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You seased, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.720 have not pleased? I was just watching Rick Flair in 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.320 the diner. Oh God, did you guys watch this m 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:37.520 It's ridiculous. So something happened, something happened to diner. I guess, uh, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.960 you know, some some guy who's in the bathroom too long, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.159 and Flair got mad. And then there's the footage of 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.599 Flair cutting a promo on this guy that works there, 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.480 and he is cutting a promo like he's cutting a promo. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.040 He wants the guy to, you know, come around on 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.600 the other side. I guess to fight. He's you know, Flair, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.840 I wouldn't there, but he appears drunk. The lady there 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:06.720 says he's cut off and uh. And then like at 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.440 the end, he's yelling to this guy and uh, he's 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.840 called him very very bad names I can't say here 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:20.520 on the air, a Richard Head among things, and then 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.800 and then a lady and then he gets he gets 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.400 accused of cousin goes, I think, cuss, like you just did, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.200 what are you talking about? And then he keeps going 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.600 on and on and uh. And finally this other guy 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.520 sitting at the bar two people down from Flair, because 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.960 Flair tells again, want you step outside? Guy goes, I'm 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.680 gonna steping outside and so a guy, two guys two doors, uh, 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.640 two dudes down from Flair. He's next to him with 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.000 the bar. He goes, you want to step outside with me? 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.280 I don't work here, I don't care, and Flair says, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.800 what what did you say? Guy goes, are you deaf? 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.760 And then they start going at it. I'm like, oh 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.240 my god, what is going on? So anyway, he got 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.560 booted out, then he got mad, and then it was 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:11.200 all over the media and the update here today. I 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.880 guess Flair wants to buy the restaurant. He claims that'll 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.800 solve the problem. He was involved in an incident with 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:24.560 staff at the Paisanos location in Gainesville, Florida, over the weekend. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.000 He posted a veta to social media. Actually was a 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.760 post saying he had been asked to leave the restaurant 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.200 following an altercation with the kitchen manager in the bathroom. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.680 Footage of Flair berating the restaurant's manager leaked online yesterday, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.120 but does not show the altercation between him and the 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.400 kitchen manager. Flair says the kitchen manager approached him in 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.920 the bathroom. Flair said, I'm like, I don't shake hands 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.320 or take photos and bathrooms. After this Flair said the 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.000 kitchen manager went to a restroom stall and was texting 0:08:55.000 --> 0:09:00.800 away minutes later, not allowed to text, and Flair's social 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.240 media posted by the incident on Sunday. He said he 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.760 took issue with the kitchen manager taking too long in 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.960 the bathroom, and then another staff employee approached him after 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.400 he left the washroom called him a creep and a 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.040 peeping tom. He said, you tell me someone in twenty 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.839 twenty four called him a peeping tom. Not going to 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.480 tolerate that, and you wouldn't neither. Flair said, that's a 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.640 pretty offensive remark. I'll be honest with you. I was 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.560 angry because I didn't do anything wrong. It's my word 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.240 against the kitchen employee. It makes no sense. I admit 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.679 to everything I said. I have no problem with him 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.880 because I was mad. And yes, he tried to tip 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.439 one thousand dollars to uh the lady there. I don't 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:50.840 know if she was a server or or whatever. But 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.959 then they had the issue with the guy that wanted 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.040 to call him out. So where did everybody watch this? 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.440 I watched on TikTok where everybody else see it? 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.560 Well, it was probably the same TikTok footage that got 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.680 uploaded to x and all these other social media places. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.520 So I'm sure most people probably either saw it on 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.080 the gram or saw it on TikTok. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.240 Well, the reason I asked was, you know wherever you 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.120 saw it, everybody? I mean, did you get the one 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.079 with the subtitles? 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.520 Yeah? Okay, yeah, which were not what was that accurate? 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:22.080 Yeah? 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.319 He called the guy an Egyptian? 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:29.120 Well ai, you know yeah, it's uh yeah, well. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.280 I hate those those uh those subtitles because you read 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.240 the subtitles and like they're so wrong. Yeah, and then 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.120 he says something else and you're like, he called them 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:38.760 an Egyptian? 