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It's actually 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:55.400 Thursday because last night was Wednesday. Nights AW Blood, Guts, Dynamite, 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.600 and uh well, whatever you want to say about a 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.640 when they advertise something, they deliver, and they delivered blood 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.679 and they delivered guts and Violence is probably the most 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.520 violent wrestling television show that has ever aired on national television. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.040 And hopefully everybody is alive today, but we'll tell you 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.080 all about that. A lot of things happen on the show, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.560 and then we've got a bunch of injury updates and 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.600 health updates. Everybody from Jim Ross, Bianca bell Air, Queen Amana, 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.720 Rick Flair, Buddy Matthews a lot to talk about. 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It's another day. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.120 Any news about you today? You want to talk about her? No? No, okay, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.720 all right, Well we got a bunch of injury updates here. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:31.599 How's your injury? 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:33.600 Still injured? 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.479 I know that, But like, how mobile are you now? 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.039 Can you do jumping jacks yet? 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:39.560 Yeah? 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.240 I could do so, I think so are. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.799 You not trying any jumping jacks lately? 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.440 I could do a stanky leg? 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.120 Can you can you swing them kettlebells yet? 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.880 I've kind of stayed away. Really, I could do other 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:53.800 I do other stuff. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.280 You were big. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.960 I get up and I walk. Hey, you know, just 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:59.279 don't stop moving guys. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.120 If you haven't got the cameo for me yet, I mean, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.160 it's it can be life changing. Just ask Tom. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:06.080 I was. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.400 I was asked for advice on what someone could do 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.840 when they were injured, and I gave that advice about 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.440 walking and Tom ridiculed me. But now he's seen the 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:23.120 light as he walks all the time. Fw online on cameo. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.880 I'm walk off the air if you continue this. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.640 What are you talking about? Tom? Does anyone else check 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:36.000 on you regularly? Except for TJP? No, it's me and him. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.680 You're best friends. That's it, all right, Let's talk about 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.640 all the other news of injuries and pain and such. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.120 So the first one we got to talking about is Jim 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.600 Ross because it appears this one is the most serious, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.440 so he did say on his podcast. He returned to 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.680 his podcast on Wednesday. He noted he finished selling his 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.640 condo with Jacksonville's back in Oklahoma. Longtime home, Happy to 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 be home. He said he's feeling better health wise, and 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.440 he has in a long time. His daughters are close 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.720 by able to help him out. He says, I feel 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.280 healthier than I felt in a long time, got a 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.559 lot of energy, Thankful to be back on the air. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.120 Signed a one year contract over the summer. He said 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.120 in the next few weeks he's going to be back. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:24.880 Happy for that opportunity, and he did say a few 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.960 months ago. At this time, I wasn't so sure about 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.240 the outcome. But here I am, and here we are. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.520 We're gonna have a great, great year of podcasting. I 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:39.240 can promise you that he did another. I've actually got 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.240 the tweet here, I can find it. This is actually 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.600 this is from Wrestling Purists, but this was from his podcast. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.360 He said, I'm better. I feel better today that I've 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.360 been in a long time, feel good, feeling healthier than 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.480 I felt in a long time, plenty of energy. Life 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.520 is good, life is good. I'm alive. A few months ago, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.360 at this time, I was not so sure about the outcome, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.640 but here I am. Apparently there was a close call 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.720 a few months ago, and I don't know anything other 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:10.880 than that, but apparently it was. I was just told 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:16.440 a close call, so a really close call actually, So 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.720 all the best of JR. I'm glad he's feeling better 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.120 and he should be back on the air soon. And 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.240 he's had obviously a lot of health problems. Buddy's made 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.760 it through and he's on his way back. So that's 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.640 the update on Jim Ross. Also, since people have been 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.360 asking Bianca bell Air is still out of action, where's 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.360 Bianca bell Air been people asked, well, she's hurt. She 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.520 was in the three way with Ria and EO at WrestleMania. