<v Speaker 1>Oh man, you know, eleven years ago, it was actually

<v Speaker 1>over eleven years ago TNA left Spike TV. That was

<v Speaker 1>the best television that they ever had. It was the

<v Speaker 1>biggest audience they ever had, and the company really has

<v Speaker 1>not been the same since ever since they left Spike.

<v Speaker 1>So getting television on really any network other than Access

<v Speaker 1>TV was imperative to TNA if they were going to

<v Speaker 1>try to grow their audience and just grow the brand.

<v Speaker 1>So when they made the announcement a few months ago

<v Speaker 1>about the AMC deal, it was great news and it

<v Speaker 1>is great news for the company. No matter what we

<v Speaker 1>talk about here today about this debut installment of TNA

<v Speaker 1>impact on AMC, it is a good thing that TNA

<v Speaker 1>is on AMC now. And you would think that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>especially for their big debut here on this network, that

<v Speaker 1>they would put their best foot forward and try to

<v Speaker 1>really hit a home run because I think that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>when you debut on a new network like this and

<v Speaker 1>you're trying to reel in new fans, you really want

<v Speaker 1>to just grab them by the throat and just pull

<v Speaker 1>them in, right. You want to find some way to

<v Speaker 1>just pull those fans in and make them go, oh

<v Speaker 1>my god, I got to tune into this show next

<v Speaker 1>week and the week after that and the week after that.

<v Speaker 1>Right that that should have been the mission. And of

<v Speaker 1>course they have a pay per view to promote on

<v Speaker 1>Saturday as well because we have Genesis coming up. So

<v Speaker 1>tonight was the big debut on AMC network, which if

<v Speaker 1>you forgot, they certainly reminded you many many, many many

<v Speaker 1>times here tonight, which is understandable, but it is impossible

<v Speaker 1>not to know where the show now is being broadcast.

<v Speaker 1>One thing I don't understand before anything else, I don't

<v Speaker 1>understand how it is possible that this show has worse

<v Speaker 1>production values than at Day eleven years ago. Like when

<v Speaker 1>we're thinking back to TNA in twenty twelve, twenty fourteen,

<v Speaker 1>how is it that they had better production values then

<v Speaker 1>than they do in twenty twenty six How have they

<v Speaker 1>regressed since then? Because to me, that was one of

<v Speaker 1>the things that was actually very noticeable when they came

<v Speaker 1>on the air tonight, was how different it looked. And

<v Speaker 1>I don't mean that in a good way. So I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how that works or how that's possible. There's

<v Speaker 1>a lot of things I don't understand about this show.

<v Speaker 1>Forgetting the production value stuff. I don't understand bringing Perez

<v Speaker 1>Hilton in for this show and paying him more than

<v Speaker 1>fifty bucks to do what he did. He didn't have

<v Speaker 1>a huge role on the show, but that was sort

<v Speaker 1>of the big celebrity they were promoting, and he was

<v Speaker 1>also promoting it on his social media heading into this show.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know who that appeals to. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know whose idea that was to even invite

<v Speaker 1>him to be there. So that's one of those things

<v Speaker 1>I don't really understand. I also don't understand them multiple

<v Speaker 1>times cutting to a shot of the parking lot outside

<v Speaker 1>the venue in Dallas where they and showing a virtually

<v Speaker 1>empty parking lot. I'm not sure who came up with

<v Speaker 1>that as a production idea, like, hey, let's cut to

<v Speaker 1>an empty parking lot outside. That was actually kind of funny,

<v Speaker 1>not something I would have done, but they did that

<v Speaker 1>more than once here on this show. And I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you could just go down you can just go down

<v Speaker 1>the list here. We had three matches. We have three

<v Speaker 1>matches on this two hour show, and the rest of

<v Speaker 1>it was filled with various other segments and promos. AJ

<v Speaker 1>Styles made an appearance didn't do much of anything. It

<v Speaker 1>really did feel like AJ was more of a almost

<v Speaker 1>like a make good because there were reports that WWE

<v Speaker 1>might want to use Leon Slater on their European tour

<v Speaker 1>and I'm not sure if Leon Slater look it ended

<v Speaker 1>up being a visa issue, and I'm going to get

<v Speaker 1>into that here in a second, but I just wonder

<v Speaker 1>if it was almost like, well, you know you're gonna

<v Speaker 1>be missing Leon Slay or some people will give you Aja.

<v Speaker 1>He can't really do anything with him, but at least

<v Speaker 1>he can make an appearance on the show, and AJ

<v Speaker 1>Styles just making an appearance was at least good enough

<v Speaker 1>for TNA to be able to promote for a few days.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't have a lot of time to promote that

<v Speaker 1>Styles was going to be on the show. But it's

<v Speaker 1>a good thing they didn't go overboard on the promotion

<v Speaker 1>because again, in the end, he really didn't do anything.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't factor into anything. He did appear in a

<v Speaker 1>few different segments briefly, but if you were tuning in thinking, okay, well,

<v Speaker 1>the last time we saw Aj Styles, he showed up

<v Speaker 1>and cut a promo and put over Leon Slater, and

<v Speaker 1>so this time maybe they have something a little more

<v Speaker 1>involved than mine for him, And nope, he actually did

<v Speaker 1>less of this time than he did back at Slammiversary,

<v Speaker 1>the last time we saw him. But I'm watching this

<v Speaker 1>show and I'm just thinking back to Eric Bischoff, and

<v Speaker 1>I have questions that people will send me asking me

<v Speaker 1>what do I think about Eric Bischoff saying and I

<v Speaker 1>guess he said this multiple times. Now, this is the

<v Speaker 1>year where TNA is going to become the number two

<v Speaker 1>wrestling promotion in the world. They're going to become number two,

<v Speaker 1>right watch out aw And it was nonsensical when he

<v Speaker 1>said it before, and I didn't take it seriously because

<v Speaker 1>it's just complete bullshit. And now that I have seen

<v Speaker 1>this debut episode of Impact on AMC, I would hope

<v Speaker 1>that we can put this shit to bed once and

<v Speaker 1>for all. First of all, their main focus shouldn't be

<v Speaker 1>becoming number two. Their main focus should be putting on

<v Speaker 1>the best possible show that they can, right, And everybody

<v Speaker 1>else will worry and pick knits about whether or not

<v Speaker 1>they're number two, number three, or whatever. But I hear this,

<v Speaker 1>and I again, people take it seriously. Oh, do you

<v Speaker 1>think it's possible they can become the number two promotion. No, No,

<v Speaker 1>it was nonsensical before when he said it, and it's

<v Speaker 1>nonsensical now that the first show is in the books.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't want to hear about that anymore. But

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned that there were some visa issues with some talent.

<v Speaker 1>I'll just read to you here. This was an update

<v Speaker 1>that was posted earlier by Mike Johnson on PW insider

<v Speaker 1>dot com. TNA has undergone rewrites and will be changing

<v Speaker 1>some plans leading into Tonight's premiere and Saturday's Genesis pay

<v Speaker 1>per view. The changes were necessitated by a number of

<v Speaker 1>international talents no longer being able to perform as processing

<v Speaker 1>for twenty twenty six work visas had not been completed

<v Speaker 1>by the US government surprise, surprise. The issues would impact

<v Speaker 1>talents from the UK and Canada. Specifically X Division champion

<v Speaker 1>Leon Slater would be the biggest name waiting for approval

<v Speaker 1>that we have heard. There are several staffers from Canada

<v Speaker 1>who are also not able to travel to work while

<v Speaker 1>the processing is still in flux. TNA management and Creative

<v Speaker 1>have been working on alternative plans and ideas over the

<v Speaker 1>last forty eight hours, we are told, and that is unfortunate.

<v Speaker 1>It's one of those circumstances that, yeah, I would say

<v Speaker 1>TNA has no control over it. I don't know how

<v Speaker 1>how you know the process works where TNA is concerned,

<v Speaker 1>and how early that process was started. Did people drop

<v Speaker 1>the ball on it, did they wait too long? Or

<v Speaker 1>is it just that everything's a fucking shit show now

<v Speaker 1>and it was really out of TNA's hands. So it's

<v Speaker 1>unfortunate that you know it affected plans. Obviously, Leon Slater

<v Speaker 1>was originally going to defend the X Division title on

<v Speaker 1>the show against Myron Reid of the Rascals, the Rascals

<v Speaker 1>who are no longer employed by TNA. The Rascals have

<v Speaker 1>jumped ship and they are now working for AW, So

<v Speaker 1>that match was likely not going to happen anyway, even

<v Speaker 1>though Myron Reid apparently said he would be willing to

<v Speaker 1>still do the match and do the job even if

<v Speaker 1>Leon Slater was able to wrestle. Who knows if that

<v Speaker 1>match actually would have taken place. I'm guessing it would

<v Speaker 1>not have. But as I'm watching the show, something that

<v Speaker 1>struck me. There were multiple video retrospectives showing past moments

<v Speaker 1>in TA in a history, past stars and legends that

<v Speaker 1>have appeared for TNA over the years, and some of

<v Speaker 1>the great champions the X Division. They had a video

<v Speaker 1>on the X Division. They had a video on the

<v Speaker 1>Knockouts Division. They showed the beautiful people and all of

<v Speaker 1>these different individuals. You know what I would have rather

<v Speaker 1>have gotten here on this show instead of a video

<v Speaker 1>showing the Knockouts and how great the Knockouts Division has

<v Speaker 1>been over the years, it would have been nice to

<v Speaker 1>get a really great Knockouts match. We had a Knockouts

<v Speaker 1>Tag team title match tonight that was not good. It

<v Speaker 1>would have been nice to get, you know, like a

<v Speaker 1>one on one really good Knockouts match to illustrate the

<v Speaker 1>Knockouts Division and the talent that they have in that

<v Speaker 1>division instead of getting a video on it. And it

<v Speaker 1>would have been nice to get, in a similar fashion,

<v Speaker 1>a great X Division match. Maybe not X Division title

<v Speaker 1>because the champion wasn't available, but he's not the only

<v Speaker 1>one in the X Division. It would have been nice

<v Speaker 1>to get a real hot X Division match, maybe right

<v Speaker 1>after that AJ Styles you know, opening segment or at

<v Speaker 1>the top of the second hour or something like that,

<v Speaker 1>instead of getting a video about all the great X

<v Speaker 1>Division champions that we have had here in TNA history,

<v Speaker 1>and we didn't have any of that. Instead, we had

<v Speaker 1>Mike Santana, who is out there doing his damned is

<v Speaker 1>doing Mike Santana things and doing his damned this to

<v Speaker 1>salvage this show. He is once again the TNA World

<v Speaker 1>Heavyweight Champion. Mike Santana never should have lost the TNA

<v Speaker 1>World title to begin with, if you think back to

<v Speaker 1>what happened Mike Santana, this great story about him struggling

<v Speaker 1>and clawing and scratching his way to the TNA World Championship,

<v Speaker 1>and finally he does it. At Bound for Glory, he

<v Speaker 1>gets his moment and his daughter is in the ring

<v Speaker 1>and he presents the belt to his daughter. He bows

<v Speaker 1>down to his daughter. What a wonderful moment. Right finished

<v Speaker 1>his story, and then TNA basically I think, went on

<v Speaker 1>hiatus for a month, took a vacation. They come back,

<v Speaker 1>and the very first event, the very first taping they do,

<v Speaker 1>he loses the championship first fucking night back and they

<v Speaker 1>take the title off of him in some ridiculous angle

<v Speaker 1>where he is beaten up by the Jabrones of the

<v Speaker 1>NXT roster. The NX team mid card, and then they

<v Speaker 1>tried to shoot some kind of dumb angle where I

<v Speaker 1>remember Santana can't be reached. TNA management is calling his phone,

<v Speaker 1>He's not returning texts and phone calls. What's going on

<v Speaker 1>with Mike Santana. They were trying to work some of

<v Speaker 1>the dirt sheets, and then Carlos Silva said there would

<v Speaker 1>be an investigation in all this nonsense, and where the

<v Speaker 1>hell did that really go? That made it all worthwhile?

<v Speaker 1>It was all bullshit? Also, what they can do a

<v Speaker 1>rematch for the championship here on AMC. You could have

<v Speaker 1>done any number of great Maine events here on AMC.

<v Speaker 1>I get the idea. But he never should have lost

<v Speaker 1>the championship in the first place, So of course it

<v Speaker 1>was the right move for them to get the belt

<v Speaker 1>back on him, because he never should have lost it

<v Speaker 1>to begin with, not that soon. So now he's the

<v Speaker 1>TNA World Heavyweight Champion again. Easily the best thing on

<v Speaker 1>the entire show. Kind of fell apart a little bit

<v Speaker 1>there towards the end there were it got a little

<v Speaker 1>messy there at the end, but easily the best thing

<v Speaker 1>on the entire show here tonight. And now he goes

<v Speaker 1>into Genesis this Saturday, there's gonna be another match. They're

<v Speaker 1>gonna run it back again, and they're gonna do Santana

<v Speaker 1>and Kazarian again. Nick Nemmath supposedly was gonna call his

<v Speaker 1>shot on this show. He's got the whole call call

<v Speaker 1>your shot gimmick, and he was gonna come out at

<v Speaker 1>the end of the match. He never did. He in fact,

<v Speaker 1>he wasn't even on the show. His brother was on

<v Speaker 1>the show. He was not on the show. I can

<v Speaker 1>only assume because they're saving it for the pay per

<v Speaker 1>view this Saturday, where he will call his shot and

<v Speaker 1>hopefully they're not dumb enough to take the belt right

<v Speaker 1>back off Santana for a second time. So there was

<v Speaker 1>no Nick Nemath and no, there was no Chris Jericho.

<v Speaker 1>There was not because again these dumb rumors that go

<v Speaker 1>around and you know they're gonna they're gonna bring Jericho in,

<v Speaker 1>And like I'm watching this show. I'm maybe half an

<v Speaker 1>hour into watching this show tonight, and I'm just thinking, man,

<v Speaker 1>can you even think can you even imagine in your

<v Speaker 1>mind he's been gone for almost a Yearone's talking about

<v Speaker 1>him coming back to WWE and being in the rumble

<v Speaker 1>if he had come out tonight on this show, Like

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure the people in the building would have thought

<v Speaker 1>it was cool. You know, we have wow, this actual

<v Speaker 1>big surprise here on this show. But like, no, of

<v Speaker 1>course Jericho is not going to be on this show.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm sure Jericho was probably watching this show, going,

<v Speaker 1>it's a good thing I'm not debuting here on this

<v Speaker 1>show tonight. I'll think I'll wait for I'll wait for

<v Speaker 1>the rumble. So there was no major surprise. They had

<v Speaker 1>a few surprises. They had a few names pop up

<v Speaker 1>here on this show, but there wasn't that like one

<v Speaker 1>big surprise. Even at the end of the show. I

<v Speaker 1>was thinking about that too, like in terms of hooking

<v Speaker 1>in the viewer. They had Santana win the championship back,

<v Speaker 1>which was fine, but I was wondering if there was

<v Speaker 1>something that was going to happen or if somebody even

<v Speaker 1>if somebody was going to like walk out and make

<v Speaker 1>an appearance and you kind of go off the air

<v Speaker 1>with a little cliffhanger, what's this person doing here? And

<v Speaker 1>they opted not to do that. They gave us a clean,

<v Speaker 1>well mostly clean finish in the main event, and they

<v Speaker 1>just went off the air, there was really nothing to

<v Speaker 1>add of the ordinary. You know, at the very end

<v Speaker 1>of the show, they kind of let the title change

<v Speaker 1>speak for itself. What they did tease on this show

<v Speaker 1>was AJ Styles potentially going after Frankie Kazarian and the

<v Speaker 1>TNA World Heavyweight Championship just to go ahead then and

<v Speaker 1>take the championship off of Frankie Kazarian later in the show. So,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that was about. AJ Styles. If

<v Speaker 1>it were up to him, he would wrestle a match

<v Speaker 1>in TNA. This is going to be his final year

<v Speaker 1>in wrestling. We don't know how long or how deep

<v Speaker 1>into the year he's going to go. If it were

<v Speaker 1>up to him, he would have probably already wrestled the

<v Speaker 1>match in TNA. It comes down to WWE and Nick

<v Speaker 1>Conn and Paulaveck and whether or not they want to

<v Speaker 1>will allow that to happen, and if so, who would

<v Speaker 1>it be against. You could do AJ Styles and Frankie Kazarian,

<v Speaker 1>but you know, without the belt on the line, that

<v Speaker 1>takes some of the excitement away, because you certainly could

<v Speaker 1>if you wanted to put the World Championship back on

<v Speaker 1>AJ Styles. You know, a few months down the road,

<v Speaker 1>one last time. I suppose I don't see that happening.

