Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 435: Jim Reviews AEW Revolution

Episode Date: March 21, 2026

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews AEW Revolution & WWE Raw! Plus Jim talks about OVW's referee incident, Burger King, MTV's influence on tag teams, and much more! Thanks to our episode sponsors: SHOPIFY:  Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at shopify.com/jce RAYCON:  The Essential Open Earbuds are perfect for refreshing your routine this spring. Go to buyraycon.com/jceOPEN to get 20% off! BRUNT:  Get $10 Off at BRUNT with code JCE at https://www.bruntworkwear.com/JCE #Bruntpod PRIZEPICKS:  Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/JCE and use code JCE and get $50in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! 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.

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Welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru. We have a loaded show. Let's not waste any time. I'm your host, The Great Brian Last, and here he is, the man who, for the listeners, has watched more wrestling over the last 24 hours that he's ever wanted to watch. Mr. Jim Cornett.

Well, you try to get me off on a different topic, Brian, but I bet your organ recital there, I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to make me laugh. You're trying to put me to good mood because I've had to repair people for one of the furnaces here last Friday, and now I'm waiting on the plumber for the kitchen sink,

and I had to watch what I had. had to watch and the weather outside is frightful. It went from 77 degrees Sunday afternoon to 30 degrees Monday afternoon with snow flurries this morning and temperatures in the teens after the severe storms passed through. All these things have happened since I have just spoken to you at the last three days or whatever. And you're trying to put me in a good mood by playing the most sour. you know my sound effects I had to get Ixnade here on this program

because of the fancy Dan new sound apparatus and filtering and noise cancellation and Dolby stereo and whatever the fuck else you've jacked up into this goddamn production where it actually sounds like we're trying and and now your organ playing was so offensive to that apparatus that for the first time ever your organ playing just was was muted there like it was some extraneous noise like a whale fart

passing by or a foghorn or something you crackled the sound filter thing with that one. Well, first of all, you know that whale farts and foghorns is the name of my new album coming up very soon on our Hidian Vanguard Records. Check it out. But second of all, who are you to criticize my music that makes millions of people happy all across the world.

That gets millions of people in the mood for hot wrestling talk. Where are these people that get in the mood for anything except possibly self-inflicted punishment? Would you criticize... Jumping off a bridge from listening to your music. Would you criticize Paul McCartney? Would you criticize Maurice White?

Would you criticize Delbert McClinton? I would criticize Paul McCartney's Ram album. Hold on now. That may be his best album. You have a problem with Ram? Oh, come on now. That maybe his best solo album. You think, again, counting wings, too, you don't think that's his best album after the Beatles? Wasn't that the one with the really silly stuff? Like what? I just was watching this Paul McCartney documentary. I haven't watched it yet. I've been meaning to, but what silly stuff? There was some, there was some, like silly saw, there was some silly shit in the middle. What was that one really stupid song?

I think you're being quite rude. And then he did some really stupid song that I hadn't thought of in years and then it reminded me of it. Now I can't remember it again. Because I've had to make things on my mind. Did you see the Oscars? Let me ask you this.

Absolutely not. But you should have because the Oscars were on while we were just under the tornado watch right before they popped in and they didn't want to interrupt the Oscars but as soon as about 10.30 came, that's when shit got lively

and then all stations were on the air with it. But I was watching the crawl of the weather leading up to it and Stace likes the Oscars. So I watched the weather crawl and she was, but she doesn't know any of these fucking people anymore either. She said,

she was like, who the fuck are these fucking people? She sounded like Ole Anderson. Who the fuck are these fucking people? these fucking people. How about the fact that it was up against the AEW pay-per-view in the same town? Well, they, you know, I don't think the fucking audiences are crossing over, Brian, the people that were at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion or wherever the fuck they hold

this thing these days. I don't think they were the same crowd that could have possibly gone over to AEDA or vice versa. And it, let me, I don't care if people stuck with AEW after this show rather than watching the Oscars or Oscar Meyer or Oscar Rudolph or any of the other famous Oscars in history, then they're never leaving for anything. But nevertheless, the reason I asked you why if you watch the Oscars

is because did you see who one of the people that was sponsoring the Oscars, which ties into something that we've been speaking. of here lately? No, I have no idea. Burger King. They sponsored the Oscars, really? Burger King not only sponsored the Burger King bought, like, I swear,

I thought it was a 90-second spot, the first one they played. It may have been just 60. But a minute or a minute and a half on the fucking Oscars is more than most people will ever see or even have the opportunity to steal in their lifetime. And it was just the first of multiple. I saw two or three at least and of course

then I was looking out of the yard I may have missed it but they are up they bought apologies not commercials Burger King apologized to America Brian on the Oscars

for sucking are you serious I had not heard a thing about this what did they say well it was in as well worded away as they could without just grovelin I thought you were going to say

it was like the CM Punk sorry last week like we're sorry we're sorry McDonald's Donald sucks. We're sorry, Wendy sucks. No, they came. And like I said, they didn't just get down on their knees and hold their mouths open, like, please piss here.

But they did it as well as the Mia Copa. Oh, America. The commercial starts out with all of the clips from the commercials from the glory days, the 60s, the 70s, maybe even the 80s. When you see, you know, all of the. fucking cool kids and hep cats cruising through the parking lot on their way to the sock hop

and everybody's having a good time and these big giant fucking burgers with grease dripping out of them and it's America right on a sunny day and they're talking about the whopper and all the things that it's bent and then then they got

I think the phrase was and then somehow we lost our way and they actually put up this is the greatest cinematography. They put up a imagine a video camera low on the ground in a burger

empty Burger King parking lot looking at the restaurant, right? And like some kind of Sergio Leone fucking Western from the 60s, an empty fucking soft drink cup like a tumbleweed in slow motion is blowing across the fucking parking lot. We lost our way.

But now we're back, baby. And we've listened to you. They fired the king. They booted the king out. They showed them, you're fired, mother fire. And the king's sitting there all dejected because he's unemployed now. You are our bosses now. They've made the baby face appeal to the people and the surveys of what we should do to fix our burgers.

And now the whoppers back. And that was the theme of the fucking sponsorship of the most watched. I guess telecast in a country that's not to Super Bowl or whatever the fuck usually. There's 20 or 30 million people. Yeah, we we sucked for a while, but now we're not going to suck anymore, which remains to be seen, whether that's, you know, is. Yeah, did they have any solutions? What are they actually changing?

Well, yes, no, they've, they've done a, I mean, it's a whole campaign that they're unleashing, but apparently they've done the surveys on what all sucked, and they fixed the, suckiest and the ingredients and the burger and the whatever the I don't know see once again it's not like they came out and said so we've hired managers for our various franchisees that actually give a shit about what goes on in the fucking place and we're paying our employees enough to motivate them to actually care whether they live or die over the top of the fucking deep friar they say that they they they've they've they've they've they've they've they've They're listening to the people about what they don't like about the burger,

and they've made changes. Well, two things. One, I think new rule, no talking about food until hour three. Because I'm hungry now. And secondly... Well, no, just think of the tumbleweeds in the fucking empty burger after they lost their way. See, you know, your parsipity Burger King location there may not have goddamn caught up with the fucking memo yet. And they may still have tumbleweeds.

There was a really good Burger King actually, surprisingly, in Morristown a few years ago here in New Jersey, and they wrecked it down to build a giant office building. But they have the best burgers. I've been saying it, when you compare them to McDonald's and Wendy's, the other two top competitors, Burger King has the best burgers. They should just run with that and make them bigger and better and let people know. We have the best burgers. Like, that should literally be the slogan.

Did I ever tell you about my favorite fast food place in Connecticut, now that I think about the Parsipani Burger King, it reminds me of the, what was that goddamn town? I was in hunting to Fairfield. Was the town, no, Monroe. Monroe, does that make sense to you? You've been closer up there a lot sooner than I have.

I know Fairfield. Yeah, I know Fairfield pretty well. Was that where Brother Brucey lived? He was in Monroe and I was in hunting. right you were there this is another one of those you were there moments where in the 90s in wf you just refused to remember anything it's crazy well it's it's PTSD motherfucker no here's the thing in connecticut it's so screwy because there's there's all these little towns in connecticut like i lived four miles from from bruce specifically

because I thought I was going to be working at his house. And we've told that story, I'm not going to get bogged down. But he's in a completely different fucking town. A completely different fucking address and the whole nine yards. There are all these little towns. So I was trying to remember which was which. But the point is there was a McDonald's near my home there. When I would have to come from Stanford, I'd be passing by there.

I'd have to get off the highway. But it wasn't far. Or if I happened to be driving over for some reason to be in that. I always like because it was the most consistent good McDonald's. Because when McDonald's, whether the quarter pounder or the Big Mac or the fries or whatever, especially 30 years ago, when they did it like it was supposed to be done, it was good shit.

You just hardly ever found that, and especially not consistently, even in the same place. This was the best McDonald's ever. not only was the food delicious and it was made like it was a picture in the fucking commercial but if you went inside the place was spotless or if you went through the drive-thru it was always I mean just like that and you didn't have to fucking tell them four times

and you were out of there and it just wow I became a McDonald's fan right and then I go there one day at like 1.30 in the fucking afternoon for say it may have been a Saturday or what I don't know, but the point is right in the middle of the day and you would think they'd be busy, right? They're closed. And it didn't have a sign about remodeling or, you know, whatever the fuck.

They're closing the middle of fucking, so I go home, I look on the news that night. Guess who was arrested for selling marijuana. at that location. Bruce Pritcher. No. They never caught him. The actual employees of the goddamn McDonald's were dealing weed out of the drive-through window. If you knew, you knew and you ordered something,

and they put it apparently in the goddamn sack when you got your order. And apparently, I never ordered off the menu. I don't know what the fucking code was, and the cops did they undercover, busted them and infiltrate, whatever the fuck, and closed the whole goddamn McDonald's down for, I don't know how long it took them to rectify that.

But can you blood drive-through weed window? That's a wonderful idea. Do you think that the illicit activity caused them to make the food better as like a thing to, you know, no one will complain if we just take care of the food? I don't know. One would have thought that if it was some type of,

you know, I thought they should have added it to the national McDonald's menu because if that's what the byproduct was of the best restaurant, and think of how many McDonald's I've been to again, the best, most consistent, cleanest, nicest, best tastiest. They were the ones that got closed down for selling drugs. They ought to put it on a fucking menu. how do you find out?

Like it used to be a thing in Brooklyn, like a bodega with a yellow awning, you can go get some shit in there. That was not supposed to be for sale, that's all I'll say. And it was kind of known. It was kind of around. It was so big that they couldn't even stop it. I can't speak about how it is now.

But if there's one lone McDonald's, if there's one lone McDonald's where they have this service, if you're selling to a lot of people, A, how do you expect that not to get out? and I don't remember what B was. This seems like such a good idea. Well, I don't know how long they'd been doing it, but apparently it was somewhat successful for a while,

but back to your comment, what if some fucking guy just likes yellow? Some guy opens up a business says, I want to go to the sign people, I'm going to have a big old yellow sign made and, oh, dad would be proud. And he wonders why people are coming. coming in, hey, you got any of,

what, what did you get, go away from here? Sir, I'm an honest tradesman. If he opened up that place in Williamsburg 25 years ago, yeah, people would have expected him to have some stuff behind the counter, her in the back. And he would be mightily confused if people ask for it, I'm sure.

Then do the other people who have the yellow awning have to go over, is there a yellow awning association? Y'all? Where they, they go over and say, hey, you're not qualified to have the yellow yellow awning in this neighborhood? Again, I can't really go into specifics or anything else about this one-time story.

Well, you seem to have all the other information. I don't have any information. As a matter of fact, I don't know what I'm talking about. I wasn't there. Do you have no recollection of these incidents now? I still my candy. I want candy. Is that what you had to walk in and go, I want candy?

That's right. You had to sing bow-wow-wow to the people there. Well, anyway, maybe that's... That was Adam and the Ants band. It's just another example of why it's hard to be in the fast food business in Connecticut. Those were the ants. Adam and the Ant, when he first started up and he had a band, Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the sex pistols, agreed to start managing him in his band, and then he just stole the band and put them with the girl singer of Ball.

Well, it left Adam. I didn't know they were the same. Yeah, no, he, I mean, it worked out well for him. He put together a new band, and that's when he really blew up in the States. but Malcolm McLaren literally stole the band, the ants, from Adam Ant and put them with Bow Wow, Wow. So if you ever see that music video, those are the original ants. Well, at least Adam came out well in the end,

because he always was, it shows nice guys do win one every once in a while because he was such a goody two shoes. You know, with all the influence that MTV had early on on wrestling, pretty quickly for the first few years of MTV, if you really look, it's a direct line between that and wrestling. you know, probably peaking with the WWF relationship in 84, 85. But so many people stole their looks or their persona or just the attitude from what was happening with the youth culture on MTV, how come no one stole the new romantics look

like Adam Ant had with the tribal war paint, even though obviously he was not a native anything. No one went with that look, like a young tag team. Instead of the Rock and Roll Express, if they had come out with like, you know, dressed like Pirates with face paint on. Would it have worked? There was some limits. There was some limits. But now think about this because, well, what,

goddamn, you're going to crucify me for this. But MTV's debut year was 81 or 81, correct? 81, I believe. That's right. 81. Okay. A lot of that not only had to do with MTV, but remember it to set people under.

estimate the Miami Vice influence. Because those two, that's why the Fabs, because, I mean, I know most people credit the rock and wrestling connection with Cindy Lopper and, you know, Piper and the WWF, etc. But Jared was doing that with the Fabs in 1982. And that's, people have seen the early music videos even before. that they would do in Memphis and Lawler use music and Leroy Brown and blah blah blah, free birds. It was less than a year after MTV started. But yeah, but that's the thing.

And it wasn't, to be honest, it wasn't like Jared saw the coming revolution in MTV and it has to meld with wrestling. He was like, for these guys, for this gimmick, the fabulous ones. This is Taylor Made. And once he saw. The music videos before were just kind of dress up, but we can't show the 45-minute match, but boy, this looks great. You know, and feature pieces and Valiant doing his own single and him shooting him on stage, lip-sick, and blah, blah, blah.

That was 1979 when they did that. But nevertheless, the point I was trying to make is when it finally hit with the fabs, and then there was a new music video a month. The girls were tuning in, weekly just to see the new fabs video. And they did them as quick as they could and used all the fucking music, not just their theme,

and had them in every kind of outfit and place. And I've got the pictures of them in the barn with the blue jeans unzipped. And the goddamn, it's insane. It was like with the fans and the audience especially, it came live. It was like Don Johnson and the Miami Vice guys. What was the other guy's name? Philip Philip the Philip fellow Philip Thomas there you go

see I was on the road I wasn't watching Miami Vice but the girls were and it was when the fabs came it was like they had come the Miami Vice cops had come to town in person they were swooning so as much as the MTV influence it was also that specific for the for the young female population

they were more interested in Don Johnson and they were at a man is where I was going with that. Well, again, a lot of these things happened pretty quickly within a few years. Miami Vice, I think, started by 84. Again, MTV's 81, Fabulous One's first video, 82, rock and wrestling connection, 84, 85. But you start seeing all these videos. I mean, you could argue the Rock and Roll Express in Mid-South was super over. Same thing.

I mean, they had music videos there. Summer of 84, they had music videos to jump by Van Hain. I mean, that was as cool as it gets. Do you think it would have been different at all if the fabulous ones had been launched with, you dropped the bomb on me instead of the video for everybody wants you? Like, do you think, like, the order of those mattered?

Um, yes, because, to be honest, you dropped a bomb on me was just because that song, you couldn't get away from that goddamn song. That was the, for how are me? many weeks or months or whatever. I sound like Nick Goulis now. That song was on. You don't like the gap band?

But not to be played on the radio and on TV and everywhere, and elevators incessantly, right? But the original Fab's video was Everybody Wants You by Billy Squire. And that was the vibe that Jared even, I don't know whether he found it or somebody brought it to him. I refused to believe Jerry Jerich. But at the same time when he was watching MTV, probably saw it to goddamn research this.

Was Jeff watching MTV? Because that's probably how Jerry would have seen it, right? Jeff was in what? In 1982, Jeff, probably. You know, Mike Duncan lived in Nashville. He used to tape MTV and bring me VHSs of six hours of MTV up every Tuesday night, the ring announcer. Because we didn't have it up here.

We'd have cable. anyway everybody wants you was the rock star that it leads the fast life and the blah blah blah go look up the lyrics kids and also that it can become you know the excesses of fame

can bring you down with the Billy Squire production bling bling it's basically a fucking updated life in a fast lane and that's the the vibe he wanted for these guys, that they're

fucking rock stars, that they're movie stars, that they're celebrities, that they have the women and the life and the blah, blah, blah. And that's why he had the limousine, he bought the limousine so the fabs could fucking enter in it, in the big shows and what, and they could do the videos

with it. And putting them in all those outlandish positions where they're showing almost every part of their fucking body except for little speedos, because the girls were literally, goddamn, as I said, watching the TV show to see these videos. That's why they were selling thousands of my little color pictures every week.

