<v Speaker 1>It's business time, baby.

<v Speaker 2>You are listening to solo monster sounds off. I love you, mama,

<v Speaker 2>monster dude, I want your soul. Woman. You got grown

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

<v Speaker 1>Come over here? Is that Pet Patterson? You have legs?

<v Speaker 2>Weekend?

<v Speaker 1>I was ninety nine percent positive it was just chessed up.

<v Speaker 2>Now. I have been begging him for a job on

<v Speaker 2>every every platform I can, and I would have know

<v Speaker 2>the region. Why you won't part? Uh? What a weekend

<v Speaker 2>here in New York City. The Knicks won their first

<v Speaker 2>NBA championship since nineteen seventy three, albeit on the road

<v Speaker 2>in San Antonio. But it was madness all over the

<v Speaker 2>city last night, not to mention the World Cup game

<v Speaker 2>over at MetLife Stadium between Brazil and Morocco. And then

<v Speaker 2>today is the Puerto Rican Day Parade. I hear Damian

<v Speaker 2>Priest this is a to be making an appearance. I

<v Speaker 2>think he's I don't want to say he's been there

<v Speaker 2>every year, but I know he's made appearances during the

<v Speaker 2>parade before. So if you are attending, maybe you'll see him.

<v Speaker 2>I'm getting a little case of the fomo. I'm feeling

<v Speaker 2>left out here. I actually heard that it's actually quite fun.

<v Speaker 2>I wish I could attend, but we have other business

<v Speaker 2>to tend to here. Seriously, though, congrats to all the

<v Speaker 2>Knicks fans out there. I am very happy for you.

<v Speaker 2>I know all about long suffering in New York franchises.

<v Speaker 2>And maybe somebody wants to pay the two hundred and

<v Speaker 2>fifty bucks to Dan Housen to have him record a

<v Speaker 2>cameo uncursing the Mets. But honestly, I don't think even

<v Speaker 2>Dan Housen is powerful enough to reverse that curse. Some

<v Speaker 2>things are just beyond his scope, you know. Brian Alvarez

<v Speaker 2>is saying that the Dan Housen Knicks stuff is currently

<v Speaker 2>being put together by TKO and WWE cameras are going

<v Speaker 2>to be at the parade. I believe they're having a

<v Speaker 2>parade on Thursday for the Knicks, and so they're gonna

<v Speaker 2>have cameras there. They're probably gonna put together in Nixon

<v Speaker 2>dan Hausen documentary for YouTube, and he says at least

<v Speaker 2>one New York Nick is confirmed for Saturday Night's Made

<v Speaker 2>event next month, and they're trying to get several more.

<v Speaker 1>Also, the coach trying to get him there.

<v Speaker 2>WWE has already launched if you didn't see, because they've

<v Speaker 2>been plugging it on their social media Nixon Danhausen Championship

<v Speaker 2>merch on WWE Shop and Dan Housen is also going

<v Speaker 2>to be on ESPN either today or Monday, it looks like.

<v Speaker 2>So they're trying to capitalize on this, and you know what,

<v Speaker 2>good for them. That's what they need to do. This

<v Speaker 2>is the way to do it. You know, when he

<v Speaker 2>shows up at MSG next month, I'm expecting a stone

<v Speaker 2>cold level.

<v Speaker 1>Reaction for Dan Housen.

<v Speaker 2>And you know NXT has its deadline show coming up

<v Speaker 2>in San Antonio in December. Maybe they can get him

<v Speaker 2>on there too. He'll get mega heat. This is episode

<v Speaker 2>nine sixty seven of The solomn Monster Sounds Off for Sunday,

<v Speaker 2>June fourteenth, twenty twenty six. I am the solom Monster.

<v Speaker 2>Who else would it be? You know, it was twenty

<v Speaker 2>years ago this week, June seventeenth, two thousand and six,

<v Speaker 2>to be exact, I attended my first Ring of Honors

<v Speaker 2>show live, which happened to be their final show that

<v Speaker 2>they ever did, at the Grand Ballroom at the New

<v Speaker 2>Yorker Hotel. The New Yorker Hotel literally is around the

<v Speaker 2>corner to where they moved, which was the Manhattan Center.

<v Speaker 2>They went to the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center.

<v Speaker 2>That's where WWE used to host Monday Night Raw in

<v Speaker 2>the early days. Those first episodes in nineteen ninety three

<v Speaker 2>of Monday Night Raw were in the Manhattan Center, all

<v Speaker 2>the way up on what I believe is the eighth

<v Speaker 2>floor in the Grand Ballroom. And then eventually with Ring

<v Speaker 2>of Honor, they graduated to the Hammerstein Ballroom, which is

<v Speaker 2>in the same building, but right downstairs on the main

<v Speaker 2>level when you first enter, and so the New Yorker

<v Speaker 2>Hotel literally right around the corner. This was my first show.

<v Speaker 2>I had never been to a Ring of Honor show before.

<v Speaker 2>I had seen some Ring of Honor stuff. I had

<v Speaker 2>heard a lot of good things about being there. They're

<v Speaker 2>doing these shows in New York City. It's like, how

<v Speaker 2>could I not go? So my brother and I we

<v Speaker 2>got tickets and we went and I had a blast,

<v Speaker 2>and I remember I remember a lot about this show.

<v Speaker 2>I remember the first match on that show, So the

<v Speaker 2>first ROH match alive I ever saw. I had Jay

<v Speaker 2>and Mark Brisco taking on Jason Blade. Now I had

<v Speaker 2>to look his name up because I couldn't remember who

<v Speaker 2>he was. But Jason Blade teamed up with Sterling James Keenan,

<v Speaker 2>who's a little busy these days, calling Monday Night Raw

<v Speaker 2>next to Michael Cole and calling Triple A. Prince Nana

<v Speaker 2>was there. He was managing Jimmy Rave at the time,

<v Speaker 2>and Jimmy Rave was just a great heel and the

<v Speaker 2>Grand Ballroom had this giant chandelier over the ring, and

<v Speaker 2>the gimmick with Jimmy on all these shows was then

<v Speaker 2>or back then, was that people would throw toilet paper

<v Speaker 2>at him, and so I imagine hotel management was not

<v Speaker 2>too happy about all that toilet paper getting wrapped around

<v Speaker 2>the chandelier. We actually knocked pieces of it down in

<v Speaker 2>the ring. But it's a damn shame that Jimmy went

<v Speaker 2>out the way he did. At the end of his life,

<v Speaker 2>he had gotten an infection in his arm. First he

<v Speaker 2>had to have his arm amputated, and then I don't

<v Speaker 2>know how many months later it was. It was only

<v Speaker 2>months later he got MRSA and he needed both of

<v Speaker 2>his legs amputated, so all he had left was his

<v Speaker 2>right arm, and then he died I think two months later.

<v Speaker 2>So It's very sad how his life came to an end.

<v Speaker 2>But for a period of time there, Jimmy Rave was

<v Speaker 2>one of the more I would say accomplished entertaining heels

<v Speaker 2>on the independent wrestling scene. And I know he had

<v Speaker 2>a run also in TNA. I don't think that lasted

<v Speaker 2>too long. But then we had this match on this

<v Speaker 2>show here bj Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs, and they hit

<v Speaker 2>the scariest finish that I have ever seen live Even

<v Speaker 2>to this day, any live event that I've ever been to,

<v Speaker 2>this has to be up.

<v Speaker 1>There as the scariest finish.

<v Speaker 2>And you have Whitmer on the top rope power bombing

<v Speaker 2>him an avalanche power bomb from the ring into the crowd.

<v Speaker 2>He power bombs Jimmy Jacobs over the barricade into the crowd,

<v Speaker 2>and they had a bunch of planted fans there. But that,

<v Speaker 2>I mean, that doesn't make it any less scary, Like

<v Speaker 2>in the moment as you're watching it, an inch or

<v Speaker 2>two this way or that way, and that could have

<v Speaker 2>ended up catastrophically bad, right, But that's sort of the

<v Speaker 2>story of pro wrestling, right. An incher two can make

<v Speaker 2>the difference between making the highlight reels or winding up

<v Speaker 2>in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. But

<v Speaker 2>that was a wild I don't remember anything else about

<v Speaker 2>the match except that finish.

<v Speaker 1>You know who else was.

<v Speaker 2>In action on that show, The current general manager of

<v Speaker 2>Monday Night Raw, Adam Pierce. He was wrestling Claudio Castignoli.

<v Speaker 2>Very cool to see the two of them still doing

<v Speaker 2>their thing on TV in twenty twenty six, and they

<v Speaker 2>had an excellent three way in the main event with

<v Speaker 2>Brian Danielson, who was the world champion at the time,

<v Speaker 2>but I don't think his title was on the line

<v Speaker 2>in the mat. I don't believe it was a title match.

<v Speaker 2>It couldn't be because Ken one. But it was Danielson,

<v Speaker 2>Kenta and Samoa Joe. How's that for a three way

<v Speaker 2>main event? Brian Danielson, Samoa Joe and Kenta. I will

<v Speaker 2>never forget Danielson doing a dive out into the crowd

<v Speaker 2>onto like a flip dive out onto Joe and Kenta.

<v Speaker 2>It was right in front of me. I've got a

<v Speaker 2>couple of great photos. I can post them up on

<v Speaker 2>my ex account on Wednesday since that's the anniversary. But

<v Speaker 2>Kenta got his title match a few months later at

<v Speaker 2>Glory by Honor five Night two, which I was also

<v Speaker 2>there for one of the greatest main events I've ever

<v Speaker 2>seen live, and we even got a Bruno Sam Martino

<v Speaker 2>appearance that night. He came to the ring to cut

<v Speaker 2>a promo with the entire If it wasn't the entire roster,

<v Speaker 2>it was most of the roster surrounding the ring outside

<v Speaker 2>just watching and listening and hanging on to every word

<v Speaker 2>that this man was saying. I'm glad I was there

<v Speaker 2>to see it, and Bruno's out there he's saying, you know,

<v Speaker 2>I don't want to take up too much of your

<v Speaker 2>time because I know you've got a lot of great

<v Speaker 2>matches coming up.

<v Speaker 1>Like as if anybody wanted to see.

<v Speaker 2>Rushed out of the ring, you know, like if you

<v Speaker 2>leave the Manhattan Center and literally walked to the corner,

<v Speaker 2>Madison Square Garden is right there, I guess, right across

<v Speaker 2>the street, the place that Bruno sold out more than

<v Speaker 2>any other pro wrestler in history. I mean, he could

<v Speaker 2>have spoken for thirty minutes if he wanted to. I

<v Speaker 2>don't think anybody would have complained. But yeah, I got

<v Speaker 2>a lot of great memories from those early roh dys

<v Speaker 2>again when I started going two thousand and six, two

<v Speaker 2>thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, you know, Homicides,

<v Speaker 2>title Win, and I mean, I can go on and

<v Speaker 2>on about it, but it just it hit me that

<v Speaker 2>this week was the anniversary, the twenty year anniversary of

<v Speaker 2>that first show that I went to. So I just

<v Speaker 2>had to talk about it. I had to say something

<v Speaker 2>about it. Maybe some of you were even at some

<v Speaker 2>of those shows, so you know what I'm talking about.

<v Speaker 2>Just the energy and the vibe back then. It's not

<v Speaker 2>the same now, but man, back then it was something special.

<v Speaker 2>My thanks to everybody who dropped a PayPal don't know

<v Speaker 2>this week. I appreciate it. If you'd like to do so.

<v Speaker 2>The Solomons are at email dot com is the place

<v Speaker 2>to go. You'll see the LINC. It's right there for

<v Speaker 2>you at the top of the page.

<v Speaker 1>Ten dollars or more. We'll get you nickname.

<v Speaker 2>In a shout out, I want to say thank you

<v Speaker 2>to the Portland pop star Paul Hamilton, Paul, thank you

<v Speaker 2>very much, Big b Bryant, Bessera, the Diamond, Dallas Dance Machine,

<v Speaker 2>Harrison's Soap Velvet Revolver, Robert Murray Q the Destroyer for Life,

<v Speaker 2>Brother Big Time Boris Veinman, Raj must see Makwana killshot

<v Speaker 2>Keith Hart and the Chicago Slayer Willie Aiker. Am I

<v Speaker 2>going to see you guys this Friday? Am I going

<v Speaker 2>to see you and Mama iikerd on Friday?

<v Speaker 1>I hope so?

<v Speaker 2>Because House of Glory presents Inferno this Friday Logan Square

<v Speaker 2>Auditorium in Chicago, and for the first time ever, Bang

<v Speaker 2>Bang Ricky Sosa and his Hog debut. He steps into

<v Speaker 2>the ring with the amazing red that is going to

<v Speaker 2>be fucking unbelievable. Nick Nevith was just announced with the

<v Speaker 2>show the man who will be challenging to be possibly

<v Speaker 2>the next TNA World Heavyweight Champion at Slammiversary in just

<v Speaker 2>a few weeks. And with all the rumors swirling about

<v Speaker 2>Mike Santana and his contract possibly coming up next month

<v Speaker 2>in TNA, if he is leaving, they're gonna have to

<v Speaker 2>get that belt off of him. Very very possible that

<v Speaker 2>Nemuth could be walking out of Slammiversary as the new champion.

<v Speaker 2>But first he's making his Hog return and he's going

<v Speaker 2>to be stepping into the ring to take on Charles

<v Speaker 2>Mason for the HOG World Championship. Maybe maybe he wants

<v Speaker 2>to go for some double gold. Mustafa Ali, speaking of TNA,

<v Speaker 2>He's going to be putting his TNA International Championship on

<v Speaker 2>the line against rich Swan Shatzi putting her HOG Women's

<v Speaker 2>title on the line against Steph Delander, and we had

<v Speaker 2>a bunch of other matches planned as well. Limited tickets,

<v Speaker 2>very limited tickets still available Hog Wrestling dot Net. I

<v Speaker 2>will see you guys, some of you anyway in Chicago,

<v Speaker 2>and if you can't be there, live Triller TV is

<v Speaker 2>where you can stream the event. Vince McMahon's legal peril,

<v Speaker 2>let's start there, at least in a public setting, is

<v Speaker 2>now down to one. That would be the ring Boy's lawsuit,

<v Speaker 2>which has him as one of the one of the

<v Speaker 2>many defendants, and that one is likely to end up

<v Speaker 2>the way that all the other ones have or will.

<v Speaker 2>Last week back up a little bit, here came the

<v Speaker 2>news of the WWE shareholder lawsuit trial being canceled. It

<v Speaker 2>was start scheduled to start last Monday, June eighth, and

<v Speaker 2>just a few days before it was pulled from the

<v Speaker 2>calendar and canceled because the two sides were and I

<v Speaker 2>believe they still are in the process of reaching a

<v Speaker 2>settlement agreement in principle. I don't know if a formal

<v Speaker 2>settlement has been approved or reached yet, but if not,

<v Speaker 2>it seems like we're well on our way to that.

<v Speaker 2>So not a done deal just yet, and we're still

<v Speaker 2>waiting to find out about what that's going to look like,

<v Speaker 2>how much money the shareholders will actually get out of it.

<v Speaker 2>They were seeking as much as nine hundred and fifty

<v Speaker 2>million dollars or so in damages plus interest accrude after

<v Speaker 2>alleging that the fix was in with the WWE sale

<v Speaker 2>to Endeavor three years ago, and that McMahon steered the

<v Speaker 2>outcome to his pal, his boy Ari Emmanuel, with the

<v Speaker 2>idea that he would be able to maintain some level

<v Speaker 2>of power in WWE.

<v Speaker 1>And he would have.

