Revisiting NWA TNA 2003 1st Anniversary Show, AJ Styles Mystery Partner, Sting’s First Match Since WCW

Dumne Boys are back. Welcome to the Deadline Podcast, Episode two hundred and
twenty seven and the very first of twenty twenty four. Oh my god,
let's go twenty four. Holy shit, bringing the new year with doubles.
Boys are here for the new year. Wow? How do we make it
here? How do I not fucking kill Tony by this point? Man,
this is unbelievable. Yeah, going into our fifth years. Wow, that's
crazy. And hey, shouts out to everybody that's joining us in the new
year. Come along for the ride. We've been hitting a lot of fantastic
milestones and hopefully this year we'll hit a ton more. Well, today we're
gonna be talking about n WAT and A's first year anniversary. Ooh, that's
a long time ago, especially when they start talking about the ages of these
guys on these shows that one of them is a champion in DPW Right now,
that's okay, damn, that's great. Yeah, it is nuts,
but it's episode number fifty. I believe they were doing weekly pay per views
at that point, so who paid every week? I think Tony was a
big, big buyer. He was probably in that purchase. I bought the
ram I bought the one before this show, because he just was on the
boat. Did you buy this one? Uh? Yeah, I think so.
That's good Tony, I was watching these weekly. Yeah, I don't
worry about that brother else he was just doing it. Come on, dude
and explosion where he was watching Eric watch. We'll talk about all that here
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A t n A PPV number fifty, the first year anniversary. That's the
name. But I thought there was like more words. You were gonna say
something crazy about it. That's it. You know, it's funny that you
know it's January first, which also means TNA is back in current time.
Oh were they starting at January first? I'm pretty or maybe it is it
January fourteenth. In my mind it was just new year starts as team.
Oh yeah sure, but it's close, it's close to getting there, and
this is uh, this is only surprisingly our only our ever I think,
our second ever NWAT and a paper view review. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, you're right. We did the first one with of course where I
think he was supposed to be in the cage. Well, what they had
in the cage was just much better than you. But before we get into
wat and A the first anniversary, let's take a look at what was going
on in the wrestling world around the time with the Wrestling Observer newsletter from The
Observer June sixteenth, two thousand and three, This is for the boys uh
In UFC news, Randy Kutur on June six was supposed to be an aging,
big name fighter from the past as the UFC's only two time world heavyweight
champion who would lose to Chuck Laddell to give Ladell credibility as the new light
heavyweight champion. With Tito Ortiz involved in a contract with zeph at the time,
instead of it being Ladell's coronation, it was Katura's night to become an
mm A len. He was asked by the promotion at drop a weight division
to two hundred and five pounds when it became clear that Ortiz had no interest
in fighting Ladell. But instead of being the star maker, katur was not
just the star maid, but he submented himself as an MMA legend with a
dominating performance to kap Off a tremendous show. He became not only the first
man in UFC history to captured titles in two different weight classes, but he
became the first man in company history to win three world titles, become the
oldest man. It was fifteen day shy of his fortieth birthday, oldest man
to win a title and set a record as it was five and a half
years between his first title win and his current win. Unfuckingly, Randy the
goddamn natural gutur fucking coming back, dude, you know it's just Chuck Madel.
Do you know what's crazy is that? Yeah? He was, like
being a two division champion is like pretty sis. Yeah, it just maybe
like maybe less than five not a lot of people have done it, but
I sort of God, nowadays it seems like everybody wants to do it.
Everyone is begging for multidivision fights, and now I think maybe McGregor was why
that happened. Yeah, maybe yeah, definitely changed everything or more of a
reality, yeah for sure, But like, yeah, dude, old ass
Randy guitar beaten up, goddamn chunck Lindell was unbelievable. Did the same to
Tim Sylvia too in the heavyweight division. It's yeah, yeah, it's a
different era. Well. In n w A t n A News, with
just one week before the anniversary show, there is nothing clear regarding the main
event. I want you guys to know. Just keep this in mind with
the show that we're about to watch, that this was the main event.
Instead, the original plan was a three way between Jeff, Jarrett, Raven
and Disco advert. Oh holy BERTI who was on the writing team at this
time, of course, So I mean that would explain by that. Yeah
wow. From The Observer June twenty three, two three. This one is
this a little bit of a long one here. This is, you know,
one year anniversary kind of recap from Melter here, but some interesting Okay,
why don't you get the one year recap from Alvareie. This ship absolutely
suck one entire year of garbage. Shout If there's two and three figure four
weeklies or else, I probably would have happened. In NWATNA News just after
press time, Nwatna will be doing its first year anniversary show, complete with
the first high profile US match, a forty four year old sting since the
def of WCW more than two years ago. The original DA for TNA was
to hold four hour biweekly tapings rotating around five thousand to ten thousand seed arenas
throughout the country. Obviously that didn't happen that way. Much of what was
publicly claimed in the beginning turned out to be a con Meltzer says Jerry Jarrett
claimed he and his son owned one hundred percent of the company and were using
their own money to finance the group and had no interest in going to investors,
even though it was known that Jeff made a presentation to Turner Broadcasting which
turned him down for funding and could an error television show due to the non
compete clause signed while song ww's remnants WWE. I didn't know that. I
think we talked about that. I thought we talked about Okay, yeah,
that's crazy. I wonder help, how long was that? Then? The
noncompete years had to have been years, right, wow? Yeah, yeah,
probably ten It was probably ten years. Shit, maybe, I imagine,
so, I imagine it was. I imagine it was to the end
of the deal that they originally signed because they because they thought, you just
told us about that. I remember we did talk about well and like you
said, they signed a deal and then like took it away, right,
it was like a ten year deal they were going to do the big big
maybe. Yeah, it was like a ten year in Vegas only deal that
they were Yeah, so I imagine the note was pretty long. Wow.
Yeah, damn that and they didn't want wrestling, that's true. They always
claimed rumors of Vince Russo having involvement were false, including lying to many prospective
employees. At other points, when it was claimed Russo had lost a power
struggle, they worked their employees again saying he was gone, even though they
were working a storyline for his return. Then when he returned, they worked
their employees one more time, claiming he was coming back as only an on
air talent and would have nothing to do with writing. Sean Waltman quit over
the claim that Russo was coming back and that he was directly lied to,
although has since asked been asked to return. Bobby Heenan at one point after
agreeing to come to DNA, turn it down, saying he wouldn't want to
work with Russo, but eventually considered yeah, so there's uh yeah, Sean
Waltman. Yeah, so he quits, he no shows and then comes back,
but I don't think he might quit again, Like right, yeah,
I'm sure it happened. Ye. So TNA set up a promotion on a
two hundred thousand dollars per week budget, needing about fifty thousand buys to break
even. Yeah, dude, we'll talk I read some stuff down later too.
I'm about World Japan. I wanted to talk about that a little bit.
Yeah, that does come up. Shot and somehow that comes up.
Yeah, Like, and they they spent so much money. We'll talk about
later, but they spent so much money, and TNA was spending a ton
of fucking money too. Yeah dude. So the story that the Jarretts were
funding, like the story of Rus's non involvement, ended up being untrue.
Health South was the initial financing to get the group off the ground, but
within weeks they had burned through one point only six million dollars and Health South
was in the middle of a highly publicized financial scandal. Within a few weeks
of all the original plans, they were gone. The rotating arenas ended up
being dead after the first taping in Huntsville, Alabama, sold no tickets.
When the numbers for the tape paper view shows had a show had a marked
to drop. Combined with the audience enthusiastic as I'm being weak for the tape
shows, they recognized they had to run live weekly. First, they made
the Nashville Municipal Auditorium home, but within a few weeks to save the company,
they cut back the budget from two hundred thousand to about eighty five thousand
per week, including substantial pay cuts to talent. Two hundred thousand budget is
fucking insane, by the way, anyone gonta do If anyone don't want to
give us two hundred thousand dollars buns a week or whatever, that will take
eighty five as well. What you give us fifty will change the world,
I promise you, ey dude. Yeah, like for real, man,
God damn, that is insane to think about. Yeah. It was those
changes that saved the company. With a new budget, only about twenty thousand
buys per week would have been needed to break even, which was not an
insane projection. In August, after failing to get loans from several different Nashville
banks, Jerry Jarrett made a decision to close the company. At that point,
the company's publicist, Dixie Carter, contacted her father, Bob, the
owner of Panda Energy International, handled Bob panders privately held family electric generation company
with a power structure not all that different from WWE Bob and Todd, Bob
and Todd Panda. Dixie's brought up run the company and mother Janice is the
executive VP and treasure. So I don't know how many people know that.
I mean, I know we've mentioned it on the show before, but how
early Dixie was involved? But yeah, she's involved before their first year anniversary.
Y, that's crazy, that's right, Yeah, that is pretty nuts.
So she was involved that long because it's I don't think that's like talked
about, talked about until like around them getting on Spike, right, They
had to keep asking for money and eventually said we just can't, we can't
give you money. They were gonn closed the company before the first anniversary.
Jared Jiedt said, this is shit is done and supposedly here it says about
thirty thousand people on occasion would order the show. It was believe the bottoming
out number is about seventy five hundred buys on the bad weeks which is not
fucking bad. Thirty thousand people were buying the shit weekly at some points.
Yeah that's good. Yeah, it's not bad. And they couldn't even get
the teenage pay per views. Just sell that most of the time. No,
no, I mean they're and their break even was twenty thousand, so
but I guess seventy five hundred by week that was fucking brutal. Yeah,
what the fuck are they doing that week? Probably Glynde Gilbertie in the main.
Last thing here from The Observer June thirty of two thousand and three.
There was nearly a fight at a show last week in Gainesville, Georgia,
between Buff Bagwell and AJ Styles. Oh nice, Buff Bagwell was mouthing off
when Styles didn't shake his hand in the dressing room. It was a situation
that had to be broken up. According to one who was there when it
went down, Styles unknowingly didn't have the right etiquette in going not going up
to Bagwell, but that Bagwell totally overreacting in the situation. And then the
lineup for the show was changed because Bagwell refused to work with Styles and claimed
he would never put him over in the ring. Uh, well, look
it's the NWA's Heavyweights Champion. Your lookers a bitch? What I had?
God, Twitter, man, there you go. That was what was going
on in the wrestling world at the time. Not a lot of w B
stuff at the time. They were sucking, you know, just hanging out,
I guess. And now it's time to talk about n W ten a
pay per view number fifty, the first anniversary. All right, let's jump
into the one year anniversary of t in Toxicity. No no, no,
no no no no no no no no no no no no why a drums
in there somewhere? Okay, come on. Yeah. So the show starts
off with a montage of System of a Down's Toxicity, but it's a cover
version that's not Illeague actual. Yeah. So this was like the coolest thing
ever to make. This is awesome, dude, And like videos like this
don't exist anymore. And I don't know, like I feel like if I
saw this now, I don't know if it was cool, but the fact
that it's in two thousand and three, I'm like, Wow, this is
the best video ever. Yeah. Their rocket was a crazy sit in this
video too. This is cool. So it shows like everything has happened over
the past year for tn A, and it's quite a lot, man.
