1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Tonight is the big night. 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 2: It's Tag Team Appreciation Night on aw Dynamite if you're 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: in Nashville at seven o'clock eight Eastern for everyone else. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 2: But on today's show, we got FTR on and we're 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: gonna talk about a lot of stuff. We're gonna talk 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: about adew their time in WWE, and we asked the 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 2: question that we asked James Storm a while back. Will 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 2: we ever see FTR versus James Storm and Eli Drake 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: for the tag team in wa titles? 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: Could that happen? 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: We're just gonna have to listen to the episode to 12 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: find out. But before we jump into the show, I 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: just want to say thank you guys so much for 14 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: being a part of the show with us. We greatly 15 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: do appreciate every single one of you that listen and 16 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: hang out with us each week. Make sure you tell 17 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 2: a friend and if you could do us a big favor, 18 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: this kind of helps us out tremendously. 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But without 33 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 2: further ado, we're getting into episode number one forty seven 34 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: of the Battleground Podcast with FTR and without further ado, 35 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: let's hit that theme song. 36 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: Battle You can to a double Battle Crown. 37 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 4: Live from the Parts Unknown Studios. This is the Battleground Podcast. 38 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 4: Battle Cloud, the Battle Cloud. 39 00:01:53,440 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 5: The battle you're playing for all things pro wrestling, from 40 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 5: the independent scene to WWE, AE, w R, o h 41 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 5: n WA. 42 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 6: And Impact Wrestling. 43 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 4: Cup hot topics, as well as interviews with some of 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 4: the biggest names. 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 3: In the game, the game the battle Wow. 46 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: Now the Battle Row. 47 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 4: The Battleground Podcast starts now carry your. 48 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 7: Host, Welcome to the Battle Round. 49 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 8: Battle and Eli Yes, welcome to episode number one of 50 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 8: the Battleground Podcast. 51 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: We've got a big show for you today. 52 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: Uh. 53 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: I kind of like to say that me and Eli 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: are the best tag team podcasters in the world. 55 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: But ahead of ae W Dynamite. 56 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: Tonight it's tag team Appreciation Night and uh we got 57 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: some special guests on the show. We've got the greatest 58 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 2: tag team in the I'm talking about FTR. But real quick, 59 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: before we have the guys join us, please give us 60 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: a follow. We're on Instagram, It's Battleground Podcast. Twitter is 61 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: Battleground HR and of course we're on Facebook. You can 62 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: find us just search Battleground Podcast. And just want to 63 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 2: say thank you guys so much for hanging out with 64 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: us and listening to the podcast. And if you could 65 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: do us a favor, please make sure you listen and 66 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 2: subscribe to all your friends. Also leave us a nice 67 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: little review, maybe give us five stars, because that helps 68 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: us out tremendously. But let's get into this interview with 69 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 2: FTR and I want to start things off, Dax. I 70 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: know last week some things happened during the match and 71 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: you had to leave the match early. Dax, how's your 72 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: need doing? 73 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: Man? 74 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 3: Since I played high school football. And actually back when 75 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: I was in high school, I loved football. I loved 76 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: everything about it. I had someone shot blocked me and 77 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 3: I tore my ACL. That was in two thousand and two. 78 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: So my right knee has always given me some problems. 79 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: And there's a big story that I'll tell on a 80 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 3: different different time when we have more time. But I 81 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: had a clean out of my knee, and come to 82 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: find out, the doctor who did my surgery in two 83 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 3: thousand and four left an actual pants button in my knee. 84 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 9: Yes, live button. 85 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a long story. Anyway, that button had been 86 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 3: in there for you know, a decade or whatever and 87 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 3: had been chipping away at my cartilage. And so I 88 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 3: have this terrible knee and it's gotten way better. But 89 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 3: I wear the brace on the knee only for mental 90 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 3: you know. It helps me when I'm in the ring 91 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: because I have to think about it if I have 92 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 3: the brace on. Anyway, cash came off the rope with 93 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: the elbow drop just kind of tweaked my knee a 94 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 3: little bit. And I haven't gotten an MRI yet to 95 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 3: check it out, but I'm doing some rehab and icing 96 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: it and just taking precautionary measures. The only bad thing 97 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: is is that we have looked so forward to Tag 98 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: Team Appreciation Night on August the two Wealth uh Dynamite, 99 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: and we were looking forward to having a match and 100 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 3: killing it and bringing back tag team wrestling all that 101 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 3: special show. But we're not gonna be able to do 102 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 3: that because of the injury. 