<v Speaker 1>But Styles being on the show and not really doing

<v Speaker 1>anything that was kind of disappointing. Didn't get physical with anybody, nothing, nothing,

<v Speaker 1>And the one teas they gave us was for a

<v Speaker 1>match that now would not even be for the championship,

<v Speaker 1>so that was a little bizarre. But I mentioned some

<v Speaker 1>surprises Sonya Deville. The surprises, honestly were limited to the

<v Speaker 1>Knockouts Division, Sonya Deville, who we have not seen on

<v Speaker 1>television since he was released or I guess her contract

<v Speaker 1>was allowed to expire by WWE. She is now officially

<v Speaker 1>a member of the TNA roster and I assume she'll wrestle,

<v Speaker 1>but she is going to be in a position of power.

<v Speaker 1>She's now going to be the heel authority figure on

<v Speaker 1>the show, opposite Santino Morele. He's the director of authority.

<v Speaker 1>She's the director of operations. So she was on the

<v Speaker 1>show tonight and her first order of business was to

<v Speaker 1>introduce the newest member of the Knockouts Division, the former

<v Speaker 1>Corra Jade Elena Black, who has not wrestled a match

<v Speaker 1>since leaving WWE last year. She is now a part

<v Speaker 1>of the TNA knockouts roster. And do you know who

<v Speaker 1>else we had on the show tonight, Dixie Carter. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>it's been quite some time since I was doing my

<v Speaker 1>impact reviews and talking about delusional Dixie. Now we're going

<v Speaker 1>back to the old days at a sound This is like

<v Speaker 1>old school sound off. Now Dixie Carter walks out there

<v Speaker 1>and the fans don't forget she got booed out of

<v Speaker 1>the building tonight, which just goes to show you that

<v Speaker 1>at least we know the people that were there in

<v Speaker 1>the building tonight. Those are the real like OG fans

<v Speaker 1>Like these are the diehard TNA fans, the ones that

<v Speaker 1>remember the Dixie days. And they did see very happy

<v Speaker 1>to see her. But even she made an appearance here

<v Speaker 1>on this show tonight, so they had a few, like

<v Speaker 1>minor surprises like that. But when the show is over,

<v Speaker 1>I just felt, man, what a missed opportunity this was.

<v Speaker 1>This was not a show that I feel compelled to

<v Speaker 1>watch again next week. And I won't be reviewing this

<v Speaker 1>show like this is this is one and done here.

<v Speaker 1>I've not got you back and reviewing the show every week.

<v Speaker 1>That was never the plan anyway, And it's sure as

<v Speaker 1>hell is not the plan. After tonight, I came away

<v Speaker 1>from this show just feeling, man, this was just a misfire.

<v Speaker 1>This was just a disappointing show. I don't know any

<v Speaker 1>other way to put it. You know, I mean, you

<v Speaker 1>watch this show. There's absolutely nothing that I saw on

<v Speaker 1>this show tonight as a viewer, especially if I were

<v Speaker 1>a new viewer, that would compel me to feel like

<v Speaker 1>I have to tune in again next week. We'll see

<v Speaker 1>if I'm right or wrong. I guess once the numbers

<v Speaker 1>come in. But that's that's my feeling coming out of

<v Speaker 1>this show. As the show was going along, I was

<v Speaker 1>just waiting for it to kick out a first gear.

<v Speaker 1>It never got out of first gear. It was it

<v Speaker 1>was like in neutral the entire time. And it didn't

<v Speaker 1>help that like WWE, when they tried out these dumb

<v Speaker 1>d list celebrities that nobody either knows or gives a

<v Speaker 1>fuck about because they're on Netflix. So we got to

<v Speaker 1>have all the Netflix celebrities in the front row. This

<v Speaker 1>guy's from this Netflix show and that guy's from that

<v Speaker 1>Netflix show. It's like, okay, great, who gives a shit?

<v Speaker 1>Now they're doing the same thing here, which they have

<v Speaker 1>to because they're on a new network, right, they have

<v Speaker 1>a new master to serve, So AMC is going to

<v Speaker 1>want to promote their shit, and they're going to want

<v Speaker 1>to promote their stars. And I guarantee you most of

<v Speaker 1>the people watching this show tonight had no idea who

<v Speaker 1>these people were, and probably don't even watch AMC outside

<v Speaker 1>of TNA. It's probably their first time watching AMC. And

<v Speaker 1>there was way too much of that. There was way

<v Speaker 1>too It's almost as if they really took this show

<v Speaker 1>and patterned it after a WWE show. And I don't

<v Speaker 1>mean that in a good way, right down to the

<v Speaker 1>post show credits, and I don't know if that's something

<v Speaker 1>TNA started doing a while ago and I just never

<v Speaker 1>noticed it, or if this was the first time they

<v Speaker 1>did that, right down to the like the producer credit's

<v Speaker 1>on screen at the very end of the show. It's

<v Speaker 1>like they may not be owned by WWE, but you

<v Speaker 1>could tell, you know, you could tell they're in business

<v Speaker 1>with WWE, and they are in many ways subservient to

<v Speaker 1>WWE and trying to model themselves after WWE since they

<v Speaker 1>work together. And I don't know, I don't see that

<v Speaker 1>as being a good thing either. I think you need

<v Speaker 1>to kind of carve out your own identity. And maybe

<v Speaker 1>that's the biggest issue with this show when you look

<v Speaker 1>at the two big main national promotions, right, you have

<v Speaker 1>WWE and you have AW with AW one of the

<v Speaker 1>criticisms about the show, and some people may not look

<v Speaker 1>at it as a criticism, right the AAW fans, the

<v Speaker 1>AW sikos, they love this shit or it's just all

<v Speaker 1>action all the time, right, match match match, match, match,

<v Speaker 1>party match, not like NonStop every single week. And then

<v Speaker 1>on the WWE side of things, sometimes we don't get

<v Speaker 1>nearly enough action and we have too much of you know,

<v Speaker 1>promoting this and celebrity that, and video packages and long

<v Speaker 1>entrances and commercials and commercials and commercials. Right, So you

<v Speaker 1>want to find kind of that that happy blend. What

<v Speaker 1>TNA gave us tonight, they didn't give us anything that

<v Speaker 1>we don't already get from the other two shows. The

<v Speaker 1>other two shows they have taken the majority, like they have,

<v Speaker 1>the market share of talent in this country is pretty

<v Speaker 1>much locked down by WWE, ANDAAW. So their rosters, I

<v Speaker 1>mean their roster, especially the AW roster, it's like it's

<v Speaker 1>so bloated, it's unbelievable. They have so many people under

<v Speaker 1>contract and their rosters just dwarf the TNA rosters, So

<v Speaker 1>they already have this wealth of talent, a lot of

<v Speaker 1>which they don't even know what to do with some

<v Speaker 1>of that talent. But like everything I just described, we

<v Speaker 1>get the either from AW or WWE, pick your poison,

<v Speaker 1>whichever one, whichever one you like. What does TNA offer

<v Speaker 1>that is so different from WWE and AW? How did

<v Speaker 1>they differentiate themselves on this show? It felt like I

<v Speaker 1>was watching WWE light with worse production values. There was

<v Speaker 1>nothing to differentiate them in a way that really makes

<v Speaker 1>you feel like you need to watch the show every

<v Speaker 1>single week. And that's something that hopefully they could work

<v Speaker 1>on in the weeks to come. This was Night one,

<v Speaker 1>and they'll get their sea legs under them and hopefully

<v Speaker 1>as time goes on, maybe they can find their own identity.

<v Speaker 1>They just didn't feel like they had their own identity tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They were relying more on their past identity with all

<v Speaker 1>the looking back at the past and how great TNA

<v Speaker 1>used to be, But they don't really have their own identity.

<v Speaker 1>They don't have their own like style and way of

<v Speaker 1>doing things like they're taking from here and they're taking

<v Speaker 1>from there. That's my biggest issue with them right now,

<v Speaker 1>just based on what I saw here tonight. Let's talk

<v Speaker 1>about what happened here on this show. This is your

<v Speaker 1>TNA impact on AMC Review here for Thursday, January fifteenth,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty. I see you, Lisa Hey, Lisa Hey, I

<v Speaker 1>told I told JD what was he he made the

<v Speaker 1>comment when we were doing the year end awards. What

<v Speaker 1>did he say the TNA promotion of the year. Don't

<v Speaker 1>think I didn't throw that back in his faith promotion

<v Speaker 1>of the Year. I didn't forget that. What's going on, Lisa?

<v Speaker 1>I am a solemn monster. This is your impact on

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<v Speaker 1>going back to Sunday. We have a day number six

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<v Speaker 1>Hey Brandon Proctor, thank you. It is time for the wheel.

<v Speaker 1>We started this last night, so we have the wheel

<v Speaker 1>here before we get into the review, and normally four

<v Speaker 1>hundred likes is the minimum to do our be the

<v Speaker 1>Booker segment. But we're gonna throw it to the wheel.

<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of different likes totals on this wheel,

<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna take this for a spin and we're

<v Speaker 1>gonna see whatever it lands on. That is the minimum

<v Speaker 1>number of likes that we need to do be the

<v Speaker 1>Booker tonight. I think me spinning this wheel may be

<v Speaker 1>more exciting than this Impact show. All right, here we go, Well,

<v Speaker 1>there you go. Four hundred. We're sticking with our traditional

<v Speaker 1>goal four hundred likes. That is the minimum number of

<v Speaker 1>likes that we need. If we hit it, we will

<v Speaker 1>do be the Booker later on tonight. There it is

<v Speaker 1>the big four hundred. I love it. It's like the

<v Speaker 1>wheel new We're just going to keep it to what

<v Speaker 1>we normally have it at. I love it. The other

<v Speaker 1>thing also that I wanted to mention for those of

<v Speaker 1>you who may have missed it, there is a brand

<v Speaker 1>new installment of a very fun segment. Now it's its own,

<v Speaker 1>full blown show. It's a full blown oose now. RSPW

<v Speaker 1>rewind nearly an hour long, too, fifty minutes, and it

<v Speaker 1>is up right now for channel members. Here on the

<v Speaker 1>channel you have early access to it. Everybody else will

<v Speaker 1>get access to it next week. But if you are

<v Speaker 1>a channel member and you missed it, go check it

<v Speaker 1>out when we're done here. I had a lot of

<v Speaker 1>fun putting this together, and hopefully you will have fun

<v Speaker 1>watching along some of the comments about John Cena after

<v Speaker 1>he debuted in two thousand and two and on into

<v Speaker 1>two thousand and four. In two thousand and five, it's

<v Speaker 1>a lot of Dave Meltzer posts about him as well. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>that's up right now, so go check that out. Become

<v Speaker 1>a channel member, and everybody else, you guys, will get

<v Speaker 1>it next week. Old school RSPW. You know, two thousand

<v Speaker 1>and two, I may have to start looking up some

<v Speaker 1>RSPW posts about the early days of TNA. Maybe that'll

<v Speaker 1>be for the next installment. It gives me a good idea,

<v Speaker 1>so they were live tonight. TNA was from Dallas, Texas,

<v Speaker 1>and they had what looked like a good crowd. By

<v Speaker 1>no means was the venue full. One thing that TNA

<v Speaker 1>was very good at when they started hitting the road

<v Speaker 1>back in I I want to say twenty ten. It

<v Speaker 1>was actually around the time probably that they went live

<v Speaker 1>on Monday nights and they got slaughtered the Monday Night skirmish,

<v Speaker 1>which did not end well for TNA, so they immediately

<v Speaker 1>moved impact. I think back to Thursday, whatever day of

<v Speaker 1>the week it was. They got the hell away from Mondays.

<v Speaker 1>But they were taking the show on the road, and

<v Speaker 1>they were running these venues by and they were not

<v Speaker 1>selling out, but they had a knack back then and

<v Speaker 1>aaw does this also now because they don't always sell out.

<v Speaker 1>But they were very good at making it look like

<v Speaker 1>it was full, making sure that like on the hardcam

<v Speaker 1>like it was all filled in and they had these

<v Speaker 1>loud crowds so it sound didn't look like it was

<v Speaker 1>sold out, but it really wasn't. So it looked pretty

<v Speaker 1>full in the building tonight. It was a smaller venue,

<v Speaker 1>very much like Dynamite, And in fact, this venue, the

<v Speaker 1>Curtis Colwell Center, is the one I believe when aaw

<v Speaker 1>runs Dallas, this is the building I believe that they

<v Speaker 1>typically run in. Again, I laughed out loud when they

<v Speaker 1>cut to a shot of the parking lot outside as

<v Speaker 1>they were hyping up the show, and like, I'm not

<v Speaker 1>even joking. I think there were two cars in the

<v Speaker 1>parking lot. Why are you showing this? Where is everyone's car?

<v Speaker 1>Did everybody walk to the building? Is the building within

<v Speaker 1>walking distance of like a main area? Did everybody uber

<v Speaker 1>to the Curtis Colwell Center? Where are the cars? I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. Kind of appropriate though, I think, in many

<v Speaker 1>ways for a TNA show. So after an opening video package,

<v Speaker 1>they kicked off the AMC Era of Impact with a

<v Speaker 1>WWE star. But in fairness, he is the biggest name

<v Speaker 1>in I would say the biggest name in TNA history,

<v Speaker 1>especially in terms of homegrown talents, and that would be

<v Speaker 1>that man on screen right there, the phenomenal one aj

<v Speaker 1>Styles kicking off the AMC Era of Impact. Here they

<v Speaker 1>all took the bus. I think they did. I think

<v Speaker 1>they had. I think they had like a like a

<v Speaker 1>big party bus that probably bust people into the venue.

<v Speaker 1>I think you may be onto something there. They had

<v Speaker 1>Dixie with them on the party bus. Is there a

<v Speaker 1>train stop around there? Will? I will throw that to

<v Speaker 1>somebody watching who is familiar with that area. Maybe there

<v Speaker 1>is a train that's close by, and the majority of

<v Speaker 1>people chose to take the train. I don't know. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, says No. DFW is an expansive area. You

<v Speaker 1>don't walk anywhere in Dallas or Texas for that matter. Well,

<v Speaker 1>there you go, there's your answer. First thing I noticed

<v Speaker 1>once AJ hit the ring was how small the ring was.

<v Speaker 1>It reminded me of the first TNA show I ever

<v Speaker 1>went to, you Live, which was here in New York

<v Speaker 1>at Webster Hall, So it's a dancehall venue. It's not

<v Speaker 1>a traditional venue you would run for a wrestling show,

<v Speaker 1>so they had limited space. The ring was so fucking small,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, I was in one of the first

<v Speaker 1>few rows and I just remember sitting there with my

<v Speaker 1>brother and I'm like, I've never seen a show in

<v Speaker 1>a ring this small before. And that was in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and eight. So that's kind of what this ring

<v Speaker 1>reminded me of, Like, there's no way the usual TNA

<v Speaker 1>ring week to week is this small, I don't think.

<v Speaker 1>So that was the first thing I noticed. So AJ

<v Speaker 1>told us that he would keep it short, and I'm like, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>please do more. I want you to keep it short.

<v Speaker 1>They promoted you for the show. I don't want you

<v Speaker 1>to just come in and wave high and leave. But

<v Speaker 1>he's like, no, no, I'm gonna keep it short because

<v Speaker 1>we got some wrestling to do. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

<v Speaker 1>We have a whole three matches on this show tonight.

