Ep. 351: TNH 'GM Hulk' (2012) Session 2

TNH rolls on we turned the calendar to twenty twelve. There we're going a jolly old London, England, aren't we, Boss, Oh god, yes, a troop right spot in twenty twelve. For TNA, we've made reference about the course of the journey that they were especially strong on UK television. They had a very strong network they were on and television clearance. They were able to brag they had bigger numbers than w WE okay, because the station

they were on was just available in that many more homes. Of course, no comparison when it comes to the amount of people they could draw bringing the show to said country. But for impact, the UK was always a bright spot. And for the first time in the first quarter February and to be exact or January rather late January of twenty twelve, they bring their television tapings to London. And this is all TNA capital outlay. This isn't Spike TV

paying for this. This is the Impact budget trying to find the money it takes to bring the show on the road. Because I think you'd agree, Boss, bringing the show on the road makes a difference. Uh sure. I mean, if if we're talking in terms of like crowd reaction and whatever. Absolutely and making it seem like the angles are actually clicking and the personalities are over. Yes, I mean it's like maybe they should move to fucking

England, you know. Not the worst idea actually, considering how the real nerve center of the independent wrestling boom came out of Europe just around the time TNA fell from the mainstream wrestling picture and got on much lower tier television clearances here in the United States, it's actually a hell of a thought you had

there. But they did a five thousand, four hundred and four and attendance under January twenty eighth taping, which Meltzer reported was set up for six thousand, five hundred fourteen, So that's a gate of three hundred and fifty three thousand dollars, which is a tremendous gate for TNA. WOW very much embraced so forgetting the dying days of WCW two that they were still doing really good European tours and Australia tours. There were markets where they hadn't caught on to

the fact that WCW totally fucking sucked. In a chat the bed, they didn't necessarily get exposed to the highest heights of WCW storytelling ability in the nWo days, and they were still able to draw really healthy gates going over there with some of the stars that people remembered in particular from you early to mid nineties. WWF. Meltzer wrote, one thing positive you have to say about

TNA as their cruise ability to make a crowd look big. I've been told it was seven thousand, and it was more than believable watching on TV, and it could have passed the way it was shot from being a raw sellout at a major US arena with thirteen thousand anyway, that means they couldn't have sold more than about five thousand tickets when they made the announcement that it was going to be their biggest live attendant in the history the company, when in

reality they were on track to come nowhere close, but five thousand and four or four in the building was the final tally. And of course, as part of promoting this, that's when Hogan does the interview we mentioned where he said he was going to be in a Metallica for the Son of the UK. He's doing British media and another thing he's saying is just just a further help morale, right, he says, after all the times of saying the talent in TNA this is Meltzer is equal to that of we and just need

exposure. He said, the company lacks guys who are the complete package, like a rock and scene of type. Oh my god. Um, he says. There are a lot of guys who can do five star matches and do flips and crazy things, but that's a small part of wrestling, maybe ten percent. They don't have the other ninety percent, Hogan said, which

is talking to the media and doing national TV commercials. He then pointing to Abyss, saying that Abyss, who Hogans hand picked for stardom last year, has the look in the work, but the problem is how he's been used and it's not his fault. It's not. I mean, you're fucking controlling it, dude, you brother, I have no control over so reason you're inferring that I what do you have control? You trying to say on the book or dude, did you who do you? Who are you talking to?

Brother? Exactly see, I didn't think that that was public knowledge. Dude, I don't I don't book. I show up at the building and I try to help out and occasionally put the kai bosh on Bobby rud winning the world title and they may have End of the Biggest Show. I've never put a kbosh or anything, brother, I just simply vote X. You know, shared an opinion. Brother, While you're bringing brook in, Terry? What why are you bringing brook In? Brook Who? Brook Teeney?

Are you talking to my daughter? Brother? Yeah? Why are you bringing her in? Why are you talking to my daughter? Brother said, I'm talking about your daughter? Why are you talking to my daughter? Haven't talked for you? You gay? Is that the only reason I would talk to her? What is that about? Well? How gay are you? Brother? I've already had roommates, dude, I tell you, Terry, I'll

admitted. I went up to her on the beach with my TikTok rolling and I said, kissing me her pass to the next person and double it. Were you doubling? Brother? One to ten? Smash her pass? Are you doubling? Brother? Are we talking like? Waits dude? A you doubling? Wait? Brother? You what do you mentioned? Brother? Right up on Terry and try to do one of those with the road microphone reels. See how that goes for you. Brother, Bro, there's nothing real

about this. That's the problem. The reels is we're gonna hung up. He said. It has the look and the work, but the problem is how he's been used and it's not his fault. He said. Everything is fixable, but you have to recate the guys. He said, the TENA originals are so used to having five star matches and their mindset is so screwed up. They were going to have five star matches ten years from now and never draw any money. Brother. You don't have to have five ten star

matches. Brother. What you gotta have is is character, right, Brother, you can have one five star match. You can have five one star matches. Dude, which which are the two? Do you think? You know? What? What do you? How much you know? Think about like this? Brother? You can have one five star match, Dude, do you have five one star matches? Brother? How much money are you making on that one five star match? How are you making on five one

star matches? Anywhile this guy never had hardly anything above three stars, and he can't fucking walk, okay, he can't move. There were reports kurn Engel said that he had this well as an undertaker, brother, that's true. I mean, come on, so, he said, they'll all they're all second tier players, mid carters, and even if you put them in main events, they still do the same thing. He said he hopes they are still working with Spike a year from now, because Spike understands the product.

Melton knows the teenage contract with Spike expires in the fall. Um. He said he hoped people like aj Styles and Bobby Rude would use their skills outside the ring to make themselves bigger stars, and he said that in a year, TNA will be much more competitive. It's always a year out. You noticed that. I know, I know, there's always it's always another year. All use one more year, dude, And I'm telling you we're gonna be on my We're going back on Frock. So what does your contract

expire? Terry? Remind me, uh, I h one year. And I don't brother, I'm not sure exactly the you know, the the specific language, brother, This whole thing turns around, isn't that, brother, I'm telling you, dude. All I can tell you, brother, is that is a teenage's gonna to a round, Dude. We're going to kind of bring the nose up on this thing, brother, and we got it

all figured out, dude. I loved how I don't know what it was now, what interview it was, but Linda doing the book tour, doing the fuck Hulk Hogan tour, still let turn the nose up on this thing, slip into her own vocabulary, and she said it without it being a reference to I love that. I look at Hulks phraseology. She pretends to hate him, but then two weeks, three weeks later, she finds she's

complete. He is completely embedded in her brain. I mean, let's be honest here, all right, that's the reality of it all, he said. In a year, a TNA will be much more competitive because Dixie Carter is on track and has the right feel for where the company should be going, which means do Bischoff's fucking reality television. We got it, dude, we got it, brother, bat. It's a London phase of the Impact

Invasion. We're told as the February second, twenty twelve Impact opens, that's where we're going to start here tonight, TEENA Wrestling, Mike Tena says, makes a global impact. There's a lot there, biggest audience in company history. You hear the echoes of a real, honest to goodness arena here. This is Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium, of course, but the arena Abbi Rout is still your champion. And Bischoff, they talk about his son

his fantasy becoming a pro wrestler. Um. Bischof tells him it's never gonna happen, and I'm disappointed in you, Um, And Garrett's talking about how Bischoff Eric is upset with who he chose to be his trainer. So we're building intrigue in the beginning of twenty twelve around who is training Garrett Bischoff to become a wrestler. We noted the last time that he did the big turn on his father at Bounded for Glory twenty eleven after revealing that he was the

referee Jackson James, but in fact was Garrett Bischoff all along. And Garrett tells Bischoff here in the Sebary second Impact, to take it up with a guy who's training him if he's got a problem. Eric says, you want to can these people to think he's coming here to back you up. He's not going to be he They keep referring to he wondering, you know, I know who it is. Now Bischoff is sort of intimating that he knows who it is, but he doesn't believe Garrett that Hogan would train him.

But there was a thing we didn't cover it here in our prep. There was a segment they did once where Garrett was sort of in the gym or the dojo training, and they did this hogy thing where Eric kind of looks off camera because Eric is there, kind of looks off camera and does like

a wide eyed like he can't believe who he sees there. But once they get in the ring here in this impact in London, it's almost like Bischoff is saying, like, even though I saw that it, I don't believe that he's training you, and I certainly don't believe that he cares enough about you to make the trap sorry or is he rhet conning it could be? And even if he was in the gym that day, not going to make a trip all the way to London for you, brother doesn't see anything in

you. You're as delusional as anyone I've ever met. You know, he's not coming here, he tells Garrett as the Hogan, chance just thunder. They know exactly what this is setting Yeah, oh yeah they do. Suddenly Garrett gets a cell phone call and man or those sideburns on Garrett plunging to the Southern Hemisphere. I mean, my god, do they like is he?

Is he trying to be rock in nineteen ninety eight? I don't know, but those sideburns start in London and they end around Bournemouth as far as I'm And whoever was on the phone that was him, he is in the building. Brother intrigue seeds planted. You have to tease them and bring them. Who's the third guy, dude? Again, we're doing this again. Who's your trainer, brother, Garrettude. I'm wondering, bro, who's your trainer dude? Because I mean, we talked about this the office talked about

that's kind of the way we should go with a dude. I was told. I was told that I'm going to be your trainer and storyline dude. But I wonder if that's actually who you have in mind when you're out there with a live microphone. I mean, are you because you know I'm just telling you when you're out there, when you're out there thinking about it. Brother, I can't tell who you're thinking. I'm reading the look on your face. Dude. I feel like you're sort of wondering. I think I

kind of think you're thinking as mister Anderson. Brother. Now, are you gonna see I don't like that look either, dude? Look me in the eye. Brother, Brother, we had an agreement. Do you know who I am? Brother? Do you know who your trainer is? Dude? I came to London, Brother, shoot this angle to get you over the top or you to really get this blocket fuel? Who SI are you on? Brother? Now, I'm starting to wonder if you're going to go out

there and double cross me and say someone else is your trainer? Dude? Are you are you? Brother? You've been talking to Leno? Dude? Can I can I see your phone? Brother? What's the Burbank called? Can you give me what's burbank? Carrother? That that was my dad called Jay. It's my fucking phone out. Just your fucking phone, dude, brother fish Dude, I want to see what's this fucking California number? Brother? I see three one, Dude, I gotta flip phone. Brooks got

a sidekick? What the fuck is this thing? Dude, what is this ship? Brother? Was was this iPhone? Dude? I think your phone sucks? This a Burbank area code? Dude? Tell me now, brother, what's this a one eight number? Dude? You fucking tell me what this a one eight numbers? Brother? Are you talking? Brother? Is this Tonight show? Dude? Is NBC? Brother? I'm gonna call it, dude, Please please don't. I'm gonna call it. Fuck you brother, Fuck you dude. You on your fucking chance, dude, NBC?

How can I help you? Brother? I knew this was it, dude, I knew you. She's new your NBC brother. You're fucking trying to get Little on my ass? Dude. You fuck you brother? Fucking BC dude like Jay Lenow got shit? Huk Hoogan? Brother, here's everything? Okay? Oh yeah, you fucking it. You're talking to me like you don't know who the fuck is going on? Brother. I'm gonna tell you right now, dude. I'm gonna fly over there right now from London.

Brother, I'm gonna kick Jay Little's as I have this number here is connected to a Bishop Hervey. Yeah, you're damn brother, are you dude? I'm gonna tell you who the fuck are you? Brothers? Who the fuck are you? Dude? I want to know what an NBC you are? Brother, n Universal Career you NBCU? Brother? Now I understand. Um. We get calls from this number every week pitching the reality show. Is there is there a brother? What do you what? Come? Brother?

All right, I'll tell you what, brother. You know what? I had a show on v H one. Brother, I think it's time to make it be. I have ever heard of micro champions up wrestling? Dude? Brother, you don't. I'm gonna tell you, brother. Do you know Brook Hogan? Dude? First, let me apologize for the way I acted. Brother. First of all, I want to say that was you know what, here's the thing, brother, I'm Terry Balaya. Dude, you were talking to Hulk Hogan Bullers. He goes, within seconds goes,

has have you heard of Brook Hogan? Dude? He's always trying to find a way to make that thing a success. It's like the one hang up. It's like, so yeah, that's kind of how it goes. It's going for reality, right, we gotta put that on the screen. Oh my god, what did Bruce Prichard say in that gut check clip? We played in part one in a world of reality. Oh yeah, that's where

you guys live in. Fucking fuck off. Later on this episode of Him, Pat James, Storm and Bobby Rude finally have their rematch for the TNA title, and Bobby Rude wins with a spear after Bully Ray interferes on Bubba's behalf at A bit of an alliance forms between Bobby Rude and Bully Ray as Bully steps more into the foreground as a singles heel in the TNA row.

Later on the show, here comes Garrett again. Yeah any more. They do this production element where they follow the guys from behind through the aisle way that certain You can't, brother, You can't do that with me, brother, brother, you know, before we wrap this production meeting folks, and I really appreciate the time, Dude, I just want to talk about one one tweek we're making here on the format, dude, I noticed and production

notes Keith Mitchell, brother uh and everybody else involved on the production side, dude, and the truck and whatnot. It looks like we're gonna put cameras behind the wrestlers as they come through the curtain through the tunnel. Is that right, Yeah, Terry, that's what we're thinking. Yeah, we think it'll be a nice, yeah, differentiated kind of perspective on the guys as they come through the tunne. I just want to brother, I just want

to put this out there, dude. Section eleven sub paragraph of you brother, right all right? Not digging creative dude. So what do you propose we do, Terry? You want us to stop to just scratch it all together or just just not shoot scratch it brother all together? Why doesn't it work for you just out of curiosity because it's none of your fucking business. Well, your your creative control is to not be unreasonably withheld. I know the rest of the clause. Brother, I'll tell you what, dude.

While that's correct, Brother, I'm not unreasonably withholding anything, right. All it takes. All it takes for a finding of fact that I'm not being unreasonable is for me to say I'm not being unreasonable. I'm actually, Brother, it is within reasonable reasonable reasonability, dude, that I can withhold information, brother, within reason to question. Why you would even bring up that part? Brother? Why don't you? I mean, what's your reasoning?

Brother? How you know? Why is it what you're asking reasonable. I don't think it's reasonable to ask me what is reasonable? Brother? Scratch the camera, trick. Brother. So it's over, dude. Right now, here's the people I want to see. I want to see you fucking do it, dude, and I want to see you doing I want to see you xerox as shit, brother, and you pass it around everybody. Everyone's gonna know that this ship is off the table. No camera from behind,

dude, do you want to? I don't think I was born yesterday, brother, Dude. I know Keith Mitchell. Brother. I'm looking your high dude, and I see exactly what's going on. Brother. I know exactly what you want, dude. And you want to go home, and you want to tell all your families, brother, And you want to tell your fans on Twitter, brother, and all your Facebook friends that you roll up Hogan from behind with a fucking camera, dude, and ain't gonna happen.

I don't care how production element tell you, dude. We're not playing fucking hide the ball anymore. Brother. Now, we're not playing the Ying and the Yang, Brother, We're not playing it. We're not playing eat the Tomato. Okay, dude, we're talking is down to business. Brother, Well fuck this. If this leaves the room. At that point, Taz though leans in, eat the tomato? Who eat for nothing? Brook Adams, We we gotta go. You know, we got a lot of rit

tomatoes and red hook what tomato we eat? And a lot of people don't like taz um. So here comes Garrett again. Later on this episode of Impact Plane, leave the Garnish behind brother. Okay, dude, Facebook dot com slash Impact Wrestling. It says on my screen case you were wondering follow Impact Wrestling on Facebook? How desperate are they? Oh my god, that's what matter who you talk about when they look back on TNA, even if they were bitter enemies, Russo, Pritchard, Bischoff, Jarrett, everybody,

Dixie and fucking being obsessed with social media. Big problem. So gross. So Garrett gets in the ring and he's drowned out by false crowd noise and he thanks the crowd for supporting him through all this, and I'm thinking, oh, what you fucking turn on? Your dad punched him in the face, and you've been riding high support. There's been no support, pal like You've come up against no adversity. If you started working a year ago,

you might have support to thank for. And then he says, without any further ado, the man that's been training me, all right, I got this ship for your pal, Because that reaction is one for the books. First of all, I'm like the stone Off by saying thank you, dating every single one of you guys for having my back and supporting me through all that real pad noise. Yeah right, thank you, But without any further

ado. The man who's been training me, the man that I look up to here, he's like, oh, maybe daddy is gonna squirrel a moment, look like Gary fish All who his trainer is. He's interrupted by his father, who's not alone, by oh, hell, I'm not coming alone immortals Boss Eric Fishoff, accompanied by immortals mister Intensity Gunner, who, by the way, is the individual who hospitalized Garrett fish Off with that fishes pile driver on the concrete that was orchestrated by his own father. Garrett's look,

we've got spies with eyes in the back of their heads. He's not here, he's not coming, so give it. If there's two of us and one of you, why don't you give this up before you get hurts? Hardys wah wa wa. Style was that well was l Sky was teena ten tenequeni tenaqueni tenaquenys teenaquenny TEENAQUENNI while I was while I was whack out, Sky was that while I was wat whole, while I was way, while I wh wh who boo, I was that wol I was West style, I

was out. Style was why Sky was a style was wild. My my, my mind, my mind, my mind, my mind, my my, my mom's time. I call talk Cat, Talk Cat. You're gonna do lean a bad way. Olay you guys. Oh, it's gonna go some bad worse Mr Father. Now it's just follow that. So a big pop for the Hulkster coming back to Ard and he makes a lot of hey later about how many years it's been in the eight years of whatever he said, since he's been there, or thirteen years whatever he says. We'll get

to the back there, yeah and uh yeah. So that was Gunner who came out with Eric Bischoff and got ping pong back and forth between the Hulkster and Garrett Bischoff. So Hulks trying to give Garrett the rub. And I was just reading in the Observer here that a lot of the crowd noise there was drowning out the booze that Garrett Bischoff received when he took the mic in

the first place. Makes a lot of sense to me. Um. But yeah, when he parts the curtain man and the light blue bandana and the black impact cut off shirt, that's a real pop. They're jam excited to see him. What do they want? I want Hogan to rustle, thank you. There's all this vintage and gear and the crowd, although they were very confused when Garrett kept talking about his trainers. They thought I was talking about his sneakers. But that's neither here nor they. He cuts the year

and does the hoof on both sides of the steps. You heard the you or the rights and the who? Yeah, I know they were, they were, They're ready for it and you heard every already. See fucking hulk Hogan take on Gunner. Eric kind of scurries away, and there's a sign red yellow Hogan holding a Union Jack Holcomania forever. He takes all four sides of the ring cup in his ear to his music and that he tears the shirt and that's working for him. Man, It worn't it boun for glory?

Against day and really, I mean it's it seriously, is like it it gives people the warm and fuzzies. Yes, and they go totally Nazi gives Garrett a hug and and you can tell Holk's really feeling this moment and good for him. They power walk up the aisle talking into the camera the

whole time. Hulk pointed to Garrett like he's, you know, like this is the man almost and then we do the Hogan on the fly backstage interview where he's shirtless, which end it's we heard because he's also like it's been edited, so it's not even on the fly because it's like they've got footage like over it. But here here it is. This is a mouthful, Yes it is. Derek Finshop goes right from wrong. He's been playing on the wrong side of them, so now that he's crossed the line, he

knows he's got this monster target on his back. And what better way to reinforce it than thousands and thousands of tena Hall the Maniacs right here in one and telling him how bad he is and how bad he's gonna get his butt kicks. So at the end of the day, you can run but you can't hide because hear him. They're still looking for him. I mean, if he runs in the back and hides, I wouldn't be surprised if all these one in the whole Camaniacs grab him by the seat of the pants and

throw him right at mine and Garrett's backing feet. Did you see the look on his face when helps he's a hit? It was like somebody else walked over his grave. And I love it. You know what. He didn't believe me, He didn't buy it. He wasn't thinking straight. He found out quick tonight. I mean he's a marked man, that is what I'm saying. And if we're gonna hunt him out, sniff him out, or if the Hulkamaniacs have to throw him out like yesterday's garbage, is gonna end

up in my feet. So Eric Bischoff, you could about that must time left, brother, about that must time, about the same size as everything else you got eighteen years? Eighteen years? What can I say? We don't need no preen up here. The love affair lives on eighteen years since I've been out from my UK Hullkomaniacs. It's not stopping here. They're loyal to a fault. They're with me. And when I put the hunting dogs, which I'm gonna do in a minute, I'm gonna go back out there

and I'm gonna tell him my maniacs to sniff this dirty dog out. I'm gonna have him sniff Eric Bischoff out. When they sniff him out, it's not gonna get pretty because the first thing I'm gonna do is feed him to his son, and then I'll take the leftovers. No problem. Brother. Well you know, I don't even think TNA really understands how great they are, their destiny, their birthrightness to me, a thousand times greater than they are right now. I can see it. I can smell it, I

can feel it. I smell blood with TNA. They're right on the first the cutting edge, are rolling right off the top of the mountain onto what we call the greatest company of all time. To disclose. TNA is dis close because they're doing everything right and there's no stopping them. Now. I got my feet back underneath me. If I gotta be the hood onner it that you put on the front of the ship to bust through the ice jube, to see through the fog to feel through the darkness of the night.

I can be the guy because I smell the greatness already, and if they don't smell them, I'm gonna take everybody at TNA and I'm gonna stuff their heads in it, because greatness is their destiny at TNA, and that's what's next for TNA, nothing but total greatness. Wow. I mean, he's like, you don't fucking crack really well, maybe he maybe he did. Maybe he knows where the bulllog got it from. Maybe maybe he knows his dealer now. So it's like I always get kind of torn with sh like

this because I do appreciate the fact that they do need to sell. You know, whatever company or whatever you're doing is being yeah, a big deal otherwise, because like if you don't think it's a big deal, then why should I think it's a big deal. But at the same time, it's all bullshit. Yeah, Well he's trying to like he's trying to say that every single thing that happens in TNA is like indicative of this whole thing,

you know, growing by leaps and bounds. It's like to show me, just show me, because if it was impactful, as impactful as you say it is. You wouldn't have to say it in such flowery, verbose, over the top verbiage. You would just be a parent that things are clicking and it's a good show and talent's getting over and more people are watching. But when you have to look into the camera and basically shout what you hope

to be true into existence, signed a desperation, right. I hear a whole Coogan there who is so sick of doing this speech already, and it's just trying to find new ways to say the same thing. It's it's February of twenty twelve. He signed to this company I think technically signed to like june O nine or something like that. I mean, come on, can you still really be saying they're that close what they're further away close to mine?

I mean, maybe he's talking about the average rating going up in twenty eleven and down for Glory doing pretty well but relatively well, But what is he talking about. I mean, he's saying that they're they're they're on the verge of being the biggest company. They're not even on the verge of being as big as they were from a visibility standpoint before you got there, I

mean substantially, so I don't know, I don't know. It's just it's it's amazing that this is still because you know, when you're watching it over fifty two weeks as it happens, you kind of don't realize that he said the same thing four weeks ago, you know, But when you go on it like this, you're like, this guy is just he's just playing the same tune, yeah, every time from the same ship for fucking two years. And he must feel a little extra, you know, win did his

sales because he's got that live London crowd going absolutely ab shit. It was eighteen years is he referenced there since he claimed to have last been before his Hulkamaniacs in London when he saw the kid that that last Hultimaniac whatever his name was, the last Hulkimaniac. There's a fucking movie for you. That's it. And uh and you know it's they're on the road. They're doing a

well attended television taping. The crowd is hot. London make you know, England makes them feel like they're odd to something, always has, so I can see why he's got an extra pepping his step a little more base in his voice. But when you break down the composite pieces of what he's saying, it's it's a little something like this, Papa uh bopapp I spread it in the paper. I saw it on TV. I guess with him down to his heat. But I'm just Wembley hearing the shirts. But now I've

torn my heart with maniac right from the very starts. Brother, where my friend and I'll see it again. Brother, I'm zovivin will again. The world just lost another Hulka maniac and his name was Garrett Bitchoff. They're still coming off the London still, you know, producing shows off the London taping Sting and Hogan and Garrett or backstage, and Holgan says, you don't worry about what they think. Oh oh hold on, I got this because this

is another bizarre fucking segment here. You don't worry about what they think for what they say anymore because you've made a statement. Now you're on your own, brother. So when you're on your own, you walk no way. Oh yeah, who I had to come in and give you see you again, clean again, and thank you so much for making me be myself again. Brother. I you so much weird. But thank you, your brother. Can you give me just one second? Yeah, no problem, Thanks,

I'll getting right back on. Well, well, alright, kids on track? Brother, he is you my friend? Have taken it to a whole another level. Brother, turning to the general. You're leaving this thing, brother, I am so proud to say you're my friend, brother, and let people know how I feel because I've watched what you've been doing from Afar. You've get trash and you get this company on track and the young

guys are finally listening to your brother and you're kidding you. Yeah, I know, I know you got to kill him in the button stay on them, tell you get that done. That's the most important thing. I got one problem though, watching this thing from Afar. I don't think you really understand what's going on. You have a target this big on your back. You're a marked man, brother, and what you don't understand? Do you do you understand? Oh? No, I get it, believe me,

I get okay. But what you don't get is how big is a target you do have? Because they're coming for your brother, and they're gunning for you, and they're going to do anything they can to try to cut your legs out from underneath you. So I just want to let you know because of what you did for me, and because of what this business has done for me. Between you and this business, these are the only two things that have ever stuck with me, no matter how bad things have got,

no matter how good things are. The business and a friend like you has been the only thing that's ever been with me. So if there's anything you need from me, I will do be their safe fight, go down with you, go all the way to the top of you. Just remember to counting me if it gets too heavy and you need some help. Brother, I'm here for you. All I can say is you took a big load off my plate. I mean the way to the world is off my shoulders. And I mean that I envy you for what you did for so long.

