Jim Cornette Experience - Episode 605: Turning The Heat On

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

This week on the Experience, Jim reviews AEW Dynamite & WWE Raw highlights! Plus Jim talks about WWE's high ticket prices, Dave Meltzer's WrestleDream star ratings, Marko Stunt's new job, broken femurs, Abdullah The Butcher, and much more! Thanks to our episode sponsors: SHOPIFY:  Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com/jce PRIZEPICKS: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/JCE and use code JCE to get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup!  SURFSHARK:  Go to https://surfshark.com/JCE or use code JCE at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! BRUNT:  Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code JCE at https://www.bruntworkwear.com/jce  @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Join Jim Cornette's College Of Wrestling Knowledge on Patreon to access the archives & more! https://www.patreon.com/Cornette Subscribe to the Official Jim Cornette channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialJimCornette Visit Jim's official site at www.JimCornette.com for merch, live dates, commentaries and more! You can listen to Brian on the 6:05 Superpodcast at 605pod.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Like the midnight and the rock and roll. He's in a fight for wrestling soul using a racket and some mind control. He's Jim Cornett. The keys to the future. Hell by Annette. I'm going to be the best show we've ever done, but I can give you a full-throated promise that it will be more exciting than all the wrestling TV we watched this past week.

And joining me for all this and more, Hawaiian Brian the podcasting line The King of the Arcadian Vanguard Podcast Network, Mr. Co-host to you, he's never boring but often morose. Be great, Brian Last, everybody. Aloha, Jim.

A pleasure to be here once again. I sound shit, I hear it. A pleasure to be here. We're going to have a good time. It's your show. Tagida. You know, there's a lot of people with the yo-yo virus going around.

Have you heard about this? It's where one member of the family gets sick, and then by the time they get over it, they've transferred it to the other members of the various family, and by the time that they all get over it, it's yo-yoed back around to the original person. But it's got even better this time because it's got a chance to work up some muscles

and do some push-ups. I saw that on the news the other day. I'll tell you, it's cold here. It is freezing. It was actually freezing. freezing this morning. On the castle grounds, it was 32 degrees this morning. Now that they measure the temperature in Louisville at the airport,

nobody lives at the fucking airport. And it's always several degrees warmer there, I think, because of the fucking jet fuel. But right here, it officially froze. And Brian, I have done, I've, I turned the heat on. I always feel like in the wintertime, when you first have to do that,

it's like admitting defeat. It's like, all right. And it's not only it's, it's wasting propane, but also it's it's admitting defeat. So I turned to it, but I turned the heat on lightly.

Defeat to who? Defeat to the fucking forces of Mother Nature where you turn the goddamn heat on. You've had to resort to this. You don't feel that way? I mean, I try to not turn it on until I absolutely have to. Usually it starts with some cold nights and I have to turn it on. I don't see it as me fighting mother nature.

Well, no, it's a goddamn contest. It's more like fighting the electric company and the heating company than it is mother-of-y. Well, and that's true. That's true. But it's team holdout. What it is. Is Stacey on this team? Is Stacey on this team, or does she tell you to turn it on before you do?

No, she willy-nilly just turns on heat or air at different points, and then it gets warm during the day. And you say, what's the heat's on or the air on or whatever the case may be? See, I'm looking at the long run. Because if I turn the heat on, then during the day it's going to get stuffy. But then if I don't turn the heat on at night, it's going to get cold. And then what parts of the house do I turn the heat on? because I'm not going to heat the whole office up here just to sit up here for four hours and then go back to signing books.

So I've got to make these decisions and it's complicated. It's also cold. What's the temperature in the office? This morning it was 62. Yeah, that's way too cold. Well, yes, but then I set the heat on 65, which is sort of a middle ground. and to warm it up a little bit so I couldn't see my breath. But then when the sun has come out and shone through the windows, it's 66 and the heat won't blow.

So now the 66 is chillier than it was when it was 64 with the heat on. We went through this last winter. It's a complicated mathematical equation and also the dew point. Do you realize what the due point is in my office right now? in your office, no. Well, you should that you'd understand what I'm talking about.

Well, what is it? I'm not going to tell you now. You don't know. Well, I can't see the indicator. You have a dew point indicator in your office? As far as you know I do. Anyway, the point is where we're going to try to muddle through here

under these horrible atmospheric conditions. and we got a lot of things to talk about. It's, do you know that as we sit here, not when the people hear this, but as we sit here recording it, today would have been my father's 111th birthday. Oh, wow.

And obviously, that's not a life expectancy that you would, you would expect most people. That's why they call it expectancy. expect most people to have, but it would have been his 111th birthday. And boy howdy, I can't imagine what he would think about anything currently going on in the world today. Yeah, what would you think about the newspaper business right now? Oh, gee, he would think it was a pamphlet advertising the real newspaper.

I actually laid my hands on a newspaper the other day when I was standing away. for the woman at Walgreens to be able to figure out how to open up her station. And it's like the old Memphis programs, you know, the six pages with the fucking insert in the middle, there's your newspaper. No wonder people are fucking ignorant to what's happening in the world. But yeah. And the Courier Journal has been bought by the USA Today people also, a number of years ago, all this happened. And it's merged into a conglomerate instead of, as it once was, the independently owned, locally owned,

and leading newspaper in a fucking state. It's part of the USA Today chain. Unfortunately, the business realities have turned the newspaper into kind of what the dream was it would always be, just all this stuff with no advertising. If you look at a newspaper from, I mean, even 15 years of, ago, 20 years ago, but let alone 50 or 60 years ago, stuffed with advertising. I mean, that's why it was so thick. It's all gone.

All that advertising money is out the window. Well, and that's actually, for all the people out there are saying, we don't care. That's actually the reason why that we have a good percentage of the recorded history of professional wrestling in the 20th century. Yeah. Because not only the newspaper coverage, but every promotion bought an ad in newspaper, anybody, any wrestling fan that's been on a fan freeing length of time or been on social media or seen any of my books, whatever, has seen the wrestling ads.

And they listed the card. And my God, there's kids that probably haven't heard about this now that I'm thinking about it, aren't there? Every week, that's how I used to find out what I was doing in Memphis on Monday nights before they actually told me. On Friday nights, after the town, whether I was Tupelo or whatever spot show I was at, in the Memphis territory, when I first got into business, my habitual routine was I would go back to Memphis. and before I did anything else,

I would stop at a newspaper box on the corner of, oh, God, it was summer avenue and something. I can't remember, but there was a little shopping center and it had a newspaper box and the late night, the early Saturday morning paper

in those days would be delivered in the boxes by like 11 o'clock or midnight or whatever the fuck it was. And there's an ad for the Monday night matches. And you couldn't trust the main event all the time because this was before TV and they sometimes would false book of a main event and then change it based on an angle on TV.

But they would have the entire card listed. And I would be able to see what my guys were doing before I got to TV the next morning and they told me. And then I'd head over to Shoney's, also on Summer Avenue, because they had the all-you-can-eat breakfast bar till 2 a.m. for like $4.99. And they would lose money on bacon by the time I got out of there. But that's what they did in every territory all over the country was they put ads in the local paper with the

card and the fucking details of where it was and what the time was, bell time, blah, blah, blah. And that's how all this stuff has been able to be recreated in modern times. Who was where? Who was champion? Who was wrestling

who and who did what? Newspaper advertising. You know, it's interesting back then, you know, basically up until at least the 80s. Yeah, I could even say the 19th. I think the internet's really the thing that killed it more than anything, and that's smartphones. But, like, you would see the smartest person and the dumbest person reading the newspaper.

Yes. You know, because whatever it was, if you liked sports, every box score would be there for baseball. Eventually, for me, that was like a moment where I was like, do I really need to buy the paper physically anymore if they don't even have the updated sports in there? The website does, but they don't. but everyone used to see it whether it was help wanted ads. I mean, that was the primary source of finding new jobs forever. And it's not even in the equation anymore.

It was, what's for sale? What's, you know, I'm looking to buy, or big sale at this department store, or gas station every business of any description in town, they had, for, years it was newspapers and as we mentioned that's why a lot of the newspapers before the television era are the most valuable to wrestling history but and you had radio and you had television and that was what you had for decades and decades so that was the way you got the word out but you know now we have the internet brian you know what we've gotten the word out about quite well from what i've been able to ascertain now based on the evidence we've gotten a word out

about my new fucking book. The word is out, and we're almost out of the books. Folks, again, heroes and friends, you can go to Jim Cornett.com and click on the banner there on the home page, and it gives you the information on what's involved. But if you've already got skin in this game, and many of you do, because we've had a kind of unprecedented response, we have sold almost that. As we're sitting here speaking, Brian, we got like 300 of this thing left on the print run. And so, yes, we are trying to make a decision, Hotchkiss and I, more me than Hotchkiss, honestly,

we're negotiating on how many thousand more copies we need to get to get the same wholesale price that we had. But the issue now is if you want this thing by Christmas, and I'm happy that everybody's going to see this thing eventually, and I am over the moon, as Adrian Street would say about the response, but I'm not trying a strong army out of your money. But if you want this thing, any chance of getting it by Christmas, please order as soon as you are physically available to do so. Brian, I said on the last show,

I got 450, the first 450 orders all packed, up and ready for Hotchkis to pick up and slap the label on them and put them in the system and send them along their way. And he came over and he picked him up and we loaded them in a car. And he said, now here's the orders from the last four days. And there were 380 of them. That was on top of the first week's orders. So I had a net gain of 70. And since he picked these up, I've done like a couple hundred more and got a couple hundred more orders, and I figured out that right now, if I sign and hand over to him 100 books a day for the next three weeks, I will catch up to the orders I have right now.

So that's a long-winded way of saying, folks, I'm behind. Everybody's going to get everything. but if you wanted his Christmas presents or just to see it quick and quick is used loosely there, please go ahead and order now because this is getting hectic. But I can't wait for people to actually see it in their hands and hopefully give it good reviews where people will want it.

I'm at the far end of my tether, Brian, and my thoughts are running clear together. and I sleep light or whatever because the night goes on forever. That's a deep album cut. It's what that one is. Look it up, kids. Oh, that's, speaking of deep,

have you figured out where you're going to dig the hole to bury that thing yet? Oh, no, it doesn't stop working. Hold on. There we go. It's alive and well. But once again, so are sales. That Cornett's collectibles at Jim Cornett.

come. And here's the thing. There are also action figures and t-shirts and all the action figures are on sale at various discounts and the t-shirts are available and the new autographed pictures and all the variety of things, but the book is just

becoming very popular. And we sold out of the second shipment of wrestling in the garden books by Scott Teal on the Madison Square Garden history. So he is kindly shipped us one more shipment and we're about 25% through that. So if you want that book also,

it is still available while supplies last again. We're selling more books than Amazon over here. We need some truck drive. Do you know any truck drivers? I have some friends at the union that could help you out, maybe. Can they? I heard a lot of time stuff falls off their trucks. I don't know what you're talking about.

You don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. My uncle Tommy used to bring home every once in a while to ate Lola, a box with like a thing of Windex and I don't want to say all any more specific product names, but like a window cleaner or a toilet cleaner or some goddamn, I think even breakfast cereal. and when I was little I didn't understand what was happening but apparently there sometimes Erewis while something would fall he worked at a plant where they loaded and shipped all this stuff from that they sent out to the various grocery stores and every once while

something might fall off the truck and and the guys that loaded things got to take it home so they'd have to buy shit to clean with or eat with. So that was a nice little perk of having a shitty job, apparently, in those days. Nevertheless, speaking of a shitty job, we've been talking about broken femurs. I know you've talked about many, you know, you were just having dinner with the kids last night, talking about various broken femurs. But we got a couple of emails from people who have experience so we can put the femur matter to rest, because it's been femur fever,

as you looked up that some professional athletes came back in six or nine months, and somebody else was out for a number of years, poor old Kota Abushi, he's saying it's going to be a year or two. So we got testimony here. Would you like to hear some experienced medical professionals at first? Yeah, let's hear something because the only thing we know is that Kota Abushi broke his leg in that spot with Josh Alexander, and now he's going to be out for two years. Well, this is from Jeremy in Dayton, Ohio, and he is apparently an experienced medical professional. The femur is the longest and heaviest bone in the human body and is one of the strongest bones in the body as well,

having worked in the ICU of a level one trauma center, I can say that most of the femur fractures I have seen come from motor vehicle collisions where the driver or passenger goes forward striking the point of the knee into the dashboard at a high rate of speed, or in the elderly who have fallen. Due to its immense strength,

fractures of the femur are exceedingly rare with an average of 10 to 21 per 100,000 people per year. So this is a major fuck up that has happened or that, you know, can happen. But it doesn't happen that often. And it makes sense that when when Abushi was falling, he was like doing a splash to the floor and the rail was under his face.

so when he caught the rail with his hands to protect his face it spun his legs around and his knees landed on the goddamn concrete so that explains that or it gives you a real opportunity when he comes back to do something special that's never been done before

a sympathetic baby face who is the man with brittle bones the baby face you always have to worry about You always have to hope someone will protect him, but he somehow overcomes the odds and wins the match before he gets injured again. Never been done. Well, I think they're doing it. I think we may already be into it.