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.880 That was April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.120 That was seven months ago. And they did some spot 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.040 and I guess EO did a moon salt or something 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.320 like that, or they did a Actually I think they 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.679 were doing one of those stacked up superplex deals and 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.560 Rhea landed on her hand and crushed everything in her finger. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.560 She said. She said, it's been a crazy journey being 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.679 an athlete, having an injury or lying in your body. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.800 My body's not doing what it's supposed to do. Hoping 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.480 I could be back in the ring soon, but she 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.160 broke her knuckle, broke the joint, something they thought would 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.160 be straightforward. But it has now been seven months, so 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:33.440 hopefully she can come back soon. But that sucks, Brian. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.480 I have also actually had a similar injury in the 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:43.240 past where I shattered my knuckle into one hundred pieces 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.080 punching somebody. Yeah, I was in a fight, but the 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:53.720 recovery process for that was awful comparatively to some of 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.120 the under injuries I've had that were you would think 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.720 would be much more severe just because of the amount 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.040 of nerve endings in your hand. It's one of the 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.600 more sensitive parts of your body. And when if she 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.760 had a similar fracture to what I had, it's like 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.640 a hundred different bones that have to heal together. They 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.560 without some you know, crazy surgery. Sometimes it just takes 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.720 a long time for this process. So it's like it's 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.840 like turf toe, you know, it's one of those things 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.480 that you're like, there's no way this could hurt that bad, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.400 But when you have it. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.160 For a decade, awful. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:33.840 Yeah, I've had it too. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.640 Sucks. I don't even know if I think it was 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.960 just turf toe and now it's just arthritic. I mean, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.640 I don't think my toe is ever gonna be the 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.320 same again. Sucks. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.920 How'd you find something small enough to stub your toe on? 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.960 It's called the mat, It's eighty by eighty. It was 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.560 plenty big enough to stub my toe. I didn't even 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.920 stub it. I didn't even do anything. I came home 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.560 and I actually I remember I was just like on 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.320 the man, I went, why's my toe hurt? And then 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.360 it just never it never didn't hurt again after that day. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.120 Don't know how jammed it jammed or it bent funny 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:13.520 or you know, just got old? What did Granny always say? 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:20.760 Getting old is the pits. Queen Amanada did an interview 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.280 on her volog I guess it's not really an interview, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.120 and she said, I cried my eyes out. I'm in 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.480 the locker room right now. I was not cleared because 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.440 my neck is so tight, can't even move it a 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.760 little bit. Because of this, I got taken out of 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.400 the match today ad I'm out of blood and gut 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.360 safety first, rather be out two to three weeks than 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.559 six months. So she didn't say how she got it, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.080 but apparently in one of the matches she jammed her 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.120 neck up. Can't even turn her head, and so that's 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.239 where Queen Amenada was. And then Rick Flair was advertised 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.680 for Dynamite and Rick Flair did make an appearance before 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:03.040 the live crowd and then went home. Apparently he very 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:08.640 recently injured his rotator cuff. Nobody really knows how. Dave 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.120 thinks it might have been a fall, which is Rick Flair. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:13.240 I mean, he's done a lot of that. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.600 Could have been doing planks at the bar. Yes, I've 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.480 seen videos. If I'm doing that recently, so maybe maybe 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.280 he tore it working out well. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.040 He was in a sling backstage, he took the sling off, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.680 came out in front of the crowds. They wouldn't se 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.600 him with a sling on, did a promo and then 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.280 and then left. Actually, he's had a lot of rotator 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.960 CUF problems his entire career, actually, and I think he 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:41.240 was supposed to be in that FTR segment and perhaps 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.520 at the last minute Ricky Steamboat was given twice the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:49.319 material because whatever it was, that segment that was rough. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.160 That was a rough segment. But he did do a 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.400 nice comeback. Oh, Ricky. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:57.400 Pulled it together. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.199 What did you think about the Ricky Steamboat FTR segment? 