I get it. It's tough. It's kind of like having a monkey taking off your back. Really definitely. Thing is once this goes down, Hey, guys, you know what, how about half a chance? You don't give us a break? Just get out, okay, just half a chance? You know you don't even understand something. Chance? What does that mean? Half a chance? It is another phrase like the ball. He started saying a phrase half a chance of what half a chance of you know,

popping a writing. Yeah, that's about all they got at this point. And he does. I mean, he's still doing the only thing that ever stocked me. Line he took from New York and the Wrestler essentially the spirit of it he took from there. I think, you know, I'm so like, why does Sting sound like a fucking idiot? You know he's trying to keep he sound like a buffoon, Like he sounds like, you know, he sounds like he's got some kind of a of a mental issue.

Yeah, the way he's talking, Wow, whole state Steve, It's I mean, like Steve at a showing you know, right right now. I know this is a little u but you guys will see the potential because you're a young, hip couple. Take a look at this space. I can see you guys have the right eyes for a place. Like other words, by this piece of shit off me commission. We got well, we got here, you know, we've got Look. I know it looks like a two, a two and a half bath, three bedroom, but really

you can make this into a four. But only you could do it because you guys have THEYSLI can tell you know, I can tell you guys have been watching that HGTV. You guys know what's going on. We know what's going on rep the carpet out and via the hardwood floor. I think you guys, I think you guys can put the stinger in this house. I'm feeling the sting of this fucking journey right about now. So that Hogan, it's like all of a sudden gets paranoid about the cameraman and closes the door

because what he's about to say the sting next? What are you? What are you doing? Dude? What are you doing? Bro? They never find out what that is, and one think it was half a chance, dude, And they replayed that Hogan rant from last week, that breathy rant we just played for the hood ornament, see through the fog? What fog? What is it? What is his metaphor? Is it? Yeah? I'm wondering if this is the one I have here? Is this feel?

Well? You know, I don't even think TNA really understands how great they are. Their destiny, their birthright is to be a thousand times greater than they are. Right now, I can see it. I can smell it. I can feel it. I smell blood with TNA. They're right on the thirge, the cutting edge, and the rolling right off the top of the mountain onto what we call the greatest company of all time. That they're just close. TNA is this close because they're doing everything right and there's no

stopping them. Now. I got my feet back underneath me. If I gotta be the hood owner it that you put on the front of the ship to bust through the ice cubes, to see through the fog, to feel through the darkness of the ice, I can be the guy because I smell the greatness already. And if they don't smell them, I'm gonna take everybody at TNA and I'm gonna stuff their heads in it, because greatness is their destiny and that's what's next for TNA, nothing but total greatness. He smells

blood. What does he sniff in their accounting statements? I mean they are bleeding all right. Later on the show Hogan's music Hits, they show the most schizo crowd pans you've ever seen, because this is the second time or whatever third time he's come out before the same crowd, so the crowd reactions are way down from when he came out as that a revealed trainer of Garrett Bishoff. Bischoff live in his lifelong dream, they say, of becoming a

professional wrestler. He cuts the ear to a bit of a tepid response, and he takes his time before saying a word, pointing to all sides of the ring. Cup in the ear, and they're going nuts again. Eventually as Hogan takes inner stage and there's some sides they find that are totally screaming yeah. When it's their turn, Hogan says, that is exactly what I expected. The greatest wrestling fans in the world writer in the UK, brother got I got this one for you too, dude, I got all these

wonderful moments. It's Cup in the air. What he do that when you know something character is exactly what I affected from the greatest rustling hands in the world right here in the UK. You know, I didn't know what to expect last week when I came out here because it had been eight teen years since I wrestled in the UK. But after last week I told Jared it's exactly what I thought would happen. That the loyal tea, the love, the respect, the greatest darned fans in the world. They showed up again

that they made me real the whole comedia was gonna live forever. You know, you guys don't surprise me one darn bit, because I know what happens when people dedicate their lives to something. I know what happens when people get in this business and they give their blood, sweat and tears to get ahead. And I really appreciate everything you guys have done for me. But now I'm gonna ask you, guys one favor. Everything that you've given to me, I want you to give to him old nice. Yeah, here's the

reason I've known Garrett ever since he was a little teeny hawkmaniac. I've known Garrett since day one when I met his dad. In this business. His dad, Eric Bischoff, is on one side of the coin, and his son, Garrett Bischoff, is on our side of the coin. He's the same, it's everybody else here in this building. Garrett fish Off is a wholesome mediacor. The only thing Garrett has ever wanted from day one was an opportunity to step in this ring and prove that he had the wrestling business in

his blood, and from day one his father stood in the way. I just have one very simple civilized question, just who the hell do you think you are? What is you the right to interfere in my family business? Who you think you are? Brother? What do something? There is? This day isn't about you anymore. This is about your son in his future, okay, brother, who if I have my way, he won't have

a future. And either to you, your time is coming gone. It's time to step aside, ride that horse off into the sunset and dream of days gone by, and let me healing this pump. You do not have the rights you or you don't understand this business? Quiet as well as I thought you did, my brother, Because not only do I have the rights, I got something called the hulk a Mania stroke. Brother, Okay, because since I've seen the air my ways around here and I'm back in good

graces with all these hulk a maniacs here, and then you can't. I talked to a real good friend of mine who seems to be running the shore around here. I sat down with a Stinger brother in Sting gave me the rights to a book a match, A match it against where we've got the future of this business, Garrett Bishoff, because now we want to deal fun book matches one against Gunner brother and not only are they gonna go one on one, hey, oh, may not have to Bishop super a low blueful

behind on Hogan. Now Garret Bishops just getting rich right here by Gunner. This was Eric Bischoffs the team playing from the outset. He told Gunner a company needed the and we're gonna take your Hogan rule and on Garrett fish Off

from row. Wait a minute, Eric fish Off down, and Hawkin's attention turned to the sound over the top, roping round over, really watching the background there of his shop, and Garret fish Off for down site said on Eric fisher Off, you want to hear more talk with the How many years have gone by that kid? I mean, just how many years? It just drags on and on. It's excruciating. So Gunner shoved him, Hogan gun between him. Bishoff low blowed Hulk and then Gunner knocks down. Garrett

stomps the hell out of him. Hulk is crawling around rough roffing Hogan chant hoof. He does the face as he pulls up on the rope. So they go Nuts, taps Bishof on the shoulder and drops him with the right hand. Bischoff goes down. Then he grabs Gunner by the hair, and course Gunner acts completely paralyzed by the fact that Hogan has a handful of his hair. And then Hogan sends Gunner out of the ring. They scoop up Eric Hulk holds him open, and there's a fake pop as Garrett Bischoff cock

fist, cocks his fist and nails his dead. Just great stuff. You can tell. There's no sound sweetening required. Whenever Garrett has a shine moment, these people are working go completely insane. He's ready, He's obviously ready. They'd run Hogan and Bischoff. Garrett that is on the fly your day, talk about running wild, carnage, chaos, malice. He just will not stop at anything. I thought, against all odds, would beat the

straw that breaks the camel's back. But he cheap shot at me. And for those who would who don't have a newspaper, he says, I mean I got that too, Yeah, I got I mean everything Hogan related this because it's so trotrocious. You know what you're gonna stop and we can't stop it fast enough because your dad talk about running wild, carnage, chaos, malice. He just will not stop at anything. I thought, against all odds, would be the straw that broke the camel's back. But he jumped

the gun on us again. He cheap shot of me. That's why he's in the corner. And for those that don't have a newspaper, a telephone or a telegraph or the Internet, We're gonna put it into Eric Bischoff's demise so that you can have a future in this business. He's in a corner. It's gonna be you against gunner, and I'm not gonna let your dad interfere. What does it mean to put an end to Eric Bischoff's demise? Does that not mean to keep him alive? Also? Who Internet? Or

well, my god, to get the Internet in there? I don't love this Internet, dude. I'm you know, brother, I don't know if it's gonna if it's really gonna con I don't know if the internet's got legs. Brother, got Internet in that thing? Dude? What do you get? What do you got there? Dude? Is that an internet phone? Brother? What most of us call it a smartphone? Terry, on the other hand, who just referred to Carnage chaos malice. It's his internet phone

brother, Carnage Chaos malice. I don't know where he gets the verbal conclusions

he can reach. Oh, he's such a fucking so clearly this is setting up Garrett show versus Gunner at the February twelfth Against All Odds pay per view with Hogan and Garrett's corner and Eric and Gunner's corner, and the package on that show shows Garrett boxing and doing the pulling on the ropes thing whatever you call those big ropes you lift and whip down and training, and Gunner comes out with Bischoff Eric that is, he's got a wrap towel I guess from

Supercuts in his hand. We find out the towel later is for when they feel like they've got to throw the towel in and stop the match. Yeah, no one fucking talks about that shit. Oh for Garrett to throw in if he needs it. The ropes are read again on TENA pay per views and the TENA logos are everywhere, So we're a reminder for those who forgot. Only the television show is Impact Wrestling and All Blue not the entire company,

just to confuse you. Bischoff trying to get to the camera to show something in the front row that a fan is holding, but he doesn't get it off in time. From Clearwater Beach, Florida, Garrett Bischoff comes out

with Hogan again, you know again, and this is it. This is where it really got me because because they do this recap package of Garrett and Gunner and they're treating this is where they treat Garrett like he's this scrappy underdog kid who who worked his ass off and constantly tries to win, and you know, we'll get these fluke wins or whatever, you know, you know normally, you know, he gets assaulted and then he got to meet the

heroes come back like this. This could have been an interesting story, and it could have been neat to also have it to be to be like, you know, Bischoff's son trying to get away from his dad's shadow or whatever. But you can't do it in a couple of months, rushing so much. Yeah, you gotta you gotta find a way to get these people to fully react to him as a legitimate wrestler. It's very Bischoff like and that all of the stretching out and the subtlety, and that is all in the

misdirection. It's all in the he's the referee that we don't identify for a year. That's what they have, a year's worth of discipline and telling that story. But as soon as the reveal happens, the discipline goes right out the window. Now it's like, Okay, we did our slow build, we checked that box. Now let's have a main eventer please, And it's like, that's not how it works, like you actually we starting a new

slow burn now right exactly. But here he is Hogan and the red and yellow and black T shirt with the pyro shooting off and the guns, and Garrett comes out and pants not the best pants either to wrestle in Hogan slapping us back and whatnot on the way a nice little poperhole Cogan. Sure, man, does it sound different back in the impact zone setting here than it

did in London? An impact Holt takes his place ringside and says to the crowd him right here, brother Hogan, nodding like hide the ball brother. Come on, dude, you know we gotta we gotta, we gotta hide the ball, brother, we gotta, you know, take the fall, dude, eat the He's the Nana's brother. Take the fall. I don't think so, you know what, maybe you have to take the fall, brother. What do you We don't have to do anything this sort. M What do you do dude? For some reason, Jeremy Borash is on the

call with Mike Tenay on this one again. Garrett has leather pants with a white and red stripe running down the side, and red and white wrist tape, and Hulk Cogan his advisor, his trainer, hopefully not his financial advisor. So we get underway here. Garrett versus Gunner to Nay, says, if you think Gerret Bischoff thinks of the time you spent taking away from this building, I think of the time you spent taking away from this building in

an ambulance. If you're Garrett Bischoff, you think about this, Okay? Yes? Because he had been beating up an assaulted at the best of his father and taken away in an ambulance, so it's supposed to be his motivation. Gunner comes out with two arm dragged in a quick dropkick that sends Gunner, pardon me, that sends a Garrett into the corner. Earl Hebner is getting in there and presiding, trying to prevent Garrett Bischoff from swarming. Gunner

in the corner. Cut away to Hulk and he's saying things like, come on, Garrett, don't let him get in your head, Hulk the coach, choke the coach. Yeah, that's what we need to write. Gunner to the waist takedown and paintbrushes. Garrett a bit or ash talks about how Garrett Bischoff had a match in Norfolk, Virginia. Yeah, I got I got this one here because I thought this was kind of interesting. This laps Friday night in Norfolk, Virginia. GARTO rush the match, and you know,

I was told make sure and get videotape. Garrett wants to see the match, You wants to study it. They went over it together after and you know, as this continues to progress, as the training continues. You know, he's a student of the game, there's no question about it. And he has a great advisor. Watching videotapes. That's what it takes, right tape. Can I get tape? Please? Oh? Yeah, here's the tape. Study very I would like to watch tape. Please, pretty

bad punches from Bischoff. He's still got these like winging things that land extra soft by the time they reached their destination. Yep, and his hair, his hair is a disaster. Oh, snap in the punches, gotta work on that. Shouldn't be on television to you get snap in your punches. Gunner turns Garret BSh Off to the corner. They go for clean break. Nope, Garrett Bischoff does a duck underneath in an arm drag Garrett to the arm barn an arm ringer, and Gunner headbuts his way out of that and

whole Cogan says, get him out of there clean. Gunner to the corner, digs his shoulder to the gut of Garrett Bischoff. Garrett's now throwing to the gut. That was one of his spots. He would just like throw six body shots in a row, rights and lefts. But Gunnar goes to his gut and reigns down a shot, bringing Bischoff to a knee. Hogan

with the hoofing stash. As this turn of events takes place, Garrett hits the robes and his dad grabs his leg, so Gunnar strikes on the distraction, and Hogan goes over and he's pointing at Eric Bischof, with Earl Hebner getting in front of him to stop him from attacking Bischoff with the go behind and a duck's a flying chop. There's two or three of his own. And then there's some come on, Garrett, it's coming out of the crowd.

He's got some supporters in Orlando. Back backslide rather sloppy for two drop to hold to the front. Facelock goes Garrett Bischoff, and it's here where whole Coogan's japan sensibilities kick in. Keep your base. He yells to Garrett, old, good, good, good job, brother, don't let him back up. It's hilarious to see Hogan like he's fucking Matt like he's on the mat at the NCAA National Finals. You know, of course, isn't he. Gunner lifts and gets free from the hold. Corner charge is dodged.

Bischoff rolls him up and then comes with an invertic. It gets too comes with an invertic atomic drop, and hardly any noise from the crowd does. He rallies him offense. Kind of sad here does see Garrett kind of flail about, and when people just like you can't make me care about Garrett Bischoff. You just can't do it. It's hard, you know. It just is like you know again, they're they're forcing this guy down our throats, and it's like, I'm sorry, he just can't do that. You

know he's gonna be You can't, you can't do it. I mean, I understand he's been emancipated from his father, but that's not a good enough reason for me to want to see him win wrestling matches. That's a good enough reason for me. You want to see him punch his dad out. But now I have to be excited about his wrestling career, and that's a

completely different matter. We haven't really addressed why I should care about his upside as a professional wrestler rather than his personal story as the son of Eric Bischoff. But here it is Bischof's pulled him to the corner. Buckling Rabbit lariot by Gunner drops him big stomp by Gunners. Now Bischoff is playing baby face in peril. He tries going to the body again if Gunner, but he gets cut off. Hogan screams to the ref, watches shot and slaps his

hand Garrett Bischoff down in front of Hogan. He just whispers back to your feet. As Gunner stumps the shit out of the kid in front of the Holster, who stands there with his hands on his hips. Bischoff goes back upstairs with some right hands. No responds as he landed these aimless punches. Gunner lifts the knee of the gut and you can hear Eric Bischoff cackling at his son's misfortune over the abject silence of the impact zone crowd. Gunner working

the neck, riding down Garrett very nice. Tully Blanchard styles snaps suplex by Gunner, who they saw him upside and obviously they went out of their way to put him over in the Bound for Glory Series tournament in twenty eleven, even pinning eventual champion uh Well soon to be champion James Storm Robert Rude, so they they were trying to keep Gunner hot. I don't know precisely what they saw on the guy. He's pretty much out of the business now,

but that's good for two. Hulk keeps saying, back to your bass bula basse. I'm thinking what Gunner charges into kind of a flapjack move. Who picked him off like a spinebuster to Garrett Bischoff, but dropped him on his face instead of his bat up. More bad rights from Garrett. Gunner cuts him off with a swinging neck breaker, and Eric Paint brushes his own son across the ropes. Hogan comes over behind Eric, turns him around and drops him with a big right hand will pop, and then just walks away,

just fucking bodies Eric Bischoff and just walks back to his perch. Some Hogan chance to break out his Garret Bischoff comes out of nowhere with an inside cradle for two. Gunner stays on him. No Gunner with a hangman's noos neckbreaker. Very nice execution from Gunner. I'm seeing some chrispness in there. For what it's worth. Hogan says, Garrett, you've got to get back up Christmas, Thanks, Hulk. Let's go about Christmas. Crispness, Christmas,

Let's go Garrett. Chant gets some traction as check feels like a crowd by Gunner. All it does is breaknecks in this fucking match. Yeah, and and hearts as well. This. You know, we've had past tena pay per view crowds that are still somewhat hostile to the Hogan Bishop regime. They're still channing we want six sides as ladies in the middle. By now,

this crowd, I'm assessing here it against all odds twenty twelve. There's nobody left at the Impact Zone that would ever care enough to pipe up with like a yeah, a contrarian chant like that, right, I mean, now you see it. A crowd that's just like, it feels like they're they're out of obligation, which makes no sense. But I bet a lot more people than you would realize would say I just felt like I had to come

here. I mean, I had nothing else to do. Why Gunner raining down punish Hogans know, I'll come a wrestling fan, absolutely nothing better to do. TNA. Yeah, going to TNA show has kind of forced you to really, you know, face up to the fact that you got a problem that's a wrestling fan like you should not be going seriously, yeah you shouldn't. You just shouldn't be Hogan screaming Garrett, you gotta fight back or

I'm gonna stop this thing. So that's the drama here that Hogan's going to stop the fight another hangman's news attempt, but Garrett Bischoff holds out of the rope, so Gunner takes the bump Hogan to the steps with the towel even though Garrett blocks another neck breaker. Hogan's gonna throw in the towel as Garrett actually has an opening to come back, like it's such a mess, Garrett, you gotta fight back. Looks to the crowd. They're like, yeah,

please throw the towel and home, let's end this thing. But this only serves to distract Garrett bish Off and he turns around into Gunner's DDT and that's the one, the two, and the three, Gunner pinning Garrett Bischoff. Here at the Against All Odds pay per view in February of twenty and

twelve, Hogan puts his hands up like what just happen? We cut to Bischoff, Eric's face coming out of the deep like Vince at Wrestlemanian nineteen over the apron, laughing maniacally and Hogan, Yeah, right, I know, he does. He does do that. It's kind of forced, it's completely forced. He's a joke and Hogan kneels over Garrett Bischoff and scowls at Eric and Gunner and brother. That's the end of the Garrett Bischoff experiment. If you ask me why he couldn't be put over Gunner, I don't know.

I know it does seem kind of weird, like why why can't you put your why can't you put him, you know, put Why can't you give him the win over this fucking client? I don't get it. Now is after you've done the things you've done to like make Hulk Hogan his trainer. Now is not the time to have him start losing to everybody like you've tried to skip that step. Stick with it, right, don't now try to build him in a traditional way after you've literally made Hulk fucking Hogan his shaman

or his sense. March forward to the March twenty second, twenty twelve Impact, all right. They opened the show with a ref to of Bobby Rude pulling Dixie out of the crowd at the Victory Road pay per view when he was wrestling Sting, and then Root smack Sting with a chair while Sting is trying to tend to Dixie. And then they show Rude getting very aggressive towards Dixie and actually like physically manipulating her a bit, like shoving her around.

This is obviously an attempt to get Rude over the top as a title carrying heel top star. Dixie looking more and more like Nancy Pelosi every week, and of course stings her beloved Tna White Knight that she tries to prevent Bobby Rude from duct taping Sting's hands to the ropes for further damage. And they do some freeze framing because there was a strict prohibition from Spike against women on

men on women violence, which they tied my hands, Bro. I couldn't even have a guy slap a bitch across the face, Bro, like she deserved. So they kind of freeze framed this because they didn a pay per view or it wasn't a problem when when Rud's getting physical with Dixie, kind

of it kind of works. It's kind of it kind of makes it seem like, so you actually miss something if you bought the paper view right right, if it's too hot for TV when they get back to television, and yeah, so that's um, that's kind of the attempt to put Rude over the top, he's still the champion, and they show later Dixie stepping out of a back room somewhere. She's here the show opened. Then Dixie comes out to no music, just doing the walk, biting your lips, disappointed,

But I want to give you music anyway. Oh yeah, I'm sure you do here place inside me and out so good. Isn't it wonderful? It's a terrific song. You want to get out there and prove people wrong exactly, that is the spirit of it. They chant, Dixie, Dixie. The announcers to cry Rude's unforgivable behavior. She says, over the past six months, Bobby Rude each week has been more and more disrespected, uh, disrespectful towards this company, the fans, each and every one of you,

everyone who loves wrestling. Fire Bobby chant breaks out, she says, but what he did at Victory wrote last Sunday, you have disgraced this company, this company. There does again take a shot, folks, There we go all they have done this entire week, She says, He's talked to attorney, so here we go outside attorneys. She made the point of saying outside attorney's like we care about the distinction. What is the fuck me like?

You know, the in house attorney can handle this. It's a very serious matter, my management counsel, She says, we're talking again about passing of papers. Let her head office memorandul you know, deals, demos, memos, meetings, bagels, croissants, coffee, you know, breakfast meetings. Fuck those Cisco phones with the omnidirectional mics. Where she you know, she takes a fucking stuff you know we've talked about before, where she takes a bite of a fucking donut and she's like, oh, I'm so I'm

good. Oh my god, I'm stuffed. It's so good. Though, where did you get those? Oh? I know, this great place. Fuck off? So they weigh the pros and cons, trying to make the right decision. Here she says, what decision? What you to fire Bobby Root? Is it stings music? As she was about to say, you've only given me one option something She's gonna fire Bobby Root, But here it

comes staying. He comes out of black T shirt and jeans and shades and Dixie embracisting as he enters, and he says, Dixie, I've never given you a reason not to trust me, but I want to agree. I have to disagree that firing Bobby Rude is the answer. They'll clap, and he says, hold on, now, I'm firing Boby Rude is letting him get off too easy, the easy way. She wouldn't know anything about that. I don't get the right kind of revenge if you do that, Dixie.

He says, this is what about James Storm. He's supposed to wrestle Bobby Route for the title at Lockdown. If you fire him, you're taking that opportunity away from him, and trust the fans into supporting him, not actually Sting manages rather to turn the fans into supporting Bobby Rude, not being fired. So I guess they Yeah, they didn't know what they wanted, right what, No, fans never do. That's the thing. You gotta

remember that fans never know what they want. Yeah, we want revenge, and Stings starts screaming the right kind of revenge and because he's afraid, I guess that offends like some biblical tenet or something. Now, he says, regarding other choices and decisions being made around here, I got to talk to you about the GM position. The GM position there is one what is this like a fuck? It's like brought to you by Monster dot Com. It's

like fucking hr on television. Very important because it's just not working, he says. Because remember Sting has been the general manager Hogan after turning back baby Face at Bound for Glory. The next Impact comes out in the red and yellow and kind of gives Sting is blessing and leaves and then we just totally transition to a future of Sting being involved in Bobby Rude's business and Hogan is totally fucking gone. And that's that. So um Stings here to tell Dixie

Carter that he doesn't want to be the GM anymore. Says, I need to do this publicly, and they chan't. Please, don't go like he's going to retire again. He says, Dixie, you put all your faith and trusting me to run this company, this company. You gave me the ball and you told me to run with it, and I did the best I could. And up to this point, I think I've done everything I could possibly do. But at Victory Road, something changes within this company,

this company, at Victory Road, it came alive. Stop saying, this company came alive, Dixie, Dixie, I came alive. I came hard, exactly, and he realizes that he can long gonna be a part time wrestler and energym At the same time, he says, I can't do both as they chance, you still got it, especially if I'm going to compete at Bobby Rude's level, and Dixie is tearfully shaking her head at this revelation. Stings says, as a result of trying to juggle too much, I

suffered a concussion and now I've got to go home and rest. I'm gonna get better and I'm gonna get stronger, and I promise you, Dixie, I'm going to come back better, better than I've ever been. Dixie, Dixie, can I promise you? Do you hear when Brooke called out Dixie Hogan and Dixie Hogan, I'll tell you, Dixie Cargan that interview and the hosts are pretending to know who the fuck Dixie Carter is. No one knows

the Dixie Carter is. All right, nobody knows. I promise you when I come back, Stings says, I'm gonna put my boots on and I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna be one hundred percent nothing else but a wrestler, and they pop for that, and he says, I'm gonna continue because they don't want him to be a general manager, because they don't want in general manager because it's boring. Right, I think it's boring. It always is. It always gets boring. If it's not boring, it's going to be

in two months. So just don't even do it. I'm going to continue to fight for this company and for you, he says, but in a different capacity, which means I'm sorry, man, But at this very moment, right now, Dixie, I got to step down as GM of this company. And Dixie says, what am I supposed to do? Oh, she's such a little bitch. Sting says, I'm not going to leave. Hey, run your company right. Stop relying on these fucking men to do it right. Is there no? You actually cannot put on a wrestling show

if you don't have a wrestler walking around barking orders at people. Is that what you're saying, he says. She says, I'm not going to leave Dixie Carter hanging. I'm gonna let them fangs hang. However, I've got the right man for the job, he says, somebody that knows how to take wait for it, this company all the way to the very top. Dixie, I'm talking about somebody that can read every single personality that comes into

this place like the back of his hand, just like a book. I'm talking, Dixie, about one of the greatest of all times, somebody who can devote one hundred percent of their time to be the general manager. And they start changing Hogan. They know, they know, they know that there can only be one storyline at DNA, and it's is Hogan in control or not of TNA. Such a farce. We're back here already again, Dixie. Oh yeah, Dixie, you have to let me take the keys to

the car and hand them off. You've got to let me give the power of impact wrestling to the real Hulk Hogan. O. They pop. Dixie looks away because she's conflicted him in the last time and the position of power. She fucking lost the whole thing, right, and then Sting finally wanted back for and then Stings like, can you get it back to please?

