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Sound Off 928 - The RETURN Of AJ Lee, AEW Ratings PLUNGE And Liv Morgan Stalker TO BE FREED? · Solomonster Sounds Off

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  Speaker 3: Who hasn't beat Daniel Garcia? Welcome to episode nine twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight of The Solemn Monster Sounds Off for Sunday, September seventh,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. It has now been fifteen days since
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  Speaker 3: Rajah Jackson beat Psycho Stu into unconsciousness and still the
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  Speaker 3: man Room's free. On the bright side, Psycho Steu is
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  Speaker 3: now home from the hospital after suffering what his wife
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  Speaker 3: says was a serious head injury. That's putting it mildly.
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  Speaker 3: But it was thirty years k ago this past week.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty years that Ted Turner gave Eric Bischoff an hour
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  Speaker 3: of primetime television every Monday night on TNT and WCW.
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  Speaker 3: Monday nightro debuted from the Mall of America. Now, when
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  Speaker 3: Bischoff tells it sometimes and other people tell the story,
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  Speaker 3: they say that Turner gave him two hours every Monday,
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  Speaker 3: but Nitro did not expand to two hours until god
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  Speaker 3: what was it? Eight or nine months later? Fly and
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  Speaker 3: Brian beat Jusian thunder Liiger in the opener. Sting and
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  Speaker 3: Rick Flair wrestled each other as Lex Luger looked on
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  Speaker 3: in his puffy white dress shirt, having just wrestled for
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  Speaker 3: the WWF two nights earlier. He was actually tagging with
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  Speaker 3: Sean Michaels, so him showing up was a big surprise.
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  Speaker 3: And Hulk Hogan beat Big Bubba Rogers in the main event,
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  Speaker 3: and it was a night that I mean no hyperbole
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  Speaker 3: here led to a period of transformation in the wrestling
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  Speaker 3: business that is still felt to this day. The official
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  Speaker 3: kickoff of the Monday Night War and why them all
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  Speaker 3: of America? Because Bischoff knew the WCW had problems getting
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  Speaker 3: people to come to their TV tapings, so his mindset was,
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  Speaker 3: let's run a unique venue, a smaller venue like that
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  Speaker 3: to mask the problem. See, he and Tony Kahn have
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  Speaker 3: more in common than they may think. It took them
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  Speaker 3: a while to get going, but once the nWo Angle
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  Speaker 3: launched the following year, they went unbeaten against Raw for
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  Speaker 3: eighty three weeks straight. You know, for as influential as
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  Speaker 3: that show was and just the way it changed the
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  Speaker 3: wrestling business, it's crazy to think that Nitro was only
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  Speaker 3: around for about five years.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: And three years ago this week was brawl Out and
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of the end of Cmpunk in AW. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there are certain moments that you can point to where
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  Speaker 3: AW lost the piece of itself. Cody Rhodes leaving was
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  Speaker 3: one of those moments, probably the first one, but brawl
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  Speaker 3: Out was the other moment, and Punk eventually came back,
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  Speaker 3: but it was very short lived. And then we all
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  Speaker 3: know what happened after that. And you know, watching SmackDown
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  Speaker 3: on Friday Night in Chicago with Punk and the return
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  Speaker 3: of aj Lee, it's really something to think that Punk
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  Speaker 3: was working for the other place three years ago and
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  Speaker 3: how different things might look right now had that whole
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  Speaker 3: situation played out differently. Easily the darkest day in AW history,
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  Speaker 3: but it's no dark day when it's a sound off Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: to see some of you in Philadelphia on Thursday for
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  Speaker 3: House of Glory. You know, I didn't even realize until
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  Speaker 3: I was stuck in an uber trying to get to
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  Speaker 3: the venue from my hotel that it was opening night
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  Speaker 3: for the Eagles. The fucking Eagles were playing a game
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: that night, but I ended up with a very entertaining
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  Speaker 3: driver who claimed to be the songwriter for a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of Taylor Swift songs. And the Weekend and a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of other artists that he has apparently met over the years.
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  Speaker 3: I guess they just asked him to write lyrics for
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  Speaker 3: their songs, and he did. He met Billy Ellish getting
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  Speaker 3: out of a cab and they became friends and he
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  Speaker 3: wrote some of her stuff, and the same with Sabrina Carpenter.
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  Speaker 3: Every time a new song came on his Spotify playlist,
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  Speaker 3: he would tell me what role he played in making
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  Speaker 3: the song happen. And when I got a message legit,
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  Speaker 3: I got a message in my Uber app asking me
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  Speaker 3: if everything was okay because my commute was taking longer
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  Speaker 3: than expected because we were stuck in all this traffic.
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  Speaker 3: I thought about sending a cry for help, but I
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  Speaker 3: was far too entertained by all of this. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I met the man who may well have written every
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  Speaker 3: song ever made, and he drives an uber who would
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  Speaker 3: have guessed it, And I tried to change the subject.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, oh, so, what are you doing in
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  Speaker 3: town here? Where are you from? I'm like, well, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not from here. I'm from New York. Oh what are
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  Speaker 3: you here for? And I'm you know, we're talking about wrestling,
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  Speaker 3: And I told him, you know what, I'm here for Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you're a wrestling fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he wasn't a wrestling fan. He really didn't know
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  Speaker 3: much about it. But you know what he asked me about.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing he asked me about the Rajah Jackson incident.
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  Speaker 3: He knew about that. He didn't know Raj's name. He
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  Speaker 3: just knew all that kid, the son of the MMA fighter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, yeah, I know about that. Anyway, it
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  Speaker 3: was a fun night outside of Bully Ray saying my
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  Speaker 3: mother was probably a rat back in the day. When
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  Speaker 3: I came out to inform him that his match with
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  Speaker 3: Zillafat Too was opening the show, not closing it, I
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  Speaker 3: kept a far enough distance that he couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 3: to me, And I'd be lying if I said I
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  Speaker 3: didn't crack a smile when Zilla pinned him in sixty
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  Speaker 3: seconds to win back the.
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  Speaker 1: Crown Jewel Championship.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess I can add being insulted and threatened
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  Speaker 3: by Bully Ray in Philadelphia to the list of things
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  Speaker 3: I've now been a part of in my seven years
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  Speaker 3: with House of Glory. Our next show is back in
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  Speaker 3: New York on October tenth, that's the night before Crown Jewel,
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  Speaker 3: and let me tell you it is a loaded show.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Killer Cross making his debut against Matt Cardona.
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  Speaker 3: We've got the return of the Hardys, just forty eight
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  Speaker 3: hours before their big Bound for Glory match with the Dudleys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, last time we had the Hardy's if you're
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  Speaker 3: out the first three rows. We've actually opened up fifth
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  Speaker 3: Leon Slater on that show, the TNAX Division champion, the
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  Speaker 3: champion of all time. And then we're back to Chicago
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  Speaker 3: at Logan Square Auditorium on Friday, November twenty first.
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  Speaker 1: I will be there, I hope you will be too.
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  Speaker 3: That bully segment, by the way, with Me and him
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  Speaker 3: and the match with Zilla is up for free on
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  Speaker 3: the House of Glory YouTube channel, as is the main
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  Speaker 3: event between Amazing Ros and Cedric Alexander, which is worth
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  Speaker 3: checking out. The big story of the week stems from
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  Speaker 3: SmackDown on Friday night, and really it started building up
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  Speaker 3: on Monday night, so we should probably go back there.
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  Speaker 1: First.
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  Speaker 3: We had a face to face confrontation in the ring
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  Speaker 3: between Becky Lynch and Cmpunk, and Becky was a great instigator.
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  Speaker 1: In this segment.
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  Speaker 3: She was doing everything that she could to annoy CM
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  Speaker 3: Punk and get under his skin and needle him and
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  Speaker 3: needle him, and she was out there, you know, explaining
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  Speaker 3: to him. They were trying to give an explanation for
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  Speaker 3: why she hates him beyond the fact that she's married
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  Speaker 3: to seth.
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  Speaker 1: Rawlins and dresses him.
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  Speaker 3: She talked about how when Punk left the company all
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  Speaker 3: those many years ago, and Becky was first starting out
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  Speaker 3: and first made the main roster, she had to sit
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  Speaker 3: through matches where people were chanting Cmpunk's name because they
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  Speaker 3: didn't care enough about her matches to cheer for her
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  Speaker 3: or cheer against her, so they were too busy chanting
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  Speaker 3: CM Punk and it's something that she never forgot. So
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  Speaker 3: they at least took a stab at trying to explain
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  Speaker 3: why this woman would have ill will towards this man.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond the fact that you know, I'm married to the
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  Speaker 3: guy that you're currently feuding with. So they tried to
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  Speaker 3: add a personal element to it, and then she started
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  Speaker 3: smacking the shit out of him like she was channeling
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  Speaker 3: her inner Stephanie McMahon, and she's smacking him and slapping him,
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  Speaker 3: and Punk of course sees it. Who can't touch her?
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  Speaker 3: So he's not allowed to defend himself or hit a
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  Speaker 3: GTS or anything like that. I mean, it's not thirty
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  Speaker 3: five years ago in the attitude or You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to see that shit in WWE television today. So Punk
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  Speaker 3: is just taking it and taking it and you know,
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  Speaker 3: not selling it. But then he leaves the ring and
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  Speaker 3: he ends up in the back. He's talking to Adam
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  Speaker 3: Pierce and he asked Adam Pierce where a SmackDown on Friday?
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  Speaker 3: And Adam Pierce tells him Chicago. Why he goes tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: Everything that they did in this segment, everything they did
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  Speaker 3: on that show on Monday Night, was clearly setting up
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  Speaker 3: for the eventual return of A. J.
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  Speaker 1: Lee.
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  Speaker 3: They never said her name. The fans did. The fans
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  Speaker 3: were chanting her name. They never acknowledged her. They never
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  Speaker 3: said her name, but it was designed to get you
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  Speaker 3: to think, Hey, I better tune into this show on
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  Speaker 3: Friday night, because I think something big might be going down.
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  Speaker 3: And they were in Chicago, over sixteen thousand people at
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  Speaker 3: the All State Arena, and Becky was there, Seth Rollins
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  Speaker 3: was there, and Becky came out to the ring and
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  Speaker 3: was healing on the various Chicago sports teams, oddly enough,
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  Speaker 3: all but the Chicago Bears, which happens to be Seth
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  Speaker 3: Rollins's favorite team, and Cmpunk came out and we had
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  Speaker 3: Punk and Becky in the ring yet again, and Punk said,
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  Speaker 3: this is not about you, It's about your your coward
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  Speaker 3: of a husband. Because he was in the crowd. Seth
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't even come to the ring. He was in the
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  Speaker 3: crowd watching all of this, and Becky's asking him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how do you feel after what happened on Monday night
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  Speaker 3: when she was smacking the shit out of him? And
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  Speaker 3: Punk did acknowledge there again, tons of aj Lee chants
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  Speaker 3: in this building and he acknowledged them and even said
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  Speaker 3: her name, and then he was pointing out various other people.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think I can get someone like Bailey? I
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  Speaker 3: can get someone like the eradicator Rhea Ripley to come
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  Speaker 3: out here and kick your ass. I don't have to
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  Speaker 3: do anything myself. I get my sister in the front
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  Speaker 3: road to get out of her seat and come into
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  Speaker 3: this ring and beat you up. And Becky starts slapping
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  Speaker 3: him around again and daring him to find somebody to
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  Speaker 3: fight her. Punk gets out of the ring and he says,
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  Speaker 3: you know would never put my hands on a woman. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 3: I know somebody who will. It was the perfect setup
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  Speaker 3: and then they hit AJ's old music and out comes
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  Speaker 3: missus cm Punk AJ Lee herself for the first time
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  Speaker 3: since twenty fifteen. She walks out, and the look of fear,
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  Speaker 3: the look of of shock and awe on the face
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  Speaker 3: of Becky Lynch was pitch perfect, and the pot for
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  Speaker 3: AJ when she came out was insane. Not unexpected, especially
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago, but it was insane, and she skipped her
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  Speaker 3: way down to the ring again like ten years hadn't
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  Speaker 3: even gone by. Becky looks shell shocked and she's begging
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  Speaker 3: off and eventually, you know, AJ got into the ring
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  Speaker 3: and attacked Becky, knocked her out of the ring, and
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  Speaker 3: Becky and Seth they go limping off together and it's
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  Speaker 3: this big celebration. Punk gets in the ring and AJ
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  Speaker 3: jumps into his arms and they share a kiss, and
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  Speaker 3: that's how they went off the air. Was it predictable,
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  Speaker 3: You bet, But that was intentional.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing they did over the last week would lead you
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  Speaker 3: to believe that they ever wanted this or expected this
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  Speaker 3: to be a surprise. This was meant to be a surprise,
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  Speaker 3: the way that Cmpunk's debut in AEW was meant to
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  Speaker 3: be a surprise, which is to say it was never
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  Speaker 3: meant to be a surprise. They never even mentioned Punk's
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  Speaker 3: name in the lead up to the First Dance, but
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  Speaker 3: I think Tony booking a show called the First Dance
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  Speaker 3: at the United Center was kind of a dead giveaway.
