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They had Gail Kim on as well and he had written for us for a very long time, but we just like to keep him integrated at all. In a while back, he was like, hey, if you want me to do thumbnails, I'd be open to it. And they've really progressed. Now I've never been a put my face on the thumbnail guy, but I was like, you know what? Maybe we'll go for it. And then I saw Denise was doing it and I was like, the hell with it. Why not? Why not give it a shot? Why not give it a go? And the thumbnails are beautiful, not because they have my face on it, but they're just really, really good. And we're working on them. We're working really hard on them. And to bring a lot of visual upgrades and stuff like that. I know on the website, our thumbnails don't work sometimes. That's because we're doing a site migration right now. So we got a lot of things that are switching over legit info on who is frustrated at AEW. I can't out people specifically for that. I've talked to a couple people that are frustrated for sure, but that can change on a weekly basis. I don't know that she's frustrated, but I know that Britt Baker would like to be on TV and is confident in her ability to be over, even if she's not cleared or healthy, of which I don't know if she is or not. But there are some people, but I mean, when you have a roster of over 100 people, you're going to have that. They're frustrated people in WWE and TNA in New Japan. So if you look hard enough, they're going to find people like that anyway. Any natty contract update, this $2 is for Corey. She's keeping her options open, FightfulSelect.com reported this last week, but there are conversations that are happening as we go along and also happy birthday to her. She is 42 now, 42, and as good as she's ever been in incredible shape, always shows up to do media, just a wonderful person to have on your team. If I were a company like AEW, I would want her on my team too, because not only do you get a locker room leader, a veteran, someone who can lead you through matches, you get someone that can help train people, and you're probably getting TJ Wilson too. So if I were WWE, I'd be looking to retain her, if I was AEW, I'd be looking to bring her over. Have you heard if WWE is interested in bringing over more TNA wrestlers than vice versa? Yes. I'll show you a comparison to this, and then I'll plug FightfulSelect because we will have more details this weekend. I look at what Jordan Grace is doing, a lot of how I looked at what Chris Bay did a couple years ago, and some of you are going, "Huh, what are you talking about Chris Bay?" For years and years and years, the TNA and New Japan relationship was bad. It was really bad based on a number of things, switching IWGP titles without permission and the treatment of Okada, any number of things. It was real bad. Well, then there was a situation, I mean, there were honestly, there were a lot of situations where TNA tried to make good and all that. I know Harry Smith one time, Davey Boy Smith Jr. told me that he asked if he could work TNA, and New Japan was like, "No, they screwed us over, Jeff Jarrett screwed us over." And Davey Boy was like, "Man, that was so long ago, what are you talking about? What's going on here?" Well, then a few years later, Chris Bay got the opportunity to work New Japan while he was in impact TNA. And I looked at that and I'm like, "Oh, okay." Well, I mean, he is a really great representative for that brand, and somebody that you want to send there because of any number of things. You know, he's got charisma, you know, he's got talent, he's great in the ring, but also the guy's a pro. He'll talk his shit online and all that stuff, but he shows up there and he goes to work and he's a great representative for your brand, whatever that brand may be. So I looked at that and I was like, "Okay, he can help rebuild that relationship." And then all of a sudden, after Chris Bay shows up in New Japan, New Japan is open to working with TNA, as they should have been. They saw what TNA could provide, by the way, of Chris Bay. I think that's what's happened with WWE and TNA as well. I think they see a person like Jordan Grace, who shows up, puts in the work, looks like a million bucks, is good in the ring, has physical charisma and can cut a promo as well. And they see how she conducts herself backstage, how she keeps a secret as best she can. She went to great lengths to try to keep the rumble secret to the point where we had arranged an interview for immediately afterwards in exchange for it. But I think that's what they're seeing now, and if everything goes well, I think you'll see more of it. Well, Ethan joining WWE, affect his ability to work