They had a lot of shit happened year. Every every everybody is a debut
because they're new. So like Dela Brown, Dusty Rhoads, fucking Raven,
that doesn't count to be fair. We get a cold open here, a
limo pulls up to the fucking fair grounds. In the background you see a
bunch of trees and a fucking wood. It's very funny visual here, but
this limo pulls up and uh, it's got to be him. It's got
to be but hopefully, well hopefully it's sting. I would you know what,
and if I could go back, it would have been stinged. I
plus tended it was a sting. I didn't see it, Tony. I
thought you would have stayed tuned in for this one because it was a relative
of yours franchise. Let's the first time, first time, it's the debut,
of course, let's he's debuting to be the backstage interviewer. Why does
the franchise get his own livel I don't understand that he could. He was
a big deal. Come on, man about to get franchised. Mike today
says, that's not sting. That's Shane Douglas. Javis says, n w
A t n A first anniversary. Time to make some noise. Get the
fuck out security, so we can Douglas. We canick off the show.
Here. We got Shane Douglas in a limousine and we opened up the show
with sex. Well you get the cool intro. Uh you know the it's
short, it is so okay. Maybe one of you guys more educated.
Maybe you know the shot of the statue at the top. You know in
the intro, what fucking move is that he's doing a arms It was definitely
the ass do picts. He said it was an arm part. Let me
see, that's one of my favorite n w AS moves. A lot of
Frank Saga ship, a lot of at best. Yeah, that's what really
butt end w A was because of that, So it must not have been
a good move. They blow him up from America to Australia. That's it.
That's the intro. Two places, so sex starts to show here Sonny
Saki, Don Harris and David Young. Of course, the spinebuster got Sonny
of course is the rock the business. The next feature he was exhibition champion.
I saw in the intro. Is that true? The funk was going
on then that I saw him holding up the X title in the in the
intro the system of doubting? Is he really the fucking X? I think
when he joins Sex, Tony like they help him win the belt. Yes,
I'm sure they did. That's great storyline. So this is three members
of Sex and they're facing extreme. For anybody that doesn't know James, can
you run over there? Just make sure people understand what that tag team was
again, just to make sure. Yeah, we got three members of Sex.
We got Sonny Siaki, Don Harris, Heavy Heavy and this is fine,
buster gud. Think of TNA's history, think of the you know,
even just the first year. If you're not familiar, you can at least
think of teams in DNA. Okay, Sex is a faction. Who would
they be going up against? James? Who are they going up against?
Of course you got the next feature Legend, a bit Franky Kazari of course,
Dlo Brown, Yes, and the sand Man. What the fuck?
Legitmate, These guys all make their entrances and I'm like, I legit sent
a message in chat I said, I think my brain just melted with what
I'm fucking looking at and I think they say, like they hand chose Frankie
Kazan because he's like the future of the business. And the Sandman said they
talked and went to DNA management and wanted to team with Frankie Kazarian. Isn't
that crazy? Says Sandman and Deler Brown got together and talked about who they
were gonna sharing a couple of beers. Probably they walked in and they're fighting
sex, so they have to figure out who their third guy is gonna be.
So sand Man and Deli Brown walked into the office and said, Frankie
Kazarian's that guy. That's that guy they probably like all Saman's drunky. I
just give him. Frankie Salmon also an E CW shirt and they mentioned eas
W a lot on this Can they do that? Is that a thing?
I guess break the rules? Yeah, they mentioned w E rale you don't
Actually, as I was watching it gets to the Jerry Jarrett part later where
he mentioned w W E and I realized, why could why couldn't they just
say w B Like if they were on UFC, Like let's say UFC was
having a show, they could just say tour or Strike Force or you know
what I mean, like, is it is the legal against that. The
only thing I can think of is it's like if you slander them by name.
But yeah, but you can bring them up, right. I guess
if you're you can just talk about them. I just can't call them like
the group. I guess you probably couldn't call them like e c W guys,
because it's like wor you couldn't use their I P. But I think
you can historically reference things, right. You can't call them like e c
W saying maybe you could, I don't know, but like their team name
couldn't be ec W, but his name when they did the Union, they
couldn't call e c W. So like the Nation Dealer, if Tommy Dreamer
was really about this ship, he would have legally changed his name to e
c W so they could c W Sandman is his legal name. I love
that idea. Sam Warrior did it? Yeah, sadly tell you Dre wasn't
about that. Like the Right Back and the Warriors, my name is the
Ultimate Warrior. Yeah right, yeah great. If you legally trying to get
your name changed to the Ultimate Warrior, they should put you in jail immediate.
Yeah, no way, dude, you should be shipped off immediately.
No way. Wait, you can't tell you what to do. Yeah,
we're not putting that in there. My name is easy. Yeah, I'm
known as Degeneration X. My name is dead Lockdew. Yeah that'd be awesome.
Well yeah, you go ahead take it. Okay, you could have
that. So it shows Sandman here as he makes his entrance. And and
I gotta tell you, guys something, Sadman is not in great shapeare And
I'll tell you that. What I mean, Samman is drunk and fucking fucked
up, is sick. There's not there is not one damn thought behind the
eyes of this man at any given point in this match. Samon is just
the entrance, you know. That's all we care about is the entrance.
Come on, Salmon has plenty of thoughts. He's looking out at the crowd.
He's got a beer in his hand, and he's thinking, yeah,
how many more he's gonna drink right now. I don't know what gave you
that idea, James. Wasn't that the fucking first half of the Matchstandman doing
his entrance in the crowd? Entrance over No one's were referencing Salmon anymore.
You see in the background drinking beers, the guy, he's drinking beers and
pouring him down people's throats. I don't even know in the ring and the
crowd's not watching. So Don Harris is of course one half of the Sorry
wasatiste. You got a T shirt? You can show us so we can
take off his T shirt. You can find out John haimself set up the
ring tone. He's a fuck you Don Harris, Okay, yeah, Don?
And Ron Harris, Uh sorry, that clearly is the Bruce Brothers or
has Harris Brothers. Of course, all the racist guys come on. You
might you well, you might, you might be thinking of this is sex
study. This is not the Brothers or the Harrison even notice Ron Harris is
not here, so Don Harris, David Young is Sonny Sayaki? And I
sat here and I thought for a second, I was like, why the
fuck would Ron Harris not be as why would they have Don Harrison? That's
what and uh I looked at it and apparently David Young and Sonny Siaki challenge
for the tag team titles in like two weeks. Do they win any matches
on the way there, No, they do not is Ron Harris even here
he shows up at the end here. Yeah, okay, so he runs
in at the end of the match. That's hot. We got a banger
to talk about your dude. I'll be completely honest, guys, I completely
forgot he runs in it. That's why that's what thanks plays at all,
because he's he has to run in. Of course, story, we're telling
stories here in this fucking six I'll tell you what. So Don Harris of
course one half of the Harris Bros. They called slam on Delo Brown,
and Delo just gets back up, just not going to sell out one.
Well, Samon is doing his entrance. There's no reason to No one's paying
attention because there it is the back to the future. I can't just do
that. Yeah, that's the Oceanus cycle of soup legs. But instead of
a trade jacket, it's arms out cross style. Well, well, Salmon
is not bumming cigarettes off of fans in the front row. He's not gonna.
He never gets on the apron once. Yeah, he's not interested.
He has to think about the hard ten tournament. Come on, guys,
next week, Coke that he's doing in the back this match, come on
ten ten next week. Sam I got ten points to get right Man's face
the next week against Sunny Siaki rules in two thousand and two. Bro,
it is it's g w F in reverse. That's crazy. Yeah, Samman
is so fucked up that he is now on the outside of the ring and
Don Harris is giving him punches on the outside, and he is HPK selling
these punches on the outside. He is frailing like this is the mater.
WrestleMania is unbelievable. You gotta please, please, don't just regard that David
Young does the spinebuster that he's famous for. God, he is he is
here for so long, He is here for so long. He was a
hot side guy, right, he was a wild time guy. He becomes
a diamond in the rough Young time and they challenge the attack. That was
a lot too Yeah, and then his like gimmick is like he's a loser,
which is you know when you look at it. On come on,
So Delo hits the one eighty low down on David Young and wins the match.
That was awesome, by the way, it was cool. Delo is
very good at this point. Yeah, he is, He's he's fucking ready
to go in there. They're gonna put him with David Young. Yeah,
well he's the gigatedest bomb buster he is. So Samman then gets in the
ring finally for the first time in this match. Match is over and he
gives everybody pers and on commentary they say, oh, that's why Sammon was
here. He was here to give everybody piers ever than that. No,
of course it's a six man. So Sex attacks Sandman, Yes, and
of course that would be above average. Mike Sanders and Ron Harris. So,
David Young and Mike Sanders are holding Salmon's arms Jesus style while Sonny Siaki
beats him with a cane and then all of a sudden, Sting Staying is
here to make the save, and he doesn't look too happy about it.
They fucked it up here, man. They didn't play Sting's music. What's
going on here? Come on, Dann They played that dude when he came
out. Now, when he came out, he didn't get the pop from
the music. You know, they got to play the music. Didn't do
it? Yeah, I mean, well, fucking homeboys, get his asswap
Ton, you gotta get down there, sure, Sting and get down Sting
and Jared make the same for Frankie Kazariandla Brown in the city, Sting and
Jeff Jared wll just in the office asking for frank Kazari. Sting and Jeff
jareded go to attack Mike Sanders, Ron Harris, Don Harris, David Young
big. This is That's what'll make sure we all just ask for we get
to the main event of this evening. This is Sting's first American match since
w c W. That's right, he just came down here to save Frankie
Kazarian. He's gonna watch up at the spine buster. You know it's over
that boy. Sex is destroying wrestling and Sting has to stop it. No
more sex, you guys, No sex. The Sting points at David Young
with the bat, which is like a career moment for the gods. A
spinebuster I got, I got wrestled seventeen vibes here like the business up playing
in my head here one Sting shut out of the venue and he pushed past
everybody and he went up and he shook David Young's hands. That's what the
leaders maid said. I want an angering angle with David Young. He didn't
shake bump bag or agents. He shook, pushed past her. Get the
fuck out of the way. I heard you got a damn good Spinebuster kid,
shake my head. I want to shake his head, sinking his story
playing No, I got a cold up. Are you out of here?
Man? I'm young. You stink like ZiT well, like cigarettes and feces.
God damn, it's like every week here. David Jon says, yes,
stingers just like that here. I'll tell you that thankfully I got you,
David Young, me and you. There's anyone I got. I got
David Young's not my back, it's the master of this fine. Buster points
and David Young. David Young says, hey, I'm just trying to do
business. So he steps out of the way, and he steps out of
the way right to the left end. Jeff jar with the guitar brains him
with the fucking guitar, just annihilates them. And you know, but that,
you know, that's a good rub for David Young, and he's no.
Next. Those are the three pillars of fucking It's there is trying.
I mean when I I mean, if you were pitching that to me,
I got two hundred thousand dollars where you're at every week? Every week they
have a young prior two hundred thousand dollars and ship it's fucking George. So
why not forty Sam? Sam? I heard that started doing more crack.
Yeah, there you go. That's the first match the anniversary. Here were
believable way to start the show. Yeah, it's hot for sting though.
I'll tell you that they were. They're going crazy. It's a good crowd
actually, yeah. I mean they're they're excited to be here for tea.
They believe in the movement. They do good house too. Yeah, I
mean this is a This is a big sticking point for TNA for the first
you know, probably until like two thousand and nine ish, that this is
a real movement. Like the reason, like you believe in this, Like
if you're there, you believe in this. That's just kind of how it
works. Yeah, that's awesome. It changes, that changes very dressy.
It changes, uh pretty soon. Yeah, so Mike today and Don Western
ringside, Don Weston the the Lore shirt. Yeah, he's like twenty three
here going into this age crazy, but did don't tell you this much?