<v Speaker 2>He absolutely would have were it not for the Janelle

<v Speaker 2>Grant sex trafficking lawsuit that dropped like an atomic bomb

<v Speaker 2>in January of twenty twenty four, and it started really

<v Speaker 2>with the Wall Street Journal story in twenty twenty two.

<v Speaker 2>I have some news on that here in a little bit,

<v Speaker 2>but the Wall Street Journal story and news of all

<v Speaker 2>the non disclosure agreements with various women and performers over

<v Speaker 2>the years, including one seven and a half million dollar

<v Speaker 2>NDA with a female talent whose name has never been revealed.

<v Speaker 2>But these things, they don't happen, not in these numbers,

<v Speaker 2>unless this man is doing something that he should not

<v Speaker 2>be doing. And there are still people making excuses for

<v Speaker 2>this toxic sludge of a human being. Says a lot

<v Speaker 2>about them. But it was that story that led to

<v Speaker 2>him initially stepping aside until he decided to force his

<v Speaker 2>way back in. Then this lawsuit dropped, and it was

<v Speaker 2>the Janelle Grant suit, and it was very disturbing. Right,

<v Speaker 2>they had a relationship. He got her a job in

<v Speaker 2>the company that she wasn't qualified for. She worked her

<v Speaker 2>way up the ranks in short order, and according to her,

<v Speaker 2>he basically used her as his personal sex toy and

<v Speaker 2>pimped her out to John Laurnidis, who cheated on his

<v Speaker 2>then wife who was being treated for a brain tumor.

<v Speaker 2>These are the men who held positions of power in

<v Speaker 2>WWE at that time. You know, we can complain about

<v Speaker 2>how SOULSS the product feels these days, and high ticket

<v Speaker 2>prices and bad booking and bad creative and boring television

<v Speaker 2>that's a far cry from sexual misconduct and some of

<v Speaker 2>the stuff that was going on behind the scenes at

<v Speaker 2>that time for years, Laura and IDAs didn't even deny it.

<v Speaker 2>He just tried to pass himself off as a victim,

<v Speaker 2>the fucking troll that he is. And Vince stopped paying her.

<v Speaker 2>He was supposed to pay her a certain amount of money.

<v Speaker 2>He stopped paying what he had promised per the NDA

<v Speaker 2>that was signed, and that's what led to her filing

<v Speaker 2>suit and doesn't make her claims any less true, by

<v Speaker 2>the way, I mean, the fact that she filed the

<v Speaker 2>lawsuit because he stopped paying doesn't make them any less

<v Speaker 2>true or false or anything. Those are two completely independent things.

<v Speaker 2>And it was always going to be an uphill climb

<v Speaker 2>for this woman to beat the big, bad billion dollar

<v Speaker 2>chairman in court who has a hell of a lot

<v Speaker 2>more money to burn than she does. But she wanted

<v Speaker 2>to see this go to trial. That's what she kept saying.

<v Speaker 2>She wanted to go to trial. She doesn't want to

<v Speaker 2>go into private arbitration. That's what Vince was arguing for

<v Speaker 2>per the terms of the three million dollar NDA that

<v Speaker 2>was signed. Her position was that the NDA was signed

<v Speaker 2>under duress, and it should be invalidated so that this

<v Speaker 2>could go to trial and everything could be out in

<v Speaker 2>the open and in the public forum. Right, this is

<v Speaker 2>not a criminal case. So even if it was a

<v Speaker 2>criminal case, Vince has friends in very high places. Okay,

<v Speaker 2>birds of a feather flock together. This was never going

<v Speaker 2>to go anywhere anyway. But this is a civil case.

<v Speaker 2>So the worst that could have happened to him and

<v Speaker 2>could still happen to him, is that he would be

<v Speaker 2>on the hook for a lot of money. Then he

<v Speaker 2>would have to pay her. She wanted a trial, He

<v Speaker 2>argued for arbitration, and the judge in the case was

<v Speaker 2>supposed to have made a decision this month about which

<v Speaker 2>one it would be. That was going to be the

<v Speaker 2>single most important decision in this trial. What does the

<v Speaker 2>judge decide, does she have a valid argument to invalidate

<v Speaker 2>the NDA and we go to trial, or does this

<v Speaker 2>go to private arbitration and nobody ever hears about this

<v Speaker 2>ever again? On Thursday, that all changed. Post Wrestling reported

<v Speaker 2>that the plaintiff and the defendant, so Janelle Grant, Vince

<v Speaker 2>McMahon and WWE, filed a joint motion in the US

<v Speaker 2>District Court for the District of Connecticut requesting to continue

<v Speaker 2>their litigation in private arbitration, which is a big one

<v Speaker 2>pint eighty from what Janelle Grant had been asking the

<v Speaker 2>court for, and on Friday, Judge Sarah F. Russell granted

<v Speaker 2>the party's joint motion. The judge is now requiring them

<v Speaker 2>to file a joint status report by July tenth, and

<v Speaker 2>if they have not reached an agreement by that date,

<v Speaker 2>they will have a hearing in August. And Brandon Thurston

<v Speaker 2>says he interprets the word agreement here as referring to

<v Speaker 2>the conditions of moving into arbitration, not necessarily reaching a

<v Speaker 2>settlement of the entire thing. The one paragraph filing states

<v Speaker 2>that the parties are in active discussions regarding a potential

<v Speaker 2>agreement to arbitrate the dispute in confidential arbitration, which would

<v Speaker 2>render the defendant's motion to compel arbitration moot. Filing does

<v Speaker 2>not explain a reason for Grant's change in position regarding

<v Speaker 2>her willingness to take her dispute into a private forum.

<v Speaker 2>An attorney for Grant did not immediately respond to her

<v Speaker 2>request for comment. The parties had been scheduled to attend

<v Speaker 2>a hearing on June sixteenth, that's this Tuesday, to argue

<v Speaker 2>the issue as well as whether Grant would be allowed

<v Speaker 2>to obtain evidence from the defendants in support of her

<v Speaker 2>litigation of the arbitration question. So this is not a settlement,

<v Speaker 2>not yet anyway. This just means that they are taking

<v Speaker 2>this very likely into a private setting with an arbitrator,

<v Speaker 2>and they are not going to go through a public

<v Speaker 2>trial and all the drama that comes with that. It

<v Speaker 2>all started when Vince reneged from what he had promised

<v Speaker 2>to pay her. He paid out one million of the

<v Speaker 2>three million dollars that her NDA stipulated. If he had

<v Speaker 2>done that, if he would have just continued to pay

<v Speaker 2>what he was supposed to pay, we wouldn't even be

<v Speaker 2>talking about this right now. Once he stopped payment, she

<v Speaker 2>sued him, and she claimed that she had no intention

<v Speaker 2>of settling, and that this resignation from WWE, that this

<v Speaker 2>is a so called resignation, which turned out to not

<v Speaker 2>really be all that genuine. But then he came back

<v Speaker 2>and then he sort of resigned again. But his resignation

<v Speaker 2>from WWE was not enough for her. She wanted justice.

<v Speaker 2>What changed all of a sudden, We don't know. I

<v Speaker 2>don't know what her financial arrangement is with her lawyers,

<v Speaker 2>but from what I remember reading, the firm that represents

<v Speaker 2>her typically takes these kinds of cases on a contingent

<v Speaker 2>fee basis, meaning they only get paid if they win

<v Speaker 2>the case or if they reach a settlement, then they

<v Speaker 2>take a percentage of those funds. If she were to

<v Speaker 2>lose this case, she could walk away with nothing. And

<v Speaker 2>even if she doesn't have legal fees to pay off,

<v Speaker 2>and she very well might, she may be broke at

<v Speaker 2>this point for all we know, But I imagine that her

<v Speaker 2>lawyers would probably not be too thrilled about that if

<v Speaker 2>she lost and walked away with nothing. So for Vincent WWE,

<v Speaker 2>a trial would prove to be very embarrassing, right, That's

<v Speaker 2>the reason he fought so hard against it. It's disappointing.

<v Speaker 2>It's disappointing because again, where there's rot to be found,

<v Speaker 2>I think it should be exposed for all the world

<v Speaker 2>to see, right in as public a setting as possible.

<v Speaker 2>And if there are people who deserve to be dragged,

<v Speaker 2>then they should be dragged. She's had a change of heart,

<v Speaker 2>that's her decision, right. It is what it is, but

<v Speaker 2>it is disappointing that she has suddenly had a one

<v Speaker 2>to eighty on this whole thing. What's concerning is that

<v Speaker 2>if this thing is that much closer to being wrapped up,

<v Speaker 2>that makes it more likely that we see Vince McMahon

<v Speaker 2>back in WWE at some point. Remember, Ari Emmanuel had

<v Speaker 2>no issue with Vince McMahon being there, even after all

<v Speaker 2>the Wall Street Journal stuff came out in twenty twenty two.

<v Speaker 1>Right, this was a.

<v Speaker 2>Big Wall Street Journal bombshell story and then there were

<v Speaker 2>subsequent stories. Right, his reputation was already tarnished. Didn't stop

<v Speaker 2>Ari from having an issue with Vince want he wanted

<v Speaker 2>him there. It was contingent. The deal, according to Ari

<v Speaker 2>Emmanuel on CNBC, was contingent on Vince being a part

<v Speaker 2>of it. Now, maybe he was playing three DCHSS and

<v Speaker 2>really did not want him there, but he had to

<v Speaker 2>ten that he did to get him to sell the

<v Speaker 2>company to him. Right, We're gonna find out because the

<v Speaker 2>entire reason they got rid of him in the first

<v Speaker 2>place or asked him to step down was because of

<v Speaker 2>this lawsuit. And if this lawsuit suddenly goes away, that

<v Speaker 2>means the one real obstacle to his return goes away

<v Speaker 2>and I put nothing past these people. Right, Bruce is

<v Speaker 2>still there. I always liked what Ronda Rousey said, Right,

<v Speaker 2>so long as Bruce Pritchard is there, Vince mcmahas an

<v Speaker 2>end because Bruce is basically Vince's avatar. Right, once this

<v Speaker 2>all comes to an end, anything is possible. I'm not

<v Speaker 2>saying he's going to be back in charge of Creative.

<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying anything is possible. And that is a

<v Speaker 2>scary thought. Even scarier that there are people out there,

<v Speaker 2>fans and ex talents alike, who want him to come back,

<v Speaker 2>who think that he's the only one who can make

<v Speaker 2>the product great again. Yes, the eighty year old octagenarian

<v Speaker 2>sex pest is the only man who can RESTOREWE to

<v Speaker 2>its former glory, it's past creative glory. If you honestly

<v Speaker 2>believe that, then WWE is doomed. If you think he

<v Speaker 2>is the only savior for this company, they're doomed. Teddy

<v Speaker 2>Long did an interview with TMZ's Inside the Ring podcast

<v Speaker 2>this week, and he talked about the state of wrestling today.

<v Speaker 2>I want to read you just the portion of what

<v Speaker 2>Teddy had to say here, even though it will make

<v Speaker 2>you dumber for having heard it. But I'll read this anyway.

<v Speaker 2>He said, a lot of talent is out there now.

<v Speaker 2>Some guys are doing great, some guys are not. And

<v Speaker 2>it's based on the creative people, the people that are

<v Speaker 2>in charge of what you do out on that TV.

<v Speaker 2>That's how your career is based. You can go out

<v Speaker 2>there and do something one night and it will kill you.

<v Speaker 2>That's kill your whole career. And they know how to

<v Speaker 2>do that to people. A lot of guys that are

<v Speaker 2>in charge don't do it because you can do the job.

<v Speaker 2>They'll mess with you because they got the power. They

<v Speaker 2>know they can. So it's changing a little bit now.

<v Speaker 2>But I think what we gotta do. We got to

<v Speaker 2>get Vince back so we can do this thing right

<v Speaker 2>and get the fans back on board.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.

<v Speaker 2>And on the possibility of Vince returning to wrestling, he

<v Speaker 2>said this, I don't think the chapter has ever closed

<v Speaker 2>with him. Like I said, I don't know what happened

<v Speaker 2>or any of that stuff, but in my knowing him,

<v Speaker 2>wrestling was his life. He loved this, This was his life.

<v Speaker 2>I had a chance to ride on the plane with

<v Speaker 2>him one night, and as soon as we took off.

<v Speaker 2>He talked about wrestling until we landed, and so he

<v Speaker 2>loves this. This is his life. I watched him at

<v Speaker 2>his eightieth birthday party during the rehearsal. They had a

<v Speaker 2>band and some singers there acchoire, and they were rehearsing

<v Speaker 2>before they got ready to go. I saw him and

<v Speaker 2>he had his head set on and Kevin Dunn was there.

<v Speaker 2>Kevin has always been his right hand man. He's looking

<v Speaker 2>at Kevin and saying, Kevin, get him over there. You

<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. He's doing his thing. He's at home.

<v Speaker 2>I looked at him, and I'm like, this is him,

<v Speaker 2>this is what he does. You know, I can understand

<v Speaker 2>being transactional like this person always treated me well. So

<v Speaker 2>therefore they're okay. In my book, they're willing to overlook

<v Speaker 2>certain things because of that. His argument being though I

<v Speaker 2>don't know what happened or any of that stuff is

<v Speaker 2>not a valid argument.

<v Speaker 1>Right, ignorance is not a valid argument.

<v Speaker 2>Just because Vince McMahon did right by Teddy Long does

<v Speaker 2>not mean that it's okay for him to be back

<v Speaker 2>at a position of power over other people. But this

<v Speaker 2>is who we're dealing with here now. He also said

<v Speaker 2>in this interview with TMZ. This again, Teddy Long says,

<v Speaker 2>I went to Vince's birthday. After the birthday party, Vince

<v Speaker 2>gave me this bust of his head.

<v Speaker 1>I have that. We could go see it right now

<v Speaker 1>because I have it in the room over there.

<v Speaker 2>No, he didn't give them out to everyone, but I'm

<v Speaker 2>not the only one that got one. I would consider

<v Speaker 2>that as my prized possession. Vince McMahon giving a bust

<v Speaker 2>of his head to someone is that person's most cherished

<v Speaker 2>possession in the world. Sounds like that's not the only

<v Speaker 2>thing that Teddy's been busting when it comes to Vince McMahon.

<v Speaker 2>But then you have JBL who never met a boot

<v Speaker 2>that he didn't enjoy licking.

<v Speaker 1>The same guy who said.

<v Speaker 2>ESPN should be giving WWE a letter grades in their reviews,

<v Speaker 2>even if they don't actually believe they deserve them. So

<v Speaker 2>he chimed in on his podcast, or technically it's not

<v Speaker 2>even his podcast, it's Bruce Pritchard's podcast, but he chimed

<v Speaker 2>in the other day. I saw this. He was responding

<v Speaker 2>to news of the shareholder's lawsuit heading towards a settlement.

<v Speaker 2>He said, I don't know what the settlement was My

<v Speaker 2>dad used to always tell me a bad settlement is

<v Speaker 2>better than a good lawsuit any day of the week.

<v Speaker 2>And sometimes, you know, I've been around Vince a long time.

<v Speaker 2>Vince just gets out of things.

<v Speaker 1>Does he now do?

<v Speaker 2>Tell us more? John, He said, sometimes it's not worth

<v Speaker 2>the trouble. These lawsuits fishing. Sometimes there's some merit behind them.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know the veracity of any of the claims.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know the merit of the lawsuit itself. I

<v Speaker 2>want you to remember him saying that, Okay, I don't

<v Speaker 2>know the merit of the lawsuit itself, but getting out

<v Speaker 2>of this is a really good thing for TKO. Ron

<v Speaker 2>talking about Ron Simmons and I used to joke that

<v Speaker 2>we would sue the company for a billion dollars and

<v Speaker 2>settle for one hundred thousand just to pay off a house.

