Butts in the Seats Podcast
Every Sentence is Bonkers (6/19/2000 Nitro)
[MUSIC] Welcome to the Butts the Seats podcast episode number 114 and what a doozy it is I'm Nick alongside Emily hello. How you doing tonight Emily? I'm good I'm I'm tired. I'm gearing up for a big weekend. I put on my press on nails in the office today. Well, very Very good at pro. What am I trying to say? Did multitask you? Very good. You're gonna say procrastinating is what you were going for. Let me say no. No, you made your bed You have to lie in it. Very good at multitasking today Emily what is it we do here on this program besides look at Otto? Mostly we just look at Otto and say he's so cute because he is just so cute But usually I've all in me. We take a week by week look at the slow But inevitable downfall of WCW through the late 90s and early 2000s. I said last week We were eating our vegetables. We were this week. We're in a little bit of a Vince Russo reprieve We're we're skipping straight from vegetables to dessert. Yeah, we don't need the main course yet And there are bits of this no pun intended that are too sweet too sweet But today we're talking about the June 19th 2000 Monday Nitro AKA Rey Mysterio Nitro which he does rest a lot. He is on for him. Also, it is Juneteenth, but 2000 so yeah, they don't recognize Juneteenth yet So tonight's Nitro takes place in a new location for the first time Which is kind of funny based on the movie ready to rumble did ready to rumble take place in buildings It's a place in Cheyenne, but like notably they never went to Montana before this. Oh and Notably Eric Bischoff is not here even though he kind of lives in Montana Kind of listen Minnesota who the fuck knows this point all the M states. They're just so close to each other too. They're not they're not close Minnesota are though they if you actually break down the mileage. They are very far. They share a border, don't they? No The Dakotas are definitely in between there might be even more state Missouri is in that same. No, Missouri So Missouri is like next to Oklahoma. No, we did. No, it's not Missouri is by like Kansas, Oklahoma Yeah, it's north of Kansas It's no, it's just well. I mean maybe a little bit, but it's mainly East of kids The American political system has spelled us like you can know it felt you us. I don't think I'm wrong Which one you all the above I think all the M's are pretty close to each other geographically We're not doing Michigan and Minnesota are next to each other Montana's close by - they're both the Dakotas No, I'm literally looking at a map show me You have no stopping the podcast They say it's the show me state, which is Missouri. I still think I'm right. I'm not gonna waste our time and look about that I'm just gonna stay right Move on. Jesus Christ. I don't know where Billings is either in terms expensive. It's a wide state It's a big state. Let's say that the crowd for this is hot. They are they're really hype It's hype like people who don't get wrestling shows all that often. Has WWE ever really gone there? I mean, it's not one of their hotbeds. I mean, it's Montana. No offense, but it's Montana. It's beautiful state I don't have the attendance for this, but Considerate as a hot crowd. I didn't feel the need to super note it and like potentially potentially bury them Yeah, I mean they were they were really vocal because why you bury them with attendance when I can bury them with ratings This show is down. It did a 2.7 from last week's above a three. I forget exactly what long was also down It did a 5.8. This was game six of the NBA finals. We wish the Lakers won so Okay, that would have taken a lot of the attention However, there are only three more nitros where they do above a three and at least two of them are either Entirely unopposed or mostly unopposed. I don't know about the third one because it's the third week in that series And the us open would have just ended so watch out for the September 11th episode It's kind of sad that this didn't quite hit a three though because this was a good show and I think if last episode was not so Take your lumps. This would have done better Yes, because as previously mentioned the reason why this was a very different feeling show and the reason why we had a different intro song Is that Vince Russo is not here this week? And now there's a lot of people yeah Vince Russo Kinda quit over the weekend the reason varies depending on who you're asking because there is an element of Eric Bischoff wants to bring Miss Elizabeth Lex Luger and Kimberly back Russo does not want to do that Russo got also very upset at Turner standards and practices because there was a segment on thunder that two lines were cut out of because Kevin Nash referenced the movie deliverance Okay, yeah, it's that you sure do got a purty mouth, don't you? Yeah, because it's it's not a great It's not g. However, it's not like r. Well, no, it's the context of the scene However, Turner does air the movie deliverance on its networks Yeah, so he's like oh state of practice is hampering me Listen if you ask wcw he has a concussion and he's recovering Yeah, they quickly wrote off why Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff were not there So that does beg the question of who is running the show in in their stead because Eric Bischoff just Randomly not here. Yes very much like I'm taking a vacation. What was the reasoning they gave in the episode? He's dealing with business very Vincent adult man reasons. Yes. I have a business meeting He's at Hogan's New York meeting in TNA in 2010 So in the meantime Ed Ferrera who was his original writing partner and Oklahoma Yes, and Terry Taylor are read in the show the band with glasses That's JJ Dylan. God. I think Terry Taylor also had glasses, but the segment you're referring to is JJ Dylan Well, notably Terry Taylor If was formerly the red rooster a gimmick which killed his career that may or may not come up later in this show But other backstage news notable terrible human being Johnny Ace has started working for Debbie snub you backstage Who's Johnny Ace? John laurinitis At some point over the weekend Chris Candido has a broken wrist We will see him in action later. Yeah, I mean he's in a cast in a sling, but he's still in the ring We may have previously mentioned this jimmy heart is currently off tv because he has torn knee ligaments from his match with man cow I don't know that you told me they were torn knee ligaments. Yeah Cheese That's not how you say ligaments Move fast In some formal housekeeping because we have definitely talked about we don't see these guys again Uh, laparca psychosis, silver king l dandy Lodi the barbarian and loce velanos. We're all released by debbie snub you Lodi too. He's the one that I don't think I realized I they haven't appeared in a while. I thought they were released even earlier. So I feel I thought we would have mentioned it earlier I just remember let me ask for his release and lodi's like what the fuck I don't remember this so yeah, they're we've said goodbye to all these guys, but they are officially gone as of now Notably debbie was still in the middle of a racial discrimination lawsuit and I just mentioned Five different Hispanic wrestlers all people of color at the very least lodi's not Of the five. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I don't know. They're all Hispanic, but they're all people of color Yeah, and the barbarian is some sort of pollination. I want to say in fun news Billie kid men and tori wilson were not on this nitro because they were busy moving in together He's broke up on tv How cute speaking of tori wilson she is expected to return as hulk hogan's valet I thought you were about to say she is expecting. Oh, no. No, uh expected to be hulk hogan's manager Sure, this does not happen. Oh That's much in this last week kimberly has quit after uh steiner called her a cunt behind her back And then they got into a whole argument and she went fuck this i'm leaving I feel like that had to just be the straw that broke the camels back that can't have been the bln doll reason Yeah, apparently she was getting a sable vibe Um backstage. I imagine that word is not rare backstage, unfortunately No, yeah, this seemed to be like a long festering thing In the office wsw like regular employees are currently trying to get transferred to other turner properties because they're like this is going downhill Um, they can literally feel the ship sinking. Yes. Damn. Ray Mysterio is only about 70 percent right now But he will be in the ring wrestling Conan is going to get surgery in the out for three to six months And in ecw paul haman held a talent meeting Basically to see if anybody was gonna bitch at him about money and then he proceeded to pay everybody so oh, okay Yeah, good just in time for the network to like acquire wwf and cancel ecw Hey, at least everybody got paid so that's it for the backstage notes But considering it's becoming more and more important I think it's time for a weather report because it's time to talk about thunder Let's go. Yeah, so forgive with the stuff. We mentioned last episode for this because i'm going to run through Some things that happened on thunder because a lot happened Nash chased russo all night and kidnapped jeff jared which this storyline basically turns into like a slasher movie kind of uh It does. Yeah, russo's like hopping over cars. Nash is hiding behind like The smallest of bushes. He pops up in every single segment kevin national events russo Shane douglas bam bam big low and chris kandito united to form the triple threat Shane douglas claims he has the copyrights for this. I don't think it's ever going to matter fair One more on that later a triple trip michael the mama luke's explode more on this later tank out that in rick steiner Prerecorded a clip of them arriving at the arena To air in the dressing room Of the perfect event so the perfect event would make fun of them And then rick's cider and tank abbot