Episode 401: Jim Reviews AEW All In: Texas

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Hello again, friends,

and you are our friends.

That's the only reason we're doing this today because we're all friends.

And welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru.

We're tired.

It's another day.

Probably not a lot of classic wrestling content today, but we got the big reviews that everyone's been waiting for.

I'm your host, the Great Brian Last, and here he is.

The big reviewer that everyone's been waiting for.

Yeah.

Mr.

Jim Cornette.

I'm glad you're so optimistic, Brian.

You know what?

You should have played on your organ there.

Instead of your normal boppy-bippy

tipsy theme, you should have played Funeral March of a Marionette.

Are you familiar with that?

I'm not.

No.

Because that's more the way you and I both feel.

Because as we were just commiserating after this,

folks, this show is going to be done in a couple of pieces because they they went crazy this weekend, the big companies, the big Titans, the Big Two, and they just decided to just show everything in the world.

And we didn't watch all of it.

And we'll talk about that here in a second while we didn't.

And if you don't like it,

but

we,

I watched, I didn't want to, and I think I've already said this, but it won't be till later in the program.

I didn't want to go at a Saturday night's main event, which I knew one way or the other was only going to be two hours

with a bad attitude on life.

And there was no way that I was going to watch however many hours of AEW, we'll get to that,

without the ability to fast forward through something or my brain would be numb.

And so I started early Sunday morning and watched the Saturday night's main event.

And then we recorded about that to get that in the editing and YouTube pipeline and all that stuff.

While that I then watched another

60, 70 fucking hours

of wrestling.

And so now this is early the following day so that we can finish this up and get this all out to everybody because

I swear to God, I'm not sure that all the shows have ended yet.

Are you?

Is everything over?

Right now, I think everything's over.

I did watch Women's Evolution, Evolution 2, I guess, technically, last night from Atlanta

for a packed house.

A packed car.

I was still finishing up Texas while you were watching the women.

Yeah, you were surprised.

I guess we'll say this right now.

You were surprised when I told you

that, like, when Saturday night's main event started, AEW still hadn't even gone to the Moxley match.

And,

you know, I don't know how they're doing it these days, uh, but we we used to, we in the business,

when I did pay-per-views with

obviously WCW was the early years of pay-per-view, but with the WWF

later to become E,

you had a set window for your pay-per-view because of the satellite time.

And Vince used to bitch because

you paid for every hour of the satellite time.

So that's why in those days,

WrestleMania would be four hours if another one was three.

You see what I'm saying?

But only the big ones ever went over the hour window.

They were the under two, under three, under four, whatever, you see.

And he would go crazy.

No, we haven't got it.

But also,

the pay-per-view channel schedules,

they are scheduled 24 hours a day with programming.

How do these people just goddamn say, I'm just going to

go into the other guy's show to fuck with him, even if it does make my show run six hours and 15 minutes or whatever?

But we'll get to the mechanics of that.

But, you know, here's the thing.

I just got to say this at the top of the program.

Both companies, they're going to counter-program themselves into limbo

if they don't.

With the WWE, it was just about blowing up everything all weekend, right?

And they had the building rented.

Why the fuck not?

And we'll fuck with the fucking billionaire boy child and his

show in Texas.

But how do the WWE fans in two days have time to watch that

much

programming of any kind?

That's a question.

I don't have an answer for you.

I didn't watch The Great American Bash.

I didn't really have any interest in watching it.

I watched The Female Evolution.

I watched Saturday Night's main event after the fact, although I saw the second half of the show live.

And I watched AEW

from like one o'clock in the afternoon on.

It was a long time.

But I mean, that's the thing, even for a WWE fan that wasn't even going to watch AEW anyway,

you got two hours on NBC.

You've got the three hours of NXT.

You have three hours of the pay-per-view of the female roster, the women's evolution.

And then there's people going, well, you didn't watch that.

No, shit.

You didn't watch Super Club.

I got to go to sleep.

Oh, that's, well, that's right.

Wait a minute.

We didn't think we're just thinking about

Tony's goddamn deal.

Friday, he did Ring of Honor Super Card of Honor

for probably, who knows, four or five hours, wherever they're showing slides of it on the wall of a barn in Wartburg.

And then the hours upon hours.

And then we're, people get mad if we don't watch fucking something.

Jesus Christ, like I said, I'm an old man.

I need sleep.

But what they're going to do, the WWE,

and we'll see this as we talk about the two programs,

they've got the one-on-one matchups you want to see with the recognized stars, with the logical booking,

with the guys that can

work and they're not stuntmen at the top of the card.

And you you barely see any of it.

They give you all that shit.

You sit down to see it.

They get two minutes to break.

Come back.

Here we go.

And you got to watch a lot of their program to get

just a little bit of the

wrestling.

And they're going to make it with these shows everywhere.

They were brawl and SmackDown and NXT and the pay-per-view of this and the special card of that.

That that you can just miss any of this shit because, goddamn,

unless they're going to let you subscribe to a highlight reel of everything somehow for an extra monthly fee, where you can watch all the good shit from the week in an hour and a half.

You know, it's like,

within AEW, what else is AEW going to do, Brian?

We've had blood drinking.

We've had a flamethrower.

We've had spikes in the back.

No move hurts anybody.

No amount of blood is too much.

They're doing hospitalization angles over on the side of the ring while the fucking

main event match is still going on.

And

it never ends.

And you can't get away from the goddamn wrestling, alleged wrestling.

It's just chaos and carnage of mayhem and goofy fucking children flipping about, as Adrian Street would say.

And so,

how do they follow any of this shit?

They got the opposite problem.

They've given so much shit, I don't care if I ever see any more of that shit ever again.

What the fuck is the matter with all these people?

Again, there's a lot of questions you're asking that I don't have a direct answer for, but there was a lot of wrestling.

Have I said anything you disagree with?

There's a lot of wrestling.

There was a lot of wrestling over the past few days.

On top of editing and recording, it was just a lot of, a lot, a lot of wrestling.

Some good

that was uh

special case.

I don't, I don't mean to be to be bad, but right.

Also, we were speaking just before we went on the air here for the people.

You say, you are our friends, you are my cult, or we would be doing that.

That we are just both of us lethargic and

and colic in our

outlook here today and i think you know you've heard of long covet i think i got long aew

energy level low just a lack of ability to want to continue living

but we're we're both we're we're going to try folks today here i got good news for you just real quick before we get into the all the bullshit you're getting out of showbiz

no apparently i've never been in show biz if this is showbiz

i got a whole family now the whole family of deer have moved into castle cornet's estate here

because stace and i were looking out to back the night before last i think we we saw mama and then we saw the two little ones and now daddy has showed up old papa deer with the big antlers.

He's got like seven of those things sticking up on

his antlers.

And they're as a family, they're grazing in the backyard where I put the deer food down under the redbud and over on the ash tree.

And they're lolling in the sun and taking advantage of our spa facilities here.

Of course, as you know, at Castle Cornette, all species are welcome except humans.

And they're just a cute.

I was taking pictures out the back window.

And Stace put out.

some peanuts for the squirrels.

And now they're just lollygagging around and everything and we got the bird feeders full and it just it looks like again a disney cartoon if it wasn't so dadgum hot and humid we'd go out and sit and watch them in person but we're staring out the window because it's a dew point 70 four

but we got that going for us brian yeah ticks and dew point here on the drive

Well, what would you like to look out the back window of your house at and see playing or not not wildlife playing around

in the wilderness there and frolicking to and fro?

What do you want to see a fucking supermarket go up in your backyard?

There has to be a happy in-between between just endless wildlife, which is kind of what I have now, and the supermarket.

Well, if you have endless wildlife, you never let us in on your little

family.

I got bears.

I got deer.

Oh, yeah.

I got

what else?

Bobcats down the street.

Still terrified of that.

Foxes.

I didn't think she was still into business.

There are foxes, there are coyotes.

She started for Dennis.

There are foxes, there are coyotes or coyotes, depending on if you're

see, that's the thing is I have chipmunks.

We got a woodpecker now, fucking terrorists.

Oh, you got that, got that woodpecker, huh?

See, I got friendly deer that walk right around and don't run away from you

graze and i've got cheery squirrels and cute little chipmunks you've got bobcats wolverines and coyotes

must be something about the fucking climate in new jersey everybody's got a bad attitude

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And Brian, let's give them a programming note before, again, on another happy thing.

Yeah, programming notes

due to this show.

Don't be surprised if we get six hours of guests, the program next week to make up for well.

And you know what?

No, that's the thing.

Next week,

we're going to have a special all-fun program where we don't do any reviews and we do guest the program and we do from my files and we talk about some history because we're going to tape that.

And I am upcoming

doing something that I haven't done in years.

And that's actually do something that I want to do just for fun instead of for some business purpose.

And I'm also the other thing that I haven't done in six years is I'm actually going to leave town to do it.

So next week, you get a nice fun program while I'll be having my nice fun.

Yeah, that's right.

I don't know, vacation.

It's not a, I will have more on that when I get back.

It's not really a vacation.

It's a trip of fun.

Of leisure.

Of leisure in a hobby instead of business fashion.

Yeah.

So if you're at the Mitchell Brothers Theater and you hear some guy moaning behind you, it's probably Jim.

Stop it.

Why would you talk that?

Well, they, that, they closed that place down, I'm sure, long ago.

I'll check, though.

But no, I'm actually.

This guy really loves Vanessa Del Rio.

Is she still around?

Well, you never hear of her anymore.

Nevertheless, I'm going to take a nice little trip and not far and not long, but we'll have a nice, fun show next week while I'm gone.

He's going to San Francisco, folks.

He doesn't want to say it out loud.

I am not going.

What?

Now, see, they're not going to believe that anyway, and then you just keep okay i'm i'm going to the next state over is where i'm going

that i can take that i can take black beauty to and get there and back in an appropriate period of time

all right

i don't want to tell anybody right now because i goddamn don't want anybody to show up while i'm there but when i come back i'll tell you all about it that's what's going to happen that's my that's my guess before you say anything when you come back is that it's going to be unexpected oh this person's here oh and this person's here what's this No, there's going to be this is a tightly controlled group of like-minded individuals

who are on the same page as far as who is in the fucking circle of trust and who is not.

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That's right.

And we'll move forward now.

We're going to time travel in a moment and go to the review of Saturday night's main event because Jim watched that first.

I just want to make a quick, you brought up programming updates.

We've heard from several listeners who've had issues downloading or streaming or even having the show arrive on Pocket Casts.

That's not our issue.

That's some sort of bizarre issue on their end.

Apparently, the show that was released a few days ago just went up this morning for those people.

Maybe look into another podcast catcher, another podcast service.

But for everyone wondering what was going on, that was out of our control.

We looked into it.

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Pocket Casts.

Pocket Cast.

Apparently they've got their hands in their pockets playing Pocket Pool instead of providing our programming for our people.

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All right, we are in the future, ladies and gentlemen.

Yes, we are.

Yeah, me and my mute friend, there he is.

Hello again, everybody.

Well, I was waiting for you to say something of any consequence so that I could respond to it because my ears were still ringing from the twanging, although that encapsulates my mood.

Brian, I don't know where we are.

I don't know what we may have said.

We've time traveled.

We may have not said it yet, but we're going to say it.

And if you haven't already seen, you will see.

But we are in the middle of this chaotic weekend of wrestling, too much wrestling from everybody.

We're going to be talking all about it if we haven't already talked about it.

And I could give two shits and a French-fried, you know, what

if I ever see any goddamn wrestling again.

How about that?

Let me just say that at the top of the program.

I think I would rather watch highlights of major historical personalities' funerals

than watch any more wrestling right now.

Obviously, as you can see, ladies and gentlemen, not all of Mercedes-Monet's fans are taking this well,

but we have a lot to talk about.

Eventually, we'll have AEW all in Texas,

which Jim is certainly likely to enjoy.

But before we get there, WWE said, hey, AEW is going to get attention.

Let's try to ruin their day and presented a day of programming as a part of a weekend of programming.

We did not watch the NXT Great American Bash for anyone who's yeah, and anybody who's mad about that can kiss my big fat white ass.

Well, to be fair, you've lost a lot of weight.

All right, then formerly big fat white ass.

And of course,

wait a minute, wait a minute.

Now, NXT, it was a pay-per-view event or a premium live event or whatever it was.

It was three hours long, I'm sure, right?

Two or three.

I would guess, yes.

And the Saturday night's main event, that's the main event.

That's the big show on network television with the big stars, the big time, the big boys.

That was two hours.

The

women's pay-per-view, I'm sure they get three hours of their own.

So now

we're up to eight hours.

And then

the loan

AEW program of the weekend decides, hey, we'll just do eight hours all by ourselves.

So if anybody is complaining because I, at my advanced age and current bank balance, didn't feel the goddamn need to watch every bit of that 16 hours of wrestling

below me.

Well, that was the review of the NXT Great American Bash.

And the women's pay-per-view.

Well, that hasn't happened yet.

That was your review of the women's pay-per-view.

Brother, though, we were

time traveling.

I don't know.

Rhea Ripley versus

Spotify.

Well, now that I, what, what,

what

platform is that on?

How could I just see that without having to see anything else?

I believe it would be on Peacock.

So you mean I have to watch the cock to see Rhea Ripley?

That's right.

Tiffany Stratton versus Trish Stratus.

Well, we'll see what happens.

But you know what?

I watched first because I didn't want to

have such a bad taste in my mouth and such a poor frame, be in such a poor frame of mind that I wouldn't want to see anything even if it was good.

I watched the major network television production.

It was only two hours with commercials

because I am a senior citizen.

I'm, you know,

not sure about watching these three, four-hour programs.

That's a large chunk of my remaining time.

But for two hours, being able to skip through commercials, courtesy of DVR,

you can see Saturday night's main event, and you can see the big stars, and you can see the network television production and Goldberg's final match.

I figure what can possibly go wrong.

And we'll talk about what went went wrong

but at least it was it was quick

i can't say painless not for everybody but at least it was quick

uh

brad where do we start at the beginning

at the beginning which uh they do the same intro they've been doing for the last several where it's like a retro theme into uh the modern day Which you remember first time I said, hey, that's cool.

Second time I say, you know, I like that thing.

And I'm like, they're doing it again.

I'm picking the thing apart.

I can't not do that.

Sean Michaels wasn't on the original.

That was on Fox.

You can't count that.

But they did that.

Then they went to what they've been doing for the open every show, Joe Tesatore and Jesse the Body Ventura.

Last time Jesse was on the event, the show.

Yes.

Yes.

He did commentary.

shat all over the fucking finish of the cage match.

I was dying to see how they used him this time.

Well, and he didn't do commentary this time, funnily enough.

Jesse,

I mean, actually, to be honest, it wasn't their fault because the real Jesse Ventura, his plane was delayed.

They had to have the crypt keeper stand in

doing the voice.

He looks like he's dehydrated.

And I'm not talking about needs a drink of water.

I'm talking about like desiccated, like when you put something in one of those

things that is he is that a natural mummification process, Brian.

You know, uh, what I didn't expect you to do.

Is it is I'm trying to get your scientific input on this now.

Yeah, I'm sure you've

you know read something about this in the in the science journals.

Um, Governor Tutor,

Governor Tut is at ringside now to present.

Now, he did the

stand up as normal.

And it was probably about how long he can stand up.

And Brian, correct me if I'm wrong, because I, you know, I don't think we ever saw or heard from Jesse Ventura ever again.

Did we?

I don't think so.

Because I do skip commercials now.

I might have, did I skip some

little 30 seconds in the middle where they say, hey, Jesse, what's for supper or something like that?

But I didn't see him again.

I don't remember seeing him again.

Now, again, things did change apparently on the fly on the show due to the injury,

which raises a lot of questions about how long that was going to go, how long Goldberg versus Gunther was going to go.

Maybe Jesse would have figured into

a part right there.

And they said, we have to cut that up.

Well...

And no commentary.

Yeah, it would be hard to figure why what happened would affect the announced teams that were planned, but nevertheless,

they got a contract, right?

With Jesse.

But they got a legends deal, too, I think, right?

Well, yes, you know, we got the deal with Jesse, and Jesse could be litigious if we don't honor our commitments.

So he's on Saturday night's main event.

But I didn't think the commentary on the case that everybody poo-pooed last time when I said they got to be out of their mind in the truck.

They're like, oh, it's the best part of the show.

It's Jesse.

All the people on Twitter, that is.

I think the people in the truck won.

They should have put him out there for like the Jimmy Uso versus Solo match.

Why not?

I'm not sure what he could have.

What could he have said to ruin that?

