Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Are you ready, It's about to hit
Speaker 1: the fan. Welcome to Unsanctioned Thursdays Wrestling with Friday, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. This is your host, Mike Michaelson on behalf
Speaker 1: of Freddie Prinz Junior and Jeff di This is on
Speaker 1: sanctioned Thursdays. All right, we're gonna talk. Since there's only
Speaker 1: forty seven hours a week of wrestling, the people demanded
Speaker 1: more time, and Unsanctioned Thursdays is that time. And fortunately
Speaker 1: there's more wrestling out there on Saturday night and it's collision.
Speaker 1: And with the departure of Cmpunk, Brian Danielson has smoothly
Speaker 1: slid into the ultimate babyface position. And I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear for the next year, I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's gonna be a bigger babyface than Brian Danielson.
Speaker 1: I almost called him Daniel Bryan than Brian Danielson. He
Speaker 1: basically announced that he has a year left of wrestling,
Speaker 1: saying I promised my daughter when she turned I think
Speaker 1: it was seven years old, that I was going to
Speaker 1: wrestle a lot less and be home a lot more.
Speaker 1: And she's six years old, and this being his last year.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, this guy can do he
Speaker 1: will do no wrong in the eyes of the fans.
Speaker 1: He can do anything he wants to anyone in the company,
Speaker 1: and it'll come off like a babyface because he just
Speaker 1: Your favorite football player just told you this is his
Speaker 1: last season. Your favorite basketball player just said, this is
Speaker 1: my final season. Come watch me play. No matter what,
Speaker 1: this guy so beloved. Everyone knows that he was looked
Speaker 1: over and passed over. At WWE, Vince Hunter and Stephanie
Speaker 1: had no thought of putting the World Championship around him.
Speaker 1: They put him in a crappy tag team that he
Speaker 1: made work with Cain. It started the hell No to
Speaker 1: the Hell Yes movement, and the Yes movement is what
Speaker 1: put the title around Danielbrian at WWE, who we know
Speaker 1: now is Brian Danielson, But the man who got the
Speaker 1: Yes movement to get behind him was a man who
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest professional wrestlers ever. And his
Speaker 1: skills on the mic developed over the years to the
Speaker 1: point where they are now were a very high level.
Speaker 1: And he's not a storyteller. He's very straight, direct and
Speaker 1: to the point. But he let everybody know this is
Speaker 1: just about it, and every match I have from this
Speaker 1: moment forward is going to mean something. Starting with and
Speaker 1: he announced his match against Zach Saber Junior, who I
Speaker 1: saw on the NXT channel a couple times. In whatever
Speaker 1: that World Cup thing that they was. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: World Cup. It was like the May Young Classic, only
Speaker 1: for dudes. But anyway, this guy is a special, special wrestler.
Speaker 1: He's a man's man, y'all. He just had a match
Speaker 1: where he broke his arm in like the first five
Speaker 1: minutes and still went for another twenty. Came back from
Speaker 1: the arm injury, had an epic strap match with Ricky
Speaker 1: Starks in which he won and still put him over.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough good stuff about this guy. He
Speaker 1: would come into our acting workshop when I worked at WWE,
Speaker 1: and he seems the same way now as he was then,
Speaker 1: Just a hungry dude who's doing what he loves. He
Speaker 1: treated everybody with so much friggin respect. He treated everybody
Speaker 1: so well, with so much dignity and kindness. And not everybody,
Speaker 1: in fact, hardly anybody lived a life he lived. He
Speaker 1: was a vegan back then. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: still is, you know what I mean? Like he was
Speaker 1: a real just a straight shooter, but he just treated
Speaker 1: every everybody phenomenally well, whether they were veterans that he
Speaker 1: treated with respect or people that were even newer than
Speaker 1: him that he would also treat with respect. But I
Speaker 1: saw him do that from the very beginning, and I
Speaker 1: know that he's still that way today because I know
Speaker 1: people that have worked with him, and they all say
Speaker 1: the same things about him. I can't say enough good
Speaker 1: things about Daniel Brian because that guy's just an absolute
Speaker 1: treasure of a guy, and we're lucky to have seen
Speaker 1: seen him wrestle.
Speaker 2: I am a little flustered by it, if I'm honest.
Speaker 2: We waited so long for him to come back, you know,
Speaker 2: we had so many years of the he can't wrestle,
Speaker 2: and the storyline of like will he ever be cleared?