attacked them from behind and went oh it was pre-recorded you dumb fucks Yep, that is correct Just really process the steps that that we require there a lot of logistics for what payoff I mean, I have the same thought on the knocking on the door slide in the note 419 got a minute. See that was at least funny So the match with rick's cider and tank abbot ends in a no contest after rick's sine or steiner lines tank abbot by mistake And they're like well, we got to throw this out So scott cider then saves his brother from a perfect event beatdown. So it's a very weird who whose side is the odd Kidman says he's no longer new blood for some reason that gets him at a world title shot Sure, the filthy animals turn on him and beat him down post-match Both of us were actually kind of excited about that because that means we might get kidman versus right Gets blood spitting his face by asia in the crowd So he hits his nail in the coffin on her I think it's thrown into the demon sarcophagus and then like casually just like pushes it open and but he's woozy I don't know what he's selling. It's weird. I don't know more on that later a lot more So much more on dale tour Borg later Daphne and david flair seemingly breakup daphne knows that he's been hanging around miss peacock and uh She brawls with miss hankock and there's a lot of cuts in here because apparently daphne's boobs kept falling out of whatever shirt She was wearing it is pre-taped. So you perverts don't have anything Yeah, there's just a lot of cuts to the crowd and there's like random guys faces during the match crowbar tries to come to the rescue but it's taken out by david david match and He shaves like the already shaved part of crowbar's hair Yeah, it was it was another freaking hair match and david kind of just like gave him a trim Uh important to know for tonight urn is the cat miller who is now the commissioner And I think may have been before but now he's like the only on-screen authority figure Uh, he bans the steiner recliner during that show very important. Yes So important that commentary forgets about it for a while despite mentioning it honestly seeing like going back to crowbar I'm kind of sad that he was on thunder and he was not anywhere on this show I feel like he'll turn up a very hope so because I love I love him And I think that he and daphne should get together and team up against david Kevin ash tries to call scott hall in a backstage segment Hall was supposed to answer but shoot didn't answer the phone So kevin ash had to improv. I mean it worked I didn't I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't tell me ruso threatens to rip up scott hall's contract and nash gets beat down after being blindsided Why does kevin ash keep going to bad for scott hall that is the only storyline this man has In wcw in tna we're watching the exact same storyline 20 years apart. Not even 20 10 years apart Here's the difference scott hall will continue to appear on tna scott hall will not appear on wcw over again. Yeah So what is the point? I I don't even know if he shows up in ecw. I think he's supposed to at one point But i'm like, I don't know if he actually turns up or if he does shows both are possible So yeah, that's a longer intro than usual had a lot to cover I mean that thunder was like we were watching it just for fun. I'm like, oh, this is important. Yeah, there's a lot going on here We need to talk about this But let's get into the actual nitro from billings montana right next to minnesota apparently i stand by You have multiple devices. Uh, we're up in the north east in montana It's like down the street You know what? Yeah, it's just south of richmond because they've drove from Baltimore to richmond. Yep. It's actually in between if you make a right of fredgicksburg to get to montana Oh, never go to fredgicksburg. That's where traffic is born. So on the nitro Two limos pull up for some reason It's the cat and one and then it's mike awesome and jeff jared in the other one I wonder jeff jared the world champion who they quickly know that vince rooster and eric bischoff are not here Yeah, they write it off in one sentence. I mean, I think you kind of have to you can't just go Oh, sorry who? Yeah, you can't see him punk him But yeah, so the cat is the commissioner and uh, he's he's told by this one prominent security member He gets multiple speaking lines tonight That uh, there's a problem in the ring and what's the problem emily? Horace hogan is cm. Punking. Yes. You see he's sitting in the middle of the ring with a Microphone just like ready to go off. So I call that cm. Punking. He's sitting in a chair with a baseball bat No, he had a microphone. I thought he spoke. Oh, yeah, he grabs it after so he wasn't sitting on the floor But he was sitting in the middle of the ring We didn't get the nitrographic and the opening pyro going off with horace hogan. Just chill it in the ring Like the like the quarter pilot was off. It's just like he doesn't even flinch. I would have been like But to me, it's just like we're not fussed about horace. Okay. We can just just work around him He's fine. Just just leave him there We get Tony shavani mark mat and and scott hudson all the like kind of matching suits on commentary Yeah, you thought this was intentional. I think it was just someone is actually giving them. Hey, let's look nice and proper Maybe I think the fact that they're all actually matching is random, but I think the fact that they're all In-suit and like professional is a concentrated point maybe so post pyro horace hogan has a mic so it's cutting a promo He says golberg is fly by night and it calls him out for attacking hulk hogan. He wants revenge on golberg and wants to be next Also notably during this I think this might have been before he even starts his promo mark mat and on commentary Gives horace hogan a little bit of shit saying typical hogan looking for extra airtime I'm on a hulk hogan note. I don't know any backstage notes for him But uh, my new job. I work with somebody who used to work for the WWE F and uh can confirm hulk hogan shoot asshole shocking I know breaking news and apparently everyone knew that uh hogan ratted just even sure out for unionizing before jessie new Hear more about jessie ventura over our patreon. Whoo come in soon the jessie ventura story Absolutely hype. You want to see jessie ventura beat golberg in the 70s boy. Do I have the movie for you? I'm sorry documentary The guy comes out to the ramp as we see replays from thunder of him banning the sign of recliner Which they note and the cat just starts cutting his promo over the clips Yeah, he like doesn't really seem to have a graph of what's happening Because they're talking well again guys that must be it because cat is talking while commentary is talking while a video is playing So everything is happening all simultaneously and like no one I mean, it's not also kind of what it referees for in the ring to be like, hey, here's what's fucking happening Well during a match But I feel like that could that could stretch to during segments too Yeah, this is right. Yeah. There was no reason to go to replay there. That's that's really on them for that I mean, there still should have been somebody to communicate a guy is making his entrance with a microphone Don't do a fucking replay. There should have been somebody there to To communicate that with urna smeller So the cat says him and golberg are too busy for Horace and also golberg would kill you so no He literally does say that he's like you will die The cat then says since ruso isn't here Well, sorry. I I filled in the blanks on that Uh, but there will be no outside interference. It is banned for this show across the board Yes, he did not say because ruso is not here, but that's Every match no outside interference and if you do interfere You will be fined and you will be suspended for 30 days Emily would it shock you to learn that if in through so apparently thought there was too much wrestling on this show That's fucking ridiculous But this is shock you Nothing should shock me anymore But yeah, there's a 30-day suspension. There was also like a when you're back you're gonna work in my dojo cleaning toilets or whatever for the rest of your contract. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No There's limited outside interference and they kind of just ignore explain away the ones that actually do happen Yeah, but notably not zero to the cat for some reason notes that he has scott hall's contract When they said that that brings out kevin ash scott signer and medasia. No more chakira Yeah, I don't care I had to ask you which one it was coming down the ramp. You don't remember our touching chakira farewell last episode We didn't have a chakira farewell. Yes, we did. I well I listened to the episode. No, we did not I noted that she was done Farewell Nash is there in a real bad mood and then uh, they basically bully the cat into booking hoarse versus golberg son of them says he snapped ruso's neck on thunder and he's been looking for eric bischoff, but can't find him Yeah, good looking Steiner wants him versus the cat the cat declines but gives scott steiner jeff jarett instead for the world title Which jarett is you know, mad about directly, you know, the world champion The man is so unnecessary to any storyline. He's just a placeholder Is the belt in worse shape than when david rcat had it? Yes Yeah, there is more there was more story around david rcat having it and like more Um, he was a focus there was more discourse about like who should have the belt. This is just Cat and mouse keep away. I don't know. I know that wasn't a pun, but you managed to turn it into one do it the cat Oh Do not mean to do that so nash says they're not done yet and he wants scott hall's contract and he challenges the cat for it And then the cat agrees under duress and nash says he's been doing greatest commissioner Which is good because nash is gonna like break his back sure the