WEBVTT - Vince's Last Day 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:10.879 When you're ready, let's get it off. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.920 How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.599 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.720 three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific six Eastern, Saturday Mornings with 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.319 Jim Belllely Tenday in Pacific one Eastern. And it is 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.440 Monday on this show, and you know what that means. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.320 We've got a lot to talk about here today. Tonight 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:41.600 is RAW, Tomorrow is NXT, Everybody's favorite show. Wednesday's aw Dynamite, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.839 the last show before Grand Slam. I also got to 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.479 build up that Seattle pay per view coming up on 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.519 October first, and of course this weekend we had a 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.760 lot of shows including SmackDown, Collision, Rampage, a UFC pay 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.560 per view, and Mike SEPPERBV will not be joining us 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:06.520 here today. No, Instead, once again we will be joined 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.440 by Filthy Tom Lawler co hosting the show today. Now 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.880 from this point forward, most likely Tom's going to be 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:18.840 returning to Monday's ADD two Pacific five Eastern Schools started again. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.760 But Mike was unavailable today and so for a number 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.559 of reasons, we decided we'll just get Tom on this show, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.720 so he's going to be joining us after the break. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.319 We can talk about all of this news, and the 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.720 news includes the final day that Vince McMahon will own 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.120 the WWE. That is today, We've got the NXT lineup, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.960 updates on Hacksaw, Jim Duggan and Bray Wyatt's family, Matt 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:51.320 Riddle sexual assault claim against an officer from the port 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:57.800 authority JFK Airport. We'll tell you about that New Japan. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.360 New Japan World is going to be introducing some new, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.520 some different. I guess I don't even know what. Why 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.239 don't we have Tom on, He's the last guy that 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.440 knows anything about New Japan. But they're changing some aspects 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.480 of the service and raising the price. And we'll talk 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.800 about Drue Mcattyre and a bunch of other things as well. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.200 There's a lot to get into today, so stick around 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:25.480 and we'll be back after the break. Wrestling Observer Live 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.000 back in the show. Brian Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:52.040 Mike Simper VD, also Wrestling observe dot com. Filthy. Tom 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.240 Lawlor is joining us here today and I got a 0:02:56.360 --> 0:03:03.120 question for you, Tom. How long have you been a 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.160 wrestling fan? 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.440 My entire life? Since you were zero nineteen eighty three 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:17.160 May fifteenth, forty years Wow. I would say you've been 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.679 watching probably thirty five years. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.679 Really thirty five years. What is the first thing that 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:27.600 you remember watching? Tom to earliest memory of wrestling. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:37.000 Adrian Street Adrian Street on ESPN on ESPN, Lightning Kid, 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.120 I don't know, Jeff Jarrett get getting etherd with a 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.920 rag on ESPN. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.920 And what is your first memory of WWF? 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.120 My first memory? Do you remember covid the Hulkster? 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.840 Brother watched the Hulkster? Huh? 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.760 I watched the Hulkster. I was watching. I definitely watched 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:04.720 before for Hogan Warrior, which was a monumental match. I 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.560 was probably watching for two or three years consistently up 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.440 to that point. I remember Demolition being able to fool 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.680 the referee when he couldn't tell that it. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:21.599 Was as ridiculous, crush ridiculous. Well, you know, I bring 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.120 it up, Tom, because my early memories of wrestling are 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.120 also WWF. My sister was a fan before I was, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.160 and she loved hul Cogan and she had a Hull 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.159 Cogan posters on the door, and man, I hated that thing. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.400 I just wanted to rip it down. I did not 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.719 like wrestling. I thought it was so stupid. And later 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.920 my father's mother, my grandmother, not granny on my father's side, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.080 she moved in and she spoke no English, she only 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.680 spoke Spanish. And she would sit there and I didn't 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.560 speak any Spanish, and she would always just go Lucca. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.520 And I asked him, my dad, what does this mean, Luchen. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.960 He goes, she wants to watch wrestling. I was like, God, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.120 my sister and my grandma, so so I turned on wrestling, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.479 and anyway, long story short, I sort of got into it. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.159 But the point is, Tom, that Dave our own Dave 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:16.640 Meltzer tweeted today, today is the last day Vince McMahon 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:22.120 owns the WWE. Tomorrow it becomes part of the Endeavor 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.960 Family as a merged company TKO with the UFC. McMahon 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.440 will still be in charge of WWE, executive chair of 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:36.440 the new company and sixteen percent owner. So this is 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.359 the end of an era. Today is the end of 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.080 an era. Tom, This is the final day that a 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:55.360 McMahon owns WWWF WWFWWE Today is the final day we 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.760 lived to see this day, Tom. