Episode 383: Jim Reviews AEW Revolution

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Hello again, friends!

I almost nailed it.

And you are our friends!

And welcome back to another edition of Jim Cornett's drive-thru right here on another nice day.

It is nice out.

Daylight savings.

Oh, everything, everything's going on.

We have so much to talk about.

I don't even know what to say.

I don't even know how to say it.

I'm your host, the great Brian Last.

That was the theme to the Great Brian Last, and that was a chuckle somewhere deep beyond from this man, the leader of the cult of Cornet, Mr.

Hollywood himself, Jim Cornet.

Well,

you know, Brian, that noise that you just made with your organ sounds almost like the one that you made last week with your organ.

Has your organ gotten bigger over the last week or so?

Well, I have.

It sounds like it has

more oomph to it.

See, I made the choice to go with this instead of this or this.

Oh, we'll see.

So your organ...

Your organ can get bigger and fluctuate in size is what you're saying.

I got all this.

Oh, now it's just

a teeny little weenie.

This won't be a teeny weenie show.

We have a lot to talk about.

We have a big review, a revolting or a review of revolution, I should say.

And well,

misplay of words there.

You may have been, what do they call that?

The Freudian slip?

You may have been somewhat

correct there, but nevertheless, just

we've only did a show just a couple of days ago and then boom.

and then here we are now again doing a show.

And as you'll learn, we've already done some of this show

later on that you'll hear that we've done before because we've done some of the middle before we've done the beginning and the end.

So we like to do things that way.

And we tie one show behind our back to make it fair with the audience.

But at the top of the program here, we've had some feedback

on the social interwebs, Brian, both you and me,

chastising us, ways that we should modify our behavior or some complaint about a recent

appearance or incident or whatever.

And we both, we need to address these things.

You want me to go first with mine or you go first with yours?

Or I'll go first and tell them what yours is.

I have no idea where you're going.

So this is my show, but somehow

do whatever you want.

Well, I know now, see, now you're already sounding a, oh, and he's fiddling with his organ, organ, folks.

You already sounded like you just want to go sit down and play with your organ.

Some people,

apparently, out there, some instigators took exception to an offhand remark that you made on a recent program, I think, where we announced that the total package Lex Luger, good old package himself, one of my old compadres from the Crockett days is going to go in the WWE Hall of Fame and they've filmed it at DDP's house or DDP at a video out with Lex or what.

I can't remember even what the context was, but you said, yeah, you know, something like another wrestler that DDP can film and exploit.

And we went on with the thing.

It was an offhand remark.

It was there in a Chris Cruz segment.

That's what it was.

That's what it was.

Talking to me, Chris Cruz went on like a goddamn 10-minute social media tirade that Lex Luger should somehow be boiled and oil and have the fat sold for soap because of the horrible human being that he is.

And everybody just went with that.

But you say, yeah, DDP is going to film it and exploit it.

There was an online crusade against you.

You would have thought I kicked Mother Teresa in the dick based on the reaction you had from people.

No, you would have thought DDP is Mother Teresa.

And secretly he's lived a double life no

i'm sorry some of you don't like when realities are pointed out and then you'll hear from people oh you're so self-righteous no i'm not i'm righteous there's a difference i have cosmic consciousness listen to me people

he's the cosmic commander ladies and gentlemen no that was someone else that was cosmo he was a really good indie manager and a lead singer of a of a i don't know if i should say fine band but a band it was certainly a band and but he got over better when he was friends with jerry Seinfeld.

What I meant to say, where I was going, is, you know, if you think back to when they did that Jake the Snake Roberts, they called it a documentary.

It was a fucking infomercial for DDP yoga.

I'm sorry.

Every single thing he does, if there's a camera there, you have a little bit of rock syndrome.

And then people are like, how could you have a problem with him running?

I don't have a problem with him doing whatever he needs to do with his business.

He obviously is doing a great job.

He's rebranded three times in 10 years.

He's doing a great job.

Wait a minute.

Now, hold on.

Now, I didn't want you to pile more

abuse on yourself there, son.

Well, no, what here's the

thing is, my jocularity from it became that not only was it an offhand comment that somebody lit a fire under somebody

to maybe have, you know, organized a militia over it, but also with a bunch of other horrible things have been said about the subject of the clip we were talking about.

It seemed an inordinate response.

Oh,

get rid of him.

He said a bad thing about DDP.

I know it said it was like,

did we trigger some kind of automatic?

Wait a few minutes.

He'll make fun of his facelift, too.

Dog quit now.

Talk.

Some of you.

Hey.

Oh, I like Alice better.

Bring back Alice.

Really?

Now?

Now?

Everybody Everybody our age has had some work done.

Nobody knows since I've been off.

I've had my tank tucked.

There was a bit of droopage going on.

But no,

in all honesty,

in all honesty, I know Paige.

And

the positively Paige thing is a gimmick because it's not a gimmick.

That's his gimmick because it's him.

He's so positive about it, and he's got the energy.

I don't know how the fuck that he has the energy.

And I don't know how how the

with that he deals with the goddamn personalities that he deals with it can't just be for money because i would turn to crime before i would

deal with the personalities had to deal with i agree i'm not saying it's just for money and i'm not saying he's not but he is also

He is a wonderful promoter, having said that, that is

constantly thinking of new and different ways to promote his positivity.

Respect my positivity.

Yeah, it's one thing him working with a wrestler and helping them get their life back on track one way or another, and then you don't hear about it until it's done.

It's another thing when all of a sudden there's a camera there.

Like, you know, hey, Lex, you're down and out.

Can I film this?

It'll inspire people to see you sitting there.

Look, I'm sorry that people were offended by it.

Sorry if people were offended by jokes every now and then, but also looking-you know, look at the reality of it.

I'm not saying Dallas Page isn't a nice guy for helping some of these guys out, but I'm also saying some of it may be engineered to help out himself too.

Thank you.

And I'm telling you what, and you know, all they need to do to get into

the crib there is just fill out that form for that life insurance policy.

And it's

just a minor signature on some forms, but no,

Jim needs a co-host that can talk about yoga he doesn't know what he's talking about

i already

i already have a host in contact you're a big baseball fan you know all about yoga berra yoga berra

isn't he the one who said

i never met a man i didn't like but if i do

It's deja vu all over again.

He said it's deja vu all over again.

There's a lot of quotes that are attributed to Yogi Berra that he actually didn't say, but he kind of ran with it once the media said that he did.

I mean, he was actually a really smart guy for someone whose like reputation was he was kind of like this Neanderthal who just said funny things.

He was a really bright guy.

He had Yoohoo, obviously, as a business.

He lost the lawsuit, I believe, with I believe he sued Hanna-Barbera

because of Yogi Bear, which is

a queer rip-off of Yogi Berra.

But I don't think he won because he didn't have a teammate named Boo Boo.

So that hurt him in the case.

Back to you, Jim.

Back to me.

Well, anyway, speaking of whatever you said, Neanderthal looking people that say funny things,

I am potentially taking a trip

this summer.

Have I told you?

I may have told you that this was dangled in front of me.

But,

and that's one of the things that I'm going to address about

people have been misunderstanding me on the social media.

I've seen the comments because since we put up the footage from the Queen of the Ring premiere, where I was obviously looking wonderful and they're ready to be, you know, to accept at least my nomination for an Academy Award for Queen of the Ring, which is right out,

right out now, out right now.

in theaters and potentially drive-ins near you.

I'd see it at a drive-in.

Under the stars, it's so much more like a period piece.

But anyway, we put that video up on official Jim Cordette on the YouTube, folks, if you haven't checked it out.

And everybody says, well, look, Jim left his house.

He left his,

I leave my house all the time.

I just don't go anywhere to work, so I don't advertise it.

I wonder, Brian, should I...

Should I advertise Thursday morning?

I got to go by Kroger and get some gas and pick up some extra Sprite Zero and then drop off my dry cleaning.

So if anyone wants autographs, start in the meat aisle and then work your way around produce.

Yes, start in the meat aisle, work your way around produce straight to the fucking chocolate.

Okay.

If you can imagine that trip.

And that's it.

That's the thing.

I'm leaving the house all the time.

We've been helping the in-laws or well, they're not her in-laws.

They're my in-laws and they're her laws, I guess.

Stacy's mom and stepfather, well, he's a law of a different law,

but this is all interconnected, folks, in some fashion.

We've been helping them move in and et cetera, et cetera.

So I'm back, I just don't have public appearances where people are hearing that I'm leaving the house, but I do leave the house.

So I want to rectify that

misconscrumption right now.

But I've been invited to the Jack Pfeffer Collection at the University of Notre Dame

up there in South Bend, Indiana.

And thankfully, they had that big fire at Notre Dame.

None of the Pfeffer collection was damaged.

And

I've been invited by none other than the OG, as the kids say, of the historians.

That means he's old and...

I don't know what the G stands for, but he was around when this was not a popular thing.

Wrestling historians, Tom Burke, is going to be taking a trip and has invited me because now I got a guide, Brian.

Because if I'd go up, I've always wanted to see this shit.

But at the same time, if I went up there without somebody who's been there before, and

because there's, it's apparently an amazing amount of stuff.

And it takes days and days.

It would take weeks and weeks if you just saw every little thing.

And I need somebody to, I'd be whistling stranger in paradise, as the cowboy used to say.

I wouldn't know whether to wind my ass or scratch my watch.

So now Tom Burke himself, the illegitimate son of Mildred Burke,

has, I'm not going to reveal the dates because now that I am a

movie star,

you know, in Queen of the Ring and in theaters near you.

I don't want to, you know, tell people exactly when I'd be there because I'm afraid that the campus would be mobbed or wherever this library is housed.

There would be people outside waiting to get, you know, autographs and pictures and swoon over me.

So I'm going to keep that part quiet, but I got to work out with you when we're going to be recording these fine festivities at that particular time.

So I can take a couple days off.

Grandpa needs a couple of days off, but that'll be fun.

I'll report back.

I might even do a field report.

Boy,

that Tom Burke's a smart guy.

He said, which sucker do I I know with a car who will pick me up and take me?

I'm not going to, no, I'm not going to fucking Massachusetts.

And I'm meeting him in

Notre Dame, Indiana is where I'm meeting him.

I'm not going to fucking Massachusetts and pick him up and carry him down there and then take him back.

You'll see.

You're going to end up.

Hey, can you give me a lift to the train station?

Oh, there's no train station.

Can you give me a lift to a little further down the road?

Next thing you know, you're in Massachusetts.

Oh, I'm going to be coming.

He can get to Indianapolis.

I know they got a train station there.

He can come with me to Indianapolis.

That's on my way back home.

But I will buy him a subway sandwich and give him a hearty hand clasp for the invitation while I'm there.

Well, what a gift.

Who could say no to that?

Well, you know, I want to be fair about these things.

Somebody's going to spend a couple of days of their life, you know, showing me around something.

At least I'm going to do is reward them for their efforts.

I wouldn't do it for everybody, but Tom, I've known Tom for 50 years.

Every time he pulls out his camera.

Well, there you go.

I'm going to have him take pictures of me and all of the things that Jack Pfeffer once touched.

Once, once, once, once touched, once touched is what I'm trying to say.

And his aura and his essence and his mustard stains and baloney grease will be on

these things as I cling them to my bosom.

I have some of his stuff.

I wish someone would like take his handwriting and make a font that you could type with.

Like that block letters he had.

I just want to be able to type in that.

It looks like somebody trying to write some kind of statement on a cell wall.

But it was, but the Pfeffer trip.

Yes, I'll be doing that and more on that to come this summer.

And also,

I've received criticism, Brian, that is

somewhat legitimate, but at the same time, I believe a little unwarranted.

And I will try to explain.

When they saw the clips from the Queen of the Ring premiere, I've had a number of people tweet me

or comment on

that

my suit was too big.

And more specifically, because you really weren't

looking at my pants and most of these things, my jacket was a little bit, I admit my jacket was a little big because think about this, Brian.

the last time that i bought

store-bought clothes the last time i bought dress clothes

the last time that i even wore dress clothes it's been five years now the times that i've worn dress clothes have been when dark side of the ring shows up to tape something when i went to the world premiere of a movie and

I get when we took Stacey's mother to a birthday dinner a couple of years ago.

It's when I've actually worn a shirt with a collar and or a jacket and or a tie and or any type of legitimate human apparel.

The rest of the time, I'm in a t-shirt, a sweatshirt, or sweatpants.

So since the last time that I bought

the actual clothing that human beings are supposed to own, I was probably about 20 or 25 pounds heavier than I have been for the past few years, but

that jacket's been worn about 10 times, and it was the smallest one I had, so I thought I'd get by with it.

I like a little room, also,

just so you know.

Is there anything wrong with that?

I thought it looked good.

It was kind of the look.

It makes you look like a bigger geek when you have like a bigger jacket and like your head just sticks straight up out of it.

Wait a minute, why do I want to look like a bigger geek?

That's your whole gimmick, isn't it?

Well, I wasn't trying to do my, I was trying to be my real person there.

Oh,

I meant it makes you look, it makes you look distinguished.

Uh-huh.

If you have like, you know,

the distinguished geek.

It was the gray.

It should be a line of clothing.

It was the color.

It was the gray.

It looked good on you.

Well, I wanted it to match my hair.

I think black would have been, you wore black a lot in OVW, I guess.

Did I ever see you wear black?

Maybe a few times in the 80s, but I don't remember any time in the 90s where you wore black.

Well, no, no,

I had like a black

sports jacket that I would wear with a bright red shirt and the black tie with the black pants and the red shoes sometimes and the blah, blah, blah.

There was a way to work it in.

But OVW, you wore a lot of black.

Well, no, actually, no, some of them were black and some of them were navy blue and some of them may have even been a dark gray, but because of the quality of our television production, you couldn't really tell the difference.

But it was a

lot of different shades in there that just kind of blended in as one.

But anyway, so I apologize for being a little baggy around

the jacket area, but that's why I wasn't,

I just didn't have time to go and buy a new jacket for the premiere.

So, Ed, would you rather have seen me jacket off?

Like I said, I thought I was just adding a shirt and a tie.

I thought you looked good.

All right, well, see,

it's what you're supposed to say if you want me to do the rest of this program with you.

Your acting was good.

I don't know about some of the other people you acted with and some of those skits, but your acting was good.

Well,

basically, you know, I was just trying to find some, drum up some support.

If people have seen that, that particular video of some support from the locals for my quest for the Oscar.

And I was rebuffed in a couple of cases, but that was just

an anomaly is what anomaly, folk.

Look that one up.

It's not used enough.

What are you laughing at?

I don't know why, but you talking about the premiere made me think of that girl again at the Revolution pay-per-view we're going to talk about later, Roger.

How confident she was.

I have something to say.

And I'm going to say, I'm going to expose the business more than any Mansfield right now.

This is going to be the most profound thing that I've ever said in public.

I've workshopped this.

I've thought about this.

And

to the one one audience, that it fell like a turd in a punch bowl.

See, was Ash trying to go back in to correct her?

Like what she meant to say, but we never will find out what Ash was going to say there, but she was so confident.

She was just so confident.

Well, I don't know whether it was that or whether he was going to try to finish saying what he had started saying and then got lost because of the fact that Tony was ignoring the other two ladies who were obviously supposed to be part of this thing.

It was,

it was a,

you know what Mama Cornette used to say.

Poor pre-planning leads to piss, poor performance.

Did she really say that?

That's exactly, and that pretty much sums it up.

Just clap your hands and dust them off and you're done.

Poor pre-planning leads to piss, poor performance.

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and and you were talking to him and he had the headset this vice-like headset

And

he said, see, there's another thing I've invented.

You said, yeah, right.

You agreed with him.

You don't remember what was it he invented then?

I'm trying to think of what it was.

I think that's when he said, this old guy thinks I keep inventing stuff.

And I said, yeah, you're right.

No, no, no, no, no.

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Jim, let's move on from here.

Of course, we have to talk about revolution, but why don't we first talk about a few segments from SmackDown?

Because like most weeks, the matches don't matter.

But the segments where people talk to each other is where things happen.

And there were a few things here that everyone wanted wanted to hear what you thought of.

Well, these are the furtherings of the issues that we are all concerned with today in today's modern world.

And

that's the thing where we're going to be heavy with the

opposition promotion because of the pay-per-view extravaganza.

So we want to make sure that we get a little WWE representation in here because we don't want people to lose track of who's mad at who and why.

But since over the past, what, three and a half days between SmackDown at three hours and RAW at two and a half hours of program content time, depending on whether you watch it with commercials or not,

if we try to get minute with this thing, we'll all be here till Thursday.

And

nobody wants that.

However,

again on SmackDown, they're in Philadelphia.

It's sold out.

There's 16,728 people.

Who says live theater is dead?

That's what they're coming to see.

There's a commercial right now that's playing during the programs.

They're bringing Raw to Louisville in

May, May 11th or 12th.

There's one date or another.

It just has

highlights and not even a voiceover.

Really, as much as a couple of statements uttered, Raw is coming.

And in the music, in the highlights, hey, Louisville, get ready.

And in the music, and

they're not advertising.

There's talent that pops up and says, get ready, or we're coming, or whatever.

But nobody promises to be there.

They're not telling you shit.

They're not promoting a match.

I assume it's the same way.

And

I haven't watched Philadelphia local television to see if they've got commercials saying, don't miss the big fucking showdown between

Tozawa and Chad Gable, whatever the fuck.

But

they're just coming to see the big stars talk to each other and just the spectacle of the program at this point.

Because they don't even know what they're going to fucking see.

This is ridiculous is what I'm saying to you.

I think for the most part, depending on the show, you have a general idea who will likely be there.

Now, sometimes someone's not there until the next week.

There are certain people like The Rock and Cena who you know aren't on a normal schedule, even Roman Reigns.

But if he was going to show up anywhere, it would be SmackDown typically until recently.

Until they wild card bitches, all of a sudden,

the good is bad and the bad is good and the up is down.

Obviously, they're the hottest they've been.

And,

you know, it's interesting because they're finally able to do what Vince Vince always really wanted, which is to kind of just ride the brand and succeed with that.

They're doing that now.

But they also happen to have a bunch of big stars who are over.

But more than ever before, the brand WWE,

and I guess you could even say Raw and SmackDown coming to town, you kind of know what to expect and you kind of want to go for the ride.

I would assume if you're one of these fans.

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Well, and the first segment, and remember we were

some recent

past shows criticizing, guy, we know what's going to happen.

The guy comes out and cuts a promo.

And then the other guy comes out.

And then they get in a fight and they make a match.

Well, now

they've changed that up.

A guy just out and fucking talks and leaves.

And the people are happy about it.

They don't even need to get in a fight right now.

Randy Orton,

he got a big entrance.

He's over.

He got a big response.

And all he had to do was mention John Cena's name and they started booing.

And Orton, you know, he spends 10 minutes out there saying

he did a great delivery and he sounded like he was sincere and meant everything

but there if if he'd had a you know timer on him said we're going to blow the ring up if you can't say everything you've got to say in two minutes he could have done that but he stretched it out about 10

and he said hey cena's always been on top but now he's just a bottom for rock oh a rock bottom

And then he knocked Owens as if we both done vile things, always in the name of business, but I respect you as a wrestler, but I got a problem with you as a man because you're filled with jealousy.

And then he,

again, he went into a lot of history with Owens and Zane that could or could not have been said if you were short on time.

And he's going to prove that McAfee is the only, only the second greatest punter in the WWE.

And he played his music and he left.

And the people were happy.

We got to see Randy talk to us.

So

I know it's not the

well, it

kind of pretty much almost is now again.

The numbers, maybe not consistently, but the numbers of the attitude era in the buildings and on, it's definitely not on television.

But

they don't, even then, you had to advertise Stone Cold Steve Austin versus fucking Undertaker or whatever

to sell the place out instead of promos from so-and-so.

You see what I'm saying?

Yeah.

And again, people come to react to what is said, sometimes just chanting what, but in this case, the reaction, and it's happening everywhere anytime he's mentioned, the reaction to Cena, I thought was the biggest thing that I took away from this.

I mean, because they're,

and I have to think part of it is

the people most offended there are the,

again, the most loyal WWE fans that

kind of sense that even if they're not smart and living on the internet in that respect, they kind of sense that Rock and Cena have come in and disrupted their fucking ride they were taking here.

And they're not, what the fuck is going on?

So it wasn't as hard for them to turn John Cena heel as one would think.

think.

And a lot of it is it's a newer audience

because they got more of them than they did 10 years ago.

So they got to be newer.

You're looking forward to Owens versus Randy?

You know, I think it's going to be good because Owens is not going to,

we're not going to see the level of furniture and foolery.

with Owens and Orton that we did with Owens and Zane.

So having said that, I think Randy will probably concentrate on making his big-ass work in and around the ring area and leave the furniture to a minimum.

I'm sure there'll be some.

But

hopefully,

they will go in that direction.

I'd be surprised if they don't.

Well, that was talking segment one on SmackDown.

Well, then we came to the nine o'clock hour and we got

the emotional

explanation, exposition, confrontation, competition

between Bianca Belair.