cat then bales through the crowd which one Why didn't you do before but then two is like mildly attacked by a fan who? Yeah, may have been a plant nobody knows Because we follow the cat going into the crowd And the camera very quickly cuts away when the cat starts to get into it with an audience member And we never go back to the cat to my knowledge. This never comes back up as hell Yeah, it's weird of like it may win a plant, but it doesn't ever affect anything I'm speaking of things that don't affect anything christ for daniels aka god or lord or whatever not here tonight Okay, remember the the the the power power Oh, whatever. Yeah, that's that's done. Yeah, that's kind of the theme of tonight of uh, remember that thing. Yeah, it's done. Cut that We're rewriting things We're restarting the story. So we have three matches for later. That's You know, not that's more than usual and three matches that like have some story or stakes to them. So Yeah, it's all been commentary checks into camera. The main note here is hulk Hogan versus jeff jared Will still happen at bash the beach. Assuming hogan can even make it there The perfect event then go into a production truck to do the same thing that rickstiter and tank abba did But for some reason we cut to this and then we cut to Rickstiter and tank abba watching from outside the truck and they're like, ah, it's live dummy and beat him down Sure. I don't wasn't totally following this one. Yeah, it's stupid Jeff jared then storms into the cat's office and is pissed off about having to defend his title before defending it at the paper view Right police. Oh, so the cat makes Mike awesome the special guest referee So I have a thought you said jared hogan is still on for bash at the beach Yeah, what would have happened if kfabe jared loses tonight? That's always a problem with these So they're they're they're confirming that there is still going to be a match for a title But they're putting the title on the line so that makes the match entirely un unimportant Well, technically hogan doesn't have a shot at batch of the beach per hogan He has a shot at the july paper view So if they just have another july paper view then they're good if we pull an aew and do paper use them back to back weekends Oh god, absolutely not. Yeah, that's what they're doing right now. Really? Yeah, jesus. Oh, but also What was the last title match we had that didn't have a special guest referee? I don't fucking know everything is a title match So this special referee is good enough for jared and then a member of r&b security say one is before it reminds the cat like hey Um crowds just kind of waiting for a fucking match to go on. Can you book the show? Good point again, and he's like, okay, give me those uh spice girls or backstreet boys forever It's like three count. Yeah them get them out there He really leans on spice girls in that so he's trying to call them He he is trying to call them girls and because two thousand by extension gay Yes, apparently it's gay to be a girl who knows it's true All all girls are gay So per peacock we get three count already in the ring about to do their dance And they are attacked from behind by the young dragons So we got a hell of a match to start off our show. So do you remember the actual members of these two groups? I know I know three count and I know james on Okay, so three count is three count is um shane helms Evan courageous and dilly gaff shannon more so you've got to call him shannon more. I will not accept dilly gaff Sorry, it's the hurricane. It's dilly gaff and evan courageous And then young dragons jay vson jay v noble Casayashi is the other one that I know you know and then God he looks different yang is the third one. It goes on to become the asian cowboy jimmy wang yang and In debitivey and nick. I don't know if you know this but jimmy wang yang spelled backwards is actually killer Save it for johnny the bull, please Don't disrespect johnny the bull like that Okay, so we're doubtful that this is going to be if he's going to be a good or bad match Almost immediately they had high flying offense, including a double moonsault to the floor Especially goes maybe four minutes and I could have watched it for hours. Yeah, this match is worked like guys that go We have one shot. Let's fucking go out there and make them Like this is literally the definition of maximizing your minutes and then some This is what m&m was singing about when he said you only get one shot Not mr. Chance to blow this opportunity comes once in a lifetime. Yo Casayashi gets hit with a double team neckbreaker and then a missile drop kick russian leg sweet combo Helms goes for his diving sunset flip and then hits a gut wrench suplex And we actually get three count sucks chats. I think that's when we're like, oh, this crowd is hot Yeah, this crowd was on tonight three count double team cas It's so weird writing casa and I know it's now that we're reviewing cuz area matches right Very different casas though. Yes too fair. You didn't think cas how she was cute too. So did I back the day? Yeah Because area though So yeah, three count double team cas and uh and cas fights off courageous and more it makes the hot tag to yang Fights off all three men, but it's hit with the sleeper slam by more courageous hits a very sloppy corkscrew splash Really needs to get rid of that one. Yeah, but you know Like it might work if it was like to a standing opponent, but just like the falling makes it look like oh, yeah I meant to do that. I don't know. I thought it looked cool I thought it looked like met purposefully messy. Well speaking of that It's kind of hard. Yes. That's what i'm thinking. It was kind of jeff hardy esk I don't say that as a compliment. Yeah, I know Well, I was a speaking of messy um courageous goes to the pin and cas I actually breaks it up By punting him in the face. Yes and either great Executioned and silly or you kicked that man in the face because I was like, oh fuck made a good noise too And I don't think that was just him slapping his hand on his thigh More stops a double dive from the dragons by crotting them and then jamie sony to clothesline Three count hits a three man assisted face buster, which i'm assume will eventually get a name And I get the win This was a very good match. I love it to be expected I mean We say that like this never could have been bad, but like we've seen matches like this gets screwed up So this was really fun to watch. I would I could have watched this one other half an hour admittedly Special mention two of the two teams to three count I had to rew I was I rewatched this match because I didn't take great notes the first time And pun rewatched it. I'm like, oh, this is mostly three count doing stuff and keeping the energy up as the heels Which is kind of funny where I see this is one of those matches that I did not have the heel face dynamic down I was just watching fun. I was just watching a fun match. Yeah, you could have said that for Emily they're for it. They're from japan. Oh, come on. One of them's not he's intended to be Three count. I feel like carried the load a little bit here like young dragons can go But it definitely felt like this was three counts math. This is just really good energy across the board I mean, I want more of this all the time always and to add to the energy Three count go to celebrate and all of a sudden one of them is hit by a springboard drop kick from a mr Landstorm the pop eye pops We were like kind of new that I can write it. Let's turn this up soon I just like forgot it. Oh, what the fuck? I remember you making some joke I don't know if it was on the podcast or just to me because you've been talking about like yeah Landstorm is in wcw and you made some sort of joke because we've talked about like AJ styles is gonna be on for one episode or like we're gonna catch this guy in one match I think you made it. That's a similar joke like that about landstorm I don't think I did because I remember noting landstorm becomes commissioner at one point I think you might have mentioned that he was like on thunder and well Maybe you see him once like you were making some sort of like deprecating joke to our show like we don't get anything good But alas, yeah, he's serious for a second. He's here he Attacks three count hits a it's a big dive out of the ring onto them and bails back through the crowd as common here He's like why he doesn't work here. Who is this man? Unless you check deprecebi.com where they announced previously we've signed landstorm Considering give it away. You're booking for internet fans at this point. It's like okay. Not the best look here Yeah, I'm excited for landstorm. I almost disappointed his debut is attacking three count because I want him to like attack Like a book or tea or you know somebody higher up the card It's it's bizarre that in the year 2000 Twitter is still ruining wrestling Or affecting wrestling not twitter, you know, but the internet as a whole yeah Nothing some things really truly never change back stage. David flair looks for daphne I will mention that there's no mention of rick flair tonight at all Who get the jeff jerry treatment not as bad. Yeah, is it worse to not be mentioned or to be actively buried? That one. Oh elsewhere golberg arrives Way more timely tonight. So give him that mike today. Yeah, well, hulk Hogan and rick flair on here. Yeah Elsewhere mike today asks horis hogan if he's fucking stupid more or less Yeah, he really does in golberg He fought today really does just go up and say what the hell were you thinking? And horis is like I might be crazy But um fired up and not I take a bullet for hulk hogan But tonight i'm firing the bullets and he clearly does take the bullet because look at the scar on his forehead Did you see that he fucks up a lot of his verbiage in this promo too? Did you see that though like it was so prominent like i've never seen it before when he's wrestling but In that promo like holy shit you played