Speaker 2: And then there was all these rumors of like, if
Speaker 2: he does get cleared by a different wrestling division that
Speaker 2: isn't like WWE, then he's gonna leave w which made
Speaker 2: everyone be like, what we're gonna lose Daniel Bryan to
Speaker 2: because some other people will clear him, And then the
Speaker 2: whole storyline of I'll never wrestle again, and now he
Speaker 2: is resiling. I really believe that he's only going to
Speaker 2: give us one more year so that he can spend
Speaker 2: time with his daughter, who will be turning seven in
Speaker 2: a year. And he promised her. I don't know why
Speaker 2: he'd make that promise. What about us? What about us?
Speaker 2: Daniel also wrestlers, I thought you guys didn't retire. I
Speaker 2: thought you just would die in the ring or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't say no more matches. He just said
Speaker 1: way less. Okay, So he did throw that out there.
Speaker 1: He just said I'll be wrestling a lot. Oh.
Speaker 2: I thought he said that he was going to be done.
Speaker 2: He'll be done and when she turned seven.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, maybe we can go
Speaker 1: to our you know, our our expert producer. But I
Speaker 1: think he made it sound more like he was just
Speaker 1: about done. But would maybe you know, undertook him for
Speaker 1: a while so to speak.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we don't want him to just go away.
Speaker 2: That's what we don't want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody wants to lose Danielbrien. And we know that
Speaker 1: you kids miss your dad, But come on, kids, suck
Speaker 1: it up, come on eight more. Yeah, that's what exactly.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't think these pro athletes understand, and this
Speaker 2: goes with football, baseball, basketball, hockey, pro wrestling UFC. They
Speaker 2: think I care about their personal lives.
Speaker 1: The you know, oh, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta spend time with my kids. I've got to think
Speaker 2: about my family. You know you don't think what You
Speaker 2: don't think about me when you leave town to go
Speaker 2: take these big contracts, when you go to a different
Speaker 2: you don't consider me, So why would I care about
Speaker 2: your personal life? We want you wrestling.
Speaker 1: Jeff ignores all his kids every week just so he
Speaker 1: can be here for us. He ignores all of them.
Speaker 1: Didn't even live with that.
Speaker 2: Who needs them?
Speaker 1: Right? Did you flip them?
Speaker 2: Ball?
Speaker 1: Don't like it. Ricky Starks came out and interrupted and
Speaker 1: is still setting himself up to be that next guy.
Speaker 1: And he also did it on Dynamite as well in
Speaker 1: a in a backstage segment that he he's honestly just
Speaker 1: as good at as he is in the entering stuff lately,
Speaker 1: but the path that he's on is the path he
Speaker 1: needs to stay on right now. This dude has found
Speaker 1: something in the last few months and it's really working well.
Speaker 1: The crowd loves it. He's even gotten booze, which is
Speaker 1: hard to do because when people love you, whether you're
Speaker 1: a good guy or bad guy. These days, they still cheer.
Speaker 1: It took a seventy year old man getting whipped with
Speaker 1: a belt to do it, but still, man, he got
Speaker 1: some booze. It's not an easy task, but yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I really enjoy collision when it's good and when they
Speaker 1: focus on the right people, man, it's it's good. And
Speaker 1: they did that. They did that this week. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the return of Jay fucking car Kill the best,
Speaker 1: not Seth freaking Rollins. They don't have the guts to curse.
Speaker 1: Jade fucking car Gil is back. The choke slam looked awesome,
Speaker 1: the boot looked awesome. Everybody got the hell beat out
Speaker 1: of them. The segment was supposed to be about her.
Speaker 1: She came out in like the disco ball, shiny like
Speaker 1: suit looking things, so it was all lights on her,
Speaker 1: all focused on her. The white hair stepped in the
Speaker 1: ring like she owned it, smashed on everybody looked down,
Speaker 1: said that's my belt, walked out, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Jad Cargill. That's all I need to see, and I'm
Speaker 1: a happy wrestling pit. That's all I need.
Speaker 2: I got Big Bill beating up on Brian Anderson, I
Speaker 2: got Jade Cargill. This is a good week of wrestling
Speaker 2: if I can get two of my strong favorites like
Speaker 2: that in the same week.
Speaker 1: You love the Big Ones, he loved Big Ones, and
Speaker 1: he's Eddy's Jack drive Big Bill. He's Jack. Okay, Miro
Speaker 1: and Hobbs. I did not think think that we would
Speaker 1: get to spend time talking about this storyline too much
Speaker 1: because it's two big guys that aren't great on the mic.
Speaker 1: Although I think Hobbs is getting better on the mic.
