Ep. 354: 'TNH' The Fizzinish (Part 2)

So we moved into the month of May in the final year of our Lord TNH. Guess who's out off the top? Yeah, I know who it is. It's nice two of this particular taping. So we have to use b rold crowd reactions because folks are quite as excited to hoax or a second time. Oh you know, that's that's a really sad state of events.

If if if or affairs, if we're not excited for Hulkogan the second time around, I would have been excited for Hogan, Like if he came out four times, if I saw him come out every hour during one of those four hour, month long marathon tapings back in the old days, I would have lost my ship. Yeah yeah, he probably didn't. He probably just came out once on those marathon tapings. If it probably didn't, I would have lost my ship. I would have. I would have cheered as uproariously

because because it didn't used to be better. The reason you would have cheered more uproariously is not because it used to be better. Right, So here he comes in a black holp. He made me a T shirt. Now he it's all smiles again, and the announcers put over the huge reaction he's getting again, and he's doing the outsider pointing of course, and here I got it for you. Okay, guys, Oh, I guess I got it for the very end you if you have more intro, Oh yeah,

just a little bit. They put him all over stepping into the ring and standing his ground after his recent knee surgery, and say called it one of the most memorable moments in the history of impact, which I don't even remember n surgery, so it must not have been his knee surgery. Yeah, just getting into the ring after the throwing punches, I guess. So he grabs them, Mike to a chorus of chance. Yeah, here we go.

Apparently you'll like the drama brother, because after went on last week, things almost came to blows between me and the singer and the best thing we could do is get sting out here right now. What's up there is the Icon there, hell out of my ring and we're rounding third. It was the actions of aces and ages in general, Holy Ray in particular, that have driven a wedge, a huge wedge between the icons and the immortal One

would be huge wedge exactly. It broke two eagles collide and you're looking at them right now, flat square in the middle of that ring. You know that's the truth today because one thing we know, Taz cannot lay flat squares between you and me is already out on the street. So let's call it straight up like we see it. A little week didn't end with a little pretty picture between you and I, my brother at the end of my face and close at the end of the day down that rock, I know what,

I'm right, it actually hurts. I'm bad and him caught up between a bunch of personal stuff with my family, with my daughter and taking care of business here at impact rustling and at the end of the day, when it came to rusting people, when it came to making choices, I was wrong. And when it came to pulling my friends closer, some of the ones I ran off and the one that I made the biggest mistake with was you. And right now I want to apologize and let you know I made

a huge mistake when I pushed you away. I made a huge mistake when I pushed you. I should have pushed me brother. But one of the biggest mistakes I made when I pushed you away wasn't stead I should have been pulling us closer together because of the loyalty, the trust in the man that you've always been. We should have been working together. We should have been taken care of this Aces and Ace thing together. And I want to let you know that one was on me too. We should have stayed together.

The way I see it, we aren't together right now? All right? Where we are together? Right? Oh, that's good. Oh that's good. Water under the bridge and Hulk, I gotta ask you. I'm gonna ask for your permission because you are the general manager. I'm saying, let's get Aces and Eights involved in a six man tag. You let me put together a team for next week because we've got to take it to these guys.

We gotta try to get rid of Aces and Eights now, Stinger, as far as I'm concerned, you put your army together, you get that six man tag ready, But that is on you, my brother. What I need to do tonight before this show is over is find out who's gonna

go against the world's heavyweight champion Bully Rates. Need to figure I mean, also, shouldn't this all be done backstage, you know, like in private at this quote unquote production meeting they have in the afternoon, and then by fucking idiot, United Hustling needs that Morgan is ratings Matt Morgan An Matt Borden's erupted by the blueprint. Matt Morgan. He promised to be an answer for a price like the blueplate special mats the ball here. Let's guess how this

one's gonna turn out. This is the part when you just hand this jerk off another world, isn't it? Have you not funny how you handle Bully Radio? Pretty funny, Matt Morgan. The biggest fall you have is running your mouth all the time before you really know what's going on. Because as I look into my crystal ball, there are gonna be no more mistakes. There are gonna be no more handouts around here. In Anybody that gets a spot, deserves a spot, and wins a spot is gonna have to earn

it. You cut up in my face, just getting ready to say. The man that's gonna go against Bully Ray at Slammiversary is not gonna be Stinger. It's not gonna be handed to him. It's not gonna be handed to the Great Matt Morgan. The man that's going up against Bully Ray at Slammiversary is gonna be the man that wins the main event match tonight, and that match is gonna be between Matt Morgan and Stinging tonight. All that's what I

see in my crystal Ball brother. I mean, you know, brother, I've been sitting in the back, Dude, I've been looking at my crystal Ball man, and I'm wondering exactly what the future and holds brother. And I'm telling you, dude, the future and holds are double biz brother, right in my fucking face, the future and holds. I mean that what a mess that segment was. What a mess TNA is? I mean what

I think happens here. I think this is where we can timestamp what he was referring to in his deposition when he was talking about insisting on being paid for another Sting match, and you know that obviously being falling on deaf ears because I'm looking here and I'm thinking he goes one week from Sting pointing the bat at, I'm looking to kill him right right, and then the next week, all of a sudden, it's just like this ham fisted like undoing

of the story. Like in the space of two weeks, he sting wants to kill him, and then all is we're given, which I mean even even an impact that's a little too abrupt of a turn in a sting. Yeah. So I guess if we are to take him at his word that it was a sting match that he asked to be paid for in his final year of TNAT paid extra four actually might have been a sting operation, actually

exactly. Yeah, that's true too, That's very true. But at the same time, it's not really we haven't really quite reached the point where John Gaburick, who Hogan said he was talking to about this in addition to Dixie Carter, has sort of been like formally you know, publicized as being the new head of talent relations at TNA. It's still still kind of Bruce Pritchard, but I don't know, maybe maybe it was slightly before it became public

that he was dealing with him. Yeah, because as we'll talk about, Gaburick first comes in, you know, in theory to help out with television production, to sort of be there Kevin Dunn, not not to take over the job of you know, dealing with a talent like like Pricks doing so it's uh, it's my best guess. It's also also to this this this you know, I don't know if I brought it up before or not. It's been a long journey, but this weird friendship with Hogan and Sting,

like it's very bizarre, it really is. It's so weird to me because they weren't really friends. Were they were friends? I guess they were friendly, friendly, friendly, but like they're acting like they've been best friends forever. Like I mean, and I know, I know in wrestling world,

you know, the wrestling world. It's it's like you know that that that doesn't always exist, you know, like you think about it, and all these guys that we thought were that best friends on camera, you know, may not even Hell, they may have hated each other for all weeks, sure, but it's just it just comes across as such a weird, such a weird thing. And it's been this, it's been the whole time. And it's even weird when all of a sudden, Hogan just starts saying Sting

is the greatest wrestler of all time every week. Yeah, Like what the fuck? Like, of all the things to say, you got to say something that's so patently false. That we just don't believe anything else you say about Sting, you know, right, I don't know. It's a very strange. I would love to know sort of the contrast between how they interfaced with each other in WCW and how they interfaced in TNA, because it seems like completely different, Like this is not a Hull Hogan who would say Sting

isn't too t isn't tan enough to win the world title. You know, clearly he's right several times under the Hogan Bishop regime, and he's wearing a

T shirt the whole time. So you know, I just don't I don't know for for them to be as close as Hogan is portraying, like, there's no way that you could be that close and have the history they had around start, right, I think of these two at odds, you know, really exactly then, you know, I think of them as always being you know, they had they had two years where they were on the same side, and then the rest of the time they were enemies, Yeah,

bitter enemies and never really in the thing is further like that's on television, and there's also no sense that they're actually particularly close behind the scenes at all, Right, they're like ships passing in the night for the most part, Like right when Hogan's on top, Sting is way in the background, and when Stings on top, Hogan's way in the background. And there right well, I mean he's home collecting his check or exactly even before he came to

WW. Of course. Yeah, it's very it's very curious. I would love to know, like what's reality and what's just like we're the two biggest baby Face legends under contract, so we're just going to pretend to be best

friends all the time. On television, Bischoff talked about how Sting really he saw a different side of Sting, and I'm not sure he was saying he saw it at TNA as much as just saw it later in his dealings with him, But he said Sting is a guy that you think is like all serious and all business, but then once you get him goofing around, he's actually one of the funnest guys to be around in the business. But it's

not every single time, every single interaction. It just takes it takes a certain en wi to get him joking around and doing voices and doing faces. And clearly they discovered that to some degree at TNA because they just flip his presentation on its head in twenty eleven. Oh, I know, it's so true. It had to be some sort of tender moment in backstage where they're like this, this is a great guy. You know. You know, dude, I'm I'm seeing here a whole different version of Stizz Will dude right

in front of me. Dude, And who even though who knew that Stiz could do this? Brother, Stiz? Did you call him Stiz? Stiz in what company? I'm so mad that you hadn't turned me on to how fun this can be grabbing these little bites at the beginning, because I would That was one of the first things I watched researching episode TNAH. It's him

and in the Bubba studio with Bischoff in the earliest months of Impact. They're joking about how Linda should go work for Vince Linda Hogan and then oh god, opposite, She's coming to take Terry and Terry's like the tis like that Terry Brother. It's a Tampa thing, dude. Yeah, it's a tea It's a tea brother, tea bab brother, tea biz brother. What's ta bizz brother? Not Apropos. Brother, I've been living down in Tea biz for a long time. So what I need to do is, yeah,

I got and that's even more awkward. We're gonna make up and just cut off this whole thing, this intrigue from last week. And now I have to worry about the world title and here's Matt Morrigan. It's like, fucking guys, this should stop. I mean, just can you can? Can someone please just fire that big fucking oath so it'll be Sting versus a pair of True Religion jeans and an Affliction graphic T shirt. Later on Bully backstage,

did you guys see Hogan sitting out there? They're all talking and ignoring him. Hey, my brothers, i'd see you. I see Hogan and Sting mocking me. Nobody mocks us. Now I gotta worry about Morgan and Sting. I ain't warned about either one. No matter how I get to Boston, I'll get the job done. So this is to deter who faces Bully right for the title Slam Aniversary, which takes place in Boston Beantown.

According to tisel Um, he says, Bully does that Kurt Angel has been a thorn in the club side since day one, so keep but he keeps getting back up, so he wants him taken out. And who's it gonna be? Devon is he gonna do it? West has put me in. I were to beat Kurt three times, Garrett Bischoff says, let me go out there and finish him off with a with a chain in his hand. Oh god, and nothing like that chain I know, the biker chain off. Hew de la Brown says, I'm the one. Oh great, that's

who we need. He's going to take the honor of destroying the Olympic gold medalist and bullying and kid welcome, welcome to again here in two thousand and all over again. No shit, Delo Brown and Curt angle if they're taking dealough less than seriously, and Bully says, you're gonna get it done, guarantee it. They lift beer bottles, they clink them. You swear on your colors, he says, Todlow and they clink again, to some awkward

silence. On your colors, boss, Why would you call something that's only black and white your colors? That's gang that's gang talk, man, like the lack of colors. I mean to be one time so you're gonna wear your colors, dude, you gotta wear your colors versus later to me, to me, that's that's that's as offensive as a cut I was. I was involved in in a in a like it's it's weird. I don't never

understood that the whole term about it. And maybe someone else can. Who's who's more into you know, you know, gang culture such as it is, slang and whatever, but like, you know, because I was part of of a theater company in LA that treated itself more like a club a gang than it was so awful. Man, it was so about Jesus. Oh dude, No, it wasn't even dude. It was like so it was this guy. Um, they were they the the the name of the theater group was the Street School Artist Club. I mean, how cool is

that? Oh? No, right? And you know the guy, the guy who headed it up. He he grew up with with uh with Josh Brolinka. All right, they're friends from way back. And this guy is is a hanger honor for for for for Josh Brolin. Yeah, easy, at least he was. I don't know, I haven't I've I've definitely cut ties with him after years because I mean when I quit, I was like I could get out of here. He like theater. A lot of theater organizations. I'm not sure what it is like now, but a lot of

theater groups in la Are you have to pay dues to them. And that's not just this one. Like a lot of theater companies. You have to pay dues to belong and then you're kind of guaranteed a spot in a show you know, or whatever show you want to be in. You don't get paid, but japay, wow, yeah, it's it's it's really it's it's really crazy. Um. And this was one of them, and it was extremely expensive and there was no there was no, Um, we didn't put on a show. I was there for like a year and a half,

never a show because he would write it all be original work. This guy would do. Name is Vince Riverside, by the way, Vince Riverside. And he treated it because he was like a He was the frontman for like a band called, oh god, I don't remember what the fucking because you

know it's some kind of garage band thing. Yeah, um and uh yeah, So he would very much treat it like a gang and like a like you know, you he would want if people were going to uh, if people were going to a thing, um to like an event, if we

were all going to an event together, he would want. He would want guys to he would want us to fucking sport our colors if we had you know, swag basically, Oh boy, you know it's basically you know, in essence, it's like the LAPS fan like you know, basically you go around, you wear a shirt to an event, you're supporting our colors.

Yeah, you know, that's what it is. But it's it's like, oh, this guy was a fucking nightmare and he uh he uh he tried you know, when I when I just said I wanted to quit, he was not happy, and he basically tried in so many fucking ways to get me to not quit because he wanted my cash. You know, yeah, that's that's rackets. Yeah, you know, he wants he wants he wants

everybody's cash. Who's who's there. But like literally we go to this fucking meeting and all he'd do is talk like nothing would actually happen, like we wouldn't actually produce any theater. You know, be sure they didn't all end up taking their lives on a compound somewhere in Montana. They might have. There might have been a bunch of that, did we all there was? There was a mass exodus when I left, like a bunch of people followed suit. Yeah, and and we all departed, And it was like,

God, so fucking that's what this must be very triggering to you. Then the faces and ate stuff, Oh totally. I actually I didn't even really final I didn't even thought about it actually for a while. But yeah, this is uh, like, we had a fucking blowout. We had a fucking blowout this guy and I when I when I was talking when I wanted to quit, I had to go up to his fucking apartment in um Sierra

Madre. It's like a fuck an hour away from my home, fucking drive up there to fucking meet with this clown, and and like he made me. He asked if I would stay for like another like two months or something. And we did a showcase in front of in front of Josh Brolin, and he had I mean, listen, I don't I don't think Josh Brolin would have done this on his own, But Josh Brolan fucking came out to me after the performance and did nothing but like talk my ass off and like

like and and give me like crazy ass compliments. And I was like, oh my god, think of myself. Like the whole time is he's like saying this to me. Fucking hey, he fucking put you up to this, like he fucking had you. He said, compliment the shit out of this kid, so he won't go it's a great story. I could tell it. I could tell it. That's kafabe. Oh totally. Well.

I mean that's the thing, like we always mock pro wrestlers for being such shallow manipulators who think they're so much better than they are it like lying and convincing people that they're telling the truth. But fuck actors like oh yeah, dude, good luck. They are really good at making you think. Of course here, of course incredible you know is like table stakes, like unless you can be fake, since here you can't even be an actor. Yeah

no, And that's just it exactly. You need to you need to make people buy in to what you're what you're selling literally, you know, I mean in more ways than you know, not listen, listen. I don't think if if, if, if we were trying to get an interview with Vince Riverside on you know, and he asked for one hundred bucks for it. He would not go for less than a hundred bucks. Yeah right, We we couldn't talk him down to fifty. It's like a corns, right,

he wouldn't go for that. Like he's he's smarter than that. Yeah, I will give him that. He's a smart guy. He's a smart guy. He's just extremely egotistical and and like transactional. Oh yeah, yeah. So it's like going up to Brian Nobbs at a convention and asking for an interview. It's like, okay, exactly, oh oh, we're talking about his price here, right right, But again, Vince Riverside wouldn't fucking get talked down. He'll get top dollars. Well, speaking of that,

Delo Brown versus curd Angle, Yeah, this is exciting. It was to know that basically this was Dilo Swan song and TNA as he's about to be fired as part of the budget cuts. Awesome. Delo grabs the mic and says, I told my brothers I was gonna beat you in the middle of the Turning Angle. I told my brothers earlier tonight that I was gonna beat you in the middle of the ring. But as I stand here before you, that's just not gonna be good enough. I need to humiliate you so

tonight I want to do something no man's ever done before. I'm gonna beat you in an eye quick match. He just he doesn't have it. Man. I'm sure he's a nice guy, he's a hard worker. But he does and hab it. No, not at all. I mean it sounds like a moron. He does. Yeah, I mean he does. He's got like that. I know. I'll tell you. You know that that has always bothered me as it for fucking since nineteen ninety six or whenever the fuck he first came into the company. That fucking slope of a head that

he has, Ah, it bugs me so much. You're got to be honest around here. I know it's a dickish thing to say, but look, hey, he you know he could have done something about that. Fucking shave that bone down, brother, Oh, it could have done something about it. He could have shaved his fucking skull off. It's so it's so unattractive. It just it just makes him look kind of like a goofy, kind of like almost like cone head guy to me, right, I know,

it's hard to shut shut that out of my mind. It really is head haircuts where it's less noticeable than TNA's I know, right, I mean, you just see the entire shape of his fucking dome and it's like, dude, you gotta do something about that. Please, Um it hurts. So yeah, he says he's got to humiliate him, so he wants to fight him in an equip match. It's like, why why we know that's the opposite, right, Like, right, you're gonna get humiliated in this

because that's what happens here. And he taps Kurt on the head with a microphone like like a little bitch. And then uh oh, he's in his hoodie and short sleeve vest in his jeans and he does the leg lariat and and then Brian Hebner grabs the microphone puts it in Kurt's face. No, he's got a fucking quit after that. Uh then now Anderson comes out there in distracts so that Dee look and blindside Kurt angle snaps off a suplex to the floor. They go Angles thrown into the post and outcomes the us his

brother take a look, Jesus he does like a fucking cult master. Oh my god, he looks like um oh, it looks like a like an roah manager and some kind of indie wrestler guy that like all the girls love all the yeah of course, yeah, yeah, you know he's like, yep, yep, yep, Like girls with tattoos in their shoulder love this guy, yep, and like and women like his wife with massive fake tips. Absolutely is La just exploding, Let's be clear. Um So, Angele

snaps off a souplex to the floor throne of the post. Outcomes the ball peen hammer. Gelo swings it but misses and it clinks rather pathetically on the ring post. Curtis then run shoulder first into it. Um hm, never mind, I'm just reading my notes and do you go keep going? Of course, Task calls Kurt's arm, the wing, Come on the wing, the wing, the wing. Um Dealo works the arm for the longest time. Of course he does. He sees it. I called Delo the uh.