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  Speaker 3: And so was Becky smacking Punk around on Monday night,
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  Speaker 3: and then Punk asking Adam Pierce, oh, We're SmackDown on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: and so as with Punk's debut and AAW which is
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  Speaker 3: still one of the loudest reactions that I have ever
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  Speaker 3: heard on a wrestling show. I mean, when I think
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  Speaker 3: of the without being in the building, when I think
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  Speaker 3: of the loudest not even Pops, just the loudest sustain
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  Speaker 3: reactions that I have heard on a wrestling show. The
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  Speaker 3: first thing I think of, and it wasn't like five
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  Speaker 3: minutes straight or anything. It was probably more like maybe
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  Speaker 3: sixty seconds. But it's still to me, the loudest and
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  Speaker 3: the greatest pop of all time that I've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: was the night on that taped episode of Raw where
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  Speaker 3: Mankind won the championship and they hit the glass shatter
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  Speaker 3: and Stone Cold came out, and I mean, like the
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  Speaker 3: hard camera was shaking, People were jumping up out of
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  Speaker 3: their seats. It was insane. After that, I might have
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  Speaker 3: to put the Cmpunk debut in aw in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: and then, of course you have Punk's return to WWE
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. That's also kind of neck and neck.
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  Speaker 3: But that first dance reaction when he came out again,
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  Speaker 3: he had been gone for seven years. He was one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest names in wrestling in the last fifteen years,
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  Speaker 3: and so for him to go away for that long
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  Speaker 3: and now he's back live television in a major promotion.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't like he just showed up at
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  Speaker 3: a Ring of Honor show or TNA or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: and he walks out there in the United Center in
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  Speaker 3: front of fifteen thousand people in his hometown. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't have made it any better than they did.
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  Speaker 3: And so here you didn't have to say her name,
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  Speaker 3: just like Tony Kahan didn't have to say, Hey, guess
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  Speaker 3: what CM punk is coming back this Friday. He just
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  Speaker 3: knew that people would tune in and that they would
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  Speaker 3: expect him to be there.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the same.
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  Speaker 3: Thing with AJ, and it didn't diminish her reaction at all.
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  Speaker 3: The people were loud as fuck when they hit her
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  Speaker 3: music and she came out. So Becky was great, I
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  Speaker 3: thought in that segment, and it sets up the obvious
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: mixed tag team match for Russell Palooza, which should be
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: officially announced on a raw this Monday. What I'm hoping
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  Speaker 3: to see this Monday is that first in ring back
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  Speaker 3: and forth on the mic between Becky and AJ. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Friday was the return. AJ didn't have to say a
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  Speaker 3: word and she didn't. Mondays should be where they take
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  Speaker 3: aim at one another on the mic, unless they decide
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  Speaker 3: to save that for like a big contract signing the
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  Speaker 3: week after with all four of them. I could see
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  Speaker 3: that too, but you got to give us something, something
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  Speaker 3: good on Monday Night. So that's what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about aj Lee, for the most part, I
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  Speaker 3: think people are very happy to see her back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: she she had a lot of fans. She wasn't in
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  Speaker 3: WWE on television for I would say a long period
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  Speaker 3: of time. It wasn't like she had like a ten
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  Speaker 3: year run or anything like that. But in the time
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  Speaker 3: that she was there, she made enough of an impact.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she was a major character on the television show,
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  Speaker 3: and she worked with all the big names. This is
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  Speaker 3: what people sometimes maybe don't understand or they don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just that show.
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  Speaker 3: She was the Divas Champion and she worked you know,
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  Speaker 3: she was one of the most popular divas in the
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  Speaker 3: division during the Diva's era of WWE. True, but even
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  Speaker 3: more importantly than that, they saw enough in her to
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  Speaker 3: have her working with all the big names. During that
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: last run that she had, she was working with John Cena,
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  Speaker 3: she was working segments with Cmpunk and Daniel Bryan and Caine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all these major names. They even made her
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the raw general manager for a period of time. She
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  Speaker 3: was in some of the main events segments, in closing
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  Speaker 3: segments on Monday Night Raw, week after week after week.
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  Speaker 3: So her is a big deal for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different reasons. It gets also a big name, you know,
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  Speaker 3: back in the women's division, someone who a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people thought they would never see again, that she was
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  Speaker 3: just not going to come back. I mean, ten years
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  Speaker 3: had gone by. There's a lot of parallels with her
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  Speaker 3: and her husband in terms of his return in twenty
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: twenty three. When Punk came back, he came back more
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: or less, it was ten years later. Same thing with
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: aj Lee ten years later. The last match that she
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: wrestled was March of twenty fifteen. I think it was
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: the Raw after WrestleMania thirty one. I think it was
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: a six woman tag on TV, and that was it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: She retired, And I look at aj Lee as the
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: last big female return that I can think of in
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: ww I mean, actually, there's only one other one that
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I could think of in terms of like what other
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: major female returns could there be left now in WWE,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: And the only one other than aj would be Mercedes,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and Mercedes ain't coming back to WW not for a
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yet.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: She's very content where she is right now with all
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: of her titles. You know, there's Page Sorea, but a
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Page return would not be as big as an Ajlee return.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You know, aj was only twenty eight years old when
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: she retired. She's still only thirty eight. We're not talking
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: about a legend's return here for a nostalgia pop. She's
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: all in full time. We saw video of aj with
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Triple H signing a contract. We didn't know what kind
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: of contract it was. Now we do. According to bodyslam
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: dot Net, Ajlee has signed a full time, multi year
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: contract with WWE full time.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So she is back for wressell Palooza.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: She's back for Survivors Series, She's back for the Royal Rumbles,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: She's back for Wresselemania, all of it. As she did
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: say a few years ago in an interview that the
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: reason that she retired was due to a very bad
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: neck in that she suffered in her last year in
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the ring. I think it was the summer before she retired.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: To this day, she still gets numbness in her hands,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: and she said because of that she would never wrestle
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: again because she doesn't want to make it any worse.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Outside of the numbness, she said at the time, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: made it out unscathed. I'd like to keep it that
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: way and not make things worse. And she said that
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: she was never going to wrestle again. This was in
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two that she said this. Now she's back,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: now she may limit the things that she does in
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the ring because of that. I mean, it's not like
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: she was doing anything too crazy in her matches ten
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: years ago. But again, these women, like the quality of
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the women in that division today and some of the
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: risks that they'll take, some of the moves they do,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: she may feel motivated to try to go tit for
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: tat with them. Hopefully she can stay healthy and her
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: neck is not going to be an issue for her.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I'm sure she's weighed the pros and cons of that,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: and she knows her body. She knows what she can
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: cannon can't do. And look, if her neck was that
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: badly damaged, she wouldn't be wrestling because they would never
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: clear her, they wouldn't allow her back in the ring.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: But I just thought that was very interesting that it
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: was only again two or three years ago, she's saying this,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: like this is why I had to step away from
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the ring. And that you will never see me back
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: in the ring again. And then I'm reading this news
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: that not only is she back, she's back full time.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: It's like, Wow, okay, talk about going from zero to sixty.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: And in terms of the potential matches that there are
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: for her, there's tons of them, tons of women on
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the roster right now who were not there when AJ
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: was there, who came in after she retired, and some
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: of them who were fangirling over her return, like Roxane
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Perez dying to work with this woman, and a lot
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: of these women probably never thought they would have the chance.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Roxane is one, Naomi is another. Right, AJ and Naomi
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: they had I think couple matches together back in the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: early NXT days, back when NXT was still a game show.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I was watching Naomi on her Twitter. She was ready
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to throw Big Jim out the damn window when she
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: saw AJ come back. You were following any of her tweets,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: She's like, I'm out for nine months at least. Then
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: now she comes back. So when Naomi comes back, that's
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a match that she's going to be lobbying for. Live
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Morgan is another obvious one. If you watch Live Morgan,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: if you watch her mannerisms, especially in there, like with
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Dom certain things she does on TV, it's very clear
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that she was an aj Lee fan and she was
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: at least somewhat influenced by aj Lee. That is a
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: natural match to do at some point. Becky Lynch, Becky
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Lynch is the hero and now they're going right into
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: it with her and Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch is the
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Intercontinental Champion. If aj pins Becky to win their mixed
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: tag match at Russell Palooza, she should automat be the
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: number one contender because if you beat the champion, you
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: get a title match. That's how it should work. Actually,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: if you beat the champion, you should become the champion.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: But when you have like a non title match or
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a tag match, if you beat the champion, that's it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: You get vaulted up to that top spot. You're next
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: in line. You should be challenging for the championship. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: you got EO and you got Stephanie and Rhea, lots
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: of people for her to work with. And when I
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: say work, I'm not just talking like, oh, the actual matches,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: but the stories and the mic work to build to
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: those matches, Like there's a lot of fun stuff for
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: them to do with her, so it was great to
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: see her back. I had one person during the review
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: on Friday night say, was that the greatest ending ever
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: to a SmackDown?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And I like it wasn't. It was a great ending.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: It was a very memorable ending, and husband and wife
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: now own two of the more memorable returns in the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: history of WWA. Was it the best ending on SmackDown ever?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: It was not, but it was a great segment. I'll
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: talk more about SmackDown here in a second, but we
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: got to talk about the other women's championship because on
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Monday we got a resolution to the Women's World Championship situation. Now,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: when Naomi announced that she was pregnant, she was obviously
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: forced to vacate her title, So the title's been vacant
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: for a few weeks. Adam Pierce told Stephanie Vacaier a
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: couple weeks ago, I need another week.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Give me another week. I got to sort things out.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I got a name in mind, and then I'll let
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: you know who your opponent is going to be and
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: when your match is going to be for the Women's
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: World title. I don't know why Adam Pierce needed an
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: extra week to get it done in storyline other than
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: they really want to stack that Wressell Palooza card. I mean,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: that's the real reason. They wanted to hold off as
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: long as possible. But in the end they went with
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the sensible choice and they announced that at Wressell Palooza.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: In fact, this was the first match officially announced with
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: that show. It will be the former champion Eo Sky
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: taking on Stephanie Vquaire to crowd a brand new Women's
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: World champion. Two women who were owed title matches by Naomi.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It only makes sense to let them fight one another.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: The winner is the new champion. That's it again. You
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: didn't have to overcomplicate this. And on top of that,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: we're gonna get a great fucking match between these two women.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: They've wrestled on TV before, but never one on one
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: on a ple and you saw what Eo and Rhea
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: did at Evolution that was one of the best matches
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: all year. This could be that very much looking forward
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: to that match. At the end of the show on
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Monday night, they set up the likely reunion of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Usos because Jimmy Usso came to the aid of his
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: brother Jay Roman Reigns nowhere to be found, obviously because
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: they already wrote him off television. He has multiple rib
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: fractures after the heinous attack at Clash in Paris by
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: bron Breaker and Bronson Reid that is who Jimmy saved
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: j from at the end of the show show on Monday.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: So it looks like we're heading towards usso's against Breaker
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: and Red at Russell Palooza. Basically, they're they're running back
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: the match they did at Summerslim. The only differences. Instead
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: of Roman Reigns, you get a lesser star in Jimmy USSO.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: But the appeal here is that it's the usso's back together, right,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: one of the great tag teams in ww in the
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: last twenty years are going to be reunited most likely,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: and they can get some mileage out of that. You
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: know that you can get some mileage out of an
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: usso's reunion. So I mean, that's a fine, you know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: mid card match to have on that show. But then
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: we have John Cena, who is very much not mid card.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: John Cena was Unsmackdown on Friday Night. It was his
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: final SmackDown. I did not know that until he said
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: that on TV on Friday Night. I knew was his
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: final Chicago appearance. They were in the very building where
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: he debuted twenty three years ago and shouted ruthless aggression
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: at Kurt Angle. I don't know why it sounded like
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Vince McMahon there, but here he was full circle moment
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: back in Chicago. First appearance, last appearance. But I did
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: not know that it was also his final SmackDown. He
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: will not be on SmackDown at all for the remainder
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: of this retirement run. I tell you what, though about
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Kurt Angle. I still get upset though when I think
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that we could have had one last Sena Angle match
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: at WrestleMania a few years ago, but Vince McMahon insisted
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: on Baron Corbin instead, and it sucks we didn't get it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: And you know what, it sucks that we're not going
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to get another Sena and Edge match because you know
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: that the Vege was still in WWE. Obviously Sena and
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Edge would be working together during this retirement run. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I think the two of them, just like Sena and
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Orton and CNN Punk, I think the two of them
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: could still have a very good match together. You know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: maybe it wouldn't live up to some of the earlier
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: matches they had and that's not possible now, so that sucks.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: But Sena came out there and he said, look, I
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: got no plan. I don't know what I'm going to say.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't think about it, I didn't plan for anything.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to come out here and just thank
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: all of you and just take it all in. And
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: he was ready to walk out when he was interrupted
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: by Sammy z Ain, the brand new United States champion,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: who got booed out of the building. And I have
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: no idea where that came from. That was surprising to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: hear the booze that loud for him. It's not like
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: there's been any hint of fan backlash towards him in
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: recent weeks.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: You know, even Cody when.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: He comes out sometimes he'll get some mild booze here
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and there now, but this was just like boo like
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: thunderous booze overwhelming. Sammy's Ain, who was you know, he
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: was laughing and smiling at it, but you know that's
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: just him masking like what the fuck is going on here?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Because he didn't know what to say or how to react.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: But yes, he just won the United States Championship from
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Solo Soakoa, you know, a couple of weeks ago.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe it was just a matter of interrupting Sina in
