<v Speaker 1>Goods business time. Baby, you are listening to Solo Monsters

<v Speaker 1>Sounds Off. I love you so, mama, monster, dude, I

<v Speaker 1>want your soul. Mind a woman.

<v Speaker 2>You got grown ass wrestlers in the back going on Twitter.

<v Speaker 1>Come over here, hot May? Is that pet patison you

<v Speaker 1>have legs?

<v Speaker 2>The weekend I was ninety nine percent positive it was

<v Speaker 2>just chessed up. Now I have been begging him for

<v Speaker 2>a job on every every platform I can, and I

<v Speaker 2>would have know the reason why you won't part.

<v Speaker 1>Happy Memorial Day weekend, A very wet Memorial Day weekend

<v Speaker 1>here in New York. This is episode nine to sixty

<v Speaker 1>four of The Solo Monster Sounds Off for Sunday, May

<v Speaker 1>twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. I am the Solo Monster.

<v Speaker 1>What a win for the Knison Game one of the

<v Speaker 1>Eastern Conference Finals, coming back in the fourth quarter from

<v Speaker 1>twenty two points down against the Cabs. And they wrecked

<v Speaker 1>the Cabs in Game two and beat them again last

<v Speaker 1>night to go up three to zero in the series.

<v Speaker 1>This is all after the team had been cursed by

<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen a few weeks ago and then uncursed by

<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen, and they have been on a ten and

<v Speaker 1>zero run since they're undefeated. The curse. The curse is real.

<v Speaker 1>But look at Dan Housen becoming a celebrity. He's popping

<v Speaker 1>up on ESPN. He's courtside in Madison Square Garden, number

<v Speaker 1>two merch seller in the entire company. They just released

<v Speaker 1>an official Dan Housen New York Knicks you Are Uncursed

<v Speaker 1>t shirt on WWE Shop. I have an entire Dan

<v Speaker 1>Housen Knicks collection on there. His ascent in just ninety days.

<v Speaker 1>Think about it, It's only been ninety days that he's

<v Speaker 1>even been in the company has been insane, but good

<v Speaker 1>for him. I'm happy for the guy. We got double

<v Speaker 1>or nothing coming up tonight. We're going to talk about that.

<v Speaker 1>We got some other news and notes, and because I

<v Speaker 1>was not live last night, I'll give you my thoughts

<v Speaker 1>on Saturday Night's main event, and then I'll get you

<v Speaker 1>out of here because we got a pay per view

<v Speaker 1>to get ready for it. Tonight, I will be live

<v Speaker 1>on YouTube. If you would like to support the show

<v Speaker 1>make a PayPal donation, you may do so on the

<v Speaker 1>Solomonster dot com, as many people did this week. I

<v Speaker 1>very much appreciate that ten dollars or more we'll get

<v Speaker 1>you a nickname and a shout out like these fine folks. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>I want to wish a very happy early birthday to

<v Speaker 1>Rachel from the Badger State. Thank you again for the

<v Speaker 1>mega support this week. I hope you enjoy the long weekend.

<v Speaker 1>I hope you have nicer weather than we have here.

<v Speaker 1>Madman Mike Weeks just showing some love. He says he

<v Speaker 1>never misses a sound uff, live stream or uncrowned episode.

<v Speaker 1>He also bought the kindle version of Hardy the Horse

<v Speaker 1>and plans on buying the hardcover version to donate to

<v Speaker 1>his kid's former preschool. I love hearing that very much.

<v Speaker 1>Appreciate that. All the love for Hardy the Horse, which

<v Speaker 1>is available, by the way on Amazon dot com. The

<v Speaker 1>Adventurer of Hardy the Horse, The Portland pop star Paul Hamilton,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, brother, Big b Bryant, Visera the Diamond, Dallas

<v Speaker 1>Dance Machine, Harrison Soep, Velvet Revolver, Robert Murray, Big Time,

<v Speaker 1>Boris Weinman, The Chicago Slayer, Willie Aicherd, Knight Stalker and

<v Speaker 1>if Alsafar Killshot, Keith Hart, Big Homie, John Burton, Go Nix,

<v Speaker 1>Go Nix. Indeed have a great holiday brother, bad ass

<v Speaker 1>Bernard Frederick, who would like to shout out his wife

<v Speaker 1>Tammy for giving him the best twenty six years of

<v Speaker 1>wedded bliss, and he looks forward to another twenty six

<v Speaker 1>years to come. God willing, I wish the same for

<v Speaker 1>both of you. The House of Glory held its Waging

<v Speaker 1>War event on Friday Night at the NYC Arena. He

<v Speaker 1>sold out NYC Arena in Queens, where aw will be

<v Speaker 1>tonight on the Call with JD from New York and

<v Speaker 1>Johnny Torres. Always good times, but a little bit busier

<v Speaker 1>than that. I wasn't expecting to find myself sitting in

<v Speaker 1>the back of an ambulance with Shatzi. It was one

<v Speaker 1>of those nights. If you saw the show, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Amazing Red and Kevin Knight, they killed it. Joey Silver,

<v Speaker 1>he's been a fan favorite in Hog for many, many

<v Speaker 1>years now. He got a shot at Charles Mason in

<v Speaker 1>the Hog World Championship. So not the marquee match perhaps

<v Speaker 1>like some of the other challengers that we've brought in,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm going to tell you right now that match

<v Speaker 1>brought down the house like no other that I have

<v Speaker 1>seen in that building since Mason won that belt almost

<v Speaker 1>one year ago. That building was rumbling. I mean, they

<v Speaker 1>wanted so badly to see Joey win that title. And

<v Speaker 1>it's those moments that are just the coolest to me

<v Speaker 1>because it's easy to bring in a big name talent

<v Speaker 1>who wants to work hog right, bring him in from

<v Speaker 1>aw bring him in from TNA, bring him in from

<v Speaker 1>New Japan. But when you've got that homegrown name that

<v Speaker 1>the fans can invest in and they can rally around

<v Speaker 1>like that, that's what makes it all worthwhile. So kudos

<v Speaker 1>to him, and look, kudos to Mason as well, because

<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of people that you know, buy a ticket,

<v Speaker 1>they come to the show, and they want to see

<v Speaker 1>him get beat and lose that belt, and nobody's been

<v Speaker 1>able to do it. So it just made for a

<v Speaker 1>sort of the perfect storm on Friday night. But that

<v Speaker 1>match right now is up on the House of Glory

<v Speaker 1>YouTube channel, so don't just take my word for it.

<v Speaker 1>You can go see for yourself and let him know

<v Speaker 1>that Solo Monster sent you. Matt and Jeff Hardy still

<v Speaker 1>your hog Tag team champions. It was good to catch

<v Speaker 1>up with them a bit after the show. Just a

<v Speaker 1>fun night, a fun night, and next up, we're back

<v Speaker 1>in Chicago Friday night, June nineteenth for Inferno. Already signed,

<v Speaker 1>Shatzi will defend her women's championship against Steph Delander, and

<v Speaker 1>Ricky Sosa is scheduled to make his HOG debut. We

<v Speaker 1>were hoping to have him on the show on Friday

<v Speaker 1>as well as even in Las Vegas, but he's just

<v Speaker 1>waiting on his visa situation to be resolved. It's a

<v Speaker 1>very slow moving situation. We have not seen him in

<v Speaker 1>a T and A ring since the beginning of March,

<v Speaker 1>and it really sucks how long it takes to get

<v Speaker 1>these things resolved. But fingers crossed hopefully all gets worked

<v Speaker 1>out shortly and he'll be able to join us and

<v Speaker 1>you will too. Hog Wrestling dot nex for tickets. The

<v Speaker 1>Manx Warner situation on Friday night was a bit of

<v Speaker 1>a weird one. He was scheduled to work the AAW

<v Speaker 1>show in Marionette Park, Illinois, and he was pulled from

<v Speaker 1>the show at the last minute. And this is what

<v Speaker 1>they said, is what the promotion said. Manz Warner will

<v Speaker 1>unfortunately not be appearing at AAW homecoming per aw's request.

<v Speaker 1>We are immediately restructuring the show accordingly and will announce

<v Speaker 1>updates as soon as possible. Well, this was news to

<v Speaker 1>Tony Kahn, who tweeted, that's the first I've heard of this,

<v Speaker 1>and it's the first time anyone in aw's office has

<v Speaker 1>heard of it. He is welcome to do your show.

<v Speaker 1>And I was confused by all of this because the

<v Speaker 1>last time Manz Warner even wrestled for AAW, you'd have

<v Speaker 1>to go back four years for a match against John Moxley.

<v Speaker 1>But he has done some Ring of Honor matches over

<v Speaker 1>the past month or so, so I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>he's signed with them, or if he had some sort

<v Speaker 1>of per appearance deal there. I guess that would be

<v Speaker 1>the tie in. But in any event, AW had nothing

<v Speaker 1>to do with any of this or else they would

<v Speaker 1>absolutely deserve the criticism for pulling him at the last minute.

<v Speaker 1>But Warner himself clarified later on. He said, AW did

<v Speaker 1>not ask me to pull out of this show. My

<v Speaker 1>rate was never agreed upon. I sent four hundred dollars

<v Speaker 1>to the promoter to cover the flight costs. I am

<v Speaker 1>sorry to any fans who were looking forward to seeing

<v Speaker 1>me at AAW. With transparency, I made a decision to

<v Speaker 1>withdraw from the show to avoid any chance of travel

<v Speaker 1>issues or any fuck ups ruining a big opportunity. I

<v Speaker 1>hope y'all can understand. So just a very weird deal.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why AAW would say that AW pulled

<v Speaker 1>him if Warner himself is saying that they had nothing

<v Speaker 1>to do with it, Like, where did that even come from?

<v Speaker 1>So that blew up on social media for a few

<v Speaker 1>hours on Friday, but all seems to have been resolved.

<v Speaker 1>Speaking of AAW, let's start there this week because they

<v Speaker 1>do have a pay per view tonight, and not to

<v Speaker 1>bring the mood down, but I saw the update on

<v Speaker 1>Jim Ross this week, and it just sucks, man, it

<v Speaker 1>just really sucks. He's doing great physically, he's feeling as

<v Speaker 1>good as he's felt in a long while, and he

<v Speaker 1>is set to be on commentary for I can't imagine

<v Speaker 1>the entire show, but he'll be on commentary for some

<v Speaker 1>of the matches tonight, maybe the main event at double

<v Speaker 1>or nothing. But he revealed on his Grilling Jr. Podcast

<v Speaker 1>this week that his doctors are concerned about possible dementia

<v Speaker 1>or Alzheimer's disease and he is undergoing tests for both.

<v Speaker 1>He was talking about Mick Foley coming to aw which

<v Speaker 1>I'll do in a minute here, and he said this,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how much he wants to work. And

<v Speaker 1>if you look at other guys myself included, we're used

<v Speaker 1>to or we're used on a limited basis, and that

<v Speaker 1>keeps me, in this case fresher and gives me a

<v Speaker 1>chance to continue to get my ailments addressed. I had

<v Speaker 1>a very positive doctor's appointment with my neurologist. Everybody's getting

<v Speaker 1>in on the act man. So the neurologist and I

<v Speaker 1>had an appointment and they took a bunch of blood

<v Speaker 1>and ransom tests. You know, I think they're worried about

<v Speaker 1>dementia or Alzheimer's. And I said, what the hell are

<v Speaker 1>you going to do about it? There's no cure. Its

<v Speaker 1>basically what he was saying.

<v Speaker 2>Here.

<v Speaker 1>He goes, it's not a cure. He goes, you know,

<v Speaker 1>if there's meds that I could be taking preventatively, tell

<v Speaker 1>me what they are and I'll do it. We'll see

<v Speaker 1>how it works out. I'm going through a lot of

<v Speaker 1>tests now. I don't feel bad at all. I feel

<v Speaker 1>great actually, But you know, Conrad let me tell you something, Buddy,

<v Speaker 1>getting old is a bitch. Getting old is indeed a bitch.

<v Speaker 1>Mother nature is a bitch, and Father Time is an asshole.

<v Speaker 1>The perfect couple, but Jr. Is the greatest of all

<v Speaker 1>time to ever do it on headset when it comes

<v Speaker 1>to pro wrestling, I don't care what anybody says. Gorilla

<v Speaker 1>Monson and Bobby heenan for my money. Top announced duo

<v Speaker 1>Monsoon and Jesse Vince are number two. Those are my

<v Speaker 1>goat announced combos Jr. And King. They're up there as well,

<v Speaker 1>Vince and Jesse. But as an individual, Jim Ross is

<v Speaker 1>the greatest wrestling announcer of all time, and he may

<v Speaker 1>not be what he used to be, which none of

<v Speaker 1>us are. When you get into your seventies and your eighties,

<v Speaker 1>I know he's in his early seventies. I believe seventy two,

<v Speaker 1>seventy four, somewhere in that range. So I mean he's

<v Speaker 1>a lot older, He's had a lot of health issues.

<v Speaker 1>It's not prime Jr. Anymore. But when he pops up

<v Speaker 1>on those aw pay per views where you can tell

<v Speaker 1>he's on his a game, he's having a good night, right,

<v Speaker 1>he's having a good day. He still has something to

<v Speaker 1>contribute for a special match here and there, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>glad they give him the opportunity to do so because

<v Speaker 1>he's been through the ringer when it comes to his health.

<v Speaker 1>I mean three or four different bouts of Bell's palsy

<v Speaker 1>that never resolved. You know, in most cases it does

<v Speaker 1>go away after a while. It never did with Jr.

<v Speaker 1>And as a broadcaster, as someone who was on television

<v Speaker 1>for a living, that's gotta be hell. That's like I

<v Speaker 1>remember when Bobby Heenen was first diagnosed with throat cancer,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, what a cruel twist of fate for

<v Speaker 1>somebody who made a list, who made his bones on

<v Speaker 1>the microphone, whether it was as a manager, cutting promos

<v Speaker 1>or as an announcer. This man used his voice, right,

<v Speaker 1>He used his voice to communicate. It was what he

<v Speaker 1>did for a living. And obviously all the convention appearances

<v Speaker 1>and whatnot, and of all ailments, of all things to

<v Speaker 1>be stricken down with. And not that it's the worst.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's obviously a gazillion terrible, horrible illnesses out

<v Speaker 1>there that you could be afflicted with. But for it

<v Speaker 1>to be throat cancer, I always thought that was just

<v Speaker 1>a particularly cruel twist of fate for him, but again

<v Speaker 1>for Jim Ross. Look, when he was first afflicted with

<v Speaker 1>Bell's palsy the first time in nineteen ninety four, Vince

<v Speaker 1>McMahon fired him. The reason Vince fired him in ninety

<v Speaker 1>four and got rid of him, he didn't want somebody

<v Speaker 1>with Bell's polsy on his TV shows looking like that.