<v Speaker 1>We have a lot of wrestling on this show. And

<v Speaker 1>he welcomed us to the house that AJ Styles built,

<v Speaker 1>and he told the fans you are TNA, you are

<v Speaker 1>the TNA Nation, and it all starts with those three

<v Speaker 1>letters TNA. And he led the crowd in a TNA

<v Speaker 1>chant and he said, let's create some chaos. He didn't

<v Speaker 1>do this. I don't know where this came from. Before

<v Speaker 1>they cut to the new video intro for the show,

<v Speaker 1>and I was just like, is that it is that

<v Speaker 1>the last that we're going to see of AJ Styles

<v Speaker 1>on this show. It wasn't, but really it may as

<v Speaker 1>well have been, because he really didn't do anything for

<v Speaker 1>the rest of the show. AJ was double parked. Well,

<v Speaker 1>if he was double parked, he wasn't double parked in

<v Speaker 1>the parking lot because there were no cars in the

<v Speaker 1>parking lot, So where exactly would he be double parked? See,

<v Speaker 1>I'm having more fun with you, guys than I was

<v Speaker 1>watching this show tonight. I knew this would happen. I

<v Speaker 1>love it. He was double parked. Where was he double parked?

<v Speaker 1>Oh man? So from aj Styles they went to the

<v Speaker 1>Hardy Boys and Elijah goes, hello, my name is Elijah.

<v Speaker 1>It's the easiest gimmick in the world. You just take

<v Speaker 1>the Elias gimmick and just replace Elias with Elijah, and

<v Speaker 1>he's doing exactly the same thing he did in WWA.

<v Speaker 1>This was his first match in nearly six years, six years,

<v Speaker 1>six months, six months. How actually, how long has it

<v Speaker 1>been since he was in WWE officially like under contract,

<v Speaker 1>It's been a few year. It has been six years.

<v Speaker 1>It feels like six years, I do. But he suffered

<v Speaker 1>an injury. He tour his triceps actually working a match

<v Speaker 1>in NXT, and so he's been gone for over six months.

<v Speaker 1>So this was officially his first match back, and he

<v Speaker 1>was teaming with the Hardies, who got a rock star

<v Speaker 1>reaction coming out. Of course it's the Hardies, So they

<v Speaker 1>made their way out to the ring for a match

<v Speaker 1>against Order four, which is Mustafa Ali's faction here in

<v Speaker 1>this company with Special Agent ten or zero is a

<v Speaker 1>zero Special Agent zero in their corner. Ali and Elijah

<v Speaker 1>are having a singles match at the Genesis pay per

<v Speaker 1>view this Saturday, so that's kind of the tie in here.

<v Speaker 1>And it was at this point that I started getting

<v Speaker 1>some messages from people telling me that they were watching

<v Speaker 1>the show on the TNA Plus streaming service and the

<v Speaker 1>streaming service went dead and basically it said the show's over.

<v Speaker 1>It ended the stream. Now, if you are someone who

<v Speaker 1>watches on TNA Plus, I would love to know if

<v Speaker 1>it was ever restored or if that was it, if

<v Speaker 1>they just simply were not able to restore the feed

<v Speaker 1>for the remainder of the night. Again, very LOLTNA moment there,

<v Speaker 1>that on their big AMC debut night, their own streaming

<v Speaker 1>service would go dead right at the beginning of the show.

<v Speaker 1>So I think it happened actually during the Hardy's entrance here.

<v Speaker 1>So then they went to a commercial break ninety seconds

<v Speaker 1>into this match. Again very wwes here they went to

<v Speaker 1>commercial break, and the first commercial that we got was

<v Speaker 1>a car shield commercial and This is an old commercial,

<v Speaker 1>so this is not new, but it's a car shield

<v Speaker 1>commercial with La Knight and Rick Flair. This commercial has

<v Speaker 1>to be at least five years old. It has to

<v Speaker 1>be so Tasha steals at one point during this match here,

<v Speaker 1>she attempted to get involved. She got into the ring

<v Speaker 1>to distract Jeff Hardy. Matt Hardy ended up giving her

<v Speaker 1>and most of fa Ali she was on his back

<v Speaker 1>a double twist of fate for a near fall on Ali.

<v Speaker 1>Shortly after, Jason Hotch of Order four he tagged in

<v Speaker 1>for the Heel Group, but quickly took a big knee

<v Speaker 1>from Elijah, a twist of fate from Matt Hardy, and

<v Speaker 1>a swanton bomb from Jeff for the win. And look,

<v Speaker 1>Jeff Hardy did not do too much here. He did

<v Speaker 1>win the match for his team with a swanton bomb.

<v Speaker 1>He absolutely crushed Jason Hodge. I mean he just landed

<v Speaker 1>on him with all of his body weight on his

<v Speaker 1>way down. For those who don't know, Jeff is hurting

<v Speaker 1>right now. He is dealing with two bulging discs in

<v Speaker 1>the left part of his neck, so he's medically cleared,

<v Speaker 1>but he really he's not doing anything too crazy. He's

<v Speaker 1>not really doing a whole hell of a lot, but

<v Speaker 1>you know again, they kind of did some of the

<v Speaker 1>greatest hits here in this match. Jeff picked up the

<v Speaker 1>win for his team. Special Agent Zero got into the

<v Speaker 1>ring when it was over, he attacked the Hardies and

<v Speaker 1>then out came Vincent and Dutch the Righteous, challenging the

<v Speaker 1>Hardys for the TNA tag team titles on the Genesis

<v Speaker 1>pay per view this weekend. They helped Matt and Jeff

<v Speaker 1>to their feet and then Dutch dropped Matt and Vincent

<v Speaker 1>got Jeff down in the corner and he attached a

<v Speaker 1>chain to I think it was through one of Jeff's

<v Speaker 1>ear lobes or the you know, the ear ring or

<v Speaker 1>the hole in his ear, whatever it was. He was

<v Speaker 1>basically chained and trapped by his ear in the corner.

<v Speaker 1>And then Vincent hit Matt with a swanton bomb and

<v Speaker 1>that was it. There was nothing to this match. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it was all about, like, Okay, we're gonna put the

<v Speaker 1>Hardies out there. We're going to go from AJ Styles

<v Speaker 1>to the Hardys and really get people excited because these

<v Speaker 1>are the stars on the show. Right People want to

<v Speaker 1>see stars. AJ Styles is a star the Hardys are

<v Speaker 1>the biggest stars in TNA right now, Barnunn, There is

<v Speaker 1>no bigger star in TNA right now than Matt and

<v Speaker 1>Jeff Hardy. So the fans got to see the Hardys

<v Speaker 1>and they were very happy to see them, but they

<v Speaker 1>didn't do a whole hell of a lot here in

<v Speaker 1>this match, and they just were promoting a couple of

<v Speaker 1>matches that are taking place on the pay per view

<v Speaker 1>this Saturday. So we have a tag team title match,

<v Speaker 1>and so the Reightus got the last word, they got

<v Speaker 1>the last laugh here. Beyond that, not a whole lot

<v Speaker 1>to say after this. Gam Miller was interviewing the TNA

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Champion Frankie Kazarian in the back about his

<v Speaker 1>world title defense tonight against Mike Santana, but before he

<v Speaker 1>could say anything, Aj Styles showed up and Aj kind

<v Speaker 1>of got up in his face. Didn't say anything, he

<v Speaker 1>was just staring at him, and Kazarian thought that Aj

<v Speaker 1>should say thank you for the house, and AJ did,

<v Speaker 1>but he was clearly staring at the TNA World Championship

<v Speaker 1>on Kazarian's shoulder, and the fans in the arena even

<v Speaker 1>reacted like ooh, and then Aj walked off. So again

<v Speaker 1>they're promoting a match that I suppose they could do

<v Speaker 1>the match at some point, but it ain't gonna be

<v Speaker 1>for the championship now unless Kazarian wins the belt back,

<v Speaker 1>which would be fucking stupid. We got a promo video

<v Speaker 1>on the X Division featuring lots of faces who are

<v Speaker 1>currently not TNA stars, AJ Styles, Samoa, Joe, Christopher Daniels,

<v Speaker 1>Jerry Lynn. Then this is one of those segments that

<v Speaker 1>just really it really made them feel just very bush league, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>and that's not how you want your product to be viewed.

<v Speaker 1>They go to ringside and they did the WWE thing

<v Speaker 1>where we're gonna show the celebrities that are here because

<v Speaker 1>this is the happening show. Everyone's talking and buzzing about TNA,

<v Speaker 1>and they show Virgil or Tez Junior. It's a boxer,

<v Speaker 1>he's in the front row. Then they show a bunch

<v Speaker 1>of content creators they said, from around the world, and

<v Speaker 1>I think it was mostly reactors, like YouTube reactors, and

<v Speaker 1>they had them all lined up in the crowd, and

<v Speaker 1>so they identified each one of them and they go

<v Speaker 1>down the line. I saw con Men in there. Good

<v Speaker 1>to see him, but they show, you know, they show

<v Speaker 1>all of them. And when they do this, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know who was responsible for setting this shot up, but

<v Speaker 1>they show the content creators and behind them is just

<v Speaker 1>a swath of empty seats, like it's just clear as day.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why they sat them there or positioned

<v Speaker 1>them there. I don't know why they did that, but

<v Speaker 1>it was just very, very visible. But again, this was

<v Speaker 1>the way to show that the stars were out. So

<v Speaker 1>like Eric Young was in the crowd, they showed AJ

<v Speaker 1>Francis in the crowd, and they just kept telling us

<v Speaker 1>all the stars are out, the stars are at you

<v Speaker 1>see all the empty seats. The stars are out, right.

<v Speaker 1>Then they show us the stars of the AM show

<v Speaker 1>Dark Winds. They were shown in the crowd and don't

<v Speaker 1>ask me. I have no fucking idea. Apparently I asked

<v Speaker 1>the question a few weeks ago. I said, I used

<v Speaker 1>to watch all of these big shows on AMC, Walking Dead, Breaking,

<v Speaker 1>Bad Better Call Saul. I know that at one. I

<v Speaker 1>mean there have been other shows, obviously not Rescue Me.

<v Speaker 1>Rescue Me was FX, Sons of Anarchy and mad Men

<v Speaker 1>is going back Aways. I don't know what like the

<v Speaker 1>current really big show like what's the big popular show

<v Speaker 1>right it's certainly not Impact. What is the big popular

<v Speaker 1>show right now on AMC? Is it Dark Winds or

<v Speaker 1>is this like a new show that they're debuting. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know. So what the show is about, who's on it?

<v Speaker 1>I couldn't tell you don't ask me. So then next

<v Speaker 1>to them, next to the stars of Dark Winds Sons

<v Speaker 1>of Anarchy was FX. Okay, so maybe AMC didn't have

<v Speaker 1>as many great shows as I thought. I just named

<v Speaker 1>a couple of FX shows now. But mad Men was AMC, right,

<v Speaker 1>I know that was a while ago though. Anyway. The

<v Speaker 1>only thing I, honestly, outside of watching this Impact show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>the only time these days that I put AMC on

<v Speaker 1>is in October when they have their Fearfest. It's like

<v Speaker 1>the thirty Days of Halloween and they show all kinds

<v Speaker 1>of horror movies and Halloween movies. I try to watch

<v Speaker 1>as many of that, or at least have them on

<v Speaker 1>in the background. That's the only time I ever put

<v Speaker 1>on AMC. I don't know from any of these other shows,

<v Speaker 1>but we weren't done with the appearances because next to

<v Speaker 1>the stars of this AMC show, they had Mara Shahday, right,

<v Speaker 1>who used to be in NXT and she used to

<v Speaker 1>be partnered up with the Lash legend Jakara Jackson, so

<v Speaker 1>she's a member of the TNA roster. They showed her

<v Speaker 1>in the crowd and then next to Mars shah Day

<v Speaker 1>and I have no idea why, but they showed Candice

<v Speaker 1>Miss who never wrestled for TNA. She wrestled for WWE

<v Speaker 1>and that was like a lifetime ago. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know if she's made any WWE appearances in recent years,

<v Speaker 1>but for whatever reason, she was there. Maybe she's local.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know where she's living these days.

<v Speaker 1>But it's like, Okay, she wasn't part of the Knockouts division,

<v Speaker 1>but hey, there's fucking Candace Michelle. I mean they may

<v Speaker 1>as well she's I mean they may as well show

<v Speaker 1>fucking Wendy Richter in the crowd too. I mean that

<v Speaker 1>would make about as much sense. So then Ryan Nemeth

<v Speaker 1>shows up at ringside. They're gonna do a bit. He

<v Speaker 1>shows up at ringside to confront the stars, and he

<v Speaker 1>attempts to climb over the barricade, but in doing so,

<v Speaker 1>he crotches himself because he's an idiot, I guess, and

<v Speaker 1>he crotches himself on the barricade and then he got

<v Speaker 1>chopped to the floor by one of the stars of

<v Speaker 1>Dark Winds who I looked it up. He's about sixty

<v Speaker 1>years old. He looked eighty, but he chopped Ryan Nemmuz

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. This was an unbelievable segment. And just

<v Speaker 1>think we still haven't seen Perez Hilton yet. So after this,

<v Speaker 1>Santino Morella came to the ring for a promo. He

<v Speaker 1>is the TNA Director of Authority and talked about not

<v Speaker 1>being able to get over his daughter Ariana Grace betraying him,

<v Speaker 1>turning her back on him just recently because she's a heel.

<v Speaker 1>Now she's all paired up with Stax, Lorenzo and NXT

<v Speaker 1>and they are a real life couple. So the TNA

<v Speaker 1>board has decided that Santino needs some help. Well, Santino

<v Speaker 1>needs help. If I'm the TNA board and I watched

<v Speaker 1>this show tonight, I'm having I'm convening an emergency meeting,

<v Speaker 1>I think there's quite a bit of help that is needed.

<v Speaker 1>So they decided Santina needs help, and he said he

<v Speaker 1>was hesitant at first, but then he was relieved once

<v Speaker 1>he found out who this person was that they were

<v Speaker 1>bringing in to help him. And so then he introduced

<v Speaker 1>this person. He said, this person is very professional and

<v Speaker 1>has a lot of experience. And this person turned out

<v Speaker 1>to be the former Sonya Deville, who is now going

<v Speaker 1>by the name Daria Ray. Daria's her real name, but

<v Speaker 1>Daria ray r Ae like Summer Ray. She is now

<v Speaker 1>the newest addition to the TNA roster. She came out

<v Speaker 1>and she joined Santino in the ring and he welcomed

<v Speaker 1>her to TNA and she congratulated him and called Santino

<v Speaker 1>one of the pillars? Really, is he one of the

<v Speaker 1>pillars of TNA? Okay, I mean, we've heard about the

<v Speaker 1>AW pillars before. I've never really thought of Santino as

<v Speaker 1>a pillar of AW or a TNA ray, But okay,

<v Speaker 1>I'll go with it. But she's really like talking him

<v Speaker 1>up here, and she said that he deals with the good,

<v Speaker 1>the bad, and the ugly, yet manages to keep smiles

<v Speaker 1>on everyone's faces, including hers. She was really laying it

<v Speaker 1>on thick here. Then the switch got flipped and she said,

<v Speaker 1>one thing this company does not need is you. She said,

<v Speaker 1>they don't need his stupid jokes and his comedy relief.

<v Speaker 1>And she said that he can't even keep his own

<v Speaker 1>family in order, and his own daughter doesn't even respect him.

<v Speaker 1>So Santino tried to speak, and she told him to

<v Speaker 1>shut up. So Daria said that she's run locker rooms before,

<v Speaker 1>she understands television. She said that she can do the

<v Speaker 1>job better than him. My name is Daria Ray and

<v Speaker 1>I'm the suit. So you shut up when I'm talking.

<v Speaker 1>So she teased leaving the ring, and she said, oh,

<v Speaker 1>I almost forgot to mention. I signed my first order

<v Speaker 1>of business here, signed the newest addition to the Knockouts Division,

<v Speaker 1>and allow me to introduce you. And outcomes Elena Black,

<v Speaker 1>the former corri je aide from NXT. She walked out

<v Speaker 1>onto the stage and she did a little pose and

<v Speaker 1>that was it. She didn't come to the ring. She

<v Speaker 1>didn't say anything, she didn't do anything. First, let me

<v Speaker 1>just say this, I thought that when Sonya Deville was

<v Speaker 1>the assistant to Adam Pierce right on SmackDown, she did good.