And the same girls in every weekly town would buy every new picture that you produced of them. It was a phenomenon, anon. But anyhow. This has been fast food and music news. And how did we get from Burger King to the fucking girls buying the pictures of the fabulous? That's just what we do, I guess. But, you know, those pictures, or some of the pictures, available in some of the products at Jimcorna.com, Cornett's collectibles. Many of these things. And more will be soon, to be quite honest with you there. But right now,

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When the sale takes effect, go to there now. The listing should be up. They better be up, Pachas, and you can take a look at everything because it's obviously one of a kind by the nature of it. It's not like I have 1,700 blue shirts or whatever. So that's going to be available at Jimcornad.com, but all of the normal, fine, high-quality, low-priced,

merchandise is available just every single day of the week, Brian. At Jimcornet.com. I think we said that. And if they've listened this far, they know who I am. Well, Jim, as I said at the top, we have a pack show. We have so much to get through. We have a pay-per-view. We have raw.

We have other news items. Why don't we start with a follow-up on something on the last show, the experience we talked about. The incident involving OVW referee Dallas Edwards, he was hit with a shoot crossbody, hit his head on the mat, went into seizures. I think everyone has seen the video at this point. Everything happened around him,

but there were still a lot of questions as to why things went down the way they did, who was there, who was responsible, and we have a few things as follow-ups here today, Jim. Well, apparently, one of the gossip mongering sites, are we allowed to mention them? I would think they encourage us to mention them.

TMZ somehow, how do you get a 911 call? Would you, as a grown adult man with a family, right now, if I'm asking you, because I am asking you, how do you get a 911 call, a recording of it? I don't know myself, because it's not something I've ever done

or encouraged anyone to do, but I believe it would be something that, because 911 is a public, not institution, but it's a public service, those calls are not, those calls, you can go, I guess, file a Freedom of Information Act, I really don't even know, actually. Well, I mean, it's like Jesus Christ, I didn't even know this could be done. I think I've said this before, but I still don't know how the fuck you do this. And let me just say, I do think it's rather disgusting when it's happened in the past

when someone has died and TMZ specifically, but they're not the only ones I don't believe. Leaked the 911 call of the distraught family member. I think that's pretty reprehensible. Yeah, well, and... This isn't that, but I just want to say, I think it's a pretty awful practice.

But, I mean, I remember that they've obviously, they've had, oh, here's the 911 call when Michael Jackson, you know, they call by... I would think, okay, some fucking body bribed somebody or whatever, because it's Michael Jackson, but it is, apparently you could just TMZ didn't use to cover wrestling.

So now you can just get in fucking Louisville. I mean, it's not like it's London or Paris or Rome here, but in Louisville you can just get 911 calls if you call up, hey, can you send that over to me? I don't fucking know.

But having said that. Real quick, I just looked it up. 911 calls are generally considered public records in the United States, but access is not absolute and it varies by state. Well, I mean, wouldn't you have to, now I hate to go off on a rant here,

but can any jackleg just call up Louisville 911 service and say, hey, send me the recording. Don't they have better things to do? Like take 911 calls? Wouldn't you have to pay and go through some kind of process for to make it worth their while, or do they just have to send out 911 calls? calls to anybody that asked them for a recording of it.

We need, somebody in the cult needs to wise us up on this. Nevertheless, TMZ got the, got the 911 call from the Davis Arena. I think, Danny might call him, tell him, take my name off his fucking thing. But they got the recording of the 911 call. and I'm, as I've said, I don't know what the hierarchy is over there these days, but I hope to fuck that this guy that's on the 911 call is not Al's second in command. Even if Al was there and not out there, I don't know why. Somebody needs to tell me he left early or he left.

If he was in the building, why was he not out there? Nobody said he was out there. We can't, there's no camera that was focused on the young man and the people helping him that we've seen yet. But at the same time, nobody has said that they seen Al out there. If Al was not in the building at the time, who's number two? in this in fucking who's number two in control here 86 99 who's number two was it what was number two doing that what's who's number three why did they leave this fucking guy to make the 911 call when he couldn't tell him whether what the fuck was happening I've listened to this thing I've listened to this thing and they they redact some things.

I don't know whether it's names or profanity or possibly a mixture or combination of the two, privacy and for broadcast. But he ain't never called 911 in his life and he's never, it doesn't sound like he's ever seen a fucking injury of this particular stripe. And I don't know who they had assisting him.

in the call they say they have an EMT, was that somebody in the crowd, or do they have an EMT on site? And if they had an EMT, why wasn't he the one on the phone with the 911 people? And they also said they've got a PT guy, which is physical therapy,

and in the past I've known, no, seriously, no. What's not going to do for this? I mean, well, that's what I'm saying. In the past, I've known that they've had a number of physical therapy, PT guys, we had one back 20 years ago that came to tape knees, do physical therapy of athletes, not, he wasn't in any way.

And I don't believe most of them have been in any way certified medically to treat an injury of this kind. But to point, I've not heard anybody that ought to be fuggar responsible over this whole thing yet that was either standing there watching it or on the phone with 911. And Brian, if you want to show him what we're talking about, I will try to compose myself. Let's go to this audio.

I have not heard this yet. This is from TMZ Sports. This is the 911 audio released after medical emergency of referee Dallas Edwards. 9-19-9-19. Operator, good, what is the location on your emergency? This is at OBW wrestling, the 4,400 Shepardville Road. We're in the ring.

I have a, I have a particular flight now. Okay. Is this number you're calling me from? A good number to reach you? This is my phone in my pocket in my hand. Yes, no. Okay. And it's OBW.

Okay, let me get this started. Just about three minutes, about two minutes ago. He's in the ring. Female? It's a male. Okay. Referee. Okay.

And EMS is D. How old are they? I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions. If you don't know, say, I say unknown. Unknown. Okay. Unknown. Unknown.

Non-known. How me stop. This is really helpful. This is really helpful. This guy doesn't know anything. It sounded like maybe like somebody else took the phone for a second to say those unknowns because they were coming through more clearly than the first part of the first part of the clearly than the first part of the call was.

But obviously in a situation like that, obviously you're not a fucking brain surgeon or a doctor or whatever. But when you're calling 911 incident like that, especially here in Louisville, obviously they know Ohio Valley wrestling or they probably should, you know, at this point over the last 25 years, whatever. but just say we have a white male mid-20s,

took a blow to the head, was knocked unconscious, and is now seizing and posturing. It's happened 60 seconds ago. We're at 4,400 Shepherdsville Road. That's the best thing he did was give the address. And so they can get the thing started because they're not waiting to dispatch once they have the address until,

until they ask all these questions. Once they have the address, they're okay, go, but then they're asking the questions to relay it by the time the people get there. And he don't know shit from Apple Butter about how to explain to them what has just gone on. And besides that, how did this guy get appointed to be the guy to call 911? How far down is he and the, with the guys in the bloke's in West, Fabersham at the top, who to the best of our knowledge have never even appeared here in the flesh in this country, who on scene? What was the fucking pecking order at that point? And

were they standing over this scene? Keep going with the thing and then I'll tell you why I'm asking this. Not near him though, right? I'm about six feet away from the seat. Okay. Okay, he's starting to move a little bit more, but it's still... They're dispatched it. I've already dispatched him. Is he still... Okay, can you... Okay.

I've got a firefighter EMT in the room right now with you. Okay, you do have an EMT in the room with you? Sir, are you an EMT? Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop, sir, are you an EMT? I have an EMT in the ring with him right now. You have an EMT? Sir, are you an EMT?

Why did you say that if he's not an EMT? Because somebody probably said, you know, it's like a fucking airplane. I'm a doctor. You know, they're getting volunteers from the crowd here. I'm sorry. Go ahead. He came in and he was one of the crap. Okay.

Let me know it. But I've got an EMT. I've got an EMT. I've got an EMT with him. A PT nurse or PT. person who's here for medical and um like a physical therapist is on site okay there get back everybody okay and it's 44 zero four four four zero shepherdsville road right yes and you want it to come to the front entrance uh yes come in to the front entrance okay

wave you in right now. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. So if you have the EMP and everything, I'm there, do you want me to stand a lot with you? Hold on here a second, Brian.

Hold on here. Because this is where, first of all, he's so stunned about what he's saying and what's that he's obviously concerned about this. guy, right? But the lack of communication, he's told, oh, I've got an EMT, I got a physical therapist. He said, oh, here's a brain surgeon. So no worries. He's starting to talk it down, right? Because he doesn't know what to say. And then also, she's having to pull teeth to get information that because of the location there, which believe me, I'm familiar with, it's in a warehouse complex. 4,400 Shepherdsville Road is the address of the Davis Arena, the building, which is behind the warehouse that's actually on Shepherdsville Road.

If you miss the little thing that says 4,400, you don't see the Davis Arena. You got to turn behind that. So he should have been saying from the start, behind Tokor lighting in a warehouse, 4,400 Shepardtsville Road. We're going to put someone on the corner to be waving them in. should be telling them this. This is the way you get an emergency vehicle to the goddamn Davis

Arena. I'm just again, who's in charge? But now he's talked her down the 911 lady to where it's kind of like, oh shit, you'll see here, play the rest of it out. And

she's starting to say, well, don't give him anything to drink or eat. Like they're going to be feeding him crackers and coax or something because he's had a spell. She didn't understand the severity of it because listen to the rest of this communication. I'll come back. Yeah. Do you mean me, it's up to you.

I mean, I just have things to stop. Yes, ma'am. Nothing to eat or drink and just let him rest in the most comfortable position. We ain't moving together in a much different. Okay. And then EMPs there, don't know this. It becomes less awake and vomit with a lame on his side. and if anything changes, if his breathing changes

or anything, you can give us a call back immediately or, I mean, I can stay and wait, it's up to you. And it's out. Okay. All right. Keep on his side, I already got a man at the door to let him in. Okay. All right. All right. Anything changes? Give us call back. Yes, ma'am. Bye-bye. Jesus Christ, that's like, you know,

if any changes, give us a call back, did you hear anyone communicate the level of seizures that he had had or try to explain the head injury to begin with or give a clear and concise path of how to get to fucking emergency vehicle to that location which is in a industrial park and is not easily seen from Shepherdsville Road or any goddamn thing else or anybody on site given any goddamn anybody else any instructions

get a move back now that's what pissed me off again at that ring of honor that night fucking hoo-haha Pennsylvania when I get the only reason I wasn't one calling 911 is because delirious hunter Johnston was at gorilla I'm pretty sure he was already either the one that had done it or the one that had instigated it because they got carino back behind the curtain before he couldn't get up or breathe and I was outside of the truck but by the time I got back there they'd already called in this out-of-the-way place we were in for the fucking ambulance and we had people standing by in the parking lot. But that's when,

where's Gary Jester? Well, he's already gone. Where's Joe Koff? Where's Greg? He's already gone. Where's Ross the merchandise? Well, they're already gone. Again, for the multiples of time.

Me or Hunter or both were left with an emergency. And so then you immediately, because of the nature there, this is probably a different situation with, you know, all the OVW talent mostly being, well, no, this guy's from St. Louis, so he was out of town. But once we had the ambulance on the way and Carino's down, okay, yes, if you've got an EMT on site, use him. But, you know, everybody wants to crowd around. I would tell guys, if you're not his wife or a goddamn doctor, give him some fucking air.

you're just getting in the way and who did he ride with or how did he get here has someone got his bag and his car keys for safekeeping did he ride with somebody who's going to follow him in the ambulance to the hospital you you know where you're going around here okay do you have gas do you need money who's going to be paying for this somebody get me some fucking cash from the box office to get to make sure that everybody's greased in case somebody's going to charge him something and and once that they get to let him or get there to work on him and get him up on the thing get him out of there you've still you've got to have somebody that goes to the hospital that sits with him that has his personal belongings that is if he's able to tell who do you want

us fucking tell this has happened and make sure all and you don't just let the guy stand unless he's up in the hospital enough to say, oh, go home. You know, shit like that. But everybody's just, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Once again, we wish the very best for Dallas Edwards. We have not heard an update on him since he said that he would possibly leave the hospital after his next test. No, I think he's home. I believe he's home is what I just saw on some various part of the interweb.

but but that's the point is I just and I'm not again picking on OVW because well we used to do it this way if again for the same reason I blistered what is their goddamn name out there a knock knock knock stock pro wrestling that with the Roger Jackson Knox pro I blistered them same fucking thing here if you're going to be doing shit like this there needs to be people around and keep an eye on it that might be able to prevent it or jump in and know what to do in case of emergencies to a bunch of amateur dipshits in every position

running around don't know what the fuck and nobody's told them. And so I failed to believe that the person that I heard on that 911 call despite the fact that his intentions may have been good sounded like the person in charge of OVW in that building at that point in time. So if there was more important than people than him in the building at that time, I'd like know who the fuck they were and why they weren't on the goddamn phone

and or what they were doing if they weren't on the phone, there was more important of being on the fucking phone. Well, perhaps OVW can work on a joint venture with Knox Pro. That would be a hell of a merger there. Jim, on that topic, because a ton of the listeners have sent it over and it's been a big topic of conversation, did you see the Al Snow statement? Not the joke about the Waffle House, but the actual statement he issued, I think, the next day. Yes, yes, I have.

I got kind of lost in the middle and zoned out until the end, but you can read it for folks. This is from Al Snow's Instagram, Al Snow, I'm not exactly sure what his role is with OVW. He's in charge. but obviously he's had different roles, different investors over the years. Hello, everyone. This is Al Snow. I want to speak directly to our fans

wherever they are. If you know any of our fans, please get them in touch with us. They're looking for them. I want to speak directly to our fans and the wrestling community regarding the incident involving referee Dallas Edwards

at last week's event. Professional wrestling has always carried an inherent risk of injury for everyone who steps into the ring. On March 12th, during a live OVW television event, Dallas was involved in a planned moment of physical contact with a wrestler that resulted in him suffering a head injury. You notice that is an unwieldy way to speak, but it does plant the seed for the legal defense.

Traditionally, when an in-ring injury occurs, the referee is the central point of communication, assessment, and decision-making. In this unprecedented situation, the person who would normally make the assessment was the one who needed assistance. That unforeseen breakdown in communication contributed to a delay in stopping the match and concluding the show. We are relieved to hear that Dallas is... Can I just jump in one second?

Yes, again, that is a statement that is correct. And this is very unusual, very unprecedented, as Al said, that the referee would be the one to suffer the incident. But at the same time, if it came to it, any litigation would center on should based on your opinion and belief the observations that you were making and should that have convinced a logical person, a reasonable person that this young man was in medical distress, when the fucking guy that landed,

and these are questions that are going to be, if it comes to it. When the guy that landed on him was over the top of him looking like you said, you okay, buddy, you okay, buddy? Did he get an answer like, yeah, I'm okay? And then he immediately passed out and went into seizures moments later. Or did the guy who didn't get a, yeah, I'm okay, answer, get picked up by the other guy, just start wrestling again.

Why did that guy, is the other guy's picking him up? the guy that's getting picked up says Dallas is is fucked up here and they would be aware so they would immediately move to the other side of the ring even if they weren't going to fucking stop they would have moved away to examine something like do we have room to do

this over here we've knocked him out they didn't know he's going to go into seizure but there should have been some passing of that knowledge and then when the other guy comes in. Again, the one guy was on the aprons watching the seizures. So that, no, not good enough.

That, oh, nobody could have known if you'd have turned around and his fucking leg had been stuck up his own ass. Would you have known anything was wrong? Go ahead. Well, back to the statement here. We are relieved to hear that doubt. is recovering and receiving the medical care he needs. Our thoughts are with him, and we're hoping for his continued improvement.

At OVW, the health and safety of our performers and officials has always been our top priority, after finding and fleecing investors. No, I'm sorry. I added that. I'm sorry. That wasn't a part of the official statement. Don't, don't, the blokes at West Fabersham are going to be upset. We are proud of the standards we've maintained over the years, but we also recognize that there is always room to strengthen and improve. With that in mind, we are reviewing our existing procedures

and updating several of our in-ring and ring-side protocols to ensure we continue to meet the highest expectations for performer safety. These updates include enhanced communication systems, additional referee training and of all the things not to put in this that wasn't needed additional referee training and expanded ringside response measures

to help ensure that a situation like this is identified and addressed as quickly as possible enhanced communication systems 20 fucking years ago we could talk to the referees from the back from the control room, Danny Davis could talk to Dean Hill at the

desk. He couldn't talk to me because you know with my ear and I can't wear the fucking ear things, but Dean would write me notes and give me a nudge. But he could talk to the desk and he could talk to the ring and he could talk to the handheld cameras. So that now 20 years

later, they need better communication systems. You need to the old school communication system. Stop the match! Just someone yelling out that there's a problem, but let me finish the statement here. We appreciate the concern and passion from our fans, and we understand the importance of transparency during moments like this. We will continue to share updates when appropriate, and we ask everyone to keep Dallas in your thoughts as he continues his recovery.

