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Speaker 1: It's business time, baby. You are listening to Solo Monsters

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Sounds Off. I love you so, Mama monster, dude, I

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want your soul.

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Speaker 2: Woman, you got grown ass wrestlers in the back going

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on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Come over here, hetday. Is that Pet Patterson? You have legs?

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Speaker 2: Weekend I was ninety nine percent positive it was just

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chessed up. Now I have been begging him for a

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job on every every platform I can, and I would

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have know the reason why.

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Speaker 1: You won't part me. This is episode nine seventy three

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of The Solemn Monster Sounds Off for Sunday, July twenty sixth,

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twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster. It is

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Redemption Sunday. AW has a brand new pay per view

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tonight in Montreal, the final one before all in London.

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I'll talk about that, the end of the Vince McMahon

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sex trafficking lawsuits. WWE Radio just became a thing again,

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became a big story this week. I got a lot

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to say about that, SummerSlam predictions for next weekend, and

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my Dark Side of the Ring review on Samoa Joe

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against necro Butcher from two thousand and five. But before

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I get into all that, last week, I covered the

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finale of the Jeff Jarrett TNA trilogy of episodes on

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Dark Side of the Ring, and as part of that,

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since they didn't mention it when they were talking about

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the Global Force Wrestling stuff, good old Global Farce, I

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told you about a little something called Global Force Gold,

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which was an affiliate scheme that Jarrett had taken part

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in and greeted you when you first went on the

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Global Force Wrestling website. At the time, the fact that

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he was even doing it didn't speak well to their

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finances back then. But I mentioned that you can't find

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the video anymore. It's basically been scrubbed from the Internet.

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I've tried searching for it. I couldn't find it. But

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you know, the beautiful thing about doing this show for

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so long is that sometimes you reduce things that you

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don't even remember because there's just so much of it

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over a period of nineteen years. It was brought to

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my attention after last week's episode dropped, and I'm so

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pissed at myself for not realizing this that ten years ago,

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April tenth, twenty sixteen, on soundof episode four thirty five,

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I put together a very special intro for that episode.

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Now I don't have the original video. The video is

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lost media. But I do have the audio of the

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Jeff Jarrett Global Force Gold video that greeted people on

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the website at that time. This would now be considered

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lost media. I am in possession of lost media. I

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may be the only person in the world still in

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possession of this crap. So when you would visit the

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website it was Globalforcegold dot info. It took you to

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the video in question, and there was even a giant

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banner for it on the site that said join Team

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Jarrett now and earn your weight in twenty four Carrot Gold.

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Nothing shady about this at all. Let me play the audio.

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I wish I would have remembered this. I would have

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included it in the review last week, but better late

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than ever. It's a sound off exclusive. Here's Double Jay

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trying to convince you to buy into some Global Force Gold.

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Speaker 2: Hey, this is Jeff Jarrett and welcome to Globalforce goold

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dot com.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I thought this was a wrestling promotion.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'd like to congratulate you for taking about

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twenty minutes out of your day to day to watch

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this special video. Wait, why do I want you to

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watch the video? It's real simple. I want you to

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learn more about what me, my family, my friends, and

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my fans are all doing to be a part of

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this special opportunity called Team Jared.

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Speaker 1: Oh how exciting. What do you have to do to

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watch the video? Real simple?

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Speaker 2: Just still out the information below, click submit, sit back

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and watch the video.

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Speaker 1: Is this thing from porn hub or something?

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wait on a call from a member of Team Jared

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for you guys to discuss next steps. And also we

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got to get some information. Oh great, like your mailing address?

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Speaker 1: How about I give you my social Security number two?

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Speaker 2: And how you want me to personalize the eight to

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ten autograph? Fuck about your autograph as don't waste any

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more time. Sit back, enjoy, learn about gold and watch

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the video.

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Speaker 1: Now this guy wants me to sign up for some scam.

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I'm still waiting for the boom that he promised us.

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Where's the kaboo?

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Speaker 2: There was supposed to be an earth shuttering kaboo.

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I loved how he calls it Globalforcegold dot com when

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the website was actually globalforcegold dot info. So you have

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only to then watch another seven minute video. And I

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did just that for all of you, only I wasn't

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giving them my fucking info. I filled out the form

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with Dixie Carter's name, and what that took you to

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was another video with some random dude talking about turning

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your spending habits into savings habits so you can get

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paid in cash and gold. I mean you get cash

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and gold. I mean, who wouldn't want to sign up

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for this? Then he talks about what the experts have

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to say about it, and it lists Robert Kiyosaki among

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the so called experts. He wrote a very popular financial

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literacy book back in the nineties called Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

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predicting a stock market crash for two decades now, right,

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a thunk it? Right? Kiyosaki is huge on gold. He's

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been predicting a crash now for decades. Anyway. The idea

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was that you give your information to them to essentially

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become an affiliate and then you get a free eight

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ye ten personalized autograph from Jeff Jarrett himself. But he

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was always talking about this wrestling boom that was coming.

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They were going to lead the boom, and then years

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went by with no boom. Global Force Wrestling went cub boom.

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was going through super chats and someone mentioned the possibility

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of WWE one day doing a stadium show at City

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Field the New York Mets. They may as well, since

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the Mets don't use it for anything good. But it

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reminded me that I went to a wrestling show at

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Cityfield many years ago that was hosted independently, and I

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know I talked about it on the sound off, So

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listen to it and see if it jogs my memory,

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and it did. It was the Legends of Wrestling show

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back in twenty fifteen. Brian Knobbs was actually one of

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the people who promoted it, and it started out, you know,

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with him promoting the show, I think, at Tropicana Field

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in Tampa during a Tampa Bay Rays game. That went

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over well, and so years later the Marlins invited him

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to host the Legends of Wrestling Night at their stadium,

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and they ended up doing one at City Field. Not

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a great show, but for the novelty of being able

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to see a wrestling show there, it was kind of cool.

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team and piped in their commentary over the PA system,

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which I remember thinking I wish they didn't. Okay, it

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was not good. Striker announced the attendance show as eight thousand,

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and on the podcast, I said, if I had double vision,

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there still would not have been eight thousand people in

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that stadium. There were nowhere close to eight thousand people.

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one of the tag teams on the show from the

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New England area, so mister Seno was there. Greg the

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Hammer Valentine was in the corner of the baby Faces

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in that match. They had Greg Valentine outside on one

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side of the ring and he had John Cena Senior

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on the other side of the ring outside. Rick Flair

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was there straight from the bar on the concourse. I'm

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sure he brought out mister Anderson and Mike Knox representing

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the Aces and Eights against the Nasty Boys, which was

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fucking horrendous, but Demolition made the same at the finish,

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so at least there was something good to come out

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of it. And they had Rob Van Dam against Scott

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Steiner in the main event, who debuted his new gigantic

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chess tattoo on this show. I mean, that thing is assive.

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And this part I had forgotten about this part. This

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is the best part. RVD brought out Brett Hart before

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the match, and Brett said a few words and then

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he bailed before the match even started. But then when

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the match ended, RVD he was being double teamed. Bill

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Goldberg ran out to make the safe. No wonder Brett

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bailed early. Now it all makes sense. He knew Goldberg

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was coming out. His life was flashing before his eyes.

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He's like, I gotta get the hell out of here,

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never again. There had to be some real money behind

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that thing, because they had a lot of big names

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on that show. I mean, Goldberg doesn't come cheap. Got

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Goldberg and Brett and Flair. I can't imagine they made

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money off of it anyway, So We were talking about

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that the other night and I hadn't remembered all the details,

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but this brought back a flood of memories from that show.

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and Cue the Destroyer, who turns twenty nine today. Happy Birthday,

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brother sound Off. Sunday birthdays are the best birthdays. See

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for me. And a very happy thirty ninth birthday to

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his favorite segment has always been My Dark Side of

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the Ring reviews, So I know what Jacob is going

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to be looking forward to here this week, says rarely

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do I feel like I need to watch the show itself. Well, Jacob,

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I appreciate you listening for all these years, and I

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hope you had a great birthday and also a very

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special happy birthday. Shout out to one Noah the Mark,

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good friend of the podcast, good friend to yours truly,

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we've been on many WrestleMania trips together over the years.

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I want to wish him a very happy birthday today.

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He's also responsible for many of the outros that you hear,

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and you hear his voice every single stream when we

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hit the goal for be the Booker, and you hear

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you know it is now time and that's his voice.

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So I want to wish him a very happy birthday. Brother.

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I appreciate your friendship. I appreciate all the work you

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do and for being a fan also of what I do,

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and I hope you have a great day. We're less

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than two weeks out from the biggest House of Glory

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event of the summer. In one of our biggest shows

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of the year, High Intensity, which is coming up on

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Friday night, August seventh, seven pm Eastern start time. We're

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back in New York at the NYC Arena back at Home,

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and we got a lot of cool things announced for

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the show. Charles Mason going to be putting his hog

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World Championship on the line against the Mad King Eddie Kingston,

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who I know is winding down his independence dates this year.

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This could very well be the last time you get

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to see him in an Hog ring. The blackhart Leo

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Rush is going to be challenging Darren Richardson for the

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Cruiserweight Championship. Shatzi is going to be in action defending

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her title against Shana Basler. Ricky Sosis on the show.

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The Hardys Zillapot two will be in the house that

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were Crown Jewel Champion, lots of rumors swirling around him.

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He'll be there and a lot of other really cool shit.

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So hopefully we will get to see you guys there.

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If you do pop into the building, do say hello.

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It's gonna be tough though if you haven't gotten your

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tickets already, because we're all sold out in terms of seating,

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but general admission is still open, so you can go

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to hog Wrestling dot Net for that. But the big

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thing about this show is that if you can't be

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there live for the first time, we are streaming the

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and you'll be able to stream the entire event live.

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No more Triller TV, so hopefully you will be able

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to tune in one way or the other. But the

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other thing I wanted to mention that's kind of tied

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into Hog kind of because this man really cut his

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greatest House of Glory World champion that we've ever had,

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and that is Mike Santana, the former TNA World Champion.

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Santana made his official NXT debut this past week. I

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know they didn't mention his name on TV, which is

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very concerning, and I haven't gotten confirmation one way or

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the other about whether or not he's going to be

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keeping his real name or not. I hope, So you know,

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Joe Hendry is still Joe Henry. Jordan Grace, wherever she

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may be, is still Jordan Grace. I think, I don't know.

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We haven't seen her in months. So I'm hoping Mike

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Santana can keep his name because if he has to

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change it. I mean, that's just ridiculous. But anyway, he

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popped up at the PC on Tuesday night and he's

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gonna kill it. I mean, again, the guy's work, ethic,

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everything that he has been through over the years to

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get to this point. I've talked about his story before,

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and it's very cool to see him getting this opportunity.

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I think NX, and I've said this previously, I think

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NXT is the place for him to start because he'll

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have the chance to, you know, work towards that NXT

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Championship and maybe become the face of the brand. You know,

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there's plenty of time for him to make his way

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to Raw or SmackDown wherever they may have a need

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for him. I kind of don't want him there right now,

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just given the state of those shows at the moment

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and my frustrations with some of the other people that

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are on those shows. So I think NXT is the

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best place for him to be right now before he

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ever makes it to the main roster. And I think

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he's going to do very well and he's going to

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be a major asset to that brand and that show,

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and I could not be happier to see him on

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TV doing his things, so congrats to him. Let's start

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with AW because they got a pay per view tonight,

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and we'll start there. Redemption is tonight. Actually we'll start

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here first, because this was news this week that actually

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does have relevance and significance where AW is concerned now.

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Redemption is tonight, airing on HBO Max, as they will

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be for the rest of the year and probably all

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of next year. Despite all the predictions of doom and

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gloom from many on social media, rumors that Paramount Skydance

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is going to buy up Warner Brothers Discovery and give

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AW the boot on day one, right to hear these

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people tell it, the Paramount deal is going to be

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the death knell for this company. I'm sure those people

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are punching air right now because there may not even

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be a deal if this drags on for as long

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as it looks like it might. Paramount announced on Friday

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that it has agreed to pause its acquisition of Warner

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Brothers Discovery until an antitrust trial first takes place or

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until June one, twenty twenty seven, which ever comes first.

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Bought the Writers Guild of America and twelve different state

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attorney generals have filed federal lawsuits challenging the merger, alleging

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that it will lead to less competition in the film

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and TV industries and fewer jobs in the entertainment world.

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The move comes after a freeze imposed by a federal

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judge earlier this week that was later extended. Paramount is

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putting a happy face on it, calling this a significant win,

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saying that they look forward to proving their case at trial,

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and in the meantime, they will begin paying a ticking

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fee starting at the end of September that they previously

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agreed to were the transaction not to have been completed

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by then. Because the Ellisons, you know, David and Larry Ellison,

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they sold investors on how fast they would be able

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to get a deal done. They got friends in high places.

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This thing looks like it was just going to sail

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on through, likely before even the midterm elections later this year.

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That will not happen, and so they will be forced

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to pay an extra twenty five cents per share for

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each quarter that goes by every three months. Pay that

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to Warner Brothers Discovery shareholders. So if this thing gets

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delayed to let's say next June, they would be on

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the hook for an extra one point seven billion dollars

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on top of the one hundred ten billion they already

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agreed to pay. So they're gonna be bleeding about seven

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million dollars per day every day after September thirtieth that

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this deal doesn't get done, as if they weren't carrying

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enough debt as it is now. They only pay that

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money if the deal ultimately closes, which is an important

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point that, yeah, I think is being missed in some

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of these stories. The deal doesn't get done, they don't

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pay the one point seven billion or whatever it ends

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up being, but they would have to pay a seven

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billion dollar termination fee to Warner Brothers Discovery. You know,

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I got to say this was a stroke of genius

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by David Zaslov. Either the deal goes through and the

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shareholders get that extra money, or the deal doesn't go

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through and they collect seven billion dollars for nothing, for

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doing nothing. Right now, it comes down to how much

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more money they're willing to lose. You know, Paramount has

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a lot of foreign money, including some of that sweet

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Saudi money, funding this deal. If any of them decide

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to pull out, they can't get this deal done. There's

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just there's so many moving parts here. Unless they start

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spinning off assets to make the deal more palatable, and

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I don't think that they want to do that, right.

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They don't want to spin off the movie studio, they

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don't want to spin off CNN. Unless that happens, I'm

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thinking this deal may actually fall through. You know, Paramount

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is looking for a November trial date. They're gambling that

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it makes more sense to skip this preliminary injunction hearing

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that was slaterd for August third, just go right to

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a jury trial as soon as possible. And you got

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the Attorney General of California who wants that trial in

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twenty twenty seven, you know, based on he says all

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the discovery that first needs to take place, November would

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be too soon. So Paramount wants to go to court

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sooner because if they lose in court, like the faster

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that happens, the faster they could appeal the decision, possibly

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all the way up to the Supreme Court. And if

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that happens, I mean, let's be honest, the deal's gonna

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get done. But that only delays things further if they

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appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Right, we're

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a long ways from something like that happening. But the

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longer this drags out, I just don't see how it

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makes any financial sense for Paramount. I don't see how

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it makes any financial sense right now for Paramount to

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make this deal, let alone if it drags on into

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next year. But wouldn't it be something if this all

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falls apart and Netflix was there waiting to swoop in

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and snatch it up like they originally planned, and with

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seven billion kicked in by Paramount to boot that seven

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billion dollars gets paid to Warner Brothers Discovery, and then

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Netflix acquires Warner Brothers Discovery, and that's seven billion. That

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would be amazing. Still don't like it because we're still

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talking about one big company acquiring and swallowing up another

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big company. And as far as AW is concerned, we

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don't again know the full impact of what even like

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a Netflix acquisition would be. It may be worse, you know,

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may be worse for them than the Paramount situation would be.

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But so long as they have their current deal, they're

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not going anywhere. So any rumors of their demise have

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been greatly exaggerated. Now AAW Redemption is tonight from the

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Bell Center in Montreal, which will hardly be full. They

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did just pass thirty three thousand for All in London,

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which is still five weeks away, so my prediction of

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a little over forty thousand for that show is looking

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pretty good right now. The buy in starts at six

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pm Eastern, main card at seven pm. Thank god, Tony

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Kahn bumped the start time up by an hour, he claims,

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because he wanted to experiment with things. You know, it's

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funny how it comes after all of the complaints on

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social media over how long Forbidden Door went that showed

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in end until almost one in the morning Eastern time.

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They didn't send the main event out to the ring

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until after midnight, and then they went another thirty five minutes.

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All of a sudden, redemption starts at seven Eastern instead

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of eight. You know, he can say whatever he wants.

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There's your answer as to why it's happening. I'm grateful

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for the move. Hopefully he keeps it this way going forward.

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You know, for All in that won't be an issue

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because of the time zone difference. That's going to be

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an early start time over here regardless for tonight, though

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seven to eleven PM. I think that would be fine.

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I know he is contractually obligated to go at least

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three hours and forty five minutes for these pay per views.

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He's said that before, so four hours for a non

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major show like this, I think works fine. Here are

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my predictions and my predicted match order too, or the

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order that I would go with. On the Buy ind

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they're doing a celebration of eighty years of the Rougeau

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wrestling dynasty. Since they are in Montreal, the Rougeou brothers,

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Jacques and Raymond will be their in ring. It's too

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bad they can't walk out to all American boys. We

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don't like heavy metal. We don't like rock and roll.

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All we like to listen to is Barry Manilow. See

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that they don't make entrance music like that anymore. They

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really don't. Also on the Buy in the Conglomeration, Orange Cassidy,

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Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly will defend their aw trio's

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titles against the Lethal Twins. That's after they shot an

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angle to set up the match on Collision last night.

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This will be a win for the Conglomeration, and then

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on the main card, will Ospray and John Moxley. I

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would open the show with this taking on the Young Bucks.

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And in this situation here, it's pretty clear that the

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Young Bucks are on a path towards Copin Christian at Wembley.

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And so if they're going to be challenging for the

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tag team titles and you're trying to ratchet up the

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drama between Moxley and Ospray and Omega right heading into London,

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this should be the first loss for will Ospray and

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John Moxley, and I think that's what this is going

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to be. To me, it's a lot more interesting to

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see what is Moxley's reaction going to be to losing

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than it is to just have them go in there

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and win. So I'm picking the Young Bucks. Here. We

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have a six way international title eliminator ladder match. That's

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a lot of words. Jack Perry, Speedball, Mike Bailey, the Beast,

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Mortoas who finally got his work visa clearance, Commander Nick Wayne,

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and El Clone who beat Leo Rush on collision to qualify,

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which is too bad. I would have liked to have

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seen Leo in there in this situation here. You know, Speedballs,

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the hometown guy hometown meaning he's in Canada. Doesn't matter

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where you are. If you're from Canada, they're going to

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greet you like a hero. And I think this seems

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pretty well set up. I think for a Speedball win.

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So I'll go with Mike Bailey to secure the number

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one contender spot. We have Hikaru Shida defending her newly

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won TBS Championship against Maya World. Way too soon for

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them to switch the belt onto somebody else. She'd have

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just won the belt at the beginning of the month

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and that big survival of the fittest match. Maya being

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in this situation is good for Maya. You'll give her

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more matches like this on these pay per views, but

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I don't think she wins here. Mark Davis is going

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to defend his aw National title against Andrade l Idalo.

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This is one those matches that you look at this card.

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There's a lot of great matches on this card. This

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could be the sleeper match of the show like this

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has that level of potential. I am looking forward to

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this match. I like the fact that Mark Davis has

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been getting this singles run. I hope it continues. But

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this national title run it's over tonight. It comes to

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an end, and I got Andrada winning the championship. We've

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got the Painmaker, Oh boy quaking in my boots. Chris

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Jericho is going to go one on one with Tamaso

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Champa in a no disqualification match. This should be a

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Champa win. I don't think it will be. I think

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Jericho gets the win after Champa cheated to win their

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first match. We have Adam Copeland and Christian Cage defending

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the aw tag team titles against the Death Riders Claudio Casignoli,

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m Pac and copelanding Christian. There's zero chance that they

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go into London without those tag team titles, so they

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will pick up the win here. Plus they've been getting

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their asses kicked on TV, so they're gonna get the win.