And this is just Al from Kenosha, Wisconsin, who is not a doctor and states that his medical knowledge is of the bare minimum that is required by himself. But a couple of years ago, his daughter was involved in a car accident that totaled both vehicles, and she broke her femur in the process. They had to surgically insert a metal rod in her leg to help heal the bone. She didn't get it removed until a year later, and the doctor told her it would be nine to 12 months to fully recover after that. She doesn't have the incredible and legendary DNA that Abushi has, but it took her about. about a year to feel mostly comfortable.

And now, you know, cold weather bothers her, but it did take about a full two years to be able to operate her injured leg without constant pain. So with Abushi's history of detachable legs and their connected bones falling apart, I'm not sure he'll even be close to the less than stellar ability he's had the last

five years compared to his younger days. So, Jesus Christ, what do they all got to perch on the top rope for? You know, it's amazing that there really haven't been more broken femurs than wrestling, especially in the past when you had older guys still wrestling, and just from a bump, just as they got older. He never heard about this until Abushi. Well, it was because the older guys were falling from much lower places. sometimes even crumpling a la Ox Baker to the ground

because they realized what what the fuck might happen anyhow do you think the rings are too soft I don't know if this is related to it because Abushi fell to the floor just do you think that the fact that the rings are so soft encourages people to do things that they wouldn't have done in the past

on those harder rings what the rings the rings in AEW or most Indies that I see on television are no more bumpworthy

than the good rings of the territories were except they got better padding but I mean as far as the give that's fine Vince is the one that had the concrete bullshit through the 80s and well

into the late 90s but it's No, it's not about the ring that they're bumping on now is not appreciably different in terms of give and how it's going to affect the overall impact of the bump than a real good territory ring was in the 80s or the Smoky Mountain Ring was in the 90s. It just, they have cleaner canvases and better padding. and I'm not going to say that the turnbuckles aren't sometimes protected better or whatever, but the point is, when you get scoop slammed

and you land, there's no appreciable difference between a good ring now and a good ring 30, 40 years ago. So it's not like somebody just said, oh, God, now I can fly like the wind. It feels like I'm floating in landing in a cloud. a lot of them are in better shape and they have to be because they're taking more of these fucking bumps

but also a lot of them are smaller and they have to be because they're taking more of these fucking bumps well soon Cota well there's some other people while we're talking about it that we may have sent get well wishes too

there's a literal a to Z of the pro wrestling business is in various new positions. I've been inundated by people since we talked about John Moxley's last jackass episode that he had with Darby and the stuff he did on

television, whatever. And I talked about his admiration for the bank addicted drug robber Nick Gage. Now, a bunch of people who said, they just, his, his former, I guess former friend, current friend, but they don't work together anymore,

the guy that runs garbage championship wrestling, the GCW fellow, apparently said, just because everybody's asking me, no, Nick Gage is not going to appear at any shows upcoming because he's in rehab, has been for a while, expects to be there indefinitely. But at the same time, time, I don't, are you just supposed to tell people when your friends are in rehab, but when they,

when it's news to them? Are you just supposed to blurt it out in public? And, and secondly, he hadn't apparently, I guess he'd been on the outs with the guy anyway, because he hadn't worked for him for a while in the middle of being in, you know, in or out of rehab, because he was in rehab last year, too. But we need to acknowledge that. Everybody said, well, at least he's trying to turn his life around. Good for him. It would be funny if he came out of rehab

and denounced garbage wrestling. You know, I realize now the error of my ways, I like to reinvent myself. But, you know, good for him, though. Good and better. And who knows if he got, if he gave permission for the promoter to make the public announcement or not. That's, you know, but also, and I'm not

going to tear the guy down. And, And here's the thing. If he wants to get better and not be in a wrestling business, more power to him from me too. My only problem was that he was in a wrestling business and it was fucking an embarrassment. And I don't truthfully know whether any type of substance abuse

had anything to do with what he was doing. But what he was doing, whether he was on caffeine, or fucking anything was still embarrassing to the wrestling business but it's not again it's not all his fault

when you look at it because you got a guy that obviously either has issues or as we've said and this is not a revelation doesn't come off to be that bright to begin with why is there somebody

and says oh I'll pay you to come over here and use can openers on people or whatever the fuck is going on and fall through furniture and bleed in barbed wire and do whatever the fuck it is these people do. You know, at some point,

there's athletic commissions all over the place, and I know these types try to skirt the athletic commissions, but is this even athletic anymore or is this some kind of goddamn, you know, audience participation, Rocky Horror Picture Show gone wrong with injuries that some just city statute needs to regulate, whether it's wrestling or, you know, roller derby with goddamn razor blades on your fucking elbow pads or whatever. Can this even be relegated to an athletic commission anymore, Brian, is my question. maybe a circus commission that does all the things that are in athletic endeavors

that are just involving shows in front of people, I really don't know. I mean, this isn't a new discussion. You know, going back to everything Ian Rotten did that got in trouble with the Kentucky State Athletic Commission, I mean, that's what, 25 years ago, maybe even a little more, somewhere in that range. It's not a new thing.

You know, that company that Nick Gage worked for travels around. Does a show here, a show there, a lot of shows in Jersey. That's the easiest way to stay ahead of the authorities. I'm always surprised there's any audience for that stuff, but I don't think it's a relatively big... I mean, the audience for this show, for us talking about it, is bigger than the audience interested in it. Well, yeah, but it's a subculture,

but the problem is it gets lumped in with pro wrestling and you see the mugshot, from when he robbed the bank. Pro wrestler robs bank. Or, yeah, pro wrestlers in rehab again. And by the way, you know, I'd be more inclined to support his efforts if this apparently wasn't the first or not the first, but wasn't a number of times.

If wasn't the first time he's been in rehab, that's happened before. And wouldn't you think after you went to prison for robbing a bank 10 years ago or whatever, it might have been? ring a ling on the on the alarm clock but nevertheless that's what pro wrestling gets the the stigma of this guy when you see him coming out with the no teeth and the screaming and the baseball bats and barbed wire and things and there's obviously something going on with him personally whether which came first c t

chicken or the egg, I don't know. But that's the whole bunch of these people that think that they're proving something somehow by mutilating themselves and sliced themselves up on these low-level, low-budget indie things

to be wrestlers because they can't make it any other way. That's my issue with these people. And the people who allow it to go on and foster that subculture. But we wish him well, don't we, Brian? Yeah. I hope he gets better in rehab. Hopefully it works.

And if he wants to come back to wrestling, I'm telling you. Come back, your gimmick is you're a wrestling reformer. You come back, first thing of you do, you say, I watched Moxley and Darby, and gosh darn it, they've gone too far. And I've changed my ways. I've thrown away my pizza Cutter, and now I want to change wrestling, and then every match when people pull out tables and stuff, he gets rid of all the weapons. He could use a spatula as like

a fly swatter, just to smack the back of their hand. A ruler, like a teacher, he gets a ruler, and when someone like goes to do something, he smacks them with the ruler. Well, no, see, I was going for pizza cutter to spatula, see, I'm staying in the food fucking space, as the kids say. I didn't realize that was a part

of the thing. I mean, it was a weapon. It was more about the weapon space than the food space. Well, but see, it's still the genre of utensil, but it would be lightened up a little bit. So I still like my simile better. Well, fans just vote in, spatula or a room. Yes. But anyway, and also we want us in Get Well Wishes, apparently,

because I guess now he's in a hospital, Abdullah the Butcher. and a lot of people are going to say, well, why, you just cuss Nick Gage all over the place for an Abdullah the butcher was the wild and the crazy and the bloody guy and whatever to blah, blah, blah. And at least Abdullah the butcher drew money, as I said to only Anderson one time. But besides that...

Where is that money? I want it. It's mine. Wikipedia says it's mine. He's back, ladies and gentlemen. It's slow Devon. Oh, I'm coming to the hospital. He had his blood replaced, I'll have you know. That's right.

But anyway, as far as Abdullah, in a what, Brian, from the time that he started working in the, was it the mid or even the early 60s, maybe in his first matches, in the 50 years of his active career. He got the reputation, obviously, for the blood and the gore. And it worked because, A, nobody else was doing it or allowed to do it except the Sheik. And the only time, remember, the only time the Sheik and Abdullah ever got together was in Sheik's territory when he would bring in his like doppelganger or in Japan

where they were like, oh, this will be crazy. crazy. The tag team with the worst work rate of all time. The she could have people to butcher in all Japan. It was the freak show thing and it worked for a while. But point being, it was the only time that they saw anything like that, he was the,

version of the Sheik that could go to the other territories because Sheik didn't have time and et cetera. And he adopted his own persona, but you couldn't, you didn't have, multiple people on the show doing all this stuff that's what and also same thing with the chic formula if he was going to be a crazy guy and it was wild blood he was in and out in six or seven minutes but abby could work too and when he was when it was called for her especially when he was with somebody that either deserved it or might just expect it and he you know

Andre, whatever, he could take bumps. He could get slammed. He could get monkey flipped. Edward, he was motivated. He was there. But it was a, he looked the part. And it was an incredible monster gimmick that again, you know, whether it was a special mystery partner or a bounty hunter or whatever, he lived in Georgia, so he spent a lot of

time in Georgia, but he went out. a lot because he knew he couldn't be in a territory, even a weekly or a monthly territory for years and years, it would have killed him. So he went all over because that way he stayed in attraction. But apparently now he's in the hospital, and he's 84. Brian, well, you saw Abby in the 90s live. I saw Abby in the 70s live. If you'd have told me, looking at that man in the 1970s, that 50 years later he will still be alive, I would have said you're out of your mind.

And he's 84 that I guess he admits to. So that's incredible. Just on a, how often does a guy get to be 400 pounds for 50 years of his life and make it to the mid 80s? Yeah, smoking cigars. Bad diet. And I was about to say a diet on the road that probably wasn't the healthiest,

even when he wasn't eating at his house of chicken and ribs. My first exposure to Abdul the Butcher as a kid was fun baby face Abdul the Butcher in 1990 with Captain Mike Rotunda and Norman the Lunatic. Yes. What a team that was. What a group. You want to talk about groups as bad as the conglomerate. in AEW.

At least these people had some stars like Abdullah, but what a group. Mike Rotunda as a boat captain with Norman the Lunatic and Abdullah the butcher. But I'll tell you what, Abby was one of those guys in the 70s and I still got to see at some place because he was with Crockett in 85 when we were there.

Got to work with him on cards on a number of occasions. And in some places he could still do it, but as he would raise the fucking tension level in the room when he came out. It was like people tensed up and you didn't know what between the look on his face and the size of him and the overall shit that he did, people gave, even the marks that might want to take a poke at some of the heels gave him a lot of fucking room because they didn't know what the fuck was going to go on. And if he was doing the thing where he just came in and it was crazy, then it was seven minutes and the people were fucking whooping.

But he had a presence that people were scared of in those days. And it was the way that he just transformed into Abdullah the butcher as going to be an Abby. Hello, Abby in the back. You know, he had this talent where you would want. watch him like shuffling around. And he was really good at having like this look on his face where you believed he was kind of not slow, but just like there was something off with this man.

And he had this ability to be shuffling out there with that look and just all of a sudden like rush and move quick to the point. Like, oh my God, this guy's crazy. He was really good at play in that role. You know, when I saw him in 1990, 91, he was electrocuted to Halloween Havoc. Oh God. I know I hated that. But I never really thought about it,

but I never could have guessed his age because he always looked younger than he was if you were just exposed to him. Well, and he never changed where he, if you looked at pictures side by side from the 60s and 70s to the 90s, you could tell, but to the, unless you looked at him all the time, he always looked the same.

And that was, you know, except when he added scars, which added to the to the whole presentation, as they say. And that, again, the elbow dropped the meat cleaver. That was the most believable fucking finish move in wrestling. Because especially as he got even heavier when not only it would be the elbow, but one of those mud flaps that would come down home,

but he didn't hurt anybody. He could move. He was the guy, correct me if I'm wrong, that the Georgia office used to get Tommy Rich over. Tommy Rich came in and Abdul beat him and bloodied him up and, you know, a young Tommy Rich bleeding, that was what is, you know, that was his business for several years after that.

