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Sound Off 926 - Chris Jericho POSSIBLE WWE RETURN And Hulk Hogan Death Takes A DARK TURN · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 1: the first NXT Takeover show from Brooklyn. I was there
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  Speaker 1: for that one where Bailey beat Sasha Banks to win
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  Speaker 1: the NXT Women's Championship. Still my favorite women's match of
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  Speaker 1: all time for me. It's in that ninety two rumble
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  Speaker 1: category where there may technically be better matches, but it
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  Speaker 1: just will never be topped, just from the story going
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  Speaker 1: into it, to the match itself, to how influential that
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  Speaker 1: match has become, you know. Indy Hartwell has said that
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  Speaker 1: she signed up for wrestling school the day after watching
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  Speaker 1: that match, like that's the match that made her want
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  Speaker 1: to become a pro wrestler. Billy Starks has said that
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  Speaker 1: she watched that match and thought, hey, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do one day. And I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 1: others who are wrestling right now that may not be
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  Speaker 1: were it not for that match that was ten years
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  Speaker 1: ago this week and now Sasha has got nine belts
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  Speaker 1: and Bailey is talking to the voices in her head.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode nine to twenty six of These Solemn Monsters,
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  Speaker 1: sounds up for Saturday, August twenty third, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: a day early but never a dollar short. Aw has
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  Speaker 1: forbidden door tomorrow afternoon. They are encroaching on my territory.
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  Speaker 1: So we're doing this a day early, as we will
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  Speaker 1: again next weekend because next Sunday is Clash from Paris,
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  Speaker 1: and I will have predictions for clashrom Paris on the
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  Speaker 1: show today and Forbidden Door as well. There's been a
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  Speaker 1: few changes, and I've got a medical update as well
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  Speaker 1: on will Osprey, as well as news on Chris Jericho
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  Speaker 1: potentially returning to WWE. The WWE ESPN deal is taking
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  Speaker 1: effect a lot earlier than originally expected. I'll get into that,
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  Speaker 1: and the story around Hulk Hogan's death just took a
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  Speaker 1: very dark turn this week. Be aware that the Raw
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  Speaker 1: Post shows for the next couple of weeks are going
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Having just announced their new media rights deal
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  Speaker 1: WWE at ESPN went and decided, you know what, why
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  Speaker 1: That was the big news this week. Not only did
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  Speaker 1: the Peacock era is coming to an end with Clash
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  Speaker 1: in Paris at the end of this month. At least
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: when it comes to main roster pls. Nxtpl's will continue
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  Speaker 1: airing on Peacock as planned. That's through March of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. In fact, that NXT has one airing tomorrow
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: night heat Wave. You notice how they don't even brand
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  Speaker 1: them as NXT events anymore, It's just WWE now WWE
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  Speaker 1: heat So this means that all main roster pls will
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  Speaker 1: be airing in the US exclusively on ESPN's new direct
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  Speaker 1: to consumer service, starting with a brand new ple being
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  Speaker 1: added to the schedule on Saturday, September twentieth, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be running opposite aw all Out. This was just
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  Speaker 1: a rumor last week, but it's all confirmed now. It
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  Speaker 1: will be WWE wressel Palooza kicking off the ESPN era,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: so the wrestle votes report proved to be accurate. Wressel
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  Speaker 1: Palooza was the name of an old ECW pay per
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  Speaker 1: view that ran from nineteen ninety five to two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: which plays off the name of the popular Lallapalooza music
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  Speaker 1: festival that started in nineteen ninety one and runs out
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago to this very day. In fact, it just
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  Speaker 1: concluded a few weeks ago. And yes, to those who
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  Speaker 1: have asked, it was also the name of the wrestling
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  Speaker 1: event where Bud Bundy had to wrestle King Kong Bundy
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  Speaker 1: to get in to get initiated into the no Oh
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  Speaker 1: Ma'am group on an episode of Married with Children. That
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  Speaker 1: episode actually aired in October of nineteen ninety five, the
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  Speaker 1: first ECW Wrestle Polouse. It took place in August of
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  Speaker 1: that year. If you want to be technical about it,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: ECW did it first, but look, it could always be worse.
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  Speaker 1: They could do a show called Great Balls of Fire.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know that would never happen, right, because
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  Speaker 1: that would be awful. Why the wrestle poll loose a name,
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  Speaker 1: especially when there was an independent promotion that was using
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  Speaker 1: the name and had trademarked it for the last decade.
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  Speaker 1: Why go through the hassle, Why go through the trouble
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  Speaker 1: of buying it away from them? Well, Tony Kahan is
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  Speaker 1: an admitted mark for the old ECW, and they're running
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  Speaker 1: this show directly opposite the all out pay per views,
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  Speaker 1: so it sure feels like someone in Stanford thought, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's drive the knife even deeper and use an old
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  Speaker 1: ECW name just to rub salt in the wound, because
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  Speaker 1: wwe would never be that petty. I mean, come on now,
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  Speaker 1: right they wouldn't be that petty, would they Na? Never,
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  Speaker 1: of course not. So The show will take place at
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  Speaker 1: McAfee will be there at least for one night, you know, him,
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  Speaker 1: being an indie guy in all not that kind of
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  Speaker 1: indie guy, but you know what I mean. ESPN will
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  Speaker 1: also carry the two remaining pls for the year after that,
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  Speaker 1: which are Crown Jewel in October and Survivor Series in November.
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  Speaker 1: If you live outside the US, nothing changes for you.
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  Speaker 1: The shows will continue to air on Netflix internationally, so
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about any of this. ESPN
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  Speaker 1: did not buy out Peacock's remaining rights. What happened is
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  Speaker 1: WWE worked things out with Peacock and then brought it
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  Speaker 1: to ESPN for approval because WWE felt that by splitting
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania and SummerSlam into two nights over the last few
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  Speaker 1: years and then adding the Evolution Show last month, that
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  Speaker 1: they had already fulfilled their commitment to Peacock for whatever
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  Speaker 1: the number of shows was that they were contracted for.
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  Speaker 1: And that's very interesting that that would seem to imply
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  Speaker 1: that they only added the Evolution Show because they knew
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  Speaker 1: that this deal with ESPN was in the works. So
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  Speaker 1: by adding it, and you know, adding it the same
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  Speaker 1: weekend as aw all in that was just a little
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  Speaker 1: added bonus for them. But by adding that show to
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  Speaker 1: the calendar, they were able to speed things up so
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  Speaker 1: they could get the hell off Peacock that much quicker,
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  Speaker 1: which is very interesting. I mean, look, there's any number
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  Speaker 1: of reasons that you could look at for why they
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  Speaker 1: did Evolution after not doing another one for seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight years. But anybody who thinks that they just decided, Hey,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: you know what, we really got to do another Evolution
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  Speaker 1: show now, because boy, the women are killing it and
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  Speaker 1: we just got to do one of these. Like I'm
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: always looking for some ulterior motive, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: just found it. I think we just found what the
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  Speaker 1: ulterior motive was for them doing that show when they did.
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  Speaker 1: But as part of the deal that WWE worked out
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  Speaker 1: with them, Peacock will be getting new main roster programming,
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  Speaker 1: details of which will be revealed soon. Right now, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that means, so, I mean, that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound like documentaries right if they're talking about main roster programming.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the last thing we need is more shows,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm curious what that ends up being. Now. For
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  Speaker 1: his part on the Forbidden Door media call on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kahn was asked about WWE running so many shows
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  Speaker 1: head to head with AW and he gave a very smart,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: very disciplined answer by not even addressing them and instead
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  Speaker 1: saying that their focus is on aew and continuing what
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: he called their excellent year in twenty twenty five, and again,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: whether you agree with that statement or not is completely irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was exactly the answer that he should
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  Speaker 1: have given. That's all he needs to do is just
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  Speaker 1: focus on AAW and making it the best that it
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  Speaker 1: can possibly be. And when asked about what Mark Shapiro
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  Speaker 1: of TKO said that paper was dead the dead business,
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  Speaker 1: Tony said their pay per views this year have been
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  Speaker 1: successful and that he's looking forward to adding them to
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  Speaker 1: HBO Max. That they've been talking about AW pay per
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  Speaker 1: views on HBO Max for almost a year now and
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  Speaker 1: they have provided no updates on where things are as
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  Speaker 1: far as that's concerned. I have no idea what is
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  Speaker 1: taking so long or why it would be so difficult
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  Speaker 1: for Warner to have the infrastructure in place by now
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  Speaker 1: to support this. That's something, and that's not even a
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kahn issue or an AW issue. They're basically at
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  Speaker 1: the mercy of Warner Brothers Discovery in HBO Max. Once
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  Speaker 1: they get their shit together, you know, they can shift
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  Speaker 1: their pay per views over to HBO Max. But we've
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing new, and it's been almost a year, but
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  Speaker 1: WWE is going to load up that Wrestle Paloza show.
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  Speaker 1: You know, brock Lesner is likely going to wrestle his
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  Speaker 1: first match back on that show against John Cena. He's
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  Speaker 1: already been scheduled for SmackDown on September twelfth, September nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: That leads right into the show on September twentieth. I'm
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: thinking Cody Rhodes defends of the WWE Championship that night
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  Speaker 1: against Drew McIntyre. All Out, we'll probably have Copeland and
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Christian challenging for the AW tag team titles. I could
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: see John Moxley against Darby Allen. We don't know what
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  Speaker 1: Hangman Page or MJF are going to be doing. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the card is anyone's guess. But All
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  Speaker 1: Out is typically one of their bigger shows of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure that Tony will load it up. Regardless,
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  Speaker 1: it will be the better wrestling show of the night,
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  Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that. But WWE is not
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  Speaker 1: trying to out wrestle AW They're not trying to have
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  Speaker 1: the better matches that night. I mean, if they do,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, but that they're not doing it to dominate,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the the wrestling ratings, you know the star ratings.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing it to dominate the conversation and steal all
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  Speaker 1: the headlines and around brock Lesner's first match back alone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for better or worse, they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: stealing all the headlines that we cand. What I'll be
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  Speaker 1: doing that night, I haven't decided yet. You know, Head
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  Speaker 1: to Head is going to screw up my recording schedule
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  Speaker 1: that weekend regardless, but I'm going to review the show
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  Speaker 1: live that I think more people are going to be
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  Speaker 1: tuning in for. You know, let's see how the cards
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  Speaker 1: shape up first, and then we'll decide. I did put
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: an early poll up on Twitter to gauge people's interest
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  Speaker 1: without knowing the cards yet, still very early, but just
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  Speaker 1: to gauge their interest on which show they plan on
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  Speaker 1: watching live that night, and Wrestle Palooza won the vote
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight percent to forty two percent, and that's with
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  Speaker 1: over thirty two hundred votes in So that's a clear
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  Speaker 1: win for WWE, but not exactly a landslide. So let's
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: see how the cards shape up. I mean, I don't
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: even have free access to the ESPN service since they
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: decided to launch this shit early. They still have no
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: agreement with YouTube TV, so I may have to use
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: my trustee Express VPN and watch it on Netflix until
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: they do. I mean, yeah, look, I could pay the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: twenty nine ninety nine a month, you know, until they
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: reach an agreement. It's not that big of a deal,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: but it's the principle of it, like just knowing that
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: most people are probably watching this shit for free, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because they have ESPN and they have a service that
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: offers ESPN, so then you can get the service for free.
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  Speaker 1: And just knowing that most people are watching this shit
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  Speaker 1: for free. And I have to pay thirty bucks to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: watch Brocklesner against John Cena, I feel like I'm being punished.
