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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's business time, baby. You are listening to Solo Monster
- 0:05Speaker 1: Sounds Off.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I love you so, mama, monster, dude, I want your soul.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Woman, you got grown ass wrestlers in the back going
- 0:16Speaker 1: on Twitter. Come over here, heart, is that Pet Patterson?
- 0:19Speaker 1: You have legs? Week I was ninety nine percent positive
- 0:24Speaker 1: it was just chessed up.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Now I have been begging him for a job on
- 0:28Speaker 2: every every platform I can, and I would have know
- 0:30Speaker 2: the reason why you won't park.
- 0:33Speaker 1: This is episode nine fifty seven of the SOLN Monster
- 0:38Speaker 1: Sounds Off for Sunday, March twenty ninth, twenty twenty six.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I am the Solemn Monster. Twenty five years ago this
- 0:46Speaker 1: past week, I remember logging onto WWF dot com and
- 0:51Speaker 1: seeing a giant graphic telling me that WWF had purchased WCW.
- 0:58Speaker 1: You can imagine my reaction. It was the end of
- 1:01Speaker 1: an era. There had not been much drama around the
- 1:04Speaker 1: Monday Night War in a while by that point, but
- 1:06Speaker 1: it didn't make it any less shocking that of all
- 1:09Speaker 1: people to buy the company, it was Vince McMahon. And
- 1:12Speaker 1: then the following Monday was the famous Raw Nitro simulcast
- 1:16Speaker 1: where Vince opened the show and he let all the
- 1:19Speaker 1: w CW fans know that their fate was now in
- 1:21Speaker 1: his hands. And then Shane McMahon walked out during that
- 1:25Speaker 1: spring break Nitro in Panama City and he announced that
- 1:29Speaker 1: he now owned WCW. Shane McMahon the new owner of WCW,
- 1:34Speaker 1: Stephanie McMahon as the owner of ECW. What a time
- 1:39Speaker 1: to be alive. And the wrestling business has not been
- 1:42Speaker 1: the same since. They have tried many times over the
- 1:46Speaker 1: years through the brand split, to try to recreate that
- 1:49Speaker 1: feeling of WWF versus WCW Raw versus Nitro, but they
- 1:54Speaker 1: have failed every single time because you just can't do it.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Even with AW now is their biggest competitor, it is
- 2:00Speaker 1: hardly a fair fight. I mean, WWE is just too
- 2:03Speaker 1: big to ever convincingly lose a war to anyone else.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Plus all the guaranteed money they have coming in through
- 2:09Speaker 1: their media rights deals. You know, it was that competition
- 2:13Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, in nineteen ninety seven that knocked
- 2:15Speaker 1: them back on their heels and forced them to change creatively.
- 2:19Speaker 1: You know, their backs were against the wall. They were
- 2:22Speaker 1: near bankruptcy at one point in ninety seven until they
- 2:26Speaker 1: expanded all of their pay per views from two hours
- 2:28Speaker 1: to three. Just like WCW had done. They followed their
- 2:32Speaker 1: lead and they jacked up the price, I think by
- 2:34Speaker 1: five dollars per show. That got them out of the
- 2:37Speaker 1: hole that they were in. And then Vince told Brett Hard, Hey,
- 2:40Speaker 1: I could afford to pay you now, but it was
- 2:42Speaker 1: too late. Brett had already signed with WCW. But it
- 2:45Speaker 1: was that competition. It was putting the TV on and
- 2:48Speaker 1: flipping back and forth between the two shows and not
- 2:51Speaker 1: knowing who might show up and where and when, or
- 2:54Speaker 1: again who was going to jump ship. It was sting
- 2:58Speaker 1: chasing the nWo. It was Gold getting hot. It was
- 3:01Speaker 1: all the cruiserweights and all the smaller guys getting exposure
- 3:05Speaker 1: on TNT and TBS, and even when WCW had no
- 3:08Speaker 1: idea what to do with them, they at least had
- 3:10Speaker 1: a platform to get over and then they made the
- 3:13Speaker 1: jump to become even bigger stars. It was the best
- 3:16Speaker 1: time to be a fan, it really was. The quality
- 3:19Speaker 1: of the end ring may be better now than it
- 3:21Speaker 1: was then, but there was something about wrestling them and
- 3:23Speaker 1: the intensity of it that we just we don't have
- 3:26Speaker 1: that today, And it's not that wrestling is bad now.
- 3:29Speaker 1: It's just it's different. You know, the excitement is not
- 3:32Speaker 1: what it used to be. Back then, it was simpler times.
- 3:35Speaker 1: You know, they didn't have to take three commercials in
- 3:37Speaker 1: the middle of a match. They didn't have to promote this,
- 3:40Speaker 1: that and the other. You know, the focus was on
- 3:42Speaker 1: the action. The focus was on the stories and the
- 3:45Speaker 1: show itself, not all of these other ancillary things that
- 3:48Speaker 1: eat up so much time where it's almost more about
- 3:51Speaker 1: the entrance now and the time it takes for someone
- 3:54Speaker 1: to come to the ring than it is what they
- 3:57Speaker 1: actually do once they're in the ring. You know, back then,
- 4:01Speaker 1: when the two companies were competing every Monday, you couldn't
- 4:03Speaker 1: waste time on shit like that because you didn't want
- 4:06Speaker 1: to give up any ground to the other show. You
- 4:08Speaker 1: had to keep the action going. If one show started
- 4:11Speaker 1: at eight pm, you know, to try to get the
- 4:13Speaker 1: jump on him, the other one would start three minutes earlier.
- 4:16Speaker 1: I mean, really petty shit. But the real winners were
- 4:19Speaker 1: the fans because it made things fun to follow. WCW
- 4:23Speaker 1: did more to kill itself than Vince McMahon ever did,
- 4:27Speaker 1: even though he likes to take credit for killing the competition.
- 4:30Speaker 1: They killed themselves. They killed themselves through mismanagement, bad booking,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and their inability to create new stars. That's what killed
- 4:40Speaker 1: WCW WWF getting hot, it sped up the process and
- 4:44Speaker 1: the AOL time Warner merger that didn't help. There were
- 4:47Speaker 1: absolutely people who worked for Turner who wanted them to
- 4:50Speaker 1: have nothing to do with WCW or just wrestling in general.
- 4:55Speaker 1: They would fiddle with the books to make it look
- 4:57Speaker 1: like they were losing more money than they really were.
- 5:00Speaker 1: All of those things were conspiring against them. But had
- 5:04Speaker 1: Eric Bischoff Infusion Media bought the company like they originally
- 5:07Speaker 1: intended to, I think the end result would have been
- 5:09Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, they would have survived a little bit
- 5:12Speaker 1: longer than they did, But Bischoff's period of real success
- 5:15Speaker 1: with WCW was fairly small, and he's been able to
- 5:19Speaker 1: parlay those eighty three weeks thirty years ago into a
- 5:23Speaker 1: successful podcast and other things that he can use to
- 5:26Speaker 1: support himself. But would w CW still be alive today
- 5:30Speaker 1: if Bischoff had bought it, No, I don't believe it would.
- 5:33Speaker 1: But if the company didn't die in two thousand and one,
- 5:36Speaker 1: they would very likely be no TNA, maybe no ring
- 5:40Speaker 1: of honor right, Who knows if there would even be
- 5:42Speaker 1: an aw today. One of the great what if questions
- 5:46Speaker 1: in wrestling history. What if right WCW stuck around for
- 5:50Speaker 1: another five years, What does the wrestling world look like today?
- 5:54Speaker 1: You know, does Hulk Hogan go back to WWE and
- 5:56Speaker 1: get that WrestleMania match with the Rock? Because Bischoff was guy,
- 6:01Speaker 1: you know, he very likely would have wound up working
- 6:03Speaker 1: with him. Aj Styles was working for WCW when the
- 6:07Speaker 1: company went under. Would Bischoff had kept someone like him
- 6:10Speaker 1: around to help prop up the new company if he
- 6:12Speaker 1: had gotten it, you know, would he have tried to
- 6:14Speaker 1: recreate what he did with the Cruiser Weights by building
- 6:17Speaker 1: a core group of young, high flying guys to carry
- 6:21Speaker 1: the shows with a handful of big names to anchor it.
- 6:24Speaker 1: What would the formula have been? I don't know, It's possible.
- 6:27Speaker 1: After WWE bought it, plans were being made for WCW
- 6:30Speaker 1: to live on as its own brand, with the idea
- 6:32Speaker 1: that WCW would get the row slot on Mondays and
- 6:36Speaker 1: WWE would have the SmackDown slot on Thursdays. And that
- 6:40Speaker 1: all went out the window after that Booker t buff
- 6:42Speaker 1: Bagwell debacle. In Tacoma, Washington, which was not the match
- 6:46Speaker 1: to do in that spot. But they didn't have a
- 6:49Speaker 1: lot of the big names that would have appealed to
- 6:51Speaker 1: people at that time. Hogan, Flair Haul and Nash Goldberg.
- 6:55Speaker 1: I mean, they were content to collect their guaranteed money
- 6:58Speaker 1: and take a paid vacation. I would have done the
- 7:01Speaker 1: same thing for the money those guys were probably making.
- 7:04Speaker 1: You know, after that night in Tacoma, all the planning,
- 7:07Speaker 1: Jim Ross booking venues out months in advance for WCW shows,
- 7:11Speaker 1: It all went down the tubes, probably for the better.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Vince McMahon never would have allowed WCW to have any
- 7:19Speaker 1: type of real success, even though now he owned it,
- 7:22Speaker 1: because oh it's WCWWCW can't triumph in any way over WWE.
- 7:29Speaker 1: He even conditioned the fans to feel that way, right,
- 7:32Speaker 1: which is why they were so cold to WCW. At
- 7:34Speaker 1: first they didn't care. They're the enemy, but for years
- 7:39Speaker 1: they were branded that way, and so that takes hold
- 7:42Speaker 1: after a while. Now, all of a sudden, you expect
- 7:45Speaker 1: these people, they're supposed to cheer for them. It was
- 7:48Speaker 1: never gonna work. The minute he bought the company, WCW
- 7:52Speaker 1: was a walking corpse. He got what he wanted out
- 7:57Speaker 1: of it. He got the tape library and the other assets.
- 8:00Speaker 1: I mean, the money they've made off the tape library
- 8:02Speaker 1: alone has more than paid for what he bought WCW
- 8:05Speaker 1: for was pennies on the dollar. It's frustrating to see
- 8:10Speaker 1: how hot that company was at one time and how
- 8:12Speaker 1: quickly they burned out. It never should have happened, and
- 8:16Speaker 1: the wrestling business is worse off for it having happened.
- 8:20Speaker 1: You know, that much was clear in two thousand and one,
- 8:23Speaker 1: and it's just as clear twenty five years later, in
- 8:25Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Outside of the death of Owen Heart
- 8:30Speaker 1: and the ben Wa murder suicide. All right, from a
- 8:33Speaker 1: business standpoint, the worst thing to ever happen to wrestling
- 8:36Speaker 1: was the death of WCW. And I mean, we could
- 8:39Speaker 1: talk about the death of the territories, you know, many
- 8:43Speaker 1: of which you know would have gone down regardless the
- 8:45Speaker 1: death of Kfabe. That whole crash TV era of wrestling
- 8:50Speaker 1: has its pros and cons the what chance, There's a
- 8:53Speaker 1: lot of bad things that we can talk about, but
- 8:56Speaker 1: the death of WCW and the monopoly that it created
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- 10:38Speaker 1: this week. But before we get into that, we have
- 10:40Speaker 1: a lot of news to get to and I've got
- 10:43Speaker 1: a few more notes on the death of Dennis Condrey
- 10:47Speaker 1: of The Midnight Express. I shared this on The Uncrowned
- 10:49Speaker 1: Wrestling Show on Tuesday. This came from Jim Cornett on
- 10:54Speaker 1: his podcast who Knew Condre better than anybody. Conrey's wife
- 10:58Speaker 1: of thirty three years is Teresa. Was at work on Friday,
- 11:02Speaker 1: the friday he died, and she had texted him around
- 11:05Speaker 1: four o'clock that her nursing shift was ending, and he
- 11:08Speaker 1: didn't answer, which was unusual. As it turns out, he
- 11:12Speaker 1: had fallen at home and the way that he fell,
- 11:15Speaker 1: he broke his neck and He badly damaged his spinal cord,
- 11:19Speaker 1: and the neighbor found him laying on the floor. He
- 11:22Speaker 1: was alive, he was cognizant, but he was paralyzed from
- 11:25Speaker 1: the chest down and he ended up on a respirator.
- 11:27Speaker 1: He passed away shortly thereafter. Yeah, that's the thing about
- 11:30Speaker 1: getting old, man, you know, one bad fall can be
- 11:33Speaker 1: the end, or it can be the beginning of the end.
- 11:35Speaker 1: You hear about older people, they fall, they break a hip,
- 11:38Speaker 1: and after that it's just this cascading sequence of just
- 11:42Speaker 1: awful shit that happens, and it's all downhill. In this case, Contry,
- 11:47Speaker 1: he had taken bumps in the ring for decades plus.
- 11:50Speaker 1: He battled cancer four different times. So who knows, you
- 11:55Speaker 1: know what kind of effect that had on his neck,
- 11:58Speaker 1: you know, to where one fall he breaks it. He
- 12:00Speaker 1: had throat cancer. I mean, so all the radiation and stuff,
- 12:05Speaker 1: I'm sure that had an effect on his throat, his neck,
- 12:07Speaker 1: that whole you know, that whole area. So who knows,
- 12:10Speaker 1: you know how that may have played a role. But
- 12:12Speaker 1: Cornett said Condrey had spoken to his wife about her
- 12:15Speaker 1: retiring soon so that they could spend more time together
- 12:18Speaker 1: in their twilight years, and she was less than two
- 12:20Speaker 1: weeks away from retirement and now he's gone. So it
- 12:25Speaker 1: was heartbreaking to listen to him talk about it because
- 12:27Speaker 1: you could hear it in his voice, just how broken
- 12:29Speaker 1: up he is about the whole thing. I haven't heard
- 12:31Speaker 1: him like that since Bobby Eaton died. And this was
- 12:35Speaker 1: announced on Tuesday as I was recording the Uncrowned Wrestling
- 12:40Speaker 1: Show that Psycho sid Vicious will be inducted into the
- 12:45Speaker 1: WWE Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty six as
- 12:49Speaker 1: part of its Legacy Class. Finally, the only men left
- 12:52Speaker 1: to have held the Winged Eagle Belt to not be
- 12:55Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, we'll finally take his rightful place.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I always thought that was very weird that every person
- 13:01Speaker 1: who would held that championship was in except him. But
- 13:05Speaker 1: we actually got two names this week that are going in.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I will get to the other one here in a
- 13:09Speaker 1: little bit. But again, yet another name that I was
- 13:13Speaker 1: hoping to see go in when they were still alive,
- 13:15Speaker 1: and I know they were hoping for it as well.
- 13:17Speaker 1: But then he passes away and then he gets in.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Hence why this is being relegated to the Legacy class.
- 13:24Speaker 1: In the past, when you are inducted into the Legacy class,
- 13:26Speaker 1: which they first introduced ten years ago. There's no fanfare,
- 13:31Speaker 1: speeches from loved ones or anything like that. They just
- 13:33Speaker 1: sort of announce you. Last year, Kamala Dori Funk Senior
- 13:38Speaker 1: and Ivan Koloff were the Legacy inductees and they at
- 13:42Speaker 1: least aired video packages for them, and they showed their
- 13:44Speaker 1: family members and the audience. They would stand up and
- 13:47Speaker 1: they would wave, So, I mean, it's better than it
- 13:50Speaker 1: was when they first started doing it. But not long
- 13:53Speaker 1: before he died, Sid said he was hopeful of going
- 13:56Speaker 1: in now that Vince McMahon was gone, because he thought
- 13:59Speaker 1: that made an in dduction more likely Vince not being
- 14:02Speaker 1: around anymore against the two of them just you know,
- 14:03Speaker 1: they didn't get along at various points very well, so
- 14:08Speaker 1: he was expecting and hoping that that might clear the
- 14:10Speaker 1: way for him to get in. Sid's oldest son, Frank, said,
- 14:14Speaker 1: congratulations to the Master and Ruler of the world. Grateful
- 14:18Speaker 1: for the recognition by WWE inducting my dad into the
- 14:21Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. He deserves this and I wish he
- 14:24Speaker 1: was here to be a part of the celebration. I
- 14:27Speaker 1: love and miss you, Dad. His younger brother, Gunner said this,
- 14:31Speaker 1: it's official. My father's Psycho said, Vicious is going into
- 14:34Speaker 1: the WWE Hall of Fame. The master and ruler of
- 14:37Speaker 1: the world is finally getting his flowers. Proud to be
- 14:40Speaker 1: his son and to carry that legacy forward. The Hall
- 14:43Speaker 1: of Fame just got a whole lot more vicious. Gunner,
- 14:47Speaker 1: by the way, is planning a memorial show in his
- 14:49Speaker 1: father's honor on August twenty ninth in West Memphis, Arkansas,
- 14:54Speaker 1: called the Psycho Sid Memorial Benefit Show, with one hundred
- 14:58Speaker 1: percent of the proceeds going straight to local animal shelters.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I guess Sid was a big animal lover, so that
- 15:05Speaker 1: is a cool thing they're doing. Gunner is the one
- 15:08Speaker 1: who broke the news on Facebook a couple of years
- 15:10Speaker 1: ago that his father had passed away after battling cancer
- 15:15Speaker 1: for several years. And at the time, he said that
- 15:18Speaker 1: his dad was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in twenty
- 15:20Speaker 1: sixteen and aphib around the same time, and he was
- 15:25Speaker 1: also given a pacemaker, and then in April of twenty
- 15:28Speaker 1: twenty one, he was diagnosed with stage four non Hodgkins lymphoma,
- 15:32Speaker 1: which was linked to round up weed killer. He said,
- 15:37Speaker 1: so he wasn't just battling stage four cancer. He apparently
- 15:40Speaker 1: had also gotten COVID as well, which is what led
- 15:43Speaker 1: to his death. But Sid had not told anybody, not
- 15:47Speaker 1: publicly anyway, about his cancer. He was still making appearances,
- 15:50Speaker 1: you know, pretty much up until he died. If you
- 15:54Speaker 1: just look at Sid, he was the perfect pro wrestler.