<v Speaker 2>That's essentially what these lawyers are doing. They're saying, this

<v Speaker 2>company is worth so much money, let's file a lawsuit,

<v Speaker 2>tie them up in court, and see if we can

<v Speaker 2>get lucky with a settlement. That's all these jackasses are doing.

<v Speaker 2>There are so many lawyers who tie things up in

<v Speaker 2>the corporate world that certainly appears to be what this is.

<v Speaker 2>I just don't see any merit to it whatsoever. I

<v Speaker 2>hope these guys didn't get any money, because this is

<v Speaker 2>such bullshit. I've seen Vince over the years pay people

<v Speaker 2>off when he felt there was no cause whatsoever, just

<v Speaker 2>to get rid of them. I'm not talking about anything serious,

<v Speaker 2>maybe a dispute over a bill or something, just a nuisance.

<v Speaker 2>It's a nuisance fee.

<v Speaker 1>So to rea.

<v Speaker 2>And by the way, in the abstract what he is

<v Speaker 2>saying is not untrue, right. There are a lot of

<v Speaker 2>shyster lawyers out there who will do that sort of thing.

<v Speaker 2>But I would like to recap very quickly for you

<v Speaker 2>that in this one quote, he goes from trying to pretend,

<v Speaker 2>pretend being the keyword, to be unbiased by admitting, well,

<v Speaker 2>you know, I don't know about the veracity of the

<v Speaker 2>claims or the merits of the lawsuit itself. I just

<v Speaker 2>don't know, to a minute later saying that he sees

<v Speaker 2>no merit in it whatsoever and calling it all bullshit. Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>like I get some of the wrestlers from that era

<v Speaker 2>having brain damage all the chair shots to the head

<v Speaker 2>they took right over a period of many years. It's understandable.

<v Speaker 2>You could throw him in there too, But what's Teddy's excuse.

<v Speaker 2>What don't they understand about that this man became a

<v Speaker 2>liability to his own company, to where in when they

<v Speaker 2>had acquired the company TKO Endeavor, they had to put

<v Speaker 2>fine print in their SEC documents talking about what a

<v Speaker 2>liability Vince McMahon was to this company. All these people

<v Speaker 2>who pray for the return of Vince McMahon, it's like

<v Speaker 2>they forgot all the years of slop that he spoon

<v Speaker 2>fed us that or they're stuck at a time warp

<v Speaker 2>and they still think it's the attitude ere This man

<v Speaker 2>is eighty years old. His best days were behind him

<v Speaker 2>ten years ago. We do not need Vince McMahon back.

<v Speaker 2>If TKO ever wanted to replace Paul Levek, or if

<v Speaker 2>you think his creative vision is too boring and safe,

<v Speaker 2>I don't disagree with you, but bringing back the old

<v Speaker 2>man that is not the answer. But I do think

<v Speaker 2>it's inevitable that he is going to pop back up

<v Speaker 2>at some point in some capacity. This paves the way

<v Speaker 2>for that. It just feels like it's only matter of

<v Speaker 2>time once he gets this settled once and for all.

<v Speaker 2>The ringboy suit, the past, bad press, None of that's

<v Speaker 2>going to matter to TKO. The only thing that could

<v Speaker 2>hold them back from doing stuff with Vince mcmanagan would

<v Speaker 2>be if the sponsors spoke up, if the sponsors started

<v Speaker 2>to pull out, if the backlash, let's say, on social media,

<v Speaker 2>was so fierce, you know that they tag sponsors and

<v Speaker 2>do all these things. That's the only thing that they

<v Speaker 2>would care about. That's the only thing that would matter

<v Speaker 2>to TKO. If there was some sort of sponsor backlash,

<v Speaker 2>and once this disappears from the public eye or it

<v Speaker 2>gets settled, I doubt very seriously that.

<v Speaker 1>Any of them are gonna care.

<v Speaker 2>Now.

<v Speaker 1>Interestingly, on her Instagram page that she opened a few

<v Speaker 1>months ago, Janelle Grant posted a screenshot from a transcript

<v Speaker 1>of a deposition. There was deposition testimony given by Michelle McKenna,

<v Speaker 1>who was a former member of the WWE Board of Directors,

<v Speaker 1>where McKenna stated that she believes that Nick Cohn was

<v Speaker 1>the person who leaked those anonymous emails to the Wall

<v Speaker 1>Street Journal, which is what put the whole series of

<v Speaker 1>events in motion that ultimately led to the Endeavor purchase

<v Speaker 1>in the formation of TKO. Now that is just one

<v Speaker 1>person's opinion, but that she would say that under oath

<v Speaker 1>in a deposition, there must have been something about him

<v Speaker 1>that would make her think that there was at least

<v Speaker 1>the decent possibility that it was him. But we may

<v Speaker 1>never know for.

<v Speaker 2>Sure who leaked those emails on the coach and bro

<v Speaker 2>Show over on Jonathan Coachman's YouTube channel, Vince Russo let

<v Speaker 2>it slip the other day that Conan has undergone a

<v Speaker 2>double leg amputation. Now, it was first reported back in

<v Speaker 2>March that Conan was in the hospital due to complications

<v Speaker 2>from I want to say diabetes and had one of

<v Speaker 2>his legs amputated, but evidently he had the other one

<v Speaker 2>amputated as well, which is terrible. He spoke with Conan

<v Speaker 2>the other day, Russo said, but he said he was

<v Speaker 2>very weak. He was going through some grueling rehab. Russo

<v Speaker 2>said that in their conversation, Conan revealed that WWE has

<v Speaker 2>paid every cent of his medical bills, and good on

<v Speaker 2>them for doing so. You know, we're probably talking about

<v Speaker 2>medical bills in the millions of dollars at this point,

<v Speaker 2>not thousands, you know, for something like that, a double amputation,

<v Speaker 2>and for him being in the hospital for months on end,

<v Speaker 2>not even counting medications. You know, when people have some

<v Speaker 2>catastrophic accident or they get sick and they need to

<v Speaker 2>be treated, it's always a worry like how much is

<v Speaker 2>this going to cost me? Because even with insurance like

<v Speaker 2>it could end up bankrupting you. So like now, instead

<v Speaker 2>of worrying about getting better, you're sick and you're stressed

<v Speaker 2>about like how am I going to pay for this? Right,

<v Speaker 2>and stress kills. It's bad enough to be sick and

<v Speaker 2>in the hospital and probably stressful enough, but you add

<v Speaker 2>more stress on top of that. Stress is a killer.

<v Speaker 2>Bad enough to go through something like that to begin with,

<v Speaker 2>you shouldn't have to also worry about how or if

<v Speaker 2>you're going to be able to pay for all of it.

<v Speaker 2>So if WWE is stepping in to help him out

<v Speaker 2>on that, I think that's nice to hear he's not

<v Speaker 2>completely divorced from them, of course. I mean, Conan does

<v Speaker 2>work for Triple A, which WWE acquired last year, so

<v Speaker 2>he does work for them, but it's not as if

<v Speaker 2>he suffered an accident on the job, right or in

<v Speaker 2>the ring. They're not exactly obligated to do that, but

<v Speaker 2>best wishes to Conan. I don't know what kind of

<v Speaker 2>influence he has there anymore, creatively with Triple A, Undertaker

<v Speaker 2>seems to be getting all the credit and all the love,

<v Speaker 2>although I do think people need to start putting some

<v Speaker 2>respect on Jeremy Borash's name as well. Conan's had health

<v Speaker 2>issues for years. He had a kidney transplant many years ago.

<v Speaker 2>He needed another one. I don't know if he ever

<v Speaker 2>got it, but I know as of a few years

<v Speaker 2>ago it was reported that he would need another one.

<v Speaker 2>So this is just another and a very long line

<v Speaker 2>of issues that he's had. Cmpunk has been missing from

<v Speaker 2>WWE television since the Raw after WrestleMania, after he lost

<v Speaker 2>the World Heavyweight Championship in that Great Night two main

<v Speaker 2>event against Roman Reigns, and then after Mania he told us,

<v Speaker 2>you know, I'm not going to sit around sulking over it.

<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to go on vacation, right, he was

<v Speaker 2>going to stay ready. Evidently that meant off television because

<v Speaker 2>we have not seen him since outside of those gym

<v Speaker 2>photos with him looking all yoked. There was also there

<v Speaker 2>was video too. There's like a little video clip as well.

<v Speaker 2>A lot of people have been talking about CM Punk

<v Speaker 2>speculating about him on you know, social media. He's on

<v Speaker 2>steroids because of you know, a few low resolution photos

<v Speaker 2>that made him look bigger than he really is. Oh,

<v Speaker 2>he must be on the gas now, he's a body guy. Right.

<v Speaker 2>Then this week a Rando account on x posted what

<v Speaker 2>they claimed was a scoop, saying Punk may have been

<v Speaker 2>playing politics behind the scenes with the WrestleMania main event

<v Speaker 2>and didn't get his way, and now he's upset about it,

<v Speaker 2>which has led to some heat backstage between him and

<v Speaker 2>WWE and the powers that be. But wait, he may

<v Speaker 2>have also been asked by t to take a pay cut,

<v Speaker 2>and he's pissed off enough over it that he may

<v Speaker 2>have threatened legal action or even asked for his release,

<v Speaker 2>which is why he's been off TV. But then they also,

<v Speaker 2>in the same breath a caution that there's been some

<v Speaker 2>cold water thrown on this, namely the part about him

<v Speaker 2>asking for his release. See, I think the whole thing

<v Speaker 2>is unbelievable to begin with, just because they're talking about

<v Speaker 2>him threatening legal action and all this stuff when we

<v Speaker 2>know full well Cempunk. You know, he would have just

<v Speaker 2>walked over to Triple H or Nick con He would

<v Speaker 2>have started throwing fists, would he would have lost his

<v Speaker 2>cool because that's what he does. So this report is

<v Speaker 2>already unbelievable. You know, I would like to sit here

<v Speaker 2>and tell you that I'm shocked by how much traction

<v Speaker 2>this nonsense got on social media and how many people

<v Speaker 2>have taken it and ran with it as if it

<v Speaker 2>has any legitimacy to it whatsoever, which it doesn't. It's

<v Speaker 2>all bullshit, made up, bogus grade a factory bullshit. And

<v Speaker 2>I guess because they're hasn't been a lot of real

<v Speaker 2>hard news this week outside the Vince McMahon stuff. People

<v Speaker 2>are bored, and so they saw fit to create their

<v Speaker 2>own news cycle. Fightful Select was forced to look into

<v Speaker 2>this nonsense, and they report that nobody in WWE among

<v Speaker 2>the dozens that Fightful spoke with, have heard that Punk

<v Speaker 2>wanted out of his contract, and no talent that we

<v Speaker 2>heard from believed he was asked to take a pay cut.

<v Speaker 2>One source we spoke to says that he has a

<v Speaker 2>story coming up soon, with new merch being produced and

<v Speaker 2>dates planned for the summer and so. On Thursday, Wressell

<v Speaker 2>Votes Radio reported that one source has told them signs

<v Speaker 2>point to Punk being back on TV on or before

<v Speaker 2>the July sixth episode of Raw, which just so happens

<v Speaker 2>to be taking place in Chicago. Now, this comes with

<v Speaker 2>a report from Dave Meltzer that Punk is expected to

<v Speaker 2>end up on the SmackDown roster upon his return, which

<v Speaker 2>is something that I've been saying since after WrestleMania that

<v Speaker 2>he needs to be on SmackDown.

<v Speaker 1>So that would be a welcome change.

<v Speaker 2>And even if Raw is in Chicago, it's not like

<v Speaker 2>as a Raw guy, right, we haven't seen him appear

<v Speaker 2>on SmackDown before when they're in Chicago. He did so

<v Speaker 2>the night that aj Lee made her return to the company,

<v Speaker 2>so that doesn't mean anything. SmackDown is where Cmpunk should be.

<v Speaker 2>That show could use all the help that it can get.

<v Speaker 2>And if they get back Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre

<v Speaker 2>soon or even just one of them, and Sammy Zane

<v Speaker 2>finally has an interesting story for himself after months of stagnation,

<v Speaker 2>Gunther just got moved over to SmackDown. Rhear Ripley moved

<v Speaker 2>over there after she won the women's title. Finn Balor

<v Speaker 2>just was traded over there, you know. With the influx

<v Speaker 2>of newer faces on the show, and the show moving

<v Speaker 2>back to two hours in a couple of weeks, they

<v Speaker 2>have a real chance to push the reset button on

<v Speaker 2>that Putridge show and make it watchable again. If Fightful

<v Speaker 2>also had a report that said some people within AW

<v Speaker 2>have long believed that bridges between Punk and the company

<v Speaker 2>could eventually be rebuilt, even if he never actually wrestles

<v Speaker 2>there again. The report noted that Punk may not repair

<v Speaker 2>his relationships with everyone in AAW, but asked whether he

<v Speaker 2>had completely burned bridges with the promotion, and the response

<v Speaker 2>was never say never. And then on Friday, Jack Perry

<v Speaker 2>posted an image on his ig story of an album

<v Speaker 2>cover from the album Ape Got Fire by front end

<v Speaker 2>Loader showing a creature torching a bridge. You know what

<v Speaker 2>Jungle Boy doesn't seem to realize is that if in

<v Speaker 2>some bizarro world, Cmpunk ever wanted to go back to

<v Speaker 2>AAW and Tony Khan found out about it, he would

<v Speaker 2>take him back in a heartbeat. If Jack went to

<v Speaker 2>Tony and said, hey, it's either him or me, right,

<v Speaker 2>Jack would be gone so fast, even at Max's speed

<v Speaker 2>in the Jurassic Express Busts, Lucasaurus would not be able

<v Speaker 2>to catch up to him. Okay, that's how fast he

<v Speaker 2>would be gone. But this is all much ado about nothing.

<v Speaker 2>The fact that this was even in the news this

<v Speaker 2>week shows you how slow of a news week it was.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know if Punk disappearing from TV was always

<v Speaker 2>part of the plan or if it happened because creative

<v Speaker 2>changed suddenly, which I mean clearly it did with Gunther

<v Speaker 2>right being shifted over, even though it looked like he

<v Speaker 2>was going after the world title, and then all of

<v Speaker 2>a sudden he's on SmackDown attacking Cody Rhodes. I think

<v Speaker 2>the Randy Orton injury necessitated that it's not the worst

<v Speaker 2>idea to give Punk a little bit of time off,

<v Speaker 2>given that he's forty seven years old and he's been

<v Speaker 2>injured multiple times. Okay, they've been very fortunate that he's

<v Speaker 2>been able to stay healthy recently. Giving him a couple

<v Speaker 2>of months off to recharge the batteries is a wise move,

<v Speaker 2>and then bring him back in time for Summer Slam.

<v Speaker 2>You know, a feud between Punk and Cody is what

<v Speaker 2>I want to see. Maybe it's too soon for Summer Slam.

<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's too soon, But whether it happens

<v Speaker 2>there or not, it's something that needs to be done.

<v Speaker 2>Cody has stagnated. A feud with Punk is just what

<v Speaker 2>he needs. And he did tell Cody back in April

<v Speaker 2>you never know when a title opportunity might fall out

<v Speaker 2>of the sky.

<v Speaker 1>And my first thought was, you know, money in.

<v Speaker 2>The bank, but doesn't have to be money in the bank,

<v Speaker 2>right An opportunity can fall out of the sky in

<v Speaker 2>a multitude of different ways. In fact, there's a tournament

<v Speaker 2>happening right now where the winner gets to choose the

<v Speaker 2>champion that they want a challenge at SummerSlam. And you

<v Speaker 2>might be asking yourself, Solo Monster, Cempunk is not even

<v Speaker 2>in the King of the Ring. What are you talking about.