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  Speaker 1: Do I want to spend thirty bucks to watch John
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  Speaker 1: Cena against brock Lesner. Yeah, I don't know about that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Now, that wasn't the only
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: news to come out of this. If you think WWE
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: is getting out of the Peacock business and Peacock is
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: getting out of the WWE business, think again. This week,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the two sides announced a multi year partnership to become
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the exclusive streaming home for Saturday Night's main event, which
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: will air live on Peacock four times a year through
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I believe twenty nine, which is when the NBC Universal
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: deal for SmackDown expires, and even though there's already been
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  Speaker 1: three of them this year. We had a Saturday Night's
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: made of it in January, we had one in May,
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  Speaker 1: we had one in July, so you would think there's
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: only one left, but despite that, there are two more,
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  Speaker 1: with the first one taking place on November first from
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah, and the second one and final
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: one of the year, taking place on December thirteenth, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that will likely be in Boston. That will be the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: night of john Sen's retirement match. I don't think they've
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: confirmed Boston yet as the location, but they have confirmed
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: in the press release that will be john Sen's final match.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: No one is happier to hear that news than Tony
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  Speaker 1: Kahan because World's End is spared. There was talk of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: them maybe doing the show on December twenty seventh, which
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: is the night of aw World's End on pay per views,
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  Speaker 1: So Tony is relieved right now. Bill Goldberg, on the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: other hand, he may be throwing furniture around somewhere. I'm
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: probably injuring himself that John Cena will get to do
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  Speaker 1: his retirement on Peacock with no commercials like he had
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: on NBC. And that's why I really liked that decision.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, does it lose a little bit of luster
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: by not airing live on NBC, Sure, But if it
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: means fewer commercials and ad breaks mid match, that instantly
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: makes the show better. So I'm fine with that. But
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it also shows that NBC was not exactly thrilled with
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: how the shows were performing, because if they were, there's
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: no way that they would have taken them off NBC,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: at least not for John Cena's retirement match. You know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: at least for that one, they would at least be
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: simulcasting that shit, and they're not, and I think that's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: very telling. And also, you know, since they're losing the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: main roster plees, you know, they want to do what
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they can to keep people subscribed to Peacock. So how
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: do you do that. You've got to offer them something
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: exclusive that they can't get anywhere else, you know, by
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: making the Saturday night's main event shows exclusive to Peacock.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It's smart, and it also means that I have to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: keep the cock now. So well played, WWE, well played.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So all of this is a lot to take in.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of This is a flurry, a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: hurricane of news coming fast and furious these past few weeks,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: so it can be a lot to digest. The WWE
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: archives are something I've been asked a lot about this week.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I've been curious about it myself, but there are a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: lot of people that don't know what's going on, so
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they've been asking me. The classic content will continue to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: be available on Peacock through the end of this year,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and unless they strike a deal with Peacock or someone
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: else for the rights to the library, that means that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: as of January first, there are no more archives. They
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: will no longer have a home. They're going to be
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: disappearing three months earlier than expected. Now. I'm sure they're
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: going to work something out before then, maybe it'll migrate
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: over to ESPN, But if they don't make a deal
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: by then, we will no longer have access to that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: content until they do, outside of whatever they upload the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: WWE Vault on YouTube, and honestly, I've been spending most
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of my time on there anyway. When it comes to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the classic stuff, I love the vault. If they want
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to add more content to the Vault, I'm all in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: favor of it. But they still need to have that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: one central location where you can navigate through full episodes
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of whatever it is that you're looking for, And you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: can kind of do that with the playlists that they
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: put together on the Vault channel, but it's not the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: same thing, you know, It's not the same layout as
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: what the WWE network was or what Peacock is, or
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what it would be on Netflix. So hopefully they will
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: land somewhere where they can store all of that, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: not just store all of it, but continue uploading new content.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: The know the reasons that they slowed down on doing that,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and they really don't update a lot of classic stuff
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: anymore on there is because the audience just isn't there
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: for it. But I hope that they at least for
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the people who are interested in that content, that they
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: will start uploading more stuff. It's not like everything's on PEAKID.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: There's a lot that's missing and that they just sort
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: of stopped, and they need to pick up with that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: But I think they also need to just do a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: better job of advertising that it's available, and they don't
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: do that because they just assume nobody's going to care.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: But if they at least put a little more effort
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: into advertising the fact that, hey, you know, guess what,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: we've got this entire library of stuff. Here's some highlights
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of you know what happened this week twenty five years ago,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: thirty five years ago. And you know, little almost like
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: little bumpers coming in and out of commercial breaks on
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: some of the shows. You know, that might go a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: long way. You know, it's sort of like out of sight,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: out of mind, and especially with newer fans, they may
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: not even know that this stuff is there or be
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: given a reason to care about it. So I'd like
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to see them ratchet, you know, that up when when
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the content moves to wherever it's going to move to.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But my fear is that it's just not important to them,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you know. The real estate on television is just it's
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: too important for them to waste it on promoting the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: fact that you can get old episodes of primetime wrestling
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty eight. And I get it, I understand it,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but I just wish it wasn't like that. The mystery
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of what's going on with Naomi is a mystery no more.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Adam Pearce introduced her out to the ring on Raw
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Monday Night to announced that she and Jimmy Usso are
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: having a baby. Baby USO is on the way. Actually,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they announced it together on a bonus episode of Stephanie
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: McMahon's podcast, since the pod that they did together the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: week before was actually taped before SummerSlam, before she even
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: knew that she was pregnant, and after the announcement was
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: made on Monday night, she immediately went back into heal
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Naomi mode and cut a promo on Adam Pearce, telling
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: him that she knows what it's like to surrender a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: title and hand over a title before and she wasn't
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: handing him shit, told him to get out of her face,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and then she put the entire women's division on notice
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that they have nine months and some change to hold
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the title before she takes it back. As far as
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: announcements like this go, like an injury where somebody has
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to give up their title, this was one of the best.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: This was the highlight of the show. Now, obviously the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: timing of this is terrible career wise for her because
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: she was just starting her run as champion and really
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: settling in nicely in the heel role. There was a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: void in that spot after liv Morgan got hurt, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Naomi moved right into that spot pretty seamlessly. Now she
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and Live are both gone, which presents an opportunity for
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: somebody else. But look, you can't predict when these things
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: are going to happen. You know, She's obviously very happy,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: but you could tell from her demeanor on Stephanie's podcast,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: she's still struggling with the timing of it, like it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a bittersweet thing for her. She told Stephanie that she
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: found out she was pregnant on August tenth, the day
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: before she was slated to defend her title on Ragin's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: EO Sky. She said, in my hotel room, I had
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: been feeling a little bit different, a little weird. Just
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: wanted to take a test to find out and make sure,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: kind of rule it out, not thinking because it's been
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a long journey with fertility issues that I've had, so yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I really just didn't think it was possible. And she
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: revealed that before she made her debut on the main
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: roster as a funk dactyl, she underwent a procedure called
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: an oh aphrectomy where she had her right overy removed,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty, she underwent a procedure to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: remove fibroids from her uterus. She said, I had tons
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and big ones and it was only supposed to be
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a couple of hours the surgery, but she ended up
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: being in there for six hours. Then she had to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: take six months off to recover. Her last match. From
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: what I can tell, her last match was in August
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of that year, which was a beat the clock match
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: against Bailey, and then we didn't see her again until
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. As she figured due to her medical history,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the chances of her and Jimmy conceiving a child naturally
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: were just not that high. She said the sir was
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: more intense and severe than they thought it was initially,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and just the healing and also a lot of scar tissue.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: On top of being older, I'm thirty seven now, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: on top of only having one ovary, we thought for
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: sure that naturally I just couldn't anymore. And she also
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: said her pregnancy is considered high risk, so she'll be
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: going for checkups more often, but so far everything is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: looking good, which is great to hear. Well. I mean, look,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the other women have Jimmy Big Jim to thank now
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: for eliminating some of their competition. She said that she's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: seven weeks pregnant, which means that when she cashed in
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: her money in the bank to win the world title,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: she was with child, which makes her the first money
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in the bank winner to do so, if there is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a category for such a thing, if not there is
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: now they didn't announce anything as far as the Women's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Championship goes, but with one raw left before clash in Paris,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to make a decision tomorrow or
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: not tomorrow. But I'm month so used to doing these
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: shows on Sunday, They're gonna have to make a decision
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: on Monday. And I still maintained the easiest thing to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: do and the most sensible idea is to make a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: match between EO Sky and Stephanie Vcaire because Eo was
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: supposed to get a title match with Naomi, which never happened.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Right that's when she found out she was pregnant. The
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: match got called off. Stephanie won a Battle Royal and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Evolution to earn a championship match. Turning it into a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: multi person match would not be very fair to Stephanie, now,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: would it. Right, she earned a match against the champion
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: EO is owed a match. Just do EO Sky against
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Stephanie Vicaire for the vacant title. That's all you really
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: need to do. Now. They could add Roxane Perez to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the match if they want to, because Roxanne could argue
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: she pinned EO two weeks ago, which she did. That
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: was the replacement match for EO against Naomi. They did
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: EO against Roxane and ro Sam pinned EO Sky, something
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that rear Ripley has never been able to do. So
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you could make it a triple threat. You could have
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: EO pin Roxand to get her win back, and that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: also spares them from having to pin Stephanie because even
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: if they do EO against Stephanie, I would have EO
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: win the title back like Stephanie Vecer getting pinned in
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a competitive match by EO Sky not a big deal.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying if they turn it into a triple
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: threat or a fatal four way or something like that,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: you could then spare Stephanie from having to take the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: pin if that matters. If that's a big deal. But
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I just think it's way too soon to belt up Stephanie.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: She's barely even been on the show since evolution. She's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: almost been forgotten about just put the belt back on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Eo until Perth in October. And in Perth, Ria Ripley
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: finally beats Eo Sky for the first time and she
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: wins back the Women's World Championship. She runs with it
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: for a few months until they're ready to do Rhea
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: against Stephanie next year. Maybe at WrestleMania, Stephanie wins the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: championship from Ria Ripley. That'll be a big, big win
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for her. That's it, that's really all you have to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: do and live. Morgan is probably going to be back,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I would imagine in time for the Royal Rumble, probably
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the beginning of next year. It doesn't need to be
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: for the championship. You can go into a program or
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a story with her and Roxanne that would be a solid,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: sort of underneath story that doesn't really need the championship
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: so as far as like the key players are concerned,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And that doesn't even include whatever Becky Lynch is going
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to be doing. That accounts for most of the key
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: players on the Ross side. And that takes you right
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: into WrestleMania season, and that leads nicely into my clash
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: in Paris. Predictions for next Sunday with a two pm
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Eastern start time, and just like Forbidden Door, tomorrow, my
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: plan is to go live at eight pm that night.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I think that'll work well tomorrow, and if it does,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: we'll do the same thing for Clash in Paris next weekend,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and then we'll push the podcast out a day early.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I have not seen any attendance numbers for this show.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Is an indoor arena, but it fits a big one.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It fits up to forty five thousand people for concerts.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: For a show like this, it's probably more like thirty
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to thirty five thousand, which is still a lot of people.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: But there was a note in the Observer this week
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that tickets have not been selling that well because they
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: completely priced themselves out of the market with their most
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: expensive seats. People are not buying them up like they
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: expected them to. And look, they're still going to have
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of people there and it should be very loud,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: but it definitely will not be sold out, which can
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: only mean one thing. Ari Emanuel is on the phone
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: as we speak to Dwayne. Dwayne, we need you, we
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: need you, We need you to come snatch up some souls.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: So the card right now is incomplete. This is pending
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: their decision on the Women's World title situation and what
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: other matches they might add. They have a few possibilities,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Cody Roads against Drew McIntyre for the WWE title being
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the most obvious one, but that's feels like a wrestle
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Palouza match to me. Plus Cody miss SmackDown again this week,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: so there's not enough time to set that up for
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Paris anyway. Maybe Becky Lynch on that show defends her
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title against Nikki Bella. Maybe Dominic Mysterio defends his
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Intercontinental title against aj Styles. Sammy's ain we know is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: getting a US title match against Solo Socoa in Leon,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: France on SmackDown next week, so that will not be
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: on the ple. But here's what the card looks like
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: as of right now. Seamus and Russev, they have been
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: fighting like cats and dogs for weeks now, they're both
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: even at one win apiece and now they're actually getting
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a pl spot. The only other ple match that Seamus
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: has been a part of all year was the Royal Rumble,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and if you can believe it, this will mark his
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: first singles match on a ple in three years. You
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: would have to go all the way back to Clash
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: at the Castle in twenty twenty two when he challenged