103 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, And. 104 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: We looked at that, you know, everybody that's gonna be 105 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: on there. 106 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: You've got Arn and Tully, You've got the Rock and 107 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: Roll Express and then some awesome stuff happening that night, 108 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: and uh, you know, you hearing that, it kind of 109 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: sucks that it's you guys aren't gonna be able to 110 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: wrestle Wednesday night. 111 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, man, and I apologize to to Cash about it, 112 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 3: and he you know, he didn't bother him at all, 113 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 3: but uh, we're gonna have to miss that night. But yeah, again, 114 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 3: like you said, we've got the Young Bucks, You've got 115 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 3: the tag team Champions hang Man and uh Kenny Omega. 116 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 3: You've got you know, the second best tag team in 117 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 3: the world, the Young Bucks. And then you've got the 118 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 3: two greatest of all time, Arn Anderson, totally Blanchard and 119 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 3: the Rock and Roll Express. 120 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: Just chill bumps hearing about those guys, and you know, 121 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 2: it's awesome to see because me and Eli we go 122 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: back and forth and texting and it's like, Okay, if 123 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 2: we were to create a new four Horseman, we know 124 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 2: that it's got to be FTR in there. And just 125 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 2: having you know, in the winging of Arn and Tully 126 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: right there behind you, Like, how awesome is that to 127 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: be able to like pick their brain. 128 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 9: Man, That's something that I don't think we'll ever be 129 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 9: able to quantify how much that means to us, just 130 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 9: having those guys there willing to help out and watching 131 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 9: our matches and as soon as we come back to 132 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 9: the curtain, have those faces waiting for us to nitpick 133 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 9: us and tell us the smaller things that we need 134 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 9: to work on, and we could have done differently what 135 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 9: we did well, Man, it's unreal. And I'll just go 136 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 9: off on a little aside here. Our first day at AEW, 137 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 9: you know it totally hasn't been watching wrestling for a while, 138 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 9: He hasn't been around, he's he hadn't done anything really 139 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 9: until he came to AW with Sean Spears and Arn 140 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 9: was telling him, you know, these guys are better than 141 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 9: we ever were, which is not true. Probably maybe we are, 142 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 9: who knows, but Aarn was just going on and on 143 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 9: and on about how he needed to watch something with us, 144 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 9: and you know, we were left. We came back a 145 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 9: little bit later and Arn and Totally were sitting down 146 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 9: watching our match with American Alpha together and it was 147 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 9: just the two of them gathered around their little phones 148 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 9: watching our match. And from that moment on, Totally and 149 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 9: Aren't both have just been there anytime we need anything. 150 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 9: That couldn't be any more accommodating or helpful. 151 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like I told you earlier, my first 152 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 3: memory of professional wrestling was with my dad and it 153 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 3: was the Four Horsemen. I was only, like, you know, 154 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 3: four years old, but but I can, I really can 155 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 3: vividly remember that that image, and we have obviously patterned 156 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: ourselves after the Four Horsemen many other tag teams too, 157 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 3: but we've obviously pattered himself after ARNT totally because in 158 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 3: my mind, they are the best working tag team ever, 159 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 3: and so to have them be fans of ours, I can't. 160 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: Just like Cash said, I can't describe the feeling that 161 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: I have because, like I said, professional wrestling is my 162 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 3: first love. I can't describe the feeling I have that 163 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 3: two of my heroes are fans of ours. 164 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 9: Yeah, goosebumps legitimate. 165 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 7: I got to meet arn and I went to the 166 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 7: first all in in Chicago, and you know, they had 167 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 7: who's who, you know everybody, and I said, I just 168 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 7: want to meet on that's it. I don't care about 169 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 7: Flair whatever. And I had him sign my TV title 170 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 7: And I mean he looks like he throw a spinebuster 171 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 7: right now. I mean, like you know, I mean he 172 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 7: was awesome. I mean, you know, most people were there 173 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 7: to see him, but they also had a group thing 174 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 7: where you could get him totally and JJ Dillon. 