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Sound Off 964 - Ludwig Kaiser ARRESTED, MJF SHOOTS On Malakai Black And SNME Review! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 2: The weekend I was ninety nine percent positive it was
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  Speaker 2: just chessed up. Now I have been begging him for
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  Speaker 2: a job on every every platform I can, and I
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  Speaker 1: Happy Memorial Day weekend, A very wet Memorial Day weekend
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. This is episode nine to sixty
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  Speaker 1: four of The Solo Monster Sounds Off for Sunday, May
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. I am the Solo Monster.
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  Speaker 1: What a win for the Knison Game one of the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals, coming back in the fourth quarter from
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  Speaker 1: twenty two points down against the Cabs. And they wrecked
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  Speaker 1: the Cabs in Game two and beat them again last
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  Speaker 1: night to go up three to zero in the series.
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  Speaker 1: This is all after the team had been cursed by
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  Speaker 1: Dan Housen a few weeks ago and then uncursed by
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  Speaker 1: Dan Housen, and they have been on a ten and
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  Speaker 1: zero run since they're undefeated. The curse. The curse is real.
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  Speaker 1: But look at Dan Housen becoming a celebrity. He's popping
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  Speaker 1: up on ESPN. He's courtside in Madison Square Garden, number
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  Speaker 1: Think about it, It's only been ninety days that he's
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  Speaker 1: even been in the company has been insane, but good
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  Speaker 1: for him. I'm happy for the guy. We got double
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  Speaker 1: or nothing coming up tonight. We're going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: We got some other news and notes, and because I
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  Speaker 1: was not live last night, I'll give you my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday Night's main event, and then I'll get you
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  Speaker 1: out of here because we got a pay per view
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  Speaker 1: I want to wish a very happy early birthday to
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  Speaker 1: Rachel from the Badger State. Thank you again for the
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  Speaker 1: mega support this week. I hope you enjoy the long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have nicer weather than we have here.
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  Speaker 1: Madman Mike Weeks just showing some love. He says he
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  Speaker 1: never misses a sound uff, live stream or uncrowned episode.
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  Speaker 1: He also bought the kindle version of Hardy the Horse
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. All the love for Hardy the Horse, which
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  Speaker 1: Go Nix. Indeed have a great holiday brother, bad ass
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  Speaker 1: Bernard Frederick, who would like to shout out his wife
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  Speaker 1: Tammy for giving him the best twenty six years of
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  Speaker 1: wedded bliss, and he looks forward to another twenty six
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  Speaker 1: years to come. God willing, I wish the same for
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  Speaker 1: both of you. The House of Glory held its Waging
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  Speaker 1: War event on Friday Night at the NYC Arena. He
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  Speaker 1: sold out NYC Arena in Queens, where aw will be
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  Speaker 1: tonight on the Call with JD from New York and
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Torres. Always good times, but a little bit busier
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  Speaker 1: than that. I wasn't expecting to find myself sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the back of an ambulance with Shatzi. It was one
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  Speaker 1: of those nights. If you saw the show, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Amazing Red and Kevin Knight, they killed it. Joey Silver,
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  Speaker 1: he's been a fan favorite in Hog for many, many
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  Speaker 1: years now. He got a shot at Charles Mason in
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  Speaker 1: the Hog World Championship. So not the marquee match perhaps
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  Speaker 1: like some of the other challengers that we've brought in,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you right now that match
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  Speaker 1: brought down the house like no other that I have
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  Speaker 1: seen in that building since Mason won that belt almost
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  Speaker 1: one year ago. That building was rumbling. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: wanted so badly to see Joey win that title. And
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  Speaker 1: it's those moments that are just the coolest to me
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  Speaker 1: because it's easy to bring in a big name talent
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  Speaker 1: who wants to work hog right, bring him in from
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  Speaker 1: aw bring him in from TNA, bring him in from
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  Speaker 1: New Japan. But when you've got that homegrown name that
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  Speaker 1: the fans can invest in and they can rally around
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  Speaker 1: like that, that's what makes it all worthwhile. So kudos
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  Speaker 1: to him, and look, kudos to Mason as well, because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that you know, buy a ticket,
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  Speaker 1: they come to the show, and they want to see
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  Speaker 1: him get beat and lose that belt, and nobody's been
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  Speaker 1: able to do it. So it just made for a
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  Speaker 1: sort of the perfect storm on Friday night. But that
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  Speaker 1: match right now is up on the House of Glory
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel, so don't just take my word for it.
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  Speaker 1: You can go see for yourself and let him know
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  Speaker 1: that Solo Monster sent you. Matt and Jeff Hardy still
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  Speaker 1: your hog Tag team champions. It was good to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with them a bit after the show. Just a
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  Speaker 1: fun night, a fun night, and next up, we're back
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago Friday night, June nineteenth for Inferno. Already signed,
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  Speaker 1: Shatzi will defend her women's championship against Steph Delander, and
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Sosa is scheduled to make his HOG debut. We
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  Speaker 1: were hoping to have him on the show on Friday
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  Speaker 1: as well as even in Las Vegas, but he's just
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: waiting on his visa situation to be resolved. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very slow moving situation. We have not seen him in
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  Speaker 1: a T and A ring since the beginning of March,
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  Speaker 1: and it really sucks how long it takes to get
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  Speaker 1: these things resolved. But fingers crossed hopefully all gets worked
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  Speaker 1: out shortly and he'll be able to join us and
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  Speaker 1: you will too. Hog Wrestling dot nex for tickets. The
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  Speaker 1: Manx Warner situation on Friday night was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a weird one. He was scheduled to work the AAW
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  Speaker 1: show in Marionette Park, Illinois, and he was pulled from
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  Speaker 1: the show at the last minute. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: they said, is what the promotion said. Manz Warner will
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately not be appearing at AAW homecoming per aw's request.
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  Speaker 1: We are immediately restructuring the show accordingly and will announce
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  Speaker 1: updates as soon as possible. Well, this was news to
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kahn, who tweeted, that's the first I've heard of this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the first time anyone in aw's office has
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  Speaker 1: heard of it. He is welcome to do your show.
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  Speaker 1: And I was confused by all of this because the
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  Speaker 1: last time Manz Warner even wrestled for AAW, you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to go back four years for a match against John Moxley.
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  Speaker 1: But he has done some Ring of Honor matches over
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  Speaker 1: the past month or so, so I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's signed with them, or if he had some sort
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  Speaker 1: of per appearance deal there. I guess that would be
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  Speaker 1: the tie in. But in any event, AW had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with any of this or else they would
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  Speaker 1: absolutely deserve the criticism for pulling him at the last minute.
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  Speaker 1: But Warner himself clarified later on. He said, AW did
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  Speaker 1: not ask me to pull out of this show. My
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  Speaker 1: rate was never agreed upon. I sent four hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: to the promoter to cover the flight costs. I am
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  Speaker 1: sorry to any fans who were looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: me at AAW. With transparency, I made a decision to
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  Speaker 1: withdraw from the show to avoid any chance of travel
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  Speaker 1: issues or any fuck ups ruining a big opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: hope y'all can understand. So just a very weird deal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why AAW would say that AW pulled
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  Speaker 1: him if Warner himself is saying that they had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with it, Like, where did that even come from?
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  Speaker 1: So that blew up on social media for a few
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  Speaker 1: hours on Friday, but all seems to have been resolved.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of AAW, let's start there this week because they
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  Speaker 1: do have a pay per view tonight, and not to
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  Speaker 1: bring the mood down, but I saw the update on
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Jim Ross this week, and it just sucks, man, it
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  Speaker 1: just really sucks. He's doing great physically, he's feeling as
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  Speaker 1: good as he's felt in a long while, and he
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  Speaker 1: is set to be on commentary for I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: the entire show, but he'll be on commentary for some
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  Speaker 1: of the matches tonight, maybe the main event at double
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  Speaker 1: or nothing. But he revealed on his Grilling Jr. Podcast
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  Speaker 1: this week that his doctors are concerned about possible dementia
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  Speaker 1: or Alzheimer's disease and he is undergoing tests for both.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about Mick Foley coming to aw which
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  Speaker 1: I'll do in a minute here, and he said this,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much he wants to work. And
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: if you look at other guys myself included, we're used
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: to or we're used on a limited basis, and that
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: keeps me, in this case fresher and gives me a
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  Speaker 1: chance to continue to get my ailments addressed. I had
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: a very positive doctor's appointment with my neurologist. Everybody's getting
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  Speaker 1: in on the act man. So the neurologist and I
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  Speaker 1: had an appointment and they took a bunch of blood
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  Speaker 1: and ransom tests. You know, I think they're worried about
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  Speaker 1: dementia or Alzheimer's. And I said, what the hell are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do about it? There's no cure. Its
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  Speaker 1: basically what he was saying.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, it's not a cure. He goes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's meds that I could be taking preventatively, tell
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  Speaker 1: me what they are and I'll do it. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it works out. I'm going through a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tests now. I don't feel bad at all. I feel
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  Speaker 1: great actually, But you know, Conrad let me tell you something, Buddy,
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  Speaker 1: getting old is a bitch. Getting old is indeed a bitch.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Mother nature is a bitch, and Father Time is an asshole.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: The perfect couple, but Jr. Is the greatest of all
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: time to ever do it on headset when it comes
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: to pro wrestling, I don't care what anybody says. Gorilla
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Monson and Bobby heenan for my money. Top announced duo
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Monsoon and Jesse Vince are number two. Those are my
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: goat announced combos Jr. And King. They're up there as well,
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  Speaker 1: Vince and Jesse. But as an individual, Jim Ross is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest wrestling announcer of all time, and he may
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: not be what he used to be, which none of
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: us are. When you get into your seventies and your eighties,
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: I know he's in his early seventies. I believe seventy two,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: seventy four, somewhere in that range. So I mean he's
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: a lot older, He's had a lot of health issues.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: It's not prime Jr. Anymore. But when he pops up
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: on those aw pay per views where you can tell
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: he's on his a game, he's having a good night, right,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: he's having a good day. He still has something to
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: contribute for a special match here and there, and I'm
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: glad they give him the opportunity to do so because
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: he's been through the ringer when it comes to his health.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: I mean three or four different bouts of Bell's palsy
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  Speaker 1: that never resolved. You know, in most cases it does
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: go away after a while. It never did with Jr.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: And as a broadcaster, as someone who was on television
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  Speaker 1: for a living, that's gotta be hell. That's like I
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: remember when Bobby Heenen was first diagnosed with throat cancer,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what a cruel twist of fate for
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  Speaker 1: somebody who made a list, who made his bones on
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: the microphone, whether it was as a manager, cutting promos
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: or as an announcer. This man used his voice, right,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: He used his voice to communicate. It was what he
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: did for a living. And obviously all the convention appearances
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: and whatnot, and of all ailments, of all things to
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: be stricken down with. And not that it's the worst.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's obviously a gazillion terrible, horrible illnesses out
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: there that you could be afflicted with. But for it
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: to be throat cancer, I always thought that was just
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: a particularly cruel twist of fate for him, but again
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: for Jim Ross. Look, when he was first afflicted with
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Bell's palsy the first time in nineteen ninety four, Vince
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: McMahon fired him. The reason Vince fired him in ninety
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  Speaker 1: four and got rid of him, he didn't want somebody
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: with Bell's polsy on his TV shows looking like that.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: And only later that year, when the steroid trial hit
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: and Vince had to go away for a little bit
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: and he was dealing with that, did they bring Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Back to fill in. And then he parlayed that into
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: a much longer career in the company and made a
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: lot of money. But from that to the perforated colon
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: he had surgery for in two thousand and five that
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: almost killed him. That's where we got the doctor heine
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  Speaker 1: skit on raw, you know, which I know he's talked about,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: was very hurtful to him and his family. So from
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: that to being diagnosed with skin cancer and then colon
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  Speaker 1: cancer last year, all the falls that he's taken. You know,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: he's talked about, how many times has this guy fallen
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  Speaker 1: at home? You know? I would see clips of him
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: on his podcast sometimes Big Black Eye am like, who
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: beat up JR? It's like, nope, he fell again at home.