a lot We'll get horis's match later, but now it's time for the mama luke's Explode Yeah, it's veto versus johnnie the bull i don't think of this as exploding I'm going for Wrestlemania 5 thing. Okay, you'd know if you watched it Busy What are you doing from 6 30 to 7 30 Sleeping mostly no you're not auto's getting me up every morning We see clips from thunder of the actual turn including a piezon plant from the apron through a table at ringside Vito came to john and the bull to start and they go up the ramp They go off stage right and just kind of generally brawl A lot of this match is just veto kicking the crap out of john and the bull Yeah, johnnie bull does not get offense for like 85 percent of this match. Yeah, he's really lacking that killer instinct What do you mean vito kicks the relic of a safety barricade Into john and the bull as they brawl to the back Vito hits johnnie with a trash can and just kind of throws him into tables backstage and then into a pile of chairs Vito throws john and the bull through drywall but is pushed into some pipe and drape pipes It's like all those steel pipes they are hollow and light. I a small woman can carry like 10 of them at once What why did you turn into the guy from here? Is there a sling of I did not come to the Lexi Mississippi The voice that came into my soul Slightly haunted yeah To the two then brawl over to the scaffolding There are three layers to the scaffolding. They go up to the first one. Why is there scaffolding? Who in the fight during arena? I don't know. It's just like randomly backstage. Yeah Set up vito hits a piezon plant off the first level through the table for the win This was not as fun as last week. This wasn't bad, but it wasn't bad It just yeah tried to the bull didn't do anything for most of this No, he didn't. I mean it was still fine. Like this was not this was not a bad match by any stretch of the imagination Especially from what we're coming off of but it wasn't as fun I need to start this by saying there's not a relic joke at the end of this bit Really? I'm actually kind of worried for john at the bull. I don't think he's that good Killer instinct the fact that you're like now putting him as a singles act like no Don't get him in a group like do not let him be on his own No, I think that john honestly, I think john at the bull has more singles potential than vito did I think vito has the like finley potential where it's like solid hand in like the under middle of the car Yeah, see them like finley John at the bull. I'm like any I feel like if we give you any chance You're gonna jump at the top turnbuckle and slip and then make an ass yourself I disagree I think he ends up in a group, but I don't know for sure I don't know what company I'm thinking of that said with this match We very quickly move on to the cat actually finding scott halls contract And then we cut back to john at the bull being carried out and uh terry funk comes to help him Yeah, so terry funk kind of takes johnny under his wing and like becomes his mentor in that moment And not already if that's not like a reveal or something but Yeah, it needs to be noted that johnny is officially with terry now and they're probably going to team up against vito Yeah, it's basically yes. John at the bull is now a face Elsewhere backstage lieutenant loco is looking for the mia But is subtly attacked by ray misterio and then the artist comes to join and Oh, god. Don't make me do the weird Taft cap taf copy Taffa taf copy that's his name. Is it the artist formerly? The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as prince iks. There is the k in the tafka taf copy Yeah, tafka taf copy. That's his name. We're not doing that. Tafka taf copy I'm not doing that. I'm messing it up every single time gi bro makes the safe So gi bro, then holds a team meeting for the for the misfits in action Stop, it's not trying to work it out. I can see you looking up He says it's time to get serious and uh Turns out like all the main eventers are gone like it's time for us to step up This is a really like good speech though because he goes to every person in the mia and is like do you have her back? Does she have your back? Yeah? It's basically like like like like going in order like you get him you get him you get him you get her you get him Like just i'll watch those back. You got this and there is no like Underlying, you know sexual joke about major guns like it's all very like Respectful across the board like you guys are a team be a team not my problem anymore. I was so ready For when they go, can you get major guns is back? I was like yeah, me too I was ready. What the fuck is the way me too? And they didn't I was very impressed I'm gonna give terry taylor credit there because I feel like ed for i had a joke Yeah, so gi bro promotes huge erection to general And like kind of leaves the group here. It kind of seemed like he was gonna Well, yeah, it definitely came off as like you guys got this for yourselves I have other shit to do because canian starts making his entrance and like they cut the canyons for a second They cut back to the mia who are watching this on the monitor like there's our business And canyons comes out doing gdp's entrance in a wig And has positively canyons. He doesn't very well You can tell how like good buds cany and ddp are here because like oh, yeah It's just he's just close enough while putting enough stank to where it's clee him doing a bit Yeah, I mean it's a very good impression They love me. They hate me They'll never get tired of reading my book positively canyon And then you got to read it two times two times two times It's funny. It's good. Yeah, he was good. He's doing it. He's so dumb But I like it's our it's our kind of dumb canyons says he woke up this morning and gave himself a self high five And he's feeling so positive. He can't be beat and offers an open challenge This is not for a match. It's just for a brawl. I guess because gi bro answers the challenge Bro hits his big moves on canyon, you know the harlem sidekick spined western the whole jazz Doesn't spin a runny and then takes his pants off to reveal book or tea gear and yeah, he's just back to be in booker So uh that was short left. Yeah, so this is where I wanted to mention the fact that terry taylor The former red rooster is writing this Okay. Yeah, why because if someone knows the power of a gimmick being able to ruin your career at an instant It's terry taylor and i'm like, I think they got booker out of that I don't think that gi bro would have ruined his character I partially agree. I think he was doing the role of fine I think gi bro was a go nowhere gimmick. I mean, yes I think it is ceiling on that gimmick the second he had it I think that they just didn't think Hard about where it could have gone like they could have done stuff with it I mean in all american military character like they've done that that's that's not a dead end like look at curd angle He ran all american from this whole fucking career I just don't think that they gave it enough thought outside of what it would be with the mia And I think if they had it would have been fine. They really needed to give him a warrior medal Yeah, so that he could you know Kennedy could stab him in the forehead And really like gauge out people's you know blood Yeah to the tia day is going great man. Yeah, you want to know what we're talking about get over on the patreon There's a lot going on over there, but yeah, book or teas back. He'll have his old music next week apparently I think that's what was bothering me because like I never stopped calling him booker t Yeah, I think that he is a wrestler that transcends a character. He's not his character. He's just himself wrestling I don't know. I I think the exception to that. Oh, geez. You just haven't seen a ton of is king booker I haven't like I didn't like king booker Well, okay. No, maybe I didn't like charmel or oh god Tna a book or T. I think it might be made of that mafia era is when he's clearly just seen the last king of scotland I just do in forest vinegar at the king of the jungle. Oh god. Yeah, I think my annoyance with king booker was charmel in reality. Sorry. Yes, you have seen What show are we watching? I don't know. Yeah That like seven times in a row Seven more than seven backstage. David flair finds daphne who slaps him good for her Horace hoke and then Hipes himself up for his match And Emily how does he do this? Oh, no, I forgot the words, but he's like making up a rap about ticking on golberg When it was horace hoke and then i'm here to say Oh, man. I want to go back and watch it. It was like golberg in the hardcore way Yeah, it was just a little song. I didn't I don't think it started out intending to be a rap But he said enough in a rhythm that it was like an intentional rhythm. It was it was too intentional It was not an accident is what i'm trying to say. So yeah, it's time for horace hoke and versus golberg Horace hoke comes out. I was very ready for the b-team music. We did not get it. I was happy Did we what music did we get for horace? generic rock number four In between the entrances steiner and nash are seen backstage being like, I mean, we should interfere right now. We can't it's against the rules golberg then makes his entrance and uh, scott hoeson has to really brush off the fact that people are Very clearly cheering for golberg. See this is one of those matches that it really like toes the line on the heel face dynamic Because I think horace was a heel for so long and golberg was a face for so long that changing that dynamic is impossible Okay, I'm gonna mostly agree with you here the horace hoke and thing the fact that he's out to like get revenge for his uncle who he just Kinda sided with eight days ago. Yeah, that's the thing like you've been feuding on and off since literally the podcast started Dead brother son brother. Exactly. So no one knows him as a face Yeah, so no one knows to cheer him really no one's