Thank you, and it is signed, Al Snow. it's important to note that the top comment under this or one of them on his Instagram page is someone saying, fun fact, if you put this apology into an AI detector,

it says that it's 99% written by AI. Oh no. So apparently it may be an AI issued statement from Al Snow. We said last time this gimmick could be tone deaf Al Snow, maybe AI Snow.

Because it looks like Al. That could be his new gimmick. but you know another swing and a miss i guess is the best way to put it okay and a lot of people are going to so cornea what would you have done i'm trying to because obviously what i would have done if i was in charge then i couldn't actually do because it would have required me to fire danny davis which obviously was impossible for anyone to do that because he was god but if i as Al Snow was in the building, and it's entirely possible,

was in a goddamn conversation with some, and this probably may have been what was going on, with some fucking wrestler asking some stupid question, off in the corner not watching the show. I can believe that. If he came out and said that, I would believe it, which he didn't hear.

He didn't say anything here. But if he was telling a truth, or being honest. I was in a quarter talking to so-and-so, and the way that I heard about this incident was such and such, and I immediately went to the ring to see about him if I was in the building. That's what I would take from Al Snow.

I'm if if I was not informed as soon as the referee went into seizures if whoever was watching the monitor because they were actually the director of the show is who I'm talking about which in my day would have been Danny Davis and obviously is not that anymore if the director of the show had not sent somebody to tell me about 10 seconds or 15 seconds into the seizures what the fuck was happening, I would have fired the director. And that would have been in the statement. Things like that or what would have been. I would have explained how I heard about the incident and at what time, however many seconds or minutes after the fact, and what I did personally as the person in charge from that point forward is what I would have put

in that fucking statement because what else can you fucking say when everybody's cussing you on the internet is you're the guy in charge of this what kind of shop are you running well and if and if I wasn't there I wasn't even there

I would have said for a reason that I will never do again I left the building before my show was over and with nobody in clear no clear second in command

nobody that I trusted was you know knew how to run this fucking thing was still in the building these kind of things or again the person that I fucking trusted to run this goddamn thing

was so and so and I fired him because he didn't run out to the because he didn't know why Didn't he know? I'll chase the cat that ate the rat. Why did you know? Why did you know? What the fuck were all of you goddamn doing? Shit like that. And you can't do that with AI. Well, that was the statement from Al Snow of OVW.

May or may not have been written by AI. May or may not be the apology anyone expected or thought was useful. But if you don't mind, I'm going to give my two cents real quick. I think Al Snow was a really, was a really, talented wrestler who didn't go as far as he could. And his run in 95 in Smoky Mountain Wrestling is one of the more underrated runs anyone had because that's the end of it. He was an amazing heel and then that went away. He had different characters at different points, but he was phenomenal in 95. I got to see him live. Phenomenal. And even then, people talked about him as a trainer. And he trained people. He trained the Blue Meenie before that. And I think Al

know is maybe the guy for you, if you want to learn how to take a hip toss or a flat back bump, but other than the fact that he speaks authoritatively, and he has a stronger voice, it's not like a little voice or anything, I've never heard him say anything that made me think he had a brain in his head. And I just want to say that here because, you know, just like I rant about various indie promotions and training schools and the mentality and the people behind them, I think that's the case here too. And, you know, I think OVW, in a lot of ways, since the people who made OVW haven't been there, Al Snow has kind of defined OVW, but maybe that's not a good thing. West Faberjam or the mayor or investors aside, this company is going to be considered a joke

unless there's radical changes, and it starts with Al Snow. And everyone knows it, and everyone's mad at him, and he puts out stupid statements, and there's more that could be said, why pro wrestling T's wouldn't do business, and he had to start collar and elbow, because of things he said in the past, the cult cabal. I mean, there's a lot that could be said about Al Snow's behavior and conduct and comments in the past, but he whiffed here. He had a chance to be a stand-up guy and be the boss here.

you've talked about how you would have handled it, not everyone's you, but goddamn most people would have handled this better than Al Snow. And that's my two cents. I hope you don't mind me adding that here. Well, no, I don't. And again, it's not like, just because that wasn't how I would have handled it.

There is supposed to be someone that can handle it. If at any given moment it occurs, if you're going to put your name on something, which is why, again, I have been offended in the past with the Ring of Honor situation when they all, you know, would leave the wrestling folks to be, oh, they could take care of themselves,

and I'd have to fucking give the ring crew money to get home or whatever, but much less physical injuries. You know, there was, My God, even when Danny at Roopoint had trailer park trash. You know, the spot shows, trash could run a fucking spot show. Trash was charitably put not a fucking astronomer. He was not a goddamn surgeon. He was not a Rhodes scholar.

But he could tell when somebody got potatoed, it was somebody who was having a seizure, and how to fucking run a wrestling show and keep everybody from goddamn going to jail or the hospital. But there needs to be somebody, especially on a television, and we charitably say television. They're on your TV here at Louisville. So is C-SPAN, but also the streaming thing or whatever.

Yes, a lot of people are streaming in the wind these days, I've noticed. but if you're going to present it and it's being recorded and it's for posterity for the rest of your life then there has to be somebody in charge so that what would they do one day if all the wrestlers just say

you know what we're tired of this we're just all going to get up in the ring and just take our dicks out and just piss on everybody and would they stream that who's in charge for fuck's sake that can say to any or everybody you stop fuck off and that and that should be a fucking comment for any line of endeavor these days

who are you leaving there that can say you stop fuck off to anybody else and it's their responsibility if something happens well once again we'll stay on top of this story but I'll try that now you stop fuck off and who I'm talking to of course is Al snow. Maybe you need a new line of work. Maybe you need to start a new business. Get away from wrestling already. You're 60-something years old. You look like you're on the gas. Nothing's going to change. This is the best that's going to get. Do something else. Start a new business. You need the right partners to start that business. And of course, ladies and gentlemen out there, Mr. and Mrs. America with your proud businesses, you need a partner like we do to make sure your product

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We are here and we are about to begin the big review. AEW Revolution in Los Angeles, what's become one of their big events. This one, for A.W, a packed lineup. For A.W, a loaded lineup. There were 13 matches and it was a long night of wrestling. And I watched all of it and here to share his thoughts. or Jim Cornett. Why?

Why? Did you do? And the pre-show, too? I forgot about the pre-show. What happened on the pre-show? I forgot. For the time that I've suffered through this goddamn mini-series, I forgot about the pre-show. You had Big Boom, AJ and QT. Marshall versus Shane Taylor promotions, I think.

And you get to see. I think they do the flea market. here in Louisville. Shane Taylor promotion. Well, Shane Taylor, like, you know, he pushed the Rizzler, which caused big justice, his big brother to give him a spear on the floor, his regular spear that he seems to do on all these pre-shows. That match made the room happy. They did an angle with Wayne Brady, the host of Let's Make a Deal. I guess he wasn't invited. What happened to Monty Hall? I guess he wasn't invited to the Oscars, so he had

ringside seats for AEW on this night. And then they began the battle Royal. Now you did see the Battle Royal, at least some of it. Well, yeah, that's the thing is, again, this is one of their big pay-per-views. And they could take this opportunity to look like they know what they're doing as a company that produces big shows and major broadcast events of various kinds, whether it's streaming or pay-per-view or television or whatever. And instead,

boom, it comes up, and they're in the middle of the goddamn finish of the battle royal that they started on the pre-show with guys just in the ring fucking fighting. And it's just, you're like, what? What, what's happening? And goddamn, who was, I want to say, was L. Clown, one of the three that got eliminated as soon as they came on the air? Was that who that was? He may have been, I don't remember.

the timing of the elimination. It was a heck of a match. I was hoping you watched it so you could explain it to me because I watched it, but a lot of it on mute because it was technically pre-shel and I still had things to do. And I couldn't figure out, are they standing at ring sikes they've been eliminated and now they're lumberjacks?

And then I realize they just jump back in. They're in the match. But then they get thrown to the floor and you think they're eliminated. They just jump back in the ring. I had no idea what was going on. I don't well it was and however that they do the battle royals it was supposed to be a 20 man battle royal for one of their belts right that um ricochet had whatever belt that was he had and but again the pre show why would i watch the pre show when the main show is going to be almost five hours long if it was any fucking good it would be on the main show and even then we will see that's not exactly a goddamn guarantee.

So we crash into, they eliminate the other fucking guy and there's Jungle Jack and fucking Rickashay. So we jumped into the show with two children going 100 miles an hour and Jungle Jackoff won whatever the belt was that Rickashay had. The national title.

National title. And that was what happened there I mean that's the way they started the show and by the end of the show by the way

if their goal was oh we'll make people watch the pre-show next time well then they shouldn't have made this show go another four hours and 40 fucking minutes you were saying you know on the topic of ricochet

is a plane going over my head right now on the topic of ricochet Jim did you see his latest activity on social media. We've talked about some of the stuff he does in the past. Seemingly, some of it because he's in gimmicks, seemingly some of it because he may or may not be thin skin.

But did you see the most recent comics? It's got a lot of people talking. Well, no, because he jabbers on quite a bit, and I think that's what turned the people. Remember when the fans first saw him in AEW, oh, this is going to change the game and blah, blah, blah. And then he was another one of those guys that not only did he not, changed the game and he was booked lousy anyway,

but his real personality came across. And so now most people don't like him and anything he says on social media, he may think he's a heel, but they actually just really don't like him. But go ahead with the latest. Well, I guess AEW after the Battle Royal put up a video on social media of RICOchet doing a promo backstage, I didn't see it, where he was angry about losing his title in this battle role. It is kind of a ridiculous thing. You put the champion in the battle royal, he has to win the battle royal to keep his belt?

Well, it's all ridiculous, yes, we can all agree there. So apparently some video went up, and a user on Twitter named Sandy T. tweeted out His acting hasn't improved Now Sandy T's bio reads Love my Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Trying not to let my MS control my life Of course MS being Multiple sclerosis Jim Okay And she also had Laughing Face emojis Rikoshae responded with

I'm glad you got MS Ah to which you actually responded, well, if that makes you happy, have a great life. Dot, dot, dot. There's not really too much you can respond to that. Is that crossing a line? That's the question, I guess, people are asking.

Yes, obviously. Look at here. I'm the king of blocking people on Twitter or occasionally fucking just firing off on somebody if they particularly ticked me off. But number one, if I spent my life doing it like this fucking clown does, I would,

I'd be occupied. I wouldn't have any other time. But if it's, I don't even block people, nor do I ever even consider responding to them or making a comeback on them or whatever. If you see that they've got some kind of difficulty, whether it be physical or mental,

or, you know, especially to say, I'm glad you don't even say, well, you know, fuck you do, you know, and not even make it related to their difficulty. You just leave them the fuck alone, because they got difficulties. And especially if she's out and out saying on her thing, I have this, because so we obviously read it, So he's going through and examining who the people are that are making fairly innocuous comments about,

he must have a whole file on us, Brian. If he's investigating the background of somebody who said, well, he's a pretty shitty actor, what the fuck could be a matter with this guy? We've been on the record saying he's a complete and total fucking moron on several occasions, and that's what we've heard from other people who know him. he responded to the criticism that was all over the place on Twitter after that comment, all sorts of fans saying that's a step too far, a lot of fans talking about people in their lives who have had MS,

Rickettsay's response to that reaction, it's so hilarious that the amount of little bitches who has tweeted and wished harm on me, who has wished even death, and said some of the most vile things to me and my wife, people who try and make fun of me every day, that's in caps, but those same little bitches can't take it when I do it back. What the fuck would you mock them for their multiple sclerosis? Those little bitches just can't take it.

Actually, here's a good response. Here's a good response. This is from the user, OK, OK, 1, 2, 3,21. you've got a hot wife. You're a famous professional wrestler who's known worldwide, and yet you're so insecure. Being a heel is one thing, but bringing up someone's debilitating illness

because they criticized your acting is next level pathetic. And I agree. Well, that pretty much says it. And does he think that he is being a heel or is he just an idiot and doesn't know the difference or what? What do you think his motivation is? I legitimately think it's both.

I think he thinks he's being a character heel when letting his real emotions dictate what he tweets out. And I also think he's not exactly a genius. Well, yeah. Why don't Tony make him make him go? contribute to the MS Foundation or something as an apology for being an idiot like he does some of these other guys. Why don't you make it his gimmick instead of pretending he's like, whatever he is, a king with a stable, make him the tweeter.

And he just comes to ring with his phone and says hideous things, and then the wrestler he's saying him about comes out and kicks his ass. There you go. Booked it for you. What a putts. What a putts. Well, speaking of putts is, let's get. get into the putts per view because the count was high this week.

Revolution, you say you want a revolution? No, we didn't, but we had to watch anyway. Did you like the video of the Bukaru's kids telling people how great they are and Daddy's going to beat FTR? No comment. I mean, you know, I don't want to say anything bad about the little kids. the dad and the older brother, yeah, you know, kind of wanted to see someone kick their ass in the middle of the show. That would have been nice, yeah.

Well, I don't think the kids didn't come up with the idea. We're going to put ourselves on television talking good about daddy. But it was different. It's like, you know, I think it's like steamboat in a way. You just don't want to see that. I mean, I guess that's what their whole thing is about, like, you know, we're about family, which probably explains why they're not over unless they're just flipping nonstop and, you know, ignoring the fucking rules of wrestling. but I don't know.

It was a bit much for me, I thought. A little sappy for the people that you don't genuinely like. And the other thing, too, no matter whose kids they are, to be honest, AEW is not a kids wrestling show. Whenever I've, like, wanted to embrace my kids being interested, my younger kids and, like, what's daddy watching? I've learned I can't do that with AEW. Even WWE every now and then, like the word bitch or something,

you're like, oh, well, you shouldn't have heard that. That's a bad word. But with AEW, again, they wouldn't have been awake for the main event, but still there's enough on that show. It's not a kids wrestling show. It's not a promotion for kids. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's just a reality.

It's a promotion by kids. All righty, but the first match featured the kids, the World Tag Team title, The Hardly Boys and FTR in the match that they've been waiting for, and I mean again it's I'm criticized when I say this the best match that you're going to get out of Matt and Nick Jackson is with FTR because at least there's somebody doing some fucking wrestling in the middle of all of this childish activity that they do the same shit they do all the time and they've been doing for years having said that, that's not taken up for FTR because no heel team with the World Tag Team title has ever been deader and less interesting because they've been booked into oblivion

and they just now, and they've got a gimmick manager and the whole thing just is blah. But this is what they went back to because it's the Hardley Boys hometown so they wanted to have some fun. And in the first three minutes, they'd given a spike pile driver to mat on the apron and got color on little Nikki. And I was like, no wonder they wanted to go first before the crowd was spoiled so they could spoil them. Because by the time the show is over, you've seen more blood if you worked at a trauma unit. And Dax got posted and he bled.

and again there's there's more wrestling when it's the bucks against FTR than the other teenage gymnast but everything that the bucks do is so hard to swallow and then they did a good spot that the people got up for that Matt got a pep talk

from his kid on the front row and then Dax toned the family and the fat bald brother threw a beard at his face. The people came up and Cash tried to dive and he hit Dax by mistake and a people came up. And then the match continued and the crowd settled back down. And they went about 10 more minutes. And then there was a point where both of the Bukaru's

super suplexed FTR over the top out off on the apron onto the floor and almost killed all four of them. What did you think of that spot? Not much because, I mean, on one side they got it right, which indicated that poor cash took a heck of a fucking bump. Yeah.

But on the other side, they got it wrong, which meant poor Dax almost got dropped on his fucking head. And 50 super kicks. Stokely got up out of the wheelchair to foil the buckaroos' finish and then sat back down and got, and there was no real, there was no pop that he got up. I don't even think the camera was on him when it happened.

The announcers had to fucking say something about it. And then he sat back down and they did, so that was wasted. Well, because then when he foiled the buckaroos finished, that FTR hit the shatter machine and only got a two count. So not only did Stokely just get up and sit back down and nobody gave a shit, but it wasn't the finish. And then the FTR got a three count on Nick, but Nick got his foot on the rope.

