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Speaker 3: you into the interview with La Night, which, by the way,

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Speaker 3: we previously recorded this before the Royal Rumble, so I

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Speaker 2: But anyways, here's our interview with La Night. What's up

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Speaker 3: Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 3: It is Battle from Rock one oh two right here

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Speaker 3: at Memphis and of course wrestling It's coming back. Ww

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Speaker 3: returns Friday Night SmackDown to the FedEx Forum February seventh,

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Speaker 3: live and broadcasts and to the world.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be able to see all your favorite superstars.

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Speaker 3: Tickets starting at the lolo price below twenty dollars you

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Speaker 2: Everybody gives it up for some mister La Nights.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody's favorite here he is. Yeah, and uh look.

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Speaker 5: Man, I'm actually amazed at what you just said, the

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Speaker 5: things that I do want to applaud TKO. Not to

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Speaker 5: thing that they've done, is they've made sure that it's

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Speaker 5: to the shows, even if you know, floor seats might

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And you got to you gotta applaud WWE and TKO

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean it's it's it's really become kind

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Speaker 4: And like I said, the arenas filled. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So just a little we'll sneak in and apparently it's

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be in there.

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Speaker 5: I'm one of the confirmed entrants and so me and

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Speaker 2: Well, we wish you nothing but the best four of

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Speaker 3: pointing to the WrestleMania sign once the rumble is over

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Speaker 3: in Indianapolis. And you know, a really cool thing here

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's a few years too late.

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Speaker 5: This things should have happened when I was there, But now,

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Speaker 5: only mutually beneficial because then everybody wants to know what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And you know it's been fun to watch

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Speaker 5: Sure, And I mean, look, there are some people who

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Speaker 4: Now it's oh, hey, let me check that out. So

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Speaker 5: Idea of cross promotion just bringing all kinds of possibilities

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely for sure, And of course we've got La

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Speaker 3: Night on with us.

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Speaker 5: Feu mentioned that Friday Night SmackDown is going to be

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Speaker 4: The tickets are still available.

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Speaker 5: You got to kind of have eyes in the back

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Speaker 5: So for me, it's it's just a matter of Look,

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Speaker 4: And I've gotten a little bit more and a little

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Speaker 5: So with that being the case, I think there's gonna

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and we were expecting to see that in his

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And it just goes to show that they put

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Speaker 5: And no offense to my sweet Snookie out there, never

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you could tell that they put in the work,

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Speaker 4: And everything, So I gotta say that, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now you know, I know that you spend some time.

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Speaker 5: Not necessarily, I think actually at the time that I

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Speaker 4: Those boots that everybody raves about.

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Speaker 3: Oh nice, you know again, Friday Night SmackDown is happening.

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Speaker 5: Ary FedEx for him. Tickets still available. You make sure

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Speaker 4: Ticket? Massive dot Com?

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Speaker 2: Everybody, Yeah, go get him, Go get him now.

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Speaker 2: We wrap this up.

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Speaker 3: One really cool moment that we saw when Lily and

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Speaker 4: But this funny there's backstory to this. So I went

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Speaker 5: I said, all you said was La Night and I said, no, no,

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Speaker 4: And the whole crowd then told her La Night. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And so at that point, then once I won the match,

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Speaker 5: Okay, cool. Now I don't know what happened. I don't

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Speaker 4: All the way with La Night. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Mean to do this?

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Speaker 5: And she was like, oh my god, No, I didn't

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Speaker 5: that undeniable kavork of La Night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome because like my seven year old big wrestling fan,

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Speaker 3: and like I told him that we were interviewing him

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, last question before we let you go. We always

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Speaker 2: Who is it and.

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Speaker 3: What is the one thing La Knight would say to

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Speaker 5: M I'm not sure I can share that with you

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Speaker 4: I don't want to show my cards. I don't want

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Speaker 5: Is there There may be an interaction with somebody at

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Speaker 4: I don't want to spoil them.

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Speaker 3: Just watch Friday Night SmackDown live from the FedEx for

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Speaker 3: February seventh

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Speaker 5: Every single week, and if you're in that Memphis area,

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