really truly been given a reason to cheer him Yes, he didn't do that much for hogan when he got beat down. So why would he why would we cheer him and then golberg What's the main premise of the golberg turn? Honestly, I don't know it's that he's well in terms of heel heat. It's that he's sided with bish off and roso Sure, who's not fucking here tonight? That's true. Yes. There's there's no power behind that You want to see golberg squash a dude. He's beat a hundred times. That's what this felt like this felt like the streak I think it's because our sogan was part of this tree It did it felt like the streak it felt like people were just excited to see big man squash small man Yeah, but they were both the I don't know you know what I mean match starts horse actually gets him offense until a big clothesline And golberg starts like hype it up the crowd. I'm like bud stop It's so hard to boo him but like there is the element I am kind of wondering if golberg was actually told like Do your normal thing? Because we don't know if roso's coming back and if he's not you're not fucking staying heel true That's stupid. Why did he even turn the heel? It was good of like in a work sense. It was good of scott hudson to try to be like, oh the crowd cheers him But they don't know that he's you know a corporate show. No, it wasn't they don't know It was they're gonna learn they'll remember It was it was worse. I'm like, okay He tried god bless him he tried And there were so many signs in the crowd. I think that's just scott hudson's epitaph Yeah They kept cutting to like uh golberg is my hero like one group has a solder bird with a dollar sign They cut to that six times. It's like the only sign that indicates that golberg did something bad Yeah, they cut to golberg is my hero. I think we're gonna go fuck. Oh my god They just did this on a w2 john moxley came out and with and did an interview with tony shavani He's like this isn't your company anymore And then leaves the crowd people are thinking this can it was built in chamek man debuting But he leaves and they go to zoom in on this one guy who's like doing a shocked face And he's wearing a CM Punk shirt Wait, did they really think that chamek man is gonna debut at a w? Oh, I know there was that meeting but yeah We'll see. I think I've seen this film before we'll see how bad the uh Netflix documentary goes over. Oh, I can't not wait We're definitely going to watch it. I think it's we need to watch it before we figure out how much we have to say about it And what medium that needs to be in fair. That's fair. I think it'll be spoken Oh, she's gonna be Emily's commute to work. Oh, let me tell you about Vince McMahon. I mean that is a that's a genre podcast Anyway, uh, there's a match goberg gets mounted punches Like to kind of be a heel and then throws horse the outside and throws him around some more Horace ducks a punch and goberg punches the ring post Horace then hits a few chair shots and then a big boot in the ring Goberg is immediately up and hits a spear and they're like he got up from the hogan boot. Yeah, not that hogan No, yeah, but this is a genetic This hogan does not have that power or presence Goldberg then does the big signal for the jackhammer like hyping up. I'm gonna do it Then yeah, you're telling me this man's a heel he hits it gets the win and i'm like, I don't think goberg Is a good enough wrestler in 2000 to know how to work heel. I mean, of course he's gonna win Oh, oh no, he was always gonna win but just the style of wrestling. I think he only knows one style Maybe yeah, just there was no world where Horace hogan beats goberg. Yeah, they did no interference They did a terrible job Making you believe like you needed this to be goberg is Outcutting a promo and Horace like somehow with like with a weapon and the element of surprise like lays him out This was just cold. I'm gonna challenge a guy who's beat me a bunch of times More like coldberg. Yeah, there was no reason to think Horace was ever gonna win. No, no Goldberg choked Horace out post match to be like, oh, yeah, don't forget. I know This was you know like gober fucking goberg brings energy to a show you just have him be a face and where he better off I find it wild that he does not win the world title again. That is crazy. Yeah That is crazy. Like we still have until almost april that this company dies And They couldn't work him back in But i'm sure jeff jerry gets like four more times after even and it inevitably loses it Let's go backstage kevin nash Fucking mumble something this man something seems to be in the scot hall diet right now This kind of made me think that scot hall was present because what we're trying to say is kevin nash was drunk Yeah, or came off drunk. I don't know if he actually was but he was slurring So to me, I was like, oh scot hall's definitely here and they're throwing back some drinks backstage and kevin's like, oh, fuck I gotta go work, but use it. He's not here. No, yeah He has out for his match and it's the cat versus kevin nash for scot hall's contract What a dumb premise. I'm sorry. This is a dumb premise for a match Cat comes out to the ring with the contract in a briefcase And does his usual the cat thing of telling the crowd to shut up to get heal heat The cat kind of can cut a promo 20 hate that he resorts to the cheap bullshit He kind of can but like not really he's never given that much to work with He's never tried He basically just tells nash to bring it and then dances and then handcuffs the briefcase to mark madden at ringside Yeah, why I don't know nash comes out and the the cat shows nash the key around his neck and poses Nash and the cat fuck up the first move of this match Yes, it's meant to be like a punch or a clothesline and they don't manage to do either I think it was supposed to be a clothesline, but kevin nash very clearly misses Yeah, this match had potential. I was really hopeful for it because Because mark madden had it handcuffed to his wrist I was hoping that I would see kevin nash punch mark madden in the face. I was hoping you were hoping You noted no red shoes. I'm like, what if the red shoes were in the briefcase that would have been kind of a list That would have been something So they go to the outside and the cat calls for someone to interfere on the mic But before he can actually say it kevin nash cuts him off So he was intending to break his own rule. Yeah, they're gonna do the same spot at the commentary table But again nash cuts him off cat low blows nash does little dance and then low blows him again Cat hits kicks in the corner, but eats a running clothesline and nash signals for the jackknife power bomb Hits it and pins the cat in about two and a half minutes Nash retrieves the key, but inside the briefcase is just eight by tens of the cat I feel like we have these His dead shot somewhere Not at the cat. I would not be surprised nash then gets back at the ring to rare kick his ass Kick his ass. We should we should use that mark We didn't get goberg appearing on the screen And he challenges dash to a match to the back of the beach For scott hall's contract which he has and proceeds to eat he ate that of all his papers He ate them with ketchup my note here is just indulge Emily What do you got? No, no, no, you get to look it up. You got it from my voice. I know I had it already pulled up It's long. It's too long. I don't know what tangents. My note here was indulged Emily But I'm not gonna let you do a whole fucking monologue unless you do it as goberg Then we can't have a serious divorce Went to get the divorce. You have to ask who's next Oh my god So yeah, we have a match for uh bash the beach I'm looking at this guy this month. I I auditioned with this monologue a couple of times I didn't know what 90% of this monologue met when I said it in freshman year of high school I'll have to read it later. Yeah I didn't know the word farsment So I do need to point out something Emily has started doing in the build to bash the beach We finished this segment and it's like all right cool. We've matched we match for bash the beach Emily goes I wonder if this is anything to do with the dark side of the ring Just let me watch it and I won't ask every time Backstage mike today is with kevin nash who's just in the ring Scott sider and medasia Nash has bashed the beach is on his birthday and uh He's the only guy to beat hall. So fuck you breadheart. I guess get fucked pretty twice No, he didn't he paid him twice Sorry jeff jared uh Nash says hall lives 40 minutes away from the paper you and uh, it's gonna be a great birthday party after Scott sider then is like, uh jeff jared's not the chosen one. I might have a chosen one. Look at me jennick freak jared jared kissed my ass What what the fuck? I think this is where the show starts to like kind of fall apart Yeah, speaking of what the fuck the filthy animals come out and what the fuck are these outfits? I was I was not even focused on the outfits. What? Just what the fuck? The dynamic of this group has absolutely disintegrated. Yeah, who is now in the filthy animals just to catch up? Deesko and fernow Rey Mysterio konan. I feel like I'm missing a fifth Tigris. Yes Who'd be down if it wasn't the worst disco is wearing like it's not tommy hill figure polo, but like that kind of vibe like tank top track suit kind of look Rey Mysterio is wearing leather overalls. Yes, and konan is just wearing beige He's wearing a sweater with three different shades of brown and a weird little hat and a weird little hat And who be hops aren't commentary to talk over multiple parts of this promo Because konan does his usual thing including asking Tigris feel that that's enough like this sweater feel it That's enough. And then it just kind of made us sad but disco and Rey Why? Why? And all the while hooventude is just trying to like get his little thing in And he just he keeps doing that and that just like makes it worse because he's not part of finally He was never part of