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.720 I did not think it was Ricky Steamboat's best work 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.560 at first. I thought, like, was he in the back 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.120 partying and they pulled him at the last minute to 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.680 go do this segment. But he went out there and 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.600 he got through it. He like he said, he did 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:26.120 his comeback. I was kind of laughing almost the entire time. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.600 It looked like he was like asking Tony questions while 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.440 he was out there. Looks like he's asking FTR questions 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.240 about what he's supposed to do. It was bizarre. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.040 He was carried through a segment maybe for the first 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.720 time in his career. Usually it's the other way around. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:41.360 Yeah. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.120 Yeah, that was a rough one. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.040 A stark contrast to what we normally see from Ricky Steamboat, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.000 where he is like the best legend that you could 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:50.800 bring out. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:58.680 Buddy Matthews also is still injured. He got hurt in 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.840 a mansion Brisbane against Okada where essentially he vaulted into 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.600 the ring over the top rope, which by the way, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.840 apparently Ricky Steamboat did and we never saw it. He 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.240 like vaulted over the top rope into the ring for 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.880 his entrance. So Buddy Matthews did this and he he 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:22.200 suffered ligament and cartilage damage and then rustled thirteen minutes 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:28.680 on it with Okadau And that was I mean forever ago. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.120 He was expecting to heal quickly, but instead it didn't 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.280 and in August he had to go undergo surgery again 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.960 and he said he's just now able to do the 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:46.040 hack squad. So yeah, rough, dude. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:51.400 Brian Cage. Brian Cage went through another surgery yesterday. I 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.240 was talking to him last. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.800 Nime, was it yesterday? He did it. I knew he 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:54.640 was going to do another one. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.040 Yeah. I think he's in the hospital. I don't know 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.080 if he already got it done, but. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.520 Oh, all right, well, best of luck to him and 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.600 Taz as well. Who uh I think it was his 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.000 shoulder or his knee. I forget what his most recent 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.080 surgery was, but hopefully he's doing well. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.040 Also, these guys gotta pop that neck. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.360 Back in a moment Observer Live. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.560 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.320 and Mike simper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.680 Good lord, Tom, this fella here goes. What's a hack squat? 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.360 What's a hack squat? 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.880 This gentleman has never heard of one of the finest 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:48.880 wrestlers and physical culturists of all time, George Hackenschmidt. Yeah, 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:56.480 the Russian Lion himself born in Estonia. George Hackenschmidt. Jacked. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.000 George Jackenschmidt is what his name was. Guy was jacked 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.080 everybody long ago, before there was any such thing as steroids. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.000 You had to eat bold testicles if you want an 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.280 extra testosterone. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.200 No you didn't. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.520 You ever seen those guys back then? 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.920 Eugen Sandow yes, I have seen Eugene Sandow. I've also 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.720 seen the Great Gama who didn't eat that meat. He 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:27.159 was eating like two thousand almonds and and uh. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.000 I hate a lot of almonds. Milk it's good for you. Yeah. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.879 Yeah, Oh, you're not undefeated for thirty years, like you 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.160 don't know that. I do. I've defeated you. I hold 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:37.720 your stump. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:38.520 You lost. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.919 I hate you. So anyway, let's talk about more news. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.879 Oh, by the way, yeah, squad the way George Hakischmid 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.000 did it would he would put a bar bell behind 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.080 him and then he would basically dead lift it up 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.160 while on his toes. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.439 So it's not what this guy says. There's a squad 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.440 done with both legs behind your head. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:04.840 No, that is not the hack squat Okay, nowadays it's 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.600 commonly done in a machine with the pads resting on 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.120 your shoulders. Then you squat down. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.720 Versus Brian isn't joking. They did use bull testicles. I 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.800 looked into this recently when me and my dad were 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.480 talking about Barry Bonds. You went from talking about Barry 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.440 Bonce looking up eating bull testicles. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.520 Huh, Rocky Mountain oysters. People still eat them today? 