Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 433: Jim Reviews WWE Elimination Chamber 2026

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews Elimination Chamber & WWE Smackdown! Plus Jim talks about Danhausen's debut, Demolition going into the WWE Hall Of Fame, Jake Hager's new career, John Laurinaitis' choice of words, ring worn attire, 1997 WWE Trivia, and much more! Thanks to our episode sponsors: HELIX:  Go to helixsleep.com/jce for 27% Off Sitewide exclusive for listeners of the Jim Cornette Experience!  RAYCON:  The Essential Open Earbuds are perfect for refreshing your routine this spring. Go to buyraycon.com/jceOPEN to get 20% off! SUNDAYS FOR DOGS: Go right now to sundaysfordogs.com/JCE50 and get 50% off your first order! Send in your question for the Drive-Thru to: [e-mail]  Follow Jim and Brian on Twitter: @TheJimCornette @GreatBrianLast Merch! https://arcadianvanguard.com/ Join Jim Cornette's College Of Wrestling Knowledge on Patreon to access the archives & more! https://www.patreon.com/Cornette Subscribe to the Official Jim Cornette channel on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialJimCornette Visit Jim's official site at www.JimCornette.com for merch, live dates, commentaries and more! You can listen to Brian on the 6:05 Superpodcast at 605pod.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know, the longer I play the less we have to talk about Elimination Chamber. Oh, well, keep going. All right, I think I've done enough. Go, baby, go. We are back. Hello again, friends, and you are our friends. Welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru right here on another fine day. It's cold out.

I'm yelling again. Things happen. I'm your host, The Great Brian Last. And here he is, the star of the show. The man who said, anyone who comes out of the show. out of a box is over. Mr. Over, Jim Cornett. Oh, he's over. The whole thing's over.

We can use that word just in a possibly a different fashion. First of all, as to the organistic tendencies that you just showed, were you buffering? Because it was like there was skips or whatever in the middle where there should be notes. Yeah, yeah, it was sort of like I was only getting the hat. of it. I really didn't know. I was thinking it was something with me. Maybe it's my anihistamine. I was leaving space. I was leaving space for the bass and guitar parts. Oh, you were letting it breathe. Yeah. Well, that's, and see that a lot of the great musicians, it's not the notes they play. It's the notes they don't play. Well, thank you. And I think that you are so good. You can,

the better you are, the fewer notes you play. Now, wait a minute. That doesn't sound as nice as it did a second ago, but... Well, you can look around it, dig around in it later on, play it back and wallow in it. But we are here, and we're going to talk about the box. She, many, Peter,

I don't even want to get into it, right? If I only had time, we'll get into that later. But I'm, Brian, I'm physically, I'm hurting. I told you, I'm leaning over here in the chair, trying to get my, my, my back, and my hip. I sound like Ron right now. I need the knee implants and the hip implants. I did a lot of physical labor over the past couple of days. I'll have, you know, I carried, literally 500 pounds of

stuff, not all at the same time, but in multiple increments, up two flights of stairs. I've not shared this with the listeners over the last few weeks, but during that cold snap we had, you know, this, something else snapped the spring on my garage door, which is now totally inoperable. And they're 20 years old. I'm getting new garage doors. But in the meantime, there needs, if I'm going to be doing this, there's holes in a ceiling, the cable guy poked a hole to ceiling, there's places where they wire, the electrician's

got to come, blah, blah, blah. I have some drywall work done. and so I took a lot of stuff out of the big garage closet that I've had up there since before I had the big storage area fixed up in my attic a couple years ago where I can get more stuff in there. And I've come to the realization, Brian, that I have more stuff in my house than anybody in the United States of America.

I think that's a safe statement to make. I'm not saying I have more money or more valuable stuff or a bigger house. I'm saying that I have more things. I have books and piece of paper and items and objects and furniture and pictures and mementos and bric-a-brac. There are more things in my house than anybody else's house in the goddamn country. I think I'm pretty confident of that. There's no way of proving this unless somebody wants to go door-to-door and start count. But I'm constantly trying to take stuff from one part of my house to the other. I can see

you have a great amount of sympathy for me with this problem. I didn't know what you want me to do. You want me to jump in and say, no, that is not right. There is a challenger to your pack rat status here. You can jump in and say, here, I'll help you send me a bunch of stuff. No, well, I mean, yeah, that's probably what I should have said. Yeah. If you were a true friend, send me three tons of stuff and I will look through it. Well, there actually, there's a lot of gross tonnage around here. But anyway, but part of this is tying into what I've been working on. One of the things I've been working on with Hotchkiss Feather Bottom is I got too much stuff.

We've been going through the files reading old paperwork. I'm trying to organize. I've got the OCD. I'm trying to get a handle on all this stuff. And I finally, along with Hotchkis, we are preparing. for Cornets collectibles at Jim Cornett.com, you did you see that Hulk Hogan's boots just sold for a million dollars, one million dollars.

Over a million dollars. Over a million dollars. Well, a million in fucking 50 or 60 grand. What the fuck is that? But nevertheless, I am following in this tradition. This is something that I've been planning for quite some time, although you don't need a million dollars. My ring-worn and ring-used items,

because I've got all this stuff, and this is a thing, people love stuff like this, the ring-worn clothing and apparatus, and I've had this stuff cleaned and set out for some time wanting to do something with it, because I don't want to just throw it away. People would like to have these things.

But I hadn't had time to deal with it, now Hotchkiss and I have. And so on, I would say, what is, it's the first part of March, by Marchish 20ish, Marchish, Marchish, the 20th or so of March, we will have some listings up at Jim Cornett.com of the stuff that I have found to put up for sale to the cult of Cornett members. And then the sale is going to start on Saturday, April 4th at noon, because that way everybody this is all one of a kind stuff by the nature of it. So instead of everybody slamming the fucking website going on sale and trying to find out what they want and looking at all this different shit, you'll have a couple weeks to look at it and spot anything you might like.

And then you know where to go when the sale starts. We feel that's the fairest way to do it. But I was all proud of myself because I thought, well, this will be nice. I can, you know, I can, because there's like shirts I've worn of jackets and pants, suits, even a pair of my shoes. A couple old pair of glasses, my WWF glasses are among these. And rackets, the last like three or four rackets I've got that I've hit people over the head with, things like that, right?

But I thought, well, I'll make it nice. I'll put up or include with each of these items, a handwritten letter, saying this is really a shirt that I've, you know, got thrown over the top rope in or whatever the fuck, you know. And I say, I'll make it real nice. And guess who is doing the same thing that I just saw like two days ago? Somebody put it up on fucking Twitter or whatever. I don't know.

Mercedes Moon. She is actually, but here was what she said. Her wigs? Well, I don't know if it may be included. I'm not sure she, I'm sure she's bursting at the seams. You know, I'm tearing my hair out trying to get some space over here. But the way that it was phrased was, these custom, one of a, custom made one of a kind pieces

have been along with me on my journey and have been an important part of my evolution as a superstar. And now I want to give my fans the opportunity to have a piece of me and I will give a handwritten letter with each one of these things, and I'm like, she stole my idea. But here's the big difference, ladies and gentlemen. This is not going to be custom-made, one-of-a-kind items that helped me on my journey through professional wrestling

to the evolution of the person I've become and cost thousands of dollars. This is going to be shit that I've sweated and bumped around in and worn on TV for hundreds of dollars. And there might even be a few things that clock in under that. So I just wouldn't get it. Brian, have I drawn a line of demarcation? Well, I mean, I understand why you don't want any comparison between Monet and Corne.

But why would you sell it cheaper than market value? Well, no, in all honesty, now, this is not my WrestleMania 10 outfit, which is up on the office wall or some of the more identifiable things that I might have worn on big shows. These are clothing that I wore on various TVs, Midnight Express reunions,

as an announcer, as an authority figure. I've narrowed it down into eras because obviously I didn't just, I wasn't frivolous, I actually wore clothing more than once. And I have multiple

items of some things that are a little cheaper and then there's a few things I don't want to get into right now that are a little more special that might reach up there in the in the price category but I don't want to blow everybody's fucking opportunity right now to hear all of these things they're going to be able to see it on jim cornet.com but once again part of it is I want some fucking space I need to move some things in. I need to move some things out. But I'll tell you one thing we're not going to do.

Cloth is not a good writing surface, Brian, and I can autograph most of these things, but there'll not be these goddamn long-winded dedications. That's where the letter comes in to document these things. Because people want me to write your favorite promo you cut on Paul Heyman in 1988 on the in the waistband of these pants. I'm like, what the fuck?

But anyway, more to come on that, but keep watching the skies and or Jimcornett.com. And all the fine merchandise that we always have is there right now, because right now is part of always. And you can get it, and it's still inexpensive. You're always telling me to raise my prices. I'm a man of the people I want to appeal. to the people. And make this

stuff affordable for the community of the cult of Cornett, the cockock. Do you still have any of your flannel shirts when you were a photographer? You know, I have like a couple of the belts that I wore with my 1970s belt buck. I'm not talking about championship belts. I'm talking belts keep your pants up.

He really stood out of ringside, folks, taking photos. championship belt. Well, but I have a couple of, because of the nice, not custom, but gourmet, the fancy belt buckles that you had on belts would actually wore blue jeans 50 years ago or whatever. And I don't know if I have any of my photographer clothing or not. But one of these days I might sell the actual camera that I use to create all those magic moments. and I'll tell you something else, boy, howdy. Hotchka's Feather Bottom is turned into a photographic genius. The whole, I'm going to send you some samples here pretty,

he keeps sending me shit that's so high resolution on my negative transfers that you've got to download it and do this and do that because I'm an amateur. So he's bringing me over a, what do they call it, drive? Drive, baby, drive. But these negative transfers that he is in the midst of are just incredible. And there'll be more stuff on the photography front by summertime, I bet you. At jim cornet. That's what I've been doing.

Yeah, that's what I've been doing? What do you've been doing? And every day I'm doing all sorts of shit. What are you talking about? Well, quit doing shit and start doing fun stuff. I didn't say it wasn't fun, but maybe not as much fun as buying. Jim's 1989 girdle or whatever is going to be there at Jimcornet.com. You know, what I wish I had saved was my goddamn bulletproof vest.

How did you not save that? Because when it was, when I was moving, I'm pretty sure, from Tennessee to Connecticut, I said, well, it stunk for one thing. and it was to the, they have kind of a mesh line, not a mesh, but a lighter material lining around the stuff, and that was all torn. And it's, I'm never going to need this again. We don't have heat anymore.

And I was trying to just get rid of it. And I mean, it was an ugly looking thing just to sit there, but I never dreamed 30 years later, people would have bought my autographed bulletproof vest for Mid-South Wrestling. When was the last time you actually used it? Was it in Mid-South or did you use it after that? There was a couple times in the Crockett territory, I believe, but I might have surreptitiously slipped it on just in case,

especially in the summer of Baby Doll. We had that issue and the badges were like bullets. No, I'm not talking about from her. I mean, because we got the death threats for us attacking Baby Doll and, et cetera. But so, yeah, so at that time, that was when I was moving, it was 1996. I had used it in 10 years. I mean, a case could be made.

I should have just made it standard fucking costuming because you never knew when something was going to happen, but I only went to that extreme for the Tulsa's and the, you know, the bad places of the world. And sometimes in Little Rock. All right, well, once again, ring-worn Jim Coronet, not even collectibles, used cloth at jimcornaut.com

yeah there's not it's not just cloth my glasses I've got three sets of glasses from my various eyeglasses that is from my various stages of my career you could see the world through Jim cornet's eyes I got my tuxedo shoes because I'm never going to wear a fucking tuxedo again that I indicted or inducted the rocker roll express in the hall of fame in in 2017

stuff like that that people might like that I'm realistically not ever going to wear again or use again. We don't have the dummies for those items in the Jim Cornet Hall of Fame just yet, so we just stick with the big things. Yes, but there's all kinds of stuff like that. All right.

What'd you do with your first bulletproof vest? I've never had one. I wish you had kept it. That sounds like such a cool item to, even if you weren't going to use it again, just to, I mean, you show people all sorts of shit when they come to your house. This is my vote at first.

Again, you know, this was 30 years ago when I was, there was, I would have obviously programs and pictures and memorabilia like that, but I wasn't at the point where I was thinking about my ring-worn stuff or even the boys' ring-worn stuff. I had a pair of Flaar's boots. He left in my trunk one time and he's, ah, just keep them. And I gave him to Kat Collins to wear on a, Halloween one year, like 35 years ago. And then he got a job at a different radio station, and I never, I didn't see him for a

while, I never thought to get him back. But just shit like that, it was, I had Tully Blanchard's jackets. I wish I still had some of those, but I wore those into the ground. Because when Tully had, he had bought a whole new wardrobe and we were in Charlotte, and we were about the same size then, believe it or not. as when I was on my way up past 220 or so. But he said, hey, Corda, I got, he had those old ultra-suade jackets that had gone out of style,

but they were in a few different colors. I said, yeah, and I bought them secondhand from him, but it said, made for Tully Blanchard on the lining inside. But I never thought, you know, that would have been a interesting piece, but they all got skinned up and bled on. once again gym cornet dot com i'm still not doing a plug for my stuff now we're just talking if you lead to conversation a different goddamn direction if you want to well i have some breaking news about it i was trying to get all the all the precious items that i'm i'm going to be

that i'm going to be letting go of for fire sale prices just to to get some more room in the house all right the jim cornet fire sale once again will be plugged to right here at Jim Cornett.com. None of it will be worn by Mercedes Moon. But again, you can read more about this in Cornet Mag when we put that up on the website. Jim, I have some news

here that's, as we are recording, coming out. I have an article from Post Wrestling by John Pollock. Jake Hager signs with Power Slap will debut at a show in Las Vegas next month. Jake Hager is venturing away from professional wrestling and is signed in agreement with Power Slap.