<v Speaker 1>I thought that was a good position for her. And

<v Speaker 1>I thought that she did well in the authority figure role,

<v Speaker 1>the heel authority figure role, They even did that angle

<v Speaker 1>with her and Naomi there for a while which kind

<v Speaker 1>of went on forever. So I feel like this is

<v Speaker 1>a good spot for her to be in. I don't

<v Speaker 1>hate her being kind of the end to the yang

<v Speaker 1>that you know. Santino is the babyface authority figure. Now

<v Speaker 1>there's a heel authority figure. I mean, the whole authority

<v Speaker 1>figure thing is especially heel authority figure. It's a played

<v Speaker 1>out trope anyway, but I think it's a good role

<v Speaker 1>for her to be in. As far as Core Jade,

<v Speaker 1>she has not wrestled at all since WWE released her,

<v Speaker 1>so I don't know what to expect there. I did

<v Speaker 1>see there was footage just today actually on social media.

<v Speaker 1>It's video. I don't know where it's from, maybe they're

<v Speaker 1>IG or whatever, but I saw there was a match

<v Speaker 1>that she had somewhere like a mock match with Mandy Rose.

<v Speaker 1>They were hitting the ropes and they were doing some

<v Speaker 1>moves together. I wouldn't be surprised if Mandy Rose eventually

<v Speaker 1>ends up in the Knockouts division in this company too.

<v Speaker 1>She doesn't need to, though, I don't know if they

<v Speaker 1>could afford her. Like She's been very open before about

<v Speaker 1>the money that she's made from only fames. She's a

<v Speaker 1>millionaire now, Like whatever TNA would pay her, she will

<v Speaker 1>make far more money just doing her own things. She

<v Speaker 1>doesn't have to work for TNA, So she would really

<v Speaker 1>have to want to come back to wrestle, and even

<v Speaker 1>then I'm not sure if they could afford her. But

<v Speaker 1>if she was going to come back, I could see

<v Speaker 1>her ending up in the Knockouts division. So we go

<v Speaker 1>backstage and this was the final appearance of the night

<v Speaker 1>for AJ. Styles his third appearance, second time here in

<v Speaker 1>a backstage segment, and he confronts Mike Santana, who's sitting

<v Speaker 1>down in a chair, and the Style says, I've known

<v Speaker 1>Frankie Kazarian for twenty years and I never thought I

<v Speaker 1>would say it, but I hope that you kick his ass.

<v Speaker 1>Styles said that he helped He helped the company as

<v Speaker 1>long as he could, and now it's Santana's turn. Mind you,

<v Speaker 1>AJ left the company over a decade ago. It's almost

<v Speaker 1>like he's like passing the torch. Dude, you've been gone

<v Speaker 1>for like how long has he been gone for? Like

<v Speaker 1>twelve years? Thirteen years? So he teld Santana do what

<v Speaker 1>he does best by going out there and win, and

<v Speaker 1>Santana stood up, he removed his shades, he thanked AJ

<v Speaker 1>and they slapped hands. So he got the endorsement here

<v Speaker 1>from AJ Styles and that was the last we saw

<v Speaker 1>of AJ. Thanks for coming. He was in Germany on Monday.

<v Speaker 1>He flew all the way to Texas to do a

<v Speaker 1>whole lot of nothing here on this show, and then

<v Speaker 1>he'll be off to wherever raw is this coming Monday. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I guess they're gonna be in Ireland, right, They'll be

<v Speaker 1>in Belfast, so that's where AJ will be. So then

<v Speaker 1>they showed the actors again of this fucking Dark Winds show,

<v Speaker 1>sitting in the frest like they're contractually obligated to do this.

<v Speaker 1>They show these guys in the front row again. I

<v Speaker 1>almost want to watch this show now just to find

<v Speaker 1>out what the fuck it's about. We'll do a whole

<v Speaker 1>Dark Winds review. And Tom Hannafin on commentary thanked them

<v Speaker 1>for being there like they were doing them a favor.

<v Speaker 1>They really want you to know the stars of Dark

<v Speaker 1>Winds or in attendance tonight. Then we had the inspiration

<v Speaker 1>against the Elegance brand. This was for the knockouts. Tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles. This was not the big Marque knockouts match

<v Speaker 1>that I would have tried to do for my first

<v Speaker 1>AMC show, but this is the match that we got.

<v Speaker 1>Before the match, we had the concierge, the guy that

<v Speaker 1>was typically with Ashby Elegance and all of them. She's

<v Speaker 1>obviously retired now, but the concierge was there with the

<v Speaker 1>Elegance brand in the ring and with them in the

<v Speaker 1>ring Perez Hilton, So now we get to find out

<v Speaker 1>what his role is going to be here on this show.

<v Speaker 1>Hilton and the concierge, they insulted the crowds he's here

<v Speaker 1>to be a heel, which he is. Someone was in

<v Speaker 1>the ring with them though, hiding under some white feathers,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm looking at this and I'm like, is the

<v Speaker 1>gobbledee goooker? Like? Who is this? What is this reveal

<v Speaker 1>going to be? This could be one of the big

<v Speaker 1>surprises that they have saved for the show here. So

<v Speaker 1>the person underneath the feathers reveals himself to be mister Elegance,

<v Speaker 1>which you know, was a name that I was given

<v Speaker 1>in college. But if he wants to use that's fine.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't copyright it. It's mister Elegance, and I have

<v Speaker 1>no fucking idea who this person is. Young guy, pretty

<v Speaker 1>good shape, you know, not like big or anything, got

<v Speaker 1>long blonde hair. Probably some indie worker. I've never seen

<v Speaker 1>him before in my life, but he's mister Elegance. So

<v Speaker 1>the Elegance brand women, they had the letters AMC on

<v Speaker 1>their trunks and they turned to the camera. They basically

<v Speaker 1>had the letters AMC on their asses and showed it

<v Speaker 1>to the camera. This was horrible. This is what they

<v Speaker 1>brought Perez Hilton in for. He didn't even take a

<v Speaker 1>fucking bump. The least they could have done was have

<v Speaker 1>aj Styles give him a styles clash, which I guess

<v Speaker 1>would have been a little risky since he's not a

<v Speaker 1>trained worker, but fuck you may as well do something

<v Speaker 1>with him. Didn't even take a bump. I wonder how

<v Speaker 1>much they paid him for this appearance. We're seeing talents

<v Speaker 1>left and right being let go by TNA or choosing

<v Speaker 1>to leave because obviously TNA is not willing to or

<v Speaker 1>able to pay them what they feel their worth. But

<v Speaker 1>they have the money to bring fucking Perez Hilton in

<v Speaker 1>for this show. How many viewers do you think he

<v Speaker 1>brought in for this show. Do you think he brought

<v Speaker 1>in a single viewer for this show. I don't think

<v Speaker 1>he brought in a single viewer that is going to

<v Speaker 1>stick around and watch TNA for another week. So the

<v Speaker 1>inspiration thankfully interrupted this horribleness. Champions rushed the ring, they

<v Speaker 1>knocked the Elegance Brand out of the ring, and they

<v Speaker 1>immediately went to a break. You know, for a show

<v Speaker 1>called total NonStop action, we had very little of it

<v Speaker 1>here on this show. This is where it really hit

<v Speaker 1>me as we went to a commercial break here in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of all this. It's like, it's not how

<v Speaker 1>you convert new viewers. Imagine people like have never heard

<v Speaker 1>of TNA or they're not wrestling fans, but they watch

<v Speaker 1>AMC and they say, oh, Total NonStop Action Wrestling is

<v Speaker 1>going to be debuting. I have to watch this. This

<v Speaker 1>sounds like it could be fun. And then up to

<v Speaker 1>this point, I don't know how long into the show

<v Speaker 1>we were, maybe an hour like horrific horrific, The Elegance

<v Speaker 1>Brand worked over. Cassie m went for a moon salt.

<v Speaker 1>Cassie though, got her knees up. M by Elegance that

<v Speaker 1>is Jesse McKay she got the hot tag. She was

<v Speaker 1>stalking the concierge outside the ring for a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>McKay and Lee they hit a double suplex on m

<v Speaker 1>and then mister Elegance distracted the referee. The Inspiration went

<v Speaker 1>for their finish. The referee got distracted again, mister Elegance

<v Speaker 1>clipped Lee in the knee and that allowed m By

<v Speaker 1>Elegance to roll up Lee for the win. This was

<v Speaker 1>a fucking mess, is what this was. But the Elegance

<v Speaker 1>brand regain the Knockouts Tag Team Championships and according to

<v Speaker 1>Sean Ross, the Inspiration are gone from TNA. They are

<v Speaker 1>now free agents. This was their last night. They were

<v Speaker 1>doing the honors on their way out, and so that

<v Speaker 1>is why we had a title change here. Even more

<v Speaker 1>free agents now coming out of TNAS. If we haven't

<v Speaker 1>had a number of those recently, you could add them

<v Speaker 1>to the list. And that's to say nothing by the

<v Speaker 1>way of the fact that on this show next week

<v Speaker 1>they are doing a feast or Fired match, which is

<v Speaker 1>like an old school TNA gimmick. So someone is getting fired,

<v Speaker 1>then maybe they get fired in storyline, or maybe they

<v Speaker 1>get fired for real. We could have somebody else on

<v Speaker 1>the way out next week depending on who ends up

<v Speaker 1>in this feast or fired match. I don't think they

<v Speaker 1>could afford to have anybody fired. We got a quick

<v Speaker 1>promo in the back with Stacks and Ariana Grace where

<v Speaker 1>they trashed Santino, and Grace said that Santino was wondering,

<v Speaker 1>you know how all of these NXT stars have been

<v Speaker 1>invading and getting into the door and making their way

<v Speaker 1>into the buildings and everything. And she said, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the answer was right under your nose this entire time.

<v Speaker 1>It was me. It was me, Dad, And she said

<v Speaker 1>management fixed Santino's problem by hiring someone who would do

<v Speaker 1>a better job than he ever could. We go to

<v Speaker 1>the back. Indie Heartwell said that she feels like she's

<v Speaker 1>been in limbo ever since her dog Collar match. When

<v Speaker 1>she was interrupted by the Elegance Brand. They were celebrating

<v Speaker 1>their championship victory and they threatened to send Indy on

<v Speaker 1>a plane back to Australia. Santina Morello was back out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring again the second time now on the

<v Speaker 1>show with him, and he brought out the reigning TNA

<v Speaker 1>Knockouts champion Lee Ying Lee, who came out with Zia

<v Speaker 1>Brookside Santino announced that and he had a contract with

<v Speaker 1>him in his hand, and so Santino went to that

<v Speaker 1>due to an international visa crisis, Danny Luna will not

<v Speaker 1>be able to appear at Genesis this weekend. So instead,

<v Speaker 1>Lee has signed an open contract because you see, she

<v Speaker 1>is a fighting champion, so she has an open contract

<v Speaker 1>to defend her championship at Genesis. And that brought out Soul,

<v Speaker 1>Ruka and Zaria from NXT and they make their way

<v Speaker 1>down to the ring and Soul Rucas says that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>we were here in town just to scout for a

<v Speaker 1>potential shot at the Knockouts tag team titles. But she

<v Speaker 1>suggested that, you know, I think Zaria ought to answer

<v Speaker 1>the open challenge. And Zaria was caught off guard by this.

<v Speaker 1>You know, she obviously meant a lot to her that

<v Speaker 1>Seul felt that way that she should be the one

<v Speaker 1>to accept this open challenge. Soul said that to no

<v Speaker 1>one is more deserving than Zaria, who then signed the

<v Speaker 1>contract on Santino's back. So we now have a knockout

<v Speaker 1>title match for Genesis. It will be Zaria challenging Lee,

<v Speaker 1>ying Lee for the championship. And you know what, I

<v Speaker 1>could see Zaria winning that title. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>she will or not, but just because she does a

<v Speaker 1>work for TNA means nothing. They could very easily move

<v Speaker 1>that title onto her this weekend. Earlier in the day,

<v Speaker 1>we had another segment here with Santina Morella three. He

<v Speaker 1>got as many segments on this show as AJ Styles did.

<v Speaker 1>Actually he did more than AJ Styles did. In this segment,

<v Speaker 1>he confronted Cedric Alexander. This was earlier in the day

<v Speaker 1>in the empty venue here, and he informed Cedric that

<v Speaker 1>who was supposed to be challenging for the X Division

<v Speaker 1>Championship at Genesis in a three way along with Moose,

<v Speaker 1>And he had the unfortunate news that because of this

<v Speaker 1>these visa problems, which are a very real thing, Leon

<v Speaker 1>Slater will not be at Genesis, which means that Leon

<v Speaker 1>Slater will not be able to defend his EX Division

<v Speaker 1>championship at Genesis. However, he does have a replacement, it

<v Speaker 1>will not be a title match. He'll have to get

<v Speaker 1>his title shots some other time. However, it will be

<v Speaker 1>Cedric Alexander, it will be Moose, and it will be

<v Speaker 1>and he wouldn't send the man's name because you're not

<v Speaker 1>supposed to say his name, and Alexander was like, who

<v Speaker 1>are you talking about? And he ended up we ended

<v Speaker 1>up hearing Joe Hendry's theme playing on Cedric's phone. He

<v Speaker 1>pulled his phone out and there was the fucking tron

<v Speaker 1>on his phone with the music for Joe Hendry. So

<v Speaker 1>Joe Hendry, who was already announced I think as making

<v Speaker 1>an appearance at Genesis, is going to be wrestling in

<v Speaker 1>this three way match. What condition? What state would TNA

<v Speaker 1>be in now if they were not able to use

<v Speaker 1>this talent from NXT, Like if NXT did not have

<v Speaker 1>access to these TNA talents, like they'd be fine. And

<v Speaker 1>I like the fact that the two companies are able

<v Speaker 1>to work together, but like, if TNA did not have

<v Speaker 1>access to WWE talent, like, imagine the shape they would

<v Speaker 1>be in right now. It's kind of sad, right Like,

<v Speaker 1>look at the show tonight, did be no aj Styles, Soul,

<v Speaker 1>rukn Zaria would not have been there. Zaria would not

<v Speaker 1>be you know, replacing Danny Luna this weekend to challenge

<v Speaker 1>for the Knockouts Championship and some of these other names

<v Speaker 1>as well. It's kind of scary. The system walked out

<v Speaker 1>on stage I said the system. That's right. We had

<v Speaker 1>Eddie Edwards, Alicia Edwards, Brian Myers, Moose and JDC, the

<v Speaker 1>former Fondango who is going to be retiring imminently, gonna

<v Speaker 1>be wrestling his last match. So the crowd gave Eddie

<v Speaker 1>Edwards the what treatment and he was talking about his

<v Speaker 1>match with JDC, who grabbed the microphone and got the

<v Speaker 1>crowd to cut it out. He basically had to be like,

<v Speaker 1>all right, guys, knock it off, and he thanked the

<v Speaker 1>fans for allowing him to finish his career in TNA.

<v Speaker 1>He said that the locker room is the best locker

<v Speaker 1>room he's ever been a part of, and the fans

<v Speaker 1>here in Dallas, you guys are the best fans. He

<v Speaker 1>said Saturday will be his final match and it will

<v Speaker 1>be against his friend of roughly twenty five years. And

<v Speaker 1>he said that he would be in the ring next

<v Speaker 1>week as a retired wrestler to announce the name of

<v Speaker 1>the newest member replacing him in the system. And JDC

<v Speaker 1>told Eddie that look, I love you like a brother,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm not going out like a punk. He said,

<v Speaker 1>either you pull the trigger, Eddie, or I will. After this,

<v Speaker 1>we had TNA president Carlos Silva. He loves the camera.

<v Speaker 1>Every TNA show that I watch. I watched like three

<v Speaker 1>pay per views last year, and I watched this show.

<v Speaker 1>Every show that I've watched, he's on camera. He's always there.

<v Speaker 1>So he made an appearance here. He came out on

<v Speaker 1>stage before the main event to announce one last surprise.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm sure you got people watching the show right

<v Speaker 1>now thinking, oh, man, the president of the company, right

<v Speaker 1>before the main event has walked out here he's promising

<v Speaker 1>he's got one last surprise. Oh my god, is it

<v Speaker 1>going to be Jericho? Is it gonna be ec three?

