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Speaker 1: Battle Brown.

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Speaker 2: Why from the parts Unknown Studios into.

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Speaker 1: The Double Battle Brown, Battle Bound, the Battle Pound, Battle.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Crowd.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 4: pro wrestling.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Found.

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Speaker 5: The Battle Row.

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Speaker 4: Now making their way to the microphones.

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Speaker 2: Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up you guys.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast, which

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Speaker 1: you can find wherever you listen to podcasts, and of

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Speaker 1: course you could watch this on YouTube. But today on

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Speaker 1: social media, TNA decided to release a little early Christmas

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Speaker 1: present for all of us TNA fans and they announced

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Speaker 1: that they have signed the man that is on our

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Speaker 1: show right now. Kashida joins the show. Congratulations on your signing.

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Speaker 4: Sir, Thank you so much. Yes, I'm so happy. I'm

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Speaker 4: so excited.

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Speaker 1: I mean we can see that, just the pure happiness

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Speaker 1: in your face right now for those of you that

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Speaker 1: are watching this on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: And I want to I want to.

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Speaker 4: Say my contract status is okay this time contract status

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Speaker 4: that the.

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Speaker 2: Relationship between me and the usualing can remain as it

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Speaker 2: is and there is.

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Speaker 4: No need change. So I also signed with t and

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Speaker 4: a yes, I would like to.

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Speaker 2: Thank thanks Scott Damore and missed us Suga bayesh Man.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's gonna be a fun year to watch

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Speaker 1: Kashita in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Oh Okay, And you know, I scrolled.

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Speaker 1: Through social media and I've seen a lot of people

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Speaker 1: talking about the signings today with you and your contracts.

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Speaker 1: It's one person said, this is absolutely fantastic. It's just

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Speaker 1: like an early Christmas present to us TNA fans, and

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Speaker 1: like everybody is a static with the news today for Kashita.

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Speaker 1: And I know again, I know how excited you are

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Speaker 1: for this, And I got a question. I mean, you've

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Speaker 1: been in TNA for a little bit, you've kind of

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Speaker 1: gone back and forth and doing some other things. But

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Speaker 1: what influenced your decision to sign that long term deal

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Speaker 1: with TNA and how do you envision your career evolving

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Speaker 1: within the company.

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Speaker 2: Okay, one of the reason I chew TNA is because

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Speaker 2: of my good friends Alec sha and Chris Saving.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, these two people have influenced my life.

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Speaker 6: I always read that.

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Speaker 4: My walk was closs to these two people.

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Speaker 2: So Saving Alec Shandy Kushita over signed same company.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe it.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm so excited too.

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Speaker 2: Next year. I believe I need to win the TNA

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Speaker 2: title in twenty twenty four two for the.

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Speaker 4: Advance of my career.

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Speaker 6: I want to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to become.

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Speaker 2: A world champion, exdivision champion and break down the borders

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Speaker 2: that exist in this world. Mhmm.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about that is is you want to

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Speaker 1: go after those championships. Well, it just so happens the

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Speaker 1: person that has the exhibition championship, the person who has

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Speaker 1: the World heavyweight champion, or two of your friends, does

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Speaker 1: that kind of like worry you because they're your friends

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to you know, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to take their titles from them, do you?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, yes, yes, I can't handle it.

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Speaker 1: You can put the friendship aside because it's all about business.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Chris saving now exodit Jion champion right, So yes,

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Speaker 7: I don't know how what situation coming for me next

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Speaker 3: It'll definitely be fun.

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Speaker 1: We are very excited to have the news again that

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Speaker 1: you are now with TNA and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: great things that are gonna happen for you in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and you know some other great things. You

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Speaker 1: see TNA. They work very well with all the other companies.

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Speaker 1: And recently they announced Okata is returning to TNA.

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Speaker 3: Would you be interested in a match with him in

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Speaker 3: a T and A ring?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Until now and in the future, it has not

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Speaker 2: Possibility in America, so I want lesser him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you will tear the roof off.

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Speaker 1: And if it happens in twenty twenty four, we'll go

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Speaker 1: ahead and say that Okada and Kashita will be Match

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Speaker 1: of the Year already. And another person that you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of history. It has been kind of frequently

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Speaker 1: in uh. You know TNA Will Osprey, Oh, okay, he

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Speaker 1: you know they announced that he's going to be back

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Speaker 1: for a couple of TNA shows at the beginning in January.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Given your history.