Well, Bianca Belair came out for an in-ring promo and obviously had to be all emotional and call her her friend Naomi out, but

she gave the preamble.

Her friends are fighting and I've formed a bond with both women.

And

I don't believe Naomi would do this.

But neither one, Naomi nor Jade, either one is texting me back.

So I need Naomi to come out and give her answers.

And Automatically, okay, she doesn't want to text you, but she'll walk out here on national fucking television.

and talk to you about it in public.

At least in the old days, before these newfangled cell phones, you could believe that somebody wouldn't have talked to somebody else for a fucking week.

I haven't talked to some people for fucking longer than that, even with cell phones.

But she called Naomi out, and Naomi comes out in a

silver sequin neck brace and bruiser Brody boots.

And she looked the epitome of sympathy with boo-boo face on.

And so Bianca is, you know, I've called you here.

I've talked to you here.

She's like, no, no, this isn't what it looks like.

And Bianca says, did you attack Jade?

And Naomi says, oh, this is a distraction.

We got to focus on WrestleMania.

And Bianca's like, did you attack Jade?

And Naomi's like, Jade, Jade, Jade.

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

She's been piggybacking off your excellence or an experience.

And I was left off to the side.

And

Naomi

worked up some tears over this.

This may have been

their audition to the Strasbourg Institute, Brian.

You think?

You know, with an emotional.

There you go.

An emotional performance like this, they're going to be maybe I ought to start agenting them now that I have Hollywood connections.

So

Naomi is crying now.

And she's like, I don't give a damn about Jade because she didn't give a damn about you.

Yeah, I was left off to the side while she was piggybacking on you.

Hopefully piggybacking on you or whatever doesn't have.

a different connotation with the young folks these days than what I think it does, or else I've just uttered some type of horrible farm obscenity.

And then both of them start talking over each other and naturally with

it.

And finally, Bianca says, Stop.

Did you attack Jade?

Yes or no?

And

Naomi, Naomi, and Nianca,

Naomi tearfully milks it and cries, and says, I did it.

I did it.

And the people boo.

And

the fuck

I'm, I like it when emotion is shown in professional wrestling, but I'm not sure that I need to see two

young ladies recreate a scene from a lifetime movie of some description.

But then Naomi's like, I did it for you.

And now Bianca's crying too.

Maybe they got onions and rubbed them underneath their fucking, or some Vick's vapor rub.

And it's Dr.

Phil here,

where Bianca said, me and you are done.

Naomi said, because of her, I did it for you.

I did it all for you.

And Bianca walks out crying.

And Neon, Neonami, God damn it.

I'm so emotional, Brian.

Naomi said, I should have done it sooner, you you ungrateful bitch.

And then Bianca stopped and slowly she turned and step by step, inch by, no, actually, it would have been better that way, but she just turned around and looked.

And it's right as this,

by an amazing coincidence of timing.

Right as this emotional scene is taking place and they've got the over-the-shoulder shot of Bianca and the Titan screen Tron, whatever they're calling it these days.

On the screen,

Jade pulls up in the big fancy,

fancy Dan

automobile

and jumps out of it.

Well, it doesn't jump out, but it gets out and walks in with purpose and passes right by Bianca and goes to the ring and just beats Naomi like just walks a dog all over the top of Naomi and hits her finish, boom and leaves her flattened there.

They play Jade's music

and there we have it.

So

the first two went out and cried over each other for about 10 minutes.

And then Jade came in and just beat the shit out of Naomi and Neon Naomi and Bianca, or Bianca didn't give a shit.

Well, she didn't do anything about it.

I hate it when these poor young ladies just become all sideways with each other.

I thought a few times here, you know, what if this ends up being like a double switch where, well, I don't know if that's even a proper term, where Bianca also turns.

It was an idea to somehow get Jade.

But they didn't even do that because Bianca and Naomi both wore black.

Jade came out in white.

You know, I just, I was trying to think.

And, you know, I thought Bianca was dressed like she was in mourning.

Yeah, but you are, you are trying to impart some kind of, it's all coinka dink brian it's all total coinka dink

when these women's colors mirror some type of foreshadowing of a turn or whatever they're just wearing whatever they look fashionable in yeah and you're reading some kind of deep thought that their wells are not that deep

that they're going to be tying all of these emotions to the color of their wardrobe at this point, I'm sorry to say.

But I actually liked this segment, and yeah, it went a while, and yeah, it was emotional, but it was a different kind of thing than we usually see.

It was very emotional.

They were both crying as their friendship dissolved.

Normally, it's the men's roster in AEW that goes out and cries.

I was surprised that Jade, for the second time, just came out and kicked the shit out of Naomi, and that was it.

Like, that was it.

That was the end of the segment.

I'm going to kick the shit out of her, and that's it.

Let's go to the next thing.

That's two times in a row.

I mean,

are they going to do a match after after she kicked the shit out of her twice?

I well, I think that

I don't think that Bianca is going to switch heel.

I'm pretty sure Jane, Jade, Jade, which is her real name now?

God damn, I'm okay fake myself.

Jade,

Jade probably is

of some description because she's being awful

violent about this, but Naomi

is, but I

she would be a heel based on

you know, having been the one to orchestrate this.

But I don't really know where they're going.

But I'm thinking that Bianca is not going to be a heel.

And maybe what they've done

with this thing with her and Rhea Ripley and EO Sky

is just had EO take the belt off of Rhea for this WrestleMania thing so that they can, in some way or another,

potentially have

the jealous Naomi take Bianca out of it, and Rhea wins it back, or potentially

Jade somehow comes and gets involved, and hopefully, Rhea gets it back.

It costs Bianca.

I don't know what the fuck is going on here.

But you.

When we get to Raw, you'll hear when we talk about that, the reaction that

Rhea gets compared to even Bianca, but definitely Ria and Bianca compared to EO in Madison Square Garden was like,

they're like, yeah,

they liked her when she fired up, but I mean, this, the women's world title,

they need to do something here with Bianca and Jade and Rhea.

I don't know why EO's involved in this right now, except to be a temporary distraction.

You see where I'm going with this?

But am I getting ahead of us?

I

will see.

We'll see how ahead of us

you get.

But that was Talking Segment Two on SmackDown.

Yes.

And Talking Segment Three was Cody

with his fucking black eye.

Holy shit.

Well, it wasn't even a black eye.

Just, you know, the traditional black under the eye above the cheek, it was a giant swelling and purple and red.

And it spread over to the cheek.

And

whether somebody has a busted eardrum is not visible or not, but one can see if that was the heel of this goofball's hand that hit his cheekbone, that the

cup of it, the...

the part that cups the air and pops your eardrum would have been right about in the exact right place.

So this fucking

Travis Scott, did he realize whatever the fuck it is that he does,

he's in the music business, I understand.

Did he realize that he was turning heel, that people were going to boo the mention of his name in large numbers and sold out arenas when he agreed to do this thing?

Or did they just say hey, Travis, go out there with us?

Did he realize what he was getting into?

Oh, I think he's about as popular as Crotch Rot right now.

I think he had to have.

There's no way he is a wrestling fan who wouldn't have known that.

But it's not like that he's going to make money off of this.

Like the wrestling fans are going, oh, we got to go buy Travis Scott records now.

But I guess, does anybody buy Travis Scott records?

Are there records anymore?

How do people purchase?

Maybe they don't buy music.

That's why it sucks so bad.

But what's the deal on that, Brian?

Most people stream it now, and some still buy it.

And physical units is obviously a pretty small market, but really, recording artists make their money through touring more than ever before.

Well, hopefully.

Much more than ever before.

Much more than ever before.

Well, hopefully, he'll be on a long worldwide tour, Old Travis.

But anyhow,

Cody Rhodes is the, do you hear the dusty inflections?

In this one and in the the one he does on Raw.

The inflections are dusty.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

And I heard dusty when Travis Scott slapped him.

I heard, don't do shit you don't know how to do.

Don't do shit you don't know how to do.

But if he, you know, he promotes Cena

and he,

the question is, John, why?

You'll probably have a pretty well-crafted, slick answer, but there's no justification, baby.

I'm just telling you, it's amazing.

You can hear he's a well-spoken, articulate dusty in the ebb and flow and the cadence and the rising of the

tempo and et cetera.

And he's, his dad was afraid to perform in Philadelphia because they were the first ones.

He had to paint his face with the road, like the Road Warriors, so they knew he was cool.

Because that's what, that's when Dusty started doing the

fucking deal where him and the Road Warriors in Philadelphia to combat

these smart fans heckling him.

But then he said Philadelphia supported and cheered for Cody and they chose him.

And he did a fired up promo about John Cena and it made you want to fucking see this thing.

And And that is exactly what the fucking champion needs to be doing on TV.

And I can't even try to paraphrase it because it was

long and verbose, but I thought it was great.

And

he finished up with:

John Cena,

clearly you want some.

Well, come and get some.

And everybody cheers and they love him.

And there's how many people did we say there were 16,728 people?

And oh, we got to see Cody talk.

That's all they need to do now.

Good promo.

But anyway,

and then I would

just as a footnote, let's refer to it.

Thankfully, LA Knight won the U.S.

title back from Shaky Nakamura.

Were you going to say hey on something else?

Yeah, just one other thing.

I will say a positive about all this rock stuff the last couple of years.

On promos, I think it's helped Cody Rhodes finally really come into his own.

He's had moments where he could do good promos and get fired up, but it seems like it's coming from a real place more now than ever before, and that helps.

Yes, and the fire burneth within it.

And you know what?

And he was talking about.

I guess he was he talking about Cody.

What year would this have been?

He was talking about Cody.

When Dusty said, When I lay my baby down on my chest, do you know what he hears?

The heartbeat of America.

Would that have been Cody?

That would have been

about 38, 39 years ago.

Well, anyway.

Yeah, it would have been Cody, I guess.

And then I came out later on.

I said, you know, you know what?

The baby hears

the indigestion from the taco bell that you ate last night, you son of a bitch.

But anyway,

but yes, LA Knight won the U.S.

title back from Shaky Nakamura.

And

the crowd was silent when Nakamura was kind of in charge of this thing.

And they still like L.A.

Knight, but it was...

a blase match and LA tried, but it just, it,

it wasn't good and they were tired and they didn't want to see old Shaggy.

But otherwise than that, that was the smacketh of the down.

It most certainly was.

WWE SmackDown for the 7th of March.

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Well, Jim, as the drive-thru rolls on, we have a big review, the one everyone's been waiting for, the AEW pay-per-view.

Some people thought it was one of the greatest pay-per-views of all time.

What, what?

Other people thought the exact opposite.

I'm not sure who was in the middle.

It seems like everyone took one position or the other, but AEW Revolution.

Oh, I know what position I took.

On my hands and knees, got fucked out of time of my life.

I'll never get back.

That's what position I took on the thing.

This was AEW Revolution in Los Angeles.

They've broken me.

They've broken me to the point where I don't know that I can muster up enough outrighteous indignation

to fully express the various vehement thoughts that were flashing through my mind as I sat and was inflicted upon

with this thing.

What Uncle Dave said on paper,

this is the strongest pay-per-view lineup ever in the history of pay-per-view.

Well, they should have stuck with paper because on video, it was fucking brutal.

And I'm going to even expose a little bit of our own business here.

We are doing this part of the drive-through episode that you folks may be listening to now.

If you are indeed consuming the podcast instead of a clip on YouTube, one way or the other.

The point is,

I've just sat and watched this show.

It's a Monday morning.

The pay-per-view took place on a Sunday night and a Monday morning.

It crossed midnight,

the wee bitching hour.

And then I got up and I watched the thing from eight o'clock in the morning till fucking noon.

And then we're recording this because I have a family commitment that we could not do the whole,

the whole shebang of a program today.

I'm helping the in-laws with some things this afternoon.

So

we're going to do the rest of the program tomorrow because I said we don't have time, and there's no way after I watch four hours this that I could be in a cheerful mood, Brian Last,

in order to start the program and not just be

have people be suicidal listening to me by the time we get halfway through it.

You said four hours.

I'm guessing you didn't watch the pre-show?

Well, that was a point I was going to make here shortly.

But since you jumped right into it with both feet, I will follow along.

I'm talking about the pay-per-view, ladies and gentlemen.

That was past four hours.

The pre-show

was another hour and a half.

They had, I've been on fucking sold-out shows with six-figure houses that didn't have as many people on the card as they had on the pre-show.

Would you like to hear what was on the pre-show, Brad?

You didn't watch this, did you?

I saw bits and pieces.

I saw the end of the Jericho segment and I saw a little bit of the big boom AJ thing, but that's all I saw.

I don't know if there was much else on it or not.

Well, I've jotted it down off the internet just in the

interest of completionism

to let let the people know what kind of show that the people in Los Angeles saw before the show that they came to see got started.

That's a proper way to phrase it, isn't it?

That's a way to phrase it.

Hologram

and Commander

defeated Blake Christian and Lee Johnson.

But you doesn't got to call him Johnson.

Why, you could call him Lee or you could call him LJ.

Where's Bill Saluga when you need him?

He's dead.

Well, we need him.

So then

they had an eight-man tag team match playa.

Danny Garcia and the unmitigated

era.

What is their goddamn name now?

The

indomitable spirit.

The undisputed kingdom.

Undisputed king kingdom.

I was still going for era.

Kyle O'Reilly, Adam Cole, and Roderick Strong with Danny Garcia defeated Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Carly Bravo.

She sounds like the traffic girl on local news.

And now to the helicopter for a look at the traffic with Carly Bravo

and Sean Dean.

And then help me understand since you saw a bit of this.

I read the result as Chris Jericho went to a no contest with gravity.

Did he float away?

Obviously, if you look at his waistline, he's been having a battle with gravity for several years now.

No, I saw, I didn't see any of the match.

I didn't even know what exactly the match was.

I just saw the post-match where Bandito...

who's wearing a different color mask, so I didn't recognize him at first, was being held back by Big Bill, who looks great.

He's in great shape.

While Jericho ripped the mask off gravity, because that's the worst thing you could ever do to a luchador, is rip the mask off.

And you saw his face for a second, then he went down, and you get that weird thing where no matter what they do to him, he sells his face because he's covering his face.

Like Ernie Ladd and Wild Bull Curry selling their ear when they get stomped on the toe.

But yeah.

Punch in the gut.

Oh my God, my face is exposed.

And then finally, Bandito was set free, and he jumped on his friend to cover him so that no one would see him.

Then the family was at ringside and it was doing a lot.

I guess it was Gravity's family.

I didn't have the commentary on it.

I was just watching.

Gravity has a family?

Well, all of a sudden, there was a woman in the future.

What would that be?

Would that be like...

Tidal waves or what

would be related to gravity?

What's in the gravity family?

See, now you're making me question what happened.

AEW

Revolution pre-show

and here are the results i i'm just waiting you know if people were defying gravity

i'd like to know about it

and that one didn't have anything let's see here are the results well i thought jericho was the news maker the uh record breaker

the masturbator ripped off uh gravity's mask and uh oh it doesn't say anything here about the family at one point there was a woman and kids being shuffled the ringside and they made a point of showing it.

I figured it was Gravity's family, maybe no, I think that was a, I think that was a dispute over some kind of paternity suit payments that one of the talent was sort of like a Billy Travis thing in Memphis.

The angle here, I'm reading a WrestleZone report.

The angle here with Gravity and Bandito's family was old school wrestling and it was done well.

All right.

Okay.

And then

apparently, to main event,

got my notes here.

Apparently, to main event zero hour, and it was aptly named, except it was apparently an hour and a half,

the male models that were run out of the WWE, massage or minaj and mansway

or massage and minaj or whatever their names is.

And apparently now poor Johnny, Johnny Nitro, John Morrison, John, whatever his last name is at this point is somehow affiliated with these Cretans.

And they lost to Pockets, Mark Briscoe, and the Costco guy.

I watched that match.

And that, well,

what

is he, is the Costco guy over on the

West Coast like he is on the East Coast or did they get it or what happened?

You know, they react just fine to him.

He throws good punches.

The biggest reaction was for Big Justice when he got in the ring at the end.

People like him.

He's

the larger pudgy kid rather than the smaller pudgy kid, right?

Whose name is the Twizzler?

The Rizzler, and he was at Ringside.

He came out dressed like Orange Cassidy.

So he was kind of a mini Orange Cassidy for the match.

Oh, he already fucking outweighs Orange Cassidy, and he's fucking five.

Johnny TV,

there were some weird, not weird, but you know, you've seen people make out on wrestling shows, but this one, they made a point of him and Taya Valkyrie just tongues all over each other's faces.

It was kind of

gross.

I have to say, no,

it's okay.

It's Bets been blessed by a preacher.

They're married.

Right, but no one wants to see it, is my point.

I don't think anyone wants to see it.

Well, no,

it's okay in the eyes of the Lord as long as they're officially betrothed to each other.

They can go ahead and fucking

goddamn all kinds of comma sutra shit out there.

Although no one wants to see it.

My point is, no one wanted to see it.

It was disgusting.

Well, nobody wanted to see any of the rest of this shit, but they had to.

So why can't we watch Johnny fuck Taya?

Because again, you didn't watch this, you wouldn't have wanted to see it.

It was gross.

It was gross.

And that was, hey, I'll tell you what.

If Taya's involved, I always want to see it.

Really?

Anyway,

we finally got to the point where I joined the festivities.

AEW Revolution on pay-per-view and on what are they on now?

They're on Amazon.

If they're on Amazon Prime, does that mean that

every time one of those screwy little trucks or now people just in their normal civilian motor cars pull up in your house, they're going to hand you a box with when you open it up, there's a goddamn tape of the fucking show?

No, it just means you go to the website and you purchase the pay-per-view and stream it.

Yeah,

I can stream shit off my deck that I would rather watch.

Anyway,

they were in Los Angeles, the city of the angels.

It seemed like they had a decent crowd for them these days.

You might want to, they didn't say how many was there, at least not that I heard.

They didn't have any big graphic like the other guys do when they have big crowds.

So

it seemed like it might be something for them to brag over, but did you hear any bragging about it?

According to WrestleTicks, and this was yesterday as of 4 p.m eastern time i believe they had 11 322 tickets distributed only 423 tickets available and i have to say it looked great the house looked really really good it was the best

it was the best looking crowd from aew we've seen in a very long time over a year

or since when was greensboro when they did the big house that was like a year ago right wasn't that like last march that was last march beware the tides of March.

But

okay, 11,300, even if those are distributed, they're not all paid.

And they have set up for a little under, they could have said, we have 12,000 people sold out graphic drone shots.

The other guys are.

They finally do it.

If they said anything, I didn't hear it.

And they started the show off.

And thank God for this.

MJF is the smartest smartest man in wrestling

because he always,

I think he goes to, well, I was about to say, I think he goes to production meeting.

They don't have him.

I think he hides behind equipment cases and listens to what stupid shit

is going to be done in the course of a show and either goes on first, second, or maybe sometimes third to get the fuck out of there and not to get any on him and to still have a crowd that will

watch normal, logical, common sense wrestling and react to it instead of having seen 47 different

attempted mayhems and vehicular homicides.

And in this one, he went on further.

If I would have MJF, I would have asked to be on a pre-show on this one.

Him and hangnail page.

But can you deny, Brian Lass, that it's awfully odd that whenever MJF was going to have a classic match with somebody like Punk or Danielson

and they it and they weren't going to literally try to behead and disembowel people on the undercard, he went on last because that was the money match.

But now that they've taken their company into the outlaw mud show gutter and

negated much of MJF's appeal with their shoddy booking, he gets on first or second and gets the fuck out of there after having what makes a match that makes more sense than anything else you're going to see on the show.

Am I lying?

I don't know if you're lying, but I think he's always gone on early in the show with a few exceptions like the punk thing, but

him and Darby, that opened the show, that match I loved a few years ago.

Yeah, but what else was on that fucking show?

Why he wanted to get it over with?

Yeah, I mean, they always had nonsense, but even if there was no garbage on the show, I still think it's probably a smart move.

And in terms of AEW,

I think mjf again when he's not in the title match picture or in a big feud

he's kind of like the perfect guy to start out with because he does good stuff and he does enough and nothing goes too far and it ends up being a great match

now i don't know about adam page's haircut you know i feel like i feel like mjf got saddled with cody coming out with that tattoo He got saddled with like he won the title and then Punk beat up the Bucs.

And now he got saddled.

He has to wrestle Adam of page he comes out with a it wasn't a perm but it was a very pretty little haircut it i don't

i couldn't even come up with a cogent simile

on what that haircut was about but

here's the thing and so it's it's page and hangnail and

again mjf is the best in the company probably at putting smart matches together

where shit gets a reaction and it makes sense from

in the context of what you're looking at.

And MJF is also the smartest guy at working like a heel so you understand who the heel is and giving the baby face by proxy or process of elimination or whatever a little more oomph himself because the people are wanting him to foil the heel spots or to give the heel a taste of his own medicine, whatever.

So you got that going for you.