<v Speaker 1>Is who's it gonna be? Like? Oh my god. Of

<v Speaker 1>course I wouldn't be terribly excited about any of those names.

<v Speaker 1>But no, no, no, the surprise was Dixie Carter. And she

<v Speaker 1>comes out and she gets booed by the fans here

<v Speaker 1>in Texas. She's just the Nashville girl, but these fans

<v Speaker 1>were mean to her. They booed this woman because they remember,

<v Speaker 1>they remembered the Dixie Day, the delusional Dixie days. Oh

<v Speaker 1>what a time period that was. You got to go

<v Speaker 1>back in the archives and check out some of those

<v Speaker 1>impact reviews. From back in the day. Yes, the former

<v Speaker 1>TNA president introduced by the current DNA president, and honestly,

<v Speaker 1>to be fair to her, Dixie looks more or less

<v Speaker 1>the same. She still looks good. But yes, this was

<v Speaker 1>not well received here by the crowd. So she said

<v Speaker 1>a few words and the boo. After the as the

<v Speaker 1>boobirds were doing their thing, Bully Ray came out because

<v Speaker 1>Bully Ray was announced as doing commentary for the main event.

<v Speaker 1>So they play his music and outwalks Bully Ray. He

<v Speaker 1>shakes hands with Carlos Silva and he turns around and

<v Speaker 1>he just stares at Dixie because there's some history there,

<v Speaker 1>and Dixie grabs at her lower back because the last

<v Speaker 1>time that we saw these two in the ring together

<v Speaker 1>was when Bully put Dixie through a table, which I

<v Speaker 1>have to say was actually a very well built up angle.

<v Speaker 1>They built up the anticipation for that. It was like

<v Speaker 1>when Vince took his first stunner from Austin in ninety seven.

<v Speaker 1>You knew it was coming. He knew it was coming

<v Speaker 1>because he had already stunned Jim Ross and he had

<v Speaker 1>stunned Jerry Lawler. There was only one member of the

<v Speaker 1>announced team left to stun right, and it was really

<v Speaker 1>building to that moment. Not that I'm putting this on

<v Speaker 1>the same level as that, but like it was a

<v Speaker 1>well built angle, and I think they actually did a

<v Speaker 1>good number for it. And as I recall, I think

<v Speaker 1>Dixie did break a bone in her back actually taking

<v Speaker 1>that table bump through the table. But after a while,

<v Speaker 1>Bully cracks a smile. It's all good. He walks up

<v Speaker 1>to her, they hug, all is forgiven. He went to

<v Speaker 1>the ring, and that was the last that we saw

<v Speaker 1>of Dixie, possibly forever. And then it was main event

<v Speaker 1>time with Mike Santana challenging Frankie Kazarian for the TNA

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Championship that Santana lost his very first night

<v Speaker 1>that he defended it back in November. So the bell

<v Speaker 1>sound that it was ten forty two pm. There was

<v Speaker 1>no overrun tonight, by the way, in case you were wondering,

<v Speaker 1>at least by my clock eleven o'clock and they were

<v Speaker 1>off the air, so that's how much time we had

<v Speaker 1>left in the show. Kazarian went for a chicken wing.

<v Speaker 1>Santana escaped the move, not an actual chicken wing. I

<v Speaker 1>am very hungry right now. But Santana escaped. He tried

<v Speaker 1>for his spin the block lariat, Kazari inducted it, and

<v Speaker 1>Santana hit Kazarian with a step up Rana. Kazarian dropped

<v Speaker 1>to the floor to try to regroup, and Santana caught

<v Speaker 1>him with a crossbody on the floor and then Kazari

<v Speaker 1>induct a move that Santana went for, and he dropped

<v Speaker 1>him on the floor with an overhead belly to belly

<v Speaker 1>and that took us into the commercial. Not nearly as

<v Speaker 1>stupid as the overhead belly to belly that Darby Allen

<v Speaker 1>took into the Steel Steps on Dynamite last night. That

<v Speaker 1>was fucking stupid, and I love I heard from like

<v Speaker 1>four or five different people today very upset that I

<v Speaker 1>criticized that spot. I know, fuck me for seeing a dumb,

<v Speaker 1>dipshit spot like that and actually reacting to it like

<v Speaker 1>a human being instead of a bot. I know, fuck me.

<v Speaker 1>So later on, Santana went for his rolling stunner. Kazarian, though,

<v Speaker 1>countered with a backstabber to the back of the neck,

<v Speaker 1>caught him really high up back there. Kazarian slapped Santana

<v Speaker 1>around a little bit, but that just fired him up.

<v Speaker 1>And Santana fired back with some fists and some chops,

<v Speaker 1>and even after absorbing a boot from Kazarian, Santana did

<v Speaker 1>finally land the rolling buck fifty for a near fall.

<v Speaker 1>He set Kazarian up for a superplex and the champion

<v Speaker 1>shoved him down, but he popped up and took He

<v Speaker 1>took Kazarian. He popped up, popped the cork. He popped up,

<v Speaker 1>and he took Kazarian down with an avalanche Spanish fly.

<v Speaker 1>Santana thencountered a pile driver attempt with a Code RED

<v Speaker 1>for a near fall. They gave it. I know they

<v Speaker 1>gave a shout out here to the Amazing Red. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if it was on that spot. It might

<v Speaker 1>have been earlier, earlier on when they were talking about

<v Speaker 1>the X division. But you talk about notable names in

<v Speaker 1>the history of this company and people who innovated and

<v Speaker 1>were exciting and fun to watch and have been, you know,

<v Speaker 1>mimicked and copied and influenced the generation of talent. Amazing

<v Speaker 1>Red is certainly on that list. Solo Monster may as well,

<v Speaker 1>Cared Darby certainly doesn't. Yeah, I know, stupid Solo caring

<v Speaker 1>about the Red. I know if I fucked me. I mean, shit,

<v Speaker 1>I know, I know I should just you know, it's

<v Speaker 1>not like I'm reviewing a wrestling show and giving my opinions,

<v Speaker 1>so I should just sit here and chant a dub.

<v Speaker 1>A dub says a lot about the wrestling a section

<v Speaker 1>of the wrestling fan base, by the way. So Santana

<v Speaker 1>went for his charging cannonball in the corner because Arian

<v Speaker 1>got the knees up, and then he hit an Angel's

<v Speaker 1>wings for a near fall. Kazarian went for the chicken wings.

<v Speaker 1>Santana did the Brett Hart pin spot from WrestleMania eight,

<v Speaker 1>got a near fall out of it. Kazarian hit a

<v Speaker 1>slingshot cutter and a springboard leg dropped for a near

<v Speaker 1>fall of his own, And it was at this point

<v Speaker 1>in the match here that it was like, all right now,

<v Speaker 1>it feels like we're finally getting some real action on

<v Speaker 1>the show. Right. The match is really starting to heat up,

<v Speaker 1>fans are into it, and this is really starting to

<v Speaker 1>get good here, which was really necessary because up until

<v Speaker 1>this point we had nothing like this on the show.

<v Speaker 1>We did not have a damn thing on the show

<v Speaker 1>like this, so this was welcome. Kazarian dropped to the

<v Speaker 1>floor and he grabbed his championship belt and the referee

<v Speaker 1>stopped him from using it. Santana went for his Spin

<v Speaker 1>the Block lariat. Kauzarian, though, turned that into a fade

<v Speaker 1>to black attempt the Hangman page of Dead Eye. Santana

<v Speaker 1>got into something with the referee. Kazarian went for a

<v Speaker 1>drop kick and he hit the referee by accident, so

<v Speaker 1>we got a ref bump. It wouldn't be a TNA

<v Speaker 1>main event for the World Championship without a ref bump, now,

<v Speaker 1>would it right? You talk about old school, that's old

<v Speaker 1>school TNA right there. The only thing missing from this

<v Speaker 1>show is old slap nuts. So the Spin the Block

<v Speaker 1>finally connects, and of course the referee is now so

<v Speaker 1>Santana goes to check on him. Kazarian grabs the belt

<v Speaker 1>and he blasts Santana in the head with it. Kazarian

<v Speaker 1>then hit the fade to black on the ring apron.

<v Speaker 1>He rolls Santana back into the ring and he covers

<v Speaker 1>him and the referee is his back. He counts only

<v Speaker 1>for two, so Kazarian hits a Canadian destroyer. Santana, though,

<v Speaker 1>pops right up and he hits Spin the Block, covers

<v Speaker 1>him and he got the three. The only thing is

<v Speaker 1>the referee was not supposed to count three, but he

<v Speaker 1>very clearly did. You could even hear his hands smack

<v Speaker 1>the mat. Kazarian did get the shoulder up, though. The

<v Speaker 1>referee just fucked up, and the crowd let him know

<v Speaker 1>that he fucked up, as wrestling fans are known to do.

<v Speaker 1>Santana went for it again. Kazarian kind of now, this

<v Speaker 1>is where things kind of fell apart here. So Santana

<v Speaker 1>went for it again, and Kazarian just kind of dropped down.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he was I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>the spot was that he was supposed to avoid it

<v Speaker 1>and then do a roll up or I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what the idea here was, but somehow Santana got a

<v Speaker 1>near fall out of it. It didn't look good. Kazarian went

<v Speaker 1>for a rolling larryat of his own. Santana, though, ducked

<v Speaker 1>and hit a second spin the block, and he got

<v Speaker 1>the pin to regain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>that they really should have just ended it after the

<v Speaker 1>first spin the block instead of having him kick out

<v Speaker 1>whatever it was they tried to do there at the end.

<v Speaker 1>It just didn't work, So it kind of took the

<v Speaker 1>It kind of took the wind out of their sails

<v Speaker 1>a bit, but this was still easily, easily, without question,

<v Speaker 1>the best thing on the entire show. There was no

<v Speaker 1>Nick Nemath calling his shot like I think he was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to. Fucking Ryan Nemth was on the show, but

<v Speaker 1>not Nick Nemeth, which is a questionable thing to not

<v Speaker 1>even have him on the show unless there was some

<v Speaker 1>reason he couldn't be there, because you want to have

<v Speaker 1>stars and people that you know the fans would recognize

<v Speaker 1>on this show. AJ Stiles was there, the Hardys were there.

<v Speaker 1>You would think they would want somebody like Nick Nemeth

<v Speaker 1>on the show, and he just wasn't there. So I

<v Speaker 1>was a little curious not having him there. That they

<v Speaker 1>did say Kazarian is going to get a rematch of

<v Speaker 1>Genesis on Saturday, so we know we're just gonna put

<v Speaker 1>these two guys back in the ring for the championship.

<v Speaker 1>I presume that they're saving the angle with Nemath for

<v Speaker 1>that show. He'll either call his shot after the main

<v Speaker 1>event or maybe beforehand and turn it into a triple

<v Speaker 1>threat match. If he's not on the pay per view

<v Speaker 1>then I would be very confused by all this. And

<v Speaker 1>they actually just announced that he just re signed with TNA,

<v Speaker 1>so like he's not leaving, he's not going anywhere, So

<v Speaker 1>I assume we'll see him on Saturday. And I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if this is something the TNA started a while ago.

<v Speaker 1>Anybody who watches the show, you know, week to week,

<v Speaker 1>can fill me in here. But I did notice they

<v Speaker 1>have the same producer credits now at the end of

<v Speaker 1>the show that WWE has, like they just copied it

<v Speaker 1>right out of the WWE playbook and they have like

<v Speaker 1>the executive producer, the producers Tommy Dreamer and you know,

<v Speaker 1>Hunter Johnston and whatever. The other names were so very

<v Speaker 1>much following the WWE formula. They had a good match, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they had a good match here in the main event.

<v Speaker 1>Despite what happened there at the end, it was not

<v Speaker 1>enough to save this show. It was not enough to

<v Speaker 1>redeem this show. I understand that they were short a

<v Speaker 1>few people like Leon Slater and a Leon Slater match. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>you put like a ten or twelve minute Leon Slater

<v Speaker 1>match on this show that definitely would have made a difference.

<v Speaker 1>So I understand that they were without some people they

<v Speaker 1>originally intended to have on this show. With the visa issues,

<v Speaker 1>that had to rewrite some stuff. But this first show

<v Speaker 1>I just felt like was a misfire. And I know

<v Speaker 1>it's their first and I hope they find their foot

<v Speaker 1>for their sake, I want to see them do well

<v Speaker 1>and I want to see them thrive on AMC and

<v Speaker 1>I want to see them find their footing as the

<v Speaker 1>weeks go on. Maybe they will. But as a first

<v Speaker 1>effort to really get people excited for this new era

<v Speaker 1>of TNA and to really real people and not even

<v Speaker 1>just new fans, but just wrestling fans, like hardcore TNA

<v Speaker 1>fans are going to watch. Hardcore TNA fans are going

<v Speaker 1>to probably think, by and large, this show is great,

<v Speaker 1>and then some of them may be honest and say

<v Speaker 1>that this was not the best show. But like wrestling fans,

<v Speaker 1>newer fans like this is. You get one opportunity sometimes

<v Speaker 1>to make a really great first impression and give people

<v Speaker 1>a reason to invest two hours of their time every

<v Speaker 1>Thursday night to watch your show. And I thought they

<v Speaker 1>missed the mark tonight. I think they failed in doing that.

<v Speaker 1>The next few weeks will prove me right, or prove

<v Speaker 1>me wrong. I guess when the numbers come in, we'll

<v Speaker 1>see how they do. But I did not think this

<v Speaker 1>was a good show. And this will be the last

<v Speaker 1>Impact review for some time here on this channel. But

<v Speaker 1>I wanted to cover the first show because I thought

<v Speaker 1>the first show would be a big show and maybe

<v Speaker 1>there would be some big things going on or surprises.

<v Speaker 1>We got a world title change in the main event,

<v Speaker 1>but outside of that, nothing terribly exciting to speak of.

<v Speaker 1>This is what the the twitter? Well, no, this is

<v Speaker 1>the raw poll. Hold on a second. Here, there is

<v Speaker 1>a poll that I put up. I got it right here.

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to put it in for you in real time.

<v Speaker 1>Are you ready for this? You're gonna see there was

<v Speaker 1>sults here pop up for the TNA pole. Look at that.

<v Speaker 1>I botched it like the referee did in the main event.

<v Speaker 1>What did you think of the TNA Impact on AMC debut?

<v Speaker 1>There we go. That's more in line with what I expected.

<v Speaker 1>Twenty two percent thumbs up for tonight's show. This obviously,

<v Speaker 1>this is just one pole on X but still that's

<v Speaker 1>almost a thousand people right here so far that have voted,

<v Speaker 1>and there's a message here. Twenty two percent thumbs up

<v Speaker 1>seventy eight percent thumbs down for tonight's show. Not good,

<v Speaker 1>not good. I hope they find their footing because this

<v Speaker 1>is what they need. They need to, you know, have

<v Speaker 1>a wider audience to appeal to, which they never were

<v Speaker 1>going to have on Access TV. That's why I always said,

<v Speaker 1>as long as they're on Access ever gonna grow. So

<v Speaker 1>now they're on AMC, you know, and you want them

<v Speaker 1>to thrive, you want them to make the most of it.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't do that tonight. The live impacts always fall flat,

<v Speaker 1>so the shows have to be taped so all the

<v Speaker 1>awful stuff can be edited out. Is that what you're saying,

<v Speaker 1>So they get edited in post. It's not the it's

<v Speaker 1>not the flex you may think it is. But thank

<v Speaker 1>you to the nine hundred of you hanging out with

<v Speaker 1>me here on a Thursday night. It's more than we

<v Speaker 1>had for a fucking Dynamite last night. Maybe I just

<v Speaker 1>started doing Impact reviews on Thursdays and ditching the Dynamite

<v Speaker 1>reviews on Wednesdays. Anyway. Joseph Stewart Joseph Stewart is always

<v Speaker 1>with us. It doesn't matter what day of the week

<v Speaker 1>it is. This is a happy Thursday to run through

<v Speaker 1>these and get to the rest of your questions here.