I like the way this is set up so they have the commentary Mike,
but they also have the house mic, so like so the people hear them.
So yeah, the way that they structure this is they're talking to the
live crowd but also talking to the home crowd like that. That's cool.
Yeah, I mean the announcement, yeah, because they don't have like a
big screen, they just have little TVs. Yeah, so like they have
to make these announcements because they're not like popping up. You look at the
little TVs. So they announced that Conan and our Mondo Contero are the new
Spanish and oounce team. And then they cut to a shot and here they
are hanging out with a big ass TV wearing a Mike Vic jersey Armando looking
at t NA. What is this? Don Weston announces the following matches.
We have Paul London versus Chris Saban for the X title. We have Jerry
Lynn versus Just Incredible in a grudge match all right, We have New Jack
versus Mike Sanders in a Hard ten semi final tournament match. And we have
Kid Cash and Vince Russo's State of the Union addresses tonight, also sting Jeff
Jared, Old Face, AJ Styles and a partner that not even he knows.
How is that? How is that? Vince Russo had a partner for
him? And he said, just trust me, I'm sure they were gonna
announce, and they said he might not show up, and they said,
yeah, that's true. Yeah, you know what, that's a good called
And if you my age's reaction. I don't even know until he came out
that they knew he was there. Yeah, like even during it, like
the music hit a is like, I don't he's too happy about it.
Yeah, he didn't. It shows a video package of some of teenage craziest
moments in the past year and a flashback. You got all these damn debuts.
Yeah, you got the Roddy Piper cutting the promo where he says Vince
Russol killed Owen Hart. That's how they started off. That one. That
was pretty crazy. Yeah, crazy po uh. Jeff Jared confronts Sex and
tell him he's never gonna get sex and calls Russo pompous, arrogant, Yankee,
son of a bitch. He jumps them. Vince Russo and Dusty Roads
squared off, and Vince Ruso said he always wanted to slap his ridiculous birthmark
off his enormous gut, and then Dusty Road says to bring your tidy as
in the okay, they know time like now, they know time like now.
It cuts back to the arena and all you hear is fuck you.
That's Vince Ruso's intro. Fuck. They try to like censor, but it's
not center. It's like the weirdest censor ever. It's fucking hilarious. Man.
So, now it's time for the Vince Russo State of the Union address.
This is fucking horrible. This is crazy. Come on, guys,
this sucks ass. So Russo starts by askingyone if they like his new hairstyle.
Yeah, he looks like Mike Awesome in the seventies guy game. It
looks like a little fucking float through there was on him. And the TNA
cage dancers are waving at me, by the way, me specifically, oh
you yeah, me, they're shaking their ass for me. Yeah, it's
like that. Oh wow. So Russo asked everyone if they like oh yes,
and they like that for you. So Russo asked everybody like his new
hairstyle because it costs more money than most of their trailers do. Because we're
in the South. It cuts to today rings pens. Dude today, face
crazy. Who's paying that much for a haircut? You got worked? Brother?
Hell nah, yeah, I'll bet you that haircut two hundred thousand dollars
a week. Somebody's get a nice hair cut. Yeah, someone get this
fucking he smells like shit. All right, it's okay. So Russo's eight
year old daughter told him to go back to TNA because those redneggs at TNA
cannot wipe their ass without you out. And that's good. I mean,
that's a charitable thing to go back to TNA for because people can't wipe their
ass. Samon might need help with that. I swamp asses rampant out in
the fair grounds. I guarantee it. They cut to a shirt in the
crowd, but it was blurred. You have any idea what that was.
I don't know it was. It was like crazy blurred. It had in
my mind it was like a w CW shirt. I think it was like
the fuck uplex or whatever. From the beginning w A style. It was
a little more drawn out. It was zoomed in on it. Marissa says
that these people threw Jeff Jared away like a used condom. And now he's
back. Yeah. You know he's talking about the North and the South and
what the differences are between the two. And he says, you know,
the North is about power and leadership and money and the South is about James.
Let me know if this is true. The South is about kissing cousins
that one. Yes, you know, I don't. I'm not. I
live North Carolina. Well, from what I understand that, the South,
no, well that's a you know, it seems to happen a lot ontok.
I don't really know why. Well, kissing cousins, willing barnyard animals,
and that's thing. Fucking he's from the South. Well, his mindset
is that he is also a total disregard well I guess he was Southern justice
here. Yeah, maybe he was, and a total disregard for loyalty.
And people know exactly what I'm talking about. And yeah, they threw Jeff
Chared away like I used condom. But you got your wish. And now
Vince Russeau is back, but this time he's not doing it alone because he
will stand side by side with someone who is the best to ever play the
game. He was better than Shawn Michaels. He is better than Brett Hart
and he is better than Sting. He is the NWA world Champion. You
pieces and ship get it up for Chre Styles. Dude, okay, AJ
Styles. I love this titan trot here so do I SO is so good?
It is, Dude, the there is only one intro is fucking awesome.
It is And he is the man. He's the man. My wife
AJ comes out with the n w A World's title holding his dick. It's
really like that. It's like that in the backgrounds y veiance, you know
what's fucking crazy? And this is this is a thing that happens to AJ
for the rest of his career. They have him as a heel and they
love this fucking guy. They can't get enough of him. That's so.
That's I mean, that's obviously why they put Russo with him, because they
you know, the only way to get anyone to just like ages style is
if you put the guy that everyone thinks is the biggest piece of should ever
with him. First off, can we talk about how crazy that fuck?
Can you imagine having the white hot, fucking best baby face. This guy
will bump off the ceiling for you best wrestler in the world, and instead
of going We're gonna make him our top babyface champion and lead the company.
He's our ace forever. We're gonna turn his ass heel, turn him heel
now. It's also it's also crazy that Jared's face at this time too,
which is like insane to think about TNA and Jarrett being a face, which
is funny to me because the whole angle is that the crowd turned on Jarrett
so they brought Vince Russo in to heat up AJ and keep Jared a face
instead of putting Russo with Jarrett and making AJ the top face. What the
fuck you? And later on in the main you have three guys who like
kind of just don't do anything, and then AG's like, I think I'm
gonna break a move up with a springboard leg drop. I'm gonna springwears high
ceiling is someone's fucking I need a star. I need a couple of stars
in this match at leaves please. So the crowd's chanting AJ crazy. AJ
gets to the ring, he says, a can you zip it? For
a second, he's well, he's you know, he's trying to be super
unlikable. I need to talk to Viance for a second. He said,
you're right, Viance, and someone yells fuck you. Okay, he just
says you were the piece of the puzzle. Everything you said was right on.
And Mike Today on Commentary says this is ridiculous, piece of and it
throws his headset down. The crowd start chanting Mike Tonay and then Mike Today's
in the ring. I said, what the fuck? And he is fucking
pissed. He's today faced out crazy here. He does not like Vince Russa
no, and seemingly nobody does in the entire the entire world. Russo says,
I know you're not like that made Jane. He says, I'm not
like you people. I'll give you an example. And then he points to
himself and says successful heavyweight champion. And he points to somebody in the crowd
and says, can't even get a job. Then he points to somebody else,
food stamps. That's the funniest like chance forever the nuts food stamps.
He points somebody else, This guy dates his sister. I don't. He
points another guy. This guy has no teeth, I dude. And then
there's a big sign in the crowd that says Athena the nicest ass for TNA
thank you. This is fifty episodes in in the Athena signs have still not
gone away. So Mike Tana says that Aj has been brainwashed by Vince Russo,
and uh, you know this son of a bitch. More specifically,
he used to do things the right way and he doesn't do it the right
way anymore. No, no, and Russo has something to say about that,
and he says, Jeff Jared trying to do things the right way and
these people booty his ass out of the building. And then a nice,
nice today face there for that one, and he says, it's all about
screwing and who you have to screw to get to the top. I thought
there was gonna be a Triple Ah reference here, but there was not.
I was surprised. But what there is is Dlo Brown coming out. Dlo
Brown, who just wrestled against Don Harris and David Young and Suddys Theaki is
out here, Uh to go face to face with with Vince Russo. He
says, you want to talk about friends, Russo, you know what about
our relationship was in the old w w F. I guess they could say
w F because it's w W now maybe Jar Delo says, you and I
created DLO. You and I created this attitude and created this strut and this
walk in this talk, and when everyone in the company looked at me like
a mid carter, you saw something special and you gave me a shot.
What shot did he give him? He was you were my favorite? Nothing
wrong with that Ryn. Yeah, Europe. Yeah, he's a europe Indercott
neil chav or something orgy there was you're euro continental. Yes, there's a
fuck McMahon chan here, so that it was. Yeah, it took me
a minute to figure it out, guys, I was like, I here,
fuck, I don't know what to In the second part, Delo says,
uh, I don't even know you anymore and says, speaking of who
the hell you are a j You got me and everyone on this asylum confused.
We kicked everyone's ass, and we rode up and down the highway,
our families broke bread together. And for what for you to take a take
a short cut? And he says, in the process of taking that shortcut,
you screwed my black ass over Major said, wait a second, I
did everything you told me to say. I took food off your family.
I took bread away from your family, off of your family, And a
J says, you do whatever you said, do whatever it takes to be
world champion. And you know, in fact I was gonna ask you to
be my partner to Night says, like you fucking you want me to You
want me to be or barner and walk side by side with this piece of
ship he points out Russo, and Russo's fucking calls him delusional. He says,
there was no you and I dll O. I made Delo Brown and
Vince McMahon thought you weren't worth that ship. You want to spot on my
show? I got to arrange for that, and would you like to play
the role of my little bitch? And Delo slaps the dog ship out of
Russo and jumps them. A J jumps on Delo and starts stomping him out,
and fucking Raven hits the ring to make the same, throws a g
in the buckle clothesline, running k the lift, he goes for the even
flow. Uh It says on commentary that he hits the Raven effect. Come
on, Raven, D D T ain't that right? Teddy got heard commentary.
He's the he would never lie. He could have professed to getting some
ship right. Come on, well, Shane Douglas runs out, now gets
in the ring and jumps Raven hits a belly to belly sup plex. The
crowds shanning triple threat. That is nuts. First off, that's nuts.
Second off, Patton didn't move the belly to belly suplex. Well, it's
like you know the fine bus, where's the That was the franiser? Okay,
so it's the franchiser, but it's not the Raven effect. DDT.
Well he didn't go to w W here. This is t n A.
Sorry. So Shane dog is fos raving up to make the save, and
then the Red Shirt security come out to bulls shame. That's them Travin North
cutting right. They say that commentary for some reason. Know, Wow,
they get some ship wrong here, James, No, no, they don't.
There's a red Shirt. So they go backstage. Goldielocks is interviewing Tracy
and Veronica. Who the fuck is Veronica? This is the only person I
don't know on this's a nurse. Oh sorry, she's one half of the
slap oh dude, okay, I do know who this is. I can't
believe I didn't make that. I didn't know this. This is simply luscious.
She was one of two women CZW you ever booked in this era.
That's that's how I know. So Tracy says that the n w A board
is sexist and they won't let them compete with the men. Oh okay,
they're trying to wrestle like David Young. You would you don't want to face
Young? How about the Sandman? Yeah, you can face it wrestling,
you'll win back count out white Russian legs. So Ronica says, us girls
at Bitch Slap handle things our own way. Yeah, most women would sue
for sexual discrimination, but not us in Bitch Slap We handle things our own
way. Okay, Now, just so everyone knows, we don't see them
for the rest of the show. They don't handle anything. They're not very
good at it. So Eric Watts then walks up, that's mister explosion.
