Ep. 406: Sid Tribute (Part 9)

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And poles us we ended with it last time in our tribute to Sid, we have to start with it again. I'm sorry we have to do this, but we're nothing if not table setters. Here at the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast and when we last left Sid, he was taking to the middle rope at the WCW SIN pay per view in January two thousand and one to bring an auspicious end to his second and of course final run in WCW and really his final run in the national spotlight.

As a professional wrestler.

It's the night he snaps his leg in half, and it's the subject of our latest chapter and our meandering, yet appropriate tribute to Sid.

I mean, you gotta understand, if you haven't seen this horrific footage, it's not like he it's not like he killed his knee, and like the joint is where he broke it, like he snapped his bone in half, Like his shin bone is snapped in half, like it dangles right like you know, it's one thing again, it's one thing to like, not that this is good, but to kind of like break the joint. You know the joint's bad, but to actually break the bone, to do something where your bone is splintered off.

Splintered is the word.

It's just it's it's it's awful.

So many jagged edges, oh, I.

Mean, just I can't even imagine. I don't want to imagine I don't want to know. I don't want to know what that feels like.

Ever, it's it's sad, but it's also it's also very Sid. And we've talked about it that we're gonna watch it again because we need to put ourselves in this frame of mind, because we're about to take the deepest dive you'll find into the circumstances surrounding this injury that essentially ended Sid's wrestling career, and and just the follow up and the aftermath is also as you can imagine boss as Sid as it gets, I would imagine, So are you ready and no, So for those at home, we're

While we were watching the mystery opponent come in.

Now Sid Vicious up on top a look at this, Look at.

The left foot. That is so difficult. No, we've seen it a hurdle, another angle already, so many still, just so why do they do that? Why?

Why?

Why?

Obviously the compound fracture of the tibia and the fibula last night this morning underwent two hours of surgery. He had a forty three inch centimeter steel rotted sorted.

Into the bone.

He is still in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. You'll be out the good part of a year a long time. We certainly wish sambitious. Well, and uh, are they fucking idiots when they say that, Like do they are? Are they trying to be like optimistic or something? Because like you just say, he's done, his career is over.

Yeah, what makes me a year any more likely than five years?

Because like you know, when you see it, I don't know. I mean, we've certainly heard awful injuries, muscles being ripped off, the bone, bones being broken, you know, all sorts of shit. But that's that is a that is a bone destroyed. That is a bone destroyed.

It is absolutely one of the worst bone breaks ever in wrestling. It it really is one of the most I hesitated, say worst injuries ever in wrestling because people have died as a result of trumpet suffered in the rest At.

Least, I'll tell you this, I'd say maybe worst shown on television. Yeah, you know, like at least my mainstream known because I would imagine that there are certainly there have been deaths, but how many of deaths have been featured on a television broadcast outside of Owen Hart, Right, that's true too, And death is and death is a it's not an injury, you know, that's a whole different thing. That's true.

Yeah, if you put in a different category, then this is certainly one of the most horrific injuries to happen in a wrestling ring. And I ask you, boss, if you were sitting on that angle that we just saw with Sid's foot dangling below the knee, the boot twisted like a string of spaghetti. Okay, slanted ARCD like a string of spaghetti. Yes, do you show it on Nitro the next night? Do you resist the temptation? Or do you make sure people deal with it and see it?

I mean, apparently not. Apparently you need to do it. Apparently the temptation is is is so incredibly palpable that you must show it. So that's need then, Yes, it's need, it's it's it's need.

I wonder if Nitro is winning the ratings war still in January twenty oh one.

If they show that, I mean, is that what they were going for? I really don't know.

I mean, they have to explain where Sid's going and why their champion's gone. But it ends in the most said way possible. It's just so amazing that this guy, in the calling cards he had in the ring in terms of his work style, ends up in this position and this happens, and he would rue the day and we're going to get into all of it because you heard me mention that mystery man that ran in.

Yeah, you have to know who that was.

It was Animal, right, yes, and whose brother was essentially running WCW from a booking and finished booking perspective. At this point in time, the diamals, Yes, hey, what's going on? He's fucking back and it's all too appropriate in Acid Journey, Johnny, you gotta finish in mind for tonight before your bro runs in.

Well, you know, I was thinking, I was thinking, you know, I actually, uh, I didn't know how to finish the match. So I called Vince up in New York. I said, hey, how'd you finish this match?

They're like you called who I called? I called the Boss?

Yeah, well that's k fabe still, Johnny. We still got a couple of months before we announced that whole back to back door angling.

Oh well, you know, I called a friend, a friend I got working up North, and he said, you know, he said, you know, I think the best finished, Pal, the best finish you could come up with is have Sid jump off the middle rope.

When you say finished, Johnny, do you mean to the match or to my career? What precisely?

Huh?

I don't. I'm just saying that's what I was.

That was suggested, and I put it through my you know, I started putting the gears into play and I said, all right, the gears said Sid jump it off hoom.

I win, and for reasons I'm afraid to say, we'll probably remain a mystery forever. John Laurie Nightis thought the recipe to set up the run in by the mystery Man in this match was to have Sid, for essentially the first time in his life, come off the middle rope with a kick or a flying knee. Essentially was his idea of something mega impactful that Sid could do to Scott Steiner to justify everybody being laid out, something that would blow Scott Steiner out of the stratasus.

Stupid fucking move.

I mean, there is no way that Sid could execute this that it achieves whatever effect Johnny had in mind. I keep going back to, you know, maybe in All Japan, right where they did such a wonderful job getting over things that are otherwise kind of pedestrian moves like a Larry in All Japan.

Is maybe in maybe in No Japan, I think that this is a good idea.

Right or they could get over the idea that a knee could knock you out, whereas an American pro wrestling a knee knocking you out, especially in two thousand and one before the rise of UFC and stuff. It's just a laughing stock joke. Yeah yeah, and over there, you know, you can build up a flying knee. We saw Ken to do it, and then we saw Daniel Brian Brian

So Johnny had been asking me to do that Stohn lauryn eight for some time, and no, they knew I couldn't even promote Belton, you know. So I said, I don't feel comfortable even jumping off a rope right now, even to give an axe handle, and I just don't

We know the finish was his brother.

And then as they come back, I think at that point they were supposed to have me down and getting their heat on me, he was just showed up and then not saved the day or whatever the case was. I just, you know, I could have the only thing I'd say I could have. You know, I even at one point that evening and said, hey, man, I don't I want just changes. I don't want to do it, and yeah, no. For several years, man, it was a

It never a day of it didn't go back for me.

I think about Dan wow lot animosity and not towards Johnny Really to myself, nothing against Johnny. Johnny's not a genius either, as he got a good mind for the business. But me jumping off giving Scott skyner Steiners and needed the head. That's not gonna fucking use my language, not do anything other than getting hurt. And I wasn't going to make that big of a deal. That's what you really bothered me about. The old thing in the hospital that night. I never saw I never looked at it,

It or not. That horse Barbara, Yes, all right.

What happens is when you have a compound factor that far away, there's no muscle tissue. So it's the hardest way for anything to rehab. And that's why it was so hard, and that's why it's such a long process. I was never predicted to walk for run again. Wow, I'm doing all that now. So that's why I'm a little biting at the bit now because now I'm ready and I'm ready to get back and I want to finish my career.

Not being carted out on a stretcher.

Didn't happen, of course, but that would just be the refrain of his until the day he died, essentially, And I mean, my god, the part of the leg with hardly any muscle, oh right through the skin doesn't infuriate you to hear him talk about how he was reticent to do it.

Yeah, yeah, I mean he like to me, this is attitude era one on one. Here is people being forced to do shit they didn't want to do and tragedy ensuing.

You do have to wonder if, like Sid's career law reputation, is someone that could just be a pain in the ass for the sake of being a pain in the ass at random intervals, just to see if he could maybe get a little time off or get a raise. You do have to wonder if that factored in too, how hard they pushed back at his resistance to doing this spot or his stated resistance to doing this spot, you know, just of course Sid doesn't want to do it,

And he did he did say that that was pretty great.

I mean, what did the script say? Was it a bullet point?

What did it say? What it did it say? Sid leaps off with his with one leg extended kind an attempt to land on on a the other leg and it bends in half. Well, here in the meeting that brings us to the main event. And wanted to talk a little bit about how we should format this, Johnny, from what I understand, you had an idea where Sid comes off the rope with a kick. How should we phrase this so it's clear at all parties on the night.

What after a great start, a should we phrase it. I want to be able to, you know, put a helpful shorthand here so that we remember what it is. Everyone can tell, even if they can't catch up to you that night, what it is Sid supposed to do?

Well?

I you know again, I was told by my friend that he needs to jump off the middle rope in a kick formation and land on one leg.

So so you want me to actually write in here he has to land on one leg? Why is that Germanic?

Yeah?

What?

Why is that? Nessas?

Can you just can we just write here?

O't know, but it's just what my guy said.

Have you ever considered, with all the respect, Johnny, that this guy whoever it is you might be referring to, might not have your or Sid's best interest at heart?

Well, I mean he's always had my best interest, you know, he's he's probably one of the most brilliant minds in this business. Okay, and uh and uh, you know he said he's got it, that said it has to do this, he has to do it.

And he said, well, he said, I'm just riding here in my laptop. He said to Wright that he lands on one leg.

Yeah, absolutely guaranteed. Fast forward.

Uh, Eighteen hours later, Sin backstage in Indianapolis. Yes, said, I don't know what to tell you, man. They just they really want you to land on one leg. I don't know why that part of it's so important, but it's a yeah. They We talked about it really longer than I expected to.

At the production media. Let me ask you, if you look in my eye right now, I'm looking. I want you to look deep in my eyes right now, I'm gonna ask you one question, because I'm gonna tell you right now, I do not I'm number one. I'm not obligated to jump ever.

Is that in your contract ever?

It's in the country I have in my mind.

Wow, and that's binding.

What I want. I want to ask you a question now. You look. It's real simple, It is real simple. Describe to me right now what it is that they want me to do.

Well that they said that you should go to the middle rope, jump off, hit Scott Steiner with a big kick, and that's supposed to knock him out. And they were specific about this in landing. They want you to land on one leg, not to land in your butt or flat back or anything like that. They want you to land on one leg with the other one extended like a kick line, almost kind of thing.

Now, once you look at me, didn't the eye? And will you tell me the god honest truth. I want you to swear. I want you to swear on the entire business of Vienna Sausages. Is that in the script? It's in the script.

We talked at length and every last word was hashed over, and what you see there in the script said is what we came to final wording.

Now, I don't need to read the script, okay, but if I'm taking your word that that is what is in the script, then I'll do it, because this is a script in business. If it wasn't in the script and just some loose idea, I wouldn't do it. But if his or written down in ink unerasable ink, but I can't change, I can't wide out. Is it tapped out? Yes? It is shit? He goes shit. I thought I had an out there. What song did I send you on your birthday?

Actually?

No tapos, no type of the word for word.

I jump off the middle rope.

Yes, one leg, Yes, this his makeshare was written in the top script. Yes, make sure everybody has in sure sid lands on one leg it's right here.

I'll do it.

Who knew all this time that all you had to do was memorialize a document? Because he's thinking like a lawyer, you know what I mean. It's like, fuck, if it's written down, then I can't have my way characterizing it after the fact, right, which is where I thrive. So

No? I didn't.

That's a horse that was running in a high level race. I don't know a lot about horse racing, but it was it tragically snapped its leg, and it was like winning the race and it was supposed to take home all the gold and whatever the fuck is supposed to be, like this huge favorite to win the highest stakes horse race and the leg just snapped, and it was like a huge tragedy because you know, when that happens to a horse, you know what you got to do to

At the age of sixty three.

So before we get to that, we do want to wish everyone in the Solar system a happy holiday season. Indeed, I don't think there's any turning back. Now the turkey has been put away, mostly in the sewage system.

Or in your belly. There are some leftovers.

We talked about it for those lucky enough to join us for the Survivor Series live call that we did on Patreon.

We talked a lot about it.

But for the benefit of those listening here in the main feed that didn't catch that or don't have access, it was another successful Thanksgiving around here. In particular, anyone who follows our ex account knows the boss really hit home at Home Run the morning after the sandwich lived up to expectations once again.

Oh fuck yeah. I mean it was glorious. It was It went down like a brick as it's supposed to, and it was just it's what the holidays are all about. Right, So that's all I can say. Some pushback in the may some pushback on the Mayo what you always say. I saw that. Listen a little bit, right, you know, Mayo whatever. But I stand by the Mayo because it adds a kind of a savory, kind of counterbalance to the the cranberry sauce. Yep. And it is fucking money,

I have, and it's scrumptious. I mean, we literally recorded my moaning the sound of my moaning voice in my kitchen as it went down, and I won't soon forget it. And when I make my own I do the same thing. I apply Mayo, maybe a little more generously even than you do, because to me, turkey, roast beef, those are two things that have to be paired with with Mayo.

Honestly, I agree, I agree. I don't understand sand of those fucking meats and a sandwich context of course, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

You put gravy on it, which I don't do, which I think is interesting.

I think the gravy, the gravy adds again, it adds a richness to it. And it's I'll tell you, it really is what what I find to be for me. What what makes it so incredible is just how the the tangy sweetness of the cranberry sauce kind of just blends and creates it just enhances everything everything in there, you know, like it without the cranberry sauce, that's going to send gravy and and mao, it would be way too rich. It would be way too rich, and I'd want to throw up.

It doesn't it doesn't work. It's like turkey of course, is the base of the whole thing. But honestly, cranberry sauce is the most important ingredient it is.

It really is. The cranery sauce is what makes it is, what makes it shine amazing, because it just adds that again, it just adds us this this brightness to it to an otherwise a fucking brick of a sandwich. So maybe I'm listening why it's not like we're eating healthy here. It's a fucking brick.

Oh, of course.

Yeah.

Yeah, you go in like accepting that this is not a day that you can mark in the column of extending my life.

Yeah, no, you want you don't let me tell you this. You don't want to mark this down in your diet journal, all right? You want to kind of say, oh, you know what, I forgot to mark everything down. I don't I remember what I ate that.

This is a day to be absent minded about those inputs.

That's right. Yeah.

You know, maybe for our friends and non Thanksgiving celebrating countries, they can take this advice up over the holidays, because there's gonna be a lot of Christmas turkey served. Of course, I'm sure a little leftovers that.

Have to be Yeah, listen, you know, listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing. It's it's highlighted on on on Thanksgiving. But let me tell you, Yeah, I happen to be you know, like currently I am in possession of another turkey. We got our neighbors. So our neighbors got an extra frozen turkey from their workplace. Yea, And they said, hey, do you want a turkey. I'm like, yeah, I always want a turkey. Let's do it. I might as well fucking collect frozen turkey. All right, gladly, what are you

I mean, one thing that always sticks with me is that, you know, it's not just that it's that Christmas couldn't be further away in January exactly. It's not too it's not coming back for so long that you you almost feel like, as joyful as it was, you rush to forget that it was Christmas.

Yep.

I don't know if you share that feeling. It's like it's like I can't no, no, no, like I can't let the things linger around. How long it's going to be again until I feel at rest like that? Yep, until I feel you know, abundance like that.

And so it's times like that where a frozen turkey comes in extremely handy.

Wow, that's going to be a huge January night when that comes out of the oven. Yep, yep, way what a way to fight back. Yeah, that's just that's it. You gotta you have to.

You have to rage against the dying of the light.

Otherwise, otherwise you're just gonna suffer. I wonder if you could do the Thanksgiving sandwich with a goose.

I don't know, you know, I'm I'm I've I've never actually had goose before. It's like, it's like muck, I'm not, I'm not too. Yeah. Like I like duck, I like duck. I don't love duck.

And I don't know if I love duck with cranberry sauce.

Huh.

And I don't know if I love duck with cranberry sauce.

Yeah, I don't know. I've never gone that far. I don't think I wouldn't, but I'm just saying I haven't it.

