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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 3: The Battle Road, the Battle Round now making their way

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Speaker 3: to the microphones. Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battle Crown. What's up you guys? Welcome

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Speaker 2: back into the Battleground Podcast. This is the uh I

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Speaker 2: guess what do we want to call? It's like the

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Speaker 2: best and worst of twenty twenty one, the year in

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Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This is it's been a while since we've actually like

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Speaker 2: sat down and just talked wrestling, because normally on the show,

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Speaker 2: it's been a minute since we've just sat here and

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Speaker 2: And to be completely honest, I didn't think we were

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've gotten really lucky. We had a lot of

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Speaker 1: think every time we made you know, like, oh, let's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, moving forward with the show, We're

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Speaker 3: So pretty excited about that.

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Speaker 1: That we started on MySpace page.

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Speaker 2: We did start a MySpace page, and Cody Roads is

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Speaker 2: in just a little bit. But yeah, so we've got

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Speaker 2: all of the past episodes from this year, the year

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Speaker 2: sorry for all of our listeners on Spotify. Apparently for

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Speaker 2: Uh so sorry for all the people that listen on Spotify.

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Speaker 2: We are on Spotify. We are packed there. Every episode's there,

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Speaker 3: Binge on everything. I mean, just looking.

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Speaker 3: Yea, Yes, the Show, Mickey and Studio.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've had a great year for guests, and

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Speaker 1: when Sammy had his leg injury, so we didn't oh.

433
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Speaker 2: For yeah, for that street fight, which was very because

434
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,199
Speaker 2: we were sitting there when like they were, you know,

435
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 2: saying go home, and nobody knew what was going on.

436
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: And you just started seeing all the.

437
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: The exes and you saw morrisy like what's happening? But

438
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 2: that match, I feel it would have been a banger.

439
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, just watching Kenny and Sammy in a hardcore

440
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 2: match up close and personal.

441
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 3: I mean we did get spoiled.

442
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: With Impact for a lot of stuff that they did

443
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 2: for us, And it was like almost every week we

444
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 2: had somebody on the show, which definitely if you have

445
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 2: some time over the next, you know, a couple of

446
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 2: weeks or whatever. Check out some of the past episodes.

447
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 2: I mean, we've had some amazing guests. Awwbe impact Ring

448
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 2: of Honor and we'll kind of transition to Ring of Honor.

449
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 2: But before we get into the Ring of Honor, I

450
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Speaker 2: mean to talk about this sweater that you've got on.

451
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my bratt heart Ugly Ugly Christmas sweater.

452
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 3: So that is and it lights up, doesn't it.

453
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Speaker 2: And for those of you that are listening to this,

454
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Speaker 2: you can see this on our podcast page at YouTube

455
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Speaker 2: dot com Slash Battleground Podcast. But Eli has a Oh

456
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 2: my god, that is amazing. It is a light up

457
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 2: Brett the hit Man Heart Christmas Ugly sweater. That is amazing.

458
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: The fact that if it could like do voice activated

459
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: and it just like beats to the music, that would

460
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 2: be epic.

461
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: I was holding out hope it would be like instead

462
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: of a you know, jingle bells, it'd play like his theme.

463
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 3: That would be great. But yeah, so kind of way.

464
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: So it's still Christmas time, so I'm still worried.

465
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 3: It's still Christmas.

466
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 2: It's we're recording this day after Christmas, so it's still

467
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: considered Christmas time. But yeah, so earlier a few months back,

468
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 2: we had a great working relationship or and I shouldn't

469
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 2: say we had we have a great working relationship with

470
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor. Nothing happened, but of course finding out

471
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: earlier that they were kind of closing shop per se,

472
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 2: and Ring of Honor Final Battle was their last pay

473
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 2: per view up until the end of the first quarter,

474
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 2: so like April was the next time that.

475
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 3: Ring of Honor's gonna do something.

476
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: Of course, that shocked a lot of people, because every

477
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 2: time we've had somebody on from Ring of Honor, it

478
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 2: was nothing but high praises for the company for not

479
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 2: releasing anybody during the pandemic, keeping everybody fully paid, not

480
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: making pay cuts, not furloughing anybody. And you know, for

481
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: all of a sudden this to come out of left

482
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: field and them and out saying, hey, like Ring of Honors,

483
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 2: you know, as a wrestling fan, potentially done.

484
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we're all hoping it's more

485
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: of a pause than not a whatever. Yeah, you know,

486
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like I mean Grisham's defending the

487
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: world title against Chris Saban. Chris Saban had impact, right

488
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: because he just fought AJ Gray and I don't think

489
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: AJ one and.

490
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 3: Then that was a pure rules match too.

491
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I know Grisham is doing the the Terminus.

