Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru - Episode 439: Jim Reviews AEW Dynasty

Episode Date: April 18, 2026

This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews AEW Dynasty & WWE Raw! Plus Jim talks about Will Ospreay, Rick Rubin, Kota Ibushi, Club WWE, Dennis Coralluzzo's truck stop event, terms banned from The Masters, and much more! Also, Jim reviews El Grande Americano's recent actions in AAA! Thanks to our episode sponsors: SHOPIFY:  Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at shopify.com/jce HEXCLAD:  Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at hexclad.com/JCE #hexcladpartner SUNDAYS FOR DOGS: Go right now to sundaysfordogs.com/JCE50 and get 50% off your first order! SURFSHARK: Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Go to surfshark.com/JCE or use code JCE at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! 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.

papers there that we're following. Hello again, friends. And you are our friends. And welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-through right here, wherever your papers are. I'm your host of Great Brian last. I don't know how much fun we have today. We're going to try, but there's a couple things we've got to get through first with this man, the leader of the cult of Cornett, Mr. Jim Cornett. Yeah, as soon as we get through with this guy, we'll have some fun. that you just it sounded almost like the phantom of the opera had fucking fallen across his keyboard after being unmasked in the middle there and then to say you tried to get it back and it just it went all over the place i thought it was just fine oh there was that it was building slowly

to not be offensive and then suddenly just again you were supine on the keyboard just in the midst of a seizure of some inscription. I have a hearing issue. You said I'm super on the keyboard. Let me just write that. You have a hearing issue. Well, listen, we promised fun today. You can't go back on that.

Well, Brian, let me ask you a question. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Let me put this a different way. I'll put it a different way. That's a good idea. Let's say you never had something. you always wanted it you've kind of wished you had it

you kind of might be bummed out you don't have it but you can't miss it because you never had it so it's not gone it was never there but then when you have something and suddenly it's just take it away from you just snatched away from you for no good compelling reason

and you had it and now you're pissed right case in point last year in April at this time, what was going on in Louisville, Kentucky. It was raining incessantly. It was flooding. There was 10 feet of water in parts of downtown,

state of emergency, disaster area, whatever the fuck. And they canceled thunder over Louisville. And we were all bummed out because we had it. And they took it away. But then this year they've been promo and the big red, white, and blue thunder, in honor of 250 years of America, the biggest blow-off ever,

and the weather has been, as you know, abnormal here I've mentioned. And now we're setting, instead of cold and wet, we're setting records for hot and dry. It's been record heat. The trees have bloomed early. And I can't remember the last time it was. rained around here, and there's some parts of the state are already in a drought

condition. Guess when the next time that severe storms are coming through the area has now been forecasted to be? When's that? This coming Saturday

on thunder over Louisville day, about the time that the fireworks go off, there could be severe thunderstorms over the top of the world's largest annual fireworks display and 250,000 people down at the riverfront trying to watch it.

What are they going to do? Well, I wasn't going anyway. What are they saying? They must be saying something on the local news. I thought, what am I going to do? No, they, they, the collective. They, the collective they. They have a guru of the command guy

that fucking, you know, wires everything up and is in charge of everything, and he's on TV live for the countdown every year. He's probably pulling his fucking hair out of his head right now. Because at first it was like, well, the air show, because there's like a six-hour air show with all these planes and aerial things. And the air show looks good, but boy, it's, you know, if we get the Thunderworks, Thunderworks.

The fireworks in it might be. tight before the thunderstorms and now they're coming earlier they're keeping an eye on it, they're monitoring. But I'm going to do the same goddamn thing I was going to do. We're going to be here at the castle having hamburgers and hot dogs watching on the big screen apparently instead of thunder we might be watching the weather

radar. I don't know. It's kind of like a metaphor for the country. It was the red, white, and blue 250th anniversary of the United States of America, and now God is pissing all over the whole thing. Kind of like a metaphor for the state we're in. Not that I want to talk politics here today, but real quick, because you open the door, and I've been laughing about it today with Suzanne. Donald Trump in the middle of his feud with the Pope, which is just such a weird phrase.

Has anyone ever said those words? In the midst of his feud with the Pope posted a picture, which it seemed most, most people, including his supporters, thought, was him depicting himself as a, at least Christ-like figure. As Jesus. As Jesus Christ. And it was so offensive to so many people on his side that, of course, he can't apologize because he doesn't do that. His explanation, though, is, I thought I was a doctor. Which is the funniest fucking thing ever. It was the Red Cross. There's so many doctors

and dress like that That actually it almost worked It almost worked until Did you see the guy that tweeted The exact same outfit It's hanging on the fucking peg At the Halloween Superstore The Jesus costume was exactly what

He was painted as depicted as wearing Oh no way I didn't see that The white gimmick with the fucking Magenta I don't know what shade of red that was over the shoulder thing and high heels for all I know. But yeah, it's a Jesus

costume for Halloween. I love it. Which is again, kind of a metaphor. We got a, instead of a president, we got a president, a guy wearing a Halloween costume of a president. Well, again, one of the biggest feuds happening,

not in the territories. We're talking to an international promotion here. The Pope and the president in this feud. I'm not even religious that I'm offended. He made the Pope the biggest... I've seen more priests interviewed on TV in the last day.

Sometimes in a group, sometimes it's just like a one-off. This is like their moment. Like, oh, we finally got something to talk about and it's this. We finally got something that's not a scandal to talk about. And it's this scandal.

As a matter of fact, there you go. They finally found somebody to tell, take the heat off of them that's even more offensive to the average person. But the poor Pope, the Pope ain't done nothing. The Pope's from Chicago, right? Originally, yes, he's a White Sox fan, that's right. Yes, he wasn't, they're trying to get the, is he like the post-Vent's WWE, where they're trying to get the smell of corruption out of the thing?

We'll find one from Chicago. He wasn't in on anything. He wasn't even there. He doesn't even know what pizza should be. Oh, come on now with your... You cannot tell the Pope about pizza. If he's from Chicago, I sure can. I don't even know if those words have ever been said before.

I may post a picture of me. I may post a picture of me and AI picture of me. Dressed as Jesus cooking a pizza. Just to prove my point. Stay away from AI. It'll get you nothing but trouble. But what you need to do is you need to wait until there's a New York Pope, and then he can plug the pizza. Because now it's Chicago's time to shine. Well, again, we'll stay on top of this feud, but... Not to even mention they're dogs.

I wasn't Jesus. I was a doctor argument is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. But I'm sure there's more to come from the White House. There's always more. I know somebody's waiting for me to get... I don't want. want to get cranked up because we got to talk about already about a whole bunch of stuff that I don't

that I don't really approve of without me having to go into it mad. I'm more resigned at this point, Brian, to the inevitability that this is all falling into shit. Well, Jim, speaking of resigned, a lot of the listeners, unfortunately, have resigned to the fact that many of the great

items at Cornett's collectibles are sold out, but there's still more. There's always more. And if we sold out of those, I'll find more. But ladies gentlemen, yes, you can go now to Jimcornet.com for the finest in t-shirts and books and DVDs and action figures and so much more. And I think I might still have a pair of pants left for sale in the ring-wornet. So if you want my pants, just go to Jim cornet.com.

It can be arranged. Jimcornet.com. You should do something where people can offer to buy your pants that you're wearing right this second. Like those pants now. Instant pants. I don't know. Would I be able to wash them first?

I might be embarrassed. These might be the ones with the skid mark. You can de-pants Jim Cornett. It's a great campaign. No, you know what's what they should have done. Back in the attitude era, if they'd had the internet and all of this, Faldorall, they could have had

where you've set the diva down and actually buy the clothes off of her and boy, when it gets down to just a few items, you know, the bidding would have been hot and heavy, as they say. That's right. We did have the internet back then, by the way. Just in case you...

Well, they didn't do all this shit back then. Although this would have been a Russo idea. Why didn't he just come out with that? That's now that I think about that, that would have been the next step from all of his previous sojourns into ideas for the girls, just have them come out and have people bid to buy their clothes off of them. Well, there's still time. Just like there's always time at Jim cornet.com, but Jim. Oh, was that still the plug? I have no idea.

I don't know where we are or where we're going because I've watched a lot of wrestling over the past few days, including falling asleep at least once during a wrestling program. Where do we start? I was going to go to the AEW pay-per-view, but I don't remember if you watched SmackDown. We talked about SmackDown. We talked about Smackdown. The last time I talked to you. That's right.

We've separated to watch more wrestling and reconvene. Well, we reconvene right here. AEW Dynasty. I knew it. One of their many pay-per-views. This is a big one. Because Kenny Omega vs. MJF's a big main event, and they're coming from the country of

Canada. Let's talk about AEW Dynasty 2026. Coming from the country of Canada, here he is. At least they had a couple of hometown folks, and it did help their overall ticket sales and the ambiance to the event. I said, what, did they end up getting the 9,000? Uncle Dave was predicting they'd hit 9,000. Well, I didn't see a final number, but I think they were in that range, yeah. But nevertheless, and I know people are going, I thought you weren't watched that. You made me promise to pay attention to the at least pertinent, pithy things

that might occur on this thing. So automatically we could shave about half of it off. But for the sake of the people who need to hear what the fuck went on, I said last time, what else are they going to last paper, they had people electrocuted and they impaled the fucking guy's face and blah, blah, blah. The one thing did you notice about this program, Brian, the excessive booking and lack of being able to pick fucking talent that I've never seen before

to assemble this motley roster, the one thing they stayed away from, at least amongst the matches I watched, No furniture. Did you notice until the end, they did not break any furniture? Would this be a first? Maybe. With that being said, from the beginning of the show, they were ignoring the basic rules of wrestling, like, one guy in the ring at one time, or you can not stay on the floor for a count of a hundred.

Oh, yeah, no, they did everything else. But I'm thinking... Until the very end, until Kenny Omega MJF, I'm trying to think if I saw a table before then. can't off the top. Yeah, see, well, and automatically there's usually three or four per match. At least, and I would have to think that in normal cases, the main event participants, but I can't give Kenny credit for this much sense, but I guarantee MJF went in there and said, I'm not going to fucking let this guy do all this screwy shit to me was to do unless nobody else

is going through fucking tables. That has to be it because they've never exercised restraint before. You think is MJF the only one to be able to have the pull to goddamn just, can we just leave the furniture out just once? It seemed awful suspect that Tony would realize this after six years. Because usually MJF gets on first and gets fuck out of there without getting any on him. but now he's the champion and he can't do that anymore

did you watch the pre-show no oh come on this was for you kids it's a fucking thing was already four and a half hours long to begin with why do I want to see another hour of the shit they didn't think was good enough to put on the stuff they charged for they had a big match a big return of one of

I don't know if it's one of your favorites but certainly someone you've wanted to see you didn't hear about this I didn't I forgot they had one After an angle where she attacked Willow Nightingale in the back, Camille beat Big Ann. I was really hoping you were to watch the Camille Big Ann match. Well, I've always been a fan of Big Ann and her gigantic cans. Oh, come on now, be nice.

But I don't know who the fuck these people are. Okay, Camille, then that means that she is back after. Oh, they had a stat up. I don't remember the exact number. Three years. It was, no, it was not that long because it said first appearance in 548 days or something. No, but when we shot, was she already done with them when we shot the movie here? No, she was still working with them.

She was not on TV when you were promoting the movie, but when you were shooting it, I think she was still there. Or still being used. Okay. But by the time the premiere happened, she was, okay. So then we shot the movie, come this June, it'll be three years. So she easily has not been there in almost two. Or as you said, 500 and whatever the fuck. Who knows if they're lying about that?

A big comeback match here. Again, she beat up Willow Nightingale in the back here on the pre-show. And then she came out here and it was my first. first exposure to Big Ann, maybe my favorite name in wrestling. Big Ann. Did she look anything like Heather Feather? She didn't look like anything. I've never seen her before, and she was bigger.

That was the other interesting thing. It wasn't like they gave Camille, I mean, her name's Big Ann. Oh, Jesus Christ. So they bring Camille back after two years and put her in the ring with the only girl in the business bigger than she is. Well, big comeback victory for Camille. well i'm i'm happy for you think she'll get a big match with mercedes we haven't seen mercedes on this show in several months

well maybe two months it's been a while actually yeah i was you know this could be one of those chris adams billy jacks situations you never know i believe she's dropped now all the titles that she had you well except for one they they couldn't get her i saw and they were complaining on the internet they couldn't get her over to poland or something sorry. Well, the travel just wouldn't work. So that was the pre-show.

That was the only thing on the pre-show worth talking about. Well, I'm glad we got that cleared up. Now we have to go to the show? All right. So now the first match on this, again, feature-length melodramatic fucking production is the buckaroos against take a shit and oh, boring. And if you think that I'm going to sit here and try to critique this as a wrestling match,

I will make my comments brief and move on. You got the two duchiest wrestlers in the business against the laziest wrestler that I've ever seen and a guy that's been lost in the shuffle. And again, with O'Cock, Kada, no wrestler in the business gives less effort, is lazier, expends less

energy, is less motivated, or more fucking boring to watch and just this plain bland fuck wit with no body and no effort who is

getting paid millions of dollars to cuss in English and occasionally give people the finger. But nevertheless, I tried to fast forward 20 minutes into the show and they were still going. And then I gave it another five minutes

and they were still going. But at least it was the finish. In front of the referee, both of the baby faces were given Okada super kicks over and over and they got a two count on him. And then they picked him up for their big Meltzer driver where Maddie has the guy in the tombstone position and Nikki's going to do the front flip and grab him by the ass

and they all go down. And the referee's standing watching. Everybody's, take a shit, grabs Nick's leg on the apron to stop him from jumping. Well, at that point, old Nicky looks down. down at Take and Takey looks up at Nick and Takey looks in and Maddie's just standing there holding this fucking clown who's making no effort whatsoever to get out of this. He's just hanging there waiting on him.

And then Take, let's go of his legs. It's okay, go ahead and do it. And they still do the move, boom, one, two, three. And then Take gets in the ring and gives Okada the finger. It's like kids playing on a sleepover. Do you have any thoughts on anything I missed, or was it usually as, or as choreographed as usually is involving the,

the Hardley boys, and they sprinted from one cheerleading routine to another, the end? Bingo, and it's redundant. We've seen all the stuff they do. This match particularly infuriated me from the beginning because it was pure bucks in the sense that they had a bunch of ideas they wanted to do and none of them work within the rules of tag team wrestling. Yeah.

Rick Knox stood there. It was funny at times if you just watch him. He's nowhere near both of the members of the team in the ring at the same time for minutes and he's waving his arms around. So you don't even know what he's doing. Like in air traffic control? Like, what is he doing? And there's so much of that.

It bothered me on this show for whatever reason more than usual, the idea that they can't do anything unless they break the parameters of what tag team wrestling is supposed to be. They can only have matches with no rules. Otherwise, the fans won't react to anything they do. Well, that's it. We'll expand on that, not just the rules of tag team wrestling. these guys cannot exist in the parameters of the rules of wrestling

because elsewise the people wouldn't be able to pop it to shit that they do and when you go out there and give people electrocutions and fucking high falls into shark-infested waters and all of course they're going to but then if everybody gets eaten by the sharks and everybody gets electrocuted. After a while, they're like, shit, wonder what other way, what about a grenade?

