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BRIAN MYERS talks TNA, Turkey Suit, Toy Biz, The System, ECW, Monty Brown, TNA IMPACT & more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to a very special episode of What do You
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  Call it podcast. I'm your host GB.
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  Today's guest is a former two time WWE Tag Team Champion,
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  Impact Media Champion and three time TNA World Tag Team
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  Champion. Please welcome the most
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  professional wrestler representing the system, Brian
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  Myers. Brian, how you doing today mate?
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  You all good? What's up man, thanks for having
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  me on. Thank you very much for coming
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  on mate, I do really appreciate it.
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  Big week for you this week. There could be a chance you
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  could be wearing the Turkey suit again.
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  It's a, it's a double edged sword, you know, it's a, it's a
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  point of pride. It's also, you know,
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  humiliating. So, you know, I wore it last
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  year. So I feel like, you know, I, I
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  really, you know, made my stake in the the history of TNA with
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  all the legendary performers that have done this thing.
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  But that said, I don't want to wear it again.
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  Hello you there. I've got a special announcement
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  for my next guest. Folks at the earthquake and
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  Pillar shaking meat pop and jaw-dropping when you come to
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  see the man made for TVBT, Double B, Big Trouble Bed Bishop
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  and you can hear me on the What do You Call it podcast with my
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  guy GP. Just took a quick break then,
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  but I was discussing with Brian about the possibility of wearing
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  the Turkey suit again in the upcoming Thanksgiving Turkey
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  ball where Brian's going to be battling Brian Nemeth, That's
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  Warner, Trey Miguel, Eric Young and hometown man.
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  I'm certainly looking forward to it.
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  Strong possibility could be wearing again twice, but.
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  There is no possibility. Let's be serious.
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  Yeah, it's an honour to to wear the thing once.
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  It's a shame to wear it twice. Yeah, not happening this year.
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  But that that match is very interesting because it brings a
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  lot of smiles to people's faces, so I can't be that upset by it.
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  Definitely right. And just to think, the same
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  suits been worn by previous, well, it's weird to call them
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  losers, but AJ Styles and Alex Shelley, you know.
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  Yeah, I mean Eric Young was worn it a couple times.
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  He's in this match so he could be like a might be like a three
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  peat for him if he wins. Yeah.
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  Oh mate, hopefully. What toy line is underrated in
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  your mind? Sort of wrestling or otherwise?
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  I used to like the Marvel toys for TNA figures from the early
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  years of TNA. Series 1 autograph hanging right
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  beside me here. I am very partial to those.
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  I do think they're underrated, especially the like you said,
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  because they were made by Marvel, so they had that like
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  different comic booky vibes to them.
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  And like other wrestling figures, the UCW, the original
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  CW line is my favorite of all time and super underrated to me.
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  And I will say if you if you need like a detail as to why I
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  say that, I say that because there's not one reused part in
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  that whole line, which normally in wrestling figures is OK.
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  It's a guy in trunks and they're going to switch the head jacks.
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  Was the worst for that wasn't. It you know what I mean?
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  Yeah. And they're all the same.
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  There's not one reused part for some reason in the CCW line.
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  And everyone's unique and to themselves.
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  And I think that's pretty, it has to be acknowledged.
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  I should say I. Don't know that to be fair.
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  Yeah. What was your favorite TNA
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  figure by the way? Just before I move on off the
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  the Marvel series they did. That's man, there's so many that
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  I love. I loved the Christian in the in
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  the jumpsuit just because he was, you know, he to me, he was
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  like the man of TNA at the time. I love the like more jacked up
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  abyss that comes in the Tupac with Jeff Hardy.
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  I love that one a lot too. So I love Monty Brown because
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  he's just one of my favourites ever at TNA Wrestling and that's
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  his nephew. He's not.
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  Going to take that all the fame I reckon.
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  He's God. I begged him when I saw him that
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  we got to get him in. Mate, I'd love to say that I
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  think the sharp boy one was very unique as well as a.
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  Figure. It was a great figure, very
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  hard. To find.
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  Yeah, it's awesome. So I want to talk about the
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  system. I want you to give me one word
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  to describe each member. I'm going to start off with
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  Moose. Man special.
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  Fair play, Fair play moves special Eddie Edwards.
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  Eddie. There's a lot of ways I can
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  describe Eddie and that I mean, such a big fan of his and we're
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  best friends, but loyal, That's still a loyal.
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  Edwards. Real.
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  Nice. And last but not least, JDC.
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  Irreplaceable. Good choice of words.
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  You know he did recently announce that he is going to be
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  retiring after TNA Genesis in January.
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  And as you 2 have been good friends for a long time, I want
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  to know what's your reaction to this announcement impact.
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  So it's something he's been talking about for a while.
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  So we kind of knew. But for him to say it live on
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  TV, it just felt so definitive, you know, like, OK, it was, it
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  was like it all sunk in that this is like really happening.
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  And then obviously it's it's something that, you know, we
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  knew amongst the system. And then once he makes it, you
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  know, you say it on live impact TV like that, you know, and
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  then, you know, people's phones start blowing up and it's just
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  really the realness of it. Set settles in.
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  He's one of my best friends. He's somebody I've known for 20
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  years. I've spent a ridiculous amount
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  of time with him, you know, on the road, you know, at shows and
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  just everything in between. So he's irreplaceable.