Well, that means the seasons upon us. And if you've been minding your p's and q's and watching the main feed, you do know by now that the twenty twenty four t LF Christmas Show is underway, You motherfucker, you fucking bitch,

And I'll tell you I love bragging about it absolutely, so one of the few things I love bragging about, like people absolutely you know, I was telling I was telling family members about it all all throughout Thanksgiving. They're like, you know, I said, oh, you know, when we have our you know, what are you guys doing next? You know, what's what's kind of up on the you know, what are you what are you guys going to be recording

We deserve it, right, Because everything we say, what about the problem, everything we say about this podcast resonating and meaning something to people is fucking true. Yes, And if you can't grasp it, I understand because people don't get wrestling.

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M JP Sorrow keep your ears locked throughout the month of December. We're going to hang a few more ornaments on that tree as well, including the conclusion of the of the Sid Tribute. All kinds of scheming going on around what's next and under the cinemat. Over at patreon dot com, Slash The Lapsed Fan, our executive producer Tier and The Mote Tear both get access to JP's amazing series about great films and lots of great films that have wrestling connections. We just wrapped True the Bond Journey

Well they were know what they were talking about is that Thanksgiving weekend or something like that they do the BBC. I guess they do a Bond Marathon or something like that, and that you know, listen, that is all. That's all serendipity. You know, it was gonna, like I said, there was always gonna be a pause in between the main uh uh, you know Bond series and then the Daniel Craig uh section.

And yeah, I.

It felt it felt right. It felt right to sign off on that one. It was wonderful to me.

As somebody that really hadn't watched a single Bond film from beginning to end before we started this journey, and now coming out the other side, I feel so enriched about such a vital part of the history of cinema. So many different things you can learn about that, the turns and culture of the turns and entertainment, the turns in the movie business just just just a character studies alone and going from you know, the earliest bonds, you know, in terms of who got the nod and who was

I would hope so I would hope that that one would last. That was really a a like a a something I really wanted to do for a long time, and I'd held off on on you know. I mean, Goldfinger has been in on the list obviously since day one,

Done, done and dusted, and yes, so a lot to look forward to. We turned the page to Christmas Movie Season, which is really where it all started, under the cinemat with Santa with Muscles.

Sand with Muscles and that whole, that whole first four, the first four films were all you know, we did jingle all the way as well, and uh, Santa's Sleigh and die Hard were our first, uh our inaugural Christmas movie season and uh, you know we're we're picking it up. I'm very excited we got. I'm not going to say what we got, but what we got is going to be oneer full. Really, Yes, I.

Mean we've done Home Alone one, We've done Home Alone two. We've done we have done Home Alone too. Yet well we did the that's right, we did the radio dram of it.

I mean, but it is, you know, it is on the list. I think we know why.

Sadly we did, and I did.

We did.

It's wonderful life.

We did.

And we've done so many Landmark Christmas pictures. We did the one with the Misz.

Yes, we two with the Miss. So what awaits us? I can only begin. I mean I did hint at it before, and I don't mind hinting out of it again. So I do Miss. I do miss those really garbage Miss Christmas movies for ABC Family. And you know, I'm fortunate we were able to find something else in that vein, not with the Miz. But I think it's gonna be equally just fun, bad garbage.

You can bet it's a movie where a wrestler in a pea coat takes somebody to look for trees.

Yeah, at least not in the la landscape that miss was doing in.

The spirit of the season. So Christmas movie Season under the Cinemat another great time to peek under the hood there. If you've been wondering if now's the time, Now is the time. I'm even being told and I don't know a lot about this, that you can even gift Patreon subscriptions. Now, Patreon doesn't million hfer things every month, so look into that.

That's cool.

I'm sure they make it pretty intuitive if that's something you want to give someone for the holidays. I'm sure it's like a time limited subscription to our Patreon content. Of course, executive bdu sercured above get you under the cinemat. The mote tear, of course, is the exclusive circle for our rider dies. Those who say, you know what, I'm going to pay more than I get this is more than transactional. What's going on here for ten straight years?

Far that have been unveiled.

Know that Mama Sorrow graced us, to say the very least, with her presence as we opened each and every Christmas package and offered commentary that even in our wildest dreams.

Yeah, no, I mean, I mean, it is. It is truly, I mean, and the beauty of it is is that nobody knew when they were writing the shit they were writing, or gifting the gifts that they were giving, that Mama Sara would be. I mean, we didn't even really know that Mama Sara was going to be, you know, in

Oh that's a fucking top five starkate match, absolutely so looking look forward to her commentary. There is you reflex on remembering British beefcake. I'd imagine from your golden days and uh.

Yeah, I'm I you know, it's been a while since we recorded it, but I would imagine that I talked about the whole relationship and you know, talked about how you know, he and Hogan were best friends and how he turned on him.

I'm sure you were quick to confirm that he's in fact still alive, which is one of her favorite questions.

Oh, it is one of the best questions. And now is he alive? Is he still alive? Now?

It depends what depends what you mean, Mom, I mean, I just saw the dark side on him, and yeah, I.

Mean he kind of looks it, I suppose, but it's not a guarantee.

Truly amazing stuff and the least we can do for that high level support. And let me just say, in twenty twenty five, as we enter our second decade, we've got some ideas for the Moat tier to show are more appreciation than even we currently do. So this is probably the time to start seriously considering it, because we've got some things that we're going to unload.

I think on folks.

That is going to create a bit of a frenzy, bit of a scramble. Let's just say, yep, a bit of a scarcity value coming your fucking way. That's all

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Hey, as a wrestling fan, you're trained to know how to deal with that, and you know, countenance it, not let it ruin your day.

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So what a moment that really, that really was just something so incredible to me when reading that, and it's like something about Vienna sausages. I don't just say like no, and you shouldn't understand.

Can you say things for my husband's birthday?

Please? Right, just say weird shit that he wants. You know, I don't know what it is you do. I don't want to know what it is you do. Just say shit.

Bless them, yes, bless their pure hearts. If only they knew the realities we uncover and the conclusions were left to reach. Ignorance is bliss.

Okay, indeed, that's what we're.

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Won't we bust? Absolutely always so much.

Great stuff, so much stuff to keep track of, and if you want to get some letters in a Santa's mail bag, that thing is really filling up. It's been a while since we've sat down with your missives. Something tells me that might be an order upon the conclusion of this SID tribute.

I would imagine that's ye, that's the case, for sure.

It's always it's very much in the spirit of the Christmas unwrapping shows. Also sit down and open some some letters. So many great Solar System members send letters in fact with their Christmas packages, and you'll be hearing those yes, as it unfolds over twenty five days. But the Lapsed fan at gmail dot com for anything on your mind, any feedback you may have, particularly as we wrap up

Yep.

It doesn't happen in the middle of a journey, you know, which is very very very much to our advantage. And we'll be going to interesting places, boss, from what I understand. I saw a tweet from Sean Ross Sap just earlier today. If you go to Peacock right now and go to the raw archives, it has been labeled thirty days until expiration.

Wow.

Wow, I mean what does this mean? I mean, I guess besides that it used to be better, of course.

I mean.

That we're going to have to, uh, you know, fucking get that Netflix going.

I mean, what if they don't put all the braws on Netflix. No one said they will.

That's true, that is true. No one said they will. You know that the the archive I would imagine that then the archive would stay on Pickcock. No so all, so they're not allowed to have any raw, any any archival raw on Pickock. That's what that expiration date tells me. They when they moved NXT to c W off USA network, they took all of the NXT archive, with the exception

Whole thing started ten years ago when they launched the network and brought the archives to the table, and all of a sudden, these podcasts were created to leverage that, not to mention ours. As they talked about the lapsed fan We're like, okay, well we'll put a fucking definition on that, thank you very much. Who's looking for this content? And I don't think we've asked ourselves over ten years, because we've had access, do we deserve access to the archives?

Well, I'll tell you what. Maybe you know, do we deserve access? Maybe not, But I'll tell you what you know. I'll claim access, yes, all right, and if I need to, I'll fucking get my own apps.

I'll claim access is exactly right, not a fucking problem. Because when you cast is hard, and it's faithfully and at the high level we have for ten years, you tend to build up resources, don't you.

You're damn fucking right.

You tend to have people who have just as much on the line as you do as hosts and creators and perpetuating and seeing this thing through and filling those gaps and providing that helping hand when those who would seek to withhold their booty and their treasure seek to keep things behind their respective ironclad doors, that you know, all you do is call upon the TLF solar system to get that much more resourceful. We went through this when they migrated from the traditional network to Peacock, and

I know, it's so true. I mean, we again, we're fortunate.

I do have.

So much from from all these from from from the previous network that you know, were gifted to us, and you know, and now that's going away altogether. The whole fucking thing, you know, the old network is dead. Unbelievable.

I mean, that's why we did this. That or at least that's what that was. The missing piece. Yeah, it was access to that. I was like, Okay, we can go forever. It's there. It's sitting there, and we didn't take for granted it would always be there. But it's kind of like, who the fuck would you know what

Yep.

The streaming services were competing with each other on the basis of how many hours there were. There were when Disney made all those acquisitions like twenty centry Fox and all those assets, it's like, oh, we just added eighty thousand hours.

Oh yeah, say two thousand dollars.

Yes, yes, yes, therefore we are differentiated. And now it's just like now they're just fucking selling it all piecemeal. No one gives a fuck. Archives on one streaming service one year or another of the next completely disappeared, the next available for three ninety nine to pop next, right whatever. Like, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world. If they really meant business and they went all in on making that vault available and easy to navigate and

Like.

That's where we're here. So I'm I'm reticent about what's to come on that front, but I'm hopeful too that maybe a model will emerge where finally you can be like, all right, fine, like stop fleeing, stop fucking dangling this carrot like there's no more concept of a monthly subscription fee for the whole library, but it will make it available in some other way and then that'll be like, all right, well, this is revenue that we'd have to lose if we took it away. We'll see one can dream.

Why not? Yeah, I'm done with that. You know, see what's see what's doing over there, See what it tastes like.

You know, they've been doing two hour raws in this lame duck period again after so many years of three hour raws, and it's been lovely. But you better believe they're going back to three hours on Netflix.

Because that's that's what everyone wants, a fucking pay per view every Monday. And guess what happens when RA goes to three hours in January, SmackDown goes to eight hours, Smackdow goes to three hours as well. Oh my god, I mean what the fans don't want it? I don't. I don't. I mean, listen, you know there was a time I would have fucking begged for six hours of wrestling every week. Yep, begged for it. Not now, not anymore, like not even close market, not even close.

Say all you will about AW and you know, the loss of code lost c inpunk. Just what do you want to point at is things that that shifted their fortunes around drastically. I'm looking around. I'm like, you know, is anyone going to talk about the fact that you can only see two hours of AW every week in the most successful early years of their existence? Yeah, and that that was like you had to be there and

Oh, of course not no, no, no, not at all. No, no, no no.

And so we wonder why wrestling fans are such fucking miserable fucks. It's because they have no choice but to sacrifice thirty hours of their week to wrestling if they want to talk about it and be fans of it and not be dunked on all the time.

It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that knows the boys need their candy.

It's the Lapsed Fan.

He's an lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio and JP Sooro.

It's great stuff, is what I'm trying to say. Boss, It's great stuff.

And in that Vein.

We turned back to our friend Sid. He's on the mend and according to some things he said and shooting interviews. Even one month after the surgery that he underwent as a result of his injury at Sin in January of two thousand and one, he was in the gym on a walker, doing power cleans on one leg, trying to

Like that.

Exactly, I mean, that's exactly it. I mean, it's a sad state of affairs, but it's the truth. You know, you cannot nor will you be able to succeed on any level if you don't have the look. Yeah, the look is all The look, is it? The look is the only thing that makes you matter.

Well, the only thing you can say that makes you feel better than the next guy is you get up at four to go to the gym instead of five. If you suffer an injury that takes you out of the gym, stay the fuck away from that guy.

That's my suggestion. Okay, that's my suggestion.

The downside is so much more pronounced than the upside when you go down this path. We've established this over the years. And for Sid, somebody who, as we've talked about, prided himself on two a day's in a business where even one to day is hard to get in from a gym perspective, but he was just a maniac about finding gyms in every city he went to, getting the morning workout and maybe even the afternoon workout in running like crazy up the bleachers at the local football stadium.

Yeah, but you know, like it's funny because it's the extremes are where you're getting yourself into trouble, right and.

And you're in extreme territory so much faster than you think these days, because like you show a little bit of interest in working out, and then the Facebook feed.

Is like, what the fuck is with you? Let's go harder, like drink this, ship your brains out.

You're not lean. If I have to see one more picture of a guy looking like RFK with white hair and like a tanned, jacked body, I'm gonna fucking I'm just gonna throw on the towel.

Yeah, you know you should. I mean, listen, listen. They probably they probably had their bodies surgically enhanced to look like that.

I mean, isn't It's not a red flag by now as opposed to something worth reaching for.

I guess not.

But we're just gonna keep going down this path, even the even triple H.

You know, look at that.

I mean, I don't know whether where the heart at Tech came from, but I can take a guess. I can take a guess. Yeah, And he's back, He's back on the ground, you know what I mean, trying to flex his biceps as much as he can. It's just it's just a life you sign up for.

It's just like exactly.

And so for sid, if he can't walk, that doesn't mean he can't fucking rip that upper body you know, it doesn't mean his one leg, but you could hear in that interview clip we played kind of the desperation in his voice to get across the idea that he's back again, that he's you know, that he's in shape again, that he's he's you know, but he stopped making it sadder than it has to be.

Do you know what I mean? And that's not true. Actually he's making it sadder than it has to be.

That's what I'm saying, stop making it sadder that it has to be.

Like he said, he stopped making it sadder than it has like. No, actually he's continuing.

Continuing to really you know, you know, only able to put seven pounds of pressure on the leg. Ah huh, what do you want? I mean, sure, that's normal, and he's out there just like so mad about that that he's running into that wall every day, testing that limit

Man, I'm gonna tell you something.

I had to.

It really put a strain on everything in my life because at first I didn't I was hitting the ball, but it wasn't effectively. I said, Okay, I don't know what I'm doing. The dogs weren't really giving me a lot of telling me what was going on either. One doctor final teming and he said, you're not gonna really walk again.

Man.

From that point on it was it was pretty scary. So I had to work harder hard I would want. I'd work out in the morning that I go to rehab for three and a half to four hours a day every day.

For years.

I did this so depression. I never dealt with depression before I had to deal with that. You know, I didn't even know I was dealing with depression. You know, I never you know, I don't have anything to be depressed about. It's one of those things you don't even realize it's hitting it till it's too late. Caused me a lot of problems.

With my family. You know.

I'm just now able to get make up to my family the things out of the way I was acting. And I didn't even know why I was acting like that. I had to go through a you know, anger management course because I was so angry at the whole world. I wouldn't blame anybody for anything, but boy, I would just you know, And I use anger as a tool for me to to succeed sometimes.

I whatever's going on, I'm gonna work.

I'm damn man, I'm gonna work out three times today and I'm gonna run bleachers twice, so that would push me and making me do better. This time, anger didn't work for me. It just made a hole deeper and deeper.

Wow, Jesus, that'll show him. I work out harder. Oh, fuck, said, have mercy, Have mercy on us. You're gonna work out harder. How will we ever get back at you?

My God?

That that guy that gut really kind of dark for a second.

Yeah, I mean you look, he's he's, he's, he's he's a mess. I mean, I'm also, how can you not be a mess after that? You make a stupid mistake like that, but like doing a move like that and all of a sudden, you can't you lose your entire livelihood. You should be depressed. Yeah, yeah, you have miserable.

