Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 388

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim previews WrestleMania 41 and reviews WWE Raw & the WrestleMania 9 documentary! Plus Jim talks about AEW's international friendships, Mariah May to WWE rumors, Nick Khan's comments about Tony Khan & AEW, Dr. Tom Prichard's hair, and much more! Send in your question for the Drive-Thru to: [e-mail]  Follow Jim and Brian on Twitter: @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Merch! https://arcadianvanguard.com/ 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.

All right, you got the extended version because the gardener's here. Welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-through. Hello again, friends. It's me. The gardening friends decided now is the time for spring cleanup. It's one of those days. It's one of those moods. I'm your host, The Great Brian Last. We have lots to talk about. We're going to preview WrestleMania, which no one cares about this year. This whole show is just starting off wrong. Here he is the leader of the cult of Cornett,

the man who will be a ray of happiness today. Mr. Jim Cornett. If this is starting wrong, I don't want to be right. Oh, my God, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, Brian last has a porcupine up his ass today. He is being bombarded with bad news, bad luck, and bad intentions from all sides. and that's the the organ solo recital whatever you might have perpetration that was one of the versions of the extended cut for the record well yeah it's it started off

like a fucking funeral dirge and i was thinking my god he's playing himself into the great beyond and then you tried to pick it up in the middle and then it got kind of in a godda divita and then it got perky at the end but here we and your guard you goddamn guard They're not gardeners. They're not planting flowers and putting fucking fertilizer around your begonias and your petunias and things of that. They're picking up sticks and they're going to cut to fucking grass. I think you are dignifying their position and or being derogatory to the gardeners that study the farmer's almanac, Brian. And they get down, they put their hands in the dirt and the soil.

And they plant the seeds that grow toward the sun with the rain to bloom as the flowers that bloom in the spring. These guys are just cutting the grass and picking up sticks. They should consult the farmer's almanac like WWE said they did for WrestleMania 9. I don't know if it'll rain. Let's get the farmer's almanac. Well, we'll get to that. We'll hopefully review that. We're in the fucking desert.

What are the chances? But, you know, there's all kinds of stuff here. We might as well be honest with the people, Brian. You know, we're going to get through this together. I feel like my weather guy, Mark Weinberg, on a tornado warning. Folks, the next few weeks, we're going to get through this together. Man, we got a big, go ahead. You know who I've heard say that recently a few times?

Stephen Pinoo. He says that literally when he's deposing people and they get rattled. Don't worry, we'll get through this together. It's the funniest thing. But anyway, back to you. Well, back to me, Mark, for the weather. No, I'm just going to get through this together because it's a big weekend coming up or a big week coming up or a big multi-day like structure coming up where there's wrestling every goddamn day. Multiple, if you're one of the people who are younger and have more of a tolerance for that type of thing,

there's multiple events going on that you could either go to, live or you can watch on TV or you can buy on pay-on pay-per-view or you can stream from the Golden Streaming Services. Have you ever read that book? The Golden Rivers by IP Freely? Was that a Dell book? It was a Dell book. He went out with Sam.

But anyway, and the viewers and the listeners are going, what the fuck? The WrestleMania is coming up. there's all the promotions that piggyback off of WrestleMania, there's the Hall of Fame, there's the Raw after WrestleMania, there's the Smackdown before WrestleMania, there's the, what other things are there before and after WrestleMania?

I don't know what you already said. Hall of Fame as an NXT that I don't think we're going to watch just because of the time. And AEW is still going to meanwhile be trying to eke out their offerings that they normally do, in some fashion. Do they have collision Saturday? No,

isn't this the one where... Oh, they moved it up. They moved it up. They've moved it up. They've moved it up. But so what we're going to do, folks, is today here on the program. Dark side. Two episodes of Darkside, this week and next week.

This week and next week. Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say is we're going to talk about today on the program, a few of the things leading up to that. And then on the experience, this coming within the next couple of days. We're going to try to get the AEW dynamite offering out of the way and speculate and pontificate on the dark side.

And then, boy, we're going to have a supersized couple of shows over the following days after that with night one, night two, Hall of Fame, my nervous breakdown. But we're all going to get through it together, folks. this together. That's right. Yes, holding hands, walking across the, no, all right. Anyway, it's your program today. How many people do you think at WrestleMania, there's going to be a hundred thousand or so. Well, I guess the same

50,000 for two nights, but you know the peripheral, there's going to be a thousand fucking wrestlers. This is the weekend of the year that every wrestler dreams of because they get to be employed and we hate because we have no life besides presenting this. But with a thousand wrestlers and let's say 50,000 fans, they had about 5,000 crew people and associated other promotion hangers on and equivalence and et cetera, there's going to be probably what, 70, 75,000 wrestling-oriented people descending on license. Vegas.

Las Vegas isn't what it used to be. Brian, they've run the whores off and all of the mob and the rat pack. And now it's the goddamn Eminem world and the world of Coca-Cola. And it's a kid's, it's, it's a kid's fucking bouncy castle in a desert now. Instead of back in the old days when you went there to drink and gamble and fuck. And watch the LPWA. and why well even then back in those in the 90s it was still a little unsavory I got there in the mid 80s first time

you could actually you could still smell the piss where Frank Sinatra had pissed on the goddamn dunes I'm talking about the hotel not the actual sand dunes yeah back in those days but now it's it's goddamn it's a fucking it's a big open air pinball machine full of children and family activities. Where's Buccy Siegel when you need them? Yeah, they cleaned up Times Square.

And they've cleaned up Las Vegas. Where do you go to have a good filthy time anymore? Philadelphia. Well, that's true. No one's cleaning that up. I was about to say there's some aspect of taking the word filthy too far. to all of our friends in Philly, you know, you loved us first, me and the midnight,

so we'll always have a bond there. But Jesus Christ, there's a fucking odor. It smells like a man eating from Munda cheese and the septic tank of a slaughterhouse in some places in downtown. So what I was going to say was with all the many people there for WrestleMania in Las Vegas, how many people, Brian,

do you think are going to be wearing the new Corny's drive-thru t-shirts? Or just the Cornish. shirt. They have so many options now. They also could just go to the store at Jimcornet.com. They could be wearing the cornet face shirt. There's so many options right now to represent Jim cornet and the various podcasts with more to come. And of course, you can get the new corny shirt. You can get the drive-through official shirts. There are two different options right now. Go to Arcadianvanguard.com. Go to YouTube. It's our store. It is attached to our page.

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It's Derby Day, but it is also the debut of the May, Mayhem sale at Jim Cornett.com from Cornett's collectibles. vault sale. I told you about it the other day, Brian, we were doing the program. Hotchkiss and I have gone through the entire storage unit, consolidated two into one thanks to the recent sales, and have inventoryed everything, fix some clamshells on some old figures, so they're brand new when they were damaged in shipping. And on Saturday, May 3rd, you got something for everybody, but not enough for everybody. So you've got to get in early because we've got TNA and WWF trading cards of yours truly.

The real autograph on a mint condition card, not some kind of forged or suspect thing on eBay. But there's limited numbers, I think, like 22 of the WWF cards and 19 of one of the TNA cards and some other special stuff. We've got Smoggy Mountain Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling programs in mint condition, vintage magazines from the 60s and 70s, including a real nice wrestling review with a Luthez color center fold. We have got DVDs that we haven't sold in years that we've got 10 or 12 of, maybe six, I think, of one. We have WWF publicity pictures of me straight from the office that I've had for 30. years that can now be personally autographed to the fine folks out there in the Colt Cornette and the last remaining action figures of the sold-out variety,

the bloody variant, the raw debut. Some of these are on sale because in the case of the bloody variant, there are, I think, about 20 that are perfect. And then there are, I think, five or six that don't have the tennis racket because the fact forgot so those are on sale and the last four announcer play sets are on sale at half price because the corner of the box is crinkled and you get me there's some scratching dings in there but if you've missed any including the original figure the two boxes i saved until my death and then i've re-evaluated that and said well what good is it going to fucking do me so anyway Saturday

May the third and for all of those things and many more and the at the 1950s three wrestling fans book by Sid Feeder. I hope I don't... Is Sid still alive? Do I have to give him a commission on this? Well, no, you're not selling it. I mean, there's nothing to give him. He got a commission from the original sale of the book.

Yeah, so fuck him. And he's dead. Well, good. No, don't say that. I mean, you don't know. I'm trying to sue me for selling one copy of this remarkable book that he wrote in 1953 on my website in 2025. It's an amazing resource for any of the book.

budding historians out there. There's one copy that's going on sale, but fuck Sid. Sid got his fucking long ago. As a matter of fact, as a wise man once said, fuck Sid and Ross too. Jimcordet.com.

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All right. This is a great show so far. Uh-huh. We have to talk about this year's WrestleMania, just because why not at this point? But before we get there, I want to talk to you about something that I think you watched, I watched,

we heard from a ton of the listeners about it. WWE on Peacock released a documentary about WrestleMania 9. That was the WrestleMania in Las Vegas. Now they got a car. Now there's two guys and another guy driving something. Are they around in the corner into your living room from the dining room? No, they're working in tandem to get the leaves away from over here now.

But anyway, as I was saying, this documentary, I don't even know if it had a name, I'm sure it did. Becoming a spectacle. Becoming a spectacle. Or as some people called it, rewriting history, but whatever you may call it, the documentary. about WrestleMania 9, of course, you weren't yet in WWE, but you would arrive a few months later. What were your thoughts on this documentary? Let's talk about it. Yes. Well, and as a matter of fact, I wrote somewhere in my notes here, thank God I wasn't in yet. Thank God I started two months later. This was April. And so April, May, June, most of you, I started four months later.

There were some things I got a kick out of. We'll talk about the rewriting. history part. But I did get a kick out of seeing people that you never see on any of these documentaries, the production people. The Kerwin Silfis and Nelson Swagler, George Germanakis, had just started when I just started. And, you know, I worked with all these guys and ladies, some of them. I didn't see Jennifer Good on there. I would love to have seen, you know, her, but it worked with all of them at the TV studio when I was doing the announcing part of my tasks up there and everything.

And always like those guys. Basil DeVito, we didn't really ever have much interaction. I don't know. How long was he around? Was he still around when I was there? Oh, he was still there, and he started 10 years earlier, just about, 84, 85? I don't remember having any conversations ever with him. Maybe he was just on the other side of the building.

He was handing out tickets with Linda. Well, that's true. And he was trying to figure out ways to be more show busy, apparently. But anyway, George said they had 575,000 hours of footage now in their library. library archives, whatever, which is just absolutely bat shit at this point. And what do you think? 472 hours will actually ever be seen by anybody by the time they get finished. But this, the whole special, it seems like the tone they wanted to take was, well, this was the

first time at WrestleMania became a spectacle. And, you know, it was a precursor to the modern. era where it's, you know, bigger and more magnificent. But Jesus Christ, Almighty, at the time, Brian, I can testify to this even by you were alive, but I was obviously a little more cognizant of things, what, 30 fucking whatever years ago. This was a bomb, as Jackie Gleason would say. This show was a big bomb, wasn't it? with the

reaction from the fans in Las Vegas in a makeshift arena in a parking lot to Hulk Hogan swooping in and winning the belt was great because oh shit this is shit we didn't know we were going to see

but it didn't really play especially the hardcore fans the die hard fan the smart fans of the air or whatever hated it and you know Jim Ross was mortified that the first day that he shows up to work for this company

he's wearing a fucking Toga kissing a camel I mean it you know whatever he says now nostalgia and time may have tempered you know the reaction but no they called it the world's largest Toga party other than WWE employees there was like five people in Togo is in the audience. Yeah, no, that part didn't get over.

And they could, and I remember the boys at the time were grumbling, they could have saved the money on the camels and the elephants and paid us. I was in Smoky Mountain Wrestling at that point, but I still knew obviously a bunch of guys in Atlanta, and everybody was rolling their eyes at what the fuck, this clown show. They tried to make it more in highlights. you can make this even more pomp and pompous and pageantrious than it was, but it actually, there was a lot of this shit

that just fell fucking flat, right? But now it's the precursor to, maybe it's like the Ali Anoki fight to mix martial arts. They went out and had a bunch of camel shitting in the parking lot of a casino. And that whole narrative, and I apologize for the heavy, be buzzing behind me. That whole narrative that this was a precursor of future

WrestleMania's or this was the first one that was a spectacle. That's nonsense. I don't even understand what the point is in that discussion. It wasn't the first spectacle. You know, WrestleMania 1 had the celebrities. WrestleMania 3 broke the indoor attendance record allegedly. WrestleMania 4 and 5 were at Trump Plaza and it got a good amount of attention. Six was at the Sky Dome. Again, tons of celebrities. Yeah. And then again, seven at the Coliseum didn't work out for various reasons. And eight was at the Hoosier Dome. It looked incredible on TV.

So I don't understand. I think it's a false narrative that they tried to do to have some reason to present this documentary. Well, and also the day gum, it was a spectacle, even at WrestleMania 2, which, you know, didn't critically get a lot of acclaim. But it was a spectacle, the fact that they had football players involved in the Battle Royal. They were in three different locations and blah, blah, blah. But the Caesar's palace leaned into a spectacle, as in Mama Cornett used to say they made a spectacle out of themselves. It was just over-the-top goofiness because they pan-and Vince panicked,

as he would later on with WrestleMania 13 and went back to what he knew because they made the point. And this is why Brett's bone of contiguous, they had gotten away from the Hulk Hogan era. Hulk had said, well, in the early 90s, Vince didn't believe in the character, so I decided it was time to take a step back. It was old as shit,

and he wanted to make movies and sitcoms, baby. So Hulk left after eight, and Brett and Taker and Sean has stepped in. The Steiner's came in. They made the point of the Samoans, They had to kind of mention them because of Yoko, the new monster heel. And Taker said we had to make new stars. And then, you know, they've put this work in.

And just because then they decide they're going to go to Las Vegas, which had never been a big money wrestling town. Think about it. They, they, just because it was the, they had promoted. the boxing event, Vince and the WWF had, and got the relationship. Which was a flop. I don't know if they outright said it. It was a flop, and it wasn't considered a great fight.

They made it seem like it was a great fight, and Caesars couldn't wait to work with WWE again. No, well, that's the thing is the fight was a flop, but the Caesars and the WWF had made the connection. And then all of the executives started talking amongst themselves, and I'm sure Ed Cohen, bless him, is no longer here, but he, booked all the arenas at that time. I'm sure he was involved. But old Basil there, Basil, Basil, Basil. And they thought, oh, this will be a great cross-promotion. They weren't thinking about whether or not that they could, because they were used to

selling out WrestleMania, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, but they were in a rebuilding period with different talent. See, that's a lie too, because WrestleMania 8 didn't sell. It didn't come anywhere close to selling out. Well, I know, but they either did WrestleMania too in in LA. Well, I said that was a flop, but they'd done the Silver Dome in 87. And they had done the fucking, the Hoosier Dome,

bless them. You know, at least it was in Indiana, in Indianapolis, where people from Chicago and Azabada, you could drive to, but what they did was... In 91, they had to move it from

the 100,000 seat LA Coliseum because they couldn't sell any tickets. Well, that's true. And, well, that's because of their... And also there you go. Maybe that's when Vince started to lose faith in Hoth Hoth Hogan. In old Hoth Hogan. That's when Vince started to lose faith in Hoke Hogan, too,

because that was a fiasco in the war and everything. What I'm saying to you is they should have realized, but it was the business end of each company talking to each other. Caesars, they want attractions in Las Vegas back at that point. and the WWF marketing and live event office, I'm sure, thought that, oh, this will be great, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, because you heard the guys' remarks for Las Vegas. But they go to a town that's never drawn major crowds for wrestling

at a point where they're not hot anymore, and they don't even have Hok O'Kogan, it used to be hot, and they're in a rebuilding period as far as the, the new Undertaker had only been there, what, two years, three or whatever, as far as the newer 90s guys that were going to be coming in are already there and going to get over. And so their sales were soft in advance and Vince Go did the same thing he always does. He doesn't panic, but he goes, oh shit, and changes his mind. it goes back to

Hulk Hogan or at WrestleMania 13 it was big guys on top to sit and take her whatever the fuck but that's what he did and then it pissed all the boys off I thought sometimes people were a little grumpy

when I got there but I thought well it's a different environment The other thing is I don't think it really helped business much and I don't think you could have thought it would have. Again You know, they had a down swing in popularity over the last two years. It wasn't just because Hulk Hogan left. It was because he left because of the steroid scandal.

It was because of all the publicity over the sex scandals. There were all these things that played out in public. On Donahue, on Geraldo, on the news, on Larry King. It was everywhere. So, WWE as a brand was probably more toxic at that period, maybe even more so than the Benoit period. Because it really had a negative stigma on it, wrestling, those wrestling people.

So they kind of had to, that's what caused the need for Brett Hart to be elevated and Sean Michaels to be elevated. Undertaker was kind of pushed to the top right away. But Hogan returning in the midst of that. Again, a new era, they just kick off Monday Night Row on January,

which is a whole new kind of show that Vince McMahon had never, Vince McMahon didn't do live weekly shows. That was a new thing. And then all of a sudden to bring Hogan back in the middle of that, after Brutus Beefcake did not get overright when they brought him back, at Monday Night, where all the fans rejected them. And then you brought Hogan into that.

Wouldn't that the night that somebody screamed, kill yourself. Oh, they screamed that. And again, my favorite was still, my wife left me. Good. And then my parents died. Good. And then my face got crushed in a parasillion. And this guy yells, let's go sailing.