Power Slap! Hager spoke with TMZ's Inside the Ring and will debut for the group on April 17th at a show in Las Vegas during WrestleMania weekend. Hager said he will compete in the heavyweight division. He will compete in the heavyweight division. Unless he's been on chemotherapy for the last year, I would assume he'd be in the heavyweight division.

And has signed on for six appearances with Power Slap. Six, six, that's he signed on for six concussion. He's got a six concussion contract. That ought to be the way they phrase that. Instead of he's got a six-fight contract, he's got a six-concussion contract with us. He was initially contacted by, and I might have been able to try with his last name,

Nick Sevecovich, a.k.k.a. Sin Bodie, about joining power slap. Oh, what is he doing? That was a wrestling, right? Yes. Is he now a power slapper? The Oklahoma native was... Is he booking for power?

How do you get the job as Booker for... Here, you, come up here. Slap his shit out of that guy. Done. Lunch. Yeah, Simbodi is the power slap what Jamie Dundee was the Jerry Springer. The Oklahoma Native

was an NCAA division won All-American and recruited to WWE after graduating. He was a part of WWE for 11 years, including a run as World Heavyweight Champion in 2010 and winning Money in the Bank at WrestleMania 26. He joined AEW

and the company launched Dynamite in October 2019 as a member of Chris Jericho's Inner Circle and his contract expired in 2024. Hager has a 3-0 with one no contest record in MMA while fighting for Bellator

from 2019 to 2020. So that's the biggest signing we've heard of yet for Power Slap. What are your thoughts on us? He can't stand a lot more concussions. I don't believe, considering the fucking state of his goddamn mental acuity at this point. I don't know where to start, so I'll start here. He is a legitimate athlete.

He does have legitimate athletic credentials. But what? What does that matter? In this, it's, I mean, I guess if you want to, is he in a position where he wants to or has to, except even tens of thousands of dollars or whatever these people get paid, to stand there and let somebody give him brain damage on purpose? I feel bad if that's the case. If it's another one, he's got, well, I'm tough.

Well, again, then step right up and let some fat, dip shit from Detroit, just knock the fuck out of you and scramble your brain cells. It can happen to anybody because that's what I was saying. He's a legitimate athlete. There's no athleticism or sports talent or training or anything for this. It's a stupid thing where people want to be big badasses or tough or in desperate need of money for a goddamn new kidney. I don't know, a uterus for the wife, whatever the fuck.

Just stand there and let other stupid people unguardedly smack them in a fucking face and knock them out if they can't. And it's so, it's funny because I didn't know you were going to bring that up, but I've just seen, remember that Hollywood Haley J character from the OVW documentary, the little bouncy girl, I remember hearing about her, but I never saw her, I don't think. Well, I think we talked about it when we talked about the show,

but at the same time, we've had other things on our mind. She just was in some form of power slap. I don't know if it was the official power slap or some outlaw power slap, but everybody was retweeting it. She comes out doing her wrestling thing. she's flipping everybody off and giving them the finger and fucking shaking her ass and doing all this stuff and just making a fool out of herself

and they're calling her a professional wrestler. They even lined her up with Booker Tee. Yes, she trains with Booker T. I guess that's where she is now. But she's acting like a complete idiot. And then this other girl comes in and she actually kind of stone-faced like Marina Schaefer, but she looks in pretty good shape

and she's got a tan and she's got some abs and she just walks out there just not putting any of this over and old Hollywood slapped her and you know she okay

and then she slapped Hollywood and knocked her I've never seen a knockout like this she slapped her where Hollywood immediately bent over and head budded the fucking table boom and then fell backwards and got up and didn't know whether to wind her ass or scratch her watch and then they called it so it was the

classic example of the big entrance and jump off the rope and break your leg she made that whole big fucking production and was put out the first time anybody touched her but the point is Jake Hager she's a young girl that's sad that's sad to hear Well, yeah, but I got more sympathy for people who were born with congenital defects, and somebody stands there and says, go ahead, hit me as hard as you can. I'll wait. Fuck you. Again, boxers get hit hard. Mixed martial artists get hit hard. Pro wrestlers get hit hard, even if not intentionally. But at least in each case, you are trying theoretically to prevent it.

that you are exhibiting some talent and skill and training in whatever you're doing, whether it's to do it and make it look real in wrestling, or to do it to the other person but not let them do unto you in boxing or MMA, and there's a high level of skill involved at the top, and people still get fucking brain damage, much less a bunch of ham-handed, you know, fucking, micro-brained goofs from a variety of walks of life just standing up there and fucking wailing on each other. It's idiocy. So I wish him well. Well, a big signing for Power Slap. You know, they did

a feature on Dana White on CBS Sunday morning this past week because they got the Paramount deal, so it's now all in the family. And it was a puff piece, as you would expect. Towards the end, they went to Power Slap. And I had forgotten all about it. It's been around a few years now. You never hear anyone talk about it. You don't know any stars of power slap. It hasn't led to anyone becoming a breakout mainstream personality. I forgot it existed. And you're watching it and you're like, yeah, this is kind of embarrassing.

And Dana White's trying to defend it. It's the sport of the future or whatever the hell he says. They showed the clip of him slapping his wife on there too and he defended, you know. He didn't say he defended it. He admitted it was wrong and just, you know, justified it. but you forget about Power Slap, and this is a big signing. And again, if they're doing a show, WrestleMania weekend, you wonder if this starts opening the door and it's not a good one

for wrestlers who don't have too many high-paying opportunities in the business anymore to do something like this. Oh, that would be excellent for many of the boys who have been in the business for 20 years or more to now, you know, step into intentional brain damage. But you say a power slap, big show, what is a big show? Now, okay, Dana White, UFC, TKO, he's a multimillionaire. He rolls with the big boys. He's got a lot of contacts.

I'm sure they get sponsors. I'm sure they have, you know, opulent venues that they slap each other in. but does anybody actually pay to watch it and or show up even if it's complimentary in a casino somewhere to watch the thing or is it just content for television streaming Dana's giggles, whatever the fuck.

Do we know what kind of crowds they slap into the building? We don't because I don't even know where it airs. I don't know if it's a streaming thing. I don't know if they have any partners that actually... Well, type in power shlap right now and see what their official website says

about where we ought to watch this thing and just what they're on about. I almost spelled it with a C.H. I hope Rockin Cornell gets his hands on you one of these days. No, it's SCH. And let's see, if there's a video or a picture or something, are they at a major arena? Or are they over in the fucking...

Rising Sun Casino in Indiana. Well, just from the Wikipedia, it looks like they've run 18 events, the most recent one being Power Slap 18, Wolverine versus the Crazy Hawaiian. Oh, Christ. Before that was Power Slap 17, Blackburn versus Young 2. Apparently the Wolverine has been around a lot of these shows.

There's a wrestler. These aren't wrestlers. There's a slapper named Dumpling, the Hawaiian hip man, the bell K.O. Chris, so they've got gimmicks. Darius, the Destroyer.

There's a super heavyweight, heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, and lightweight division. And I'm just trying to see who's the current heavyweight champion. Their heavyweight champion is Ron Wolverine Bada.

So that may be the man. Oh no, he lost the belt. Oh! The current champion who's been the champion for 1,011 days. Damien the bell Dibble Damian the bell

Dibble Dibble couldn't be bought it Well Dibble's about to run into Hager We'll see if he wears his purple hat In terms of crowds So I mentioned the girls

Power Shlapp that I was seeing With Old Hollywood Has there's now probably What is this Outlaw Circuit of Power Shlappers? Is it, will this be something where now we see the videos from the back, will there be

backyard power slapping, Brian? Or just like, you know, home power slapping leagues where the sister and brother to stand there and just slap each other? But Dana should say that, you know, people say it about wrestling, but the truth is power slap is the oldest sport in the world.

People have been slapping each other since they were in the caves. I'm watching footage of it now. it appears to take place in an octagon without walls. And if it's not an octagon, just that kind of mat, that kind of surface, that kind of shape. A stage, possibly. These two are standing there. They've got their slap platform.

The slap platform, it doesn't look like a big crowd for this one that I'm watching here, which is from Power Slap 16, Dumpling versus Manu. And, I mean, it looks, you know, smaller than dynamite. I'm going to bet on a guy named Manu over a guy named Dumpling. It's just me, though. It looks like a smaller crowd than a dynamite, at least for this one. I mean, it doesn't look like it's a... I don't know what kind of buildings they're running.

I mean, are we talking... Is there a thousand people there? Hold on, and they're showing this guy's belly. Can I find a... Showing the guy's belly? Are there a thousand people that maybe? Again, I haven't seen any other side of where the camera is. Here's a question.

Here's a question. Is there, what are their ticket prices? Are they selling tickets to any upcoming events? Oh, let me look at that. Is this a hot ticket here? Power slap event. Buy tickets for Bada versus Viennes on March 6. So this is coming up.

Wolverine versus the Crazy Hawaiian in Las Vegas at the Azur Ballroom. Let's find where that room is. At the Fountain Blue, get tickets. Is it Fountain Blue or Fontainebleau? Depends what part of the country you're from. There are no tickets available, so this is a sold-out event, apparently, and how many people could fit in this ballroom? I was about to say, is the venue a closet, or are we...

Can they get some balls in there? Hold on. But now then again, if they're in Las Vegas, just because they say, oh, the tickets are sold out, is Dana giving them to his his cronies and hangers on and sponsors and business people

and next door neighbors and things? I'm not sure if this can't be correct, is it? Well, if it's on the Internet, it must be true. 31,680 square feet. I'm trying to figure how many people. Okay, well, okay, well, yeah, that could be. be 40 people or

3,000 depending on the configuration the Davis Arena your OVW's building I can tell you is 8,000 square feet with the locker room areas so you know they could

I guess get a thousand or 1,500 people in there if they were of a mine too but we don't know how it's set up so it's a big room basically Hence the name Ballroom. It's a big room according to AI, who I just tried to get some quick information. It says here that it's located on a level four of the Fontainebleau,

and it features divisible spaces with individual sections, measuring 1,600 square feet. Each 40 by 40 by 24 section can accommodate approximately 178 guests for receptions and 107 to 133 people in banquet classroom styles. What if they're having a wedding reception next door to the Power Slap? And could they do some kind of cross-promotion where the fucking groom shoves the fucking cake in the bride's face and the bride slaps the groom and then he don't sell it,

so here comes the Power Slap guy from next door, and he knocks the fucking guy out, and then carries the bride off. I'm just spitballing here. Well, good luck Jake Hager. I mean, this is a heck of a move here. You go from MMA to wrestling to power slap. And again, now his brain cells were not potentially all as numerous as they once were to begin with at this point.

So I'm just worried that he doesn't have a lot to lose. No, people think he's going to do really well. He says that he's going to envision the slapper opposite him will be Tony Cucon. so they really think he's going to tee off on the guy. But Jim, let's get away from Jake Hager. Let's quickly, yes. And let's get to some other news because a lot of people have been sending us over thinking that you should comment on it.

And I'm sure you have seen it. But John Laurenitis, formerly known as Johnny Ace, has been booked for... formerly known as defendant C. He's switched sides a few times in that case, but he has been booked for an appearance, his first appearance around wrestling, since everything went down.

And we have an interview quote here from him as well, but initial thoughts about Johnny Ace actually coming and making an appearance somewhere. Well, actually, many of my comments have to do with the statement that he made. So why don't you read that for the people, and it will dissect everything? Well, John Lauren Nitis did an interview. This was with the two-man power trip of wrestling.

And here he is talking about the show that he's booked on. I think the way big-time wrestling, and I've had discussions with Bobby and Dylan, and you know, what they're looking to do is make it a place to be, so to speak. In other words, there's eye. of maybe having international talent come in, having more high-profile names come in, and I'm really looking forward to their future, and hoping that somehow I can be a part of that, whether it's behind the scenes or help them with promoting and stuff like that, because I think that more places for talent to work, the better opportunity it is for the business,

and I don't know if everybody realizes this, but I ran the WWE developmental system for 20 years. into the ground. So my one love is to help and develop and groom young talent. Wait, wait a minute, hold on, hold on, first of all, hold on, first of all, before you get to the next line. 20 years, he didn't take over for Jim Ross until 2004. It was only 22 years ago, and he's had numerous interruptions. But go ahead with the last line.

Once again, I ran the developmental system for WWE for 20 years. So my one love is to help and develop and groom young talent. And that's what I think the strategy is for big time wrestling. It's now to find young talent and develop them into the stars of tomorrow. Oh my God. And that's a quote from the groomer, John Laurenitis. You know, first of all, just again, the stunning. it's either complete stunning cluelessness or the stunning balls to use the word grooming

because it don't mean what it used to me mama cornet yet that used to be a compliment when she would say well he's a very well-groomed young man maybe you were tidy you were neat you were clean cleanliness is next to godliness that's not what it means to most people anymore and that in his certain circumstance that he would use that terminology, maybe he is to, again, any publicity is good publicity. But yes, it answers the question you asked before, what are my thoughts on John Laurenitis doing an appearance? For the kind of people who like that kind of thing,

I'm not sure there is any of them. However, it does get attention. And it's March 14th in beautiful downtown Chilicothe for world classic professional big time wrestling, which Bobby, the Bobby that was referred to is Bobby Fulton and his son Dylan is handling some of the social media advertising. But this one... That may not be the best idea, but go ahead.