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Yle Fletcher defends his International Championship against Bandido, the Ring

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of Honor World champion, and Fletcher has said that all

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members of the Kallis family, he doesn't need them. Their

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banned from ringside. They've set it up in such a

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way to lead you to believe that Bendido might actually

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have a fighting chance. And Bandido was always fun to watch.

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I mean, you know, anytime he's in the ring. It's

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going to be a great match, and just like his

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match with John Moxley for the Continental title, he will

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be on the losing end of it, which is kind

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of why I don't like him being put in this

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situation again. But here we are, Kyle Fletcher will retain.

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We have Tecla defending the AW Women's World Championship against

475
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,960
Willow Nightingale. This is the match, the one match if

476
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,200
I had to pick one on the entire show that

477
00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:45,480
is the most difficult to predict, and I'm still sticking

478
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,480
in my prediction here, which is that Willow wins the championship.

479
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,400
I think the play is to do Willow defending against

480
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,519
Mercedes Monet at all in. Techla has done a great job.

481
00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:59,359
I enjoy Tecla. I would not mind one day seeing

482
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,039
a match between Techlan Mercedes Mone. I just happened to

483
00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:04,680
think it's not gonna happen in London this year. Willow

484
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,599
is gonna win the champions just the way they brought

485
00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:10,359
her back and actually got the TBS title off for her.

486
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,359
And I'm still very suspect about whether or not that

487
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,720
injury was as legitimate as they made it out to

488
00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:18,000
be when they stripped her of the TBS Championship all

489
00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:19,880
to get her in this position, just to do what

490
00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:24,160
to beat her doesn't make sense. I got Willow winning

491
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,720
the belt. Then we have the dogs, Clark Connors and

492
00:25:27,799 --> 00:25:30,880
David Finley taking on Jay White and Juice Robinson. This

493
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,119
will be a double chain match. Now, Switchblade had his

494
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,279
first singles match in fifteen months in a win over

495
00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:42,160
Clark Connors on Dynamite. Not a great match, not a

496
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,839
great match, It just sort of it was actually kind

497
00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:46,640
of a slog to get through. But I am happy

498
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,119
to see Jay White back. It seems to me like

499
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,720
they may be setting up a match with him and

500
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,880
Finley is a singles it could be a TV match

501
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,079
between now in London. It could be you know, the

502
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,240
match in London. They're doing this tag team match here.

503
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,480
Juice Robinson is the one who issued the challenge again

504
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,720
to what he called a double chain match. He did

505
00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:09,599
not call it a dog collar match, so I'm assuming

506
00:26:09,599 --> 00:26:12,200
they'll be bound by the wrist and not the necks.

507
00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:15,799
I'm going with the dogs. I think if they're building

508
00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:18,440
to a j White David Finley match, that's a match

509
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,799
that Jay White wins to get there. I think you

510
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,279
got to give the dogs something. You gotta throw the

511
00:26:24,319 --> 00:26:27,559
dogs a bone. That was a layup. How can I

512
00:26:27,599 --> 00:26:29,960
not take that one? The dogs are gonna get the

513
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,279
win here. And then in the main event, we have

514
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:37,720
Kenny Omega defending the AW World Championship against the TNT champion,

515
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,039
Kevin Knight. Not the only instance on this show of

516
00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:45,519
one champion wrestling another champion. Now Night beat Darby Allen

517
00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:48,880
on Wednesday to retain the TNT title, and at the

518
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,279
end of the show, we had tensions boiling over between

519
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,599
Kenny Omega and will Ospray and John Moxley, who were

520
00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:58,079
all part of a tag team match Trio's match against

521
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:02,079
the Don Kallis family, So they're telling that story. According

522
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,160
to Fightful Select, MJF was the driving creative force behind

523
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,200
the idea of Kenny Omega defending the world championship on

524
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,599
the show against the TNT champion, and the report noted

525
00:27:13,599 --> 00:27:16,599
that MJF had long wanted whoever held the TNT title

526
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,519
to challenge Omega after beating him for the world title. However,

527
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,920
the idea was not tied to Kevin Knight. Specifically, mjf's

528
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,559
vision centered on the TNT champion filling that role regardless

529
00:27:28,599 --> 00:27:30,640
of who was holding the belt at that time, Kevin

530
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:36,359
Knight or otherwise, the main event of this show should

531
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:42,200
have been Kenny Omega against MJF, with Kenny Omega winning

532
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,799
the world championship. Unless and this was always the caveat

533
00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:51,039
that I kept in there, unless he was hurt or

534
00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:52,839
he had a movie role to film that was going

535
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,799
to make him unavailable for this show, then there's nothing

536
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:59,359
you can do. And on the Redemption media call this

537
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,480
week on third, it looks like we got our answer

538
00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:05,599
from Tony Kahan as to why MJF is not only

539
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,279
not in the main event, but not even on this show.

540
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,759
This is what he had to say when asked about

541
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:13,519
MJF not being on the Redemption card said, MJF was

542
00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:16,279
in a very hard hitting match with Kenny Omega, was

543
00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:18,880
in some very hard hitting matches and has been an

544
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,880
incredible fighting champion in twenty twenty six, doing something rather

545
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:26,640
very different than his previous time as champion. Mjf's been

546
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,480
out on TV, on pay per view, even on house shows,

547
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,440
fighting in Big Bat Well, I mean they don't do

548
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,319
house shows. He means, he means indie shows. I assume

549
00:28:35,319 --> 00:28:37,680
at MJF is not a nice guy. He's not a

550
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,480
nice person, but he's a great wrestler and we love

551
00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:43,400
having him as part of AAW when he's healthy and

552
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,599
fit to compete. He's definitely been through a lot of

553
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,759
big matches. In the case of an MJF, that's somebody

554
00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:52,000
that I hope is wrestling for decades and decades at

555
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,279
a very top level. He's a very young man, and

556
00:28:54,319 --> 00:28:56,759
he's had some major injuries this year that he's been

557
00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:59,400
fighting through to his credit, and I think it speaks

558
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,559
highly of m and I would not be the person

559
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,720
out here praising and saying all of these nice things

560
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,920
if it wasn't true. So in Mjf's case, I absolutely

561
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,160
think he's been one of the great things about AAW

562
00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:13,160
and I'm looking forward to his return when he is back,

563
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,799
which will be very soon. I'm sure. I'm grateful that

564
00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:19,400
the injuries he sustained are nothing that would keep him

565
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,599
out really really long term, because, as you know, there

566
00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:25,200
are other times in the sport contrary to this, where

567
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,960
people have injuries and they can alter careers sometimes. So

568
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,160
I'm glad he's going to be okay, because he's a

569
00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:35,319
very important wrestler in aw whereas we have had other

570
00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:37,519
great stars that have had injuries that have kept them

571
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:41,519
out in some cases years or indefinitely. This is nothing bad,

572
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:44,240
he says, And that's the key, says, this is nothing bad.

573
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,279
So it's the leg. I mean, maybe it's an accumulation

574
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:50,440
of different injuries, but it's the leg because you know,

575
00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:53,440
after his match with Rusche last month he hyper extended

576
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,440
his knee. He had that leg wrapped up right on

577
00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,319
through the match with Kenny at Beach Break, So it's

578
00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:01,799
got to be the leg if it's injury related. And

579
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,160
I guess the idea was take the title off me

580
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,559
now so that I can rest up and hopefully be

581
00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:09,519
good to go in time for Wembley. And if that's

582
00:30:09,559 --> 00:30:14,480
the case and that's what this was, then fair play, right,

583
00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:16,319
and then that makes sense. It's the only way to

584
00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:18,440
make sense of them changing the main event for this show.

585
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,960
But at least now we have a sense why. On

586
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,039
that same media called, Tony was asked about Swerve Stricklands

587
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,880
status says, we have not seen or heard from him

588
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,640
since his lost to will Osprey Forbidden Door at the

589
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,319
end of last month. Swerve was at Comic Con at

590
00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:36,279
San Diego over the weekend. As part of the contingent

591
00:30:36,319 --> 00:30:39,319
that was sent by aw Tony said Swerve is in

592
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,640
very good standing with the company and that he'll be

593
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,000
happy to answer more questions about Swerve after redemption, which

594
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,200
sure makes it sound like he's returning on the pay

595
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,440
per view tonight, and he doesn't want to give anything

596
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,000
away what he would be doing, I don't know. I

597
00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:58,200
don't know. You know, it would be interesting. It would

598
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,880
be interesting given that Hangman just came back on Collision

599
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,880
a few weeks ago, although if you watched Dynamite you

600
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,920
would never know. But given that he's clearly on his

601
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,839
way back, if they wanted to do something with him

602
00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:11,599
and Swerve. I don't mean his opponents, I mean as

603
00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:14,799
like partners or allies on the same side. I feel

604
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:17,119
like we kind of had that already where they were

605
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,599
sort of allied, allied allied. What the hell did I

606
00:31:20,599 --> 00:31:26,039
say it that way? For allied? The hell's wrong with me? Allied?

607
00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:29,319
They were allied. I'm just saying, like them as tag

608
00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:31,680
team partners for a while when you got some of

609
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,160
these teams coming in that are likely coming in, and

610
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,640
the tag team division is really heating up. You got

611
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,200
some great teams for them to work with. It could

612
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,319
be something different. Look, Hangman said, I can't go for

613
00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:44,839
the World Championship, but I could challenge for other titles.

614
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,039
He never said that, you know, the tag team titles

615
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,680
wouldn't be one of them. He just has to find

616
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,119
a partner. Sammy Gavara, he got people talking. We'll talk

617
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:57,759
about him one of the former pillars of AAW. Unfortunately

618
00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:01,559
that pillar was it was knocked down like the Trojan

619
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:04,920
horse in the Odyssey long time ago. But he got

620
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,079
people talking last week when he tweeted out new bio

621
00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:11,119
and fans noticed that there was no mention of AW

622
00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:13,759
in his bio. I'm not sure there was a mention

623
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:16,039
of AAW in his bio to begin with, but people

624
00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:19,559
made a big fuss about this. Brian Alvarez then reported,

625
00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:22,240
nobody in AW seems to know what's up with Sammy

626
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:25,640
Gavara right now. Multiple sources told me that ty Mellow

627
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,359
his wife, requested a release last year, but it was denied.

628
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,880
On the redemption media call, Tony was asked about the

629
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,240
two of them, and he had this to say with Sammy,

630
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:39,359
I thought it was unusual that people said there was

631
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,640
a change in his status because nothing had changed. Sammy

632
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,480
has done well. He's wrestling in Ring of Honor more often.

633
00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:48,359
He's done good things in AAW and his one half

634
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:50,400
of the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions. He's

635
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,319
appeared in AW with LFI. It wasn't Sammy's fault. Best

636
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,400
Mortos's visa had been jammed up for a very long

637
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,680
time because I really like Sammy and BESTOS. I went

638
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,240
to CMLL and told them they're great champions. They've done

639
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:05,400
very well for me, and I think they'd be great

640
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,400
for CMLL. They got booked in Arena Mexico defending the championships,

641
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,440
made a few defenses, and then lost the belts to

642
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:15,880
Mascaroderata and Mystico. As I understand it, when Sammy changed

643
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,559
his bio, I don't think he ever had aw and

644
00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:21,039
it in the first place, so it wasn't a negative change.

645
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,599
I got a nice message from Sammy saying he wasn't

646
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,640
trying to do anything bad and that he loves AAW

647
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:29,119
and I believe that Sammy has been a good wrestler

648
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,960
for us in AW and ROH. He's a great talent

649
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,200
and a very good person. I don't think he meant

650
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,200
anything by it, and it seemed like people jumped on

651
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:39,039
him for something he didn't even do, just messing around

652
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:41,839
with a Twitter bio. It's amazing how people jump to

653
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,519
conclusions and, in my opinion, unfairly target him. That brings

654
00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:49,400
me to Anaj and ty Mellow, both as individuals and

655
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,440
as a team. They've been great together and individually, they've

656
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,480
both been here for many years. Their statuses, however, are

657
00:33:55,559 --> 00:33:58,200
very different. I saw a lot being reported about both

658
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,960
of them that was very inaccurate. Anna is in very

659
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,759
good standing with us. She is out injured right now,

660
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,839
which is true by the way she talked about this

661
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,239
on one of her live streams. It's a shoulder injury.

662
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:14,599
She's waiting to get opinions from different doctors on what

663
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:18,519
the diagnosis is and how to approach it, how serious

664
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:22,079
it may be. She's had shoulder issues before. I want

665
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,280
to say this is the second or third shoulder issue

666
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,039
that she's had, So anyway, that's why she's out right now,

667
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:33,760
and so she's going for an MRI. Anna, he says,

668
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,559
has a lot of time left on her contract and

669
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,960
actually has extended with aaw in her case, a lot

670
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,840
of the reporting is completely false. I have a lot

671
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,119
of work, so I don't spend my time mythbusting, but

672
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:48,280
these rumors get carried away. Anna extended her deal and

673
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,719
is staying in AAW, which is contrary to what much

674
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,519
of the wrestling media reported and speaks to the general

675
00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:57,760
accuracy of these types of reports. As for ty I

676
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,639
also saw a lot of inaccurate statements. To be honest,

677
00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:02,840
there was smoke to the fire, but people were reporting

678
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,840
the fire in the wrong place. Tye told me she

679
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,400
wanted to step away from wrestling. She said, I love

680
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,440
AAW and I love the people here, but I want

681
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,920
to step away from AAW and wrestling. That wasn't in

682
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,719
twenty twenty five. That was weeks ago at Collision, after

683
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,960
she wrestled against Divine Dominion, she came to me after

684
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,079
the match and asked for her release. I was taken aback,

685
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,480
but we had a very nice talk. This contradicts reports

686
00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:32,079
Alvarez that this happened last year or has been an

687
00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:34,599
ongoing issue. I heard from Tye this week and she

688
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,079
mentioned that she wasn't leaking those reports and that they

689
00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:40,280
really bothered her. We've always had a great relationship. She

690
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,400
asked about stepping away recently. It hasn't been a long

691
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,079
standing situation. Since that talk, I haven't booked her and

692
00:35:47,159 --> 00:35:50,679
I am going to grant Tie that release, which is

693
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,880
nice to hear. Now someone wants to step away, and

694
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,760
he's going to give them the release that they asked for.

695
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,199
But Alvarez is sticking to his reporting. With Tony going

696
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,159
public with this, it would make her look real bad

697
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,920
if she got her release and then she popped up

698
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,199
in WWE or somewhere else. But I mean, it's not

699
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,960
hard to believe. You know, she and Sammy, they have

700
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,280
a young child at home. I'm sure she hates being

701
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,920
on the road away from her daughter. I think she's

702
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,519
three or turning three soon. She posts about her all

703
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,280
the time on her ig. You could tell she's a

704
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,519
great mom. So it could just be as simple as that.

705
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,320
You know, her priorities change, she doesn't want to wrestle anymore,

706
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,079
and she wants to step away, and in that case,

707
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:34,599
there's no reason not to give her her release. Tony

708
00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:38,159
was also a guest on the Battleground podcast. He's a

709
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,639
regular guest on there, and while promoting Redemption, he was

710
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:44,000
asked about the ring of Honor Hall of Fame, which

711
00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:47,519
was first established during the Sinclair Broadcasting era of the company.

712
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:50,599
This was before Tony acquired it. Since he did so,

713
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,320
there have been no new inductions, only that first class

714
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:59,280
in twenty twenty two, which included Brian Danielson, Samoa, Joe Cmpunk,

715
00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:05,639
and former owner Carrie Silgan. He was their legacy inductee.

716
00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:09,440
Tony said, nobody's ever asked me about that, or if

717
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:11,960
they have, it's been a really long time and I

718
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:17,880
can't remember. Oh really, is that so? Because I tweeted

719
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,039
him directly about this last month, somebody on the podcast

720
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:23,760
asked about the Ring of Honor Hall of Fame in

721
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,480
the mailbag segment, so I figured I didn't have an answer,

722
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:28,840
so I figured, you know what, I'm going to go

723
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,440
straight to the source himself. Since he's fairly active on

724
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,920
social media. I figured he wouldn't answer, but I tagged

725
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000
him and I asked the question. I said, Hey, Tony,

726
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,119
and I asked him the question. Of course he didn't respond,

727
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,679
but I find it very hard to believe he didn't

728
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,119
see it, especially since a bunch of people hijacked the

729
00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:49,880
tweet and ended up engaging with it. So he's lying

730
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,960
when he says that he just didn't want to answer

731
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:54,480
the question. Kudos to this guy at least for putting

732
00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:56,280
him on the spot to where he had no choice

733
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,719
but to answer the question and not lie about it.

734
00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,840
He said, I really think that's a tremendous thought. I

735
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,800
have not added to the Ring of Honor Hall of Fame.

736
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:08,519
It was a fantastic inaugural class that the previous administration

737
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:11,159
had inducted, so that was something that had already been

738
00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:13,239
set up when I bought the company. I think they

739
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,519
picked a fantastic class, and I do think there were

740
00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:18,239
people that would be fantastic additions to the Ring of

741
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,719
Honor Hall of Fame, And it is definitely something to

742
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,280
think about, and I am interested in He's clearly not

743
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,039
interested in it, because if he was, he wouldn't have

744
00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:30,880
let four years go by without a single induction. So

745
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,199
when I saw that quote and he was like, oh,

746
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,159
nobody's ever asked me about that before, I just had

747
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:39,519
a nice laugh about it. I think Nigel McGinnis, especially

748
00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:41,599
since he works for them, I mean, that's a shoe in.

749
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:48,079
That's a logical induction choice. Homicide Christopher Daniels, Jay lethal

750
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,199
Roderick Strong. I mean, there's lots of good options, but

751
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,159
the most notable names are already in which are Punk

752
00:38:55,199 --> 00:39:00,840
Brian and Joe Right and the Briscos and Janelle Grant

753
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,119
filed her sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon, John Lauriniitis

754
00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:09,320
and WWE in twenty twenty four. It dropped like an

755
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,679
atomic bomb and it led directly to the end of

756
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,000
Vince McMahon in WWE, which ended up ushering in this

757
00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:19,320
new era for the company. Now. I was in Tampa

758
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,360
for the Royal Rumble when the news dropped. I remember

759
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,280
it like it was yesterday, and I did a breaking

760
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,800
news stream from the airbnb we were staying at, you know,

761
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,599
just the thing I wanted to do on my trip,

762
00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:36,639
talk about Vince McMahon's deviant sexual fetishes. But that lawsuit

763
00:39:36,679 --> 00:39:39,880
has dragged on for years now, with a decision pending

764
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,920
as to whether or not the case would go to trial.

765
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:45,440
Not a criminal trial, this was a civil suit. Would

766
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,239
it go to trial or if it would go to

767
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,280
private arbitration, which is what Vincent WWE had wanted. Right.

768
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,039
Laurentidis was dropped as a defendant a long time ago.

769
00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:58,000
He agreed to flip on Vince and provide evidence for

770
00:39:58,039 --> 00:40:01,719
the Janelle grand side. It hinged on that right she

771
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,480
wanted a trial out in the open. He argued that

772
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,880
the non disclosure agreement that she signed stipulated that any

773
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,519
disputes that were to arise would be dealt with via arbitration.

774
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,360
Her side argued that she signed that NDA under duress

775
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,159
and therefore it should be deemed null and void. But

776
00:40:18,199 --> 00:40:21,880
then the WWE shareholder lawsuit that was supposed to go

777
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,960
to trial was canceled at the last minute, and the

778
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,320
two sides were said to have entered into a settlement

779
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,599
agreement as these things usually do, right, which we've heard

780
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:32,239
nothing about since, by the way, I don't even know

781
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,199
what the status of that is. And that likely played

782
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:38,079
a role in what came next, because right after that,

783
00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:42,679
Janelle Grant joined with Vince McMahon and WWE and filing

784
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,559
a joint motion requesting to continue their litigation in private arbitration,

785
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,239
which is exactly what Vince wanted all along, a complete

786
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,280
one eighty from what she had been asking for now.