This sucks. I'm kind of done. I'm over absolutely. I mean to say the least that we're back here is just nauseating in such a reflection of a lack of creativity, a lack of inspiration, and an indictment on anybody who's been entrusted with making impact wrestling interesting television show. They continue to fail. Stings takes her by the shoulders, Dixie, look at me. You trust me. I'm not going to let you down. Dixie. You know how much I trust you. Dixie says, you know how much I trust

you. They chant Hogan, Chance, they chant we want Hogan, and later backstage on the Fly, it's Dixie Carter. I don't even have response to tell you. I don't know how I feel yet. I understand why Sting feels that way, but I can't believe that I'm dealing with this. I don't know what I'm gonna do. You know, she's so conflicted. But I think at the end of the day, the thing that Dixie Carter can trust is that the only way she can hold her head up high is

to risk at all, even if she loses. And I think that's the way it will see to night Boss, who cares. The end of the show, Sting comes out again to his music. She's making a face like you're going to convince me, aren't you. All of a sudden, she's had a change of heart. Her demeanor is completely different about what Stings about to do, and Sting does it. He's just a second segment. Is this is the exact same segment. They just do it again. You know

why do they do this all the time. They always fucking do this because they don't trust that they have interesting enough talent to carry you know, however many fifteen minutes segments make up the broadcast. They just don't. I've known Hulk Hogan for twenty years, Sting says, and ever since Bound for Glory last year when he cut Eric Bischoff out of his life, We're starting to see the real Hulk Hogan. I've looked into his eyes, I know his

heart. He is the real deal. And I'm telling you that I trust Hulk Hogan. So in that spirit, Dixie, I'm asking you to trust Hulk Hogan. Chant Dixie says, you know how much I trust you. It's been you and me from the very beginning. You've never let me down, never steered me wrong. And if you believe in him, she waits, I believe in you. We're a team. Let's do the right thing. Let's do this, do what. I don't know what what are you? What are you doing? Sting says, I've been going, but I've

been running with the Hulkster all day long. Sting says, he's here tonight, Hulk. I know you're watching the back they call him Hulkamania. Come on, I'll so the real Hull Cogan please come on out. The music up. Wattles on Whang Poem poddles on the Impact No no, no, no, no, no, wow wow, the Impact T shirt, blue bandana, pyro showered, Dixie smile and Hogan, Huggan staying Huggan, Dixie Hogan Chance. He puts the hands out like why he's going for the whole

thing? Wha stings as Hulk. It's obvious to the whole wide world that you made the Stinger a believer. And it's obvious you made Dixie Carter a believer. Yeah, okay, not exactly. She's only had she's only consented to this for like the past two minutes. The rest of the time she was in complete agony about this decision. And I'm talking about believer, and I'm talking about a believer in Hulk Hogan Hulk standing there meditatively. A sting

continues to carry on. He says, now, I think it's only fitting you hear it from all these people right now, and they chant Hogan and stings as they bel leave. We all believe what is he sanna, Yes, he gets them channing Hogan like crazy. Though Hogan stands there in the center of the ring on Impact strokes, the foo man chew and they sign off. He doesn't. He doesn't give an answer. We'll see you next time. Arch twenty ninth, Impact Dixie says, Holcus agreed to meet me

offsite. Oh, this is so fucking stupid. We'll find out later. His answer, I can't stand this fucking moment. We get we get a hidden camera that's somehow got tremendous audio quality. Yeah, like, what are they? What are they in? The fucking uh the conversation with fucking Gene Hackman, Jesus Christ Hogan sh sit on a park bench and say this to each other. Yeah, fucking picnic lunch here or something. Thanks for meeting with me to day. I just wanted to get away from everything. And

God, I owe you that much after all the craziness. I owe you that much. Listen. I find this pretty ironic that I'm sitting here asking you to come back to Impact wrestling after everything that's happened. And two years ago was a highlight in my life and my career, and you know, things have taken a big turn here. But I'll tell you. You know I never I never trusted Eric, and I told you that. Now, let me just say this. We had a good run. I mean,

we had two years with some dynamic stuff going on. We had a lot of good times and we had some bad times. I get into some bad stuff and I don't want to put it all off on Eric, because it takes two to tango. And I was definitely brought into the mix of this bad stuff and I participated, so I have to own up and I had to claim my life and stand up for what I was part of. But

you, separating yourself from that told me everything. It really did. And I know you've been talking to Staying over these last five months since Bound for Glory, and you know, he tells me and he believes he's like Dixie, this is the true whole Cocon and he knows you so much better than I know you, and I need that true whole COCD. You know I need to have that, well, Dixie, it bound for glory. When I saw what I had become and when I saw the path Eric was going

down, I knew I couldn't beat that. I'm not that, I never was. That made a great decision, I know I did, and I walked away and I made peace with you. I made peace with the fans. I made peace with the guys, the knockouts. You know, there was a lot of ground to cover because I left a lot of people hanging. But you don't realize, Dixie, I'm still a piece with that, and my life isn't. He didn't leave me peace. You did not leave

me a peaceful situation. And if you're taking responsibility, which I appreciate, be responsible for fixing it. I mean right now, Really, you're the only person that can do that. You know that. But I don't think you realize how good Sting is. I don't think you understand it's not me. I do realize that. I love Sting. I think he's fantastic, But you heard what he said. He doesn't think he can do both. He wants to get in there and fight. I know what Sting thinks well,

what about what I think. I mean, I think I've had in my day. I mean, I think I was great for this business when I was in the middle of the battle. But right now you're asking me to step back in to a dark cloud. And I've been around a long time. Dixie, you're asking me to step in the middle of the dark cloud, and I have never seen anything like this. Bobby Rude, has your company turns so far upside down? I don't know. I wouldn't know who in the world can fix the stings. Your best shot, Well,

here's the deal. He's not going to be doing this. He said, he needs to step away. You're my only shot. You help get me in this situation. I have no options. I'm here, this is my company, But help get me out of it. Please, Dixie, will you at least think about it. Wait, you're a very persuasive lady, or a very gorgeous lady. In your heart and your being and your soul. It's something that it'll for me to step back in now. Now,

I mean the fans, the people in the back, the boys. You've heard those fans last week that told me everything, that told me what they wanted, that needs to tell you what you need to do. That this ship has already sailed way too far without me. But in all due respect for you and everything you've done for me and my family and this business, I'll think about it. I will definitely think about it. Well, I'm here because you asked me, and because Sting asked me. I definitely owe

you that much. I'll think about it. Just do me a favor. We've got to show tonight. I know it's not a lot of time, but if you'll at least show up there, okay, and we'll take this further. Please, I will think about it. It's like leaning into the wind right now, but I will be there tonight, and I'll make sure that we put a period at the end of the sentence one way or the other one. I'll do the best I can. I'll see you later today. Thanks, Thanks Budd, Thanks Bud. Did you hear that too?

I can't stand that went on for fucking five six minutes. Do they tell themselves is interesting about that? I don't know. I really don't know. It's it's it's embarrassing, really is I mean, we're back here again. I mean this is kafka esque. We never fucking leave this ship, you know. But before he does something, he's got to set up a situation

where someone begs him to do it, right. He's begged to be the old Hulk Coogan, or he's begged to, you know, just give a give another pose for the people, or he's begged to come back and run TNA, even though he knows he's going to do it. And I don't know to hear Dixie in those comments you read off in part one, it seems like they didn't script these right. So they're sitting down and try to

be like channel. They're improving what they would really say if they met with each other in a park bench to talk business, sitting with Brett after Owen's funeral, in the parks and in Calgary, right, I mean, are we supposed to care if Dixie Carter feels like she has a good surrogate to run TNA? Does she think she's like a baby face here beyond just being a company ambassador? Does she really think like people are rooting for her to

make smart administrative decisions as part of like why they watch Impact? Sure? Why not? Well, she says, thanks Bud, He leaves, and she texts later on in the episode, Hogan makes the walk and its decision time. Dixie's in the ring and invites him. Now, I'm tretty sure I got this one for you because we need this ship. What's the decision going to be, Hulk? Oh wait, no, I don't have this one. I actually didn't care about this one. I was actually like,

fuck this, I don't blame you. After that said, I actually wrote, I really can't with this shit. Like all it is is fucking stuff just keeps getting fucking you know, just rehashed and rehashed. Yes, it's so boring, so it reveals so much about all Coogan. It really to naysaying. In my opinion, you have to give Hogan credit for thinking things through. Most people being given all powerful positions would react instantly, but Hulk

thinks it through. Oh he sure does, and he always comes to the conclusion then in cases his power, Dixie, I know, taking over for Sting as GM is a big decision. It's a big decision for me too. But looking back on last week, I realized I told Sting, if you believe in him, then I'll believe in you. But what I failed to say to him is that I do believe in you. She says to Hulk, I want you to take this position. Do you hear these people

out here and they cheer? But I do need a decision, Dixie says, I mean to us, and Hulk wants to thank you so much and Sting that's the reason I'm here, all the fans. I can't say enough what this whole ride is meant to me. He's doing another fucking speech about this whole ride. He's always talking like it's over, but it's always just run. But it's right. But it's no secret. We mean earlier,

we met earlier today. Like I said, I came here with a lot of great things happening, and then I got cut up in st if. I'm not real proud of what's he talking about? Just being a heel what not? Trying to blame Eric Bischoff because I had my fingerprints on it too. He gets very weird about blaming Bischoff, and even in cafabe, I know, like it's so weird, like what are you doing? Man? Like who it's fucking fake? Like interjects to defend Bishoff, like he's on

an actual shoot radio interview or something. I had my fingerprints on it. Two But when Bound for Glory went down. I didn't want to be that guy. I was made peace with Sting, myself and you and Dixie. I've already closed the book on this part of my life. And they boo and Sting comes out and he's got Jeff Hardy and Matt Morgan and Anderson and Garrett with him. I don't know what that's supposed to be about. He gets in the ring, does the pathetic outsider's finger point at Hogan while encircling

him, aj and Storm James Stormer out as well. Hardy embrace his mother Dixie in the ring. Of course, Sting says, let's just get to the chase here, Hulk, you're not going to deny me, deny Dixie, and I know you're surely not going to deny all these people. The writing is on the wall. So what's it gonna be, Hulk, Yes or no? And yes in Unison before Daniel Brian made it a thing. Oh it's true. Hogan does the hoofstash and he goes, are we talking

about a totally clean slate? Here we go? You guys are making this really tough. I mean, I need to know one thing before I make this decision. Impact Wrestling, it's got a huge dark cloud. You guys are in really really deep with what's going on here. No matter how heavy things are, no matter how violent, how deep the water gets, I need to know one thing to take to my grave. Will the Stinger watch Hulk Hogan's back? Jack? Does that even mean? They cheer? No

idea what they're cheering, but they cheer. Yeah, they have no fucking close stinks? Is that's an easy one? The answers, yes, But are you Hulk Hogan gonna run this and be the GM and take the keys to the car like the eye of the Tiger kind of Hulk Hogan? And they pop at that. Jeff Hardy nodding like it makes sense. This all makes sense to him somehow, if it makes sense to be concerned. Wasn't

he a big heel last time? Nah? He came back and and repented for being a drug addict, remember that after he did did jail time. Yeah? No, I don't really don't care, Hogan says. If you're saying that you got my back, you might as well tell everybody. Impact Wrestling, as of this moment, has a brand new general manager brother brother, and they pop and Dixie hugs him, and she pulls the sleeves of her top down because she's preoccupied with making sure that her shoulders are on display.

These are important things, and Hogan says, now that the Stinger has my back, what you're gonna do? The brand new GM runs wild on you. Oh motherfucker my watch. I think we're back to January four, twenty ten. Wrong about that. I just don't understand. We want to know the future of Impact Wrestling is in good hands and whole Cogan is the boss. Packed April fifth, they opened the show with Stinging Dixie in the

ring, surrounded by the whole roster. It's a new day here at Impact Wrestling, Tess says, is Dixie welcomes us to introduce the man who needs no introduction, Hulk Cogan. She introduces him here, I got I got this whole ship for you, because you know you can't not all the wrestlers are around the ring. I'll say, this is gonna be a different um um this I must have done. I must have done this on a different day, like watch this stuff after I watched stuff before, because I was

just like so over it before. Yes, I was able to record this ship. So here we go. Let me tell all the maniacs, it's nice to be the general manager and be back in the saddle and right here on Impact. Brother, I hear you. You know I have to thank the stinger, brother, because there's no way on God's green Earth, I would have stepped in this ring without you watching my back, brother, without a doubt. And Dixie Carter, thank you so much for the second chance.

I really appreciate it. You know, guys, we got a lot of business we need to take care of because Impact is on a fast track and it feels like the wheels are coming off the train. So we got new ideas. I met with Creative today. We got a lot of new segment, a lot of new things happening with this company. But the business at hand right now is lockdown. So the new general manager is gonna take care of some lockdown business right now. Brother, So a big man Morgan

and you Crimson. I'm gonna locks you two monsters in a steel cage and this is officially gonna end at lockdown between you two. Thank you now. On the more lockdown business, our TNA knockouts, Champ Gail, I've been having a hard time with all the competition here at Impact Wrestling, I can't figure out who the number one contender is. I can't figure out who should be in the ring with you. That's why tonight we're gonna have to knockouts

Championship Challenge. I'm gonna find out who deserves to be the number one contender and who's gonna get in the ring with our champ And we're gonna find out tonight. To move forward with some other business, one of the things I need to handle right now before I go any farther is I need to get Eric bish Off out here right now. You and I need to talk about something right this minute here. Hey, hey, heating out here? Brother, Yeah, he telling everybody what to do. You don't tell nobody what

to do. Let me tell us something far you don't tell me. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you something. To tell him now, because I'm the new general manager here. They don't have bish Off here. Well, you better get him here, and I get if you're speaking fer bishof you better make sure he's here tonight. Rick Flair Edward Bishop back in the hospital. He tells him, Oh, it's such a little prick. Oh, so what do you what do you say, boss? Are you galphintized by Cogan?

Is GM? I mean, look at the electricity he's bringing, just to this opening segment, talking about the champs, talking about the neborn contentors, talking about lockdown, you know. And I was a kid laying my hasbros. Roddy Piper was w WF president. Yes, and I do a pay per view and the next night on Raw. The tradition was Roddy Piper would come out and the next announce all the matches for the next pay per view and that would decide my storylines and matches between that X pay per view,

right right, So that's all. That's what whole Cogan does for the next several months. In TNAS, he comes out and he debates and announces the next series of matches, and that's all he does all I need him to do. So stupid, so fucking stupid. I'm so over it. You can ask the film. That's good. You don't tell me what to do. That's really good to do that sometimes it just happens. That's the alchemy of the happens. Yeah, I love I love, I love Flair

telling his boss that he doesn't tell him what to do. So awesome. So then Bobby Rude comes out in a suit with his championship and his bodyguards, and Hogan's is nice of you to join us, he says, I'm not really getting off on you being fashionably late. Yeah, that's good. It's according to the champ. I'm right on time, according to the Champs. Watch, I do what I want when I want, et cetera. Oh, there we go, and I'm here tonight. I want to plut

you on notice. You can ask the former GM how things went when he pushed his uh cards too much towards the champ. There's nothing nobody that will stop me from being remembered as the most dominant world champion in history this company, including you. And if you don't believe that, you can ask Dixie Carter. This is my only obligation from this point forward is April fifteenth, lockdown and I walk into the steel cage is to annihilate and embarrassed and succesfully

defend my world title and have a heavyweight championship against James Storm. So until then, helks for the Champs. Out of here, Hogan, whoa, whoa, whoa, my late my brother, Bobby Rude, impact champion. Maybe he didn't hear, but things are changing around here. Brother heard again, did you not say that to Scott Hall two years ago? This is a different time, things are changing. You know, we're different guys,

dude. Oh, mister Anderson, come now, he's the same guy, but he's saying the same thing now, Hulk Cogan saying this is a new time, new day. No pop at all for that whole line. Hulk shakes hands with mister Anderson, talking about what the fans want. The fans want to see you, the Champion go head to head with mister Anderson tonight. Okay, if you say so, Hulk. He just makes matches and decides that like he had this, you know, this referendum from the crowd

to do this, you know, like he has an edict. Now he has a mandate to make these matches. And the fans are like, what, we didn't even we didn't even know to want that. Annoyingly pathetic Rude explodes at the suggestion that he has to wrestle mister Anderson tonight. I don't have to do this and tells one of his jabronis and suits tell him no, and so the guy says no, like he isn't a power and he goes, screw you, Hogan, and Hogan says, that's what the fans

want. And it looks like mister Anderson likes it very much. But speaking about someone else who might not like it very much, mister Kurt Angle, he turns to him angles at ringside with all the other wrestlers. Heard your running your yap that you won't going to wrestle Jeff Hardy had locked down. It's true, It's really true. You're not going to wrestle Jeff Hardy had locked down. Jes like, brother, Well, I'm listening to the fans. What the fans are saying, Oh my god, is that they want

Ken Anderson to wrestle Jeff Hardy tonight. No Kurt Angle, sorry to wrestle Jeff had No one, No one wants Ken Anderson to do anything anymore. Sorry, but this Mike tiny quote. It has taken only one meeting to confirm that Hogan is a man of action. Okay, this is supposed to be a meeting, is it not. Hulk sends Sting home. Just go home and get healthy, says Flair in ner Bishoff. We have worked so

hard to get control of this place, don't screw it up. At Bischoff starts piping up, calls himself the psychological Ninja, says, I'll put whole Cogan in a tiny little box he'll never get out of. This is to make this clear, This is Bischoff and Flare backstage commiserating over what Hulk Cogan has done tonight, Bishoff Hogan, the confrontation is Nax who cares Hogan's in the ring with Shade. It's a lame is alive and the action is going crazy even in the back. Man. I think I got this one too

for you. You know, this place is alive and the action's going crazy even in the back. Man. When these guys come to the back, they are ready for lockdown, no doubt. And as we take care of all the business here, it m tip wrestling. The man that's so conveniently wasn't here earlier. I heard a little bird tell me he's arrived. So, mister Eric Bischoff, come on down, my brother. That little berner

hooks to that the Twitter logo in the corner of the screen. By the way, Wow, when you think up the history between Hope Hogan and Eric Bischoff, guys like I need. He goes back to something like twenty years. Who would have ever thought that he reached this point the compretation between the two when Coogan is the boss, Oh my gosh movie. I mean, listen to the tip to sen Hogan a bishof for best friend who their business boss. Everything I mean, and now that's just gone. Now who knows

it's gonna have the pulp pleas? I don't know. Ironic comes to mind that you and I are here at this point on opposite ends of the spectrum, so to speak. I mean, who would have ever imagined, looking back at our careers, in our lives, that someone would come to us and says, you know, two thousand twelve, you guys are gonna be facing each other across an arena, on opposite sides of the fence, actually trying to undermine each other. Who would have ever thought that? Not me?

But here we are. And now that I recognize it and I realize it, it makes sense really when you think about it, because the differences between you and I are well too numerous to mention. Let's leave it at back. But the one key difference, the one, the most important difference between you and I Hulster is it. You're not a leader. You're not the type of person that people will follow into battle. You're not the type of person that has a vision that others will base their lives and their careers

on. Now, you're an opportunist. You tag into whatever situation is the easiest and most likely to benefit you are hot On the other hand, I make true leader of men, good vision, but the power and the intensity of fortitude to make real. That's who I am. And you are also the leader of blowing hot air into a huge room like the Impact zone. And you also Jim Paul hot air on and on and on. And you know something, Eric, since you're such a great leader, brother, we're

taking care of all the hawkdown business right now today. So instead of your son, Garrett and Gunner in a steel cage, why don't we find out what kind of leader you really are. Why don't you lead the Eric Bischoff team. Why don't you put together Eric Bischoff's finest And you know what, I'm gonna talk to Garrett, and I'm gonna have Garrett put together a team.

In one way or the other, We're gonna make sure that all the business gets taken care of the hawkdown because darn rot with me holding all the cars in the deck as a general manager, I'm gonna lay it to you just like this, brother, If your team wins, the team that you put together, Garrett will never ever be on the roster again here at Impact Wrestling. But on the other hand, if Garrett's team wins, you are gonna hit the road. Brother. And to make things really really interesting,

if Garrett's team wins, you'll never ever use Eric Bishoff name again. I don't care if you're at the mall signing autographs. I don't care if you're on an independent wrestling show shaking and hiding in the corner like you do best. If your team loses, you're out of here and you will never ever use the Bishoff name again. How about it, brother, Do we have a deal. Oh yeah, we got a deal. You damn right, we got a deal. Okay, Bishoff Eric Bishoff. So in Lockdown one

way or the other. This thing between you and Lockdown, Lockdown, it's a tradition, it's a Lockdown pay per view. But the ten higher, I mean, finally, this bishof Hogan thing comes to a head. I mean, thank god, you know. I've been I've been wondering if and when it's ever gonna happen. Why did Eric agree to this whole thing? I have no mon. Hogan just says that in bishof just acknowledges and and adheres to it. So you're not going to be able to see the word

the name bishof on TV anymore. Is that what he said? I guess, I mean that always works. It's just so stupid. There's reports in The Observer that they originally planned on Hogan and Garrett versus Eric and Flair for the Lockdown pay per view, but in typical Hogan fashion, um, in terms of the TNA run the time we get there, it's a late mocked creative there. Sure he just couldn't do it. Who's gonna take the bombs? Right, Bob? I'm just thinking, brother, right, what's the

deal, dude? So they're not where this thing isn't perfectly dialed in for the hoster, so he's not going to wrestle at Lockdown. Instead, as mentioned, it's going to be Team Eric versus Team Garrett, which can't go wrong. It's April fifteen, twenty twelve, ten a Lockdown from the Nashville

Municipal AUDITORI in the same building. Rick Flair just had its final match in and because it's such a hot issue, Team Gunner a Team Garrett versus Team Eric opens the show and a lethal lockdown match, and what a joke that is, you know, wait to wait to fucking make that thing matter. Put Rude and Storm in a cage on last where a Rude wins in a total fluke when James Storm super kicks him through the door and accidentally hands Bobby

Rude the victory. Yet another example of a last minute change of heart from TENA management, much like they took the title went away from Bobby Rude the last minute to Pound for Glory. According to reporting at the time, they took the title away from James Storm in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee at the last minute as well. Well, he didn't deserve it. He's just

a little bit right. So here we go. It's Lethal Lockdown Team Garrett versus Team Erik, and Garrett is the first guy in for his team because that's what you want to do, right right, Tess said, he's got a him, not really. Gunner comes out to music. There's three minute time periods in these lethal lockdown matches and rotate every two minutes until all ten

have entered both sides of five. I know you love this format, boss, I know you love these Lethal lockdown matches are true worthy successor to the war Games. I cannot stay with the weapons hanging from the roof on the ceiling. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate I hate the fucking yes, I hate the fucking um um the one ring. I hate the way it's done, I hate

the weapons. And you don't want to know something too? What what I hate about this particular lethal lockdown match is that I'll tell you what we've seen, having seen pretty much every worthy War Games match available, Yes, I can say this. We've seen some bad ones, no question. We've seen some bad incarnations of the war games. We've seen bad official War Games matches. But you know what I've never seen until this, fucking until this, uh lethal lockdown, I've never seen a boring one. Wow, And I

was bored out of my fucking minds. Fucking go. This was so fucking lame, all right? The Garrett Garrett should not Why are they making him wrestle the longest he should be wrestling the shortest all right, Like he should not be in there from the beginning. He's not ready yet. I don't know if you'd ever be ready or not, but he's definitely not ready now. And then the whole, the whole fucking thing, it just was so I mean, they didn't play up this very simple heat factor of it all.

You know, it's like the moment a baby face would come in to even the odds before you know what, the heels have the advantage again, like they just start taking over. There's no actual moment where the the you know, having them the more men actually works for the heels. Usually.

We declined the lack of the animal double clothesline spot. They don't even forget it, the spot you know it because they did something other than the double clothesline, but they still do the spot where the face gets attacked by two guys and he fights back. Here, they didn't get those spots in. No, the only thing that was worthwhile in this in this match was aj styles. Yeah, that was it. He was great. It was phenomenal.

Actually, as you say, no joke, yeah, no pun intended or wherever the fucking all right, I mean he was really, really good. He had the energy, he had the everything going for him. Well, he can keep doing five star matches till his heart's content, but he's still going to be in the same place he is now if that's all he thinks there is. You know, here's the thing. He's not gonna make any fucking money. It looks like an empty building. By the way,

it wasn't a great crowd in Nashville. It's kind of this long, horizontal look to the building. Gunner ducks the charge and fires out and there's some cat and mouse between him and Garrett. Dropped down drop kick by Garrett not

so great. Gunnar goozles him in the corner. Garrett comes off the middle rope of the dropkick not too bad count down on the screen, Gunner runs him over with the clothes line to naysays it could be the last time we see Garrett Bischoff and Impact Wrestling because him or his dad had gone for good from this organization. Schnefter tonight's matchup, So did I not paid off attention? Did Hogan slap on If Garrett loses, he's out of TNA as well? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Team Eric here we go have the man

advantage they had wanted this past Thursday. As the countdown reaches and Bubba Bully Ray comes out to Saboo's music, a Sabo remix they gave him in TNA. Don't ask. It's weird. I like how they show the tunnel and at the they follow him behind the whole time. I like that. Look. Actually, Tests, it's fine, it's fine. Test says, strategy is to single out Garrett. We'll see about that. And Gunner starts with those punches to the gut. They cut him off. Bischof occasionally fires up

for a second, but keeps getting cut off. To your point, they chan Austin Airies, not Garrett Bischoff, Yeah nor shit, And there he is. He comes out with a cape that says the greatest man who ever lived. The big push for Austin Airies is underway. He's ex division champion at the time, but will be much more than that as twenty twelve develops. He gets in the ring, goes off on Bully with right hands, cornermount rapid fire punches, jumps off and then hits Gunner as he tries to

cut him off. Bubba hits Gunn by mistake. Ari's charges into a Bubba boot Bubba does nkom horned another countdown. Here comes Kaz to a fucking dead crowd. I mean they are deceased. There is no one who care, who sucks anyway, who gives about it, and they ship on him for his haircut. Good they should Bischoff and significant peril Garrett. That is is Bully's standing on his throat in the bottom rope and he's whipped into a flying

gun or clothesline off the strands. Trending now, we're told on the screen is Garrett Bischoff. Okay, I'll believe that when I see it. That's before people were hipped to like the trend is tailored to you, like right, I understand, Like that's how trending for everybody. That's trending for someone in the back who is one of six people looking up TNA on their phones

on this particular riding. Right, heels are in control as the countdown hits, AJ styles to your point, comes out to a nice pop, slams the cage door to kass Head on the way end he's cooking with all of the kicks and all the high flying stuff he does. Bully runs him over in record time. Though his task calls it a running apartment building right to the body of AJ. Another countdown, Nils comes in Christopher Daniels for the heel side. For the Bischoff side, AJ and aries are tossed violently into

the cage wall. Garrett sent in like a torpedo, and they chant one more time. They want Bischof to get it again. Garrett. Oh man, this is gonna be all those fucking die Rocky dye things, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, They want him off the television. Okay, nope, bubb it as a double sledge off the top. Okay, what's that

not? Okay or Garrett? Another countdown? Here comes Ken Anderson comes in, blows some basic moves early AJ with a rather pointless double leg lifting slam, but ends up getting stopped down because he hurt himself doing the move and it takes a high back, double backdrop as only he can. Another countdown. Here comes h Eric Bischoff and a black T shirt. He looks like such a fucking mor un. It looks like such a big dash as Bischoff

is well versed in competing. What excuse me? One on Monday nights head to head on cable shove holds up in Garrett so Bully can shop away out. This is fucking crazy. I love this, this is I got. I got this audio for you because it's so fucking crazy. Did you notice where that slap was delivered to right across that Bishoff tattoo? That chuck was

on point and again the brother, what's covering body? I'm telling you, oh my god, that's a little way to lose an ariola that it is that it is tests Hey, you noticed despiping his trainer and shit, who's a mile away from this ice cold lethal lockdown? Opener? Brother? Where is he? Dude? I got deal hope in New York. This is guy. You hear a face off with Flare Later, I got, I got you know, brother, I just dude, I'm in New York. Brother started dud, Sorry, who did you? What? I didn't?

