
02:21:46.000 --> 02:21:50.120
Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett to start
the whole concept of TNA after WCW collapsed.

1833
02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:56.879
So I think Borash probably kind of
still looks back fretfully at how WCW

1834
02:21:56.079 --> 02:22:00.239
came to an end, and when
Bischoff walked through the doors, I don't

1835
02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.040
doubt that he was one of the
people agitating for this being a negative as

1836
02:22:03.040 --> 02:22:07.520
opposed to a positive. Probably the
kind of person Dixie had in mind when

1837
02:22:07.600 --> 02:22:09.639
she had that all Hands on Deck
meeting that they put on Impact right in

1838
02:22:09.719 --> 02:22:13.520
November twenty nine. So, yeah, he calls him out and calls him

1839
02:22:13.520 --> 02:22:18.680
out for being drunk and and all
of that, and Bischoff comes out with

1840
02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:22.319
this sarcastic clapping. That's one thing
about Bischoff, Like he loves to do

1841
02:22:22.479 --> 02:22:28.239
angles where he's humiliated. It is
true, It is so true about him,

1842
02:22:28.360 --> 02:22:31.159
Like he does do that, and
he does it really well. Yeah.

1843
02:22:31.639 --> 02:22:33.600
Yeah, he probably does it because
he knows he's good at it,

1844
02:22:33.719 --> 02:22:37.680
and he knows he's going to be
really good reaction from people for being humiliated,

1845
02:22:37.079 --> 02:22:41.280
right, and people want to see
him get his but Tonay telling Tas

1846
02:22:41.319 --> 02:22:45.319
he doesn't have to kiss up anymore. Jeremy Borash, the ship is sailed,

1847
02:22:45.440 --> 02:22:48.360
Eric Bischoff is leaving, and there's
not a non ad chance, and

1848
02:22:48.360 --> 02:22:50.680
Jab says, I like that song
and I like it most when it applies

1849
02:22:50.719 --> 02:22:56.200
to someone like you. Bischoff is
on his BlackBerry. Well, Jeremy Borash

1850
02:22:56.280 --> 02:22:58.479
is talking, he says. He
correct him, it's an iPhone. He

1851
02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.840
corrects him, that's what it is. He takes a picture of Borash and

1852
02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:05.559
Boras, just put it up in
your Facebook page. We should install a

1853
02:23:05.680 --> 02:23:07.760
breathalyzer and then that thing before you
do it. Is there an app for

1854
02:23:07.879 --> 02:23:13.360
that? Eric, there's an app
for that age? Remember that? Oh

1855
02:23:13.520 --> 02:23:18.879
yeah, absolutely everybody and their mom
would say that. Shortly after the iPhone

1856
02:23:18.959 --> 02:23:22.159
came out. Um drunk tweeting about
employees, he says, an app for

1857
02:23:22.239 --> 02:23:28.479
being an insecure tyrant, because I'm
sure that's on your phone. He's so

1858
02:23:28.680 --> 02:23:31.440
great, He's so fucking money.
Chef says, I hope you enjoyed this

1859
02:23:31.479 --> 02:23:33.559
fifteen seconds of fame you've carved out
here for yourself. It's an iPhone not

1860
02:23:33.639 --> 02:23:39.680
a BlackBerry. You've freaking idiot.
He loves he loves frigging this freaking not

1861
02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:48.159
friggin no gain right, ck freaking
idiot, brother, What hey, Stinger?

1862
02:23:48.440 --> 02:23:50.680
Can I Sting for a second,
dude. I know it's been like,

1863
02:23:52.360 --> 02:23:54.159
you know what, four months now, dude, almost going on five

1864
02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:58.920
months. But I didn't get the
chance to circle back, brother, and

1865
02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:01.879
we circling back, dude? Are
we are we cool about question? You

1866
02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:05.159
know dude? When we were doing
the deal in um in Manchester, Bro,

1867
02:24:05.680 --> 02:24:09.280
I mean, god, was that
crowd hot? And you know,

1868
02:24:09.360 --> 02:24:11.639
I'm looking back, I wonder if
that was my last match. But there

1869
02:24:11.719 --> 02:24:13.840
was a thing you did, dude, that I did want to ask you

1870
02:24:13.920 --> 02:24:18.520
about at one point. You know, I'm cup in the year right Hogan

1871
02:24:18.600 --> 02:24:22.760
must pose and uh, you know, to get the people bring up the

1872
02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:24.440
volume a little bit on this thing, I I sort of you know,

1873
02:24:24.520 --> 02:24:28.239
pantomime, brother, Like I was
cleaning the wax out of my ear,

1874
02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:31.959
dude, so I could tether here, and then suddenly, all of a

1875
02:24:31.000 --> 02:24:35.399
suny, Brother, I feel Sting's
gloved finger in my ear. I'm wondering,

1876
02:24:35.639 --> 02:24:39.520
what's up, dude? Right,
Well, Terry I didn't think anything

1877
02:24:39.520 --> 02:24:41.040
of it. I thought it was
just a funny gag, you know,

1878
02:24:41.200 --> 02:24:46.959
something that little physical comedy. I
just made mean gag, brother, I

1879
02:24:46.040 --> 02:24:50.319
mean like a joke like m you
know, something that people would find funny

1880
02:24:50.319 --> 02:24:52.920
and amusing that I was helping clean
out your ear. Just I don't know,

1881
02:24:52.000 --> 02:24:54.000
just something I occurred to me on
the fly that I thought, Yeah,

1882
02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:56.879
I was right up behind you,
and I thought I might as well

1883
02:24:56.959 --> 02:25:09.200
just you know, reach out and
hook whatever I can. Who told you

1884
02:25:09.239 --> 02:25:11.799
to do that, dude, Oh, it's just me. I just called

1885
02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:13.319
it on the fly. Nobody told
me to do it. I want to,

1886
02:25:13.879 --> 02:25:16.239
brother, I want to. I
want to know exactly who's calling things

1887
02:25:16.280 --> 02:25:20.559
on the fly. Dude. That's
the problem, Brother, who's the fly

1888
02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:26.520
making the call? Well, the
fly on the wall is Jason Hervey.

1889
02:25:26.799 --> 02:25:28.360
I mean ever since you guys got
here. I'm sorry, went brother,

1890
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:31.840
he's been Yeah, he's been the
fly on the wall like whenever we you

1891
02:25:31.879 --> 02:25:35.639
know, on TV when they do
that net angle where it looks like you're

1892
02:25:35.639 --> 02:25:37.280
looking into a room your nuts.
But remember when I put the red paint

1893
02:25:37.319 --> 02:25:41.120
on your face and started doing the
joker thing and you could see it through

1894
02:25:41.120 --> 02:25:43.799
the blinds of the off. Remember, brother, I don't remember this,

1895
02:25:43.920 --> 02:25:48.120
dude. What's going on? Brother? I didn't talk to anybody well before

1896
02:25:48.159 --> 02:25:52.440
I put my finger in your ear? What I didn't talk to anybody of

1897
02:25:52.520 --> 02:25:56.159
significance before I did that. So
if that's what you want to know,

1898
02:25:56.239 --> 02:25:58.479
that's the end. So brother,
So basically what you're saying to me,

1899
02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:01.600
dude, is that not only did
you not talk to somebody oh significance,

1900
02:26:01.680 --> 02:26:07.399
brother, you talk to somebody who
was insignificant. Well, yeah, I

1901
02:26:07.479 --> 02:26:09.239
mean, you know, if I'm
gonna if I want to sort of be

1902
02:26:09.920 --> 02:26:13.600
interrogated here, I want to make
sure I cover my bases. Did it?

1903
02:26:13.840 --> 02:26:16.840
Can I guarantee you that there's not
tape that exists of me talking to

1904
02:26:16.959 --> 02:26:20.040
someone before I did that? Of
course not. I mean I just want

1905
02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.719
to you know, I want to
protect myself and you know, make I'm

1906
02:26:24.760 --> 02:26:28.719
sorry, brother, let's dial this
thing back in. Yeah, I'm trying

1907
02:26:28.719 --> 02:26:33.319
to, right, brother, Brother, I just want to I want to

1908
02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:35.840
brother, I'm talking man and man, dude, I got a six pack

1909
02:26:35.920 --> 02:26:37.600
of beer here. Brother, you're
not gonna dial this thing back in,

1910
02:26:37.799 --> 02:26:41.520
Dude, turn the nose up on
it, brother, or right. I'm

1911
02:26:41.600 --> 02:26:43.639
tired, of playing games, dude. I'm tired of playing Hide the Ball.

1912
02:26:43.799 --> 02:26:48.840
Brother. I'm tired of play Stink
the Monkey dude. Okay, brother,

1913
02:26:50.559 --> 02:26:54.879
Yeah, so am I come to
think of it, I want to

1914
02:26:54.920 --> 02:26:58.239
know exactly what's going on, dude. And I want to know who told

1915
02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:03.799
you, brother, brother staying Dude. I want him know exactly, dude,

1916
02:27:05.799 --> 02:27:09.120
who told you you could come from
behind? Brother? Roll me up?

1917
02:27:09.479 --> 02:27:13.239
Pin me in front of these fans, dude, in front of whole

1918
02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:18.639
comania. Brother, I didn't pin
you. What are you talking about?

1919
02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:26.600
It? Just put me? Well, you gotta stand back, dude,

1920
02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:31.840
all right, you gotta check yourself. I'm back in what I'm What I'm

1921
02:27:31.879 --> 02:27:33.879
seeing here, dude, is I'm
seeing a guy who I can't trust.

1922
02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:39.639
Brother. And if I can't trust
you, dude, it means I gotta

1923
02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:45.680
fight you. Brother. There's no
way around it, Dude. I won't

1924
02:27:45.680 --> 02:27:50.200
wrestle you Staying, but I'll fight
just Staying. I've done it before.

1925
02:27:52.319 --> 02:27:54.680
Well, Terry, if you ever
need an apartment in Santa Monica, give

1926
02:27:54.719 --> 02:27:58.879
me a call. Other than that, I don't think we need to be

1927
02:27:58.959 --> 02:28:01.399
talking anymore. I'm with your brother
to reach me. Talk to my journey

1928
02:28:03.079 --> 02:28:07.200
fucking idiot. Oh, the person
I talked to before I did that Hulk

1929
02:28:09.159 --> 02:28:16.399
was John Gaborik won't click slams the
door. Well, brother, you open

1930
02:28:16.479 --> 02:28:20.840
that door, dude, right now. Brother. The open Open Door Night

1931
02:28:20.440 --> 02:28:30.760
challenge that didn't quite work. That
was halfway through. So yeah, Bischof

1932
02:28:30.840 --> 02:28:33.799
tells Jeremy Borash it's an iPhone,
not a BlackBerry, and then Bully slips

1933
02:28:33.840 --> 02:28:39.680
in and bam low blows Jeremy Borash. So yeah, Bischoff loves being humiliated,

1934
02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:41.559
but it's JB writhing holding his crotch
on the canvas. By the time

1935
02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:46.559
it's all said and done, Bischef
says, here's what I'm going to post

1936
02:28:46.600 --> 02:28:52.200
on my Twitter page. He says, ref gets your ass up here.

1937
02:28:52.239 --> 02:28:54.920
Open Fight Night the way to kick
this off and the end of my career.

1938
02:28:56.239 --> 02:29:00.200
So be it. And he drops
down and he he hooks the leg.

1939
02:29:00.280 --> 02:29:01.360
Does he hook the leg? Is? Don't forget to hook the leg

1940
02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:07.440
and pins him. He forced it. He actually um he basically like an

1941
02:29:07.440 --> 02:29:11.319
accordion and folds up JB. He
forces his leg down in a stress position.

1942
02:29:11.360 --> 02:29:15.159
You can tell he's fucking with him
physically. JB is very uncomfortable being

1943
02:29:15.239 --> 02:29:18.000
bent in half. Like this,
Oh, he's actually it's like extremely inappropriate,

1944
02:29:18.120 --> 02:29:20.200
but he's got to pretend to be
out and knocked out at the same

1945
02:29:20.280 --> 02:29:24.200
time. And he slaps his head, you know, he paintbrushes him.

1946
02:29:24.319 --> 02:29:30.399
The Bishoff definitely was achieving more than
one thing here. He was definitely like,

1947
02:29:30.600 --> 02:29:33.440
yeah, you lay into me and
I'll lay into you, knowing that

1948
02:29:33.639 --> 02:29:37.159
he's actually gonna get a chance to
like physically like fuck this guy around,

1949
02:29:37.399 --> 02:29:41.280
an asshole. Totally, You're a
winner, Bischoff, it's announced, and

1950
02:29:41.719 --> 02:29:45.239
slaps him in the head with Bully
Ray taking photos with the phone and raises

1951
02:29:45.319 --> 02:29:48.159
Eric's hand and he takes a pick
posing with the karate stance over boor ashes

1952
02:29:48.200 --> 02:29:52.760
carcass. Later on, they asked
Dixie backstage what she'll remember about Bischoff,

1953
02:29:52.799 --> 02:29:56.319
and she says she'll remember all the
lies he told her and his ability to

1954
02:29:56.440 --> 02:30:01.840
constantly make trouble backstage, and how
he took my company away from me and

1955
02:30:01.000 --> 02:30:05.799
came between me and Hulk Hogan and
other than that nothing, Wow, all

1956
02:30:05.840 --> 02:30:09.920
these incredible memories. Later on,
Hogan again has all the talent in the

1957
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:13.719
office and Chris Daniels goes first and
makes a pitch about how he lost it

1958
02:30:13.799 --> 02:30:18.200
lockdown, and how the Motor City
machine Guns had lost it lockdown, so

1959
02:30:18.280 --> 02:30:20.079
why reward failure by giving them a
tag title match to nine Again? These

1960
02:30:20.120 --> 02:30:26.879
teams are all lobbying Hulkogan and get
the shot. ODB and Eric Young are

1961
02:30:26.879 --> 02:30:30.319
a team. They're talking about it
that they're putting them down is having only

1962
02:30:30.440 --> 02:30:37.840
one gear. They're talking about how
other teams have potty mouths, and Chris

1963
02:30:37.920 --> 02:30:41.520
Saban talks about how the machine Guns
dedication speaks for itself, how they've won

1964
02:30:41.559 --> 02:30:45.920
the titles here and overseas, and
we want it more. We're hungry,

1965
02:30:46.000 --> 02:30:50.360
Hulk, which has nothing to do
with wanting the championships. They just didn't

1966
02:30:50.360 --> 02:30:54.000
want turkey legs for lunch again.
Yes, and Hogan says, you guys

1967
02:30:54.079 --> 02:30:56.479
are for real. I'm on that
team, no doubt. So there's a

1968
02:30:56.639 --> 02:31:01.200
note. There's that team for twenty
twelve, no doubt you're missing that.

1969
02:31:05.639 --> 02:31:09.280
So yeah, I'll continue to deliberty
backstage and that plays out later on.

1970
02:31:09.040 --> 02:31:13.760
But it's time for Bischoff Appreciation Night. They got a red carpet on the

1971
02:31:13.840 --> 02:31:16.920
ring canvas, they got a throne
in the ring for Bischoff, a lion

1972
02:31:18.040 --> 02:31:22.559
sculpture. I'm surprised you didn't have
a taxi dermy you know what I mean?

1973
02:31:22.239 --> 02:31:28.239
Yea, and a smoker for the
guy. Flair comes out Bully as

1974
02:31:28.239 --> 02:31:33.280
well, Kaz Daniel's gunner. These
are all your heels, apparently at this

1975
02:31:33.360 --> 02:31:37.959
point in time, always a very
loosely formed version of the nWo revolving around

1976
02:31:39.120 --> 02:31:41.680
and circling Eric Bischoff at all times. You don't even know if this is

1977
02:31:41.680 --> 02:31:46.760
immortal. You don't know what the
fuck this is like today's is. After

1978
02:31:46.799 --> 02:31:50.479
twenty five years in the industry,
it's time to say bye to Eric Bischoff

1979
02:31:50.479 --> 02:31:52.920
and indeed Boss, I mean,
for all intents and purposes when it comes

1980
02:31:52.959 --> 02:31:56.360
to on camera stuff that we'll be
diving, It's time to say bye Eric

1981
02:31:56.399 --> 02:31:58.120
Bischoff and tnah, what are you
going to remember the most about his TNA

1982
02:31:58.239 --> 02:32:05.920
run on camera? Um, well, it's actually coming up. Okay,

1983
02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:15.479
Flair, Tonight we are gathered not
to morn, but to celebrate. Nobody

1984
02:32:15.520 --> 02:32:18.440
alive knows how to celebrate more than
me. He says. I gotta let

1985
02:32:18.440 --> 02:32:20.200
you know, I gotta let you
know something. This is happening on the

1986
02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:24.079
fly here right now. So as
we're as we're doing this, as you're

1987
02:32:24.120 --> 02:32:28.000
doing this? I get a fucking
spam text coming in says hi, brother.

1988
02:32:28.959 --> 02:32:33.000
That's where I responded, did you
brother? Who says? Listen?

1989
02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:37.559
Are you John? I'm Catherine?
You remember me? Just right back?

1990
02:32:37.159 --> 02:32:43.600
Whoa brother? Who you been to? Who you been talking to? Brother?

1991
02:32:45.840 --> 02:32:48.239
All right, let's go with it. What did she say? Nothing

1992
02:32:48.399 --> 02:32:52.040
yet? I'm waiting for response.
Is Kate Kennedy? Dude? I told

1993
02:32:52.120 --> 02:32:58.479
to talk to my attorney's just say? Are you working for Elsie I?

1994
02:32:58.680 --> 02:33:09.959
Dude? LSI? Is this laser
spine? Are you working LSI? Dude?

1995
02:33:13.280 --> 02:33:18.440
Okay, not working for Working Laser
Spine Institute, Like it's a style

1996
02:33:18.520 --> 02:33:24.879
of working. Are you working laser
spine style? Dude? Did you?

1997
02:33:26.399 --> 02:33:28.879
Did you try to dissuade me from
having fusion? Dude? I'm gonna write,

1998
02:33:30.079 --> 02:33:39.120
did you dot dot dot? I've
recently become interesting interested. I love

1999
02:33:39.200 --> 02:33:43.920
doing this? Did you? Of
course? I'm saying it all day?

2000
02:33:43.799 --> 02:33:48.799
See what fucking happens? I mean
the biggest you know, we've spent a

2001
02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:52.280
lot of time, you know,
talking about the similarities and contrasts between hill,

2002
02:33:52.319 --> 02:33:54.920
Cogon and Abyss over the course of
TNH. It just occurred to me,

2003
02:33:54.079 --> 02:34:00.280
Yes, yes, The biggest difference
between the two, uh huh is

2004
02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:11.520
how easy it is to convinced then
they don't need fusion and Holt's case back

2005
02:34:11.559 --> 02:34:31.120
surgery and that this is case Asians
Betterson Agian brother exactly couldn't have said it

2006
02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:41.840
better wise. The idea is the
ramifications of what was just said are whipping

2007
02:34:41.879 --> 02:34:46.559
through his mind faster than he can
verbally express. You know, like he's

2008
02:34:46.159 --> 02:34:56.639
who, brother, what? What? What? Why? Why would he

2009
02:34:56.719 --> 02:35:00.200
say? What like that? What? What do you mean? I do

2010
02:35:00.319 --> 02:35:01.959
that all day? I did it
today. I was just like, brother,

2011
02:35:03.040 --> 02:35:07.360
what something happens? Like he's addressing
one person in one situation, and

2012
02:35:07.399 --> 02:35:13.159
then right off in his peripheral vision, something gets his attention to what that

2013
02:35:13.280 --> 02:35:22.399
was unexpected? Who's expecting? Brother? Probably Jennifer McDaniel, Oh sorry,

2014
02:35:22.440 --> 02:35:26.479
Heather clem what tonight? Flair says, We're gathered not to mourn, but

2015
02:35:26.559 --> 02:35:31.200
to celebrate. Nobody alive knows how
to celebrate more than me. Google me.

2016
02:35:31.479 --> 02:35:33.319
That's my wife's favorite line. All
right, Flair, come down tonight

2017
02:35:33.399 --> 02:35:37.479
we celebrate Eric Bischoff. If you
have any knowledge of the sport of professional

2018
02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:39.399
wrestling, you know he has been
a major impact player. No pun intended.

2019
02:35:39.799 --> 02:35:46.200
As they serenade Bischoff with the Hey
Hey goodbye SONGA covers the ears on

2020
02:35:46.319 --> 02:35:50.520
the photograph of Eric that's on an
easel in the ring, so the picture

2021
02:35:50.559 --> 02:35:54.799
of Eric can't hear the chant.
He's such a good he really is,

2022
02:35:56.760 --> 02:35:58.120
Flair says, And people wonder why
I don't like wrestling fans, And you're

2023
02:35:58.120 --> 02:36:01.680
the rudest most I don't line people
I've ever met. My friend that a

2024
02:36:01.719 --> 02:36:07.479
man that has impacted TENA wrestling impacted
TENA wrestling Again, that's funny. Did

2025
02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:11.040
he TNA impact wrestling as well?
More than any of the person? Is

2026
02:36:11.159 --> 02:36:13.280
Eric Bischoff? And here's the music, And man, am I going to

2027
02:36:13.319 --> 02:36:18.399
miss that music? Beautifully mixed and
sourced and so inspired? Was Eric Bischoff's

2028
02:36:18.399 --> 02:36:22.559
TNA fame such a farce? He
comes out with a somber looking face,

2029
02:36:22.639 --> 02:36:26.079
and he gets in there and sits
on his throne, and Flair apologizes for

2030
02:36:26.120 --> 02:36:30.760
the behavior of these fans and says, I'm much better off when I'm telling

2031
02:36:30.799 --> 02:36:33.120
the world what you have meant to
me. The men in this ring,

2032
02:36:33.399 --> 02:36:35.879
Christopher Daniels is bringing it out of
him to actually cry during this, which

2033
02:36:37.000 --> 02:36:41.639
is so fucking funny, and he's
clearly, you know, not doing it

2034
02:36:41.719 --> 02:36:45.280
because he's planning on being focused on
because they don't really show him, but

2035
02:36:45.280 --> 02:36:48.079
you can see him in the background. He's he's put an extra for working

2036
02:36:48.120 --> 02:36:50.559
at this point in time in TNA. He's just being so goofy. Him

2037
02:36:50.559 --> 02:36:54.360
and Kaz are just like such a
hidden gem part of the show around now

2038
02:36:54.360 --> 02:36:58.440
because they're just they know it's not
to be taken seriously, I mean,

2039
02:36:58.879 --> 02:37:01.719
and they so they brace that.
They run with that, and they say

2040
02:37:01.799 --> 02:37:07.239
such goofy shit and do such foolish
things like there's a there's a scene towards

2041
02:37:07.280 --> 02:37:09.680
the end of the year where they
bring out of Santa and he sits in

2042
02:37:09.719 --> 02:37:13.440
a throne and James Storm super kicks
in the Santa and Storm and Daniels and

2043
02:37:13.600 --> 02:37:16.920
Kaz grabbed the side of the throne
and like pretend they're not doing it,

2044
02:37:18.000 --> 02:37:22.079
but they just help lift up the
chair so the Santa could take But they're

2045
02:37:22.079 --> 02:37:24.079
not like they're supposed try to be
a fend Santa, right right, they're

2046
02:37:24.079 --> 02:37:28.559
not trying to hurt him. And
hundreds of fathers had the honor of working

2047
02:37:28.600 --> 02:37:31.559
for you. Flair, says Dixie
Carter should be somewhere on her knees.

2048
02:37:31.079 --> 02:37:33.719
Rick Flair says, thanking you for
the day you came to TNA, and

2049
02:37:35.159 --> 02:37:39.319
Bischoff nods along somber lea. Even
though I don't like Hulggan, you're the

2050
02:37:39.399 --> 02:37:41.639
reason that whole Coogan is in TNA, Flair says, And more importantly,

2051
02:37:41.639 --> 02:37:46.319
you're the reason I'm here, and
I can't thank you enough. These gentlemen

2052
02:37:46.440 --> 02:37:48.879
right here, I'll know what you've
done for us. Is there a woman

2053
02:37:48.920 --> 02:37:54.879
in the audience that wants to go
home and sleep with this? Do you

2054
02:37:54.920 --> 02:37:56.280
mind if I give this picture of
you to some girls? He says,

2055
02:37:58.159 --> 02:38:00.959
I hope he was fans at home
of impact A pre sh what Eric Bischoff

2056
02:38:01.000 --> 02:38:05.040
has done, the wisdom the man
that was not afraid to cross the line.

2057
02:38:05.159 --> 02:38:07.399
Bischof starts crying, there we go, the fucking crossing the line thing

2058
02:38:07.479 --> 02:38:11.120
again. What line did he cross? Rick? Rick says, he crossed

2059
02:38:11.159 --> 02:38:18.079
the line in quote developing television programming. I agree, Gunner says, this

2060
02:38:18.200 --> 02:38:20.479
is a sad day for all of
us, and he personally wants to thank

2061
02:38:20.639 --> 02:38:22.280
Eric. You've been like a father
figure to me. Nothing but opportunities.

2062
02:38:22.319 --> 02:38:26.680
He shakes his hand and thanks him. Just on a headline actually that Gunner's

2063
02:38:26.680 --> 02:38:31.280
gonna be retiring from wrestling. He
became Jackson Riker and NXT and then got

2064
02:38:31.319 --> 02:38:33.000
fired for doing something right wing on
Twitter. I forget what he did,

2065
02:38:33.120 --> 02:38:37.200
but oh boy, yeah, um
Flair and all the excitement I almost forgot.

2066
02:38:37.479 --> 02:38:41.440
And he opens up a green box
and inside a special gift, he

2067
02:38:41.520 --> 02:38:45.879
presents a Rolex watch to Eric Bischoff, which Bischof said his podcast he later

2068
02:38:45.920 --> 02:38:48.600
gave to his son because I'm not
a jewelry guy, Bully says, we

2069
02:38:48.639 --> 02:38:52.879
hope you wear that with pride,
not do It's not jewelry. It's a

2070
02:38:52.959 --> 02:39:00.280
watch. It's a biscuit. And
then we go a biscuit, that's what

2071
02:39:00.319 --> 02:39:07.399
they call rot. I fought it, I thought I fought and a biscuit

2072
02:39:07.559 --> 02:39:13.000
was something having with Christopher Park there
is to get the fun in his name.

2073
02:39:13.959 --> 02:39:20.159
So like a biscuit, brother given
a Rolex is a gift? How

2074
02:39:20.239 --> 02:39:24.760
like triple h is that? But
serious about it? Right? Like?

2075
02:39:24.159 --> 02:39:28.719
Um would that? Um it's a
special night. And uh trying to make

2076
02:39:28.799 --> 02:39:35.920
Rick Flair cry by giving him a
couplinks. Yeah, my god, look,

2077
02:39:37.000 --> 02:39:39.879
I just want you to have this
for me to you brother and recognition

2078
02:39:39.920 --> 02:39:48.600
of all of our time together on
the NHS. It's beautiful. Can I

2079
02:39:48.680 --> 02:39:54.280
pawn it? I need? I
need? How much is worth anybody?