with AEW New Japan ROH talent. Yeah, I don't see him working against AEW and ROH talent, New Japan, possibly. I don't know if he's still doing the indie dates, I did ask, I don't know as of yet. I would find it hard to believe that they would have him work or allow him to work against AEW talent there. He's got a match against Shelton Benjamin. I'd be interested to see if that actually happens. Can we please manifest Joe Hendry versus L.A. Night now? Gosh, that would be great. I think they should end up doing NXT versus TNA as a co-promoted show, a good faith co-promoted show and fill up an arena with it, sell 15,000, 16,000 tickets because I think you can. I was at TNA last week, it was a wonderful live show. Ospre on Demore Thoughts, AEW roster split. That's from Matthew Hooks of Hooked in Voiceovers. We sponsored our Fightful Awards this year and also does at least an ad per month as well. So check him out. Ospre on Demore, I don't see Demore coming over in that capacity because I think that if they were going to do that they would have already. I don't think we're going to see an AEW roster split. I just don't think so. From what you have heard, if WWE is confident or optimistic about getting a deal done with Becky eventually, I've heard nothing as to whether they feel confident in it, whether Becky Lynch wants it or anything. I know that Becky Lynch had wanted to make some life decisions along the way and I just want to reiterate this, anybody claiming she would do this, she wouldn't do that. What reason does she have to do this? You all don't know her personally. You don't know her personally. I have done all the original reporting regarding her contract for over a year. There's been nothing to indicate to me as of now that she will resign with WWE, won't resign with WWE, will or won't resign or sign with AEW or whatever she's going to do. Nothing as of yet, nothing. But that deal is up this weekend. What do people think internally of the live storyline going on currently? It's drawing a bunch of attention, especially this past Monday. Well, the people that I talk to are very happy about how it's panned out so far and the fact that you see such a multi-pronged attack, like you see, for example, Judgment Day. Right now, Rhea is out, one of the, I don't even think it's arguable, the biggest part of Judgment Day. And that's saying something because Damian Priest is a big part of it and he's World Champion. Damian Priest has like three or four people coming after him, so you got that. Ben Balor is doing a lot of stuff with Carlito right now and that has integrated the L.W.O. So there's that. J.D. McDonough is doing stuff with Braun Strowman, so that brings it in as well. Then you got Liv Morgan that wrapped up her thing with Becky Lynch and had a little bit of a thing with Lyra and Becky, or I just mentioned Becky, but Ann had the Rhea thing so it all ties back in together and then she's factored him with Dominic. A few years ago, we weren't getting that. We had people online trying to convince you that Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan, Eric Rowan stuff was good, like, and I'm all for subjective opinions. It's just my God, that was some of the worst stuff I've seen, that era. Now you're getting things that actually hold people's interests. I've heard emojis, what other hobbies do you have besides wrestling? Well, I like to train in wrestling, I like to, man, football is the big one. Love football, bingles season ticket holder, I like to go hiking a lot, go to arcades, laser tag, that type of stuff. My wife and I are very competitive in that regard, but yeah, a lot of stuff like that. Hiking's a big one of late, going to be doing a lot of that this summer. Do you know of any surprises in store for tonight? Hoping to see Mistico, Stephanie, and Shingo. So I don't know of any of them, but I had heard of at least one new Japan contingent talent that was supposed to be there that I have not verified, but surprised me when I heard it, because they had some previous ties to the company. TJ Wilson leave with Natalia or is there a non-compete, no, he is on an employment agreement. He can just leave. He can just go whatever, wherever he wants. Amir says, how do you think Eric Bischoff would do booking AEW with the current roster, not bringing in people? When's the last time we've seen Eric Bischoff book? Like what, 20 years ago, would he even be interested in something like that? Like it would be categorically different than what we see now. We would certainly see shorter matches. It would be a completely different booking philosophy. How would he do? Well, it wouldn't appeal to the current audience. It would be an effort to appeal to a completely different audience. So