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: front of him, very pro Sena crob. But Sena was
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: about to leave anyway, so it's not like he interrupted
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: him in mid sentence.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: You know, it was just very weird.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming that was a one night thing in Chicago
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and it's not going to carry over into other cities.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: But Zay came out to mention how he made his
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: main roster debut against John Cena that was part of
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the John Cena US Title Open Challenge that he was
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: doing ten years ago. Boy a lot of commemorating things
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: that happened ten years ago. So he wanted two things.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Number One, with seen his permission, he wanted to revive
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: the US Title Open Challenge to extend opportunities to people,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: just like Sena did to him, and Sina loved that idea.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: And two, he wanted to extend an invitation to John
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Cena the way that Sina did to him. John Cena
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: against Sammy z Ain in Chicago for the United States Championship,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and Sena accepted. So we got an impromptu title match
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: with John Cena on TV. It was a great match too,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: what I actually saw of it, because unfortunately they butchered
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: the match with commercials more so than usual on these shows,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: and there were some big spots too that happened during
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: those breaks. It's like a lot of these matches when
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: they have the commercial breaks or the picture and picture,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: you know, nothing of any significance happens. Like I'll be
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: watching Raw with the VPN and so I can see
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: during Raw, I can see on Netflix, you know what's
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: going on during the breaks, and nothing terribly important ever happens.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: But there they were popping off some pretty big spots,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: you know, during the commercial breaks. During this match, there
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: was a blue thunderbomb by Sammy into a near fall
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: on Sena. Later on, Scena got an ankle lock applied
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: and then the STFU Sammy went for the rope. Scena
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: drags him back to the center of the ring, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: it looks like the crowd is just going nuts in
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the background, but I can't hear a fucking thing. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: can sure hear that BK theme. Sammy gave Sena an
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: attitude adjustment later for a near fall. All of This
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: happened during various commercials. We also got more callbacks to
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: see his past opponents with him using the Kevin Owens
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: pop up power bomb, the angle slam, which Michael Cole
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: called a backsuit plex. I have no idea how Cole
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: missed the significance of that spot in that building. He
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: also referred to a John Cena spear, which was clearly
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: an homage to Edge as somehow a sign of his
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: past battles with the Big Dog. Even seen on Instagram.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: The next morning, he posted a photo. Yeah, Casina just
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: posts photos. He doesn't post anything else, and a lot
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: of times you have to figure out the context. It
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: didn't take much to figure out the context of this photo.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: He just posted a photo of Edge standing in the corner,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: crouched down, setting up for a spear. I don't know
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: what's going on with Michael Cole. He's been off lately.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on there. But in the end,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: a great US title match ruined by brock Lesner, who
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: came out beat up the referee F five. Sammy's ain
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: F five John Cena picked him up F five to
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: him again. Then in the back he told Sena that
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: he would see him at Wressell Palooza and he called
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: him a bitch. That Brock is going to be back
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: on SmackDown this Friday, So it'd be nice if he
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: had a little more to say than that, you know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: maybe talk about their history together, what it is about
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Sena that he clearly doesn't like. Remember when he cut
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: that promo on Sena for their Summer Slim match and
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: said that he was was it the Summer Slam match
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: or was it the Extreme Rules match? I don't remember now,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: but he cut that promo on Sena and he said
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: that he was going to leave him in a pile
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: of blood.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Urine and vomit.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Remember that kind of takes on a bit of a
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: different meaning now though, you know, did he want Sena
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: to text him video of him urinating on the pile
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: of blood and vomit? That we don't know, but just
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: give us something more than just the bare minute.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I know, it's a big marquee match for them to promote.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Whether Brock says another word or not between now and then,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: but we still have two weeks to go, and now
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: we know that John Seene is not going to be
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: on SmackDown again. They told us already he ain't going
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: to be on SmackDown, so it would be nice to
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: get something more than just a couple of sentences this Friday. Now,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: between the opening scene of promo and the match with Sammy,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: that ate up the first forty five minutes of the
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: show on Friday, But it was the best part of
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the show outside of the ending. I will say about SmackDown,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: you know, as much as everything in the middle felt
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: like complete filler. And I'm not even going to rant
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: again about the Julia stuff. If you want to hear
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: my rant on that, go listen to my SmackDown review.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: But I will say that show flew by a lot
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: faster than it does most weeks. It was more fun
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: than SmackDown has been in weeks. They're also doing Randy
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Orton against Drew McIntyre this Friday, which smells like a
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Cody Rhodes return, and Tiffany Stratton defense the WWE Women's
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Championship against Jade Cargill. Naya Jacks is still hanging around,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: so I don't know what involvement she may end up
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: having there. I hope it's not her getting involved and
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: they throw the match away and then we get a
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: triple thread, because I can totally see it being a
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: triple thread. But back to Sina, we got some news.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: WWE has announced that John Cena will make his final
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: appearances in Boston and New York City when Monday Night
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Raw comes to the TD Garden on November tenth and
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden on November seventeenth November seventeen.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: WWE was a Madison Square Garden on November seventeenth and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety six for the Survivor series. It's where Sid
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: won the title from Seawn Michaels. Don't ask me how
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I remember that. Some dates just stick with me. But
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: what's interesting about that is that means sena final match
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: in December on Saturday Night's main event will not be
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: taking place in Boston. According to John Alba of Sports Illustrated,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: WWE has been trying to push seen his last match
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: as a destination weekend like they do for Wrestlemedia, so
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: they'll have some other events around the event, like an
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Undertaker one man show. He says Boston badly wanted that
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Saturday Night's main event show, and officials there made a strong.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Push for it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: WWE and TKO wanted seen his last match to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: a major destination event, and doing that in December in
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Boston around the holidays isn't easy, but it was a
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: bidding process from the beginning in Boston simply lost out.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: He says that Boston went hard for it, it didn't
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: come to pass, and they were very upset with how
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: WWE communicated the bidding process with them and some of
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the demands in comparison to past events in Boston. Well,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: that's how the bidding process works. When there's demand for
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: a big event, you're going to have to pay top
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: dollar or sweetened the pot to make it more attractive
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: to them. It sounds like Boston didn't step up and
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: now they're bitter about it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So instead, we.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Now find out that Washington DC is likely to be
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: the site of John Cena's final match. And I was
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: thinking about that and said, I cannot think of a
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: single connection that John Cena specifically has to Washington DC,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: except that one of his greatest rivals just so happens
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: to be from Washington, d C. The same night that
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: John Cena won his first WWE championship, this man won
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: his first World heavyweight Championship, and that would be Dave Batista. Now,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I am not saying that Batista is going to be
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: wrestling John Cena in his final match. Batista is retired.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: When he says that he is retired, I believe him
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent. He wanted that match with Triple H.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: He got that match with Triple H. That was six
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: years ago. He is not wrestling again, But if they
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: can make it work with his schedule, I think it
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: would be cool for him and very appropriate for him
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to be a part of that show in some way.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You know, they were.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Both part of that OVW class of two thousand and two.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Batista made his SmackDown debut in May of that year.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Sina made his SmackDown debut the following month, and their
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: careers parallel each other in a lot of ways, right
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: on into the success that they're having in Hollywood. So
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: if they have any guests of honor and attendance that night,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: and I'm sure they will, and if they can make
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: it work schedule wise, he should be one of the
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: people that's present in DC that night. There has been
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: a WWE commentary shakeup. Michael Cole and Corey Graves opened
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: up SmackDown on Friday Night, with Cole saying that he
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and Corey would be handling the announced duties on Friday
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: nights for the coming months, and PW Insider is reporting
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: that the plan is for Cole and Corey to remain
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: on the Monday night Raw shows as well, So for
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: the time being, they are both going to be pulling
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: double duty e week because it's the start of the
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: college football season, you know, just like when Pat McAfee
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: would disappear for a few months, Joe Tessitore is going
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to be doing the same because he's calling games on Saturdays.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: But the bigger surprise is that in that same PW
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Insider report, they said that Wade Barrett would be off
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the road going forward and that he will not be
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: calling Raw now. Barrett later responded to the reports on
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Twitter and people kind of twisting that around to mean
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: something that it really didn't mean, and he said, I
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: usually ignore BS reports like this, but it's causing needless
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: hate to be spewed towards people I work with. Wwe
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: have kindly given me a couple of weeks off for
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: personal time booked nine months ago, and then I'm back
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: to business as usual, a complete non story the end.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: So there you have it from the man himself. He
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: is not going anywhere. He'll be back on TV before
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: the end of the month. Some people thought that it
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: might have to do with comments that Barrett made about
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Nicky Bella on the Clash in Paris pre show, which
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: were such a non issue that I cannot believe this
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: turned into a story this week. I'm still waiting for
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: someone to tell me where the actual story is here.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: But what happened is during the kickoff for Clash in Paris, Wade, Barrett,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Michael Cole, and Biggie were standing around. They were discussing
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the Intercontinental Championship match between Nicky Bella and Becky Lynch,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: and Wade took issue with Bella calling Becky desperate to
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: stay at the top and instead he said that Nicky
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: was the desperate one. She was desperate to recapture the
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: former glory that she once enjoyed back in her day,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: back in her era. And Barrett, you know, he started
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: by praising Nicky for the work that she did back then,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: but some people took issue when he implied that she was,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: you know, rusty and didn't maybe didn't have it anymore,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: and Nicki was desperate to prove that she could still
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: hang with this new generation. So Nicki addressed the comments
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: on a new episode of her podcast, The Nicky and
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Bree Show, saying that she wanted to speak with him
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: at raw, but she claimed that he avoided her. She said,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I would like to have had a conversation with Wade Barrett.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: He avoided me on Monday, which was shocking because he
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: always comes up and says hi to me. He tried
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to avoid making eye contact with me in the hallway.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: And I understand when you want to be a heel
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: commentator and stuff, but then there's one thing of Michael
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Cole does this beautifully. This is why Michael Cole is
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: one of the greatest commentators. He knows how to take
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: a life story and put it into what we do
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: because that is real. We don't go out there as
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: robots or superheroes. We are actually professional athletes and we
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: go through real things and we have to make that
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: part of it. And honestly, it really doesn't bother me.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: I get it. I was watching the pre show and
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I saw what Wade was saying about me. I'm sitting
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: there getting ready in the locker room Like, that's fine.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Evidently it's not fine if she thought enough to bring
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: it up on her podcast. Were there fans saying anything
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: about this the night of Clash in Paris? Like, honestly,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: I didn't see anything about that. I mean, I didn't
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: even hear what Wade said until yesterday. I hunted down
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: the clip and I'll just play it for you. I mean,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: it's less than thirty seconds. You tell me what I'm
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: missing here?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: This is Wade Barrett on the Kickoff, in character as
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: everyone is on these things talking about Nicky Bella.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: For me, Nicky Bella is someone I went through the
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: developmental system with. I think she's fantastic. She was absolutely
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: to my for my money, the best of her era
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: and did everything she could have possibly done. However, she
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: is now trying to recapture former glories. When you talk
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: about desperate, to me, the desperate one is Nicky Bella
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: in this situation, desperate to prove she still has it
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: against this new generation that have changed the way.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: What am I missing? What am I missing here?
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Have wrestlers and wrestling fans gone that soft? That totally
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: innocuous comment by a heeled commentator. I mean he didn't
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: even say anything offensive there. He put her over and
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: then played off of their storyline, like, have we gotten
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: to the point where if people don't find at least
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: three things to be offended by in the course of
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: the day, they don't know what to do with themselves?
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Like do these people wake up and look in the
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: mirror and ask themselves, you know self, what can we
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: be offended by?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Today? I mean, it's ridiculous now.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Upon reading the comments that Nicky made, Barrett tweeted out,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I had no idea Nicole felt this way, and I'm
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: happy to have this conversation anytime she likes. I wish
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: she would have brought it up when we said hello
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: to each other at raw rather than via her podcast.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I don't understand the avoiding claim at all. Simply not true.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: And a few hours later the beef was squashed and
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: he tweeted great news, fight fans. Nicky and I have spoken,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: We've smoothed things over, and I have graciously been allowed
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: back into the Bela Army fully paid up members since
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: FCW two thousand and eight. A difference of perspective to
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: which we are all entitled, But to be clear, some
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: of the personal abuse that gets sent to Nikki on
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: here is reprehensible and completely out of line. So let's
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: cut that out immediately. Yeah, you know, it's one thing
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: to criticize her character or her matches. If you don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: like her, that's fine, But people on social media go
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: beyond that. They end up making it personal thinking that
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: you know, they can say anything they want to because
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: they're behind a keyboard. And you know, I noticed this
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: a lot, not always, but a.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Lot of the times.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: You know, it's the ones that have like if you
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: look at their bio, it's like father of three or
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Devout this or Devout that, like who end up saying
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: the most vile shit like that will never not be
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: funny to me, disturbing but funny. So I will co
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: sign that. But I still fail to see what it
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: was that he said that would have made her or
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: any other member of the bella Army upset. Like, after
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I got done listening to that segment, I legitimately thought
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: that they cut off the actual offensive part. Maybe they
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: edited it out, like that's it. Am I missing something here?
