Episode 395: AEW Roster Review, K To Z
00:00Again, friend, our friends, and welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru on a nice hot day here in the Northeast.We'll see how hot it is.Somewhere else right now, I'm sure we'll get the rain report momentarily.I'm your host, the great Brian last, and here he is, the star of the show.We got a pack show today.Mr. Jim Cornett.It's not raining, Brian.Back to you.
00:49Major news here at the start of the show.isn't raining in Louisville, there isn't a tornado on the way, no one is under a table,no one is hiding. How does this feel? This feels like success? There's no under the table going on.No, it's sunny, it's actually hot. We're going to have the hottest day so far this year today,and that's going to go on for a couple days, and then it's going to rain again. But at least it shouldn'tbe severe weather. But of course, as I prophesized, and the prophecy has come true,Last year on June the 3rd is when I planted those trees,and it didn't rain for another 23 days.
01:29We had a big drought.It was 90 degrees every day.Well, it's been obviously raining up until this point,and now, as of June the 3rd, the forecast is,we're going to get like an inch of rain two or three days later.But I didn't plan anything this year.See, there's the rub.And you?
01:51Arn. Anderson used to say,And you?Well, coming from, and there's the rub, and then you go to me.I don't know what kind of transition that is.I just saw this thing on TV.I wanted to get your thoughts on.It's called Spruce.Not to give anyone a free ad, because I don't know if it works or not, but I'm going to buy one and check it out.
02:09It's apparently a weed and grass killer that's safe for animals and humans.Have you seen the commercials for this?They have not done that here or shown those here yet.I have not seen this.whatever you said maybe think of thatwell you get thethe various thethe rains bring the flowers
02:31and the trees and the weedsthe weeds so they have been yesand no mymy yard gentlemenhave to come and spray a bunch ofvarious shit in some of thesemulch beds that have just been overgrownwith the things but no it's not safe
02:48you can't just go out there and get on your handsknees on all fours and just start licking dandelionsand shit.That shit'll kill you if you do that.I don't know about you.How is it safe to...What do you just eating this on Ritz Crackers,but you put it on dandelions and Bermuda grass
03:07and it kills it better than four o'clock?The ad on Amazon had like this very pretty womanholding a canister, no gloves, no boots or anything.She was eating it?No, she's just smiling as she sprays it onto the pavement.On to the pavement?Or onto, uh, yeah, under the pavement.how are you going to kill weeds on the pavement
03:26if they'reexcuse mepaving stonesthe stones are growing weedsin between the stonesoh in between where theso but thenthe little dogs and the cats
03:44and the bunny rabbits and everything can justcome up and still eat that stuff and it justdoesn't hurt them at all but it kills these weedsthat are have taken hold and aredisrupting your entirewalking area.I think I got to check it out.I'll let you know.
03:59Have the oldestkid eat some first.No one's going to eat it. Why did you go to lickingdandelions and eating it? What the hell's thematter with you? If it's supposed to beharmless to all these people, have the oldest,the hardiest child,the one that's got the best developed immune
04:15system, have it, have themeat it first.And if it doesn'tharm them, thenyou could graduate down to where you could feel safe all the way down to Swami or the youngestchild, whichever is lower in body weight. I'll just see if any deer drop dead outside. If they do,you know, I'll know that. Well, then you'd feel awful bad, wouldn't you? I mean, if it gets rid ofthat, you know, the biggest problem I have now is there's bobcats in the area, and that scares the
04:42shit out of me. I'm scared to death of, like, a bobcat running up here and deciding I looklike lunch. Bobcats can be vicious. Ask Al Snow. But I'll tell you.I got an email, Brian.Who's it from?Who's it from, Jim?From, well, you know, as a matter of fact, I got a package.That's Bobcat.No, I've got a package, first of all, in the mail from Lucas Kenzer.
05:10Bless your little peepick and heart.Because did we just say, like last week, I think it was on one of the programs here,I mentioned that the grocery store herestop carrying my favorite brand of Rimalot.The Louisiana brand of Rimalog,can there be any other?That's what Rimalot is, Louisiana mayonnaise.And guess what he sent me,
05:37his little P-Picking Heart that just got blessed,a box of 12 bottles of my Rimalot.And now I'm not going to be a Scrooge,now also the in-laws,Stace's folks have Rimmelideand the Featherbottom family has Rimmelideand we are stocked with Rimmelide, thanks to Lucas.I appreciate that.
06:02Can you think he, bless him that he thought of me,but also what a great...That's what he did.He thought of you and then you said,let me give away this guy's stuff to everyone I know.Hey.Well, no, I wanted to share the with my immediate family.I wanted to share the good,
06:17of knowing of a fine, upstanding, generous person like Lucas, see, and you try to twist itinto something ugly.And for heaven's sake, when we're trying to be, he's loving people.And I think he's an example of the cult of Cornett members out there that are so givingand loving, and I can just mention that I've got a shortage of something in my life,and they sent me Sprite Zero, paper towels, now really.Rimmelod. And I'll have you know, Brian, last week, I went over to the bank and my bank isout of 20s. I don't know what I'm going to do. I got no 20s. $20 bills, folks. You can find
07:03the post office box on the website. But that's the box I got or the package or the container,the box like structure that came. Brian, but also I got an email from my friend Chad. Youknow our buddy chad over in west virginia the world's foremost blind vendor you remember we'vehad discussions he's been ripping off blind people for years oh here let me sell you this 10 000watch it's nothing no quit no he steals him the blind you've misrepresented you've got it backwardsagain he is a blind person stealing from people with sight get it straight he's actually a blindto vend he's not vending to the blind he's a blind person that's vending so all the money that hesteals he comes from the fucking people with eyes that ought to know better sounds like it could be
07:57an undercover cop don't impugn his intent it's not why he wears that raincoat but there that'ssounds like an undercover cop that's why he's selling all the why is that blind person selling allthese things it doesn't even make how's he driving what doesn't make sense well that's remember youwe've started having fun with that and and taking the peopleas they say across the pond out of what we thought was the the funniness of Chad or any other blindpeople driving up and down the interstate there attending to his various vending machines and that'swhat he wanted to let us know about do you know brian that that is in many places and oft timesand for some individuals it is possible for a blind person a legally blind person
08:45to get a license to drive.Did you know this?I did not.I mean, well, again, when you say legally blind,is that George Weingroff?You know what I mean?Like, what, is it someone who just can't see it all?Well, I mean, but what did happen?
09:00Did you shadow George Weingroff around to see how many things he bumped into?No, whether he ought to be fucking driving or not.What did you think?You were around them?You were around them enough.Should he have been driving?I was around him.I was brother Eric that was the referee who was blinder.
09:14He didn't see anything.Um,it,you can'tdickwhen Bobby,Bobby,Eric was so green.
09:27Bobby Eat was calling a spot one timeand the guyhe was working withhad the guy on a headlock.And he asked the guy and said,can you leap frog?And Eric,the referee is standing over next to him.
09:36And he thought he was talking to himbecause Bobby wasn't looking at the guydirectly in his face.And he just looked at Bobby and said,I think so.Anyway, back to Chad now.Chad is on the docket here.He mentions there are more blind people driving than you think.
09:59Bioptic correction is allowed in many states for this type of corrective lens.It's allowed in Kentucky, but not New Jersey,although there is a conflict on that data.Some sites say yes, others know.So, Brian, you got a 50,50 shot maybe of getting out on the parkway with somebody.Are you blind, you son of my bitch?Yeah, he is.
10:24But anyway, basically, and without going into a doctoral dissertation on the subject,bioptics are a pair of glasses with a micro-sized telescope set in the lens of thestronger of the two eyes.A legally blind person whose best correction with standard glasses is2,200 with bioptics gets it down to 2060 and can get a license.And according to the way I understand that is, and again, Chad,Chad, feel free.But the 2020 vision is you've heard say perfect.
11:03It's basically you can see at 20 feet what a person with normal eyesight should be able to see at 20 feet.is kind of the scale there in layman's terms,even if I do never get laid.This guy's sounding less blind by the second.Well, no, he still doesn't drive.He mentioned that before.He sent me an email saying that he did have a bit of a,a giggle fest about the two of us imagining him driving up and down to his locations.
11:38He's not one of the people that is doing that.but uh who was it one time possible well i think we talked about it years ago the idea that steviewonder isn't really blind and who was it there was some celebrity that was like yeah one time wewere at stevie's house listening to music in the car i think it was lionel richie and he's likeyeah that stevie just put the car in reverse and started driving you know what he's driving and then youhear from other people they're like yeah i was next to him i'm pretty sure like it was almost like hecould see me but he can't he's stevie wonder i wonder though with uh thethe driving, the self-driving cars like Tesla's, even though they may decapitate some,
12:17does that change the way, I mean, maybe not now, but I guess in the future, will it changethe way that licensing works for seeing impaired people?We've already had the discussion that I would shit myself and die of a heart attack withinseconds of being inside a self-driving car.It lies.it gives me serious anxiety to be in a car with somebody else driving itthat can see and is human, right?So I can't imagine the thought of me being on the road
12:54and not freaking out when there's the potential of a self-driving carwith a blind person inside of it coming in the other direction to me.How about this?This could work really well for the YouTube channelif you would actually try it,and we'll get like a location that's safethat's like open road but there's not a lotlike an old country road
13:13there won't be a lot of people thereyou just have to go like 50 yards down the roadwith a blind person drivingyou can sit in the passenger seat or the back50 yards in the carwith a blind persondriving not self-driving but they're drivingwait a minute 50 yards though
13:32in the course of the distance ofdriving in a regular car or vehicleor some description is if you were pointed straight pretty muchYeah, maybe 50 yards wasn't the best idea.Yeah, maybe it wasn't a bad idea.Yeah, so I'll take that.I'll take that.You'll do it?
13:47You'd have to fuck it up on purpose.Would you do 100 yards?Now, see, now you're pushing your luck there, pal.It's your luck I'm really pushing, not my own.Yeah, you're pushing my fucking health.Maybe I'll just, I'll, as Mama Cornett used to say,how about we don't and say we did?All right, well, this is your country.
14:09But I got Rimalod, and you got the show, baby.Oh, great.Well, that was the update on blind people on the road, and of course, this has been an ongoingseries.We may spend it off into a brand new podcast.Stay tuned for that.Jim, what's going out of Cornett's Collectibles?Well, as a matter of fact, this is a good time to bring it up.
14:30I was crowing on the last episode of one of the programs that we did that I just handed offthe last a couple hundred packages to Hotchkiss and we're all caught up so order with impunityand unfortunately the the fellow known as Hotchkis Feather Bottom who's a heck of a guy namedJason Lindsay who has been all kinds of help to me and you guys in getting you stuff thatyou order a lot quicker and I used to by myself his mother is really something.and for the next week or two,nothing's probably going to get mailed out.Some of the packages that I've handed off may actually have gone,
15:18but if not, I've told him that his family is more important.And so for the next few weeks,you can still order stuff and you'll get it,but nothing's going out for the next week or twobecause of that situation.So if anybody wants to wait and we'll take a little break,but I wanted to, I don't know if he's going to get a chance to listen to this program,but if he does, all of the cult members that you have helped out in replacing damaged
15:48merchandise or finding the package that the post office sent to Antarctica,you know, he's the guy that has done that and we wish him the best.Anyway, that's what's going on at Jim Cornett.com.That's right. Good guy.All kidding aside.good guy.So what's going on with you, Brian?It's the Hodgkis persona that I have a problem with, but the man behind the mask is a good
16:16man.You know, and how did you hear that they would allow him to cross state lines only if he wearsthat mask?Again, let's not make jokes like that.We're saying nice things about the guy.Why do you always have to end everything with like, all right, let's go into the gutterand just kick him a few times?Well, because it just, it was there.
16:30And, you know, that's the thing that he had made certain settlements in order to get backin the state.All right, well, let's see about what state we're in right now. Jim, there is a lot going on. We have a lot to get to. We have some reviews. We have the roster review, which a lot of people have been waiting for. Lots of other things happening. Why don't we start with something that's a bit, what the hell's going on with this? We talked last week about Rick Flair, and the news that he had launched or was behind the company or aligned with a company called Rick Flair Spirits, of all things.with a line of Rick Flairliquor drinks, liquor drinks,Rick Flair, uh,Lickers, Rick Flair.Rick Flair,
17:14it sounds like you've had some.Have you had some of the Rick Flair liquor drinks, Brian?Everything from Flair Bourbon to Wooskey.Right when we talked about that,there were a lot of people getting in touch about a tweet.Jim Ross has been on social mediafrom at least what I've seen,and I don't follow him or anything,
17:37just a few times it's been retweetedover the last few weeks talking abouthis medical issuesand he went in for surgery,he came out of surgery.Yes, and he just actually,I think right before we're going on the air,has tweeted that he's home from the hospital
17:53and, you know, starting his recovery there.But yeah, we've mentioned a few weeks agowhen he made the public statementthat he was,being treated for cancer, everybody's up on that.And Jim Ross has a lot of fans.So naturally, his fans would want to know what's going on with him,especially if it's something, you know, as serious as this.