2080
02:39:54.520 --> 02:39:58.639
Thousand dollars? Can I off a
bookie? He calls, he calls it,

2081
02:40:00.120 --> 02:40:01.159
the room calls high spots. He's
like, I got I got new

2082
02:40:01.200 --> 02:40:07.799
collateral? Can I get ten grand? Um Bullie says, we hope you

2083
02:40:07.840 --> 02:40:09.239
wear it with pride. And I
can honestly say I've never admitted this to

2084
02:40:09.280 --> 02:40:13.639
another man before, but you were
the wind beneath my wings. Be stupid

2085
02:40:15.399 --> 02:40:18.120
oric. Thank you so much,
big hug. Daniel's crying, and then

2086
02:40:18.159 --> 02:40:24.920
the song hits and outcomes Garrett Bischoff
with Jeremy Borash and some others like Austin

2087
02:40:24.040 --> 02:40:30.479
Airies and the Motor City machine Guns. Bischoff says, Um, a couple

2088
02:40:30.479 --> 02:40:33.000
of the guys, JB and myself
were in the back, were talking,

2089
02:40:33.120 --> 02:40:35.079
and JB came up with a really
good idea. If this really is indeed

2090
02:40:35.079 --> 02:40:39.600
your last Nightted impact dad, we
all wanted to contribute, um, so

2091
02:40:39.760 --> 02:40:43.639
I got got a little something from
us RVD chant because Van Dam's out there

2092
02:40:43.639 --> 02:40:48.079
too, weigh in the back,
Borash says, you see we all got

2093
02:40:48.079 --> 02:40:50.760
together. We thought it'd be fun
to contribute and Eric, while that Rolex

2094
02:40:50.920 --> 02:40:54.239
is nice, we thought we'd get
something more symbolic of who you are.

2095
02:40:54.719 --> 02:40:56.920
You know, the football has a
Hall of Fame and the Cowboys have the

2096
02:40:56.000 --> 02:41:00.319
Ring of Honor. Eric, tonight, we would like to introduce the first

2097
02:41:00.360 --> 02:41:03.639
person in the TNA Shed of Shame. And then so Calval, like a

2098
02:41:03.680 --> 02:41:07.879
game show host, gestures to a
curtain, and through the curtain comes a

2099
02:41:09.000 --> 02:41:13.399
bright neon commode. Of course,
what's they wailing up the ramp? They

2100
02:41:13.440 --> 02:41:18.520
start all start brawling. Garrett runs
over, grabs his dad in a front

2101
02:41:18.559 --> 02:41:22.920
face lock with Borash, directing traffic
into the crowd. Borash opens the commode.

2102
02:41:22.680 --> 02:41:26.120
Bischoff looks to the people, Garrett
that is do you want it?

2103
02:41:26.600 --> 02:41:30.159
And Eric Bischoff gets tossed in barely. He just walks in. Oh I

2104
02:41:30.280 --> 02:41:35.239
know right, seriously, he tapped
on the shoulder him. He's a toy

2105
02:41:35.360 --> 02:41:39.479
soldier. He's walking in there,
man, And they shut the door and

2106
02:41:39.600 --> 02:41:43.360
there's a chain they link it shut. Garret Bischoff looks to the people,

2107
02:41:43.440 --> 02:41:48.120
wide eyed, asking them if they
want him to push over this stop at

2108
02:41:48.239 --> 02:41:52.879
shit box. Garrett knock it off
pal should it go over? He asks,

2109
02:41:52.959 --> 02:41:58.200
I'm thinking probably not. Yeah,
Bischoff, pardon me. Borash leads

2110
02:41:58.239 --> 02:42:01.280
a countdown, and they pushed the
commode over. Eric takes the bump and

2111
02:42:01.399 --> 02:42:05.479
they point to a ship stain on
the floor that was underneath the porta potty

2112
02:42:05.639 --> 02:42:07.239
and they start, you know,
holding their nose. Do you smell that?

2113
02:42:07.520 --> 02:42:11.239
And I mean, this is like
fucking such a pathetic attempt to do

2114
02:42:11.319 --> 02:42:16.600
like a raw thing so bad.
That's so bad, just is they The

2115
02:42:16.639 --> 02:42:20.239
execution isn't awful, but just the
idea that like they're trying to be less

2116
02:42:20.280 --> 02:42:22.319
in TNA. It's like imposter sinder. No, I know, it's like

2117
02:42:22.399 --> 02:42:26.399
it's not it doesn't work as well. No, so of course the door

2118
02:42:26.479 --> 02:42:30.920
opens and Eric Bischoff is covered in
brown liquid. He said in his podcast,

2119
02:42:31.319 --> 02:42:33.079
that's what I remember. That's what
I remember. That's my favorite memory

2120
02:42:33.120 --> 02:42:39.079
of that. You're building to building
towards right there. He said he doesn't

2121
02:42:39.079 --> 02:42:41.319
remember exactly what they used um for
the ship, but he said it was

2122
02:42:41.399 --> 02:42:45.879
sweet whenever it was. Maybe it
was chocolate, sarap or something thickened with

2123
02:42:46.159 --> 02:42:52.520
an agent, maybe Delo Brown not
fit Finley, they wouldn't hire his ass

2124
02:42:52.559 --> 02:42:56.200
in twenty twelve they needed a room
on pay roll for brook. Hogan today

2125
02:42:56.239 --> 02:43:00.360
says Eric always was known for stirring
the ship. And this prove it that

2126
02:43:00.680 --> 02:43:03.239
Clever Bischoff screaming, you son of
a bitch. We're told the reek is

2127
02:43:03.280 --> 02:43:07.959
horrible by Tazz and it you know, laments, how horrible away this is

2128
02:43:09.040 --> 02:43:11.159
for the poor man's career to end. Why is uh? You know,

2129
02:43:11.319 --> 02:43:18.000
I don't understand about this whole thing? Why is um? Why Why is

2130
02:43:18.280 --> 02:43:22.159
Taz suddenly playing heel comment? All
of a sudden he's got He's defending Eric.

2131
02:43:22.920 --> 02:43:26.159
It's so weird, like that's been
his thing, which it has not.

2132
02:43:28.200 --> 02:43:30.520
Like today's twenty five years in the
industry, and this is the exit

2133
02:43:30.600 --> 02:43:33.280
for Eric Bischoff. TESSAs, forget
about the silver anniversary. This is a

2134
02:43:33.319 --> 02:43:39.840
brown anniversary. Clever, Today's Eric
Bischoff. Goodbye and good riddance. As

2135
02:43:39.920 --> 02:43:43.399
Bischoff continues to heave and vomit,
and we sign off for Bischof's final on

2136
02:43:43.520 --> 02:43:50.120
camera appearance. And is it actually
his final one? It is? Wow.

2137
02:43:50.920 --> 02:43:54.000
The the Cornerstone TV presences of the
TNH journey, all of a sudden,

2138
02:43:54.040 --> 02:43:58.120
they're starting to fall off that's right. Steady, slow, but steady.

2139
02:43:58.639 --> 02:44:03.479
May Pact opens with Hogan seated at
a desk looking at a memo Brother

2140
02:44:05.319 --> 02:44:09.920
Impact Wrestling Show seven thirty four.
He says, is the title of the

2141
02:44:09.040 --> 02:44:13.040
memo? I think I've got this. I sure hope. So he's got

2142
02:44:13.040 --> 02:44:18.719
an office full of top heavyweight title
challengers and it's time to dialogue and negotiate.

2143
02:44:18.000 --> 02:44:24.680
Let's talk about the format sheet Brother
Impact Wrestling Show seven thirty four.

2144
02:44:26.840 --> 02:44:31.559
Tape date ding twelve, air date
five twenty four twelve. And then you

2145
02:44:31.639 --> 02:44:39.399
guys know what this is. It's
the show format. This is what makes

2146
02:44:39.520 --> 02:44:45.479
Impact Wrestling work, or that would
be not work. I'll say Open Fighting

2147
02:44:45.559 --> 02:44:50.680
Night. It's kind of open everyone's
eyes. And this week on Open Fighting

2148
02:44:50.760 --> 02:44:54.280
Night, you're gonna have a lot
more changes than even I expect him.

2149
02:44:54.280 --> 02:44:58.239
How much you guys to take a
look at this. This is what goes

2150
02:44:58.319 --> 02:45:01.000
on in that creative meeting or earlier
in the day. I'm sure you guys

2151
02:45:01.040 --> 02:45:05.200
have all seen it. But that's
what's supposed to happen on the show tonight.

2152
02:45:09.799 --> 02:45:13.040
A lot of people love that old
stuff. A lot of people are

2153
02:45:13.200 --> 02:45:16.719
voicing their opinions on how much they
love a few little changes we started,

2154
02:45:20.319 --> 02:45:22.879
but we are you okay with that? Yeah, I'm fine with it.

2155
02:45:24.120 --> 02:45:26.000
Okay, whatever you want to do, you get the bush, right,

2156
02:45:26.600 --> 02:45:31.000
So what's what's this four men?
Well, that's what we're supposed to do.

2157
02:45:31.079 --> 02:45:37.200
Now, this is you know,
I really can Pogan resonates the premise

2158
02:45:37.280 --> 02:45:43.040
of open anybody. Oh yeah,
and you have to fight in there's going

2159
02:45:43.120 --> 02:45:46.399
to be a guaranteed title match all
four men, which are all four of

2160
02:45:46.440 --> 02:45:50.840
you, guys. I start to
grill you guys, and then eventually I

2161
02:45:52.000 --> 02:45:58.040
figured out the game plan, which
doesn't work anymore. So we're opening this

2162
02:45:58.159 --> 02:46:01.399
thing up to an open form.
We've got a situation with Rude, who's

2163
02:46:01.440 --> 02:46:07.319
on the verge of becoming the longest
reigning Impact champion ever once he defends this

2164
02:46:07.440 --> 02:46:13.040
title here at Open Fighting Night,
if he wins, he becomes you know

2165
02:46:13.079 --> 02:46:16.319
what I would consider the greatest champion
ever here at t Andam Pac Russell.

2166
02:46:16.280 --> 02:46:20.200
The record is not hold about this
man right here, aj Styles, who's

2167
02:46:20.399 --> 02:46:26.120
made a huge infert And what and
what importance is that? What importance of

2168
02:46:26.360 --> 02:46:31.719
Israel exact reigning champion is important to
me, It's important to the fans,

2169
02:46:31.920 --> 02:46:35.040
it's important to you know that in
the stylisha of the way this business is.

2170
02:46:35.399 --> 02:46:37.639
Yes, I guess many times you
win it? Oh yeah, I

2171
02:46:37.680 --> 02:46:43.159
guess what's something important about being a
gold medalist? Are you serious? I'm

2172
02:46:43.159 --> 02:46:45.879
just saying I'm just lit medalist.
At least, he is not talking to

2173
02:46:45.920 --> 02:46:50.639
you, I don't get. I'm
just trying to tell you that it's important

2174
02:46:50.639 --> 02:46:52.319
to me just as much as that
gold medal is important to you all.

2175
02:46:52.600 --> 02:46:58.719
I'm not saying it's dotty, I
understand. I'm to me, that's your

2176
02:46:58.719 --> 02:47:03.840
op. And you know, these
guys laid the groundwork and then people started

2177
02:47:03.920 --> 02:47:07.079
piling on over the year, you
know. And I don't know the sequence

2178
02:47:07.120 --> 02:47:11.280
of how it happened. I'm sure
you probably do, but you know,

2179
02:47:11.639 --> 02:47:18.319
from a curt Angle to Jeff Harry, Paul Toglan stumbling on the bandwagon and

2180
02:47:18.440 --> 02:47:26.280
all this momentum is pushing us into
a fast forward situation that has these normal

2181
02:47:26.360 --> 02:47:31.680
ways we normal ways we do shows
don't work anymore. I can say that

2182
02:47:31.799 --> 02:47:37.799
again, Yeah, should you you
know, try to break this role the

2183
02:47:37.959 --> 02:47:46.959
roots on because I've won more titles
than anybody else's singles titles. Oh you

2184
02:47:46.040 --> 02:47:52.479
said you won more titles singles titles, be more specific impact titles. Ten

2185
02:47:52.639 --> 02:47:56.280
titles that we're talking about, because
that's the only ones I recognize here.

2186
02:47:58.159 --> 02:48:03.760
All right, you want us to
convince you. I need to convince you.

2187
02:48:03.040 --> 02:48:07.840
Convince me why I should face Bobby
Rude. Convince me a guy that's

2188
02:48:07.879 --> 02:48:13.639
won more tag titles than anybody,
who's always been a team player, who

2189
02:48:13.760 --> 02:48:18.639
just as of late recently has broken
out and become a main event singles competitor.

2190
02:48:20.280 --> 02:48:24.040
A guy that's never won the big
one, a guy that's never been

2191
02:48:24.079 --> 02:48:26.360
the world's heavily champion. Everybody else
in here as convinced me. While you

2192
02:48:26.479 --> 02:48:31.440
deserve a shot, let me ask
you a question. You are the be

2193
02:48:31.639 --> 02:48:35.159
all and ended all of all business. Putting you over right now, I'm

2194
02:48:35.200 --> 02:48:37.280
telling you that when it comes to
pro wrestling, Hulk Hogan is number one.

2195
02:48:37.799 --> 02:48:41.239
I've been around for twenty years.
I'm not a slouch. Why do

2196
02:48:41.399 --> 02:48:46.840
I have to convince you why I
should face Bobby Rude for the World Heavyweight

2197
02:48:46.879 --> 02:48:48.760
title. You know that when you
look at the four of us, I

2198
02:48:48.959 --> 02:48:54.159
remind you more of those guys that
you went to war with back in the

2199
02:48:54.280 --> 02:48:58.200
day than anybody here. I'm the
most legit guy I'm not taking anything away

2200
02:48:58.280 --> 02:49:03.000
from these guys. Okay, they're
all tough, but I'm the most legit.

2201
02:49:03.319 --> 02:49:05.879
You know, people fear me for
a straight up shoot. You know,

2202
02:49:07.000 --> 02:49:09.719
people walk the other way when I
walk in a room. Ye.

2203
02:49:09.639 --> 02:49:13.600
I could even intimidate you, Hogan, if I wanted to, But I

2204
02:49:13.680 --> 02:49:16.959
got respect for you. I'm not
gonna sit here and flat my gums about

2205
02:49:18.000 --> 02:49:22.079
why. You know? Why is
that true? Kurt? Is that true?

2206
02:49:22.200 --> 02:49:24.920
Is he the most intimidating guy in
here? I don't believe. So

2207
02:49:26.040 --> 02:49:30.200
I'll tell you what. Why don't
you intimidate me? Kurt? I just

2208
02:49:30.360 --> 02:49:33.200
gave you respect before. Okay,
I could intimidate you if I want.

2209
02:49:33.239 --> 02:49:37.680
I've intimidated you in the ring before, I've backed down from you. As

2210
02:49:37.719 --> 02:49:39.760
a matter of fact, you'd probably
admit that I'm the hardest, hottest hit

2211
02:49:39.840 --> 02:49:43.719
ind of it you've ever been in
the ring with, and you know,

2212
02:49:43.840 --> 02:49:48.680
the most talented guy I've ever been
in the ring with. Major Why do

2213
02:49:48.799 --> 02:49:56.840
you deserve it? Do you think
Bobby inside now better than anybody just because

2214
02:49:56.879 --> 02:50:00.639
you guys used to be find He's
been here a long time, so bye,

2215
02:50:00.760 --> 02:50:03.959
I've been here longer. You know
that this is all about for me,

2216
02:50:05.920 --> 02:50:09.760
that's about any can drink. I
don't want him to become the longest

2217
02:50:09.799 --> 02:50:13.600
reigning world heavyweight champion in Tenna history. I want that for me. It's

2218
02:50:13.639 --> 02:50:18.159
selfish. Yeah, yeah, it's
selfish. I don't I don't care.

2219
02:50:18.799 --> 02:50:26.200
I want it. So all right? Should we wrestle? Who won?

2220
02:50:26.559 --> 02:50:28.280
You? Did Kurt beat me?
So who deserves it? Right now?

2221
02:50:30.840 --> 02:50:33.399
You want to be a man?
You think just because and I wasn't gonna

2222
02:50:33.440 --> 02:50:35.479
bring it up, and you know
that you asked me, and I didn't

2223
02:50:35.479 --> 02:50:37.920
bring it up. But if you
want to depend on Chris and Frankie to

2224
02:50:39.000 --> 02:50:41.639
help you out, then you go
and told me straight up, hurt.

2225
02:50:41.680 --> 02:50:46.239
You told me that I just bring
something up. Your plan is working perfectly

2226
02:50:46.319 --> 02:50:50.719
right now, isn't it. Your
plan is working perfectly. You just sit

2227
02:50:50.840 --> 02:50:54.840
down, you don't say words.
Jeff Hardy, you amongst each other right

2228
02:50:54.120 --> 02:51:00.120
exactly, working perfectly. Let the
fast decide. You think you deserve of

2229
02:51:00.159 --> 02:51:03.239
a shot at the title because you're
Jeff Hardy, because everybody loves Jeff Hardy,

2230
02:51:03.440 --> 02:51:07.319
really and it works for me and
your son les me. I respect

2231
02:51:07.399 --> 02:51:11.079
you more than anybody in the company. What do you want? What do

2232
02:51:11.159 --> 02:51:13.920
you want? Everybody in here has
potential to stop this thing with Bobby.

2233
02:51:15.319 --> 02:51:20.159
Bobby Rude is not a bad thing
because as bad as Bobby Rude may want

2234
02:51:20.200 --> 02:51:22.440
to be in as much as the
fans hate him, you have to see

2235
02:51:22.479 --> 02:51:28.360
the good in Bobby. Bobby Rude
has locked this company down, and he's

2236
02:51:28.399 --> 02:51:31.719
been a constant so that we can
go and explore other avenues and give other

2237
02:51:31.760 --> 02:51:35.920
people chances and do open fight night
and gut check. There's a lot of

2238
02:51:35.000 --> 02:51:39.239
things that are good about Bobby Rude
being champion, but as to the point

2239
02:51:39.319 --> 02:51:43.239
now where he's starting to control the
pace of this company, that's why it

2240
02:51:43.280 --> 02:51:45.920
has to be stopped. As smart, we all know that, of course

2241
02:51:45.959 --> 02:51:48.159
he is, but he has to
be stopped. So that's why I think

2242
02:51:48.239 --> 02:51:52.399
you can beat him. That's why
I think you can beat him. I

2243
02:51:52.479 --> 02:51:54.079
think you can beat him, Jeff
and Bully. I know that you can

2244
02:51:54.120 --> 02:52:00.120
beat him, but for one simple
reason, one simple read. So,

2245
02:52:00.719 --> 02:52:03.120
you haven't won the big one yet. You've only been a single main event

2246
02:52:03.200 --> 02:52:09.840
guy for a year. I'm gonna
eliminate you, Bully. You're not going

2247
02:52:09.879 --> 02:52:22.159
to get the shot. That's your
final decisions. Brother. I think that's

2248
02:52:22.159 --> 02:52:26.559
the right decision. Feels right.
Do you think in your heart that it's

2249
02:52:26.559 --> 02:52:33.200
the right decision? Yeah, yeah, Eric was right about you. Oh

2250
02:52:33.600 --> 02:52:43.399
oh shit, shit, shit shit
thoughts on that it sucks. It's atrocious

2251
02:52:45.159 --> 02:52:50.680
and I mean that was what seven
minutes long? Come on, what do

2252
02:52:50.799 --> 02:52:56.079
they think they're achieving? I mean, I think they're think they think they're

2253
02:52:56.479 --> 02:53:05.239
achieving intrigue, but they don't realize
that they're achieving nothing. I mean,

2254
02:53:05.399 --> 02:53:09.799
lunacy. It's such a bad idea, It's so stupid. I mean,

2255
02:53:09.959 --> 02:53:15.360
I can't imagine the only reason you
end up with something like this is you're

2256
02:53:15.399 --> 02:53:18.200
like forcing yourself to get a whole
COVID on the show as much as possible.

2257
02:53:18.280 --> 02:53:22.799
Because unless that's the mission, I
don't see how you ever arrive at

2258
02:53:22.920 --> 02:53:31.520
this being a good idea, right
agreed. I don't know where they fell

2259
02:53:31.559 --> 02:53:35.319
in love with this notion that,
you know, we need to dramatize the

2260
02:53:35.399 --> 02:53:41.440
way wrestlers in reality get opportunities in
the business. We need to make content,

2261
02:53:41.760 --> 02:53:46.639
and we need to produce segments where
wrestlers re enact what it's like to

2262
02:53:46.760 --> 02:53:50.760
politic I mean, you think wcwan
in two thousands bad? You know,

2263
02:53:50.559 --> 02:53:56.399
I think roosterific television is bad.
I humbly submit that this is just as

2264
02:53:56.520 --> 02:54:01.000
ass backwards. I'm not saying it's
worse than Russo in terms of like his

2265
02:54:01.680 --> 02:54:09.559
lowest common denominator schizophrenia kind of way
of doing shows. And it's pretty bad,

2266
02:54:09.000 --> 02:54:13.399
but it's just it's too clever by
a mile. You know. They

2267
02:54:13.479 --> 02:54:16.319
never actually stop and say, wait, what the fuck? Like we're going

2268
02:54:16.360 --> 02:54:20.840
somewhere, how does this enhance getting
there? How does this enhance the that

2269
02:54:22.000 --> 02:54:24.280
moment that we're all getting to well
this and it doesn't. It's just like

2270
02:54:24.399 --> 02:54:30.959
these it's almost like a commercial in
the middle of impact, you know what

2271
02:54:31.040 --> 02:54:35.399
I mean, It's like a behind
It's like if the behind the scenes feature

2272
02:54:35.440 --> 02:54:39.600
out on a DVD, Yeah,
was sprinkled in the actual movie itself.

2273
02:54:39.200 --> 02:54:45.360
Yeah, the movie just stops and
yeah, I don't know, I don't

2274
02:54:45.360 --> 02:54:48.719
know. I would love everyone's going
to disown it now or blame other people

2275
02:54:48.760 --> 02:54:52.719
for for poor execution. And maybe
I don't know, maybe people somethings this

2276
02:54:52.799 --> 02:54:56.040
good stuff. But I would love
to be able to be a fly on

2277
02:54:56.079 --> 02:54:58.600
the wall when they were conceptualizing this. I mean, I get it,

2278
02:54:58.799 --> 02:55:03.159
he trying. I mean, I
will say this for it I'm not defending

2279
02:55:03.200 --> 02:55:09.200
it. I'm simply stating a fact
that it's different. It is that it

2280
02:55:09.440 --> 02:55:13.280
is an attempt to be more reality
TV. Yeah. Really, it really

2281
02:55:13.399 --> 02:55:16.520
is just like being like, I
agree to produce a show with it with

2282
02:55:16.719 --> 02:55:20.120
Jason right right? Exactly? How
would we do this? Let's do it

2283
02:55:20.200 --> 02:55:22.360
for wrestling? If we were doing
it, if we had, if we

2284
02:55:22.479 --> 02:55:28.680
had, if we had Scott Bayo? Here would you know, Jason,

2285
02:55:28.879 --> 02:55:35.120
let's think about this. How don't
we have we have all this talent.

2286
02:55:35.239 --> 02:55:39.760
We got my son Garrett and get
we get Garrett freaking not gonna do it?

2287
02:55:41.000 --> 02:55:45.920
Please God? We got Hogan.
You know, how would we do

2288
02:55:46.040 --> 02:55:52.360
this if we were pitching it with
Bayo? You, hopefully Eric wouldn't exactly,

2289
02:55:52.319 --> 02:55:54.920
And that's the whole idea, Pal, you wouldn't be pitching it with

2290
02:55:56.079 --> 02:56:05.680
Bayoof. Jeans okay, oh absolutely
please? He he He fucking loves the

2291
02:56:05.399 --> 02:56:11.520
the la business casual, all right, of wearing a fucking wearing jeans,

2292
02:56:13.040 --> 02:56:20.000
you know, some some nice shoes
with a button down shirt tucked in with

2293
02:56:20.120 --> 02:56:26.760
a belt and a blazer. That's
what he loves. That's his dream,

2294
02:56:30.239 --> 02:56:37.079
all right, moron. He doesn't
want to have meetings he wants to take

2295
02:56:37.200 --> 02:56:41.159
meetings exactly. He wants he wants
to have nothing, doesn't want to eat

2296
02:56:41.239 --> 02:56:46.879
lunch. He wants to lunch,
yes, And he wants to dialogue,

2297
02:56:46.920 --> 02:56:52.360
and he wants to exactly. You
know, he wants to conceive story and

2298
02:56:52.920 --> 02:57:00.559
plotline and desire story discipline at the
end of the day, exactly, that's

2299
02:57:00.559 --> 02:57:05.840
what it's all about. Thanks Eric. So, Hogan's trying to recruit the

2300
02:57:05.879 --> 02:57:07.479
guy that can take the world title
off Bobby Rude because this is a real

2301
02:57:07.559 --> 02:57:11.719
problem. We have a champion and
impact post Hogan's arrival, that's had the

2302
02:57:11.760 --> 02:57:16.360
belt for more than four weeks.
This is a fucking emergency. Yeah,

2303
02:57:16.399 --> 02:57:22.000
why are they? Why are What's
He's not doing anything that bad. He's

2304
02:57:22.040 --> 02:57:24.799
just like Bobby Rude, that is, he's just doing whatever he wants every

2305
02:57:24.840 --> 02:57:28.200
week, and he's fighting. He's
a fighting champion. He's defending all the

2306
02:57:28.239 --> 02:57:31.639
time, or at least he's wrestling
all the time. So it's just like,

2307
02:57:31.680 --> 02:57:37.120
I don't know, just because he's
antagonistic towards Whole Cogan and doesn't cow

2308
02:57:37.399 --> 02:57:41.799
cower under Whole Cogan's GM authority,
I don't, Okay, I guess,

2309
02:57:43.040 --> 02:57:46.840
but what we got to do something
about this guy. Qualified. You know,

2310
02:57:46.879 --> 02:57:52.079
I'm not saying Bobby Rude is a
bad thing. He's locked this company

2311
02:57:52.200 --> 02:57:56.680
down, but it's to the point
now where he's starting to control the pace

2312
02:57:56.760 --> 02:58:01.120
of this company. They're actually making
a storyline at a Hogan feeling like he's

2313
02:58:01.159 --> 02:58:07.440
losing the ability to characterize what TNA
is to be so stupid. He's all

2314
02:58:07.479 --> 02:58:13.239
this momentum, like the old way
of doing it. What are you talking

2315
02:58:13.319 --> 02:58:16.559
about? Man? What are you
talking about? It's hard enough to understand

2316
02:58:16.600 --> 02:58:20.680
what Hogan is talking about when he
uses all this all these words you know

2317
02:58:20.680 --> 02:58:24.600
what I mean, and like a
regular interview, but when he's like using

2318
02:58:24.639 --> 02:58:28.719
these euphemisms and essentially a promo,
it is just Maddeningly, it is maddening

2319
02:58:31.040 --> 02:58:33.920
how hard it is to all parts. So, yeah, Bully goes away

2320
02:58:33.959 --> 02:58:37.200
with a puppy dog face and let's
just let's call it a seed planted the

2321
02:58:37.280 --> 02:58:41.440
way he shoots death stare at Hulk
Hogan when Hogan tells him he's not the

2322
02:58:41.520 --> 02:58:46.879
guy, and Bully Ray fires back
with Eric was right about you? Later

2323
02:58:46.000 --> 02:58:48.440
on, Holkan is on the phone, Yes, sir, I made my

2324
02:58:48.520 --> 02:58:52.760
first cut not pretty at all.
He's administrating. Of course, of course

2325
02:58:54.280 --> 02:58:58.079
goes up to angle. You've been
on a crazy roll, this Olympic thing,

2326
02:58:58.239 --> 02:59:01.600
dieting, getting injured away from him
packed, I only doubt dieting.