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: But good for Corey Graves, you know, he went from
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: being upset about being demoted from the main roster shows
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: to NXT to now calling Raw and SmackDown for the
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: next few weeks, and I was gonna say, you know,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: World's Collide also because he's done commentary for the last
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: two Triple A shows and he's been very good at it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Worlds Collide is coming up this Friday, so if he's
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: calling SmackDown, he won't be calling Worlds Collide because Worlds
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Collide starts immediately after SmackDown ends. SmackDown is in Norfolk,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Virginia this Friday. Worlds Collide is taking place in Las Vegas,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: so maybe they get Vic Joseph to do the show.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: The card for Worlds Collide is as follows. I think
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: it's a final at this point. In what they're dubbing
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: a Lucha showcase. Laparca Octagon Junior, Nino Hamburg, Gasa and
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Mascarita Segrata take on Joaqui and Wild Cruz del Toro,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Lindsey Dorado and Many Abizmo Negro. I'm I'm gonna go
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: with a team Laparca for the win. We have the
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Triple A Latin American Champion l Ejo de Doctor Wagner
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Junior defending against Dragon Le JD. McDonough and Ethan Page
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: in a four way match. I think Doctor Wagner Junior
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: over here just won the championship, right, he just beat
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Messius for it. Yeah, he ain't losing that title. Finn
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Balor and Roxanepero again, Like, this is another one of
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: those Triple A cards where at least here it makes
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: sense because it's World's Collide. But you know, we're also
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: coming off Triple Mania where there were so many WWE
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: names in the card. It's like, my goodness, but we
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: have Finn Balor, Roxane Perez take on Mister Iguana and
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Lola Wee in a mixed tag team match. I'm going
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: with Baler and Roxane here. Triple A Rena de Renas
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Championship Number one Contenders match. Natalia takes on Fabe Apache.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Guess this is a fallout from what we saw at
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: the end of the title match at Triple Mania. I'm
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: going Natalia to become number one contender and the Triple
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: A World Tag Team titles on the line. Psycho Klon
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: and Pagano defend against Kofe Kingston and Xavier Woods, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: in the main event, the Triple A Mega Champion l
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: E Hodel Vikingo. Maybe he'll get a better reception in
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas than he did in Uh where were they?
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Were they in Mexico City for Triple Mania. I don't
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: know if the Boo Birds will follow him to Sin City.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: We'll find out. But Vi Kingo is going to defend
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: the championship against Dominic Mysterio, and my guess here is
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: that we see AJ styles yet again, even though we
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: already saw saw him cost Dom the title once at
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Triple Mania. Their feud is obviously continuing though. You know now,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: had Dom dropped the Intercontinental title to AJ on Raw
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: last week or this past week, I would have picked
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Dom to go over here and win the championship. But
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: I can't do that now. I think the Kingo was winning.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: See on Monday Elgrande Americano. He got involved in the
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: match with AJ and Dom slipped the metal plate under
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: his mask. He head butted AJ with it, and then
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: that led to Dom retaining the title. So Dom has
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: this understanding, this plan with Kaiser Style shows up foils
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: that plan, the Kingo hangs on and he retains the title.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: That's how I see it going. If AJ is going
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: to take the Intercontinental title off of Dominic Wressell Palooza
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: feels like the place to do it. That way, you
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: can do a title change on that first ESPN show,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: So don't be surprised to see that match added to
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: the pl Now, as far as World's Collide, I'm not
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: staying up for it that night. I will be live
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: on YouTube as usual when SmackDown is over and we
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: will do the full review. We had a full house
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: this past Friday, big night on SmackDown. Hopefully that will
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: carry over on the stream this coming week. And this
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: is an interesting little anecdote here that I thought I
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: would share. The Godfather was in attendance for Vince McMahon's
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: eightieth birthday party a few weeks ago, said he had
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: a great time on his Poddon Ain't Easy podcast. Today
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: I learned that the Godfather has his own podcast.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I did not know that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: He said he and his wife were invited guests for
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: the celebration, which took place at the five star Baccarat
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Hotel in New York City. He noted that McMahon paid
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: for everything for his guests, including the hotel rooms and
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: a wide range of activities around the city, including tickets
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to a New York Yankee versus Boston Red Sox game.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: He said, I'm not gonna mention everybody who was there,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: but of course Taker was there, Cain was there, Bradshaw
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: was there. We had a good time. Sina was there,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Jelly Roll performed. I know Jerry Lawler was there because
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: he posted a photo on his Instagram of him with
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: some of the other wrestlers there and then took it
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: down later because evidently they didn't want any of this
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: to get out, so somebody got to Lawler and said
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: take that down. But you know, you could see. Drew
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: McIntyre was there, Seamus was there, the mizz and Maurice,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Titus O'Neill. But Godfather says he ran into McMahon as
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: he was entering the cocktail party, and he mentioned that
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Vince was wearing a suit that made both him and
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: the Undertaker think of Doctor Evil from the Austin Powers movies.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: He says, I'm like, Vince, thank you for inviting me,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: and Vince goes Choys, you're.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Just varant you to build it. Nobody here that's not
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: or even invited doctor Gordon to.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Be here, Freaking doctor Gordon man. Anyway, he says, uh we,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: I just do it to crack myself up.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: He says.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: We talked for a second and then we walked in,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: but he had on like a Doctor Evil suit. I
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: didn't want to say it to him first. First of all,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: he looked better than when I've seen pictures of him lately.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: He looks a lot better than that. He's walking a
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: lot better. He introduced me to his girlfriend or whatever
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: she was. Yeah, whatever she was. Who knows what kind
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: of arrangement that is. I don't want to know, But
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I thought, Doctor Evil, your Doctor Evil.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I go in.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: Everybody, of course, is talking to Vince. Me and Taker
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: and Kine are talking and Vince walks away, and Taker goes, dude,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Vince is looking like Doctor Evil. I'm like, dude, That's
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: exactly what I was thinking. Vince McMahon being stuff like
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Doctor Evil is perfectly on brand for Vince McMahon. I
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: wouldn't even be surprised if he just saw Austin Powers
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: for the first time, and he thought that it would
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: be fashionable to dress up as Doctor Evil. But Godfather
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: also shared that he decided to get a facial for
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: the first time. Said, I get there and I get
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: in my own little room, and I get my little
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: robond and my little Foo Fu slippers. I opened the
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: door the room across from me. The door opens up.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Who is it?
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: The Undertaker? And he says They looked at each other
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: in disbelief before having a laugh.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: I go facial. He I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, I should clarify that he is referring
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: to a SPA treatment. Facial can have a very different
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: meeting at a Vince McMahon party. The idea of Godfather
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: asking Undertaker facial, Holy shit. That is one fanfic that
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  Speaker 3: up the Wrestle Palooza card for September twenty if Tony
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Khan made the only decision that he could if he
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: was going to make any kind of move to help
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: maximize the audience for All Out, which was to move
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: the time of the pay per view up, and that's
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: exactly what he did. Basically, WWE said, I dare you,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: and Tony blinked. But it was the right move to
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: make All Out will now air at three pm Eastern
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: time and not the originally scheduled eight pm Eastern from Toronto,
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: to avoid what would have been a very costly head
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: to head battle that they would have lost.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Let's just be honest.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: The sickos may be watching no matter what, but there
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: are other fans who watch both who were now forced
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: to make a choice, and Tony decided it simply wasn't
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: worth it to risk losing hundreds of thousands of dollars,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: you know, in pay per view money, not to mention
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: the fact that All Out will be aw's pay per
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: view debut on HBO Max, which I will be getting
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: to here in a minute. If you want to get
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: as many people as possible tuning into that first pay
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: per view on Max, WWE was not going to make
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: that easy. I mean, as it is, there's still going
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: to be some overlap because Russell Palusa starts at seven
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Eastern and it's going to be a cold day in
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: hell before Tony Khan ends an AW pay per view
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: after just four hours. Okay, so that ain't going to happen.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: So either the main event or the final two matches
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: are going to go head to head with the start
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: of the WWE show. But this was a business decision,
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: pure and simple. Anyone beating up on Tony Khan for
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: doing this or mocking him for tucking tail and running
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: like it was a smart business decision. Fight Full is
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: also saying that after the successor Forbidden Door airing in
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: the afternoon, that contributed to their decision to move the
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: start time of the show. I mean, it may have
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: made them feel better about the decision to move the show,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: but that is not the reason they moved All Out.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: No matter what anybody says, that is not the reason
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: that All Out moved. Now, AW afternoon shows are for
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: me anyway. It's so much better because again Tony insists
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: on loading these shows up to the gills, which means
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: marathon shows. And while they are still too long most
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: of the time, they're a lot more tolerable in the
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: afternoon going long than they are if they were.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: To go long at night, right, and if you.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: Would like to go long at night like AAW, you
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: need blue Chew. You know, I'm offended that they've never
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: reached out to me in all these years is to
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: be a sponsor, like I really am. But now, the
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: length of those shows they're just obnoxious. So watching them
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: in the afternoon is preferable for me. For me as
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: a fan and as a content creator, I love it,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: see because now I'll be able to watch most of
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: the AW show live and I'm going to go right
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: into Russell Palooza, which I will review that night, and
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I'll save my all out review for the SoundOff on Sunday.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: You know, now, who this is not so good for
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: are the fans who already bought tickets for the show
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: and now they can't go for whatever reason. They have
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: to work during the day, they have other plans even
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: worse if they're not local and they're flying in for
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: the show. If you can't make the show, and I'm
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: sure you can get a refund on whatever you paid
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: for your ticket. Same for your hotel. Actually, with your hotel,
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: you're usually not built until that week anyway, but that
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: may not be the case for your flight unless you
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: paid for a refundable ticket or tickets if you're going
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: with friends or family. Those people just got fucked and
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: they have every right to be upset. Thankfully, I'm not
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: one of those people, so it's okay with me. But
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: because of the all out time change, Collision will only
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: be an hour that week, and it's going to be
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: airing on Wednesday at ten pm Eastern, immediately following Dynamite,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a three hour block. They're calling
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: September to remember.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Boy.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: ECW be getting all the love from all the major
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: companies this month. Huh Aw trademarked the name back on
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: April eighteenth. It is a play off the old ECW
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: November to remember pay per view. Tony Kahn was a
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: huge ECW fan back in the day, which is one
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: of the reasons they just finished a residency at the
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: twenty three hundred Arena last night. Tony had been there
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: with his dad when he was a teenager in nineteen
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: ninety six. This was his first time back in the
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: building in almost three decades. So that's one programming change.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Another change is that TNT is airing an hour called
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: AW Saturday Tailgate Brawl at two PM the day of
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: All Out, so an hour before the pay per view starts.