Nothing.

Well, are you insinuating because it was already bad enough to begin with?

Well, no, I'm just saying.

Yeah, I mean, of all the matches that when you rank the importance of things on the show, setting up the celebrity angle,

Seth Rollins versus L.A.

Knight, and apparently there was some other plan for that.

The main event, the retirement of Goldberg, who never had a single match called by Jesse Ventura.

I think that's the match that would have been the candidate.

i'm i'm pretty sure they're content to let jesse do the stand-up with joe tessatore at at the start and

and then get him back to oxygen as quickly as possible

it just a lot of people are getting too old i including me

i'm too old for this i'm not even doing it Jesse still does the thing he always did, and it's amazing he got away with it.

I mean, he was so good.

Where he mouths the words the other person is saying as they're saying them.

So you just start watching Jesse.

You're like, Jesse's like, he knows what this other person's going to say the entire time.

Sometimes it's teleprompter, but sometimes it's just Jesse like figuring out what the other person's saying.

Yeah, it's like he should be one of the interpreters.

If he could just do that, if somebody was speaking another language and say it at the same time,

he could have got a job with Steve Stack on Southwest Wrestling.

It makes it look like he's a ventriloquist and he's like trying not to talk, but he's actually saying the exact same words that the dummy saying,

not the Cochrane Desertorium dummy.

Well, I was gonna say, he's just dressed like one.

Should we talk about the show?

Because,

I mean, where else can you start here on the WWE program

with Randy Orton making his entrance with Jelly Roll?

Jellyroll.

Who

was on SmackDown

just the night before performing whatever it is that he performs

when he was disrupted and

enraptured by Logan Paul,

who tore up and stopped his concert.

And then Randy Orton had to yell at Logan Paul, but then Drew McIntyre Claymore kicked Randy Orton.

And then Logan Paul beat Orton up, but Jelly Roll

rolled right in there to save the day

and pulled Logan Paul off of

Randy Orton.

It has come to this that not only

are we talking about a guy named Jelly Roll,

but that he is the guy that saved Randy Orton from Logan Paul.

And a lot less jelly.

He used to be really, really big and fat.

Now he's, you know, just kind of big and fat, but he's lost a ton of weight.

So some of the imposing nature of the jelly roll, it's like the jelly's been sucked out.

Well, yeah, it's like it's sugar-free jelly.

There's something there, but it doesn't really have any fucking oomph.

At least when he was 500 pounds, you could think, you know,

get three steps of momentum going for a guy.

And you got 500 pounds of just fucking mass coming at you.

He could do something,

even if he was just a big fat piece of shit, which you would be if you were 500 pounds.

Sat there dressed like John Popper.

Seriously, Logan Paul should just rip his shirt off.

That should be the move.

Like, I'm not even going to try to fight you.

I'm just going to expose you.

No, no.

If they bleep fuck, they'll censor that.

Well, we're not even talking about the match yet.

We had a match to talk about.

Well,

so Orton comes out with Jelly Roll, and Drew comes out with Logan Paul.

So

Drew versus Orton, Drew's backup is Logan Paul, and Randy Orton's is Grammy nominated or award-winning singer or whatever the fuck he's done.

Jellyroll,

who's a formerly giant,

you know, Martin the Blimp Levy level fat fuck, but is now just a regular fat fuck that you see walking around the streets.

So

this is what we are come up with or come up against with the AEW versus WWE weekend.

The complete opposites.

And sometimes you're embarrassed to be a wrestling fan and watch either one of them.

The AEW matches never end.

And the guys, in a lot of cases, aren't even professional.

The WWE guys are professional.

And you barely see any of the fucking match.

In AEW, nothing can beat anybody.

And in the WWE, fat fucking singers can beat up the wrestlers.

That's the best way to get booked well.

It's to sing.

If you're a singer, you get pushed in the main event right away.

Oh, and I forgot.

And in the WWE,

the singers interrupt the wrestling.

And in AEW,

the best part of the fucking show is the singers interrupting the wrestling.

But anyway, they got in a fight, did Drew and Randy,

and went back and forth, some action, couple desk drops by McIntyre on Orton.

And Orton's selling to back and they go to the break in two minutes.

Jesus Christ, he network TV.

So they come back.

Randy sells the back.

My thought is that Jellyroll better be glad he can sing if he can sing.

With the facial tattoos, his other career options may be limited.

And then

Randy makes a comeback, drops Drew on the desk, hits the draping DDT,

calls for the RKO.

Logan Paul distracts him and Drew claymores him two count foot on the ropes.

Holy shit.

And then Logan Paul and Roll, Paul and Roll start arguing and shoving each other.

And Drew tells Roll,

well, just bring your, see, this is about Drew here.

Just bring your fat ass on in the ring and I'll handle you, me pretty.

I don't know how the fuck to do that accent.

And Roll won't roll.

He won't come.

So then Drew goes around to pick up Orton and Orton RKOs him one, two, three.

It was nine minutes with the break, with the break.

So it was okay for what it was, but there wasn't much of it.

And then

Logan Paul gets on Orton and starts getting heat on him.

And here comes Roll.

And he pulls Logan Paul off, and they get nose to nose.

And Roll hits him with a forearm, kind of, sort of, somewhere around there.

And Logan Paul went down and rolled out.

And then, as Roll was checking on Orton,

Drew Claymore kicked Roll

and talked to him quite dismissively.

And then all the officials and the referees came out,

and we left with Orton worried about Roll.

Before we get to

the big reveal, the big announcement that they made, do you have any comments so far, Brian, on this tomfoolery?

I think everyone figured the announcement they were going to make before they made it, and then they made the announcement, Tony Constyle, just like minutes later in the middle of the show.

Hey, this all of a sudden has been announced for SummerSlam.

And this is TKO's wet dream this match.

Oh, we got a celebrity here and we got a celebrity here.

And Jelly Roll is still like, if you watch like anything

outside of wrestling media in the real world, they fawn over him.

Like every network, every they fawn over this fucking man.

So eventually that's going to run out, but he's running with his moment.

And he's a big wrestling fan.

And that's what it takes right now.

If you are a celebrity and a big wrestling fan, hang out a little bit, get to know some people, eventually get to know Paul,

and then

impress him, talk to him about how much you love the business, really kiss some ass.

Even you can main event WrestleMania.

I, you know, and Roll may be a nice guy.

And I'm sure he's a big fan.

And I'm sure I hope he's being

very respectful.

But Jesus, I could even understand, you know, with the Dennis Rodman thing, it's a professional athlete.

The, you know, the

celebrity crossover, Lawler and Kaufman, you know, everybody's tried to emulate since, but

these are two main event fucking guys against Randy Orton and Jelly Roll.

And

I mean, is this any better than Jay Leno?

At least Leno was in shape back then.

I, you know,

you know he could be a manager

he could or he could be in the you know but

anyway so

that's it's summer slam so we got that to look forward to is that just a match or was that one of the main events is it just a match

well i hope it's just a match i can't imagine it's one of the main events unless there's a massive bus accident involving major WWE talent between now and then.

Would that be the main event?

I said a main event, not the main event.

One of one of the well, two nights, one of the main events of either night.

Where is Jelly?

What, what, name me Jelly Rolls' biggest hit, Brian?

I'm not the person for that.

I'm not a fan of, I'm not a fan of a lot of things right now.

I'm not a fan of a lot of people.

The modern morphing and destruction of country music into glam nonsense and then you incorporate other gen it's just everything

to me sounds synthetic and shitty and auto-tuned and i don't need to hear any more sad sack

i don't care what kind of rhyme form it's in i want to hear something that feels good and rocks but

that's that now i don't know this guy's music his music well it so but he he's it's his his genre is allegedly the new thing they call country it's country i think he did a hip-hop hip-hop, or I shouldn't say hip-hop rap.

And that's everything now.

Country and rap put together.

Fucking running music.

Country and rap.

Crap.

So Jelly Rolls genre is crap, but he's on top of the charts when it comes to the crap fans.

I think they even introduced a new category now at the Grammys.

It was like, what was it?

Like best traditional country music.

Because country music now is just glam pop.

Just terrible.

Terrible.

I never liked country music anyway because it was very disrespectful to bluegrass.

Too show busy.

Anyway,

they had stars in the crowd, Brian,

including

Jade Cargill, who was there and just sitting in the front row with some of the other top talent, just so that they could be photographed.

And

thing is, they're sitting in the same seat because you always see the same fucking people sitting next to them.

So

they must either have bladder control issues, all these stars, or just not want to see the rest of the show.

But as Jade is at ringside, Naomi came from behind her and beat the shit out of her.

And then Jade fought back, and

the security and the referees had a big pull apart.

And

Nick Aldus said,

All right, I've had enough here.

I was going going to do this in front of you in the office like professionals instead of out here in public.

But

since you've gone this far,

he then brings out like she was just standing back there, never dreamed that this was going to happen.

And they had the music queued up.

The special referee for their pay-per-view match on

what is evolution

is Bianca Belair,

who came out in a dress apparently she had worn to the Grammy Awards.

Is that the

fanciest referee outfit you've ever seen in your life?

Maybe so, but no skipping, no dancing, all the things you always say you're sick of.

Well, no, because she couldn't skip and dance in that fucking thing, it would have fallen apart.

She was barely able to fucking move.

You see the way Naomi and Jade were slugging each other?

Well, yeah, I don't know whether it's that they, and the Naomi diving on everybody almost killed like four people.

I don't know whether it's that they legitimately don't like each other or they just don't know how to fucking work.

I like, I enjoy it watching those two just beat the shit out of each other.

I enjoy the fuck out of it.

It's like Queen Amanata and Tecla.

Something's going on here.

What the fuck?

Are they shooting?

Are they not shooting?

Are they friends?

Do they hate each other?

But they were laying it in.

I liked it.

I'm thinking it's more in the, I'm not sure they either will know how to work category, but nevertheless.

So Bianca will be the referee and hopefully she won't be wearing that ball gown that she was in.

Now, come on, you got to watch that match, don't you?

No.

Whose side will Bianca take?

Will there be a turn?

I think if Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk were in the main event tomorrow night at the Louisville Gardens, I wouldn't want to see any more wrestling.

Now, why would they be in the main event on a Monday night in Louisville?

Well, you don't know whether that's tomorrow or not when other people are listening to this.

I'm just saying tomorrow night, which would be enough time for me to fucking hear about it and get tickets and go.

So, then for the U.S.

title,

Jimmy Uso versus Solo

with JC Mateo, Tomatonga, and Taller Tonga.

And

this one they didn't show a lot of, but to be honest, I wasn't broke up about that.

Because

to me,

they're too similar.

They've got the same style, and they also have the same drawbacks and bad habits.

The punches you can see through with the open hand, the head-palm shoot-offs, the timing issues, the neither one of them is

smooth as baby oil, so to speak.

They worked hard, but it's like watching the same guy work with the same guy.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Well, they are brothers.

Well, yes, but so were Dory and Terry.

And could you

find two more different people?

I just,

they don't have a good smooth match with each other because if either or the other one is in the ring with another guy who's a little bit smoother worker,

it it works out better

but together

but

uh they came they got a couple of two counts people like uso the people don't like solo

solo hit a rock bottom Uso hit a couple of super kicks solo rolled to the floor and then Uso dove on all three of them And the audio was muted forever.

Did you, or or was it just my cable system or was that a network thing?

That happened twice yesterday.

It happened there and then it happened on AEW pay-per-view.

Every time they went to like the Kevin Hart DraftKings commercial, it went mute.

But this was just, there was no sound.

I don't know what anybody could have been saying, you know,

but it was NBC.

So they got different standards.

So then.

Taller Tonga

tries to come and attack Uso on the floor in front of the referee, but even though he's tried because he didn't actually connect, the referee just stands there and looks stupid.

So they've got that rule now.

But Uso kicked him,

and then

Solo schoolboyed Uso from behind.

And as he was on top of him, Taller stuck his leg in and braced him one, two, three.

Say,

Taller came in and leveled Uso, and they got heat on him, and Solo spiked him.

And then here came Jacob.

And he made a comeback on the stooges and fought with Taller and dove on everybody, and they loved Jacob to death.

But that was kind of what that was.

I mean, it wasn't,

it wasn't rotten.

Matches, eh?

Love seeing Jacob.

That's my thoughts.

You know, tell me what you think, but I'm just kind of sick of the Solo Sokoa universe, I guess.

And,

you know, this giant is

just in the background.

He's a small giant, isn't he?

I don't know what it is.

I don't know if it's the outfit, or I don't know if it's just the hair,

but like, he's a giant and he's clearly bigger than everyone else there.

Yet you don't think like, oh my God.

You don't think like, oh my God, that giant's going to get the Jacob Fatu.

You don't have that thought.

I'm telling you, remember what I told you?

He doesn't have an abnormally large head.

He has a small head.

A giant has to have a big head.

What about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Well, was anybody fucking scared of him in a wrestling ring?

Or, you know, you can have a small head and be a basketball player.

I'm trying to think about the giants as I'm breaking through my head.

Well, and think about it with Jabbar versus Bruce Lee, visually looked ridiculous.

And you didn't have any problem thinking that Bruce Lee could probably just snap all of his goddamn little, tiny, little arms and legs.

But if he'd have had a big, giant fucking head,

man, the shit would have been on.

When did you first see Game of Death?

Or the footage?

Game of Death.

When was it first released?

Was it, it was 78 by that point, wasn't it?

Were you seeing Bruce Lee's stuff in the theaters?

Yes.

Of course.

Didn't everybody

enter the dragon was a big fucking deal

me and my cousin larry went to see that three times well he's a black belt

of a third degree i believe i'll have you know so not as good as kung fu fue i was gonna say not as good as hung kung fui but uh close he's a four

fourth degree well he i don't remember now he could have been a a third or a fourth or a fifth you never know because it was the same kind of strip mall as fui got his license in but anyway

nevertheless that was that you know i'm i agree with you i'm

it the the the samoan universe around solo is not that threatening to me

yeah are you threatened

again i i think it just kind of dropped off and i like jeff cobb

um i get a kick out of tongo loa i don't know where tama tongo went oh that this was Loa, not Tama.

Yeah.

See, there are too many of them.

You know, and I don't think it's a Jacob Fat II problem, him being the babyface against him.

I just don't think anything, you know, Jeff Cobb came in.

He was just slotted right in.

And it's worked in the past.

It worked with Tama Tonga where you just accept, like, okay, this person's with this person.

But there was very little done to establish it.

It was just all of a sudden there.

Well, now there's too many degrees of separation from the whole original thing.

Yeah, there's no Roman Reigns.

Roman Reigns is nowhere near any of this programming, and that was the original thing.

Well, but

the spin-off, right?

The Jeffersons, you didn't suddenly wonder where the bunkers were.

You didn't care about them, right?

That's a good point.

That's a very good point, yeah.

But then there's a reason why that, you know, fucking Marla Gibbs didn't get her own show off the Jeffersons because it was too many degrees of separation.

But the original Lionel on All in the Family, that's still the Lionel.

Well, yes, yeah, You can't replace anybody that visible.

See, and that's maybe that's what they think is happening with

the Tama and the Tonga, Loa, or Tama and Loa.

And I don't even know about Taller.

You see?

See, he just came from Noah, and he doesn't look like any of the other people.

So who's he related to?

Tonga.

Well,

they don't look similar.

You can see the family resemblance between the Usos and Solo.

And you can see that Jacob is the goddamn,

the one of them that turned into a werewolf.

But this other guy comes in looking like Ned.

I don't know what his fucking deal is.

Well, that was that.

And we move on with Saturday.

Oh, we're moving on now.

I will.

Yes.

All right, let's move on.

Geez, Seth Rollins, an LA knight.

And this,

I mean, we'll talk about the match first, but I'm sure everybody's heard what happened.

But

again,

you know, these two guys can work

and they're over.

And you got a baby face, you got a heel, and it's one-on-one.

And they start cooking at a little good pace, and they go to break in two minutes.

Okay, when they come back.

Three minutes later, they're at a stationary body scissors by Seth Rollins.

And within a minute,

L.A.

Knights making his comeback, hits his elbow off the top.

And then they start going into shit.

Seth goes to the top, and L.A.

Knight's going to do his leap up and

suplex or whatever, superplex.

But Seth slipped under him and buckle bombed him.

And then, as he's in the middle of the ring, Seth does a

springboard

swanton across him, boom,

and then rolls up and jumps up on the ropes to do a springboard moonsault.

But L.A.

Knight moves, and Seth is going to land on his feet to do whatever.

Now they're just, they're doing the flying Walendas.