2327
02:59:03.120 --> 02:59:05.319
Yeah, he was trying to cut
weight to qualify for the Olympic Games,

2328
02:59:05.799 --> 02:59:09.680
right, remember that now, And
a Solar System member was really quick to

2329
02:59:09.719 --> 02:59:13.799
point out and I'm glad they did
when we were talking in our twenty eleven

2330
02:59:13.879 --> 02:59:16.319
coverage around the Bound for Glory main
event and cited that, you know,

2331
02:59:16.399 --> 02:59:20.200
part of Kurt Engle's podcast where he
was talking about the fact that he was

2332
02:59:20.239 --> 02:59:22.760
so lean around this time because he
was getting into, you know, the

2333
02:59:22.840 --> 02:59:26.520
condition they wanted him in for the
Warrior movie. That movie was already in

2334
02:59:26.559 --> 02:59:31.399
the can before he started looking like
this. This was attributed to and I'm

2335
02:59:31.399 --> 02:59:35.159
remembering it now from the research,
him convincing himself that he had a chance

2336
02:59:35.200 --> 02:59:39.799
of making the Olympic team again in
twenty twelve. I remember that. I

2337
02:59:39.879 --> 02:59:41.559
mean, what a goofy fucking thing
to do. And that's you know,

2338
02:59:41.680 --> 02:59:45.040
he has a whole story about how
he heard his leg in a match,

2339
02:59:45.200 --> 02:59:48.600
but I also read that he heard
it training h you know, outside of

2340
02:59:48.639 --> 02:59:52.680
TNA and here's whole cooke in making
reference to it on TNA television. So

2341
02:59:52.760 --> 02:59:56.159
to me that that adds credence to
the idea that Kurt did not injure his

2342
02:59:56.239 --> 02:59:58.760
match doing pro wrestling, his leg, his hamstring doing pro wrestling. He

2343
03:00:00.200 --> 03:00:05.200
it trying to be fucking twenty years
old again for some reason. And it

2344
03:00:05.319 --> 03:00:09.879
was so remarkable how a gold medalist, one of the more celebrated US Olympic

2345
03:00:09.959 --> 03:00:15.840
wrestlers of the nineties, if not
ever right, his story is very inspirational.

2346
03:00:15.920 --> 03:00:18.120
When he won the gold medal in
ninety six was a pretty big story.

2347
03:00:18.879 --> 03:00:20.239
Let alone the fact that he won
a superstar m pro wrestling, and

2348
03:00:20.479 --> 03:00:26.040
no one, no one in the
amateur wrestling community is covering the fact that

2349
03:00:26.120 --> 03:00:28.040
Kurt Angle is telling people, anyone
who listened, that he's training for the

2350
03:00:28.079 --> 03:00:33.159
Olympics again. You would think somebody
that covers you know, the national team

2351
03:00:33.239 --> 03:00:37.319
or somebody that covers the international circuit
and wrestling, would, I don't know,

2352
03:00:37.520 --> 03:00:41.440
do something interview him about it.
And no one, fucking no one

2353
03:00:41.520 --> 03:00:46.760
cares. He's a goof. He's
just physically destroyed. I mean, he's

2354
03:00:46.799 --> 03:00:50.680
twenty years older than he needs to
be to compete. He was an undersized

2355
03:00:50.680 --> 03:00:54.200
heavyweight his whole life, and of
course he's going for heavyweight. So yeah,

2356
03:00:54.600 --> 03:00:58.200
this is a very strange time for
Kurt Angle to say the least.

2357
03:00:58.200 --> 03:01:01.000
And Hogan's talking about it, and
then he turns to Jeff and he says,

2358
03:01:01.040 --> 03:01:03.479
you've been nothing but the consummate professional
since you came back. I was

2359
03:01:03.559 --> 03:01:07.000
listening very closely for that one.
Yeah, right, got to be careful

2360
03:01:07.040 --> 03:01:09.879
with that one. Um Angele says, if you're the guy the fans love,

2361
03:01:09.959 --> 03:01:11.600
picked Jeff, if that's what you
want. If you want the most

2362
03:01:11.639 --> 03:01:13.799
outBut a guy in the company,
pick aj Styles. But if you want

2363
03:01:13.799 --> 03:01:16.040
the guy that we'll get the job
done, pick me. I want the

2364
03:01:16.079 --> 03:01:20.079
most solid guy. Right now,
this is all this continues to play out

2365
03:01:20.120 --> 03:01:22.120
that thing you just played that eight
minute. It's still going in bits and

2366
03:01:22.159 --> 03:01:26.319
pieces throughout the course of this episode
of it's still going. I couldn't.

2367
03:01:26.719 --> 03:01:31.200
I couldn't either. I couldn't believe
how much time they took with this this

2368
03:01:31.399 --> 03:01:35.799
idea. Maybe if it was like
one segment of show right, you could

2369
03:01:35.399 --> 03:01:39.239
really pick a scenario that really fits
this treatment and it'd be memorable. It'd

2370
03:01:39.239 --> 03:01:43.360
be like the the episode of him
the part of Impact every week that you

2371
03:01:43.440 --> 03:01:46.399
know, supposed to give us a
glimpse into something we're not supposed to see.

2372
03:01:46.479 --> 03:01:50.600
But it's just it's just the whole
show with just you know, they

2373
03:01:50.639 --> 03:01:54.399
throw some worker bees out there to
have a fifteen minute match or ten eight

2374
03:01:54.440 --> 03:01:56.639
minute match and do a bunch of
high spots and stuff, and there's great

2375
03:01:56.639 --> 03:02:00.520
matches. You're not great, not
really great, but there's good matches every

2376
03:02:00.520 --> 03:02:07.680
week on Impact. But it's all
just commercials for this shit right Oh so

2377
03:02:07.799 --> 03:02:09.920
embarrassing. That's why Jeff, he
says, you're eliminated. I want the

2378
03:02:09.959 --> 03:02:13.559
most solid guy right now. You're
too shaky for me right now. The

2379
03:02:13.680 --> 03:02:16.280
victories have been too close that you've
been getting lately, and I've got to

2380
03:02:16.319 --> 03:02:18.040
have someone I know I can bet
on one hundred percent and I need one

2381
03:02:18.120 --> 03:02:20.559
more piece of info. I need
to feel what the fans feel. So

2382
03:02:20.639 --> 03:02:24.520
you know what, I'm gonna make
my final decision. I'm gonna call it

2383
03:02:24.600 --> 03:02:28.040
out there in the ring at the
last second. So he comes out and

2384
03:02:28.120 --> 03:02:31.680
root and angle and aj or in
the ring, he says, you know,

2385
03:02:31.760 --> 03:02:35.600
it's been just as intense in the
back here at the Impact Zone as

2386
03:02:35.639 --> 03:02:39.639
it is in the ring. Yeah, the fact that it's just as intense

2387
03:02:39.680 --> 03:02:45.399
back there is the exact problem.
Hulk right. I thought it was going

2388
03:02:45.479 --> 03:02:46.239
to be the toughest decision. But
at the end of the day, whether

2389
03:02:46.280 --> 03:02:48.959
it's Kurt or AJ, I can't
make the wrong decision. Either wants a

2390
03:02:50.040 --> 03:02:52.159
great chance of becoming the new champion. And Kurt says, your track He

2391
03:02:52.159 --> 03:02:56.639
says, Kurt, your track record
is impeccable. AJ, You're one of

2392
03:02:56.680 --> 03:03:01.639
the main You're definitely one of the
main event guys to ever step into that

2393
03:03:01.760 --> 03:03:05.600
role and hold this. I'm sorry, that doesn't make any sense anyway.

2394
03:03:05.600 --> 03:03:09.040
So at the end of the day, I cannot make a wrong decision,

2395
03:03:09.159 --> 03:03:13.520
and I cannot tell a lie because
AJ knows the champ better than anybody.

2396
03:03:13.600 --> 03:03:18.600
I'm going with you AJ on Open
Fight Night. So AJ takes off a

2397
03:03:18.600 --> 03:03:20.760
shirt and jumps up and gets ready, and Kurt Angle isn't mad. He

2398
03:03:20.920 --> 03:03:24.280
DAPs up AJ out of respect and
leaves, and it's Bobby Rood versus AJ

2399
03:03:24.399 --> 03:03:30.040
styles and they show during the match, Hogan backstage at Gorilla with drinks on

2400
03:03:30.120 --> 03:03:33.000
the desk, and you know,
Alice Snow in the background on the headsets,

2401
03:03:33.639 --> 03:03:35.959
and someone comes up to Holkan says, mister Hogan, your guest has

2402
03:03:37.040 --> 03:03:41.280
arrived, and he's all smiles about
that, and during the course of the

2403
03:03:41.319 --> 03:03:43.879
match, it comes down to it. AJ is distracted by the Claire Lynch

2404
03:03:43.959 --> 03:03:50.000
storyline and Dick, Christopher Daniels and
Kassarian doing things every week to get in

2405
03:03:50.079 --> 03:03:52.440
Style's head, so that when he
goes for the springboard for fifty splash,

2406
03:03:52.520 --> 03:03:56.840
he lands across Bobby Rood's knees.
Bobby Rood hits the Fisherman suplex for the

2407
03:03:56.879 --> 03:04:01.399
one two three, retaining his title
of j Styles. On Open Fight Night,

2408
03:04:01.879 --> 03:04:05.280
Rude celebrates with champagne and confetti.
He's now officially, they say,

2409
03:04:05.319 --> 03:04:09.680
the longest reigning champion and TNA history. As a result of that victory and

2410
03:04:09.760 --> 03:04:11.680
hold, Cogan comes out and says, I know you were good. I

2411
03:04:11.719 --> 03:04:15.280
didn't realize how good you really were, and a Bobby Rude hands Hulk the

2412
03:04:15.319 --> 03:04:18.959
flute of champagne, says, I
have to congratulate you, but you know

2413
03:04:18.440 --> 03:04:22.559
much respect, shakes his hand.
Hogan says to Rude, you have done

2414
03:04:22.600 --> 03:04:24.360
things that I never dreamed would be
possible, especially when I showed up at

2415
03:04:24.360 --> 03:04:30.760
Bound for Glory last year took it
away from you, the we want Sting

2416
03:04:30.879 --> 03:04:33.600
chance starts and he says, the
hard work has just begun. They totally

2417
03:04:33.680 --> 03:04:35.200
know what's going to be Sting.
That's one thing at DNA. We heard

2418
03:04:35.200 --> 03:04:39.559
it when when they try to make
a surprise at a Hogan's appearance on that

2419
03:04:39.000 --> 03:04:43.680
England House show, they're chanting Hogan
the second there's any hint that there's a

2420
03:04:43.760 --> 03:04:48.719
mystery guy coming out. They all
know I want to apologize for the later

2421
03:04:48.799 --> 03:04:54.280
arrival and Rud says, I don't
want to wrestle anybody else, and they

2422
03:04:54.319 --> 03:05:01.120
bring him out. Here comes Sting. Are you so excited, dude?

2423
03:05:01.159 --> 03:05:03.920
What why? Let's go out?
And they come back on Stings in there

2424
03:05:03.959 --> 03:05:07.799
and Mike Taney says, and I
quote, oh my god, connect the

2425
03:05:07.920 --> 03:05:13.479
dots. Hogan's special guest has arrived. I'm supposed to be connecting the dots

2426
03:05:13.520 --> 03:05:16.760
all this time. It shouldn't someone
have told me but a goof shouldn't someone

2427
03:05:16.760 --> 03:05:22.799
have equipped me with an official TNA
bingo Connect the Dots scorecard? And Hogan's

2428
03:05:22.840 --> 03:05:26.200
is starting next week impact us a
brand new time slot. This is when

2429
03:05:26.200 --> 03:05:28.760
they moved from nine to eight Eastern
and next week at eight pm on Spike

2430
03:05:28.840 --> 03:05:33.000
TV, he says. He says
the time and the date, like three

2431
03:05:33.079 --> 03:05:37.760
times, I got something special going
on. You can't run from anymore.

2432
03:05:37.920 --> 03:05:41.959
Right at the start, Bobby Rude, I'm gonna surround this ring with Impact

2433
03:05:41.000 --> 03:05:45.879
wrestlers and we're gonna have a little
fashion lumberjack match you and Sting at Impact

2434
03:05:45.959 --> 03:05:50.760
next week at eighty thirty first Impact. That's next. I'm so excited more

2435
03:05:52.120 --> 03:05:56.200
Sting versus Bobby Rude. Can't get
enough. And then that match, Sting

2436
03:05:56.239 --> 03:06:00.239
beats Boby Rude the scoping deathlock.
It's non title taps out, Hogan comes

2437
03:06:00.280 --> 03:06:03.840
out. That is the man that
that's Impacts number one. Man. You

2438
03:06:03.920 --> 03:06:07.399
just got a little piece tonight.
So as general manager, I'm gonna make

2439
03:06:07.440 --> 03:06:09.159
headline news right now. The main
event at Slam of Ursary is going to

2440
03:06:09.200 --> 03:06:16.360
be Rude and Stinger. This program
continues only this time the world titles on

2441
03:06:16.399 --> 03:06:18.280
the line, and this is the
show May thirty first, so far as

2442
03:06:18.280 --> 03:06:24.120
I can tell. The first time, they start teasing Boss that Brook Hogan

2443
03:06:24.239 --> 03:06:28.479
is coming to Impact Wrestling. We
don't know why, we don't know him.

2444
03:06:28.520 --> 03:06:33.239
What role later Hogan is with Taz
We played that in part one,

2445
03:06:33.319 --> 03:06:37.760
appreciates him stepping up for the Gut
Check Challenge, and then Dixie Carter comes

2446
03:06:37.760 --> 03:06:43.840
out halfway to the top of the
hour here on this Live Impact. All

2447
03:06:43.920 --> 03:06:58.239
right, well I'm sorry, okay, don know huh. They make it

2448
03:06:58.319 --> 03:07:01.639
seem so momentous that she's coming out
on this live Impact in a new time.

2449
03:07:01.600 --> 03:07:05.520
So does gonna ask you something?
Say I noticed this. So between

2450
03:07:07.319 --> 03:07:09.239
April twenty six, by the way, and the and the eight and the

2451
03:07:09.559 --> 03:07:13.479
May twenty fourth Impact, Hogan does
nothing, not really of consequence. He

2452
03:07:13.559 --> 03:07:18.479
just does more of it, like
talking to people backstage, because now he's

2453
03:07:18.520 --> 03:07:22.920
doing he's not just doing these backstage
segments for the World title program, He's

2454
03:07:22.920 --> 03:07:26.559
doing it for like three or four
programs an episode. Well he's got a

2455
03:07:26.760 --> 03:07:30.399
season. Charge. You make a
good point, because it's like when I

2456
03:07:30.520 --> 03:07:35.159
started kind of conceptualizing TNH, I
was like, Okay, the best way

2457
03:07:35.239 --> 03:07:37.360
to do it so that we don't
miss any gems is to just do every

2458
03:07:37.440 --> 03:07:41.760
Hogan segment, just comment on every
Hogan segment. And as the years went,

2459
03:07:41.959 --> 03:07:46.440
I was like, wait a minute, this is he is on ninety

2460
03:07:46.479 --> 03:07:48.719
percent of these Impacts in twenty twelve
when he becomes general manager. It's it's

2461
03:07:48.799 --> 03:07:52.280
not tenable and it's not good.
You think this drags it points Oh my

2462
03:07:52.399 --> 03:07:58.799
god, if we did him talking
to like fucking ODB or talking to like

2463
03:07:58.079 --> 03:08:03.959
um the Chavo Guerrero's tag team,
or oh my god, here all day

2464
03:08:03.000 --> 03:08:07.000
and it's the same thing over and
over. And then Brooke just does it

2465
03:08:07.079 --> 03:08:09.600
for the women. She does this
for weeks and months on end, where

2466
03:08:09.639 --> 03:08:13.799
she's meeting in groups with all the
knockouts and trying to make decisions about who

2467
03:08:13.799 --> 03:08:18.000
gets opportunities and hearing about bitching and
complaining and cavetching. I mean, this

2468
03:08:18.159 --> 03:08:22.000
is what they put in the air. This is getting this thing back on

2469
03:08:22.120 --> 03:08:24.520
track, and you realize that this
is what you want as a wrestling fan.

2470
03:08:24.799 --> 03:08:30.159
Yeah here I am. What can
I say? But I'm looking at

2471
03:08:30.200 --> 03:08:35.360
these ratings for twenty twelve and it
tells a much different story. I guess

2472
03:08:35.399 --> 03:08:39.280
those people just didn't know what they
wanted back then. That's right, Dixie

2473
03:08:39.360 --> 03:08:41.600
gets in the ring. What a
great evening. Um do I have?

2474
03:08:43.040 --> 03:08:45.319
No, I don't think I have
the whole thing. It's hard to believe

2475
03:08:45.360 --> 03:08:48.239
that in ten short days, TENA
Wrestling will be ten years old. I'm

2476
03:08:48.239 --> 03:08:52.360
so proud. No one's no one
finds more reasons to mark milestones than Dixie

2477
03:08:52.440 --> 03:08:56.760
Carter. You know what I mean, Like every two weeks she's got some

2478
03:08:56.920 --> 03:09:00.959
new way of trying to make everything
matters so bad. It's like she's trying

2479
03:09:01.000 --> 03:09:05.159
to throw shit that she thinks could
matter right on the wall. If it

2480
03:09:05.280 --> 03:09:09.079
does matter, let's run with it. She's just like she's just stating press

2481
03:09:09.120 --> 03:09:15.079
releases. She's like a press release
speaking machine. That's right. I'm so

2482
03:09:15.200 --> 03:09:16.840
proud of all the success that we've
had. Every man and woman who steps

2483
03:09:16.879 --> 03:09:20.680
into our ring. You've made such
an impact on our success in our business

2484
03:09:20.319 --> 03:09:22.559
and to all you fans, I
don't know what else to say, but

2485
03:09:22.639 --> 03:09:26.520
we would not be here without you. Thank you so much. And actually,

2486
03:09:28.959 --> 03:09:31.440
considering how thin these crowds are getting
at the impact zone, I think

2487
03:09:31.479 --> 03:09:35.879
you would be here without them.
I honestly do. I think you would

2488
03:09:35.920 --> 03:09:39.079
be taking even if they weren't there. I don't think they fucking matter as

2489
03:09:39.159 --> 03:09:41.040
much as you think they do.
A lot of them are paying a dime

2490
03:09:41.120 --> 03:09:43.879
to be there, but they will. On September tenth, Arlington, Texas,

2491
03:09:43.920 --> 03:09:46.760
as they go back on the road
for pay per view, which was

2492
03:09:46.840 --> 03:09:50.360
a positive development but cost them a
shitload of money through twenty twelve and twenty

2493
03:09:50.799 --> 03:09:54.920
eleven, twelve and thirteen Arlington,
Texas Slam Aniversary. It'll be a special

2494
03:09:54.040 --> 03:09:56.920
night, she says, we will
be announcing the very first TNA Wrestling Hall

2495
03:09:58.000 --> 03:10:01.079
of Fame inductee. Just what they
need, a Hall of Fame. Wait

2496
03:10:01.079 --> 03:10:05.040
a minute, you say September.
I thought this didn't happen sooner than then.

2497
03:10:05.159 --> 03:10:09.719
Um, yeah, I don't know. I wrote said September. It

2498
03:10:09.799 --> 03:10:15.799
did happen June June? Yeah,
did she see September when she met June?

2499
03:10:16.239 --> 03:10:20.319
I don't know. Maybe I was
spacing out. Yeah. Just what

2500
03:10:20.399 --> 03:10:26.200
they need, right, a Hall
of Fame. God, I need a

2501
03:10:26.239 --> 03:10:30.159
Hall of fame. You have to
celebrate who who, Who has been dynamic

2502
03:10:30.239 --> 03:10:33.959
in ten years, who's brought us
to essentially the same point we've been in

2503
03:10:35.040 --> 03:10:37.479
for ten You know what I mean. It's like, I know, you

2504
03:10:37.559 --> 03:10:41.600
gotta wait. Basically, it's it's
who's let us down the least. And

2505
03:10:41.760 --> 03:10:45.840
this is the Hall of Fame where
they negotiate a deal with WWE, where

2506
03:10:45.920 --> 03:10:48.799
Rick Flair goes back to get inducted
as the part of the Four Horsemen for

2507
03:10:48.879 --> 03:10:54.120
his second ring and they loan Christian
Cage under w B contract back to t

2508
03:10:54.280 --> 03:10:56.639
NA to make an appearance at Slim
Reversary and accept a Hall of Fame induction.

2509
03:10:58.239 --> 03:11:01.440
Christian Christian being the world Champion of
TENA in two thousand and four,

2510
03:11:03.239 --> 03:11:07.159
unbelievable. What the fuck? Like? What what you guys really didn't get

2511
03:11:07.239 --> 03:11:11.719
much in return? What do you
think you're achieving here? And and it's

2512
03:11:11.760 --> 03:11:15.920
famous because Christian, Like you've never
seen a wrestler broadcast more that they don't

2513
03:11:15.920 --> 03:11:18.600
want to be somewhere than Christian And
that mean wow, I mean the guy

2514
03:11:18.799 --> 03:11:24.280
is just trying to like, what's
the word I'm looking for, poker face

2515
03:11:24.399 --> 03:11:26.600
his way through the whole thing.
He wants to get the fuck out of

2516
03:11:26.600 --> 03:11:31.239
there. He is there under duress, Okay, under protest. But tonight

2517
03:11:31.479 --> 03:11:35.079
Dixie says, it's very special for
us. We're going live all summer long

2518
03:11:35.239 --> 03:11:37.840
and we're kicking it off here tonight. You may have heard about some changes

2519
03:11:37.879 --> 03:11:41.719
going on. One relates to the
knockouts. I have a special place in

2520
03:11:41.799 --> 03:11:43.879
my heart for the girls, as
I know a lot of the guys in

2521
03:11:43.959 --> 03:11:46.440
here do too. That's one way
to put it, yeah, right,

2522
03:11:46.799 --> 03:11:52.520
seriously, been a special place in
their pants for the girls exactly well,

2523
03:11:52.680 --> 03:11:56.120
but specifically the cross thank you.
So a lot of guys right now have

2524
03:11:56.239 --> 03:12:01.680
their hands down their pants all right, waiting, just holding, waiting for

2525
03:12:01.799 --> 03:12:07.959
what huh, waiting waiting to explode. Let's talk about it. Good fucking

2526
03:12:07.079 --> 03:12:11.559
streamers. Yeah, you know when
when people celebrate, but it's a whole

2527
03:12:11.639 --> 03:12:13.959
different thing when Brooke Hogan comes out
and the fucking im bag zone, the

2528
03:12:15.000 --> 03:12:18.680
whole different stream zone of impact.
Ye. And how pathetic is it that

2529
03:12:18.760 --> 03:12:22.239
this is what Stephanie does at Wrestlingmania
thirty two when she unveils the woman's title.

2530
03:12:22.760 --> 03:12:24.440
She's just doing the same thing.
She's like, Okay, people care

2531
03:12:24.479 --> 03:12:28.520
about our women. I'm gonna make
it about me because I'm an executive who

2532
03:12:28.520 --> 03:12:33.280
happens to be a woman, right
and I'm gonna pretend that I uniquely allowed

2533
03:12:33.319 --> 03:12:37.360
this to happen, or you know, made it happen. And where would

2534
03:12:37.399 --> 03:12:41.799
we be think about it? This? Actually, where would we be if

2535
03:12:41.959 --> 03:12:48.440
Vince had had two sons? I
don't know, a much different place you

2536
03:12:48.559 --> 03:12:54.559
think. I mean, we're triple
h you know he's not married into the

2537
03:12:54.600 --> 03:13:00.159
fucking company, right right? You
really think one of its sons is to

2538
03:13:00.200 --> 03:13:03.799
marry a wrestler. You know,
you think someone in the locker room would

2539
03:13:03.799 --> 03:13:07.879
be able to politic their way into
the hierarchy if the gender roles were reversed,

2540
03:13:07.920 --> 03:13:13.040
I doubt it, no way.
You know, there'd be relationships there,

2541
03:13:13.079 --> 03:13:15.040
but there would also, you know, then be fourteen million dollars to

2542
03:13:15.079 --> 03:13:18.879
settlements we'll find out about in the
Decade's correct? Fucking that's exactly right.

2543
03:13:20.319 --> 03:13:24.120
And yeah, so Dixie's out there. We've got the best female wrestlers in

2544
03:13:24.120 --> 03:13:26.120
the world, and we want to
take them to a whole other level.

2545
03:13:26.159 --> 03:13:28.319
There's a lot of taking to a
whole other level. And the show looks

2546
03:13:28.360 --> 03:13:31.840
exactly the same. It's like people
telling you you're going up in the elevator,

2547
03:13:31.879 --> 03:13:33.399
but every time the door's open,
it's the same floor. That's DNA.

2548
03:13:37.040 --> 03:13:39.440
I need someone working on that with
me, she says. When I

2549
03:13:39.479 --> 03:13:41.799
looked around, I realized this person
was under my nose. The last few

2550
03:13:41.920 --> 03:13:46.239
years, she's been born into the
business, surrounded by the best minds this

2551
03:13:46.360 --> 03:13:50.520
industry has ever had, and every
conversation we've had with her, her enthusiasm

2552
03:13:50.600 --> 03:13:54.239
and her passion for what we do, her outside the box, thinking,

2553
03:13:54.399 --> 03:13:58.440
yeah, that's one way to put
it all these guys want to think inside

2554
03:13:58.479 --> 03:14:01.360
her box. Ironically, stay hand
up, she says, and help me.

2555
03:14:01.440 --> 03:14:05.000
Welcome. Are you ready for this
job? Title? Boss general manager

2556
03:14:05.079 --> 03:14:09.239
for Hulk is one thing. What's
a Brooks title? I don't remember?