this group The juices The juices come back The juices come back He says he where he's fucking from He can't come back to billing. He's never been here No, because hooventude was never part of this group. He was never a filthy animal So the fact that he was trying to be like and i'm here too Like how disco gets by with you hoovey you're like you would never No, the difference is disco is like actively trying to acclimate and not take over Disco's the one they're like, what the fuck is he doing here? I don't know why Because he's not he's not trying to be something like he's not trying to be the leader of the group He's not trying to like take over or you know Insert himself hooventude is trying to come in to fill the animals and be Billy Kidman or the leader of the animals whatever and he thinks that his gimmick is more important than everybody else's Even though he's never really been part of this and his gimmick never really went over So Emily, I don't know when the fuck this happens if it's soon or if it's Give me that that far but I know at some point he becomes just disco, but it's d i s q u interesting yeah I don't know. There's any sort of other gimmick with that. I just know that's the thing Disquo Yeah, but anyway, there's a match here. It is ray Mysterio versus lieutenant loco versus the artist For the cruiserweight champion, so we do get ray Mysterio on ray Mysterio nitro Sad pliokan oasis. This is just a weird match. It was cringy. I was uncomfortable. It was all bad I just yeah because the the artist throws chavo in the ring for ray leg drop Then the artist just like gets mad that like why did you go for the pin like it's a fucking three-way dance Because it's a match i'm trying to win the bench the artist hits a power bomb on ray and loco hits a frog splash Loco was then sent to the floor and ray vaults the artist out and then everyone just kind of comes back in without incident I didn't even think about the fact that it's like no outside interference Notably, there's no pops on this show. What do you mean? Oh pops like the character? I thought he may like pops from the no pops the character. I'm like is he gone? I he's I would you really don't know when he disappears. So Well Because you did point out that he did get a name in the in the card. Yes, his name like on the name plate He's there But he's not with the group and i'm like I don't even know who plays him to check to a computer No, but yeah, I didn't think about like oh, you know outside interference because they just go out there Your thing was art. There's three women. How long until a cat fight? I'm like, yeah, I'm after the match Loco is crouched in the corner ray hits a bronco buster on the artist lower down that same corner Ray goes after travel up top, but also gets crouched and travel hits a tornado ddt on the artist For the win. This is a very quick match. Yeah a little too quick, especially with three people I don't know this I didn't like this premise at all. So this kind of like put me out of my misery So I was actually thankful that it was short women all cat fight post match for like a second This is not even a cat but I wouldn't even qualify. This is a cat fight. This was just women acknowledging that there are other women Yeah, this whole match like didn't seem like they had a great plan going in but like the fact that we know ray is 70 and proceeds to have a litany of fucking knee injuries for the rest of his career. Yes, however He recently in 2024 like released like hey, here's like all the stem cell shit I've had like done to like my neck like legs and knees ray mistero is like weirdly leading the like public opinion of Hey stem cells are actually fucking great and not a weird thing. Yeah, he is still wrestling because of stem cells. Interesting. Yeah That's interesting. I am not a scientist Look up ray mistero stuff on your own time. But yeah, it is an interesting read. Okay, I mean it makes sense There had to be a reason. Yeah, I'm not saying it makes sense because like I understand the science No, yeah, there's not any surgeries wrestling it like the age of 50 yet that's That's incredible. Yeah, there had to be something there. I think that's great. Well speaking of there's something there David flair begs for forgiveness with daphne and she just forgives him And uh back from commercial he said he puts daphne in a car and is like oh, I forgot something i'll be right back But he like sends the car off like yeah, we'll meet you wherever Notably, we thought was it was a botch but the car moves four feet and stops We're like that's weird. Yes daphne was driving it. However I don't think this was a botch. I think it was meant to be a thing. I don't think it was either because David flair then goes to be with miss handcock and like kiss her they weirdly They don't kiss or have chemistry for an actual couple Yeah, they're like a real life couple that I do not kiss and then we see daphne out of the car looking in a monitor And if they okay, I guess you did actually stop the car get out to make sure but David also went to monitor David also went all about 20 feet. Yeah, that's that was the logistic that I kind of lost Yeah, why don't you just run after him the short version is um She sees them kissing and is heartbroken and notably is wearing a very high-cut t-shirt. I don't know I kind of noticed that I'm like, oh, yeah after you boost up doubt they put you in uh, no no pops here So I will remind you we are working towards daphne versus miss handcock at the baby view Yeah, you can't wait can't wait for that 30 second match in a wedding gown match. Yeah, okay. Sorry. Maybe 60 seconds I think crowbar might bump out of a pair of pants. So there's that crowbar is in the wedding dress match He's gonna interfere. I guess Let's move on to uh a match It's the perfect event versus tank abbot and rick steiner We were doing real well with this show Well, we've now entered the ed for our part of the show commentary talks about how like tank is tank abbot and rick steiner about to break up Like everything is pointing towards it. They've been broken up like kind of twice already, but now Chemistry is a tag team. It never made sense for them to be a tag team. So yeah, break up Tank and rick slam stays he act around including a belly to belly with a pin broken up by palumbo Plumba then tags in who runs into a power slam and then we get tank abbot like chastising a fan at ringside and chasing him off I did not get what his sign said. I thought it said something about three count I definitely took it was so quick. It was very quick. You're right It did not have anything to do with the people who were actively in the ring I've mentioned before tank abbot does join three counts. I mean this might be the start of that But but notably rick steiner is now left alone The perfect event beat down rick on the outside and you actually hear charles robinson count to eight and then a real long count Before he gets to nine. It's like get back in the fucking way rick tries to power up and does for a moment as stasiak goes for the muscle flexor Steiner hits a sloppy german suplex and goes for a steiner bulldog on palumbo But palumbo has slipped the muscle flexor and hits steiner in the ribs with it The perfect event then hit a double flapjack for the win And retain the titles like wow, they haven't actually won a match like I think they did buy Countout and shit like just because you don't count that like yeah count out and gq, but like that is still winning a match Whatever this match really lost my yeah, this was I could not have carried less about this It's a tank abbot was barely in there. That's true But they've made me not care about rick steiner too. Well, the problem is this is heel versus heel So yeah, you're not meant to root for anybody, but they also just haven't established these characters Well enough for me to even care about them I think there's something like to be said about a heel versus heel match If the characters that are in it are somebody too like worth worth watching okay fair Yeah, I think that I guess we can find the middle ground there of yeah when you do a cold Too cold heel teams facing each other. Yeah, who the fuck are we supposed to root for? Why would I watch why wouldn't I use this as my p-break? Based on two on one and the fact that scott helped me the week. It does seem like they're about to put rick back face I still don't totally get why they're gonna be didn't pick him up rick. Yeah, maybe he just didn't want to Yeah, I I don't know whose contracts fall under which company that's always a weird thing Maybe he was already like gearing towards being done and he just wanted like go be a family man Gonna raise his son. Go buy his show knees. Go buy his show knees How do I mention the show knees before you do? I love the show knees. So emily, do you want me to run through the next segment or would you like to take the raise? I guess I will because it's so unhinged This next segment kind of broke us Uh-huh. We had to take a break after this one So we're backstage. We're in the locker room with um two characters who have wild hair Both of them. We have our good friend old asia, you know, we've we've lost one woman in the company We can fill that slot with another woman. So asia is back on the roster. Oh, uh related women Uh, apparently molly holly was backstage at ecw like but they didn't do anything because she still signed a double city. Oh damn And asia is there with her fiance Good old dale torborg. Yes dale torborg dale torborg dale torborg dale torborg You fucked it up So they are talking about dale fighting his inner demons talking about how I want to know they introduce this they don't just talk about it. This is the first time. This has been a concept. Yes This is bonkers. I also For continuity's sake need to note that dale torborg is not the first wrestler to play the demon So we we cut back we are with asia and dale having a fairly intimate conversation about dales, you