[laughs]

... ask permission if he could leave a show early so he could go say good night to his kid.

And he said that nobody has ever asked to leave a show for that reason ever before or after since, and, uh, I think that explains what kind of a guy that Jeff Cannonball is.

And yeah, just wanted to share that.

Um, Cam, it's great seeing you.

I hope that you will continue to put me over.

Yeah

...

Do you wanna talk about your Vanilla Coke Zero? Oh my God, I didn't even see that you had one.

Do I ever.

Shout out to the wonderful Jim Fannin who has seen my pleas, my cries for Vanilla Coke Zero.

Now, I had a friend from California who sent me a couple 12-packs.

I greatly appreciate it, and if anybody actually has Vanilla Coke Zero in your city and you are willing to ship it to me, I will pay you to do it.

I absolutely will.

But he said that he has a friend who found it, like, pretty northern Indiana, and he was like, "Maybe I can coax him into promoting my show by giving him this." And the answer is yes, I accept bribes.

No, you want, you want them to be better, like all around.

can say the amount of effort that's got into it alone is the man hours is impressive.

It was shockingly heavy, too.

Like, very shockingly heavy.

But I will say this.

A hot glue gun was a lot easier to use than I anticipated.

Like...

I ordered that thing and it was like eight bucks.

the big match?

okay.

Yeah, but a little bit of news in this MLW deal, which will apparently feature my cameo in a Philly cheesesteak eating contest that I filmed in June.

So...

I've been told it is a rights fee deal.

They're getting paid for this deal.

Nice.

Yeah, I'll have more on Fightful Select, but this is a deal that came together on the anniversary of WWE getting their last deal nixed.

What are you doing here? I

Scoops every day, and it's just the same scoop with a different name every day.

Yeah.

I will say, I do Facebook now.

I like it.

It pays well.

I mean, our team's doing really good on the Fightful one as well.

So I plugged Fightful Select there, and of course on each app you'll get the people that are like, never doing that.

That's extremely off base.

[laughs]

But, um, man, Bruss took care of me.

I took a clothesline.

I took a back suplex that then gets turned into a chokeslam.

I took three straight body slams, and let me tell you, it was all just him gr- literally picking me up off the mat after the second one and the third, just repeatedly slamming me.

I took a pounce.

I got punched directly in the face and I took the upside down suplex choke, choke out gimmick.

Oh.

This

is why a 38-year-old man can transition from a successful musician to a pro wrestler, then get signed to one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world.

Because this man was able to put the work in.

But there are a whole lot of people that don't follow... didn't follow his band that didn't understand like the the scope of success that he had as a musician like seven albums charted on the u.s charts i'm not even talking about like the u.s hard rock charts or anything like that i'm talking like u.s charts like i've we all know that that chris jericho is obviously a musician i don't i don't know if i don't know about his i'll have to check that but like that band is enormous like it was it was big and I actually used Andy as an example to one of my friends who I think she was really starting to have her first matches at 32, 33.

She was like, am I too old? And I was like, look at Andy Williams.

I was like, this guy trained, and then he came back in his late 30s created a unique look did everything the right way specialized in tag team wrestling got an incredible shape and ended up getting signed by aew and i really i do hate that so much of the the body of the great butcher and blade work was during the pandemic where an audience couldn't be there because they were on fire in 2020 especially like there were so many good things like the bunkhouse match with QT and Dustin Rhodes was so much fun.

There was an incredible body of work that Andy left behind both in music and in wrestling.

I

Yeah.

Like, he's 32.

But, um, that's really, it made me very happy to see that this weekend.

But, um, we had reported a lot on this process.

Like, the, I saw a lot being discussed about like, "Oh, well, is he ready for..." He's been training for two and a half years, guys.

Like, we reported that he started to train in May, and that's just when we found out.

That wasn't even, like, when he started.

Mm-hmm

what the hell is this shirt get this shirt off like i'm like oh we were so close so many times but it was like

i mean like especially in today's content creation age i was like yeah they were years ahead of like what anything does because like I was talking to somebody about like sketches that I'd write and I'd put in like a notes app and I'm like, well, there aren't sketch shows anymore.

It's Tik TOK and Instagram and all that stuff.

And you guys were doing so many of that or so much of that back then too.

Ready for Rumble questions.

Sure.

He'll give it – listen, somehow he'll give us the complete oral history of Eddie Kingston's career even though he's not on the show either.

But – like i mean it is such a much more affectionately like remembered movie now than upon release and all that stuff and streaming can change things for a lot of people in places it's just i'm looking at it and i'm like man you know what there's also a lot of people that in that original movie that there are still access to because I mean, Sting's an AEW guy.

I don't know.

Joel, you bastard.