<v Speaker 1>And only later that year, when the steroid trial hit

<v Speaker 1>and Vince had to go away for a little bit

<v Speaker 1>and he was dealing with that, did they bring Jr.

<v Speaker 1>Back to fill in. And then he parlayed that into

<v Speaker 1>a much longer career in the company and made a

<v Speaker 1>lot of money. But from that to the perforated colon

<v Speaker 1>he had surgery for in two thousand and five that

<v Speaker 1>almost killed him. That's where we got the doctor heine

<v Speaker 1>skit on raw, you know, which I know he's talked about,

<v Speaker 1>was very hurtful to him and his family. So from

<v Speaker 1>that to being diagnosed with skin cancer and then colon

<v Speaker 1>cancer last year, all the falls that he's taken. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he's talked about, how many times has this guy fallen

<v Speaker 1>at home? You know? I would see clips of him

<v Speaker 1>on his podcast sometimes Big Black Eye am like, who

<v Speaker 1>beat up JR? It's like, nope, he fell again at home.

<v Speaker 1>So that's happened a bunch of times. And now this,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's a lot for one person. And I

<v Speaker 1>know he lives alone. You know his wife was killed

<v Speaker 1>in a scooter accident. I'm sure that doesn't make it

<v Speaker 1>any easier. Hopefully those tests come back negative. But if

<v Speaker 1>they suspect something may be wrong cognitively, I'm sure there's

<v Speaker 1>some reason for it. I just you know, I wish JR.

<v Speaker 1>All the best. Dementia of any kind is a horrible,

<v Speaker 1>horrible disease and it's a terrible way to go out.

<v Speaker 1>And hopefully that's not what this is. But tonight AW

<v Speaker 1>brings its double or Nothing pay per view to Louis

<v Speaker 1>Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York, with a sold out

<v Speaker 1>crowd of over fourteen thousand in attendance and a familiar

<v Speaker 1>face on the pre show with Renee Piquett, and that

<v Speaker 1>is Mick Foley. The rumors were true. John Alba of

<v Speaker 1>Sports Illustrated broke the story last week about there being

<v Speaker 1>AW interest in bringing in Foley. I suspect his WWE

<v Speaker 1>Legends deal was either up sooner than expected, because he

<v Speaker 1>himself had said June or it never excluded him from

<v Speaker 1>working with other promotions to begin with. The legend stuff

<v Speaker 1>is a little fuzzy to me. I think Mark Henry

<v Speaker 1>has talked about there being two different types of deals.

<v Speaker 1>It's like a proper Legends deal and then a nostalgia deal,

<v Speaker 1>which is less restrictive. But Foley had a Legends deal,

<v Speaker 1>or has one. You know, Brett Hart, he appeared at

<v Speaker 1>the first Double or Nothing, which was in Las Vegas

<v Speaker 1>a month after he got attacked at the WWE Hall

<v Speaker 1>of Fame. But he was a Double or Nothing and then,

<v Speaker 1>you know, promptly fell off the stage. I was in

<v Speaker 1>the building for that one. I didn't see him fall.

<v Speaker 1>I know it was a big deal because people like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm in the crowd, and then people start talking about

<v Speaker 1>it a little later, like, oh Brett fell and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>what the fucking guy fell off the stage as he

<v Speaker 1>was walking back from that segment because they had him,

<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of introduced the brand new aw Championship

<v Speaker 1>belt that night. But yeah, he fell off the stage

<v Speaker 1>and thankfully he was okay. But anyway, I don't recall

<v Speaker 1>if he was under a Legends deal Brett was at

<v Speaker 1>that time. I feel like Brett signed a Legends deal

<v Speaker 1>later on. But like for example, Jake the Snake Roberts,

<v Speaker 1>he is under a WWE Legends deal and he is

<v Speaker 1>signed to an AW contract. So I guess for at

<v Speaker 1>least some of these guys it would not prevent them

<v Speaker 1>from signing elsewhere. Only the WWE might frown upon it.

<v Speaker 1>But maybe that's it. You know, Folly doesn't give a

<v Speaker 1>shit anymore. He wants nothing to do with them for

<v Speaker 1>the time being. Foley will join Renee as the hosts

<v Speaker 1>of the Buy In pre show, which starts at seven

<v Speaker 1>pm Eastern tonight. It's the buy In, not Zero Hour,

<v Speaker 1>because it's always been the buy in for Double or Nothing,

<v Speaker 1>So we're going from mister Soko to mister Siko with

<v Speaker 1>mcfoley and Tony Khm was asked about Foley's role in

<v Speaker 1>AW on Thursday's Double or Nothing media call and whether

<v Speaker 1>or not it would be a case where we would

<v Speaker 1>see him wrestling in AAW and this is what Tony said.

<v Speaker 1>He goes, I can't speak for mcfoley as to whether

<v Speaker 1>he would want to wrestle or if he's going to

<v Speaker 1>wrestle anytime soon. But if he ever does, I would

<v Speaker 1>love for him to do it in AW, but I

<v Speaker 1>also don't want to put him in a situation in

<v Speaker 1>which he'll feel uncomfortable. I want him to feel good

<v Speaker 1>about this, and I know he's taken so many big

<v Speaker 1>hits and had such an amazing career with so many

<v Speaker 1>spectacular moments. Physically, I would only ever ask him to

<v Speaker 1>wrestle if he fell up to it, and that he

<v Speaker 1>could live up to the physical demand. The fact that

<v Speaker 1>he's even open to fully wrestling is giving me anxiety

<v Speaker 1>because you know that Foley is gonna want to wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Like this is almost not a doubt in my mind

<v Speaker 1>that if Mick Foley is signed, or will signed, or

<v Speaker 1>is gonna have some sort of long standing relationship with AW,

<v Speaker 1>he will absolutely, one hundred percent end up doing at

<v Speaker 1>least one match at some point, and I can only

<v Speaker 1>hope that they take whatever precautions they can. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying it would be cinematic, but again, like he's,

<v Speaker 1>as Tony said, like he's taken so many, so many

<v Speaker 1>bumps and all things. Consider it. Quite frankly, I'm shocked

<v Speaker 1>that he is in as good of a shape and

<v Speaker 1>condition as he is in at this point cognitively and otherwise.

<v Speaker 1>But when he was talking about training to do one

<v Speaker 1>more deathmatch for his sixtieth birthday and then said well

<v Speaker 1>I'm pulling out, I was like, Wow, Well, if he's

<v Speaker 1>pulling out, then that must be something bad. Yeah, because

<v Speaker 1>he got concustant. He didn't he didn't even know how.

<v Speaker 1>It was some light training he was doing. And you

<v Speaker 1>want to put him in there for a match and

<v Speaker 1>not expect him to take some kind of big, ridiculous bump.

<v Speaker 1>In a company where Darby Allen is doing all of

<v Speaker 1>this insane shit, and a company where John Moxley is

<v Speaker 1>like the Deathmatch King, He's going to be hanging around

<v Speaker 1>these guys, and you don't think that he's not going

<v Speaker 1>to get the itch to do a match with one

<v Speaker 1>of them, or MJF or somebody at some point. SA

<v Speaker 1>I mean, give me a break, fucking Darby head sting

<v Speaker 1>doing balcony dives. It's only a matter of time. He

<v Speaker 1>did say that Foley will be an on air host

<v Speaker 1>that pay per views and might make some TV appearances.

<v Speaker 1>He might be a brand ambassador of sorts for them,

<v Speaker 1>which I think would be a great role for him.

<v Speaker 1>But also on that call, Brandon Thurston asked Tony a

<v Speaker 1>very simple question, is AW profitable. They're not a publicly

<v Speaker 1>traded company. We don't have an actual answer to this question.

<v Speaker 1>It's been asked before. Is AW profitable? This was Tony's answer.

<v Speaker 1>Our revenue is the highest it's ever been. I can't

<v Speaker 1>comment on where we stand in terms of every expense

<v Speaker 1>year to year. Certainly this is going to be the

<v Speaker 1>most revenue we've ever generated in the strongest financial outlook

<v Speaker 1>for the company ever. I'm reinvesting in a number of projects,

<v Speaker 1>including digital projects, to grow the company for the future.

<v Speaker 1>As far as how it's accounted, I don't have all

<v Speaker 1>the figures in front of me, but I can say

<v Speaker 1>it's by far the most revenue that we've brought in

<v Speaker 1>and the future is the healthiest outlook. I'll continue to

<v Speaker 1>reinvest in the business, developing new platforms and trying to

<v Speaker 1>open up new territories to grow the company. We're launching

<v Speaker 1>some new projects and some international developments that will require

<v Speaker 1>investment that I think are smart moves. We are strongly

<v Speaker 1>positioned for the future of AAW. Now is the perfect

<v Speaker 1>time for me to double down on aaw because we're

<v Speaker 1>going to be around for a very, very long time.

<v Speaker 1>And that is a really long way of saying, no,

<v Speaker 1>the company is not profitable. But as long as he's

<v Speaker 1>got the capital to continue investing in it, and he

<v Speaker 1>said it in the quote, he said, I am continuing

<v Speaker 1>to reinvest. I feel it's in the best interest of

<v Speaker 1>the company. We have to keep growing and to do

<v Speaker 1>that you need money, So you got to keep reinvesting.

<v Speaker 1>If he's got the and again he's a billionaire, it

<v Speaker 1>comes from a billionaire family. If he has the capital

<v Speaker 1>to continue investing in it and he doesn't mind taking

<v Speaker 1>a loss, then it doesn't really matter. But no, they

<v Speaker 1>are not profitable, because if they were, again he would

<v Speaker 1>say yes or he would be screaming it from the

<v Speaker 1>highest rooftop. But I just laugh like he gives this

<v Speaker 1>long answer and it sounds great, but the short of

<v Speaker 1>it is no, to answer Brandon's question, the company is

<v Speaker 1>not profitable and the company will be around for a

<v Speaker 1>long time as long as he continues to invest in

<v Speaker 1>the way that he has. The big caveat is unless

<v Speaker 1>they lose their television deal. And if that's six hundred

<v Speaker 1>million dollar Warner Brothers Discovery soon to be Paramount Skydance

<v Speaker 1>deal disappears, I don't see how they can continue operating

<v Speaker 1>their current levels without making cuts. I just don't see it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't see how that's possible. So they'll be around.

<v Speaker 1>One thing Tony's been resistant to are these mass cuts

<v Speaker 1>in the way the WWE has done over the years.

<v Speaker 1>But I just again, if that deal were to go away,

<v Speaker 1>it would be very difficult for me to imagine that

<v Speaker 1>there aren't some changes that have to be made in

<v Speaker 1>some sacrifices that have to be made. You know, if

<v Speaker 1>they're making more money now than they ever have before,

<v Speaker 1>though that's good. You want to go up, you don't

<v Speaker 1>want to go down. And on the possibility of all

<v Speaker 1>In returning to Wembley Stadium in twenty twenty seven, he

<v Speaker 1>said he has not decided yet on a location for

<v Speaker 1>next year's all In, but twenty twenty seven will be

<v Speaker 1>another big year for aw and he plans to take

<v Speaker 1>some big swings. I don't know if big swings is

<v Speaker 1>a nod to anything specific, like a baseball stadium show,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm still hoping he takes advantage of WWE taking

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania out of the country to Saudi Irab next year,

<v Speaker 1>and that he hosts a big wrestling week with Wrestle

<v Speaker 1>Khan and all the other events, piggybacking off it the

<v Speaker 1>way they typically do wrestle Media, like do it in

<v Speaker 1>New Orleans, do it wherever. Really, but I think it's

<v Speaker 1>a big missed opportunity not to do something and kind

<v Speaker 1>of be the face of it and be the leader

<v Speaker 1>of it around wrestle media time. It shouldn't be the

<v Speaker 1>weekend of wrestle Media, but somewhere around March or April,

<v Speaker 1>give wrestling fans a reason to fly in and congregate

<v Speaker 1>for a big wrestling weekend somewhere Stateside, like a big

<v Speaker 1>wrestling festival wrestle Fest. If the name wasn't already taken,

<v Speaker 1>that'd be the perfect name for it. Let's run down

<v Speaker 1>this double or Nothing card. As I said last week.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, there were more matches announced since I last

<v Speaker 1>talked about this, mainly on the Bay in pre show,

<v Speaker 1>so we'll start there. They've added a trios match with

<v Speaker 1>the Death Riders Claudio Castignoli, Daniel Garcia and Wheeler da

<v Speaker 1>taking on the Ops Hook Kattiori Shabata and Anthony Bowens,

<v Speaker 1>the newest member of the Ops. Bowens just joined. They

<v Speaker 1>have Samoa Joe on the main card in an owen

<v Speaker 1>Hart tournament match that he is absolutely not going to win.

<v Speaker 1>This really needs to be a win for the OPS.

<v Speaker 1>You know, Hopefully they didn't just add Bowens to the

<v Speaker 1>group to be the to be to the Ops what

<v Speaker 1>Austin Theory is to the Vision. You know, typically the

<v Speaker 1>fall game, mainly in singles matches, Theory is typically the

<v Speaker 1>fall guy in those situations. Hopefully that's not the only

<v Speaker 1>reason they put Bowen's in this group, But I just

<v Speaker 1>feel like, especially if Joe is losing on the main cards,

<v Speaker 1>you got to at least give the OPS a win here.

<v Speaker 1>So I'm going to go with them for the win.