2557
03:14:09.799 --> 03:14:20.319
Executive in charge of the knockouts division? Brother? Is she gettig better title

2558
03:14:20.360 --> 03:14:24.079
than me? Can we um?
Can we take five? Everybody? Thank

2559
03:14:24.159 --> 03:14:30.360
you? Why Dixie? Brother?
Why is brook tin you got a better

2560
03:14:30.399 --> 03:14:33.079
title than I do? Do?
E? I see? Dude? I

2561
03:14:33.159 --> 03:14:35.639
mean, what's going on? Are
you? Are you farming? Brother?

2562
03:14:35.920 --> 03:14:39.760
Right? I mean, if if
there's a problem with my job performance,

2563
03:14:39.840 --> 03:14:41.959
we can talk, Dixie. But
to bring in a member of my own

2564
03:14:43.040 --> 03:14:46.920
family, and you know sort of
you know, vault past me. I'm

2565
03:14:46.159 --> 03:14:48.639
left thinking, no, what am
I? I'm here gesturing with my hands,

2566
03:14:48.799 --> 03:14:52.120
my watch hand, it's going out. You know you've been talking to

2567
03:14:52.200 --> 03:14:58.399
Linda, dude? Did you have
you? You know? Her courage?

2568
03:14:58.479 --> 03:15:01.280
Is that what the sea stands for? Any? I see, brother,

2569
03:15:01.760 --> 03:15:03.559
brother, you've been fucking her boyfriend? Dude? Right exactly, You've been

2570
03:15:03.600 --> 03:15:09.000
fucking Charlie Hill. Dude. I
heard you said you're gonna bring in Charlie

2571
03:15:09.040 --> 03:15:13.200
Hoss. Do you mean Charlie Hill. Dude, what do you how many

2572
03:15:13.280 --> 03:15:18.760
Charlie's you bring an in brother,
Charlie Horse right now, dude, that

2573
03:15:18.920 --> 03:15:20.600
would have been a fucking moment and
impact. You have Hogan in the ring

2574
03:15:20.719 --> 03:15:24.280
cutting of promo and Charlie Hill comes
out of the crowd and beats the ship

2575
03:15:24.360 --> 03:15:28.079
out of him. Now we're talking
Charlie Hill Horse right now, dude.

2576
03:15:28.079 --> 03:15:31.200
If Hogan was really about business in
TNA, he would have had his He

2577
03:15:31.200 --> 03:15:35.799
would have had Linda come in and
like, you know, try to fucking

2578
03:15:35.879 --> 03:15:39.360
ruin his life on TV. Absolutely
would have been great. Done business.

2579
03:15:39.360 --> 03:15:41.120
She said, you're a bit grave. Heel Jesus Christ. Look at the

2580
03:15:41.159 --> 03:15:46.079
woman. Imagine that she comes out
and like makes out with Charlie Hill every

2581
03:15:46.120 --> 03:15:54.000
week on TV to fuck with absolutely
splints people off so much, all right,

2582
03:15:54.040 --> 03:15:56.440
or you could just swap out Charlie. Charlie could be there, you

2583
03:15:56.479 --> 03:15:58.879
know, just for but you could
swap out for you know, actual rest.

2584
03:16:00.159 --> 03:16:01.920
She'll make out with the wrestler and
everyone want to see him get his

2585
03:16:01.959 --> 03:16:09.719
ass beat like edge with Leda and
h Brook comes out. Okay, there's

2586
03:16:09.719 --> 03:16:13.120
another sign in the crowd. Brook
equals ratings that one brought to you by

2587
03:16:13.159 --> 03:16:18.239
the sign Factory Farm on retainer that
the Bishop Hogan regime seemed to always be

2588
03:16:18.280 --> 03:16:22.959
able to surface. And Brook comes
out in the IMPACTSZ to one of her

2589
03:16:22.000 --> 03:16:30.040
own songs, looking exactly like her
mom, exactly with curled blond hair and

2590
03:16:30.120 --> 03:16:33.559
a tight black dress, and Mike
Taney says, from television personality to recording

2591
03:16:33.639 --> 03:16:37.479
artist to movie roles, Brooke has
accomplished so much in the entertainment business at

2592
03:16:37.520 --> 03:16:43.440
such a young age that all stops
to accomplished. I don't know if i'd

2593
03:16:43.479 --> 03:16:48.040
call her rugal roles accomplishments. And
the fact that she's out here and drawn

2594
03:16:48.079 --> 03:16:50.879
a tnheck tells you all you need
to know about how much legs that thing.

2595
03:16:50.040 --> 03:16:54.559
She's got no accomplishments. All right, she gets another ring pack on

2596
03:16:54.600 --> 03:17:00.559
a chick pack on the chip's she's
she's runner on fumes here. Yeah,

2597
03:17:01.000 --> 03:17:03.600
I think that's right. She just
doesn't care, you know. It's like

2598
03:17:03.680 --> 03:17:07.120
that. That's the thing. I
don't know if she would. If she

2599
03:17:07.200 --> 03:17:09.760
did care, that she'd be getting
more opportunities. But I don't know.

2600
03:17:09.760 --> 03:17:11.879
I just I see in Brook Hogan
here it's just like, all right,

2601
03:17:11.879 --> 03:17:15.159
I'll do it like I don't.
I don't really care. Yeah, she

2602
03:17:15.239 --> 03:17:18.239
does seem very chill. We I
mean again, you know that that seems

2603
03:17:18.280 --> 03:17:22.200
to be much more of a vibe
than I really expected of her. Yeah,

2604
03:17:22.239 --> 03:17:26.559
you expect her to be a total
nightmare. Dixie says, I remember

2605
03:17:28.000 --> 03:17:30.159
when I called and asked you if
you would do this. The first thing

2606
03:17:30.239 --> 03:17:33.799
you said was yes, But what
was the second? Brooks says, You're

2607
03:17:33.799 --> 03:17:37.200
gonna tell my dad, You tell
my dad? O God, and then

2608
03:17:37.239 --> 03:17:41.000
Dixie says, he's been very supportive. It was us girl power talking about

2609
03:17:41.000 --> 03:17:45.280
the most important girls in wrestling business
today. You've excite me when we talk

2610
03:17:45.319 --> 03:17:48.319
about this and looking forward to all
you're going to do for us. There's

2611
03:17:48.319 --> 03:17:52.399
some polite applause and Brooks's Dixie,
seriously, this is amazing. Thank you

2612
03:17:52.479 --> 03:17:56.159
so much for this opportunity. Women
love that word opportunity. I've noticed in

2613
03:17:56.280 --> 03:18:03.360
Run they loved all the They always
what opportunity like in um in entertainment,

2614
03:18:03.399 --> 03:18:07.079
you know, incredible opportunity, Like
an opportunity came across my desk. This

2615
03:18:07.200 --> 03:18:09.719
opportunity I can't pass up. You
know, I have a family, but

2616
03:18:09.799 --> 03:18:15.399
there's an opportunity. It's like,
yeah, family comes second. To opportunity.

2617
03:18:15.680 --> 03:18:18.799
All the Butt of Murray shows,
like the the Bella is like,

2618
03:18:18.920 --> 03:18:22.639
oh my god, an opportunity,
Like I want to I want to finally

2619
03:18:22.760 --> 03:18:26.520
settle down and set on my white
couch, but someone wants to put my

2620
03:18:26.639 --> 03:18:30.399
name on a bottle of wine.
It's an opportunity. Wants to give me

2621
03:18:30.440 --> 03:18:37.639
an opportunity. It's so annoying of
things. Was that for things chances to

2622
03:18:37.719 --> 03:18:43.079
expand my brand and oh fucking the
opportunity. They mean a twice a month

2623
03:18:43.479 --> 03:18:48.159
zoom call, that's what they mean. Basically, Basically, an opportunity is

2624
03:18:48.239 --> 03:18:52.799
something that requires as little work as
possible to earn money. That's when an

2625
03:18:52.799 --> 03:18:56.799
opportunity is come on. It's something
that like you can call work, but

2626
03:18:56.000 --> 03:19:00.840
like you'll get the same result whether
you work or don't at it because they're

2627
03:19:00.879 --> 03:19:05.200
just licensing your In fact, you're
actually going to get more by not doing

2628
03:19:05.239 --> 03:19:11.239
anything exactly exactly yeah, because opportunity
suggests that you didn't source it, that

2629
03:19:11.360 --> 03:19:13.280
it just fell into your lap,
you know. So it's like how much

2630
03:19:13.639 --> 03:19:16.680
I mean, you deserve credit for
building your name up such that anybody would

2631
03:19:16.680 --> 03:19:22.959
consider you for licensing. But it's
kind of funny, like but it's an

2632
03:19:22.959 --> 03:19:26.719
opportunity. I mean, the opportunity
is to get something for nothing. Exactly.

2633
03:19:26.840 --> 03:19:31.680
That's the opportunity. On my grind, there's I have to like spend

2634
03:19:31.760 --> 03:19:37.319
an hour looking at like designs of
like a sweater or a wine bottle,

2635
03:19:37.719 --> 03:19:41.799
or floor plans or you know,
Oh everybody like nods because I picked this

2636
03:19:43.000 --> 03:19:46.719
light lighting fixture for the office.
You know, fucking get the fuck out

2637
03:19:46.760 --> 03:19:50.239
of here. I'm so over that
shit. So thanks for welcoming. I'm

2638
03:19:50.280 --> 03:19:54.399
just going on a total. The
engineer's nothing, she said. It's the

2639
03:19:54.440 --> 03:20:01.959
word opportunity. Fucking mind good.
It takes, it's all. It fucking

2640
03:20:01.040 --> 03:20:07.159
takes opportunities. It's an opportunity for
an opportunity. See if you can't like

2641
03:20:07.399 --> 03:20:11.200
that, tell them if you can't
explain the opportunity that it's not an opportunity.

2642
03:20:11.440 --> 03:20:15.280
But here's the thing. Have you
ever had an opportunity for an opportunity?

2643
03:20:15.319 --> 03:20:18.639
Exactly right, there's an opportunity to
get an opportunity to do something opportunistic.

2644
03:20:20.799 --> 03:20:22.399
And thanks for welcoming me with open
arms. I have I have an

2645
03:20:22.440 --> 03:20:30.840
opportunistic mentality for opportunities, that's right. And I've got guaranteed money for your

2646
03:20:30.920 --> 03:20:35.040
guaranteed disappointment. A wise man once
said that, and thanks for welcoming me

2647
03:20:35.159 --> 03:20:39.319
with open arms. I guess she
tells the impact, Faithful. I know

2648
03:20:39.719 --> 03:20:41.479
how much the knockouts mean to you. I know you're all about girl power

2649
03:20:41.559 --> 03:20:45.639
and you want them to be seen
as wonderful, beautiful, talented women.

2650
03:20:45.680 --> 03:20:48.639
I love this just as much as
you do. How much for that,

2651
03:20:48.799 --> 03:20:50.159
Dbrook, because I don't love it
that much. I mean, I don't

2652
03:20:50.239 --> 03:20:56.959
fucking care. I mean I have
listen, I don't I these women have

2653
03:20:58.079 --> 03:21:01.280
not elevated themselves to the level for
them part that I've seen of Yeah,

2654
03:21:03.079 --> 03:21:05.440
what I know women can do in
wrestling, Well, we haven't spent a

2655
03:21:05.479 --> 03:21:09.040
lot of time on the women in
Tnah. She just doesn't fit. But

2656
03:21:09.159 --> 03:21:13.399
yeah, they were way better than
ww's women in twenty ten, twelve nine.

2657
03:21:13.639 --> 03:21:18.239
Absolutely, they were given chances to
have matches, commenced all the stuff

2658
03:21:18.239 --> 03:21:22.200
that WW decided to have this epiphany
and do in like twenty fifteen, TNA

2659
03:21:22.319 --> 03:21:26.959
did six years before that. That's
that's facts. Absolutely, Okay, great

2660
03:21:28.280 --> 03:21:30.559
love it. Yeah, it was
great. I mean it was they were

2661
03:21:30.639 --> 03:21:35.159
putting women in main events on TV
GA Gail Kim in awesome Kong had one

2662
03:21:35.159 --> 03:21:37.840
of the best feuds in TNA history. Men or women. Um, yeah,

2663
03:21:37.959 --> 03:21:41.840
so they really did. They they
really took women who were just like

2664
03:21:43.680 --> 03:21:48.120
either weren't getting welcome to WW because
they were still in the model mode over

2665
03:21:48.159 --> 03:21:52.319
there in terms of their hiring,
or left WW because they were so sick

2666
03:21:52.360 --> 03:21:56.920
of it being about Like Gail Kim
totally left because she was basically sick of

2667
03:21:56.319 --> 03:22:01.360
the objectification part of everything. And
you know, just the whole attitude they

2668
03:22:01.399 --> 03:22:05.360
had towards the female performers, right, that's the whole Aaron, Nikki and

2669
03:22:05.440 --> 03:22:07.799
Bree like they like to tell the
story about how they broke through that,

2670
03:22:07.920 --> 03:22:09.760
how they like they were hired for
that exact reason. But they were around

2671
03:22:09.840 --> 03:22:13.840
when suddenly it was like, just
keep telling yourselves that, honey. You

2672
03:22:13.920 --> 03:22:18.399
know, I think they did a
very good job, and they were big

2673
03:22:18.479 --> 03:22:20.840
contributors to the industry and bringing a
new audience to the table, and they

2674
03:22:20.879 --> 03:22:24.840
work hard and everything, but they
just weren't great wrestlers, and so to

2675
03:22:24.920 --> 03:22:28.600
act like they ushered in the era
of women having great matches, it's fucking

2676
03:22:28.719 --> 03:22:33.280
hiarious to me. Right, just
weren't good wrestlers. I mean, listen,

2677
03:22:33.399 --> 03:22:35.799
we know we know who, the
we know who, the who,

2678
03:22:35.920 --> 03:22:39.040
the the the bridge and the gap
was because she's still there trying to fucking

2679
03:22:39.120 --> 03:22:46.200
matter, Natty Daddy. Yeah,
she's the one. I mean, she's

2680
03:22:46.280 --> 03:22:50.319
probably the first one of this.
More of the like kind of a turn

2681
03:22:50.520 --> 03:22:52.559
for me. Anyway that I noticed
was like, oh, look, she's

2682
03:22:52.559 --> 03:22:54.680
a fucking you know, she's wrestling. It's a really good call. But

2683
03:22:54.760 --> 03:22:58.399
she saw the whole thing clearly got
hired because she could do that. She's

2684
03:22:58.479 --> 03:23:00.360
you know, I don't say she's
an ugly woman, but she's not.

2685
03:23:00.879 --> 03:23:03.399
She doesn't have the characteristics that they
were looking for then, not at all.

2686
03:23:03.520 --> 03:23:07.159
And they allowed her to go out
there and just work and and you

2687
03:23:07.239 --> 03:23:11.200
know, and now she still tries
to matter, wearing her little works there,

2688
03:23:11.239 --> 03:23:13.559
doesn't she haven't seen her le she
must be hurt. Yeah, she

2689
03:23:13.639 --> 03:23:16.959
took that knee in the face from
Shana. She ain't it broke her fucking

2690
03:23:16.040 --> 03:23:20.000
nose on SmackDown. Oh wow,
I don't know that. Yeah, with

2691
03:23:20.079 --> 03:23:24.239
a knee by mistake. And then
yeah, Laddie, she did the honors

2692
03:23:24.280 --> 03:23:28.920
for Charlotte and NXT that match where
Brett was in her corner and flair Rick

2693
03:23:28.079 --> 03:23:31.319
was in Charlotte's corner before Charlotte had
you know, ever won a title,

2694
03:23:31.840 --> 03:23:35.120
and a lot of ways, that
was like a passing of that kind of

2695
03:23:35.159 --> 03:23:37.040
guard too, now that I think
about it, that that was one of

2696
03:23:37.079 --> 03:23:39.680
the first matches where I was like, Okay, if they want to,

2697
03:23:39.840 --> 03:23:43.959
they can have female mainte of enters
like this. This is proving it on

2698
03:23:43.040 --> 03:23:46.360
a small scale before the NXT soundstage
crowd. I get it. But by

2699
03:23:46.399 --> 03:23:50.280
the time it was over here like
no, that's probably just as good of

2700
03:23:50.319 --> 03:23:52.760
a reaction as any two male maine
of enters on main roster would get scaled

2701
03:23:52.840 --> 03:23:58.040
up. So very interesting to put
your finger on Natty there. But um,

2702
03:23:58.680 --> 03:24:01.200
Brooke here says, I know I
have some big yellow boots to fill.

2703
03:24:01.280 --> 03:24:05.079
I'm taking this so seriously. This
is so close to my heart.

2704
03:24:05.120 --> 03:24:07.920
I just can't thank you enough.
I'm gonna work my butt off. And

2705
03:24:09.319 --> 03:24:11.559
everyone in t Anda says thank you
before we say thing, you know,

2706
03:24:11.760 --> 03:24:13.120
they say thank you back before we
say thank you to that. Right,

2707
03:24:13.159 --> 03:24:18.760
we're just sitting here like waiting for
a reason to care. What're you gonna

2708
03:24:18.799 --> 03:24:20.760
do? Like, what do we
whatever? What what is she doing?

2709
03:24:20.840 --> 03:24:24.639
What what you gonna do? What
are you saying, why what you're gonna

2710
03:24:24.680 --> 03:24:26.440
do? Why do you say that, dude, what you're gonna do?

2711
03:24:26.520 --> 03:24:30.520
Broke, what do you what?
Well, she just says, We're gonna

2712
03:24:30.559 --> 03:24:33.399
have a lot of fun, ladies
and gentlemen, Brook Hogan, and then

2713
03:24:33.440 --> 03:24:37.159
her song June seventh, Impact,
Hogan backs, don't really sad. I'm

2714
03:24:37.200 --> 03:24:39.799
really sad by the way that this
person did not respond back to me.

2715
03:24:41.159 --> 03:24:43.719
Yeah. I think they get that
you're having some fun with them. You're

2716
03:24:43.760 --> 03:24:50.200
clearly not a senior citizen that will
nail them your social security information. Hogan's

2717
03:24:50.200 --> 03:24:52.600
backstage, it's not careful what you
wish for, it to be careful what

2718
03:24:52.639 --> 03:24:56.639
you accept. That's how old words
of wisdom for the week. L Cogan

2719
03:24:58.280 --> 03:25:03.360
GM great idea. See aj what's
up with that Bobby Rude dominating? Someone

2720
03:25:03.440 --> 03:25:05.000
has to stop him. Brooke,
I love you, but you accepted the

2721
03:25:05.079 --> 03:25:09.479
job. You're the executive in charge. But be careful what you accept,

2722
03:25:09.879 --> 03:25:13.559
he says to no one all particular, and then backstage, Brooke, Oh

2723
03:25:13.680 --> 03:25:16.680
here I got that. Actually that
that thing leading into the Brooke Okay,

2724
03:25:16.760 --> 03:25:24.000
yeah, yeah, I have this
one here. It is it's not be

2725
03:25:24.079 --> 03:25:26.319
careful what you wish for, it's
be careful what you accept. Caul Coke

2726
03:25:26.760 --> 03:25:31.079
brother, your great idea? Fixy
aj? What's up with that Bobby Rude

2727
03:25:31.079 --> 03:25:35.559
dominating? Somebody's gonna stop him.
You know something, Brooke, I love

2728
03:25:35.600 --> 03:25:39.680
you, but you accepted the job. You're the executive charge. I know

2729
03:25:39.719 --> 03:25:43.520
you're gonna do a great job,
but be careful what you accept because now

2730
03:25:43.600 --> 03:25:46.600
it's game one. It's game on, Brooks. I love you calling my

2731
03:25:46.680 --> 03:25:54.159
name. Oh knock knock, Hi, girls, you look beautiful. Look

2732
03:25:54.200 --> 03:25:56.399
at these outfits. Oh my god, these bodies. You guys look great.

2733
03:25:58.440 --> 03:26:01.799
I wanted to introduce myself because I
haven't had a chance to formally introduce

2734
03:26:01.879 --> 03:26:05.719
myself and say hi, and look
at you guys face to facebook. You

2735
03:26:05.799 --> 03:26:07.799
guys are even more beautiful in person. Oh my goodness, thank you.

2736
03:26:09.360 --> 03:26:13.200
I wanted to say thank you for
letting me work alongside you guys. I'm

2737
03:26:13.239 --> 03:26:16.440
so honored, I'm so excited,
and I just wanted to quickly come in

2738
03:26:16.479 --> 03:26:20.079
here wish you guys good luck.
I am putting you guys in a four

2739
03:26:20.200 --> 03:26:24.079
way match tonight to see who's going
to be the number one contender. Yeah,

2740
03:26:26.159 --> 03:26:30.200
so that's good news. Do you
guys get to do? Get out

2741
03:26:30.239 --> 03:26:33.600
I'm excited because you guys are tough. You right knock me out. So

2742
03:26:33.920 --> 03:26:37.360
anyways, I just want to wish
you good luck. You guys are beautiful.

2743
03:26:37.520 --> 03:26:41.360
Thank you hair makeup and your girly
stuff. And I'll see you out

2744
03:26:41.399 --> 03:26:45.559
there. Okay, thank you?
All right? Oh, one more thing.

2745
03:26:46.319 --> 03:26:48.520
I know that I told you guys
that I was going to be getting

2746
03:26:48.520 --> 03:26:52.840
you guys media opportunities and things kind
of outside the wrestling business to make you

2747
03:26:52.920 --> 03:26:56.200
guys even bigger stars. And the
first opportunity, even though I love all

2748
03:26:56.239 --> 03:26:58.399
of you guys, first opportunity,
though, is going to you, Miss

2749
03:26:58.520 --> 03:27:03.200
velvet Um. I talked to Montgomery
Gentry and they want you in their new

2750
03:27:03.280 --> 03:27:11.000
music videos. So yeah, she's
really good. Yeah. So after after

2751
03:27:11.120 --> 03:27:15.120
this rins off, get all that
sweat off, and pack up your stuff.

2752
03:27:15.120 --> 03:27:16.799
I got a learjette waiting for you, and you're gonna go shooting.

2753
03:27:16.959 --> 03:27:26.879
Wow, brother, thank you.
How am I supposed to feel after that?

2754
03:27:26.959 --> 03:27:28.879
I don't. I mean, I'm
trying to keep myself in check.

2755
03:27:28.920 --> 03:27:33.760
I'm trying to not you know what
I mean. I mean, it's it's

2756
03:27:33.079 --> 03:27:37.319
listen, I think she's she she
kind of speaks a little too much.

2757
03:27:37.399 --> 03:27:41.200
Okay, yep, Brook, I
think she's fine. Yep, agreed.

2758
03:27:41.719 --> 03:27:46.559
I think she's perfectly fine. You
know, she sounds like, uh,

2759
03:27:46.879 --> 03:27:50.639
you know, kind of a general
manager type kind of first thing. I'm

2760
03:27:50.639 --> 03:27:54.239
the job day one in, since
day one type thing. You know,

2761
03:27:54.399 --> 03:28:01.000
Hey, you guys look beautiful.
Everyone's everybody da da da you look so

2762
03:28:01.079 --> 03:28:03.239
oh my god, you guys could
beat me. I've only been here one

2763
03:28:03.319 --> 03:28:07.079
day and everyone's so nice. I
feel like I'm part of the family already.

2764
03:28:07.440 --> 03:28:09.680
Right, So I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I

2765
03:28:11.280 --> 03:28:20.920
don't think I I I think it's
stupid too. I don't like the music

2766
03:28:22.040 --> 03:28:26.319
video thing. Now. She set
up at these outside of wrestling opportunities,

2767
03:28:26.719 --> 03:28:28.639
right, I don't get away.
Sorry, I know, right, seriously,

2768
03:28:30.680 --> 03:28:31.879
I don't like that. I'm like, you know, how about we

2769
03:28:33.000 --> 03:28:39.319
do some within wrestling opportunities first?
How about they matter in the wrestling ring?

2770
03:28:39.680 --> 03:28:43.200
Right, we go from there and
then right, because I don't think

2771
03:28:43.200 --> 03:28:46.200
anyone gives a shit that velvet skies
in a music video, here's another chance

2772
03:28:46.280 --> 03:28:52.280
to I've never heard before exactly exactly, guys, have another thing that'll make

2773
03:28:52.319 --> 03:28:56.559
you too grand and then you sign
away your your likeness and rights for the

2774
03:28:56.600 --> 03:28:58.799
rest of your life. Right,
But because we pay for your food and

2775
03:29:00.040 --> 03:29:05.239
brands, you feel like royalty.
Let's fucking go. Yeah, I assume

2776
03:29:05.280 --> 03:29:07.559
there was something going on because I
remember I did see a look from Mickey

2777
03:29:07.680 --> 03:29:15.319
James during the uh the music video
thing. Um, but I think all,

2778
03:29:15.520 --> 03:29:16.360
I don't think she's in the room. I don't think Mickey is among

2779
03:29:16.399 --> 03:29:18.639
the women in the room, and
that I'm pretty sure she is when she

2780
03:29:20.120 --> 03:29:28.040
because I'm pretty sure I remember her
getting yeah when she when she mentioned the

2781
03:29:28.120 --> 03:29:30.879
music video. I like that.
I don't know if that was I don't

2782
03:29:30.879 --> 03:29:33.600
know that plays out at all,
but I remember, I'm sure, I'm

2783
03:29:33.639 --> 03:29:35.840
sure not with us, not with
us. Almost it turns out that,

2784
03:29:37.120 --> 03:29:39.239
you know, Brooke gets fucking manhandled
by Mickey or something. Does Brook belong

2785
03:29:39.319 --> 03:29:41.920
and Impact is it? Does it
make sense to use her? In your

2786
03:29:41.920 --> 03:29:46.399
opinion? I mean, does it
make sense to user? I mean I

2787
03:29:46.479 --> 03:29:50.520
think it does in what in what
way do you mean? Well? To

2788
03:29:50.639 --> 03:29:56.799
me, it's like Impact is almost
obliged to do whatever they can and exercise

2789
03:29:56.879 --> 03:30:00.239
any option available to them to put
people on TV that you might have heard

2790
03:30:00.280 --> 03:30:03.520
of, you know, and not
not to do corny one off angles but

2791
03:30:03.639 --> 03:30:05.799
like when they use the Jersey Shore
people. I wasn't barish on that.

2792
03:30:05.879 --> 03:30:09.200
I got it. You know,
It's like, these are people that someone

2793
03:30:09.280 --> 03:30:13.479
has heard of, that you know, that is willing to do something on

2794
03:30:13.520 --> 03:30:16.280
our TV show. And I feel
like Brooke fit more of that category than

2795
03:30:16.879 --> 03:30:18.920
Yeah. I mean, if you
could, if you could, if you

2796
03:30:18.000 --> 03:30:22.000
get the money to splurge and you
can do it, you might as well.

2797
03:30:22.600 --> 03:30:26.239
And I mean, you know,
Brooks, Brooke had a you know,

2798
03:30:26.280 --> 03:30:28.680
obviously a little bit of notoriety at
the time. I don't know how

2799
03:30:28.760 --> 03:30:30.920
many more eyes she was going to
put on the fucking product. Yeah,

2800
03:30:30.920 --> 03:30:33.200
I think it was worth finding out. It turned out to be like zero.