<v Speaker 1>And by the way, we did hit the goal. The

<v Speaker 1>goal was four hundred likes. We are currently sitting at

<v Speaker 1>four fifteen, so we got to be the booker coming

<v Speaker 1>your way. Did I watch the Waynes Brothers TV show?

<v Speaker 1>I think I did. I vaguely remember. Raven's documentary Nevermore

<v Speaker 1>is now available on Prime. Yes, if you are interested

<v Speaker 1>in Raven's new documentary, it is available. I haven't gotten

<v Speaker 1>too much feedback on it, but it looks kind of interesting.

<v Speaker 1>Would you have made Raven WCW Champion if you were

<v Speaker 1>booking WCW in the late nineties? No World Champion? No,

<v Speaker 1>it says. Yesterday was the thirty fourth anniversary of Michael

<v Speaker 1>Jackson's song Remember the time when it was released? Are

<v Speaker 1>you a fan of Undertaker and Michelle mccool's podcast. Oh

<v Speaker 1>you mean Michelle mccool's podcast featuring the Undertaker? No? Who

<v Speaker 1>do you think was the face of WWE in nineteen

<v Speaker 1>ninety five, Diesel Kevin Esh That was the guy that

<v Speaker 1>Vince McMahon tried to build the company around. He was

<v Speaker 1>the face of the company for that year and it

<v Speaker 1>was not a terribly great year for the company. Perhaps

<v Speaker 1>there's a message in there. What was your reaction when

<v Speaker 1>Ahmed Johnson debuted in WWE. I thought, man, this guy's intense.

<v Speaker 1>It's always screaming. I mean, he looked impressive. Then the

<v Speaker 1>bell rang and he actually had some good matches, but

<v Speaker 1>kind of fell off a cliff after that. I remember, man,

<v Speaker 1>I remember the night he won the intercontinental title of

<v Speaker 1>the King of the Ring in ninety six, he had

<v Speaker 1>a match with gold Dust, and right when the bell rang,

<v Speaker 1>like right at the beginning of the match, Golddust is

<v Speaker 1>outside the but he's he's like in the aisleway, so

<v Speaker 1>it's not like he's on one side of the ring

<v Speaker 1>or another. He's kind of like diagonal. And Ahmed just

<v Speaker 1>he did like a Montes four dive where he charged

<v Speaker 1>the corner and like dove over the corner, like over

<v Speaker 1>the post, and he almost took a header into the

<v Speaker 1>fucking ground. And this is a two hundred and sixty

<v Speaker 1>five pound men. I thought he killed himself. He was reckless.

<v Speaker 1>He hurt himself. He heard other people he was reckless.

<v Speaker 1>That's why he didn't last. Were you a fan of

<v Speaker 1>the Nation of Domination theme song? Yes, I enjoyed it

<v Speaker 1>very much. I would pump my fist in the air

<v Speaker 1>just like all of them. Were you a fan of

<v Speaker 1>Ken Shamrock against Owen Hart in the lions Den match

<v Speaker 1>at SummerSlam ninety eight? Was that Summer Slam? I'm thinking

<v Speaker 1>of the Dune match they had. I actually enjoy the

<v Speaker 1>Dungeon match more. But yeah, I like the Lions Then match.

<v Speaker 1>Ahmed always had Wedgy, Yeah, he had some of that

<v Speaker 1>static cling. Why did WWE never do another Lions Then match? Well,

<v Speaker 1>because they didn't like him. Obviously they really liked him,

<v Speaker 1>they would have kept him. It was more of a

<v Speaker 1>Shamrock gimmick, so there really was no need to do it.

<v Speaker 1>One Shamrock left. Then they had the Fight Pit many

<v Speaker 1>years later. The Fight Pit is the closest thing to

<v Speaker 1>the Lions Then match that they've done since then. Do

<v Speaker 1>you remember the TV show Hill Street Blues. I do. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I never watched it, but I am familiar with it.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think both EDG and Christian will return to

<v Speaker 1>WWE in the future, No, I do not. I mean eventually,

<v Speaker 1>a Hall of Fame induction for Christian is something he deserves,

<v Speaker 1>so he might get that. But I mean, as far

<v Speaker 1>as they're in ring careers, they're going to finish their

<v Speaker 1>careers in AW. I do believe was Eric Bischoff originally

<v Speaker 1>going to be the leader of the Aces and Eights.

<v Speaker 1>I never heard that. It's right Solo pumping his fist

<v Speaker 1>to the nod theme, suns right this the man? Oh well,

<v Speaker 1>bum Russia, mother, listen what I'm saying. It's for real,

<v Speaker 1>not playing for Rooki is the man that you need

<v Speaker 1>to stop praying. Uh. What was your reaction when Yoko

<v Speaker 1>Zuna debuted? I was like, holy shit, that's a big boy.

<v Speaker 1>I had the same reaction brock Lesner had when Keith

<v Speaker 1>Lee came out in the Royal Rumble. It's like, whoa,

<v Speaker 1>that's a big boy. What was your reaction when Kevin

<v Speaker 1>Nash made his debut as Diesel? I don't remember. What

<v Speaker 1>was your reaction when Scott Hall debuted is Razor Ramone.

<v Speaker 1>I thought he was cool. He always just looked cool.

<v Speaker 1>Or was your reaction when Mark Merrow and Sable debuted.

<v Speaker 1>I was more interested in Sable than I was Mark Merrow.

<v Speaker 1>And my reaction to Hunter hers Helmsley I said, who

<v Speaker 1>is this jobb? Or? That was my reaction, I figured

<v Speaker 1>he would be doing jobs for the rest of his career.

<v Speaker 1>Was your reaction when China made her debut? I won't

<v Speaker 1>say deaths ife ages ago, Cody expressed interest in another

<v Speaker 1>match of Ramisterio, indicating he would like to finish their story.

<v Speaker 1>How would you book it? And should Dom cost Ray

<v Speaker 1>the match if it's for the WWE title. I wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>book it. I don't think that's a match that's really

<v Speaker 1>worth doing. Like, of all the matches and potential matches

<v Speaker 1>that interest me, Cody Rhoades against Ray mysterio is not

<v Speaker 1>one that has entered my mind. I'm sure it'd be

<v Speaker 1>a good match, but you're putting the power in my hands.

<v Speaker 1>I don't book it. Just watch the latest RSPW and

<v Speaker 1>the Sena can't wrestle allegations never made sense to me.

<v Speaker 1>How come AJ Styles had better matches with him than

<v Speaker 1>any of his WrestleMania opponents. Yeah, so when I responded

<v Speaker 1>to you on Twitter, I misread the question. So what

<v Speaker 1>he was saying here? I thought when I read your

<v Speaker 1>question that you were saying, well, how come he had

<v Speaker 1>these great matches with AJ Styles? And I said, well,

<v Speaker 1>because he's AJ Styles he's one of the best wrestlers

<v Speaker 1>in the world for the last twenty years. But what

<v Speaker 1>he means is how come AJ had better matches with

<v Speaker 1>Sina than he did any of his wrestle media opponents.

<v Speaker 1>And sometimes two guys in the ring they just, you know,

<v Speaker 1>they just have a certain chemict where they just work

<v Speaker 1>really well together. The two of them have a chemistry

<v Speaker 1>that for example, John Cena and Randy Orton never had.

<v Speaker 1>Sena has it with cmpunk. I think he had it

<v Speaker 1>with Edge, and he definitely has it with AJ, maybe

<v Speaker 1>more than any other opponent he's ever had. And because

<v Speaker 1>when Seena is in there with somebody who is a

<v Speaker 1>really good wrestler, really good worker. Not that he needed

<v Speaker 1>Aj Styles in the ring to have a good match,

<v Speaker 1>but he thrived right because he could adapt to their style.

<v Speaker 1>So the AJ thing is just weird to me because

<v Speaker 1>you could argue that of all the WrestleMania matches that

<v Speaker 1>Styles has had, that the best one may have been

<v Speaker 1>with Shane McMahon, which is kind of pathetic honestly that

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't make any sense. I'd have to go back

<v Speaker 1>and watch that match with Jericho. I don't remember too

<v Speaker 1>much about it. Maybe the match with Jericha. I just

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember that match like blowing me away. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>if I go back and watch their WrestleMania match, I'll

<v Speaker 1>be more impressed with it. Now, what was that WrestleMania

<v Speaker 1>thirty two. But you know what, John Cena, look at

<v Speaker 1>his WrestleMania catalog, he does not have a lot of

<v Speaker 1>great WrestleMania matches. All of his best matches were on

<v Speaker 1>other shows. Absolutely none of his best matches, in my opinion,

<v Speaker 1>happened to WrestleMania, not one. All the best matches he

<v Speaker 1>had with Edge, with Punk, with Styles, not WrestleMania matches.

<v Speaker 1>It's just the way it goes sometimes. Can't explain it.

<v Speaker 1>The match with Jericho fell flat. That sounds about right.

<v Speaker 1>That's probably why I don't think about it when I

<v Speaker 1>think about these great AJ Styles matches or WrestleMania death side.

<v Speaker 1>Crazy to think that. We started off twenty twenty five

<v Speaker 1>with the final appearance of Hulk Hogan being booed out

<v Speaker 1>of the building, and we closed out twenty twenty five

<v Speaker 1>with the final match of John Cena being boot out

<v Speaker 1>of the building. Yeah, we started twenty twenty six with

<v Speaker 1>Dixie Carter being booed out of the building. Who will

<v Speaker 1>be boot out of the building in December? I wonder,

<v Speaker 1>let's start taking bets who's gonna get booted out of

<v Speaker 1>the building at the end of this year. John Cena

<v Speaker 1>against Seawn Michaels WRESTLEMDIAM is the best wrestle medium match

<v Speaker 1>that he's had. But I never I was never in

<v Speaker 1>love with that match and the way that other people were.

<v Speaker 1>I like their raw match much better, so you could

<v Speaker 1>say that that would be the obvious answer, but like,

<v Speaker 1>I was never really in love with that match the

<v Speaker 1>way some other people were. Dried Ribs and Chickens says

<v Speaker 1>as a confession, I love the Elegance brand, especially seeing

<v Speaker 1>ash By Elegance on AMC. Well, there's always one in

<v Speaker 1>the bunch, so you like the concierge and mister what's

<v Speaker 1>his name, mister Elegance. Okay, I'm happy for you. Death's

<v Speaker 1>Site says, I know Gunther has already been Intercontinental and

<v Speaker 1>World Heavyweight Champion, can you also see him being the

<v Speaker 1>US Champion and WWE Champion and main eventing WrestleMania Night

<v Speaker 1>two in the future. I don't really see the need

<v Speaker 1>for him to be the United States Champion, WWE Champion. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>I could see that headlining WrestleMania Night two. I don't

<v Speaker 1>see that either. He absolutely could. I wouldn't be afraid

<v Speaker 1>to book him there, but probably not. I think they

<v Speaker 1>have that spot reserved for other people. The Hoffman says,

<v Speaker 1>sena does indeed mean dinner in Spanish, but it's pronounced senna. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that was something that came up on the rspw rewind

<v Speaker 1>episode today. Maybe that's what threw me off. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I don't remember sena meaning dinner in Spanish, but senna okay.

<v Speaker 1>John says TNA equals total NonStop ads. It felt like

<v Speaker 1>it didn't It very WWE like tonight, right down to

<v Speaker 1>exactly when they took their breaks. Johnny Burnie says, as

<v Speaker 1>an aw fan, tonight was when all you eat was

<v Speaker 1>ice cream for so long, you try something and end

<v Speaker 1>up eating lead paint. I'll gladly stick with ice cream.

<v Speaker 1>Are you implying that we all got lead poisoning tonight?

<v Speaker 1>The AJ Hernandez seventeen. I'm worrying if Tony Kahn will

<v Speaker 1>start implementing at least a thirty day non compete in

<v Speaker 1>future contracts just to keep up with WWE scalping their

<v Speaker 1>talent probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Broley seven felt

<v Speaker 1>like a low budget Vince booked show. It did feel

<v Speaker 1>very Vince like in some of these sports entertainment segments

<v Speaker 1>and the AJ Hernandez says, need to be need to

<v Speaker 1>be normal sub to write. Now, you've got to be

<v Speaker 1>a subscriber for a week to be able to write

<v Speaker 1>in the chat. That's to weed out trolls. As you

<v Speaker 1>can see, there's plenty of people chatting away in the chat,

<v Speaker 1>so feel free to join in if you've been subbed

<v Speaker 1>for at least a week. It used to be too weeks.

<v Speaker 1>It actually used to be four weeks, but I lowered

<v Speaker 1>it to a week. Brandon Proctor with a twenty five

<v Speaker 1>dollars Breode, It's going on. Brother. Loved the new episode

<v Speaker 1>of rspw rewind still feels weird seeing you go live

<v Speaker 1>for a TNA show. It is, well, it's very unusual.

<v Speaker 1>I went live for three TNA pay per views last year,

<v Speaker 1>but not for Impact, and after tonight that will be

<v Speaker 1>the last, most likely because unless there's some special episode again,

<v Speaker 1>I ain't doing this again. Duff's VIDs. I'm convinced that

<v Speaker 1>it's not about ratings anymore, it's only about the money.

<v Speaker 1>For all three WWEAW and TNA four ADP resolution for

<v Speaker 1>the first hour, I see, I knew I wasn't the

<v Speaker 1>only one. Like it looked very washed out. I couldn't

<v Speaker 1>believe it. Like, I just remember those episodes on Spike,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, how how have they actually gone backwards

<v Speaker 1>in terms of like the visual presentation of their show,

<v Speaker 1>Like I can understand if it was always like that,

<v Speaker 1>but it just it looked it just looked bad, you know,

<v Speaker 1>it just looked very bush league Duffs VIDs. That was

<v Speaker 1>Duff's VIDs. Thank you Duff's Toya ain't and nice solo

<v Speaker 1>on a Thursday. What a treat. Well, I'm glad you

<v Speaker 1>can enjoy it. I'm glad you're with me, Brandon says

<v Speaker 1>Dixie Carter and TNA and you're reviewing the show now.

<v Speaker 1>It really feels like the old days of the sound off.

<v Speaker 1>It does, except I'm on camera this time. Back then,

<v Speaker 1>you couldn't visually see my head exploding. As I was

<v Speaker 1>watching the show and reviewing the show, Toya says, da,

<v Speaker 1>please don't go full WWE. I feel like they're like

<v Speaker 1>three quarters of the way there, like they're trying to

<v Speaker 1>be they really do. They come off as WWE light,

<v Speaker 1>which is not where you want to be. You want

<v Speaker 1>to carve out your own path. Say what you will

<v Speaker 1>about aw Look, I don't like a lot of what

<v Speaker 1>I see week to week either, But I mean you

<v Speaker 1>can't say that they are copying WWE here and trying

<v Speaker 1>to be just like WWE. So that's going to be

<v Speaker 1>the challenge for TNA. You know, what can they offer

<v Speaker 1>that people can't already get from the Big two? That's

<v Speaker 1>a question only they can answer. And if their content

<v Speaker 1>with just being a you know, kind of great value

<v Speaker 1>version of WWE in many ways, then okay, then that's

<v Speaker 1>their choice. But that's kind of how they came off tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Death Side says, my favorite Dusty Rhodes promo came from TNA,

<v Speaker 1>which was when he said it says pro wrestling on

<v Speaker 1>the marquee. It does not say a midget beating off

<v Speaker 1>in the trash? Can Philip Bowman? What did the groom

<v Speaker 1>say to his bride on their April twentieth wedding? When

<v Speaker 1>I first saw you, I already knew I wanted to

<v Speaker 1>marry Jane, you're giving your age away with that joke.

<v Speaker 1>Does anybody call it that anymore? Have some Mary Jane

<v Speaker 1>bass bears. I remember being a teenager, I saw TNA

<v Speaker 1>billboards in Times Square hyping up the move to Mondays.

<v Speaker 1>Also remember being excited to play the TNA video game.

<v Speaker 1>Didn't people crap all over the TNA video game and

<v Speaker 1>say it sucked? I never played it, but I remember

<v Speaker 1>there being some terrible reviews for it, not unlike the

<v Speaker 1>first AWA, A lot of really bad reviews for that too.