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: That will be the last hour of their Zero Hour
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: pre show, so it'll be the first time that the
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Zero Hour or part of it airs.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Live on television.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: And I'm just I'm looking at this and I'm reading
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: all of this stuff, and I'm just like, man, if
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: you're a wrestling fanatic, if you're a wrestling savant, and
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: you want to watch everything that day, that zero Hour
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: is probably starting your one thirty in the afternoon. If
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: you watch all of the AW content and you go
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: right into the WWE show, that's over nine straight hours
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: of wrestling. I don't know why anybody would do that,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: but I'm sure there is some people who will.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: The other big AW announcement had to do with them
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: finally airing their live pay per views on HBO Max
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: in the United States. Max will not be the exclusive
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: home of all AW pay per views. You will still
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: be able to buy the show on other platforms like
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: Amazon Prime and YouTube. But starting with All Out, you
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: can buy the pay per views at a discounted rate
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: of thirty nine to ninety nine per show on HBO Max.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: That is on top of your subscription feed for Max itself.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: So this is not a peacock deal where you just
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: subscribe to HBO Max and you get all the pay
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: per views for no additional charge. And that was never
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: the case. Nobody should have thought that would be the case.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: They made very clear last year that was not how
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: this was going to work, only that you would be
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: able to buy the shows at some sort of discount.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: On other platforms they charge fifty bucks for the show,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: at least here in the US they do. If you
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: don't already subscribe to HBO Max and you don't plan
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: to use it for anything except the pay per views,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: the so called discount really isn't it really just offsets
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: the fee for the most basic subscription tier, which comes
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: with ADS, so it's really not much of a discount
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: at all. Basically, there's three tiers here. The basic tier
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: with ADS is nine to ninety nine a month or
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: ninety nine ninety nine a year, The Standard tier is
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: sixteen ninety nine a month, and the Premium tier is
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: twenty ninety nine a month. You use Max to watch
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Dynamite in Collision, or decide to use Max from now
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: on to watch the weekly shows, then it's worth it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: if that means you can ditch cable or satellite. But
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: if you're still paying for cable just to watch aw
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: and I don't know how many people fall into that category,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: but let's say you are one of those people, you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: need to stop doing that immediately, like what the hell
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: is wrong with you? I would hope that you're watching
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: other things on there. Otherwise I don't know how you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: can justify still paying for cable. But then you add
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: in the archives. If that's something that you're interested in
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: going back and watching the glory days of Dynamite and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: the older pay per views, then it's worth it because
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: of all the additional content that you'll have access to,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: But I think that thirty nine to ninety nine price
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: point is a big misfire, especially for the first show
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: on Max. Like I said this on TNT on Tuesday Night,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: before all of this was even announced, I would have
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: even considered offering all out for free only to people
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: who want on HBO Max. That was before they said this,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: before they moved the start time of the show to
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: avoid WWE. If they were still going head to head
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: with WWE, as sort of a nice fuck you to them,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I would have done something like that as a way
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: to entice people to subscribe to Max if they're not
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: already on there. Tony would have taken a big hit
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: on his pay per view money, though, so he may
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: not have felt like it was worth it. I'm just
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: looking at it from the perspective of if he wanted
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: to make the best possible impression on his partners at
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: Warner Brothers Discovery and try to maximize that audience on
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Max and really impress them, that would have been the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: move to make. And then going forward, I would have
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: priced the shows at thirty bucks per show. That would
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: be twenty dollars less than what you would pay elsewhere,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: and that's a much bigger savings without giving away the store,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: which is what it would have been. Yeah, if you
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: did it at twenty bucks or twenty five bucks, sure
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: that would have been great. Saving ten dollars a month
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: over the course of a year is a savings of
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty dollars, which is not an insignificant
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: amount of money. But I think pricing them out at
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: forty a pop is just the missed opportunity. Now, who
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: made the call? Was it Tony Khan? Was it Warner
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: Brothers Discovery? I doubt very seriously that it was a
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: unilateral call by Tony Khan himself, so who knows how
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: much say he had in that price point. But for
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: the people who are upset that they have to pay
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: anything at all, I think a lot of us were
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: spoiled by the WWE network. You know, when the network
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: launched in twenty fourteen, being able to get all the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: pay per views, including WrestleMania, all for just nine to
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: ninety nine a month. Plus on top of that, you
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: got the library, which was a big deal to a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: lot of people, and it just immediately made pay per
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: view obsolete for a lot of fans. It's the same
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: thing with Peacock, you just take for granted that you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: are paying for a Peacock subscription and you can just
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: log in and watch WrestleMania. You know, antiquated as the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: pay per view model may be, it's the life blood
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: of AAW. I mean, outside of their media rights money.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: It's the life blood of AAWAW has always operated under
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: a pay per view model. They make a lot of
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: money on pay per view, hundreds of thousands of dollars,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: millions even, and then each platform gets a cut. So
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that AW gets millions of dollars off
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: every show all for themselves.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: But think about it.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: At forty nine to ninety nine per show, right all
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: in Texas was said to be somewhere in the range
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: of one hundred and eighty to one hundred and eighty
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: five thousand pay per view buys. That's over nine million
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: dollars in pay per view revenue with another three million
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: dollars in gate revenue. And you wonder why AAW still
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: does pay per views. That's why it is still a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: lucrative business for them. So you consider that and the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: fact that they signed a six hundred million dollar media
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: rights deal with Warner One thing you can't say about
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: AAW is that the company isn't generating income. Now, are
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: they turning a profit? Are they spending more than their
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: taking in? That's a different question, But they know how
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: to generate money off these pay per views. One thing
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: they did not generate much of this week was a
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: television audience. It was a terrible week in general for
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: wrestling ratings on TV. Raw did a record low audience,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: apparently on Netflix, but it also aired six hours earlier
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: than usual because they were in France, So I don't
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: really put a lot of stock into that. SmackDown the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: week before aired on a five hour tape delay, but
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like tape shows always do this badly.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: SmackDown did not do well that week. The Clash in
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: Paris Go Home show that week did just one point
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: one million viewers on USA Network, which for WWE is
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: not a great number. Dynamite though this past week did
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: far worse, and I don't talk much about the ratings
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: in general. But I don't talk much about the Dynamite
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: ratings anymore because there's really no point in doing so,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: since everyone will just point to Max and assume that
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: they must be doing five million people on HBO Max.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: So everything is all fine and dandy, but I can't
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: not talk about this. Dynamite did its lowest numbers ever
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: in the history of the show on its regular date
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: and time, and that is without knowing what they're doing
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: on HBO Max. But I don't care what they're doing
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: on HBO Max. I promise you. That does not explain
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: why the show took a fucking noseedive this week on TBS,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: other than people just didn't give a shit about Dynamite
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: this week. Something about the show turned them off in
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: a way that it hasn't turned them off before, because
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I have never seen a Dynamite number this low before
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: on a Wednesday night. It just never happened before. They
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: did just four hundred and seventy two thousand viewers on TBS.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: That is a twenty percent drop from the week prior,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: zero point one point one in the eighteen to forty
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: nine demo, which is the second lowest number in the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: history of the show, regardless of the day in time.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: And there was nothing on television that night that would
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: explain that kind of drop. That's coming off Collision doing
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: its lowest numbers in the history of the show. They
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: did just one hundred and ninety five thousand viewers on
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: TNT last weekend, excluding Max numbers, But at least there
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: they had college football competition, which is a very legitimate
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: thing to point to because it's college football season, so
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: they're going to take a hit, and it looks just
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: like WWE is going to take a big hit from
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Monday Night football. We go through this every single year
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: in September. That's the reason why Netflix is bumping up
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: the start time for Raw not Tomorrow night, but for
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: the next three weeks after that. The show starts at
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: seven Eastern instead of eight. But none of this explains
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: the Dynamite collapsed week And look, the ratings don't dictate
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: your level of enjoyment of the shows. If you're liking
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: what you were seeing on Wednesday nights, then these numbers
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: they don't matter to you, But they do matter to
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: the people who run the show and air the show. Right,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: there are some important people who do pay attention to
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: this kind of stuff. And I can tell you just
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: from personal experience. I feel it on Wednesday nights when
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: I talk about Dynamite too, and the audience that's you know,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: there for those streams relative to the streams on Mondays
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: and Fridays, and god knows backdown hasn't been great for
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: a while. Now let me forget this week. But it's
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: a noticeable difference, you know, when you look at Wednesdays
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: as opposed to Mondays and Fridays. And that's one small
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: sample size, but I see it. At the end of
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: the day. It comes down to creative and giving people
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: a product that they want to tune into. And when
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: those numbers drop and there's no external factor to point
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: to to explain it away, you need to look from within.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Tony has the capacity to do that.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: He likes what he likes and he thinks Dynamite is
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: better than ever. He thinks it's the best it's ever been.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: The numbers say otherwise, The attendance says otherwise. I said
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: this months ago. If there really is some kind of
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: big turnaround with the product, because Tony has made comments
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: about how, you know, everything's on the rise and things
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: are great and things are better than ever, well, you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: know what, if that's true, then it should be reflected
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: in the attendance first and foremost, and them starting to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: run bigger buildings again for their weekly shows. That would
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: be a telltale sign. That will be the key sign,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: because if they think that they're ready to pack in
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: five or six or seven thousand people a week in
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: bigger venues, they would already be doing it. Here we
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: are five months later since I first heard these comments
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: and being made about how great everything is. Five months
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: later and there's still running small venues in getting one
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: thousand fans two thousand fans a week. They don't have
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: the confidence to run those bigger buildings like they used to.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: They don't they do for their pay per views. They
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: can put ten thousand people in a building for all Out,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: No Problem, or twenty thousand in the two in London
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: for forbidden Door, No Problem, or thirty thousand at Globalife
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: Field in Texas for all in, No Problem. That's never
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: really been an issue for them. But it's those weekly
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: shows that people just don't care enough about to buy
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: a ticket to go see. I know a lot of
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: AW fans they don't like hearing that. They think that
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: AW can do no wrong. But tell me what I'm
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: telling lies. You know the twenty three hundred arena, it's
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: a nice slice of history for a week or two
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: Arena Mexico. Right that Grand Slam show back in June,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: that was great. It looked great on television. It sounds
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: like they're probably going to do another residency in December
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: at the Ammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: Where's the Key of Forum. Where's the Prudential Center in Newark?
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Where are some of these places that they have run
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: multiple times for Dynamite in the past. It's been a
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: while since they've run there. How come they haven't gone back.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: It's because they don't have the confidence that they can
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: do it in those buildings now like they did back then.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: Which is not to say that they were selling them
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: out then, But that's the thing that I've been looking for.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: When do they start running venues like that again on
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: a regular basis? You know, when does it make sense
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: to run those buildings again? It makes sense to run
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: the more intimate, smaller venues if they know they cannot
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: fill up the bigger ones. You know, some of them
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: come across really well on TV and they look cool.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: That's great. I wish WWE would do that from time
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: to time. But like WWE running Hammerstein, that would be
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: a trip but it makes no sense right now where
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: they could promote Nick Kahn taking a dump in the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: middle of the ring and their fans are still going
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: to buy up those tickets, twelve thousand fucking tickets at
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: prices five hundred percent higher than they used to be.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: They're not going to run the smaller venues because it
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense for them to do so. But
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: the question has to be asked, why are those people
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: who were buying tickets before not buying them now? Are
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: they asking those questions? Do they even care? Aw was
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: back at the twenty three hundred Arena for Dynamite on Wednesday,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: which ended with a major injury angle to write Kenny
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: Omega off television for a while. It was Kenny Omega,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: Hangman Page and Jet Speed against Kyle Fletcher, Josh Alexander
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: and the Young Bucks that ended with Fletcher pinning Kevin
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: Knight to win it for the Don Kallis family. After
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: the match, they had Fletcher supplex Kenny off the Apron
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: through a table, which I mean maybe thirty years ago
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: would be a six month layoff, but in today's wrestling,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: both men would normally beat the count back into the
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: ring by nine here though they used the suplex through
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: a table as a way to write Omega off TV.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: That was my impression watching it, and that they were
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: setting up for Kyle Fletcher to challenge Hangman Page at
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: All Out for the AW World Championship. And I had
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: some people in the comments on Wednesday telling me, no,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: they're setting up Fletcher and Omega for All Out, but
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: that would mean Omega would have to be back on
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: TV within the next two weeks, which would be very dumb.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: Last night on Collision, they did in fact confirm that
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: it will be Kyle Fletcher challenging Hangman. Adam Page, the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: TNT champion, has called out the AW World Champion for
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: an AW World Championship match at All Out. And now
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: we also get reports from Fightful and The Wrestling Observer
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: that confirm Kenny Omega is taking time away to care
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: for a few things, or take or take care of
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: a few things, one of which, according to Fightful is
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: the Tokyo Game Show, and that is a gaming festival
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: that kicks off September twenty fifth. Fightful says the break
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: is not injury related, but Meltzer is reporting that he
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: is going to Japan to also see some of his
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: doctors there also to get his Japanese visa updated and
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: to do other media, including to talk about Hiroshi Tanahashi,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: who is retiring of course, at the Tokyo Dome on
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: January fourth. So this would be the second straight all
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: out pay per view that Omega has missed. His last
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: All Out was twenty twenty three. That was when he
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: lost to Kenoski Takeshda. Omega responded to the reports and
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: the idea of him taking quote time off. He took
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: issue with that phrasing, saying time off specialized hospital visits
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: and work that had been planned for a year. But sure,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: let's bait the trolls. I'm just trying to improve what
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: I can and represent the company in a positive way
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: while not performing. Don't be misleading with headlines, please and
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: thank you. On Dynamite this Wednesday, Hangman is wrestling Josh
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: Alexander and what they are billing as a grudge match.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: Alexander has now won three straight All Star eight man tags,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: getting the winning fall in two of the three. Tony
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: does love his All Star matches, and you know, look,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: it's bad enough that they have the competition from Russell
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: Palouza that day to deal with and they felt they
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: had to move the pay per view up by five hours,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: but they were already going in with a handicap because
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: they're without Will Ospry, They're without Swerve Strickland, and now
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: they won't even have Kenny Omega. That's three of their
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: top babyfass who will not be on the show. That's
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: a tough deal. But confirmed so far for the pay
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: per view is Adam Copeland and Christian Cage against FTR
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: Ricochet in the Gates of Agony against Bobby Lashley's Shelton
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: Benjamin and v Mercedes Monet will defend her TBS Championship
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: against ReHO. Yes, the same ReHO that has not wrestled
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: the match since July of last year when she broke
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: her wrist on collision, shows up and gets awarded a
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: TBS Championship match. Not that any of this matters. She's
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: just another victim for Mercedes to conquer on her road
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: to five hundred and nine days as the TBS Champion.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: She's at four seventy right now. She needs to get
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: to five h nine to become the longest reigning TBS
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: champion of all time, which will happen we just had
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: Athena past one thousand days as the Ring of Honor
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: Women's champion. When you get that close the record wolf
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: fall and also confirmed now after collision last night there
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: was a women's It must have been an all star match.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: I'd be shocked if Tony didn't build it as an
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: all star match. But there was a women's tag match
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: last night involving the Triangle of Madness, and Tony Storm
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: was there or Statlander and anyway we are getting a
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: four way match because I've been wondering who the hell
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: is Tony Storm going to defend her Women's.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: World title against? It all out?
