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Speaker 1: Battle Down.

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Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios into the dule, Battle Crowd,

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Speaker 2: Battle Bun, the battle Bound, the Battle Crowd. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things pro wrestling,

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Speaker 2: the Battle Road, the battle Crowd now making their way

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Speaker 2: to the microphones.

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Speaker 3: Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 5: What's up you guys? Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast,

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Speaker 5: The Battleground Podcast. Now on today's episode. I got the

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Speaker 5: call the other day saying, hey, you want to talk

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Speaker 5: to the Rascals, and I was like, well, I'm currently

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Speaker 5: in Mexico at the moment, but hell yes, I'd like

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Speaker 5: to talk to the rascals. Let's get it going in

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Speaker 5: the Rascals, the Impact World Tactic Champions are on the show.

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Speaker 5: That's how you doing.

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Speaker 3: Hello, I'm great. How are you doing good?

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Speaker 4: We're doing good?

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Speaker 5: Yeah. When I was sitting there, because we've had Trey

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Speaker 5: on numerous times before on the show, most of the

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Speaker 5: time we don't talk about wrestling on the show. We

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Speaker 5: talk about scary movies at Halloween, which you kind of

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Speaker 5: came into that conversation. But it's an honor to have

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Speaker 5: the tag team on together. With Trey and Zach. So

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Speaker 5: Bound for Glory is coming up here very very soon.

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Speaker 5: It's October twenty first in Chicago. You can still grab

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Speaker 5: tickets at Impact Wrestling dot Com. But if you can't

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Speaker 5: be there, of course you go watch it live on

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Speaker 5: fight and pay per view and everywhere else. And you

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Speaker 5: look at the card and there's a lot of great

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Speaker 5: matches on there. As of right now, we don't know

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Speaker 5: who your opponent is yet. But how excited are you

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Speaker 5: for Bound for Glory?

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Speaker 4: Me personally, I'm this is another big one for me.

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Speaker 4: Bound for Glory two years ago is where I won

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Speaker 4: my first Exhibitionion Championship.

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Speaker 6: I did a Impact Insider with Tom Hannafin where we

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Speaker 6: sat down and he asked me, like, what were some

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Speaker 6: of the emotions that went through my mind that night?

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Speaker 4: In some of the things.

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Speaker 6: I felt, And one of the biggest ones was I

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Speaker 6: commented on how one of the very first things I

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Speaker 6: thought about was I wish dozen Zach were there.

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Speaker 4: In the moment, and that like when I got to

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Speaker 6: And then there was a moment where I called Zachary

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Speaker 6: on the phone and we we shared tiers and like

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Speaker 6: a lot of words that meant a lot to the

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Speaker 4: And then the same thing followed with Dez right after,

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Speaker 6: It was all kind of like within this nutshell, like

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Speaker 6: it felt like as a group, we never got our moment,

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Speaker 6: you know, at the time, and really winning these tag

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Speaker 6: team championships has been one of the if not the

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Speaker 6: biggest accomplishment I've made an impact wrestling. We're going to

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Speaker 6: do it with my best friend. Things feel like they're

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Speaker 6: finally coming around full circle, and to now be the

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Speaker 6: defending champions going into our biggest event.

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Speaker 4: Of the year is one of the craziest things.

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Speaker 6: As cool as it was to walk in and win

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Speaker 6: and doing it after everything that we've been through as

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Speaker 6: a group. Our story is every evolving one, and this

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Speaker 6: is going to be a beautiful little milestone for it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I feel like the same way, and especially because

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Speaker 3: I've only been on the pre show for Bounty Glories,

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Speaker 3: so this is like the first major match on one

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Speaker 3: Chans come on.

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Speaker 1: Now, yeah Marcas marquee match in a massive city like Chicago.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's got to be kind to be exciting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: And you know, many fans and critics have noted the

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Speaker 5: growing competition and Impact Wrestling's tag team division. I mean,

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Speaker 5: how do you plan to prove that you're not just

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Speaker 6: Well, I would like to start by answering that with

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Speaker 4: Is because Zach Korea and I are the center of it. There.