Basically in this match, he just took up his old post as the wide receiver of losses for for a fucking stable. That's what he does. That's his job. Just you know, the stable needs to have. Someone needs to needs to lose a couple of matches, So put Delo in the fucking put Dealo in the fucking cockpit of that. It's so funny because he loses this match and is clearly part of writing him out. But it's like

he has a story now, you know what I mean. It's like I actually, for the first time, might actually want to see what happens next to the Delo, but they intended it to get me to no longer want to see him anymore. But I want to see him now more than when he just was sitting in the background in the clubhouse. Well that makes one of us, yeah, doing nothing. So Delo drops him with the leg lariat, pathetic drop down across arm breaker with the course crossed applied by old

Dilo. As kurts like, hell no, I'm not going to tap to that. Tas calls it the Judika Tommy, which is nice of him. Yeah, and here's ta Tas ribs Delo, and well Dealo looks for the ribs but that's not here. And fun fickle is a great condition, but

like I'll like a machine and now he's fucking stuff. He's clearly having fun at this point, he's like, oh yeah, it's like he's just trying to pop Everyone at the table and they talk about, um, you know what part of the arm is being worked with this armbar and Tas goes bicep. My friend, you're looking for the word bicep. He's trying to tear his bicep, and I'm like, I don't think that's what you do.

It's not how an armbar works at all. Right, across arm breaker breaks the arm at the elbow right you want to, you want to you want to hyper extend the elbow and then break at His judo training doesn't always translate to jiu jitsu knowledge. I'll just put it that way. Taz's knowledge doesn't translate well at all. He doesn't translate well, no, he does not. Um but ankle Kurt Angle finds an ankle in this position. He gets kicked off and Ela cuts him down with a clothesline, though before he can

put the ankle lock on. Then he puts on a cobra clutch kind of submission and asked the refer to ask him for a sign of quitting. Angle gets free Ducks the German Ducks goes into the German as Delo goes for the ride in jeans, I believe he yes at this moment. Actually, uh, Kurt, actually he took He took him home to grab his phone, and he went to www dot Lufthansa dot com, where he proceeded to purchase

a one way ticket for mister Delo Brown to the country of Germany. I'm surprised, j I've never said he's got a one way ticket on Lufton's KC Jr. Saying like that he got him hooked up. He's telling him a one way ticket down the toms Dom to Germany. Damn it, Durspiegel says, Peter shits on my ass. Yes, that says Angle got his hips lower than Delo. Yes, we gets hip, We get grips and popping hips. Grips and grips, hips and biceps. Oh yeah, like German

shiples, puff of those hips. Hold on for dear life. Succession of the problem. The problem is that Kurt Angle's got his hips lower than Helo's. Gotta try and plot that. You want a gets his hips for now your hips. You go for a line. You gotta get some grip control for you and break that grip just like I allocatorime here. Yes, it's holding onto that waist lock. Well, it's a Greco Roman style deal. He's got that gut wrench and just keep rolling back into a flu session.

Go quick quit. Just whoa, that's a negative. That means no, that means he's not quitting. Just for those out there that don't that couldn't figure it out even know where he is. Complex Dealo's brains gotta be just getting scrambled out there so funny. Oh my god, he goes hips lower than Kurdile's got his hips lower than than Dealo. And he's got that grip, that Quicko Roman grip around his waist and then he's gotta popped the hips. I think he said Greco Roman styled deal. Greck, a Roman styled

deal. You gotta get at gonna handle him my grip pass. Just don't even bother like seriously, I mean it's just like it's so patently absurd, and I mean, you don't what, And then I tell you what. I gotta get out on a ship tonight. I gotta I got a grip on a ship and pop my hips on a ship, dash pass. I'm death long ta tough for nothing, he's at a cruise. He's on a cruise dinner boat with his sweetheart. I got my sweetheart next to me.

Look, I'm an anniversary Okay, I don't want to give autographs right now. Look Look you know, look, can you tell I got a nice even though it doesn't button at the top. I got a nice shirt on, all right. I got no neck, but I got a shirt on a button down, and I'm not fucking do autographs. The fucking red hook, Brooklyn, you'd say that again. So Angel drops the straps but not

the tag belts. Uh hooks the ankle Dealo rolls and kicks off, right, because that's gonna happen, because fucking fucking uh fucking Patti Melt Delo Brown here can fucking break the ankle lock. All right, that's funny. Well, I'm to Patty Melt. I'm curious where did that come from. I don't know. I'm just looking of something greasy and cheesy that he could have eaten before this fucking match. Greasy and cheese. It's kind of like Taza's

call. Dude's greasy and cheesy that he could have eaten before the night. Did you just call him? Patty melt delo. That's tough to recover from. Man, I feel bad for the guy. Wasn't that Pat Kearns nickname in bellator Pie Patty Mike. Oh No, that's what it was there at t melt pat tunamel eating motherfuck pant tunamel eating bitch Curran, that's my nickname. No, he fucking I'm a Patti Melt side of fries onion rings, friesion rings. Fuck. Oh, we have a boardwalk, eat an ice

cream cone? Pass on pass. Oh, that's like buying like a T shirt at one of those uh stands on the boardwalk where they like press it in front of you. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely, you know, you know, absolutely, like it's something anyone's ever said before. You know, you know it has a collection of like of of fucking um uh airbrushed fucking T shirts from Coney Island, all right, Like he's spent many a summer Coney Island and like get so many fucking airbrushed custom shirts, so

much, so many summers on Coney do it? Oh yes, pockets and him Nathan's eating a hot dog. It Dud's fucking living, you know, because he again, like you see how his cheeks just somehow gel into his shoulders. Right, there's no there's no neck, so just like his cheeks just go right down to his shoulders and just become torso truly amazing. So um watching him walk down the beach, that fucking giant fucking head, getting fucking hot dogs and fried dough, going on the scissla. It came on,

It's going to wonder wheel. Look, I did it when I was a kid growing up in Red Hook. Idiot, all right, it's fine. So uh After Angle kicks off Delo, Um, Angle charges and gets lifted into a big time Samoan dropped by Delo because he's a worker. Now, I can't stand the fact that when was the last time he fucking was in a match? Years at the Delo Brown Right, and he can fucking

hang with Kurt Angle Yeah in jeans and Jean invest Yeah. Um, he hits the moving Brian Hebner asks Angle if he quits after he gets hit with a Samoan drop. Taz even calls the ref on that one. Tas says to tud Kenney, I gotta wish God, I wish you'd say I quit. I wish I wish that fucking idiot would too. He's the worst, goes for power bomb, but Angle rolls through a beautiful transition. You always notice that an MMA and pro wrestling, every transition is quote beautiful, beautiful

transition. Beaut it's if it's if it's smooth. If it's smooth and no hiccups, it is a beautiful transition. Or it's just a basic transition. It's just a mean right, if it's basically, if it's not messed up. So even if it's completely adequate, right and not special, it's beautiful because no one fucked up. Look, I'm not one to pick at the beauty of Kurt locating an ankle in transition, and that's what we have here.

That's right. As he hooks the ankle, Dealo tries fighting it off, but Angle scissors in the leg when he drops down with it at a start of the match. That's right. Dealo screens from dog Got and taps, but there's no taps this as I quit, and then Anderson and Doc are just watching not try to help Dealo at all, and he screams, I quit, I quit, and the microphone and Kurt Angle gets the victory.

Wonderful, Ken Anderson and Doc bounce. So clearly Delo has not only let down Aces and Ates, they didn't even feel like he was worth helping out down the stretch. Then on the ramp, Christy Hemming's there, Well, Christy, he's just another battle of the war with Aces and Eates. Kurt tells her, but right now, I got my mind on somebody else, and that's aj you get your butt out here. So this is like one of those let's let let's move on from Delo. Let's like, not

even let the lasting visual be Delo losing. Let's move right into another piece. I love it. I fucking love it. And that was what we toget about people. And they'd actually put them on TV to forget about them, like you know some of those gut check guys and others. They would like fire them for real on the air, like the feaster fired briefcase match or one of the three briefcases was getting fired. Really yeah, they'd actually be fired on TV. It wasn't an angle. It's like what the fuck,

Yeah, that's okay. They used to do it that way. It was kind of like this is how we'll write you off. You'll get the feaster fired briefcase and you'll be fired. It's like every single time it makes the crowd sympathetic to them and expect them to come back and prove, you know, prove them wrong. Never happened. AJ comes out, You go in the easy way out? He asks, Kurt. Does you're the reason why I came to Impact because I knew if I wrestled AJ Styles, we'd

have one of the greatest matches of all time. I know you're going through a drug time, AJ, but me and Sting I need to know if you're with us or against us. And then he whispered something in his ear, and then he says, if you're against this, we're gonna have some problems by next week. The choice is yours, and AJ just stands there as boring as he can possibly be. Bully later on said he robbed his colors de Loo did and then he'd quit, so forget about him. We

got a six man next week. I'm telling you who's stepping up. It's me you. It's me, Bully, you, Ken Anderson and you Divon Later Matt Morgan's in the purple blassy robe. They still remembered that he stole that from Hogan's beach shop. They didn't mention it for four and a half months, but they didn't forget either. Staying in a T shirt puts him to sleep with a scorpion deathlock in their match later that night. To determine

who gets the shot. At Slam Anniversaries, the announcers put over the amount of record time that Matt Morgan was in the scorpion deathlock before passing out. This apparently required a couple of takes on the taping and was They're awkward because you know, Matt Morgan's legs are so long, it wasn't easy for Staying to lock it and hold it in long enough to make a credible pass out angle. And what you actually see on this episode is more Matt Morgan whisper

as he's supposed to be out cold on the match. Earl Hebner like, what are you doing? Like call for the bell? What are you doing? Really? Oh yeah, But what Matt Morgan is here, boss, is Steve Auston at Rustlemania thirteen. Right of course, right, That's exactly what he is. That's what I think of. I mean, how did Steve Auston get over? They told themselves one day, So this is definitely

step one in that direction. Yeah, but you know, no no, so hebner lifts Morgan's hand twice and then he goes, what are you doing like? In other words, he's supposed to call for the bell and spos be out cold and aces Nate's menace, staying to close the show. This impacted the total viewers at the lowest of the year and the second lowest in several years at one point one zero. Not going well. Time to start abandoning ship, time to start throwing, you know, flots him in jets

off overboard. Yeah a nineteenth and two below Mississippi kicks off with Angel and Sting and their Sting said his goals to show up at Slam reversary and strip believe his power by taking the title. We're back to this shifting in. But he does want to wait for June second. Why he asked for a six man tag tonight. When you want to assemble a team, you get the best, he says. I had to go for the best of the best, and I went straight to the machine. Kurt angle, I was

deceived just like anybody else last week. I made Dilo's ass tap out. Kurt says, Dilo's ass tapped out. Yeslo, his ass tapped out. There's a guy that could turn the tide in the fight with Aces and oh yeah, I'm ade Delo's ass tap out? Isn't that's something to brag about? Oh yeah, um, what's up? Says there's a guy that could turn the tide and the fight with Aces and Nates is Kurt talking a guy

confronted last week. It's Aj Styles and he calls him to the ring, and Staying tells him the Aces Andnates are systematically taking apart TNA and we need you Aj and we need the old Stone cold and AJ steps away and ends up brawling with Angle because he's so pissed that A's trying to walk away from

this, and then the Aces and Eights attack Sting backstage. I don't know if they're talking about Dealo, if Dilo was there, I wrote, didn't know that there was a Oh yeah, Dilo didn't know there was a get together going on with you guys backstage, clearly being marginalized. Oh. They tell him we got some club business to attend to and they leave him standing

there backstage holding his dick. They tell him turn in his colors as a matter of fact, take that cut off your back, and others actually forcibly rip it off of Dilo Brown and they hassle him and take that fricking shirt off your disgrace to this club. And while hell Coggan's in his office. Okay, this thing's way beyond business for me. Angle, you can't do

it. You know what your doctor said, Staying, Let's stay the course this time earlier today, your doctor said you can't period, can't fight tonight. Okay, he said, Okay, you're right, you're right, but but you know what, I've been holding back some info on you guys. Hulks says, oh, I've got a wild card call today. This guy comes in here. Oh I think they're telling I'm sorry. Angle and Staying are telling Hogan he can't fight because of what the doctors are telling Hogan.

Okay, okay, And then Hogan says, I got a wild card. I got this guy who comes in here and says he can sit back and watch the ass Snates get destroyed. And Kurt says this is a sure thing. He says, yeah, that bastard aj is out who we're going to count on. He says, it's got to be Magnus, Kurt and me. Kurt says Magnus is ready, and Hogan says, he's on fire, top of his game, and if you guys feel comfortable, if you believe in him, I'm good with it. Then not quite the whole cogod endorsement

we've got accustomed to. So they say Magnus is going to be the guy, and then of course later on an impact, Magnus is found laid out in the back, so it's not going to be Magnus good stuff. So they start pan if you're behind the curtain, and Angle says he's got to go out and fight back against the wall, even if we don't have a third man, because it's always about the third man. Third Man's always about the third man. Bit Shov's booking and we see Hogan on the phone.

He goes, where the hell are you? So he's talking to whoever this third person was? This ace in the hole. So it's Angle and Sting and a mystery partner against Bully Divon and Ken Anderson and there's no third man yet does the bell sounds? And today's talking about Sting winning the title, shifting the balance of power at Slam Aniversary Angle and Divon slug it out.

Early Bully comes in, misses a corner slap and goes into Kurt Angle's arm drag ken and sting it in, mix it up, inverted atomic drop and a drop kick by the Stinger. Tessa's Mike Tiney has a gambling problem and asks him what the odds are of this match? He does have a gambling problem, you know that. Of course, Tenay dives right in and cites the three on two advantage and that's right, maybe it's sixty two to one odds. Tenay says. He comes back at Tenay and today says that's not

funny. Devon comes in and takes over on Angle Anderson with a hyena laugh out in the apron to Angle Bully in. It's multiple avalanches in the corner, and there's a reverse three D on Kurt Angle, and then we cut to a camera in the back and we see the aces and eights are laid out and in a heap. TAZ is losing its visual let. We see a pair of shoes walked by at the top of the screen, but I think that was unintentional, and they go to a break saying who did this

about thirty times. Who cares when we come back, Bully, Ray, I'm here to tell you with a phenomenal drop kick. Yes, indeed, he's like six point four two hundred ninety pounds. Rip starts a scanning drop kick like he spilled miss, and I'll tell you why I talks you well, Bully. I talked you well. Brother, left your feet like today, It's great. There, today's off the leash. He fucking does a standing, fucking drop kick. It's really good. Impressed. It's not like

a like a kind of like a mocking like. I know I don't do drop kicks, so let me do one, just like Earthquake used to do. What's that like Earthquake used to do? Right? That's a good when he do it. He basically it was just like, yes, you can get off his fucking feet. But John impact about seeing his where he landed on his hip every time. It was so bad for him. I don't remember that at all. Yeah, John Cena drop kick. It's not something you want to see more than once. Jesus Devon comes in with a slow

hangman's news neckbreaker and slithers over to cover for two. Devon with the back elbow scores that gets too and then he does the leg drop and mocks Hulk Cogan with the ear cupping and everything. What do you even doing? Just like him to Steven Brother, we didn't, Brother, we didn't talk like that, dude. We didn't talk about that. Dude, what's going on? That's diva. I'm gonna talk to your brother, yea, I'll call you right hey, d Viz brother, Brother, can we talk? Did

real quick? I said something I wanted to go over, dude. You know, I'm telling you something, dude. I just want to talk about, you know, Connie your performance tonight. Brother, it was really strong for the most party. I appreciate that. Yeah, dude, it was you know, you know de vissil. It was very strong, Brother, big fan of everything he did, except you know one thing that kind of took the crowd out. Brother. I was kind of taking by surprise myself.

I was thinking by surprise, Brother, and you know, more importantly, you know, the crowd was kind of not into it, dude. I could definitely sense that, Brother, and they were a little confused, like, wait a minute, is this whole Cogan or is this divon right? Like people kind of losing a little bit of a you know, not sure what's going on, brother, So I just want to know, you know what, you know, I just want to talk about and what you

know, what kind of brought that on? What made you say? Hey, you know what I wanna I'm wanna be whole Cogan here, Oh, Terry. I just thought it was a nice tribute to you. I thought I could get some heat you know where we're trying to go against you and oppose you, Terry, And I thought that, uh, if I dropped the leg in the match, who would be you know, send some heat on one, dude. But you know, I totally understand, brother, I totally get that. But do you know what that does? It kind

of diminishes the power of the leg drop. Brother. You know, it just really just didn't. That wasn't basically, dude, wasn't. I mean, were you? Did you ask you? I mean, I'm just curious, brother, are you You know? I just want to make sure on the same level. Yeah, I understand, Yeah, because because because I just want to you know, when it comes to what happens to the ring, I definitely, you know, more or less trust you guys. But I just you know, this kind of took me off guard, and I

was like, whoa, where's it coming? Where's it? You know, where's it coming from? Somebody? You know? I mean, did did somebody tell you to do that? Brother? You know, like, did somebody? Because I know I didn't tell you to do that. Brother, I'm wondering, you know, maybe somebody, you know, did Bischoff say it? Dude? Didn't Harder say it? Brother? Are you sure? I'm sure it wasn't told me to do that? I mean, brother, I mean, we can just talk turkey here, dude. I mean,

wasn't Brutus, brother, No, it wasn't Brutus the knobs Terry. It was. It was Bubba and not Bully. Brother. What are you saying here? Dude? Look, I know you're eventually gonna say anyway, so I might as well be straightforward with you. You're saying, it's been talking about the Love Sponge, You've been talking a bus of the Love Special. Dude. Absolutely yes, says he's got an opportunity for me, and I didn't want to whoa, whoa, whoa whoa Wait? Brother, what's the

opportunity dude? I don't know yet, but I told him what what? Excuse me? You know what what I think I need Big John in the room before we continue this conversation, just for both of our protection. You know, I want to make sure there's a witness to this conversation. Whoa whoa? Brother? Brother? I mean we're talking, dude, We're talking turkey right now. Brother, what do you what? I have to go? No, No, you can't feel boxing, brother, because I feel

boxing. Dude. We both can't feel box in. Brother. No, I feel boxing. You can't take that from me. Brother. You already trying to take my life out there in your ring. Dude. You trying to take my life, my family. Brother, You're trying to beat me. Dude. No, I'm boxing, brother, You can't box in. I box in, Terry, What do you want from me? Whoa? What do you want from me? Brother? I don't want anything. You accosted me. I was coming to this. I'm a matter of costing,

dude. You're accosting me money brother, little little No, I'm not gonna take this. Who is your brother? Who? No, buddy, Terry, don't worry about it that bubba brother, I'm gonna babba. Is that you fucking well? I need to lay out, why don't you repeat that for the solar system. I'm just trying to get heat on the gimmick, Terry Paul, What are you getting, dude? You can't get heat on? Brother. I taught you the language, dude. I taught you everything.