And Seth lands on his feet and blows his fucking knee, his right knee.

So, and immediately he's like, I'm fucked.

And he rolls over in in the corner and

they showed a replay.

And you see Paul's face with his standard grin

on his face to when he sees Seth land and buckle and roll over.

And he's yelling.

He's like, oh.

And they had a conference in the corner with Paul and the referee.

And the doctor comes over, and Seth was doing most of the talking.

And then he pulled himself up to his feet and

took one step on his good leg toward L.A.

Knight so L.A.

Knight could kick him and hit the BFT one, two, three.

And L.A.

Knight gets his hands up, but you can tell he's

not pissed.

I don't think it's Seth, but he's like, oh, fuck, you know, what's happened here?

And they never shot Seth again on camera because they were having to help him out.

So

they went short.

I don't know how long they were going to go,

but the, of the, you know, the probably the best match we were going to see

in this show did not really take place.

You know, I've seen a few replays now going around.

A lot of fans have isolated different parts of the footage.

It appears that he jacked up his knee the first time.

when he did the

the rolling tumble salt.

Well, I saw that clip too, and I don't think so.

You don't think so?

I don't think so.

I think he was off balance.

He wasn't perfect, but

and I'm willing to be corrected if Seth Rollins comes out and from his own lips says, oh, I fucked it up on the first one.

But otherwise,

he was rolling.

He came up instead of rolling straight to his feet, he was rolling a little sideways so he

bobbled to get back up on both feet, but it didn't look like anything that would have traumatized his knee.

And he didn't

flinch or, you know, do anything more than grab the rope and get his balance to jump up.

It wasn't like, oh, should I do this?

But when he did that, when he landed on the moonsault,

he just landed with a lot of velocity.

And even though his knee was bent, he's had knee issues.

And

that kind of impact, if he's got and had knee issues before,

it didn't look like something that would

just have completely blown his ACL out, but it could have gone the other way.

It could have been the PCL

from a

PCL is more when you have a hyperextension or something or slippage in the knee joint rather than a clippage from the side.

did he just come down with too much weight and too much velocity on something that

he's been did he do therapy for a wrestlemania last year he rolled in the ring and his leg was flopping around his leg was done last year and then he was out for a long time rehabbing that

okay you know so it don't take being hit by a steamroller

And I saw some people add, oh, it's all work.

Well, you're a fucking idiot.

See, that's the thing.

I think if you watch the show it's easy to think that because the commentators right before it happened were talking about his bad knee on monday and then all of a sudden the knee injury happens and

you know i think this is one of the problems with like the michael cole style of commentary when you're constantly all year round screaming at everyone in a really fake manner about all these great things you can buy just non-stop all year round nothing seems genuine Yeah, when there is something genuine, you don't believe them.

And

that was my first thought, too.

Like the way the commentary is talking about this.

Wade Barrett sounded like he knew right away because you almost hear, oh, no.

Oh, you hear it in the background.

Oh, no.

And I think it was ACL.

And I think it was absolutely his ACL.

Well,

first of all, with Wade Barrett, he's a wrestler and he knows.

And he also knows there's no goddamn way in the world that they would have.

done this if it was a work

to completely bring a halt to the match, pretty much expose that,

you know, again, there didn't used to be injury timeouts until there started being so many real injuries.

So if the guy can't get up, the referee can count him out or the guy can pin him.

But when you stop something like that,

and then you see the obvious, what's going on, and there's nothing happening because they're making shit up.

And then he takes one step and walks into the guy's finish and protects his leg while taking a move that doesn't have anything to do with his leg.

He's fucking hurt.

And it would be a stupid, stupid way to

work something.

And let me ask you about that.

As a promoter, as a booker, was that the right decision?

Seth Rollins realizing he's hurt.

Very short, relatively, although it's on TV, so it seems like a long time conference with Heyman.

and the referee.

And then he gets up and walks into a finish that he may not have

if he hadn't gotten hurt.

Well, yeah, no, that wouldn't go to be the finish, but and that's the thing is, that's why I said Seth was doing a lot of the talking.

If you note, Paul wasn't saying a lot, Paul kind of had that

face just kind of freezes in moments where it's like, What's happening?

You can't really tell what's going on with him, it's probably served him well.

And the referee was just, you know, clicking her IFB apparatus to communicate or hear back and forth or whatever

seth

that's the thing if a guy was knocked out

you know goofy and and had a concussion and said like i i can't let's do something i gotta go

you can figure out a way to small package yourself

and and you know

so seth had to realize because he's had a history of knee injuries he knows what they feel like

he didn't just think, oh, I've sprained my ankle.

Because elsewhere, he might have tried to figure out a way to

small package fucking LA Knight with one leg.

But he had to realize, oh, shit, this is not good.

I'm fucked.

You know what?

Fuck it.

You beat me.

I'm going to be gone for a while.

Just fucking take it.

Why not?

Yeah, see, that's what I thought.

Do you think that's the right decision?

Yes.

To make the best of a bad situation, because, and

the people knew that there was something wrong, and L.A.

Knight's reaction to winning

kind of because he just got out of the ring and got the fuck out of there.

That kind of drove it home.

I'm not saying he was acting unprofessionally.

I'm, you know, everybody was disappointed, upset, whatever.

But at least

he got a win over a name

that,

you know, to make the best out of this match that couldn't go on any other way.

Cause what, Seth ain't going to give him the stomp

in that condition.

And then what

sometimes guys, well, well, didn't old Mercedes moan.

She lost a match in Japan when she realized she was fucked up.

Maybe it's, that's what they should have been doing beforehand, was trying to hurt her to get her to do a job.

You know,

Seth realized, I'm, I'm going to be out for a while, fuck it, right?

And who's going to argue with him at that point?

I don't know if that came from the back as much as Seth just said, let's just get the fuck out of here and do this.

But,

you know, that's, that's the problem is

everybody knows now it's a work, but also the companies tell them because there's

the, it used to, a guy would just roll out on the floor and the other guy would fucking,

you know, keep making the referee or keep breaking the referee's count to give the guy a chance.

But now everybody's got an IFB microphone, a doctor comes, there's this big goddamn conference, and the other guy's just left over there going,

you know, what the fuck?

I'll stand here until somebody tells me what to do.

So it's more obvious.

This has always happened, but it's more obvious now, is what I'm saying to you.

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So let's talk a little bit about Seth Rollins.

Obviously, going with the idea this isn't a work, and he's hurt again, and it's his knee again.

How do you treat someone like that when they come back?

Now, you've

previously been around Seth Rollins before he was there when his style was even more physical, I think you could argue, and he wasn't carrying as much muscle as he is now.

And he still still wrestles in an incredibly physical style.

And obviously, you watch what he does.

He's a heel doing a lot of babyface things with his legs.

The springboards, the jumping.

Those are babyface things that a heel's doing.

It's his style.

He's gone down now a few times.

A, what do you do with him when he comes back?

And B, he's the money in the bank winner.

You put a whole stable around him with Heyman.

We could figure out what they're going to do with Heyman and that crew after, you know, talking about Rollins.

But how do you book him going forward?

Do you have to, in the back of your mind, think that

physically he may not be able to hold up for a long period of time?

And is that unfair to think that?

No, well, I mean, physically,

he'll be able to walk around again.

He's not, you know, in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

It's just a question of how athletic he's going to be and how much he's going to have to modify his style.

And

it probably wouldn't be a bad thing if he didn't do as many springboards and have a coronas and dives and things as he does now

because he's still getting older anyway, and he's a star and he doesn't need to because he can talk

for the most part.

And he can work and he's being put in with other big stars that they care about.

And if he's working with CM Punk, Punk ain't going to be doing any goddamn moonsaults to the floor.

So it's a, you know,

he can modify that and still have

years more on his career that he wants to have, depending on how many he wants to have.

The question is,

right now, they're losing millions of dollars

because they're not only going to have to pay him his guarantee while he's out, but they've just put, as you said, the heel stable together.

And

they had plans going forward for major pay-per-view events, et cetera, et cetera.

And that does cost millions of dollars in revenue at this level.

And so

that's one reason why.

To be quite honest with you, that some of the guys that are just the AEW darlings and/or

even sometimes the WWE darlings,

they don't want to invest

millions of dollars and have millions of dollars on the line

with guys that are doing shit like that.

Because

this was a kind of a medium-range difficulty wrestling maneuver these days.

But as we've seen, it can happen with a simple thing.

And

that's why the WWE won't tolerate

guys going to the extent they do in AEW and devaluing all the big moves because they don't want

the guys to have to do so much more to get the same response, which leads to the multiple injuries and surgeries that are more prevalent now in every company.

So there's a lot of money on the line here.

And

if I was them,

I would keep Seth on television

every week as much as possible with Heyman,

with the other two guys, as still as

a tag team, henchman, whatever the fuck,

and put Seth in a guy.

Remember when Brett was hurt and was in a wheelchair as the leader of the Hart Foundation?

97, yeah.

But he was still on TV every week.

He was really hurt.

He had the knees coked.

But we kept him on television, and he was still the leader of the group

well now they're going to say oh seth needs to have surgery and do his rehab and

you know go to the beach house or whatever the fuck they do these days we'll see him in six months or whatever i don't know but if it was old-time wrestling and you wanted to keep the booking going and the guy had to show up to get paid

You'd have him out there in a fucking wheelchair with that leg all wrapped up like a mummy

and have him still talking and getting heat and pointing his finger to have other people do shit.

But I don't know.

We may not see that for a while.

If they go the other way and it's Dr.

James Andrews, surgery, hardcore rehab from home,

what do you do with Heyman in the stable?

Do you look at this as a chance to

do something different with someone else and set up Rollins to be a babyface when he comes back.

Again, if he's not going to actively be on TV,

but Heyman obviously is, and Bron and Bronson will be,

you know, what are the options and what should they do?

You know,

it might not be a, if it's the ACL, if it's six to nine months.

And again, you know, the other ligaments aren't quite as serious, but he's had previous damage.

Maybe this is just

something else, you know, but

it's still going to be a little while, one would assume.

I mean, can Heyman do the Jimmy Hart, Jerry Lawson?

I swear to God, with Braun Breaker,

with Braun Breaker, well, what about if Paul

still has the briefcase?

Because, you know, Seth had to go to the hospital.

Paul's got the briefcase in his car.

Possession.

Paul bestows the briefcase on Braun Breaker because Paul's already looking ahead to his next young champion.

That's Heath.

And then, and, you know, and it's the line, you know, what about Seth Rollins?

Well, what do you do with a racehorse when he breaks his leg?

You shoot him.

And then Seth could come back for Braun.

And that doesn't,

you know.

Because, again, people are so smart.

If it's a legitimate injury and it's a long rehab, as you said,

he's gonna

people are gonna be sympathetic to him when he comes back because he's gone through all this so how about if his goddamn wise man

uh ended up saying okay i'll take your and put it on somebody else another horse i can ride because i shot you because you were no good to me anymore

and then you've got brawn breaker and seth rollins That's money with Paul in the middle of it.

I mean, obviously obviously L.A.

Knight beat him to do something with L.A.

Knight having to do with that, but I don't know what.

I don't think otherwise than L.A.

Knight having that win under his belt to be referred to and what he does next over the next few weeks or whatever.

I don't think that's going to historically be a match that is even remembered or referred to.

They're going to

slide on by.

You know, some people will say Rey Mysterio,

by and large, even though he's older now, wrestles the same kind of match he wrestled 20 years ago.

No, he didn't.

And he has no knees.

You know, his knees are gone.

But that's a thing.

He does the same thing, a couple of the same things that people remember him doing.

But no.

And this is not a disrespect to Rey Mysterio.

It's an acknowledgement that he's 30 years older than people first saw him and he's had injuries, and he is smart enough and talented enough to modify his shit to where now

if the people see Ray shine

for 45 seconds, do a trademark thing, get cut off and sell, get sympathy, and then

make a comeback, hit a couple of things off the ropes, and a 619,

they're happy.

And go back and look at what Ray Mysterio was doing in 1997 or whatever.

And no, it's not the same thing.

But he's smart.

Well, going to Seth Rollins, he's 39 years old.

Does someone have to have a conversation with him about how much he has left in the tank if he wrestles the same way he's wrestling?

Well, no,

he should be having that conversation with himself.

because he's the one that can tell what you're the one that can tell what you can do or not.

Now, if you want to ignore yourself, so I'll keep doing the shit that I used to do, even though I'm probably going to hurt myself.

Well, then that's, you know, that's one thing.

But

you can guys throughout the history of the wrestling business, when they had to

work to get paid, and when they had to show up, they were advertised and blah, blah, blah,

they figured out ways to get themselves over

so that as long as it was them doing something, they didn't have to do every goddamn thing.

They could work around it.

You can work around a leg or work around an arm or, you know, whatever.

You've, you know, you've changed your style.

Dick the Bruiser, for fuck's sake, he took hip tosses in 1959.

But not in fucking 1982.

You just, you have to, but you still got to go to work.

So you figure out what you can do to get yourself and your shit over that doesn't involve shit that you can't do anymore.

And everybody has done that in the business at one time or another.

If he returns every week in a wheelchair, that theme music's really going to be awful.

It's going to be endless.

You know, that's the thing is that

he wants to be the Messiah.

Well, he could come out with a goddamn.

I just said now, actually, I like fucking Paul taking the case and giving it to Braun better.

But if they wanted to keep him on TV, he could come out with the Jim Jones sunglasses and the wheelchair and the whole nine yards and preach to people

and corrupt his evil minions with Paul beside him.

I think it was off air.

If it was on air, I apologize.

But I mentioned to you that we've received a lot of feedback recently from people sick of the Seth Rollins

heel leader of the stable character, I guess.

Sick of people find some people finally fed up with the punk-Rollins feud

and some people specifically not digging Rollins.

You know, to your point, the best solution might be a complete change because it's not going to hurt business.

It can only improve things.

Either elevating Braun.

I don't know if there's a mystery new leader you could just substitute in there.

It's kind of like when Edge left Judgment Day.

You know, Judgment Day just kind of took off on their own.

But you're convincing me that is the best way to go.

Yeah, I mean, if there was some new mystery person to just come in and, why don't they drop him in out of a helicopter?

That would be ca-ca.

And if Rollins could somehow get back within a year.

He could return and chase after the guy holding his case that has the ability to cash in.

And then the clock is ticking because he's only got a few months left.

There you go.

That was Seth Rollins and L.A.

Knight, and we'll see what happens with Seth Rollins shortly within a day or so on TV.

But, Jim, that was still more of Saturday Night's main event.

Oh, there certainly was because, and I mean, they had to kill a little time because the match between Seth and L.A.

Knight went home early, but at some somehow, and I believe I might know, but somehow, they had time to fill and still went off the goddamn air in the middle of fucking Goldberg's promo.

This show was snake bit.

And this is NBC television.

It's a WWE studio.

It's not like they are strangers to live broadcasts.

And at the end, they were just going hard to break where they weren't even.

Not only were they not pitching to it, which often they don't, but they weren't fading.

There wasn't a,

you know, like a, really a lead to the break.

It just, boom, there's a commercial.

And

then they, like I said, they managed to go off the air with, we saw 10 seconds of Goldberg's retirement fucking speech.

I don't know.

It was a fiasco, but

all I could say when I was watching this was poor Gunther,

who is the most talented, dedicated, professional.

You know, they ought to be

over the moon at the talent that they have got in Gunther, the employee they've got, I should say, because,

goddamn, poor guy.

They even brought Doug Dillinger back.

And I've known Doug since 1985.

He was a Charlotte City police officer working for Crockett, doing security at the matches.

That popped me.

Seeing old Doug Dillinger knock on the door, that got me.

Because I didn't see him early in the show.

I missed when they showed him in the crowd.

But when they knocked on the door, that got me.

Yeah.

And,

you know, so, and I don't know how old Doug would be, but my God,

I think he was,

he was certainly had to be in his 30s when I was in my 20s.

Anyway, I'm surprised he's still alive.

But anyway,

he did the walk.

Goldberg looked in pain walking.

You could, he,

could you tell, or was it me, or did he always walk like that?

I don't know if I thought it there in the hallway.

I definitely thought it a little bit later that it looked like as he was walking, he was struggling, moving around.

Again, he's a guy.

He's not a young guy.

And beyond wrestling, he played football.

He's.

Well, yeah, I'm not saying he needs to, you know, that he's Ox Baker and he has no

track record of being physical,

but it just, the aura.

That's the problem.

I think it was Goldberg in the match, coming coming out, doing the stuff that Goldberg did, but it wasn't the same aura.