- 15:58Speaker 1: Like if I was creating a wrestler and two twix,
- 16:01Speaker 1: I would want him to look like Sid. Or if
- 16:03Speaker 1: I had the option of choosing someone who looked like Sid,
- 16:06Speaker 1: that's the person I would gravitate to. Right. He was
- 16:09Speaker 1: the master of the power bomb. Great promo. Even when
- 16:12Speaker 1: he would have a bad promo, it was so bad
- 16:15Speaker 1: it was good. You were always entertained at least, and
- 16:19Speaker 1: he was over everywhere he went. Didn't matter if it
- 16:22Speaker 1: was Memphis, it didn't matter, if it was WCWWWEECW. He
- 16:27Speaker 1: can go around on the independen scene, it did not matter.
- 16:31Speaker 1: He was over everywhere he went. Two time WWE Champion,
- 16:35Speaker 1: two time WCW Champion, a member of the Four Horsemen
- 16:39Speaker 1: at one time to help combat RoboCop. Yes, RoboCop and
- 16:46Speaker 1: the only two WrestleMania is that he ever worked. He
- 16:49Speaker 1: made event in both shows, one against Hulk Hogan and
- 16:52Speaker 1: the other against the Undertaker. Now I had the chance
- 16:56Speaker 1: to meet the man once. In nineteen ninety six, not
- 16:59Speaker 1: long after he won the world title from Shawn Michaels,
- 17:02Speaker 1: he did a signing at fun Time, USA. Yes, the
- 17:05Speaker 1: same fun Time where Crash Holly went down the superslide.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Fun Time's been gone a long time now it's a
- 17:12Speaker 1: storage facility. But when he showed up for that signing
- 17:15Speaker 1: and he pulled that winged eagle belt out of that
- 17:17Speaker 1: black velvet bag, I was so tempted to grab it
- 17:20Speaker 1: and run. I'm telling you, my intrusive thoughts were almost
- 17:24Speaker 1: getting the better of me. But you know, the man
- 17:27Speaker 1: was six foot nine, three hundred and thirteen pounds. I
- 17:29Speaker 1: don't think that would have been a wise move, but
- 17:33Speaker 1: I was tempted. I would have been like Crash. I
- 17:35Speaker 1: would have been gonna be chasing me through the ballpit.
- 17:39Speaker 1: But the man was going to be a crop duster
- 17:41Speaker 1: on a farm until he met Randy Savage at the
- 17:44Speaker 1: gym one day and the rest is history. Hey, you
- 17:46Speaker 1: want to be a wrestler, and the rest is history.
- 17:50Speaker 1: I've talked about him being one of two names that
- 17:51Speaker 1: Antonio Andnoki considered for the big Van Vader gimmick. It
- 17:55Speaker 1: was Sid in the war I think he wanted the
- 17:56Speaker 1: Warrior first, then it was Sid, and then ultimately he
- 18:00Speaker 1: went to Leon White. But he came to the WWF
- 18:04Speaker 1: as Sid Justice. He was part of the finish to
- 18:08Speaker 1: the greatest Royal Rumble match of all time. They really
- 18:11Speaker 1: thought that the fans would boost Sid when he dumped
- 18:13Speaker 1: Hogan out of that ring. He was gone about a
- 18:16Speaker 1: month after his WrestleMania match with Hogan. Either now, these
- 18:19Speaker 1: two theories or scenarios that have been pitched. Either he
- 18:25Speaker 1: quit over a failed drug test. A failed drug test,
- 18:28Speaker 1: by the way, that goes back before WrestleMania, but they
- 18:32Speaker 1: allowed him to work WrestleMania and then evidently the subsequent
- 18:35Speaker 1: European tour. I mean, that's a little weird. You know,
- 18:39Speaker 1: if he had failed a drug test and he was
- 18:40Speaker 1: going to be suspended for it, you would think that
- 18:43Speaker 1: you would suspend him right away, or at least immediately
- 18:46Speaker 1: after WrestleMania, like get through WrestleMania and then take whatever
- 18:49Speaker 1: action you're going to take. But they didn't. But supposedly
- 18:54Speaker 1: they had confronted him about it, maybe they were going
- 18:56Speaker 1: to suspend him, and he just he walked out, or
- 18:59Speaker 1: to hear Sid tell it, it was after a disagreement
- 19:01Speaker 1: with the Ultimate Warrior before a match. He did the match,
- 19:05Speaker 1: and then after he packed his bag and he walked out.
- 19:09Speaker 1: But he ended up back in WCW and he was
- 19:11Speaker 1: supposed to beat Vader to win the world title at
- 19:13Speaker 1: Star Kate in nineteen ninety three, but then came one
- 19:16Speaker 1: of the more famous incidents in wrestling history where we
- 19:19Speaker 1: nearly had two murders, the scissors incident overseas with Arn Anderson,
- 19:25Speaker 1: and I know I've talked about this a few times
- 19:28Speaker 1: over the years. It is one of the crazier stories
- 19:31Speaker 1: in wrestling history. Sid was at the Hotel bar, as
- 19:35Speaker 1: was Arn, so I'm sure you know there are probably
- 19:37Speaker 1: a few at least beers, if not cocktails in and
- 19:42Speaker 1: Sid made a comment about why he felt the company
- 19:44Speaker 1: wasn't drawing, and he said it was because of old
- 19:47Speaker 1: guys like Rick Flair. They won't step aside. And Arn's
- 19:52Speaker 1: version is that Sid was bragging about holding up the
- 19:55Speaker 1: company for a big pay raise and he was talking
- 19:58Speaker 1: about how all these old fuckers need to retire. Meanwhile,
- 20:02Speaker 1: Arn had just taken one hundred thousand dollars pay cut
- 20:04Speaker 1: the year before, and so it rubbed him the wrong way.
- 20:08Speaker 1: So the two of them had words, either Arned through
- 20:11Speaker 1: a beer at Sit or Sid through a beer at Arn.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Everybody got you know, got broken up. Everybody got sent
- 20:16Speaker 1: back to their rooms. Two cold Scorpio is in his
- 20:19Speaker 1: room and he hears a commotion outside. It's actually from downstairs,
- 20:24Speaker 1: so that's how loud they were. He could hear them
- 20:26Speaker 1: from from downstairs. So he goes out and he finds
- 20:30Speaker 1: the hallway covered in blood like blood all over the walls,
- 20:36Speaker 1: and Sid is standing over Arned with a pair of
- 20:38Speaker 1: scissors in his hand that belonged to Arn. Apparently Arn
- 20:43Speaker 1: was using them to trim his beard. Sid is the
- 20:46Speaker 1: one who came to his room because they had gotten
- 20:49Speaker 1: broken up, and everything was like, okay, everybody go calm down.
- 20:53Speaker 1: And I guess the more Sid thought about it, he
- 20:55Speaker 1: got even angrier. So, according to what Sid has said
- 20:59Speaker 1: in the past, he you know, broke a chair leg
- 21:01Speaker 1: off from a chair in his room. He went to
- 21:04Speaker 1: go find Arn. He was banging on the door. I
- 21:07Speaker 1: don't know if Arn was Arn was probably drunk, but
- 21:11Speaker 1: that's where the scissors came from. So when he opened
- 21:13Speaker 1: the door, Arn had the scissors and everything just went
- 21:16Speaker 1: to shit. But Sid looks down and he sees a
- 21:20Speaker 1: hole in his stomach and there's blood squirting out. So
- 21:23Speaker 1: at this point Vader wakes up. He comes out of
- 21:26Speaker 1: his room in his underwear, and he finds Sid with
- 21:29Speaker 1: blood pouring out of his stomach. So he does the
- 21:31Speaker 1: only thing that he can think to do. He takes
- 21:34Speaker 1: his thumb and he sticks his thumb in the hole
- 21:37Speaker 1: to stop the bleeding. Scorpio saved Arn Anderson's life. Vader
- 21:41Speaker 1: saved Sid's is basically what happened here, and neither man
- 21:45Speaker 1: pressed charges on the other. They were heading home anyway,
- 21:48Speaker 1: you know. From the UK. Arn suffered twenty stab wounds
- 21:53Speaker 1: all over his body. Sid was stabbed four times, almost
- 21:56Speaker 1: bled to death. I mean, they were both lucky to
- 21:59Speaker 1: be alive. And Sid got fired over the incident because
- 22:03Speaker 1: a lot of wrestlers had threatened to quit if he wasn't,
- 22:06Speaker 1: and with that he pissed away a six hundred thousand
- 22:08Speaker 1: dollars contract per year and a world title run. And
- 22:13Speaker 1: Arn got suspended over the incident. So I mean, neither
- 22:15Speaker 1: man was innocent in all this, but that tells you
- 22:17Speaker 1: who they held responsible for what happened, and also that
- 22:20Speaker 1: Arn had friends that Sid did not. But Sid kept
- 22:24Speaker 1: finding work because he was again over everywhere he went.
- 22:27Speaker 1: So even though he had left previously on bad terms,
- 22:30Speaker 1: even after he nearly killed Arn Anderson, Vince brought him back.
- 22:34Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety five. He was the bodyguard for Shawn Michaels.
- 22:38Speaker 1: He turned on Michaels. He ended up wrestling Diesel for
- 22:40Speaker 1: the world title a few times, and he ended up
- 22:43Speaker 1: joining Ted Dibiasse's million dollar corporation for what I would
- 22:47Speaker 1: say was the lamest run of his career, and then
- 22:50Speaker 1: he sort of fizzled out, but then they brought him
- 22:52Speaker 1: back again. They brought him back again. I want to
- 22:56Speaker 1: say that run God had to be it was either
- 23:00Speaker 1: the end of ninety five or very beginning of ninety six,
- 23:04Speaker 1: because they did that Raw Bowl, I think the first
- 23:08Speaker 1: raw of nineteen ninety six, and I want to say
- 23:11Speaker 1: Sid was in that match, So he stuck around at
- 23:15Speaker 1: least until then and then just sort of disappeared. But
- 23:18Speaker 1: it was six or seven months later. It was the
- 23:20Speaker 1: summer of ninety six, they brought him back again after
- 23:24Speaker 1: they fired The Ultimate Warrior because who the fuck didn't
- 23:27Speaker 1: see that coming Vince McMahon apparently, And this is where
- 23:32Speaker 1: Sid caught fire with the fans. For whatever reason, there
- 23:35Speaker 1: was something about this particular run, even though he was
- 23:37Speaker 1: always over, he was never over at this level in WWE,
- 23:42Speaker 1: and he just caught fire. And the original plan was
- 23:45Speaker 1: for Shawn Michaels to drop the world title to Vader
- 23:47Speaker 1: at Survivor Series. Sewan didn't want to work with him,
- 23:51Speaker 1: so Sid got the spot instead. And in Madison Square
- 23:54Speaker 1: Garden that night, Sid had the best match of his
- 23:56Speaker 1: career and they were not expecting the crowd to react
- 23:59Speaker 1: in the way that they did, but they cheered wildly
- 24:01Speaker 1: for Sid, and they bowed Shawn Michaels to the point
- 24:06Speaker 1: where Vince McMahon at one point, for god, who told
- 24:08Speaker 1: this story, But Vince McMahon got up from the announced
- 24:11Speaker 1: desk because he was calling the show. He got up
- 24:14Speaker 1: from the announced desk, he took his headset off and
- 24:17Speaker 1: he just looked around in disbelief with this bewildered look
- 24:21Speaker 1: on his face. That's how caught off guard. He was
- 24:23Speaker 1: by the reaction to Sid and the booze for Michaels,
- 24:27Speaker 1: and they cheered when Sid won the title, except for
- 24:29Speaker 1: that one girl who screamed no. Like Darth Vader. He
- 24:34Speaker 1: dropped the belt back to Sean at the Royal Rumble
- 24:37Speaker 1: and he was scheduled to win it back from him
- 24:39Speaker 1: again on Raw a few weeks later, when Vince he
- 24:41Speaker 1: had changed his mind about what the original plan was
- 24:44Speaker 1: for WrestleMania. Business was not great. Business was not great,
- 24:48Speaker 1: and I don't think it's fair to just blame Sean
- 24:50Speaker 1: Michaels for it. Well, he's the champion, and so you
- 24:53Speaker 1: got to put the blame on him. He gets some
- 24:54Speaker 1: of the blame, but it just business was just not great,
- 24:58Speaker 1: and Vince had fallen back on his tried and true,
- 25:02Speaker 1: which is we have to have some big men in
- 25:06Speaker 1: the main event of WrestleMania the big man fetish, and
- 25:09Speaker 1: so the plan was to have Sid win the belt
- 25:10Speaker 1: back and then defend the championship against the Undertaker, Shawn
- 25:14Speaker 1: Michaels would wrestle Brett Hart underneath in a non title match.
- 25:18Speaker 1: So instead, Shawn famously lost his smile and he vacated
- 25:23Speaker 1: the belt instead. Instead of putting Sid over again. So
- 25:27Speaker 1: the new plan was to put the belt up in
- 25:29Speaker 1: a four way match, and this is back before triple
- 25:32Speaker 1: threats and fatal four ways worth thing, at least on TV,
- 25:35Speaker 1: they did not do them. Brett won the belt twenty
- 25:38Speaker 1: four hours later on Raw, he dropped the belt to Sid.
- 25:41Speaker 1: So Vince got his big Man main event that year WrestleMania,
- 25:44Speaker 1: and Brett Hart went on to have maybe the greatest
- 25:46Speaker 1: WrestleMania match of all time with Stone called Steve Austin.
- 25:50Speaker 1: So it all worked out the way it was supposed to.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Sid remains and will forever remain the only man to
- 25:57Speaker 1: beat Brett Hart and Shawn Michaels to win world titles.
- 26:02Speaker 1: A trivia nugget for you. So then Sid ended up
- 26:05Speaker 1: in ECW a couple of years later, and he was
- 26:09Speaker 1: just my god. I mean everywhere he went they went
- 26:12Speaker 1: nuts for him. I think he had that god who
- 26:15Speaker 1: they put with him. Judge Jeff Jones was his manager
- 26:19Speaker 1: for a time. He would introduce him, Sid would come out.
- 26:21Speaker 1: He was in the jeans and the ECW crowd, which again,
- 26:26Speaker 1: you know, ECW was like counterculture to WWF and WCW.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Those guys suck right, this is real wrestling, this is
- 26:35Speaker 1: hardcore wrestling. And the minute they get like a big
- 26:38Speaker 1: mainstream star from one of the big two promotions, he's
- 26:42Speaker 1: the most overperson at the entire company. It's just hilarious.
- 26:47Speaker 1: And why not, because he's a big dude who comes
- 26:49Speaker 1: out and powerbombs people like what's not to love. Paul
- 26:53Speaker 1: Hayman knew how to use him. He wasn't there for
- 26:56Speaker 1: very long, you know, but he would show up unannounced
- 26:59Speaker 1: and he would power bomb a bunch of guys and
- 27:01Speaker 1: he would leave. And you know, when he left there,
- 27:05Speaker 1: he went back to WCW. He won the WCW World
- 27:08Speaker 1: title twice. The thing I remember most was, well, I mean,
- 27:12Speaker 1: there's two things. The injury, of course, is one, but
- 27:16Speaker 1: gotta mention the feud with Goldberg and the shot of
- 27:20Speaker 1: him standing on top of what used to be his
- 27:23Speaker 1: rental car, which was crushed presumably by Goldberg into a pancake.