It's the future of this business. Bro's the next Stufude. Eric. What's
it called when like you, you get a job because you're related to somebody.
What's it called nepotism? Yeah, that's right, that's right, Yeah,
that's right. Fucking Eric Bill wattson get the hell out of here.
Man. Well, wats asked if Goldie took care of what they talked about
last night. Oh, and she said, look, I gotta interview kick
Cash. I don't have time for this right now. Eric Watt says,
I'll kill myself tonight. I'll if you even look at your cash, I'm
gonna throw myself off the top of the asylum. You better fucking time,
yah, got u got it? You gotta later. So we go to
another it's actually outside Julio and Mickey James. This is actually the interest.
That's Alexis Larie. Please, oh, I'm so sorry about that. That's
Mickey James. And see him. Punk walks up and he has nipples pierced.
Crazy here, dude, heavy nipple piercing skinny Punk. This is the
Punk. I know, my guy. He wants to join the gathering of
course. Yeah, that's Ravens group. And well, at first Joli and
Alexis laris are they're freaking out because they Raven's gonna be mad because Shane Dougles
just fucking franchised his ass and the bear right come on, Danny do well.
Yeah, so Punk is trying to join and he says, listen,
you asked Raven about me joining the gathering end and you know I've been asking
you guys for weeks. And Julia said, dude, this is a bad
what can iself my own? Actually, listen, Raven's pretty hot right now
and he could be a complete asshole when he's in a bad moood. And
who Leo said, you want to join the gathering? We're with a buttholes
whiskers, they're being no gathering. Yeah, well, Punk says there will
always be a gathering. Quote see a bunk with the dimples? Yeah?
Wow. So Chris Saban versus Paul London is up next for the X Division
Championship. Chris Saban's in sex sex to bring it back. We can run
this batch back down. The king gotta chuck Slayer sex sells. So the
X fact is here, say that London is the number one contender and he's
coming back from Japan, and of course is the future Shock versus London calling
Future Shock is what the cradle Shock? No, that's the Fisherman Buster.
Oh that's right, London calling is the Shooter. So code of Honor not
adhere to in this match. There's something very important that you're missing here.
How to miss it? Because Paul London comes out and his music's playing and
it cuts to the side shot and the cage girl is just relentlessly shaking her
as this dude for me, not for you, though it can't be for
you. She is going to town on this fucking dude. It's unbelievable.
He just came back from Japan. Yeah, shit man, And there's an
even more gregious one later than I'm sure you wrote down. So let me
just state this here. Chris Saban is twenty one, Paul London is twenty
three. Holy wow. Yeah that's pretty crazy looking back. Sweet. By
the way, Chris Saban is the current DPW World Tag Team Champions a long
like Shelly right now, and DPW is our wrestling companies, So we do
that. Yeah, we do that shit. So Code of Honor noddedhered to
saving his London the middle finger. Holy shit, man, London just hits
a running shoot off the apron straight to save and I thought that was cool,
dude, that was awesome. He I feel like London is workshopping the
drops all here because it's like fifty fifty one if he's gonna land on his
face when he does, oh yeah yeah, and like it's right in the
middle of the comeback randomly like he just got a guy in there. Yeah,
yeah, he's just trying something. Here. Saman goes through the Alabama
Slam, London reverses into a fucked up like poison ronaut thing. It's like
a destroyer, right, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. It was like
supposed to think it's just be a regular ron and they just tarted to a
spike fucking sheer drop. I was like, great, all right, that
was fucking yeah. That was sick as fuck. Chris Saban hits the spinning
gutbuster, which by the way is a super lost move that is a it
was like a inverted catatonic onto his knee. Yeah yeah, that was That
was sick as fuck. And also they did a spot where Saban grabbed London
like by his gear and threw him into the turnbucle behind him, but Paul
London caught himself and slapped the turmmucle to make it seem like he actually hit
it to fucking distract Saban and then fucked him up. He work as smart
or something. It's a little bit, a little bit of these exhibsion kids.
Well, see him. Punk comes down here and gets in the ring
and sits in the corner like Raven. I was confused at first because he's
he's walking down the ramp and they don't show it, but the crowd's chanting
PEPSI the fuck he's going on here? That was one of the girl's names
in the cages. So Saban and London are on the top rope on the
other side, so they don't even see Punk coming to the ring and city
this is crazy. London then knocks Saban off, hits the shooter that he
fucking saving went for Irana, and London just stuffed him and you could barely
see that it happened because it's just on sem Punk's head. Dude, I
had to go back because it's like it was happening in picture and picture and
then it come back to and you got lander on in his head. Stuffs
him off the top of the power bomb and it's a shooting so crazy Jesus.
He can't make the pin though, because he's distracted as he noticed that.
See him. Punk is acting like Raven in the corner. Yeah,
a little weirdo and then see him Punk gets the seeing Punk effect on London,
fucking Chris saving his future shock to win the match and attend the title
at seven minutes thirty seven seconds. Is that all it was? It was?
It was short. Wow, that was fucking That was a fun match
if you get packed him ship in that eight they were they were top of
a power bomb shooter. I'll take a shooter off the apron, fucking standing
muscle buster. I don't call that ship. Chris Saban looked incredible here.
Uh, Paul London, I imagine as soon to w W E Yeah,
probably like fucking now they see this match and saying, oh, ship that
man in the they're probably gonna sign Chris Saban said he's sex. What is
Oh? I don't know about that sex, Chris, Chris Saban, Wait
a minute, David Youngson net back of the bat. Let them cook.
So backstage, Goldilocks is with new Jack and asks if maybe new Jack is
overlooking his opponent above average Mike Sanders, and he says, no, I'm
not I'm not giving I don't give ship about Mike. Mike Sander, do
you think when you got this business that one day you might be standing across
the ring looking at me, And did you think that new Jack got kicked
out of every federation and it wasn't for plenty cards. Mike, this isn't
w's what I wanta. DV is probably not gonna be sanctioned. I'm gonna
stick my fingers in your eyes and rip your heart out. And then he
looks over and says, he says what, and all of a sudden,
shark Boy walks in. Shark Boy says, sharky, I got time for
you to night. I got time to play with you tonight, man,
Mike Sanders on my mind. I've done beagle ass in every game we played,
every game, Twister, the game with the White Woman. I beat
you in all of them. So tick your little ass and stop smiling.
Shark Boy then brings his hands around to reveal that he has hulcns on and
the crowdfucking pops and knw Jack says, hold up, takes one of them.
He says, I'll tell you what. After I'm finished with Mike Sanders,
I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna whoop your hands and I'm gonna
and then I'm gonna beat everybody up in the building, and I'll see you
about in five minutes, because that's all it's gonna take. And he looks
at the camera and says, I don't know wrestling the moves, I don't
know holds, I know whooping your ass. This is the best promo,
guy, dude. It is actually unbelievable how good he is. And it's
actually unbelievable that I remember this whole Cans thing for twenty years. It's crazy
how that stood the test of time, and how like Shark boyt Nujak is
inspired book it is. It is totally inspired and shouldn't have worked, but
it absolutely did because new Jack just makes everything work. So I'm surprised they
didn't get the tag titles. Well, if you see the division, I
guess it's easy to see why I probably did that. Right now, you're
right, Kid Cash comes up randomly and starts talking to someone behind the cage
door. Yeah, oh yeah, behind the interview area, right, yeah,
yeah, that's right. He looks at He said, Yo, big
scary dude, it's kid Cash. I didn't get your name last week.
I just want to thank you for watching my back and of course this is
setting up for the debut of Abyss, who was just a creepy guy in
a cage that was kid Cash is heater for a minute, and kid Cash
as you got the note I left and you get the cookies I got hello,
and he says, well, I need your help tonight one more time,
and then something gets thrown at kid Cash from the ends and cashes.
I'll take that as a guess. So now it's time for the TNA flashback.
Here are the following TNA flash I'm I can't believe they even included these,
because, like you would think they'd be like, oh, maybe some
of these who are you like, you know? Uh? The first one
is Puppet the Psycho Dwarf attacking Don West with a Singapore cane. The second
one is Jasmine Saint Clair giving Jeremy Borosh a lamp dance, then taking off
for pennies, and then TNA is he President Bill Barns or NBA Representative Bill
Barron trying to get him to stop it, and Ed Farrar spearing him to
stop him from stopping it, and then Chris Rock saying n w A t
n A is the best wrestling in the world. And if you think this
is fake, come down here and get your ask king that right? What
movie was he filming? Fresh off Ahead of State? But I never saw
that movie. I know the scene. I just so I guess I've seen
the fucking movie because I remember saying it was Head of State. He was
like the president, right, Well, I don't know what's going on there.
I never saw the movie. Now, Chris Rock is cool, But
can we get Chris Tucker to come say that DPW is the best Jack,
that we should have him as Jerry long on content Coleman beats the ship out
of them. That'd be awesome. So we go to Mike Sanders versus New
Jack Hard ten Tournament. Can you explain the hard ten tournament for those that
might not know, Let's just say hard ten was a great idea that they
should bring back in do today, which was basically every weapon that you use
and hit somebody with, you get one point. The table was worth five
points, and if you use weapons enough and accumulate ten points, you win
the match, but you have to win by two, which you know what,
man, And maybe maybe this is just the nostalgia in me, because
I feel like over the years, I was like, ah, that sounds
stupid, but watching it, I was like, this isn't. This isn't.
There's something here, there's something here. It's hard to spind your disbelief
because why they're fuck when you just grab a trash can lid and go repeatedly
yes, yeah, why would you not sure? At one point they added
a rule where there's like ravens nest where if you knocked about the raven's nests
antomatically get ten points, you would win automatically. Yeah that's right. Yeah,
there's like three stacked tables or something. I don't but yeah, I
respect the effort, don't get me wrong, very silly, but I feel
like there's something there because like it's over, the speakers would like announce the
points like when it was happening. I was, okay, that's an easy
enough to keep track of, but like maybe not with the weapons, but
some kind of fucking point thing here, like yeah they have because there's like
a ton of weapons around the ring the fans have like trash can lids and
stuff. Then if they Okay, so the way they did it is you
could hit someone every time, like you could non stop hit somebody get points
if you got a point and they separated you for a second or like you
had to like you couldn't attack them, you know what I mean, Like
if there was some sort of separation where like you couldn't spam the hits,
like I only get a point until they announce it or something. You know,
you have to use a different weapon for each oh one point per weapon.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be kind of good. Maybe I like it
so much because it feels like it'd be fun if it was in a video
game. Yeah, no, it would be. But I also think like
that it could be done. Like I said, like if I say,
you use a lid, all right, and they can't use the lid again.
You can't use the lid for the next point. You can use the
trash can. But once you use the trash can, you can use the
lid again. Sure does that make sense? So like, yeah you can.
So you can use the lid. You can hit them twenty fifty,
one hundred times in a row. It's don't get one count off the rip,
right, that's not a bad idea. That would probably make it work.
But yeah, because in this one, he was just like one two.