18:15Well, in the midst of that, Rick Flair tweeted out,Jim Ross will always be Jim Ross seeking attention.Focus on your recovery.And then he tagged him in it.and a lot of people took that aswhat the hell is Rick Flair doing?Why would he do this?Was there a smiley face?
18:40No, I don't think Rick Flair uses emojis, or at least not here.Any type of little semicolon right parenthesis?Other than him tagging him at the end to make sure he saw it, no.Well, that's, I heard that.I didn't hear it.It wasn't spoken.I saw thatand I was trying
19:05to figure outif it wasit was it in responseto some specificstatement orevent orremark thatsomeone is made was it in response to
19:20something someone had saidor that an announcement that had been madethat people were supposed to knowwhat the fuck he was talking aboutif he, then as we will find out here in second,claim that it was taken out of context.What was the context?You just blurted something out in the wild, right?
19:42And nobody, if they did misunderstand it from what you meant it to be, Rick,why not?Because we know what you were fucking talking about.How did you take it?Jim Ross will always be Jim Ross seeking attention.Focus on your recovery.That's right, because people started retweeting it with the goddamn, like, Jesus, guy.And I'm like, what the fuck?
20:08And I'm thinking from Jim Ross's goddamn hospital gurney, did he give some kind of interviewwhere he said something about Rick that, bam?And I'm, then since that apparently is not the case, I'm wondering if,if Flair just saw something at some.point in time and assumed that if he responded to it, that in that moment that everybodywould know exactly what he was fucking talking about.But it just, it was the oddest fucking thing.Did they have problems?
20:47I don't know what to fucking think.When you were with them, and again, they worked together after that too, but when youwere with them, let's say, in 88, 89, 90, did they have problems?Did they work well together?What did?The only problem.that they had, and I've said thismany times, was that
21:04Flair viewedJR as being moreon Jim Hurd's sidebecause JR had to coexistin the office with the fuckingraccoon-headed assholeand was moretried to be a more amenable
21:20or professional or acquiescedor whatever to himthan Flair who justwanted to say, fuck you, jumpout the window, and me too.but it was not like that either one of them personally had a issue with each other, whatever.And as I said, I don't know what I don't know what's going on with anybody the last number of years.I'm over here.
21:46I try to stay away from these things.But that's what, Flair put out a follow-up tweet that said that he was in some way misunderstood.or misrepresented or whatever.And if you read that,let's try to figure outhow the fuck that that is a thing that could be.And actually there's two things here.I have the tweet, which I believe you're referencing.
22:12I also have a statement that he issued after that.So let's go to here.Here's the tweet.If you can't take a joke from a 76-year-old man,then you are living life too seriously.It was all harmless.Wait a minute.Wait a minute.
22:27Should you also mention that you're saying thatbecause every word is capitalized?Yeah, that's the rule.If it's capitalized, we yell it.That's the Russo rule when it comes to reading documents.Yes.Then you are a living life too seriously.It was all harmless, lighthearted fun.
22:46Just trying to make people laugh and smile.What the,all those Jim Ross haters.He's trying to make laugh and smile.Hey, I heard Jim Ross had surgery for cancer.You know what?Let me go make a joke.You're seeking attention again.
23:11You know, I'd be honest, Rick used to be a bit better of a comedian.I don't, how was that a joke that, see, that's what I'm thinking is, does Rick thinkthat he's sending out the meaning that he thinks in his head telepathically along with thesetweets sopeople would understand it.I was like, God damn.Seeking attention for his cancer.How did you got cancer?
23:41Seeking attention again!Well, we have another statement here.I won't yell this one.I just made it clear to the worldin an article coming out on Sports Illustratedby Justin Barrassothat Jim Ross was on my Mount Rushmore,along with Gordon Solie,
24:02Gene Okerland, and Jerry Lawler.That's an interesting Mount Rushmore there.That is an interesting choice of announcers when you're...Well, he's covering the spectrum.That's high praise because it was very difficult for me to leave out Tony Chivani.Oh, Jesus.But Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler were the greatest tandem ever.Nobody should be upset because two people have a difference in opinion.
24:31It happens in life.I lost the son.he lost a beautiful wife.We have a lot in common.We were both considered the best at what we do.Let's leave it alone at that,and all the haters can focus on someone else now.Well, wait a minute.
24:51I think it was alone until you brought it up,but besides that...Ignore the fire. I started the fire.What is the movie?What was the difference of opinion?He said everybody has a difference of opinion.What?He was for cancer and J.R. is against it?
25:12He said he got cancer.I said that. He's looking for attention.He said, no, I have cancer.Whoa.It's a difference of opinion.What is the difference of opinion?You need a second opinion?You're seeking attention.
25:27That's why I tell you.I went to the doctor.The doctor said, I think you're ugly.I said, I'd like a second opinion.Okay, you're stupid, too.How you doing, Jim?Do you have a good support system?Well, the greatest of all time just told me I'm seeking attention.
25:47Do you think Rick should send him a case of whiskey or something to ease the pain?I don't know.Well, maybe Rick, the next business he'll get into is an organ transplant service called Ro organs.Because, you know, if you,If you partaking all the rest of the Wu brand items,you're going to need your liver replaced, your kidneys replaced,your pancreas, your uvula,all those things are going to need to come out
26:20and have somebody else's come in.So start now,and that way they can start harvesting the organsfor the next generation of the woo sumers.Woo sumers.You can just see Jim Ross's face, like looking at his phone,like, hey, let me scroll.What the fuck?
26:36What the fuck?All right.Well, that's the, I don't know what we call it,the Rick Flair Jim Ross feud update.It's just a difference of opinion.All the haters can focus on something else.It was a joke.It's just you and me and we just disagree.
27:01Before we go too much further,let's get the reviews out of the way.What did you watch?And when did you watch it?Well, I'll tell you what, here is a comment that I'm going to make, Brian,to you as I go to my notepad, because it has been a topicthat has come up on my Twitter machine that in response to some of our clips on YouTube,when we tweet out the links to these things as a service to the public, free of charge,
27:31we tweet out these links, you click on, see, this is another thing.Did you know that somebody stole links from Hotchkis Featherbottom?He had invented them about a year or two ago.But then somebody jumped in and, yes, and somebody, all that far back.And somebody jumped in and got to market with him first, but he invented the link.But we tweet the links to the YouTube videos.Some of these rabble rousers in the minority have tweeted me back and said,you guys just gloss over the WWE.
28:11You'll go into minute detail about what goes on on dynamiteand tell them what all's wrong and everything and how bad they fucked up.But you just gloss over the WWE.You barely even talk about it sometimes.And I believe we've explained this before, at least I have.I feel like I have, Brian.Maybe I've got, you know, the,the milk of amnesia.
28:38But it's,the reason for that in a lot of casesis because where the WWEis justkind of fucking boringprofessionally done,not quite as many,near as many production fuckups.
28:56And occasionally,somebody drops gable on his head or whatever,but normally not anything to fucking,fucking,take to task in the ring on a professionalism basis,it's just kind of there, and it takes three hours,it gives you about 15 minutes of entertainment.Whereas on the other program,
29:17it's like trying to run through the Zapruder filmand analyze exactly where the,how many shooters were there,where were they coming from,and who was in the book depositorywhen so-and-so went out on a stretcher.It's so unprofessional from so many different standpoints,and it makes no logical sense from one moment to another,
29:46that one must try to keep up with these things as best we can.The other thing is like a,what do they call them little poems in school, Brian,the little short poems, the haikus.Did you study those back in grade school?We did, yeah.How many lines is supposed to be in one of those?Is that the five-line deal,
30:13or am I thinking about the limerickswith the girl from Nantucket?I said we studied it.I didn't say I retained it.You didn't say you retained any of it.It's brief is what it is.Well, that's what it's like the WWE is giving usa wrestling haiku
30:30but it takes you two and three hours to watch the thing.Whereas meanwhile, AEW is over there like the meth head across the street after a three-daybinge just prattling on, tweaking all over the fucking place.You don't know where to start in trying to analyze his fucking behavior.So I got a couple of comments about Smackdown, and you can just let me know whetherwhether you agree with me or notin terms of general overall,why the, why?
31:07They had 14,600 people in Knoxville, Tennessee.That's a goddamn hell of a house in Knoxville, Tennessee.And half the crowd was wearing the UT Orangeand court Bianca's hometown or, well,she went to Tennessee.I don't know if she was actually born in the,city limits or whatever, but she came out in the University of Tennessee colors and everything,and she wanted to get everybody to sing Rocky Top.
31:42But then when the music started, it was like a marching band Rocky Top instrumental, and theyjust sat there because they could figure out where to come in, and she's not leading them.She never sang at all.she wanted the people to sing but she didn't want to revealthat she couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basketso about halfway through they figured outoh shit it's there and then they came inand sang to they're saying the chorus twice
32:19but how do youhow do you screw up Rocky Top in Knoxville Tennesseehow is it possibleto fuck up the presentationof the goddamn national anthemof Knoxville, Tennessee?These are just rhetorical questions, Brian,but feel free to kick in it.
32:42Would you like to hear Bianca Bellaire sing?I had never heard her sing,and I'm not too familiar with Rocky Top,so...Oh, come on!Sounds like this is a win-win for me.No, Rocky Top is the anthem of the UT Anthem,but also it's Rocky the Osborne brothers.
33:00Rocky Top, you'll always be.Home sweet home to me.Good old Rocky Top, Rocky Top, Tennessee.You could just blare that on the loudspeakersin the middle of downtown Knoxvilleat fucking noon on a Fridayand everybody would just come to a haltand start singing.
33:24Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Toplooking forward.moonshines still.Strangers ain't come downfrom Rocky Top. Reckon theynever will.No, there's no organ.There's a fiddle and a
33:40banjo.No, there's no wind chimes either.But anyway,she did a promoabout how happy she was.This is the point I was going to make, and it will moveon. She did a promoabout how happy she was coming
33:58home to her safe space.to heal.She's got a broken fucking finger.She's literally holding a microphonewith a goddamn hand.It's got the fucking finger split on it.She had to come home to a safe spaceto heal for a broken fucking finger.
34:17Riggie Morton worked for six weeks one timewith a broken aunt.Naomi came out anddid the fucking promo about when shebroke into Bianca's parents' houseand us all for fuck's sake.and they go into the money in the bank qualifier with jade and nia and naomi and by the time that's overit's 30 minutes of the program and i did say i would call out unprofessionalism
34:46with nia jacks she went to bonsai the both of them stacked on top of each other andNaomi moved andNia Jacks justI can't believe she didn't pop bothof Jade's implants.What the fuck?That, there istwo reasons I can think of
35:07why that you wouldbonsai drop somebodyin that fashion. You don't give a fuckor you don't like them.And don't give a fuckis usually reserved.Well, he's a job guy.We'll never see him again. Don't give a fuck.
35:23I got to get him.it over and don't like somebody as well, I'm going to show this fucking, Jesus Christ.I would, and then it was 16 minutes until the next match started, and there wasn't even a biglive in-ring interview.Brian, have you sat down with a watch on Smackdown or Raw lately and seen how long it is betweenthings that happen that don't really fucking matter to begin with?I haven't. You've mentioned this a few times lately. You've been walking around a lot with thisstopwatch, haven't you?
36:02I get, well, you know, because I got man, boy, I didn't even get to tell you at the topof the program about the badass battery operated leaf blower I've got. But more on thatlater. They had a match with our truth, more on him later, against old J.C.Mateo. And how old can you Google? How old is,the former Jeff Cobb because they said he was in the 2004 Olympics.42 years old.Jesus Christ.I think maybe they ought to say former Olympian
36:37because you wouldn't have thought that,but it calls your attention to it.And he beats, oh, our truth in minutes,and he's not bad.He has a nice finish.But basically the story through the whole thing,the reason to watch Smackdown is for the 10,minutes that Solo and Jacob Fatu have an argument and eventually they're going to break up.
37:00But besides that and the four tag teams, now with Candy Laroo, the street profits, the Motor Citymachine guns, Champa and Gargano, now with candy, and what the meth head and masked man,they had an argument until all the lights went outand then the Wyatt goofballs came back and beat everybody upand that was the first hour of the show.And then I'll do you better than that.The next half hour was Javon Evans and Phoenixagainst the lucha heels,
37:41which started 22 minutes after the last match had endedand went over 15 minutes until Ethan Page,screwed the baby faces.And then we were an hour and a half into the show.Brian said it's easier if you keep an eye on the watchinstead of the program.We got Zelina against Alba fire.There's no way you watch that.