- 27:29Speaker 1: And there's Sid standing on top of all the twisted metal,
- 27:33Speaker 1: screaming Goldberg at the top of his lungs, looking up
- 27:36Speaker 1: at the heavens like William Shatner in The Wrath of Khan,
- 27:40Speaker 1: and Mattel actually made a Sid figure to replicate that moment.
- 27:44Speaker 1: It's part of their Monday Night Wars line, right down
- 27:47Speaker 1: to the Duffel bag accessory that Sid was carrying. I'm
- 27:50Speaker 1: seriously considering buying it, like it's just such an oddly
- 27:54Speaker 1: specific moment that I feel like it's just something I
- 27:57Speaker 1: need to have. But then came the end of his
- 28:00Speaker 1: run and the most horrific injury that I have ever
- 28:03Speaker 1: witnessed in a wrestling ring. At the WCW SIN pay
- 28:07Speaker 1: per view January two thousand and one. It was a
- 28:10Speaker 1: four corners match for the title, Sid, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett,
- 28:15Speaker 1: and Road Warrior Animal, who I don't believe was announced.
- 28:18Speaker 1: I think it might have been a mystery slot that
- 28:20Speaker 1: was open. Sid comes off the middle rope, which is
- 28:23Speaker 1: something that he never usually did, because why the fuck
- 28:26Speaker 1: would he six' nine three Thirteen he doesn't have to
- 28:29Speaker 1: be coming off the. Ropes but when he, landed his
- 28:33Speaker 1: legs snapped in half and he fractured his tibia and his.
- 28:38Speaker 1: Fibula sid Blamed John lauriniitis for making him do the.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Spot lauraitis worked behind the scenes FOR wcw at the,
- 28:44Speaker 1: time and the idea was he would come off the
- 28:46Speaker 1: middle rope and Give steiner a high. Knee sid was
- 28:49Speaker 1: not comfortable doing. This he tried to get it. CHANGED
- 28:53Speaker 1: i always look back at this and, go, man you,
- 28:55Speaker 1: know he was a big enough name that IF i
- 28:57Speaker 1: were him AND i felt unsafe about doing, SOMETHING i
- 29:00Speaker 1: would have just told him the fuck, off you. Know
- 29:02Speaker 1: BUT i guess he needed the, money so he had
- 29:05Speaker 1: to do what he was, told and it didn't matter
- 29:07Speaker 1: how uncomfortable he. Was he tried to get it, changed
- 29:10Speaker 1: and he Says laurinitis insisted on, it probably because that
- 29:14Speaker 1: spot was to set Up Animal laurentiis' brother coming into
- 29:18Speaker 1: the match as a surprise. Nepotism nepotism is what Snapped sid's,
- 29:23Speaker 1: leg and that injury effectively ended his. Career he did
- 29:27Speaker 1: eventually come. Back he wrestled again years later on The.
- 29:30Speaker 1: INDIES wwe brought him in for a match Against Heath
- 29:33Speaker 1: slater and the build up To raw one, thousand but
- 29:36Speaker 1: that was. It that was the last time on like
- 29:38Speaker 1: a main national stage that he was seen by. Anybody
- 29:44Speaker 1: so what Got sid over was not his technical, Ability
- 29:47Speaker 1: it wasn't his long list of five star. Matches it
- 29:50Speaker 1: was his, size it was his, look his, intensity his.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Charisma that's what made him a. Star and If sid
- 29:58Speaker 1: came along today and they let him Be, SID i
- 30:01Speaker 1: have no doubt that he would have gotten over today,
- 30:03Speaker 1: too just like he did every other. Time maybe in
- 30:06Speaker 1: spite of the, booking but the fans would have gravitated
- 30:09Speaker 1: towards the, guy even if the creative team did. Not
- 30:13Speaker 1: the greatest softball player to ever be inducted into THE
- 30:17Speaker 1: Wwe hall Of, Fame Psycho, Sid Bad News brown Or
- 30:24Speaker 1: Bad News, allen depending on where you may have seen,
- 30:26Speaker 1: him was also announced this week for The Legacy class
- 30:29Speaker 1: of this YEAR'S Wwe hall Of. Fame The master of
- 30:33Speaker 1: The Ghetto, blaster first MAN i ever remember seeing hit
- 30:36Speaker 1: And Inzigury Bad News, BROWN i remember him from HIS
- 30:40Speaker 1: wwf Front but he has a very interesting. Background he
- 30:44Speaker 1: won a bronze medal in judo in The olympics back
- 30:47Speaker 1: in the, seventies and then two gold medals in The
- 30:50Speaker 1: Pan American, games and he was even honored In Black
- 30:53Speaker 1: Belt Magazine's hall Of. Fame so he trained to be
- 30:56Speaker 1: a wrestler Under Antonio andnoki in The New, pandojo and
- 31:01Speaker 1: he actually spent almost fifteen years off and on wrestling
- 31:04Speaker 1: With New. Japan he spent time working For Stu hart
- 31:08Speaker 1: In Stampede, wrestling which is where he met his third,
- 31:10Speaker 1: wife and he had ten kids between all of his.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Marriages he almost had as many As stue. Did what's
- 31:19Speaker 1: in the water up? There what's going on In? Calgary
- 31:22Speaker 1: what Did stu And helen? Have? Thirteen so he claimed
- 31:26Speaker 1: that When stu folded the promotion and he made a
- 31:29Speaker 1: deal With vince McMahon For brett and for The bulldogs
- 31:32Speaker 1: to go work for THE, WWF i Assume nighthart was
- 31:37Speaker 1: also part of that, deal but he has said that
- 31:40Speaker 1: he was to have been part of that, deal but
- 31:42Speaker 1: his wife was. Pregnant i'm sure fucking ten. Kids so,
- 31:47Speaker 1: anyway he didn't make it TO wwe until nineteen eighty,
- 31:50Speaker 1: eight and by that point when he came, in he
- 31:52Speaker 1: was already forty five years. Old by that, POINT i mean,
- 31:55Speaker 1: today he'd be Headlining WrestleMania at that. Age but he
- 31:59Speaker 1: didn't even start wrestling until he was in his mid.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Thirties so you hear about guys LIKE ddp And bautista
- 32:05Speaker 1: starting so late in their careers and having, success you
- 32:09Speaker 1: can add bad News brown to that. LIST i think
- 32:11Speaker 1: he did pretty well for, himself even though he wasn't
- 32:13Speaker 1: a top guy. Everywhere he may not have achieved the
- 32:16Speaker 1: same kind of success and notoriety that A batista did
- 32:19Speaker 1: or A, ddp but, still you, know for a guy
- 32:21Speaker 1: who started wrestling at thirty, FIVE i think it WAS
- 32:25Speaker 1: i think he did pretty well for. Himself he did
- 32:28Speaker 1: not enjoy his time working IN, wwe Said vince McMahon
- 32:32Speaker 1: made promises to him that were not. Kept there were
- 32:34Speaker 1: always money, issues he. SAID i never had these issues
- 32:37Speaker 1: working in other. PLACES i worked In japan for all these,
- 32:40Speaker 1: years and if promises were, made promises were. Kept IF
- 32:44Speaker 1: i was told this is how Much i'm gonna, make
- 32:46Speaker 1: this is how much they paid, me he. Said With
- 32:49Speaker 1: vince AND, wwf it was just nothing but just constant lying,
- 32:52Speaker 1: in constant money. Issues he has Three WrestleMania matches on his,
- 32:57Speaker 1: resume the first one being the Opening Battle royal Of WrestleMania,
- 33:01Speaker 1: four which he. Won he Eliminated Brett hart to. Win
- 33:05Speaker 1: he got this giant trophy as a. Result brett got
- 33:09Speaker 1: back in the ring and he just he destroyed the.
- 33:12Speaker 1: TROPHY i, mean this thing was absurdly, BIG i think
- 33:17Speaker 1: he Did Bad news a. FAVOR i can't imagine how
- 33:19Speaker 1: he would have gotten that fucking thing. Home but that
- 33:22Speaker 1: Was brett's first baby face turn and his first feud
- 33:25Speaker 1: as a single star working For. Vince now he was
- 33:27Speaker 1: still part of The Hart. FOUNDATION i, mean he was
- 33:29Speaker 1: doing the tag team thing until ninety, one but he
- 33:32Speaker 1: worked a singles program on all the house shows With
- 33:34Speaker 1: Bad news for months after. THAT i think through at
- 33:38Speaker 1: Least June WrestleMania five he had a quick throwaway match
- 33:43Speaker 1: With Hacksaw Jim duggan And WrestleMania six is the one
- 33:47Speaker 1: that he is most remembered, for not because of anything
- 33:50Speaker 1: that he, did but because that is the match where
- 33:53Speaker 1: Rowdy Roddy piper painted himself half. Black not one Of
- 33:59Speaker 1: piper's find his, moments although if you take him at his,
- 34:02Speaker 1: word he had no ill intent with that. Stunt he
- 34:04Speaker 1: wanted to show that it didn't matter what the color
- 34:07Speaker 1: of your skin was because he represented all. People this
- 34:12Speaker 1: is how he explained it years ago To Arta ocale
- 34:16Speaker 1: on The score In. Canada piper, SAID i was born In.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Saskatoon there are no black people THAT i know of
- 34:24Speaker 1: that are dumb enough to go to a place that,
- 34:26Speaker 1: cold so there's no racism in me at. All at the,
- 34:29Speaker 1: TIME i was walking down the hall of some, arena
- 34:32Speaker 1: maybe The Hoosier, dome. Someplace vince McMahon, says Hot, ROD
- 34:36Speaker 1: i need to talk to. YOU i walked into a
- 34:38Speaker 1: room and you could have cut the air with a.
- 34:40Speaker 1: Knife it was Bad News, Brown Pat patterson And vince.
- 34:43Speaker 1: McMahon i, said what's going? On he, SAYS i want
- 34:47Speaker 1: you to wrestle bad news Of. WrestleMania And i'm looking
- 34:50Speaker 1: at bad. News who is a really good judo, PLAYER
- 34:54Speaker 1: a judo, PLAYER i love that you played, baseball and
- 34:58Speaker 1: just a so sof sessional. Wrestler and here's what's going
- 35:02Speaker 1: through my. Mind i'm looking at, him And i'm Going
- 35:04Speaker 1: i'm going to have forty five interviews about this. Guy
- 35:07Speaker 1: And i'm. Thinking Nelson mandela at the time had said
- 35:10Speaker 1: something that really stuck with. Me he was put in
- 35:12Speaker 1: jail for twenty some years for political. Crimes every morning
- 35:16Speaker 1: he was the first man when the guard came to
- 35:18Speaker 1: extend his hand to the. Guard what a hell of a.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Man at the same, Time Cindy lauper had true colors
- 35:24Speaker 1: out in my. Mind WHAT i was trying to. Do
- 35:26Speaker 1: there is no. DIFFERENCE i needed material on bad news.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Brown the stuff they had painted me. With vince had
- 35:33Speaker 1: made special so that WHEN i broke a, sweat it
- 35:35Speaker 1: wouldn't come. Off there was a special clear solution to
- 35:39Speaker 1: take this special black. Off WHEN i got, there the
- 35:42Speaker 1: lady started rubbing my, cheeks and in about five MINUTES
- 35:45Speaker 1: i started. Bleeding andre The giant had taken that, solution
- 35:49Speaker 1: poured it out and put water in. It Now i'm
- 35:52Speaker 1: In toronto half. BLACK i decided that there's nothing much
- 35:56Speaker 1: to do other than just go out. DRINKING I SO
- 36:00Speaker 1: i go And i'm, drinking And i'm half black in the.
- 36:02Speaker 1: Bar next, morning and don't judge. ME i wake up
- 36:06Speaker 1: and the door of my hotel room is blown completely,
- 36:10Speaker 1: off and there's a cowboy hat in the middle of my.
- 36:12Speaker 1: ROOM i don't know WHO'S i wake up And i'm half.
- 36:16Speaker 1: BLACK i got to go From toronto To, Portland. OREGON
- 36:20Speaker 1: i got a Fourth i've got a four Foot Mickey
- 36:22Speaker 1: mouse with me THAT i bought for my. Daughter so
- 36:25Speaker 1: BECAUSE i didn't, KNOW i, MEAN i put the hat,
- 36:27Speaker 1: on And i've got a four Foot Mickey, mouse A
- 36:31Speaker 1: haliburton and a, hangover And i'm half. Black i'm completely
- 36:35Speaker 1: half black other than the scar under my. Eye So
- 36:39Speaker 1: i'm going Through chicago And i'm going through, customs and
- 36:43Speaker 1: when you're half black and half, white they just go
- 36:46Speaker 1: go right. Ahead they part like The. Nile In, CHICAGO
- 36:51Speaker 1: i had to change planes and the flight attendant wanted
- 36:53Speaker 1: me to Check Mickey mouse because it was too. Big
- 36:55Speaker 1: SO i Bought mickey a first class seat and me
- 36:58Speaker 1: And mickey drank all the way to. Port the WAY
- 37:01Speaker 1: i got it off was THAT i had to sit
- 37:02Speaker 1: in the. Sauna it took me about a month of
- 37:05Speaker 1: rubbing this stuff. Off but what AM i gonna? Do
- 37:08Speaker 1: go beat Up. Andre it's a hell of a. Story
- 37:14Speaker 1: that is a hell of a story right. THERE i
- 37:16Speaker 1: will say. That, anyway back to Bad, NEWS i just
- 37:19Speaker 1: thought that was worth. Mentioning but he also made evented
- 37:23Speaker 1: house shows With Hulk. Hogan he Wrestled Randy savage for
- 37:27Speaker 1: THE wwf. Title they actually just uploaded a match to
- 37:30Speaker 1: the vault Between Bad news And savage from early eighty.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Nine it was a street fight and it was something
- 37:37Speaker 1: it was like out of any of the shows. Today
- 37:39Speaker 1: it was right down to bringing the table into the.
- 37:41Speaker 1: RING i never saw anything like this back, then you,
- 37:44Speaker 1: know WATCHING wwf and then they had a bunch of
- 37:48Speaker 1: those matches back, then usually they called them A harlem street,
- 37:52Speaker 1: fight Bad news Play babyface because this is When savage
- 37:55Speaker 1: had just turned heel On hogan heading Into. WrestleMania later
- 38:00Speaker 1: matches they. Had Bad news was sort of the de facto,
- 38:04Speaker 1: babyface but he left the company in nineteen ninety after
- 38:07Speaker 1: a feud With jake The Snake. Roberts he claimed that
- 38:10Speaker 1: McMahon had promised to make him the first Black World,
- 38:13Speaker 1: champion and he went back on his. Promise and he
- 38:17Speaker 1: continued wrestling until he was well into his, fifties mostly In, Canada, Mexico.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Japan he went back To japan and he was even
- 38:24Speaker 1: part of A stampede wrestling revival in nineteen ninety nine
- 38:29Speaker 1: as an. Announcer he was paired up With he was
- 38:32Speaker 1: a color, commentator and he was paired up with a
- 38:35Speaker 1: Young Moro. Renalo how's that for an announced? Team Bad
- 38:40Speaker 1: News brown And Moro. RENALO i got to find footage
- 38:44Speaker 1: of that. Somewhere he died of a heart attack in
- 38:47Speaker 1: two thousand and, seven three weeks after getting a hit
- 38:50Speaker 1: replacement you, know he's another one of those names from
- 38:52Speaker 1: that era that just doesn't get as much love as
- 38:54Speaker 1: others because his big mainstream run WITH wwe was so.
- 38:59Speaker 1: Short he spent most of his time working In. Japan
- 39:02Speaker 1: but he always struck me as just like a no
- 39:04Speaker 1: nonsense guy that just showed, up did his, job got,
- 39:07Speaker 1: paid and went, home WHICH i guess he would have to,
- 39:10Speaker 1: with you know that many kids at. HOME i don't
- 39:13Speaker 1: Think i've ever heard any stories about him getting into,
- 39:15Speaker 1: trouble like like serious legal, trouble or like, ribbing like
- 39:21Speaker 1: disturbing ribs on other wrestlers or anything like. That the
- 39:24Speaker 1: two famous stories about him both Involved andre The, giant you,
- 39:28Speaker 1: know the one where he Overheard andre casually throwing THE
- 39:31Speaker 1: n word around on the tour. Bus so he said
- 39:34Speaker 1: something And andre told, him you, know, hey bad, News
- 39:36Speaker 1: go fuck. Yourself so he tells the bus driver to pull,
- 39:40Speaker 1: over and he Tells andre to get off the bus
- 39:42Speaker 1: and say that to my. Face And andre wouldn't do,
- 39:45Speaker 1: it he wouldn't. Go so the next day at the,
- 39:47Speaker 1: hotel he happens to bump Into andre coming off the
- 39:51Speaker 1: elevator and he tells, him, LOOK i don't appreciate you
- 39:54Speaker 1: using that, word like you don't see me talking shit
- 39:57Speaker 1: about your, People and if that's how you, feel then
- 40:00Speaker 1: but keep that shit to. Yourself So andre apologized to.