I was like, you got the lid yeah, I was like,
I do if anyone listening can help us come up with a better version of
the hard ten, we're workshopping here. That's good, I think, James
the community. Yeah, you can't use consecutive weapons shows. I liked that
the table meant more. Yeah, that was cool because that should be an
ender. Yeah right, and it was. So this is a semi final
match, Mike Sanders a new Jack. The other semi final match was happening
next week is Sonny Saki versus Sandman, and Sonny Saki beat Gangrell to get
to the semi finals. That's the Vampire Sorry that here, dude. So
yeah, Mike Sanders comes out, he goes up the ramp to fucking you
know, hide for when comes out, he was fucking sucking the Vampire Warriors.
We couldn't use the other one. Yeah, come on, man,
we're fucking sucking the Vampire Warrior. That's what I won't stop till us sucking
Vampire Warrior. Winning the hard turnament is like, that would have been really
crazy. Well, sadly they had plans for the Sandman instead. Sorry,
Oh that was fucking short sighted from an obvious When the Sandman went the most
hardcore fucking guys. Bullshit. Yeah, that's absolutely bullshit. Yeah, the
fucking Vampire Digital one. Well, New Jack comes out to the Bootsy Collins,
which is an awesome song. It's cool and it's hard to find a
fucking high quality version that dude, there's a music video for it. But
yeah there, I don't know if there, I don't know if a high
quality version existed. They might have recorded it in one from this stand,
they could have your mono mic fucking great. Yeah maybe, God damn,
what a great song. Yeah, it's like a dude jack. Yeah,
that's awesome. But yeah, of course Mike Sanders comes out from behind him
brains them with a trash cane lid. I was very confused off the start
here because Mike Sanders jumps New Jack before the bell, but his trash cane
lid shot counted as a point yep, that's right. And they also they
also said that like the weapons placed around the ring would be counted as points,
so that also threw me off too. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,
because like throw in was right. Okay, Yeah, I'm confused.
I don't know. Yeah, but they gave the fans all in the front
road like a bunch of trash can lads and like Singapore cane and shit like
that, which I thought was a cool visual. There's a shark boy chant
all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, that's fucking weird, and
everyone's like distracted. All of a sudden, shark boy is in the crowd
with all cans. The crowd's going nuts there too, They're fucking losing their
minds. So Mike Sanders is spamming, fucking cooking pan shots to Nujack repeatedly.
Nwjack puts Sanders in a chair in the corner like where the guard rail
is, like where security usually be. The new Jack runs off the apron
with a chair, jumps off, Mike Sanders moves and Nu Jack, I
swear, just fucking breaks his him. It looked like I heard, like
a motherfucker man. So to catch everybody up Sanders. After that, he
misses, and Sanders uses a trash can lid home in the corner. The
score is seven to one, and then in the crowd there is a washo
ass sign. Yeah that's fucking nuts. So new Jack then grabs the cook
sheet, uses it, and now it's seven to two. New Jack then
breaks a fucking board over Mike Sanders cock on top of the pan to make
his seven to three. Do you think that should have been two points?
Damn? Maybe, I don't know. Yeah, that's a tough one,
but I guess it's a JB's discretion. That's what they say in this turn
Jack, I respect JB. Jeremy. So nu Jack uses the lid again,
it's seven to four. Nujak then puts the lid on sanders cock and
head butts it for his seven to five. H Sanders then rolls out on
this table on the outside and nu Jack starts setting up for something. Yeah,
Sanders rolls out onto the table and new Jack fucking rolls them all of
it because it was the table, dude, spotty man, I'm trying to
save you. So nu Jack then climbs the ropes and incomes Shark Boy.
He comes over the rail with hull cans, comes in and hands du Jack
one of the hull cans, and new Jack is looking at it and he's
like, then he's panamim to the crowds, like you want to use this
ship. Then Nujak gets into the ring and starts doing hull coke and posts
that was awesome. This is like one of my favorite things, dances.
What the hell? Then Nujak takes the whole cand hits Sanders off the apron
biggest Superman punch of all time, and he crashes through the table, getting
him five points and allowing him to win the match. That was awesome.
That was I mean again, this was the best hard it had to We
should we gotta like, is there a compilation you think of the whole tournament
that we can watch? So we should make a compilation and then we'll just
watch it for like Patreon or something. Hey, hey, that was Yeah,
that's a good idea. I think you know what we should do,
guys. We should have someone make a compilation of all the Hard Dead matches
and we could watch it. That's a horrible idea, Tony, Yeah,
maybe a compilation. Come on, guys, it's not bad right, Well,
Shark Boy celebrates with them after the match, by the way, but
yeah, this is a definitely it feels convoluted, but it's fun, so
I'll take it. I know that one of these fucking matches would ruin this.
I know one of these matches were go ahead. Okay, so it's
Mike Sanders beats Brian Lee in the first round, new Jack beats Slash in
the first round, Sonny Saki beats Vampire Warrior in the first round, and
Sandman beats crow Bar in the first round. Obviously, new Jack beats Mike
Sanders, Sandman beats Sonny Sayaki, and Sandman beats New Jack in the finals.
New Jake didn't win Salmon. Yeah, I would have them. I
would have the Vampire Warrior win. Sadly, sadly he did not. And
I don't know, hardcore guy in the company. He's just spitting up blood
and fucking. That's the kind of guy you go to the covey around.
How you have a vampire warrior in sex manim in s that's super inspired to
well, David Young was also sucking and fucking, so they that was giving
to I forgot about that was sucking and sucking a fucking spot, Fluster.
He was just sucking his big piece of ship. That's the movie. The
start of the show is the sucking. Fuck. Yeah, you might be
the gut No, all right, so Trinity, he might be Trinity video
package. She loves setting herself a fire and jumping in the There's anything she
wants to do. It's get her asking burn it out in the parking lot
to Yeah, and that's what I call Sunday driving one of my friends things.
I set myself on fire this video back said that a sucking and fucking
divvy. You never really want to put him on the map. Davy stuck
the brothers my first da ballet likes to set herself on fire for her and
U. They showed clips of Trinity's best moments, like when she moves on
it to the floor. Nobody call her. That was nice, and then
the crowd pops when they show her in a bikini on the beach. That's
all they popped for. Yeah, man, Trinity was cool. By the
way she was cool. They were definitely trying to make her leader. Yeah,
that's true, a whole leader. So d n a flashback. Dusty
Rhodes made his debut. Dude, Yeah he fucking stops sex all right,
sex putting Jared through a table. It's a crazy elbow combo on road Dog.
Also, Jeff Jarrett won the n w A title. Then Raven jumped
on and hit the even flow and stole then w A title in the middle,
and then the even flowed and then Delo debuted and he promised it will
be nothing short of albona fide superstar. Here his fucking fought, he was
working hard. He was working hard, man, so you gotta give it
to him. So we got just Incredible versus Jerry Lynn. I can't imagine
your feelings as just incredible came through on the stage and cut off anarchist shirt
and big ass pants, the biggest short snow man. I never seen some
ships like this. They were fucking unbelieve. They reminded me who did we
just watch recently that had gigantic fucking pants f frenchly identical big pants ship.
Both can't read years of age just because I longest choice ever, big gass
pads bad. They go to the kickbads. That's nuts, dude, in
those beds. Just incredible kicks. Yeah, there's big kicks. So there's
the history of Just Incredible and Jerry Lynn on Little Angle. Yeah. They
had a breakaway brawl after a three way X match with Chris Saw. You
guys, remember I thought that was a tag match? Was it a three
way? It could have been a tag match? Yeah, I think because
I think they were teaming and then justin Credible said, fuck you man,
I'm tagged and you want to I want to hit my finisher. That's incredible,
and then Saban rolls them up and then there he loses the match and
then they fight. Yeah, Jerry Lynn says that just Incredible made his way
to the top of e c W in the wrong ways. I don't know
if you remember the end of your ec W A you be Justic Grable says,
why do you say fuck me for? And then what does that means?
And lind says, what do you think that means? Incredible says I
worked my way to the top, and Jerry Jerry Lynda says, yeah,
right, justin asshole, fucking bitch fighting to get I like that. I
like the on site fights. I like that, dude. The interviews in
the arena with the lights blacked out but the chairs are all set up and
the ring is up is a very cool visual and something I'm fat some bitch
the world champions everyone else. Yeah, that's he's got big ass, justin
asshole. So they both all right, So the match starts. I thought
this was going to be maybe the uh, the the blowoff of this feud.
I was like, oh, this a little feud here. You know,
we'll blow it off here, and that's the way to get somebody over.
Just beginning, just beginning to fucking breakaway brawls. Another match where they
do nothing like oh the beginning. This is no fucking no title or anything.
Just a fucking mid guards for you. That's crazy, man. So
yeah, you like that. I didn't think the match was bad. Uh,
it was I looking for That's what I feel like this. I feel
like it was like one of those things you know in the two K universe
mode where like you can do short, medium, or long. Yeah.
Yeah, you should have definitely said it short more cut scenes, man,
Come on, they got a lot of the same scenes. Yeah. True.
So they both try to hit their own pile drivers, which is a
fun dynamic. I you can believe it. Jerry Lynn is a good wrestler
and just incredible can pick up the slack one need be just incredible fucking flying
cross body press. I was super confused when he went up there. I
was like they would typing the shit out of each other at one point though.
That was cool. So Credible hits a super kick, but that's a
two. Ah. They reverse some flash pins out of the pile driver and
then Incredible grabs the rope and he wins, which was I thought that was
cute, you know, is this is just incredible and for that's incredible and
Lynn rolled them up the same way that Justin lost in the tag match that
set this all off. And then they fight after the belt to the outside.
Well okay, so so they fucking they do the pin thing. The
referee calls it, but then like doesn't. He's like confused and the commentaries
are confused. He's like, no, that wasn't three Oh wait, yes
it was. Oh, we don't know. Everyone has lost until the ref
Razors does incredible his hand, which sets off Jerry Lynn and he fucking tags
on the floor and they fight over the guardrail and there's like fans getting crushed
in between this fight, and it ends with just Incredible pointing at Jerry Lynn
and saying, oh kill you. Yeah, they go they go out here.
There's a guy in the crowd right beside this huge brawl. He's got
big ass hat on, just some massive batch. Yeah to that. Yeah,
he's just looking at this. And then after that we go to the
three Live Crew racist town hall. Okay, how the fun do we talk
about this fucking thing. I don't know how all right, so we can't
talk about this thing. But it is road Dog making a lot of uh
yeah, cruise jokes yeah with his with his friends. Yeah. But and
it's like I but it's the whole thing. It's the whole thing. So
he's supposed to be Mike Tonay because I guess they're saying Mikeday is racist?
Is that what they're No, I don't know that's right. I think I
think, but you're right, road Dog's being Mike toa here though, road
Dog is Mike Tonay. But it's just road Dog being racist. No,
but no, I don't know what like calling back to a pre's interview with
Mike Today or not. No, I don't think. So. I was
confused, Like I was like, why is road Dog just being racist?
Because I know it. I thought it was it was just to did the
sit down interviews. He was just was just I know, but I thought
he was like calling today racist because today thought is asked. Yeah. I
wasn't sure if there was like a callback that I missed on a previous episode.
It was like he was just being racist and that's what it was.
Just Cruise it was three light cruise like things that they were boys. They
were just doing. It was d X. Yeah, yeah, sure,
okay, it was just d X. I won't There was a funny one
though, where BG or road Dog says this interview isn't about me, and
Ron Kellens looks at him and says, yo, mama. But you can
look it up. Yeah, if you want to, you can find it.
It's it's fucking ridiculous, So yeah, you should probably look it up.