<v Speaker 1>We have Orange Cassidy, Mark Briscoe, Roderick Strong, Big Boom

<v Speaker 1>aj is back. He's the pre show king here in

<v Speaker 1>AW and QT Marshall. They're going to be taking on

<v Speaker 1>Anthony A go go who I gotta tell you, I

<v Speaker 1>didn't even realize he was still employed by AW. If

<v Speaker 1>you want a perfect example of Tony KHN doesn't like

<v Speaker 1>making cuts the way the WWE does. The fact that

<v Speaker 1>Anthony Aggo is still there, I think says it all

<v Speaker 1>because I can't remember the last time I saw him

<v Speaker 1>on Dynamite. But Anthony Aggo, Lee Moriarty, Charlie Bravo, Sean

<v Speaker 1>Dean and Shane Taylor, I'm going with the conglomeration for

<v Speaker 1>the win and Big whatever team Big Bloom Aj is on,

<v Speaker 1>he will win and also on the buy. In the

<v Speaker 1>women's tag team champions Divine Dominion, Megan Bain and Lena

<v Speaker 1>Cross just picked up a win again Shatzi at the

<v Speaker 1>Hog Show the other night. They take on Viva Van

<v Speaker 1>and Zeta Steele. Is a five minute championship eliminator match

<v Speaker 1>and this will be easy work, I think for Divine Dominion.

<v Speaker 1>Then we get to the main card owen Hart Foundation Tournament.

<v Speaker 1>We got three matches, although there is a change to

<v Speaker 1>one of these matches, Samoa Joe against will Ospray. This

<v Speaker 1>is going to be a win for will Osprey. There's

<v Speaker 1>just there's no other way for this to go. Swarve

<v Speaker 1>Strickland is gonna go against Bandido. At least in that

<v Speaker 1>match there is at least a chance we could get

<v Speaker 1>a shock win for Bandido because I do think it

<v Speaker 1>would be a shock if he went over here, but

<v Speaker 1>it's not impossible. I feel like Tony likes to throw

<v Speaker 1>a surprise into these tournaments as often as possible. I

<v Speaker 1>could see it here. I'm gonna stick with Swerve. I

<v Speaker 1>still feel like the destination for Forbidden Door is a

<v Speaker 1>rematch between Osprey and Swerve, only this time Osprey goes over.

<v Speaker 1>That's where I think this is all heading. So I'll

<v Speaker 1>go with Swerve. But then we had a change in

<v Speaker 1>the one women's Owen Hart match that was scheduled for

<v Speaker 1>this pay per view, Willow Nightingale was supposed to step

<v Speaker 1>into the ring with Alex Windsor. Now Willow Nightingale is

<v Speaker 1>Or was the TBS champion. She appeared in a backstage

<v Speaker 1>segment on Dynamite Wednesday night to make the announcement that

<v Speaker 1>she suffered a right shoulder injury in her collision match

<v Speaker 1>last week with Red Velvet, and it's serious enough that

<v Speaker 1>she has been pulled from the Owen which is tough

<v Speaker 1>for her. I think she's from Long Island, so this

<v Speaker 1>was almost going to be kind of like a homecoming

<v Speaker 1>for her back in New York, and her family was

<v Speaker 1>going to be there's gonna be a big night for her.

<v Speaker 1>She has been pulled from the Owen and she's been

<v Speaker 1>forced to vacate her TBS championship after one hundred and

<v Speaker 1>forty days. She was the woman to finally bring down

<v Speaker 1>Mercedes Monet and win that TBS title on New Year's Eve,

<v Speaker 1>and she's had the title ever since, and it sucks

<v Speaker 1>that this run now comes to an end like this,

<v Speaker 1>just with a whimper. Alex Windsor will now wrestle a

<v Speaker 1>wildcard entrant, but not on this show tonight. Instead, they're

<v Speaker 1>gonna have the Athena Mina Shirakawa match tonight. And my

<v Speaker 1>initial sense was, oh, well, there's going to be a

<v Speaker 1>wildcard entry in this tournament. What a great opportunity to

<v Speaker 1>slot Mercedes Monet back in there. My gut tells me

<v Speaker 1>it's not going to be her. It's not going to

<v Speaker 1>be her, because if it was going to be her,

<v Speaker 1>then I don't know why you would not have that

<v Speaker 1>on the pay per view tonight, right You would think that, okay,

<v Speaker 1>Alex wins are a double or nothing, will face a

<v Speaker 1>wild card, and then you get the big surprise entrance,

<v Speaker 1>the fact that they're not doing that, and instead they're

<v Speaker 1>going with a completely different match. Tells me that it

<v Speaker 1>ain't gonna be Mercedes in that spot. It's just my

<v Speaker 1>sense of it. But again, the injury, it sucks. You know.

<v Speaker 1>Willow was a big part of the women's division there,

<v Speaker 1>she was one of the champions, and now she didn't

<v Speaker 1>say anything about surgery, but it looks like she's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be gone for a while. Hopefully she'll she'll be able

<v Speaker 1>to make it back without going under the knife. But

<v Speaker 1>as far as Athena and Mina, I mean, this is

<v Speaker 1>gonna be a win for Athena. Athena, I mean Mina,

<v Speaker 1>my goodness, she's always eaten l's on these shows. And

<v Speaker 1>for her to go in there in the basically the

<v Speaker 1>opening I know they say it's a quarterfinal rounds, the

<v Speaker 1>fucking opening round of this tournament. And Athena, the forever

<v Speaker 1>champion and Ring of Honor, is going to lose to

<v Speaker 1>the woman who loses all the time. Give me a break.

<v Speaker 1>We have Stadium Stampede, Chris Jericho, Bobby Lash Shelton, Benjamin Kenny, Omega,

<v Speaker 1>Jack Perry and the Young Bucks take on Ricochet, The

<v Speaker 1>Gates of Agony, Mark Davis, androde l Edelo and the

<v Speaker 1>Dogs David Finley and Clark Conners. They had a smaller

<v Speaker 1>version of this on Dynamite this week. I'm not the

<v Speaker 1>same stadium stampede rules, but we had some of the

<v Speaker 1>members of this match on Wednesday and the heels went over,

<v Speaker 1>so I had already picked the baby Faces to win. Anyway,

<v Speaker 1>I feel even stronger about my prediction than I did

<v Speaker 1>last week. This will be a win for Team Jericho,

<v Speaker 1>and as fun as Anarchy in the Arena was last year,

<v Speaker 1>I actually find myself looking forward to this match, even

<v Speaker 1>though we know it's going to be just mass chaos

<v Speaker 1>and it's just gonna be tons of i'm sure plunder

<v Speaker 1>and all kinds of crazy spots. I had a lot

<v Speaker 1>of fun with that match last year. If this could

<v Speaker 1>even measure up slightly to what we got a year ago,

<v Speaker 1>then this will be a lot of fun. Just added

<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday, after they wrestled on Dynamite to a time

<v Speaker 1>limit draw, John Moxley will be defending his Continental Championship

<v Speaker 1>against Kyle O'Reilly, only this time there will be no

<v Speaker 1>time limit. Moxley should not be losing another match until

<v Speaker 1>he wrestles Will Osprey I'm going to stand on that

<v Speaker 1>Moxley should not lose to anybody until he gets into

<v Speaker 1>the ring at some point between now and all In

<v Speaker 1>with John Moxley or with Will Ospray. That'd be funny

<v Speaker 1>if we had a mirror match Moxley against Moxley. That's

<v Speaker 1>something we would do in be the booker. You know.

<v Speaker 1>There's been a lot of talk though about them potentially

<v Speaker 1>adding a July pay per view, this Redemption show. I

<v Speaker 1>could see that match happening there. It's like one last

<v Speaker 1>test for Osprey to make sure he's ready, right, like

<v Speaker 1>he's already won the Owen, let's say, but there's still

<v Speaker 1>time between then and all In. And this actually makes

<v Speaker 1>kind of makes sense, I guess from their perspective, if

<v Speaker 1>this is what they plan on doing, there is a

<v Speaker 1>gap from Forbidden Door to All In. There's a two

<v Speaker 1>month gap, right whatever, seven or eight weeks, And so

<v Speaker 1>I could see them saying, all right, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>we don't want to do Osprey and Moxley in the

<v Speaker 1>finals of the Owen, because then where does Osprey go

<v Speaker 1>from there? He got two months to kill We'll save it.

<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be adding this new pay per view in

<v Speaker 1>July line, which is not confirmed, by the way, but

<v Speaker 1>let's say they do. We're gonna be adding this new

<v Speaker 1>pay per view in July, let's do the match there, right,

<v Speaker 1>There's nothing on the line, per se, like Osprey putting

<v Speaker 1>his guaranteed title shot in London on the line wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>make any sense. But just in terms of the story

<v Speaker 1>they've been telling with him being trained by the Death Riders,

<v Speaker 1>it could just be as simple as Moxley saying, this

<v Speaker 1>is your final test, let's see how ready you really are,

<v Speaker 1>and they do the match on that show. But either way,

<v Speaker 1>Moxley should not be losing until then, and again, when

<v Speaker 1>they do that, if Moxley is still the Continental champion,

<v Speaker 1>it does not need to be for the continental title. Obviously,

<v Speaker 1>Moxley is not losing to Kylo Riley. Picking John Moxley

<v Speaker 1>FTR defend the aw Tag team titles against Adam Copeland

<v Speaker 1>and Christian Cage. It will be a street fight. It

<v Speaker 1>will be an I quit street fight, and if FTR retains,

<v Speaker 1>Cope and Cage can never again team up. And I

<v Speaker 1>just don't see any chance of that happening. You know,

<v Speaker 1>they already lost last time tonight to the night, I

<v Speaker 1>think they finally win the AW tag team titles from FTR.

<v Speaker 1>Tekla puts her women's title on the line against Chris Statlander,

<v Speaker 1>Hikarushida Jamie Hayter. I don't see Tekla losing. Kazuchka Okada

<v Speaker 1>against Kenoski Takeshta for the International Championship, but waiting a

<v Speaker 1>long time for this, and I don't see the need

<v Speaker 1>to wait any longer. This should be a title change,

<v Speaker 1>This should be the big win for Takeshta tonight and

<v Speaker 1>in the main event, MJF challenges Darby Allen title versus

<v Speaker 1>Hair for the aw World Championship. You know the way

<v Speaker 1>that mjf's been talking about this and going on social media,

<v Speaker 1>and it's like a four conclusion, I'm getting my belt

<v Speaker 1>back right, three time champion by the age of thirty,

<v Speaker 1>all this stuff. He's really really going over the top

<v Speaker 1>with it, which is starting to make me wonder about

<v Speaker 1>this finish. Do they really want to end this pay

<v Speaker 1>per view on a downer with MJF winning the championship

<v Speaker 1>and not getting his head shaved? Would they do something

<v Speaker 1>where he wins the title again by nefarious means and

<v Speaker 1>still gets his head shaved. It's called having your cake

<v Speaker 1>and eating it too. It's entirely possible. We could get both.

<v Speaker 1>We could very well get But I look, I can

<v Speaker 1>see it now. I could see MJF cheating to win.

<v Speaker 1>He gets the belt back, He's all smiles, You all suck.

<v Speaker 1>I told you I was gonna win. You doubted me.

<v Speaker 1>I'm the goat, right, all of this stuff, and all

<v Speaker 1>of these other people, all the other wrestlers, they come out,

<v Speaker 1>they surround the ring, all the people that he is wronged,

<v Speaker 1>all the people that he has insulted, all the people

<v Speaker 1>that do not like him. Fucking Foley may be out

<v Speaker 1>there and they're all like, basically, they've got him trapped

<v Speaker 1>like a rat and he's got nowhere to go, and

<v Speaker 1>he still gets his fucking head shaved. It's possible. I

<v Speaker 1>don't see him losing this match, though. I think we're

<v Speaker 1>getting the title change. I think Darby's time is up.

<v Speaker 1>I think he's been defending that championship every single week,

<v Speaker 1>Like he was told he has weeks left to live

<v Speaker 1>by his doctor, and it just gets to a point

<v Speaker 1>where this is going to end very soon. And if

<v Speaker 1>it's going to end very soon, there's no better time

<v Speaker 1>for it to end than here. There's no need to

<v Speaker 1>extend this out to forbidden door. He's certainly not going

<v Speaker 1>to Wembley as the defending champion. Tonight is the night

<v Speaker 1>where he drops the belt to MJF. But I'm not

<v Speaker 1>completely convinced that he's not losing his hair. I'm starting

<v Speaker 1>to think that they may end up wanting to give

<v Speaker 1>the fans that happy ending, regardless of whether or not

<v Speaker 1>Darby wins or not. Speaking of MJF, he appeared on

<v Speaker 1>the Ariel Helwani Show this week and addressed a wide

<v Speaker 1>variety of subjects which I am not touching with a

<v Speaker 1>ten foot pole here. Boy did they go off the

<v Speaker 1>beaten path, but among the highlights addressing the interest that

<v Speaker 1>WWE had in him and deciding to stay with AAW

<v Speaker 1>hat tip to F four w online for help with

<v Speaker 1>the transcript here. This is what MJF had to say.

<v Speaker 1>Was it tough talking about turning down a potential WWE offer. No,

<v Speaker 1>you have to know your worth, and I know my worth,

<v Speaker 1>and my worth was built because of the legacy that

<v Speaker 1>I'm building in AAW There is something very enchanting to me.

<v Speaker 1>No matter how much money did or does or will

<v Speaker 1>get thrown at me, and trust me, it was a

<v Speaker 1>lot hypothetically, it was a fucking lot hypothetically. It doesn't

<v Speaker 1>matter because I care about my legacy more than anything.

<v Speaker 1>The idea of going down as the greatest of all

<v Speaker 1>time is really important to me, and I also think

<v Speaker 1>that there's something very special about being able to say

<v Speaker 1>that without ever having worked there. I think that's really cool.

<v Speaker 1>I like the or I think the idea of that

<v Speaker 1>happening in the wrestling world, and to me, the Mount

<v Speaker 1>Rushmore professional wrestlers turned actors are Dave Batista, John Cena,

<v Speaker 1>Dwayne the Rock Johnson. As you know, Mount Rushmore has

<v Speaker 1>how many heads? Four? My goal is to be that

<v Speaker 1>fourth head. And if I could pull that off on

<v Speaker 1>my name alone, in the legacy I've built on my

<v Speaker 1>own back, not from a machine, just the Maxwell machine,

<v Speaker 1>I think that it would feel all the more sweeter.

<v Speaker 1>He said, this is just the way he feels right

<v Speaker 1>now at thirty years old. He never say never, but

<v Speaker 1>he did say that he and Sting had conversations about

<v Speaker 1>how much pride Sting took in making his name outside

<v Speaker 1>of WWE and never going there until twenty fourteen, The

<v Speaker 1>only problem with that is that he did eventually decide

<v Speaker 1>to go there, and by the time he did, we

<v Speaker 1>never got any of the dream matches that most fans

<v Speaker 1>wanted to see because he was too old and so

<v Speaker 1>many of those other guys had either retired or the

<v Speaker 1>matches just never got made right that and Sting got hurt.