Well, there's many ideas here could have gone different. directions. But this one was all John Laurenitis that he was doing this interview with these fine folks on their fine podcast. And so I wanted to make sure before that I, we spread any disinformation that we were on top of the facts. So I, I checked in with a high ranking official at World Classic Professional Big Time Wrestling.

and because I from the statement that he made one would think that he's fixing to assume an executive position was a foresaid world classic professional big time wrestling does it sound like to you let's assume the executive position yes well and you know that may have been a code word but the the facts are that yes he is doing an autograph session and personal appearance at a foresaid show, but he's not going to be running their developmental because they don't have one. He's not going to be training at their wrestling school because they don't have one of those either. If they bring in any international talent, it will probably be because said international talent

is already on a fucking American holiday. They don't expect to be drastically increasing their, goddamn international air travel bill. And there is little to no chance of John Laurenidas joining the company in any executive capacities because there aren't any of those either. Bobby's been running his shows for quite some time and at some point or another, he's had everybody on them. And bless his peepig and heart, this one is shaping up to be.

be quite the conversation piece. But no, John Laurenitis is, he's just making shit up because he doesn't know, I guess, what the fuck they're even doing. They have a wrestling show and convention from time to time, but this is not a, a, a, traveling territory or fucking anybody going to be signing any contracts for any. for any international expansion. And... We're going to bring in international wrestlers.

I'm going to use my connections. Get me Mrs. Baba. He is just... He's delusioned. I guess he's trying to make himself sound somewhat important still. But, uh, I, you know, so yeah, there's that.

It's like... I'm going to the grocery next week. That doesn't mean that I'm automatically going to be hired on as a regional fucking public's fucking supervisor. So why is he doing, I mean, figure out why is he doing the interview? Why is he saying this in an interview? Why is he saying that I'm going to be a part of like all these things that aren't even happening? I think, well, he's trying to make himself sound in demand, I would assume.

And also he's trying to pump it up in some kind of way. but instead of... Oh, yeah. Trying to pump it up. That's exactly what I'm trying to do in the executive position. Would you stop with these on tonderers?

Instead of saying, well, here's the other names that's going to be appearing with me, or here's the fucking place, or here's the whatever. He's going to take over the company and become another executive. You know, he might...

I think they're going to start him slow. He's probably going to be postering Circleville first, and then he'll work his way up in the organization. Can I say my comments on this? Is that okay? I would love for you. I really like Bobby Fulton. I think Bobby Fulton is a really good guy.

I haven't talked to him in a while, but every interaction I've ever had with him has been incredibly positive. And I think because Bobby Fulton is a good guy with a good heart, he's trying to help out someone who he had a good relationship with. They worked a lot of All Japan Tours together. For those who never saw in 1990s, All Japan, Johnny Ace was one step up from Dan Spivey in terms of fucking big stiffs who can't work

working in Old Japan. But Mrs. Boba liked Johnny Ace. But I think Bobby Fulton's making a mistake here. And I think he tried to do this once before, I want to say, a couple of years ago when everything first started breaking down and the outcry was so heavy that they canceled the appearance but I don't think the world is

demanding or ready for a John Laurinitis reclamation project and even if you get beyond the perversion and whatever he was involved with with his lover Vince McMahon and everything else

right if they're doing things together they're lovers that's the way I see it this guy was horrible for wrestling. This guy made awful decisions. This guy had no instincts. Couldn't pick talent. Literally. Couldn't pick the right one-legged wrestler. He couldn't pay talent. He picked talent

out of a lingerie catalog. He could pick it just fine there. So it's not like we're saying like, oh, this guy was involved in all this awful stuff. But before that, what a cherished wrestling treasure this man was. No, John Lauren itis, Johnny Ace has not been a positive for the wrestling business. And again, I think,

He looked good in a suit and Stephanie liked his cute smile. And he couldn't work and he couldn't do promos. And eventually they made him another one of their characters on air at the same time that apparently he was lovers with Vince McMahon and whatever twisted fucking shit they had going on. My point is... Now, don't use that word. Shit? Yes.

Oh. In that context. Pump me up. No, listen, the point is there's no demand for Johnny. All it does, I think, it brings attention, but it brings the wrong kind of attention. It makes people question Bobby Fulton and what he's doing. And again, I think Bobby Fulton is probably doing it because it's not going to draw anybody. He's doing it because he's trying to help someone out that he has a good relationship with.

But I think it's the wrong decision, especially if you're promoting it all over social media. I just think it's a big mistake. And I want to say that. I like Bobby Fulton, but I think it's a big mistake him doing this. Let's put it this way. I don't know what he's getting paid. I can't see him drawing that at the gate. Let's just put it that way.

But we don't have to worry about him going into the grooming business in central Ohio. Can you imagine how stupid he has to be to use that word? I think, no, I actually, I think it's some type of assholeish, but he might think dry wit because he can't be that clueless about it. Well, this, that's what I said. He's either really fucking clueless about what he just said or he's doing it on purpose just to get attention because he knows it's not like anybody else is going to just start booking him all over the place because of this.

So he's, you know, like you said, Bobby and he have known each other for a while back before all of these things and he's just going to try to get some publicity. Certainly he can't, of all words to use. Develop, train, book, whatever. But that's the other thing, though, even if you want to get past the tone deafness of him saying that, when has he done that? When has he developed and groomed talent? When has he brought up talent and really nurtured them and developed them?

When does that happen with John Laurinitis? I think he was breastfeeding Jindrack for a while there. but no he he was the head of the talent relations department but at the same point in time whereas Jim Ross actively did sign guys directly recruit guys and also he had Briscoe and Patterson some of those people looking for talent he organized the camps and the seminars that we had, et cetera. Lauren I signed all the contracts and left shit to Dreamer and those guys and said yes to Stephanie a lot.

I don't, I mean, I'm sure he was giving a lot of guys a lot of advice at TV or whatever the fuck. I'm not sure all of it might have been good. But no, it's not like he's, oh, come here, kid, let me show you this fucking sequence. I hear there's some real talented OVW. Let me destroy their career trajectory. Yeah, more like that. Well, there it is. John Laurenaitis is big return to wrestling. Hopefully his big goodbye to wrestling as well. But, you know, one thing he can do, Jim, one thing John Laurennitus can do is maybe,

actually, I don't know what he could do. Maybe John Laurenitis, maybe part of the problem. You know what? You know what the thing is? John Laurenitis is for a long time now. He's been in the doghouse. Well, actually, what I was going to say is John Laurenitis is known for being bad, his job, lame, doing things. He can now only work for non-publicly traded companies, funny enough. But also, he likes music, I would assume, everyone likes music. Let's talk about everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, music makes the heart go round. In music, the passions enjoy themselves, I believe, is what Nietzsche once said, and in your ear needs to go the right earbud to listen to the right music.

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and commercial advertising, WWE Smackdown, took place this past week the day before the big elimination chamber. And that organ recital there sounded like a funeral procession in a third world country. Hey, that's not nice. We wouldn't go into too much detail on Smackdown, and I won't on the contents, but it was in my old hometown, Louisville, Kentucky on February 27th night before elimination chamber. and I have some reporting, they got somehow close to 10,000 people in that building in the Yom Center.

Now, the glass half empty people can say, well, it's a 20,000 seat building, but the glass ridiculously overpriced people can say, it's 10,000 people have paid the highest prices that have ever been charged, I think, for wrestling in this town. because someone that I know who shall remain nameless but is old enough that he used to be able to go down to the Louisville Gardens on Tuesdays as a kid every week and see the Memphis territory in the last days and then got to see OVW at the gardens and et cetera

wanted to take his son who was not around at that point and they sat on a second row a guess what second row ticket for this show that we're about to talk about Smackdown was in Louisville, Kentucky. Second row. I mean, I don't know what to guess it again, so I'm just going to guess a high number that will probably not be high enough.

$200. $700 is what, now... On the camera side or... I don't know what side I didn't seem. Now, I got to verify whether that was for the two of them or each because it's even more ridiculous. But even if it was for the two of them, that's $350. And I think he was saying 700 a piece.

But I got an email from another guy who did not go, but usually goes. From Zach. And basically he's been a wrestling fan since he was five years old. He's 39 now. He's been to WrestleMania's. He's been to OVW down at St. Terese Jim. and everything in between and at the YUM center, when they started running regularly for the TVs again

after the commission changes, he has a friend that has a connection with a U of L season ticket holder and gets first right of refusal on any event, the Yom Center. So he's been buying this guy's WWE tickets. Did you know about that? That there was a first ride of refusal for a regular fan, of the college team? Oh, yeah, if you've got, well, I'm sure there's different levels.

I don't want to just make a blanket statement, but there is a thing where if you've got a season ticket to, because the primary tenants of the Yom Center are the Cardinals. So if you got the season ticket for the whole smear, you also, you get your early bird opportunity or whatever it is, however they do it, for anything else in the building, not just wrestling, but anything. they got plenty of room down there but anyhow he started in 2017 and the last time that he attended raw it was 2025 and in that seven years the ticket prices went from seventy five dollars to two hundred ninety dollars and these tickets he sent me a picture he sent me the location which would mean nothing unless you had a seating chart in front of you but this is in the

stands. Not way up in the stands, but it's not like second row ring side. He was still in the stands. And he said at this point, they've officially priced me out of attending live events in my hometown. So he didn't even go to this one. But if you go back in the 70s and 80s when there was periods where Jarrett was drawing 4,000 people or more a week. to the gardens, a second row ticket was $4 and $5, which adjusted for inflation. They'd be $20, give or take, depending on the year. In the attitude era of a house show at least, I don't believe that there would have even been a $50 second row ticket at a house show during the attitude era.

they didn't do a lot of pay-per-views here at that point in time. OVW and adjusted for inflation again, that wouldn't be $100. When we did the Golden Circle, I think second row was $25. Would that be a little over 50 or 60 today, whatever? So this is insane. And these were great shows with mega fucking stars, with the NWA champions, with Andre the G. giant with stone cold Steve Austin.

What the fuck is going on here? And people are paying it. Has it been so long since people have seen, they've trained to my guest to this is an exciting wrestling show when you pay hundreds of dollars to sit here and it's 30 minutes in between matches and the longest segments are people talking to you.

Let me talk to you. Say something, Brian. I'm dominating the conversation. I was actually just recently speaking with a wrestling star about this very topic and the differences in the fan reactions when they're fans versus what we were kind of surmising, which are kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s watching wrestling who now have a lot of money. And they may not have the same time or interest in the current product, but they've got a lot of money.

And they know enough about who the top. people are and they'll go. And they're pricing out the longtime regular fan for the irregular schedule that is WWE. Those fans that never knew exactly when they were going to get to see WWE again, they hope the circus will come back to town. But they were there and they were waiting and they wanted tickets. It's not just a Louisville story. You're hearing this everywhere now. We're getting tons of emails about this. And the fans who are being priced out from what I've read and seen so far, they're taking it personal. They're taking it as if WWE doesn't care if I go to their shows or not. And the truth is, WWE does not care if you go to their shows or not.

thereafter the most amount of people with disposable income in one area, in one weekend, and then let's get out. They can get half the house they used to get, but they're going to charge prices where it'll be double the gate. It's obscene, and I think it will come back and bite them in the ass. It may not be tomorrow, and if the creative doesn't get better, it's going to really accelerate it, but it's going to bite them in the ass at some point because they're pushing out the longtime fans of live events and replacing them with,

hey, I got a bonus this quarter. Let's go to wrestling. I wonder if Ronnie Elligood got a bonus this quarter every time he was down at the gardens on Tuesday nights. Oh, that was one of the funniest reveals ever on this show. You popped when I said that name. You screamed. All right, well, let's talk about the show. They were in Louisville down at the Yom Center, and I'm not going to describe the opening segment

as much as we can talk about what they had to do and why they had to do it. But they opened right off with chaos, with Jay Uso being loaded into an ambulance, and everybody's in the back, and there's arguing, and there's controversy, and there's yelling. And while that's going on, Drew McIntyre came out into the arena with the microphone.

I didn't do it. It wasn't even me. I wasn't even there. And Aldous who came out with the security and is pissed after everybody's yelled in the back. And Cody came out mad

and wanted to fight Drew, but Drew wouldn't fight. But then here came Orton. And he wants to win the elimination chamber. And he was about to start to talk to Cody. Here came Trick. And the fans like him. And he started a talk, but then here came Javan and the fans like him.

And he got to talk for 15 seconds. And then L.A. Knight came out and the fans like him. And he cut the promo about he wanted to win the elimination chamber. And you may have sensed a pattern here that everybody in this fucking match is pretty much a baby face, right? Or in Tricks case, he is whether they had positioned it that way or not. but then suddenly L.A. Knight punched trick and they fought down the aisle

and Orton R. K.O. Javan and stared at Cody and left. So the domino effect, Brian, that's why I said we're going to discuss why they did this, right? It was just a rushed angle and mess here. Operation, we're determined not to have Jay Uso in this cage. Well, yes, because he's, he wasn't supposed to be in it to begin with. Because that's when Bronson Reed got hurt.

And they said, well, we can't put Gable in it. So they called an audible and had Jay Uso win the match over the only other guy that was still left in the ring. But then they didn't want Jay in the match. So they did this. How long are they going to keep him out? I don't know. But he's at a medical facility. but then this set up

the story long or the show long storyline of well Logan Paul wants to be in it but Jacob Fatu wants to be in it and you know Heyman's politicking and finally they're pitted in the main event but I'm just wondering why they had to do it like let's just get this fucking over with as soon as we come on here and they're

putting him in the ambulance. They couldn't even let him come out and say, I'm so happy I won last week and somebody hit him with a fucking ball bat? Did it seem odd, do you? I mean, I guess it's a way to signify to the fans that there's going to be a lot of chaos this week. You don't know exactly how things will work out. You know there's a pay-per-view the next day, so you know that anything could happen on this episode.

They just didn't want Jay Uso on this episode, I think. I was about to say, you mean it wouldn't be a... unpredictable that anything could happen if a guy's out there for 45 seconds before he gets hitting head with a ball bat? Because he wouldn't be out there for 45 seconds. It'll be 45 seconds after seven minutes of music. Oh, well, that's true. That'd be the, you got it.