<v Speaker 2>We'll get to the King of the Ring here in

<v Speaker 2>a second, where there's a will, there's a way. Don't

<v Speaker 2>count that at as a possibility. But let's talk about

<v Speaker 2>Ron smack down here and some of the key stuff

<v Speaker 2>from this week I mentioned Cody Rhads. Cody Rhads and Gunther,

<v Speaker 2>as you know, are going to be having their rematch

<v Speaker 2>very soon, in fact next week this coming Friday, for

<v Speaker 2>the WWE Championship because.

<v Speaker 1>Gunther got fucked over at Clash in Italy.

<v Speaker 2>The referee didn't do his job well and so because

<v Speaker 2>of that, not only does Gunter get a rematch, but

<v Speaker 2>he was given the chance to pick.

<v Speaker 1>The stipulation for said rematch. We found out what that

<v Speaker 1>would be.

<v Speaker 2>This past Friday, Cody Roads will challenge Gunther for the

<v Speaker 2>WWE title commercial free, with Sammy Zain the Last Real

<v Speaker 2>Good Guy as the special guest referee. Now, this is

<v Speaker 2>eight days before Night of Champions and we know the

<v Speaker 2>WWE title is going to be on the line at

<v Speaker 2>Night of Champions because it has to be because Roman

<v Speaker 2>Reigns is not flying to Riot and Cody is front

<v Speaker 2>and center on the event poster, so he's going to

<v Speaker 2>be defending his championship there. The only question is against who.

<v Speaker 2>He's not losing the title to gun Thro on. I

<v Speaker 2>just cannot see him losing the title to gun Through

<v Speaker 2>on Friday. Sammy's Ain being in there. They want you

<v Speaker 2>to believe because the issues of late, the heat that

<v Speaker 2>Cody and Sammy have had, they were in the ring

<v Speaker 2>together on Friday, the most compelling segment, by the way,

<v Speaker 2>on the entire show. Sammy slapped him immediately started apologizing,

<v Speaker 2>I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it. Forgive me. I'm sorry,

<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then Cody slapped him right back.

<v Speaker 2>And then Sammy went and grabbed the chair. He was

<v Speaker 2>about to bring the chair into the ring, but he

<v Speaker 2>thought better of it. He dropped it and he left.

<v Speaker 1>Right. There's heat between these two, so.

<v Speaker 2>They want you to think, uh oh, right, Cody's belt

<v Speaker 2>is in grave jeopardy. Now it's Sammy's ain't in there

<v Speaker 2>as the referee. I don't know how the finish is

<v Speaker 2>gonna go. I think it's gonna go in such a

<v Speaker 2>way though where we it's kind of left very ambiguous

<v Speaker 2>who the better man is. We're not gonna get a

<v Speaker 2>clear cut, straight winner. I don't believe on Friday. I

<v Speaker 2>do think that all roads likely lead to a triple

<v Speaker 2>threat at Night of Champions with Cody, Sammy, and Gunther.

<v Speaker 1>And I think that would be a good main event

<v Speaker 1>for that show.

<v Speaker 2>That would be a match I would genuinely be looking

<v Speaker 2>forward to because I'm into the Cody and Sammy stuff.

<v Speaker 2>It's kind of weird, like Gunther is almost an afterthought

<v Speaker 2>in all this. They just have not been doing anything

<v Speaker 2>interesting with him lately. But the Cody and Sammy stuff

<v Speaker 2>to me, that's been the most interesting stuff that's been

<v Speaker 2>going on on SmackDown to the point where and I

<v Speaker 2>would not have said this a few months ago. In fact,

<v Speaker 2>when he wrestled and lost to Drew McIntyre at the

<v Speaker 2>Royal Rumble in riodam me to me, that was as

<v Speaker 2>low as he's been since, even like pre bloodline, just

<v Speaker 2>nothing interesting about him, completely, just vanilla bland character with

<v Speaker 2>no real sense of direction. The idea of him being

<v Speaker 2>a world heavyweight champion at that moment, not interested, couldn't

<v Speaker 2>see it. Here we are now six months later, and

<v Speaker 2>the script has flipped, and I feel very differently about

<v Speaker 2>Sammy and that if they wanted to put the title

<v Speaker 2>on Sammy at Night of champions, if they wanted to

<v Speaker 2>put the title on Sammy, it's SummerSlam. I'm on board

<v Speaker 2>with the idea of WWE belting up Sammy's ain right

<v Speaker 2>and again for a brief period of time. He's not

<v Speaker 2>gonna have the championship for very long. I think it

<v Speaker 2>would be a short run. But even a short run,

<v Speaker 2>I'm on board if that's where this is heading. I'm

<v Speaker 2>okay with that. I'm actually more okay with that at

<v Speaker 2>this point than I would be just putting the belt

<v Speaker 2>on Gunther. At least Sammy has an interesting story arc

<v Speaker 2>going on.

<v Speaker 1>He's a heel kind of but not totally right.

<v Speaker 2>He's got his rider die fans, and he's making a

<v Speaker 2>lot of very valid points frankly in these promos about Cody,

<v Speaker 2>not unlike his buddy Kevin Owens when he was feuding

<v Speaker 2>with Cody, he was making a lot of very valid

<v Speaker 2>points too, even though he was the heel in that feud.

<v Speaker 2>Ria Ripley, she's the WWE Women's Champion on SmackDown. She

<v Speaker 2>is out with a knee injury that she suffered in Italy.

<v Speaker 2>It is currently being evaluated. They set a timeline for

<v Speaker 2>her return is going to depend upon how she responds

<v Speaker 2>to treatment. So the last time we saw her in

<v Speaker 2>the ring was against Jade Cargill at Clash in Italy.

<v Speaker 2>They had what I thought was a better match even

<v Speaker 2>than the one they had at WrestleMania. Riha retained after that.

<v Speaker 2>She worked two trios matches with Charlotte Flair and Tiffany

<v Speaker 2>Stratton against Fatal Influence on their European tour. I don't

<v Speaker 2>know how much Rhea did in those matches, but that's

<v Speaker 2>the last time technically that she's been in the ring.

<v Speaker 2>But it sounds like the injury may have happened, maybe

<v Speaker 2>not on the tour, but maybe it happened at Clash

<v Speaker 2>in Italy. But in any event, hopefully it is not

<v Speaker 2>too serious that it would take her out of SummerSlam

<v Speaker 2>or force them to have to strip her of the championship.

<v Speaker 2>Obviously that would suck. It would take a major name

<v Speaker 2>off the table for that pay per view. I'm sure

<v Speaker 2>that's the last thing they want, but that's where things

<v Speaker 2>stand right now. I guess it could go either way.

<v Speaker 2>It's fifty to fifty as far as her ne goes

<v Speaker 2>now false finish. HQ was reporting this week that J. C.

<v Speaker 2>Jane is being considered internally as a potential candidate to

<v Speaker 2>challenge Rya for the championship at SummerSlam, and I'm okay

<v Speaker 2>with that. I mean, that's not a marquee match. Jac

<v Speaker 2>is still very new to the main roster, but jac

<v Speaker 2>is a star on the rise in that division. I

<v Speaker 2>would have no issue with that being the match. There

<v Speaker 2>are bigger matches that they could do for that show

<v Speaker 2>that I would like to see. But if it was

<v Speaker 2>to be rear Ripley against j C. Jane. I think

<v Speaker 2>that would be fine if that was the SmackDown title match.

<v Speaker 2>I mentioned Jade Cargill. Jade Cargill did not have a

<v Speaker 2>good night on Friday. She was part of a four

<v Speaker 2>way Queen of the Ring with Charlotte Flair, Soul Ruka,

<v Speaker 2>and Lyra Valkyria, and we got our first taste of

<v Speaker 2>the eventual singles match between Charlotte and Jade, and God

<v Speaker 2>bless them. I hope that by the time we get

<v Speaker 2>to SummerSlam or whenever that match actually happens, they go

<v Speaker 2>out there and they can have a great match. This

<v Speaker 2>was anything but on Friday, I'm just I'm watching it.

<v Speaker 2>I mean I could point to specific moments and things

<v Speaker 2>that happen. I'll just kind of distill it down to this.

<v Speaker 2>I was watching them to see how they work together,

<v Speaker 2>and it was very clear to me. And this is

<v Speaker 2>a noticeable thing and a lot of Jade matches, but

<v Speaker 2>for whatever reason, it was just more noticeable here. I

<v Speaker 2>didn't notice it as much in the match with Rhea

<v Speaker 2>a few weeks ago, very very tented, very very deliberate,

<v Speaker 2>almost waiting for Charlotte. It looked like to guide her

<v Speaker 2>into what they were supposed to do next, and it

<v Speaker 2>just You're watching this match and it looks like it

<v Speaker 2>looks like they're going through the motions of a playfight.

<v Speaker 2>Right when you watch a wrestling match, you don't want

<v Speaker 2>to be actively thinking like, okay, I could see like

<v Speaker 2>the little thought bubble popping out of their head. What

<v Speaker 2>are we doing next?

<v Speaker 1>You know what's the next spot?

<v Speaker 2>And that was the vibe I was getting from these two,

<v Speaker 2>very slow and very boring and very bad, very bad.

<v Speaker 2>I hope that they can clean that up by the

<v Speaker 2>next time they're in the ring together, because that's a

<v Speaker 2>big match. That's still a big marquee mash, the first

<v Speaker 2>ever singles match with Jade and Charlotte, Right, you could

<v Speaker 2>do that at Summer Slam, but I hope it's a

<v Speaker 2>hell of a lot better than whatever the hell that was.

<v Speaker 2>On Friday, Wressell Votes Radio is reporting that a match

<v Speaker 2>between Jade and Charlotte has been penciled in for SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>So where do things stand with the Queen of the Ring?

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte Flair was the lone SmackDown talent to pick up

<v Speaker 1>a win in either tournament this year. That is pathetic.

<v Speaker 1>That is pathetic, But Charlotte Flair moving on was the

<v Speaker 1>right outcome. She will now wrestle Live Morgan on SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>this Friday. In the semi finals. EO Sky is going

<v Speaker 1>to be rest Raquel Rodriguez. I imagine that would be taking

<v Speaker 1>place tomorrow night on RAW. I don't think they've said when,

<v Speaker 1>but let's say it happens tomorrow. So what are we

<v Speaker 1>looking at? We could be.

<v Speaker 2>Looking at Live against Raquel, an all judgment day final,

<v Speaker 2>which I would rather not see. We could be looking

<v Speaker 2>at EO against Live, which I would be fine with.

<v Speaker 2>EO against Charlotte would be even better. I'm thinking Stephanie

<v Speaker 2>Vequier returns this week to cost Live and then they

<v Speaker 2>go off to fight for the Women's title at Night

<v Speaker 2>of Champions. Charlotte meanwhile and EO they battle it out

<v Speaker 2>in the finals. We end up with Queen EO. That's

<v Speaker 2>where I'm thinking this is headed. In the King of

<v Speaker 2>the Ring. The SmackDown sweep was completed on Friday. The

<v Speaker 2>SmackDown burial was completed on Friday. Even more impressive than

<v Speaker 2>the Knicks sweeping the seventy six ers in the Caves

<v Speaker 2>right out of the playoffs this year was the SmackDown

<v Speaker 2>sweep that we saw completed on Friday. Opah, fam he

<v Speaker 2>is gonna get Dominic Mysterio on Raw Tomorrow night. On

<v Speaker 2>the other side of the bracket, we got our first

<v Speaker 2>real upset on Monday, where it looked like Seth Rollins

<v Speaker 2>was a shoe in to not only go to the

<v Speaker 2>semi finals, but to go all the way to the finals.

<v Speaker 2>He got bounced in the opening round against Javan Evans,

<v Speaker 2>Ricky Saints and Tallatanga thanks to bron Breaker and the Vision,

<v Speaker 2>and Javon Evans ends up the beneficiary. He is moving

<v Speaker 2>on to the next round.

<v Speaker 1>I actually like that.

<v Speaker 2>Maybe I should have seen it coming after Breaker failed

<v Speaker 2>to win his match the week before, but I was

<v Speaker 2>still expecting Seth to advance, so when he didn't, I

<v Speaker 2>was surprised. So the only thing left to decide was

<v Speaker 2>who would Javon Evans be facing in the next round

<v Speaker 2>out of jay Usso, La Knight, Royce, Keys and Finn Balor.

<v Speaker 2>Keys and Balor were SmackDown's last hope. That hope was

<v Speaker 2>extinguished when they had the yeat Man Pin La Night

<v Speaker 2>and so jay Usso was moving on.

<v Speaker 1>Not that it was gonna happen anyway.

<v Speaker 2>But if any La Night fans were holding out hope

<v Speaker 2>for an eventual world title run, you gotta give it up.

<v Speaker 2>It's not happening. You gotta let that go. He's on

<v Speaker 2>the wrong side of forty and they don't see him

<v Speaker 2>as world title material. That's just the way it is

<v Speaker 2>and that's not going to change. But they went with

<v Speaker 2>the least appealing of all the available options. Jay Uso

<v Speaker 2>against Javon Evans is of no interest to me. Jay

<v Speaker 2>Uso against Obafemi in the finals is of no interest

<v Speaker 2>to me. Jay Uso winning the Crown is of no

<v Speaker 2>interest to me. Jay Uso challenging Cody Rhoades for the

<v Speaker 2>WWE title at SummerSlam is of no interest to me.

<v Speaker 2>Jay Uso challenging Roman Reigns for the title at SummerSlam

<v Speaker 2>is of even less interest to me based on the

<v Speaker 2>last match they had at SummerSlam. Jay Uso winning another

<v Speaker 2>world title is of no interest to me. Yet, this

<v Speaker 2>is where we are right now, and we could very

<v Speaker 2>well be looking at King Yeat because if brock Lesner

<v Speaker 2>doesn't show up on Wrong Tomorrow Night, he is almost

<v Speaker 2>certainly showing up in Riod to screw Oba out of

<v Speaker 2>a win, and if it's against jay Uso, then that

<v Speaker 2>means Jay wins. Now, as I see it, that's the

<v Speaker 2>only way jay Uso gets to the crown. It would

<v Speaker 2>have to work that path I just laid out. That's

<v Speaker 2>exactly how it would have to go down. If it

<v Speaker 2>goes down that way, then Jay wins. How awful would

<v Speaker 2>that be for Oba Femi to go to the finals

<v Speaker 2>and lose to jay Uso? Right, that would be just terrible. Now,

<v Speaker 2>I'm keeping hope alive that we could end up with

<v Speaker 2>a last minute replacement in the tournament. I went over

<v Speaker 2>this idea last week. I brought it up, the idea

<v Speaker 2>being that you get a last minute replacement if Javon

<v Speaker 2>or Dom or even Oba were to get taken out. Right,

<v Speaker 2>who's to say that brack Lesner doesn't show up tomorrow

<v Speaker 2>to take out Oba before the match with dom even happens.

<v Speaker 2>Dominic mentioned that in an email. Yeah, Dominic, mysterio. I'm

<v Speaker 2>talking about Dominic from Connecticut who sent an email in

<v Speaker 2>Brock returns.

<v Speaker 1>Let's just lay this out.

<v Speaker 2>Brock returns tomorrow night right, a surprise ambush. Maybe he

<v Speaker 2>breaks Oba's arm with a kmora lock. Right. So now, oh,

<v Speaker 2>but he wants to go, he can't go. Medical will

<v Speaker 2>not clear him, and so Dom is of course he's

<v Speaker 2>over the moon. He thinks he's going to the finals,

<v Speaker 2>and Adam Pierce says, you still need to earn your

<v Speaker 2>spot in the finals. I'm going to find a replacement

<v Speaker 2>next week on Roy You're going to face that person.