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  Speaker 1: So that's happened a bunch of times. And now this,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot for one person. And I
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: know he lives alone. You know his wife was killed
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: in a scooter accident. I'm sure that doesn't make it
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  Speaker 1: any easier. Hopefully those tests come back negative. But if
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: they suspect something may be wrong cognitively, I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: some reason for it. I just you know, I wish JR.
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  Speaker 1: All the best. Dementia of any kind is a horrible,
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  Speaker 1: horrible disease and it's a terrible way to go out.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully that's not what this is. But tonight AW
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  Speaker 1: brings its double or Nothing pay per view to Louis
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York, with a sold out
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  Speaker 1: crowd of over fourteen thousand in attendance and a familiar
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  Speaker 1: face on the pre show with Renee Piquett, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Mick Foley. The rumors were true. John Alba of
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated broke the story last week about there being
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  Speaker 1: AW interest in bringing in Foley. I suspect his WWE
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Legends deal was either up sooner than expected, because he
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: himself had said June or it never excluded him from
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: working with other promotions to begin with. The legend stuff
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: is a little fuzzy to me. I think Mark Henry
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: has talked about there being two different types of deals.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a proper Legends deal and then a nostalgia deal,
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  Speaker 1: which is less restrictive. But Foley had a Legends deal,
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  Speaker 1: or has one. You know, Brett Hart, he appeared at
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  Speaker 1: the first Double or Nothing, which was in Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: a month after he got attacked at the WWE Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. But he was a Double or Nothing and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, promptly fell off the stage. I was in
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  Speaker 1: the building for that one. I didn't see him fall.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was a big deal because people like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the crowd, and then people start talking about
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  Speaker 1: it a little later, like, oh Brett fell and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what the fucking guy fell off the stage as he
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: was walking back from that segment because they had him,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of introduced the brand new aw Championship
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  Speaker 1: belt that night. But yeah, he fell off the stage
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  Speaker 1: and thankfully he was okay. But anyway, I don't recall
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  Speaker 1: if he was under a Legends deal Brett was at
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  Speaker 1: that time. I feel like Brett signed a Legends deal
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: later on. But like for example, Jake the Snake Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: he is under a WWE Legends deal and he is
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: signed to an AW contract. So I guess for at
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: least some of these guys it would not prevent them
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  Speaker 1: from signing elsewhere. Only the WWE might frown upon it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: But maybe that's it. You know, Folly doesn't give a
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: shit anymore. He wants nothing to do with them for
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: the time being. Foley will join Renee as the hosts
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: of the Buy In pre show, which starts at seven
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: pm Eastern tonight. It's the buy In, not Zero Hour,
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  Speaker 1: because it's always been the buy in for Double or Nothing,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: So we're going from mister Soko to mister Siko with
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: mcfoley and Tony Khm was asked about Foley's role in
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: AW on Thursday's Double or Nothing media call and whether
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: or not it would be a case where we would
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  Speaker 1: see him wrestling in AAW and this is what Tony said.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I can't speak for mcfoley as to whether
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: he would want to wrestle or if he's going to
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: wrestle anytime soon. But if he ever does, I would
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: love for him to do it in AW, but I
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: also don't want to put him in a situation in
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  Speaker 1: which he'll feel uncomfortable. I want him to feel good
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  Speaker 1: about this, and I know he's taken so many big
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: hits and had such an amazing career with so many
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: spectacular moments. Physically, I would only ever ask him to
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  Speaker 1: wrestle if he fell up to it, and that he
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: could live up to the physical demand. The fact that
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he's even open to fully wrestling is giving me anxiety
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  Speaker 1: because you know that Foley is gonna want to wrestle
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  Speaker 1: Like this is almost not a doubt in my mind
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  Speaker 1: that if Mick Foley is signed, or will signed, or
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  Speaker 1: is gonna have some sort of long standing relationship with AW,
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  Speaker 1: he will absolutely, one hundred percent end up doing at
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  Speaker 1: least one match at some point, and I can only
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: hope that they take whatever precautions they can. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it would be cinematic, but again, like he's,
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  Speaker 1: as Tony said, like he's taken so many, so many
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  Speaker 1: bumps and all things. Consider it. Quite frankly, I'm shocked
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: that he is in as good of a shape and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: condition as he is in at this point cognitively and otherwise.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: But when he was talking about training to do one
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: more deathmatch for his sixtieth birthday and then said well
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I'm pulling out, I was like, Wow, Well, if he's
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: pulling out, then that must be something bad. Yeah, because
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: he got concustant. He didn't he didn't even know how.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It was some light training he was doing. And you
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: want to put him in there for a match and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: not expect him to take some kind of big, ridiculous bump.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: In a company where Darby Allen is doing all of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: this insane shit, and a company where John Moxley is
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: like the Deathmatch King, He's going to be hanging around
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: these guys, and you don't think that he's not going
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to get the itch to do a match with one
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of them, or MJF or somebody at some point. SA
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break, fucking Darby head sting
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: doing balcony dives. It's only a matter of time. He
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: did say that Foley will be an on air host
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that pay per views and might make some TV appearances.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: He might be a brand ambassador of sorts for them,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: which I think would be a great role for him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But also on that call, Brandon Thurston asked Tony a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: very simple question, is AW profitable. They're not a publicly
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: traded company. We don't have an actual answer to this question.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's been asked before. Is AW profitable? This was Tony's answer.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Our revenue is the highest it's ever been. I can't
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: comment on where we stand in terms of every expense
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: year to year. Certainly this is going to be the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: most revenue we've ever generated in the strongest financial outlook
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: for the company ever. I'm reinvesting in a number of projects,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: including digital projects, to grow the company for the future.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: As far as how it's accounted, I don't have all
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the figures in front of me, but I can say
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it's by far the most revenue that we've brought in
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and the future is the healthiest outlook. I'll continue to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: reinvest in the business, developing new platforms and trying to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: open up new territories to grow the company. We're launching
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: some new projects and some international developments that will require
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: investment that I think are smart moves. We are strongly
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: positioned for the future of AAW. Now is the perfect
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: time for me to double down on aaw because we're
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: going to be around for a very, very long time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And that is a really long way of saying, no,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the company is not profitable. But as long as he's
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: got the capital to continue investing in it, and he
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: said it in the quote, he said, I am continuing
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to reinvest. I feel it's in the best interest of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the company. We have to keep growing and to do
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that you need money, So you got to keep reinvesting.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: If he's got the and again he's a billionaire, it
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: comes from a billionaire family. If he has the capital
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to continue investing in it and he doesn't mind taking
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: a loss, then it doesn't really matter. But no, they
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: are not profitable, because if they were, again he would
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: say yes or he would be screaming it from the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: highest rooftop. But I just laugh like he gives this
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: long answer and it sounds great, but the short of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: it is no, to answer Brandon's question, the company is
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: not profitable and the company will be around for a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: long time as long as he continues to invest in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the way that he has. The big caveat is unless
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: they lose their television deal. And if that's six hundred
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: million dollar Warner Brothers Discovery soon to be Paramount Skydance
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: deal disappears, I don't see how they can continue operating
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: their current levels without making cuts. I just don't see it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't see how that's possible. So they'll be around.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: One thing Tony's been resistant to are these mass cuts
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in the way the WWE has done over the years.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But I just again, if that deal were to go away,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: it would be very difficult for me to imagine that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: there aren't some changes that have to be made in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: some sacrifices that have to be made. You know, if
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: they're making more money now than they ever have before,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: though that's good. You want to go up, you don't
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: want to go down. And on the possibility of all
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: In returning to Wembley Stadium in twenty twenty seven, he
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: said he has not decided yet on a location for
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: next year's all In, but twenty twenty seven will be
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: another big year for aw and he plans to take
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: some big swings. I don't know if big swings is
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a nod to anything specific, like a baseball stadium show,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but I'm still hoping he takes advantage of WWE taking
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania out of the country to Saudi Irab next year,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and that he hosts a big wrestling week with Wrestle
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Khan and all the other events, piggybacking off it the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: way they typically do wrestle Media, like do it in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: New Orleans, do it wherever. Really, but I think it's
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a big missed opportunity not to do something and kind
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: of be the face of it and be the leader
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of it around wrestle media time. It shouldn't be the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: weekend of wrestle Media, but somewhere around March or April,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: give wrestling fans a reason to fly in and congregate
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: for a big wrestling weekend somewhere Stateside, like a big
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: wrestling festival wrestle Fest. If the name wasn't already taken,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: that'd be the perfect name for it. Let's run down
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: this double or Nothing card. As I said last week.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Of course, there were more matches announced since I last
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: talked about this, mainly on the Bay in pre show,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: so we'll start there. They've added a trios match with
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the Death Riders Claudio Castignoli, Daniel Garcia and Wheeler da
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: taking on the Ops Hook Kattiori Shabata and Anthony Bowens,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the newest member of the Ops. Bowens just joined. They
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: have Samoa Joe on the main card in an owen
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Hart tournament match that he is absolutely not going to win.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: This really needs to be a win for the OPS.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You know, Hopefully they didn't just add Bowens to the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: group to be the to be to the Ops what
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Austin Theory is to the Vision. You know, typically the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fall game, mainly in singles matches, Theory is typically the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fall guy in those situations. Hopefully that's not the only
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: reason they put Bowen's in this group, But I just
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: feel like, especially if Joe is losing on the main cards,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you got to at least give the OPS a win here.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go with them for the win.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: We have Orange Cassidy, Mark Briscoe, Roderick Strong, Big Boom
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: aj is back. He's the pre show king here in
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: AW and QT Marshall. They're going to be taking on
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Anthony A go go who I gotta tell you, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: didn't even realize he was still employed by AW. If
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you want a perfect example of Tony KHN doesn't like
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: making cuts the way the WWE does. The fact that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Anthony Aggo is still there, I think says it all
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: because I can't remember the last time I saw him
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: on Dynamite. But Anthony Aggo, Lee Moriarty, Charlie Bravo, Sean
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Dean and Shane Taylor, I'm going with the conglomeration for
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the win and Big whatever team Big Bloom Aj is on,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he will win and also on the buy. In the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: women's tag team champions Divine Dominion, Megan Bain and Lena
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Cross just picked up a win again Shatzi at the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Hog Show the other night. They take on Viva Van
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and Zeta Steele. Is a five minute championship eliminator match
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and this will be easy work, I think for Divine Dominion.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Then we get to the main card owen Hart Foundation Tournament.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: We got three matches, although there is a change to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: one of these matches, Samoa Joe against will Ospray. This
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: is going to be a win for will Osprey. There's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: just there's no other way for this to go. Swarve
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Strickland is gonna go against Bandido. At least in that
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: match there is at least a chance we could get
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a shock win for Bandido because I do think it
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: would be a shock if he went over here, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's not impossible. I feel like Tony likes to throw