And then he said, I need another shot, I could beat him. And I think they did it again. He got beat up and bloodied. I need another shot, I could beat him. And finally, he beat him. And that led to Tommy Rich being one of the biggest baby-faced stars ever in Georgia. ever in the business at that point in time where the super station was just starting to take off

Tommy Rich was the baby face in the business remember Terry Funk told the story he knew cable was going to kill all the territories when they were at a West Texas town had some of the guys from Atlanta including Tommy Rich he got out of the car Terry and Tommy Rich and one of the other top baby faces in Texas and the people ran to Tommy Rich in like Amarillo and he was a oh shit but that was and it was Tommy Rich learned how to baby face he was from Tennessee he got in the business

because his parents knew Jerry Jarrett and he debuted right after he graduated high school I saw like his maybe fourth or fifth fucking match I think and he learned from Tojo Yamamoto, he learned from Jerry Jarrett, he had an early program with Lawler for the Southern Title when he'd been working like maybe a year. The formula was he was a young, likable, teenage still country boy, just happened to be 6'2 and 230 pounds or whatever,

with the blonde hair and the cute face and the all shun. but he could fire up and you beat the shit out of him and he sold his ass off and he knew how to sell and he was selling like Ricky Morton a couple years for Reggie Morton and Ricky Morton took it to the next level but Tommy he would bleed

and he'd sell and he looked like he was crying and he just on and then he would somehow on the verge of death he would come out with a fez press and win the fucking thing people go insane and they did similar things with him in Tennessee getting started where they just beat on him

and beat on him but he wouldn't quit and he kept coming back and then they transferred that to the ultimate with Abdullah this giant guy that comes out and eats raw fucking chicken or whatever on the air suddenly savaging this he was only 20

at that point 20 maybe 21 and it worked and the women love Tommy Rich especially he's the one that started the young girl revolution in Georgia wrestling. Well, get well, Abdullah, who never started a young girl revolution in any wrestling, but helped too, in effect. Have you heard what one of our old favorites now, Brian, is doing for a living? And bravo to him.

I'm going to applaud him for real, actually, instead of sarcastically. But Marco Stunt is selling cars now. Did you hear about this? I couldn't avoid this because a ton of listeners when they saw, there was a video of him announcing that he's selling cars and doing his new gig. People just sent it to his nonstop. And I think they sent it thinking, make fun of this. I felt happy for him.

Yes. Look, he looks clean, he looks like he has a good job, maybe a future. Good for him. He's not breaking his leg. And also, everybody prospers. He's got a job where he's not going to break his bones, and we don't have to watch him wrestle. But yeah, the video he even talks about, you know,

I used to be a wrestler and get thrown around, but now I'm throwing around great deals. I mean, you know, Bravo again. Here's the thing. It was embarrassing. to wrestling that it was made phony and

silly by having this small fellow working competitively and doing all the tricks and all the bullshit with the real legitimate wrestlers. I didn't say he couldn't be a car salesman. I have no goddamn beef with car salesmen

of all shapes and sizes. It doesn't make my business look phony. So Bravo, Marco. But that's the thing is again, there were people who encouraged this guy. He had

the one major injury that he had was not in AEW. He was at a bar somewhere in California and did a sunset flip going to do some kind of sunset flip power bomb thing or whatever off of a bar, an actual bar in a bar, and overshot and broke his leg on the other side of the thing,

just bam. That was not a, but didn't he have an injury in AEW also? Or do you even care enough to remember? You know, I think so as you say that. I can't remember. Maybe it was a broken femur. I really don't know.

I don't remember. Oh, come on. now you know, you got fever on the brain. You got brain femur. Yeah, I don't know. He remember they got rid of him. He was one of the first guys like that they cut or two years in or whatever. Well, you know what I have to say it like that.

They brought him back to wrestle a heel Jack Perry that one time. Well, yes, but you don't have to say they got rid of him. Like they rub him out and buried him out in the desert. The first round, the first group of guys who all of a sudden around the same period of time started disappearing from AEW. You jelly Nutella, Marco Stunt. The crew where even Tony had to realize that he was led down to Primrose path, I can't actually employ these people and put him on television.

Yes, yes. But point being, where I was going with that, before I took the side turn, people booked him. And yes, he got to be a little viral thing on the Internet because it was so preposterous. But it's just, that is again, along with the kookamonga kids, their whole trampoline, you know, club, when there was a subset of fans like the death match fans, but the subset of fans that want to wrestling to be silly and just goofy with the kids playing.

And this kid was going to and did get hurt severely. and thankfully he's realized you can't be 125 pounds and do all this bullshit and now I'm happy selling cars because he's not going to kill himself and I don't have to watch him wrestle but again it's these fucking amateur wannabe outlaw mud show promoters that run their hometowns on their birthdays that encourage this kind of thing for the past what's had been 10, 15 years now. The silliness and the hokeyness, because they're the promoting version

of the wrestlers in the ring. They won't pretend to be these big time promoters, but they look like idiots, and they don't know what they're doing, but they got access to a little money every once in a while. And then they book various offshoots of what wrestling is supposed to be like this. And people, not only does the business suffer through association, but people get fucking hurt.

Maybe it's an idea. I'm just going to one more thing. Maybe it's an idea if somebody has a long history of repeated substance abuse issues and crimes stemming from such, or people keep breaking major bones in their bodies. over and over or have bodies that you know it's only a matter of time before they break some of them major bones. Don't book them! There's a car dealership near me.

Every salesman's like some old guy, and then there's one hot girl. My question is, do you think Marco Stunt's gimmick is effective for a car salesman? If you walk in there to buy a car and this nice-looking little boy comes up to you and says, I'd like to sell you a car. Do you think it's an effective sales tool? I think he's probably a personable little thing that again on television and wrestling to me came off as a wise-ass little prick because he was bowing up at all the fucking regular-sized people.

But either he's a good enough worker or maybe he is just a personal, personable little fellow outside of that. If he can transfer that in a little glibness, I think he's going to do better at selling cars and he did at wrestling, I'll tell you that. Good heavens.

Do you remember Brother Ernest Angel from Memphis TV? Yes, because the real one was Ernest Angley. That was Brother Ernest Angley. Yes, that's right. Reverend Ernest Angley was a 80s, and I think he may, we talked about him a year, two ago and somebody said he's still alive he was 90 something looked like goddamn house of wax

but in the 80s he was a big televangelist and there was a guy that did a stick a promo kind of like him and became a manager in the memphis territory named brother ernest angel and he did that for a while and he ended up and i'm searching now my man memory because I've just thought of this. I can't remember what his real name was. But he ended up being the, I don't think he owned it. I could go back and find the paperwork, but I'm not going to take the time.

He was managing or running a car lot in Knoxville. When Classy Motors wasn't ponying up money at one particular period, we did another angle over at his car lot. And he was a monthly sponsor. but he, you know, again, he was able to transfer doing a promo to selling fucking cars.

And he was even smoother than Wayne from Classy Motors. You know, Judge Otto dealer had a great gimmick. I don't know if I'd want to support that man and give him my money. Well, see, you'd much rather give your money to Brother Ernest Angel. Who'd give you the sense and the feeling

with his pleasant voice that he was going to do something good with that money, those proceeds and those fun. He was doing the televangelist gimmick on Memphis TV before Bruce Pritchard was doing Brother Love. I think he beat him by a year or so, right? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean,

there was no similarity. Bruce went way over the top with the whole thing, but you know, Brother Ernest Angel was, you know, on Memphis TV, so he had to be more believable than WWF, you know. And he didn't need makeup.

He was just naturally colored kind of that way. All right. Well, before we go any further, we, apparently the stars have shined upon us again. Uncle Dave has blessed us with his reviews of the most recent AEW pay-per-view wrestle dream. If you're in a dream that lasts that long,

I think it's a medically induced coma. But Dave, as he does, every month has chosen to rate these things. I'm glad he's not the guy reviewing restaurants, or to-main would be as big as the black death was in the Middle Ages. Oscar's Greasy Spoon Diner, five stars for the clams. But, Brian, do you have the latest admission? I do. You haven't had those five-star clams?

I always see these clams here. I can only talk about the clams in front of me. Well, you better not clam up about them clams, I'll tell you. Well, you're looking awful clammy, though. I'm feeling it too. You have clams in your lap there from Uncle Dave about the AEW pay-per-view, the star ratings, and normally we try to go by what is. thinking is by each match, but in this case, I will interject with just random thoughts,

but I'm going to save my overall comments for the end of this because I'm starting to sense, I know you'll find it's hard to believe, Brian. I'm starting to sense a pattern in some of Uncle Dave's AEW reviews, but go ahead. What does he have to say? Well, Jim, we will first start with the pre-show, which you and I did not see because we watched the pre-show that they gave us, which was a different pre-show than whatever the other one was with the matches. I don't know where that is. Apparently now the pre-show is on TNT. On T&T on cable?

Apparently now, at least this one was. I just heard that. So they got that going for them. Did they announce that in advance? I don't. They announced so many things. Is this the show that you have seen in your life that has more graphics and more match announcements and more lists of things to come and etc.

than anything you've ever seen before, but nevertheless. Let's get to it. A.W. Russell Dream in St. Louis. Let's go to this. The opening match from the pre-show, which we did not see. Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castignoli, and Pack, defeated Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, and Tomo Hero E. Shee. four-star match. Well, with an all-star lineup like that,

why would you expect anything else? So the opening cold eight-man tag for no apparent reason on the pre-show equals Rick Flair versus Ricky Steamboater, Sean Michaels versus the Undertaker. As I said, I'm going to save my comments, but just now that we've established that baseline. Well, Jim, that was 15 minutes, 57 seconds,

next match went three minutes and six seconds. Hook and Eddie Kingston defeated Cole Carter and Griff Garrison. There's no rating given to this. Not much to this, just a basic TV squash. Well, okay, but they went

three minutes and did something, took a bump or two. Now, if you don't do enough moves to meet the threshold, he's not even going to rate the match, whether you have a complete match or not. Well, we'll see if that happens again. Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron defeated Megan Bain and Penelope Ford.

12 minutes, 14 seconds, 2 and 3 quarter stars. Boy, howdy, what did one of their breast implants fall out and fucking land in the first row? How could they possibly score that low on the Meltzer scale? are they not they're not friends with anybody i'm not sure but jim the final pre-show match which i guess is also the first the first match of the main show yeah ftr defeated kevin knight and mike bailey 12 minutes 23 seconds four and a half star match followed by jamie hater defeating tecla 15 minutes 36 seconds i

thought this was a train wreck. Three and a quarter stars. That's... So now, three stars is train wreck level. And the other one's got two and a half or whatever. That shows you where they were at. Jack Perry and Luchosaurus defeated the Youngbucks, 23 minutes, eight seconds,

for an alleged $500,000, four and three-quarter stars. Oh, come on now! That's as good as five. All right, all righty, then. I know you're saving your big thoughts for the end. Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin, and MVP. Defeater Rickache and Toa Leona

and Bishop Kahn in a tornado match to earn a shot at the trio's title, 13 minutes, 25 seconds, three and three-quarter stars. Very good match, Dave said. Very good. from what I recall of what I said, based on what I saw, I said, boy, howdy, I love Shelton and Lashley and MVP,

but this thing is brutal to watch in some points. And I don't believe that you were disagreeing with me. And those heels just ain't got it. As Ernie Ladd would say to Bill, watch you, boy, just don't have it. But nevertheless. Kyle Fletcher, defeated Mark Briscoe, 24 minutes, 44 seconds, 4 and 3 quarter stars. Gah! Once again, as good as five.

Just as good. Chris Stathlander defeated Tony Storm, 16 minutes, 32 seconds, four star match. Oh, come on now. Followed by Mercedes Monet, defeating Mina Shirakawa, 2. win the Ring of Honor Interim Women's TV Championship, three and a quarter stars. Jim and Matt, you were anticipating. Bandito and Brody King, collectively known as Brodito,

defeated Konosukee Okata. Oh boy. 27 minutes, 28 seconds. Five-star match. Just an incredible match. Long, never dragged, tremendous storytelling, and tremendous moves as well as something of a surprise finish with Bandito, Pending Okada,

who is almost always protected from losing. So Dave really liked it? He... All right, go ahead. One more. Two more. Two more. Adam Page... defeated Samoa Joe

19 minutes one second 4 and a quarter stars And finally Darby Allen defeated John Moxley in an I-quit match 26 minutes 2 seconds The only thing I heard say I quit

was Amazon Prime during that match 4 and a quarter stars Oh boy All right Brian you are not only old enough to remember but you've seen back issues of Uncle Dave's writings. And he at one time was a tremendous fan

and disciple of Bill Watts's work. Bill Watts' booker, he would hold everything up to the Bill Watts standard, Mid-South Wrestling, however, and he would talk to other old-time promoters, and he would write pieces where he would explain how, Sam Muchnik felt this might damage the business or this great Booker would use this type of logic. And it seemed like that he had somewhat of a grasp on right versus left, up versus down, north and south, whatever poles that you care to use. and I'm sorry, but people change in many ways, yes, you can change your opinions on people or things based on ongoing events or things that you learn.