It just goes on and on. And that's the thing that they did with a lot of this show. Because they couldn't break furniture, so they just broke everything else. Like, the creative thing was the way the Midnight Express, for instance, handled things. You guys cheated, you guys worked, where you had two guys in the ring at the same time,

and you doing something on the outside, while the referee was distracted or within the rules of making it all work and have built the drama of the match. All they can do from the moment the match begins is a bunch of things they thought of in the back or thought of at home that could only happen

if everyone could be in the ring at any time and they have endless time to do it. And like I said, that pissed me off on this show. The idea of no count was on, I'll ask you real quick here. Moxley and Osprey, was that no rules or was it no countout or anything? Oh, no, that was... Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

That was... Okay. Well, now, wait a minute. That one was for the one that was for... Oh, it's the Continental Championship. You have to follow the rules. Where not only are there rules, but nobody can interfere and nobody can be at ringside.

So, of course, it wasn't no rules, except they just didn't follow any of the fucking rules. If the only way you can have the match that you want to have is by being on the floor for minutes at a time, then maybe you're the lazy wrestler. Maybe you have bad ideas. But yeah, this match was exactly what you thought it would be. Eventually, and again, at some points in time,

either the referee would have been fired for not counting people out or disqualifying them, or guys would have been fired for burying the referee for not counting them out or disqualifying them, or whatever, the nasty memos would have gone out. He's their referee. And it, well, but I mean,

for many of these referees, because they, they can't. What are they going to fucking do? The guys, literally, in the days gone by, the referee would have finally

fucking double counted everybody out and said, fuck it, it's all y'all's fault. And the Booker would have backed him up. But nobody, because it didn't happen because you didn't have to because you had people

that understood how to play the game within the parameter of the court and the rules and the height of the fucking basket or the width of the fucking goalpost or whatever the goddamn it was. So you'd have to worry about somebody running onto the football field with a flaming football.

And also the people who benefited the most from MJF being the champion on these paper reviews are the bucks because now they, this is two paper reviews in a row they got to start out to show. Yeah. Do everything. And then get the hell out of there after 25 minutes. Well, speaking of people who

like to do everything and then get the fuck out of there, I was intrigued by the next match because Rickusay versus Jericho, Ricochet likes to do everything and Jericho likes to get the fuck out of it. But this was his big return. and I was actually at first I was puzzled because why would they pick ricochet for Jericho for obviously Jericho picked it

but then I now have realized not only is ricochet little and motivated to bump the fuck out all over the place for him and or provide all the movement but with Jericho wanting to be a full-fledged baby face anything he can do to this little weasel, this crowd, whether they like Jericho or not, will still like what they're doing to him. It wasn't, again, this is still Canada. When Jericho came out, they liked to sing the song, and they cheered,

but it wasn't like, again, like a punk return to Chicago or a big, until he asked for it, they don't really go all out with it. And then they kind of feel bad. Oh, shit, we're letting him down. But I think he needs higher wasted gear. Let me just throw that in at the top. No, I'm trying to be constructive. Because he is almost 60 or whatever he is. And one distracting feature of father time would be nullified is. if his pants had a waist about four inches higher. Brian, do you know the muffin man?

Do you know the muffin man? Chris Jericho has gotten himself into the best shape he's been in since maybe his last WWE run 10 years ago or whatever. Except for he's still wearing him fucking 80s, Brett Michaels rock and roll hip-huggers and he needs to bring him, I'm not saying Bobo Brazil. I'm not saying go full Bobo.

I'm just saying somewhere in a normal fucking waist rather than Bobo halfway up under his boobages and what he's doing now, which looks like he's a Chippendale. Like Nikolai or Bruno. They would pull it up to their belly button. Just up to where, you know, where it cures some ills.

Anyway, Jericho is smart at getting the most with the least. And he kept to people, he stalled, he took the handheld camera, but did really have anything do with it. I guess they didn't work anything out. He was just,

he was just trying to get the people up and be, you know, roughhouse Fargo. And ricochet flipped off of it around him. And I, you know, I'm not going to do a play-by-play on this match, but it was very smart on Jericho's part and still the way they did it.

you, it wasn't half bad and you couldn't tell Jericho was shorting any cuts or cutting any shorts. He took the big Death Valley driver on the apron that turned the tide and got the heat. And then Rickashay did nice, easy heel stuff with him. He was working the arm. Did you, when Jericho just stuck his arm over the rope and it was just signaling to Rickashay's stooge, come here, pull my arm. Did you catch that? Or if you weren't watching for three seconds, you missed it.

I saw that. Oh, God, damn it. It was right on the floor camera and they didn't, they weren't watched his arm, but he's like, me, me, me, and then the guy comes over. And then Aubrey Ed, she's the referee. She turned around earlier and saw the guy anyway. Oh, Jesus.

You know what? It's getting derby time. I'm wondering if, has she entered the state? races yet or anything. I had her winning by a nose last year. So Riggishay tried to work the arm, but

I realized as he was trying to work the arm, he doesn't know an arm hold. Did you see that? He didn't know exactly what they grabbed, but it was also in the in the middle of the moment, in the middle of the match. In the middle of the moment for about 30 seconds,

he had no fucking hold. He's just he has his hands on the arm but he has no knowledge of how to put a hold on it. Well, he hasn't done much of that in his career. That's what I was realizing. I'm like, my God, he's probably never put a fucking arm bar on.

So anyway, and then Jericho made a comeback, got to Lion's Salt, and the place popped for it. And then they do the back and forth and then they start started getting a little busy.

At one point, he gets the lion tamer, and then Stoge number one, Drew Aubrey Ed, and Stoge number two came in the ring and ran Jericho. It wasn't like he posted him or like he ran him in a minute. He just kind of ran his head to turnbuggle, boom. And then Rickettschen didn't, got out the other side, Rickettsay schoolboyed him two count, more two counts. The fans started getting tired.

and then again Jericho busted out the Hurrican run off the top rope to play with the young kids, he got to pop. But Rickashay just popped up from that and did a Pele kick that missed him and then a super kick and two suplexes and another finish, you got a two count. And then they did nothing for a while. And then Rickashay back flipped off the top rope

into a code breaker, which was nice, two count, and then nothing for a while. And then Jericho got to crab, and they did the same thing. One stooge pulled a referee, and the second stooge pulled, ricochet to the floor. So all three of them were on a floor where Jericho could dive over the top and they could catch him. But then they stopped him, and ricochet came off the top rope with a shooting star press. It just, bam, two count. Oh, God, damn it. And then ricochet hits Jericho with an elbow,

and then the lion's move, one, two, three. They had just, ah! The heel, stooge had just interfered to stop the baby face as it looked like the baby face, triumphing over adversity, and then ricochet comes off the top rope with his goddamn incredible shooting star press and gets a two count. So then he hits him with an elbow,

and then the lion salt, one, two, three. If they had to tell the story of him beating him with the lion's salt, then he's an idiot for doing the shooting star press. The fucking dude, can stop him and he can hit his lion's salt one two three but because bald dip shit had to get his back flip off the top rope in then he lost his fucking moment it was anticlimactic and if jericho agreed to it he just got beat flat instead of by nefarious means in the momentum change Otherwise, that is just great. Surprising finish. I thought Jericho looked just fine in there.

Rikoschet did what he had to do, obviously. Interference wasn't for me. And Jericho loses, and he gets to make that part of his story. He's a baby face. Like you said earlier, you don't have to do much to get cheered against Rikoshae. The AW fans know he's a douchebag. And Jericho, you know, the smartest thing has just been the scheduling of his return. The first night in his hometown didn't get as bigger reaction as they had hoped,

but still got a good reaction. Got a great reaction last week on Dynamite, wherever they were in Canada. And then here, you know, he said he did everything he could to get them behind them. They were pretty behind them. You know, so far, in Canada, at least, the Chris Jericho baby face run has been pretty good for AEW. Let's see what happens when they come to the States and we get more promos and more angles, But I think Jericho's done a pretty good job so far as a baby face, notwithstanding the result of this match.

Well, and that's the thing is that it was right for him to do this job. First of all, he was always going to do that because that's part of making him the baby face. On the finish, it just lost the goddamn, they lost the plot there for a second. And it's kind of a running theme through this show, which they do all the time. they go too far. But, you know, again, that's the thing, is Jericho is smart at how to present Jericho as far as getting the most out of the least in these matches.

So because old Uncle Dave was like, well, you know, Jericho's coming in at a place used to great matches. Well, no, almost none of them are great matches, but they're used to fucking flippy, chaos, bullshit, risk your life. matches and how's Jericho going to compete there he he did they did a wonderful job he learned from bullet Bob Armstrong when he was just a wee boy watching Bob Armstrong when Jericho was in Smoggy Mountain wrestling is two years younger than Chris Jericho is right now that is crazy maybe it's a haircut but Bob Armstrong looked 10 years older

than he was and certainly older than Jericho. Although, well... But Bullets' arms were bigger than Jericho's is now. But that's the thing. It's just, it's different eras and people get used to different things. But yes, when Chris Jericho was in spoke about wrestling with Bullet Bob Armstrong, the retired commissioner that would come back to wrestle for the big shows, Jericho is now two years older than Bob was then.

How old was Sandy Scott? I'm going to say between 62 and 63. Okay, so still a few. No, Sandy looked younger than he was. He may have been 65. He might have been. Well, you brought up Chris Jericho's pants. I brought up that he's in great shape right now,

the best shape he's been in in a long time. Good to see. Maybe that means he's taking us all very seriously. You have to wonder, what else? is he taking seriously to get in the great shape gym. There's no easy option. It's not just, hey, let me get lipo and I'll go back on the road. It's exercise and it's diet. And of course, you could have all the ingredients you need, but you need the right instruments, the right tools, the right pots and pans to make sure

that these ingredients become the healthy, nutritious, delicious meals you want. Maybe you want a Happy disgusting meal. To be more like the Chris Jericho of 2021, I don't know. The option is yours. Help me, Jim. We're talking pots and pans from our friends at Hexclad. Well, I'll tell you, you are Hex today is what you are. Ladies and gentlemen, I said this other day on the experience I will say it here on the

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All right, the great deal is over. Back to A.E.W. Dynasty. Yeah, all right. I saw no reason to dig into Darby Allen and Andrade. So I know that some way or another Darby won. I don't care about Andrade and I'm over Darby. If it was a gimmick, I'd like him.

But we've established he really is just a fucking moron. And so then that takes some of the fun out of it. And they had him about ready to potentially it would have made more sense than some things they've done at one point what about a year and a half ago before he climbed the mountain if they put the belt on him but now he's just he's a fucking freak hanging around doing freak shit good match andrade once again did the thing where he in the middle of the match finds a girl who stands out because clearly she did not buy a ticket to be there, and he takes a selfie with her, midmatch, and then of course disrobes and takes off his

pants. I don't know what exactly they're doing with Andrade. Clearly, he must be happier than he was in WWE, but Darby gets a title shot this Wednesday on Dynamite. Well, good for him. Why is the heel the sex symbol? Because it makes him happy. You got to book things to make the wrestlers happy, so they'll come to work.

if it makes you happy. Let's not do that. Then why the hell is this so bad? All right. So now I watched, because this was something that if there was anything on this show that one would think had some redeeming qualities,

it might be the World Tag Team title match between FTR and Edge and Christian. You've got a legendary tag team. and the fans have loved them and it's it they're both from Canada hometown returning fucking heroes after as soon as Beth was as quickly as Beth was out of the wood she was on life support for six months but as soon as she was out of the woods he's come back to get even I guess the guys have beat her up and FTR again they they can work It's just at this point, in the promotion that values guys being actually able to perform in the ring

over pretty much anything else in their fan base's eyes, FTR found a way to get buried there too. So where they just people did. Remember a couple years ago with a music hit, the people would, fucking stand up like, yeah, they're going to tear the house down. Now it's like, oh, shit. They were super over. It's easy to forget that now because it's been a little while and things really have changed, but they were super over to the point where the fans were screaming,

FTR, FTR, during the Young Bucks matches and segments. Remember, they were super over. You know what happened? People saw them wrestle Young Bucks a bunch. Anyway, so, still, I've noted at the top, if everybody's serious about this, it could be just, just swell. Because I'm thinking, Edge and Christian will slow FTR down just enough to where they're using their talent instead of just getting so goddamn confusing. And just, but, and also it's in Canada.

did you hear the statistic that they gave when they said FTR has the most wins of any tag team in AEW history? I did hear that, yeah. 81 wins. In five fucking years? How is it? No wonder anybody gets, nobody gets over anymore because nobody ever sees them win anything. Anyway, I'm just, what? how long would it have taken the world tag team champions

even during the attitude era when the schedule was slacked up a bit to win 81 fucking matches? Three months. Four months, whatever. Three, four months. Four months would be fair. So anyway, this was another AEW match that I liked until I started not liking it when it just wouldn't stop.

but everything made sense they were fighting because they were pissed off and edge was really shining but then they stopped him and got some heat and they went to double heat I think one reason because they had so much time probably another reason was that they wanted to give both guys comebacks and Hedges' comeback did need to be last. That's why Edge's heat would be first. But I don't know why it's not just these guys, but it's every big tag team match that you see, they shine the baby faces for like two minutes

and then they want to go straight to the heat. And when there used to be heavy time constraints, sometimes you needed to do that. But I always thought part of the tag team formula of tag teams that always enjoyed and fucking all the ones I managed was that we shine those baby faces in different but exciting ways

to get to people really revved up in a certain direction where, oh yeah, and then you pull it out from under them. And yes, you can do that with a couple of spots but then you're getting the heat on the one guy to give the other guy the tag then you're getting the heat on that guy to give the other guy the tag where you've been there to begin with

it's we sometimes when we had to go a while we do two sets of heat or when it needed to be for a special occasion but I'd rather shine them well and then get fucking one set of uninterrupted serious fucking heat and then have a comeback and don't stay too long. And I mean, again, when pay-per-view became a thing for the midnight matches,

I was asking for, well, give us a, you know, a five-minute queue to go home. And then I just started wearing the fucking watch so I could keep track myself because sometimes they're five minutes, what are you going to do that? That was a long time. But nevertheless, that's, but the point is they had a nice tag team match with nice shit going on until it started going too far. They busted edge open with the,

doing the fucking belt spot where they cracked him in a face with a belt and busted him open a bit, but then it just got busy, got busy, got busier. Cash finally threw Christian into the announcer or not the audio fellow's pit, and Edge fought both of them. And FTR just hit him with a bunch of super kicks over and over, but then he foiled a knee lift and speared both of them. and he went to spear cash and cash sunset flipped edge and then the ftr hit the shatter machine one two three all that and they didn't even really cheat they wanted to show that edge was

going to fight back against the two of them at the end you know single-handed and to the end and beat him unfairly but once that they had i mean is that an official thing, Brian, now once you've thrown the guy into the timekeeper's pit, he's not going to be able to make it back. And now you can do stuff for however long you want to. And it's impossible for him to get back and help. Must be a new rule. In the classic tag team matches of old, there was more of a sense of urgency to people trying to get away with shit, I guess, is what I'm saying. But nevertheless, this was probably the closest thing to a

a fucking tag team of a wrestling match of the night with with the logic of what happened and or the execution of the work of the same thing. But at the same point, it would have been probably a lot hotter and more interesting six months ago after they shot the angle. Your thoughts? It was all right. I'm not a

Copen Cage fan and they didn't do anything here to make many fans of theirs. FTR are impressive. You just stop and watch them. They always know what they're doing or where they are. They obviously can work anyone's match. They're booked like shit. This feud has been booked like shit.