<v Speaker 2>That person ends up being oh, I don't know, cm Punk,

<v Speaker 2>who beats jay Uso then in the finals chooses Cody

<v Speaker 2>to challenge, which would explain the jump from raw to

<v Speaker 2>smack Down if they do move Punk over to smack

<v Speaker 2>then and we get Cody against Punk at Summer Slim.

<v Speaker 2>That's so what I mentioned before, Like you might look

<v Speaker 2>at Cody and Punk and say how they going to

<v Speaker 2>get there? There's not enough time. No, there is time.

<v Speaker 2>There is if you wanted to do it at Summer Slim,

<v Speaker 2>that's how you do it. And I love that idea, right,

<v Speaker 2>That's the sort of thing I was getting at when

<v Speaker 2>I talked about getting a replacement in there last week.

<v Speaker 2>Whether it's Orton MacIntyre, Punk, there's a few different people

<v Speaker 2>that could be slotted in there who are Mia, right, now,

<v Speaker 2>but you have to imagine they're going to have a

<v Speaker 2>role at SummerSlam. They could still salvage this thing and

<v Speaker 2>give us something unpredictable, give us something fun, but like

<v Speaker 2>a good unpredictable, not unpredictable for the sake of being unpredictable,

<v Speaker 2>but unpredictable in a good way. There's still time. And

<v Speaker 2>with that idea, let's say you went with the broken

<v Speaker 2>arm angle. It puts Oba on ice just long enough

<v Speaker 2>to kill time before the big Summer Slam finale with

<v Speaker 2>brock Lesner, where now Oba has a real reason to

<v Speaker 2>want to kill this guy. He cost him a World

<v Speaker 2>Championship match and he broke his arm. I like it.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>The thing is WWE does not know how to book tournaments.

<v Speaker 2>They generally do a very poor job of it when

<v Speaker 2>it comes to the main roster. The Cruiserweight Classic, the

<v Speaker 2>May Young Classic, the United Kingdom Tournament many years ago,

<v Speaker 2>those were all great. When it comes to the main

<v Speaker 2>roster stuff, they don't know how to do it. They

<v Speaker 2>just don't know how to do it. This would at

<v Speaker 2>least salvage this thing and make things a lot more

<v Speaker 2>interesting heading into SummerSlam.

<v Speaker 1>We have more legal news.

<v Speaker 2>The Department of Justices Antitrust Division has given the greenlight

<v Speaker 2>for Paramount sky Dance to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery for

<v Speaker 2>one hundred eleven billion dollars. This comes from Politico. The decision,

<v Speaker 2>announced on Friday, paved the way for Paramount to combine

<v Speaker 2>with the entertainment and media company behind a vast film

<v Speaker 2>and television studio, CNN and the HBO Max streaming service,

<v Speaker 2>which would be combined with Paramount Plus to create a

<v Speaker 2>new offering boasting about two hundred million subscribers. The deal,

<v Speaker 2>which would upend the Hollywood ecosystem by combining two historic

<v Speaker 2>rival studios, is opposed by many in the entertainment industry,

<v Speaker 2>who feared it could lead to mass layoffs, among other concerns.

<v Speaker 2>After an extensive review, DOJ officials determined the transaction did

<v Speaker 2>not pose a threat to competition and declined to challenge it,

<v Speaker 2>said the people who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

<v Speaker 2>The department approved the merger without requiring any divestitures, behavioral remedies,

<v Speaker 2>or concessions, according to one person. In a statement, the

<v Speaker 2>Antitrust Division said its eight month review determined based on

<v Speaker 2>the evidence received in its investigation that the transaction is

<v Speaker 2>not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers,

<v Speaker 2>of course not, and could ultimately increase it by creating

<v Speaker 2>a stronger competitor across streaming, television and film. The Department

<v Speaker 2>said investigators reviewed more than two million documents, conducted hours

<v Speaker 2>of depositions, and worked alongside state attorneys general before reaching

<v Speaker 2>their decision. Now where this is relevant to Pro Wrestling,

<v Speaker 2>which is again just a very minor part of the

<v Speaker 2>impact that this will have. WBD is the media partner

<v Speaker 2>of all Elite Wrestling, Dynamite, and Collision. They err on

<v Speaker 2>TBS and TNA HE respectively, aw programs and pay per

<v Speaker 2>views they stream on HBO Max. So this is a

<v Speaker 2>deal that will affect their future, no doubt about it.

<v Speaker 2>At the end of their current deal, everything is up

<v Speaker 2>in the air as to whether or not their new

<v Speaker 2>bosses are going to want to keep Pro Wrestling on

<v Speaker 2>its properties, and if so, if they would be willing

<v Speaker 2>to pay Tony Kan at least what he is currently

<v Speaker 2>making on their existing deal, if not more, because you

<v Speaker 2>would have to think that Tony is going to want

<v Speaker 2>an increase on their next deal.

<v Speaker 1>He's not going to want it to be flat.

<v Speaker 2>But this is also a company that's going to have

<v Speaker 2>an awful lot of debt to pay off. Are they

<v Speaker 2>going to be willing even if you ignore it, ignore

<v Speaker 2>any relationship that they have with TKO through UFC and

<v Speaker 2>Paramount Plus and all that, are they going to be

<v Speaker 2>willing to go all in on the Sikos and dole

<v Speaker 2>out six or seven hundred million dollars. Wrestling is still

<v Speaker 2>cheaper than a lot of other sports properties, right and

<v Speaker 2>it is year round. You can't ignore that, no offseason,

<v Speaker 2>so that makes it very attractive. But we're not going

<v Speaker 2>to know the answer to that question for a while yet.

<v Speaker 2>That's if the deal even goes through. It probably will.

<v Speaker 2>But I bring this up because even though the DOJ

<v Speaker 2>approved it, they gave it its rubber stamp of approval,

<v Speaker 2>and we all knew they would. We knew this thing

<v Speaker 2>was going to sail right through. That was never really

<v Speaker 2>in doubt. They still have the issue of the California

<v Speaker 2>State Attorney General, this guy Rob Banta. He says that

<v Speaker 2>the deal remains under investigation and he could potentially be

<v Speaker 2>joined by other state attorneys general in trying to block

<v Speaker 2>the deal. And if you don't think that they can

<v Speaker 2>do it. It was only a couple of months ago here

<v Speaker 2>in New York that the state Attorney General, Letitia James,

<v Speaker 2>and seven other state attorneys general were able to get

<v Speaker 2>a court order halting another big media merger between Nextstar

<v Speaker 2>and Tegna. They filed a lawsuit in March to block

<v Speaker 2>the merger. They got a preliminary injunction preventing them merger

<v Speaker 2>from going through until the lawsuit is litigated. So at

<v Speaker 2>the very least they could block this and they could

<v Speaker 2>stall it out for a while. And if they do that,

<v Speaker 2>and frankly, even if they don't, I mean, there's still

<v Speaker 2>the international hurdles that this thing has to go through

<v Speaker 2>with the EU and whatever. I mean, this isn't just

<v Speaker 2>a domestic deal. This has implications all over the globe.

<v Speaker 2>But where it gets interesting is if this deal doesn't

<v Speaker 2>close by the end of September, because they have had

<v Speaker 2>this very aggressive timeline where it's like, we think this

<v Speaker 2>deal could be done by the end of September, Like

<v Speaker 2>that's a very ambitious timeline. If it doesn't get if

<v Speaker 2>it doesn't get done by the end of September, Paramount

<v Speaker 2>has to pay an extra six hundred and twenty seven

<v Speaker 2>million dollars for every three months after that, every quarter

<v Speaker 2>that the deal does not close, it's what they call

<v Speaker 2>a ticking fee. It's tucked away in this deal.

<v Speaker 1>Now.

<v Speaker 2>I know these people have some deep pockets and they

<v Speaker 2>got some Saudi money in there and all that. But

<v Speaker 2>the longer this drags on, it becomes a real question

<v Speaker 2>as to whether it even makes financial sense to do

<v Speaker 2>the deal anymore. I mean, it did make financial sense before.

<v Speaker 2>I mean again, you're talking about a company that has debt.

<v Speaker 2>Now they're gonna have debt on top of debt. None

<v Speaker 2>of this makes any sense. I mean, you understand why

<v Speaker 2>they want all of these properties, but financially, I'm saying

<v Speaker 2>it doesn't make any sense. It's gonna make even less

<v Speaker 2>sense though, for every month that ticks by that this

<v Speaker 2>deal does not get done. And this comes from a

<v Speaker 2>post wrestling story on Wednesday. AW is now accusing Ryan

<v Speaker 2>Nemeth of misrepresenting and misleading conduct, and they are seeking

<v Speaker 2>to move the arbitration process in Nemeth's lawsuit to the

<v Speaker 2>state of Florida. I'm gonna read you from the story here.

<v Speaker 2>Despite an agreement to move to arbitration. Last year, AW

<v Speaker 2>and Ryan Nemeth remain at odds with the promotion, petitioning

<v Speaker 2>the court to compel Nemath to arbitrate under the terms

<v Speaker 2>of his previous contract or. AAW performer filed a complaint

<v Speaker 2>in February of twenty twenty five against AW, Tony Kahan

<v Speaker 2>and Phil Brooks CMPUNK in the Superior Court of California,

<v Speaker 2>alleging assault, professional retaliation, and being blacklisted from the industry.

<v Speaker 2>He also accused AEW of breach of contract, breach of

<v Speaker 2>implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In April,

<v Speaker 2>Nemath voluntarily dismissed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court,

<v Speaker 2>agreeing to take the matter to private arbitration. Therefore, AAW

<v Speaker 2>dismissed its own petition in the US District Court of Florida,

<v Speaker 2>where it was seeking to compel Nemuth to private arbitration

<v Speaker 2>per the language of his AAW contract, where matters would

<v Speaker 2>be adjudicated one year later. AAW says that Nemath has

<v Speaker 2>misrepresented and misled them through his conduct. The wrestling company

<v Speaker 2>filed a petition on June fifth in the U S

<v Speaker 2>District Court in the Middle District of Florida to compel

<v Speaker 2>Nemath to arbitrate the dispute at a jam's administrative office

<v Speaker 2>nearest to Duval County, Florida, and be adjudicated under Florida law.

<v Speaker 2>JAMS is a private company designed to help resolve disputes

<v Speaker 2>and arbitrate. It is the company that AW has designated

<v Speaker 2>in its contractual language to settle any disputes. It has

<v Speaker 2>twenty nine locations worldwide. It is based in Irvine, California.

<v Speaker 2>After agreeing to move to arbitration, AW says that Nemath

<v Speaker 2>filed a demand for arbitration with a jam's office in

<v Speaker 2>Orange County, California, and added an assortment of unsupported claims

<v Speaker 2>under California Labor Code. AW states that the California Labor

<v Speaker 2>Code does not apply here because Nemoth was not an

<v Speaker 2>employee and he was classified as an independent contractor. AW

<v Speaker 2>attempted to move the claim to Florida last November, but

<v Speaker 2>on December two, JAMS declined. JAMS presented both sides with

<v Speaker 2>a list of ten potential arbitrators, with six located in California,

<v Speaker 2>three in Florida, and one in New York. The sides

<v Speaker 2>have the option to strike two of the options and

<v Speaker 2>rank the remaining ones in terms of AW argued that

<v Speaker 2>the number of California arbitrators favored NEMETS as opposed to

<v Speaker 2>the number of options in Florida, and that arbitrating in

<v Speaker 2>California is in violation of the express terms of the agreement.

<v Speaker 2>AW seeks to have the terms of nemetz contract deemed

<v Speaker 2>valid and enforceable and to have Nemeth arbitrate his claims

<v Speaker 2>that the JAMS administrative offices nearest to Duval County accordingly

<v Speaker 2>the arbitration would fall under Florida law. It also wants

<v Speaker 2>to prevent NEMETH from prosecuting and arbitration and violation of

<v Speaker 2>the agreement, and is seeking reasonable attorneys fees and costs

<v Speaker 2>incurred in this proceeding in any other such relief to

<v Speaker 2>which the petitioners may be entitled. And in a separate

<v Speaker 2>filing on Tuesday of this past week, AW and Tony

<v Speaker 2>Khan are seeking to seal confidential information related to the

<v Speaker 2>three independent contractor agreements that NEMETS signed from twenty twenty

<v Speaker 2>one to twenty twenty three. They argue that the agreements

<v Speaker 2>contain sensitive, confidential and proprietary information belonging to the petitioners, including,

<v Speaker 2>but not limited to, information related to its business practices,

<v Speaker 2>internal economic structures, compensation agreements, and intellectual property. This is

<v Speaker 2>the same Ryan nemeth who tweeted about CM Punk without

<v Speaker 2>naming him, but it was very clear who he was

<v Speaker 2>tweeting about the night that Punk returned on Collision. This

<v Speaker 2>was months after brawl Out and Punk came back. Remember

<v Speaker 2>he got in the ring and he cut that promo

<v Speaker 2>and he made that counterfeit Bucks comment. He tweeted that

<v Speaker 2>Punk was literally the softest man alive, which he later

<v Speaker 2>claimed he tweeted as a heel. See he was in character.

<v Speaker 2>He's also full of shit. He knew exactly what he

<v Speaker 2>was doing when he made that comment. It was almost

<v Speaker 2>like he was trying to will a match with Punk

<v Speaker 2>into existence. He was trying to start like a social

<v Speaker 2>media angle on his own, to try to angle for

<v Speaker 2>a match with Punk, which was never gonna happen because

<v Speaker 2>Tony kahm barely even used Ryan Nemmoth at the time.

<v Speaker 2>The last thing he was going to be doing was

<v Speaker 2>working with a star like Cmpunk, not that Punk would

<v Speaker 2>have allowed it anyway. I mean, he would have just

<v Speaker 2>banned him from collision like he was doing everybody else.

<v Speaker 2>But this is what led to Punk angrily confronting him backstage.

<v Speaker 2>He was ready to throw down, right, This was like

<v Speaker 2>two weeks after they had just brought him back and

<v Speaker 2>the guy's ready to throw hands. But at the time

<v Speaker 2>I defended Punk in this regard. One of the things

<v Speaker 2>that Nemath alleges is that he was ordered to antagonize

<v Speaker 2>CM Punk, who did not need a lot of antagonizing

<v Speaker 2>back then. I mean, the dude had a hair trigger

<v Speaker 2>in that company. If that's true, and there was a

<v Speaker 2>person or there were people behind the scenes in AW

<v Speaker 2>that were using Ryan Nemmoth as sort of a vehicle

<v Speaker 2>to poke the bear and get Punk to lash out

<v Speaker 2>so that maybe then they could turn around and fire him.

<v Speaker 2>Those people should have been fired. We never found out

<v Speaker 2>who those people were. Again, if he's telling the truth here,

<v Speaker 2>we never did find out who those people were. But

<v Speaker 2>if that happened, those people should have been fired, right.

<v Speaker 2>We can all use our imagination about who those people

<v Speaker 2>probably would have been, So there was never any chance

<v Speaker 2>of that happening. But still that was a serious allegation

<v Speaker 2>that he made. I don't know if Nemth is gonna

<v Speaker 2>get anything out of this case, and he was hardly

<v Speaker 2>a major player there. But as I said at the time,

<v Speaker 2>there are no innocent parties in this story, not Ryan Nemeth,

<v Speaker 2>not CM, Punk, not Tony Kahan, not anybody else. I

<v Speaker 2>don't think there was a single person, frankly, who came

<v Speaker 2>out of this whole fiasco, everybody who got roped into it,

<v Speaker 2>who really came out of it looking like, Hey, you

<v Speaker 2>know what, this person got a raw deal here. This

<v Speaker 2>person is the only one who looks good out of

<v Speaker 2>this whole thing. Nobody looked good. Everybody looked terrible. Nemath,

<v Speaker 2>by the way, took another veiled shot at Punk a

<v Speaker 2>few weeks ago on X after those photos surfaced that

<v Speaker 2>Punk looking jacked at the gym. He said, I love

<v Speaker 2>that straight edge guys, or like, nothing is ever going

<v Speaker 2>in my body ever except peds, which I will be

<v Speaker 2>putting in my body actually very often now that I

<v Speaker 2>do steroids. But of course that does not break my

<v Speaker 2>sacred vow. I am more disciplined than you.