But Jesus Christ, you could have got a three count with your goddamn manager and had a second referee come out to stooge it, do something. And then FTR super kicked. Nicky about eight times and a double knee lift and he kicked out at one and hooked up and made a comeback on him. This little fucking middle-aged, can you imagine what a 40-year-old shrimp must smell like, Brian? Do you think he saw so many years of his brother acting like Road Warrior Animal that he said it's my turn now to be impervious to pain? Well, no, it's just because they're in their hometown. actually or the big town next to their hometown.

So they're impossible to. But nevertheless, they dove on Stokely in a chair. And then they just all quit tagging and just were doing whatever the fuck while the corpse referee stood at them and stared at them. And the baby faces two on one the heels for a while. And suddenly they gave me. Matt another spike pile driver and then hit the shatter machine on Nick, one, two, three, which seemed to me to be.

Oh, what now? It was like after I waited for it all that time, it came as a surprise. But 20 minutes and a trend will develop on that timing. But was anybody screaming for this? You know what, with the caveat that I know how Bucks matches are, I know who the referee will be, I know how the rules will not be enforced, it's not a tag team match at all, it's a tornado match. So it's a Bucks style tornado match, every match.

Yes. I enjoyed this. I was surprised I did. Maybe it's because it was the first thing on the show after that Battle Royal, really. And I watched a pre-show, but it felt like it was the first thing on the show. I thought it was the best FTR match. the most enjoyable one in a long time? And I could say obviously the same thing for the bucks.

Did they do too much, go too far, kick out of too much? Absolutely. And unfortunately, that's a pandemic. In AEW specifically, but it goes to other places, but on this show alone, it was a problem. Kicking out at one. We could talk about that later on when it happens the next time, whether you should have multiple people kicking out at one on the same show. whether or not it gets a pop, because Dave Meltzer defended it by saying,

well, it got the biggest pop every time it happened. So why wouldn't you? Well, of course. You know what? If I sat down and made a list of all the things they do in the course of a show that doesn't get a pop, then I could remember back to telling you when they used to get a pop before everybody did them all the fucking time. But again, knowing what it is, I enjoyed this more. more than I thought I would.

I'd say it may be my favorite match to two teams have had. I think Stokely's a bit ridiculous, but we've been saying that forever. It's a joke manager. It doesn't help FTR. It didn't help FTR to have a dry Tully Blanchard who did nothing, and it doesn't help them to have a comedy figure who no one's laughing at. Boy, they did go from one extreme to the other, didn't they? Yeah.

But just a period in between where they got over. Yeah. Imagine that. They got over, we got to do something about it. Let's give them a manager. A pleasant surprise, booking-wise, that FTR didn't drop the belts here, because it seemed like it seemed like it was all but obvious, especially when you started watching this and the Buck's family's all over the place.

I thought we were going to see social worker Whalen Mercy getting a ring for a celebration after the match. But then we actually, you know, that's, now we know the reason why they would have looked like idiots. Well, let me rephrase that. It would have been worse with what they've done if they didn't put FTR over because then as soon as the matches over with and blah, blah, blah, the lights go out

and the music starts playing at its edge. And edge comes down to the triumphant return to the ring and he stops on the floor. and then Christian Cage's music plays. But Cage comes from the rear while the guys aren't looking and sprayed mace in Dax's face or Cash's face or pepper spray, whatever it was,

and leveled Dax, and then Cage gave Stokely his finish. So that's given away for free. And then they, Christian and Edge, grabbed the title belts and had a face off with the Buccarus and everything. everybody stared at each other, but then Edge and Christian put the belts down and then the bucks did nothing and then FTR left.

So again, not only did they give away for nothing and there's no return on it, stokely getting out of the chair after all this time, the baby faces just make their return. They've already laid out the manager with the fucking finish. So that's given away for free. That's what they're supposed to have to fucking work for. This is the first time we've seen them since they walked off the show because Beth Phoenix got hurt and Adam Copeland couldn't deal with it.

And he had to leave and then Christian Cage left too. Like you said, they came back. In solidarity. They laid everyone out. Everyone they had a problem with, they laid out right away. Yes. So I'm glad they were able to come back and get even. but now we're the fuck, we go for me.

And also, to be quite honest, since it's been six months, I know they thought it was a great thing. Oh, my gosh, we'll have a big hot angle where the heels get to Beth. That would have been true if Edge wasn't leaving to go make the movie or whatever he's been doing. You can injure a guy, so he'd go make a movie. But when you beat up his wife and he takes six months to come back and do something, something about it. Yeah, we don't care anymore.

So there's that. And also Christian Cage returned still dressing like he's hosting a show on PBS in the 70s. This was the chance to break away from that, but I guess not. Well, that would have meant buying new clothes. All right, we were 40 minutes into the show at this point. Did you keep a running time on this, Brian?

I don't remember if it was here at another point shortly after this where I realized, oh, this is going to go really long tonight. And if the main event goes long, this is going to go really, really long. And it did. I was really tired the next day. Monday was really miserable for me. I was dead tired all day.

Well, and imagine if you were actually a normal person had to go to work. See, then where would you be? So then, speaking of normal people that had to go to work, Marina Schaefer wrestled Tony Storm. And if you think in the middle of this fucking marathon, I watched this match, you're out of your mind. But the match didn't make any news.

The aftermath is what made the news. And finally, Tony Storm won. And then she went to the stage and laid down and rolled around on the floor like a possibly a carp or maybe a largemouth bass that had been beached and was trying to gasp for air with its last. drags of energy before it passed into the great beyond to the great fish heaven in the sky. But she didn't have any fins, so it didn't complete the image. And then suddenly they cut back to the ring.

Rhonda Rousey has gotten in the ring with no just all there. Look who's in the ring. And she's calling Tony Storm back to the ring and they have a face off. instantly 20 security members and referees and all sorts of officials are there immediately. Again, on a show where we see minutes go by while people are being disemboweled with rusty fishing knives. Oh, shit. We didn't know Rhonda Rousey was going to be here. And my God, Tony Storms at her face.

So 20 guys, thankfully, you're right here. Let's go. and then at some point Marina came up from behind Tony Storm and knocked her out and then they left Rousey didn't say thing we you know

one would assume this probably won't be her only appearance but she's promoting this big fight with Gina Corana Gino Carana here coming up so point being, we know Marina Schaefer and Rhonda Rousey are old friends. They were training partners and et cetera. Was this to make some news, Brian, to amp up her fight?

Was this to do a friend of favor? Do you think she'll actually come back and want to wrestle again after her big fight? Does the fans know that she hates this now and hates them for real? So this is the smartest fan base, and I don't use that in terms of intelligence quotient points, but rather inside information. So are they going to, is she going to be the ultimate heel for this company because they know she really doesn't want to do this and hates them? Or will they rebel because she don't want to really do this and she hates them? We asked several questions there. That's going to be interesting to fan reaction

because a lot of fans genuinely hate her now for a variety of reasons. Remember, she did an interview a few months back kind of raving about how Marino was doing an AEW, John Moxley taking her under his wing, she's been paying attention and she's been happy with the way her friend has been used.

I think there's something to be done with Ronda Rousey if she wanted to do business. I just hate it would be with Tony Storm. I hate the Tony Storm character at this point. I hate the ridiculousness of it. Like you said, the post-match her, I guess because they're in Hollywood, she has to swim on the stage or whatever the hell that was. And then Rhonda Rousey came out and it got exciting.

I'm not excited about the idea of Rhonda having to do stuff with the character timeless Tony Storm. and Mina Sherikawa. That doesn't do it for me. I would imagine this isn't just to promote the fight because it barely promoted the fight. I don't know. I don't know what to think of this. You know, I mean, see, again, because it's AEW and things can happen

just because Tony, Tony is like Billy Moomy and it's a good life, the Twilight Zone episode. Tony can just will people into the cornfield or if he wants something, he can just make it so. If Rhonda Rousey was in Los Angeles, maybe for an Oscar party, her friend Marina's there. Hey, it could have been that simple.

Hey, let's do something. Because she didn't do anything. She's not going to do anything physical for free, for paid, for anything for anybody until this fight comes off. But then the question is how much they sweet talked her about, oh, Tony Kahn, he'll give you X, anything, 100 million dollars to do anything.

Yeah, we can play. You can play with your old friend. And who knows if it's with Tony Storm or just if she might be with Marina. Who knows? But again, nothing's going to happen until after this fight. What is the date on that cat fight they're having, that roll around scratching, hair pulling, cat fight these old ladies are having?

You have any idea? I can't remember. The date is May 16th. Okay, so, otherwise, nothing's going to happen until then of Rhonda doing any physicality, but after that, it's how much she might want to hang out with Marina and take Tony's money. But that's the thing is she's already said,

I hated fucking wrestling and I, and these fans or whatever she said about all of them. But she did like playing with her friends, which is the company motto here. And the last appearance she did

was in Ring of Honor to get to play with her friend. I want to see Ronda versus Speedball. Oh! I do too to break him in 15 fucking pieces. Do you have an issue with Tony Con bring? Like a big bully. Do you have an issue with Tony Con bringing in Rhonda?

Is she someone like for all the negatives you pointed out? Is that too much of a hurdle with this fan base? Well, I don't know. Again, we don't know the circumstances around this or if any money has even changed hands or past one appearance fee if that or what's going on. again ronda rousey is a name people know she's a star she can get eyeballs on the product

she doesn't have to there's a lot of people that don't like their job and still can do it well because they're getting paid and that's kind of probably why she bailed on the w wb because they were kind of insisting probably she'd do it well

tony would give her something that's a thing. I'm not against the concept of using Rhonda Rousey and paying her for her notoriety if you could motivate her enough to hold her nose and do it right. But I don't think

that Tony knows what he's doing or can motivate her doing anything she doesn't want to do anyway. She'll be booked like everybody else, which is crummy. And she's not going to really particularly stick with it long term, so I would

probably plan things that would help my long-term talent by association with her, whereas Tony will probably make her look like a million dollars and then she'll get tired of it to leave. Well, she's become like the ultimate anti-TKO opponent, right? She's fighting for a company that isn't UFC. She's had a, I believe, a falling out at UFC, and now she's going to the competition at WWE if she does anything here.

I wonder if she's in the pole riding. If we could just get her to, that's what I was about. Some outlaw bull riders. Bull riders in the sky. Yeah, well, we'll see. Their friends were still on fire and their hoofs were made of steel. Their coats were black and shanny and their hot breath he could feel. Apparently, although she hasn't been there in a while, I think I saw Brian Alvarez reported

that people in WW that he spoke to were shocked some of them to see her show up in AEW. And again, headaches aside, I think that is. kind of the name power AW does need to get new eyeballs or expand their eyeballs or whatever it is. Ronda Rousey still is a name and she's about to get attention for the next few months.

And I think that they were probably shocked because the shocking part is that she hates some fucking business and don't want to be in it. So they're thinking like, well, but you know, again... She also loves money. That's the other thing.

and the only thing she's done related to wrestling since she left there was the one thing she did with Ring of Honor so she could be with Marina so this is, you know, yeah. All right, let's see how long until Shana Basler shows up. But Jim, if I had asked you in advance to make a pick, do you think that Ronda Rousey will be showing up at AEW Revolution? Would you have picked yes or no?

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I can't take any of this seriously anymore or keep track of it, but it was another belt. Not the belt they won in the Battle Royal earlier, but it's the other belt that Moxley's had lately. What is that belt? Oh, that's the Continental. There you go.

Well, he's in a match against our good friend and budding superstar Tegaset with no time limit for the Continental Belt. So I saw Moxley's entrance and then I said, okay, this is a no time limit match. that means that I can easily go ahead 20 minutes and still see what they're going to end up doing, right? So I fast forwarded 20 minutes and when I hit play, guess what they were doing, Brian?

What? Trading forearms. And a take was bleeding and I fast forwarded another five minutes. And they were still going. And they kicked out of everything. thing. And then Moxley gave, take a double-armed DDT off the second rope, and that was a two-count. And then they laid motionless

for quite a while while Moxley was trying to fight to get the choke. And then he got the choke. And then take passed out. Of all the things that they, again, they take these giant bumps, flinging themselves through shit, off shit, hitting each other with every kind of daredevil maneuver and high impact, slam, suplex, throw, pitch, flip, and whatever the fuck. And then they all have to lay in the middle of the ring, motionless for a minute. and then the

the finish is and I know in Moxley's head because he thinks he's again a member of the Gracie family and he's the greatest practitioner of jujitsu his jitsu teacher jipsued him

out of his tuition but it's just fucking ridiculous that they've all now Yes, in the past, you went, oh, Mr. Wrestling uses the sleeper hold, or Buddy Rogers or Rick Flair, who, Greg Valentine, whoever used the figure for. But goddamn now, everybody just gets in the middle of the ring

and does nothing for a minute and then somebody passes out. The fuck. You don't even need video for Moxley. You can take a picture. Because they're not moving. worth a thousand words. So anyway, then all, go ahead.

Before we go with what happened after that, what was your comment on this contest? I just want to say if there was a night to give to Keshe to win because it seemed like they were kind of building towards it. I think this was the night and I think the fans wanted it and I think the fans were disappointed. They didn't get it despite Moxley being a baby face now. And notwithstanding the angle they're about to do,

their appearance they're about to do, and I guess you need a title in that mix to make it worth it? I don't know. I don't know. Takeshsto is kind of due, and I think the fans were ready for it,

and I personally think it was a miss from AEW not doing that. Well, and even if they do the whatever is going to pass for a turn this week, where the rest of the Calus family led by Don himself, says,

ah, you're flucking, you're flucking flurking flail is what you did. You fucking failed. And so we're kicking you out of the group and they're going to beat shit whatever they do if they even do it this week. Or maybe they'll forget the whole thing.

But it didn't have to take 30 minutes and it didn't need to just, I'll just choke him out. Get a quick one somehow, right? Because then all the Moxley Stoogges come out to the ring, Wheeler, Claudia, whoever the fuck. And Moxley and take stare at each other and Moxley

offers his hand so he's clearly a baby face and take shit, milks it like, I'm going to leave and then he turns back and shakes his hand and then he leaves the ring and goes to the back. Okay, so Moxley and

his group are mad at the Callis family and they're having this rivalry, but take wanted to do it on his own and that's what callus is going to be upset about and then the fucking lights go out and then there's a video of it Brian would you let the doctor in this video work on you was he a creepy looking son of a bitch this video seemed really unnecessary weird music and the x-rays it wasn't like oh we're making this look more legitimate and more like an athlete recovering from an injury in sports,

but more like a horror movie type of thing. In their fantasies, they're all in, the only person really living a horror movie is Tony Kahn's accountant, but nevertheless, the doctor, the x-rays, the weird music, then Osprey is working out. It doesn't appear he's getting any kind of medical treatment you would want. And then they play Osprey's music and he comes out. And Osprey beats up Moxley and all of his guys.

And Moxley runs away from him like he's seen a ghost. So I can't remember to be quite honest with you because I'm confusing when which one of their guys had to go for which type of surgery that was injured by who when. There's been Kenny, there's been swerve, there's been fucking, Osprey. But I guess Osprey was put out six months ago or whatever it was by

Moxley or his group, right? That's why he ran back out and beat him up. Do you remember? No, actually. I don't remember what caused Osprey's injury either in K. Fabe or real life. No. Well, the point is

even if that was the case, Moxley's a baby face now. So even if you, instead of surprising everybody, oh, it's Will Osprey, because they, oh, they want to scream and yell, you can't have Osprey say in leading up to this, sending in messages. Well, I don't care what people think about John Moxley now, whether he's changed or what he's done. I know what he did to me. but what you just do is you just this is like if if funk had put flare out

in the summer of 89 and they built up to the biggest house they would do all year with the great American bash if in between funk hurt and flare and flare coming back to get in the ring with funk if they'd turn funk baby face if you were going to do this with Osprey why did you either turn Moxley baby face or allow him to turn himself baby face.

And since they have become baby faces, why would you then establish this guy as a baby face by beating one of your top guys and shaking his hand? And then this guy comes out and kicks the shit out of him, and he runs away. What sense does any of this make? again, three matches on the show, and three returns or surprises, right?

Christian and Copeland, actually, if you count Rhonda, Christian and Copeland in the tag match, Rhonda, at the end of the women's match, and now Will Osprey, confronting Babyface Moxley, who's wrestling to Kestha, who's technically a heel because he's in the Callas family, but has become like the sympathetic mute babyface in that group. He wants to do things the right way.

Right. Yeah. It's been months now. He's been wanting to do things the right way. He had a problem with Okada. That ended and no one turned. It just went away. I forgot.

Yeah. They were supposed to be like this big rivalry where they was going to blow this whole group apart with Okada and Tegas shit. Finally, what? That's one of those things, too, with like modern booking, if that's what we're going to call it, where they pretend you're brilliant if it takes you two years to do what you should have done in six months. It's so brilliant. They're throwing back.