38:06Of course I didn't.And then we got an in-ring promo with Damian Priestand he's finally beaten Drew McIntyre.He is not connecting with this living on the streetgimmick?Is it because nobody on the street has custom-made leather outfits or what is not,they've tried to draw on his legitimate background of being fairly impoverished or livingon or near a street?
38:40I don't fucking know.But is he too, is he too clean?Is he too gimmicky?What is he?Is he, is he?What the fucking?working here. Because people ain't getting into it. I don't know exactly. You know, sometimes it feelslike guys are made top guys or pushed to beat top guys just because of their size and everything,
39:03when sometimes maybe they would be better with another person. I think Priest with Judgment Daywas one thing. Him as that group's leader or muscle worked. Him on his own, what are you gettingbehind. He's a baby face and you got to get behind him. What are you getting behind exactly?You know, he's won some big matches and Drew's not going to be around for a while, I guess.But there's nothing interesting about him. I mean, again, I said it before. Even his gear, justeverything. There needs to be almost like a complete revamp, which is crazy. They put the belt onthis guy, but it doesn't connect with me at all. Priest is one of these guys at this point now thatcauses me to look away or change the channel, just because I'm not. Look away. I'm hideous.
39:45I'm hitting this.The Met game may be on one of the other monitors in here,but it's just it's not interesting stuff.If you look at Damien Priest in the face,you'll turn to stone.I mean, you know, there's a lot of tools there,and obviously they've seen that,and that's why they're trying,
40:04but I don't,maybe it's that he has not felt comfortable,or to me he doesn't look like he feels comfortableand doing what he's doing as a single now, et cetera, et cetera,whereas, like you said, with a bunch of,with a bunch of his buddies, maybe he is a buddy buncher,where you got to bunch him in with the buddies.Can I, can you trademark buddy buncher real quick in case,
40:33and in, buddy bunkers?We can call the women's division carpet bunchers.Buddy bunchers and carpet munchers coming soon to a store near you.That trademark.Well, any of that make the final cut?I don't know.This is your Smackdown review.Well, you'll have to run it through legal.
40:53Well, yeah, we could definitely say Travis don't use it, but go ahead.Yeah, well, and good, me shopping for produce.I loved it, Travis.Thank you.So anyway, we were at 10 o'clock.And they have the Money in the Bank qualifier, Fatou and Andrade and Carmelo Hayes.and I love Jacob Fatu, but a 20-minute three-way with two job guys, and I'm good.We get to the meat of the matter.
41:24Is it solo and old, the former artist of Jeff Cobb or whatever comes out?And they do a few things back and forth, boom, boom, boom.But when Jacob moonsaults old Andrade solo jumps up, he's like, do it again, do it again.and he distracts from the things and they get madand Jimmy Uso appears and attacks J.C. Mateoand Andre bumps Jacob out and Solo beat Carmelo 1, 2, 3.So now Jacob is not happy with Solo or the other guy,and he's also nodded that.
42:02There's more top stars about to not be in the money in the bankthan there is in the money in the bank.I wonder what's in the bank.Should we open up that vault, get into that safe deposit box, see exactly what's in that bank?So by then it was 1030.I'm sorry, go ahead.Well, there's been different things I've seen online circulating recently that Triple H is not a fan of money of the bank.And people thinking that maybe this will be another one of these things in WWE, that Triple H gets away gets rid of gets away.
42:34Gets away with money in the bank.Do you think money in the bank's been established at this point where they kind of have to do it?or do you think it should go away?Should it change?What are your thoughts on it?You don't have to do anything.Some many things you should do.Have WrestleMania next year.
42:53That's probably a safe bet.But the money in the bank thing,besides the fact that it's been overdone to begin with,think about this.At first, the idea was, well,whoever climbs it and gets the,we'll get a shot at the top.Well, then there became two titles.
43:13There became multiple champions that you could challenge.And then now every time they do something with the guys,they've got to do it with the girls.So it's just, I don't know if it's special enough anymore at this point in timeto make any big difference.But I think they can definitely,they could probably downgrade it.Is that the word for draw it back a little bit to where it's a TV,
43:42over the course of the summer and use the pay-per-view for something else newer and fresher theymight come up with, especially now since it doesn't matter.Everybody's going to buy everything and they get paid whether they buy it or not.But just, I'm unexcited.Just same thing, a bunch of multiple man matches on TV to get into a goddamn multipleman match.and that's where we've seen that before.It's the same old song,
44:19but with a different meaning since you've been gone.All right,well,that was the answer to your question.Oh,is that,no,it wasn't.
44:29Come on.Because then we had to sit through Codyand fucking see,no,wait,first out,I'm sorry,in order here.
44:41The last 30 minutes of this show,was another promo.They had a promo so long they had to takea commercial break in the middle of the fucking promo.So Cody's out first there foreverand then introducesYeat.And they, it had already been going
44:59so long they had to take a break during thefucking entrance. And thenthey came back and theywere milking the yeatsand then theybrought the music down.And then Jay is this?started back up and they played the music again.
45:17And by the time that John Sina's music started playing,they had seven minutes on the fucking air and he spoke two minutes later when they hadfive minutes on the air. And by then they just, they say a couple of things to each other.And he, Sina introduces Logan Paul who has an entrance.And there were three minutes on the air.And Logan Paul does a good, he,old promo, but everybody's just standingand the fans were chanting, shut the fuck
45:47up, and yes, at him, but that's the way Ifelt. And justwhen LoganPaul's about to say somethingpithy to Jay Uso,my DVR froze.And Iunderstand they exchanged
46:03a flurry of theirvarious moves about two or threetimes after talking about it for30 minutes and then everybody left.But Brian,is that worth three hoursof seriouslyhow devoted do you have to be
46:19to sit thereon any night of the weekfor three hoursto get that out of itwhat do you think of the newsthat they're not going back to two hoursremember we originally told us backOh god damn that's right yes oh you son of a bitch
46:35Smackdown was always two hoursThey went to three hours at the beginning of the yearWhen they went to USA we were told at the summerat the summer. In the summer, they would be going back to two hours. Now they're announcing thatprobably because of the advertising revenue, they're not doing that. I know. I just heard that.You just reminded me of it. Because I just heard that. And now I hate you too. Much like every otherFriday of now of my life that I, well, actually, I don't watch it on Friday because you can'twatch it live. Jesus. H. Christ. There's,
47:10if you're accused of terrorism they would tie you down and just make you watch the in-betweentravelogue and spots and commercials and merchant as sputnik monroe would say the rags therags the paper and the pens that they're selling you to get to anything anythingthat was smack down oh boy another winner that was my thoughts another winner another winnerfrom the WWE, those wonderful guys behind WWE, smackdown there.But that is why that we go into more detail sometimes,because yes, something's happening in AEW in the same waythat something happens when a railroad trestle collapses and a train goes off the
48:03fucking precipice.But over on the other side of the street, it's like a guy,damn television version of Somas.Well, Jim,WWE seems to have it down.They are sellinglots of tickets, making lots of money,charging more than ever before.
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53:19Shopify.com slash JCE.Well, Jim, I think it was just a few weeks back.We talked about a round of WWE releases that had happenedand what the future of those wrestlers would be.And people were surprised over the last few days,a few more releases.And I guess the timing of it,really surprised people, but a lot of people are also surprised by the outcry on social media.
53:43Let's talk about it.The first one, our truth, are truth Ron Killings being released by WWE?Well, in actuality, release is technically not the right term.He's not being renewed.His contract is up, whereas I think the other folks, they were at a period in theirwhere their out clause could be exercised or whatever for the WU.office, but with our truth, here's the thing I understand why they wouldn't want to signa 53-year-old guy to a two- or three-year contract, a guy that they've done marginally
54:27nothing with for quite a while, except for right now.And even still for right now, let's say you don't want to, you don't want to, you.You don't want to go to him and say, okay, our truth, you know, this has been great,so we want you to wrestle for us for three more years, you're 53 years old.He might not want to do that, but why, since they did this, and it is a perfect time to do it,not only because apparently they're losing our truth, but they know they're losing Sina.And we said to Saturday Night's main event, it was a good little TV match, and it fit the storythat they've told for a while on and off, blah, blah, blah.
55:08But he was the number one t-shirt seller of the week from one report that I saw.And why wouldn't you go to him and say, okay, look, we don't want to sign you for however much money you've been making per year for three more years.But we just did this thing and you're selling merchandise and the people like you more now than they have in a while.It's one of those things that happens.so let's sign you to a lesser contract and don't work as much.We still do in the merchandise, show up on raw every couple weeks.So work 25 times a year, we'll pay you several thousand dollars.And you're still with the company.
55:54And we'll still do whatever the fuck and we'll sell t-shirts.And we'll see how it goes.In a year, maybe you've made enough money on t-shirts.You don't give a fuck.I have the tweet here that Ron Killings sent out June 1st, 1112 a.m.I'm sorry to inform you all.I just got released from WWE.I want to thank WWE for the ride,
56:18but mostly I want to thank each and every one of youwho was along for the ride.Thank you for all the love, support, and appreciationyou have given me over the years.Thank you.And again, he's even saying,I was released.It's different.
56:37They just,they didn't renew you.And he put that out Sunday morning,and it caused a public outcry.I mean, as much as you're going to getfrom wrestling fans of social media,but I was shocked how many people were upset about this.Again, I don't necessarily agree with the,
56:54this person or that persondeserves a job for life, but you did see a lot of that.Like, if there's anyone who deserves a job for life,it's him, you even started seeing,this would have never,happened under Vince.Vince would have never done this.What?
57:09Yeah, you started seeing some of that.Again, people losing their minds.Vince got up on a wrong side of the fucking Bendecided to fire people sometimes.But no, see, this is,if our truth had been involvedin the previous round of cuts before they shotthe angle for the thing with Sena,
57:26nobody would have been surprised, would they?Because he just ever was while on TVand a comedy thing and blah, blah, blah.But because of that, now that he's been focused on for a few weeks,that's where people were like, oh, shit.But that shows the problem with, is sometimes at the top.I don't know where or how far up the decision went.But the non-wrestling people that are more in charge of, you know,
57:58contracts or talent budgets or whatever,not maybe realizing, well, there's a goddamn, this guy got hot all of a sudden.We might not be able to stretch it out three more years, but we can do something right now.Let's go back and let's modify that.Let's figure out a way to not do this right now.Or maybe, you know, Tony Kahn is like, oh, shit.If they let our truth go, I'll give him $3 million a year.And our truth is like, okay, fine.
58:28And he just, you know.And that way they get it very.very different than Tony. And again, we should say that we don't know whose decisionist was.We don't know if this was TKO saying cut overhead, let alone cut overhead, make it him,or if it was Triple H saying this is the guy I'm willing to get rid of from my roster.I think a lot of people are saying this is Triple H's decision. But we don't know again if that comesfrom the top. Because even though they're making more money than ever before,they're also still cutting jobs, not just wrestlers, but people in the office of all these companies,
58:56they own now. Well, that's why I'm saying if they were reticent to sign a,even of whatever he might have been making,because he's been there a long time,maybe they've raised him up into,I can't imagine it'd be Brown's Strongman level,but you know what I mean,but okay, take a little less, work a lot less,and let's keep the merchandise going.
59:15And you're coasting now in your 50s,but maybe he's thinking,or maybe he knows, who knows,that Tony Con will give me whatever I want.I won't argue with them.They don't want to renew me.Fine.I'll be right over here.
59:31And we'll talk about that in a second.The idea should Tony Kahn sign him just because of how much TV he's been getting recently and everything else?But, you know, Mariah May has apparently been removed from the roster officially now.People expect her in WWE.She's been off TV for months because Tony expected her to go to WWE.Is this WWE's way of doing the opposite of that?I mean, Ron Killings may not have known he was going to be released, but they, I doubt it was a spur of the moment decision.they knew he was going to be released.
01:00:01Let's get the most out of him that we can.Yeah.And then just get him off TV, get him out of the company, I guess.But it's obviously the opposite of what Tony Kahn's done.Are they wrong for trying to maximize something on the way out?Should they stop what they're doing?The Billy Graham rule.Hey, something else is happening here.
01:00:20Let's try to do this instead of a pre-planned thing.What do you think?No, they, obviously, if they weren't.weren't going to renew Ron Killings than the thing would be to get something out of him on theway out and well, Cina's leaving too, but we could do this thing. We got time. Blah, blah, blah. It's nota revolutionary thing. And at the same time, they would honestly realize in the W.W.E. Office thateven if they put Ron Killings on television, getting beat by John Cina,and then, you know, thrown off the fucking bridge or whatever.