Edge and Christian lost the match. So the wife got attacked. Everyone disappeared off TV forever. then they came back immediately beat up the manager and then they lost the match. This feud is terrible. But, yeah, I have nothing else to add. I wish FTR were doing other things.

Well, see, here's the, with the finish, if they're going to have a rematch, then this was fine. Because the baby face has to come back and get revamped. revenge for his wife and get even. It doesn't have to be in the first match. But by the same token...

Do you want to see it again? Do you ever want to see it again? But that's two things. By the same token, when the baby face has been gone for six months and they just kind of get beat without the manager who means something, quacking somebody over the head with something or whatever the case. And secondly, did they leave anything for anybody to be able to be able to want to see any more of after after this but there's a more egregious example later on in the

program of what the fuck so still this wasn't this wasn't bad on the scale of what really fucking sucks yeah boy did you watch the casino gauntlet t-and-tie title match extravaganza to fill in for the vacated Cal Feltcher who's now going to be out for months of months. I monitored it. I didn't watch it thoroughly, but I watched

what was happening, and I paid attention to who came in and what the finish was. Well, but any match with Yuda and Garcia, Garcia somehow looks less... Smaller? Yeah. How does he look smaller than he did

two years ago? We all kept saying two years ago, well, now he's got to fill out now he's got to gain some weight hate to say it maybe get on the gas anything and somehow he looks even drink up milkshake at this point motherfucker he looks slimmer now than ever before and less like a wrestler than ever before well and that's i i knew again what was going to fucking happen in this i fast forward to 20 minutes after they started entering and there was Wheeler coming to the rings. I'll give us a couple more minutes,

and they're all in the middle of doing everything, and I wrote, Garcia is smaller than ever before. And then what I was thinking was, certainly they would just put the thing back on Champa, because he is obviously somebody you can do something with. People would believe in him. He's a good performer.

he was still kind of fresh but no they threw him out of the ring and Knight beat Garcia but at least does this get night away from fuckwit as a tag team absolutely not

we've seen various people win titles and just go back to what they were doing and who they were doing it with the title doesn't seem to matter or change things well anyway so that's he's now the new T&T champion there and I guess Champa is still out on the floor. What about Jamie Hater and Fecla?

I thought it was all right. Tecla won me over with that promo the other day. So now I kind of like want to see her. It went a while, maybe too long. I was about to say it took me a long time to fast forward because there was no on-screen fast forward. So I was having to guess and it took me a long time for this. Not bad.

Tackle one. Oh, good, good for her. And now we get to, we're two hours and 45 minutes into the pay-per-view and add another hour, I guess, for the pre-show. Is that how long it was, or did they do 90 minutes this time? I think it was an hour. Okay, so we're almost four hours into this show for the people in the building or the people who have watched the thing from the start. and we come to the return of the top baby face from a career near career. I sound like Nick Goulis now.

It'll be a near career rear ending situation. A near career ending issue and surgery. The baby face returns Will Osprey against the heel that now this time, this week, John Moxley, we never knew why Moxley and his gang were heels to begin with and try to take over the company for its own good and pour bleach down people's throats. And then they just became baby faces and he just quit bleaching people. And they got mad at the other group of heels that is an indistinct group that comes and goes and argues with each other and had multiple six and eight man and mixed

tag matches against that group, and now as suddenly as Osprey returns, they realize that, wait a minute, we've made a baby face out of the guy that fucking crippled Osprey. So when he comes back, Moxley just becomes a heel again. And now they have the showdown, Brian. Have I encapsulated that correctly? I'm over here now. Whoops, I did it again. So I had to see what the fuck they're going to do here.

And I was hoping can Moxley keep Osprey from becoming a fucking, just a chimpanzee in the trees? And by the same token, can Osprey motivate Moxley to actually work like an athlete instead of a fucking, like a Nick Gage wannabe fan club president? and the answer to it was both yes half the time because this match i actually until the point was going to say this the best john moxley match i'd ever seen i was going to say that at the bell the first move osprey came out of the gate hit his fucking elbow and knocked a fuck out of Moxley and then stood there smile and didn't cover him.

How much time do I have so he can beat him up some more? He's got 20 minutes. And then he hit another one and he beat the shit out of Moxley. And this is the top baby face that AEW needs. He's not a fucking nerd or a douchebag like Kenny or Page or spitball or whatever the fuck, right? he's got some personality and so boom boom boom

and then of course Moxley took over with a double arm DDT on the floor to the guy that just returned from neck surgery and it's five minutes into the match so besides the fact that they could have done something less impactful to start the heat

then Moxley got heat and he worked as a complete heel and it wasn't like he wasn't doing the garbage wrestling and he is the fake shit that he does he was actually being aggressive did you notice that Brian he was being

aggressive and making faces and fucking healing the guy in the ropes and shit I thought Moxley's faces were over the top goofy so I may not be the person to ask well but at least it was doing something in the way of trying to

be a heel against this fucking baby face. But then he got minutes of heat on him. And I'm thinking, okay, this is pretty good. At least it makes sense. And then Osprey just jumped up and did a flipping kick. And then it was right up and did a springboard off the top rope. That's what I'm talking about. Guys like Osprey and Kyle, they need an Nxte.

Unfortunately, NXT is all they got now. because there used to be OVWs or there used to be halfway decent trainers. But, you know, Osprey doesn't understand. He hadn't spent a lot of time with Riggie Morton. He'd understand everything. He had the shit kicked out of you as suddenly you're just doing shit and you're okay. Then they started going back and forth and then Moxley hit a, and for the sake of going back and forth now at this point.

And Moxley gave Osprey. a pile driver and got a two count and I wrote idiots. They're still at the stage. This guy had what the fans know to be a legitimate near career ending neck surgery. And milking, given the guy a pile driver should be enough to cause fucking riot. And then Moxley suplexed him on his head and Osprey got back up and hit a power bomb. I said, well, now they've lost the plot. And then now they're 15 minutes in,

and it's every indie match ever. And then Moxley gave Osprey a pile driver on the steel stairs. He better be glad he had that neck surgery. They must have made it better. Because why would a human being be able to sustain all this shit, whether he'd had a bad neck or not? they have not only killed every angle they could have done to jeopardize his bad neck, they've killed every angle they could ever do to a guy that didn't even have a bad neck to begin with.

But the doctor checked him after the pile driver on the stairs and he beat the count at nine. And then Moxley hit some kind of clothesline and two DDTs and got a two count. and then he did another DDT, double arm DDT, but a little higher in the air, and got a three count. He won. So these fucking lunatics,

their fucking top baby face is out for he's the only one with any gumption, any personality. And he can do all this shit they like to do for now. And they bring him back after surgery for six months and fucking to get even with the fucking guy. And the guy not only gives him four moves

that four future heels could have used all his angles to fucking make this guy want to get even for. But after he beats a shit out of him and proves that nothing can ever hurt the guy's neck, they beat him. and they beat him flat. He didn't even cheat. The fuck.

A bit surprising. Again, Wembley's right around the corner. And a lot of people presume that's where if you were ever going to do a big title match with Will Osprey, that's the place to do it. He's back. That's the time to do it. And I guess it starts with John Moxley,

wrestling a John Moxley match and winning. I didn't like this match at all. You were a lot kinder than I would have been. I think Moxley's... I said it before. He's the worst. wrestler in the entire world. Well, I agree with you, but for about

seven or eight minutes, I was like, okay, maybe they're going to try to he's going to get this kid over. Sometimes he just wanders back and forth in a ring talking to himself. His facial expressions are silly. Even when he's supposed to be exhibiting pain

or being dazed, he can't do it without it looking goofy. His match layout is always bad. If you watch his actual work, it looks bad. There's a lot of people that are into the personality at John Moxley,

and because of that, they say his matches are great and they love his stuff. His matches are terrible. His work is terrible. And the booking around him, I would argue, hurts the company a lot of the times.

The run of the death riders coincided with the least amount of interest AEW fans had an AEW. And right now, MJF on top, for good and for bad, it seems that things have recovered a little bit funny enough

and the fans are a little more into the product but you still get this Moxley shit it doesn't go away whether he's the champion or in the middle of the show and this was towards the end of the show and it went a while and it was deflating that Osprey didn't get the win how can you not tell the story

that Osprey returns and triumphs and fucking is pointed at winning the world championship and the blah, blah, blah, and Wembley Stadium. And instead, this fucking idiot gets in the way again. Well, Jim, that was the big return of Will Osprey, although he had been back, the big match that everyone was waiting for. But there's more.

There's still much more. Oh, much, much, much more. Much, much, much more. We are three hours, 15 minutes into the actual pay-per-view, 4-15, if you count the pre-show. and now in the entrance way there's a situation comedy set there's a couch and a door

and there's the signs up above like we're live and applause and laughter and there's a knock at the door and Roddy comes in the door and there's somebody on the couch covered up in a blanket asleep and he's going Hey, orange, orange

and he's supposed to be miced, but did you notice that some people you could hear clear as day and other people you were just hearing because they were yelling? Yep. And he fucking yanks the blanket off the body at its pockets

laying on the couch. He's like, five minutes more, mom. You're fucking 40, dude. Jesus, H. Christ. and then there's a knock on the door and it's Kyle O'Reilly and everybody as William Regal would say pulls faces and broadly overacts except for pockets who's somed and they and then Kyle says

conglomeration and makes a funny face and none of this has been funny and then they make their way to the ring and then their opponents are whoever the fuck these guys are now that showed up with Gabe Kidd and one of them comes out and starts humping actually

basically fucking an invisible person on the couch and in the other one say again I believe that was Clark Connors on the couch. Clark Couch-Fucker Connors fucked the couch,

and then was it Gabe Kidd that turned his back to the camera and then pissed on, allegedly, pissed on the couch. Gabe Kidd was the piss boy, yes. He was the Gabe Pissboy kid, Clark Coucher-Fucker Connors. And David Finley.

And poor David Finley, who has got to be thinking, fucking fuck. What in the world? Even my own dad's involvement couldn't. And so I said

at that point I'm done with this fucking thing like dynamite and I may come back and watch the main event later but I turned off at that point. So apparently Gabe Kidd got cursed by Danhausen for pissing on the fucking

goofy baby face his couch and he just hurt himself and they took him out. I believe dislocated shoulder is what I've heard. Happened pretty early in the match. I think it happened when he may have caught Kyle O'Reilly on a dive. He immediately started grabbing his shoulder, immediately started holding his wrist as close to his body as possible.

It was obvious what was going on. And then he did another close line a few minutes later, and then you never saw him again. and it just disappeared. New six-man tag team champions. Who? The trio's title was won by the conglomeration. Oh, okay.

I was going to say, wait a bit, did the two guys, what about if the two guys had won the belts, but the other guys already scheduled for surgery by the time that they win? Christ, everybody. All right. You never know, in some cases in AEW, we've had interim champions, and in other cases, it's like,

Kyle Fletcher won't be back. we have to have a new champion. You never know what the reasoning is going to be. Well, if it's a six-man belts, then two out of three ain't bad. If it's only one that's hurt, then they ought to get to pick a partner. But if it's 50% or more of the entity,

then they have to vacate the belts. That'd be my ruling. Well, we still have one more match, the big one, to the AEW World Championship, The champion MJF versus Kenny Omega. And I did come back and I can't remember how many hours it was later. I said, all right.

Again, MJF tries to put together stuff that, and I'm not going to sit here and praise MJF. People are still on that kick. I've already given up on him. remember he gobble gobble one of us one of us he's one of the freaks but he prized try prize he prized that's why pride something out of kitty here he tries to do shit that at least you don't think somebody's going to fucking get killed right he tries to stay away from the ridiculous high risk shit at least if he's taking it if somebody else is diving off the roof i guess he'll go

head and let them. But in this match, I've said to you, before we went on the air, the only thing I said about this match was, I have never seen a motherfucker look as petrified in the ring at one point as I did, MJF obviously thinking, is this motherfucker going to kill me or not? Did you notice the part of the match that I determined that on? Was it around the time of the top rope? one winged angel what yeah there you go

whatever the fuck that all of that top rope stuff where they got up there and tried as best they could to help each other balance and at one point MJF pitched forward and thankfully his shoulder

landed on the turnbuckle so that he wouldn't go head first to the floor and then dips shit got back under him holy Christ anyway before we get there i will make a compliment something good here mjf had a nice demonic themed new robe for the occasion with the pointy things and the fucking cowl and the six six sixes looked like the german goo girl's logo it was it was very avant-garde

and they did the spot before the bell where the referee searched and or demanded that MJF give up the diamond ring, which he did. And the referee put it in his pocket. So we were ready to go ring the bell on the devil versus Dushi McBaggington. And I try, Brian. I try. But he's a, Kenny has always had the weird, natural postures and gestures and movements and facial expressions and the unnecessary pointing and pounding on the mat and this whole god he's like a fucking high diver and now competing

on a 30 meter dive you know they just glare at me but now he looks so worn down and hunchbacked and frazzle-haired. I just, the first spot was an 18-phase bullshit spot that it was all Omega stuff and he stumbled on one of them. And then MJF took a walk through half the arena.

But I mean, at least this was a clear heel and baby face. MJF would do an eye-gouged and Kenny would do a Hurricane Rana. But within minutes, they're doing indie shit on the floor, drop toeholds into a chair. That was one of the big ECW inventions that every indie show copied. And then Kenny's back flipping off the barricade.

They're three minutes into this thing. It just doesn't make sense. or when Kenny another thing that I used to like about him, Jeff was when he had an opponent, he could have a realistic, incredible athletic wrestling match with a guy that could work

where he was a heel and the guy was the baby face and blah, blah, blah. Kenny brings a table over the railing, which I think got one of the biggest pops of the night. They just want furniture. And he laid it on MJF while MJF is laying on the floor and MJF had to pull it

into the proper place and sit there and hold it on camera. While Kenny did the double stomp off of it. So we're mud show in the first five minutes on a big time pay-per-view. And it'd been minutes

since either one of them had been in the ring, to your point earlier, where all of these matches no DQ, no countout, no common fucking sense, lazy booking, then I can't see that, can't unsee, Kenny's punches are so,

the guy can do a high dive off the fucking, the cliffs in Mexico on wide world of sports, he can't throw a fucking punch. And the selling, is he's over, he's reacting like he's a video game character or some of this Japanese anime that he, but at the same time, then in the middle of the heat, suddenly,

he comes alive for 10 punches into corners, starts doing a running spot, and then MJF stops him with a pile driver. But seconds after the pile driver, Kenny does his whole comeback, and every move he knows and gets a two count. Am I overstating this, Brian? I feel like I'm droning on. No, again, this match droned on. This match went almost 40 minutes,

and they kicked out of everything. You know, I was going to ask you, and I'll save it for late. Well, I'll save it for now. This has been a problem in both companies and obviously on the Indies and everywhere, the era of do everything from minutes on end

and both guys kick out of everything at two. Use your finisher sometimes multiple times within a few minutes and everyone kicks out. Can you take a step back? Can we turn that back? Because when it's happening everywhere, it defeats the purpose. The purpose wasn't Steamboat and Savage did it, Flair and Steamboat did it. Now, every match should be like that match.