And I think the fans weren't going batshit.

Remember when they would see Stone Cold come back,

right?

No matter where it was, Pismo Beach or Seattle, Washington, the place goes out of their minds because it's Stone Cold and he still had the aura.

And

I guess he probably still has the aura, but we haven't seen him in a while.

But were the people in Atlanta going nuts when Goldberg was walking to the ring, or was it kind of like, yeah, there's Goldberg?

It seemed like they were really into it.

Now, you know, the match kind of just popped up within a few weeks.

So it wasn't like there was a long build.

But also, I think,

you know, Goldberg's a big star.

And his peak was a long time ago.

And if you try to like look at any other period in wrestling history, you know, dropping someone from 25 years ago to now to be as over as they were then it's hard to do

well and that's that's the other thing is that he hasn't had the constant comebacks which

and i don't mean it just comebacks in the ring i mean the you know he's back at this function or that event or he's at this or he's a guest at ringside, you know, like a lot of the got to keep people steadily watching them.

If you want to see Goldberg really in the ring, you're looking at YouTube or whatever from 25 years ago.

And that,

okay, 25 years,

that would mean that in 1986,

Pat O'Connor could have come in and challenged for the NWA title.

Would it have drawn even in St.

Louis?

No,

no.

Shit, by 1986, St.

Louis wouldn't draw for Crockett.

Crockett.

Anyway,

so I just think the aura that he used to have that would leap through the screen at you

is not there.

And it's just, it's time.

It's no shortcoming of his.

But

nevertheless, Gunther

is a genius again.

Goldberg was stationary for the most part, and Gunther worked off of him.

And he had Goldberg no sell the chop.

And basically, Goldberg was the punches, the elbows, and the clotheslines.

And Guther, you know, would stop him and go to the top so he could get slammed off.

And then they did a spot where they fought on the floor, and Goldberg could miss a spear and go through the barricade so you could get the

effect of the impact of his spear without it

having to, you know, him having to actually spear a person and it not looking like people wanted it to.

And then,

boom, boom, boom, Gunther worked the knee.

Gunther was

leading this, let's say, charitably, kind of step by step.

I'm thinking

that the reason why, I don't think, I think they did everything they were supposed to do, but I think it took longer than they thought, which is maybe why they went off the air, because

I think Goldberg was drooping after a while.

So

at any rate, Philip Goldberg goes for the spear, but Gunther moved and Goldberg speared poor old Charles Robinson.

And down he went.

And then Gunther took Goldberg's knee brace off.

And they were talking about Goldberg's, you know, bad knee and et cetera, trying to make him vulnerable.

And the fans were into that.

And he whipped Goldberg's knee with the brace, and then he went out and he killed time working the people

because they were

about to go home.

And I'm thinking that he was probably trying to give Goldberg because Goldberg had to get him up for the jackhammer, right?

I'm thinking he's probably wanting Goldberg to breathe at that point all that he,

all he wants to.

So he milked the people and he went and he shoved Goldberg's son and Goldberg's son hops the rail and a security tries to hold him back.

And

did he?

Gunther gets back in the rig.

And now Goldberg hits the spear.

Boom.

And the fans are up now.

And then Goldberg gets him up and jackhammers him barely.

Not the flattest one ever.

Here comes a new referee cover two count.

And then Goldberg couldn't get up because his leg was bad.

And Gunther got the choke.

and goldberg fought but he couldn't get out in the referee call for the bill

so we got to see the spear and the jackhammer

and

you know

enough smoke and mirrors with the referees to where goldberg had plenty of outs

and then gunther choked him out which is what

the right result was in this instance if you're going to have goldberg's final match against that guy he couldn't fucking make the people happy.

But it was 15 minutes bell to bell.

And I don't know if they thought that it was going to take that long.

Because that's the only, because then they went to break, as I say, cold again.

Right away, yeah.

Right away.

And then came back at like 9.59.30.

And Goldberg's in the ring with all of his family and his friends.

And

he said, they've come from all over the country to see me here tonight.

And he spoke for 15 seconds and in mid-sentence, boom, black, off air.

What the fuck?

Yeah, we kill AEW when they've done that in the past.

They did that with Sting on the pay-per-view.

That's what it was.

Yeah.

You know, I would have rather

shave a few minutes off this match and give him, I would have rather have seen a speech from Goldberg, an emotional speech than a few extra minutes on the match.

Yeah, well, well, the thing is, I think

they had to give Goldberg a few extra minutes in there to, you know, to not vomit.

But the thing is, is that

you can't imagine

that they left less than five minutes at the end for an in-ring speech with Goldberg and all of those people

in the format.

So I would, how the fuck they get that far off?

I don't know.

But yeah, we, the AEW overrun now

is an accepted thing and it's regular and expected.

But

I think it came from

AEW not being able to time their show and just run it over to the point where they said, well, let's do it anyway.

We'll add to the average.

But this was just, this was a rotten way to

end a network television program.

Yeah.

And I think going to the break right after the finish and then coming back just to see a few seconds of what was clearly a big moment for him and a lot of people there.

He said over 100 people from around the country were there that he brought in for this.

Yeah.

Again, there was plenty of other stuff on the show they could have shaved.

And after the Rollins injury, they were short.

Yeah,

I'd be embarrassed that that happened.

That was what I wanted to see.

Seriously, that's what you want.

They should have led off with Goldberg then and let him have his final match and give the speech, but they ended with it.

And we got to see.

Yeah, I mean, I've never seen a match

go from finish to commercial like that so abruptly.

Well, and you wouldn't have known they were coming back

because the break went on for so long, and everybody's clock probably said half of them said 10 o'clock anyway, because it was just that close.

And it was the thing,

so yeah, not uh,

it was

the talent is more professional, and you hardly get to see them do anything.

Normally, the production is more professional, but in this case, they shit the bed.

And you have to put up here with jelly rolls and rapper geese and whatever the fuck.

But

is that better or worse than watching a bunch of fucking children act like male cheerleaders in a never-ending fucking video game fight that lasts for hours and hours and it all blends together.

Why can't we just have some wrestling again?

Well, that was Goldberg versus Gunther, and that was Saturday night's main event.

There's a lot more to talk about.

This may be the end of that because of time travel.

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You know, it sounded almost like at the start there, like you hit the first two notes of Moon River.

Oh.

Those weren't either of those.

Those weren't with them.

Oh, that note.

Well, my Huckleberry friend, why don't we talk about

a big day of wrestling, AEW all in Texas,

all in one day, all in Texas.

All in one, just barely.

That's why they started.

They didn't start in the afternoon because of Saturday night's main event.

They started in the afternoon because they wouldn't be finished till Sunday morning.

Go ahead, finish your preamble.

Well, again, AEW all-in-a- big day of wrestling action.

We weren't sure when it would end.

A lot of people thought it would end before eight o'clock, before Saturday night's main event.

But it started at 1 p.m., the big pre-show.

And let's go to Jim Cornet.

Well, hold on now.

They started,

It was three.

See, we got it there on Central Time.

So we want to get this exact now, because this is one for the ages.

They may have been going for a Guinness Book, a World Record fucking deal.

They were in Central Time in Texas.

So here on Eastern Time, the pay-per-view started at 3 o'clock.

That means 2 o'clock there.

Now,

the pre-show was two hours long, but they didn't actually have matches during the entire two hours.

So they were just talking and various nonsense for about an hour.

So we only add

an hour onto the matches.

So really, the matches started about one o'clock Central Time.

And then

the thing was not over until how far into Saturday night's main event?

I had to watch it in three different pieces.

It was so fucking long.

So

are we saying that the main show was over six hours, right?

Plus the pre-show?

The main show plus the pre-show, definitely.

I don't, the main show, you said it started at three.

I didn't even realize that.

So three to, it was at least over five hours, close to six.

Yeah.

Because, well, no, the, the,

it was five hours and and O'Kenney's match wasn't over yet.

And then they had that whole main event for you.

So the, the main part of the pay-per-view was six hours long plus the,

or closing in on it, plus the hour of pre-show matches.

The final two matches alone were 90 minutes.

Yes,

every bit of it.

But

this is,

I understand that everybody's saying, oh, but they drew.

30,000 people

and yet and 15,000 of them have had tickets since they announced this thing because because they're going to go and watch pigs be slopped.

I don't know anything that AEW does, they will go and watch it.

But it's still, it's a very wonderful thing.

But they are,

they're overlooking what's in front of their eyes is that the

that crowd is diminishing the newness, the specialness.

Every time they do something for the first time ever twice,

and or they jump the shark on they've flamethrowered people and they've fucking poisoned people or whatever.

How, what can they do to make any difference?

Ongoing on a, I'm talking on a business basis.

There's no free agents they can sign.

There are very few, if any, on the horizon it looks like they could get.

The ones they got that's in top spots is getting older and ain't going to last long at this rate.

Their first all-lit in Wembley Stadium did 80,000.

Then they did 50,000.

Now they came to Texas, did 25,000.

Yes, it's great.

Also, Tony spent a billion fucking dollars.

It's all great.

But as a product, what these numb nuts don't realize is MJF is the only one of that generation age group

that has a picture on

what the fuck else can any of of you motherfuckers do to each other?

Nothing works.

Nothing beats anybody.

It's at the same time

both an incredible expose of how phony wrestling is and the most legitimately dangerous and painful shit that's ever been done.

And you

guys used to

do a hard way every once in a while for black eye to make people believe.

But now, this indi riffic generation

has made sure that everybody's smart and knows that it's all a work and et cetera, et cetera, and then

goes out there and plainly cooperates with each other to slice each other up for real

when everybody knows it's already bullshit.

The art has been lost of guys that were talented enough to

have the fans say, holy shit, he killed him, and he didn't.

To now, the fans are waiting to see the next spot where they can say, Holy shit, he killed him.

And there's a possibility.

They put Devon Ericsson on the pre-show and didn't announce it until what, that day or the day before somebody showed up in the on the news

by the way i'm just looking at my notes here but

more importantly than that

they started the show off

with two eight-man tags on the pre-show

along with one, two, three, four, five, six corner people.

And

then they proceeded to

pretty much do everything but draw and quarter human beings for six hours, seven hours, no, six more hours,

until it was way past the point of you're just my God, please, what the fuck?

And they've set this precedent for themselves

because they've done so much other goofy shit since in five years.

What are we, are we going to do fucking human sacrifices to goat gods in two and a half years?

Is this the scale of evolution, Brian?

I'm sorry.

I'll allow you to speak.

I don't have any comments about the goat gods or whatever it is, but again, it's a lot of wrestling.

And at a certain point, like you said,

and we've been saying it for a long time, of course, but everyone kicks out of everything.

Nothing can beat anyone.

And,

you know, when you're doing it just for big pops,

where the big pops matter more than logic or storytelling, it's just about getting those big pops and getting those oohs when you pull something out,

that defeats so much of the purpose.

And like you said, I mean,

I don't know how many fans have the thing of like, well, I've seen it all.

I don't need to see more.

They get sick of people and booking more than, you know, they still pop for tables, but it's just non-stop everything.

Well, but that's the thing.

You know, when you talk about defying logic, reason, what about memory?

There's a bunch of guys that's, you know,

risking life and limb multiple times in the same match.

By the time they get to the end, you can't even remember who went through the first fucking table because there's been so many others.

And

again, like I said, the hard way.

It used to be, okay.

I'll, you know, I'll punch you, you know, boom, we'll get some fucking color from the eyebrow.

Now it's like, well, I might give you a

neck fusion surgery here with this, but

it.

So

just for the sake of folks who want us to make sure we report all the details, the pre-show matches, which we did not watch.

Dustin Rhodes, Marshall, and Ross von Erich and Sammy Guevara with Kevin von Erich in their corner.

In the opening match, defeated Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Charlie Bravo, and Sean Dean with Anthony Agogo and Trish Adora.

And

we had just been talking last week about, my God, they've got the Von Ericks under contract and they haven't even put them on this

Texas show in a stadium.

And they added them the day before, right?

Or maybe it was there all along.

They just announced it.

We didn't know about it.

We were reading off their website.

That's right, it wasn't on their website.

Yeah, so it's not like it was our goddamn short.

Well, we didn't know about it.

No, we didn't know about it because it wasn't on their website.

They're like four days beforehand.

Kevin von Eric had a nice pop for uh beating up Anthony Agogo, putting the claw on him.

And uh, the other thing was, Dustin has

I guess I'm not sure.

They have sisters' kids, they call themselves the Rhodes Brothers, Yeah, his nephews, they said.

Yes.

And

they were there.

They were there too.

Because I was confused because I left the room and I came in in the middle of the match.

And they said the Von Erickson there.

And I haven't seen the Von Erickson a while.

So I'm looking at the guys at Ringside.

I'm like, are those the Von Ericks?

Who are those guys?

I had no idea who anyone was.

And then they're like, those are Dustin's nephews.

Obviously, of course.

But, you know, I was going to say, again, the Von Ericks, I think it's more important

to the people watching from everywhere else but Dallas at this point on an AEW show, because

the Von Ericks,

what percentage of, they said there were fans here.

I read the, in the opening, 29 countries and 50 states.

There were fans from.

So 29 countries, all 50 states.

Hey, how do do they know that?

I've always wondered, even when WWE says that, how do they know?

Well, no, it actually

mail computer orders,

computer internet.

You know what I'm saying?

When the people have bought, you can get that information

from,

unless they've got Express VPN telling the guys in Luxey, Mississippi, and they think he's in Ireland.

I don't know, but that's how

you didn't used to be able to do that, obviously.

40 years ago,

at Texas Stadium, the biggest, the record-setting gate, Flare and Carry,

30,000 people,

I don't know if 10%

were from outside Texas and Oklahoma.

I bet you,

maybe Louisiana, Shreveport.

But now it's, that's why I say,

you know, they need to worry about what can they follow this shit with because their big shows,

wherever they're having them, are not getting bigger.

They're getting smaller.

As a positive, I'll say.

It looked great.

They made it look full and great on TV.

It looked tremendous.

It was the most impressive looking AEW show, even more than Wembley, I thought.

And apparently there was a big walkup.

I heard they got close to 30,000, if not 30,000 people.

Yeah.

And when they've got something where they can shoot at least some percentage of the building instead of when they were doing, you know, 2,000 in the NBA buildings, you know, their TV people can make it look good because you've got some options and you've got the wide shots and everything.

And again,

they did great.

But they've put themselves in a position to where

now they think, oh, geez, you know, we've got all these people.

And the WWE's counter-programming us.

So we have to goddamn slaughter a fucking herd of cattle.

There are some people that think that's why the event ran as long as it did, was it was a deliberate attempt to fuck with Saturday night's main event.

Well, yes, but think about this: they're on fucking pay-per-view

and/or they're what what are they, whatever they're streaming on, in what percentage are they going to fuck with NBC television?

Is suddenly some AEW or wrestling fan on the fence going to go, oh shit, I could either watch Saturday night's main event from the start, or I could find this pay-per-view or streaming show and watch the last 20 minutes of it.

Maybe.

Because they wouldn't know it's still on unless they were on fucking Twitter looking it up.

What sense does that make?

Does that make, am I missing something here with the

modern technological generation?

Unless the idea is we will cause people not to rush to Saturday night's main event right away when it starts.

I don't think it's an effective counter-attack, but I think Tony needs to counter-attack more because they're going to fuck with every show he has going forward, every big pay-per-view.

Okay, but but

rush to Saturday night's main event, how he started at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Saturday night's main event started at eight o'clock.

Don't people want to eat dinner?

Are they having fucking

sandwiches in front of the TV so that they are are not, their viewing is not interrupted.

A lot of people use the AEW weight loss program, which is, you know, once a month you watch their pay-per-view and you don't move for hours.

You don't eat.

Second match on the pre-show:

Hitchhi-cha-chia.

Lance Archer, Rocky Romero, and Trent

lost to

Easy

Hologram, Kyle O'Reilly, and Big Boom AJ,

accompanied by Big Justice and the Rizzler.

Okay.

Brian Rubber, the Costco,

or was it Sam's Club?

Which one was it?

These guys are the Costco.

Costco.

Costco.

They were supposed to be getting them all this massive publicity.

because of their reach and etc.

And

everybody made a big deal out of the first time.

Now they're on the pre-show.

And did anybody even talk?

Have they been on television?

Did anybody talk about it?

Is anybody talking about them being on this?

Or is this just,

hey, let's bring your kids and let's have fun?

I didn't know they were going to be there.

Got a nice pop.

One of the most bizarre moments of the night, there was a face-off at Ringside between Rocky Romero and Big Justice.