Hangnail, as we know, is a blood drinker.

or was he the drinky or the drinker who drank who there him and swerve they're blood brothers he drank swerve's blood and i thought about that when he spit in mjf's face i'm like oh anything with this guy and bodily fluids is kind of disgusting well but the point being they probably come from opposite ends of the spectrum and i was worried that MJF would be trying to do too much of this moron's kaka to placate him.

But then when I saw the finish and I realized why it was mostly seemed like an MJF match for most of it,

I don't know about that powerbomb on the knee

because in this case, he powerbombed Paige's back on his knee, but Paige's head went down on the mat and his legs jackknifed up over the top of it.

I'm not worried about Paige.

I'm just hoping that MJF doesn't do it to anybody else.

That would be a hard sell for me anyway,

because you're not

going across

something that you can absorb with the brunt of your upper back.

You're going

like getting powerbombed on a balance beam, and there's too much margin for error where you could go sideways, or in this case, over the top or whatever.

And I

paige

at one point fired up after MJF hit the ropes and ran and hit Paige in the face with his dick.

So that was an interesting spot.

I love MJF's Hammerlock DDT.

That thing ought to be a fucking finish.

It looks better than most people's shit, anything else that anybody does.

So, of course, it's a two count.

And,

you know, they went back and forth.

And this, again,

this was an okay MJF match and a really good, maybe the best ever Adam Page match because

they mostly made sense.

They went back and forth on false finishes where Paige is trying to get the buck shot.

He hit it one time, or the, yes, the buck shot or buck snort or whatever.

He hit it one time.

MJF got his foot on the ropes.

He kept going for it, but MJF would stagger or roll away.

And then finally, MJF foiled it into an arm bar and held it for a while.

And then they were on the floor for a while.

And then

for no apparent reason,

they're fighting on the floor, but Paige turns around and gets up on the rail.

Like he's going to moonsault the guy off the railing around the ring.

While he got standing on the floor,

it just seemed odd that he would, I'm going to do a backflip now, except

that MJF caught him because that was the next spot.

And he gave him a tombstone pile driver on the folding chair that was sitting at ringside and that was different and it looked great and it bent the chair

and the doctor's checking paige and

and then paige rolls back in and this was gonna start what would be an epidemic of the night of shit that

looked okay in some cases and definitely looked dangerous in all cases and would kill any normal human being

in all cases.

And then they just jump back up and do more shit.

Yeah, Paige was on the floor until like eight and a half dead.

And then all of a sudden at eight and a half, he woke up and then at nine, he jumped in.

Yes.

And then there is MJF is crying.

And why you and not me?

I was asking the same thing.

You know, why am I having to watch this?

No,

that's the the thing where, yes, I understand he's he's working the deal where he's mad and offended that the fans started cheering for him.

I would be too cheering for this putz instead of me.

But he just tombstone pile drove the fucking guy on a goddamn folding chair that's sitting on a concrete floor, and a guy beats the count.

And now

they continue the match.

And Paige picks him up and gives him a deade

and then a facebuster.

And it hits him with the buckshot.

One, two, three.

And it was a, what the fuck?

He just tombstoned him on a chair on the floor.

And the next three moves that happened,

Paige just got up and fucking beat him.

And I,

but I'll tell you, it was 20 minutes, but it didn't seem nearly as long as the rest of these things would, because some of them were longer also.

But I couldn't understand the finish.

Why?

I mean, obviously they said, okay, MJF,

everybody else has tried to get this sorry sack of shit over.

It's your turn.

Do a job for him.

However, he was,

you know, instructed, required, or contractually obligated to put this fucking prick over.

But how the fuck would did MJF think it was a good idea to do a devastating move to him just before he got up and kicked his ass right in the middle, one, two, three?

Or did they make him

do a devastating move to the guy so he could get up and kick his ass one, two, three?

Help me.

I don't know how I'm supposed to help you.

I don't have any answers.

I think the tombstone on the chair looked incredible.

Do you think it's wasted if it's

yes?

Okay.

Either.

Either either was completely wasted.

Because what

either, my God, MJF is the weakest son bitch on the planet.

Paige is indestructible.

Or more probably, all this shit's phony and it nobody doesn't hurt anybody.

And that's the fucking

goddamn attitude that most people get when they see horse shit like this.

And the people who are in the audience, who are the, of AEW, who are the dedicated half a million people or whatever

that are going to fucking watch the TV show or a hundred thousand are gonna buy the pay-per-view here,

they know that some of it hurts, but they're like awestruck that

these fucking phony motherfuckers will goddamn work together to put on a show where they try to break each other's necks for their benefit.

Most people don't think that way.

And hopefully, we're done with MJF and Page.

It seemed like the match ended, and now both guys can move on, and we'll see what they do.

I don't want to see Adam Page and Swerve ever again.

I don't really need to see Adam Page and the Bucks camp again.

I don't know what they're going to do with Adam Page.

What are they going to do with MJF?

I don't know.

I don't know what there is to do with MJF right now.

What is there to do, Brian?

I don't know.

Unless we transition to a sponsor spot or whatever it is that's happening right now.

I don't know what's going on.

Well, Jim, as we take this short break in the action, I think it's been hard to ignore.

MJF

suddenly has a lot more facial hair, a mustache, to go with his beard and his chin.

And of course, Adam Page always has something going on, and now he has a girly haircut, but let's talk really about the facial hair.

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You need the right support to make sure that you make all the right decisions when you take that razor to your face.

Help me out, Jim.

We're talking about our friend at Harry's.

You're making me want to take a razor to my throat.

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Don't think it's Harry's, H-A-I-R-Y-S, because that would just be silly because of the pun that would be going on with the situation.

But folks, if you're Harry,

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You wonder why.

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Because they've got, first of all, the

razor, the incredibly ergonomically designed weighted handle that's so easy to hold in your hand with the treaded grips on the handle that make it easy not to drop it and, you know, potentially swallow it and choke yourself, or potentially on the way down, it might slice some element of your dick off or something.

That's only if you're naked in the bathroom, but most people are.

It's one of the rooms in the house where most people are naked.

But never, Brian, are you usually naked in the bathroom, at least from the waist down?

Well, I mean, the showers in the bathroom.

Polls show that you're naked a lot of time in the bathroom.

But nevertheless, while you're naked, you got this incredible, ergonomically designed razor handle.

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I need a friend like Harry from Harry.

Well, and Harry ain't going to let you down.

I'll tell you, ever since he's been coming over here to shave me,

every

Tuesday afternoon at 3:30, he comes.

And that's why I mentioned being naked because he's always wanting us to be naked when we go to the bathroom for the shave.

Well, Jim, I could tell you someone who could use Harry.

One more time.

What's that promo code?

JCE.

That's right.

And I could tell you someone who can use Harry's.

That, of course, is Tony Kahn.

And let's go back to his wet dream, AEW Revolution 2025.

Well, now that we've got all that settled, Brian,

the

revolution continued.

And unfortunately, in this case, the revolution was televised.

And we got to see for the women's title, Mercedes Moon versus Momo Wannabe.

And

again, I think this was a situation where they were looking at the lineup and said, Well, we might as well get this over with early.

I mean, seriously, two girls doing too much that they can't do for too long, and nobody really gives a shit about either one of them in the overall scheme of things.

And

right around 18 minutes

into this

exhibition,

Momo came off the turnbuckle and landed bad and hurt her leg.

The announcers were saying ankle.

My suspicion might have might be the knee.

I don't know if you've heard any update,

but Mercedes grabbed her, gave her that shitty finish, and then got some kind of

STF-like choke maneuver, and Momo tapped.

And then I heard on Twitter they carried her out.

So

what, and again,

all this crazy shit that these people do.

And she jumped off, I think, the second turnbuckle and landed on her feet in the ring to do a rolling thing and

just landed wrong.

But did I miss any subtleties in this match as to how it would be the greatest woman's match ever?

Or

was I saving a good amount of time here?

I don't think this was much of a match.

I don't know about the injury or not, but

they either didn't mesh well together or it just wasn't going to happen.

I've never really watched Momo.

If I've seen her before, I don't remember.

Wasn't very impressed with her.

And the fans didn't really seem to impress with any of this.

I mean, it's a, again, it's an AEW crowd where they're quiet a lot.

And you kind of have to try to figure out, are they just paying attention or do they not like this?

And they didn't even really react at the finish or at the end.

So I don't think they liked this very much.

And it wasn't a good match.

I think in a lot of

even in the main events, they sit there and stare unless somebody is chopping, which makes a good loud noise, or

either party gives somebody else a big fucking bump or they do a stunt.

And then they don't care whether the babyface or the heel is winning.

or in charge or whatever.

It's just, ooh, they try to kill each other, which is where they've got themselves with shows like this that

it can't be new it can't be different they've done everything they can do to the human body well we'll get there

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Swerve Strickland with Prince Nana versus Ricochet was next up, Brian.

And

are they ribbon swerve now that

I've seen people get marching bands and string choirs, or not string choirs, but string orchestras

and

choirs and all kinds of rock and roll bands and all kinds of musical accompaniment on their entrance on big shows.

But have you ever seen one unknown drummer play a guy's fucking music to the ring?

Here's a bigger question.

If done right, that works well.

Nothing like a great drummer.

Imagine if they had Gene Krupa there.

Nothing like a great drummer.

Oh, Buddy Rich would like a word.

Oh, yeah.

Well, he'd like a fist too.

He's a tough guy, Buddy Rich.

Did the drums work for the song?

It didn't work.

It didn't go with the song.

So then, like, he's just banging away back there, and you can hear him.

And then the song's going, and it just didn't seem like it worked or meshed well together.

Do when you, when you think, when you think of Swerve's music,

Swerve went on drive, and it's kind of like it's the rappish, it's the urban, it's the hip-hop, it's that.

Do you think of drums?

Exactly.

Keith Moon couldn't play on that track.

John Bonham would have said, are you fucking kidding me?

It's just, it's not the right place for a drummer.

Only Ringo star, I think, could have made that work.

Did they identify the drummer?

Was it even a famous drummer?

I'm not even sure who it was.

I didn't know, I don't know what he just, he just did the drums and then here came Swerve and the guy was drumming the drums while Swerve was swerving.

Missed opportunity to use one of the drums in a match?

No, well, if it's a missed opportunity, it's the only one they missed.

And probably that poor guy said, Fuck you, you're not breaking my fucking drums.

I need this in the park on Sunday afternoons to make my rent.

So, anyway, they rang the bell.

Swerve and ricochet.

What have I said about

guys' worst instincts?

Where when you get one of the gymnasts in with a guy who can work, he'll be calmed down.

And it, you know, Osprey is a classic example.

When you get him with MJF and he can't do all the double foolishness and his shit has to make sense, he's a heck of an athlete and you can apply it to wrestling.

When you get two guys that their whole thing is they want to

out,

you know, outdo each other with the hokey, you know, kung fu movie scenes,

they nailed all their cartwheels and their round offs and their back flips and their leg slaps perfectly.

That's all the shit that they have fun doing.

But what looks like shit

is their their punches, their kicks, any basic wrestling move like a chin lock

and any timing and any sense of the flow of the match rather than getting in the video game moves against each other.

That's what suffers with these guys.

And also the

over-bookingness of Tony thinks, I don't know.

I don't know whether it's them or whether it's Tony or what, but

at this point,

does Nana not look like the biggest prick ever?

Does Swerve not look like he ought to just tell his fucking useless bastard to hit the bricks?

They've made Nana almost ineffectual physically and not even trying most of the time, made him look like a pussy.

But then he bows up and tells Swerve, you better get my rope back.

I've done a lot for you.

What?

You got your ass kicked for him because you would fight back.

And then

even in this match,

Nana tries to pull him off the fucking guy on the floor so he can tell him to get back in the ring and Swerve loses his temper and shoves Nana down.

Well, okay, but then Nana walks off on him

and leaves the guy and stays in the back for the rest of the match until he comes out and tries to fucking steal his robe back.

Like the robe's more important.

It's whether Swerve's getting his fucking head caved in.

And then after Swerve

wins and gets the fucking robe back, he gets on his knees and presents it to Nana like Nana's the king instead of the prince.

This story is so what the fuck?

If friends like that, I don't need enemas.

I actually thought,

and I maybe still think it would have been the better option.

Nana turned on him.

I thought Nana was going to turn and go with Ricochet.

Yeah.

And all three of them were wearing white.

You know, and I've been kind of paying attention to the colors, especially after the Jay Cargill segment, the colors people come out with and the colors people are wearing.

Usually it's white for a babyface, black clothes for a heel.

Everyone was wearing white here.

So it was kind of ambiguous.

And when Nana left, and then when he finally came back, I was like, oh, this is the time for Nana to turn.

And it didn't happen.

And that would have been the best thing for Nana, I think.

Yeah.

It would have given him something to do.

And people would have given a shit.

At the same time, it might have made fucking Ricochet interesting, which ain't going to ever happen.

But anyway,

that was the match is Is that there was a long, awkward struggle on the where they were balancing on the ropes, but then they jumped off without doing anything.

So, I think they lost it.

And

they tried to do a they did a big move on the Spanish announce desk, and that table didn't budge.

I thought it looked like they hit a frying pan

at one point.

Ricochet

did a 450 off the top and landed back first right on top of swerve with every bit of his fucking weight

and then not only got a two count but also what the

what do i tell you about these lunatics spinning around off the top rope and just landing wherever

and then they did the bit with the robe

and

When Nana stole the robe, Ricochet dove out on him and knocked him down and then took the robe back and put it on.

And then Swerve dove out on Ricochet and Ricochet tried to catch him over his shoulders in a fireman's carry for probably a Death Valley driver on the desk or whatever.

But Swerve was going too fast and Ricochet is weaker than Cat's piss.

And he lost him and dropped him on the floor headfirst and then fell on the side of Swerve's face.

And that could have...

could have broken his neck twice in the space of two seconds.

And then

again, Ricochet does a big move and gets a two count.

And Nana grabs the robe and they have a tug of war with the robe with Nana and Ricochet.

And Swerve rolled Ricochet up, but Ricochet kicked him off.

And Swerve stopped short in front of squishing Nana in the turnbuckles.

And then Ricochet came up from behind with the roll-up and pancaked Nana in the corner and rolled Swerve up and Swerve kicked out and then gave him a kick to the head

and then gave him the other kick to the head, second kick to the head, his whatever they call his kick to the head, and covered him and got a two count.

And Jesus cry.

And then

he picked Ricochet up and hit him with some big fucking whoop-to-doo.

Boom, one, two, three.

Jesus, why was that necessary?

They had the momentum.

They had the tug of war with the manager.

They had the manager pancaked.

They had the roll up and the kick out.

And then Swerve kicked him in the head.

Boom, cover one, two, three.

Don't kick him in the head again.

And then pick him up and hit him with something else.

Now you've lost your fucking momentum.

And also.

You've just beat the guy flat when you didn't need to beat him flat because they would have been happy to see him beaten with the little out of the fucking roll up and the pancake and the blah, blah, blah.

They can't stop themselves from doing too much shit.

And it then,

and Ricochet's not smart enough to the wrestling business to realize that instead of being beaten on a fluke where

the swerve kicked out after the pancake of the manager and then kicks him in the head from behind.

And he gets kicked in the head again and then he gets picked up and just beat.

So he's a fucking idiot.

Have I made this point?

Crystal clear.

20 minutes, bell to bell again.

And then Swerve got the robe, and Nana came in the ring, and Swerve knelt down and gave it to Nana, and then they hugged.

Because

I don't know what the fuck.

Anything you'd like to add?

No, not really.

Like I said, I thought it was the time for a Nana turn.

It would have made sense.

It would have made Nana, it would have refreshed Nana.

It would have been good for Ricochet.

I don't think Swerve needs a manager at this point.

But they went in a different direction.

And by the end of the night, they'll go in a new direction with Swerve.

Well, the direction he came by the end of the night was down, plummeting faster than a stone.

But we'll get there because next up

was the intercontinental title match between Brodie King and Okada.

You know how, even sometimes, when you're not really a fan of somebody, but you see them in a situation where you feel bad for them, you're like,

I feel bad for, I feel sorry for this poor fucking guy.

That's the way I felt for Brody King.

Because

I'm sorry.

I said Brody King was the number three guy in the house of Blech.

Malachi ran the thing, but he never got over it.

It was all that more of that spooky movie bullshit, and it was phony.

And people were like, yeah.

And the booking, whether it was Malachi's or Tony's or whoever is a stop and start and here and there, whatever the fuck.

Buddy,

his work is great.

His body's great.

His name is rotten.

And they bury him.

And Brody King is a guy who would be on top in a small territory or basically an indie guy for modern,

you know, consumption that

just wouldn't be a featured guy in a major promotion.

But

Malachi leaves and they repackage Buddy and Brody

as the hounds of hell as a tag team and then bring them in and beat them as a team.

And then they beat them both as singles.

They haven't won a match since they got repackaged.

But Brody King looks like bruiser brody next to this soft lazy bland nothing happening no personality slug okada is either the worst wrestler in the world the laziest wrestler in the world or potentially both

now he can't be the worst that's that's moxley but he's the laziest because moxley works hard to suck

And this guy is sleepwalking through this.

Can you deny what I'm saying, Brian?

That every match that Okada does, he sleepwalks.

He's the only guy I've ever seen that does an elbow fall off the top instead of an elbow drop.

He's klutzy.

He's awkward.

He's slow.

He takes a bump like he's landing on goddamn hot asphalt.

And every once in a while, he'll stand up and throw a drop kick.

Can you deny what I'm saying is true?

I always liked him in Japan years ago, and I can't deny what you're saying.

Sleepwalking.

And

if he's not lazy, and I'm not going to say he is, but he appears lazy in the way he does his things in the ring and on the floor and

wherever else he does stuff.

I have not enjoyed Okada's run in AEW at all, and this was not a match I liked.

Lackadaisical may be even better than lazy.

Yeah, you know what?

That's the term.

Just like, you know,

who cares?

Who gives a shit?

I'm going to get paid either way.

Okada Daisicle.

Okada Daisicle.

I like the cut of your jib.

So

Okada brings a chair in, and of course it's the corpse referee, Rick Knox.

So of course he takes the chair away, dramatically turns his back and pitches it out and keeps his back turned until Okada runs over, grabs a championship belt, hits Brody King in the head with it, throws it out, and then the referee makes it obvious that he wasn't looking on purpose by spinning and counting immediately to count.

The very next move that happens in the match, Brody King, who just got crowned over the head with the title belt, is up and fine

and clotheslines Okada and gives him a head butt.

and splashes him in the corner and runs at him.

And Okada jumps up and dropkicks him

and then picks him up.

Brody King throws a clothesline, which Okada ducks and hits his shitty rain maker,

rain fucking maker.

It's the fucking, it's as dry as the Sahara Desert.

That little shitty clothesline, the only, it depends on how the guy takes a bump as to whether it looks fake or not,

as to how the, whether he takes a decent looking bump, because otherwise otherwise it's the shits.

And the drought maker.

Drought maker.

There you go.

And he hit that boy, you're, you're just, I can't even snap my fingers today.

I'm sober climped.

Thank you, sir.

You're right there today.

The drought maker, one, two, three.

So the belt shot didn't work.

Brody King was fine seconds later, but a shitty clothesline beat him.

And another way of looking at it is the heel fuck didn't work.

So the heel just beat the baby face flat right in the middle of the ring.

One, two, three.

He's got Brody King has no excuse.

Yeah, he just beat me.

The fuck.

At least it was only 12 minutes.

And you brought up there, the hounds of hell, and we haven't seen them win.

And they were repackaged.

I got a video or two.

And then Buddy lost to Okada.

Buddy also got hurt.

So we don't know when we're going to see Buddy again.

If you're going to do anything with Brody King, you probably don't beat him right away.

Again, it's a title match.

I may not want to do a title switch, but why put him in the match?

Why have the match then?

Why put him in the match then?

But we'll see what happens.

I'm not as negative on Brody King as you are.

Not to say this was a good match or anything.

I didn't like this match, but

there's something there.

I think there is something there.

He looks better now that he got a tan with all the tattoos and no tan, he looked like a black and white comic strip.

Anyway, then,

oh, all the titles were on the line, Brian.

This was a big championship night.

We had the tag team title on the line with the outriggers,

Magnum

Turbo and Floyd, Floyd R.

Turbo.

No, it was Magnum Force.

It was

Maggie Mae.

Turbo Floyd.

And was it Truth Magnum?

Truth Magnum.

Truth Martini has already filed a copyright infringement lawsuit.

The Outriggers versus the Hurt Syndicate.

And

to be honest, on a weeknight, this was like my second or third favorite match just because there was no goddamn thumbtacks or barbed wire.

But

I mean, in all honesty, isn't it?

What Okada and Brody King was, was a 12-minute TV match.

And what this was was an eight-minute TV match.

And there's nothing wrong with that because, of everybody all night,

the Hurts Syndicate came out looking less silly and less weak and less ineffectual.

MJF didn't do too badly.

He gave the guy the tombstone on the chair, and

the guy got up and kicked his ass for it.

But obviously, there was no doubt that the title was in jeopardy here.