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a surprise into these tournaments as often as possible. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: could see it here. I'm gonna stick with Swerve. I
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: still feel like the destination for Forbidden Door is a
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: rematch between Osprey and Swerve, only this time Osprey goes over.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That's where I think this is all heading. So I'll
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: go with Swerve. But then we had a change in
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the one women's Owen Hart match that was scheduled for
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: this pay per view, Willow Nightingale was supposed to step
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: into the ring with Alex Windsor. Now Willow Nightingale is
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Or was the TBS champion. She appeared in a backstage
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: segment on Dynamite Wednesday night to make the announcement that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: she suffered a right shoulder injury in her collision match
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: last week with Red Velvet, and it's serious enough that
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: she has been pulled from the Owen which is tough
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: for her. I think she's from Long Island, so this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: was almost going to be kind of like a homecoming
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: for her back in New York, and her family was
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: going to be there's gonna be a big night for her.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: She has been pulled from the Owen and she's been
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: forced to vacate her TBS championship after one hundred and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: forty days. She was the woman to finally bring down
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet and win that TBS title on New Year's Eve,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and she's had the title ever since, and it sucks
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that this run now comes to an end like this,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just with a whimper. Alex Windsor will now wrestle a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: wildcard entrant, but not on this show tonight. Instead, they're
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: gonna have the Athena Mina Shirakawa match tonight. And my
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: initial sense was, oh, well, there's going to be a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: wildcard entry in this tournament. What a great opportunity to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: slot Mercedes Monet back in there. My gut tells me
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be her. It's not going to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: be her, because if it was going to be her,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: then I don't know why you would not have that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: on the pay per view tonight, right You would think that, okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Alex wins are a double or nothing, will face a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: wild card, and then you get the big surprise entrance,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the fact that they're not doing that, and instead they're
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: going with a completely different match. Tells me that it
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna be Mercedes in that spot. It's just my
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: sense of it. But again, the injury, it sucks. You know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Willow was a big part of the women's division there,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: she was one of the champions, and now she didn't
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: say anything about surgery, but it looks like she's gonna
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: be gone for a while. Hopefully she'll she'll be able
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to make it back without going under the knife. But
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: as far as Athena and Mina, I mean, this is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be a win for Athena. Athena, I mean Mina,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: my goodness, she's always eaten l's on these shows. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: for her to go in there in the basically the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: opening I know they say it's a quarterfinal rounds, the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: fucking opening round of this tournament. And Athena, the forever
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: champion and Ring of Honor, is going to lose to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the woman who loses all the time. Give me a break.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: We have Stadium Stampede, Chris Jericho, Bobby Lash Shelton, Benjamin Kenny, Omega,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Jack Perry and the Young Bucks take on Ricochet, The
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Gates of Agony, Mark Davis, androde l Edelo and the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Dogs David Finley and Clark Conners. They had a smaller
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: version of this on Dynamite this week. I'm not the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: same stadium stampede rules, but we had some of the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: members of this match on Wednesday and the heels went over,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: so I had already picked the baby Faces to win. Anyway,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I feel even stronger about my prediction than I did
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: last week. This will be a win for Team Jericho,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and as fun as Anarchy in the Arena was last year,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I actually find myself looking forward to this match, even
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: though we know it's going to be just mass chaos
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and it's just gonna be tons of i'm sure plunder
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of crazy spots. I had a lot
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of fun with that match last year. If this could
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: even measure up slightly to what we got a year ago,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: then this will be a lot of fun. Just added
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, after they wrestled on Dynamite to a time
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: limit draw, John Moxley will be defending his Continental Championship
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: against Kyle O'Reilly, only this time there will be no
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: time limit. Moxley should not be losing another match until
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: he wrestles Will Osprey I'm going to stand on that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Moxley should not lose to anybody until he gets into
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the ring at some point between now and all In
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: with John Moxley or with Will Ospray. That'd be funny
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: if we had a mirror match Moxley against Moxley. That's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: something we would do in be the booker. You know.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk though about them potentially
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: adding a July pay per view, this Redemption show. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: could see that match happening there. It's like one last
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: test for Osprey to make sure he's ready, right, like
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: he's already won the Owen, let's say, but there's still
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: time between then and all In. And this actually makes
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: kind of makes sense, I guess from their perspective, if
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: this is what they plan on doing, there is a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: gap from Forbidden Door to All In. There's a two
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: month gap, right whatever, seven or eight weeks, And so
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I could see them saying, all right, you know what,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we don't want to do Osprey and Moxley in the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: finals of the Owen, because then where does Osprey go
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: from there? He got two months to kill We'll save it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be adding this new pay per view in
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: July line, which is not confirmed, by the way, but
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: let's say they do. We're gonna be adding this new
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: pay per view in July, let's do the match there, right,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: There's nothing on the line, per se, like Osprey putting
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: his guaranteed title shot in London on the line wouldn't
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: make any sense. But just in terms of the story
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: they've been telling with him being trained by the Death Riders,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: it could just be as simple as Moxley saying, this
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: is your final test, let's see how ready you really are,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and they do the match on that show. But either way,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Moxley should not be losing until then, and again, when
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they do that, if Moxley is still the Continental champion,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it does not need to be for the continental title. Obviously,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Moxley is not losing to Kylo Riley. Picking John Moxley
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: FTR defend the aw Tag team titles against Adam Copeland
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and Christian Cage. It will be a street fight. It
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: will be an I quit street fight, and if FTR retains,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Cope and Cage can never again team up. And I
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: just don't see any chance of that happening. You know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: they already lost last time tonight to the night, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: think they finally win the AW tag team titles from FTR.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Tekla puts her women's title on the line against Chris Statlander,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Hikarushida Jamie Hayter. I don't see Tekla losing. Kazuchka Okada
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: against Kenoski Takeshta for the International Championship, but waiting a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: long time for this, and I don't see the need
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to wait any longer. This should be a title change,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: This should be the big win for Takeshta tonight and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: in the main event, MJF challenges Darby Allen title versus
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Hair for the aw World Championship. You know the way
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that mjf's been talking about this and going on social media,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and it's like a four conclusion, I'm getting my belt
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: back right, three time champion by the age of thirty,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. He's really really going over the top
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: with it, which is starting to make me wonder about
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: this finish. Do they really want to end this pay
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: per view on a downer with MJF winning the championship
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and not getting his head shaved? Would they do something
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: where he wins the title again by nefarious means and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: still gets his head shaved. It's called having your cake
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and eating it too. It's entirely possible. We could get both.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: We could very well get But I look, I can
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: see it now. I could see MJF cheating to win.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He gets the belt back, He's all smiles, You all suck.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I told you I was gonna win. You doubted me.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'm the goat, right, all of this stuff, and all
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of these other people, all the other wrestlers, they come out,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: they surround the ring, all the people that he is wronged,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: all the people that he has insulted, all the people
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that do not like him. Fucking Foley may be out
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: there and they're all like, basically, they've got him trapped
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: like a rat and he's got nowhere to go, and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: he still gets his fucking head shaved. It's possible. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: don't see him losing this match, though. I think we're
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: getting the title change. I think Darby's time is up.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I think he's been defending that championship every single week,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Like he was told he has weeks left to live
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: by his doctor, and it just gets to a point
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: where this is going to end very soon. And if
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: it's going to end very soon, there's no better time
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: for it to end than here. There's no need to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: extend this out to forbidden door. He's certainly not going
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: to Wembley as the defending champion. Tonight is the night
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: where he drops the belt to MJF. But I'm not
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: completely convinced that he's not losing his hair. I'm starting
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to think that they may end up wanting to give
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the fans that happy ending, regardless of whether or not
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Darby wins or not. Speaking of MJF, he appeared on
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the Ariel Helwani Show this week and addressed a wide
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: variety of subjects which I am not touching with a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: ten foot pole here. Boy did they go off the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: beaten path, but among the highlights addressing the interest that
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: WWE had in him and deciding to stay with AAW
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: hat tip to F four w online for help with
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the transcript here. This is what MJF had to say.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Was it tough talking about turning down a potential WWE offer. No,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you have to know your worth, and I know my worth,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and my worth was built because of the legacy that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I'm building in AAW There is something very enchanting to me.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: No matter how much money did or does or will
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: get thrown at me, and trust me, it was a
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: lot hypothetically, it was a fucking lot hypothetically. It doesn't
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: matter because I care about my legacy more than anything.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: The idea of going down as the greatest of all
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: time is really important to me, and I also think
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that there's something very special about being able to say
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that without ever having worked there. I think that's really cool.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I like the or I think the idea of that
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: happening in the wrestling world, and to me, the Mount
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Rushmore professional wrestlers turned actors are Dave Batista, John Cena,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Dwayne the Rock Johnson. As you know, Mount Rushmore has
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: how many heads? Four? My goal is to be that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: fourth head. And if I could pull that off on
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: my name alone, in the legacy I've built on my
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: own back, not from a machine, just the Maxwell machine,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I think that it would feel all the more sweeter.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He said, this is just the way he feels right
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: now at thirty years old. He never say never, but
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: he did say that he and Sting had conversations about
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: how much pride Sting took in making his name outside
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of WWE and never going there until twenty fourteen, The
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: only problem with that is that he did eventually decide
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to go there, and by the time he did, we
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: never got any of the dream matches that most fans
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: wanted to see because he was too old and so
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: many of those other guys had either retired or the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: matches just never got made right that and Sting got hurt.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Sting spent so many years telling anybody who listen that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: he wanted to wrestle the Undertaker. He badly wanted that match.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Had he gotten there even five years earlier, we would
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: have gotten Sting against the Undertaker. So honestly, he's as
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: much to blame for that not happening as anybody, as
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: any other individual person, if we're being perfectly honest. But
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I mean to the point that MJF was making about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: how he wants to in an ideal situation, he would
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: love to go down as the Goat or one of
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the goats without having ever worked in WWE. And there
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: are people that are going to hear that and go, well,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that's just not possible, right, That's impossible, which, of course
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: is just a nonsensical thing to say. There are plenty
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of wrestlers, especially if you look at wrestlers from Mexico
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and wrestlers from Japan that are living legends, and others
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: who are no longer living, but they are legends who
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: never worked for WWE, right, who never worked for one
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: of the top promotions here in the US, who were
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: considered among the greatest of all time, the greatest of