2801
03:30:33.399 --> 03:30:35.399
But yeah, you know, I
get. I mean, you know

2802
03:30:35.559 --> 03:30:37.079
she fits in. I mean,
look, look, you're desperate, She's

2803
03:30:37.120 --> 03:30:41.079
desperate. Come on, right,
We're all good. That's right, speaking

2804
03:30:41.200 --> 03:30:43.799
desperate back and then Rina Hoggans music
comes off and there is full flex pyro

2805
03:30:43.920 --> 03:30:46.639
shower. Yeah here and I got, I got. I got this to

2806
03:30:46.719 --> 03:30:52.559
celebrate the tenth anniversary of Impactful Wrestling
Conniversary Go home rather here we go,

2807
03:30:52.760 --> 03:31:01.879
dude. This is a party here. It starts tonight because this is the

2808
03:31:03.079 --> 03:31:28.479
ten year anniversary for Impact Rustling guys, and when you talk about party and

2809
03:31:28.879 --> 03:31:33.280
he Impact stars in the back and
all of us here. We're starting tonight.

2810
03:31:33.760 --> 03:31:37.280
The party's going all the way through. This weekend is Slam Anniversary and

2811
03:31:37.399 --> 03:31:43.040
it's ending up next week right here
live on Impact Rustling. The parties on

2812
03:31:43.520 --> 03:32:03.360
Brothers and as a special supplies as
a special gift next week right here on

2813
03:32:03.440 --> 03:32:09.520
Impact Wrestling Thursday Live, We're going
to defend the world title right here live.

2814
03:32:09.840 --> 03:32:13.639
No matter who we're going to defend. Wait, brother, what is

2815
03:32:13.680 --> 03:32:22.479
that? Even me? Who?
Huh? Bobby Rude out and in fact

2816
03:32:22.559 --> 03:32:24.559
or T shirt he's now the longest
reigning champ. I got a great idea,

2817
03:32:24.600 --> 03:32:28.440
Hogan. Why don't you shut your
mouth, he says, and show

2818
03:32:28.479 --> 03:32:31.319
me the world champs in respect?
Hogan Chance going off, Hogan making the

2819
03:32:31.360 --> 03:32:35.840
skeptical stash face. Who over the
last several weeks, he says, nothing

2820
03:32:35.879 --> 03:32:37.840
but disrespect. Starting a few weeks
ago when I became the longest reigning world

2821
03:32:37.920 --> 03:32:43.360
champ in history of your company and
you ruin my celebration and Hogan goes Bobby

2822
03:32:43.479 --> 03:32:46.799
Rude and Rude cuts him off.
I'm not done. Then last week you

2823
03:32:46.879 --> 03:32:48.360
surround the ring with a bunch of
Lumberjackson put me in there with the icon

2824
03:32:48.479 --> 03:32:52.399
sting and then tonight in a six
man tag, only three days from walking

2825
03:32:52.440 --> 03:32:56.319
to the main event defending my world
title against Ding Hogan. Let me tell

2826
03:32:56.440 --> 03:32:58.920
I'm not done yet. Wow.
Now I come to find out after I'd

2827
03:32:58.920 --> 03:33:01.639
be sting this Sunday that I got
to come back here Thursday and defend once

2828
03:33:01.680 --> 03:33:05.920
again Hogan. That's the way it
goes. I said, I'm not done

2829
03:33:05.000 --> 03:33:09.200
yet, and he slaps the mic
out of Hogan's hand. You see,

2830
03:33:09.239 --> 03:33:11.840
Hogan, I figured you out.
Okay, Robert and Rude, we'll see

2831
03:33:11.879 --> 03:33:15.719
about that, right. Come on, dude, you hold Cogan are jealous

2832
03:33:15.760 --> 03:33:20.959
of Bobby Rude, he says,
and Hogan goes Brother Boof looks at the

2833
03:33:22.000 --> 03:33:24.760
side, Hoof dash. You know
even in your prime, you couldn't even

2834
03:33:24.840 --> 03:33:28.319
lace my wrestling boots face to the
side. I Hogan loving it. I'm

2835
03:33:28.360 --> 03:33:31.879
the better wrestler. I'm the world
champion and in world champion than you ever

2836
03:33:31.959 --> 03:33:33.639
were. And I suggest you get
your general manager asked back to your office,

2837
03:33:33.799 --> 03:33:37.479
and seeing you're not an active wrestler, grabs Hogan by the shirt.

2838
03:33:37.600 --> 03:33:41.440
Now does Bobby Rude get the hell
out of my ring Brother and stings music

2839
03:33:41.520 --> 03:33:46.799
hit Hogan smiles and Rude's face.
Um, he comes out with the job

2840
03:33:46.000 --> 03:33:50.559
paint And when did he get back
to Joker wearing the paint? But he

2841
03:33:50.600 --> 03:33:54.799
stopped doing the character? You tell
me? I mean, I thought he

2842
03:33:54.959 --> 03:33:58.319
was done with the whole thing when
he when he when you know it was

2843
03:33:58.360 --> 03:34:01.559
all gimmick to change Hogan back,
and it was, but he just brought

2844
03:34:01.600 --> 03:34:05.040
the paint back. I don't know
why he kept painting his face that way,

2845
03:34:05.079 --> 03:34:07.920
but he did, probably because he
realized it was money and that it

2846
03:34:07.000 --> 03:34:09.239
was better than anything else he was
doing it. Did didn't they come out

2847
03:34:09.239 --> 03:34:13.719
with an action figure with that paint? It's pretty Yeah, I don't know.

2848
03:34:13.879 --> 03:34:16.040
I can picture like a cardboard back
card. I wonder if he just

2849
03:34:16.120 --> 03:34:20.280
thought it was more merchandizable. There
probably was a bunch of T shirts and

2850
03:34:20.280 --> 03:34:22.360
stuff with Joker sting on it that
they put out there because it got over.

2851
03:34:24.399 --> 03:34:26.600
But I don't know. So that'd
be a good question asking like,

2852
03:34:26.680 --> 03:34:30.280
why did you keep doing the paint
when you dropped the character. I'd like

2853
03:34:30.360 --> 03:34:33.639
to hear his answering at keeping the
character was fantastic? It was, it

2854
03:34:33.799 --> 03:34:35.520
was it was, and I think
to your point, it was just basically

2855
03:34:35.600 --> 03:34:39.319
like supposed to be this conceit to
get Hogan to agree. Oh yeah,

2856
03:34:39.360 --> 03:34:43.000
they got they had an action figure, they had a few lines at this

2857
03:34:43.079 --> 03:34:48.879
point. That was one thing that
I think they were able to do because

2858
03:34:48.879 --> 03:34:50.440
they had Hulk Cogan, because I
don't think they had an action figure deal

2859
03:34:50.520 --> 03:34:52.920
before this, or a video game
deal. I could be wrong about that.

2860
03:34:54.959 --> 03:34:56.319
They had a video game deal before
they did for sure, Okay,

2861
03:34:56.600 --> 03:35:01.760
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because um, I'm pretty sure I

2862
03:35:01.799 --> 03:35:05.520
remember the Samoa jail they came out
with, had the the paint on his

2863
03:35:05.639 --> 03:35:09.600
face that Russo put on him.
But that actually was that was before Hogan,

2864
03:35:09.639 --> 03:35:13.680
I think. Yeah, because the
first the first TNA Impact game came

2865
03:35:13.719 --> 03:35:16.319
out in two thousand night Holy shit, you could have fooled me, man,

2866
03:35:16.799 --> 03:35:20.360
Yeah, I remember, I remember, because I m do you care?

2867
03:35:20.840 --> 03:35:28.680
I didn't get it, but I
I think I downloaded a free like

2868
03:35:28.799 --> 03:35:33.440
a sneak peak type thing they had. They used to do that. I

2869
03:35:33.440 --> 03:35:37.120
don't know if they do that anymore. Um, I should look, but

2870
03:35:37.239 --> 03:35:39.520
they used to do that. I
used to get like a little sneak peek

2871
03:35:39.559 --> 03:35:43.000
on on certain certain games. You
could download those like I remember I downloaded

2872
03:35:43.360 --> 03:35:46.639
the UFC video game with Brock.
I wanted to just play it with Brock

2873
03:35:46.760 --> 03:35:52.200
and so you could add you had
access to like four different fighters and I

2874
03:35:52.360 --> 03:35:58.719
just played his Brock. That's huge
too, Brock. You mentioned because this

2875
03:35:58.000 --> 03:36:01.879
is it. We don't have size
this enough. This is the time period

2876
03:36:01.959 --> 03:36:05.239
where UFC becomes more popular than WWE, even among wrestling fans. It was

2877
03:36:05.600 --> 03:36:09.319
like a five year period or so. It ended around the rise of Connor

2878
03:36:09.399 --> 03:36:15.200
McGregor where UFC fans kind of totally
splintered off from being mostly wrestling fans who

2879
03:36:15.280 --> 03:36:18.600
watched UFC as far as like the
fan base that made the difference between like

2880
03:36:18.680 --> 03:36:22.319
a huge pay per view and a
normal UFC pay per view. It was

2881
03:36:22.360 --> 03:36:24.239
all the wrestling fans that came in, like ce him Punk got a little

2882
03:36:24.239 --> 03:36:28.159
bit of that when he had his
first UFC fight two d. Dana was

2883
03:36:28.200 --> 03:36:31.280
never out of tricks to try to
pull those fans in when when he needed

2884
03:36:31.319 --> 03:36:35.600
to. And this is the time
Man Brock comes in and oh nine,

2885
03:36:35.680 --> 03:36:41.520
oh eight, really but oh nine. He has a huge fight against Frank

2886
03:36:41.600 --> 03:36:43.239
Meer. I think it was ten
maybe at UFC one hundred. I think

2887
03:36:43.239 --> 03:36:46.920
it was two ten or nine.
I'm gonna look that up. It pisses

2888
03:36:46.959 --> 03:36:50.959
me off that I don't remember which
year it was. UC one hundred.

2889
03:36:50.040 --> 03:36:52.680
Their huge show was twenty oh nine. Thought so I should have trusted my

2890
03:36:52.719 --> 03:36:56.120
gun. But now it's like he's
on an Ultimate Fighter. They did a

2891
03:36:56.120 --> 03:36:58.879
season of Ultimate Fighter, the reality
show with him as a coach against Junior

2892
03:37:00.079 --> 03:37:05.479
Santos. He's the world champion of
UFC. He's not just this curiosity attraction.

2893
03:37:05.559 --> 03:37:09.200
He's the fucking champion and he's the
guy everyone's gutting for and every one

2894
03:37:09.239 --> 03:37:11.559
of his matches is like a million
buy show, and it's just you know

2895
03:37:13.040 --> 03:37:15.280
that, and there you are.
Right, someone didn't even watch UFC,

2896
03:37:15.399 --> 03:37:18.000
but Brock had had you interested?
Yeah, oh of course, yeah,

2897
03:37:18.000 --> 03:37:20.799
I was. I mean I was. That was it? Like I I

2898
03:37:22.120 --> 03:37:26.280
followed. I mean, hey,
you know, I fucking I a DVRD

2899
03:37:26.399 --> 03:37:31.159
that that K one show. Yeah, in the archives of TLF right now,

2900
03:37:31.200 --> 03:37:35.520
if you're curious, rights to the
hot right my d I had the

2901
03:37:35.600 --> 03:37:39.319
hour long version that was on free
TV. Amazing that I had. Yeah,

2902
03:37:39.719 --> 03:37:43.280
I remember, Yeah, I watched
that. I was. I was

2903
03:37:43.399 --> 03:37:45.239
totally into it. I mean,
I don't again, I don't. I

2904
03:37:45.239 --> 03:37:46.639
didn't. I didn't buy a fucking
show. I don't think I ever watched

2905
03:37:46.639 --> 03:37:52.840
any of his fights live, but
I would always look to find his fights.

2906
03:37:54.479 --> 03:37:58.319
I was into I was into him
and Ronda Rousey, sure, and

2907
03:37:58.600 --> 03:38:03.120
so whenever they had a fight,
I would try to find an uploaded version,

2908
03:38:03.159 --> 03:38:07.079
like on YouTube or something like that
with then the week after it happened,

2909
03:38:07.399 --> 03:38:11.200
Yeah, I was. I was
definitely. I mean again to the

2910
03:38:11.319 --> 03:38:18.360
extent that I would google the results, as opposed to yeah, I didn't,

2911
03:38:18.440 --> 03:38:22.159
I don't. I couldn't. You
know, I never did any other

2912
03:38:22.200 --> 03:38:26.200
fucking details that people do about these
things, and you know, look at

2913
03:38:26.280 --> 03:38:30.200
stats or anything like that. But
I definitely was curious about the results.

2914
03:38:30.319 --> 03:38:33.200
That is one thing it's different about
UFC fandom than ww fandom, Like,

2915
03:38:33.520 --> 03:38:35.559
yeah, you got to look up
the results of a w B pay per

2916
03:38:35.639 --> 03:38:39.799
view you miss, but it's not
you're not there to see you're not trying

2917
03:38:39.840 --> 03:38:41.000
to find out who won. Really, You're trying to see if it was

2918
03:38:41.040 --> 03:38:45.280
any good, right, That's exactly
it. Like, I'm actually, yeah,

2919
03:38:45.399 --> 03:38:48.520
right, of course, I'm always
looking at I'm always looking at people's

2920
03:38:48.559 --> 03:38:50.239
star ratings to see if it's something
I want to go back and look at

2921
03:38:50.399 --> 03:38:52.719
Yeah, like you want to.
We watch all that fucking shit all the

2922
03:38:52.799 --> 03:38:58.200
time, but specifically with aw shows, is it's something that's worth maybe taking

2923
03:38:58.200 --> 03:39:01.200
a look at at some point never
now, And you'll read a UFC recap

2924
03:39:01.239 --> 03:39:03.680
that indicates the fight was, you
know, very exciting with a lot of

2925
03:39:03.760 --> 03:39:05.959
up, and then you want to
see it in the same way you want

2926
03:39:05.959 --> 03:39:07.680
to see a wrestling match, but
you all but you get much more of

2927
03:39:07.719 --> 03:39:11.639
your fix just reading who won and
how on a UFC. Yeah, that

2928
03:39:11.760 --> 03:39:16.520
a WWE or a wrestling show totally, So that says something about the difference.

2929
03:39:16.520 --> 03:39:20.639
Anyway, A joker Sting comes out. Rude pounces on Sting as he

2930
03:39:20.719 --> 03:39:24.600
rolls into the ring, gets in
Hogan's face. Hogan points behind him,

2931
03:39:24.600 --> 03:39:26.959
a Sting is right back up,
hits a spinning backfist. Someone's been watching

2932
03:39:28.000 --> 03:39:33.879
a UFC on Spie spinning backfist by
the Stinger and then goes off on Rude

2933
03:39:33.920 --> 03:39:35.719
and they do a bet of a
hockey fight with Sting pulling ruts T shirt

2934
03:39:35.760 --> 03:39:39.159
over his head, drops him of
the clothesline, and Rude bails and the

2935
03:39:39.239 --> 03:39:41.760
insane icon they say has done it
again to the World Champion. Hogan later

2936
03:39:41.799 --> 03:39:46.079
tells Aj Styles backstage on a cell
phone that it doesn't care about all his

2937
03:39:46.200 --> 03:39:48.639
personal shit because AJ is going through
the clear Lynch storyline. We've mentioned it

2938
03:39:48.639 --> 03:39:50.520
a couple of times. Do you
do you know the rough outlines of the

2939
03:39:50.559 --> 03:39:54.440
clear Lynch deal that they did?
Do you know what that is? No?

2940
03:39:54.520 --> 03:39:58.559
I'm knowing it? What the you're
talking about? So one week on

2941
03:39:58.719 --> 03:40:05.239
Impact, Christopher Annuals produces evidence that
AJ Styles and Dixie Carter were caught together

2942
03:40:05.399 --> 03:40:09.959
in like a hotel where they shouldn't
have been, indicating that they had a

2943
03:40:09.000 --> 03:40:15.319
fling going on. And there was
like doctored evidence and doctored photos of them

2944
03:40:15.440 --> 03:40:18.639
together and like romantic embrace and everything. Okay, And this is playing off

2945
03:40:18.680 --> 03:40:22.559
the idea that Aj is like a
deeper religious family guy and really straight laced.

2946
03:40:22.680 --> 03:40:26.399
And you know they in wrestling,
if they sense that you like think

2947
03:40:26.440 --> 03:40:30.719
you're like a decent human being,
they're going to force you into storylines where

2948
03:40:30.760 --> 03:40:33.440
you're involved in of course, fidelity
and vice. You know how that goes.

2949
03:40:35.079 --> 03:40:37.239
That's what's wrong with that, that's
reality, correct there, And so

2950
03:40:37.479 --> 03:40:41.680
like Aj is just like fighting off
these accusations, but these his tormentors keep

2951
03:40:41.719 --> 03:40:46.280
producing evidence, and Dixie is losing
her shit. She's going into full method

2952
03:40:46.319 --> 03:40:50.959
acting of like what she would do
if someone accused her of cheating on Dear

2953
03:40:50.079 --> 03:40:54.239
Surge, which is probably a rib
to considering some of the things people said

2954
03:40:54.239 --> 03:41:00.840
about their how close their relationship was
not sir. I was just look at

2955
03:41:00.879 --> 03:41:03.200
Odb's book again, and she doesn't
hesitate to put the open marriage thing out

2956
03:41:03.239 --> 03:41:07.319
there about old Dixon, of course, but um so Dixie is the old

2957
03:41:09.200 --> 03:41:16.280
You're destroying families by these records.
What's that old David? Yeah, old

2958
03:41:16.360 --> 03:41:22.879
Dixie. Yeah, pretty much old
man as it were old. I'm m

2959
03:41:24.680 --> 03:41:33.559
to the David and the Curry man, David Gary Dan. So uh yeah.

2960
03:41:33.639 --> 03:41:35.719
This goes on and on, and
they hire an actress named Claire Lynch.

2961
03:41:35.840 --> 03:41:39.799
They called her Claire Lynch, who
was basically like a drug addict that

2962
03:41:39.920 --> 03:41:43.239
AJ Styles helped get back on her
feet. He didn't fuck her, he

2963
03:41:43.319 --> 03:41:46.000
just helped her get back on her
feet. But she's jones in again,

2964
03:41:46.040 --> 03:41:52.920
and huh is that legit or is
it? And so the idea is that

2965
03:41:54.040 --> 03:41:58.079
she's manufacturing this story to extort more
money out of AJ Styles. I don't

2966
03:41:58.079 --> 03:42:03.920
know where they would have gotten the
idea of trying to extort somebody with sexually

2967
03:42:03.120 --> 03:42:07.479
promiscuous proof of infidelity. And I
don't really know, I don't know why

2968
03:42:07.559 --> 03:42:13.239
that would be top of mind for
folks at a company Hulkogan was working at

2969
03:42:13.280 --> 03:42:16.879
in two thousand and twelve. But
perhaps more to come on that front.

2970
03:42:16.520 --> 03:42:20.920
So, yeah, Mordecai. So
Claire Lynch ends up being just this dirt

2971
03:42:20.000 --> 03:42:24.079
worse actress. I don't know where
they got her. She's just so cringe,

2972
03:42:24.200 --> 03:42:26.719
like she's just so overdoing it and
overacting, and people like, who

2973
03:42:26.799 --> 03:42:31.079
the fuck is Claire Lynch? And
it became so random and weird that like

2974
03:42:31.200 --> 03:42:35.120
Claire Lynch is like shorthand for how
bad TNA was, Right, you just

2975
03:42:35.120 --> 03:42:39.319
say Claire Lynch. Everyone left.
And so what ended up happening was there

2976
03:42:39.440 --> 03:42:46.159
was something that came out where there
was proof that she was actually involved in

2977
03:42:46.319 --> 03:42:52.920
like a Popeye ride exhibit at Universal. She was like a character there,

2978
03:42:54.159 --> 03:42:58.440
you know, like she's hired to
as a character actor. Yeah, and

2979
03:42:58.760 --> 03:43:01.760
it kind of like ruined the whole
thing and they just dropped it cold and

2980
03:43:01.799 --> 03:43:05.639
they stopped using her when people realize
that, you know, Claire Lynches and

2981
03:43:05.719 --> 03:43:07.760
Claire Lynch and she's just someone they
found in the theme parked into an angle.

2982
03:43:09.200 --> 03:43:13.639
Oh my god. That's my supposition, based on the fact that she

2983
03:43:13.719 --> 03:43:16.879
worked at Universal. And so they
just drop it cold one week and just

2984
03:43:18.280 --> 03:43:22.040
explained that she made the whole thing
up and have someone come out as her

2985
03:43:22.040 --> 03:43:28.319
attorney and basically copped to everything that
she did wrong and exonor h Aj and

2986
03:43:28.360 --> 03:43:31.120
the thing just disappears. But it
was a very strange little moments, bizarre.

2987
03:43:31.559 --> 03:43:33.760
And here, you know Bischoff talk
about it. You know, his

2988
03:43:33.840 --> 03:43:37.399
whole thing is at Hogan's thing.
We've heard him talk about it too.

2989
03:43:37.520 --> 03:43:39.360
Is that Aj, you know,
would just have five star matches for the

2990
03:43:39.399 --> 03:43:41.799
rest of his life and not grow
t and a an inch and not grow

2991
03:43:41.840 --> 03:43:46.440
an inch as a performer if he
was just allowed to do whatever he felt

2992
03:43:46.479 --> 03:43:48.680
in his heart he should be doing
out there. And this, this Claire

2993
03:43:48.719 --> 03:43:52.559
Lynch storyline pushed him into a discomfort
zone and forced him to act and forced

2994
03:43:52.639 --> 03:43:56.000
him to show some emotional range and
do more as a character than just an

2995
03:43:56.200 --> 03:44:01.799
ring wrestler. And maybe it's true, I don't know, but I mean,

2996
03:44:01.559 --> 03:44:05.719
why who cares? Yeah, I
know exactly. I mean, just

2997
03:44:05.799 --> 03:44:09.440
let him have his fucking five star
matches. Conrad said on a podcast with

2998
03:44:09.600 --> 03:44:11.479
Eric he made reference to a Bruce
podcast. I don't know which one he

2999
03:44:11.520 --> 03:44:16.280
was talking about, but he said
that Bruce said at some point that it

3000
03:44:16.399 --> 03:44:20.639
was this storyline that got WWE actually
interested in bringing in aj because they saw

3001
03:44:20.799 --> 03:44:24.120
more than just a super worker for
for the first time. That sounds like

3002
03:44:24.200 --> 03:44:26.799
the kind of thing Bruce would just
say to pat his buddy Eric on the

3003
03:44:26.840 --> 03:44:31.079
back. But maybe it's and Bruce
was fucking involved. I mean, Bruce,

3004
03:44:31.159 --> 03:44:33.840
for Christ's sakes, is there and
it's playing no small part in architecting

3005
03:44:33.920 --> 03:44:39.360
this from a Bookling standpoint, So
you know, he's kind of in,

3006
03:44:39.520 --> 03:44:43.639
he's kind of obliged to like it. And then they turn around and kind

3007
03:44:43.680 --> 03:44:46.719
of do the same thing in w
W E. Do you remember that moment,

3008
03:44:46.959 --> 03:44:50.799
that time period where aj Lee was
hitting on John Cena and she was

3009
03:44:50.840 --> 03:44:54.440
like the John Cena super fan and
she was like trying to Yeah, vaguely,

3010
03:44:54.559 --> 03:44:56.920
she was like warming up to him
in a creepy way where you could

3011
03:44:56.959 --> 03:45:01.360
tell she was gonna like turn on
him and you know, accused him of

3012
03:45:01.399 --> 03:45:05.239
improprieties, try to like ruin his
life and be a stalker psychopath vaguely.

3013
03:45:05.360 --> 03:45:09.239
Yeah, they went with that around
the same time. And I mean jesus,

3014
03:45:09.319 --> 03:45:13.600
her name is aj and on TNA, so everyone connected the dots and

3015
03:45:13.680 --> 03:45:18.600
just called it a copycat angle.
That's funny. So that counted as a

3016
03:45:18.639 --> 03:45:22.840
win in TNA. You know these
it's such a minor league mentality like the

3017
03:45:22.000 --> 03:45:26.879
copy in US. See two weeks
later, I saw him use the same

3018
03:45:26.959 --> 03:45:31.520
camera trick on Raw. Therefore what
won? Therefore what Eric? We won?

3019
03:45:33.840 --> 03:45:39.319
Zach won exactly. Huh. So, I don't care about your personal

3020
03:45:39.399 --> 03:45:43.000
shit. Aj. I'm gonna make
a big announcement and it gets interrupted by

3021
03:45:43.040 --> 03:45:48.280
Ken Anderson. Now that I've got
your your permission, mister asshole, he

3022
03:45:48.399 --> 03:45:50.520
calls Anderson, mister ass that's funny. I already come on down here.

3023
03:45:50.600 --> 03:45:54.719
Jeff gets called out Hogan's losing his
voice in this episode of Impact, and

3024
03:45:54.840 --> 03:45:58.239
he says that the opponent that will
wrestling here next to Thursday, the man

3025
03:45:58.479 --> 03:46:00.600
who will win this match that I'm
gonna make right now, was going to

3026
03:46:00.639 --> 03:46:03.120
face Bobby Ruden. It's a triple
threat with Jeff Hardy and mister Anderson and

3027
03:46:05.440 --> 03:46:09.079
a j that's Slam Anniversary. And
then Rude doinks staying with a beer bottle

3028
03:46:09.159 --> 03:46:13.120
over the head at Slam Aniversary and
beats him to retain the championship. And

3029
03:46:13.280 --> 03:46:16.440
it's as part of the press tour
for Slam Anniversary, as they're trying to

3030
03:46:16.479 --> 03:46:20.200
get people to buy tickets to the
show in Dallas Arlington, Texas. Yes,

3031
03:46:20.280 --> 03:46:24.319
it was indeed June tenth and not
September tenth, Boss, And there

3032
03:46:24.399 --> 03:46:31.319
we go. Hogan stops by kdfatv
CW affiliate in Dallas and makes this announcement

3033
03:46:31.440 --> 03:46:35.760
without much in the way of Hoop
law, much in the way of you

3034
03:46:35.879 --> 03:46:39.920
know, Piro and ballyho As Russeau
would say, quote, the last time

3035
03:46:39.959 --> 03:46:43.840
I said I was retiring, for
sure, I was suckered back into the

3036
03:46:43.920 --> 03:46:50.360
ring one time, and I'll never
do it again. Wow, unceremoniously here

3037
03:46:50.399 --> 03:46:54.559
in June, and we only you
know at the time you shouldn't have taken

3038
03:46:54.600 --> 03:46:56.600
it any more seriously than any other
time. Hope Cogan already pro wrestler for

3039
03:46:56.639 --> 03:47:01.440
that matter, says they're retired.
But we have the advantage of hindsight.