But Brian, does what makes sense to you as a human being? What may, is logical? What is even right from wrong? just sensible and rational and reasonable A plus B equals C, does that change no matter how old you get unless you end up getting dementia? Well, you know, part of Dave's argument is that you always have to learn. You always have to be ready to learn. And I think sometimes he interprets learning as just accept whatever the youngest person around

you thinks they should do. because all of a sudden it became history be damned you know what everyone's doing now I don't know if it's the young people or if it's his friends people because there are people of varying ages involved in this thing but that's the problem is that Dave

he has to be so mortified that his friends that he put so much faith in that he thought were, and you are our friends, whether it be the kookamonga kids and their gang that petted him and made over him or Tony Kahn that made, you know, made a big deal out of reading the observer and learning things. And Dave makes a big deal out of how much he learned.

And they got the chance and they weren't up to put. putting it together, which was the projection and the projection came true. Tony Kahn had the money to be a promoter and the will to do it, and in that effort has been successful because he spent enough money to be able to get some back. But as a booker, it's been a mess because he learned Mark shit that Uncle Dave, as he got older, got more involved in the minute niche market subculture mark shit.

And his friends, the in ring part of the equation weren't up to putting on a show or being the stars of a show of this magnitude. They were good in fucking, what was it, Reseda, in a building with 400 people

in it. But that didn't translate. but that's the thing is he at one point Dave prided himself on recognizing all these details about why that this style of booking was so successful, Bill Watts and the logical sports-based presentation. And then for the past how many years since his buddies promised us that, but instead did an SS. an L-based presentation. He's trying to will into existence the idea that they've done a good, that they've produced a good product and have built anything up. And in the process, he can't bring himself to honestly look at these matches. If you count the number of moves they pull off with varying degrees of success,

yes, there are multiple star. matches. But if you look at the lack of logic in the booking and the loopholes in the psychology of the matches and the bullshit and fake look and execution of some of it at the sake of being able to get to the next big stunt and the over repetition of the next big stunts and the constant furniture and the constant floor and the the constant sameness of everything, then if he thinks that, if he thinks that I review this stuff harshly, I could only imagine what he would think if he was standing in the locker room

listening to Bill Watts critique the fucking roster if it was his roster to critique, which Dave has never had that experience. He talked to Watts when Watts was being professional, talking to some type of budding industry journalist and not your boss telling you what you fucked up about his show. Bill Watts, Paul Bosch, whoever it may be, talk to Dave to try to educate him on things. If he was going to do what he was going to do,

they wanted him to understand a little bit about maybe history, but also just about the lessons, what you're supposed to do, why you do things, the excuses, whatever it may be. The relationship with Dave and Tony is completely reversed. Dave is literally the person Tony went to and said, hey, I want to start a wrestling company. Who should I hire?

That's how Chris Harrington got his job. That's literally what happened. The first person he went to was Dave. And Dave has access to Tony all the time. And I could tell you that Tony has waited on Dave's thoughts on things because they affect what he does. That's why Dave sometimes lashes out when Tony doesn't do

what Dave wants him to do because Dave has never had this kind of influence on a wrestling company whether he admits it or not. And this is his style of wrestling. He gives it the best stars he's ever given anything. It gives it better stars

than he gave New Japan. Well, that's because now it's seven stars in Daly's place. You know, I don't want to to talk about dynamite too much now, we'll talk about it later, but there's no one there. There's small crowds compared to AEW going to any of these markets previously. And they're not pricing people out like WWE is. They have no stars.

And then you watch the wrestling, and I'll save it for later, John Moxley, anyone who tells their readers that he's comparable to Terry Funk like Dave does, if you watch his work and you actually just watch it on mute and try to figure out the psychology of it, you realize how lost all his matches are. They're terrible, and his work is terrible. And yet there's a fan base that want to insist he's one of the best of our time.

There's a big disconnect. And these guys, again, Dave has direct access to Tony in a way he's never had it with any other promoter. had access to Vince at different times. But it wasn't Vince going to him for advice. It wasn't Vince saying, hey Dave, you know, I just want to get your thoughts on this

and this. Vince had motives. Tony sits under Dave's fucking learning tree. Oh, God. That's the reality. The problem is there, there's some root rot. Well, that was AW wrestle dream or A.E.W. RootRot.

You know, I hate to say, it, but the poop is getting deep in here, Brian. It may be time for me to put my boots on. I just want to make sure that I don't mess up my nice pant legs with all the deep doo-do that we have been dished by Uncle Dave. But fortunately, for everybody, I won't have to worry about that. And now you don't either, folks, because if you got to walk through poop,

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Yes, brunt. Well, do you want to bear the brunt of the description of this past week's raw program? Because certain things happened that affect the ongoing future of the WWE, shaking the literal foundations of the company, possibly forever. Yeah. I said some sarcasm. What's your problem with Raw? Well, you know what?

Did you notice now I went back and watched the replay. I found out that if you wait long enough, not only are there no commercials in the replay of Raw on Netflix, but also... When you try to fast forward, a box pops up that shows you what you're missing or not missing, so you can decide whether to miss or not miss that, which is not available if you try to go back with it a certain amount the first day or I don't know what the time cutoff is. Does this happen to you? I tend to watch it live when possible.

Well, fuck, I would never do that type of thing. But nevertheless, apparently without commercials it was only an hour and 50 minutes long this this past week October 20th I believe was the date and how long an hour 50 50 or something 50 something apparently change as they say apparently if we take out the matches it's an hour 45 well that's the thing is they didn't really pack a lot more into a shorter period of time they just did less of the stuff they normally do however we are in this new era where it's the where did all the stars go era they're they're pushing the bronze breaker and reed and i appreciate that because they are new legitimate top talent that needs to be utilized in this fashion so i'm fine but again in between these things you got to sit through some other things and they had one match that i want to talk about so nevertheless point is they start

the program with Adam Pierce. He's starting to speak when on the screen, it takes forever for an SUV to pull up. And Bronbreaker and Bronze Reed and Paul Heyman to get out. And they just walk to the ring. And they show them walking to the ring. They're going to stretch everything out as long as they can get out of everything. But Pierce really reads them out.

he tells him, Seth Rollins is hurt. And he kind of skips, at first he says, well, he was banged up anyway, but now he's really hurt. And because of what you guys did, what you two did, we're stripping Seth of the World Heavyweight Championship. We're going to crown a new champion in Salt Lake City at Saturday night's main event. C.M. Punk won the right to be the, the challenger and said now, since the title is open,

it's going to be punk against the winner of a battle royal for the other slot. And that battle royal is tonight. And that got a big pop because they got booed when he mentioned Salt Lake City, which, to be fair, is unpopular almost in all social circles, salt like city. For that matter, the whole state of Utah is not exactly invited to most people's dinner parties. but I guess they got to do what they got to do but before we go anywhere else with with this interview Brian were you jazzed up to hear about a battle royal

to determine a contender for the other contender to fight for the vacant title I know they do it in AEW you know 17 times a week but this is kind of they do it here too and it's eh eh yeah how do you think It's very AWA in my eyes. You know, they gave their world championship to the Battle Royal winner when Larry Zabisco won at 89.

It just always feels... Battle Royals feel like you should win a prize, not necessarily a match. And, boy, did this Saturday night's main event just sneak up on us? This is next week. Is it? November 1st. Well, son of a bitch.

Well, I was about to ask you when it was, but you told me. So now I know, God dang. God dang. So what do you think of this in terms of this is the first follow-up to them turning on Rollins? Did you think this is an effective way to start the episode? Well, they started this way and then going all through, and we'll talk about the whole story all the way through and then hit another high point. But at this point, Pierce was telling Braun Breaker, and now that's not your property because he's carrying the belt. you got to hand the belt over.

And they didn't, what if I don't? And Paul conferred with Braun, and Braun's like, show me some respect. And then he makes Pierce it respectfully, an agent handed over, say, please, he repeats it, please. And Bronbreaker gives the belt to Paul, and Paul gives it to Pierce,

and Pierce walks up. And then Paul starts cutting the promo. This is the way Paul cut a heck of a promo. here to answer your question on is it a good way to use them? Paul cut a heck of a promo here elevating these guys mentioning their importance you know he said that he

pulled those moves at WrestleMania that it had nothing to do with Rollins is because Braun was the future and Bronson Reed is better than Roman Reigns and he tore Seth down and called called him a bum-shoulder bitch. And they bleep bitch on Netflix.

Weren't we promised we could get to hear fuck and cooties and every other kind of horrible word on Netflix at one point? They definitely made it sound like we don't have to be worried about language anymore. Meanwhile, on AEW, they say shit and all sorts of stuff. Yeah.

But anyway, Paul's promo put Bronson and Braun over Big as having what it took to be main eventers. It was a good heel promo. I think it just, again, the only thing is this took like 20 fucking minutes and anything just takes a while to get done on this program.

But with Seth on the sidelines, the old Eddie Graham principle, how do I get somebody over Dusty, Dusty's got to go somewhere. Seth on the sidelines, the attention being put on these two, and then later on, I believe that was the next, the next installment in our story, yes, Pierce tells Paul that the two bronze are out of the battle royal. And then Paul has to beg, kind of, you know,

and grovel like that Pierce did earlier to get the belt. Paul has to grovel to him. Yes, say please, same line. Yeah, say please. Please. And then Pierce said, no. and slammed the door on him. If they

both couldn't win, they want to go to a different direction. So it was important to not just have these two in the battle royal as two guys that almost made it, but whatever the fuck, right? There are bigger things

in store for them. And then Becky came up and got in Paul's face and Paul did the groveling to her and, you know, again, switches gears back to the humana, homina, homina. And Becky told him off.

It is penguin-looking self or whatever she said to it. But even though Becky's a heel, she's also Seth's husband. So I think somebody asked a question or we brought it up on one of the shows recently. Last week, yeah.

You know what about Becky being a heels since Seth has been turned on, if she's just wrestling other girls, it shouldn't, she shouldn't really show any change because when Seth comes back, she's going to be a baby face with people anyway, and possibly sooner than that.

So it wouldn't be out of the way for her to get involved with somebody that's fucking with these guys just for the sake of it and in that case she'd be a big baby face but she doesn't need to change anything that's the good part about this she can still do her programs with the other girls whatever the fuck

she may end up getting cheered more but she doesn't need to flip-flops what I'm saying do you think there's anything to be said for the idea of braun refusing to give up the belt and they go through everything they have to do to get a new champion, but you have an issue where Braun still has the belt? Well, no, because I don't think they want to press that this quickly,

because they still, they did this in a rush. They weren't going to do whatever they're going to do. Right. Until Seth got hurt. So let's let it breathe a little bit because that puts him in a position where sooner or later somebody that is the real champion needs to come after him. and they ain't got it set up yet. It would have to come after him, is what I'm trying to say.

And they haven't got it set up like that yet. They want to take a little more time with Braun. So he's just over here getting more and more pissed off at the situation. Maybe we can get Becky versus Heyman. Maybe in a sumo match. But no, well, remember, now that might work. Because I was going to say, remember I had Hayman 35 years. years ago and I wouldn't wish that on Becky much less with the shape he's in today.

Oh, damn. Anyway, then as a matter of fact, in the back later on, the bronze, we're not happy. And Bronbreaker, Paul comes in and Braun said, hey, help me understand this. And the thing about Breaker, he can talk, he explains things well. He wasn't screaming and being over the top here. He was. he was relating details which normally is not you guys strong points especially early on he can talk

but then Paul gave him the bullshit pep talk about how he he helped Brock because he listened to him and he helped punk because he listened to him and he helped Roman because he listened to him it's not just in the ring it's backstage politics what's the future of the WWE guys just look in the mirror and walked out and left them smiling without saying anything of substance but then they had the battle royal for the opponent versus punk

for Saturday night's main event for the title and punk was on color and let's face it it was a fucking battle royal I skipped down to Dominic L.A. Knight, Jay Stiles and the Uso's. Four baby faces and fucking heel. But the Usoes are having issues with each other because Jay is it, Jay's looking up to Roman, but Jimmy don't want him to look up to Roman. I got it right, didn't I?

I think you got it exactly right, yeah. Well, good, because sometimes I still have trouble with which is witch on there. But anyway, L.A. Knight was a lot. about to knock Jay off to the floor, but Jimmy saved Jay, which was the second time he'd saved him in a match. And then helped him up, and they double super kicked AJ and Jimmy dumped AJ. And in LA night and Jimmy ended up dangling over the top rope and Jay came from behind and dumped both of them.