know inner demons if you will um Saying that you know He's been gone for a few months, but all of a sudden this guy is back and they don't know what to do. He doesn't know how to handle it um Essentially it all ends with asia Having to take the suit of the demon away from him because he can't be tempted to go into that mindset again What he's trying to say is the demon is an alter ego of dale torborgs that takes him over It's like a venom situation. It's like a batman meets Between of you, you know, we I can't live a normal life as long as i'm Batman yeah, the demon like the demon is causing rifts in their relationship It's like an alternate personality thing. He said i went to therapy. I thought i was rid of him Yeah, he's a little talk about how he went to therapy. It's the black rain of his time. It's like He's not the demon. He is his own inner demons like this is so He's the worst enemy Can we forget about the things i said when i was the demon Didn't mean to call you china god, but like this was just such revisionist history almost or just like it was like Every line was bonkers now was norman smiley also possessed what he dressed as the demon See that will never have an answer to we will never know Is it a twin peeks bob situation i never saw twin peeks, so i don't know what you're referencing but that yeah the the whole like did kiss know that they were working with a man who had a mental illness like Kiss is long gone. What i'm thinking about the lore of the demon like are we going back to the beginning or are we just like Never mind. Yes, and you either you either die a dale torbork or live long enough to see yourself become the demon Oh dale torbork and just like his name alone is a burial. Like i'm sorry. I know this is your real life name It's really the last day torbork and they hit it so hard They hit it almost as hard as like dreko hitting pata Torbork Torbork a muggle. It's like it's so satisfying your races These fucking torborgs around town Yeah, so that's the segment. Oh, yeah, and vampiro's watching Now great idea. We're about to get more spooky bullshit because vampiro comes out to the ring with a mic Goody. It also begs the question of like who was the hower power talking about last week like was Dale part of the hower power or was it just vampiro was this all a thing because in vampiro's next Promo he's talking about like how he saw the demon. He was like i like this kid. We have a lot in common like I don't understand what his whole goal was Yeah, but vampiro's like we're gonna have a going away party So he calls out dale torborg and asia And then vampiro's kind of berry's dale torbork. Yeah, he does And ask like isn't it terrible when something important to you just like goes away so no how he led into this was uh vampiro's tells dale like uh It's i can't believe you want this part of you to be just to disappear like the demon is a part of you And i know how it feels for a part of you to like take over your life But that's who you are and wanting to be really hard for an important part of yourself to be taken away Lights cut Lights come back asia's gone Confusion lights cut again Lights come back vampiro's gone vampiro's gone what the fuck however a crew member is suddenly like crouched Right next to the ring and it's like all of the audience are pointing at this guy like oh my god he's over here And then we get a pre tape video on the jumbo trot of vampiro driving a hearse away He does mumble something, but it was it was maybe a little more coherent than kevin nash But not by much unsure if asia was in the hearse Unsure but levels mumbling levels of more like ghost bird More like ghost demon. I don't know if i loved this or i hated this The combination of the two segments the therapy segment and the vampiro's. I don't know if i fucking loved it or not This this does ride the line of so bad it's good, but this is fucking terrible I kind of loved it. I mean the revisionist history of it all is Bananas, but like again the loved it is very faffy this story is begging for a Sullivan by son Yes, I agree. I imagine I imagine these two will have a match bash the beach. So We'll see why I don't want it Next up. It's the two and a half man thread versus buff bagwell and chronic I say two and a half man thread because the triple threat is uh shamed uglest Bam bam big low and a very visibly injured criss candida At a very visibly unmotivated injured criss candida, but he's there and he's he's working He's there shamed douglas does his tri-hard promo And then uh challenges buff to any kind of match at bash the beach The faces come out everyone debates who will star but they decide i'm bam bam big low And you see you sure he was wearing i did not a nitro grill shirt He knows rely on bam bam big low to be wearing the most random nitro merch as his ring gear This starts to franchise sucks chads. So Notably shamed atlas cubs in like all right well there's some they want us to make it beat up Here we go Good for him get beat up french fry clark overpowers the franchise But douglas hit the drop kick and then does a flare turnbuckle spot. It's like Do you want do you hate this man or do you want to fuck this man? It's very unclear. Oh no We get a urinagi from clark and then he tags in adams Adams hits a full nelson slam on douglas and then tags in buff Douglass runs away tags in big low big low overpowers buff and And tags in shane once buff is down Douglass works buff over in the corner and then a trio of suplexes including a big final delayed one Adams then distracts douglas like very much like a heel. This was weird vibe Especially when he the heel has a partner with a broken arm Yeah, so buff hits a double arm gdt which commentary gets into its own pants about about like ah like the fuji kadami Dt uh we call it a buff ddt. I'm like, okay It's a fucking double arm ddt. Calm down. Stop You're not the wrestling masterminds that you think you are I'm really wondering did I say a wrestling name or a video game name? I don't know I will never know brian adam's tags in so brian clark just fucking comes in again Like a fucking heel. Yeah, the face has hit three on one offense on bam bam big low including a high time Candida then comes in hits clark with a foreign object that clark just no sell And candido bales buff goes for a block buster It's countered and then immediately goes for a block buster till like so the hard camp hits it better I don't know if that was an audible or what? but uh He does a fucking dance and then pins bam bam big low sure doesn't attacks buff post match or the pittsburgh plunge And despite chronic just leaving to chase candido their music then hits for them to make the 45 foot save sure and uh Yeah, that's the match and that's all for chris candido. Wow. Yeah, what a way to leave Yeah, I think he was here for like a cup of coffee Yeah, I Sunny leaving probably did not help his standing in the company and the way she left And him being heard they're like, well, we got nothing for you. Yeah, I don't know if he goes back to ECW or not He's kind of sad Yeah, he has a little something but um a lot of his career was dragged down by being tied to the anchor that is Tammy lensech Yeah But I think they could have gotten more out of him the kersway division. It's kind of sad that they Hat they like half non promoted him to the new blood and went oh, well now you're just fodder Yeah, I mean they didn't they didn't give him an opportunity to be anything other than the like they made a decision on what his character Was going to be and they refused to allow him to go anywhere outside of it. Yeah kevin ash needed a punching bag So here you are this match was eh no again weird Psychology in this of the faces constantly cheating and three on one offense and like you're not the underdogs When you're facing a guy in a fucking sling. No, that's it. Not the most excited for buff bagwell versus the french fries Nope Although there was a really sweet um tweet from ddp about him today. Maybe maybe yesterday recently buff bagwell is recently um sober And he owes out a lot to ddp And so he tweeted about it and like thanked ddp for it and ddp retweeted and like stave his little message as well It was it was actually very nice. Oh good. I'm glad that's actual things buff bagwell is doing and not hiring a pedophile to tweet left wing comments for him Correct now. This is this is good getting on his feet doing good things. We're going to applaud the good I guess speaking of uh ddp's tweets We did not mention at the start of the show. This is the first episode that we were recording After the passing of mr. Sid vicious. Yes, that's true. Oh man That's a hard one. Yeah He lived such a private life towards the end that it definitely falls under my Category of like look someone who lived a very private life died. Like it is probably not your business kind of thing It's not yeah, and even in in the ddp tweet he didn't realize but um said had been like Battling cancer for years and ddp didn't know. Yeah, there was an unfortunate reaction to this in that it's like Okay, his Son claims that he's died because there's some weird people that were fucking obsessed with sidd And made fake twitter accounts claiming to be sidd and his family and a weird thing and it was like people were actually sure if he had passed away. Oh really? Yeah, it was a weird vibe of Look, I love no context. Sid. I retweeted him. You know, I just love just writing this to him yelling and whispering But like internet people sort yourselves out sometimes. Yes I agree, but it's a loss to the community though. I mean he was incredible Like he's not my cup of tea. I know you love him He's not my favorite guy, but I can recognize talent when I see it and I recognize that he was a big He was a big deal. Yeah, he was one of five people to main event both starcake and reslamania Yes, he was like, yeah, Steve Austin doesn't count But this one actually this is legitimate. This does this does count I think the best