But that's what they, and they gave him a feckless Jimmy Hart. Babyface Jimmy Hart is a shadow, obviously, of what he was in Memphis, let alone as just a heel manager in WW. left, it didn't work, it wasn't a big thing. For the Vegas crowd, maybe it was, but how much of that Vegas crowd was people from Vegas and how much of it was people who were in town visiting? How many people actually traveled there? It was a puzzling decision and it was a bad decision.

It was either the, maybe some of your gardeners were there in Vegas, but it was either the tourist crowd that probably maybe hadn't seen a live event or many, or it was the fans in Las Vegas that didn't get to see a lot of fucking events at that point. And, you know, yeah, they're loving everything. But that was, well, as a matter of fact, then it was King of the Ring that he dropped it back to Yoko with the, the explosive camera from the Japanese photographer, right? That's the fireball to the face is the only way Hogan would drop it. And then he was gone, thankfully, the month before I actually.

got there. What'd you think about the argument in this that Vince McMahon did it only to help Yokozuna get over, that he would eventually beat Hogan for the title again, and that would help everyone and everything, including Brett? Well, that's what Hogan would say, because, yes, I will anoint someone else with my star-making power. If Yoko Zuna had given him the bonsai drop, after even some heel shenanigans, that would have got Yoko over. but an exploding camera from a fucking Japanese photographer, it was just more hoo-ha, because Hogan said he's going to do it,

and that's the least he could do, literally, and then he left again. So I don't know. This was just, he hornswoggled. Vince was like, oh, shit, we got to sell out Caesar's Palace. This has to be a big event besides the camels, pal. We got to get Hulk.

and Hoke fiddled him. You know, but there is something, too, to what you said before, like, the boys said, hey, you could pay us the money you're paying for the camels and all this stuff. They make it out like it was this spectacle and people loved it. I don't think any wrestling fans at all cared about Caesar and Cleopatra. No. Showing up. In fact, it was grown-worthy because, like, who are these fucking actors pretending that they're Julius Caesar?

to invite the wrestlers to come to Caesar's palace. It was ridiculous and it was that stuff. And yeah, I mean, Bobby Heenan on the camel is a cool thing, but none of that shit with the Toltoga theme and the Roman Empire theme, none of that was necessary. Bobby can get something out of anything, right? If there's a camel there or whatever the fuck. But for the rest of it,

that's one of the things is that is, that is Vince's I'm trying to explain that he loves that kind of shit we'll have camels and togas and fucking elephants and the pomposity of the thing

that's the kind of shit that Vince smoke and mirrors was trying to in his mind would make up for maybe we ain't got such a great fucking attraction this year and it's hard to explain why he likes this kind of shit but he does but the point is no, at the time the wrestling fans

didn't particularly give a shit and the other companies were rolling their eyes at the fucking fakery and phoniness of this and the boys in the WWF, even though now they remember it somewhat fondly, I remember a lot of them from that era are going, yeah, they could pay the fucking camels. They can't, you know, it was just ridiculous

but now they all look back on it like everybody was so happy to be in Las Vegas. These are still international goddamn star wrestlers. Why were they so happy to get a few days in Las Vegas? If I went to Las Vegas in that era, for fun, I would go without having to fucking wrestle in the middle of it. Because I figured anywhere you went and still had to wrestle somewhere in the middle of it,

it wasn't all that fucking fun. But they're like, oh my God, we were in, We got to go to, you know, Valhalla for three days. And they just all seemed happy in hindsight about how they were in Las Vegas, possibly because this was the company authorized documentary they were being asked to speak on. Yeah, I think so. Lots of Vince McMahon in the documentary. Certain people didn't mention them.

Bruce Pritcher just called it WWE when obviously referring to Vince McMahon, but Basil DeVito would talk about Vince. They couldn't get around that. And watching the footage, you could see why. was Vince's baby. That's the reason all these things that were unnecessary

were there. Vince wanted them. But not one, I didn't see one image of, and obviously he wasn't mentioned, Kevin Dunn. That's what I was going to bring up is that he was there.

He was definitely there. But I was fascinated by the backstage footage of Vince producing where he's telling people what to do and the motions and the whole things, that's classic events.

You'd see that for hours every TV day. And the stuff with Basil DeVito and, you know, his books were, and he explained the had the map how to scale the prices for the seating for the building and stuff like that. That was fascinating. And all the other stuff behind the scenes

with the production people, Kevin Dunn's face not fucking once. And if they could even show a man publicly accused of shitting on a person's head, but they won't show Kevin Dunn? Where does that leave their relationship? But anyway, that's

the thing, is that you know, the new talent they made mention that they debuted. They had Lex, Lugar, but he was debuted as Vince wanted him to be the narcissist, which

had been modified from narcissus like he was going to be a Greek gladiator in love with himself. And Bobby Heenan couldn't fucking pronounce narcissists. He got narcissicists anyway. But they did that poor Lex for a while until he became Lex Lugar. And then they had also debuted our friend Jorge, Giant Gonzalez. And Bruce was still defending this. And even Taker had to say it was ridiculous.

But to poor fella, you know, he wasn't ever going to fucking get over, but he was very tall, a very tall man. You don't think they could have done more with him just by changing the outfit alone? No, because we tried before that. He was a nicest guy in the world. But he not only didn't get it, but physically,

see he had he had played basketball in Argentina and then the Hawks the Atlanta Hawks had signed him because he's seven feet seven really or whatever he was

and they brought him over and that's when Turner owned WCW and they quickly figured out that he was seven feet seven but he couldn't fucking play in that environment and so since they already owned him, he was making him a wrestler.

And I walked into CNN Center to one of the booking meetings one day with Jim Ross. And in the lobby, there's this fucking giant. He's sitting in the lobby chairs. He's so tall, his knees are up above his head as he's sitting in his fucking chair with his feet flat on the floor.

They said, there's our new giant. Jesus Christ. But he just couldn't. Well, you saw some of the highlights that they were able to show. And I, you know, it was just, it was, eh, anyway, but nevertheless, um, so Brett had thought,

and everybody thought that he was heading to WrestleMania, a yoko, the main event, title match, whatever, but then they bring Hogan back and he gets the tag team double main event, Hogan and Beefcake with DiBiase and Rotunda. because they trusted them not to hurt anybody because what is the odds that both of those guys were going to have fucking damaged faces when they get in the ring? But, you know, Taker alluded to, well, we were trying to make new stars and they were, they were bringing the past back. And Brett said they, Vince even told him, don't worry, you'll have nothing to do with Hulk.

Of course, Hoc's statements were he's so insufferable in that he's saying something nice about someone in words, while the meaning and the context and the inflection is all about how great he was to do whatever he did for them. You know what I mean? The ultimate backhanded compliments and just the insufferableness of his smug. Well, of course, it was all me behind everything. but, you know, that was, I liked this thing as we, as they were building up to the show, I will make the point. I like this thing to look at the backstage, you know, set up stuff of the people that I knew. And I hadn't thought of that person in a while.

I got a tickle out of the, because the guys didn't used to have cameras in the back like that. And they showed all the shots of everybody said, this is for what? What's this for? And I guess, you know, this is where the major rehearsals started for this type of thing. And I can understand in wrestling, rehearsing entrances, especially when they're on television, so that, you know, you know where you're going and you don't fucking go the wrong way and the camera can shoot you. But I didn't know it would ever come to actually they just go out in the building and rehearse a fucking match. That still kind of galls me.

have to do it these days. But then they got to the day of the show. Before we start on that, Brian, did I miss anything in the preamble and the build up to this thing? I mean, they went over the different stars they were trying to make, and, you know, again, everyone has different comments they make

that may not necessarily be true, but sometimes it's just what they feel about how they were used or anything. And then, you know, Sam Roberts seems like a nice guy in these things, but he doesn't really know history or... Yeah. You know, when you say, like, I will fight anyone if they say that Doink versus Crush wasn't well booked. Oh, I know.

I made a note of that. I made a note of that. Hold on. He said it. It's okay to be a fan. Where did I? Oh, the story had been told immaculately between Doink and Crush. Again, it's okay to be a fan.

It's okay to be a fan that does work with WWE. So you're never going to say anything to disappoint them. But, you know, he didn't really know history. And again, they had other people like Natalia and Kofi Kingston that were making comments that just sometimes they have modern stars for no reason. They're not really adding anything to the discussion. And I thought that was the case here. What do you think of Bruce showing Paterson's book? Well, no, that was his book.

No, what he said was Paterson's. No, hold on. Well, I'll bet you five dollars. But go back and he said, Paterson and I had, this is the Bible. Pat Patterson and I had these books, because that's the same kind of book I've got. It just started later. That was what everybody on the creative team had to have.

It was the same kind of book as Vince. It was laid out the same way as Vince. You had to, you ordered your book and your pencils through Beth Zaza, Vince's secretary. So he insisted everybody use the same fucking pencils because he liked the way that they erased without smudging too bad. He erased a lot. And events would have somebody like Beth or someone

in the office fill out his, but it was a ledger book that he made into a date book by drawing three lines on one page, four lines on the other page for seven days. And when you opened it, there was your Monday through Sunday, and you would draw lines or you would date it with a pencil and you'd write in all the information for all the fucking buildings and all the the card and when's the last date we were there and when's the next date we're coming back to that town and what's the seating capacity and blah blah blah so everybody had the same fucking book

so that was Bruce's but Pat would have one identical and Vince obviously would have one identical to that it just it was your different handwriting as to what the difference was and again like we said before and we'll continue to say the narrative is questionable, the actual facts being said may not be facts, but I think the highlight of this thing was the backstage footage. Just seeing that and all those people in that time, you wanted more of that. You wanted more of that. You wanted to see more of Randy Savage interact with Linda

McMahon. Like that I wanted more of it. But, you know, they obviously have to... I don't know if you wanted any more of it, but... Well, she was all over this thing and you barely saw her. You know, Linda was very involved in all this stuff, and obviously these cameras were all over the place. but for all the footage they shot, we really didn't see that much, all things considered. But that's, you know, when they got to showtime, as they say, or show day, they'd done the rehearsals all day, but Hogan showed up with beefcake, I guess, and Jimmy Hart. They showed them walking in two hours before showtime.

And Hogan's got the glasses on, but this is the famous black eye day. And the first thing that Taker does is bring. up the savage rumor without actually coming out and saying it, but then Steiner told it. And then apparently they showed Hogan what Steiner said on the fucking laptop. And Hogan was like, well, if that's the way he wants to tell it or what was his comment, if that's, that's the way he wants to tell it, that's fine. He said if that's, he made it sound like that's what Randy told them or something. Oh, okay.

The way he phrased it at one point was kind of like, well, maybe that's, what he heard from Randy. That's what Randy said. Yeah. But that's what a lot of people have heard. I mean, you've talked about in the past here on the show. That's the story you heard when you got there a few months later, right? Yes, and well, of course, Bruce told the jet ski story

is what I heard. And Hogan told the jet ski story and Brutus backed him up on it. But basically he walks in with a giant black eye and stitches. And the story was that that's when apparently

Savage and Elizabeth had been having issues and because Elizabeth was good friends with Linda Hogan that Liz had gone to stay at their house and Hogan didn't tell

Savage where she was or some drama to that effect and the Savage punched him and Savage was making fucking thinly veiled allusions to it on commentary on the show

which they played here. Yeah. And by the way, knowing what we know now about Hulk Hogan, let alone Linda Hogan, you could understand why he was concerned at that point that his wife, who, you know, whether right or wrong, had been with him like 24 hours a day and when not with him locked away, all of a sudden she's with them. It wasn't just like she's with people who are trying to help her. She's with nuts.

She's with a nut woman and a guy who will lie to anyone about anything. You could understand why Savage. is upset. The jet ski story, how the fuck, how does that work? How much is a jet ski way that it hit him in the face and he just had a neatly placed black eye? Well, that's, that's the fucking other thing. Is the story he tells is that he fucking hits a fucking wave and he gets thrown up in the air

and flips over the jet ski and he tries to tuck, but the jet ski lands on his face and he's got, now the injury doesn't look too bad. It's a hell of a punch, but to be whacked with a flying jet ski. it's still only a black eye and a cut on the eyebrow. So, and also with him and Beefcake both, why don't they stay out of the water? They can't stay out of the water. So, and Beefcake backs up Hogan's story. For the record, Beefcake backs up.

I don't even know if they get along anymore. And I don't know when this was filmed. And Jimmy Hart does, but he wasn't there. They just called them up and said, Jimmy, here's what's going on. And he panicked. Yes. Well, then that sounds about right for Jim. Oh God.

What do you think in your gut really happen? I think Savage punched him in a face because just the fact that they are allowing in a company produced documentary, they're allowing Undertaker and Steiner to in various ways allude to it or tell the story, and they showed the clips of Savage even fucking playing ha-ha on commentary about it. must have been a hell of a bunch. He seemed like he was having a ball if you watch any of that one Gerty Savage that day. So I'm sorry, but, you know, even if he and Savage were Hulk and Savage were on the outs, you know, Savage wouldn't do that in that way with that tone in his voice if a fucking jet ski

had fallen on a guy's face. If a jet ski fell on his face, wouldn't he have more than a black eye? Well, of course he would. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand. I don't know what beefcakes. I also don't know if they were partying. Maybe Brian Blair was there.

Maybe someone could ask him, if Hogan showed up the day of WrestleMania and you were the promoter and he had a black eye, would you try to use that? They really didn't do anything to, like, say, like, well, we just found out money incorporated attacked Hulk Hogan at the hotel before. Like, they didn't do anything to build it into a story, should they have? Well, see, maybe that might have been a thought except if Hogan came to WrestleMania a two-hour, he's got a fucking black eye in stitches, right? This is not a goddamn torn ACL, a fucking neck that needs surgery,

a goddamn career-ending injury, you can fucking have a match. With DiBiase and Rotunda, obviously, they said, you know, we knew to stay away from his face. But if he came in two hours beforehand with his emotional support group, he was probably given Vince some shit already. about the whole thing. And I'm sure that part of this led into the goddamn finish they did that night, probably. But it's not like that he was ever in danger of not being allowed to,

or not being able to work. And the story he said, where he fooled the fucking commission doctor, yeah, we shot an angle doctor, a fake stitch. A doctor knows what stitches look like. The athletic commission doctor saw a fucking wrestler with some stitches in his eye, brow in a black eye and took his blood pressure and passed him to goddamn wrestle. And by the way, if that's the story he was telling the commission, doctor, again, why wouldn't he say, the heels were wrestling attacked me?

Why would he, out of nowhere go, the macho man hit me? We're going to do something together. Yeah, we're going to do something together. Yeah, so, yeah. And also, the doctor wasn't fooled. The doctor didn't need to be fooled because the athletic commission, they take your blood pressure and make sure you're breathing. as long as you have a license that has been paid for

and your blood pressure is not over the moon and you're obviously ambulatory. Every athletic commission doctor I've ever seen was a pass friend. Yeah, with all due respect to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, I'm sure Caesar's Palace said you're going to pass Hulk Hogan, right? Caesar's Palace, Caesar and Cleopatra, who wants to upset them? And the guy who owns Caesar's Palace literally was saying, I want a Hogan title win, or when is Hosepherson?

going to win the title? He was expecting it months in advance. Yeah, see, there was some clues there that, and I think Hogan smelled that. Poor advance, probably the fucking Caesar's Palace guys on Vince, about what about Hulk? And Hulk can say, oh, hey, Vince, you know, you're going to Vegas. It all came together perfectly.

But anyway, they had the tag match, and I get was that Beefcake's last match in the WWF? I thought he was there after that, but he made that comment. Is he just, he can't remember? I can't remember if he went on the European tour. It may have been his last match. Remember right around that time,

well, you wouldn't know this. They planned out, they showed the photo of it, a Hasbro figure for Brutus Beefcake, and they cut it from the line. They replaced it with another Tatanka, I believe. So, I mean, they... It's sad the barber got cut. They quickly made a change to the bar,

but it wasn't working. Brutus, you know, for all of his deficiencies in the ring that people may point out, he was super over an 88 and 89 and 90, and then he got hurt. And, you know, he never was able to recapture any of that feeling from the fan base ever again. And this whole thing with him and Hogan just,

it felt out of place. And Hogan also, I mean, they didn't even point it out here, Hogan wasn't half his size, but he was a lot smaller here than he had ever been on W.W. WF television. Well, because he had gotten smaller to try to do real movies, right? That's what, the Rock did that. Why was it that for years, all the agents would tell the guys that got into the movies almost specifically because they looked like that to not look like that?

Because unless you're the Rock, where are you going to get all these action rolls? You know, even Sina. Sina is slimmed down now. You know, I don't know if Sina just wants action rolls. I think a lot of these guys want to break away from? I mean, the Rock still wants to break away from that. He did try to, when he first went to Hollywood, remember he was in the, what was the sequel to Get Shorty? Oh, uh, I forget the name of it now, he was in the sequel to Get Shorty. He played a gay character, because that was a big deal at the time, but he was really slim. If you look at the Rock in like 2002 to 2004, when he was still making wrestling appearances and acting, he wasn't very big. I mean, naturally, he's a big guy, but he wasn't very defined. For him, for

him in terms of the range of his life. Yeah. So, I mean, now he has been able to make the fact that he's the gigantic Dwayne Johnson into his selling point. That wasn't the case then. He was trying to establish himself. But why can't a great dramatic actor also be 277 pounds and twisted steel and sex appeal? I don't know. It depends on the role, I guess. Like, you know, Nanny with Muscles or whatever roles Hogan had. Mr. Nanny. No, Mr. Nanny and Santa with Muscles. Santa with muscles. Or Santa with nanny.