Garrett kas kicked Garrett bish face? God, Eric barking? Um, what what a fucking shit show. There's such a silence in the crowd that when Bishoff's barking things like you'll never be me, you can hear it echo in the building. Another countdown and Rob van Dam who just returned to Impact Thursday

night, joined the team. Who knows why he disappeared this time. I just don't have the energy RVD with the trademark offense for all rolling thunder on Bully Ray Bischoff cowering behind a turnbuckle for the remainder of the match, Anderson calls for the mic. That's pretty funny, actually, I'll give him.

That was actually pretty fucking funny him him like hiding in the corner, the corner, that's pretty funny, funny bit off a funny so that Anderson does the thing where he reaches fall from the ceiling, but instead of the mic,

here come your favorite, Here comes your favorite roofed cage boss. I just don't understand a ladder of trash can let a guitar, a kendo stick, all hanging, all hanging intimidatingly from the chain link as it comes down to form a roof over the cage at lethal lockdown, loaded with every type of weapon like Aleko potato load I wish, And then all of a sudden, it would appear the roof has stalled for a moment and it doesn't come down far enough. It takes forever, and they finally just climb on the

top rope and grab at things to get them so fucking dumb. AJ Smack and Bully with a goalie stick they put up there a golie his stick from hockey trash can lid shots and they reference that the Predators are doing well against the Red Wings and the playoffs. It's like, it's like again, it's just a weird thing. I just I've never seen a boring War Games homage. And they have a ladder at a table on top of the roof and they don't do anything with it. RVD with an uninspired running chair dropkick the

Bully in the corner. They show welts across Garrett's back from several shots. AJ and Aries pull Eric into the fray. Now Aries lifts Eric and slams them down and then Bishe learns how to slap the mat on impact to absorb the blow. It's funny to watch. RVD comes up, he's tripped. Ari says a drop kick on Gunner into the corner and tries a brainbuster, but Bully blocks it. Ari's charges into a guerrilla press lamb by Bully.

Ray into the wall goes Austin Aries as Bubba is cut off on the metal rope and mister Anderson does a rolling simo and drop dropping a bubba onto Christopher Daniel's chest. Ajan kaz are fighting on the top rope. Kaz puls across the ceiling and just goes well and falls and bumps as they're up there, and then aj does an elbow off the ceiling of the cage. Then RVD is a five star frog splash on Kazarian and Bully hits a yaka's a kick

that levels Aj. It's time for big moves here in Lockdown. RD courts a chair in a bully's face after Bully utters son of a bitch. Chris Daniels sas RVDU with the Angels wings. Bishop is now trying to survive out on the apron. Eric that is tas says he's literally shaking and it's now time for Garrett to take center stage. Boss. He counters the angel his wing from the diamond cutter. Is that what it is? I think so? And then Eric gets in and starts smacking Garrett to no response whatsoever.

Yeah, it's truly awful. As Eric wears out his kid with a kendo stick for no fuck, there's no problem. Yeah, no, no, problem with this at all. I told you, I told you. Then Garrett's back wrecked bishof just gloats forever Eric. And then you hear him go now Garrett. Now out of the corner of his mouth, he's calling spots, ladies and gentlemen. Eric Bischoff spots spot called. Finally he makes a decision right. The last spot he called was scorpion death drop in the middle.

It's over in a minute, Jeff. So here we go this this um what I'm what I'm digging though, is that is that you get um the crowd chance for Hogan? Oh yeah, yeah right, and then you know I'm not taking creative brother in the crowd. Then starts channing this I missed that. I was like, are you fucking we want brook weird? She lives in Yeah, I know she's in coming. Who I'm right now, Brooks not coming anywhere? Brother? Are you gay? Dude? Ow gay? On the gay scale of one to ten, a skill of one

to gay. How gay are you exacting? Yeah? Exactly. You either are or you aren't. Terrence. So Bischoff is there gloating, standing there waiting for her son to pick up his queue, and when he does, he grabs a guitar. Eric turns around, takes a guitar shot to the head, falls on his ass like a goose belly, and one, two three Bischoff takes the fall in the new bat ells and Garrett Bishoff wins the

lethal lockdown, breaking a guitar over his dad's head and pinning him. What a Google winners, What a fucking loser, Garrett my sene, Garrett Garrett bullshit Garrett Garrett, Garrett group or they recall, They recall the announcers that now Bischoff is he gone from TNA and can't use the name. It's almost like an afterthought that fucking STIPs of the match. I mean, what a what a tragedy he can't use the name. I'm thinking, why both stipulations?

Doesn't want negate the other? Does it matter that he can't use the bishof name anymore? If he's fired? I know, well he can't go to indie shows. You can't go to the flea market or ever he said, he can't go to fucking he can't go to you know ow and fucking can't do that anyway. So the whole baby faced team Garrett gets up. They all raise each other's hands in the ring, and they're all holding up Garrett's arms like anyone cares, like he's the superhero in Tony's talk about the

respect Garrett bishop ern tonight. Uh okay. Later in the broadcast, for no reason at all, Rick Flair comes out, this is this is this is splendid. Get a masterclass and how make people care even when they're inclined not to? Like what a fucking I mean here? I mean, I got it, I got the whole exchange, and I just I die. Yeah, do you have any idea you just walk in this ring? Yes? I do. No. Hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I'm asking you a damn serious question. You you're in the front row,

fat boy, you know you with no teeth. You know who I am. I am the nature boy Rick Flair whose life gets greater and bigger every day. You know you know why? You know why? Because I'm that damn good. That's why I am a special kind of cat. And tonight, this guy, instead of being the touchy or the palm, is down here telling you I'm pissed off. And when I'm pissed off, that ain't good for who I'm pissed off at Hogan. You just won't leave me alone.

Hogan. You ended Eric Bischoff's career. Oh, he didn't have nothing to do with them. Yeah, who wasn't even funny? That ain't funny any man. That ain't funny to me. Buddy, you in the yellow T shirt? You're fat too? How does your wife possibly do that with you at night? Yes, yeah, I'm talking to you. Come on, big man. Here comes to general manager, Here comes hold Harding. You know you need to go motorian here in Nashville, Tennison. You're pissing

me off. No what toot the general manager's music brothers. Yeah, you pissed me off, brother brother other guy in the screen and spits mountain at the parts of his houses Olga Hogan, Ganging, you have pissed me off, brother, mister Flair. As the general manager of Impact Wrestling, I have to admit one huge fact. Okay, you single handedly are the greatest wrestler of all time. Agreed, single handedly, single handedly. I just wanted to come the girl the single handedly. Do you mind if I your

ringma minding it all? Because I gotta talk to you. I gotta talk to you real quick. Valve get your ass up here and over the rope for oh my God, holding with the stash. Smile well, mister Flair, as the general manager of Impact Wrestling, If you've got to complaints or some type of whim with the way I'm running this company, I suggest you express your grievances right here and right now. I've had a problem with you for thirty years, and I don't like the way you're running this company.

And I don't like the way you manipulate my friends like Bishop, he didn't blowing that regulars. You put him in a position to fail. That don't work for me. You got it, and I am. I am working for you, But God only knows. The day I get two pissed off, I'll just flat out kick your ass. All right. Well, since you came out here and asked the Impact fans a question, just to start this charade, as sees Hillvill's nothing you asked them. You asked them if

they knew who you were. I told him who I was. You got it. I don't ask you nothing. I tell you, you ask them. Okay, Well, I guess I need to ask you a question. Do you know where you're at what you do? All right? Lethal lockdown brother who said, and all is fair in love, in war, in styling and profiling, and at lockdown. So because all is fair at lockdown, Eric Bischoff will never be part of Impact Wrestling again. It's number one,

number two. Eric Bischoff can never ever ever you the name Bishoff again. I don't care if he's at a flea market selling baseball cards. And everybody in this building knows that if you and I hook up right now, we will tear the roof off this building. So I'll suggest, I suggest, if you got a problem with me in the way I run this company, you better do something about it right now. Brother, you have just really pissed me off. Fat called the bluff play great shame and hugging them

les the big shot MC knocks Flaire right on his back. Three decades of plutus between these two days. Get back to here, Come here, come here. He starts taking the boys. Had you're holding you? He pop flair of the flare is taken off the jacket and the fun is it all shoeing, swelling his shoes over the wall of the top pipe. I love

it. The many traps, a knee in the ring, Rick Flair and being driven crozy by what happened earlier tonight to leave the lockdown with Eric Bishall his team losing the match and and Eric bish Off being taken great from the peck wrestling and Flair is going nuts. Then that one for you who are gone, What do you think of that segment? I mean, it makes no sense worsoever. This is TNA, right, exactly. You got something no one asked for, with no build, no connection, anything else.

But it's Hogan dropping Flare in front of a non Orlando crowd and that's all. It's the biggest pop of the show and no one cares about anybody else on the show, right, And you got Flair just looking like a psycho with his eyes wide open. Yeah, exactly, completely drunk out of his fucking mind. He hits the ropes and they fade. Awhile, this is t It's just it's it's exactly, That's exactly what it is. This is

TNA. So we moved to the next Impact, which was April nineteenth, twenty twelve, and Bobby Ruth comes out in the suit with the championship and a bandaged up forehead, having been super kicked out of the cage by James Storm in the main event of Lockdown to retain his championship. When whole Cogan pops up on the video screen and says, I want you and all the

champs out there tonight. And when he uses the name Eric Bischoff Boss, they bleep the word Bischoff wow, because you can't use the name anymore. That's hilarious. The stipulation was adhered to for all of one week because Bischoff leaves tena elevated on the next Impact. So backstage, Hogan goes up to RVD my boy, my boy, DAPs him up, thank you so much for Lockdown and putting a bullet and that no good Eric for me. Oh my god, I've got something really hot going on at night. Number one

Contenders match between Jeff Hardy and mister Anderson. I want to make it a three way. I'm looking for somebody special holdings just walking around making matches. He gets right, that's what he does. They went from like, let's bring back the top ten system and try to make like a tournament structure that batters to hulk Hogan walks around the Impact of the lot and just makes matches.

Dude, what blind brother? Everybody says, say no more, if only there was a champion who never lost the title in the first place. The first time I can remember, they tried to play off the fact that RVD left in twenty ten without losing the belt two years later and in an offhanded remark backstage, it could be the whole storyline for his return. It should be right looking back, that's where they lost me. Yeah, was

when RVD went away in the fall. It never lost the belt. When he came back, had no no uh compunction about it, no no fire in his eye to get it back. Yep. It's like, okay, well fuck this then, Like, if he's not going to be based that he never actually lost the belt, then I'm not going to actually try to watch this as I would a fan that's supposed to care. I'm gonna watch it for the comedy show that it is. Fine. That's what you want, that's what it is, that's what we get, that's what we deserve.

And when he says he never lost the belt, Hogan into Jacksons has never been pinned what because he knows in his mind that that belt did not that lineage did not stop with Rob Van Dam. He's not going to allow that, and then he does the RVD thumbs and he puts the shades on and he says thank you RVD, and it does this little shimmy off camera, and then he comes out for the moment that he's asking all these wrestlers to be in the ring. Four Austin Arry's out there opping his head to

the Hogan theme, which I thought was rather funny. That's really funny today, says Hogan has really taken to this new role. As GM the Pyro shower, they find plenty of people planted in the audience wearing whole Cogan gear to cut away to, including someone who's paid to hold a sign that says Hogan rules in the front row. Always very suspicious when Hogan, who never wears red and yellow during most of the TNA run, attracts these people who

just happen to get front row who are always wearing sunglasses indoors. You can't tell who they are. I mean, in a red and yellow in the boas and holding the signs. This guy say you watch it, just says in the camera Hogan, with no conviction at all, into the camera. It's going on another Yeah, another Bishop special. H You've got women in like, you know, nightclub dresses, like tight evening gown like cocktail dresses. I should say in the crowd as well, because that's you know,

just the kind of crowd DNA attracted to the Impact Zone. I don't know what the problem is so he can get to the ring, you know something, Impact wrestling fans. When I'm right on the money and change is definitely in the air starting next week, here we go. Things are changing around here, dude. It's a special episode Nobody's Got Boss. Once a month, It's going to be Open Fight Night on Impact. The fuck is this

shit? What is this Open Fight Night? Apparently, it's a concept in which a piece of talent from outside of the TNA roster will get an opportunity to come here and show up and wrestle and have a chance to tell their story, have their match, and be judged by a panel of three judges. This is the gut check thing. So he is conflating the Open Fight

Night concept with the gut Check challenge. That was definitely a thing with Hogan and TNA because he'd go out there free flowing, you know, which is bullet Prince, and he would forget to mention key things that would happen often, and I think you've forgot to differentiate between Open Fight Night and gut Checked on this promo. So yeah, the idea of being on the gut check

side three judges get an impact contract if you impress them. And also an open fight Night, anybody on the TENA roster, if they get challenged, they have to come out and fight. So that's what open fight Night is. Anybody can come out and you have I don't know. Basically, if you don't answer someone's challenge, you get fired. That's if you read between the lines, that's what he's saying. Of course, if someone called out Bobby Rude, the world champion, and he didn't come out and defend,

nothing would happen to him. So there's that. I don't now I'm saying that facetiously. I'm not saying they said that. But the point is they never explain what happens to somebody if they don't answer the Open Fight Night challenge. Right, there's just some apparent leverage that the office and Hogan has over these these wrestlers that will force them into having matches just because it's Open Fight

Night, but not every other weird. I don't know why the agents weren't more picky about adding that clause to the contract when Hogan took the corner office. But some things have to remain a mystery. I suppose. He says, you called out here at Impact Wrestling, nois Yeah, nowhere to hide? Um and uh Rude comes out, Who the hell do you think you are? And Hogan goes, well, let me see. Do you really want me to answer that? Hogan? Chance Root says, I'm the only

I'm the world champ. Nobody tells me what to do and when to do it. Hogan says, you know something, champ, not only an open fight night, is uh the whole roster going to get called out? The champs need to be ready to step up and defend. If you get called out, you better be ready to go. And that might just happen to you, Uh too, pretty lady. He's pointing to m Gail Kim because all the champions are out there and she's the knockouts chimp. Well, glad

that's happening. Gail speaks up and says, hold on, who decides this? And help goes, uh decides this? I got I got this part for you because this is kind of this was kind of funny to me. Well yeah, hold on, let me see if I got the whole thing. I don't know if I do or not. But here who decides this? Brother? I decide? But you know something, guys, I really

want to hear what the fans have to say. So you know, maybe you guys tweet me, you know, facebook me, because I really want to hear what the fans want to see, and I want to find out which champion you want to see? Go out of here me too. You heard that they inserted tweet me in post right, No, lady again,

listen, who decides this? I decide who the fans there titled? But you know something, guys, I really want to hear what the fans have to say, So you know, maybe you guys tweet me, you know, facebook me, because I really want to hear see and I want to find out which champion you want here. You must have said twitter me or forgot I'll altogether to the social platform that Dixie Carter is literally mushing into powder

and snorting up her nose every teneriously. So there's that, you know, tweet Hulk Hogan and I don't know integreat social media into our content programming strategy. That's crazy. So Devon, who's the television champion at this time? Devon Dudley, in a baby face, agrees with everything. Hulk says he but I'm thinking to myself, no one's going to pick you, Devon, No one cares, he says, I consider myself fighting champion, and by God, however, whoever you put in that ring with me, Devon says,

I will testify all over their ass. Brother. Okay, Hogan says, I'm so glad you stepped up and testified. Ever since I was a teeny weening little Holster, the TV title has been defended each and every week. I couldn't I couldn't get behind this defended every week? What or toroy? Did he grow up watching? When? Did? When did he even know what a TV title was? Right? Was there a TV title when he was a teeny wheennie Hulkster? I don't think so, And now it

will no matter what my brother. Of course, Devon would disappear shortly after this, uh for for a little while, and Devon says, oh, my brother testify and old ship. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, if you wanted to, you know, defend your title every week. If you were just dying for the opportunity to be called out, why don't you just defend your title every week? Like? Why did you have to wait for Open Fight Night? Right? Right? Anyway, Hogan said,

I promised you change. We're still doing change or I mean changes. Here. We got an open fight night and everybody fights brother and he poses and Austin Airis the X division champ, and Devon Dudley the television champ, are excited and others aren't, including us at home. Who gives a shit? Apricis is their idea. This is their big you know, re reimagining of

what Impact wrestling can be. April twenty six, Impact Hogan's backstage with the champs, and I don't know if you have this, but I've got I've got one quote from him that I found to be so fascinating. Holds court. Okay, everybody's there. He's welcoming all his champions to the first ever Impact Open Fight Night. Anyone can challenge anyone, So he revisits all the

rules and everything like that. Yeah, and this is where he admits that all of his champions are worthy, right, Yeah, and then but his his word choice seems a little off to me though, But here we go. Oh, my champions can deliver. That's why you got the straps, because everybody's carrying their load. Brother, Well, I guess it depends how long they've been holding out, brother Gil. Kim's pretty funny that she like grumbles under her breath like particulous. Yeah, yeah, she's not happy with

this new rule. The tag champs are Magnus and Samoa Joe, who Hogan calls Samoa and Joe as he goes around the room and praises everybody. He even calls him the greatest digname of all time. What a goof, and Shoe laughs at that. I know all my champs can deliver. Everybody's carrying the load like he just played. And I know something, mister rude, I know how bad you want to prove yourself night after night, Gail says. He does. Definitely, So they're all trying to angle to get someone

else to be the champion that gets called out and not them. He calls him Samoa and Joe. He says, I really feel something. Okay, He points to Joe and Magnus. You guys need to shut up or put up, and Hogan says, the problem I'm having is there's so many teams that want to challenge the champs. I'm going to listen to a lot of whining and complaining and people stepping up to get their spot. You realize, Boss, that part of the conceit of this era of TNA is that we're

going to prominently feature and build story around wrestlers whining and complaining backstage. It's not just showing the backstage, it's it's showing the wrestlers being petulant about getting their way. I think that's important. Why is it important? I think it's important to show wrestlers who are you know that they can't have everything they want. Oh, I see all right, you know we need to just

they need to be put in check. Hogan keeps twirling around and facing the camera and keeps it rotating to face the wrestlers, and he's all action backstage. Maybe it could be in machine guns Anderson and Hardy Odb and Eric Young. Gail laughs at that one. And you know what, Kazarian and Daniels, they smell blood. I'll let you know. He tells the champions right before bell, Tim who you're defending against, so get ready. They're like okay, and he says, welcome everybody to Impact. Open fight night,

Let the fighting begin. Brother. Later in the show, backstage, we learned that this is going to be Eric Bischoff's farewell impact. Yes, we've had to deal with a lot of easy over the course of TNH Boss A lot, a lot, so much more than I remember, which tells you how memorable A lot of the stuff he did actually was more than people deserve.

Strumming guitars, getting punched by Garrett, Garrett pretending to be at odds with Hulk, making Dixie signed papers that transferred ownership of the whole company.

A Thanksgiving dinner and which he holds court and presents a toast. It's been a wonderful ride, but on this impact, it's going to end in terms of the on screen roll for Eric Bischoff, and of all people, someone if we fucking sued in nineteen ninety eight for not showing up, Rick Flair is the person kissing his ass the most seriously, was that a rib? For that? They were getting along just fine, Flair. You know, when Flair realizes that the shortest path between him and a five figure deposit.

Is you you're his friend? Again, It's really not complicated. And so in this era of his life, Bischoff became his very good friend. And and that's that's he's a transactional person, and that's that man. Good for him, I don't you know, might as well be if you're a pro wrestler for fox sake. But yeah, I never I never sense that anything lingered between these two, especially after they work together at w W all those years. Okay, so well, here he is, Rick Flair backstage,

Jason Hervey behind the camera with the on the fly style shooting. Here, I got it for you. This is just so talking about Eric. Yeah, I certainly am. And why are you asking me? You'd think I know to pro party and Rick Flair fen party every day for sixty three years? Yeah about that? Every day? Right? I haven't slipped since I was twenty years old? How about that? Am? I thought a party for Rag Bishoff? Not only an impact tonight, but all night long.

We're gonna rock Orlando. He's the greatest promoter in the history of wrestling and a single handedly made Impact what it is today. Am I going to have a party for him? Hell? Yeah? Whoa, that's the greatest promoter ever has got to be you know, I mean, that's absolutely hilarious, having some fun. I laughed every time I heard it. I was preparing for this, and he says he made impact what it is today. That's going to be a rip too. That's the problem, right exactly. So

Yeah, still to come. Rick Flair host Eric Bischoff appreciation night. They're not bleeping it this week because they're writing him off TV. And as part of this, Jeremy Borash, who's been under the thumb of the Hogan bishof regime. We've seen that reflected occasionally over two years here in TNA. He's got something to say. If this is going to be Eric Bischoff's final night, yeah, this was I got this one too. Let's go JB all right, here he goes, I forget. I've been here longer than anyone.

I have more seniority than anyone in this company. And I can tell you that it's universally known from the cameraman to the sound guys, so the wrestlers in the back, that there has not been a bigger pre to come along in this company in the last three years than Eric Bischoff awesome, unreel and if this is going to be his last night here and this is open fight night, instead of oh, I don't know, getting liquored up and going on my Facebook page and demeaning other employees, what I would like to

do is Eric Bischoff, if this is your last night, I would like to call you down to ringside so I can look you face to face in the eyes and extend my fist and throw it down your throat. So Bishoff, put down your BlackBerry. It's open fight night. Get you out here right now. Wow, it's pretty crazy. JB's fucking awesome. So I haven't really been that impressed with him, but I was impressed with this.

Yeah, he's got that side of him where I'll just flip out, or he's capable of flipping out if you give him the creative license to do it.

And you know, you gotta remember Borash worked under Bishof at WCW and was there as WCW just fucking fell apart in the working for the Internet division and doing their WCW live streaming audio show, and so he's got a lot of um, a lot to draw from when it comes to negative animus, towards Bischoff, and one person who worked hand in glove with in WCW in that division was Bob Ryder, who was part of the formative team along with

Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett to start the whole concept of TNA after WCW collapsed. So I think Borash probably kind of still looks back fretfully at how WCW came to an end, and when Bischoff walked through the doors, I don't doubt that he was one of the people agitating for this being a negative as opposed to a positive. Probably the kind of person Dixie had in mind when she had that all Hands on Deck meeting that they put on Impact right in

November twenty nine. So, yeah, he calls him out and calls him out for being drunk and and all of that, and Bischoff comes out with this sarcastic clapping. That's one thing about Bischoff, Like he loves to do angles where he's humiliated. It is true, It is so true about him, Like he does do that, and he does it really well. Yeah.