Sheldon Benjamin and Bobby Lashley would be the best tag team right now in the WWE.

Because think about who are the

okay, the Motor City Machine Guns are the best working tag team in the WWE,

but they have neither one been blessed to be the size of Bobby Lashley or Shelton Benjamin.

And

think about it: the Lucha Faces, the Lucha Heels, the Purely Dreary,

the

Champa and Gargano,

stand Lashley and Benjamin next to any of these people, it would be ridiculous.

These guys could be, if there was any decent tag team competition,

featured in main events because they look legit, they are legit, and they act like stars, and they don't do the stupid things that everybody else on his program does that makes them look weak.

I think Shelton Benjamin had to stooge for some of the foolishness of the Outriggers, who apparently they're,

well, their gimmick is that they're a parody of 80s tag teams, right?

To the point where they've got a VHS style entrance, but on this show, it just looks like they had video trouble.

You can't really tell.

There wasn't a single tag team in the 80s that acted like them or looked like them.

No.

And that was the thing is that Shelton.

had to stooge for some of it during their comeback, but basically they shined them

at the start without the hurts getting their asses really kicked so they gave them a little bit because they have to make it some kind of contest mvp gave them a pep talk and they took over they were physically dominant then the comeback with the stupid faces and the stupid acting and then the hurts took back over and

Shelton kneed both of them and Lashley speared both of them

one, two, three, and eight minutes.

So it was to get the Hurts Syndicate over, but I just don't know why even a match like that has to have silliness involved.

But nevertheless, there we are.

But who, right now, in tag team wrestling,

who would be a good, legitimate match, entertaining match,

physical match for Shelton Benjamin and Bobby Lashley?

FTR.

I forgot about this.

The problem is, it'll be a really good match.

You just hope FTR don't get on the mics.

And something has to be done different.

It's just they've gotten to a bland point where as soon as they come out with that music, it

doesn't have the energy it had a few years ago.

So I think it would be a good match or a series of matches, but for it to be a feud,

you'd have to find a way to really do something there.

Well, and then

who could be the babyfaces?

Yeah, that's the problem.

Well, that's the problem is that Shelton and Bobby would be the babyfaces because people would be cheering for them to beat the shit out of FTR because the way FTR has been handled or handled themselves.

You know, it's terrible when you mishandle yourself.

Yourself seems to be the person that would most know how to handle you.

I didn't think this match was very good, but if you were going to do it, it should have been a squash or something.

You know, the Outrunners have gotten the ironic pops.

Yeah.

And, and, you know, they've been on collision, I guess, featured more than anywhere else, but

they took that.

Watching Shelton having to sell for them, it wasn't even about look at Shelton Shaper, you know, who he is and how tough he is.

It just didn't look good.

It just didn't look right.

And at one point, Shelton went for the knee to the guy in the turnbuckle and the guy moved and Shelton kneed the turnbuckle and he did the thigh slap on his knee hitting the turnbuckle.

I missed that one.

I missed that one.

So they got to do something different with the hurt business.

And this should have been a squash because it wouldn't have hurt the outrunners.

That's the other thing.

And it hurts them if you see them in a match and they don't look good and it doesn't look like they're ready for national TV.

It doesn't hurt them if the baddest motherfuckers in the company kill them.

That won't hurt them the next time they come out on collision.

But

one and done, I guess.

Well, thankfully for that.

All righty.

Now we start getting to the part that made me offended on behalf of all professionals in the wrestling industry.

The rest of the show from here was a quick dive into fucking

inderific heaven, wonderland.

They live to do this kind of shit.

And

the women's title, Falls Count Anywhere, no disqualification, lazy booking, Maria Mae and Tony Storm.

And they have just this angle.

This phony bunch of bullshit between these two girls has just captivated all of the AEW AEW fans.

They have been

over the moon, as they would say, about Maria and Tony.

So, of course,

what do they do?

They decide to let them have the lowest class.

I mean, the insane clown posse should have sponsored this.

This was garbage on a scale of garbage matches that you don't normally see.

It was

at one minute in, Maria May pulled a taser out of a bouquet of flowers.

But Luther grabbed it, fortunately.

Yes, he's still around.

That was Harley Race's old move on dates.

Well, yes, that's right,

especially if the father answered the door.

He's got the flowers.

He's got the taser.

He's ready for it.

Luther grabbed the taser.

She kicked Luther in the nuts and drop kicked him.

And he took a bump and went over a table, table, but it was on the stage.

So when she was trying to run for the dropkick, she slipped and got it off anyway and landed on her fucking head.

And then

Tony Storm power bombed Maria May off the stage through a table

in the first minute and a half and got a two count.

And I wasn't going to watch this because I said, all right, this is going to be ridiculous or embarrassing or both.

And then I realized

I need to see which it is and how much of each.

And

it went off the charts.

It set records.

They did the long fight on the floor.

Maria Powell drove Tony Storm on the steel stairs.

And then...

Tony got color and she's a bloody mess.

And they had two chairs and a logging chain in the ring.

But then

they stopped the match completely so that both of them could go out and get two buckets of broken glass that were underneath the ring and put them in the ring.

And then sit there and watch each other in opposite corners of the ring wrapping tape around their fists outside in.

so that the sticky part is out so they can dip their fists in the broken glass and start having a fake boxing match

where they duck each other's punches until, oh boy, Tony Storm hits Maria with one of them and she takes a bump and rolls out.

And of course, the analysis say, well, Tony Storm hit her right in the mouth.

So when the camera stays off of her for a year or two while she gets her color on the floor, then Maria rolls back in and she got hit in the mouth and it busted the top of her head open.

And then Tony Storm dumped the buckets of glass all over the ring and

raked a broken

fucking bottleneck over Maria's head.

But fortunately,

Maria saved herself from further injury by breaking a bottle over Tony Storm's pussy.

Have those words ever been spoken before, Brian?

Breaking a bottle over Tony Storm's pussy.

Maybe a cafe flesh.

I'm not sure, but I've never heard those terms on a wrestling show.

No.

So they're taking bumps in the glass.

They're both covered in blood now.

And it wasn't as exciting as I'm making it sound, but it was as distasteful and low-rent and fake and phony looking.

There was a pile driver on the chair.

Tony Storm got the shoe that was sitting on a silver platter at ringside that Maria had beaten her with the high heel shoe.

So she got the shoe and chased Maria back up to the stage

where she whipped her with the title belt.

But Maria gave Tony a Death Valley driver on the stage and got a two count.

And then there was a lot of milking and nothing happening.

and then tony storm

took off on maria with the shoe hitting her in the head and then gave her a pile driver through a table on the stage

one two three

and jim ross said thank god it's over

and amen to that from cornet yeah why'd they bring jim ross out for this match

because they wanted to embarrass him

and have him have to endure that without saying, This is the phoniest, most embarrassing bullshit that I've ever seen.

A bunch of girls doing this bullshit.

Nothing I have ever seen has ever made wrestling look faker or more low-class than this.

And everybody involved should be ashamed of themselves

because that's what he was thinking, I'm sure.

But thank God it's over, sort of encapsulated that.

This was,

it's embarrassing in a way.

It's

in a way, I can't feel bad for any of these people because they're willingly involved in it.

I feel bad for some of the, some of the other people on the show that have to be on the same show as this kind of shit.

But this is why that a lot of people

don't watch wrestling anymore.

It's fake.

And wrestling used to be, they used to do good, bad taste and good taste.

Now it's just fake and in bad taste.

And it's silly and it's stupid.

And anybody that,

I mean, I can't believe there's as many people as this in Los Angeles, 11,000 of them that like this kind of thing.

And there's 10 million people in Los Angeles.

But goddamn.

Even if you want to see women fighting in barbed wire and

whatever the and bleeding all over themselves it's fake and it's an insult to the wrestling business

and i repeat

if they can go through all this

and they're not in intensive care then why do the guys have anything to worry about and what angle can you possibly do to the human body to make anybody care about anything ever again

tell me what you think brian

this was a match that it seemed like it divided a lot of the people that watched the show and i kind of had that myself

there were elements that i enjoyed for the wrong reasons

which may be a trend for me with some of the things on this show

because it was ridiculous like i imagined i would sit here with friends if i asked anyone to come over for an aew pay-per-view if you had any friends and laugh about what we were seeing i wouldn't sit there really into a match i'd be laughing about, you know, how ridiculous it was.

Maybe I'm in the minority.

I don't know.

I don't like

watching, I don't like seeing the women bleed.

And this was maybe the most amount of blood I've ever seen in a women's match.

And Toni Storm is as white as they get, and her whole face was covered in blood.

Oh, she's translucent.

So, again, the spectacle of it, and I think a lot of this is the whole ironic wrestling fan, the people who like Orange Cassidy, the people that were getting behind the Outrunners.

They maybe more than anyone else have gotten into the Tony Storm shtick.

And Mariah Mae, Mariah Mae does a good job with everything they give her.

But this was a spectacle that

I didn't really like, but I got a kick out of it at parts.

But I thought it was too much blood.

For me, I don't want to see women's matches, you know, that hit the Muda scale.

That doesn't do it for me.

And

more offensive to me is your first point:

in that

days gone by, depending on how the people watched the matches, whether it was having to go live or then television came into being and then pay-per-view.

If people went live together or watched TV or pay-per-view or what the big show together,

they watched the matches to get excited and to see, oh, shit,

and and to see their guy fucking win.

Now it's a bunch of jackoffs sitting around watching it to laugh at it.

And these

idiots that are involved

in the business now

are

willingly

trying to cripple themselves.

to do something that they know their audience is getting together to laugh at.

I mean, sure, people,

people laughed at me when they thought someone had killed me because they wanted to see me dead.

They went crazy over the fucking matches because

we created an emotion in them where they desperately wanted to see their hero win and defeat us at all cost.

And that was the emotional roller coaster they went on until finally they got what they came for.

Yes, but nobody ever came just to fucking laugh at the silliness and the fakiness of it.

And if they had, I think I would have been too embarrassed to be doing it.

And we were

legitimately doing everything we could not to really fucking paralyze each other.

But these morons

are doing almost everything they can to end up in intensive care for people to fucking laugh at the silliness of it all.

I cannot, I'm offended as a professional.

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Anyway, would you like to move on?

It's only up from here.

Maybe.

Oh, no, they're still.

How low can you go?

We got the Intercontinental title on the line with our boy Take a Shit and his manager, Don Fallus, going up against Kenny.

It's Kenny.

Kenny's back.

And I wrote at the bell, I really don't want to see any more of this show after the last match.

Maybe these two young,

well,

one young and one middle-aged whipper snappers will get me into this.

And they started by trading forearms.

And then they did a long exchange on the floor.

It's the same shit.

It's like if you wrote, if you write bullet points, which I do, it's the same

They traded fake forearms.

They have a long exchange on the floor.

If all they do is imitate shit, why can't they imitate a match from the 80s or 90s instead of some of this fake bullshit we get these days?

And then take

got heat on Kenny, but it's.

There's no incredible turning point of momentum where the heel cheats to gain an advantage and then gets aggressively on the fucking opponent, taking advantage of his opportunity while it's available to him.

It's just his turn to be in charge.

It's not like either one of these guys are working, babyface or heel.

They do the same kind of moves and they do the same kind of things, but at least Take has a manager.

So at one point, he interfered when Kenny was on the floor and punched him a few times and then

killed the heat by turning around and hurting his hand on the punch and selling the hand for the camera and mugging.

Yes, that is a manager spot.

You don't do it during your guy's heat that he's trying to get.

And it's the same, again, description that I give the other match earlier or gave the other match earlier, fake strikes and rotten basics in between moves that nobody could ever kick out of.

And they just take turns with it.

And it was seven minutes in.

Take a shit, pulled out a table, and took a while to set it up, but they avoided it for a while.

They came back to it later.

Meanwhile, it was just sitting there at ringside in the way, and nobody ever bothered to take it down.

I mean, they're doing Roland Fireman's carries on the floor, and

Kenny took a bump on the railing.

But at this point, we were nine matches and almost four hours in,

counting the pre-show, and the crowd is

and they grab a long hold.

And then they kick it up after a while.

Kenny goes for a dive, but Don grabs his foot.

At least, again, the manager interfering, even though he's doing commentary and he gets up from the announce desk to do the interfering.

So you kind of see it coming.

And take clotheslines Kenny over the top and gives him a German on the floor.

And they milk a spot with the table, but Kenny comes out of the thing and Kenny turns the table over and the fans start booing him.

The babyface, they're booing him because

they think he's going to take their furniture spot away.

That's where these idiots, the position they have put themselves in,

where it doesn't matter whether you're one of the biggest babyfaces in a company or one of the biggest heels.

If you do a spot with furniture, they're going to cheer you.

And if they think you're going to take it away from them, they're going to boo you because they don't care about you.

Yes, I'm talking about you, not the cult of Cornell, not the listeners out there.

I'm talking about the AEW roster, many of whom are listeners.

You,

you dumb shits,

you have all caused this

because you think that you are characters in a video game or you are doing some kind of live-action underground movie in one take.

I got news for you.

Tarantino ain't gonna pick you up.

But you've created a situation for yourselves where you've made your jobs ridiculously harder than they already were because you can't fucking control yourselves.

You do too much, and you do too much shit that looks phony, and you do too much shit that doesn't make sense.

And that's why nobody cares about you.

And they just want to see the next stunt.

And if you botch the stunt and looks bad, they'll say you fucked up.

But if you botch the stunt and it looks dangerous because it breaks your fucking leg,

they'll go, holy shit,

and your fucking broken leg won't feel any better, you blithering simpletons.

So then,

with the table upside down, Brian, and the legs sticking up.

Now, bear in mind, Harley raced, it took so many table bumps.

He finally took the bad one and it perforated his intestine and led to the end of his career, and he had to have surgery.

But with the legs sticking up, take a shit goes to give Kenny a gourd buster onto the legs.

Well, he tried for the legs and kind of missed, so he just dropped him on the table flat.

So then he turned the table up sideways and dropped him ribs first on the edge of the table.

But in between stunts, the pace was glacial

as they were trading forearms like they were almost dead and then going into the running spots where they're hitting the ropes.

And then more moves.

And then Tegashit went up to the top rope and they're fighting on the top rope.

And Tegashit

stood on a second rope, bent over, holding on to the top turnbuckle, staying stock still for 10 seconds until Kenny could jump up on the top and powerbomb him off of it.

And I wrote, this will not end,

just like this review.

And then Tegashit did a tombstone on him, but held on and stood up and gave him a leaping tombstone.

and got a two count.

And then he hit him with a knee lift and got a two count.

And then he hit him with another knee lift and he got a one count.

And I got to say, for the people in the building, they loved this phony horseshit.

And they went back and forth again until Kenny hit a shitty pile driver that

he didn't fucking have his goddamn waiter have control of where he was going.

I don't know what the fuck.

They just grabbed him by the back end of the tights and hoped for the best.

I don't know what was going on there.

Two count.

And then more.

And then Kenny went for a roll-up.

But Don was holding Take's hand.

So Kenny kicked Don's hand off and went for the one-winged fairy.

But Take slipped out of that and they jockeyed for position

back and forth until Kenny rolled Take up with a crucifix and got a two count and then

rolled through with the same exact thing without even getting to his feet and got a three count.

A roll-up

twice in a row after every

homicidal move known to man

that had negligible effect on these Cretans.

30 fucking minutes,

and he wins this bogus belt with a fucking roll-up that he had to do twice.

Your thoughts.

I'm sorry to tell you, I enjoyed the match.

But again, with AEW, I get to a point where I understand

it's not logical wrestling.

It's every single match.

It's its own unique thing where they could kick out of anything and do everything.

And then the next match will do the same.

I got to a point where I was delirious with this show.

And I started enjoying a lot of things for the wrong reasons.

But I liked this match.

Here's a question for you.

We were told Kenny Omega had diverticulitis surgery.

Where does that happen?

Where would the scar be?

I didn't see a scar.

That's what I was looking for.

Well, that's a good question.

I wonder.

It's the intestines, right?

They would

see the intestines.

Well, but now,

there's two things.

Number one, is this one of the things they can do with a scope these days rather than a long incision?

And number two, is something like that?

Do they go up through your asshole?

I mean, they might have had a more unobstructed path that way with Kenny.

I don't know.

If anyone knows, let us know.

Because I was was thinking that, you know, they were selling his gut.

He was holding his gut the whole time.

We took that spot on the table.

But where's the, if he had surgery, where would the scar be?

Where's the scar?

But you know what?

They're missing an opportunity.

He should wear some kind of midsection brace on a regular basis and maybe have a big red target bullseye printed on it so that the heels would know what to attack.

Well, it seemed like they may have known.

Don Callis is a manager.

The idea that he he goes from commentary to interfering in a comical way, even though you're not supposed to see him as a comical heel manager, what are your thoughts on that?

You know,

I did commentary as people can readily see on YouTube in the TBS studio when the Midnight Express was wrestling job guys.

And I would, because it was 10 or 15 feet, I would wander back and forth between ringside and talking to the announcers and keep a running commentary in some cases trying to make some of those job matches a little bit more palatable on on saturday mornings and getting the issue across but if it was a serious competitive match i didn't do that

i was at ringside and i was there when

when i was needed

And if you're going to have your guys in a main event match where there's a chance they may win or a chance they may lose, it seems like you'd be at ringside devoting your full attention to that.

And

if you're going to interfere, you've, I can understand him doing it once, he did it twice.

You don't get up from a hold on, it's my spot's coming up to interfere,

and then

get back down and just sit down and put a headset on again.

It just, it's comical.

Everything is played for laughs or with a wink at everybody, or a nod, or tongue-in-cheek, as they say, or yuck-yuck.

And it's just all the again these guys they dress up like they're characters in their fan fantasy video games where they are someone

and they go out there and they defy every law of logic and common sense and everything's played for laughs which is why their crowd

gets together to laugh at them

But the damage they're doing to themselves and the wrestling business in general is legitimate.

That's real.

And

if you see the WWE these days

and you'd never seen wrestling before, you're a younger person or you just hadn't ever cared or paid attention, I can see where you would start to get caught up in what the WWE is doing

and or the

the guys, their personalities, what they're saying, the whole thing.

There's movie stars involved.

I can see

where

you would get involved in that as a fan.

And with this stuff, I can see where you would watch it and say, well, that fucking wrestling, it's fake, it's silly, it's phony, it's in bad taste.

And

look at these fucking

ragtag, scraggly-looking fucking wrestlers.

Half of them look like they ought to be in goddamn elementary school.

And it would turn you off from giving anything else a try.

So

I'm sorry.

That's what I thought.

Jim, you know what that means?

It's time for the double main event, or was it a double main event?

Two more big matches on this big, big show.

Yeah,

there were two more, two more big main events.

Okay, I'm going to try to give some unbiased and honest criticism.

And if people don't want to hear it, some people may not want to hear it.

That's their problem.

That's their fault.

I'm just offering it without trying to charge for it or anything.

Will Osprey and old Kyle Felcher.

There are good things about both these guys.

And let's go with Kyle first.

He is physically looking amazing.

I mean, he has probably been doing calisthenics in his sleep since he got this spot.

He's got the size.

He's still so young.

He needs some fucking hair.

And I don't know if the pippy long stocking kind of thing he had

before they shaved it off was the answer, but he needs some kind of hair because he's still a young guy.

And,

you know, he's still finding his personality.

But he's a tremendous athlete and he can do a lot of these moves.

I don't know anything whether he's trainable or coachable.

He seems like a person who's working his ass off.

So it would seem like he is.

I think he's probably being trained and coached by the wrong people.

The promos, the voice, the accent,

if he grows up and gets a little older and gets a little based, his voice and some more conviction.

and just oomph to him.

You know,

have I said enough good things about Kyle?

Is that an honest appraisal, in your opinion?

I think you're giving an honest appraisal here.

You're not just ripping him for no reason or anything.

Yeah.

Will Osprey,

again,

is the top babyface pretty much in a company that's, you know,

consistently appreciated by the people and they don't, they haven't turned on him yet.

He's very athletic.

Same thing.

He doesn't look as good as Kyle physically, but he's very athletic and he looks fine physically.

And he may be getting older in wrestler years, but he still looks like a young guy.

And he's got the

curly hair

and he's got fire and enthusiasm.

And he's a snazzy babyface when he works.

The same thing I said about Ricochet and Swerve when Osprey works with somebody who's a worker.

who's not going to compete with him in the fucking uneven parallel bars,

then Osprey becomes the snazzy young babyface using

these wild, unorthodox moves and escapes and flips backwards to counter that you don't normally see as a part of the match to

outdo the fucking guy who may be bigger or meaner or more powerful.

Then it becomes a story of the thing instead of just flipping about because you can do it.

You're in a video game.

He's one of those guys.

If he's got somebody like that,

then he can use it to his advantage.

And he's got the

unfortunate speaking voice and the accent.

But if, again, if he's trainable and coachable, not in the moves, but in the psychology of wrestling and in promos,

a professional organization, aka the WWE,

would slow him down a little bit to some of the promos where people can under fucking stand him, not have him drone on endlessly about shit that only the most die-hard internet mark even knows what he's talking about, and make it part of his bubbly European personality.