And boy, that was a stag film that went around on 8mm back in the 50s. But anyway, they had the other matches after the tag match, real quick, just a couple of soupsons of information. Kurt Hitting went blank in the match with Lugar and Lex had to lead it. And did you catch, Lex said,

Kurt may have been over caffeinated. Well, like when he also said he thought he was ripping him at first. A funny joke here at WrestleMania. Call the match Lex. That's a funny joke. What are we doing? You know, Brett Hart said that happened with Davey Boy at SummerSlam in 92, you know,

which is Davey Boy's greatest day as a wrestler, I would assume, here at Wembley Stadium, here, right here at Webbley Stadium in front of like the biggest paid audience in WWF history at that time, wins that bout? Brett said he went blank. Is that something you witnessed a lot in wrestling? Just guys not knowing what to do? I mean, I guess the way you plan out matches. and call spots is very different and this is kind of that point where things really started

changing but just the inability to do anything you thought you were going to do well no because see there was always something to blank out on even if it was the finish right that's the big thing is suddenly you know that was guys would have dreams the wrestler's dream where you're in a locker room somewhere and the bell is ringing or in later years your music is playing when that became a thing and you're naked or you got your trunks on but you don't have your boots on or mine was I can't find my racket or you don't know the finish and I mean every wrestler back they would have dreams they were going to the ring they don't know the fucking finish and for some reason and all this stuff's proceeding and you're like what are we doing davy i can

believe davy there was i'm sure a lot of nervousness and you know pressure that day or whatever and Davy would go blank every now and then, but Owen or Brett or somebody was around. Bobby Eden went blank one time on Mid-South television. In the middle of the finish, Junkyard Dog and Hacksaw Duggan. And it was a four-way, and the referee was on the other side. And I saw, I think, Dougan punched Bobby and Bobby staggered.

He punched it began and Bobby staggered. And Bobby staggered toward me. He said, Corny, where are we? ass bump and he turned around and fucking swung it duggin and dugging ducked it and ass bumped him he couldn't fucking he just it was like you go blank but i'm not sure that so and and it's with with kurt's case here it may have had to do with being overcaffeinated in las Vegas overcaffeac is that what we're calling over caffeinated that's what we're calling that's what lex called it and that's what i'm sticking with kurt was overcaffeinated in las Vegas and he said

what are we doing? Is that a rib that you've heard people do? I mean, on the other side of the, Lex thought it was a rib at first. Is that something guys have done? Well, every once in a while just for a minute, not necessarily. I mean, it's been done. Yes, everything's been done, but not, it wasn't prevalent. Who was it?

Chick Donovan called a fucking spot. The guy grabbed him in a headlock and as he was shooting a guy off, he said, one tackle, drop down, you finish it, and then shot him off. And the guys are, what the fuck? But anyway, yeah, so all those things can happen. But every once in a while, people go blank through natural or artificial means. And then Undertaker said to him and Giant Gonzalez, the stare down was the highlight. And then Yoko and Brett.

Well, you skipped a few matches, the Steiner's and the head shrinkers. Well, yeah, I mean, they show. highlights of them, but it wasn't like they went into, you know, tons of detail. But what, what was the other, hold on, I say, Michael's and Tatanka, Backland and Razor, I'd forgotten about that one. Talk about generations clashing. Bob Backland would have been a nerd on Leave It to Beaver. And he's in the ring with Razor Ramon.

And yes, and we talked about the immortal crush and doink classic, right? there's something else I don't think they mentioned who it was not that I guess really matters it was Matt born and Steve Kern right I think well Matt that was second the second doink that night and the second the second doink was probably Kern because Apollo didn't start doing it until they fired Bourne right I think so yeah yeah and Kern was already a Skinner it was already on contract. But anyhow, there was Brett and Yoko. Brett wanted Yoko to have the best match of his career. He said Yoko blew up, which I can believe, especially out in the sun. And they went home early. That's why it took a while for Fuji. Remember when you saw that thing, you're like, what the

fuck? How long is he going to be in that deal before Fuji throws the salt? And then Yoko beat him one, two, three and then Hogan came in and stoogeed it off. And in what they pointed out at this point, made no sense. Fuji challenged Hulk. The champion who just won the title challenged the other guy to have another match and the Yoko was blown up. And ducked the salt and leg drop one, two, three.

And as Steiner said, a lot of guys thought it was a slap in the face. Brett was vocal about it afterwards, and Sean agreed with him for once. That may be, you've never heard that phrase before. But Hulk had a lot of heat with the guys as well as a lot of the fans, especially as I said, the smart fan community, which was much smaller at the time, despised it. And it was kind of a deflating way to end the show if you weren't a fan of Hogan in 93. Yeah.

And I don't understand how Brett ever trusted Vince McMahon ever again after that because he had been telling him I'm going to give you a six-year run or whatever he was telling him. And then he would have run down for a year. In all fairness to all parties, I know Vince has told a lot of things to Brett and he signed him at one point to a 20-year contract, but I don't know that he ever told anybody in those words, they were going to have a six-year run with the belt,

nor if you were a talent in the wrestling business that was a candidate for that belt, if you ever believed anybody, if they said we're going to give it to you for six years, you're kind of fucking goofy. Because if you've got to that point, you need to be smarter the business than that. But everybody looked back at it fondly,

but this was rotten in the ring in large part. did blob business, and except for WrestleMania 13 and potentially, what, too, it may have been the worst when you examine all the metrics. Say, well, wait, well, what was that? Atlantic City fiascos. You know, it was a changing of the guard, too. They didn't even bring it up, but obviously it was Jim Ross's debut, and he was very nervous. At one point, he called a Frankenstein or a Steiner line.

But Gorilla Monsoon had been on commentary for every WrestleMania. They mentioned them here, and they showed them, you know, doing the introduction. But that was one of the big things for me as a kid. That was the big change. Gorilla Monsoon no longer being on commentary for the big events. It was always guerrilla and Ventura. And then it would be guerrilla and Ventura. And then Gorilla took off a few and it was Ventura and Chavani.

And then it was Gorilla and Heenan. And, you know, it was all, it was a different era now. Guerilla Monsoon was no longer going to be one of the featured commentators. He had been there at WrestleMania 8, him and Heenan. and now he was no longer doing it. But think about this. The fact that Jim Ross

prided himself on being from the real sports announcer school of wrestling a la Gordon Soli where and JR had been already done NFL games in Atlanta for the Falcons and he had been involved

with other real sports cast you know, jobs. So, and he is the voice of the only competition, WCW at that time. And this guy who's known for his emotional sporting calls, Austin and Tyson, well, not then, but you know what I'm saying. Down goes Frazier. He goes to the other company at his first night in,

they're in the parking lot of Caesar's Palace, wearing togas. It was just, you can tell how he, you know, I felt bad for him when I saw it. I'm sure he, yes, as I said, he was mortified. And I'm sure he thought, my God, you know, this isn't going to work. And for a while it didn't for the first few years. But that was, it just, but Nick Con,

Nick Con got his first, got his first wrestling experience there, apparently. as an usher at the show The last few minutes of this documentary turned into the Let's Kiss Nick Kahn's part of the documentary Yeah imagine that The American Dream He was an usher at the show

And now he owns the whole goddamn thing You know with Jim Ross It makes you wonder how different things May have turned out Or how different his comfort level Would have been If when he came in they put him on Raw Instead of just the syndicated show

Yeah Vince McMahon kept doing and Ron, that became the main show. If Jim Ross had come in a year earlier, maybe he would have been on, maybe he still would have had superstars and Vince would have taken himself off that. But Vince McMahon was the lead commentator

on the main show, not Jim Ross. Well, and that's the thing is that it didn't, it was still four more year, almost, no, a little over four more years before Vince would drop the facade and pull himself back as the lead announcer. but at the same point

you know I'll tell you what working with JR working with Vince was easy because he he liked to get things done he didn't dick around but JR and I if we had to do voiceovers

on a program we could literally do it live to tape and it would take 45 minutes because we weren't voicing over the fucking commercial breaks right whereas with anybody else I worked with there, whether it was, well, Michael Cole was just starting out, but the times with Shane or anybody else, it was laborious to say the least. And I think that Vince should have let JR run with that a little bit, but Vince suffered from the Watts syndrome in that he knew that he could sell his product and the guys that he was envisioning better than anybody else.

and so therefore he was going to do it. Well, there it is a review of the WrestleMania 9 documentary. What was the name of it again? Becoming a spectacle. Becoming a spectacle. Or making a spectacle out of yourself. Although not historically accurate at times, a fun documentary worth checking out on Peacock. And they're still out there, even though I just sent a terse

series of text to my head gardener. The head gardener Jim Yes Why don't we review WrestleMania 41 which is coming up this weekend as we are recording

We have a tentative lineup here Card subject to change of course But let's talk about night one April 19th For the tag team championship The War Raiders Eric and Ivar versus the New Day Kofi and Xavier

Oh, boy. You know, I guess we've got to be honest and even about this thing or fair, balanced, whatever they say. As bad as we say that the tag team situation is in AEW, this is where we are over here too. Poor tag teams in general just can't flourish in today's environment. I like the Vikings since, they made them more serious.

Those guys are big and they can work. We just saw that fall to all for so long. And I'm not really interested. In the new day, we've been sick of for a while. They turned heel and they changed their outfits. And I thought they were going to stop wearing the fluorescent and everything. And then they went right back to that. Are we allowed to say that we don't care?

You know, it's interesting. They really kind of, I don't know, drop the balls the right term. And it feels like a lot this WrestleMania season has been, bungled or drawn out for so long that it doesn't matter anymore. But the new they did that hot angle, that amazing thing with them and Big E, where they keep them out, and it kind of never went anywhere that direction again. I know they're still heels and I know they yell at fans and they're mean. But there was the chance, like, if they had followed up the next week with something big,

something could have happened, but it just... With somebody, with somebody on top, not another one of the interchangeable four, tag teams that they rotate. Well, Jim, another match here, night one. Ray Mysterio versus El Grande Americano. Again, you know, we had such hopes. Remember Gable was going to be a serious sum bitch for about three weeks there? Yeah, I mean, it's going to be an excellent, excellently performed contest because

Ray is Ray and Gable's a great athlete, but it's just silliness and the mask and the whole nine yards with him and the, did he and what's the fat guy's name Otis? Did he and Otis ever actually have a fight? See, that's the sad thing. I think they may have on Raw. I mean, they pushed each other, but I don't know if they've ever actually

wrestled. I've never, I don't remember a pay-per-view bill to Otis has broken free of the chains of slavery and is now going to exact his revenge upon his tormentor Chad Gable. No, they each just kind of moved on in a different direction, but they would still interact every now and then and have like, you know, feelings, but they all just kind of went their own way with their own little groups. So anyway, yeah, Gable's another guy that I think they could have done something to make him serious, which they did a few weeks there, and he had some good matches, and then elevate him,

but he's still, you know, fiddle fucking around with all of this shit. Our next match, Jim, I'm sort of intrigued by this. Jade Cargill versus Naomi. Who are the Flying Burrito Brothers the special referees? A lot of them are dead. I mean, Graham Parsons is dead.

Well, the crowd may be for this one. No, I mean, I'm sure they will rehearse something that will be wonderful and hopefully brief. Let's put it that way. Does it surprise you they have Jade Cargill in a singles match? And obviously it's part of a feud with someone who, you know, Naomi's not necessarily considered a seasoned, well, she's been around a while.

How do I put this? Not necessarily someone that would be a match. A wonderful ring general. Yeah. A wonderful ring general. You would think they've tried to hide Jade's weaknesses and tag matches, and it's worked. If you're going to put her in a singles match,

Why isn't it her against a Bianca or a Ria, someone who you would think could get the best out of her? Well, but hold on, because remember they're reacting. Obviously, Jade really got hurt. Somebody didn't push her off a goddamn roof onto a car and she was out for four months. She had some type of injury or something that was preventing her from appearing. So they came up with this to explain it. Was this what they were originally going to do? Or the way they were going to get there.

Maybe, maybe not. But if they were reacting to something, it's got to be Naomi. And there ain't no money in, they ain't no money in Jade and Naomi, but there is in Jade and Bianca. And we're waiting to see what's going to go on with her over there on the other side of the fucking deal. But so this is just a match that they're having, which Jade is going to, I would think, win.

And something's going to happen. with her and Bianca and et cetera, et cetera. But they're going to walk through this number of times, I'm sure, of this match. Do you think it'll be short? I'm hoping it'll be short. Listen to that, silence behind me. Let's take advantage of this. Jim, for the United States Championship,

the champion L.A. Knight versus Jacob Fatu. Boy, I... We've talked about how we're... We have been disappointed that L.A. Knight would continue to be programmed with people in the middle that weren't nearly as over with the crowd as he was, and it would take, you know, the bloom off of him. And we don't hear, let me talk to you as much as we used to. And I got to be honest with you, I don't see L.A. Knight beating Jacob Fatu.

Will it be a disqualification? I think that's the only way that you could justify L.A. Knight retaining the title here, but why would you book this and then just do a DQ on WrestleMania like it's a TV match when you don't have to? So we'll see what happened. Possibly something happens to further Fatu's animosity with some of the other members of his extended family. We shall see.

But L.A. Knight has still been stuck with middle card opponents and middle card programs, even though for a while he was a top guy there. But they got so many top guys there now. He may have been bumped off the ledge because of just seniority. And it doesn't look like Solo or Tama or booked on anything so far on WrestleMania, so maybe that would be the match. They got to be involved in something at the show. Jim, the next match?

Maybe they'll be ushers. Worked out well for Nick Kahn. The next match, Jim, one that they have successfully gotten me interested in. For the WWWW Women's Championship, the champion Tiffany Stratton versus Charlotte Flair. I want to see what this is going to be now. Well, yeah, and is it going to break down into a shoot? Are we going to see a good old-fashioned shooting match here?

I would imagine it's WrestleMania. It's a big stage ever. The world is watching, as they used to say. So I would imagine both young ladies are going to be on their best behavior and try to coexist with each other in a professional manner, but there's always the chance that something could go sideways

and tempers could flare because I see what I did there? Woo! Yeah. Woo! Especially if the Egyptian comes down the aisle. And then, you know, things are always going fine until the Egyptian shows up.

But I got a, I think I got to give this one to Tiffany, I bet you, as who's going to win. I think so, too. Jim for the World's Heavyweight Championship, the champion Gunther versus Jay Uso. I have liked this. I didn't like it when they were just making Jay a flunky, who doubted himself and et cetera every week. But obviously they had the light at the end of the tunnel of the,

redemption where he realized, you know, he came out of it. I ain't scared of you no more. And he said that. And he vowed to beat Gunther. So it turned out well on TV. And yes, of anything this weekend, if you want to bet to farm on, bet to farm at Jay Uso is going to win that belt from Gunther. Elsewise, you might as well just go back to Samoa.

Yeah, unless there's some kind of big running or someone turns on Jay Uso. I don't know how you would get away with him not winning a belt. Yeah, people will be setting fire to fucking seat cushions. Jim, the main event of night one, a triple threat match, Roman Raines versus CM Punk with Paul Heyman versus Seth Rollins. I'll tell you, you know, we, you talked about the build and et cetera,

and we've been mentioning this, is that they had too long. I like this match. I want to see this match, and I want to see the fucking main event of night too. I don't know that any of the rest of the matches have particularly captivated my attention. There's some that it's going to be good,

but we want to see the main events. But at the same point, I think a lot of people, why they haven't liked the build is just because nothing, nothing was able to happen for long periods. It's like that shocking event where John Cena turned two months ago. You know, as Lawler would say, well, you can't grieve forever. it's not even really fresh anymore, is it?

So I think they've just had too long to get to a point where they could have got to more economically three or four weeks ago and with this entire event. Having said that, the one match where the stuff has consistently been good is this three-way. And I hate three ways, but I want to see what's going to happen with these three guys because if there was anything made for a three-way, this is it. There's legitimate reasons for all of them to dislike each other. In effect, all three of them are baby faces,

but one of them has a long history of being a heel, Roman reigns until just recently, and still as kind of always can be thought of is out for himself, and Seth Rollins has been straddling, even though the fans like him, they goddamn don't like it when he fucks with punk because they like punk pretty much universally except for the hardcore Seth Rollins fans.

And the fact that they're all three, three of the five best promos in the, and then throw Heyman in there, four of the five best, maybe. You know, that's, it's interesting, and we don't know what's going to happen and which twists and turns are these things. going to take, and especially when

Paul E. walks see him punk down the aisle and gives him away as a blushing bride, this is a bigger main event in the world title match. I think. I think this is the star match of WrestleMania. I think Rollins is going to go over.

With or with anyone's assistance or because of someone's mistake. I don't know. Again, you haven't seen Raw yet. We'll talk about it later in the show. We're not going to record that part just yet until Jim watches it. but, you know, you'll see what you think there. Obviously, Heyman could turn. He's been a baby face, a whimpering baby face for a while now. But we'll see. That's night one of WrestleMania 41. Jim, let's talk about night two of WrestleMania 41. Here is the card as we

are recording, and again, card's subject to change. For the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez as the champions versus Bailey and Lara Lara, Bailey and Lira Valchuria Well, well, tell him, Hawk.