I'm thinking is what, 15 or 16, but he's bigger than Rocky Romero.

Well, yeah.

They have a face-to-face, and it looks like this kid's going to kick the shit out of Rocky Romero.

And then Frankie, not Frankie Gazzari, what's the other guy's name?

Trent Peretta comes in and shoves him to the ground.

And that got the fans a little into it.

And his dad, Big Boom, had to make the save for Big Justice and kick some ass.

Hey,

he got to hit the spear, Big Justice, at the end.

Jesus Christ.

This is their jelly roll.

This is their jelly roll.

This is AWP.

Their jelly roll?

That's That's right.

Fucking chocolate chip kids or whatever they were.

And FTR beat the outriggers.

That was on the pre-show.

Oh, God.

I haven't even counted.

I have to think that there were 50 fucking people.

60.

No, counting the girls, 60 people

on this six-hour pay-per-view at FTR

just made the pre-show.

All right, let's start it.

The opening match

was for the six-man tag team title

with

goddamn, I forgot to write down which ones are the champions.

I think it was

the Moor Horsemen, right?

No, the ops are.

Oh, the ops are the champion.

Ah, so it was Samoa Joe and Hobbs and Shapupi defending against Claudio and Wheeler Useless and good old Gabe Kidd.

And

the bell rang and they broke into an immediate six-way and there were four on the floor

and with Poopy and Kid in the ring

and they traded like 60 or 70 fake chops that neither one would sell

while the other guys are fighting.

I'm like, this is the goddamn start of this fucking thing.

And that's when I realized, you know, nobody gives two shits what we say about this match.

So therefore, I'm fast forwarding to the finish.

And I do think that Shapupi doesn't get enough attention when we talk about really bad wrestlers.

Because the thing that he has where people hit him and he doesn't even blink

is so phony that you can register without selling something, but you have to acknowledge the impact or

it exacerbates and exaggerates the fakeness of what the guy hit you with.

And he's real,

real bad.

So

after about 15 minutes,

The heels were beating on Joe in the ring three-on-one

while Hobbs and Poopy

on the wide shots, you could see them kneeling at ringside, watching them do it

until

their cue came for them to come in and help.

And then Joe got old Wheeler up in a muscle buster one, two, three.

But then, of course, the heels got back onto babyfaces because they can't help themselves.

Every goddamn match, If the heels win, heat after.

If the heels lose, heat after.

If the match doesn't happen, heat after.

And they beat,

they beat Hobbs up with a chair and then put the chair around Joe's neck and pillmanized Joe's neck with the chair.

And then the heels left, so the doctors came in with a fucking stretcher.

And they took time

they showed it they were they weren't rushing it you're seeing them load him up and get him out

so the first match on a six-hour show is a 15-minute long six-man title match with heat after and a hospitalization angle that they will repeat verbatim before the thing is over with

Brian,

your thoughts on this situation.

Well, that's an AEW thing.

I think in AEW's best moments, they always do the same angle twice on the same show.

They've been doing that since the beginning.

You know, it's kind of a throwaway six-man match for me.

I'm not a fan of the Death Riders.

I think Claudio is

fucking poison when it comes to just, I can't get into anything.

He's doing those European uppercuts are the worst-looking thing in wrestling.

They don't look like they do anything.

And

I won't even argue with you there, but no, I say there's a lot of phonier-looking looking shit on this program.

Claudio, it's like, I know it's like one of his main things.

It looks awful.

Every time he does it, it looks like, ah, that's what.

Imagine if Claudio just threw a fucking punch.

It would actually look good compared to that.

But now think about this.

You're talking about a program where some of these guys, if they land something in the vicinity.

So, you know, you got to don't deal in hyperbole.

Stick to accurate description.

You know, I don't go ahead.

I don't care too much about the ops.

GameKid's interesting.

He's kind of like a killer cross off the gas.

You know, he's got kind of like a little attitude.

I'm not going to completely dismiss him.

I wish he wasn't aligned with the fucking wrestling death that is the Death Riders.

No one wants to see any of that shit.

But I'm curious to see what they're going to do with him, if anything, or if this is just, you know, a temporary thing because he's going to be New Japan.

But doesn't he just distract from Josh Alexander, who's like

better?

Josh Alexander.

Man, I don't know if you watch this.

I'll say it here.

And if I have to say it again later, I will.

Josh Alexander came out for that casino gauntlet match, and you could have heard crickets.

You could have heard fucking.

Oh, I'm not saying he's over, but to me, they look like they ought to be a brother tag team.

And except the Gabe Kidd has no physique and no intensity.

They look like Josh.

Nevertheless, they look like little Moxleys.

Well, you know, Gabe Kidd more than Josh Alexander, but yeah, to me, it was a throwaway opener.

I'm glad they did it here instead of in the middle of the show.

That would have caused the biggest bathroom break ever.

But not my thing, this match.

All righty.

Well,

something

that I wanted to like and was and gave a chance to before it went south, the casino gauntlet match.

They had established on television that Mark Briscoe and MJF were going to be the first two guys.

And that's been the

concentration of the thing.

The attention on the build has been MJF and Briscoe, and they've been doing promos with each other.

And as I said last week on one of the shows here,

if they'd started doing the right thing two years ago with both these guys,

that should be the main event on pay-per-view for the title.

Mark Briscoe and MJF instead of the goddamn chickenhead biting fucking sideshow freaks.

but anyway so they start the thing we got a heel we got a baby face mjf gets it even though he's one of the the young folks and mark's been around for a while so he gets it and they can both work and they know how to set shit up to get a reaction

and mark has great fire and timing

and they get two minutes or whatever they get you know because there was a again no legitimate time.

I think one time they went five minutes and then the next guy came out.

But however long they got, I'm interested.

And then number three comes out and it's ricochet.

And I'm like, oh, fuck.

This fucking doofus is going to screw something up.

And

he got in and he made a deal with MJF.

MJF made a deal with him to work on Briscoe together.

So I'm thinking, okay,

MJF is smart.

He's probably figured out a way where he's going to work together with the fucking and they get the fucking baby face down and then he'll powder out.

And they kind of started doing that.

Bandito came in

and MJF and Ricochet shook hands like they're going to take care of him like they took care of Briscoe.

And then MJF thumbed

Ricochet in the eye and bailed and then let them fight.

And MJF is staying out of as much as possible because, again, he's smart.

And then here comes Tegashit.

And he and Ricochet started doing the flips.

And then he and Bandito started doing the flips.

And it started turning into every AEW match.

MJF came back in and stopped Bandito

and at least and went to pop his hood.

But the thing is, I think if they had,

I'll let you make a comment here before we go to who's next in the ring, but if they had stuck to MJF making suckers out of the other heels and staying away from the other baby faces

and then brought it back around full circle before it went this fucking long with this too many side streets

to

goddamn Mark Briscoe and MJF, and done some type of

angle to continue it more than what they did in a shorter time,

they had something here.

But then so many people started coming out, and they took so many side trips.

And then

MJF steals a win from Briscoe.

There were too many points where everyone was on the floor, except for the people in the ring.

And like, it happened, and you're like, wait, yes, 12 people on the floor right now, waiting.

It's so it that's the thing is, you get okay, a guy got bumped, or a guy got bumped when there's 10, 12 people laying around.

How can they be all unconscious for five minutes at a time?

It just, it's nonsense.

But anyway, up till now, before I reveal number six,

it wasn't bad with MGF and Briscoe in and out, in and out.

Do you agree?

I agree.

And then

this was the the first thing that started killing it.

Number six is Mystico, who interrupts MJF trying to pull Bandito's mask off.

But he doesn't interrupt it.

That music interrupted it.

What is that music?

That is the, oh my God, it's dead.

It's like a funeral march.

It instantly makes people go, oh, why are they playing that?

Well, again, in Arena, Mexico, they sing along and they get really into the spirit of that song from 20 years ago when Mystigo was a big star or whatever it was, but it didn't necessarily translate here.

There was no response.

It's definitely of all the music we hear played during the run-ins,

that's the most interesting one.

But it went forever.

That's the thing.

He comes down.

There's no response.

The music is death.

He has a face-off with MJF.

He tries to fire the people up,

but they don't give a shit.

And all you you can hear is that rotten song that keeps playing and nobody doing anything.

And then Mystico again begged the fans to cheer.

And it's like they kind of did.

So he would start wrestling.

And that's

like what happened to the other four guys.

While time stood still, they're just laying around somewhere.

It killed whatever momentum they had.

And then Mystico finally, he did a spot with each one of the guys one at a time,

went to the top rope for a dive, lost his balance, jumped back down, climbed back up, dove on everybody.

And here came poor Josh Alexander.

And now it's just a normal

AEW mess with MJF

in there somewhere, you know, staying out of it.

But

then Bowens came out.

We were 15 minutes in already.

Here comes Bowens

and then Roddy and then Brody King.

And I just,

zoned out.

Every once in a while, MJF would pop in, do something that got a reaction, and then lay out so

the other people could come in and do some moves.

And then,

Brian, what have they done to our boy?

Juice,

juice,

juice,

the juice is loose.

The facial hair was gone, and he was wearing Braun Schroman's outfit.

That's

no beard, no mustache.

He,

if his hair is still long, but it ain't frizzed out and crazy.

It's just

he looked like all the rest of these children, they took, they cut Samson's hair.

And he got beat, got in and, you know,

beat up Ricochet and,

you know, did some stuff.

But no, he looks like everybody else now.

Actually, not as good.

What, what

you couldn't tell

with his previous look that he has just a normal fucking face.

He looked like something.

And again, different outfit.

Last time we saw him, he was in pants.

This time, when the Undertaker wasn't wearing the Undertaker outfit, but he still had the black Unitard or whatever.

Yeah, Unitard.

whatever.

That

Unitard.

Well,

I started to say Unitard is a slur, but

and then they've already got 11 people in there.

And then suddenly,

Bishop Kahn and Tia Leone come in in front of the referee because it's no disqualification.

And they just start beating up juice.

And Ricochet then hits him with a shooting star.

It's a two-count or whatever.

But now, because that's it, Ricochet's guys, but now in front of the referee again,

they're keeping the other people out of the ring.

They're getting involved.

So then here come the gunboys.

They're back.

And they beat up Ricochet Stooges and they get in the ring.

And Ricochet runs into their finish.

And then all four of them roll out and fight off.

And the match keeps going.

And here comes Idouche.

And I like their ribbon us.

And then here came Frank Mortis, number 13, Lucky 13.

And I,

again, I'm just tired of looking at it.

And I don't know what went wrong here or what they were waiting for.

But that's the point where it was five minutes before the next guy came in.

And so they were, they didn't do what they were supposed to do for a while, I guess.

And then suddenly, boom, here comes Max Caster.

And after this,

they're out of the 30 minutes into this thing.

And all this shit's going on.

And then Caster comes out and does the promo

while he's walking to the ring.

And everything in the match is at a halt.

You don't even see it because he's doing the promo and he's getting him to do his chant.

And then

as he gets to the apron, they bump him off the apron.

And then Roderick and Mark Briscoe go back and forth.

Mark hits the J driller on Roddy, and MJF comes from behind and dumps Mark and covers Roddy one, two, three.

It took a while to get there, but the result was what it should have been.

I'm not saying MJF shouldn't have been the winner.

And

actually, the exchange between Roddy and Briscoe

within MGF capitalizing that little exchange ain't bad.

But right after they've had Max Caster come out and bring everything to a goddamn screech and halt with his fucking lame ass bullshit and make it funny

and then boom, boom, boom, and do the fucking finish.

After 35 fucking minutes is what I'm saying to you.

Again, I go continue a theme we've had for almost a year now.

The breakup of the acclaimed is utterly fascinating.

I thought it was completely over.

Then he comes out there and just does this shit right in Bowens' face.

And then it all ended.

So

I'm not sure how that helps anything, but MJF, the winner, he's now guaranteed a title shot in the future.

That's intriguing.

Which is the whole reason he went with the Hurt Syndicate, right?

Get the World Cup.

And hopefully they will produce because

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Well, and you know what was next, Brian, on the show?

And

I hate to say, I'm not going to phrase that this was one of the

good things on the show, but this was one of the actual, this was the real thing on the show.

And it was.

you know, heartbreaking.

But Adam Cole, I guess they had announced beforehand, maybe the day before or whatever, that he wasn't going to be cleared to wrestle and they were going to crown a new TNT champion or whatever.

But he came out, did the entrance.

The people knew and the announcers were talking about it.

And he was choked up from the start.

And

he said, due to health issues.

He was going to relinquish the TNT championship and

he was going to be gone for a while was a quote.

And another quote was,

if this is the end, you're the best fans in the world.

And

he started crying, and the fans got behind him.

But

as much as I have thought of Adam's talents and verbal skills over

the years, this is in no way, I don't think he's a good enough actor

to make

any kind of an angle out of just a temporary situation.

I'm trying to figure out how to say this right.

It has to be serious, or he wouldn't have been able to be that choked up.

And,

you know, the fans got behind him and got him back into it.

And he thanked him a bunch for their support.

And Roddy and Kyle came out and hugged him.

And Roddy was crying too.

Another, another, you know, example of how, no, this is a serious deal

and he got the thank you Adam Chance and the one last

Adam Cole Baybe

but now

again you know the

the typical stooge sources are reporting what's concussion issue

I do we need some what we don't need any clarity on this because his health is his goddamn business but this is what we've been trying to wrestle with for i don't know how long is

what could be wrong with adam there has to be something wrong but what could be wrong with him that has caused him to lose his size and look that unwell but at the same point

he's still been able to wrestle these matches when he does wrestle these 20 minute matches or whatever the and

you know, is he passing any kind of medical examination to be able to do that?

I asked a lot of questions there.

Answer any of them.

By the minimum, we know he apparently was concussed again

on collision against Kyle Fletcher.

I saw a video that purported to be the moment where he took a clothesline and he landed on his head.

This comes off him having that apron spot a few weeks back

where he took the back of the apron just right on the back of his head.

I mean, just the worst part of the apron on the worst part of the head.

It looked really bad.

So the concussion issues certainly are real.

And it's one of those things where once you start having concussions, you know, unfortunately, sometimes they,

unfortunately, sometimes, if not most of the time, they will happen more frequently going forward.

And or with a lesser bar to clear to

cause it.

You know, so I'm not going to completely dismiss that end of it, but like you said, he doesn't have to answer anyone's questions, but it doesn't mean we don't have questions.

Just about over the last four years, what exactly has happened?

Well, and that's the thing.

I don't even,

is it questions or is it concerns?

I've been, because I was a big fan of Adams.

I'm one of the guys that put him on fucking TV in Ring of Honor when he's 19.

And

even then in the ring,

he got

the physical and the mental aspect of the business selling as a babyface.

His work looked good.

He was in a lot better physical shape then than he is now, bigger, you know, more, etc.

But he could always talk.

He had conviction in his voice, and he could deliver a fucking promo and make you believe that he was saying it rather than he was performing it.

And in NXT, I thought the group was tremendous.

And

he had

the Sean Michaels-ish modern-day day habit of doing too much over and over.

But still,

you know, what a talent.

And when he came in here, they,

again, I think, wasn't that, didn't he debut the night that some other goddamn star debuted?

Danielson, yeah.

And

from the start,

the booking was, but he got the thing with MJF.

They got it over.

And then suddenly

everybody starts getting hurt.

They're doing the comedy with Roddy and the other guys, the who's the devil.

It just all went to shit.

But since he's been back, he's getting smaller.

He's getting

frailer.

And with concussions, I'm sure you can go out and, you know,

work out in the gym like a beast.

But at the same time,

I think there's an element of, because he was,

he was not lying here.

This is all he's ever wanted to do.

And I'm thinking that maybe he's been doing it when he shouldn't have been doing it.

But I'm thinking also that maybe everybody else or whoever else was in on it, if anybody shouldn't have been letting him do it.

Because I'm more worried about him than is, you know.

his bad booking in fucking AEW or whatever.

It's not like Tony's going to turn him out in the street if he's,

you know, he, well, no, that's the thing.

He pays every goddamn lazy jackleg that fucking signs a contract with him.

So certainly, you know, I think it's more important that Adam

get visibly and physically well first before he

does any more wrestling.

I feel so bad for him.

I like that kid.

And but and I know it's what he's always wanted to do, and he was doing it well.

But

God damn, don't kill yourself, literally.

Well, it definitely seemed like a retirement promo, or at least he thought it probably would be.

You know, because if it's just a concussion and you're waiting to get cleared, that's

a couple weeks.