You have to, in storyline, you have to present it where he gets attack before he gets to the fans and the stands. If you get him in a stairwell or something, you're good to go. They got him before he got to the refreshment stand, wherever him and his brothers start from. I think at some point where I'd just beat him. up the audio guy. Go to the heart of the matter.

Anyway, so that was the opening segment, and they'll, you know, as I said, Paul E's going to demand to Aldous, put Logan Paul in, and later Jacob Fattu is going to demand, and then finally they're going to make the main event, so we'll come back to that. And then here's the, we're going to skip

over briefly a few of these things, because this is all you really got in a three-hour show. And I can't, for the people sitting there live, I'm thinking, my fucking God. For those prices, not just sitting there live. For those prices, yes, for those, but, but that's why I said earlier, they've trained people to think this is an exciting wrestling show, I guess, because they haven't seen one from, I don't know, solo against Uncle Howdy,

poor solo. His stock is in a toilet because Uncle Howdy beat him. He was almost untouchable a while back. But then all the MFT fellows came out and stole the lantern. So boom. Jelly roll was in the front row.

And now he's the incredible shrinking man. But did you recently see that the humble and lovable and earnest and god-fearing friendly old jelly roll was on an airport tarmac somewhere with a big old smile and a bear hug for Christy Gnome. So he's one of them.

Maybe that's what's eating him from the inside out. And then Oscar and Kerry came out for Carrie's match with 10, and Brian, the interview, the promo, the statement, the performance that they put on in the our way before this encapsulates every reason why I cannot stomach all the way that all of these lady wrestlers from Japan are presented. Why are they screaming and groaning and grunting about. It's like a bad Godzilla movie. Did you see this?

Bad Godzilla movie? You're talking about... No, the promo they did that is similar to a bad Godzilla movie dubbing job. Okay, I was going to say, do you have a problem with in Guy Gaghan's appearance? What made that movie awful for you? Was it a Jet Jaguar? I was a moth or a man. All right.

Do you see what I'm saying? I see what you're saying. I think if you went back and looked at a stereotypical presentation of a wrestler from Japan in America 40, 50 years ago, it's not completely dissimilar to the way they're presented right now in terms of, I don't know what behavior, I guess is the big word. But I don't know. I enjoy Aska and Kyrie. together, I do.

Well, we don't know of you have private videos that you've arranged for. I have not arranged. I didn't realize I had to say I did not arrange for private videos. You said you enjoy them together, but okay, not dissimilar from the way that they were presented 40 years ago. You've seen tapes of Tojo Yamamoto who had a pretty thick accent, correct? Yes, of course. do you know how he spoke in real life no exactly the same goddamn way that was his accent so he just he spoke softly

he just raised his voice but he didn't goddamn put on any airs i refuse to believe that these girls talk that way anyway so tiffy wrestled carey and i forgot what happened and then miss wrestled Oba Femi. I love the way Oba Femi looks. I'm not sure how I feel about the little bounce step, strut, walk thing he does. I don't. Oh, it works.

I think it works for him because he's so big and, you know, it's like a big bully, not that he's a bully, but a big tough guy doing that. My issue was the interplay with the MIS went on way too long. this guy should have just killed them. Well, yes, that's, the stepping thing, I understand, yes, that it is distinctive. I don't know where it came from or how they managed to come up with that.

But yes, basically they did a promo exchange where the Miz wanted to join forces with him and blah, blah, blah, blah, try to get out of an ass kicking. And then Obafimmy obviously turns him down and then, you know, growls it to even, I think he said he didn't actually come out and say he was going to kill him. What did he say? I can't remember. Some phrase of, I'm going to finish you off here. And then he finished him off in about one minute, which is what should have happened.

They've got something with Obafemi. The people like him, he's got charisma. And I'm like you. The same way that his matches, unless it's a real top guy, need to be short and intense. The promos need to be short and intense. short and intense. I don't think he needs to stand there and listen to a lot of gaga

from other people. You know, for the last several years, WWE fans have seen a lot of people debut coming out of NXT, especially. But even people that come from other companies, there have not been many people, if anyone at all, there has to

have been someone, but not many people as big and impressive as Obafemi. You get a lot of smaller people with charisma, you know, he's impressive on site alone. Yes. And then he shows his charisma. So we'll see.

I mean, what are your thoughts today about the idea of Obafemi versus Brock Lesnar? Well, that may be the path that they're looking at right now. And it, again, it wouldn't be bad if it's short and intense. And I believe they could do a good job of it. I'm sure Haman would help with layout. It'd be all their big moves and don't anybody wear their welcome out. And I think it would probably be a money match at this point. People would think, oh, this may be the guy,

but he has to be the guy to beat Brock. You couldn't have the match and not have Obafemi win. If he couldn't win, don't have the fucking match. So I just don't know where they're at in their mind. with Brock right now. Right now they got Obafemi to the point where he's not feuding with anyone and no one's clamoring for it. They just want to see him come out there and crush people.

And they should take advantage of that. Yeah. And they had him and Brock do the face off in the Rumble. And I know a lot of people, oh, that means it's the WrestleMania direction. No, it just because that was the goddamn thing that people would want to see in the Rumble. So they were teasing it. It could take a year to materialize, but at least they've pointed in that direction. so it wouldn't be bad depending on how quick they want to move with Oba and what they still

have planned for Brock. Anyway, did you watch the U.S. title match between Carmelo Hayes and Cardona Matt? I watched it. Yes, I did. Well, what happened? Because I didn't give two shits about it. Carmelo won. Well, surprise, surprise.

He was the number three draft pick. I would remind you again, what, a year and a half ago. or whatever the fuck they last did it? What the fuck? Well, they're finally using them better than they were. I still don't see it. I don't, I don't, I don't get it. And I'll get it.

Then they did a spot in the back where our truth standing in front of the box that would be revealed at Elimination Chamber explained to all the job guys how to order the ESPN app. And number one, I still didn't understand it, but I wouldn't be expected to because I don't know how any of that shit works. Stacey does it all or you. You're not in my house. You know what I mean.

But having said that, what does it say when the most allegedly dim-witted person on the roster has to tell all these other poor jobbers how to get this thing under the guise of their still trying to explain to people how that they can watch the big shows now, that they got to download the thing and go to this and stream that and pull your phone out and grease it up,

shove it up your ass, and then when it rings, your fucking teeth will vibrate, etc. And I'm sure the people that paid hundreds of dollars for ringside tickets were excited to watch that on the screen, weren't you? No. And this is not the first.

first time they've had our truth try to explain how to purchase the paperviews. Apparently Xfinity, my cable provider now offers ESPN Plus for free, so I have to figure out how to switch my subscription from pay to that. So at least I'll have that going for me. There was a big debate on social media this past week about whether these backstage skits should go away, whether they're not helpful to wrestling, whether we see too much of them or whether they're just bad. I personally am of the belief that

they are counterproductive to the show, and for anyone arguing, oh, but they were really big and popular during the attitude era. That was a long time ago. But what are your thoughts on these... With stars that are far, far away? What are your thoughts on these backstage segments

and the fact that they're still prominent on these shows? Camera right in front of of two guys talking, no one sees the camera. That's the thing. Not only did, when you had guys like Foley and Austin and guys that could just

talk and were superstars and you'd listen to them you know, give their fucking fast food order, whatever, and also it was a little fresher back then, but still in a lot of cases there was an interviewer, an announcer or whatever. But when the

when you're compounded by they're so incessant and the writers feel like they got to have every face on the fucking show so they give them some kind of skit to perform or light comedy it's too much it's ridiculous when there's some kind of secretive talk going on and the camera's right there like nobody we're really having a heart to heart here that we wouldn't want anybody else to eaves drop on so hopefully that microphone six feet away can't pick us up it's just it's been it's lazy presentation now just like it was a departure when they started doing it it would now be a departure if they stopped doing it there's no reason you can't have a roving reporter back in the back or even like tNA did at one point i'll give them that. They tried to shoot around the corner like they were eaves dropping. At least it was something. But, you know, it's just it, it's really like a goddamn episode of he haul.

Where now here's the skit in the cornfield. No, it's the skit by the equipment box. It's more like the Muppet show where here's the guest star with his skit and then you get to see in the back Kermit freaking acts. He's trying to set up the next skit. But he doesn't know the cameras there filming them doing doing that. You know what the next skit was, don't you? And again,

this is what I'm saying, hundreds of dollars. We got all the top guys in a 10-minute argument, a little flurry at the top. And then we got solo and howdy. We got Tiffy and Kerry. We got Ms. and Oba, Carmelo and Cardono.

And then Candy, LaRue and Jordan Grace. And for whatever reason, now Gargano is doing comedy where he walks out of the days and goes to sleep on the announcer's desk. Hundreds of dollars

people paid. Well, no, the comedy is he apparently does this all the time now in the back, like they wheeled him by before earlier in the show sleeping on something and there's pictures posted of him sleeping on random things and it's the same he's summoned. It's the same face as

when he's awake. So what's the problem? Yeah, you can't really tell the difference except he's in another direction. When he's normally standing upright, when he's asleep, he's fucking horizontal or whatever. It's just same thing. Then the women's tag team championship, Brian, was up on the line, and I enjoyed this, not because I watched it,

but because the fridge and Lash Leroux beat E.O. Sky and Ria Ripley for the women's tag team title in a long match. They beat Ria, which I would not have done. But at least now, and with what happened at the chamber, apparently Ria Ripley is out of this tag team with her little misfit sidekick

and is back in the singles picture. and you got the tank sisters, as Tojo Yamamoto once said, the tank brother, Sherman and Septic, you got the tank sisters as the tag team champions. And did I mention this was a long match? But at least again, these two parade floats,

who's going to beat them for the tag team title, them the belts and they present a powerful faction and Ria still needs to be, continue to be the star of the women's division. Well, it sounds like they may believe what you're saying too, because after the paper view, which we'll talk about a little later, obviously there are different priorities now for Ria, and that's what's needed. I know a lot of people like her tag team with EO, but we've said it for a while since before they were teaming. She needs a run where she's pushed well, where she gets wins, where we don't

see her lose. Hopefully this is that, because the fans are still, she's still the most over woman on the entire roster, I think. Yeah, but I'd like them to put something back in her bank account. What are you representing Buddy Murphy here? What was that? She's great, but they better give her some more money right now. No, no, put something back in her bank account, me, give her wins. She's over. but she's been beaten a lot or subliminated underneath the title picture, put some more over back in her account. So she's got some capital to spend again,

that's what I'm trying to say. And then after that match, they had more girls in the back talking to each other while Charlotte ate ice cream and cried. I'm not making that up. Woo! And by this point, we were past two and a half hours into the,

this show. And if you, if you deducted honestly, the girl stuff, I don't know there was an hour of the men, but hundreds of dollars. So then we got to Logan Paul and Jacob Fatu to see who was going to take Jay Uso's place, the elimination chamber, and they rang the bell that was 12 minutes left in his three-hour show. All that crap that I've just delineated that they could have shaved a couple minutes off of, maybe. But at the same time, I don't want Fatu going out there for 25 minutes, because that's not, he needs to be explosive and intense, not to the level of Obafemi, he's more experienced, he can do more,

but for his gimmick. And Logan Paul is a guy who, as we've said, he's still a little green if he hadn't had to have. had time to run through a match extensively. Just on the fly, he could be a little herky jerky, even though he's athletic. So Jacob beat the shit out of Logan Paul for a while at the start. And in the break, that theory out there, he helped stop Fatu for the heat.

And they went back and forth again. I think Logan Paul, he went too far on a moonsault one time, but he actually got his arms down where he did like a flying, as he went over the top of Jacob, he did like a flying forearm to him. But they were kicking it in, and Fatu made his comeback and nailed theory, and Pauli struggled up to the apron.

I was afraid he might tip the ring over, but he got there. and Jacob grabbed him and Logan Paul gives Jacob the nutshot from behind and the big knockout punch and a good looking splash off the top and got a two count. So now the people are fucking woke up into it. Holy shit. And then suddenly the masked man appears.

And he knocked theory down. But Logan Paul wrote out, rolled out, rolled out, rolled out. and knocked him out. And then the security came and they popped the hood. And it was nobody. It's a nobody. And at that point, everything come to a halt. And I'm like, I wish they would have kicked the pace up there a little bit

because it was a little, they had everything going so well. But then the match continued and Jacob hit the Samoan drop and went to the top and now here's Drew McIntyre out of nowhere and hit Fatu in the head with the belt and Logan Paul schoolboyed him one, two, three. So they got Logan Paul into the elimination chamber, but they did, they did everything, but shoot Jacob Fatu with a bazooka,

so they're still protecting him. Well, that was going to be my first question for you. Do you have any problem with them beating Jacob Fatu to do this? Well, they had to, again, they wouldn't be doing any of this. if Bronson Reed hadn't got hurt. But at the same time, what they've been doing with Jacob Fatu, if he didn't demand to be in this, in the elimination chamber, if he didn't speak up and try to, that would be worse than him said,

yeah, I'll fight this fucking guy for the spot and getting fucked over by a variety of, you know, henchmen. So this was not a job that I think hurts Fatu in people's eyes. But at the same point now, he's still in line for to be added into the title picture for something at any fucking point. Because he got screwed lately. So this wasn't bad, but it took a long time to get there. And that was Smackdown. and that's again hundreds of dollars

what do you think of Logan Paul in there you know again for he's green but he's so athletic unless he's walked through a match he's not going to be flawless but he he's in control of himself and if he does he doesn't really fuck shit up much very often as much as just look a little

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a lot to wake up to this weekend, and of course Saturday was the elimination chamber WWE's annual event on the road to WrestleMania where lucky competitors win main event matches or title matches, whatever it may be, they win them.

And big prizes. You're a new car. Well, the elimination chamber, which was in Chicago, Chicago. You know, have you noticed, Brian, there's no, I think I've said this before,

There's no happy in between. In an AEW show, it lasts for five hours. You get 13 matches. WWE, this show lasted two hours and 50 minutes. We got four matches. Can we find something? It's like three and a half hours, give us eight or nine. Just somewhere in the middle.