175 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 6: I didn't know about that. 176 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 3: I would have done that if I was aware of it. 177 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 6: Anyways, Yeah, he's he's he's top five for me. 178 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 7: I love the Brainbusters, you know all that stuff. That 179 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 7: actually kind of is a good segue into the next question. 180 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 7: When you guys were as signed previously and paired up 181 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 7: as a team, Dusty Rhodes really took you guys under 182 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 7: his wing and was a big supporter. How instrumental was 183 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 7: he in getting you guys to where you are today? 184 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's a it's a funny kind of 185 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: parallel because now we're we're in a company where one 186 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: of the EVPs is a roads as well. Yeah, before 187 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 3: before Cash even joined n XT, Dusty Uh and myself 188 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 3: had a relationship. And I don't know if it was 189 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 3: the Southern roots we had or because you know, I 190 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 3: was a huge fan of the Crockett era, but he 191 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 3: and I had had a relationship. And then when Cash 192 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 3: did join, immediately he wanted to put us together because 193 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 3: he saw something and he knew that that us being 194 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: five foot ten, he knew that us not being body guys, 195 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 3: and he knew on top of all of that, us 196 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 3: not having the dialect that the boss up top cared about. 197 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 3: He knew we'd have to fight an uphill battle. But 198 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 3: he believed in our talents, believed in our skills, and 199 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 3: he believed in our verbal ability as well, and he 200 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: he would always push for us and push for us 201 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 3: to do better things. And yeah, he was I don't know, man, 202 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: I can't. I can't accurately describe how much of an 203 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 3: influence and how much of a support system he was 204 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 3: to making sure before before Matt Bloom took over, making 205 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: sure that me and Cash were a team and we 206 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 3: were featured. 207 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly, Like we've never been the best at We've 208 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 9: never had the best poker faces, so we've never been 209 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 9: the best at kissing ass or politicking writers in w W. 210 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 9: So if we don't like you, or we don't get 211 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 9: along with you, or you treat us like we're less, 212 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 9: then you know we're not gonna be too friendly back. 213 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 9: And that was the case with some of the coaches 214 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 9: early on NXT. We were we're very headstrong, we're very 215 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 9: uh stubborn at times. 216 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 6: But it's hard for you to take it basically. 217 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 9: Yeah, we're prideful guys and we take like more than anything. 218 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 9: You know, we're professional wrestling, but more than anything, we're 219 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 9: human beings and we're men, and we're not going to 220 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 9: be spoken to as anything less than that. So there 221 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 9: was there were times where you know, it was like 222 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 9: you said, it was a battle because we couldn't just 223 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 9: put on a smile and just go along with whatever 224 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 9: if we didn't believe in it, or if we thought 225 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 9: that it was not the right way. So Dusty was 226 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 9: one of those guys that respected that more than anything, 227 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 9: because we never had an issue like that with Dusty, 228 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 9: but he saw us stand up for ourselves or put 229 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 9: our foot down on more than what occasion. And I 230 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 9: think he loved it because he loves sticking it to 231 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 9: the man. He always did like that was That's one 232 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 9: of the reasons he loved us so much, I think 233 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 9: is because we weren't like the prototypical WWE star. So 234 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 9: immediately he's like, all these guys, this is what I 235 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 9: want to work with. Think he respected that. And then, 236 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 9: like Dak said, as Bloom came along, Bloom always says, 237 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 9: I'm a huge fan of sweat equity, a huge fan 238 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 9: of sweat equity. So he saw how hard we worked, 239 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 9: and so he gave us more opportunities than because of 240 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 9: Dusty like kind of having our back through the hard times. 241 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 9: No pun intended it made. It made our careers much 242 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 9: more successful than it would have been otherwise. 243 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 3: Right and real quick to this is just a sidegar. 244 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 3: Without Matt Bloom, that company or that brand would not 245 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: be as successful as it is right now. 246 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 9: Not a chance. 247 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never had a coach or a boss or 248 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 3: anyone of in any kind of power. 