492
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: He's starting his own thing in Atlanta, and I think

493
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: he's defending it there too. So you know, I think

494
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people and I mean me too.

495
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean this definitely looks like the Nuclear Option. I

496
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: mean they I mean, Jay Lethal ended up on a

497
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: W before the year was even over, you know what

498
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: I mean, like before the final yeah, I mean before

499
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: even Final Battle hit. I mean he was, he was

500
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: there and he was challenging Sammy Guvara. So you know,

501
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people, it was kind

502
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: of holy crap, you know. But you know, I don't

503
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: think this is always a bad thing. I mean, it

504
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: could be more of a you know, it could be

505
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: more of like an aw where you have like you know,

506
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: like last year, Jeff Cobb showed up. He was there

507
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: for like two weeks and then he was gone and

508
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: that's it. And I don't even think he's been mentioned

509
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 1: ever again. You know, nor Zuzuki he was here this summer.

510
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: You know, maybe he should, you know, maybe somebody like

511
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: that passes through, So you know, I don't think it

512
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: necessarily is going to be bad, you know, but I mean,

513
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: like I think a lot of people are concerned just

514
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: because of what the companies meant to a lot of

515
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: people and wrestlers specifically.

516
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: Sure, and you know, there was some stuff that Seeing

517
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 2: Clair posted of like coming in April when there was

518
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: like these vignettes that they were showing, and I think,

519
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: you know, the thing that we saw was like when

520
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: they announced that hey, final battles it and them kind

521
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: of just releasing as I do finger quotes everybody from

522
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: their contracts and saying everybody and anybody is free to go.

523
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: Over they want.

524
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,479
Speaker 2: That makes you think, hey, they're they're done.

525
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that's I mean, just with with

526
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: the way everything went with COVID, the COVID lockdowns and everything.

527
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you would think that they would have like

528
00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: just binged everybody, yeah and just like let's figure this out.

529
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: But I mean to just basically say we're pulling the plug,

530
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: We're releasing everyone, We're going to relaunch in the spring,

531
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that that just seems like a

532
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: nuclear option. And it's almost like the rumors you hear

533
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: is just that it's you know, the company that owns

534
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor has nothing to do with wrestling, you know,

535
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: like they it's almost like WCW in in the nineties.

536
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: You know, you eventually get to the point where the

537
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: owners of the company are like, why are why do

538
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: we own a company? Yeah? Why are we spending fifteen

539
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: million dollars a year on this or whatever their budget is?

540
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, but anyways, uh, you know, Final Battle got

541
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: great reviews, tons of title changes, and you know, we're

542
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: just kind of hoping for the best in spring when

543
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: they relaunch.

544
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 2: And I gotta say it was pretty cool that, you know,

545
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 2: Tony had some of the aw guys submit send videos.

546
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 2: I mean, would you have liked to see some of

547
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 2: them show up? Yeah, but I mean probably logistics, you're

548
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: just not going to send people. And I don't think

549
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: Tony was wanting to, you know, let them use the

550
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: Jaguars private jet to fly up to what was it

551
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 2: Baltimore for like thirty seconds to come out wave say goodbye.

552
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 2: I was a little I wasn't surprised that Vince didn't

553
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: let any of those guys at least submit a video

554
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: and just be like, you know, Kevin Owens or Sammy

555
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: just saying hey, like this is what it means to me,

556
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. At least let them just say, hey,

557
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 2: I know this is the end of the road. Let

558
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: me do something real quick, because I mean, I don't

559
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: think Vince said anything to the Rock about doing the

560
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 2: Impact thing. And then, let's be honest, the Rock did

561
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: more for Impact at that one thing than he did

562
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: for SummerSlam this year.

563
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: Was it Survivor series when that whole thing was supposed

564
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: to be about him? Yeah, and then he did for Impact. Yeah,

565
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: I mean seth Rawlins, Cizarrow, you know, Kevin Owens, same.

566
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean, there there's so many people that are still

567
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: associated with that that. I mean, it would have taken

568
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, you know, but that Yeah, so.

569
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Speaker 3: It's interesting.

570
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, so hopefully h Ring of Honor comes back

571
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: super strong, you know it. We've seen this before when

572
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: a company goes away. Luckily, they've got a lot in

573
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: their their archives that they could just start throwing up

574
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 2: like best obs every weekend.

575
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're the library is going to keep

576
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: them going for a while.

577
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's gonna be good for them to at

578
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: least still stay consistently putting something out there. You know,

579
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 2: and we've seen this before and it's not a knock

580
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Speaker 2: against n w A, but when nw A kind of

581
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: closed up shop during COVID and then tried to come back,

582
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: it was very hard for them to kind of regain

583
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 2: that momentum that they had because it was like, what

584
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Speaker 2: what are we doing? Because you still had Nick Autus

585
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,920
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Speaker 3: So hopefully they come back strong.