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: They haven't set anybody up for it. Well, now we
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: know it's going to be a four way match for
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: the aw Women's World Championship with Tony Storm defending against
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: Jamie Hayter, Chris Statlander and Tecla, which sounds like an
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: excellent match. I can't hate on that. Jamie Hater and
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: Tony Storm should have been a long term singles direction
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: with any hope it still will be. I was not
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: expecting them to be in the ring together on this
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: pay per view, But you take those four women and
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: put them in the ring together and that should be
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: a hell of a match. And I'll tell you what,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked to see a title change there.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: I really wouldn't.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: And of all the people in that match who could
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: potentially take that championship from Tony, I got my eye
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: on Chris Statlander. Now we know the Death Riders have
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: been trying to recruit her. I think she actually won
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: that match last night with the wheeler you'd a seat
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: belt pin And again, you know, I just I really
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: hope we're not seriously considering adding new members to the
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: Death Riders. I mean, they It just doesn't It doesn't
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: do anything for me that group at this point. But
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: if they want to put a spotlight on Chris Statlander
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: and possibly put that championship on her and gave her
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: a run with it, I can get behind that. If
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: Tony was to lose, she's the one who I think
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: would would walk out of that match with that championship. Now,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: we also knew coming into Collision last night that Mark
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: Briscoe was going to be wrestling Kenoski Takeshta. Right he
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: already beat Lance Archer. He had to beat Takeshta to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: earn the right to challenge Kyle Fletcher for the TNT Championship.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: Once Kyle Fletcher threw down the gauntlet to Hangman Page
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: for a World Championship match at All Out, it kind
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: of gave away the fact that we weren't getting Kyle
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: Fletcher and Mark Briscoe, so they kind of in a way,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: they kind of spoiled it.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: But I told you what we talked about Dynamite on Wednesday.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: For the people that.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: Were with me for the review, I said, they're going
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: to do this match on collision. This is probably where
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: MJF is going to show up, and this is where
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: MJF is going to cost Mark brisco And he is
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: not going to beat Takeshta, which means he is not
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: getting a TNT Championship match with Kyle Fletcher because he
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: was never going to get ATNT title match with Kyle Fletcher.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: And MJF is an interesting one because he is defending
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: his CMLL title against Mystico the night before All Out
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: at Arena Mexico, and I fully expect he will be
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: losing that championship at Arena Mexico, So he's going to
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: be traveling from Arena mex Ago late that Friday to
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: get to Toronto for the pay per view, which is
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: now rescheduled for earlier in the day on Saturday, which
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: is not impossible, but that's going to be a bit
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: of a travel day for him. But MJF just got
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: married this past Friday to Alicia Atout. Tony Kahan was
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: at the wedding, as were many names from the aw roster.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: I did see the hangman hiding in the background the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: ring of honor death before Dishonor pay per view that
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: just took place was originally scheduled for September fifth, and
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: then this was back in July. It suddenly got moved
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: and I think this was before tickets went on sale,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: but they moved it back a week to August twenty ninth,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: and no reason was given at the time other than
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: there was an item in the Observer where Melter said
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: that Tony Khan had never missed a TV before and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: it would have been impossible for him to be at
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: the show because he had a wedding that he was
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: committed to. He just decided to move the entire pay
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: per view. Now we know whose wedding it was. It
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: was fucking mjf's wedding, So that's why Death Before Dishonner
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: got moved. But yes, now MJF and Mark Briscoe, they
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: are going to be wrestling it all out. Mark Briscoe,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: I believe is going to be able to pick the stipulation.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: He did not name what that stipulation would be on Collision,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: but I believe we'll find out on Dynamite this Wednesday.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: So we are getting at least one more battle between
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: MJF and Mark brisco It's fine. I mean, there's no
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: need to rush right back into Hangman and MJFMJF still
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: has that Casino Gauntlet contract, although he does have to
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: give at least a week's notice when he's ready to
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: cash it in.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: I still think.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: He may well hold off until World's End. I think
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: they might try to hold off until the end of
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: the year. I know we still have wrestled Dream and
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: then Full Gear, you know, and I could definitely see
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: that being the match of Full Gear, Full Gear or
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: World's End. I say World's End just because World's End
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: is the event two years ago where MJF lost the championship,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: so maybe him winning it back on that show would
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: be kind of poetic. But you know, if they want
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: to do MJF and Briscoe and blow it off. I
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: have no issue with it. Again, there was a report
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: a few months ago that MJF personally requested a program,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: wanted to work with Mark Briscoe. Was important that he
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: worked with Mark Briscoe. So he's getting the chance to
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: work with Mark Briscoe.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: You know, that's what he.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: Wanted, and he still has that contract in his back pocket.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: They'll circle back around to it when the time is right.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: Hangman and Kyle Fletcher. You know, look, I think Kyle
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: Fletcher is going to be an even bigger star for them.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: I think they've done a very good job with him
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: as far as building him up from I don't want
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: to say nobody you know, but he was a tag
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: team wrestler. You know, he was one half of Assie
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: Open and so to go from that to where he
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: is now, you can't say that he hasn't transformed himself
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: physically but also his career. He has turned into one
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: of the rising, the fastest rising stars in this company.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: I look at him, I look at Takeshta, who both
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: happen to be members of the same faction, but he's
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: you know, he's right there with those guys. You know,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: he's going to be a top tier performer for them
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: for many years to come. And so him getting a
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: match with Hangman, I'm sure the quality of the match
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: is going.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: To be very good.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: I don't see that as being a match that's going
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: to really entice people into buying the pay per view.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: A lot of it is going to come down to
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: what the full card looks like. I just don't see
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: people buying this show. Oh, it's going to be Kyle
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: Fletcher wrestling Hangman for the championship, and I'm sure he's
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: got a real shot of winning that title too. Nobody
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 3: believes that, so it's not the strongest challenger for Hangman,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: which is why I would have been okay with them
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: doing a tag match and not even having a title
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: match on this show. If they would have done something
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: like Hangman and Kenny against Takeshta and Okada, I think
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: that would have been a great match to do. But
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 3: I guess Omega he may have had to be in Japan.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: It may not have been possible, you know, him to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: be on that show. It's probably a scheduling thing. Also,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: on that Collision show last night, they inserted a backstage
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: promo with Big Bill and Brian Keith, and Bill said
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: that his life hit rock bottom in the twenty three
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: hundred arena. He said, the fans mocked him and laughed
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: at him. Said the Philadelphia fans showed their true colors.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: He said, Philadelphia is where players spit on their opponents
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: and steal foul balls from children, and have a statue
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: for their only hero who's a fictional character. And he
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: said he comes from a place where real tough guys
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: are made, New York City. That's right, Bill said, there's
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: another guy from New York City who claims to be
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: a tough guy, but he hasn't heard from him or
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: seen him in a long time. I'm officially calling you out,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: Eddie Kingston. This is how they set up the return
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: of Eddie Kingston. Eddie Kingston's been gone for well over
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: a year. We got Big Bill out here just randomly
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: spouting off about a guy who hasn't been on television
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: in fifteen months. Sixteen months. Not the way that I
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: would have brought Eddie Kingston back. It's actually it really
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: is too bad though, that they just couldn't work it out.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: I guess where Eddie came back to make the say
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: for Darby a few weeks ago, or to do something
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: with Gabe Kid, who was just on TV. But we saw,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: you know, last we saw Gabe Kid on Wednesday, you know,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: Darby put him in a body bag and literally dragged
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: him out of the building. And I've seen or heard
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: something where Kid may already be back in Japan. He
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: may not even be you know, on TV for a while,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: so that may not have been possible, But I don't know.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, of all the ways to bring back Eddie Kingston,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: this is you know, certainly a pretty lazy way to
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: do so. But at least he's coming back. You know,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: it's good that he's coming back. I really hope they
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: can elevate him to something, you know, decent, something important
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: on the show to do. There are people on the show,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: there are stories that he can be involved with that
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: would actually make a lot of sense, people he has
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: history with. If this is just their way of reintroducing him,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: getting him a win his first night back, and then
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: they transition him into you know, something with the Death
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: Riders or something like that, then that's fine. But just
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: just the way they set this up was just very strange.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: It felt like maybe this is an all out match.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: It's a way to get any you know, back in
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: the ring. It all out for the first time. So
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: at least he's on his way back. At least now
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: we know he is coming back imminently. And I mentioned
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: the announced shake of the announcer's shakeup in WWE before.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: There is a new addition to the aw announced team
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: starting this week on Dynamite. Brian Danielson becomes a member
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: of the commentary team on a full time basis moving forward.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: The announcement was made on Twitter by Tony Kahn, who
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: did not specify if it will now be a four
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: man booth, which would be completely unet or if someone
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: is moving out of the booth. I think keeping it
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: a three man booth is fine. Tony Shavanni is already
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: handling the play by play on Collision every week. I
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: don't think he needs to be on Dynamite. Dynamite has
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 3: a play by play guy. They want to go with
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: ex Caliber, that's their choice.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: Fine.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: If ex Caliber is going to be their play by
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: play guy, I don't see the need to have Tony
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: Shavanni on commentary doing Dynamite color or play by play
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: or anything else. He can be the guy who stands
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: in the ring on Dynamite with the microphone or on
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: stage with the microphone and conducts interviews where ninety five
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: percent of the time the person just pulls the microphone
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: out of his hand anyway and tells him to go
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: sit down. But that could be his role on Wednesdays
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: and let Shavanni continue to do play by play on Collision.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: He's really not needed in that booth anymore on Wednesdays.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: You know, you could have ex Caliber Taz and Brian Danielson.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: You know, they had Danielson doing commentary for Forbidden Door,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: and I liked his commentary. I think it's a good
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: role for him.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: To be in.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: Other news and notes. We got a bunch of them
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: here in a story that could have had potential implications
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: on pro wrestling, since independent contractors were included in the
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: list of those affected by this. The Federal Trade Commission
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: announced that it is moving to vacate its rule banning
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: non compete agreements, which are employment agreements that prevent workers
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: from taking new jobs with a competing business or starting
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: one of their own, usually within a certain geographic area
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: and time frame. After leaving their job. The ban, championed
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: by former FTC chair Lena Khan, was finalized in twenty
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: twenty four, but never took effect. Following a lawsuit brought
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: by the Dallas based tax services firm Ryan LLC, a
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: federal judge in Texas found that the FTC had likely
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: exceeded its authority in issuing the ban and halted it
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: nationwide last fall. The administration appealed that ruling to the
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but in March the new
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: administration asked the court for a four month pause on
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: the appeal. Then in July they told the court they
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: needed more time. Still, the court approved another sixty day
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: pause that was to end on September eighth. Late Friday afternoon,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: just ahead of that deadline, the FTC announced that it
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: had voted three to one to dismiss the appeal and
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: take steps to vacate.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: The rule entirely.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: The rule would have covered not only employees, but independent contractors, interns,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: and volunteers. So in WWE, if your contract expires, you're
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: free and clear to go work wherever you want. But
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: if they release you, either because you asked to be
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: released or they just decided we don't want you anymore.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get rid of you.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: If you're an NXT star, you typically have a thirty
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: day non compete For main roster talents, it's ninety days
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: that you sit at home and you get paid until
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: that period of time is up, and until then you
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: are not allowed to go wrestle somewhere else, like an
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: AW or even independence. I mean maybe if you ask nicely,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: they might let you, but you can't just like if
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 3: you're released, right, I just got my release from WWE.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: I got the phone call.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: Right, You're not picking up that phone the next day
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: and calling Tony Kahan, Like legally you are not allowed
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: to do that. You can't even negotiate with them. You're
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: basically on ice for up to three months. And some
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: wrestlers might be okay with sitting at home and getting
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: paid to do nothing but train right and plot and
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: plan their next moves. But they might like having the
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: option of going to work somewhere else. Maybe they had
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: a lot of buzz around them and they're worried that
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: by sitting at home and doing nothing, it's all going
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: to evaporate. Maybe they just want to work even if
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: this rule had gone into effect. Like, if I was WWE,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying this is what I would do, But
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: if I was WWE, I wouldn't release anybody early unless
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: it was for some sort of disciplinary reason, unless I
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: just really didn't want to pay them to not use them.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: I could see WWE just holding onto people until their
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: deals expire, Tony Kahn. So they probably would have found
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: their way around it with some ridiculous loophole like that.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: But it's all a point now because the FTC is
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: vacating the rules, so there will be no national ban
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: on non compete agreements after all. The new chair of
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 3: the FTC has said has claimed that he is no
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: fan of non compete agreements and that instead of a
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: national ban, he would look to send FTC enforcers out
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: looking for non compete that violate the Sherman Act, which
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: is an eighteen ninety law prohibiting activities that restrict competition
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: in the marketplace. Meanwhile, the FTC only has around fourteen
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: hundred employees total to actually police the entire economy. Good
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: luck enforcing that. I love this idea that they're going
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: to send us like a small posse out of enforcers
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: to go look for non competes. Maybe there's one hiding
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: in that bush over there. I think I saw a
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: non compete hiding behind the dumpster at the Chick fil
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: A near me. Yeah, this is dead. WWE and AW
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: have nothing to worry about. I don't even know if
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: AW uses non compete clauses in their contracts, since Tony
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: lets them take bookings independently. I mean, maybe they have
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: something in there that applies specifically to WWE.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: No need for a non compete though, when you can
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: just bench someone indefinitely until their contract expires. This is
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: a scary story as it relates to Live Morgan's stalker.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: Remember this piece of work. This comes from PW Insider.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: The US government filed a motion this week attempting to
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: prevent Sean Chan, the Canadian man charged with one count
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: of interstate domestic violence against WWE star Live Morgan, after
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: traveling to the US and spending hours loitering at her
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: property in Florida, trying to stop him from being released
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: from incarceration before his trial, which is expected to take
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: place this November. Chan filed a motion on August twentieth
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: asking the court to reconsider his being held without bail
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: through the trial. The filing said his attorneys have secured
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: a Salvation Army location that Chan can reside in until
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: the trial takes place. In Emotion this week, prosecutors noted
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: the defendant is a danger to the community, a serious
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: risk of flight, and there are no conditions of release
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: that will reasonably assure Chan's appearance at further proceedings of
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: this case. The United States requests that Chan remain detained
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: pending trial. They also argue that his defense having secured
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: Chan of bed at the local Salvation Army does not
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: meet the legal requirement for Chan to have his incarceration
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: status reconsidered, arguing the fact that council has secured a
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: bed for him at the Salvation Army does not have
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: a material bearing on the issue of whether there are
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 3: conditions of release that will reasonably assure his future appearance
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: and the safety of other persons and the community. The
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 3: nature and circumstances of his offense, the weight of the
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: evidence against him, and chance history and characteristics justified detention.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: This newly proffered information does not have a material bearing
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: on the issue of whether there are conditions of release
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: that will reasonably assure his appearance at future court proceedings
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: and the safety of other persons in the community, including
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: Live Morgan. And they didn't say Live Morgan, but they're
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: referring to Live Morgan.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: That'd be funny. They just use WWE names here. In
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: the court documents.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: They argue that should Chan be set free through trial,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: not only is there nothing holding him from being a
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: flight risk, but he could easily attempt to visit Morgan's
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: home again. It was also revealed that when Chan left
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: a note at Morgan's home, he left his name, Canadian address,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: and phone number. The government also argued Chan's history and
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: characteristics also demonstrate that he is a very real risk
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: of non appearance. To begin, Chan is a Canadian citizen
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: who is only in the Middle District of Florida to
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: intimidate and stalk Live Morgan. He has no reported family
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: in the Middle District of Florida. He does not have
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 3: a job in the Middle District of Florida, and nor
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: does he have any authorization to work in the United States.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: In fact, Chan has no obvious ties to this country
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: at all. Instead, his only contacts appear to be in Canada,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: where he could easily flee if released. What's more, at
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: the initial detention here in Chan reported having no mental
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: health problem. Since then, however, Chan's council has indicated that
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: Chan is being evaluated for competency. Given Chan's lack of
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: ties to the community and these serious mental health concerns,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: there is no condition or combination of conditions that can
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: reasonably assure Chan's appearance at trial. And it goes on
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: here the some more information in here, it's just disguised,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: is completely just disturbed. As PW Insider reported earlier this week,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: Chan had previously signed a waiver of speedy trial in order,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: according to court records, to allow adequate time to conduct
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: a psychiatric evaluation of the defendant. Chan flew from Scarsborough, Ontario,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: to Orlando, Florida, on May twenty sixth, telling customs agents
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: in Florida that he would be staying at the WWE
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: Performance Center, which has no housing facilities. Four days later,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: according to the criminal complaint against him, Chan traveled several
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: hours to live Morgan's home, circled her property several times,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 3: and entered through her backyard. He then attempted to gain
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: entry to her front door, was unsuccessful. He found and
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: held an air pellet that was sitting inside her front porch,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: and after waiting several hours, left a note and departed.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: According to the criminal complaint against him, Chan's note read
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: in part, It's me Sean, the guy you all hang
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: out with on and then it says gaming platform deleted online.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 3: You've been trying to contact me, or should I say,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: reach out to me when I'm absent from that game.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: So who's the stalker? Huh?