<v Speaker 1>Sting spent so many years telling anybody who listen that

<v Speaker 1>he wanted to wrestle the Undertaker. He badly wanted that match.

<v Speaker 1>Had he gotten there even five years earlier, we would

<v Speaker 1>have gotten Sting against the Undertaker. So honestly, he's as

<v Speaker 1>much to blame for that not happening as anybody, as

<v Speaker 1>any other individual person, if we're being perfectly honest. But

<v Speaker 1>I mean to the point that MJF was making about

<v Speaker 1>how he wants to in an ideal situation, he would

<v Speaker 1>love to go down as the Goat or one of

<v Speaker 1>the goats without having ever worked in WWE. And there

<v Speaker 1>are people that are going to hear that and go, well,

<v Speaker 1>that's just not possible, right, That's impossible, which, of course

<v Speaker 1>is just a nonsensical thing to say. There are plenty

<v Speaker 1>of wrestlers, especially if you look at wrestlers from Mexico

<v Speaker 1>and wrestlers from Japan that are living legends, and others

<v Speaker 1>who are no longer living, but they are legends who

<v Speaker 1>never worked for WWE, right, who never worked for one

<v Speaker 1>of the top promotions here in the US, who were

<v Speaker 1>considered among the greatest of all time, the greatest of

<v Speaker 1>all time Mount Rushmore. All that is very subjective thing.

<v Speaker 1>There is no one definitive answer as to who is

<v Speaker 1>the goat or who who belongs on Mount Rushmore right.

<v Speaker 1>Everyone's opinion is going to be different. If MJF never

<v Speaker 1>wants to work for WWA and he wants to continue

<v Speaker 1>wrestling for AW for another ten or fifteen years and

<v Speaker 1>then call it quits. If he could stay healthy, there's

<v Speaker 1>no reason to think that he will not go down

<v Speaker 1>as one of the all time greats. Is he going

<v Speaker 1>to be on Mount Rushmore? Maybe not? Maybe not. But

<v Speaker 1>can he find success and make a great living and

<v Speaker 1>make millions of dollars and win world championships and wrestle

<v Speaker 1>big names and have great matches without ever going to WWE.

<v Speaker 1>The answer is yes, of course he can. So I

<v Speaker 1>don't agree with that opinion that well, if that's his goal,

<v Speaker 1>the only way for him to achieve that is, to

<v Speaker 1>have a WrestleMania match or to go to WWE. No,

<v Speaker 1>not necessarily. That might be true of some people, but

<v Speaker 1>I think in the case of him, he's just so

<v Speaker 1>good at what he does. If this is, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the only place where he ever wrestles, you know, plus

<v Speaker 1>whatever indies and other promotions he may pop up in,

<v Speaker 1>he can have himself a Hall of Fame worthy career

<v Speaker 1>without ever setting foot in a WWE ring, without ever

<v Speaker 1>acknowledging Roman reigns, without ever stepping back inside with cmpunk

<v Speaker 1>or wrestling Seth Rollins or Cody Rhodes again or anything

<v Speaker 1>like that, which is something I would love to see.

<v Speaker 1>But if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't to me.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't really It's it's not like a negative blight

<v Speaker 1>on his legacy. It'll be a what if you know,

<v Speaker 1>what would have happened if you would have gone to WWE.

<v Speaker 1>How badly would they have neutered him? You know, would

<v Speaker 1>a slightly more PG version of MJF go over well

<v Speaker 1>in WWE? The answer is yes, there's not a doubt

<v Speaker 1>in my mind. But it'll be one of those what

<v Speaker 1>if questions like the same with Sting. What if Sting

<v Speaker 1>had gone there when he was Surfer's Sting. What if

<v Speaker 1>Crow's Sting and in the days of the late nineties

<v Speaker 1>early two thousands had gone to WWF and worked with

<v Speaker 1>Stone Cold and worked with the Rock and work with

<v Speaker 1>the Undertaker and all those people. Right, what if? What if?

<v Speaker 1>But ain't nobody looking at Sting's career and saying that

<v Speaker 1>this man is not one of the all time greats.

<v Speaker 1>Where you slot him on the list, what number you

<v Speaker 1>rank him is up to you. And I don't hear

<v Speaker 1>his name come up when it comes to like Mount

<v Speaker 1>Rushmore or anything like that, because he just wasn't as

<v Speaker 1>important as someone like Hogan, He wasn't as important as

<v Speaker 1>someone like Austin. That's a very elite group. So you

<v Speaker 1>don't hear his name mentioned in like the Mount Rushmore

<v Speaker 1>conversation as much. But he's absolutely on a lot of

<v Speaker 1>greatest of All Time lists. He didn't go there until

<v Speaker 1>twenty fourteen. He was already an old man by that point.

<v Speaker 1>You're gonna tell me his career didn't really amount to

<v Speaker 1>anything because he never went to go work in New York.

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<v Speaker 1>out Malachi Black as the biggest defender of those who

<v Speaker 1>used AW, in his eyes, as a stepping stone just

<v Speaker 1>to go back to WWE. Ariel was pushing him to

<v Speaker 1>name names, and Black is the one that he singled out,

<v Speaker 1>and this is what he said. I think it's pretty

<v Speaker 1>obvious it's Malachi Black. I don't know the guy on

<v Speaker 1>a personal level. Do I think he's a bad guy. No?

<v Speaker 1>Do I think he was a mark for wanting to

<v Speaker 1>have his mania moment. Yeah, And there were a couple

<v Speaker 1>of guys like that, and they got weeded out. Then

<v Speaker 1>they went over there and some found out the grass

<v Speaker 1>isn't greener, and some of them did. For them the

<v Speaker 1>grass was greener. But I would say a majority that

<v Speaker 1>were like, I'm gonna use AW to go back to WWE.

<v Speaker 1>I think you're going to see a lot of those

<v Speaker 1>guys ask for a fifty percent pay cut from the

<v Speaker 1>office or just get released. It's unfortunate because if you

<v Speaker 1>show up to our company, you work hard. There's really

<v Speaker 1>no need to burn Bridges. I'm not shitting on him.

<v Speaker 1>I'm just simply telling you what I was told by

<v Speaker 1>a majority of the locker room about this specific individual. So,

<v Speaker 1>as a team captain and a leader and someone that

<v Speaker 1>has been a part of this company since day one,

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to deal with guys that don't want

<v Speaker 1>to be team players. Fuck off, go elsewhere, or fucking

<v Speaker 1>prove me wrong. I would love to be proven wrong.

<v Speaker 1>The thing about him in these interviews is he's not

<v Speaker 1>afraid to mince words, which is nice. Which is nice,

<v Speaker 1>It's kind of refreshing. There's other people in this case

<v Speaker 1>who wouldn't want to name names, and they would be

<v Speaker 1>very vague, which I could understand. Right, you want to

<v Speaker 1>be professional. You don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>this person does come back to AW you want to

<v Speaker 1>be able to work with them and make money with them.

<v Speaker 1>And MJF in this case is like, fuck it. I

<v Speaker 1>don't give a shit. Malachi Black, he's the biggest defender,

<v Speaker 1>you know. My thought is this when it comes to

<v Speaker 1>Alistair Black in Black and Gold, okay, and then also

<v Speaker 1>the main roster under Vince McMahon, even on the main

<v Speaker 1>roster under Vince McMahon at the time, with Paul Hamon

<v Speaker 1>allegedly as a big advocate for him behind the scenes. Right,

<v Speaker 1>Hayman was the executive director of Monday Night Raw, and

<v Speaker 1>he was going to have some level of creative power

<v Speaker 1>and it didn't matter, right, it didn't matter because it

<v Speaker 1>was still Vince McMahon's show. But you look at his

<v Speaker 1>trajectory there and then you look at his time in

<v Speaker 1>AW what happened I think is this and this is

<v Speaker 1>just me spitballing here. He had a great run for

<v Speaker 1>himself in Black and Gold, he really did, and there

<v Speaker 1>were a lot of high hopes for him on the

<v Speaker 1>main roster, and those hopes were not realized because whatever

<v Speaker 1>he ended up doing on the main roster was nowhere

<v Speaker 1>close to what I think his fans thought he was

<v Speaker 1>capable of doing. And so he wasn't given the opportunity

<v Speaker 1>or he just didn't get over enough. I think he

<v Speaker 1>came up at a time was it twenty nineteen, right,

<v Speaker 1>So there were fans, but then Covid and I remember

<v Speaker 1>him Hayman. When did Hayman ascend to that position on Raw?

<v Speaker 1>Was it twenty nineteen? I think it was twenty nineteen,

<v Speaker 1>so fans were still in the buildings. But the bottom

<v Speaker 1>line is he just never reached that peak that people

<v Speaker 1>thought he would. So he went to aaw and you

<v Speaker 1>look at the beginning of that run right out of

<v Speaker 1>the gate, the stuff with Cody, and it's like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>this is going to be a big fumble by wwe

<v Speaker 1>look at what they're already doing with this guy. And

<v Speaker 1>then the shit that went down with Vince went down,

<v Speaker 1>and Triple H all of a sudden ended up with

<v Speaker 1>the book on the main roster. He ascended to power

<v Speaker 1>on Rawn's SmackDown creatively, and I'm sure that Black saw that,

<v Speaker 1>and he sees this guy right, someone who got him.

<v Speaker 1>Triple H got him. He understood the character. He's going

<v Speaker 1>to know how to use me properly if I ever

<v Speaker 1>go back there. Plus, his wife worked there, and who

<v Speaker 1>knows how much that may have played a role in

<v Speaker 1>his decision to want to leave. Sometimes you just want

<v Speaker 1>to work together, or you want to be able to

<v Speaker 1>travel with your significant other because you don't get to

<v Speaker 1>see them as much if you don't, right, So we

<v Speaker 1>don't know how much of that factored into his decision

<v Speaker 1>making either, But I always thought, men, it's just such

<v Speaker 1>a weird thing, the lack of singles matches that he

<v Speaker 1>had on the roster there in aw after having such

<v Speaker 1>a hot start right out of the gate with the

<v Speaker 1>Cody roadsfeud, he got a couple of wins over Cody,

<v Speaker 1>and Cody was one of the big guys in that

<v Speaker 1>company right one of the EVPs. And then after that

<v Speaker 1>we had the House of Black, We had a bunch

<v Speaker 1>of tag matches and trios matches. He had a back

<v Speaker 1>injury there for a while, but then he was okay,

<v Speaker 1>and he never he just never got back to that

<v Speaker 1>level where he was being pushed as a serious single star.

<v Speaker 1>And I can never understand why, and apparently he couldn't either,

<v Speaker 1>because he got frustrated about it. At one point, he

<v Speaker 1>got sick and tired of people saying, oh, he's got

<v Speaker 1>a bad back, He's got a bad back. And now

<v Speaker 1>he posted a video on social media where he was

<v Speaker 1>clearly very upset and being very passive aggressive and saying, look, basically,

<v Speaker 1>in so many words, stop saying I'm hurt. I had

<v Speaker 1>a back injury that was a long time ago. I'm healthy,

<v Speaker 1>I'm fine. I don't know what to tell you, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not the person that you need to be asking as

<v Speaker 1>far as why I'm not being put in singles matches

<v Speaker 1>basically without saying so, he was saying, go talk to

<v Speaker 1>Tony Khan because I don't have the answer for you.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe Tony got cold feet because he was injured and

<v Speaker 1>felt like he lost a little bit of faith in

<v Speaker 1>him because of that. I don't know. That will forever

<v Speaker 1>be a very weird That and the usage of Miro,

<v Speaker 1>which I could absolutely believe that just came down to

<v Speaker 1>Miro not agreeing to certain creative things and they just

<v Speaker 1>couldn't come to an understanding on like what matches or

<v Speaker 1>who wins and I don't want to lose. I could

<v Speaker 1>absolutely believe that. But that's the situation with Malachi Black.

<v Speaker 1>I feel like that's what happened. I feel like he

<v Speaker 1>was dissatisfied there. He saw Triple Ah send to the

<v Speaker 1>Throne and said, Okay, finally, finally my chance to go

<v Speaker 1>back and show people what I can really do and

<v Speaker 1>what we were doing in Black and Gold just sort

<v Speaker 1>of translate that to the main roster and it didn't

<v Speaker 1>work out that way. Now. MJF also did an interview

<v Speaker 1>with CBS Sports, where he addressed WWE spreading rumors about

<v Speaker 1>Paramount Skydance not renewing AW once their acquisition of Warner

<v Speaker 1>Brothers Discovery becomes official, which is likely to happen in

<v Speaker 1>the fall. I mean that shit's probably going to sail

<v Speaker 1>right through. He talked about this on Aerial Show as well.

<v Speaker 1>He one hundred percent believes that these stories are being

<v Speaker 1>leaked by TKO to make AW look bad. He said, TKO, WWE,

<v Speaker 1>what have you? Their job is to make themselves look

<v Speaker 1>great and to make us look bad. So there's a

<v Speaker 1>leak oh AW is struggling to get a TV deal.

<v Speaker 1>That's fucking news to me, Bro, Like that's news to me,

<v Speaker 1>That's news to everybody on the roster. It's damn sure

<v Speaker 1>news to Tony Kahn because the last time I checked,

<v Speaker 1>they're fucking over the moon with us. Right now, you know,

<v Speaker 1>we do better numbers than fucking almost everything that's going

<v Speaker 1>on on a weekly basis on cable Because right now,

<v Speaker 1>as I was saying, the things that draw on cable

<v Speaker 1>are news and live sports. I've said it once, I'll

<v Speaker 1>say it a million times. I love jolly old Saint

<v Speaker 1>Nick talking about Nick con and I love the tricks

<v Speaker 1>he's pulling out. I fucking get it. It's smart. But

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't mean that we can't use our brains right.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean that we can't go, oh, this is

<v Speaker 1>being leaked intentionally to hurt the company. That is the alternative.