Yeah, he probably does it because he knows he's good at it, and he knows he's going to be really good reaction from people for being humiliated, right, and people want to see him get his but Tonay telling Tas he doesn't have to kiss up anymore. Jeremy Borash, the ship is sailed, Eric Bischoff is leaving, and there's not a non ad chance, and Jab says, I like that song and I like it most when it applies to someone like you. Bischoff is on his BlackBerry. Well, Jeremy Borash

is talking, he says. He correct him, it's an iPhone. He corrects him, that's what it is. He takes a picture of Borash and Boras, just put it up in your Facebook page. We should install a breathalyzer and then that thing before you do it. Is there an app for that? Eric, there's an app for that age? Remember that? Oh yeah, absolutely everybody and their mom would say that. Shortly after the iPhone came out. Um drunk tweeting about employees, he says, an app for

being an insecure tyrant, because I'm sure that's on your phone. He's so great, He's so fucking money. Chef says, I hope you enjoyed this fifteen seconds of fame you've carved out here for yourself. It's an iPhone not a BlackBerry. You've freaking idiot. He loves he loves frigging this freaking not friggin no gain right, ck freaking idiot, brother, What hey, Stinger? Can I Sting for a second, dude. I know it's been like, you know what, four months now, dude, almost going on five

months. But I didn't get the chance to circle back, brother, and we circling back, dude? Are we are we cool about question? You know dude? When we were doing the deal in um in Manchester, Bro, I mean, god, was that crowd hot? And you know, I'm looking back, I wonder if that was my last match. But there was a thing you did, dude, that I did want to ask you

about at one point. You know, I'm cup in the year right Hogan must pose and uh, you know, to get the people bring up the volume a little bit on this thing, I I sort of you know, pantomime, brother, Like I was cleaning the wax out of my ear, dude, so I could tether here, and then suddenly, all of a suny, Brother, I feel Sting's gloved finger in my ear. I'm wondering, what's up, dude? Right, Well, Terry I didn't think anything of it. I thought it was just a funny gag, you know,

something that little physical comedy. I just made mean gag, brother, I mean like a joke like m you know, something that people would find funny and amusing that I was helping clean out your ear. Just I don't know, just something I occurred to me on the fly that I thought, Yeah, I was right up behind you, and I thought I might as well just you know, reach out and hook whatever I can. Who told you to do that, dude, Oh, it's just me. I just called it on the fly. Nobody told me to do it. I want to,

brother, I want to. I want to know exactly who's calling things on the fly. Dude. That's the problem, Brother, who's the fly making the call? Well, the fly on the wall is Jason Hervey. I mean ever since you guys got here. I'm sorry, went brother, he's been Yeah, he's been the fly on the wall like whenever we you know, on TV when they do that net angle where it looks like you're

looking into a room your nuts. But remember when I put the red paint on your face and started doing the joker thing and you could see it through the blinds of the off. Remember, brother, I don't remember this, dude. What's going on? Brother? I didn't talk to anybody well before I put my finger in your ear? What I didn't talk to anybody of significance before I did that. So if that's what you want to know,

that's the end. So brother, So basically what you're saying to me, dude, is that not only did you not talk to somebody oh significance, brother, you talk to somebody who was insignificant. Well, yeah, I mean, you know, if I'm gonna if I want to sort of be interrogated here, I want to make sure I cover my bases. Did it? Can I guarantee you that there's not tape that exists of me talking to

someone before I did that? Of course not. I mean I just want to you know, I want to protect myself and you know, make I'm sorry, brother, let's dial this thing back in. Yeah, I'm trying to, right, brother, Brother, I just want to I want to brother, I'm talking man and man, dude, I got a six pack of beer here. Brother, you're not gonna dial this thing back in, Dude, turn the nose up on it, brother, or right. I'm tired, of playing games, dude. I'm tired of playing Hide the Ball.

Brother. I'm tired of play Stink the Monkey dude. Okay, brother, Yeah, so am I come to think of it, I want to know exactly what's going on, dude. And I want to know who told you, brother, brother staying Dude. I want him know exactly, dude, who told you you could come from behind? Brother? Roll me up? Pin me in front of these fans, dude, in front of whole comania. Brother, I didn't pin you. What are you talking about? It? Just put me? Well, you gotta stand back, dude,

all right, you gotta check yourself. I'm back in what I'm What I'm seeing here, dude, is I'm seeing a guy who I can't trust. Brother. And if I can't trust you, dude, it means I gotta fight you. Brother. There's no way around it, Dude. I won't wrestle you Staying, but I'll fight just Staying. I've done it before. Well, Terry, if you ever need an apartment in Santa Monica, give me a call. Other than that, I don't think we need to be

talking anymore. I'm with your brother to reach me. Talk to my journey fucking idiot. Oh, the person I talked to before I did that Hulk was John Gaborik won't click slams the door. Well, brother, you open that door, dude, right now. Brother. The open Open Door Night challenge that didn't quite work. That was halfway through. So yeah, Bischof tells Jeremy Borash it's an iPhone, not a BlackBerry, and then Bully slips in and bam low blows Jeremy Borash. So yeah, Bischoff loves being humiliated,

but it's JB writhing holding his crotch on the canvas. By the time it's all said and done, Bischef says, here's what I'm going to post on my Twitter page. He says, ref gets your ass up here. Open Fight Night the way to kick this off and the end of my career. So be it. And he drops down and he he hooks the leg. Does he hook the leg? Is? Don't forget to hook the leg and pins him. He forced it. He actually um he basically like an

accordion and folds up JB. He forces his leg down in a stress position. You can tell he's fucking with him physically. JB is very uncomfortable being bent in half. Like this, Oh, he's actually it's like extremely inappropriate, but he's got to pretend to be out and knocked out at the same time. And he slaps his head, you know, he paintbrushes him.

The Bishoff definitely was achieving more than one thing here. He was definitely like, yeah, you lay into me and I'll lay into you, knowing that he's actually gonna get a chance to like physically like fuck this guy around, an asshole. Totally, You're a winner, Bischoff, it's announced, and slaps him in the head with Bully Ray taking photos with the phone and raises Eric's hand and he takes a pick posing with the karate stance over boor ashes

carcass. Later on, they asked Dixie backstage what she'll remember about Bischoff, and she says she'll remember all the lies he told her and his ability to constantly make trouble backstage, and how he took my company away from me and came between me and Hulk Hogan and other than that nothing, Wow, all

these incredible memories. Later on, Hogan again has all the talent in the office and Chris Daniels goes first and makes a pitch about how he lost it lockdown, and how the Motor City machine Guns had lost it lockdown, so why reward failure by giving them a tag title match to nine Again? These teams are all lobbying Hulkogan and get the shot. ODB and Eric Young are a team. They're talking about it that they're putting them down is having only

one gear. They're talking about how other teams have potty mouths, and Chris Saban talks about how the machine Guns dedication speaks for itself, how they've won the titles here and overseas, and we want it more. We're hungry, Hulk, which has nothing to do with wanting the championships. They just didn't want turkey legs for lunch again. Yes, and Hogan says, you guys are for real. I'm on that team, no doubt. So there's a note. There's that team for twenty twelve, no doubt you're missing that.

So yeah, I'll continue to deliberty backstage and that plays out later on. But it's time for Bischoff Appreciation Night. They got a red carpet on the ring canvas, they got a throne in the ring for Bischoff, a lion sculpture. I'm surprised you didn't have a taxi dermy you know what I mean? Yea, and a smoker for the guy. Flair comes out Bully as well, Kaz Daniel's gunner. These are all your heels, apparently at this point in time, always a very loosely formed version of the nWo revolving around

and circling Eric Bischoff at all times. You don't even know if this is immortal. You don't know what the fuck this is like today's is. After twenty five years in the industry, it's time to say bye to Eric Bischoff and indeed Boss, I mean, for all intents and purposes when it comes to on camera stuff that we'll be diving, It's time to say bye Eric Bischoff and tnah, what are you going to remember the most about his TNA run on camera? Um, well, it's actually coming up. Okay,

Flair, Tonight we are gathered not to morn, but to celebrate. Nobody alive knows how to celebrate more than me. He says. I gotta let you know, I gotta let you know something. This is happening on the fly here right now. So as we're as we're doing this, as you're doing this? I get a fucking spam text coming in says hi, brother. That's where I responded, did you brother? Who says? Listen? Are you John? I'm Catherine? You remember me? Just right back?

Whoa brother? Who you been to? Who you been talking to? Brother? All right, let's go with it. What did she say? Nothing yet? I'm waiting for response. Is Kate Kennedy? Dude? I told to talk to my attorney's just say? Are you working for Elsie I? Dude? LSI? Is this laser spine? Are you working LSI? Dude? Okay, not working for Working Laser Spine Institute, Like it's a style of working. Are you working laser spine style? Dude? Did you?

Did you try to dissuade me from having fusion? Dude? I'm gonna write, did you dot dot dot? I've recently become interesting interested. I love doing this? Did you? Of course? I'm saying it all day? See what fucking happens? I mean the biggest you know, we've spent a lot of time, you know, talking about the similarities and contrasts between hill,

Cogon and Abyss over the course of TNH. It just occurred to me, Yes, yes, The biggest difference between the two, uh huh is how easy it is to convinced then they don't need fusion and Holt's case back surgery and that this is case Asians Betterson Agian brother exactly couldn't have said it better wise. The idea is the ramifications of what was just said are whipping through his mind faster than he can verbally express. You know, like he's who, brother, what? What? What? Why? Why would he

say? What like that? What? What do you mean? I do that all day? I did it today. I was just like, brother, what something happens? Like he's addressing one person in one situation, and then right off in his peripheral vision, something gets his attention to what that was unexpected? Who's expecting? Brother? Probably Jennifer McDaniel, Oh sorry, Heather clem what tonight? Flair says, We're gathered not to mourn, but to celebrate. Nobody alive knows how to celebrate more than me. Google me.

That's my wife's favorite line. All right, Flair, come down tonight we celebrate Eric Bischoff. If you have any knowledge of the sport of professional wrestling, you know he has been a major impact player. No pun intended. As they serenade Bischoff with the Hey Hey goodbye SONGA covers the ears on the photograph of Eric that's on an easel in the ring, so the picture

of Eric can't hear the chant. He's such a good he really is, Flair says, And people wonder why I don't like wrestling fans, And you're the rudest most I don't line people I've ever met. My friend that a man that has impacted TENA wrestling impacted TENA wrestling Again, that's funny. Did he TNA impact wrestling as well? More than any of the person? Is Eric Bischoff? And here's the music, And man, am I going to miss that music? Beautifully mixed and sourced and so inspired? Was Eric Bischoff's

TNA fame such a farce? He comes out with a somber looking face, and he gets in there and sits on his throne, and Flair apologizes for the behavior of these fans and says, I'm much better off when I'm telling the world what you have meant to me. The men in this ring, Christopher Daniels is bringing it out of him to actually cry during this, which is so fucking funny, and he's clearly, you know, not doing it because he's planning on being focused on because they don't really show him, but

you can see him in the background. He's he's put an extra for working at this point in time in TNA. He's just being so goofy. Him and Kaz are just like such a hidden gem part of the show around now because they're just they know it's not to be taken seriously, I mean,

and they so they brace that. They run with that, and they say such goofy shit and do such foolish things like there's a there's a scene towards the end of the year where they bring out of Santa and he sits in a throne and James Storm super kicks in the Santa and Storm and Daniels and Kaz grabbed the side of the throne and like pretend they're not doing it, but they just help lift up the chair so the Santa could take But they're

not like they're supposed try to be a fend Santa, right right, they're not trying to hurt him. And hundreds of fathers had the honor of working for you. Flair, says Dixie Carter should be somewhere on her knees. Rick Flair says, thanking you for the day you came to TNA, and Bischoff nods along somber lea. Even though I don't like Hulggan, you're the reason that whole Coogan is in TNA, Flair says, And more importantly, you're the reason I'm here, and I can't thank you enough. These gentlemen

right here, I'll know what you've done for us. Is there a woman in the audience that wants to go home and sleep with this? Do you mind if I give this picture of you to some girls? He says, I hope he was fans at home of impact A pre sh what Eric Bischoff has done, the wisdom the man that was not afraid to cross the line. Bischof starts crying, there we go, the fucking crossing the line thing again. What line did he cross? Rick? Rick says, he crossed

the line in quote developing television programming. I agree, Gunner says, this is a sad day for all of us, and he personally wants to thank Eric. You've been like a father figure to me. Nothing but opportunities. He shakes his hand and thanks him. Just on a headline actually that Gunner's gonna be retiring from wrestling. He became Jackson Riker and NXT and then got

fired for doing something right wing on Twitter. I forget what he did, but oh boy, yeah, um Flair and all the excitement I almost forgot. And he opens up a green box and inside a special gift, he presents a Rolex watch to Eric Bischoff, which Bischof said his podcast he later gave to his son because I'm not a jewelry guy, Bully says, we hope you wear that with pride, not do It's not jewelry. It's a watch. It's a biscuit. And then we go a biscuit, that's what

they call rot. I fought it, I thought I fought and a biscuit was something having with Christopher Park there is to get the fun in his name. So like a biscuit, brother given a Rolex is a gift? How like triple h is that? But serious about it? Right? Like? Um would that? Um it's a special night. And uh trying to make Rick Flair cry by giving him a couplinks. Yeah, my god, look, I just want you to have this for me to you brother and recognition

of all of our time together on the NHS. It's beautiful. Can I pawn it? I need? I need? How much is worth anybody? Thousand dollars? Can I off a bookie? He calls, he calls it, the room calls high spots. He's like, I got I got new collateral? Can I get ten grand? Um Bullie says, we hope you wear it with pride. And I can honestly say I've never admitted this to another man before, but you were the wind beneath my wings. Be stupid

oric. Thank you so much, big hug. Daniel's crying, and then the song hits and outcomes Garrett Bischoff with Jeremy Borash and some others like Austin Airies and the Motor City machine Guns. Bischoff says, Um, a couple of the guys, JB and myself were in the back, were talking,

and JB came up with a really good idea. If this really is indeed your last Nightted impact dad, we all wanted to contribute, um, so I got got a little something from us RVD chant because Van Dam's out there too, weigh in the back, Borash says, you see we all got together. We thought it'd be fun to contribute and Eric, while that Rolex is nice, we thought we'd get something more symbolic of who you are. You know, the football has a Hall of Fame and the Cowboys have the

Ring of Honor. Eric, tonight, we would like to introduce the first person in the TNA Shed of Shame. And then so Calval, like a game show host, gestures to a curtain, and through the curtain comes a bright neon commode. Of course, what's they wailing up the ramp? They start all start brawling. Garrett runs over, grabs his dad in a front face lock with Borash, directing traffic into the crowd. Borash opens the commode. Bischoff looks to the people, Garrett that is do you want it?

And Eric Bischoff gets tossed in barely. He just walks in. Oh I know right, seriously, he tapped on the shoulder him. He's a toy soldier. He's walking in there, man, And they shut the door and there's a chain they link it shut. Garret Bischoff looks to the people, wide eyed, asking them if they want him to push over this stop at shit box. Garrett knock it off pal should it go over? He asks, I'm thinking probably not. Yeah, Bischoff, pardon me. Borash leads

a countdown, and they pushed the commode over. Eric takes the bump and they point to a ship stain on the floor that was underneath the porta potty and they start, you know, holding their nose. Do you smell that? And I mean, this is like fucking such a pathetic attempt to do like a raw thing so bad. That's so bad, just is they The execution isn't awful, but just the idea that like they're trying to be less in TNA. It's like imposter sinder. No, I know, it's like

it's not it doesn't work as well. No, so of course the door opens and Eric Bischoff is covered in brown liquid. He said in his podcast, that's what I remember. That's what I remember. That's my favorite memory of that. You're building to building towards right there. He said he doesn't remember exactly what they used um for the ship, but he said it was

sweet whenever it was. Maybe it was chocolate, sarap or something thickened with an agent, maybe Delo Brown not fit Finley, they wouldn't hire his ass in twenty twelve they needed a room on pay roll for brook. Hogan today says Eric always was known for stirring the ship. And this prove it that Clever Bischoff screaming, you son of a bitch. We're told the reek is horrible by Tazz and it you know, laments, how horrible away this is for the poor man's career to end. Why is uh? You know,

I don't understand about this whole thing? Why is um? Why Why is Taz suddenly playing heel comment? All of a sudden he's got He's defending Eric. It's so weird, like that's been his thing, which it has not. Like today's twenty five years in the industry, and this is the exit for Eric Bischoff. TESSAs, forget about the silver anniversary. This is a

brown anniversary. Clever, Today's Eric Bischoff. Goodbye and good riddance. As Bischoff continues to heave and vomit, and we sign off for Bischof's final on camera appearance. And is it actually his final one? It is? Wow. The the Cornerstone TV presences of the TNH journey, all of a sudden, they're starting to fall off that's right. Steady, slow, but steady. May Pact opens with Hogan seated at a desk looking at a memo Brother Impact Wrestling Show seven thirty four. He says, is the title of the

memo? I think I've got this. I sure hope. So he's got an office full of top heavyweight title challengers and it's time to dialogue and negotiate. Let's talk about the format sheet Brother Impact Wrestling Show seven thirty four. Tape date ding twelve, air date five twenty four twelve. And then you guys know what this is. It's the show format. This is what makes Impact Wrestling work, or that would be not work. I'll say Open Fighting

Night. It's kind of open everyone's eyes. And this week on Open Fighting Night, you're gonna have a lot more changes than even I expect him. How much you guys to take a look at this. This is what goes on in that creative meeting or earlier in the day. I'm sure you guys have all seen it. But that's what's supposed to happen on the show tonight. A lot of people love that old stuff. A lot of people are voicing their opinions on how much they love a few little changes we started,

but we are you okay with that? Yeah, I'm fine with it. Okay, whatever you want to do, you get the bush, right, So what's what's this four men? Well, that's what we're supposed to do. Now, this is you know, I really can Pogan resonates the premise of open anybody. Oh yeah, and you have to fight in there's going to be a guaranteed title match all four men, which are all four of you, guys. I start to grill you guys, and then eventually I

figured out the game plan, which doesn't work anymore. So we're opening this thing up to an open form. We've got a situation with Rude, who's on the verge of becoming the longest reigning Impact champion ever once he defends this title here at Open Fighting Night, if he wins, he becomes you know what I would consider the greatest champion ever here at t Andam Pac Russell. The record is not hold about this man right here, aj Styles, who's

made a huge infert And what and what importance is that? What importance of Israel exact reigning champion is important to me, It's important to the fans, it's important to you know that in the stylisha of the way this business is. Yes, I guess many times you win it? Oh yeah, I guess what's something important about being a gold medalist? Are you serious? I'm just saying I'm just lit medalist. At least, he is not talking to

you, I don't get. I'm just trying to tell you that it's important to me just as much as that gold medal is important to you all. I'm not saying it's dotty, I understand. I'm to me, that's your op. And you know, these guys laid the groundwork and then people started piling on over the year, you know. And I don't know the sequence

of how it happened. I'm sure you probably do, but you know, from a curt Angle to Jeff Harry, Paul Toglan stumbling on the bandwagon and all this momentum is pushing us into a fast forward situation that has these normal ways we normal ways we do shows don't work anymore. I can say that again, Yeah, should you you know, try to break this role the roots on because I've won more titles than anybody else's singles titles. Oh you

said you won more titles singles titles, be more specific impact titles. Ten titles that we're talking about, because that's the only ones I recognize here. All right, you want us to convince you. I need to convince you. Convince me why I should face Bobby Rude. Convince me a guy that's won more tag titles than anybody, who's always been a team player, who just as of late recently has broken out and become a main event singles competitor.

A guy that's never won the big one, a guy that's never been the world's heavily champion. Everybody else in here as convinced me. While you deserve a shot, let me ask you a question. You are the be all and ended all of all business. Putting you over right now, I'm telling you that when it comes to pro wrestling, Hulk Hogan is number one. I've been around for twenty years. I'm not a slouch. Why do I have to convince you why I should face Bobby Rude for the World Heavyweight

title. You know that when you look at the four of us, I remind you more of those guys that you went to war with back in the day than anybody here. I'm the most legit guy I'm not taking anything away from these guys. Okay, they're all tough, but I'm the most legit. You know, people fear me for a straight up shoot. You know, people walk the other way when I walk in a room. Ye. I could even intimidate you, Hogan, if I wanted to, But I

got respect for you. I'm not gonna sit here and flat my gums about why. You know? Why is that true? Kurt? Is that true? Is he the most intimidating guy in here? I don't believe. So I'll tell you what. Why don't you intimidate me? Kurt? I just gave you respect before. Okay, I could intimidate you if I want.

I've intimidated you in the ring before, I've backed down from you. As a matter of fact, you'd probably admit that I'm the hardest, hottest hit ind of it you've ever been in the ring with, and you know, the most talented guy I've ever been in the ring with. Major Why do you deserve it? Do you think Bobby inside now better than anybody just because you guys used to be find He's been here a long time, so bye, I've been here longer. You know that this is all about for me,

that's about any can drink. I don't want him to become the longest reigning world heavyweight champion in Tenna history. I want that for me. It's selfish. Yeah, yeah, it's selfish. I don't I don't care. I want it. So all right? Should we wrestle? Who won? You? Did Kurt beat me? So who deserves it? Right now? You want to be a man? You think just because and I wasn't gonna bring it up, and you know that you asked me, and I didn't

bring it up. But if you want to depend on Chris and Frankie to help you out, then you go and told me straight up, hurt. You told me that I just bring something up. Your plan is working perfectly right now, isn't it. Your plan is working perfectly. You just sit down, you don't say words. Jeff Hardy, you amongst each other right exactly, working perfectly. Let the fast decide. You think you deserve of a shot at the title because you're Jeff Hardy, because everybody loves Jeff Hardy,

really and it works for me and your son les me. I respect you more than anybody in the company. What do you want? What do you want? Everybody in here has potential to stop this thing with Bobby. Bobby Rude is not a bad thing because as bad as Bobby Rude may want to be in as much as the fans hate him, you have to see the good in Bobby. Bobby Rude has locked this company down, and he's been a constant so that we can go and explore other avenues and give other

people chances and do open fight night and gut check. There's a lot of things that are good about Bobby Rude being champion, but as to the point now where he's starting to control the pace of this company, that's why it has to be stopped. As smart, we all know that, of course he is, but he has to be stopped. So that's why I think you can beat him. That's why I think you can beat him. I think you can beat him, Jeff and Bully. I know that you can

beat him, but for one simple reason, one simple read. So, you haven't won the big one yet. You've only been a single main event guy for a year. I'm gonna eliminate you, Bully. You're not going to get the shot. That's your final decisions. Brother. I think that's the right decision. Feels right. Do you think in your heart that it's the right decision? Yeah, yeah, Eric was right about you. Oh oh shit, shit, shit shit thoughts on that it sucks. It's atrocious

and I mean that was what seven minutes long? Come on, what do they think they're achieving? I mean, I think they're think they think they're achieving intrigue, but they don't realize that they're achieving nothing. I mean, lunacy. It's such a bad idea, It's so stupid. I mean, I can't imagine the only reason you end up with something like this is you're like forcing yourself to get a whole COVID on the show as much as possible.

Because unless that's the mission, I don't see how you ever arrive at this being a good idea, right agreed. I don't know where they fell in love with this notion that, you know, we need to dramatize the way wrestlers in reality get opportunities in the business. We need to make content, and we need to produce segments where wrestlers re enact what it's like to politic I mean, you think wcwan in two thousands bad? You know,

I think roosterific television is bad. I humbly submit that this is just as ass backwards. I'm not saying it's worse than Russo in terms of like his lowest common denominator schizophrenia kind of way of doing shows. And it's pretty bad, but it's just it's too clever by a mile. You know. They never actually stop and say, wait, what the fuck? Like we're going somewhere, how does this enhance getting there? How does this enhance the that

moment that we're all getting to well this and it doesn't. It's just like these it's almost like a commercial in the middle of impact, you know what I mean, It's like a behind It's like if the behind the scenes feature out on a DVD, Yeah, was sprinkled in the actual movie itself. Yeah, the movie just stops and yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I would love everyone's going to disown it now or blame other people for for poor execution. And maybe I don't know, maybe people somethings this

good stuff. But I would love to be able to be a fly on the wall when they were conceptualizing this. I mean, I get it, he trying. I mean, I will say this for it I'm not defending it. I'm simply stating a fact that it's different. It is that it is an attempt to be more reality TV. Yeah. Really, it really is just like being like, I agree to produce a show with it with Jason right right? Exactly? How would we do this? Let's do it for wrestling? If we were doing it, if we had, if we

had, if we had Scott Bayo? Here would you know, Jason, let's think about this. How don't we have we have all this talent. We got my son Garrett and get we get Garrett freaking not gonna do it? Please God? We got Hogan. You know, how would we do this if we were pitching it with Bayo? You, hopefully Eric wouldn't exactly, And that's the whole idea, Pal, you wouldn't be pitching it with

Bayoof. Jeans okay, oh absolutely please? He he He fucking loves the the la business casual, all right, of wearing a fucking wearing jeans, you know, some some nice shoes with a button down shirt tucked in with a belt and a blazer. That's what he loves. That's his dream, all right, moron. He doesn't want to have meetings he wants to take meetings exactly. He wants he wants to have nothing, doesn't want to eat lunch. He wants to lunch, yes, And he wants to dialogue,

and he wants to exactly. You know, he wants to conceive story and plotline and desire story discipline at the end of the day, exactly, that's what it's all about. Thanks Eric. So, Hogan's trying to recruit the guy that can take the world title off Bobby Rude because this is a real problem. We have a champion and impact post Hogan's arrival, that's had the belt for more than four weeks. This is a fucking emergency. Yeah,

why are they? Why are What's He's not doing anything that bad. He's just like Bobby Rude, that is, he's just doing whatever he wants every week, and he's fighting. He's a fighting champion. He's defending all the time, or at least he's wrestling all the time. So it's just like, I don't know, just because he's antagonistic towards Whole Cogan and doesn't cow cower under Whole Cogan's GM authority, I don't, Okay, I guess, but what we got to do something about this guy. Qualified. You know,

I'm not saying Bobby Rude is a bad thing. He's locked this company down, but it's to the point now where he's starting to control the pace of this company. They're actually making a storyline at a Hogan feeling like he's losing the ability to characterize what TNA is to be so stupid. He's all this momentum, like the old way of doing it. What are you talking

about? Man? What are you talking about? It's hard enough to understand what Hogan is talking about when he uses all this all these words you know what I mean, and like a regular interview, but when he's like using these euphemisms and essentially a promo, it is just Maddeningly, it is maddening how hard it is to all parts. So, yeah, Bully goes away with a puppy dog face and let's just let's call it a seed planted the way he shoots death stare at Hulk Hogan when Hogan tells him he's not the

guy, and Bully Ray fires back with Eric was right about you? Later on, Holkan is on the phone, Yes, sir, I made my first cut not pretty at all. He's administrating. Of course, of course goes up to angle. You've been on a crazy roll, this Olympic thing, dieting, getting injured away from him packed, I only doubt dieting.

Yeah, he was trying to cut weight to qualify for the Olympic Games, right, remember that now, And a Solar System member was really quick to point out and I'm glad they did when we were talking in our twenty eleven coverage around the Bound for Glory main event and cited that, you know, part of Kurt Engle's podcast where he was talking about the fact that he was so lean around this time because he was getting into, you know, the

condition they wanted him in for the Warrior movie. That movie was already in the can before he started looking like this. This was attributed to and I'm remembering it now from the research, him convincing himself that he had a chance of making the Olympic team again in twenty twelve. I remember that. I mean, what a goofy fucking thing to do. And that's you know, he has a whole story about how he heard his leg in a match, but I also read that he heard it training h you know, outside of

TNA and here's whole cooke in making reference to it on TNA television. So to me that that adds credence to the idea that Kurt did not injure his match doing pro wrestling, his leg, his hamstring doing pro wrestling. He it trying to be fucking twenty years old again for some reason. And it was so remarkable how a gold medalist, one of the more celebrated US Olympic wrestlers of the nineties, if not ever right, his story is very inspirational.