N it's a DNA flashback. Dasy Rhod's got a primo about Puppet,
the midget beating off in a trash care. Dude, Yeah, he's talking.
You know the legacy of the n w A and Ricky steamboat wrestling for
an hour, three hundred days a year and Jeff Jared last week, three
men, thirty minutes of pain and blues in agony. Or how about a
midget beating off in the trash care. Oh yeah, that's awest hell jack
off, Steve just do an arm drag for an hour. This guy got
a gun and they showed this shot of what had happened. Goldielocks was backstage
and she walked up to interview Puppet and this is his name, Puppet the
Midget Killer, and that's gimmicks. Gimmick. But he's busy because he's in
a trash He's like, not just he's not jerking off like into a trash
can. He's physically inside of a trash can with the lid on, and
he's beating his ship to smithereens. Yeah, beat his ship up, yeah,
gnarlin. Man. If teenagers around today, he'd be on the goddamn
fan bus. Yeah, I got my man here. God no, not
popping in code locks on the fil Yeah, that's crazy. What's wrong with
that little fucking dude? Man, fucking crazy, chilling, Yeah, he's
chilling, dude, Man, he's fucking him crazy too, man, Not
that I saw it or no, no way, no way. I watched
a Bubby beat off in the trash watched I have to pick one, all
right. Yeah, so we move on here from that forever in my head,
I gotta think of that now, like that's my night. Now.
I gotta January first, and this is how Yeah that's a good way.
Twenty four So, uh, Kenzo Suzuki versus Perry Saturn is up next,
which is nuts. I was very excited at the start of this one voice,
I was very because Kenso Suzuki comes out, He's fucking looking good.
He's in good shape here, and this is the best shape I've ever seen
him. Man, period. This is a whole different guy. Like I
think like the one w B got was like a like a whole different guy.
I think, dude, it definitely is a whole different guy. Like
I swear to god, this guy like he's got weight belt on, Like
that's nuts. Yeah, dude, He's like he's fucking looking good here,
and like I'm like, oh wow, And like he comes out and he
looks at the crowd and he spits gum right at some dude's face. I
said, wow, this is awesome. I said, wow, I wonder
who Kenzo Suzuki's wrestling. And then fucking this fucking homeless guy, he's just
walking homeless guy that fucking lives at the gym because he's got nowhere else to
go, and he's super jack because of it, comes out and I find
out it's fucking Perry Saturn. Parry Saturn sleeveless hoodie bandana, he's yoked and
on commentary they're putting over this over is like a big fucking interpromotional match because
Kenzo used to wrestle for New Japan, then he jumped to w J.
They wouldn't take it on promotion. Yeah, whatever that is World Japan and
Perry Saturn still works for New Japan, so this is an interpromotional match.
I was like, oh, wow, this is fucking cool, but it
is not cool. I don't know if Kazuzuki came over here specifically for this
match, but if you did, I'm fucking so sorry, my dude,
dude, you brought up I want to talk about WJ earlier. Oh yeah,
the WJ. So I was like, WJ, I feel like I've
heard that, and I looked it up and I was like, damn,
I've seen this logo somewhere. And then I was like reading on these excerpts
and I was like, Jesus fucking Christ, this is the craziest promotion I've
ever heard of. They announced this match is World Japan versus New Japan.
That's not what this was as well, made sure, but that's not what
this was. But yeah, World Japan was a promotion started by Ricky Choshu
that died in two thousand and four. So I was like Okay, how
did it die? Like, what the fuck happened here? Because it had
just started. World Japan struggled to turn a profit with any shows they ran.
I'm just reading this debated by the way, so just everybody knows.
They struggle to turn up out with any shows they ran, and Ricky Choshu's
excessive spending soon became a problem. This has been a worry of investors for
months, as Ricky Choshu had spent over one point eight million dollars before they
had even run a show on bill. He built a dojo, he bought
a tour bus, he bought a new car for himself, and he bought
an expensive year end party attended by many celebrities and high profile figures in Japan.
Shit, that's crazy. So wow, there's a there's a lot that
happens here in about one year's time. So a tournament took place in July
to crown the first WMG, which is the World Magma the Greatest Heavyweight Champion.
That was won by Kin's k Sasaki. And he did not receive a
bad champ No, not at all, right, and like having your new
federation like anchored by kins Kate Sazaki is is a good deal? Oh dude.
He beats Kenso Suzuki in the final with the winn bel Yeah, like
he was. Suzuki was a big deal here because he had came from New
Japan. Because they mentioned he debuted in the Tokyo time. I was like,
well, I know, world Japan wasn't to look it up. Kins
Ki Sazaki won the WMG heavyweight title. He did even get the belt until
weeks later because it was incomplete. Wow. On July twenty eighth, two
thousand and three, an MMA fighter turned pro wrestler if I Butcher's name on
iPod as giant Ei was training under Kenzo Suzuki and the WJ dojoh and he
died. Oh ok, yeah, so he died. He died on August
eighth, two thousand and three. So that yeah, while training and that
was like a big like thing for that promotion because like a lot of people
started looking down on it quite right after. That was downfall that Oh wow.
Wj's numerous financial issues also became greater and greater public knowledge around this time.
As Ricky Choshu, his spending had not slowed down, and he managed
to make extravagant purchases with investors money, including sending one million a month to
both his daughters, who are studying in the United Kingdom at the time.
What a good dad. Numerous wrestlers began to claim that they were owed money
by Ricky Joju and kins Kyosazaki actually put up five million y in of his
own money, canceling his life insurance to help continue to promote WJ events.
No wj's unpaid salaries were actually later parodied in the same promotion, with Shiro
Koshinaka forming the labor Union stable and feuding with Ricky Choshu and KFAB over his
numerous debts to him, dude, you can't do you can't just turn dude.
I was like, Wow, this is like crazy, and then I
was like, oh wow, there's more so in a bit more, Yeah,
dude, there's a lot more so. In a bid to recoup money
and replicate the success of Pride FC and K One, Ricky Chosehu announced the
X one in September. This is a Sister MBA promotion to WJ, which
drew some attention after they announced Katsuhiko Nakajima, the then fifteen year old who
is now by the way the triple crowded AJP Whau and he's faced off against
the NXT guy. Uh. He would debut Chuck Norris. He would debut
as the youngest MMA fighter ever on the Guard. He's fifteen fifteen years old.
Despite the attention, the show was heavily panned by fans, who criticized
the inexperienced fighters and the low level of competition. In addition to this,
the cage itself began to collapse during the show and had to be held out.
My God, site assistance. We need to find the show. I
need to see the show. Wow. Ricky chose you himself, walked out
of the event and refused to talk to the media before the end of the
show, to the anger of Sasaki and Nagashima. Please tell me this fucking
footage of that show, Dude, I don't know. Yeah, you have
to. We have to look it up X one. I'll look it up.
After the colossal failure of X one, many World Japan events will be
promoted and then suddenly canceled just days before. It was later revealed that Nagashima
had either lied about booking the venues or just not paid the money. To
high of them, and he was unable to secure the venues and then simply
just canceled the Joe's Dude. The most infamous of these happened on October twenty
second, two thousand and three, when World Japan announced they were running cork
And Hall. However, it was quickly pointed out that there was a boxing
show also schedule on that date to take place in cork And and that Nagashima
had lied about booking the venue. Dude, why does this the legend of
Rio. By the end of two thousand and three, Shiro Koshinaka and Takao
o'mori had both left for other organizations, and World Japan's ace can say Sazaki
have returned to New Japan. In this failure of World Japan's severely damaged the
formerly close relationship between Sazaki and Ricky Choshu, as Sazaki lost over five million
yen and canceled his life insurance to fund the events, leading to him and
his wife Akuro Hote, facing serious money issues in late two thousand and three,
and Sasaki had to work up to two independent shows a day just to
support his family. O he fought Ricky Joshu rick Man, Yeah Yeah,
that was like, that was the biggest like wormhole ever. Like I dude,
okay, thank you for Look, that's unbelievable. That's okay. Now
going back to the match, No fucking wonder this is Zuki's a whole different
dude by the time he went through goddamn w J trauma. Yeah. That's
yeah, that's pretty nuts. Man, Holy ship, there's so much that
the X one sounds unbelievada. If anyone, if anyone can find that show
with a fucking cage collapse, that is awesome. Wow, you're right,
man, Suzuki on a crazy stack here. He does not look like point
did no, no, no, no, no no, He's a whole
different dude. Yeah. Uh in this match. Please, let's not lose
sight this match. Yeah, it's fun to watch. Yeah, I would
watch. That is all over the place here, man, he trips on
a body slam, he misses the mark on a springboard dude, Okay.
Yeah. Saturn goes to body slam kensas Auzuki and loses his balance and almost
drops Auzuki twelve to SIGs on his hand. Yeah, which then Saturn follows
up with a spring back splash which he overshoots and knees Suzuki right in the
nuts. Suzuki kills Saturn with a spear though that was awesome, hits a
jumping knee. Then fucking Saturn returns the favor by trying to paralyze kensa Suzuki
with a German soup. Oh my god, the meanest fucking beast soup of
all time. We gotta get him back, kid uh. Saturn steals David
Jung's move and hits a swanbuster, ducking pulled Rank in the back. Sting
is holding back. He said it's not worth it. He touches it at
a home It's not worth it. And then all of a sudden, a
man with gigantic pants floats through. Trust Incredible Justic Gardil slides in and hits
Sperry Sound in the head with a Singapore cane break up the pin. I
think he yeah, he was. Remember we patreon that fucking ladder match and
they were like the Extreme Revolution together. I think just Incredibles turning on the
whole group and Saturn in that group. Okay, sure so just Incredible hits
Saturn with the cane to break up the pin. The match is over.
Jerry Lynn comes out attacks just incredible. They brought up the ramp. Suzuki
and Very Saturn are still fighting. Yeah, Saturn clothes lines him over the
top and the referee calls it a no contest. I don't know why it
was called a no contest. Just incredible. Blatantly attacked Very Saturn. But
whatever. Wow. Yeah, never, never in a million years that I
thought i'd see that match, and see that match in particular. Yeah,
I thought I thought Werebody get something cool. So we go backstage, AJ
styles with Goldie Locks. Goldilocks says that she has a hard time swallowing what
AJ did last week. Swallow heard I heard you swallow lots of stuff,
not a food. So a J of course is just a shithead. And
that leads into a smash late at night. Yeah, he says, I
don't care who my mystery partner is. It could be you, it could
be a broomstick. Veans has my best intern in mine. He's gonna the
best partner in the world. And what Van stands or does I believe that
swallow that Goldie so tn a flashback. Toby Keith hits a soup lex and
the craziest pose of all time, The fucking the Keith Lee post. That's
exactly what it is. It's crazy. It also shows our truth and Hermie
Sadler. It shows Jeff Jarrett versus the Tennessee Titans, a fucking lifelong rivalry.