It's too much. And they, again, they're killing each other. You're seeing it. And everyone kicks out of everything. This is the second eight of you in a row with a 40-minute MJF match. Here's the thing. Then they started doing the shit, and I mentioned it earlier. But first, they're going to get up on a turnbuckles,

but it's obvious that MJF has to help Kenny get MJF up on his shoulder and to climb the buckle, but then slip. after again kind of looking scared shitless on that one but then they climb up again and kenny carefully lets mjf pick him up for a tombstone but kenny squirms out but then they climb up again and do and then they do 10 different fucking moves in the ring and reverse hurricane ronnas to each other where they pop up and mjf hit a canadian destroyer on Kenny and Kenny just popped up to his feet and gave MJF a knee lift and got a two count. Did he acknowledge that the move had been delivered to him?

And they weren't 20 minutes in at that point. And I wrote, this is the fakesest fucking video game wrestling I've ever seen. And I started making my grocery list for Thunder Over Louisville with this kind of on in the background. It also may have been the slowest-paced Kenny Omega match at times, because although it didn't go really slow, you could tell they needed an extra second or two at times for Kenny to be able to move to do something, or who wasn't? It was like bent over just waiting for like a minute. It wasn't a minute, but there's a lot of that. There was a lot of like, okay, we have something we were going to do.

Now we got to wait to set it up. I think in various points, Kenny has been over and waited a minute, but they both did it in this particular thing. And then they went back to when they'd already almost fucked up before, they went back to the top thing again where Kenny is trying to give MJF the one-winged ferry off the fucking top rope or whatever, but he almost lost him in MJF

as is it caught on the turnbuckle before going head first to the floor and then as Kitty is trying to get under him and get him up there, the face on MGF was like, oh my God, is this motherfucker going to kill me? And he gave him that thing off the top rope, which is risky enough to do it right,

landing in a folded up fashion like that, off the top rope in the corner of the wrestling rink. is not a thing you want to be doing regularly. And then MJF rolled out. It was a fake move that could really hurt you, delivered in an obviously cooperative fashion. And then they went back to the match, like after a while, like nothing happened.

And they kept kicking out of everything. And then Kenny knocked the referee out. And then MJF hit Kenny into balls. and went to pick the referee's pocket for the diamond ring. Besides the fact that MJF is not a natural pick pocket, it took him a few minutes. Well, not a few minutes. It took him 30 seconds or whatever.

Kenny was on his feet in the corner, just not looking on purpose by the time that MJF got back to him after being kicked into fucking balls 30 seconds ago. And then MJF saw, swung and missed the punch and Kenny knee lifted him and hit the fucking one wing deal and covered him and the referee counted a 10 and referee number two or not the referee but the crowd counted a 10 and referee number two came in and it was a two count and then referee

number two that's run in is trying to tell you know whoever mjf or kitty no it was a two count, keep content. The other referee is still in the ring dead, and the referee's not going over to check on a dead referee. So then they go to the apron, and the crowd starts chanting table, table, because there's still a table sitting at ringside. It's been unmolested. And Kenny is going to give the one-winged winged wingy-dingy to MJF off the apron of the ring, but MJF turns him over instead, hits a gut shot. with the ring and tombstones him off the apron through the table to the floor in what looked to me to be as much of a shoot tombstone pile driver as you could give anybody.

And he landed right on his fucking head. And then MJF threw him up onto the apron. And of course, Kenny has to be alive to help. He's not, he can't sell bad. MGM immediately picks him up and he has to jump up on the apron and then hits the heat seeker pile driver. One, two, three. If you had, again, even if they didn't change anything else,

if you had MGF give Kenny that goddamn tombstone pile driver off the apron through the table to the floor and just let MJF roll in and say, count him, referee, and count him out and sling sweat on him and announce that Kenny's back in a fucking hospital, people would have believed it. Would they not? They would have.

Did that not look to you like, well, I think he should be kind of dead? The table spot looked rough, and like you said, I don't know about it being a shoot, but it's hard to protect anyone and it looked like it was kind of we're doing this no matter what, no matter how protected you are or not. Kenny Omega, you know, I've been saying it for a while that I don't know how many more matches like this he has in him. I mean it. I mean it. I mean, he looked pretty rough in there. M.JF was the perfect opponent for him

because MJF can kind of work everyone's style and get the best out of him, although sometimes that's his detriment is that he's doing everyone else. his match. MJF wins, 40 minutes, moves on to Darby this Wednesday, and then who knows what for Wembley. But this was,

I don't know. This didn't feel as big as some of the AW pay-per-views feel to their audience. And, uh, what else they're going to do? What else can you do to any other human being? And the heels won everything. Rickshay beat Jericho

Moxley beat Osprey MJF beat Omega FTR beat Edging Christian Derby won but who's talking about that match Yeah The Bucks won because the heels started fighting with each other

Yeah I mean it was Basically AEW putting the heels over All over the place The only people can beat the heels Or the other heels Any final words on MJF and Omega And AEW Dynasty that match was for the dogs

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and the quote was about the people that say he doesn't sell. I just feel there are different aspects in what people say with selling. If you understand, and look at the people, the backstory that I go through, who were the guys that I was training

alongside? Okada, Ishii. You don't think at any point in those training sessions and Japanese camps, where you'd land on your fucking head, and they'd be like, get up and just swing!

If you don't have that small burst of energy before you're about to do something, they're going to get the upper hand and win. I say to all those people, who say, you don't know how to sell. You don't know the backstory. You don't know how I fucking got here. You've never been in a situation

where you've been in a moment where if you don't put your fucking foot on the gas pedal, you die. What in the world? I get where they're coming from. I understand. But if you pause your opinion for a second and take a wide look at the arena,

they're standing up. You can't tell Picasso how to paint. Oh, Jesus Christ. So what are your thoughts? We just watched a Will Osprey match with Moxley. We talked about the issue in AEW

and everywhere, with guys doing everything and kicking out at two, let alone guys with long-established histories of neck injuries doing it. What are your thoughts on his opinion on selling?

We did see also the part where he took the DDT and then immediately jumped up and although dazed hit his finishing mover moving maneuver again what are your thoughts on his comments about selling and well at first I just thought he's I don't know what he's talking about he's just gibberish not answering the question do you like did he think it was a shoot in Japan he's at a shoot just because they don't know how to work they still weren't going to kill him But it doesn't answer the question.

It doesn't make sense. He's telling people basically, yes, I was trained poorly and nobody sold. That's why I worked this way. I learned how to sell from the guys who have trouble walking now. Yes, I learned how to sell from guys who don't sell anything and who can't walk and are stove up and look like human baked potatoes. But at least he was explaining to me why he didn't. didn't know how to sell properly while trying to defend that he doesn't sell.

And then he compares himself to Picasso. So now he's not just a confused guy that was improperly trained and got over in Japan, which is a completely different, should be a completely different style and a completely different universe. Except these jackoffs all, whether they're good or bad at it, wrestle like they're in Japan because they're marks. but to compare himself to Picasso even if you are one of the top three or four where do the painter fans

the artist fans rate Picasso these days if you're the top three or four or whatever you sound like a douche when you bring it up unless you're trying to be a eel and this guy is supposed to be a baby face so it was gibberish you can't tell an artist how to paint

of course unless you hire them and you hire them to do a specific thing and this guy as far as artist goes will Osprey is a house painter he can do all the moves because he's a freak athlete and he can flip around and land on his

fucking feet and all that stuff and he can wrestle like a video game character but he doesn't know how to really be whoever the fuck he's He's, none of these guys are really who they are supposed to be. They've concocted a character for themselves.

And it's not like ravishing Rick Rood. It's what would I be if I could be anything in a video game? Rick Rude was like, okay, you're tall, you're ripped, you get a lot of pussy, you're going to be an obnoxious, good looking guy. Okay, I can work with that.

they invent the aerial assassin and he's got the feathers and everything or all these guys they have no personality of their own so they invent one and it's all based around their video game fantasies and if they were really stars and then they do these athletic things because that's exciting to them overlooking the fact that it's fucking ridiculous leaves nothing for anybody else and it all blurs together and it just makes the business look like shit.

You know, you could also say someone is a talented athlete and not a brainiac. Yes. Someone can be very talented in the ring and not necessarily the smartest person anywhere else. And Osprey's got talent, but

you could argue that he may not make the best decisions. Jim, before we get to W.E. Raw. Talk about not making the best decisions. We have a couple things here that the listeners have sent in. Jim, any thoughts on Rick Rubin? Your old partner being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I just heard about this this morning. I don't know when the announcement came out.

But do they have a special wing? Does he, is he like a legacy guy like in the WWE where they're just going to you know, say that by the way, he's in or does he actually get a video or a speech and a presentation? Is this going to do they do? No, they do this because they want him to be there. He will be, and we'll talk about the other

inductees shortly, but he will be inducted as I guess in the musical excellence category. Well, and again, he's not a musician, but he has had a remarkable

impact on the music business. And so I look at this as possibly are they recognizing in the wrestling equivalent a booker or the old time type of booker or maybe a modern

agent or whatever because Rubin not only revitalized Johnny Cash's career and brought him to a whole new audience and with really kind of what needs to be done with the wrestling business is Johnny Cash had almost gotten to be a parody

and just country music and overproduced and I didn't even have a record deal at that time and Rubin just said let's just back up and let's just concentrate on this guy, this artist, this personality, this piece of Americana. and as he did American recordings, not because it was pun, it was the title of his,

or the name of his record company, but he went to Cash's house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, to the cabin that he had there on the property. I've been there when I drove Rubin to visit him one of the times. And that's where they recorded that album that revitalized Johnny Cash's career. and Rubin stripped everything down to where it wasn't a big production. It was just Johnny Cash and his talent and songs he liked to sing and or

he threw some new shit in there that Cash had never heard of from the guys that he'd been working with or producing or whatever. But before that, what was it, 87? he did the Aerosmith and Run DMC crossover, which kind of kicked off not rock and wrestling, but rap rap rap and hip hop. That was a historic piece of business. It was known as Rob. But that was a historic piece of business.

And both a run DMC. And revitalized Aerosmith's career, which was dead. Yeah, that's the thing. It revised Erosmith's career because they had been on the outs for all of their personal reasons and everything. But also it got run DMC over with a brand new audience when they had said, what is this, you know, hillbilly bullshit you want us to sing? He was just, he had a way of just getting to the guy's talent and taking away the shit that got in the way of it. and or collaborations that, you know, that would work.

So I think he's deserving is what I'm saying of being in Iraq, especially if goddamn Vince's limo driver can be in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Oh, I guess that's the other place, too. Different Hall of Fame, but of course people think of you with Rick Rubin because of his involvement with Smokey Man Wrestling. For anyone who doesn't know the story, when did you first meet him? my friend cat collins introduced us in Atlanta at the Omni when he came to see a WCW show

and cat Collins again was a long time radio DJ who he was I'm trying to think of exactly where he was working at what station but when he met the black crows and he had ended up he had done some publicity for them when they were on Rubin's label also. And then when Rubin split from, what was the name of his old partner? Russell Simmons, Def Jam.

Russell Simmons, Def Jam, has started his own record company. Kat's one of the first guys that he hired. He had hired Kat to go out with different bands or groups, people, artists that he had signed on their tours, not only to handle publicity, but just because Kat knew the music business. And but he called me one day in Charlotte.

And he said, hey, you're going to be in the Omni and such and such. Yes. I want to bring the guy I'm working for, Rick Rubin. He's a big wrestling fan. He loves you and Flair. And he wants to meet you guys. Well, okay. What does he do?

I'd never heard of him. And that's what he told me that Rick Rubin produced the Beastie boys and all these other motherfuckers. And out of his dorm room at NYU and his first role. he checked was for like a hundred grand when he was 20 years old or whatever. Oh, Jesus, age Christ. Oh, yeah, he's a multimillionaire.

He loves y'all. But anyway, but then when I met him, found out he's smart to the business. He is a very smart guy to begin with. And, you know, we stayed in touch and talked. And he was like, boy, I wish, you know, somebody could do wrestling. This was the middle of the corporate bullshit era where Vince was. selling ice cream bars and WCW had taken over or TBS had taken over WCW. And so I said, well, if I ever leave, maybe we could do something.

Well, maybe we can. And then I did and we did. But it all was just, you know, a chance, hey, say hello to this eccentric recording genius that owns this record label that it just hired me from a friend of mine. Well, once again, Rick Rubin going into the Hall of Fame from my hometown, Long Beach, New York, Alito Beach, New York, the dunes of Lido Beach, where my family's house was. The Dunes of Lido Beach? That sounds like a bad Phyllis Diller's sitcom from the 60s.

Well, it indeed is the Dunes of Lido Beach. Stephen Eadie, lived on my block. But Jim, let's talk about the other inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Get your quick thoughts before we move on to Raw. going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Phil Collins. I can see that. Not only as a multi-platinum single star,

but also as a member of Genesis and... Well, no, that's separate. He's probably already in with Genesis if they're in, but this would be separate from Genesis. Oh, so now they're recycling people like the WWE Hall of Fame. Well, we already got Flair, but now we have Flair in the Horsemen. and blah, blah, blah.

And are they resorting to this same thing? There's been so many great rock and roll stars. They have to resort to these tactics. Well, there's also been a lot of great stars. They've ignored the Hall of Fame, but let's move on here with the list. Billy Idol, and going in with Billy, will be his guitar player, Steve Stevens.

Well, the man with the very uncreative first name. Boy, howdy, I'm just thinking if Billy Idol gets into Rock and Roll of Hall of Fame, then Dick Murdoch ought to be in the goddamn Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. I don't see the comparison. How do you make that comparison? What is that? I'm saying that Dick Murdoch was at least as important, if not more, in his industry than Billy fucking Idol was to the history of rock and roll.

All right, well, let's rock the cradle of love and move on here. Iron Maiden going into the Hall of Fame, and they list about 20 members here. I'm not going to read all their names. Well, and again, I guess they've hit the high points of all the heavy metal bands at this point. So let's give Iron Maiden a shot. Also going in, technically two bands, but one that morphed into another, New Order, which became Joy Division. Well, now, wait a minute, the New Order became the Joy Division? When New Order's lead singer died,

they stayed together as a band they were overjoyed and became the joyed they were waiting to get rid of that son of a bitch they became new order they wanted to get rid of that son of a bitch and as soon as he died they got a new order

and became joyful I don't know who any of these fucking people are all right Jim also going into the Hall of Fame Oasis the Gallagher brothers and several members their band over the years?

Well, I guess that's, you know, they're the new, the new hip kids like the new music, like Oasis and shit, so I guess they're good for the modern generation, right? Huh, I'm surprised which drummer it says he was going in, but Oasis certainly deserving one of the last great rock stars

Liam Gallagher. Jim, going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Shadee! Shut up! And with Shadee, it will be the group members, Shadee Adieu. Andrew Hale and Stuart Mathurman What?