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:39.000 What? 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.040 Anyway? Flair says, I got the money to buy the restaurant. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.480 It's gonna be called Rick Flair's Italian Bistro. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.439 Who's gonna borrow it from? 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.400 Oh he's got the money, Mike, Oh he does. Yeah. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:52.920 Is he paying his taxes this time? 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.000 I mean, I don't know, but that's what he says. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.440 I bet he's not buying the restaurants. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.840 He says a lot of things, including a lot of lies, 0:10:58.960 --> 0:10:59.880 So I don't know. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.360 Anyway, sad, Yeah, that was a pretty depressing situation. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.840 Seventy five year old man, Yeah, that could be for somebody. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.000 I mean, hey, he's. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.319 Lucky that guy didn't take up his offer to go outside. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.160 That could have been bad. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.200 Somebody's great grandparent right there drunk at the bar and. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:24.319 At Paisanos, at a pizza place in Gainesville, Florida, probably 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.640 near the campus of the University of Florida. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.160 Because Rick Flair probably still thinks that he can pick 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.080 up twenty year old chicks because whoo, he's Ric Flair. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.240 It's amazing. And you know, when they were hyping up 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.800 Rick Flair's last match, all I could think of, if 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.040 you haven't heard it, go listen to Charles Mingus The Clown, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.760 and there's a lot of parallels there with Rick Flair, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.920 his life and where it's gonna ultimately end up. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.959 I'm just reading the chat here is everyone's trying to 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.320 figure out who would have won in a real fight 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.480 between Flair and that guy at the bar. The guy 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.400 at the bar, I don't know. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.840 Now Rick Clair talks. Remember that if he wanted to 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.880 fight so bad, he could have took the dude who 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.720 called him out to go outside. But he didn't. Because 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.520 this was all performance art from a very sad seventy 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.359 five year old alcoholic man. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.960 Supports said to give him some chops and some souplexes, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.199 and this guy goes. Nowadays everyone knows how to reverse 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.600 the figure four. That is a good point. It's true, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:23.720 that is a good point. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:24.320 Yeah. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.120 Anyway, I wasn't even to start with, man, but I 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.439 literally was watching it again as we we started the show. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.120 Who's the first man reversed the figure four? 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.000 Yeah? Who says? At least he was? 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.280 I think the Druid in that white WF video that 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:38.120 we played during. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.320 The break, magnificent Don Morocco. He wasn't the first one, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.880 but he always loved bragging about that. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.000 Hey, you know who's magnificent figure four? You know who 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.360 was magnificent is Don Morocco. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:49.120 He was. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.720 I've been watching this guy and knows uh I got started. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.800 I got started watching wrestling a little after this Don 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:01.120 Morocco period. But man, I swear to God him and 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.360 uh him and the cowboy Bob Orton. Yes, maybe the 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.000 best team going today. Absolutely, maybe be the best team 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:14.040 on raw, most charismatic. He'd be in the top as 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.080 far as best promos and the Observer Awards. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.120 He'd be in the Hall of Fame. He's in my 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.560 personal Hall of Fame. He's one of those guys like 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.840 Mass Superstar, Demolition Acts, Bill Eedi and uh Mister Olympia, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.760 Jerry Stubbs and Magnificent Morocco. Guys like that that you 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.200 know they're right there or towards the top tier. But 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.079 you couldn't have had a lot of those top guys 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.520 without him. I mean, he made Bob Backland towards the 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.959 end of his run. He made it entertaining. His feud 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.200 with Jimmy Snooker was the biggest thing in the company. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.120 And man could Don Morocco cut a promo back then, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.480 you would never believe it. And you'd never believe he 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.920 could wrestle either, because you're getting the rock version of 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.839 Don Morocco. Who was How much do you think he weighed? Oh? 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.320 He was large, he was He was enormous. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:57.959 All muscle. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.080 Now, I bring up WWF Challenge from nineteen eighty six 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.040 because it brings me to this next story. Believe it 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:05.280 or not? 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:06.280 Is it awesome? 