<v Speaker 1>Hey Bo said, so what's going on, Bo Refirst? Yes,

<v Speaker 1>let's go smoke some grass. Let's go get some grass,

<v Speaker 1>Ryan Hood. The live Impact shows have always been met,

<v Speaker 1>while the live TNA Plus specials and their canned tapings

<v Speaker 1>are better. Well, apparently the TNA Plus stream was not

<v Speaker 1>better tonight because apparently it wasn't even working. Alex says,

<v Speaker 1>brother Solo, good to see you in the chat here

<v Speaker 1>on a Thursday. What are your thoughts on the two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and five classic from Angles, Samoa, Joe and Christopher Daniels.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think that level of quality from TNA can

<v Speaker 1>ever be reached again? Well, you're talking about unbreakable because

<v Speaker 1>the unbreakable match was Styles and Joe and Daniels, not Angle.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's still regarded as the greatest match in

<v Speaker 1>TNA history. It's an excellent match. There's a reason why

<v Speaker 1>people still talk about it to this day. And then

<v Speaker 1>in his very next super Chatty says, sorry, I met

<v Speaker 1>aj Styles. There you go. I hope I answered your question. Dude,

<v Speaker 1>here's seventy three. TNA bumbled the ball tonight. Not enough matches,

<v Speaker 1>shooting empty seats, bad promos, bad production. In my god,

<v Speaker 1>get a proper looking announcers table. Yeah, I mean everything

<v Speaker 1>about it. Just again, it was just very I'm sorry

<v Speaker 1>to say. I mean, I'm glad they have a TV deal,

<v Speaker 1>but it just came off very low rent. Bass Beers says,

<v Speaker 1>the Highlander is in the impact zone. Paul Carpenter, who's

<v Speaker 1>your favorite TNA star of all times? His mine is

<v Speaker 1>Bobby Rude. Does kurd Angle count? I mean he has

<v Speaker 1>to count. He spent more time in TNA than he

<v Speaker 1>did in WWA. His addition to that roster was just huge.

<v Speaker 1>It was a shot in the arm. It was a

<v Speaker 1>shot of credibility that they really needed at that time.

<v Speaker 1>And he had great matches with almost everybody, whether it

<v Speaker 1>was Staying, whether it was Jeff Jarrett, whether it was Abyss.

<v Speaker 1>I just I can't really rank anybody else over him.

<v Speaker 1>I like Bobby Rude, especially when he went heel. I

<v Speaker 1>was a big fan of his work, but I think

<v Speaker 1>I would go with Kurt Angle. Lost Dill. Been a

<v Speaker 1>while since I've sent in any chats. Just wanted to

<v Speaker 1>say thank you for RSPW and all of your hard work.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you Solo, well, thank you lost Dill. I saw

<v Speaker 1>your comment under the RSPW video. It is linked right

<v Speaker 1>now by the way, I pinned it up in the

<v Speaker 1>top of the chat, so the link is there. You

<v Speaker 1>have to be a channel member. You guys get early access,

<v Speaker 1>and then everybody else will get access to it early

<v Speaker 1>next week. I had a lot of fun putting that

<v Speaker 1>one together, going down memory lane through all the old posts,

<v Speaker 1>believe it or not, I found what is believed to

<v Speaker 1>be the oldest archived wrestling post on RSPW on that

<v Speaker 1>news group from January of nineteen ninety, and I read

<v Speaker 1>it in today's episode. Nineteen ninety, Hogan and Warrior had

<v Speaker 1>not yet even had their match of WrestleMania that's how

<v Speaker 1>far back that post goes. It's unbelievable. Dead Kirby twenty two,

<v Speaker 1>Dolph against AJ would have been a great main event. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know about main event, because if they were

<v Speaker 1>doing a world championship match, you want a main event

<v Speaker 1>with that. But imagine doing you know, Dolphin AJ at

<v Speaker 1>the top of the hour, right and then closing the

<v Speaker 1>show with a big world title change. That would have

<v Speaker 1>been a nice attraction. Bass Beer says, why wasn't Matt

<v Speaker 1>Morgan a bigger deal the blueprint? Huh? I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, Matt Morgan was not when you look at

<v Speaker 1>the sort of top elite performers in the company at

<v Speaker 1>that time, he was not better than those people. So

<v Speaker 1>should he have done more and gone farther than he did? Maybe?

<v Speaker 1>He had certain attributes about him, namely his size, and

<v Speaker 1>I always felt like he moved around well for a

<v Speaker 1>bigger guy. He just didn't have he didn't have that

<v Speaker 1>in factor, you know, he just didn't have that intangible

<v Speaker 1>that really makes him, other than the fact that he

<v Speaker 1>was huge, stand out in a way that makes him

<v Speaker 1>kind of feel like a top guy. He just he

<v Speaker 1>didn't have that. Phillip says, which was worse twenty ten

<v Speaker 1>to twenty thirteen TNA or twenty seventeen to twenty twenty

<v Speaker 1>one WWE of twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one WWE.

<v Speaker 1>I was reviewing TNA during that twenty twelve to twenty

<v Speaker 1>fourteen period. I was enjoying. The reason I started reviewing

<v Speaker 1>Impact every week again on the sound off after I

<v Speaker 1>stopped for so many years was because I genuinely started

<v Speaker 1>enjoying the show again. Funny enough, it was around the

<v Speaker 1>time that Brooke Hogan started appearing on it. It had

<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with her, but it was like around

<v Speaker 1>that period of time, and I just I enjoyed the shows.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed the shows. And you know, I mean I can't.

<v Speaker 1>I just can't sit here and tell you that twenty

<v Speaker 1>eighteen twenty nineteen WWE and then you had COVID and

<v Speaker 1>there were no fans, Like that fucking sucked. Dude. I

<v Speaker 1>don't care what good matches we got during that period,

<v Speaker 1>Like wrestling is not meant to be watched with no

<v Speaker 1>fans in the audience. Like that just sucks. I have

<v Speaker 1>no desire to go back and rewatch those shows. Like

<v Speaker 1>for me, it has no replay value whatsoever. Phillip says

<v Speaker 1>Page Moxley Revolution twenty twenty three or All in Texas.

<v Speaker 1>All in Texas had the better story. The story is

<v Speaker 1>what makes the difference. They were both I think they

<v Speaker 1>were both Texas death matches, so they both had all

<v Speaker 1>the probably blood and violence and bullshit, but the Texas

<v Speaker 1>match had a much better story. Horatio Alger. Some people

<v Speaker 1>think Vince killed Owen because Brett left, Well, some people

<v Speaker 1>are fucking idiots. I hope that answers your question, not

<v Speaker 1>that you had a question there, but if your question was,

<v Speaker 1>do I believe that the answer is no. Vince McMahon

<v Speaker 1>is a lot of things, but no, I don't believe

<v Speaker 1>he intentionally killed Owen Hart and anybody who does is

<v Speaker 1>an idiot. Aaron says Elena is probably already one of

<v Speaker 1>the top women in the division, at least on name recognition.

<v Speaker 1>Wonder if she continues to improve and gets over if

<v Speaker 1>WWE would want to give her another chance. Oh, I

<v Speaker 1>fully expect her to be back in WWE. I haven't

<v Speaker 1>said when she left. I mean, she's still very young,

<v Speaker 1>so unless she just didn't want to wrestle anymore, and

<v Speaker 1>obviously she does, plenty of time for her to improve

<v Speaker 1>and work and go back to WWE, but she hasn't

<v Speaker 1>worked since she left, and I don't know. I think

<v Speaker 1>I remember her saying something online about having some mental

<v Speaker 1>health issues. So whether it was her mental health, whether

<v Speaker 1>it was a physical issue, if she hasn't been able

<v Speaker 1>to work, that's one thing. But she has to work.

<v Speaker 1>The only way you're gonna get better is by working.

<v Speaker 1>So if WWE releases you and you don't work for

<v Speaker 1>a year, you're not gonna grow, You're not gonna get better,

<v Speaker 1>You're gonna regress. So she has to start working matches

<v Speaker 1>and getting out there. And if she could work indies

<v Speaker 1>and do some indies as well, and if she does that,

<v Speaker 1>and if she starts to really build her name back

<v Speaker 1>up and improves, then absolutely wwwe'll give her another shot.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think there was any you know, malice when

<v Speaker 1>she left. I don't think she burned any bridges. Bobby means,

<v Speaker 1>is Santana in a contract year or does he have

<v Speaker 1>a new deal. I've heard different things. My guess is

<v Speaker 1>he's probably locked in for most, if not all, of

<v Speaker 1>this year, and then maybe he'll be a free agent.

<v Speaker 1>If he chooses to become one. He's another one who

<v Speaker 1>I think is destined for NXT. You know, NXTWWE, whether

<v Speaker 1>it's later this year or next year, he'll he'll absolutely

<v Speaker 1>end up there. I'm sure they were very impressed by

<v Speaker 1>the work he did when he was working on NXT.

<v Speaker 1>Duff's VIDs. I didn't get to see the Knockouts tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match because my feed went right back to

<v Speaker 1>commercials after ten seconds from the previous commercials. I thought

<v Speaker 1>WWE was bad with commercials. Well, TNA is trying to

<v Speaker 1>be WWE, so they're doing a good job. Don't worry

<v Speaker 1>about the tag title match. He didn't miss much bass beers,

<v Speaker 1>says Dixie Normous. Hmm, where's the cliffhanger? Where's the hot storyline?

<v Speaker 1>Don't know. I said the same thing about Dynamite last night.

<v Speaker 1>This is kind of a problem in wrestling in general

<v Speaker 1>right now. What is the hot storyline? What is the

<v Speaker 1>story or the feud that has everybody a buzz? Please

<v Speaker 1>show me. Death Side says Nick Nemath. Will be the

<v Speaker 1>special guest referee, but the Texas Death Match between Caz

<v Speaker 1>and Santana, Nick Nemeth is walking out with the title

<v Speaker 1>isn't he sozo? Is that official? They're having a Texas deathmatch? Yeah?

<v Speaker 1>I could see there being some fuckery this weekend. Did

<v Speaker 1>I watch TNA through VPN? Now? I watched TNA YouTube.

<v Speaker 1>TA has AMC so I didn't need one. Phillip says,

<v Speaker 1>how would you have booked Finn Balor post injury better

<v Speaker 1>than WWE? I would have had him winning matches and

<v Speaker 1>not being pinned and not being made to look weak

<v Speaker 1>and less than although he was part of a pretty

<v Speaker 1>kick ass intercontinental title matcher. Wrestlemantia thirty four. Death Site

<v Speaker 1>says I meant to say out of genesis. Yes, I

<v Speaker 1>suspected that's what you meant. Thank you, brother. Also, he says, sorry,

<v Speaker 1>I have consumed fourteen Budweisers tonight and currently working on

<v Speaker 1>my fifteenth and finally my sixteenth. I think you may

<v Speaker 1>have a problem there, my friend. I think sixteen should

<v Speaker 1>be the cutoff. I think you've had enough. I don't

<v Speaker 1>even know if he's still conscious. When did this supercheck

<v Speaker 1>come in? I don't have a timestamp on this. Derenzo

<v Speaker 1>A Derenza, Thank you, brother, he says, high solemn monster.

<v Speaker 1>I just came back from that new twenty eight years

<v Speaker 1>later Bone Temple movie. It was awesome. It was so awesome.

<v Speaker 1>I felt generous enough to donate. Hope you're well. Was

<v Speaker 1>TNA any good? No? Not really, unfortunately, and that's hey. Look,

<v Speaker 1>I wish that they would release a new twenty eight

<v Speaker 1>days later movie every week and then we can get

<v Speaker 1>more Derenzo drops here on the streams. Well, I'm glad

<v Speaker 1>you enjoyed the movie. I didn't even know there was

<v Speaker 1>a new twenty eight years later movie out. Aj Hernandez

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on WWE going back to bodybuilder types, greater influx

<v Speaker 1>of smaller veterans heading to aw Yeah, I mean there's

<v Speaker 1>a rumor that they're looking at I think that was

<v Speaker 1>just a Meltzer observation and people or running with it

<v Speaker 1>is if there's some new policy. I think that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>wrestling is best when you have lots of different body

<v Speaker 1>types and physiques and just types of wrestlers and not

<v Speaker 1>everybody looks the same and sounds the same and wrestles

<v Speaker 1>the same. So I mean, that's fine if you want

<v Speaker 1>to have some bodybuilder types, but don't recruit only bodybuilder types,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't think they are I think that was

<v Speaker 1>just a generalization, So I don't necessarily believe that. I

<v Speaker 1>can believe though, that when they're recruiting these college athletes,

<v Speaker 1>they're looking for guys that and women that are super athletic,

<v Speaker 1>come from a sports background, and maybe are making that

<v Speaker 1>a priority over just recruiting off the independence scene. I

<v Speaker 1>can believe that. And you know what, you look at

<v Speaker 1>someone like an Obafemi, he was a college athlete, he

<v Speaker 1>didn't work indies, He had no experience in three years.

<v Speaker 1>Look at where he is now. He's about to have

<v Speaker 1>a breakout year this year. He may be a world

<v Speaker 1>champion within a year. And not everybody is an oba Femi.

<v Speaker 1>But when you get an Oba Femi, you get a

<v Speaker 1>Kendall Gray. You know, those are the kinds of people

<v Speaker 1>that you can you can build your brand around. Bron Breaker. Now,

<v Speaker 1>wrestling was in his family, but bron Breker also comes

<v Speaker 1>from a sports background in college super athletic. I'd want

<v Speaker 1>to recruit people like that too. Nash's worst gimmick OZ

<v Speaker 1>Vinnie Vegas or others, says Ryan Hood. Oh I would

<v Speaker 1>say Oz, it didn't last very long. How many matches

<v Speaker 1>did he even have? His ohs? Did he have more

<v Speaker 1>than half a dozen matches in that gimmick tuxedo t servo,

<v Speaker 1>no message is showing some love fifteen dollars super check.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, my friend. I appreciate that. Death Site says

<v Speaker 1>seen his match with the Rock at WrestleMania twenty eight

<v Speaker 1>was better than his rematch at WrestleMania twenty nine. The

<v Speaker 1>fact that WrestleMania twenty nine match won the Match of

<v Speaker 1>the Year Slammy over Punkin Undertaker was a joke. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>the fix was in on that. And I say that

<v Speaker 1>as someone who was in the building for both those matches.

<v Speaker 1>That WrestleMania twenty nine match was s I hated that match.

<v Speaker 1>You know, people talk about finishers spam and wrestling. The

<v Speaker 1>worst example I've ever seen is that match between the

<v Speaker 1>finisher attempts and then the finishers themselves and then more attempts.

<v Speaker 1>That's all the match was. RDS. Harry says the six

<v Speaker 1>sided ring TNA used to have made them unique. It did,

<v Speaker 1>but it was also hell on your body. I don't

<v Speaker 1>think a lot of the wrestlers would like to go

<v Speaker 1>back to the six sided ring. Bred Hart says, the

<v Speaker 1>first episode I watched from TNA I watched was in

<v Speaker 1>early twenty ten when Samoa Joe was kidnapped by ninjas.

<v Speaker 1>I have not watched an episode since he was kidnapped

<v Speaker 1>by ninjas. And when he re emerged, he had what

<v Speaker 1>appeared to be a penis tattoo on his face and

<v Speaker 1>he had a sword. So you know, it got even better.

<v Speaker 1>You missed the best part and Luis with a ten

<v Speaker 1>dollars super chat. Leon Slater not being there had everything

<v Speaker 1>to do well. Leon Slater is having visa issues, so

<v Speaker 1>that was something that they made very clear on the show.

<v Speaker 1>Leon Slater if wwe wanted to use him though, let's

<v Speaker 1>say they wanted to use him on SmackDown tomorrow because

<v Speaker 1>they're going to be in the UK. I would imagine that.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I mean, I would imagine over there

<v Speaker 1>he could probably work. I don't know, what do you think?