You have excuse to, you know, you definitely have a license to at that point, for sure, it's like, you know, you you fucking ruined it. I would, man, there's a story there. There's a story there. I mean, I've verged dark side cameras to point their lens here, because let me tell you, like no one knows really what Sid was like coming home from that injury and just everything that he built, his whole, everything he put in his

My phone renumber. Wow, I didn't want to hear asked that story. I didn't want to answer that story. I don't answered any more questions about that anymore. On the other hand, have been so many good people that you know, strangers, like, for instance, when I was going to the dealings, I knew for instance, I had I could walk get out of my vehicle, and I could walk so many steps before I had to sit down. There were people that were personally parkeding my vehicle for me, opening the doors.

For me, things like that.

You know, hey, we're praying for you. I think those were good things that were good that parts of my life kept me going. Yeah, the rest of business has a tendency to ask the single nag in questions if you're talking to one of the boys, especially to know how that leg that hadn't happened, why did it happened? Explaining it time and time again. For three it seemed like even today, I'm still answering it. But for three four years, man, it was all day every day.

He changed his number. YEP, I mean, were you that many people are calling you? Probably? I mean, I guess maybe, But what.

What's his point about that? They're calling to get the story right as much as they're calling to see how he's doing, and he could.

Sense more so probably to get the story right.

I mean, you've heard this before. Like around then, It's like I didn't text him back because I got the sense that he was texting me not because he wanted to know how I was doing, but because he wanted to know how I was doing so we could pass it along, right and be the person in possession of new information about something that was water cooler talk in the wrestling business. Definitely definitely the creepiest kind of person you can run into. That kind of Oh, for sure,

I don't give a fuck.

I have to come away from this story with something like, well shit, I mean, if I was SIT, I wouldn't have done that. If I was SI, I wouldn't have said that.

You know.

In other words, it's almost blaming the victim, right so that you can feel protected, of course, if ever encountered by a similar set of circumstances. Of course, all of this is designed to try to navigate away from the fact that you know, things don't happen per a prescribed pattern. Cause and effect is almost impossible to establish in this life, and you never get the solace you seek when you pry for details around a tragedy. You never get those.

Essentially? Oh, I mean yeah, he's basically being told all the time that he's just you know, it's you know, you're never going to be what you were, right, It's not going to happen, so stop.

It's you know, when you think about Sid and when he passed and we thought about a tribute show, it was like, all right, yeah, the Hogan feud, the funny shit he said in WCW, you know, bursting onto the scene in NWA. But you almost forget that, Like the ending is what's most poignant about the Sid story.

Yeah, yeah, it's true.

It's underplayed because he underplayed it, because he changed his number, because he wasn't out there doing reams of interviews about the rehab process. It wasn't documented under wrestling. You know, if WCW was still in business, I'm sure we would have gotten vignettes of him recuperating, right, Oh, for sure, they would have tried to do something that would have

Yeah, But I mean, look, you're not making that much money compared to wrestling, right, And he was always very comfortable with that. At least he's represented it. But he had a funny way of showing it because he would go back to the negotiating table every chance he got try to get a little more. So for someone that was perfectly happy with the farm boy lifestyle, he certainly minded his p's and q's from a fucking W two perspective or ten ninety nine perspective.

I think I should say, as we've documented and talked about, so there it goes sid oft into the shadows. Well, we hear from him again, we're not sure it was. There were some indignities here, and you start to sense in little drips and drabs that he didn't just chalk this up to dark fate, that he's starting to feel a little, a little kind of pissed off about being

To be honest with you, Luke, I was just I was thinking about that a little bit today. You never recovered for something like that, first of all, and how they treated me was pretty not that well. Meaning to get from the hospital to the airport, if my wife hadn't have been there, I wouldn't have made it, and so they left me and her to do it by ourselves. She can't push me up a hill in a wheelchair.

And.

Now that i'm you know this left leg where I broke it, now my right knee I need knee replacement. I'm fighting against that actually is doing much better, however, But again it's just it's just it's just a domino effect. This made that ankle now starting to work itself to my hips and not bad, you know, but I can feel it, you know, so you never the answer is you never recovered.

Something like that loop.

That's probably to sleep. They put horses asleep because the break is so far down from my heart. It can never men. I don't know why.

The doctor's never really.

Excited to me that I pretty much lost lost my left calf over the years. I can't extends. I can't walk on my left hill if you ever tried that. I can walk on my right hill with my foot off the ground, but not my left. So I got really just used in one leg.

Ended up on one legged man. And he walked around and did some wrestling, but he was a one legged man. And and that's an interview that he did well after there was any pretense of him getting back into a high earning position in the wrestling business. That was him

Right, man fell apart.

Jesus, the man fell apart physically and mentally as a result of what happened at Sin two thousand and one. And it's crazy that this is kind of where that story ends, right, you know that there's nothing more to it. I mean, you would expect more from this story, but no. I mean I listened to the shoot interview that he did, one of them with Hannibal, and he was asked, you know, if there was like a detail effect from this, and here's what he said.

Was there ever any legal situation with WCW over them asking me to do a movie we're comfortable with?

No?

Come now, the plaintiff Sydney Rudy and pursu into OCGA nine to eleven fifteen A files this amended complaint and further shows the court as follows. No legal Rammit, give me a fucking break, sid Have we not learned anything about sid Udy?

Oh?

Did he not go down to the Fulton County Courthouse and seek redressed from the legal system for what happened to him at SIN two thousand and one? Here got Jimmer and are we uniquely positioned as the podcast to bring it to you?

Yes?

We fucking are. Did this take three four years after the injury to resolve? Yes, it did, Boss. You see in your possession, Oh boy, series of documents, oh boy, pulled and called from your co chairman. Of course, enjoying the resources we do from the support of the TLF Solar system, we're able to go the extra mile and pull some court filing to bring you the full story. Things that a lot of details I'm sure that to

I have?

Yes, Okay, So we're gonna turned it over to sid Udy himself, and what I understand has been prepared to deliver a dramatic reading Uh, this is basically the first shot across the bow. The lawsuit filed. It's February fifth, two thousand and three. And Sid has been going through all the rehab that we've heard him talk about. Sid's been boiling and simmering with tension about how this whole thing went down. And Uh, if my math is right, his WCW contract is about to expire.

Or it already has. Those checks have stopped coming. I think two.

Yeah, most people rather yeah, most people seem to say that their deals ran through twenty two, that the latest we know his, though we do know his, we do know his.

Yeah, what am I saying? And there was twenty o two? You're right? I think it was two thousand and two. Yep.

So all of a sudden, the check star stop rolling, and it's time to see if we can't get a little more, because God damn it, I'm in this position because of World Championship Wrestling and johny Lorinitis's negligence, and I'm gonna find an attorney.

Who agreed to this on my own. This was not my decision.

As he points to the leg and as he points to the courthouse, boss, please let us hear the case is laid out by mister.

Udy starting from second amended complaint. That's exactly correct. Second amended complaint comes. Now the plaintiff, Sydney Rudy and pursued OCGA nine eleven fifteen A files this amended complaint and further shows the court as follows jurisdiction and venue number one. Plaintiff Sydney Ruty, Mister Beauty is a resident of the state of Arkansas. Mister Beauty entered into contracts with one or more of defend in the state of Georgia as

You fucking really, I guess so. I mean, we've talked about this on Bash of the Beach. When ww folded, they created this entity UWC to handle all the winding down business matters of the company. Interestingly, UWC was also the name given to the transition company when Crocketts held to Turner in eighty eight. But yeah, they just incorporated it in New York, right, I think the Turner offices were essentially located at the time.

Like how did they do that? So it's just very weird, Like, I mean, I know that, but like, how did so? So w CW was owned WWE at this point.

Right, so they couldn't call it WCW anymore because that had been sold. They had to create a new company that could absorb all of the obligations and paperwork that WWE didn't want, WOW didn't take with them and call that the assets and liabilities of a Universal Wrestling Corporation.

That's wild. UWC can be served through its registered agent, CT Corporation System, twelve oh one Peachtree Street, Northeast Atlanta, Georgia, three zero three sixty one. UWC is subject to the jurisdiction of this court defendant Turner Sports Incorporated. TSI, Well, why do they have to put I guess just for the sake of ease of having the right?

Yeah, exactly.

Is a Georgia corporation may be served through its registered agent in Georgia. CT Corporation System twelve o one on PHG Street, Northeast Atlanta, Georgia, three zero three six y one. TSI's address is seventy five Rockefeller Plaza, J. Cannon, New York, New York, one double O one nine. TSI is subject

Said, are you subject to the jurisdiction of this court?

I'm not subjected to anything. My jurisdiction is where I say it is.

There's another T shirt. SID is very concerned with jurisdiction in this Uh.

Oh, your damn fucking writing.

Post wrestling career days.

You don't need to worry about my jurisdiction, right My jurisdiction is where I see fit. Defendant Johnny laurinidis mister Laura notiis Johnny and mister Lauren IIDs Okay, can you call me that? Call me mister Laurenidis huh No, but I will call you what does it say next, Johnny Ace or mister Ace?

I mean only in wrestling when you name a defendant and official court papers, do you have to include his k FA name with the mister in front of it?

Because I mean that's the best part. Like you could call you know, mister so excuse me, mister Ace. Yeah, he would answer to it. That's the point, of course. That's exactly it.

Like if you're gonna sue Shawn Michaels, are you really just gonna call him mister Hickenbottom throughout the entirety of the doctor Michaels. It's a fake name pulled out of the fucking sky.

How about how about mister Heartbreak?

Oh jeez, how about sham Michaels.

Shaw Michaels is a resident of Florida and maybe served personally through his attorneys James A. Lambert and Joel P. Howell Troutman Sanders, LLP. Six hundred p Stree Street, Northeast Bank of America, Plaza Sweet fifty two hundred, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, three zero three zero eight then you is proper in this court. I feel good I've secured Troutman Sanders or Sawders out Sanders. You know what, I'm gonna tell you something,

Oh by the way, as we read through this, I do want to remind you that this was his answer to the question, was.

There ever any legal situation with WCW over them asking me to do a movie where comfortable with No.

We can hardly even see him fucking say it too, m fucking liar? Why lie about that?

That's just a big demerit in my mind? Man, when you can look it up on the public record like.

That, Like, what's the point of hiding that? Like, I mean, are you dumb about court records?

Like that tells me he didn't get the resolution he was looking for. If he got the resolution, he was not thought he deserved. You better believe That's the first thing he would say every time he told this story.

Venue is proper in this court? What does that mean? Venue is proper?

That just beings Like remember how Vince failed on venue the case against him because he wasn't in New York. So you know, don't try to argue that I'm not in the right court filing this even though w CW doesn't exist anymore and isn't based in Georgia.

Got Jim statement of the facts. W CW entered into contracts and agreements for services of mister Udi as a professional wrestler.

I'm surprised he stipulated to that. It took a long time to get that first line out of him.

Yeah, right, I don't o't an's contral. What is this? Then, said?

Do you tell me I'm trying to write a brief here for.

Your interesting right, there's a piece of paper. Yeah, and you signed it? You signed it? What you signed it? Well? Why do we have so much trouble with the basic first line of this thing. I'm gonna tell you right now, you look at my eyes, right now, exactly, I'm gonna tell you some real simple I signed a piece of paper that's hot. Well, yes, it's called the contract. Uh uh, all it is is a dead tree. Wow, there's nothing legal or obligatory on that paper.

Let me ask you, what could you have signed besides a piece of paper that would be binding.

Listen, when I signed something that is binding, I sign it with my blood. I see, I will pierce open my skin, I may son, I will pour hot on a piece of something.

Right, that's when you know I've stipulated to terms. As for now, I'm will to sign this contract with your blood, counselor.

I'm willing to sign anything with your blood. I'm allowing your blood to pour.

Here's the thing is, if if you once said to sign something in blood, the trouble is you gotta hire a surgeon and anestesiologist.

Oh God, this suit arises out of defendant's wrongful termination and breach of that contract. In connection with the wrongful termination, defendants falsely asserted that mister Beauty was incapacitated, even though defendants had no intention of utilizing mister Beauty services, and even though mister Beauty was not in fact incapacitation.

So he goes from saying I had to change my number and shut the world out and couldn't move, couldn't do anything too, I was not incapacitated in court filings.

I'm gonna tell you right now, I did break my leg, but my capacitation was one hundred percent affirmative. Well Man said it. Whatever it meant, I don't know, but he said it my capacitation. That's fucking go. Boss. Defendance a sort of reason for wrongful termination was and is a mere pred He likes that one further defendants caused such a legend in capacity and then wrongfully terminated these services.

He didn't terminate me because I'm incapacitated. You terminated me so you didn't have to pay me when I'm mode. If you pay me when I'm mode, I will gladly stipulate to being incapacitated.

Okay uh. Mister Uty has performed in professional wrestling Area TYPO for fifteen years. Mister UTI's wrestle under the stage names of Lord Humongous, Sid Justice, and Sid Vicious. Mister Uti developed a degree of notoriety for his skills and characters.

That's one way to summarize his career. Mister Uti developed a degree of notoriety, a.

Notoriety of his skills.

It's just so funny when this has to translate into legal ease. You know, yeah, when you actually have to talk about this shit legitimately. It's it's like you, you know, you just you're just fucking it's just fucking failure.

I can't wait.

Yeah, right for the judge to say something about how it's not even real you know.

Yeah yeah. During this this agreement, mister U, you performed well okay, and always exhibit a great work ethic and one above and beyond others. He maintained his character and physicality for the betterment of himself and defendants. Attaining his physicality, maintaining his character and physicality a great work ethic when above and beyond others, I did it better than Hulk Hogan, a big movie star himself. Why why are you not paying me? It's because I'm not a big movie star.

Mister, mister Judy, please sit down. Order in the court. He's just shouting it across the court room.

There's no one there.

It's like a civil court.

And his best done, mister Judy. Please, mister who are you talking? Mister who what? Sir? You're looking in the back of the court. Is there somebody there that I mean, there's nobody here, sir, that's good and we're live pal right as well.

That's one we haven't tried yet. The well meaning judge, you know what I mean, the one who really wants to understand these guys.

And mister, I'm just trying to understand what is going on, okay, and you just keep sir, you keep your shut I couldn't believe he said that to that man. That judge is sweet as a Georgia peach. I'm listening. I'll tell you what. I'm not gonna hold you in contempt, even though you just said he told me to shut up. I'm just trying to understand. I can't he said, believe he said that about Judge Anderson. He's a sweet as the Georgia pa and he went out there and said

He feels badly that Sid can't like represent himself appropriately and can't tell his lawyers what he really thinks.

You know, I listen, listen, I've had these kind of things happen. All right. I'm on your side, mister Udie. You don't even know what a side is. I'm gonna look at you right now. I'm like Dusty Rhodes. You look me dead in the eye, and what hit you in the head? Like a shoot because you the court officer puts his hand on his gun when he says that, well, we'll got going on here, this guy on the shoot somebody.

I would just recommend, sir, you watch the rhetoric.

Okay, in this cart, we'll say, mister, you all sit your ass down because I look I don't know what you got just waving him off in the head. We do not allow that, officer.

It's really fine. The judge is waving him off.

Just just calm down. Herman. Herman. Herman's ready to come up off the hip. He's been waiting for this day, your honor. I'm just on him to say we don't allow people shoot themselves in court, or.

Shoot their own angles for that matter, using the judicial process to cut a promo.

Misters mister Ughten's I need you to sit down.

Mister Huts. I grew up on Georgia tampship wrestling, and I know what you're doing.

I know what you do for a living. A big fan. I'm with a hand on his gun. He's saying there, like I don't want to have to take drastic action. He says, I'm a big fan. Oh great maniacal courtroom.

Well, I mean he's here, he's filing it's sid filing a complaint and he can't work out anymore. What do you think is going to happen? And you're not going to pay him three hundred percent of his paycheck. I love the idea of just this you know this tall but like you know old bellied. Uh a bailiff.

You know, fucking you know, this guy's fucking hand you know, you know, fucking buzz cut and a big bushy mustache hand on his fucking the fucking gun in his hip. All right, But here they just you know, maintain.