When he won the gold medal in ninety six was a pretty big story. Let alone the fact that he won a superstar m pro wrestling, and no one, no one in the amateur wrestling community is covering the fact that Kurt Angle is telling people, anyone who listened, that he's training for the

Olympics again. You would think somebody that covers you know, the national team or somebody that covers the international circuit and wrestling, would, I don't know, do something interview him about it. And no one, fucking no one cares. He's a goof. He's just physically destroyed. I mean, he's twenty years older than he needs to be to compete. He was an undersized

heavyweight his whole life, and of course he's going for heavyweight. So yeah, this is a very strange time for Kurt Angle to say the least. And Hogan's talking about it, and then he turns to Jeff and he says, you've been nothing but the consummate professional since you came back. I was listening very closely for that one. Yeah, right, got to be careful with that one. Um Angele says, if you're the guy the fans love, picked Jeff, if that's what you want. If you want the most

outBut a guy in the company, pick aj Styles. But if you want the guy that we'll get the job done, pick me. I want the most solid guy. Right now, this is all this continues to play out that thing you just played that eight minute. It's still going in bits and pieces throughout the course of this episode of it's still going. I couldn't. I couldn't either. I couldn't believe how much time they took with this this idea. Maybe if it was like one segment of show right, you could

really pick a scenario that really fits this treatment and it'd be memorable. It'd be like the the episode of him the part of Impact every week that you know, supposed to give us a glimpse into something we're not supposed to see. But it's just it's just the whole show with just you know, they throw some worker bees out there to have a fifteen minute match or ten eight minute match and do a bunch of high spots and stuff, and there's great

matches. You're not great, not really great, but there's good matches every week on Impact. But it's all just commercials for this shit right Oh so embarrassing. That's why Jeff, he says, you're eliminated. I want the most solid guy right now. You're too shaky for me right now. The victories have been too close that you've been getting lately, and I've got to have someone I know I can bet on one hundred percent and I need one more piece of info. I need to feel what the fans feel. So

you know what, I'm gonna make my final decision. I'm gonna call it out there in the ring at the last second. So he comes out and root and angle and aj or in the ring, he says, you know, it's been just as intense in the back here at the Impact Zone as it is in the ring. Yeah, the fact that it's just as intense back there is the exact problem. Hulk right. I thought it was going to be the toughest decision. But at the end of the day, whether

it's Kurt or AJ, I can't make the wrong decision. Either wants a great chance of becoming the new champion. And Kurt says, your track He says, Kurt, your track record is impeccable. AJ, You're one of the main You're definitely one of the main event guys to ever step into that role and hold this. I'm sorry, that doesn't make any sense anyway. So at the end of the day, I cannot make a wrong decision, and I cannot tell a lie because AJ knows the champ better than anybody.

I'm going with you AJ on Open Fight Night. So AJ takes off a shirt and jumps up and gets ready, and Kurt Angle isn't mad. He DAPs up AJ out of respect and leaves, and it's Bobby Rood versus AJ styles and they show during the match, Hogan backstage at Gorilla with drinks on the desk, and you know, Alice Snow in the background on the headsets, and someone comes up to Holkan says, mister Hogan, your guest has arrived, and he's all smiles about that, and during the course of the

match, it comes down to it. AJ is distracted by the Claire Lynch storyline and Dick, Christopher Daniels and Kassarian doing things every week to get in Style's head, so that when he goes for the springboard for fifty splash, he lands across Bobby Rood's knees. Bobby Rood hits the Fisherman suplex for the one two three, retaining his title of j Styles. On Open Fight Night, Rude celebrates with champagne and confetti. He's now officially, they say,

the longest reigning champion and TNA history. As a result of that victory and hold, Cogan comes out and says, I know you were good. I didn't realize how good you really were, and a Bobby Rude hands Hulk the flute of champagne, says, I have to congratulate you, but you know much respect, shakes his hand. Hogan says to Rude, you have done things that I never dreamed would be possible, especially when I showed up at Bound for Glory last year took it away from you, the we want Sting

chance starts and he says, the hard work has just begun. They totally know what's going to be Sting. That's one thing at DNA. We heard it when when they try to make a surprise at a Hogan's appearance on that England House show, they're chanting Hogan the second there's any hint that there's a mystery guy coming out. They all know I want to apologize for the later arrival and Rud says, I don't want to wrestle anybody else, and they bring him out. Here comes Sting. Are you so excited, dude?

What why? Let's go out? And they come back on Stings in there and Mike Taney says, and I quote, oh my god, connect the dots. Hogan's special guest has arrived. I'm supposed to be connecting the dots all this time. It shouldn't someone have told me but a goof shouldn't someone have equipped me with an official TNA bingo Connect the Dots scorecard? And Hogan's

is starting next week impact us a brand new time slot. This is when they moved from nine to eight Eastern and next week at eight pm on Spike TV, he says. He says the time and the date, like three times, I got something special going on. You can't run from anymore. Right at the start, Bobby Rude, I'm gonna surround this ring with Impact wrestlers and we're gonna have a little fashion lumberjack match you and Sting at Impact next week at eighty thirty first Impact. That's next. I'm so excited more

Sting versus Bobby Rude. Can't get enough. And then that match, Sting beats Boby Rude the scoping deathlock. It's non title taps out, Hogan comes out. That is the man that that's Impacts number one. Man. You just got a little piece tonight. So as general manager, I'm gonna make headline news right now. The main event at Slam of Ursary is going to be Rude and Stinger. This program continues only this time the world titles on the line, and this is the show May thirty first, so far as

I can tell. The first time, they start teasing Boss that Brook Hogan is coming to Impact Wrestling. We don't know why, we don't know him. What role later Hogan is with Taz We played that in part one, appreciates him stepping up for the Gut Check Challenge, and then Dixie Carter comes out halfway to the top of the hour here on this Live Impact. All right, well I'm sorry, okay, don know huh. They make it seem so momentous that she's coming out on this live Impact in a new time.

So does gonna ask you something? Say I noticed this. So between April twenty six, by the way, and the and the eight and the May twenty fourth Impact, Hogan does nothing, not really of consequence. He just does more of it, like talking to people backstage, because now he's doing he's not just doing these backstage segments for the World title program, He's doing it for like three or four programs an episode. Well he's got a

season. Charge. You make a good point, because it's like when I started kind of conceptualizing TNH, I was like, Okay, the best way to do it so that we don't miss any gems is to just do every Hogan segment, just comment on every Hogan segment. And as the years went, I was like, wait a minute, this is he is on ninety percent of these Impacts in twenty twelve when he becomes general manager. It's it's

not tenable and it's not good. You think this drags it points Oh my god, if we did him talking to like fucking ODB or talking to like um the Chavo Guerrero's tag team, or oh my god, here all day and it's the same thing over and over. And then Brooke just does it for the women. She does this for weeks and months on end, where she's meeting in groups with all the knockouts and trying to make decisions about who

gets opportunities and hearing about bitching and complaining and cavetching. I mean, this is what they put in the air. This is getting this thing back on track, and you realize that this is what you want as a wrestling fan. Yeah here I am. What can I say? But I'm looking at these ratings for twenty twelve and it tells a much different story. I guess those people just didn't know what they wanted back then. That's right, Dixie gets in the ring. What a great evening. Um do I have?

No, I don't think I have the whole thing. It's hard to believe that in ten short days, TENA Wrestling will be ten years old. I'm so proud. No one's no one finds more reasons to mark milestones than Dixie Carter. You know what I mean, Like every two weeks she's got some new way of trying to make everything matters so bad. It's like she's trying to throw shit that she thinks could matter right on the wall. If it does matter, let's run with it. She's just like she's just stating press

releases. She's like a press release speaking machine. That's right. I'm so proud of all the success that we've had. Every man and woman who steps into our ring. You've made such an impact on our success in our business and to all you fans, I don't know what else to say, but we would not be here without you. Thank you so much. And actually, considering how thin these crowds are getting at the impact zone, I think you would be here without them. I honestly do. I think you would

be taking even if they weren't there. I don't think they fucking matter as much as you think they do. A lot of them are paying a dime to be there, but they will. On September tenth, Arlington, Texas, as they go back on the road for pay per view, which was a positive development but cost them a shitload of money through twenty twelve and twenty eleven, twelve and thirteen Arlington, Texas Slam Aniversary. It'll be a special night, she says, we will be announcing the very first TNA Wrestling Hall

of Fame inductee. Just what they need, a Hall of Fame. Wait a minute, you say September. I thought this didn't happen sooner than then. Um, yeah, I don't know. I wrote said September. It did happen June June? Yeah, did she see September when she met June? I don't know. Maybe I was spacing out. Yeah. Just what they need, right, a Hall of Fame. God, I need a Hall of fame. You have to celebrate who who, Who has been dynamic in ten years, who's brought us to essentially the same point we've been in

for ten You know what I mean. It's like, I know, you gotta wait. Basically, it's it's who's let us down the least. And this is the Hall of Fame where they negotiate a deal with WWE, where Rick Flair goes back to get inducted as the part of the Four Horsemen for his second ring and they loan Christian Cage under w B contract back to t NA to make an appearance at Slim Reversary and accept a Hall of Fame induction. Christian Christian being the world Champion of TENA in two thousand and four,

unbelievable. What the fuck? Like? What what you guys really didn't get much in return? What do you think you're achieving here? And and it's famous because Christian, Like you've never seen a wrestler broadcast more that they don't want to be somewhere than Christian And that mean wow, I mean the guy is just trying to like, what's the word I'm looking for, poker face his way through the whole thing. He wants to get the fuck out of

there. He is there under duress, Okay, under protest. But tonight Dixie says, it's very special for us. We're going live all summer long and we're kicking it off here tonight. You may have heard about some changes going on. One relates to the knockouts. I have a special place in my heart for the girls, as I know a lot of the guys in here do too. That's one way to put it, yeah, right, seriously, been a special place in their pants for the girls exactly well,

but specifically the cross thank you. So a lot of guys right now have their hands down their pants all right, waiting, just holding, waiting for what huh, waiting waiting to explode. Let's talk about it. Good fucking streamers. Yeah, you know when when people celebrate, but it's a whole different thing when Brooke Hogan comes out and the fucking im bag zone, the

whole different stream zone of impact. Ye. And how pathetic is it that this is what Stephanie does at Wrestlingmania thirty two when she unveils the woman's title. She's just doing the same thing. She's like, Okay, people care about our women. I'm gonna make it about me because I'm an executive who happens to be a woman, right and I'm gonna pretend that I uniquely allowed this to happen, or you know, made it happen. And where would we be think about it? This? Actually, where would we be if

Vince had had two sons? I don't know, a much different place you think. I mean, we're triple h you know he's not married into the fucking company, right right? You really think one of its sons is to marry a wrestler. You know, you think someone in the locker room would be able to politic their way into the hierarchy if the gender roles were reversed, I doubt it, no way. You know, there'd be relationships there, but there would also, you know, then be fourteen million dollars to

settlements we'll find out about in the Decade's correct? Fucking that's exactly right. And yeah, so Dixie's out there. We've got the best female wrestlers in the world, and we want to take them to a whole other level. There's a lot of taking to a whole other level. And the show looks exactly the same. It's like people telling you you're going up in the elevator, but every time the door's open, it's the same floor. That's DNA. I need someone working on that with me, she says. When I

looked around, I realized this person was under my nose. The last few years, she's been born into the business, surrounded by the best minds this industry has ever had, and every conversation we've had with her, her enthusiasm and her passion for what we do, her outside the box, thinking, yeah, that's one way to put it all these guys want to think inside her box. Ironically, stay hand up, she says, and help me. Welcome. Are you ready for this job? Title? Boss general manager

for Hulk is one thing. What's a Brooks title? I don't remember? Executive in charge of the knockouts division? Brother? Is she gettig better title than me? Can we um? Can we take five? Everybody? Thank you? Why Dixie? Brother? Why is brook tin you got a better title than I do? Do? E? I see? Dude? I mean, what's going on? Are you? Are you farming? Brother? Right? I mean, if if there's a problem with my job performance, we can talk, Dixie. But to bring in a member of my own

family, and you know sort of you know, vault past me. I'm left thinking, no, what am I? I'm here gesturing with my hands, my watch hand, it's going out. You know you've been talking to Linda, dude? Did you have you? You know? Her courage? Is that what the sea stands for? Any? I see, brother, brother, you've been fucking her boyfriend? Dude? Right exactly, You've been fucking Charlie Hill. Dude. I heard you said you're gonna bring in Charlie

Hoss. Do you mean Charlie Hill. Dude, what do you how many Charlie's you bring an in brother, Charlie Horse right now, dude, that would have been a fucking moment and impact. You have Hogan in the ring cutting of promo and Charlie Hill comes out of the crowd and beats the ship out of him. Now we're talking Charlie Hill Horse right now, dude. If Hogan was really about business in TNA, he would have had his He would have had Linda come in and like, you know, try to fucking

ruin his life on TV. Absolutely would have been great. Done business. She said, you're a bit grave. Heel Jesus Christ. Look at the woman. Imagine that she comes out and like makes out with Charlie Hill every week on TV to fuck with absolutely splints people off so much, all right, or you could just swap out Charlie. Charlie could be there, you know, just for but you could swap out for you know, actual rest. She'll make out with the wrestler and everyone want to see him get his

ass beat like edge with Leda and h Brook comes out. Okay, there's another sign in the crowd. Brook equals ratings that one brought to you by the sign Factory Farm on retainer that the Bishop Hogan regime seemed to always be

able to surface. And Brook comes out in the IMPACTSZ to one of her own songs, looking exactly like her mom, exactly with curled blond hair and a tight black dress, and Mike Taney says, from television personality to recording artist to movie roles, Brooke has accomplished so much in the entertainment business at such a young age that all stops to accomplished. I don't know if i'd

call her rugal roles accomplishments. And the fact that she's out here and drawn a tnheck tells you all you need to know about how much legs that thing. She's got no accomplishments. All right, she gets another ring pack on a chick pack on the chip's she's she's runner on fumes here. Yeah, I think that's right. She just doesn't care, you know. It's like that. That's the thing. I don't know if she would. If she did care, that she'd be getting more opportunities. But I don't know.

I just I see in Brook Hogan here it's just like, all right, I'll do it like I don't. I don't really care. Yeah, she does seem very chill. We I mean again, you know that that seems to be much more of a vibe than I really expected of her. Yeah, you expect her to be a total nightmare. Dixie says, I remember when I called and asked you if you would do this. The first thing you said was yes, But what was the second? Brooks says, You're gonna tell my dad, You tell my dad? O God, and then

Dixie says, he's been very supportive. It was us girl power talking about the most important girls in wrestling business today. You've excite me when we talk about this and looking forward to all you're going to do for us. There's some polite applause and Brooks's Dixie, seriously, this is amazing. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Women love that word opportunity. I've noticed in Run they loved all the They always what opportunity like in um in entertainment,

you know, incredible opportunity, Like an opportunity came across my desk. This opportunity I can't pass up. You know, I have a family, but there's an opportunity. It's like, yeah, family comes second. To opportunity. All the Butt of Murray shows, like the the Bella is like, oh my god, an opportunity, Like I want to I want to finally settle down and set on my white couch, but someone wants to put my name on a bottle of wine. It's an opportunity. Wants to give me

an opportunity. It's so annoying of things. Was that for things chances to expand my brand and oh fucking the opportunity. They mean a twice a month zoom call, that's what they mean. Basically, Basically, an opportunity is something that requires as little work as possible to earn money. That's when an

opportunity is come on. It's something that like you can call work, but like you'll get the same result whether you work or don't at it because they're just licensing your In fact, you're actually going to get more by not doing anything exactly exactly yeah, because opportunity suggests that you didn't source it, that it just fell into your lap, you know. So it's like how much I mean, you deserve credit for building your name up such that anybody would

consider you for licensing. But it's kind of funny, like but it's an opportunity. I mean, the opportunity is to get something for nothing. Exactly. That's the opportunity. On my grind, there's I have to like spend an hour looking at like designs of like a sweater or a wine bottle, or floor plans or you know, Oh everybody like nods because I picked this light lighting fixture for the office. You know, fucking get the fuck out of here. I'm so over that shit. So thanks for welcoming. I'm

just going on a total. The engineer's nothing, she said. It's the word opportunity. Fucking mind good. It takes, it's all. It fucking takes opportunities. It's an opportunity for an opportunity. See if you can't like that, tell them if you can't explain the opportunity that it's not an opportunity. But here's the thing. Have you ever had an opportunity for an opportunity? Exactly right, there's an opportunity to get an opportunity to do something opportunistic.

And thanks for welcoming me with open arms. I have I have an opportunistic mentality for opportunities, that's right. And I've got guaranteed money for your guaranteed disappointment. A wise man once said that, and thanks for welcoming me with open arms. I guess she tells the impact, Faithful. I know how much the knockouts mean to you. I know you're all about girl power and you want them to be seen as wonderful, beautiful, talented women. I love this just as much as you do. How much for that,

Dbrook, because I don't love it that much. I mean, I don't fucking care. I mean I have listen, I don't I these women have not elevated themselves to the level for them part that I've seen of Yeah, what I know women can do in wrestling, Well, we haven't spent a lot of time on the women in Tnah. She just doesn't fit. But yeah, they were way better than ww's women in twenty ten, twelve nine.

Absolutely, they were given chances to have matches, commenced all the stuff that WW decided to have this epiphany and do in like twenty fifteen, TNA did six years before that. That's that's facts. Absolutely, Okay, great love it. Yeah, it was great. I mean it was they were putting women in main events on TV GA Gail Kim in awesome Kong had one of the best feuds in TNA history. Men or women. Um, yeah,

so they really did. They they really took women who were just like either weren't getting welcome to WW because they were still in the model mode over there in terms of their hiring, or left WW because they were so sick of it being about Like Gail Kim totally left because she was basically sick of

the objectification part of everything. And you know, just the whole attitude they had towards the female performers, right, that's the whole Aaron, Nikki and Bree like they like to tell the story about how they broke through that, how they like they were hired for that exact reason. But they were around

when suddenly it was like, just keep telling yourselves that, honey. You know, I think they did a very good job, and they were big contributors to the industry and bringing a new audience to the table, and they work hard and everything, but they just weren't great wrestlers, and so to act like they ushered in the era of women having great matches, it's fucking

hiarious to me. Right, just weren't good wrestlers. I mean, listen, we know we know who, the we know who, the who, the the the bridge and the gap was because she's still there trying to fucking matter, Natty Daddy. Yeah, she's the one. I mean, she's probably the first one of this. More of the like kind of a turn for me. Anyway that I noticed was like, oh, look, she's a fucking you know, she's wrestling. It's a really good call. But

she saw the whole thing clearly got hired because she could do that. She's you know, I don't say she's an ugly woman, but she's not. She doesn't have the characteristics that they were looking for then, not at all. And they allowed her to go out there and just work and and you know, and now she still tries to matter, wearing her little works there, doesn't she haven't seen her le she must be hurt. Yeah, she took that knee in the face from Shana. She ain't it broke her fucking

nose on SmackDown. Oh wow, I don't know that. Yeah, with a knee by mistake. And then yeah, Laddie, she did the honors for Charlotte and NXT that match where Brett was in her corner and flair Rick was in Charlotte's corner before Charlotte had you know, ever won a title, and a lot of ways, that was like a passing of that kind of guard too, now that I think about it, that that was one of the first matches where I was like, Okay, if they want to,

they can have female mainte of enters like this. This is proving it on a small scale before the NXT soundstage crowd. I get it. But by the time it was over here like no, that's probably just as good of a reaction as any two male maine of enters on main roster would get scaled up. So very interesting to put your finger on Natty there. But um, Brooke here says, I know I have some big yellow boots to fill. I'm taking this so seriously. This is so close to my heart.

I just can't thank you enough. I'm gonna work my butt off. And everyone in t Anda says thank you before we say thing, you know, they say thank you back before we say thank you to that. Right, we're just sitting here like waiting for a reason to care. What're you gonna do? Like, what do we whatever? What what is she doing? What what you gonna do? What are you saying, why what you're gonna do? Why do you say that, dude, what you're gonna do?

Broke, what do you what? Well, she just says, We're gonna have a lot of fun, ladies and gentlemen, Brook Hogan, and then her song June seventh, Impact, Hogan backs, don't really sad. I'm really sad by the way that this person did not respond back to me. Yeah. I think they get that you're having some fun with them. You're clearly not a senior citizen that will nail them your social security information. Hogan's backstage, it's not careful what you wish for, it to be careful what

you accept. That's how old words of wisdom for the week. L Cogan GM great idea. See aj what's up with that Bobby Rude dominating? Someone has to stop him. Brooke, I love you, but you accepted the job. You're the executive in charge. But be careful what you accept, he says to no one all particular, and then backstage, Brooke, Oh here I got that. Actually that that thing leading into the Brooke Okay, yeah, yeah, I have this one here. It is it's not be

careful what you wish for, it's be careful what you accept. Caul Coke brother, your great idea? Fixy aj? What's up with that Bobby Rude dominating? Somebody's gonna stop him. You know something, Brooke, I love you, but you accepted the job. You're the executive charge. I know you're gonna do a great job, but be careful what you accept because now it's game one. It's game on, Brooks. I love you calling my name. Oh knock knock, Hi, girls, you look beautiful. Look

at these outfits. Oh my god, these bodies. You guys look great. I wanted to introduce myself because I haven't had a chance to formally introduce myself and say hi, and look at you guys face to facebook. You guys are even more beautiful in person. Oh my goodness, thank you. I wanted to say thank you for letting me work alongside you guys. I'm so honored, I'm so excited, and I just wanted to quickly come in here wish you guys good luck. I am putting you guys in a four

way match tonight to see who's going to be the number one contender. Yeah, so that's good news. Do you guys get to do? Get out I'm excited because you guys are tough. You right knock me out. So anyways, I just want to wish you good luck. You guys are beautiful. Thank you hair makeup and your girly stuff. And I'll see you out there. Okay, thank you? All right? Oh, one more thing.

I know that I told you guys that I was going to be getting you guys media opportunities and things kind of outside the wrestling business to make you guys even bigger stars. And the first opportunity, even though I love all of you guys, first opportunity, though, is going to you, Miss velvet Um. I talked to Montgomery Gentry and they want you in their new music videos. So yeah, she's really good. Yeah. So after after this rins off, get all that sweat off, and pack up your stuff.

I got a learjette waiting for you, and you're gonna go shooting. Wow, brother, thank you. How am I supposed to feel after that? I don't. I mean, I'm trying to keep myself in check. I'm trying to not you know what I mean. I mean, it's it's listen, I think she's she she kind of speaks a little too much. Okay, yep, Brook, I think she's fine. Yep, agreed. I think she's perfectly fine. You know, she sounds like, uh, you know, kind of a general manager type kind of first thing. I'm

the job day one in, since day one type thing. You know, Hey, you guys look beautiful. Everyone's everybody da da da you look so oh my god, you guys could beat me. I've only been here one day and everyone's so nice. I feel like I'm part of the family already. Right, So I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I don't think I I I think it's stupid too. I don't like the music video thing. Now. She set up at these outside of wrestling opportunities, right, I don't get away. Sorry, I know, right, seriously,

I don't like that. I'm like, you know, how about we do some within wrestling opportunities first? How about they matter in the wrestling ring? Right, we go from there and then right, because I don't think anyone gives a shit that velvet skies in a music video, here's another chance to I've never heard before exactly exactly, guys, have another thing that'll make you too grand and then you sign away your your likeness and rights for the

rest of your life. Right, But because we pay for your food and brands, you feel like royalty. Let's fucking go. Yeah, I assume there was something going on because I remember I did see a look from Mickey James during the uh the music video thing. Um, but I think all, I don't think she's in the room. I don't think Mickey is among the women in the room, and that I'm pretty sure she is when she because I'm pretty sure I remember her getting yeah when she when she mentioned the

music video. I like that. I don't know if that was I don't know that plays out at all, but I remember, I'm sure, I'm sure not with us, not with us. Almost it turns out that, you know, Brooke gets fucking manhandled by Mickey or something. Does Brook belong and Impact is it? Does it make sense to use her? In your opinion? I mean, does it make sense to user? I mean I

think it does in what in what way do you mean? Well? To me, it's like Impact is almost obliged to do whatever they can and exercise any option available to them to put people on TV that you might have heard of, you know, and not not to do corny one off angles but like when they use the Jersey Shore people. I wasn't barish on that. I got it. You know, It's like, these are people that someone has heard of, that you know, that is willing to do something on

our TV show. And I feel like Brooke fit more of that category than Yeah. I mean, if you could, if you could, if you get the money to splurge and you can do it, you might as well. And I mean, you know, Brooks, Brooke had a you know, obviously a little bit of notoriety at the time. I don't know how many more eyes she was going to put on the fucking product. Yeah, I think it was worth finding out. It turned out to be like zero. But yeah, you know, I get. I mean, you know

she fits in. I mean, look, look, you're desperate, She's desperate. Come on, right, We're all good. That's right, speaking desperate back and then Rina Hoggans music comes off and there is full flex pyro shower. Yeah here and I got, I got. I got this to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Impactful Wrestling Conniversary Go home rather here we go, dude. This is a party here. It starts tonight because this is the ten year anniversary for Impact Rustling guys, and when you talk about party and

he Impact stars in the back and all of us here. We're starting tonight. The party's going all the way through. This weekend is Slam Anniversary and it's ending up next week right here live on Impact Rustling. The parties on Brothers and as a special supplies as a special gift next week right here on Impact Wrestling Thursday Live, We're going to defend the world title right here live. No matter who we're going to defend. Wait, brother, what is that? Even me? Who? Huh? Bobby Rude out and in fact

or T shirt he's now the longest reigning champ. I got a great idea, Hogan. Why don't you shut your mouth, he says, and show me the world champs in respect? Hogan Chance going off, Hogan making the skeptical stash face. Who over the last several weeks, he says, nothing but disrespect. Starting a few weeks ago when I became the longest reigning world champ in history of your company and you ruin my celebration and Hogan goes Bobby

Rude and Rude cuts him off. I'm not done. Then last week you surround the ring with a bunch of Lumberjackson put me in there with the icon sting and then tonight in a six man tag, only three days from walking to the main event defending my world title against Ding Hogan. Let me tell I'm not done yet. Wow. Now I come to find out after I'd be sting this Sunday that I got to come back here Thursday and defend once again Hogan. That's the way it goes. I said, I'm not done

yet, and he slaps the mic out of Hogan's hand. You see, Hogan, I figured you out. Okay, Robert and Rude, we'll see about that, right. Come on, dude, you hold Cogan are jealous of Bobby Rude, he says, and Hogan goes Brother Boof looks at the side, Hoof dash. You know even in your prime, you couldn't even lace my wrestling boots face to the side. I Hogan loving it. I'm the better wrestler. I'm the world champion and in world champion than you ever

were. And I suggest you get your general manager asked back to your office, and seeing you're not an active wrestler, grabs Hogan by the shirt. Now does Bobby Rude get the hell out of my ring Brother and stings music hit Hogan smiles and Rude's face. Um, he comes out with the job paint And when did he get back to Joker wearing the paint? But he

stopped doing the character? You tell me? I mean, I thought he was done with the whole thing when he when he when you know it was all gimmick to change Hogan back, and it was, but he just brought the paint back. I don't know why he kept painting his face that way, but he did, probably because he realized it was money and that it was better than anything else he was doing it. Did didn't they come out with an action figure with that paint? It's pretty Yeah, I don't know.