615
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 2: And I mean NWA has come back pretty strong since

616
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: they've done their stuff. I mean, you had Trevor Murdoch

617
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: winning the NWA title, which we on this show. We've

618
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 2: had Trevor on the show and we even told Trevor

619
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Speaker 2: it wasn't a knock against him. We just never considered

620
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Speaker 2: him being the guide to top Nick all.

621
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 3: This this year.

622
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think obviously going back before the pandemic.

623
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: I think the plan was Marty was gonna take it

624
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: from Nick, and obviously those plans change, and so, you know,

625
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: I just think it kind of came down to timing.

626
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: I think it just came down to like somebody has

627
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: to do it, you know, and like, yeah, that kind

628
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: of already had a program built in and he was

629
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: just kind of right place at the right time. The

630
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: Hecks formed and they are the current, the new and

631
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: current and defending NWA Women's World Champions Tech Team Champions.

632
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: Let's see Pope dropped the TV title, yeah, which.

633
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 2: He's blocked us on Twitter, which I still don't understand

634
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 2: why he blocked us on Twitter.

635
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: He knows what he'll probably never see that. The you know,

636
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: they dropped some I don't remember what happened with the

637
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: national title, but they just did a tournament to bring

638
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: that back. And that's Adonna's right, Chris Adonnas is.

639
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 2: The Adna's is that and they're bringing the junior heavyweight

640
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: title back.

641
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 3: They're bringing it back. We haven't seen the belt, I

642
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 3: don't believe.

643
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: So they've got a lot of cool stuff, you know,

644
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: like it's it's taken a while to get the ball rolling,

645
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: but the fan base for the NWA. So, I mean

646
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: I went to the thing in Kentucky in October, and

647
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: I mean, like it just reminded me of like a

648
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six in North Carolina. I mean it was

649
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, rowdy, and like people were into it.

650
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: And I told you one of the like the one

651
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: of the matches, like it felt like just like four

652
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: matches just back to back, just the way they flowed,

653
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: and that was weird. But I mean they didn't lose

654
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: the crowd in it, you know. And I don't remember

655
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: if asked you did you have a? So my my

656
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: big my big thing was CM punk. Did you have a?

657
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: Was seeing Punk? Yours too? The big yeah, CM Punk?

658
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 2: I mean that was that was my biggest thing, was

659
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: uh CM punk showing up and you know, just that

660
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 2: shocked the world, you know. And I think the other

661
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: the big it was. It's a toss up between see

662
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 2: and Punk and Sting actually wrestling.

663
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 1: And this is gonna sound lame, but when I feel

664
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: when my mental health is down, I'll it on YouTube

665
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:01,720
Speaker 1: and watch Punk's debut.

666
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 3: Dude.

667
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 2: That's the way that I mean, you think back to

668
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 2: it of seeing Punk's I mean, look at the guy

669
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 2: and this I'm not knocking him, the guy like literally

670
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: crying and showing out this.

671
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that had to been so like, you know,

672
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: you didn't think he's coming back. He's from Chicago. You're

673
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: in Chicago the whole nine. My buddy Matt was there.

674
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: He went up there for no no, no, no, I

675
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: take that back. My buddy Matt was not their apologies.

676
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: He was there for all in the next weekend or

677
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: two weekends later, whatever it was. But maybe maybe KB

678
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: was there for that.

679
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 2: Somebody we know, somebody, Yeah, maybe her and Alex.

680
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Queen Queen of the Ring or Garrett.

681
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 3: Somebody was there.

682
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody want somebody in our in our crew was

683
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 2: there for that show.

684
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: So I was like, son of a bitch. But yeah,

685
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: and I mean it's just yeah. I mean again, we'll

686
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: just gonna be talking about it in ten or fifteen.

687
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, just like we talked about the pipe bomb.

688
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're gonna be talking about him

689
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: coming back and then and then you know sting. Obviously

690
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: you and I have talked. That's probably my favorite wistler

691
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: of all time. I'd have to sit down and really,

692
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, break it down but I mean I think

693
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: more you know, more kind of pivotal moments or you know,

694
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: he he's driven me to wrestling more times than I

695
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: think almost anybody really, you know. But yeah, I mean

696
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: just we talked about it with Medusa. I mean just

697
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: seeing him be sixty two ish and still I mean,

698
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: he's not gonna put on a match every week. But

699
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: I mean even the match that last week with the trios,

700
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: the MJFTR versus Sting, Darby and Punk and they all

701
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: were wearing the different makeups. The Punk was dressed up

702
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: like staying and Sting had the seeing Punk stuff. I

703
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 1: mean it was a good match.

704
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: I mean I was thought to see Sting and see

705
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 2: him Punk in a tag match together.