That's all we ask. I'm not even going to wear it out. What I say every time about every gimmick match, Royal Rumble, fucking whatever the fuck they the girl's version comes before the guy's version so we get to see two them and in this case the women's chamber event do you think they give the chamber women chamber pots no no i'm just one no do you have a chamber pot i've got a chamber pot i don't have a Pot, no.

My mother. He's already medieval times. My mother left, left to me. It was actually a very old gimmick of a joke chamber pot with a little ring of mink fur around the edge of. But anyhow, the mink fur was around the edge of these women in the women's elimination chamber, which is surrounded by heavy metal chains and, Plexiglass and hard surfaces, so naturally nobody got busted open. Alexa Bliss took on Rochelle, Rochelle, took on Keanu James, took on Tiffany's

Stratton, took on Ria Ripley, took on Oscar. And again, it was obvious from the entrances of this, that Ria Ripley is the star of the division. and I know that people like Tiffie and Rochelle is doing a good job not sure about Keanu yet she she's a robust young lady in good physical condition she's good she's really improved

every time I watch her now I'm like wow she's better than the last time I saw her she's good yeah I'm not saying she's not any good I'm saying I'm not sure about her yet because that it just that librarian look yeah beginning yeah yeah And then Alexa Bliss, little Lexi, little Lexi, she's in there too. And I mean, I can't critique this as a match with the story they told and the logic behind it and the comebacks and the drama because it's two girls start and do shit to each other until each one comes in and they do more shit to each other. Same as the guys. I'm not being sexist.

with Keanu and Tiffy in between the hand springs and the roundoffs of the backflips, they did some wrestling. And then Oscar came in and beat up some people. And I wrote, I've never seen so many handsprings. And then Alexa came in. And I noted that it was about 15 minutes in and nobody's makeup was smeared yet. I mean, I understand the motivation for a cage match blowers. off in a bitter feud.

I understand the war games, as we talked about, was originally for the horsemen and dusty superpowers, the factions that had a blood feud to settle things. They've just made these gimmicks bigger and more opulent because they've got a bigger budget and it looks even more contrived. And then they've set it up to where they have to have people in these matches. whether they have any blood feud or not. And then I don't even know I can't keep track of the women who's baby face and who's heels.

But if they hadn't put Logan Paul in the goddamn men's chamber match, I don't think they would have had a heel. So it just, it's baby faces beating each other up intermittently. They're doing moves to each other. And again, I have to make the one statement, if the girls can do this in this environment and nobody gets carried out on oxygen,

then why are the guys scared? So then Ria Ripley came in, and the fans woke up and she beat everybody up, and she and Alexa Bliss played Twister trying to do something. And then Oscar misted Alexa and Kian. beat her one, two, three, so she was eliminated. But then Rochelle came in, and she beat up everybody. And they got her over in this thing.

She power bombed Keanu through one of the pod windows and then power bombed Oscar on top of Keanu and Penn both of them. So that was a nice spot. And then she hung Rhea up in the cage upside down and beat up Tiffy. And then Ria was able to get loose. So as Rochelle was going to do something to Tiffy, Ria cannonballed her off the top and Tiffy moonsaulted her, one, two, three.

So we ended up with Ria and Tiffy. And again, you had to because those are kind of the two biggest stars of this match. But there's no heel here. These two are good with each other. But it's not like people are just living and dying by oh my god my girl has to win or all hope is gone

and finally Ria pushed her off the top rope into the fucking pod and hit a riptide one two three and then Ria and Jade stared at each other because Jade Cargill was in the the bleachers in the skybox or whatever

the fuck I mean it wasn't it wasn't result. Well, yes. I mean, that's pretty much the only result because Ria needs to be back in the title picture. If anybody can get something out of Jade, she can because not only is she the same size comparably, she'll be able to move Jade around if Jade's not sure where she needs to go. Is Jade's gray hair off putting to you?

No, she looks like a superhero. I think I liked the blonde better. She used to be blonde, didn't she or am I just imagine it? It was always white, and there was always like white like Storm from X-Bron. Well, white blonde, like, you know, Wayne Ferris blonde or whatever. But anyhow, yes, I agree with the finish. I just, again, the women's elimination chamber. It's a gimmick before a gimmick, and they have to.

to go through this and and then we got to watch it again later on. So it's, it's, this, this show was like again, the contrast at the beginning and at the end, we were in Gimmickville with this overdone structure

and all the flashing lights and bells and whistles and guys just doing moves to each other. At least there was no furniture to complicate matters further. at least just stuck with the cage gimmick. But then in the middle of it, we had two classic, regular, ordinary, everyday, normal wrestling matches, one-on-one with people that were over, having matches that made sense,

but in the case of punk and Finn, it wasn't a money match that everybody wants to see, which is punk and Roman, and in the case of Becky and AJ, honestly, I think for business purposes and just for the art of wrestling, that may have been the best thing of the whole show. But it's, I guess that's what I'm saying is we were sandwiched by the

total gimmickery and in the middle was two of the more normal wrestling matches that you will ever see on television these days. but that's what I thought about that. What did you think of Jade sitting up in a stands like that? I think that's the best place for her. I might, next time I might try the parking lot. All right, that's not nice.

Maybe just put her on top of a double-decker bus so she can see in the window, but she's not really in the building. I don't know what your problem is all of a sudden with Jake Gargill, but Jim, yes. There were more matches, in fact, three more on this big pay-per-view spectacular. It's almost an average of one every 50 minutes.

So then the match that I just talked about, the women's intercontinental title, A.J. Lee and Becky Lynch. And again, it was a study in contrast and extremes this show. It's a three-hour show, but there's only four matches. 50% of them were women's matches. And they took up the first hour and 20 minutes of the pay-per-view. I was wondering if this may be because I've been cursed by a gypsy somehow. But then once I watched this one, I'm like, well, geez, if they led off with this,

I'd have been just as happy. Because this, yes, there were things that could have been performed better. But you've got a hometown baby face, by virtue of marriage hometown, not only with a feel-good story of a return, her first single match in 10 years, it's in a sold-out building with almost 20,000 people. She's wrestling maybe the top heel girl in the company for a title, and they're both over, the people are into it,

and they have a wrestling match. And there was plenty of twists and turns in the, finish, but none of it involved goddamn mass people running in and stopping everything cold or crashing through multiple pieces of furniture.

It was logical and psychology that people would like to throw that word around. It made sense from beginning to end in the wrestling universe. And it built from start

to finish. I don't know why Becky Lynch was wearing Jackie Fargo's ring jacket from 1959 to work in. But Becky's got great heel attitude and body language. And she doesn't mind showing it to the people and fucking working them as well. And AJ seemed as, what is this, the second match I've ever seen of hers, counting the mixed tag last year, right? she seems to know how to sell they tried to work a wrestling match

as best they could they did a better yay boo than the guys in AEW they had their back and forth false finishes and then they went into the the Hollywood part they took off a turnbuckle pad which would figure in later

they were still doing a lot of fucking back and forth when the referee went to put the turnbuckle pad back on, then Becky ran AJ into the referee. Oh, Jessica Carr, the counterpoint Aubrey Ed for this company.

And then, boom, Becky gets a schoolgirl, AJ kicks out, Becky hits, goes for a roundhouse kick and kicks a referee in the head. That'd look pretty fucking tight.

I'm glad I wasn't on the receiving end of that one. So then AJ got her submission on Becky, and Becky's tapping, but there's no referee, and the fans are up, and Becky stops AJ and goes to the floor and beats her up a little bit, pulls out a chair and throws it in the ring. But AJ fights back and they get back in, and Becky foils the spinning DDT, and DDT's AJ on the chair, which could have looked better, but I think Becky was rushing a bit. and then Becky got the referee, hit the manhandle slam cover, two count.

And she's gobsmacked and the people blew at that point. And yay! So then Becky tried to run AJ into the buckle with no pad, but the referee stopped her. They went back and forth. AJ missed something, but they went right on. And Becky on purpose missed a. and hit the bare buckle and AJ got her hold and Becky tapped.

And that got a big pop. They got to see the hometown girl win the belt. So again, I grade on, did it make any sense? Was it ridiculous and embarrassing or overly fake? Some things could have been performed better, but a one-on-one match with a heel and a baby face that made sense and didn't break any tables and made the fans. happy with the hometown baby face win.

I think they've just sold a bunch of A.J. Lee merchandise there. I didn't have anything wrong with this. But tell me what you think, Brian. Now, tear it apart. That was the nicest way I ever heard anyone say. That match stunk. It was, I guess, fine for what it was. I'm just going to say no thank you. I'd have made it a little shorter. I'm going to say no thank you. She was super over. The fans there were happy. but it's not for me.

And it's not for me. I'm thinking that this show... I wasn't a fan of it and it wasn't for me. I'm thinking this show was better for Chicago than it was for the rest of the world. Let me say this too. And that's an important point you just made

because it's not the match. The whole show. I didn't like this whole show. I thought this whole show stuck. The next match ain't bad. I'm not saying it is. But for a pay-per-view, like the whole thing,

It just didn't. It didn't click for me. And, you know, sometimes after that happens, if you're not looking online, you think to yourself, it's probably just me. I'm the only one. But no, I heard this from everyone. Pretty much universally. Well, see, that's, the women's chamber was what it was. The men's chamber, as we'll get to, until the end, was what it was.

and that's why I say of the show Becky and AJ had to be my favorite because it was a a match they wanted to see that was fucking over with they did the right thing for business but especially it was it was the 20,000 people in Chicago

and with the punk match with Finn yes it was probably one of the better wrestled matches that you're going to see in the W. And if it hadn't been Chicago and

Punk being over, nobody would give a shit because they've already announced punk and Roman. That's what people are wanting to see. This was put on the show to sell out the United Center and people in Chicago liked it, but

nobody thought that Finn, even the people in Chicago, when Finn was in charge in a lot of cases, nobody thought he was going to win this. and the announcers saying, well, Finn could change the complexion of WrestleMania. No, he's not. Because everybody knows now, since they're all smart and they watch Unreal, there's no goddamn way they're trading

Punk versus Roman for Finn versus Roman at WrestleMania. So they only had four matches. The two gimmick matches that the show is named after were, eh, oh, yeah. except and again this was to get punk on the show and it was the best match of the night but did anyone care if a if a great match falls in the forest

does anybody get to fucking throw it in the wood chipper or whatever it was the best match on the show was a really good match despite the fact that you knew punk wasn't losing in Chicago to Finn Battle or before the Roman Raines match other than that, it was a really good match. Did it sell any ticket anywhere outside of Chicago? Again, the people in Chicago had a ball.

Yeah. And if you're watching Raw, if you're watching Raw, it's been built up on Raw. They've spent a lot of time on a match that the result was never in question, which is kind of crazy. But it was the best match on the show. And I guess I shouldn't say did it sell a ticket outside of Chicago? Did it gain a viewer necessarily outside of Chicago because of, did it make or break the telecast? The answer is probably no for the reasons we just said.

But you know, nevertheless. I don't think Becky Lynch and A.J. Lee did, but I don't think most things would. I think for something like the Royal Rumble or the Elimination Chamber, barring a major match, like, you know, a world champion versus someone you think could win the belt, the gimmick matches are the show. you can kind of fill up the rest of the show with nothing. It used to be... And they do. Six or seven matches and nothing.

Now it's just a few matches, but the gimmick matches, I think, the draw, more than anything. Well, they started this one off with a nice Alan Parsons project entrance. Did you like a little serious there? A throwback to the Chicago Bulls. And the Chicago Bulls, of course. Well, and the fucking North Carolina Dragon. Well, he was doing it in Chicago.

It's really more about the Chicago Bulls and Steamboat release wrestled in Chicago to that music. I know I'm playing with you. Can I tell you something? The worst thing in the world is watching any cut of WrestleMania 3 over the last 25 years

where they edit out serious and it's just generic music for Ricky Steamboat and it doesn't work. And it was so cool that night if you watched Alive or had the videotape him coming out there to that music it's not the same

you replace it. With all their money, why can't they just use everyone's original music in those old clips? It wouldn't cost everything at this point. I think at one, at some point, it's the paperwork and the, the multiple

ways of distribution and keeping track of that. They'd have to hire fucking accountants if they actually did it legitimately. But nevertheless, they did the long walk to the ring. He's got the Larry Forever jacket on. and punk's over.

It was Lawler in Memphis. He took his time coming down the aisle. He worked to people. It's his town. Then they did the intros. The Finn is ripped. And I kind of, I was shocked when they started out. I said, more wrestling.

What the fuck's going on here? Two matches in a row. They started out wrestling. And again, this is, this was the best wrestling match of the show. it had oomph because of the Chicago fans behind punk. Was anybody watching really overly nervous that punk was going to lose? I don't think so. At least they know how to work body parts for fuck's sake.

Boy, the old time heels used to get on a goddamn greenhorn when he'd come back if the guy had stopped somebody with a fucking bulldog headlock to the face and then worked their stomach and then gave them a body slam on their back they go what's the matter you can't keep track of what you're doing but anyhow uh they nice back and forth match with excitement did you see the the tater where punk had finn on his back and had his feet was going to go in for a sharpshoot or whatever and fin does the upkick and just kicked him right to fucking face, busted his lip open.