Brother. You can't teach me nothing, Dude, Terry, I work matches, n ez W. What look, I'm up on YouTube. They're up there. I learned how to reverse the heat. I know how to work. I know how to shoot. I know when someone's working. I do when someone here. You can't work me anymore. I know. I saw that Kade, who's non disclosure agreement order? You had me? Sad? I just got better than a brother. I'm you're right now. I'm muna tell you're right now. Brother. You reverse in the heat, dude.

It's gonna be just like Saddam hus Saints rain over Kawad. Brother, it's gonna happen in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, you're reversing shit on me, brother, Terry Capon back on the phone. Who I'm devon? Brother? What I saw a hammy through my legs? Brother? Who like devons got? He just lets him have the phone? Okay, brother, Who's what muh huh, hold on, hold on, hold on, huh who what what? I can feel the gas tank going to empty on Tnah.

I can actually feel it. The essence of tnh the essence of Hulk Hogan, who was her brother? I can feel it, dude, who is her brother? I'm not alone? Wow, just when you thought you were right. So yeah, all that to say, Devon hits a leg drop. Tess says, um, Devon might have bigger traps than the Hulkster. Todd said, I don't. I don't think he's got anything on the twenty

four inch pythons, and Tess starts saying, take your vitamins. Says, Um, you have to Todd, you have to take your announcing vitamins. He says, oh my god. Angle Ducks, said Larryott, And also, Hogan's got political traps behind the scenes. That's right as well. Bully tries to slap in the corner Angle Ducks and hits an angle slam on the

champion tag to sting at tack Devon Stingo and nuts in there. Stinger splash in the corner, Death Drop drops Devon Ken Anderson breaks up the pin Stinger splash in the corner on him and then a bulldog and to cover one two when Bully breaks it up and there's a face off between Sting and Bully as we build here to slam Aversary. They slug it out, hands absolutely flying between two flying double egg hooks, flying double egg by stinging hooks, the

scorpion death drop hardon me, the scorping death lock, and Tony's screaming. Turn him over and make him tap yeah, okay, and we go to a break that's going to happen because as Sting turns it over, Ken Anderson sneaks up and hits the mic check. And when we come back at table's being fed into the ring and then music hits and everybody freezes, and whose

music is it? Who is the third man to assist Kurt Angle and Sting Abyss Abyss is back and not Joseph park Abyss If that is a four circle on TNH, I'm all right, he's wearing the kane the cane wig too, right. The King King King King King King Kane King King King King King King actually has new music. Oh and the music has played so loud it drowns out any pop there might have been for his surprise return and he's coming out swinging and everybody double clothesline on um Team three D. And then

why would they play different music for him? What's that? Why don't they play different music for him? It just wouldn't they want to recognizable music too? They were so bad as music. TENA was the dirt worst, the dirt worst. They had a couple of happy accidents, like the Beautiful People's Song and the aj Styles theme, but for the most part, every single Kardanle theme is good. I don't know what you're talking about. I think their music is great. Fucking hell, um boots were both ken gets in

he gets goozled and choke slam through a table by abyss abyssed in. There was his mouth wide open. But what else is new head? The ribs? Yeah, he's fucking that's what you want to call what he did to the ribs. It's five of me anyway, hits a black hole, slam on de Hunt and covers him for the one two three. So Abyss sting in kron Angle, ba aces Nates here and tas this this is Hogan's fault.

This is whole Cogan's fault. That's who he was talking to. And because Abyss did this to Nay, screams, Hope is back in TNA. Listen to this fucking phony. Just wna time. I thought Abyss just came back. I thought this was back, not Hope, Hope, Hope solo from the I mean, like, why is this match so important? There's not even any stipulation, like are taking the million falls? Why is this

one? It's so stupid, Kennelly says in the War with Ace's Nates, I didn't like our odds coming in, but now I say we've got a monster of a chance to do. What to keep winning matches? I mean, you guys beat him all the time, all the time. Impact May sixteenth, Hogan kicks it off, put over the poppy gets and he's out there cupping and all smiles. Oh, actually not, I don't have this one. I'm shocked at Hoglemania. Is this crazy lad tuple of Mississippi?

Brother, And I'm also just as shocked that the way Aj Styles walked away last week from stinging Kurt Angle. But you know what, Aj walked away, The cyborg Kurt Angle took the fight right to him. Brother. So Aj Styles go ahead and join Ace's Nates if you want because who cares exactly? How right? Yeah? Because way it goes, Kurt Angle is going to keep the chains, keep chains right to slam Anniversary. Brother, So I hope you're listening, because from my mouth to these Holkamaniacs years, it's

going to be you Aj versus Kurd Angle at Slammiversary. Oh would By the way, speaking of tonight, we're going to have a contract signing for the main event. There's no pot for that, and I'm not ashamed to say. Holt says that TEENA has been under the microscope as of late, and out of nowhere. A man who came out here in this darkest hour, our darkest hour and saved the day for all of us here and Impact Wrestling was Abyss. And I want to call him out here right now to ask

prouded me to shake his hand and thank him, man to man. So a business new music hits, which awkwardly has this bell tolling throughout it. I don't know what that's intended to achieve, Perhaps the hunchback of Notre Dame Ilk standing there waiting the music fades out, Hulk says something music plays again and instead of Abyss outcomes Yes, Joseph Park, his brother. Of course, Tessa's most attorneys are monsters, so it kind of connects Impact with Hogan.

There is about attorneys. I think we've gotten that by now that we know, we know that for sure. Park says, I stayed at home last week on my couch, and I watched and shock at amazement as my brothers returned to Impact. That's that's not unusual, No, not at all. He's been known to spend a lot of time on his couch. Because

I couldn't believe it all this time, I've been looking for him. Hogan, standing there, flummixed that he's trying to convince him that it's not actually a biss, standing before him, says, I can't believe he was here. My brother was here, and hogans is Joseph. I'm not playing brother. We need a biss here now more than ever. And if anybody knows where he could be, that would be his brother. And then the Aces and Nates music hits, and they come out, and Devon says, Hogan,

we're not coming here after you. We want abiss. Hogan steps between Devon and Joseph Parks says, a biss stuck his nose in club business. He also stuck his nose at the club backstage. He wasn't a legal guy. Actually, he didn't stick his nose in it. A club stuck itself in him. Listen to Kate's complaining about being pinned by the non legal man and a six man. Actually he is illegal man, ridiculous. He's very much a legal man. He's a lawyer. He's a man of the law.

That's right, and I make him legal as far as I'm concerned. You need to get a biss out here right now. And Joseph parksys, who, when the hell do you think you are talking to the immortal Hulk Coogan like that? Devon calls him fat boy. Parks says, you talk about family business. If it wasn't for you in the pathetic band of thugs with you, I never would have been there to look for my brother.

Abyss, you two are really starting to piss me off. As he starts to get clammy and his eyes start to get wide, he's basically hulking up as one of business. Joseph Parks is doing right Hulgan's brother. As he does this, Parks says, I've had it with you and all your little buddies. So let's do it right now. You and me in a match right now in Tupelo. And he takes off his blazer and Divon makes noises and says shut up and says, who the hell did you ever beat?

And you don't make matches around here for you have to prove yourself. And Di Loo is who's out there as well, So let me kick his ass tonight. Somehow, I don't think that's gonna go well for Dilo as Hulk Coogan, Yeah, says Dilo, You better be careful what you wish for, because, as far as I'm concerned, that match tonight, Joseph Parks against Elo Brown Stelo just the head thing. Devan says, He's got all

the belief in the world. Fucking talking names is so funny because he can't ever remember people's names, especially Joseph park especial Parks, Samoe and Joe, Samoe and Joe. There's so many of them, Sting Moon and whoever is Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever that guy is. The fuck is wrong with that guy? One two so good, no doubt. We were just hitting the Hogan buttons and then all of a sudden, no doubt, no so good bitch off. What the fuck are please such a up my TV?

I seriously Dilo, Hogan says, you better be careful what you wish for as far as I'm concerned that matches tonight, um La says he's got belief in in Dilo. I don't know why you tell the best. When I find him, I will promise I'll take a chunk out of his ass. Mmm. I mean, okay, that's a that's a lot. Ogan says, you know something, I'm gonna make this real easy for you, Divon, because after Joseph Park beats Dilo, like I said, I'm gonna

give him the green light to tear you apart anytime he wants. So the way it goes, that's another at the end of the day. So the way it goes, So the way it goes at the end of the day, brother, if you're gonna have if we're talking, dude, I'm tired of playing you know, stick for Tamali up the ass, brother. I'm tired of playing hide the ball, dude. I'm tired of playing strangle the hose. Brother. Oh my god. Shout out to Sean on Twitter for this litany. M hmm. Watch the dog ride the Uni cycle. Point

out the stereotype bock the raccoon. How about this one? Can e Omega staining abron sleep in the castle, raise the hammock, fart on the table, block me on Twitter. That's a real one, right, and finally open a berest to stand ba there. It's time to stop playing take it a walk in the morning. It's time to stop playing scramble the eggs knobs knobs what So the way it goes is you're gonna have the whole Park family on your back, Jack, so testify to that. My brother. Later,

Brooke Hogan is with Mickey. She's still running the knockouts. I mean, your voice sounds fantastic. What was up with this? I have this here, but it was up with it? Like it happened after Velvet Sky's introduction to the ring. They just kind of cut away, and I don't think Mickey was facing her. Interesting, I didn't notice. It's very weird. Yeah, I mean, your voice sounds fantastic. I think the video is incredible. I'm so excited about your music. Twitter's blowing up about it.

I mean, I'm so excited. This is incredible. It's overwhelming. Congratulations, Thank you. I really appreciate that. Yeah, but I also would have appreciated perhaps getting a little bit more of the spotlight this anniversary. What, girl, I have the biggest shows of the year. I knew you were going to say that. And you have to understand why I had to let Taryn and Gale Duke out there, crazy as it was clouding the whole knockout division. All right, just have to let them do their thing.

But you know what, I know how bad being on top of the Knockout's division. I know how many want that. I know how important it is to you. So I want you to have another match again Velvet next week for the title. Awesome, Okay, okay, so better yeah, okay, cool? Get ready for it. I will, I'll be ready, all right, thank you? Absolutely you gonna get ready there? What

are you doing here? Who are your favorite touts? Tell Dad that when I call Sting out to the ring tonight, it's not going to be so much of a contract signing as it is going to be a contract negotiation. You better negotiate a divorce, honey. How many times so I have to tell you I will never ever divorce you until death do us put God get out of my face. Of course, He walks around backstage from the title on his shoulder at all time, of course, like what cool guys do?

Come on, ye if fans can do that, you know who haven't even earned to championship belt. Certainly the champion can do that, who has earned the belt. So he is just torturing this woman. It's awful. Joseph Parks later sees his own blood and goes nuts against Delo Brown and beats him with a black hole slam, further burying Delow six feet under with a one two three. Bully comes out with a contract signing, Uh, I'm here, m I got it for you. Do you know who I am?

I'm so over that it's not even a good catch race. It's not it's not like it's so it's not good, it's not I'm not I'm not like I'm genuinely annoyed. Yeah, in a in a in a non good wrestling way, like shut up, m him boy, Ray, I'm from God's Country, Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Okay, another thing they make such a like I get that He's Kell's Kitchen hasn't been a rough neighborhood in quite some time. Wow, you know it's I know that they do

it because of the name. Yes, but if you've been in New York, Hell's Kitchen is nice. It's fine. It's like it's not like, you know, swanky or anything, but it's it's definitely up there. I mean they have I mean, maybe this is why he's from Hell's Kitchen.

They do have, like restaurant row. I was gonna say, yeah, it's more of the kitchen with him than the right because I mean they do have a lot of really you know, nice and different and kind of you know, I don't I guess trendy restaurants, but like it's not dangerous, is it at all than Red Hook? Uh? No, No, I think I think red Hook. I don't know. I mean, well, time he looked up red Hook, it's it's it was pretty rough there there

you go. But I don't I don't think I forget what the fucking deal was with red Hook, Red Hook, Red Hook Brooklyn, Red Hook Brooklyn like about I know also, you know that get up when they go to Boston. But I'm the guy that defeated Hope. Well you probably have this anyway. I'm the president of the I am the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. I'm the guy that defeated Jeff Hardy. I mean a lot of guys, guy that took Jeff Hardy out at his own game, full metal maham.

I'm also the guy that will defeat Sting at Slammiversary. Sting, I know you're back there. I know you're listening. I know all of your fans can't wait for you to get out here. But like I told Brook a little earlier on, this is gonna be more of a negotiation, not so much of a signing. And I know you've probably got a couple of things you want to say to me. Sting, you probably got some sticks, so don't keep us Wayne, Stinger, come out out here. I'm all

ears, brother, Let's be honest. For the future of DNA and the future of Impact Wrestling, it does not get any bigger. It does not get any more important than the world title match at slam Aniversary June the second, and Bosses a chance to get that power in control, to regain it for Tnah. Whoa whoa, whoa stop right there, shut his music off, don't take one more step. I want this to be official. I don't want any discrepancies, so holding holding you may want to step out here

and wants you to this. Come on out, dad, here we go Ki Holy Ray saying this isn't gonna be a contract signance, gonna be a negotiation, and he wants the heir of that man, the general manager who hooking himself to make it all official here tonight, Tess, what's the story's I don't know. I have no idea. You know what, I just realized this is actually the first time me and you were face to face since

I screwed you over I was wanna say screwed Brook. Yeah, since I screwed came over and everybody knows how bad I guess screwing his daughter over there it is. You're probably looking for an apology, right, well you wait getting one. I really don't. I don't care about your apology. You know when you get to Boston. You should. You should take my arm and snap it into what you should pull my kneecap off, okay, dislocate my elbow. You should. You should google me? Really you shouldn't.

You should just rip my throat right out. I would take your finger and gouge my eye out. You you should make me bleed. What the hell is what the hell's wrong with you? Do you want me to break your arm, break your leg, make you bleed? Why would you be telling me to do that to you? What the hell is wrong with you? Because if you don't do it to me, I'm gonna do it to you.

Stay because I don't care if it's in the ring, if it's out of the ring, if it's in the concession stands, if it's up in the rafters, if it's into the crowd, I am gonna make you bleed in Boston. You so, I didn't really have any demands, but since you're asking for a demand, here's my demand. I want to know holds barred match in Boston. I believe it's called nod huh yeah exactly. Probably think you got me just where you're wanting me. I bet these people all

over the world would love to see me bully at your hands. I'll tell you watch Sting. You got your no holds barred match on one condition. You agree, you swear you sign that when I beat you in Boston, you never ever wrestle for the World Heavyweight Championship again. WHA hold on a minute, dude, such your mouth don't talk. I ain't done yet. I'm sickond tight you stepping on me. Say it up, don't do I'm not saying you gotta retire. What I'm saying is that I don't want you

to retire. I want you to have to wrestle until the day you die, knowing that you can never wear this championship around your waist. A dead sting. I'm running the shore around here, not him. You don't have to do this, sting, don't do it. There he goes again, making decisions. Sawyer, running your career, running your life, telling you what to do. What's it gonna be? Sting? Man up, no holds good burst, the championship of the rest of your life. Yes or

no? Yes, still accepts the challenge and out. Champion and challenger go at toe to toe center of the ring. You talk about physicality at Slam Anniversary. It's gonna be no volts part with so much on the line. Man, we'll see you next week in Tampa. Sounds like just hear the stomping al. Those people sound so excited. I'm thrilled. I can't wait. By the way, I should let you know that apparently, uh uh,

it's Red Hook is okay nowadays. I guess the uh, the crime the crime rate has decreased eighty three point one percent between nineteen ninety and twenty eighteen, So in thirty years, it's it. It became a decent place to live. Doesn't mean what he thinks it means. Huh. I guess not. I guess it's not as dangerous. So there we go. They're not, you know, I mean also, I mean, you know,

the way they make New York City everyone, it's funny. I feel like whenever you say New York City, people think of like the New York City of the eighties and the seventies and ship and it's like, oh, it's dangerous, big fucking city. It's like, no, it's fucking disney World. Disney World now pretty much, you know, yeah, thanky, that's

that's what New York is. It's fucking Disney World. I mean, yash, you're they're rough areas and stuff, but like it's not, you know, it's it's it's such a it's not like you know, fucking far to the thirteenth part eight, where where there are where there are fucking trash cans full of toxic waste. Oh, Yeah, Yeah, that's a realistic vision. It's so fucking funny. I wondered, did is that coming soon?

It should come soon anywhe Honestly, got I gotta find a way to make that come soon because because that's such a great, fucking it's so awful. It's so great though, cinemat Baby always a landing place for those kind of things. It's right. So they move impact now to Hogan's backyard of Tampa starting with the May twenty third episode, and this is a big deal.