it depends on what you mean. If he was asked to book for this audience, well, I have no frame of reference for how he would do, because I don't know that he had ever booked a show like that. Like occasionally, you would see him do that with maybe with, I mean, I don't even think he was booking back then. Yeah, Hush just says, is there any chance Grace becomes full-time in WWE? Yeah, it wouldn't be until next year though. Scott says at the gym, best part of my warm up is listening to Fightful. Hey man, hope you enjoy it. Hope you're having a good workout. Josh says, could you see WWE doing Raw or SmackDown next year at Caesars Palace, mania week? Mania 9 sucked, but I always liked the way that it looked. I don't know because I think NXT would be a good one to do there. If they did, they would charge out the ass for it to make up for a lot of the loss ticket sales, because I don't think that they would be able to do, like, to the scale of a lot of the venues now. New Black City says SRS, my guy, missing Jimmy, can we call him expectations of doing fantasy booking of TNA NXT? Every time a TNA talent pops up randomly on a WWE show, we expect all these cross-promotional matches. They never happen. Grace is awesome though. Well, WWE is paying Jordan Grace very well, Fightful Select heard from people in NXT. Grace figures for the three appearances including the two matches. So yeah, it's quite the cash infusion. I wonder if they're paying TNA at all. It's something I'm going to find out. But to tie this in with Joe Woods, I know it probably won't happen, but it would be crazy to have a TNA star, Jordan Grace, defend the NXT title against Marigold star, Julie at an in NXT ring. I don't know if Marigold necessarily has that cache so far. I mean, maybe it will. We'll see as it develops, but I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think we're going to see that go down. As far as the potential NXT TNA crossover matches, well, yeah, I think that there's a real possibility for it more and more. I mean, the Royal Rumble thing was nice is like a one off and it goes, my God, I can't believe that that happened. But man, the more we get into this, the more realistic it actually seems. Now, I'm not going to hold out hope because usually on stuff like that, if we do like a co-promoted thing, TNA would have to go in on it. I can't believe that they would go in on a show like that. Yeah, my God, I got a picture of how the Tony Con neck brace will now live in the rich eyes and studios. That is unbelievable. He donated $100,000 to St. Jude's, by the way, $100,000. Wow, that is incredible. Good for him. Good for him. Assuming Grace loses to Roxanne, DCWB repaying the favor and Grace beating a WWE talent slam of victory wrestling is fun right now. I hope so. I think that's what should happen. I think that you should send an NXT talent over there and take the L, but I mean, TNA probably have to pay him to unless it's just a complete goodwill gesture by WWE because right now, WWE is paying Jordan Grace to appear on their show. What's the hold up of Jacob Fattu seeing Bronbreaker rec shopping raw makes me want to see Fattu do the same in Smackdown and boy, that is a good future match. This is a hunch, not a report. WWE has a lot of international dates, pay-per-views, PLEs. He's got a record. He might not be able to travel overseas. It would make sense. That's what they're holding up for. We need an SRS football channel. Go Browns. There is one. There is one. I'll show you the logo for it right here, bam, common bingles W with Sean Ross Sapp. You can go to commonbinglesw.com, that'll lead to my YouTube page. You can also go to common bingles W on Twitter. Well, there'd be a day that ROH becomes AEW's NXT. It is to an extent, except they don't have the developmental area for it. Gabe Kid versus MJF feels like the home run forbidden door match. It wasn't the one I had heard of, however, however, it wasn't the plan that I had heard of. Yeah. Sorry. It says Ethan Page Live tweeted, he didn't sign an NXT contract. He did. I mean, listen, I don't know what you mean. Don't care. But he did. WWE confirmed it in an official capacity to me. He did. Thoughts on people calling for cope to retire? They're dumb. He'll come back. Listen, was it a good idea to do that move in that manner? No, it was not. Should he retire? No, he should not. If he wants to, then he can retire all he wants. Sure. But no, that people are ridiculous. Me and M would be a great choice versus Grace. I agree. I think that'd be a really good one, and she's got ties to the TNA as well. I feel like to get the maximum buzz, and this isn't a shot at me and M, I sincerely adore medium. She's great. Incredible competitor. Looks like a