It's a shame when there's actually a bigger star in the women's tag team title match than there is in the men's tag team title match from the previous night. Liv Morgan's in there. She and Rochelle Rochelle got a good chemistry with each other.

The stern-faced, a larger lady, and the animated and smart-ass tiny lady. And there's Bailey, she can work, and lyric valedictorian. She has recently been picked out of a police lineup in Pocatello. Somebody knows who the fuck she is. But I'm going with Liv Morgan and Rochelle, Rochelle,

winning that match because of the fact that Liv Morgan is a fucking star. And I bet that'll be a fun match. I'm actually looking forward to that one. It'll be so much fun. Jim, AJ Stiles versus Logan Paul. Well, I almost forgot about that match. As we talked about it, yeah, and many people did.

As we talked about it, technically it's going to be fine because that is to, I don't know whether there's a P's or, Logan Paul to have fun or just to showcase what he can do because he and AJ can do springboard, have a coronas and all that stuff and do the, that's the high spot match. You know, Logan Paul for supposedly going to do this full time, we haven't seen that much of him half the time he's from on location or he shows up to do a promo and AJ is back. and he's back.

He hasn't really set the world on fire with being back, but he's back so he can have this high spot match with Logan Paul, which I would imagine Logan Paul will emerge victorious from. In a fatal four-way match for the Intercontinental Championship, the champion Bronbreaker versus Penta versus Finn Bauer versus Dominic Mysterio. Oh, boy, howdy.

I mean, I guess they had to do this because they want to get everybody on the card. I mean, with a three-way match as main event of night one, while they're having any other multiple person matches, I have no idea because they're all going to, a, pale in comparison and be, it distracts from the promotion. And I'd love to see Bronbreaker in a singles defense against anybody, but bet the farm on Braun because my God, he is the future of wrestling, and I don't think they want to start beating him at WrestleMania.

Jim, in a Sin City street fight, Damien Priest versus Drew McIntyre. But now, where is the sin, Brian? We talked about this earlier. They've cleaned Vegas up. It's a family attraction now. Where's the daggum sin? The traffic.

There you go. That makes people use bad language. you that. You know, honestly, Drew is one of our favorites. And Drew, to me, is one of the top guys in the company and his promos and his heel work has been outstanding. And I think he needs to lose this because if he beats Priest, priest is kind of flattered a plate full of piss, isn't he?

Especially in his own kind of match because Priest would be from Sin City in whatever backstory they're concocting. Well, he already is. He already is pretty flat right now. It hasn't really for me, it hasn't connected since he left Judgment Day. If he loses here, it'll mean even less. Drew McIntyre is at a point now where he could lose

and immediately not have it take anything away from him if he has some time on camera to have his facial expression shown. He can get anything over just by looking pissed or surprised or bewildered, so I don't think he'll be hurt by anything. Indignant would be a good word. Well, that's that match, Jim. In a triple threat match for the Women's World Championship,

the champion Eoskei versus Bianca Bel Air versus Ria Ripley. Again, the money is in Ria and Bianca. I would like to see that as a singles match. EO's going to get in the way, in my opinion, but either EO retains because Ria and Bianca get involved or one of them wins and the other one is their next challenger. But they're going to hopefully leave this with Ria and Bianca. And then we'll go from there. Well, we'll see.

I wouldn't be surprised if EO. Sky keeps the title coming out of this. Well, and Ria and Bianca don't necessarily need it if each one of them costs the other one, the title, it might be more important to their match. Jim, the main event for the undisputed WWE championship, the champion Cody Rhodes versus John Sina. And this would, are we going to get through this without seeing the Rock or Travis Scott again?

What do you think? I think we should hope so because even if you're a fan of that, and I said it was going to be bungled and it's been bungled, if they just show up again here to do something in the finish, it's going to make it worse. I don't think WWE fans are going to be happy. You know, if the Rock had been on TV at all,

Travis Scott had been on TV at all over the last couple months, not to say I'm a fan of that aspect of it, then it's one thing. But if they just stroll out there again, you know, at some point the Rock turns into a variation of Hogan. Just coming out there, he could justify everything he's doing, because he's a star,

but it's not helping anyone else or anything else on the roster. It takes away from it. Yeah, and that's the thing is that if they show up a significant portion of the people are going to, well, they're definitely going to boo Travis Scott, and they probably will boo the Rock, which I know he's the final boss and everything, but it's going to be the booing of the wrong kind because I'm not like a lot of people. I have thought the promos between Sina and Cody have been great. And to me, if they'd have done the deal

where after the elimination chamber, Cody and Sina hugged and Sina kicked him in the balls and we never saw the rock, we never saw Travis Scott. This would have been even better, but it's not that bad as long as the rock is not involved. But if he just keeps showing up at odd moments, then he gets the, you know, the fan's opinion of,

oh, this fucking guy just sticks himself and everything like they've already got. So if we can get, but is it because was he spurned when he had all these ideas and people don't want to hear him again? And now he's just left and gone away and he's not going to come back or is he going to come back because he has to, he feels,

and getting away of shit again. What kind of situation if they got themselves in where the biggest star in the business that they're the biggest company in has made himself unwelcome to much of the fan base with his tampering with goddamn state's evidence? Well, that's WrestleMania Night 2.

One question for you before we move on, what do you think about where WWE is right now? Obviously, as a business, they're making more money than ever before, and they just had a red-hot European tour. Shows domestically may not be selling out as quickly or, in some cases at all, like they used to a year ago, a year and a half ago, but things are still really hot. Their stars are really big stars. But my interest has completely died in a lot of this stuff. And obviously, WrestleMania being two extra weeks of build this year, not even talking about the problem of running it on Easter Sunday, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. But the extra

weeks of build, I don't think it helped. I think it hurt. Nothing really seems red hot going in the mania. And I know a lot of people with the Rock and Travis Scott on the Sina Turn thing said, look, you see, it all ties in, it all makes sense. The Rock said that. You know, see, this has all been our plan. If the plan was for the Rock and Travis Scott to show up and cause the scene a turn, and then never appear on the TV again until WrestleMania. That's a problem.

Again, I said that was a problem. The TV and the angles don't seem to be connecting as well as they did as the bloodline stuff was all coming together a year ago, a little more than a year ago. It feels like, I don't know. Again, they're still hot. I'm not saying like, you know,

they're going to lose their business, but it feels like it's cooling down a bit for a number of reasons. What do you think? Well, yes, it is. And, you know, part of it is just you can't be hot, continuously red hot, and, you know, rev the motor until it finally is going to blow up at some point. But they're still, as you said, doing great numbers with everything. I think what they need to watch out for, besides creative, they are not only charging high

ticket prices, but they're selling people a lot of shit. The point is, how much money do people fucking have? And is there a breaking point, especially with the United States firmly in the grip of a criminal lunatic that has no idea of what he's fucking doing and the stock market is going up and down and people aren't certain about the future? Can they keep expecting their fans to have this level of not only time engagement, but financial engagement before some of these numbers start going down no matter how good the creative is.

And then if they come up with some good shit more of Sina and, you know, surprises and thrills and spills for the summertime, you know, the creative probably okay for a while because the stars are over. But, you know, how much can they expect to continue to engage? this many people this rabidly on a time and or financial basis. Do you feel me, Brian? I do, and, you know, hot things don't stay hot forever, although it just seems, it seems almost like a forced cooldown in a lot of ways.

It feels like a lot of things that didn't get a chance to play out fully, and maybe they still will. You know, Heyman's famous for saying we're only in the third inning. But the bloodline doesn't mean shit right now. Roman Reigns You know, he just shows up every now And then although he's been around a lot more For WrestleMania season

Major Star, but he doesn't feel as big as he did Punk's kind of exactly where he was Rollins, same thing, if not slightly elevated Drew is, but Drew's not really involved in anything Anyone's excited about Priest hasn't broken away Dominic's kind of in the same place he was

Although not with Ria, with Liv, has been elevated, so it's work there Tiffany's been elevated, it's work there, but there's a lot of things that just, I don't know, it feels like they're running in place. It feels like, you know, a lot of those WrestleMania, like WrestleMania 9, we just talked about, 8, WrestleMania 6, I could think of.

There were matches on the show that just filled out the card, but they weren't anything you could really invest in. You know, Tito Santana versus the barbarian wasn't a feud. It was just two guys that won squash match is being put in a match on a pay-per-view. it's not that, but it just feels like a lot of this stuff. Well, see, that, that's a, in those days, expectations were lower because the standard card was two or three or maybe four matches deep on anything anybody cared about.

And then you were used to the rest of them are just matches. But then they've raised the bar so many times over the successive years. And now it's two nights and everything has to be, we got big. expectations now, but we need to lower expectations. Because then if you think you're going to get a mouth full of shit, and then you just get a cold McDonald's double cheeseburger, well, you're happy. And looking back now and everything with The Rock and Travis Scott,

we could just leave Travis Scott out of it for really for this question. I like say the Rock and Travis Scott, like it's one word, the Rock and Travis Scott. But was it worth it? You know, getting all the buzz, getting the social media attention for that one night, the Rock doing the press conference and feeling really proud of himself right after being a heel on TV, on pay-per-view. Was any of that worth it to get to Cody versus Sina? Well, obviously, Travis Scott could have burst into flames and blown away with the wind,

and it wouldn't have made any difference because he didn't need to be there to begin with. Nobody gave a shit, and all he did was bust Cody's eardrum or whatever. but the rock like you said earlier is such a conundrum the rock could have done something one would think being such a big star and a movie star and everything

maybe not what he did but something to jazz up the main event of WrestleMania instead of confuse people just off top of my head if he was willing to take someone else's ideas that maybe had been doing this all along and had worked him in because it was part of the overall plan rather than him just coming in with his own idea and them

doing it and then he goes away wherever for however long because either people didn't like it or he just has other things to do, that wasn't optimum. So I don't know why they couldn't all got together and planned something ahead that made sense as it went through instead of being this outlying thing that got some attention and then it's not germained anything else in the story. Well, we will see if WWE's cooling off or how hot it is at WrestleMania. And of course, after WrestleMania, two nights of wrestling action, not even the Count the Hall of Fame, Smackdown, NXT, the roast, all the things happening. After all that kind of action, especially if you're in Vegas, you probably need a good night sleep, and maybe when you get out of Vegas and get home,

you can get that good night sleep from our friends at Helix sleep. Well, that's right, Brian. You want to wait until after you get back from Las Vegas to have a good night sleep, because can you imagine what goes on, Brian, on those mattresses and those Las Vegas motels? For heaven's sake, everybody in the world converges, and now it's a family destination. So you've got families cross mingling with all the high rollers on the strip, you just know that you do not want your child to lay down on a mattress that a high roller on a strip has paid for a Tijuana donkey show the night before. You want to have your kids laying down on clean mattresses,

like from Heelick Sleep that makes mattresses, especially for kids. There's not even room for a donkey. You've got to get a Shetland pony. Have you had the Shetland Pony? any mattress yet, Brian. Again, they don't have any of these features. I don't know why your mind goes to these places when talking about these things, but Heelix Sleep has the finest mattress, whether you like a firm mattress or something a little more loosey-goosey, I don't know exactly the terminology here, I don't sell mattresses. Heelick Sleep does, and they do it well

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via email the corny drive-thru at gmail.com From Jason He signed it Blessings, Jason I'm sitting here watching a match with the heavenly bodies in it on WWVOLT. This is so random, but did Dr. Tom ever get laid on the road? Nothing against him.

I was always a fan of his in-ring work, but goddamn, he looks like my third-grade gym teacher, Mrs. Davis, with that ridiculous term. Mrs. Davis, now wait a minute. What did Mrs. Davis do to get drug into this? It was at the end of the question? That was, James, blessings from Jason.

Blessings. Tom was quite an attractive specimen of male manhood in his younger days. And the females of the 80s and the 90s, they loved the big hair. Look at the music videos. The women, the men, the dogs, everybody had big hair. So I don't want to go into multiple details about his romantic encounters. but Tom was considered quite a sex symbol back in the day. What about the hair?

Let's talk about the hair. When you would do your promos, did it ever distract you when he was tussling with his hair constantly behind you? No, no, because that was the thing. You know, a lot of people are like, why is he fiddling with his hair? It was something you remember,

something that caught your attention. And he's doing that. And it's kind of like a Piper didn't have a big giant head of hair like that, but he would kind of scratch his head every now and then. Dr. Tom would do the same kind of thing where he scratch his hair every now and then as he was talking just to illustrate that he was just all head up. But that that was a big deal at the time when they came to him, brother Bruce came to him with the body Donna's thing, but

you got to cut your hair. He wasn't going to do it. That was the one thing deal breaker. God damn it. I'll cut my head with a razor blade. I'll take bumps off the top rope. I'll put people over. I'll goddamn whatever. But cut my hair. And he was fucking miserable when he cut his hair.

And considering that that was a lousy angle for him to cut his hair for, I don't blame you. Was the haircut modeled on Candido or Susan Powder? Well, that's... Honestly, probably more Susan Poutter but because Candido had that hair to begin with it worked and for people who are going

who the fuck was she one of Moolah's girls Susan Pouter P-O-W-T-E-R was an exercise guru that had a commercial and or infomercial on losing weight and exercise.

Stop the insanity. Stop the insanity. That was our catchphrase. Yeah. And she was, was she had a burr haircut of, you know, that was bleached blonde, which was unusual for women back in the day to make the choice to actually shave their head. Now I see them on TV all the time. They're just, they're just bald. As the Bee Gees said, bald-headed woman. Where do you see all these bald-headed women? I don't know where you see that.

You see them on TV all the time. They got, you Bailey's got a half her head shaved. That's dead. That doesn't count. Well, she's almost all the way there. But anyway, So poor Dr. Tom and Candido had the haircut anyway, but I don't know if Vince McMahon might have thought that he was modeling Susan Powder because he sure hadn't been watching Smoggy Mountain. But yeah, Tom didn't like losing the hair. And especially for the Body Donna's gimmick. That was Jesus.

Well, Jim, our next question sent via email to corny drive-thru at gmail.com is from Dan in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. did Jim ever meet or work with Gypsy Joe? Any stories? And what's your take on his legacy in the business? Was he respected or more of a side show at? Well, God, this might be an essay question that might go longer than many people would care to hear,

but yet I did know Gypsy Joe, and I never, I didn't work, work with him. I worked around him because he last worked in the Memphis territory like just a few months before I got in the business as a manager. So yes, I knew him, spoken to him, worked with him as a photographer, but didn't really work with him in wrestling, even though he continued on, as everybody knows, for quite a number of years after that, we were never in the same place again at the same time. Gypsy Joe was, he was considered at the time that in the 60s, 70s and 80s, he was considered a heck of a worker by the other guys and a heck of a tough guy. And, you know,

he didn't have heat with anybody. He was friendly to everybody. But, you know, the tapes in the 70s when he first went over to work for Baba, the Japanese tapes, where he would let somebody just hit him over the back with a chair and bend the chair. Nobody else allowed chair shots like that back then. And the bumps that he could take in his younger days and still in his older days, but I mean, he was a guy that would take the backdrop over the top rope and not grab anything and just land on the floor outside somewhere. So he wasn't. doing in the territory days crazy, you know, baseball bat barbed wire garbage independent matches as, as he did later on, you know, when Indies became a thing in his older years,

he just, he was a heck of a worker that took big bumps and was a tough son of a gun. And he was a huge star over in West Virginia when that was a territory. and he worked either underneath or middle card most of the time through the late 70s, early 80s here, but he was a main event guy in some of the Southern promotions, not only as Gypsy Joe, but also as one of the hooded tag teams that Nick Gullis loved to use. And I think at one point he was one of the blue infernos. But nevertheless, the guys all respected him. And then, and then it became a thing, Brian, you've seen,

where he and knew Jack. Talk about generations colliding from, you know, generations apart. Jack didn't understand that he had the gimmick that you had to hit him and he didn't sell big because he was the tough guy and Jack took it personally and fucking hit him with a baseball bat. And just the other stuff that Joe was known for when he was older, It's just because I think, honestly, that wrestling is the only thing he had ever done.

And he was 60-something years old, 70 years old, or whatever. He couldn't get a job with a major promotion or anything well-paying, but around Tennessee and the South, he still had enough of a name that people knew they were going to see something if he came and did one of these, you know, hardcore deals or whatever. But I don't. know really how old he was for sure. Nobody did at the time. And I don't know if anybody ever found out. And I guess to answer his question, you would say, despite the end of his career, which was literally

in his 70s, you shouldn't see him necessarily as a sideshow act? No. You know, that's unfortunately, as I said, what it became because he, I guess, still needed a job and didn't have anything to fall back on. but he was not anything related to the fringe of wrestling in the territory days. In his younger days, he worked in all regular places, didn't have any fucking, you know, garbage matches getting out of hand. He just, he took big bumps and he was a tough son of a gun. Jim, our next question sent me an email to corny drythru at gmail.com is from explicit in Toronto, Canada.

Should WWE finally recognized Ted DiBiase as a past WWF champ? Ted did defend the title and did promos as WWF champ. He defended the title against Bam Bam Bigelow. They don't recognize him as a past WWF world champ in their history books.

What's your take on? Is it Ted DiBi who bought the title from Andre the Giant on the most watched wrestling show ever on television. Right. Did promos with it, wore it, I think in a few house shows, defended it apparently. Should they consider him the champion in their history books?