01:01:03It's not like handing Tony Khan a game changer for fuck's sake.It's not like if Tony,if Tony went out and signed our truth tomorrowand he came in as, you know, are no lies.I don't know what, you know, they've got trademarked.Ron Killings, probably.Ron Killings, who tells no lies.It would get a huge pop from the audience they already have.
01:01:38And that's not disparaging our truth, but he is not a person who could bring on the strength of his own personalityhundreds of thousands of people to the show, to the viewership of the show, to make a difference in the numbers, whatever the case,the people that already are watching that showwould love,ah, they hired our truthbecause those bad men over there fired himbecause he's only been there for 20 years.But then he'd be doing the same shit
01:02:09that everybody else is with the same peoplethat everybody else is,the same thing happened to him and everybody else has.I guess that's the thing.If they signed Ron Killings,do they bring him in and let him dothe kind of comedy stuff he's been doing in WWE?Is that what you'd want?
01:02:20And is that what he would do?Well, and I'll be honest,for comedy, if you're going to do comedy,he's the best one at it, because you almostfind yourselfbeing sucked into that this guycould literally be that fucking stupid, right?He does it so well.
01:02:40Or he goes to TNA.You know, I think T&A would probably be better for himbecause he'd be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.But at the same time, you know,Tony's predilection for signing up somebody that's the current darling of the internet.And Tony's got a, as he said himself, a bigger checkbook.But that's the thing.It's not horrible of the WWE to let a guy go that's in his 50s that has been there for
01:03:14literally nearly 20 years, I think.Having said that, the timing was so odd because,he's actually more important now, temporarily, just off of this,but then he, more visible, more popular, more over whatever,than he has been for the last several years, right at this time.Because as I said, if they'd done it, you know, six months ago,nobody would have thought anything about it.Well, Jim, on the heels of the news that our truth was leaving WWE,
01:03:52in another tweet, I'll read this to you.this was sent out by Carlitomy contract is up in two weeksit will not be renewedon top of thatWWE is demanding I pay back the money they paid mefor apparently quotestealing money from the company
01:04:10I've had my lawyers look into itand after reviewing my footage on Netflix for the past monthsthey suggested I pay them back the moneyall jokes asideGrasias WWEand especially the WWE universeLosChiro Mucho
01:04:28P.S. I'll appear again in another13 years.Dios milosBendiga.So Carl Leo... I'm not sure what some of those thingsmean. They say he says herethat he has been released, his contract is up intwo weeks, it won't be renewed. He wasn't on Raw
01:04:46the next day. So I guessmaybe the two weeks went into effect early.Yeah. Well, because thenhere's the thing once they've told a guy he's released he generally won't be on television againeven if the contract is up in two weeks or whatever because in the past a time or twosomebody has you know suddenly become injured and they had to pay more money you know but withCarlito and by the great sense of humor uh from Carlito take off on an old Ernie Laddfucking line.
01:05:23He's had a nice,what, two-year runsince he came back on thatthe Puerto Ricopay-per-view and he looked in better shapethan half the guys on the rosterand they signed himand had him do the thing
01:05:39in the Judgment Day. They've never pushed himlike a fearsomesingles competitor on his own,but he was a valuablemember of the cogin the wheel of the group and the judgmentday and you know he's looked good and when he's had to work he's as we've mentioned a coupletimes done better than most of the fucking guys had been on the roster for a while but are much
01:06:03younger but he's what almost 52 so i don't mean 52 the number but almost 50 also i thinkso it's not really a surprise and i don't know that he expected because he's takingit was such good humor. I don't think he thought it was going to be a longer term thing.He was probably like, what, you're going to bring me back when he heard about it?He's actually 46. He's my age.See, they're almost 50. It's all downhill from here.You know, I have to say, I didn't expect much, but I enjoyed him in the Judgment Day.He actually is a character who really didn't do anything. They barely gave him anything to do.
01:06:46He was one of the more enjoyable parts of the Judgment Day segment.I really didn't say.So, yeah, I'm not surprised, but I did enjoy him on this run.I guess I'm a little surprised that they decided,because they're still doing all this stuff with Judgment Day,to just drop Carlito, but I guess that's what they've done.What is the current local wrestling scene like in Puerto Rico?Because the hurricane and the pandemic and blah, blah, blah is,
01:07:18I mean, he's obviously in the royal family down there,but do they have a company there these days?Does he have options to go home and work if he wants?I'm sure there's something.I just don't know if they actually draw or make money right now at this point in 2025.I know we have some listeners down there, though,so anyone who is actively going to shows in Puerto Rico and knows what's up,get in touch with us, let us know.
01:07:39Yeah.What is going on and is because you never hear anything anymore about guys,oh, so-and-so's in Puerto Rico.Well, you don't hear that anymore.Well, Carlito, Caribbean Cool, leaving the judgment day.I for one, we'll miss him on this show.I enjoyed this run.One last one here, Jim.
01:07:59Valhalla has announced she has left WWE.Well, I didn't know she was still there.Valhalla was coming.Now I guess she's going.Yeah, Valhalla is coming.Valhalla is here.Valhalla's gone.Well, that's the roster update, Jim,
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01:13:31A lot of people love it.A lot of people get mad when I don't thoroughly review it.I'm not crazy about the show right now.I'm not really happy with WWE.Right now.I'm not enjoying it as much.But let's talk aboutlast night's wrong let's get your thoughts on it well there were this was a show where there was
01:13:50actually maybe 20 minutes or so of stuff to watch they they sprinkled it out through the programbasically it's the main event angle with with punk and sammy and jay and seth and bronson and andand Braun and Paul and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice,that's what, at least on this show,instead of just teasing something at the startand then paying it off at the endand you having to sit through two and a half hours in the middle,they actually kept it interconnected with some other things
01:14:26through the course of the evening.So I like that, but again, otherwise,you got these, what, six guysand that's the thing that you're watching forand the rest of it's in the middle.And a lot of it is the talking of the thing.But they started out with Punk's promoand he's over and they chanted
01:14:51and talking about going to money in the bankbecause there's a qualifier later on tonight.And hey, with Jay, it wouldn't be personal,it'd just be business.But with Sina, who sold his,is sold to a bald fraud goof.Just any chance that punk gets to remind the rock that he's a bald fraud goof.Even when it,
01:15:16it obviously didn't really need to go there,but he just wanted to remind everybody.So he's going to get Sina and then Sammy's music played.And Sammy came out, of course,as the Henry Kissinger of this whole company,where he's always trying to get everybody togetherand the common cause and see the big deal.It's good to hear that punk is full of confidence
01:15:44because Paul Lee's bunch took him out of money to bank,but punk, you've got to win tonight.Don't think about them, don't worry about me, stay focused.We all need you to win tonight.Or this place will be unrecognizable as Seth is champion.why it'll be almost as bad as it was when he was champion a year and a half ago.See, this was a little, it's like they're all in dire straitsbecause it's almost like Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States
01:16:16or some kind of dire consequence like that if Seth would be the world champion again.But it's for the story.So they did that and set that up and Sammy's root.for punk and punk's got sammy's back and they're all just happy and thenbrian for an extended period of time every time that i've on this netflix with no onscreen fast forward that they would go to a break or a spot or whatever i said well let me justskip ahead four or five minutes again and you end up in a commercial in a pre-tape in amerchandise spot in a travel log and a drone shot.
01:17:03They had a three-way money-in-the-bank qualifier with Stephanie and Ivy andLiv, and Finn and J.D. wrestled the war Vikings.And they had a drone shot of New Jersey.And by then we were again an hour into this program.And then we get to see Sammy and Jay again.Menaand they have a tag team match withthe bronze,
01:17:36Reed and Breaker.And that'd be a great tag team matchbecause I like all those guys.I like all those guys.Jay is a popular person, but his workeh.But they go to break in two minutes and they come back.They get some heat on Sammy.
01:17:52And a kind of a blight tag.And then as soon asyou know,fucking the baby face comeback startstarts again, there's Seth out there and does the curb stomp on jail on the floor for the disqualification.But as they were going to kill Sammy, punk came out with a chair and saved the day.And apparently we're being led to believe that Seth thinks the plan is right.They go, we got them right where we want them.
01:18:23And almost nothing happened again.I don't mean to be overstating this.but you're not there was a nice drone shot of Atlantathere's a nice drone shot of Tulsathey got drones everywhere what the hell what is going on withWWU they have like a drone army well they're getting money from thefucking city governments the drone shot of Los AngelesI think they should have paid extra for that that was extra nice with the palm
01:18:54trees uh Richelle Rochelle wrestled Carrie saneor one foot75 pound weight differenceand then we got to the nextmoney to bank qualifierEl ChadoGabel Americanoagainst AJ Styles
01:19:10against CM Punkand of course you thinkthe punk would be going onto money in the bankand they had athey had a three-way matchand it was a three-waybut it wasn't stupid and silly
01:19:22like usual because all threehave some pridein theirtheir work.It was nice wrestling.It kept it going and they did a complicated back and forth finish.Everybody was there for in a number of false finishes.But finally,
01:19:40punk hits the go to sleep on Gable and covers him and Braun pulls him out.And they get on Punk and here comes Sammy and Jay and have a big fight.And AJ dives on everybody and then springboards into the ring on Gable.but Gable had loaded his mask.Boom, met him with the headbutt, one, two, three.And it was a vague.So Gable's got, now the big stars are not in money in the bank.So they could have the actual match
01:20:10that's going to draw the money to the money in the bank, apparently.If they're going to have the match,nothing's been announced.If they're going to have the match,but Punk then jumped bronze,Seth and Punk fought,bronze-speared Punk,Reed stopped Sammy, Seth stumped both of them,
01:20:26Jay came back in,super kicked everybody,but Braun speared him and Seth stomped him,and then Reed hit Jay with the splash off the top rope twice.So I had some nice mid-south wrestling going on there at the finish.And so out of three hours, you got 20 minutes.And the rest of it is drone shots of downtown fucking Ashkosh.That was raw.
01:20:59Yeah, look, the people there really seem to like it.And people watching at home seem to like it, like the commentary and everything,is just really an unenjoyable show for me right now.Not that Smackdown's any better.Smackdown has not been...Smackdown somehow became the worst show, yet also unwatchable to me right now.I don't want to see either one of them, but Smackdown, I want to see less than Raw right now.Well, but, and again, for the people who may not have come into the theater late,
01:21:28I may not have heard what I said when we talked about Smackdown earlier.It's not that in most cases they're doing anything grossly unprofessional or nonsensical,or illogical, or unnecessarily dangerous, or just, you know, they haven't built any fake walls yet or whatever.For the most part, every once while somebody still gets dropped on their head as we saw.But it's just it takes forever for anything to happen.And most of the matches are either with the underneath guyswhen you want to see the top guys interact or the top guysthat we get a minute and a half to break and come back and do the DQ.
01:22:15And over on the other side is AEW where you cannot stop the carnagefor a second to even count the fucking bodies.So it is quite a choice, but in all honesty, you see which one is making the most money, drawing the most money.The fucking WWE that has the stars and is giving them just the very bare minimum they need to to keep them coming back.And we'll see where that line is.As the prices go up and the amount of wrestling goes down, we'll see where they,hit the tipping point.You know, to go to something we talked about previously,
01:23:00I asked you about AEW.And again, not even looking at who's on their roster,how they present it.It's just it's a number two, it's competition.WW is aggressively trying to fuck with them.And I said,AEW should use the ticket price differenceas something for positive marketing and promotion.
01:23:22Look at how much they charge,look at how much we charge.I actually think they should use this too.Again, not to say we like all we see,but WWE on Raw and Smackdowngives you this much time of action.AEW gives you this much time of action.They should really push the us versus them thing,
01:23:41start doing it right now because it worksand the divide is happening.And I think it's a smart thing.It's the kind of thing that gets peopleto want to rally behind AEWor really rally behind any kind ofcompetition. You know what? It's like the fancy French restaurant that charges high prices and theportions are very tiny. It tastes delicious, but there's almost nothing there and it'll break you.