Order, the honor the plaintiffs that hit in the head like a shot. I don't know how much you want me to interpret that.

No, sir, I just don't want you to get hit in the head with the shot. I don't want anyone get shot in my courtroom, my.

Courtroom, court officer. Really, the judge just my chopped liver.

Here, her did you say my court room? Herman, herman? Please let me can I just please please? All right? We got this under control, all right, Judge Barnett. We are in Atlanta.

Oh god.

Uh.

W c W was a company that was engaged in the professional wrestling business. W CW was and is a quote division of Turner Sports. I like that it is in quotes as a division of Turner Sports.

Well, they're quoting documents directly when they do that.

Sure, well, I'm saying it's a quote as should Turner Entertainment Turner Sports.

Well, was it at the time this happened, it was well, I know, I'm just saying, so that's an error.

Quote under sports. It's quoted sports. Yes, okay, it's a sport.

Yeah, before you disbelieve us, we got to put that in quotes exactly.

Because defendants have entered into contracts or agreements with a number of individuals for their services as professional wrestlers with WCW, including mister Udy. Under many of these contracts, WCW is required to pay the agreed upon compensation for the professional wrestler services, regardless of whether or not defendants elect to actually use the services and any of it's wrestling.

They're gonna tell me you can't use my services without inquiring a prowardly as to whether those services are duly available.

You're just going to assume that right now that w CW is required to pay whether or not my services have been used or remain unused or partially used.

You have left my services unused, but you will not leave my paycheck undistributed.

Let me tell you something right now, w CW. You have you have left my my services unused, but my wallet, my wallet will not remain unopened.

He's talking like geni angle. He's talking like basically a secretary.

You know, I can't do I don't know what you want from me. I just work the desk.

Shut up.

Ww entered into an independent contract agreement with mister ud Damn right fuck yeah, shit then right independent contract shit fuck it mister u d as of June nine nine here and referred to you as the agreement. The agreement, among other things, sets forth compensation the w CW agrees to pay for mister Udi services.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have a copy of Sid's WCW contract. Indeed, it had to be filed in accordance with this lawsuit.

Of course, the agreement provides for a three year term commenced in June ninth, ninety nine and extending to June eighth, two thousand and two. Here it is there. It is right there. On the agreement, the parties agree that mister Uti will be paid a total paid for a total of twenty four pay per view events for w CW, to consist of eight pay per view events for each of the three years the agreement. The compensation for each pay per view was an escalating figure for each year

So so wait, so like he didn't so he had to wrestle eight times a year at a minimum. Yeah, I mean that's that's like everything above the eight has like different things that kick in. Now the contract basically just sets the terms for those eight. It's kind of a.

It's unbelievable, like he has promised, but then anything above that, that's unbelievable.

Right, So like this contract really just really just establishes like that you owe us eight pay per view matches, and anything above that is an option in the contract with its own compensation schedule and terms.

But it is what do you they wanted to bring me in for just pay per views and TV tapings at first? Yea, I don't understand, brother, how come I'm ill eight? Why don't I don't? I don't want to wrestle a times dude? Can I uh? Could I have twelve? Well, I don't want to wrestle at all, dude, to get paid for it. I want to get paid for exactly. I mean, well, I mean, how come you go to get to the rest LA Times Favored nations?

Right?

What favored?

What?

Who's favored?

Who?

Dude's favorite? Right favorite Hogan favorite Hogan contract?

Brother, my service is making unused, but my funds won't go undispersed.

Ah, However, the agreement specifies to defend no just accordingly under the greem, mister U is not right anymore anything. Under the agreemp, mister Udi was not required to wrestle any of their promotion. Was not required to wrestle at any other events promoted by WSW. Was not required at any other events pro by WSW, including Natro, Thunder or non televised house shows. Brother, what I do? Why do I go russell Nitro?

Dude?

What's so?

Said?

Brother said?

I remember your second ww run so fondly, would you care to characterize what your contract called for in those years?

Sure? At that time.

Mister Udi quote was not required to wrestle at any other events promoted by w CW, including Nitro Thunder or non televised out shows. He was not required, He was not obligated. We called it.

He only had to wrestle. He was only required to wrestle eight times, and anything else will cost you. I mean, think about that, think about that really long and hard.

And those eight are pay per views, which have it the whole, you know, split of revenue and everything, big paydays.

It's not like those eight not have to fucking wrestle. Ever, Jesus on the agreement, defendants are not obligated utilized services. However, the agreement specifies if defendants are required to pay the compensation set forth in the agreement, even if WWTS not to use mister huty services.

So strange, it's like it's you said right there that the contract doesn't guarantee you anything but eight matches. Yet you're saying they have to pay you if they don't use your services, right, I guess he means, you know, if you book me on six pay per views, you've got to pay me for eight. Book me on two, got to pay me for eight. Book me on one, got to pay me for eight. Book me onzero zero.

You gotta pay me for eight. Under the agreement, mister Uti was required to follow the direction of defendants and their employees that that had to be put in their city. I gotta you get a fucking all. Right, listen, you gotta follow what I fucking say. All these are my directions. I'm an employee of defendant. Even before he files, the Los City calls himself, Yeah, I know what the fuck

First to follow Kev's directions, as anyone who's ever written with them can attest, yeap.

Under the agreement, mister Uti was required to perform services only for w CW. The agreement including an optional workers compensation assurance programs and insurance policy.

Because it's a workman's comp claim.

Really, yeah right? Insurance policy was that Rick rud.

No, but he availed himself of the policy.

This insurance policy and or workers' compensation insurance program was supposed to pay in the event that mister Ute was injured. Upon information and belief, Defendants were the named insured under the policy and received payment as a result of mister Utie's injuries. Further, the amount of policies was and or is the same as the value of mister Utie's agreement.

To that last point, we'll get more into it, but it's worth pausing quickly to establish that. You know, when a company buys workers' comp insurance or whatever the case may be, insurance like he's talking about here, this insurance policy, WW gets paid for the fact that SID isn't out there producing revenue for them. You know, that's what the insurance policy is there for. If one of our key talents goes down, you will pay us money. And so

Just not forget that.

It's just kind of weird.

I mean, it's very weird. It's very, very weird. These events included frequent non televised arenas shows referred to as house shows.

These are the events that Defendant's promoted and produced, which apparently has to be stipulated.

I mean, but the events that he didn't have to wrestle at or participates. I don't really know why this is in there. Honestly, Defenders promoter and produced a monthly pay per view telecast. These events are broadcast through cable and satellite transmission across the United States. These shows require the audience to pay for the ability to view the event. Right an early part of two thousand, mister Yudi was the champion of WCW.

There comes the chronology.

Mister Eric Bischoff was the president w CW. Mister Bischoff was also the president of Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated. Mister Vince Russo was vice president w CW and was in charge of the development of the shows. During this time, mister Yudi was injured. Mister Bischoff mister Russo agreed that mister Udi would not have to perform any physical acts

Now, this is a reference to This is the reference to that time period where Russo and Bischoff came in. Remember bush Off made the scissors joke on that Nitro. Yeah, so he's referencing that time period him with them being he's not talking about the leg injury. He's talking about injuries back in two thousand when he was champion on one occasion.

Once occasion, brother, That's what it says. By the way, what once occasion?

Brother?

They're in to rush to file? What do you want?

What?

Who's Russian dude?

Right?

Nick Volkoff?

He would be one example. I guess I was gonna say Nikita cole Off, But that's fine. Who's Russian dude? Interestingly, No, he's not. He's polish.

I think polish. What polished dude?

Right?

Polished? Who's he polishing? Off? Brother? Exactly? What Patterson? What did you are? You did?

Sid file?

Who's falling for Sid?

Brother?

You call the clerk's office.

Dude, you talked dude. Anyone called clerk, dude, the clerk has to call Hogan. He he pays him off on the back end. So what do you know about the SID filing, dude? And when come in today? Brother? What's the deal? Brother? Andyone come in in file? Toldy that I should know about it. Brother. I just want to know, dude, if sid's coming in, brother, is he trying to get whold Cogan? And what's he filing for?

Hogan puts someone in the Fulton County Courthouse just to read every wrestling filing to see if it mentions his name, even it has nothing.

To do with him. I mean, is he trying to get my contract? Dude?

Years after the company closed?

What's he listen?

Listen?

Hogan has has an insider in every fucking courthouse in America.

I think by the way, I don't want this to go out remarked upon. I think the quote was, does he want my contract?

Dude?

Me like a copy of it, maybe if it helps the case. What do you why do you want my contract? Why my contract? What's the after dude? What's you want dude? M what's the scuttle butt? Dude, what's what are you hearing? Exactly?

What's around the corner? I know what's on the paper, brother, but what's the dizzil?

That's what I want to want. I want to know what he I want to know what's in the fissile, asked the big man upstairs. Brother, If you don't know what I'm talking about, Oh, the big man upstairs? You mean the clerk of courts. Yeah, he's on the sixth law mother, the superior judge. What's brother? Who's the judge superior?

I rather adore that we get into the sid legal stuff, and like a sentinel, Hogan rises up in the night for a full accounting, like why does this have anything to do with him?

Honestly?

And I know he up at times to make no sense, but it's for a one off. He is intimately involved somehow. This stuff we're reading has just as much to do at this point with Hull Cogan as it does.

Listen and thinking about this. Okay, in the middle of the night, he gets you know, he's waiting up in his house all right, down in Tampa. All right, he's sittings, He's sitting by the by the door, and at like one in the morning, A car, A car pulls up, all right, and he hands off an envelope and it's this whole fucking yes uh complaint. And Hogan is just sitting there, you know, he's got fucking reading glasses down on his nose, all right, and he's just going to

Do?

But he's selling out? Brother? We can he sell out this court? Dude? Is he selling out the court room? We gotta talk about that. Can we get numbers? Can we get Are we talking like Tokyo? Do numbers?

Brother?

Like?

What what venue? Dude? I've never heard of this venue?

Bro?

See what's the u w C?

What's the u w C?

Dude?

What's up with that? Brow promote promotion?

Dude?

Do I have to be worried? Are we talking about? Are we talking?

It's don't worry, Terry. It stands for you wouldn't care. It's fine.

What do you mean I wouldn't care? What's that mean?

Like?

I want to what does that mean? What do you mean is there talking to you? How do you know what it is? Before? I who are you talking to?

His own lawyers? The guys he that guy, the guys who faithfully wake up at two thirty in the morning when he has a panic attack over some like file like listening to.

Has nothing to do with them, like state you know the next state up? Okay, Like you're not even fucking close. They're listening to him, accuse them of knowing something about the UWSC looking over his fucking spectacles too, Like you know what's the.

Lap ball wrestling podcast? The wrestling podcast that knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio and Jpro.

Imagine Hulkogan looking over spectacles. Oh that's money. I mean we learned in T n H.

Like Hulk reaches the stage of his life where he's obsessed with lawyers, yes, courts, and obsessed his life.

Half of his life is in the court room, it really is.

That's where hide the Ball comes from and all that nonsense.

Yeah, playing hide the ball, dude, Like, and I gotta ask this question, who's he's playing who's he hiding the ball from from Ulk Cogan? Right? Is this a and Yang situation? You're talking about? What we're gonna tell the King and the Yang?

Dude?

We got dallast thing back in. We got with some brother. I think we got what we gotta do. Dude. We gotta go up to Georgia. We go to this court and we got Dallas thing in you. When do you want to go, Terry? It's three in the morning. I want to go right now. By the time we get there, you fucking I'll tell you what you drive. I'm going to sleep. Stop it. Showings have a bite, you know, brother? You know see what stinners up to see if he knows anything chicking on him anyway? Brother, Brother, I I'm

Yeah?

No, he hasn't filed yet. Terry isn't filed yet. How do you know that's my court contacts? Tell me you pay me to keep them, keep me abreast.

Yeah, but I'm talking about minute to minute. What do you know now exactly? Like maybe filed, maybe fouled right now.

It's three thirty in the morning, Terry, I'm.

Gonna tell you something, dude. It's eight am somewhere.

Yeah, but not where he would file. He lives in Georgia.

How do you know, dude? Do you know where he's out right now? Brother?

Well, I mean you know, even if he's on the West coast, it's like.

Well, you followed his GPS I put in his car. Excuse me, you know, I.

Don't tell me about that.

I'd rather not know. That's exculpatory. You're talking about scalp dude. Uhers moving, brother, the GPS stunners moving. Dude, when you go to the courthouse, he's watching like a DoorDash driver. He's watching it move. Look, Stanner's on them. We got a fall Steiner. Dude. Look sids on the move, Dude, we got every sits on the move. Look, even Bishoff's on the move. Due Look, I can see him. He's not at his house. And Cody, he's on the road,

Do with him.

He's not gonna be like, he's not gonna be the defendant, but it has ramifications. Does he want my contract? Dude? Did Scott file? Now? Listen, where are we at? Brother?

The inappropriate reset? I love that, you know, like to come back to come back to the north Star out of nowhere. Eric gets back from you know, his his jaunt into town to pick up pickles and fucking the mail, and he comes back in.

Throws his keys on the door and it's like the phone rings.

Fis shops back brother, you just get back dude, Yeah, Terry Is it was more traffic than usual this time of year in Cody.

Why are you driving at six a m. Brother?

Well, you know it's I want to get the early bird special and some.

Things special for what filing?

Well, they opened this fish market, it's really great.

Are you filing complaints in court? Dude? What are you filing?

Brother?

Huh? Why are you kidding up so early? Are you filing complaints in court?

Dude?

Terry?

The course aren't open at six in the morning. What are you talking about? How do you know exactly you work for the course. Now, how do you know that exactly?

That's kind of it's kind of suspicious, brother, that you know exactly what time they open, almost like you're waiting for them. Are you a clerk now, dude? For the court? M I don't hear you Answerry, I don't know. I don't have time for this right now. What's I just got these fresh eggs? I need to make you got fresh eggs, dude? That we call them this thing? Now, brother, you kind of call them this thing now? You call them me every time you file a lawsuit. Dude, it's

I know, and you know something's up. Brother, It's only a matter of time before I find out. Might as well tell me now.

I don't have to remind you, brother. I got people in Cody, all right. If you filed something, dude, I'm gonna know about it. I got my man, I got my girl Georgia and Cody Brother up, my dude, Cody in Georgia. I want to tell your brother, Cody on the roads, dude, right, Cody's on the roads. Brother.

So so I'll let you get back to your breakfast. Brother, say hi to Lourie for me. But let me ask you one question, dude, did you file? Are you gonna file?

But do you plant hot the ball?

I love I love everything about it. But I love how he thinks if he figures out these legal terms that it's going to corner the guy like if hesas hide the ball, the guy somehow is now like boxed in and can't can't lie, can't lie? Now, how do you know what time the court opened?

That's great?

The court is numbled to nine. Well, yeah, that's why I it was a test, brother, to see if you knew what time the court's opening. And I think it's very interesting that you know, brother, how many loss would you get going now, dude? Exactly any amount all covid.

I mentioned at all? Dude, I mean even by just not named dude, by passing enough circumstance, brother, is he evident circumstantial? Easy? Or are we talking something more? I mean, I mean, what do we what are we filing about? What's the file?

He hasn't done it said, he's not going to do it, says there's nothing to file, and he gets to the and Terry somehow gets to the point of what's in the file, like, what are you going to file? It's like, I just told you I'm not going to file anything.

Did you not hear that? I don't know what you're talking about. It I heard, dude, was somebody claiming something that isn't true. I heard of someone who knows what time the cord's opening and Cody. What I heard is, I know a guy who's been driving around Cody Wyoming Brother and fucking darkness and saying he knows exactly when the courts are opened. Yet he's in the dark. I just picture he's had lights bursted through the the pre dawn.

Yeah.

Oh that's oh my god. It's like the road that John Candy and Steve Martin around in Kansas where the thing blows up. Why are you driving around the darkness? You can only mean one thing. You're gonna drive around for three hours so the courthouse open so you can file. Oh that's so funny. Oh my god, Oh my god, oh the darkness. Drive around, driving around the dark dude all hours of the morning.