They're calling back to all these things that happen. No, it's not brilliant. It took too long. And how many things in AEW have right now? Reminding us when we cared. And again, with AEW on this show, the returns, the Christian and Copeland thing was to finish the feud that started almost a year ago, that never went anywhere because everyone left TV.

Ronda Rousey, who knows, and the Will Osprey. If he's coming back for revenge, it's to finish something that started a year ago on this show. So, I don't know. And again, of all the people I want to do. want to see Osprey work with, it's not Moxley. Oh my God, is it not John Moxley? And the only thing he almost broke his neck here. The guy just came back from neck surgery.

The first thing he did, I don't think he almost hit his head. You'd dive off the top rope and land on everybody. But that's another thing is, with the one thing that everybody can agree on in AEW is that Osprey is probably the guy that gets the biggest cheers and fucking, ah, adulation. so why wouldn't you want him to come back against a guy that's hated and reviled so that you get the most out of the emotion? We were an hour and a half into the pay-per-view, Brian. That's right.

But still more action. Still more action. Oh, boy, is there more? So it was Megan Brain and now is teaming with Lena Cross because Penelope got hurt, I guess, and they were facing Willow and Harley and the tag team title for the women was on the line, and Megan and Lena won the women's tag title, and it was short.

Oh, yeah, because Willow wrestled, I forget the name of the other big girl, tall girl, I mean. I forget what her name is. She wrestled her on the pre-show. No, no, no, the other one. No? What was the other one's name?

Who's Megan's partner? Megan's Penelope. No, in this match, in this match that we're talking about. Oh, Lena Cross. Lena Cross. She wrestled Willow on the pre-show. And, like, even though Willow won and retained her title, she kicked a shit out of Willow. So Willow came into this, hurt,

and that plays into the story of them losing the votes. Well, wait, but they, what women's title does Willow have that's not the women's tag title? Because that's what they won in this match. I think she's the TBS champion, right? right. I don't. Yeah.

That was the women's tag match, folks. So then Brody King and Swerve and who is the most dangerous man in AEW? That's what we want to know. That's what they've been. They've them's the fighting words that they've been fighting over. And as you may recall that Swerve the other week on TV left Brody King fighting for air and fit for nothing when he choked him out. with that vicious, he defied the laws of gravity to hang a man from the bottom.

I don't know. Anyway, on the entrance, what are you laughing about? He had a man from the bottom. I've never seen anybody where the guy that was hanging the guy, the guy that was being hung was up in the air, and the guy hanging him was over at. All the guy had to do was stand up and it had been fine. Anyway, Sockface was telling people that Brody King grew up and, boy, he's used to

live in a hard life, folks. He's grown up in a rough neighborhood like Van Nuys, California. And I know it's Excalibur's thing to constantly tell people that he knows from experience because he used to be a wrestler. And he knows this. And he even mentioned his friend because they're all friends. it's all friends wrestling, his friend's Super Dragon that invented pro wrestling gorilla.

He mentioned him in the course of the program. Called him a Southern California legend. This guy that no one has ever seen except for a handful of fans who got those stupid videos. They live in this world where they were important and they were famous and they were notorious. and, but again, Van Nuys, California.

It may be the goddamn shittiest worst neighborhood in the world, right? But if you say that, you sound like a goddamn idiot. It's not like a Hell's Kitchen, New York, or Hullstead Street on the south side of Chicago, or whatever for the one-man gang, or the road warriors, or whatever the fuck.

It's Van Nuys California sounds like Disneyland to the majority of the people in the country, except for the people who live in Van Nuys. So, Brian, are you intimidated just because that tough son of a bitch that's coming at you is from Van Nuys, California? No. And I guess it's a good point to mention the commentary. This is the all-time worst Tony Shivani performance in history. You can go back and watch any match. He had nothing to say.

So sometimes no one else had anything to say either. So he'd be like, oh, this amazing. Oh, God. He's waiting for someone else to come in and no one else has anything to say, so he just has to. No, he was reading a transcript of a Sika VHS from the 70s. Not the wrestlers. Oh, this is amazing.

Not the wrestler folks. Oh, God, I can't believe it. But he was so bad. the entire night Tony Chivani, I dare someone to do a transcript. Any match, pick a match, and just write what Tony Chavani said.

It's unbelievable that there are fans who think he's still good or ever was good, but it's all sorts of awful, and the commentary, even with Excalibur who sucks, would be worlds better if you want to do three men, someone other than Chivani who doesn't add anything.

And that's his whole thing. to add stuff in, he adds nothing. All he does is tell you how great it is, how wild it is, and then when serious shit happens, and it happened on multiple times on this pay-per-view, this exact thing, serious stuff would happen. And he would laugh. He would literally laugh. Oh, that's amazing.

He's laughing at the fucking gore and the horror. You're not supposed to be, Gordon Soli. He didn't start laughing at Dusty Road's bleeding. So, yeah, it's not just, you know, he's always bad. It's counterproductive. It hurts the product, not having a good announce team, and not having someone, if you're going to do all this hardcore shit, you don't want someone laughing at it as it's happening.

That's my two cents on the commentary. Well, we'll give you three cents because of inflation. But that's the, also, oh my God, this is great. He's just, he's either just, he doesn't give a shit. He thinks all these people are out of their fucking mind and he's taking this kid's money, or he's trying to appeal to the young audience who he thinks that should be their reaction.

Oh, this is great. They're being drugged through glass because the weirdos that he's around on a regular basis have brought him into that world. I don't know which is which. If it was the old Tony, he'd be like, you people are out of your fucking mind. I'm going to take your fucking money and make fun of this shit.

but it doesn't seem to be what he's doing now. I don't know. But Brody and Swirb, they opened up trading forearms to determine who's most dangerous. This is where, again, I'm watching to see because I think they got something Brody Kang. He's a big gimmick-looking motherfucker. He's moving around.

He's applying himself. He is quick on his feet for a 300-pounder. He can, obviously, he's more intimidating than most of the roster. His promos have been somewhat better, so they got him away from a goofy bandito as a partner and started focusing on him instead of being in a group. And he looked good for 30 seconds

and then swerve leveled him and posted him. And then pulled up the floor pad, but Brody King gave him a urinagi on the railing and they fought forever on the floor. And then they got back in the room. ring and started completely over again. And now Brody was shining again, but it's just kind of the reason why that the first few minutes, especially since Swerve has been used as a main event guy, singles guy for much

longer than Brody King has in AEW. So that's where the heel should shine the baby face for the first few minutes of the match to show that, oh, wait a minute, this is a brand new fucking motivated Brody King. and then you can stop him a little bit and then maybe you can go to the floor. You don't just start in a flurry, stop the fucking baby face, do floor shit,

then get back in the ring, start over again, and now let the baby face shine because now it's a boring, slow-paced fight instead of goddamn chaos. It's just, and they both spent forever on the apron, but the referee

was counting for swerve to break a hold while they were both on the apron, but not counting both of them for being out of the ring. Because they don't pay any attention to what the fuck they're doing. Their lack of basic training of psychology prevents them from seeing that they can't do a fucking spot on the apron where they stand there and fucking grab each other at a hold and the referee counts them to break them.

because they're not in a fucking ring. Jesus Christ! And then they wouldn't get in the ring to the point where I lost the interest in the thing, and then Brody gave Swerve the black hole slam on the unpadded floor. And then they got back to the apron. I wrote, I don't know if this was a legitimate time,

but it had to be five minutes. It may have been longer. And then they finally got into rig, and Swerve took a pad off. turnbuckle. And is this no disqualification? What I don't understand. They were on the buckle for a while,

but they didn't never run into it at that point. Then they went back to the floor where Swerve gave Brody King a vertebraker on the floor. The thing where he drops him head and shoulders first on the floor, boom, and Brody King beat the count. So Swerve gave him his double-striker. stomp off the top rope and covered him and Brody kicked out at one. And that's where I said, I'm done.

I just gave up on it at that point. What happened? Swerve ended up winning after kicking Brody in the head. Just like I said, with Takesha angle, notwithstanding, it may have been time for Brody King to get the big win. But Swerve won, and of course, it set up the post-match. What was the post-match? You didn't watch?

No, I was. was fucking completely fed up with these two fuckers about the time that they goddamn did two hospitalization angles and didn't goddamn finish this thing and I just gave up and scooted ahead to the next end Brody King should have won this because at least he's been halfway getting over lately. Yeah, the more I watch swerve, the more I don't want to watch swerve so I understand. But Kenny Omega ran out after the match to confront swerve, making a big return. Because obviously he's done with his Japanese commitment so he can return.

from his latest K-Fabe injury to go after the man who injured him? I was about to say, this is going to be the first time in the history of his career that he's actually come back to face the guy that fucking hospitalized him, right? Because before, by the time he's ever come back, they've done something else, or people are no longer there.

Because he never gets even with anybody. Has he? Omega? Did he get even? Has he ever gotten even with anybody? I don't know if you could say he got even with the Calais family, I guess not. When he broke apart from the rest of the elite. I don't know. I never really went.

Everything with the elite never really went anywhere with all elite wrestling. No, none of them. They all just kind of wandered around until they got back together again because nobody else would talk to them. They started AEW TV and they're like, you know, I know we added Cody to the elite, but maybe we don't need him. Maybe we could just let him do his own thing. And look what happened. Uh, no, I guess Kenny never gets even.

again, maybe I'm missing stuff. I mean, him and Okada, him and, I don't know, I guess not. And do you think in the way that things are going right now in AEW that Kenny should beat swerve in any way, shape, or form? I do. I mean, do you think he should for the sake of Kenny, or do you think he should for the sake of the company? I think he should for the sake of the company.

Because I think Kenny getting a world title shot, or series of matches, there's still a little bit of time where you can get some value out of that. Him and MJF. I said it a few months ago. I'd like to see that. I don't want to see MJF in swerve.

I don't want to see anyone in swerve right now. So I'd rather see Kenny Omega in that mix, and I prefer Kenny Omega segments. I know he fucking sounds like a Canadian snaggle-puss, but I prefer his promos to fucking swerve's promos too. So I would rather have him. there.

Got a little pop out of you. Heaven's the Megatroy. And Bushies hurt. His leg's going to fall off even. Exit states left. And I'll agree with you. And because I would, now that I think about it, you present that case.

I would rather see him against the fucking gimmick. But also, to be honest at this point, as we'll get, we'll get there. I'd rather see Kenny than fucking MJF. We'll get there. Well, you know, Jim, on the topic of Kenny Omega and swerve Strickland, and I guess even Brody King, three guys you could say, more than likely, walk to the beat of their own drummer.

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All right, Jim, well, let's open the floodgates back to AEW Revolution. Where were we? Ah, the women's title, another one of them. How many they got? But one of them was on the line with Chris Stantlander against Thakla. And I decided, okay, I'm going to use the Moxley principle here, from Stantlander's entrance, I fast forwarded 20 minutes. And they were still going. The referee had been bumped.

Stantlander had her pinned, but here came Blue Sky and Julia Hart. They got in the ring. Stantlander beat them up with a belt, not a title belt, but an actual belt off somebody's pants. And the referee got up and took the belt away from Statlander. And then Thetla gave it. her a spear, which I, that was the intent, but what it looked like was Thetla kind of went past her and she took a bump for it.

And Thetla stomped her, the curb stomp, and then again, same thing, one, two, three. Okay, the referee is knocked down, gets up after some period of time and sees one of the people in the match, which is not no disqualification with a belt in her hand. and they just take it away and the match continues and then the heel because that was the baby face with the belt the heel comes from behind and does a big move and then another big move and then without a cover after either one and then another big move why didn't she fuck her with the one big move while she wasn't looking or even the stomp okay but now i'm gonna stomp you again now i've just beat you into powder Instead of surprising it. What? Well, Jim, this was a good match, notwithstanding everything you said there before.

That was true about the logic issues with the referee. You do have to remember this was two out of three falls. So you only saw... Oh, was it? No wonder it went so long. Yeah, you only saw the end of fall three. It was a long road to get there, and it was really good. It was actually really good.

Well, son of a gun. They should have put it on a show that wasn't five hours long. I might have watched it. And speaking of something else that was very long, for the six-man tag title, Cal Feltcher, Mark Davis, and our friend O'Boring against Kevin Knight, Hong Kong, Fooey, and Mystico. And to make matters even more preposterous looking visually,

Kevin Knight and dipshit dressed like Mystico with the mass and everything, Although I will say that Hong Kong foo he looks better with his face covered. And I know there had to be comedic material here, but again, we're talking a five-hour show. We're talking this is filler and they're already full of filler. This was very long. And then the baby faces beat poor old Mark Davis,

who's just been reduced now that his partner got, take it out of the picture to the Don Callis job guy. He's the most interesting one. To be honest, anybody is better than Okada. A goddamn coma patient is more exciting than Okada.

And Kyle, I'm about to throw up my hands on because he's never going to prosper there. Davis is an interesting, big, fat, fellow but so the six man the the the baby faces are six man champions now and then they announced that mystico was all elite and he's been there before how can you announce that you've just

signed a guy that's been wrestling on your shows for on and off for months and like that's a big deal now what happened here well again he's a CMLL star he's the biggest star the biggest star the drawing card there. Okay, but nobody in Des Moines gives a shit about that. They're watching a TV show on TBS or TNT. Well, they're giving him a big push now. He's a member of the six-man tag team champions, although I guess you could argue by

Tony Logic, the big push goes to Mark Davis who loses every match he's in. Never seen him win. You got to hear the mystical music. That was nice. It's very... Oh, and that's another thing. If I was a baby fake, can you imagine the fucking fist fight that would have gone on in the locker room of the Mid-South Coliseum

if any of the baby faces had been requested to come out to the ring to that shitty fucking music. It's death. It's big in Mexico. It is cool when he does it at Arena Mexico and people are really reacting to it because they know the words. A few people seem to maybe know the words here. But a big title change. You need a big title change on a big show. If you don't have a big return, you need something.

but I guess that's all you had to say about that match. Well, that's all I got. Here's something I'd like you to look up while I'm talking about this. How long did Bandito and Andrade go? They had a single match. The bell rang three hours into the pay-per-view, along with an extra hour, I assume, or maybe a little more for the pre-show.

And is it okay? I'm going to, again, I'm going to fast forward 15 minutes and see where they are. And I did and they were still going. And I fast forward in another five minutes. And they were still going. And then finally, after some period of time, Bandito gave Andrade a kind of GTS knee-in-the-face type of thing.

And Andrade got up and assumed that stupid position. where they have to get up, turn their back on their opponent, lean over, grab the middle rope, and wait for this idiot to come and do his stupid little flip on their back. But when he did the stupid little flip and the German, André flipped backwards and landed on his feet and stood up and as Mr. not mystical, but Bandito, one of these o's. Cheerio, as Cheerio was coming toward him,

Andre hit the greatest back elbow and Bandito took the greatest bump ever to people like woo! And Andre didn't cover him. He picked him up, he drug him to the corner, he got him up in position to give him some kind of half-ass move off the turnbuckle that everybody on the card had done something better than that and covered him there,

one, two, three. that could have been a cool finish with the elbow. I bought it. Everybody, he would have won right there. But he's got to fucking pick the guy up and do something else when it looked like he had already just killed him to begin with. How long was this match? Did you ever find that out?

It was 21 minutes. Jesus Christ. A very good match. Some weird points. They are still doing the thing where Andrade walks up to women who clearly did not buy wrestling tickets and take selfies with them in the middle of the match. Also, now he disrobes in the middle of the match.

He took off his pants to expose very... To expose what? Well, he had very small red trunks on, and that's how he wrestled the rest of the match. I guess that's his new thing. Are you sure they were trunks, or was he just a little inflamed? I don't know, but it was just middle of the match. He just disrobed.

Again, it was just weird the pacing of this, but good match. be good and it was very good and the fans were into it. You know what? AEW, traditionally, even on a lot of their shows that their fans love, it always appears like they burn out their crowds. And it didn't appear that way this late in the show. And that's pretty impressive. Well, they're in Los Angeles. These people are used to staying up late. And also it was, what time was it out there? Well, three hours earlier. so it wasn't that late.

Okay, so three hours in a show, it started seven, seven o'clock in the evening. They're still with it. No wonder. That's what they, that. I think even old Uncle Dave admitted that. They do better when they start to,

they have an afternoon show because they go five or six hours and people don't want to die after. So they kind of did that here. It was an afternoon show on the West Coast. And there's something to be said for that. And I know this was a, I'm sure it was a wonderful match, but I don't care about these people

because I can't even keep track of who the fuck the baby faces and heels are, much less who's mad at who and why and what belt that everybody has, which is why that they get the audience that wants to see nondescript anonymous people doing cool moves. And that's what they get.