Titans fucking ass by the way they kick his ass and then Jared starts
hitting them in the head with a dude. They jumped the whole jumped the
guard, Jared's acid his own promotion and then he be a chair and then
Maleix runs out and attack Jared Jason them away. So next up we have
a MW versus Triple X. This is fucking awesome. Yeah, what a
great what a great feud this is. This is literally like this, This
is like the best feud probably in this early TNA stuff that they had and
delivered every time it transcends NTO B A TNA because this shit last till it's
just DNA. Yeah, it's cool that it's cool that like Daniels and Skipper
were able to get together and make something special here because you know, Daniels
was doing his own thing outside of this, and uh, it's cool when
you can come into a promotion. Yeah, you can come into a promotion
and like you can tag with somebody that you don't tag with all the time
outside the company, and like you can just make it work because you just
both think you know what I mean, I think that's very cool and I
think it's cool for companies to have their own tag teams that like this is
where this is, this is where this exists. Yeah. Yeah, and
AMW and Triple X are like the app two of the absolute best of all
time when it comes to tag. Yes, I guess I never even consider
it like that because you know, just AMW in my mind, is just
like the TNA Tag team. But yeah, they were just put together just
on a fucking random pay per view. Yeah, yeah, they just put
it. They didn't coming to Yeah, they didn't come into TNA as a
team. Yeah that's pretty cool. And I feel like and they both and
both the teams like they're ready to die and they didn't give a point for
the like every match, Yes, dude, Yes, you know it's there's
a certain amount of passion and every one of these matches that like it's hard
to replicate, like you can't you can't teach that sort of like reverence.
I don't know, they just do. So AMW won the Asylum Alliance five
week tournament to get the title shot here. I don't know what the fuck
that is. I have no idea either first it, but this is the
end of it. Congratulations. So backstage, it cuts to AMW and Triple
X attacking each other. No, and then they just kind of come out.
So Daniels and Eliz Gibber are stomping out of AMW and then their music
plays and then just turn around a walk out towards the fucking gorilla position.
Uh. Low Key comes out here. He has both tag titles and he
leaves Alix and Daniels to the ring. Here. He's got a sling on
too. I guess he got hurt in Europe. Did I was in my
mind, I was like, wow, I hope this is when a bono
would have been crazy. So Daniels cuts a promo here about sports entertainment because
guess what they're all about that sex? Hell yeah, hell yeah, sex
sales. So AMW comes out here House of Fire because they were just a
tag backstage. Good. It was a good idea to do that to get
this match going, especially because they knew that they probably didn't have all the
time in the world here. So if they were able to just fucking hot
start this, then they can get more out of the back end. Super
smart. I'm sure they pitched it. Yeah, Glenn gil bertie idea,
but oh yeah, of course, Glen Gooberti said, guys are gonna get
enough time to do all your good ships. What we're gonna do is I
have an idea. I used to do this all the time. They jumped
me in the back and I didn't come out. Yeah, they just come
on that. They didn't film it either for some reason. That's weird.
And they took my ducky beat this ship out of it. They fucking just
kicked my fucking ass in the back. Yeah. The crowd super into it.
Off the rip to uh AMW is zero and three against Triple X,
and Daniel's in the promo talks about in two weeks going back to Japan and
this the last two weeks people are going to see him here. So I
was like, oh, okay, fucking Triple X are probably dropping the belts
here because Daniels gotta go away. Yeah, that's the I definitely thought.
I was like, in my head, for some reason, I know the
match that comes after this, so I don't know why I was tricked,
but I like either I believed in the story that was being told so much
here I just bought Yeah. So yeah, AMW comes out House of Fire,
Triple X starts here. Cut off is a fucking elevated double flat liner.
I thought that was very cool. Dude, that is fucking cool.
That's a good move. There's actually a lot of like early TNA. God
damn it. It pisses me off because I feel like we say this a
lot that like people should watch AMW stuff more and and Beer Money too.
AMW and Beer Money are like two teams that I feel like people should steal
more shit from. Yeah, you're if you're also if you're a tag team,
and like this is some shit you should study too, because like the
cutoff here is so strong that like he believably can sell it throughout the entire
heat. It's the whole story, right, Like it's it's perfect. So
like if you're a tag team watching this, like even like they're the heels,
right, but like you can like fucking poke them in the eyes or
whatever and then hit some fucking crazy shit for the cutoff and then like even
during your heat if you do some like cocky shit, Like the Suplex cross
body is like a super fucking cocky ass move to try to go for and
like you still get your heat that way if you're over, you know what
I mean, if you know how to get over you are over, that's
some shit you can do. Like that's something definitely to study. So Triple
X, like I said, it's the super lex cross body double team.
Here, Chris Harris has a double line off the top dude, double Kane,
closeline, double dude. He stuffs Daniels with a full Nelson slant,
which kills him. I was like, oh, it's awesome, dude.
The double line and then the ref saying you're not the legal man, which
gets Triple X back on top, was just super well done. They're cooking.
The ref was flipping out him and then fucking yeah they gets him out
of the ring. Daniels then accidentally kicks Skipper after James from Ducks Storm hits
a close on, Daniels tries to crawl from the tag, gets a tag.
Chris Harris, House of fucking fire, big leaping lariat. I'm just
I'm buying everything here me too. I'm totally in on this and I'm fucking
this is awesome. Oklahoma Stampede for two. Elix looks for the play of
the day, of course, which is the Overdrive, and then Harris hits
the Catatonic. But Daniel is a great move man. It is. It
is awesome too. And if someoneol uses as a fucking finish, I see
so many times it's not using the finish nowadays. No, it looks like
a finish, Yes, especially a guy built like Chris Harris. It looks
like he's killing Daniel, says the Angels Wings. But Storm breaks it up.
Power Slam for two. AMW hits a doomsday reverse DDT. Dude,
this is the most unbelievable fuck it ever sing, What the fuck even is
this? It's it's not even it's like a it's a reverse d d T.
Yeah, doomsday reverse DDT spin out. I never did the trust.
You have to have to fucking do that like that. I thought. I
was like, that's it. They wanted to die. I did too.
I was like, Wow, that's a super finished remember this. They oh
my god, like they this is so well built that it's just so they're
so smart. It's just so smartly put together. Match they knew that people
would bite because it's the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.
Yeah, and Daniels fucking breaks it up. Yeah, it's funny. They
just break up. It was like, wow, that was And then Elix
Skipper, I don't know, there's definitely a name for this move, but
it's like a bulldog choke slam over the back judo toss. Fucking yeah,
that's it was. Was like god damn. I was like, holy fucking
ship was that. Daniels stuffs James Storm with a Heronagi, goes for the
bme Storm moves, Harris gets in eats him with a spear two point nine
and I said, ah ah, ship Man. Skipper rolls up Chris Harris
for two, and then Loki passes one of the belts to Daniels. I
said, no, not this way, not this way. Daniels goes to
hit fucking Chris Harris with the belt. Harris ducks super kick. I said,
oh, ship they hit the death sentence. I said, I'm like,
yes, they fucking win one. Dude. Skipper pulls the ref.
I said, if you're a tag team and you don't study the fuck out
of this match, this is the best putting together match. I see,
Wow, not only do they get every fucking high spot, they got every
finisher, they got every fucking move they got. They come up with the
dudesday reverse DT from a falsey fucking still use the titles to tell the story.
Kick fucking pulls the ref out of the death sentence, and they still
use the belt, and its fucking Elix Skipper and Christopher Daniels fucking pin him
and it's fucking they fucking pull the ref and low Key is selling his arm
on the floor to distract the ref and Skipper brainstorm with the belt. I
let Jit wrote, No, man, Wow, this is the dude Daniel's
pinstorm against the wind and Don West is flipping out on commentary. He says
they just can't figure it out. There's zero and four against you blex.
I was like, oh my, oh, this is the best dude.
And then next week they have the fucking coolest cage ever. Yeah, cage
that's fucking crazy, But it's not the cage. It's not that it's not
the walking cage, but it's but it's sucking leg drop off the fucking top
of death sentence. I'm gonna write that down. We gotta unbelievable. God
damn, what a what a tag match? Man? Yeah? This this
had me. Uh, this is fucking always ship in my house. This
is I physically couldn't believe how much I bit on the dead set. I
was like, how did I not see this coming? That was like,
I'm not like a rating guy, but whatever rating is the best rating.
I give that one for that one. That's it was fucking unbelievable. It
was tremendous. Yeah, So we go to a sit down interview Mike Today
with Jerry. Jarrett. Today says Jerry, Jerry not only the greatest promoter,
booker, wrestler of all time, He's the greatest. He's the greatest
anything it's ever stepped foot in the Nashville Fairgrounds. He's on it man.
Jerry says, well, thank you by today. But Jerry says, tough
times w e. Jerry says that tough times make tough people, Tough times
make tough companies, and we're tough like the n w A is tough and
cool. Yeah. He says the n w A is getting stronger and hopes
they can achieve the prominence of the good old days. Jerry, I got
some news for you, buddy, Damn, Jerry says. Jerry says,
I don't know about Vince Russo, but he was with the w W E
and w CW before they died, so I don't know. Yeah, he
he says, maybe Russo was you know, fresh traded, uh because he
failed, you know, maybe things of everything he did as a failure.
And he seems obsessed with Jeff Jarrett and in his mind, if he can
get Jeff back to be his friend, he could be successful. And you
know, if I had to sum up, I'd say that he is an
obsession and I hope it's not a fatal obsession. And I hate w W
you know what. I want to close this company to dude. I hate
Actually, you know, this whole thing's been pissing me off just day fucking
one. I would love to close the shop. Please help. I told
Jeff from day one, this ship is a stupid idea on the Tag Match
show and it really just I'm gonna keep this company running. That was us
watching violences. Well I guess I'll keep it going for one show. I
got paid off, so we have it. Eric Watts town Hall, Well,
enough of that board interview dude, I'm mister explosion. Eric Watts.
I hate this guy for real. I don't know why I hate him.
I just feel like I agree. It's an interrational fucking hate. Yeah,
but we just follow I something about him. It's just works me smacked ass.
So Eric Watson calls on kid Cash and he makes fun of his height
and okay, yeah, well listen, if we're gonna talk about Row Watts,
we got to talk about the substance of his promo here, James,
I you know this, this hopefully will be the last time we ever talked
about it. Like, here's what, here's my thoughts. I didn't give
a shit about the BEG. I was actually not listening at all. And
then Eric Watt says, what you've beating women? I said, what?
Well, just to get to there, he's talking about the dirty politics and
nw A because the director of Authority, my man, Eric, will be
here soon. I have no idea who the fuck he was talking about.
Who is Eric? Hi himself? Eric? He said, well, when
he's here, the kids taking over and about kids, we got a special
interview coming up. Shut the fuck up. Look at all the fastivit.
He's the one year anniversary the circus like attitude. Let's bring out the biggest
clown I know, the mighty midget, kid Cash. Kid Cash comes out,
He's taping his fist. It's just fucking awesome. But yes, talk
about where this promo goes s Yeah, kick Cash comes out of here,
you know, he says, what the fuck you say? They bow up
in the middle of the ring and Eric White says, what is it about
you beating women? I was like, oh, kick Cash is gonna vehemently
say no, no, no, you misunderstand. Yeah, yeah, like
you got this wrong, Like I I didn't hit. I didn't do that
on purpose. Well, it's no sacred that kid Cash beats his women.
Hold on, I went back and I said, no, what was that.
It's no secret that kick Cash beats his women. And you know what,
I beat all women. Hey, hold on, it's over here time.