01:24:04Whereas across the street at the greasy spoon, you got a 50-50 chance of getting tomean,but you could eat all you want. Yeah. But I mean, if you're not even, if you're just like,hey, we're here, come see us. It's one thing. If it's, you can go get that filet mignon over there,or for us, $5 gets you in the door,all you can eat burgers, free drinks.Bring the family dog, we'll feed the dog too.Bring the pigs, we'll slop them, we'll eat everything.But again, notwithstanding AEWs,
01:24:40booking, roster, whatever,as a competitor to WWE,should they be using these things publiclyto tell the wrestling fans who aren't on Twitter all day,the people who are actually going to buy ticketsin these different towns?Well, yeah, it all,honesty, you've got to be careful because that does open
01:24:57you up to the backlash of the jokes of, yeah, of course you don't chargeany money. It's not worth anything. And you know, and you don't want tomarket yourself actively as the Walmartof the wrestling industry. But if you can, as you said, turn it aroundand hey, we're reasonable. We're in line with other major sportsentertainment. These guys are pricegouging or, you know,whatever, or the elitists
01:25:28at the WWEthink that everybody could afford $2,000to take Junior to his firstfucking raw taping or whatever.You could probably get some mileagewith that, butthey're not,the whole AEW organization
01:25:45is not long onsubtlety and sticking to a talking point.They got aslapy in a face was a handful of shit and they're all over the page.So I'm not sure what it would turn into if they tried to do it.Well, they got to do something.And what they're doing right now is holding the line.But again, if you want to, if you want to fuck back with the person,
01:26:11fuck him with you, you got to do something eventually.And I think those may be effective things because it's a reality.But I don't think TKO was people just nonstop talking about how they're pricing everyone out.they want it to happen they don't want the conversationyeah they don't want people to acknowledge it in public they just want to do itand get away with it well jim i have a couple of emails here before we get to the rosteri want to ask about this one because it made me laugh this was sent to cornydrive-thru gmail dot com from brian in we're all england
01:26:44hope you guys are well i have a three-part question for jimin relation to Flesh Gordon,who had several tryout matches in the WWEback in the early 2000s.Did he say Flesh Gordon?That's what he said.Was Jim ever aware of this guy in WWE developmental?Did he spend time in OVW?
01:27:09Have you seen his dark match on Smackdownversus Sin Bodie, among other matches?Thank you.Do you remember a wrestling name?My first thought was he confusing?Flesh would flash?But then I was like, did Flesh Flanagan do this?No, no.
01:27:27And there wasa Flesh Gordon movie that wasI think in the late 70swhen they were still shooting porn on35 millimeter. It was a bigbudget. Oh my God.Flash Gordon takeoff.There is a wrestler named Flesh Gordon.
01:27:45Okay.Flesh Gordon.I'm afraid to ask what his gimmick is.Well, Flesh Gordon, who is a Frenchwrestler. His real name is Gerard Hervey. He has been a dominant fan favorite. Is he a brother ofJason Hervey? He's been a dumb. Why did that get me? He's been a dominant fan favorite in France sincethe 1980s when his matches began airing on national television. Since the 1980s, how old is thisfucking guy? He was born June of 53. He's 71 now. Jesus Christ, did this guy just asking if
01:28:21We was in OVW or something?What did he say?In the early 2000s,let me see if it says anything here by WWE,having practiced boxing from the age of 14,as well as pancreation,in the 1970s he went to Mexico and discovered Lucha Libre.He started wrestling as super flesche.
01:28:40By 1979, he returned homeand made his debut on French TV wrestling,initially under his real name,but soon adopting the Flesh Gordon identity.he wrestled for the FFCP regularly teaming with Walter BordsOh well if he's okay with Walter he's okay with mewith whom he held the FFCP French tag team championshiplater in the decade he would team with Prince Zephy
01:29:07he became a regular on Eurosports new catch programalso appearing in Wales for Welsh ChannelS4C's Reslo Wrestling Showand home video releases by German CWA.Now I know them.The point is if this guy was born in 1953,what fucking, how old was he,did they think he was going to be in OVW
01:29:33or get a tryout or be a developmentalor whatever the fuck, and he was in his 50s?He became the European champion in 1988,the World Light Heavyweight Champion in 92,and then created a wrestling school.In 95, the Belgian TV show Strip Teesdevoted an episode to him entitled Flesh Gordon,and the fireman.
01:29:52He's been wrestling for French wrestling promotionwrestling stars since its creation in 2001and holds the positionof national technical director.So you don't remember Flesh Gordonas much as you say.No, I do not remember old Fleshy.If I Google Flesh Gordon?
01:30:16Is he still wrestling or is nowis he just a technical director?Also, it says here,Flesh Gordon is a 1974 American superherosex comedy,which is a spoof of the Universal PicturesFlash Gordon serial films of the 30s.All right, I've not seen that smut.
01:30:33I'll see if we could find a copy of that.But no knowledge of Flesh Gordon.What do you think of the name,Flesh Gordon?Well, for a porn movie, I think it's pretty fucking neat.For a wrestler, not so much, I don't think.Because, again, what...How would you go out and portray that?
01:30:52You'd be dressed up as a space traveler,except that you're fucking thrust in your dick in people's face?I don't know what...Flesh Gordon.Well, Jim, our next email was sent to corny drive-thru at gmail.com.This is from Daniel.Hello, Jim and Brian.I'm wondering if either of you know the first heel commentator in pro wrestling
01:31:16or when the concept originated.Besides Lawler, Ventura, and Neutral.Heenan, I don't think it works well. People aren't interested in what happens next week whenthe commentators explaining how much the babyface deserved to be beaten with a baseball bat by 12guys. Triple H owes much of his success to Jim Ross, who sold the outrage and disgust over theactions of the cerebral assassin. So, Jim, heel commentators, who was the first, and what do youthink of the concept overall? Something you have done.well first of all who was the first who was the first anything really and what do you count do you
01:31:56because it's a tradition in tv studio wrestling in many if not all of the territories going back a longtime that every so often you'd have a guy sit in on commentary on a match involving somebodythat he was going to be facing if it was a heel then he was technically he was doing heelcommentary and they would work shit off of that and Eddie Graham had guys docommentary a lot on Florida television and that's what Watts did the same thing inMid South as far as a regular weekly heel of opinionated broadcaster people thinkthat Jesse was the first but Piper was technically doing it in Atlantain what was that, 81, well before,
01:32:50was it 81 or 82?He was definitely doing it in 82.He may have started at the end of 81, I'm not sure.But he was definitely doing it in 82.And while he was noted as a heel when he startedand he would take up for the heels,he gradually, he didn't pour it onlike he was an active wrestler
01:33:11because they made him strictly an announcer.And then when he started getting into the fucking angles,That's when, you know, he not only was more heelish,but then also when later on we switched baby face.But can you think of anybody that was regular before that?Because most of the time in the territory days,you didn't want to put one of your talent rosteron the announced desk every week for the entire show.
01:33:45People got tired of them, it burn them out, whatever.but you'd always have the manager sit in every once in a whileor another top guy.So I think maybe was Roddy the first time they used a heel,a heel point of view as the regular color guy every week?I think so.Because before that,there only been really retired baby faces in those kind of roles,
01:34:11whether it was Anthony, Raqa, or, you know, L.A.,they used to have Jules Stromba doing the interviews backstage.but it was never really like a Lord Laytonyou know it was neverI shouldn't say never George Cannon was a heeland then he became a commentator for his promotionbut that was his promotionbut typically it was a retired baby face
01:34:32who you'd see as a commentatornot necessarily an active baby faceand so that answers the question of who was the firstand then when Jessegot over doing itand it was at the same time that the business was an all-aroundhot period, then other people started taking it and running with it.And that's why at one point in time, I did it, or Bobby Heenan did it, or Paul Lee did it,
01:34:58or Terry Funk did it, or on and on and on Michael Hayes.So that's, but before it was always thought that your announcers need to play it straight.And because they're the salesman of your product, you don't want them to be,you know, just full of shit because they're your salesman.But in the early days, especially with Piper and Jesse early on and et cetera, and evenme and Heenan, the heel guy would back up and try to be more of an announcer than a talentand constantly putting themselves over whoever they're affiliated with and take moreof a broader look like, okay, I'm going to be, I'm going to be sympathetic to the heels,
01:35:46but I'm kind of going to be more of an announcer.Those are the ones that had better success at itand the ones you got tired of quickerare the ones that just went out and did their same shitbecause as we mentioned,sometimes entertaining promo guysdon't translate to entertaining commentators.Well, Jim, as we get ready to go to the main event,
01:36:10the AEW roster review from K-on.Let's briefly, and there's no other way to do,this. Go over thepay-per-view card this coming weekend,premium live event, money in the bank2025, the 16th annualMoney in the Bank pay-per-view eventfrom the Intuit Dome in
01:36:30Inglewood, California. And by theway, I remember where if you hadcome to Vince McMahon with, here'sthe pay-per-view cardand you had liketwo multiple-personmatches anda couple more, and
01:36:46where's the rest of it?And this is what they're getting away with now, right?Well, here's the card, and make sure you have yourclock out for this event. I'd like to know how much time is in between these matches.A last chance match for the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship,Lyra Valkyria, the champion, versus Becky Lynch.Here are the stipulations.if Lynch loses
01:37:15she can no longer challengefor the title for as long as Valkyria is championif Valkyria losesshe'll be forced to raise Lynch's handand acknowledgeLynch has the better womanotherwise that was the last chance matchotherwise known as
01:37:37you goddamn just did the jobso go ahead and raise her handI mean thiscould go either way because obviously Becky Lynch is a far bigger star than old lyric,but they're also friends and Becky's doing this to try to get her over. It ain't going to work,but I wouldn't be surprised because Becky doesn't need the women's intercontinental title if theydon't do that. Lyric wins and Becky can't challenge for it until somebody else wins itand then everything's fine. Or maybe they'll go with some heat.
01:38:14and make lyric raise her hand,and then Becky will turn around and kick a shit out of her.I don't know.And to paraphrase an old Abbott and Costello routine,I don't care.If Abbottom Costello saw the match,he might yell, chick!But, um,
01:38:35Jim,speaking of the chicks here,going back to this match here, Jim,Lyra Valchuria,Lyra Valkyria versus Becky Lynch,last chance match.In terms of the Money in the Bank winner,do they only get the challenge
01:38:50for a world titleor is this title,also included they could challengefor the Intercontinental title?Well, yes, because they've saidsomebody on the guys' sidejust said, I could challenge youfor something or other.
01:39:05So theoretically, they can challengefor any title.They've established that.Let's now go, Jim, to the Money in the Bank matches.The Men's Money in the Bank ladder matchfor a men's championship matchcontractSolo
01:39:18SacoaversusL.A. KnightversusPentaversusSeth Rollinsversus
01:39:27AndradeversusEl GrandeAmericano.Oh boy.Andit would have beennice if they'd have
01:39:39had moreof the main eventguys in thebig money in the bankmen's match,but then they would havehave to stick a bunch of their stars in there that they wouldn't be winning.Obviously, Penta ain't going to win the thing, although I'll enjoy seeing him in the ring
01:39:58with Gable again.Maybe Gable has learned the word receipt.But Andre, obviously, no, Gable, no, Penta, no, L.A. Knight, they're teasing us.And something's going to happen probably with solo and the,rest of his estranged family. Seth has got to win this. Does he not? He's the leader of the newtop heel faction with Paul, with the two bronze. They look like the modern incarnation of ahorseman type group. I don't see Seth not winning this thing, do you? Well, it seems obvious,but, you know, they do also have to find the way to get punk on this card. And punk O'S
01:40:45Seth won from Monday, if Punk costs Seth money in the bank when it's clear that he's going towin, I guess Braun and Bronson are distracted by Sammy or who else, I don't know. Andpunk does something to cost Seth that it furthers their feud because technically they don'tneed, neither one of them need a belt. And again, it goes into the whole one screwed the otherone. It's natural. But then it becomes who wins. Well, yeah, because if there were moremain event guys in this mix, you'd say, okay, but who do we want to seeof these other five get a title shot?Yeah, and of those five, who would use that title shot and actually win the title?
01:41:27So we'll see. Seth Rowland seems like he'd be the pick, but also I thinkhe probably has to get fucked over in some way on the card.But who knows? Maybe don't make Andrade in one night.Jim, the women's money in the Bangaladder match for a women's championship matchcontract.Alexa Bliss versusRoxanne Perezversus Ria Ripley
01:41:50versus Juliaversus Naomiversus StephanieVakair.Oh boy, well I meanagain, obviously if we're going on starpower, Ria isas over as all five
01:42:08other young ladies combined.but they might want to do something with Naomibecause of her and Bianca,Naomi's a vicious heel now.I mean, you know, the internet crowd is just a buzzover Stephanie and Julia,but are they going to draw any money?Are you surprised they got brought up
01:42:30and I kind of incorporated into the main mix so quickly?Yeah.I mean, they're good.And I think Stephanie Vacker is very good.but still usually they keep those people in NXT for a whileand I don't know who else has gone to NXTand come up this quickly.Yeah, I see, I'm not seeing they can wrestle.