Brother.

Well, that said, let's get to the point of the sit complaint of Mentionetogin.

On once occasion, mister Udy appeared in an event and the agents demanded that mister Yudi fall through a table and loose the match. Read that again, please. On once occasion, when mister Yudy appeared in an event, the agents demanded that mister Yudi fall to a table and lose the match.

This is okay, so he's referencing. You know, the Brusso Bischoff era is short lived. As it was, there were a lot of people going through tables for no reason. Man, they were doing shit every ten seconds.

That was wild.

So apparently at a time that he had told both of them, they had told him that he would have to perform any physical acts because of his injuries. They insisted he make appearances, even though Sid claims he should have been a healing at the time. And he shows up on one occasion and they asked him to go.

Through a table.

That's wild.

Do you remember that at all?

Well, he wrestled Sting on that April tenth nitro and then that was it. And I don't think he went through table in that match. Maybe he did, maybe he did put maybe someone did run out and put him through the table to explain his absence, not that I think about it, but whatever.

Fucking weird, mister Bischoff. Mister Russo promised that if mister Yudi did this for both the live shows, both live shows, that he would not have to perform for the next pay perview, but he would receive his full pay fifty thousand dollars for that pay per view.

Agree, you'll pay the guy to not work the pay per view if he'll just you know, do something at a nitro Like what kind of you got to negotiate that? That's like chicken shit, you know, that's WCW to me, right, exactly every little thing you have to do, like has four or five contractual ramifications.

Oh, mister Bischoff. Mister Russo promised that mister Uti would be giving time to heal and a complete physical therapy. Mister Yuti reluctantly agreed, especially since he was he's going to finally get time to heal and recuperate from his injuries and curred for the benefit of defendants.

They were incurred for the benefit of the plaintiff by the way they were. They were incurred in.

The listen, my injuries were incurred and they benefited you and your benefit.

O me, even though I got paid, that's fine.

Instead of abiden by agreement, defendant's cut mister Yu's paying half while he was undergoing physical theory. Oh you don't do that.

Don't bring that Brad Siegel cost cutting to Sid's contract. No thanks, cut his pay in half while they sent him home, telling him he'd be if he'd be taken care of, Brad. Brad, Come on, folks, Diana Myers can write you a letter, but that doesn't mean it's it's gonna hold up.

Mister U was constantly required to make promotional appearances, even though he was termed disabled and receiving one half his pay. These appearances included a ten day appearance in Australia and Los Angeles, California, from which he was hospitalized upon his return home. Now, La, would that be the premiere of fucking Ready to Run? I bet it would be. Didn't he have some like minor me? He wrestles in You know that's got to be it just a big thing.

Of course, Starcating and Scott Steiner.

Yeah, mister Terry Taylor, who's employed by or and Or worked for Defendants as an agent. He told mister Udi to get an early release from anyone to do his pay per view. Mister Taylor and others who were employed or buy or acting on behalf def informasiter uti at the company was depending on him to performed his pay

Another Russo promise in one ear out the other.

That's crazy. I mean, yeah, well that's a that's a that's a that's a kind of a massive financial commitment that they're not paying.

We'll pay you, yeah, we'll pay you what you would what you'd make if you work the pay per view, even though you won't as compensation to get you to agree to do this table spot or whatever we need to do to get you written out, and then we'll send you home. And not only will we not pay you the fifty grand, we'll cut your pan half as well.

Right, mister Johnny Ace was a booker for defendants. He was employed by one or all of defendants? Okay, how was he employed by one defendant or all?

Well, there's more than just UWC. That's that's sued here. It's also him, which would be weird. Yeah, and then the X Y Z factor we talked about, or here we go.

Mister Ace, oh my God, constantly insisted that mister Yudi leaped from the top ropes of the ring and the land of his opponents. Mister Yudy refused to perform this move, stating that he had ring rust e g was not yet accustomed to being back in the wrestling ring, and that he did not think that a man of his size should perform such a stunt. Mister Ace continued to insist, even though mister Udy had not completely healed from his prior injury and was forced to get an early release

That wasn't in the complaint by the one.

Mister Udi was immediately transported Methodist Hospital for emergency surgery. Mister Ace came to the hospital to visit mister Udi and apologize, repeatedly stating that he was sorry that he forced mister Usi to performed the move while mister Uti was recovering in the hospital. Defense broadcast of the incident repeatedly on the live show.

And this is where the replay that we started this show talking about becomes an issue in a court of law.

Yep, Defenders were taking advantage of mister Utie's horrific injury to gain ratings. Defendants succeeded and received high ratings for the live show. Okay, let's dile it into that one, go ahead. These ratings translated into higher earnings for defendants for these lives, for these shows. Oh they didn't, Oh they did. They got higher earnings, high ratings. And I didn't get ship high.

Earnings, higher earnings.

You hear that, judge, Listen, I heard it. I heard. I'm mister Udi. I am all for you getting hired. Earnings?

What it is?

Hired? He's get hired? He earned they all right? Did he earn?

Did he?

Listen? Did he get earnings? For breaking his leg? On national television and asked the question, counselor did did did he get earnings? Did did he earn it?

Did you earn as a result of this?

Did he get earned? Did he earn? Anybody doesn't that to take a carry? And everybody know if he earned not take a car or something like that. Now didn't that undertaker guy? Didn't he carry and earn? Is that what you're talking about? Earnings?

Right?

Earnings then earned with dings in it?

Right?

Ring dings? What is the following? In defendis brought Inductory Andrews, one of mister Judy's physicians to appear in w W even though mister Judy never saw doctor's respect to his leg injury. Say that again, even though mister Yudie never saw doctor and Andrews with respect to his leg injury. Okay, so, but was MISTERI was doctor Andrews a fucking just regular physician, Like why would he see him? Isn't he a surgeon?

He's a surgeon, Yeah, but he might. I'm obviously he's gonna need surgery.

So right, but but he but he never saw doctor Andaws with respect to his leg injury.

Yeah, so right, So they're putting. So they're putting. So doctor Andrews on television to talk about an injury like.

This, But why is he? I mean, it just seems weird to like that he's a regular physician he's one of mister Udy's physicians. That seems weird to me, Like, like, what what else would he do besides performed surgery on you.

I don't know.

Maybe he can consult you about surgery.

Yeah, well, maybe he consulted sit on another surgery.

I guess. But again, I wouldn't. I would not consider a surgeon who I only talked to on for specific reasons my physician would be considered one of my physicians. That's a good point, YEP, that seems weird to me, Like, I mean, because I mean, I wouldn't consider him to be a physician. I mean, I know, maybe that's maybe that's a much broader term that incorporates surgeons as well. Yeah, but like I don't think of a physician as being as being a surgeon.

I get your point. I wonder if that's a confusion of terms. I just think it's fascinating that he's making such a big deal out of the fact that they replayed this on Nitro and made a segment out of it and had doctor James Andrews way. And that's like wrestling one oh one when a guy gets injured because you.

Know why, because he technically made an appearance on the show and they're not fucking trank.

Well, he's definitely that's why he's definitely needing to prove it's becoming clear already. He's definitely needing to prove that WCW made more money than they shared with him off of his injury, like right, right exactly, They found ways to enhance their show with his misfortune and then still cut his pay in half.

You know, uh as defendants had agreed had doctor Andrews describe the injury in graphic detail, show X rays and

Wow, And he's saying the so WCW basically got an insurance payment in the amount of what they would have paid SID in the contract if he was working the whole time, right, So they're made whole for the fact they can't use SID. So that's a hell of a thing to hang your hat on. Like, you guys already made back all the money you would have lost if I was working for you, right, So what the fuck?

Right On Marsh one nine, two thousand and one, MS Myers ww A division and Turner Entertainment and Tom Warner Company terminated mister u contract. This termination was improper and embrace the agreement. MS Myers indicated over telephone and in her letter that mister Uti should contact the company that purchases WW to get another contract. Defense had terminated mister Uti because of the injury that they calls.

This is around the same time, folks from our last Nitro coverage, Folks our Greed coverage, pardon me our Greed coverage.

Of feature player. Bro, No, no question, dude, I'm not in my featured master to you. I can turn this down and you still got paid, brother.

Zactly you know, cash those checks, dude, Given though the contract isn't valid, as I argue in my lawsuit, I'm going to cash the checks. Brother, there should have been more.

I listened to it. I get your money comes in, brother, I cast those checks. Dude, I don't know what you want from those checks.

And then claim after the fact that I'm not a title to him.

Brother, cut checks, cash checks? Dude? What's going on that?

His hustle?

Brother? I mean, look, life's a game, dude. You know we're talking about playing the gizzam Dude. What's it is? Exactly? Mister Yedy is currently not employed as a professional wrestler. Mister ud has gone through extensive rehabilitation. The recovery process has been long and extremely painful. How about that? Major changes at WCW.

Think about this, okay, think about the state of affairs irrespective of the fact that WW moved in and bought the company SID on January fourteenth of twenty oh one. So firstkn the injury we just saw yep, March. First, they terminate his contract.

What's the problem. Huh, what's the problem? Don't say the's a problem. I'm just staying in facts. It's normal procedure. You know, you know, he's not he's not coming to work for I'm not able to perform right, very simple. You know, if you just if you just fucking know, showed at your office for two months, you'd be fucking fine. Is real simple? And I see what you do understand is what is real simple?

You don't know what simple is.

You don't even understand what simple is. You don't even understand how stupid I am?

All right, stop quoting from the promo and the outsiders.

All mister d has remained ready to perform one of the agreement is requested. W W went through Signify you Can changes during the early part of the year two thousand. WW change it's man operating management on at least two occasions. In two thousand, there were numerous press reports a ww's parent corporation, Time Warner Incorporated, embarked on a program of reducing or eliminating wsw's contractual obligations as a prelude to

Okay, we get it.

Said defendants Turner Sports and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated dominated and controlled the business activities at w CW. Dominated.

Yeah, I wonder if everyone would agree with that characterization.

Defense Turner Sports Incorporated and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated, as executives managed and operated the business and w CW and paid wrestler salaries. Defending Turner Sports Incorporated and defendant Turner Sports Entertainment. So now there's Turner Sports Entertainment Group. Yeah, look at that. That's a new one. That's a fucking just w that's hilarious. So I thought I was Turner Wrestling, Right, you wrest youre in the wrestling business. Now you're an

I think it'll stick?

TURNI Sports Entertainment Group Incorporated had their employees direct the activities of WW have their employees direct to the activities of WSW. Ww's division Turner Sports and a Turner Entertainment acted as defendant. Turner Sports Incorporated and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporators agent in connection with the operation of the business. As such, defendise, Turner Sports Incorporated and Turner Entertainment Group

Yes, in other words, and they're trying to go after Turner instead of WCW. They're trying to you know what I mean, claim make a claim against Turner and get that money. Instead of w W which is now out of business. So they're going out of their way to like say, there's there's no difference. So you can't just like isolate over here and say, well, WW has no money to pay you a settlement, you know, but if you make it about Turner, then you get accessed all that money, right settlement.

Well, I thought I thought too that it was the Turner was paying the money anyway, not WW.

Well when WW was running, yes, but thus I forget this is filed two years after WW he closes. So there's this uwc nity that I'm sure Turner slash AOL would be very eager to argue, are the only books that you can go after to settle a lawsuit? And he's like, no, sir, that's my guess as to why he's going through such painstaking stipulation of facts connecting Turner to w like there's any controversy about that at all.

Right, Recently, defendant Turner Entertainment, Greeve and or AOW AOL Time Warner sold WSW World Wrestling Entertainment. In this transaction, certain assets were sold WWE, including but not limited to, the right to use the name WW. However, the contracts certain wrestlers were not similarly transferred. W uses the name w CW, but not its employees, equipment, etc. WCW does not perform shows, but it has changed his name to

Now, it's gonna start talking about what they did wrong.

Mister Udy adopts re alleges and incorporates hearing and above by reference all allegations containing paragraphs one through sixty six and the amending complaint fully and completely as if set forth here in. Mister Uti had entered into various oral, written, express, and implied agreements with defendants, including but not limited to oral promise to pay mister Udy for a pay per view event in April two thousand and the agreement.

One of those oral promises from the Russo Bischoff regime.

YEP, Defense breached the terms of the agreement by, among other things, improperly reducing mister UTI's pay, failing to pay mister Judy, reducing mister Uty's pay when he was still performing for defendance benefit and terminated his agreement. Mister Uy's contract provided that wrestler should be paid for a minimum eight pay perview events per contractual year. This guaranteed compensation

Defendants owing mister Udy this guaranteed.

Company defensive breach their agreement by Faund to pay this amount for year two, which is one hundred and thirty five thousand, five hundred dollars. Defendants, by and through mister Eric Bischoff, mister Vince Russo and mister Yuty agreed that mister Uty would be paid fifty thousand dollars for an extra pay per view event that mister Uty would not appeal I have to appear at. He would be paid for an extra pay per view event that he would

Well, they're trying to get him to do something, and if they offerm fifty grand to do nothing, maybe he'll do it.

No sense.

Well, you know, let's not forget a huge part of Russo's psychology was always clear out the old guys, you know,

Like it's like, but you're going to pay them, Like you're you're spending money for nothing?

What would Yeah, Well there you go. That's WCW for you, that's WW for you. You know, yeah, yeah, I'm sure in their mind they're doing it for something. They're they're doing what it takes to get him to agree to, you know, actually strengthen somebody on the way out as the outgoing world champion instead of just disappearing without a scratch on him.

Yeah, Jesus.

Thing is the creative that came up with was so ineffective that whatever they thought they got out of sid doing that, no one remembers to this day what he did.

No one even can remember. Mister Yuti was not paid anything in year three of his agreement because the agreement was unlawfully and improperly terminated by Defenise. Defendise have breached their agreement by failing to pay this one million, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars in compensation. Defendants improperly and in breaches of the agreement with mister Uti, reduced his

Right, that's kind of a specious thing. I've lost my status as a performer.

Yeah, miss okay, whenever you say pal. Mister Ute is entitled to damages for the breaches of the agreements, including but not limited to you, payment for the other half of his guaranteed pay per view events for two thousand and two thousand and one at one hundred and thirty five five hundred dollars per event, this full value of remainder of the agreement from June first, two thousand and one until July one, two thousand and two, repayment of

We do remember that those the contract that sid signed was backloaded, so the biggest earning year was the last year of the contract, right, which fucked them in so many ways in WW because when these contracts would reach their final years, they couldn't afford any of them because revenue had taken such a big hit. But Britain and none of them. You know what I mean, many of them.

Oh, I'm sure it does.

They probably would have moved to terminate his contract anyway, but they pulled a game like they did with Hogan where he didn't show for something or something make it. You know, they had a lot of games, but the fact that he was home injured really increased the menu of games they could play on this guy.

Yeah, so it seems like count to breach of fidu if what is it deduciary brother, fiduciary bro who breach of fiduciary duty. Mister uty adopts real edges and incorporates hearing and above Bob reference all allegations containing paragraphs one through seventy six of the Amended Complaint fully and completely as if set forth hearing. Mister Uti was an independent contractor by defendants and provides skills and services for which

Gott it, I gave up even looking it up. I mean, the WCW ratings in two thousand and one were so fucking laughable that for him to suggest for a second, oh yeah, for a second that the twenty second clip they played of him breaking his leg made any difference and drived in.

I mean even I mean even so, like you know, you know, driving up ratings for WCW in two thousand, thousand and one is not something to brag about. It

Well I'm reading here. TSN actually in Canada decided not to show the injury, edited it off the Canadian version of Nitro.

That's smart. Yeah. When mister Uti was severely injured on the pay per view as a result, Defendance X defendants improperly and then bad faith reduced mister Udie's pay and

Whether the ww had, if nothing else, conscious indifference to consequences.