million bucks, good at what she does. I feel like sending somebody over there that has never been there before is a good idea. Somebody says, "Bex may want to remodel Holmes for the next two years." Chill. Exactly. You do not know what somebody might want to do. Barry Sanders retired in the middle of his, Andrew Luck retired, the middle of everything. Adam LaRoche retired because they wouldn't let his son in the clubhouse every day. Amir says, "Now that TKO owns WWE and Vince has gone, do you think Martha Hart may allow for Owen to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?" Maybe in due time. Maybe down the line. I've never had a conversation with her, so I can't speak to that, but I think it's more likely now. Thomas Sandberg says, "Brian Alvarez mentioned Tony Conflipped the script multiple times prior to Double or Nothing, as well as AEW booking last minute in general compared to 2019 WWE. Have you heard about any of this? It is nowhere near 2019 WWE. I mean, not even close. I got the rundowns and scripts in 2019 WWE, and I saw how bad it was. I'll give you an example. Here's an easy plug for BetOnline AG that I'm going to go to right after this. The BetOnline AG odds as of Friday had all the favorites winning, and when somebody asked me for an underdog pick, I was like, "Based on what I hear, all the favorites are winning." That ended up being the case except for Trent, and that's because that's getting extended. I believe to this week common sense would tell you with the Don Callis thing. I had heard that that finish changed over the weekend, but that's going to happen. But in wrestling, a lot of times you don't tell the wrestler that they're going to win until the day of anyway, because you don't want to deal with the politics and all that stuff as well. Like, I have not heard anything like that. Nothing in comparison to 2019 WWE. And when I tell you guys, 2019 WWE was real bad. From that period up until like early 2021, it was so, so bad. So bad. Like, I already did the BetOnline AG ad, so instead, we're going to send it to our friends over at NordVPN. I'm traveling a lot, and when you travel, you got to protect your data. You got to protect your privacy online, nordvpn.com/fightfall allows me to do that, allows me to browse safely and securely. When you go to an airport, when you go to an arena, a restaurant, a hotel, you're usually connecting to that unsecured Wi-Fi, which will leave you susceptible to having your data stolen, any number of things taken from your private connection, or what should be your private connection. 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As far as views, that's why Denise did her King of the Ring review on her channel. She's like, "I've got to generate some pub and all that stuff." Man, you guys have really shown out this week, and it means an awful lot. So I want to say thank you guys for that. C634 says, "With the first bank center being closed in A to be visiting Loveland next week, do you know if AEW has eyes on a new Denver venue, or if they plan to stay on the outskirts with Loveland and Colorado Springs like we did last summer?" This is a question for a man who can't answer that question, Will Washington, because he is the champion of sending events to Denver. I think what they'll do, even if they do the outskirts, I think they'll brand it as Denver. But there hasn't been a major, major event in Denver in a very long time, and it's hard for me to believe that Will Washington won't push for one to go there. Because why wouldn't he? You should. It's an underserved market in that sense. If they go to Colorado Springs, they better get the legend Joe Kenda there. And if you don't know who Joe Kenda is, look him up. There's a WBD connection. I think that they will find a, I think they'll eventually get into Denver at some point. I am, oh, okay. What's the deal with Wagner and Quinn? Listen, this person that sent the super chat, it didn't say Wagner said, "What's the deal with wanger?" And it was like, "Who got released?" The wanger got released. Well, if you want your wanger to get a release, what's the deal with Wagner and Quinn being released for reportedly not being used in the main roster, despite being drafted with no plans? Seemed more like an oversight and creative than a wrestler not working out. Well, wanger and Quinn, my friend, they were never creative plans for them. And a lot of it was a shit or get off the pot type of situation. Not pickles and bananas in the chat, by the way. They had been around for a very long time, and WWE did not feel like that progression was there. Now, you can, the individual talent can take issue with that if they so choose, and I'm sure they would. But, and this person knows Joe