<v Speaker 1>Gee.

<v Speaker 2>I wonder who he could be talking about there. I

<v Speaker 2>can't wait for Punk to show up on WWE television

<v Speaker 2>looking exactly the same size that he was the last

<v Speaker 2>time we saw him, which is exactly what I expect,

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<v Speaker 2>Dark Side of the Ring season seven, which kicks off

<v Speaker 2>on Vice TV with a double episode on Tuesday, July seventh.

<v Speaker 2>I don't have Vice TV, but I will. I will

<v Speaker 2>find some way to watch these and resume the reviews

<v Speaker 2>that I've done for every season so far. The schedule

<v Speaker 2>is as follows. July seventh, Jeff Jarrett Parts one to two,

<v Speaker 2>and then July fourteenth is gonna be Jeff Jarrett Part three.

<v Speaker 2>So what these are It's not just Jeff Jarrett, it's

<v Speaker 2>TNA and Jeff Jarrett. They've created a three parter. First

<v Speaker 2>two parts are gonna air on Night one, and then

<v Speaker 2>every week thereafter there'll be a new episode. Part three

<v Speaker 2>will be on the fourteenth of July July, I believe

<v Speaker 2>July twenty. First I want to say is Samoa Joe

<v Speaker 2>against Necro Butcher. They're gonna have their own episode. They

<v Speaker 2>had this one nine minute match on the Indies many

<v Speaker 2>years ago, and they're gonna devote an entire forty five

<v Speaker 2>minute episode to this. July twenty eighth, Big Boss Men,

<v Speaker 2>August fourth, Renegade, Rick Wilson, August eleventh, Paul Orndorf, August eighteenth,

<v Speaker 2>Missy Hyatt, and August fifteenth, Zach Gowan. I think of

<v Speaker 2>all of the ones here, the ones that I'm probably

<v Speaker 2>looking forward to the most in terms of my level

<v Speaker 2>of interest would be Big Boss Men, because I don't

<v Speaker 2>know what's particularly dark other than the fact that he

<v Speaker 2>passed away very young. I kind of see that maybe

<v Speaker 2>as being similar to the John Tenta episode, So I'm

<v Speaker 2>looking forward to that one and the Renegade one. The

<v Speaker 2>Renegade one is that is the dark side of the

<v Speaker 2>ring story.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>The schedule it says July fourteenth for the Samoa Joe

<v Speaker 2>Nekro Butcher one as well. That has to be a typo, though,

<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking because I'm pretty sure the only week where

<v Speaker 2>they're doing a double episode is week one, and then

<v Speaker 2>week three is the fourteenth. That's the part three episode.

<v Speaker 2>But this says July fourteenth for Samoa, Joe and Necro.

<v Speaker 2>Butcher is well, I have to check on that. I'm

<v Speaker 2>guessing it's a typo and it's the twenty first, but

<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Maybe they're skipping July twenty first for

<v Speaker 2>some reason. And even more legal news. You know, I

<v Speaker 2>may need to get my law degree to keep up

<v Speaker 2>with all of this. This is a fall to a

<v Speaker 2>story I first brought to you on SoundOff nine fifty seven.

<v Speaker 2>The head of a New York City preschool was arrested

<v Speaker 2>several weeks ago for embezzling nearly three million dollars in

<v Speaker 2>tuition and blowing through thousands of dollars on WWE tickets,

<v Speaker 2>among other things. We now have an update from the

<v Speaker 2>New York Post. The former head of a German immersion

<v Speaker 2>preschool in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to bilking nearly three

<v Speaker 2>million dollars in tuition payments and blowing almost all of

<v Speaker 2>it on luxury vacations and WWE tickets. Muriel Mizak, forty three,

<v Speaker 2>pocketed roughly two point eight million dollars in tuition payments

<v Speaker 2>from the kinderhouse in Park Slope Parkslope, Brooklyn. According to

<v Speaker 2>a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the

<v Speaker 2>Eastern District of New York, Mizak, who pleaded guilty to

<v Speaker 2>wire fraud, embezzled the tuition by transferring payments from unassuming

<v Speaker 2>parents into her personal accounts. She started the scheme in

<v Speaker 2>January twenty twenty two, just two years after she was

<v Speaker 2>promoted to director. The disgraced educator burned through the loot,

<v Speaker 2>spending more than six hundred thousand dollars on food and entertainment,

<v Speaker 2>another three hundred and fifty thousand dollars on tickets to

<v Speaker 2>WWE Matt Well, I mean that kind of tracks given

<v Speaker 2>these TKO prices three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so

<v Speaker 2>what is that three shows that she went to attend.

<v Speaker 2>She also wasted several hundreds of thousands more on luxury goods,

<v Speaker 2>food deliveries, and ride sharing services. A law enforcement source

<v Speaker 2>previously told The Post that Mizak splurged on a VIP

<v Speaker 2>package to Monday Night Raw and met the pros with

<v Speaker 2>her three children. Misak's coworkers eventually raised questions about her

<v Speaker 2>high flying lifestyle, which would be impossible to maintain on

<v Speaker 2>her forty thousand dollars annual salary. Yeah, apparently, this dopey

<v Speaker 2>moron here was also posting about all of her exploits

<v Speaker 2>and trips on social media, which kind of tipped some

<v Speaker 2>people off. The director, who has dual citizenship in Switzerland,

<v Speaker 2>claimed that she was the heir to a wealthy Swiss

<v Speaker 2>family in an attempt to explain away her eyebrow raising expenses.

<v Speaker 2>According to a lawsuit that the school filed against her

<v Speaker 2>in December. When Misak's ploy was eventually uncovered in October

<v Speaker 2>of last year, the school's principal had to use her

<v Speaker 2>personal savings to cover payroll and operational costs. Miszak faces

<v Speaker 2>up to six and a half years behind bars on

<v Speaker 2>top of paying two point eight million dollars in restitution.

<v Speaker 2>She could also be deported when she completes her sentence.

<v Speaker 2>She originally pleaded not guilty to wire fraud, money laundering,

<v Speaker 2>and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property in

<v Speaker 2>late March. You know, taking out the trash. You'll love

<v Speaker 2>to see it. She should be deported. Let her serve

<v Speaker 2>her sentence and then kick her ass out. It's bad

<v Speaker 2>enough to steal from a daycare, but to spend it

<v Speaker 2>on WWE tickets, especially for this product. I mean, yeah,

<v Speaker 2>twenty five thirty years ago, I could see it, but

<v Speaker 2>I mean this product. Are you fucking kidding me? The

<v Speaker 2>thing that still gets me is the one hundred and

<v Speaker 2>fifty thousand dollars she spent on food delivery services. Like again,

<v Speaker 2>that's a lot of door dash. She must have had

<v Speaker 2>their ruby Gold VIP status. Let's get to your mailbag questions.

<v Speaker 2>You can email me the Solam Monster at gmail dot com.

<v Speaker 2>Please include your name of where you are from when

<v Speaker 2>you write in binder from Milwaukee Today, we talk a

<v Speaker 2>lot about tribalism with WWE fans against AW fans. Sometimes

<v Speaker 2>it seems a bit over the top with what fans

<v Speaker 2>think of one brand over the other. How does this

<v Speaker 2>compare to how fans felt about WWE and WCW during

<v Speaker 2>the Monday Night War era.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I got a couple of.

<v Speaker 2>Questions in the mail bag about tribalism this week, and

<v Speaker 2>there was also an interview that Chavo Guerrero gave I

<v Speaker 2>think with Gabby af He was on that show.

<v Speaker 1>I pulled a quote from it. I just thought it

<v Speaker 1>was timely given.

<v Speaker 2>I got a couple of questions about it, But this

<v Speaker 2>is what Chavo said about tribalism among wrestling fans.

<v Speaker 1>He said, I don't.

<v Speaker 2>Understand that why people do that. I get that you

<v Speaker 2>have people like who like WWE Moore. They may like

<v Speaker 2>AW Moore whatever, but wrestling's wrestling. I don't like when

<v Speaker 2>the fans criticize somebody else just because they don't like

<v Speaker 2>the brand. If it's a damn good match, I don't

<v Speaker 2>care if it was on TNA or New Japan or

<v Speaker 2>Triple A, I don't care if it's an indie show.

<v Speaker 2>If it's a good match, it's a damn good match.

<v Speaker 2>And he's right to me, he's not wrong about that.

<v Speaker 2>I think it's I think it is very it's kind

<v Speaker 2>of it's weird. It's just it's it's just weird and

<v Speaker 2>sad and pathetic when people will shit on somebody because oh, well,

<v Speaker 2>they're in aw or you know they went to the FED, right.

<v Speaker 1>I hear that a lot. They went to the FED.

<v Speaker 2>You know they're done, and they talk about it in

<v Speaker 2>these terms and it just makes them It just makes

<v Speaker 2>them sound very unintelligent. Frankly, as far as the tribalism

<v Speaker 2>is concerned, oh my god, I mean you talk about

<v Speaker 2>the Monday Night War. Let me tell you something, if

<v Speaker 2>social media existed back then in the way that it

<v Speaker 2>does now, the tribalism would have been as bad, if

<v Speaker 2>not worse. So I don't think it's just a product

<v Speaker 2>of oh well, it's worse today.

<v Speaker 1>It wouldn't have been so bad. No no, no, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>no no no.

<v Speaker 2>I guarantee you that if social media existed and you

<v Speaker 2>had like RSPW and message board forums. But I mean,

<v Speaker 2>if we were connected in the way that we're connected today,

<v Speaker 2>the tribalism be every bit as bad, if not worse.

<v Speaker 2>It was. It was very much the same way back then,

<v Speaker 2>even just amongst some of my friends, where you were

<v Speaker 2>either WWF or you were WCW. So that's just a

<v Speaker 2>small sample size, I can imagine it was like that

<v Speaker 2>with a lot of other people. Maybe you had friends

<v Speaker 2>who were the same way. They watched RAW, they didn't

<v Speaker 2>watch they watched Nitro, they didn't watch RAW. They like WWF,

<v Speaker 2>they hated WCW, or vice versa, whatever the case may be.

<v Speaker 2>I was always a WWF guy. But I didn't hate WCW.

<v Speaker 2>I would tune in because, frankly, there were plenty of

<v Speaker 2>episodes of Nitro that were a hell of a lot

<v Speaker 2>more exciting than what I was seeing on Monday night

<v Speaker 2>raw and flipping back and forth was part of the fun.

<v Speaker 2>So I didn't hate WCW in the way that some

<v Speaker 2>fans would have hated WCW back then. But you definitely

<v Speaker 2>had people who picked a team and they were loyal

<v Speaker 2>to one team over the other, and that meant that

<v Speaker 2>everybody else on the other side, you know, was the enemy,

<v Speaker 2>and it was shit, and it was you know this

<v Speaker 2>and that. So I just think the tribalism was there.

<v Speaker 2>It was always kind of bubbling under the surface. It

<v Speaker 2>just wasn't out in the open and the way that

<v Speaker 2>it is today because everybody now has a voice in

<v Speaker 2>a way that they didn't back then. Everybody has a

<v Speaker 2>phone in their pocket that they can pull out at

<v Speaker 2>any given moment, and they can tweet, they can post

<v Speaker 2>whatever they want to at a moment's notice. There's breaking news,

<v Speaker 2>there's a jump, somebody went from this promotion to the other,

<v Speaker 2>you know, whatever the case may be. And everybody has

<v Speaker 2>to chime in on it immediately, you know, like as

<v Speaker 2>soon as it happens, So it would have been very

<v Speaker 2>different and.

<v Speaker 1>Not in a good way. Put it that way.

<v Speaker 2>Kevin from Washington, d C. How do you feel about

<v Speaker 2>Bubba Ray's idea for Oba Femi at Summer Slam. Oba

<v Speaker 2>goes on to win the King of the Ring and

<v Speaker 2>then wrestles Lesner on Night one of SummerSlam, then Roman

<v Speaker 2>on night two, and he wins both nights and he

<v Speaker 2>wins the championship. I wouldn't I wouldn't hate it. I

<v Speaker 2>mean Oba, I think Oba is that guy. I mean,

<v Speaker 2>my god, you heard the reaction he got on television

<v Speaker 2>on Monday's fucking unbelievable. So I wouldn't hate it. But

<v Speaker 2>then what's the plan if Oba doesn't beat Bronc on

<v Speaker 2>night one? Like if you just think about it in

<v Speaker 2>terms of ca Fae, right, is the idea that it

<v Speaker 2>would be a number one contenders match? So Brock wins,

<v Speaker 2>He then challenges Roman on night two, because if not,

<v Speaker 2>then the idea doesn't work, right, You're leaving Roman reigns

<v Speaker 2>potentially without a challenger heading into the second biggest show

<v Speaker 2>of the year, and Also, I feel like that there's

<v Speaker 2>a chance that could backfire. I feel like that there

<v Speaker 2>are people who are really supportive of OBA. But being

<v Speaker 2>in Minneapolis, you know it's Brock's hometown, is home state,

<v Speaker 2>you don't really know what the reaction is going to be.

<v Speaker 2>It's probably going to be positive. Are there going to

<v Speaker 2>be more people who want Brock to win because they

<v Speaker 2>want to see him get the title match on Night two?

<v Speaker 2>So I don't know that I would do that, but

<v Speaker 2>I still think it's more likely Seth, Rollins and bron

<v Speaker 2>Breakers next match ends up being kind of a de

<v Speaker 2>facto Number one contenders match, and Rollins wins, and he

<v Speaker 2>still gets Roman at Summerslim. He's out of the King

<v Speaker 2>of the Ring, but that does not mean that we're

<v Speaker 2>not going to get Roman and Seth. I think there's

<v Speaker 2>still a very likely possibility we will Adrian from Dallas.

<v Speaker 2>I really hope Chad Gable gets it's an opportunity for

<v Speaker 2>the Intercontinental title at SummerSlam, but to me, it would

<v Speaker 2>make more sense for him to go after the US

<v Speaker 2>title given his Olympian background. I get that Gable is

<v Speaker 2>on Raw, but there's time for a trade or something

<v Speaker 2>like it. What are your thoughts. I don't think it's necessary.

<v Speaker 2>I mean, just because it's the United States Championship. It's like,

<v Speaker 2>you know, who gives a shit. Trick Williams has the

<v Speaker 2>belt right now. Putting Gable on there to challenge him

<v Speaker 2>for it, to me, doesn't make any sense. Trick's got

<v Speaker 2>his own thing going on right now with Carmelo Hayes

<v Speaker 2>and Ricky Saints, and you're giving those guys the shaft.

<v Speaker 1>They have nothing to fight for.

<v Speaker 2>If you suddenly move Gable over to SmackDown, it's forced

<v Speaker 2>and it fucks over a bunch of people. I don't

<v Speaker 2>like that. So having him on raw go after the

<v Speaker 2>IC title, I.

<v Speaker 1>Think that's the way to go. I think he's in

<v Speaker 1>the right place. Carlos from New York.

<v Speaker 2>Do you think aw would benefit from putting on a

<v Speaker 2>Women's Continental Classic? What stops it from not working other

<v Speaker 2>other than injuries? The timing You would almost have to

<v Speaker 2>you would have to do it at a completely different

<v Speaker 2>point in the year. You can't run two of them

<v Speaker 2>at the same time the way that they do them.