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:33.679 How about that anyway. Elimination Chamber coming to Chicago in 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:39.919 February of twenty twenty six, United Center Saturday, February twenty eighth, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.400 So there will probably be some other things in partnership 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.600 is with that as well. So sounds like Ciampunk will 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.800 probably be headlining that show. Would be my guest, but 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.320 who knows. We got ratings notes here, just a couple 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.080 of things. So last week obviously was a rough weekend 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.120 for uh. Actually I'd been a few of those as 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.760 a result of the World Series and such. Well, no 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.480 we or World series. This past weekend Collision eighty nine 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.359 thousand viewers and a zero point zero six in eighteen 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.680 to forty nine, which is the best they've done since 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:20.159 September sixth. This all is the new big data plus panel. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.600 Point oh six would have sucked eight months ago, but 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.800 now it's like, Wow, good job you did a point 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:27.359 oh six. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.760 Brian, Yeah, by the same token. Do you have, by chance, 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.520 ratings from the UFC that was on that night? I 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:39.639 do know that one was actually on espn U, but 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.240 I can try and find it did any damage whatsoever. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.080 It's a collision. I know I was watching that UFC. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.959 Well, I mean the uh the point six is double 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.480 a week ago. The viewership is up thirty three percent, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.119 so I'm not sure there's a lot of collision UFC crossover. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.800 I'm thinking probably not a but you're looking at one, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:07.880 you're looking at one exactly one and then UH SmackDown 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.159 one point one four to one million viewers, which was 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.040 up twenty three percent from last week, and a point 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.800 two six in eighteen to forty nine, which was up 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.480 thirty percent. So that that week where they dropped below 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.520 a million and everybody said the sky was falling and 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.879 you should get rid of Triple H. Well, it was 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.680 a Halloween show and a World Series weekend, and things 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.160 are back to where they were before now that those 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:39.359 things have ended. Aj Styles talked about a promo on 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:45.159 the September eighth raw where he basically did a promo 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.880 during the break and he claimed it unnamed somebody didn't 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.600 want him in WWE anymore and things were being engineered 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.400 so he could not win his matches, and of course 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.639 they put this on social media, including the WWA YouTube channel, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.800 and he went on the Oh Contest Wrestling podcast and 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.960 he said the promo was him setting up something for 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.160 a storyline but he does not believe that idea will 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.480 be happening anytime soon. And he said the Triple H 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.440 was not the somebody he was alluding to. He said 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:16.760 it was something I was trying to set up that 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.160 I don't think is gonna happen. It's not necessarily not true, 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:21.760 but I'm not talking about Triple H. So I want 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.800 to clear that. But yep, that's all I can say 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.680 about it. So he had some idea, need it, and 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.320 there will be no follow up. And he also talked 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.479 about how he wants to wrestle one more match in TNA, 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.040 but he's not sure it's ever gonna happen because he's retiring. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.040 He just says, at some point in twenty twenty six. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.879 My guess is probably like WrestleMania is what he's thinking. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.800 I don't know why he can't just say can and. 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:47.320 That's that's six months away. 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.200 At some point in twenty twenty six, you think. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.560 That now, I think they're gonna stretch this one out. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.960 My guess is like Summer Slam or Survivor series, give 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.160 him more time to do a send off. I don't 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.520 think you want to start the build up for this 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:05.360 right after John Cena's retirement happens, but I mean they're 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:05.960 gonna have to start. 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.320 Oh, you're right. But the issue the thing is, you 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:13.320 know he's been going to all of these shows and 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.760 basically doing farewell speech. Is like he's never going to 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:17.440 be coming back. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.639 He did it in Japan. Where else has he done it? 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.280 I think he's done it in a few different places, 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:25.760 and it's like, you're not going back there. They're not 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.400 doing another tour there in all of twenty twenty six. 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.960 I mean, he's he's talking like he's really like, listen, 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.360 if he was going to go the full year, why 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.160 would he say I want to do at least one 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.399 match in TNA. But I don't think I'm gonna do it. 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:40.800