They had a press conference rold Restaurant for this yea is at the University South Florida Sundome, and you better believe that they brought the gimmicks to this other venture that Terry finds himself involved in. You know, we've talked a lot on TNAH about the many different avenues the Holster is constantly finding to to work

the people, to work the angles, to work the pocketbook. And here, um, not only does the hoaxer hold court in front of his hometown people, but we also were going to run a little his angle with cases and eights is what would a what would a wrestling press conference be without phoniness? And this first, why is this higrophone work brother there, so it's conscious of the building. So thank you guys are coming out rapper down and uh this is a huge deal of horse um and half he am hacking on

the Tama my hometown. Um, it's a huge deal. Yeah, I haven't been back since the ES when I was up a good friend of my little shop. But uh, let's really huge deal over us because recently just move going, we were going all of our shows at the sound stage, pretty small building. After call you probably got enough on, We've got enough

frashtion and we kind of made made your forwards and wrestlings. So now we're crying all our on the country every week the long run, I know when you can come to the sun of them, I'm twenty third of Hay with all the energy of all the damn Bay residence, the performance like Max through, You're gonna turning the playtown. It's like this one. Thank you guys t one for coming today. Thank you so much for helping me with poking

speech. You guys go yeah, want to hang so much and help me with the load speech because it's the first time I was trying to do a restaurant with my name on you guys. It's so supported one. Thank you very much, thank you sir. But anyways, tickets one said the dam so you gave him towards you game, looking forward to the rank route. You can keep on out out of the hoak speech half on nature and every Thursday, you guys watch him back to eight gam. I love the guys,

and thank you for sicky movie through your thinking. Then you guys are awesome. He fucking played thing. Wah wa wa wa wa wa wah a Hoxter in his element. They're in Tampa rights one last moment of serenity under the TNA banner for the Hoxter there with with with the beach and the waves lapping in the background. They did this outdoors in the pattio of this press conference at Hogan's Beach. And uh and yeah, so he's he's got he's got a lot going on, he's got a lot to dial in and he's

gonna lot to get back on track, to get back on track. So we've got to shoot an angle on this thing, right, We absolutely have to. It's otherwise how do you move tickets? And it's one of those classics where you know, people just sit around and by the way, did he say this is the first time I put my name on a restaurant? Yes? Is that true? Does posta Mania not count? I guess his name isn't on that one? Is it? Isn't it Hulk Hogan's posta Mania?

Oh my god? Why would you say that? It's just begging people to be like what I think the video because basically Murburt Hunter's breath is not true when he said it's the first time he's been back in Tampas and money, you know he it's because no. I mean, well, let's see here it says Hulk Hogan's posta Mania. Yeah that counts. Yeah, brother, it's wand dude, great question. And so shoot, this guy's a planet. What's going on here? Grab the drinks and so still shop and

nuts this party? Hey, what the hell do you think that you're gonna make it to Tampa this month? Yeah? Right now, make yell, come on, bro, trying to get the sun. We're trying to have no fun around Oh like that good sith? Yeah, yeah, seriously, people were taking it. People are standing it's like, you know, standing tables like those. Hey, you know what it's Oh my god, it's aces and it's as everybody, everybody, did you hear me? It's acess

almost positive it was a planted person. And everyone's just standing there smiling, laughing at this angle like, oh god, it's cords, it's wrestling, Oh my goodness, exactly. Well you know that's there. You go. That's kind of funny. Mm hmmm. Well that's nice. One more homestand for the Hulkster, one more warm embrace from his beloved home city, the city that was there for him even when everybody else was not. And he steps out like Tanay says, there's a Hogan pop, and there's a hometown

Hogan pop. Tanya says, uh here whenever hul Cogan. This is where hul Cogan attended school and was discovered by Jack Briscoe and Jerry Briscoe and trained by Hiro Matsuda. His wife Jennifer is in the front row, and he gets in that ring and he lets Tampa here from their favorite son, without a doubt. It's great to be home right here in Teatown. Here we go. Yes, I got this one. Sorry, thought was without a doubt. Brother, It's great to be home right here in Teatown, Pampa,

Florida. Brother, I mean, you know something, Jack, I knew it was gonna be special talking to you about Jerry on the beaches, Hogan's Beach Shop, the world was on the street. It was gonna be heavy in the Sundow tonight. On the way over, when I was crossing the causeways, I stopped at Hogan's Beach to throw a couple back to calm my nerves, and all the sudden, soft sharp boy swimming up through Tampa Bay and sat with him at the bar, and he pounded a couple with

me. So I knew tonight it was gonna be crazy here at the Sundome because makes me feel like family. Guys. This is my home and you guys are my family. But also I've got the TJA Impact family in the back. And we got one guy, aj Styles who apparently has made a decision to cross over to the other side, brothers aj Styles with Jeremy Borashu, my witness, has decided to go over to the side with aces and eights. But you know, I'm not gonna dwell on that, because that's

a trickle in the greatest sand on our beach. I'm talking about our family right here that sticks together through thick and thin, and one of my brothers that's been with me from day one, is on my side from dust till dawn, and I want to bring him out right now. His name is sing So come on out here, brother. No no no, no no no no no no no no, no, no no no. Who in ten days time gets his shot at boy Ram move that balance of power back

to TNA Wrestling. We witness the negotiation and for Staying, the personal stakes could not be hired. The world title match against Bully raised to too Slam Aniversary in Boston. It's going to be a no holds barred match. But remember Staying is agreed. If he doesn't win the title, he can never challenge for the World Championship again. You know something, Stinger. Before you get all fired up out here, brother, I just gotta let you know

one more time. I appreciate what you're doing for the Fairy, but this whole stipulation of no title match ever again, this whole thing that was laid out of Slam Anniversary, it does not have to go down that way, brother, because Bully is not in charge. I'm the general manager Jack in this place. Brother. I respect every single thing that you're saying hope,

But the truth is, I don't want you to change anything. I want you to keep it just the way it is because I told you to us, Bully Ring, I'm gonna carry some of this weight with you, and I know that I need to show up in Boston at Slam Anniversary take the

world title from him and also take the power from him. I only need one chance to get this done, hole, And to be quite honest, if I don't take the title and take the pride, I don't take Oh my gosh, I want this to happen so bad I can't even talk right now. I'll say, if I can't take the title from you, Bully, and if I can't strip you of your power, then I don't deserve to ever be champion again. And that's just the way it is. You don't have to go that far, brother, You've got nothing to prove.

We know where you're gonna fight, truth, thick and thin. You don't have to put that stipulation online. Like I said, I am running the show here, not that no good Bully Ray, that's hiding the back jack. Here we go say watching one. I'm coming through name. Now, Okay, what does that even mean. This is so hard for me to say. I don't want to see either of you taking the blame for what I did. I fell in love with that jerk, then you shouldn't have

to fight him. Because I was a dumb girl that fell for the bad boy Fuller, I drove a wedge between you and my day. You guys have known each other for twenty years. You've been friends forever. I took a wegs between my father and myself over this jerk Brook. You don't need to go there. We can handle this whole situation. Dad, I'm serious about what I'm about to say. I am the fly in the ointment. I was the catalyst for this whole company going up in smoke, and I'm

sick of seeing you take the blame for it. I'm sick of seeing Sting take the blame for it. Because you guys are professionals. You've been in this business for a long time, and Dad, I want to make you proud, but I'm so proud of the Knockcounts and we've grown the division so much. Girls are so talented and they make me so proud, and I love being here with TNA. But I can't help but feel like I have ruined everything, So I think that it's best for me to resign as the

brook Anything I have. You just refocus, UK. I'm here to help the Knockout Division and that you have now move forward, move beyond bully and take care of business the way you know how to take care of business. Dad, I promised Dixie that I would handle stick about there. Isn't that chit. I'm not a world heavyweight champion. It's up, brother? What's up? My men? Why are the three of you sitting out here and taking the blame for everything? Huh? It's not your fault things are this

way. Huh, it's not your fault things in this wasting And Brookie, it's not your fault things in this way. Understand one thing. When it comes to whose fault it is, it's mine. It's my fault. It's my fault that you don't know how to run this company. It's my fault that I stab you in the back. I'm the one who turn this entire company upside down. Make no mistakes, Dad, I run the show around here, Jack. But I gotta tell you something. This one person in

that ring that I do blame me and Brooke it's you hold on. I blame you for me your hands off of my wife. I blame you for making me fall for you. The bottom line is this, Brook. Every time I wake up in the morning, I think of you, and every night I go to bed, I think of you. Powerful stuff, and we have a connection. And you know what I'm trying to say right now. You can look away all you want, but you know, damn well, Brooke, I still love you and I will always love you. That's

why I will never take this off. Loves that pussy yep, So here we go. I still will always love you. So here's the twist in the story. Kind of makes you think that Brook's gonna turn on Hult, doesn't it. It does. He makes off Brooks crying. Later book, Bully and Brooker backstage and she says, Mark, what do you want? Why you did you? Do you mean you still love me? What does that mean? But he says, what does it sound like? It means? Brook? Yes, I still love you, and then he leaves her,

kind of looking off into the distance. So she's he's really fucking with her head now, and they cut immediately from that to Velvet Sky That can't be by mistake. Oh yeah, that's that's what he's fucking right. Yep. During a Kurt versus h Ken Anderson, AJ Styles arrives with a big, fat wheel style moped. I don't know what you call those things, but I guess they thought I'd make them cool to arrive in one of those

things. He comes out and um Anderson hits a low blow because he's distracted by AJ Style's arrival as Kurn angle for the one two three, but AJ's in the house. Staying backstage teaches Joseph Park some of the boys U, you know, language because of course, you know, he was very confused about what was meant by Ribs and everything else in the past. And there's another page out of that book. Biss reports. Joseph Park reports the boys

thanking him about getting the strap. Um, now, I sais they're thinking about me getting the strap. Joseph Parks says, sounds like it kind of hurts, and Sting says, no, no, it's a good thing. I promise Parks like, god, gosh, you know, I'll tell you you'll learn something new every day. And Staying wants brother Abiss coming back, and Parks said he won't even talk to me, and Sting says, you're just gonna kayfab me on this thing all the way to the very end,

aren't you? Stings says, yep. He says it wants Parks to be his partner. How else will justice be served? He says, and they shake on it. Later on the show, Mickey DDT's Velvet Sky and takes the knockouts with the You know, I don't know, you know, unless Sting is involved in a very is like being serious about a storyline, He's not good. I lose some thunder from him. Yeah, he's got to

be really intensely into the opportunity in front of him. This like extracurriculars, these little side stories he gets involved with that're going nothing to see Aces Nates come back out. They're going to patch Aj into the club. They have a vest for him, a cut. Mike Tenay says, it's a dark day for TENA for one of the original ten A wrestlers to join Aces and Nates. Bully, do you know who we are with a unit that runs TNA and when someone in this club screws up, they pay for it.

That's exactly what happened to Dillo Bully says, Dilo is nothing but a disappointment. But as much as he was, there was one guy that stepped up and proved himself, and that is Ken Anderson. But tonight is about a guy we are going to initiate. And he calls out AJ styles get ready to fly, walks out, gets in the ring. Everybody wants you, Aj, Hogan wants you. Even Fortune wanted to reform to have you. But you know better, don't you. He hands him a bottle, a

beer bottle. He says, you know, Aj, it's not a stupid but you don't drink and never had a sip in your life. And AJ kind of nods at that, and he says, I want you to cheer and drink with me. Let this be a sign you can give your heart to Jesus, but your soul belongs to the club. I'm sorry now, Aj a very religious man. They clink and he chugs. AJ chugs and the beer spills out of his mouth and Bully loves it. And Bully says, I didn't even finish mine. I couldn't even finish mine. Look at

you give our brothers colors. There's a use old doubt chance your colors and cut and oh what is this fucking ac more so they give it to him and then Angles music plays and he says, I had to see it with my own eyes, your legacy here a j a teenage just went straight down the crapper. I can say that again. That started, I believe January fourth, twenty ten off my Matthews. I love you, know you? Hearing Angles say like, um, you know, not like the the PG

thirteen swears right, curse words, It's just so fucking weird. It's just very uncomfortable, like I almost want him to just say the real shit or not just say it at all. Yeah, oh yeah, down the crapper, Like, oh dude, I mean right, like there are a million ways to fucking say that. Verbiage says, does this make you feel warm inside? AJ? All right, fine, take your damn cut, put the patch on it, and be part of the scumbag group. You're going

to see me at Slam Aniversary anyway. Ray says it's exactly what he wants, and he puts the vest on AJ and they all hug you sold out, chant bull. He raises AJ's hand and suddenly Kurt is rolled into the ring by some invisible force. We find that it's a doc who ran up behind Kurt and they hold him open and beat the shit out of him. And then Ray takes the hammer and he hands it to a J and he says, fulfill your destiny, take out good angle. This is sting.

This is sting. nWo right here, absolutely absolutely it is. And yes, so AJ grabs the hammer and slams hert across the lake with it, kicks him out of the ring, so it looks like he'll turn confirmed.

They put up the Aces and Nates hand sign, and they face the crowd with their backs to the hard camera, and AJ's all smiles throughout this, but then he stopped smiling as they all pose for the camera for the crowd, and then just goes off and starts slugging all the members of Aces and Nates with the hammer, and once he's dropped as many as he can before they catch up to him, he bounces and runs out of the ring doing his hand sign with the you know, the imprinted logo on the inside of

his batting gloves that he wore. I think this is the first time he kind of debuted that batting glove. It's definitely the look he carried into the Royal Rumbull and into w t B in the early days in New Japan. The blue the black tights with the blue trim, the boots one on the shin guards. Yeah, so he's doing that whole handstand up the aisle and they're screaming on commentary how he has no allegiance to anybody and how crazy that

is. And he does walk alone. And they also broadcast Alan because the baby wasn't back, right, they announced that they're moving again from eight to ten back to nine to eleven PM on Spike on Thursday nights. This is the old time slot. So every single experiment they tried, they undid every single box someone said they had to check to take the next step. They checked and then unchecked everything that people pretended would have made a difference and justify

Hagen and Bischoff's existence did not. Yes, we moved to the Sam Anniversary pay per view Baby June second, twenty thirteen. Aganis Arena on the campus of Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. And you better fucking believe your boy was there. You were there. Indeed, Wow, there the only time I went to a t I'm not surprised me. You were you were always

good about getting into that ship at a problem back then. And it's the Boston Strong crowd because it's mentioned before, this was the year of the bombing, so there was a lot of that going on and right, and this is going to be a very interesting night. A lot of things happening. Chris Saban comes out. Okay, well, here's here's the intro. By the way, the intro to the show fucking fascinated me as a dream special evening. It's an evening that revolves around history and history on so many fronts.

Begin interrupt you regularly scheduled program. You a dose of reality. No warrior one who turned this entire company upside down? You have destroyed your hero. We have seized the most prized possession. What the hell of we just witness? I am the leader? Shut off? I am good Na Well anyway, Champion, he will destroy your home. We will take your daughters, slave your king. Get some nets out here. Parties hurt, but

the job is not finished. There are still a couple of heroes standing four and tonight I am here to slay my god holes bar So, sit back, relax and joy to the end of an era. I can't wait to make sure you never get to wrestle for the World Heavyweight Championship again. Giving disruptive you won them. Do you know? Guess I'm Bully so dumb. TNA Wrestling presents Slanniversary and now my ass will shoot out TNA. Yeah, I remember. This is sort of like the the Bully Ray as Champion pay

per view. You know, we want it lockdown, we lost it down for glory, but here it was kind of like, this is the Bully era. This is like what it feels like to tell ourselves that bullies carrying this company, right, And you know, being there in the arena, it felt like it was working. It didn't feel like it was a sparsely populated crowd. This has to be one of the biggest ones they did.

I don't think it was capacity, but it was. It was fairly How big is the how big is the space there again, as I think, is like ten thousand seats and we take a look. I don't know what the configuration is necessarily for wrestling as opposed to other things. Yeah, eight thousand seats, seventy two hundred seats. M W, which also went to had their second ever Dynamite taping at the Aganis Arena and Boston as well.

Yeah, a lot of a lot of overlap between the is you could imagine makes sense the venues that a W's running and ones that TENA did when they went on the road, and and yeah it was it was full for that too, but it was it was a good crowd. I didn't go there feeling like this is a dead show. What am I doing here? There are a lot of people there that knew what TENA was and we're excited to

see Hulkogan. Boston very strong market for secondary wrestling promotions. Remember sure World Class used to go to Boston. Of course, so did crockett Us go to the Garden. So um, so interesting to see that take shape then. And of course, uh it's also um a great set up for Bully because he can wear his Yankees hat and it's instant heat. Of course actually

matters in that city. If you're from New York. I guess you could say, yeah, right, I was gonna say, it's like that's actually you can get heat there, so nobody else really gives a get heat. Um. So here he comes Chris Saban and this he'll become a very important figure here in our story and the last leg of Teenage Journey. It's an ultimate yea Ultimate X match to kick off the the show, okay, and which we haven't seen one of these yet, right, this is the first

time I think we've seen this. I think you're right. Actually, yeah, I mean there have been all the next matches on the shows that we did matches on, but we didn't break one down cover it. I can actually watch it, right, Yeah, So it's like ladder match rules, right basically, it's except you gotta you gotta fucking crawl or or run a rope like you're fucking uh the wet bandits And yeah, that's gonna be a

good analogy. Yeah, you climb, you know, you grab her open, Yeah, just kind of try to walk yourself across with your hands dangling. And it's fucking weird. Big match with Chris Saban. This is first match back in TNA Sincy tours a cl doing a pescato dive to the floor. What's the what's the what's the match? What's the stupid match with the big cage where you getta that we did a long time ago the Asylum where Homicide got stuck on the top on the very first Impact we did. Yeah,

yeah, that was the Asylum cage. And uh so this is a big return for Chris Sadman after a long rehab and they did a series of videos before this rocking up his comeback drugs. Uh No, not that kind of rehab as far as I know. And he was dating Velvet Sky or they were putting them together on television. I'm pretty sure they dated in real

life as well. But yet a fucking taste of that person, I think that's absolutely accurate, absolutely, and face deep in that fucking tang pretty much a standard backdrop to the floor that caused a tear at his ACL one of those wow, classic wrestling injuries where you're not really doing something particularly risky and

it causes the most serious and debilitating injury you can imagine. Of course, says this is actually the thirtieth Ultimate X Match and TNA history red ropes and the red TNA logo still for the pay per views, it's still TNA. They don't do the blue Impact wrestling except for the Impact Wrestling television show itself still and calling him the TNA Champion and calling him the TENA Champion. That's right, saying there were stones throw from Fenway Park, which is accurate.