Well, see, with 30 years or whatever, more in between, I had forgotten, or if I ever knew, I didn't know he defended it, actually. I thought, yes, he bought it from Andre, the famous Saturday Night's main event, the blah, blah, blah. And then who was, Jack Tunney at the time, right? Reverse the decision that the title can't be sold, and that was the cause of the tournament. WrestleMania 4, that's right.

But if he defended it in the middle, then yes, they should have done some type of thing with the asterisk saying, you know, DiBiase purchased the belt from Andre in this disputed match. And while the appeals were going on, he defended versus so-and-so and did this and that and was stripped of the title on such and such date. I think that would, because it's not like they haven't had any other, you know, Tom Foolery go on with any of the titles or the one time they switched it and completely forgot about it

and just never showed the fucking match. So it was not like they forgot about it like amnesia. They just said, I fuck it, we didn't do it. We decided we didn't do it. But yeah, I don't, I don't know. why they wouldn't stick Teddy in there for that. He had it longer than fucking Yoko had it after he beat Brett before he did the job for Hogan. Again, not much of this really matters in the general scheme of things, but having this serious discussion, should the NWA recognize

Edward Carpontier? All these years later, it's a little bit different than Kowalski and Bobo Brazil, although they have claims too. Should Edward Carpontier, who defended it and was billed as the champion in a number of places. Should his title reign in some way be recognized? Yes, I think so, because they were going to do it all the way until, what was it? Oh, God damn it in Thess's book, it was Quinn, Eddie Quinn in Montreal, didn't want to give Carpontier up to the schedule of the NWA champion and talked him out of it after he was all fired up and they'd already done the match, right?

I think because it was designed, Thess had the idea he's going on an international tour, he could drop the belt with a dispute, and then come back and they could do a unification or whatever, whatever the original plan was that didn't pan out. They still recognized both Carpontier and Thess as champions in various places and were starting in that direction to need a unification. match and then it all fell apart.

So there ought to be some kind of footnote there. But how would they resolve it in an official record? Would they resolve it? Carpontier lost the title when Eddie Quinn said, come back home to Montreal, I'll pay you more money. And again, Luth says they created

the international title. Did you see that telegram that recently was tweeted out from Dick Hutton, Amora Siegel? Oh, God. I think I've seen something about that the past, but what was it? I've lost it now. What was the comment? I believe it's a WWE tweet. I have the image here. Thanks for your offer. I'm willing to meet Thess and give him a crack at the NWA title before 4th of July in Houston. However, I refuse to consider less than $25,000 guarantee

with a percentage privilege also. Refuse to sign for any match in which Thess is billed as an equal basis as international champion. He must come in into the ring as Challenger. Best regards, Dick Hutton. What do you think of that? I mean, again, the international title, here we are talking about it, it was an issue. If you want me to wrestle him, you can't bill him as an equal champion.

Well, hold on, cowboy. Because while that was a genuine sentiment from Sam Muchnick and other people in the NWA hierarchy, and at the time when Thess was champion, definitely that was something that he held in high regard, the idea that nobody was built as a co-champian or as an equal, blah, blah, blah. But Dick Hutton, I'm pretty sure probably didn't give a shit. But what that telegram was, in those days, they would send that telegram so that Paul Bosch or Morris Segal, whoever the Houston promoter was, that era.

or whoever the local promoter was anywhere else would then print that telegram in the program, but it was a legitimate telegram. And there's no way that Dick Hutton was ever legitimately asking for a $25,000 for a match in Houston when at ticket prices in those days, the house may not have been a lot more than that, but that's what they wanted the fans to think,

that this was, there were intricate negotiations going on. and you have to sort of like it is now today for real in wrestling. You have to handle everybody's ego and massage everybody's ego and you have to make sure everybody's money is right

and handle this request and that fucking demand and that made it more like the headlines and the news articles that people read about pro boxing and how those fights were put together. So that was a legitimate telegram that Dick Hutton

legitimately sent, but the audience was either the television show where it would be read or the program where it would be printed for the fans. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, and I've seen some of those kind of, I hate to use the word work telegrams, but it kind of is what it is in the past in programs. How prevalent was that? Well, that was for years of the major way of immediate written communication is to send somebody a telegram. So. But a work telegram. But well, a work tele. I mean, in wrestling, everything's a fucking work. I mean, sometimes they might not have even sent the telegram. They would have just, you know,

written something. But a lot of times they'd send it. Remember, I have some of these. The NWA sent a telegram to all the member promoters every time there was a title change. That, and I have some of those. and that was a thing that they did and then the promoters would print sometimes they'd either verbatim copy it or they'd print the whole telegram and the program or whatever

but that was a way to make something look like breaking news this just happened this is important and the telegrams were the way that these big wigs communicate oh I just that's the way those bigwigs communicate they just throw stuff all over the place

well no I elbowed my keyboard I was waving my hands in the air gesticulating, but they would that's the way they communicated was they would send telegrams back and forth. And in all honesty, part of this also was that if it was a legitimate

telegram in those days, chances are somebody at the Western Union office or the fucking delivery boy or somebody along the way was going to be a wrestling fan and know what it was or who they were talking about. and so that would make it look a little more legitimate

when they deliver this telegram to this fucking promoter that was the way that things were done all right so I guess to sum that up Ted DiBiase should be recognized as champion if he actually defended the belt I think so all right Jim one last question here today for this part what more questions when we finish this recording this was sent to Corny Drive-Thru at Gmail

by Joe in Ottawa Valley, Canada. Any thoughts on the passing of Hartford Love of the Love Brothers? Oh my guy, I didn't know that it had taken place. You know, those are, those are two guys, the Love brothers, Reginald and Hartford Love, never saw them work. Never saw, they were never in the same territory or place or on any television that I could get a hold of. They did work for the Sheiks some,

but I don't remember ever seeing them at a time when I was watching Sheeks TV in the early 70s at Aunt Lola's house. But their pictures were in all the wrestling magazines. And there was one great headline that the Love Brothers preach violence. But they were kind of like hippies for the time. Late 60s, early 70s, the psychedelic colors,

tie-died stuff, the Love Brothers. brothers. Maybe they had flowers in their hair, Brian. But no, I didn't, there are two guys that I don't know that much about. And poor Hartford, I didn't even know he was sick. All right, well, that can't be the last question because, but, you know, there are certain guys. It seems like there's a lot of guys who worked for, like, the NWF that I've never seen any footage of. Yes. Yeah, but, you know, not even just that company, but just the, that area upstate New York, you know, some of that northeastern area.

All right, we'll have a couple quick hits here. We have an email that was sent in by Greg C. Thanks to a kind soul on YouTube, the entire tenure of OVW as a developmental territory is being uploaded. Holy shit. I went back to what you described

as the real beginning of OVW, April 2000. When your television clearance expanded and watched until the end of September. Some topics I don't think you've covered, bodybuilder, former American gladiator David Nelson. Oh, good Lord. Who cut bait first, Nelson or WWF?

He was gigantic. He was an odd fellow, and he was this big, I mean, he had to be two 80, 290, whatever. This has been 25 years, and he wasn't here long, but big bodybuilder, and he's one of the guys that they had found that had never had, had any wrestling training or any interest in wrestling as far as I know. And I think he's one of the guys that pulled up to the back of the old Davis Arena in some kind of Mercedes or BMW or something. He may have had a football background, definitely did some kind of power lifting or whatever,

didn't particularly fit in as one of the boys before the triple X-rated gay adult Torno video that he did had made the rounds of the locker room. I never heard of that. Yeah. He and it wasn't a natural wrestler, wasn't a natural promo, wasn't really sure of what he got into, and I don't think the WWE was really sure what they got into. And I don't remember if there was a straw that broke the camel's back,

or did he get hurt and just not ever come back, or did they fire him or did he quit? I don't know. I can't remember. I hadn't thought of that name since 2000. He did not look like he was a person that would be the star of the video that he was in. Did you make Stacey a character once you realize that Judas,

and then it says in parentheses, Jeremiah? Couldn't talk. Jeremiah or Jebediah. No, what happened, first of all, with Danny had started OVW and some of the guys that he trained, he had given them gimmicks and they were running the shows right but these two guys that he'd made the hillbillies um jibadaya black hawk and cousin otter and they had the hillbilly gimmick and it worked for you know the local st terese gym show or whatever but the guys underneath it

cousin otter became mr black because he was six feet one and and 400 pounds that he could do the splash off the top rope. I'd told him, at the time, I said, you're 20 years younger than fucking Vader and the same size. And your work is better already, because he wasn't hurting anybody. I said, if you can get your weight under control, we can get you a contract. And I wanted him to go from, I think it was 420 to 375, and he ended up going to 430. So I told him, I'm not booking you into. you come back and you're under 400 pounds. And I think that was the last day I ever booked it. The amazing potential. And Jebediah, Jebediah Black Hawk, became Judas,

who was associated with the disciples of sin. But no, I didn't make Stace was already managing in Memphis because she had done a little bit of stuff in California. And when she was riding down with me to just make the Memphis shows for Randy Hales, Randy one day said, well, hey, because he had Vic Grimes and Aaron O'Grady and a few guys that had come from the same wrestling school out there in California. So he suggested it.

And then I said, okay, that'll give her some practice and we can do something in OVW later on. So those happened independently of each other. But you know who Judas is, don't you, Brian? Who? What is one of my favorite fucking explanations for a fuck up that has ever been uttered by a human being. I don't know.

Well, it was on a TV news. This was long after the OVW days, but it was on the TV news here in Louisville one afternoon that a guy had been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol while he was driving a school bus. And come to find out, it was the former Jebediah Blackhawk, aka Judas.

And they interviewed him. and he said, no, he said, people have got it all wrong. He said, I wasn't drinking and driving. I drank, and then I drove. That was Jebediah. Well, Jim, a couple more things here real quick. Jerome Crony. Yes.

How did he survive getting beaten by all those green guys? Who was he? I just saw Russ McCullough accidentally slam a chain across his face. Yes. Jerome Crony was a guy named Jerome Hatton. And he had trained

with Danny and he was a small little nondescript looking guy but he could work pretty good. So Danny had put him in a full body suit and made him like, I think of the American Eagle or something like that. And he had this country voice and he talked and he's

entertaining as fuck to talk to and he became Jerome Crony. He was a crony, a stooge of the heel manager, old of the round mound of sound himself, Kenny Boland. And crony as a tag-along and a stooge and longtime Memphis fans from the 70s Mickey Poole type of character where he was obviously dumber to box of rocks

and was the flunky, but he got he started getting over because he could take all the bumps and come off the top rope and do all the shit but people would do that to him he couldn't beat up anybody and the only match that he ever won in o v w was he beat matt morgan who was the seven foot tall 330 pound fucking giant he beat him after big bad john came out and whacked matt morgan over the head with a fucking chair and he was unconscious and crony wins the match and then becomes Cryptonite crony. And then we started playing the music where who did the song? Will you still call me Superman? Cryptonite, whoever the fuck it was is 20-something years ago.

And here's this fucking idiot coming out bragging about beating Matt Morgan, the giant who can't wait to get a hold of him and Big Bad John for causing it. And it just, you used what you had in a local basis at a wrestling school if you could find some entertaining personalities, try to put them in positions where people would go,

okay, let's see what the fuck he's going to do. Anyway, that was Cryptonite Crony. All right, and you know what, Greg has more questions about OVW 2000. We will ask them next time, but that is it for this. We shall return momentarily. It'll be like we were never gone with more drive-through. I ain't leaving. We have escaped the past.

We are here in the future, and with you, here on the drive-thru. I assume Jim's there. Jim, are you there? You know, if you wouldn't eat Taco Bell in these breaks, you wouldn't make sounds like that. Oh, come on. That was the sound of time and space and light and everything all mixed together, a sonic boom of wonderment and pleasure at the same time.

Yeah, yeah. I'll boom your pleasure. Before you, Jim, me, we had to take a break in between this because we couldn't do this whole thing at one time due to our personal business that we had to take care of. But in betwixt and between time while we were time traveling, Brian, you're one of these young hipsters about town that know all about the social medias and the interwebs. Can you explainify something to me, explain a fie something to me

that happened to me on my brand new computer set up here that it can't be that. And the internet speed is high, but I got on the Twitter. First thing in the morning, I want to see, well, what? What have people tweeted or tweeted? What tweets are on Twitter this morning? What's happening in the world? And I've, you know how you start at the top and as you scroll down and you go to the older tweets, right? It works for you that way also, doesn't it?

When you scroll down? Unless you have it set so that it's like based on your preferences as opposed to what you want to see in order that it happened, yes. Well, I didn't even know you could do that. But basically you start at the top. And as you go, it's an older, you know, it's like five minutes ago, seven minutes ago, whatever the case it may be. And I'm going down. I ain't gone too far down.

I see somebody tweeted something 15 minutes ago and it blah, blah, blah. And then I said, well, that seems familiar. And why are they tweeting on that old news? And I looked, and I was on March 21st. It went from this morning, and I'm just going down and with no rhyme or reason or whatever, it went from two hours before that to March 21st. And I clicked on and off and back on and back and forth, and I couldn't get it not to do. Why would it do that?

Is it this Elon Musk fellow that he overdid the ketamine? Or what's the matter with Twitter? It's a mess. I get nonstop ads now. and I get it, they, beyond wanting to make money from ads, they want you to be sick of ads so that you'll pay for an ad-free version that they have, which is- Yeah, I don't pay that much attention to it.

Yeah, which is just nonsense. The whole platform is just a complete mess. Well, that's not a technical explanation, though, for the question that I asked for I don't know how to explain it. I've noticed it with my feet-to- Well, I think that somebody out there in the cult of Cornette should be able to tell us, well, the Framistat has blown out the capacitor over at the fucking chip manufacturer,

and that's why that happens. Give us a technical explanation. Okay. In the meantime, if you tweeted me anything last night, for about a period of about 12 hours, I don't know what fuck anybody said to me. So there you go. All right.

This has been time travel, and aren't you glad you're here? But Jim, here on the drive-thru, let's keep things professional. And let's talk about some modern... Keep things. Let's talk about some modern wrestling news before we get to your review of WW RAW.

Well, that won't take long, but go ahead. AEW has made a few announcements. Oh, good Lord. A press release went out as we are recording the day before yesterday. Did invitations go out to Tony's birthday party or something? The O2 in London to host AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, forbidden door August 24th

AEW dynamite and AEW collision to make Scotland debut at the OVO Hydro August 2020 OVO unless you're supposed to just say because they're all capitalized OVO Hydro

that kind of sucks too but tickets for both events go on sale Friday May 2nd All Elite Wrestling today announced that the O2 in London will host AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling Forbidden Door Sunday, August 24th, marking the first time AEW has ever held an event

at the legendary venue. In addition, AEW, it's everything I just said in the fucking thing. Well, AEW, that's the first bit of news, and then as we are recording today this morning. Well, hold on a second about this first bit of news. I just want to make the comment that they haven't been to the O2, but they haven't been to the O2, they've been to Wembley.

And then they didn't go back to Wembley because the same reason they didn't go back to Arthur Ash, but they went to Australia. They've gone to Australia. That's already over with. They did that, right? Yeah, I seem to remember that. And now they're,

the stadium show that they're doing this year is in Texas. Hopefully the poor Texans know what they're paying for down there with their tax money because there's got to be some kind of incentive involved. And now they're going back to London, but they're going to go indoors and try. I think New Japan, to be honest,

will help them more than AEW will at this point, won't it, with the most learneded and knowledgeable wrestling fans there in Europe. What's the O2 Arena? Like 20,000 seats? Oh, yeah, just a mere 20,000. No, but I'm just saying, obviously, they drew a big, crowd at Wembley year one, year two was still

a nice crowd just for a building like Wembley where you're coming off a crowd almost, what, more than double that. It didn't look so appealing. So now they're in a smaller room. Do you think they need New Japan to fill that room? I think New Japan might be the more attractive thing at this point because they've seen a couple of AEWs now, but have they seen a major scale

New Japan show that's worth going out of the way to see, as the kids say. Here's the other thing about Forbidden Door. What New Japan star hasn't appeared on AEW TV? Oh, well, that's the... I'm not saying it's going to necessarily be Bafo on pay-per-view, and thankfully it's probably not going to be on regular television, but for the people to get to see all of the...

people in person in London at the same time when they haven't seen the AEW guys in a while. And again, the New Japan guys, have they done a big scale thing in London where it's something people would want to go and travel possibly to see? So they'll probably do all right there at the live event, but it's not going to be anything new to the rest of the universe that has to watch on television. other television show or pay-per-view. And again, they'll be doing television tapings in Scotland. So that'll be a first for AEW.

And, of course, that is forbidden door. What songs do you think the AEW fans over there are going to sing? Or do you think, do they have rhythm? Do the AEW fans, are they going to have the rhythm over there? Are they going to serenade us? I think they'll probably... I'm just being silly now. They'll probably get it right, or it'll sound like that Roman Rain song's shreds.

But Jim, another AEW announcement, this morning as we are recording, as announced by Fox Sports Mexico, AEW will partner with CMLL to bring AEW Grand Slam Mexico to the historic Arena Mexico in Mexico City on Wednesday, June 18th. This marks the first time an AEW event has ever been held in Mexico. Tickets on sale Saturday. April 26 for anyone looking to commute. Well, you know, this is a strategy, I think.

Because now he just needs to go to the other, what, 175 countries there are in the world to go to the first AEW show in that particular country, because he haven't pissed any of those people off yet. So I guess two questions coming out of these announcements. One, not that we haven't raised this before in previous years, around the time of forbidden door specifically. What's the benefit to AEW dedicating the level of TV time that they

will to promoting this and building to it when it almost never has anything to do with the rest of the general scheme of things they're actually trying to build? It's just dream matches. And on the other hand, is it smart for AEW to do anything they can to pull these companies in as partners is when WWE is trying to lock down the system.