So Jimmy saved Jay twice and then Jay dumped Jimmy along with LA night when he had the opportunity. and then Dominic went for the 619 on Jay, but Jay dumped him and won the whole thing. So now, but again, it's all the baby faces. But now we're going to have Punk and Jay Uso, who squared off, faced off with each other, you know, after this thing was over with,

for the title, which I assume, and one would think punk is going to win. Not only because Jay had it long enough, say he had it, but he wasn't, he's the Yit guy, but he wasn't the long-term answer as a world champion or even another short term. And he and Jimmy have trouble involving their relationship with Roman, so one would think that that might play some kind of a part. I've seen people speculate, well, should they turn Jay He? And with the entrance and the merchandise and the way people like him,

I don't see why they would want to do that, but I don't see why that they would want to put him into a position where he's having to wrestle one of the biggest merchandise sellers and the guy that they chant for in the whole company, see him punk. But here we are. Brian, was there a question there that I asked you? No.

Well, let me try one. Yeah, I don't think there was. Was there? We think punk needs to win this. We don't need to put the belt back on Jay, do we? Doesn't punk need to win this for potentially some type of interaction with Heyman's vision at some point soon or something? Well, let me say this first. I wish punk wasn't so over, because I'm kind of getting ready to do.

for, I'm kind of getting sick of babyface punk. I'm ready for him to just be evil and do some sick shit and cut some mean promos. But he's super over and you can't change it right now. It'd be stupid. He, you would think, would be the person set up for the belt. It sets Seth Rollins up for a conundrum if he stole the champion when he comes back because does he go after the belt and the man he hates in this endless feud, CM Punk? or does he go right for the bronze and Heyman?

I don't think Jay Uso should get the belt again. You know, it's weird. He was world champion just yesterday, and it doesn't even feel like that. It just feels like he kind of went right back to where he was, and I'm not saying that's the wrong place for him to be. However, I think punk is sometimes more effective chasing than having as a baby face, but I don't know.

what do you think well since they're all interacting on the same show in the same space i'm wondering if they want to coronate brauner if punk a win over punk for a major title might not be the the way to do it but i might be getting ahead of myself because they might not be ready to do it then has anyone said how long rollins is supposed to be out for No, but when they say major surgery, one would imagine that at this point in time, WrestleMania would be pushing it. Did he break his femur? I really don't know.

Major surgery, a guy at his brain removed and put back in his head and returned to the room. Well, no, but the shoulder reconstruction, November, December, January, February, March, didn't they make WrestleMania later in the year next year? Late April, yeah. mid the late April. Five and a half, it may be doable, but, you know,

they may not know in time to make concrete plans that they feel comfortable with. Who knows? Do you think Seth Rollins should get stem cell treatment? No, I think he should leave part of his body

to medical science. And then the other part to science fiction. All right, there was one other thing on this show. The tag team title changed hands. Spoiler alert. ladies gentlemen.

AJ Stiles and Dragon Lee beat Finn Baller and J.D. McDonough. This was great. Did you watch this? Yes, I did. Because you mentioned to me that you thought it was a good match, and it was. And here's the thing,

the knock on AJ Stiles for years was he was too small, and he looked like Lex Lugar next the other three of these guys. But they all look like athletes. Finn is ripped. JD's in shape. Dragon Lee, well, he's there.

But at the same time, they had a good match, but in this environment, in this universe, no pun intended. In the WWE, this is still a mid-card title, and they're being presented as the athletic guys to go out there

and put some time in, in between the stars doing promos. And I'm wondering, since Tony Khan had an unlimited budget as we've come to find out, could spend as much money as he wanted to, and if he hadn't taken advice from people as diverse as Uncle Dave and Kenny and the kookamonga kids on hiring all their friends and favorites, is this what AEW could have been? Smaller guys that are in shape and trained well, that are athletes,

that have good-looking work that's a faster pace and more serious matches that make sense and no indie garbage, no, you know, ridiculous comedy. Is this what they, these four guys outperforming? 90% of the AEW roster when it comes to professionalism, executing the moves with a safety factor where nobody almost gets killed. There's no furniture. They kept it in the ring.

Is this, I guess what I'm saying was if Tony had concentrated on a coherent plan to have a general style of wrestling and offshoots that may complement that general style, of younger, faster-paced guys, better athletes doing more shit than the other company, without resorting to the comedy, ha-ha, the silliness, and the garbage, is this what AEW might have been?

were these guys who can't be stars in this environment because of the way that everything else is presented. And yes, I know Finn's been a champion, but I'm saying they can't be, neither one of the four of these guys can right now at this point in time be the top guy or one of the top singles guys in WW. But they're also, they can't be presented that way on this television. since they're all talented if they were presented that way on another television,

would these guys be able to be top stars in that environment? Is this maybe what AEW could have been if they weren't just all friends with a bunch of indie wannabees? You know, I don't know, because at the end of the day, it also comes down to the management and Tony and the roster he picked, but this is what it probably, in a lot of ways, should have been, as an alternative, but WWE adopted a lot of the things that became popular on the Indies and which led to AEW.

You know, the other thing is, people sometimes jump on you especially for pointing out someone smaller. We brought up Marco's stunt earlier. That's an extreme example. But Jack Perry, Youngbucks, I mean, there's been a whole bunch, Daniel Garcia, a whole bunch of examples. We were Yuda. It doesn't mean short. necessarily.

You know, I mean, there are lots of wrestling greats that were short. They didn't wrestle like it, and they looked like athletes, like you said. So J.D. McDunner, what is he, 5, 7, maybe at the most? Finn Bauer, maybe at the most. But they look like

athletes the same way in his day, Wild Red Berry would have looked like an athlete. You know what I mean? Danny McShane wasn't a big guy. but there's a difference. Finn Baller looks better than the dynamite kid did at his body weight, more ripped, but before dynamite discovered,

you know, heavy steroids. But it's not about height or weight or even height and weight. It's about the height with the weight, with the build, and the aura that you project. Yeah, Marco Stunt in the early days of AEW,

when you criticized him, some of the feedback you got, and I think even from Dave Meltzer, was, well, Ray Mysterio is only five foot two. How can you just dismiss someone for being small in stature? And your argument was not everyone's Ray Mysterio Jr. That was a special talent. He wasn't just one of many. He was one of one. And then there were people on Twitter putting a picture side by side where even Ray still looked like goddamn Lex Lugar physically next to Marco Stunt.

But yeah, I thought this was a really good match. AJ's having a little bit of a moment. You know, with the fans anticipating the winding down of his career, the Sina match, the reaction in Japan that I read about. And here,

you know, AJ's kind of having a little bit of a renaissance here at the end. Well, he's a renaissance man. And did you see Dominic? That was, oh yeah, and Dominic. Dominic beat Rusev here on this program. What did you see he got a neck tattoo now? I didn't actually look close enough to notice things.

He's another one of these guys. Well, between his full body outfit and his long hair and I wasn't looking at his neck. I don't know. What am I? A vampire? Stop doing this. Unless you're going to start a punk band or something. Stop getting tattoos on your fucking necks, guys.

Jesus. But they were in Southern California, or is that Northern California? Where is Sacramento? They were in California, so they loved Dominic a lot more than many places. But just one last thing about the tag match, you didn't think it was, what exactly are you saying? You don't think it's all that special? You just thought it was okay? No, I thought that's the thing is it was a great wrestling match and it was athletic and it was serious.

and these guys look great and all of the accolades and platitudes that I gave them. But it's still, unfortunately, in this presentation and in this company right now and on this talent roster, they've still, they've middle-carded the tag team titled to where it's not. Now, if AJ Stiles and Dragon Lee have a matchup coming in the next, you know, month or whatever the fuck with Bronbreaker and Bronson Reed, and they lose the tag team titles to them, and then they start working against

if the Uso's are still together or if top baby faces want to team up, then you can elevate it again. But that's why I'm saying. It was a good match, but if you put this, if you advertised it, nobody would necessarily break down the gates to buy tickets to see it

because it's not a featured position. position, but athletic, smaller guys doing a faster-paced style. We thought that might be what AEW was going to be before they went all crazy on us with flame throwers. Well, that was WWE Raw. But, you know, they're doing half as much, Brian, in the WWE as they used to in the ring and on TV, but they're charging twice as much for us to see it. that did you hear about the the newest study that apparently

wwee ticket prices have like doubled since tk o took over what did two two years or not even whatever it's been and it just and there's no slacking off of demand is the other part of the story there's some people are just paying it what isn't there a limit at some point? Right now, no. I mean, we've heard reports from some people, and you don't see it on TV. And I haven't seen too many pictures, but you do hear from some people that say, hey, Raw came back or Smackdown came back to my town.

Ticket prices went up. Less people in there than there were last time. Some people even say, hey, you see empty seats. Again, we haven't seen it, and a lot of the ticket accounts we do see indicate near capacity. but it doesn't feel as hot right now, but somehow they have found an audience with endless disposable income and they are just

feasting on that audience right now and it's amazing. It really is. Feasting, feasting on them like vampires. Yeah, because it's not just ticket prices. Once you get there, a t-shirt, how much is a t-shirt now? 40, 50? How much is a t-shirt? to the WWWI live event. I got to raise my prices at Jimcornet.com.

Hurry, folks, before I get smart and do that. But by the time you buy WWE merch and then maybe some concessions, you've dropped a lot of money that night and a lot of that's going right to WWE. Well, I'm looking at this graph, this chart that we've got here, and this is from Polestar.

Apparently, data was compiled by Polestar, and from 1999 until today, it had some fluctuation in the early 2000s, went back down, came back up in the mid-2000s, whatever, but it stayed between, apparently adjusted for inflation, it stayed between $41 and $67 for almost 25 years. and then the TKO merger closed when it was somewhere around 60 and it's not 118. They've doubled the prices in two fucking years. Even if they're not selling as many tickets

as they were, you know, two years ago or whatever, they're still making more money because they're charging so much more So they'd have to be down to drawing, Brian, on average, as this shows. They'd have to draw half as many people as they did a couple of years ago to be making less money than they were at that time. And this is just, it's crazy. It's all insane. The media rights deals are insane, especially when you look at what the actual numbers are.

It's, you know, the biggest cash grab in wrestling, history and it's working. I don't know what's going to change. What will change it is if people stop going somehow. But what's going to cause that? A pandemic. I mean, there's nothing. What else is going to cause someone right now? Because WWE's not really, the TV's not hot. What would cause people to stop right now? I don't know. Well, that's the thing is that they're not doing a lot, but they're not doing particularly anything wrong. They're just kind of chugging right along there. But it's the perception of the people that this whole thing is a,

and I'm not talking about even us and the wrestling insiders that listen to us or the real nerds over it. I'm talking about just to the average person. They've, you know, to them, these people are all big stars. This is a big production. And it's normal. to be talked to for 20 minutes at a time when you buy a ticket to see a wrestling show.

So they don't really have any complaints. So what do you see in this information you have there? I'm just having a problem seeing how that this can last on a long-term basis if it not only keeps going up, but just continues at this price sooner or later. You know, people are going to say, well, fuck it. I just, I won't go in person. I'll just watch TV, which still with all the things they're on,

as we know, costs some money. But this is not, it's not making it an accessible thing to introduce it to a, the live event experience to a lot of new fans that may be on the, on the bubble about going or just haven't gone because they can't afford it. But I, you know, I mean, it's always been, I remember one story Dutch Mantell, the first booking job he got, was in Florida,

and this was either right before or right after Eddie Graham died. But to point being, they told him one night because they did real good in a town like Sarasota or whatever, he said, yeah, I said this is the most people we've had in Sarasota, it's not the record gate. Oh, why not? Well, we had higher ticket prices. for some super show. And that Dutch said, that's the first time I found out.

You could just raise ticket prices if you wanted to. So Eddie Graham started that Golden Circle ticket thing in Florida for the big events, if the WWF title versus the NWA title was in the main event, Golden Circle, first row or whatever. And you could get more gross

out of the same amount of people that would normally come and even better if it was more people but it had to be a big show something out of the ordinary to justify raising the price from what you normally gave them, right? And Jared did that, his first show

in the Mid-South Coliseum. Normal Coliseum prices in April 1977, I'm trying to remember whether they had gone to $5 ringside yet or not. But you could, general admission was still $2. But for that first show with Harley Race

against Rocky Johnson, Jerry Lawler against Jack Briscoe, Dusty was on the card. A lot of stars, right? He did a $25 golden circle front row and $15 for the next two rows. And then I think a couple of dollars up across the board, ringside reserve general admission.

In March at regular price, is he had drawn 11,000 something people sold out to see Johnson and race. This was the rematch. And, of course, the March show was just about to break off from Goulis. This was the rematch like seven weeks later. And they only did 90-something hundred people because it scared a couple of thousand off of coming because we've never seen ticket prices that high. but he still did a gross that was comparable to the sellout.

Next year will be interesting because there's no more John Cena, whatever sort of bump and you have to figure there would inherently be one, you got from John Cena appearing in all these towns for a last time, that's gone, that's out the window. So now you're going back to relying on your current stars and what you're doing with them.