Let's bus right down the street. True, that's true, that is accurate. Suicide is in the match, and he's t J. Perkins future WW Cruiserweight Champion when they had the two oh five Live brand and now when New Japan, I believe or impact. I don't know if that is. Yeah, and Chris Saban and Kenny King as well in the triple Threat Ultimate X Match for the X Division title to kick off Slam Aversary twenty thirteen. You might be asking why the hell we're doing this match, but you'll see the

relevance here quite soon, because yeah, it does. I was wondering the same thing. I was wide, was like, what the fuck are we doing with this ship? And it's kind of legendary because I realized Hogan is in rare form after this one. Oh he really is. It's actually I mean, he let me tell you something. He knows, he knows how to hide the ball with. Chris said, indeed double hiptoss on Kenny King. Early Suicide takes off with an ankle scissor, snapping both over to the

floor. There's a weird piece of wood on top of the announced table, just like a brother a dark wood panel that they put to I guess you guard their notes. What's going on here, dude, big question? Yeah, hid brother suicide. He's going to do a dive, but hustles like a hid my mom. Dude, you hide and missus bala brother, it's behind that desk. What who? What did you get that wood? Would

you get that wood? Firm? Brother? Mom? Ruth Ruther who Ruther reins Kenny King with a running drop kick kind of a shotgun style, sent a suicide into the corner and they capture a big high cradle. Soup play Um marks out for for that, as it's reminiscent of the soup plexes he used to throw tas. I mean also again here displaying no heel commentator skills

whatsoever? Are down and that's the key, right, you want to wear down bents to try to work your way up to the Palmist structure in the Ultimate Dex match to game that that title, that championship belt so annoying said a lot, but I'm not sure if he actually said anything like but, I mean, but but also why are you not a heel commentator here?

Right? Like? If anything, I would actually be very I would love it if if if, if Taz, you know, unless there was a match involving aces and eights is kind of like, you know, can we move on with this ship? Can we hurry this up? It would be nice, you know, play that up a little bit. You know, I don't think you would diminish the match because you're playing you know, you're part of a sign a particular groups in this seven thy hundred seat venue slamm

a verse story, so not that great. TENA was always really good though, at hiding empty seats and shooting in a way where the building looked full. I think they're better than aw Is at it, frankly, really yeah, like when people leave after the Dynamite show and they tape rampage afterwards, and you can always tell sometimes it's really bad. At one time, a couple of weeks ago, I think it was in Las Vegas, they had to shoot the hard cameras so tight that so you couldn't see any seats above

the heads of the wrestlers. That it looks really oh, that's weird. It's like they put I think they even maybe even put the camera closer, but it was it was really bad that nobody there. Um, so Kenny does a why don't you move people over? What's that? You know? Why don't they move people over? There's nobody to move over. They do. They move as many people over as they can, but it's gets really late on those tapings, and it's it's not it's not really mar Key matches

that they tape for the Rampage show. So it gets it gets, it gets kind of dicey. I mean're adding a third show too. Now they're adding a third show, but that's live on Saturday night, a little easier to get people in the building for that than hoping they stay on a Wednesday night until like midnight to watch the uh the TNT show get taped after Dynamo? Are they are they dropping that show? Sorry? Are they gonna drop Rampage? Um tbd. I think they're gonna reconstitute it somehow to where it

might not be like kind of a live action arena show anymore. It might be more tents amount to like they just have a show that used to showcase like up and coming talent called Dark if they taped it before. Dyna might like these to tape those other YouTube shows. They're dropping it makes a big difference, I think in terms of crowd energy. Yeah, that's true too. Like I'm like, like what Raw used to do with the Heat.

It's very tough though on the West Coast because you're talking about starting a taping at three o'clock in the afternoon, you know, because they go on the year live at five on the on the West Coast, So the company do that with Raw though they do the same thing. But but they would. But back in the day, they used to film tape Heat before it in May. Was it before? Yeah? I think it was before. I thought it was before. And they must have gone really early, that's crazy,

but they must have started taping. It rolls on at nine, so it would be four o'clock. But still it's early. I don't Monday, yeah, I mean that's four, yeah, I mean yeah. And the Heat tapings too. Yeah, the Heat show was an hour, but the matches were like a twenty minutes worth of actual match time, so maybe like four thirty and the rest of the packages and stuff. Next stage interviews, so let's see Saban with a brainbuster on suicide. They mentioned that Saban is

in his first ultimate X match since two thousand and three. And that he hasn't held the X division title since two thousand and seven, when he had kind of a run where he was defining the division for a while. There, let's go, Sabin Chant breaks out, he suplexes Suicide onto Kenny King, and then Saban gets on the ropes and shoved off. Task points out that Suicide is wearing the gloves. Suicide is wearing in his costume or a real advantage in this ultimate X environment and toys. Oh god, so why

they all wouldn't wear gloves? Such an advantage on me? Right? Why don't you all want to have advantages with that grip triple submission? That an atomic drop right on the old lobster roll tas says, lobster rolls more Maine right than Boston. It really is like I actually, you know, yeah, there's the James Hook Lobster Company and a Rose Wharf, but really, like you kind of struggle to think of, like where you get the lobster

roll in Boston. You don't, Yeah, you don't. It's not every menu, but it's not like right there aren't like you don't go for that, You don't go to Boston for that clam chowder. Now, maybe we're talking now, we're talking you an Oyster House? Now, how about it? Boss? What's up? What's up with that? Is the time? Now I America's oldest restaurant. I tell you can I tell you something you can? There is nothing I love more, you know when when the time

that we come into you know, when we come into Boston. We used to do it whenever, whenever my wife and I would come into come into Boston, we would go when we were dating or anything like that, when we were on the eas coast, would always make a trip to Boston. We would always go to uh, We'd always go to uh the Union Oyster House. That's like our fucking place. And I there is nothing, there is nothing better, okay than just a bowl of clam chowder from that place

and a caesar salad, chicken caesar salad place like it's just heavenly. It's just fucking heavenly. I don't know what the rest of the menu is, because when I go there, that's what I want. It's the best fucking clam chowder. It's so good that and I, you know what, and I always I get a beer. Oh sure, it's a it's a beer chowder. And then they get that cornbread too. Fucking Christ they do. Oh, and we say at the bar too. I love sitting, yeah,

exactly where all the people are fucking doing their oysters and shit. And like, oh, used to go there with Alex Burnham when we were in the used to go there quite a bit. Tuck into a clam chowder. Magic, yeah, steaming, Let the let that clam, the creamy clam tickle your nose hairs as only it's the only seafoot. I'm actually shocked. Yeah, I mean, because I know you're such an aficionado of clam chowder, but you can't stand seafot otherwise. That's why I can't stand see it

otherwise. But I love that. Be a lesson of clam chowder. Oh, in New England style. None that fucking Manhattan shit. None of that fing Rhode Island show, watery bullshit, fucking brothy garbage, the red out of it too, thank you very much. What are you doing, guys? Oh? No, that that that creamy New England clam chowder. Oh, come on, in a bread ball? Fuck it all right? Well

you know that. Um. I think in the last year of his presidency, Barack Obama came to Boston to speak at the Labor Day breakfast, and afterwards his limousine went to the Indian Oyster House and he stopped that. He well, how about yeah, I haven't been here in yours. So he goes in there, folks, No, that's someone else, and he and and you see him saying, folks like that though a little bit too, he's got a little yeah. Oh he definitely does, folks. Now,

my bob is really I haven't done it in years. I used to do. It's just short. It's a short, you know, it's very like short, you know, uh oh yeah. So he's he's classic with this bullshit, you know, his whole like shit, you know, oh yeah uh and he uh and he goes in there and uh it's a big to do. And they did this, but they took like gallons of clam chowder into the limousine. How do you eat clam chowdermousine that seriously? To do that? What do you fucking have like a fucking keg of it? And

just like fucking spoon out of the keg. I could just picture like him and all his aids, you know, where like Jay Crew, like you know, like like oh, Boston clam chowder, Like they're all, we gotta have some an oyster house. Georgetown brads are like talking about talking about Americana. I mean seriously thinking they live in an Aaron Sorkin movie or something,

and they're all trying to like gracefully eat clam chowder. The back of a limo going over the potholed streets and the cobblestone such a fucking disaster everywhere. It's like all over the fucking I'll tell you what, the limo got more fucking clam chowder than the people. Fucking limo was thrilled. That's so good. I just I love that image of them forcing themselves to have like local but they couldn't sit in the restaurant because that would be ridiculous. He's

the president a night. Well, they didn't scope it out, you know, right, So instead they're just spilling clam chowder all over the floor the presidential limo trying to fish. It's like piping hot too. It's like, hey, hey, it's President Obamber. Obamber's coming in. We gotta give him some clam chowder. Bro Honey, you won't believe it just came in the town, into the noise the house obomber, A bomber another one. Yeah, yeah, fucking bomber. So good, fucking fucking piece of shit.

Fucking moron. No, President Obama, we got some work to do. Some chowdered heat in my favorite moment of the Obama presidency. And I know this sounds so trite and stupid. I don't know if people remember this like I do, but it's you gotta find it. He was. He was doing a State of the Union speech, huh, and he was talking about how kind of foolish the DC bureaucracy can be in terms of like overlapping missions, like why do we have two departments that do this? Why do

we have three departments to do this? And it He's lighthearted, you know, he was joking, and he said, I'm just gonna pick two departments. So let's say Fishing Game and uh department Environmental Protection. I'll just make make that up. So he says, take salmon, for instance. If the salmon is in freshwater, it's Fishing Game Department. If it's in salt water, it's Environmental Protection. And then he goes, I understand it gets

even more complicated when you smoke it. Even John painter who hated his guts to the Republican leader's laughing and they can't not laugh at that. He's cracked his smile. And then they cut to the guy who runs the department that he was mocking, and the guy's just like, there's no idea how to react. He's just like, still, you know, he's not wrong. It's wrong thing, man, It's that's what we need. Everyone's like I just said that, Like, that's so fucking jeezy. I understand it.

It's even more complicated when you smoke it. Well, then that department of of of of Jewish Cuisine, it's a whole fucking there's a whole thing. I think you or City is one of those. Got the department on locks. It's a smear campaign. We know, we do all the tricks. Oh my god, are the masters of the smear campaign? Hide the mats of ball? Brother, I'm tired of playing Hide the mats of ball? Dude. There's a smear campaign. Brother. Oh, we gonna locks this

ship up, dude. We don't want to. We don't want to risk it, brother, Brother, Dude, I think we gonna change the name of the pay per view t NA locks down, Brother, oh my god, we can't risk it with the brisket dude. So good, okay, great? So anyway, ultimate X, as I was saying, but by the way, coincidentally, ultimate X also gets even more complicated when you smoke it much. That all right, So let's go saving chant Um. He suplex a suicide on the Kenney King and then get chumped off the ropes.

Like I said, tas points out the gloves. Yep, okay, uh lobster role got it? Suicide climbs um. He gets yanked down though he tries to walk across the ropes. What do you what you call that hand walking? What would you I don't know what you're crawling? But he like fucking using the monkey bars, but I don't know it like hanging by your hands from a string or a rope and you know, going like one hand

by one hand across it. I don't know scaling, you know that would be going up traversing, I don't know, gets yanked down and Kenny King drops him with a right hand saving with a bit of a musclebuster if you will, on Kenny King. And then he looks to climb as well, but suicide gets underneath him and hits him with an electric chair drop under the

canvas, and then Kenny King leg drops him as well. Suicide like a cat is a power He does a power bob and rolls and there's a springboard blockbuster by Kenny King catches a Chris Sadan, so it's a triple down spot and everybody gets up in applauds. Then they get up and there's a full throated TNA chant going on here in Boston. It's almost like the answer was here all along as to what to give people to actually want them to enjoy

t TNA. That is to say, anyway, great springboard, missile, seated dropkick from the ropes to the apron knocks from Suicide, great move knocks both to the floor. Triple suplex Tower of Doom Spot has says it's like a damn car wreck out here. On ninety three. King is climbing upside down and he gets wrapped and gets trapped up there, and then Suicide meets him. They're both like facing off, hanging from the from high up and there's a rake of the eye and I think it's Suicide that falls down.

Saban gets to the center of the ultimate X and wraps his legs over it. That was a big thing in these in these matches as you kind of like, you know, hug the ropes there and suspend your legs around the cables. Ye try shoul drop of the neckbreaker, but Saban say stays put. So King, who's trying to neck break Saban has both hung upside down up there, didn't bring Saban down with him and just crashed to the canvas. Saban then is able to hang upside down with his legs wrapped around the

center of the x where both ropes meet. He's able to unsnap the Exhibition championship through his legs and hang upside down with the championship. In victory, Chris Saban defeats Kenny King and suicide to become the new Extavation Champion. Here in the first match at Slam Reversary twenty thirteen, Mike Tenay's says its affirmation and confirmation that Chris Saban is back. And there's a bit of a cut on Chris Aben's hair line and a trickle of blood. As Mike Tiney's screaming

about this being an emotional moment, is it? Chris Saban makes his way up the aisle with his newfound hardware, and who is about to come out to endorse this, Michigander. What an incredible matter you see, Saband? That price substitches, I remember this being big. People did not expect Cogan to come out at this point. You don't have a seller place and without the Halkster, well that's really nice. Second for the extra chip that enforcement

from the general manager. Hold him hope, don't get given him a scamp of approval. Sabans certainly earned it. And you see the rap on Hulks hand as a result of a recent accident. You know something, I don't want mister Saban, the new champion to hear what my Boston mediac sound like. Brother. Well, you know, mister Saban, I gotta give this guy props because I've been in Boston for many many years, fighting many wars in this town. And the one thing I can say, mister Saban is

Boston loves champions just like you, brother. So for now on Champ, every time you come out here, this crowd is gonna scream just as loud as the first time whole Cogan beat up Andrea the giant in Boston. Brother, did that ever? Happen. But him beating Andrea and Boston is the future of our business right here, and you know something to make a great night even better, mister Savan, I want to let you know that just like they're happy to see him, yes, and they don't care about Chris

save anymore. That right, Like I was trying to say, just like last year, brother, the ex division champion is gonna have a shot this summer at the TNA World title at Destination X. Well it worked for Austin Areas last The way things are going and with the momentum you have, Champ, and with all my maniacs behind you, now I'm betting on you this summer to have a shot at the TENA world title. We love your brother, and congratulations, thank you. Okay, now here we go. We're

getting down to Boston and Paul Cogan business. You know, Chris Sabans a great champion, but you know we got something else going down right now. We gotta talk about tonight and what's going on. It's sammiversary, macho man. What hey, all these guys should know how to crash a crash a party, don't do so they make a party good. That's my brother.

In my basis and agel mister Anderson right there by the way in told West Crischool and my whole boy Garrett fish Off, Oh, we might want to tuck your tail and get the hell out of Doshway Sweet Holgans Boston and Boston

Wollston Holgan. That's just goes my ginlets. Okay, Ken, There's only one thing you need to recognize, Sun, and that is that tonight he's he's gonna You're a pretty tall feller, but you're gonna be even taller tonight because you're gonna be standing on top of a mountain of impact wrestlers because he's in it. He's gonna steal the show better. Well, you know something,

mister Anderson, I think you might have forgot where you're at. Brother, forgot you're in Boston, Jack. Number one, nobody in Boston is scared of no ghosts. Number two, we sure as hell ain't afraid and stinking terrorists, huh. And number three, we're not afraid of free dear mother, brother, brother. Now, that was not nice. That was not nice. So the way it goes, man, this is not Aces and Eights night. The way it goes Joseph Park is gonna start a role

by taking finish the ship for maces and eights in Devon. He got a bunch of the roles from Legal Seafood. Yeah, you don't care. You just need to shut the hell up. I just might bitch slap your ass. Folkster fired up tonight. I love it. You're a bitch and your old man's a bit fun that comes from Yeah. The second thing that's gonna

happen is the greatest wrestler in this stamp business. Stay. I think it's a little drunk think o cow boy ray and bring the power back to ten A. Brother, I think you might have hit the purple shamrack after the Unions and you guys seem to be foaming at the crotch started waits to Linda because you three, Garret, Brisco and you and you're in a sit man

right now? What magness? Magness? No dude gives magness? You can't remember us Hogan uncensored tonight at slab Reiversary and the GM laying down the law, the hello sis about Hogan class give me a breaking coming out. He with his party belt. That's horrible and I'm ready to go out here. Magnus is gonna add a little help from the most dangerous man in this company, Samoa Joe Brother. Come on now, Magnus, think of when they

have in common toime. Absolutely a lot of hatred, a lot of history, were bases and aches and a lot of months on the shelf as a result of brutal feedings from axes and eights. Oh yeah, Show and Magnus, they got hate back on their mind. I don't like this, this whole right here. I'm not a fan of this whole thing. But come on, Joe has absolutely erupted back on the scene and before announced the third

man. That's gonna turn man again. Third man. Let everybody knowing here get ready to tear the rough down because with Joe in Magnus India Enigma Trouble Brother, he's a fucking mess. I think he's probably on some kind of like loopy drugs to treat his hand condition. You saw his hand wrapped. Yeah, you know what he did? What did he do? Now? Burned himself on a radiator? Such a fucking idiot. What do what do you say? A hundred Beacon Street? Yeah, the Parker professional wrestl Hogan

tussled with the radiator. This weekend and lost. According to Newsday, fifty nine year old former Hogans best star we don't named, Terry Ballet, was rushed to a hospital after severely burning his left hand in a household accident. On Sunday, Hogan tweeted pictures of the gristly injury, posting photos of his badly blister digits with the caption's ouch and double ouch. Ogan resumed his documentation while in the emergency rome in the Tampa General He snapped the photo of a

surgeon working to remove the scalded tissue from his hand. The fuck skinned like a cat, Hogan tweeted, putting up a photo of his fingers bloodied and shorn of skin. Would you like it rare? I mean, according to what you this article, it's well done, Actually, Terry, it's not rare at all. Right, It's not the only thing well done during his tena run. And also it's not rare either, because it's pretty common that you injure yourself. Imagine, fuck does it ever end with this fucking guy?