There's all things that could be tweaked,

but they both of them need somebody to fucking book them

because left to their own devices, which had to be what this was,

it was every wrestler, indie wrestler's fucking wet dream

combined with a part of this match that if it was presented in any wrestling territory anywhere in wrestling,

at one point in time, it would have led to a riot, not a riot, a good riot like the fans are mad at the heel, but a bad riot, like we want our fucking money back and this is bullshit and it killed the town.

But now, because

in part, this is the audience we talked about that watches to laugh at bullshit, in part because there's so much of that that people just roll their eyes at it.

You know, people just overlook this type of thing, but the psychology is there for normal folks that they don't get it and they don't want to get it.

This turns people the fuck off.

Now that I've prefaced, I will start explaining in granular detail.

Brian, are you with me?

Maybe not.

I mean, I'm with you in terms of listening to your assessment of them.

Yeah, I mean, are you with me as far as let's break this thing down here?

Well, let me just say, this was one of the most goddamn matches I've ever seen.

You know, we make fun of Owens and Zane for always wanting to do their indie stuff.

This was like

the Ulysses.

This was Owens and Zane if they were 15 years younger and ever either one of them had a good physique.

I'd be amazed.

I mean, it would be amazing if these guys weren't really badly banged up after this because they did a lot of highly physical stuff that could have been the finish and then they kept going.

This was like

this was this was like an event with one match, except there were other matches because they did everything you could ever possibly do in this match.

Yes, yes.

You pretty much seen it.

This was the

over and over.

It just went on and on.

How long was it?

It was, hold on.

I've got the notes here.

I don't know how many pages.

Oh, there's the screwdrivers.

Wait a minute.

Oh, hold on.

It's 30 minutes bell to bell plus the entrances.

And then they

meandered around a little bit.

So let's.

First of all, they said it was Osprey's first cage match.

He's been wrestling 15 years or whatever the fuck.

He's never had a cage cage match.

How I get, well, he never worked for anybody that could afford a cage before.

I said again, I assessed everybody.

I said, did you think my assessment of Osprey was fair, halfway legitimate?

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people think he's the very best, the most spectacular in the world, but I think in terms of fitting into a system beyond just do what you like, your assessment was very fair.

Okay, well,

they they started out

and you could almost say well for the first two minutes they're trying to i guess slow this thing down and pace themselves i said they look like they're pacing themselves for a long match which again for a cage match co-main event should be

but people have seen 11 matches and in four and a half hours so far

But then, boom, suddenly they started opening up and Osprey, by five minutes in, is is bleeding like a stuck hog.

And I wrote, why did they let the girls do it first?

If you're going to have a cage match with this big grudge between one of your top young heels and your top baby face,

and they're going to be bleeding and they're going to be doing all this stuff two matches before you have girls bleeding, no selling pile drivers and rolling around in broken glass.

So

Osprey and Kyle, they worked hard.

Their shit looks good

when they do their

things.

But in between

the chops or the stunts or anything that's a big bump or makes noise,

the crowd was nodding.

Or just, I don't know if they were nodding or just sitting there staring at it, but everything had been done.

And I think I wrote, even I would have liked this a lot better two hours ago because they were at least somewhat athletic and nobody had jumped the shark yet

and then

kyle took one of the turnbuckle pads off

but osprey dropped him face first on it and then boomeranged him into the cage and boy that was nice and then the camera was off kyle

forever while he got his color, which I understand now that they're so shell-shocked by what they've done with Moxley, where he just cuts himself in front of God and everybody.

But there's people that have completed a gallbladder operation in less time than they keep the fucking camera off these guys.

But then they go back and forth with the big moves, and in between, everybody will lay immobile.

And then they exchanged kicks to the head, DLA, where they grab the guy, Brian,

by the back of the head and bend him over, and then rapid fire and very lightly kick at the area of the guy's head and say that they're kicking him in the head.

What do they call that

besides fake?

A punt?

Soccer kick?

No, no, no.

It's it's it's some Japanese guy.

Oh,

did it.

I assume maybe he did it better.

That's why people have stolen it.

Barragon.

It's ridiculous.

They're not, not only are they not kicking with any force and they're doing it quick, quick, quick like that to the guy's forehead while he's bending over, not registering the kicks.

And

if somebody had me by one hand in my hair and was had me bent over at the waist and was kicking me in the head, the first thing I'd think of to do.

maybe try to block that fucking leg

or maybe just sit down and get away from it completely.

But they're just leaning there, and they're not.

Kyle whiffed him,

missed completely.

And then Osprey hit him with a forearm that actually looked good.

That was one for the night.

Looked like it was knocked his dick stiff.

But then they either, again, they do the big moves where they're so athletic and they do simple shit where it looks so phony.

And then here comes Mark Davis out with a duffel bag, not his ass, not his voluminous bulbous ass, but a separate bag of duffel.

And he pulls bolt cutters out of it and he cuts the lock and gets in the cage in front of multiple referees.

And this is what I was talking about earlier.

This is what would have killed a town.

Yes, you've always seen a heel somehow get in a cage or come through the floor of the thing or slam the door behind him and lock it so that the referees can't get in or whatever and do an angle at the end of a match where it's quick and it's chaos and people are trying to stop it.

But

they're saying, oh, it's no disqualification.

So it's because it's a cage match.

So we can't do anything.

That is what people would have said bullshit.

The heat would have, if the referees are standing there watching a guy

cut the lock off the cage, get in the cage, start helping another

If the referees are not trying to do anything about it, then that means that they, by proxy, they approve of it.

And by proxy, that means that the promotion approves of it.

And that's what would have caused people that wanted to see their fucking hero win.

And as we've covered many times on this program, many of them were willing to get in the ring and help.

They're sitting just the average ticket buying fan.

If they watched that, they would say, well, fuck this promotion

they're the my guy is never going to get a break i'm not coming anymore it would have killed a town

you just can't do he

he gets in the ring slides a chair in hands or he didn't get in the ring then

he slid the chair in and handed in the duffel bag and then osprey slammed the door on his head

so he's down at the side more on him in a minute Then Osprey gets out of the duffel bag a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire

and hits Kyle in the stomach and in the back and then starts raking it across his face.

Okay.

You've got a baseball bat.

much less wrapped in barbed wire in a fucking fight with a guy.

How is he going to come back from you just hit him twice?

And why are you raking his fat?

Just hit him in the head.

You've won right there.

No, no, no problem.

But no, Felcher begs off and Osprey milks it

and Kyle puts his old armband on.

The logo of their old tag team, the undisputed king of the eras of

the generation.

I don't know what the fuck they were.

The empirical data.

Kyle puts his old armband on, but Will gives him the finger and swings the bat.

And Kyle hits Will in the balls and Will drops the bat.

And

they go another 11 minutes.

I don't want to spoil anything.

Babyface had the fucking heel.

It's fucked him around,

down, bleeding, and had a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat in his hands.

And it took him another 11 minutes to beat this motherfucker.

What a goddamn feckless pussy they have drawn the picture to make this guy out to be.

So, Kyle then took the armband off, wiped his blood all over it, and stuck it in Osprey's mouth.

And then he picked the bat up and swung it and missed, and Osprey hit the fucking elbow

and another big move and covered him.

And that's where Mark Davis came in the ring and made the save.

And Davis, by the way, now is bleeding too.

So why did they fucking let the girls do that horse shit?

The torture porn segment of the program.

So now all these stupid fuckers

are all bleeding.

They've all had possession of a baseball bat.

None of them can win the fucking fight.

And then what happened to the baseball bat after that, Brian?

Do you remember seeing what happened to the baseball bat?

I believe the referees took it in the back and checked it for cork.

I think, you know, maybe you might be right because

I don't see any other notes of use of the baseball.

So they just decided to start having a fight without the bat now that they've had the bat.

The bat was just a conduit to get the barbed wire in the ring.

You're focusing too much on the bat.

The bat was almost like a barbed wire holder to bring the barbed water.

The bat was the MacGuffin.

That's right.

So

Davis made the save and got the sleeper on Osprey and then just dropped him.

And both heels, Davis and Kyle, went to double team Osprey, but he came out of it and whacked Davis with the chair

and then kicked him out of the cage and closed the door.

But they'd cut the lock off.

So

I guess now we're on the honor system.

And then Osprey hit a Cody cutter on Kyle off the side of the cage and got a two count.

And we continue.

And Osprey wraps barbed wire around his own arm.

And for all you southern boys out there who have had extensive experience with barbed wire, stringing barbed wire, trying to climb over barbed wire, imagine what a stupid son of a bitch you'd have to be to wrap it around your own arm and hit somebody with it.

But he did.

Holy, he had that bat.

See, that would have solved everything.

He wraps the barbed wire around his own arm and he chases Kyle to the top of the cage and they they get set down on the top of the cage, but Kyle has pulled out a screwdriver, a bright fluorescent-colored screwdriver.

And Kyle stabs Osprey in the head with the screwdriver.

And then he gets down and he stabs him in the head with the screwdriver twice more.

And then he gives him a brain buster.

And then he gives him a brain buster on a steel chair.

Cover.

Two count.

What the f

then?

Kyle gets back in the duffel bag, which now resembled like a magician's fucking thing where he's pulling a fucking goddamn battleship out of a hat.

And he dumps out 10,000 thumbtacks in the ring.

More fake kicks to the head in the manner and style in which I described earlier.

And he whiffed those two.

And then Osprey rolled up and gave Kyle a styles clash into the thumbtacks.

Face and chest first,

cover,

two count.

Then they climbed to the top.

And by the way, I'm going through this a lot fucking faster than it happened because it may sound exciting to you, but in between this ridiculous, childish, fucking sideshow geek nonsense that they were perpetrating was a lot of fucking dead time.

And then they climbed back to the top of the cage and fought over the screwdriver.

And

Will stabbed Kyle in the head.

And then

if you told

a top baby face in any company in the history of wrestling,

We're going to have you

hit this guy with a baseball bat a couple times,

hit him with a chair a couple times, stab him in the head with a screwdriver after having been fighting him for over 20 minutes.

And then he's going to take over on you.

They would have thought, what the fuck are you, you son of a bitch?

You would have been.

So then they were up there and they both carefully and in slow motion assisted each other gingerly to stand on top of the cage so that both of them could carefully at the same time on a count of three backflip off of it into a Spanish fly.

And neither one's Spanish and they didn't fly either.

They hit the ground.

But there was no cover

on that man.

And who gives that move to who, the spanish fly the osprey was giving this to kyle wasn't he yeah but okay he took it worse well yeah i mean it's just up both guys but you know theoretically the one that was intended to

but there was no cover because kyle just got up on his knees and screamed in a high-pitched squeal that sounded much like a police body cam video of a domestic disturbance said I hate you, you son of a bitch.

And so Osprey hit him with that elbow that he couldn't get out of the way of because he was too busy screaming at that he hated him.

But then he didn't cover him after he hit him with his elbow finish.

Then he grabbed him and hooked him up and gave him the dreaded tiger driver

into the thumbtacks.

And then he covered him one, two, three.

30

minutes.

and again, the top baby face

got a baseball bat repton barbed wire, hit the guy multiple times, and took him only 11 more minutes to beat the fucking guy.

I think maybe I'm scared of Kyle at this point.

He's the most indestructible man in the world.

This was,

he just keeps on coming.

But it was worse to me than the girls match because the girls match was,

I mean, it exposed wrestling as phony and it was in horrible taste and

no sponsors don't want to be involved in this shit and it drives off all but these you know goofy internet mark fans

but i'm more offended at at these guys as a professional because they could do so much better with any restraint and any control and any guidance and any anybody to sit them down and say, I don't give a fuck

fur you can jump.

You don't know what the fuck you're doing when it comes to putting a goddamn show or a match together.

And I am the booker, and I will tell you to do this, that, and the other thing.

And you fill it in with color in the goddamn manner in which I like, and we'll all get along fine.

Instead, they got a guy that's out there going, oh, gosh, you guys jump so far.

Do anything you want to do.

So I'm offended as a professional.

If I were a painter,

not talking fences and houses, I'm talking art.

And somebody just took a green paint enema and shit a landscape

and tried to sell it to somebody, I would be offended because I was a painter, an artist.

It's my line of work.

If I were a singer,

And somebody recorded a cat being disemboweled and released it as a single and tried to sell it to people, I'd be offended.

And if I were a carpenter and you were a lady,

then I'd be offended if you built a house with no doors and windows in it and tried to sell it to somebody.

It's just an affront to the profession.

that is not anything remotely based on what these fucking dip shits are doing.

And it makes it look phony and it makes it look stupid and it makes it look low rent

and it makes it look, it makes the people in it look like complete goofs.

And it doesn't say a lot for the people sitting there watching this shit.

So I'm offended as a professional.

Are you offended as a talented amateur?

I wouldn't say I'm offended.

The only thing I really had a problem where I would say, I wouldn't even say offended, but I just hate it.

And especially especially the way it was used here, the screwdriver.

You know, it was a throwback to all the other times they use it.

But you see him stab the guy in the head with it.

Why isn't he dead?

Why isn't he impaled?

Anything.

I hate the screwdriver stuff.

I knew this wasn't going to be a classic match.

I knew this wasn't going to build.

I knew this was going to just be balls to the wall.

Let's do everything we can.

Main event be damned.

Let's do every single thing we can.

Well, main event had already been damned.

But they did everything here.

I enjoyed it.

Because, again, I kind of knew it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Not that I expected all the spots, but this kind of matches what I expected.

It's what I expect out of these two.

But you don't have to.

You shouldn't.

You don't have to.

I don't know.

It's better than that.

They have.

I don't know about Osprey's potential for

learning him anything different at this point, but Kyle is young and he could be reformed.

And you could see him in the wwe program climbing the ladder and being one of the best athletes and hopefully finding a personality

so who is there in aew that's going to sit him down and talk to him and tell him stuff he doesn't want to hear it's not going to be nobody who's it's going to be i don't nobody apparently Because they've all either the ones that know have drunk the Kool-Aid and are hanging on to suckle at the teat of the billionaire boy child.

And the ones that don't know any better just do the same shit that they always do with the same people they always do it with.

And if you always do what you always did, then you always get what you always got.

Hey, here's a question for you.

We'll get the answer probably by the end of the week.

All kidding aside, actually serious question.

What do you think Dave Melcher is going to give this match?

How many stars over five will this get?

It had to, you have to get an extra quarter star per stabbing, don't you?

So how many that that that'd be like

seven?

All right.

I'm gonna say this is gonna be between six and seven stars.

I think that's what he'll give it, or it could be the first eight star match.

Who knows?

This is the kind of thing that he loves because the young kids that he aspires to be one day when he's even older than he is now and he's older than me.

Uh,

they love it, so he loves it because he has to love it because they have to love him.

And love is somehow involved, and just

if not love, then definitely somebody's jacking off.

Well, I told you earlier, a lot of AEW fans love this pay-per-view event, although it seemed like the love ended at this point, even though there was more of the pay-per-view to go.

Based on what I've seen, the feedback from the people who really enjoy AEW,

the love fest ended with Osprey versus Fletcher.

Yes, because

they had the two segments of the night that got the most derision

coming up immediately afterwards, one right after the other.

And I felt bad for the first one, for part of it, because

what have we been saying about production meetings?

Apparently they didn't have one for this show, or at least they just,

they went ahead and improvised this next segment.

Tony Schiavone was at ringside.

at the railing with our friend Ash Abelson, who's been on this program and was more eloquent, to say the least here.

Maybe it's because Tony's a rotten interviewer.

But this was

one of the most awkward things I've ever seen.

And I don't know why of some of it.

Because

they're promoting Queen of the Ring.

They had a bunch of their talent at the premiere in Los Angeles.

I'm sure Tony flew them all to L.A.

Should have flown some to Louisville.

We had more fun.

But

they're promoting the movie Queen of the Ring in theaters near you, folks, starring Jim Cornette and others.

And so obviously, this wasn't like a goddamn, oh, hey, look, we didn't know they were here.

Let's just grab this interview and it fell apart.

They had to kind of know, they had to tell Tony, you're going to go over and you're going to interview Ash Abelson and Kelly Berglund and Demaris Lewis.

Give these people some names.

Tony was at Ringside.

There's the three of them standing there,

Ash and the two young ladies.

And Tony says, we're here with Ash Abelson, the director of Queen of the Ring.

And the girls kind of, you know, light up since they're on camera also.

And Tony looks over at him and says, oh, hey, girls, nice to see you here.

And turn back to Ash like they were marks from the front row.

He didn't know who they were or they were not supposed to be in this.

He didn't know their names.

So then

he goes to Ash, and Ash is trying to plug the movie, but clearly he wanted the girls to be able to say something.

And it looked like he maybe tried to save that.

Maybe did Tony forget their names?

He just blanked so he didn't introduce them.

So Ash introduces them.

He knows their names,

but he fumbles the pitch on asking them a question.

And he says, I'll just take it, girls.

And then,

my God,

the first thing, the young young lady,

God,

and then these are actresses now.

Take it, girls.

And then she says the worst thing you can say.

Take it, girls.

Oh, she took it.

All right.

She took it.

Demaris Lewis, who plays Babs Wingo, is one of the three sisters, Babs Wingo, Ethel Johnson, and Marva Scott.

I met,

oh, my gosh, they were three sisters.

They were the pioneer.

African-American lady wrestlers.

I just saw the video with Cosper.

Yes, and I forget which one.

One of their daughters was there.

It was Marva's sister.

I think it was Marva.

It was Marva's daughter.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, Demaris Lewis plays Babs Wingo, but she says,

One thing I've learned about pro wrestlers, y'all know you're going to win before anybody else does.

So thanks for teaching me that.

And Tony Shivati was just frozen.

Also, when Ash said, take it, girls, she had grabbed the microphone.

Tony hadn't let go of it, but she grabbed it and pulled it in so she could go first.

And you know,

you just know that she had rehearsed that and had thought this is such a profound thing to say.

Because in her head, she's thinking,

Y'all are the first ones to, you know, you're going to win before anybody else does.

And you go out and you prove it to them.

She's trying to be inspirational, right?

You're the first ones to know you're going to win.

But what she does is just tell you goddamn diuretic shit all over Kayfabe on a wrestling program.

And the fans on Twitter and everybody else are what?

And she didn't, she was proud of that.

She didn't have any idea what she had done.

And then before the main event, right before the main event, you got on right before the main event, which hey, if she hadn't exposed the business, then the main event would have.

The first thing I learned from the wrestlers is that it's fake.

Thank you.

You know, that's one of the first inside insults I learned when I got into business.

And it was from the boys in the Tennessee territory.

You would go up to a fucking guy and you'd say, I learned to work by watching you wrestle.

And that was a profound fucking insult.

Your shit was so see-through, right?

He had to be there.

But anyway, then young Nell Stewart spoke.

And then when she finished, and she was a bit more pleasant and non

and

controversial.

And then

Tony was ignoring them pretty much as they were talking and then turned to pitch out.

And you could see Ash hold his hand up and he always said one more thing I want to say.

And he just Tony completely pitched out like, get the fuck out of this.

And cut out, it was the most awkward thing on everybody's part.

Ash talked for an hour and a half on this program and didn't fumble anything.

He couldn't make it 20 seconds on this show.

These girls looked like they were interlopers on a live interview that just wandered out of the crowd from the way the announcer treated them.

One of them, when they did get to speak, exposed the business on a fucking wrestling program.

And then

the announcer cut the poor fucking director of the goddamn movie they're plugging off and

just said, fuck it, we're out of here.

And that's the last you saw of any of them.

God damn it.

It was an all-timer of a segment right there.

Nothing went right.

It should have been a layup.

Hey, we got a few actresses in the Director Ringside.

Let's do something nice to promote this movie.

They've all of a sudden been all over the movie and then they go out there and the girl is fucking.

If you'd like to see something similar done with absolutely no conversation or pre-planning ahead of time or a production meeting, go to official Jim Cornette on YouTube and I'll be with some of the same people

going for several minutes without anybody embarrassing themselves.

You have anything you want to say?

Yeah, the first thing I learned is they know who's going to win.

What the fuck?

Oh, what was Ash?

We need to get Ash back on the show now.

Ash, what was that other thing you wanted to say?

Yeah, what was it, Ash?

What were you going to tell Shivani?

Were you going to say you're an idiot?

What were you going to say?

It's going to be the biggest cliffhanger since Baby Doll's Envelope on Dusty.

What did Ash Avelson want to finally figure out to say when you cut him off?

Babs Wingo says wrestling is fake.

And if you can't trust Babs Wingo to be on the level, who can you trust?

Oh, what a segment.

All righty then.

Should we go there?

Well, unfortunately, I think I know where you mean because there's only one place left to go.

So let's go there.

The main event.

The world champion Jon Moxley.

We take his word for it.

We haven't seen this belt in a long time.

Versus Adam the Cope or Adam just Cope.

Copeland.

Adam the Cope Edgeland.