787
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,360
Maybe her lawyers thought that the shareholder's trial would open

788
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,480
things up to new evidence that they could use in

789
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,679
their case, you know, and once it got canceled they

790
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,000
no longer felt they had the evidence they might need.

791
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,400
Or she just saw the writing on the wall and

792
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,519
didn't want to prolong this any further and incur even

793
00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:14,320
more legal costs, right such as they may be. But

794
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,599
in any event, she changed her mind and on Monday,

795
00:41:18,079 --> 00:41:21,800
her attorney filed a joint status report in court stating

796
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,519
that her client, along with Vince McMahon and WWE, have

797
00:41:25,639 --> 00:41:29,519
agreed in writing to go to arbitration over their dispute.

798
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:33,280
Then on Friday, she filed a stipulation of voluntary dismissal

799
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,039
with prejudice, meaning that it will be permanently closed and

800
00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:40,079
cannot be revisited. Now this all comes in the same

801
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:44,159
week that Vince McMahon tweeted out his retirement message four

802
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,960
years ago, where he said, at seventy seven, time for

803
00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:53,039
me to retire. Thank you WWE Universe, then now forever together.

804
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,239
It's also the one year anniversary that he nearly killed

805
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,400
a woman driving over one hundred miles an hour on

806
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,840
the Merritt Parkway. That retirement, by the way, turned out

807
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,039
to be bullshit, and he forced his way back onto

808
00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:09,960
the board, not only that, but he played a key

809
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,440
role in engineering the sale of the company to Endeavor.

810
00:42:13,039 --> 00:42:16,159
So when we look back at the most significant events

811
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,199
to happen in wrestling history, we think of, you know,

812
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,920
Vince McMahon going national and stomping out the territories. We

813
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,199
think of and with that the rise of Hull Comania

814
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,280
and rock and wrestling, right that was all part of

815
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,760
that same time period. We think of, you know, the

816
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,719
Monday Night War. We think of the Montreal Screwjob and

817
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,559
all that that led to. We think of the deaths

818
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:42,360
of people like Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benois and the

819
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,159
changes that you know, led to the wellness program being

820
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:48,840
what it is today. And we think of, you know,

821
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,840
all of these different things, the formation of all elite wrestling.

822
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,000
I mean, we could go down the list and we

823
00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:57,960
think of key figures in wrestling history Vince McMahon, obviously,

824
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:02,039
Ted Turner, hulkg and Antone OOKI, right, we think of

825
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:06,840
these names. As crazy as it sounds, you can add

826
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,400
Janelle Grant to that list because were it not for

827
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,599
those anonymous emails that were sent to the WWE Board

828
00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:16,679
of Directors in twenty twenty two and leak to the

829
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:20,760
Wall Street Journal, which made mention of her. Vince McMahon

830
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,639
does not tweet out his phony retirement message and step

831
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:26,719
aside when he does, and Paul Leveck does not ascend

832
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,000
to the position of head of Creative. Vince does not

833
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,000
sell the company when he does, and if he does

834
00:43:33,039 --> 00:43:36,039
eventually decide to sell, maybe it's not to a friendly

835
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:39,360
face like Ari Emmanuel, who he went with primarily because

836
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,079
he wanted to make sure that despite everything, he could

837
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,000
stay on in some position of power. And then he

838
00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:48,239
finally doesn't go away for good in twenty twenty four

839
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,039
when the lawsuit drops right, all of these things likely

840
00:43:51,159 --> 00:43:54,800
do not happen were it not for Janelle Grant. But

841
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,039
now it's over. However it goes in arbitration, we may

842
00:43:58,079 --> 00:43:59,840
never know because when and if they do reach a

843
00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:02,559
my guess is it ends up being a confidential one,

844
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,599
and so we're never going to know how much money

845
00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:06,800
she ends up with or if she ends up with anything.

846
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,559
This is now going behind closed doors for all intents

847
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:14,199
and purposes. This case is now over, and on Tuesday,

848
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,480
Janelle Grant posted the following message on her Instagram page.

849
00:44:18,559 --> 00:44:21,119
She said, I'll be honest and say it. I've been struggling.

850
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,000
It happened to be a perfect storm of everything all

851
00:44:24,039 --> 00:44:26,159
at once. Thank you for checking in with me and

852
00:44:26,199 --> 00:44:29,039
for your patience. I also received a lot of questions,

853
00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:31,159
and I hope this helps to clear up any confusion.

854
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,079
It's completely okay to continue reaching out and sending messages.

855
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,440
I'm grateful for your messages to offer a visual that

856
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:43,400
might help my life. Resembles the Anderson Cooper podcast about grief.

857
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,000
These profound and meaningful exchanges have helped me feel less alone.

858
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:50,400
I believe that making a difference in the world begins

859
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,519
with how we show up in it. I've been outside

860
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,519
five times this year, but here I am, and I'm

861
00:44:56,519 --> 00:45:00,639
still showing up to be part of this solution. Imagine

862
00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:02,679
my surprise when I got an alert on my phone

863
00:45:02,679 --> 00:45:04,960
the other day that Janelle Grant is now following you

864
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:08,880
on Instagram. I was not expecting that. What I can

865
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,159
say is this, everyone has their opinion on what they

866
00:45:12,199 --> 00:45:14,679
believe or what they don't believe. When it comes to

867
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:20,119
all of these allegations, yes they are just allegations, but

868
00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:23,920
they were very specific ones, very detailed, ones with text

869
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,800
message receipts in some cases, right where there's smoke, there's fire.

870
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,559
You've heard that expression, and there was an awful lot

871
00:45:30,599 --> 00:45:34,039
of smoke billowing up here. Right. He doesn't help his

872
00:45:34,119 --> 00:45:37,199
cause when it comes out that he's signed multiple NDAs

873
00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,199
with multiple women over the years, including a nearly eight

874
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,039
million dollar one to a former talent who was never

875
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:46,000
publicly named. How bad must that have been for him

876
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,920
to pay out that much money? Right? The Tanning Salon

877
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,679
incident in two thousand and six, the rape allegation against

878
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,079
him by Rida Chatterton, the former referee right who claimed

879
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:57,559
that he assaulted her in the back of his limousine

880
00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:00,440
in nineteen eighty six. Do I believe that Vince McMahon

881
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,599
committed bad deeds? You bet your ass I do. And

882
00:46:03,679 --> 00:46:05,679
he put himself in the position that he is in

883
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,719
right now, on the outside looking in. He did this

884
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,960
to himself. He's hardly a victim here, a victim of

885
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,079
his own impulses, maybe a victim of his own hubris

886
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,360
that he thought he could get away with anything just

887
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,639
by throwing money at it. Right, It worked well enough

888
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:23,519
for him years before that. Why would this be any different?

889
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,440
It probably wouldn't have been had a certain someone whoever

890
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,360
it was not leak those emails to the board, which

891
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,679
is what led to him to stop making payments to

892
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,280
her in the first place. Whoever sent those emails and

893
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,239
she denies that she had anything to do with that,

894
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,599
but the person claimed to be a friend of hers.

895
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,599
Whoever sent them got the ball rolling down the hill

896
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:46,599
and led us to where we are now. So this

897
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,920
chapter may be closed, but he still has the Ring

898
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,079
Boys lawsuit pending against him, which is also a civil suit.

899
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,320
My guess is that one ends the way that they

900
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,400
all do, because when you have billions in the bank

901
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,280
like he does, it's just easier to pay to make

902
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,280
your problems go away. There were a ton of EXWWE

903
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,559
names that became free agents this past Thursday, as their

904
00:47:10,679 --> 00:47:14,440
ninety day non compete periods have expired. This is after

905
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,480
the company released a wave of names back on April

906
00:47:17,519 --> 00:47:20,280
twenty fourth. Among the names that we know of who

907
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,519
are now free the Motor City machine Guns, who I

908
00:47:24,559 --> 00:47:27,280
would be shocked if we don't see them tonight at redemption.

909
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,079
I would be shocked if we don't see them this

910
00:47:29,159 --> 00:47:32,239
week because Dynamite and Collision are in Detroit. They're in

911
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,079
the Motor City. So if they're coming in. It will

912
00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:37,159
be no later than this week. I fully expect them

913
00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:41,320
to be on TV. Kyrie saying, I guess the question

914
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,880
what Kyrie is. Does she end up back in stardom.

915
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,400
Does she go to Marigold or I think she's had

916
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,519
a pretty good working relationship with rossi Ogawa over the years.

917
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:52,880
I could see her in Marigold. If she ends up

918
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,480
in stardom, she could potentially work with AW, or she

919
00:47:55,519 --> 00:47:58,599
could sign with AW and still do work in stardom.

920
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,440
Maybe Tony has interest in her, maybe she wants to

921
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,880
have Maybe she'll get a dual contract. Like some people

922
00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:06,079
look at thunder Rosa. You know she's got a dual

923
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:09,679
contract with AW and CMLL. Who's to say that with

924
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,840
Kyrie it wouldn't be a similar situation. Kyrie is going

925
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,840
to land on her feet somewhere. That goes without saying.

926
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:19,119
If I had a venture A guests, we probably will

927
00:48:19,159 --> 00:48:21,719
see her in AW. But whether or not she signs

928
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,639
with them or signs with a Stardom for example, that's

929
00:48:26,679 --> 00:48:30,599
the only thing I'm not sure of. Alistair Black and Zelena,

930
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,760
who is now going by the same names Zelena, but

931
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,920
with an X instead of a Z. That was her

932
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,519
way around that. Look, we know the way things ended

933
00:48:40,559 --> 00:48:43,199
with Black and AW. I don't want to say it

934
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,039
was acrimonious, but I don't think it was also a

935
00:48:46,079 --> 00:48:49,000
situation where there were a lot of, you know, handshakes

936
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,599
and smiles on his way out of the company. I

937
00:48:51,599 --> 00:48:54,079
don't know if Tony Khan would want to bring him back.

938
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,199
I don't know if Tony Khan would want to bring

939
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:57,960
the two of them in. Let's say, if the two

940
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,599
of them are sort of a package deal and they

941
00:48:59,639 --> 00:49:02,679
want to work together. I don't know. I don't know

942
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:04,800
about him going back to AAW. I could see him

943
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,719
maybe landing in TNA and being kind of a bigger

944
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,280
fish there if they could afford him. If I have

945
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,559
to always put that caveat in there, because with TNA

946
00:49:13,639 --> 00:49:16,199
these days, you never know. This one's a little bit

947
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,119
harder to predict, just based on the way things ended

948
00:49:18,199 --> 00:49:20,199
last time with him in AW. I'm kind of fifty

949
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,400
to fifty on it leaning towards no. I don't know

950
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,440
where he's going to end up. Santos Escobar, who is

951
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:31,079
now going by the name Romeo Malverdi, very talented guy.

952
00:49:31,199 --> 00:49:35,880
I could see Tony having an interest in him. Zoe Serrano,

953
00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:38,519
the former Zoe Stark, who already is back on the

954
00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:42,440
independen scene. I saw she wrestled the other night. She'll

955
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,960
be a solid addition to any women's division, honestly, whether

956
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,079
it's the aw Women's division, the knockouts division in TNA,

957
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:55,159
or again, whatever her goals may be as far as

958
00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:58,519
where she wants to work, Hopefully she gets that opportunity

959
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:00,679
because she got a raw deal. She went through a

960
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,880
very traumatic injury, and I thought that she again was

961
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,159
a solid addition to that raw women's roster. Could have

962
00:50:10,199 --> 00:50:12,920
been a women's intercontinental champion, could have been built up

963
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,519
to that level. Never had the chance, you know, she recovered,

964
00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:19,320
she had just gotten cleared and then they just cut her,

965
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,840
so she never got her redemption arc. She never had

966
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,559
the chance to come back and show what she can

967
00:50:24,599 --> 00:50:28,039
do and make that big comeback. Hopefully she can show that,

968
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,920
you know, somewhere else and then maybe WWE has an

969
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,880
interest in bringing her back one day if that's something

970
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:38,480
that's of interest to her. Bo Dallas, Joe Gacy, Eric Rowan,

971
00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:41,880
Dexter Loomis, and Nicki Cross who is now going by

972
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000
Nicki Storm. All the members of the Wyat six are

973
00:50:45,039 --> 00:50:48,159
now available. Nicki, of course, is also now the co

974
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,960
owner of Progress Wrestling and DeFi Wrestling. She actually just

975
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,719
returned to OTT Wrestling the other night. I don't know

976
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,760
that they're all going to be together, but they are

977
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,880
now free now. It's also being reported by F four

978
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,360
w online that there are seven names who are currently

979
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,239
waiting to be signed by AW. One source also confirmed

980
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,480
that there may be more, but I know of only

981
00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:14,599
seven personally, So there could be a big move to

982
00:51:14,639 --> 00:51:17,000
grab more talent for AW and Ring of Honor in

983
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,719
the next few weeks. And you know, look, AW already

984
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,440
has a lot of talent on the books, but as

985
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,800
the report points out, you know, you've got Dynamite, You've

986
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,559
got Collision, You've got Ring of Honor television to fill

987
00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:32,400
every single week, And so Tony Kahn may be looking

988
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,639
for some extra talent to kind of flesh out the rosters.

989
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,079
He already has more than enough talent to fill those rosters.

990
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,239
But when talent like the New Day become available to

991
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:48,880
finally work with the Young Bucks, when Seamus becomes available

992
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,920
on October first, like there are talents that have name

993
00:51:53,039 --> 00:51:57,599
value coming off TV, well, I mean in terms of Seamus,

994
00:51:57,639 --> 00:51:59,400
I guess it's been a while since he's been on TV.

995
00:51:59,519 --> 00:52:01,800
The New Day they were being more used during commercial

996
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,760
breaks than they were on television. But you know what

997
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,440
I mean, when you have these talents that have that

998
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:10,360
name value, and they have the talent to add something

999
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,559
to your roster, to add something to your television show,

1000
00:52:14,159 --> 00:52:16,400
you would be a fool to not at least have

1001
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,159
that conversation and see if a deal can be worked out.

1002
00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:21,280
I have zero doubt that Kofe and Woods are going

1003
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,639
to end up in AW once they are free to

1004
00:52:23,679 --> 00:52:26,840
do so, as well the machine guns, and it's only

1005
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:28,760
going to make a tag team division that's already the

1006
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,760
best in the world even stronger Shamus as well. I

1007
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,599
would be stunned if Tony Khan does not make a

1008
00:52:35,639 --> 00:52:38,599
play for Shamus when he becomes available, and that Shamus

1009
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,800
would say no if he was made an offer would

1010
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,519
also surprise me. So I don't know if those would

1011
00:52:45,519 --> 00:52:48,199
count as three of the names towards the seven that

1012
00:52:48,199 --> 00:52:50,800
they're referring to here. I think Kyrie would be another one,

1013
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:57,280
Escobar again, Alistair and Zelina that I don't know or

1014
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,800
if he would even want to go back and let's

1015
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,920
not leave TNA out of the conversation again. I think

1016
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,639
they pick up a few people too, but they're just

1017
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,679
not going to pay what aw is going to be

1018
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:09,679
able to pay some of the bigger names on that list.

1019
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,239
They're just not TNA lost two more this week, by

1020
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,880
the way. Victoria Crawford, the former Alicia Fox, is gone

1021
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,679
from TNA, as is Alice Lane, who worked as a

1022
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,639
referee for them. She received their All Star Award earlier

1023
00:53:23,679 --> 00:53:26,239
this year for her handling of the Steve Macklin concussion

1024
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,199
during his match with Mike Santana. WWE snatched her up

1025
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,480
and they have her officiating some NXT loops. Even the

1026
00:53:34,559 --> 00:53:40,320
referees are leaving. Nobody is safe. There was another big

1027
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,639
story this week that for some they may look at

1028
00:53:42,639 --> 00:53:45,159
this as a good thing, but this is very much

1029
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,039
not a good thing if you are a fan of

1030
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:51,960
variety and not having one company monopolizing everything and having

1031
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:55,880
independent voices, however independent they may have been before this,

1032
00:53:56,039 --> 00:53:58,559
because it's not as if they weren't already in bed

1033
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:02,079
with WWE before this new broke, but this is actually

1034
00:54:02,199 --> 00:54:05,840
quite depressing, to be quite honest. You know, many years

1035
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,199
ago in nineteen ninety three, to be exact, there was

1036
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,599
a little something called Radio WWF, which was Vince McMahon's

1037
00:54:13,639 --> 00:54:17,159
way of trying to expand his product's reach from television

1038
00:54:17,159 --> 00:54:20,360
into radio, and Jim Ross was a key part of

1039
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,480
that endeavor. Ross had been on radio before. He hosted

1040
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,639
a show called Wrestling with Jim Ross every Sunday on

1041
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,800
a talk radio station out of Atlanta. This is when

1042
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,039
he was still working for WCW, and so he pitched

1043
00:54:33,039 --> 00:54:36,400
a similar idea to Vince after he started working for him,

1044
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:40,679
and Vince loved it. Hence Radio WWF was born, and

1045
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:42,840
it didn't last very long. It lasted a matter of

1046
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:47,199
months from ninety three into ninety four. I want to

1047
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,480
say they ran it through WrestleMania time. It was sometime

1048
00:54:50,519 --> 00:54:53,920
in the first half of ninety four where they would

1049
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,440
provide alternate commentary for the pay per views from JR

1050
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,039
and Gerrilla Monsoon and then later on a raven Johnny

1051
00:55:01,039 --> 00:55:04,280
Polo I believe started doing it with JR. But they

1052
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,039
even covered news from around the wrestling world, not just

1053
00:55:08,119 --> 00:55:12,000
the WWF. Now, it may not have been the most

1054
00:55:12,039 --> 00:55:15,880
flattering news that they would cover, like the scissors incident,

1055
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:20,239
in WCW between arn Anderson and said Vicious. It's kind

1056
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,760
of like that brief period twenty years ago where WWE

1057
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,079
started covering wrestling industry news on WWE dot com. Do

1058
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:31,719
you remember this, They were covering TNA releases on their

1059
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,760
own website. I want to say it was a Shane

1060
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,880
McMahon idea because he would have been heading up the

1061
00:55:38,039 --> 00:55:40,159
digital side of things back then. I mean, Shane had

1062
00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,760
a lot of ideas. Shane wanted to buy ECW when

1063
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,119
it was headed for bankruptcy and running on his own.

1064
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,360
Vince said no. Shane wanted to buy UFC when it

1065
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,719
was nearing bankruptcy, Vince said no. Shane wanted to buy

1066
00:55:54,880 --> 00:56:00,000
the Pride Fighting Organization. Vince said no because he couldn't

1067
00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:03,280
control the outcomes and then you got to deal with

1068
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,880
the state athletic commissions and all that stuff. He didn't

1069
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,760
want to have anything to do with that. Shane wanted

1070
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,320
to run ECW as an online only show in two

1071
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,199
thousand and six when they brought it back so that

1072
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,199
they could be edgier, and Vince said no to that too.