Kenda, my, my. But they didn't feel like that progression was there. I do think that they should have been used a little bit more. Even if there's enhancement guys like Zion Quinn taking a pinfall means a lot more than some 130 pound guy that you're pulling off the streets. That's why AEW used Kevin Matthews all the time in that spot. He puts over those big dudes or puts over those smaller guys. But yeah, they never really did have creative plans. Loving all this in the chat drops out in the comments as well. I'm hopping over to the comments section after every show, every show and chat with you guys. And yeah, respect to Kale Dickson did an incredible job in that role as well. Newlack City says didn't Jerry Lynn already publicly say the reason TK is secretive about the booking is because all the leaks he already spoke on Brian Alvarez saying this in the past. They don't want everything leaking in the media. Yeah, but that isn't always the reason why. And listen, Jerry Lynn doesn't like dirt sheets. That's okay. I wouldn't if I were him either. Wouldn't if I were him either. Oh, I'm going to add this donation link to my tweet, but can't run that ad back to back. So I'll save that until then. Say that until the next ad read whenever I can do that. But yes, guys, please donate to stjude.org/runrichrun. In fact, it's such it's a great cause, a great cause. Just bought a Fightful Tea. Any new merch updates. Yes, Pat. I am working on new merch now right now. Top five punk albums of the 90s go. Listen, I wasn't a big 90s punk guy. I wasn't. I was more of an early 2000s pop punk guy. I like newfound glory, some 41, Blink 182, of course. I'm into those. I was a big, big new found glory and some 41 guy. The Mark Tom and Travis show, the live album of Blink 182 was great. It aged really bad with the banter in between. And if you listen to it, you'll see what I mean. But for the time, I really, really enjoyed it. Why didn't the AW and T&A relationship work? Well, it did for the time, but there just hasn't been any need for AW to do that necessarily of late. So they didn't go that route. Motor City machine guns update, they're there from what I understand, Ricky Starks update. I've not heard anything new about Ricky Starks, TNT title update, it will be addressed tonight. Now, Ryan also says, what the hell is going on with Ricky Starks, he's been off TV for a while since the end of March, he said he wishes he's on TV, his contract is his contract up soon and Tony is not just just not using him, what gives. I don't have a good answer as to why he's not been on TV. He should have been on TV. He got in, he got restricted a little bit by, you know, the CM Punk feud being, having the legs cut off of it. He was never supposed to really be in a few or a team with Big Bill. They put him with Big Bill to explain why he was off all in because they thought that fans would be upset that he wasn't on all in so they did the suspension angle, then it turned into a tag team and neither one of them really wanted it. And then when the tag team ended, they were both ready to move on and then there's the spot in the top flight match where, you know, you can think what you want, he hasn't wrestled since then though. So I wonder if there's some friction there, maybe as a result of that, it's a, it's a question, not a report, but Addison Andrews says, well MJF feud with the members of Undisputed Air until Cole gets healthy. Maybe a match or two, but in the report that's coming on FightfulSelect.com, I'll tell you right now, that was largely to put a bow on that story because Adam Cole is not near ready. He's not near ready, but they had to do something, they couldn't completely ignore it. But there's an awful lot of stuff highlighted in the FightfulSelect report, but I'm sure that he and Roderick Strong would have great matches and he and Wardlow need to have their match and all that stuff, but I don't know if that's something they necessarily want to go back to. I think they want to immediately move on from that and I think that Max does too. Eventually, you're going to get that Adam Cole match, but right now, I don't, I don't think so. Do you think we see more WWE hip hop collabs? Yes, I do. AEW got really good about them for a while as well. How do you think Priest and Drew plays out in Scotland? Do you think it's as simple as punk screwing him over, setting up the scene for SummerSlam? I do. I don't think Drew McIntyre versus CM Punk needs a title and I think the idea of punk screwing him over in his home, like he's taking everything from him. And Drew won't quit trolling him, right? But punk costs him the title that he had won in front of fans. Now he can cost him winning it in front of his own people as well. I, that's too good of a story to, to pass up. J.B. Love says, just want to say thank you for what you do, SRS, well, thank you for being here. I greatly appreciate you there. About five minutes behind when my wife and I, or when I'm, my wife had our son, her professional priority shifted big time. Becky will do what she feels is best for her family, exactly. And I want Becky to do what Becky wants to do. You feel the first six months of a 2024 been better financially in perception for AEW compared to the same period in 2023? They know because they had all in as well. Creatively, yes, but they've been hamstrung. No MJF, Britt Baker, Thunder Rosa, hangman page for a good part of that. Adam Cole. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, damn. Interesting, interesting part of news here. Oh boy. Let me just give you the teaser. Oh, I got, I got a good one coming tomorrow. I got a good one coming tomorrow to fightfulselect.com. In fact, I'm going to need to run an ad right, right this second, right this second. Here's our good friends at Bluechoo. If I could find the ad. Where is it? There were, you know, Fightful and Bluechoo have been at it a long time. Maybe you've been at it a long time. Maybe you're lacking that motivation. Maybe you're lacking that confidence. You don't think you have what you once had. Bluechoo is here to get you there. Bluechoo.com and the code Fightful, you'll get your first shipment free of what? Well, it's a chewable tablet that has the same ingredients as Viagra and Cialis, so it gets your performance ready to go. It's prescribed online and shipped straight to your door. 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But they started to clear out the back area to bring him in and everybody kind of knew then that that's what was going on. Because I had one person really high up who was staunch, like, we're told he's not coming back. And then they sent me a message, I mean, to very, very high up people, let me know. And that's why I had posted that tweet. But it was a, well, here he is thing. And at the time, there were some people that were not so thrilled about it for obvious reasons. However, he's been on his best behavior. No issues. A resigning or contract expiring, WDAW, contract expiring, and not going to say. What are the chances? We see Becky Lynch, Rebecca Quinn on Dynamite next week, higher than a zero percent chance. I'm not going to say it's a significant chance, but higher than zero percent. Any word on hangman's return? I got headcannon that Paige will return, beg to return to the elite to get gifted a title shot versus Swerve. Well, the title shots upcoming, Forbidden Door is for the gauntlet tonight. And I've been told that it might be a little surprising as to who it will be, but I guess we'll see. And then all in is based on the Owen. I don't know if it may be gifted one in between there, but he's healthy. He's fine. It's a personal thing, a personal thing that I won't go into, but whenever he's back, it's something that he had worked in contractually. Meet Norma says, "Happy hump day. Let's crank. Do we get attorney or ladder match with qualifiers for the TNT title? Also how are the cats?" The cats are wonderful. They're healthy. They're enjoying Lexington. They love it here. I think we'll get some sort of setup. There's a lot of fantasy booking and stuff. The elite give it to Hangman or Jack Perry or something like that, or maybe Malachi Black is like, "I eliminated him. Matt should have been stopped. Blah, blah, blah. I won it." They're in a unique position right now because you've already got on the books multiple tournaments for a title shot and a gauntlet for a title shot. So what can you do? What a ladder match for the title. You know what I mean? Do you feel like that would be too much overkill or do you think that would be okay? Because also you don't want to just do one versus one, right? Maybe have a story reason there. 16 hockey nerd fans says, "Thank you Sean Ross for everything that you do. I've been watching your content since my aortic valve replacement surgery on June 29th, 2021." That means a lot. Well, I hope you're feeling great. I hope you're doing good in those three years that have passed since then. Been a wild ass three years, huh? Like the CM Punk hadn't debuted yet when you had that happen. Man, think Chummers Slam 26 being two nights means mania and 26 will be in Saudi. Any truth to rumors that Summer Slam 20 for 25 will be in the UK. I don't know if there's truth to those rumors. I think that it was made two nights because WrestleMania was supposed to go to Minnesota and WWE pulled back on that and Minnesota wanted a two night extravaganza and WWE goes, "Well, by God, you know what? I bet we can