- 40:04Speaker 1: Him there was still tension there for a very long
- 40:06Speaker 1: time between. Them they didn't speak even if they were
- 40:09Speaker 1: passing each other in the locker, room they didn't look
- 40:11Speaker 1: at each. Other they didn't speak to each. Other he
- 40:14Speaker 1: did say that not long Before andre passed, away they sat,
- 40:16Speaker 1: down they talked about. It they buried the. Hatchet the
- 40:19Speaker 1: other story also Involves, andre and it was the time
- 40:23Speaker 1: That andre accidentally took a shit on him in a
- 40:27Speaker 1: match In, mexico So andre got. SICK i don't, know
- 40:31Speaker 1: maybe it Was montezuma's. REVENGE i, mean who. Knows but
- 40:34Speaker 1: they ended up on opposite ends of a trios match
- 40:37Speaker 1: And andre did this move back then where his opponent
- 40:40Speaker 1: would be sitting in the corner and he would come
- 40:41Speaker 1: over and he would smash his ass in his opponent's
- 40:44Speaker 1: face like a butt. Slam, well today was not the
- 40:49Speaker 1: day for a butt, slam because whatever it was That
- 40:52Speaker 1: andre was suffering, from let's just say that bad. News
- 40:55Speaker 1: he took a diarrhea bath that, day And Bambam bigelow
- 40:59Speaker 1: was in the, match and he's talked about this, too
- 41:02Speaker 1: and the way he described it like it was just
- 41:04Speaker 1: oozing out. EVERYWHERE i, Mean i'm sorry for the, visual but.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Yeah and so Bad news gets out of the ring
- 41:11Speaker 1: as quickly as possible so he wouldn't get sick in
- 41:13Speaker 1: front of all the, fans and he just sprints, backstage
- 41:18Speaker 1: jumps right in the. Shower thank god the match was never.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Filmed it would have been easy for Bad news to
- 41:23Speaker 1: deny it and, say, oh that's all made, up that never,
- 41:26Speaker 1: happened but he admitted. It it did. Happen it gives
- 41:29Speaker 1: new meaning to the name Bad News, brown doesn't? It holy? Shit?
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- 43:04Speaker 1: To netflix and chill with raw On monday. Nights netflix
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- 44:12Speaker 1: Cycle it was another raw where they opened hot On,
- 44:16Speaker 1: monday and they closed pretty, good and everything in the
- 44:18Speaker 1: middle was very middle of the, road but it was
- 44:21Speaker 1: still better Than SmackDown On. Friday SmackDown was a shit
- 44:24Speaker 1: show On. Friday cmpunk really carried the. Load in the closing,
- 44:28Speaker 1: segment speaking of carrying the, load how did you like
- 44:32Speaker 1: that oil and jiz reference by Cm punk when he
- 44:35Speaker 1: was talking About roman reigns On monday? Night that was something,
- 44:38Speaker 1: else wasn't? It but he was explaining why the your
- 44:42Speaker 1: old line That roman slung at, him why it bothered
- 44:45Speaker 1: him the week? Before he said it was less to
- 44:48Speaker 1: do with being called, old which he readily admits he,
- 44:50Speaker 1: is and it had more to do with who was
- 44:52Speaker 1: saying it. Said how's it going to look When roman
- 44:55Speaker 1: gets dropped At WrestleMania by this old man and the
- 44:59Speaker 1: ou we back involved With jay Wanting punk to apologize
- 45:03Speaker 1: still for disrespecting their. Family jay was a wild man out,
- 45:07Speaker 1: there LIKE i like this version Of jay usso a
- 45:09Speaker 1: lot more than the Yeat. Man the live crowds may
- 45:12Speaker 1: enjoy the Yat, man but it sucks FOR tv if
- 45:15Speaker 1: you're looking for something a little bit deeper than. That
- 45:18Speaker 1: roman finally comes, Out he tells his cousins to, Leave
- 45:21Speaker 1: punk shoots his mouth. Off things broke. Down roman went
- 45:25Speaker 1: on the attack and as The ussos were being led
- 45:27Speaker 1: away And roman was about to leave with. Them it
- 45:30Speaker 1: Was Jay usso who demanded that, no you go back
- 45:32Speaker 1: and you give him some, More and So roman, did
- 45:35Speaker 1: and he speared, Punk he beat him up, outside he
- 45:37Speaker 1: power bombed him through the announced, desk And i'm, like
- 45:40Speaker 1: finally some real physicality here between these. Two you, Know
- 45:44Speaker 1: i'm sure the ussos are going to be involved in
- 45:45Speaker 1: That wrestlemanium made event in some form or, fashion whether
- 45:48Speaker 1: they have a match on the show themselves or. Not
- 45:51Speaker 1: will they play into the? Finish is something going to
- 45:55Speaker 1: happen With Jay? Usso are we going to get a
- 45:56Speaker 1: full Blown bloodline, Reunion i'm Not i'm not a fan
- 46:02Speaker 1: of that. Idea or are the ussos going to go
- 46:04Speaker 1: heal and Cause rome in the? Match what would be
- 46:07Speaker 1: the reasoning for? THAT i don't, know but the usso's
- 46:11Speaker 1: being involved makes things a little more interesting at. Least
- 46:14Speaker 1: but when that show was over On, MONDAY i felt
- 46:16Speaker 1: like we were in a good place with the Two
- 46:18Speaker 1: WrestleMania maine, events and Then friday happened AND i feel
- 46:23Speaker 1: a little less sure about, that although one good show
- 46:26Speaker 1: this week can change all of. That it was the
- 46:28Speaker 1: return Of Cody rhodes at the end Of. SmackDown but before,
- 46:31Speaker 1: That Randy orton was attacked By Matt cardona after what
- 46:34Speaker 1: he did To cardona the week. Before orton's. Angry now
- 46:38Speaker 1: in the, back he demands a match With Matt cardonah
- 46:40Speaker 1: the Same Matt cardona with a cast on his arm
- 46:42Speaker 1: for the broken wrist That orton gave. Him and it
- 46:45Speaker 1: was another week where no matter What Randy orton, said
- 46:48Speaker 1: no matter What Randy orton, did these fans did not
- 46:51Speaker 1: want to boo this. Man they cheered for, him they
- 46:55Speaker 1: chanted his. Name he can do no. Wrong the only
- 46:59Speaker 1: way he would get heat at this point would be
- 47:01Speaker 1: if he told a grandmother in the, Crowd i'm glad
- 47:03Speaker 1: you GOT, ms and even then they would probably cheer
- 47:06Speaker 1: and chant one more. Time so we get to the
- 47:10Speaker 1: end of the show and it goes exactly the way
- 47:12Speaker 1: that you would. Expect cardona got off a couple of,
- 47:14Speaker 1: shots but otherwise he got his ass handed to him
- 47:17Speaker 1: for five straight minutes and he ate AN rko and
- 47:20Speaker 1: he got. Pinned thanks for, Coming Matt. Cardona as long
- 47:24Speaker 1: as your other wrist isn't, broken you can use your
- 47:26Speaker 1: right hand to pick up the fork when you're sitting
- 47:28Speaker 1: there and. Catering so Then Cody roads arrives in his
- 47:32Speaker 1: bus and he makes his way out to the ring
- 47:34Speaker 1: and we get the obligatory pull apart. Brawl, now pull
- 47:39Speaker 1: apart brawls are done far too often in, wrestling especially
- 47:43Speaker 1: in this. Company we get them all the. Time but
- 47:47Speaker 1: there are good pull apart brawls and then there are
- 47:50Speaker 1: bad pull apart. Brawls this was a bad pull apart.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Brawl this was one that barely got any. Heat it
- 47:57Speaker 1: lasted for about five business. Days it would not. End
- 48:00Speaker 1: they dragged this thing out for so LONG i am
- 48:02Speaker 1: convinced that they ran short on. Time they were just
- 48:05Speaker 1: trying to kill time until the top of the. Hour,
- 48:07Speaker 1: Eventually Jelly roll comes, out who was all over this.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Show it's not healthy to have that much jelly in your,
- 48:14Speaker 1: diet but we're getting a big heaping of him every week.
- 48:17Speaker 1: Now four segments across this entire show this man was
- 48:21Speaker 1: a part, of including a match With Kit. Wilson Jelly
- 48:24Speaker 1: roll comes out to try to calm the situation down
- 48:27Speaker 1: And Randy, orton his good, friend drops him with AN
- 48:30Speaker 1: rko and to this the fans go Wild Randy Randy
- 48:37Speaker 1: Randy Randy orton is in that legends territory Like John
- 48:41Speaker 1: cena was last year when he was going after number,
- 48:43Speaker 1: seventeen where these people do not want to boo, him
- 48:47Speaker 1: they want to see him win number. FIFTEEN i think
- 48:51Speaker 1: they Like randy more than they Hate. CODY i don't
- 48:53Speaker 1: think It's cody hate per. SE i mean with some
- 48:57Speaker 1: people it, is BUT i don't think it's this overwhelming
- 48:59Speaker 1: hatred For Cody. ROSE i think it's More cody, fatigue
- 49:03Speaker 1: And cody will have his, fans but they're not going
- 49:06Speaker 1: to cheer for him Over Randy orton In Las. Vegas
- 49:09Speaker 1: that's just not gonna. Happen and if he Pins Randy
- 49:12Speaker 1: orton to retain the, title it's gonna be even. Worse
- 49:15Speaker 1: SO i don't know if they plan for, this and
- 49:17Speaker 1: they have an idea in, mind some kind of big,
- 49:19Speaker 1: twist or and maybe it's tied into this mystery person
- 49:23Speaker 1: That randy keeps talking to on the. Phone SO i
- 49:26Speaker 1: don't know if they have a plan in mind for,
- 49:27Speaker 1: that or if they had no plan for this and
- 49:29Speaker 1: they really thought that by having him beat Up Matt,
- 49:32Speaker 1: cardona who the fans have been given no reason to
- 49:34Speaker 1: give a shit about and then having him beat Up Jelly.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Roll they figured that would somehow turn the crowd Against Randy.
- 49:41Speaker 1: Orton if they felt that, way they're, idiots whichever it.
- 49:46Speaker 1: IS i find this all very, hilarious and that's not
- 49:48Speaker 1: what they intended for this to Beat this is not
- 49:50Speaker 1: supposed to be. Funny bluying up your top babyface and
- 49:53Speaker 1: having this man drop the celebrity guest with his finishing
- 49:56Speaker 1: move is not supposed to be. Funny it's supposed to
- 49:59Speaker 1: be a serious, angle and instead it's turned into a
- 50:01Speaker 1: comedy show with these. Reactions you can do a whole,
- 50:05Speaker 1: sketch a whole comedy sketch With Randy orton doing random
- 50:08Speaker 1: acts of violence to, people you, know his, grandmother his,
- 50:10Speaker 1: doctor his, priest the lady that runs the local food,
- 50:15Speaker 1: bank serving soup to the. Homeless he can go around
- 50:17Speaker 1: giving them rkos and punk, kicks, yeah punk kicking them
- 50:20Speaker 1: in the, head and the fans would just cheer for.
- 50:22Speaker 1: Them SO i think it's entertaining as all, hell you,
- 50:26Speaker 1: know to see it playing out in real. Time my
- 50:28Speaker 1: issue with the segment was that it was devoid of
- 50:30Speaker 1: any real heat. Whatsoever it felt like these men were
- 50:33Speaker 1: out there just going through the. Motions it's the tired
- 50:37Speaker 1: pull apart brawl trope of pull them into opposite. Corners
- 50:41Speaker 1: one man breaks free because security is, inept and they
- 50:44Speaker 1: dive onto the other, person and then the other men
- 50:47Speaker 1: he'll have the chance to do the exact same. Thing
- 50:50Speaker 1: and all the security people are inept and terrible at their,
- 50:53Speaker 1: jobs but they don't even they don't even try to
- 50:56Speaker 1: make it look. Good that's WHAT i mean WHEN i
- 50:59Speaker 1: say they're just going through emotions out. There there's no
- 51:01Speaker 1: effort anymore to make this stuff feel. Real LIKE i
- 51:05Speaker 1: know it's not. REAL i Know i'm watching a, show
- 51:07Speaker 1: BUT i admire those who make what they're doing feel.
- 51:10Speaker 1: Real so you get lost in the. Moment there has
- 51:14Speaker 1: to be a certain intensity to. It this was the
- 51:16Speaker 1: opposite of, That and, frankly a lot of what we
- 51:19Speaker 1: see on wrestling television these days is the opposite of.
- 51:22Speaker 1: That you, know they run marathons on their vault channel
- 51:26Speaker 1: of stuff from like past, eras and back then they
- 51:29Speaker 1: knew how to do. THAT i don't know if they
- 51:32Speaker 1: stopped like teaching them how TO i don't know what it.
- 51:34Speaker 1: IS i really don't understand. It there's no reason it
- 51:37Speaker 1: can't be done that. Way. TODAY i had people mentioning
- 51:41Speaker 1: to me the brawl With John cena and Brock lesnar
- 51:43Speaker 1: The pullpar brawl in twenty. TWELVE i guess it would have.
- 51:47Speaker 1: Been you, know the fact that they had to go
- 51:49Speaker 1: back in their memory bank fourteen years to find a
- 51:53Speaker 1: Great pulepar brawl like that is, alarming AND i think
- 51:56Speaker 1: there have been other good ones since. THEN i, mean,
- 52:00Speaker 1: look they had a great it was REALLY i, think
- 52:03Speaker 1: one long, segment but they had a great one in
- 52:06Speaker 1: twenty nineteen with the women With becky And charlotte And.
- 52:10Speaker 1: Ronda it was better than the actual match they had
- 52:12Speaker 1: To WrestleMania. Like you can find examples of. It but,
- 52:17Speaker 1: again to have to go back all those years to
- 52:19Speaker 1: find a truly great, ONE i think that says a.
- 52:21Speaker 1: Lot this is the main event Of. WrestleMania this is
- 52:25Speaker 1: the time to show up and show out and put
- 52:27Speaker 1: your best cards on the, table and right now it
- 52:29Speaker 1: just feels like another. Show this isn't exactly what Aj
- 52:33Speaker 1: styles was referring to when he made that comment About
- 52:36Speaker 1: WrestleMania losing its special. Feeling he was talking. MORE i
- 52:39Speaker 1: think About you, know we do a lot of stadium
- 52:42Speaker 1: shows now and multiple night events and just kind of
- 52:45Speaker 1: what Made mania. Special it really isn't that way. Anymore
- 52:49Speaker 1: but he wasn't wrong when he said that it has
- 52:51Speaker 1: lost that special feeling for a lot of. Reasons you,
- 52:55Speaker 1: Know i've been waiting for them to do this match
- 52:57Speaker 1: With cody And randy Since cody came back to the.
- 52:59Speaker 1: Company did they wait too? LONG i don't, know BUT
- 53:04Speaker 1: i don't want to see them mess this. Up drew
- 53:08Speaker 1: McIntyre And jacob fought Tou they are having an unsanctioned
- 53:11Speaker 1: match At. WrestleMania we're not responsible for what happens out,
- 53:16Speaker 1: there but we'll make the. Match we'll make the match,
- 53:18Speaker 1: official but don't hold us responsible if these guys go
- 53:21Speaker 1: out there and kill. Themselves and McIntyre is again denying
- 53:26Speaker 1: that he had any involvement in what happened To jacob
- 53:29Speaker 1: back In october when he got his teeth knocked out
- 53:31Speaker 1: of his. Mouth this is not the first time that
- 53:33Speaker 1: he has denied, this and AGAIN i will keep saying.
- 53:37Speaker 1: IT i Think Randy, orton at the end of all
- 53:39Speaker 1: this is going to be revealed as the. Culprit we're
- 53:41Speaker 1: going to be Getting orton IN fa two sometime coming
- 53:43Speaker 1: out Of. WrestleMania but On Raw. Monday they have gotten
- 53:47Speaker 1: it right so far With brocklesner And. Obafeen for all
- 53:51Speaker 1: the ISSUES i have With, SmackDown they're getting it right
- 53:53Speaker 1: With brocklesner And. OBAFEMI i don't have a bad word
- 53:56Speaker 1: to say about anything they have done up to this
- 53:58Speaker 1: point with those two. Men week, One oba came out
- 54:02Speaker 1: looking like a. Beast he Popped lesner high up into
- 54:04Speaker 1: the air and he dropped. Him this week it was
- 54:06Speaker 1: more of the same with him Sending lesner out over
- 54:09Speaker 1: the top rope to the floor And broc is sitting
- 54:11Speaker 1: there and he's selling the shock of it with his
- 54:13Speaker 1: face and then backing. Down he backed. Down he chose
- 54:17Speaker 1: to leave With Paul hayman rather than stand up To.