01:42:52I'm not seeing any fireball personalitiesor incredible promos or whatever,but I mean, besides again, Ria is the natural choicebecause she's the biggest star,but they've got Naomi at a program with Bianca.do you see, you know, any of the other girls challenging for the world title and any kind of money match?You know, say, hard to stand up to Ria.I think she ought to just beat the other five up and call it a day.
01:43:30Ria does need a win at some point soon.I feel like we've seen her on the losing end a lot for someone who has to stay over, needs to stay over.She's good.Jim, the final match, the fourth match.A tag team match.Cody Rhodes and Jay Uso versus John Sina and Logan Paul.And I guess you would normally say, well, here's the big match where it's, you know,Brett Hart and somebody against the Undertaker or whatever, and that's a bigger draw
01:44:09than the money in the bank matches.but they just announced this like last week.So I think they're just saying,fuck it,wherever we're at is paying us a bunch of moneyand the things sold outbecause the fans will buy the ticketsno matter what we charge
01:44:24and we're getting paid the rights feefor this broadcast,whether anybody buys pay-per-view or not.So fuck it.Four matches and here they are.And with the tag match,one with three,think that this would be Cody's opportunity
01:44:44to do something importantand either beat somebody or show some life.But we will see.Well, that's the premium live event from the Intuit...What is it? The Intuit Dome? It is a dome.How many seats are there in the Intuit Dome? Hold on.Intuit Dome seats.An undetermined amount of people, apparently.
01:45:12They're not a number of people.anywhere here doesn't say the capacity.Well, is it one of thelittle it, bitty domes or one of the bigbad domes?And do it, do it, into it, don't.Do it, and do it, do it, don't capacity.18,000 people.
01:45:29See, that's a little dome. That's a big arena, but a little dome.All right, Jim, well, let's now goto the main event here.Yeah, boy.The AEW roster review,we previously went through A3as well as the women's roster.Any thoughts or notes before we continue on
01:45:49with this review of the roster?Well, I think we got to bring people up to date.Basically, you can hear our thought processesbehind the whole thing on YouTube.The clip is there reviewing the roster A through J or whatever.But we can't take the booking out on the talentbecause it's not their fault.and in some cases how they've been booked.
01:46:16We're just taking the talent that I think that you could actually do something within a serious real professional promotion instead of the, hey, kids,let's put on a show, All Friends Network.And it might be changing their presentation or baby face to heal or whatever.We'll determine that later on.But is there something with anybody?And I will real quick recap, we have kept Bobby Lashley,Shelton Benjamin, Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs, Anthony Bowens, AR Fox, Austin and Colton Gun, Bandito.
01:46:53And by the way, we're keeping them all but not permanently.And some of them I'm on the fence about still.Big Bill, Brody King, Buddy Matthews, Cash Wheeler, Claudio.And you're on the fence too there, Brian.I'm not on any fence.I'm on any fence.No Claudio.You've fallen completely over into the pig pen.
01:47:13Darby Allen, Dax Wheeler, Dustin, Hook, J. Lethal, J. White, Juice, Robinson, John Morrison, and Josh Alexander.And in the middle in potentially non-wrestling capacities, we've got Christian Cage, Billy Gunn, Adam Cole,Ariya Davari, and Jeff Jarrett.Yes.And the non- wrestling capacity is stay home.Well, no.they could be promoters, they could be trainers,they could be fucking producers.
01:47:48We're talking about whether we keep people,but not how we use them.I would put Adam Cole in chargeat a video game division.Well, he couldn't have done worse than Kenny.What happened to that thing, by the way?That's another clip.We're going to get bogged down.
01:48:03That's another roster.And we have fired, well, hold on,we have fired John Moxley,Kenny Omega,because like I said, if you got two train chimps doing the same tricks,pick the youngest and the freshest one,and we've not got to Osprey yet.We fired John Moxley, Kenny Omega, Shepoopee,
01:48:22Okada underlined, Solo.Who's so, that's not Solo, Sokoa.Aaron Solo.Aaron Solo.Action Andretti, Adam Page, because he's an empty-headed dip shit.Alex Abrantis, because we couldn't figure out what he does.Alex Reynolds.Angelico, Angelo Parko, Parco.
01:48:47Angelico, Angelo Parker, and a go-go, is what I'm trying to say.B-Con, who is that?Is that Tony's brother?Bishop Congates of agony.Okay.Brandon Cuddler, Brian Cage, Brian Danielson, because we can't wrestle and he's goneapesh mentally over the end.indie wrestling crowd.
01:49:13Brian Keith, Charlie Bravo,Chris Jericho, ChristianCage, as I said, up in the middle.Chuck Taylor, Colt Cabana,Edge, hate to say it.Danhausen, Daniel Garcia,Dante Martin, Darius Martin,Drillistico, Eddie Kingston,
01:49:31Evaluno, Griff Garrison, Hologram,a Cassidy of some description.I've just got Cassidy here.Sean, David, one of you.Cassidy from avery he's that yeah he's their younger brotherJack Perry John Silver and Josh Woods that was thefired list and we just got to K now
01:49:51and you keep saying weI would have kept Omega too but you know a fewdifferences than yours well because you can't teach himand actually I'm rethinking Ospreyafter the interview that he did where he said ohbro we smoke we smoke theW.W. in every aspect of wrestling,except for professionalism,
01:50:16drawing money, and gaining viewership.It's sometimes you can't,do you want an employee for your widgetcompany that not only is not good at making widgets,but wants to make different fucking widgetsthan what the majority of the people want to buy?Sometimes you just can't teach these fuckers.Well, let's get back to teaching about widgets
01:50:38here on Fantasyland.Continue with the list. Let's go to the letter K.I got the paper right here.Limitless Keith Lee.Fuck, I forgot about him.Apparently he just put out a statement too recently.Someone's like, hey, what's going on?He's like, I feel perfectly healthy.
01:50:54I'm just waiting.What the fuck?Wait a minute.Every time he's gone, he says he's perfectly healthy.He comes back.We hear the story that he was near death.He looks near death.And then he goes away again.
01:51:08And then he says, I'm perfectly healthy.healthy.I'm sorry, he's got to be perfectly gone.I just, I can't do this,the back and forth and the,the Frazier promo and the gray hairand the fucking whatever, there was somethingthere. It's long since past.
01:51:24See you later, Keith.Here's what it is, Jim, apparently.Someone on Twitter,I don't have their name here.I wrote, I hope Keith Lee is okay and doing well.I hope I will see him back in the ring.In hope, you are doing well health-wise.I am truly blessed to be one of the many to watch you in the ring, and hope to once again.
01:51:45To which Keith Lee responded,You have my appreciation.I am quite well.Only time will tell when or where, but I am confident that time will come.Have patience, my friend.Lead with love, be well.This is a very nice man, I have to say.Very polite, polite man.
01:52:07Jim back to the roster here.Kevin Knight.Kevin Knight, we got to keep him.There's something going on there.We would see more of him and maybe figure out something.Let's keep him.I agree, a good recent hire.What about Kill Switch, formerly Luchosaurus?
01:52:27Oh, good Lord.If he ever does come back, I would suggest he leave again.Kill Switch, Dino Dush, whatever.If he was, Keky was, Keky was.of anything, we'd have seen it by now, a long time before now.And the only thing he's ever done has gotten away.Here's someone who looks like an evil Colin Thompson, aka Colin Thompson,super bad Kip Sabian.
01:52:59Pip Sabian, yeah, Sionara, Pip.He was gone for about a year, just sitting in the crowd with a box on his head.That's the best work he's ever done.Jim, what about Commander?Oh, come on.you wouldn't want WWW to sign themwhy notCommander could be commanded to go somewhere else
01:53:28again you've gotwell I mean I don't have the entire list in front of meyou're reading it to me but we need to keeponeof the gravity defying luchadorsand I don't remember truthfully which is the bestone if there's any difference is it commanderis it hologram, is it pentagram, is it octogram?
01:53:51The best one was Elio do Vikingo.Well, he's gone, isn't he?And now that guy has a good ticket to every WWE show, it seems like.Those are expensive things.You need one.I don't know.Maybe later on we'll go back and figure out who the best one.Bandito, I think that's why we put him down there.
01:54:07He actually has the power to move a grown man around.All right.So wait and see on command.Commander, Jim the new Jim...No, I'm putting him down as he's gone.Oh, okay. Adios Commander is what I'm asked.Now that I've seen Bandito again, I'm reminded we've already got one.Jim, the NJPW never openweight champion from the Don Kowas family, Konosuke Takesta.
01:54:36Keep him.We can start him over again under a different name with a different push.Maybe nobody remember what they've done to him so far.Did you see he just announced he got married?I did not.I wasn't actually looking for that announcement, therefore I didn't see it.You want to know who he married? I swear to God it's true.Oh, come on. Now, he didn't marry somebody that I would know who the fuck they are.
01:55:01He married Yuka Sakazaki.I know you know that name because it's such a catchy name.It's fun to say.Yes, it's a catchy name.Well, maybe now she'll be barefoot and pregnant and give up the wrestling game.Well, Jim, you want to keep Takesha.What about Koda Ibiza?Abushi.
01:55:21Now let's let him join Commander.Although, do we have a motorized wheelchair to helpAbushi get out the door?You know, I would keep him just because I don't think he'sgoing to be wrestling much, and I kind of want to see him.I don't know.You need a heel to really go over someone and make it look.There's just something about, like, the dirtiness of him
01:55:44every time he walks out there with like that blank look on his face.And then we're told he's a great worker.Every time he's come out there, he's bombed.I guess perversely I want to see more, but I can understand why you'd get rid of him.Well, we'll let the perverts have a pick at the roster later on.Jim from the Don Callis family, Kyle Fletcher.We got to keep Kyle.Again, it's not his fault.
01:56:08He's surrounded by a bunch of morons.He's improved his body.He's got the size.He's very athletic.He just needs somebody to teach him why he's doing all this shit.Would you keep Kyle O'Reilly from the Paragon?Yeah, we said we weren't going to hold booking against anybody.Purely as a performer, yes.
01:56:33And again, you know, there's hope that people would forgetif you kept some of these people hidden long enough,forget what they've seen before and you could reintroduce them.That was a good, hardworking, dedicated young man.What about the Murder Hawk Monster from the Don Callis family, Lance Archer?You know, again, if we're not taking the booking into account,just the whole stupid way that he's been presented for the entire five or six years or whatever,you could do something with him.
01:57:12He's not going to be the world champion.Let's keep Lance Archer for right now.What about big shoty, Lee Johnson?and we'll put Lance Archer in the spot that's been vacated by Lee Johnson on his way out the door.Jim, what about the ring of honor?No size, no physique, no, what the fuck, interchangeable with all of these indie guys.What about the Ring of Honor Pure Champion from Shane Taylor promotions Lee Moriarty.Now that I'm trying to think, do I know the difference between Lee Johnson and Lee Moriarty?
01:57:51Fire both of them.What about Leo Rush?from crewno keep that littleweaselhe'sI agreehe can he can talk
01:58:04and he can workand he's got somethinghe would again beone of thehottest managersin the history of the businessif I was the bookerwhat about the butler
01:58:16Lutheroh crickcan weplease send Eric von Stroheimto the motion picturecountry home.What about from the MXM collection, Mansour?And Monswey can go with him.
01:58:36Whatever, what's the other guy's name?We have him here, too.He's under this MXM collection, Mason Madden.Yeah, well, both of them are, they're not John Madden, neither one of them.They're gone.That's just, no, that'll never be redeemable.Mark Briscoe.we're keeping him
01:58:55obviously not even a thoughtin terms of crowd reaction andinvolvement with main thingseven though he's lost a tonhe loses it seems like every single matchdo you think it's done anything to helpthe crowd reactions to him the fact thatit seems like he's getting over more
01:59:14right now than he has before in ring of honorin AWWeven though he's been there for a whileand obviously he had a lot of sympathylove from people and people like them anyway at the beginning,but it seems like right now it's kind of,not to say it's clicking,but it's clicking better than it has an AEW for him.
01:59:32Well, yeah,because this is a thing that's taken out of the hands of the bookingand is in the hands of the fans.And regardless of whether he wins or loses,at first they were sympathetic because of what happened with Jay.But since then, Mark is just so good every time you see him,that he's gotten over on his own merits,as he always does and should.
01:59:58But now the people know that he's being mistreatedand there's an extra, like, you know,yes, we like this guy and we want to show itbecause it's a sympathy fucking cheer.It's the same day.It's like when the Midd Out Express was getting beaten WCW all the time,the people cheered for us even morebecause they knew we were being fucked around.