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Gunther for the Intercontinental title. That was the last time.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Outside of that. It's been all tags and triple threats
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and war games matches, and not even that many of them.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But this time it'll be a good old fashioned Donnie
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Brook match, which is basically anything goes, but with barrels
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: at ringside. I mean, maybe they can play him out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to the ring to roll out the barrel. It would
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: still be better than that garbage that Deaf Rebel gave him.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I think Seamus wins this. He's one and one in
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Donny Brook matches so far. He lost one to Drew
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: MacIntyre and he beat Pete Dunn in the other, but
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: this is his specialty. I think the Babyface wins this,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: So I'm going with Seamus again. The Women's World Championship
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: will be decided on this show. How exactly we don't know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: but so long as eo Sky is in the match,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I'm picking Eosky to win the belt back. I know
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: she's got her own story going on right now with
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Rheo Ripley and the Kabuki Warriors. It's probably building to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: a tag team match. If they put the title on Stephanie,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I just think it's too soon
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to do that. If they put the title on Roxanne,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: because apparently they're very, very high on Roxand, I would
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: not hate it, but I really don't think she needs it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: When Live Morgan comes back, EO Sky is the way
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to go. She is your next women's World champion. Roman
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Rains returned on Raw Monday Night. He came to the
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: aid of Jay Usso in his Extreme Rules match against
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: bron Breaker. He challenged Bronson reed to a match in Paris.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Reid accepted, and he promised to steal roman shoes again.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I don't see Roman reiins losing to Bronson Reid. Bron Breaker, sure, maybe,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: but not Bronson Reid because he remember, he is Roman.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: That is likely disappearing again after this match because he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: scheduled to go film for Street Fighter all of next
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: month through the twenty sixth, I believe is what p
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: W Insider was reporting. So, I mean, if he's going away,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you could destroy him first, even if you don't beat him.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I still don't think he's gonna lose, But you could
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: do an angle after the match, where you know, you
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: kind of destroy him and send him on his way.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: The thing is, though, like he just got destroyed. He's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: already coming off of an angle where he got destroyed
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and he was gone for a few weeks. Yeah, granted
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it was all of two weeks, but they already did
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: an angle like that. I don't know if they want
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to do another one again so soon after the last one.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's going to be on
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: RAW that Monday. He starts filming on September second. I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: believe that's the day after Raw, and they're filming in Australia,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: so he may not even be there. I mean, that
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: clash in Paris match may be it for him for
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the next month. But I'm going with Roman Reigns to win.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: John Cena goes one on one with Logan Paul. This
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: is not a match that I have been terribly excited about.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Although Logan Paul was the MVP of that tag team match,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the celebrity match at Summer Salam with you know, Jelly Roll,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and he's had some great matches absolutely and given credit
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: for the for the matches that he has. He goes
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: out there, and more often than not he tries to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: steal the show, and a lot of times he does
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: so him against John Cena. In many ways, he's a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: really good opponent for John Cena because whatever John Cena
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: can't do, Logan Paul can, and Logan Paul can, you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: bump all over the place for him and do all
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff that John Cena can react to. But
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: John Sen is not going to be the one doing
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: all these dazzling, you know, show stealing moves here. So
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in that regard, I think he's a good opponent for him,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: but I can't say that this match had to be
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: terribly excited. And then we got to smack Down on
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Friday Night and John Cena was back, and John Cena
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was on SmackDown in Dublin, Ireland, and he didn't even
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: get a word out before Logan Paul crashed the party
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and Logan Paul cut a promo on John Cena, and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it was fine, It was a perfectly fine promo. But
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: then John Cena got to retort and he took the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: microphone and for the next five minutes straight he cut
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: what was easily one of the best promos of this
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: entire retirement run so far, it is something that is
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: worth going out of your way to watch the whole
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: thing in full. I cannot say that he buried Logan Paul.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, in some ways he did, but this was
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: not a promo where he buried Logan Paul. He put
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the man over for his abilities. He was careful at
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the beginning of this to put him over and call
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: him a future WWE champion, a future WrestleMania main inventor.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: And he's looking at the fans and going, guys, I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: know you don't like it, I know you don't want
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to hear it. But he's not going nowhere. We're not
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: going to get rid of him. You know, he's here
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to stay, and he's actually really really good. But then
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: from there he went the opposite way, and he focused
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on the criticisms that a lot of fans have about him,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and a lot of the things the fans don't like
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: about him, and how disrespectful he can be. And now
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they're kind of playing it up for the story about
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: how disrespectful he can be and all, you're only here
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of us and use us, and he's
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: showing us the prime hydration station at ringside and talking
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: about his drone and you're here for moments and all
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: this other stuff. But there's a lot of truth to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: what he's saying. And even if there isn't a lot
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of truth, there's a lot of fans who believe a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: lot of what he was saying here in this promo,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and he's tapping into all these different criticisms, but he
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: did it in a way where it was some of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the best work I've seen from him on the mic
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: all year. Like when Sena is on, he is untouchable,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he really And we've seen that before, right, We saw
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that in the promo years ago with Roman Reigns the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Big Dog, where he just eviscerated him and embarrassed him
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: on the micro. Like one of the most embarrassing moments
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: ever in a promo segment like that that I can remember,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: especially with like two Top Guys, was when Roman lost
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: his train of thought in that promo and Scena literally
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: is just kind of leaning back up against the ropes
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and he just goes, take your time, take your time.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And he said some other stuff as well, but that
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: he hit him with that line you know there at
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the end about how you know I came back because
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you can't do your job. He'll always get like, at
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: least that one line in there that just burns the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: other person to the ground. And Austin theory, you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a few years ago, forget about it. That was just
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: a complete burial job, and Austin Theory was never the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: same after that. So this wasn't quite that bad. This
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't as biting as that was. But even here, you know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he's going on about how, you know, these fans resent
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you because you've you know, wasted part of what little
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: time I have left here in this retirement run, where
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I could be working with like future legends and stars
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: like Dominic Mysterio and aj Styles and Seth Rollins and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Jacob Fought too, and so you know, the fans don't
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: appreciate the fact that I'm wasting my time with you, you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: And I'm wasting my time with a backflipping YouTuber who's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: you know, pushing saltwater and just on and on and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: on and just really lacing into this guy. But he's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: all up in his face and he says, you know, look,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: clash in Paris is an opportunity for you to prove
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: yourself it's a you know, it's a it's a proving
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: ground in effect for Logan Paul. It's really nice. You
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: know that you've had twenty three wonderful matches so far
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: in your WWE career, but I've had twenty three years
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: worth of matches in my career. You've got some catching
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: up to do. And so, just from start to finish,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: top to bottom, I thought that this was just excellent stuff,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: easily the highlight of the show on Friday. And now
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: there's a story there that I can buy into. Right now,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I have a reason to actually care about this match
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: just based on what John Cena was saying in that promo.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: He was able to kind of reel me in, and
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that's what I was looking for here. They made the match,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, great, you made the match, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: like there's no real there's no real hook there, and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I felt like he gave us that hook on Friday
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: night as best as they can now. Later on in
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the show, McIntyre was in the bag, Drew McIntyre. He
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: was talking to Logan Paul and he's telling him like,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: this isn't twenty ten, this isn't Super Sena. You've got
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to show him what you can do tonight, like you've
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: got to retaliate basically for what he just did to
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you out there. And it was very interesting that McIntyre
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: was the one giving him this pep talk and saying
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: all these things about John Sena, because it felt to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: me like they're planting the seed for a future match,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: possibly between McIntyre and Sena. I don't want to say
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: McIntyre is going to be John Cena's retirement opponent, but
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I definitely think he's he's you know, under consideration for that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that Gunther and John Cena is
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the match that I would like to see. But if
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: they went with Drew McIntyre, I mean, that works too.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Or maybe the answer lies in the list of names
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: that Sena rattled off, you know, against Logan last night
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: in the ring, all those people you know that he
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: he could be wrestling instead of Logan Paul again. He
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: named Dominic Mysterio and I don't think it's gonna be
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: domb but he named AJ Styles. I would love to
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: see another John Cena AJ Styles match. Do I see
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that as his retirement match? I don't, But you know
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: who I could see Jacob Fatu. Jacob Fatu is another
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: name that he dropped, you know, and it's another baby
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Face like aj Is. I don't think that would stop
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: them from doing Babyface against baby Face and seeing his
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: retirement match. But Jacob Fatu maybe is on that short
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: list as well of potential opponents. If you were to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: ask me right now, who do I think is the favorite?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Or there's a list I don't even have, like a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: top three. I have a top two of guys who
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I would a love to see wrestle John Cena, and realistically,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I think it could be either one of them. It's
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Gunther and Drew McIntyre. I really do. I think it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: probably gonna end up being one of those two, and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: in either case, I'm okay with that. But after what
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: McIntyre said to Logan in the back, it led to
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the closing segment of the show on Friday, which was
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: nick All this rushing out. As Sena was leaving, nick
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: All this rushes over to him and says, I just
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: got off the phone with Brocklesner, and before he could
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: tell Sena whatever it is that he was going to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: tell him, Logan Paul flies in with the right hand
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and a knockout shot that missed by a good six
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: inches because this man was being very careful not to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: really punch John Cena in the jaw. Probably has that
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: jaw insured for his next movie. But I was watching
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: it on International Netflix with the VPN, so I saw
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: it live in the afternoon on Friday, and then I
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: saw that when it aired on USA later that night,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: it was it looked bad enough, and they recognized that
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: it looked bad enough from that angle that they actually
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: reshot the entire scene. And this wasn't just the same
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: scene from a different angle, like this was a completely
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: different scene. They just reshot it afterwards, this time from
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a different perspective, so it didn't look as bad. But
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: he left John Cena laying, which I think he kind
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: of had to do to get that heat back. I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: know they have one more SmackDown before clash in Paris,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: but you know, whether it was last night or whether
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: it was next week, Logan getting his heat back in
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: some way makes sense because I just don't see him
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: going over here. I've got John Cena beating Logan Paul,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and then we have seth Rollins in the main event
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: defending the world heavyweight Championship against CM Punk, La Knight
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and jay Usso. Rollins just cashed in to win the
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: title at Summerslim. No matter how hard they try to
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: sell us on his title being in jeopardy because it's
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: three other men and he doesn't have to be pinned
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to lose the championship, it's a tough sell because no
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: one sees him dropping that title here. If Punk gets
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the belt back, it won't be until WrestleMania. La Knight
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: winning the title just doesn't seem realistic anymore. And jay
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Usso shouldn't even be in this match. I don't even
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: think he's in the match to eat the pin. I
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: think that's why Night is in there. Who gets the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: next shot though, at wrestle Palooza or at Crown Jewel
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That I don't know, could be Punk again. I mean,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: it's the feud that'll never die. But one thing I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: can tell you is that Seth Rollins is walking in
• 43:14
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• 43:16
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• 43:19
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  Speaker 1: the news this week, and not because he is scheduled
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to be back soon on AW Television. He may never
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: be back on AW Television ever again, if these reports
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: are to be believed. Jericho has not been in the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: ring since losing the Ring of Honor World Championship to
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Bandido at Dynasty back in April and the following Dynamite,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: where he told Big Bill and Brian Keith that he
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: was disappointed in them and until they changed that it's
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: best that he leaves. That was the last time we
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: saw him. The real reason that he left was Twofold
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: number one. He had a Fozzy tour coming up. That
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: tour ran through the middle of May number two. It
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: was reported at the time that Jericho felt his character
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: needed a reset and it would be best to take
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: himself off TV for a while, which was absolutely needed.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy was as stale as a month
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: old loaf of bread. Now it's been four months since
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: he's been seen on TV and there's a lot of
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: chatter about his aw contract, which is due to expire
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the end of this year. Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Radio said, Jericho's actually a really big story. His contract
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: is up at the end of the year or late
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: in the year. There's certainly been lots and lots of
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: talk about WWE. I know, from a WWE standpoint, there
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: is lots of talk there about Jericho, you know, people
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: speculating royal rumble. Nobody has officially said anything, nor will
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: anyone officially say anything. So that's from Dave. Fightful followed
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: out with their own report on Wednesday that confirmed Jericho
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: is signed with AW until the end of twenty twenty five,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: so he still has many months left on his deal.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Big Bill and Brian Keith are no longer listed as
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: part of the Learning Tree. The WWE rumors started up
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: after Jericho liked an Instagram post from somebody suggesting a
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: WWE return. That's really what got all this started. And
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Jericho's very good at being able to kind of read
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the room and know how to get people to talk
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: about him, and all it took was one liked Instagram
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: post and social media just got set ablaze with all
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: kinds of rumors and conspiracy theories and fantasy booking scenarios
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: about a Royal Rumble retired and a wrestle Radia retard,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: like all these things that started really all from that
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: one thing. But the Fightful report also said that one
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: WWE higher up said Jericho is on good terms with
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the company. The boys from Wressell Votes Radio have said