Indeed, well, that makes sense obviously Count five. It is

They should have known that mister Laurenidis would insist on him doing the move.

Yeah. Course. The claim is that u w C, TSI and TZ breached their duty to mister Udi by retaining mister Laurinitis as an employee while knowing he had the propensity to engage in the conduct which resulted in mister Udie's injury. UWC, TSI and TG's breach caused damage to mister Udi and amount to be determined a trial. UH defend conduct was grossly intentional. That one.

It's the same thing again about want of care, okay.

Count seven tortious interference with contractual relations. Mister Udi adops real edges incorporates here in above and all and by reference all allegations contained in paragraphs one through one oh five and the amended complaint fully and completely as have set forth here in. Mister Udi and w CW had

And this is the want of care again counting. He seeks attorney's fees, which is, you know, basic defenders have acted in bad faith, been stubbornly litigious, and have caused mister Beauty unnecessary trouble and expense. Oh my god, stubbornly litigious. Okay, that's uh, that's a rich coming from sid.

Yeah.

Right now he gets sued. He doesn't sue as much, so it requires reasonable attorney's fees and that the court grant him judgment against defendants as follows process be issued and served as provided by law. Okay, the court received judgment in an amount to be determined at trial. So he doesn't name how much he thinks he's entitled to. He wants to lead right to a jury. He wants a judgment in the amount to be determined a trial

Was there ever any legal situation with w c W over them asking me to do a movie?

We're comfortable with no.

So those are the claims of one SID, all of the the allegations there around breach of contract, around all of this business about cutting his deal in half and icing him. Yep uh, that's that's the ways in which SID is aggrieved. And we're accustomed by this point to to processing various grievances that SID may have it at a given point in time. So we've got what was it, breach of contract? It was a laundry list, but count

We have.

Unjust and Richmond negligence, negligent and infliction of emotional distress, negligent retention, tortious interference with contractual relation.

Tortous interference is one of my favorite fucking it's one of my favorite kinds things ever.

One of my favorite kinds of interference.

Really. Yes, absolutely outside of interference, we have torchus interference.

They should use it more in wrestling finishes. And he's looking for attorney's fees as well.

So that's what you know.

Sid is claiming in a court of law the ways in which his rights have been violated as a result of what happened at Sin and his leg break. So now comes Universal Wrestling Corporation, that is to say, the former World Championship Wrestling. They offer their defense in Fulton County Court in Georgia, and they're going to go basically line by line on the things cit Is alleged. God, have we get a perspective of where the erstwhile World

Corporation Answer, Universal Wrestling Corporation, Turner Sports Incorporated, and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated. Yes, defendants, Universal Wrestling Corporation, UWC, Turner Sports Incorporated, Turner Sports, and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated, TEG collect Louisa, referred to as defendants hereby answer Plaintiff's complaint as follows. First, Defense Defendants respond to the individually numbered

Of the complaints that they have insufficient information to form a belief of You know what, Paragraph one says that he lives in Arkansas. I'm sorry, we just we cannot confirm that he ever resided in Arkansas. That is just something that we don't have evidence of, Nor do we desire evidence of that. Yeah, nor are we doing a single thing to seek said evidence.

You know, I don't need to know if he came from Arkansas and already reside in Arkansas. What I need to tell you is that we don't know, We cannot know. We do not have sufficient information or evidence to form a belief that he has ever resided in Arkansas.

Your honor, I don't know, and I wouldn't want to know as a wise man.

Let me just say, your honor, we don't know if it's if he's been telling the truth about Arkansas. So therefore, how can we tell, well, how can we be sure he's told the truth about anything? And with that, I submit my motion to dismiss, and with that we rest our case. So yeah, that's that's where we're at. It's hilarious.

So they're defending that he entered into contracts that's big of them.

We do. We do admit that you know he had entered into contracts with defendant Universal Wrestling Corporation formerly known as World Championship Wrestling Corporate at the WCW to perform services as a professional wrestler. Defendants deny the remaining allegations contained in the second sentence a paragraph one of the complaints and response the allegation is contained in the first

Three goes on link jump up to twelve. Please to twelve, okay.

In response to the allegations a paragraph twelve the complaint, defendants admit that for a certain period prior to March one in nine, two thousand and one, ww was engaged in the business.

This has to a lawyer was paid to write that sentence. I want you to finish it and then read it again.

Please, was engaged in the business of professional wrestling. In response the allegation the paragraph twelve of the complaint, defendants admit that for a certain period prior to March twenty nine, two thousand and one, WCW was engaged in the business a professional.

Wrestling And just to further drive it home, jumped forward too point twenty three, Please.

For a period prior how about fucking thirty years prior for thirty years for a certain period prior to March twenty nine, two thousand and one. Believable? Twenty what now? Twenty three? Twenty three. In response the allegations contained and paragraph twenty three of the complaint, defendants admit that WCW did, for a certain period prior to March twenty nine, two thousand and one, promote and produce wrestling events. You've got to be shitting me, including various times, weekly lab television

Please this one's a little more.

It goes on in time time. In response to the allegations containing paragraph thirty one on the complaint, defendant state that, at all times relevant to Plaintiff's complaint, w CW and its employees abided by the written terms of the agreement governing plaintiff's pay.

They are saying, we, you know, we follow the letter of the contract. And whatever it is we did with sidspe you.

Know, we we all bid it. We you know, the employees of WWT abided by the of the agreement in governing plaintiffs pay. By way of further response, defendant state that at all times relevant to Plaintiff's complaint, w CW and its employees respected and abided by the work restrictions and recovery requirements placed on plaintiffs by his medical doctors.

I say, please jump to number forty two please as you continue to pass on tremain points.

And response to the allegations contain a paragraph forty two of the complaint. Defendants admit the plane if performed at the January fourteenth, two thousand and one pay per view in Indianapolis. In response to the allegations regarding the content of the script for the event, Defendants state that the script is a written document that speaks for itself.

As to.

As the content and legal effect, and defendants deny any allegations inconsistent with or contrary to the script, except the specifically stated herein. Defendants deny the allegations contain a paragraph to the complaint, plain.

And simple, Absolutely, that's the way we roll. How about forty seven as it regards playing the tape of the injury.

And response to the allegations contained in the first sentence of paragraph forty seven the complaint defend and state that the tape of the live show is a recorded document that speaks for itself as to content and legal effect, and defenders deny any allegations inconsistent with or contrary to that recording. Defendants deny the remaining allegations contained in paragraph forty seven of the complaint. What say you judge a country lawyar?

What was that?

A country lawyer? Sounds a lot like liar, doesn't it?

Oh my god?

So they go point by point after everything Sid said, and you know, only grant things that are like dates and everything else. They yeah, right right, deny de I deny.

You know where were that? Knowledge? All right? Or information is sufficient to form belief. One can just imagine, you know, well.

Let me tell you.

I'll just say this. You know, you know, your honor. The thing about professional wrestling is you just don't know all right. Now, listen, I've watched the shows. I've seen a professional wrestling done in many different kinds of you know, we just don't know, right, We don't know what is real what is not real. We know that there are scripts that determine the outcomes of the matches and that kind of dictate certain events happening. But did Sid break his leg?

We do not know.

He appeared to you know, your honor. But a lot of things are what they appear in this world are professional.

Now, I mean, we're listen, your honor. We live in the age of computer generated imagery. Oh my god, he's not going all right? And Look, I'm just saying, you know, you know, we are without knowledge or or information sufficient form of belief as to the truth of the breakage of sid Uty's leg We don't know, we don't know.

So ww Filesy's response going through each point they want to make about what fact should be stipulated to. And if you think sid Folks is going to go quietly without denying these denials, then you haven't been paying very close attention to this tribute.

Oh I like this one number sixty five here though, by the way, defense and now the allegations contained a paragraph sixty five the complaint, except that they admit that WCW sold certain of its assets the WWFE in mark two thousand and one. We admit that.

And look, and we're it's big of us to do that, because we could drag this thing out all day on the finer points of that statement.

I don't mind going and listen, I go a word by word deny the allegations contained in word one of paragraph seventy two of the complaints.

More than anything, we're interested in your honor, in efficient administration of justice in this court and not doing anything to impede the proper pace of progress for the docket. And so we're not going to drill down and dig our heels in on points like that, although we're well with then our rights to do it, as I'm sure your honor will appreciate, however, because we're just so interested in justice being served here and vicious being served.

Here and psycho being served. Yeah, I think you say that again. So yes, this is and I just want to say, also your in response the allegations contained in paragraph nine, if I have defendants admit that plaintiff seeks the damages, stated deny that they have engaged any wrongdoing, of course, I mean, Jesus, we do. We admit he is seeking damages, he is bringing up a lawsuit.

We're not too We're not you know, too proud of ourselves to admit that. I that if they just said, like like a like a number sixty eight defendant admits wrongdoing, just put it in there since anyone noticed.

Of you.

First, we admit breach a contracts, but we deny that the breach of contract had any sufficient evidence and information that provide possible, you know, said breach is a proper propriet what in your honor?

It may surprise you to learn that the defense is not interested in contesting the claims of mister Udy, that, in fact, it was written into the script that he take off that metal rope, and that he did, and that he was you know, ordered to do it over and above his his objections. We're not We're not going to dispute that. We will admit that as a fact, that he was pushed and pressured into doing it. I guess the question, then, your honor becomes, so what right what of it as it regards our case?

You know, we you know, we we deny the allegations contained in the paragraphs such and such, But I do want to say we do admit that, said you, he volunteered to break his own leg I ask you, and I asked you.

I put it that way, your honor, after just saying that we pressured him to do it, so to have you consider, I think what will come to be the most important question in this case. In a world where nothing is real, what is the difference between us forcing him to do it and him unteering to do it?

In a world where nothing is real? Can we determine what is fake? Right?

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Have you ever heard the Toronto cell Your honor?

Now?

Yeah, he's on the floors late snapped and half yes, yes, yes, yes I have And I'm going to put you in one in a second. That was good.

And sure his leg appears to be dangling there on the canvas, But these guys are especially good at making you believe that they're really hurt, you know.

I mean I could come in here and tell you that I've broken my arm and that I've been stabbed five times, and you know what, chances are you wouldn't believe it. But if Sid came in here and told you the same thing, I think you would. I think you would believe it. Whether or not it happened, is imitated.

So I guess the most important point is when Sid wants to claim unjustin Richmond because World Champed Wrestling was capitalizing from a ratings perspective by showing the recorded videotape

I mean, listen, I'm just going to say this right and you know, your honor, we have we have seen a multitude of different, you know, different sort of wrestling events over the years, you know, especially in the last I'm going to say five, five to ten years. You know, we've seen an increase of violence in the in the in the entertainment world of professional wrestling. And I'm just going to say, you know, you got guys who jump off twenty foot high cages and go through table. Have

Tossed off the case counselor and he's wearing a shoe, and.

You know what, he didn't break a bone in his body. Now you're going to tell me that a man who was tossed twenty feet down and didn't break a bone in his body, and then you have Sid who's jumping two feet off the ground and he breaks his leg.

Come on, I respectfully submit, I mean, your honor.

They know how to fall. I mean, let me tell you, I know for a fact, and I've been that. They learn how to fall right. They are trained to fall right up the road here in Smyrna.

They got a big old power plant facility they call it, and those guys go in there and they train to pretend to get hurt.

It's right. So I ask you, your honor, what is believability? What is truth? Right? What is honor? And what the fuck are we doing here?

He's playing into the judge and not wanting to deal with wrestling. I believe he said, among other things. I believe he said, and correct me if I'm wrong, Boss to the judge in this case, what is honor?

I mean, isn't that?

Isn't that where this all starts litigating Sid's injury?

Yes?

It does. What is honor right?

We can agree on that. We're getting nowhere. So again, if you don't think Sid's going to come back on those point for points with his own point for points, you have n't been paying attention exactly. I'll ask you to pull up the twenty oh two document that ends in response. So what this is, yes, is Sid coming back and responding to every single denial the w cd we made about the many claims he laid out in his initial complaint.

Comes now, okay, comes now playing if Sydney Rudy here after mister g or plaintiff and Files' response to defending statement of the theories of recovery? What is a fucking college.

Class that had been a good name for him in Spivey's tag team theories of recovery.

And the unispeeded material facts showing the course follows theories of recovery. Plaineiffs preacher contract claims fail as a matter of law because WCW's termination of the independent contractor agreement the quote agreement complied with the clear, unambiguous terms of the agreement.

That is a said characterizing WCW's claimed that they were legit. So each one of these is going to start with him repeating what WCW is claiming and then adding his response, which is yes, you can tell when Sid's response starts when you're heard the word denied.

Yeah, right, exactly defend his contact rendered mister Yudie's performance of his contractual obligations impossible. Plaint's breach of contract claims fail as a matter of law because each of WCW's reductions of planets pay complied with the clear on ambiguous terms of the agreement. Denied yes defendant his conduct rendered mister Yudie's performance of his contractual obligations impossible.

You made it impossible for me to perform my contractual obligations.

That's what he is saying. Here's the thing. You want me to be obligated. I don't accept obligation, but I'll tell you what you denied me obligation.

How can I perform these obligations if you make performing.

The denied me obligatory duties.

You denied obligation, denied me the ability to oblige.

You denied me the ability to oblige or to not oblige. Plaine's breach of contract fails as a matter of law because WSW complied with the clear on ambiguous terms of the agreement outlining its obligations to pay plaintiff for pay per view advance. Denied defenders contract rendered mister Yudi's performance of his contractual obligations impossible.

I'm smelling a denied T shirt in the cy.

You think so. Plaine's breach of contract claims fail as a matter of law because the terms the agreement could not orally be amended denied. The agreement was not required to be amended. It's specifically provided for further pay per views BIS language.

So he's saying, I don't know what he's saying. It doesn't matter that Russo and Bischoff verbal. He told him we'll pay you for a pay per view. You don't have to work because the contract laid out consideration for what happened if they were to add a pay per view to the talents and the minimum guarantee.

Plainiffs claims for breach of figuciary duty, unjust enrichment, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligent retention, and tortious interference with contractual relations fail as a matter of law because the plantif agreed to accept workers' compensation coverage as his sole and exclusive remedy against WCW, including its affiliates, employees, and agents, and for any and all injuries sustained during the term of the green.

Is failure to agree to accept workers Okay, so they're saying, if you get workers comp you agree in exchange that that is all you can seek from us. If you get injured on the job, you can't then sue us for more money stemming from that injury. That's what they're trying to say. And I wonder if SID would agree with that.

Boss did not. Misteries claims fall with an exception community under the gw c A.

W c A is the Georgia Workers Compensation Association, which is now not a union of professional wrestlers.

I mean, listen, listen, I mean the fact that it's called the Workers comp Okay, oh my god, amazing. I mean, for what it's worth.

G w c A is also Georgia Wrestling Coaches Association.

That's no coincidence, as it also could be the Joy Your Wrestling Championships as well. I guess that'd be the governing board of Georgia Championship Wrestling Georgia Wrestling Championship Asociations.

But what he's saying is that there's an exception under the state law that governs governs workers Camp that allows him to sue for more money even if that clause exists.

Is to be sick. I can sue if I want to. I will take your fucking money because I am it.

The g w c A sid's favorite law.

Another word something right now, you look at me dead in the eye. I going to you some real simple you'll fuck with me? You you'll fuck with the gw.

C A.

Sid's promotion.

The gw that's money.

People have no idea.

And he's saying that there's you know that an employer. You know they can claim immunity under workers comp per the state law, but there are exceptions to that immunity, and that what happened to him falls under one of those exceptions. So WCW can't cite immunity under the state law to further.

Playing claim for breach of fijiercia duty. That's how we'd say it.

So I'm not going to correct you.

Unjustin Richmond, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligy, retention and tortures interference with contractual relations are barred by statutory provisions of the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act. Denied. What do you know, take another shot? If you're playing along at home, mister yes, claims fault within an exception to immunity under

Do you think he agrees that a valid contract existed between plaintiff and WCW. If I know, Sid, that is a non starter.