<v Speaker 1>It'd be like if Coke out of the Blue is like, hey,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you guys knew about this, but

<v Speaker 1>Pepsi has water in it. Everybody would be like, well,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, where's that source coming from. It's coming from Coke. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not really going to give much thought to this,

<v Speaker 1>and yeah, I mean, look, he's not wrong. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>obviously we heard that report from Meltzer. I think last

<v Speaker 1>week that internally in WWE they're talking openly about how

<v Speaker 1>they're not going to be renewed or get a new

<v Speaker 1>deal when the Paramount sky Dance acquisition is officially put

<v Speaker 1>through or greenlit or whatever gets approved. And again, it

<v Speaker 1>may well happen that way. It may well happen that way,

<v Speaker 1>but nobody knows. It's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Until

<v Speaker 1>the acquisition goes through. Nobody knows nothing right now, not WWE,

<v Speaker 1>not Tony Kahn, not MJF. MJF is talking about, well

<v Speaker 1>they're over the moon with us. Well, yes, Warner Brothers

<v Speaker 1>Discovery is over the moon. But again, Warner Brothers Discovery

<v Speaker 1>is about to be absorbed by a larger entity that

<v Speaker 1>has other business interests. So even MJFS saying that that

<v Speaker 1>in and of itself doesn't mean anything, they could be

<v Speaker 1>ecstatic with AW right now come September October, that may

<v Speaker 1>not matter anymore. But the point is, do I believe

<v Speaker 1>that there is shit being leaked by WWE? Of course,

<v Speaker 1>of course you can go back to Pizzagate, the wrestling version,

<v Speaker 1>not the bullshit version, But you go back to Pizzagate

<v Speaker 1>with the whole nick gage thing and that I'm not

<v Speaker 1>going to get back into that, but you guys remember

<v Speaker 1>that I'm sure, of course that was a WWE thing,

<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent. It was this sort of thing happens

<v Speaker 1>all the time. This sort of thing happened back in

<v Speaker 1>the day as well. By the way, with WWF ANDWCW,

<v Speaker 1>this is hardly, hardly a new phenomena where you try

<v Speaker 1>to you know, you try to handicap the competition by

<v Speaker 1>spreading bullshit about them. That's clearly what's going on here

<v Speaker 1>on the eve of the biggest match of his career.

<v Speaker 1>Marcel Bartel, who goes by Ludwig Kaiser on WWE television

<v Speaker 1>as well as El Geronde Americano. I can't prove it,

<v Speaker 1>but I believe it to be him, was arrested on

<v Speaker 1>Wednesday in Florida on a battery charge. It was not

<v Speaker 1>a domestic incident, and he was bonded out of Orange

<v Speaker 1>County Corrections in Orlando on a thousand dollars bail later

<v Speaker 1>that night. Here's the story from TMZ. WWE star Ludwig

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser landed in a heap of trouble after cops say

<v Speaker 1>he and his girlfriend could not keep their sex drives

<v Speaker 1>in check. Kaiser real name Marcel Bartel, was arrested Wednesday

<v Speaker 1>for battery after he got physical with his neighbor inside

<v Speaker 1>a luxury building in Orlando, Florida, where the two men live,

<v Speaker 1>according to a police report obtained by TMZ. The report

<v Speaker 1>says the incident popped off on the night of April

<v Speaker 1>twenty third, when the neighbor, Richard Reap, stepped inside an

<v Speaker 1>elevator on the twelfth floor along with Kaiser and the

<v Speaker 1>woman he was with. As the elevator ascended, Kaiser and

<v Speaker 1>the woman started making out right in front of Reap,

<v Speaker 1>and their passion grew to an uncontrollably intimate level with

<v Speaker 1>their aggressive kissing. According to the report, When they reached

<v Speaker 1>the twelfth floor, both parties allegedly got off the elevator,

<v Speaker 1>and the neighbor told the couple to please have some manners.

<v Speaker 1>That comment triggered an angry response from Kaiser, who allegedly

<v Speaker 1>pummeled Reap and shoved him to the floor. Police say

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser also threatened the neighbor, who later reported the alleged

<v Speaker 1>assault to law enforcement. The responding officer noted observing a

<v Speaker 1>fresh scratch and redness on the back of Reepe's head,

<v Speaker 1>which police stated was consistent with a recent altercation. The

<v Speaker 1>arrest affidavit stated that the responding officers also reviewed surveillance

<v Speaker 1>footage from the twelfth floor, with that video allegedly showing

<v Speaker 1>a white male punching and pushing Reap outside the elevator

<v Speaker 1>at the reported time of the incident, and per pw

<v Speaker 1>inside of the affidavit states that Reep subsequently identified Bartel

<v Speaker 1>in a six person photographic lineup conducted later that evening.

<v Speaker 1>Bartel turned himself in after a warrant had been issued.

<v Speaker 1>He was reportedly ordered to have no contact with the

<v Speaker 1>victims or witnesses and was granted one supervised return to

<v Speaker 1>the apartment accompanied by law enforcement authorities. For Bartel filed

<v Speaker 1>a motion on Thursday morning in court requesting that he

<v Speaker 1>received permission to travel freely internationally despite his arrest. The

<v Speaker 1>motion notes that Bartel learned of the arrest warrant against

<v Speaker 1>him on May nineteenth while he was in Mexico and

<v Speaker 1>immediately flew back to Orlando to turn himself in the

<v Speaker 1>next day. It also pointed out that he has no

<v Speaker 1>prior criminal record. The motion states that Bartel's job requires

<v Speaker 1>him to travel around the United States and internationally in

<v Speaker 1>order to maintain his employment. So that was quite the

<v Speaker 1>story out of left field. I love the uncontrollable kissing.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, hey, good for him, although I guess if

<v Speaker 1>I was stuck in an elevator with two people who

<v Speaker 1>were ripping and clawing at each other uncontrollably, would probably

<v Speaker 1>make me a little uncomfortable too, and perhaps I would

<v Speaker 1>turn to them and go, please have some manners. Actually,

<v Speaker 1>I'd probably just keep my mouth shut and go Hey,

<v Speaker 1>I give him like a little not out of respect,

<v Speaker 1>and I would go about my day. But I'm not

<v Speaker 1>Richard Reap in this case. Now, there was an event

<v Speaker 1>involving El Grande Americano that was scheduled for Mexico City

<v Speaker 1>the other day that was canceled and they were just

<v Speaker 1>gonna have this. It was at the Kings League Mexico.

<v Speaker 1>It's a free event for about three hundred fans. It

<v Speaker 1>was going to be like a little mini parade of sorts,

<v Speaker 1>I guess for El Grande Americano. This was in conjunction

<v Speaker 1>with Triple A, but Triple A announced the cancelation on

<v Speaker 1>Thursday night, or of the Thursday night event, on Instagram,

<v Speaker 1>saying the Serenata for El Grande Americano event schedule for

<v Speaker 1>tonight in Mexico City has been canceled. We appreciate your understanding.

<v Speaker 1>And I didn't read too much into that because the

<v Speaker 1>man literally could not legally travel out of the country

<v Speaker 1>at that time. And then on Friday came this update.

<v Speaker 1>Court records show that Bartel's attorney has filed a supplemental

<v Speaker 1>version of his motion to allow out of state and

<v Speaker 1>international travel. In this updated document, it's noted that Kaiser's

<v Speaker 1>council has communicated with the Assistant State Attorney and the

<v Speaker 1>state will not be objecting to the motion since the

<v Speaker 1>initial filing of the motion to travel undersigned. Council communicated

<v Speaker 1>with Assistant State Attorney shay Lan Kott, who indicated no

<v Speaker 1>objection to this motion, and then came the announcement shortly

<v Speaker 1>thereafter that the event was back on, this time on

<v Speaker 1>Friday night in Mexico City for fans to show their

<v Speaker 1>support for Kaiser Americano ahead of his match with Gable

<v Speaker 1>Americano next weekend. Now I know that Raj Geary posted

<v Speaker 1>something online that I'm not even going to read here

<v Speaker 1>because I have no idea where he's even getting this from.

<v Speaker 1>As far as what the neighbor allegedly really said to

<v Speaker 1>Bartel to set him off, now I agree, it's a

<v Speaker 1>little suspect that the guy would tell him, please, sir,

<v Speaker 1>have some manners and then he went all John Wick

<v Speaker 1>on his ass. Okay, that's it's a little far fetched

<v Speaker 1>to me. It's possible, but it's a little far fetched.

<v Speaker 1>It makes me feel like there was something else that

<v Speaker 1>was said. There has to be more to this, but

<v Speaker 1>we don't know, and neither does he, so I'm not

<v Speaker 1>going to repeat what he posted here until and unless

<v Speaker 1>we get confirmation from somewhere else. All due respect to Raj,

<v Speaker 1>but it would have been a generational fumble if this

<v Speaker 1>would have wound up killing his push, or if he

<v Speaker 1>had gotten pulled from that match next weekend. Because the

<v Speaker 1>big Mask Versus Mask match is set for the Triple

<v Speaker 1>A show next Saturday, May thirtieth. They have been building

<v Speaker 1>to this match for months. This is going to be

<v Speaker 1>a big fucking deal in Triple A next weekend. And

<v Speaker 1>can you imagine if this was serious enough that the

<v Speaker 1>match got canceled or he got suspended, or he got fired,

<v Speaker 1>or he can't travel so he can't make it to

<v Speaker 1>the show and they have to come up with a

<v Speaker 1>plan B. It would have been a fucking disaster. And

<v Speaker 1>if they would have punished him for this, and there's

<v Speaker 1>no indication of that happening, I mean, this is still

<v Speaker 1>playing out in real time. We're not sure how this

<v Speaker 1>is going to end, but it doesn't look like that's

<v Speaker 1>going to be the case. But again, this would have

<v Speaker 1>been a generational fumble for Bartel, But it looks like

<v Speaker 1>it's full speed ahead. They were on the Triple A Show,

<v Speaker 1>both Americanos. Last night they had another brawl. The heat

<v Speaker 1>was just off the charts. Gable he ended up showing

<v Speaker 1>off a T shirt that had a picture of Kaiser's

<v Speaker 1>girlfriend on it. I believe there was a stipulation where

<v Speaker 1>there could be no physical contact between the two until

<v Speaker 1>their mask match, and then they started going at it,

<v Speaker 1>and it's like, well, I guess fuck the stipulation. It's

<v Speaker 1>unreal how hot this feud is in Mexico right now

<v Speaker 1>and how dead it will be on Raw tomorrow night. Seriously,

<v Speaker 1>you watch Raw any given week and like some of

<v Speaker 1>the like the high spots and moves when they're wrestling,

<v Speaker 1>get a little bit of a reaction, but really, on

<v Speaker 1>the whole, I mean, nobody cares about this shit. Like

<v Speaker 1>you watch Monday night Raw. No, there's no way you

<v Speaker 1>watch that show and go, man, this is this is

<v Speaker 1>the feud of the year. But then you watch it

<v Speaker 1>play out on the Triple A Show and it's like

<v Speaker 1>night and day. It's like you're not even watching the

<v Speaker 1>same thing. Gable is going to get unmasked on Saturday,

<v Speaker 1>and then Kaiser is going to win the Triple A

<v Speaker 1>Mega title. From Dom at Triple Mania in September, especially

<v Speaker 1>now that we know the other big announcement on the

<v Speaker 1>Triple A show last night is that Ray Mysterio has

<v Speaker 1>been named the new general manager of Triple A. So

<v Speaker 1>it's perfect because now Ray is going to absolutely make

<v Speaker 1>sure this match happens. Right. He's gonna have his son

<v Speaker 1>defending the championship at Triple Mania in a few months

<v Speaker 1>against Kaiser. This is the path, so long as Kaiser

<v Speaker 1>doesn't punch anybody else in the face between now and then.

<v Speaker 1>Because I'll just say this about this whole thing, We'll

<v Speaker 1>see how it all plays out. Again. The guy wanted

<v Speaker 1>to press charges, it's not over yet at this moment.

<v Speaker 1>As I sit here, knowing what we know, I don't

<v Speaker 1>see any significant fallout from this. And let's just say

<v Speaker 1>the guy did say something very offensive that really set

<v Speaker 1>Kaiser off, and he just didn't want to tell the

<v Speaker 1>cops and he didn't just say, please, sir, have some manners.

<v Speaker 1>Then it's understandable, but you know what, you can't be

<v Speaker 1>putting your hands on somebody like that. Got to be

<v Speaker 1>smarter about that, especially being in the situation that he's

<v Speaker 1>in right now where he is a public figure. He's

<v Speaker 1>an entertainer and you got you know, security cameras and everything,

<v Speaker 1>and you just can't be assaulting people. I mean, we

<v Speaker 1>could be like, oh, well, the guy must have mouthed

<v Speaker 1>off to him. Well, you know, maybe he did. But

<v Speaker 1>unless the guy threw fists first or put his hands

<v Speaker 1>on Kaiser's girl, you can't be doing that. So he'll

<v Speaker 1>be lucky if this just sort of goes away quietly

<v Speaker 1>and there's no significant fallout from it. But if something

<v Speaker 1>like this were to happen again, that's a whole different

<v Speaker 1>ball of wax. But again, there's no history of him

<v Speaker 1>doing this. He hasn't been arrested for this, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>to anyone's knowledge, he's not somebody who gets into fights

<v Speaker 1>or anything like this. Hopefully it's just a one off.

<v Speaker 1>But I don't want to make it sound like he

<v Speaker 1>was necessarily in the right here either, because you can't

<v Speaker 1>be throwing hands on people unless they throw hands on

<v Speaker 1>you first. Ron SmackDown this week not a whole lot

<v Speaker 1>to dive into. The big thing was the return of

<v Speaker 1>brock Lesner on Monday Night attacking Obafemi. It was the

<v Speaker 1>shock of just it happening on Monday. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know that people are necessarily shocked that Brock is not

<v Speaker 1>retired and he's already back. But I don't think anybody

<v Speaker 1>was expecting him to ambush Obafemi from behind as he

<v Speaker 1>was about to open up the open challenge again for

<v Speaker 1>a week. I guess this would have been week three,

<v Speaker 1>and Brock attacked him from behind. He put him down

<v Speaker 1>with four f fives. It took four of them to

<v Speaker 1>put this match down. And then later on in the show,

<v Speaker 1>the contract Paul Hayman handed a contract over to Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pearson said it's already signed. It's already signed by Brock

<v Speaker 1>Legner whoever that is for a Magic Clash in Italy

<v Speaker 1>next weekend. All it needs now is a signature from Obafemi.