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: we can confirm after speaking to our sources, that there
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: is significant interest in Chris Jericho coming back to WWE
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: once his AW contract would allow him to do so.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: We're told that several within WWE, including active talent, would
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: like to see him return. Despite spending the last six
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: years with AAW, Jericho has remained friendly with the number
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: of people inside WWE, we are told, and according to
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: that source, they ultimately do expect a deal to be
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: completed once Chris is legally able to do so. I
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: am still not convinced that this is not going to
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: end up being more of a way for Jericho to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: leverage even more money out of Tony Khan for a
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: new deal, and it would be very smart of him
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: to do so, you know, if he does want to
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: stay with AW, how do you maximize your value with
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: your deal coming up by teasing a return to WWE.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: When Randy Orton's contract was coming up for expiration in
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he used AW, which was only first starting
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: up at the time. He used AW as leverage to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: get himself a better deal and a lot more money
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: to stay with WWE. It's smart business. Jericho could well
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: be doing the same thing here right, liking a post
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: here and there, or if he starts dropping cryptic teases,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't want to leave. But we don't even
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: know for sure that Tony Kah cares enough to keep
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: him around if he's effectively going to be bidding against himself.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: You know, Jericho's an interesting case because he has done
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: so much in his career. He's reinvented himself multiple times.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: He's gone through different character transformations and has been more
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: successful than not with it. But this most recent with
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the Learning Tree stuff like it just it really felt
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: like the bloom was finally off the rows. If we're
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: being honest. It's been that way for a while now,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: even before the Learning Tree. But no one can deny
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: his importance to AW when that company was first getting
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: off the ground. I mean more than Cody Rhoades, more
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: than the Young Bucks, more than Kenny Omega. The Jericho
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: signing in twenty nineteen was Tony Kahn's most important signing
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: for that launch. He was able to sign away a
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: major name from WWE, an established name on television that
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: people knew, with a proven track record of success on
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: the national stage. It's why I said at the time
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: when it was Jericho against Hangman Page to crown the
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: first aw World champion, that Jericho was the logical choice.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Hangman was not established yet and Jericho was right put
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: the belt on Jericho. It's a face that people watching
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: on TNT would instantly recognize if they're any kind of
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: real wrestling fan. And then from there you could build
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: your new stars up, up guys like Hangman in Darby
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and MJF and Sammy Gavara. And there was value in
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Jericho forming the inner circle and surrounding himself with younger
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: talent that he could try to elevate Sammy Gavarre that
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: he benefited from it to a degree. Sammy had his
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: own issues that killed his momentum there for a while.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Jake Hager and Santana and ortize it actually got to
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a point where Santana and Ortiz they were wasting away
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: his background players to Jericho, like that stuff was going
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: on for so long and there was no upward mobility
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: for them that it was actually working against them, Like
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: how much did it really help those guys like Hagar
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: and Santana and Ortiz, like in the big picture, not much.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Then it was the Jericho Appreciation Society and they threw
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia in there, and Matt Monard and Angelo Parker,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: two guys that WWE got rid of Jericho. Threw them
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: a lifeline, two fellow Canadians. Daniel Garcia. There was potential
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: there with him and Jericho in the ROH title and
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: there was an obvious story which they teased and they
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: never explored it after the big swerve they did. You know,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: I can understand trying to get him to show more
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: personality instead of just being the great technical wrestler and saying, okay,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: you know what, instead of having him in the Blackpool
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Combat Club, will have him in the Jericho Appreciation Society,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: and he'll know he came up with that silly dance
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: that got over for a minute, but he probably should
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: have ended up in the Blackpool Combat Club with Brian Danielson.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Then came the Learning Tree, which seemed to be building
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: to a split with him and Big Bill and an
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: eventual match between the two of them, and then Jericho
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: went on hiatus, and now we're never getting that blowoff
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: with Jericho and Big Bill because even if Jericho comes back,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: it looks like the Learning Tree stuff is just over.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: If he comes back, it'll be something completely new. You know.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I'll give him credit for working with Orange Cassidy and
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: putting him over, because oc he did come out of
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: that better off than he went into it. But for
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: so many others, this is why it became a running joke,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the Jericho vortex. It's a real thing. And I don't
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: mean that in a good way. You know, he would
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: work with guys like Ricky Starks, and work with a
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: guy like Action Andretti and a Hook and even put
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: some of them over in the end, But how many
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: of them were truly elevated by working with Jericho? How
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: many of them came out of those feuds and those
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: programs better off coming out of them. You can't put
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: all of that on Jericho. A lot of it is
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: also the booking and Tony Kahan's inability to follow up
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: with them in any kind of meaningful way. He gets
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: blamed for it too, But even Jericho's program with someone
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: like Adam Cole or the stuff he did with Eddie Kingston,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: it was to their detriment. Like I remember, Eddie Kingston
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and Chris Jericho had a really good matchup Revolution a
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: few years ago, but after that it just dragged on
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: endlessly for months and months. And the question needs to
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: be asked, what value does Chris Jericho bring to AW
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty five. You know, the answer
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen was a lot, a lot of value.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, not so much. You know, we
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: helped get the company off the ground and they're secure
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: for the time being. They got their six hundred million
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: dollar media rights deal. You know, Jericho does not move
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the needle for them anymore. He hasn't for a long time.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Tony Kahn put the Ring of Honor World Championship on
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: him twice with the idea that it might help them
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: secure a television deal for Ring of Honor, and that
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: never materialized. In the ring, with the right opponent, he
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: can still have a solid match. I mean, like that
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: last one he had with Bandido, right, and how much
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of that was Bandido. Bandido is awesome, but I mean
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: those are few and far between these days. He's fifty
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: four years old now, and he looks at when he's
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: in the ring. Outside of being a veteran presence behind
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the scenes and helping out in that capacity, I don't
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: see where he brings any value to the aw product anymore,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: not on camera, and he won't move the needle for
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: WWE either outside of that initial return, and that's really
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: his best bet at this point. If he goes back
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: to WWE, it's going to generate a lot of excitement
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: initially because it's been almost a decade since the last
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: time we saw him on their TV, and there are
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of WWE fans that don't watch aaw So
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Chris Jericho shows up all of a sudden as a surprise,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, where's he been. Chris Jericho's back.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in eight years. Right. The last
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: time he wrestled for WWE was the Greatest Royal Rumble,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: And think about that, that was the very first Saudi
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Arabia show that they ever did. They've done a lot
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: more since then. They say absence makes the heart grow
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: fonder and also nostalgia. It's a hell of a drug.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: So prize Royal Rumble return would be something I could
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: see happening, and that would be something that would generate
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of reaction. Funny enough, if he did make
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: a surprise Royal Rumble return next year, the Royal Rumble
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: is in Saudi Arabia, which is the last place that
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: we saw him working in the ring for WWE. But
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: like a surprise Rumble return, a Hall of Fame induction
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: is inevitable. And then a part time schedule that would
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: be the way to go with Jericho and WWE. When
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I say part time, I'm talking no more than half
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: a dozen PL matches and working some international tours. That's it.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: That's it, that's all it needs to be. So there
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: is value in him having one last run there, but
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: less is more with him at this point in aaw
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: He just overstayed his welcome. But there are other considerations.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: If you're Jericho, he has outside projects. He's got his
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: podcast talk as Jericho. What happens with that? You know,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: WWE's been building up their own podcast network. Do they
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: just add his show to their lineup. Did they take
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: ownership of that? I mean, Undertaker ditched his old co
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: host Matt and dropped him like a bad habit to
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: take the check from WWE and replace Matt with his
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: wife as his co host, Cody Rhoades. He's got his podcast,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Stephanie McMahon has her podcast, So I mean, I could
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: see Jericho's landing there. But that's not all he has.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: He has the Jericho Cruise, which he's been doing since
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. He's got another one schedule for November of
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: next year. He took the cruise idea originally to WWE.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: He took it to Triple H but they shot it down.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: He wanted to get some WWE talents on the tour
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: on the cruise, and they basically told him, in so
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: many words, the fuck off. Once AW started up, he
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: was able to get all these AW stars to come
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: on the boat and do live matches. I mean, look
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: at the talent lineup for the most recent cruise. Will
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: osper Tony Storm, Bobby Lashley, MVP, Takeshta Ricochet, and like
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: twenty others, seventy five percent of the AW roster ended
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: up on that cruise. If he goes back to WWE,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: he's not going to be getting aw talents on that
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: cruise anymore. He's going to lose access to all of
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: those people. Would WWE work with him and allow him
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: to book their talents on the cruise and get legends
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: booked on the cruise? Probably not, none of the big
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: names anyway. I mean, look, admittedly it's a little bit
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: different when Dynamite airs on a Wednesday in the middle
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: of the week. You know, WWE's got smacked down on Fridays,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: they got raw on Mondays. I think the cruise usually
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: takes off on a Thursday, comes back on a Monday.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: So no, you're not going to have access to you know,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: that many big name talents. Does the cruse go away?
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Does he want to continue to do it? Is he
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice it just to go back to WWE.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: What about Fazi? He's got another tour scheduled in the
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: UK next February, right back in the middle of Royal
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Rumble season, an Elimination Chamber season. So all that to say,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: you know, for Jericho, he's got a lot to think
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: about because even if he's just part time, he's got
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: a lot on his plate that he doesn't necessarily want
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: to give up. Vince McMahon is not there anymore, maybe
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: they would be more willing to work with him now,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: But in his mind, maybe it's easier to sign with
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Tony for more money for another two or three years.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Take the money and just be able to do all
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: these other ancillary things that he's doing. Does Tony Kahn
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: want to keep Chris Jericho? That's the other question here.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I cannot imagine personally. I cannot imagine that he would
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: not make a play to keep Chris Jericho. Chris Jericho
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: is the first ever aw world champion. Tony loves Jericho.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Would he really just let him walk without trying to
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: keep him? I highly doubt that so, so it may
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: come down to that as much as anything. How far
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: is Tony willing to go to keep Jericho at a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: time when Jericho has less value to him in ring
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: than he ever has in the six years that he's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: been with the company. Is he willing to break the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: bank Ocatta style to keep Chris Jericho, even if it's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: just to keep him from going back to WWE, or
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: does Tony see things the same way that he's gotten
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: all that he can out of Jericho, and it's time
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: to move on peacefully, respectfully, without any drama. Basically the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: opposite of how Cody Rhoades left and how Cmpunk left.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: There's no need to burn any bridges here. Does he
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: let him walk or not without a fight. One thing
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: about Jericho, I will give the man his flowers. I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: may not have been much of a fan the last
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: few years, but whatever he does, his body of work
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and what he has been able to achieve in his
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: career over the course of thirty plus years is among
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the greatest careers that anybody has ever had in the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: history of the business. He made money and he found
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: success everywhere. He went from ECW to WCW, to WWE
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: to New Japan to AW, all of them. Tony Kahn
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: has said he credit to the match that Jericho had
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: with Kenny Omega at the Tokyo Dome as the inspiration
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: for starting AW because that match did big box office
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and it confirmed to him that there was a market
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: outside of WWE for pro wrestling that was not being
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: serviced at the time. So he's had a very blessed
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: career and I know he's still having fun and he
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: has no plans to quit anytime soon, That's what he said.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: But there's a right way and a wrong way to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: use Chris Jericho, and whether he stays or whether he goes,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: whoever he works for, I hope they're smart enough to
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: know the difference between right and wrong. Forbidden Door is
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: tomorrow from the two arena in London. At Wembley, they
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: get the bigger crowds and it's an outdoor stadium. This
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: is not They're going to be back at Wembley next year,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: but there gonna end up sold out here with over
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: seventeen thousand fans in an indoor arena where it should
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: be very loud and very energetic. Whatever you want to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: say about their domestic attendance, and it's not great. They
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: don't have any of those same struggles in the UK
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: since they don't run there as often, so these shows
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: always make them feel major league. It's you know, it's funny.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I was talking to my brother earlier today actually and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: mentioned that, you know, tomorrow, I'm going to be watching
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Forbidden Door the middle of the day, and he because
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: he doesn't watched aw week to week, he's aware of it,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't watch it. So he looked at the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: roster and he was appalled by how many titles there are.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Like he saw Okada was the unified champion, and he
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: assumed that he must be the top champion in the company.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: So I had to explain to him why he's not
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and how the whole unified title situation works. And then
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: he asked about Mercelle and all of her belts, and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: I just gave up. I just I just said, you
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: know what, this is a lost cause, but just an
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: interesting perspective there from someone who is casual at best
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: when it comes to aw But here's the card as
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: it currently stands. This doesn't account for any pre show
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Zero Hour matches that they're going to add, undoubtedly, because
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Zero Hour starts either at eleven am or eleven thirty am.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: The main card starts at one pm Eastern. Kyle Fletcher
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: defends the TNT Championship against Hiromu Takahashi of New Japan.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: That will be a win for Kyle Fletcher IWGP World
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship on the line. Zach Saber Junior defends against
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Nigel McGinnis, who will have Daniel Garcia in his corner.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia was one of the men that Nigel beat
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: out in the four way match on Collision last week