And sometimes that, you know, that leads to a little lull because even if it's good talent, when a top star leaves or a top attraction that was why people were buying tickets, you know, when they're gone, it takes a little while for them to get into something else that's going on. So they may have a little low. Who knows? But one way or another, Brian, it's going to cost you a lot of money if you want to follow the WWE, either live in person or even on television

with the streaming service prices and the cable prices and the prices of all of the various add-ons to watch all of this wrestling. It's going to cost you some money one way or another, Brian. It's going to cost you something.

You know that as well as I do. You know how to get around it, don't you? I do. Lie. Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. That's not the way we should put it. well you're lying in search of of a common good you're lying to protect your family no you're lying to keep yourself privacy free you're lying down on your couch and enjoying

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And boy, howdy. Then you can watch all these fancy Dan services that the WW is on and save yourself some money and aggravation. All right. Well, I guess we have to surf on over to the other side of the street and check out AEW's offering of dynamite for October 22nd. They were in San Antonio, Brian, home of the world famous Alamo, home of,

well, that's about it. The Alamo's down there. Sean Michaels and Brian Danielson, I think is from San Antonio, at least he trained with, he trained there with, so he has some connection to the town. Have you ever been to the Alamo?

I've never been to the, I've been to San Antonio. I've never been to the Alamo. I was, I went one time, but they had closed it off for, uh, some type of cleaning because apparently some delirious rock and roll singer had pissed on it just moments before. We love you, Ozzie. I thought so you, you being the music guy would say something like, oh, come on now. I couldn't dismiss it because it's such a well-known story.

Well, nevertheless, so our announcing team. was Sockface and Brian Danielson. They're losing in that. Taz is recovering from surgery, I guess. Get well soon, Taz. I don't know, Shavani may have had a senior moment not been able to get out of the bathroom on the plane. We don't know where Jim Ross is. But Excalibur and Danielson

sitting next to each other with the personalities and the approaches, it's like an eight ball of Coke having a conversation with two tabs of ecstasy. It's just what the fuck is going on? Or Wednesday as we call it. Or it's Wednesday and you know what that means. So they start the show again. They've just said now, fuck it, we're not even going to bother getting into action.

Like they used to start the show when they had competition with the match already started. Now they open up, the announcers talk, they do graphics and match billboards for ever. They do a package on the pay-per-view. They go to the back for a videotape of Adam Page screaming that he's going to ruin Samoa Joe's life while he's being checked out by the doctor who clearly did not go to the Strasbourg school. Okay, hangman, we need you to calm down. Hangman, calm down. And then we go into the opening match for the world six-man tag team title. Joe Hobbs and Shabbata against Lashley, Shelton, and MVP, the Hurt Syndicate. Their top heel, their new top heel, who they desperately need, who's doing a tremendous job, as always,

is defending meaningless belts with a partner who Hobbs needs to be with Joe. and he makes a package there and Shepoopee is useless and they need to turn on him and send him to the forest or something. Take his brain out. There you go. Then put it back in.

I don't think he needs it back. He's not using it. So Joe is a six-man champion. They need to forget that quickly, concentrate on what they're doing with Joe and the title. Hobbs needs to be Joe's henchman. Shepoopi is extraneous.

And they book Joe against the only guys on the roster that he can't bully and out muscle to get heat and be a bully. Because Lashley's bigger than he is. Shelton is pretty good size on his own. And the point is it's not that they can't work together and have a match. It's if you've just switched this guy heel, give him some goddamn cannon fodder to feed on. And but all of a sudden, MVP is going for a wrestling title.

Why? Because they manufactured some reason last week or on collision or whatever, but in the overall scheme of things, MVP is a manager that if they'd have been smart when they were constructing this angle with ricochet and his stooges, they could have got some money out of MVP against Ricochet in a single match on pay-per-view. Or even MVP doing something in a wrestling fashion could have been a destination rather than, okay, this week it's a tag match, then it's a six-man, but the other guys once this time we're

going to win, it's been back and forth. And now, again, they're going to have a okay match here. but it no hobbs is in the ring with the only guy in the company that makes him look small bobby lashly and while hobbs against shelton was good they had a nice pace they were serious lashly against joe was good old shepoopee is just mechanical bland face no reaction gets in the way. Why is MVP wrestling for a wrestling championship when he's part-time

wrestler? Joe was a super heel. These are all my observations. And then finally they got into things. They had tags to Lashley and Shepoope and Lashley just killed him. And then they got a little bit with Lashley

and Hobbs. Where Lashley tried the hurt lock, but they double clothes lined each other, both went down. and then MVP got to shine there at the end with his baller elbow as to the people's elbow or whatever. But they did some back and forth shit before MVP was about to do something, but ricochet came out and distracted him and Joe got the clutch and MVP tapped. So it was a nice match until the cheap interference kind of thing and boom, but they did. do that everywhere.

It was a serious match. It was unusual in that there was no furniture. There's no goofiness. Most everything was in the ring. But again, people like the Hurt Syndicate as baby faces, they're losing as much as they win. And if they were setting up an angle to continue with these three, that might not be bad, but Joe is challenging Adam Page for the fucking championship.

and that's the issue they've just created. So what sense did this make is what the words that are coming out of my mouth? Well, for some of those reasons, I thought they were definitely going to do a title change here. It would make sense. Herd Syndicate need a win for all the people that complain that they weren't losing. They're losing too much. And it's hurting them. It's hurting the hurts.

Well, but imagine, but if they won here, then Joe is on the losing. side of again. You pinch Shabbata. You pinched the man had his brain taken out of his head and returned to Sender. You beat Shabbata. Address unknown.

You beat Shabbata. You free Joe and Hobbs. I mean, it's wishful thinking saying free him of Shabata, but he, they don't lose. He's still on a losing side of the thing. Just have Joe and Hobbs beat the shit out of Shepoopee and don't ever talk

about six-man title again because who gives a shit anyway there's a hundred thousand belts there's girls with 12 belts in a company what do belts fucking mean then joe got to microphone and cut a fucking heel promo that was again the best one on anybody's tv in the past few months. It was better and not as long as some of MJFs have been lately because MJFs just stuck doing the same thing over and over because he has nothing to work with. And this is different. Joe comes off with an aura.

And he said, Adam Page may think this is just some cowboy shit, but I'm going to make Adam Page my bitch or Adam pitch my page my beige. and you believe him. He's a fucking talent. He looks like he is supposed to look and talks like he's supposed to talk. But he's one of the six-man champions.

Anywho, speaking of people who look like they ought to look and talk like they ought to talk, I don't know if this is a compliment, though. Darby Allen, he came out in the spooky lighting with the AEW Mount Everest flag and spread it out in the ring and squatted down on it and started the promo on his

knees. And he's willing to go places for this company. No one else will go and he's willing to die for this place. And these fans like that, right? They're like, yeah, he'll die for us. We won't die for him now. Don't hit us with shit. But he stood up and he got serious.

and it wasn't a long promo and it wasn't badly delivered and he's as long as the death riders are breathing I'm not far behind him he's got a charisma if we hadn't figured out and he hadn't actually explained to us

that he really is a fucking moron he's got a great gimmick if it was a gimmick if he that's the thing you hear him say like I'm willing to die for this place or I would I would die for it and you believe him you're like yeah that's going to cause a scandal that is well yeah I mean that's the thing if if this was a gimmick that he was able to present where he really wasn't just doing stupid and irresponsible shit all the time and not only in wrestling

climbing mountains jumping houses on lawnmowers risked his life just he's the dream of a certain segment of this population that watches the show that he has just floated through life without being an adult and having any responsibility, but he's been successful. And that's like many of the audience, except leaving out the successful part. So they like that. But if this was a gimmick he could portray,

but behind the scenes, he was a competent professional that he was. you could rely on not to do anything stupid and was trying to extend his career while helping the business rather than just, oh, kill me, it's okay. He's got a great gimmick. It's just not a gimmick. So you didn't like the promo? Well, I like the promo, but that's the problem is it that holds me back is that it's not a

gimmick with him and he really likes doing all this stupid crazy shit. so you want to give him a push but you got to be afraid of putting a belt on him because then he'll jump off a building the next day day yes that's what i'm saying how can you depend on this fucking guy i don't know but anywho apparently now brian

they are going to start the tournament for the AEW women's tag team champions because there's not enough belts. The women's division roster doesn't have enough belts. Mercedes has 12 of them alone. Now they're going to have a women's tag team title and they're going to have a tournament.

But before they have the tournament, they had an eight-woman four-team four-way match with the stipulation that the winners could pick their first round opponents in the women's tag team title tournament. And that brings us to where we are here. Megan, Brain and Penelope Pitstop against Julia Hart and Blue Sky, against Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale,

against Jamie Hater and Queen Otta. Did you just say it was a good match? I said big match, big match, big match. Is big good good good big. You sounded so offended that I said it was a good match. I thought I couldn't believe my ears. It's what I was That's a big match

Wondering about It felt like glow When everyone came out And the matching outfits in their little gimmicks It just felt like glow It felt like glow I don't mean that a good way either Well yeah indie wrestlers

With a wardrobe budget Is what you're saying Yeah kind of Yeah Penelope Ford I thought she heard herself When they did that spot in a match where at the same time, Megan Bain does a dive over the ropes,

and Penelby Ford does a moonsault off the top rope to the floor and all the girls, and she landed on her arm, and she came up right away holding her arm. But I guess she was all right. Well, if she was all right, she did better than this match, which took up about 15 minutes of TV time before the Dark Horse team, the one that nobody thought, Jamie Hater and Queenie won the thing. and they were called the Dark Horse team early in the match.

That's how I knew they were going to win it. But while this match may have been meaningless to the overall scheme of things, Brian, apparently from what I'm hearing, from what I'm being led to believe, it's driven another of these endless small wedges in between a long-time relationship that we thought was going to last for life, but with all these constant little, little chips, little pieces that are being tapped out of this relationship, Dave and Brian, Uncle Dave and Cousin Brian Alvarez, again,

have another disagreement over whether shit makes sense or not. And of all things, it's in this match. Is this correct? I've heard this from several sources. Well, we've been emailed this by a bunch of people. And this match, of course, was a four-way tag where the winning team could pick their opponents in the tournament, making the question, oh, my God, how many teams are they going to be in the tournament? I was going to say, they were fighting all the teams were right here. They just have to stand across the ring and point. This is half the teams, apparently, from the tournament. But while listeners have sent over because they always get a kick out of your thoughts on these, and I have not heard this all the way through.

Dave and Brian apparently had a conversation about, it's so ridiculous, getting rid of the bracketing of the women's tournament and how I guess it was rolled out or explained. We're exposed. Or exposed. Let's go to this audio right now. At this point, they had not announced the brackets for the tournament. In storyline, they didn't even have brackets yet because we were still getting teams throughout the show. getting put together. So I don't know what brackets Tony had that he'd...

Let me stop it there because he has a... In the video, there's an image from Dynamite that shows tonight there'll be the bracket reveal. But how could you reveal the bracket if one of the matches is for... In the first round. Yeah. Let's go back to this. Which then would...

But also, that would affect every other match because who knows who the team is going to be that wins and the team's going to pick. Yeah, you can pick any. one so it would affect the entire tournament, one would think. Begin and storyline. Well, he had him. He said they were announced the brackets and they did.

Dave, you don't understand. He said Saturday he had the brackets, but on this show, teams were still getting put together. No, he said Saturday. So when this show started, he didn't have brackets. He said Saturday he was going to announce the brackets. I know, but he didn't have them when the show started. Because throughout the show, teams were being put together. He announced them before the end of the show.

He just said he would announce the brackets on the show. So in storyline, he was hoping that teams would get together during the show. By the end of the show, he had brackets, just as he advertised. That's so silly criticism. No, Dave, this is not a silly criticism. They were putting teams together. Let me stop it for a second. Yeah, they had all this backstage folder all with people,

you be my partner. So, yes, they were still actually making agreements to have teams in this particular show. when Tony had said days beforehand, yeah, I'll have the brackets. It's a silly criticism. Let's go back to the silly. Silly but valid. As the show went on, this is something Ava would do.

I'm going to have brackets on Tuesday. Hopefully some teams get together during the show so I can put them in. He said that they would have brackets on the show. Yeah, that means as a promoter, he's already got his brackets done. He's just going to announce them. He never said that. He never said that. that he said he would have the brackets announced on the show.

If he had the brackets, why didn't he announce him on Sunday or on Saturday? Because he's a promoter. He wants people to watch Dynamite. Okay. Well, then you tune into Dynamite. I'm going to give you these brackets I've made. And he did. And he did.

Instead, he had a blank bracket, apparently. Luckily. He did a story. During the show, the storyline was that he had a match put together where the winners of the match, which is this match that we're talking about, would get to pick their first round opponent. And then he would fill in the brackets. after that. And he just with no thought whatsoever.

Okay, well, here's the rest of these teams. I'll write them down real quick. Here you go. It's a weird hill to die on. It's a weird argument to fight against. Yes. There are other things going on that would be more important, one would think. That was announced.