He's a little bit of a Cope.

The legend with the E-D-G-E in it.

The illegible, the illegible legend.

Now, right there.

that's got to be a nickname.

The illegible legend.

And that could be for one of these guys who just scribbles their autographed at fanfests.

You know,

I'll let you do the review, obviously, but this match was horrible.

And I really started to enjoy it.

When I told you I enjoyed things for the wrong reasons, by the end of this match, I was enjoying it for every reason that was wrong because it was so bad.

And every movement Moxley makes around the ring is ridiculous.

Every movement, he like sticks his shoulders back and his chest up, like he goes nowhere.

And then he turns around and walks back to where he came from.

Yes, he turns and it's like one of those goddamn things that when it bumps into something, it changes direction.

But

my question was going to be, this match was awful and the fans didn't like it and AEW's fans didn't like it and AEW's fans are sick of Moxley and the Death Rider stuff.

But how much of it was that and how much of it is nothing should have followed that cage match, let alone the Tony Storm Storm match.

How could you follow that cage match?

Well,

it's a combination of everything.

Because if you look at it,

in fairness to these individuals,

let's look at it from their side before we switch over to the right side.

One guy's 40 years old and facially looks 60, even though he's gotten in better shape physically.

I guess being stretched by all those Home Depot clerks,

you know, got him in shape.

But

one guy's 40 and one guy's in his early 50s, and they're going on the 13th match after,

let's see, the bell rang at three and a half hours into the pay-per-view.

So five hours into the overall presentation here in this arena, and they've seen 12 matches and everything in the world has been done.

So.

Even the best talent under the best of circumstances would have had trouble having these people on the edge of their seats unless they were about to fall off because they had gone to sleep and their legs had gone numb.

But having said that,

on the other side of things, the combined age in this main event is fucking 90-something.

And while Edge has been a

top-level talent, he's in his early 50s and seen his better days.

dick the boozer his work as we've many times mentioned is

rotten

and his matches are never any good because he has this

personality in mind that he just doesn't look like and it's just goofy

and then

The entire issue has been garbage because the Death Riders thing has been the Boer Horseman.

It's bored everybody.

Nobody cares.

It's tanked the ratings.

I mean,

nobody understands it.

He's a raving idiot.

Pack pops in every now and then.

Claudio just does what he's told like a lurch.

And there's old Wheeler

popping up looking like a goddamn store clerk every now and then to get his ass kicked.

It's just nobody cared.

I don't think they would have cared if this is the first thing they'd seen because did I mention

Moxley's matches are garbage?

And then

they ring the bell.

And as the fans are sitting there and staring at them, they traded forearms.

You know how many forearms they traded, Brian?

No.

Do you know how many forearms they traded?

I don't know, no.

74arms.

And sometimes they were the quick ones, and sometimes they were the drawback and throw ones.

And sometimes they sold them, and sometimes they didn't.

And sometimes they looked stiff, and sometimes they were phony as a football bat.

But there were 70 of them, and then one bump.

And I mean, it like you said, I zoned out because this Moxley is spastic,

but the things he does, most of them don't look good.

And the ones that might look good don't make any sense.

And his

psychology, if you can even apply that word,

doesn't count.

And poor Edge is trying to do these

modern type of matches that the indie crowd likes.

And

they did about 20 minutes of that.

And then finally,

well, not finally, but to start telling you how this weirdness unfolded,

Moxley brings in a chair and the referee takes it away.

And Edge rolls Moxley up, but Moxley kicks him off and Edge nails the referee and the referee takes a nice bump to the floor.

Now, of course, haven't we just seen that goddamn

spot?

Who the kickout?

Yeah, the kicked off of the pancaked Nana in the corner.

Three matches ago, right?

Same roll-up kick out,

roll-up, kick out, refgong.

Okay.

What did you think about how physical and verbal Bryce Remsburg all of a sudden was?

Well, they probably told him to be that way.

And that's why he decided to take the opportunity to actually stand up and look like an official.

But, you know, again,

in this company, you can't be a referee and have any integrity whatsoever because they're going to bury you deeper than Long John Silver's pirate treasure every match.

It's just, it's unavoidable.

But anyway, the referee's down.

He's going to be down for about three minutes from being hit from behind and falling through the ropes.

So at that time, both Edge and Dick the Boozer are selling.

Moxley crawls over to Edge next to him, covers his mouth and talks to him for a second, and then gets up and rolls out and gets a couple of chairs.

Yeah, what was that?

I swear to God, that happened.

Yeah.

He crawled over next to him and put his hand up over his mouth like a stage whisperer.

Like,

he didn't even try to hide it.

It was right in front of the camera.

No, he didn't try to hide it by trying to hide it.

He obviously was trying to hide it.

That's how it wasn't hidden.

He needed Harley Cameron and her ventriloquism or her cunning linguism or whatever it may be.

So then he goes out and gets the two chairs and goes to set up a concerto on Edge, but Edge kicks the chair in Moxley's face and they do a double clothesline.

Both of them are down.

The crowd is sitting in enraptured silence.

And here comes Wheeler out to a small smattering of ah, groan type booze, like ah.

And he gets in the ring.

And as they're both standing up, he's milking which one he's going to hit.

And they're obviously standing up next to each other without trying to make any offensive move toward each other so that they can be part of this

decision that we are expected to believe that Wheeler is

anguishingly making.

And then he gives Edge the knee.

And he goes against the briefcase and gives it to Moxley.

But here comes Light Switch Jay White.

And he gets on Wheeler and grabs the case

and swings at Moxley.

But Moxley moves out of the way and White bashes Edge over the head with the briefcase.

And then

Wheeler and Jay White fight off.

So that.

Yes, every great once in a while, I can think of

a a triple threat with Undertaker as the referee with Sean and Brett.

One time, you do the deal where the babyface looks like an imbecile

and hits his own person he's trying to help when the heel ducks, but normally that's a spot that goes the other way around.

The babyface ducks out of the way of the heel.

But since White looks like a goddamn blither and idiot most of the time, anyway, who gives a shit?

So they're gone, and Moxley covers Edge, and the referee rolls in

Two count.

God.

Now Mox is trying to push the referee around, but Edge hits Moxley with a spear.

Two count.

And he hits him with two more spears.

One, two.

The referee is pulled out of the ring by a guy in a hoodie who is revealed to be

Brian.

You did it again, kid.

Christian Cage.

Christian Cage is now

at ringside, and he hit Edge over the head with the metal thing holding the contract, and then signed the contract

and made it a triple threat match, which now the announcers are saying, well, that means it's no DQ now.

What the fuck?

And then

Christian Spears Edge to count,

and then

Christian gives the unprettier.

It used to be, what is it now, the kill switch to Edge.

But as he does that, Moxley jumps back in and grabs the choke on Cage and holds on.

And while Edge is laying there unconscious from the

the Zabada that Christian hit him with,

Moxley chokes Cage and the referee calls for the bell.

But

there was the one spot, though, where Moxley had him in the choke and Christian put his hand.

Oh, I forgot, Cage.

Yes, yes.

And that was.

That was a good spot.

Well, it was a good spot, except when you think about it, he's got this fucking supposed goddamn brutal choke on his guy.

He calmly puts his hand on him.

One, two, kick.

No.

But it was cute.

But nevertheless, he chokes out a guy that wasn't even in the match until 30 seconds ago while Edge is laying there unconscious and then grabs the briefcase and just and leaves.

And the fans are booing.

And again, it's not like the,

did it come off to you like the, oh, the heel is one booing?

Or

we didn't like this bullshit at all booing.

This was a bullshit booing.

And the place came alive when Christian showed up because it was something.

It was something.

After over 20 fucking minutes of this, after all the other shit they'd seen, at least Christian's there.

Okay, is there going to be a title change?

I think that's what they were thinking.

I think they also wanted the Moxley stuff to end.

And the idea is if he loses the title, it's over.

This is the first time we've seen Christian without any backup.

I'm pretty sure Mama Wayne could take Moxley.

They weren't out there to help him for the first time, anything he's done in a long time.

Also,

why cash in there when you go wait like five minutes for them to kick the shit out of each other more and wanted them to win and cash in on one guy and cash in on one guy yeah well i'm not saying this made any sense i was just reporting how it happened officer i'm trying i'm doing the the official arrest report on this thing not trying to litigate it in court

none of it made any sense but it also

pissed the people off

because it what the fuck and

and you're right they were up for that last 45 seconds because they thought something's gonna happen

but they didn't realize something did happen but that wasn't what they wanted to happen

and

yeah 26 minutes of boredom

with a

fuck at the end

i you know

and not even a heel fuck on the baby face but a fucking

a heel fuck on the other heel.

And also Christian cashes in after all this time and makes it 30 seconds and gets choked out.

I mean, what?

Find me something good about this for anybody.

And now, I guess we're going to get more Edge versus Christian, which

I don't know if anyone else wanted them right now.

Has Edge?

Has Edge put over anyone?

I saw this brought up the other day.

Since he returned to wrestling, is there a younger wrestler that he has actually put over?

I mean, he's let Danny Garcia and the likes beat on him for 20 minutes before he beats them.

But no, but in all honesty, you can say that two ways.

Edge has not put over any younger wrestler and Edge hasn't been in the ring yet with anybody that he should have put over.

Huh?

Maybe.

Think about it.

Maybe.

But now if he.

Another case of there you are.

Well, there we are.

We'll get him against Christian.

Again, the

and that's the thing.

That's the way the way they're going because

Edge was flat of his back, didn't know what the fuck was going on, but he'll find out later that Christian cost him

his chance at the title.

He had him, had Moxley covered.

So Christian and Edge have heat with each other again.

Cage has lost his chance at the title as long as Moxley holds it.

And

as Moxley was leaving,

They were careful to keep the camera on him as he went through the crowd and back into one of the breezeways long enough that you knew that there's more shit going to go on.

And then up walks Prince Nana

to confront Moxley in a breezeway.

And suddenly

a dozen security guards appear.

Now, bear in mind, there were

all kinds of goddamn people getting in fights that weren't involved in this match a minute ago.

There wasn't a security guy to be seen, but now

that two guys are

staring at each other in a mean fashion.

There's a dozen of them there.

And right at that point, the camera backs up and you see Swerve in the balcony, and he jumps off the balcony with a double stomp on

who's he, what's he?

Moxley with the 12 security guards as spotters.

Yeah.

And

that's when we went off the air.

So that's what I guess we have to look forward to now: Moxley versus Swerve.

Oh, boy.

Which one will drink the blood and which one will eat the bones?

And then we got Christian versus Edge, the Ontario Sammy versus Kevin.

That will be a combined age of 106

in the new youthful promotion.

You know, like I said before, AEW hardcore fans love this pay-per-view event, and even they got to the point where they were fed up with this main event and the finish.

It's two different things.

They didn't like the match, and then the finish pissed them off it's almost like a slap in the face

some people think tony's just waiting for darby to come back

some people think it'll be something else is he really gonna climb that mountain because i don't know i might be taking an office pool on whether darby comes back or not if he's gonna climb that stupid mountain and here's another goddamn thing with business the way it is right now

Why don't Tony Khan put his big boy pants on, tell Darby, the world adventurer, hey, I got a contract on you and I'm paying you money.

Get off the fucking mountain, come back here, and fucking help me draw some.

The fuck, El Sure, you could have six months off with pay to go climb Mount fucking Everest.

Good God,

we will see what happens.

That was AEW

Revolution,

and

the revolution will continue right after this break.

We are in the future, back where we began.

That was as flat as the pay-per-view.

Hey, right, I would like to, before we go any further now, I know we got the new audio set up.

We got all the equipment, we got the

programs, the applications, the fucking, I don't know what the fuck we're running on these days, but I've got some background noise.

I apologize.

It's the first of the season.

It's still only mid-March, but it's a nice day and they have come to do my fertilization.

They are fertilizing the trees

on the castle grounds and there's a motor running out there.

So if don't freak out, Brian, if you hear some humming or buzzing or whatever, it's there and it's unavoidable.

I need greenery around here.

Because I got to keep the castle looking good because now that i'm a movie star i'm going to be on the the the tour of the movie stars homes people are going to be coming by taking pictures and and it's it's livable

so the the tour of the movie stars homes is me

Well, the last time a fan showed up, you chased them off your property screenwriter.

So I don't know if that's a good idea to promote that.

I didn't say they could come by and stop by and take pictures on the property.

They're going to be going by on the tour.

They're going to to get a bus and they're going to hit that hill.

Just kind of drive it by.

And they'll go up over the hill and they take pictures on the way by.

Click, click, click.

But then that's pretty much the tour because, like I said, a tour of the movie stars' homes were in Louisville.

So they're going to start down at the stop side and they're going to go down to the fire department and let everybody off.

Real quick, what do you think of the idea that Kentucky's all of a sudden making a big push into films?

They're trying to have more productions take place in Kentucky.

That was just something before the legislature.

Yes.

Last week.

And obviously you're giving this movie in Louisville's, I guess, a part of that.

Yeah, well, they're giving incentives all because, you know, see, that's the thing.

They made, you heard Ash Abelson say it was Kismet that I was here.

That's why he decided to make the movie here.

There were a few other minor reasons, but I was here.

And that's why they had the premiere here.

There were a few other minor reasons, but I was here.

And now they're trying to get all kinds of movies to come to Louisville and they're giving incentives and all that stuff because i'm here

i'm taking over

are you open to more film roles in the louisville area

well of course as as long as they require pants only non-gratuitous nudity

well i would i would need i would need to have a a a good run through a time or three first before

doing something like that, but for art, for art's sake, art mooney.

No, I'm not going to moon anybody.

Um,

but nevertheless, but anyway, that's why I got the background noise because the gardener, so that I can look good for the movie stars homes tour.

But if you want to cancel all that noise out, Brian, would you like to just cancel all that noise from the from the gardeners out here today?

You know, I got a way you can do it.

Oh, please tell me.

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Oof.

Well,

I guess we go back to that.

It's a deep subject, as Mama Fournette used to say.

Of course, Jim.

WWE had a wrestler named The Zombie in ECW.

Had a very notable debut against the Sandman.

One of my favorite moments ever on the mic.

And WWE is still there.

And they were there.

What night is day?

What day is today?

I can't even say that.

What night is day?

What night is day?

What day is today?

This is

Tuesday.

Tuesday.

What was last night?

Wow, it was just last night.

It was just last night in Madison Square Garden, the mecca of professional wrestling is what they're now calling it.

But they couldn't say professional wrestling on their

television show without getting a stern look from the chairman a few years ago.

And now they can call Madison Square Garden, its rightful name, the mecca of professional wrestling.

And they were sold out.

They said 20,142.

It was a very small stage

for MSG over the recent years.

So

I would say we're close,

if not there.

And they were 100 miles down the road in Philadelphia on Friday night where they had, what was it, 16, 17,000, whatever the fuck it was.

So they've sold just for two regular television programs at 100 miles, they've sold almost 40,000 tickets.

And the crowd shots were amazing.

On, I mean, I'm not.

Jey Uso opened the show.

They couldn't resist because they wanted to get Arty with those crowd shots.

And I'm not going to argue with them.

But

I mean, the fucking

just the sea of people and the the activity and the signs and the fact that they're into it.

This, again, I know I say it every week, but how could you look at that?

If you've been on

Gilligan's Island for the past five years and you come back and you look at that, you say, my God, when did pro wrestling become the most popular thing in the world?

It looks incredible, doesn't it?

It looks incredible.

Just to see all that.

I think Jey Uso in the hallway, just with the fans around him, looks impressive, even though that's obviously not a big crowd, But everything looks really good.

A lot of this is stuff they never would have done before.

And

yeah, it looks incredible.

The only thing I don't like,

I hate that MSG now, you don't have the classic MSG look because there are seats there, they closed off that area.

But beyond that, it looked great.

Well, then, and the thing is, even with Uso in the hallway or the breezeway, as they say in the industry,

the people that you can't

pay them to do that, and you can't,

they're not good actors, so they

it comes off as fake if you're trying to get them to do that on purpose.

They're just they're liking him and they're liking his shit and they're into it, and they're ah, yeet, yeet, and all that shit.

And that's what makes the atmosphere.

And

again, this is just incredible for

very little all of almost anything content-wise on a lot of these programs that are hours long, but

they want to to see the stars.

And

there was a couple of segments that I thought,

you know, it deserved some discussion.

And the first one was the Cody entrance again, or the Cody promo,

where he had the entrance with the great visuals and the Cody chance.

And his eye still looks.

rotten, but somewhat better than a few days ago.

And he cut the promo.

He got Travis Scott booed.

He got the rock booed.

He got Cena booed.

Cena's not here tonight.

He'll be by the way, John Cena will be in Brussels next week, Belgium.

He can't make New York City, but oh, yeah, I'll drop by Belgium.

What the?

But I guess it's all part of the

Cena retirement tour, right?

But anyway, again,

if he retired, see,

you got to suspectify everything.

It's like with

the thing with DDP, where you always, you got to see the ill intent in somebody or you don't trust anybody.

See,

I'm the trusting one.

I'm the calm one.

I'm the fair one.

Oh, yeah.

The one that tries to see the good in everybody.

And you're the one who just sees the bad in everybody.

And then we meet in the middle and we balance each other out.

I can think of at least two dozen people that I've heard you wish would burst into flames.

But with love.

So, but anyway, this is what with Cody,

this is what I was talking about earlier, the dusty cadence.

And he cut another hell of a promo.

And that's the thing.

When your champion is over as Cody is, and he can talk like Cody does,

that's all he needs to come out and do most of the time.

They see him him and they hear him and this thing that's been done to him.

And he tells them what he's going to do to get even about it.

But he cut a hell of a promo, and it's the dusty cadences there with the ebbs and the flows and the peaks and the valleys.

And at one point,

they got, because it's the garden, and there are some

malcontents there, they got the dueling chance of, let's go, Cena, Cena sucks.

But they're listening to all this stuff and they're reacting to everything.

And finally,

you know, Cody wrapped up with, and he said, John, sit down, you goddamn moron, is basically what people want to tell him.

17 is the number of title wins.

17 is one man's delusion and one man's fantasy, but I get the privilege of beating my hero at his last chance.

But, John, remember, I'm the captain now.

I'm the captain now, baby.

But a great promo, and you want to see this thing.

That's the definition of talking him into the building.

And Cody does it at this point, like you said earlier.

He's this, all of this conflict around him has really fired him up to

cut him and put even more

workshopping into his promos, you think?

And he's gotten to do it now on two different shows, so now it's time for something different.

Cena on Raw next week.

What would you do with him?

How physical would he or should he get?

And how long a promo should he do if he does a promo?

You know, I don't know that they need a lot of physicality coming off of what they just did and this far away from WrestleMania, but I'm pretty sure he's going to think about it now.

Would you rather see John Cena wrestler?

Would you rather hear him talk?

I mean, he is going to have, and that's what Cody referred to, he's going to have an incredibly,

you know, well-crafted and emotional and fucking promo of some description.

They're going to explain his side of things.

And that's what Cena's noted for is his ability to talk.

So it'll be, it'll be interesting how he can,

when he was in OVW, he was a heel.

That was in 2001, and that's the last time he cut heel promos for the public at least.

So

he could do it then like crazy, but now he's a completely different person.

And it'll be interesting to see if his heel promos can hang with Cody's babyface promos.

But I don't know they need to be physical right now because it's kind of in betwixt and between.

You know what I'm saying?

Do you see what I do you smell what I'm cooking, Brian?

I smell what you're cooking.

I hate to use that phrase, but yes, I agree with what you said.

Well, and

do you smell the smell of my farts?

I don't know what else to

say there.

I don't want to just invent catchphrases, then nobody will understand what I'm talking about.

It's just going to be weird seeing Cena come out there.

Like, we've seen him come out

one way for 15 years or so.

Does he come out the same way as a heel?

Now that he's a heel, does everything change and he comes out slowly and angrily?

I mean, how does it's going to be very interesting to see this version of John Cena at this age, how he does this?

Do you think The Rock is going to Brussels?

If any of the other corporate heads will be at ringside, maybe

he wouldn't just go for the Sprouts.

Well, what else did you watch on Raw?

Well, then there was the segment where Michael Cole had the women's champion and challenger

get in the ring together, EO Sky and Bianca Belair.

And

EO was first.

If she is

some type of cog in

the deal to get Bianca and Rhea against each other, or

somehow, as we said earlier, the thing between Bianca and Jaden Naomi, but a short-term chant, Rhea wins the thing back at WrestleMania.

I don't know what's going on here, but

she's shorter than the kids by the entranceway when she's making her entrance.

She's barely taller than the guardrail.

She didn't get that much reaction.

There was a small, short EO chant.

And then when she smiles, she's got a very likable smile.

She holds the belt up.

There was half-hearted, you deserve it for a minute.

She can't cut a promo.

It's a strong accent.

English is a second language.

She's very likable.

I just, I don't understand why she's in the middle of

Bianca and Rhea and Jade.

And

for that matter, Naomi is a cog in the wheel also.

But one of these things does not fit or whatever.