3040
03:47:01.559 --> 03:47:05.840
We know it actually is true.
Retired to the number twelve. He did

3041
03:47:05.920 --> 03:47:09.360
retire until he wrestles again, until
he wrestles again, even though when he

3042
03:47:09.399 --> 03:47:13.600
showed up at Raw thirty, Kurt
Engel said his podcast that Hulk was telling

3043
03:47:13.639 --> 03:47:16.360
people he had nerves burned, so
we can't feel his legs. That's way.

3044
03:47:16.399 --> 03:47:20.000
He has a fucking cane, So
I would not be waiting around for

3045
03:47:20.159 --> 03:47:22.520
that. I'm waiting for it one
more time. He's gonna throw that cane

3046
03:47:22.559 --> 03:47:26.360
down. Jeez, he's gonna have
that, you know. You know when

3047
03:47:26.440 --> 03:47:31.280
Flair has his next last match,
it'll be against Hogan. It's gonna say

3048
03:47:31.360 --> 03:47:33.959
so that cane down. Cane is
in no shape to take a leg drop

3049
03:47:33.079 --> 03:47:39.159
right now. Oh, he's too
busy eating all of the food Knox County

3050
03:47:39.239 --> 03:47:41.799
has to offer. I was gonna
say, like he I mean, you're

3051
03:47:41.840 --> 03:47:46.799
kidding me. Those Sunday morning pancake
breakfasts at the church, shit are just

3052
03:47:48.000 --> 03:47:52.280
like he can't or you know,
she's loving that chicken fried steak. Mister

3053
03:47:52.440 --> 03:47:56.920
Mayer, mister mall, don't do
that. Don't make that side of me

3054
03:47:56.000 --> 03:48:01.479
come out. Hello, mister Mayer. Oh if it isn't the mayor where

3055
03:48:01.520 --> 03:48:05.719
we are, Oh my goodness,
hey, would you like mister mayor,

3056
03:48:05.760 --> 03:48:09.920
I'll give you an extra double stack, do you want some biscuits for your

3057
03:48:09.959 --> 03:48:13.200
face, you fucking pig? Is
that what you want? How about we

3058
03:48:13.399 --> 03:48:18.079
want some extra extra maple syrups.
Yeah, let's go, baby, mister

3059
03:48:18.239 --> 03:48:24.760
Mayor, there's enough butter in that
pan Velma's come on, Susie, you

3060
03:48:26.079 --> 03:48:31.159
fucking cut mister Mayer's some more fucking
pancastle. Susie's heart. She doesn't understand.

3061
03:48:31.239 --> 03:48:35.879
She just started here. I understand
family from what is it? Guatemala?

3062
03:48:39.280 --> 03:48:45.879
You know she she doesn't have her
papers yet, mister Mayor? Where's

3063
03:48:45.879 --> 03:48:52.840
your Wall Stream Journal? Kane forces
himself to read the Wall Street Journal.

3064
03:48:52.079 --> 03:48:54.319
You know, you know he doesn't
understand a look of it. You know

3065
03:48:54.479 --> 03:49:00.200
that he doesn't know what the fuck's
going on. He just needs to be

3066
03:49:00.440 --> 03:49:03.520
He just needs to be seen reading
it at some point. You know,

3067
03:49:03.760 --> 03:49:07.280
why does extream media cover the Gary
Johnson nomination at the Libertary at the Libertarian

3068
03:49:07.319 --> 03:49:11.680
Convention? That's what he wants to
know, Kane, look at the thing

3069
03:49:11.760 --> 03:49:18.159
of his face. Oh god,
it's fucking such a goofball, bald head.

3070
03:49:18.520 --> 03:49:26.319
Was space space and his teeth that
you could fucking unload an ocean and

3071
03:49:28.200 --> 03:49:31.239
fucking more for him? Man,
life after you gotta respect it. Hey,

3072
03:49:31.440 --> 03:49:35.319
you know someone's got it. Yeah, maybe he'll be president Kane at

3073
03:49:35.360 --> 03:49:39.319
some point. I'm sure the thought
has crossed his mind. Mister mayor,

3074
03:49:39.399 --> 03:49:46.360
you can run for president. You're
so handsome. Have another pancake? Can

3075
03:49:46.399 --> 03:49:54.159
you put your big red extra extra? What say that extra extra bacon?

3076
03:49:58.360 --> 03:50:00.840
Well, now he's got the title
of his bi agraphy when he's on a

3077
03:50:00.879 --> 03:50:07.159
campaign for extra bacon. My story
in politics, extra bacon, mister Mayor.

3078
03:50:07.280 --> 03:50:09.840
I never hesitated to take a set
in it if it meant locking down

3079
03:50:09.959 --> 03:50:15.000
votes, right, if it meant
winning over taking a second or a third

3080
03:50:15.079 --> 03:50:18.959
help in a bacon. Yeah,
if it meant if it meant securing one

3081
03:50:18.040 --> 03:50:24.159
more vote, helping one other person, I had that bank. Mister Jacobs,

3082
03:50:24.200 --> 03:50:28.959
I understand this diner tab when you're
campaigning, But how do you explain

3083
03:50:30.040 --> 03:50:35.280
the amount you spent it this diner
before you ever ran for office? Is

3084
03:50:35.319 --> 03:50:41.920
that research when you were eighteen years
old? I mean you've actually kind of

3085
03:50:41.040 --> 03:50:50.000
you're actually cut down on the cost. It looks like, hey, you

3086
03:50:50.079 --> 03:50:54.440
know when he goes, he goes
back, gets goes to the diner to

3087
03:50:54.440 --> 03:50:56.120
a half lunch. You know he's
got like a like a like a like

3088
03:50:56.239 --> 03:51:00.319
a smidge of some kind of meat
on his face, you know, has

3089
03:51:00.360 --> 03:51:05.239
h'm wiped off. He goes back
to fucking run down. He uh.

3090
03:51:05.319 --> 03:51:09.680
He shakes hands at a polo at
the Little Legal the day. Absolutely,

3091
03:51:09.719 --> 03:51:15.239
he goes, yeah, totally goes
show up there all any any yeah,

3092
03:51:15.440 --> 03:51:20.120
any kind of American thing. He
always shows up anything. Anything the Liberals

3093
03:51:20.200 --> 03:51:26.239
want to take away, He goes, yeah, folks they want to take

3094
03:51:26.239 --> 03:51:33.159
away baseball. Folks that want to
take away this third order of hash Browns

3095
03:51:33.360 --> 03:51:37.079
that's coming. I'm telling you right
now. The Democrats want to take away

3096
03:51:37.159 --> 03:51:41.000
pancakes. Do we want that?
Is that American? Or is it american

3097
03:51:41.120 --> 03:51:46.319
to have another stack? Or is
it american to eat as many pancakes as

3098
03:51:46.360 --> 03:51:52.959
you damn well please? And the
the bisquick on your head. My name

3099
03:51:54.079 --> 03:51:58.399
is Kane, and I am the
mayor. He's not running, he's he's

3100
03:51:58.680 --> 03:52:01.360
coming, and there's not a second
season. He does that speech and then

3101
03:52:01.399 --> 03:52:15.079
he says, but my name is
Kane, which which it's not, and

3102
03:52:15.280 --> 03:52:28.360
I am the mayor. What's the
fucking problem, bitch TNH got it?

3103
03:52:30.159 --> 03:52:35.120
Fucking Kane. Oh jesus, I'm
packed. June fourteenth, Austin Airis wins

3104
03:52:35.159 --> 03:52:39.399
an Ultimate X match and says after
afterwards, I'm not satisfied with this.

3105
03:52:39.159 --> 03:52:43.040
Hogan comes out. I hear all
the hood law when you come out here,

3106
03:52:43.120 --> 03:52:46.559
brother, when you're going, I've
already where you're going. I've already

3107
03:52:46.600 --> 03:52:48.520
been. I know what it's like
to be the main event. This is

3108
03:52:48.600 --> 03:52:52.559
way too important. Um the chant
the named Hogan, he says, because

3109
03:52:52.559 --> 03:52:56.120
they're chanting Hogan Hogan when he wants
them to be getting excited about Austin Airis.

3110
03:52:56.399 --> 03:52:58.239
So No, he doesn't, So
he says to him, this is

3111
03:52:58.360 --> 03:53:01.440
great, too important. Chant the
name hogans. You know what they do?

3112
03:53:01.559 --> 03:53:05.200
They chant Terry. Oh my god, that's funny. It's just like

3113
03:53:05.319 --> 03:53:07.559
once, but it's hilarious. The
one thing I've never done is got the

3114
03:53:07.639 --> 03:53:11.559
kind of goosebumps I got now that
I get when I've seen you wrestle.

3115
03:53:11.680 --> 03:53:15.280
Brother, you by first. This
is the new RVD. This is the

3116
03:53:15.399 --> 03:53:18.200
new Bobby Rude, this is the
new who else has he got the Jeff

3117
03:53:18.239 --> 03:53:20.040
Hardy? You know what I'm thinking, dude. You know I'm thinking,

3118
03:53:20.040 --> 03:53:22.600
awesome, brother. You know what
we could do? Dude? You know

3119
03:53:22.639 --> 03:53:26.079
how you know how You're not hook
up, brother, all right, I

3120
03:53:26.239 --> 03:53:30.120
kind of fight for you against against
you know you. I'm on your side

3121
03:53:30.159 --> 03:53:33.280
against a rude brother. But you
know what you down the line, brother,

3122
03:53:35.239 --> 03:53:37.360
I think you'd turn your back on
me. That's what I'm thinking,

3123
03:53:37.559 --> 03:53:39.040
turn heel on mean brother. Oh
really, Terry, that would be an

3124
03:53:39.079 --> 03:53:43.000
honor. Oh man, I thought
that, what do you see happening in

3125
03:53:43.120 --> 03:53:46.799
the match? Well, brother,
I don't know. I mean, I'm

3126
03:53:46.840 --> 03:53:50.079
not saying at you. I'm just
saying that you all have you know what

3127
03:53:50.200 --> 03:53:52.399
do you? Oh? I didn't
want to presume anything. I thought you

3128
03:53:52.479 --> 03:53:56.239
meant we were gonna work where I
want to wrestle you. I don't want

3129
03:53:56.239 --> 03:53:58.559
to pressure, but pressure on you
to wrestle. I know, brother,

3130
03:53:58.639 --> 03:54:01.319
what do you? What do you? What are you saying? Dude?

3131
03:54:01.399 --> 03:54:05.200
What do you? How do you
mean? Well, you were saying,

3132
03:54:05.479 --> 03:54:07.799
what do you do a program together? And that Brother, I didn't say

3133
03:54:07.840 --> 03:54:09.639
a program. I said, you
turn your back on me, Dude,

3134
03:54:09.639 --> 03:54:13.040
I said, you turn heal against
me? Bro, I thought you said

3135
03:54:13.120 --> 03:54:22.239
you turn your back towards me.
You get the fuck out of my office

3136
03:54:22.280 --> 03:54:26.159
right now. Brother, You're done. You're fucking fired, dude, Get

3137
03:54:26.200 --> 03:54:28.840
the fuck out of here. Brother, this is fucking belt. David Houston

3138
03:54:28.879 --> 03:54:33.639
will be calling you momentarily false life. I say a word again, I'm

3139
03:54:33.639 --> 03:54:37.680
gonna fucking kick your ass. Turn. I'm gonna turn my back to you,

3140
03:54:37.079 --> 03:54:39.840
like I don't know what you're trying
to do. I know you're trying

3141
03:54:39.840 --> 03:54:46.920
to steal whole Commania around the Boston. You want this fucking Austin Mania branch.

3142
03:54:46.040 --> 03:54:48.879
Dude, Let me let me,
let me tell you something, brother,

3143
03:54:48.559 --> 03:54:54.040
dude, I'm not playing. I'm
not playing hide the ball and I'm

3144
03:54:54.079 --> 03:54:58.159
not playing I'm not playing kick you
know, kick the man over in his

3145
03:54:58.319 --> 03:55:05.319
fucking chair. Bro, I'm not
playing hide the ball, dude. I'm

3146
03:55:05.399 --> 03:55:13.200
not trying to play kick the man
over in his chair, kick the man

3147
03:55:13.319 --> 03:55:16.520
in his chair. I beged you
like a stick figure, just kicking the

3148
03:55:16.639 --> 03:55:22.879
silhouette of an office chair, and
overgoes the man. Yes, Terry,

3149
03:55:22.200 --> 03:55:26.639
you didn't come here for this bullshit. You came here to try to elevate

3150
03:55:26.719 --> 03:55:31.719
these this talent and help them get
the rub and here they are coming to

3151
03:55:31.920 --> 03:55:35.920
Dude, I'll get the world taler
on my own, which two years now.

3152
03:55:35.079 --> 03:55:39.799
Terry, Okay, you've done enough
sacrificing. You've stepped in there.

3153
03:55:39.840 --> 03:55:41.639
When your doctors told you no business
doing it. You've you've gone, You've

3154
03:55:41.680 --> 03:55:48.040
undergone three hundred backs done. Dude. It's about time, if I If

3155
03:55:48.040 --> 03:55:50.760
you ask me, Terry, after
the only thing around here that seems to

3156
03:55:50.799 --> 03:55:52.680
have any life is whole Coogan,
Dude that maybe it is time to put

3157
03:55:52.719 --> 03:55:56.000
down the GM clipboard. Maybe it
is time to step back out of the

3158
03:55:56.079 --> 03:55:58.639
board room. Maybe it is time
to put a little more faith into that

3159
03:55:58.719 --> 03:56:01.639
ten tons of year in your back. Maybe it is time for the Hulk.

3160
03:56:03.920 --> 03:56:07.680
Whoever wins the next world title match, Dude, whoever wins that,

3161
03:56:07.840 --> 03:56:13.399
brother, I win the title.
That's fucking right, Terry. You can't

3162
03:56:13.399 --> 03:56:18.040
even walk, no, brother,
I don't. I'm just saying, you

3163
03:56:18.159 --> 03:56:20.639
go in there against fucking Robert Rude. Man, you pin Robert Rude,

3164
03:56:20.680 --> 03:56:24.440
Brother, I get the title.
Have you had enough of pretending you go

3165
03:56:24.520 --> 03:56:26.559
in there with Robert Rude, Brother, Robert Rude pins you, dude,

3166
03:56:26.799 --> 03:56:30.920
I get the top? Yes?
Have you had enough of pretending these Jabronis

3167
03:56:30.959 --> 03:56:35.319
can really captain the ship? Terry? People want to see Hulk Hogan with

3168
03:56:35.360 --> 03:56:43.559
the title. Brother. It's enough
of the ship fuckers. Let's get the

3169
03:56:43.600 --> 03:56:46.600
strap on the Hulk. Start let's
really start to jet pack this thing.

3170
03:56:48.920 --> 03:56:54.639
Strap it on Jack Well, but
no, he's this is the newest baby

3171
03:56:54.680 --> 03:57:01.159
face that He's gonna raise the hand
and endors right right, austin Aries the

3172
03:57:01.399 --> 03:57:03.559
X division champ at the time.
He says, you, my friend,

3173
03:57:03.840 --> 03:57:07.799
have taken this thing to a whole
other level. Oh my god, I

3174
03:57:07.879 --> 03:57:11.200
will stake my reputation, everything I
know and believe in forget this pound for

3175
03:57:11.280 --> 03:57:13.719
pound crap. You're the greatest thing
I've ever seen in this ring. Oh

3176
03:57:13.840 --> 03:57:16.399
my god, and Aris goes,
who am I'd argue with the Immortal Hulk

3177
03:57:16.399 --> 03:57:18.239
Coogan. I want to be the
man. You want to be the main

3178
03:57:18.280 --> 03:57:22.200
event, Hogan says in the general
manager. And if you want to be

3179
03:57:22.280 --> 03:57:26.040
the main event, so bad.
I can make that happen at Destination X.

3180
03:57:26.120 --> 03:57:28.200
But you got to put your money
where your mouth is. I'm willing

3181
03:57:28.239 --> 03:57:31.959
to book the world's heavyweight champion against
austin Aries on one condition, Hogan says,

3182
03:57:33.000 --> 03:57:37.159
I cannot have one man as a
champion of both divisions here in TNA.

3183
03:57:37.239 --> 03:57:39.000
So the way it goes, I'll
book the match with you against the

3184
03:57:39.040 --> 03:57:43.120
world champion at Destination X, but
you have to give up the X division

3185
03:57:43.200 --> 03:57:46.079
title to do it. You win
the main event at Destination X, you

3186
03:57:46.159 --> 03:57:48.479
become the World heavyweight champion, you
lose, and you walk away with nothing.

3187
03:57:52.319 --> 03:57:56.600
I will say this is pretty effective
and something they still continue to do

3188
03:57:56.719 --> 03:58:00.239
for years where the one time a
year at Destination X instead of being a

3189
03:58:00.239 --> 03:58:03.399
pay per view of just like exclusively
X Division matches and this totally separate Head

3190
03:58:03.440 --> 03:58:07.200
and the Beast. This sort of
like glimpse into what TNA should be,

3191
03:58:07.000 --> 03:58:11.360
which didn't serve him so well when
it compared more favorably than they would have

3192
03:58:11.399 --> 03:58:15.680
liked to the buy rates of their
main roster shows the year before the conceit

3193
03:58:15.760 --> 03:58:18.840
of Destination X, becomes the X
Division champion, can go for the Gusto

3194
03:58:18.920 --> 03:58:22.079
and try to win the Big Belt, but they have to put their their

3195
03:58:22.200 --> 03:58:28.680
X division title up for grabs,
you know, vacated essentially to get that

3196
03:58:28.760 --> 03:58:33.000
chance right right, and you know, spoiler alert, not only Disostinaries accept

3197
03:58:33.079 --> 03:58:35.520
that, but he wins the fucking
world title. It was a huge twist.

3198
03:58:35.639 --> 03:58:39.399
People were not expecting it. Ton
of bullishness on Austinaries. This is

3199
03:58:39.440 --> 03:58:46.120
still no matter what TNA was always, We're going to basically pick the ring

3200
03:58:46.159 --> 03:58:48.840
of Honor World Champion. We're gonna
pluck him. That's the whole business model

3201
03:58:48.920 --> 03:58:52.520
of Impact Wrestling, if you ask
me, is we're going to build around

3202
03:58:52.719 --> 03:58:56.319
Ring of Honors. Next top guy
in Austinaries was that he's coming off for

3203
03:58:56.360 --> 03:58:58.280
World Time and running r Wage where
he proved to be a multi dimensional performer

3204
03:58:58.319 --> 03:59:01.719
and had wonderful man So they bring
him in and put the strap on him,

3205
03:59:01.959 --> 03:59:05.159
and that brings the end of the
title reign of Bobby Rude, which

3206
03:59:05.280 --> 03:59:09.680
again was a record reign in terms
of, you know, the typically truncated

3207
03:59:09.719 --> 03:59:13.280
TNA world title reigns. And just
like that, they hand the ball to

3208
03:59:13.440 --> 03:59:16.639
Austin Airies And did he not?
Did he never win the belt back Robert

3209
03:59:16.680 --> 03:59:20.040
Rudin. I don't think he did. Wow, No, I don't think

3210
03:59:20.079 --> 03:59:24.600
he did. I could be wrong, but I don't believe so. And

3211
03:59:24.959 --> 03:59:28.000
uh oh it's not too hard to
look up. I know. I'm just

3212
03:59:28.120 --> 03:59:35.639
by ten a world title history.
It was. It was surprising when they

3213
03:59:35.680 --> 03:59:39.079
did it. It was an inspired
move. People didn't necessarily think they would

3214
03:59:39.360 --> 03:59:43.719
go all the way with the guy. Yeah, that was it. Wow,

3215
03:59:43.600 --> 03:59:48.600
that's it. Well, I have
two times, but he won their

3216
03:59:48.639 --> 03:59:52.159
World Time A right, Well,
I have him winning U I have him

3217
03:59:52.200 --> 03:59:54.280
winning on October twenty six on Impact, which was after Bound for Glory,

3218
03:59:56.840 --> 04:00:00.639
and I don't have him after that. Do you let me take a look.

3219
04:00:01.120 --> 04:00:03.840
I'm sorry, Wow, you know
what I'm What I do in my

3220
04:00:03.959 --> 04:00:09.520
mind is I just end tna after
after holding after Spike. Oh, it's

3221
04:00:09.680 --> 04:00:13.000
off Spike by the end of twenty
thirteen, and then I feel like a

3222
04:00:13.040 --> 04:00:16.520
guy of Bobby root stature leaves the
company and goes to U an XT,

3223
04:00:16.680 --> 04:00:20.079
which he does, but not before
winning the belt one more time. Thanks

3224
04:00:20.159 --> 04:00:22.079
very much. There you go,
and he gets for a while too,

3225
04:00:22.840 --> 04:00:26.159
eleven days there you go. Yeah, yeah, beyond our timeline here at

3226
04:00:26.200 --> 04:00:30.360
TNH but point well taken. Yeah. So yeah, Austinaries wins the belt

3227
04:00:30.399 --> 04:00:33.000
and it's a galvanizing moment. But
I gotta say, when you look at

3228
04:00:33.000 --> 04:00:37.200
the ratings patterns, it just wasn't
successful. People just were not interested in

3229
04:00:37.280 --> 04:00:41.600
seeing him be the standard bearer of
tna UM. And he loses the belt

3230
04:00:41.600 --> 04:00:46.079
to Jeff Hardy pretty quickly. But
it doesn't really mark a It doesn't mark

3231
04:00:46.159 --> 04:00:48.920
something that draws renewed interest. Even
though it was a surprising thing to do

3232
04:00:48.040 --> 04:00:50.879
to put Austinaries over for the strap
and have whole Cogan call him the greatest

3233
04:00:50.920 --> 04:00:56.319
thing I've ever seen in this ring. Um, now here's a conundrum,

3234
04:00:56.360 --> 04:00:58.360
Austinaries. I believe every fan in
the Impact Zone, every fan that watches

3235
04:00:58.360 --> 04:01:01.159
Impact, we leaving you, brother, and we know you can do it.

3236
04:01:01.239 --> 04:01:03.559
And Ariuss hope, I've busted my
tail for this and you want me

3237
04:01:03.639 --> 04:01:07.360
to just hand over the Extevation Championship. No, I don't want to become

3238
04:01:09.120 --> 04:01:11.799
I want you to become greater than
you already are. Brother, You and

3239
04:01:11.879 --> 04:01:13.360
the Match of Destination next you become
our champion, and that is great to

3240
04:01:13.479 --> 04:01:16.719
personify. Ari said that I'll be
the greatest man that ever lived, and

3241
04:01:16.760 --> 04:01:20.399
Hogan says, you call yourself the
greatest man that ever lived. I want

3242
04:01:20.399 --> 04:01:22.799
you to prove it to me.
You have one week to give me your

3243
04:01:22.840 --> 04:01:26.600
decision us and Arius is fair enough. Later on this Impact, Brooke is

3244
04:01:26.600 --> 04:01:31.440
with Gail backstage. Thank you for
coming to meet me. Of course,

3245
04:01:31.680 --> 04:01:35.200
I have a lot of stuff that's
going on good and you got some new

3246
04:01:35.239 --> 04:01:37.040
stuff to catch up to speed on. Hey, next week is open fight

3247
04:01:37.159 --> 04:01:41.159
night, I know, and the
title is going to be defended you're thinking

3248
04:01:41.200 --> 04:01:46.239
about four girls four No, no, no, I'm the longest training knockouts

3249
04:01:46.360 --> 04:01:50.040
champion. Yeah, I'm the most
dominant champion you've ever had in this company.

3250
04:01:50.600 --> 04:01:54.280
I should be the number one contender, absolutely, But now that I

3251
04:01:54.520 --> 04:01:56.840
know how you feel about it,
I won't include no minute. That's you

3252
04:01:56.879 --> 04:02:01.079
know what, missus Hogan brook Can
I tell you Broke? Sure, I

3253
04:02:01.159 --> 04:02:05.840
know you're getting your feet wet with
this whole knock Us division thing, but

3254
04:02:05.399 --> 04:02:09.760
honestly, I'm just gonna catch hip
to speed and I'm gonna lay. I

3255
04:02:09.840 --> 04:02:13.760
have a rematch clause in my contract, so just what you know, I

3256
04:02:13.840 --> 04:02:18.280
don't need your help. You're right, you absolutely do have a rematch clause

3257
04:02:18.440 --> 04:02:20.879
in your contract, But Gail,
you should read it a little bit closer,

3258
04:02:20.959 --> 04:02:24.799
honey, because it doesn't say when
you're gonna have that rematch, and

3259
04:02:26.440 --> 04:02:30.079
I actually get to decide when that
happens. So, now that you're not

3260
04:02:30.159 --> 04:02:35.040
going to be part of Open Fight
Nite and you don't know when your rematch

3261
04:02:35.159 --> 04:02:39.479
is going to be, enjoy your
vacation, right, Hye. Wow?

3262
04:02:41.639 --> 04:02:46.399
She Brooks good because she saw that
coming and she was lawyered up. That's

3263
04:02:46.479 --> 04:02:50.559
right. She knew the contract inside
out brother. That's that's Hulk. That's

3264
04:02:50.559 --> 04:02:54.200
a stage of life. Hulk is
act man. He's loving lawyers. He's

3265
04:02:54.280 --> 04:02:58.239
like learning under he's under the learning
tree of lawyers. He's suing everybody.

3266
04:02:58.360 --> 04:03:03.799
He's constantly dealing with attorneys. And
he likes this game. I mean,

3267
04:03:03.879 --> 04:03:07.760
come on, he is. He's
the ultimate when it comes to when it

3268
04:03:07.840 --> 04:03:11.239
comes to law. No one knows
better than Hogan in the wrestling world.

3269
04:03:11.360 --> 04:03:15.000
Yeah, as far as wrestlers who
have like used the legal system to achieve

3270
04:03:15.120 --> 04:03:18.639
ends, he's he's one of the
best. Yeah, he's always looking for

3271
04:03:18.680 --> 04:03:22.440
a reason to sue, you know, absolutely, especially in this time period.

3272
04:03:22.799 --> 04:03:24.000
And a lot of this is that
a lot of this you know,

3273
04:03:24.079 --> 04:03:30.399
administrator TNA character that Hogan was doing
is I think probably it's not too much

3274
04:03:30.399 --> 04:03:33.280
of a stretch to connect it to
how much lawyers are in his life right

3275
04:03:33.360 --> 04:03:37.639
and informing his world view. And
if he's you know, he's carrying on

3276
04:03:37.879 --> 04:03:41.520
like a lawyer would like, arguing
the finer points of how things are worded

3277
04:03:41.600 --> 04:03:48.040
and contracts and formats and meetings and
all that shit, and we're just subjected

3278
04:03:48.079 --> 04:03:50.799
to it, unfortunately, and Brooke
getting a taste of it as well,

3279
04:03:52.520 --> 04:03:54.719
at the show close, they say, last Sunday Night, Dixie announced the

3280
04:03:54.760 --> 04:03:58.559
first member of the TNA Hall of
Fame, and that man is this gentleman.