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: all time Mount Rushmore. All that is very subjective thing.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: There is no one definitive answer as to who is
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the goat or who who belongs on Mount Rushmore right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Everyone's opinion is going to be different. If MJF never
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: wants to work for WWA and he wants to continue
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: wrestling for AW for another ten or fifteen years and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: then call it quits. If he could stay healthy, there's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: no reason to think that he will not go down
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: as one of the all time greats. Is he going
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to be on Mount Rushmore? Maybe not? Maybe not. But
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: can he find success and make a great living and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: make millions of dollars and win world championships and wrestle
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: big names and have great matches without ever going to WWE.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: The answer is yes, of course he can. So I
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: don't agree with that opinion that well, if that's his goal,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the only way for him to achieve that is, to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: have a WrestleMania match or to go to WWE. No,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: not necessarily. That might be true of some people, but
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I think in the case of him, he's just so
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: good at what he does. If this is, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the only place where he ever wrestles, you know, plus
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: whatever indies and other promotions he may pop up in,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: he can have himself a Hall of Fame worthy career
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: without ever setting foot in a WWE ring, without ever
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: acknowledging Roman reigns, without ever stepping back inside with cmpunk
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: or wrestling Seth Rollins or Cody Rhodes again or anything
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: like that, which is something I would love to see.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: But if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't to me.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really It's it's not like a negative blight
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: on his legacy. It'll be a what if you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: what would have happened if you would have gone to WWE.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: How badly would they have neutered him? You know, would
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: a slightly more PG version of MJF go over well
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: in WWE? The answer is yes, there's not a doubt
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: in my mind. But it'll be one of those what
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: if questions like the same with Sting. What if Sting
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: had gone there when he was Surfer's Sting. What if
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Crow's Sting and in the days of the late nineties
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: early two thousands had gone to WWF and worked with
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Stone Cold and worked with the Rock and work with
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the Undertaker and all those people. Right, what if? What if?
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: But ain't nobody looking at Sting's career and saying that
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: this man is not one of the all time greats.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Where you slot him on the list, what number you
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: rank him is up to you. And I don't hear
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: his name come up when it comes to like Mount
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Rushmore or anything like that, because he just wasn't as
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: important as someone like Hogan, He wasn't as important as
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: someone like Austin. That's a very elite group. So you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: don't hear his name mentioned in like the Mount Rushmore
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: conversation as much. But he's absolutely on a lot of
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: greatest of All Time lists. He didn't go there until
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. He was already an old man by that point.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You're gonna tell me his career didn't really amount to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: anything because he never went to go work in New York.
• 38:51
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• 38:54
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• 38:57
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• 39:01
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• 39:04
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• 39:06
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• 39:09
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• 39:11
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• 39:23
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• 39:26
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• 39:29
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• 39:39
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• 40:03
  Speaker 1: That's wicks dot com slash harmony now. He also singled
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: out Malachi Black as the biggest defender of those who
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: used AW, in his eyes, as a stepping stone just
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: to go back to WWE. Ariel was pushing him to
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: name names, and Black is the one that he singled out,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and this is what he said. I think it's pretty
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: obvious it's Malachi Black. I don't know the guy on
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: a personal level. Do I think he's a bad guy. No?
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Do I think he was a mark for wanting to
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: have his mania moment. Yeah, And there were a couple
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of guys like that, and they got weeded out. Then
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: they went over there and some found out the grass
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: isn't greener, and some of them did. For them the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: grass was greener. But I would say a majority that
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: were like, I'm gonna use AW to go back to WWE.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see a lot of those
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: guys ask for a fifty percent pay cut from the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: office or just get released. It's unfortunate because if you
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: show up to our company, you work hard. There's really
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: no need to burn Bridges. I'm not shitting on him.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just simply telling you what I was told by
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a majority of the locker room about this specific individual. So,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: as a team captain and a leader and someone that
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: has been a part of this company since day one,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with guys that don't want
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to be team players. Fuck off, go elsewhere, or fucking
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: prove me wrong. I would love to be proven wrong.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: The thing about him in these interviews is he's not
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: afraid to mince words, which is nice. Which is nice,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: It's kind of refreshing. There's other people in this case
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: who wouldn't want to name names, and they would be
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: very vague, which I could understand. Right, you want to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: be professional. You don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Maybe
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: this person does come back to AW you want to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: be able to work with them and make money with them.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: And MJF in this case is like, fuck it. I
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: don't give a shit. Malachi Black, he's the biggest defender,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you know. My thought is this when it comes to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Alistair Black in Black and Gold, okay, and then also
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the main roster under Vince McMahon, even on the main
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: roster under Vince McMahon at the time, with Paul Hamon
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: allegedly as a big advocate for him behind the scenes. Right,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Hayman was the executive director of Monday Night Raw, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: he was going to have some level of creative power
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and it didn't matter, right, it didn't matter because it
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: was still Vince McMahon's show. But you look at his
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: trajectory there and then you look at his time in
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: AW what happened I think is this and this is
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: just me spitballing here. He had a great run for
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: himself in Black and Gold, he really did, and there
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: were a lot of high hopes for him on the
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: main roster, and those hopes were not realized because whatever
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: he ended up doing on the main roster was nowhere
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: close to what I think his fans thought he was
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: capable of doing. And so he wasn't given the opportunity
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: or he just didn't get over enough. I think he
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: came up at a time was it twenty nineteen, right,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: So there were fans, but then Covid and I remember
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: him Hayman. When did Hayman ascend to that position on Raw?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Was it twenty nineteen? I think it was twenty nineteen,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: so fans were still in the buildings. But the bottom
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: line is he just never reached that peak that people
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: thought he would. So he went to aaw and you
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: look at the beginning of that run right out of
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the gate, the stuff with Cody, and it's like, Okay,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a big fumble by wwe
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: look at what they're already doing with this guy. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: then the shit that went down with Vince went down,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and Triple H all of a sudden ended up with
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the book on the main roster. He ascended to power
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: on Rawn's SmackDown creatively, and I'm sure that Black saw that,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and he sees this guy right, someone who got him.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Triple H got him. He understood the character. He's going
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to know how to use me properly if I ever
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: go back there. Plus, his wife worked there, and who
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: knows how much that may have played a role in
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: his decision to want to leave. Sometimes you just want
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to work together, or you want to be able to
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: travel with your significant other because you don't get to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: see them as much if you don't, right, So we
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: don't know how much of that factored into his decision
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: making either, But I always thought, men, it's just such
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: a weird thing, the lack of singles matches that he
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: had on the roster there in aw after having such
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: a hot start right out of the gate with the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Cody roadsfeud, he got a couple of wins over Cody,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and Cody was one of the big guys in that
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: company right one of the EVPs. And then after that
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: we had the House of Black, We had a bunch
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: of tag matches and trios matches. He had a back
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: injury there for a while, but then he was okay,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and he never he just never got back to that
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: level where he was being pushed as a serious single star.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: And I can never understand why, and apparently he couldn't either,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: because he got frustrated about it. At one point, he
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: got sick and tired of people saying, oh, he's got
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a bad back, He's got a bad back. And now
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: he posted a video on social media where he was
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: clearly very upset and being very passive aggressive and saying, look, basically,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: in so many words, stop saying I'm hurt. I had
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: a back injury that was a long time ago. I'm healthy,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I'm fine. I don't know what to tell you, I'm
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: not the person that you need to be asking as
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: far as why I'm not being put in singles matches
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: basically without saying so, he was saying, go talk to
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Tony Khan because I don't have the answer for you.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe Tony got cold feet because he was injured and
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: felt like he lost a little bit of faith in
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: him because of that. I don't know. That will forever
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: be a very weird That and the usage of Miro,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: which I could absolutely believe that just came down to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Miro not agreeing to certain creative things and they just
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: couldn't come to an understanding on like what matches or
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: who wins and I don't want to lose. I could
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely believe that. But that's the situation with Malachi Black.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what happened. I feel like he
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: was dissatisfied there. He saw Triple Ah send to the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Throne and said, Okay, finally, finally my chance to go
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: back and show people what I can really do and
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: what we were doing in Black and Gold just sort
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: of translate that to the main roster and it didn't
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: work out that way. Now. MJF also did an interview
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: with CBS Sports, where he addressed WWE spreading rumors about
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Paramount Skydance not renewing AW once their acquisition of Warner
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery becomes official, which is likely to happen in
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the fall. I mean that shit's probably going to sail
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: right through. He talked about this on Aerial Show as well.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: He one hundred percent believes that these stories are being
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: leaked by TKO to make AW look bad. He said, TKO, WWE,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: what have you? Their job is to make themselves look
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: great and to make us look bad. So there's a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: leak oh AW is struggling to get a TV deal.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: That's fucking news to me, Bro, Like that's news to me,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: That's news to everybody on the roster. It's damn sure
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: news to Tony Kahn because the last time I checked,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: they're fucking over the moon with us. Right now, you know,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: we do better numbers than fucking almost everything that's going
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: on on a weekly basis on cable Because right now,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: as I was saying, the things that draw on cable
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: are news and live sports. I've said it once, I'll
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: say it a million times. I love jolly old Saint
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Nick talking about Nick con and I love the tricks
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: he's pulling out. I fucking get it. It's smart. But
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that we can't use our brains right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that we can't go, oh, this is
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: being leaked intentionally to hurt the company. That is the alternative.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: It'd be like if Coke out of the Blue is like, hey,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys knew about this, but
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Pepsi has water in it. Everybody would be like, well,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, where's that source coming from. It's coming from Coke. Okay,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not really going to give much thought to this,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean, look, he's not wrong. I mean,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: obviously we heard that report from Meltzer. I think last
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: week that internally in WWE they're talking openly about how
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: they're not going to be renewed or get a new
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: deal when the Paramount sky Dance acquisition is officially put
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: through or greenlit or whatever gets approved. And again, it
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: may well happen that way. It may well happen that way,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: but nobody knows. It's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Until
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: the acquisition goes through. Nobody knows nothing right now, not WWE,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: not Tony Kahn, not MJF. MJF is talking about, well
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: they're over the moon with us. Well, yes, Warner Brothers