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.680 How will I tie it in? Well, you'll see all right, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.720 Tony Kahan is not stepping inside a wrestling ring anytime soon. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:14.760 Not a good start. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.760 Connor rejected the idea of rustling a match following his 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.480 on camera angle last month with the Elite, The Young 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.920 Bucks will be running aw themselves on the road. In storyline, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.520 he said, aw is we're the best wrestling We mean that. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.920 In this case, I'm not the best person to pay 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.160 those people back. There's a lot of things I'm good 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.520 at behind the scenes, but somebody else is gonna have 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.120 to avenge what those guys did, not only to me, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.680 but to Kenny Omega. I'm quite sure there's some capable wrestlers, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.120 more capable wrestlers than I am, most of them, and 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.480 then I can inflict some kind of punishment on the 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.840 Young Bucks, Jack Perry and Ocada the Elite after what 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.320 happened to me last time, I don't think I'd be 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:59.600 making a smart move trying that, he added, And I 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.800 bring the because I just watched that WWF Challenge where 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:10.720 we saw the final match. The retirement literally for a 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.080 long time. He actually eventually did come back by the 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:18.360 retirement of Captain Lou Albano, which was the most bizarre thing. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.040 Like I will talk about the retirement of Lou Albano 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:23.720 very quickly after the break. If you guys haven't been 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.640 listening to the Brian of any show, but it was 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.440 the wackiest thing I've ever seen. So we'll talk about 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.840 that after the break. Saudi Arabia n XT and then 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.480 Rocky Romera is coming on back in a moment, it 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:34.960 was her life. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.720 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.480 and Mike Simper VV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:22.000 So these WWE Challenge shows, WWF Challenge from eighty six. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.920 We're on episode eleven right now, and you know, the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:31.200 first first half dozen episodes just you know, matches, nostalgia, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:39.560 squash matches, you know, wrestler's rebuttal, snake pit, so whatever, 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.800 you know, and then all of a sudden, like two 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.600 weeks ago, just randomly, totally randomly, in the middle of 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:52.520 the show last week, actually Bobby Heaton goes, I got 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.840 a scoop for y'all. Captain Loue Albano is gonna come 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.760 on here later on and he's gonna tell you he's retire, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.600 he's leaving the business. And Grulham on soon. The babyface 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.160 commentator is like, what are you talking about? You're such 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.439 a gimmick, blah blah, blah and so you know, they 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.960 go to commercial and they come back, and they come 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.000 back and girl has totally changed his tune. He goes, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.480 looks like we're about to hear from Captain Loue Albano, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.440 who appears to be leaving the wrestling business. And they 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.560 go to Captain Lou and just like out of nowhere, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.800 Captain Lou goes, next week, we're gonna have a six 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.680 man and I'm done. I'm retiring. I'm retiring as a 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.640 wrestler and a manager and I'm having a hand over 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.800 my duties to Matilda. And they just cut away and 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.480 I went, what what. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.880 That's the way you extinguished the guiding Light? 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.480 What is going on? Like this is Lou Albano, you know, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.760 a year after the Rock and Rustling connection, huge gigantic star, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.159 and they're like, he's just gonna, you know, like retire 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.000 next week. Okay, what's what's the gimmick? So it's no gimmick. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.439 The next week they just did a six man and uh, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.040 and he lost and he was gone. He didn't come 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.879 back for like six years. He came back as like 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.840 a manager or whatever and then just appeared again. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.239 That was it. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.879 That was the end of his career. That was the 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.000 craziest end to a career I've ever seen. And the 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:21.000 point is, they do this match and he's teaming with 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.640 the Bulldogs and he's face and uh it doesn't matter. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.200 But the point is, uh, they they everyone else does 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.280 all the work. He stands on the apron of the 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.080 entire time Bulldogs hit the big move it was. It 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:42.200 was beefcake and it was the Beefer Beefer and Valentine. Yeah, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.159 and he just you know, they take him and he 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.960 goes and he gets a pin. That's it. He doesn't 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.720 do any he doesn't take a bump, he doesn't sell, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.159 he doesn't do anything. He just goes in there, covers 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.600 and gets the wind and then he celebrates and then 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.720 they go backstage and they you know, shoot alcohol over him, 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.200 try and drown him head and that's it. That was 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.560 the end. The way way. The point is like if 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.000 if we found out tomorrow, if we found out tomorrow, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:12.200 if suddenly word broke out that you know, wb D 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.320 hired Jamie Kellner and he's like it's over, I'm canceling. Aw, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.000 it's done, and like the company which is like going 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.280 out of business, Well that should be the main event 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.879 of the final show. It should be Tony Kahn, Kenny 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:33.200 Omega and some other babyface against uh, you know, Jack 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.520 Perry and the Young Bucks and and hangman Kenny Omega 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.000 do all the work. They beat up those young Bucks. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.760 They ain't the v trigger and the Buckshot Daggan, Tony 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.480 he covers gets the pin. Everybody celebrates a spray liquor 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.040 and the thing's over, it's done. That would be a 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.440 fitting ending. But if they don't do that, he should 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.440 never wrestle mad idea. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.400 As long as he don start blating himself like Lou, 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.800 everything will be okay. You know, it's amazing. Lou was 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.399 going to have a job for the rest of his 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:07.000 life like Gorilla Monsoon and Arnold Scoland and Phil Zacho 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.040 and those guys. When Vince bought the company from his father, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.840 Captain Lou was gonna be one of those guys. And 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.840 apparently from all of the stories, Captain Lou would get 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.320 fired every couple of weeks and Bruno would like, you know, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.160 because Lou would do something drunk and piss people off, 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.080 piss off Vince McMahon senior, some other people, and then 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.280 he'd always come back into the fold again, but he left. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.439 And look, one of the reasons I think it was 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:37.200 so unceremonious was the fact that Lou had a lot 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.960 of outside activities that he did. Not only did he 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.960 work with Cyndi Lauper when he came to rock and wrestling, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.240 but there was a whole multiple sclerosis connection that he 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.040 continued to advocate for for the rest of his career. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.320 He ended up doing the Super Mario Brothers TV show 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.600 and a whole bunch of other things after that, So 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:56.760 I'm sure a lot of that played into it. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.360 So I mentioned a couple of things about a tea 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.000 as everyone is well aware, if you want the full report, 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.800 you have to go to uh the Bran and Vinie 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:06.840 Show on Thursday night. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.800 Oh they're gonna be and charts and breakdown. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.159 No, but I got two things I got to talk about. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.399 So you know, we talked about that worked combine and 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.639 and you know, they didn't do the Combine live. What 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.520 they said was now Combine was this weekend, here's clips, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.320 and so they showed just select clips, so you couldn't 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.320 you couldn't really compare anybody to anybody else, and so 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.800 it was very easy to work it basically. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.160 That's not true. Dia Hill makes the funniest face out 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:33.320 of it. 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.640 She does, she does. But you know, they they they 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.800 showed three different clips people pushing this led people throwing 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:43.520 the ball, and you know they're explaining that, you know, surprisingly, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.800 they they claim that they had this gimmick where it's 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.760 like a rotational drill where you you violently rotate with 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.080 a punch or something like that. And they said, uh, 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:59.199 surprisingly mee Chin came in first. Hence why she is 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.439 part of the os on SmackDown or something like that. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.720 You get a question her punch? 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:09.080 Yes, are you kidding me? So they have the top 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.639 twelve finishers. Okay, right now, listen, I want to make 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.800 it clear. I don't care. Okay, it's a work. The 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.960 storyline was we're gonna do a women's combine. The top 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.000 twelve finishers will get seated into this tournament to go 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.080 on to the ladder match at whatever to become the 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:29.879 first NXT North American women's champion. So they make the 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.680 list of the top twelve finishers and I'm reading this 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.720 list and it's like who wrote this bill? After? I mean, 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.000 this is what they had for the top twelve. Are 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:39.679 you ready for this. 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:40.480 I'm ready. 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.160