Badoo Bajidji, do boo, blah, boo. What the fuck are you saying? Her name is Shadeh, I do. That's her full name. That's why she went as just Shade. Just Shadee. I thought it was Sadie for the longest time, to be honest with you. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is she, what great rock and roll hits is she noted for?

Smooth operator. That's it. And that's, would you call that in any way, shape, or form anything to do with rock and roll? No, not really. It was on MTV. It was on MTV. That's about it. And it was a Buddy Landell video on TBS.

But besides smooth operator, what is her operator? Would you help the place is called? What is her next biggest? I can't name a second shot. I saw another than smooth operator. Jim, going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, known rock and roller, Luther Vandros. again I'm not I'm not disputing

the person's talent in their chosen field but shouldn't they then just start calling it the Hall of Fame of Recorded Music is that like Joe Namath should be in the basketball Hall of Fame because he played football great but I met Luther Vandre he's a fan he came back to backstage to Madison Square Garden

time when I was there And he, I'm just so happy to be here. He just talked like Michael Jackson if he gained 100 pounds. Oh, I got some stories I can tell you about him. You know, he was one of the background singers, and there's even footage of it, I think, when they were on the Dick Havitt show, or maybe, I think it was Dick Havitt, of David Bowie when he did young Americans. One of the background singers on that is a young Luther Vandros just starting out.

Shut to fuck up. Well, one more in the performer category, and then we'll quickly go over the other, categories. Jim, again, not necessarily rock and rollers, but going in this year, the Wu-Tang Clan, all of them going in this year to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which begs the question, will Billy Eid will be going into the Rap Hall of Fame anytime soon? Well, that's, I get, I know I've heard the name. What were some of their great radio hits that I might have heard? I mean, they had good song. I'm not going to put down Wooten Wu-Tang, you would have heard none of their songs ever.

Just completely none ever. None ever. Okay. A lot of people in the Klan, you say? Jim, let's move on here. We're not going to talk about Dick Murdoch right now. In the early influence category, Celia Cruz, finally, will be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as Felakutie. Wait, wait a minute, hold on. Fela Kootie, that's like a fellow

Kootie, like she was in the group, the Kooty? No, no, it's a guy, and his music is actually pretty awesome from Africa. I'm still trying to figure out who Celia Cruz is, and then you hit me with Felicudy. Fellow Kudy, and Celia Cruz, I believe, I want to say she's a salsa legend. Maybe I'm not exactly right.

I don't really listen to Celia Cruz, but I see they always honor her on TV once a year or something. On Sierra Cruz Day. In New York. I think Chris Cruz hosts that one year on radio. Jim also going in as an early influence, Queen Latifah, Queen Latifah as well as MC Light. So, fuck.

And of course, when you think of Queen Latifah and MC Light, the third person is part of that group, of course, Grand Parsons. What? What's just, Chris, Grandfell? What's an early? Early, what's early? Early influence, grandparents. But that's like the legacy wing.

No. Maybe I don't know. Again, what's rock and roll and what isn't? It's subjective to a point. Graham Parsons, Queen Latifah, Celia Cruz, and fellow cootie. And fellow cootie. That's certainly a consistent group there for the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, he's passed.

Otherwise, we would have had the opportunity to see Fellow Cootie meet Shadei Adieu. But Jim, in the musical excellence category, we mentioned before Rick Rubin also, Linda Creed, Arif Martin, and Jimmy Miller. Wow, he's not in the Hall of Fame until now. That's crazy. Oh, Jimmy Miller's not. Well, son of a bit, let's burn that place down. Who the fuck is Jimmy Miller?

Jimmy Miller was the producer on every great Stone's record in the 70s. Huh. In the early 70s at least. I was not aware of that. And then finally as a non- And wait a but who were all those other people? I'm thinking if I'm Rick Rubin, I might not show up now. Like put me in the goddamn thing with these four fucking Jimbronies

that nobody's ever heard their name. Areyth Martin's a producer. I don't know who Linda Creed is, but Rick Rubin may be, if not the only one alive, certainly the only one that will make TV. But Jim finally, in the non-performer category, his time is now. Ed Sullivan. Ed Sullivan.

Ed Sullivan. joining the class with Wu-Tang Clan, Thelacutie, and Billy Idol, Ed Sullivan, finally honored to get into the Hall of Fame. We're hoping next year, Murray the K will get a shot. It's all over the place. To be honest, Ed Sullivan, I can see it because he was the first to break.

Yeah. On national television, all of those acts, whether it be the Beatles or the Stones or the British invasion, and Elvis, he was the first national exposure for almost everybody that would be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the period of time that his show was on the air. So that makes some sense. The rest of them, I'm thinking, Jesus Christ.

Well, that's the 2026 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And Jim on that topic, let's get away from off-topic conference. and let's move back to WWE and WWRWA on the road to WrestleMania this weekend. Oh boy. Let's bring this up at the start.

Did you hear what Cody said on one of the podcasts or whatever that he did? And now they're actually, the word is out that the TKO or whoever the upper brass are that's controlling this thing in the WWE,

we not even going to get mad if the talent want to express their opinion about Pat McAfee. Cody came out and said, yeah, we had, boy, this whole long story, the history between Randy and I is just incredible and this people wanted things and et cetera. And then we inserted Pat McAfee. The talent is, Cody's not the only talent that's unhappy. and the fans are obviously not reacting to this well, and it's like the bosses are like not going to go, oops, they're going, oh, yeah, it's good.

We encourage this healthy debate. Good antagonist, protagonist. What the fuck is going on here? TKO is interfering with the creative, very similar to the way Vince McMahon would suddenly have a whim and everything would change, even if it was right before showtime or during showtime. That's the best thing we could say, other than the stuff with the rock, which were limited to a few month period of time for two years straight. And in some cases, just one appearance.

But other than the rock, we haven't seen too much interference that we know of from the top and yeah, that's the issue. They didn't interfere with something that needed this as help. It was something that... You know what? If you made a transcript of that sentence that you just uttered, it would probably make no sense, but I think everybody understands what you're meaning.

They didn't need the help. And Cody's right, they had... It could have been booked better. I'm not saying WW was doing everything right, but it was there. It was there for them to grab and mold and get everyone pumped up for WrestleMania, and I can't explain any of the reasoning behind what they've been doing.

But it's an open secret now. Or who was the heel one time to cut a promo? It's a well-known secret that this was not creative. The boys ain't happy about this. We've talked about for the past couple years, boy, when they ever get to do Orton and Cody when they ever finally get around they've been saving this for a big

fucking deal and they had a big deal and suddenly they've thrown a monkey wrench in the whole goddamn a spanner in the works as they say over across the pond and

none of this has been helpful at least this show to be the go home raw for WrestleMania they didn't try to course correct anything, but at the same time, we didn't have to look at jelly roll. We didn't have to look at besides the packages. We didn't have to look at McAfee besides the packages.

But what we got was another two and a half hour show where the stars come out and either talk to each other or fight briefly. then we skip 45 minutes till the stars come out and talk to each other and or fight briefly and repeat that four times during the program and you're done.

And punk and Roman had a really strong promo again. I mean, it's not surprising because they're great. But that was, you had to sit through two hours and 20 minutes to get there.

They've overshadowed everything with this. With the idea that that's all anybody's talking about. Yeah, it's all anyone's talking about now is not that it's good, but that it's happening. So basically that's what we saw with, it was April 13th, maybe the lucky number 13 has something to do with it. And besides Romans pre-tape cold up, which we'll talk about when we get to their segment.

so we don't get confusing. The live rob began with Pearson, Triple H in the ring. Did you know they didn't notice, I should say, on camera, not only did they not introduce Triple H, he never spoke a goddamn word. Is he scared now they're going to start hooting at him if he does anything? He should be. It's not his fault.

He'll get the Carlos Silva treatment. Well, not until he starts wearing it. very small cap on it, very large head. Anyway, as they're going to do separate contract signings with Brock and Oba, because what happened last week, and then, of course, Paul Lee interrupts. And, you know, I'm trying to decide, in the theme of the Roman and punk promo later on, I'm trying to decide whether I envy Paul. because he does look like he still loves this shit.

And do I envy him because he still loves this shit? Or am I lucky that I don't envy him that he still loves this shit? Because if I still love this shit, then I'd be traveling to bum fuck every week and putting up with these goddamn people and all this aggravation. But if you loved it, you wouldn't care because you love it. And you're right, by the way. You said it the other day, he definitely has lost weight.

He's lost a lot of weight, I think. Yes, I'm, you know, they're waiting for the results of more tests, but hopefully he'll pull through. But anyway, here's the thing. I would have to envy that he has figured out a way to love this rather than the business we got into, because they two different things. So then he introduced Brock, and Brock came to the ring,

and they're cheering for Brock, because Brock's a big star. Eddie cut a short little promo on Paul did on Oba and WrestleMania and said Brock would win and Brock even grabbed the microphone and said eight words, which is his quota for the month. And then they left. So that was that. Any thoughts on this earth-shaking segment?

Not really. I mean, Haman did a good job there. The place still goes crazy. Even when you know Brock's going to be there, when that music hits, they still go crazy. Triple H was a non-entity. And, yeah, nothing else to say. And then we got Charlotte against Lyric,

and we got Stephanie Vacker and Liv having a pull apart. That was good. And we got the... Why didn't you watch that? Why didn't you watch that? Because it's a two-and-a-hour program after I've just watched goddamn four and a half hours of people killing each other, and I don't care about any of this shit.

But Liv is really good. She's one of the best people on the show, and we just saw her make a concuss last week. I don't wish her ill, and I hope she gets even and kicks Stephanie's ass. Well, I'll ask you here then. Did you watch her music video later on? No, I did not. And I didn't know she had one. Even did I, until they all of a sudden just started,

they just started playing a music video in the middle of the show for three. minutes. Well, it's better than having a goddamn wrestling match. And then we had Uso's in L.A. night against all of the face-painted panda bears. And then we had a package on Cody, and I'm just, I'm zipping through as best I can to try to find something here.

The Cody Orton package, of course, with featuring the McAfee's and the jellies of the world. And then an hour after we saw Paul Lee and Brock leave, Gunther is in the ring. And Gunther is ready to speak, and Seth Rollins slides in and tackles him. And they have a fight,

and Gunther slides out. And Seth cuts a fired-up promo until he get back in here and tell me unless it's not to kiss Paul Lee's ass, then why the hell do you want to fight me? Which is a question that all of us had asked, right? and Gunther came back and told him that he wants to beat him up because he's not the best. Gunther is.

And it's personal. And I mean, it was a good promo, but there was still, I'm better than you. And I've become personal now. So I must expose you. Not like I found the secret messages or you son of a bitch, I got the camera footage. I know it was you that vandalized my fucking sports car. I don't, what, did this explain to you anymore, Brian, why that they're fighting? Not really, and they were obviously trying to have some sort of plausible explanation.

And Goonther did a good job of trying to say something. But it still left me wondering, why are they wrestling? What exactly caused Goonther to attack Rollins for Heyman? It's personal. but it might be about Heyman, but nobody's admitted. And then they got another fight and Gunther rolled out and took off through the crowd. So again, that whole thing's cleared up now, thankfully. And then we got E.O. and Kerry, and it seemed like that took an extra long time to fast

forward through. But about 30 minutes after Seth and Gunter were Gunter, Gointer were out there. then Adam Pierce and Triple H were back in the ring and Oba's entrance and again the fans love the Oba Oba and they love the strut and the whoof and the whole thing and he comes in and signs the contract

and then again it was like Triple H what are you a mute now you're a mime in Central Park he didn't say a word he just pointed to the entranceway so that oba would turn and look and there was Paul Heyman. Did that seem, is there, was there a specific reason he couldn't say boo to a goose on this show, as Adrian Street would say? No, no reason or all.

He just pointed. And Paulie, again, he's brilliant. He cut the promo putting over over, over, putting over over, putting over, femmy over as the biggest thing in the W. Since Brock Lester, and he got the Oba chance going, but on Sunday it comes to an end, it all comes crashing down around you. You'll be conquered by Brock Lester and more Oba Oba. But you're in the real main event at WrestleMania, but when you need to rebuild everything,

my door is always open to you. And then Oba responded, and I started like, liking it and then I thought, oh, God, he's skating right on the edge of going too long. And then like a Carmine Salvino curveball, curving right back into the pocket in the crucial 10th frame of the bowling championship, I believe he brought it back into the middle and knocked it. He had a strike with it. He can talk. I was afraid he was starting to get too verbose for a guy that should be that beastly at all about the action. You know, we didn't want to get into Fraser Crane territory,

like with Keith Lee, when he was just ridiculous. But Oba kind of nailed this, and since he is a foreigner of some description, with the accent, you know, he can be a little flowery with the language. The wounds would heal, but the emotional scars will live forever. So you've got 20 years of history that Brock Lester can't be beat, but I've got four weeks of history that he can. And you can feel it, and I can feel it, and they can feel it.

Almost sounded like a 70s disco song, you can feel it, I can feel it, they can. And basically, he got the people chanting and et cetera, and he's confident, and he pretty much, promised he's going to win, and he better win is all I got to say. What do you got to say? Good promo. The fans are really into him.

And that's the good thing you could say by WWE in the last few months between him and Trick Williams. You have two guys who came up from NXT that the fans have really taken to, and now the onus is on the creative, not to fuck it up. Well, then hold on now. Javon, how long has he been up now from NXT? Yeah, I guess you can count Javon, too. I guess you can count Javon too.

So they're doing half-ass well there. And speaking of Jvon, he and Dragon Lee had a match with Rusev and J.D. McDonough and and then 22 minutes I've keeping count, because listen to this now. 22 minutes after Oba cut his promo and he's gone, Roman Rain's entrance starts. The music starts, and then his introduction, and he's walking to the ring for about a minute and a half, and they go to the break.

And they go to a break for two and a half minutes. And when they come back, they have the WrestleMania plugs and the sponsors, have billboards for about 30 seconds, and then Roman is in the ring, the music is still playing. And that his pyro goes off. then he circles the rig and he milks it and the chance didn't quite start but then they kind of started singing

Roman Reigns and then OTCOTC and then two minutes after the pyro had gone off six and a half minutes after the start of his entrance Roman finally spoke a word and said acknowledge me and got a kind of a pop and then

a lacemuseliti here comes more singing they're going to play more music for minutes because it's the cult of make this last as long as possible now with more commercials

tomato now with more commercials commercials I love to see Roman rains and see him punk to speak to each other. They're cunning linguists, they're masters of the promo. But punk came down from the top of the stands all the way up in the balcony and walked through the people, taking his time, being a man of the people, came to the through the arena to ringside to the announced desk, the announcement. are laying out the whole time. It's just the music and people chant some CM Punk.

And in three and a half minutes, after his music started, which was over 10 minutes after Roman's entrance started, he spoke a word. We had literally 10 minutes of time where the talent involved only spoke the name of the town and acknowledged me. am I making too much of this, Brian?

No, because if it happens all the time, eventually people do get sick of it and it's happening all the time. So once they finally got to it, this may have been their best material, I think, because they both came out and told the truth. And that's the way that punk phrased it. and he took the majority of this. He said, you set at the top of the program in that cold open with all the highlights of things that had gone on with him and everything where Roman was saying he's a liar.

