Speaker 1: You know there are great minds in this business and
Speaker 1: there are those who make the impact in the ring.
Speaker 1: Mary do the two meet head to head in an
Speaker 1: encounter quite like what we'll be seeing in the next
Speaker 1: round of the TLFX Games. King of the Cast Tournament. Hi,
Speaker 1: welcome back in to the TFX Games event center. I'm
Speaker 1: Shan Mooney and this next encounter replete with significance in history.
Speaker 1: As one of the most influential yet shadowy figures in
Speaker 1: the history of the business, Lapsed Jimmy Barnett, who was
Speaker 1: able to advance in the first round by defeating none
Speaker 1: other than Lapsed Scott Hall, once again casts his loving
Speaker 1: eye towards the man he called Sterling all those years,
Speaker 1: the one and only scion of the industry, Hulk Hogan,
Speaker 1: who was able to defeat his career long nemesis Macho
Speaker 1: Ran Randy Savage in the first round of the TLFX Games.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a battle between he who controlled
Speaker 1: the pencil and he who controlled the people as Jimmy
Speaker 1: Barnett faces hulkokein next in the TLFX Games. Before we
Speaker 1: hear from our principles in this encounter, we do want
Speaker 1: to remind you that the TLFX Games Tournament in the
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Speaker 1: It's definitely not an IPA. We're talking garage beer in
Speaker 1: the garage is always open. Let's take it now to
Speaker 1: Atlanta and the booking office of the power player, of
Speaker 1: the booking agent for the NWA World Heavyweight Champion all
Speaker 1: those years, and the man who called Hulk Cogan Sterling
Speaker 1: Jimmy Barnett.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh fuck? I do I have to do?
Speaker 2: I have to keep going on. I don't want to
Speaker 2: pull shit. Look Sterling, I don't, my boy, I'm not
Speaker 2: interested in Look, I'll just lay down, leave me.
Speaker 3: You can get on top of me. Just fine.
Speaker 2: I don't mind, man at all. But I'll just lay
Speaker 2: down for it because I can't. I can't. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: We're I'm just I'm here to book. I like to
Speaker 2: book things. I don't like to be the focus of attention.
Speaker 2: I don't like hm hm I mean I'm getting hot
Speaker 2: flashes right now, Okay, I don't. I'm I'm burning up
Speaker 2: because I don't. Is anybody happen? Look, can somebody get
Speaker 2: me a drink, please, because I can't do this. I
Speaker 2: can't I really a cigarette, anybody please? Sternly, well, I'm
Speaker 2: so stressed about this. I can't even tell you. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't even tell you I don't want to do this. Fine,
Speaker 2: I mean just tell you, Sterling. Just be gentle with me, please, Sterling,
Speaker 2: just be gentle with me. I swear to Christ just be.
Speaker 3: Gentle with me.
Speaker 1: A reluctant warrior, we could say about Jim Barnett, who
Speaker 1: advances in the tlf X Games to take on Hold
Speaker 1: Cogan in our next round. Barnett, for somebody who barely
Speaker 1: wants to be here, even perhaps less so than I do,
Speaker 1: defeating Scott Hall by a seventy five point eight percent
Speaker 1: to twenty four point two percent margin in our first round,
Speaker 1: and even more commanding victory, however, for the hulkster As
Speaker 1: despite Lapsed Savage being one of the more celebrated characters
Speaker 1: in the history of the Lapsed Fan, he stood no
Speaker 1: chance against the Mighty Hulk Hogan, as he pretty much
Speaker 1: never did when they contested each other in the real
Speaker 1: rings of professional wrestling. It's Hulk Hogan came in with
Speaker 1: an eighty point three percent to nineteen point seven percent
Speaker 1: differential victory over the Macho Man to advance here against
Speaker 1: Jim Barnett. Let's hear from Hulkogan now on this encounter.
Speaker 3: Well, you know something, Hulk maniacs.
Speaker 2: Here we are once again round number two, dudes, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, Hey, you know what, we just took down
Speaker 2: the macho man Rinney Savage once again.