<v Speaker 1>Do you think we might get Leon Slater and Carmelo

<v Speaker 1>Hayes and a US title Open challenge. That'd be something,

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't it. I don't know about back to back losses though,

<v Speaker 1>you know, he just lost to Obafemi. Now he would

<v Speaker 1>show up and lose to Carmelo Hayes kind of makes

<v Speaker 1>him look like a bitch. If he goes to the

<v Speaker 1>other company and loses to two of their guys, be

<v Speaker 1>a great match though, And we have the four qualifying

<v Speaker 1>matches as well to determine who goes to the fatal

<v Speaker 1>four way next weekend at Saturday Night's main event, So

<v Speaker 1>we'll see how that goes. Death sythe I'm still alive

<v Speaker 1>and yes, sixteen is my cutoff. Also, if they're gonna

<v Speaker 1>bombard us with commercials, give us the Amerquest and Trojan advertisements.

<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you, man it. If you have all these commercials,

<v Speaker 1>at least at least make them fun or funny. Leon

<v Speaker 1>will definitely be on SMAM. I'm thinking he'll be. I

<v Speaker 1>think there's a very good chance he's going to accept

<v Speaker 1>that open challenge because him working in the UK, there

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be any issue. You wouldn't think Solo Socoa will

<v Speaker 1>finish the story and win the title. Okay, that may

<v Speaker 1>be where I end my smack dam reviews. If that happens,

<v Speaker 1>what does he need the title for. He's got the lantern.

<v Speaker 1>He stole the lantern from Uncle Howdy and Aaron says

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on the report on the rumored plan of Roman

<v Speaker 1>beating Drew and Cody is the challenger at WrestleMania. It

<v Speaker 1>feels like a rerun. I don't want Cody to win

<v Speaker 1>the Royal Room. It's all it's all rumoring, conjecture. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>that's all it is. And I'll talk more about all

<v Speaker 1>all the different theories and rumors and reports on the

<v Speaker 1>sound off this weekend. But take nothing that you were

<v Speaker 1>reading at face value. Nobody knows for sure what is

<v Speaker 1>going to happen. I think WWE is putting a lot

<v Speaker 1>of bullshit out there. They're just flooding the zone with

<v Speaker 1>bullshit to kind of throw people off. Look for all

<v Speaker 1>we know, we were bamboozled into thinking that Seth Rollins

<v Speaker 1>is going to be out longer than he is and

<v Speaker 1>he'll show up and win the rumble. No one's talking

<v Speaker 1>about Seth Rollins showing up and winning the rumble. What

<v Speaker 1>if all this stuff about how oh you know, I'm

<v Speaker 1>going to start rehabbing February and hopefully I'm back in April.

<v Speaker 1>What if it's all bullshit? Do you ever think about that?

<v Speaker 1>This is the guy who was in on a work

<v Speaker 1>trying to work everybody in July about another injury. I

<v Speaker 1>put nothing past them. It's like when John Cenatore's peck

<v Speaker 1>in October of seven, and that's an injury that you

<v Speaker 1>would expect he would be out for for like five

<v Speaker 1>or six months, but at all depends on the severity

<v Speaker 1>of the peck tear. But we were led to believe that, like,

<v Speaker 1>he's not going to be back for the Rumble, and

<v Speaker 1>then boom, He's number thirty in the Royal Rumble. It's

<v Speaker 1>not that he has mutant healing powers. It's just that

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure the peck tear was not as serious as

<v Speaker 1>it could have been, and they kept it very hush hush,

<v Speaker 1>and it made for one of the biggest surprises in

<v Speaker 1>Rumble history because nobody was expecting him to walk out

<v Speaker 1>there at number thirty. So I put nothing past these people.

<v Speaker 1>And Joseph Stewart is back. Do you remember the movie

<v Speaker 1>The Searches with John Wayne and Natalie Wood? Never saw it.

<v Speaker 1>You strike me as a big John Wayne fan, but

<v Speaker 1>that one I've not seen. Fistful of dollars and true

<v Speaker 1>grits like, yeah, I've heard of those. Anyway, you guys

<v Speaker 1>hit that goal before. What is your favorite Jessica, I

<v Speaker 1>assume that means alba, He said ala jet. What is

<v Speaker 1>my favorite Jessica album movie? I don't think I have one.

<v Speaker 1>All Right, we hit the goal. I'm very proud of

<v Speaker 1>you guys. This is gonna be I believe, our first

<v Speaker 1>time ever doing be the booker on a Thursday, since

<v Speaker 1>I don't usually stream on Thursday. So let's make some

<v Speaker 1>history here, shall we. It's time to be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Ah Joseph says, fistful of dollars was Clint Eastwood? I

<v Speaker 1>got my Western actors mixed up? You are correct. Now

<v Speaker 1>here's the tag team you talk about, a badass team.

<v Speaker 1>This was the summer of ninety eight, my favorite summer's

<v Speaker 1>ever in wrestling. Everything just felt so red hot during

<v Speaker 1>that summer. Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Ball. This is

<v Speaker 1>right around the time I actually went to my first

<v Speaker 1>raw in person. Stone Cold and the Undertaker are kicking

<v Speaker 1>us off here and be the booker. This is a

<v Speaker 1>good sign. We're off to a good start here. Oscar says,

<v Speaker 1>totally random, But where can I buy that solemn monster mug? Oh?

<v Speaker 1>This sweet mug right here with this sweet logo. Just

<v Speaker 1>go to my website. If you go to the Solomonster

<v Speaker 1>dot com, it's my link tree, the very last link

<v Speaker 1>on the Actually it's either the last one or second

<v Speaker 1>to last one. I think the last link is to

<v Speaker 1>my mother's children's book on Amazon. But there's a link

<v Speaker 1>there that says get mugged, and if you click that,

<v Speaker 1>you can buy the mug All right. Undertaker and Stone

<v Speaker 1>Cold against book A T and gold Dust. See that

<v Speaker 1>would make for some entertaining segments on television. Booker T

<v Speaker 1>and Golda's Book Dust or the Golden Book against Austin

<v Speaker 1>and the Undertaker. I like it. See that's a match

<v Speaker 1>that will draw me some money here on my card.

<v Speaker 1>And now we need a women's match that's gonna draw

<v Speaker 1>me some money. This will not draw me some money.

<v Speaker 1>We have Naya Jacks. This will not draw me any money.

<v Speaker 1>Naya Jacks against bird Girl Lyra Valkyria. I like bird Girl,

<v Speaker 1>but again, I need matches that are gonna draw me

<v Speaker 1>some money. Here. The Terror Tori has been a little

<v Speaker 1>rough lately, and I don't want to say we're on

<v Speaker 1>our last legs, but we need to generate some business

<v Speaker 1>and some you know, an ass every eighteen inches. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think that match is going to do it. We

<v Speaker 1>got to do better than that. Maybe our main event

<v Speaker 1>will do so. Oh look it's the human crash test.

<v Speaker 1>Dummy Darby Allen. What ridiculous bump will he take in

<v Speaker 1>this match? He's in the main event. I mean, is

<v Speaker 1>no telling what this guy? He's insane, absolutely insane. Darby

<v Speaker 1>Allen against Booker T, which is fine, but I mean,

<v Speaker 1>we just had Booker T. Book We have Booker T

<v Speaker 1>pulling double duty here on this show. See that's how

<v Speaker 1>you know you got a territory on the way down

<v Speaker 1>when you've got guys pulling double duty on the same show.

<v Speaker 1>But Darby and Booker would be a good match. We

<v Speaker 1>have the aj Hernandez. Are you a Deadlock Wrestling podcast fan?

<v Speaker 1>I don't really have a lot of time to listen

<v Speaker 1>to other podcasts. I'm just so freaking busy with my

<v Speaker 1>own stuff, so i don't have much to offer on that.

<v Speaker 1>But I've been asked about that a few times, so

<v Speaker 1>obviously they have quite a few fans, so I've had

<v Speaker 1>a few people ask me about that. Joseph says Jessica

<v Speaker 1>Albo Oh, yeah, of course. Jessica Alba was in the

<v Speaker 1>Fantastic Four as Sue st of course, Yeah, how did

<v Speaker 1>I forget that that she's in The Fantastic for Michael

<v Speaker 1>Chicklis was in there. He's my favorite actor. Also, have

<v Speaker 1>you seen the Western they call me Trinity? I have

<v Speaker 1>not five hundred likes? Holy shit. Seriously, we did better

<v Speaker 1>on the Impact stream than we did on the Dynamite stream.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that says about Dynamite. Link master

<v Speaker 1>X says a bigger disappointment Sopranos movie or Joker Too. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I will say the Sopranos movie, but I did not

<v Speaker 1>see the Joker Too because I was warned that it

<v Speaker 1>was terrible, So I never even bothered watching Joker Too.

<v Speaker 1>Sopranos movie, it was okay, but it was still I

<v Speaker 1>found it a little disappointing though, So I have to

<v Speaker 1>go with that just because I didn't see the other one.

<v Speaker 1>And Joseph again, thank you, brother, I hope you have

<v Speaker 1>a very good night. Look up the Trinity slap scene.

<v Speaker 1>I may have to do that. Booker commentates his own

<v Speaker 1>match against Darby. That would be entertaining, as he throws

<v Speaker 1>Darby down a flight of stairs backwards. Never watched the Sopranos.

<v Speaker 1>We have the Shame Hobby. Now, Hobby, you've got to

<v Speaker 1>you've got to give that a shot. You've got to

<v Speaker 1>give that a shot. It's the greatest television show ever made.

<v Speaker 1>There wasn't a single episode of that show where I

<v Speaker 1>did not watch it with some just sense of dread

<v Speaker 1>hanging over me, not knowing what might come next. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>what's funny is there were some episodes. There's one episode

<v Speaker 1>in particular called the Test Pattern I think it was,

<v Speaker 1>or the not the Test Pattern, the Test Dream. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it's one of those episodes where it's you always you

<v Speaker 1>have this on a lot of TV shows, where it's

<v Speaker 1>kind of like really out there, or maybe it's like

<v Speaker 1>a dream episode or something, and it's like, oh man,

<v Speaker 1>we got like a throwaway. And back in the day,

<v Speaker 1>when you know you would have to wait an entire

<v Speaker 1>week for the next episode of a television show, it

<v Speaker 1>annoyed the fuck out of you. Now, when you can

<v Speaker 1>like binge stuff, it's less of an issue. But I've

<v Speaker 1>gained a greater appreciation for like those types of episodes

<v Speaker 1>over time. You know, like even even my favorite, one

<v Speaker 1>of my favorite shows is The Shield, and they had

<v Speaker 1>an episode like that. I think in season two where

<v Speaker 1>it was like a throwback episode, and at the time

<v Speaker 1>I didn't really appreciate it. I was like, man, I

<v Speaker 1>want to know what's going to happen next. Now they're

<v Speaker 1>going back in time. Now I got to wait two weeks,

<v Speaker 1>you know, to get like a new episode. But it

<v Speaker 1>gave some really important backstory to the characters. And when

<v Speaker 1>I rewatched it years later, it's like, man, I I

<v Speaker 1>gained like a new appreciation for that episode. I just

<v Speaker 1>think like in the moment, we're all so like, I

<v Speaker 1>want it now, I want the next episode now, and

<v Speaker 1>you just sort of dismiss it, you know. But those

<v Speaker 1>episodes are important for like story building and character building. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Gandalfini plays himself in that episode pretty what is his name?

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Finnerty. In that episode, he loses the accent and

<v Speaker 1>at the very end of the episode they play that

<v Speaker 1>Mobi song, which they actually played in the Stranger Things

<v Speaker 1>finale as well. Have I seen the Natalie Woods movie

<v Speaker 1>West Side Story, West Side Story? Yes, I've seen West

<v Speaker 1>Side Story. Please explain Sopranos movie I have. I had

<v Speaker 1>no clue. You should really look it up. It's been

<v Speaker 1>a while since I've seen it, and I don't want

<v Speaker 1>to spoil anything. You'll get better context if you just

<v Speaker 1>look up like a synopsis of it. I thought his

<v Speaker 1>son was good, though, I mean as far as like

<v Speaker 1>acting wise. I don't know if his son has done

<v Speaker 1>any other thing of note recently. Michael Gandolfini, did I

<v Speaker 1>finish Stranger Thing? I did? Yes, Yes, I tweeted about

<v Speaker 1>it a few days ago. I'll I may, I may.

<v Speaker 1>I got a question in the mailbag about it. I

<v Speaker 1>may just answer it on the sound off this weekend.

<v Speaker 1>If I share any thoughts, try to keep it as

<v Speaker 1>a spoiler free as I can, or if not, I'll

<v Speaker 1>warn you guys. So maybe I'll chime in on that

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday. But yeah, I finished it on Sunday night

<v Speaker 1>and didn't realized the finale was like a movie. It's

<v Speaker 1>over two hours, just the last episode. If I watched

<v Speaker 1>any Fallout I have not, but I've been told that

<v Speaker 1>I should. I never played any of the Fallout games,

<v Speaker 1>but apparently the show was very good. Have I seen

<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club? Yes, of course, I've seen the Breakfast Club.

<v Speaker 1>He was in Daredevil Born Again. Okay, Gandelfeeni, it's good

<v Speaker 1>to know. I didn't know if he was in anything

<v Speaker 1>of like real Note your thoughts on the UnAmericans Stable

<v Speaker 1>that lasted from two to June of two to March

<v Speaker 1>of three. I didn't really care for it, not really

<v Speaker 1>a fan. Did I watch the original American Gladiators, dude?

<v Speaker 1>I used to watch that every weekend, every Saturday. I

<v Speaker 1>think it would come on after Superstars, so I think

<v Speaker 1>I would watch Wrestling from twelve to one, and then

<v Speaker 1>from one to two they had American Gladiators, and I

<v Speaker 1>would watch it every single week. Well, you play the

<v Speaker 1>upcoming Halloween video game coming out this fall, we can

<v Speaker 1>play as a commune. That would be interesting. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>mean I probably would have an interest in playing it

<v Speaker 1>if it's on like Steam for the PC. When it

<v Speaker 1>comes out, we'll see. Do you play as Michael or

<v Speaker 1>do you play as just like generic, you know, character

<v Speaker 1>number one. I don't know from whose perspective the game

<v Speaker 1>is from. When does the reboot of American Gladiators air? Oh? Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that's right, I forgot about that. The miss is the

<v Speaker 1>host and Wardlow is on there. Right, is Camille one

<v Speaker 1>of the Gladiators? Yeah, we haven't heard anything about that,

<v Speaker 1>all right, tomorrow. Here's the plan. I'm gonna be watching

<v Speaker 1>smack Down at three o'clock Eastern with my Express VPN,

<v Speaker 1>which you can too by the way, it got a

<v Speaker 1>good deal for you in the description down below. And

<v Speaker 1>then I'm gonna go live. I'm thinking around nine o'clock,

<v Speaker 1>maybe eight thirty, but probably plan for nine pm. We'll

<v Speaker 1>go live, we'll talk about SmackDown, we'll see who accepts

<v Speaker 1>the open challenge for Carl Hayes, we'll talk about all

<v Speaker 1>the qualifying matches. Drew McIntyre will be there as the

<v Speaker 1>WWE champion. So another day, another show. Hopefully you will

<v Speaker 1>join me for that. And link Master says Tony Soprano

<v Speaker 1>would have made a great WWF champion. I think he

<v Speaker 1>would have cut some pretty good promos. But see, his

<v Speaker 1>promo style wouldn't really fit in like the mid nineties.

<v Speaker 1>He's more of like an Attitude era guy. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he would have been. He would have been at a

<v Speaker 1>pretty great character. I'll say that all right. If you're

<v Speaker 1>a channel member, enjoy rspw rewind. If not, become a

<v Speaker 1>channel member and then you can get access to it.

<v Speaker 1>It's been almost an hour going through these old posts

<v Speaker 1>and man, some of these comments. I wouldn't say I'm surprised,

<v Speaker 1>but it certainly is something to go back and see

<v Speaker 1>what people were complaining about and talking about all those

<v Speaker 1>many years ago. All right, hit that like button on

<v Speaker 1>your way out, and I will see you guys back here,

<v Speaker 1>hopefully tomorrow. We'll do it all over again one more time.

<v Speaker 1>We got some SmackDown. Until then, take care, guys,