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: to earn the shot, and Danny looked very frustrated and
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: upset when he lost. Nigel looks thended the invitation for
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: him to be in his corner. He accepted. I have
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: questions about Daniel Garcia and what his motivations will be here.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I think we're headed for a Daniel Garcia heel turn potentially,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: whether it costs Nigel the match or it comes after
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the match. Nigel either way is not winning the title.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: It's cool to see him in this spot and getting
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: a shot in London. But Zach Saber Junior will leave
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: still the IWGP champion, no doubt about that. Mercedes Monet
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: defends her TBS Women's Championship in a four way match
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: against Alex Winza representing aw, Persephone representing CMLL, and Bozilla
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: representing Stardom. And I said, you know with Bosilla, I
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: said it on Wednesday. They've got a German wrestler representing
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: a Japanese company on a British event being hosted by
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: an American company, and she is someone who is very young.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: She's only twenty not a lot of experience, not a
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: lot of time in stardom. She's been there barely two months.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: We didn't even know who was going to be in
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the match until they put the graphic up on the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: screen on Wednesday telling us, oh, Bozilla will be in there.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: And I can imagine some people watching this going, who
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: the fuck is Bozilla? Well, you'll find out on Sunday
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: because she's going to be in the four way match.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: She has no shot of winning, but she'll be in
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: the four way match. Yeah, there is no way that
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Mercedes is losing her title here. There's absolutely no way.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: And Mercedes, by the way, is now Mercedes nine belts.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: She won her ninth championship. There's a Rev Pro show
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: on Friday night, and she won her ninth title and
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: only the TBS title on the line here, though, no
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: way she's losing, No way she should be losing. She's
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: getting very close to beating Jade Cargill as the longest
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: reigning TBS champion of all time. There's no reason to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: think that Tony would do anything to jeopardize that at
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: this point or take the title off of her before then.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: So Mercedes will win. We have the aw World Tag
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: team titles on the line. The Hurt Syndicate, Bobby Lashley
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and Shelton Benjamin defend in a three way match for
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: the second pay per view in a row. They did
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: the same shit at all in Texas. They're doing it
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: again here three way match against FTR and Brodido, the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: team of Brody King and Bendido. They had the finals
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: of this tournament on Wednesday to crown number one contenders.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Brodido and FTR went to a thirty minute draw. That
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: is how this ended up as a three way match.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: And there have also been a lot of stories of late,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of rumors, a lot of reports about the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Hurt Syndicate and or MVP specifically not liking pitches for
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: his team to drop their titles to FTR. And this
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: has come from multiple places. Now right. I saw the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Fightful mention something about this about a week or so ago.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I think there's smoke to the fire, and I've already
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: commented on how I feel about that, and it really
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: should not be anyone's decision. But Tony Kahn, who I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: think has been more than generous with the way that
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: he has booked and presented the Hurt syndicate on television
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: for the entire year now that they have held those
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: tag team titles, and Tony has another story in mind,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: and that story involves FTR winning the titles and going
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: to Toronto next month. And if Tony Khan wants FTR,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: for example, to win the tag team titles, or Brodido
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: or anybody else, then that's exactly what should happen, regardless
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: of how the Hurt syndicate, regardless of how MVP feels
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: about it. And yet now amidst all of these reports,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: this turns into a three way match, and I can't
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: help but sit here and wonder if that has a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: little something to do with these reports that we've heard about.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: But then I read on their Twitter and I didn't
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: realize this until yesterday because they didn't say a damn
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: word about this on television. But apparently this is an
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: elimination match. This is not even a traditional three way
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: like the one that we had in Texas. This is
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: an elimin nation match. So it makes me wonder, will
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: they have Brodido shock the world and bounce Lashly and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Benjamin out first so that guarantees that we're gonna have
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: new tag team champions and then from there have FTR
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: pin Brodido to win the titles. So that way FTR
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: does not pin Shelton, Benjamin or Bobby Lashley. I'm sitting
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: here trying to imagine Dax or Cash pinning Bobby Lashley.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I can't see it. I just don't. I don't see Shelton. Maybe, yes, maybe,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: but I don't see it happening with Bobby Lashley. And
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: it may not happen at all. It may not happen
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: with them at all, because it may well be that
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the Hurt Syndicate will lose, but they'll lose to Brodido,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: and then Brodido loses to FTR. Either way, I'm picking
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: FTR to win the tag team titles. Here in this match,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, they have a reunited boy
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: that was quick. He has a little rush, doesn't it.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: But they reunited and they're going to be taking it well.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: They were supposed to take on Nick Wayne and Kip
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Sabe and representing the Patriarchy or now I guess it
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: would be the Matriarchy. And then on Wednesday, Nick Wayne
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: was on the tron and he had crutches and he
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: was not there in Glasgow with everybody else, and he
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: said that he had a broken foot. And he said
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: that it happened to the segment the week before where
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Christian came at him with that spike board with the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: nails in it and in dodging him and weaving out
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: of the way. I mean, I went back and I
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: watched that segment. He was moving around fine even after
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: he got out of the rings. I don't know exactly
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: where the broken foot happened. I don't know how badly
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: the foot is broken, but apparently it is a legitimate injury.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: He has a broken foot. I don't know what that
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: means for his Ring of Honor television title, but at best,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: without surgery, he's probably going to be out a good
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: eight to ten weeks or worse if he needs surgery.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: And Dustin Roajes just had double knee replacement surgery and
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: he's got two belts in Ring of Honor. He's the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Ring of Honor Tag team champion and one third of
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: the six man champions. So I don't know what the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: title situation is gonna look like in Ring of Honor,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: if they're going to crown new champions or not. It's
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Ring of honor. I mean, does anybody even care. You
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: may as well just keep the belts on them. I
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: don't even think anybody'll notice. But since Nick Wayne is
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: unable to compete, he's not medically cleared, he tapped a replacement,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: and that replacement is the returning Lucasaurus or a kill switch.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: I guess he's still being called kill switch came out.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: We haven't seen the dinosaur in almost a year, and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: it was really good to see him because there were
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: some reports about his health situation earlier in the year
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: that were very, very scary, and I talked about this
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: in the Dynamite Review on Wednesday. You know, he collapsed
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: in his home late last year. I think his fiance
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: found him, and he had no ammonia in both of
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: his lungs. He was having breathing issues. It was blood
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: oxygen level was like eighty or something. It was. It
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: was scary. It was touch and go there for a while,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: and at the very least there were questions about whether
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: or not he even be able to get back in
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: the ring. But there he was, and he looked like,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: you know, the old Lucasaurus and he's going to take
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Nick Wayne's place. In this match. It doesn't change the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: outcome here Copeland and Christian they almost have to win
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: anyway if they're going to be getting a tag team
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: title match at all out, if that's where we're headed
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: with this challenging FTR. But it would be foolish to
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: beat them anyway. And it is going to be their
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: first match as tag team partners in fourteen years. Fourteen years.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: This is the reunion that Tony kh has been dying
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: to do, and probably the two of them have been
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: dying to do. And I said it was rushed. We've
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: seen this. I think a lot of us who watched
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: the show pretty much figured this was going to be
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the inevitable direction. We just didn't know when they were
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: going to actually pull the trigger and do it. When
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: they did it a couple of weeks ago, it felt
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: very sudden. I was not expecting it to happen on
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: that show. I wasn't even expecting it to happen necessarily
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: before Forbidden Door. Maybe at Forbidden Door, like doing the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: hug and the reunion at Forbidden Door actually would have
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: made more sense. You would have had a much bigger
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: hot crowd for I mean, they had eleven hundred people
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: in the fucking building when they did this big reunion
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: between Edge and Christian on TV a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: If you would have done it a forbidden door, you
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: would have had seventeen thousand rabid UK fans there on
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: a major pay per view who would have gone nuts
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: for that. And then you saved their first match together
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: for all out. Whether it's for the titles or not
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: isn't even really relevant. But there they were a couple
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, maybe it was Cincinnati, I think, in
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: front of eleven hundred people, and they did the hug
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: and it looked like Christian was a little resistant to it.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: So I said, we really need some kind of an
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: explanation here about what's going on. We got to get
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: these two in the ring together. They were in the
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: ring with Tony Shavani on Wednesday, and it was Christian's explanation.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: He said that it's not a case where things are
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: suddenly good between the two of them, but they decided
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a you scratch my back, I'll
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: scratch yours. The enemy of my enemy is my friend
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: type of situation where he agreed to help Copeland with
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: his FTR problem, and Copeland has agreed to help him
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: with his patriarchy problem. So they have this mutual agreement
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: with each other. Not that they're best buds again, but
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: you know what, we have some issues here. I need
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: your help, you need mine, so let's come together. I
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: at least appreciated they try to rationally explain it, like,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: I think that's a fine explanation. This is not the
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: way that I would have done all of this, but
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: at least it was an explanation that you can make
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: sense of. And here's the other thing about it that
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: I like. Christian wasn't really acting any differently, and Copeland
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: even said he's an asshole. But he's asshole. So we
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: kind of get the best of both worlds here because
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: for the people who wanted to see a Copeland and
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Christian reunion, we're getting it without having to change Christian
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: too much from the Christian that he has been. Christian
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: is a baby face just feels wrong. I'm sorry. I
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: don't want to see Christian as a babyface yet. I mean,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: he's been doing this, you know, the Heel Act and
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: the Father's stuff now for a few years, and I
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: think there's other ways that you can evolve it beyond
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: just the you know your father is dead stuff. But
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Christian is just such a natural prick. He's just naturally
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: hate herble, just a great heel, and I don't think
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: you should stray too far from that. And if the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: fans are gonna cheer, let him share it. But I
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: don't think you should stray far from the Christian that
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: we get on TV now just because oh he's with Copeland,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: so he has to be a babyface, Like I don't
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: subscribe to that. So this is their way of sort
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: of you're getting your cake and eating. Not a doubt
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: in my mind though, that Copeland and Christian are going
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: to win this match. Then we have Kazuchka Okada defending
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: the Unified Championship against Swerve Strickland. Swerve is going into
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: this match with a legitimate knee injury, which would explain
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: why he hasn't wrestled the match since July twenty third.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Per Fightful, he has been working with a torn meniscus
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: in his knee for the last six years, not weeks,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: not months. Years. It's an injury that he suffered back
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen when he was still at the WWE
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Performance Center. I don't know why this is all of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: a sudden an issue now if he's been working on
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: it for six years. Evidently he aggravated the injury, and
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: there's no word on whether or not he'll be having
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: surgery to repair the issue after the pay per view.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Tony Kahan has tapped into the Jacksonville Jaguars medical staff
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: to help him through this injury. But now they've got
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: their built in excuse for when he loses this match
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to Okada, which he will, and Okada will retain the
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Unified Championship. I don't know if that's going to play
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: certain limitations upon Swerve and what he can do in
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: this match, because I think with both guys healthy, this
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: could be a really good match. If Swerve is not
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy, which obviously he isn't, I don't
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: know how that affects the match. If it's mostly him
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: just selling the knee, that could be very boring. We'll
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: see what kind of match they have. The long term
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: play here, even if Swerve was one hundred percent healthy,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: he should not win the championship. The long term play
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: here needs to be Okada and Takeshta. I don't know
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: when I don't know if they do it at the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: next pay per view. I don't know if they do
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: it at World's End or Full Gear or early twenty
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: twenty six. I don't know what's gonna happen with Takeshta
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: and the IWGP title because he just won the g
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: One Climax and he said that he wants to win
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: the championship before the Tokyo Do. He wants to go
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: into the Tokyo Do as the champion. I don't really
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: see them doing anything with him in Okada if that's
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: the case until he drops that title. But he hasn't.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: He hasn't won that title yet, so we'll see what
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: happens there. But to me, that's the long term play.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: The aw Women's World Championship is on the line. Timeless
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Tony Storm defends against Athena Athena one the tag team
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: main event on Dynamite Wednesday night. She was teaming with
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Mercedes against Tony Storm and Alex Windsor. She's also still
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor Women's World Champion, And as I
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: see it, there is only room for one belt collector
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: gimmick at a time in this company, and that belongs
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: to Mercedes. As I mentioned earlier, Mercedes just won her
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: ninth belt. On Friday, She beat Emerson Jane at the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: Rev Pro show to win the Discovery Wrestling Scottish Women's Championship.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Discovery Wrestling apparently is a thing. I wonder how many
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: of these nine titles that she has are actually active times,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: because I feel like not all of them are active titles,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: like maybe six or seven of them maybe, But she's
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: got nine belts. Now, what an absolute nightmare that has
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: to be to go through the airport like airport security
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: every week with those things, because I think she brings
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: them all with her everywhere she goes, like all these shows.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I don't care if she has clear I don't care
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: if she has tsa pre check, like it doesn't matter.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: That's got to be a fucking nightmare everywhere that woman goes.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: As far as Tony Storm and Athena, I don't see
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: Athena winning the championship. This is Athena cashing in her
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Casino Gauntlet contract that she won in Texas. She called
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: her shot in advance, and I just don't see her
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: winning the championship. I just don't see it, especially after
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: she won that main event on Wednesday. I'm like, yeah,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: she's not winning that title. Hangman Adam Page defends the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: AW World Championship against MJFF got Hangman on Wednesday to