He goes back in the corner with his hand to his mouth. Like, what the fuck? Was that personal? I hate to say it, but it added to the match. Him having the blood on his mouth added to the match. Well, yeah, I would have bit of fucking rubber if it had been me. And that way we'd had both, wouldn't we, without being kicked in the face? But anyway, they went back and forth and finally,

punk had hit a go to sleep, but Finn fell out to the floor where he couldn't be covered. So they went out to the floor, but Finn ended up drop-kicking punk through the barricade and it rolled him right in and hit him with a drop-kick and went for the stomp. And when he came off the top, punk caught him in mid-air, caught his leg,

and rolled through and sharpshootered him. He applied the sharpshooter upon him. And that was pretty slick. and then they were finally fighting for the sharpshooter, and here's the one thing about this finish I didn't like. I don't know whether they didn't clue the announcers in, and I would have to think that they would know what the fuck, and I think maybe the announcers just forgotten blew it,

because after that sharpshooter, Finn had made the ropes, and then Punk tried to get it again, and Finn was fighting back and trying to tater kick him again, and punk finally kicked Finn downward in the head multiple times, I think, like seven or eight times, and then powered him up and hit the GTS, boom, cover, one, two, three. But while they were doing that, the announcers were doing a WrestleMania plug, and whatever, instead of saying, Punk's going for that sharpshooter again, Finn trying to fight it off.

Oh, my God, look at Punk's foot down on Finn's head, time after. time. How much of this can Finn stand? Now he's got the fucking up for that, that type of thing. Build it up like, look, I'm calling your attention to what is happening right now. This is important.

That would have drawn the people in just that much more so it wouldn't look like to the viewing audience. People in the fucking arena can't hear the commentary anyway, but the viewing audience, they're being talked to about, well, at WrestleMania, when this

guy's getting stomped in a head eight times and about to be knocked out. Did you notice that or did you care or do you listen to the commentary? I wasn't really paying too much attention to the commentary during this match at least. Well, I thought they blew that. But otherwise, boom, GTS, one, two, three. So again, we had a one-on-one match with no furniture, a clear baby face and heel. But it wasn't really a PLE. It was a PLE. A PLA. quality match, but not a PLE money match, I guess. What did you think of the handshake afterwards?

I think they almost had to, but more than that, I think they're going to do something with Finn because he had already asked the other 17 members of judgment day, not, not, it said, don't come out. I'm going to do this on my own and the announcers brought that up again. So I'm thinking they might be going to do a little something with. Finn maybe turn him against the rest of the group, whatever the fuck, because, you know, but they almost had to here. It was kind of like a mutual respect thing.

It's not like, yeah, Logan Paul could never get, even if he had a great match, he should never shake hands with the fucking baby face. And the baby face that does shake hands with him would be a dumb shit for doing it. Because a guy like, Logan Paul can never. never be a baby face because, especially in this day and age, we have already figured out that, yes, he's a great performer in the ring, but he's also just a dick outside of it. And he would always do something that would make news that would counteract any effort to make him a baby face. Whereas with Finn, most people know that he has a reputation for being a pretty decent fellow,

a good mate a good mate what accent is that what accent is that that's a fucking accent from from where a chimney sweep in a Charles Dickens movie where it's from he's from Belfast I believe

well you do and you'll clean it up but anyway speaking of the Belfast this the this wasn't really a fast match but again in between these things,

between the commercials and the plugs and the Zabodaz and Furnum Snavitz, we had four matches and uncrating in three hours. Well, of course, Jim,

we have one more big match to go, but in some ways, the real main event was the big reveal WWE had been teasing for, I don't know, a week and a half, that a box,

a crate, that for some reason was being sent back and forth between shows needed to be opened at this pay-per-view event, this premium live event. And here we are, Jim. Everyone thinks of you when it comes to a big reveal coming out of a box. Let's go to you for your expert commentary on this history-making moment. Well, I believe I will harken back to, was it last week's drive-through was it on the experience? I said, look, the origination of the whole thing is down through

wrestling history. And I enumerated some examples of baby faces that had come out with mystery boxes that may have or may not have the heels name on it or whatever. And basically, I said if you bring a box out there and you make a big, deal out of it for a couple of weeks. Who is this? Who's it for? Where's it from? Or maybe we know who it's from. Or maybe we know who it's to, but we don't know who it's from.

But you make a big deal out of it. And then when the moment comes, someone that people know a star or a returning person or a special bounty hunter or whatever or someone

to embarrass the manager. burst out of the box and makes a fucking impact by doing something chaotic or impactful. And that's why everybody comes out of a box is over. Except if you don't do any of those things. And if you don't do any of those things, then you've just got a guy coming out of a fucking box. And so they didn't, after they started it,

initially they didn't really make a big deal of it. Then they didn't make a lot of fanfare when they brought it out here. Then when they opened it, it was not only somebody that most of the people live didn't know who the fuck it was, but it was preposterous. And they didn't do anything. And then they were gone. So at home, they were gone.

Clearly in the building, you got to see where they went. but not quickly enough. They didn't leave quickly enough. The point is they announced the attendance in the building 19,346. Boy howdy. And then suddenly with no fanfare or announcement, and now ladies and gentlemen, this crate that has been appearing or whatever,

they just, the crate sitting on a stage. And there is Aldous and Pierce on either side of, it with a crowbar and they fake pride the front off and the front falls and there's a coffin inside the box. And then did you see Nick and Adam just looked at each other and turned and walked away like, okay, now we've done what we need to do. Let's get out of here so we don't get any on us. And then these. The coffin door opens, and you can see through it, there's a curtain in the back,

and somebody's ruffling the curtain. You can see light coming through. And then here comes dancing girls. And they're all made up in vampire outfits like Danhausen. And they come, and then here comes Danhausen. And the song was saying, Danhausen, over. it over. And I couldn't hear much of the rest

of it and I'm not sure that I wanted to but every once in a while you'd hear Danhausen. And they go to the and the people at first were just stunned like there's there more is someone that we know coming out and then it wasn't and then it's silence

and Danhausen goes to the ring and gives Michael Cole a jar of teeth and the people are just sitting there farting. And then they get in the ring and they do 10 seconds of like a dance routine

where you're downhousin, downhousin. And then I swear to God, instead of a big pyro explosion or a bang or just a blackout or whatever, it was like it was supposed to be a rib. They just let off a puff of smoke that looked like that remember the time

the exploding ring and AEW exploded but it didn't explode it just went poof. This was a pith. And then that was supposed to signify the lights were going out and he disappears in a poof of smoke except the poof

just happened. Then they turned the lights out and then from all the fan cam footage everybody in the building could see them all drop down on their bellies of roll out and hide under the ring. And I'm wondering when they got them out of there. You think it was about 2 o'clock in the morning? Underground tunnel.

You think the United Center put the underground tunnel in there just for Danhausen. Got the jackhammer out and fucking fuck the basketball court. But I'm... Look, already he's selling merchandise because there are... people around the world who know who Danhausen is and like the merchandise. But

these people specifically there all 19,346 of them, most of them are just W.W.E. fans that they probably did not know and certainly didn't give two shits. Now, I mean,

if he'd come out and be, somebody up, that may have, but the problem is, who the fuck's he going to beat up? Because that's, what, tell me what you thought about this reveal before we go into his future projects. Well, that's a loaded question. I think the problem is the fans had expectations, whatever they were and however unjustified they were.

They were bigger than this. It was Chris Jericho or above. You know what I mean? Like, it had to be like that. And it shouldn't have been, and it's wrong that anyone thought it was going to be. Instead, it's someone who's probably going to be doing skits with our truth. And El Lizard. Not Elizard.

That was the guy who used to work for Dennis. What's the name of the lizard guy? Iguana. The iguana. The night of the iguana. Elizard was one of the worst workers in New Jersey back then, but that's a lot of. whole nother story. There were expectations.

And I think maybe, maybe, who knows? Nick Con had expectations that there would be more fans aware of who this wrestling character is. A lot of people pointing to Jim Cornett saying Jim Cornett helped make him famous playing his cameos back in the day. Yeah, what about. How come everything's bifold? I just wanted to make sure I pointed that out for, you know, fair time, point out that you're, you're getting all. out of the blame for your guilt? Well, now, hold on now.

I've never said he wasn't a nice kid. And when we first saw him with the very nice, very evil, weird promo, we said, oh, this is a chuckle. But how does this apply to wrestling? It's kind of like Harley Cameron. And once we saw him wrestle, we kind of said, well, he shouldn't do that anymore. But he's a wonderful kid with a quirky gimmick and personality. should he be the guy that teams up with Gwenguli

to take over when Svanguli retires and get rid of the other two pinheads they've got on the House of Svenguli. Maybe that... The one guy's good. Nistalgia for Ratu also does tune in with me. I don't want to put him down. Well, he can go do that show.

He's on the right side of content. But the thing is, you're right in that Nick Kahn probably doesn't realize the extent that there is a disconnect between his fan base that purchases tickets, especially to the live events and the niche crowd, they would know the AEW talent, I would know some of the international talent, and is buying the merchandise.

Because I would imagine they didn't sell a ton of it in Chicago, but now that everybody around the world, as we said, knows Danhausen is there. Yeah, he's going to sell some merchandise. but the thing is what can he do here he can't wrestle here it would be preposterous is he a quirky character that comes in and out and like you said maybe does skits with our truth or does what else but he can't I mean he's he's tiny for a he does he does standards, but here it looks preposterous, even more preposterous. You've said that now several times. It's important to note the fans in Chicago, you know,

we keep talking about the fact that fans didn't know them. They booed this. They did not. Oh, yeah, no, because it stunk. They booed like crazy. And those were two of my thoughts. Dan hasn't been seen on TV in years at this point. AEW had him under contract until just recently and apparently ghosted him. And he was off TV for, what, better part of two years? Yeah, at first he was hurt, and then he was just, you know, they didn't bring him back. So now you're bringing him here. My first two thoughts were, oh, no.

And then my second thought was, if there was a fucking Danhausen horror movie surf guitar dance party show, I'd watch it every week. I'd watch it every fucking week. But I'm dreading where this is going to go right now on WWE TV. where we need less backstage skits. You're about to get someone who, I would think primarily will exist either in backstage skits or sneaking around ringside,

giving out strange gifts or curses. Well, you mentioned earlier, the thing with this young fellow is that it didn't get over in Chicago because they had expectations. And when they first did the crate, and we talked about it, could it be Jericho? From the first night when Aldous and Pierce were making over it, what is this? Is it yours?

Is it my, whatever? You would think that there was going to be somebody, and that's where the expectations came from. People have already been thinking that Jericho was going to show up sooner or later. Maybe later now than sooner, but that's another story. But so they thought, oh, okay, that's where that led them. And maybe the WWE wanted people to believe that. But then on the next Smackdown and on the next, as they didn't really make a big deal out of it,

after that, you could tell, okay, this is, it's something else. But why do this in this way when they could have had a coffin out there that would have been more interesting than a crate, wouldn't it? who's in the fucking coffin? Well, but then people thought it was something to do with the undertaker. Yeah. I mean, so that they showed a coffin.

Even more disappointed. Yeah. So it's just, you can't do something like this unless people know who the fuck's coming out. And, and or, you know, even though they knew a chainsaw Charlie was Terry Funk,

when a guy comes out of a crate with by chainsaw on it, well, that makes an impression. but this, you know, dog and pony lighting show and, you know, David Copperfield cable access type of thing, they were just like, what the fuck is this? That's why they sat there in silence and then they booed. Well, here's the problem.

It was someone they weren't familiar with doing this. If this was a star doing it, they would have still booed. Because it still would have been, what the fuck is this? Because he still didn't do anything. Yeah, it went nowhere. And then you watched him crawl under the ring. were in the house, you saw them crawl under the ring. And you know that, that's why the boo's got a little louder, because they're like, they could still hear us.

Boo! They're still there! I feel bad, like you said, we can see you. Everyone I know who knows him says he's like the nicest guy in the entire world. And I feel bad that he got booed. But this was, if you were going to do something with Danhausen, this was not. the way to do it to get a good reaction. Well, it was gobbledy gooker.

It was a modern gobbledy gooker. And they, I thought they'd have learned about that one the last time. That egg was on TV for weeks. I think at least a month, if not longer than a month. Well, because remember at the way you might not remember, because you were only fucking six or whatever. But at the actual time... Ten, but yes.

Okay, well, that was supposed to be Flair. because Flair showed up about the same time, but for the smart fans, they just knew it was Flair. And that's why, again, not only did the gobbled to gook or not get over with any fans that were anywhere, whether they were smart fans or not, but the smart fans just roasted it because they thought it was going to be Flair.

I was 10 years old. I didn't think it was going to be Rick Flair, but I didn't know what it would be. It had to be something. I mean, it's spending a lot of time and giving this egg the entire interview podium, it has to be something when it was a dancing turkey. Because I didn't know who Hector Guerrero was,

and I didn't know that was him. I just knew that a turkey came out, and you're waiting, okay, is the turkey going to do something? Is the turkey going to de-mask and it's Big John Stud? What's about to happen? No, he went in the ring and he did a doci-dough with Gene O'Korland. and those fans who ate up WWE shit, they booed that. Yeah.

It wasn't a win-win. It wasn't a situation for a win for Danhausen here. And again, I don't know what they're going to do unless they're going to start doing their own content with him hosting public domain horror movies, which isn't the worst idea. Yeah. I don't know what. I don't know what. They got a whole, they got a whole crew of female dancers that painted their faces. I mean, what?

I mean, they spent time on this. They spent a lot of time putting this together. And what did they think was going to happen? And who's saying I told you so? That's the other problem. It wasn't like everyone wanted him on this show. Well, that has been reported that there was a divided camp. Some people were in favor of bringing him into the fold,

and some people were like, what? and we don't know who's on what side yet or not, but the what side got a kind of a moral victory at to start. Do you ever wish the Rock would show up and just book everything for one night to throw everything off kilter again just to put everything right? No, no, I still don't hope that. I'm kind of there now. Please come back.

Dwayne, please come back. Please. I take it all back. Dwayne. Come back, come back, Dwayne. Come back, get off the farm. What's Brandon DeWilda doing these days? Ah?