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  Like I said, it's going to be, it's going to be sad.
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  It's going to be very emotional the next two months to as his
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  career, you know, winds down. But that's said, I'm going to,
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  you know, I'm going to soak, soak it all up and, you know,
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  have some fun and cherish every little bit of it.
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  Could this be an opportunity for someone else on the 10A
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  Worcester to be recruited to the system that.
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  That is what he has said to us. Like I said, he's irreplaceable.
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  So, but I'm not going to just shut down that idea immediately.
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  You know, I'd be open to it. But the system, the thing that
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  makes the system work is, is the realness of it.
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  You know, we're really all legitimately best friends and
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  very tight. And the system was real and
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  going on backstage far before fans saw it on television, you
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  know what I mean? And that's what's I, I think a
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  real key to our success is the realness of it.
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  So it's going to be really tough, tough thing to just
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  replace. But I'd be open to it.
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  You know, just, I don't really think we have anyone in mind at
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  the moment. That's fair.
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  That's fair mate. You're all equals as well.
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  No leaders. That's two of the systems are
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  unique. Unique in that sense, too, that
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  nobody's presented, as you know, better than the other, you know?
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  Yeah, OK. Mate, as we're close to 2025
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  ending and the new year around the corner, how did you feel
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  that 2025 TNA went for you mate this year overall if you're
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  looking back? Pretty incredible, you know, to
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  watch the company grow, you know, every show just seems like
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  bigger, bigger and another milestone and more buzz and more
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  more eyeballs on the product. You know, obviously in 2026 we
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  have this TV deal looming and I think it's going to be another
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  like monumental step for the company.
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  And I'm super excited to be a part of it.
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  And you know, the the role that I've played there in 2025, I
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  think it's being part of the system and really making some
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  really memorable moments. You know, where there was the
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  only cage match in El Paso or it's anniversary, You know,
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  riding TNA of an NXT invasion from Dark State or, or Bound For
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  Glory and Hardcore War where you know Lish stepped up.
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  That match was awesome, by the way.
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  That was. Really.
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  You know, you know, stole the show and I'm so proud of her and
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  her performance, you know, things like that.
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  I think we've made a lot of memorable moments.
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  You know, the accolades that the system got in 2025 wasn't
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  championships and things like that.
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  It was more just things that I helped wrestling fans.
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  Never forget a. Lot of moments created as well
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  by system and even yourself, you know, beaten Leon Slater as
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  well. Yeah, for sure.
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  You know, it's it's, it's just, it's all been really cool.
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  Like I said, it's it's just been such an awesome ride to watch
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  the company grow. Definitely mate, as you see the
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  tenants figures are literally growing and growing, getting
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  better and better and sort of just who knows what's going to
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  happen in 2026. But as a fan, I'm so excited.
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  I honestly can't wait to see what else TNA can do next year.
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  It's been a very strong year. I asked this question to Jodie
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  Threat and I think it's going to be a good question for you
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  because you've achieved so much in TNA as you've had many
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  memorable matches and moments in TNA.
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  I want to ask you what would be your best TNA matches and
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  moments that you show to someone who's just signed up to the TNA
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  Plus streaming device and have them watch them?
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  Oh, that's a great question. I mean, I, I'm, I'm one of those
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  people. I'm just like never satisfied.
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  So if you ask me, I'd say I haven't had my best match yet.
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  You know what I mean? I'm I'm still looking for it.
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  When I think back on my team, a career, I mean, there's a lot of
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  really awesome ones that I believe rebellion with
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  Macardona, you know, in the in the COVID era, we had a really
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  awesome one. And then even at slam when
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  Chelsea debuts, a surprise. I think it was just a really
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  cool moment that I think teenage fans will remember for a long
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  time. The one I'm most proud of is
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  Bound for Glory 2024, you know, main eventing with Eddie and the
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  Hardys and like what was like our biggest building in, you
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  know, years and years and years and sold out crowd in Detroit.
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  Right, great match. Real point of pride, you know,
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  being in there with, you know, ace and Bay and especially, you
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  know, after what happened to, you know, that's really, you
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  know, Chris Bay's last match. So that's obviously going to
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  always be very sentimental to me.
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  So like I said, I'm always searching for it, man.
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  You know, I still want to be the team a, you know, world
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  heavyweight champion. You know, I got, I got a lot to
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  prove still and a lot to do so. I thought you and Trevor Lee did
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  some good stuff as well against the Wolves in your first.
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  Team on that's that's like where the bond between me and Eddie
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  really forged, you know, all those matches with Trevor Lee
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  and the Wolves, you know, and I realized like, holy shit, this
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  guy's incredible. So yeah, especially that one,
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  the one we had at Bound for Glory 2015 is a really good tag
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  match. Yeah, no, I really like that one
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  mate. Thank you very much for your
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  time, Brian. I know you're very limited, you
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  know, very busy man. We've found podcasts, wrestling
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  career mates. So I genuinely am very grateful
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  for this time and opportunity to speak to you.
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  Hopefully if I do get chance to speak to you next year, 2026 TNA
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  World Heavyweight Champion. Let's let's make it.
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  Sounds good man, let's do it. But appreciate it mate.
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  But for now I've won. Have a great week and also keep
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  an eye out for TNA Plus and TNA Impacts.
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  Who knows, Brian might end up in a Turkey suit but hopefully not.
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  Take care everyone, see you.