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Speaker 1: Why From the Parts Unknown Studios to.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Crown, the Battle the Battle Round.

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

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Speaker 1: pro wrestling. The Battle the Battle Round now making their

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Speaker 4: Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 1: What's up you guys?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of The Battleground Podcast. I

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Speaker 2: am your host battle Let's go ahead and bring in

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Speaker 2: my tag team partner Eli is there. We've got everything

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Speaker 2: back to normal now, right knock on wood.

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Speaker 5: Well, I've got this weird swoop thing going on with

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Speaker 5: my beard today.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of weir.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, other than network, I mean, you could be

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Speaker 2: like me and look amish. That's why I have to

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Speaker 6: But uh, you know, I trust me.

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Speaker 2: There's some really cool things happening coming up in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: September seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth Impact is going to be

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Speaker 2: doing some more TV tapings and uh well, somebody who

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Speaker 2: is always ready for these TV tapings is our special

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Speaker 2: guest for the day. Give it up for Matt Cardona,

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Speaker 2: the King of the Death Matches with us right.

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Speaker 4: Now, King the new King.

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Speaker 2: Matt, thanks for being on the show and uh well

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about that belt here just a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But kind of want to go back to when things

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Speaker 2: started happening for you on the upswing back to when

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Speaker 2: you got released from WWE. Did you ever envision yourself

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Speaker 2: being one of the most over talent in the biz

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Speaker 2: also becoming the heavyweight champ of one of the most

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Speaker 2: buzzed about promotions on the planet, GCW. You showed up

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Speaker 4: Did I expect that?

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Speaker 3: Of course, who gets into this business to just be

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Speaker 3: another guy? I mean I certainly didn't. You know, you

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Speaker 4: And I think I'm doing that for sure.

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Speaker 5: Is it weird to be surrounded by people that don't

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Speaker 3: Now, listen, I don't get everything I want, you know, Well,

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Speaker 3: you know when I go to Impact, Scott Demor's my boss.

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Speaker 4: You know, I can't do whatever I want.

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Speaker 4: But I love the opportunity to at least try.

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Speaker 4: Like, you know, I'm being me.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not turning into this this heel or

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of that's that's unusual to play the

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of like some eighties flair kind of heat.

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Speaker 6: Stuff, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, you know so,

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Speaker 2: About being an Impact and we watch it every week

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Speaker 3: You know, once I got released, there was talks with

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Speaker 4: You know, the good Brothers were going there, Brian Myers.

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Speaker 3: God, listen, it's great and that show was awesome, Flambor

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Speaker 6: Yeah, always ready so.

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Speaker 5: Uh, speaking of Slammiversary, we were there, incredible pay per view. Uh,

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Speaker 5: you teamed with the lovely Chelsea Green, your fiance. We

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Speaker 6: On Impact this coming Thursday.

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Speaker 4: It's tag team match. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Are you looking forward to working with her more in

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I I don't want to tag with her ever

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Speaker 3: Maybe we're the power couple of Impact. Why not you know,

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Speaker 3: the mixed tag team thing, Sure, we'll do it.

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Speaker 3: I'm always ready for an opportunity, but I'm not like,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to do.

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Speaker 6: That, You're not?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So sure, Rawheat will kick their asses on it

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Speaker 1: And see the row.

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Speaker 2: Heat's been on this show numerous times, and I've seen

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Speaker 2: you guys going back and forth on social media, which

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Speaker 2: is kind of great. Is there anybody uh in that

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Speaker 2: after you defeat Rowheat?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Who's the champ right now? Christian?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, could be Ace Austin after Victory Road.

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Speaker 3: Ace Austin I had a little match with when I

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Speaker 3: But there's so many guys Sammy Kwen and we worked

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Speaker 4: I love to work him again. Uh moose a guy

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Speaker 3: There's so many guys, Chris Bay Uh and yet sure

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 2: I will say that the funny thing about Brian was

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Speaker 1: Show was over, everything was done.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't in the Battle Royal, right that I'm sing.

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Speaker 1: And that was that was We were kind of shocked

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Speaker 2: You weren't, That's right, And I think the funny thing

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Speaker 4: Brian Mies was probably blowing up. I was split the

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Speaker 2: We were sitting there and I was talking with Ross

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Speaker 2: and I was like, what is going on?

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Speaker 1: I was like, and people were like, Okay, you can

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Speaker 1: get up.

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Speaker 5: He's more of the weights, He's not the cardio guy.