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Speaker 6: Before we step back into Impact Wrestling as a team,

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Speaker 6: I think we had Ason Bay and the Guns, and

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Speaker 4: But now that we're here and we're mixing things up,

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Speaker 6: We don't take wrestling lightly, we don't take Impact Wrestling lightly,

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Speaker 6: and we don't take having these championships lightly at all.

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Speaker 4: So it creates a.

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Speaker 6: Bit of like, all right, I'm not going to walk

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Speaker 4: For real, because that's all Zach and I do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, good, good, sweet to the point. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it kind of it almost seemed like kind of like

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Speaker 1: But then you're right, it did kind of get to

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Speaker 1: see you guys back with the gold. You speaking of

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Speaker 1: the you know, the separation a couple of years back,

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Speaker 1: separated for a little bit. Was there any doubts to

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Speaker 1: did that separation kind of seem kind of permanent at

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Speaker 3: I don't know. For me, it was more of a

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Speaker 3: It always happens like we were meant to be together,

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Speaker 3: And so I had no doubt in my mind that

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Speaker 5: But you know, awesome and that was a great thing.

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Speaker 5: Is you know, to see Trey doing his thing and

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Speaker 4: Back in Impact.

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Speaker 5: Then that got all the buzz talking and of course

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Speaker 5: to see you guys back and having fun on Impact.

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Speaker 5: You know, in a world of professional wrestling, I mean

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Speaker 3: Every single one of my brothers.

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Speaker 1: Any single time that I've wrestled.

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Speaker 3: For Ronny, any single time that But if we're talking Impact,

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Speaker 3: well even before Impact and whatever, we've wrestled the machine

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Speaker 3: Guns a million and a half times, whether that be singles,

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Speaker 3: Same goes with ABC. We've wrestled those guys a million times.

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Speaker 3: So I definitely feel like those two teams are the

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Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, I would agree with that, I think

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Speaker 6: more than Ason Bay. For me, it's it's when we

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Speaker 4: I had my own school. We met in the middle,

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Speaker 6: So regardless of if we're on if we're seeing things

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Speaker 6: no matter what they're going to they're.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna put pressure on the both of us.

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Speaker 6: We're their kids too, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 4: To get to these next levels.

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Speaker 6: And it's happ into those next gears and no one's

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Speaker 3: We wrestle them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's almost like they you guys bring out

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So you know, Impact has had we'll just

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Speaker 1: since you know, Anthem took over, there's really been a resurgence.

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Speaker 1: The quality of production, the quality of matches, the backstage stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it really has stepped up quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: What role do you see yourselves playing in the continued

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Speaker 6: I feel like, now this is not based on my

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Speaker 6: five years ago when people could only have faith, you

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Speaker 6: because we're starting to see some results for it. But

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Speaker 6: like we're on the cusp of getting everything we've been

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Speaker 6: working for. Everyone that's had Impact Wrestling right now takes

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Speaker 6: and the resurgence of Impact Wrestling and getting it back

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Speaker 6: to what it once was before.

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Speaker 4: Like it means a lot so was to be a

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Speaker 6: And I think it's cool that Zach's back now and

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Speaker 6: he left it, And I think that's cool to get

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Speaker 4: It's just like wow, man, Like.

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Speaker 6: We're we're doing things a little differently around here, and

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Speaker 6: it's a spicy new competition. We've got new production, we

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Speaker 6: something different and it's because of the hard work that

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Speaker 4: The wrestlers, to the referees to the fans. Like it

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Speaker 1: Right, I mean, you guys just have Oh sorry, to

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Speaker 1: Cautch you, I was gonna say, you guys just had

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the biggest thing, like with me coming back,

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna speak off rip CEM. Punk was one

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Speaker 7: So for me, I bro, please, bro, please, and again

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Speaker 4: I've only ever had one interaction with Seampunk. He came

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Speaker 1: We're ready, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure of course ready

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Speaker 5: Bound for Glory live from Chicago. It's happening October twenty first.

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Speaker 5: You can still grab tickets at Impact Wrestling dot Com,

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Speaker 5: but if you can't be there, always watch it with

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Speaker 7: Just stay tuned.

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Speaker 3: The best has yet to come, you know what I mean,

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