249 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: Uh be as. 250 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 3: Be as good of a leader as he is, and 251 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 3: he he brought everyone together. I don't know how things 252 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 3: are now, but without him, that place would have never 253 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 3: materialized into what it has. 254 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 7: No, It's funny because a lot of people were kind 255 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 7: of predicting it's doom after I guess Hugh Morris was 256 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 7: released or whatever. And you know Matt Bloom, I mean, yeah, 257 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 7: he was never a superstar, but he was always a 258 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 7: solid worker in WWA and Japan. But yeah, every story 259 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 7: I've heard since he took over has been echoing exactly 260 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 7: what y'll you guys just said. 261 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 3: Absolutely yep. 262 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 2: Something kind of want to know is when did you 263 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 2: know you were going to have to leave the company 264 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 2: to fulfill your destiny as one of the best, if 265 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 2: not the best, in the world tag team. 266 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 9: I would say roughly twenty seventeen. 267 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 3: Oh jeez, that. 268 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 9: Early, huh. I think for sure we knew about in 269 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 9: mid twenty eighteen that we weren't long for WWE. And 270 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 9: you know, I don't want to sound like I'm whining 271 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 9: or complaining, but we just knew that it wasn't going 272 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 9: to be for us at this time. Who knows what 273 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 9: the future holds, never say never in anything as cliche 274 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 9: as it is, but we we just knew that just 275 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 9: the way the structure is right now and the way 276 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 9: tag team wrestling is viewed right now. It just we 277 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 9: had to get out of there and go elsewhere to 278 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 9: do what we wanted to do. And like that was 279 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 9: something that we went back and forth on quite a 280 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 9: bit because you know, obviously there was a lot of 281 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 9: really good offers. Obviously it's the top wrestling company in 282 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 9: the world for numerous decades, so it's hard to walk 283 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 9: away from all that willingly. But it's one of those 284 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 9: things where I told you before, we were headstrong and 285 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 9: we're we kind of if we believe in something, like 286 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 9: we believe in ourselves, we're going to take the chance. 287 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 9: And by mid twenty eighteen, I knew for sure, even 288 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 9: though that, like I said, there was still some indecision, 289 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 9: Like deep deep down, I knew that we were not 290 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 9: going to be there for very long. 291 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree with him. We knew, you know, 292 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 3: we we were not going to stay there for long, 293 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 3: But we also thought, you know what, in nxtre's a 294 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 3: there's a completely different mindset between Triple H and Vince 295 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 3: Triple H and also again Matt Bloom. They believe and 296 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: hard work and they believe, like like Cash was saying 297 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 3: in sw sweat equity, and so we still had the 298 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 3: thought in our mind, you know what, we're not getting 299 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 3: our opportunities on TV. Every once in a while, when 300 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 3: you'd have like Roman Reigns or New Day or Randy 301 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: stand up for us and go to Vents and say 302 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 3: I want to work with those guys, we'd get to 303 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: they throw us a bone. But other than that, you 304 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 3: didn't get opportunities on TV very much because they couldn't 305 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 3: take the chance. You got the opportunities on the live 306 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 3: events on the house shows. So me and Cash we 307 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 3: talked about this on every road trip. I mean we 308 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 3: rode together, you know, every day for three straight years, 309 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 3: and we stayed in the same hotel for every day 310 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 3: for three straight years. And we always said that we 311 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 3: were going to work harder than everybody else on the show. 312 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: And so we would go out there and hoping that 313 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 3: we could work for thirty five minutes or forty five 314 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 3: minutes and we could turn the perception of ourselves and 315 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 3: tag team wrestling around for Vents. I just never materialized 316 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 3: to that, and that's what made us completely change our orb. 317 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 3: Give us our decision as to whether we should leave 318 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 3: or stay. 319 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 9: I won't say any names, because that's not what I 320 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 9: wanted to do right here. But to add on to 321 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 9: what Dax was saying about us wanting to work harder 322 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 9: than anybody else, we got, you know, a lot of 323 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 9: pushback on live events from certain in ring talent, not 324 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 9: all of them by any means, all by any means, 325 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 9: there