Unfortunately, that's all they get because it runs everybody else off. and speaking of running people off another six-man tag but it was a tornado match that means nobody had to tag at all they could just all play at the same time Gabe Kidd and Chuck Connors

and David Finley against Pockets and Roderick Strong and Darby Allen and I know you won't believe it Brian but they had a jumpstart into a six way on the floor and I said this is a perfect time for everybody in the building to get popcorn and me to take a piss and exercise my First Amendment right to fast forward.

If they want me to take Finley seriously, they can't put him in a fucking match with the mascot because I'm going to lose interest. So did I miss anything? Did you at least watch the entrance where Gabe Kidd does this funny thing again where he crawls out really? He doesn't crawl out slow. Like it's not menacing.

It's more like a, like a, bug who just hit daylight. Like, he goes from one side of the other. I go fast. I keep forgetting that he's the crawler guy that you keep mentioning. I keep forgetting to watch him crawl. I apologize. I know you didn't watch this match. Here's all I can think about after this match. Gabe Kidd crawls at a ring. Some fan in the YouTube comments says he looks like one of the babies from nothing but trouble. The Dan Aykroyd movie. One of the giant baby characters. And then he did this promo at the press scrum afterwards, which a couple people sent to me. And it was just, fuck this and fuck that and fuck this.

I shut up. Oh, God, he's another one like the J. White voice. Yeah. But he curses. He's like the Shane Douglas of J. White voices. Now, come on, maybe he's got Tourette's. That's been in the news lately. It's a thing going around.

The crawler. Why do you crawl to the, as it been explained? And I missed it because the commentary sucks. Why he crawls to the ring? Or he crawls that. He doesn't even crawl all the way. He starts out with like a little crawl, like choreographed thing,

and then he gets up and walks the rest of the way. It's not even like he's fully committed to the full crawl. He's doing the fucking the tableau of the assent of man, right? Down the aisle, he starts by crawling. That's funny. He's up right? I mean, he's like seven feet tall by the end of the match. Yeah, and then he starts out.

He's got fur all of them. over him, but he looked about halfway down to the ring, he loses the fur. All right, well, unfortunately, you didn't get to watch this match. It's hard to take anyone seriously when again in 2026, they're working seriously with Orange Cassidy. Yeah. But speaking of how fur we need to go, sometimes they go to fur, Brian, and that we are here at our main event.

And I know everybody says, oh, Cornette's still, you. You know, he just can't see MJF is not what he, oh, the old gray mare ain't what he used to be, and Cornett won't admit it, and he still tries to take up for him. I can honestly say here, without fear, I think, of contradiction, that MJF was able to do something in this main event match

for the AEW title, a Texas death match against old hangnail page, MJF did something that nobody else in the near 150 year history of organized professional wrestling was ever able to do, Brian. Do you know what record MJF said here? I don't. He had, in all those years, in over a century and a half, he had the absolute fakesst fucking wrestling match that's ever been held. and think how much territory that takes in all those rotten performers all those ill-advised matches being booked down through history all the crumbiness and the not even mediocrity but the just lack of talent and overall misery of this and somehow MJF is the one who manages to take part

in the fakesest fucking wrestling match ever held. It's fake on so many levels that it really should be the subject of some kind of college psychology thesis. They're obviously not really mad at each other because they both engage in goofiness that you wouldn't engage in. if you were really mad at somebody, whether it be

MJF doing a comedy video where he rides a horse, they went to Gun Town Mountain again, found a fucking side of the road western town tourist attraction. And he did the video and the comedy Hick accent. And he was,

he's the guy coming into town of take care of something and he pissed on Page's grave with his little Western and Tombstone. They spent money on that. And Paige came out to the ring to a good, bad, and the ugly song rip off

as close as they could get to as some kind of Sergio Leone's soundtrack without getting sued, trying to look tough with fake barbed wire wrapped around his fucking arm, and they just couldn't do the standard garbage wrestling stuff. They had to do every garbage

garbage wrestling thing that had ever been done all in the same match and then go 10 minutes past that. And I'm going to give you an opportunity to speak before I make this a soliloquy again, Brian, but we must remind the people as usual, it's not even really a Texas death match. It's a match where you win by a 10 count to being knocked out or a submission. They just call it a Texas death match. MJF paid homage to Terry Funk with his tights and they bill it as a Texas

death match and they give its history back to Dory Funk senior blah blah blah. It's not a Texas death match. It's a garbage wrestling match with a budget. It's if Ian Rotten didn't have to serve tacos and hepatitis

outside of fucking drive-through window because he was born a multi billionaire, this is what we'd have got in a way of garbage wrestling. Stupid shit, but with a budget. And so anyway, do you have any comments to preface this thing before we go through some of the low points of the match? I guess I'd give my overall thoughts now.

I hated it. I really hated it. Adam Page came out of different music than the fans expected, and seemingly the pop one away when they ended the music. It went forever. Nice tribute to Terry Funk by MJF. Actually made me think a little bit about Chris Candido, who did the same thing. What can I say?

It was their chance to out Moxley-Moxley, out Nick Gage, Nick Gage, out Swerve, take every bad idea that's been used in this company, traditionally not in MJF matches, and bring it to this stupid match. which was built up in stupid promos where Adam Page sounded rehearsed trying to tell you that he's he's not even from fucking Texas

but whatever he's a cowboy from Virginia who's demanding this Texas death match this is his gimmick and he already did all the gross out shit with swerve a few years back so you knew he was going to do shit like that here and you know I guess giving credit for being committed to the stupidity

because he's willing to go all the way, it seems like, with the dumbest ideas, I don't know what MJF was doing in this match. I guess just to show everyone else he could do it too. Well, that's the place that they've left MJF in where he just has to, Page has no options. Page was not going to be a big star in the WWE

in any way, shape, or form ever. They may have wanted to sign him at some point just so that the billionaire kid wouldn't have him like they were doing at some points, but nobody's ever saw a page could only go to the WWE. That's where people were saying that MJF was going to end up for quite a while

when they first saw him because he was a prodigy. And he can work physically in the ring as well as anybody, psychology-wise, and as well as most people with his physical work. But his verbal ability was what was carrying him and what was setting him apart.

With the way that they've neutralized all of that, he is now the good booking and the fact that he's done stupid shit and he's not the guy that's real anymore. We know he's just a gimmick because he's had to break characters so many times. now he's been faced with a situation. Do I gamble and go to the WWE? It's not guaranteed because his size still might work against him, but he's got all the talent necessary to be or has had.

By the time he gets out of there, he may not have it anymore, but the talent to be a big name in the business and make millions of dollars and be a top wrestling star that people will remember. Or the path that he is apparently chosen, which there's something to be said for that as well, I'll take this fucking guy's millions of dollars. I have to wrestle rarely. I can take off and do whatever I want, TV's acting, whatever I want, whenever I want. and he'll still pay me

and it's just that two or three times a year in situations like this, I have to work with stupid people and do freak show, sad show shit to prove to these stupid fucking fans that we've got here that they think this is talent.

But he can retire when this contract is up with millions of dollars in the bank and go do acting. So I, If I was his agent, I would kill Tony Khan today after that match. Well, but I'm just, you know, I'm sorry. I'm disappointed that MJF is not going to be a big deal in the fucking wrestling business. But I'm glad that he's going to retire at an early age.

I don't know what else to say, but I mean, if this is what he has to do a couple times a year to make millions of dollars and otherwise not have any restrictions on his fucking job or his life, I guess. Yeah, but it's a fucking shame. See, that's the sad thing. AEW has normalized the idea

because it is true for them that to be a top guy, you have to wrestle hardcore garbage matches. Because every guy they have has done it. We've seen Moxley try to wrestle like, he's Billy Robinson. I'm not saying he is or he looks good doing it.

He tries. I know, I know, but he does, yeah. And then we've seen the other side where Moxley does the grossest, stupidest shit, the skewers. I think he brought them into AEW. You could say the same thing about swerve. I've seen him wrestle pretty good matches where there's a bunch of high spots. And then I've seen him do the stupidest hardcore shit I've ever seen. It's an AEW issue.

you know, I'm not trying to take up for MJF because I just don't know if you can get around being an AEW top guy and not wrestle these kind of matches. With that said, this one took it way too far. This one had multiple things that someone should have said, why are we doing this? This is too much.

And I mean, again, is it faker because it's so obviously see-through that you know they're cooperating, but at the same time, is it faker or is it possibly more distasteful that they're obviously also hurting each other on purpose while cooperating with that effort. Yeah, there's no way those guys are not hurt today, like days after.

Yeah, well, no, they're legitimately hurting themselves, even if they're not sore. I'm talking about cutting or fucking whatever, but everybody knows it's all fake. And it's so obvious because it's so far and unbelievable and over the top, the cooperation level is off the charts, obvious. The, it's obvious that everything that they're doing is in some way fake because they wouldn't be getting up from it.

And that's the point that it's so nonsensical to me that while they're hurting each other legitimately far more than anybody in pro wrestling matches ever did in history, whether it be the fucking bloodiest matches, the street fight matches, whatever, they're hurting themselves more. But it looks even faker. that's what makes my head explode. Let's go through some of the things they did. They had to start out with the up into the bleachers, fighting in the crowd, the fake walk fight through the crowd that's poorly shot

and you can't really see. And there was no reason for them to start that, but they got to do that because that's one of the tropes of the thing. And then they go back to the ring and try to start wrestling. and MJF was trying to be a heel. He was trying to make this interesting. He's trying to, because as you mentioned,

at first, the pop for Paige was not there. I think they shared MJF and the intro's over. Page, but MJF had the ring announcer say, I'm not, he's not from this shitty place of Los Angeles or whatever the fuck.

But immediately, Paige pulls out a staple gun, and a birthday card because it was MJF's birthday and took the birthday card to give him paper cuts between his fingers and then stapled the birthday card to his chest and then pulled it off. But can you dick the bruisers in a bar fight, Brian, and so I'm going to give you paper cuts with a birthday card.

And then I'll tickle you. I'll tickle you to death. I don't need to take this seriously as a match anymore because now they're already being stupid. They don't really hate each other. It's not really important. It's a freak show for the goofs that look for goofy videos on the internet. That's the fan base for this.

And then Paige pulls out a window with the casing. The fucking window cell and a whole wooden part around it, but I'm sorry, I will be corrected if I'm wrong. but that window was sugar glass because once they broke it and started dragging each other around in it, they'd have been ripped to shreds even more than they were by the other shit. But where MJF breaks the window in the middle of the rig and said, I'm not doing any of that indie bullshit, which he knows what it. He's saying that because the fans that like indie bullshit will be offended.

But the problem is it makes him a baby face with normal people. but the point is he said I'm not going to do that indie bullshit and then he got slammed in the glass and druged through the glass and then but then he was barely scratched by that he's going to get cut up later on

but which is better taking a body slam in real glass even though people know it's on purpose or showing that it's obviously fake because it's ain't I don't because it didn't cut them all the way up or anything. Right.

But this is fake and stupid and reel all at the same time into just a mess. Page punched MJF with the barbed wire wrapped around his hand, somehow busted MJF open, but not his hand. And then he gingerly put the wire in MJF's mouth and did a series of stupid stunts that kids watching jackass when they grew up, thought up, and MJF ripped Adam Page's head with a piece of the fake glass and somebody yelled, do it again.

They're just, they're laughing at this shit. Well, plus, like you said before, the dynamic was wrong. He was the baby face here. MJF got a baby face reaction. Adam Page got no reaction. Yeah, because at least he's interesting. And they don't give a fuck about Cowboys in Los Angeles unless they're in a fucking movie.

But, if more body slams into glass, then MJF took the broom and swept the glass out of the ring and just took forever. all pages they're selling just, I'm just going to sweep all this out. It's just, it's a series of stunts and tricks, not a match. MJF stabbed page in the head with broken broom handle. Then he got the

veterinarian syringe. But if a doctor comes at you with that syringe, are you going to fucking bail out the window? Where did the syringe come from? It's somewhere out of a plastic bag from under the ring. Because that's where they've stored all their goddamn props. But it wasn't like a syringe for a shot for a human.

It was a giant syringe with a two-inch needle. And then he stuck it through the side of Page's cheek from inside his mouth out, shot the liquid out through it, and then left it there. Well, Paige is standing up starting to try to make a comeback with a fucking syringe stuck through his face. And, of course, they have to get the close up on this. So you can say it's real. What was the liquid?

Because he was spraying it, but it was through his cheek. It wasn't like he was spraying it into his mouth or anything. No, it was just to show that it was really shot through, it was stuck through his, it was real. It's water, whatever the fuck it was. Let me just, this will be my spot here. At least there was, he didn't give him any goddamn air bubbles and kill him on the spot. Go ahead. Let me pause right here, yeah, and just say that this was the spot that I said this is the grossest thing I've ever seen.

and wrestling. And I thought the spot what MJF and the barbed wire in his mouth was pretty gross. I thought when Swerve and Adam Page were exchanging bodily fluids, I thought that was gross, the moxley and the skewers, it's always AEW. They won up themselves every time. This was the grossest thing ever. And here's the thing. And you can't beat, you can't beat somebody at a fight or a match or anything else like that. It's just stupid torture porn shit for these weirdo internet fans that congregate to watch this crap. But you can't tell me that even if page was sitting there, yeah, do it, do it, do it to me,

that MJF doesn't have the cashé in the industry to go, dude, I'll do your other fucking shit, but come on. No. But he didn't. And, you know, so that's why I say it's sad, but I thought he was going to be a star in a wrestling business. He'll end up getting rich, rich from the rest of, wrestling business, he'll not be a star in it.

And then there was the wire wrapped chair, and an ending, aka without end, a dead eye on the wire chair, more wire chair shots, so slow-paced, dead eye off the apron

through the table, more nothing forever. MJF, leaping tombstone pile driver off apron through table to floor. At that point I wrote, I'm sorting mail orders. Then they started doing a yay boo at one point after the syringes and the fucking wire chairs and everything.

They were doing a wrestling spot. Then they wandered around for about a minute and got light tubes and went to the entranceway. And then MJF obviously held still and bent over. that page could fucking take the goddamn light tube and break it over his back. That sliced him up. And I'm sure he got blood poisoning from whatever that gas is. And then he kneeled there and stood stock still so the page could hit him over the head with it, with another one.

And then they got more juice. And then besides the blood poisoning that he probably got, they went back to the fucking ring and then Paige gets the chopsticks out and what the what is this how is this going to beat somebody

or get even with somebody for some thing you were legitimately mad at he stuck chopsticks in his head and with 35 minutes in they're not done then page got a bag and

dumped out a chain with dog collars on either end of it and put one on MJF, and he put the other one on himself. What kind of fucking idiots? Yeah, proving he's an idiot. Yes, and Jeff, just idiots. And then he punched MJF with the big chain several times, like that would kill you right there.

It's three or four finishes. Then he pulled out another table. That's number three they're going to break. and MGF has to lay their immobile while Paige sets all that shit up. And then at first I thought it was just him saying it, but I think they really thought Paige was laid MJF on the fucking table and screamed for a lighter. They just set him out, and nobody had one.

So he pulls out a barbed wire board. And MJF had not moved at that point in over one minute. but the referee wasn't counting him. He's laying flat of his back in the match that can only end when somebody is knocked out for a 10 count. And while Paige is going around trying to find all these props, he's just laying there and the referee didn't count him. Minutes.

Does that make any sense, Brian? No. It doesn't make any sense. A lot of things in this match did not make sense or were not needed. and was unnecessary. And then the fan started Chan, we want fire because he had teased it. And Paige was like,

who's got a lighter? Nobody. So they just didn't do it. I don't know what the fuck. Then they fought on the apron, an M.JF jerked page off the top rope into a cannonball flip onto the wireboard

through the table to the floor. And he got up at night. And then they fought back to the stage again. And then they did the awkward fake teasing thing of, oh, I'm going to fall off the edge of the stage like about 10 times. And then Paige just grabbed and bear hugged MJF. And they both went off the stage onto a sound table on the floor. And shit blew up.

That they blew the pyro off like they've been electrocuted. And five seconds later, it blew up again. There was a tail in Charlie there on the pyro. Would have been funny if that ended the pay-per-view feed. They'll do that next. That's the only other thing because they've just been electrocuted. They both got up at nine. Off the stage, through a table, electrocuted nine count.

They went back to the ring. Page went for the buckshot. He's just been electrocuted, but he can still do his goddamn flip over the top rope, land on his feet. MJF kicked him in the balls, got the title belt, and hit him with the belt. And at the nine count, Paige jumped up pissed, electrocuted, kicked into balls and fucking hit with the belt. And then he kicked MJF in the balls and hit him with the belt. And then Paige went to the apron and was going to buckshot him begin, but MJF foiled the buckshot.

and because they were still connected to this chain, he hung Paige by his neck over the top rope, and Paige started shaking and going limp, and then his head popped off, and MJF football kicked it out into the crowd. And son of a bitch, the referee started counting over the headless body, and it got up at nine and a half.