way to describe Sid Vicious is they say lightning doesn't strike twice But lightning struck about fucking 12 times for this guy It was he'd show up he'd be a badass and then he'd leave to go play softball And what more could you want in life? So yeah rest in peace to the master and the ruler of the world Or the universe depending how much company that's fair And we are now two for two on wrestlers that have passed away on or near our wedding three for three, babe Terry funk and bray Wyatt Terry funk was earlier. He was like, it was like the rehearsal day, wasn't it? No, I thought bray Wyatt was rehearsal. Terry funk was right after. Yeah, we're doing really well So emily out of respect, you now have to watch Sin unedited. No I don't think that his memory would want me to watch that actually Did you see the thing going on on twitter of the first person he powerbombed post injury? No It was a random indie show. I forget what the character's name was at the time, but it's sammy zane No way. Oh, that's funny I will not be watching that match. I don't care what you say I don't care what you put on the the twitter or whatever. I am not watching that Well, you guys watch the match I'm not watching that moment. You will not be getting my live reaction. I am not doing that So we get to sit in case anyone's ever been curious. I do loosely plan on us reviewing the wwa But we will see That said it's time for our nitro main event. It is jeff jared versus scott steiner For the w70 title with mic awesome as the special guest referee The cat comes out with awesome to join commentary and then Steiner crabs and mic when he comes out to tell the cat that he sucks And then I thought was running the show. I'd do a panties on a pole match and a freak out of leash And this promo is just to set up jeff jared attacking from behind This which lasts about 12 seconds before steiner hits a tilt-a-roll slam and elbow drops with push-ups Steiner catches jeff jared and slams him back first into the corners and then sends jared to the floor Jared hits his one offensive move lately, which is the chair shot to the ribs and throat Then threatens medasia who jumps his back and steiner hits a chair shot on jared as jared's like threatening to kill her Jesus commentary at this point very much fails dance around of why this is not outside interference Yeah, and because shut up, that's why because she's already ringside Hush stop because don't think about it the tube roll into the crowd for a second come back to ringside Steiner slowly catapults jared into the corner hits a press slam commentary notes that scott is setting up for the steiner recliner And uh get a very quiet when like someone starts to say isn't that banned Yes Yeah, i'm like i'm sure that won't come up at any point in this match why jared low blow steiner gets his foot up in the corner on a charge jared hits a jared hits two diving axe handles and taunts the crowd Steiner catches the third diving axe handle, but jared rakes the eyes and it hits a back souplex And actually goes i just souplex scott steiner Yeah, he like looks at the camera and says that like why that was a weird moment I've never seen a wrestler actually do that I think it's just because steiner is meant to be like the master of the souplex i guess Glargay sleeper from jared and steiner slips out hits a big vertical souplex Steiner hits a power slam and then a spinning belly to belly Jeff jared kicks out of what has been a bunch of very fair counts from mike awesome He's really doing a good job Not being in the way not drawing attention to himself fair counts Yeah, he's actually calling it down the middle like a lot of people say that about guest referees like oh He's going to call it down the middle, but he's very much going to favor one guy No, mike awesome makes you believe he's actually going to be a fair ref Steiner then counters his stroke and then locks in a steiner recliner The cat gets on the mic immediately notes. This is illegal and gives mike awesome a chair shot to break the hold The chair shot only gets it too. So the awesome joins jared to be down Steiner then t-bones mike awesome locks in a steiner recliner on awesome Jeff jared grabs the guitar hits a guitar shot on steiner and gets the win Post-match the cat mocks Steiner and dances for too long So Steiner hits a belly to belly and then locks in a steiner recliner on the cat Jared and awesome come back and Steiner fights them off until he eats a golberg spear Which brings out kevin ash and then golberg Slowly leaves the ring when kevin ash can just grab him and like it's too slow I lost interest in this match so quickly kevin ash makes no attempt to follow This just weird flat ending to the show so flat so boring even kevin ash probably was like Notch itself was okay, but just uninspired uninspired uninteresting did not hold any kind of attention I could not care less. Unfortunately. Despite how little jeff jared means. I didn't believe he was gonna lose here Well, no because they keep setting up the fucking match at the beach. So no, of course he's not gonna lose Yeah, and you keep giving like him. Okay. Here's six caveats of why you're not gonna lose Right that like you don't deserve but you're not gonna lose right But that's all for this show emily thoughts on this nitro as a whole I enjoyed this as a whole like this was a good show. This was a like breath of okay We have like a reason to be alive So, I mean there were some low points I mean not every match was a banger But like the young dragons and three count that match like brought me back to life Yeah, makes me want to keep recording this podcast It like makes you remember that like there are talented guys in this roster that if you give them time They can have a match. Yeah, it is unintentionally hilarious That that is the first match once ruzo's gone. Yeah Like that like that just screams a message. I don't think that's an accident But yeah, the the second half of this definitely falls off a little bit. Oh my god It drags so hard the second the tank abba comes out is when i'm like oh that shows over We still have two more weeks nitro before bash of the beach that don't have ruso. So we'll see Well, yeah We'll kind of see the direction they're gonna take and i'm kind of curious how much they're going to continue that Once ruzo's back at the pay for you and after It's a weird it's a weird vibe of we're kind of in a no man's land. Yeah, it's kind of like I'm worried it's gonna be half baked nitros, but right now that raw cookie note tastes great But it's time for best bit worst bit and mvp Emily, I'm feeling these might line up a bit, but uh, I think our best bit is definitely the same Yes, it is the young dragons versus three count. Are you including the last storm bit with that or no? Yeah, yeah, I would as well. Yeah now Emily. What is your worst bit? I'm giving it to the filthy animals versus mia It was just uncomfortable. It just made me upset The artist is also with that match I guess yeah, so him too sure he'll get to lieutenant logo versus ray versus the artist But like a lot of focus on the filthy animals in that like mia was not as offensive Taffkapi I forgot about but it's really the filthy animals They're they're inclusion in the segment just really made me sad and uncomfortable and I just don't like it What about you? Who's your bet? What's your worst bit? I gave it to the demon dale Torbork I would find a spot for him because I couldn't decide if I loved it or I hated it I'm giving it to all of it. That is not the worst. I love him I'm team dale The moment that they like turned him into a split personality I had to pause to catch my breath of jesus christ. Yep. Yep. That's valid. So the mvp I don't have an answer for quite honestly I'm torn between two Gimme gimme your thoughts. I think it's either booker Or it's three count. I might give it to three count because three count gave You know a breath of fresh air sincerely and like a reason to continue to watch. Yeah, I think three count delivered Booker gave us a tracking number. He's gonna deliver but we don't have the package yet. Okay, I can respect that So, yeah, I think both of us are gonna go three count for that. Yeah, I think so But you know deli gaff And with that that brings us to the end of the june 19th 1,000 wse Monday night row next up. Let's do some math. It's the juke 26 nitro Whatever the next Monday is there's no Vince Russo. That's what I know. That's true That is true But if you're missing Vince Russo, this is our review of all of his previous nitros on all podcast platforms Besides soundcloud as well as the rest of our back catalog Doesn't follow us on social media at butts in the pod ever over sites facebook We're to the butts the seats podcast and then over on our patreon five bucks a month at patreon.com slash plus the seats gives you 19 bonus episodes Budget tna legends house Upcoming jesse venture story. Yes, so we have a pretty good trajectory of what's coming next over there. It's a lot of Insanity, I think yeah, that'd be next week. It's a week after and however we end up reviewing the Vince McMahon documentary from netflix We'll also be on the patreon whether that be a written review or a podcast review It will all be over on the patreon. We got a little while before that Yeah, not not as long as you think it's miss a temper and I want to do it fairly quickly But Emily any final thoughts before we uh cute chucking towards bash the beach. I just want to get there man I just want to get there. It's really nice. Not having hulk Hogan here It is nice to actually take a break from him. He's everywhere for us right now and i'm nice It's nice to not have to talk about him. Oh, don't worry. We'll get plenty of talk on him in a bash at the beach I know and I want to fucking watch it. But until the next night show. I'm nick And thanks for listening to the bust the seats podcast Good, but I know change it up You (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]