Well, no, it could

be longer.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

Yeah, but the thing is, this much and going on for this long,

they told Edge he'd never wrestle again, and he didn't for seven years.

So

Adam is what he was 19 in Ring of Honor.

He ain't 35 yet.

So,

goddamn, instead of permanently damaging your brain.

And you've got a secure spot with a contract with a company that doesn't

to sometimes its detriment, kick anybody out the door, they goddamn brain heal for

a while, a good while.

And it's that doesn't ever mean at 34, nobody can say never.

He's 36.

36.

Okay.

Nobody can say never, but don't do it for a fucking while.

And I hate that.

But anyway, I hate to put it this way.

He's working for the right guy

that if you love wrestling and

the best thing for you is not to wrestle or you can't because you can't get medically cleared,

there will be something for him to do.

He could be involved, he can't take bumps

and he doesn't even have to be on camera.

He could maybe just play video games on YouTube on AEW's behalf.

I mean,

I'm being serious.

Tony would keep him around to help.

Did he

play video games on?

No, he wouldn't.

But

think about this.

Adam Cole, as well-spoken as he is, as much goodwill as he has with everybody,

bring him onto the announced team.

Or Adam Cole, as much as everybody likes him, make him a match producer.

Goddamn, I'd rather have his fucking kicking out 18 super kicks than fucking

Moxley and his fucking Nick Gage trash sideshow bullshit mentality.

He can stay.

And you know what?

They said in the WWF, Vince wanted to make him a manager.

They do a lot of stringent medical testing.

It just occurred to me.

Did they maybe see something?

But they, but,

you know, but why you can't make him a heel now?

You don't need a babyface manager, but as a member of the broadcast team, as a member of the production staff, as a guy to train at first by pointing instead of being a crash test dummy.

You know, a guy like Adam Cole is valuable because he's dedicated.

But don't let him in the fucking ring for a while.

Well, that was a very sad announcement.

Obviously, it put the fans in a, you know, the fans weren't expecting it.

It was a very sudden thing.

I mean, you say it happened before.

It was literally right before the pay-per-view.

They announced all of a sudden it was a four-way that he wasn't cleared.

And then the story just kind of came together as it happened live.

We went from that to a big four-way for the now up for grabs TNT championship formerly held by Adam Cole.

Well, and again,

the only route we can possibly go to crown a new champion is let's have a four-way.

So it's no DQ and everybody gets to do everything.

And what

it was a real moment.

And then we go back to the normal markishness.

And it was, and Daniel Garcia came out and had a long hug with Adam on the stage there.

And that was heart-tugging.

But then there, it's Garcia against Sammy Guevara, against Dustin Rhodes, against Kyle Felcher.

And Sammy and Dustin are partners in Ring of Honor.

So Dustin, one of the guys that's going for the TNT title, comes out to the ring carrying two different belts.

Hey, he's Ring of Honor Honor.

Which is a tag team and six-man tag team.

God damn it.

Again, if you don't, they ought to send out mailings so you can post a list next to you.

Okay.

Who has the 20-something belts?

Wasn't it 20-something that one of our readers figured up one time that they were administrating

in this company?

And so the guy that's wanting to win the belt, he's coming out.

He's already got two belts.

It just looks, it looks like a fan fest,

regardless.

I'm not saying Dustin doesn't deserve to have a belt,

but anybody with all these belts is just ridiculous.

And the bell rang, and it's a four-way.

So

15 minutes later, after they'd done everything they figured out they wanted to do,

Garcia is in a ring with Dustin.

They've wiped out

Sammy and Kyle out, you know, so they can go to the hiding place they have under the ring or whatever for talent to be out of the picture.

And Garcia had the sharpshooter on Dustin for a while.

And then

I don't know if the idea was that Dustin was going to struggle and turn it, but it looked to me like

that Garcia just stepped back over

and then bent over and Dustin small packaged him one, two, three.

So they

Dustin couldn't beat Sammy because they're partners in the other set of belts that he's got.

And they didn't want to beat Kyle because he's a young fucking star.

And kind of, if they're going to give everybody belts, he's the one that ought to have one, or one of the ones that ought to have one.

But the 55-year-old guy beat Garcia, who's another babyface,

but now he has three belts, and Garcia don't have any, and Kyle don't have any.

So it seems unfair.

Dustin was very emotional

in Texas

and in Texas.

there's nephews

and the Von Ericks.

And the Von Erickson came out and hugged him and celebrated.

But

I don't know.

Maybe he's the new belt collector.

I think a lot of this card was about trying to give their fans in that building

like just nothing but like happy moments.

And if you think about who went over in almost every scenario, that's what they did.

They made their fans happy with who actually went over.

Well, I guess that's something that you should do.

But at the same time, I don't know that you should

slaughter the entire talent roster and carry them all off in meat wagons to various body bag factories on the way to doing it.

Seems like there'd be an easier way.

Can we do this the easy way or the hard way?

I'm not sure with Fletcher.

That's two different times that Fletcher either hurt Adam Cole or something happened.

Obviously, part of it's Adam Cole, but if you're Tony Khan, are you a little annoyed with Fletcher?

Again, I'm looking at the field.

If I was Tony Khan, I'd be annoyed at almost everybody on this fucking show.

But has

I mean, seriously.

So as

I don't know who was the last one to take a fucking hammer to Adam Cole's head and give him brain damage.

So I don't really know which one

to direct my

pith at, to be pithy with them.

But it just, when you look at Sammy, has been,

well, they just stuck him over in Ring of Honor so they can pay because I guess he's just a dick that always keeps fucking up.

And Garcia is just, Jesus Christ, it's like fucking oatmeal.

No sugar, no nothing, just oatmeal.

Dustin, it can work and has the

last outlaw kind of old-timer thing going for him.

But if they're going to put Kyle in this match,

he's the young protostar.

He's got a physique.

He's on the way up, allegedly.

Or they could add a three-way and just left him out.

Well, that was the TNT title match.

It looks like you skipped over the Garcia Sammy dance contest, but what was next on the show, Jim?

Well,

next on the show was the

they had some great,

big, elaborate staged entrances on this program, Brian.

And

again,

I'm not poo-pooing the concept of grand entrances.

They've been done many times in many ways.

But remember when the entrances used to have something to actually do with the fucking person that was entering

to the entrance?

And it wasn't just a brief little

vignette performance and then the same shit they normally do or whatever?

I don't, this was just,

it was shoehorned in for the sake of the pageantry.

But can't they figure out a way to bring

Stone Cold Steve Austin out of a goddamn beer truck or something to tie into the goddamn entrance?

There's a bunch of ninjas

with swords, and they're on the stage and flipping and swinging swords.

And I'm thinking, well, it's Okada.

And there's a big Japanese symbol on the back of the screen.

And here comes, you know and it's osprey

i'm like why is an english guy accompanied by ninjas

and then they were plugging a video game

and i'm like what do these guys dream of being in a video game what does a goddamn yes

game of ninja assassins have to do with a fucking soccer hooligan well he's the aerial assassin

But he still ain't a goddamn ninja.

Man, they were flicking those swords around.

I'm thinking, I don't want to fight them.

They should get in the ring.

Can you imagine if one of them had lost their grip?

Holy shit, you know.

But anyway, so

they did the video game tie-in plug to make

Willy Boy happy.

And they just, a budget like this, and they still figure out a way to look like teenage dorks.

And then,

actually, this was my favorite part of the show.

Suddenly, on stage, there is a singer,

and she's singing Shaka Khan.

And it's a young lady who you told me later, but I just her name's Jojo Offerman.

I'm like, well, okay, I haven't heard of her, but I haven't heard of any of these fucking musicians.

And she sang,

Ain't nobody

love me better.

See, I sound like just like Shaka.

We're the same key.

Oh, yeah.

And she sang it.

And then the song was over, and she got nice applause, did a great job.

And then they faded to black.

And then it was whose house?

And Swerve's regular entrance.

So it wasn't.

He didn't come out and start singing a duet with her and then walk to the ring.

It was like a little musical vignette in between.

So,

again, best part of the show so far.

But, and apparently,

Jojo Offerman, you say, was married to Bray Wyatt.

How, why didn't we get talent like that in the Wyatt family instead of these fat indie guys?

You know, obviously, it wasn't really referenced as to why she was singing that song about Swerve.

Well, apparently, ain't nobody loved me better.

And not that there's anything wrong with that.

But no, I don't know if there's any connection.

But is it just because they wanted to get people in a nice little groove for Swerve?

But

why sing a really good song and then follow it up with that fucking awful goddamn rap shit he does?

Well, this was definitely, I think this may have been the longest introductions for this match of all the introductions for the whole night.

Well, we ain't got to long yet

because then it was time for Swerve and Osprey's opponents.

And here come the Hardley boys.

And they come out on the stage in the Benjamin Franklin jackets of the founding fathers thing, and they get their pyro.

And then they run back to stage right.

And you don't see them, and they're like, What the fuck?

Where they go.

And then

they have a goddamn

fake

Revolutionary War-era rowboat

on some kind of bracket on the edge of the building.

There were riggers, and people spent money on this amateurish-looking bullshit.

The boat's stuck on the wall so they can basically sail it across the arena while these two Nimrods are in the boat doing the salute to like Washington Crossing the Delaware.

While Smiley Roberts

is reading the rib announcement that they've written about how they're the founding fathers and you're hearing the fife and the drum music and the beep, beep, beep.

And the buckaroos are jacking off in the boat with their fake acting.

Not hearing the fans.

And it's, oh, it's going forever and the people are just staring just sit like this just what the

and not only the people

but did you see they had a shot in the ring of osprey he had wrist tape on but he was tapping his imaginary wristwatch

back to the back.

This ain't our fault.

We ain't taking a time away from our fucking match because of this bullshit.

You go back and watch it.

That's exactly what he was doing.

I've seen that many times from a number of people.

And now the people have even realized these guys were always just the trained chimpanzees.

And

the only one that hadn't figured it out yet is Tony because he keeps letting them indulge themselves in this ridiculous top foolery.

But then, Brian, unfortunately, after the length of these entrances,

the match was even longer.

Swerve Osprey against the lollipoppers.

And the bell rang, and instantly,

as again, it turned into a rapper and a soccer hooligan fighting two male cheerleaders.

And

they're having the announcers tell the story that these two fucking nitwits are tag team specialists.

That's why they're bouncing, swerving Osprey around.

But again, it's,

Jesus Christ.

It's going to go forever.

If you've seen one Bucs match,

then this was worse because it brought out the worst in swerve and Osprey 2, and then it turns into,

you know, the acrobats on America's Got Talent.

And it just doesn't end.

And there's, and Knox is the referee, so there, therefore, there is no structure.

He's useless.

At the start,

they shot old Maddie off for a double elbow, and he thought he was supposed to duck it, so they elbowed elbowed him in a fucking face.

But

the Bucs, in between their gymnastics and/or the alley-oop stunts they do, it's just some flat-footed bullshit because they don't really know how to wrestle.

And they never

practiced any of that on the trampoline.

So it's just a collection of cool moves.

And it's,

you know, at various points.

One in particular was this ridiculous back and forth that was so

choreographed and contrived and fake where they just

do everything to each other and turn over and over again until they all fall down.

Yeah, sequence.

The fans were dead the whole match.

All of a sudden they whipped out everything they could for like 60 seconds just to hope to get anyone up.

It was a sequence.

You know the thing about the acrobats on America's Got Talent?

What were their names, Brian?

oh no one remembers their names

watch them for three minutes twice a season it was fun

so they they gave swerve the flipping spike tombstone pile driver on the floor and he was back in the ring about a minute later making a comeback

they did a tease thing where osprey knocked swerve out with his elbow finish by accident, but of course,

Swerve suffered no ill effects from it.

He'll just be mad about it sometime later, maybe.

The Bucks hit their finish on Osprey and got a two count.

Then they super kicked, no, then there was a spike tombstone pile driver on Osprey for a two count.

Then they super kicked Swerve eight times and went to knee lifting, but he blocked it and made a comeback because he hadn't been taking bumps on those or anything.

Then they gave

one of the the buckaroos a double stomp on the ass into a tombstone pile driver.

That was a two count.

And then they gave another

tombstone, I think, was a two.

What is worse that

this is so obviously fake or that the two top baby faces best shit can't beat either one of these little pussies?

Which do you think is worse?

Remember, the young Bucks are like the Road Warriors of a modern generation.

That Matt Jackson's throwing clotheslines around like he's hawk.

So finally,

they set it up where Swerve would run with the kick to the head, and Osprey would run with the elbow to the back or the head or whatever on

one of the buckaroos in the middle of the ring.

Boom!

One, two, three in 27 minutes, bell to bell after the

long introductions.

And this

was the blow-off of the whole nonsensical EVP deal that's never made any sense.

It's never been had any consistency.

It's just now they decided to put it up so that they could have this

stunt show match here on the stadium when nobody.

There's their two top baby faces,

either Osprey or Swerve, and they're in

this with a tag team that nobody cares about anymore for something that never made any sense to begin with.

Just so they can play for 30 minutes and the Buckaroos can come in in a flying boat.

Yeah, the fans were dead for the Bucs coming out there.

I was surprised how dead they were.

And they were dead for a large portion of the match until it became do everything you can, kick out of everything over and over and over.

The pop it got,

it wasn't just, yeah, the baby faces won or, yeah, the heels lost.

I think it was really, we're sick of this shit.

Yes.

Yes.

And I think AEW, I think this night was about giving their fans the feeling that all the shit that you guys hate is coming to an end.

Well, that's the one thing about it.

There was more relief cheering

from some some of these results than it was, you know, like you said, oh, Carrie won.

No, it's like, oh, thank God we're rid of these fucking guys.

More of that type of thing.

But that was that

match

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I can't remember.

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well speaking of ringing a bell brian yeah We're going to ring the bell on the next match, ain't we?

What was the next match?

There were a lot of matches.

A lot of matches.

It was the women's gauntlet match.

This was great.

Did you watch this?

I got to be honest.

I saw a bit of it.

Yes, I did.

Because sometimes I just, I would stop and say, what the fuck?

And I couldn't stop watching because it was just, it was a,

it was a spectacle.

Everyone had a second and every second got involved in a match.

Yeah.

And some people just, you know, were fighting amongst each other that weren't in the thing.

They had 12 official participants.

I'm saying there's a one with, hold on, there's one second, two seconds, three seconds.

Potentially somebody else ran in.

Yeah, there's about 20 people involved in this thing.

So as they start with Statlander and Megan Brain, who brought Penelope Ford with her for some reason.

And in order of

descending appearance,

Willow Nightingale,

Ty Mellow Yellow came out with Anna Jay.

And that's when Penelope Ford and Harley Harley Cameron just showed up.

And she and Anna Jay got in a fight with Penelope and they all ran off.

That was the funniest thing because Penelope just slaps Anna Jay and she like her and harley don't do anything she just goes you bitch and then they all just run yes like even the commentator started laughing at that and i think it what was it was it penelope ford or what no it was anna jay that was just doing the light little fist clubbing in the vicinity of one of the girls while they were

so then it was thecla

and then julia hart and she came out with sky blue who just got in the ring whenever she wanted even though she wasn't in the match and was doing stuff with people.

So I don't.

And everywhere you looked, it was some of the fakest looking shit that you're ever going to see

in a wrestling ring.

Because it just

none of these young ladies are Mildred Burke to begin with.

And then when you put them out there in a mess where they've rehearsed all of their spots,

but now everybody has to remember spots with multiple people over a course of 30 minutes.

And some of them

you don't call sunset flip because you're they'll be lost in the weeds.

So, this it's just embarrassing to put them in this position,

but everybody gets to play.

Queen Yota showed up, then Mina Mellons,

then Athena.

Athena, you're breaking my balls, You're snapping my spinal column.

She's a stiff little thing.

That's a hell of a decision you made there.

Everyone thinks you would have gone with the who,

Athena, but I guess that's low-lying fruit.

You went for something a little more...

Wow, where did that come from?

Yeah, I just like the tune better.

Thunderosa.

And the Thunderosa and Lightning Strike.

Oh, don't do that.

I get Nightmares of Horner on your show.

Well, that's true.

And then Sayuri.

S-Y-U-R-Y.

Sayuri.

Help me.

I couldn't understand the announcer.

Sayuri.

They had Sayuri, and she is,

they really made it out.

She was a big deal, and she ran in there and she was really

another outlaw Japanese girl.

And then number 12 came at Alex Windsor.

And I had seen

the name Alex Windsor, thought it was a guy.

And then I realized when you brought it up, we were off the air.