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: agree to three new stipulations for their match, with some
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: help from Ricochet. In the Gates of Agony, they kidnapped
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: and tortured Mark Briscoe and MJF threatened to set the
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: man on fire. He poured gasoline on him. He had
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: a match. He was ready to set him a blaze
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: should Hangman not agree to his conditions, and as agreed to,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the AW World Championship now can change hands via count
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: out via disqualification. I think Triple H just got a
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: little tingle up his spine when I mentioned that word.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: And also, MJF is no longer using his Casino Gauntlet
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: contract for a guaranteed title match, meaning MJF if he
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: loses this match, he still will have the contract as
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: a backup. He will still have it as an insurance
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: policy that he can cash in at any time, even
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: that night, if he chooses to do so. I don't
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: think he will not that night, and since he still
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: has the contract, that doesn't make any sense for him
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: to win the championship, since with that make that would
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: be dumb. So I got Hangman retaining. The only question
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: is do you see Mark brisco get some revenge. Yeah,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: I've been saying I could see Mark Briscoe getting involved
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: and trying to stop MJF from using the dynamite Diamond ring.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Do they do some sort of shock finish where a
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe gets involved and it backfires and because he
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: gets you know, Hangman gets disqualified. That's how he loses
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: the title. What a lame fucking way, by the way
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: for him to lose a championship that would be I
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: just can't see it. I just can't see it happening. So,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: however it goes down, I got Hangman retaining that title.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: MJF will live to fight another day. He can cash
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: in that contract some other time. And then this is
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: the match that I think they may possibly be closing
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: the show with. They've certainly done this before with these
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: types of matches. It is unsanctioned. It is a lights
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: out ten men, five on five steel cage match with
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Will Osprey, Darby, Allen Kenny, ome Koda Ibushi, and the
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi taking on John Moxley, Claudio Castignoli, Gabe Kidd,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and The Young Bucks. On Dynamite, Osprey talked about how
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: he wasn't medically cleared to wrestle in this match, but
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: since it's unsanctioned, he knows the risks and he's wrestling anyway,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: and obviously he is medically clear. That's part of the story.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: He strongly implied that he was getting next surgery sometime
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: after this show, and he said, if there's a chance
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: that he can't be the same, well, Osprey after Sunday,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: before doctors take a scalpel to my neck, I'm leaving
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: it all out there now. He previously revealed that he
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: has two herniated disks that are pressing on his spinal cord.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Pw Insider has confirmed. I mean, it seemed pretty obvious,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: but for the people who just think everything's a fucking work,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: PW Insider confirmed, this is not a work. This is
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: a very legitimate injury and he is absolutely looking to
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: have next surgery in the near future now. Osprey spoke
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: to Sports Illustrated this week and he said, I am compromised.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: I've got a few herniated disks pushing against my spinal cord.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: Which is affecting a couple of my nerves. But I
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: can do stuff, and I can perform one last time
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: before I need to go get it all corrected. I
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: got told, after all in that I was going to
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: need to rest and take some time off to see
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: how this is going to go. And then the MRIs
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: came back, and I got told that this is worse
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: than what we thought it was going to be, but
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: that it's manageable. It's absolutely fine. The surgeon even told
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: me that it's not going to get any worse, it
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: just needs to be corrected. I love how he says
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: in one breath, I got my MRIs back and it
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: was worse than expected, and then at the next he
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: says it's absolutely fine. Clearly it's not absolutely fine, but
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: I get what he's saying. It's the Cody Rhodes thing right,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: wrestling with a torn peck inside hell and a cell.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: It can't get any worse. So if you can tolerate
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: the pain, we'll let you wrestle. And that was a
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: torn peck, though these are discs in his neck that
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: are pushing up against his spinal cord. Wrestlers, man, they
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: are a different breed, but He also told CBS Sports
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: that he is terrified of the surgery. He said, I'm anxious.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: I'm scared generally, I'm terrified not about the match, but
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: just about afterwards. I don't know what it looks like afterwards,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: because for the first time in my life, I have
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: been disqualified from doing the thing that I love doing.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: I've never had anybody cut into me. I've never had surgery.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: I've never broken a bone other than my nose, which
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: everyone can tell because it looks like I've been hit
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: by a frying pan. If I think too much about it,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: I'll fucking cry. I think humor is honestly the best
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: way I can lighten the mood in this type of situation.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: For the first time in my life, I have to
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: realize that this is something serious, and I don't know
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: how to navigate those emotions. And on the fans being
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: concerned for his safety in the match tomorrow, he said,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: I understand they're worried. They hear this type of shit
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: and they're going this sounds bad. But what people need
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: to remember is that I've been doing this for ten
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: months now at the highest level. Nobody can tell me
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: that I haven't been doing this at the highest level.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: I've been working at my best. I know what I'm
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: capable of. I know what I can do, I know
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: what I can't do. Most importantly, the medics know what
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: I can and can't do. The surgeon knows what I
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: can and can't do. And the most important thing is
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: that my safety is utmost guaranteed. I can guarantee my
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: safety in this. I'll make it through. When I heard
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: what the procedure is that I'll be doing, I heard
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: other wrestlers have had this and they haven't come back
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: the same. So if there's even the smallest chance that
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the same after this match
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: and after the surgery, then I need to for myself,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: for my pride, I need to go out there and
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: be me. I might have to kiss this part of
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: my high flying offense goodbye. Now. It's something that I'm
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: not ready to let go. I'll be honest with you.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not ready to let go of that side of
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: me because I think that should be done on my terms.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's on the card. So I've
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: got to hope that after this I can still pick
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: up where I left off. But if not, all the
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: greats have done it, Juice and thunder Liger's done it.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: Aj Styles has done it. I call myself the Billy
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: goat for a reason. I think I can adapt. Look,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: I trust that he's got people looking out for him.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: It's bad enough if Swerve ends up needing knee surgery,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: losing Swerve and Osprey, he's going to be a big
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: body blow to the baby face side of that roster,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: and Osprey is too important to them to be taking
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: any kind of unnecessary risks. I don't know what this
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: procedure is that he's talking about, if he's if it's
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: some sort of fusion, or if it's something less serious.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: If it's the former, he's gone for a year. If
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: it's the latter, yeah, like kind of what Kurt Angle
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: had done after his WrestleMania match with brock Lesner. He
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: could be back in a few months. So it all
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: depends on what type of surgery he ends up getting.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: I just I cannot see him getting medically cleared for
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: this if he needs a fucking fusion. So maybe it
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: isn't quite that serious. But even will Osprey, it's seventy
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: five percent is better than a lot of wrestlers at
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Now, originally I was going with Team
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: Ospray for the win. I am changing my prediction. I
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: am going with the Heels to win this match. I
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: just think it makes more sense with Osprey going in hurt.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Tanahashi has the jelly knees, and if the goal is
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: to get a Moxley Darby match at all out, then
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: I think the Heel should probably go over here, and
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: that's the card as it stands. There's not a lot
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: about this show that screams Forbidden Door. I would say
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: this is the weakest of all the Forbidden Door shows
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: they've ever done, if you're really into the inter promotional
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: aspect or seeing stars from New Japan and CMLL. Tony
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: Kahan did acknowledge that it was challenging putting the car
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: together this year because normally they do these shows before
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: the g One climax, and this year they ended up
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: doing it right after, so they didn't have access to
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of those talents, so they had to make
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: the best of a not so great situation. It should
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: go back to normal next year with this show in
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: June and all in back in August at Wembley. I
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: don't think there's a need to even do these shows anymore,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: except that they're going to sell it out with seventeen
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: thousand people and do one of the biggest gate numbers
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: in the history of the company. So he really doesn't
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: have a good reason to stop doing them until people
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: stop buying tickets. Other news and notes, the Undertaker and
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson are both in talks to appear on an
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: Indian reality show. Big Boss, hosted by actor producer Salman Khan,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: is entering its nineteenth season and features celebrities living together
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: in a house while being filmed twenty four hours a day.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: Contestants are eliminated through tasks, nominations, and audience votes. According
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: to multiple Indian outlets, including The Times of India, Undertaker
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: is expected to be one of the three wildcard entries
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: this season. The show began filming in Mumbai on Friday,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: and it is rumored that Undertaker will stay in the
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: house for between seven and ten days, so basically it's
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: like Legend's House. Another WWE Hall of Famer, Mike Tyson,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: has also been rumored as a potential wildcard entrant. Big
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: Boss has not officially confirmed either name. The Great Collie
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: was previously a wildcard entry on the show's fourth season
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: in twenty ten. He advanced to the finals before finishing
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: as a runner up. Man. You know, the Undertaker has
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: been keeping very busy in his retirement. If you would
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: have told me that, we would be living in a
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: world where not only is the Undertaker a podcast host,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: but the Undertaker was apparently helping run the show behind
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: the scenes at Triple Mania in Mexico City last week,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: and now he might appear on an Indian reality TV show.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: I would have told you maybe the fake Undertake would
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: be doing that, but not the real Undertaker. But here
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: we go, here we are. I don't know if this
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: is actually gonna happen or now, but it sounds like
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: conversations are taking place. So he's keeping busy in his retirement.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: As long as it keeps him out of the ring,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: then that's fine. There has been yet another update in
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: the death of Hulk Hogan, and this story just took
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: a very dark turn. Hulk's daughter Brooke and his former
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: best friend Bubba the Love Sponge have been very vocal
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: these last few weeks about the suspicious nature in their
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: view of the circumstances. Around Hogan's death and their desire
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: to see an autopsy performed before Hulk's wife has him cremated,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: which still has not happened yet. Brooke has even offered
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: to pay for the autopsy herself and the results. She says,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: they don't need to be made public whatever they find.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: They could just keep it private, but they would know
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: then exactly what happened and just be at peace with it.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Brooke took to her Instagram and made a
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: bombshell claim that she has been contacted by people in
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: the know legitimate phone calls from authorities in the know
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: about her dad's death that she needs to ask. This
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: is them telling her you need to ask questions about
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: body camera footage and the nine to one one tapes
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: from that day. So these are people who could get
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: into serious trouble, she says, if they are outed as
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: sharing this information. But they have told her that those
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: tapes could potentially shed enough light to change the narrative
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: around her father's death. She said she's still being frozen
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: out by Hulk's wife's sky from gaining access to any
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: of the materials that she's being told to try to
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: get her hands on. This is what she posted. Here's
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: all I know, she said, so stop speculating and stop asking.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: I've one hundred percent gotten legit calls from professionals, from
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: police officials to nurses that were supposedly with my dad
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: on the day of his death, telling me that I
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: need to see bodycam footage and I need to get
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: a hold of the nine to one one tapes because
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: they support contained information that could potentially shed enough light
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: to change the narrative that we I and everyone has
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: been hearing. Those same professionals feel so passionately about the
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: what they witness that they have continued to contact me
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: and push me to find specific answers to this very day.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: They are quite literally putting their careers at risk because
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: they feel so compelled to do the right thing. I
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: have zero control, I cannot do anything. My hands are tied,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: and I have no say in anything regarding my dad,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: even as his daughter. Those are the rules that I've
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: been told. I do not have any information on if
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: or when he is being cremated. Could have been right
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: after he died, could be tomorrow, I don't know. I
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: have been told by my brother that there will be
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: an autopsy. I do not know who will be performing
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: the autopsy. Any information I received from an autopsy, if
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: one happens, whether I believe it or not, I will
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: be keeping private out of respect for my father. I
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: have to trust that my brother is doing his best
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: to get answers. At the end of the day, answers
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: would be great, but none of it brings my dad back.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: And my hands are tied. So please stop misquoting, speculating,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: and asking me if I know anything. I cannot get
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: any information. I know you would think that I could
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: being his blood, but I can't. We are already dealing
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: with enough. I will not be talking about this mystery anymore.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: That was on Wednesday. Then on Thursday, TMZ broke the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: news Hulk hogan cause of death may be medical malpractice.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Who remembers that Dustin Rhodes tweet that he posted right
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: after Hogan died. It's a little more eerie now looking
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: back at it. Posted a tweet that he quickly deleted
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: saying that hospitals kill people. They really do. I really
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: mean that it was something to that effect. This is
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: the TMZ story. Hulk Hogan may have been the victim
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: of medical malpractice. Malpractice that may have cost him his life.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: This according to sources connected to the death case, law
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: and hforsement. Sources tell TMZ Sports. The Clearwater PD police
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: report regarding the nine to one one response the Hulk's
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: home the day he died says that an occupational therapist
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: was present at the Wrestling Legends Florida residence when he
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: stopped breathing. According to the report, which is on lockdown,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: the therapist told responding officers Hulk was the victim of
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: medical malpractice. The therapist says during a recent operation. It's
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: unclear if it was the surgery to repair his heart
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: or a neck procedure, the surgeon severed, quote unquote severed
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: his frenic nerve. The frenic nerve stimulates the diaphragm, which
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: controls breathing. Our sources say Hulk did not have a
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: chest clenching episode before his passing. Rather, he merely stopped breathing.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: We're told it was his wife, Sky who sounded the