That second question, first, that's the important thing, is they got to, but problem is every time they open up a talent pathway, an underground railroad to feed them some people, they bring all the, like they did with New Japan,

as you said, they bring them all in and shit them all out at the same time on TV and nobody really gets over. and if they're partnering with CMLL now, it's not like that we haven't seen plenty of delucidors on AW television. So that's really not going to be anything different. But at least it's some level of cooperation with somebody else around the world for the sake of their base fans that they're going to have to keep happy somehow.

and they like that kind of thing. But also for AEW, I think the TV crowd in Scotland will be much better, I would think, for television viewers than, you know, the dead crowds they've got in Poughkeepsie or wherever, where they're just sitting there staring because they're bored by all this. And in Mexico, they're going to, boy, for the kind of people who like that kind of thing, that's kind of thing those people are going to like. So they'll have another rabid crowd.

They'll do, well, whatever. I think they need to get out of the United States as much as possible now that I think about it. But yes, they need to have somebody to work with around the world just to try to get some talent or whatever. But unfortunately, it's slim anyway. And first question, no, it's ridiculous that they, Tony just, wants to have these, in his mind, great matches. And it's the same as Uncle Dave. Oh, the TV's filled with great matches.

No, it's not. It's filled with these repetitive gymnastic matches that the base audience likes, and it runs everybody else off. Some of the matches, a precious few of them, are or have been great matches. But most of them are just the same fucking thing with everybody trying to have fun, they're in fantasy land. And then you compound it by having a bunch of people that either the average person in

the United States has no idea who the fuck they are and that they've ever been in the business show up on this television or that it's just people with personalities that nobody gives a shit about, that's a dream. If they say Okada is in any dream match ever again unless they figure out somewhere, way to do a head transplant where they put another body on him, then it's just ridiculous use of that term because this broken down son of a bitch,

I don't think he could have a bad dream without it looks like hurting himself. But you know, even on the topic of Okada, you know, they're building to him and Kenny. That whole thing is built on New Japan history. It's not built on their history in E&W. Yes, that's what I'm saying, is they bring these guys in from Japan

and put them in what they call dream matches that have either never happened or haven't happened in 10 years or boy wouldn't you like to see this guy against this guy but these Japanese guys are either tanking it and taking a guy's money or their shells of their former self because every single one of them, every single one of them, is he anyone, every single one of them is a shits. they're broken down or they suck or they ain't giving a shit and they don't try or they're just jacking off.

And you see that. So you see a bunch of people unknown to everybody but the most diehard audience that are expected to come in and get over in a two-minute package. And then they have matches with other people, which you don't know who the fuck they are. There's no angle behind them, no personal issue except ones that the announcers may make. manufacturer from years before in New Japan. And then that's TV for four to six weeks and a goddamn pay-per-view. Because this subset of wrestling culture just wants to see guys go in and do moves with each other. And that's why they can't expand.

And that's why, but Tony loves it. And the guys love doing it that are making a fortune working for him. So that's why they're never going to expand. They don't get anything else. And they think that because they've gotten a limited amount of attention and appeal on the Indies and then all the indie fans around the world got together and started watching AEW and they ended up with 600,000 people, they think it's good. They think that is what, and they're looking at these other guys running away with the race

and they can't figure it out. But anyway, there you go. What would you think, just to take it from another perspective, if you were one of these international promotions or promoters, CMLL, New Japan, different structures, CMLL is probably the most secure of anyone just because they own their buildings. Yeah.

But New Japan is obviously not what it once was. And it's changed ownership a few times already. The Rock the other day tweeted out a photo of himself wearing a New Japan shirt. while staring at a Rubik's Cube and people ran with it like, The Rock's buying New Japan! Oh, good God.

You know what I mean? Like, that's the kind of stuff you hear about New Japan. But if you're those companies and you see what WWE is starting to do and promote internationally, all you could think, I mean, Mexico's right there, obviously, but all you could think is they're coming closer and closer and closer. You know, they're coming for us.

And again, CMLL is a different situation. they own their building. Arena Mexico that AWB running, CMLL owns the building. Well, that's the thing is that CMLL knows that I understand with New Japan because, you know, Kevin Owens went on TV wearing a Brett Hart jacket. That doesn't mean Kevin Owens is buying Brett Hart. You know, I can see the rock wearing a new Japan.

It's got a lion on it. You know, whatever the fuck. Or he just wants to fuck with wrestling fans. But, it would probably be more detrimental to New Japan to be on the wrong side of the WWE than it would for CMLL. CMLL, as you said, they own their buildings,

but they have the history and the tradition. They've been there. They're on the ground in Mexico. And I don't think the WWE can go in and run shows in Mexico, just like anybody can't in any genre. The circus can go to Mexico. whatever, but I don't think the WWE could ever take over Mexico because of the nature of the way the Lucha Libre is ingrained there and how the business is done there.

And they ain't going to take remotely a high percentage of the Mexican talent from any company because they just ain't. There's so many wrestlers at Mexico. They may get the top stars, but they ain't going to get even close to everybody meaningful. But New Japan, you know, the top few guys, they could take them. And New Japan is because of they're not what they once were. As you said, they're a little bit more vulnerable to, you know, losing another couple of pieces of talent or having even quarterly big WWE events run over there,

to take steam away from their stuff, they got more to lose. All this stuff we've seen with AEW in New Japan over the last, however many, four years, three years. It wasn't that way right away at the beginning we know. But we never hear, oh, the one guy on this show is like the new hot thing in Japan. He's like the brand new guy. We never hear like, this is the person everyone's getting, like, it's never that. It's just, here is the people that toured with Ring of Honor a few years ago.

Yeah. You know, and again, some of them were really great in their prime. but that can't be the selling point, and it's been the selling point. That or if you like Okada's fashion choices and you want to just too much to see what he's going to do. Man, I'll tell you, he's the ultimate joker out there, just because he got all this money, he barely works, does comedy that stinks, where he just centers around, it centers around him saying the word bitch, and then he dresses like a bum. So, yeah, forbidden door.

Yeah. So I think they need to leave the boundaries of the United States as often as possible for the sake of having a lively audience, but that's not going to address the creative issues. It, you know, and again, that's what the show has the look of, we're just going to put a bunch of matches together. And everybody's doing their own thing, and it doesn't flow. All right.

And someone's making noise. somewhere here, and I'll find out who. But Jim, staying on the topic of AEW and WW and talent, some interesting developments over the last few days, it came out, people presumed it, and now reports are coming out,

and Dave Meltzer talked about it, that Mariah May may be WWE bound. Oh no, say it ain't so. They call the wind, to Mariah, because she's blowing the other way. Well, she's been in AEW, I think, a little less than two years. You have to say, she's one of the best pushed women they've ever had there.

I mean, she went right to the top. She was with Tony Storm for their fan base. They were into that. She was pretty good in the ring. She wasn't too bad on the mic. She didn't seem completely unnatural like a lot of people. But she's been there for less than two years and gotten a great push, you got to think Tony Khan

would give her financially whatever she would want unless she was completely unreasonable but she's choosing WWE allegedly and you know this comes on the heels of there was an interview let me see if I have this here

Stephanie Vakour did an interview and I have this from Fightful quotes here oh apparently she was talking to rock and pop FM wherever that is and this was about joining NXT and joining WWE.

It took me by surprise. As I was in talks with WWE, we were going to tell the whole story. What happened is I was involved in a very important match. After that match, WWE called me on the phone and said, Are you interested in working with us? And I said, of course I am. What do you propose? Let me stop there.

We could only presume what the important match was. Remember she had that, was a forbidden door last year? She came in as the Mexican or New Japan representative, the champion, against an AEW wrestler, and she lost. And she looked really impressive, and then the next thing we heard is that she signed the WW. So she had this important match, and then they called her. And well, there's another example of a forbidden door, being an audition for the competitor. Why do you bring in and feature talent that is not under your control,

already so that potentially your TV could make them popular and the other guys could sign them up. Let me go back to her quote here. They asked me afterwards, would you like to go to the main roster or NXT? And I said main roster first. There were money deals and I was waiting for the proposal because at the time I was living in Mexico and I had a double contract with New Japan and CMLL. And at that time, I had the most important Women's World Championship in New Japan and two of the most important women's championships in Mexico. So I had a huge responsibility in me from the biggest companies in their respective countries. I'm a person who likes to do things calmly and think well, not rushed.

Sorry to read. This is going on and on. I was so excited that WWE reached out to me. Someone from the office talked to me and that there was a negotiation. I remember I, I was a, I went back and I talked to my company, CMLL, and I told them that they called me and offered me work with them. And my boss thought I was talking about AEW because I said they would talk to me. We just stared at each other and I asked, wait, did AEW talk to you? And he said, yes, they talked to me yesterday because they really want to do business with you. So, well, it's going on and on and talks about her love of Sean Michaels, but. And apparently that's one of those talk to text. type of transcripts or whatever.

Stephanie Vickor chose WWE. You know, Okada stands out as a wrestler who chose AEW. We presume there was a significant WW offer on the table, but Tony has more money. But Mariah May. And, you know, you look at what has already happened and wrestlers chased away from AEW by Cody and CM Punk and wrestlers who left feeling unfulfilled.

The one thing Tony has, that couldn't be beaten was money. The idea that he could outpay WWE. If that doesn't even work, he's in a lot more trouble than he's in just with them trying to get all the talent. It's still going to work, but it always, it's going to work where it always would have worked

and it's not going to work where it always wouldn't have worked, I believe. And here's what I'm, mean by that. With Okada, I still believe that if the WWE had seen him in the last few years that they were just

bidding him up to see how much money Tony would spend, I still believe that. Because there's no way that you can convince me that Okada could hang in the WWE at this right now in this moment.

And would be any kind of success with any of the performances that he has put on so far. But he chose the money and the soft schedule because this way he can lay around and be even worse than he probably can be if he tried. If you want a few highly paid years in the business, and especially if you're toward the end of your career,

rather than or potentially have established yourself as well as you maybe can in this environment, then yeah you're going to take Tony's money and you always would but if you are young and not just impressionable but if you're young and you've seen once you get on that television that people will react to you and that you can hang somewhere in the middle to upper percentile of talent and all the television companies today then you're going to want to go to the WWE. You're not going to want to be tied up in this shit show in AEW where there's no leadership, no structure, the inmates run the asylum, everybody's doing their own shit.

You can't depend on the booking from one week to another. They made MJF rotten so they can fucking kill anybody, right? And Maria May, I'm sure, saw, hey, I've had a good run. They have actually somehow not fucked me up. I got in on this Tony Storm thing. I'm gorgeous. I can talk pretty good. Now I'm going to see if I can hang with the big boys and work for the big movie studio

instead of monogram pictures. The B movies have been good to me, but I want to be in the goddamn made you moth in pictures. But that's, I guess, the question. Would monogram be monogram if the owners spent money? that's what makes the equation a little do you have someone willing to throw money if ed would if ed would was still direct in the movies see that's what she's young she knows she can get over bigger

she can be as big of a star in her mind and possibly for real but she thinks she can be as big a star as a live morgan or a rhea ripply or bianca bellair or blah blah blah and look at her looks are comparable. Promos are comparable. We'll see about the work. She's young, though. She's not like,

if you're happy with, I'm going to take the money for an easy schedule. I've gotten as far as I can get. I've done what I can do in a wrestling business. And this sucker's going to pay me. I just got to put up with this fucking rotten television program I'm a part of. You're going to pick AEW. you if you still think you could be comparable to the big stars and you're young and you've got time

and especially if you've had a trial run by being on Tony's television and the people didn't fucking completely hoot you out of the building okay because some of these indie fuchs yeah they think they can be WWE stars but once they get on Tony's television they suck male and female we remember a bunch of them but if you've passed that hurdle then there you go if she was 15 years older i'd say stay right where you are maria you've got a fucking retirement plan here if you play your cards right yeah what is she like 26 she's really young yeah so that's you know so that's are you betting on your future do you want to see in the next 15 years, if you can be a big star for the biggest company and make a lot of money for that

period of time, or do you want to make a lot of money for a short period of time? And then Tony, maybe after three years or whatever, loses interest and he's got a new toy or he's booked you into oblivion. And, you know, blah. Well, we'll see what happens. Again, Mariah Mae has been removed from TV. We haven't seen her. Well, then that's the thing. She was one of the hottest girls in the company and suddenly, boom, that's what Tony probably found out. What?

You might want to leave me? Well, then he won't want to talk to her because it's uncomfortable. So she'll go home and she'll get her check and he'll just ignore the situation. Well, you may be asking yourself, how's Dave Meltzer dealing with this? I don't know whether anybody was,

but now we can find out this new reality where Tony's money can't get anything and people are not going to choose AEW. And it would be an interesting perspective. Several listeners have sent this over. Jase has sent over notes. I have not heard all of this. Let's go to this.

And you can review Dave's comments from Wrestling Observer Radio about the Mariah Mae rumors and the thought process behind, I guess, guys and girls who want WrestleMania moments more than Tony's dad's money. Mariah May. Very similar.

She put a post up, basically saying that, you know, I forgot the exact words, but it was saying, you know, like, there are no mistakes on your journey because you want to get to where you want to be or something. It's all part of the trip of getting to where you want to be. She had a photo of Orlando, Florida. and I know from from WWE that you know that she has been

there they know she wants to go there I think people saw that cryptic thing I don't know when her contract is up everyone seems to think it's the summer that it's up and you know it's another one I was given the impression it was a two-year deal

that she signed originally so I guess you can do the math well let's stop it there for a moment so if her contract not up until the summer at the earliest. He's going to pay her to sit home for a quarter of the year? Well, see, this is all picking at nits here.

June can be considered summertime. We're six weeks away. Is it summer than, I saw somebody on Twitter say it may be a little longer than that. The point is, it's nothing. It's nothing to him to pay people. Look at who that we find out every once in a while, still works there that we haven't heard the name in two years he pays more people to just stay home or to come maybe to the shows and sit and catering than he puts on the air so that's not a big deal

he pays people regularly to just stay away because he either doesn't he doesn't have anything for him but he don't want to hurt their feelings or he doesn't want to deal with them if they're mad at him we've heard both so they just stay home and get a check. If Vince would send you home and then find a way to stop paying you. Yes. But and see, that's the thing is...

Not to justify that at all, but that's what he would do. Well, but it gets... God damn, it's better than... I never wanted to be paid to stay home. I just wanted to be happy where I was getting paid at, right?

But the thing is, if you're paid to stay home, the longer people don't see you, the more of a non-entity you are, the longer... they have to forget you, the more that time has to pass you by and other people take people's attention. So a lot of times if you're actually in any kind of entertainment business, whether it's wrestling or movies or rock and roll or whatever the fuck it is, and you still want

to do this and you haven't already got to the point where you can say, fuck it, I got fuck you money, I'll do what I want, respect my thought, I'll do what I want, then you don't want to be forgotten and you don't want to be invisible. You want to be out there somewhere doing something. And so that's, it's Contonimo Bay when he just pays people to sit home. They're wasting their athletic prime. And many of these people are not going to become brilliant producers or bookers or matchmakers or announcers in their elderly years. So they need to be out there doing something right now. And you know what else is going to happen? What do they do every year, just about every year after WrestleMania. They'll start releasing talent.

So Tony will then have his pick of the guys, WWE flushed. You know, and then you repeat that cycle. He brings guys there that are not hot. And, you know, that's going to be a problem. It comes down to where is he going to access talent. But let's go back to this, Dave Meltzer's thoughts on this Mariah Mae rumor.

That would be the summer. But I do. I have heard the same thing that, at least in AEW, there's a belief that she's heading at WWE. Well, I think that explains something because you know, when they did that blow-off match with Mariah May and I was going like, God, why are you doing the blow-off match?

This is like one of the hottest feuds you've ever had and now you're just going to blow it off. And they did that awesome, awesome blow-off match. And then she hasn't been on TV since and she wasn't put in the tournament. And you know with Tony, when he thinks someone's going, he takes him off TV and she's been off TV. You know, I thought

you know, I was even talking to some people and it's just like, you know, why isn't she with Megan Bain? Why is Penelope Ford with Megan Bain? Mariah is so much big of a star. The two of them together would make like a perfect heel team. He's not wrong. No, no. I agree with everything Dave is saying here.

I actually think he's... Well, come on. The Walmart cashier is a bigger star than Penelope Ford. That's faint praise. But still, yes, she was involved. in the deal. She didn't just get dropped in out of a helicopter. I mean to go after Tony Storm and various partners, so you can kind of break up, you don't always have to do singles matches, and they could be a long-term team. And I think that that's, the answer is that he felt she was leaving, and it's time to go to Megan Bain right away,

and that's it for Mariah May. I mean, it's like, it's an... Well, let me stop with that, because that's another interesting thing. If you think she's leaving, and she still has six months left or whatever it is, and you're in the middle of the hottest program, like Dave said that the women's division has had, why blow it off then? If you were promoting, if you were going to blow it off, would you wait until the very end of her contract?