I can picture like a cardboard back card. I wonder if he just thought it was more merchandizable. There probably was a bunch of T shirts and stuff with Joker sting on it that they put out there because it got over. But I don't know. So that'd be a good question asking like, why did you keep doing the paint when you dropped the character. I'd like to hear his answering at keeping the character was fantastic? It was, it was it was, and I think to your point, it was just basically

like supposed to be this conceit to get Hogan to agree. Oh yeah, they got they had an action figure, they had a few lines at this point. That was one thing that I think they were able to do because they had Hulk Cogan, because I don't think they had an action figure deal before this, or a video game deal. I could be wrong about that.

They had a video game deal before they did for sure, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because um, I'm pretty sure I remember the Samoa jail they came out with, had the the paint on his face that Russo put on him. But that actually was that was before Hogan, I think. Yeah, because the first the first TNA Impact game came out in two thousand night Holy shit, you could have fooled me, man, Yeah, I remember, I remember, because I m do you care? I didn't get it, but I I think I downloaded a free like

a sneak peak type thing they had. They used to do that. I don't know if they do that anymore. Um, I should look, but they used to do that. I used to get like a little sneak peek on on certain certain games. You could download those like I remember I downloaded the UFC video game with Brock. I wanted to just play it with Brock and so you could add you had access to like four different fighters and I just played his Brock. That's huge too, Brock. You mentioned because this

is it. We don't have size this enough. This is the time period where UFC becomes more popular than WWE, even among wrestling fans. It was like a five year period or so. It ended around the rise of Connor McGregor where UFC fans kind of totally splintered off from being mostly wrestling fans who watched UFC as far as like the fan base that made the difference between like

a huge pay per view and a normal UFC pay per view. It was all the wrestling fans that came in, like ce him Punk got a little bit of that when he had his first UFC fight two d. Dana was never out of tricks to try to pull those fans in when when he needed to. And this is the time Man Brock comes in and oh nine, oh eight, really but oh nine. He has a huge fight against Frank Meer. I think it was ten maybe at UFC one hundred. I think it was two ten or nine. I'm gonna look that up. It pisses

me off that I don't remember which year it was. UC one hundred. Their huge show was twenty oh nine. Thought so I should have trusted my gun. But now it's like he's on an Ultimate Fighter. They did a season of Ultimate Fighter, the reality show with him as a coach against Junior Santos. He's the world champion of UFC. He's not just this curiosity attraction.

He's the fucking champion and he's the guy everyone's gutting for and every one of his matches is like a million buy show, and it's just you know that, and there you are. Right, someone didn't even watch UFC, but Brock had had you interested? Yeah, oh of course, yeah, I was. I mean I was. That was it? Like I I followed. I mean, hey, you know, I fucking I a DVRD that that K one show. Yeah, in the archives of TLF right now, if you're curious, rights to the hot right my d I had the

hour long version that was on free TV. Amazing that I had. Yeah, I remember, Yeah, I watched that. I was. I was totally into it. I mean, I don't again, I don't. I didn't. I didn't buy a fucking show. I don't think I ever watched any of his fights live, but I would always look to find his fights. I was into I was into him and Ronda Rousey, sure, and so whenever they had a fight, I would try to find an uploaded version, like on YouTube or something like that with then the week after it happened,

Yeah, I was. I was definitely. I mean again to the extent that I would google the results, as opposed to yeah, I didn't, I don't. I couldn't. You know, I never did any other fucking details that people do about these things, and you know, look at stats or anything like that. But I definitely was curious about the results.

That is one thing it's different about UFC fandom than ww fandom, Like, yeah, you got to look up the results of a w B pay per view you miss, but it's not you're not there to see you're not trying to find out who won. Really, You're trying to see if it was

any good, right, That's exactly it. Like, I'm actually, yeah, right, of course, I'm always looking at I'm always looking at people's star ratings to see if it's something I want to go back and look at Yeah, like you want to. We watch all that fucking shit all the time, but specifically with aw shows, is it's something that's worth maybe taking a look at at some point never now, And you'll read a UFC recap that indicates the fight was, you know, very exciting with a lot of

up, and then you want to see it in the same way you want to see a wrestling match, but you all but you get much more of your fix just reading who won and how on a UFC. Yeah, that a WWE or a wrestling show totally, So that says something about the difference. Anyway, A joker Sting comes out. Rude pounces on Sting as he rolls into the ring, gets in Hogan's face. Hogan points behind him,

a Sting is right back up, hits a spinning backfist. Someone's been watching a UFC on Spie spinning backfist by the Stinger and then goes off on Rude and they do a bet of a hockey fight with Sting pulling ruts T shirt over his head, drops him of the clothesline, and Rude bails and the insane icon they say has done it again to the World Champion. Hogan later tells Aj Styles backstage on a cell phone that it doesn't care about all his

personal shit because AJ is going through the clear Lynch storyline. We've mentioned it a couple of times. Do you do you know the rough outlines of the clear Lynch deal that they did? Do you know what that is? No? I'm knowing it? What the you're talking about? So one week on Impact, Christopher Annuals produces evidence that AJ Styles and Dixie Carter were caught together in like a hotel where they shouldn't have been, indicating that they had a

fling going on. And there was like doctored evidence and doctored photos of them together and like romantic embrace and everything. Okay, And this is playing off the idea that Aj is like a deeper religious family guy and really straight laced. And you know they in wrestling, if they sense that you like think you're like a decent human being, they're going to force you into storylines where you're involved in of course, fidelity and vice. You know how that goes.

That's what's wrong with that, that's reality, correct there, And so like Aj is just like fighting off these accusations, but these his tormentors keep producing evidence, and Dixie is losing her shit. She's going into full method acting of like what she would do if someone accused her of cheating on Dear Surge, which is probably a rib to considering some of the things people said

about their how close their relationship was not sir. I was just look at Odb's book again, and she doesn't hesitate to put the open marriage thing out there about old Dixon, of course, but um so Dixie is the old You're destroying families by these records. What's that old David? Yeah, old Dixie. Yeah, pretty much old man as it were old. I'm m to the David and the Curry man, David Gary Dan. So uh yeah. This goes on and on, and they hire an actress named Claire Lynch.

They called her Claire Lynch, who was basically like a drug addict that AJ Styles helped get back on her feet. He didn't fuck her, he just helped her get back on her feet. But she's jones in again, and huh is that legit or is it? And so the idea is that she's manufacturing this story to extort more money out of AJ Styles. I don't know where they would have gotten the idea of trying to extort somebody with sexually

promiscuous proof of infidelity. And I don't really know, I don't know why that would be top of mind for folks at a company Hulkogan was working at in two thousand and twelve. But perhaps more to come on that front. So, yeah, Mordecai. So Claire Lynch ends up being just this dirt worse actress. I don't know where they got her. She's just so cringe, like she's just so overdoing it and overacting, and people like, who

the fuck is Claire Lynch? And it became so random and weird that like Claire Lynch is like shorthand for how bad TNA was, Right, you just say Claire Lynch. Everyone left. And so what ended up happening was there was something that came out where there was proof that she was actually involved in like a Popeye ride exhibit at Universal. She was like a character there,

you know, like she's hired to as a character actor. Yeah, and it kind of like ruined the whole thing and they just dropped it cold and they stopped using her when people realize that, you know, Claire Lynches and Claire Lynch and she's just someone they found in the theme parked into an angle. Oh my god. That's my supposition, based on the fact that she

worked at Universal. And so they just drop it cold one week and just explained that she made the whole thing up and have someone come out as her attorney and basically copped to everything that she did wrong and exonor h Aj and the thing just disappears. But it was a very strange little moments, bizarre. And here, you know Bischoff talk about it. You know, his whole thing is at Hogan's thing. We've heard him talk about it too.

Is that Aj, you know, would just have five star matches for the rest of his life and not grow t and a an inch and not grow an inch as a performer if he was just allowed to do whatever he felt in his heart he should be doing out there. And this, this Claire Lynch storyline pushed him into a discomfort zone and forced him to act and forced him to show some emotional range and do more as a character than just an ring wrestler. And maybe it's true, I don't know, but I mean,

why who cares? Yeah, I know exactly. I mean, just let him have his fucking five star matches. Conrad said on a podcast with Eric he made reference to a Bruce podcast. I don't know which one he was talking about, but he said that Bruce said at some point that it was this storyline that got WWE actually interested in bringing in aj because they saw more than just a super worker for for the first time. That sounds like the kind of thing Bruce would just say to pat his buddy Eric on the

back. But maybe it's and Bruce was fucking involved. I mean, Bruce, for Christ's sakes, is there and it's playing no small part in architecting this from a Bookling standpoint, So you know, he's kind of in,

he's kind of obliged to like it. And then they turn around and kind of do the same thing in w W E. Do you remember that moment, that time period where aj Lee was hitting on John Cena and she was like the John Cena super fan and she was like trying to Yeah, vaguely, she was like warming up to him in a creepy way where you could tell she was gonna like turn on him and you know, accused him of improprieties, try to like ruin his life and be a stalker psychopath vaguely.

Yeah, they went with that around the same time. And I mean jesus, her name is aj and on TNA, so everyone connected the dots and just called it a copycat angle. That's funny. So that counted as a win in TNA. You know these it's such a minor league mentality like the copy in US. See two weeks later, I saw him use the same camera trick on Raw. Therefore what won? Therefore what Eric? We won? Zach won exactly. Huh. So, I don't care about your personal

shit. Aj. I'm gonna make a big announcement and it gets interrupted by Ken Anderson. Now that I've got your your permission, mister asshole, he calls Anderson, mister ass that's funny. I already come on down here. Jeff gets called out Hogan's losing his voice in this episode of Impact, and he says that the opponent that will wrestling here next to Thursday, the man who will win this match that I'm gonna make right now, was going to

face Bobby Ruden. It's a triple threat with Jeff Hardy and mister Anderson and a j that's Slam Anniversary. And then Rude doinks staying with a beer bottle over the head at Slam Aniversary and beats him to retain the championship. And it's as part of the press tour for Slam Anniversary, as they're trying to get people to buy tickets to the show in Dallas Arlington, Texas. Yes, it was indeed June tenth and not September tenth, Boss, And there

we go. Hogan stops by kdfatv CW affiliate in Dallas and makes this announcement without much in the way of Hoop law, much in the way of you know, Piro and ballyho As Russeau would say, quote, the last time I said I was retiring, for sure, I was suckered back into the ring one time, and I'll never do it again. Wow, unceremoniously here in June, and we only you know at the time you shouldn't have taken it any more seriously than any other time. Hope Cogan already pro wrestler for

that matter, says they're retired. But we have the advantage of hindsight. We know it actually is true. Retired to the number twelve. He did retire until he wrestles again, until he wrestles again, even though when he showed up at Raw thirty, Kurt Engel said his podcast that Hulk was telling people he had nerves burned, so we can't feel his legs. That's way. He has a fucking cane, So I would not be waiting around for that. I'm waiting for it one more time. He's gonna throw that cane

down. Jeez, he's gonna have that, you know. You know when Flair has his next last match, it'll be against Hogan. It's gonna say so that cane down. Cane is in no shape to take a leg drop right now. Oh, he's too busy eating all of the food Knox County has to offer. I was gonna say, like he I mean, you're kidding me. Those Sunday morning pancake breakfasts at the church, shit are just like he can't or you know, she's loving that chicken fried steak. Mister

Mayer, mister mall, don't do that. Don't make that side of me come out. Hello, mister Mayer. Oh if it isn't the mayor where we are, Oh my goodness, hey, would you like mister mayor, I'll give you an extra double stack, do you want some biscuits for your face, you fucking pig? Is that what you want? How about we want some extra extra maple syrups. Yeah, let's go, baby, mister Mayor, there's enough butter in that pan Velma's come on, Susie, you

fucking cut mister Mayer's some more fucking pancastle. Susie's heart. She doesn't understand. She just started here. I understand family from what is it? Guatemala? You know she she doesn't have her papers yet, mister Mayor? Where's your Wall Stream Journal? Kane forces himself to read the Wall Street Journal. You know, you know he doesn't understand a look of it. You know that he doesn't know what the fuck's going on. He just needs to be

He just needs to be seen reading it at some point. You know, why does extream media cover the Gary Johnson nomination at the Libertary at the Libertarian Convention? That's what he wants to know, Kane, look at the thing of his face. Oh god, it's fucking such a goofball, bald head. Was space space and his teeth that you could fucking unload an ocean and fucking more for him? Man, life after you gotta respect it. Hey, you know someone's got it. Yeah, maybe he'll be president Kane at

some point. I'm sure the thought has crossed his mind. Mister mayor, you can run for president. You're so handsome. Have another pancake? Can you put your big red extra extra? What say that extra extra bacon? Well, now he's got the title of his bi agraphy when he's on a campaign for extra bacon. My story in politics, extra bacon, mister Mayor. I never hesitated to take a set in it if it meant locking down votes, right, if it meant winning over taking a second or a third

help in a bacon. Yeah, if it meant if it meant securing one more vote, helping one other person, I had that bank. Mister Jacobs, I understand this diner tab when you're campaigning, But how do you explain the amount you spent it this diner before you ever ran for office? Is that research when you were eighteen years old? I mean you've actually kind of you're actually cut down on the cost. It looks like, hey, you know when he goes, he goes back, gets goes to the diner to

a half lunch. You know he's got like a like a like a like a smidge of some kind of meat on his face, you know, has h'm wiped off. He goes back to fucking run down. He uh. He shakes hands at a polo at the Little Legal the day. Absolutely, he goes, yeah, totally goes show up there all any any yeah, any kind of American thing. He always shows up anything. Anything the Liberals want to take away, He goes, yeah, folks they want to take

away baseball. Folks that want to take away this third order of hash Browns that's coming. I'm telling you right now. The Democrats want to take away pancakes. Do we want that? Is that American? Or is it american to have another stack? Or is it american to eat as many pancakes as you damn well please? And the the bisquick on your head. My name is Kane, and I am the mayor. He's not running, he's he's

coming, and there's not a second season. He does that speech and then he says, but my name is Kane, which which it's not, and I am the mayor. What's the fucking problem, bitch TNH got it? Fucking Kane. Oh jesus, I'm packed. June fourteenth, Austin Airis wins an Ultimate X match and says after afterwards, I'm not satisfied with this. Hogan comes out. I hear all the hood law when you come out here, brother, when you're going, I've already where you're going. I've already

been. I know what it's like to be the main event. This is way too important. Um the chant the named Hogan, he says, because they're chanting Hogan Hogan when he wants them to be getting excited about Austin Airis. So No, he doesn't, So he says to him, this is great, too important. Chant the name hogans. You know what they do? They chant Terry. Oh my god, that's funny. It's just like

once, but it's hilarious. The one thing I've never done is got the kind of goosebumps I got now that I get when I've seen you wrestle. Brother, you by first. This is the new RVD. This is the new Bobby Rude, this is the new who else has he got the Jeff Hardy? You know what I'm thinking, dude. You know I'm thinking, awesome, brother. You know what we could do? Dude? You know how you know how You're not hook up, brother, all right, I

kind of fight for you against against you know you. I'm on your side against a rude brother. But you know what you down the line, brother, I think you'd turn your back on me. That's what I'm thinking, turn heel on mean brother. Oh really, Terry, that would be an honor. Oh man, I thought that, what do you see happening in the match? Well, brother, I don't know. I mean, I'm not saying at you. I'm just saying that you all have you know what

do you? Oh? I didn't want to presume anything. I thought you meant we were gonna work where I want to wrestle you. I don't want to pressure, but pressure on you to wrestle. I know, brother, what do you? What do you? What are you saying? Dude? What do you? How do you mean? Well, you were saying, what do you do a program together? And that Brother, I didn't say a program. I said, you turn your back on me, Dude,

I said, you turn heal against me? Bro, I thought you said you turn your back towards me. You get the fuck out of my office right now. Brother, You're done. You're fucking fired, dude, Get the fuck out of here. Brother, this is fucking belt. David Houston will be calling you momentarily false life. I say a word again, I'm gonna fucking kick your ass. Turn. I'm gonna turn my back to you, like I don't know what you're trying to do. I know you're trying

to steal whole Commania around the Boston. You want this fucking Austin Mania branch. Dude, Let me let me, let me tell you something, brother, dude, I'm not playing. I'm not playing hide the ball and I'm not playing I'm not playing kick you know, kick the man over in his fucking chair. Bro, I'm not playing hide the ball, dude. I'm not trying to play kick the man over in his chair, kick the man in his chair. I beged you like a stick figure, just kicking the

silhouette of an office chair, and overgoes the man. Yes, Terry, you didn't come here for this bullshit. You came here to try to elevate these this talent and help them get the rub and here they are coming to Dude, I'll get the world taler on my own, which two years now. Terry, Okay, you've done enough sacrificing. You've stepped in there. When your doctors told you no business doing it. You've you've gone, You've

undergone three hundred backs done. Dude. It's about time, if I If you ask me, Terry, after the only thing around here that seems to have any life is whole Coogan, Dude that maybe it is time to put down the GM clipboard. Maybe it is time to step back out of the board room. Maybe it is time to put a little more faith into that ten tons of year in your back. Maybe it is time for the Hulk. Whoever wins the next world title match, Dude, whoever wins that,

brother, I win the title. That's fucking right, Terry. You can't even walk, no, brother, I don't. I'm just saying, you go in there against fucking Robert Rude. Man, you pin Robert Rude, Brother, I get the title. Have you had enough of pretending you go in there with Robert Rude, Brother, Robert Rude pins you, dude, I get the top? Yes? Have you had enough of pretending these Jabronis can really captain the ship? Terry? People want to see Hulk Hogan with

the title. Brother. It's enough of the ship fuckers. Let's get the strap on the Hulk. Start let's really start to jet pack this thing. Strap it on Jack Well, but no, he's this is the newest baby face that He's gonna raise the hand and endors right right, austin Aries the X division champ at the time. He says, you, my friend, have taken this thing to a whole other level. Oh my god, I will stake my reputation, everything I know and believe in forget this pound for

pound crap. You're the greatest thing I've ever seen in this ring. Oh my god, and Aris goes, who am I'd argue with the Immortal Hulk Coogan. I want to be the man. You want to be the main event, Hogan says in the general manager. And if you want to be the main event, so bad. I can make that happen at Destination X.

But you got to put your money where your mouth is. I'm willing to book the world's heavyweight champion against austin Aries on one condition, Hogan says, I cannot have one man as a champion of both divisions here in TNA. So the way it goes, I'll book the match with you against the world champion at Destination X, but you have to give up the X division title to do it. You win the main event at Destination X, you become the World heavyweight champion, you lose, and you walk away with nothing.

I will say this is pretty effective and something they still continue to do for years where the one time a year at Destination X instead of being a pay per view of just like exclusively X Division matches and this totally separate Head

and the Beast. This sort of like glimpse into what TNA should be, which didn't serve him so well when it compared more favorably than they would have liked to the buy rates of their main roster shows the year before the conceit of Destination X, becomes the X Division champion, can go for the Gusto and try to win the Big Belt, but they have to put their their X division title up for grabs, you know, vacated essentially to get that

chance right right, and you know, spoiler alert, not only Disostinaries accept that, but he wins the fucking world title. It was a huge twist. People were not expecting it. Ton of bullishness on Austinaries. This is still no matter what TNA was always, We're going to basically pick the ring of Honor World Champion. We're gonna pluck him. That's the whole business model of Impact Wrestling, if you ask me, is we're going to build around

Ring of Honors. Next top guy in Austinaries was that he's coming off for World Time and running r Wage where he proved to be a multi dimensional performer and had wonderful man So they bring him in and put the strap on him, and that brings the end of the title reign of Bobby Rude, which again was a record reign in terms of, you know, the typically truncated TNA world title reigns. And just like that, they hand the ball to Austin Airies And did he not? Did he never win the belt back Robert

Rudin. I don't think he did. Wow, No, I don't think he did. I could be wrong, but I don't believe so. And uh oh it's not too hard to look up. I know. I'm just by ten a world title history. It was. It was surprising when they did it. It was an inspired move. People didn't necessarily think they would go all the way with the guy. Yeah, that was it. Wow,

that's it. Well, I have two times, but he won their World Time A right, Well, I have him winning U I have him winning on October twenty six on Impact, which was after Bound for Glory, and I don't have him after that. Do you let me take a look. I'm sorry, Wow, you know what I'm What I do in my mind is I just end tna after after holding after Spike. Oh, it's off Spike by the end of twenty thirteen, and then I feel like a guy of Bobby root stature leaves the company and goes to U an XT,

which he does, but not before winning the belt one more time. Thanks very much. There you go, and he gets for a while too, eleven days there you go. Yeah, yeah, beyond our timeline here at TNH but point well taken. Yeah. So yeah, Austinaries wins the belt and it's a galvanizing moment. But I gotta say, when you look at the ratings patterns, it just wasn't successful. People just were not interested in seeing him be the standard bearer of tna UM. And he loses the belt

to Jeff Hardy pretty quickly. But it doesn't really mark a It doesn't mark something that draws renewed interest. Even though it was a surprising thing to do to put Austinaries over for the strap and have whole Cogan call him the greatest thing I've ever seen in this ring. Um, now here's a conundrum, Austinaries. I believe every fan in the Impact Zone, every fan that watches Impact, we leaving you, brother, and we know you can do it. And Ariuss hope, I've busted my tail for this and you want me

to just hand over the Extevation Championship. No, I don't want to become I want you to become greater than you already are. Brother, You and the Match of Destination next you become our champion, and that is great to personify. Ari said that I'll be the greatest man that ever lived, and Hogan says, you call yourself the greatest man that ever lived. I want you to prove it to me. You have one week to give me your decision us and Arius is fair enough. Later on this Impact, Brooke is

with Gail backstage. Thank you for coming to meet me. Of course, I have a lot of stuff that's going on good and you got some new stuff to catch up to speed on. Hey, next week is open fight night, I know, and the title is going to be defended you're thinking about four girls four No, no, no, I'm the longest training knockouts champion. Yeah, I'm the most dominant champion you've ever had in this company. I should be the number one contender, absolutely, But now that I

know how you feel about it, I won't include no minute. That's you know what, missus Hogan brook Can I tell you Broke? Sure, I know you're getting your feet wet with this whole knock Us division thing, but honestly, I'm just gonna catch hip to speed and I'm gonna lay. I have a rematch clause in my contract, so just what you know, I

don't need your help. You're right, you absolutely do have a rematch clause in your contract, But Gail, you should read it a little bit closer, honey, because it doesn't say when you're gonna have that rematch, and I actually get to decide when that happens. So, now that you're not going to be part of Open Fight Nite and you don't know when your rematch is going to be, enjoy your vacation, right, Hye. Wow? She Brooks good because she saw that coming and she was lawyered up. That's

right. She knew the contract inside out brother. That's that's Hulk. That's a stage of life. Hulk is act man. He's loving lawyers. He's like learning under he's under the learning tree of lawyers. He's suing everybody. He's constantly dealing with attorneys. And he likes this game. I mean, come on, he is. He's the ultimate when it comes to when it comes to law. No one knows better than Hogan in the wrestling world. Yeah, as far as wrestlers who have like used the legal system to achieve

ends, he's he's one of the best. Yeah, he's always looking for a reason to sue, you know, absolutely, especially in this time period. And a lot of this is that a lot of this you know, administrator TNA character that Hogan was doing is I think probably it's not too much of a stretch to connect it to how much lawyers are in his life right

and informing his world view. And if he's you know, he's carrying on like a lawyer would like, arguing the finer points of how things are worded and contracts and formats and meetings and all that shit, and we're just subjected to it, unfortunately, and Brooke getting a taste of it as well, at the show close, they say, last Sunday Night, Dixie announced the first member of the TNA Hall of Fame, and that man is this gentleman.