706
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: No, it was weird because like Sting technically did go

707
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: to WWE the year that Punk left, like they just

708
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: missed each other. Punk was gone at the spring and

709
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: Sting showed up in the like November. But no, no, no, no,

710
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: I never I never thought that they would, you know,

711
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: do anything, and it's been and it's been so awesome

712
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: because like even in his proma like he comes back

713
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: and he kind of cuts the promo with Darby and

714
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: he's mentioned in Sting and then Sting's mentioned Punk and

715
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: he's just talked about how it's electric being in the

716
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: ring with him, and you know, so I was very

717
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: skeptical obviously, you know, being a huge Sting fan, but

718
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: this time last year when he showed up, I was like, Okay,

719
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: let's see what happens. See what happens. There's rumors of

720
00:37:54,960 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: him being kind of the enforcer and you know, doing.

721
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: Just kind of like being a managerial type thing.

722
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, I just had a customer text me on

723
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: Sunday morning.

724
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: The grind never stopped, but yeah, I mean, but yeah,

725
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: so they did do the cinematic match and it was fine.

726
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was kind of thought maybe that's what

727
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 3: they would have done with Sting, but.

728
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, well and I think if they, if WW

729
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: had done it, he probably could still be there. I

730
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: mean you can see that he's still got a little

731
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: bit more gas in the tank compared to like the Undertaker,

732
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Undertaker the last match of AJ.

733
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: I mean you could tell he was struggling. I mean

734
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: like they were. They had like three days to film it.

735
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: They stopped it and filmed and stopped and filmed, and

736
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: even Sting mentioned that that cinematic match really did take

737
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: a lot out of him. Yeah, but I mean, like

738
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: now he's just fighting on TV, you.

739
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 3: Know, like and taking bumps. Yeah, And I.

740
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: Mean like I think he might have mentioned it after

741
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: the six Man, but he was just talking about you know,

742
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: he this is kind of like the farewell tour. This

743
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: is the way to say goodbye to the fans. And yeah,

744
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping, I'm hoping when they're here in two months,

745
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: he'll do something in the ring. I've never actually got

746
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: seen in the ring before, so.

747
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 2: I think I might have sawn it like a house

748
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 2: show or something when w w CW was running those

749
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 2: in Nashville Municipal Audatorium.

750
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure with Impact, I'm sure you saw him.

751
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: There's I don't.

752
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,959
Speaker 2: I don't think I ever saw him with Impact because

753
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: that was when Impact was doing stuff in Orlando. Well, yeah,

754
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: so they were doing stuff.

755
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 3: I mean, it's weird that I have.

756
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: I've got like Sting's autograph Hall of Fame bats sitting

757
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: over here on my wall, which is an interesting story

758
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 2: how I got that bat.

759
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: Have I ever told you that story about I've heard it. Yeah,

760
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've told it on on aera.

761
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: So, so I got this autograph Louisville slugger bat from

762
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: Sting and it's like TNA number, first induction Hall of

763
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 2: Fame blah.

764
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah. And so I've got a buddy

765
00:39:58,800 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 3: of mine.

766
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into too much details, but

767
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 2: I got a buddy of mine that we were doing

768
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: a concert once and uh it was Vanilla Ice and

769
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: Coolio at Tin Roof on Demumbrian in Nashville, and uh,

770
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: he hit me up asking me for tickets because we

771
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: had him for the radio station and it was our show.

772
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: And I joked around because he has a lot of

773
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: autograph stuff, and I was like, well, that stingbat that

774
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 2: you got, I'll trade you tickets. You know, these were

775
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 2: my personal tickets. So I was like, I'll trade you

776
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 2: my tickets for the bat. He's like, would you really

777
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 2: do that? And I was like, sure, why not? Didn't

778
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 2: think anything of it.

779
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: And see, the funny thing is is like you think

780
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: it's a great deal and he thinks it's a great deal,

781
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: and you are both like.

782
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: I'm about to screw me exactly because these were these

783
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: were the personal ones that I had bought not the

784
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 2: end of the world. And uh so he shows up

785
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: to work one day and he's like, hey, you got

786
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: those tickets And I was like yeah, and I handed

787
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: him the tickets and all of a sudden he pulls

788
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 2: it out of the back seat, the black Louisville Slugger

789
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: bat of sign by Sting, and I was like, this

790
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 2: is really happening, Like the Thankta Vanilla Ice and Coolio,

791
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 2: I have an autographed Sting bat.

792
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a.

793
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: Wild story, but but yeah, I mean, I hope that

794
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: we get to see him wrestle. I know that we've

795
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 2: already kind of got the ball rolling. We're gonna have

796
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: some some of the aw guys on to come promote

797
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 2: that show. I know WW has got you know, smackdowns

798
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: coming up next month here in Nashville, so we'll have

799
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 2: some stuff there.