And I'll tell you another thing, Eric, When I think about beating
women, I get goosebumps all over my body. If you want to like
a woman, I can show you you're my bitch. Well, Eric Watts
punches them with the microphone and starts stomping them out, and then he goozles
Kid Cash goes for a choke slam, but then on the goddamn Jarrett Tron,
very the tron shows Goldielocks, who is now trapped inside of the interview
cage with a man and a mask and a jean jacket or a gentle fast
excuse me. Eric Wats is distracted by this. He puts kid Cash down
and runs to the back so quick that he gets to the back in time
verus to still be on the shot of Goldie that fast. Well, Eric
Eric Watson's idea to break because it's I'm very confused here. How the fucking
abyss lock this from the inside. Eric Watson's idea to break down this lock
is to kick it. He tries to physically big boot the lock off of
the cage, which I've never seen as a possibility, but maybe Eric Watson
knows something I don't, uh. And then kid Cash attacks Quats with a
small bat. I don't know what he had. It was some sort of
weapon. Yeah, it was a night stick or a small bat that he
attacked him with and he chokes him with it, and that's the end of
the so okay. Kick Ketch attacks him from behind, and when he does,
it knocks the door open. Beside him, and it shows Perry saturn
in fucking quickly. Did you go, Gus? Tell you I saw that.
That's not a joke. He knocks him over the door like it's like
a dressing room door like slides for a second, you see, like pray
setters naked ass and then they cut away from a bit really fast. He's
got his jock strap on. He's taking out in the Yeah, yeah,
okay, let's take a second. I need to Actually, you thought James
was making it up. I was like, wow, this is a great
bit. Yeah that really yeahs the door open and jumps them. He looks
you see how they came quickly pans over like yeah, yeah, why yeah,
that's crazy. They say keep that. Get that. I can't believe
yet. No redo that live? Yeah that's it is. It was live.
We ran it ran as fast as possibly go back and you so yeahs
Eric Watts kick Cash Abyss and Goldielocks Perry Saturday dog A m w comes up
to Mike Today and Don West ringside and they challenged Triple X to a steel
cage match next week. Yeah, Today and Don Wests are they were it
was just a commentary shot. They were just showing them and they're running down
like what was gonna happen next weekend? They said, thank We want to
thank you for your support, including a free when Buyer's Club for our regular
viewers. Check out n W, A T and A dot com for all
the details, which I'm pretty sure was the like buy the next show for
one cent thing. Oh it was it one cent? I thought it was
like a sunny five cent or something. I think it was. I legit
think it was one one. That's crazy. It was like just yeah,
please watch this goddamn show, which I mean they probably could have did like
a dollar. Yeah, I mean they had a fucking crazy cage match next
week. So but I guess one cent is you know. You hear that
and you're like, oh, well all right, well why why wouldn't I
Yeah, they thought they'd hook him. Donald West talks about next week's matches,
which include Sonny Saki versus The sand Man and a hard ten match,
and then Chris Harris comes out and he says, every time we get the
ring with Triple X, this is a goddamn numbers game, and you want
a hard cell don next week a m W versus Triple X for the world
tag Donalds and no steal catch Ye first ever in the history of TNA,
Right first, I think so, Yeah, I think so and everyone dude,
Don West and Mike and they are marking out the crowds popping huge,
amw are like so, fan favorites like yeah, they do so. AJ
Styles and his Mystery Partner versus Jeff Jarret and Sting is the main event for
the evening. Yeah. AJ comes out with Vince Russo who has a baseball
bat, and Russell gets on the mic and says, now it some of
the mystery partner and there's a few things I'd like to say about this guy.
Number one, He's a scumbag. He's a degenerate, he's a scum
of the earth. And guess what, he's a lot like me and tonight
he's in my corner. Freaks and geeks give it up for Sean Watman six
puck. They couldn't figure out what to call him. And then his music
starts playing and the next thing it cuts to is a direct shot of the
cage dancers shaking her as she is fucking going to town man. That is
awesome. So fucking Don West and Mike and I were talking about how uh
six Pock said he'd never have anything to do with Russo and how did Russell
pull this off? And YadA YadA, and this was all like a real
yeah, like he legit didn't like Russo and fucking didn't want to be here.
And I don't know how much longer he is here after this. I'll
have to check, but yeah, so there's just an forever amount of time
between the music hitting and then then like showing the ring, why shot the
show the crowd and like he is not coming out here. So I don't
know if that was like just the play up like that he was gonna know
show again or what it was, but it was a fucking long amount of
time. He really did right time taking bread off my family, and like
who knows, maybe he like maybe he was just really good at acting,
but I don't know. It seemed like he was pissed. Also, yeah,
this is uh, this is Xbox one and only TNA match in two
thousand and three until and he doesn't wrestle there again until two thousand and five.
Okay, it's pretty big main event, I mean, is unbelievable.
Is the n w A Champion Jared's the owner that come sure and six wrestled.
He's in a full body tratitude and bandana and like when he comes out,
a j smiles and then like is very much not happy. He's not
having all gear. He's just a building like that, Like we just like
give him the bed dad. He lost his legs or something, or was
he just not I don't know, yeah, benefit yeah, I'm not sure
if he was like not in the mood either, you know, and he
probably just didn't want to fuck it. He was probably doing Jared a favor
and said, fuck it, I'll do this one match, but I'm not
breaking my gear and I'll do it. And he's like flipping people off and
he gets in the ring and Russell goes to shake six bocks hand but he
doesn't do it, but he does throw up the wolf pack and Russell takes
that and Jared Sting then come out together to Jared's music, which was crazy.
I thought that was the slame crazy. I think they probably didn't have
a Sting song worthy ship to play. They he had one at the start
though they already made a Sting maybe yeah, yeah, well maybe maybe what
it was is they already played it. They said, I gotta play the
god damn Ohn company. It's my fucking company to my world. Maybe Stinging,
hold hold on, David, Yeah, don't get Stinging system. I'm
coming out to David Young music. David Young means but he doesn't have any
thing. Yeah, Jared Sting come out together Sting. It didn't feel like
a big deal. It didn't feel like a big deal at all. And
already saw the best tag matge of the night. Yeah, it's like,
this is Sting's return to America on like TV, like Sting Sting. They
wasted the pop at the beginning of the show, and that's what it was.
I don't know why the fuck he came out. Yeah, I don't
either. They were like teasing, like if anything, just teasy, you
know, when he hasn't shown up yet or something. You know what,
Why why just give it away at the beginning. I don't know. Yeah,
yeah, I'll say I would have. I would just does Sting versus
AJ styles love to see what's all about over here in t NA. He
would have been like, I'm gonna do the scorpion drop off the roof and
he's all right, dude, please take this off the ceiling for me.
Yes, So, Sting gets a scorpion in on Styles. Early Styles gets
the rope, uh Stin hits the house show here Russo heads over to commentary.
He says, today it's your worst nightmare. I'm sitting next to you.
Kiss my big ass. Cherry gets the thigy four on six pock.
Styles breaks it up with a huge springboard leg drop, just to show everybody
what he could do. Yeah, there's not a Russo cam in the bottom
left. Why what you guys see he's on commentary. Okay, I hear
him. I hear him. Six pock and AJ get dead. He take
it dead. He I'm gonna give them eating this one, dude. At
one point, a j does a kick to Jared in the back and it
looks like he need him right in the back of the fucking end. Styles
has Jarrett in a chin lock and the crowd is chanting, we want Sting.
Sting gets the hot tag Pocking. Fucking Styles bump like nuts for this
fucking guy. House of fire, just all our Stinger splashes all over the
place. Yes, is dope and it's cool to see him in the full
outfit with the fucking singlet and all that shit's cool. You know, I
liked uh Sting's way of getting Aj into the scorpion deathlok position was kicking out
the back of his knee and then putting him in it. So Styles actually
ends up after Sting hits the scorpion on AJ. Six Pock hits Sting with
a bat. Yeah, man, what the fuck that's his He has always
been his gimix thing. Fuck you fucking Xbox. He grabs the bat and
he sees the references are distracted, so he's like fucking basketballing the fucking bathroom
his legs. Yeah, he was fucking going in there with that ship.
That's it's crazy. And then he brains thing with it. Yeah. So
Styles didn gets a clover leaf on Sting, but Sting breaks it up by
just fucking throwing him across the ring the power. Sting then double cloth his
lines them hits the death drop on Styles with a DDT on six Puck at
the same damn was awesome. Sting then tags Jarret Jerry's a drop kick on
both guys meeting in the mines. Great hot tag, the stick, the
hot tag, Get your ass out of here. Jim Duggan called that Styles
accidentally super kicks the ref. Styles tries to hit the stroke on Jeff,
but he gets reversed and Jeff hits a stroke. Russo comes in and hits.
That was always his thing, sting, that was always his gimmick.
Dude a j again, just showing that he can do whatever. He fucking
takes this stroke like a spike. D d T. Yeah, he had
a point a proven this is what I think it was good. Raven comes
in and grabs Russo, but Styles stops him. Shane Douglas thing comes in
and attacks Raven. Damn it ag stals and goes for a fucking flying nothing
off the top. Jared then kicks So backwards yeah, and then hits the
stroke, stinging six packer fighting on the outside. Jared hits by the way,
Yeah, rough is out. Jared hits a stroke off the second rope
on aj Styles and ends up winning the match, sting, stinking win,
stinking of it's my company, sting, Sorry, David's not a bounce you
tony sting a just binned x bog or a j the set up for a
title match. Well no, no answer is no, but no, it's
actually right. Sorry, Okay, that's a respect. Jared Jared gets choked
out by Russo with the bat, but Sting helps and then Jared gets the
bat and he hit the fucking bat is all over the place of the gun
gives the batman. Uh. So Jared is a bat, hits Russo.
Raven and Shane Douglas are also fighting. Uh. And then Raven and then
Jarrett Good nose to nose and then Sting says, but hey, it's all
they say. Damn, you're right, Sting, It is all good.
Dude's rock and they fucking yeah, I don't get it. And then they
raise their hands and everyone's unity is all good. And then David Young comes
out with the beers, but the boys bring the beers drinks them all himself.
Yeah. Man. The show ends with a nice feel good and Sting
is here and Sting is here, uh, and then he's not here again
until five months after this. Oddly enough, I don't know what the fuck
happened there. Yeah, he's on episode fifty and then he's not back till
episode seventy. Maybe they couldn't fucking figure out the deal. He must have
ran out of money and they couldn't book it, you know, they're like,
oh yeah, book them on episode seventy and then maybe a little more
money if you're gonna have six pocket there like that. Yeah, really,
I guess I guess you're right. Yeah, and then yeah, he's not
really involved there until much later, but then he is super involved. Well,
I guess Dixie said, well, we gotta, we gotta, we
gotta get it now right down. I can't do we cannot do anything Darling
with a J. Stiles, Samoa, Joe, Christopher Daniels, David Young,
Every Saturday's Naked back here. But yeah, the TNA first Anniversary show.
I I enjoyed watching the show. Actually I didn't feel like it didn't
feel like two hours to me until I do. Like how you summed up
as like the best and worst of Bend to b TNA, which is it
was like, yeah, you had the good moments in your bad MoES tag
match was fucking crazy best ever. You can see why things didn't work,
but you can also see like why we liked it so much. Yeah.
Yeah, you know it's better to have a vision and it be bad then
to play it safe. Sure you know what I mean, like, try,
yeah, you try something right, I mean nothing show, Yeah,
if you play it saved the whole show. You get two thousand and row.
Yeah, identity, you have no fucking identity. And they were they
were trying to have an identity, good or bad, you know what I
mean. It's and it was there. Eric Watson was on this show.
So there's some fucking bad. Okay. Uh god, I'm very happy that
tag match was on the show. That matches unbelievable. It was that awesome.
That was awesome. Well, there you go. That was n w
A t n a's first anniversary show. And that is it for our first
podcast of the year. Thank you so much for joining us. Everybody.
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