- 54:20Speaker 1: Obafemi this is how you make a new. Star you
- 54:24Speaker 1: can really make a new star by having him win At.
- 54:27Speaker 1: WrestleMania that's the ultimate way to make a new. Star
- 54:31Speaker 1: but even if he, loses WHICH i think would be a,
- 54:33Speaker 1: mistake so long as the idea is to run it
- 54:36Speaker 1: back and Give oba his, Win he'll be. Okay That
- 54:40Speaker 1: brock was on The spit And chicklets podcast For Barstool
- 54:43Speaker 1: sports this, week and he said about his CURRENT wwe,
- 54:46Speaker 1: RUN i went back to work SO i could feed my.
- 54:49Speaker 1: Kids you guys should see my grocery. BILL i had
- 54:53Speaker 1: left the company years, ago And i'm grateful That i'm
- 54:55Speaker 1: back for a short time. Here, so first of, all
- 54:59Speaker 1: he technically he never left the company because in two
- 55:03Speaker 1: years that they kept him off, television he was paid
- 55:05Speaker 1: the entire. Time minor point to mention, here but the
- 55:09Speaker 1: key words there were that he's back for a short.
- 55:11Speaker 1: Time so maybe there is something to What John cenas
- 55:15Speaker 1: said a few months ago about brock retiring In, minneapolis
- 55:17Speaker 1: which happens to be Where SummerSlam is this. Year if
- 55:21Speaker 1: his plan is to close things out At, SummerSlam and,
- 55:24Speaker 1: honestly even if he did and then he just went away,
- 55:28Speaker 1: AGAIN i don't believe for a second Brock lesnar is
- 55:30Speaker 1: going to be wrestling his final match this. Year if
- 55:33Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for him to come back for the right,
- 55:35Speaker 1: price he will be back in the. Rape Brock lesner
- 55:38Speaker 1: does not strike me as someone who gives a, shit
- 55:41Speaker 1: and he basically said as much in This barstool. Interview
- 55:45Speaker 1: he doesn't give a shit about his legacy in pro
- 55:47Speaker 1: red like the accomplishments and the championships and breaking the
- 55:51Speaker 1: streak and all of these accolades and things that he
- 55:53Speaker 1: has compiled over all these many. Years at the end
- 55:57Speaker 1: of the, day he cares about his, kids his, family
- 55:59Speaker 1: and how much money is in his bank. Account so
- 56:02Speaker 1: if somebody flashed a bunch of money in his face
- 56:04Speaker 1: to wrestle At Saudi mania next, year or to come
- 56:07Speaker 1: back in two or three years and do a big
- 56:08Speaker 1: show for a big, payday Brock lesnar is not going
- 56:11Speaker 1: to be the kind of. Person, okay And i've never
- 56:13Speaker 1: met BROCK i don't know him, personally BUT i feel
- 56:16Speaker 1: pretty content and comfortable saying this That brocklesner is the
- 56:19Speaker 1: kind of person who's not going to stand there and,
- 56:21Speaker 1: go you know. WHAT i don't want to tarnish my
- 56:24Speaker 1: legacy because that was supposed to be my retirement match
- 56:28Speaker 1: AND i don't want to go back on my. Word
- 56:30Speaker 1: yeah fuck. That if the right opportunity comes, along believe,
- 56:34Speaker 1: Me brockolesner will be. Back not a doubt in my
- 56:37Speaker 1: mind about. That but maybe this is the end of
- 56:39Speaker 1: his current part time, run right no more three or
- 56:42Speaker 1: Four brocklesner matches a. Year if that is the, case
- 56:45Speaker 1: and he is going to wrap up for now in the,
- 56:47Speaker 1: Summer i'm a little more amenable to the idea Of
- 56:51Speaker 1: brock winning now and then Putting oba over At Summer
- 56:54Speaker 1: slam on his way out. Right that's what he did
- 56:57Speaker 1: With Cody rhodes a few years. Ago It's SummerSlam. Now tomorrow,
- 57:00Speaker 1: night they're At Madison Square. GARDEN i Expect brock to
- 57:03Speaker 1: get his. Revenge he has. TO i want him, to
- 57:07Speaker 1: because if he just keeps getting his ass, kicked then
- 57:10Speaker 1: he's for sure winning A WrestleMania brock's not getting his
- 57:14Speaker 1: ass kicked for four weeks straight and then. Losing, okay
- 57:16Speaker 1: that's not. Happening by the. Way speaking Of Madison Square,
- 57:20Speaker 1: Garden Wressell votes is reporting THE wwe is planning A
- 57:24Speaker 1: Saturday Night's Main event special at The garden On july,
- 57:27Speaker 1: eighteenth and that date would coincide With Fanatics fest In
- 57:31Speaker 1: New York. City they could announce this as early as this,
- 57:34Speaker 1: week given that they're at The garden tomorrow and then
- 57:37Speaker 1: they're going to be back there again On tuesday FOR,
- 57:39Speaker 1: nxt which is being held at The theater At Madison Square.
- 57:42Speaker 1: Garden what else DID i want to talk about from?
- 57:46Speaker 1: Raw oh, yeah just real quick Here La. Knight La
- 57:49Speaker 1: knight has not wrestled since The Elimination chamber And La
- 57:53Speaker 1: knight came out On monday to do a run in
- 57:56Speaker 1: and it was the funniest fucking. THING i, mean this port.
- 57:58Speaker 1: Bastard SO i didn't notice this on the live broadcast
- 58:02Speaker 1: because they did not thankfully air this ON, tv But
- 58:05Speaker 1: i've seen the fan video Of La knight doing a run.
- 58:08Speaker 1: In this was during the opening match and it was
- 58:12Speaker 1: the vision against the usso's you, know non Title La
- 58:16Speaker 1: knight run his music, hits but he runs in from the.
- 58:19Speaker 1: Crowd this was just. Unbelievable and as he's, jumping he
- 58:25Speaker 1: does this jump over the barricade because he's running and
- 58:29Speaker 1: he's running and he leaps over the barricade and probably
- 58:32Speaker 1: was trying to make it look, cool but he. SLIPPED
- 58:35Speaker 1: i don't know what the hell happened, here and he
- 58:38Speaker 1: went flying And i'm, Sorry LIKE i defy you to
- 58:42Speaker 1: watch this video and not. Laugh it's. Impossible it is
- 58:48Speaker 1: impossible the way he went, flying and you can't see
- 58:51Speaker 1: him land because it's the other side of the. Barricade but,
- 58:54Speaker 1: boy you see him go. Flying but a credit to.
- 58:57Speaker 1: HIM i, mean he got right up and he you,
- 59:00Speaker 1: know did the spot where he had to go and
- 59:01Speaker 1: Attack Logan. Paul but this guy just can't catch a.
- 59:05Speaker 1: Break but WHAT i, noticed AND i showed you guys
- 59:07Speaker 1: a picture of this during the raw review on. YouTube
- 59:10Speaker 1: by then A monday, night he had this, big like
- 59:14Speaker 1: tennis ball looking bump on his elbow and SOMEBODY i
- 59:21Speaker 1: think said something ON x about him maybe not having
- 59:24Speaker 1: a match Of WrestleMania or, something And La knight, said
- 59:27Speaker 1: being on the back end of A bursa flara won't
- 59:30Speaker 1: keep me from the road To. WrestleMania that's WHAT i
- 59:33Speaker 1: mentioned On. Monday it looked like A bursa. Sack it
- 59:35Speaker 1: looked very similar to an injury That John cena had
- 59:38Speaker 1: many years ago that he had surgery for when he
- 59:40Speaker 1: had that same giant like ball on his. Elbow he
- 59:44Speaker 1: actually Wrestled Daniel bryan with it and lost the title
- 59:46Speaker 1: to him At. Summerslim so that would explain Why La
- 59:50Speaker 1: knight hasn't worked a match since The Elimination, Chamber and
- 59:54Speaker 1: he sounds pretty confident that this will be resolved Before.
- 59:56Speaker 1: WrestleMania but even if it, IS i, mean is there
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: any real hint about what his match would be on that.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: SHOW i don't EVEN i don't even know what you
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: do with, Him, honestly three weeks in a row by
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: the way of No gunther on the, show only a
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: fleeting mention of him By ciampunk during his. PROMO i
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: am amazed at the number of PEOPLE i have seen
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: on social media suggesting that he should Challenge penta for
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: The intercontinental. Title that is a terrible. Idea why would
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: the men who Retire John cena and Aj styles back
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: to back a former world heavyweight champion be challenging suddenly
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: for the intercontinental. Title why would you End penta's run
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: after it just. Started because the idea is that you're
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: going to do something one on, One gunther has to.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: Win and if the idea is that you do a
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: multiman match with four or five six different, people your
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: great idea For gunther is to stick him in a
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: multiman match for a mid card, time you'd think that's
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: a good. IDEA i would almost rather not have him
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: on the. Show i've seen other people suggest Seth rollins
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: as an, opponent and sure you could do. THAT i
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: don't think that really. Works if they think that Bron
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: breaker is going to make it back in, time they
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: sound pretty optimistic about, that and we know if he,
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: does it's going to Be rollins And. Breaker and, also
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: why Would gunther agree to be a hired gun For Paul.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: Hayman gunther is in Brock. Lesnar he's not a, mercenary
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: he's not a hit, man he's not a contract. Killer
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: raymisterio may be able to make it back in time,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: yet and if he, does THEN i assume that would
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: be the. Match but if. Not, LOOK i laid this
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: out weeks. AGO i see more people catching onto this. Idea.
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: NOW i would love to See Ilia dragonov in that.
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: Spot it would seem to be less and less likely
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: with each passing. Week you, know they've got a big
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: show tomorrow In Madison Square. Garden that would be a
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: good place to bring this guy back TO tv and
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: give us some kind of sense of what they plan
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: to have him. Doing but when it comes To, Dragonov
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: i've laid out the story for it and how you explained,
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: it so it's not just a random match with no.
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: Explanation in, Fact. Ilia dragonov just did an interview shout
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: out to booker Team Brad gilmore on their, show and
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: he flat out said like his Ideal WrestleMania opponent would Be.
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: Gunther Like gunther is the, guy And dragonov right now
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: seems to be out of THE us title, picture at
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: least for the time. Being On. SmackDown he's a man
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: with no island to settle, down and when it comes To,
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: WrestleMania he doesn't seem to have any spot on that.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: Card the match is right. There i'm just, saying if
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: they wanted to do, it you've got to guaranteed great
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: match out of, it if nothing. Else, Now, dragonov AS i,
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: mentioned does not seem to have a spot on the,
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: card and the reason for that is because he lost
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: clean To Carmelo hayes in The United States championship match
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: they had On SmackDown last. Week this, Week Carmelo hayes
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: lost His United States championship To sammy's a three weeks Before.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: WrestleMania this was After Nick All this Told, SAMMY i
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: have no spot for you on the card unless something. Changes,
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Right championships have to be. Defended its valuable real estate At.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: WrestleMania So sammy went out and he won himself a,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: title and in the back after all this told, him
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: you got your match At. WrestleMania you're gonna be defending
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: that title Against Trick. Williams the Same Trick williams who
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: interfered in the match and accidentally Blasted Carmelo hayes in
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: the face which led to him losing the. Title and
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: the first Thing, nick all this does is Give Trick
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: williams a title. Shot make it make. Sense WORST gm ever,
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: Here i'm gonna say it so all the people in
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: the back and hear, me WORST gm. EVER i am
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: hopeful with three weeks left That Carmelo hayes will find
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: his way into this. Match they need to turn that
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: shit into a triple. THREAD i don't think it changes
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: the end. Result Trick williams is Leaving Las vegas As
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: United States, champion But mellow deserves a spot in that.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: Match he's been one of the few bright spots on that.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: Show he's been putting the work, in having fun. Matches
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: three weeks Before, WrestleMania you take that title off of,
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: him and you do so in a way that screams
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: rematch it's the only it's the only REASON i liked
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: the way that they did that finish BECAUSE i assumed
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: it opened it up to a three, Way but then
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: all this went and made it a singles. Match so
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: If hayes shows up This friday asking for a spot
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: in the, match all this gives it to, him then
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: it's all. Good but if he gets left off that,
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: card that would be a. Disgrace, now, also double turn
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: With sammy And, TRICK i think there's a real chance
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: we get one Of, WrestleMania and if we, DO i,
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: say let it happen, naturally like you can you can
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: Get sammy booed like that's easy. Enough but don't Make
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: trick a TRADITIONAL wwe, Babyface like there isn't much that
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: really has to be tweaked with his presentation if they
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: want him to be a baby, face as long as
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: they don't change much about. Him, Like i'm fine with
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: the idea of a double. TURN i feel like the
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: fans have already basically started one in motion anyway with these.
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: Two maybe it's less likely if it becomes a triple,
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: threat but, Again i'm not against the. Idea by the,
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: WAY i can't tell you how many PEOPLE i had
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: to bat off with a baseball bat on my. TIMELINE
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: i don't know where these people came. From most of,
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: THEM i don't even know how they found, me BUT
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: i see them in my in my, replies and they
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: keep telling, me, Oh, CARMELO i know what it was
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: BECAUSE i made the same tweet about how this has
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: to be turned into a triple threat and they just
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: came out of the, woodwork AND i have them telling
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: me they are, Insisting Carmelo hayes just got. Married Carmelo
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: hayes just got, married so that's why he's not going
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: to be At, WrestleMania and they had to take the
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: title off of. Him don't be a. Hater and WHEN
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: i told them That Carmelo hayes And Colonie jordan did
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: not get married, yet those were engagement photos that they
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: posted on social. Media AND i Think hayes even clarified
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: after he said like seven more months to go before
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: they tie the knot there were two people who continue
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: to insist THAT i was wrong and that they were.
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: Married LIKE i continue to be amazed at how unwell
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: a lot of people on that platform. Are but then
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: you see the state of the world we're living in right.
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: Now it starts to make a lot more sense then
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: we had The riha In jade. Stuff just bad, television
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: bad bad, television you know. What it reminds me of
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: the build up that we got last, year Which Charlotte
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: flair And Tiffany stratton AND i don't mean that in
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: a good, way and they ended up having a bad
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: match too A. WrestleMania it really just comes down To
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: rha doing what she can At, WrestleMania Because jade is
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: not someone who's going to be leading the. Match, OKAY
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: i honestly don't think that this would be any better
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: if they had gone With charlotte in this spot instead Of.
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: RHEA i think it would be just as. Bad with any,
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: luck we'll get That bianca Bell air returned. Soon we
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: had a report from bodyslim dot net this week That
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: bianca has started doing some light training and she looks
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: to make her return to the. Ring who was it
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: that said, Recently oh Was. Coachman it Was coachman that
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: they they Heard bianca could lose her. Finger, yeah, well
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: this certainly flies in the face of, that doesn't. It,
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: MEANWHILE i Mentioned Tiffany Stratton Tiffany stratton lost To julia
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: in a non title match On friday after it was
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: initially advertised as a championship, Match so then why was
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: it changed to non title If julia was going to
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: win the match, ANYWAY i don't understand That Russell Votes
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: radio is reporting THAT wwe is optimistic That Chelsea green
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: could be cleared sooner than. Later chelsea was Also adam
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: and they say that she'd be kept on television as
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: an on screen character while she was out, injured and
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: that she is expected to remain a featured character on
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: Both SmackDown And TRIPLE a as she continues to heal
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: as she, should and if she's cleared in time For,
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: WrestleMania i think she ends up being a part of
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: THE us title. Mix. Now a couple of OTHER wwe,
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: Notes Kevin dunn's not gonna like this. ONE wwe finally
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: got The Emmy award nominations that they have been craving
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: for so many years for THEIR Wwe unreal series On.
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: Netflix nominees were revealed On wednesday for the forty Seventh
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: Annual Sports, emmys With unreal being recognized in three Categories
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: Outstanding Sports Documentary, series Serialized Outstanding Sports editing Long form
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: And Outstanding Sports Design. Speciality we'll find out the winners
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: when the ceremony is held On, Tuesday may twenty. Sixth
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: and on last Week's Uncrowned Wrestling, SHOW i told you
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: guys about The Cody rhodes Bust to package that was
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- 1:09:06Speaker 1: Partner for just under ten thousand dollars per, person up
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- 1:09:14Speaker 1: tour with personal stories From cody, himself who will drive
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: you up to up to two Different Las vegas, landmarks
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: accompanied by a Professional Las vegas tour. Guide plus you
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: get a commemorative gift and the chance for a they
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: don't even say a one on one interaction in photo
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: with THE Wwe, champion a chance for a brief one
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: on one interaction and photo with THE Wwe. Champion so
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: that was last. Week, well all twelve of those spots sold.