were a lot of guys there that wanted to 326 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 9: work their asses off with us, but there were a 327 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 9: lot of guys that just wanted to go out there, 328 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 9: punch the clock, do the bare minimum, and then be 329 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 9: done with it. 330 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 3: Yep. 331 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 9: So like we would get a lot of heat for that, 332 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 9: a lot of pushback because we're out here trying to 333 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 9: like you know, put on our work in boots and go. 334 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 9: Even if they didn't have to do anything, we had 335 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 9: work around them, and that's just kind of you know, 336 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 9: we never wanted to fall into that mentality. So that's 337 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 9: another reason we knew we had to kind of pack 338 00:16:58,880 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 9: our bags. 339 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 3: And we would watch really quick and then I'll, you know, 340 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 3: let you move on. But we'd watch Roman reigns, and 341 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 3: we'd watched seth Rollins and they would work their ass 342 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 3: off every sin They'd work their butt off every single night, 343 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 3: and then you'd see some of the guys that Cash 344 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 3: was talking about just you know, just getting it over with. 345 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 3: And we know if we saw the top guys working 346 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 3: you know that hard, we wanted to match that work ethic, 347 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 3: and sometimes that got us a little heat. 348 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty has been the year of things happening that 349 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: are completely out of your control. 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Use 390 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 2: the code Battleground the time to grab twenty twenty by 391 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 2: the horns by shaving that front trunk of yours. 392 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's interesting to see, especially you know, you guys 393 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 7: obviously are working with Cody now, but I mean, you 394 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 7: have these tight talents that are they're not afraid to 395 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 7: turn around big money, you know what I mean. 396 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 6: It's more of the I know, you guys, you're on 397 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 6: a personal mission to prove you're. 398 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 7: The best tag team. So you want all the belts 399 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 7: across the board. You can't do that, and you know 400 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 7: where you were, same thing with Cody. He knew that 401 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 7: there was more to his career than where he was 402 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 7: boxed in and it's just been incredible to see all 403 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 7: these talents roll the dice on themselves and more time 404 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 7: is a not that's paying off. So I definitely commend 405 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 7: you guys for that. It would have been very easy 406 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 7: to just Castler's texts. 407 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 3: Thank you man. 408 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 9: There's opportunity out there for you. If you want to 409 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 9: go out there and you want to work for it. 410 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 9: You're not gonna You're not gonna walk away from WW 411 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 9: and just walk right into something and haven't handed to you. 412 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 9: But if you go out there and work your ass 413 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 9: off and you push for it, there's stuff out there 414 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 9: for everybody. 415 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 6: Right well, that brings us to the current situation. 416 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 7: You know, there's been obviously some banter over the last 417 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 7: few years between you guys and members of the elite, 418 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 7: and obviously that's. 419 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 6: Where FDR was born and all that what really set 420 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 6: the ball in. 421 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 7: Motion for you guys to debut with AW. Was there 422 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 7: a specific meeting or did you know Cody text you 423 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 7: like what what really happened to be? Like, guys, we 424 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 7: got to get you in our company. 425 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: There was uh, never really a direct line of communication. Obviously, 426 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 3: there is this hype for the young Bucks against FTR 427 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 3: and it's been that way for five years. But we 428 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 3: have never before aw we had never officially met those guys. 429 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 3: We've never met the young Bucks. I think we may 430 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 3: have run into Cody once at Roadblock pay per view, 431 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 3: but other than that, we never met those guys. We 432 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 3: knew that there was an opportunity out there for us. 433 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 3: We didn't know where the opportunity was, but we knew 434 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: there were multiple opportunities for us. So in January of 435 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, we decided we had tried, We worked as 436 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 3: hard as we could. We weren't going to change the 437 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 3: perception of tax tim wrestling preventsment man. So we wanted 438 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 3: out because we wanted We owed a lot and we 439 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 3: still do owe a lot to professional wrestling. And once 440 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 3: the word got out that we were trying to get 441 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 3: out of our contracts, there were some you know, there 442 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: were some discussions with us through other people because there 443 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 3: couldn't be a direct line of communication because that would 444 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 3: be a breach of our contract. And that we knew 445 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 3: there was interest, but we also knew there was interest 446 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 3: and every other you know, I'm not trying to pat 447 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 3: myself on the back or ourselves on our backs, but 448 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 3: there was interest in every other major company in the world, 449 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 3: so there was really no direct line of human communication. 