Now, I don't mind telling you something right now. Then when it comes to valid contractual obligations, SID is not obligated to abide. I guess he's not. The dude. Defense were unjustly enriched by continuous television replay of mister Yudi's

I'm a little sick of people twisting my leg At this point, brother, I might as well broke.

I'm probably understanding exactly why I'm getting sued, right, that's a great question. Why am I getting sued by Sid? Brother?

If you're curious, the leg breaker storyline was basically they did this like really ham fisted thing where Scott Steiner after Sinn would claim that somehow he was responsible for breaking Sid's leg in the match, which is hilarious because it doesn't do.

When he fucking like uh uh, get it all, like ready to go, and then he jumped.

Right, I guess somehow when Sid kicked him, the power of Scott Steiner exploded on his leg and shattered his bones.

I don't know. Ridiculous plainest claims for breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, negligien and fiction of emotional distress, negligent retention, tortures, interference with contractual relations all fail as a matter of law because they are precluded by a doctrine of assumption of risk.

Can we try something, bosses?

We go through this? When? When?

When you read the part where SID is characterizing w CW's position on the matter. Yes, this is a challenge. I don't think I've ever asked you to do this before. Can you do SID making fun of w CW's lawyer.

In that god like you know?

And then the denied is in Sid's voice, So people can more clearly delineate at home.

All right, let me do plain is claim for breach of fiduciary deity, negligence, negligent and infliction of emotional distress, negligent retention, tortures, interference with contractual relations all fail as a matter of law because they're precluded by the doctrine of the assumption of risk.

Did not Yes, mister Uty's claims are not subject to the assumption of risk doctrine d towsw's will for action. Wow. Moreover, mister Uti did not assume that his leg would be broken in half destructions of defendants. Can I ask you to read that again? Please? Yes? Indeed, moreover, mister Uty did not assume that his leg would be broken in half as a result of the instructions by defendants.

So like, don't come in, don't come and claim that the doctrine of assumption of risk that's contained in the document in the law covers this.

Because now I don't know which doctrine you're talking about. But I talk to doctor Drews.

I know I assume risk when I go out there every night. I know I assume risk, and I know the contract says I assume risk. But I ask you, this, does the risk conclude snapping my leg in half?

I assume risk. I assume all sorts of things when I go out there in the ring, But I do not assume to know the future.

Right, And that's what you're claiming that that's among the risks I assume.

So I do not assume that I will come back dead.

Yeah, that's now we're falling into the own heart lawsuit territory.

Unable to contribute and support my family right, unable to go to sporting events in order to talk down to my dumb ass son. What do you think I assume?

Do you think I Do you think I assume the risk of a garage full of viennas?

You think I go home assuming that Frank hasn't delivered the venus to the cathedral, He.

Said, my church to Casey Vienna sausages and I sent him an autograph picture picture.

Yeah, someone was very e T C H E R.

Somebody pointing that out on Patreon, and it's very clear, it's very keen of an observation. I'll tell you what I'll I'll jump in here as i'll read ww's position could be funny, I have said response to a different voice, all right, number ten here. Plaintiff's claim for breach of fiduciary duty fails as a matter of law because the record is undisputed that no fiduciary relationship existed between plaintiff and any defendant.

Good a confidential relationship existed between WCW and mister duty, and therefore w CW oed mystery fier duties.

Plaintiff's claims for negligence fails as a matter of law because none of the defendants owed any legal duty to the plaintiff.

Dend w c W had a legal duty to maintain a safe work environment.

Plaintiff's claims for negligence fails as a matter of law because plaintiff cannot establish that any defendant breached any duty owed to plaintiff, or that any alleged breach by any defendant proximately caused plaintiff's injury denied.

W c W had a legal duty to maintain a safe work environment, and a breach of this duty caused mister beauty damage.

Plaintiff's claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress fails as a matter of law because Plaintiff's injuries were not caused by a negligent act of any defendant.

Denied, Mister Ute's injury was caused b the negligent acts of w CW's agents.

Plaintiff's claim for negligent retention fails as a matter of law because defendant Laurionitis had no propensity to engage in dangerous or tortious conduct.

To god.

Plaintiff's claim for negligent retention fails as a matter of law because neither WCWTSI nor teg knew that defendant Laurionitis had any alleged dangerous propensity. Plaintiff's claims for tortious interference with contractual relations fails as a matter of law because defendant Lauranitis did not intend to injure plaintiff or plaintiff's

With no what I do? You know what I can tell you right now. I wish not induced. I wash not induced by either defendant.

I was not john naturally.

I was not induced. I gave birth to Tyrrell and not on a natural basis. Third month, third party, third year. Were you a C section baby?

No, I was delivered on a natural basis, in while Jesse was delivered on army basis.

He toured army basis, all right.

In a related note, that one's denied too, if you're wondering denied, Plaintiff's claim for tortous interference with contractual relations fails as a matter of law because defendant Lorinitis was not a stranger to the contract quote unquote between plaintiff

Tonight, the minute complaint relates back to the original complaint, which was filed within the statutory period.

All right, fine, how about we state undisputed material facts? How about number one? Plaintiff, Sidney r Uti, is a professional wrestler who is professionally known as Sid Vicious. Admitting defendant Johnny Lorinidis is a former employee of WCW. Admitted at all times relevant to Plaintiff's claims, Laurionidis worked with WCW's wrestlers and agents to plan and coordinate the moves of WCW's wrestlers in matches.

Admitted honor.

About June ninth, nineteen ninety nine, WCWAN plaintiff entered into an agreement entitled Independent Contractor Agreement.

Admitted.

Under the terms of the agreement, Plaintiff expressly agreed that he would perform the services agreed to as an independent contractor.

Admitting the agreement speaks for itself.

The term of the agreement was for three years, unless earlier terminated. In accordance with the terms of the contract, the term was divided into consecutive one year periods.

Admitted the agreement speaks for itself.

The agreement expressly provided the WCW had the right to terminate the agreement at the end of any one year period for any reason. Let me read you the excerpt from the agreement. During any one year period, WCW may terminate this agreement with or without cause, after giving wrestler at least three months prior notice of such termination. Any such termination shall be effective at the end of the then current one year period.

Admitted the agreement speaks for self.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Plaintiff's compensation under the agreement was set forth an Exhibit A to the agreement.

Admitted the agreement speaks fortune.

In addition to plaintiff's salary amounts, Exhibit A provided the WCW would pay plaintiff a bonus each time he appeared and performed on air at any WCW pay per view event.

Admitted, agreement speaks for self.

Plaintiff's pay per view bonus was fifty thousand dollars per pay per view event for the first year of the agreement and fifty five thousand dollars per pay per view event for the second year of the agreement.

Admitted agreement speaks.

For self admitted a exhibit A to the agreement there was a slip of the tongue. Admitted A admitted exhibit A to the agreement also provided that plaintiff would be paid for a minimum of eight pay per view events per contractual year.

Admitted agreement speaks for self.

Under the terms of the agreement, if plaintiff became incapacitated such that he was unable to perform all of the physical requirements of a professional wrestler, he would continue to receive his full compensation for the first cumulative thirty calendar days of incapacity per contract year.

Admitted agreement. Space Force agreement.

Further provides if wrestler remains incapacitated after the initial thirty day incapacity period, whether consecutive or not, w UCW shall have the option at any point during which wrestler thereafter remains incapacitated to terminate this agreement without further obligation.

Admitted the agreement speaks.

Forselfs If plaintiff remained incapacitated after the initial thirty day in capacity period, in WCW elected not to terminate the agreement, WCW agreed to the following pay schedule. Here it is unless and until WCW shall exercise such right to terminate this agreement on the basis of incapacity. WCW sshall A continue to pay wrestler under this agreement at the rate of one third, that is, thirty three point three percent

Agreement speaks for self.

Under the terms of the agreement, Plane INVOLVESO agreed to accept workers compensation benefits as his sole and exclusive remedy against WCW for any and all injuries he sustained during

I mean the agreement speaks for self.

The agreement provided that it could not be orally modified.

Quote.

No waiver, termination or discharge of this agreement, or any of the terms or provision thereof, shall be binding upon either party here too. Unless confirmed in writing, this agreement may not be modified or amended except by a writing executed by both parties.

Admitted that Greenman speaks for sale.

During this period June ninth, nineteen ninety nine through March eighteenth, two thousand, plaintiff performed as a professional wrestler for WCW, and WCW paid him the full compensation set forth in the agreement. Admitted admitted he thought her about March nineteenth, two thousand, plaintiffs strained the rotator cuff and his shoulder during a pay per view match in Miami, Florida.

That's new admitted, mister U suffered a shoulder injury as a result of WCW's actions. Did you have to add that at the end, sir? Could you just admit it? Tell I admit that they denied me. They admit they denied me.

Health wrongfully, right wrongfully denied me health. During the period March nineteenth, two thousand April tenth, two thousand, w CW paid plaintiff one hundred percent of the compensation payable to him under the agreement. During an April tenth, two thousand performance at a wrestling event in Denver, Colorado, plaintiff injured his neck and back when he allowed his opponent to throw him through a table at the conclusion of the performance.

In this filing, mister Udy admitss it he suffered an injury, but he was forced to wrestle by w CW's agents and.

Shun now about that. I admit I suffered an injury, but I was forced to wrestle.

It's so funny.

Anytime Sid complains about an injury, just know that he's more than willing to wrestle hurt, but he's not above saying you made me wrestle when I was hurt.

After Yeah, right, listen, listen, he'll do it. And then if anything bad happens and you fuck him over in any way or he thinks you fucked him over, you know it's your fault.

And as a result of this April ten, two thousand and shoulder injury, plaintiff became incapacitated and wasn't able to perform any wrestling services for WCW.

Admitted mister gud suffered his shoulder injury at the insistence of ww's agents.

Okay, he said he suffered the shoulder injury at the insistence of ww's agents, who I guess stood around and said, suffer a shoulder injury, sir.

Now I went back there and they say, you know what if you get out, if you walk out of that arena and you don't have a shoulder injury, you're fucking fined.

I want to see a shoulder injured now.

Now, you got to injury that fucking shoulder. Waiting, pal, I'm still waiting for you to injury yourself.

I'll get it.

Trust me, it's hot it's an hour day or later, but I'm gonna get you injured sid. WCW continued to pay plaintiff one hundred percent of his compensation for the first thirty calendar days that plaintiff was incapacitated as a result of the shoulder entry he suffered during the Denver

Mister Edi missed the pay was wrongfully reduced to fifty during this time What does he admit again? Mister Yudi admits that his pay was wrongfully reduced to fifty percent during this time.

Period in accordance with paragraphs fully reduced. You're cutting out over and over again.

Oh, wrongfully reduced.

In accordance with paragraph eight of the agreement. During the period June ninth, two thousand through July eighth, two thousand, WCW paid plaintiff one of the compensation payable to him under the agreement. During the period June ninth, two thousand through July eight, two thousand, w wu's plaintiff for non wrestling services only.

Did not.

Mister Yu's pay was wrongfully reduced to fifty percent during this period time period.

In December of two thousand, plaintiff's doctor cleared him to resume full wrestling services.

Admitted okay.

In December two thousand, plaintiff resumed full wrestling services under the agreement and his salary was fully restored.

Admitted.

On January fourteen, two thousand and one, plaintiff performed a pay per view performance in Indianapolis, Indiana. Admitted, in preparing for the January fourteen, two thousand and one performance of Laurentidis, plaintiff voluntarily agreed to perform a move that required him to jump off the second rope surrounding the wrestling ring and kick one of his opponents in the face.

Mister Uty admits that he was forced to perform move by wsw's agent, including by not limited to mister Lauraidis.

When plaintiff performed the move during the match on January fourteen, two thousand and one, plaintiff did not kick his opponent and plaintiff landed on the canvas on his left leg.

Mister Udy admits he performed move and that mister Steiner was not where he was supposed to be. Mister udi ad missed it. He fell on his left heel.

So this is this is indicating the WW is prepared to argue boss that yes, we had him do the move, but it's his fault that he landed on his leg, not ours.

Well, I mean, well, hold on, but it says up there that he voluntarily did it. He voluntarily agreed to perform the move, right, And then he's saying he's forced to perform the move and it's.

Not our fault that said that Scott Steiner was out of position, because if Scott Steiner was standing where he was supposed to stand, then said wouldn't have suffered this injury performing the move that we demanded he'd perform, right, I mean, why is everybody c WCW's perspective in all this right amazing? Okay, Yeah, and mister Steiner was not

Mister Edia admits and leg injury made it impossible for him to wrestle professionally, and that WCW deemed him incapacitive.

I could not wrestle professionally, but I will not accept that that means I was incapacitated. As the result of plaintiff's incapacity, WCW reduced Plaintiff's compensation to fifty percent of the compensation payable to him under the agreement as of January fifteen, two thousand and one.

Mister Udi admits that his pay was wrongfully reduced to fifty percent the day after he performed the move at the behest of w CW.

On March first, two thousand and one, Diana Meyers, ww's director of Legal and Business Affairs spoke with plaintiff on the phone and informed him that WCW was exercising its options under section eight B of the agreement to terminate

At may to receive no wait no wait. So if it's effective after the company goes under, is it still an effect? Yeah?

I mean because UWC is formed to continue the business affairs of WCW. So yeah, any contracts WW doesn't buy remain on the books of UWC, and it's up to them to deal with and resolve one way or the other.

I see.

Plantiff received three fifty five thousand dollars pay per view payments during the second year of the agreement admitted honor. About May eighteen, two thousand and one, plaintiff received in cash to check from WCW oh the old the Hogan

Mister U admits he received and posited the check for one hundred and thirty seven five hundred dollars, representing fifty percent of his pay per view money for year two. Mister E also admits that he is entitled to the remaining fifty percent.

Your goddamn right, he is, buddy, I did god cash that check should have been more. WCW maintained workers compensation coverage for plaintiff during the entire term of the agreement.

Mister Ugi does not have sufficient knowledge to admit or deny that WSW maintained workers' compensation insurance for the duration of the agreement. That's fair.

I suppose ww's workers compensation insure provided and plaintiff accepted medical benefits for plaintiff's January fourteenth, two thousand and one injury to his lege.

Mister U admits that ww's insurance paid for the medical treatment.

Right, So we got that WW paid for the medical treatment. That's I mean, that's bare minimum. I'm not saying they deserve a pat on the back for that, but said has to be careful going out. They're claiming he's owed all this money because of the damage he suffered, because they The fact is they paid for the injury. They paid for him to rehabit and get it fixed. Ww's Workers Compensation Insurre has paid for all.

Well, you know, they also paid for the injury to happen. Oh shit, what are you suggesting, mister Udy. I'm suggesting that they go out there. They paid perview, they sell paid perviews, and they say, you know what, Sid, We're gonna put a hit on your fucking life, and it's gonna hit you in the head like a shot. It's gonna hit you in the leg like a shot.

Yes, I mean, everyone's out here talking about who paid for the damages. You know who paid for the damages?

Sid paid, that's right, and he paid the pop. He paid the ultimate price.

Really paid the price here exactly. Ww's Workers Competation Insure has paid for all of the treatment plaintiff has received for his leg injury since January fourteenth, two thousand and one, including plaintiff surgery.

Mister Udi admits ww's insurance paid for his medical treatment.

Ww's Worker's Compensation Insurer continues to pay for the rehabilitation of and physical therapy of plaintiff's leg.

Mister Udi admits that ww's insurance paid for his medical treatment.

Plaintiff has not paid for any of the medical treatment, services or rehabilitation for his leg injury.

Mister Udi admits the w CW's insurance paid for his medical treatment.

A valid contract existed between plaintiff and WCW that governed the compensation the WCW was to pay plaintiff for his professional wrestling services.

Admitted the agreement speaks for sale.