I knew he was going to lie. Well, tell me what I'm telling lies. And he told Roman that he hated him because he envied him. Because punk worked for all of this. This was his dream since he was a kid. and through the Indies and the fucking bowling alleys he had to work in and the wreck sitters and the blah, blah, blah, it was handed to you. And I hate that you were champion for 1316 days

because I hate how hard that you had to work to do that. And I hate the times that you've made evented WrestleMania. He's like, have I told a lie yet? and I said I hate I said he said I hate the way that I feel this way that that I you know that I have these feelings I hate that but he even said Sika was a great man and I love and respect the old timers and I apologize to you for taking his name in vain but I hate there's more than one royal family in wrestling and I wasn't born into a dynasty I was a kid in Chicago a misfit and I found my family and this was the best baby face part I

found my family in the streets in the locker rooms of the VFW halls and I wasn't born on third base. I went everywhere to work my way up to this. Eddie built up the family. The fans are my family. And this has been my dream. And I'm still going to be the champion on Sunday night. Tell me what I'm telling lies. There was one funny part. There was a funny part though where he's telling this story here. And again, he's doing a great job. But he talks about how he came and I guess because he heard the crowd reacting, he threw the streets of Sacramento in there. Yeah.

I don't think punk has ever been on the streets of Sacramento, so I don't know where that came from. Well, you know, out there metaphorically with the people, or maybe he was with Carl Maldon and Michael Douglas in their spinoff. But nevertheless, so Roman said that's the truest stuff I've ever heard you say up until the end. I hate you too because of your relationship with them talking about the fans. When I leave, are they going to chant for me for 10 years straight?

He admitted a little vulnerability. See, neither one of these guys has turned to heel, especially obviously Punk hasn't, but Roman is in the heel position, but he still hasn't done anything to turn heel, which is perfect for this. And he just, but he was condescending to punk. You know, I let you have this two months of relevancy, but now it's over and we're going to go back to the big business with it I used to do.

And on Sunday, your time is up. It's not and still, it's an new. But Roman fired up good there at the end. So this was, again, this was. great. This sold the match, probably more than anything else on this program sold anything, but she had to wait for two hours and 20 minutes to get there, and then 10 minutes of entrances. Yeah, it's a slog to really get through it if you watch it live. But a good segment there at the end. You know, there were good segments all throughout this feud so far. They've been good segments,

but I still feel like it was missing something. I don't know what, you know, Roman tees that he calling any Samoan out there to get their hands on punk. And since that time, we've probably seen more members of his family on this show than at any other time. In recent memory, no one did anything. Not that they have to, but I don't know. I feel like it's missing just something, and I don't know what. Well, here's the thing.

To do an angle much more than what they did with the Uso's and the argument amongst them and, you know, one guy slapping the other guy and the other guy, all that, that stuff, they would have had to turn Roman heel. Because how are you going to get a heat on a baby face issue? An angle or a piece of physicality or whatever without the family relationship and the drama to kind of send it in that direction, you've inevitably got one guy stabbing the other guy in the back or doing something or you're just doing repetitive pull-aparts,

which they've already got covered on three of the other fucking angles. So I bet you punk and Roman were probably on board with, just let us talk about this one, because how many more pull-a-parts and, you know, break-freeze and pull-a-parts on the program can they do? Well, Jim, that was WWE Raw, and of course the superstars of Raw and Smackdown and country music and ESPN will all be converging on Vegas as we are recording this weekend.

That's like the dying days of the Sheiks big time wrestling when he had promoted some country bands and he had a TV show. It was big time wrestling and big time country. For that half and half. And half. Detroit. Yes. Well, the Motor City, baby, they make those tractor motors and those hay balers and

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Well, you certainly leveled it. You know, you need to be a little nicer. I was going to ask you to be on my album. But with this attitude towards the music, I just don't know if I'm going to do that. I don't know how I'll be able to overcome the disappointment. Well, Jim. Not being on your album. As soon as it goes on sale, it'll go cardboard and potentially to follow. It'll go sheet rock. That's not nice.

Well, Jim, speaking of disappointment, a lot of fans have been disappointed that you stopped watching AEW, stopped reviewing AEW sometimes in lieu of them having to watch AEW and sometimes as a compliment to one's AW viewing. Well, and that's why I tried to suffer through some of the pay-per-view. And you did pretty good. You still hate women's matches. I mean, that's not going to be overcome overnight. But there have been a lot of suggestions coming in, and I'm sure you've seen them, of what Jim should watch. Jim should watch this.

Jim should watch that. Sometimes you can just see what it is and be, yeah, there's no way he's watching this. I will say, in the last few weeks, we have received a lot of feedback, a lot of emails to Coiny Drive-Thruit Gmail.com, different variations of AAA is the best wrestling show on TV right now, now, even though I think it's on YouTube. The Undertaker is the best booker in wrestling. Jim should watch AAA. They have English commentators.

A lot of people have been saying this, and the thing that made me say, there's no way I can approach Jim with any of this, was the central idea that he would love El Grande Americano versus original El Grande Americano, which we've seen play out on WWE Raw, painfully to some of us over the last year, year and a half, whatever it may be, while some clips have come in and I sent him over to you,

I thought it was worth your time. So let's talk about what you recently saw from AAA's weekly show, which I believe air is on YouTube, the commentators are Corey Graves, who does a good job from what I've seen, and JBL, who, unfortunately is JBL, but let's talk about what you recently saw with El Grande Americano

well you sent me these clips and you said oh you got to watch this I'm like what the hell it's a complete night and day mirror image difference in how they're presented and how the people react to them than the you know piss break popcorn match type of slot they get on the television here and what what they did there. And Gable is great. Remember that brief period of time when he was actually being instructed to act seriously

and was having matches. And, you know, he was fabulous. Him and Guthor. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, so it's not that I've not liked Gable. And Kaiser is the other one, right? I've lost track.

Yes. But Ludwig Kaiser is the other one. He was fucking great. when he was doing the snooty heel with the goddamn mannerisms and et cetera. But the whole, it was basically the cheetah segment, the Tarzan movie on American WW television. But they did this deal with them on AAA. And as you said, well, it started with the pretty girl, you know,

ringside interviewer interviewing some apparently celebrities in the audience. after Gables's version of the original Grande Americana has finished his match, right? And she's talking to this celebrity and then goes to another one. I guess the guy is a comedian. Did you get the name of this guy? I believe the name they said,

and I don't know anything else about him, and I tried to Google what I could find out, and I couldn't find that much. His name is Egg Eyes. Well, the point. being, I'm pretty sure the guy is blind. And the only thing that he said in English was the word Stevie Wonder. So I'm thinking that it has to be some kind of goddamn signal in any language that we

might be hearing the speech of a blind person. But anyway, apparently they know who he is. And as he's talking, Gable comes over and snatches him. And just when he snatched him, the people, they went from, oh, like, that's too much. And he pulls the guy over the rail and starts kicking his shit out of him. I'm thinking this guy's going to get shot. And then as he's kicking his shit out of the guy, here comes Kaiser, who I guess is the baby face, because he's wearing the white outfit.

And the people pop and they have the goddamnest pull apart you have ever seen it. it looked like an old Memphis TV studio fight where they were trying to make it look like a fight. And I don't know if these are the Mexican, you know, outlaw guys that show up to do security, but a few of them look, you know, most of them looked like just kind of chubby nobodies, which is what you want in that situation.

And they were fucking, they went at it for a, while. And then they were fighting in the arena, et cetera, and then finally they got separated and Kaiser challenged Gable to a mask versus mask match. And apparently Kaiser also speaks Spanish, which is probably why they've got him in this spot, but to place blue. Now, it's, it's still, it's modern day in Mexico. You can tell. If, it was 40 years ago in Mexico when he pulled the kid over the goddamn rail, he would have been stabbed from 16 different directions. They know it's a show, but still it was, it not only got over and it was like their obvious response was that it was crossing the line, but that they

were really into the save and the whole nine yards. But that, it was night and day. Again, from, we've seen the biggest stars to business having pull-aparts and the people didn't react to it, nor was it as violent looking as this one was. They were in Mexico City. I don't know if it was just a special way they miced the

audience, but it was pretty extraordinary. The reaction where he pulled egg eyes over the rail, that was noticeable. And you thought, okay, someone could try to do something. If this guy's a blind guy, and I'm presuming he is, because like you said, he had a great voice, but it was like, La-la-B-la-la-la-la, Stevie Wonder.

Oh, yeah. He's blind. They reacted to that. When the announcer, when she tried to get him to stop, which was good. Oh, yeah, that's right. She slapped him. She slapped him. That got a big reaction.

He menaced her, and they were, oh, and that's when the same came. He chases her, not chasing him, but they kind of stop. boxer back towards the corner where the announced table would be and the ringside people would be. And that's when Kaiser in a suit with his mask on comes running out and you hear the explosion as soon as they see him, but he still has to run out. And when he gets within a few feet of Gable, he hits the air and hits him with a forearm and it looks great. It looked great. And the place was going nuts.

it made me want to see more AAA for the first time I could say that. But and again, you know, it's just the difference in presentation. When you've got guys that are talented and could do this shit and make it look good, it just they can't get over when they're being presented as, you know, dip shits. But again, again, and the business has changed in Mexico too. I get maybe I think CMLL now they're doing such hot business but a lot of it is tourists and it's become more of the cultural thing you don't hear reports of the crowds getting out of control there like you used to but that was a joke in the locker rooms anytime I was around

when I first got into business like Tennessee mid-south crocket anybody in the locker it would be different. Some guys trying to give me like legitimate advice seriously would say, don't ever let them book you in Mexico. Or sometimes somebody that had been in Mexico just as a joke was, hey, what would it be like if Cornyck got booked in Mexico? And everybody would because they would kill me. Everybody agreed they would legitimately have killed.

That's why I never even approached the idea of ever. working in Mexico for any fucking reason, because from the very first day I got in the business, they said they were going to fucking kill me in Louisiana, but they'd know, they'll kill you in Mexico. I figure they were doing a good enough job trying in Arkansas. Well, we'll see what happens in AAA. And if the Undertaker is booking that,

he seems to have the crowds really behind this WWE storyline that was brought down there. What in the world is going on into wrestling business? In 2026, the Undertaker is the Booker for AAA in Mexico, and a billionaire boychild has upset the apple cart of United States television. At what point do we ask if Undertaker can run creative for SmackDown?

But we'll find out. Jim, I have an update here and medical update. I'll me click on this. It's a post on Instagram from A.E.W. Koda Ibuci. It's a photo of him grimacing showing his arm, but like in a wrestler pose. I don't know what's wrong with this guy. Rehabilitation through my personal life, for exclamation points. There is meaning wherever I go.

There is meaning in whatever I do. Nothing is impossible. I will turn 44 next month. and regardless of April, I am working towards my return. Congratulations, laugh out loud. It still hurts a lot, but just a week ago, I could barely walk. Something has started to move. What a fuck?

Hello, it's been about two months since my second surgery. I will definitely be back. So please wait for me. Sending these feelings to Kenny, Bucks, and Tony Kahn. To my dear friends, English is difficult. No shit. I'm currently in Japan,

so I will be heading to Florida again soon. Jim, I don't have my English to Cota Abusha Dictionary here, but it sounds like he may be on the cusp of a return to AEW and the United States. well first of all why is it that all the other guys from japan when they tweet something or make a statement of translation AI gimmick or whatever makes them sound like they're halfway normal humans but this guy always sounds like he's deranged in some fashion is that is that the translator that's doing that or what what is happening here i don't know i've always been of the opinion

that there's something wrong with him. I don't know exactly what, but there's always, there's just always seemed to be something off about the guy. I can't explain it. So I don't know. Well, anyway, I don't know what he's doing.

I just started to walk. Didn't somebody seem... He couldn't walk last week, and now things are starting to move. Things are fine. Yeah, my bowels, maybe. But somebody just saw him. You just saw him at some ceremony in Japan a couple months ago.

He couldn't hardly walk. and they said it'd be two years. I don't think it's been a year. And he's 40 years old, and are they going to let, is Tony going to accept the liability of letting this guy in the ring when the last,

what the last three or four matches he's had, some piece of his body is broken in half. Well, definitely gives you something to look forward to, I think, for pay-per-view events. I wouldn't do it on dynamite, but if you know watching him, every match could be the last match, every match could be his last time walking,

every match. Plus he just seems off. Like, it just seems like mid-match. He may just, like, turn around and, like, walk into the wall or just, like, something could happen. There's something, just something, like, seems malfunctioned about him. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.

I just, again, I don't know what he's going through his mind, but he broke both of his fucking ankle. he was out forever that he came back and Alexander you know fucking tried to do the top rope two step with him and he broke his femur really karma got even with Alexander

he's fucked up now too at least nobody will confuse Alexander with Gabe Kidd anymore said he's fucked up too I don't know if that's karma I don't know if that's karma exactly Do you think... Anyhow. Should they put some of these guys together?

Like, if they put Ibushi and Shabata and Ishii in a stable and called it the Japanese emergency room? Do you think that could work? The Japanese emergency room killers, the jerks. They, you know what, that's good. I like that. That's good. You could have that, Tony, free of charge.

We wouldn't think of taking a dime for it. We'll keep everyone apprised of anything else we hear about the impending return, at least to the states, to Florida, of Cota Ibushi. Jim, I have an email here. I was sent to corny drive-thru at gmail.com from Matt, and he attached an article. This is from a website called Bro Bible by Connor Tool. Nine words and phrases, broadcasters at the masters,

aren't allowed to say. Very similar to Vince McMahon banning terms. There were terms that the masters does not allow to be used during the broadcast. Do you know anything about this? I would not have any idea why there would be a reason that announcers calling a golf tournament

would have words they couldn't use besides, you know, the seven words and things like that. Well, according to this article, has been the primary home for the master since 1956, but these are some of the terms not allowed. Fans!

You're not allowed to say fans. Patrons is the preferred word. What's different? The patrons just came by. Because fans is derived from fanatical, which is a connotation Augusta National wants to distance

itself from. Oh, good Lord. Patrons instead of fans. What do you think of that one? Well, if they were serving filet mignon and phezzant under glass with, you know, bow ties on, then patrons might be good, but there's fucking fans of golf like your fans of football or fans of basketball or whatever. So are we being awfully hoity-toity for our own good?

I mean, let's face it, you do have to be kind of a goddamn rich white oboeuvre. obnoxious fuck to either play golf or watch golf, but do you have to advertise that? Well, you may not play it or watch it, but I'm sure you know from Caddyshack alone, maybe some of the basic terms. Yes. Do you know what the rough is?

Rough? Well, that's the place that's not smooth over there where they don't mow the grass is low or whatever, as on the green, right? That is correct, and that term is banned from the masters. Broadcasters are instructed to use the term second cut instead of rough. There is no rough at Augusta National is the rule they're supposed to.

Okay, second cut. No rough at Augusta National. Jim Santrap is banned. Well, that's the whole idea is if you hit a shot and it goes sideways, it goes into the sand trap and it causes you all kinds of trouble, right? That's like, that's like if you're playing operation, you're trying to get the writers cramp. It just, it, you just can't do it.

According to this article, bunkers is an official term that is allowed to be used. Only bunkers during the masters. This one, I would presume you may know, but now, if there was a bomb threat and they said, everyone, get in the bunkers, people would just dive into the fucking sand. and I don't think it would help with the bomb. Jim, although you don't know a lot about golf, I think you may know this term or figure it out. Back nine.