02:00:21They like Mark.to begin with, and they know that he's deserved much better than this.And so they're making their feelings known.But, you know, nevertheless, yes, you'd have to be a complete idiot,not to be able to understand that Mark Briscoe could be a major part of the roster.That's why the company is being run by a complete fucking idiot.Well, speaking of Mark's Jim from the Don Callas family, Mark Davis.I forgot about him.
02:00:55He's the one with the giant fucking voluminous ass, isn't he?I guess you can say that.He chose to.I mean, he did one move one time that I really liked.I mean, it's just so bland and blah, but let's keep him for a little while and see if we can figure out anything.Mark Davis.From the premier athletes are representing them, smart Mark Sterling.Sorry. They somehow got him to refrain from hocking up the whole thing the other night,
02:01:31but every time we've seen him, it's just he's a parody of a manager and a parody of a lawyer,and I think he needs to be a parody of an employed person.From private party, Mark Quinn.And you know what? He's the one that I said, the high-flying fellow. Get rid of the Martins,because they're always broke down anyway,and Mark Quinn would be the high-flying guy,but somebody commented,and I think it was on Twitter,
02:02:05that we haven't seen Mark Quinn in a while,and he's been hurt too.Did he have to tone down on the flying stuff?Which was his raison de'etre, as they say.Keep Mark Quinn if he can still jump.What about Daddy Magic?Matt Menard.See if he can jump out to,
02:02:27door.Jim, what aboutEddie Max gone?Matt Seidel.Oh, come on.I mean, you know, he was a niceworker a number of years ago.We haven't seen him on TV and forever,
02:02:43but at this point, age may be an issue.And also, he's small and does a lot of leapinglike everybody else that we're trying to get rid of.I don't see a place for Matt Seidel right there.Do you see a place for Kingdom member MattTaven.Where is he?Where the fuck is he?
02:03:04Matt Taven at one point,in 2012,I think,we were trying to get him into Ring of Honor.He was the future of fucking wrestling.And he could do everything.And then,and now him and Bennett,
02:03:22they've been hidden for so long.Yes, I'd keep Matt Taven.He's still young.and try to find him to determine what his strengths are these days.All right.What about EVP from the young bucks and the elite, Matthew Jackson?How quickly could we give him his termination?Can I hire him for two different jobs I can fire him from both of them?
02:03:50If you were going to fire the bucks and you did it on air live,do you think it would help the show?Yes.I might make it pay-per-view.Well, then they may not show up.You got to surprise him with it.Well, no, I would know.I would say, hey, you assholes, you've got X amount of time on your contract.
02:04:10If you want any of that money, you will come to this pay-per-view where we're going to advertise it.We're a fire your fucking asses in the middle of the ring and demand that you apologize to the fans for fucking up their only chance at a goddamn alternate wrestling promotion.All right, Jim, what about?I think people would buy that.would you buy Max Caster?I don't think so anymore.He was over for a while with the rap and the whole thing and he lost it.His matches were never his strong point.
02:04:47Bowens has passed him in the kind of hardworking dedication category.I mean, what do you think?It's so weird because they were so hot.and then the breakup happened,the match happened,but it's almost like it didn't.Like nothing really,it's the weirdest like,
02:05:12these guys were a team,they were teasing the breakup,then the breakup happenedand everyone just kind of went their own way,and then Castor started losing in seconds,and then Bowen just reappeared one day,Bowens, excuse me,and beat him.
02:05:24And beat him with Billy Gunn,and beat him.And then...In one minute.I don't think we've seen Castor again,and Bowens can't wina match. That was the feud. That was the whole breakup of the hottest tag team they had,be acclaimed, at least for a time. Jim, what about, yeah, let's cast, castor out.
02:05:42What about Michael Nakazawa? Oh, for fuck's sake, he can't even still be employed there,certainly not. He is on the roster. This is their roster. All right, well, he wouldn't beanymore. I mean, that's a fairly foregone conclusion, a waste of time to begin with, and hewas just because he was Kenny's jock holder and bag carrier.And he was the guy with the baby oil.So they can't bring him back now with the heat that baby oils got.So there you go.Just more joke fucking wrestling and friends,
02:06:20stooge friends to get a job off of the billionaire.What about speedball Mike Bailey?Oh, boy.I mean, there are, there are so many people on this roster that I would just relish the thought of being able to fire in person.Hold on, I got to start another page here.Spitball Bailey.It would be.We're only an M.
02:06:45Gone and forgotten.I'm on page three of firings and I've only just started page two on the keepings.What page does Mike Bennett of the kingdom go on?Mike Bennett goes back in the kingdom.keepings until I could at least see since he was a fabulous fucking in-ring talent 10 years agoand I saw them have some wonderful tag team matches more recently than that until they gotunder this umbrella.I would want to see Mike Bennett and what he's doing these days to determine if he can still
02:07:20go, but my God, he's younger than some fucking folks and you don't see him.I don't know. I would probably give up on him and Taven based on the way they were used,the way people reacted to them. The lack of reaction, I think, is the big...But we said we weren't going to count booking, because that wasn't their fault,that we're going to just take the guy.And Taven and Bennett were an excellent athletic tag team that you could see working with FTR,that you could see working with Juice Robinson and old light switch Jay White, that you could say...Wrestling tag teams instead of small gymnastic children or big giant fucking fat schlubs.
02:08:08You need some athletic tag teams in the upper middle of the card to provide a little action.It doesn't mean you have to goddamn make them the main event of the biggest pay-per-view of the year.Go ahead.MJF from the Hurt Syndicate.Let's keep him for now.Just for the sake of it.They have them here, but obviously we'll not be using them for the practice that we're doing here,compiling a roster, but Brody Lee and Brody Lee Jr., negative one from the Dark Order.
02:08:43From the Hertz Syndicate, MVP.Well, MVP would be kept, but we got to put him in the middle as a manager rather than an active wrestler.A manager, agent, trainer, potential fucking judge of wrestler's court.from the young bucksand EVP also in the eliteNicholas JacksonYeah let's get rid of him along with hisfucking goofy brother as quickly as possible
02:09:11That's what's caused a lot of this mess to begin withWhat about Nick Comerato?You know, maybe laterif we were working on projectsfor years from nowand et cetera, we could evaluate himbut right now let's just notbecause he's been gone so long.
02:09:34There's got to be something the matter with him.He just came back lost in seconds.We don't have this much time.The Ring of Honor World TV championfrom the patriarchy, Nick Wayne.Oh, good Lord.I would be opento allowing him to return
02:09:53when he can legally rent a car.Otherwise, you know, no physique.Kind of a moopy face.He's good.to be a stooge in a group or,but the way that they focused on himis some kind of second coming is just ridiculous.And unfortunately, he looks like
02:10:14so much of the rest of the rosterwe're trying to weed that look outis they're just children playing wrestlerand not somebody you would take seriouslyin a big budget promotion,maybe on an indie show.And he could spend some time thereand get some wonderful experience.
02:10:33for when he ever grows up and develops a personality.I'm sorry, continue on.Freshly squeezed, Orange Cassidy.Ha ha!Would be freshly squeezed right out the door.I mean, patience zero for the fucking joke of this whole promotion.How can we make wrestling seem as fake and silly and uninteresting as possiblewith a bunch of fucking,
02:11:04what's the complete antithesis of the word tough,a bunch of soft-ass childish pussiesplaying with each other instead of men fighting.You look that up in the dictionary, however you might do that,and there's a picture of our little puppy pockets.He's not redeemable,and he's obviously has no discernible talent for major league wrestling.What about Ortiz?
02:11:37Good Lord.When did we last see him?Has it been three years?I don't remember the last time, actually.I know Santana is in team.Santana left.He's in TV right now, yeah.He asked to get out of there.
02:11:55And remember the bone of contention between them as a team was thatSantana was saying Ortiz was content to just sit around and get paid and do what he was told.and Santana had higher aspirations.That's why he left.Do you think that Ortiz has still been sitting home just getting paid?Well, I sit at home when you could be flown into the show.I really don't know.I don't know.
02:12:18Wouldn't we have accidentally seen him in a backstage segment if he was still around?Again, we'll see what we can find out.I don't know that there's really, let's hold on.I'm losing my notes now.Let's take Ortiz out of.this equation because I don't remember what he looks like at this point.Well, Jim, what about Death Riders member PAC?Boy, that's a hard one.
02:12:48Because physically, not only his look, but what he can do athletically, you would thinkthere's some way that he could be used.But at the same time, he tries to do all the top rope shit that everybody else doesand he's slow at it,and you have to stand there and wait on him forever.But as if he had a manager and it was in a groupand he didn't have to talk,but he could just do his shit,
02:13:16and he was focused on,let's keep pack.Just a completely different presentation,and he would mean something.And also he goes away for, I know they,nonstop.Who was it hurting just now?Oh, he was in a match?
02:13:34It was his act?He buckled bombed him and broke his ankle, but who was it that?Oh, fuck, I don't remember now.So it's almost like a German suplexed this guy.He busted my head open.How many times you ever heard that before?I buckled bombed a guy and broke his ankle.What the f?
02:13:49And that was like weeks after I said how I,the one thing I don't like about pack is that he always disappears for a period of time,whether it's injury or visa issues.And then he just reappears and attacks someone.He's going to do it again now.He's just going to all of a sudden reappear and they get hurt again or something.What about Paul White?Oh, good Lord.
02:14:11I mean, he was supposed to be doing commentary years ago when they signed.He did do commentary on YouTube.But since when, for how long has it been since he is not?Well, the YouTube canceled the, well, actually, they didn't cancel anything.AW just stopped doing it.Boy, when YouTube cancels you, I'm not saying this for idiotic.other reason, then there's nothing for him to do, but we've got to get rid of him because there'snothing for him to do. What about Pretty Peter Avalon? Oh, Christ.
02:14:47Pretty Peter needs to be, needs to Peter out. Pretty Peter is pretty gone.See, this is the kind of, again, just all these names of indie guys that never,never should have been involved in national television to begin withis what cluttered this show up from the start. Go ahead.Was Peter Avalon the librarian?Yes.Oh, no shit.He's been there that whole time. Wow.
02:15:17Yes.All right.What about Preston Vance?Speaking of people that have been there forever.What about Preston Vance?God damn, he was rotting the other night, wasn't he?Yeah, he's gone.No personality, no look, no gimmit.
02:15:32horrible name.Sometimes you can't tell if he's awake.The bleh.Prince Nanna.Prince Nanna would go in the middle with MVPin the manager's listandthen one would look for someone
02:15:52that Nana could manage that he could actuallymake successful so he'd have somewhat of a reputationas a manager and he'd get a chancetalk every once in a while.but that's just pie in the sky.In the sky, Rickusay.Rickishay!Well, he's going to bounce back from this decision, I'm sure,
02:16:17that Rickishay needs to go somewhere else.Really, you haven't seen enough of him as a heel to think,okay, there's something I could do with him?No, because he's an idiot, apparently, in real life,and doesn't understand that everybody thinks he's a goddamn nerd.And I mean, athletically, you know, you could do something with a chicken shit heel that acts like that and looks like that, except he has to know that he's being an annoying person instead of just being one and thinking that nothing's wrong.I don't think this guy's smart to the business.All right.
02:16:55What about Roderick Strong from the Paragon?Boy, there again, you know, you could put Roddy in the ring with anybody and have a good match.He was definitely an asset 10, 15 years ago in Ring of Honor.He's getting older now and nobody has put any credibility in him whatsoever since he's been in this facocta company.He was just out there screaming people's names and wearing a neck brace and shit.But as an actual athletic performer, again, not to be the world champion,and but to have good athletic matches with other now younger guys that you want to push,I would keep Roddy.
02:17:46Because he doesn't have to be at angles and cut fucking 15 minute promos, Roddy.Go out there and in a fucking stiff athletic fashion,I'd like you to put Colton Gun over in nine minutes for me.Boom, you don't have to worry about nothing.what about El Toro Blanco from La Faxione In Gobernales?Or actually, it's not paralyzed.Rush!He's the asshole that just beats the shit out of whole of baby faces, stands there and doesn't sell anything, isn't he?
02:18:25It's called working.Yeah.Yeah, I don't know.We got Bandito.We don't need Rush.I think he's got a bad attitude.Obviously, there's a lot of luchadores over the past 30 years that we've done.seen come up from Mexico and either have success or just at least be on US TV, where do you
02:18:45fall on the names? Like obviously, to the fans of Roush, the name doesn't matter. Maybe it worksbetter in Mexico, but to the average person, do you think it works as a name for a wrestlerRoos? No. No, it doesn't. Nor, that's again, that's the thing, when you have one LuchadorRay Mysterio.And it's a cool Santa name and it's a cool mask and it's a cool outfit and he's a exceptionaltalent in a area that has not been or had not at the time that people saw him.Been overexposed and beat to death, small high flyer.It needs the package.