I'm just kidding. He hung him over the top rope. Iqabod Page. Yeah, he hung him over the top rope. over the top row, Paige went limp, and the referee stopped it at 46 fucking minutes. It was distasteful. It was way too long. It was so ridiculously fake.

It was the worst. It was the appeal to the worst nature of every one of these garbage indie wrestling fans that shits on the business and doesn't take it seriously and just wants to see the Nick gauges and the John Moxley's and the side show geeks of the wrestling business that bite the head off the chicken. And that's now what MJF has become. He's the, he's Olga at the end of freaks when they look down in the fucking little pin there and there is Olga with all the feathers clucking around.

He's become one of them. one of them gobble, gobble. We accept you, we accept you. They've accepted him. It's like watching Pavarotti become Millie Vanilly. Well, you could blame it on the rain

or you could blame it on something else. This was the worst MJF match I've ever seen. This was just another Adam Page. Adam Page sucks. There are people that want to pretend he's some high and mighty guy who's doing this character. He's proven multiple times he's a moron

and his instincts for wrestling are right up there with moron instincts. And I did not hear a demand from AEW fans for this kind of match. For this match, these two guys, this. It almost feels like they wanted it more than the fans did. It's one thing when you have like a big match

at the end of a few because you have to get there, you have to do it, and it's kind of a demand for a little something more. It used to be just as simple as a cage or something. Yeah. But I'm thinking, I'm thinking that Tony wanted it because Tony likes this kind of thing and he never gets tired of it. He never gets tired of anything.

And Paige probably wanted it because he's a goddamn indie goof like the rest of these indie goofs. Oh, this will be the greatest match of all time. I think MJF appraised the situation and said, I've not only got to work with this fucking idiot, but I work for this other idiot who pays me a fortune. And the only fans that were ever going to get like this kind of shit, so I'm going to lower myself into the sewer and swim into sewage

because I make a ton of money and I can do whatever the fuck I want. That's the only way I can rationalize a guy that I've met and know to be intelligent doing this is that he's given up on, because in the WWE, he'd have to work a full schedule and he would have to prove himself. And it would still be somewhat of a risk. They don't even work a full schedule. What kind of schedule? No, I'm talking about, and he'd have to show up every week on TV.

I'm not talking about six nights a week. I'm talking about he couldn't take off and do his own shit, and he would be beholden and et cetera. Whereas here he just has to do this stupid shit every once in a while. But it's a shame. But that's the only way I can see that he willingly participated, in this is he's just like this is this is where I'm going to be because as long as he'll pay me this ridiculous amount of money I can do my other shit and I don't he's 30 now so

he's like he's over the hill again I'm not going to take it all the way to where you're taking it this was a disappointing match if you're an MJN fan he's given he's given he's given he's given up he might as well have written a suicide note to the wrestling business oh come on now you know I'm just I don't care anymore I'll just let this guy pay me He's trying to keep up with traffic. I'll go be Adam Sandler's fucking comedy movie part. He's trying to keep up with traffic. He wants John Moxley to stop running his mouth in the back, maybe.

I don't know. He's trying to, you know, they're all doing this. And that's my guess. You can't be an A.A.W. top guy unless you work this match. This a variant of this. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. That's why he's decided, okay, I'll just, I'll just acquiesce to this shit. You know, Jim, coming out of that Texas death match,

obviously, you could see certain things that are going to be bothering these wrestling. the next few days, the cuts in the head, the cuts on the back, their hips, their legs, everything's going to be bothering them. Except their brain. Makes you wonder what's happening with their feet, because we can't see what's happening. They're wearing wrestling boots. And we know wrestling boots can't protect you like the fine boots from our friends at Brunt. Well, you know, the thing is, Brian, this idiot page, he was so stupid.

He wasn't even wearing wrestling boots. He wasn't even wearing cowboy boots, but with wrestling souls a dusty roads or a Barry Windham. He was wearing boots with a heel on him, and he could have just tripped and fallen and broken his neck and hung on shit and slipped on shit. That's why you need the brunt boot, folks, and I'll tell you what, especially if you wouldn't mind dealing out some potatoes with your feet, the brunt boots are the ones to wear when you're wrestling, because they'll take care of your feet. I don't know about your opponent's head. When you need to go out and work hard for a living, when you need to get down into ditches with the T.C. Lee and the American Dream Dusty Rose's father,

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Yes, yes. And see, that's another thing because you slip these things on your hands and you wear another pair of you and you kind of walk on all fours and you can convince anybody tracking you that there's two of you. So again, folks, once again, the soul. Now, I was out in the snow in my brunt boots, all that snow and ice. we had. I walked up and down the driveway when it was a solid sheet of ice and it

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Rickashay, following up on his tweet, telling a wrestling fan that he's glad she got MS. What now is he mocking people for being in an iron lung next? What can be the next progression of this? He has put out a statement on Twitter, here it is, at King Rickashay, I took out my hatred for the IWC on Sandy, and inadvertently others who are affected,

by MS. She didn't deserve it, and for that, I sincerely apologize. Moving forward, I'll do better. Any thoughts on this apology? It sounds to me like some adult

in his periphery, whether it was either professional or personally, his mother, his wife, his boss, whoever went and said, Dumb shit. Look what you've just said. What the fuck?

Look what you look like for saying what you've just said. Probably shamed him. Shamed him, as Aunt Lola would say, into some form of realization that he had fucked up. Well, let's see what the fans think. Well, hold on. At the same time, though, I took out my hatred of the IWC. He is admitted that he actually legitimately does. get mad at each and every one of the instead of just block you smart ass block smart ass block smart

as and not worry he's legitimately mad and stirred up by these people and that's why he keeps jousting with him and putting his foot in his mouth and those fans may not be forgetting here are some of the replies to him you were still reposting things defending your actions and saying you were justified doing so just a couple hours ago you're not sorry you got the call from stairs. Here's someone who retweeted something. Did the call come from inside the house? And then someone ever apologize for this, though?

Or are you going to forget this? And it's another, I guess, a previous interaction where a fan talked about having a lot of, I guess, mental issues. I'm trying to read. It's a lot here. And Rickashay's reply was, Ha, ha, ha.

Childhood trauma. Sounds like a pussy to me. Here's another reply. Nah, screw that nonsense. The only reason you're issuing an apology is because you were told to. You didn't expect the heat you got for that comment, and now you have to play damage control. Save the fake apology.

We don't believe you are being sincere in the slightest. Remember when this guy let Hulk Hogan move forward and do better? Oh no, that's right. Him and his buddies celebrated his death. Jesus Christ! But you reposted two people defending your tweet, and you had the wait a day to apologize. Guessing the boss made a call, pathetic.

Oof. Here's another one. Nope. Sorry. The apology is null and void, since before posting the apology, you doubled down on what you said. Not getting out of this one that easy.

In all respect, here's another one. In all respect, it might help you to give social media a break. And it just goes from there. I think you should retire. You've clearly lost sight of what it is to even be a passable human being in the pursuit of finding some kind of identity in the industry. But if you haven't found it when you're pushing 40,

that really should tell you the answer. Holy shit. God damn. Wow. Is there any way to harness this complete disdain and disgust into some type of ticket-selling entity? I don't think so. it's not like, oh, we want to see people beat you up.

It's like we'd like to wipe our feet on you and have you disappear from our lives. Well, there it is, Rickusay, obviously addressing the problem. Again, if it was an isolated thing and he apologized for it, it would be one thing. But we've done other segments on this show about his behavior on social media,

which you could argue he's trying to be a heel, but at a certain point it's clear that there's something with him that's the issue, and he's looking for people to insult in a really insulting way on social media. Well, here's the thing, and again, somebody out there's going to, oh, Cornets want to talk for cutting promos on people on Twitter, and again, I've said, yes, every once in a while, something will come across my desk that I need to respond to some smart ass, right, and I'll blister them, and it'll go on about my day. I don't do it to random people that I don't know

that have made any common if somebody's a smart ass I block them and that's and I think I have the world record for blocks but the problem is is that ricochet sounds like he's fucking 12 he's it you can't he can't make the statement that I'm trying to be a heel and draw money in my

because he sounds like he's fucking 12 with some of this shit and he can't form coherent sentences or he's mocking people for their disabilities like you would if you were in grade school or maybe

they don't even do that anymore. And it's there's no there's no wit, there's no professionalism or there's no he's just bleh with people. either pick one and slice them to the bone and let it be an example for the rest that come in their wake,

or just block them and go on if you can't fucking fence because they're fucking fencing on guard. And he can't fucking do it. He just sounds like an idiot with an issue. And we've said it about fans. I think it's true for a lot of wrestlers. Social media is not for everybody. And if you don't have a thick skin, you should probably, if you're a famous person, stay off social media. And I would guess Tony Khan must have said something to him because I can't see.

He doubled down. He justified it. It said because everyone attacks him and his wife. He's allowed to say whatever he wants to people. And then all of a sudden. Hold, hold the phone there, cowboy. There's been many people on social media attack. me and my wife

but if I made fun of a handicapped person for having their handicap, I mean, I can understand if it was, I am Joe Smith on Twitter. Well, fuck you, Joe Smith. Well, hey, I have, God damn, I've,

you know, six uteruses. It's a rare condition. You know, whatever. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't know that. But would you mock a disabled person for their disability? I would like to think if I did that. Stacey would be the first one to come to me before if I worked for Tony Con. He would say, what are you doing insulting handicapped people? The fuck.

Well, that's the latest ricochet update. A couple updates here on the show. He issued a tweet. He lost in the pre-show Battle Royal, and he issued an apology. We'll see where we go from here. But, Jim, where we go from here, and we're going to end today's show, we will come back with the watch-along that we promised. on the experience or the next drive-through. But let's go to WW RAW. Yes, because when we promised that, we didn't realize that Raw was in between the flummox of the germostat,

so we're going to do that now and this then. Is that clear? It could be a lot. Sure, yeah. So Raw on March the 16th from San Antonio, Texas, the home of Ozzy Osbourne's favorite place Piss was sold out with 15,236. This is a bigger crowd than they have been drawing

for many of the towns lately. Brian, was this an anomaly, or is this a sign that's starting to be WrestleMania, so everybody's giving them their goddamn ATM pin numbers and just say, here, drain me. I don't know, because the show really hasn't changed much. It's still like there's something big at the beginning, there's something big at the end, and it's the usual suspects filling up the middle.

This was a hot crowd that were into everything. You could argue that Roman Raines' appearances, it may not be like the height of the bloodline with him and Heyman, but it's still a big deal. Aha, you got that right. I didn't think, Roman graced the fans with one of his contractually obligated appearances. And Brock. That may have contributed to it. And well, that's right, they had advertised, or had they advertised Brock.

Yes, they did. Heyman said these are the upcoming dates. These are the only chances you'll get to see them. Yeah. Well, there you go. So it's a point I'm going to make here in a second. Remind me about Brock and the house here, and Roman also. But they started off and 20 masked men entered the ring and began scurrying about like cockroaches when you flip the light switch on.

and then Seth ended up being the one in the ring and unmasked and cut the promo. And he's, I created the vision and I will kill the vision. And he talked about all the members of the group and he said, if you are standing next to Paul Heyman, you are marked for death. Now this shows a change in philosophy from the Vince McMahon days that I don't know that I necessarily agree with. Vince was not always insane. But it's also, it's a rule from the territories.

You never threatened to kill anybody just because that was, no, we just completely don't believe you're going to kill this guy. Don't say it with a straight face. I will beat your brains out or, you know, the colorful language, but not just flat out, I'm going to kill you. Did you think marked for death was a little dramatic, especially now when they know that it's all

ha ha and fall to roll. I mean, it's a line, but coming from Seth Rollins, it's not really believable. It's just, remember when Moxley was doing his promo and then I'll just have to kill you? Like, no, you won't. You're not going to kill anyone, man. Don't say that.

The Rollins stuff is pretty bad right now. I know people who go to these shows seem to be happy when people are there. But the whole idea that there was these masked men for months theory was a masked man but they've been these masked men for months and now all of a sudden they're all there with him and the scurrying around

this is not good creative I'll just say that but at least they're employing every goddamn outlaw wrestler in the state or two surrounding where they're at so they can have a bunch of people in the hoods but basically if you stand next Paul Heyman

you're cooked and he said I hit Haman with a chair and I stomped him into the mat and boy howdy, that's what he gets. And then suddenly in the entranceway appears Paul. And he is losing weight, by the way. I will admit this, perhaps my kind-hearted little jabs because I was concerned about his health, my fellow senior citizen, even though he is still three and a half years younger, me or whatever it is. I've just, I've been concerned about him.

I think he's taking it to heart. Because I do detect there is some element of, of shrinkage all around in both the girth of his jowls and his general overall. Well, you can tell when he walks by people, they don't lean into his gravitational pull as much as they used to because it's lessen now. but he was unshaving, Brian. And he had a red eye.

I don't know what was he, did he put lemon juice in his eyes? This is a dedicated, you know, a Stanislavski method motherfucker. And I'm going to ask you, you saw a cut on his nose. Did that cut look?

Because it wasn't bad. So it looked halfway legitimate. It wasn't like they tried to make a giant scar or anything. do you think he bladed the bridge of his nose just for effect? When? It wasn't a fresh cut. Well, I mean, immediately after the fact. But that's the thing is there.

He took a stomp into the mat. There's no reason. How would the bridge of his nose just up there been cut by that since it wasn't a potato? And he had a gimmick bloody nose when he was. leaving, but I just refused to believe that he was actually busted open by what I saw on camera, but yet he did have a gash we can generously put on the bridge of his nose. I think he went to either at or he did what I did when after I fucking hit the mark in Columbia with the racket, I went home to make sure that I had fucking the marks I nuff the marks I nuff.

my own nose in the mirror at home before I went to the hospital to have them look at it. Anyhow, the fans were happy to see him back by chanting, fuck you, Heyman, and Paul was not speaking. He was just standing there like the living death and just quivering. And Seth was taunting him. I'm going to pay you back for your betrayal every day until you're gone. And then Paul kind of, he's still in the entrance way and he's trembling, but he spoke softly. And he said, I wasn't going to come out here, but I wouldn't miss this for anything because

I'm effing with you because you effed with me. F-A-F-O, F-A-F-5. And here comes Brock's music. That was genius. That was beautiful. I love the idea of Brock Lesnar coming back to Defend Heyman. And that's perfect. Yes, but I'm at the material also and the delivery.

And just the building up of the emotion until finally he found it with a. And so here comes Brock. And meanwhile, all of the masked men are surrounding Seth in the ring. And Brock's just taking off his coat and his hat. And he started walking around the ring and he killed about four guys on the floor. And then a couple more. he's suplexing them everywhere. Those motherfuckers,

I'm thinking, Jesus Christ, I think if I was in one of the black outfits, I would just go ahead and fall down and pretend I was one of the people he had already fucking got to. But anyway, he got in the ring and beat up about six more.

And apparently, Seth does not care about his minions at all. Did you notice this? He just standing there like, yeah, go ahead. Just kick that shit out of him. He was standing there too confidently. Don't you think? He was just standing there. He wasn't worried.

Even when there was no one left except him and Brock, he didn't show any fear. Well, I think the insemination is, or the insinuation is, that he knew who was about to stomp on out there and save the day. But there was a pause. That's what I was thinking. There was enough time for Brock to charge at Rollins

and just kill him. And instead, Rollins, you got to see him stand there and smirk. And I think that was... Good point. I think that was a mistake.

Well, because Brock hesitated. See, he snoosed and he lost because now here came. I mean, they're facing off, as you said,

but the lights go out and the fucking entrance way to light. And there is Oba Femi. And he does his full entrance and the fans are chat. Oba, and of course because of international wrestling law Brock could not kill Seth Raleigh at that point he had to turn and stand and stare

for this guy to have his entrance right but after about three minutes and that's the thing three minutes all in the ring comes to a halt so that's the thing that I didn't like about this particular piece of business here as J.R. would say the angle that they shot here. But having said that

once Oba gets to the ring and he he's in there and they have the face off. The people want to see this shit. And Seth just makes a little move to distract Brock, very subtle and it rolls right out and

Brock turns around. And Obah just picks him up and power bombs his ass. That pop-up fucking giant power bomb he does. Boom. And lays him out flat and stands over him

and then puts his foot on Brock's chest, which by the way, for anybody thinks that Brock's a prick, you could actually see Brock remind him, put your foot on my fucking chest. Because he's smart. He knows what he's doing, Brock.

He knows how to get over and knows how to get people over. What did you think of that, though? That was the most surprising thing, I think, out of all this to me, we've never seen someone stand like that over Brock Lesnar. And point at the WrestleMania sign with the other hand. Right? I'll stand on the biggest box office attraction per capita in the fucking industry with one foot and point at the WrestleMania sign after I've just leveled him.