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: Out so that's one hundred and twenty grand right. There
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- 1:09:57Speaker 1: and it includes one front row ticket to the, show
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: access to a wine tasting WITH wwe, superstar, appearances a backstage,
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: experience and this is my favorite, part a private pasta
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: making session with A wwe, superstar because All italians love making,
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: pasta so we're gonna Send Dan housen in there to
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: make pasta with. Them they don't tell you which superstar it,
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: is so it could be. ANYBODY i, mean it could
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: Be Maxine, dupree but all of that could be yours
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: for the low price of just eleven, thousand five hundred.
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: Dollars that is the starting. Price it, says starting at
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: eleven five hundred, dollars so you better jump on that
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: quick before the price goes. Up have you seen THESE
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: wwe shows? LATELY i am reminded of the PHRASE a
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: fool and his money are soon. Parted we got some
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: more clarity On Ronda rousey's appearance at Aw revolution From ronda.
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: Herself in her latest YouTube, Volog rowsey gave a behind
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: the scenes look at how her appearance came. Together it
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: also talked about her Friend Marina, shafir Saying marina is
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: my best friend in the whole Wide, world and we
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: grew up doing judo together as little. Kids we both
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: quit judo and started DOING, mma and then we both
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: QUIT mma and started doing pro. Wrestling she's absolutely crushing,
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: it And i'm so proud of. Her i'm so happy
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: that everybody is finally starting to take notice of how
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: incredibly special she. IS i was brought into the arena
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: in a very unique. WAY i thought this was going
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: to be a much more chill like whatever kind of,
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: day but they're acting like it's the Freaking Royal, rumble
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: super secret. Whatever but they had me jump into a
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: wheelchair and they throw a tarp over me and they
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: wheel me in. There it's a little bit, weird but
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: also it's LIKE, aw so it's. Nice it's a little
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: bit more laid. Back but actually this is my FIRST i,
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: think full ON aw show BECAUSE i only Did ring
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: Of honor, Before LIKE i, Think i've been at the
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: shows but never really performing on, them And Ring vonder
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: was kind of like pre taped that was a smaller.
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: Crowd So i've never been to AN aw pay per
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: view and don't really know what to. Expect But i'm
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: thinking a less, restrictive more adult version OF wwe which
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: sounds like a good. Time those are all very good.
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: Descriptions so, yeah and it's kind of like a cool
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: little bit of a fuck you to THE tko, group
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: which is kind of funny BECAUSE wwe is On. Netflix
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: BUT i kind of figured it would be easier to
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: ask for forgiveness instead of permission on this, One like
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: on promoting your. Show it's. Fine we didn't advertise, it
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: not like we boosted the ratings of, it so it
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: should be. Fine so What Dave meltzer said last week
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: about it having more to do with her ongoing vendetto
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: WITH tko is pretty much bang. On there is no
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: deal in, place there is no sign, contract there is
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: no commitment for her to. Wrestle the show was In Los.
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: Angeles she lives about fifty miles outside Of Los. Angeles
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: her best friend was on the, show and she happens
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: to HATE, tko so she, figured what the, hell it's
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: just as well you know that she doesn't do anything
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: more with them, anyway especially With Tony storm's unexpected, vacation
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: she won't be around. ANYWAY i don't think many people
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: are clamoring to See Ronda rousey wrestling in Aaw someone
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: else who won't be wrestling in aw for a while,
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: unfortunately Is Josh. Alexander he suffered a knee injury during
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: The collision taping On march, eighteenth which aired On sunday Last,
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: sunday and it was a fluky thing Where Speedball Mike.
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: Bailey he came down with the standing double. Knees his
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: knee collided With alexander's And alexander immediately grabbed his own.
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: Knee he rolled to the corner to tag out and
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: he never. Returned he gave an update on his condition his.
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: Situation he was sitting in his car outside the doctor's,
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: office and the update is not. Good he, SAID i
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: just found out minutes ago how serious this. WAS i
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: Know i've been limping and in pain for a, week
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: but my surgeon told Me i'm going to need surgery
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: this Coming. Wednesday that my knee injury is pretty, severe
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: SO i will not be cleared to, compete and there
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: is no timetable set right now for WHEN i will be.
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: Back he didn't say what the injury, is but it's
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: bad enough that he needs. Surgery and anytime you hear
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: a doctor use the word, severe that's not a good,
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: thing so he ain't going to be back for a long.
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: Time and The Don kallis family is now down a.
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: Member that's After Jake doyle tore his bicep In. January
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: thankfully for, them they still have thirteen other members that
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: can pick up the, slack although that number may shrink
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: down to twelve after. Collision last, Night Kyle fletcher teamed
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: up With Mark davis against The rascals And kyle came
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: down awkwardly where his left leg got trapped underneath him
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: and he finished the, match but he was spotted in
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: a walking boot after the. Show so whatever it, IS
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: i hope it's minor because that would be a big
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: blow to that group if they. Lost, WELL i, Mean
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: Josh alexander wasn't really doing much of anything right now
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: in terms of like titles or major. Stories But Kyle
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: fletcher is not only THE tnt, champion but he's been
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: on television talking about wanting to challenge for the Aw
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: world titles, Soon so that would be a big loss
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: if he has to be out for any significant period of.
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: Time dynamite On wednesday this past Week Kenny omega Against Swerve.
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: Strickland we got the big rematch between these two from last,
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: month and it was a great. MATCH i didn't think
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: it was as great as the first match they, had
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: still very good. Though Kenny omega picks up the, win
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: gets his win. Back he's going To, vancouver he will
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: be CHALLENGING mjf for THE aw world. Title do you
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: Have omega win and do you Have omega Against osprey
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: At Wembley. Stadium that is really the big question right.
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: NOW i think it's the wrong time to take the
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: title off OF. MJF i think whatever uptick they've seen
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: in attendance and ratings and overall business, recently it's happening
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: WITH mjf as, Champion SO i don't know why you
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: would deviate from. That he still has other challengers lined,
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: up BUT i can also see the appeal in putting
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: the belt On omega in front of those. Fans and
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: ALSO i Mentioned Kyle fletcher and he keeps talking about
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: challenging for the world title even though he's got THE tnt.
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: Title kenny never did get his revenge On kyle for
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: what he did to him last. Year remember when they
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: did that residency at THE Ecw. Arena If kyle is
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: in line for a title match, soon and again we'll
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: see what his physical state is whether that even happens or,
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: not but let's just say that the plan is for
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: him to challenge for the world title. Soon Kenny omega
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: Against Kyle fletcher actually makes more sense THAN mjf Against Kyle,
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: fletcher but let's see how hurt his leg really is,
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: first because if it's anything, serious Then fletcher is not
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: going to be challenging for anything outside OF mjf against
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: The Omega. Dynasty we know Of cope And christian AGAINST
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: ftr for the tag team, titles and Will ospray Against
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: John moxley is official With ospray First wrestling pack that'll
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: be On dynamite This wednesday In. Winnipeg no mention of
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: the match With moxley being for the continental. TITLE i
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: hope it. Isn't osprey does not need. It he's got
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: something a lot bigger to chase after this. Summer but
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: that's all we know so. Far two weeks left to
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: go until the pay per view two weeks from, today
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: that's all we. Know the way things ended With tecla
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: And Mina shirakawa On, Dynamite tecla beat, her but it
- 1:17:18Speaker 1: took a pair of brass knuckles to do. IT i
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: can see them running that Back. Ricochet he wants a
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: rematch for The national title With Jack, perry SO i
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: could see them doing, That Andrede alitelo Against Darby. Allen
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: that's another ONE i could. See. Okata he Beat Kevin
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: knight On collision last night by holding the. Ropes they
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: had a really good. Match the way they did that.
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: Finish they could easily run that back for The international
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: title and that would be their rubber match Because night
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: beat him in The Continental classic a few months. Ago
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: but none of these MATCHES i just mentioned are confirmed
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: yet outside of the top. Three dynamite This wednesday In
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: winnipeg Has Kenny omega and mjf's contract signing for a.
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: Dynasty Kenny omega will be wrestling on the. Show he'll
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: be teaming With Brody king And Jack perry to take
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: On ricochet and The gates Of. Agony Will osprey takes
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: On pack and The Brawling. Birds Jamie hayter And Alex
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: windsor will team up With Mina sheirikaua to take On
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: tecla and The sisters Of. Sin you Know omega was
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: on the fall damaged YouTube. Channel he was trying to
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: guess famous lines from video, games and he named what
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: he thinks is the best pro wrestling game ever, made
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: and no it is not Aw Fight Forever Virtual Pro wrestling.
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: Too AND i REALIZED i have never Played Virtual Pro wrestling,
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: too BECAUSE i think it was only released In, japan
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: but it was on THE n sixty. FOUR i never
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: owned AN n sixty, four so ANY n sixty four
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: STUFF i had to play at a friend's, House SO
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: i have never played that. GAME i don't know if
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: you guys, have if you would agree With, kenny maybe
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: it really is that. GOOD i do remember PLAYING Wcwnwo
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: revenge a few. TIMES i don't remember where it might
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: have been in the, Store but so that was a
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: fun game for me. Personally it was the old Wrestle
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: fest arcade, game like in the, ArKade playing against other.
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: People that is the most fun THAT i have ever
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: had playing a wrestling. Game, well what's? Yours let me
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: know some other news and. Notes an injury not two
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: minutes into the main event derailed THE Tna sacrifice pay
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: per view On. Friday Steve macklin was Challenging Mike santana
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: for THE Tna World Heavyweight. Championship the Same Steve macklin
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: who picked the fired briefcase In feast Or. Fired he
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: was reinstated some weeks ago and he was granted A
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: Tna World championship. Match So macklin came off the. Ropes
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: he got blasted with a super kick By santana that
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: connected a little too. Well macklin immediately. Crumbled he fell
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: into the ropes and down to the mat his. Hands
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: this is the first THING i. Noticed his hands went
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: into that fencing position and his body stiffened. Up it
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: was very clear that he was. Hurt santana attempted to
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: Pull macklin up because he was back up to his
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: feet and it looked Like santana was getting ready to
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: go into the next, spot but he got backed away
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: by Referee Alice, lane AND i want to shout her
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: out for doing what should be done in situations like.
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: That she Backed santana. Away she threw up the DREADED
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: x and the doctor rushed into the ring to check on,
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: him as DID Tna President Carlos silva and other. People
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: so that stalled the match for several minutes until they
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: Sent Eddie edwards out to the ring to brawl With.
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: Santana macklin was escorted to the back he. Disappeared edwards
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: had already Wrestled moose earlier in the. Show, WELL i
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: mean it was less of a, match it was more
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: of an. Angle it went thirty. Seconds but, Anyway edwards
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: comes back out. Now edwards is ALSO i should point
- 1:20:53Speaker 1: out the one who chose the briefcase and feast or
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: fired for a world championship. Match evidently this will not
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: count as his world title shot because he was not
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: supposed to be out, there. Right they paddicked and they
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: had to come up with a play and b and
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: this is what they came up. With on the. Fly
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: edwards ended up laid out on a table. Outside santana
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: came off the top rope with a, splash crashed through the,
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: table at which point he was declared the winner via no,
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: contest whatever that. Means the update On macklin From Sports
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: illustrated is that AFTER tna evaluated him for a potential,
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: concussion they sent him to the hospital for more. Tests
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: Carlos silva told The takedown ON si That macklin was
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: not ultimately diagnosed with a. Concussion he cleared all of
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: his tests and he was released to go back to
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: his hotel for the, night so that's good. News Alice,
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: lane the, referee And Eddie edwards were each given The
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: All Star award yesterday By Carlos, silva which is something
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: they started a while. Ago they were given the award
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: for their efforts during the. Match edwards said that he
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: was just doing his job and said that what they
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: do out there is a team. Effort Maple Leaf Pro
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: wrestling held Its Global wars event With ring Of honor
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: On friday night and Their uprising show last. Night what
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: an announced crew for that show On friday THAT i
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: Saw Mara, Ronalo Ian ricabonni And Don. KALLIS i was
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: sold at Maur, renalo But Ian ricabonni is great. Too
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: but the big news coming out of this weekend was
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: the announcement of a new television deal WITH tsn In
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: canada for a new weekly series starting In, july and
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: that is huge for the. Promotion they also confirmed the
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: first round of tapings for the new, show so it
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: won't be airing Live june twelfth and thirteenth In, Windsor
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: ontario At Saint Clair. College they have taping set For
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: august seventh and eighth as. Well so between THEIR tv
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: deal and their working relationship with aw And ring Of,
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: Honor scott De moor has got a good thing going
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: on up. There TRILLER, tv which carried Those Maple Leaf
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: pro shows this, weekend looks like it may be on
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: its way out, soon or at least on its way
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: to new. Ownership, triller which used to Be FIGHT tv
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: before it was, rebranded has hosted tons of combat sports
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: over the, years INCLUDING Awtna New japan, shows tons of
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: independent promotions Including house Of glory as it does right,
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: now but ALSO mma boxing other. Events they just hosted
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: Some Maple Leaf pro shows this. Weekend AS i, Mentioned
- 1:23:31Speaker 1: triller required a stake in the company in twenty twenty,
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: one and later on they took on full, ownership which
- 1:23:38Speaker 1: is when it was rebranded away From FIGHT. Tv but
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: it has had some serious financial issues to the point
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: where it was delisted by The Nasdaq exchange In january
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: after they failed to file their annual and quarterly financial.
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: Reports that is not usually a good. Sign they just
- 1:23:55Speaker 1: shut down their Aw plus subscription service for international users this,
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: week which allowed subscribers to Watch dynamite And collision episodes each,
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: week archive, content and pay per views for a. Discount
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: this comes AFTER aew just launched its own MY aw
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: service for international, fans which sounds like a direct result
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: of whatever Troubles triller is going. THROUGH aw decided we're
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: just going to start our own. Service so past pay
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: per views are still up On triller for, purchase but
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: that may not be the case for much. Longer dynasty
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: is not listed as an option for. Purchase this is
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: a blow To, triller you, KNOW aw pulling their shit
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: because the company had previously disclosed THAT aw accounted for
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: twenty four, percent nearly a quarter of its revenue in
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Four that's more than six million dollars and
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: it may have been even higher in twenty twenty. Five
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: we don't have those, numbers But Orange, crush headed By Adam,
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: abdalla has emerged as a potential new. Owner Mike, johnson
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: A pw, insider reports That Orange crush in the process
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: of putting together private funding to Buy TRILLER, tv and
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: he Says abdalla's plan For triller is to bring music
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: videos back to the forefront by incorporating them along with
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: movies onto the platform to augment the combat sports, component
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: Says abdalla heads The New York City Public Relations Powerhouse
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: Cultural council and also sits on the board of several
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: artistic and historical institutions and is well connected in the,
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: FILM tv and media. Industries, abdalla known for his time
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: as booker For Jersey Championship, wrestling has now exited the.
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: Promotion he is now set to launch his own company
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: produce a new wrestling promotion and concept that will debut
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: In june with events In New York city And New.
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: Jersey and apparently he also curated and Launched Sunset flip
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: featuring the artwork of Aw Women's World Champion tecla And
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: ring Of Honor Pure Champion Lee, moriarty which is currently
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: being exhibited at The Perez museum In. Miami and he
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: is a producer of the new DOCUMENTARY Mtv This Is,
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: buzz which might help explain the music video aspect of
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: this New triller rebrand if he gets his hands on.
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: It but it's not a done deal, yet so we'll
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: see WHAT i. Mean i've heard a lot of stories
- 1:26:17Speaker 1: About triller and it's sad because there are a lot
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: of promotions THAT i, know you, know rely on. THEM
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: i think some promotions are also kind of shifting, away
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: maybe to the YouTube. Component so we'll. See, now we'll
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: see what the future holds For, Triller but it seems
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: pretty clear they're going to have to find some new
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: ownership very, soon one way or the, other because financially
- 1:26:41Speaker 1: they're in a hole AND i don't know that they
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: can climb their way out of. It and there was
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: a story in my Hometown New York post this week
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: that made national headlines for all the wrong, reasons but
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: this was too good not to mention here where the
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: head of A New York city preschool was arrested On
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: wednesday for embezzling nearly three million dollars intuition and blowing
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: thousands of dollars on tickets TO wwe events as well
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: as luxury. Travel this is according to a new federal.
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: Indictment Muriel, mizak the director Of Kinderhouse Brooklyn Kinderhoss Kinderhass
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: brooklyn on Sixth avenue and Ninth street In Park. SLOW
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: i was just In Park slow this week for a doctor's.
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: Appointment good luck finding. Parking the story says she pulled
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: a stone cold. Stunner, Horror she pulled a stone cold
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: stunner when she allegedly spent at least three hundred and
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in swiped cash on tickets to EXCLUSIVE wwe,
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: matches some of which she bragged about On. Instagram, mizak
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: A swiss, citizen is accused of funneling a total of
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: two point seventy five million dollars in tuition fees to
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: her own bank account for her own personal use and
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: benefit Between january twenty twenty two And october twenty twenty.