I was thinking it was a guy because that was the name of the young English chap

that was the

pride of the Dory Funk Funkin' Dojo down in Ocala, Florida, like 25 years ago.

It was the British kid named Adam Windsor.

But this or at, no, it was Alex, it was Adam Windsor, wasn't it?

Or was it Alex Windsor?

Was it Adam or Alex?

Dory's was Adam, and this is Alex.

So I thought Alex was Adam's son or brother, but

it's his daughter or sister.

Well, you cleared that.

Well,

she's also Will Ospreay's significant others.

Well, I was going to say there appeared to be some nepotism involved some kind of way.

So in terms of his issues with flying back and forth, maybe this will make it a little easier now that Tony's hired his wife.

Well, no, because now she's going to have to fly back over to England and nurse him back to health because he's been paralyzed.

More on that later.

As soon as they bring his wife over here, they kick him out of the country.

He's got to be in a hospital for a few weeks or months or years, doesn't he?

Anyhow,

we were 30 minutes into this thing.

Mina Mellons went for the figure four on Alex.

Athena went to the top rope.

And they went, they tried to do

a deal where when Mina was turning to step over and through on the figure four, that Athena would come off the top rope.

And she did with something

where on the way past Mina, she grabbed her head on the way down and crashed and burned next to Mina with Mina kind of being jerked down on top of her.

And then Athena got up all proud of herself, like, I didn't do that, and hooked her legs one, two, three.

So Athena won, but, you know, it looked like she had just kind of hurt herself there instead of the other young lady.

Did you catch that, Brian?

Yeah, I caught that.

And Athena is someone that people who watch Ring of Honor have wanted to see elevated, and she's been under contract and not really on AEW-TV at all.

Just ring of honor, and now she's guaranteed a title shot.

So, maybe Tony's ready to do something with her.

Well, you shouldn't put it like that.

That sounds in some way vulgar.

Tony's ready to do something with her.

You know what I mean.

Tony's not a vulgar guy.

Well, speaking of vulgarity,

the booking malpractice

in this thing, the next match,

at at least we didn't get screwed on the finish, but holy jumping humaney.

It was the tag team title three-way match.

And

again, in keeping with the big entrances,

the Hurts got two rappers,

two rappers, two rappers, twice as bad as one.

I don't know who they were, but I bet they were somebody.

And then MJF, or not mjf but mvp

had the microphone and cut a promo on their way to the ring but brian i don't was it poorly mic'd on the broadcast or it's he was kind of in a rap vein so i don't know what the he was saying anyway but it sounded like he wasn't stuttering or anything Could you hear him?

I actually missed part of the entrance because I ran to the other room real quick to get a drink before the match started.

Ah, so

somebody might.

Now, don't be one of these people that listens to the goddamn thing on headphones.

If you were watching it on television, was MVP's delivery mic'd properly?

But nevertheless,

and then here came Hong Kong Fuy and Kevin Knight.

Then here came Cage and Nick Plain and Nick Plain's mom and Pip Sabian.

And we get the bell.

And

we were afraid that they were going to pull some kind of funky like a monkey business and take the belts off the Hurts without beating them.

They at least didn't do that.

But the fact that they were in this match, it just, it was sad, unfortunately.

But the Hurts Syndicate, for the most part, beat up all of them.

If there was.

There was people being thrown around, the Hurts were throwing them around.

At one point at the start, they were all on the floor.

There was nothing happening in the ring.

Finally, they got in there.

And that FTR on color,

I got to be honest with you.

I think I would root for pockets to kick the shit out of Hong Kong Fuye.

I cannot stomach the sight of him.

It's an insult to me visually

that Spitball is on this program.

And then the Hurts had to bump for the children.

Go ahead.

He's a fourth-degree black belt.

I'd like to give him the third degree about.

You hate him more than Orange Cassidy?

Yes.

Wow.

Yes, I do.

That's kind of stunning.

I believe I do

because it's just at least

at least Pockets didn't look cheerful.

So he.

Bailey looks like, I know I'm a nerdish douchebag and I'm proud of it and it makes me happy.

Rather than Pockets was like, Yeah, I know I'm just an insignificant bland piece of shit, but I'm kind of resigned to it.

Anyway,

at one point, Shelton Benjamin German

spitball over the top rope onto three guys, but

they were just doing a lot of stunts, the typical three-way thing.

They tried to break Nick Plain's neck once and then did more dives on him.

And then finally,

Lashley threw Christian Cage into FTR sitting there at color

and knocked them all over.

And then Dax got up and Lashley pie faced Dax

so that FTR got mad and came to the apron.

But Lashley shoved Christian into them so it would knock them off the apron and then speared Christian one, two, three.

So the Hurts did win.

At least they got out of there before the

bullshit started.

But FTR and Stokely got in the ring, and there was some conversation or discussion or maybe even argument going on with Nick and Pip.

But Cage got in between like he was going to calm it down and said, Let's go to his guys.

And then Nick jerked Cage around and gives him the unprettier.

And Mama Wayne starts laughing.

And FTR shocked.

And Mama slaps Christian.

And they go to concerto him.

And Brian, you're never going to guess whose music played.

That's right.

The former.

What is he, the former?

He's formerly Adam Copeland and formerly Edge, and now he's just Cope.

And he

comes to the ring

running down the ramp or down the aisle with a barbed wire bat in his hand well first he goes to both sides of the stage while his music is playing he goes to both sides of the stage

then he walks down part of the ramp and he poses for his pyro

Well, goddamn, Jack the Ripper would have had time to fucking finish butchering Liz Stride in this amount of...

And then he ran to the ring with the bat, but on the way, he kicks Nick, he clotheslines Pip,

he rolls in the ring and drops the bat so that he could hit the ropes and double spear FTR and then spear Pip.

Phil, why'd he bring the bat?

And the heels leave an edge.

Well, I'm serious.

Yeah, you're right.

Goddamn, I could stop this horrible assault on my friend if only i didn't have my hands full with these guns

oh yeah he had to do his pose he had to run to both sides of the stage

and then the heels left and edge helped christian up and said go find yourself

instead of go fuck yourself

that was profound

But as I said, at least the Hurts got out of it before,

you know, the whole finish thing happened.

But they still, they're just,

they've got a team that's over and they're spending times doing angles between these children.

And now, you know,

they got Edge and Cage reunited.

I'd rather see Edge and Cage against the Hurts.

Or we're going to have them see against Pip and Nick.

The fuck.

Are you going to see them against FTR?

That's what you're going to see.

We're going to see them against FTR.

We're going to

see him against Pip and Nick because they just did the goddamn deal.

These two have turned on him after all this time.

They're just going to forget about that.

But I've seen every tag team in the company,

they put a big-time, big-name team back together, and it's not to work with the world tag team champions.

Now we get to see the Christian journey of self-discovery as he finds himself

so that he could team up again with Edge.

Christian told me one time he found himself when he was 12 or 13 in his journey of self-discovery.

And he'd never lost the way since.

So,

anyway, then

Mercedes Moon.

A dozen cheerleaders with belts and pom-poms

preface her arrival where then she drives out in a car with a like a white fur jacket 25 feet long with the names of all the people that she's beaten on it

and then here comes tony storm's black and white entrance and

i know they love her

I was a fan until this whole thing just went completely off the fucking rails and it's goddamn insane.

And it's, but it's silly.

You can't,

can you be an actual wrestling fan the way that we would term it, Brian, you and I old enough to have actually seen real professional wrestling?

I'm not talking about a modern fan.

I'm talking about being an actual wrestling fan

and not think this is the silliest bunch of bullshit you've ever seen.

Just the whole goddamn spectacle of this.

I think the Tony Storm stuff is too much.

That's me personally.

The AEW fans eat it up, but those are the ironic wrestling fans.

They eat up Orange Cassidy.

I think if you had presented this match with these two, with these two gimmicks in front of any territory crowd 40 years ago, they would have rioted and burned the ring down.

Tony Storm ain't a bad worker, as I said.

Her gimmick,

the whole thing.

I know that's why they like her, so I'll give her that.

But Mercedes can't work or talk or act except like a stuck-up bitch.

And they don't really love her like they love Tony.

So I don't have to give that to her.

And the bell rang for this thing.

We were four hours into this pay-per-view already, plus the pre-show.

And now they're going to give these two a half an hour to,

in some way,

be able to claim to themselves that they had one of the great women's matches ever on pay-per-view, which again, it's not exactly a bar that's high to fucking clear.

And within a couple of minutes,

Mercedes powerbombed her on the floor.

The girls are taking powerbombs on the floor and going another 25 minutes.

Multiple pile drivers.

Tony gave the ass in the face, and then her pile driver.

And within seconds, Mercedes is back up, getting her in tombstone position.

But Tony

reversed the tombstone and then bit Mercedes Monet's pussy.

That was a first.

It was an interesting counter, but at least she didn't drop her on her head.

She just bit her pussy.

See, we need to stay believable here.

And then Mercedes rolled through with a leg lock

after the pussy biting and the spot was forgotten.

She reverses.

That's another thing.

They just, they don't even know what they're doing when it gets over sometimes.

She reverses the tombstone, does Tony, and has Mercedes up for it and clamps down on her pussy.

with the chompers and the fans react.

And instead of Mercedes screaming and struggling away and running and rubbing her butt on the fucking turnbuckle pad or whatever, she rolls through and gets a leg lock.

Spot was forgotten, squashed pop.

Uh, Tony Storm pal drove her twice more,

and she kicked at it too.

So I zipped three more minutes ahead because I was, you know, at this point,

what the fuck?

It's bullshit to begin with.

Tony Storm finally

gave this 125-pound girl with a neck maybe eight inches around a leaping pile driver off the second turnbuckle

to pin her one, two, three at the 25 fucking minute mark.

I'm sure it was a wonderful match for all the people that like the contest involving the girls who are invulnerable and can't be defeated by any method known to modern science.

Well, there it is.

I don't have too much to say for that.

Mercedes Monet and Tony Storm.

And

yeah, I mean, there are people that at least she did a job.

She did a job on the biggest stage they have to their biggest female star.

And we'll see what comes next.

Maybe she needs to have a journey of rediscovery as well.

I think they've discovered too much.

I think they need to forget some shit.

I think if they would forget half the shit that they do,

then we might have something.

Anyway, it was time for our double main event.

And

another brief good point.

They brought Jim Ross back to Ringside.

Bless him that he's better and he's beaten cancer.

But he wanted to come back for this.

He's just looking for attention.

Oh, come on, Rick.

Just looking for attention.

But

is this, you know what?

I would have used this as like the reverse type of incentive.

It's like,

Jim, if you don't do all your treatments properly and beat this thing, we're going to make you go to all in.

That's what I, but

anyway,

so they bring him out

for Oblada versus Kenny,

the dream match.

And

I had to, at the time, I even wrote this down where I wouldn't forget to say it.

At the top of the match, at the bell, whatever, for all that I've said about

our friend old Harpo McFingerbang, Twinkle Toes, Kenny, whatever.

I was rooting for him.

Because even though

he's a horrible babyface with a douchebaggy attitude and a blase promo and the finger-pointing and the gesticulating and the video game horseshit,

at least he has the past busted his ass.

But to reward

Okada in this for his laziness and lack of performance and boring ass matches and no promos,

I think that would be too much.

So I was on the side of Kenny Olivier in this one.

It's come to this, Brian.

It's almost, it's the only principal, the only Anderson principle.

When he's at Cornette, I used to think you were a dumb fuck, but so many other dumb fucks have come along that are worse.

You've moved up the ladder without doing anything.

Let me ask you, what has Okada done since arriving in AEW that would get him over with anybody that has never seen him before.

What?

I don't think anything.

One promo that wasn't him just saying bitch and standing around acting goofy.

One

good match, even to the standard of good match that the AEW fans hold.

One time that he's worked hard.

One

great angle that you would remember that wasn't just overly long and slow and ble.

He is the laziest

wrestler being paid a lot of money in the fucking world, I think.

So

here came the entrances again.

And

remember, I said, well,

before the ninjas, I thought it'd be Okada and it was the English soccer hooligan.

Now we had singing druids.

The druids, the robed druids, were singing choir music.

I'm telling you, we may not be too far away from that fucking goat sacrifice to the fucking goat gods.

The druids sang choir music, and then they just stood there.

And some more rotten music played, and it was worse than Mysticos.

And it was a guy in a cowboy hat in front of the Druids singing.

And

wouldn't the cowboy be for Paige?

What has the cowboy got to do with fucking Kenny?

And then Kenny was in another goofy looking outfit from some video game, and the cowboy sang some song that wasn't country,

but didn't go to chart on any genre of charts soon,

with the druids singing backup.

The world's first druid backup band.

So, this fruit of the loom song wouldn't stop from this cowboy that was being backed up by druids that was singing a video game character to the goddamn ring.

And then Justin Roberts, who was dressed like a Maitre D at fucking Ciro's,

did the intros.

And we were four and a half minutes or four and a half minutes, four and a half hours

into the show, plus the pre-show.

And you just know they're going to go a while here.

And

I thought the blonde hair on Okada was goofy until now that I see it with the dark hair, he just looks like they found a guy working at the car rental desk.

And,

you know, we talk about how the WWE fans go crazy over paying high prices and getting very little.

But if

Okada is in any way a dream match right now, you lead a boring fucking life.

Because this is the equivalent.

The first three minutes of this thing looked like when Kenny used to have the matches with the blow-up sex dolls.

He was trying, but the contribution from the opponent was somewhat limited.

It's like he's just trying to move a sack of wheat around.

And I don't know what they thought.

Again, even if they were getting the Okada from eight or 10 years ago, or whenever he was not

this,

how is that going to make any money in the United States?

He can't cut a promo.

He's got no personality.

He has no psychology for American wrestling.

That's for sure.

It's just the same Japanese shit that got him over with that crowd 10 years ago when he could do it better.

And that's a different product entirely.

So why did they think?

That they should pay him millions of dollars, even if he wasn't broken down and would actually make an effort.

How the fuck did they think he was going to be a star here?

Tony was a bit better than New Japan.

He was really one of the MVPs of New Japan when New Japan was last good.

Well, they didn't do anything that we hadn't seen in the previous five hours, but they did do it lighter and slower.

Kenny was trying.

There's no grudge here.

There's no personal issue.

I know, again, the

tiny subsection of Japanese, well, the personal issue is they had the tournament matches and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

No, I mean on this American television, they have no personal issue that they came out and stole something or fucked each other out of something and did some believable promos indicating that they were going to do something about it by beating the shit out of the other one.

So how can that be a goddamn main event on a fucking pay-per-view?

When it's just two broken down guys that used to have good matches and can't neither one of them talk.

And And it's a shame for Kenny because English is his first language.

But the more you hear him speak, the less you want to hear him at all.

You know, Okada's got a nice dropkick,

but I've got a better elbow off the top rope.

He just collapses.

This match, I've been in court where time passed faster.

And this late in the show, they're just.

They're not having a classic for the fans.

They're just being indulgent.

Or actually they're they're tony told them yeah go all night because we want to try to sabotage the network television show we're up against

at one point kenny was punching him but he didn't sell it or register it so it just looked like fake punches kenny was trying harder with the knee lifts but again sack a week principal

uh kenny kind of full Nelson suplexed him off the top rope, but they both fell awkwardly.

It was dragging about 25 minutes in when Rocky Romero came to the apron, but Adouche, who had been down there checking on Kenny, leveled him.

Don distracted Kenny.

Okada and Kenny went back and forth.

Kenny hit the one-winged fairy.

One, two, Don pulled the referee out.

And then Kenny calls for another referee, which is Aubrey Ed.

I don't don't remember what happened to the first referee.

Then

Kenny missed a knee lift and Okada slipped out of the one-winged ferry and hit him with a clothesline and got a two-count.

And then they stood up and at the 30-minute mark started trading fake forearms.

And then, Brian,

guess what happened?

What happened?

My DVR froze.

Oh, that's where it froze.

Interesting.

That is where it froze.

That's where it froze because

I recorded, I bought the pay-per-view

and then recorded that along with the countdown.

I record the countdowns in case anybody is, you know,

assassinated or publicly set on fire.

And they had the countdown shows listed from one to three,

and the pay-per-view window was from three to

eight o'clock, five hours.

And they were at five hours, they hadn't even got to the main events yet.

And that's why I said earlier to program.

You used to have to not only pay per hour of satellite time, and I know there's no budget here, so it's no problem, there's no problem with money.

but you had to arrange it ahead of time.

In the early days of pay-per-view,

our absolute hard out,

again in the WWF 90s,

was five minutes before the top of the hour.

So you had a two-hour, 55-minute show because they needed five minutes to re-rack the replay.