<v Speaker 1>But this is the first time that Obafemi has been

<v Speaker 1>put down since coming to the main roster, right, Brock

<v Speaker 1>finally got one over on him after all this time,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans when they saw Brock out there, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>this got the biggest reaction of anything on the show.

<v Speaker 1>The show was very boring and so whatever you think

<v Speaker 1>about Brock being back, I don't want to see him.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't need to be back. You know, I don't.

<v Speaker 1>We don't need to see Oba loose to him. Now,

<v Speaker 1>forget that for a second. It was easily easily the

<v Speaker 1>most exciting thing to happen on Raw Monday nights. So

<v Speaker 1>for that reason alone, it was my favorite thing on

<v Speaker 1>the entire show because it was actually exciting, right it

<v Speaker 1>Actually it made me feel something other than just total

<v Speaker 1>apathy to what I was seeing on my television or

<v Speaker 1>iPad as it were. So now we're getting a match

<v Speaker 1>next weekend. It's going to be Brock Olasner against Olbafemi,

<v Speaker 1>and it seems pretty clear to me that they are

<v Speaker 1>going to do a trilogy with these men, and I

<v Speaker 1>think it's going to be very similar to what they

<v Speaker 1>did with Brock and Cody Rhodes three years ago. They

<v Speaker 1>had three matches as well. It culminated at Summer Slam

<v Speaker 1>with Cody getting a big win over Brock, and Brock

<v Speaker 1>gave him the big endorsement when that match was over.

<v Speaker 1>And I think they're probably going to work the same

<v Speaker 1>plan here, I think with these and if this is

<v Speaker 1>the plan, then we needed something like that on Monday

<v Speaker 1>from Brock because you can't just have Oba constantly killing

<v Speaker 1>him literally every single time. Brock has to get the

<v Speaker 1>heat on him at some point if you're going to

<v Speaker 1>try to stretch this out to a second match and

<v Speaker 1>a third match, Otherwise it just gets boring and repetitive.

<v Speaker 1>So if that is the plan, then you know they

<v Speaker 1>did what needed to be done. But as far as

<v Speaker 1>Brock being back, look, I my mindset is this. On

<v Speaker 1>this I don't see a need for Brock Lesner to

<v Speaker 1>be back. Some people are like, oh, I'm so happy

<v Speaker 1>Brock's back, or you know, Brock, He's got to have

<v Speaker 1>a proper sendoff in Minnesota. No, he doesn't. He had

<v Speaker 1>a nice sendoff of WrestleMania, and maybe that will go

<v Speaker 1>down as his WrestleMania send off, not his official sendoff,

<v Speaker 1>and maybe that was his WrestleMania retirement. But that would

<v Speaker 1>have been the perfect cap I think to his career,

<v Speaker 1>on the biggest show of the year, in front of

<v Speaker 1>fifty thousand people, putting over the next big thing in

<v Speaker 1>this company, the next big thing from twenty five five

<v Speaker 1>years ago, putting over the new next big thing. That

<v Speaker 1>match at WrestleMania was exactly what it needed to be.

<v Speaker 1>There was no need for Brock to go over on Oba.

<v Speaker 1>Really at any point unless you did want to have

<v Speaker 1>a trilogy series between them. But if they would have

<v Speaker 1>left well enough alone, that would have been the perfect

<v Speaker 1>moment for Brock to go ahead and right off into

<v Speaker 1>the sunset with his cowboy hat and everything. And I

<v Speaker 1>would have been perfectly content for that to be it

<v Speaker 1>and not to have Brock back on TV. But here

<v Speaker 1>he is, and now he's back. Am I shocked? Not

<v Speaker 1>in the least, not in the least. Man's all about business,

<v Speaker 1>where there's business to be done and money to be made,

<v Speaker 1>brock Lesner will be there. And if they build up

<v Speaker 1>SummerSlam by the way as his oh well, this is

<v Speaker 1>gonna be the real retirement for Brocklesner. I'm still not

<v Speaker 1>going to buy into it. I don't know why anybody

<v Speaker 1>would when you do the kind of angle they did

<v Speaker 1>at WrestleMania and he leaves his fucking boots in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the ring. They never used the word retired,

<v Speaker 1>but give me a fucking break. Okay, what do you

<v Speaker 1>think they wanted to communicate to the audience. He was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be done. He left his gloves, he left

<v Speaker 1>his boots. Paul Hayman is in tears like he stubbed

<v Speaker 1>his toe. This was the set. And look, even Adam

<v Speaker 1>Pierce on Monday was talking to Haym and going, what

<v Speaker 1>the hell's going on here? I just filed retirement paperwork.

<v Speaker 1>They flat out told you he retired, and they went

<v Speaker 1>back on it. Cool. Well, the next time you pull

<v Speaker 1>this retirement shit, I ain't gonna buy it, and neither

<v Speaker 1>is anybody else. It's not gonna have the same effect.

<v Speaker 1>If they were to have a match. Let's say it's

<v Speaker 1>SummerSlam to cap this off with Lesnar and Obafemi, and

<v Speaker 1>it's like a career match, right, or if Brock doesn't win,

<v Speaker 1>he's gonna retire. Who's gonna believe it. It's not gonna

<v Speaker 1>have any weight. No one's gonna care. Oh it's Minnesota,

<v Speaker 1>who gives his shit? Who cares? That's the one thing

<v Speaker 1>you lose out on now by bringing him back so

<v Speaker 1>quickly after what we saw at wrestle Media. But other

<v Speaker 1>than that, hey, you want to have a series of

<v Speaker 1>matches between these two. I thought the four minutes they

<v Speaker 1>had at WrestleMania was perfect, right. I mean, look, these

<v Speaker 1>next couple of matches they're going to have could also

<v Speaker 1>be very exciting and could also be very good. I

<v Speaker 1>can't imagine Oba wins in Italy next weekend. I don't

<v Speaker 1>really know what the point of that would even be.

<v Speaker 1>Quite frankly, if you went in there and won, Brock

<v Speaker 1>kind of has to win. I don't really necessarily want

<v Speaker 1>to see Oba lowse, but Brock kind of has to

<v Speaker 1>win that match. So now we fast forward to SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>on Friday, and we had Cody Rhodes in the main

<v Speaker 1>event against Sammy's ain and Gunther showed up and he

<v Speaker 1>put Cody in the sleeper hold, and Sammy just stood

<v Speaker 1>there and stared and watched as Gunther smothered him at

<v Speaker 1>the end of the show, and Sammy did nothing to

<v Speaker 1>help because Cody's been making comments about Sammy for a

<v Speaker 1>while that had been very upsetting to Sammy, And this

<v Speaker 1>was Sammy's moment where he finally said, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>I'm good, I went to go walk off. He got booed.

<v Speaker 1>If you were of the mindset that Sammy wasn't already

<v Speaker 1>a heel, he certainly was bood like one. At the

<v Speaker 1>end of that show. On Friday, Carmelo Hayes got his

<v Speaker 1>match with Trick Williams. They made the match on the show.

<v Speaker 1>He said, Hey, you know you got your secretary over here,

<v Speaker 1>Lil YACHTI saying that you're busy. You needs your peticure,

<v Speaker 1>you got a manicure, you got a massage, you got

<v Speaker 1>all this shit going on. Why don't you give me

<v Speaker 1>a shot at the championship. And he did, and we

<v Speaker 1>got a match between Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams and

<v Speaker 1>Ricky Saints got involved, so it looks like we're leading

<v Speaker 1>to maybe a triple threat very soon. I enjoyed that.

<v Speaker 1>What I did not enjoy as much was the fact

<v Speaker 1>that we had two different MFTs matches on the show.

<v Speaker 1>We had Tallatanga against Shinsky Nakamora, which was exactly what

<v Speaker 1>you would expect it would be, and we had Solo

<v Speaker 1>Socoa against Damian Priest. But they worked in Royce Keys

<v Speaker 1>into the story. And so now there's heat with Roy's

<v Speaker 1>Keys and Damian Priest. And fine, you know that's all

<v Speaker 1>well and good. Damian Priest could certainly use something. You know,

<v Speaker 1>he's won half of the Tag team champions. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know what happened to our truth. Maybe it's a legitimate injury.

<v Speaker 1>They said last week he wasn't medically cleared all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden when they were supposed to have a match,

<v Speaker 1>a tag team title match or maybe a non title match.

<v Speaker 1>But I don't even think he was on the show

<v Speaker 1>this week, So there may well be a legitimate injury

<v Speaker 1>that's going to keep truth out for a while. These

<v Speaker 1>guys are the tag team champions. If it's something serious,

<v Speaker 1>then we'll find out very soon because they're going to

<v Speaker 1>have to surrender those belts. But as far as you know,

<v Speaker 1>a priest is concerned to try to get something going

<v Speaker 1>with him, I guess because he's just got he's got nothing.

<v Speaker 1>He's got nothing going on right now. And then Blake Monroe,

<v Speaker 1>they've been airing vignettes for her, teasing her arrival now

<v Speaker 1>for weeks, and she finally arrived on Friday, and it

<v Speaker 1>was in a twenty second backstage segment with Chelsea Green.

<v Speaker 1>Not much of a debut here for Blake Monroe, but

<v Speaker 1>I think she's going to be fine. I saw a

<v Speaker 1>lot of overreacting on my timeline. Oh my god, Oh

<v Speaker 1>this is terrible. All this build up and then she

<v Speaker 1>just shows up in the back and talks to Chelsea

<v Speaker 1>in fifteen seconds and it's over. I joked on my

<v Speaker 1>social media when I saw that Tiffany Stratton was doing

<v Speaker 1>a US title open challenge, I joked that, you know,

<v Speaker 1>Blake was going to accept, and I kind of expected

<v Speaker 1>that to be how they were going to debut her.

<v Speaker 1>But like, I'm totally fine with them not doing that, Like,

<v Speaker 1>it does not bother me at all. You cannot debut

<v Speaker 1>everyone from NXT wrestling for a fucking championship. You cannot

<v Speaker 1>debut everybody from NXT showing up and confronting the champion.

<v Speaker 1>They've already done this. How many fucking times have they

<v Speaker 1>done this recently? The way they've called up by the

<v Speaker 1>way a lot of these new NXT faces has not

<v Speaker 1>been great. But they did it with Soul Ruka, and

<v Speaker 1>they did it with Ricky Saints, and they did it

<v Speaker 1>with Fatal Influence. I Mean, we already saw what they

<v Speaker 1>did with Obafemi, but that was a special case, you know,

<v Speaker 1>going into WrestleMania, that was great. Blakeman Roe does not

<v Speaker 1>need to debut in an open challenge and win a

<v Speaker 1>championship on her first night, And the fact that she

<v Speaker 1>didn't do that doesn't mean that her debut was also

<v Speaker 1>a failure, Like it's okay to let things marinate a

<v Speaker 1>little bit with some of these people and not debut

<v Speaker 1>them against the fucking champion of the brand. I hate

<v Speaker 1>that there are some people out there who think, like,

<v Speaker 1>if you don't debut somebody that way, that they're already

<v Speaker 1>buried or oh they've already lost interest in them, Like

<v Speaker 1>are you new here? Like how long have you been

<v Speaker 1>watching wrestling for? Come on now? Saturday Night's main event

<v Speaker 1>last night? I was not live after the show. I

<v Speaker 1>caught up with it a little bit later on. Not

<v Speaker 1>a bad show wrestling wise, In fact, it was largely

<v Speaker 1>very good. Three out of the five matches, I would

<v Speaker 1>say the match with Penta and Ethan Page was excellent.

<v Speaker 1>It was still missing that one marquee match though, and

<v Speaker 1>there was one absolutely horrendous finish. But we did get

<v Speaker 1>a pair of tag team title defenses, one for the men,

<v Speaker 1>one for the women, the first time the tag team

<v Speaker 1>titles of any have been defended on a Saturday Nights

<v Speaker 1>Made event since nineteen ninety two, which also happens to

<v Speaker 1>be the one and only time that the Intercontinental title

<v Speaker 1>has changed hands on a Saturday Night's Made event. That

<v Speaker 1>was when Shawn Michaels beat the British Bulldog for his

<v Speaker 1>first singles title, which was also in Indiana, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>as the show was last night, but that record still

<v Speaker 1>stands because we got no title changes last night. What

<v Speaker 1>we did get, though, were some backstage interviews, which we

<v Speaker 1>were not getting much of before on these shows, especially

<v Speaker 1>when they were still airing on NBC, and the backstage

<v Speaker 1>promos were a staple of what made so many of

<v Speaker 1>those old Saturday nights made events shows so enjoyable. Not

<v Speaker 1>that these promos these days are any great shakes compared

<v Speaker 1>to the old one. They're really not. But it's nice

<v Speaker 1>to hear from some of these people before they go

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring, so hopefully they stick to this

<v Speaker 1>formula going forward. I can't speak to how the viewing

<v Speaker 1>experience was on Peacock as far as ads and whatnot,

<v Speaker 1>because I watched this on WWE's YouTube channel with my VPN.

<v Speaker 1>The reason I did that and I didn't have so

<v Speaker 1>I didn't have any issues as far as like the

<v Speaker 1>ad breaks. But the reason I did that was when

<v Speaker 1>I tried to watch it normally with Peacock because I

<v Speaker 1>started the show late, it wouldn't let me start from

<v Speaker 1>the beginning. It would only let me go back to

<v Speaker 1>like the middle of the first match or the second

<v Speaker 1>match or whatever it was. I'm like, what the fuck

<v Speaker 1>can I go back to the beginning of the show.

<v Speaker 1>This is stupid, So fuck Peacock. Then now in Forever,

<v Speaker 1>So I watched it on YouTube. We had jade Car Gill,

<v Speaker 1>we had Meechen, and we had bfab in the opening

<v Speaker 1>match against Riho Ripley, Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. And

<v Speaker 1>this played out exactly the way that I told you

<v Speaker 1>last week. I thought it would jade Car Gill not

<v Speaker 1>only winning the match for her team, but it was

<v Speaker 1>very very important, I think for her to get the

<v Speaker 1>win over Rhea Ripley, not to have her pin Charlotte,

<v Speaker 1>not to have her pin Alexa Bliss. She had to

<v Speaker 1>pin the champion to give her that momentum heading into

<v Speaker 1>their world title match next Sunday at Clash in Italy.