And then he's he loves documenting his like his personal dramas. He's doing videos like bro Ventnel inside the Back Surge, and he's Oh my god, this guy. Um you know brother, Um, you know dude. We go again, brother, we go again. Uh, this show is this

record? Hull COVID history website shows that he did rustle Andre on February sixth, nineteen eighty eight in Boston, so they had a singles match, but also wrestled in nineteen eighty when he was a heel in Boston two times did he win that one Though he lost those two, he won in eighty So I'm not sure that that's enough for him to like talk about him versus Andres being a thing in Boston. I mean, I wouldn't doubt that he that he thinks he's in Detroit, right, Yeah, he's no idea. I

think. I think I'm pretty sure that he thinks he's always in Detroit. That's why I love Chris Saban. Yeah, so, oh there you go. That was That was quite a road we traveled there with the hulture. I mean, foaming at the cross, Foaming at the Cross. Oh, it's fucking hilarious. Jeff Hardy is coming back for the first time in two months here because I'm want to know what fucking uh what Bishop thought of that? I hope he called the bitch who's back there called I'm a bitch Holks

Loopy, lay In Amy Terry. It'll be good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do with Garrett Garrett. You don't do it, Garrett. You don't do it with Garrett Garrett. You know. Uh. Later, Boor ashes back to this as a price of a gallon of milk was a dollar sixty. It wasn't a bit, and I didn't want to be a bitch. Kelly Clarkson was an American idol. Later on the show, Abiss takes the TV title off Devon Dudley Abyss himself coming back as a surprise

to wrestle. Uh. Dixie comes out later to her music and her bangs are now in full effect. She announces the inductee of the TNA Hall of Fame for twenty thirteen is Kurt Angle, and everyone's out there awaiting the announcements that they all start applauding Kurt Angle is Dixie. Carter has a feel good moment here in the middle of the pay per view, How nice for her? Absolutely ill lad run. Jeremy Bull After is doing an interview when Brook

steps in and says, this year has made me so proud. The Knockouts have absolutely stood up to the plate. We've grown the division like never before. He is the TNA Last knockout Standing matchup and my guest at this time, Vice President charge of the Knockouts, Brook Hogan. Come on, and what a year it has been for you? What a year it has been for the TNA Knockouts. Tell me about it. Oh my gosh, this year has made me so proud. The Knockouts have absolutely stood up to the

plate um. We've grown the division like never before. I think it was a great decision to bring Terrence Roll in for a wreath, and she's done so well with that. But I'm telling you, I think her calling is actually doing the wrestling. So fighting Gail Kim in the first ever Last knock Outstanding match So this is an exciting night for me. You want to be brought off, no question about it. Hey, you know a lot of

people been asking me. Bully Ray time and time again has said that he still loves you, And my question for you is, Brooke, get it out there. Do you do you still love him? Jab? I think we're gonna have to end a shit. Sorry, Roller did a good job there. Yeah, I had a trumping over her words, I don't do that on purpose, but it was good. Yeah. And somewhere with this, they show Bully with his backstage with his back to the camera and turns

around and says no holds barred sting. I'm not quite sure you really thought about this before you opened your mouth. There's one move that wrestlers will still stay away from and try not to do to each other because they know about the consequences. That is the pile driver, and that sting is the move

I'm going to beat you with. I'm gonna break. Why didn't they fucking build up the pile driver, like over the course of a couple of weeks, like they decided last minute that this was going to be the stray match, Like it would have been neat to really, because you know, as much as the pile driver is such a you know, it certainly is a

dangerous move. You know, outside of the real incidents that have happened, it's it's it became a transition move, you know, it was kind of it was very common, right, you know, it was a really finisher in the WWF to Lalla came in and Sean Michaels used it for a while

too. But but even by by then everyone was doing it right. You know, it wasn't really uh seen as a match ender, so it would have been it would have been good to really establish it as being devastating and have some people have bully used it a couple of times and have people really sell it. Well. I think what it was. It's kind of a page out of the book of like how Russo in the early days of TNH

would have guys smack each other over the head full force with chairs. It was like WWE was not doing this, and there was a moratorium on pile drivers in WWE because they were deemed two changers. So I think that was kind of what they were leaning on, was counting on the fans to know that and to think of it as some sort of like a naughty thing that pile drivers were in play for this one. I guess Sting comes out in a T shirt. It strikes me, you know what, as he comes

to challenge for the world title. All TNA is is Sting chasing the world title. Yes, they never quite get beyond that as a story. That's that's kind of the go too, really is. And I'm talking years before Hogan ever came in. Yep, fittingly, the steps are no title match ever again for sting as I make that remark to myself saying right, no, no, In fact, it wouldn't be the case within the body of

what we're about to cover, let alone with the passage of time. But yeah, I guess they were cognisant to that, and it made that stipulation hilariously. Bully of mean dogs at Boston cop on his way through the crowd of the ring, and the guy tries not to laugh as wow, he looks at him with his New York Yankees Beanie on Tessash five. Oh here this fucking guy. Hi, this whoa whoa? All right, hey, you know what Yankee to guy, he says, Yankee sah full grown man,

Yankee suck a cop. Don't don't fucking mess with us here in Beantown, bro God officer like Kenneally going back to Way three batteries at Blackjack, Mansa and the Garden, like a cop who pretends he doesn't like I was here when uh, you know, I was here when when Roddy Pipe I faced Bruno in the case. Oh you know who was great Roddy Pipe? Right, Yeah, who's a bad guy, But who's my favorite? He was he you know, he he spoke like a local and he wore a

kilt like a local too. As far as the Celtic core and and the police drum fife band, whatever the it is fucking police marching bands right, wearing the kilts and the bagpipes. But yeah, Ted says, we've had our issues in the past. That's another story. Back in the late nineties. I think he's talking about the Mass Transit incident where New Jack sliced a newcomer open in Rivera with an exact do knife and cause him to bleed out so badly that the kid's dad sued ECW. That would be probably what he's

referencing. Did he get money from Paul Hammond the kid? Yeah, I think there was a settlement. I can't remember actually what the outcome was mean, did he actually get money? What's that? Did he actually get paid is the question? Well, he probably did if it was CORE ordered. Let me see Mass Transit ECW settlements. Maybe he got an autograph instead, Yeah, probably so. Yeah, I'm not sure how that resolved. It was well covered on the New Jack episode of Dark Side of the ring.

Yeah, so hilariously. Yes, he has this face off with the cop and Tess says, it's well documented people in Boston love New Yorkers. I drive around here with New York plates and a Cadillac. Try to cut me off. Horrible drop in my Cadillac and they're all trying to cut me off. The horrible drives and he DAPs up Bully and it was a good entrance or ash with the particulars. State Event Time Slam Aiversary twenty thirteen Bully Ray

in defense of his title against the Stinger. Bully takes the corner to hoist the championship as he's introduced, and Sting seizes that opportunity with a Stinger splash and the fight hits the floor right away, staying bouncing him around the ring. He still got it. Chant breaks out for the stinger. Sting charges for the splash on the rail. Bully kneels him over the lariat as he's closing the distance. Bully tears the shirt and chops the chest of Sting.

Test says he thinks that chop was hard, so hard it blew out stings knee because Stings selling the knee. Brother, we want tables Chane early they talk about how has his pile had a pile driver put him out of action for nine months? He says it's a rule. Yeah, he says, yeah, here's that that whole thing here. Pol driver put me out of commission. Almost had in my career, and I was out for nine months. And to this day, I'm terrified of that move. And that's no

joke, and most wrestlers are. And it's just like an unwritten rule of business not to mess around with the pile driver, and it's a good reason for it. I'm still not the same and that never will be. I mean, I think it's a written rule. In who he is it not? It's a written rule. Yeah, it's very much written. Earlier to h Bubba was whipping sting with the belt and then hand it over to Taz and then this happened. I got the champ, I got it, I

got all sorts of stuff. I got everything out of here. And you're not worried about fully Ready using the world title belt as a weapon, are you. HEA's the champion. Why wouldn't he it's his belt? Look out again here, guys chopping, chopping, tass, bully swings, a chair and misses and hits the post. Todd says he was trying to clear the green monster with that shot and goes off the rep chair. Uh, the

rip shirt, all these local references please. The rip T shirt shows that Sting actually doesn't look too bad in the singlet, so it's kind of weird that shirt are doing fine. You look at an idiot rushing in a T shirt that he really does. I mean, he looks more like a fool with the fucking T shirt than he does with the you know, absolutely, and Hogan must have convinced him that he wasn't cosmetic enough so he had to wear a T shirt. Then Brooke Hogan comes out and she looks scared.

I'd be too. Sting goes up to her and shakes her and says, you got to go back. So we're supposed to think, you know that Brooks actually getting concerned that bullies being hurt out there, but she listened to sisting and she leaves. And again I'm I'm tempted to think they're thinking to go Stephanie McMahon with her at this point, turning on her with supple h but yeah, turning on you know her dad with triple h I Bully with

the low blow on Staying. Bully wears him out with a chair, dense it in fact across his back and throws it to catch and Winston catches the cherry, boots it in his face and then hits the dreaded pile driver. And that's only good for two. Bully sets up a table and Stay bounce his back corner mount and Bully power bombs. They howl out of Sting through the table covers him up one two still lifts, Yep, it's good going.

Well yeah, Well Bully has a knife. Yeah, yeah, that man's what you do a knife and a no holds barred match, And what does he do with it? He cuts away the strings connecting the apron too, the ring. Because you certainly don't want to kill Staw. You don't want to use a knife and an holds barred match. Yeah, he starts cutting these ropes, these pull ropes that pulled them. Matt tout across the padding and he starts peeling it back and they chain ec dub but of course

has never happened then ec, but he's doing it. And then he pulls back the foam padding and just tosses it out of the ring. Man, where have we come in this business? Boss? Where they wanted us to believe it was a hard surface ring and they thought it was a big kape secret that there was a pad under there. Now they're ripping it out and throwing it into the crowd during a match. They don't give a shit. I remember this being the first time I saw this, where you actually expose

the plywood boards and the base of the road. I've never seen it before. I've never seen it before. For sure it's probably been done, but I never saw it, so I was like, whoa, this is something probably done in some you know, bullshit promotion, right, Yeah, it wasn't I don't think done at a high level. And he kind of stomps on the boards to establish that they're, you know, as hard as they look, and it's like a deck like decking. And as he's doing that,

stingos for splash. But missus and you better believe, Bully hooks up a pile driver and spikes sting on the wood to a big pop. That's right. And what I like about Bullies in this incarnation is he does things very intentionally, very fast, like he doesn't he doesn't try to like milk. The moment that he's about to do something high impact and like delay and tea, he's out there looking like he's just trying to, you know, set off as many bombs and Sting's face as he can to try to beat

him, keep scrambling and going for like more violent things. Yeah no, I mean, I'm I'm all for it, like he's trying to but even pile driving him on the exposed woodl and it gets two tries another and Sting backdrops and Sting tries one of his own, and he's backdropped and Bully absolutely soars with a cent on backsplash off the middle rope. He could do that

so brilliantly for a guy of his size. I don't know where that a letticism came from, because there was a weird he did have, I'll tell you, especially in this run, I will admit that he had a significant amount of oh for sure, for like just really surprising how how agile he was. Yep, you know hecas I don't recall him being that agile in WWE. Someone asked him that question. I think it was the Conrad podcast, and he was kind of bristling at the idea that he was able to

do more because he lost so much weight in TNA. Physically in the ring. Yeah, I mean sure, I could kind of get that. It's kind of like I could always do what I was doing is Bully Ray just people were chalking it up to the weight loss without realizing I used to do that when I was three hundred pounds too. I don't recall that. I

definitely recall him doing the scent on backsplash off the middle rope. That was that was as far back as the ECW Dudley's He was sure, but nobody home on that and he crashes stumbles into the wood and then yeah, and kind of the other the other kind of high flying cell jobs that he does, like it's really impressive. And I don't know the way he moves around the ring, just you know, closing distance and the way he steps um.

But after that, after missing the scent on sting lines him up so we can hit the scorpion death drop in the back of a Bully's head hits the exposed wood cover one two No, because Garrett Bischoff slides in the ring and today with the damn It Jazz points out it's snow holds barred, it's fine, and Sting starts kick him in the balls and dropping him all all these his nates guys. But he's exhausted and I mean to shoot exhausted his

Sting. And then I'm sure is launched over the top rope and flatbacks on the ramp. What so he's bumping for the industry. He seeking to prove himself, seeking to justify his position, and in that away accusition, accusations of nepotism by soaring through the sky and crashing on a hard surface for the industroller. That's right. And let me tell you, Boss Sting's hair is in a state. Oh I'm not talking about Massachusetts. I'm gonna say it's

definitely not in Massachusetts. And some hair this deep into the match, it's so bad, frizze that because I mean, you know, he's obviously spent his hair must be just dead because he's spent so much time coloring it. You know, he's heir, you know, but like, well no, but even now I imagine that he's got white hair or graying hair, so he's now dying at brown and it just it has no life in it at

all, he's completely fried. His hair just a disaster. Like remember remember like in uh In in ninety five ninety six, and he you know, he had like a good solid head of hair when he grew it out from the uh from from the bleach blonde spike dude. But nah, not anymore. Man, shit's over. I mean he is a mess of it. So you've a late stage stings hair. Oh, it's so, it's it's just it's it's offensive. It's an offensive thing to look at and and it's

just awful, like the way it's like still cut in the back. Right, It's like he's got this weird he's got this weird haircut and I just don't understand its hairs, but it's his hair cut. It's so it's both. It's it's both because because it's like if he had if he had shorter hair, all right, and just kind of because that's kind of what he does now, right. His hair is shorter now right, and he just slicks it back like if he did that then. But for some reason he

needs to have this like shoulder length bob cut. And it's like why why do you need to look like he? Man? You know, why do you need the fucking he man cut and then not only that, but your hair is just is just ridiculous. It's just it's at the top of the the face paint up higher and higher. Or is the hair like I know, I know, I mean sometimes he doesn't and it's just weird. It's like it's like this one sometimes an inch between the fucking his hairline and in

the paints. Like oh come man, stop it, dude. I mean you brought us something I never thought about, and it would be money. If this guy has like white hair, yeah, that would look cool, like stings pain with the white hair. I mean, he's now he's now got to be I mean even what could be cool too, is if he reversed the paint he had like black paints and the white details. He is now in his sixties, all right, there is no way right that his hair is this dark. I mean even then, I mean, look,

I'm what am I I'm forty two, all right. I've got like some crazy salt and peppering going, like there's just you know, there's still more pepper than salt. But man, it's you know, the salts, the salts gaining gaining fucking traction all right, and so he's in his sixties. I mean, but even but now even then he's he's in his he's in his fifties. Dude, your hair is not that color. It's just not I think, I mean, I don't his hair is offensive. I think

it is it. I mean, it's really it's it's it should be illegal. It's so hard to age gracefully as far as the hair goes, because, like guys, I don't know, it always looks fine when you let it grow white, it always looks fine. Yeah, yeah, but they just they think that they're gonna get away with coloring it. And then it's not guys, it's not the color of your hair, it's the texture of your skin. Dark hair with wrinkly skin does not work. No, and just not. I mean, also, who are you fooling for? What?

Like, boy, you gotta fuck because you have dark hair, you're gonna get pussy Like what the fuck is wrong with you? Jesus? Like come on, man, and that fucking and that fucking uh goatee too, like you know he obviously paints that as well. Oh my god, you know that the hair dyes running like a sweat drip. Balls, Oh can you I'm surprised that that we haven't seen any real leaks like fucking like that. Uh yeah, Guliani, I feel like I did see that in Rest

once, but now I'm struggling to remember who it was. I mean, just just be a human being, all right, don't be a fucking lunatic.