- 1:28:06Speaker 1: Five according to the, indictment she took frequent trips and
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: vacations across the, country often every other, weekend enjoying plush,
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: RESORTS vip access TO wwe, events and first class, amenities
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: much of which she documented on her Public instagram and
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: other social media. Accounts according to a lawsuit filed against
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: her by the school In, december HER wwe splurges INCLUDED
- 1:28:29Speaker 1: vip meet And greek passes to at least one wrestling
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: event where she and her three kids were able to
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: hang Star. Wrestling, well hang out with, boy that's a
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: bad typo. THERE i lifted that right from the. STORY
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: i don't think they were hanging the. WRESTLERS i mean
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: that would be fucking. Terrible they were able to hang
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: out with star. Wrestlers, otherwise this is a very different.
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: Story mizak allegedly blew six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: on travel and, entertainment one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: on food delivery, services and hundreds of thousands of dollars
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: on high end luxury. Goods she covered up the theft
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: by manipulating the school's internal accounting system to falsely show
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: that the payments had been deposited into the school's bank,
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: account then deleted emails that would have revealed the. Scheme
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: it wasn't immediately clear How mizak was eventually, busted but
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: the school's principle learned about the scheme In october of
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Five mizak was hired by the preschool in
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and rose through the ranks to become director
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: in twenty. Twenty it is unclear why she is so
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: enthusiastic about professional. Wrestling, Wow i'm Doing why are we?
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: All because we're? Weird that's why we like watching men
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: and women playfight in their underwear for fake. Belts nobody
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: ever said we were operating with a full deck of. Cards,
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: okay for some of us the deck is more full than.
- 1:29:50Speaker 1: Others BUT i also never embezzled three million dollars for
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: tickets to smack down to Meet Damian. Priest that's a
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: level of psychosis that's beyond my. Comprehension i'm more stunned
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: that she spent one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: food delivery. Services what the fuck is this woman? Eating
- 1:30:10Speaker 1: stake some mailbag questions you could email me The Solemn
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: monster at gmail dot. Com please include your name of
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: where you are from when you write. In michael From, Brisbane.
- 1:30:20Speaker 1: AUSTRALIA i wanted to ask a question related to the
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: show last week when you Mentioned Tony khan's bid FOR.
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: Wwe if you Were Tony khan and you were able
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: to BUY, wwe how would you book The inevitable invasion.
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: Angle it's obviously harder in this day and, age with
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: announcements needing to be made to stock, exchanges et. Cetera
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: but is there a way that this storyline could work
- 1:30:41Speaker 1: in today's landscape in a way that has not been
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: done before in a way that hasn't been done. BEFORE
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: i don't think. SO i mean not if people already
- 1:30:50Speaker 1: know that they're owned and operated by the same person
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: and they're essentially under the same. Umbrella you got to
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: be able to make people. BELIEVE i mean that really
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: is the key to any sort of invasion. Angle that
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: would be a lot easier if they were truly two
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: separate entities run by different. People and there's a reason
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: why you don't hear about too many successful invasion. ANGLES i,
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: Mean i'm not even sure he would do an invasion.
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: ANGLE i think that we would end up with probably
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: the ultimate forbidden door, show, right the mother of all forbidden.
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: Doors the forbidden door would be knocked off its hinges
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: once and for, all and then there would be the
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: inevitable crossover where we GET wwe stars challenging FOR aw
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: titles and vice versa the way we see it now
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: WITH aw AND Cmll talent OR aw And New Japan.
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: Talent but if there was an attempt at an invasion,
- 1:31:38Speaker 1: angle the only way that it works is if you
- 1:31:40Speaker 1: use the right. People you have to use big. Names
- 1:31:43Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons THE wcw invasion. Died you,
- 1:31:47Speaker 1: know the biggest names were not. Available they were not
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: part of. It you Had BOOKER t AND, ddp AND
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: ddp was busy Stalking undertaker's wife and rifling through her
- 1:31:56Speaker 1: drawers to find her. Panties, okay it didn't. WORK i
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: would need to See Randy orton coming out of the
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: crowd and sliding into the ring on dynamite to Drop
- 1:32:05Speaker 1: Tony shavanni with AN rko in the middle of an,
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: interview and then fleeing back through the crowd as the
- 1:32:10Speaker 1: locker room chases after. HIM i would need to See
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: Swerve strickland with a, chain you, know Busting Cody roads
- 1:32:18Speaker 1: wide open and being tackled to the ground by cops
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: and then cuffed and hauled off as other members of the,
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: roster even the heels, right tried to take a shot
- 1:32:27Speaker 1: at him for what he just. Did or a group
- 1:32:31Speaker 1: OF aw stars coming out of the crowd from all
- 1:32:33Speaker 1: angles and just mass. Chaos, Right but beyond any sort of,
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: INVASION i would be more interested in how aw talents
- 1:32:40Speaker 1: could be integrated into THE wwe, Storylines like Imagine Samoa
- 1:32:45Speaker 1: joe showing up during This roman. REIGN Cm punk build
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: to Wrestle, Mania punk, thinking, well you, Know roman put
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: a hit out on me for all The samoans to
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: come after, me but nobody. Has and Then joe suddenly
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: shows up right tape fist and, everything and he Attacks,
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: punk especially with all the history that those two, have
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: like Working joe into the bloodline. Stuff, see now that
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: would be. Interesting Seth rollins paying a visit to Will
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: osprey one week On, dynamite giving their little war of
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: words online in the, past like let's find out who
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: the better wrestler really. Is you and me get SOME
- 1:33:21Speaker 1: wwe guys in The Continental, classic DO wwe AGAINST aw
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: and war games one year like those are the things
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: that would be interesting to. Me and If tony owned
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: all of, it then you wouldn't have the issue of
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: worrying about politics when it comes to match, finishes which
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: is always a problem when you're dealing with two different
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: promotions that you know we're working. Together, otherwise LIKE i
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: said last, week the idea of one person owning everything
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: is fucking terrible And i'm glad it didn't. Happen doesn't
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: mean that we wouldn't have gotten some cool crossovers out of,
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: It BUT i think the idea of a true invasion
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: angle in twenty twenty. Six it is sort of a
- 1:34:00Speaker 1: relic of the, past because if you can't get people
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: to seriously buy into, it then there's no point in doing.
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: One the reason THE nWo works so well right out
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: of the gate is Because bischoff was able to manipulate
- 1:34:13Speaker 1: people into believing and convincing them that these guys were
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: still under contract To vince McMahon and that he sent
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: them to invade their show. Right as preposterous as it
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: is to look back on it, now and maybe it,
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: was you know for people at the, time some people
- 1:34:29Speaker 1: that they kept showing up week after week and they
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: would Give Scott hall a, microphone like if you really
- 1:34:34Speaker 1: want to break it, Down it was not too terribly,
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: realistic But bischoff did a good job of convincing enough
- 1:34:40Speaker 1: people like blurring the lines like holy, shit what's going on?
- 1:34:44Speaker 1: Here because back then a lot of people just didn't.
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: Know they didn't have access to social, media because there
- 1:34:50Speaker 1: was no social media unless they were ON. Rspw there
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: was no social. Media they weren't all reading the dirt
- 1:34:56Speaker 1: sheets or getting spoilers every five minutes from wrestle votes or.
- 1:35:01Speaker 1: Whatever it's a different world. Today THE nWo also kept winning.
- 1:35:06Speaker 1: Matches they were a credible. Threat that's another, element an
- 1:35:10Speaker 1: important element of any. Invasion if someone is, invaded you
- 1:35:14Speaker 1: need to be able to take that threat seriously or
- 1:35:17Speaker 1: else that doesn't. Work james From Staten. Island in his
- 1:35:22Speaker 1: interview With Barstools, sports Brock lesner discussed the decision for
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: him to be the one to end The undertaker's. STREAK
- 1:35:28Speaker 1: i get the feeling that he really didn't want to do,
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: it especially when he made sure to point out that
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: it was A vince McMahon. Decision, WELL i, mean of
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: course it was A vince McMahon. Decision it would not
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: be a Brock lesner. Decision he doesn't get paid to
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: make those. Decisions but brock was already A hall Of
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: fame level, talent so he didn't benefit from doing, so
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: and making him an unstoppable monster did not require breaking the.
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: STREAK i think the Reason vince broke the streak was
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: for two. Reasons one to stick it to the fans
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: for screwing up his main event that, year and to
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: fatten Up lesnar to feed him To Roman. Reigns interesting
- 1:36:05Speaker 1: how he had that in, mind When roman wasn't even
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: out of the, shield with no way of knowing if
- 1:36:10Speaker 1: he would be good enough to be in that, ROLE
- 1:36:12Speaker 1: i guess he was determined to force him to be
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: good enough to be in that, role which to me
- 1:36:17Speaker 1: should have allowed should have been allowed to either happen
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: organically or not at. All why do you Think vince
- 1:36:23Speaker 1: broke the? Streak first of, ALL i wish THAT i
- 1:36:27Speaker 1: could love someone in the way that you Hate Roman.
- 1:36:32Speaker 1: REIGNS i love, You, james but my, GOODNESS i WISH
- 1:36:36Speaker 1: i could find it in my heart to love someone
- 1:36:39Speaker 1: on this earth as much As james Hates Roman. Reigns
- 1:36:43Speaker 1: so that's number. One number, two AND i know it
- 1:36:46Speaker 1: has more to do with the way he was, pushed
- 1:36:48Speaker 1: but STILL i THINK i have gotten more emails From
- 1:36:50Speaker 1: james About roman than any other single wrestler in all
- 1:36:53Speaker 1: the years that he's been emailing. Me why DO i
- 1:36:57Speaker 1: Think vince broke the? STREAK i think that there was
- 1:37:00Speaker 1: some conspiracy theory here to get back at the fans
- 1:37:03Speaker 1: for screwing Up vince's. Plans, no, no that is not
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: why he ended the. Streak he ended the streak because
- 1:37:11Speaker 1: he felt like undertaker was. Done he looked At, undertaker
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: who thought up until the day of that he was,
- 1:37:19Speaker 1: winning AND i Think vince made a decision that he
- 1:37:22Speaker 1: Felt undertaker this could be his last, match that he
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: was at the end of his, rope and if that's the,
- 1:37:29Speaker 1: case the streak needs to end. NOW i don't happen
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: to agree with. THAT i can understand the logic why
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: waste the streak by just having him retire, Undefeated BUT
- 1:37:39Speaker 1: i just think there were certain situations, where you know,
- 1:37:42Speaker 1: what it might be appropriate to let that person retire.
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: Undefeated ALTHOUGH i do get the logic about using it
- 1:37:49Speaker 1: to help elevate somebody, ELSE i get that it was
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: the wrong decision to. Make, REGARDLESS i don't think anything
- 1:37:57Speaker 1: went into it other Than vince looking at the situation
- 1:37:59Speaker 1: from a business standpoint and, SAYING i think this guy is,
- 1:38:02Speaker 1: done AND i think we need to do something now
- 1:38:06Speaker 1: to elevate, someone to use this streak to elevate someone
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: in some, way and that someone was Brock lesner because
- 1:38:13Speaker 1: that was the advertised match For. WrestleMania i honestly believe
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: that If undertaker was going Into WrestleMania that year against
- 1:38:19Speaker 1: anybody else and they were never gonna put him in
- 1:38:22Speaker 1: there with a, Shlub so it would have been some
- 1:38:24Speaker 1: other big. Name if it was anybody, else that person
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: would be the one to be the one in twenty
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: one and. One it just so happened to be Brock
- 1:38:33Speaker 1: lesner because brock was the one they wanted to, really
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: as you, said fatten up and really make him look
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: strong because they were going to put the championship on.
- 1:38:41Speaker 1: Him Brock lesner was going to Destroy Daniel bryan At.
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: SummerSlam it was not going to Be John. Cena they
- 1:38:50Speaker 1: were gonna Give brian six months and then they were
- 1:38:53Speaker 1: gonna have him take sixteen sup plexes and be killed
- 1:38:56Speaker 1: off by Brock lesner At. SummerSlam i, fully one hundred
- 1:38:59Speaker 1: percent believe that it ended up Being John cena Because
- 1:39:02Speaker 1: brian got. Hurt BUT i don't think there was anything
- 1:39:06Speaker 1: else that went into it other than WHAT i just.
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: Said there was no conspiracy. Theory this was not his
- 1:39:11Speaker 1: way of getting back at people that ruined his plans
- 1:39:15Speaker 1: in the, past like you got to stop with. THAT
- 1:39:18Speaker 1: i don't believe for a second that that factored into
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: his decision making on this in any, way shape or.
- 1:39:22Speaker 1: Form brandon From milwaukee When Brett hard got screwed and
- 1:39:30Speaker 1: went TO. Wcw vince had Offered warrior a substantial contract
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: to come back once again TO, wwe WHICH i assume
- 1:39:38Speaker 1: would have been to a top main event, spot but
- 1:39:41Speaker 1: he refused for some. REASON i have a two part,
- 1:39:43Speaker 1: question which, is If warrior had accepted the contract to,
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: return how long do you think he would have? Lasted
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: and how would he have fit, in if at, all
- 1:39:52Speaker 1: in The attitude? Era and how different would The WrestleMania
- 1:39:55Speaker 1: fourteen card impossible main event had looked If warrior was.
- 1:39:59Speaker 1: There to answer your first, question he would have flamed out.
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: Quickly warrior would not have lasted more than a few.
- 1:40:06Speaker 1: Months it would have been just like ninety. Six they
- 1:40:08Speaker 1: brought him back in ninety. Six he had his, school
- 1:40:11Speaker 1: he had his comic, book that's all he wanted to,
- 1:40:14Speaker 1: promote and it took what three, months four months at,
- 1:40:19Speaker 1: most and there were already problems and he flamed. Out
- 1:40:25Speaker 1: this would not have been any. DIFFERENT i will never
- 1:40:27Speaker 1: Understand vince McMahon's, obsession his infatuation with constantly trying to
- 1:40:32Speaker 1: bring back The Ultimate. Warrior like The Ultimate warrior was
- 1:40:36Speaker 1: this very colorful gimmick and, personality and as a, KID
- 1:40:41Speaker 1: i could totally understand the appeal and it was a
- 1:40:44Speaker 1: moment in. Time and of course he had the roided
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: up physique and he looked like a million, bucks and
- 1:40:48Speaker 1: he was charismatic in his own, way even though nothing
- 1:40:52Speaker 1: he said really made any. Sense but he was a.
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: CHARACTER i could see, why especially little kids would be
- 1:40:58Speaker 1: behind The Ultimate, warrior want to paint their face like
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: The Ultimate. Warrior but the fact, remains and even When
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: warrior was at his, Peak vince put the belt on.
- 1:41:05Speaker 1: Him vince chose him to be his heir. Apparent he
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: chose him to be the one who Beat Hulk hogan
- 1:41:12Speaker 1: for the first time At, WrestleMania and within a year
- 1:41:17Speaker 1: he had already, decided we got to get the belt
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: off this. Guy and a year later he put the
- 1:41:21Speaker 1: belt right back On. Hogan Because warrior was not some,
- 1:41:25Speaker 1: big you, know business boom the way that he thought
- 1:41:29Speaker 1: he would. Be he knew this in nineteen, ninety but
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: he kept bringing the guy back and his physique. Change he.
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: Shrunk apparently he was always an. Asshole he talked to
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: any of these people that have then, Interviews bruce or,
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: whatever who had to work with him And Bobby. Heenan
- 1:41:44Speaker 1: they all said that nobody liked the. Guy he was
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: a fucking. Dick SO i can never understand this infatuation
- 1:41:51Speaker 1: with the constant contract offers to bring this guy back
- 1:41:55Speaker 1: when you knew exactly how this was going to, end
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: other than JUST i guess he was a, star he
- 1:42:01Speaker 1: had a, name he was a, star and so maybe
- 1:42:03Speaker 1: this time will be. Different this time would not have been.
- 1:42:06Speaker 1: Different he would have flamed out, quickly and his presence
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: on that roster that would have only stifled the rise
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: of other stars Like austin And. Rock it would not
- 1:42:15Speaker 1: have helped Because warrior was not the helping. Type warrior
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: was not coming. Back i'm going to help the next
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: generation of. Talent get over. Bullshit The warrior would have
- 1:42:26Speaker 1: come in to Help. Warrior he would have come in
- 1:42:29Speaker 1: to make, money and he would have wanted to be
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: a top whether he was the champion or. Not he
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: would have wanted to be on top as a top.
- 1:42:36Speaker 1: Guy and you know that at some Point vince probably
- 1:42:40Speaker 1: would have wanted to put the belt on him and
- 1:42:43Speaker 1: it would not have. Worked the idea by the way
- 1:42:46Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety, eight LIKE i don't lay down for no.