You know what back nine is? Well, that's when you're bent over the sink and fucking the guy. Oh, no, that's another thing. That's the last nine holes of the, you got the first nine and you got the back nine or the front nine and the back nine. Or the back nine's the last nine of the 18. That is correct.

That term is banned. What? from Augusta National. Second nine is the term that they demand be used, not back nine, second nine. Well, then wouldn't it be the last nine

because second nine implies if there's a third nine. Jim, sometimes when people want to go hit some golf balls, they'll go to the driving range. Have you heard of the driving range? Yes, yes. That's where they drive the golf balls off, the tee into the net.

It has been banned as a term from Augusta National. The term allowed to be used as tournament practice area. That's the medical facility. It really is Vince McMahon, isn't it? Yes. Did Vince buy golf? The terms country club and golf course are both banned from the board. Do you kids say they're on a golf course?

The words country club or golf course are banned. All you're allowed to say is Augusta National Golf Club. That's it. You have to say it like that. But you could, you couldn't, can you just say, well, this guy has played on golf courses all throughout the world? According to this, that would be a violation. Well, I don't know. Is it about just applying it to the-

Is it like Vince's sports entertainment bullshit where everybody else is wrestling, everybody else is a golf course, but we're the golf club? I don't know. I'm sure we'll get some feedback. Twosome Twosome has been banned It has to be known as A pairing

And Augusta National I thought you were going to say it has to be a threesome or else it doesn't count Fourth round Fourth round Is now only allowed to be Or maybe always Only allowed to be known as the final round

The final round So any thoughts on this The fact that other broadcasts and other sports are doing the same thing Vince McMahon does. Does it justify his nuttiness when it comes to words, or does it just show that other people are doing the same thing that doesn't, I mean... Well... It's not like it's a broadcast.

It seems like it's the venue actually making the demand. Yes, but, well, in this case, it is the host facility, you know, but at the same time, since they're the big wigs, do they view themselves as being a of everybody else because the masters is the masters, but the question I've got is, do the fans of golf that are not allowed to be called fans, do they notice this or like the wrestling fans do? Is it really odd terminology in their world that either,

is it obviously the announcers are either trying to avoid saying these things that they're not supposed to say or because they're using the words they're supposed to use, does that throw the golf fans off like it throws the wrestling fans off when it's a medical facility instead of a hospital? Or do they even notice, I wonder? Does anybody in the cult of Cornett play any of the golf? They need to let us know about this.

Because again, I guess we've got some rich white assholes with too much time on their hand out there somewhere. Are there any golfers in the locker room that you knew? of. Zabisco, loved to play golf. I remember that, that he played a lot of golf. Huh. Let's see. Well, Wahoo, but I mean, he was famous for that.

He was actually, he was friends with Jack Nicholas, and he played golf not better than, or maybe he competitively, he could give him a fucking run. The Wahoo could do everything, but I don't know. On a widespread basis, I don't think anybody had a golf background before they became a wrestler. Maybe it was what they started doing when they got some money and free time on their hands. Stan Lane, come to think of it, started playing golf for a while. I don't know, I haven't asked him lately if he kept up with it. He had that goddamn monitor put on him for his.

his heart rate, the closest thing he's ever had to any kind of medical situation. And they called him one day. On his cell phone, he said, hello, he said, Mr. Lane, are you all right? He said, yeah, he said, well, we've got the ambulance on the way and a blah, blah, blah. He said, what are you talking about? So you're having a cardiac episode. He was playing golf. He was pissed off and he couldn't make his fucking shot or whatever.

And it had tripped his trigger so bad. thought he was down somewhere in the fucking alley or the street or the gutter and they were sending an ambulance to his GPS location. He said, no, I'm fine. I just got to get out of this goddamn hole. So I think he may have cut down on the golf after that. Well, this has been golf talk here on the show. And of course, Jim, there's no easy transition sometimes when talking about serious issues

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Yes. This was June 15th, 1996, the event at the Walt Whitman Truck Stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Someone's gardener is in the background. I don't believe it's mine, but it's that time of year, folks. But this show, I guess someone, and forgive me for not knowing the details, but someone did a video recently reviewing Dennis Caruso's infamous event at the Walt Whitman Truck Stop. and a lot of listeners wanted to get your memories of being there that day.

Well, it was literally at a truck stop. And because at June 96, I was living in Connecticut at time, obviously. And so that was from Philly, you know, I don't know, time-wise, depending on traffic, but like 150 miles from where I lived. And so I would go down and make some of Dennis Coraluzzo shows. And he called me, he told me, yeah, we're going to have a thing. the truck stop, I guess, bought the thing. But I said, you're going to have a show at the truck stop.

Yeah, out in the parking lot. And it wasn't even, I mean, are you familiar with that area, Brian, from your travels around? It wasn't like it was a, like an area populated, as I recall, by businesses and restaurants and things like that. It was just like a truck stop on the side of a goddamn highway surrounded by, acreage of like industrial or just more highways like they have up there in Philly and New York where it's just you can't see any other goddamn thing besides the truck stop. It was a very interesting location for a show, even an indie show, even a Dennis Caruso show.

Yeah, and it might do, was it near the river too to compound things? It may have been, I don't know. Whatever the point is. So we get there. And again, I asked, Dennis, I said, why the fuck are you doing this? And there was several, he had several things going on.

One was that some early video company had paid him to be able to shoot a couple of the matches. One of them was, I think it was Ian Rotten and Madman Pondo.

If Pondo was in it, was it, Ian, okay. I have the card here. That was a four corners of pain death match. Yes, it was the first time I'd ever seen either of these two guys, right? There was no issue with me and Ian Rotten because I didn't even know Danny Davis had started OVW at that point. I didn't know that Ian Rotten was the guy that was killing wrestling in the state of Kentucky. But one of the early video companies had agreed to pay Dennis enough to pay these two guys and they drove up to Philly from Goddamn New Albany, Indiana. and he said, yeah, if I have this match on my show,

they will pay me more than it's costing me to pay them and they're trans. So I'll make money just having the match so this guy can tape it. But Jimmy, when do you see what they're going to do? I'm like, okay, more on that in a minute. But also Dick Murdoch, that was the weekend that Dick Murdoch passed away, right? Because it was me, Tommy Rich, I think, was there, was Doug Gilbert there, was Brian Christopher there was a number of people

there that I remember we were just talking about nothing but here and Murdoch had just die. And so anyway he had guys from Tennessee. He had these fucking at the time I really didn't even know what hardcore wrestling was but Ian Rodden

and Madman Pondo from his IWA whatever and then some of the guys that normally worked for Dennis. You'll have the names which you'll give me here at a minute, but I'd be surprised if Devin Storm wasn't somewhere around. And it was 100 degrees that day. The middle of June in Philadelphia, there wasn't a tree in sight. And it was an asphalt truck stop parking lot. So it was the asphalt was smelling like it was melting and it was hot. And you could literally, you know, just

feel the fucking heat coming. It was like standing in a frying pan. And the ring was fucking scalding. And we could go into the truck stop office for a little air conditioning. Only, you know, like me and a few of the names that were the preferred

guys. The other guys, I think, had to dress out under a fucking tent. I don't know that there were a hundred people sitting around the ring in these lawn chairs to watch this thing. but somehow in all of the deals that Dennis had put together he made money on this fucking fiasca

what was the card it's crazy I'm looking at the different cards here from this period of time I was at several of these shows there's one notorious one that's the same week I think is this show that you were at here's the lineup for this show chaotic kid lane

now wait a minute this is the truck stop This is the truck shop. Truck shop. Truck stop. June 15th, 1996. Chaotic Kid Lane defeated the urban soul. Brian Christopher with Jim Cornett. Yeah.

Defeated Ace Darling. Yep. By the way, no Devin Storm, because this is when Devin was in ECW. That's right. That's right. Doug Gilbert defeated the icon. Do you remember the icon? Oh, good Lord.

That was Zandu. That's right. That's right. That was another one of the death match guys. I think Dennis may have got a ring from him or whatever. But maybe I'm thinking of it another time. But yeah, the icon, he was just, he was convinced he was an icon. That was an early gimmick he was trying to do.

And it became the death match guy and the guy behind CCW. But when I first saw him or heard about him was on a dentist show, I think it was a little bit before this and it was the first time I had heard anyone used the term ticket seller and he wrestled a match early in the show and about 20 people there went

fucking crazy for him like they knew him and he did an ultimate warrior gimmick where he was painted up I think he had... That's what the icon but he was the warrior the icon, yes. He went from an ultimate warrior gimmick to the death match guy

but yeah, he was a ticket seller. He would go out and sell 20 tickets or whatever if you put him on a show. Jim, one of the more underrated wrestlers that was working for Dennis in the late 90s, Twiggy Ramirez defeated the Lost Boy for the NWA United States tag team title, Bad Attitude Destroy and Seek Isn't that putting a card before the horse? Versus J.R. Rider. Let's just wreck everything and then look for something.

Versus J.R. Rider and Psychotron. Double DQ. J.R. Rider was, I think, he wasn't, was he from Philly or was he from a town in the middle of Pennsylvania? But he was working a lot of those shows in that time period. I got him booked on some of the WWF shows to do jobs. he was a good kid also. For the NWA World Heavyweight Championship,

Dan Severn defeated the ghetto blaster. Yeah, that's that he had Dan Severn there at this fucking, can you imagine a UFC Hall of Fame? Well, he wasn't then, but a UFC Hall of Famer of a much decorated amateur wrestler and the NWA champion, and we're here in this fucking parking lot. Derek Domino defeated Abuja Singh. A Buddha Singh, is that Bo Bradley?

Good Lord. Would it have been? Hold on, I don't know, actually. Let me double check. No, it wouldn't have been because this was after Smoky Mountain. Yeah, this is after Smoky Mountain before, when he was, I guess, living in the Northeast and he wrestled this show as a Buddhist thing. And that was before he became Bowls.

That's right. I didn't even remember him being there, but it makes sense because he was in between he was in between boo and balls. Some of these Dennis shows had a lot of matches. The NWA North American... Can you imagine how badly we were waiting for it all to end? The NWA North American title, the champion Tommy Cairo, defeated Battlestar.

I don't even know who that is. It was so hot, I was not outside for a lot of these matches. And the final match listed here before Ian Rotten defeated Mad man Pondo in 13 minutes of a four corners of pain death match, Rick Ratchett defeated Thomas Rodman, one of the lesser-known members of the BWO. And Rick Ratchett, what, he had the business card that, what did it say like international playboy and man of mystery?

Oh, no, it wasn't that kind. I still have one somewhere. And male jigolo or something. Yeah, male escort, a few other things. No job I won't do. It was a bunch of show there. But, yeah, good guy. It was a good crew of local guys that Dennis had, and then he would fill out the shows with these other people.

And again, then let's get back to Pondo and Rot. So, like I said, I've never even heard of them, right? But Dennis says, wait, you got to watch what they're going to do. I said, what are you talking about? He said they have this death match thing where they're going to put the four sides of pain or whatever the fucking deal was on one floor on the floor

around the ring on one side of the ring they had mouse traps that had been set to snap and on the other side of the ring they had this bed of broken glass that they had broken up and putting this like frame like box like structure and on the

other side was I can't, does it say there? I can't remember barbed wire broken glass Was it possibly thumb tax? And the mouse traps. And they brought all this shit with them from New Albany, goddamn Indiana to do this at a truck stop 700 miles away in Pennsylvania for what I recall being the sum of like 150 or 200 bucks a piece

and some money for gas. Because Dennis is laughing. He said, because these people are paying him to shoot. this thing on videos why he's having it. And he got me and Brian Christopher and Doug Gilbert. And I'm pretty sure Dan Sever, we were all came out to watch this fucking thing. And let's say, you know, let's say Pondo looks like Pondo.

If you want to Google a picture of him, you can. And Ian Rotten looked like Ian Rotten. And this was apparently before he had hepatitis because he was fatter than he is now, last time anybody's seen him. and they had this match where they they couldn't they don't know how to work they can't work they do moves it either looks like they hurt

or their potato in each other or it looks fake like shit but they were bumping in these goddamn and taking suplexes and slams and whatever and all of these containers of bullshit in front of by now it's been so long like 90 something people may be left in these lawn chairs in this scalding hot parking lot in Philadelphia at a truck stop. And they've sliced themselves up.

They're just cut everywhere and they're bleeding all over the place. And me and the boys are sitting in the back laughing. Like, what the fuck is matter with these people? And we didn't know what to think of it because we hadn't seen even ECW wasn't doing shit like this. and again the same thing as you know when we saw the ECW stuff

we thought well we laughed at it and said okay these guys are goofs but thank God nobody will ever really see this shit to copy it but that's that was my first introduction to this world of these scummy people and their scummy

fucking practices And I met Ian Rotten after one of the, it wasn't this show, I think it was the next show Dennis did in Yardville because I'm looking at the results right here. But I met him because he was sitting at a table with John Owen, who I knew. John Owen was a fan who, yeah, I remember John, travel around despite disabilities that he had and Terry Funk was really close with him and he would go to a lot of things. So I knew John. I went over to say hello to him.

And I mentioned the Louisville riot. from Fan Week, which was only the year before in 95. Which John was at, correct? No, he was there in 94. He didn't come in 95. That's right. Thank God he wasn't there for that. Thank God, you know, seriously, that was a kind of crazy moment. He would have had a little trouble getting out of there quickly.

So I'm describing to John what happened. And everything had happened where all of a sudden the attention was on us, not on Tommy Rich bleeding in the ring. A fight broke out on the other side of the arena. we all thought it was J.R. Benson. Thank God it wasn't. But it was a whole bunch of shit going on. And we didn't have a lot of fighters.

It was Harry White. It was me. It was a teenager. It was Scott Cornish. A bunch of people. You guys are about to get that shit kicked out of you. It was behind us in front of us and the ring announcer who was Dean Hill. We didn't know he was to keep the police.

Instructed them to put the spotlight on us. Put the spot on those fans of Smoky Mountain. their here? Yeah, if we've confused people, it was in the Louisville Gardens, the home of the USWA, and it was the USWA versus Smoggy Mountain Wrestling feud and the SMW guys were the heels. And our fan week fans are cheering for the Smoggy Mountain guys and Dean Hill points them out to the rest of the people in the building. And this was not a group of smart fans in 1995. No, we were the smart fan. The little tiny minority of fans hunkered down in one little area of the building.

We were the smart fans. And they emptied the building. Yeah, the other ones all were the pissed off fans. But anyway, see, you go up to John Owen and here's dipshit sitting there next to it. And I'm telling John the whole story about everything and how we got the police escort out of town, the whole thing. And I don't even know Ian Rotten. I haven't seen him since he was on my global TV.

He was in ECW, but he was like barely on TV. Maybe I saw him there too. But I don't know him, and I certainly don't know he's from Louisville, Kentucky. Well, they used him because he looked kind of like Axel Rotten, who was a talent up there from Maryland that they used, and he became the luscious Johnny to Axel's handsome Jimmy. But I didn't know he was from Louisville, Kentucky, and he starts saying, that's not true.