And they go all the way back in a montage just Stings TNA run to June eighteenth, two thousand and three, which was the first time Sting wrestling TNA, and we got I got, I got that package for you. Excellent, the whole package they do for Sting. Nice. Here we go game the Icon. Sting, in my opinion, wrestling's biggest star today, professional wrestling icon. There's no other way to put it. Who's competed at the highest level for several years against the best in the world. I

love Sting. I think this thing has been a huge part of this company, has made it a high successful. A lot of fans, a lot of followers been hanging on to watch Sting and it's the only way you can watch thing. I think anybody who's followed wrestling for the last twenty five years realizes what Sting has done. He is the icon. The man knows how to go in here, number one, to perform, number two, how

to wrestle. He's always given on you the ten percent He's always going out there and bust this behind and he's always one that when he had the franchise is the icon. He's somebody that you know us again, part of the influence of why I wanted to come here, to be able to work alongside of Sting. It's Crimsing is you know, I'm a huge fan of his and getting to no Sting on a personal level, he's just a great human being and he's always there to help the There are a lot of guys that

you see come along and do great things. I got to getting the ring with an icon. They've meant the world to me. I constantly tell him, you don't understand how good you really are. You don't know you know how good things are when you hit that building, when the fans you. I mean, his talent is unmatchable, his timing is uncomparable, your presence. Everything that he has is all the working girl. So if you have a sham, still live forever. Fucking Trevor Rabin's score from Armageddon? Is

it really? No? It sounds like it though, definitely a rip off of it, definitely an AI derivative version of it. Yeah, Yeah, it was cool. So that Sting to become the first Hall of Famer. And do they still they still have a Hall of Fame? Do really? Yep? They put Ken Shamrock in and Rock sent a video in two years ago. Rock showed up on Impact. What yeah in video form? Are

you serious? He shot a video? He did it right after he shot his video endorsing by for President, because you could tell it was the same clothes in the same setting, the same background. Whatever. God, and uh yeah, so he's doing He's doing cameos for inventually essentially literally. There's also the Jericho of TNA UM cameo because they used his song Enemy in the music video from Fozzy as the opening montage for one of their pay per views,

and of course the music video has Chris Jericho all over it. So you watched this TNA show and Chris Jericho's on the screen. Wow. Um. They also put um this year. Last year, rather, they were able to get a deal with WWE, where I remember when Mickey James came out on a Rumble and she was called the Impact Women's Champion. Yes, they were able to use footage of ww's actual royal Rumble on their Impact show on a Holy shit, that was a real trip to see clips of the

actual rumble courtesy of re Wait. How can they call him? How can they? I'm looking out now, how can they call Sting a one time NWA World champion? Um? Probably the international. They probably decided to call that the NWA. I mean he was NWA champion a few times. Um really just saying yeah, but he beats Flare at ninety it's beat fast. Yeah, because they didn't make the w w World title to ninety one when he leaves. That's right, that's the belt I associate with Sting. It's

the w w W World title, not the big goal. But yeah, there it is. So why are you asking? Why did they they put him down as an as a one time Did he win the NWA World Championship in in TNA? No? Oh he didn't. Oh yes he did, Yes he did. He won that fucking luther as the the Harley Race belt. Yes he did. I could picture him hoisting it up at bound for glory right now. So I'm yeah, they hadn't called it the TNA world title yet, not Yeah it was. It was the it was the fucking

license plate belt. So weird. Yeah, they don't call it the NBA yeah, well they you know, originally he was in Watna the company and they right remember that they dropped the affiliation really with the Alliance, but they kept the belt. I feel like that makes any sense. It doesn't really, but I mean they call him NWA World Headweight Championship under Jim Crocker Promotions one time. I mean, yeah, it's this, you know, it's technically the same lineage, but whatever when I call that a t AA bell,

who am I? Who am I? Exactly? Who are you? Who am I? So that there's the uh, the tip of the captives Sting and it's it's actually really fitting because one of the things that keeps coming up is a card AW might play when they go to Wembley Stadium in August. Is Sting's retirement match before this massive crowd. Yeah, and um, he's ready to retire. He's been very public about that. It has just done remarkable things in AW in terms of just the risks he's taken in matches.

It's really it's so stupid. Really, yes, it's how he has yeah, you know, how he has been able to last. I mean he's like he's old school and this is like Nick Backwinkle type shit, Yeah,

totally great example. I mean he's sixty four years old, this guy, and here he is right with hulkoken in TNA in twenty twelve, and Hulkokean can't even move and he did not even a tenth of what Sting did physically in the ring in terms of risk taking and high flying and bump taking right right, and Stings still going and Hope can't even get out of the car without a cane, and Sting is still coming off balconies, landed on

four wrestlers, He's doing plaunches, he's he's doing these things in a control to one off manner. But he's even the fact that he can even entertain the notion, let alone execute on it. It's just right. I mean, we're seeing a special talent here in TNH. I mean Sting will go down as the hero of the journey because sure, no question, this is where we actually come the thing. You know, Hogan, A bunch of workers he is, and that in that package you just played, he does

put his finger on it. This is finally how good Sting is made manifest Like, yeah, he's finally getting a chance to show how well rounded he is in the in the TNA presentation, which is as much spotlights he received in WCW. It was never it never came at a time when he was um incentivized to put forward this much depth of a character. You know, he was just doing a backstage hit, backstage promo and hitting the ring and and yeah, he was a pretty poor promo in his earliest days as World

Champion, he was. But man, whenever he got this good, it's probably the same time he was silent for fucking two years. You know, it could say a word to express the first place. So this is this is specially here. You know, he's only six years younger than um, than Hogan too. That's something. It's remarkable that again, that he's able to do that he's able to do as much as he has done, and that he does, I mean, it's it's nuts. Yea. He still

gets good at airtime on the Stinger splashes. He yeah, he wrestles in a long sleeve and pants and everything. But I just I'm just blown away by what he's been able to do and how how much of a career he's been able to carve out outside of WWEB, from w W to TNA to AW He's found a way, you know, to have a path where he can be a legend and make great money in the business without having to work

for WWE. Of course he did for a couple of years, and I wonder if he would have gotten hired if it wasn't for all the TNA stuff we're watching right now, right you know, if you're gonna say aj Styles got in their radar, he Sting got in their radar too, because Pritchard's back there. He's working with Sting for the first time. He's becoming acquainted

with Sting. Well maybe he touched touch paths with him in UM in Mid South or Dalla the Dallas days, but um anyway, you know, this is really him seeing what Sting can do and working closely and when he goes back to WWE, yeah, you know he's gonna put in a good word triple ah. It is so crazy that how how really they never got They got a couple things out of them, but really not a good, a good real round, nothing close to what it should have been. It just

it was just it was just confirmation. It's a lot like how Vince us Dusty and and in eighty nine and ninety. You know, it's like it was just confirmation that the thing, the only thing standing in the way all along was some personal hang up Vince McMahon and Vince McMahon only had about the performer, right. It probably has a lot to do with them being presented as the baby face counterpart to your hull Hogan. And you have to hate that guy right right, You have to see only flaws in that guy.

You have to or at least you have to emphasize one fatal flaw. You know. I'm sure Vince had a shorthand thing to dismiss hiring Sting year after year after year, just some sort of like belief he had about his lack of ability in a certain department that could easily be disproved. But no in that room is going to do the work to convince Vince McMahon that actually Sting

isn't is limited. And when he brings in Sting and gives him that fake voice, when he that tells you all you need to know, there's something about the wasting talks that pisces off Vince McMahon. I mean, hey, pisses me off too. I get it. I don't I don't like it, but you know it, um, again, the way he's booked here,

it just it all works, all works, that's correct. Well, he's just this guy that like he wears non WWE on his sleeve, like he's just yeah, oh totally, He's a guy you can point to to say, this guy made it as a superstar and pro wrestling without Vince McMahon. In a weird way, I wish he never actually came into WWE for that period of time. Looking back on it, I absolutely wish it didn't happen for him. I'm glad it happened, but it didn't. It didn't

help. It would have been It would have been kind of cool for him to be able to say that he's like the guy yeah, like in a weird way, I would I would have liked this to happen that he he never goes to WWE, he retires in a w and then and then gets brought in interduction to the Hall of Fame. You go, that would have been better for me. Did he get induc w Hall of Fame? He never did, did it? That's why they brought him in. Yeah, that's why they brought him and we were there, We were there. Did

the whole kitten kaboodle. That's right. What am I saying? See, I was thinking he's got it later, but yeah, it was like part of the deal. It was, it was it. I mean it was like two years after two WrestleManias after he was in because they brought him in and he for the video game tie in as well. That was a big

deal because he was brought back Warrior. That's why they brought back Everybody Savage too for that like one off engagement they did with him in the studio Brett to some degree, like you bring him in for the video game and on the Hall of Fame and then didn Corectum. Yeah, no, no, it was kind of It's kind of funny that he has these, you know, because here was a guy. Remember he gave an awful speech. Yeah,

that's why it didn't remember it. It was so bad. And I found it to be so odd because, you know, because he's a guy, like you've said, he just you know, he wasn't a fan. He didn't like grow up with it. It was it was a means to an end, so to speak. But it's like you watch him here, it's so different, it is. I mean, he talk about this character is like this is me. This is how I was in the locker room, you know, like I do voice. He's alive. He's alive here

and it's so much fun. I haven't watched enough a W to know, like in terms of him cutting promos and stuff, to know what what he's been like. But he doesn't talk bubb us at all in a W. He hardly ever time. He's just like, he's like Darby Allen's you know, trainer, Darby Allen's mentor. Yeah. Yeah, and it's been very successful. I think they could do something really cool with that. When he when he exit stage right, you know, finally hands it off to Darby

like you've you've learned all I can teach you kind of thing. Yeah, he may should. Maybe you shouldn't wrestle Darby. I don't know, Oh say that a way to do it? They should have some kind of a should you should give me the opoint? Rob there? Yeah? Very interesting? Um so JB welcome staying to the ring. He comes out in his red T shirt and well, I guess it's obvious. Lammiversary twenty twelve is going to have done in history of one of the greatest nights I've ever experienced.

In pro wrestling, and you could you say, how could it be so great? When Bobby Rood did what he did? And the two weeks leading up, I had one goal to take a big, huge chunk out of Bobby Rood's hide, and I did that. But to be the very first inductee into the TENA Hall of Fame, I can't even tell you what it means to me that you deserve a chance, thank you, Staying,

et cetera. Sting says, I got to tell you something. I stood up on the stage at Slammiversary next to all the great talent, and I realized so many others just as deserving, if not more than me, were next to me. It should be receiving such an honor. So I want to say thank you to some people. And he only gets to shout out

Jerry and Jeff Jarrett because they started TNA again. Jarrett's involved in the Indian venture at this point in time, Ring King, and he says, and he's about to keep going with thinking who he needs to thank, but this is wrestling and it's all about heat, and he's attacked and blindsided by three complete strangers. I had no fucking idea. I was like I literally I

was like, what the fuck is this? Guys? Three Google goods and leather vests and jeans, and there they look like thieves in the night and they're attacking sting to abject silence from the Impact zone, who actually wanted to have a moment here with the stinger right right now, it's just going to be an angle the guys. They don't know and who the fuck are these

guys? And the announcers are certainly stiling it that way, and stings crawling around in his stomach as they lay into him, and Tony is lamenting. On a night where we pay tribute to Hold, they have to deal with this. Where's Hogan? Where's Hogan? They chant for him? Where's everybody? Never too far from the whole emotion of the show being is Hogan going to come out and save the day? Or what? Right? Right?

That's never too far away, And they just keep prominent pummeling him as they put the credits up for the end of this Impact episode, and we're left to ponder, what, what the hell is? What the hell is this

all about? What the hell is this all about? That's the question that might be the thought that crossed Hulk Hogan's mind and another flash point of two thousand and twelve that we buy design saved for the very end of this week's episode of tnh oh It's not a small development March twelfth, Pardon me. March seventh, twenty twelve. TMZ dot Com a sex tape featuring legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan as surfaced and TMZ has learned it's currently being shopped to a major

porn studio. We've seen a portion of the granny footage featuring Hulk getting undressed and a naked, unidentified brunette lying on a bed. The woman is not, it says in all caps, his ex wife Linda or his current wife Jennifer McDaniel. In the clip, Hulk pulls his shirt off and brags to his companion, I started to work out again. Hulk then runs his hands through his blonde hair like he always does the best part Hulk's thong shaped tan

line. It's unclear when the tape was shot, but Vivid hancho Steve Hirsch tells TMZ he was approached with the tape very recently by a third party. So far, no word on whether hirsh or Hey, I'm a big fan of that love. Third parties can't confirm nor deny it was me, but can confirm that I am third party. I can confirm that I am a third party candidate for the President of the United States of the Jesse does it

to the Hulk story again takes the spotlight. So far, TMZ reported no word on whether hrsh or anyone else has made an offer to buy the tape. Hulk did not have an immediate comment. Hulk says the tape was secretly filmed without his permission and now his lawyers on the rampage. This is a follow up claiming we will take all necessary steps to enforce both civil and criminal liability. This is the point of no return and the Hulk Hogan story and

the TNH journey. March twenty twelve. It's all about the existence of a Hulk Hogan sex tape. Boss. You think about Paris Hilton, you think about Kim Kardashian, you think about Pamela Anderson yep. You think about people who kind of get thrust into a higher level of pop culture celebrity because tape exists of their crotch, and Hulkogan is now part of that elite company.

It is a complete narrative shift around what people see when they look at Hulkogan, and it's never gonna wear off, and it's never gonna go away. And it happens in twenty twelve. And something else that happens in that fateful month of March hits the Tampa Bay Times and it reads, lest the cast of spring Breakers take up all our time and energy. The Juice Legal Department has obtained details of shock Jog bab Bah the love sponge Clem settlement with his

ex wife, who actually signed her name in court papers. Who's Heather don the love sponge Clem. Imagine the name change forms she's going to have to fill out. Actually, if every thirteen sentlement agrees, she is changing her name back to Heather don Cole. So it won't be that big of a deal. Neither was her alimony and papers filed at the Panella Circuit Court. Heather will receive fifty six months worth of alimony starting March first, totaling one

one hundred and fifty dollars per month. That's not a lot for a guy who claimed annual income. The paper reports in two ten of one point five five million dollars maybe that's why she also got a one time payment of twenty grand. Two Heather had listed monthly expenses of more than sixteen grand, including a thousand dollars per month for vacations and fifteen hundred per month for entertainment, a thousand for cosmetics and sunduries, and fifteen hundred for clothing. That's more

than the Juice has spent hunclosed in the last year. Sorry to say the juice is the name of this column. He also has to kick in a couple thousand dollars to her IRA account. She made thirty grand working form at Buba Radio Network, a job she can still have through late twenty sixteen when the alimony runs out unless she remas before then. Bubba still has to pay for her health insurance too. Heather also gets a raft of cooking utensils and

equipment, plus the couple's Chevrolet Suburban and shell Chevy Silverado. That leaves Bubba with just a Harley in a two thousand and one and two thousand and three day wu to get around two day Woo's Really at least he has three jet skis. Is this whole Coken's alimony or this Bubba the luft Spudge's alimony. Jesus Christ, do these two have a lot in common? Or what I'll say? In fact, Bubba also has two hundred grand and Rock and Roll

in sports memberabilia, contributing to assets worth two point nine million dollars. Bubbo's a reported current business income of thirty grand per month. He owns or has invested in companies like Clem Racing, Bubba's Bean's Iron Works, which he co owns with manager Thomas Bean, and BRN Travel. The forty five year old already has to pay forty five hundred a month in child support for son Tyler,

from a previous relationship. Heather thirty seven, has a daughter named Julia from a prior relationship too, but she and Bubba have no children of their own. What he has is a house worth nine hundred thirty six grand with a six hundred five thousand dollars mortgage, plus a vacant lot valued at four hundred forty four thousand, with a loan of five hundred and eighty four grand, contributing to two million dollars in obligations that net worth dropped really fast.

Bubba and Heather are both responsible for their own legal costs, though, and both have agreed not to talk about each other in public. That was caused for consternation in a series of contempt motions filed because Bubba would go on to show and say things like I hope to Fox she loses her engagement ring, a bauble he said on air cost seventy three thousand dollars but was valued at

fifty grand. The pair married January two thousand and seven first Baptist Church of Saint Petersburg in a relatively traditional wedding featuring Hulk Hogan is the best man. Howard Stern and several members of his on air crew attended, as did former Chicago Tribune CEO Randy Michaels. The judgment was proved February twenty third. The reason for the divorce was irreconcilable differences. Bubba Nay Todd Alan Clem has said he worked all the time with more than a million five an annual come that

much is obvious. So Boss, a week after news finally hits that a whole Coogan sex tape exists and we know who shot it, Bubba and Heather resolve their divorce. Wow, what happened? Well? A lot in time. But let me just convey this as we wrap up TNH this week.

This is a series of statements of facts from one of the many filings in the legal volleys back and forth between Hulkogan and Gawker Media, which, as we've talked about in the earlier installments of TNH, published the actual videotape or at least an excerpt of it, of Hulkogan absolutely going to town on Bubba's wife. And this lays forward a fact pattern that I think will prove instructive and important context. As we round third in our TNH journey, we go

to the court papers. In or about early twenty twelve, the Cox defendants illegally obtained a copy of the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff at being Hogan inspired with one another to use and disclose the contents of said recordings to harm plaintiff and obtain an improper economic benefit. So that's in or about early twenty twelve. So it's not just the UH, that's just the news media that picks up

on it. In twenty twelve it is shopped around for the first times and twelve Jesus, I'd like your help, boss, And continuing to convey this fact pattern. Oh my god, paragraph twenty six, if you could.

In or about early twenty twelve, the Buckwall Defendants, Cox Defendants, and Davidson Defends conspired with one another that were sued for extorting allegedly Hull Coogan into you know, pay us or this tape gets released, essentially conspired with one another to use and disclose the contents of the illegal recordings of plaintiff to cause him harm and obtain an improper economic benefit, and in further an in further

instant thereof sold information relating to the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff to media companies, including among others, TMZ dot Com and the Dirty dot Com, which information included still still images and or portions of the audio and video recordings of plaintiff video recordings. Brother, would they recorded everything I said to Heather? Dude? M wait a second? Brother? Whoa dude? I don't care if people see my cock, but I hear people pure about my cock. Brother.

Tmz dot Com reported on such information starting on or about March seven, twenty twelve, and the Dirty dot Com reported on such information starting on or about April nineteen, twenty twelve, which reports included still images from the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff, as well as information regarding the contents of the audio portions

of the surreptitious recordings. During twenty twelve, Lloyd and Caulta communicated repeatedly regarding the formulation and execution of a plan to release the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff, including their strategy for releasing portions of same to media outlets, for the purposing of causing substantial economic arm to plaintiff, among others, while also furthering their

own radio broadcasting careers. Lloyd and Calta were acting within the course and scope of their employment by Cox when they engaged an act of in furtherance of the scheme and conspiracy to use Hogan was also in the scope of his cock. Absolutely, I think they have a lot of company in that regard to use cocks were engaged and disclose the contents of the serrupitious recordings of mister Bolia and

let's see if we can enlist the boss one more time. And some or all of the acts were committed committed at Cox's office located in Penella's County, Florida, and or with the knowledge and consent of Lloyd and Culta's immediate supervisors ETE twenty nine take it away. In or about late September twenty twelve, Burton, in his capacity as a talent agent employed by buck Walden Associates and acting on behalf of and in concert with cult a client of buck Walden Associates,

communicated with A. J. Delirio. Why is his name impi? Why is his name also in? But that is? That means so going forward we're just going to call him Delirio, not AJ Delirio, Delirious yes, who was then the editor in chief of gawker dot com, a popular weblog owned by A Gawker. In those communications, Burton stated A Delirio that a DVD was being sent to Deliria on Gawker containing a large portion of the

surreptitious recordings of plaintiff. Within days of these communications, certain of the buck Wall defendants, Cox defendants and or Davidson defendants, or someone acting in concert with them or at their direction, sent to Delirio and Gawker a DVD containing a little more than thirty minutes of surreptitious recordings of plaintiff, including video images of him fully naked and engaged in consensual sexual activity with miss Clem, and

also including oral communications between plaintiff, miss Clem and mister Clem. Burton, acting on behalf of and in concert with buck Hole defendants, Cox defendants and Davidson defendants, knew and intended a Delirio would publicly disclose content from the thirty minute video. Delario edited the surreptitious recordings of plaintiff contained within the thirty minute video into a one minute and forty second highlight reel video, which showed plaintiff

fully naked, receiving oral sex, and engaged in sexual intercourse. The video also included plaintiff's private oral communications with miss Clem. Delaio and Gawker included English subtitles to the video to ensure that viewers understood every word spoken by plaintiff and miss Clem during the one minute and forty one seconds of their private encounter.

On October fourth, twenty twelve, Gawker posted the one minute, forty one second video to the Internet, along with an incidental narrative description of the contents of the thirty minute video, including portions not contained in the one forty one video. At least seven million people watched the minute forty one second video on

the Internet. At around the same time, Lloyd contacted De Luio using the alias Jim Gennaro, to discuss additional surreptitious recordings of plaintiff in October twenty twelve, the Davidson defendants acting on behalf of it, in concert with the Cox defendants collectively the extortionists. Filing reads so you can tell each side of the aiolists comes from yeah contacted Council for Plaintiffs seeking to extort money from plaintiff,

that being whole Cogan. The extortionists threatened to release the entirety of the surreptitious recordings of Hogan if Plaintiff did not agree to make a very large payment in

exchange for all copies of the recordings. Davidson, representing and acting on behalf of and in concert with the other extortionists, specifically stated to Plaintiff's council that's certain of the surreptitious recordings that were created illegally and obtained illegally by the extortionists contained insensitive racial remarks which could have the effect of causing great economic harm to

plaintiff if released publicly. Initially, the extortionists demanded one million dollars. Davidson, representing an acting on behalf of and in concert with the extortionists, also told plaintiffs counsel that the extortionists, who acted in agreement with and the assistance of the Bukwald defendants, arranged for a thirty minute video to be sent to Gawker as a quote shot across the Bow as part of the scheme to extort

money from plaintiff. The extortionists and the Buchwald defendants agreed and worked in concert with one another to send the thirty minute video to Gawker and de Lario in further rents of the scheme to extort plaintiff with the surreptitious recordings promote Lloyd and Cult's broadcast careers while injuring the career of a competitor, and caused substantial economic harm and severe emotional distress to plaintiff through the release to Gawker and De Lario

of the thirty minute video. So are they saying, boss that by releasing the video, not only are they harming the Hulkster, they're harming Bubba the Love Sponge as well a competitor. Oh my goodness, Is it Bubba to Blaine or is it Bubba's position in a world equally as shark infested as the wrestling business that's to blame. Plaintiff's Council contacted local law enforcement agencies for assistance in investigating and prosecuting those involved in the recording, use, exploitation, and

disclosure of the surreptitious video. However, local law enforcement advised Plaintiffs Council that the statute of limitations for any violations criminal violations under Florida law had expired because the recordings were made in two thousand and seven. Plaintiffs Council then reported the extortionist's threat to the Tampa, Florida Office of the FBI oh May. FBI subsequently set up a sting operation, which occurred on or about December fourteenth,

twenty twelve, at a hotel as Clearwater. After all the parallels the sting operation in Panellis County. On that day, the extortionists followed through on their

plan to use the surreptitious recordings to extort money from plaintiffs. Specifically, the extortionists turned over what they represented double as Council were all copies of all syrup tis recordings of plaintiff and the possession of the extortionists in exchange for a check from Plaintiff's council in the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a commitment to make subsequent payments of an additional one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for

a total extortion payment of three hundred thousand dollars. Plaintiff and his counsel,

David Houston, appeared at the Clearwater Beach Hotel that day. Hogan himself appeared with his counsel and met mcdavidson and Burbridge, representing an acting in concert with the other extortionists and in furtherance of their conspiracy for the execution of a purported settlement agreement and the exchange of all the copies of the surreptitious recordings from extortionists to plaintiff and a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar check from plaintiff's counsel to

the extortionists. High stakes meetings, with the FBI listening in mosties, continued to regale the solar system if he could. Starting at paragraph thirty six, the FBI recorded the activities of the participants Plaintiff Houston, Davidson, Burbridge, and the polygraph examiner who was working undercover for the FBI in a room at the hotel The hotel the hotel room next door contained several armed FBI agents who recorded the activities in the adjacent room and prepared to make an arrest of the

extortionists. When Houston handed the check to the Davidson and Burbridge representing the extortionists, several FBI agents entered the room with guns drawn, arrested Davidson and Burbridge, and immediately removed plaintiff and Houston from the room. Continue police on May nineteen, twenty fifteen, for the sole stated purpose of discovery and the prior

action to determine whether plaintiff knew he was being recorded by mister Clem. In two thousand and seven, Gawker filed a separate federal lawsuit against the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents and information relating to the aforementioned FBI investigation and operation styled Gawker Media Llc at All versus Federal Bureau of Investigation, US District Court, Middle District of Florida, Case number blah blah, blah

blah blah. In particular, Gawker sought to obtain other portions of the surreptitiously recorded video of plaintiff which were not at issue in or nor relevant to the prior action. As the prior action and the Gawker FBI action progressed, it became clear that Gawker misrepresented the reason why it was seeking discovery of the FBI

extortion investigation and operation. Gawker, having become aware through discovery and the prior action that other surreptitious recordings ceased during the FBI sting operation purportedly contained racially insensitive statements by plaintiff, used the Gawker FBI action to try to gain access to peep to video and or audio footage of plaintiff making such statements, so Gawker could use such statements against plaintiff to destroy him publicly and as leverage to try

to force plaintiff to settle or drop his claims heading into a jury trial. In the prior action, thank you. During that we can queen and cut it there. So twenty twelve is when the real sharks start to come out. FBI guns, drawn, extortion, TMC articles, sex tapes, radio market competition run absolutely rampant. This is Hull Coogan and TNA Brother and this is Bubba the Love Sponge. While excised from the TNA wrestling picture, not

excised from Hulk Cogan circle. He's still going on the radio. He's still buddying up with his pal, and he knows that he had his way with Bubba's wife on several occasions back in two thousand and seven with Bubba's approval. But what Hulk didn't know was he was being recorded, that Bubba knew who was being recorded as well. But is he the bad guy in all this?

After all we just read from court pleadings. Was he extorting or was he just being careless and put the materials in the hands of people who were prepared to extort. It's a tangled web, but it all starts coming up from underground to the surface in the year twenty twelve. And we leave you with some recent comments from Bubba the Love Sponge himself in an interview he conducted

with a platform called Concrete. It's available on YouTube. Looking back on the Hogan saga that starts to become public, it becomes something we have to grapple with when we look at Hulkegan himself in twenty twelve, Bring us out with Bubba. All the people that extorted Hogan got away with it because I was

the victim. Because I'm a bad guy, the loudmouth. I'm the guy that lesbian Tuesdays, no panties Thursday, Redneck Monday, Spectics, squirrel, you know, squirt, Olympics shoot ping pongs out your pussy ping pong and that guy doesn't make a good victim. We'll see you next time on TNH.