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Speaker 5: So he gets gassed, you know, pretty quick, you know.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, so we have a fan question, and part

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Speaker 5: of it's already been answered because of the the reveal

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Speaker 5: with the belt, but no, that's I wouldn't Yeah, he

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Speaker 5: probably is next. But anyways, Uh Maddy p twenty four

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Speaker 5: Underscore seven. So another Matt here.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: You were known for belts and you know the custom

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Speaker 5: Uh you know from w W. Uh obviously we have

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Speaker 5: the answer. You're getting custom GCW belt made?

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Speaker 1: Who made it?

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Speaker 6: What was the process?

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Speaker 5: Was it an instant you know, as soon as you're

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Speaker 5: you won, You're like, I gotta do this, Like what

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Speaker 5: what was the process for that?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, hey, listen at match that fifty tickets. As

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Speaker 4: So oh yeah, and that's that's only the stuff I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, jeez, that's crazy. This was a This was another

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Speaker 3: Oh that's tough, man, because you know, I view a

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Speaker 4: I want to anticipate it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: I lived in Disney's backyard in Orlando. You've never been

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Speaker 5: I've always loved the Hollywood Studios. I love the back lots,

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Speaker 3: Listen, never say never, but as of now, that's not

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Speaker 4: And that's what's so fun about it.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, I could be me GCW be hated

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Speaker 3: you know I done Scott tomorrow. Want to pay me

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Speaker 5: Do both well and you get that world champ money

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Speaker 3: So it's a ching baby, yeah that lope.

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Speaker 5: So now that you've conquered GCW and you've kind of

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Speaker 6: Like what what are your what are you doing?

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, Chelsea, your fiance just had a big weekend with

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Speaker 3: And that's how I would uh do the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Go big or go home, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: Well, and they just have.

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Speaker 5: They just crowned a new champ. And I think you

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Speaker 6: There too, right, y'all cross paths.

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Speaker 3: would be fun to mix it up all these years later.

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Speaker 4: That's all I'm gonna say about that, right now, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, right right, on the same page here.

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Speaker 2: So we've got another fan question, and this one's coming

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Speaker 2: from Instagram, so I'll have a white background on it.

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Speaker 1: But uh, punk.

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Speaker 2: Rock ruined me once to know, how does it feel

452
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Speaker 2: to finally be in creative control over your character.

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Speaker 4: I'm having the time of my life.

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Speaker 3: Uh, this passed whatever year and a half since I

455
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Speaker 3: got released. You know, on paper, should have been really bad.

456
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Speaker 4: At first. We were living.

457
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Speaker 3: Silver, were in the middle of this pandemic, right, but

458
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Speaker 3: at the time, like whole world was shut down. I

459
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Speaker 3: couldn't even go to the gym, you know what I'm saying,

460
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Speaker 3: and like there was no no place to wrestle. So

461
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Speaker 3: I was sitting home and like not getting you know.

462
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Speaker 3: Eventually my we like ninety days and that money ran. Now,

463
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Speaker 3: Like what am I gonna do? But luckily with the

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Speaker 3: major wrestling for a podcast, we were fine the whole time.

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Speaker 3: It was something Brian and I created while in WWE,

466
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Speaker 3: so that like exploded when the pandemic hit. We thought

467
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Speaker 3: we'd be taking a hit. We're like, oh my god,

468
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Speaker 3: who's gonna want to talk about collectibles and buy collectibles

469
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Speaker 3: during this pandemic?

470
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Speaker 4: It was the opposite.

471
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Speaker 3: People were buying and buying and buying and selling and

472
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Speaker 3: flipping and investing. It was like, oh my god, and

473
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Speaker 3: our business was booming. So the major wrestling for a

474
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Speaker 3: podcasts has blown up since this pandemic. And as soon

475
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Speaker 3: as I was able to wrestle, I was wrestling as

476
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Speaker 3: soon as I got released at a pro wrestling tea

477
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Speaker 3: store up. This is what I love. I love wrestling.

478
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Speaker 3: I've been a wrestling fan my whole life. So now

479
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Speaker 3: I'm just doing everything I really wanted to do. And

480
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Speaker 3: like I said, not everything I do is going to

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Speaker 3: be a success. Something's and some things I've already been

482
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Speaker 3: a failure. But that's how you learn, That's how you grow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, is it interesting to see, you know how much

484
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Speaker 5: power wrestlers have on the indie circuit now, because I'm

485
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Speaker 5: sure when you first started it was nothing like this.