800
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 3: Me and You've had the conversation.

801
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried we're supposed to go to the

802
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 2: Royal Rumble next month. I'm a little worried with the

803
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 2: rise of this new variant of COVID, like it's either

804
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 2: gonna get canceled or it's gonna be like.

805
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: Mask up the entire.

806
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: Time, which I'm very well fine with wearing a mask.

807
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: I mean I've gotten vaccinated. I haven't got my booster

808
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: shot yet. And this isn't us saying hey, you need

809
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: to go get vaccinated. Hey, none of that stuff. We're

810
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: just kind of saying, hey, we're both vaccinated.

811
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 3: But it feels like.

812
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: Maybe there might not be a rubble next month. It

813
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: might go back virtual if the way the cases continue

814
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: to ride.

815
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we've seen anything, we know that

816
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: Vince is not going to cancel on event unless he

817
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: has I mean, unless the freaking governor's like you know,

818
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: I mean they've been, you know, trying to get all

819
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: these exemptions and you know, YadA YadA, YadA, and I mean,

820
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: like you know, so it's basically short of an act

821
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: of God. I mean, they're not canceling it now. Are

822
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: they going to move to uh, you know, you have

823
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: to be vaccinated or you have to show you know,

824
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: negative tests or something like that. Maybe. But yeah, I

825
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: mean if we end up going, I'll probably wear a

826
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: mask just to avoid it. I'm vaxxed at my booster,

827
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: but I mean I just don't want to. I mean,

828
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: there's still over the last Christmas, you know, Christmas season.

829
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: I was about to say Christmas break. I wish I

830
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 1: had a Christmas break, but.

831
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: Very soon you'll have a break.

832
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, over the month of December, I mean

833
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: I've seen a ton I mean, right off the top

834
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: of my head, probably seven or eight people that I know,

835
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: most of them vaccinated, but a couple not that are.

836
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: I mean they're still getting COVID. So, you know, just

837
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: a friendly reminder. If you think this stuff's over, it's not,

838
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 1: and it's it's still going and it's gonna get worse.

839
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, you take that for what it's worth. I

840
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: did have a couple of other things I wanted to

841
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: go for it, so this will be just kind of

842
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: a lump thing and then we can, you know, dive

843
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: into anything specific if we want to. I do want

844
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: to give a kudos to stardom overall. Yeah, I know

845
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: you and I talked about it. Dark Starlight Kid is

846
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: a wrestler over there, and she is unbelievable and like

847
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: every time. Now I'm not gonna sit here and say

848
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: like I'm a super fan and then like I've I've

849
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: watched a million hours of stuff. It's just you know,

850
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: if someone posts something on Twitter and whatever, but I've

851
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: seen enough to know that I'm like, holy crap, this

852
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: this girl is going to be really big. And so

853
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: they've i mean, the women matches coming out of Stardom

854
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: over the last year have just been unreal. So definitely

855
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: check that out if you're looking for kind of an alternative.

856
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: But I mean some of the other highlights I had.

857
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia, he's probably going to be probably my Rookie

858
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: of the Year. I know he's not a rookie, but

859
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: just it's you know, he's on a big company now,

860
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: so I mean he might be like Newcomer of the Year.

861
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: I mean his twenty twenty one has just been insane.

862
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: The summer of Zuzuki was unbelievable.

863
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 3: As a little bomb that we didn't get that at Matchville.

864
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean him and Josh Alexander

865
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: would have just yeah. But anyways, that whole thing was

866
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. We mentioned Brian Danielson coming over a couple

867
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 1: little you know, top ten lists. They have him rated

868
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: number one for twenty twenty one. That would be a

869
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: really good argument. I mean, he's you know, I don't

870
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: know if i'd have to, if I could put him

871
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: number one, totally, just because he did start the beginning

872
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: of the year in WWE, and that's, you know, right,

873
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: obviously not the best stuff that's been going on, but yeah,

874
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: Jade and in aw, she's gonna be a massive star.

875
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: She gets better every time I see her in the ring,

876
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: and she's really starting to turn the corner with her

877
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: character development and and some of that other stuff, and

878
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: I mean she's I think she's finally putting the pieces together.

879
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: I think Deanna Piraz is probably the female MVP of

880
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: the year. I mean just going anywhere, and she's a

881
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: triple A world champion now and she's going after rock

882
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: see now and maybe she'll win the Ring of Honor

883
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: title from her and you know, and then let's see

884
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: where were the other Oh yeah, so these are three

885
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: pretty big ones. Uh. Dante Martin, uh yeah, has just

886
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: been on believable. I mean just taking his brother got hurt,

887
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: so they're like, well do something, and you know, he's

888
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: been kind of pairing with Leo Rush for a little bit.

