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Speaker 2: Why from the parts unknown Studios into the Battle Crowd,

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Speaker 2: the Battle the Battle Round. Welcome to the Battleground Podcast,

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Speaker 2: your place for all things pro wrestling.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Round now making their way to the microphones.

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Speaker 2: Give it up for your host.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battle Round. What's up you guys? Welcome

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Speaker 1: back into another episode of the Battleground Podcast. Let me

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Speaker 1: go ahead and tag in my tag team partner. Let's

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Speaker 1: bring Eli in. Eli. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Buddy?

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Speaker 4: I thought I was just gonna be a little tiny window.

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Speaker 1: For a second. There. No, it's it's uh Brian. Brian

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Speaker 1: is back. So he is running the board today and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know hearing about a week Impact is

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Speaker 1: doing Slammiversary, which we're super pumped about.

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Speaker 4: And uh, last year's SLAMI Versary is one of the

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Speaker 1: So what hands down it was the best pay review

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Speaker 1: of the year, and uh, you know we're looking at

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Speaker 1: it and you look at the card and there's some

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Speaker 1: going after Kenny Omega for that Impact Championship, and then

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Speaker 1: of course you've got the Knockouts Champion, You've got the

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Speaker 1: I'm like, why isn't violent by design on the card?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Are they not even allowed to show up?

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Speaker 2: I mean they're the tag team champs.

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Speaker 4: They took the belts back from New Japan, So I

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it just is it? Does Impact not

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Speaker 4: Maybe they're too violent? You know, Eric Young is a

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Speaker 1: As an understate. Oh shoot boys, Eric, I'm in that's

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I feel like we made our presence pretty

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Speaker 2: But I mean we're the most violent group in wrestling.

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Speaker 2: We have violence in our blood. I mean the war machine,

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Speaker 4: So you'd be okay with a night off in that

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Speaker 1: Impacts Lenniversary is happening on July seventeenth. You can watch

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Speaker 2: Right, that's yeah, that's correct. It's a long time coming.

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Speaker 2: Some people don't want to know what's really going on.

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Speaker 2: Some people don't want to know the full truth. But

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Speaker 1: That's freaking amazing. Ewy, thank you so much for that.

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Speaker 1: I know people are excited about that. When we found

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Speaker 2: To that early, early early.

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Speaker 1: On days at the Fairgrounds every Wednesday night. And now

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Speaker 1: getting to hear you inviting our listeners to come to

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Speaker 1: wrestling at the TV tapings. Dude, that is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. E Yeah, I mean, you guys do great work.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, people that are listening to this are

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Speaker 2: what Impact Wrestling is about. And it's written by pro

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Speaker 2: other things. And look, I'm a wrestling fan. I've been

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Speaker 4: Man, and that's in it. It seems like like since

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Speaker 4: at least about twenty seventeen, Impacts been this and last

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Speaker 4: year's SLAMI Versary was kind of like the exclamation point

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Speaker 4: TV tapings will be Monday, July nineteenth. It'll be a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, SLAMI Versary obviously is you know it and just

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Speaker 2: There will be some surprises, The main event will be

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Speaker 2: and the world tag titles will be defended. Ultimate Access back.

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Speaker 2: The women's division has been on fire basically the entire year,

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm not pretty sure. I know Slammiversary is

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Speaker 2: so the only opportunity to see it live is the

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Speaker 2: seven pm to ten pm taping. And now you guys

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Speaker 1: That is amazing. I mean force too.

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Speaker 4: I was going to say, as soon as the go ahead,

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Speaker 4: And we're like we're trying to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: Like you got you know what I mean? So like

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Speaker 1: my phone was blowing home man clim versus having people

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Speaker 4: February twenty Yeah, we saw a lot of Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: Man and uh and we're looking forward to seeing who's gonna,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're we're not sweating it. You know, with

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Speaker 2: Obviously the night didn't go as I had planned it,

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Speaker 2: but you know, voted Match of the Year, voted Surprise

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Speaker 2: massive deal for me. I I love proving people wrong. Man.

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Speaker 2: I've been a fan of shoving it up people's you

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Speaker 1: Man. We're we're excited to be there at Slammiversary, and

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