486
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Speaker 5: I mean, the Internet's obviously exploded in social apps and

487
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Speaker 5: media and all that kind of stuff. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: indie wrestlers are their own brand now, and I mean

489
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Speaker 5: they can do the square, you know, the payments with

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Speaker 5: their phones and they get I mean, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's nice to be in a huge company, but I

492
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Speaker 5: mean you don't have to have a company now anymore, right,

493
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Speaker 5: I mean, you can do it.

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Speaker 4: You absolutely do not. You know.

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Speaker 3: So I go to these indie shows and of course

496
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Speaker 3: I have my own merch table set up, like you said,

497
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Speaker 3: I have the square, the credit.

498
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Speaker 4: Card, swipes, the cash. It's fun.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to create these merch stand items. It's fun

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Speaker 3: to interact with these fans people you know, they're getting

501
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Speaker 3: just you know, you go to listen. The access at

502
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Speaker 3: ww is great, right, but it's.

503
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Speaker 4: How many autogosts can I sign in this two hour period?

504
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Speaker 3: Right? People come up, you get to have interaction with them,

505
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Speaker 3: eye contact, talk to them. It's a lot of fun

506
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Speaker 3: to meet these fans. And we do the same thing

507
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Speaker 3: with the Major Resciur podcast. We have these live shows

508
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Speaker 3: that we have these meet and greets afterwards, and the

509
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Speaker 3: meet and greet lasts longer than the actual show because

510
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Speaker 3: we're just.

511
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Speaker 4: Chatting with these people and hanging out drinking. You know.

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Speaker 3: It's just been a lot of fun to connect with

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Speaker 3: the people who brought us to the dance.

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Speaker 2: Right now, is there any chance that you guys are

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Speaker 2: going to do a live show at Nashville? I know

516
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Speaker 2: with the TV taping's coming up, seventeen to eighteenth to nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: Has that kind of been on the table for you

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Speaker 2: guys do that.

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Speaker 3: It's something that just hasn't worked out. But we broke

520
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Speaker 3: the news on the Major Restling Perier podcast last night

521
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Speaker 3: that our tenth live show will be October twenty second

522
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Speaker 3: in Las Vegas, OH, night before Bound for Glory. So

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Speaker 3: if people want to double dip, if they want to

524
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Speaker 3: come see Live ten and then Balfor Glory, it's the

525
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Speaker 3: perfect destination Las Vegas, Nevada. And it's our tenth live show,

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be absolutely insane.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of real quick insane.

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Speaker 2: How was it to get back into wrestling and having

529
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Speaker 2: fans there? After wrestling a couple matches with no fans,

530
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Speaker 2: it's it's night.

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Speaker 3: And day because wrestling, pro wrestling, the art of pro

532
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Speaker 3: wrestling involves the fans for sure, So to do it

533
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Speaker 3: with no fans, I mean, I got used to it,

534
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Speaker 3: but it was so strange. You know, to hear like

535
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Speaker 3: your breathing and to hear your own grunts, and it's like,

536
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Speaker 3: oh man, it was just it was odd. But I

537
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Speaker 3: needed that people. But because I'm sure a lot of

538
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Speaker 3: people will back me up on this, it just it

539
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Speaker 3: just gives you that extra adrenaline, extra you.

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Speaker 1: Know, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 5: I mean a lot of people compare it to you know,

542
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Speaker 5: it's almost like a play, but then the actors do

543
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Speaker 5: their own stunts, you know. But I mean that's not

544
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Speaker 5: a great comparison then, because like I mean, wrestling, the

545
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Speaker 5: crowd is like the third you know, the third person

546
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Speaker 5: in the ring really, and I mean you kind of

547
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Speaker 5: take your cues from them, and I mean it really

548
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Speaker 5: it's like you know.

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Speaker 4: If you went to a concert, if you're a musician,

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Speaker 4: you're playing with no people.

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Speaker 5: Right or they're just sitting there like this, not clapping

552
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Speaker 5: and it's just silence.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, but the show, the show had to go on.