889
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: He did some stuff with Sidel. He was kind of

890
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: team tasked for like forty eight hours and kind of.

891
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 3: Just thrown around to see what what what sticks?

892
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very bright future for him. My personal favorite

893
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: story of the year's probably been Eddie Kingston. We talked

894
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: with the Hecks about him, and they're all personal friends

895
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: and they're over the moon about him, and I mean,

896
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: he his A lot of people are comparing his story

897
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: to like Stone Cold's rise to the top, and yeah,

898
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: I mean it's just been I mean, he had an

899
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: arena of people booing sampunk. I mean, that's just unbelievable.

900
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: You can see that. Yeah, And then I think the

901
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: final thing, at least from what the notes I jotted down,

902
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: I think the I think the hype around hook is

903
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. So I'll be the first admit I so.

904
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: I mean, so in my defense, I mean, he showed

905
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: up on TV like a year ago, you know what

906
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: I mean.

907
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 3: It's like this.

908
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: Guy, right, It's not like he showed up two weeks

909
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: ago and then he just debuted and just started busting heads.

910
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been a it's been a long time.

911
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: So my whole thing was just like I just wish

912
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: the match had happened sooner, or I wish he'd have

913
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: been kept off TV sooner, because like now I get

914
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: it now, I understand everything, but before just him standing

915
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: there and just looking you know, whatever, anything saying anything,

916
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: the messy hair, just looking like he doesn't give a

917
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: shit about anyone. And then he doesn't really do anything.

918
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: He's just standing there and it's just like okay, like

919
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: what and then you know, you kind of started having

920
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: this fandom blow up on like especially Twitter.

921
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just did.

922
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't He's just standing there. He's

923
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: not doing Yeah, like, okay, cool, it's Taz's kid. I

924
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: get that. He he has like he has a seat

925
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: at the table. I get it, but like I so

926
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: I would admittedly I didn't get it. And then even

927
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: when like they announced his first match, I was kind

928
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 1: of like, all right, I c W you finally got

929
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: something or IWC, sorry, you finally got something to cheer about.

930
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: Here we go, you know, and the first two matches

931
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: were just awesome, unbelievable.

932
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 2: Right, and you know, we talked about this off the air.

933
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 2: It's like, have you ever seen somebody as over as

934
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 2: Hook is right now?

935
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 3: After just two matches. He was overwhel before his first match.

936
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it reminded me of when Taz debuted in

937
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: WWE against Kurt Angle. But even then, Hook was more

938
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: over than Taz was, and Taz, I mean everyone knew

939
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: who Taz was. I mean at that point it was

940
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: two thousand or two thousand and one, whatever it was,

941
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: and you know, the internet was around. Everybody knew that

942
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: he was the CW guy, and so to come out

943
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: and manhandle card Angle that way, I mean, and I

944
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: think it was I think that was at Madison Square

945
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: Garden on top of that. Yeah, so you know, there

946
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: was a ton of buzz going into that debut and

947
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: then he mainly was an announcer unfortunately, but you know, so, yeah,

948
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: the hype is real. I think we're all team Hook

949
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 1: over here. Sure, yeah, I see, I see. I mean

950
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: in five years, it's it's like him MJF Darby Jungle Boy.

951
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: I mean, like he's gonna be one of the you know,

952
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: I think they annoyed these pillars a little too soon

953
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: because I think Hook's going to be one of those

954
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,280
Speaker 1: for the company.

955
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 2: Gonna have to redo that pillar shirt. And speaking of

956
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: pillars and redoing, I know it was was Samy on

957
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 2: one of those pillars.

958
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: I see. Yeah, so uh yeah.

959
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 2: After spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it by now,

960
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 2: you should have already known.

961
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 1: And it was taped with so exactly.

962
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 3: And it was great that they're still doing it.

963
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: But my buddy over here, Cody is here now, three

964
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 2: time UH T and T champion after k there he

965
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 2: goes he dove off the thing.

966
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 3: But yeah, three time.

967
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 2: T and T champion after Christmas rampage, which I thought

968
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 2: maybe it was too soon for Sammy to drop the belt,

969
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: but then again, Sammy really wasn't defending it. And this

970
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 2: is what me and you had that conversation and will

971
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 2: kind of this will kind of be the conclusion of

972
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: the show.

973
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 3: Sammy really wasn't defending it.

974
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 2: There wasn't much what he defended it against what Bobby Fish.

975
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 2: I think that's it.

976
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: That's the only too, that's the only two that stand out.

977
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to say, I think Cody did

978
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:10,439
Speaker 1: the most with that belt, so sure, I mean it did.

979
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: It felt like every week he.