W W carriac to professional Athletes insurance policy issued by Lloyd's.

Heyes, of course, mister unimits a WW agents informed him that a disability policy had been taken out for him.

Plaintiff was one of many ww wrestlers named in the Lloyd's policy.

Does not have sufficient information to admit or deny statement forty five. That's a T shirt.

Mister Ud does not have sufficient information to admit or deny statement forty five. Under the terms of the Lloyd's policy, WCW was entitled to receive partial reimbursement for payments made by WCW to plaintiff during any period that plaintiff was incapacitated under the terms of the agreement.

Mister Ug does not have sufficient information to admit or deny statement for six.

Lloyd's policy did not provide for any reimbursement to WCW during the first one hundred twenty days of any period in which plaintiff was incapacitated.

Mister Ug does not have sufficient information to admit or deny statement forty seven.

During the period June ninth, nineteen ninety nine through July eight, two thousand, plaintiff was paid ten pay per view bonuses in the amount of fifty thousand dollars each May. Plaintiff is an experienced wrestler with almost twenty years in the business. At message January fourteen, two thousand and one, Plaintiff was well aware of the AUV and inherent dangers of wrestling professionally.

Mister Udi admits that he was aware that injuries occurred in wrestling, but his injury was not a foreseeable one.

Plaintive voluntarily agreed to perform the move that ultimately resulted in the January fourteenth, two thousand and one injury to his leg.

Mister Udia missed the ww's agents forced him to perform move that resulted in his injury.

Plant to voluntarily agreed to perform the move that ultimately resulted in the January fourteen, two thousand and one injury to his leg, even though he appreciated the specific danger involved in jumping off the wrestling ring ropes and attempting to kick an opponent in the face.

Mister Udi admits that he agreed to perform the move, but that he did not appreciate the danger of the move or foresee the injury that occurred.

The agreement provided and whose fault is that, sir? Pardon me, geeh, I'm sorry, I had to let that out.

The agreement.

The agreement provider that plaintiff would develop his own individual wrestling style and persona with advice for WCW.

Mister Udi admits, I think agreement speaks for saving.

Agreement provided the WCW and plaintiff agreed to act quote in their own separate capacities and not as agents, employees, partners, joined venturers, or associates of one another end quote.

Mister Uti admits, I think greement speaks for excess.

C W and plaintiff agreed that the agreement was the quote product of arm's length negotiations between plaintiff and WCW end quote, and that plaintiff quote had the opportunity to seek and obtain consultation and connection with the negotiation and execution of the agreement end quote.

Mister Uni A. Mints. I think greement speaks for.

Excels respectfully submitted on this twenty seventh day of January two thousand and four, Council for plaintiff. So that is basically and directly the series of claims that ww's making to counter sit is that he went in and did this move with full cognizance of the risks involved, and it almost doesn't matter if he was forced to do it. He nonetheless did it under an agreement and a contractual structure where he assumed all of these risks and had

Yeah, I mean that's I mean, I mean, really, what do you It's it's a hard it's that's a hard thing to to kind of prove. Really it is what is forced? What is volunteer? What is a voluntary move? Right?

Because they are also w WS with then the rights to say that ultimately Sid agreed to do it, that is true.

Right.

It's not like he parted the curtain saying fuck you, I'm not going to do this, and you know that somehow it ended up happening anyway. It's like eventually he went through the curtain and WCW was confident that he agreed to do the move, even if he had an initial But again, it's got a factor in. You got a factor in that Sid is Sid, and that of course he's got a problem with it. You know, that's just part of doing business with Sid, right, Right, He's

Of course, listen, he'll he'll, he'll do the job as well as he wins in the end.

So SID appeals to the state Appeals Court contends that the trial court at local court we've been talking about, made an error and granting some rejudgment for WCW on claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and all the rest. And he contends that the error, the error came when they found that WW did not improperly reduce his pay. That's what he really wants. He

Notice.

Uty argues that a jury question exists, that is to say, this should go to trial and a jury should decide. A jury question exists as to whether he is entitled to the other fifty percent because he contends that he was coerced into performing the wrestling move that ended his career. In other words, yeah, I might be incapacitated, and that might entitally, you'd only pay me half. But if I get incapacitated because you forced me to do something that

That's a shirt, just not a rope guy. I'm just not a rope guy.

Being a big man, he was concerned about getting his timing right so he did not kick his opponent in the face, having just returned to the ring after shoulder surgery the year before. But Judy said Lauren Attis kept telling him he needed to do the move. Eventually, he handed him a written script and told Judy that if you took the move out, Lauren Aidis would have to redraft the script. God forbid, perish the thought Johnny, Oh my god, I find a copy. You have to find

Cross it out?

What the fuck you have to rewrite the script?

Cross it out?

I can't rewrite.

I can't rewrite the script, said, I don't have a sharply, Sid said, my guy up in North.

He said he can't do it.

My guy up and North. That's fucking great. I never thought of that angle to it.

Have to draft the script.

Then, Udy admitted that he agreed to perform the move, thinking he needed to prove himself to the company's new owners because he had been able to work for some time due to previous injuries. That's interesting that went through Sid's mind. You know, we're about to undergo an ownership change that definitely was in the air in January.

People.

Of course, a bishoff in few and all that stuff is already well in motion, Sid says. The law says if the non performance is caused by the opposite party's action, it doesn't count. So if I can't perform because something you did to me, not something I did you know that that should invalidate your ability to pay me half. But the judge otimately says, now there's a ninjury clause in there, so you don't get to stand. You don't

Your honor, I'm with him. I right to expect that.

Things that are promised to me will be delivered even if they're not in writing, because most of the money I've made from this fucking company was without a contract on the table. Based on the party's deposition testimony, the judge concludes, we agreed that the trial court that with the trial court that a genuine issue of material facts exists for the jury to decide on this issue. So it may have been too sweeping in my conclusion.

There.

While the judge doesn't uphold the thing SID really cares about, he does say that a jury ought to decide if if SID was denied an oral agreement payment. Remember they said they would pay him for a pay per view if he did what they had to go to the table or whatever. So the judge keeps alive that little small smidgeon of things, But that just means it gets kicked back to the local court and they've got to

So that's what happens.

It goes all the way appeal. The judge keeps one little piece of it alive. Let's negotiate that no one wants to go to trial here Sid Jesus and I don't know who's to say what Sid got paid for this settlement, but he did get paid at the end, just for a small smidgeon of the full menu of things he tried to claim against World Championship Wrestling. I'm sure he didn't end up with anything close to the other fifty percent of pay that he thought he wasn't

Wow, still going on? You old? That's absurd. I mean, is there still a Universal like? I mean, I imagine that there's nothing now. But how long did that did that company last?

It?

Probably Universal Wrestling.

Unless all of its liabilities have been disgorged. Like in other words, if nobody else has a claim on them for money, ode they still exist, you know, but I don't know if they've dissolved or not.

That's a great question.

I haven't heard about them in an awful long time. But this this was a huge thing because so many of these wrestlers, as we know, WWF didn't pick up their contract and so they're still going to get paid even though ww doesn't exist, and it's this new UWC that they have to rely on. That's what's on the checks, and that's where they have to go when they try to make last minute claims for even more money, because at that point, what's to lose. I mean, you're going

So.

Yeah, the final settlement settlement order is issued is mentioned in two thousand and five. It reads, the Court having been advised by counsel for the plaintiff that is counseled for SID and the defendant, that the above styled action

Oh?

Boy, I invite you to pull up sid leg TIG Insurance, because you better believe that after all this shit went down, that ww's insurance company is going to sue wcw over all of this is going to sow why we're going to find out. That's what we're here to do is answer questions. They want declaratory judgment. This is the TIG Insurance Company filing in federal court against UWC World Championhipressing Turner Sports, Johnny Lori Niitis. And here's the thing, they're

We just won't let this stand.

We're going to characterize now for you the claims made by the insurance company and why they feel they have say.

Here, give the Lapstan Wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. He's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio m JP.

Soro complaint for declaratory judgment comes now. Plaintiff TIG Insurance Company and files this complaint for declaratory judgment, showing the court as follows parties. Yes, I do love your insurance voice great call TIG Plaintiff Hearin is incorporated under the laws of California, with its principal place of business in Texas.

So if you heard that right, they're saying that Johnny Ace turned around and sought coverage from the insurance company for any damages he suffered as a result of sid lawsuit against him, fucking claiming. You know, he was working as an agent of w W, which was insurance.

Don't doing what I can? I needed, I had coverage, you can somebody cover it.

Cover me.

Who's gonna provide coverage? I can kick out it too, brother. I'll cover you, dude.

Brother, you do some help, dude, for hul Hogan can help.

Haul Hogan can help. Once you go, lay down, dude, you know. Cop your shoulders down, brother, close your eyes. Whole commedia to do his business.

Dude, it washes over you like a spirit.

Jurisdiction and venue. This is a complete diversity of citizenship between plaintive and defendants. The amount and controversy exceeds seventy five thousand dollars. This Court is subject matter jurisdiction over this action pursuing to twenty eight USC. Blah blah blah blah blah Venue or the over this action is proper in this court. Pursuing to USC blah blah blah blah blah, Defendants are subject to the personal jurisdiction of this Court.

Uh huh indeed you misspelled in the contract?

Yeah, and any and all other distinctive and identifying indicia as used by or associated with UD. WCW advised Udy on developing his wrestling style and prepared scripts for his wrestling matches that specified with the maneuvers the wrestlers were to use and determine the final outcome of the matches. Do y'all get that? Everyone get that, all the newspapers get that.

I mean, this is an explosive ring we're putting in here, folks.

All right, they write scripts, they prepare them, all right, they prepare move for move maneuvers.

I'm fucking writing this, shiit.

See, this is what I'm talking about, right, That's what I'm fucking talking about. I'm going to court with these motherfuckers.

In the courtroom writing every word down feverishly.

And it's according to me as we go through this, Like you know, we always hear about the scripts and stuff and the TV writers, but what they were is basically promo verbiage. They would describe the scenes of the vignettes and stuff, but when it came to the matches, everything I've ever seen has been very bare bones when it comes to describing the actual things that happen in the ring. It's up to the guys if they want

Well, you know we have proof of such. We have a script right here, move one locker right, hold for about three seconds. Mister Udy then pushes mister Steiner to the ground. Five seconds later. You've been to the second. They worked to the second.

Have you been reading ddp's notes. App again, breather for five minutes.

That's right, yet take a powder yet. UTI and WCW agreed that the terms of the employment agreement would be construed pursuing to Georgia law, and that any disputes would be resolved in the United States District Court for the

The move was in fact scripted.

Hey, I got It's in the script.

A hush comes over the deer, hush comes over the courthouse.

I put it in scripted. Roof, what sir Laurie nightis? Please sit down? I just put it in confusion. He's got he gets it.

For some reason, this is to yell over people, you know, for some reason, there's like a crowd that's preventing him from being heard.

I did what I had to do, Like it's a murder. You write things down, you let him know. Oh shit, I did what I had to do. You write things down, you let him know. And he's saying these things while being dragged out of the courtroom by a court officer. Get him out of hat. What a fucking zany fucking circus this is I wrote into the script, but I wrote it on the author wrote it. I did what I had to do. You would do this, sign the scriptwriter Minova would do the same thing if you were

So here's TIG, the workers compensation company that's paid out on the policy. They want to sue.

See, the problem is we didn't understand the term workers right exactly. We have a different definition of the term worker when it comes to workers compensation, a different sort of compensation when it comes to fake athlete.

You can understand our confusion. When the customer told us that mister Uty suffered the injury while working.

While on the job, what they didn't say was that he was doing the job, which is a very different polity.

He was working, all right, now that we know what that means in the parlance of the industry.

Mm hmm. Beauty nevertheless filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County against WCW, Turner Sports Incorporated, and Turner Entertainment Group Incorporated, seeking to recover under common law theories for injuries he allegedly received. He allegedly received shit, allegedly received on January fourteenth, two thousand and one. Receive you guys paid the workers' comp claim like you guys determined to he actually received the injury, I would imagine.

Your honor, what do we have here? We we respectively, we respectfully submit that a jury should.

Decide we we we respect we respectfully submit that there is a confident of interest between these two organizations, and we believe that a determination with a trial by jury be the only way that we can finally know the truth.

And much like Boss Professional Wrestling, and much like mister Uty in this case, your honor, we respectfully submit to the Gripler crosspace.

On information and belief. UD filed an amended complaint in February third, two thousand and three. The amended complaint was not tendered to TIG for coverage. UD filed a second amended complaint on February sixth, two thousand and three, which added more claims and included Johnny and Laurinidis aka Johnny Ace as a defendant. A true and complete copy of the second amended complaint is attached here too as exhibit C. Lauriniitis was an employee of WCW at the time of

Policy habit of everyone who always wanted to know what exact policy numbered WCW care for its commercial General Liability insurance.

There it is there, It is right there. A true and complete copy of the CGL policy is attached here. Too as Exhibit D. TIG reviewed UD's initial complaint and denied coverage under the CGL policy because UD was not seeking damages covered by its turn.

Initially denied coverage to SID to ww A true and well, it says beauty Yeah, denied utynie uty that's true, then denied UTY.

A true and accurate copy of the denial of coverage letter is attached here too as Exhibit E. Subsequent to its denial of coverage for the claims asserted in the initial complaint, UD's second amended complaint was tendered to TIG for coverage by both WCW and Laurentiis. TIG reviewed the allegations of the second amended complaint and agreed to defend

We are.

We are an exhibitious insurance company pertinent policy provisions under section one coverages of the Commercial General Liability Coverage Form the CGL form of the policy, TIG agree to pay quote those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury or property damage to which this insurance applies. However, TIG will have no duty to defend the insured against any suit seeking damages for bodily injury or property damage to which this insurance

I mean, basically, I don't understand how bodily injury doesn't apply if it suffered in the course of the employment of the by the insured. I don' don't understand at all.

Yeah, it's very sure rising out of an incurse of employment by the insured.

I mean, maybe it'll make more sense as we go, make it make sense. This next one is money in the bank.

Under section five of the CGL form quote employee includes a least worker. Employee does not include a temporary worker.

We're not going to say that this does not cover an injury to sid because he was an independent contractor, are we We are not going to.

Quote, you know, he is not technically an employee of oh organization. He is a private contractor, and we do not cover private contractors. One more for the boys. Mm hmm. Under section two of the CGL form, quote, WCW's employees other than WCW's executive officers are insured, but only for acts within the scope of their employment by WCW or while performing duties related to the conduct of WCW's business. Unquote.

I know I don't either, So I don't know what a call employee is. Notice employee and co is in parentheses.

Yeah, well the quotes you mean. But yeah, it's very weird, like why.

It's almost what is that it's in there? Not if I'm trying to read this. Employees at WW you can't claim an insurance, can't go for insurance money if they cause injury to another employee.

But that's the whole business. The whole business is, you know, potentially causing injury to another employee. It's pretty amazing under an employment related this, I mean, this just sounds like a shitty policy. It's like, why would you, why would you choose this policy?

You know?

And to be shocked at how like impossible it is to find a policy without language.

No, I listen, I'm mad, I I imagine that, you know. Listen, listen. Insurance companies don't want to pay out? God, I understand. God? Do they not want to pay out under an employment

So basically, Georgia Barr Number six six case, you're wondering great stuff. So I mean, if so, basically they want the court to tell them we actually obligated to defend WCW in this lawsuit, Like, are we obligated to basically cover the cost of defending this lawsuit against file by sid And they're suing WCW to get that decision. It's just it's such a nightmare and it involves so much foolishness. It's even hard to tell how this resolves. It carries

We've got to of it.

It was a difficult other half of life for one sid Uty after this injury at sin and after all the lead ramifications were figured out and sussed out. And when we're with you next time. In the TLF Tribute to sid we take you all the way from rehabbing the leg to entering the grave. We'll see you next time. Preceeding announcement as a

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