Well, no, it, if that was the time, I don't know that he's insinuating, they moved the blow up, the blow off up, just that they blew it off and didn't, do any follow-up of any kind. If she's got six more months, but I think she's leaving, I'm going to bring her back,

and she's going to do another job for Tony Stoy. I think I can beat you. If you give me a rematch, you beat her again. And then instead of beating her like a drum, which many promoters would have done in the past when somebody's leaving, especially if it's not cordial,

then you pick maybe one other girl to get in a little brief program with just for her to put that girl over to and then leave her off for the last couple months. But I think Tony, instead of looking at business, he's wounded when he hears that, you want to leave me? And he just, he doesn't talk to him anymore. Rather than, all right, well, I still got six months and I'm going to get some, my money's worth out of you before you go.

I don't have to like you leaving, but if you want to still get paid, you're going to put so-and-so over, then we're going to fucking have another little deal and you'll put so-and-so over. But if you're not going to join the friendship train, you have to go home. Let's go back to the conductor of the friendship train.

Does he have to, does the conductor have more? Well, let's go on choo-choo. Let's go back to the conductor. All about! Interesting one, because I think in the same, situation again I don't know what the offers are out there but I would think because Tony I mean Mariah really is to a degree I mean I think Tony looks at her not as a W creation because she made her name in stardom but you know she was just

someone on the roster and stardom you know nice look and everything and and got better but she became you know, I mean, she's long run as AW women's champion. And in one of, you know, Tony Kahn's most hands-on programs that he's ever done, you know, I mean, out of the box, not traditional wrestling. Out of the box. And anything comes out of a box is over. Let's stop over a second because he's taking it forever to get to wherever he's going here. Thanks for all the suggestions to play this, ladies and gentlemen.

But any thoughts at this point while we take our pause? You know, that's the thing. It has to be especially galling to Tony if he was, because we've heard from a variety of sources that in a lot of cases, these guys are now, are just, Tony, you know,

is saying, oh, well, yeah, the champion's going to be so-and-so, and you guys have a great match. You guys, and they just go off and do their own shit and have their great match.

And so if he was really deep in the weeds, as Vinnie Mack would say on, this one, then it has to be especially wounding to him. Which meant he watched a lot of Turner classic movies for six months. How'd you get deep in the weeds on that feud? But think about this also, again, poor old Mariah, she's been there for a couple of years and she probably wants producers. She wants direction.

She wants a major league television production behind her. She wants people to design costumes, all the things that you get over on the other side, instead of the chaos and on and off and stop and start, and everybody's doing their own thing business over there. Maybe she realizes she doesn't know everything and she'd like to try to learn. Ain't nobody learning nothing over there. Just my thought. And again, 26 years old, you have to think if she's up for a new contract,

Tony may be offering her a five-year deal. Could be a three-year deal. But do you want to be locked down under Tony Con until you're 30 or past 30? Have you seen enough to give him that amount of time if you have dreams of doing something? And the other thing is she's from London. In terms of AEW and the biggest thing you could do, is she ever going to do anything bigger than wrestling in Wembley in front of her family? With AEW?

With WWE, every year, you know, you listen to the modern generation of wrestlers talk about being a part of WrestleMania. it's a different animal and it's something to look forward to. What do you have to look forward to if you work there other than the money every two weeks or whatever it is? What do you look forward to? Well, and I guess, you know, part of this is my mindset is different

because now that so many people are on guaranteed money and again, I'm not privy to everybody's check, but people are on guaranteed money so now it's like oh it would be so much fun and it would be a big thrill to be on WrestleMania it used to be whether it was Starcade or whether it was WrestleMania or insert a Superdome in Mid-South

and Reunion Arena Star Wars, Christmas, whatever the big show in the territory you wanted to be on it because it was a big fucking show and you were going to get a big fucking payoff and then you wanted to be in the main event of it because it was a big show and you'd get a bigger fucking payoff. And yes, that was a thrill.

And look what I've accomplished. I may have ended the Superdome. But the overriding thing was because I was in the main program because that was what they thought would sell the most tickets. That was why I'm proud of doing that. Now it's just like, I guess, since many of them, the top guys still, I'm sure, make Buku WrestleMania bonus. or whatever.

But is it for a lot of the guys, it's just like, well, it'd be such a thrill for me to be on WrestleMania, but I'm making guaranteed money anyway. So now it's just the thrill of being on the show. I don't know. And here's the other thing, not to use a Vince McMahon term that he overused, but even with Tony's money being thrown at you, is the opportunity still bigger

if it all works? If it all works out, whether you're a woman or a man, in WWE and you get to the main event of a WrestleMania or a world title match at WrestleMania which it seems like they consider that a main event too at some point and you're making merch money and you're making money from all sorts of places does it equal out in the end

versus Tony throwing all this money at you you're not going to sell as much merch you're not going to sell anywhere near as much merch more than likely and various other intangible does it equal out in the end if it works money wise it would i mean yeah you know there's all kinds of equations you can throw into that such as well yeah i took tony's money for you know the first six months it was okay but then i got hurt and i was off for a year and the other guys probably would

have screwed me but tony's paying that type of thing comes in but i think if you're young and also did MJF, did he re-sign before they kicked Vince out for well and good for the final time? I think he did, didn't he? That's a good question. I don't know. Because if he signed and Vince was still there, I understand why. If he signed when Vince was already gone for good, then God damn it, that was bad timing. if you're young and you believe in yourself and you are able to look in the mirror

realistically and say my performances in most ways or every way or whatever way is better than the average fucking person I'm seeing in both these companies and I've got time to prove it then you need to go to the W.W.E. If you say, God damn it, me, look at fucking me. me. Nobody else will pay me this much fucking money than this fucking mark. I'm staying right fucking here. Then you're in AEW. Yeah, without having to play any more of this audio because it's insufferable this week.

A few things that I see here in the notes. Dave says AEW would have offered a lot more. Says that before Mariah signed with AEW, people were all saying that her dream was WWE, veterans would be looking at these situations and rolling their eyes that this generation isn't about the money. Money isn't the main driving force for this generation. Well, hold on, hold on here. I do roll my eyes in some respects, and of course people will point out to where I left money on purpose to go do something for less money that I wanted to do. and my answer to that is yes

and also I was kind of already established to begin with where I had that cashé in the industry but no it's money but it's also the ability to make more money is goddamn the divas in the WWE diva days

they're still being asked to come on television and do things and etc who's going to remember the AEW girls in 15 years from now. See, that's what she's 26 years old. It's not just about the money now. It's about the money over the course of your life and your ability.

Maybe she wants to be in the major motion pictures and the sitcoms too, because a lot of the girls and many of the guys that get into business these days would be TV stars and movie stars? Well, where you got a better chance of being a TV star or movie star, a WWE or AEW? Unless you want to be on. impractical jokers or with the goddamn Costco guy going boom on the chocolate chip cookies

or whatever it is they fucking do over there. Dave also said this is a generation of fans who want to be like Brett Hart and other guys wanted to be like Hogan or Bruno. It wasn't about wanting to go out there and have a great match, but it was more about making money. He likes this version better and there's way, way better matches today.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Again, I agree there's way better matches going on today than Hulk Hogan was in, and that's not, again, a high bar. But no, Brett Hart went out and had a great match in order to fucking give the people their money's worth and get himself over so that he could draw again and become the champion and blah, blah, blah. if he'd have been going out and having that fucking match in the first match, it wouldn't have meant anything. And he probably wouldn't be speaking to us now,

and he certainly would have been proud of it. He wanted to be in the main event because he wanted to be drawing the money. You want to be the star. If you're an actor, you want to be a star of the fucking movie, most of the time. If you're a goddamn singer, you want to be on the top 40 charts. or get a gold record. If you want to do it for fun,

that's because you recognize your limitations and that you ain't going to get a gold record or be the star of the movie, so you're doing it for fun with lowered expectations. And for some of the guys in AEW, that was indie wrestling, and they should have been happy there. But there comes a time where there has to be somebody in the position that says,

okay, this is great for, we talked about some OVW stuff earlier in the program. That's great for local TV, but we can go put that on TBS. I'm sorry. There are stages. Levels, as the kids say. Anyway. Well, we shall see if Mariah Mae levels up.

We'll follow up with this story as we learn more. But Jim, on this topic real quick, with the news that came out that Chris Jericho, I think the exact quote, was of course I would consider going back to WWE. I would also consider not going back, although most people just focused on the, of course I would consider returning to WWE part.

And Dave Meltzer putting in the observer that Jericho probably should take their offer. Is he once again, if he's really contractually free, is he once again set up to clean up because of the timing where Tony needs to hold on to everyone he can? No, he can't Number one, he can't be contractually free unless he just bald face lied to everybody

because wasn't it just a couple of years ago that they announced that he had signed a brand new 10-year contract and we laughed because he was going to be there till he was 62. Can he even see those fucking matches? There is a thought that maybe it wasn't a 10-year contract

and the contract may be up imminently. Well, in that case, then Tony Kahn should consider himself lucky that he's got an out clause where he can save several million dollars a year that he's pissing down to fucking well. But again, you know, I think Jericho for short-term nostalgia,

I think I said this on the last show we did, or maybe this one, it's been that we do a show every day. You know, if there's value in Jericho returning to the because many people are not going to know where he's been. That's generally the big, it was like for most of those people, CM Punk returned to wrestling after 10 years, not seeing Punk return to the company. And that's another thing Uncle Dave keeps saying,

well, they love it. The WWE fans love it when somebody jumps from AEW. No, they don't. Some of them do because they watch both shows, but the majority of the WWE fans like it because somebody's come back. They've come and they haven't ever been wrestling for 10 years. Now he's back.

That's the nostalgia thing. That's what they can get out of Jericho. And if they do a deal where he's there for two years and he does three pay-per-view matches and some appearances to promote him the first year and then does some big retirement fucking match or angle or wing ding and he gets put in the Hall of Fame, then it would be. worth it to them at this level that everybody's at now to offer him several million dollars because they'd make it back.

But for a, I don't think they would even propose to him that he should come back and be on any kind of full or even, is it possible to have a full-time part-time schedule? Anything above every so often would not be, I think, anything they would even want to pitch him at this point. Because punk's, what, 45 years old? Jericho's 10 years older than he is. Well, again, we will follow this story and see where it leads.

Jim, one last thing, and then we'll get to Raw and more. Nick Kahn, as we are recording, I guess he did an interview either live or recently with Bill Simmons on his podcast, and there are a few quotes here going around. Let me get your thoughts on these.

Nick Con expects a number of AEW wrestlers to jump ship to WWE once their contracts expire is what cultaholic wrestling wrote. Here's the quote. In terms of the other wrestling promotional company, they have a lot of talented wrestlers, and we're happy about that. When, contractually, they are available to talk to and have conversations with, assume a number of them will come over. nothing but respect to the father who finances it

and owns the Jaguars and all those other things so that's the first quote let's stop there I mean that's that's not tampering but literally assume a number of them will come over he knows that they want to go there that's the thing

WWE is aware that when someone in AEWTV gets in better shape or does really good stuff they're hoping they can get out of their contract soon and go to WWE. They know that. Yes. Well, and besides, they don't even have to watch the TV and see who's doing push-ups.

There are no secrets behind the scenes in the world of pro wrestling. If a guy in one company knows a guy in the other company, he can make his intentions or his desires or his hopes, dreams, aspirations, whatever you want to call him, he can make them known via the Underground Railroad. And the thing is, again, it's not that hard to figure out, folks. And I hate to even tell people again, I feel like I'm repeating myself, there was a time when the shoe was on the other foot, and if you were a talented young wrestler who felt he had something to offer and could go

somewhere, did you want to put your career in the hands of Vince McMahon? this brain-rotted fucking octogenarian pervert billionaire that was just doing weird shit. Or did you want to go with this new young upstart company? It was giving all these young guys a chance. Of course you'd go there. But then when the worm, as they say, turns and now I've said the pervert octogenarian billionaire is out of the business. and now it's the fucking mentally screwy 40-year-old billionaire when this other company is firing on all cylinders

and is owned by a goddamn... The movie people in Hollywood and riches and fame and fortune and they're selling out and setting records and they're using young guys and making them stars or five years of this screwy shit show where the indie-minded fucks have run off the only major stars they've had and everybody's in business for themselves

and there's no structure or leadership. As I said, you can either take the money or you can take the money for a short period of time until you feel like I got to get the fuck out of here. And now there's nothing... Why would you give this guy, Tony Kahn, five years of your life, when there's nothing stopping you on the other side if they're interested from potentially getting over because you don't have to worry about Vince's

goddamn screwy whims. It seems like more people are getting a chance based on at least some of their ability and appeal. So it's not hard to figure out. And the people that are going to be happy and loyal and content with AEW are the indie-minded fuck. that ain't going to get a goddamn chance anywhere else, and they know that.

Who else would have ever put Chuck fucking Taylor on national television on a wrestling program? They're right there, shows you everything you need to know, the fact that nobody could go up to this guy and say, sorry, that they've been such a nice guy, let's put him on TV. Are you glad that the generals that are fighting the battles in war say, well, you know, my brother-in-law, he's such a nice guy, let's put him on a front line.

He's a fuck up and a coward. He's not equipped for the job, but he's nice. See, that's the thing. If you're convinced that you can be an accomplished talent without being anybody's brother-in-law or a fucking nice friend to somebody, then you're not going to want to tie yourself up in AEW, are you? Specifically, what are your thoughts on? nothing but respect to the father who finances it and owns the Jaguars and all those other things.

Well, and again, he's speaking to the adult in that room. It's his little way of explaining to Tony without explaining to him that we don't take you seriously, kid. I'm sorry, this is a big organization over here and we're a big business, and this is a vanity project for you that your father who made these things. billions of dollars is financed. And if it was a, that's why I've said, remember at first they were offering,

they being the WWE were offering overmarket value to get guys not to jump five years ago because they didn't know what it was going to be. Right. Now that they've seen what it is, now they're reacting accordingly. Sure, they'll fucking put a TV special on and opposite their pay-per-view

or try to run the market or do the little thing. because everybody does that. But the bigger thing is there are no threat now. AEW is in no way a threat to the WW so they can sit back a little bit. They can pick fucking talent. They can pick their shots. And they mostly let Tony and the rest of his brain trust

tie their own nooses and hang themselves in it. And then they take advantage of it. CM Punk walked right in in time for the biggest fucking three shows of the year. Cody walked right in in time for WrestleMania. Yeah. Amazing how these things happen.

And Tony cooperated with both of them. Unknowingly. Bill Simmons suggested WWE shouldn't sign too many wrestlers because it would result in some being wasted. To which Nick Con replied, that's something we won't do. We won't sign and bench people.

We sign people who we want to use. if another entity signs and benches people now, that is not something we would do. Who's he speaking to there? Well, you know who he's talking to. If they sign somebody and they're going to give them regular money that means they expect regular work

and they're going to try to get something out of them. And I know there's going to be somebody out there saying, well, I've been trying to get booked and trying to work. Well, maybe they just don't see anything. thing for you right now or maybe in the future because here's a thing when they pick up some more talent eventually they're going to let some go but the sum they let go is going to be meaningless in their overall scheme of things and they're probably going to have been presented as pretty low on the cards so they're not going to be a bonus to Tony whereas at least

when Tony lets people sit out and be forgotten about he's not making them look stupid every week on TV. So there's something to be said for that. But no, he's making these pointed remarks to let everybody know that the WWE realizes their competition is Shad Khan and him alone. And they respect him for the money he's made, but they're not considering any of the rest of this, anything that they need to lose any sleep over.

One last Nick Con quote about Cody Rhodes. Cody started part of another league, and then you sort of saw him fade out over there. It was something that we talked about at WWE. It was like, well, this is interesting. It used to be, hey, this is about the wrestlers. This is about empowering the wrestlers. Cody's one of the co-founders, and then that narrative shifted. And that's when we decided when we knew contractually we could make the call

to make the call and say, hey, why don't we get together and how to be. a conversation. The deal was done in minutes, and boom, he returned to WrestleMania 2022 at AT&T Stadium just three years ago. A year later, he was in the main event of WrestleMania 2023 at SoFi. And the rest is history. And it... It sounds like he's openly pitching AEW talent without doing it.

I mean, I know he's not doing it for that reason necessarily, but everything he's saying is. Well, he's he's illustrating how easy it was and how easy it could be. If you have something that we are interested in unnamed wrestlers out there, this is how easy it could be and this is what could happen.

And I mean, it's only common sense, but he's putting it out in a professional manner instead of, you know, at a media scrum at 3 o'clock in a morning, we're going to have great matches and fuck them. Well, here's something interesting. Conn also talked about having previously been CM Punk's agent. and now working with him at WWE and his reputation as a locker room cancer.

Here's a quote. It was so obvious to me that he wasn't a cancer. And having been an agent, assume I have dealt with some personalities that were not the easiest from time to time. That's part of the job. I always found him to be a gentleman. I always found him to be honest, responsive, and I felt if he was that way outside of the company,

if given an opportunity to come back to the company, he would be that way and he said he would be and he's been a gem to work with. You know, it all goes back to AEW. Imagine that. It all goes back to AEW. And I mean, it's amazing. You know, this, I don't know what you call it,

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Well, Jim, whether you've been lying down on your mattress or listening on your earbuds, either way, there's still more show, bad transition, but here we are. And, of course, you watch Raw, this is the big one, this is the Raw before WrestleMania. You also... Well, this isn't the big one. Well, it's supposed to be. It's the Go-Home show for WrestleMania. The Raw after WrestleMania is the big one, isn't it?