3281
04:03:58.200 --> 04:04:01.079
And they go all the way back
in a montage just Stings TNA run

3282
04:04:01.159 --> 04:04:05.159
to June eighteenth, two thousand and
three, which was the first time Sting

3283
04:04:05.239 --> 04:04:07.760
wrestling TNA, and we got I
got, I got that package for you.

3284
04:04:07.920 --> 04:04:18.280
Excellent, the whole package they do
for Sting. Nice. Here we

3285
04:04:18.479 --> 04:04:30.440
go game the Icon. Sting,
in my opinion, wrestling's biggest star today,

3286
04:04:31.600 --> 04:04:37.479
professional wrestling icon. There's no other
way to put it. Who's competed

3287
04:04:37.520 --> 04:04:41.319
at the highest level for several years
against the best in the world. I

3288
04:04:41.440 --> 04:04:43.920
love Sting. I think this thing
has been a huge part of this company,

3289
04:04:45.319 --> 04:04:48.680
has made it a high successful.
A lot of fans, a lot

3290
04:04:48.719 --> 04:04:52.680
of followers been hanging on to watch
Sting and it's the only way you can

3291
04:04:52.760 --> 04:04:58.959
watch thing. I think anybody who's
followed wrestling for the last twenty five years

3292
04:05:00.639 --> 04:05:07.280
realizes what Sting has done. He
is the icon. The man knows how

3293
04:05:07.360 --> 04:05:11.239
to go in here, number one, to perform, number two, how

3294
04:05:11.280 --> 04:05:16.680
to wrestle. He's always given on
you the ten percent He's always going out

3295
04:05:16.760 --> 04:05:22.000
there and bust this behind and he's
always one that when he had the franchise

3296
04:05:22.159 --> 04:05:26.280
is the icon. He's somebody that
you know us again, part of the

3297
04:05:26.360 --> 04:05:30.399
influence of why I wanted to come
here, to be able to work alongside

3298
04:05:30.440 --> 04:05:35.079
of Sting. It's Crimsing is you
know, I'm a huge fan of his

3299
04:05:35.319 --> 04:05:39.040
and getting to no Sting on a
personal level, he's just a great human

3300
04:05:39.079 --> 04:05:41.000
being and he's always there to help
the There are a lot of guys that

3301
04:05:43.239 --> 04:05:46.959
you see come along and do great
things. I got to getting the ring

3302
04:05:46.239 --> 04:05:50.239
with an icon. They've meant the
world to me. I constantly tell him,

3303
04:05:52.120 --> 04:05:58.159
you don't understand how good you really
are. You don't know you know

3304
04:05:58.680 --> 04:06:01.959
how good things are when you hit
that building, when the fans you.

3305
04:06:03.559 --> 04:06:09.719
I mean, his talent is unmatchable, his timing is uncomparable, your presence.

3306
04:06:09.920 --> 04:06:18.760
Everything that he has is all the
working girl. So if you have

3307
04:06:18.799 --> 04:06:28.600
a sham, still live forever.
Fucking Trevor Rabin's score from Armageddon? Is

3308
04:06:28.639 --> 04:06:31.719
it really? No? It sounds
like it though, definitely a rip off

3309
04:06:31.840 --> 04:06:35.440
of it, definitely an AI derivative
version of it. Yeah, Yeah,

3310
04:06:35.479 --> 04:06:39.120
it was cool. So that Sting
to become the first Hall of Famer.

3311
04:06:39.159 --> 04:06:43.879
And do they still they still have
a Hall of Fame? Do really?

3312
04:06:43.280 --> 04:06:48.120
Yep? They put Ken Shamrock in
and Rock sent a video in two years

3313
04:06:48.159 --> 04:06:54.799
ago. Rock showed up on Impact. What yeah in video form? Are

3314
04:06:54.879 --> 04:06:58.959
you serious? He shot a video? He did it right after he shot

3315
04:06:58.000 --> 04:07:01.120
his video endorsing by for President,
because you could tell it was the same

3316
04:07:01.200 --> 04:07:05.479
clothes in the same setting, the
same background. Whatever. God, and

3317
04:07:05.760 --> 04:07:13.680
uh yeah, so he's doing He's
doing cameos for inventually essentially literally. There's

3318
04:07:13.719 --> 04:07:18.479
also the Jericho of TNA UM cameo
because they used his song Enemy in the

3319
04:07:18.600 --> 04:07:22.399
music video from Fozzy as the opening
montage for one of their pay per views,

3320
04:07:22.559 --> 04:07:26.479
and of course the music video has
Chris Jericho all over it. So

3321
04:07:26.600 --> 04:07:30.760
you watched this TNA show and Chris
Jericho's on the screen. Wow. Um.

3322
04:07:31.200 --> 04:07:35.760
They also put um this year.
Last year, rather, they were

3323
04:07:35.799 --> 04:07:37.559
able to get a deal with WWE, where I remember when Mickey James came

3324
04:07:37.559 --> 04:07:41.079
out on a Rumble and she was
called the Impact Women's Champion. Yes,

3325
04:07:41.639 --> 04:07:46.520
they were able to use footage of
ww's actual royal Rumble on their Impact show

3326
04:07:46.799 --> 04:07:50.079
on a Holy shit, that was
a real trip to see clips of the

3327
04:07:50.120 --> 04:07:54.840
actual rumble courtesy of re Wait.
How can they call him? How can

3328
04:07:54.879 --> 04:07:56.959
they? I'm looking out now,
how can they call Sting a one time

3329
04:07:58.079 --> 04:08:03.879
NWA World champion? Um? Probably
the international. They probably decided to call

3330
04:08:03.920 --> 04:08:11.879
that the NWA. I mean he
was NWA champion a few times. Um

3331
04:08:11.799 --> 04:08:16.399
really just saying yeah, but he
beats Flare at ninety it's beat fast.

3332
04:08:18.719 --> 04:08:22.200
Yeah, because they didn't make the
w w World title to ninety one when

3333
04:08:22.239 --> 04:08:24.040
he leaves. That's right, that's
the belt I associate with Sting. It's

3334
04:08:24.040 --> 04:08:26.840
the w w W World title,
not the big goal. But yeah,

3335
04:08:26.879 --> 04:08:31.319
there it is. So why are
you asking? Why did they they put

3336
04:08:31.399 --> 04:08:35.799
him down as an as a one
time Did he win the NWA World Championship

3337
04:08:35.799 --> 04:08:39.520
in in TNA? No? Oh
he didn't. Oh yes he did,

3338
04:08:39.639 --> 04:08:43.639
Yes he did. He won that
fucking luther as the the Harley Race belt.

3339
04:08:43.719 --> 04:08:46.520
Yes he did. I could picture
him hoisting it up at bound for

3340
04:08:46.559 --> 04:08:50.360
glory right now. So I'm yeah, they hadn't called it the TNA world

3341
04:08:50.399 --> 04:08:54.319
title yet, not Yeah it was. It was the it was the fucking

3342
04:08:54.399 --> 04:08:58.639
license plate belt. So weird.
Yeah, they don't call it the NBA

3343
04:09:00.559 --> 04:09:03.040
yeah, well they you know,
originally he was in Watna the company and

3344
04:09:03.120 --> 04:09:07.920
they right remember that they dropped the
affiliation really with the Alliance, but they

3345
04:09:09.000 --> 04:09:13.159
kept the belt. I feel like
that makes any sense. It doesn't really,

3346
04:09:13.280 --> 04:09:16.719
but I mean they call him NWA
World Headweight Championship under Jim Crocker Promotions

3347
04:09:16.799 --> 04:09:20.879
one time. I mean, yeah, it's this, you know, it's

3348
04:09:20.239 --> 04:09:24.959
technically the same lineage, but whatever
when I call that a t AA bell,

3349
04:09:24.040 --> 04:09:26.479
who am I? Who am I? Exactly? Who are you?

3350
04:09:26.559 --> 04:09:31.000
Who am I? So that there's
the uh, the tip of the captives

3351
04:09:31.000 --> 04:09:35.879
Sting and it's it's actually really fitting
because one of the things that keeps coming

3352
04:09:35.959 --> 04:09:39.600
up is a card AW might play
when they go to Wembley Stadium in August.

3353
04:09:39.799 --> 04:09:45.440
Is Sting's retirement match before this massive
crowd. Yeah, and um,

3354
04:09:45.680 --> 04:09:48.040
he's ready to retire. He's been
very public about that. It has just

3355
04:09:48.159 --> 04:09:52.120
done remarkable things in AW in terms
of just the risks he's taken in matches.

3356
04:09:52.559 --> 04:09:56.680
It's really it's so stupid. Really, yes, it's how he has

3357
04:09:58.920 --> 04:10:03.799
yeah, you know, how he
has been able to last. I mean

3358
04:10:03.879 --> 04:10:07.399
he's like he's old school and this
is like Nick Backwinkle type shit, Yeah,

3359
04:10:07.680 --> 04:10:11.360
totally great example. I mean he's
sixty four years old, this guy,

3360
04:10:11.840 --> 04:10:16.040
and here he is right with hulkoken
in TNA in twenty twelve, and

3361
04:10:16.120 --> 04:10:20.200
Hulkokean can't even move and he did
not even a tenth of what Sting did

3362
04:10:20.239 --> 04:10:22.600
physically in the ring in terms of
risk taking and high flying and bump taking

3363
04:10:22.760 --> 04:10:26.440
right right, and Stings still going
and Hope can't even get out of the

3364
04:10:26.520 --> 04:10:33.360
car without a cane, and Sting
is still coming off balconies, landed on

3365
04:10:33.440 --> 04:10:37.799
four wrestlers, He's doing plaunches,
he's he's doing these things in a control

3366
04:10:37.879 --> 04:10:41.280
to one off manner. But he's
even the fact that he can even entertain

3367
04:10:41.479 --> 04:10:46.840
the notion, let alone execute on
it. It's just right. I mean,

3368
04:10:46.879 --> 04:10:50.079
we're seeing a special talent here in
TNH. I mean Sting will go

3369
04:10:50.159 --> 04:10:52.760
down as the hero of the journey
because sure, no question, this is

3370
04:10:52.799 --> 04:10:56.920
where we actually come the thing.
You know, Hogan, A bunch of

3371
04:10:56.040 --> 04:10:58.920
workers he is, and that in
that package you just played, he does

3372
04:11:00.120 --> 04:11:05.280
put his finger on it. This
is finally how good Sting is made manifest

3373
04:11:05.719 --> 04:11:07.840
Like, yeah, he's finally getting
a chance to show how well rounded he

3374
04:11:09.000 --> 04:11:13.920
is in the in the TNA presentation, which is as much spotlights he received

3375
04:11:13.959 --> 04:11:18.399
in WCW. It was never it
never came at a time when he was

3376
04:11:18.799 --> 04:11:24.360
um incentivized to put forward this much
depth of a character. You know,

3377
04:11:24.479 --> 04:11:26.319
he was just doing a backstage hit, backstage promo and hitting the ring and

3378
04:11:26.920 --> 04:11:30.760
and yeah, he was a pretty
poor promo in his earliest days as World

3379
04:11:30.879 --> 04:11:35.799
Champion, he was. But man, whenever he got this good, it's

3380
04:11:35.799 --> 04:11:37.959
probably the same time he was silent
for fucking two years. You know,

3381
04:11:39.159 --> 04:11:43.440
it could say a word to express
the first place. So this is this

3382
04:11:43.559 --> 04:11:48.200
is specially here. You know,
he's only six years younger than um,

3383
04:11:48.680 --> 04:11:54.440
than Hogan too. That's something.
It's remarkable that again, that he's able

3384
04:11:54.520 --> 04:12:01.200
to do that he's able to do
as much as he has done, and

3385
04:12:01.319 --> 04:12:05.000
that he does, I mean,
it's it's nuts. Yea. He still

3386
04:12:05.000 --> 04:12:07.760
gets good at airtime on the Stinger
splashes. He yeah, he wrestles in

3387
04:12:07.840 --> 04:12:13.040
a long sleeve and pants and everything. But I just I'm just blown away

3388
04:12:13.159 --> 04:12:16.680
by what he's been able to do
and how how much of a career he's

3389
04:12:16.719 --> 04:12:20.000
been able to carve out outside of
WWEB, from w W to TNA to

3390
04:12:20.040 --> 04:12:24.440
AW He's found a way, you
know, to have a path where he

3391
04:12:24.559 --> 04:12:28.600
can be a legend and make great
money in the business without having to work

3392
04:12:28.639 --> 04:12:31.159
for WWE. Of course he did
for a couple of years, and I

3393
04:12:31.200 --> 04:12:33.719
wonder if he would have gotten hired
if it wasn't for all the TNA stuff

3394
04:12:33.719 --> 04:12:37.120
we're watching right now, right you
know, if you're gonna say aj Styles

3395
04:12:37.120 --> 04:12:39.280
got in their radar, he Sting
got in their radar too, because Pritchard's

3396
04:12:39.319 --> 04:12:43.200
back there. He's working with Sting
for the first time. He's becoming acquainted

3397
04:12:43.239 --> 04:12:48.360
with Sting. Well maybe he touched
touch paths with him in UM in Mid

3398
04:12:48.479 --> 04:12:52.520
South or Dalla the Dallas days,
but um anyway, you know, this

3399
04:12:52.719 --> 04:12:54.879
is really him seeing what Sting can
do and working closely and when he goes

3400
04:12:54.920 --> 04:12:58.360
back to WWE, yeah, you
know he's gonna put in a good word

3401
04:12:58.440 --> 04:13:05.520
triple ah. It is so crazy
that how how really they never got They

3402
04:13:05.639 --> 04:13:11.840
got a couple things out of them, but really not a good, a

3403
04:13:11.000 --> 04:13:15.559
good real round, nothing close to
what it should have been. It just

3404
04:13:15.760 --> 04:13:18.239
it was just it was just confirmation. It's a lot like how Vince us

3405
04:13:18.319 --> 04:13:22.120
Dusty and and in eighty nine and
ninety. You know, it's like it

3406
04:13:22.239 --> 04:13:26.159
was just confirmation that the thing,
the only thing standing in the way all

3407
04:13:26.200 --> 04:13:30.120
along was some personal hang up Vince
McMahon and Vince McMahon only had about the

3408
04:13:30.159 --> 04:13:33.760
performer, right. It probably has
a lot to do with them being presented

3409
04:13:33.840 --> 04:13:37.879
as the baby face counterpart to your
hull Hogan. And you have to hate

3410
04:13:37.959 --> 04:13:41.719
that guy right right, You have
to see only flaws in that guy.

3411
04:13:41.159 --> 04:13:46.360
You have to or at least you
have to emphasize one fatal flaw. You

3412
04:13:46.440 --> 04:13:50.719
know. I'm sure Vince had a
shorthand thing to dismiss hiring Sting year after

3413
04:13:50.840 --> 04:13:56.120
year after year, just some sort
of like belief he had about his lack

3414
04:13:56.159 --> 04:14:00.200
of ability in a certain department that
could easily be disproved. But no in

3415
04:14:00.239 --> 04:14:03.719
that room is going to do the
work to convince Vince McMahon that actually Sting

3416
04:14:03.799 --> 04:14:07.559
isn't is limited. And when he
brings in Sting and gives him that fake

3417
04:14:07.680 --> 04:14:11.120
voice, when he that tells you
all you need to know, there's something

3418
04:14:11.120 --> 04:14:15.719
about the wasting talks that pisces off
Vince McMahon. I mean, hey,

3419
04:14:15.840 --> 04:14:18.920
pisses me off too. I get
it. I don't I don't like it,

3420
04:14:18.159 --> 04:14:22.680
but you know it, um,
again, the way he's booked here,

3421
04:14:22.959 --> 04:14:26.840
it just it all works, all
works, that's correct. Well,

3422
04:14:26.879 --> 04:14:33.639
he's just this guy that like he
wears non WWE on his sleeve, like

3423
04:14:33.760 --> 04:14:37.120
he's just yeah, oh totally,
He's a guy you can point to to

3424
04:14:37.159 --> 04:14:41.920
say, this guy made it as
a superstar and pro wrestling without Vince McMahon.

3425
04:14:43.239 --> 04:14:46.280
In a weird way, I wish
he never actually came into WWE for

3426
04:14:46.319 --> 04:14:48.120
that period of time. Looking back
on it, I absolutely wish it didn't

3427
04:14:48.120 --> 04:14:52.079
happen for him. I'm glad it
happened, but it didn't. It didn't

3428
04:14:52.079 --> 04:14:56.120
help. It would have been It
would have been kind of cool for him

3429
04:14:56.239 --> 04:15:01.879
to be able to say that he's
like the guy yeah, like in a

3430
04:15:01.959 --> 04:15:05.760
weird way, I would I would
have liked this to happen that he he

3431
04:15:07.200 --> 04:15:15.360
never goes to WWE, he retires
in a w and then and then gets

3432
04:15:15.399 --> 04:15:18.440
brought in interduction to the Hall of
Fame. You go, that would have

3433
04:15:18.520 --> 04:15:22.399
been better for me. Did he
get induc w Hall of Fame? He

3434
04:15:22.479 --> 04:15:24.040
never did, did it? That's
why they brought him in. Yeah,

3435
04:15:24.040 --> 04:15:26.879
that's why they brought him and we
were there, We were there. Did

3436
04:15:26.920 --> 04:15:30.719
the whole kitten kaboodle. That's right. What am I saying? See,

3437
04:15:30.760 --> 04:15:33.479
I was thinking he's got it later, but yeah, it was like part

3438
04:15:33.520 --> 04:15:35.840
of the deal. It was,
it was it. I mean it was

3439
04:15:35.959 --> 04:15:41.639
like two years after two WrestleManias after
he was in because they brought him in

3440
04:15:41.719 --> 04:15:45.959
and he for the video game tie
in as well. That was a big

3441
04:15:46.079 --> 04:15:50.000
deal because he was brought back Warrior. That's why they brought back Everybody Savage

3442
04:15:50.040 --> 04:15:54.280
too for that like one off engagement
they did with him in the studio Brett

3443
04:15:54.360 --> 04:15:56.799
to some degree, like you bring
him in for the video game and on

3444
04:15:56.920 --> 04:16:03.879
the Hall of Fame and then didn
Corectum. Yeah, no, no,

3445
04:16:03.159 --> 04:16:07.799
it was kind of It's kind of
funny that he has these, you know,

3446
04:16:07.799 --> 04:16:10.920
because here was a guy. Remember
he gave an awful speech. Yeah,

3447
04:16:11.040 --> 04:16:17.760
that's why it didn't remember it.
It was so bad. And I

3448
04:16:18.000 --> 04:16:21.920
found it to be so odd because, you know, because he's a guy,

3449
04:16:22.079 --> 04:16:23.079
like you've said, he just you
know, he wasn't a fan.

3450
04:16:23.200 --> 04:16:26.799
He didn't like grow up with it. It was it was a means to

3451
04:16:26.879 --> 04:16:30.319
an end, so to speak.
But it's like you watch him here,

3452
04:16:32.360 --> 04:16:36.040
it's so different, it is.
I mean, he talk about this character

3453
04:16:36.200 --> 04:16:38.200
is like this is me. This
is how I was in the locker room,

3454
04:16:40.079 --> 04:16:45.520
you know, like I do voice. He's alive. He's alive here

3455
04:16:45.639 --> 04:16:48.639
and it's so much fun. I
haven't watched enough a W to know,

3456
04:16:48.879 --> 04:16:52.920
like in terms of him cutting promos
and stuff, to know what what he's

3457
04:16:52.959 --> 04:16:56.200
been like. But he doesn't talk
bubb us at all in a W.

3458
04:16:56.360 --> 04:17:02.319
He hardly ever time. He's just
like, he's like Darby Allen's you know,

3459
04:17:03.399 --> 04:17:07.239
trainer, Darby Allen's mentor. Yeah. Yeah, and it's been very

3460
04:17:07.239 --> 04:17:10.280
successful. I think they could do
something really cool with that. When he

3461
04:17:10.399 --> 04:17:14.120
when he exit stage right, you
know, finally hands it off to Darby

3462
04:17:14.239 --> 04:17:17.280
like you've you've learned all I can
teach you kind of thing. Yeah,

3463
04:17:17.559 --> 04:17:19.319
he may should. Maybe you shouldn't
wrestle Darby. I don't know, Oh

3464
04:17:19.479 --> 04:17:22.719
say that a way to do it? They should have some kind of a

3465
04:17:22.799 --> 04:17:26.719
should you should give me the opoint? Rob there? Yeah? Very interesting?

3466
04:17:26.479 --> 04:17:30.200
Um so JB welcome staying to the
ring. He comes out in his

3467
04:17:30.280 --> 04:17:33.680
red T shirt and well, I
guess it's obvious. Lammiversary twenty twelve is

3468
04:17:33.680 --> 04:17:36.000
going to have done in history of
one of the greatest nights I've ever experienced.

3469
04:17:36.000 --> 04:17:37.680
In pro wrestling, and you could
you say, how could it be

3470
04:17:37.799 --> 04:17:41.159
so great? When Bobby Rood did
what he did? And the two weeks

3471
04:17:41.280 --> 04:17:44.959
leading up, I had one goal
to take a big, huge chunk out

3472
04:17:45.000 --> 04:17:47.440
of Bobby Rood's hide, and I
did that. But to be the very

3473
04:17:47.479 --> 04:17:49.600
first inductee into the TENA Hall of
Fame, I can't even tell you what

3474
04:17:49.680 --> 04:17:52.799
it means to me that you deserve
a chance, thank you, Staying,

3475
04:17:52.840 --> 04:17:56.479
et cetera. Sting says, I
got to tell you something. I stood

3476
04:17:56.559 --> 04:18:00.079
up on the stage at Slammiversary next
to all the great talent, and I

3477
04:18:00.200 --> 04:18:02.959
realized so many others just as deserving, if not more than me, were

3478
04:18:03.000 --> 04:18:04.879
next to me. It should be
receiving such an honor. So I want

3479
04:18:04.920 --> 04:18:08.840
to say thank you to some people. And he only gets to shout out

3480
04:18:08.920 --> 04:18:14.840
Jerry and Jeff Jarrett because they started
TNA again. Jarrett's involved in the Indian

3481
04:18:15.920 --> 04:18:19.079
venture at this point in time,
Ring King, and he says, and

3482
04:18:19.159 --> 04:18:22.200
he's about to keep going with thinking
who he needs to thank, but this

3483
04:18:22.319 --> 04:18:29.799
is wrestling and it's all about heat, and he's attacked and blindsided by three

3484
04:18:30.120 --> 04:18:34.520
complete strangers. I had no fucking
idea. I was like I literally I

3485
04:18:34.639 --> 04:18:37.280
was like, what the fuck is
this? Guys? Three Google goods and

3486
04:18:37.399 --> 04:18:41.840
leather vests and jeans, and there
they look like thieves in the night and

3487
04:18:41.879 --> 04:18:48.159
they're attacking sting to abject silence from
the Impact zone, who actually wanted to

3488
04:18:48.239 --> 04:18:51.479
have a moment here with the stinger
right right now, it's just going to

3489
04:18:51.520 --> 04:18:53.360
be an angle the guys. They
don't know and who the fuck are these

3490
04:18:53.399 --> 04:18:56.120
guys? And the announcers are certainly
stiling it that way, and stings crawling

3491
04:18:56.159 --> 04:19:00.879
around in his stomach as they lay
into him, and Tony is lamenting.

3492
04:19:00.920 --> 04:19:03.159
On a night where we pay tribute
to Hold, they have to deal with

3493
04:19:03.239 --> 04:19:07.440
this. Where's Hogan? Where's Hogan? They chant for him? Where's everybody?

3494
04:19:07.680 --> 04:19:10.879
Never too far from the whole emotion
of the show being is Hogan going

3495
04:19:10.920 --> 04:19:12.280
to come out and save the day? Or what? Right? Right?

3496
04:19:12.680 --> 04:19:17.879
That's never too far away, And
they just keep prominent pummeling him as they

3497
04:19:17.920 --> 04:19:21.040
put the credits up for the end
of this Impact episode, and we're left

3498
04:19:21.079 --> 04:19:22.920
to ponder, what, what the
hell is? What the hell is this

3499
04:19:23.040 --> 04:19:29.719
all about? What the hell is
this all about? That's the question that

3500
04:19:29.840 --> 04:19:33.959
might be the thought that crossed Hulk
Hogan's mind and another flash point of two

3501
04:19:33.000 --> 04:19:37.760
thousand and twelve that we buy design
saved for the very end of this week's

3502
04:19:37.799 --> 04:19:44.040
episode of tnh oh It's not a
small development March twelfth, Pardon me.

3503
04:19:44.159 --> 04:19:56.079
March seventh, twenty twelve. TMZ
dot Com a sex tape featuring legendary wrestler

3504
04:19:56.159 --> 04:20:04.440
Hulk Hogan as surfaced and TMZ has
learned it's currently being shopped to a major

3505
04:20:04.520 --> 04:20:11.559
porn studio. We've seen a portion
of the granny footage featuring Hulk getting undressed

3506
04:20:11.600 --> 04:20:15.639
and a naked, unidentified brunette lying
on a bed. The woman is not,

3507
04:20:15.920 --> 04:20:19.680
it says in all caps, his
ex wife Linda or his current wife

3508
04:20:19.760 --> 04:20:25.719
Jennifer McDaniel. In the clip,
Hulk pulls his shirt off and brags to

3509
04:20:25.840 --> 04:20:30.440
his companion, I started to work
out again. Hulk then runs his hands

3510
04:20:30.479 --> 04:20:36.680
through his blonde hair like he always
does the best part Hulk's thong shaped tan

3511
04:20:36.840 --> 04:20:41.920
line. It's unclear when the tape
was shot, but Vivid hancho Steve Hirsch

3512
04:20:42.719 --> 04:20:48.440
tells TMZ he was approached with the
tape very recently by a third party.

3513
04:20:48.840 --> 04:20:52.159
So far, no word on whether
hirsh or Hey, I'm a big fan

3514
04:20:52.200 --> 04:21:00.079
of that love. Third parties can't
confirm nor deny it was me, but

3515
04:21:00.280 --> 04:21:06.079
can confirm that I am third party. I can confirm that I am a

3516
04:21:06.159 --> 04:21:11.200
third party candidate for the President of
the United States of the Jesse does it

3517
04:21:11.239 --> 04:21:18.159
to the Hulk story again takes the
spotlight. So far, TMZ reported no

3518
04:21:18.280 --> 04:21:21.040
word on whether hrsh or anyone else
has made an offer to buy the tape.