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: I never said and did anything bad for over ten years,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: yet you all dared hating me for no reason. I
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 3: came here to pay just a friendly visit, nothing more.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 3: Yet I'm the one who looks like a stalker thanks
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: to all of you. You think I'm going to have empathy,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: sympathy and care about any of you anymore. I will
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: start talking and doing whatever I want despite all your
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: shoosh finger faces that you all make. Yeah, I just
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: wanted to let you know that I was here. That
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: is just fucking scary. Chan was arrested by the FBI
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 3: on June third, after WWE security, having seen security footage
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: from Morgan's home, recognized him in alerted authorities. Chan was
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 3: indicted on June twenty fifth and faces five years in prison.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: The court has yet to rule on Chan's request to
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: be released. As of this writing, he remains incarcerated in
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: Hernando County, Florida. Let us hope, for the sake of
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: all involved, including liv Morgan, that this creep stays incarcerated
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: where he belongs for the time being.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: That is just Yeah.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: I just got done talking last week about the Rhea
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: Ripley thing and how she got swarmed when she was
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 3: in France, and there have been other incidents that have
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 3: taken place, and it looks like WWE is in certain
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: situations at least now sending security out with some of
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: the women when they're on the road at some of
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: these venues. But there are people online who were just
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: and a lot of it is with the with the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 3: women who were just completely obsessed. I mean, you see
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 3: this type of obsessive behavior just in the way that
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: people tweet and comment about certain things, and that's one thing,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: But when you take it to that next level and
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: you do something like this or the Sonya Deville stalker
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: who went to her house. We talked about that story too,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: when he had zip ties and I think weapons and
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 3: God only knows what he was planning on doing to
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: that woman.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: That was a terrifying situation.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: She had to take time off from WWE, and you know,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: deal with that whole situation because it was a traumatic situation.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: You know, at what point do we have a story
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: that you know has an ending that is going to
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 3: be tragic? I mean, I hope it doesn't happen, but
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: you know, you have people out there who are like this,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: who obviously are mentally compromised in some way and need help,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 3: and and this is what you.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: End up with.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: You end up with situations like this. So hopefully he
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: is not going to be set free any time soon.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: WWE and the Columbus Sports Arena were sued by a
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: fan this week alleging that he was injured in a
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: fall at a raw event last year. WWE, the Columbus
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: Sports Arena, and Ohio State University and UMR INC were
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: sued on September second by a William Ricks from Pennsylvania,
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: alleging that he was injured after slipping in a puddle
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: while attending the April twenty second, twenty twenty four WWE
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 3: Monday Night raw event in Columbus, Ohio. Rix lawsuit alleges
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: that he was walking in and around an aisle by
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: sections two oh seven and two oh eight when he
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: slipped and fell due to a hazardous condition that existed
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 3: in the form of an unmarked puddle of a liquid
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: or liquid like substance. A liquid like substance is that
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: like Michael Cole at WrestleMania thirty seven with Randy Orton
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: and Bray Wyatt saying it's a box like structure. No, Michael,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: it's a fucking box, not a box like structure. It's
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: a liquid a liquid like substance that was not open
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: and obvious. The lawsuit alleges Rix has suffered permanent pain
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 3: and suffering in the form of injuries from the fall,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: but does not cite exactly what the injuries are. The
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: lawsuit states that all of the defendants except MR, which
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 3: is an insurance company, owed the ticket purchasing audience of
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: which plaintiff was a member, a duty to maintain the
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: premises in a way that was free of any hazardous conditions.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: He is citing negligence, a failure to warn, and vicarious
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: liability for all of the defendants except UMR. The lawsuit
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: alleges Ricks may have had medical assistance with or received
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: payments from defendant UMA aren't for care and treatment rendered
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: due to injury sustained in the aforementioned incident. Well, if
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: he has an issue, then he should take it up
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 3: with the management of the arena, because I failed to
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: see how WWE is in any way responsible in this situation,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: and I would be surprised, honestly if they don't already
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: have language on the back of each ticket covering their
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: asses and situations just like this. I actually pull out
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: an old ticket that I have because I keep a
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: lot of my old ticket stubs.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: Back when they actually had tickets.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: Everything's digital now, but I pulled that one of my
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 3: old ticket stubs to raw from a few years ago
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: to take a look at the fine print on the back.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 3: The fine print was so small, Like if you put
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: this thing under a fucking microscope, I still wouldn't be
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: able to read it. I'm like, like stady girl, Like
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: I'm seventy five years old. I needed my monocle and
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: I've tried to read this shit and I can't. There's
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: no way, not a single one of you listening to
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: this right now would be able to read what's on
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: the back of this ticket, so I just put it back.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: But I would be.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: Very surprised if they don't have language already, you know,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: drafted on these tickets to kind of excuse them from
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: situations like this and release them from any liability. I
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: just don't see this guy having any kind of case
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 3: against WWE the arena. That's a different story. But that
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: was not the only lawsuit to be filed this week.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 3: Per TMZ, Hulk Hogan's son, Nick has sued bubbaa Love
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: Sponge to block the release of a new documentary on
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: his father that deals with the release of his old
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: sex tape. It is the Fucking Sex Tape that Will
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: Never Die, Hogan's son, Nick, is suing Bubbla the Love Sponge,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: lledging the popular radio host's unreleased documentary about the WWE
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: legend infringes on his dad's copyrights and trademarks. Nick, acting
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: as a rep for Hult's estate, filed a lawsuit on
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: Tuesday in a federal court in Florida after Bubba revealed
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: that he is going to drop video Killed the radio
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: Star the Untold Story of the Hulk Hogan sex tape
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: scandal later this month. Nick states that the documentary, which
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: promises to tell the real story of how Hogan's romp
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: with Bubba's then wife, Heather clam got leaked to the media,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 3: includes unauthorized images from.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: The sex tape.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: In the suit, Nick alleges some of the video was
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: actually played in a trailer that Bubba just recently released.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: Nick also claims Bubba has been promoting the documentary using
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 3: Hulk's trademarks without permission. Additionally, Nick says releasing the documentary
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: would violate a settlement agreement that Bubba and Hulk entered
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: into over the tape back in twenty twelve. The details
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 3: of the agreement are redacted in the lawsuit. Nick is
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 3: suing to stop the release of the documentary and for
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: other unspecified damages. Fast forward to Thursday, a federal judge
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: in Florida granted Nick's emergency motion for a temporary restraining
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: order in preliminary injunction in part prohibiting Bubba from using
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: scenes from the infamous sex tape in the doc However,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: it looks like Bubba will still be allowed to publish
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 3: the documentary as long as he keeps out the sex tape.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: The judge additionally ordered Nick to post a five hundred
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars bond, which would go toward damages Bubba might
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: have incurred if Bubba ultimately wins the case. Bubba hosted
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: an event on Friday Night that Brooke Hogan attended Nick's
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 3: sister unveiling the documentary.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: It was like Opening Night, So this hasn't stopped him
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: from releasing it.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 3: I don't believe any actual like video footage from the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: sex tape is in the dock. I mean, I would
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: hope not is in the documentary itself, so he must
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 3: feel he's on solid ground here. But on the subject
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 3: of the Hulkster, this will be a little more lighthearted here.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: Erica Nicole Clark is a stand up comedian and she
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: is also the daughter of mister t. She recently shared
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 3: a story from her childhood to explain why she often
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: avoids telling people about her famous father. In a clip
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 3: posted by the Don't Tell Comedy Instagram account, Clark recounted
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 3: a chaotic weekend surrounding the first WrestleMania that involved a
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 3: legitimate injury to her dad in a violent hotel room
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: brawl between Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper. Clark began
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: by explaining the complex that she developed as a child
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 3: because no one believed her father was Mister T. I'm
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: a black girl at an all black school, and I'm
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: trying to explain to my friends that the reason why
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: they've never seen my dad before is because he's doing
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: WrestleMania with Hulk Hogan. Everybody was like, shut the fuck up, Erica,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: and those were the teachers. This experience of being disbelieved
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: led her to stop sharing stories about her life. To
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 3: illustrate her point, she told a story from the weekend
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 3: of the first WrestleMania in nineteen eighty five, where her
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: father was teeming with Hulk Hogan. She was seeing wrestling
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: live for the first time, and her dad had assured
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 3: her it was all fake. During the match, however, her
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: father suffered a real injury. She said, my dad gets
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: into the ring and immediately Roddy Piper flips my dad
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: and he cracks my dad's ribs, So my dad has
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: to go to the emergency room. After Mister T was
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 3: treated and returned to their hotel room all bandaged up,
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: Clark described a tense scene. She stated that Hulk Hogan
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 3: was in their room, still in his yellow wrestling shorts
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 3: and was doing lines of cocaine. See now that I
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 3: can believe. According to Clark, Hogan was furious over the
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: injury and was vowing to get revenge on Piper, telling
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: or yelling Tea, I'm gonna fuck him up when I
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: see him. According to Clark, see, I can't believe this
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 3: because he didn't say brother. If he said I'm going
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: to fuck him up when I see him, brother, I
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 3: could have believed it. I mean, there's no brother, there's
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: no Jack, there's no dude. According to Clark, there was
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: soon a knock at the door and it was Roddy Piper,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: who had come to apologize for the injury. He goes,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: I'm real sorry about what happened, Clark said. Hogan, however,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: did not accept the apology. Hulk Hogan's like fuck that
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: and grabs Roddy Piper and brings him into the hotel room,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 3: throws him against the wall, smashes the mirror. She described
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: a chaotic brawl breaking out between the two wrestlers. Clark
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: painted a picture of Mayhem in the hotel room with
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: her father, despite his broken ribs, trying to break up
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 3: the fight. She recall Hogan's then wife, Linda being there
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 3: and yelling for him to stop using his real name,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 3: saying Terry, Terry, stop it, which is how she learned
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 3: that Hulk's real name was Terry. A mid flipped over furniture.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 3: Clark and her sister were crying. We get on a plane.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: We come back to Chicago. I go to class. We're
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 3: sitting in a sharing circle, and the teacher's like, what
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 3: you do this week? And I was like, not a
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 3: fucking thing.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 3: I've heard Hogan himself tell stories that are more believable
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 3: than this one. Although I him doing lines of cocaine
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 3: is completely believable, especially in that era. Everything after that
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 3: sounds like complete bullshit. Coked up or not? Okay, coked
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 3: up or not. Do you honestly think that noted tough
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: guy Hulk Hogan was gonna pick a fight with rowdy
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 3: Roddy Piper, who had an amateur boxing background and earned
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 3: a black belt in judo by the way, from Jean LaBelle. Okay,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: that's number one. I'm more likely to believe that Hogan
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 3: really did audition for Metallica than any of that. Okay,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: not to mention, can you imagine if he had actually
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 3: beaten up Roddy Piper. Do you not think he would
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: not have been telling that story for years to anyone
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 3: who would listen, like, oh my god, we would never
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: have heard the end of it the night that I
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 3: beat up Roddy Piper. I mean, it would have been
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 3: in both of his books. It would have been mentioned
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: at least once in every interview that he's ever given.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 3: Ain't no way he's keeping that one a secret, but
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: it makes for a funny story. First stand up back,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: they guess. And Variety had the exclusive this week that
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 3: WWE would be adding episodes of the Old Hulk Hogan
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 3: rock and wrestling cartoon from the eighties to the WWE
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 3: Vault channel on YouTube. I've been waiting for this since
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 3: they pulled the episodes off the network ten years ago.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: As soon as that Hogan scandal hit, they pulled all
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: the episode they had just posted them too, I think
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: like weeks before, and then they just pulled the entire series.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 3: So they will be releasing episodes in batches of four
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 3: every Saturday morning.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: I love timing it for Saturday morning. They're going to
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: be posting them in chronological order at six am, eight am,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 3: ten am and noon every Saturday, and they actually just
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: dropped the first batch yesterday. The show ran two seasons,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: with a total of twenty six episodes. It aired on
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 3: CBS back in the day. None of the wrestlers on
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 3: the show were voiced by the wrestlers themselves, because their
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 3: schedules just made that impossible, especially with the inhumane schedule
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: that they were keeping back then.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, how the hell would you even get them
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: in studio to do voiceovers.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 3: But you know, it was Hogan, and then you had
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 3: Junkyard Dog and Andre the Giant, and think Ricky Steamboat
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: and Jake the Snake. I mean they were just you know,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 3: all the key stars for the most part, were represented
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: on that show. Bobby Heenan and Loue Albano and so
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: on and so forth. Cartoon Hogan had more hair on
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 3: his head on the show than the real Hogan ever