Try to talk me out of this or can you?

Well, I don't mind EO and you've never really been a fan.

However, there have been times where she in the ring has won you over.

And I think one of those times was EO versus Bianca.

I don't even remember what event it was.

It must have been a year ago.

No, she was the one they decided they were going to like in Puerto Rico, wasn't it?

No, that was that her?

Because Zelina Vega had the big thing in Puerto Rico where she was the babyface, didn't she?

Yeah, but that wasn't the one where they just did.

No, it was EO and Bianca that they just tore the house down.

They tore the house down.

I'm pretty sure.

And it seemed like

it seemed like she was indicating towards the end.

Not that this makes this any better for you based on what you want.

It seemed like she was indicating a three-way match at WrestleMania, didn't it?

Well, yeah.

And unfortunately, but that's why I'm saying hopefully there's a cog in the wheel here somewhere where

Naomi either costs Bianca,

Rhea wins a title, or Jade, you know, does something or somebody does something.

But when Bianca came out, she got a little bit of reaction.

And Michael Cole asked the question, well, if Bianca,

if you weren't out here last week, would Rhea Ripley still be the champion?

And she's like, I was just out here to see who my opponent was going to be, and I'm trying to focus on WrestleMania.

Well, Rhea's music plays, and there the people come up.

And it's a whole different level of now we're interested in this thing.

You can tell.

And she started arguing with Bianca.

Are you scared you can't beat me?

You had no reason to be out here.

You need to handle your business with Naomi and Jade.

And then Bianca got mad and said, well, you know, you can't beat EO and you're trying to blame me.

And whoa.

I did like this and I knew it was coming.

And it would have been disappointing if it didn't come.

But I've laid out a couple of things like this in the past on a smaller level.

But when Rhea and Bianca got up face-to-face, nose-nose with each other, and they're arguing over EO,

EO walks up and like she's going to say something to him and Rhea just reaches out and pie faces her and pushes her away.

And Rhea tells,

Bianca, you're hiding behind EO like you hid behind Jaden Naomi.

And EO walks back up again and Bianca pie faces her and starts yelling back at Red.

And finally, EO gets mad and jumps in the middle of them and slaps both of them in a very stagey way and then jumps up and down and has the

they're still acting like all of the Japanese girls are nine years old when they have a temper tantrum.

But at least it was emotional.

And she jumped up and down down and yelled and walked out.

So now we've got another three-way.

But why are they setting up three ways with the women when they're setting up three ways with the men or vice versa?

Is it anything you can do?

I can do better on everything.

But what do you think?

Whose money is your money on?

Here and this.

Well, I'm not a gambler, but I think it'll be a fun match.

I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

Who do I think will win?

Rhea needs to finally get a win over EO.

EO just won the belt, unless you think she's transitional.

So then you're talking about Bianca or Rhea?

You know, Bianca, for someone who's been emotional and acting out at the Elimination Chamber,

acting out like she's a child, but you know, highly emotional in just about everything.

Here, and of course, on SmackDown,

I still don't know if it's crazy to think she may become a heel.

I don't know.

And then, if that was the case until it was a big turn, I would think she would win the belt.

But again, Rhea needs to get a win back, you would think, traditional booking, thinking.

What do you think?

I just think Rhea needs to get the belt back some kind of way, unless the belt is going to be

integral in

Bianca.

And still, again, I think it's Bianca and Jade that we want to see.

Naomi was kind of put in when Jade apparently really got hurt.

So I think that Bianca needs to

step off of Naomi

and we'll get to Jade.

And if they want the title involved in that, I can see what's going on.

Rhea's still over, but otherwise, I think she needs to win it back.

But that's just me.

Well,

unlike SmackDown, Jim, there was a big match here on Raw that I know you probably wanted to see, and it was the main event.

Well, no, there wasn't anything else after the girls that I wanted to make sure that we knew what was going on with them.

And then I've pretty much turned in for the oh, the cage match.

You're talking about the cage match, Brian.

Now

they get, and

that's what I'm saying.

Three ways, three ways.

I never thought in my younger days I'd be so upset about all these three ways.

But it's like a mirror image.

And

this one, the story is there again.

And I think I said that about one recently in the WWE that they had.

The story is there.

And, you know,

you kind of get intrigued with what's going to happen, but we will, I digress.

We're getting to the finish before we've started it.

The best match

that I've seen on

television in I don't know how long.

And this was better than anything on that.

13-match, five-and-a-half-hour extravaganzo pay-per-view that we just saw from AEW.

And better than anything at the elimination chamber, I could go on, but two guys that know what they're doing with a fucking issue, trying to be serious about their business in a sold-out Madison Square Garden,

now you're talking.

I know that everybody can't do this all the time.

Even if they could perform it, everybody shouldn't do a match like this all the time, or this would become commonplace and meaningless.

But when you got, again, two guys that are over, CM Punk and Seth Franklin Rollins,

at a stipulation like a cage, they don't need furniture

and they don't need goddamn flamethrowers and you don't need

special effects and chambers and clocks and lights and horns.

Two guys are working a fucking fight.

It was refreshing to see

a match on a wrestling show that looked like they were trying to have a fight, wasn't it, Brian?

After all this time where we just get used to, they're just going to break out into running the ropes and,

you know, flippy-dooing that they just had a fight?

They had a fight, yes.

I don't know.

That was a weird question to throw at me.

Well, I mean,

isn't it refreshing?

Can you think, when is the last time it looked like they were watching some of that Ric Flair Ronnie Garvin shit that they used to do on TBS, where they just were trying to fucking maul each other's face and straight punch to the fucking nose or whatever?

But

it was more aggression.

But before you review it, do you think the finish took away anything from the match?

No, actually, because I was wondering how they were going to get out of this because

that's why I couldn't believe they were giving it to us.

And I say giving it.

They're getting paid for everything.

They get paid when they take a breath of fucking air in the morning.

But traditionally, this would be a pay-per-view match.

This would be a pay-per-view match.

But now it's

a stepping stone to another pay-per-view match that is even more WrestleMania.

you know, worthy in their eyes, because you throw Roman in and the dynamic with Punk and

Seth and Roman both, and with Punk and Heyman, and

all these different interpersonal relationships.

But it starts with the cage match.

Let me tell you what I liked about it.

And

New York is a punk town.

Seth made his entrance.

You know, he gets a response, but then they already started chanting CM Punk

before the music.

And then,

like Mussolini

in MSG,

and the fans sang the song

and they got with its clobbering time and punks got the game face on and they got the crowd shots again.

The fuck, this is a Bruno fucking level crowd in Madison Square Garden

and it's the main event.

And

they, I thought they were supposed to be uncensored on Netflix.

They bleeped it when Punk called him a motherfucker.

When the screen was black.

Did the screen go black for you a few times during the match?

Yes, they were bleeping fingers also.

That's what I thought.

Yeah, okay.

That's why I wanted to ask you.

Well,

they weren't bleeping.

They were blacking out

finger.

Yeah.

Censoring,

and they were audio muting the motherfucker.

But maybe you can say fuck, but you can't say, you can't fuck your own mother on Netflix.

Is that in the bylaws?

It makes you wonder if this is what they're doing on raw Netflix.

Did they sit down WWE and say, listen, about that Cody Rhodes go fuck yourself moment?

Let's not have that happen again.

Well, but I'm again, it's like

when I was with Sinclair for Ring of Honor,

you could say the word ass, but you couldn't stick something in someone's ass.

See, there's there's delineations of this.

So I'm wondering if, and if you were a motherfucker, it wouldn't be that you're fucking your own mother.

You could be fucking someone else's mother.

You know the old saying, motherfucker I may be, but the mother I fuck belongs to thee.

That was a Bobby Eaton.

So

maybe it's just the combination of fucking and the fact that the woman who's doing the fucking is the mother of someone.

You think?

I have no earthly idea how you ended up with that, but there's definitely some level of censorship going on and middle fingers are a part of it.

Yes, and punk is 4-0 in Madison Square Garden.

That's the rats.

See, that's the way you use statistics to your advantage in wrestling.

And they had built this thing all night, the packages and whatever, and the warm-up.

And finally, here he cut punk comes in the door and the fight starts.

And it was a slobberdocker, a stem winder,

a scrap even.

And the people just started chanting, see him punk.

So they are taking Punk's side in this.

And Seth is a heel, even though he's not really a heel, but

he's not the sympathetic favorite.

And they were working a fight where the stiff slaps and,

you know, punches that stood a better chance of being a potato than normal.

And it was like they sat down and agreed to apologize beforehand and say, you know,

we got to make this look a little bit more legitimate than usual.

And they got exhausted having the fight and got rubber legged, did a yay boo with aggression.

And they had the body language going it, going, going it, going with it.

And then Seth, for the first break spot, Seth gave him a buckle bomb into the cage, and it was a momentum changer.

Instead of just, okay, it's your turn now to do some moves.

And you could tell

that they were going with what the people wanted, which was to see Seth be the more

heelish figure because Seth's buckle bomb then allows him to get heat on punk.

And allowing him to get the heat on punk is

because he's still

not trying to fucking

take a sledgehammer and bash the guy's brains in and kill him, but he man to man, he's raking him against the cage, grinding his face,

that kind of heat, where he's not just a despicable coward, but he's mad at this fucking guy and he's going to get, he's on him.

And then he invites Punk to walk out the door because they got the leave the cage rule up there.

And the door is open.

And that insults Punk and he fires up.

and foils another buckle bomb attempt and hits a go to sleep and collapses.

And then Punk gets up and starts getting on fucking Seth and

opens the door and invites him to leave.

And that's where the fingers got censored, Brian, or at least one of the spots.

And then

Punk worked on Seth and gave him the elbow off the top and then a double finger that they missed because it was quick and another elbow.

And then the fans chanted one more time and he got a third elbow drop off the top.

And I mean, again,

you've got guys in this business in various places that are setting fucking furniture stacks up on top of one another and taking bumps off balconies through this shit with the

chairs involved in the middle and risking their lives.

And people are just standing there staring at it.

Or you got a guy

and another guy that are working and have built a situation where the people are chanting over an elbow drop off top rope.

This shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

And he gives them the one more time and cover and one, two kick.

God damn it.

And then Punk said, well, I'll take care of this.

And he goes up to the top of the cage because he's going to come off the top of the, which is a big ass fucking cage, by the way.

But

Seth sees that and he climbs up to the top.

And they sit on the top and they have a fight.

And Seth almost falls off, but he gets the ropes underneath him and grabs Punk's head and superplexes Punk off top rope.

And boom, and cover one, two, and kick.

Ah, and that's what the people chant.

This is awesome.

And then they start fighting on their knees, but they get to the feet and they're trading punches.

Boom, boom.

And again,

sorry you moved, you know.

And then Punk hit another go to sleep.

Cover one, two, big pop on the kickout.

And then Punk went for another one, but Seth rolled into the STF.

And he milked that, but Punk turned it into the Anaconda Vice.

And Seth had to gouge the eyes to break it.

But then he hit the curb stomp.

Oh, my God.

And cover one, two, kick out, big pop and a CM Punk chant.

And the best part about this is, besides the fact they're building this thing and going back and forth,

the selling and the registering and the reaction time and the

timing of in-between the facials, the body language, the pain on the face.

They got something going here.

And then Punk foiled another stomp attempt and hit the go to sleep again.

One, two, kick out.

Huge pop.

And Punk is gobsmacked now.

What the fuck?

And then the fans start singing Seth's whoa,

whoa, or whatever the fuck.

And then Punk curb stomped him and got a two count.

And again, the selling and the facials in between.

And now Punk is by the open door and the announcers again say he could walk out.

But Seth is screaming, if you want this take it from me

so punk rushes him and goes for the gts again and seth slips it and gives punk a gts

and then a curb stomp and cover and they know this is it one two

kick out holy big pop

and then uh

Seth is like, god damn it.

He goes to the open door, but he won't leave.

He gets up and comes off the second rope with a curb stomp.

And boom, and Punk is laid out.

And Seth

is registering what he's just done.

And he's cussing Punk.

And all of a sudden, you hear the crowd erupting,

but they got a close-up on it in the ring.

So you don't.

And all of a sudden, hands grab Seth, and it's Roman Reigns.

He grabs Seth and pulls him backwards out the door and throws him to the ground and the bell rings.

Seth Rollins is the winner.

And then he gives Seth the Superman punch and a spear

and the people start chanting OTC at the top of their lungs, the loudest chant yet.

And Roman gives Seth the curb stomp on the floor.

And he's going to do it on the stairs, but then...

Because remember, he's getting even for what Seth has done to him in the past.

But then Pierce and the officials run out, stop him from giving the stomp on the stairs, and Roman looks up and Haman is in the cage helping Punk up and trying to console Punk.

And I think maybe he was about to give him mouth to mouth.

And Roman sees that and he gets into the cage.

and grabs Punk and runs him into the fucking side of the wire and boom and the other side and hits the ropes and spear.

And Haman is mortified in the corner oh my god his hands almost covering the jowls on his face

and we go off the air

now that was 30 minutes of fucking wrestling television folks

out of brian am i too am i just too easily pleased these days because nothing is ever any good Well, this is good stuff.

And this was very good.

And it was a great match.

And

they had the big angle afterwards.

I guess I'm not as enthused because I'm not looking for another three-way match.

It was the kind of what you started with talking about this review, and that's what this is all about.

Oh, yeah, I don't want a three-way, but I loved how they fucking loved the match and the finish and everything.

Do you think they kicked out of too much stuff?

No, because of the see, it's

again, there's no rule of thumb, and once again, nobody had a baseball bat.

It was

every time that they had a logical reason,

Either one time, boom,

the guy gave the other guy the fucking big move and he's thinking, should I walk out?

No, I don't.

I want to fucking stay here.

And it made sense and it was logical because blah, blah, blah.

Or another time, a guy gives a guy a big move, but he's so worn out that he falls over and he can't capitalize.

Or another time.

He does give him the big move.

And by the time he crawls over there, one, two, and it's a barely a kick or whatever, but it didn't slap you in the face insult your intelligence it looked like

these people were absorbing this and their body language and their level of selling of exhaustion and etc didn't

just wave it under your nose oh this is all bullshit

and when you think about it

You know, a superplex now, you got superplexes where the

guy that just got superplexed

bounces up and to his feet and picks the other guy up and suplexes him.

In this one, a superplex was holy shit and

struggling for a cover and, oh my gosh, just barely.

These moves are,

there's something a human being should be able to endure, one would think, even if their wrestling finishes.

It's not the concerto.

If it was real, it wouldn't be automatic brain damage to suffer the go to sleep, right?

So I can see this because the way they told the story.

There's no rule of thumb, but some things are just preposterous on the face of it.

Neither one of these guys stabbed each other in the head with a screwdriver.

I didn't like

because it took so long when they stayed with the shot on Rollins, even though clearly the fans were popping like someone was coming out.

Yeah.

It lasted for too long.

It took them too long to get to the ring.

Well, because it was all the way from the back rather than from the side, like you just talked about, the short entrance.

Yeah, that's the only.

Well, it did tip you that something was about to happen.

But

at the same point, I think they.

They kind of blocked it out good because he was on the other side of the ring from the announcer.

So they, if legitimately, if the camera was shooting, wasn't shooting it, they couldn't see him coming down the aisle.

So at least they got that part.

But that was another exciting episode of Raw in front of 20,000 people in Madison Square Garden.

Who would have ever thunk it a few years ago?

Indeed, it was.

And that was WWE Raw on Netflix.

And of course,

if you were expecting a three-hour wrestling extravaganza, like the good old days on the USA Network, you may feel ripped off.

You may want to sue.

Well, but if you did,

then the opposing counsel would remind you that you're not watching the commercials.

If you watch it the next day, you can get rid of all of that.

And then it's only two and a half hours because the opposing counsel, in this case, would be the man, the myth, and the legend himself.

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Jim, let's get some questions and we'll have more next week because we won't have a giant pay-per-view review.

Yeah, boy, thank you.

We don't have a pay-per-view for another month now, right?

WrestleMania and then AEW

Roll the Dice, AEW

blackjack.

They already did.

Whatever the pay-per-view is coming up.

Jim, let's get some questions here.

This one was sent to corney drive-through at gmail.com from Mac.

Just wanted your thoughts on Rick Flair saying that John Cena getting his 17th title isn't breaking his record because he claims to have 20-plus world titles.

I've heard it's because some title changes weren't recognized, or the NWA would sometimes just strip Rick of the title and give it back.

Any truth to that?

Thank you, big fan.

Well, I don't remember him stripping him of the title and then just giving it back a bunch, but no, and I don't have the

list, the progression of the title changes in front of me.

And I, you know, back in the...

In the simpler times, when I was a young man,

you could do the dates and the title changes.

You could do,

you know, uh buddy rogers to

lutes to gene kiniske to so on so on and it was easy but

rick legitimately legit the word legitimately depends on

there is an asterisk besides what brian about

five or six of his runs at least

that he would technically top out at 20 something.

There was,

he dropped it to Jack Venino in the Dominican Republic when he thought that if he lost the match or if he won the match, he would be shot by the militia or killed by the rioting fans.

So he dropped the world title to Venino.

And then the guy gave the belt back in the locker room and they went back to the United States.

They did a switch in

Singapore with him and Harley back and forth on a tour one week that wasn't

okayed, or where they just worked it out amongst themselves.

And they were in Singapore, and a lot of people didn't hear about it for quite some time.

And Paul Bosch was on that trip and decided to take photos of it and send them back.

That's how people.

Well, yeah, because you know, Paul was just on vacation, I think, wasn't he?

Just happened to be there.

There was,

oh gosh, what's another one of the

switches that he did?

Well, there was the one of them in japan with baba

was that when harley took

the baba's offering and just switched it for a week or was that briscoe or was it both but did the nwa know about those

i think baba and harley definitely had their deal briscoe maybe the same thing but i'm not sure

i was gonna say what about the other way He brought up stripping Ric Flair of the title.

What about

when like the Midnight Rider won the world title from Ric Flair?

And then, because he wouldn't take off his mask, it was returned to Ric Flair.

And I don't even think those are on the unofficial list.

That was, it was never,

I don't think it was intended, you know, that to ever be that way.

Obviously, it was just the angle to for Dusty to get a win, but not be able to,

you know, take the title so that they could keep it on Flair.

But I think these are other

nebulous title changes that don't even involve that one.

But that's the thing is, you get to, you know, with five or six of those deals where dropped it to avoid a riot or made a deal in a foreign country between himself and the promoter or his opponent for a few days on a week's tour or whatever, you get to 22 or 23, something like that.

So

it's, you know, it's not Rick bragging

and inflating things.

It's just the information he's given.

But the official WWE story has been 16, so that if somebody got 17,

then they would break it.

Yeah, to be fair to Flair, I think Rick may be right technically here.

Yeah, yeah, he's not making anything up.

It's just what.

you recognize as,

and I don't even know if officially sanctioned, you could make a case that maybe a couple of the 16 they recognize might be a little

on a shady side.

But at the same point, he had runs of lengthy periods.

So it's not like that he just had it 16 times for a total of, you know, 142 days or whatever.

He was champion for years and years over that run.

Jim, our next question was sent to CorneyDriveThru at gmail.com from

ZA Garcia.

I'd like to know Jim's thoughts on how today it seems that no babyface would tap out to a submission anymore.

I came to this realization after seeing Tozawa versus Gunther,

and what most thought should have been a squash match turned into a competitive match.

Oh, thank God, Lord.

I'm glad I didn't see it.

I then got to thinking of the most iconic finishes where there was a huge pop on a submission hold, like Triple H tapping out at WrestleMania 20 and WrestleMania 27.

Rey Mysterio on his matches with Kurt Angle.

Randy Orton, I guess he meant in his matches, Randy Orton in his Iron Man match with Cena, just to name a few.

What does it tell you of the state of modern wrestling that as long as you're a babyface, you don't have to tap out, just pass out?

Well, that's the thing.

And

I

have to disagree here because

there is room for baby faces to tap out.

And the one he mentioned, Gunther and Tozawa, that should have been the one.

Because, yes, if you've got a heel that uses some type of submission hold or,

you know, dreaded a Cobra clutch or whatever the fuck.

To get it over, a bunch of the underneath baby faces have to tap out.

And I got no problem with that.

But you've also,

you're two or three,

or maybe as deep as the WWE is now, your top four or five babyfaces, I don't see any need for them to tap out.

Then they pass out because they ain't going to quit, but they're fucked, but they're going to take it like a man.

It's some, you know,

it used to be

something that babyfaces never wanted to do was give up before tapping out was a thing, before MMA and the UFC.

when I quit match, I'll never quit.

I'll never give up.

And whether it was the figure four or the fucking abdominal stretch or whatever the submission hold of the era was, the babyface would never give up.

He would, you know, either pass out or the referee would stop it to avoid permanent damage.

So the guy left with his honor.

He still got to heal over.