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: alarm when his breath halted, and that's when the nine
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: to one one call was made. We're also told there
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: were conversations among the officers at the scene where they
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: talked about what the therapist had told them, and this
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: is on bodycam. It's a fair assumption the conversation between
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: the occupational therapists and the officers is also on body cam.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Hulk's daughter Brooke has called for an autopsy. As of
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: a week ago, we were told Hulk's body was not
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: yet cremated, but we have not gotten any clarity of
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: cremation has taken place. Hogan's widow, Sky later confirmed the
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: TMZ Sports that Hogan's frenic nerve was compromised during one
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: of his recent surgery. She added that an autopsy on
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Hogan has been done, but declined to reveal its results,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: so unless she changes her mind, we will never know
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: for sure what the autopsy actually revealed. She also said
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: Hogan's body has not yet been cremated. From what I
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: can gather, there's actually two frenic nerves in the body,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: a left one and a right one, and they start
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: up in your neck and they run down through your chest,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: past your heart and your lungs and into your diaphragm.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: They don't say during which surgery this would have happened,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: assuming he's had multiple surgeries in the last few months,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: but the one that he originally went in for for
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: his neck was back in mid May, and he had
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: not been heard from since then or seen on video
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: or anything, which leads me to believe that whatever happened,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: it happened during that surgery. The Clearwater Police Department later
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: issued the following statement to TMZ. We have been in
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: communication with family members, including his son Nick and daughter Brooke.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: The unique nature of this case has required us to
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: interview multiple witnesses and seek medical records from a variety
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: of providers, and our detectives continue to do that. All
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: of this takes time. The Hogan family has been appreciative
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: of our efforts and our communication with them. If there
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: was medical valpractice involved, that's going to be one hell
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: of a lawsuit. But this it just reminds me. You
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: hear malpractice celebrity, and I know we just had the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: Matthew Perry death, but it makes me think of Michael Jackson.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's death which was ruled a homicide due to
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: an overdose of propofol, which is a really powerful anesthetic
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: that's typically used during surgery. Michael Jackson was using it
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: to help himself sleep the way people take fucking ambient,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: which is not its intended usage, and his doctor was
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: convicted and sent to prison for a couple of years
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: four years, but he got out in two Any sound
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: off Oge's listening to this, remember me talking about his
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: death at the time and the media circus around it.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's some old schools sound off right there.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: This isn't exactly the same thing, but malpractice or negligence,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: that's a serious thing all the same, you know, especially
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: if it led to someone's death. So I don't know
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: what the autopsy showed or if they intend to pursue
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: this any further. Evidently there are people directly connected to
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: the situation who wanted his daughter to push for all
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: of these things that she has no power to push for.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: So if there is something suspicious going on here, and
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: it sure feels that way, it looks like a man
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: up dying with Hogan. The Hollywood Reporter put out its
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: list ranking the top ten pro wrestlers turned actors, and
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: there have been many wrestlers that have dipped their toe
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: in the Hollywood pool over the years. Some have been
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: more successful than others. Macho Man Randy Savage will forever
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: be known and by a generation of non fans as
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: non wrestling fans. That is as bon Saw McGraw from
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: Spider Man. They're not going to look at him and go, hey,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: that's the macho man. They're gonna be like, hey, that's
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: bone Saw. Whatever happened to that guy. They also used
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: his voice for an episode of Space Ghost. He played
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Space Ghost's grandfather. But beyond that, you know, he did
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: a bunch of voiceovers and that's about it. Terry Funk.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: You know, he did Roadhouse and Paradise Alley Stone Cold.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: He did a bunch of B movies like The Condemned
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: and Hunt to Kill. But he also had roles in
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: The Expendables in the Longest Yard, so did Goldberg. He
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: was in the Longest Yard. He was in Sand to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: Slay in that one Universal Soldier movie. Chris Jericho's done
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: some B level horror movies. MJF right now is going
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: around gloating about being in Happy Gilmore too. There's lots
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: of wrestlers that have been in movies, But who are
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: the best ones. Well, let's see what they had to say,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: and I'll chime in here with my own. At number
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: ten on the list, they have Andre the Giant. Andre
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: literally did two movies in his life, and one of
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: them he was in a giant monster suit and he
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't even credited in the movie. You never saw his
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: face and he had no dialogue that was in Conan
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: the Destroyer, the role that he's most known for, is
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies of all time. I watched
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: it many many times when I was younger. The Princess Bride.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: Andre played Fasick Fasick the Giant, and he was perfect
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: for the role. And honestly, it's such a memorable movie.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: I would have him up higher on my list. I mean,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: they have Adam Copeland on their list at number five.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: I can honestly say I have never seen a damn
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: thing that Copeland has been in outside of wrestling. I've
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: heard he was good on that Viking show, you know,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: and he did that other show Haven. I mean, he
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: could be a great actor for all I know that,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: but there isn't a single thing that he's done in
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: his acting career that is as memorable or that people
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: talk about like they do Andre in The Prince's Bride.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: They have Jesse Ventura at number nine on their list.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: Predator is the role he's most known for. Running Man
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: Demolition Man. He had a small part as a guard
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: remember in Batman and Robin. He's not a great actor.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of these guys are not great actors,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: but he's not a great actor. That's as far as
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: his acting career went, as far as movies. And again
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: I should point out like as we go along here
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: we're talking movies, we're not really talking TV shows. But
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: I think he went on to do a right for himself.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: So you know, number nine sounds sounds about right. Number
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: eight is the Big Show Paul White. To me, he
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: will always be Captain Insano in the Water Boy and
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: Giant Santa. Can't forget Giant Santa and Jingle All the Way.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: Jingle All the Way is a great movie, by the way,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: if you've never seen it. And I just realized, you know, Schwarzenegger, Man,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: he has shared the screen with a lot of wrestlers,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: hasn't he, Man, Jesse Ventura, Big Show, Andre stone Cold,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: I remember the Big Show Show that didn't last very long,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: but that's TV. Then they have Hulk Hogan at number seven,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: and the author makes the point that without Hulk Hogan
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood first, there would be no Rock or John
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Cena doing movies, Yes and no. If your point is
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: that Hogan's success in wrestling paved the way for wrestling
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: to become hot the way that it was, and that
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: led to people like Rock and John Cena having the
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: chance to eventually become big stars like in wrestling, then
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: sure you could argue that. But the idea that Hogan
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: dabbling in Hollywood and failing is the reason that the
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: door got kicked kind of kicked open for guys like
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: Rock and Sena, I think that's giving him too much credit.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: You know, Rock was a charismatic guy. I mean he
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: still is. But Rock's a charismatic guy, very successful in wrestling.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: Hollywood would have come calling for him regardless, Same with
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: John Cena, same with Roman Reigns right now, right, you
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: think Street Fighters the only movie he's going to be in.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: You don't think he's gonna get bigger roles or not
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: get bigger roles in the future. Of course he is.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: Hogan was doing Suburban Commando and Mister Nanny. Okay, him
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: doing those movies has little to do with their success.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Hogan's biggest role with Thunderlips and Rocky Three, which he
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: has always claimed that he was fired for for taking
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: the role by Vince mcma and Vince told him that
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: you'll never be welcomed back if you say yes and
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: do this movie, even though he was already doing jobs
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: on his way out of the territory. It's like it's
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: it's it's a Hogan story, so you have to take
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: it with a grain of salt, you know, whether that's
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: actually true or not. He's told that story for just
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: years and years and years, But it's like the story
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: he's told for years of hero Matt Suda breaking his
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: ankle on purpose during training when he was trying to
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: become a wrestler, and Matt Suda supposedly broke his ankle
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: on purpose to try to run him off, but then
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: when he healed up right, Hogan valiantly came back. He
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: showed up again, and he proved that he was serious
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: about wanting to be a wrestler. Like even Brian Blair,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: who started his career with Hogan and stayed friends with
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: him for all these years, has said, like, what really
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: happened is that Hogan sprained his ankle by accident one
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: day and he missed a few classes, Like you know,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: he ended up spitting it into some heroic comeback story
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: of the evil veteran breaking his ankle, Like it's just
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Hogan being Hogan, but like Andre with the Princess Bride,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: Hogan has thunderlips. It wasn't just his first movie role.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: It was his defining movie role, right, it was his
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: most memorable movie role. No Holds bart is a guilty
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: pleasure of mine. Okay, I'm not gonna sit here and
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: tell you it's a great movie. It's not a great movie,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: but I owned the DVD. I've watched it many times.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: I still enjoy the movie. Suburban Commando is another one.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: I can go back and enjoy that one too. And
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: I got a kick out of his cameo in Gremlins
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: Gremlins two. Remember he was sitting in the movie theater.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: At one point, he's in his gear. He's got the
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: bandana on, he's got the winged eagle belt around his waist.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: He's eating popcorn, and the usher is like, he's got
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: the flashlight and he's going row by row and he's
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: looking for someone and he finds Hogan and he goes
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: over to Hogan and I'm sorry to bother you, but
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: like we've got Gremlins in the projection room and then
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Hogan stands up and he turns and he cuts this
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: promo on the Gremlins. Like that was great. That was
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: a memory moment. That was a memorable role for him.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: Nobody will ever mistake Hulk Hogan for being a master thespian.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: Him being on this list, yes, he should be on
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: the list. They have him here. What they put him
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: at number seven? I think, yes, they have him at
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: number seven. That sounds about right. I would not have
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: him in the top five. Kevin esh is number six.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about legendary roles, Come on now,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: Super Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja, Turtles Too, The Secret
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: of the Ooze. Unless you grew up during that time,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: you have no idea how big of a deal Super
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: Shredder was. Like in the movie, he's on screen for
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: ninety seconds and he ends up committing suicide. But he
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: brings that whole that doc that wouldn't dock down on
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: the Turtles and he ends up killing himself, Like they're turtles, dude,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: what did you think was going to happen? But he
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: was the Russian in that Punisher movie with Thomas Jane.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: He was in the Longest Yard. A lot of wrestlers were.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: He was in the Magic Mike movies, which I never saw,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: but I know that was kind of a big deal
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: for a while. And then he did a B level
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: horror movie. My god, he did this movie called River
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: of Darkness that I saw years ago with Kurt Angle.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: Kurt Angle is the star. He plays a sheriff in
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: some po dunk town. He's killing zombies. Kevin Nash and
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: Psycho Sid play two of the zombies. So if you
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: ever want to see undead Kevin Nash and Sid Vicious
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: in a movie with Kurt Angle, I think glaciers in
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: that movie too. River of Darkness. I cannot recommend it.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and recommend it to you,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: but that's that's the name of the movie. And then
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: he did some awful movie about a COVID nineteen outbreak
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: or something. I mean, it was a payday, so Nash
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: is not going to say no. Then we get into
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: the top five. Number five is Adam Cope. Again, I
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: cannot speak to him because I have not seen anything
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: that he has been in. And then we get into
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: the top four, and I agree with their top four.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Number four is rowdy Roddy Piper. Piper did a little
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: movie in nineteen eighty six called Body Slam with Dirk
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: Benedict from the A Team that I very much enjoyed.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: Piper's tag team partner in the movie is Sam Fatu,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: the Tonga kid who is the father of one Jacob Fatu.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: After that, he did a movie called Hell Comes to Frogtown,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: which was terrible. I'm sorry, I know for some people
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: that's a cult classic. It's a terrible movie. And then
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: he did They Live, which is the opposite of terrible.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: It is a great movie. It has become a cult
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: classic over the years for a reason. I'm a mark
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: anyway for almost anything John Carpenter does. But this became
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: the defining role of Piper's film career with one of
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: the greatest fight scenes that you will ever with him
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: and Keith David. Piper didn't need to film anything else
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: after this, not It's always Sonny nothing. This will forever
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: be what Roddy Piper is known for outside of wrestling.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: Number three is John Cena, Number two is Dwayne the
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Rock Johnson, and the number one wrestler turned movie star
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: is Dave Bautista. And I agree with that one hundred percent.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: If this was purely a box office list, then Rock
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: would be number one. Rock would be one, Sena would
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: probably be too. Batista throw all though Batista did the
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy stuff, eh Sena would probably be
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: too and Batista would be three. So if you're going
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: purely based on box office receipts, then the top three
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: would look a little bit different. But Rock is not
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: a better actor than Batista. John Cena is not a
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: better actor than Batista. Batista has shown more acting range
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: than either one of them, more so than Rock, who
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: plays the same character in almost everything he's in. And
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not even saying he's bad. I've enjoyed a lot
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: of Rock's films. I mean, look, I even like Doom.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: I may be the only one. That movie came out
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and five. I liked it Walking Tall,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: Gridiron Gang Snitch that doesn't get talked about. Snitch was
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: a good movie. But those were before he really blew
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: up and started doing these big budget blockbusters. But you
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: watch Batista in a movie like House of the Rising Sun,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: and then you watch him as Drax and Guardians of
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: the Galaxy, and then you go watch him in Bushwick,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: and then go watch him in a comedy like Stubor
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: I went to the theater to see that, and then
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: go watch him in a movie like Knock at the Cabin,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: which was that m Night Shyamalan movie. These are all
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: very different roles. And by the way, he was the
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: best part of that Knock at the Cabin movie. He
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: played this character Leonard. He was great. He's very versatile
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: as an actor. I don't know if any of those
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: three will ever win an Academy Award, but I could
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: totally see Batista doing some kind of art house type
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: film one day and that nets him at least a nomination.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: Although I will say there's chatter that Rock actually might