450 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 3: We just wanted to bet on ourselves. And the day 451 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 3: that we got our we finally got our release, we 452 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 3: made the call and they jumped all over it. 453 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 7: And that's got to be gratifying, you know what I mean, 454 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 7: just you know, making one call like we'll see in 455 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 7: three months, you know, like it's that's that's gonna be awesome. 456 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 457 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 9: For it was one of those things too. Like I said, 458 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 9: we knew there was opportunity out there for us, and 459 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 9: we wanted to go out on our terms. You know, 460 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 9: we didn't want our fate to be in anybody else's 461 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 9: hand but ours, and we didn't want to just be 462 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 9: waiting around waiting for a call like that. We didn't 463 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 9: want we didn't want to be one of the guys 464 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 9: blindsided by it. So we wanted you know, we actively 465 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 9: sought out our release numerous times. So, like you said, 466 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 9: once the word got out that we had been trying, 467 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 9: there was just general conversation to gauge interest, and we're like, hey, 468 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 9: we're not sure what we want to do, We're not 469 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 9: sure where we want to go. We just know we 470 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,919 Speaker 9: want to be out and see what's what happens right right? 471 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 2: Something really cool that you guys did. And we talked 472 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: about this, me and Eli have and a lot of 473 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 2: people don't really kind of do this. But you guys 474 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 2: asked Chris Jericho permission to use the shatter machine even 475 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 2: though you were advised you didn't need to. Why was 476 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: this important to you guys to ask Jericho to use that. 477 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 9: Well, because we initially did not ask, and we asked 478 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 9: another higher up at NXT. So we started using it 479 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 9: when Jericho wasn't with WW for a short period of time. 480 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 9: He was out doing like one of his hiatus is 481 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 9: the sabbatical doing the fozzy stuff and everything else that 482 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 9: he does because he's all over the place all the time. 483 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 9: He's it's insane, the guy's work ethic. But when he 484 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 9: came back, we'd asked one of the executor is, hey, 485 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 9: do we need to change this or do we need 486 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 9: to ask him? And we were we were told, without 487 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 9: any any hint of doubt, nope, not not an issue, 488 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 9: completely different, don't even bother. And then it did become 489 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 9: a bit of an issue on social media. So we 490 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 9: just uh. When we did get the call up day one, 491 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 9: we wanted to go say, hey, we're on the same show. Now, 492 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 9: we know there was an issue before they once again 493 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 9: told us it's not an issue, but we wanted to 494 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 9: come to you and see what you think about it, 495 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 9: because if it is, you know, out of respect, we 496 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 9: don't we don't want to rock the boat. And he 497 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 9: was really cool about it, you know, he's like, you know, 498 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 9: it's not even an issue now, and he apologize because 499 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 9: there was other stuff that happened prior that we talked 500 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 9: about on the Jericho podcast that NXT Talent had done. 501 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 9: It upset them and that was just the final straw, 502 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 9: I guess, but we wanted to, you know, make sure 503 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 9: this time that we went straight to him and not 504 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 9: to anybody else and get the wrong answer and do 505 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 9: the wrong thing. 506 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 7: That's cool, Yeah, that that's definitely kind of more of 507 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 7: an old school, you know, respect in the locker room 508 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 7: kind of kind of thing. You don't hear a lot 509 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 7: of a lot of guys doing that, So that's awesome. 510 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 7: So we got a couple like, you know, uh, specifically 511 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 7: talking about tag teams. We actually got to interview Xavier 512 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 7: Woods earlier this week and he's saying, you guys as 513 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 7: praises and he's He's mentioned he's always a bit obsessed 514 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 7: with tag team wrestling. I'm sure you guys are the 515 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 7: same way. But we got a couple of questions that 516 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 7: are kind of like, you know, two tag teams and like, 517 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 7: you know, who do you think would win? Or who's 518 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 7: your favorite or whatever. So the first two are Demolition 519 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 7: versus Road Warriors. 