And and and and it's like gosh, I mean because like God, I mean you can you imagine touching that fucking airy, frizzy falsity so awesome, like the texture of Sting's hair, Yeah, just like like you you press on it and it like it like it doesn't even touch a bone like it, Oh, doesn't go away if you touch it too much, it's gonna fall out all you know, Hogans did, right, Like can I can imagine being his wife and like you know, like trying to be uh

intimate and just like stroking his hair and it's like, oh fuck, stops abruptly at the bottom of his skull. It's like that fucking Sting's face without glasses, like without paint, like without paint. Oh, he's fucking hilarious. Sting eating eating Sabeans pussy so much fucking stank on that soul patch to be clear. So yeah, Bishop bumps all I wrote it. Stings hair

is in a state, and we went about twenty five minutes. We don't rest until we fully described what it is that strikes us about his hair. It's just one of the more pressing things about professional wrestling. Him and Rick Flair's hair literally are the like when he's busted opened in TNA. Oh, it's like all balled up top but it's flying out of the sides. Oh, you just say, what happened? You know, you guys used to command respect and now you look like this and you cut yourself. Oh,

it's so funny. Oh my god, fucking you know, elderly man they are. It's funny because they they're elderly man. So Sting with the hair, the shirt torn, the paint peeling, and then Tads from ringside throws a chain to Bully, but it goes over Bully's head and Sting catches it and he smashes Bully in the head with it. Cover one two No divon the anks, Ruffer heading her out of the ring, and then Ken Anderson shows up behind the steps. We can tell he's sneaking around to do something,

but the camera misses what he actually does. Suddenly Bully has the ball peen hammer. I assume Anderson fed it to him, and Sting comes card off the top for like a cross body, but in midair he gets swatted in the face by the ball peen hammer cover by Bully Ray one two three, it's over. I just imagine that, like you know, that hammer

like crushing skull. So it's such an acute, like small blast zone almost like it almost pokes a hole like an ice fish so bad cracked, like you know, right, like you imagine like a golf ball size hole among his skull. You know, it doesn't it doesn't crack the whole thing. It's just a very it's a very isolated, you know, a cute you

know, wound or whatever. Oh so bad. And like it makes when he like just just touch your skull right, sound like touch the top of your head and just like Maine, give it a little pressure, oh imagine, but a fucking hammer right there, Like you almost feel like you can't talk for a second. You're like, oh, oh, it's bad, and it's good enough here for Bully ready to retain the championship for the one and only time on TNA pay per View, here at Slam Reversary twenty thirteen

with a lot of help, and they celebrate with sting down. And I'm sitting here thinking when to Hogan gonna come out? He doesn't. He just sits in the back. He's already done his piece. He's already talked about Yeah, he's probably passed out on a couch, buzzed like a motherfucker. He's already talked about, uh, you know, foaming at the crop. Can we do I'm just thinking to dude, you know what I'm I'm really hurt, brother, you know, I'm thinking what we could do is com

get a little heads up on the on the schizzl brother. I'm gonna kind of do my thing when I come out with Saban, brother, and then just kind of transition, you know, do the you know, kind of do the whole, the whole shabizzel brother, and then hey out, dude, I gotta go, I gotta I gotta catch a nap brother. He said he's gonna do Theleiz. I don't know. I want to. I want to because brother, after this, dude, after I do my thing,

Dude, I want to head up to the Union. Oyster Oysterhizzel and I want to go it up to cow to cow, Liz Dude for a little bit. Absolutely sagas wings. We get some of that, gets some of that, fucking Fried Ribs brother, some of that what Fried Ri ribs? This is interesting, Fried Rabs is that what? Oh I'm hungry like go off the air with This is Nate celebrating and Todd Kennedy saying it's the end of an era. Damn it is it? Yeah, apparently it is,

but they don't know why. Yeah. Impact next one June third, the Bully comes out brag and Hulk cuts him off. Sixth sorry, sixth the white glove like Michael Jackson on Hulk Hogan's hand. We're in Atlanta, right down the streets from where the Hole's Bard was shot and Vince was shot up with steroids, and Hulkan says, this sounds to me like this is

straight up Hulk the Mania Country Bully. Ogan says he can't believe how Stings slipped on a b an an appeal with all the King's horses and all the King's men, and those are all the ones that really beat the Stinger again and did you just say, Bully, right, that there's no more competition here at Impact. Brother, he said, you heard me. Damn well, Dad, he goes, well, my son of a bee, all summer long, TNA is going to Impact is gonna be hot with competition.

The Boundful Glory Series season is going to run all summer and we're gonna have a selection show coming up to see who all the twelve guys will be in the bound for Glory Series. And Jeff Hardy comes out as a monster ladder. He says he'll be in the ring and that'll leaven the playing field. It'll be tit for tat And as Jeff Hardy produces a ball peen hammer for the show down, still to come between these two, how wonderful more ball

peens, peen and balls. Absolutely and then what was at the time a tremendous face off was so promising and what absolutely nowhere between Kurt Angle and MMA superstar Quentin Rampage Jackson, Oh sure, who was with Bellator and had signed to debut fighting Tito Ortez November two on Spike. I think they did on

pay per view, Actually I don't remember. Anyway. Rampage, huge pro wrestling fan his whole life, built a lot of his MMA style around wrestling, brought the power bomb to MMA to great highlight success, and just grew up a huge wrestling fan in Memphis. And really it was a great idea to pair him with Kurt because it was like, okay, like he can

do, you know, rampage. He can't pro wrestle, although he was training a bit, but he can go in there, and you know, as he was a high level high school wrestler, he could do amateur exchanges and he could convince you with slams and stuff. And kurtch the kind of guy that can figure out a way to get a match out of a guy. But I never went anywhere. They had a great face off, and then they just went in a totally different direction with Rampage and the fucking main

event Mafia. I couldn't believe my eyes. Oh I know what a fucking what is going And Teo or Tease comes out and turns on him, and Tito has like no charisma for pro wrestling whatsoever. Oh my, he's a yeah, he's a he's a fucking stick. Yeah, really such a stiff, but a huge hockleymaniac and a wrestling fan in his own right. So probably thought he'd take to it as well. But he's not even close to Rampage in terms of, you know, fitting in seamlessly. The King Moe

experiment went nowhere. He was supposed to be a crossover athlete and do pro wrestling and MMA at the exact same time. The first to do that. No, just stop, stop exactly And it was such a ham fist that attempt by really Spike to find a way to promote Bellatoor to the Impact Wrestling gu audience. But you don't do that by making these guys wrestlers on the show. It's just not the way it's gonna work. But they tried just a little bit of that, and uh, this is where that happens,

and it goes nowhere. Bully and Ken are talking in the back and it says, the best thing that ever happened to the club is get rid of Delo. Do that mean? Okay? Great? Right? The VP slot is now vacant. Bully says, why should I have to face Jeff in a ladder match? If I have I've already done that already. There's no ways Nates with a player in the game. And there's a beer bottle in their hand, and Kenn asks, you need us to do any politicking? Oh yeah, I do have this one? Disgusting. This is so bad.

It's just it's just horrible. Pretty good scene or heard from Delo good a headache. The best thing that ever happened to this club is that we got rid of him. What did you agree? Working out? Pretty good? And that means that the VP slot is now vacant. You know any suggestions? Listen? Hogan thinks he has us right where he wants us. Why should I have to face Jeff Hardy tonight in a ladder match? Who should? Why should I have to climb a ladder to grab a hammer to

bass Jeff Hardy over the head with stupid? Haven't I done that already? Why would Hogan risk taking the number one most beloved guy in all the TNA out Maybe he's goods up against Jeff? And why aren't we represented in the Bouncilorie series? Why don't the aces an Ace got a player in the game. I need to take care of that. Yeah, and I'm gonna take care of it. Hey, sneaking a witch, you need us to do any politicking politicking assistance tonight? He and Jeff it's your call. Good VP

knows how to make that call. Does that mean I'm VP angle alert brewing between Ken Anderson and Bully boring? Totally boring, what a bad choice. It's seriously come on like and Acy's notes now anyway. In a six man tag, Chris Saban, Gunner and James Storm beat the team of Kinney King and Austin Orris and Bobby Rude when Saban pins King, so Saban building momentum

here to say the very least. Tarn asks Brooke Hogan if she's still in love with Bully, and Brooklyn answer her either and says, let's just give it about wrestling, and Taran apologizes, says she shouldn't have asked and rolls her eyes. Abyss attacks knucks in the back back and silhouette, which is kind of a strange production decision to shoot it that way, and uh,

it's Jeffer's Bully in the main event. Um. Bully scrambles to the back to try to escape selling and Hogan comes up front and he's going to hit him with a hammer, and brook runs down and says, daddy know it's pretty good? Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it was all right. It was all right, and and she just doesn't like she uh, you don't know. She's watching Hogan lying in wait to smash Bully backstage over the head, and which is kind of weird like that she's waiting. He's waiting

for Bully and she's waiting for Hogan to hit Bully. Right. That's like she's almost like standing there trying to feel if she's going to feel compelled to save Bully or not. And she does, right, Daddy know, and they'll just stand there frozen at the awkward staring at each other, like it's like it's fucking the opening scene in Halloween with uh, you know, when the parents unveil Michael Myers is having killed his sister. I mean, just

kind of stare at him. It's a good that's a good analogy, Michael. This seems fucking weird. Brother brother what brother Sting comes out for promo on the June thirteenth Impact Now, yep, A man, I got it for entertainment for you. You know, I just can't help myself. I gotta say this. It's really good to be back in Atlanta, Georgia one year ago. It's Slam anniversary. I was the first wrestler to be inducted into the t and A Hall of Fame. And it's a night that I'll

never forget. But a lot has happened in this last year since then, the Great Deception headed off by Bully Ray, which leads to Slave Anniversary twenty thirteen, where I was given exactly what I wanted, that was one shot and one only against Bully Ray for the world title. And everybody knows that I failed. Now because I failed, that means that I can no longer

wrestle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship again a Slam Aniversary. Bully, you sent wave after wave after wave after wave until I was overwhelmed, my strength ran out, You took over, and the rest is history. You won. And there's one other fact that I cannot let go of that I will never forget, and that is this that I was left out there to fend for myself. There wasn't one wrestler who came from the back to help me when I was in dire straights. But that's okay, that's okay. I

don't mind at all. Bully you and aces and eights, You're You're like a fine tune machine. You you you got each other's backs. I mean you, no matter what it all costs, no matter what, you got each other's backs. What a great example. You are. Just like family. Family. Yeah, family, just like family. Family. Okay. Oh, just just when I thought I was out, they sucked me right back in. I realized, now I gotta go to a place where I never thought i'd go again, and that's to create my own family, a

family I can trust and they know they'll be able to trust me. My own new family, or shall I say my own new mafia? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, my own new made events mafia loan It's very soon main event Mafia, the new made event Mafia will rise aces and eights. You're gonna fall? Do you hear that? Wait? Of stinks? Family? His an old family, her family. What is he talking about? He's got old friends he's talking about He's talking about a dude made up

bed coffia. No one likes to Scott, who's he got? No one came out for the lock from that helped up before all guys talk to him? Made a bet mafia? Who we a break? Um? I I don't, I don't really, I'm not familiar with the main event of Mafia. So yeah, it was the stable before Hogan came in. It was book Or T, Kevin Nash and kurn Engel and Sting I believe, and they were you know all right, there's like like the Millionaires Club and w STWU in two thousand, which yeah, okay, it's just going nowhere.

Book Or T. H was so infamous in that run for like goofing off and just practicing his accents on commentary and every bit of offense he threw in the ring was like so pantomimed and foolish, and he was just like he was trying to like bring it to the ultimate test, like how how much can you throw back in a company's face? How a lot? Seriously you take it and still stay paid. He set the ultimate example I think in

the main event Mafia. But it disbanded just about a time you know that the Hogan Bishop regime came in and staying you know, one on another sort of like will he won't he sabbatical contractually? They lost Booker. He went over to do the Royal Rumble of course, right, and the rest is

history. But yeah, the main event Mafia, and this would not be a long lived version of the Stable, but it would be Magnus in a suit, Samoa, Joe in a suit, staying in a suit, Angle in a suit, all with their shades and doors, and now Stings going to drop the face paint and where like the oak sunglasses in the suit indoors. Now that's the new look. So that's the cool thing. I guess, huh, kids are doing. That's what Stings doing. I wouldn't call

him a kid, but I's supposed to get Magnus over. Not a bad idea. I kind of like four Horsemen, you know, Wyndham Luga. Sure, sure, um, but it just it falls apart like everything else in TNA in twenty thirteen, as you can't can't have nice things in TNA

in twenty thirteen, you just can't. Yeah. Later, Austin Arias won the X Division Championship from Chris saman Is Manic, which was like the alter ego of Suicide and Cashes in his Options seem, which is when you have the Exibition title around Destination Act, you cashing you can get a world title shot, you get the world title of shot. That's an aries, but Saving actually ends up winning it back by telling Bully um, you might be

looking at the new world champion. So Saban gets the X division title back and now tells Bully that he's gonna challenge him, just like Arias did the year before, gave up the X title Gopher the world title as his right at Destination X, which this year in TNA is actually a free television show and not a pay per view as they've cut. Yeah, they've got quite

a few of those now, but this like they have. It's funny how they still hold the pay per views, but just on TV, right, Yeah, they still have those, Like they still orient their booking around a big magasue, which is why I always found it so amusing when Bishoff would talk about how much of an albatross having to do the pay per views were

for them and how outmoded pay per view was. It's like, guys, you don't know any other way to book besides to build a pay per view, So stop pretending that there's another way, another palatable way to book wrestling. There isn't. That's what the fans want. They want to feel like they're building to a big show, and even when they didn't have to do pay per views, they still had to do pay per views because it's just they can't. They are what to do unless there's a pay per view on

the calendar. And they were also desperate to pop some above average ratings for Spike, especially over the summer where things get a little harder to draw, so you know, slapping a coat of paint on a television show making it feel like a supercard, which is something Impact still does to this day. They still have free shows on an Access TV and the Impact Plus app that have names but aren't pay shows, and others that are pay shows. It's very, very confusing to me what they do. But this, I would

argue, is the point where the snowball starts rolling downhill for Impact. Yeah, summer, as we enter June is where all of the players and our grand drama that's taken up the entirety of twenty twenty three here at the lapsed fan begins to crumble. We're reaching that point now where folks are abandoning ship.

The gig is up, the word is out. Someone came in and turned the lights on, and all the rodents and the insects and the critters are scrambling for darkness, and the first one to go in so many ways to this theme is none other than Bruce Pritchard. I took some time off, and while the while I was taking time off, they were sending out release letters to talent, not asking me, not telling me nothing, sending out letters and having the travel guy calling fire people who Doc Gallows, uh

superstar now, um Lisa Marie? Sure? There were a few. Yeah, And so it's you know, and they're calling me going, hey, what the hell? I like, I don't know, but I'm on vacation. So then when I get off vacation, they call me and they said, what's your decision? I said, Well, my decision is the same decision it's always been. So, well, here's the deal. You need to be here by the end of next week, living here, or we

just don't have anything for you. I said. So you're saying if I'm not moved out of Houston and living in Nashville by next Friday, that I'm fired. Said yeah, so, well I guess I'm fired. Ain't gonna happen. What month in the year was that, and who's telling you that? July twenty thirteen and conversation. The initial conversation was with Dean Broadhead, mister s and I had had many conversations with Dixie too, and Dixie's always

said we'll work something out and yeah. And then the next thing I know is I'm reading online that i'd been fired and that me and d Low Brown had both been fired. And so I see that was an agent let time, Yes, And so I called Dixie. Of course she didn't take my calls. When I sent her a text, I said, it's really great to read about my demise on the internet. And I still haven't even gotten spoken to speak to you, and she sent me back, I'll call you

tomorrow. And didn't know you have spoken to Dixie since then? Yeah, I have. Yeah, Yeah, you guys are okay. Terms now I don't know. Yeah, they owe you any money? You know. They did something that was um, really bad. I had uh got some financial issues and they were supposed to pay back and to the government and so on and so forth, and he didn't do it. They garnished things from my check. So you had withholdings from the federal government, right, and they

were they were that didn't weren't included in your checks. But then they didn't actually pay the government correct. And then the government came after me for payment. They still your money? Yeah, how much money there still? Firm me? Oh, that was about it was. It was only about ten thousand dollars still, but still just the thing you never got it, the

arrogance. Well, it wasn't coming to me, but the government final the government finally got it because it was the government coming after me for the money, and you were and you showed them prove hey from me. Here's where they took it. I did my part. So I don't know because I never heard the end of it other than the government was satisfied. And it was just those those kind of little petty things that didn't have to happen, though it made you kind of feel dirty at the end. What a shit

show. I mean, I'm okay with them doing that to him, right. His thing about moving too, was that his wife cancer and there was like a like a high end treatment center for her in Houston that they really believed and entrusted in. And it's like, I'm not moving, and it's it's obviously, you know we want to fire you. We know you won't move to Nashville, so we'll come up with like this thing where it's actually your fault. You got fired because it's not because we're undergoing financial distress and

cutting back. We can't admit that. But the checks that kind of tells the story, doesn't it, You know it does. He also talks on the podcast with with Conrad about how checks were postmarked that they said they'd sent arriving in FedEx envelope, so you'd get like talent being told we sent the check, Well we didn't get the check, and then when they get the check, it would be like postmarked for the day that they were supposed to have gotten them, and it's like, well, if you sent them,

then how'd you get them? WHOA well, you know, uh, I mean exactly imagine I imagine that the phone call, uh with with Dixie went something like this with with with him, I had, Dixie. You know, I'm just wondering about you know, Am I am? I? Am? I am? I fired? Oh what do you I mean? These are things that well, Dixie just answered the question. Am I fine?

You've reached Dixie Carter's voicemail Sometimes I feel voices deep inside me screaming out so loud over the silence, and it's deafening, telling me what to do. You know, what to do? Dude? Unbelievable, Dixie, I know,

I know that you're there. It's very tna too, by the way, like to have it come out on the internet websites, your fire, that's so dirty, and then like turn around and always say the internet's wrong about your company, even when they totally are, Like Meltzer totally scooped them on the fact that they were leaving Spike and going to Destination America, a much lower tier station, and they denied that man until they were red in

the face. It just they just could not acknowledge that someone actually had done some reporting and got the confirmation before they were ready to give it, like

you know that. That's why I always look very askance at this idea that Dixie was some kind of pr maven because whenever I've heard her sort of trying to flex that muscle, like the script we read where she was trying to advise Hulcogan on what to say during the Steep scandal and what Renaissenter would want to hear and what I would say if I was counseling you, and and things like the way she handled media reporting on her company and criticizing her product.

It's like this she's not a pr strategist. She's waiting. No, she's not um but yeah, I mean, I mean, you know she's uh, she's just she's just Daddy's a little girl. I'm sorry, I know. It's it's so that's what she can work a room. She's got personality, but that that doesn't a lot of people have that those qualities. Yeah, right, you know, if you don't have, if you don't have some fucking backbone behind you or some kind of you're just gonna get walk

I mean, it's proofs in the pudding here. She just got fucking walked over by these fucking carnies. Well she thought she she thought there was a way that she could be what she was and not get her hands dirty. You know, that she could just talk about like that. People would always have an appetite for her line about how actually we're doing better than people realize. The obituary of our company has been written so many times already, and

we're proud of the fact that we're still going. Like people are done caring about that, Dixie. Like, we just heard Hulkogan for three years tell us that we're just one step from the really launch in this thing. We heard him pathetically at that press conference audio we played at as beat Shop talking about how you know much of a step forward incrementally, it was that they're on the road now. Meanwhile, all the evidence is it's making no difference

in ratings. It clearly isn't drawing enough ticket buyers to justify the cost, and it's just it's hurting TNA to be on the road, hurting them. So it's not hurting the atmosphere of the television shows, but the ratings for the shows aren't going up. And that's what people were banging the drum saying was going to happen if we made the investment to go on the road. And they do and it makes no difference. Oh they're waiting two weeks.