1073
00:56:18,519 --> 00:56:20,519
It's not hard to see why he eventually had the

1074
00:56:20,519 --> 00:56:23,599
blow up with his father and quit. He wanted to

1075
00:56:23,639 --> 00:56:25,519
show his dad that he could run something on his

1076
00:56:25,559 --> 00:56:27,440
own and be successful at it just like he was,

1077
00:56:27,519 --> 00:56:31,239
and Vince just kept shutting him down. Anyway. That was

1078
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,159
Radio WWF many years ago. This week came the announcement

1079
00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:40,719
that starting this Monday tomorrow, WWE is partnering with Sirius

1080
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:45,320
XM to launch WWE Radio, which will be taking over

1081
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,039
Channel one point fifty six on Sirius XM, replacing the

1082
00:56:49,079 --> 00:56:52,320
existing Pro Wrestling Nation twenty four to seven channel. The

1083
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,320
lineup will still be anchored by Busted Open Radio, along

1084
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,159
with all of their usual shows hosted by Sam Roberts,

1085
00:56:58,159 --> 00:57:02,280
Peter Rosenberg, and others. WWE Radio will also have live

1086
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:06,360
commentary for every pl with Vic Joseph and Booker T

1087
00:57:06,599 --> 00:57:10,880
calling SummerSlam live for Serious XM listeners, and there will

1088
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:15,440
be audio simulcast for select television programs. The WWE and

1089
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:19,480
Fanatics group of podcasts will also air on WWE Radio,

1090
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:24,079
including Cody Rhoades, Stephanie McMahon and The Undertaker shows, and

1091
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:29,119
WWE Now from Sam Roberts and Megan Morant. Episodes of

1092
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:33,599
those podcasts will air daily at four pm Eastern. WWE

1093
00:57:33,679 --> 00:57:37,480
Radio will broadcast several live shows directly from Minneapolis and

1094
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:41,320
the days leading up to SummerSlam, capturing the quote vibrant

1095
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:46,199
atmosphere and fan excitement surrounding the weekends events. This is

1096
00:57:46,239 --> 00:57:49,559
according to the press release they put out. Dave Lgreca,

1097
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,800
Bully Ray, Mark Henry, Tommy Dreamer, Sam Roberts, and Peter

1098
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,000
Rosenberg will host from the Minneapolis Convention Center and will

1099
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:04,400
analyze upcoming storylines, interview WWE personalities and superstars, and speak

1100
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,840
with fans in Minneapolis and across the country. So if

1101
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,719
you're wondering, well, what does all this mean for discussion

1102
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:17,079
of other wrestling companies and wrestling shows on SiriusXM and

1103
00:58:17,159 --> 00:58:21,039
I'm Busted Open, it means exactly what you think it means.

1104
00:58:21,559 --> 00:58:26,840
Thunder Rosa is under contract to AW and CML. WWE

1105
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,760
does not play nice with AW, nor does Triple A

1106
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,199
play nice with CML. She announced that she will no

1107
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,599
longer be working I'm Busted Open. Now. My understanding is

1108
00:58:36,639 --> 00:58:39,559
that she hasn't been on very many times anyway over

1109
00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:43,480
the past year. Maybe here and there, but that's not

1110
00:58:43,559 --> 00:58:47,599
even the point. The point is there is not expected

1111
00:58:47,599 --> 00:58:52,119
to be any AW coverage on the channel, whatsoever, moving forward,

1112
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,639
Rosa posted on her social media on Friday, after four

1113
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,760
unforgettable years, it's time to turn the page. Some chapters

1114
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,960
in life change you forever, and this has been one

1115
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,360
of them. Being part of Busted Open has been so

1116
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,079
much more than sitting behind a microphone. It gave me

1117
00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:12,400
the opportunity to share my perspective, connect with wrestling fans

1118
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,400
around the world, and celebrate the sport that has given

1119
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,559
me so much. I'm especially grateful to Tony Kahan for

1120
00:59:18,599 --> 00:59:21,800
believing in me, trusting me to represent aw and allowing

1121
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,280
me to contribute my voice to one of the most

1122
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:29,039
respected wrestling shows in our industry. To Dave Logreca, Tommy Dreamer,

1123
00:59:29,079 --> 00:59:32,519
Bully Ray, Mark Henry, the producers and everyone behind the scenes,

1124
00:59:33,159 --> 00:59:37,199
thank you for welcoming me, challenging me, inspiring me, and

1125
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,800
making me feel like family. And she had a lot

1126
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,920
of other very complimentary things to say. She said, this

1127
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,039
isn't goodbye, it is simply the beginning of a new chapter.

1128
00:59:47,199 --> 00:59:50,559
I will see you all very soon. I don't listen

1129
00:59:50,559 --> 00:59:53,360
to bus That Open these days, and it's not because

1130
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,360
I dislike the show or anything. I think what Dave

1131
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00,519
Logreca has built over there is very impressive. Starting the

1132
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:03,480
show way back in two thousand and nine, there weren't

1133
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:08,039
very many wrestling radio shows or podcasts back then. I

1134
01:00:08,039 --> 01:00:10,119
mean I started my show in two thousand and seven.

1135
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,320
You had Don Toni and Kevin Cassel, you had live

1136
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,840
audio wrestling used to air on the radio out of Toronto.

1137
01:00:18,519 --> 01:00:20,840
I know Melter and Alvarez, they had their show on

1138
01:00:21,039 --> 01:00:25,519
YadA before Iyada went belly up. But these shows were

1139
01:00:25,559 --> 01:00:28,239
few and far between, you know, compared to what we

1140
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,440
have today. He took a show that he started with

1141
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:36,320
Doug Morton, who still works for Sirius XM as fan

1142
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:41,320
hosted with fan opinions on everything, not just WWE, but TNA,

1143
01:00:41,599 --> 01:00:44,519
Ring of Honor, New Japan, all of it. But it

1144
01:00:44,559 --> 01:00:47,760
was a fan show. And then he brought on Bully

1145
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:52,239
Ray and other wrestlers or ex wrestlers started hosting and

1146
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:55,519
it just became a very different show. But I don't

1147
01:00:55,519 --> 01:00:58,480
even have a serious XM subscription, so outside of the

1148
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,760
clips that I see on social media or on their

1149
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,599
YouTube channel that I do occasionally come across, I'm not

1150
01:01:04,639 --> 01:01:08,599
a regular listener, so I can't speak to the daily

1151
01:01:08,719 --> 01:01:12,239
listening experience. When it comes to how much coverage other

1152
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,440
promotions have been getting on Busted Open, I suspect not

1153
01:01:15,679 --> 01:01:19,519
very much. I know they would cover AAW, but not

1154
01:01:19,559 --> 01:01:22,840
as much as WWE, and truth be told, I get

1155
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:27,360
those same complaints even from my show sometimes, and that's twofold.

1156
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,360
Sometimes there just isn't really anything to talk about beyond

1157
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,639
the television shows. When it comes to AAW. There's not

1158
01:01:34,679 --> 01:01:37,880
a lot of actual news. And also the AW content

1159
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,519
doesn't do as well as the WWE content to begin with. Right,

1160
01:01:41,639 --> 01:01:43,840
I still cover it, I still do it. I'm a fan,

1161
01:01:44,199 --> 01:01:47,159
But the numbers don't lie. And that was true of

1162
01:01:47,239 --> 01:01:50,400
AAW even years ago, when the numbers were better than

1163
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,760
they are now, they were always lower than the WWE content,

1164
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,000
Which makes sense. I mean, the bigger company is going

1165
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,679
to cast a wider net when it comes to fans

1166
01:01:58,679 --> 01:02:02,719
searching on YouTube for even if the product sucks, even

1167
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:07,679
if the product is fucking boring and uninspired. If anything,

1168
01:02:07,719 --> 01:02:10,119
it does even better because when people get upset or

1169
01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:13,159
they don't like what they're watching, they seek out content

1170
01:02:13,199 --> 01:02:15,079
to see if other people feel the same way that

1171
01:02:15,119 --> 01:02:19,519
they do, and then they commiserate together. That does happen. Right,

1172
01:02:19,599 --> 01:02:22,320
jump on WFAN radio here in New York and listen

1173
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,239
to all the Mets fans calling in. Okay, it's the

1174
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,519
same thing. They're gonna bleed orange and blue until the

1175
01:02:27,599 --> 01:02:29,559
day they die, but they're not gonna be afraid to

1176
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:31,840
let you know how they feel when the team sucks.

1177
01:02:33,119 --> 01:02:35,880
From what I do here, though, their coverage of anything

1178
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,760
outside WWE was already fairly minimal. Tommy Dreamers on the show.

1179
01:02:41,079 --> 01:02:44,599
He worked for TNA for many years, as does Nick Neamith.

1180
01:02:44,719 --> 01:02:48,280
Right now he's their champion. He also has a hosting

1181
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,239
gig on there, so they do cover TNA and likely

1182
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,159
will continue to do so since TNA is playing nice

1183
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:58,800
with WWE. Dave Lgreca after the announcement was made, he

1184
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:03,119
claimed that the content of the shows would not be changing, right,

1185
01:03:03,159 --> 01:03:07,719
nothing is changing. By Friday, Dave had people calling in

1186
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:09,719
and asking if they were still going to be covering

1187
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,480
AW and they avoided giving a straight answer to the question.

1188
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:18,519
They would be great dodgeball players. Okay, but what else

1189
01:03:18,559 --> 01:03:20,920
is he gonna say? Right, They're on a station now

1190
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:25,440
that is called WWE Radio. You don't have to be

1191
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,559
a MENSA member to figure out what that means. You

1192
01:03:28,639 --> 01:03:32,199
know what it means. I know what it means, and

1193
01:03:32,239 --> 01:03:34,559
I know Jonathan Coachman also had a show on the

1194
01:03:34,639 --> 01:03:37,880
channel and he was recently let go. Now thunder Rosa

1195
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,639
says that she's not going to be back. The cleansing

1196
01:03:40,719 --> 01:03:45,239
has begun, as one of the ESPN executives said of

1197
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,599
their partnership with WWE last year, they claimed that there

1198
01:03:48,639 --> 01:03:50,840
was going to be a separation of church and state.

1199
01:03:51,519 --> 01:03:54,760
Remember that until they got a C letter grade from

1200
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,880
an ESPN dot com writer and flipped out over it.

1201
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,519
You had JBL's saying that Andreas Hale, who was just

1202
01:04:02,599 --> 01:04:05,400
let go by ESPN, is part of a wave of

1203
01:04:05,679 --> 01:04:08,960
layoffs last week, that Andreas Hale should have just given

1204
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,159
them an A grade, even if he didn't believe it

1205
01:04:11,239 --> 01:04:14,199
was worthy of one. Because now ESPN is in a

1206
01:04:14,239 --> 01:04:17,679
business relationship with WWE, and so how are you gonna

1207
01:04:17,679 --> 01:04:21,880
have your business partner giving you a C grade? JBL

1208
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:27,159
has what I call WWE brain, and WWE brain dictates

1209
01:04:27,199 --> 01:04:30,880
that nothing exists outside of WWE or the groups that

1210
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:35,559
they're friendly with. Right, nothing else exists. Why wouldn't that

1211
01:04:35,599 --> 01:04:40,719
same logic apply here? It's a business relationship and really

1212
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,159
that's the issue. This is why it's more important than

1213
01:04:44,199 --> 01:04:47,679
ever to have independent voices out there for you to

1214
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:52,320
listen to and watch and engage with. Less of that

1215
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,000
we have the worse it is for fans, which is

1216
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,760
not to say that there aren't people who work for

1217
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:01,079
SERIOUSXM who don't have their own platforms written apart from that,

1218
01:05:01,679 --> 01:05:06,159
but in terms of that platform that media, as has

1219
01:05:06,239 --> 01:05:10,440
happened with ESPN and WWE, when you co opt media

1220
01:05:10,519 --> 01:05:12,880
in this way, and make no mistake, that is what

1221
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:18,119
WWE is doing here. They are co opting media. Realistically,

1222
01:05:18,159 --> 01:05:21,199
they co opted Busted Open years ago. They only just

1223
01:05:21,239 --> 01:05:24,199
now made it official and this is great for WWE,

1224
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,000
but it's terrible for everyone else, you know, you look

1225
01:05:28,039 --> 01:05:32,199
at it from WWE's perspective. SERIOUSXM is built into most

1226
01:05:32,199 --> 01:05:34,559
cars at this point. Right, if you're not subscribed to it,

1227
01:05:34,599 --> 01:05:37,239
you probably have a free trial. You may not even

1228
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,840
know it. Millions of people tune in every day, maybe

1229
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,360
not to Bust It Open, but there's the Howard Stern Show,

1230
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,639
there's other live programs. People have different reasons from why

1231
01:05:45,639 --> 01:05:50,280
they subscribe. Why wouldn't WWE want to tap into that? Right?

1232
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,840
If you subscribe, you'll now be able to listen live

1233
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,679
to all the plees and other events, even if you're

1234
01:05:55,719 --> 01:05:58,679
not interested in all the podcast stuff. That's pretty cool.

1235
01:05:59,239 --> 01:06:01,400
That's probably it's the biggest perk out of all of this.

1236
01:06:02,679 --> 01:06:05,119
And when they have events like SummerSlam, they can build

1237
01:06:05,159 --> 01:06:07,800
a whole week of coverage around it on location, right,

1238
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,079
they could offer access to whatever talent the bus that

1239
01:06:10,119 --> 01:06:13,280
open folks want to bring on. So for WWE, this

1240
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:16,760
is a no lose situation for them. Now if you're

1241
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,880
Dave Logreca and Sirius XM, because I don't know how

1242
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,519
much power and influence Dave even has over there. At

1243
01:06:23,519 --> 01:06:25,639
this point, there's so many more voices in the room

1244
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:27,719
as compared to how it was when he first started

1245
01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:31,800
the show, And if SiriusXM wants to work with WWE,

1246
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:34,440
Dave Logreca is not going to be in any position

1247
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,480
to stop that. Okay, let's just be honest. But if

1248
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:41,000
you're Dave, I can understand him taking an opportunity like this.

1249
01:06:42,599 --> 01:06:45,840
That WWE would buy in on this and that they

1250
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,559
saw the value in it is a testament to what

1251
01:06:48,679 --> 01:06:51,679
he has built over there, and for serious they started

1252
01:06:51,679 --> 01:06:53,800
their own twenty four hour channel last year, which is

1253
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,800
what WWE is now taking over. They're taking over the

1254
01:06:56,840 --> 01:07:00,480
twenty four to seven pro wrestling channel they had, and

1255
01:07:00,559 --> 01:07:02,639
from what I understand, there was a lot of repeat

1256
01:07:02,679 --> 01:07:05,920
content on there. It didn't sound to me like they

1257
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:10,119
had a full schedule of original content. So I don't

1258
01:07:10,119 --> 01:07:13,360
know how well it was even doing. Again, I can't

1259
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,199
speak to that, but it wouldn't surprise me that Sirius

1260
01:07:16,199 --> 01:07:18,679
looked at that and said, you know what, WWE wants

1261
01:07:18,719 --> 01:07:21,519
to come in and rebrand the entire thing. We're not

1262
01:07:21,559 --> 01:07:24,480
going to say no to that. We need you, we

1263
01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:28,440
need the content. And so one of the concessions that

1264
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,159
they had to make was likely getting rid of certain

1265
01:07:31,199 --> 01:07:33,920
people the WWE did not want working on the channel

1266
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,119
and not giving airtime to other promotions that they don't

1267
01:07:37,159 --> 01:07:41,880
approve of. Right they attached their name to it. WWE

1268
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,760
Radio is not coming on the air tomorrow on their

1269
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,800
first full day of operation and giving you a full

1270
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:53,800
recap of AEW redemption tonight. Okay, maybe it's a gradual thing,

1271
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,119
and you know, at first there's some talk here and

1272
01:07:56,199 --> 01:07:58,920
there to give the appearance of business as usual, but

1273
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,880
believe me, it is anything but business as usual. Now

1274
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:05,840
it's just business. They are now in arm of WWE.

1275
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,440
You know you've heard of state run media, right, that's

1276
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:12,599
what this is. Sirius is not going to rock the

1277
01:08:12,599 --> 01:08:15,440
boat on this because they're now in business with WWE,

1278
01:08:15,519 --> 01:08:19,479
just like ESPN is in business with WWE. And forget

1279
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:22,920
aw and other promotions for a second. What does this

1280
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,720
mean for criticism of WWE, like on a channel called

1281
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,239
WWE Radio. How much criticism are they willing to tolerate

1282
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:33,840
before it becomes an issue? They've already started promoting this

1283
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:36,000
on their television shows. They talked about the launch on

1284
01:08:36,039 --> 01:08:39,479
SmackDown Friday Night. You think WWE is going to want

1285
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,840
people watching the TV show to go, oh wow, I

1286
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,960
can listen to WWE on the radio now and analysis

1287
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,680
of the TV shows on the radio, just to tune

1288
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:51,279
in and hear Dave Legreca frothing at the mouth in

1289
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:54,960
his bathrobe about how the Rock ruined WrestleMania. You fucking

1290
01:08:55,039 --> 01:08:58,680
kidding me? If you have a ple that wasn't very

1291
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,159
good and deserves to be torn, are they going to

1292
01:09:01,199 --> 01:09:03,359
be afraid to call balls and strikes because they don't

1293
01:09:03,399 --> 01:09:06,119
want to upset their bosses? You know, the ones who

1294
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:10,119
sign their paychecks. If there's a serious news story related

1295
01:09:10,119 --> 01:09:12,000
to WWE, then maybe it doesn't paint them in the

1296
01:09:12,039 --> 01:09:14,520
best light. Is that going to get any coverage at

1297
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,359
all on WWE Radio? I mean, were those stories getting

1298
01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:22,119
coverage to begin with on Busted Open? Maybe not, but

1299
01:09:22,159 --> 01:09:24,039
you're certainly not going to hear about it on there.

1300
01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:27,760
Not Now, as long as you understand what you're getting

1301
01:09:28,159 --> 01:09:30,560
and what you're paying for, that's up to you. If

1302
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:32,840
that's something that you're okay with, if that's something that

1303
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:35,199
interests you, or if it doesn't interest you, it's going

1304
01:09:35,279 --> 01:09:37,640
to be up to the individual. I don't get a

1305
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,520
chance to listen to very many wrestling podcasts these days.

1306
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:42,800
I mean, I talk about wrestling enough on my end

1307
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,479
that whatever free time I have, the last thing I

1308
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:47,960
want to do is listen to more pro wrestling. But

1309
01:09:48,079 --> 01:09:50,239
what I think is important and what I would want

1310
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:53,960
to listen to are people without an agenda who are

1311
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,159
going to call it like they see it. If they

1312
01:09:56,159 --> 01:09:59,199
think something is really good, they'll tell you it's good.

1313
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:03,079
If they I think something absolutely sucks, they're not going

1314
01:10:03,159 --> 01:10:06,039
to be shy about it, and they're not gonna run

1315
01:10:06,079 --> 01:10:09,439
away from telling you that either, but also hopefully explaining

1316
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:12,039
why why do you feel that way? Here's why I

1317
01:10:12,079 --> 01:10:14,319
think this is bad, Here's what I think would have

1318
01:10:14,359 --> 01:10:16,920
been better, or how they can make it better, or

1319
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,960
what I hope to see next time. But whatever they're saying,

1320
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,920
it's coming from a place of honesty. You may not

1321
01:10:23,119 --> 01:10:25,039
like it, and you don't have to agree with it,

1322
01:10:25,359 --> 01:10:28,399
but you can at least believe that it's the person's genuine, honest,

1323
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,600
unfiltered opinion. That's what I would want to listen to.

1324
01:10:32,079 --> 01:10:35,239
That's how I try to conduct myself, and fuck whoever

1325
01:10:35,359 --> 01:10:38,479
is not happy with that. It's the thing I love

1326
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,760
the most about what I do and doing it on

1327
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:42,880
my own is that I never have to worry if

1328
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:44,680
someone above me is going to have an issue with

1329
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,279
something I'm saying, or I have to clear it with

1330
01:10:47,359 --> 01:10:50,079
someone first. I don't even have to think about it.

1331
01:10:50,319 --> 01:10:53,479
I just say it. If it's live, it's out there

1332
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,960
for the world to see. And if it's recorded, like

1333
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:59,079
this podcast is I finished recording, I slap on the intro,

1334
01:10:59,159 --> 01:11:02,119
I slap on the out I convert it, I upload it,

1335
01:11:02,159 --> 01:11:04,199
and I post it and it's out there for the world.

1336
01:11:04,279 --> 01:11:06,600
To listen to and I don't pay it another thought.