get away with doing a two night extravaganza if we make this the biggest Summer Slam in history." So I think that's what happened. You think that goes to far as far as to have Jordan win the title at Battleground, Roxanne goes to against Olad, Slam of Urcery and wins it back. I think it's really possible. You got to give her a win. She's getting the win next week, right? You can't just have her. She should have lasted longer in the Rumble, honestly. But I think that's, I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility. I don't think so. With your background, what kind of stories would you put out if Asta fill a season of Dark Side of the Ring, nothing held back? Well, there's ones that of which I know the individuals on a personal level that I will omit from saying, especially for legal reasons. The Saudi plane trip is one of them. That's definitely one of them. That's the big one that I would look at and be like, "Okay, now again, I don't know if there have been, I'll tell you guys which ones I recommended to them." Said Daphne Dros, Jeff Hardy, Hardbody Harrison, Scott Hall, Saudi plane ride, Trent acid, Ashley Massaro, Brawl out, Mike Awesome, Sid Vicious, Art Bar, Teddy Hart, Luis Picoli and China. Those are the ones I mentioned. I sent that list to them in August of 2023, as recommendations. Been a Becky fan since 2005. She deserves the best. She does deserve the best. One of the best people in wrestling, just a great person. Naka Jima, it's a WWE likely or not. Likely, I don't know, possible? Yes. I know AEW had some interest as well, but I feel like if they wanted him, they probably would have had him by now. A WWE, not as quick on the trigger with some of stuff like that. I think it's possible that we see him, and I think NXT would be a good spot there. You know the status of a car, which she does contract, I believe she's with AEW long-term. I believe so. Chris Rain says, "If you've been given a reason why Brit isn't on TV, she was so good during her leg injury and got even more popular." Well, she was also out while Adam Cole was out because at the time, she helped take care of him as well. That was very easy. I'm not speaking on that now, I don't know why. I don't know if she's physically cleared right now, just to be clear. I know there had been at least one ID of floated, but it was a very short-term program, and I don't know if there was anything long-term to be involved there. At the last I heard she wanted to be on TV and was confident in her ability to stay over whether it was in a wrestling capacity or outside the ring. Since the elite fired CD, do you think he'll reunite with Frankie on TNA at some point? Maybe slam a verstry? No, he is still with the company. Keep up the good work, Sean. Good question for you. Do you think there's a chance PCO would get a world title in TNA? I do think there's a possibility. And somebody was asking me who I would like to see in NXT, I'd like to see PCO in NXT, because WWE has an awful lot of footage of PCO. And if PCO ever gets that world title, I hope that WWE lets them use footage. Aside from when it was your job to cover, was there ever a time in pro wrestling where you didn't want to watch or fell out of love? And I was at the height of MMA, like 2009, I was training MMA full time, and wrestling wasn't that great, that part, actually where I started to write about wrestling early 2010, the original column that I pitched to Bill After was me seeing if I was still in love with pro wrestling, and I was. Speaking out was another time that was, you really saw a lot of the gross parts of wrestling. Yeah, there have been a few times. I mean, honestly, when my grandmother passed, I was like, what do I want to do? And then I thought about it, I'm like, I wouldn't be happier doing something else. I just wouldn't be, wouldn't be. Ricochet contract status, he had signed a deal until 2024, years and years ago. Don't know where that stands. So I would Joe contract, still got plenty of time on it. PCO versus Joe Gacy monsters ball match. So I think Joe Gacy is going to be a part of this Wyatt six thing. So maybe in another life, you heard if they're planning to make summer slam two nights moving forward for 2025, odds that they announced that location for more than two years in advance. Well, I think that if they did do two nights and didn't in the UK, ooh, could you imagine that if they did it in the UK right before AEW all in, which I don't know that all in necessarily is going to be in London all the time every year. I haven't heard that from within the company, but I could see them doing two nights and doing it in the UK and charging out the ask for tickets as well, but you would need a Wembley venue, right? And from what I