It was even more dangerous that he wouldn't let go of these fucking holes, blah, blah, blah.

so yes some baby faces need to tap out for the overall scheme of things but i your top guys i still

i don't i don't see it and

especially in in aew once again when

when they just do it because the heel just grabbed a fucking hold on them without putting them in the position in the first place by doing something below board or on a shady side,

then that just really just makes my butthole quiver.

Would you even say that you're a fan of tapping out?

I mean, obviously, it's something that was incorporated into wrestling after the popularity of UFC and MMA,

but did you prefer before there was a tap out when people would just have to wait for the referee to signal that he heard someone say, I give up?

Well, it was easier to commit Montreal screw jobs back then.

But no,

actually, now that there is,

again, the you couldn't hear the guy saying, I give up in the old days, you unless it was an I quit match with the microphone, but in normal matches, you couldn't hear it.

You had to the guy would nod his head up and down when the referee was asking him, or if he was immobilized and couldn't do that, then you just had to watch for the referee's face to go, okay, ring the bell.

And that, then you knew.

So this is a visual thing that the people can see and know and understand that indicates the guy gives up.

So I think that's an improvement.

I just think that

they've done it too much just because they think it's cooler than wrestling, the business they're in, that everybody's got to, oh, and then I'll make you tap.

You know, well, you may not be fucking hoist gracie, motherfucker.

Just come up with a finish.

Give the guy some kind of fucking bump he can take, and maybe it'll be exciting to cover up for your bland ass.

Not everybody

has the charisma where they can have a stationary finish that everybody will be excited about.

Just think about things like that.

All right, Jim, our next question sent to corny drive-through at gmail.com was sent by John O.

on Long Island.

Oh, John.

Was O Yoko, the song that, well, based on your vocal stylings, I thought you were singing, but let's go to this.

From your history of wrestling knowledge.

Well, no, maybe instead of my knowledge of wrestling being history, maybe it's my history of wrestling knowledge.

Maybe so.

From your history of wrestling knowledge, is there any standard or rule, NWA or otherwise, for how fast the three counts should be?

Smart fans know it's usually as fast as it needs to be,

but shouldn't there have been a rule written down somewhere?

Has a referee ever gotten in trouble, either from a a commission or in an angle, for counting fast or slow?

Well, the one that danced the second question first, the one that comes to mind is when Nick Patrick on that WCW

fiasco

got heat for counting normally when he was supposed to count fast.

Remember with the Hogan and Sting

business?

It's always been three seconds is what people would say.

All it takes is three seconds to hold your shoulders to matter, the count of three.

It insinuates three seconds.

I don't know specifically if there was an

a rule in writing that indicated the exact amount of elapsed time, but I'm sure they probably, you know, for a three count, whatever.

And

the cadence, as the questioner mentioned, a lot of times when it's the big finish and the guy's just hit, got the big pop for the babyface, has hit the crossbody off the top, and the referee goes down to count,

it might be a little quicker than normal because it's emphatic with an exclamation point on it.

One, two, three,

yay.

Whereas, if it's the heel that's about to unseat the babyface and they don't see how he can possibly come back and the heel hits some big thing and covers, the referee might want to be more dramatic.

One,

two,

and a kick out at the last possible moment, whatever.

But

generally, the thought is it's three seconds.

And,

you know, that again,

it was embarrassing.

And I'll tell you that

he was a wonderful fellow, loved him to death.

But Thomas Marlin, when I was a young fan growing up watching television and later on as a photographer, going to the matches, Thomas Marlin was Eddie Marlon's brother, and he was a referee, and he loved to be a babyface.

And

he wanted to be a babyface so much that you can see it in matches where he refereed, even though he almost never went to Memphis.

He went to Memphis when Lawler had a world title match with Harley Race.

So he referee in his red suspenders and bow tie.

But he would count slow when the.

Heel was on top because he didn't want the fans to get mad and he'd count a little faster when it was that kind of stuff.

It

hurts your credibility.

But a lot of times, some referees, you know, want to do that to make sure that

they don't get buried and

they didn't get unpopular.

It doesn't happen anymore because nobody gives a shit.

They hardly even call a referees by name.

But

in the day, sometimes there was heat on some referees for that.

My thing that drives me crazy is the slow 10 count,

where like you see a lot in AEW, where the referee will go one and then like take five steps back and then come up again, two.

It gets the fans to count along slowly, but it takes like two minutes to count to 10.

Well, yeah, well, they can't even do that anymore in AEW because even if they're taking a two-minute 10 count,

if they get the fans to start counting with them, then the fans will know when they should have been counted out because the wrestler still won't get back in the fucking ring.

So they don't even do that anymore.

They just leave the ring and just

and the referee just stands there and just waves his arms because what else can he do?

If

a stern booker gave the referee instruction to count the motherfuckers out,

if they

abuse

a somewhat generous count, which ought to take 20 or 30 seconds tops,

then count them the fuck out and it's their fault.

Then that shit would cease, but it won't until someone does.

Jim, our next question sent via the Culta Cornet Facebook group by Richard Ives.

Saint, is he Saint Richard Ives?

Does Jim have any thoughts or memories on the Raw Bowl from January 1st, 1996?

Oh, good lord.

That was

the Super Bowl.

Was it the Monday before or the Monday after Super Bowl?

And that was right before.

It may have been well before that.

If it was January 1st, that's, I don't think a Super Bowl has ever been that early in January or close to.

Well, no, that was

when it was going to air.

But that was back when they taped like four weeks of

Raw.

in a so what maybe it's just the bowl games because it's new year's right okay i probably point is it probably wasn't live

but i was thinking super bowl but it's just the new year's the bowl games this was before i joined the creative team i can take no blame for this and it was a football oriented deal

where

god damn it what was this was even before shit stain so this was

it was bruce and vince on this thing

um

I can't remember to look up the Raw Bowl and you'll be able to give more details than I could.

I think some of my guys were involved in it.

You're at ringside, apparently, from the photos I'm seeing.

We have Billy and Bart, the Smoking Guns, Owen Hart, and Yokozuna, managed by Mr.

Fuji and James E.

Cornet,

Razor Ramon and Savio Vega.

And finally.

Yeah,

they go together so well because they're the Hispanic contingent.

And finally, the team of

X-Pac and who, I can't tell you.

X-Pac and Sid, it looks like.

Well, the point is, it was like, I think a four-team elimination thing.

Yes, with PediBiase, X-Pac and Psycho Sit, or 1-2-3-Kid and Psycho Sit.

Yes, it was a four-team elimination thing to take off on the football bowl games.

And it was the Raw Bowl, and they had football motifs involved.

They did one one time.

I don't know if it was this one.

Where the guys had to wear team jerseys.

Are they dressed in

uh they're all wearing normal gear football uniforms, it appears.

Oh, the foot, oh, so that was the one, yeah.

Yeah, that was I can't take any responsibility for that.

I wasn't even there on the creative team, that is, I just showed up to work one day and found out I was managing a fucking football bowl game.

All right, well, there was the answer.

We uh hope that satisfied you.

I'm glad it made such an impression on you.

Well, speaking of impressions, Jim, another question from the Cult of Cornet Facebook group was sent in by Armando Morales.

Whatever happened to Landon?

He is not

one of the individuals that was making noise earlier in the program outside my castle here.

No, Landon got fired.

And then I've never seen or spoken to Landon again.

However,

one of the Cult of Cornet members.

did send me an email and said he believed he knew who Landon was and he was a real fucking moron.

And I wrote the guy back and asked if he, if his last name began with the letter whatever.

And I never heard back to see if it could potentially be the same one.

But that's Landon is

he's no longer an occupant of the grounds.

All right, Jim, our next question sent.

What an ending there.

Our next question sent via the Culta Cornette Facebook group was sent by Jay in West Virginia.

I know wrestling at its best is suspension of disbelief, but what is the logic of the crisscross?

Two guys just suddenly start running.

Even as a kid, I thought it was silly.

Help me understand.

Well, when back in the pioneer days, when they went across the the great prairie and the covered wagons,

buddy Rogers is credited with inventing a lot of this stuff.

And I think Buddy, when I go back and look at some of the older footage of a lot of people, he was a great accumulator.

He accumulated shit that he saw and was able to put it together in order and in what came to be known in modern fashion as high spots.

He called it sequencing, where there was different sequences put together building up to a climactic payoff in the ring.

But

the crisscrossing and hitting the ropes and et cetera

has, like everything else does, after a while, when the people in the business and the fans who watch the business,

when the novelty of something wears off and it becomes more commonplace, the people who start performing it

and the people who start watching it alike tend to start taking it for granted and they do

they recognize the motion without understanding the underlying reason behind it.

So,

originally, when this all

the working idea with the ropes and the television era, some of it was even before that, but when it began,

if you ran and hit the ropes and came back at a guy, you were trying to run and get more momentum to really bowl him over with a tackle or some kind of thing.

But, like, in a defensive manner, when you had a headlock on somebody and they threw you into the ropes,

you were off balance.

And the only thing that stopped you from being thrown further was the ropes.

But then, those ropes, because of the spring, you would bounce back in the other direction.

And the guy was waiting on you with a punch.

But then there's the drop down.

Let's say that.

You've got a headlock on the guy, but the guy throws you into the ropes.

But because you've had the headlock on him, he's disoriented and he doesn't realize where he is and he sees you coming back off the ropes at him and he drops down to either evade your charge or to try to trip you

but you see that it just in the nick of time and you jump over him so he doesn't trip you but then you're off balance and you continue running until the ropes stop you

Rogers was an example, the best known, but there were of guys that could do this like they were out of control and it was really happening in real time.

Where you lurched toward the ropes fast and off balance, and when you bounced back, they you could tell by the look and their expression, their body language, they weren't in control of themselves.

When the guy dropped down, oh shit, they almost tripped.

But later on, as this just became done over time, more and more, and by

more unqualified performers, it became: let's see how smooth we can hit the ropes and how

effortless we can make this look and how, you know, we'll just start hitting the ropes and running and dropping down and jumping over each other.

And

it loses an element of the spontaneity that it comes when guys look like they're out of control and they're reacting to the other guy's movement to try to avoid them instead of cooperating with them.

Have you ever heard that explanation before, Brian, or am I just droning on at the mouth?

What you are saying, it makes perfect sense, but I've never heard anyone explain it because I've never heard anyone really ask that question before.

Well, that's what it, it's like everything else.

The

stuff that started out in wrestling looking primitive and like it was done very spontaneously on a spur of the moment.

The guy just had the idea as it's been more polished and a lot of these moves made safer because some of this shit

Back in the old days, these fucking guys, no wonder they were tough.

That shit hurt on those fucking rings and the bumps they were taking.

So as everything was smoothed out and polished up and

etc.,

you know, it

became smoother and more

performative.

So now fans that don't understand, like the guy that asked this question.

Don't understand why are they just hitting the ropes until somebody does something?

That's what it theoretically started out to be.

All right.

Well, Jim, let's go to our next question.

Asked and answered there.

This was sent to corny drive-through at gmail.com from Sue Deep, a listener from Nagpur.

How deep?

Sue Deep, S-U-D-E-E-P,

a listener from Nagpur, India.

Oh, so it's not like first name Sue, last name deep.

I was like balls deep, Sue Deep.

No, it's not like Balls Deep.

It's Sue Deep, one word.

Sue Deep.

One, one word.

So balls deep could be one word.

I don't, did he hyphenate that?

Hello over there in India.

Sue deep.

Let's get to his question.

I was wondering if there's anything that Jim thinks modern wrestling does better

or if it was objectively better in the old days.

So anything you think they do better now?

Oh, God.

Well, I mean,

In modern wrestling, does that encompass every aspect of the promotion and the company?

Production has never been better.

The coverage of the shows and

not only the quality of the video with high def and all that stuff, but just the work that's put into it and the advances that have been made, the production's never looked better.

And there's a

honestly, the guys that are the top orators now

The top very top speakers in the business, they may be the all-time best because they can go out there and do 20 minutes and have people captivated without,

you know, a lot of the great promos from the even the territory days.

After

anybody but Lawler or Bachwickel or some really articulate son of a bitch, after the three minutes of doing their gimmick and cutting their promo, it would have gotten brutal if they were out there for much longer.

So it's sad in a way that the guys that really could talk as themselves spontaneously off the top of their heads with no pre-planned shit,

they were more plentiful in the territory days, but the guys that are at the very top now,

even if they have to plan a little bit, they still have incredible delivery.

And I'm talking the punks and the Drew McIntyres and et cetera.

The guys now are better athletes without being better workers.

They're not, even the guys who are good workers aren't as good a workers as the territory guys were because they don't have the reps, the

sheer number of times the experience against a variety of opponents in different places with different styles, and just

being in the ring over and over in front of people that

and get having anything that could possibly happen happen to you and trying to figure out how to deal with it.

So the guys were better workers,

not only because of the experience, but also because

they had to convince people in them and in their issues, because that's how they got paid.

There was no

guaranteed contracts or whatever.

So that's why the

territory wrestling, I think the guys looked more like they meant it more serious most of the time.

There's always shitty wrestling, especially in some places.

I've mentioned don't try to go back and look at Kansas City's greatest hits.

But the pace was quicker in the territories, guys.

Look at

somebody tweeted

Duggan and

Gordy, I believe it was, in Mid-South with just a fucking no deal.

Maybe it was Duggan and Dr.

Death.

Duggan and DeBiase.

Duggan and Dibiasi.

Well, no, I think mine was Duggan and Dr.

Death, but nevertheless,

they look like they're killing each other and they're fucking hitting each each other.

That physical level of aggression today has slowed down into

pre-planned

choreography to some degree.

Catch me.

Catch me.

So there are more positive things or things that are better and have improved, but the root of the performance of the business is just that's the problem.

It doesn't look like the same thing because it's not, and that's what's not

superior to the old days.

All right, Jim, let's get one or two more and then get the hell out of here.

This is an exciting.

Why do you always say it like that?

I'm going to start thinking you don't like me no more.

I like you.

But, you know, sometimes we hear from the listeners, hey, I emailed my question.

It didn't get on the air.

Why are you ignoring me?

Now, first of all, I want to point out we get thousands of emails.

And of course, we have Twitter and Facebook.

We do our best.

A lot of you also also have to-some of them ain't really exciting now.

Well, some ask questions that have already been asked.

I mean, could Jim talk about managing Yokozuna?

That's a pretty broad question, but there are plenty of videos on that.

Here's an example of one that I'm sure the person will be.

I'm not even going to use their name.

I'm a proud Tiffany fan, having just discovered her last year.

I was born the same year as Jim,

so I was unaware of her in the late 1980s.

In reading up on her career, she was mocked cruelly and incessantly about not writing her hit songs.

She had two number ones and two more top tens.

She was often compared unfavorably to Debbie Gibson, who did write, but didn't have nearly as strong a voice.

In discussing the death of Roberta Flack,

Jim talked about how the performer need not have written the song if they can't interpret it.

I am requesting for Jim to cut a- Now wait, now

I think they even phrased that wrong.

Jim.

I think what the point I was making was if they interpret it properly, they didn't need to write it.

But nevertheless.

I am requesting for Jim to cut a promo as if it was late 1987 and he is Tiffany's manager.

And someone asks him why he doesn't write.

And that, why she doesn't write, excuse me.

And doesn't that detract from her, especially compared to debbie gibson to get a quick idea of just how amazing tiffany is by the way if anybody's wondering why sometimes we don't ask a lot of the viewer questions check out the first 30 seconds or so of her cover of otis redding's classic these arms of mine oh good lord

So someone sent this in.

They really wanted you.

I mean,

I thought, like everybody else in a civilized world, when you opened opened with, I am a Tiffany fan, I thought you meant Tiffany Stratton.

So did I when I started reading it.

And then of course.

But this gentleman who I'm sure owns a stained raincoat

is talking about the maven of the shopping malls, the queen of the home shopping network, Tiffany, who

she

launched her career in the 80s as a teen pop sensation by having her management book her to do concerts and shopping malls for little teeny tiny itty witty bitty girls.

Smart idea.

And it worked.

It was brilliant.

Yeah.

That's where I got the idea to start booking all the top WWF talent at the sports card shows at the mall.

See, from we were following the Tiffany model.

But

so the question is, did this person that asked this question, did he leave the address that we can report to some some state authority?

Or is this one of the overseas fans and we don't need to worry about it?

Well, again, I'm not going to say his name, and I almost hope he's joking with this email, but we get a lot of these.

Like, have Jim cut a promo on this person?

Or can Jim tell us how he would book 1985 World Class?

Like, just all sorts of like

an essay question there.

Like, well, when I got the fan mail, some reprinted in the Midnight Express book, where

the old woman wrote me and said, I used to think that my uncle Dan down on Murray Avenue was the worst human being that ever walked the earth, but you got him beat.

You know, it means something to them.

Well, again, that was an example of some of your viewer mail that we get.

And unfortunately, we can't get to everyone's questions.

But here's our final question here this week, Jim.

Do you want breakfast at Tiffany's?

Yes, I believe I will lick on her leg.

All right.

Well, let's go to this final question here.

This was sent to corny drive-thru at gmail.com

from Kevin in San Jose.

Are those not the words?

I always thought I sing this out loud whenever they do school plays.

What is

Tiffany's?

What is the difference?

What is the difference between a booker and a producer?

I've heard these terms over the years, and they sound exclusive and used interchangeably.

Can you differentiate between the two?

I'm trying to figure out way too clearly and concisely.

And of course, that's shot to hell already.

The Booker would be the person who has determined that Brian and Jim are going to face each other at WrestleMania.

And the Booker has determined that Jim is going to defeat Brian because what other finish could you call?

And the Booker has written the TV show leading up to promote this, where

Jim and Brian are going to have a promo that's going to devolve into a physical angle to set the match up.

That's what the booker has done.

But then the producer,

after the production meeting, the producer either,

if it's a match, it's going to be one of the trusted, you know, old wrestling hands, or if it's an interview, it may be one of the younger whippersnappers.

But the producer is going to sit down with those guys on that TV show where they're going to have that interview and shoot that angle.

And they're going to say, hey, you know, so,

I mean, now they've got writers, so everything's written, but traditionally, the producer would kind of go over it with them again.

Remember, he did this to you and you did that to him.

So you're mad about that.

You're going to talk about that.

You're going to talk about this.

Hey,

he'll tell them where the camera is going to be.

If there's any props going on, he'll produce that individual segment to make sure there's nothing that's forgotten.

Do they need a fucking contract signing table?

And then on the

physical part of it, or if it's a match, the producer would sit down with them and help them work out a match that makes sense and know where

the spots were going to come where the commercial breaks would go.

And then help them work out their finish, knowing that, well, this guy does these couple of moves good and this guy does these things good.

And we could work that together.

And just brainstorm with them and put their presentation together.

And then

either go sit in the truck with the director and the producer, the main producer of the show in the truck, or sit at the gorilla position on IFB so that they can tell the TV truck, hey, coming up here in a minute.

He's going to do the big dive on the left-hand side.

Don't miss it.

That's going to be your break spot.

Or he's reminding them that as soon as they say this line in the interview, so-and-so is going to pull a blackjack out of his pocket and fucking bash the other son of a bitch over the head

to make sure that we don't miss the shots and that everybody understands what's going on in the truck that they're shooting.

That's what the producer does.

Is that

a simpleton's overview of it?

It's a lot more complicated than that.

Do you think booker is even a term that can be applied to anything nowadays in terms of how, I guess, with AEW, there's firmly a booker, but with WWE,

is there a booker or is it more like the Bill Watts, Bill Dundee dynamic, but a lot of Bill Watts?

No, no, no, no, no.

No, well, in the WWE, it's more like

I think they finally got

the writers in line where they know the

kind of flavor of the product and Triple H is getting what he wants, but he doesn't have to put every single goddamn word on paper.

For instance, if Road Dog is the head writer of SmackDown, is he a booker?

No, that's what I'm saying.

There's no booker per se, but there is some level of

booking structure, but there's no individual booker.

Triple H is the overseer of a lot of individuals.

With Tony, yes, he calls himself the booker, but he's in a worse position because he's got a bunch of other people doing shit they want to do.

It's the talent.

It's just that he doesn't have a structure where there's clear control over them.

And even if,

even if you're letting John Cena and Cody Rhodes do mostly what they want in the ring,

you would still have one of your trusted producers, because that's a money match,

sit in and make sure that he knows what they're going to do and that you know what they're going to do before it gets done.

And that doesn't have.

So

in the smaller companies, I'm sure there's bookers still, but

very few in the traditional sense where

the booker was in charge of the wrestlers who was hired and who was fired, the house shows, what the cards were and who went over, and the TVs,

who was featured, who was pushed, and how and who went over.

And there's nobody with that

level of control over those, that many things anymore, probably in this business.

And that's why.

The promoter had to worry about running the business and paying everybody and making a profit.

He had to worry about renting the buildings, getting the TVs and the TV stations,

and the newspaper, and his publicity, and his local promoters all pulling the same rope,

and then sit back.

And his booker

ran the talent, and that was

all you needed.

Now

you need a lot more shit than that.

Well, that was all the shit you're going to get here this week.

With that, the drive-through is closed.

All right, where does this go?

That was almost pacifistic.

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