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Discovery is over the moon. But again, Warner Brothers Discovery
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: is about to be absorbed by a larger entity that
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: has other business interests. So even MJFS saying that that
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: in and of itself doesn't mean anything, they could be
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: ecstatic with AW right now come September October, that may
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: not matter anymore. But the point is, do I believe
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: that there is shit being leaked by WWE? Of course,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: of course you can go back to Pizzagate, the wrestling version,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: not the bullshit version, But you go back to Pizzagate
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: with the whole nick gage thing and that I'm not
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: going to get back into that, but you guys remember
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: that I'm sure, of course that was a WWE thing,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. It was this sort of thing happens
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: all the time. This sort of thing happened back in
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the day as well. By the way, with WWF ANDWCW,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: this is hardly, hardly a new phenomena where you try
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: to you know, you try to handicap the competition by
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: spreading bullshit about them. That's clearly what's going on here
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: on the eve of the biggest match of his career.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Marcel Bartel, who goes by Ludwig Kaiser on WWE television
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: as well as El Geronde Americano. I can't prove it,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: but I believe it to be him, was arrested on
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Wednesday in Florida on a battery charge. It was not
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: a domestic incident, and he was bonded out of Orange
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: County Corrections in Orlando on a thousand dollars bail later
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: that night. Here's the story from TMZ. WWE star Ludwig
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Kaiser landed in a heap of trouble after cops say
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: he and his girlfriend could not keep their sex drives
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: in check. Kaiser real name Marcel Bartel, was arrested Wednesday
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: for battery after he got physical with his neighbor inside
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: a luxury building in Orlando, Florida, where the two men live,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: according to a police report obtained by TMZ. The report
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: says the incident popped off on the night of April
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: twenty third, when the neighbor, Richard Reap, stepped inside an
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: elevator on the twelfth floor along with Kaiser and the
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: woman he was with. As the elevator ascended, Kaiser and
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the woman started making out right in front of Reap,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: and their passion grew to an uncontrollably intimate level with
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: their aggressive kissing. According to the report, When they reached
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: the twelfth floor, both parties allegedly got off the elevator,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and the neighbor told the couple to please have some manners.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: That comment triggered an angry response from Kaiser, who allegedly
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: pummeled Reap and shoved him to the floor. Police say
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Kaiser also threatened the neighbor, who later reported the alleged
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: assault to law enforcement. The responding officer noted observing a
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: fresh scratch and redness on the back of Reepe's head,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: which police stated was consistent with a recent altercation. The
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: arrest affidavit stated that the responding officers also reviewed surveillance
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: footage from the twelfth floor, with that video allegedly showing
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: a white male punching and pushing Reap outside the elevator
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: at the reported time of the incident, and per pw
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: inside of the affidavit states that Reep subsequently identified Bartel
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: in a six person photographic lineup conducted later that evening.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Bartel turned himself in after a warrant had been issued.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: He was reportedly ordered to have no contact with the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: victims or witnesses and was granted one supervised return to
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the apartment accompanied by law enforcement authorities. For Bartel filed
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: a motion on Thursday morning in court requesting that he
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: received permission to travel freely internationally despite his arrest. The
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: motion notes that Bartel learned of the arrest warrant against
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: him on May nineteenth while he was in Mexico and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: immediately flew back to Orlando to turn himself in the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: next day. It also pointed out that he has no
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: prior criminal record. The motion states that Bartel's job requires
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: him to travel around the United States and internationally in
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: order to maintain his employment. So that was quite the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: story out of left field. I love the uncontrollable kissing.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, good for him, although I guess if
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I was stuck in an elevator with two people who
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: were ripping and clawing at each other uncontrollably, would probably
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: make me a little uncomfortable too, and perhaps I would
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: turn to them and go, please have some manners. Actually,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I'd probably just keep my mouth shut and go Hey,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I give him like a little not out of respect,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and I would go about my day. But I'm not
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Richard Reap in this case. Now, there was an event
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: involving El Grande Americano that was scheduled for Mexico City
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the other day that was canceled and they were just
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: gonna have this. It was at the Kings League Mexico.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: It's a free event for about three hundred fans. It
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: was going to be like a little mini parade of sorts,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: I guess for El Grande Americano. This was in conjunction
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: with Triple A, but Triple A announced the cancelation on
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, or of the Thursday night event, on Instagram,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: saying the Serenata for El Grande Americano event schedule for
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: tonight in Mexico City has been canceled. We appreciate your understanding.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: And I didn't read too much into that because the
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: man literally could not legally travel out of the country
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: at that time. And then on Friday came this update.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Court records show that Bartel's attorney has filed a supplemental
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: version of his motion to allow out of state and
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: international travel. In this updated document, it's noted that Kaiser's
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: council has communicated with the Assistant State Attorney and the
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: state will not be objecting to the motion since the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: initial filing of the motion to travel undersigned. Council communicated
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: with Assistant State Attorney shay Lan Kott, who indicated no
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: objection to this motion, and then came the announcement shortly
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: thereafter that the event was back on, this time on
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Friday night in Mexico City for fans to show their
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: support for Kaiser Americano ahead of his match with Gable
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Americano next weekend. Now I know that Raj Geary posted
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: something online that I'm not even going to read here
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: because I have no idea where he's even getting this from.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: As far as what the neighbor allegedly really said to
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Bartel to set him off, now I agree, it's a
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: little suspect that the guy would tell him, please, sir,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: have some manners and then he went all John Wick
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: on his ass. Okay, that's it's a little far fetched
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to me. It's possible, but it's a little far fetched.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: It makes me feel like there was something else that
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: was said. There has to be more to this, but
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: we don't know, and neither does he, so I'm not
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: going to repeat what he posted here until and unless
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: we get confirmation from somewhere else. All due respect to Raj,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: but it would have been a generational fumble if this
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: would have wound up killing his push, or if he
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: had gotten pulled from that match next weekend. Because the
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: big Mask Versus Mask match is set for the Triple
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: A show next Saturday, May thirtieth. They have been building
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: to this match for months. This is going to be
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: a big fucking deal in Triple A next weekend. And
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: can you imagine if this was serious enough that the
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: match got canceled or he got suspended, or he got fired,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: or he can't travel so he can't make it to
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: the show and they have to come up with a
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: plan B. It would have been a fucking disaster. And
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: if they would have punished him for this, and there's
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: no indication of that happening, I mean, this is still
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: playing out in real time. We're not sure how this
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: is going to end, but it doesn't look like that's
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: going to be the case. But again, this would have
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: been a generational fumble for Bartel, But it looks like
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: it's full speed ahead. They were on the Triple A Show,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: both Americanos. Last night they had another brawl. The heat
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: was just off the charts. Gable he ended up showing
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: off a T shirt that had a picture of Kaiser's
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: girlfriend on it. I believe there was a stipulation where
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: there could be no physical contact between the two until
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: their mask match, and then they started going at it,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: and it's like, well, I guess fuck the stipulation. It's
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: unreal how hot this feud is in Mexico right now
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: and how dead it will be on Raw tomorrow night. Seriously,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: you watch Raw any given week and like some of
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the like the high spots and moves when they're wrestling,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: get a little bit of a reaction, but really, on
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the whole, I mean, nobody cares about this shit. Like
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: you watch Monday night Raw. No, there's no way you
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: watch that show and go, man, this is this is
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: the feud of the year. But then you watch it
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: play out on the Triple A Show and it's like
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: night and day. It's like you're not even watching the
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: same thing. Gable is going to get unmasked on Saturday,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: and then Kaiser is going to win the Triple A
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Mega title. From Dom at Triple Mania in September, especially
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: now that we know the other big announcement on the
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Triple A show last night is that Ray Mysterio has
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: been named the new general manager of Triple A. So
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: it's perfect because now Ray is going to absolutely make
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: sure this match happens. Right. He's gonna have his son
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: defending the championship at Triple Mania in a few months
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: against Kaiser. This is the path, so long as Kaiser
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't punch anybody else in the face between now and then.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Because I'll just say this about this whole thing, We'll
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: see how it all plays out. Again. The guy wanted
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: to press charges, it's not over yet at this moment.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: As I sit here, knowing what we know, I don't
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: see any significant fallout from this. And let's just say
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: the guy did say something very offensive that really set
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Kaiser off, and he just didn't want to tell the
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: cops and he didn't just say, please, sir, have some manners.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Then it's understandable, but you know what, you can't be
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: putting your hands on somebody like that. Got to be
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: smarter about that, especially being in the situation that he's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: in right now where he is a public figure. He's
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: an entertainer and you got you know, security cameras and everything,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and you just can't be assaulting people. I mean, we
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: could be like, oh, well, the guy must have mouthed
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: off to him. Well, you know, maybe he did. But
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: unless the guy threw fists first or put his hands
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: on Kaiser's girl, you can't be doing that. So he'll
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: be lucky if this just sort of goes away quietly
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and there's no significant fallout from it. But if something
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: like this were to happen again, that's a whole different
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: ball of wax. But again, there's no history of him
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: doing this. He hasn't been arrested for this, I mean,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to anyone's knowledge, he's not somebody who gets into fights
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: or anything like this. Hopefully it's just a one off.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to make it sound like he
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: was necessarily in the right here either, because you can't
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: be throwing hands on people unless they throw hands on
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: you first. Ron SmackDown this week not a whole lot
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: to dive into. The big thing was the return of
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: brock Lesner on Monday Night attacking Obafemi. It was the
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: shock of just it happening on Monday. I don't even
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: know that people are necessarily shocked that Brock is not
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: retired and he's already back. But I don't think anybody
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: was expecting him to ambush Obafemi from behind as he
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: was about to open up the open challenge again for
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: a week. I guess this would have been week three,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: and Brock attacked him from behind. He put him down
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: with four f fives. It took four of them to
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: put this match down. And then later on in the show,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the contract Paul Hayman handed a contract over to Adam
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Pearson said it's already signed. It's already signed by Brock
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Legner whoever that is for a Magic Clash in Italy
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: next weekend. All it needs now is a signature from Obafemi.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: But this is the first time that Obafemi has been
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: put down since coming to the main roster, right, Brock
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: finally got one over on him after all this time,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and the fans when they saw Brock out there, I mean,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: this got the biggest reaction of anything on the show.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: The show was very boring and so whatever you think
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: about Brock being back, I don't want to see him.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: He doesn't need to be back. You know, I don't.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: We don't need to see Oba loose to him. Now,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: forget that for a second. It was easily easily the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: most exciting thing to happen on Raw Monday nights. So