02:19:32You can't just have these guys with these goofy names that don'ttranslate that can't speak, that all look the same to the casual observer because they're allwearing mostly full body outfits and some kind of decorated mask, and they're doing thesame style of shit and the same moves and expect any of them to get over no matter how goodthey are.You don't throw 10 people out there doing the same kind of shit, and hey, pick the best one.you say this guydoes a different style
02:20:10and different shitthan everybody elseon my rosterand I'm going to feature himbecause he's the best one at it.I'm sorry.Rush can rush on out.Ring of Honor World Trade Team champion
02:20:24Sammy Guevara.Boy, how do you kit?We know that he's kind of a dip shit.Do we want to put up with that?Has he grown up a little bitlearned his lesson.He still, six years ago, we said he looks like he's 12 years old.That's been six years.
02:20:43Now he looks 14.You know, let's keep him around because he has, if you could produce him,if you could avoid him having to tell us all at least one time per match that he's a crazylunatic.I'm loco.Watch this.I'm loco.I'm going to do something stupid.
02:21:03Go, stupid, go.Go, stupid.Go, stupid.it's justwell I guess you'll keep him all rightwe'll keep him all rightwe'll keep himsatinem sing
02:21:15oh brothersorry satanumyou've been sitting out so farand now you're going to be set out for the restnonot in this particular day and agecan you take a guy that immobilejust because he's that giant
02:21:32and do anything with himand they didn't give it a real good tryDo you think anyone will ever do a giant right again,or is it all depend on actually having the right person?It depends on the giant.You know, you can always say that, well,Vince booked Andre Wright, but not after that.But the thing is,
02:21:53the number of seven-foot people in wrestlinghas drastically increased over the decades,as I guess has the number of seven-foot peoplein fucking in captivity in general.general. So the seven-foot giant now, and especially now that people are smart in suchlarger numbers, the giant needs to also be able to work. And people forget, Andre could work.Paul White, her big show turned into a pretty good worker, but you can't just, just because a guy'sbig, and I'm not saying just work, do the moves, but work have a personality, work, have
02:22:35something different about you than all the other seven-foot giants that we've seen.Jim, here's a name that recently came up.Scorpio Sky.Well, again, I would keep him from what I remember of him.He was athletic.He was a little boring on the personality side,but his booking was weird in the SCU group that they tried to, I don't know.let's keep Scorpio Sky just because he's a grown adult man and a pretty decent athlete and experienced and see if we can work something out later.
02:23:14Again, the problem is on the keep list that we're compiling, we're keeping a lot of guys that have good solid matches are athletic and you could do something with and point in the right direction and put on the card.but there's like three so far that I would say oh my godthis guy is one of my money guysand I don't know if I've got three yetand MJF has been damaged so keep goingfrom the Spanish announced project Serpenticooh Christ on a crackerhe's not even a real Mexican is he
02:23:54I don't know, which one isAny of the phony Mexican?No, that's, uh, is thatSerpentigo?There used to be another guy who wasAngelico.No, no, Angelico doesn't wear a mask.He dances like a woman.
02:24:09Realistico.No, that's another guy.They used to be, in the old days,wasn't there another guy that was like friends with like Sammy or somethingso he was on the roster?Or was that Sepantico?Pointy, he ain't on the roster anymore.What about Shane Taylor?
02:24:27from Shane Taylor Promotions.Boy, I tell you what, he's got a giant fucking ass on him, doesn't he?Not the first thing I look for.He looks like one of those, no, he looks like one of those fucking guys that youpour the things you pour the sand in, the boxing dummies, you pour the sand in the bottomso they won't tip over.I guess you're keeping him now that you're working a feud with him.No, I'm just saying he was incredibly not physically impressive to that degree when
02:24:57I saw him. No, I think he cango also, because what thefuck?What about the captainSean Dean of both theinfantry and Shane Taylor Promotions?How could he be a captain of both?Doesn't the infantry
02:25:15require exclusivity?I believe he's a captain in generaland he brings that captain's shipto both groups.Well, why don't he go down withhis ship? All right. Well,What about, I think we actually did him.We did Shelton Benjamin with the tag team champions.
02:25:34Yeah, because they were champions.They were mentioned first.Sanjay Dutt.Well, again, Sanjay doesn't wrestle anymore.I enjoyed working with Sanjay and TNA,but I saw the fucking stuff he was doingwhen he was with Jared with the comedyand the jumping up and down and just everybody's having,
02:25:56I liked Sanjay's, you know, attitude and determinationand work ethic.But is he too far on the comedy wrestling now?Let's put him in the middle as an agentand see what happens later on.The icon Sting.Well, as we said about something before,wishing one hand and shit in the other
02:26:22to see which one fills up first.Sting ain't coming back unless they give himanother multi-millions of dollarsto come and put his face paint on and sign autographs.I don't think Sting needs to be a topic of this discussion.He's retired.What about Stokely?Stokely.
02:26:45There's something.Put him in the middle as another manager.There's something there he can talk.Again,if there was ever any credibility given to him as a manager of main event personnel,and he had material that he was,was given to talk about instead of just making shit up,I'm not saying he can't, you know, he's not going to be Bobby Heenan, but he wouldn't suck.
02:27:11What about swerve, Strickland?You got to keep swerve until we can figure out if it's just one of those deals where they're only going to cheer him if he's a heel and they're only going to just not give a shit if he's a baby face.I don't.And if it's just all about chanting whose house it is.Well, Jim, we are in the home stretch.We are now at the letter T, starting the letter T.What about Titty?That's not one of the wrestlers here.
02:27:41What about the beast mortos?Frank.Under T.The beast mortoes under T.What was the under T?The beast mortos.Would you keep them?No.
02:27:57No.What about for the legal department?You know what?Let's put him in the middle.And I'm going to put down Frank Mortoslegal department.No, it's justagain, it's a funny looking outfit at a time
02:28:15where if you wanted to be an alternativeproduct and appeal to amainstream audience, you would try toavoidthe fucking just clownshow visual of thisprogram with all of theI'm sorry, whether anybody
02:28:31likes it or not, and insome cases it was very, very bad.The WWF and WWF andW.W.E. have set the tone in people's mind for what a pro wrestler is supposed to look likein terms of some type of athletic standard and size threshold. And when you get childrenand guys in ridiculous bull outfits, this would go for Mantor or Yukon Moose Cholak now, too,it just, it looks too hokey and low rent and indie wrestling.to make money in this day and age.
02:29:09So sorry.What about the blade?Is he still there?He was the,he was the bunny'sother.Now she's not there, but he is.Well, but he'd been there in two years at least.
02:29:28When's the last time we saw this guy?Again, they have a lot of programming that we don't watch, I think.When did you last see his name on a website?it didn't stick out, so I don't know.I don't know. Well, let's stick him at.Blade, no, sorry. He was a niceathletic-looking guy. He wasn't thefat-bearded old fuck, the butcher,
02:29:48but, you knowwhat, let's keep the blade. If hestill, indeed, is still alivebecause I remember he was halfway athletic,we might could do something with it.What about the butcher?Let's get rid of the fucking butcher.What about Toa Leone?
02:30:05Or, that's not even the name.Tia Leone.Tola Leona.No, it's not her.It's not the actress.Tola Leona from the Gates of Agony.Well, I would keep Tia Leone,but I'm not keeping anybody else.
02:30:20From the premier athletes, Tony Neese.He's, again, hadn't seen him in forever.He came to a Ring of Honor tryout in 2010,and I thought at that time for that program,he was very athletic.could go smaller size, fit some of the other guys,it would have fit there.Right now they don't fit.
02:30:44No, no, not at all.Square peg, round hole.From the Don Callis family, Trent Barretta.Oh, Christ, can we get his mother to pick him up?That's just, he's irredeemable.You can never come back from that shit and be taken seriously.He was partners with Muffin Top Taylor.He had a mother that brought him to the matches in a minivan van
02:31:08and baked them cookies.And he was part of that ridiculous...He was the sidekick to the mascot.How unimportant can you get?And again, maybe we have to revisit this another timeand see who is not on this list herebecause obviously Rocky Romero is partner,not on the roster list.
02:31:29What about from the outrunners, Truth Magnum?I think the outriggers both got to go.I can't remember what their name is,but it's an embarrassing gimmick that, again, just appeals to the peopleand want to laugh at wrestling and think it's silly.And that's what you're trying to get away fromso that you can attempt to draw a more mainstream audiencewith a professionally produced program.
02:31:55So I guess you're saying goodbye to Turbo Floyd as well.Truth and Turbo have been terminated.Three more names, Jim.Oh, good Lord.Mr. May.Ahem, Wardlow.And he wasn't even on top of Mount Everest.Think about that.
02:32:22They ruined that opportunity.Let me stop it real quick.We've heard from a couple of people, I don't know why, they're upset.Jim hasn't talked about Derby Climbing Everest.Any comments you have about Darby Climbing Everest with an AEW flag?Well, yeah, he's a fucking idiot.Why do you want to put yourself through that?Did you see it was just on the internet a couple days ago,
02:32:42they had a traffic jam of people waiting to climb to the top of Mount Everest.There was pictures of the lines of people.I guess it was a good weather day, so everybody decided they'd go.They had to wait in line where one group goes up and takes their picture on the topand then they, the Sherpas take them wherever.And the next group comes up.And there were people lined up like a couple of hundred.hundred of them up and down
02:33:10this goddamn trail to this mountain.I didn't know that it was so commercialized.But the point is, thisempty-headed dip shit still has a jobthat pays him millions of dollars a yearthat he took off of him to go climb a fucking mountainwhere there was a 1% chance he could die.What a big benefits return that will be.
02:33:36Back to Wardlow.Yeah, we'll keep him if,we can find him.From the death riders,Wheeler Yuda.Oh boy, how quick can we get him out of here?I'm so sick of that whole business.And finally, Jim,
02:33:57Will Osprey.You got to keep him, even though I think he's an idiot,because maybe he could be reformed or taught something.And, you know, that's the problem iswhen you go through who we've kept, who could be the guy, the champion, the top star of the company,and actually perform at a professional level and draw some money.And as I'm looking down this list, some people might say Darby Allen, he ain't going to be the guy.Kyle is a few years away from that and he needs to learn some things.
02:34:46MJF was there, but they diminished him.Osprey.That's, you know, that's the list of who could be the guy.And on the other, the fired side, wait a minute, I've got three pages of fired now.I will even, I'll even say who some people think could be the guy.And I have told you what I think of them because I've found.them. But on this list that I'm looking at,uh, no, nobody ever said unless there's some spitball Bailey fans out there to think,
02:35:23uh, there wasn't the guy on that page. I don't think so. How about, uh, the Drillisticoedited a hologram, uh, Jack Perry. We dumped his ass. I don't think anybody still believes heHe could be one of the guy, the guy, one of the pillars.Again, there's, there's nobody on this page, either that anybody is even saying,okay, let's go to the front page.Moxley.Well, that's already happening, and that's been the shits.Kenny, that's already happened, and it ain't going to ever be as good as it once was.
02:36:00It wasn't particularly that good.Okada.Can you imagine if he was the AEW world champion, how bad those.matches would be since he would still not bother to try to fall down.Adam Page, who probably will be the champion again, and that's going to suck.That's the names on this list.Jericho, Edge, they haven't got a guy.If they fumble Osprey, he's the least damaged one yet.
02:36:40If they fuck him up, they haven't got a guy to be.be the guy.Did I overlook any guys?I don't think so. I mean, I'm sitting here trying to think who's not on this list.I brought up Rocky Romero before. Just have to be other examples of guys, butI mean, Gabe Kidd wasn't on the list, obviously. I'm not to say he's the guy, but he's new.You know, I think they're top guys the last few years of an MJF, not so much lately.Adam Page, Swarves Strickland, Osprey, you know, Moxley.
02:37:16Well, we kept swerve, and I could mention swerve.Swerves in that group, but he's already been there.Yeah.Osprey's the one that you could build because he has not held the world title.Everyone else, everyone else has.MJF has Adam Page has.Omega has. Jericho has, Moxley has, swerve has.Swerve.
02:37:38Yeah.Well, I didn't think this is going to depress me so much here at the end of it.Well, but now, and the next thing we'll do,and we're going to do this for the WWF2.Oh, yeah.But the next thing we'll do is we'll go through who we keptand then we'll separate main event guys from guys on the card,and we're going to have six guys on top and 28 on the bottom.
02:38:04That's the problem.All right.All right.Well, that was the AEW roster review, K2Z,and that we've covered everything in the world from A to Z here today.So with that, the drive-thru is closed.There it is.All right, Miyoshi, you meiki.
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