- 1:42:49Speaker 1: One Sean michaels having to work with The Ultimate warrior
- 1:42:52Speaker 1: is just the stuff of high. Comedy but he would
- 1:42:57Speaker 1: not have been in the main. EVENT i think At
- 1:42:58Speaker 1: wrestledmania that year In boston he likely would have been
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: Squashing triple h again on the. Undercart either that or
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: working with The rock instead Of, rock working With Ken.
- 1:43:09Speaker 1: SHAMROCK i don't. THINK i don't think he would have
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: been in the main event regardless that. Year brandon From
- 1:43:16Speaker 1: baltimore quick theory On, GUNTHER i don't think him having
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: no Obvious WrestleMania opponent is a. Mistake it's got to
- 1:43:23Speaker 1: be on. Purpose ONCE Aj styles gets inducted into The
- 1:43:27Speaker 1: hall Of, FAME i see them shooting a surprise angle
- 1:43:30Speaker 1: Where gunther just brutalizes. Him why because if he's going
- 1:43:34Speaker 1: to Retire Brock lesnar down the, line he needs to
- 1:43:37Speaker 1: look vicious, again not this, safe flat. Version AJ's run
- 1:43:41Speaker 1: was inspired but ended. Weak they're letting him coast AND
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: i can't buy. It A hall Of fame beatdown gives
- 1:43:48Speaker 1: aj one last fire, run or Lets gunther bury him
- 1:43:52Speaker 1: clean to build For. Brock nobody would expect. It it sounds,
- 1:43:55Speaker 1: crazy but in my way. Off, Brother you're so far
- 1:43:59Speaker 1: off you're not even on the same planet. ANYMORE i
- 1:44:02Speaker 1: don't know where you. Are you fell into another, dimension
- 1:44:05Speaker 1: far far. Away although, LOOK i admire THE i admire
- 1:44:10Speaker 1: the desire to find a way to Get Aj styles
- 1:44:16Speaker 1: back in the ring one more, time because it's WHAT
- 1:44:18Speaker 1: i would have wanted to see. Too aj is. Done
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: at least for the time. Being aj is. Done they're
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: not doing an angle with. Him his story With gunther is,
- 1:44:29Speaker 1: over AND i don't know if they may end up
- 1:44:32Speaker 1: having some sort of surprise gimmick Where gunther goes all
- 1:44:37Speaker 1: the way To mania without an, opponent and maybe it's
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: an open challenge type. THING i, mean you almost can't
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: do that because you already did one With. Brock that's
- 1:44:44Speaker 1: WHY i said last, WEEK i think they made a.
- 1:44:46Speaker 1: Mistake it should have Been gunther with the open challenge
- 1:44:51Speaker 1: because you could get To, Brock lesner And obafemi without
- 1:44:53Speaker 1: an open. Challenge. YEAH i, mean in, hindsight looking, back
- 1:44:57Speaker 1: it should have Been gunther with the open challenge. Gimmick but,
- 1:45:01Speaker 1: NO i, Mean Aj, style you gotta let it. GO
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: Aj styles is not going to have anything to do
- 1:45:05Speaker 1: with Gun. THERE i don't think they're going to shoot
- 1:45:07Speaker 1: any kind of angle at the. Hall, Look i'll be
- 1:45:09Speaker 1: happy to come on here and, say, HEY i was
- 1:45:11Speaker 1: wrong and you were, right and what a hell of
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: a what a hell of an idea that would. Be but, no,
- 1:45:17Speaker 1: no there's no chance of that. Happening jonathan From, Eerie.
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: PENNSYLVANIA i was recently Rewatching Brett hart Against Roddy piper
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: From WrestleMania, eight and it got me thinking about some
- 1:45:29Speaker 1: of my favorite babyface versus baby face, matches Including Hulk
- 1:45:32Speaker 1: hogan and The Ultimate warrior Or WrestleMania, Six Brett hart
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: against The British bulldog At SummerSlam nineteen ninety, Two sting
- 1:45:39Speaker 1: And Lex luger against The Steiner brothers at The First Super.
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: Brawl do you have any personal? FAVORITES i. Do Hogan
- 1:45:48Speaker 1: warrior is one of them for. Sure that is the
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: first big babyface versus baby face MATCH i ever, saw
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: and that was a very big, Deal so that would
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: be at the top of my. LIST i Think Brett
- 1:46:00Speaker 1: hard against the one two Three, kid That banger they
- 1:46:03Speaker 1: had On raw for The world title back in ninety
- 1:46:05Speaker 1: four still stands out to me one of the Better
- 1:46:07Speaker 1: raw matches in, history but you got to Have Stone
- 1:46:10Speaker 1: cold in The rock on. THERE i know there was
- 1:46:12Speaker 1: a heel turn at the end of, it But Austin
- 1:46:14Speaker 1: Rock WrestleMania seventeen has to be on, there And Shawn
- 1:46:18Speaker 1: michael's against The Undertaker WrestleMania twenty. FIVE i, mean you
- 1:46:22Speaker 1: could say twenty five and twenty, six but twenty five
- 1:46:25Speaker 1: was the better, Match SO i gotta go with that.
- 1:46:28Speaker 1: One kevin From, washington D. C this year marks twenty
- 1:46:32Speaker 1: five years Since WrestleMania is, seventeen without a, doubt the
- 1:46:35Speaker 1: Greatest WrestleMania of all. Time Which WrestleMania do you believe
- 1:46:39Speaker 1: has come closest to it in the last twenty five? Years.
- 1:46:43Speaker 1: Hmm there's two that come to mind for, me and
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: you can rank them in whatever order you. Want i'm
- 1:46:52Speaker 1: not going to do that. NOW wrestlemani at thirty OR
- 1:46:57Speaker 1: wrestlemani at thirty. NINE i really don't think you could
- 1:47:01Speaker 1: go wrong with either one of The WrestleMania at thirty
- 1:47:03Speaker 1: nine was a Great. WrestleMania WrestleMania at THIRTY i think
- 1:47:07Speaker 1: was a Great WrestleMania forty. Forty M, me, look the
- 1:47:13Speaker 1: ending was. Fantastic forty had its, moments but forty doesn't
- 1:47:17Speaker 1: really stand out to me the way thirty nine. DOES
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: i would go thirty or thirty. Nine armando From, Baymon Puerto,
- 1:47:25Speaker 1: rico buy sell Or, ren The Young, bucks THE ussos
- 1:47:28Speaker 1: OR ftr all amazing, teams probably the best in the last.
- 1:47:32Speaker 1: Decade but who would you say left their mark in
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: wrestling the most and have done more for the business at?
- 1:47:38Speaker 1: LARGE i, Mean, armando this is this is not even a.
- 1:47:44Speaker 1: QUESTION i, mean the answer is The Young. Bucks just
- 1:47:49Speaker 1: for their connection to aw alone and helping their role
- 1:47:53Speaker 1: and helping get that company off the ground and the
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: position that they were in for so many. Years they
- 1:48:00Speaker 1: have been very influential in many. Ways but for that,
- 1:48:02Speaker 1: alone you have to buy on. Them like to, me
- 1:48:06Speaker 1: it's not even a subjective, Thing like the answer is
- 1:48:09Speaker 1: The Young. Bucks, now IF i had a rent on
- 1:48:13Speaker 1: one of the other two in terms of what have
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: they done more for the business at? LARGE i don't.
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: KNOW i, mean to, ME ftr has had better matches
- 1:48:25Speaker 1: than THE. Usos if you ask me which is the
- 1:48:28Speaker 1: better tag, Team i'm going WITH. Ftr BUT i don't
- 1:48:32Speaker 1: know that they like their overall influence if we're talking about,
- 1:48:36Speaker 1: INFLUENCE i know you didn't use that, word BUT i
- 1:48:40Speaker 1: used it for The. BUCKS i think it's kind of
- 1:48:42Speaker 1: a wash between those two, Teams But i'm gonna say
- 1:48:45Speaker 1: in terms of leaving their mark more, THOUGH i would GO.
- 1:48:47Speaker 1: FTR i also think to the matches they had with
- 1:48:51Speaker 1: The briscoes when they first came TO aw and the
- 1:48:55Speaker 1: matches they had with The bucks when they were still IN.
- 1:48:58Speaker 1: Nxt they were such a big part of That black
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: And gold era in the matches they had against teams
- 1:49:02Speaker 1: Like American alpha AND. DIY i gotta GO. Ftr and
- 1:49:08Speaker 1: THEN i would sell on THE Usos anthony From, Houston,
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: texas and we'll end with. THIS i was having a
- 1:49:17Speaker 1: spirited conversation with a comrade when we broke the subject
- 1:49:21Speaker 1: of terrible news stories about. Wrestlers we came to the
- 1:49:25Speaker 1: agreement that The chris Ben wah story has to be
- 1:49:27Speaker 1: the darkest it can possibly. Be, Now i'm only thirty,
- 1:49:30Speaker 1: two so there could be Stories i'm not hip, too
- 1:49:33Speaker 1: but that's why we love our walking wrestling, encyclopedia The Sola.
- 1:49:36Speaker 1: Monster in your, opinion what are the top five worst
- 1:49:40Speaker 1: news stories where a wrestler was the primary focus or
- 1:49:44Speaker 1: an integral part of the. Story, well you're not wrong
- 1:49:51Speaker 1: about The benoit murder, suicide because that is by far the.
- 1:49:55Speaker 1: Worst Owen hart's death would be number, two a close number.
- 1:50:00Speaker 1: TWO i, MEAN i remember that you talk about the
- 1:50:04Speaker 1: Ben was. Stuff The owen. Stuff, ALSO i remember made
- 1:50:07Speaker 1: all the nightly newscasts and then all the other news
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: stories that came out of. It guy fell to his
- 1:50:14Speaker 1: death eighty feet in front of a live, audience died
- 1:50:18Speaker 1: in the. RING i, mean it doesn't get any worse than, that,
- 1:50:21Speaker 1: right other than killing your. Family and so in that,
- 1:50:24Speaker 1: situation three people died instead of. One so the Ben
- 1:50:29Speaker 1: wan murder suicide is by far the. WORST i Have
- 1:50:32Speaker 1: owen's death if you're asking me to rank, these but
- 1:50:34Speaker 1: they're all, terrible But owen's DEATH i have right behind.
- 1:50:37Speaker 1: THAT i would say The vince McMahon Janelle grant sex
- 1:50:42Speaker 1: trafficking stuff is pretty fucking terrible and made a lot of.
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: News still is in the news kind, of so i'd
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: have that on. There Jimmy snook from murdering his. Girlfriend,
- 1:50:57Speaker 1: really all of the Von erik, family all the tragedy
- 1:51:00Speaker 1: and suicides all just kind of roll them all up
- 1:51:02Speaker 1: into one that's pretty, terrible but in terms of what made,
- 1:51:07Speaker 1: headlines but there's still a lot of people who don't
- 1:51:10Speaker 1: know about it or don't know who this man. IS
- 1:51:13Speaker 1: i want you, to and maybe you're better off, not
- 1:51:16Speaker 1: BUT i want you to look up rock And roll Buck,
- 1:51:18Speaker 1: zumoff and you will find one of the most deplorable
- 1:51:23Speaker 1: human beings who ever walked the face of the. Earth
- 1:51:26Speaker 1: LIKE i had to refresh my own memory on some
- 1:51:28Speaker 1: of the. Dates But texas nineteen eighty five arrested after
- 1:51:35Speaker 1: having sex with a, minor nineteen eighty, eight again arrested
- 1:51:39Speaker 1: for having sex with an underage, girl nineteen eighty, nine
- 1:51:44Speaker 1: served two and a half years in prison for sexual
- 1:51:46Speaker 1: misconduct with a, Minor and yet he kept getting, booked
- 1:51:51Speaker 1: including by THE. Wwf and they, knew they, knew they
- 1:51:56Speaker 1: had to. Know it's a matter of public, record. Right
- 1:52:01Speaker 1: but then, again this is the same McMahon family that
- 1:52:03Speaker 1: rehired Mel phillips even after they knew he had a
- 1:52:06Speaker 1: thing for boy's feet on the ring crew rehired him
- 1:52:11Speaker 1: under the condition stay away from. Kids sure we'll bring you.
- 1:52:15Speaker 1: Back SO i, mean none of this should be, surprising
- 1:52:20Speaker 1: but there's an OLD awa promo from the early eighties
- 1:52:23Speaker 1: Where Jesse ventur is being interviewed By Mean jean about
- 1:52:27Speaker 1: a match coming up With zumoff and he Calls Zumov
- 1:52:30Speaker 1: Peter pan and they both had a good laugh about
- 1:52:34Speaker 1: it in the. Promo jeane was corpsing during the. Promo even,
- 1:52:38Speaker 1: then they. Knew this had to be early eighties and
- 1:52:41Speaker 1: they're calling Him Peter. Pan they. Knew i'm sure all
- 1:52:44Speaker 1: the boys. Knew he probably had a reputation for. It but,
- 1:52:50Speaker 1: anyway all those, arrests he was still finding. WORK i,
- 1:52:53Speaker 1: mean he was a job guy by that, point but,
- 1:52:55Speaker 1: STILL i, mean, fuck he was working for. Them in
- 1:52:57Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, five he Was Triple h's first opponent ON.
- 1:53:02Speaker 1: Tv but that's not even the worst of. It like
- 1:53:07Speaker 1: what finally did him in and the reason that he
- 1:53:09Speaker 1: is currently rotting away in prison on a twenty five
- 1:53:12Speaker 1: year sentence is because he abused and raped his own
- 1:53:16Speaker 1: daughter multiple times between nineteen ninety nine and twenty. Eleven
- 1:53:22Speaker 1: like he never even met his daughter until she was
- 1:53:24Speaker 1: fifteen years, old AND i will spare you the, details
- 1:53:29Speaker 1: but he was found guilty on all, counts and then
- 1:53:32Speaker 1: the bitch made that he. Is he tried to flee the.
- 1:53:36Speaker 1: Courtroom they tackled him to the, ground so they tacked
- 1:53:39Speaker 1: another charge on for trying to. Escape his lawyer, said,
- 1:53:44Speaker 1: oh he's hoping to get treatment and probation in case
- 1:53:47Speaker 1: you were wondering what we're dealing with, Here like the
- 1:53:51Speaker 1: lights are on, upstairs but nobody's. Home it just give
- 1:53:54Speaker 1: him some treatment in probation and send him on his.
- 1:53:57Speaker 1: Way you, know castration is a real. Thing if there
- 1:54:01Speaker 1: was any justice in this, world that would have been
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: the first thing they did to. Him but the really
- 1:54:06Speaker 1: disturbing thing is how many other pedophiles do you think
- 1:54:11Speaker 1: existed in wrestling back then that we don't even know.
- 1:54:13Speaker 1: About LIKE i don't know that that many of them
- 1:54:16Speaker 1: were raping their own child, though let alone for twelve.
- 1:54:20Speaker 1: Years that's that's a whole other shadow realm of. DEPRAVITY i,
- 1:54:25Speaker 1: MEAN i Guess Grizzly smith was the twisted shithead that he.
- 1:54:28Speaker 1: WAS i don't, know, Man it's a sick world we live. In,
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: unfortunately the bad guys don't always get what they. Deserve.
- 1:54:36Speaker 1: Anyway on that sour, note we'll seal up the mail bag.
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- 1:55:47Speaker 1: want to say thank you by the way to the
- 1:55:49Speaker 1: COMMENTS i got from some people about this. Way this
- 1:55:52Speaker 1: was the eight year. ANNIVERSARY i can't believe it's been eight.
- 1:55:55Speaker 1: Years but my mom passed, Away Mama, monster can you believe?
- 1:55:59Speaker 1: It eight years ago this? Week this past week she passed.
- 1:56:03Speaker 1: Away my dad actually passed away eleven years ago this past,
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- 1:56:13Speaker 1: a lot of, you and getting a lot of comments
- 1:56:15Speaker 1: and feedback from a lot of you who also shared similar.
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- 1:56:21Speaker 1: been eight. Years it's crazy the passage of. Time AND
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- 1:56:46Speaker 2: To sit here and listen To Jelly roll talk about
- 1:56:49Speaker 2: How wilson's mother knows all about his Little willie because
- 1:56:53Speaker 2: when he was, fat he took the belly fat and
- 1:56:56Speaker 2: put it on her.
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- 1:57:03Speaker 1: image Of Jelly roll Porking Kit wilson's mom with his
- 1:57:06Speaker 1: belly fat draped over her. Back, eh excuse, me but
- 1:57:13Speaker 1: there are some glaring omissions to That wrestlemnia. Car BUT
- 1:57:15Speaker 1: i gotta watch Jelly roll out there talking about pork
- 1:57:18Speaker 1: And Kit wilson's. Mom, Eh i'm gonna try to hold it.
- 1:57:23Speaker 1: In i'm gonna try to hold it. In i'm gonna
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