That's the way you make the fucking star. and Brock is smart about business and Brock also knows that he is just now created of an opponent for himself in a major main event not made of a major money match at WrestleMania which he's going to make who know fucking seven figures

who knows what his fucking deal is for for 10 minutes of work hard work with 10 minutes who goes over so I think Oba does. If they're really confident and wanting to launch him right now and it seems like they are,

then I think you take some of all of the deposits you put in the bank account named Brock Lesner and take a bit of that out and put it in the bank account named Oba Femi. And it still it, Brock Lester's account is still worth multi-millions, but the Oba account, it's just started like a Christmas account, the old days, right? You put a little in every week. It's growing and that'll be a

big boost. But here's the thing. And again, the thing with Brock and Hayman was brilliant. Just to recap, Heyman's brilliant. Seth, it's the situation. It's a situation. He's a situation. He's, he's the right man for the situation here. A little awkward when they had to stop everything down. But then this is exactly what they needed to do, and they didn't take any chances on doing too much and the people getting a negative opinion about wanting to see Obafemmy and Brock Lesner.

And I'll bring this up now, because I just saw this on the interwebs that our friend Schittstein, old Vinny Roo is, oh, they had this all backwards. Had it all, but he's thinking, because the heel needed to get heat on the baby face in this instance, Brock Lester should have beat up Obafemi to build their match at WrestleMania.

Imagine, this was his quote, imagine if Hulk had gotten to Andre before WrestleMania 3. And besides, I was completely different. This is the only, that's no comparison. part of wrestling he ever has a frame of reference on anyway, but it's a completely different build and a completely different situation, a completely different structure. Hulk and Andre at that time were the two biggest,

not talking about size, but box office attractions in the industry. Today, Brock Lester is obviously one of probably the top two, three, whatever the fuck, if not the top. Obafemi is not in the top 20 yet because he's brand new, not saying he won't be. But besides that, this is why that, again, you know, he got himself smartened up and he learned all the rules of thumb and everything about the rassling business. But there's elements and layers to it and it depends on each individual situation.

So, Brian, let me ask you this and it will move on. The UFC. If you ask somebody who's the biggest star in mixed martial arts, ultimate fighting, whatever they want to call it, just the mark on the street, they'd say Connor McGregor, right? That's probably the biggest name right now. Maybe. I can't think of too many contemporary USC fighters because, like many people,

UFC has bored me for a while, but he's still one of the names in the public. Yes, everybody. He would be the guy everybody. what's Connor McGregor ever going to do, which is why he probably never going to do anything anymore. But okay, you got Connor McGregor in a big fight on a big show, and you've booked him against a guy named Joe that's had four fights.

He looks great. He's won all of his four fights. He hadn't beat anybody with any kind of name credibility or anybody's heard of. So people go, what, who, what, where, how? Connor McGregor against Joe. But then they have the press conference. And at the press conference, as sometimes they do in the UFC or things like this,

things escalate and it gets physical and one of the guys knocks the other guy on his ass. Does it make you want to see that fight more if Connor McGregor knocks Joe on his ass? or if Joe knocks Connor McGregor on his ass. If unknown Joe knocks Connor McGregor on his ass, that's the story. I rest my case. There's no comparison with this in Hogan-Andre. Again, two completely different situations. It can't just be, they're all big, so it's the same situation.

Completely different. This is what I had to deal with for so long, and people wonder why I'm mentally impaired. All righty. and they had a bunch of other shit on Raw. But one thing that I want to make mention of before we get to our main event of the evening, our boy Danhausen was in a backstage segment. Again, that's what he's been doing,

but he gets a fucking giant pop now from the crowd that's watching on the screen in the arena when he appears in one of these backstage... It's a phenomenon that I'm starting. starting to recognize but still have yet to fully understand. It's a good looking T-shirt. Everybody loves the creature features, the horror movie hosts,

the quirky characters. I don't know how it applies to the wrestling program. But to people, the people love him, Brian, to people, the cult of Danhausen. there. Yes, they apparently love them. You know, he debuted and he's been used just at the most, maybe two minutes on Smackdown or Raw since. He gets a big pop. They've gotten you are cursed over. They've had things happen that could or could not play into the curse. The Mrs. Mike going down, Dom losing the title. Could be coincidence. You know, I brought up, you know, he hasn't

really explained what his motivation is when he says, why don't we team up to people? Someone pointed out and they were right. Way back when we played his cameos, he explained it. He's into it for the money. Everything he's doing is for the money and the gold and everything. So it makes sense. He gets a big pop. They've been doing it now two weeks in a row where he comes out during a commercial break. I think this week he had a cannon to shoot t-shirts into the crowd. And it gets a big reaction. And the social media clip of his him doing something pretty basic, throwing t-shirts into the crowd, is getting a lot of attention because people right now, after that initial debut, they want to see him. And I guess you

could argue maybe WWE is handling this right. Maybe they're not giving too much Danhausen. It's just a little bit here and a little bit there. Just a little drop of Dan House. Unlike a Orange Cassidy or an El-Lizar, not Elizade, I did it again, the lizard guy, iguana. he actually has material. He's actually a sharp guy. You could tell, not that Elizard is not a sharp guy, but we don't know he's not doing material. You don't need to worry about hurting his feelings at this point.

Yeah. But basically. But you could tell this is a sharp guy with comedic instincts, and they're using him just a little bit here, a little bit there with mostly comedic-based characters in the back from Kofi Kingston to the Miz. And he's getting over with these fans. well and that's what they had cofie was in the back giving javon some basically telling him what to do and javon was like well i don't want anything to do with you and he walked off and grace and waller came in but it didn't look like that they were getting along too well waller and cofey and then suddenly again from stage left they noticed dan how's ah they did you know he's there and they get the big pop from the people

in a building and Danhausen wasn't what about being a member of the new day and Kofi blew him off and wanted him to leave and Danhausen did the thing where you started to draw back a you are and because I'm trying to say it correctly Kofi shoves Waller in front of the curse as it comes around cursed and then Waller's like oh shit what and he argued with Kofi and with And Housen disappeared again when I still think they ought to do the, damn 360 spin and he's nowhere to be seen. He can just do a drop down.

But nevertheless, I'm just, I'm wondering like you, how they're going to apply this at some point, or is he just the impish, you know, person that inhabits backstage every once in a while? or does he get two minutes with Danhausen in some fashion to, I don't know. I mean, eventually you got to think he's going to work a match. He is a wrestler, although a smaller guy. Oh, boy, I don't know whether, I don't know whether that might kill the whole deal because then they've got to, they're probably going to, they'll have a higher probability

of hooting at him as a not up to fucking W. be standard wrestler possibly that is a fucking quirky, funny character around it. I still remember that one spot he did we saw in Ring of Honor where he went to the floor and he got himself between the ring and the apron and he just popped his head up and was like, ah! I mean, eventually they'll do something. I don't know, maybe it'll be like a tag match with Our Truth or just something to keep all the comedy guys together, but he's over right now.

we took back the idea that anyone who comes out of a box is over, maybe we were premature. Well, I think both of those things can be true. On that night, he wasn't over because of the situation, but it was neither his fault nor the boxes. The box was an innocent victim at all this, Brian. The box had no agency over their own free will. Well, did you see?

That's a deep subject, as Aunt Lola would say. Did you see Penta versus Dragon Woods? a really good match here. Well, I'll take your word for it. Because I think that's something about the plumber happened right about then. What about me? And I'm not that one, the one that I actually called

to come to my house and fix something, rather than You need me to adjust your pipes, but maybe I'll just kill you. Yeah, I wonder, is there somewhere or another that Moxley could start a service in the Cincinnati area where he'll come to your house and bleed for you for a certain amount of money? I'll likely put my name on it, but it'll be Wheeler and Garcia. They'll be the ones coming to your house, but I'll be in the commercials.

We're the pinch bleeders, but where would you like is to bleed, ma'am? Well, there was the big main event, Brian. I did take a peek at that. Roman Raines and one of his contract-mandated appearances, as well as CM Punk. the fighting champion who comes to work every week. He's a working man. He's got a lunchbox when he goes to work.

He's just, you know, he's just like you and me making millions of dollars. Did you see everything throughout the show with Roman Raines and the Uso's? Because although not exactly like it, it was kind of a throwback to the peak of the bloodline where all throughout the show there were these segments with Roman and his family building into what was going to happen at the end of the show. They're all wondering who's on who. who's sad and who's telling who what to do. And L.A. Knight, I believe, is going to stir some shit.

I saw that one also where L.A. night is probably going to stir some shit up between the Uso's because he got a fist bump from one of them, but he got a teeth grit and a uh-uh from the other one. And I think it was, it was Jimmy was the fist bumper and Jay was the teeth gritter. That's right. We haven't heard the word yeat in a few weeks and that's been a nice relief. And obviously, if he's going to be more serious, he shouldn't be saying yeat. so it works out there.

Roman called for any Samoan wrestler to beat up CM Punk earlier in the show. What did you do? Did you hear later I'll end this interview where punk said, I'm not going to call you by your real name because I like a Samoan name Joe. Well, that was a great line,

but the first lady goes, what did he say? He's like, I'm not going to call you by your real name, Tatatututti or whatever it is. Yeah, right of gratuee. He said, member of the

member of these Samoan ratatouis uh yeah well and and here's that even Roman rains they did it but with Roman it works I've got to say this when they they started Roman's entrance and went to the fucking break

and when they came back they were still playing the music and he was still walking around and milking but it wasn't like it was only like five minutes which is how long it takes him anyway So it wasn't like they were just leaving a guy to stand there. And between the OTC chance and the singing his name and the more milking,

you got, acknowledge me six minutes after he had started walking out there and in some more milk afterwards. But in this instance, it's working because now they've got to focus and there's something people are looking forward to. at WrestleMania to see these two fucking guys. So, Roman starts putting himself over and, you know, it shows

whose show this is. And I close the show. And Phil, Phil gets a little confused. He thinks it's his show. He's so condescending. He, and that's why, God, he's such a good heel, right? But in this instance, it's, it still works. It's him.

and he called Phil out to handle some business and the fans are chess. See him punk. See him punk. They've not turned on either guy in a major way so far because neither one of them has acted dishonorably in the term of who they are supposed to be. Brian, does that make any sense?

Yeah. And it was a weird dynamic because both guys got big baby face pops whenever they talk to the audience and then the other guy would do it. So we go back and forth. And they're still going to as long as that, that's the thing with every, I don't say every,

but with many confrontations between top baby faces, there's always some time, there's always something said or done that people think, well, that was kind of out of the way, right? In trying to make it, and that's why that they tend to swing

in one direction to the other, That's why Vince Senior didn't want to do Andre and Bruno. He's like, he's not worth it. Why did I say Vince Senior at an Italian accent? It's not worth it. Vince Senior is not Italian, was he? But these guys are being themselves and they don't like each other and they haven't and they've got history of it.

And, you know, it's working. So punk comes out. and they're chanting him and right on cue and the fans are singing the song and he smiled and he took his time no hurry at all he's playing the mind games he's shaking hands in the crowd and getting on the desk

and going back around the ring they got face to face in the ring 11 minutes and 30 seconds after the segment had started right but then the people are going fucking crazy So they went back and forth again. Roman is like it's my ring, it's my main event.

And that's when punk did the, your name is Tlophilophily or whatever. And they just got them to chant for each of themselves, however that grammar is supposed to work. And then Roman said, Phil, you have a main event at anything. and Phil said that Roman was two chicken shit to show up last week. And they started arguing about the Uso's. And finally, Roman cut to promo.

This is obviously this is bullshit. Don't waste my time, Phil. Started to leave. Punk blocked him, wouldn't let him leave. And I tell you when you can go. And young boy, now's not the time. And, oh, and Romans, the facials on Roman are great when you can see the wheels turning his head about what, you know, what should I fucking think about this? And they, again, they went back and forth.

And then finally, after all of these pointed comments, but if this is where they're going, I can kind of see it. what finally got punk to punch roman was when roman said it i'm better than you in every way you can talk but you can't walk and at the end of the day you're old and punk just pushed him in a face and at that point here comes adam pierce and the agents and roman was laying there smiling he got him all the time punk was saying that he was in Roman's head Roman got into blah blah blah and so the officials are taking punk out and Roman was in the ring happy and I know again this is why I think what they're doing

is some people said oh you never call the baby face old well potentially it was when it was me talking about Mr. wrestling two in his 50s in Louisiana yes that was a touchy subject may have been the case, but they're within six or seven years of the same age of each other, I'm pretty sure, these two guys. But Roman is just, he's disrespecting punk as the older generation. And also is that the point that Roman's going to start trying to drive in to get into his head? Is that punk going to have the doubt that he's the old gunslinger and there's going to be somebody faster.

And because he is, acknowledges that he's, he'll work a few more years and however he feels. I'm sure there'll be no, you know, immediate financial problems in the, in the punk household. But will they make that his weak spot where the younger guys can get at him?

Hey, old man, and he has to fucking dig down. and you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. Obviously, they needed something to be the trigger to get Punk upset, but hitting him with your old, I mean, Roman's 40. I know punk's 47, but it's not like a young guy saying it. They have like the equal amount of gray hair in their beards.

You know, it's not some kids saying it. It's Roman Raines. It was never there. I don't know. You know, I thought last week was such a home run with him and, the Usos, with Punkin'i Usos, and I thought this week was really good. I just didn't like that one thing at the end. And to what you're saying, I would almost be fearful that would happen. I don't think it's helpful for a baby face CM Punk if he's going to remain a baby face to be the

old man, because he doesn't really look it. I know he's been around a long time when you think about it. Like, well, he must be older, but he's got a fresh coat of paint in his hair or whatever. I mean, he looks young. He looks, I shouldn't say young, but he doesn't. doesn't look remarkably older than Roman reigns. No, but what I'm saying is that the old Vince thing, perception is reality, because punk was in the main events, what, six, seven years, whatever period it was, that's a lifetime for the wrestling fans. Before Roman was, they believe that he's of the previous generation.

what I'm saying is not that punk would then come out and admit, yep, I'm fucking done, I'm over the ill, shit's falling off of me everywhere. No, he would make that his, his, the only reason I can think of why he would punch the guy on your old as the ultimate of insult is that may be his mental weak spot, which is where he launches a campaign show, I'm not fucking over the hill. I'm going to be as good as I ever was. I'm still the greatest of all time. I'm going to defy father time.

The positive aspect of that after Roman gets into his skin like that, not to just roll over and go and then prove it if he's, you know. He's the champion. He's proved it. Exactly. It's one thing if he was chasing the championship and he got called old and he has to overcome that, but he's overcome it. He's the world champion.

He's overcome. Well, that's what I'm saying because I don't think in, I don't believe that they will put the belt on Roman, who, again, as we've noted, appears intermittently rather than punk. So I think punk is going to say, the old man's about to kick your ass. It's what I'm saying to you. Again, we'll see. I'm not sure how I'm not saying it everybody that comes along for the next fucking six months.

By the way, you're an old motherfucker. I'm talking about, is this the issue here? It just seems like a weird trigger. again, Roman Raines is not some 30-year-old wrestler saying it to him. If MJF had said that to CM Punk four years ago, whatever, it hits differently than Roman Raines, who, you know, minus the first few years has been in WWE, OMA. I mean, he started right before Punk left. He's been there forever, too.

So again, they needed something to be the trigger. It just, to me, I felt weird that that was the trigger in this situation with these guys. and it seems like there's something brewing, obviously, with the Uso's and Roman and punk. And let's see, and L.A. night maybe in the mix, too, so we'll see. And then I guess they tease the idea of the vision versus the Uso's. But what do you feel about the main event?

Well, and that's, unfortunately, with the Austin Theory and Logan Paul being the last remaining people with vision and the vision, they almost have to go back and do what they did with a breaker and read and put the tag team belts on them to give them something to show that they are championship quality, caliber, whatever, it might elevate the tag team title

of Logan Paul's a part of it right now. But I think, you know, that may be where they're going with the USOs, independently of that, do we have the Uso see? The problem I think some of this teasing is if they bloodline was great, but is bloodline too going to be as good of a sequel if they start having the Uso's on different sides of each other or different opinions on who needs to be told what to do by who and who's taken up for the family?

that was what made it good before, but all that stuff has kind of been settled to the point where is it going to look like a rehash? Well, we shall see. That was the main event. Did that sound like hash? I wish I had some hash right now. But that was the main event of W&Rall.

Corned beef? Not corn beef. Not corned beef, the real deal. Moroccan. Moroccan. Oh, what kind of meat? do they use over there in Mo Rocca? Well, once again, that was WWRWA.

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