520 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 9: I'm going road Warriors. 521 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, that one's tough. 522 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 3: Man. 523 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 7: I think Demolition gets overlooked a little bit, you know, 524 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 7: because I think didn't one of them become like Repo Man, 525 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 7: And like, I don't know, I think their their legacy 526 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 7: isn't to where like the. 527 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 6: Road Warriors is, but like I think it deserves to be. 528 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 6: I mean, they had they were great workers, you know. 529 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 9: I think their biggest their biggest thing against them was 530 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 9: that they were never really outside of New York w 531 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 9: w A. They didn't get to do the n w 532 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 9: A stuff like Road Warriors did when n w A 533 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 9: had the hottest tag team seen. 534 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 6: In the world. 535 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 7: Oh god, yeah, yeah, Well that that goes to the 536 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 7: next one. Rock and Roll Express versus Midnight Express and 537 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 7: out of the Midnight Express, do you have a specific. 538 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 3: Lineup that you prefer. 539 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 9: Yes, we do all thattax take this one, because I 540 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 9: know exactly what he's going to say. We only the 541 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 9: count of three answer at the same time. 542 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 3: Jeez, uh, I hate that you did this to me. 543 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,239 Speaker 3: But yeah, Midnight Express is my favorite tag team ever, ever, Ever, 544 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: there's not a better tag team in the world. I 545 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 3: said earlier that that aren't Its only maybe the best 546 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 3: working tag team. That was the best. That doesn't mean 547 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 3: they're the best tag team. That's correct. That the best 548 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 3: tag team ever the Midnight Express, Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eating. 549 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 5: Uh. 550 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 3: Stan Lane's great and he did a great job with Bobby. 551 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 3: But the chemistry that those two had, Bobby and Dennis, 552 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 3: oh my gosh. And uh they were just so uh 553 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 3: they were polar opposites of each other, but they meshed 554 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 3: so well. Uh. Dennis was such a he was such 555 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 3: a jerk, you know, and and like he was I'm 556 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 3: trying to watch my language here, but. 557 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: If you cuss, we got an edit button, so we completely. 558 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 3: He was he was a chicken ship and uh. But 559 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 3: but when it was time to turn the heat up, 560 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 3: nobody could beat him in a fight. And Bobby was 561 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 3: flying through the air when nobody else was doing it. 562 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna stop because I will talk for hours. 563 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: For another episode. 564 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 3: Right before, right before this interview, and I have it 565 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 3: loaded up right here on my computer that I'm talking 566 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 3: about Right now, I'm watching Rock and Roll the Midnight 567 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 3: and that is no, Lie. 568 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 7: Well, it's it's really interesting thing because I didn't realize this. 569 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 7: I mean when I when I started watching it, I 570 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 7: guess it was at this point. I think it was WCWI, 571 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 7: but it was the stand Leane Bobby Eaton iteration. But 572 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 7: I didn't realize that there was actually one from like 573 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 7: eighty to eighty three and it was Dennis, Randy Rose, 574 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 7: and Marvel Austin. I didn't I didn't even know about 575 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 7: that of the team, and then Dennis and Bobby was 576 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 7: like eighty three eighty. So Bobby Eaton's probably my top 577 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 7: five with arn Anderson. I mean, he's so and I know, 578 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 7: I know Cornett is a huge Bobby Eaton fan. I 579 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,959 Speaker 7: mean he was, like you were saying, I mean, doing 580 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 7: those leg drops. 581 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 6: Off the top rope. 582 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 7: It's kind of both those workers to me are kind 583 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 7: of in the same breath as Bread is in the 584 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 7: sense that you know, no one got hurt. 585 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 9: It looked believable, you know, I mean like when you. 586 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 7: Can get the crack, it's kind of like aj Styles 587 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 7: is now, you know, like it's just that fluid motion, 588 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 7: and you know everyone wants to work with them. 589 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 9: They don't get hurt. 590 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 3: Let's let's not put over other people. Let's put over. 591 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 3: I'm on your we're on your radio show right now. 592 00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 3: Let's put over. 593 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: This leads into my question, and this is gonna be 594 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: the last question because we're gonna let you guys hop 595 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 2: off here. So I know in an interview, you guys 596 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 2: talked about you wanted to be well beaters and you 597 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 2: wanted to have a picture like Ultimo Dragon. 