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.159 And I could not be happier, Brian, because now who 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:10.679 is in charge of the entire thing none other than Emmanuel. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:17.600 Oh my god, it's all come full circle here. Who 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.320 would ever thought, at in the day you might go 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.599 to work for Emmanuel. It's amazing. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.960 You never know, Tom, I don't foresee that. Although the 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.120 UFC and WW merger does present a lot of interesting, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.960 you know, scenarios upcoming, not only with the two companies themselves, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.440 but they both have rights deals coming up. They have 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:47.239 what could be, you know, one lucrative streaming service perhaps 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:52.120 if they combined fight Pass and whatever they have going 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.560 on with Peacock into you know, one package. So the 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:02.919 future looks bright for this troup. Despite their stock, the 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.160 WW stock taking a hit last week, it looks like 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.080 that's gonna rebound, no problem here this week. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.520 Well, you know, speaking of services, Tom, I don't know 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.400 why I bring this up to you because you don't know, Jack, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:19.160 but New Japan Pro Wrestling is now significant upgrades to 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:24.120 its streaming service, New Japan World About time. New service 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.720 will include apps, for iOS, Android, and Roku. Video on 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.680 the service will be upgraded a full HD. Users will 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.920 have the ability to download content to watch offline, search 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.200 functions will be improved. Price of the service is increasing 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:46.720 from nine hundred and ninety nine yen to ninety eight yen, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.040 so basically it's going from six't eighty two in the 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.480 US to eight eighty six in the US, so still 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.480 a major bargain and an exact release date for this 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.120 new service is yet to be announced. With it, this 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.640 means like if you have Apple TV, if you have 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.120 a rokup like you can now stream it on your television. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.320 And the increase to full HD, I mean, man, I 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.200 watched those shows and I loved them, but it certainly 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.800 was not full age D I can tell you that much. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.680 So that's pretty exciting. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.360 I think the most exciting aspect of it all is 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.160 they mentioned the ability to download content offline and as 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:31.760 a subscriber to YouTube Premium. As someone who travels quite frequently, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:37.120 that is a huge, huge bonus for any sort of app, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.760 so I'm very I was pumped up for that. It 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.480 says that the search function will be improved, Well, I'm 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.079 not sure it could possibly get any worse. So I'm 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.040 glad that they're ticketing. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.360 I've never even tried to use a search function, like 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.760 what's it about? What's it? Do nothing? 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.319 The opposite of whatever it's intended purpose is. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.480 So if I search filthy Tom, it'll just like you know, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.240 Tom McGee will come up or something. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.079 If you're lucky, I think, Yeah, a. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:11.440 Bunch of Jerry Lawler matches from new school. I'm still 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:16.520 I'm still recovering. Goll darn it. Yeah, this school thing, Tom, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.599 I don't know. Man, kids just go to school and 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.600 they just come home sick. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.520 Yeah, it happened in the first week to my kids too, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.280 But we've recovered. He's all good, all good in the hood. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.480 Although they are off today. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.320 Which uh what are they Monday? 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.240 For school development day? Teacher development? 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.240 I see, couldn't they do that like during the whole 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:39.920 long summer. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.040 It's probably because of the day, I see. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.720 I guess all right. We've got NXT tomorrow, which is 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.760 a big show for those of you that are big 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.240 fans like me of NXT. We have got Tiffany Stratton 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.120 versus Becky Lynch for the NXT women's title. So there's 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.880 really I mean there's two options here. They're doing a 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.960 lame DQ in the main event or Becky Lynch is 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.120 winning the NXT Women's title, and I would lean towards 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.720 the ladder. I mean, they're not even doing like angles. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.400 It was like they just announced next week this championship 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.320 match is tomorrow. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.120 That is not true. She was called out Tiffany Stratton 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.319 call yeah, but I mean and backstage, and then Becky 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.000 also made mention of it. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.880 They did they have not like It's not like Becky 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.960 showed up on NXT and you did like a back 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.800 and forth or whatever. It's like her first appearance on 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.640 NXT is going to be a title match, her first 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.800 live appearance. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.440 She might as well win it. I mean, what else 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.480 are you doing with Tiffany Shtratt? And this will elevator 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.600 regardless if she wins or loses. I can't see her 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.840 winning a feud over Becky Lynch. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.320 Well, if you guys remember they they actually did this 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.040 once with Braun. Remember when Dolph Ziggler went down NXT 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.800 and he beat Braun for the title and then that 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.280 led to Braun winning the title back on Raw. So 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.120 that's even that's a pretty big thing. Like Tiffany Stratton 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.400 beating Becky Lynch for a belt on Raw or SmackDown 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.679 if they changed the title in NXT. I mean, Becky 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.600 is not Dolf Ziggler, She's like a big star. So 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.559 that's a pretty interesting decision there. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.760 Tiffany Stratton's gonna be a big star too. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.560 Well. Yeah, at some point we have Wes Lee versus 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.920 Elia Dragonov number one contenders match, which should be awesome. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.760 We object Ilja drag it off into my veins, please, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.160 because not only will I be happy, but I'd be 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.960 higher on the card and making more money. That guy 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.840 is unbelievable. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.520 Yes, he is ooon one of the best workers on 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.120 the planet. Honestly, one of the best workers on the planet. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.960 I'm not like I know some of you don't watch it, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.520 but like he is. Then we have two Global Heritage 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.959 International Tournaments Invitational Tyler Bate versus Axiom, which could be great, 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.080 and a Curree Tazawe versus Nathan Fraser, which if you've 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.240 seen a cure Tazowel when he actually gets to work 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.800 and not do stupid stuff, that could be great. Then 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.480 we've got the Creeds versus Dries and no Fad Malique Blade, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.160 Dana Brook versus Lyra Valkyre. You gotta have one of those. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.360 On the show, Charlie Dempsey, Drew Gulak and Damon Kemp 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.960 versus Brooks, Jensen, Josh Briggs and Miles Bourne come back 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.200 with the standings for the tournament and the now Mercy 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:38.000 lineup after the break and more Wrestling Observer Live at 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.680 the show. Bryan Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live Filthy 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.040 Tom Lawler. So we got I was actually thrown off 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.560 because I was. This is basically a g one tournament, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.720 but they're doing it right. They only have two blocks 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.960 instead of the four we got. Group A Butch has 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.240 three points, Actium as one, Tyler Bait, Charlie Dempsey of zero, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.000 Group B, Joe Coffee four points, Nathan Fraser and Duke 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.760 cuts and both have two, and a cure to Zawah 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:09.600 has zero. So that's the standings for this Global Heritage Tournament. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.600 We have this odd story. The Port Authority Police Department 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.800 has launched an investigation into a sexual assault claim made 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.920 by Matt Riddle against one of its officers. TMZ reports 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.200 that the Port Authority PD is internally investigating Riddle's claim 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:31.480 made on Sunday and has since deleted Instagram post following 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.480 an alleged incident at New York's JFK Airport, Riddle posted 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.800 a photo of a Port Authority PD officer on Sunday 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.480 with the following caption, later deleted, nothing like being sexually 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.640 assaulted by an officer and harassed the JFK air Airport. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.520 No means no and just because I'm nice does not 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.480 mean yes. Then he says a bad word. Don't know 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.600 their Twitter or Instagram handles, but I took pictures normally 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.360 I'm like whatever, but today was really weird and uncomfortable, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.720 and they made a point to make me feel small 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.360 and useless. Definitely one of the most uncomfortable travel days 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.120 I've ever had. Thanks New York City are so progressive 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:13.280 and accepting. Ringside News on Sunday reported to claim from 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.959 an officer on the scene that Riddle was quote heavily 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.760 intoxicated and causing a scene and acting disrupt between his 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.000 transfer of flights at JFK, leaning to the Port Authority 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.240 Police being called to the scene to deal with Riddle. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.080 After a few attempts of de escalating the situation and 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.640 removing Matt from the area it became physical, said Riddle, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.120 brushed off an opportunity to file a formal complaint against 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.200 the officer in the alleged assault. Regarding the alleged disruptive 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.280 behavior that caused police to be called to the scene 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.160 in the first place, DMZ notes there was no police 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.160 report filed. Riddle was declared quote free to go. So 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.960 I guess there's an investigation going on and we'll find 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:54.840 out what's happening. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.800 Bizarre story. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.040 Nothing like that ever happened to you. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.480 No one has ever touched me. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.760 I'm talking like just a bad experience, like going through 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.280 this thing. No, you travel all the time. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.000 I do, but I keep to myself, you know what 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.360 I mean. I have been accused of being not real 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.480 on an airplane. You know. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.560 I can give everybody a lighthearted thing that happened to 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.440 me a few years ago. So back in the day, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.800 back when it was a lot harder to do podcasts 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:35.560 on the road, I had this extremely complicated setup, and 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.800 there was like, you know, two boxes this long, and 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.040 I had all of these different cables, and then I 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.120 had to have the computer, and then I had to 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.960 have all of these mics, and like it was just 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.960 like this crazy thing. And I had all in this 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.840 suitcase and I went through the you know, the metal 0:15:54.840 --> 0:16:00.560 detector and everything, and and they like pulled me aside 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.360 for my backpack, which had like nothing but clothes in it. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.800 But the suitcase with all of these wires and devices 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.400 and machines. Man, that just sailed right through. I was like, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.680 you know, I don't know, man, that thing looks like 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.440 that looked like a bomb quite frankly. But man, they 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.280 didn't care. They just let it slide on through. Now 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:26.720 things are different, what I'm saying, what a story, Yeah, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.400 for today exactly anytime? Yeah, that is it is nine 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.080 to eleven a day, isn't it. I was very surprised 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.880 about that. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.680 Well, uh yeah, me too. I was surprised. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.680 Hey, hacksaw Jim Duggins. All right, they got They said 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.800 he'll be back on his feet soon, back on the mend. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.920 The surgery has not been disclosed, but he underwent emergency 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.640 surgery a couple of days ago, admitted to the hospital, 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.360 and his wife, Debra, says that he will be back 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.400 on his feet, but to not say what the deal was. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.439 So and then, the Rotunda family has publicly thanked the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.760 Rock for this port he has offered. Since bray Wyatt's passing, 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.360 his sister Mika praised a Rock and his social media post, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.439 writing he has kept the family's home filled with groceries 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.840 the past two weeks. They want to thank the Rock 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.800 for his kindness, condolences and love the past two weeks. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.240 Like he did all people wouldn't have had a positive 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.080 impact on him as well. DJ has kept our fridges 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:33.600 and homes, yes plural, filled with meals and groceries. So 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.080 very nice of the Rock to to do that. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.320 Yeah, the Rock gets some heat, and some of it rightfully. So, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:48.000 I mean, he is selling his footwear products through the 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.880 UFC and the fighters are getting no cut of that. However, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.520 he's also out there making a difference for people, you know, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.280 buying one of the UFC fighters a home. He's donating 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:06.400 money to the wildfire victims in Hawaii, and. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.359 Guys got a little like how money laying around you 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.720 know what I'm saying, He's got some money. Can you 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.000 imagine like twenty years ago, it's twenty twenty three, right, 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.280 Can you imagine in two thousand and three when he 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.520 was doing like Scorpion King and like he was just 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.480 like a cgi face in that movie or whatever. Can 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.080 you imagine if someone would have told you, do you 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.480 realize that within like, you know, decade or so, fifteen years, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:37.399 the rock will be the biggest movie star and the 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:42.200 highest paid movie star in all of Hollywood. It happened. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.080 What was the other thing he did? Like? What was it? Walking? Tall? 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:45.680 He did? 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:46.000 Walking? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:46.280 Yeah. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:47.880 For a while there, it was like, well, I don't 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.400 want to be typecass is a muscle man. I'm gonna 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.000 lose a lot of weight and do a normal man roles. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.600 That didn't work out too well. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.000 Yeah, but I didn't think he would be he would 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.000 reach these heights, even though that was, you know, a 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.960 big name movie. Then Fast and the Furious. You know, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.960 sure that's a that's a big role. But I didn't 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.480 think it'd be the highest paid actor in Hollywood. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:09.080 Yeah. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.800 At one point. You know who else is quite popular? 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.680 You know who? My kids always mentioned to me Batista? No, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.800 the other guy, John Cena. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.400 Oh yeah, he's. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.680 Apparently very popular with six and seven year olds. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.320 Right now, I can believe that. I was somewhere yesterday 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.119 and I saw a kid with the John Sena shirt on. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.320 It's popular with forty year olds too. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.199 Yeah, this kid had to never give up shirt on 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.200 or something like that. I was like, yes, when you're seven, 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:40.639 don't ever give up. Hey, how was that UFC this weekend? 