understand, there's Wembley's book pretty heavy next summer. What's your percentage of Becky to resign in June, 50 50, I know it's a cop out, but that is it. Do you think more NXT TNA crossovers happen soon? If Nadi stays with WWE, I could see Nadi versus Jordan and TNA. Nadi wants that match. She told me on camera that she wants. She wants to face Jordan Grace and doesn't care where it is. She would love to do that. She would love to do blood sport, any number of things like that. Guys, get your super chats and humper chats in. We are heading down the home stretch, my friends. You know what's happening with Jamie Hader? You think at this point, they'd just hold off to all in if she was okay to go. When she got injured last year, I was told she is not going to be ready for all in. And then she's not going to be back this year. I have heard nothing different since then. I heard she came back to the States one time. That's it. I have heard no other significant update on the health or anything regarding Jamie Hader. There have been no creative plans for her. It just, she's injured. She's been injured, as best I know, it's a bad long term injury. Do you think Endeavour has some influence in the TNA-WV cross promotion because of Endeavour having the streaming rights for pay-per-view and wants to boost eyes? Yes, I do. That's something that I've heard from TNA peoples that was a real possibility. Yeah. That was a cog in that machine, if you know what I mean. Reminder guys, leave a thumbs up on this video. 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King supers, fresh for everyone, prices and product availability subject to change, restrictions apply. See site for details. Get the title shot in the fall. I know that like Suji was thrown around as Forbidden Door, but I'm not convinced it'll be somebody like that. I think they want a big, big, big main event for this show. I mean like a big one, and I'm like who could who could that be? Because Okada can't be that now. Tanahashi isn't that now. I think it'll be outside the box, I really do. Because can you do hang man and swerve at Forbidden Door? You want somebody with new Japan ties, I think. There's still a good chance we get Lesnar versus Gunter at SummerSlam this year. I'm not expecting to see Lesnar back until the lawsuits are settled, to be honest with you. Ricardo says love to you, the wife and the fur babies. Well thank you so much. And love to you as well. Love to all of you as well. Somebody says Shingo. That would be a good one. Shingo would be a good one. But we'll be here to talk about it tonight on the AEW Dynamite post show. Somebody's asking about CMLL ties. I don't think so. I don't think so. Sean Garner comes in, whose contract is expiring that everyone is saying you're teasing? Well hey Sean, let me just go ahead and tell you right here and undermine FightfulSelect.com and that $5.00 didn't send a super chat or nothing. No, I'm not telling you, not telling you. Latest on Uncle Howdy return, I mean obviously the teases are there. I would expect the return within the next month or so. Update on Malachi's contract, I thought for sure he would have gone over at Double or Nothing. Best I know they still have him for a while due to some time off. But regardless of that, they have option years on him. Speedpunk says Effie or Mance who you got for GCW, COS 3 on Sunday. Listen, I love Effie. I love Effie, but Mance is making some points right now. Mance doesn't care about anybody. Mance Warner has no love for anybody on the planet and he is just trying to kill people. That's it. He's just trying to hurt human beings. This approach has been great. I have seen fewer people more intimidating walking out to a ring than Mance Warner. And you know what? In that same vein, I have met fewer people more brilliant within wrestling than Effie. I love what they're doing. It's phenomenal. Speaking of indie wrestling, I'll be at Black Label Pro next weekend. I think I'm going to come and visit, hang out, see some friends for Family Reunion. So if you're there in Chicago, come say hi. Yeah, I got direct flights between Lexington and Chicago. So heck yeah. But hey guys, I'm back tonight with the AEW Dynamite Posho. We got one more that just filtered in by golly. Austin says, do you think AEW next year is in Vegas with Mania or them possibly rescheduling it? I think they will move it to a different location. It's hard for me to believe they'll do double or nothing one month after that. And I think next year will be good. I think a lot of stuff will get shifted around and moved around. And I think that's good for AEW. Get out of your comfort zone a little bit, go to different and new places. Guys, until next time, we're out. [ Silence ]