That is the big one, but this is still the Go-Home show for WrestleMania. You think you have to do it. That's the Ram, the Raw After-Mania. is the big one is the ram this was the the rab no raw rabbubbemmet raw before mania see i can't make an acronym this was a lousy raw but it wasn't lousy but they did everything already they got there they couldn't have j you know zip tied to the ropes again with goonther bathing in his mother's blood they've done that they've done most of the angles they had the triple threat participants to save them in the main event spot of this but otherwise they had some matches and they had some

interviews and interviews were good but it they had they had eight or ten weeks of build and four to six weeks of material and they just stretched it didn't they you know the build has been lackluster despite there being hot things, but, you know, Jay Uso and Gunther, they found a way, I apologize for the wind behind me, they found a way to keep it moving and big things happen, but even that, which I think they did as well as almost anything for the build for WrestleMania, it still feels like it went too long. The three-way stuff with Punk and Rollins and Reigns is really intriguing, and again, that's one of the few things you're really looking forward to that was built well on the show. The extra time

didn't help. And I also just think cosmically, just in the overall picture, the Rock's return for the Sina turn ended up kind of being a big distraction. And I don't know if that's the specific point, but it feels like the show is kind of, I don't know, the direction doesn't feel as direct as it did for a while. The direction doesn't feel as direct. They were in Sacramento,

Sacramento, California, they had 14,000 fucking people. I remember Raw in the 90s back in Sacramento. They didn't have 14,000 people. So they're doing something right. And Gunther came out first. And again, can I sing the praises of my man, Herr Gunther? What the, he's great. Because normally you would get,

if a guy's a tremendous in-ring worker but he's from another country and English is his second language it would be a struggle his accent makes the promos he's one of the best promos to business today because he sounds like he looks like he should sound and he says the things that makes sense for him to say he is not phony about himself or see-through in any way and he did a promo. He came out with purpose and called Michael Cole into the ring. Apparently it was going to happen later on, but Gunther just wouldn't wait.

And the people were booing the shit out of him, but he didn't let it throw him off, as some other people, Charlotte, and other people have done. And he's enjoying that they're booing him, but he's not letting it fucking take over. He still said his shit. and he got the yeat chance and Michael Cole's trying to ask him screw your question screw Jay Uso and everybody that stands

with Jay Uso see that's the accent that he uses and he did a good heel promo and he said if you think I went too far with Jimmy I've never lost control of myself I've always been in control I love taking a bath in your brother's blood

now that's a fucking heel It was a great heel promo and that's what he did. He did the promo and then he left. He's selling the match and there's nothing wrong with that because he's already bathed in the brother's blood. But boy, howdy, I tell you what, they fucking lucked out with him.

With him and Drew McIntyre, Punk and Seth and Roman's issue and Jacob Fattu, Braunbreaker and a couple of other things, you can see that they've got shit not only set up with stars now but stars that are going to be stars for a while and they're worth watching

except not for three fucking hours that's a long time that's the issue every time that on Netflix they go to a break I try to fast forward I'll fast forward three or four minutes I'll come up in a commercial I'll fast forward two or three minutes

I'll come up to a promo spot. I'll go to a, I'll come up in a travel log. I don't know what the fuck's going on. Did you have any comments about that before we move on to hear the response from the other side of this match? No comments. I agree with you.

I think Gunther, his accent helps. His facial expressions are a big help. He gives off an arrogance that seems like it comes natural. And good promo. And but at the same time, there's the and and before we get to Jay Uso as a matter of fact, Gunther is a great heel and everything he does is so natural and so genuine or whatever. I've never met him,

but I've never heard a bad thing about him either. I bet you he's a nice guy because there's two kinds of heels. There's the kind of heel that knows how to be a heel and there's the kind of heel that's a heel just because he's a fucking dick. And here came Logan Paul. later on in the program to confront AJ Styles

and they showed a great did you see the video they did on him did you see this part I did not see the video no they did a great video all the shit that he does because he's a shameless self promoter and he's obviously stuck on himself to have the energy

to go do all these things and stick himself in the middle of it but whether he's boxing or whether he's on the fucking social interwebs or whether he's in a race car, what they did a video with him doing a voiceover, putting himself over, he looked like a big fucking deal. And you can tell that it's his shit too, that he comes up because it's natural to him. But you can also tell that he's pretty much a dick.

So he came out and did that promo and then AJ said, well, why don't we just fight? and they had a fight, and Carrie and Cross was in there getting in the way, and he, you know, helped out so that Logan Paul could get the advantage, and he knocked out AJ with the big right hand and gave him that flipping DDT move that I hope he doesn't try to give it to anybody bigger than fucking AJ, because that could be dangerous. But they have a match, and as we've mentioned, it's a match so that they can do some high spots with each other.

I'm sure there'll be excellent springboard work. Here's another example with this WrestleMania build. Is there ever been a Logan Paul match in WWE that just didn't feel, it just kind of felt like an afterthought? Yeah, and I think, I think the new has worn off of, remember, didn't Logan Paul, he had a match with ricochet so they could do spots, right? Or was it another one of the flying monkeys? They did spots together in the Royal Rumble, I think,

it was, but I don't remember. They may have had a singles match too, but I definitely. There was another match he had one time. It wasn't really and we talked about it. I can't remember who it was against, but it wasn't really a match to add to the card. It was a match to have Logan Paul be able to do his

dive or his gymnastics or whatever. And I think this is the same thing because they haven't really done anything with AJ lately. So it's just, you know, it's there. But you know, normally I would chastise them for putting money-drawn guys in non-money-drawn positions,

but they've got so many money-drawn guys that maybe they just wanted Logan to do some leapfrogs. So that is that. But anyway, then we had, after much more fast-forwarding and soul-searching, Jay Huso to come out to do the Yeat Fest. And this was his chance to sell the Macs. and he came out, stood on the announced desk, and milked it, and they chanted for him, and they yeated for, they love him.

They restarted the music so they could do more yeating and bowing and gesticulating and pontificating. And then he started doing the regular yeat promo where he'll say something real quick so they can yeat. But he again dug in and said, not only is Gunther, you know, he was intimidated before, but now

Gunther's afraid. You can tell Gunther's afraid of me. And I'm going to beat him on Saturday. And I think as we've established, we can bet the farm on that. And then they hit his music and they did some more heating.

The people just love that. And they've got him to the point where, you know, he bowed up out of his slum, and now he's not scared anymore, and he's going to beat Gunther, and Gunther will be fine, I'm hoping. And then...

You know, good promo. I mean, it shouldn't surprise anyone. Jay Uso excels at emotional segments, at segments where he doesn't have to be perfect on the promo. That's where the emotion helps. You believe him. You get behind him. You understand his motivation.

What the match will be, let's see, but really good. And, you know, as far as go-home stuff for WrestleMania, you know, the three-way is kind of its own animal. I don't feel anything about Cody and Sina at the moment. It feels like it's been a week since they've done anything. But this has continued to go, and I think this was a great go-home for WrestleMania promo. It was the right time for this promo. And it'll be one of the more emotional matches and probably the big response of the night, you know, when he wins a thing.

And you've mentioned Cody and Sina when we ran down earlier in the show. The matches, I don't think I actually came out and said it, but I think at this point, Sina's going to win. And they're going to do something for his last year where Cody is chasing. I don't want to compare Ronnie Garvin and Rick Flair in September 1987 or whatever, but Cody will chase him for a little while and get it back. because remember I said a week or so ago when Cody just laid scene out with the one crossroads

and boom and he was done, seems like they need another physical angle for Sina to get some heat on him. If they don't do one between now and them, now and then, I'm convinced that Cody is going to lose the thing. Well, the only chance to do it would be Smackdown, which is, you know, the day before WrestleMania.

Cor is cutting it a little close. Yeah. I mean, so... Well, two nights before the match, but, you know. But still, I mean, that's just relying on social media buzz, not a week worth of TV to build or... Yeah. You know, I don't know.

Again, it's a different world, the different model, but even if they do another big thing, it just feels like, you know, it can't just be the two-week difference in running WrestleMania on Easter weekend as opposed to the end of March or early April. It just feels like everything kind of fell I don't know, everything's just kind of happening,

but nothing happens. And WrestleMania, I guess, needs to happen, and we can move on from all this, but good promo from Jay Uso. Yes, and can you imagine if it was Easter Sunday and Vince was still around, he'd have a match in a ring filled with rabbits. They did the camels for Las Vegas.

You have to wonder if running Easter weekend is one of the reasons that's not sold out. Is it just because it's in Vegas, and Vegas is not the right place to do an event like this, or is it also because of, you know, what's happening in the world, which is Easter, which is one of the major holidays? What's happening in the world is not only Easter, but it's also everybody's worried about the goddamn global economy.

Yeah, everyone's worried about spending. You know, so, oh, let's go to Las Vegas. Most people aren't probably going to go to Las Vegas for fun right now. If they already had their trip plan and paid for, I don't think it's a whim purchase these days. there's a lot of things we talked about the WrestleMania documentary Las Vegas is traditionally a city for major events

but it's never until the modern era of the last what 20 years done huge crowds for wrestling and this is the ultimate huge crowd for wrestling and it's in the middle of you can't drive there from almost anywhere so and the ticket prices

I'm saying they're doing fine. We're not going to have to have any benefits for them, but they're not going to do 100,000 people a night in Las Vegas, no matter what the ticket prices are, if everybody's got to fucking take a plane. Anyway, speaking of people who arrive late to events, see how I did that there, Brian? You would think that somebody would crack down.

Vince, when the guys hadn't signed in at 2 o'clock on TV day, he would find him. But Paul Heyman was in the back, show long, he's waiting, he's waiting for Roman Raines, and then finally we're two hours into the program, and Roman didn't there, Paul's sitting back there, and Punk comes into the frame and sits right next to him. And he says to him, I've never seen you look so stressed.

And you see behind them as they're sitting there, and SUV is pulling up, but Paul and Punk don't notice it. And Punk says, look in my eyes. What do you see? And Heyman goes, a cult of personality?

And Punk laughs and puts his arm around Paul and hugs him and says, no, a real friend. And right at that point, you see out of the SUV, gets Roman Reigns, who looks over and sees Heyman and Punk sharing a laugh at a,

hug and he gets the fucking stink face and Paul turns around and looks and shits himself and Roman starts walking toward the gorilla position and Paul's following him my tribal chief my tribal chief and out comes Roman into the arena and Paul's behind him but Roman's giving him the over the shoulder stink eye like I won't look at you and they get in the ring and Paul's got the microphone waiting for Roman to gesture for it as he usually does, and Roman walks by him and bumps into him and gets another one from the production assistant at ringside. And right in front of Paul, he says, Cucamonga, where are they? Sacramento, acknowledge me. The whole world can hear that.

You never betray your tribal chief. some people would betray me wise man how could you betray me and they start chanting you fucked up and the Netflix sensor is trying to he gets up

better than he gets fucked I don't know but they can't bleep it they try and Roman says why Paul and when Paul started talking he started to get booed but he said my tribal chief it was not a betrayal i paid back a favor i owed he almost sounded a little like ruso there unnaturally pronouncing a word but then roman's problem is i i never

asked for favors because i take what i want i never asked for this the only person getting screwed here and this thing is me why should i have to suffer because you owe some dumbass favor and then boom there comes Seth's music and here he comes Seth Franklin Rollins dressed like a plumber in an S&M club and he motivates to the ring and lots of woing going on and here Seth cut this promo and Brian tell me what you thought here this promo that he cut is not what the people wanted to hear because it didn't particularly get over or wasn't

wasn't really gripping. It was all about how the winner will determine the future of the industry and it can't be Roman and it can't be punk. It can't be this promo either as what I wrote. It almost sounded like an AEW style. Oh, the fans on the internet will understand this type of thing. Did you feel that? And how does it make sense?

How is this the future of the industry? Not to say that it would be true, but if one of the guys was the world champion and the belt was on the line, then at least as an argument. this is three top stars wrestling a three-way match where besides winning the match, you don't win anything. Maybe you win Haman, I don't know. So you can't say it's for the future of the industry.

But then you'd have to take him home and feed him. Quite frankly, that's the argument that you would make in the Cody Sina situation. Sina saying I'm going to win the belt and go home with it and take away your world title. Cody wants to defeat Sina to save the industry. That's where the argument works. well Seth was talking for a while and it didn't really land but the story was I chose he's telling Roman I chose not to put Paul in the hospital so he can pay that favor back if he wants but he's a scumbag so I don't expect it but Paul is in punk's corner

because he made a choice he's not just returning a favor he's choosing why Roman is he choosing see him punk over you. And Paul's facials, again, are great, and the way that his jowls flap in the wind when he's nervous. And Paul's downplaying it. Don't listen to him. Off microphone. Don't listen to him.

It's him. What is it? And Roman says, he's right. You made your choice and I've made mine. And then Roman turns around and levels set. And grabs him and runs him into the post. And Paul's laughing. And he's like, I acknowledge you, my trouble, chief, you had me.

You had me. And Roman grabs Paul's face, pie faces him and rolls him down. You can't really say shove him down. He rolled him down. But as Paul goes down, now shock is on his face. Everybody says, oh! And suddenly, like Mussolini to save Paulie. Here comes punk.

and they're down to two minutes left, right, as they get in a fight, boom, boom, boom. And punk clothes lines Roman over the top and then goes to check on Paul but doesn't realize that Roman has slid back in the ring and when he turns around Roman spears punk and he gets on top of him and is beating a shit out of him. But Seth has a chair and nails Roman reins in the back

with the chair like he did years ago with the shield situation. And then he gave the curb stomp to punk, and he gave the curb stomp to Roman, and stood there over them as Paul was mortified. And so we still don't know what the fuck might be going on here. And you, Brian last, do you still say you believe that it may be that Paul Heyman will throw a wrench into everybody's plans

and leave with Seth Franklin, Rollins. I don't know. That seems like an option, but because it seems like an option, it could be a false turn. A McGuffin from Hitchcock. I think Rollins is the one set up to win the match, whether Haman turns or not, whether Haman accidentally cost Punk and Roman

the match as opposed to consciously doing it, or maybe Haman leaves a Brock. Who really knows? But I think, I mean, you tell me what you think, think I think Rollins is kind of set up to win this and I think it helps him the most to win it. I'm starting to go along with you because most people would have probably discounted that at the start of this thing and it may be now the way to go in the end. But everybody is still technically a baby face, even though they have their own issues with each other. and I think whoever cracks

and actually does something beyond the pale we'll get a ton of heat out of this and it doesn't make sense to turn punk heel and it doesn't make sense to turn Roman back heel so quickly but Seth it might not be a leap with Roman though he's not really acting like a baby fit and I understand sometimes as a heel

you stay a heel and that's what makes you a baby face Yeah, he's got to. He can't change most of the things he's doing right now. But you were going to say, no, I mean, I was just going to say Roman's kind of an island unto himself by his own doing. He's the one the booking just seems the most curious about. If that was a sentence that made any sense, it didn't.

And even did that one. Two in a row. Here's the thing, and then we'll move along. be merciful to you. Roman, and Romans part-time, and I don't, you know, know that he gives a shit, whether he's a baby face or a heel, as long as he's making money and featured.

But there's a way, Roman could turn heel if he blatantly fucks someone and does something that an honorable tribal chief shouldn't do. That's how he could turn heel. Otherwise, he just has to do the same stuff that Roman Raines has always done, and that's the appeal.

And then Paul can't be a baby-face long-term, but I'm not saying it has to end right now, but he knows that it's odd that people would be cheering for the devious, you know, corpulent fucking masterminded manipulator, the wise man. So this is a temporary situation. But we shall see what happens at the big rastard. I'm not really that excited.

I mean, I'm sure something will happen Friday to pull me in. The Hall of Fame may be nice, but I'm just really not that into WrestleMania. The Hall of Fame may be nice, so it'll be worth sitting through eight hours of other wrestling. Well, we didn't even discuss it. So they have legacy inductees this year? Oh, actually, I didn't. Do they have the more of the legacies? Yeah, let me tell you who they are.

There's three people. Which is a nice way of saying, here's people that should have always been in any wrestling Hall of Fame, but we just now realized. All right. This year, the WWE will be inducting three new people to the legacy wing of the Hall of Fame.

Ivan Koloff will now finally be a W.W.E. Hall of Famer. Dory Funk Sr. will be entering the Hall of Fame. And finally, Kamala. Kamala will be entering the Hall of Fame. Okay. Well, I heard about

Kamala, but I didn't realize it was the legacy thing, but Ivan Koloff, why he hasn't been in years ago, he was a WWWF champion in one of the top three heels of the 70s there, that's been curious for a while. Dory Funk, Sr., not that he doesn't belong in any wrestling Hall of Fame, but where did that come from for the WWWE of modern day? and Kamala, they couldn't give him a regular induction. He's from the 80s, for God's sake.

Cocoa Ware had a regular induction. And if he has family, I'm sure the fans would love that. If Kamala's family came out there to talk about what the business meant to their father or their family member. That's odd. Well, there you go. I mean, they just had Dory Funk Jr. at an NXT show. So they saw him and they said, Dory, we want to induct your father at a Hall of Fame.

you don't have to give a speech or anything. You don't even have to show up. Stay here with Marty, though. Again, Ivan Kohloff was alive for years and around, and they could have. Well, most people are. Well, it's puzzling. They didn't put him in the Hall of Fame.

It's a puzzling thing. Well, that's what I said. Yes, it's very puzzling. They could have had, they could have had, and Kamala. Yeah. Kamala, they could have done that at any point. Well, that's what it is. And that was WWRWA, and that was the Hall of Fame news here at the end.

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