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: for that reason alone, it was my favorite thing on
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: the entire show because it was actually exciting, right it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Actually it made me feel something other than just total
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: apathy to what I was seeing on my television or
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: iPad as it were. So now we're getting a match
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: next weekend. It's going to be Brock Olasner against Olbafemi,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and it seems pretty clear to me that they are
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: going to do a trilogy with these men, and I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be very similar to what they
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: did with Brock and Cody Rhodes three years ago. They
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: had three matches as well. It culminated at Summer Slam
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: with Cody getting a big win over Brock, and Brock
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: gave him the big endorsement when that match was over.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: And I think they're probably going to work the same
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: plan here, I think with these and if this is
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: the plan, then we needed something like that on Monday
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: from Brock because you can't just have Oba constantly killing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: him literally every single time. Brock has to get the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: heat on him at some point if you're going to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: try to stretch this out to a second match and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: a third match, Otherwise it just gets boring and repetitive.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: So if that is the plan, then you know they
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: did what needed to be done. But as far as
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Brock being back, look, I my mindset is this. On
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: this I don't see a need for Brock Lesner to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: be back. Some people are like, oh, I'm so happy
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Brock's back, or you know, Brock, He's got to have
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: a proper sendoff in Minnesota. No, he doesn't. He had
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: a nice sendoff of WrestleMania, and maybe that will go
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: down as his WrestleMania send off, not his official sendoff,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: and maybe that was his WrestleMania retirement. But that would
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: have been the perfect cap I think to his career,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: on the biggest show of the year, in front of
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand people, putting over the next big thing in
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: this company, the next big thing from twenty five five
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: years ago, putting over the new next big thing. That
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: match at WrestleMania was exactly what it needed to be.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: There was no need for Brock to go over on Oba.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Really at any point unless you did want to have
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: a trilogy series between them. But if they would have
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: left well enough alone, that would have been the perfect
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: moment for Brock to go ahead and right off into
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: the sunset with his cowboy hat and everything. And I
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: would have been perfectly content for that to be it
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: and not to have Brock back on TV. But here
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: he is, and now he's back. Am I shocked? Not
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: in the least, not in the least. Man's all about business,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: where there's business to be done and money to be made,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: brock Lesner will be there. And if they build up
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: SummerSlam by the way as his oh well, this is
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be the real retirement for Brocklesner. I'm still not
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: going to buy into it. I don't know why anybody
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: would when you do the kind of angle they did
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: at WrestleMania and he leaves his fucking boots in the
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: middle of the ring. They never used the word retired,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: but give me a fucking break. Okay, what do you
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: think they wanted to communicate to the audience. He was
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: supposed to be done. He left his gloves, he left
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: his boots. Paul Hayman is in tears like he stubbed
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: his toe. This was the set. And look, even Adam
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Pierce on Monday was talking to Haym and going, what
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the hell's going on here? I just filed retirement paperwork.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: They flat out told you he retired, and they went
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: back on it. Cool. Well, the next time you pull
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: this retirement shit, I ain't gonna buy it, and neither
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: is anybody else. It's not gonna have the same effect.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: If they were to have a match. Let's say it's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: SummerSlam to cap this off with Lesnar and Obafemi, and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: it's like a career match, right, or if Brock doesn't win,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: he's gonna retire. Who's gonna believe it. It's not gonna
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: have any weight. No one's gonna care. Oh it's Minnesota,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: who gives his shit? Who cares? That's the one thing
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: you lose out on now by bringing him back so
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: quickly after what we saw at wrestle Media. But other
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: than that, hey, you want to have a series of
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: matches between these two. I thought the four minutes they
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: had at WrestleMania was perfect, right. I mean, look, these
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: next couple of matches they're going to have could also
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: be very exciting and could also be very good. I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: can't imagine Oba wins in Italy next weekend. I don't
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: really know what the point of that would even be.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, if you went in there and won, Brock
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: kind of has to win. I don't really necessarily want
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: to see Oba lowse, but Brock kind of has to
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: win that match. So now we fast forward to SmackDown
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: on Friday, and we had Cody Rhodes in the main
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: event against Sammy's ain and Gunther showed up and he
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: put Cody in the sleeper hold, and Sammy just stood
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: there and stared and watched as Gunther smothered him at
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the end of the show, and Sammy did nothing to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: help because Cody's been making comments about Sammy for a
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: while that had been very upsetting to Sammy, And this
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: was Sammy's moment where he finally said, you know what,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I went to go walk off. He got booed.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: If you were of the mindset that Sammy wasn't already
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: a heel, he certainly was bood like one. At the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: end of that show. On Friday, Carmelo Hayes got his
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: match with Trick Williams. They made the match on the show.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: He said, Hey, you know you got your secretary over here,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Lil YACHTI saying that you're busy. You needs your peticure,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: you got a manicure, you got a massage, you got
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: all this shit going on. Why don't you give me
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: a shot at the championship. And he did, and we
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: got a match between Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams and
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Ricky Saints got involved, so it looks like we're leading
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: to maybe a triple threat very soon. I enjoyed that.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: What I did not enjoy as much was the fact
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: that we had two different MFTs matches on the show.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: We had Tallatanga against Shinsky Nakamora, which was exactly what
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: you would expect it would be, and we had Solo
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Socoa against Damian Priest. But they worked in Royce Keys
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: into the story. And so now there's heat with Roy's
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Keys and Damian Priest. And fine, you know that's all
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: well and good. Damian Priest could certainly use something. You know,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: he's won half of the Tag team champions. I don't
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: know what happened to our truth. Maybe it's a legitimate injury.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: They said last week he wasn't medically cleared all of
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: a sudden when they were supposed to have a match,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: a tag team title match or maybe a non title match.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: But I don't even think he was on the show
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: this week, So there may well be a legitimate injury
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: that's going to keep truth out for a while. These
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: guys are the tag team champions. If it's something serious,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: then we'll find out very soon because they're going to
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: have to surrender those belts. But as far as you know,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: a priest is concerned to try to get something going
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: with him, I guess because he's just got he's got nothing.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: He's got nothing going on right now. And then Blake Monroe,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: they've been airing vignettes for her, teasing her arrival now
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: for weeks, and she finally arrived on Friday, and it
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: was in a twenty second backstage segment with Chelsea Green.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Not much of a debut here for Blake Monroe, but
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I think she's going to be fine. I saw a
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: lot of overreacting on my timeline. Oh my god, Oh
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: this is terrible. All this build up and then she
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: just shows up in the back and talks to Chelsea
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: in fifteen seconds and it's over. I joked on my
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: social media when I saw that Tiffany Stratton was doing
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: a US title open challenge, I joked that, you know,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Blake was going to accept, and I kind of expected
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: that to be how they were going to debut her.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: But like, I'm totally fine with them not doing that, Like,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: it does not bother me at all. You cannot debut
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: everyone from NXT wrestling for a fucking championship. You cannot
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: debut everybody from NXT showing up and confronting the champion.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: They've already done this. How many fucking times have they
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: done this recently? The way they've called up by the
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: way a lot of these new NXT faces has not
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: been great. But they did it with Soul Ruka, and
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: they did it with Ricky Saints, and they did it
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: with Fatal Influence. I Mean, we already saw what they
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: did with Obafemi, but that was a special case, you know,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: going into WrestleMania, that was great. Blakeman Roe does not
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: need to debut in an open challenge and win a
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: championship on her first night, And the fact that she
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: didn't do that doesn't mean that her debut was also
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: a failure, Like it's okay to let things marinate a
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: little bit with some of these people and not debut
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: them against the fucking champion of the brand. I hate
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: that there are some people out there who think, like,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: if you don't debut somebody that way, that they're already
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: buried or oh they've already lost interest in them, Like
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: are you new here? Like how long have you been
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: watching wrestling for? Come on now? Saturday Night's main event
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: last night? I was not live after the show. I
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: caught up with it a little bit later on. Not
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: a bad show wrestling wise, In fact, it was largely
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: very good. Three out of the five matches, I would
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: say the match with Penta and Ethan Page was excellent.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: It was still missing that one marquee match though, and
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: there was one absolutely horrendous finish. But we did get
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: a pair of tag team title defenses, one for the men,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: one for the women, the first time the tag team
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: titles of any have been defended on a Saturday Nights
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Made event since nineteen ninety two, which also happens to
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: be the one and only time that the Intercontinental title
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: has changed hands on a Saturday Night's Made event. That
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: was when Shawn Michaels beat the British Bulldog for his
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: first singles title, which was also in Indiana, by the way,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: as the show was last night, but that record still
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: stands because we got no title changes last night. What
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: we did get, though, were some backstage interviews, which we
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: were not getting much of before on these shows, especially
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: when they were still airing on NBC, and the backstage
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: promos were a staple of what made so many of
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: those old Saturday nights made events shows so enjoyable. Not
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: that these promos these days are any great shakes compared
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: to the old one. They're really not. But it's nice
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: to hear from some of these people before they go
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: out to the ring, so hopefully they stick to this
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: formula going forward. I can't speak to how the viewing
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: experience was on Peacock as far as ads and whatnot,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: because I watched this on WWE's YouTube channel with my VPN.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: The reason I did that and I didn't have so
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't have any issues as far as like the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: ad breaks. But the reason I did that was when
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: I tried to watch it normally with Peacock because I
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: started the show late, it wouldn't let me start from
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: the beginning. It would only let me go back to
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: like the middle of the first match or the second
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: match or whatever it was. I'm like, what the fuck
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: can I go back to the beginning of the show.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: This is stupid, So fuck Peacock. Then now in Forever,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: So I watched it on YouTube. We had jade Car Gill,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: we had Meechen, and we had bfab in the opening
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: match against Riho Ripley, Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. And
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: this played out exactly the way that I told you
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: last week. I thought it would jade Car Gill not
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: only winning the match for her team, but it was
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: very very important, I think for her to get the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: win over Rhea Ripley, not to have her pin Charlotte,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: not to have her pin Alexa Bliss. She had to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: pin the champion to give her that momentum heading into
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: their world title match next Sunday at Clash in Italy.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened in here, and much better
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: match than I expected it to be. And they had
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: a hot crowd for it. The crowd was actually pretty
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: hot for the entire show. But it really adds so
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: much to these matches because we're just so used to
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: in recent months just having a lot of dead WWE
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: crowds when it comes to their weekly shows. It's very deflating,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: and we didn't have that issue last night, so this