980
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 2: Was fighting somebody for it, and I think that's that's

981
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 2: the reason why he got it, because I mean, you

982
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: look at the past couple of champions, like Miro wasn't

983
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: defending it very often on TV. Darby just had it

984
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 2: there in the vignyards. Sammy was just wearing the title

985
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 2: and his vlogs. But when Cody had it, I mean

986
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 2: you think back to when Cody had it, he had

987
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 2: that great storyline with Brodie Lee. Uh, the world got

988
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: introduced to Eddie.

989
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: Kingston, that whole thing. I mean Kingston. Ricky starts.

990
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 3: War Horse.

991
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: I mean like he literally just now and this kind

992
00:51:55,360 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: of goes into the you know, like, uh, you just

993
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: you just talked to Josh Woods and he he he

994
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: had just fought on was it Dark or was it

995
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:11,439
Speaker 1: Elevation Dark?

996
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 3: I think it was Dark him and Sewn Spears.

997
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah. But so it's kind of that thing

998
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: where if we see somebody from another company and they're

999
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: own Dark or their own Elevation or something, it's like, well,

1000
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: they're dropping, you know, like they're they're there's no reason

1001
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: to watch this debut. They're not They're not gonna make

1002
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: Sean Spears lose to Josh Woods, even though Josh Woods

1003
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: could run laps around him and he's actually an act

1004
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: of defending world champion right now. So that's the only

1005
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: thing is like when those challenges came out, like when

1006
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: the Internet rallied behind war Horse and he finally got

1007
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: to go out and do that, It's like, I mean,

1008
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: he's not gonna win, but it's cool to watch. And

1009
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: it was the same kind of thing with Eddie Kingston.

1010
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: I think that's why, like the Ricky Starks and then

1011
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: King's and signings were so surprising because it really just

1012
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: meant it reminded me of almost like a the tough

1013
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: Man contest or I guess, kind of like the defending champion,

1014
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: Like he just rolled into a town like I'm here,

1015
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: who wants to fight, you know, open challenge anybody, open

1016
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: challenge and it's like, you know, he rarely lost that,

1017
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: but you know, the challenge was there, So yeah, I

1018
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: think it's that. And then I also think it's because

1019
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: they're about to crown the TBS champ and so like

1020
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: I think he wants to be involved in that that

1021
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: the you know, like present them the belt or something,

1022
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: and there, I don't know, I think he wants to

1023
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: be But I was gonna say though, like watching that,

1024
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: you know and explaining that match to people, I mean,

1025
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: he got his his intro was like four times as

1026
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: long as the world champion or the you know, Sammy's

1027
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: was the t and then I don't know who is

1028
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: gauging this. I don't know who the judges. But I

1029
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: mean the booze he got were substantial. I mean it is,

1030
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised that they were actually trying

1031
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: to hide some of it. But with with the audio,

1032
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like it was loud, it is, yeah,

1033
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: and he just keeps on like I'm not I'm not turning.

1034
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm not turning. I'm not turning. And I get it,

1035
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: but it's just like they're having that reaction for a reason.

1036
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: Either you're on TV too much.

1037
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 4: Or or it's just cool to hate him, or it's

1038
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 4: cool to hate him, or they're when we asked him yeah,

1039
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 4: or they're giving you go home heat and they just

1040
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 4: need a break, Like you know, the crowd usually lets

1041
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 4: you know who they like, you know, So I.

1042
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: Don't know, I'm not I don't think I'm fully like

1043
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: team hate Cody. You know, did you.

1044
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 3: Think though, like, you know, as much as people want

1045
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 3: to shoot on.

1046
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 2: Him, Cody puts over everybody that he wrestles.

1047
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: I mean it's that and I mean this isn't like

1048
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: tooting a horn. I mean like literally aw would not

1049
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: be here if he had not been released from WWE

1050
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: mm hmm. I mean, like he got released he went

1051
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: to Impact. He was like, I want to see what's

1052
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: out there, and like that step changed his life. And

1053
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: I mean honestly modern wrestling, and you know, I know

1054
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,760
Speaker 1: people that are kind of tired of seeing the young bugs,

1055
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: you know, like they you know, there's people tired of

1056
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: can you make I mean people get burnt out?

1057
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 3: You know Brandon Cutler?

1058
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I forgot about half. For sake, I

1059
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 1: do have to say one thing. So still not a

1060
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: Sean Spears guy. I saw him. He rusts. No, he

1061
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: didn't wrestle, thank god, but he is Wardlow. Yeah he

1062
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: fought Wardlow. Wardlow fought. Is it for the captain? Captain

1063
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: Shawn Dene? Is that him? Maybe I can remember. I

1064
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: never remember the ranking. It's like Sean was it on

1065
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: a w.

1066
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: I think was it for that diamond thing?

1067
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: No, it might have been.

1068
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 2: So it was like, yeah, uh, I'm looking at it

1069
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 2: right now.