<v Speaker 2>It would just you would have no time for anything

<v Speaker 2>else on the TV shows. So it's like, Okay, when

<v Speaker 2>do you do it. When is the best time in

<v Speaker 2>the year to do it. Do you do it in

<v Speaker 2>the spring? Do you do it in the summer, because

<v Speaker 2>you got the owen Hard tournaments right and sometimes the

<v Speaker 2>owen it might start in May. Sometimes it might start

<v Speaker 2>in June, but the Continental Classic is in December, so

<v Speaker 2>you don't want to go right from that into the

<v Speaker 2>Women's let's say in January or February.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

<v Speaker 2>That the timing of it is really going to work.

<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying they can't do it at some point.

<v Speaker 2>I just think the timing would be the biggest issue

<v Speaker 2>that they would have to figure out. Marcus from Wittenberg, Germany.

<v Speaker 2>If John Moxley ever decides to go back to WWE,

<v Speaker 2>what name would he use? Will they keep John Moxley

<v Speaker 2>or would they go back to Dean Ambrose. Because of

<v Speaker 2>the legacy of the character in regards to the Shield,

<v Speaker 2>I think that they should keep John Moxley. It's like

<v Speaker 2>bringing back Zach Ryder and letting him go by Matt Cardona.

<v Speaker 2>I think at this point he's more established, now more

<v Speaker 2>well established as John Moxley, and I think you bring

<v Speaker 2>him in as Moxley right, people would know he was

<v Speaker 2>part of the Shield as Dean Ambrose, but you don't

<v Speaker 2>have to call him Dean Ambrose. I mean people are

<v Speaker 2>going to know anyway. Dan from Allentown, Pennsylvania. When I

<v Speaker 2>heard that Ludwig Kaiser was bailed out of jail by Gunther,

<v Speaker 2>first thing I thought was this is going to end

<v Speaker 2>up being used at an angle somehow. So how about this.

<v Speaker 2>After Americano Kaiser wins the Triple A Mega title, Gunther

<v Speaker 2>shows up in Triple A and threatens to take the

<v Speaker 2>title and the mask off of him and mentions the

<v Speaker 2>fact that he was the one to bail him out

<v Speaker 2>when he was in trouble, but Americano never showed any gratitude.

<v Speaker 2>I would have Gunther win the title, but just before

<v Speaker 2>he's able to rip off the mask, the other Americanos

<v Speaker 2>run in for the save. Gunther holds the time for

<v Speaker 2>a few months while Americano Kaiser licks his wounds and heals.

<v Speaker 1>His bruised ego.

<v Speaker 2>Eventually, though, makes a triumphant return and regains the belt

<v Speaker 2>from Gunther. So, first of all, no, I would not

<v Speaker 2>do that. The idea though, that if Kaiser is going

<v Speaker 2>to stay down there for the long term and play

<v Speaker 2>out the Elgrande Americano stuff, and he's going to basically

<v Speaker 2>be the star baby face in Triple A for I

<v Speaker 2>do want, say years to come, but for the foreseeable future.

<v Speaker 2>Like I'm not opposed to Gunther at some point making

<v Speaker 2>a voyage down to Triple A. Oh my god, m

<v Speaker 2>you know, the Undertaker would love to book Gunther. I mean,

<v Speaker 2>that's his guy, that's his boy. And so maybe Gunh

<v Speaker 2>takes a uh not a sabbatical, he takes an excursion

<v Speaker 2>down to Triple A for a little bit and we

<v Speaker 2>get some matches with him and Kaiser under the mask.

<v Speaker 1>I think that could be fun.

<v Speaker 2>But Gunther is too big of a piece, He's too

<v Speaker 2>important a piece to the main roster to just send

<v Speaker 2>him down to Triple A to work for the Mega

<v Speaker 2>titler who cares, you know what I mean. Like again,

<v Speaker 2>I'm not opposed to him making an appearance at some

<v Speaker 2>point a wrestling Kaiser, but this is this is not

<v Speaker 2>the way to go about doing it. It would be

<v Speaker 2>beneath him. Yeah, there's no reason for the main roster

<v Speaker 2>to lose him for something like this, not for an

<v Speaker 2>extended period of time, Like you're talking about putting the

<v Speaker 2>belt on him and letting him run with it for

<v Speaker 2>a few months, and I'm not sold on that Nick

<v Speaker 2>from New Jersey. For a long time, I've had this

<v Speaker 2>observation about the final competitors and the royal Rumbles from

<v Speaker 2>the mid two thousands to the early twenty tens. Back

<v Speaker 2>then there were two world titles as well. I noticed

<v Speaker 2>in most of those rumbles, the final or sometimes even

<v Speaker 2>the last two stars eliminated also competed in world title

<v Speaker 2>matches that year's WrestleMania. In two thousand and five, John

<v Speaker 2>Cena oh six, both Randy Orton and Triple H. In

<v Speaker 2>two thousand and seven, Shawn Michaels in two thousand and eight,

<v Speaker 2>Triple H in two thousand and nine, Triple H again

<v Speaker 2>in twenty ten both Batista and John, and then in

<v Speaker 2>twenty twelve Chris Jericho. I always assumed on why this

<v Speaker 2>was done was because if there was a botch and

<v Speaker 2>the booked winner was accidentally eliminated, the booked runner up

<v Speaker 2>would be getting a world title shot of WrestleMania anyway,

<v Speaker 2>So no harm, no foul has almost happened during the

<v Speaker 2>infamous two thousand and five Rumble finish. Do you know

<v Speaker 2>if there has been any behind the scenes confirmation on

<v Speaker 2>if this was the actual logic behind these rumble finishes

<v Speaker 2>or was this just a massive coincidence. For nearly a decade,

<v Speaker 2>there's been no confirmation of this. I've never heard anybody,

<v Speaker 2>not Bruce Pritchard or anybody talk about that. Mean, it

<v Speaker 2>could be a good question for someone to post to

<v Speaker 2>him on his podcast, although I know at some point

<v Speaker 2>was it eights. I think it was late two thousands

<v Speaker 2>is when he left the company, so he was gone

<v Speaker 2>for several years, but like five to eight I think

<v Speaker 2>he was still there. I mean, there may have been

<v Speaker 2>some logic to it. I just think it probably had

<v Speaker 2>more to do with the fact that, you know, they

<v Speaker 2>wanted it to come down to some big names, and

<v Speaker 2>those big names were likely to be involved in title

<v Speaker 2>matches anyway, at WrestleMania, when you have two championships. It

<v Speaker 2>was probably just a coincidence that it worked out that way.

<v Speaker 2>I don't think it was done where it's like, Okay,

<v Speaker 2>if this guy accidentally gets eliminated, at least we got

<v Speaker 2>you know, if Shamus accidentally gets eliminated in twenty twelve,

<v Speaker 2>well at least Jericho's in there. Like, I don't know

<v Speaker 2>that that was the thought process behind it. It may

<v Speaker 2>have just been a coincidence, but no, I don't think

<v Speaker 2>it's ever been addressed publicly. It's not anything I've even

<v Speaker 2>ever thought about, to be honest with you, until you

<v Speaker 2>just brought it up. Uh, mister Rod from Alexander City, Alabama.

<v Speaker 2>I recently watched the latest MLW anthology on the Extreme Horsemen.

<v Speaker 2>Do you remember this group, and if so, do you

<v Speaker 2>have any more insight on the short lived faction. I

<v Speaker 2>never heard of him before, so I got your question

<v Speaker 2>and I had to look them up. Apparently it was

<v Speaker 2>a takeoff on the OG four Horsemen. Duh. I mean,

<v Speaker 2>obviously the name Horseman is in there, but this group

<v Speaker 2>you're talking about, the Extreme Horsemen, they appeared first and

<v Speaker 2>Dusty Rhodes had a promotion for a while called Turnbuckle

<v Speaker 2>Championship Wrestling TCW, so apparently they appeared there first, and

<v Speaker 2>then later on they appeared in MLW with Just Incredible,

<v Speaker 2>Simon Diamond, Steve Corino, C. W. Anderson, and Barry Windham

<v Speaker 2>and they were managed by JJ Dillon. And I guess

<v Speaker 2>the Extreme Horseman name comes from a lot of those guys.

<v Speaker 2>Being involved in the old ECW, so that was the

<v Speaker 2>first I had heard of them. I had never been

<v Speaker 2>made familiar with them before. They were obviously a very

<v Speaker 2>short lived group. They didn't last very long, and frankly,

<v Speaker 2>any revival of the horseman is going to end up

<v Speaker 2>being short lived. That's why there should never again be

<v Speaker 2>a four Horsemen. There should never again be an nWo.

<v Speaker 2>It's not gonna work. It's already been done. You're not

<v Speaker 2>going to be able to do it better than the

<v Speaker 2>og versions, so there's no point in doing it. Like,

<v Speaker 2>the worst thing they could have done was put the

<v Speaker 2>word horsemen in there. They could have called them anything else.

<v Speaker 2>They could have called them horse shit. It still would

<v Speaker 2>have been better than horsemen, because you're already drawing comparisons

<v Speaker 2>to something that is far superior.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know why you.

<v Speaker 2>Would do that. Nicholas from Long Island, New York. I

<v Speaker 2>can't believe it's been fifteen years since the pro wrestling

<v Speaker 2>world lost the great sweet and Sour Larry Sweetey. To me,

<v Speaker 2>he is the greatest what if in pro wrestling history,

<v Speaker 2>and I loved his work and ring of honor in Shikara.

<v Speaker 2>Do you know the reason why WWE did not sign

<v Speaker 2>him in two thousand and six. I remember he appeared

<v Speaker 2>on Raw as a parody of Nick Hogan when Randy

<v Speaker 2>Orton was feuding with Hogan, but nothing ever came from it. Yes,

<v Speaker 2>that was the Orton Knows Best skit that they did. God,

<v Speaker 2>I had forgotten about that. I missed that, dude. I

<v Speaker 2>always said, and a lot of other people have said

<v Speaker 2>this too. This is not like I'm the only one

<v Speaker 2>who has said this, but it's true. Larry Sweeney he

<v Speaker 2>was the closest thing to a modern day Bobby heenan

<v Speaker 2>like that guy. He should have made so much money

<v Speaker 2>in the business. As far as why WWE didn't sign him,

<v Speaker 2>I just think he came along at the wrong time,

<v Speaker 2>you know, when he was getting popular on the indies,

<v Speaker 2>more so as a manager than an in I mean,

<v Speaker 2>he wrestled, but he more so he was popular as

<v Speaker 2>a manager than an inn ring talent, I would say,

<v Speaker 2>although he did both. But at that time, WWE was

<v Speaker 2>phasing out the role of manager. Vince mcmaho Oh, it's

<v Speaker 2>an old school thing. He didn't want managers anymore. Maybe

<v Speaker 2>you'd have one or two, but like the art of

<v Speaker 2>the wrestling manager it was a lost art. He was

<v Speaker 2>being phased out. They don't have a lot of managers

<v Speaker 2>in WWE today either, right, But it is better now

<v Speaker 2>that it was fifteen twenty years ago, especially in AAW.

<v Speaker 2>You look at AW right now. My god, he would

<v Speaker 2>thrive in AAW. I mean, look at Don Kallis. He's

<v Speaker 2>all over these shows, right. That could be Larry Sweeney today.

<v Speaker 2>I think he came along ten years too soon, that's

<v Speaker 2>what I think. Yeah, he didn't interview that year in six.

<v Speaker 2>I don't remember if it was I don't even know

<v Speaker 2>if high spots was a thing back then. High spots

<v Speaker 2>or are video and maybe it was something else. But

<v Speaker 2>he said that he had not been contacted. Somebody asked him,

<v Speaker 2>have you been contacted by WWE or TNA, and he

<v Speaker 2>said no, No, neither company had contacted him. He had

<v Speaker 2>that one, like you said, that one appearance on raws

<v Speaker 2>like an extra, but they just weren't interested. And that's

<v Speaker 2>a damn shame because again that's a guy who should

<v Speaker 2>have gone on to have a lot of fame and

<v Speaker 2>fortune in the business and unfortunately didn't work out that way.

<v Speaker 2>Kennedy from Orlando, Florida, Buy rent or sell on these

<v Speaker 2>three cm Punk dream matches, CM Punk against Brett Hart,

<v Speaker 2>Cmpunk against Randy Savage or cmpunk against Ricky Steamboat. I

<v Speaker 2>gotta go punkin Savage. I gotta buy on punkin Savage.

<v Speaker 2>I'm going to rent on punkin Brett and then punkin Steamboat.

<v Speaker 2>You get you get no bad matches in this, but

<v Speaker 2>I have to rank them in that order. Punk and

<v Speaker 2>I have that in common, by the way, Like if

<v Speaker 2>you ask me who's your favorite wrestler of all time,

<v Speaker 2>it's Brett Hart. But it's a tough It's a tough

<v Speaker 2>one because macho Man is right there. Like to me,

<v Speaker 2>it's Brett and Savage. Those are the two.

<v Speaker 1>And for Punk, clearly.

<v Speaker 2>Brett and Savage were his two favorites as well, so

<v Speaker 2>we have that in common.

<v Speaker 1>John from Staten Island, New York.

<v Speaker 2>I'm watching the King of the Ring ninety three final

<v Speaker 2>with Brett Hard and Bam Bam Bigelow on the Vault channel,

<v Speaker 2>which is one of my favorite matches, and it made

<v Speaker 2>me wonder, what's your favorite King of the Ring final

<v Speaker 2>and what's your favorite wrestling tournament final? A man of

<v Speaker 2>wrestling culture I see is John. I watched it the

<v Speaker 2>same day they uploaded that match as well. They just

<v Speaker 2>uploaded that the other day to the Vault Brett Hard

<v Speaker 2>against Bam Bam Bigelow. You know what, I would say,

<v Speaker 2>that's still my favorite just because of the story they

<v Speaker 2>told that entire night, that entire pay per view with

<v Speaker 2>Brett through the first round the semis into the finals.

<v Speaker 2>He's all beat up, the fingers are all taped up.

<v Speaker 1>You know.

<v Speaker 2>Bam Bam got to buy into the final round, so

<v Speaker 2>he was fresh and well rested, and he was the

<v Speaker 2>favorite going into it. And kudos to Jim Ross, Bobby Heenan,

<v Speaker 2>and Randy Savage. I know Jim Ross has said he

<v Speaker 2>never liked working with Randy Savage on commentary because he

<v Speaker 2>was just I mean, look, Savage was not a great commentator.

<v Speaker 2>There was something about his commentary that I enjoyed. I

<v Speaker 2>cannot sit here and tell you that he was a

<v Speaker 2>great commentator, and I'm sure working with him maybe wasn't

<v Speaker 2>so so easy. So I know, JayR I never really

<v Speaker 2>liked working with him, But like I thought that they

<v Speaker 2>made a great announced trio that night, and I thought

<v Speaker 2>they really helped drive home that story that they were

<v Speaker 2>trying to convey As a match, I cannot say that

<v Speaker 2>it's as good as Randy Orton against Gunther two years

<v Speaker 2>ago in Saudi, Like, even with the botched pinfall in

<v Speaker 2>their match that we all thought was leading somewhere and

<v Speaker 2>then of course it led to nothing. That objectively, I

<v Speaker 2>think just has to be the best wrestling match of

<v Speaker 2>all of the King of the Ring Finals is Randy

<v Speaker 2>Orton against Gunther. My personal favorite is still Bred against Bambam,

<v Speaker 2>but the better match is Randy Orton against Gunther. And

<v Speaker 2>I got to give a shout out to one more here.