1337
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,479
Like even doing the Uncrowned Wrestling show for Ariel Helwani

1338
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:14,039
and for Yahoo. No one has ever told me, oh,

1339
01:11:14,119 --> 01:11:16,239
you can't say that, or oh you can't cover that,

1340
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,880
or oh maybe stay away from that. They leave me

1341
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,439
alone and they let me do my thing. It's the

1342
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,319
whole reason they brought me on to the team in

1343
01:11:24,319 --> 01:11:26,880
the first place. They didn't want me to change a

1344
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,880
single thing. And I love that. I love working with

1345
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:33,199
people like that. And look, who's to say that one

1346
01:11:33,239 --> 01:11:36,279
day an opportunity may not come up to do something

1347
01:11:36,279 --> 01:11:39,199
where I do have to answer to somebody else or

1348
01:11:39,359 --> 01:11:42,399
avoid talking about certain things. Right, I can't say that

1349
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,600
really appeals to me. But I also can't sit here

1350
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,000
and tell you that if there was an opportunity, you know,

1351
01:11:48,079 --> 01:11:50,279
worth pursuing, that I wouldn't do it. It would have

1352
01:11:50,319 --> 01:11:52,920
to make sense for me and hopefully allow me to

1353
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:56,119
continue doing what I do here. It's why I can't

1354
01:11:56,159 --> 01:11:58,960
begrudge look Greca for doing this. I know he's getting

1355
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,079
some hate and he's gonna a lot of you sold

1356
01:12:01,119 --> 01:12:04,720
out comment. It's such a huge opportunity for him. I

1357
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:08,239
get it. I understand it. But like the recent aj

1358
01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:11,439
Styles comments about him wanting to see WWE acquire a

1359
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:15,359
wrestling promotion in Japan like they did with TRIPAA, these

1360
01:12:15,399 --> 01:12:19,600
types of deals have real consequences, maybe not right away,

1361
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:23,560
but they do, and they're not good consequences. If you're

1362
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:25,840
part of the bus at Open crew or you work

1363
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:30,039
for Serious XM, this is a cause for celebration for

1364
01:12:30,119 --> 01:12:32,920
everyone else. I mean, I guess it all depends on

1365
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,760
what you're looking for out of your pro wrestling discussion.

1366
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,239
And for those of you who don't have SERIOUSXM or

1367
01:12:39,279 --> 01:12:41,399
you didn't listen to busts that Open to begin with,

1368
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:45,720
then absolutely nothing changes for you and you can continue

1369
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,920
to follow the same shows that you always followed. And

1370
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,119
if this is one of them, and I assume it is,

1371
01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:53,960
if you're listening to this, I appreciate the hell out

1372
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,800
of you for it. Next weekend, do we got two

1373
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,960
nights of Summer Slam coming up from yous Bank Stadium

1374
01:13:01,039 --> 01:13:06,359
in Minneapolis, and it looks like thirty thousand plus for

1375
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,800
each night, which is way down from what they did

1376
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,119
last year. And granted last year they had John Cena

1377
01:13:12,119 --> 01:13:14,600
defending the WWE Championship in the main event of Night

1378
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,960
two against Cody Rhodes, but that was first of all,

1379
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,479
that was only one night, and second of all, that

1380
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:24,359
still doesn't account for such a big drop, such a

1381
01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:27,520
steep drop in what they did last year. Ticket prices

1382
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:30,199
obviously factor into that, but I also think overall interests

1383
01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:33,119
in the product. You know, they peaked, we were were

1384
01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:38,239
already passed the peak. So this was not going to

1385
01:13:38,279 --> 01:13:40,800
do as well as last year if the interest level

1386
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:44,359
in what WWE was providing to people wasn't there, And

1387
01:13:44,399 --> 01:13:46,600
clearly it is not, not to the same degree that

1388
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,520
it was before, which again is to say not to

1389
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:52,840
say that sixty or seventy thousand combined for the two

1390
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,439
nights is a bad total kind of all by itself,

1391
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:57,399
but when you compare it to what they've done before,

1392
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,199
it's a bad total. Well, don't know what the matches

1393
01:14:01,279 --> 01:14:04,000
are that are airing on Saturday, what the matches are

1394
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,239
that are airing on Sunday. They'll make that announcement this week.

1395
01:14:08,119 --> 01:14:10,880
I actually think it's pretty shitty. If you're someone who's

1396
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,239
only attending one night, maybe you can only afford to

1397
01:14:13,239 --> 01:14:15,920
go one night, and you have no idea if the

1398
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,000
matches that you really want to see are taking place

1399
01:14:18,039 --> 01:14:20,960
on the night that you paid for. Like imagine buying

1400
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,039
a ticket to see Obafemi against Brockelesner inside Hell in

1401
01:14:24,079 --> 01:14:26,479
a Cell and you find out this week that you're

1402
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:28,760
going on the one night that they're not wrestling. I'd

1403
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,760
be pretty pissed off about that. If I'm gonna run

1404
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,800
down the card, here give my predictions. You guys can

1405
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,600
chime in with your own. We may get more match

1406
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:38,439
We should get more matches, at least one or two

1407
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:41,800
more this week, and we'll find out what's taking place

1408
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:43,720
on which night, and I'm sure I'll talk more about

1409
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:48,920
it on Crowned on Tuesday. We do know. Apparently ESPN

1410
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:53,600
would like the Intercontinental Championship match between Penta and Chad

1411
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:57,640
Gable to take place on the ESPN portion of the show.

1412
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,880
I assume ESPN is doing what they've been doing, which

1413
01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:03,079
is airing the first hour of both nights on ESPN,

1414
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,720
and so it looks like Chad Gable and Penta is

1415
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:08,039
going to be in the first hour on one of

1416
01:15:08,079 --> 01:15:10,279
the two nights. This is one of the matches I

1417
01:15:10,359 --> 01:15:13,880
am most looking forward to next weekend. This is or

1418
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:18,319
should be the crowning of Chad Gable. Chad Gable will

1419
01:15:18,359 --> 01:15:20,640
never be in a better position than he is now

1420
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:24,039
to finally win the championship that has eluded him now

1421
01:15:24,119 --> 01:15:27,359
for years. He's had opportunity after opportunity in the past

1422
01:15:27,359 --> 01:15:29,960
when he was a babyface to win the title. He

1423
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,680
had that feud with Gunther. It didn't work out and

1424
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,000
he went heel and he had this whole El Grande

1425
01:15:36,079 --> 01:15:40,960
Americano run with a torn the rotator cuff thrown in there,

1426
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:42,600
so he missed a whole bunch of time due to

1427
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,279
the injury. He came back, he had that incredible match

1428
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,239
in May at the Triple A Show that set him

1429
01:15:49,319 --> 01:15:52,760
up for this babyface run that he is now on Penta.

1430
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,840
I love him to death. I think he's fantastic, but

1431
01:15:55,960 --> 01:16:00,720
it's time. There should be nothing here except Dad Gable

1432
01:16:01,359 --> 01:16:05,760
new Intercontinental Champion. Anything else is a fail. As I

1433
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,560
said when they did the Gauntlet match on Raw a

1434
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,920
few weeks ago, they have one job. Their one job

1435
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:13,479
in that match was to send Chad Gable to Minneapolis.

1436
01:16:14,119 --> 01:16:17,640
Send Chad Gable to his hometown in front of his people,

1437
01:16:18,159 --> 01:16:20,279
in front of his family, in front of his friends,

1438
01:16:21,279 --> 01:16:23,399
to win the Championship, and they did that. He won

1439
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:27,960
the Gauntlet. You got one job left, don't drop the ball.

1440
01:16:29,119 --> 01:16:33,359
Chad Gable will be your new Intercontinental Champion. We have

1441
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:37,560
Fatal Influence taking on Page and the Bella Twins because

1442
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:41,119
Briebella now has her sister back. Friday night, Nikki Bella

1443
01:16:41,159 --> 01:16:44,359
made her return, so we're getting a six woman tag or,

1444
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:48,079
as Bryson said to me on X team, Total Divas.

1445
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:52,520
That's basically what it is. Page and Bribella are Total Divas.

1446
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:56,159
That's their name, that should be their name. I don't

1447
01:16:56,159 --> 01:16:59,439
think the Total Divas are getting the win here Fatal Influence.

1448
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,479
They just won the women's tag team titles at Saturday

1449
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,000
Night's main event, and then Lanny Reid went in there

1450
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:07,119
against Bribella on Friday and got pinned. This should be

1451
01:17:07,159 --> 01:17:09,640
a win for Fatal Influence. And the only question is

1452
01:17:10,279 --> 01:17:13,199
do we see a heel turn on the baby face side?

1453
01:17:14,119 --> 01:17:18,159
Does Page go heal and align with Fatal Influence and

1454
01:17:18,279 --> 01:17:21,119
join Fatal Influence? So do they add her as a

1455
01:17:21,159 --> 01:17:25,399
fourth member? That's one idea. Do the Bella Twins turn

1456
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:29,119
on Page now that they're reunited, keep Page baby face

1457
01:17:29,199 --> 01:17:33,159
and make Nicki and Brie heels. Probably not. I don't

1458
01:17:33,199 --> 01:17:35,079
see that because I still think that the goal here

1459
01:17:35,119 --> 01:17:37,319
is to ultimately put the tag belts on Nicki and Brie.

1460
01:17:37,359 --> 01:17:40,880
They've never been women's tag team champions together, right, they

1461
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,640
would have been by now, but then Nicky got hurt.

1462
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,359
So if that's the case, and they want to eventually

1463
01:17:47,399 --> 01:17:49,680
transition those belts over to the Bellas, and right now

1464
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:51,800
you have the belts on a couple of heels, I

1465
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:53,680
would think you want to keep the Bella's baby face.

1466
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,600
So if anybody was to go heel out of this,

1467
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,159
and I'm not saying there will be a heel turn

1468
01:17:57,199 --> 01:18:00,159
because I'm just not sure it would be page, I

1469
01:18:00,159 --> 01:18:03,000
would think one thing I am sure of is that

1470
01:18:03,039 --> 01:18:06,479
fatal influence. They need this win, and I think they

1471
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:11,720
get this win. We have Trick Williams defending the United

1472
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:17,359
States Championship against Baron Corbin. Yes, his very first match

1473
01:18:17,399 --> 01:18:21,960
back in the company after years, and it's a championship match. Now.

1474
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:25,279
They set this match up because it's so important. In

1475
01:18:25,359 --> 01:18:28,920
an off air angle, on Friday night, after SmackDown went

1476
01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:30,800
off the air, they still haven't figured out that the

1477
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,039
show is back to two hours. They're still booking for

1478
01:18:33,079 --> 01:18:35,439
a three hour show, and so stuff is being left off.

1479
01:18:36,199 --> 01:18:37,960
But they shot this angle that they put up on

1480
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:42,119
their socials and now we know it's one on one

1481
01:18:42,159 --> 01:18:44,960
for the championship. Meanwhile, they had Trick Williams on Friday

1482
01:18:45,199 --> 01:18:48,039
on the show fighting at a fatal four way number

1483
01:18:48,039 --> 01:18:52,439
one contenders match for the WWE Championship, which has nothing

1484
01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:56,000
to do with Baron Corbin or the US title. And

1485
01:18:56,079 --> 01:18:58,239
so here we are. It's a case of deja vous

1486
01:18:58,279 --> 01:19:00,479
all over again. I can remember making the case heading

1487
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:03,239
into WrestleMania this year. You guys remember hearing me talk

1488
01:19:03,279 --> 01:19:05,640
about this. I was making the case for Carmelo Hayes

1489
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,880
to be added to the Trick William Sammy's ain match

1490
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:11,119
for the US title. Don't leave him off the show?

1491
01:19:12,119 --> 01:19:14,079
And what did they do? They left him off the show.

1492
01:19:15,279 --> 01:19:18,760
Now we're heading into SummerSlam and I find myself yet

1493
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:22,359
again asking why is Carmelo Hayes not added to the

1494
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,720
US title match to make it a triple threat? Why

1495
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:29,920
is he being left off the card? Some things never change,

1496
01:19:30,239 --> 01:19:33,600
even Baron Corbin himself posted in the comments under the

1497
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:37,560
match graphic on WWE's IG when somebody asked where is

1498
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:42,479
mellow what about him, and Corbin said he needs to

1499
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:46,279
be they have one SmackDown left to make it happen.

1500
01:19:47,079 --> 01:19:49,920
I don't think it does. I do think we're going

1501
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,239
to get a new United States Champion, though, I think

1502
01:19:52,279 --> 01:19:54,760
they're going to belt up Baron Corbin in his first match.

1503
01:19:56,119 --> 01:19:58,920
Sammy's Ain wasn't sure that Sammy's Ain would have a

1504
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:01,560
match on this card. I figure he might be sitting

1505
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,840
next to Carmelo Hayes at the catering table backstage watching

1506
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:09,239
everybody else wrestle. And then on Friday, Sammy was informed

1507
01:20:09,279 --> 01:20:11,119
by Adam Pears that there would be a fatal four

1508
01:20:11,199 --> 01:20:14,000
way match at the end of the night involving Trick Williams,

1509
01:20:14,079 --> 01:20:18,439
Damian Priest, Royce Keys, and Finn Baller, and the winner

1510
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:20,640
of that match would go on to SummerSlam to meet

1511
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,840
Sammy in a number one Contenders match in the winner

1512
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,239
of that match would then come out of Summer Slam

1513
01:20:26,279 --> 01:20:29,680
as the number one contender for the WWE Championship, which

1514
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:34,560
sounds very unfair because Sammy Zaane never got his rematch

1515
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:38,680
as many others do after he lost to Cmpunk, and

1516
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:43,000
more than that, more than the rematch, like clause or

1517
01:20:43,039 --> 01:20:46,960
whatever you want to call it. He got royally screwed

1518
01:20:47,279 --> 01:20:50,800
by his boss at Saturday Night's main event when Nick

1519
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,119
All disinterfered and cost him and Gun through the match.

1520
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,239
So at the very least, I never expected him to

1521
01:20:56,239 --> 01:20:58,119
be added to the he made his pitch. By the way,

1522
01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:01,000
on Friday, he says, add did the Cody in Punk

1523
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,439
match make it a triple threat, which I never thought

1524
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,119
was going to happen. I told you that last week.

1525
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:07,880
I said that match is locked in. That's exactly what

1526
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,039
Adam Pierce told him, that the match is locked But

1527
01:21:11,119 --> 01:21:14,279
I said, what would only be fair would be to

1528
01:21:14,319 --> 01:21:16,319
tell Sammy, Okay, you know what, you have a very

1529
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:21,239
valid gripe after what happened coming out of SummerSlam. You're

1530
01:21:21,239 --> 01:21:24,039
going to wrestle the champion, whether it's Punk, whether it's Cody,

1531
01:21:24,079 --> 01:21:26,960
you get first crack at it. They didn't even do that.

1532
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,479
They're making him fight for it, which is very unfair.

1533
01:21:31,399 --> 01:21:33,680
But the reason they're doing it is because if they didn't,

1534
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,840
he wouldn't have had a match at SummerSlam. So you

1535
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:38,760
kind of weigh the pros and cons here and it's like, well,

1536
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,239
maybe this doesn't make as much sense, but at least

1537
01:21:41,279 --> 01:21:42,880
we get him on the card. I would rather he

1538
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,319
have a match on the card, So I'm glad he's wrestling.

1539
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:48,720
Finn Balor won that four way match, so it's going

1540
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,720
to be Sammy's Ain't against Finn Balor. And it's ten

1541
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:56,000
years since Finn Balor beat Seth Rollins to win the

1542
01:21:56,119 --> 01:22:02,319
Universal Championship at SummerSlam and also injured his arm. Ten

1543
01:22:02,399 --> 01:22:06,720
years since Finn Balor has held a top title, a

1544
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:10,680
major title in WWE, and here now he finds himself

1545
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:15,399
in a Number one Contenders match, and I'm thinking that

1546
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:17,680
Finn Balor, who has been getting a bit of a

1547
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,840
push since he got called up to called up to

1548
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,560
since he got called over to SmackDown, I feel like

1549
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,399
they're setting him up for a championship match. Not that

1550
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:30,239
he's going to win, but he's had like these backstage

1551
01:22:30,239 --> 01:22:33,960
interactions with Cody and with Punk you know, hate Champ

1552
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,920
See You Soon, and he's actually been winning. We've had

1553
01:22:38,039 --> 01:22:41,039
Winn Balor on these shows. I don't know, we're Pinn Balor.

1554
01:22:41,079 --> 01:22:45,479
A Pinn Balor is apparently on vacation. He's sunning himself

1555
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:49,680
in the Caribbean somewhere and we've had Win Balor on television.

1556
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,199
I think we see Winn Balor at Summerslim next weekend,

1557
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:54,800
and he's going to beat Sammy and all that's gonna

1558
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,399
do is feed into this whole justice for Sammy and

1559
01:22:57,479 --> 01:23:01,439
he's going to be on this crusade against injustice. I

1560
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:04,760
think they keep that going. I think he's losing, and

1561
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:06,359
I think Finn Valor is going to be the number

1562
01:23:06,359 --> 01:23:10,720
one contender coming out of that show. We have La Knight,

1563
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:14,880
Solo Socoa, and Royce Keys. What a motley crew this is.

1564
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,359
They're gonna be taking on Jacob Fatu and the USOS.

1565
01:23:19,119 --> 01:23:22,239
I can't bet against the blood Line here. If the

1566
01:23:22,239 --> 01:23:24,760
blood Line is involved, chances are they're going to win.

1567
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:28,920
I'm very worried that Solo Sokoa is going to turn

1568
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:32,479
on La Knight and Royce Keys and rejoin the Bloodline.

1569
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:35,600
I've enjoyed Solo these last several weeks on his own

1570
01:23:36,319 --> 01:23:39,359
kind of being a little goofy. I think again that

1571
01:23:39,359 --> 01:23:42,760
there's great potential in him as a singles babyface. I

1572
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,479
don't want to see him just go back to the

1573
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,079
blood Line. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope

1574
01:23:47,079 --> 01:23:50,760
I'm wrong. I'm going with Jacob Fatu and the USSOS

1575
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:57,239
bloodline for the win. We have Gunther, the man who

1576
01:23:57,279 --> 01:24:02,119
retired John Cena, the man who retires AJ Styles. He

1577
01:24:02,239 --> 01:24:05,920
is going to be wrestling the SmackDown General manager Nick

1578
01:24:06,039 --> 01:24:08,279
All This stepping into the ring for the first time

1579
01:24:08,319 --> 01:24:12,079
in over three years, for the first time ever in WWE.

1580
01:24:12,159 --> 01:24:14,359
They had a contract signing segment on Friday that was

1581
01:24:14,399 --> 01:24:18,119
pretty good. Guntherer power bombed him through the contract signing table.

1582
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,319
Not much more you can do at this point. All

1583
01:24:21,359 --> 01:24:24,920
this cost this man a potential championship opportunity. There's a

1584
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:27,039
lot of heat going back and forth. Guntherer has beaten

1585
01:24:27,119 --> 01:24:29,520
him up and put him put him to sleep. What's

1586
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:31,760
left for him to do? The only thing left now

1587
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:33,520
is to see what all this looks like after this

1588
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,800
long layoff, and what does he look like in a

1589
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:40,600
WWE ring? Is this going to be the only match?

1590
01:24:41,399 --> 01:24:42,960
I find it hard to believe this will be the

1591
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:45,399
only time he ever wrestles in WWE. But I also

1592
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:47,479
would caution people who think that maybe this is going

1593
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,119
to be the start of an n ring run for him.

1594
01:24:49,159 --> 01:24:51,199
I don't see it that way. They had the right

1595
01:24:51,239 --> 01:24:54,399
story here for him, they're doing the one match he's

1596
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,560
going to lose. For him to go in there and

1597
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:00,600
beat Gunther, I mean maybe the people in the would

1598
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:02,560
be happy in the moment, but it would be so

1599
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:06,439
fucking ridiculous. So Gunther is gonna win. And then I think,

1600
01:25:06,479 --> 01:25:08,399
Nick all this, you know, he puts the suit back

1601
01:25:08,399 --> 01:25:11,520
gun and goes back to being the GM until there's

1602
01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:13,680
another opportunity down the road, maybe for him to do

1603
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:17,880
another match. But Guntherer has to win this. I mean,

1604
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:21,439
for anything other than that to be the end result

1605
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:26,680
of this, I just think would be completely ridiculous. And

1606
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:31,520
then we have, speaking of ridiculous, the ladder match, right,

1607
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:33,920
we have a big six way ladder match tonight on

1608
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,039
the redemption card. Well, we have a ladder match with

1609
01:25:37,279 --> 01:25:42,680
five women to crown a new interim WWE Women's Champion,

1610
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:46,800
and we know four of the five names, Charlotte Flair,

1611
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:53,560
Jade Cargill, Tiffany Stratton, and Chelsea Green. And the fifth

1612
01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:56,439
spot will be occupied by the winner of the match

1613
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:01,960
this Friday between Julia and lash Legend, which I talked

1614
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,840
about Sammy Zan and how unfair it is that he

1615
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:06,239
even has to fight for a shot to become number

1616
01:26:06,279 --> 01:26:11,560
one contender. I gotta say Nya jacks she also has

1617
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:15,199
a very valid gripe. She's been involved in two different

1618
01:26:15,279 --> 01:26:18,000
qualifying matches over the last couple of weeks on SmackDown,

1619
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:20,640
and the only reason she even got a second one

1620
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,760
is because she got fucked over in the first one.