How about that? Google it, kids. Well, again, Danhausen, a popular wrestling personality on the independent scene got the AEW deal. They barely used them. A lot of people seem to think he was punished for who his friends were. And I guess we'll see what happens. I'm very happy for him.

very worried about the state of WWE television but Jim yes some segments are dare I say at five star segments and some segments are for the dogs

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We don't want that. We don't anything about that, we should also stress that fact. And you don't want the floor sweepings. You definitely don't want the floor sweeping. They do that. They sweep up the sawdust off the floor of the butcher shop that the, you know, the poor animals have been slayed on, and then they just cram that in a bowl and feed it to your dogs.

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You told me that you quit taking him out to the dog park for his cardio because you kept getting hit on by all the soccer moms. Why don't we talk about the food here, Jim, of course, the food, the dog food. Some days for dogs. You know, hey. It's delicious. Listen. That's right

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But Jim, let's get back to a dog of a main event. WWE Elimination Chamber in Chicago. Do not insult our fine furry friends like that. The men's elimination chamber was nowhere like a nice furry puppy. It was Randy Orton against Javon Evans, against Cody Rhodes, against L.A. Knight, against Trick Williams, against Logan Paul.

And if you have kept up with those names, you'll know that that's four pure baby faces, Trick Williams, who they like more than they don't like, and then Logan Paul the biggest asshole in the place. Hey, real quick, because you're bringing this up, Trick Williams is becoming an interesting story. He seems to be getting over

incredibly well. It wasn't just here. This is happening everywhere, it seems like. More and more. They presented him as kind of a dickish heel, and the fans have taken to him as a baby face. And he looks good in there, and a lot of people who regularly watch NXT

were saying that this is the kind of thing we'll see come out and the fans seem to naturally be reacting to him. It's the, it's the look and the outfit and the patter, his promo, the way he talks, it's interesting, it's different, he's big, he looks good, the fur coat, whatever the fuck,

you're not really going to make him a heel, especially in today's environment where they kind of picking shoes their own a lot anyway and they know, you know, what's going on. And, you know, that's again, like I said, about the women's match. We had the two regular singles matches that didn't set the world on fire because they weren't necessarily, you know, WrestleMania main events.

But then they were bookended by these two gimmick matches where we see people just doing shit to each other over and over because it's multiple, man, everybody for themselves matches. And in this match, almost all the top baby faces are beating the shit out of each other. So you don't get a, except for when they're after Logan Paul or the people don't want Logan Paul to win, whatever they do, you don't get the visceral screaming, cheering, hoping, for the baby face to win because they're all baby faces.

Or conversely, you don't get the heat from, you know, I hope that motherfucker gets his because they like everybody, except Logan Paul. So they're watching for gimmicks and bumps through the Plexiglass. And that's what they did. They started with Cody and Javan, and they, you know, did stuff to each other. but there was no real

the people weren't on the edge of their seat because they don't want Cody to beat Javan up. You noticed that several times in this match. Even when Cody was the one punching Javan or whatever, the people didn't react to it because they didn't want to see that. It almost hurts their feeling sometimes.

Oh, come on, Cody. This is why Vince Sr. Never booked Bruno against Honorable. Andre. I mean, I'm not making this shit up. So when Trick came in, the fans woke up and then Javan and Trick are able to do nice stuff with each other because Trick nominally is a heel. And so you can still get into that. And Trick was impressive. But then Logan Paul comes in and now all the baby faces that were in so far just ganged up on him and got a big pop. And they threw him through the empty pod and, you know,

kicked the shit out of him when they could. But then when L.A. Knight comes in, they want to see him beat up Logan Paul too, but he also, he's fighting Cody and Trick. And even, I mentioned Vince Senior,

even Vince Jr. During the attitude era in the 90s, when he had his talent roster, you had the, the talent roster, The talent roster was printed out every week, a new one, so that we could use it to write TVs or book cards or whatever we were doing. And he would have the baby faces on the left side in descending order,

start with like Sean Michaels when he was the baby face on top going down, the heels on the right side in descending order, and the fucking managers and the referees and et cetera in the middle. And if you didn't have a pretty even number of heels and baby faces, then he would insist that we go out and find a heel or a baby face or two, because elsewise, the bottom guy on one side ain't going to get booked on outshows. Because he don't have anybody to work with. Anyway, for that reason, you didn't want a bunch of your most popular wrestlers

going out and beating each other up and splitting the fucking crowd. So then L.A. Knight and Javan Evans threw Logan Paul off the top of one of the pods onto Cody and Tric. And in L.A. Knight gave a BFT to Javan on top of the pod. So he's down for a while. And in Orton came in. And did you notice Orton did the absolute minimum

that you could possibly do, but still beat everybody up? Yes, he did. smartest one of the bunch. Boom, boom, boom. Then Javan woke up on top of the pod and splash trick off the top. But then Logan Paul gave Javon a big move and pinned him one, two, three. And did you see this clip on Twitter? It was going around where everybody said, look at Logan Paul, how he dropped

John Evans right on his head. Did that look dangerous to you? I actually did not see that going around, so I didn't know that was a thing. It didn't. I thought it were good, but I didn't. Yeah, that's the, that's the thing is they, and Javan sold it and he rolling, the referee you could see in the background was helping him out.

But it, I mean, I, I am willing to be corrected if somebody says, oh, Javon's in a hospital and traction, but a lot of people were complaining about it on Twitter, which is a good indication of how bad people hate Logan Paul, but he was not, it looked good, but I didn't think it was unprofessional or dangerous. So hopefully, Javan is okay and everybody's just marks. But then it kept going, poor L.A. Knight, tried to do his top rope elbow and slipped,

his right foot slipped off the top rope. So he landed on his feet next to Orton and then kicked him and then jumped up and dropped his elbow. And that was Orton's spot to roll out of the ring. Says he rolled out of the rig. he was laughing his ass off. The fucking L.A. Knight fell off. The last time we saw those to work, wasn't it L.A. Night who body slammed Orton into the ropes

and that Orton's got to be yelling at him? I think it was. Oh, my God. That poor fellow. But, you know, L.A. Knight does a lot of leaping up to the top rope, either from in the ring or while he's on the ropes or whatever. And there's a high margin for error, especially when you got that many guys in the ring.

If the ropes get sweaty, you know, you're fucking slickered and whale shit and ice flow. But anyway, at that point, Logan Paul gave L.A. Knight a ball shot and beat him one, two, three. And then it was down to Trick and Cody and Logan Paul. Cody gave Trick the crossroads, but Logan Paul

ran Cody into the post and then pinned Trick, one, two, three. But, then here we go. The masked man ran out and started climbing the cage and security runs out and pulls him down and pops the hood off of him

and it's another nobody. And so they're taking him out and the referees are helping trick who's been eliminated out of the cage door and when they take trick out, another masked man comes into the cage

and he kicks Logan Paul and gives him the stomp. And Cody covers Logan Paul, boom, one, two, three. And then the masked man pops the hood and it's Seth Rollins. And now the place goes ballistic because now they've seen their moment. Of course, there's still a goddamn match going on and it's completely been derailed again, but it's the way things go these days. was he under the ring with danhausen i didn't it well are you insinuating there's some

kind of relationship there are you insinuating it by asking me if i'm insinuating well no if they're under the ring or behind the dumpster or what are you behind the dumps no i just mean that's like the hideout everyone get under the ring dancers and danhausen and rollins you know we started in the 90s putting a monitor and a fucking cooler under there for guys that had to stay under the ring. When Tommy Rich did it in Memphis in 1987, he just had a 12 pack of beer and a bucket to piss in. But anyway, so boom, boom, boom.

Heyman has a stroke at this reveal. Seth Rollins is back. Of course, he did the stomp. He's been injured with a shoulder injury. so it's still a ways to WrestleMania. I don't know if he's cleared to do a trapeze act, but he could do the storm. Heyman was a bit over the top here.

You didn't even see him. You just heard him. Oh, my God! Yeah. Oh, my God! All right, enough, Paul. Come on. They did.

They did get one shot, one camera shot of his face, and his eyes bugged out, and he did the Alfred Hitchcock puff up of like a blowfish of his, you know, neck jowl. but then that was great. But then when you hear that, like you said, the high pitch stuff, he was all over the place. So then Seth left.

And the match started again. Now Cody and Randy face off. And as soon as they face off, Drew comes out and gets in and hits Cody with the belt. But then Cody and Drew start fighting. And then Orton lays back. And when Drew turns around, Orton gives Drew and RKO, he bounces up into Cody's crossroads. And then as Cody stands up, Orton RKO's Cody and pins him one, two, three.

So besides the fact that again, an unknown person came in and just brought everything to a halt. And then they get started again. And then another guy just comes in the match and starts beating people up in front of the referee. But it is no disqualification. but another step towards Cody versus Orton because Orton snapped and took advantage of it and then Cody was sitting out on the outside, dejected and like, I can't believe it.

And Orton was looking like, well, I had to do it. And again, whenever they pull the trigger on that and it looks like it may be closer now that it has been, they've got all this stuff to go back. Every time Orton's pledged his Lord, loyalty, but at the same time, he always knew he was a snake or a viper and a blah, just the old little thing,

it's going to be a hell of a package. But boom, Orton, which nobody was expecting, I don't think, because they've changed all their goddamn plans. But now, it's going to be Orton and Drew, right? Which then... Oh, because, you know, they announced

for Smackdown this Friday, it's Cody against drew for the title. Ah. I mean, who knows what will happen, but the fact that they announced it right away made me think, oh, something may happen. Well, or we may get another three-way. And Jacob is still running around feeling unfulfilled. We may get another four-way.

I mean, just put everybody in there. Just start out with a hundred of them, see how long it takes one's left. but again so orton was not the favorite but it makes sense with i guess with their revamped plans for ressomania which will become all the more clear over the next few weeks and this was an elimination chamber and it was except for the big moment at the end it was what it was profound words for someone who knows what they're talking about What a

event. From a profound guy. You know, it always comes down to it. It's about the big moments. And at least it was a little different here with this match because I don't think anyone said that they thought Randy Orton was going to win. So it was a surprise there. And you want to talk about someone who's just kind of been around for a little while

since he returned. Randy Orton's not doing anything. And he could be. And if you were ever going to do anything, kind of now's the time. I would think. He's not any younger. how many years he's not ready to be put out to fucking

pasture yet what I'm saying he's had a lot of injuries had a lot of back issues if you're going to get him a good run right now is a heel or a face right now's the time my god he looks like a fucking million dollars dirty green and wrinkled but besides that orton's a kind of guy you don't

he's made he's a made guy you don't need to have him in something all the time because just when he shows up he lends some gravitas to the occasion and now this is the start of putting him in a big thing. And that's using him sparingly, but only in major moments or big programs. I think at this stage the game is the best way to do it. But he still, because what we had him when he was 19, so is he 45 now, I think.

In today's age, in today's age, in today's age, in today's. generation, that's not that old, as we've proven with our look at people in their 20s and 30s. Well, there it is, the Elimination Chamber event, and what an event it was, Jim, on the topic of WWE, some news coming out today as we are recording. The Undertaker, who now just is full of good news and almost like a publisher's clearinghouse guy. with a giant check, but he announced that demolition Axon smash will be going into the

WWE Hall of Fame. Any thoughts? But Undertaker was the dead man, the living incarnation of death. And he was the grim reaper and now he goes around, like he says, spreading good news, and he's Ed McMahon

knocking on people's front door. Demolition is kind of a no-brainer, considering who they've inducted from their era into the Hall of Fame over the past several years, demolition was bigger than a lot of the names they put in. And I guess there was, was the holdup,

at least in part, was that Bill Eadie had sued Vince quite some time back. Oh, that was the holdup for everything. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. But now I get TKO. They don't give a shit.

He didn't sue them. And they're running low on major attractions from that era they haven't already put in. So I would think that a demolition spot in their tag team roster, they would have been in years ago, if not for the lawsuit. And now it's just overdue. But there you go. I have no.

Well, now here's the thing. How many members, it's like when the fucking giant band that's had 40 million members goes into rock and roll Hall of Fame, is it? just everybody that shows up or are they going to mention they're going to mention everybody i'm sure they'll mention crush and that's where that will end it'll be axe and smash because after bill edie and w w had to falling out he didn't retire he was access to demolisher and gwf and then there was the new demolition on the indies in the northeast yeah heyman do you remember demolition blast no i don't this giant fat guy and he wore like the cheapest like wannabe

Demolition shoulder, it did not work. But what about Randy Colley? Is Randy Colley going to get to come in? Well, he's the original smash. And then he became Detroit Demolition. That doesn't necessarily mean anything. The question is, are they going to give him a call? So there are a few auxiliary demolition members,

but I'm especially happy for Bill Eadie's a nice guy, a gentleman, and Barry Darso. tremendous guy. He was one of the nicest guys in the Mid-South locker room in 84 when we first got there. He was just starting at the time himself. And then, you know, we worked together in Crockett and, you know, just a really good guy. So I'm happy for them that they're getting that especially. It's amazing to go back to like look at 83 footage of Barry Darso coming in the Mid-South wrestling as the lumberjack wearing Daisy Dukes and think, this guy won't just be a good worker, but he'll also find a way to get over in a bunch of different roles.

Yeah. You go watch any of the matches. His commitment to the role of Repo Man is something to really admire. And then the blacktop bully, there were always these cool ideas that were nothing like, Repo Man didn't stand the same way that Demolition Smash did. like there were little differences like that he was always hunched over just a little thing to make you think

it's not smash a little sneaky a little creepy yeah but yeah but Darso as Crusher Darso in Louisiana was a great I consider that at his rookie year he was a great fucking prospect could learn to work

quickly and then as Crusher Krushev he was on top in the most talent-filled fucking territory in the in the in way uh the carolinos when he'd only been into business three years and in that that bad knee injury but uh he came back and had that incredible run as demolition so while some of the other gimmicks may have been entertaining but not potentially career makers he was a tremendous talent uh when he was still very young in the business and for that

size. I still remember. I don't know how it came up, but we were in the Shreveport locker room, the Irish McNeil Boys Club at a TV taping one time. And I again, don't remember how it came up, but he said, oh, you could slam me because we were talking about this spot in a match, whatever the fuck. I said, I couldn't fucking pick you up because he was too 80 at the time. He said, I bet you. He said, I'll go up. And he, I mean, I didn't slam him in the locker room, but he said try and I thought, well, don't fucking fall on me. I got him up. And it wasn't because I was so strong as he went up so well.