<v Speaker 1>And that's exactly what happened in here, and much better

<v Speaker 1>match than I expected it to be. And they had

<v Speaker 1>a hot crowd for it. The crowd was actually pretty

<v Speaker 1>hot for the entire show. But it really adds so

<v Speaker 1>much to these matches because we're just so used to

<v Speaker 1>in recent months just having a lot of dead WWE

<v Speaker 1>crowds when it comes to their weekly shows. It's very deflating,

<v Speaker 1>and we didn't have that issue last night, so this

<v Speaker 1>was much better than I expected it to be. Then

<v Speaker 1>we had the one debacle on this show. This was

<v Speaker 1>fucking terrible. Becky lanched against Soul Ruka non title after

<v Speaker 1>WWE announced online that it would all of a sudden

<v Speaker 1>be a title match midweek, only to then correct themselves

<v Speaker 1>because it was in fact not for Becky's intercontinental title

<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't really a match. It turned out to

<v Speaker 1>be more of an angle than a match because they

<v Speaker 1>wanted to set up a title match a rematch for

<v Speaker 1>next weekend in Italy. This did not even go two

<v Speaker 1>and a half minutes, with Becky pulling referee Jessica Carr

<v Speaker 1>into how long, by the way, are we going to

<v Speaker 1>continue to do this shit without having some sort of

<v Speaker 1>payoff or match between Becky and Jessica, because it has

<v Speaker 1>to be coming at some point soon. But she pulled

<v Speaker 1>Jessica Carr into the path of what was supposed to

<v Speaker 1>be a soul snatcher attempt that was not by Soul Rukas.

<v Speaker 1>She did not rotate at all. She just came down

<v Speaker 1>almost like a Vader bomb. But then just before landing,

<v Speaker 1>it looked like she tried to kind of sort of

<v Speaker 1>rotate her body and Jessica actually just kind of fell

<v Speaker 1>on top of her, and it just looked fucking awful.

<v Speaker 1>It looked awful, and you could see the fans on

<v Speaker 1>the hardcam like what the fuck was that? And so

<v Speaker 1>then they rang the bell and the crowd was I mean,

<v Speaker 1>they just groaned, and Jessica disqualified Becky for pulling her

<v Speaker 1>into harm's way, and then Becky ended up coming back

<v Speaker 1>to the ring and she laid out Soul with multiple

<v Speaker 1>man handle slams. Nick All this was there last night.

<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce was not, but in the back. Later all

<v Speaker 1>this informed Becky on behalf of Adams that she will

<v Speaker 1>be defending her Intercontinental title in Italy next Sunday against

<v Speaker 1>Soul Ruka. There had to be a better way to

<v Speaker 1>do this, because this was just terrible. This was very

<v Speaker 1>very very terrible, very very disappointing. Now it sets up

<v Speaker 1>a title match for next weekend that I really hope

<v Speaker 1>Soul doesn't just win because I think it's too soon

<v Speaker 1>to just throw the belt on her when she has

<v Speaker 1>no wins on the main roster. I am not counting

<v Speaker 1>that lay Mass DQ win from last night. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>counting that this woman hasn't really won a fucking match

<v Speaker 1>since she came to the main roster Live Morgan Eo Sky.

<v Speaker 1>So we're just gonna throw the Intercontinental title on her.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why you would do that. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know why you Wouldn't you know you got Summer Slam

<v Speaker 1>comment of Night of Champions. I mean, whenever you want

<v Speaker 1>to pull the trigger, why not just just build it

<v Speaker 1>a little bit more. Why rush the belt onto her now?

<v Speaker 1>I don't see the need to do that. But how

<v Speaker 1>about this Italy card? So I said last week, it

<v Speaker 1>was shaping up to be much better than Backlash. Got

<v Speaker 1>Roman and Jacob, Tribal Combat, Cody against gunther Brock against

<v Speaker 1>Oba and now Becky and Soul for the Intercontinental title,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm sure we'll get at least one more match

<v Speaker 1>aded maybe two. I know that's asking a lot from

<v Speaker 1>this administration to get six, but shaping up to be

<v Speaker 1>a pretty stacked cards so far. Penta and the best

<v Speaker 1>thing on the entire show last night, retained his Intercontinental

<v Speaker 1>Championship over Ethan Page an excellent match here he wins

<v Speaker 1>with a springboard Mexican Destroyer. And there was a new

<v Speaker 1>report from Wressel Votes that Ethan Page has been impressing

<v Speaker 1>many people in the company since he came to NXT

<v Speaker 1>back in twenty twenty four. They said, on the day

<v Speaker 1>of the biggest WWE match of his career to date,

<v Speaker 1>it's worth and noting how well received Ethan Page has

<v Speaker 1>been internally since arriving in the company in twenty twenty four.

<v Speaker 1>A source once described Page as extremely respectful in detail

<v Speaker 1>or behind the scenes, something that many feel has translated

<v Speaker 1>onto TV throughout his time in NXT, Triple A and

<v Speaker 1>now Monday Night Raw. Regardless of Tonight's outcome, those spoken

<v Speaker 1>to believe Paige has positioned himself very well moving forward,

<v Speaker 1>especially considering how quickly he's risen in a relatively short

<v Speaker 1>amount of time. I'm not surprised by any of this.

<v Speaker 1>I think Ethan Page he fits like a glove on

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night Raw. And he may not have won last night,

<v Speaker 1>said I would have just put the belt on him.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's not a big deal. Penta winning. I

<v Speaker 1>think I like pent to two, but at some point,

<v Speaker 1>very soon he will have Intercontinental Goald. I mean, it's

<v Speaker 1>just a foregone conclusion at this point. It's only a

<v Speaker 1>matter of time. But yes, in a very short period

<v Speaker 1>of time, he has I think, positioned himself very well

<v Speaker 1>as a heel on that Monday Night Raw Roster, and

<v Speaker 1>I expect big things out of him going forward. Page

<v Speaker 1>and Bribella they found a way yet again to retain

<v Speaker 1>their women's tag team titles. They've had three defenses so

<v Speaker 1>far since WrestleMania, two of which have come against Naya Jackson,

<v Speaker 1>Lash legend A, matches that weren't any good. None of

<v Speaker 1>the title defenses these women have had have been any good.

<v Speaker 1>And it's time for this rain to come to an

<v Speaker 1>end now. I figured they're waiting for Nicki Bella to

<v Speaker 1>come back first, but if Nicki is not coming back

<v Speaker 1>anytime soon, they need to get the belts off these

<v Speaker 1>two asap. This should have never been anything more than

<v Speaker 1>a one off at WrestleMania. To give the fans a

<v Speaker 1>happy moment, those belts should have come right off of

<v Speaker 1>them that Monday on Raw or smack Down that Friday,

<v Speaker 1>and they put the Street Profits against the Vision in

<v Speaker 1>the main event for the World tag team titles. Very

<v Speaker 1>good match. Bron Breaker running out and getting pounced over

<v Speaker 1>the announced deask by Angelo Dawkins was the holy shit

<v Speaker 1>moment of the night. He went fucking flying. I mean

<v Speaker 1>he cleared the desk, he hit the office chairs. He's

<v Speaker 1>lucky he didn't get pounced into the front row and

<v Speaker 1>Paul Hayman saved the match back inside the ring by

<v Speaker 1>placing Theories foot on the bottom rope. After the frog

<v Speaker 1>splashed by Montes Ford, the brass Nuts came into play,

<v Speaker 1>ultimately led to the Profits downfall, with Theory pinning Ford

<v Speaker 1>to retain. And then after the match, actually they put

<v Speaker 1>the credits up on the screen too, in the copyright

<v Speaker 1>box and they is a Triple H special and they

<v Speaker 1>wanted you to believe that the show was over and

<v Speaker 1>they were going off the air. And then bron Breaker

<v Speaker 1>decides to sprint back to the ring and he spears

<v Speaker 1>Ford and Dawkins and leaves them both laying as the

<v Speaker 1>Vision stands tall again. The match I thought was very good.

<v Speaker 1>It got hot there towards the very end, and the

<v Speaker 1>key is bron Breaker's involvement, which is going to lead

<v Speaker 1>to a six man tag team match very soon. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>they add that to the Clash in Italy card, but

<v Speaker 1>I can see it being a case where Dawkins has

<v Speaker 1>to convince Ford to allow Rollins to help because montes

<v Speaker 1>Ford does not like Seth Rollins. He does not like him,

<v Speaker 1>he does not want his help, and he's going to

<v Speaker 1>have to be convinced of this. Now they feel like

<v Speaker 1>they have no choice right so at least it served

<v Speaker 1>a story purpose. So that was Saturday Night's made event

<v Speaker 1>last night. Now, I got some other WWE news and

<v Speaker 1>notes here from the past few days. Osca posted an

<v Speaker 1>update on her future this week and a vlog on

<v Speaker 1>her kana Chan TV YouTube channel. This is what she

<v Speaker 1>had to say about her WWE status. It's already been

<v Speaker 1>about two weeks since my last match of Backlash. I

<v Speaker 1>know there are a ton of rumors flying around out there,

<v Speaker 1>people asking are we ever going to see Osca wrestle again?

<v Speaker 1>Is she going back to Japan? Is she leaving WWE?

<v Speaker 1>The truth is it was a personal matter. I reached

<v Speaker 1>out to WWE and we talked it through. But let's

<v Speaker 1>be clear, as you all know from watching my matches,

<v Speaker 1>I can still go. I am still at the top

<v Speaker 1>of my game. I've been with WWE for over ten

<v Speaker 1>years now, almost like it was just a given. And

<v Speaker 1>because it became such a part of your daily routine,

<v Speaker 1>I think my presence there just became something everyone took

<v Speaker 1>for granted. But remember, nothing lasts forever. Everything is finite.

<v Speaker 1>You see, I'm not just a wrestler by trade. I'm

<v Speaker 1>a designer too. Even the way I live my life

<v Speaker 1>has to be art. I'm sure you'll all be wondering

<v Speaker 1>what's next for me and how I'll be involved with

<v Speaker 1>TV and the tours moving forward. But don't forget I

<v Speaker 1>am still officially with WWE, so there's a chance I

<v Speaker 1>might just pop up in front of you when you

<v Speaker 1>least expect it. Let's be honest, no one will ever

<v Speaker 1>make the kind of historic impact I made from day one.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think anyone will ever climb to the top

<v Speaker 1>non stop, grabbing every title and accolade along the way

<v Speaker 1>the way that I did. And because I'm a true pioneer,

<v Speaker 1>it will never be another Osca. So from here on out,

<v Speaker 1>if you ever catch a glimpse of me, you better

<v Speaker 1>cherish it because it's going to be rare. That said,

<v Speaker 1>my YouTube channel and social media are staying active, so

<v Speaker 1>stay connected with you or to stay connected with you, guys.

<v Speaker 1>Dave Meltzer was the first to report that he was

<v Speaker 1>told Oscar was considered semi retired, and her comments here

<v Speaker 1>would seem to back that up. And that sucks. But

<v Speaker 1>at least she's not totally retired. I would imagine we'll

<v Speaker 1>see her for big events like the Royal Rumble, maybe

<v Speaker 1>a WrestleMania match or a big international show here and there.

<v Speaker 1>I still want her to win a match at wrestle

<v Speaker 1>She is zero for six in her career in media matches,

<v Speaker 1>which is just insane to me. But a little bit

<v Speaker 1>of Osca is still better than no Osca at all,

<v Speaker 1>and there is something to be said for people. Look,

<v Speaker 1>they take you for granted when you're on television every

<v Speaker 1>week for so long. They take you for granted. And

<v Speaker 1>maybe we need Osca sparingly to be able to appreciate

<v Speaker 1>more what she brings to the table. She's not wrong

<v Speaker 1>about that tag team division. I wanted to talk about

<v Speaker 1>this briefly here because there was a report that WWE

<v Speaker 1>is reportedly looking to rebuild its Tag Team Division and

<v Speaker 1>I will I will spare you the laughter because I could.

<v Speaker 1>I could get a nice belly laugh out of that

<v Speaker 1>right now. But this is what is being said. There's

<v Speaker 1>a report that came out on Wednesday by False Finish HQ,

<v Speaker 1>which is a new site that recently went live. Some

<v Speaker 1>folks who left bodyslam dot net recently have found a

<v Speaker 1>home there. According to them, WWE is hoping to rebuild

<v Speaker 1>the division from within, while also looking at the possibility

<v Speaker 1>of signing teams from other promotions. False Finish has also

<v Speaker 1>learned that former Cruiserweight champion Enzo Amore has been spotted

<v Speaker 1>at the WWE Performance Center recently. What makes that interesting

<v Speaker 1>is that you couple that with the reports of Big

<v Speaker 1>Bill his aw contract expiring imminently, as well as we've

<v Speaker 1>heard about the possible interest in Baron Corbin and maybe

<v Speaker 1>even Die Jack, although not necessarily bringing them in as

<v Speaker 1>a team the way they have been in MLW is

<v Speaker 1>the Skyscrapers. Russell Votes says the WWE is interested in

<v Speaker 1>reuniting and bringing back Enzo Amorey and Big Casts, and

<v Speaker 1>they have maintained a positive relationship with several producers backstage,

<v Speaker 1>including from their NXT days. Big Cast's aw contract is

<v Speaker 1>reportedly set to expire at the end of May. Fight Full,

<v Speaker 1>Fightful Select on Wednesday reported that Baron Core has finished

<v Speaker 1>up obligations with some companies that he had been working with,

<v Speaker 1>including MLW. He is believed to either be signed by

<v Speaker 1>WWE or will be imminently, according to those that we

<v Speaker 1>spoke to. But then Corbin later tweeted and mentioned that

<v Speaker 1>he had accepted eight shows in Europe and he didn't

<v Speaker 1>know that he was done with some of these companies.

<v Speaker 1>Whoever is making my schedule and needs to let me

<v Speaker 1>know this shit. I thought it was me, but apparently

<v Speaker 1>it's not. I'm just saying WWE has a bunch of

<v Speaker 1>European shows coming up. He could he could be a

<v Speaker 1>little slickier with the message that he's posting, so they

<v Speaker 1>do have a bunch of shows coming up in Europe

<v Speaker 1>very soon. Look here's the thing. I mean, it sounds

<v Speaker 1>very much like Corbin is going to be under the tarp.