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:41.800 How is that main event? 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.919 Boy? Oh boy? What an upset. I was one of 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:48.639 these people that you if you would have asked to 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.440 bet their house before the fight, I would have bet 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.440 on Israel Adisania. And that's coming from somebody who's man. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.520 I've trained, I bet your house unless you know the 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:57.119 rock brother. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.680 I have trained quite a bit with Sean Strickland in 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.200 the past, years ago when I was still fighting, and 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:11.560 he is as advertised. There's absolutely no faking his persona 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.919 or his fighting style. When he is talking about wanting 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.199 to meet people in the desert and fight them to 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.919 the death, I one hundred percent believe that is the 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.400 thing that would make him the happiest. Now he has 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:29.040 shown some what you could say or defensive deficiencies. In 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.639 the past, he's been kaoed. He got kao with a 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.600 spinning heel kick years ago. He got kaoed by Kamaro 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.720 Usman years ago. He was kaoed by Alexander Pereira Poeton 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.760 a few years back. So he has been knocked out. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.600 But Israel Adisani was not able to find his chin. Really, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.600 he wasn't even able to come close. Sean Strickland walked 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.160 him down, put Adisania on his back foot. The entire 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.040 fight at Asnia looked off balance, throwing strike, he looked 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:05.560 uncomfortable in the cage, and it was except for the 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.199 second round, which was a close round in you know, 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.680 most ways, it was a shutout for Sean Strickland, who 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.240 walked at Israel Adisania and punched him in the face 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.119 repeatedly more times than Israel Adisnia did to him, and 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:27.640 walked away against the odds as the new UFC Middleweight 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.439 Champion of the World. And now we just wait and 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.560 see how long until GSP announces he's coming back out 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:36.680 of retirement. Wow. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.359 Hey, without saying it on the air, obviously a couple 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:42.320 of comments in the chat here, What was the story 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.800 with the homophobic slurs that Dana swept under the rug? 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:47.439 What happens? 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.159 The story is that two of the fighters, Manel Cape 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.919 and I believe Charles Radkey dropped one of the f 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:01.560 bombs towards the fans. Charles Radkey did that because the 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:03.800 fans were booing him, and then he told he told 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.760 the fans that get in the ring and he'd fight them. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.159 So that tells you his mindset in that moment. Uh 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.960 and Manel Cape I believe was referring to a number 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.119 of people who've dropped out and we're not able to 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.760 fight him that he had scheduled in the past and 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:25.960 used that same term. So this doesn't but he doesn't 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:26.520 look good. 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:31.359 And he started screaming homophobic slurs at the crowd and 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:33.440 asking him to get in the cage and fight him. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.200 That's what happened. He got booed yeah, and then and 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.680 then Daniel Cormier said thank you very much and he 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.879 walked off. That was the opening of the interview and 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:43.240 the end of the interview. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.920 And then Dana's response was just that they were over excited. 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:52.160 Hey, sometimes these things happen in MMA. You know, people 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.639 don't know what to say in public, they don't know 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.440 how to act. We're dealing with a bunch of heathens. 0:22:58.480 --> 0:22:59.520 I don't know if you know this or not. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.280 Brian, Well, I mean I got one. 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:04.080 I'm one of the few. I'm one of the few 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:04.879 that made it out. 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:07.840 You did make it out, right, he did make it out. 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.640 Yeah, and I'm one of the more intelligent ones. 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.400 And you didn't grow up wanting to fight. You wanted 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:13.440 to grow up to be a wrestler. 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:17.320 Well, no, I wanted to grow up and make money 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:23.160 playing dress up and fighting people in my underwear a couple. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:25.919 Whether that's the UFC. Yeah, Well the UFC wasn't an 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:27.840 option when I was growing up, and then it became one. 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.040 So ironically, you don't wear your underwear now you wear 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:34.000 these daisy dukes whatever these things are. 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:39.600 Got a new Fall twenty twenty three catalog you gonna 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.560 hit soon? Really, my Fall twenty twenty three fight kit. 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.720 The denim's out, brother, Oh it is, it's gone well, 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.159 but sporting the stars and stripes over the summer. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.399 You have, actually I've seen that. Yes, Well, stand by 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.520 everybody when we come back, when we get Tom's thoughts 0:23:55.520 --> 0:24:00.320 on SmackDown and collision. And did you watch Rampaid Deserve 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:01.480 a Battle Royal this week or no? 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.920 It was not a Battle Royal. However, there were tournament 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:09.200