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 3: did at any point in his entire life. But his
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 3: character was voiced by Brad Garrett of Everybody Loves Raymond
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 3: Fame and Junkyard Dog. He was a character on the show.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 3: He was voiced by James Avery Uncle Phil from Fresh
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: Prince of bel Air, who was also the voice of
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 3: Shredder in the original teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon See
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: This is My Childhood Man he Man and the Masters
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 3: of the Universe, ThunderCats, the Hogan Cartoon Inspector Gadget, Ninja Turtles,
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 3: the Real Ghostbusters, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Smurfs, and.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: The Super Mario brother Super Show. Can't forget that one.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 3: Ah, take me back, man, take me back. Let's take
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 3: you to the mailbag. That's where I'm going to take
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 3: you all. Email me your questions the Solemn Monster at
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 3: gmail dot com, and when you do, make sure you
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 3: include your name and where you are from. We'll do
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 3: two or three of them here and then we'll get
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 3: to more next week. Dak from Saint Paul, minic I
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 3: love that name. Dak from Saint Paul, Minnesota. I had
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 3: to say it twice. I had a possible idea for
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 3: John Cena's last match. I understand the thought process of
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 3: a Drew MacIntyre or a Gunther being the last opponent
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense, and a babyface heel match
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 3: makes sense too, But I had a different idea to
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 3: run by you. What if aj Styles ends up beating
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 3: Dom for the Intercontinental Championship. Around November, Sina starts talking
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 3: about the end being near and he brings up that
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: he has done everything but one thing, and that is
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: be the Intercontinental Champion. He challenges AJ for the title
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: for his last match in December. I think it would
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 3: be a great final match for John and could add
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 3: some fun drama too, seeing if he could win the
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 3: title that he's never won and have the added bonus
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 3: that the ending would not be obvious.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: I am shocked by how many questions I have gotten
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 3: in the last few months about John Cena going after
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 3: the Intercontinental title. I mean, I guess I just underestimated
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 3: how many people actually want to see this. Look, if
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 3: it gets us one more John Cena AJ styles match,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 3: that would be great. Sena challenging for the Intercommental Championship
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 3: is tough for me to see happening. I don't see
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 3: Sena going on television and making that pitch that oh
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 3: it's so important that I went like, that's not going
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 3: to happen because John Cena doesn't care about the Intercontinental title.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 3: He just challenged though Sammy's Ain on Friday for the
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 3: US title, but it wasn't anything he asked for.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: Right. It was Sam bey's Ain.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 3: Who basically begged him to accept a championship match with him,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: and John Cena said yes, so could it happen? Sure
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 3: if AJ wins the title and he does the exact
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 3: same thing that Sam bez Ain just did where he
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 3: pitches the match to Sena, it basically begs Sena to
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: say yes. I don't think John Sene is going to
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 3: say no to that, but that would be a raw match.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 3: I don't see John Cena wrestling for the Intercontinental title
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 3: in his retirement match. I think people are putting too
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 3: much emphasis on the IC title and its importance to
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 3: John Cena. John Cena has never, ever, ever, ever demonstrated
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 3: that he gives a shit about any specific title, Frank,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 3: but the Intercontinental Championship. It would be like if Hulk
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 3: Hogan was about to have his retirement match on Saturday
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 3: Night's main event, and he comes out on television and says, brother,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 3: it's the one title I've never won. I gotta win
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: the inter cut Like Hulk Hogan doesn't. He would wipe
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 3: his ass with the Intercontinental title, Okay, Like I couldnot
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 3: even fathom him caring enough to even mention it in
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 3: a promo as he was barreling towards his retirement match,
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: so that that's not going to happen here. But the
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 3: fact that we just saw Sammy Zane and John Cena
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 3: for the US title on Friday at least makes it
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 3: possible the wwe could get a television match, you know,
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 3: out of Seena and aj Plus we know scene is
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: done with SmackDown. So when we see Sena on television
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 3: again from here on out, I mean outside of the
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 3: matches that he has on the big special shows, it's
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 3: going to be on Raw, and AJ Styles happens to
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 3: be on Raw. The IC title happens to be on Raw.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 3: So a match between them absolutely very possible. But to
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 3: do it in the way that you just laid out,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 3: or to have Sena talk about how it's the one
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: title I've never won. Like again, he's never said or
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 3: done anything to demonstrate that any of that matters to him,
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 3: and I don't see them starting that now, and I
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: would not do that, certainly, not in his last match.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 3: His last match should have nothing to do with any championship.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 3: And as far as his retirement match, I don't think
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 3: that AJ Styles is the guy they want to go with,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 3: because I don't see Sena winning that match, and I
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 3: certainly don't think they want aj Styles beating John Cena
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 3: at his retirement match. I can almost guarantee you that's
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 3: not what they want, so that I don't see happening,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 3: but I do hope the match does happen at some point.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: You know, we got a SmackDown match out of it.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 3: There's no reason we can't get a raw match out
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 3: of Sena in aj one week. Simon from Coos Bay, Oregon.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 3: I know why she's had a job for so long,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 3: but real question here, has Temina ever had a good
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 3: match in her career? I feel horrible, but every single
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 3: time I ever saw her I groaned and lost all interest. Sure,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 3: I mean there was the.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: HM.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 3: I'm sure she's a lovely woman. And Moe from Harlem,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 3: New York. After listening to you answer a question about
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: Roman Reigns and his opinions about the Attitude era stars
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 3: and their rise to the top, you got me thinking,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 3: from one to four, how would you rank Hulk, Hogan, Stone, Cold, Steve, Austin,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 3: the Rock and John Cena and their rise to becoming
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 3: a top star in terms of difficulty, one being the
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: easiest and four being the hardest.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 3: So with one being the easiest, meaning they had the
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 3: easiest sort of path or journey to becoming a top
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 3: star in WWE. Look, first of all, before I even
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 3: answer this, let me just say it is not easy
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 3: to become a top star in WWE. It wasn't back then,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 3: it's not now. So when I answer this question, I'm
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 3: not saying that, oh, it's just such an easy thing
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 3: to become the biggest star in the entire company. You
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 3: have to have certain qualities tangible and intangible to be
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 3: put in that position, and the company has to believe
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 3: that they can make a lot of money with you
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 3: in that spot.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: But for some it did.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 3: Certainly come across as if it was a lot easier
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 3: for them than it was for others. So if the
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 3: names that you just mentioned the easiest by far, number
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 3: one is Hulk Hogan, Hogan was already a big name
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 3: in the Twin Cities for vere Ganya Vince. That's why
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 3: Vincent ban stole him away. He wanted him back. He
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 3: had already been in the WWF before, and he had
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 3: success in the AWA, and Vince knew this national expansion
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 3: was coming. His mind was already made up. He wanted
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 3: Hulk Hogan to be the face of that. He wanted
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 3: Hulkogan to be the poster child for it. Hogan his physique,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 3: everything about the physique and the charisma was everything he
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 3: was looking for in his wrestlers. All Hogan had to
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 3: do was agree to come over and sign the contract.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 3: So when he came back at the end of eighty three,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 3: he was instantly a top star and within a month
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 3: he beat the Sheikh in the Garden and was the
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 3: WWF champion. Doesn't get any easier than that. Once they
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 3: did that, they were off to the races. So Hogan
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 3: number one. I'm gonna put Rock in number two in
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 3: terms of getting to the top. Is a top name,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 3: the easiest. I remember when Rock was first signed. God
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 3: who was it? It was Pat Patterson, I think who
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 3: was the one who went to Vince in them and said,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 3: this guy's he's going to be your champion one day.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 3: So like when they brought Rock in, they kind of
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 3: knew he at least had that potential. And when you
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 3: look at the you know, kind of the early part
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 3: of his career, you know, he debuted at the Survivor
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 3: Series in ninety six and he won in Madison Square Guard.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 3: I think he was the sole survivor in his Survivor
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 3: Series match, and within three months they had the Intercontinental
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 3: title on him. It blew up in their face. The
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 3: fans rebelled, right, Die, Rocky Die. He joined the Nation
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 3: de Domination later that year, and that was really the
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 3: beginning of his rise, and from there it was just
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 3: this steady rise until a year later he.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: Was the champion.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 3: You know, he won the WWF Championship. He was still
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 3: very young, but he was already a top guy in
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 3: the company. Number three. I'm gonna put John Cena. Took
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 3: a few years. Sina won the title. He had only
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 3: been on television, not even a full three years when
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 3: he beat jbl at WRESTLEMANI had to win the championship,
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 3: and Vince made his decision, this is going to be
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 3: our guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 3: Sina won one title, Batista won the other. It's a
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 3: funny thing too, because Batista. You look at Batista and
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 3: just his look in that physique, Like if Batista came
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 3: along like that, looking like that in the eighties, I'm
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 3: not saying that he would have gotten the Hogan spot,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 3: but he would have been treated very well at the
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 3: top of the card by Vince McMahon. I'm kind of
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 3: surprised that Vince chose Sena over Batista in some ways,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 3: just based on that alone.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: But Sina.
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  Speaker 3: Once Vince made his choice, he was the handpicked one,
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 3: and you know, he held onto that spot for a
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 3: good ten years, ten plus years. You know, he was
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 3: the top guy in that company. Austin I put it
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 3: number four. I think Austin had it the hardest of
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 3: the four in terms of how long it took and
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 3: what he went through to get to that top spot.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 3: You know, stunning Steve Austin had a lot of success,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 3: a stunning Steve In kind of the upper mid card
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 3: in WCW got fired, I mean very briefly was in ECW,
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 3: but then Vince picked up and again he was the
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 3: ring master and wasn't doing a whole hell of a
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 3: lot in that first half of nineteen ninety six. Only
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 3: won the King of the Ring in ninety six because
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 3: Triple H got punished for the Curtain Call. Didn't have
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 3: any real plans for him until later in the year
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 3: when they were hoping to get Brett Hart back. What
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: if And by the way, what if Brett had decided
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 3: not to come back? You know, that's a question I
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 3: never hear anybody ask. You know, you get these what
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 3: if questions sometimes, and it's like, what if Brett Hard
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 3: had truly decided in ninety six that either he's going
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 3: to retire or he's not coming back to WWF and
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 3: he was going to go to because he had a
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 3: standing offer from WCW. And what if he had made
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 3: the decision to leave and didn't come back, And how
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 3: would that have affected the career of Steve Austin Because
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 3: when Brett came back, Austin was the first guy to
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 3: work with him, and that was huge for Austin's career.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 3: They had that great match at Survivor Series, but then
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 3: when they ran it back again at WrestleMania, it's one
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 3: of the greatest matches in the history of the company.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 3: You get that iconic moment of him and the sharpshooter
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 3: with the blood pouring down his face in Chicago. If
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 3: Brett's not there, what effect does that have on Austin's career.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 3: I still feel like he gets there eventually, but I
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 3: think that really delays things because I'm not sure who
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 3: he works with. If not Brett, who does he work
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 3: with that can help kind of elevate him to that
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 3: next level. Who is a big enough star like Brett
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 3: was that can help get Austin to that next level
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 3: as like the new badass in the company.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 3: That's a great what if scenario, But Austin had to Yeah,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 3: he had to wait his turn, and it didn't come easy.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 3: But once he hit on that gimmick with stone Cold,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 3: and you know, it's like catching lightning in a body.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 3: He found something that worked. He completely changes. Look if
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 3: you look at him from the stunning Steve days to
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 3: the Stone Cold days. It just took him eight years though,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 3: you know, it took him eight years to win that
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 3: World championship for the first time. Took longer for him
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 3: than it did for the other guys on this list.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 3: So I've got him at number four. But good question, bo,
• 2:04:07
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• 2:04:14
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• 2:04:18
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• 2:04:21
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• 2:04:24
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• 2:04:26
  Speaker 3: All the international shows are over for the time being,
• 2:04:29
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• 2:04:33
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• 2:04:41
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• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: Bronzon read one on one against jay Uso. So Uso
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 3: got back in the ring and he was looking for
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 3: another suicide dive. He is stopped in his tracks because Bronson, ready,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 3: you talk about yeating.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: He yeaded this fucking.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 3: Chair, this office chair, right at jay Usso's head, and
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 3: the referee.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: Falls for the bell for what you would assume is
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: a disqualification. They called this a no contest.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 3: I would love to know what do you have to
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 3: do to get yourself disqualified? If Bronson read shot jay
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 3: Usso in the face, would it be a no contest?
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Like? Where's the line here? When I saw that on
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: the screen, I said, you gotta be you gotta be.
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 3: Shitting this man threw a fucking office chair at this
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 3: man's head.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: A no contest.
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