554
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Speaker 3: Everyone did what they had to do. And if you

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Speaker 3: actually look back at it, I think Impact was the

556
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Speaker 3: first company who who made this pandemic era wrestling look

557
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Speaker 3: good on television. They did really the hard camp to

558
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Speaker 3: the entrant way you look. Every company followed that, you

559
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was it was funny how ww almost overnight

561
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Speaker 5: looked like Impact like that they you know, and it

562
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Speaker 5: was like, yeah, yeah, IMPACT's done a lot of stuff

563
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Speaker 5: over in their history that I don't think they get

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Speaker 5: credit for and I think probably you know, in the

565
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Speaker 5: next five seniors, you're really going to start looking back

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Speaker 5: and like, wow, impact, they've.

567
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Speaker 6: Done this, this, this, this, you know all that.

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Speaker 1: So I mean then putting Impact on Twitch was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Thats the smartest thing ever.

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Speaker 5: I was, Yeah, very future thinking for that for sure.

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Speaker 5: What was the oh yes, so bound for glory? I mean,

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Speaker 5: what what do you what's what do.

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Speaker 6: You think is next? In impact?

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Speaker 5: Do you think you need to you know, make a

575
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Speaker 5: statement or do you need to like what do you

576
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Speaker 5: think you need to do to kind of be in

577
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Speaker 5: front of Scott and say, look, Christian's the world champ,

578
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Speaker 5: I'm the GCW World chap. I mean, like, win's my shot? Like,

579
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Speaker 5: what do you what do you think you need to

580
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Speaker 5: do to kind of get foot in the door.

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Speaker 3: I think I have more than proved myself in impact,

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Speaker 3: you know, and bro Heat right now has been the

583
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Speaker 3: thorn on my side and I'm sure I'll shut him

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Speaker 3: up soon. And then after that, I mean, what's next?

585
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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Josh Alexander, Exhivision champion, hell of a talent,

586
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Speaker 3: uh and I would love to mix it up with him.

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Speaker 4: But I didn't come here for the Exhibsion Championship. You

588
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Speaker 4: know I didn't come here. Okay, Brian and I get

589
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Speaker 4: back together and go for the text that.

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Speaker 3: Sure, you know that's easy. I didn't come here for that.

591
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Speaker 3: I came here to be the Impact World Champion. So uh,

592
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Speaker 3: you know, I know I deserve it, and uh, listen,

593
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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not here to jump ahead at anyone

594
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Speaker 3: who's been waiting, but I'm here to jump ahead if

595
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Speaker 3: anyone's been waiting.

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Speaker 1: It's your time. It is your time right now.

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Speaker 2: And of course you're in good company because, like I said,

598
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Speaker 2: everybody that's been on the show has gone on.

599
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Speaker 1: To win the gold.

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Speaker 2: So, uh, we're gonna go ahead and say that there

601
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Speaker 2: will be Impact Wrestling title around your waist by the

602
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Speaker 2: end of this year because you've been on the show.

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Speaker 4: So I would certainly hope so, and we'll.

604
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Speaker 2: We'll grease the will and we'll pay Ross and Scott

605
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Speaker 2: and all them to make sure it happens. Well, Matt,

606
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Speaker 2: one last thing, is there anything you want to tell

607
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Speaker 2: everybody before we let you go?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Uh not really. I have so much

609
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Speaker 3: stuff to plug. If I if I was everything we'd

610
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Speaker 3: have another thirty minutes here. Yeah, yeah, just follow me

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Speaker 3: on social media at the map Cardona. Make sure you

612
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 3: watch Impact on Access TV. Make sure you go these

613
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Speaker 3: Impact tapings because you know the Impact roster.

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Speaker 4: It's a hard working roster.

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Speaker 3: The men and women are busting their ass every single

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Speaker 3: night through two tapings a day and busting their ass

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Speaker 3: for the fans.

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Speaker 4: So please come check it out. And now you have

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Speaker 4: fifty tickets, so you.

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Speaker 2: Better And now yeah, you can hang out with us

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Speaker 2: and the what do we want to call the zone

622
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Speaker 2: because the Good Brothers called it the Good Section? Are

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Speaker 2: we gonna call it like the hot Mess Section or

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Speaker 2: what do you want.

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Speaker 4: To call it? Hot Mess Section? Sure? Yeah, why not?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Well, you and a guest can sit with us at

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Speaker 2: the Impact tapings. We're gonna be sitting there on the

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Speaker 2: September eighteenth, the night time taping. So thanks to Matt

630
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Speaker 2: for donating those tickets, not out of his paycheck, by

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Speaker 2: the way, and we will see you guys in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground podcast.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice

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Speaker 2: review to stay up to date with the show.

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