I got him up to the full slam position and held him for like one second and then let him down, obviously. But I was like, fuck, how are you? He was so nimble for his size. It was amazing. Well, again, two years of dominating the WWE tag team division when there were still lots of great tag team. three-time tag team champions. No-brainer. Axon smash demolition.

Jim, we've gone a long time today, and unfortunately we're not going to go too much longer, but we will end with some WWE trivia. Oh, good Lord. Let me get this out. This is from the 1997 World Wrestling Federation Express Wrestling Trivia game. 800 questions.

So we have a long way to go. Ages 8 and up. let me say, yeah, ages eight and up. That's what I'm saying ages eight and up. I'm fucking 60 something. I couldn't answer half the question. The other day, between, I took all kinds of shit on the internet

because when you asked me the original set, I was there in the building for some of these shows, and I didn't remember. People were saying, fucking Cornett can play guest the program and deduce a card in Des Moines from 1952 by the opening match, but he doesn't remember the shit he was actually there for.

I had a lot going on at that time, and I wasn't really motivated, to be honest with you, but also to compound things, as you yourself found out, some of the answers to their questions in their own game are wrong. So you're trying to make me look bad here, Mr. I would never try. But, Jim, these questions here I have, again, there are five questions per card.

let's see how you do at the February 1996 in your house Ah Who was Duke Drosie's opponent Oh god damn it Hunter Hurst Helmsley Henry O Godwin

Or the 1-2-3 kid Give me the choices again Duke's Drossey's opponent In your house Hunter Hurst Helmsley Henry O Godwin Or the 1-2-3 kid Oh, well, a trick question, possibly, because one, two, three kid, was he there at that point?

Had he come in yet? Oh, no, he was there. He was there, no, he was there, but then he was gone during that period, right? And then he came back. Early 1996, I don't know if he was around at that moment. Well, whatever. Triple H. That is correct.

Hunter Hurst-Helsley. Yes, because he was the guy. goddamn heel. And also, the February 1996 pay-per-view was at the Louisville Gardens. That's why I remember that. That's where me and Clarence Mason had the promo with Piper. You know, I just saw that footage. It was going around the other day. What do you remember about that? Because the comments I read were something like, look at Cornette and Piper, go out there to fill up time and just kill it. What do you remember about that? What was the whole objective? We killed it, but we weren't supposed to be filling time, and that's why Bruce got mad.

But I, the only thing that I remember is that Piper was supposed to say something, and I was going to talk until he said that thing. And Piper changed and didn't say whatever he was going to say. We went longer than we were supposed to. So when we got back, apparently Michaels had been pitching a fit because he was going to go out for the next match. And Bruce is like, Jesus Christ, can you all go any further? I said, talk to fucking Roddy.

I said, I was waiting to hear what I was supposed to hear. Talk to Roddy. When Roddy comes back, Bruce says, hey, great, hot rod. I thought so. Because he had to yell at somebody because Michael's was standing there glowering because he was only going to get to go 22 minutes instead of 24 that night. But besides me getting an opportunity to do a promo face-to-face spitting on each other with Piper, in my hometown, that was my childhood dream come true. And it's a hell of a job you do out there. I have the audio, so let's play this.

This is from In Your House, this is Jim Cornett and Clarence Mason confronting Roddy Piper, President Roddy Piper, I believe at this time, on the interview podium in front of all the fans. Let's go to this. Let me tell you one thing right now. Shut up! Whoa. That's amazing. You get sued. When you come up here with me, Mr.

First thing you do is have a lot of respect. Now, I ain't finished. You, tell me something. When you were a little kid, is that a tennis racket or a banjo? Does da-dan-dun-dun-dun mean anything to you? Did you used to sit on a porch and play the banjo? Is that how you got Vader, huh?

Let me explain something to you, hot Rod. All right, let me stop before you get going because he's already put his hand over Clarence Mason's mouth before he had a chance to talk. Yes, and now he's just yelling at you. And he, again, is the first time he's really just gone at it with you ever on camera. Any early thoughts? Well, and again, there was some point that he was going to make

and we had briefly gone over this, because you didn't go word for word ahead of time with Piper, right? Because he didn't know what he was going to say. And I usually, I got the train of it, but I don't have word for word until I actually do it. So we had just had like a couple of minute conversation about this and that. And again, maybe when I hear it and listen to it again, I'll remember what I was waiting on, but it took a while to get the point out of Piper if we got it or whatever, but it was fun doing it. You come in the shirt on him, said, no fear.

And I remember Hot Rod used to come out and say he wasn't scared of nothing that ever happened to him because he bent through it all. You were on the streets when you were a kid and nobody could scare you. You bet you. But there was one man that did. He scared you and he scared the World Wrestling Federation and he scared everybody out there and he scared every wrestler that stepped in that ring and that was Vader. So what did Vader do? He scared everybody. So what did the WWF do?

You tried to banish him. You tried to exile him. Send him away. He too hot. We can't touch him. He was hot Vader, not hot rod. But thanks to this man, Vader is back. So now you're sending a 640-pound man.

And you think that he's going to take Vader out. Well, I got news for you. WrestleMania 12, Anaheim, California. What's going to happen to Yokazuna and the rest of the world wrestling fans? Whoa, whoa. It's on your head, hot rock. Have you ever thought of something, anything?

However, think about this for a second. You had Yokazuna. You're one of great manager. You had him, correct? That's right. Now you have Vader, correct? That's right. Yokazuna is 640 pounds.

To me, that's about 320 pounds per cheek. Do you know what? In WrestleMania 12 at every hour, If Vader loses, you might find yourself cheek-to-cheek with Yokosuna. Are you going to let him? Well, there's only one hot rod. Bottom line is, buddy, you're going to be out of the job. And at WrestleMania, we're going to see people that are going to fight.

And by the way, when he said cheek-to-cheek with Yokosuna, he grabbed me up the ass. Yeah, he goost you there. Yes. well there it is that and he had been talking for that's what it was he'd been doing a promo for a while I wasn't supposed to come out until he had said a certain thing and and that's why he'd been out there talking for a while already and then when I came out there I was trying to get all that out as quick as I could because I know we were burning daylight and fucking Roddy didn't get in a hurry about anything and that's when we came back Bruce is like wow Sean's upset

well fuck you i just did a pro boat with pipe that is the correct answer uh jim back in trivia 1994 summer slam who was diesel's opponent mabel british bulldog or razor ramon it was razor wasn't it it was indeed razor ramon good job and you know and you know i remember that

and i wasn't on the 1994 summer slam and i remember that for some reason Jim at the 1989 Survivor Series. The tag team scheduled to be on Andre the Giants team was the Orient Express, the Rugeot Brothers, or the Brainbusters. It was the Brainbusters, wasn't it? Three for three today. Look at you. There you go. Well, because it made sense because Bobby was with Andre and

Bobby as a heel and Bobby was with Tully and Arndt. At WrestleMania 11, Razor Ramon battled, you fill in the blank. 11 was 1995, and that was, my God, I'm lost. J-E-E-W-F, J-A-W-R-E-W-T, Jeff Jarrett. Final question on this card, question five. I guess this is the hardest one. at the 1992 Survivor Series, high-energy's opponents were who?

Okay, high-energy was Owen Hart and Cocoa wearing the baggy parachute pants and checkered, checkerboard square outfits. It had to be probably an underneath team. Was that the era of the Beverly Brothers? It's a good guess. it's just after that. It's the head shrinkers. Ah! The head shrinkers.

Jim, the next card here. At the February 1996 in your house. Again. Who was Yokozuna's opponent? British Bulldog? Vader. Or Owen Hart? Well, it wasn't Vader because we were building that in that promo that we just did in the building that night.

Was it Bulldog? I think it was Bulldog, wasn't it? It was indeed the British Bulldog. That's right. Okay. This one's a hard one, Jim. At the 1994 SummerSlam, who was Razor's opponent? Brett Hart, Mabel, or Diesel?

Diesel. Yeah, that's right. We just did this on the other card. Well, okay. That's why I've lost. At the 1989 Survivor Series, a tag team on Ted DiBiase's team was the Orient Express,

the powers of pain, or demolition? That was demolition, wasn't it? The powers of pain. Son of a bitch. Well, I wasn't even there. Demolition were baby faces at that point. They were on Hulk Hogan's team with Jake Roberts.

At WrestleMania 11, The Undertaker faced who? Again, that was 1995. Was that? Mabel? No, it may have been the worst It may have been the worst Undertaker WrestleMania match

Although, you know, the Giant Gonzalez ones out there King Kong Bundy Oh, Bundy, that's right I'm sorry, Africa And I don't know how this works with the game But it says Celebrity of the Week At the bottom I get a different box, Bobo Brazil

All right, we'll figure out what that means At some point What week? I don't know At February 96 in your house Who is British? I'd give you a lot more details on Bobo Brazil

than I can on these fucking facoccapped matches. I'm going to move forward with these questions because the next card is asking the exact same questions like the other way, asking me the opponents. At WrestleMania 11, Brett Hart faced who? Jesus Christ. Well, wait. Was that Michaels also?

Didn't they do two years in a row? Bob Backland. No, that's right. It was Backland. Bob Backland. Two WrestleMania. Okay. Jim, at the February 1996 in your house, I skipped halfway down this and this is the next question. I swear to Christ.

Well, at least I was there. Diesel's opponent was Undertaker, Brett Hart, or British Bulldog? Well, we just said Bulldog worked with Yoko and did Diesel work with the other guy. I'm confused. It was Brett Hart. Brett Hart. There we go. Brett Hart got Diesel's best matches out of him, I think.

Brett Hart worked with himself also. At the February 1996 in your head, God damn it. Why is it keep going back to us? It's the first question on the next card, the next card, the next card. All right, this one's a different question. Jim, at the May 1995 in your house. What was the main event? Diesel versus Sean

Sid versus Undertaker or Diesel versus Sid Sid wasn't here at that time, was he? Was that before he left and before he came back? I'm not allowed to answer. You're not allowed to answer. The first choice. Diesel versus Sean, no. The answer is Diesel versus Sid.

Okay. at the 1994 Royal Rumble the accomplice of Yokozuna who locked the casket was who now you were involved in this so there's no excuse for you not to get it okay and this again it was the casket match with Yoko and the Undertaker right where afterwards the Undertaker was taking time off

so he fucking put it all the heels on the card came out and just kicked the shit out of him right in front of the referee because no DQ and put him in the coffin and locked the lid and then he was on the screen ascending and they raised a dummy of the undertaker up to heaven like he was ascending to heaven and he was gone for like nine months or whatever so the question is who was the one who actually locked the lid when me and Fuji and every other heel on the card were at ringside.

Yeah, Tenru, the great kabuki. It was a whole crew. Yes, every heel that was there. And I was embarrassed by that, not only by all the heels coming out and just doing all that in front of the referee, but then by the fakery of the undertaker being in the fucking coffin, but then suddenly being raised to heaven. And I just kind of hung out by the ringpost so nobody would notice me. I can't remember who the person to put the latch on the deal was.

There was 15 of us. The answer is Crush. Well, there you go. Crush. At the 1992 Survivor Series, Razor Ramon's partner was who? That was Rick Flair. Rick Flair. Rick Flair.

Very good. Rick Flair. I remember that one. Jim at WrestleMania 2, Randy Savage defended the Intercontinental Championship against who? Refrigerator Perry. Now, he was in the battle, world. We're not talking about him. Um, would that have been Piper?

It would have been George, the animal. Ah, the animal steel. That's right, Jim. At the September 9th, a few more. questions. At the September 1995 in your house. I'm doing so well. At the September 95 in your house, who introduced Dean Douglas?

Mr. Perfect? Bob Backland or Ted DiBiase? For the record, I actually don't remember that. Well, there's something in me that wants to say Kurt Hennig had something to do with it, but it sounds more because Dean Douglas was a school teacher like something that Backland would have been involved in.

The answer is Bob Backland. There you go. Bob Backland. Just to make even further sure Shane didn't get over. Jim, WrestleMania 1, Ricky Steamboat Battled Who? Ah, not three, but one. The original WrestleMania. Good gosh.

That would have been George Bunk Harris. Matt Bourne. Matt Bourne Ah Ah Jim WrestleMania 4 Battle Royal

The tag teams involved Were the Heart Foundation The Rujo brothers The Killer Bees And who Either the Bolsheviks The Young Stallions Or Money Inc

What year was that you say? It was WrestleMania 4 That's 1988 Money Inc Did not get together Until 1990 But we're talking about the young stallions, the young stallions. Who was that, Roma and...

Jim Powers. Powers, that's right. And Jimmy Hart wrote a song for them and it was a pretty good theme song for like a young energetic tag team. And then after their push died, they just gave it to anyone who they wanted to get a pop coming out for the first time. They came out to that song. All right.

One final question, Jim. 93 SummerSlam, Marty Genetti's opponent was who? Mantar, Giant Gonzalez or Ludwig Borga Okay, it wasn't Mantar because he wasn't around at that point.

That was my first SummerSlam. 93 was at the palace at Auburn Hills. It was the bodies against the Steiner brothers. It was Yoko and Lugar. I'm going to say Borga. And we end on a positive note

other than talking about an awful human being, but on a positive note, you get the question right Ludwig Borger was the answer and we're positive he was an asshole and this has been WWE trivia from 1997 and with that

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