<v Speaker 2>I got to give a shout out to Baron Corbin

<v Speaker 2>against Chad Gable in the finals on Raw in twenty nineteen.

<v Speaker 2>There's not a whole lot on Raw to praise from

<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen, but those two always had good chemistry in

<v Speaker 2>the ring together. That was one of the better King

<v Speaker 2>of the Ring finals they've ever done.

<v Speaker 1>It really was, And they got time too.

<v Speaker 2>That was like a fifteen to twenty minute match, you know,

<v Speaker 2>the chaos theory to Corbin, that was a thing of beauty,

<v Speaker 2>the tilt to whirl into the end of days. I

<v Speaker 2>had been waiting for them to recreate that finish since

<v Speaker 2>the finals of the first Dusty Roads Tag Team Classic

<v Speaker 2>in NXT, and they did. That's how the match ended.

<v Speaker 2>You could see then how good Gable was very frustrating

<v Speaker 2>that it took another seven years for them to realize

<v Speaker 2>it enough to hopefully give them a real push now.

<v Speaker 2>But as far as a wrestling tournament final, I mean, look,

<v Speaker 2>there have been a lot of great tournaments over the years,

<v Speaker 2>classic ones, the Super j Cup in nineteen ninety four.

<v Speaker 2>I really enjoyed the Cruiserweight Classic that WWE did a

<v Speaker 2>decade ago. There's all of those great G one Climax tournaments.

<v Speaker 2>For me, I know, I gushed about it on the

<v Speaker 2>sound off at the time that twenty sixteen G one

<v Speaker 2>final actually the forget the final, the twenty sixteen G

<v Speaker 2>one Climax is the greatest tournament that I've ever seen.

<v Speaker 2>That's the one that had omega Ocada three. And I

<v Speaker 2>flip flop between calling this their best match or the

<v Speaker 2>hour long match, which I think was their second match,

<v Speaker 2>calling that their best match. At the time, though, I

<v Speaker 2>thought this was better than all of their previous matches,

<v Speaker 2>and one of the big reasons for it was the

<v Speaker 2>length of the match. They had to get this done

<v Speaker 2>in under thirty minutes. They had a time limit, so

<v Speaker 2>they didn't have a lot of dead time that you

<v Speaker 2>would expect early like in a big Ocada match where

<v Speaker 2>he takes his sweet time. And I just thought that

<v Speaker 2>that third match was fantastic. I think it was like

<v Speaker 2>twenty four minutes or something. And that wasn't even the final.

<v Speaker 2>The final had Omega against Nito, which was just outstanding.

<v Speaker 2>I would put that match against any other tournament final

<v Speaker 2>that I have ever seen in any promotion. And I

<v Speaker 2>think the one that comes the closest, and this is

<v Speaker 2>where it's tough to pick one, is the finals of

<v Speaker 2>the men's owen Hart Tournament in aw last year with

<v Speaker 2>will Ospray and Hangman Adam Page.

<v Speaker 1>Just unbelievable stuff.

<v Speaker 2>Like there's a reason they closed that pay per view

<v Speaker 2>with that match, even though there was no title on

<v Speaker 2>the line. They went too far on the near falls.

<v Speaker 2>That's the one thing I did not like about that match.

<v Speaker 2>Too many near falls. That's a big epidemic in wrestling

<v Speaker 2>these days. But just a fucking awesome match. I mean,

<v Speaker 2>you really you can't go wrong with either one of

<v Speaker 2>those in my opinion, as the best, you know, Osprey

<v Speaker 2>Hangman from last year or the Omega Nito one from

<v Speaker 2>twenty sixteen. But good question, So keep emailing me to

<v Speaker 2>Solo Monster at gmail dot com.

<v Speaker 1>Love hearing from you, guys.

<v Speaker 2>Now, I wanted to save this for the end here

<v Speaker 2>real quick, I've been on a movie kick lately. I've

<v Speaker 2>been to the I've already been to the movies this

<v Speaker 2>year in person more than I have in at least

<v Speaker 2>fifteen years. And there's a bunch of other great movies

<v Speaker 2>coming out this year that I'm looking forward to. I

<v Speaker 2>saw this week on Friday, actually before Smackdan, I went

<v Speaker 2>to go see Disclosure Day. Everybody was saying, this is

<v Speaker 2>Spielberg's best in twenty years, Right, big Steven Spielberg, blockbuster movie,

<v Speaker 2>big summer flick. It's got aliens, right, what's not to like?

<v Speaker 2>So I went to go see Disclosure Day. Disclosure Day

<v Speaker 2>was more of a disappointing day for me because I

<v Speaker 2>went into this that I really, I really wanted to

<v Speaker 2>love this movie and I barely ended up liking it.

<v Speaker 2>And I'm just, I just I'm watching this movie and

<v Speaker 2>then it's over and I'm sitting there and I'm like,

<v Speaker 2>you know, I saw two indie films last month, back

<v Speaker 2>to back that had a combined budget of like barely

<v Speaker 2>ten million dollars, both of which were a lot more

<v Speaker 2>interesting and a lot more compelling to me. And this

<v Speaker 2>movie here costs more than ten times that. Think about that,

<v Speaker 2>the budget for this movie to create this movie, not

<v Speaker 2>even including the marketing, because then it's up to like

<v Speaker 2>one hundred and eighty million.

<v Speaker 1>But the budget for this movie here was more than

<v Speaker 1>the combined budget for Obsession and back Rooms. That's one

<v Speaker 1>of the problems with Hollywood.

<v Speaker 2>Now.

<v Speaker 1>You got all these big.

<v Speaker 2>Budget blockbusters, and some of them were great, some of

<v Speaker 2>them were great, and then you watch a lot of

<v Speaker 2>them though, and it's like, man, I don't think they

<v Speaker 2>needed to spend this much money on this. I just

<v Speaker 2>saw a movie the other day that was made for

<v Speaker 2>a hell of a lot less and was a hell

<v Speaker 2>of a lot better and didn't have all these big

<v Speaker 2>name stars in it and everything. And that's a Hollywood

<v Speaker 2>problem these days. But my issue with it is like

<v Speaker 2>this movie, it spends so much time getting to the

<v Speaker 2>act of disclosure, but when it's over, I'm like, this

<v Speaker 2>is basically just your sort of run of the mill

<v Speaker 2>enemy of the State. Remember Enemy of the State with

<v Speaker 2>Gene Hackman and Will Smith. Your typical Enemy of the

<v Speaker 2>State type government thriller where you have one character that's

<v Speaker 2>escaping or running away and trying to hide somewhere, and

<v Speaker 2>then you do the same thing with the next character,

<v Speaker 2>and you do it like three, four, five different times

<v Speaker 2>over the course of the movie, and it's just not

<v Speaker 2>that interesting. So like all of these like if you

<v Speaker 2>saw any of the trailers, you basically saw the entire movie. Like,

<v Speaker 2>there really is not much else to it. I will

<v Speaker 2>say this, I'm not gonna give away any like spoilers

<v Speaker 2>for things that happened, but I guess this is kind

<v Speaker 2>of a spoiler for something that's in the movie. There

<v Speaker 2>is a there is a wrestling scene in the movie.

<v Speaker 2>So imagine, to my surprise, i had not heard about

<v Speaker 2>this in advance, and I'm watching this movie and I'm like,

<v Speaker 2>I'm like, wait a minute, there's a fucking wrestling scene

<v Speaker 2>in this movie. I can't get away from this shit.

<v Speaker 2>Then there's like and that was cool, but like then

<v Speaker 2>there's another uh. And by the way, there's a couple

<v Speaker 2>of aw guys in that match. I won't say who,

<v Speaker 2>but like there's another scene in the movie they have

<v Speaker 2>like this like CGI looking fox. It's just so obvious

<v Speaker 2>that it's CGI. It's like I to the point where

<v Speaker 2>I was laughing. I was kind of like giggling to

<v Speaker 2>myself like this, really you could find like a real fox.

<v Speaker 2>This this looks fucking dumb. But yeah, like it was

<v Speaker 2>over and I'm like, man, that's it. I'll tell you

<v Speaker 2>what my other issue with the movie was. And this

<v Speaker 2>isn't necessarily the fault of like the movie itself.

<v Speaker 1>I mean maybe in a way it kind of is.

<v Speaker 2>But it's kind of a victim of where we are

<v Speaker 2>today in the world where everything is AI in terms

<v Speaker 2>of like the videos that you see. You'll see clips

<v Speaker 2>on TikTok or ig and stuff like that, and it

<v Speaker 2>could be hard to discern what's real and what's not.

<v Speaker 2>Like there are videos that will pop up on my

<v Speaker 2>feed and I genuinely like sometimes it's obvious and then

<v Speaker 2>other times it's like I don't know if this is real.

<v Speaker 2>This is the age that we live in now to

<v Speaker 2>where you can put a video up of almost anything,

<v Speaker 2>and I feel like nothing would shock people anymore because

<v Speaker 2>all they would do is be like, oh, that's gotta

<v Speaker 2>be AI. Right, even if it's real, they would probably

<v Speaker 2>look at it and go, oh, that's AI. So like

<v Speaker 2>when they build to the big disclosure at the end

<v Speaker 2>of the movie and all this, like you know, confidential

<v Speaker 2>footage that's being released and all this other stuff that's

<v Speaker 2>kind of the gist of it. I'm like, it didn't

<v Speaker 2>hit the way that it probably would have hit twenty

<v Speaker 2>years ago or even even ten years years ago, because

<v Speaker 2>now it's like this big revelation that's.

<v Speaker 1>Going to change the world.

<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, you know what, if something like this

<v Speaker 2>were to happen today, I feel like half the world

<v Speaker 2>just wouldn't even believe it. They would just chalk it

<v Speaker 2>up to being some fake, phony AI video. So it's

<v Speaker 2>like I'm sitting there going, what's the big deal? You

<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, It's just that's just the product

<v Speaker 2>of the way the world is now. Unfortunately, so I

<v Speaker 2>don't know this just it didn't work. It didn't work.

<v Speaker 2>And if this is supposedly Spielberg's best in twenty years,

<v Speaker 2>it's like a return to form for the great Steven Spielberg, right,

<v Speaker 2>and he is I mean, look at look at his

<v Speaker 2>body of work. My God, you know, get Jaws in

<v Speaker 2>Jurassic Park and Shindler's List and on and on, and

<v Speaker 2>if this is a return to form for Steven Spielberg,

<v Speaker 2>then I'm sorry to say the magic is gone et

<v Speaker 2>this is not anyway. I think I gave it a

<v Speaker 2>star rating on my letterbox to count. You can follow

<v Speaker 2>me on letterbox at the solemn there is my handle

<v Speaker 2>on there. I'm seeing Toy Story this week. I'm very

<v Speaker 2>much looking forward to this. Actually, I've never seen a

<v Speaker 2>bad Toy Story movie. Now, you could say, oh, they

<v Speaker 2>should have stopped after the second one or the third one. Look,

<v Speaker 2>I kind of felt the same way. And then I

<v Speaker 2>saw the fourth one and I said, fuck, this is

<v Speaker 2>a great movie. So it's like, hey, as long as

<v Speaker 2>they have a great concept for these movies, you know,

<v Speaker 2>go ahead, keep making Toy Story. It's not like they're

<v Speaker 2>coming out every year with a new Toy Story. I

<v Speaker 2>think it's been how long has it been seven eight

<v Speaker 2>years since the last one? I know, for like at

<v Speaker 2>one point there was a gap of like over a

<v Speaker 2>decade between the two of the Toy Story movies. Like, hey,

<v Speaker 2>as long as they can come up with a really cool,

<v Speaker 2>fun concept or idea for it. It's not like the

<v Speaker 2>characters have to age necessarily, although I think they probably.

<v Speaker 2>I think they aged Woody in this one, and I

<v Speaker 2>saw some still shot of Woody with a bald spot.

<v Speaker 2>But I'm looking forward to this and then after that.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know that there's anything after that for a while.

<v Speaker 2>I don't think I have any movies on my watch

<v Speaker 2>list until the end of Oak Street, the JJ Abrams

<v Speaker 2>movie in August.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

<v Speaker 2>I mean, they have these trailers out for The Odyssey,

<v Speaker 2>this big epic movie that's coming out next month on

<v Speaker 2>the seventeenth. I don't know. I'm kind of in between

<v Speaker 2>on that. I don't know if I should see it

<v Speaker 2>or not. I know they both have Ann Hathaway in it.

<v Speaker 2>Ann Hathaway is in The Odyssey, and then Anne Hathaway

<v Speaker 2>is one of the stars in the end of Oak Street.

<v Speaker 2>Hollywood just recycles the same actors over and over again.

<v Speaker 2>Have you ever noticed that? Anyway, I'm gonna be back

<v Speaker 2>with you next Sunday. That will be for episode nine

<v Speaker 2>sixty eight of the sound Off. We will have our

<v Speaker 2>own disclosure of all the new wrestling news of the

<v Speaker 2>week next week. This week just be aware. We have

<v Speaker 2>the Raw post show on YouTube. Monday night. Tuesday a

<v Speaker 2>brand new episode drops of The Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Can

<v Speaker 2>find that on the Ariel Hellwanie Show feed wherever you

<v Speaker 2>get your podcast from, and then Tuesday night a brand

<v Speaker 2>new episode of Tuesday Night Titans over on JD's channel.

<v Speaker 2>I am very happy that the Knicks wrapped up this

<v Speaker 2>championship last night because otherwise Game six would have been back.

<v Speaker 2>It would have been back at the Garden, which would

<v Speaker 2>have been cool, but it would have been on Tuesday night,

<v Speaker 2>which would have been death. So thankfully we avoid that.

<v Speaker 2>Wednesday night is the Dynamite Post show on YouTube. There

<v Speaker 2>will be no SmackDown post show this week. I will

<v Speaker 2>be in Chicago for a House of Glory and there

<v Speaker 2>is a big WWE title match happening on Friday, so

<v Speaker 2>I will save my thoughts on SmackDown for the sound

<v Speaker 2>off next week.

<v Speaker 1>That's how we'll we'll do that. So until then, be well.

<v Speaker 2>Stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of your week,

<v Speaker 2>Stay cool wherever you are. Had to turn the AC

<v Speaker 2>off to record this show, and it's eighty five degrees outside,

<v Speaker 2>so I am sweat and bullets right now I'm going

<v Speaker 2>to get out of here. I will see you back

<v Speaker 2>here for nine to sixty eight next Sunday. Until then,

<v Speaker 2>take care, guys. The solo monster sounds off actually, and

<v Speaker 2>they threw him a bone a few weeks ago. They

<v Speaker 2>were in his home Kun for you get a really

<v Speaker 2>good match in Spain. It's like I said at the time,

<v Speaker 2>I said, it's like the old toy that they take

<v Speaker 2>off the shelf and they kind of, you know, they

<v Speaker 2>blow the dust off fucking toy. Story five is coming

<v Speaker 2>out next week. It's like opening the toy chest. Oh, okay,

<v Speaker 2>who do we got in here? A we have Axiom

<v Speaker 2>in here. We haven't used Axiom in a while. I

<v Speaker 2>forgot I even had him in there. And you pull

<v Speaker 2>him out of the toy chest and he's kind of

<v Speaker 2>dented and he's all fucked up and stuff. But like

<v Speaker 2>you play with him for a little bit and then

<v Speaker 2>you throw him back in there, you close the lid,

<v Speaker 2>and you don't think.

<v Speaker 1>Of him again for another nine months. That's Axiom.

<v Speaker 2>There's so many people that you can use that analogy

<v Speaker 2>for on this show. But that's the case with Axiom,

<v Speaker 2>and that's the case of Ray Phoenix. The solom Monster

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