1070
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: Just I googled, Yeah, okay, Captain Sean Dean, Yeah that's him. Anyways,

1071
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: it was a squatch mash unfortunately, but Sehn Spears is

1072
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: out there. So first off, he shaved his beard, so

1073
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:55,760
Speaker 1: he looks dumb, and he's wearing like a the bemie

1074
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: like a beanie. And then he's wearing a dress suit

1075
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: with nothing underneath the jacket. So I saw that totally

1076
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: topless suit jacket pants. And then I think he's wearing

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Speaker 1: like like sneaker like tennis shoes, you know, Like I

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00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: think he's wearing like Nikes or something. Yeah. So I

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00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: mean like he just looks like a drug dealer that

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00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: was passed out on the couch and someone walks in

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00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: is like, hey, that dude, those your money's outside, And

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00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: he just gets off the couch and just does this

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: and goes down and it's like, yo, you got my money.

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00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,479
Speaker 1: Like that's what he looks like to me. And that's

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00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: like kind of the character I get from him. But

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Speaker 1: like I don't, I just don't know, man, Like I

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00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: just I'm not trying to shit on a guy. You know,

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00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: there's obviously. I mean, even even Sean Michaels was in

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00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: a They did an interview with him the other day

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00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: and he was talking about Adam cole Evan and Kyle

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00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 1: and Bobby Fish and the changes to the nixt T

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00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: and yeah, YadA YadA, but he was just like Gargano

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00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: really kind of reignited his love of pro wrestling, because

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00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: he he was like I was retired, I was in Texas,

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00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: I was done, and so to be able to come

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00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: over here and work with the new kids and all that.

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00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: And he even name dropped Sewan Spears. He's like even

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00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: going back to Sean Spears back when he was Tied Dillinger. So, like,

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably just one of those where we

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00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: haven't seen the right presentation of him on the right buck. Yeah,

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00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: I mean, Tied Dillinger was kind of lame, and then

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00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: he kind of did like the corn Rolls thing and

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00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: that was lame. And then he like went up to

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Speaker 1: the main roster, and I was kind of lame, kind of.

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Speaker 3: Like he's just being the yes man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and it's just like I don't know.

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00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: I to me, it just seems like there's a piece missing,

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00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: and I don't I mean, I'm who the hell am.

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Speaker 3: I you know, hopefully something for Sean.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just the point of that was just

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00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: to say, like, so they're trying something new, like Okay,

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00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, let's kind of get back to the chairman thing,

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00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: let's do this. But then that's what he's coming. He's

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00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: wearing that to the ring, and it's just yeah, so

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00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: so weird. Well I don't know, it's just kind of thing,

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00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 1: but so yeah, So that's that's only negative. I'll say.

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00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: We won't get into the ww negative.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no no.

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Speaker 2: But I feel as if kind of, you know, we

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Speaker 2: we've kind of addressed some the pros and cons of

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00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and super excited to see what's gonna

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00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 2: happen in twenty twenty two. I know there's a lot

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00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: of wrestling coming through Nashville. I know we're planning to

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00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 2: go to Royal Rumble, Summerslam's gonna be here, So there's

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00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of stuff going on. So make

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00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 2: you're watching this on YouTube right now, there's a little

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Speaker 2: thing that's going to be popping up right around here

1130
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,400
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Speaker 3: Episode, please check us out on YouTube as well.

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1136
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 2: to tell her about Eli before we jump off of here.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean twenty one was a good year of wrestling, man,

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01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: it was. I mean you had you know, even talking

1139
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Speaker 1: going back to Spears, you know his wife, they joined Impact,

1140
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: the Impact Women's Tag team champions. Yeah, Mickey came back,

1141
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: she'd be Donna. She's the Impact Women's World Champion. You

1142
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: had Mercedes Martinez show up and her and Mickey had

1143
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: a pretty good title. Matt Well, I mean there's a

1144
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: lot of good wrestling going on right now, sure, and

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01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: I have noticed I think there's less factions now in

1146
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: AW so like that's kind of that's a good thing,

1147
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: kind of eased up a little bit. And but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think some of the immediate things were

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Speaker 1: looking forward to is seeing Punk and MJF. I think

1150
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Speaker 1: we're finally I don't know how long they're going to

1151
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: drag that out. We've also got Hangman Brian Danielson Part

1152
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: two coming up. I don't really know what's gonna happen

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01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: with that story. There's I mean, there's just a lot,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to be excited about for sure.

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Speaker 2: And it's going to be super excited to see how

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Speaker 2: things turn out in twenty twenty two and hopefully we'll

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Speaker 2: have a lot more live shows and we've got some

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Speaker 2: big guests lined up for twenty twenty two and looking

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01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 2: forward to that Wild Rob we're gonna have next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeay yay.

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