And

there was chaos going on and a lot of consternation if you were buttoned up close to that deadline because it was going to fuck shit up.

Well, now, okay, again, even if they want to pay for all the satellite time, there's a schedule on the pay-per-view channel.

And if they go over their window, you said yours records

that and the replay.

So you've got like a 10-hour block or whatever.

12 hours from one to 12-hour block.

Okay.

If they went over six hours.

So then the replay would start late and be that long.

So you're running.

Even if it's a different cable system, this is causing an issue.

And I'm not the only person that bought a pay-per-view from AEW on Spectrum Cable, I would imagine.

And I'm probably not the only person that wanted to DVR it.

So it's not like I'm making this up.

It was just me.

That's what their schedule had.

So

anyway, I had to, through nefarious means,

I've watched this thing on like three different platforms now.

I had to get the last hour, whatever, of this show

from a different source and go back and pick up from

where I left off.

But how is it?

Pretty soon, people are going to ask what days the AEW pay-per-view is, even though it's one show.

So, when your DVR cut off, that's when Saturday night's main event was going on the air, right?

Yes, because they're the top of eight o'clock.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, again, if they out of their minds and think that they were going to take viewers away from NBC Network television in the last hour of a pay-per-view that if you were going to buy, you've already bought,

you'd already be watching.

Or suddenly, again, oh shit, I better catch the last 45 minutes of that pay-per-view rather than this free network television show that's just starting.

So, back to Kenny and

idiot.

Kenny did the faces and the finger pointing,

and

they traded some shit

for 45 seconds or so.

And then

Okada hit another clothesline: one, two, three.

The boring heel who doesn't speak English and is the laziest wrestler in the world beat the douchey-top babyface clean in the middle without cheating.

Is Okada blackmailing somebody?

I'm wondering.

Is he connected with the Yakuza?

Well, no, I don't want to say that, but maybe Calvin.

Does Tony Khan still have all his fingers?

Maybe an extra one.

No, Hotchkiss got his sewn back on.

I mean, I told you I thought Okada was going to win.

I don't know how many more matches you watch Kenny.

It's not comfortable.

He looks like he's in a lot of pain.

His head is like gigantic.

But he worked harder and better than Okada here.

Yeah, he does probably all the time.

But Okada will be able to make all those dates and Okada will be able to do lots of different things that Kenny Omega right now can.

Okada will be able to make those dates.

All right.

He'll show up.

You might have to hold a mirror in front of his mouth to see if he's breathing, but he'll show up.

Was it too much interference?

Well, all this show has been is again is interference.

People just run out and get in fights in the middle of matches that bring everything to a halt.

They're not even involved in the match, and then off they go.

And,

you know,

I'm not saying that there should have been 25 people involved in this thing too, but Okada doesn't know how to be a heel.

He just does shit the same as Kenny does shit.

There was no,

there's no, Kenny just got beat here, which to them and their, again, indie wrestling mindset and Japanese mindset.

is a good thing.

Oh, he was a better man on that night.

No, there's no fucking heat.

There's no personal issues.

There's no goddamn wrestling.

I'm sick and tired of this homogenized indie bullshit that they keep vomiting up at us.

And speaking of which,

are you ready, Brian?

It's time for the main event.

The main event?

Glad that you're sick of indie wrestling stuff because this is a serious main event for the AEW World Championship.

Texas death rules.

Oh,

so now, remember, we had the guy in the cowboy hat

that was playing some,

I don't know, fucking goofy music for Kenny or whatever.

But now on the stage, we have a guitarist and a whistling woman

trying to replicate the best of Enio Mariconi live.

And

I don't know if any of it was good, but some of it was bad and a bit of it was ugly.

And we see the video of Paige walking around an

empty cattle farm of some description

to indicate that he's a cowboy.

While this, again, the spaghetti western classic music plays in the background.

He's as much of a cowboy as I am an astronaut from NASA.

I love orbiting the Earth.

Ground control to Major Jim.

Can you see Stan Hansen making an entrance to a guitar and a whistling woman?

Well, they had some intricate entrances in Japan, maybe not all Japan, but nothing like this, though.

No, and Stan Hansen wasn't a cowboy from Virginia.

Well, no, and actually, that's, again, a cowboy from Virginia is sort of like a low-fat Twinkie.

But Sockface on the commentary was doing the voiceover that he had carefully written, describing the hangnail there, Adam Page, and basically he made him the only

politically correct cowboy ever in wrestling.

And

what?

Who's the guy that's saying that

Paige is just a star that would have been a star in any era in the 70s, the 80s, on the territories?

I saw that he's goddamn what Magnum TA would have been.

Who is this fucking clown?

Yes, it was some some guy apparently who uh i saw in his bio it says he's on sny i've never seen him but apparently he does some wrestling podcasts here and there what is sny uh the mets network

oh good lord but i don't know but this guy but that tweet that tweet went on the guy that the guy that to triple h thoughts tweet tweeted yeah sure his he'll go into business for himself on live tv he's got butterfly jeans and a fake cowboy that would certainly get over in any era.

I didn't do that tweet justice, but I retweeted it because I didn't want to steal his material.

But what kind of delusional fuckwit is this guy?

That he,

who called it, who is it called Paige?

Hangman Page?

It was more like Magnum LGBTA?

In what era would Harley Race and Bruno Samartino have main evented against Adam Page?

Well, I think the thing is that he's making a comment about someone he personally likes, but he doesn't know anything about wrestling before

probably the 90s.

So he's saying this guy could have fit into anywhere in the 70s.

What the fuck does this guy know?

If you're saying that you don't know anything,

the 16-year-old male fans would have kicked the shit out of Adam Page in the 70s,

especially take him to the Nashville Fairgrounds

or anywhere in Louisiana for that matter.

Anyway, so

here comes the cowboy and then Moxley and his goofs come out in the beat-up pickup truck.

That page should have driven out in a beat-up pickup truck.

I don't know.

It's they just.

So the match starts, and it's a Texas death match, and it's for the AEW title.

And it's Dick the Boozer versus Hangnail Page.

And they start

the contest somewhere around five hours and 15 or 20 minutes, I believe, into this thing, plus the pre-show.

And they started off by trading forearms.

It's like it's a rib.

It's like it's a rib.

And then

Paige is on him.

They go in the corner.

He fights like a pissed off teenage girl over there.

the fans were booing anything that moxley did because they didn't want to see him and they definitely don't want to see him win this thing

but then they each got a fork and

again moxley actually had paige stab him in the head with the fork about 20 times and puncture his head so he would start bleeding Now, he augmented it later on with a blade because the fork didn't do that, but no, that was real.

Because this guy, somebody needs to do a mental evaluation.

He has one of these self-harm fetishes, or he thinks he's some goddamn famous psychopath serial killer.

He fantasizes about that Nick Gage

garbage.

And he's been to,

we know why he flunked out of the WWE because of the mindset that he has, but he's been there.

He He didn't learn anything.

Two guys he was with left him in the fucking dust.

But now he's here where

with a bunch of marks to support him in the locker room and tell him how great he is, and a fucking feckless boss who will let him do any kind of distasteful, low-class bullshit.

This is what you get.

And

said before in the show, in the old days, the guys would do the hard way get a black eyed and make the fucking people believe the business now everything about both of these guys has told everybody this is all completely fake it's all prearranged we're cooperating with each other but we're really going to slice each other up

so at the same time as they are calling attention to how fake wrestling is, they're really hurting each other and making each other look like goddamn subhuman sideshow fucking freak dwellers that like to inflict punishment on each other before they bite the head off the fucking live chicken.

In this day and age, I didn't think it was possible to make wrestlers and wrestling look stupider, sillier, trashier, more low-class,

vulgar, disgusting, and not for major league sponsorship.

But they do it.

So then, and Paige got his juice the normal way, at least from his head.

Later on, he'd be rolling around in broken glass, but at least even he's smarter than the

freak show fellow, and he's an empty-headed dipshit.

Moxley got a barbed wire chair, but he didn't hit Paige with it.

He put it down on the ground, picked Paige up, and slammed him on it.

And do you think he did crack with Nick Gage to train for this and come up with the ideas for it?

Or

no, I think these were his sober thoughts.

So Moxley then left the ring and his opponent so that he and Marina Schaefer could set up a table and then milk that he would throw Paige off the top through it, but they didn't because that trick comes later.

And then Moxley asked Schaefer for a bucket of broken glass.

And I wrote, I never thought I'd see people that made the Sheik and Abdullah look like athletes with good taste.

And by the way, may I remind everybody when the sheikh and Abdullah did this shit,

it lasted five to seven minutes.

And you never saw anything like it before, and you didn't see anything for a long time afterwards like it.

And then Moxley drug Paige through the broken glass, and now the ring was trashed and it couldn't work.

And well, they did work in it anyway because they take bumps in broken glass.

There was a pile driver on the glass.

Paige then clearly helped climb up the turnbuckle so that Moxley could try to powerbomb him through chairs, but Paige blocked it.

Moxley raped some barbed wire over Paige's back, and then Moxley turned his back

and waited for Paige to set the chairs up so that he could powerbomb Moxley onto him.

And then Wheeler Useless came in and just nailed Paige with a chair, but Paige didn't sell it and knocked Wheeler out.

And then Marina Schaefer interfered.

So Paige gave her a Death Valley driver off the apron through the table.

Did you see that particular movement, Brian?

Of course I did.

That was a big part of the match.

Did you see what Paige did to take care of himself and not her?

What did he do?

The Death Valley driver, he turns her, he jumps off the apron, he landed on the table and broke it and got his fall cushioned, but he put her just past the table.

So So her momentum was still going, and she took the move right on the floor.

Fucking idiot.

And again,

these are women, you stupid fucks.

In storyline, it's ridiculous, and it's not fucking

proper in real life.

Anyway, so then

they took some more bumps in the glass until Claudio got in and beat up Paige, and then Wheeler beat up Paige.

Jim Ross's line there was, I know it's no DQ, but use some logic.

Then they pulled out another table, but Osprey came out and beat up Claudio and Wheeler.

But Gabe Kidd stopped Osprey

and gave him a pile driver on the floor.

And then they got a chair and they put the chair around his neck and pilmonized Osprey's neck on the floor with the chair.

And I'm like, so what the fuck?

They've crippled their top baby face now.

They just carried Samoa Joe out

the same way.

And then all came to a halt.

There's a bunch of these morons wandering around the ring, just standing there staring.

These two idiots in the match are bleeding all over themselves, just laid around.

The doctors have to come over and attend to Osprey and get the stretcher.

And then Moxley and Paige start their match again.

They do a suplex off the apron through two tables covered in barbed wire.

While on the other side of the ring, Osprey's getting taped to the backboard and wheeled off in the goddamn ambulance, or not the wheeled off on the stretcher.

But then there's nothing happening again.

And now Osprey is taken out.

The other heels are all standing around on the floor.

Moxley and Paige get back in the ring and they trade forearms.

And then Moxley gets the gotch pile driver on him and a choke on him and then let it go and jumped up so that the referee could do a 10 count.

And of course, at nine, Paige jumped up to his feet.

So then Moxley gave him a double arm DDT finish on the barbed wire chair.

And the referee got to nine and a half.

Now they've gone so long, Paige's gig had already dried up.

So then Moxley asked for a plastic bag and Useless got in and handed it to him and everybody just wandered around.

And as he's got the plastic bag, suddenly.

Brian, have I exaggerated anything so far?

Just so we

just so the people know it's not just me.

No, not yet.

No,

well, on the screen, it was Darby Allen from the mountaintop,

coming to Canaanites.

A video he took on Mount Everest.

Say, I'm coming to get you.

And then

while they're looking at the Darby on the screen, looked like he was near death on his fucking mountain, a stupid moron climbed on a billionaire's goddamn paycheck.

Brian Danielson jumps in the ring with a mask on and fucking gives the big need a wheeler and pulls the mask off and does the yes, yes, yes.

And then Danielson kicked the shit out of the heel stooges all over ringside.

But while everybody was watching that, they started lowering Darby from the ceiling.

And they got a shot of it and the announcers called it.

But this was before the fans were seeing it because they're still watching Danielson Danielson chase these other son of a bitches out of there.

And then

Darby is down on the ground now, and Moxley stares at him.

And Paige hit Moxley with the buckshot.

And Darby gave a coffin drop off the top rope to all the heels on the floor, and they all fought off.

And you'll think, well, here's the perfect time for the finish.

Paige hits another buckshot.

And then he gives him a dead eye off the apron through a table to the floor.

Got to be the finish.

Referee counts.

Adam Page back in at three.

At nine, Schaefer goes around, hooks Boxley, picks him, picks him up.

He stood up when she put her hands on him.

And she yelled, fuck you at Paige.

It goes on.

Because now the Hardley boys are in the ring.

And they double super kick and double shitty knee lift Adam Page.

And that leaves him a sitting duck.

Ferwin Moxley and Schaefer pull out the bed of nails.

And Dave, if you defend this bullshit like you always do with, well, I don't like it, but it works works for this audience.

Fuck you, pal.

You're as bad as a maggot trying to defend Trump.

You just won't admit the fucking truth.

Your boys have shit the bed.

This has gone too far.

This is a complete train wreck of a presentation.

I don't care if they sell 100,000 tickets a day.

This is a bad show that gets worse.

Deal with it.

So then Paige crawled over to the bed of nails and got in position and stood or kneeled stock still

so that Moxley could curb stomp him on the bed of nails,

then hit him with another double arm DDT on the bed of nails.

And Paige got up at nine and a half.

Then Moxley said, fuck a lot and told Schaefer to get the briefcase.

And she went over to the ringside table and got it.

But when she turned around, she realized that she was handcuffed to the railing.

And behind, from behind the table and barricade, Prince Nana stood up and revealed that he had handcuffed her.

And she couldn't get loose.

And that's when Swerve came down.

and leveled the buckaroos with a logging chain and tossed the chain into Paige.

So the Paige, he hit him with the chain.

He looked like he was trying to put it around his neck and do the finish, but I think Moxley said, no, you got to hit me with a buckshot first so I can bump on a bed of nails.

So they fought around for a minute that and finally buckshot, he takes a bump on a bed of nails.

And then he wrapped the chain around Moxley's neck and threw him over the top rope and hung him and Moxley tapped out.

And the fans were overjoyed that they were rid of Dick the Boozer,

who was the only one on the roster who can make it look preferable that Adam Page would be the world champion.

And then Page struggled to get the briefcase open and finally started crying.

We're all crying at this point.

and pulled the belt out and

there it was.

Yeah, big pop from the fans, and I think that's what it was.

They were hoping that's it.

No more of this moxie Death Riders shit.

I mean, what?

Not even the fact that it's a bad fake show and it's stupid and it's silly and it's preposterous, the levels and the

overdone stunts that they go through.

Why can't they realize they're just shooting themselves in the foot?

Because they just have to do more and more.

And I'm pretty sure they can't do more and more.

They may think they can.

They'll find out.

But if people are just watching this to see goddamn

injury and chaos, you want worked chaos without injury.

You don't want endless chaos with people fucking fucking themselves up.

And this is what these marks have done to this company, this presentation, and themselves.

Seven hours

endless

over and over

i've made my point

well a major success for aew all in texas

a big walk up 30 000 uh give or take in the building well no the walk up wasn't 30 000 no not not a 30 000 the whole crowd yeah that's right but a lot of moments to make the fans feel happy like maybe the company's listening to us

We'll see where they go from here, maybe.

I wish they'd make me happy thinking they were listening to me once in a while.

Moxley has worked so hard over the last year, I really think he deserves a long vacation.

As do you know you got a point there?

Yeah, they've been on every show.

They deserve an extended timeout in Bulgaria.

They deserve a long timeout.

But that was it.

I think maybe he needs some good, long, inpatient psychiatric counseling.

Well, we'll see if he gets it, but that was AEW all in Texas.

And Jim, as we said at the top of the show, not a normal drive-through.

No questions this week, no classic wrestling, no songs.

We're going to wrap it up rather quickly.

Any closing thoughts on any of all this?

Well, yes, my closing thoughts are: I hate to beat a dead horse, but this is

not good for the business.

Not only the amateur hour that AEW produces, but the WWE making three-hour programs out of geite and cereal for the breakfast in the morning.

At some point, people are going to say, Well, fuck.

I just don't want to see any more of this shit at all.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Well, with that,

the drive-through is closed.

I may have to get this tuned.

That wasn't really a door-slamming type of exclamation point moment.

Well,

Good God.

All right.

Good God.

We'll return on the experience in a few days.

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