Speaker 1: Miro is who he is on the microphone. It's hard
Speaker 1: when it's not your first language, and I think he
Speaker 1: does a good job considering considering that he speaks English
Speaker 1: fluently and I don't know how many other languages. But CJ. Perry,
Speaker 1: who we knew is Lana back in the day, one
Speaker 1: of the coolest managers ever when she was Russian Lana.
Speaker 1: When it was Ross, I loved that Lana. American Lana
Speaker 1: I didn't connect with as much. But evil old school
Speaker 1: Russian Lana was awesome. She is back, and she kind
Speaker 1: of put Russev's or Rusev. She kind of put Miro's
Speaker 1: storyline into context and added another wrinkle to the Hobbs
Speaker 1: Mirro story, which I hope isn't over. Shouldn't be meet
Speaker 1: him in need to be slapping meat, But she had
Speaker 1: a backstage like video of it, not backstage but like
Speaker 1: a video of vin yet basically saying that Miro lost
Speaker 1: his path and he was gonna have to find it,
Speaker 1: but she was going to have to find hers as well,
Speaker 1: and she did, and that discovery was She's going to
Speaker 1: become the coldest motherfucker on the planet and become the
Speaker 1: baddest manager in aew and I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 1: she's got a shot. She's got a shot the crowd.
Speaker 1: She's got a shot. Hear me out. Okay, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough and aew hat. I don't think has gotten
Speaker 1: the manager thing one hundred percent right. Yet the crowd
Speaker 1: friggin loves Miro so damn much. They want their big guy,
Speaker 1: like you like big guys to get over. Even if
Speaker 1: he's not doing great, they're still cheering and putting him
Speaker 1: over like he is, like in his promos and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. They really try to be receptive to his
Speaker 1: messages in the back stage segments that he's done that
Speaker 1: aren't always the best. If she can talk even a little,
Speaker 1: even a little bit, she's got a shot to get
Speaker 1: this over because they love him so damn much. If
Speaker 1: she comes off real at all and not like fake phony,
Speaker 1: super hot Hollywood blonde girl. But if she just comes
Speaker 1: off as real, even a little bit real, they're gonna
Speaker 1: love her and she I man, I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: she can do it. I think she's got a chance
Speaker 1: to pull it off, and it will be nice to
Speaker 1: have a manager that I liked in aew because in
Speaker 1: the NXT man she had it, she had it and
Speaker 1: she had the crowd, and I think she can pull
Speaker 1: that off again, I really do. Well, what makes a
Speaker 1: good manager, Well, first of all, the necessity of one. Right,
Speaker 1: your talent has to not be the best on the mic,
Speaker 1: so there's the necessity. Second, you have to be money
Speaker 1: on the microphone. I've seen okay now as the Amya
Speaker 1: Mri Lana. It was not money. However, as Russian Lana,
Speaker 1: and when she had a character she did really really well.
Speaker 1: I think if she throws everything away, everything that was
Speaker 1: wwe throw all that out and it's just I'm CJ. Perry,
Speaker 1: this is who I am. This is my man. I've
Speaker 1: stayed with him through everything because he's the most dominant
Speaker 1: male on the fucking planet and the rest of you
Speaker 1: guys are betas period. This is the kind of man
Speaker 1: I respond to. Then she's got a shot the same
Speaker 1: way like scary Share or sensational share he was with
Speaker 1: macho man like she was killing it back then. So
Speaker 1: I just I would love to see a strong manager
Speaker 1: at AEW and I'm glad they're taking a shot with her.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying she's got a shot, which means dodds
Speaker 1: are stacked against her.
Speaker 2: I think so too. I agree with all that. I
Speaker 2: just think that the best managers you know are the
Speaker 2: ones who crush it on the microphone. I think Enzo
Speaker 2: Amory could come back as like a manager and be
Speaker 2: a great No, not a wrestler. Don't put him in
Speaker 2: the ring.
Speaker 1: She was, she was money.
Speaker 2: Let him be on the mic. I think Lana is
Speaker 2: a smoke show. I think she's so stinking hot, and
Speaker 2: I really liked her when she was doing the Russian thing.
Speaker 2: Just like you said everything, I agree with everything you said.
Speaker 2: I just think it is going to be an uphill
Speaker 2: battle because I wouldn't say that her strong suit is
Speaker 2: necessarily like the microphone. But I'm rooting for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that will be the dilemma. But I
Speaker 1: wish them luck, I wish them well, and I wish
Speaker 1: all our listeners well too, because this is unsanctioned Thursdays
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