3519
04:21:21.559 --> 04:21:25.440
Hulk did not have an immediate comment. Hulk says the tape was secretly

3520
04:21:25.479 --> 04:21:27.639
filmed without his permission and now his
lawyers on the rampage. This is a

3521
04:21:27.680 --> 04:21:34.479
follow up claiming we will take all
necessary steps to enforce both civil and criminal

3522
04:21:36.120 --> 04:21:41.520
liability. This is the point of
no return and the Hulk Hogan story and

3523
04:21:41.600 --> 04:21:48.920
the TNH journey. March twenty twelve. It's all about the existence of a

3524
04:21:48.000 --> 04:21:53.479
Hulk Hogan sex tape. Boss.
You think about Paris Hilton, you think

3525
04:21:53.479 --> 04:21:59.920
about Kim Kardashian, you think about
Pamela Anderson yep. You think about people

3526
04:22:00.239 --> 04:22:04.840
who kind of get thrust into a
higher level of pop culture celebrity because tape

3527
04:22:04.879 --> 04:22:15.000
exists of their crotch, and Hulkogan
is now part of that elite company.

3528
04:22:15.879 --> 04:22:22.120
It is a complete narrative shift around
what people see when they look at Hulkogan,

3529
04:22:22.040 --> 04:22:25.680
and it's never gonna wear off,
and it's never gonna go away.

3530
04:22:26.559 --> 04:22:30.399
And it happens in twenty twelve.
And something else that happens in that fateful

3531
04:22:30.479 --> 04:22:37.079
month of March hits the Tampa Bay
Times and it reads, lest the cast

3532
04:22:37.159 --> 04:22:41.920
of spring Breakers take up all our
time and energy. The Juice Legal Department

3533
04:22:41.959 --> 04:22:52.799
has obtained details of shock Jog bab
Bah the love sponge Clem settlement with his

3534
04:22:52.920 --> 04:22:56.280
ex wife, who actually signed her
name in court papers. Who's Heather don

3535
04:22:56.680 --> 04:23:03.399
the love sponge Clem. Imagine the
name change forms she's going to have to

3536
04:23:03.479 --> 04:23:07.600
fill out. Actually, if every
thirteen sentlement agrees, she is changing her

3537
04:23:07.680 --> 04:23:08.959
name back to Heather don Cole.
So it won't be that big of a

3538
04:23:10.079 --> 04:23:12.920
deal. Neither was her alimony and
papers filed at the Panella Circuit Court.

3539
04:23:12.959 --> 04:23:18.559
Heather will receive fifty six months worth
of alimony starting March first, totaling one

3540
04:23:19.079 --> 04:23:22.280
one hundred and fifty dollars per month. That's not a lot for a guy

3541
04:23:22.319 --> 04:23:26.520
who claimed annual income. The paper
reports in two ten of one point five

3542
04:23:26.600 --> 04:23:30.079
five million dollars maybe that's why she
also got a one time payment of twenty

3543
04:23:30.120 --> 04:23:34.399
grand. Two Heather had listed monthly
expenses of more than sixteen grand, including

3544
04:23:34.440 --> 04:23:37.959
a thousand dollars per month for vacations
and fifteen hundred per month for entertainment,

3545
04:23:38.280 --> 04:23:44.159
a thousand for cosmetics and sunduries,
and fifteen hundred for clothing. That's more

3546
04:23:44.200 --> 04:23:45.879
than the Juice has spent hunclosed in
the last year. Sorry to say the

3547
04:23:45.959 --> 04:23:49.719
juice is the name of this column. He also has to kick in a

3548
04:23:49.760 --> 04:23:55.319
couple thousand dollars to her IRA account. She made thirty grand working form at

3549
04:23:55.399 --> 04:23:57.479
Buba Radio Network, a job she
can still have through late twenty sixteen when

3550
04:23:57.479 --> 04:24:00.680
the alimony runs out unless she remas
before then. Bubba still has to pay

3551
04:24:00.719 --> 04:24:06.280
for her health insurance too. Heather
also gets a raft of cooking utensils and

3552
04:24:06.319 --> 04:24:11.479
equipment, plus the couple's Chevrolet Suburban
and shell Chevy Silverado. That leaves Bubba

3553
04:24:11.520 --> 04:24:14.200
with just a Harley in a two
thousand and one and two thousand and three

3554
04:24:14.639 --> 04:24:18.159
day wu to get around two day
Woo's Really at least he has three jet

3555
04:24:18.239 --> 04:24:22.559
skis. Is this whole Coken's alimony
or this Bubba the luft Spudge's alimony.

3556
04:24:22.639 --> 04:24:26.799
Jesus Christ, do these two have
a lot in common? Or what I'll

3557
04:24:26.840 --> 04:24:30.680
say? In fact, Bubba also
has two hundred grand and Rock and Roll

3558
04:24:30.719 --> 04:24:34.319
in sports memberabilia, contributing to assets
worth two point nine million dollars. Bubbo's

3559
04:24:34.319 --> 04:24:37.840
a reported current business income of thirty
grand per month. He owns or has

3560
04:24:37.879 --> 04:24:42.959
invested in companies like Clem Racing,
Bubba's Bean's Iron Works, which he co

3561
04:24:44.079 --> 04:24:47.559
owns with manager Thomas Bean, and
BRN Travel. The forty five year old

3562
04:24:47.559 --> 04:24:49.440
already has to pay forty five hundred
a month in child support for son Tyler,

3563
04:24:49.520 --> 04:24:53.319
from a previous relationship. Heather thirty
seven, has a daughter named Julia

3564
04:24:53.399 --> 04:24:56.840
from a prior relationship too, but
she and Bubba have no children of their

3565
04:24:56.879 --> 04:25:00.879
own. What he has is a
house worth nine hundred thirty six grand with

3566
04:25:00.000 --> 04:25:03.479
a six hundred five thousand dollars mortgage, plus a vacant lot valued at four

3567
04:25:03.559 --> 04:25:07.239
hundred forty four thousand, with a
loan of five hundred and eighty four grand,

3568
04:25:07.399 --> 04:25:11.399
contributing to two million dollars in obligations
that net worth dropped really fast.

3569
04:25:12.440 --> 04:25:17.000
Bubba and Heather are both responsible for
their own legal costs, though, and

3570
04:25:17.159 --> 04:25:19.120
both have agreed not to talk about
each other in public. That was caused

3571
04:25:19.159 --> 04:25:22.639
for consternation in a series of contempt
motions filed because Bubba would go on to

3572
04:25:22.719 --> 04:25:26.159
show and say things like I hope
to Fox she loses her engagement ring,

3573
04:25:26.719 --> 04:25:30.639
a bauble he said on air cost
seventy three thousand dollars but was valued at

3574
04:25:30.680 --> 04:25:37.239
fifty grand. The pair married January
two thousand and seven first Baptist Church of

3575
04:25:37.280 --> 04:25:41.799
Saint Petersburg in a relatively traditional wedding
featuring Hulk Hogan is the best man.

3576
04:25:42.920 --> 04:25:45.879
Howard Stern and several members of his
on air crew attended, as did former

3577
04:25:45.959 --> 04:25:51.479
Chicago Tribune CEO Randy Michaels. The
judgment was proved February twenty third. The

3578
04:25:51.559 --> 04:25:56.079
reason for the divorce was irreconcilable differences. Bubba Nay Todd Alan Clem has said

3579
04:25:56.120 --> 04:26:00.360
he worked all the time with more
than a million five an annual come that

3580
04:26:00.520 --> 04:26:07.879
much is obvious. So Boss,
a week after news finally hits that a

3581
04:26:07.000 --> 04:26:12.040
whole Coogan sex tape exists and we
know who shot it, Bubba and Heather

3582
04:26:14.120 --> 04:26:21.719
resolve their divorce. Wow, what
happened? Well? A lot in time.

3583
04:26:22.760 --> 04:26:26.319
But let me just convey this as
we wrap up TNH this week.

3584
04:26:26.479 --> 04:26:32.479
This is a series of statements of
facts from one of the many filings in

3585
04:26:32.559 --> 04:26:37.040
the legal volleys back and forth between
Hulkogan and Gawker Media, which, as

3586
04:26:37.079 --> 04:26:44.200
we've talked about in the earlier installments
of TNH, published the actual videotape or

3587
04:26:44.239 --> 04:26:48.200
at least an excerpt of it,
of Hulkogan absolutely going to town on Bubba's

3588
04:26:48.239 --> 04:26:52.840
wife. And this lays forward a
fact pattern that I think will prove instructive

3589
04:26:52.879 --> 04:27:00.600
and important context. As we round
third in our TNH journey, we go

3590
04:27:00.639 --> 04:27:04.239
to the court papers. In or
about early twenty twelve, the Cox defendants

3591
04:27:04.280 --> 04:27:11.799
illegally obtained a copy of the surreptitious
recordings of plaintiff at being Hogan inspired with

3592
04:27:11.920 --> 04:27:17.440
one another to use and disclose the
contents of said recordings to harm plaintiff and

3593
04:27:17.600 --> 04:27:23.879
obtain an improper economic benefit. So
that's in or about early twenty twelve.

3594
04:27:26.120 --> 04:27:30.440
So it's not just the UH,
that's just the news media that picks up

3595
04:27:30.479 --> 04:27:36.399
on it. In twenty twelve it
is shopped around for the first times and

3596
04:27:36.440 --> 04:27:40.840
twelve Jesus, I'd like your help, boss, And continuing to convey this

3597
04:27:41.040 --> 04:27:45.120
fact pattern. Oh my god,
paragraph twenty six, if you could.

3598
04:27:48.760 --> 04:27:52.639
In or about early twenty twelve,
the Buckwall Defendants, Cox Defendants, and

3599
04:27:52.799 --> 04:28:00.239
Davidson Defends conspired with one another that
were sued for extorting allegedly Hull Coogan into

3600
04:28:00.959 --> 04:28:06.440
you know, pay us or this
tape gets released, essentially conspired with one

3601
04:28:06.479 --> 04:28:10.840
another to use and disclose the contents
of the illegal recordings of plaintiff to cause

3602
04:28:10.959 --> 04:28:15.520
him harm and obtain an improper economic
benefit, and in further an in further

3603
04:28:15.680 --> 04:28:22.719
instant thereof sold information relating to the
surreptitious recordings of plaintiff to media companies,

3604
04:28:22.760 --> 04:28:27.399
including among others, TMZ dot Com
and the Dirty dot Com, which information

3605
04:28:27.479 --> 04:28:33.479
included still still images and or portions
of the audio and video recordings of plaintiff

3606
04:28:33.559 --> 04:28:37.399
video recordings. Brother, would they
recorded everything I said to Heather? Dude?

3607
04:28:38.040 --> 04:28:42.559
M wait a second? Brother?
Whoa dude? I don't care if

3608
04:28:42.600 --> 04:28:48.399
people see my cock, but I
hear people pure about my cock. Brother.

3609
04:28:51.040 --> 04:28:53.959
Tmz dot Com reported on such information
starting on or about March seven,

3610
04:28:55.120 --> 04:28:57.600
twenty twelve, and the Dirty dot
Com reported on such information starting on or

3611
04:28:57.680 --> 04:29:03.959
about April nineteen, twenty twelve,
which reports included still images from the surreptitious

3612
04:29:04.120 --> 04:29:10.680
recordings of plaintiff, as well as
information regarding the contents of the audio portions

3613
04:29:11.280 --> 04:29:19.000
of the surreptitious recordings. During twenty
twelve, Lloyd and Caulta communicated repeatedly regarding

3614
04:29:19.000 --> 04:29:23.719
the formulation and execution of a plan
to release the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff,

3615
04:29:25.079 --> 04:29:29.799
including their strategy for releasing portions of
same to media outlets, for the purposing

3616
04:29:29.920 --> 04:29:34.120
of causing substantial economic arm to plaintiff, among others, while also furthering their

3617
04:29:34.200 --> 04:29:41.719
own radio broadcasting careers. Lloyd and
Calta were acting within the course and scope

3618
04:29:41.719 --> 04:29:45.360
of their employment by Cox when they
engaged an act of in furtherance of the

3619
04:29:45.479 --> 04:29:51.360
scheme and conspiracy to use Hogan was
also in the scope of his cock.

3620
04:29:51.840 --> 04:29:56.360
Absolutely, I think they have a
lot of company in that regard to use

3621
04:29:56.479 --> 04:30:03.479
cocks were engaged and disclose the contents
of the serrupitious recordings of mister Bolia and

3622
04:30:03.760 --> 04:30:12.440
let's see if we can enlist the
boss one more time. And some or

3623
04:30:12.520 --> 04:30:22.680
all of the acts were committed committed
at Cox's office located in Penella's County,

3624
04:30:22.719 --> 04:30:27.040
Florida, and or with the knowledge
and consent of Lloyd and Culta's immediate supervisors

3625
04:30:30.239 --> 04:30:34.200
ETE twenty nine take it away.
In or about late September twenty twelve,

3626
04:30:34.280 --> 04:30:38.479
Burton, in his capacity as a
talent agent employed by buck Walden Associates and

3627
04:30:38.600 --> 04:30:42.799
acting on behalf of and in concert
with cult a client of buck Walden Associates,

3628
04:30:44.079 --> 04:30:48.799
communicated with A. J. Delirio. Why is his name impi?

3629
04:30:48.920 --> 04:30:55.559
Why is his name also in?
But that is? That means so going

3630
04:30:55.639 --> 04:31:00.319
forward we're just going to call him
Delirio, not AJ Delirio, Delirious yes,

3631
04:31:00.159 --> 04:31:03.079
who was then the editor in chief
of gawker dot com, a popular

3632
04:31:03.159 --> 04:31:08.600
weblog owned by A Gawker. In
those communications, Burton stated A Delirio that

3633
04:31:08.680 --> 04:31:14.559
a DVD was being sent to Deliria
on Gawker containing a large portion of the

3634
04:31:14.760 --> 04:31:21.799
surreptitious recordings of plaintiff. Within days
of these communications, certain of the buck

3635
04:31:21.840 --> 04:31:26.040
Wall defendants, Cox defendants and or
Davidson defendants, or someone acting in concert

3636
04:31:26.120 --> 04:31:33.360
with them or at their direction,
sent to Delirio and Gawker a DVD containing

3637
04:31:33.399 --> 04:31:38.000
a little more than thirty minutes of
surreptitious recordings of plaintiff, including video images

3638
04:31:38.079 --> 04:31:45.399
of him fully naked and engaged in
consensual sexual activity with miss Clem, and

3639
04:31:45.559 --> 04:31:52.479
also including oral communications between plaintiff,
miss Clem and mister Clem. Burton,

3640
04:31:52.639 --> 04:31:56.840
acting on behalf of and in concert
with buck Hole defendants, Cox defendants and

3641
04:31:57.079 --> 04:32:06.200
Davidson defendants, knew and intended a
Delirio would publicly disclose content from the thirty

3642
04:32:06.239 --> 04:32:15.440
minute video. Delario edited the surreptitious
recordings of plaintiff contained within the thirty minute

3643
04:32:15.520 --> 04:32:19.879
video into a one minute and forty
second highlight reel video, which showed plaintiff

3644
04:32:19.920 --> 04:32:27.120
fully naked, receiving oral sex,
and engaged in sexual intercourse. The video

3645
04:32:27.200 --> 04:32:33.319
also included plaintiff's private oral communications with
miss Clem. Delaio and Gawker included English

3646
04:32:33.319 --> 04:32:37.639
subtitles to the video to ensure that
viewers understood every word spoken by plaintiff and

3647
04:32:37.639 --> 04:32:42.120
miss Clem during the one minute and
forty one seconds of their private encounter.

3648
04:32:44.319 --> 04:32:48.760
On October fourth, twenty twelve,
Gawker posted the one minute, forty one

3649
04:32:48.799 --> 04:32:52.559
second video to the Internet, along
with an incidental narrative description of the contents

3650
04:32:52.639 --> 04:32:56.840
of the thirty minute video, including
portions not contained in the one forty one

3651
04:32:56.959 --> 04:33:02.600
video. At least seven million people
watched the minute forty one second video on

3652
04:33:02.680 --> 04:33:06.279
the Internet. At around the same
time, Lloyd contacted De Luio using the

3653
04:33:06.319 --> 04:33:14.159
alias Jim Gennaro, to discuss additional
surreptitious recordings of plaintiff in October twenty twelve,

3654
04:33:14.200 --> 04:33:17.000
the Davidson defendants acting on behalf of
it, in concert with the Cox

3655
04:33:17.119 --> 04:33:21.159
defendants collectively the extortionists. Filing reads
so you can tell each side of the

3656
04:33:21.200 --> 04:33:25.959
aiolists comes from yeah contacted Council for
Plaintiffs seeking to extort money from plaintiff,

3657
04:33:26.000 --> 04:33:30.720
that being whole Cogan. The extortionists
threatened to release the entirety of the surreptitious

3658
04:33:30.759 --> 04:33:33.840
recordings of Hogan if Plaintiff did not
agree to make a very large payment in

3659
04:33:34.000 --> 04:33:37.759
exchange for all copies of the recordings. Davidson, representing and acting on behalf

3660
04:33:37.799 --> 04:33:44.119
of and in concert with the other
extortionists, specifically stated to Plaintiff's council that's

3661
04:33:44.119 --> 04:33:48.959
certain of the surreptitious recordings that were
created illegally and obtained illegally by the extortionists

3662
04:33:48.279 --> 04:33:53.840
contained insensitive racial remarks which could have
the effect of causing great economic harm to

3663
04:33:53.919 --> 04:34:00.959
plaintiff if released publicly. Initially,
the extortionists demanded one million dollars. Davidson,

3664
04:34:02.040 --> 04:34:04.840
representing an acting on behalf of and
in concert with the extortionists, also

3665
04:34:04.919 --> 04:34:10.240
told plaintiffs counsel that the extortionists,
who acted in agreement with and the assistance

3666
04:34:10.279 --> 04:34:14.000
of the Bukwald defendants, arranged for
a thirty minute video to be sent to

3667
04:34:14.040 --> 04:34:18.759
Gawker as a quote shot across the
Bow as part of the scheme to extort

3668
04:34:18.799 --> 04:34:23.119
money from plaintiff. The extortionists and
the Buchwald defendants agreed and worked in concert

3669
04:34:23.159 --> 04:34:26.360
with one another to send the thirty
minute video to Gawker and de Lario in

3670
04:34:26.560 --> 04:34:32.919
further rents of the scheme to extort
plaintiff with the surreptitious recordings promote Lloyd and

3671
04:34:32.959 --> 04:34:37.040
Cult's broadcast careers while injuring the career
of a competitor, and caused substantial economic

3672
04:34:37.159 --> 04:34:41.279
harm and severe emotional distress to plaintiff
through the release to Gawker and De Lario

3673
04:34:41.400 --> 04:34:45.759
of the thirty minute video. So
are they saying, boss that by releasing

3674
04:34:45.799 --> 04:34:49.439
the video, not only are they
harming the Hulkster, they're harming Bubba the

3675
04:34:49.520 --> 04:34:53.200
Love Sponge as well a competitor.
Oh my goodness, Is it Bubba to

3676
04:34:53.240 --> 04:35:00.200
Blaine or is it Bubba's position in
a world equally as shark infested as the

3677
04:35:00.240 --> 04:35:06.959
wrestling business that's to blame. Plaintiff's
Council contacted local law enforcement agencies for assistance

3678
04:35:07.000 --> 04:35:10.840
in investigating and prosecuting those involved in
the recording, use, exploitation, and

3679
04:35:10.919 --> 04:35:15.240
disclosure of the surreptitious video. However, local law enforcement advised Plaintiffs Council that

3680
04:35:15.360 --> 04:35:21.439
the statute of limitations for any violations
criminal violations under Florida law had expired because

3681
04:35:21.479 --> 04:35:26.119
the recordings were made in two thousand
and seven. Plaintiffs Council then reported the

3682
04:35:26.200 --> 04:35:30.799
extortionist's threat to the Tampa, Florida
Office of the FBI oh May. FBI

3683
04:35:30.919 --> 04:35:34.720
subsequently set up a sting operation,
which occurred on or about December fourteenth,

3684
04:35:34.799 --> 04:35:42.560
twenty twelve, at a hotel as
Clearwater. After all the parallels the sting

3685
04:35:42.680 --> 04:35:49.080
operation in Panellis County. On that
day, the extortionists followed through on their

3686
04:35:49.080 --> 04:35:52.720
plan to use the surreptitious recordings to
extort money from plaintiffs. Specifically, the

3687
04:35:52.759 --> 04:35:59.759
extortionists turned over what they represented double
as Council were all copies of all syrup

3688
04:35:59.799 --> 04:36:03.720
tis recordings of plaintiff and the possession
of the extortionists in exchange for a check

3689
04:36:03.159 --> 04:36:07.880
from Plaintiff's council in the amount of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a

3690
04:36:07.919 --> 04:36:11.319
commitment to make subsequent payments of an
additional one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for

3691
04:36:11.400 --> 04:36:18.279
a total extortion payment of three hundred
thousand dollars. Plaintiff and his counsel,

3692
04:36:18.360 --> 04:36:22.639
David Houston, appeared at the Clearwater
Beach Hotel that day. Hogan himself appeared

3693
04:36:22.680 --> 04:36:27.240
with his counsel and met mcdavidson and
Burbridge, representing an acting in concert with

3694
04:36:27.279 --> 04:36:32.639
the other extortionists and in furtherance of
their conspiracy for the execution of a purported

3695
04:36:32.799 --> 04:36:37.799
settlement agreement and the exchange of all
the copies of the surreptitious recordings from extortionists

3696
04:36:37.880 --> 04:36:44.279
to plaintiff and a one hundred and
fifty thousand dollar check from plaintiff's counsel to

3697
04:36:45.360 --> 04:36:51.880
the extortionists. High stakes meetings,
with the FBI listening in mosties, continued

3698
04:36:51.919 --> 04:36:56.200
to regale the solar system if he
could. Starting at paragraph thirty six,

3699
04:36:59.119 --> 04:37:06.159
the FBI recorded the activities of the
participants Plaintiff Houston, Davidson, Burbridge,

3700
04:37:06.840 --> 04:37:11.720
and the polygraph examiner who was working
undercover for the FBI in a room at

3701
04:37:11.759 --> 04:37:22.840
the hotel The hotel the hotel room
next door contained several armed FBI agents who

3702
04:37:22.959 --> 04:37:29.720
recorded the activities in the adjacent room
and prepared to make an arrest of the

3703
04:37:29.840 --> 04:37:40.880
extortionists. When Houston handed the check
to the Davidson and Burbridge representing the extortionists,

3704
04:37:41.599 --> 04:37:48.119
several FBI agents entered the room with
guns drawn, arrested Davidson and Burbridge,

3705
04:37:48.880 --> 04:37:59.200
and immediately removed plaintiff and Houston from
the room. Continue police on May

3706
04:37:59.279 --> 04:38:03.040
nineteen, twenty fifteen, for the
sole stated purpose of discovery and the prior

3707
04:38:03.080 --> 04:38:07.439
action to determine whether plaintiff knew he
was being recorded by mister Clem. In

3708
04:38:07.479 --> 04:38:12.479
two thousand and seven, Gawker filed
a separate federal lawsuit against the FBI under

3709
04:38:12.520 --> 04:38:19.040
the Freedom of Information Act to obtain
documents and information relating to the aforementioned FBI

3710
04:38:19.279 --> 04:38:27.520
investigation and operation styled Gawker Media Llc
at All versus Federal Bureau of Investigation,

3711
04:38:27.759 --> 04:38:32.599
US District Court, Middle District of
Florida, Case number blah blah, blah

3712
04:38:32.599 --> 04:38:37.520
blah blah. In particular, Gawker
sought to obtain other portions of the surreptitiously

3713
04:38:37.599 --> 04:38:44.799
recorded video of plaintiff which were not
at issue in or nor relevant to the

3714
04:38:44.880 --> 04:38:51.799
prior action. As the prior action
and the Gawker FBI action progressed, it

3715
04:38:51.959 --> 04:38:59.880
became clear that Gawker misrepresented the reason
why it was seeking discovery of the FBI

3716
04:39:00.080 --> 04:39:07.680
extortion investigation and operation. Gawker,
having become aware through discovery and the prior

3717
04:39:07.759 --> 04:39:17.080
action that other surreptitious recordings ceased during
the FBI sting operation purportedly contained racially insensitive

3718
04:39:17.240 --> 04:39:25.840
statements by plaintiff, used the Gawker
FBI action to try to gain access to

3719
04:39:26.000 --> 04:39:33.400
peep to video and or audio footage
of plaintiff making such statements, so Gawker

3720
04:39:33.240 --> 04:39:41.159
could use such statements against plaintiff to
destroy him publicly and as leverage to try

3721
04:39:41.240 --> 04:39:47.400
to force plaintiff to settle or drop
his claims heading into a jury trial.

3722
04:39:48.279 --> 04:39:52.000
In the prior action, thank you. During that we can queen and cut

3723
04:39:52.040 --> 04:40:00.400
it there. So twenty twelve is
when the real sharks start to come out.

3724
04:40:00.639 --> 04:40:11.680
FBI guns, drawn, extortion,
TMC articles, sex tapes, radio

3725
04:40:11.959 --> 04:40:22.840
market competition run absolutely rampant. This
is Hull Coogan and TNA Brother and this

3726
04:40:23.040 --> 04:40:30.240
is Bubba the Love Sponge. While
excised from the TNA wrestling picture, not

3727
04:40:30.439 --> 04:40:37.080
excised from Hulk Cogan circle. He's
still going on the radio. He's still

3728
04:40:37.119 --> 04:40:44.119
buddying up with his pal, and
he knows that he had his way with

3729
04:40:44.279 --> 04:40:49.200
Bubba's wife on several occasions back in
two thousand and seven with Bubba's approval.

3730
04:40:51.159 --> 04:40:56.319
But what Hulk didn't know was he
was being recorded, that Bubba knew who

3731
04:40:56.400 --> 04:41:00.119
was being recorded as well. But
is he the bad guy in all this?

3732
04:41:00.400 --> 04:41:08.080
After all we just read from court
pleadings. Was he extorting or was

3733
04:41:08.119 --> 04:41:12.119
he just being careless and put the
materials in the hands of people who were

3734
04:41:12.200 --> 04:41:18.959
prepared to extort. It's a tangled
web, but it all starts coming up

3735
04:41:18.240 --> 04:41:23.560
from underground to the surface in the
year twenty twelve. And we leave you

3736
04:41:25.520 --> 04:41:30.040
with some recent comments from Bubba the
Love Sponge himself in an interview he conducted

3737
04:41:30.080 --> 04:41:37.040
with a platform called Concrete. It's
available on YouTube. Looking back on the

3738
04:41:37.119 --> 04:41:44.240
Hogan saga that starts to become public, it becomes something we have to grapple

3739
04:41:44.319 --> 04:41:51.000
with when we look at Hulkegan himself
in twenty twelve, Bring us out with

3740
04:41:51.080 --> 04:41:56.000
Bubba. All the people that extorted
Hogan got away with it because I was

3741
04:41:56.119 --> 04:42:00.200
the victim. Because I'm a bad
guy, the loudmouth. I'm the guy

3742
04:42:00.319 --> 04:42:06.159
that lesbian Tuesdays, no panties Thursday, Redneck Monday, Spectics, squirrel,

3743
04:42:06.400 --> 04:42:10.959
you know, squirt, Olympics shoot
ping pongs out your pussy ping pong and

3744
04:42:11.319 --> 04:42:15.080
that guy doesn't make a good victim. We'll see you next time on TNH.