598 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 6: Now. 599 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 2: A few months back, we had a current tag team 600 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 2: champion by the name of James Storms, who you guys know, 601 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 2: and he said he knows you guys very well. And 602 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: we asked him the question, what about Eli Drake and 603 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: James Storm versus FTR for the nw A tag team titles? 604 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: And he said, he's all down for it. What do 605 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: you guys think about that challenge? 606 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 9: Hell? 607 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, you know, there's nothing, there's there's no 608 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 3: there's no cheam and look this is me, uh speaking 609 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 3: with as much humility as I can. 610 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 4: Uh. 611 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 3: There's no team around the world that is as good 612 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 3: as we are. There's no team in the world that 613 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 3: can give you what we we have. It's it's an 614 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 3: unspeakable thing. 615 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 5: Uh. 616 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 3: I don't know why we're as good as we are, 617 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 3: but we are the I mean again humility, We are 618 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 3: the like of our humble a. 619 00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 5: F t R. 620 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 3: Yeah. But when you got when you've got stone cold 621 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: see vast and Arn Anderson, totally, Blanchard, Ricky Morton, Dennis Condrey, 622 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 3: Bobby and Jim Cornett, Brett Hart, Edge, christians On, Rick Flair, 623 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 3: when you've got all these guys that tell you and 624 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 3: say publicly that you're the best tag team in the world, 625 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 3: You're You're the best damn tag team in the world. 626 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 3: So if Eli Drake who I'm who I'm I have 627 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 3: a lot of respect for and I think he's incredible 628 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 3: and he's a good friend of mine. James Storm the same. 629 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 3: If they ever wanted to test their test their skill 630 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,719 Speaker 3: set and put up the n w A Tag Team Championships, 631 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 3: I don't think Tony Cohn would have. 632 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 9: A problem with that in a perfect world. In my 633 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 9: dream World, No Slight to Storm and Drake. I would 634 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 9: like to wrestle Rock and Roll Express for the nterview 635 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 9: A Tag Team titles just because I can feel like 636 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 9: I'm in a time machine in the eighties where I belong. 637 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 9: But like you said, if Eli and James want to 638 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 9: step up and test their medal with us, well happily 639 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 9: take their gold. 640 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 3: And to be fair, to be fair, at least we 641 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 3: get to be in the ring with the Rock and 642 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: Roll Express and aren't in totally I'm gonna cry night 643 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 3: on Tag Team Appreciation Night. 644 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 2: There it is, and that is Wednesday night on tn 645 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 2: T A W Dynamite before we let you guys go. 646 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 2: Where can everybody follow you out on social media? 647 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 3: I am at Dax Harwood h R w o o D. 648 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 3: That is both Instagram and Twitter. If you follow me 649 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 3: past the hours of five pm right now, I will 650 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: most likely have already drank wine, tequila or beer. 651 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 2: I guess that's why I didn't get the follow back, 652 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 2: because I must have followed you after five o'clock. 653 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 9: You will get a sassy tweet reply if you tweet 654 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 9: them those for sure very soon. For myself, it is 655 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 9: cash Wheeler ft R on Twitter and Instagram. I don't 656 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 9: really have anything else that I'm aware of as far 657 00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 9: as social media. 658 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 3: You have that you have that Twitter account that is 659 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 3: dedicated to your butt. 660 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 9: That's true. Yeah, I don't remember the app for that 661 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 9: one because I don't run it, but just you can 662 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 9: vanitysearch to that one and find some great gifts of 663 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 9: my butt jiggling around if anybody's interested. 664 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 6: I think everyone's interested. 665 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 2: Man, It is such an honor to have you guys 666 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 2: on the show with us. We've got FTR Wednesday Night, 667 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 2: Tag Team Appreciation Night. Definitely watch it. Aw Dinemile on 668 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 2: tn T. Guys, Like I said, it's an honor to 669 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 2: have the greatest tag team in the world on our 670 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 2: show tonight. 671 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 9: Thanks in order to be on the greatest tag team 672 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 9: podcast in the World's. 673 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast. 674 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 3: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice review. 675 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: Just stay up to date with the show follow them 676 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: at Battleground Podcast on Instagram.