Okay, Well that was in twenty twelve or whatever. Here we are in twenty teen, there on the road every week, and the ratings are not appreciably different than they were the Impact Zone every single week, except you're spending six to seven hundred thousand dollars or perfectly to do the tapings on the road live. I'm sorry, it's not there's no there there. Like the ceiling

is established, you're not going to break through it. You had a small window of opportunity January four, twenty ten, when they did like three and a half million people for the Hogan and Outsider's bit. Whatever was going on there told us that there was a contingency of people that were willing to let TNA be a serious number two, and they did not like what they saw and they never came back, I know. And the checks are starting to

become a very serious problem. Pritchard says. There were even instances where talent couldn't afford to park their car at the airport to get on the plane to make the shows because money was so late in arriving that they had counted on. Talent would let weeks and weeks go by without getting their paycheck as they expected, but then they wouldn't complain, and then by the time they complained, so much debt had been built up that it was so much harder to

kind of check to make them whole. So just snowballed. And Bruce's head of talent relations the person that talent is supposed to go to, and they have issues with payroll. He talked about Dean Broadhead. Dean Broadhead was the CFO at Panda Energy, which was the parent company, Dixie Carter's parents company that owned TNA, and so they would kind of put the Panda Energy office

staff part of their remit. Their responsibility would be the TENA books and the TENA budget and TENA payroll, those kind of you know, functions are centralized, and so Bruce is supposed to be the liaison between the talent and that office. And they're telling Bruce the checks went out, Tell the talent the checks went out, and come to find out later they probably didn't because they were postmarked on the date that someone said they went out, but they still

had them in their possession. If they went out and weren't returned, what are you talking about? Bruce said. Even Hogan had some issues with his

pay along the line, but wasn't really specific about it. And he concluded they sure as hell didn't care about talent, and they viewed the wrestling business just like they'd view the power plant business, and that you know, a wrestler is the same as a plumber we hire to work at one of her power plants, and they could be replaced, of course, be encounter mentality, baby, And they're having meetings with talent because you know, the discontent

around pay and unpredictability around pay is is starting to leak out in the wrestling media and amongst the boys they're talking, there's definitely some discontent. Bruce leaves time to, you know, for Dixie to do some messaging, you know, because she can always words smith her way out of her problem. Her track record is flawless in that regard. So well, here's Eric Bischoff on eighty three Weeks the podcast talking about one of one of these meetings and just

just how sad it was getting. There was a couple of meetings that I remember. One is they had this little attorney, he's just a dob,

just ab and he came. Now, imagine this, you call a meeting with a bunch of talent, many of whom have been getting to run around when it comes to their pay for weeks or months in the anxiety and the stress and the anger that creates morale, single word morale, and you have this little jag off attorney show up that comes in and immediately starts putting himself over and talking about how smart he is and how good he is at suing

people. Who's the jack Off attorney name names? I'm not gonna name him. He's gonna name his name. He knows who he is. And I remember sitting there and I, you know, I showed up at this meeting and I and Garrett was there at the time, and he was sitting over on the other side of the group. I was I was wait, I wasn't even part of the group. I was there, but I was separate

from the group because I wasn't talent. I didn't want to sit with talent, right And I'm sitting there and I'm listening to this attorney putting himself over and basically threatening anybody that spoke out about some of the things that were going on if they spoke up publicly, and making sure they all knew that if that was the case, he was going to sue them. And I'm thinking

to myself, this is just insane, this is insane. I remember looking over at Garrett and he looked at me as this little due was pounding his chest and trying to make him sound like a tough, scary guy because he was an attorney. I hate when people do that. It's just let me get me hot right away and have a little do weeb. Attorneys start talking starts threatening me. Anyway, I looked over Garrett and his eyes are just rolling in the back of his head. And I look over and I see

a couple other guys that I had a relationship with. It're just it's just I can't describe the feeling. It was the worst thing in the world to do, and then to have Dixie come in and try to spin it. It was mind boggling, as she had a whole litany of reasons, like, you know, we're behind on pay because we had to tape like, you know, twelve shows at once before we lost the impact zone to fulfill you know, international pay per view obligations and other kinds of things that we're

sort of whose whose problem is that? That's exactly. It's just so she's now entering the phase where every problem that emerges is temporary, and she has a reason to make you think it's temporary until it happens again, and then it happens again, and then it happens again, and the reason is always changing, but the reason is always the same, right, the problem is always the same. They don't have their ship's all. She's a real fucking

piece of work. Yeah, she's you know, there came a point clearly where her mom was like, no, like, we're not going to spend any more than we're making, and that was why not, mom, Mom? It's a very curious family dynamic, and no one really in the wrestling side was able to really sort of pierce it and understand it. But that the edgewise comments that have been made seemed to indicate that, like, it's a very strange relationship she had with her with her mother, like and her

father too, Like it wasn't it was very like formal. I get the feeling. It wasn't like a kind of thing where she would ever push back, you know, wow, like I'm I'm the boss until my mom picks up the phone and exactly because you know why, because because if she fucking talks about why he had a friend like this, Oh my god, I had a friend. Okay, I had two friends and in la and they ended up getting together and she was she was Jewish and he was not.

And her parents were like, no, this is fine if you want to have a little fling with this guy, but he's not Jewish, you're not like they fell in love. They fell in love. They were together for years and they love each other and they wanted to get married, and the guy was going to convert. Not good enough for her her parents, and push came to shove because they said, look, you gonna stay with this guy. Okay, you're cut off financially. There we go and and that's

it. You know. It's like when you got when you got someone, when you got parents paying your fucking bills. They got the hooks in, they get exactly, and they have the fucking They may have more say than you want them to have. You're not an adult, right if you if you have your own money, you don't have enough to fund this fantasy that you're an executive exactly, or this fantasy that you're don't don't act like you can, don't act like you can live in a fantasy where you actually take

care of yourself. A lot of people walking around telling themselves that they have autonomy without being honest about the fact that, like, yeah, they're actually one or two people in your life that could pull your trump card like that, and you'll just be helpless, helpless, because that's how America works. Leverage, baby, it's all about. There's a word. There's a reason the word leverage is a synonym for debt. Yep, I'm saying yes,

because debt is leverage. Debt is the ability to make sure what you want to happen happens. And you can let people walk around deluding themselves into thinking that they have free will, but as long as they're indebted to you, when the actual key time comes that they're going to do something you don't want them to do, you can want a stop to it. Look look all right, and that's what money buys you. Bottom the bottom line is this, Nothing is free correct, all right? You don't have free will,

really free will. It's you have you just allowed to exercise free will up until the credit card bill comes in or whatever the case. Yes, that's correct. Freedom costs, okay, and perhaps Dixie's learning Just ask, just ask, you know the miss they'll tell you. So those kind of meetings are starting to happen, and the spin is starting to get a little hard to swallow. There's not much to show for all they've tried in the last

three years. That really isn't They bring in David Lagana to work with Matt Conway, David Lagonna from the w B reading team to start handling creative and it's like Okay, that's not Bischof's remit anymore. Pritchard's gone, though he wasn't really that hands on with the creative, he did have a role there. Russo has been gone for a while now, since January twenty twelve.

I believe Matt Conway is sort of like the the soldier that was right, you know, the key cog in the wheel writing the shows alongside whoever the you know, executive DuJour was that was producing it, and Bischoff now is starting to feel a little a little uncertain and basically, but you know,

Hogan is Bishoff's Janie Carter. Yes, like there's absolutely no world and which Hogan leaves TNA and Eric isn't right behind him, there is no world, and which Hogan gets fed up with TNA and leaves and bish Off stays no chance. The only reason he's around is because it keeps them the the allegiance with Hulk Hogan bonded together tightly, and that that's my opinion, but I

think the pattern supports that. So in this in this series of maneuvers, this John Gaburick name starts to emerge, and on June twenty seven, twenty thirteen, It's announced that John Gilburck has been named executive vice President of Television Production for Tenna Entertainment, effective immediately. Now. If you watch the WW Tough Enough reality show, John Geburck had kind of a role on that.

He was like cast as a you know, a scout, somebody that would yeah remember it, yeah, kind of like red hair, an assistant to Kevin Dunn and worked very much more on the television production side. You know, the look the first time I said header just insufferable. I mean the guy like once he took over fully they did like an ass John segment and impact on their website with Jeremy Borash, and the guy just gave the most like vanilla answers, like the most like like pretending to be an executive.

But you could tell us learning on the job on how to talk to well, you know, you know, what are you thinking about pushing some of the Well, I just want to say, you know, we're really excited about everybody that we have on the roster and tea and uh and you know, we're just we're just waiting for that one superstar to really uh make that reach for that brass ring. You know, that's that's all we can do. You know what you see what I'm putting down there? You dig?

But I remember at one point somebody said it must have been Dixie said, hey, I want you and Big to go to Dallas Biggest John Godberick's nickname. Yes, we want you and Big to go down and meet with my mother in Dallas. Oh God again, huh what you know? And I had I had refused to do it before. You know, Dixie had tried to get me on a conference call with her mother, you know, probably a year or two before that. And I said, Dixie, I'm not

doing that. Now. You're now you're sucking me into a role or part of a conversation that I don't even really want to have. But now I'm being asked to go to this meeting with Big and I. And I did because I wanted to be a team player. I didn't want to be a dick um. So I said, okay, let's just we'll see how this

goes. And it was actually a kind of a fun meeting, and I actually kind of Doug Janis, you know, I mean, her personality, she's a very she was, at least to me, a very confident, outwardly going you know, she wasn't shy, and I appreciated that about her. At the end of this meeting, everything's going great, everything's kind of

upbeat, positive. And I find out at the very end of the meeting that the reason that I was called there is because there was a desire to rese structure T and A, and they wanted me to report to Gaburick, which would have been number one, a change in my contract because it's enough

the way my contract was set up. And number two I just thought no, not that I didn't like John, but no. And we got out of that meeting, and I remember we we got out and we were getting ready to jump in our car to take us to the airport, and Big looks at me, he goes, Eric, this is gonna be great, right, I mean, it'll be you and me. You know. He knew that Janis wanted me to report to him, and John was like, this is gonna be awesome. I said, John, it really won't because

it's not going to happen not doing it. I'll just think about it, Okay, I'll think about it, and then I'm gonna tell you I'm not gonna I'm just not doing that. I'm not changing my relationship with the company because the company wants to restructure and I don't want to report to you. Um, it's just not my thing. So what he came here for And that was pretty much the end of it, and shortly thereafter I was on my way out. So moves being made. We need somebody who just complain.

That's so John okay. And you can imagine too, like just the sadness of like, can you please do a conference call with my mom? Like she's not saying please, but she's at But that's like that's a tough moment for Dixie. You know. Well, like what's his uh, you know, I don't know outside of that the scouting deals that he would do. What what does his expertise in wrestling come in? There is none?

Who the fuck is heh Yeah, it's a TV producer. He worked in like the truck on a production side, and that he was brought in like this idea that we needed, Kevin Donne. We need someone to not not bookstorylines and manage talent, but just pull the television um production together and make it, you know, look better and runs more smoothly from a you know,

shooting backstage segments and everything. It's kind of like the producer role that that they said Pritchard was brought in for, and then pretty soon he's running talent relations and Ryan point of contact for everybody, and Gaberk basically, honestly, when Pritchard leaves, comes in and tries to become Pritchard, except he also wants to be Bischoff at the same time in terms of like executive producing the show and booking the show with no experience and you can, you know,

and once he leaves impact it's just it's so it's so flat, you know. In terms of like creativity, He's just not to say Bischoff was an overflowing fountain of a creative inspiration. He certainly was not. But there's no reason to like, there's no vision John Gaburk is presenting that anyone buys into. He's a little more playing nice with Spike, you know, Spike would get a little more of like a look at where they were going creatively

and like more systemic planning. He seemed a little more interested in bringing them under the tent creatively because Spike was always kept and they didn't mind. This pretty far away from like who's winning, who's losing, who's pushed, who's

not decisions. They were more just interested in, you know, the little ways they could make money off Impact, like sponsorships and renaming an Impact wrestling to make it more interesting to sponsors, and just you know, taking the demo numbers they were doing and trying to find match it with with dollars. That's all they really cared about. If something could help that and then go

for it. We might even chip in, but we don't really consider ourselves wrestling bookers, you know, and we're not we're not looking at big foot around even though we're financing basically this entire operation. From a creative standpoint, this probably didn't even interest them even if they had that option to get that involved. So good Burke, he's, you know, he's just one of

those like, you know, facilitators. He's one of those guys that, like, you know, they don't they don't have anything they do especially well, but they know how to manage sixteen different relationships at once and try to like keep everyone happy and feel heard. That's kind of my impression of the

role he ultimately ended up playing. But it's it's it's clearly it's clearly a tough situation, and Bischoff is realizing, you know that, like it's if I get deeper into this, then suddenly I'm owning all kinds of problems that

maybe I helped author I don't know financially. You know, it's kind of probably part of why he doesn't wanted to do with this, because he'd have to face the music of what the profit and loss has been on the expenditures under his watch from Spike in and from an impact because you can, you know, you can say that you could say it's Spike paid the cost, but it's like if they hadn't paid the cost of Hogan and Bischoff, would that money have just gone into TNA's budget. Maybe, you know, it's

money spent on TNA just the same that they did. Spike just reduce the budget by the amount they were paying Hogan, Sting and Bischoff and give TNA less. Quite possibly, what's the difference at that point, I'm just saying, we don't write, you know, the budget would budgetarily, Yeah, I don't think Spike is pulling money over and above what they would have given to TNA. Maybe they were, maybe they were, but at this point, they're not seeing a return on that investment. I think that's clear.

So all this is happening. Bischoff his um as we talked about, he reached a deal to become executive producer of TNA in February of two thousand and eleven, and that sort of brought an end to that period where he was just exclusively involved to help book Hull, Cooke and stuff and didn't care about

what anybody else was doing. That was all responsibility, and suddenly he's taken over the whole thing and Russo's gone because they are getting along again and they exercised TNA had done a one year option on Bischoff's contract as that one was coming due in February of two thousand and thirteen, so Bischoffs deal was extended out to March thirty first of two thousand and fifteen, at the top of

the year here. So yeah, he probably should probably try to meet Luganis because that's a lot more years left suddenly that that he could lose out on on money for if he doesn't play ball a little wow. So he's kind of stuck there, whereas Hulk seems a little more free to walk yeah, yeah, I'm sure if they I mean they signed the exact same sort of like contracts from a timing standpoint him in Bischoff, So I'm not sure if they sought to extend the option and didn't or what that whole story was.

But you know, we have sufficient to tail I think on that with Hogan. Um. But but he's on the hook, Bishop's on the hook, but he's he's he's just looking for the exit at this particular point in time, and it's just starting to snowball. And I think in a lot of ways, the ultimate kick in the teeth is the one thing they have that's going pretty well. Yeah, the Brook Hogan Bully intrigue at sure where it's going next is pretty much the only interesting question being posed on impact every week.

And sure it's probably supporting whatever ratings the show is doing and how Hogan's going to react. It's still there's still possibilities there, but not so fast because you know how Bully keeps flashing the wedding ring and Brooke's face to taunt her and say, you're still married to me, and I'm never going to give you a divorce. You can never marry anybody else. July one,

twenty thirteen, ap Wire. Brook Hogan, the daughter of wrestler Hulk Coogan, is engaged to Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Phil cost Oh my god, the former reality TV star and recording artists, announced that the cost are proposed over the weekend in Las Vegas. Pictures posted on Hogan's Instagram page show Cost of popping the question happiest moment of my life? I am marrying my best friend. I wouldn't choose anyone else. I'm so lucky and so grateful, She

wrote, Wait does that mean it's face exactly? So? Do you wonder why when we're watching these shows, boss, all of a sudden, Bully is with Brooks test Mocker instead of Brook Hogan? Oh wow? Because of this shit? Who the fucking angle? Because not only did she go ahead and get engaged, she didn't think about TNA for a second before Instagram and the shit out of that engagement picture and letting the whole world know that's right,

that's what happens. That's what happens, and that's t NA. You damn right, because that tells you how seriously TNA deserves to be taken if the talent you know, and Brooks talent at this point, more than talent. She's kind of an executive, right, don't even stop for a second to think, well, I mean, I'm not saying not get engaged, but maybe maybe not put an Instagram post out about maybe maybe wait till you know you're you know you can get out of the storyline and then getting exactly

or or then announced you've been engaged. You know, you can't control when someone pops the question, right, no, no, no, no, that's tru right right right, just announcing, But that doesn't matter to her. To it matters more whatever congratulatory messages she'd get on Instagram. And you better believe this marriage went nowhere that they I don't even think they got married ultimately, but it wasn't just enough to do. I don't think she has

been married now now. I think Hulk cracked the whip at one point. He ended up saying later when when that when he broke off, that he was absolutely not for this guy. This guy was bad news for his daughter, and I think he was kind of a shit head. I mean, I don't want to say too much because I didn't look into it too closely, but I'm not sure he had the best reputation either. There were the red flags that I think Hulk was that the Hogan knows best, brook knows

best. Hulk. Hogan was very much within his rights to what be concerned about anyway. The point of that is, all of a sudden, Bullies got nothing. Now Bully can't go on TV and you know, say to her, I'm still married to you and I'm never gonna make you free and you still love It's all dead. It couldn't have been a worst storyline for this to happen to Ah, It's not like they played the card to like, well, they never really got married, they never really consummated, so

Brooks and so Bully's just torturing her. No, the whole thing is, I will never let you marry somebody else. I will never get a divorce. And then here she is, got acknowledge it. I mean, do you have to acknowledge it? Can't she just come on TV and just separate her character from what everybody knows about her real life and just keep carrying on like she's under siege under Oh no, brother dude, exactly. She had to kay Fabot and she failed. Who gives a fuck at this point kay

fab the ribs. Togan's looking for the exit sign Brooks more beyond done, Oh god yes pretty soon. So well the TNA that whole. Cogan has reigned over for three years.