1621
01:26:23,199 --> 01:26:27,880
She was wrestling Jade. Charlotte interfered and cost Nya the

1622
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:31,600
match by disqualification through no fault of her own, and

1623
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:34,640
so she was placed in another match, this time against Charlotte,

1624
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:38,840
and the same fucking thing happened. Jade got involved, and

1625
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:42,760
so Nya got screwed, and so their great plan was

1626
01:26:43,119 --> 01:26:46,920
We're gonna put Lash Legend, your tag team partner, in

1627
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:52,239
a qualifying match, and you're just out of it completely. Now,

1628
01:26:52,319 --> 01:26:54,640
Nya seemed okay with this once she found out, you know,

1629
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:59,119
backstage after that Lash was getting the spot, she was

1630
01:26:59,199 --> 01:27:02,840
very gracious. But in storyline, if you think about it,

1631
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:05,840
why would you not put Naya Jackson the ladder match.

1632
01:27:06,039 --> 01:27:08,239
I'm not advocating that I want to see Nia Jax

1633
01:27:08,239 --> 01:27:12,199
take that last one. I'm just saying though, logically, logically,

1634
01:27:12,239 --> 01:27:16,000
this woman got jobbed out here. So lash Legend is

1635
01:27:16,039 --> 01:27:19,159
going to qualify, and that might break some people's hearts

1636
01:27:19,159 --> 01:27:22,039
to hear me say that, But considering there's only one

1637
01:27:22,079 --> 01:27:24,479
heel in the match right now, there's one heel that's it.

1638
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:30,840
Considering that that spot is likely going to lash legend now,

1639
01:27:31,319 --> 01:27:33,720
they don't have any direction for Julia. They don't have

1640
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:37,039
any direction for Keana James right now since splitting them up.

1641
01:27:37,119 --> 01:27:41,239
Keana lost her qualifier to Chelsea Green on Friday. Julia

1642
01:27:41,319 --> 01:27:44,840
will likely suffer the same fate. I'm sorry to say.

1643
01:27:45,039 --> 01:27:48,479
Julia was attacked twice by the way, by Blake Monroe,

1644
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:50,479
and there has been no mention of it. Since there's

1645
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:53,800
been no follow up. Julia doesn't seem terribly bothered by it.

1646
01:27:54,239 --> 01:27:57,720
She hasn't said a word about it. Like when they

1647
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,239
ret con stuff like this, it may not seem like

1648
01:28:00,239 --> 01:28:02,479
a big deal, but it's part of a larger problem

1649
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:07,479
creatively when they start and stop stories like this. But

1650
01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:10,399
you have these five women. They're fighting over a fake belt.

1651
01:28:11,279 --> 01:28:13,399
I mean faker than the fake wrestling belt that Rhea

1652
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,600
Ripley still has. This is a real fake belt when

1653
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:19,600
what they should be fighting for is Riha's belt or

1654
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:22,239
at the very least a contract hanging above the ring

1655
01:28:22,319 --> 01:28:24,800
for a shot at Ria's belt if she is coming

1656
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:28,680
back soon. Instead, we have this interim garbage. You know

1657
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:33,119
my thoughts on this. WWE reportedly chose the route of

1658
01:28:33,239 --> 01:28:37,600
caution with Rihea Ripley's meniscus injury, choosing to hold her

1659
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:39,720
out of action for longer than she might have hoped.

1660
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,079
This is according to wrestle votes on Fight Full Select.

1661
01:28:42,119 --> 01:28:45,279
They reported on Thursday that there was a strong internal

1662
01:28:45,319 --> 01:28:47,800
push for the popular start to make a full recovery

1663
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:50,039
from the injury, as opposed to making it worse and

1664
01:28:50,079 --> 01:28:53,399
trying to make it to next weekend SummerSlam. According to

1665
01:28:53,439 --> 01:28:56,600
the outlet, the hope is for Ripley to return to

1666
01:28:56,680 --> 01:29:00,720
action in the fall and raining Women's United States Champion

1667
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:04,039
in Minnesota native Tiffany Stratton was originally going to defend

1668
01:29:04,039 --> 01:29:06,079
her title on the pl but is now in the

1669
01:29:06,159 --> 01:29:09,720
ladder match instead, one of several plans that needed to

1670
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:16,039
be changed due to the injury, except did it did

1671
01:29:16,079 --> 01:29:18,880
you need to go this route? Did you need to

1672
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:21,359
have a five way ladder match? No, that's something they

1673
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,399
chose to do, and that's fine. They chose that. You know,

1674
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,920
we want to have a special attraction on this show,

1675
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:29,960
So we'll have a ladder match, right, ladder matches. People

1676
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,640
love ladder matches, So we'll have a ladder match. But

1677
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:34,600
like you read this and it's almost like, well, they

1678
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:37,199
their hands were tied and they had no choice, Like,

1679
01:29:37,239 --> 01:29:40,520
give me a fucking break. There were other ways to

1680
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:43,880
go about deciding on a new champion, interior or otherwise.

1681
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:48,279
You could have absolutely have taken the time to build

1682
01:29:48,359 --> 01:29:50,840
up a program for Tiffany Stratton to defend her US

1683
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:56,119
title on this show. For example, Blake Monroe, who actually

1684
01:29:56,119 --> 01:29:59,399
confronted Tiffany in the back and they're teasing something between

1685
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:01,640
the two of them Lake Monroe. They started running vignettes

1686
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:03,920
for her a few months ago. At this point, she

1687
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:07,319
has yet to wrestle a match on TV. You mean

1688
01:30:07,359 --> 01:30:09,359
to tell me that you couldn't have her debut in

1689
01:30:09,399 --> 01:30:12,800
the rings several weeks ago, start feeding her some wins

1690
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:15,840
and start building up something for Tiffany Stratton in her

1691
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:19,000
in her home state to be doing a summerslim. They

1692
01:30:19,039 --> 01:30:21,720
did nothing, So I don't want to hear it, like, well,

1693
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:23,920
all these plans had to be changed. Yes, I understand,

1694
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,039
injuries happen and they can fuck up your plans, and

1695
01:30:26,119 --> 01:30:28,640
some plans have to change. But you know, there were

1696
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:30,680
other ways of going about doing this that would have

1697
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,800
made more sense. But here we are, and my prediction

1698
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,760
for the latter match, I mean, maybe I'm going out

1699
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:40,079
on a limb here. I don't know. I think lash

1700
01:30:40,159 --> 01:30:43,399
Legend qualifies, and I think Lash Legend wins the championship,

1701
01:30:44,279 --> 01:30:46,920
she becomes the interim Women's champion, and they set up

1702
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:49,319
a match at some point with her and Rhea Ripley

1703
01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:52,840
once Rhea comes back, so that Rihea can beat her

1704
01:30:53,119 --> 01:30:55,039
and we can be right back to where we were before.

1705
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:57,720
But I think they give it to her. I feel

1706
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:00,079
now like Charlotte and Jade, who were supposed to have

1707
01:31:00,079 --> 01:31:03,880
a singles match, I'm sure they're gonna cancel each other out.

1708
01:31:04,319 --> 01:31:06,520
And that leaves Tiffany, who has the US title. And

1709
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,319
I understand they're in her her home state, but for

1710
01:31:09,359 --> 01:31:11,079
her to win this, to me, it doesn't make any sense.

1711
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:13,760
And then Chelsea Green and I just feel like, if

1712
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:17,119
you have the choice between Chelsea and Lash, they ain't

1713
01:31:17,119 --> 01:31:21,319
gone with Chelsea. I think they want in that situation.

1714
01:31:21,399 --> 01:31:23,920
I think they would much rather do or build up

1715
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:27,680
a match between Rhea and a heel like lash Legend,

1716
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:32,159
not a baby face like Chelsea. Now we have Dan Housen.

1717
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,119
Dan Housen, how's a summer slut match. He's gonna go

1718
01:31:35,119 --> 01:31:39,279
one on one with Dominic Mysterio. Dominic Mysterio is still

1719
01:31:39,319 --> 01:31:42,359
the Triple A Mega Champion and he is getting ready

1720
01:31:42,359 --> 01:31:45,520
to defend his title at Triple Mania in September. It

1721
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,159
is a joke if they job him out to Dan

1722
01:31:48,199 --> 01:31:50,840
Housen here. I don't care how popular Dan Housen may be.

1723
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:52,640
I know he's on a streak. I don't think he's

1724
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:55,600
lost a match yet. I don't give a shit. Dom

1725
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:59,079
has that belt. Maybe in WWE it doesn't mean anything,

1726
01:31:59,079 --> 01:32:01,840
but in Triple A, use if they send dom In

1727
01:32:01,880 --> 01:32:04,359
there to lose to Dan Housen, Like if I'm Undertaker,

1728
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:08,439
I'm fucking pissed. Like you know, that doesn't sit well

1729
01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:12,039
with me. I think dom has to win this, honestly,

1730
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:15,399
and you know what, he could win and then after

1731
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:18,439
the match, and Dan Housen can curse him and then

1732
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,600
eventually he'll go on to lose his championship the next

1733
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:25,319
time he defends it. We have Oba Femi and Brock

1734
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:29,680
Lesner inside Hell in a Cell. I told you guys

1735
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:31,920
a couple of weeks ago that I felt like this

1736
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:33,720
is going to open one of the two nights. I

1737
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,479
still feel that way. I think they're gonna want that

1738
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:39,399
match on ESPN, and I mean, it's what they did

1739
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,000
at Wrestle Media, right they opened was It night too,

1740
01:32:42,159 --> 01:32:44,920
I believe, so that would be my guess as far

1741
01:32:44,960 --> 01:32:47,359
as when we see that match. I don't know which night,

1742
01:32:47,399 --> 01:32:49,279
but I think it would open one of the two nights.

1743
01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:51,680
Triple H is going to be on Raw tomorrow night

1744
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:56,079
to officiate the waigh in for their match. This is

1745
01:32:56,119 --> 01:33:00,720
the blowoff. This is match number three. The first one

1746
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:04,720
Brock won, the second one oba winning. The third one

1747
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:08,199
is the only outcome, the only acceptable outcome here to

1748
01:33:08,239 --> 01:33:11,600
this Brock Lesner is undefeated in Hell in a Cell matches.

1749
01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:14,199
He's only had two of them, but he's won, and

1750
01:33:14,199 --> 01:33:17,479
both of them, I believe were against the Undertaker, and

1751
01:33:18,039 --> 01:33:22,880
he had two excellent ones with the Undertaker. Their first

1752
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:24,800
two matches I thought were very fun. The first one

1753
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:28,000
only went four minutes, the second one went six. Yes,

1754
01:33:28,039 --> 01:33:30,640
it's a lot of finisher spam, but you got to

1755
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,920
admit like they've been exciting matches. I don't think this

1756
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,159
one will be any different. I think these two were

1757
01:33:36,159 --> 01:33:38,239
going to go in there and they're gonna have an

1758
01:33:38,239 --> 01:33:40,880
excellent match that I hope goes longer than six minutes. Right,

1759
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:44,439
we went from four minutes to six minutes. Hopefully we

1760
01:33:44,520 --> 01:33:47,199
hit double digits. Maybe we can hit ten minutes for

1761
01:33:47,279 --> 01:33:50,199
this match. I don't want the match to be less

1762
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:52,680
time than the time it takes for them to lower

1763
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:56,159
the fucking cell okay down to the down to the floor.

1764
01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:58,359
So let's hope we at least, you know, get some

1765
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,920
length out of this and gets a big win. There's

1766
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,680
no other way for this to go. Is this going

1767
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:07,560
to be brock Lesner's last match. I don't believe it

1768
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,159
will be. I mean a lot of people bought into

1769
01:34:10,159 --> 01:34:14,640
it at WrestleMania and they got burned right for thinking that,

1770
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:16,079
oh my god, this is it. Look, oh my god,

1771
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,199
his boots are in the ring, his boots, and then

1772
01:34:20,239 --> 01:34:23,760
it all turned into a joke a few weeks later. So, yes,

1773
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:28,239
it's Minneapolis. I don't think that means anything in terms of, oh,

1774
01:34:28,279 --> 01:34:30,920
this has to be his final match. It probably will

1775
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:33,079
not be his final match. They certainly aren't building it

1776
01:34:33,159 --> 01:34:35,560
up that way, and if he takes his boots off again,

1777
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:38,960
who's gonna fucking believe him? Right? I mean, we saw

1778
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:42,479
the shit at WrestleMania already, where there is money to

1779
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:44,560
be made as long as he is physically able to

1780
01:34:44,600 --> 01:34:49,239
do so, Brocklesner is going to be in business, right,

1781
01:34:49,279 --> 01:34:52,960
He's open for business? Why would he end it? At

1782
01:34:53,000 --> 01:35:00,640
SummerSlam Oba FEMU wins Eo Sky winner or the Queen

1783
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:03,720
of the Ring, We're gonna challenge for the Women's World Championship.

1784
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:08,399
This will be the first title defense of Live Morgan's reign.

1785
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:12,479
She won the championship from Stephanie Vecaer at WrestleMania, has

1786
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:16,359
not defended the title a single time since the booking

1787
01:35:16,399 --> 01:35:19,119
of Live Morgan. The booking of really the whole fucking

1788
01:35:19,159 --> 01:35:24,960
division horrendous, awful. Get that belt off of her, put

1789
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,800
it on Eo Sky. I don't have a whole lot

1790
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:28,880
of optimism that things are gonna be any different with

1791
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,119
EO having the belt, but at least it then sets

1792
01:35:31,199 --> 01:35:33,279
up a crown Jewel match in a few months between

1793
01:35:33,359 --> 01:35:36,199
Rhea and EO, and they could tell that story. Since

1794
01:35:36,279 --> 01:35:39,279
Rhea still has never been able to beat Eosky. I

1795
01:35:39,319 --> 01:35:42,199
think that's the way we get that match. Eo Sky

1796
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:46,039
is going to win the Women's World Championship. We have

1797
01:35:46,079 --> 01:35:49,680
the undisputed WWE Championship on the line, Cee, I'm Punk

1798
01:35:50,039 --> 01:35:54,600
defending the title against the former champion, Cody Rhods. I

1799
01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,960
am not afraid to admit I got it wrong with this.

1800
01:35:59,319 --> 01:36:01,680
I got it wrong. This does not feel like the

1801
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:03,840
nine two main event, not more than Roman Reigns and

1802
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:08,199
seth Rawlins. That face to face promo with punkin Cody

1803
01:36:08,239 --> 01:36:11,319
on Friday Night was beneath what the two of them

1804
01:36:11,319 --> 01:36:13,680
are capable of. Didn't do a whole hell of a

1805
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:15,560
lot to get me too excited for this either. I

1806
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:18,000
thought it was all right, but it needed to be

1807
01:36:18,079 --> 01:36:21,079
more than all right, and it wasn't. It wasn't anywhere

1808
01:36:21,119 --> 01:36:23,520
near what I was hoping it would be. The sense

1809
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:27,560
of anger or heat, you know, between the two of

1810
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:30,199
them wasn't there in the way that I was hoping

1811
01:36:30,239 --> 01:36:33,520
it would be. And they didn't need a whole lot

1812
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:36,199
of time to really promote this thing. There's only so

1813
01:36:36,319 --> 01:36:38,319
much you can really do because again, they've been kept

1814
01:36:38,319 --> 01:36:42,880
apart their entire run so far in WWE. Largely, but

1815
01:36:43,159 --> 01:36:45,199
they just they haven't. I was hoping that, you know,

1816
01:36:45,199 --> 01:36:47,560
they would throw some gasoline on the fire, and we

1817
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:51,159
didn't really get that. But here we are, and it's

1818
01:36:51,159 --> 01:36:53,520
a fresh match that we haven't seen. It's a big match.

1819
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:57,199
I'm just saying it no longer feels bigger to me

1820
01:36:57,359 --> 01:36:59,760
than you know, the way they've really pushed Roman and

1821
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:03,319
so as being like the ultimate finale between the two

1822
01:37:03,359 --> 01:37:04,880
of them, which is why I'm sure when we get

1823
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:06,960
the announcements this week of what's gonna be on Night

1824
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:08,920
one and what's gonna be on Night two, my guest

1825
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:12,479
would be Cody and Punk they headline night one, Roman

1826
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:14,800
and Seth headline Night two, that would be my guess.

1827
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:19,319
The question here, and it's a question that has been

1828
01:37:19,359 --> 01:37:22,319
asked many times over the last couple of years, is

1829
01:37:22,399 --> 01:37:25,359
Cody Rhoads gonna go heal? Or in this match, is

1830
01:37:25,399 --> 01:37:27,479
someone gonna go he is punking to go heel? Is

1831
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:32,439
Cody gonna go heal? I hope so, and I hope

1832
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:36,239
the answer is Cody wroats because we're at a point

1833
01:37:36,279 --> 01:37:40,600
now where I feel like it's the right time to

1834
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:43,760
take Cody in a different direction other than just the

1835
01:37:44,319 --> 01:37:47,239
corporate statesman who comes out every week and ask the

1836
01:37:47,319 --> 01:37:51,039
fans what do you want to talk about? Right after

1837
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:54,239
a while, it just gets fucking old, and I think

1838
01:37:54,279 --> 01:37:57,119
you not reset things with Cody, but you just take

1839
01:37:57,159 --> 01:38:00,520
things in a different direction, and you'll let him run

1840
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:02,600
as a heel. What kind of heel would Cody be?

1841
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:04,840
Is he going to be just like this overt heel

1842
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:08,119
who's healing on the fans and or being a chicken shit?

1843
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,359
I don't know about that, but just taking it in

1844
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:14,319
a direction, maybe it's even more corporate. It's kind of

1845
01:38:14,319 --> 01:38:15,960
hard to believe he could be more corporate than he

1846
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,640
already is when he comes out there, but something along

1847
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,720
those lines. And let Punk be sort of the anti

1848
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,880
authority baby fait, which sounds goofy now because it's a

1849
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:27,239
very different CM Punk than the one we had during

1850
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:31,439
the Summer of Punk in twenty eleven. But let him

1851
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:34,640
take on that mantle and eventually you can kind of

1852
01:38:34,720 --> 01:38:36,600
run things back between the two of them. Now. I

1853
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:40,399
say this not to predict a Cody Rhodes title win.

1854
01:38:41,039 --> 01:38:44,319
I'm predicting CM Punk is going to retain the WWE Championship,

1855
01:38:45,119 --> 01:38:47,359
but that doesn't mean that Cody can't you know, turn

1856
01:38:47,399 --> 01:38:50,279
heel when the match is over or in the course

1857
01:38:50,319 --> 01:38:52,279
of the match, he tries to take a couple of

1858
01:38:52,279 --> 01:38:54,359
short cuts and maybe they don't work, maybe they blow

1859
01:38:54,439 --> 01:38:57,119
up in his face. Right, Cody can go heal but

1860
01:38:57,199 --> 01:39:00,840
not win the belt. Here, it's kind of like I

1861
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,239
want my cake and I want to be able to

1862
01:39:03,239 --> 01:39:05,319
eat it too, where I don't want them to just

1863
01:39:05,359 --> 01:39:07,119
put the belt back on Cody, but I want them

1864
01:39:07,159 --> 01:39:09,159
to do something different with Cody. That's kind of where

1865
01:39:09,159 --> 01:39:11,720
I'm at with this. Punk is brand new to Smack

1866
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:13,840
then I think they're going to probably position him as

1867
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:17,039
their top baby face on the brand. But he also

1868
01:39:17,159 --> 01:39:20,640
just won the championship a few weeks ago, and I

1869
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:22,479
don't think you want to start playing hot potato with

1870
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:25,319
the WWE title where it's changing hands every few weeks.