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: get a nomination, an Oscar nomination for the movie that's
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: coming out I think in October he did on Mark
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: Kerr The Smashing Machine. It's possible. It's possible he could
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: actually get an Oscar nod for that. But like, I
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: could totally see Batista doing an art house type film
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: and then you know, being nominated for an Academy Award.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: So I think they nailed it with the Top four.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: You could flip flop Rock and see his spots and
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that, but Batista is the best
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: wrestler turned actor. Let's take some mailbag questions. You could
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: always email me the Solemn Monster at gmail dot com.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: Please include your name or where you are from when
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: you write in. I want to start here with Mike
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: in Binghamton, New York. And this isn't really a question,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: but it was a nice email that I got, and
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: a nice note on Ron Killings as well. Says first
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: time writing into the mailbag, I stumbled upon your podcast
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: a few years ago and was instantly hooked. I wanted
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: to start off by saying that you are one of
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: the best wrestling media pages in the entire business. I
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: appreciate you covering wrestling like a reporter and not just
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: a fan who shows bias. Your tone and approach should
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: be modeled by others, and it's refreshing to hear someone
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: who not only knows what they're talking about, but also
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: presents this information with news style analysis. And your interviews
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: are outstanding, not just a fan marking out with talent.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: Kudos to you and the great work that you do. Mike.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: That means a lot, it really does. I appreciate that.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: But he says, I wanted to write up a quick
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: shout out to Ron our Truth killings. He did a
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: meet and greet at the Speedy Fest in Binghamton, New York,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: earlier this month. He was genuine and spent so much
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: time talking with fans before absolutely killing it on stage
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: for his music concert. I hope they do a little
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: more with him as a tweener. He's a great character
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: and an even better guy. We've heard all year about
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: John Cena getting his flowers. Our Truth deserves some love too.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. Yeah, Our Truth is great,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned you look forward to seeing more of
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: him as a tweener, and that doesn't look like it's
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: going to happen. And so that's that's the shame of it,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: which is that it looked like they were finally allowing
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: him to take his character in a different direction, and
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: then because they abandoned the John Cena heel turn and
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: wrap that up, it's like, well, we got goofy Our
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: Truth back doing nothing but comedy. And I think there's
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of potential there that I hope that they
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: can explore, but it's not looking good. But yeah, I mean,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: look all the things I've ever heard about Our Truth.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: When he does, you know, appearances, meet and greets and
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: interacts with fans. It's all positive. You know, he's awesome.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: There's a reason why he has stood the test of time.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: He is timeless in many ways. He certainly doesn't look
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: his age. I don't know how much longer he intends
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: to do this for, but you know, he looks like
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: he can go into the twenty years if he wants
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: to so. Yes, Our Truth is great. Dane from Saint Louis.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: This is just something I came across. It's a story
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: about Paramount possibly planning to buy Warner Brothers if this
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: does happen. Any thoughts on how this could impact wrestling
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: in the larger sense, given the TKO owned UFC just
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: signed a multi billion dollar deal with Paramount and TKO
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: has WWE under its umbrella. First of all, this is
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: just a rumor right now. It is not one that
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: I see as having a lot of legs, at least
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: not yet. Could this be something maybe in a few
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: years possibly, but I don't think Paramount is buying Warner
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: Brothers anytime in the near future. I could see why
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: they might want to, you know, if you if you
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: combine their streaming subscribers, it would make them the number
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: two streamer in the world behind Netflix. Disney is merging
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: Hulu into its Disney Plus service at the end of
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the year, so if you combine those two subscriber bases,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: it puts them in the same ballpark, but it's still
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit less than what Paramount Plus and HBO
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: Max would make up. You've got two movie studios in
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Paramount and Warner Brothers. I don't know why they need
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: to be merged together, and you know, to be merged
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: together into one giant studio, which is what I assume
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: would happen here, because why maintain two separate studios. So
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: I hope this doesn't happen. If it does, how it
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: would affect AW since they have a big media rights
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: deal with Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount is in business
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: with TKO. The honest answer is I don't know, and
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: neither does anyone else. You know which company would they
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: be acquiring because Warner Brothers Discovery is splitting into two
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: companies next year, one for streaming in their movie studio
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: and the other one for their linear networks, So think
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: TNT and TBS is it just one or the other
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: or is it both. If it's both, why even by
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: they're splitting them into two companies in the first place,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: because aw is on HBO Max two. So either way
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: it could affect them, probably not in a good way,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: but no one really knows. It depends on exactly what's
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: being acquired. But this is where these mergers and these
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: acquisitions can become very messy. It's like, sure, one way
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: to look at it is if streaming services get merged together,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: that would in theory, cut down on the number of
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: subscriptions that you would need, like if you're the consumer.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: But it also creates less competition and fewer options, which
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: is why it might make business sense for these companies.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: But I don't see all of this consolidation being a
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: good thing for you and me, and we're seeing a
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: lot of it these days. Jose from New York City.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: Do you agree that this year has been the worst
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: year of Tripleh's era and his best era so far
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: has been Summer Slam twenty twenty two all the way
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: to wrestle Mania of forty. Yes, this year has certainly
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: been the most boring. I will agree with you on that.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Christopher from Pensacola, Florida. There have been three men to
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: win King of the Ring, Royal Rumble and Money in
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: the Bank, Edge, Seamus, and Brock Lesnar buy Sell and
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: rent on their overall wrestling careers. I'm going to buy
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: on Brock. I feel like that's an easy one. I
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: know Edge has accomplished a lot in his career. I
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: Brock's got to be on top. So Brock is who
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to buy on. I'm gonna rent on Edge,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna sell on Shamus. Jordan from Washington, d C.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: Buy Sell and rent on who had the best wrestling
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: career out of these three Jeff Hardy, RVD and seth Rawlins.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: That's not really a fair question since two of the
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: three are still active on a regular basis. I mean,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: I guess from the other question, I guess Brock and
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: Seamus and Edge are all active too, but I wouldn't
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: necessar early say full time. But like, it's hard to
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: answer questions like this because these people are still active.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: But as I sit here now, I have to buy
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: on seth Rawlins as having the best career of the three.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna rent on RVD and I'm gonna sell on
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: Jeff Hardy, which is gonna sound crazy, and there's gonna
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: be people who are gonna be fucking hanging from the
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: ceiling here trying to jump on top of me for this,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: because look, Jeff is a big star, and he's an
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: influential name in the history of the business, no doubt
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: about it. But Jeff is someone who should have been
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: number one on this list, and through his own mistakes,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: he's not. You know, Jeff is a class a what
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: if case. If he had his head on straight all
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: those years ago, how far could he have gone? How
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: big of a star truly could he have been. I mean,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would have been John Cena or
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Roman Reigns. I mean, but he could have been so
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: much more. He could have made so much more money,
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: He could have won more championships. He could have been
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: in seth Rollins spot, you know, cashing in his money
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: in the bank at WrestleMania to win the title. Headlining
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania's RVD. Has had success across multiple promotions ECWWWETNA. It's
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: won major titles in every single promotion that he's been in.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: But it's a similar thing to Jeff where in WWE,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: one mistake ruined what could have been a legendary run
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: for him. And were it not for politics, you know,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: back in two thousand and two, he could have been
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: so much bigger than he was. Rollins had some success
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: in Ring of Honor, but he has spent the vast
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: majority of his career in one place. It just so
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: happens at the one place he spent most of his
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: career and is the biggest promotion in the world. And
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: he's conquered the mountaintop there several times over now, and
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: he was part of one of the great factions in
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: WWE history. And if you say the authority, I'm going
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: to punch you in the mouth. In terms of match quality,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: I would put his resume up against either RVD or Jeff.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's had a lot of great classic matches
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: over the year. So it really all depends on what
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: criteria you're going by here, But by all of those
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: key metrics I have to buy on Seth Rollins. Chris
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: from Bethlehem. I saw a reals clip from a guy
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: named Tom Green talking about how WCW's PN News got
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: slapped by Rick rud for stealing money from the locker room,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: but then also got slapped for bragging about beating Rude
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: in an arm wrestling contest. Was pn news known for
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: stealing money from his fellow wrestlers, or was it that
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: Rude just didn't like him bragging about his arm wrestling win.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: First of all, I don't believe for a second that
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: pn News beat Rick Rud in an arm wrestling contest. Okay,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: so that's number one. Number two, the story goes that
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of wrestlers got money and jewelry stolen out
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  Speaker 1: of the locker room. I think it was a European
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  Speaker 1: tour that WCW was on, and they accused PN news
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  Speaker 1: of being the thief. He has claimed year later that
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  Speaker 1: he had his money stolen too. He was also a
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  Speaker 1: victim and it wasn't him. I have no idea if
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  Speaker 1: he stole the money or not, but I know that
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  Speaker 1: if I know that if I did steal the money,
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  Speaker 1: I would say the same thing that he said, My
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  Speaker 1: buddy was stolen too. That's exactly the sort of thing
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  Speaker 1: that a thief would say. So I mean, who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? You know? For a guy who's claim to
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  Speaker 1: fame was the one year he spent in WCW in
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  Speaker 1: like nineteen ninety one. I see things pop up about
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  Speaker 1: PN news every now and again. He should be happy
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  Speaker 1: people remember his name. Kent from Philadelphia. When would have
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  Speaker 1: been the correct year and event to do the following
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  Speaker 1: dream matches? And he lists a whole bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: ones here. I shaved a couple of them off, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll run through these real quick. Brack LESNAR against Steve Austin.
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  Speaker 1: The correct year to do that would have been two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three, but Austin got hurt he had to
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  Speaker 1: go away, but it would have been around had he
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  Speaker 1: not gone away, that would have been that year. Shawn
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  Speaker 1: Michaels against the Rock. I'm gonna also say two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and three when he was Hollywood Rock. I think Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Rock against Shawn Michaels would have been awesome, or that
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  Speaker 1: could have been the wrestle media magine in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five had Rock not left. But then see, then
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have gotten that Shawn Michael's curt Angle classic
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  Speaker 1: from WrestleMania twenty one. So it worked out okay. But
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  Speaker 1: I think two thousand and three or two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: five Sting against the Undertaker. I'm gonna say nineteen ninety eight,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, or twenty eleven. They could have done
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  Speaker 1: it in twenty eleven. They didn't a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 1: for that either of those two years. Goldberg against Steve
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  Speaker 1: Austin nineteen ninety eight, there was no other good year
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  Speaker 1: for it. Goldberg came into the WWE literally the night
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  Speaker 1: after Austin wrestled his last match, and even if Austin
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  Speaker 1: had not wrestled his last match that night, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that Goldberg and Austin in two thousand and three
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  Speaker 1: would have had much appeal. Honestly, it was never gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen in ninety eight, but if you were going to
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  Speaker 1: do that match, it would have been ninety eight. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Guerrero against Sean Michaels. I think a good year to
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  Speaker 1: do that would have been two thousand and four, Raymisterio
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  Speaker 1: against Brett Hart nineteen ninety eight, Brett Hart against Hulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan WWF nineteen ninety three. Obviously, Brett Hart against Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Hogan WCW see. I don't look at that as much
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  Speaker 1: of a dream match at that point, but if you
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  Speaker 1: were going to do it, it should have been nineteen ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: I think they worked the house show match. Actually, it
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  Speaker 1: might have been the ninety eight they worked the house
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  Speaker 1: show match together in Los Angeles. I don't remember if
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  Speaker 1: Hogan and Brett ever had a singles match on TV
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  Speaker 1: brock Lesnar against Batista. See, I never saw that as
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  Speaker 1: a dream match. But I'm gonna say twenty fourteen, when
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  Speaker 1: Batista came back, Rick Flair against Hulkgan WWF nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: and finally Ultimate Warrior against Brett Hart, that was never
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. I don't care what Brett says he
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  Speaker 1: was told in his book. I'm not even gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even gonna put a date on it because it
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  Speaker 1: was never gonna happen and it never should have happened.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I have to say this, Kent didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave a name with his email, so I went back
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  Speaker 1: to see if he left it on a previous email,
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  Speaker 1: And imagine my surprise when I see the last email
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  Speaker 1: that I ever got from him was back in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and all it says is thanks for blocking me on
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  Speaker 1: twit Twitter. Dickhead. It's okay. Just realize your podcast sucks too.
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  Speaker 1: Much Internet smart bullshit anyway, have a nice life smart,
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  Speaker 1: which just goes to show you that when people leave
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  Speaker 1: comments like that on Twitter or on YouTube or in
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  Speaker 1: this case, an email, I always say, more often than not,
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  Speaker 1: they're still going to be listening, or if they stop,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to come back. They got to get their fixed.
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  Speaker 1: This is exhibit A. He called me a dickhead and
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  Speaker 1: said my podcast sucks, but eight years later he's still listening.
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  Speaker 1: They always do. Can't no hard feelings, brother, It's all good.
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  Speaker 1: I just had to share that though, because it just
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  Speaker 1: made me laugh. I wasn't expecting that. See, I'm like
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  Speaker 1: a nicotine addiction. You can't quit me. You can't quit
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  Speaker 1: The Solemn Monster sounds on July twenty first with Stephanie
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  Speaker 1: Vecaer and EO Scott and that match ended in a disqualification.
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  Speaker 1: Then you fast forward to July twenty eight, we had
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  Speaker 1: Jay Uso against Bronson Reid which ended in a disqualification.
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  Speaker 1: August fourth, you had seth Rawlins one on one against
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  Speaker 1: that ended in a disqualification. And then we arrived tonight
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  Speaker 1: you'd see I'm punk in La Night against bron Breaker
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  Speaker 1: and Bronson Reid, and wouldn't you know how did this
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  Speaker 1: match end? It ended in a disqualification. As a match
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  Speaker 1: it was fined. It was a good main event until
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  Speaker 1: we hit the finish and then I realized. Boy, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I have suffered from deja vu. It almost
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  Speaker 1: feels like I've seen this before. It's almost like I'm
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