<v Speaker 1>We saw it again on Friday, where there's this body

<v Speaker 1>underneath a sheet on a gurney in his little science lab,

<v Speaker 1>and I think it's gonna end up being revealed to

<v Speaker 1>be Baron Corbin like fucking Frankenstein rising from dead. But

<v Speaker 1>Corbin coming back to the company is one thing. Bringing

<v Speaker 1>Corbin in maybe as a tag team with De Jack,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how likely that is. They seem to

<v Speaker 1>make a good team in MLW. You know a couple

<v Speaker 1>of big guys who know how to work, and they

<v Speaker 1>could get heat. They could be like a great heel team.

<v Speaker 1>Sure you could do that. You could sign them and

<v Speaker 1>make them a team. You can make fucking Dan Housen

<v Speaker 1>and Baron Corbin a team if you want to, right,

<v Speaker 1>you can make big Casts and Enzo a team and

<v Speaker 1>reunite them and bring them back and they'll be over

<v Speaker 1>with the crowd, right because Enzo knows how to talk

<v Speaker 1>and that's all well, and you could do all of

<v Speaker 1>that stuff. It doesn't matter because they don't give a

<v Speaker 1>shit about tag team wrestling. This is what I have

<v Speaker 1>told you repeatedly recently. And I would love to read

<v Speaker 1>a report like this and be like, Okay, maybe they

<v Speaker 1>recognize that there's an issue and they're going to take

<v Speaker 1>steps to correct it. Until I see actual evidence of this, though,

<v Speaker 1>to me, it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Look at

<v Speaker 1>the state of this company right now when it comes

<v Speaker 1>to the Tag Team Championships, they have the tag team

<v Speaker 1>titles right now on Monday Night Raw on two single Stars.

<v Speaker 1>On SmackDown, they have the tag team titles on two

<v Speaker 1>single Stars. So we get this report right that they

<v Speaker 1>want to reinvigorate the tag team division and so they're

<v Speaker 1>considering bringing in teams from outside the company, which, by

<v Speaker 1>the way, Brian Alvarez has since responded and said, we

<v Speaker 1>are told that WWE does not really have much interest

<v Speaker 1>in outside tag teams. But there are newly made teams

<v Speaker 1>on TV like The Miz and Kit Wilson that will

<v Speaker 1>remain so and a few names in NXT that will

<v Speaker 1>likely be called up soon as well. Damian Priest in

<v Speaker 1>Our Truth there's another newly made team. I assume that

<v Speaker 1>would include them as well, and again I'm not a

<v Speaker 1>fan of that pairing, but Priests he needs something to

<v Speaker 1>get going again. But the point is they have both

<v Speaker 1>sets of tag team titles on single Stars at the moment,

<v Speaker 1>and for all this nonsense about how they want to

<v Speaker 1>sign new teams because the division is basically dead, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>they want to sign new teams. Gee, if only they

<v Speaker 1>didn't get rid of a bunch of teams. Did they

<v Speaker 1>not just get rid of the MotorCity machine guns? Did

<v Speaker 1>they not just squash Los Garza unnecessarily in an Obafemi

<v Speaker 1>Open challenge a couple of weeks ago. They lost the

<v Speaker 1>New Day. Now that wasn't their choice, but they did

<v Speaker 1>go to them and say, hey, we want to cut

<v Speaker 1>your pay, and they were like, fuck, you were leaving

<v Speaker 1>good on them, So they lost the New Day. But

<v Speaker 1>I just I'm sorry, I can't believe it until I

<v Speaker 1>actually see this in practice and I see some real

<v Speaker 1>effort on these television shows put into their tag team division.

<v Speaker 1>I just read stuff like this and I just sort

<v Speaker 1>of keep scrolling because to me, it's all nonsense. They

<v Speaker 1>don't care about tag team wrestling. It's not a priority

<v Speaker 1>for them. They don't think it makes them any money.

<v Speaker 1>And that's just it's to sad reality of it. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>we've gone through periods in this company over the years

<v Speaker 1>where they have put effort into the tag team division,

<v Speaker 1>and there have been some great eras of tag team wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, the Golden Age you want to go back

<v Speaker 1>fucking forty years, but you don't have to go back

<v Speaker 1>that far. You can go back to late nineties, early

<v Speaker 1>two thousands, early two thousands, they had like a tag

<v Speaker 1>team renaissance in this company, and it was great. But

<v Speaker 1>they don't look at it that way anymore. Bringing in

<v Speaker 1>Enzo Amore in Big Cast is not going to change that.

<v Speaker 1>It's not It's not going to change anything. We're gonna

<v Speaker 1>be sitting here in six months talking about the same

<v Speaker 1>exact fucking thing until they finally wise up and they

<v Speaker 1>merge the men's tag team titles back into one, because

<v Speaker 1>there is absolutely zero need to have two sets of

<v Speaker 1>belts right now. Zero. Vladimir the WWE Superfan, really wrestling superfan,

<v Speaker 1>is in the hospital. This according to Mike Johnson, who

<v Speaker 1>is one of his best friends. Mike Johnson a PW Insider.

<v Speaker 1>He was asked to pass along the following information to

<v Speaker 1>all of his readers on PW Insider the other day

<v Speaker 1>by Vlad's sister. So, if Lad's been battling Parkinson's disease

<v Speaker 1>over the last several years and one of the byproducts

<v Speaker 1>of the disease is terrible balance issues. This past week,

<v Speaker 1>vlad was walking with his sister when he suddenly fell,

<v Speaker 1>striking his head on the concrete. He suffered a major

<v Speaker 1>concussion and there was concern about bleeding on the brain,

<v Speaker 1>but we are told that he is believed to be

<v Speaker 1>out of imminent danger when it came to that bleeding.

<v Speaker 1>Vlad will, however, remained hospitalized in NYC for some time

<v Speaker 1>to come. There is no timetable for his release. Vlad's

<v Speaker 1>sister gave me permission to pass along the words so

<v Speaker 1>that she can ask everyone to please keep him in

<v Speaker 1>your thoughts and prayers as he recovers. I hate hearing

<v Speaker 1>that of Vlad's a super dude. I've had the chance

<v Speaker 1>to meet him a few times. The last time, I'm

<v Speaker 1>pretty sure was around the corner from Terminal five in

<v Speaker 1>Manhattan when House of Glory did a show there a

<v Speaker 1>few years ago. Even then he was getting around with

<v Speaker 1>I forget if it was a cane or a walker.

<v Speaker 1>I want to say he had a walker, but always

<v Speaker 1>with a smile on his face. Every major wrestling event

<v Speaker 1>of my childhood and a lot of them from my adulthood,

<v Speaker 1>Vlad was there. You could spot him. If not in

<v Speaker 1>the front row, he was in the first few rows.

<v Speaker 1>WWE named him its first ever certified superfan in twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty one, and He was the subject of a short

<v Speaker 1>WWE documentary called super Fan The Story of Vladimir, which

<v Speaker 1>was released on Peacock a few years ago, and then

<v Speaker 1>it was pulled for no reason whatsoever, no reason that

<v Speaker 1>we were ever told. It was considered lost media basically

<v Speaker 1>until this week when all of a sudden, after this

<v Speaker 1>story came out, wouldn't you know, it popped up on

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Vault channel on YouTube, which I would encourage

<v Speaker 1>all of you to rip it off YouTube and downloaded,

<v Speaker 1>so in case they pull it again, it won't be

<v Speaker 1>lost media anymore. At least we'll have copies of it.

<v Speaker 1>But right now it is on the Vault channel on YouTube.

<v Speaker 1>It's good to see it back up. It is well

<v Speaker 1>worth thirty seven minutes of your time. It's not that long,

<v Speaker 1>but it's very, very good. All the best of lad

<v Speaker 1>and here is hoping for a speedy recovery. And this

<v Speaker 1>was sad to hear and quite shocking actually, the death

<v Speaker 1>of Kyle Busch, the winningest driver in NASCAR history, the

<v Speaker 1>age of forty one, on Thursday. He died after being

<v Speaker 1>hospitalized earlier that same day with what was said to

<v Speaker 1>be a severe illness. Three days before he was to

<v Speaker 1>have competed at the Coca Cola six hundred rays. I

<v Speaker 1>think he had just want to race the week prior.

<v Speaker 1>The family was told it was a case of severe

<v Speaker 1>pneumonia that progressed into sepsis. It was just that quick,

<v Speaker 1>and he has survived by his wife and two children.

<v Speaker 1>He last posted on Instagram wishing his son a happy

<v Speaker 1>birthday and what a terrible thing to have to associate

<v Speaker 1>now every year with your birthday. But the news comes

<v Speaker 1>eleven days after Bush radioed his crew near the end

<v Speaker 1>of a race at Watkins Glen asking for medical attention

<v Speaker 1>after he finished the race. According to the TV announcers,

<v Speaker 1>Bush had been struggling with a sinus cold that was

<v Speaker 1>exacerbated by the intense g forces and elevation changes at

<v Speaker 1>the course. He was sick then, and he raced right

<v Speaker 1>through it, something that was treatable. That makes it even sadder.

<v Speaker 1>But where wrestling ties into this is many years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Bush served as a guest host for Monday Night Raw

<v Speaker 1>during the infamous guest host era of the show. He

<v Speaker 1>and another racer, Joey Logano. They co hosted the October

<v Speaker 1>twenty sixth, two thousand and nine episode of Monday Night Raw.

<v Speaker 1>They were out in the parking lot doing burnouts and

<v Speaker 1>doughnuts back there before they drove into the arena. Flash

<v Speaker 1>forward ten years he was back on Raw, this time

<v Speaker 1>with Michael Waltrip, and he pinned Our Truth to win

<v Speaker 1>the twenty four to seven title, which he lost back

<v Speaker 1>to Truth later on that same night. But he is

<v Speaker 1>officially recognized as a champion in WWE history. But a

<v Speaker 1>very sad story. I remember all the attention that the

<v Speaker 1>death of Dale Earnhart got and this is the closest

<v Speaker 1>thing to that that I can think of in terms

<v Speaker 1>of Nascar. But we'll end there nice and nice and

<v Speaker 1>short because we got to get ready for Double or Nothing,

<v Speaker 1>which the pre show is kicking off in just a

<v Speaker 1>few hours, about six hours or so, five hours actually,

<v Speaker 1>So I want to thank you for tuning in this week.

<v Speaker 1>Got you covered, I think as far as all the

<v Speaker 1>key stuff goes a little programming note. So tonight I

<v Speaker 1>am going live on YouTube. It will be I'm sure,

<v Speaker 1>very very late, but when Double or Nothing is over,

<v Speaker 1>you can join me over on the YouTube channel for

<v Speaker 1>the full review. I will be live this week, I believe,

<v Speaker 1>for all the usual reviews we got Raw Monday night.

<v Speaker 1>The post show Tuesday will be a brand new episode

<v Speaker 1>of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Tuesday night will be Tuesday

<v Speaker 1>Night Titans. Wednesday is the post double or Nothing episode

<v Speaker 1>of Dynamite, so we'll have that post show, and then

<v Speaker 1>Friday night we have SmackDown. Which where is smack SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>in It'll no, it's not in Italy. They're in Barcelona.

<v Speaker 1>I believe Smack then I believe on Friday is in Barcelona.

<v Speaker 1>I will have to see if the stream will be

<v Speaker 1>any earlier. It might not be. It might not be,

<v Speaker 1>just because the back rooms is out on Friday, and

<v Speaker 1>I am definitely gonna want to see that during the day,

<v Speaker 1>maybe later in the afternoons. So let's just assume it'll

<v Speaker 1>be a normal SmackDown review. Maybe I go live a

<v Speaker 1>couple of hours earlier, but I'll keep you guys posting on.

<v Speaker 1>I'm very much looking forward to the back rooms on Friday.

<v Speaker 1>Follow me on Letterbox by the way, I'm on there

<v Speaker 1>now at the Solemn Monster. But next weekend is Clash

<v Speaker 1>in Italy. They're doing a fucking pl on a Sunday

<v Speaker 1>at two o'clock Eastern in the afternoon, which really fucks

<v Speaker 1>me is as far as the SoundOff goes. So the

<v Speaker 1>plan is, I'm gonna have to do the show a

<v Speaker 1>day early. Plus we got the big Triple A show

<v Speaker 1>that night, so I may not be able to talk

<v Speaker 1>about that, but I'm probably gonna record the sound off

<v Speaker 1>a day early, so watch for that to come out

<v Speaker 1>later on Saturday. It'll be an earlier sound off by

<v Speaker 1>about a day. That'll be episode nine sixty five. Just

<v Speaker 1>because it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, right,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna have any time to get one out

<v Speaker 1>on Sunday. Plus i'll be live after Clash in Italy anyway,

<v Speaker 1>so that'll be wreaking some havoc with the schedule next weekend,

<v Speaker 1>but you'll still get a sound off. I still got

<v Speaker 1>you covered, don't worry about that. But that's what I

<v Speaker 1>got for you. So until then, be well, stay safe,

<v Speaker 1>have yourselves a great rest of your holiday weekend. For

<v Speaker 1>those of you celebrating the Memorial Day weekend, I hope

<v Speaker 1>you have better weather than we have here in New

<v Speaker 1>York and I will see you later on tonight after

<v Speaker 1>double or Nothing for the full recap on YouTube. Until then,

<v Speaker 1>take care guys. The Solemn Monster sounds off backstage Phraxium

<v Speaker 1>and the MotorCity machine Guns. Holy shit, they live. So

<v Speaker 1>they're walking along backstage and Candice Larray approaches that. She said,

<v Speaker 1>look at what happened to Johnny, and we see Johnny Gargano.

<v Speaker 1>He is lying face down on top of a box

<v Speaker 1>that has marked NXT. I want you to imagine flying

<v Speaker 1>all the way to work and you get there and

<v Speaker 1>you find out, Okay, boss, what am I doing tonight?

<v Speaker 1>And your job after flying all the way in here

<v Speaker 1>is to lay face down on top of a box

<v Speaker 1>for two minutes and say nothing. I don't even think

<v Speaker 1>he'd blinks. He looked catatonic as he was laying there.

<v Speaker 1>And that's it. That's all he did on this show.

<v Speaker 1>That was his only task, to fly into work and

<v Speaker 1>lay on top of a box. I mean, look, I

<v Speaker 1>guess it's not bad work if you can get it.

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