I don't know what day they announced that, but yesterday. So obviously, he wasn't going to have the bracket at the beginning of the show because they were having a match to determine one of the first round. matches then so he couldn't have he couldn't have the bracket still who was going to be in this tournament if Athena hadn't shown up out of the blue he could have hour and 45 minutes into the show

to tell Mercedes I want to be your partner he could have had who knows what that doesn't matter he had the 20 an ounce of brackets they were they were a team well there it is uh... once again the endless defense of Tony Kahn's booking and TV layouts from Dave

you can't he wouldn't give a cripple crab a crutch as Buddy Landell would say you can't get anything out of Dave if it's critical to anything that Tony did except if it's something Tony did after Dave told him not to do it. Then he's critical. Is there anything to that to Alvarez's argument? I mean, he didn't even really make the argument,

but if you're billing on your Saturday show, we will reveal the brackets Thursday. Should you expect them? Is it a problem if you don't deliver the brackets right away? If there are still things to determine, like you said, it's not even just to determine one match. It would have to determine the entirety of the, the brackets because you can pick anyone.

Well, yes. And see, that's, you can do one of these things, but not all of them. You could advertise, okay, the match we're going to have on TV Wednesday night is going to be the winner gets to pick their opponents in the first round. And then once we find that out, we will assemble all the brackets or assemble all the teams and the rest of the bracket, whatever. that would work or you can say

on Saturday's TV I have the brackets and we will announce them on Wednesday but it just they want to do every goddamn thing at the last minute with almost no build or

warning advance notice that anything's going to go on and just well that's why apparently they added that match with Mercedes Moon on the paperview where she won that interim women's TV title belt that's defended on Thursdays in the Target parking lot, whatever the fuck that was. TV championship.

They realized that she was going to go to another one of these outlaw companies the next day and win their title. And they didn't want her to break the record unless it was on their show. So they came up with a girl's title for her to win on their show in an unadvertible. match to break the record and then went the next day and won some other one. Point it, it's all goddamn nonsense. And they're tripping over everything because they just keep doing everything so fast and at the last minute.

And Alvarez sounds like he's just fed up with it. Just plan your shit better and give it a little room to breathe. Well, that was the women's tag. The winner of the match, of course, Jamie Hater, Queen Amanata. And they pick sky blue and Julia Hart for the first round. I'm sure we'll get some surprises, maybe a team from Iceland or South Africa. Who knows? But this is your show.

Do they have women's wrestling on the Isle of Man? I don't know. And why don't they have an Isle of Woman since they have an Isle of Man? You know what they all need, don't you, Brian? No. a brand new line of work. Ah, yes. Just get them completely out of the whole picture of what they're in now

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let's get speaking of people to laugh at oh boy the cake in the face bit has never been done like this. I am a veteran of cakes in the face or cakes in the faces. Well, I've only got the one face. People often said I was two-faced, but that's not true because if I had been, I wouldn't have been wearing the one I had on. But Renee Moxley Good was in the ring and listed all of Mercedes Moons' accomplishments. She won this belt and that belt and the other belt. And when you say it out loud, it gets even more ridiculous.

And then here she comes. And there's the balloons and the big cake in the ring. And here come the outlaw guys dressed as the male strippers wearing her belts. Did you see the thing at the start of the show where they showed her arriving at the building and she's sitting like on a convertible and there are just all these, you know, men with their, I guess jackets, but no shirts walking out holding her belts next to the car? Yes. It's like the female version of Flair coming out at the WCW pay-per-view with like 18 models or whatever,

which again was that you could tell these guys are outlaw indie guys, so at least they're happy to be on television. But when they used to hire models and Vince did this too, you can tell the models didn't give two shits to be there and weren't going to be fucking the guy in question. whereas if they'd have left it to the boys' own devices, they could have got 12 better-looking women that were fucking them. But it could have come, but nevertheless, that's another story. But here she, as they're coming out,

a goddamn puppet comes out from under the cake table. It's Harley Cameron with the Mercedes puppet. And of course, she's miced under the table that nobody knew she was there, so you can hear. I swear to God. You know, they're sitting there, they're doing a variety show,

a sketch comedy, and they sit there and come up with these ideas, but it's preposterous for a program where it's something's supposed to really be happening. But she's miced, even though she's under the table, but the puppet is talking, and she makes fun of Mercedes

and gets Renee to do the little stripper dance that Mercedes does. And then here comes. She's having too much fun. I'm sorry. Me and Gene wasn't out there just acting like a complete fucking toady all the time. It's too much. She's like laughing at and laughing at.

That's the thing is they all have to show that they're in on it and they're cool and that they're, you know. Anyway, Mercedes, when she came out, she was pissed and she kicked all the male strippers out and then told Renee to get out of the ring and then started cutting a promo talking to Harley Cameron verbally but visually talking to the fucking puppet

and she'll turn and she'll talk to the fans too but she is standing there reacting like the puppet is the person in the promo with her am I instead of bending over and saying hey you fucking bitch get out from under that table

I got something to say to you she's interacting with the puppet. Am I exaggerating this? I think Mercedes-Money got to live out one of her dreams. This is as close as she'll ever get to being on the Muppet show right here and fighting with Miss Piggy or something. See, that's the thing. You admire how committed she is to her act,

but she also sucks at it. She's so unbelievable in everything she says on the mic. It's not, it's not good. good, but yet she's so committed to what inherently is not good. I'm fascinated by it. Do you think she's bucking to replace Miss Piggy? And here comes the Josephine Camel Muppet. They haven't had a camel, have they?

Don't put that in the art, George. George? George, do not. No. No. No. You have a free book? No.

Come here, George. Good, George. All righty. Anyway, I heard that. So Mercedes cut the entire promo with the puppet next to her and then grabbed the puppet and smashed the puppet's face in the cake. And then started laughing. But then Harley looks out from under the table

and like her friend has been run over by a car when she's looking at the puppet with cake on it. And Mercedes is laughing at her, but then suddenly Mercedes starts going up in the air. And she's not levitating herself because she's Linda Blair and a fucking exorcist. Chris Stantlander has been under the table too and stood up between Mercedes's legs

and picked her up in an electric chair type of shoulder ride chicken fight thing and gave Mercedes a facebuster into the cake on the table. The table didn't break. So then she grabbed her and turned her around the other way and chokeslammed her onto the table where it then broke. Brian, do you think, do you think that this is going to have the same impact as it did in Mid-South Wrestling when the Rocker Roll Express shoved my face into cake? And then we came back and took a blackjack to cowboy Bill Watts and set records all over the territory. Oh, I can't imagine that this will do anywhere near the business.

that it did in 1988 when it happened to you on TBS with the Fantastics, let alone... I don't think this is going to do the business it did in 1983 when it happened to me in Shadda. Well, I don't know. I don't know.

Fifi, the dog's birthday party. That's a big day for Fifi. That's right. 34 people in the Channel 3 studio audience. The fact that... Here's what I'd like to know. In K-Fabe. Did she think I'm going to ruin this

puppet by sticking it into the cake? Or did she think, I'm going to hurt this puppet by sticking it into the cake? And then Harley comes out to sell the puppet being hurt. Couldn't she have... How did they get under the table?

How did that happen? Well, that was during the break. They were hustled out under the cover of darkness, I guess. But couldn't she have been over and said, because she's talking, she's saying Harley Cameron's name, Harley? She couldn't bend over and say, get your ass out from under that table and let me talk to you. She talked to the puppet for three minutes.

What did you think about before she cake planted here? Earlier in the promo a couple of times, she referred to the fans as marks. Whether wrestlers think that or not, you rarely hear that used in actual promos. What do you think of that? Well, she wants to talk to all the smart fans and tell them that she knows that they're smart, but they're not as smart as they think they are because she's really smart. She's a mark too because she's a mark for herself.

If you're a mark for yourself, you're worse than if you're a mark for somebody else. They have to, that's the problem with all the indie wrestlers and everybody that facilitates them. They have to let everybody know it's all to work. They can't not have their tongue in cheek. They can't not wink, wink, wink, and nod, nod. And then some of them would think, like this was started by our legendary patient zero himself, shit stain,

that if you say you're not working or acknowledge some element of the fact that everything's a work, then it becomes real all of a sudden. Because you said now the other shit's fake, but this is real, or the use of the terminology. your way. It's just stupid. That started in ECW2, like the whole This is a shoot! Yeah. Okay, what's everything else? The shit.

This was perversely entertaining to me because again, she's so, it's like an SCTV character. She's so committed to being Mercedes-Money yet she can't say a single thing believably. It all comes across like she's been rehearsing this in her mirror maybe with someone using a sock as a puppet. I really don't know.

You know why? Because she's been rehearsing it in the mirror. And I don't know. I don't know who in the equation is using a sock. Who do you think is going to win to match? Who do you think is going to win to match her in Statlander? The belt collector is the AEW women's champion. That's another thing is Statlander has,

and we've said this for a long time, she has size, she has potential, she has athletic ability. Nobody apparently has worked with her promos or maybe they have and this is what we got. The pushes have been start and stop, even more so she's had a couple of injuries, yes, but there's never a consistent push in this company anyway.

She needs to be, she needed to be produced. three and four and five years ago, Statenland. And then she'd be not only more accomplished than she is today, but a more valuable commodity. But at the same time, you know, they just put this thing on her. If she loses it to Mercedes, then again,

at some point, Mercedes is going to have to do more jobs than goddamn George South, or just retire undefeated as the women champion of everything. So I don't know what the fuck they're doing here. And I will say Statlander did a promo in the show and it was a light year's better than the rehearsed speech

she gave in that segment with Tony Storm the week before. So there still is something there. There's something there. It just needs to be brought out and accentuated and capitalized on instead of forgotten about lost in the shuffle like everybody in this fucking company. And another thing they'll be on the lookout for apparently red velvets on the way to return from injury.

And she's been in Ring of Honor. We haven't seen her. Will she run over by a trolley car? How long has she been out? I haven't seen her in three years. Like I said, she apparently has been on the Ring of Honor roster for a while. But the point is,

she is the Ring of Honor women's television champion. So you have to think there's going to be something coming up there because Mercedes-Money is now the Ring of Honor interim women's television champion. I can't wait. There's so many Bell, there's so many championships. And speaking of people that you get sick of and you wish they would disappear from television, Dick the Boozer versus Kyle O'Reilly was next.

And again, big fan of Kyle O'Reilly since he was just a teenage young fellow, different style, works hard, genuine kind of guy has been made meaningless here. this match was going to be as good as Dick the Boozer can be because Kyle is talented, but I can't really stomach watching any more of Moxley than I have to

because of the fakery and the same old shit. So they did about 10 minutes and they went back and forth and O'Reilly got an ankle lock. And Moxley trying to get away from it, struggling to get away from it, reached up and knocked out the referee. As the announcer said, because so he doesn't have to tap out again. What the fun?

This is a guy. He didn't, he didn't sell any major superstar in this company for fucking two years. And now when Calo Raleigh gets an ankle lock, his only alternative is to knock the referee out and get his qualified. But eight, that's the, here's another problem.

Tony has no consistency in the logic that doesn't, exist in his universe he's created. We've talked about this before, but there has to be a standard, somewhat standard level of response to shit from show to show, or else why is it glaringly makes things look goofy? In this case, Moxley punches the referee eight seconds, I counted. After the referee hit the mat, all four of the other referees in the company, were in the ring and waving their arms and fucking yelling. Yeah, how about that?

They were standing there waiting to get their cue, which they were. And then they run in. We've had people attempt to murder other people. We've had flame throwers and bleach pouring and fucking lighter fluid and Molotov cocktails. But one referee gets punched and the entire staff is in the ring within seconds. and then the faces and heel partners all hit the ring and they have a brief skirmish and they went to the break. But it's just because Tony thought of this spot, this thing to do or somebody else thought of it. And let's do it just this way.

And nobody is either there to say or will be listened to. This doesn't make any sense compared to the way we do it every other time and every other show. why can't we get consistency? But it's just a break spot to them. And then when we come back from the break, I'll go out, I'll let you in a second, but it was another six-man tag with the heel partners

against the baby-face partners that had just done the run-in. That's happened a few times recently where everyone who ran in just happened to be in the next match. So whatever you were going to, to say, but tell me what, why they can't just have some consistency in, it's the same thing with the, this certain type of title match means nobody can be at ringside and nobody can interfere, so they don't. Well, in that case, dumb fucks, you've just shown the fans that

if you say nobody can interfere, then they can't. So the next time that the heels interfere and fuck up the main event of your pay-per-view, the fans are made. at you. I'm sorry, go ahead. I was going to ask you, do you think this does anything to help Kyle O'Reilly? Because he didn't beat John Moxley, but John Moxley appeared to think that he was about to be beat or have to tap out. So he did something he's never done before, just hit the referee, knowing it's a disqualification.