1871
01:39:25,319 --> 01:39:26,880
I think you need to keep that belt on one

1872
01:39:26,920 --> 01:39:29,239
person for a little bit, then you can move it

1873
01:39:29,279 --> 01:39:30,760
on to somebody else if you want to. I'm not

1874
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:33,520
saying Punk has to hold it until WrestleMania. I don't

1875
01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:36,960
think it changes hands here, So I'm going with Punk,

1876
01:39:37,720 --> 01:39:40,800
And maybe the prediction of a Cody heel turn is

1877
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:44,560
more of a hope than a prediction. I understand people

1878
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:48,920
saying that these are not creative minds to be trusted

1879
01:39:49,119 --> 01:39:51,960
when it comes to a major heel turn after what

1880
01:39:52,079 --> 01:39:54,479
we got with John Cena last year, and you have

1881
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:56,880
absolutely every right to feel that way. I feel the

1882
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,359
same way. I'm not going to sit here and tell

1883
01:39:59,399 --> 01:40:01,520
you that I have all the faith in the world

1884
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:03,359
that if they turned one of these guys heel, it's

1885
01:40:03,399 --> 01:40:07,399
gonna be this amazing thing. Yeah, maybe on night one.

1886
01:40:07,479 --> 01:40:11,520
The problem is Week two, Week three, Week four. I

1887
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:15,720
don't trust these people. You're absolutely right if you feel

1888
01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:20,960
that way, it doesn't mean they shouldn't try. And then

1889
01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:23,479
we have the World Heavyweight Championship on the line. Roman

1890
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:26,880
Reigns defends the title against Seth Rolins, the former champion.

1891
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:30,119
This is the match that I believe will close out

1892
01:40:30,119 --> 01:40:35,000
the weekend. And you got fourteen years of history going

1893
01:40:35,039 --> 01:40:37,840
back to the formation of the Shield, right, I think

1894
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:42,600
it's fourteen years, twelve years. I believe since Seth put

1895
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:46,279
the chair in Romans back and broke up the family,

1896
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:49,840
They've had big matches over the years. Roman has not

1897
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:53,159
beaten Seth. Right, they keep pointing that out like in

1898
01:40:53,279 --> 01:40:57,439
major matches, because Roman has that one win on Raw

1899
01:40:57,439 --> 01:41:00,600
in like twenty eighteen, that they would rather you forgot

1900
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:03,199
the story. He doesn't really fit the narrative because the

1901
01:41:03,239 --> 01:41:05,359
story is that Roman has just never been able to

1902
01:41:05,399 --> 01:41:10,119
beat Seth. I think that changes next weekend now. Roman

1903
01:41:10,119 --> 01:41:12,760
Reign said after he won the Championship of WrestleMania and

1904
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,760
they trotted him out there on the post show, he said,

1905
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:20,039
you got me through the summer. I haven't forgotten about that. Technically,

1906
01:41:20,079 --> 01:41:22,159
the summer would take us through the end of September.

1907
01:41:23,079 --> 01:41:25,479
I assume they're going to do wrestle Palooza again, so

1908
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,479
he may stick around until wressel Palooza. I don't know

1909
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:30,359
that Roman is going to be around much after that.

1910
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,840
Maybe they bring him back for war games at Survivor series.

1911
01:41:34,279 --> 01:41:35,840
I can't imagine we're going to see a whole lot

1912
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:39,119
of Roman Reigns though on television in September or October,

1913
01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:41,720
you know what I mean, Like October. I don't know

1914
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:43,960
if we get him at all. Quite frankly, does that

1915
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:46,600
mean they take the title off of him. I don't

1916
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:49,520
think it happens here. I don't think they take the

1917
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:53,640
belt off him. I think they have a longer term

1918
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,279
vision that may well be Roman Reigns in Oba Femi

1919
01:41:56,479 --> 01:41:59,159
and WrestleMania next year. If you were to ask me

1920
01:41:59,279 --> 01:42:01,039
right now put me up the spot. You know who's

1921
01:42:01,079 --> 01:42:03,359
my pick to win the Royal Rumble in twenty twenty seven.

1922
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:06,640
On the men's side, it's Obafemi, And so if that's

1923
01:42:06,680 --> 01:42:08,600
gonna be the match they do at WrestleMania next year,

1924
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:10,880
it's hard for me to envision them taking the belt

1925
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:12,880
off Roman in between now and then. I think they

1926
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:15,039
would want to keep it on him. I think he

1927
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:18,520
finally gets that big win over Seth Rollins. I don't

1928
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:20,840
know what Rollins goes on to next after this, maybe

1929
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:24,199
something with La Knight. But I don't see Roman Reigns

1930
01:42:24,279 --> 01:42:27,199
or Cmpunk either one of them losing their championships at

1931
01:42:27,199 --> 01:42:29,960
Summerslim next weekend. But those are my predictions. That's the

1932
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:32,680
card as it currently stands, and so maybe we'll get

1933
01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:35,600
another match or two thrown in there this week on TV.

1934
01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:37,479
But let me know what you think. Let me know

1935
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:39,239
what you think about the two title matches and everything

1936
01:42:39,279 --> 01:42:40,920
else on this show. Where do you think things are

1937
01:42:40,960 --> 01:42:44,399
going with the champions? Is Cody going, Heel is Punk going?

1938
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,720
Heel is anybody going heel, let me know what you think.

1939
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:51,720
Dark Side of the Ring. This week was devoted to

1940
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:56,079
the famous match between Samoa Joe and Necro Butcher from

1941
01:42:56,199 --> 01:43:00,319
IWA Mid South in two thousand and five, A fantasy

1942
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:02,720
matchup for a lot of indie wrestling fans who wanted

1943
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:05,520
to see Joe, who was a brawler but I mean

1944
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:09,439
hardly a death match guy against Necro, who worked a

1945
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:13,560
much more sadistic violence style. In an age now where

1946
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:16,840
we've seen far worse in death matches and Texas death matches,

1947
01:43:17,760 --> 01:43:20,079
this felt less like a death match watching and in

1948
01:43:20,199 --> 01:43:23,359
more like just a brutal fight between two guys who

1949
01:43:23,399 --> 01:43:25,319
happened to be using whatever they could get their hands

1950
01:43:25,359 --> 01:43:28,960
on around ringside. This was not about light tubes or

1951
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:32,159
staple guns or anything like that. No light tube was

1952
01:43:32,199 --> 01:43:35,640
harmed in the making of this pro wrestling match. It's

1953
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,199
a memorable match to those who saw it. I was

1954
01:43:38,199 --> 01:43:41,199
not one of those people until many years later watching

1955
01:43:41,279 --> 01:43:43,479
it on YouTube or daily Motion or wherever it was

1956
01:43:43,520 --> 01:43:45,960
that I saw it for the first time. The match

1957
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:49,439
clocks in at under ten minutes, which had me wondering

1958
01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:51,039
when they first announced that this was going to be

1959
01:43:51,039 --> 01:43:52,600
one of the topics this season, like how are they

1960
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:54,520
going to get a forty five minute episode out of this?

1961
01:43:54,640 --> 01:43:56,600
But what they did was they used it to also

1962
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,880
profile Necro Butcher, right, I mean, they gave us a

1963
01:43:59,880 --> 01:44:01,520
little bit on Samoa Joe, but we kind of know

1964
01:44:01,520 --> 01:44:03,760
who Samoa Joe is, but a lot of people may

1965
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,159
not know or remember who Necro Butcher is unless you

1966
01:44:06,159 --> 01:44:08,319
were a big fan of his or that style of

1967
01:44:08,319 --> 01:44:11,359
wrestling back then. And talked also about some of the

1968
01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,600
childhood trauma that he suffered that colored a lot of

1969
01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:16,560
what we saw from him years later in the ring,

1970
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:21,399
colored it in red. It was a violent match, It

1971
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:25,680
was a bloody match, but there was nothing terribly gory

1972
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:29,680
about this particular match. I thought they did a really

1973
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:31,600
good job with this. I enjoyed this more than I

1974
01:44:31,600 --> 01:44:34,079
thought I would. Among the names that they got for

1975
01:44:34,119 --> 01:44:37,319
this to be interviewed were the two main characters which

1976
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:42,439
you needed. You needed, Samoa Joe and Necro Butcher. Joe

1977
01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:44,800
is fucking great in this, but I mean Joe is

1978
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:47,800
great in everything he's in, even Twisted Metal. From what

1979
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:53,079
you guys tell me. Eddie Kingston was interviewed AW referee

1980
01:44:53,079 --> 01:44:58,319
Bryce Remsburg who officiated this match. He was interviewed Madman Pondo,

1981
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:04,600
friend sometimes tag team partner of Necros Dave Praizac, who

1982
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:07,520
did commentary for the match. How's this for a commentary team?

1983
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:10,640
Dave praise Ac did commentary with Eddie Kingston and CM

1984
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:15,560
punk for this match, and they interviewed Rob Naylor, who

1985
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,399
is a wrestling historian now and he's a former Dragon

1986
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:21,560
Gate USA announcer. They didn't mention this, but he also

1987
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:25,640
worked as a creative assistant in Florida Championship Wrestling and

1988
01:45:25,640 --> 01:45:29,520
then NXT from twenty eleven to twenty thirteen. He worked

1989
01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:32,359
very closely with Dusty Road. He was basically Dusty's right

1990
01:45:32,359 --> 01:45:36,720
hand man, and I think my favorite Rob Naylor's story

1991
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:42,359
was Dusty had gotten a new dog one day and

1992
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:44,520
he asked Rob to take the dog for a walk.

1993
01:45:45,399 --> 01:45:49,680
Dusty had named the dog Ty Black. Well. Dusty was

1994
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,279
also a huge fan of Seth Rollins work when he

1995
01:45:52,319 --> 01:45:54,960
came into developmental and Set's name and ring of honor

1996
01:45:55,199 --> 01:45:58,920
was Tyler Black, so he named his dog Ty Black

1997
01:45:59,079 --> 01:46:02,359
as a nod to seth Rawlins. I always get a

1998
01:46:02,439 --> 01:46:05,800
kick out of that story. When I first started watching

1999
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:09,520
Ring of Honor in two thousand and six, Joe had

2000
01:46:09,520 --> 01:46:11,920
already had that legendary run as Ring of Honor World

2001
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:14,479
Champion for I think it was almost six hundred and

2002
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:18,079
fifty days. It was almost two years. The first main

2003
01:46:18,119 --> 01:46:21,600
event I ever saw live was Joe against Brian Danielson

2004
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:24,840
against Kenta at the New Yorker Hotel for the Ring

2005
01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:28,880
of Honor World title. The year before that, in that

2006
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:32,880
same venue, Joe had that legendary match with Kenta Kobashi.

2007
01:46:33,199 --> 01:46:38,279
Like Joe was the man, he was. That dude Necro

2008
01:46:38,359 --> 01:46:40,960
Butcher I was a lot less familiar with until he

2009
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:44,359
started popping up in ROH Like I knew him really

2010
01:46:44,399 --> 01:46:46,960
from the feud with Ring of Honor and CZW that

2011
01:46:47,039 --> 01:46:48,439
he was part of when they did that whole inter

2012
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:51,720
promotional war between the two companies. Same thing with the

2013
01:46:51,760 --> 01:46:54,600
Kings of Wrestling Chris Heiro and Claudio I believe when

2014
01:46:54,600 --> 01:46:56,279
I first saw them in Ring of Honor they were

2015
01:46:56,279 --> 01:47:01,119
affiliated with CZW as part of that whole feud. But

2016
01:47:01,199 --> 01:47:04,439
Necro had no regard whatsoever for his own body, and

2017
01:47:04,479 --> 01:47:08,960
he developed a reputation for just taking these horrendous bumps

2018
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:13,760
on the indies and taking just so much punishment. This

2019
01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:16,840
guy was wrestling on broken glass and thumbtacks and light

2020
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:19,800
tube broken light tubes, with bare feet. He didn't even

2021
01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:24,199
have boots. Like the elevator didn't go up to the

2022
01:47:24,199 --> 01:47:26,640
top floor with this guy, if you know what I mean.

2023
01:47:27,079 --> 01:47:29,920
Except years ago, who was it? I think it may

2024
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:34,319
have been Jim Cornett mentioned that Necro had like a

2025
01:47:34,399 --> 01:47:38,239
genius level IQ. Right. I've heard that about Raven too,

2026
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:41,640
that Raven was like a MENSA member. But apparently Necro

2027
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:43,600
had a very high IQ. He was actually a very

2028
01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:46,479
intelligent guy, and in the episode they mentioned that he

2029
01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:49,119
was a good student in school, but because of that

2030
01:47:49,199 --> 01:47:52,920
he got bullied a lot by the other kids. And

2031
01:47:53,119 --> 01:47:55,880
he used to watch wrestling with his father until one

2032
01:47:55,960 --> 01:47:58,880
day there was a house fire and his father died

2033
01:47:59,159 --> 01:48:01,920
in the fire. He was burned up, according to Necro,

2034
01:48:02,239 --> 01:48:05,279
so they had a closed casket at the funeral. I

2035
01:48:05,319 --> 01:48:08,000
mean this put the dark in dark side of the ring.

2036
01:48:09,039 --> 01:48:13,600
After that, no friends, no father to sit and watch

2037
01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:16,640
wrestling with. He was all alone and he had no

2038
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:18,600
one to hang out with. And I think that explains

2039
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:22,279
a lot when it comes to this man's penchant for abuse.

2040
01:48:23,279 --> 01:48:25,359
He took a lot of it as a child, right,

2041
01:48:25,399 --> 01:48:27,920
he was punched, he was kicked, said, the kids gave

2042
01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:31,600
him swirlies in the bathroom. But he had the mentality

2043
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:34,680
of don't sell it, don't sell it, don't let them

2044
01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:36,319
know that it hurts me. Don't let them know that

2045
01:48:36,319 --> 01:48:40,039
it bothers me. And he learned in wrestling like he

2046
01:48:40,079 --> 01:48:43,439
could take all kinds of physical abuse more than most,

2047
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,840
and he always had the mindset of you can't hurt me,

2048
01:48:47,319 --> 01:48:50,359
nothing you can do can hurt me. Well, I mean,

2049
01:48:50,600 --> 01:48:54,199
I think Samoa Joe may have proved otherwise in this match.

2050
01:48:55,239 --> 01:48:57,800
They didn't mention it here, but Necro actually served in

2051
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:01,479
the army. They wanted him to reach enlist and he

2052
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:03,880
had met some wrestlers during his time in service, and

2053
01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:06,640
they gave him some training and he decided, I'd much

2054
01:49:06,760 --> 01:49:09,479
rather do this, I'd much rather wrestle than stay in

2055
01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:12,399
the army. And so that's what ultimately led him to

2056
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:15,760
making the jump to the ring. How we got to

2057
01:49:15,800 --> 01:49:20,239
this how we got to this match was really it

2058
01:49:20,359 --> 01:49:23,640
was born out of the message boards online. This was

2059
01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:27,600
a match that the fans really willed into existence. And

2060
01:49:27,720 --> 01:49:30,880
Rob Naylor talked about posting back then on the old

2061
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:34,560
Roh message boards that he wanted to see Samoa Joe

2062
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:38,680
wrestle Necro Butcher, and he got flamed for it right

2063
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:40,439
because the Ring of Honor fans they thought that it

2064
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:43,439
was beneath Joe, like why would he stoop so low

2065
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:47,119
as to do a match with this garbage wrestler. But

2066
01:49:47,239 --> 01:49:49,760
for years, the belief was that the heat between Joe

2067
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,640
and Necro was very real and it stemmed from an

2068
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:55,640
incident at a Chakara show. Chakaro was a very family

2069
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:58,119
friendly promotion with a lot of very over the top

2070
01:49:58,159 --> 01:50:02,600
silly gimmicks that was run by Mike Quackenbush, one of

2071
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:06,119
the many casualties of the Speaking Out movement six years ago,

2072
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:09,720
after which he shut down Chakara. I don't even know

2073
01:50:09,720 --> 01:50:12,000
what he's up to these days, nor do I care.

2074
01:50:12,079 --> 01:50:14,800
But Necro and mad Man Pondo, they were brought in

2075
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,199
for a match in Chikara in a tag team tournament

2076
01:50:17,600 --> 01:50:19,600
against the pair of Ring of Honor students who were

2077
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:23,600
very green. Necro thought the kids were stinking out the joint,

2078
01:50:24,079 --> 01:50:27,079
so he took matters into his own hands and he

2079
01:50:27,159 --> 01:50:31,760
and Pondo they really started roughing him up. And they

2080
01:50:31,800 --> 01:50:34,640
interviewed both students in the episode, and they admitted that

2081
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:37,720
they were both legitimately knocked out at different points during

2082
01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:41,039
the match, and the story was that Joe had a

2083
01:50:41,119 --> 01:50:43,399
hand in training those kids, and when word got back

2084
01:50:43,399 --> 01:50:45,159
to him about what had happened and they were taking

2085
01:50:45,159 --> 01:50:49,319
advantage of he was furious. As it turns out, none

2086
01:50:49,359 --> 01:50:53,119
of that was true. It's the work of wrestling fiction.

2087
01:50:54,520 --> 01:50:56,800
That Joe did cut a promo on Necro after the

2088
01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:59,840
incident at a show, calling him up, I think like

2089
01:50:59,880 --> 01:51:02,800
a pilled up bully, and he said, Necro, you know,

2090
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:06,720
the Necro butcher is fucking dead. This was after Ian Rotten,

2091
01:51:06,760 --> 01:51:09,079
the promoter for iw A Mid South, he was looking

2092
01:51:09,079 --> 01:51:10,880
for a big match to book for their show at

2093
01:51:10,880 --> 01:51:13,880
the ECW Arena. He had gotten Joe and Neckro to

2094
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:17,159
agreed to wrestle each other. You know, when Joe cut

2095
01:51:17,159 --> 01:51:19,840
that promo on Necro, he had never even seen the

2096
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:23,960
Chakhara match. This, this match that supposedly infuriated him, He

2097
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:25,920
had never even seen it. All he knew was what

2098
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,079
he was told, which is that Necro had roughed up

2099
01:51:28,119 --> 01:51:31,560
a couple of students. Joe had never even trained anybody

2100
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:33,680
a day in his life. He didn't have a hand

2101
01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:37,560
in their training. Necro though, he didn't know if the

2102
01:51:37,560 --> 01:51:40,319
heat between them was real or not, and he wasn't

2103
01:51:40,359 --> 01:51:42,199
very happy about some of the things that Joe said

2104
01:51:42,199 --> 01:51:44,520
about him in that promo. And I'm sure you know

2105
01:51:44,600 --> 01:51:47,000
Ian Rotten was in his ear telling him things as

2106
01:51:47,119 --> 01:51:50,520
promoters do to get him all riled up, you know,

2107
01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:53,279
for the match, but he didn't know what to make

2108
01:51:53,319 --> 01:51:55,359
of Joe's real feelings about him. He was just happy

2109
01:51:55,399 --> 01:51:58,520
to take the booking. But the absolute best part of

2110
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:02,520
the episode was listening to Samoa Joe reveal the real

2111
01:52:02,640 --> 01:52:05,720
reason why he took the match. He said his then

2112
01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:10,560
girlfriend now wife lived very close to Philadelphia, so he

2113
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:17,239
literally took the booking to get some ass. Amazing. The

2114
01:52:17,239 --> 01:52:20,600
two of them had very different reasons for accepting this match. Right.