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Speaker 1: With him, would you want to tangle it up again

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Speaker 1: with him in the ring in TNA.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to Greek.

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Speaker 2: Too puppice, but I called his hairstyle is onion.

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Speaker 4: I call him onion onion head. I love to wrestle

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Speaker 4: him after that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Kioba sixty years old.

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Speaker 3: We'll put it down the road.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, but yeah, he will probably peak this year maybe

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Speaker 9: and the next year best he's I think he's the

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Speaker 6: But uh, professional wrestling is long monson m hm. So

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Speaker 6: someday I want to let's look here, I mean I want.

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Speaker 1: To we and the thing is is that everybody can

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Speaker 1: go down the rabbit hole and look, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: guys have history, and you have fantastic matches, and I

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Speaker 1: think now with both of you being at the top

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Speaker 1: of the mountain for both of your wrestling careers, like,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an epic match. I say, uh, sixty

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Speaker 1: minute iron Man match. You think you can handle that one?

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Speaker 1: With Will Osprey, you said wrestling is a marathon, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, anywhere any company.

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Speaker 3: There it is.

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Speaker 1: So so Kashida's laying down the gauntlet, Will, I know

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Speaker 1: you're watching this, so we're gonna make this happen.

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Speaker 3: So what what is a You.

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Speaker 1: Know, you talked about the goals for being in TNA.

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Speaker 1: You want that X division championship, you want that heavyweight championship,

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Speaker 1: is maybe possibly tag team championship as well in there?

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Speaker 1: Or or are you mainly focusing on a solo run.

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Speaker 8: So I have.

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Speaker 2: Cabyn Knight m so, oh just moment, please, just moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my number one priority is X Division championship.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you that you coming on the show,

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Speaker 1: you are in very good hands because anybody that comes

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Speaker 1: want a championship, they go on to win said championship.

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Speaker 1: So I am going to go ahead and say that

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Speaker 1: now that you have came on our show, Chita will

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Speaker 1: be the ex Division champion in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Yes, of course, and uh now eat tag team champion

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Speaker 2: a PC. Right. They are.

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Speaker 8: So trented.

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Speaker 2: I think my idea is underrated in this business. So

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Speaker 2: they're good, best best time team in Grovebar Scare. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I want to challenge with my boy Kevin Knight.

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Speaker 3: That that'll be. That'll be another solid one as well.

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Speaker 1: I know you're a busy man because you got to

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Speaker 1: celebrate your your new contracts with TNA and all this.

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Speaker 1: So I've got one last question for you so you

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Speaker 1: is there any dream opponents or specific rivalries from back

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Speaker 1: in the TNA days that you would love to like

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Speaker 1: if you could step in like a Dolorean, right, go

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Speaker 1: back in time to the old team, somebody that you

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Speaker 1: would like to face from the old school days.

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Speaker 4: Yes, your question is what uh.

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Speaker 3: The old the old TNA days.

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Speaker 1: Is there anybody like a favorite memory or maybe somebody

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Speaker 1: that you wish you could have wrestled from back then?

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Speaker 2: Yes, in twenty nineteen it was a dreamstage for me.

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Speaker 4: There is a j stars and the Mota.

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Speaker 2: Stea machine guns, and also the ex Division ring was

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Speaker 2: very unique and level dutionary.

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Speaker 8: It was really very cool.

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Speaker 4: So that time I quit.

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Speaker 2: Japanese company called Hustle and visited Scott Dammo at the

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Speaker 2: Kanam Dojo in Wins, Canada. So that time Scott doesn't

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Speaker 2: know who I am, but he upcept me as the

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Speaker 2: Japanese without saying war I'm really had no money, so

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Speaker 2: I lived home maybe also three hundred jarras per month

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Speaker 2: Scott lent me the apartment. So always I have thinking

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Speaker 2: about PNA and the impact to wrestling.

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Speaker 5: Yes, man, And.

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Speaker 1: Of course now Scott obviously knows who you are now.

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Speaker 3: By offering you that big contract.

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Speaker 1: Today, and you know, Kashita, I'm very excited to have

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Speaker 1: you on the TNA roster. I'm very excited to see

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Speaker 1: that news earlier today on social media.

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Speaker 3: Great things are going to be happening for you in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: We already know it, and I just want to say

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time out of your busy

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Speaker 1: schedule to day and talking with us.

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Speaker 4: No, no, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I want to be a bridge between these two valiations

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Speaker 2: I referring to Japanese plans.

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Speaker 6: Thank you very much today.

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