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Speaker 2: Why from the parts Unknown Studios into.

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Speaker 1: The Battle Brown Battle, the Battle Round, the Battle Crowd.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 3: pro wrestling.

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Speaker 1: The Battle Road. The Battle Crowd now making their way

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Speaker 1: to the microphones. Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Battle Crown. What's up you guys? Welcome

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Speaker 4: back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast. It

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Speaker 4: is a big week here on the show. We have

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Speaker 4: a guest that we like to call I guess we

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Speaker 4: could say best friends now because I mean he's been

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Speaker 4: on the show many times. He set the records of

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Speaker 4: most appearances on the show. I'm gonna bring in my

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Speaker 4: tag team partner Eli and uh, you know, without further ado,

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Speaker 4: let's just let's go ahead and bring him in. It's

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Speaker 4: the first time we've seen each other on camera. There

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Speaker 4: he is the man, the myth, the legend.

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Speaker 1: Tony Kahn. How are you doing, sir?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing very well, Tim Thanks for having me on today.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, not that I'm being biased or anything, Tony. But

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Speaker 5: there's my shirt, so wow, the king that's you know,

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Speaker 5: I mean, just thrown it out.

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Speaker 1: There, justn it out there. But let's talk about this

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Speaker 1: Honor Club man.

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Speaker 4: I want to before we talk about Ring of Honor

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Speaker 4: for this Friday night, I want to talk about Honor Club.

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Speaker 4: I mean, had a very successful relaunch. Both you get

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Speaker 4: my money and Eli's money every month because we joined it.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any numbers to report on that side

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Speaker 2: Well, we have more subscribers than ever before for Ring

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Speaker 2: of Honor streaming, which is amazing because we just relaunched

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Speaker 2: with about fifteen thousand subscribers to Ring of Honor right

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Speaker 2: now just for the TD, which is amazing. And also

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Speaker 2: we're doing great numbers for pay per view, so it's

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Speaker 2: really amazing how well Ring of Honor's done since we've relaunched.

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Speaker 2: In addition to all the things happening in AW right now,

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Speaker 2: we have a huge show tonight in Saint Louis aw Dynamite,

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Speaker 2: of Honor. So very sad in wrestling.

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Speaker 5: Pertaining to the Thursday night show which has been blowing

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Speaker 5: up last few weekstastic critical claim. Was there any pressure

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Speaker 1: I felt.

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's been very beneficial to AW and

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Speaker 2: to me to go do Ring of Honor because there's

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Speaker 2: no pressure at all. I like going there. There's no

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Speaker 2: I want. There's no network, there's no breaks, there's no timing. Really,

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Speaker 2: I can just put on shows of any length and

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Speaker 2: trying to grow the Ring of Honor fan base, which

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Speaker 2: we've successfully done now where we have record numbers for

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Speaker 2: it has been a great relaunch, and we have a big

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's been insane just watching everything and kind

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Speaker 4: Honor is upon us, and it's gonna be a little

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Speaker 4: bittersweet after the untimely passing of Jay Briscoe this past January.

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Speaker 4: So let's talk about what we are sure will be

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Speaker 4: a highlight of the night, the Reach for the Sky

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Speaker 1: Tag Team Champions.

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Speaker 4: I mean, how did this tribute come about? And what

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Speaker 2: We were talking about ideas to pay tribute to the

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Speaker 2: of all the ideas I heard, this was by far

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Speaker 2: really something that Mark Briscoe really thought. It was a

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Speaker 2: great idea and that was important to me too. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Mark Briscoe's wrestling on this pay per view for the

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Speaker 2: Ring of Honor World TV title, but Mark Briscoe also

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Speaker 2: co holder of the World Tag Team Championship and having

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Speaker 2: his opinion, having his buy into this plan made all

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Speaker 2: have the Jay Briscoe Reach for the Sky Tag Team

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Speaker 2: Ladder Match to determine new champions. It'll be new belts.

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Speaker 2: We retired the old design, but we will always pay

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Speaker 5: Right, and we're a huge belt guys, in case you

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Speaker 5: can't see behind Tim, So we're excited to see the

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Speaker 1: That's that right, was that close?

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Speaker 5: The Blackpool Combat Club they've shown a lot of aggression

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think the Blackpool Combat Club in their recent

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Speaker 2: And I think we've seen the Blackpool Combat Club come

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Speaker 2: Shabata is one of the greatest wrestlers of our generation.

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Speaker 2: It's also one of the most inspiring stories in pro

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Speaker 2: Honor Pure Championship at Supercard this Friday. It's a huge,

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Speaker 4: And the one thing I'm excited about is because when

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the Zero Hour. I think the Zero

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Speaker 4: Well, when I was looking at it earlier, I saw

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Speaker 4: I was like, okay, cool, Like it's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. And you know we've had the conversation.

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Speaker 4: it's a Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Well that they end a little earlier because on pay

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Speaker 2: per views, we typically do three hour pay per views,

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Speaker 2: So right, right, it's somewhere in that range. This is

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Speaker 2: going to be a great show. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: Of the year.

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Speaker 4: Super excited and of course, now let's talk about the

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Speaker 4: big main event, which could not have been scripted better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could tell who Eli's cheering for in

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Speaker 2: Sees people a time can tell. I almost thought this

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Speaker 1: We give it to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Killer Sweet, Well, we don't want to take up too

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Speaker 4: We'll set up another time when there's not crazy busyness

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Speaker 2: It's great to see you, Tim, and my pleasure to

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me on, Tim, It

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Speaker 2: was really nice to see you. Nice to see you two, Eli,

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