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: was much better than I expected it to be. Then
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: we had the one debacle on this show. This was
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: fucking terrible. Becky lanched against Soul Ruka non title after
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: WWE announced online that it would all of a sudden
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: be a title match midweek, only to then correct themselves
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: because it was in fact not for Becky's intercontinental title
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't really a match. It turned out to
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: be more of an angle than a match because they
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to set up a title match a rematch for
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: next weekend in Italy. This did not even go two
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and a half minutes, with Becky pulling referee Jessica Carr
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: into how long, by the way, are we going to
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: continue to do this shit without having some sort of
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: payoff or match between Becky and Jessica, because it has
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: to be coming at some point soon. But she pulled
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Jessica Carr into the path of what was supposed to
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: be a soul snatcher attempt that was not by Soul Rukas.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: She did not rotate at all. She just came down
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: almost like a Vader bomb. But then just before landing,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: it looked like she tried to kind of sort of
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: rotate her body and Jessica actually just kind of fell
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: on top of her, and it just looked fucking awful.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: It looked awful, and you could see the fans on
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the hardcam like what the fuck was that? And so
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: then they rang the bell and the crowd was I mean,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: they just groaned, and Jessica disqualified Becky for pulling her
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: into harm's way, and then Becky ended up coming back
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: to the ring and she laid out Soul with multiple
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: man handle slams. Nick All this was there last night.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: Adam Pierce was not, but in the back. Later all
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: this informed Becky on behalf of Adams that she will
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: be defending her Intercontinental title in Italy next Sunday against
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Soul Ruka. There had to be a better way to
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: do this, because this was just terrible. This was very
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: very very terrible, very very disappointing. Now it sets up
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: a title match for next weekend that I really hope
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Soul doesn't just win because I think it's too soon
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: to just throw the belt on her when she has
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: no wins on the main roster. I am not counting
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: that lay Mass DQ win from last night. I'm not
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: counting that this woman hasn't really won a fucking match
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: since she came to the main roster Live Morgan Eo Sky.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: So we're just gonna throw the Intercontinental title on her.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do that. I don't
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: know why you Wouldn't you know you got Summer Slam
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: comment of Night of Champions. I mean, whenever you want
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: to pull the trigger, why not just just build it
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. Why rush the belt onto her now?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: I don't see the need to do that. But how
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: about this Italy card? So I said last week, it
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: was shaping up to be much better than Backlash. Got
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Roman and Jacob, Tribal Combat, Cody against gunther Brock against
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Oba and now Becky and Soul for the Intercontinental title,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll get at least one more match
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: aded maybe two. I know that's asking a lot from
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: this administration to get six, but shaping up to be
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: a pretty stacked cards so far. Penta and the best
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: thing on the entire show last night, retained his Intercontinental
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Championship over Ethan Page an excellent match here he wins
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: with a springboard Mexican Destroyer. And there was a new
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: report from Wressel Votes that Ethan Page has been impressing
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: many people in the company since he came to NXT
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty four. They said, on the day
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: of the biggest WWE match of his career to date,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: it's worth and noting how well received Ethan Page has
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: been internally since arriving in the company in twenty twenty four.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: A source once described Page as extremely respectful in detail
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: or behind the scenes, something that many feel has translated
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: onto TV throughout his time in NXT, Triple A and
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: now Monday Night Raw. Regardless of Tonight's outcome, those spoken
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: to believe Paige has positioned himself very well moving forward,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: especially considering how quickly he's risen in a relatively short
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: amount of time. I'm not surprised by any of this.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: I think Ethan Page he fits like a glove on
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw. And he may not have won last night,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: said I would have just put the belt on him.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a big deal. Penta winning. I
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: think I like pent to two, but at some point,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: very soon he will have Intercontinental Goald. I mean, it's
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: just a foregone conclusion at this point. It's only a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: matter of time. But yes, in a very short period
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: of time, he has I think, positioned himself very well
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: as a heel on that Monday Night Raw Roster, and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: I expect big things out of him going forward. Page
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: and Bribella they found a way yet again to retain
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: their women's tag team titles. They've had three defenses so
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: far since WrestleMania, two of which have come against Naya Jackson,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Lash legend A, matches that weren't any good. None of
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: the title defenses these women have had have been any good.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: And it's time for this rain to come to an
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: end now. I figured they're waiting for Nicki Bella to
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: come back first, but if Nicki is not coming back
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: anytime soon, they need to get the belts off these
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: two asap. This should have never been anything more than
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: a one off at WrestleMania. To give the fans a
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: happy moment, those belts should have come right off of
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: them that Monday on Raw or smack Down that Friday,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: and they put the Street Profits against the Vision in
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the main event for the World tag team titles. Very
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: good match. Bron Breaker running out and getting pounced over
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: the announced deask by Angelo Dawkins was the holy shit
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: moment of the night. He went fucking flying. I mean
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: he cleared the desk, he hit the office chairs. He's
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: lucky he didn't get pounced into the front row and
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Paul Hayman saved the match back inside the ring by
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: placing Theories foot on the bottom rope. After the frog
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: splashed by Montes Ford, the brass Nuts came into play,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: ultimately led to the Profits downfall, with Theory pinning Ford
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: to retain. And then after the match, actually they put
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: the credits up on the screen too, in the copyright
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: box and they is a Triple H special and they
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: wanted you to believe that the show was over and
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: they were going off the air. And then bron Breaker
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: decides to sprint back to the ring and he spears
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Ford and Dawkins and leaves them both laying as the
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Vision stands tall again. The match I thought was very good.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: It got hot there towards the very end, and the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: key is bron Breaker's involvement, which is going to lead
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: to a six man tag team match very soon. Maybe
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: they add that to the Clash in Italy card, but
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: I can see it being a case where Dawkins has
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: to convince Ford to allow Rollins to help because montes
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Ford does not like Seth Rollins. He does not like him,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: he does not want his help, and he's going to
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: have to be convinced of this. Now they feel like
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: they have no choice right so at least it served
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: a story purpose. So that was Saturday Night's made event
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: last night. Now, I got some other WWE news and
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: notes here from the past few days. Osca posted an
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: update on her future this week and a vlog on
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: her kana Chan TV YouTube channel. This is what she
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: had to say about her WWE status. It's already been
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: about two weeks since my last match of Backlash. I
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: know there are a ton of rumors flying around out there,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: people asking are we ever going to see Osca wrestle again?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Is she going back to Japan? Is she leaving WWE?
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: The truth is it was a personal matter. I reached
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: out to WWE and we talked it through. But let's
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: be clear, as you all know from watching my matches,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: I can still go. I am still at the top
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: of my game. I've been with WWE for over ten
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: years now, almost like it was just a given. And
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: because it became such a part of your daily routine,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: I think my presence there just became something everyone took
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: for granted. But remember, nothing lasts forever. Everything is finite.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: You see, I'm not just a wrestler by trade. I'm
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: a designer too. Even the way I live my life
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: has to be art. I'm sure you'll all be wondering
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: what's next for me and how I'll be involved with
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: TV and the tours moving forward. But don't forget I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: am still officially with WWE, so there's a chance I
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: might just pop up in front of you when you
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: least expect it. Let's be honest, no one will ever
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: make the kind of historic impact I made from day one.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone will ever climb to the top
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: non stop, grabbing every title and accolade along the way
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: the way that I did. And because I'm a true pioneer,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: it will never be another Osca. So from here on out,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: if you ever catch a glimpse of me, you better
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: cherish it because it's going to be rare. That said,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: my YouTube channel and social media are staying active, so
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: stay connected with you or to stay connected with you, guys.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: Dave Meltzer was the first to report that he was
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: told Oscar was considered semi retired, and her comments here
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: would seem to back that up. And that sucks. But
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: at least she's not totally retired. I would imagine we'll
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: see her for big events like the Royal Rumble, maybe
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: a WrestleMania match or a big international show here and there.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: I still want her to win a match at wrestle
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: She is zero for six in her career in media matches,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: which is just insane to me. But a little bit
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: of Osca is still better than no Osca at all,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: and there is something to be said for people. Look,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: they take you for granted when you're on television every
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: week for so long. They take you for granted. And
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: maybe we need Osca sparingly to be able to appreciate
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: more what she brings to the table. She's not wrong
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: about that tag team division. I wanted to talk about
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: this briefly here because there was a report that WWE
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: is reportedly looking to rebuild its Tag Team Division and
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: I will I will spare you the laughter because I could.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: I could get a nice belly laugh out of that
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: right now. But this is what is being said. There's
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: a report that came out on Wednesday by False Finish HQ,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: which is a new site that recently went live. Some
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: folks who left bodyslam dot net recently have found a
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: home there. According to them, WWE is hoping to rebuild
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: the division from within, while also looking at the possibility
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: of signing teams from other promotions. False Finish has also
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: learned that former Cruiserweight champion Enzo Amore has been spotted
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: at the WWE Performance Center recently. What makes that interesting
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: is that you couple that with the reports of Big
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Bill his aw contract expiring imminently, as well as we've
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: heard about the possible interest in Baron Corbin and maybe
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: even Die Jack, although not necessarily bringing them in as
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: a team the way they have been in MLW is
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: the Skyscrapers. Russell Votes says the WWE is interested in
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: reuniting and bringing back Enzo Amorey and Big Casts, and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: they have maintained a positive relationship with several producers backstage,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: including from their NXT days. Big Cast's aw contract is
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: reportedly set to expire at the end of May. Fight Full,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Fightful Select on Wednesday reported that Baron Core has finished
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: up obligations with some companies that he had been working with,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: including MLW. He is believed to either be signed by
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: WWE or will be imminently, according to those that we
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: spoke to. But then Corbin later tweeted and mentioned that
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: he had accepted eight shows in Europe and he didn't
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: know that he was done with some of these companies.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Whoever is making my schedule and needs to let me
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: know this shit. I thought it was me, but apparently
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: it's not. I'm just saying WWE has a bunch of
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: European shows coming up. He could he could be a
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: little slickier with the message that he's posting, so they
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: do have a bunch of shows coming up in Europe
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: very soon. Look here's the thing. I mean, it sounds
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: very much like Corbin is going to be under the tarp.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: We saw it again on Friday, where there's this body
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: underneath a sheet on a gurney in his little science lab,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna end up being revealed to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: be Baron Corbin like fucking Frankenstein rising from dead. But