2115
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:23,079
For Necro, it was to show that he was more

2116
01:52:23,119 --> 01:52:24,920
than just a death match guy. Right, it was the

2117
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:27,520
chance to kind of elevate his stock and maybe even

2118
01:52:27,560 --> 01:52:29,720
open himself up to getting booked in other places that

2119
01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:34,079
might not have otherwise booked him. And for Joe, it

2120
01:52:34,199 --> 01:52:36,520
was just another match and a good excuse for him

2121
01:52:36,520 --> 01:52:39,600
to get some action with his girl, a totally valid

2122
01:52:39,600 --> 01:52:43,119
reason to accept any booking, by the way, So imagine

2123
01:52:43,159 --> 01:52:46,199
Joe's surprise when this thing blew up into something bigger

2124
01:52:46,279 --> 01:52:48,720
than just another wrestling match. He's talking about the day

2125
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:51,520
he got to the building, coming into the arena, and

2126
01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:54,079
just the vibe everybody was like looking at him, they

2127
01:52:54,119 --> 01:52:58,319
were all excited, and he's like, hey, guys, Like for him,

2128
01:52:58,319 --> 01:53:00,439
it was just another day at the office, just another

2129
01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:04,960
fucking match. But everybody was like this was so hyped

2130
01:53:05,079 --> 01:53:08,279
up on the internet. It was so like everyone was

2131
01:53:08,319 --> 01:53:10,680
so excited to see, what is this match gonna look like?

2132
01:53:10,760 --> 01:53:12,840
Joe is gonna kill him, maybe he'll shoot on him.

2133
01:53:12,840 --> 01:53:16,119
Oh my god, this is gonna be so great. One

2134
01:53:16,119 --> 01:53:18,720
of the things I really liked about the episode is

2135
01:53:18,760 --> 01:53:22,600
that and they show the match. As they show the match,

2136
01:53:22,640 --> 01:53:24,560
and they kind of take us through the different parts.

2137
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:27,720
In the different spots, we get the perspectives of all

2138
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:30,760
these different people. Joe is sitting in a room by him,

2139
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:35,039
He's sitting on like bleachers in this room, watching the

2140
01:53:35,119 --> 01:53:38,199
match projected onto this giant screen or maybe it was

2141
01:53:38,239 --> 01:53:41,720
a giant wall. Meanwhile, you got Eddie Kingston who's sitting

2142
01:53:42,159 --> 01:53:44,439
He's sitting there geeking out watching the match on a

2143
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:49,279
MacBook like a fourteen inch screen, and what followed was

2144
01:53:49,359 --> 01:53:53,840
just a hard hitting, brutal, bloody grudge match. It's not

2145
01:53:53,920 --> 01:53:57,079
a death match. It's actually very tame compared to your

2146
01:53:57,119 --> 01:54:01,119
typical death match, and most of them Nekro has had

2147
01:54:01,159 --> 01:54:04,159
in his career outside outside of all the head bumps

2148
01:54:04,359 --> 01:54:09,520
that he took here, those were horrifying. Necro had just

2149
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:12,800
flown back from Japan fifteen hours with a head wound.

2150
01:54:13,359 --> 01:54:15,800
He flew home to West Virginia, he got in his truck,

2151
01:54:15,840 --> 01:54:18,279
he made the six hour drive or whatever it is,

2152
01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:22,800
from West Virginia to Philadelphia to wrestle Joe, and then

2153
01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:25,159
the wound opened up during their match, which is where

2154
01:54:25,199 --> 01:54:28,439
all the blood came from. They fight into the crowd

2155
01:54:28,760 --> 01:54:31,920
early in the match, again not a long match, less

2156
01:54:31,920 --> 01:54:33,680
than ten minutes long, but early in the match, they

2157
01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:36,880
fight into the crowd and Joe goes to deliver. If

2158
01:54:36,920 --> 01:54:40,079
you've ever seen a Samoa Joe match, you see him

2159
01:54:40,079 --> 01:54:43,640
do the snap power slam. He did it on the

2160
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:46,680
concrete floor here, but because there were so many drinks

2161
01:54:46,720 --> 01:54:48,560
that had been spilled, there was like a wet spot

2162
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:52,319
on the floor as he's executing this power slim. He

2163
01:54:52,359 --> 01:54:56,479
slips and he almost executed necro Butcher in the process.

2164
01:54:56,520 --> 01:54:59,479
He cracked the floor just hard with his skull, and

2165
01:54:59,520 --> 01:55:02,720
he was he was definitely concussed, had to be concussed.

2166
01:55:02,720 --> 01:55:05,600
I don't see how he couldn't be concussed, you know.

2167
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:08,319
Bryce Remsburg says, Oh, it's not something you're gonna see

2168
01:55:08,319 --> 01:55:12,119
on Monday night Raw. Yeah, well there's a reason for that.

2169
01:55:13,319 --> 01:55:16,399
Not that I'm all that enchanted with Raw lately, but

2170
01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:19,239
I also like my wrestlers to not crack their skulls

2171
01:55:19,279 --> 01:55:22,439
on the concrete. If I have the choice between that

2172
01:55:22,680 --> 01:55:26,520
or Raw, I'm gonna watch RAW. I'll take my wrestlers

2173
01:55:26,560 --> 01:55:30,119
without brain damage, thank you very much. So then there

2174
01:55:30,159 --> 01:55:37,119
was an even sicker spot where Joe executed neck keep saying, Hey,

2175
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:42,399
keep saying he executed Neckro. It felt like maybe he

2176
01:55:42,479 --> 01:55:45,359
was trying to execute this man. Now he had him

2177
01:55:45,399 --> 01:55:47,479
on the apron and he gave it. It was like

2178
01:55:47,479 --> 01:55:52,000
an exploder off the apron to the floor and again

2179
01:55:52,079 --> 01:55:55,399
Neckro's head smacked the floor. There's no mats out there.

2180
01:55:55,479 --> 01:56:00,159
His head smacked the floor with a sickening thud. He's

2181
01:56:00,239 --> 01:56:02,960
like Mick Foley in that regard where you watch him

2182
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:06,359
take these sickening bumps and you watch with amazement as

2183
01:56:06,359 --> 01:56:07,840
he just gets right back up to his feet and

2184
01:56:07,880 --> 01:56:10,279
he just keeps on going. I mean, I guess the

2185
01:56:10,319 --> 01:56:12,279
closest thing today that I could compare it to is

2186
01:56:12,359 --> 01:56:15,439
Darby Allen. You know, I would say Folly and Necro

2187
01:56:15,560 --> 01:56:17,399
are a lot closer in terms of their look and

2188
01:56:17,399 --> 01:56:20,800
their style, but you got Darby compared to them. I mean,

2189
01:56:20,880 --> 01:56:23,920
Darby is like a scrawny little teenager with face Painton,

2190
01:56:24,560 --> 01:56:27,039
but he takes these insane bumps in a ridiculous amount

2191
01:56:27,079 --> 01:56:29,359
of punishment. He just keeps getting back up from it. Somehow.

2192
01:56:30,640 --> 01:56:33,720
Necro calls that supplex he took off the apron long

2193
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:37,479
term storytelling. I call it long term brain damage. He

2194
01:56:37,560 --> 01:56:40,359
calls it long term storytelling because in the Chakara match

2195
01:56:40,359 --> 01:56:42,279
where he roughed up those students, he gave one of

2196
01:56:42,319 --> 01:56:45,399
them a very similar suplex off the apron. And so

2197
01:56:45,520 --> 01:56:47,920
they just, you know, chalk it up to a happy accident,

2198
01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,520
because you know, they claim that Joe and Necro they

2199
01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:52,920
didn't go over any of these spots beforehand. It's just

2200
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,680
a happy accident that it worked out that way. Joe

2201
01:56:56,920 --> 01:56:59,960
was at one point dishing out open hand palm strong

2202
01:57:00,359 --> 01:57:04,840
and Necro, who is just his face is just dripping blood.

2203
01:57:05,840 --> 01:57:09,520
The blood is splattering into the crowd with every palm strike.

2204
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:12,680
And this was the point in the match where Joe

2205
01:57:12,760 --> 01:57:15,720
said his girlfriend was there. His girlfriend was in attendance

2206
01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:19,560
for the match, the one he took the booking so

2207
01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:22,039
that he could smash. She was in the crowd, and

2208
01:57:22,119 --> 01:57:23,920
this was the point where she got up and left,

2209
01:57:24,319 --> 01:57:27,520
because he says, she almost threw up, and she still

2210
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:30,960
married the guy. She's a keeper. The fact that she

2211
01:57:31,039 --> 01:57:34,039
stayed with him after that and didn't run away, I

2212
01:57:34,079 --> 01:57:37,359
think is it's a sign that you should be holding

2213
01:57:37,359 --> 01:57:39,640
on to her for dear life. So Joe didn't feel

2214
01:57:39,640 --> 01:57:41,399
like it would make sense for him to pin Neckro

2215
01:57:42,279 --> 01:57:45,119
or make him submit, so he just beat him senseless

2216
01:57:45,399 --> 01:57:47,680
until he couldn't respond to the referees ten count. He

2217
01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:50,039
tried to get up, he collapsed to the mat. Referee

2218
01:57:50,039 --> 01:57:52,600
called the match off, and then when it was over,

2219
01:57:52,680 --> 01:57:55,000
Necro was down selling for so long, Joe went over.

2220
01:57:55,039 --> 01:57:57,000
He kind of gave him a little kick to the head,

2221
01:57:57,039 --> 01:57:59,760
like almost like an Orange Cassidy kick to the head,

2222
01:57:59,840 --> 01:58:02,359
and that just kind of woke up Necro and gave

2223
01:58:02,399 --> 01:58:04,479
him a reason to fire up, and he knocked Joe

2224
01:58:04,479 --> 01:58:06,880
out of the ring. It almost looked like Joe was

2225
01:58:06,920 --> 01:58:09,760
running away from him because Necro went out after him.

2226
01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:12,159
He had to be held back and Joe left, and

2227
01:58:12,279 --> 01:58:14,159
Joe thought it was important that Necro end the night

2228
01:58:14,199 --> 01:58:16,560
standing on his own two feet, and that really put

2229
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:19,720
Necro over. Really, the whole match did the way it

2230
01:58:19,800 --> 01:58:22,640
was constructed, like he's this tough son of a bitch

2231
01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:25,479
who would not quit. Joe really put this guy over

2232
01:58:25,560 --> 01:58:28,359
in a major way, even though Necro lost. It's one

2233
01:58:28,359 --> 01:58:31,560
of those examples of winning by losing right. Some of

2234
01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:34,560
the biggest matches and moments in people's careers were ending

2235
01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:37,640
up on the losing end. Steve Austin is the best

2236
01:58:37,640 --> 01:58:39,640
example of this that I could think of, against Brett

2237
01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:44,600
Hart at WrestleMania. He lost, but he really won that night, right,

2238
01:58:44,640 --> 01:58:48,039
That's the match that made him. Or maybe for the

2239
01:58:48,039 --> 01:58:50,920
purposes of this match, the better comparison would be Mankind

2240
01:58:51,079 --> 01:58:53,800
against the Undertaker inside Hell and his Cell. I mean,

2241
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:58,079
the man took an ungodly beating and he lost. People

2242
01:58:58,119 --> 01:59:01,319
still talk about that match to this day, not that

2243
01:59:01,399 --> 01:59:03,920
Mick wasn't already like a main event player in that

2244
01:59:04,000 --> 01:59:08,039
company beforehand. But it's like pre sell and post sell.

2245
01:59:08,359 --> 01:59:11,439
It's like these two different phases of his career, of

2246
01:59:11,479 --> 01:59:14,960
his life. And again people are still doing little mini

2247
01:59:15,039 --> 01:59:17,760
documentaries all these years later about that Hell and a

2248
01:59:17,800 --> 01:59:21,680
Cell match. And like Foley that night, Necro actually came

2249
01:59:21,720 --> 01:59:24,840
back out later in the show. Now Mick didn't wrestle,

2250
01:59:25,279 --> 01:59:27,159
he did come back out to take more bumps in

2251
01:59:27,199 --> 01:59:29,479
the first blood match between Austin and Kin at the

2252
01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:32,439
King of the Ring. Necro had another full blown match

2253
01:59:32,640 --> 01:59:36,640
to wrestle that night, which is nuts. I loved the

2254
01:59:37,119 --> 01:59:39,319
line that Necro used though in the episode he said

2255
01:59:39,399 --> 01:59:43,279
Johnny Valentine used to say, I can't make people believe

2256
01:59:43,319 --> 01:59:46,680
in wrestling, but I can make them believe in Johnny Valentine,

2257
01:59:47,840 --> 01:59:49,720
and that was his mentality. I'm going to make the

2258
01:59:49,760 --> 01:59:54,159
people believe in the Necro butcher. Now. They talked about

2259
01:59:54,159 --> 01:59:58,479
Necro later on being diagnosed with stage three Hodgkins lymphoma

2260
01:59:59,199 --> 02:00:03,560
and he was bedridden for about nine months. The first

2261
02:00:03,600 --> 02:00:07,199
three treatments didn't work and they were about to tap out,

2262
02:00:07,560 --> 02:00:09,520
but they did the fourth one and the fourth one

2263
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:13,560
took you just never know. So he beat cancer. He

2264
02:00:13,640 --> 02:00:16,359
ended up backing the ring and they didn't get into this,

2265
02:00:16,479 --> 02:00:19,359
but he did wrestle again. He fractured his hip in

2266
02:00:19,439 --> 02:00:22,000
four different places a couple of years ago while wrestling

2267
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:24,600
in Japan, and he was stuck in the hospital there

2268
02:00:24,640 --> 02:00:28,039
for weeks and weeks in this tiny hospital where no

2269
02:00:28,039 --> 02:00:32,079
one spoke English. Like that's scary. He actually reminds me

2270
02:00:32,079 --> 02:00:34,680
of when I hurt my knee in Colombia and my

2271
02:00:34,760 --> 02:00:38,880
friends they rushed me to this tiny hospital at like

2272
02:00:38,960 --> 02:00:41,399
one in the morning and we get there in the

2273
02:00:41,399 --> 02:00:43,920
first person I tried talking to doesn't speak English, and

2274
02:00:43,960 --> 02:00:48,039
it's like I'm bleeding all over the floor. Good times.

2275
02:00:49,039 --> 02:00:50,920
At least in my case, I found people who did

2276
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:53,279
speak English and they took good care of me. I

2277
02:00:53,319 --> 02:00:56,479
can't complain for necro Butcher. I'm sure it was scary,

2278
02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:58,640
you know, laying there with a broken hip and not

2279
02:00:58,720 --> 02:01:01,319
being able to speak to anybody and communicate with anybody.

2280
02:01:02,039 --> 02:01:05,359
So fractured hip. He had a total knee replacement. I

2281
02:01:05,359 --> 02:01:07,039
know a few years ago. The man has been through

2282
02:01:07,039 --> 02:01:10,159
the ringer. But that's the price you pay, you know,

2283
02:01:10,239 --> 02:01:12,279
for doing what he does. You know, what you're signing

2284
02:01:12,359 --> 02:01:15,640
up for. You know what you're getting yourself into. This

2285
02:01:15,720 --> 02:01:18,479
episode did not have the tragic ending that many of

2286
02:01:18,520 --> 02:01:20,520
these have, but I do think you come away with

2287
02:01:20,560 --> 02:01:24,319
a better understanding of how somebody like Necro could end

2288
02:01:24,439 --> 02:01:30,560
up becoming this like deathmatch icon. Like what drives someone

2289
02:01:30,840 --> 02:01:34,159
to want to do that for a living. Their upbringing

2290
02:01:34,199 --> 02:01:36,359
has a lot to do with it. It did for Necro,

2291
02:01:37,439 --> 02:01:39,920
that much is clear. The bullied as a kid, then

2292
02:01:39,960 --> 02:01:42,000
he ended up as a loner when his dad died.

2293
02:01:42,560 --> 02:01:46,079
It definitely shaped him. So I enjoyed this one more

2294
02:01:46,079 --> 02:01:48,960
than I thought I would, and this is cool. Weiss

2295
02:01:49,439 --> 02:01:53,680
commissioned three hundred limited edition VHS copies of this Dark

2296
02:01:53,720 --> 02:01:55,800
Side of the Ring episode, and they included the full

2297
02:01:55,800 --> 02:01:59,159
match in there as well, fifty copies of which were

2298
02:01:59,199 --> 02:02:02,720
signed by some Joe and Necro Butcher, and they sold

2299
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:04,720
out very quickly. They're all gone now, and I don't

2300
02:02:04,720 --> 02:02:06,920
think they're making more of them. But if you got

2301
02:02:06,960 --> 02:02:09,079
your hands on one, all you need is a VCR

2302
02:02:09,199 --> 02:02:12,439
to play it, And if you're young enough to be asking, well,

2303
02:02:12,600 --> 02:02:15,600
what the hell is a VCR? Go look it up.

2304
02:02:16,119 --> 02:02:19,600
I'm gonna be over here in the corner Crying. I

2305
02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:24,439
will be live tonight after aw Redemption for the YouTube review,

2306
02:02:24,520 --> 02:02:26,479
so hopefully you will be able to join me there.

2307
02:02:26,520 --> 02:02:29,279
Hopefully this show will not be ending too late tonight,

2308
02:02:30,000 --> 02:02:31,960
so that'll be tonight on YouTube, and then of course

2309
02:02:32,000 --> 02:02:33,960
all the usual streams. This week. I want to close

2310
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:36,640
out the month of July strong, so join me there.

2311
02:02:37,359 --> 02:02:40,199
Row post show on Monday night, Dynamite post show coming

2312
02:02:40,239 --> 02:02:43,520
out of Redemption on Wednesday, and then the final SmackDown

2313
02:02:43,720 --> 02:02:47,640
before SummerSlam on Friday, and then next weekend is Summer Slam,

2314
02:02:47,680 --> 02:02:51,079
and the way that the schedule looks is really not

2315
02:02:51,199 --> 02:02:54,000
any different than usual, outside of me doing two extra shows,

2316
02:02:54,520 --> 02:02:56,880
basically doing three shows next weekend. I'll be live after

2317
02:02:56,920 --> 02:02:59,359
Summer Slam Night one. I'll be live after Summer Slam

2318
02:02:59,479 --> 02:03:02,119
Night two, and in between you will get the usual

2319
02:03:02,159 --> 02:03:05,560
Sunday podcast. That'll be episode nine seventy four. I got

2320
02:03:05,560 --> 02:03:08,720
one episode left to go through from this new season

2321
02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:12,000
of WWE Unreal, so I didn't talk about it this week.

2322
02:03:12,399 --> 02:03:15,039
Once I'm done with the season, I'll just put some

2323
02:03:15,039 --> 02:03:16,960
some thoughts down and some notes together, and I'm sure

2324
02:03:16,960 --> 02:03:19,920
i'll do something, if not on the sounduff next weekend

2325
02:03:19,920 --> 02:03:22,720
then maybe on YouTube as an exclusive. We'll see, but

2326
02:03:23,279 --> 02:03:25,640
that is the plan, and again hopefully you guys will

2327
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:28,239
join me for all of it, including Summer Slam next weekend.

2328
02:03:28,279 --> 02:03:30,560
So until then, be well, stay safe, harrisill is a

2329
02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:32,399
great rest of your week. If you are tuning into

2330
02:03:32,439 --> 02:03:34,920
Redemption tonight, enjoy the show. I will see you on

2331
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:37,239
the Flip Side live on YouTube and back here next

2332
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Sunday for episode nine seventy four. Until then, take care, guys.

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The solemn monster sounds off. Pinn Balor is no more.

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How about that finn Balor actually wins a match. I'm

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pleasantly surprised. Granted, of course, you know it was against

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the MFT. So I said before, you know, pinn Balor

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is gone, but I didn't say pinn Balor was gone forever.

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He'll be back, pinn Balor. From what I understand, I

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got some breaking news here. This isn't even news that

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Meltzer had or Sap or anybody else, or Wrestle votes

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or Wressel votes or anyone. I hear from my birdies

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and my sources. Pin Balad is actually away on vacation.

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Irony has gone back to go. You know, visit the family.

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He'll be back. Oh believe me, he'll be back, and

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it won't be very long before he's back. The Solo

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Monster sounds off bringing you the good, the bad, and

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the ugly. Check out the weekly live streams bonus content

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for subscribers, and follow The Sola Monster on Facebook, Instagram,

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and X The Solo Monster, I love you so long.