It doesn't help Kyle because nobody's going to remember it next week or the week after. on a program without constant interference and constant running in and constant chaos of all kinds, if you take a guy and give him a concerted, consistent push. He might win this week on TV next week. You might show brief footage of the victory, and he might speak. The next week, he might speak again or he might wrestle again, but it might be talking about the upcoming pay-per-view, which is the first time he's on pay-per-view,

where he's going to win in a middle card match. And over a period of time, you've exposed him speaking and working and being talked about and being involved in a bigger match. That's the way you get somebody over. You don't just do one finish and one fucking match, and nobody remembers it three days later. Speaking of not, remember of this three days,

days later. So they got a six-man tag, Briscoe and Roderick Strong and pockets against Claudio and Danny Garcia and Wheeler useless. And this went almost 15 minutes. And I could tell by fast forward that the mascot still sticks his hands in his pockets and his opponents still look like complete idiots trying to stooge for him and make it palatable. But finally, after about, like I said, 15 minutes, Mark Briscoe beats Wheeler useless with the J-driller, which looks great. What a finish, right? Boom, one, two, three. But then PAC comes in and starts kicking his shit out of Mark,

but then Ishi comes in. And Ishi hit Pack with 13 forearms, and Pack went to one knee. How excited. God damn. When the baby face comes in, Omega Save, the heels are supposed to fly. They're supposed to bump.

They're supposed to get people up. Then Schaefer nutshot at Ishii, but Kyle O'Reilly came back in, but they stopped him, and Claudio was going to pick pockets up and throw him on the announced desk the way that he did to Darby, but Darby hit the ring and hit Claudio a couple times with a baseball bat, and the heels finally ran off. So Brian, now do you...

That Sting's Bat. Well, of course it is. Darby's homeless. He can't afford a bat. Stole it from his elder. Sting gave it to it. It was stole the bat. Sting gave it to him.

But to point being, do you remember what the finish was of Moxley and O'Reilly after you've just seen all this shit over the last 15 minutes? I do, but I remember more that Moxley hit the referee than I do who he was trying to get away from or who was in the match with. It's more about the Moxley doing it to the referee than Kyle O'Reilly almost beat Moxley.

Well, yeah, because Kyle just came back in and they just beat the shit out of him now. So, Brian, see, that's the thing. you can always, you can pretty well predict when you're watching AEW that every match will end with a run-in, that every match, regardless whether the heel wins or loses or what happens, they're going to start kicking the shit out of them afterwards. Another six or eight people, they're going to run in. You can pretty much, you can pick it before you even see the show.

As a matter of fact, I wonder if our friends at prize picks have started offering options on AEW. Will the particular wrestler you pick go through three tables more or three tables or less in a given match? That might be something where they could pick up a lot more of the wrestling fans. What do you think? I think that's a very interesting observation you have there. I don't know if that's exactly how it works, but I do know that a lot of the audience

are getting ready for the big game. coming up and they want to see how they can pick them. Pick them. Whether you want to pick them or whether you're Wilson picket, whatever it may be, Jim, prize picks is there for you. Well, you can pick them or you can stack them. Because prize picks is simple to play, just pick more or less on at least two player stats. And if you get your picks right, you could cash in.

You can get in on the action on football and basketball in more than 40 states, including California, Texas, and Georgia, and now prize picks offer stacks. You can pick the same player up to three times in the same lineup. Now, I've said before, that sounds shady. That sounds like you're kind of loading the deck there, but if you want to pick more on Steph Curry's points, three-pointers, and assist,

now you can pick all of them in the same lineup only on prize picks. And you can follow other prize picks players, directly on the app and copy their lineups in one click, whether it be a friend, a celebrity partner, or just someone that you'd like to plagiarize, you can hit the follow button and check out every lineup that they create and then jump in and steal their money from them. Again, not the terminology we would use

and not exactly how that works, but... Well, it says right here on prize picks, how you play is up to you if you want to cheat. No. Seems like you ought to be able to. Oh, Antonio, no, he's yelling something and he doesn't want to stop. Well, if you want flexibility, choose flex play. Flex play.

Flex play where you can get paid even if what are your picks misses. That sounds like you're working for Tony Kahn. Because even if you fail at your task, you'll still get paid. And if you want the biggest payouts, go for the power play. No matter your play, prize picks is a great way to put your takes to the test. They even offer injury reboots. So apparently if you can, I don't know, go to one of the games and throw a banana peel on the court in front of the guy

where he slips and falls down or maybe pick him off with a slingshot, well, then he gets rebooted if he's injured and it doesn't cost you any money. I'm not exactly sure that's how it works, but let's say that's not how it works. Well, just for the sake of saying it, let's say it's not how it. It works something like that. Something, maybe. Let's say that the old, you know, Steph Curry, he's a basketball player, right?

He is? Well, let's say he's running down the court and he's going to make that three-pointer that's going to sink your picks. We'll just squirt a little baby oil right in front of him. He's going to slip, bust his ass and drop that ball. And then you win. Prize picks. I don't think that's how it works. Again, legitimate ways to show what you know, make your pick.

Picks, make your prize picks, make your picks give you prizes, as only delivered by prize picks, Jim. Well, you know, it's not who you know, but who you blow. So right now, download the prize picks app and use the code JCE because you're blowing me, and that way you get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. So right there, 50 bucks for a Hummer, that's not a bad fucking proposition. position. Again, a metaphorical one.

We're talking about a great deal with prize picks. Well, pick more or less on the Hummers as far as how long it's going to take. That's code JCE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup because on prize picks, it's good to be right. And it's even better to get a gum job. They take the whole dentures out. Oh, no, you heard what that means. That means let's get to the important stuff.

That sounds like somebody fell down. Prize picks. Pick how many times they're going to fall down. Well, we're back to the show, Brian. The AEW program. And next was Don Fallis and his prize pupil, the proto star Kyle Feltcher. A lot of people now are complaining because I said,

Kyle needs hair. Doesn't he need hair? He needs to lose the glasses and get some hair because he looks like a dweeb during study hall over at the library trying to cram for his latest test. He doesn't look, from the neck down, he looks like an intimidating athlete.

From the neck up, he looks and sounds like Roddy McFucking Dowell. Can you tell me I'm lying there? That he sounds like Roddy McDowell? I don't know. He sounds like Roddy McDowell. A bit of a in and out? he's very proper but also he just looks so nerdy and dweeby he's too young

young looking we want young people Terry Gordy looked 25 when he was 16 I don't it's just something the look he's got all the tools but God he just comes out and again he looks like you know with the accent and the just the foppishness we need to do something with that he cuts a promo on Mark Briscoe says it's done it's over with we're done with you so of course Mark Briscoe's music came played and he came out he's good on the microphone he sounds like he looks he's not he is a gimmick he doesn't have a gimmick but he wants one more shot sort of like we were talking earlier in the show Tommy Rich and Abdullah the butcher I think I could beat you again

except if Kyle ain't of Dill of the butcher. But Don tells Briscoe, basically, you're great, et cetera, but you sound desperate because you got 10 hungry kids to feed at home. That's a financial burden. You need a family like ours and kind of hints that maybe he was trying to ask him to join it. And he called his children blood-sucking leeches and then said, no, you can't have another match. And then Mark and Kyle stared at each other.

I mean, Kyle's going to have better matches with Briscoe than he does with most people because Briscoe's better than most people here. But we've seen it. We've seen it. And I don't know what there is left for them to do because that was part of the problem with they did every goddamn thing. And then finally, Kyle didn't. He kicked him into balls and hit him with a finish and got a two count.

Then, as I recall, he hit him with three or four more finishers and beat him. So he didn't even fuck Briscoe. He just beat him flat because he wasn't smart enough to kick him into balls, hit him with his finish and beat him there. Briscoe would have had an out. Kyle would have got some heat. You might have necessitated a rematch. None of those things happen.

So I guess they're going to do it again. Did you have any comments to make on this? The other problem is, and again, I don't want to see this again. I have no problem on Mark Briscoe. It's just I just saw this match and it went like 30 minutes. But who else is there

for Kyle to work with? The guy's a belt holder there. He towers over everyone. There aren't too many people for him to work with, are there? And I mean, the worst thing is he's part of the Callas family, which is a giant endless group

feuding with like other giant groups of random people like the conglomeration. Well, some of the, callous people are feuding with their own selves. But also I go back to this, but it remains a problem. They could have got Briscoe over to where he would be at a main event level now

instead of having come out of the joke level middle card. And this would mean more. It would mean more if other people had been elevated when they had the chance, but they didn't. And now, because they've run out of other people, they're trying to do it. too late. Speaking of too late for the unified title, Brian,

Bandito and Oblada. And since this is the unified title, there's no interference allowed. So again, as I referenced earlier, that means the promotion can then dictate whether there's interference or not. So anytime there's interference, the promotion gets the heat instead of the fucking heels.

and this is a title match, but Bandito came in carrying two belts. Now they're the world tag team champions, and he's also some kind of champion in Ring of Honor still, right? Oh, is he the Ring of Honor world champion? Well, no, he's the champion. The tag team champion with the Tony King, but I think is he the Ring of Honor World Champion, too?

Oh, good Lord, I don't know. Didn't he beat Jericho? Well, I applaud him for that. And Okada has his belt. They gave the statistic, Okada is 14 and 0 at AEW in 2025. The most overpushed guy since Bulldog Bob Brown. What the fuck? So they rang the bell with six minutes on the air.

And I know they were going to overrun, but I watched the first three minutes of it. Sloppy, lazy shit. Bandido tries Oblada never tries and they went to break after three minutes with three minutes left on the air and I didn't come back

but my question is after Okada won again who came out and beat Bandito up do you even remember? I don't and there's another part of the problem I guarantee it was somebody as a matter of fact hold on here can we look this up in uh let me let me look up see if i can find the

summation of this the transcript of this important television program to see who beat up bandito bandito bandito bandito bandito bandito bandito bandito bendito hold on ah 14 minutes and 20 seconds it took for Oblotta to beat Bandito. And, uh, you did Dr. Renmin, Topay, frog splash. Da, da, da, da, da, da da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Boy, they did a lot of stuff.

That's a great review. Yeah. Finish saw Bandito hit the 21plex, but Okada backed up so he couldn't spring off the ropes and landed short and Okada hit the rainmaker. after the match the entire callus family came out except take a shit but then take a shit came out with the iw gp title belt and scared at okada so bandito didn't even get beat up he just got beat and now they're staring at each other over their belts and there you have it we have no ratings because they don't give those type of things anymore except they just send a note to the promotions office each week

saying it was bad again. The new system is not doing wrestling any favors, and we ain't getting quarter hours, and it takes days and days before you get any ratings for any of the shows, and they're disheartening when they come out. Is that pretty much summarize the situation right now? Well, part of the issue, too, is with all the changes happening, also it brought some attention, I guess, wrestleomics Brandon Thurston put up something that, like, he was he wasn't directly threatened

but I guess he felt threatened enough that he's not reprinting any quarter-hour numbers he gets anymore Oh yeah they said You don't be releasing that type of information around here, boy Which is interesting because how could that be proprietary information? It's something you're reporting, right?

But you know, who knows? Well, yeah, but they have to tell the advertisers because that's how that the advertisers determine what they're paying and et cetera, et cetera, of, but then that creates a where, you know, where do you draw the line? Where is the cutoff point of who gets this deep, dark, secret information? But it sure does cut down on some of our fun, doesn't it? Yeah, fuck you, Nielsen.

Yeah, I never liked him. I don't care if people let me tell you about my best friend. Sure, it was a nice song. But that's the last thing he ever did good for anybody. Fucked Nielsen. Not the same guy in any way. What? He didn't start that company? That wasn't him.

What did he do? He drank. To death? Or just to excess? To excess. And then he cleaned up and then he died. How old was Nilsson when he died? I don't know, but the famous myth, and it is only a myth,

but for years people thought it could be real. that when he died, it was like the mid-90s, his funeral was like during one of the earthquakes in Southern California, and the rumor was like the ground opened up and swallowed the coffin in the funeral home, which is amazing. And of course, it wasn't true at all.

Well, I want to go that way. Just have the earth open up and swallow me right up. Do you want people there? Do you want it to be like something where some people are going to? Yeah, I want a few to do. fall in on top of me. I'll take some bitches with me. If I could figure out a way to make that happen,

I would leave a lineup for my service with all the people I wanted in the front row closest to the edge of the hole. All right, are we done here for this week? I think so. I mean, you know, I don't know how much more there is to say. Well, in that case, let's say no more because a wink is as good as a nod to a blind man.

until then ladies and gentlemen we'll be back with your show brian in a few days to drive through and then another one of these next week we got saturday nights main event coming up there's all kinds of stuff going on and Halloween and all that good shit so until then folks and in parting we wish you a very happy and healthy thank you fuck you and bye bye everybody