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Corbin coming back to the company is one thing. Bringing
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Corbin in maybe as a tag team with De Jack,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know how likely that is. They seem to
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: make a good team in MLW. You know a couple
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: of big guys who know how to work, and they
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: could get heat. They could be like a great heel team.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: Sure you could do that. You could sign them and
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: make them a team. You can make fucking Dan Housen
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: and Baron Corbin a team if you want to, right,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: you can make big Casts and Enzo a team and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: reunite them and bring them back and they'll be over
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: with the crowd, right because Enzo knows how to talk
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: and that's all well, and you could do all of
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: that stuff. It doesn't matter because they don't give a
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: shit about tag team wrestling. This is what I have
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: told you repeatedly recently. And I would love to read
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: a report like this and be like, Okay, maybe they
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: recognize that there's an issue and they're going to take
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: steps to correct it. Until I see actual evidence of this, though,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: to me, it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Look at
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: the state of this company right now when it comes
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: to the Tag Team Championships, they have the tag team
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: titles right now on Monday Night Raw on two single Stars.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: On SmackDown, they have the tag team titles on two
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: single Stars. So we get this report right that they
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: want to reinvigorate the tag team division and so they're
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: considering bringing in teams from outside the company, which, by
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: the way, Brian Alvarez has since responded and said, we
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: are told that WWE does not really have much interest
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: in outside tag teams. But there are newly made teams
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: on TV like The Miz and Kit Wilson that will
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: remain so and a few names in NXT that will
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: likely be called up soon as well. Damian Priest in
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Our Truth there's another newly made team. I assume that
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: would include them as well, and again I'm not a
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: fan of that pairing, but Priests he needs something to
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: get going again. But the point is they have both
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: sets of tag team titles on single Stars at the moment,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: and for all this nonsense about how they want to
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: sign new teams because the division is basically dead, Yeah,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: they want to sign new teams. Gee, if only they
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: didn't get rid of a bunch of teams. Did they
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: not just get rid of the MotorCity machine guns? Did
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: they not just squash Los Garza unnecessarily in an Obafemi
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Open challenge a couple of weeks ago. They lost the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: New Day. Now that wasn't their choice, but they did
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: go to them and say, hey, we want to cut
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: your pay, and they were like, fuck, you were leaving
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: good on them, So they lost the New Day. But
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: I just I'm sorry, I can't believe it until I
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: actually see this in practice and I see some real
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: effort on these television shows put into their tag team division.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: I just read stuff like this and I just sort
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: of keep scrolling because to me, it's all nonsense. They
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: don't care about tag team wrestling. It's not a priority
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: for them. They don't think it makes them any money.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: And that's just it's to sad reality of it. Yeah,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: we've gone through periods in this company over the years
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: where they have put effort into the tag team division,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: and there have been some great eras of tag team wrestling.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Of course, the Golden Age you want to go back
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: fucking forty years, but you don't have to go back
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: that far. You can go back to late nineties, early
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: two thousands, early two thousands, they had like a tag
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: team renaissance in this company, and it was great. But
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: they don't look at it that way anymore. Bringing in
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Enzo Amore in Big Cast is not going to change that.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: It's not It's not going to change anything. We're gonna
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: be sitting here in six months talking about the same
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: exact fucking thing until they finally wise up and they
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: merge the men's tag team titles back into one, because
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: there is absolutely zero need to have two sets of
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: belts right now. Zero. Vladimir the WWE Superfan, really wrestling superfan,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: is in the hospital. This according to Mike Johnson, who
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: is one of his best friends. Mike Johnson a PW Insider.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: He was asked to pass along the following information to
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: all of his readers on PW Insider the other day
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: by Vlad's sister. So, if Lad's been battling Parkinson's disease
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: over the last several years and one of the byproducts
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: of the disease is terrible balance issues. This past week,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: vlad was walking with his sister when he suddenly fell,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: striking his head on the concrete. He suffered a major
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: concussion and there was concern about bleeding on the brain,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: but we are told that he is believed to be
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: out of imminent danger when it came to that bleeding.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: Vlad will, however, remained hospitalized in NYC for some time
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: to come. There is no timetable for his release. Vlad's
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: sister gave me permission to pass along the words so
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: that she can ask everyone to please keep him in
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: your thoughts and prayers as he recovers. I hate hearing
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: that of Vlad's a super dude. I've had the chance
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: to meet him a few times. The last time, I'm
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: pretty sure was around the corner from Terminal five in
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: Manhattan when House of Glory did a show there a
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: few years ago. Even then he was getting around with
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: I forget if it was a cane or a walker.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: I want to say he had a walker, but always
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: with a smile on his face. Every major wrestling event
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: of my childhood and a lot of them from my adulthood,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: Vlad was there. You could spot him. If not in
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: the front row, he was in the first few rows.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: WWE named him its first ever certified superfan in twenty
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: twenty one, and He was the subject of a short
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: WWE documentary called super Fan The Story of Vladimir, which
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: was released on Peacock a few years ago, and then
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: it was pulled for no reason whatsoever, no reason that
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: we were ever told. It was considered lost media basically
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: until this week when all of a sudden, after this
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: story came out, wouldn't you know, it popped up on
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: the WWE Vault channel on YouTube, which I would encourage
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: all of you to rip it off YouTube and downloaded,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: so in case they pull it again, it won't be
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: lost media anymore. At least we'll have copies of it.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: But right now it is on the Vault channel on YouTube.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: It's good to see it back up. It is well
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: worth thirty seven minutes of your time. It's not that long,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: but it's very, very good. All the best of lad
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: and here is hoping for a speedy recovery. And this
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: was sad to hear and quite shocking actually, the death
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: of Kyle Busch, the winningest driver in NASCAR history, the
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: age of forty one, on Thursday. He died after being
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: hospitalized earlier that same day with what was said to
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: be a severe illness. Three days before he was to
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: have competed at the Coca Cola six hundred rays. I
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: think he had just want to race the week prior.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: The family was told it was a case of severe
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: pneumonia that progressed into sepsis. It was just that quick,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: and he has survived by his wife and two children.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: He last posted on Instagram wishing his son a happy
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: birthday and what a terrible thing to have to associate
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: now every year with your birthday. But the news comes
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: eleven days after Bush radioed his crew near the end
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: of a race at Watkins Glen asking for medical attention
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: after he finished the race. According to the TV announcers,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Bush had been struggling with a sinus cold that was
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: exacerbated by the intense g forces and elevation changes at
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: the course. He was sick then, and he raced right
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: through it, something that was treatable. That makes it even sadder.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: But where wrestling ties into this is many years ago.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: Bush served as a guest host for Monday Night Raw
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: during the infamous guest host era of the show. He
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and another racer, Joey Logano. They co hosted the October
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, two thousand and nine episode of Monday Night Raw.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: They were out in the parking lot doing burnouts and
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: doughnuts back there before they drove into the arena. Flash
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: forward ten years he was back on Raw, this time
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: with Michael Waltrip, and he pinned Our Truth to win
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: the twenty four to seven title, which he lost back
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: to Truth later on that same night. But he is
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: officially recognized as a champion in WWE history. But a
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: very sad story. I remember all the attention that the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: death of Dale Earnhart got and this is the closest
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: thing to that that I can think of in terms
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: of Nascar. But we'll end there nice and nice and
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: short because we got to get ready for Double or Nothing,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: which the pre show is kicking off in just a
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: few hours, about six hours or so, five hours actually,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: So I want to thank you for tuning in this week.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: Got you covered, I think as far as all the
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: key stuff goes a little programming note. So tonight I
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: am going live on YouTube. It will be I'm sure,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: very very late, but when Double or Nothing is over,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: you can join me over on the YouTube channel for
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: the full review. I will be live this week, I believe,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: for all the usual reviews we got Raw Monday night.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: The post show Tuesday will be a brand new episode
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Tuesday night will be Tuesday
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Night Titans. Wednesday is the post double or Nothing episode
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: of Dynamite, so we'll have that post show, and then
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Friday night we have SmackDown. Which where is smack SmackDown
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: in It'll no, it's not in Italy. They're in Barcelona.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: I believe Smack then I believe on Friday is in Barcelona.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: I will have to see if the stream will be
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: any earlier. It might not be. It might not be,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: just because the back rooms is out on Friday, and
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: I am definitely gonna want to see that during the day,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: maybe later in the afternoons. So let's just assume it'll
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: be a normal SmackDown review. Maybe I go live a
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: couple of hours earlier, but I'll keep you guys posting on.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to the back rooms on Friday.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: Follow me on Letterbox by the way, I'm on there
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: now at the Solemn Monster. But next weekend is Clash
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: in Italy. They're doing a fucking pl on a Sunday
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: at two o'clock Eastern in the afternoon, which really fucks
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: me is as far as the SoundOff goes. So the
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: plan is, I'm gonna have to do the show a
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: day early. Plus we got the big Triple A show
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: that night, so I may not be able to talk
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: about that, but I'm probably gonna record the sound off
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: a day early, so watch for that to come out
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: later on Saturday. It'll be an earlier sound off by
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: about a day. That'll be episode nine sixty five. Just
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, right,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have any time to get one out
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Plus i'll be live after Clash in Italy anyway,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: so that'll be wreaking some havoc with the schedule next weekend,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: but you'll still get a sound off. I still got
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: you covered, don't worry about that. But that's what I
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: got for you. So until then, be well, stay safe,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: have yourselves a great rest of your holiday weekend. For
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: those of you celebrating the Memorial Day weekend, I hope
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: you have better weather than we have here in New
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: York and I will see you later on tonight after
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: double or Nothing for the full recap on YouTube. Until then,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: take care guys. The Solemn Monster sounds off backstage Phraxium
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: and the MotorCity machine Guns. Holy shit, they live. So
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: they're walking along backstage and Candice Larray approaches that. She said,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: look at what happened to Johnny, and we see Johnny Gargano.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: He is lying face down on top of a box
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: that has marked NXT. I want you to imagine flying
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: all the way to work and you get there and
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: you find out, Okay, boss, what am I doing tonight?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: And your job after flying all the way in here
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: is to lay face down on top of a box
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: for two minutes and say nothing. I don't even think
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: he'd blinks. He looked catatonic as he was laying there.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's all he did on this show.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: That was his only task, to fly into work and
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: lay on top of a box. I mean, look, I
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: guess it's not bad work if you can get it.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: The Solo Monster sounds off, bringing you the good, the bad,
• 1:34:47
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• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: I love you so young,