That's not what happened at all. I was there. And I'm like, excuse me? I mean, like, there's dozens of people who were with me who all say the exact same thing. And then, like, I don't know, he kind of, like, wanted to be nice to me after I kind of called him out for that. But I got away from it. I got a weird vibe.

Just the idea that he would, like, say that. He would say that I wasn't telling the truth. And by doing that, he wasn't telling the truth. Well, I don't know. He could have been there or he might not have been because you know, Randy Hales barred him from the gardens. Did you hear about this? I did not know that, no. Randy Hales had to bar him from the Louisville Gardens because they did.

whatever Ian got the gimmick where he's Axel's brother and that's how he got to go to Japan or whatever well he wasn't being booked and I don't know if he ever was booked by the USWA by the Memphis territory I think Axel may have worked there briefly but point being Ian Rotten used to come to the gardens and buy a ticket and sit in the stands with the fans and try to get them to notice the blade marks on his arm or gig marks on his head or just that he blonde hair or whatever, so that he could tell all the fans that he wrestled in Japan where it was real.

And that's why he's got all these scars, but this is phony wrestling. And that's why they won't let him be involved because he's too tough for all these guys. And meanwhile, the fans are going, look at you, you fat, bleached, blonde, scarred up. Fuck, you look like you ought to be running a fucking drive-thru at Taco Bell,

which was a later a job that he actually had. And you're saying to us that they won't let you fight Lawler because you're too tough for him. So even the fans thought he was fucking full of shit. But Randy finally had to bar him from coming to the matches and buying a ticket because he was telling people it was fake. So he could tell him that he was real. Jim, some other highlights here from Dennis Caruso shows in 1996 that you were either on or talking to Dennis about. and I was at some of these shows and talking to Dennis all the time. How about this?

June 8th, 96 Yardville, in a boxing match, Tommy Fierro defeated Dennis Caroleuzzo. On the same show, King Kong Bundy defeated Johnny Gunn. Yeah, I remember the boxing match because they said, oh, James, James, they said, Dennis said, James, where do you see this? Me and Tommy are going to have a boxing match. And they, I think I still have, as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I have one of the boxing gloves from this match that they signed for me.

I didn't know that. Because I said, you know you've got to, you're wearing gloves, but you got to kind of lay this shit in now to make it look good. And I tried to help them beforehand because Dennis was the baby face promoter and Tommy was the, the heel manager, I guess, at this point in time. but I tried to help them give them a few pointers about how to throw the punches and make them look good without hitting anybody in the face too hard or whatever the fuck. And they were going to do the goddamn

boxing glove and the bucket of water finish. And you know that, right, for the people out there, when wrestlers would have a boxing match back in the, for the 50s and 60s or whatever, in the corner of the corner man for the heat, heel would have a bucket of water. And either the heel would stick the glove in the bucket and get it all soaked with water and then knock the baby face out or the baby face may do it and give him a taste of his own medicine

after he's tried whatever. Well, they get in there. And my God, there was so much daylight you could have read the newspaper between everything they were doing. And neither one of them had an athletic bone in their body. bless them. And it was just, it was abysmal. And then as I recall, even on the, on the, the, the water punch, I think that was even

worked and it didn't splash because it didn't land and it just, it kind of just dripped. And I told him afterwards, I said, I got to be honest, that's the worst thing I've seen in the wrestling business ever in my life, but I've only been in it for 40 years. Well, that wasn't the only highlight that summer. I was at this show, which was July 20th, 96. I don't think you were on this one in Yardville. The main event was the Iron Sheek defeating Rick Ratchett. I think this may have been the one with the Iron Sheik and Tommy Fierro's

Macarena contest. Oh, boy, no, I wasn't there for that. Good match, though, here in the middle of the card. I remember Tracy Smothers had to leave right away and get to the airport and fly out, I believe. or maybe drive out, but I think it was flyout. Reckless youth defeated Tracy Smothers. Oh, I remember youth. He was another good kid that Dennis had that just,

he didn't really have the size for the era of the time to really go anywhere. You were on the show the day before the Walt Whitman Truck Show, which was the 14th of June at West Deptford, New Jersey's high school. That's Dennis's hometown, I believe. Yes. Blue Thunder defeated Glenn Osborne. Dan Severin defeated the ghetto blaster. The Lost Boys, Wolf and...

Do you remember who the ghetto blaster was? No, let me see if I clicked this from cagematch.net. Because he had this long-running rivalry with Severn, I'm just wondering. It says he was trained by Iron Mike Sharp. Donnie B., if you're listening, let me know who the ghetto blaster is. The Lost Boys, Wolf and Yarr, defeated the Greek connection of Gus the Greek and Jim Lundas.

Oh, boy. I don't remember that team. Ian Rotten defeated Man Man Pondo. The next one's an independent classic. Jimmy Snooka defeated the metal maniac. Oh, I remember. The metal maniac was the muscle guy with it kind of had the Ultimate Warrior-style tassels and everything, but wouldn't he married to Jimmy Snooka on all those shows

because Snooka trusted him to work with him and drive him around and shit? Yeah, I believe so. And he had a very deep... I remember him cutting promos on Ben Lagersham's voicemail in the mid-90s when I was in TV. You decide what you want. Ass broken or ass in jail.

Like, just it was bizarre shit. But let's go back to this. Skip with... Cloudy defeated the Inferno Kid with Sunny. That's an interesting match. And hold on. That was Skip was Chris Candido, Skip of the Body Donnas. Cloudy was Jimmy Shoulders.

From New Jersey. Their friend who they had brought in to be that stupid, I don't know what. Just look up Cloudy and the WWE kids. I couldn't explain it and I was in the middle of it. And the Inferno Kid was Danny Inferno Kid. Furno, who would later on have a run in developmental here with OVW and then obviously Sunny. Also on this show, the icon defeated David Dutch,

Twiggy Ramirez defeated Gino Caruso, the North American champion Tommy Cairo defeated Derek Domino, and in the main event, Ace Darling and Johnny Gunn defeated Brian Christopher and Doug Gilbert with Jim Cornett. and see no Ian Rotten and fucking Pondo they just drove up for the truck stop show oh they were on this one too they were on this one too were they on that okay well they didn't do the goddamn death match because Dennis wouldn't let him do that shit in one of his indoor buildings he could get kicked out up that's why they did it out in the parking lot it's crazy looking at these this is so long ago but I remember that building in Yardville so well

but there it is you're doing better than me then one of the last Nazi tag teams, the sons of Gestapo, Crazy Ivan and Lord Zieg, or Zieg. I'm not sure exactly what that is. I remember them. I remember thinking, because I remember Dennis called me up one night, late in and I'll never forget it. Hey, brother, I was thinking about a feud.

What do you think about the Nazis? He was watching a movie, and he got the idea of the Nazi tag team feuding with the Vietnamese tag team, which he didn't have. He didn't have a Vietnamese tag team. What did a tag team? I was about to say I never saw a Vietnamese tag team.

But he was just like imagine how great it would be. I was like, who's the baby face? What is this? But yeah, fun period of time looking back on some of these shows here. Well, see, you know what? He could give Tony some ideas. Now that Tony has an unlimited budget and he can reach out across geopolitical boundaries. Maybe he can have the Nazis against the Vietnamese.

Well, you never know. You never know what's already happening and we don't know it. But Jim, before we get out of here, hold on, let me click on this, let me click on this, let me move this, and we will have next week retro figures. I know I said this week, but a couple more things are going to arrive this week, so I'm going to wait for that until next week. But let's get a couple more questions and get the hell out of here, Jim. Any thoughts on the announcement of Club WWE? I don't know if you saw that during Raw. A new exclusive club.

The price has not been... I did not see this announcement, but is this like somewhere in the Caribbean? Like Club Med? Club Med. And they get to go and have massages at Pooleside by NXT Talent. Apparently there's a waiting list now, but they announced that on Raw. And I have an email here that was sent to us. Corny Drive-Thru at Gmail.com from Steve in Ontario,

the Canadian province, not California. Yeah. WWE today announced a launch of Club WWE, the ultimate insider membership program designed to bring fans closer to WWE than ever before through exclusive access, rewards and experiences. I'm reading this awful, and I apologize,

so it's rewards and experiences. Club WWE will serve as a dedicated destination for WWE fans offering a wide host of benefits across ticketing, merchandise, community, and content. All in one place? You could sign up to become a founding member, oh no, excuse me, founding member waitlist. They have a website here I will not plug.

What are all of these accesses and bonuses that you're going to get with the terms of this membership where you're in this club? If you join Club WWE for an annual membership fee, which has not been released, WWE Club or ClubWE Gold members will receive exclusive 24-hour ticket pre-sale access to all WWE events around the world and tailored perks at featured events, including superstar meeting greets, hospitality opportunities,

and entrances. Hospitality opportunities. Is Vince right? You have the opportunity to get a hot dog or... You'll have the opportunity for popcorn and a piss. Also, members-only WWE shop featuring exclusive collections and early access to merchandise drops

like John Cena's upcoming Never Seen's upcoming Never Seen 17 collection. Bonus WWE content featuring inside scoops, extended cuts, behind-the-scenes footage, and more. Can't wait to get these scoops.

Dedicated members-only community, a forum connecting fans around the world like never before. Also a points-based reward system allowing fans to earn credits to redeem against digital and physical goods. And the final thing here, a premium welcome pack for founding members. I like the point system. Basically, you could spend money and we'll give you points you could use on other things

that you're going to have to use more money to get. Well, they've taken the old corny coin idea and just really run with it. Remember I told you that was a winner. But this sounds like another way to spend money easier, doesn't it to you? It sounds like they're going after every dollar they can. Someone else just sent us. This was sent to Corny Drive-Thru at gmail.com from Jordan E. There's an email from someone at On Location to Jordan about SummerSlam VIP access.

Now, On Location was the company, I believe, bought by TKO. Is that correct? I think so, weren't they announced that they were, their hospitality, yes. Hope you are well. My name is Parker. They sound hospitable. My name is Parker, your sales representative for anything on location. Thank you for your interest in on location and WWE SummerSlam VIP packages, which is taking place at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on August 1st and 2nd.

This is one of the most anticipated events of the year, and premium inventory is very limited. If you haven't already, please respond here or use the scheduling link at the bottom of the email to book time for a call to discuss package options and picking out seats. Choose WWE after clicking the link. Jim, let's get some of the pricing here.

There's only a few packages. listed. We'll start with the most expensive the elite package. For $25,000 dollars. What? You get a premium front row camera side seat. A ring side... You gotta get the fucking camera! A ringside photo op.

A pre-show all-inclusive hospitality with superstar appearances with Gunther, Tiffany Stratton, and more, and then in parentheses private section. If you want to get private with Tiffany Stratton and Goonph? Well, now we may be getting closer to 25 grand. I don't know about Gunther, but...

A dedicated VIP entrance and checkout lane at the superstore. Wait a minute, so you can spend your money faster and easier. Yeah. Hey, how did those people get on the express lane? Oh, they spent $25,000. How about for 25,000? For 25 grand, you get everything you can carry out of the store. You also get a commemorative chair with shipping.

You get a premium elite gift, or just premium elite gifting. Whatever that may be. You get to go to a Friday night Smackdown watch party with a WWE superstar, and this is once again in the private section. You get a ring mat plaque. You get your name on the canvas for one of the nights. You get a W.W.E credential and a lanyard. And finally, elite concierge services.

and private transportation. What do you think? 25 grand. 25 grand. You could go around the world on the nicest cruise ship in the fucking British fleet and eat and drink yourself

sick into a tizzy and have people push you in a wheelchair from one place to another and still not spend $25,000. Well, you don't get the private sex show with Guther and Tiffany Shradner advertising here. Jim is another package. Wait a minute.

that a show between the two of them, or do I get to pick which one of the two of them that I'd like to put on the show with? Jim, that may be too much for you or some of the listeners. We have other packages here. The champion package. Everyone wants to be a champion. Starting at $4,750 and going up to $16,150. Just Christ.

Premium floor seating, ringside photo op a lot of the same things. Hospitality with Gunther and Tiffany Stratton. We're calling it hospitality now, folks. Yeah, we're calling it with the 25 grand package, you get a happy ending. With the 16 grand, you only get tickled a little bit. Now, here's something interesting. Friday night's Smackdown Watch Party with WWU superstar appearances, this does not say private section.

So obviously there is some sort of roped off area for the high spenders to get private time with their favorite superstars. Well, there always is. bottle service, private time. There's also a third package, the gold package, starts at $8.50 for those of you who are cheap, and it goes up to $4,275.

That's the gold club package, you say? That's the gold club package, that's right. Well, Bischoff could tell us that that includes the price of the three-way. All right, well, I don't know if there was a price on that. I think it may have been. You know what? Here's, oh, there was a price he paid all right.

Here's what I'm thinking. that they need to be doing. Think about this, Brian. If they fuck all this access and the store and all that shit, let's go to the meat of the matter. If they said for $20,000, we will let you book the finish

to one of the matches. Maybe even $50,000. Okay, and actually they could rate it or price it depending on the order of the importance of the match. So let's say, you know, the girls tag title is five grand. You get to call the finish. But Oba Femi and Brock Lester, 100 grand, you can call the finish to that match.

See, that's dangerous. Also, that's cheap. See, it's one thing to say you can manage a wrestler. But to book the finish, that should be the most expensive thing there is. That's what they all want to do. Just keep having shows over and over. where all the fans that come to buy a ticket, you can buy the additional ticket and get to book the finish.

And then that's all they do is just travel from town to town with all these armchair bookers and these smart marks and these fucking newsletter readers and let them book the finishes and they can make more money on that than they can on the gate. Well, again, these ticket prices for SummerSlam, I should remind you, do not include any club WWE discounts.

the club that you pay for so that you can go spend $25,000. Fucking SummerSlam. Real quick, before we wrap things up, one final thing. Do I have prices here? I just got an email here from AEW. Oh. AEW storms into SINC for two huge nights, June 10th and 11th, Cincinnati, Ohio. Tickets available for $5 at Skyline Chili with a free bowl of Chili Mac Five Ways.

If I click on dynamite tickets, let's just see what the ticket prices are. And this isn't to put down AEW. It's more to talk about affordability. The highest price ticket here is $490 for R0C center. Everything's center. Center floor. I think the highest ticket prices ever in the history of Mid-South Wrestling, did they charge $50 for front row at the Super Bowl?

Dome when Muhammad Ali was on the card. Was it that much? I don't know. I don't know if it was that much. But, uh, yeah. All right. Well, we're... Dutch Mantell one time when he was booking Florida,

he said, goddamn, he said, we sold out Sarasota or something the other week. Why ain't that a record? Because it's not a record gate. And they told him, well, we... Because this was Dutch's first booking job, right? In the 80s, said,

and we sold it out a couple years ago with Dusty or whatever, but we had higher prices. He said, that's where they didn't tell me I could raise the prices. Then if he booked a big show, he'd bump the tickets up a couple of dollars. Golden Circle, you say, that type of thing. But this is ridiculous. But then again, I saw Earthwind and Fire for $5.50 at the Louisville Gardens in 1979.

You have to pay a lot more than that to see. an act in concert at that level but Jim, with that, the drive-thru is closed. Move over Rick Rubin. We'll be back in a few days on the Jim Cornett Experience and of course next week

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