Speaker 3: Man. It's not the first time, dude, and it won't
Speaker 3: be the last time.
Speaker 2: Brother. But I'm looking around, dude, and I'm seeing who
Speaker 2: we got next, and we got James E. Barnett Man,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, you know what, we got dolls back in.
Speaker 2: You know, we gotta kind of whoa dude. You gotta
Speaker 2: kind of look at this in a whole different way, brother,
Speaker 2: because we don't have a guy who's been in the forefront,
Speaker 2: who's been in the ring, Dude. We're talking about a
Speaker 2: guy behind the scenes. We gotta a guy who kind
Speaker 2: of decides nothing which way a company's gonna go. Brother,
Speaker 2: who's promoting? Who who's talking to who?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 2: And I want to know exactly, brother, who Jim Barnett's
Speaker 2: been talking to because I've been asking the office, dude,
Speaker 2: and nobody says nobody knows anything. Brother. People are people
Speaker 2: are like, I don't even know what Jim Barnett is.
Speaker 2: I said, you don't know? I said, woa, brother, what
Speaker 2: do you mean you don't know what Jim Barnett is? Dude.
Speaker 2: I know Jim Barnett, brother, and I know Jim Barnett
Speaker 2: will do anything he can to kind of roll me
Speaker 2: up from behind because he knows that's a week spot
Speaker 2: for Hulk Hogan. So I'm looking around, dude, and I'm
Speaker 2: wondering who of you have been talking to Jim Barnett,
Speaker 2: who's been telling Jim Barnett about some of the Hulk
Speaker 2: of media weaknesses, brother, Because I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: chance for Jim Barnett to come up with Romeo from
Speaker 2: behind unless he has some little secret that's some little
Speaker 2: pissant who's been turning their back on Hulkamania. Brother, who's
Speaker 2: been kind of stabbing Hulk Hogan in the back because
Speaker 2: I don't like being stunt in the back? Brother.
Speaker 3: What see, dude, I look around.
Speaker 2: I got eyes all around my head, man, because I'm
Speaker 2: always looking for people to turn on me. Dude. Randy
Speaker 2: Savage is one of them, brother, honored the giant dude,
Speaker 2: even Hulk Hogan's.
Speaker 3: Turning Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 2: Brother. So I want you to think, dudes, I want
Speaker 2: you to think exactly about what it is that we're
Speaker 2: standing up for right now. Brother, James E. Barnett, Dude,
Speaker 2: he is a degenerate man. He he smokes, he drinks. Brother,
Speaker 2: he does illegal substances, dude. And yeah, you know what
Speaker 2: Hulk Cogan has done steroids, man, But I do not
Speaker 2: currently use steroids and I am not currently a steroid afuser.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 2: All I do is train, say my prayers, eat my vitamins,
Speaker 2: believe in, believe in myself, and I believe in Hulk Cogan.
Speaker 2: So let's put it all aside, dude, and ask Jim
Speaker 2: Barnett what he's gonna do. Dudes, what hul Comania can't?
Speaker 2: What I can? Brother? Who said I can't? No, I can, Brother,
Speaker 2: I can knock Jim Barnett down, dude. Whoo he's here, No, brother,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fuck up Jim Barnett. Dude.
Speaker 1: Not sure if he can or can. But one thing
Speaker 1: we do know is that Hull Cogan has an entirely
Speaker 1: different and unique challenge as he faces James E. Barnett,
Speaker 1: one of the great wrestling bookers and minds and executives
Speaker 1: in the history of the industry, in the next round,
Speaker 1: the Round of sixteen in the tlf X Games, to determine,
Speaker 1: of course, the king of the cast. As we keep
Speaker 1: working here at the TLFX Games Events Center, there's only
Speaker 1: one more matchup to go, and you'll be hearing from
Speaker 1: those principles soon Lapsed Vince and Lapsed Stone Cold Steve
Speaker 1: Austin has things really start to heat up in this
Speaker 1: tournament to determine the greatest character in the history of
Speaker 1: the lapsed fan. For now, I'm Sean Mooney and we'll
Speaker 1: see a next time in the event center.