[laughs]

And Jeremy, you whore, I'm gonna make your life miserable too.

In the weeks you kiss my ass.

So, so is it just Kentucky players, or is that kind of the, the feature guys?

So, like, Kentucky-ish, but then there's, let me see.

There's, like, it's a $2 million tournament, winner take all.

Um, but yeah, there's l- It's like a, I can't even say a semi-pro tournament.

It's a pro tournament.

But, uh, yeah, they, they've got an alumni tournament as well, where you get, like, it's called La Familia, which is Kentucky alumni, Louisville alumni, Syracuse, Seton Hall, Kansas State, Kansas, New Mexico, Wichita State.

I love it.

[laughs]

Mystico Darby Allin.

Today, I consider myself the unluckiest man on the face of the earth.

Good question.

Watch this.

Hey.

Hey.

we've been fine we've been

fine this whole time until jeremy came on and he was echoing That's interesting.

I've never had the audio issue with two people, but we had a little chair stream.

Never had the echo issue with two people.

I'm leaving because I'm echoing.

Goodbye.

um this has been the most entertaining 15 minutes of you know we've got that in a while

google ended the hangouts thing right before the pandemic which were not right before the pandemic a few years and i was like they could really corner the market on this live streaming thing.

[laughs]

The, the World Perseverance Champion sounds like pretty good fodder for a championship to me.

Interesting.

For some reason, Jimmy thought people would buy a commemorative version.

I'm like, "What the f- when are you talking about?"

Sure

...

they were ending at 12:30 or 12:45 AM.

Like, gee, it was like way, way, way later than this.

So, I mean, midnight is a thrill for me.

Now, you can go to Fightful Select, and I've got my full 40 plus minute review over there as well.

I reviewed it as the show went on.

Sure.

How are you, Sean?

I'm getting the team to draw up LeBron Philly graphics.

Damn.

I'm good.

Kate is in town.

She is literally a few miles away.

We're going to Dream Pro Wrestling tonight.

He doesn't watch the show.

Uh, r- men's wrestler of the year, my winner for the half year, M-

This your boy, Asap Rocky.

Yeet.

[laughs]

How are you, Sean?

I'm good.

Uh, one of my favorite things of the year is Jim Ross saying that WWE media i- or the, the media is too WWE coded, specifically naming Sirius XM's Busted Open.

Six

rings.

Six rings is difficult.

We're taking 17, Giannis.

The first 10 minutes of Unreal, and they have brainwashed their own talent into thinking they're not ready to be top stars.

say, on

82-0, they need, like, something.

They need, like, an X factor type of thing.

Well, you know, we don't make it simple.

The original pitch for this whole thing was for him to do In the Weeds from Japan, then fly back home, and then do the 24-hour stream.

That way he technically did...

Multiple shows.

Yeah.

The international date line.

He didn't want to do it.

There

live action Moana, Sean?

No, I've never watched the other Moana.

Wow.

Kara actually asked me, oh, do you need to report on that? And I said, if I do, I'll quit.

you know what that was that was my carl anderson moment i think i've told you all this before years ago i can tell this story pretty blatantly now hangman was knocking the shit out of people yeah he was knocking the shit out of people and it got to the point to where a few wrestlers hit me up and they're like yo listen he's knocking the shit out of us and like He's a nice guy.

So we don't want to bury him or anything, but can you ask around? And I remember I asked Karl Anderson, I was like, you took the buckshot.

Did he hit you hard? Are you okay? And he goes, yeah, he was great.

Oh, then the one I just put in the chat was exactly who I'm thinking of as the third

louis

it's got to be a bit yeah um but um yeah i've got my factor meals i wish they would sponsor us again that would make me very very happy if they did that that would save me a lot of money but Yeah, usually that.

I cooked steak the last two times this week.

Melvin's over there.

I was

Melvin will also be around.

No, I let him in the office now because now I don't let them in my bedroom because I don't want them to track litter all over my bed because that's disgusting.

So now I let him in my office.

Mm-hmm.

I do know that there have been some new creative ideas for Brian Keith.

I wasn't told what those were, but, um, some, some ideas thrown around.

But, uh, Big Bill, you know, ended his career in, in the company, like winning four straight matches on ROH TV.

Like, he was still getting pushed.

And outside of...

I mean, like, as I'm looking, like good God, seven straight wins on [laughs] ROH TV actually, 'cause they, they competed on Collision a couple times as well.

[laughs]

So what's the

deal? I think I've told Jeremy this.

Josh Barnett had brought up the possibility of Bloodsport a couple years ago.

It was so funny because I was introducing my friend Samira to people at GCW, and she was like, oh, what else do you want to do in wrestling before you stop doing it? And I was like, I know it's stupid, but I would like to do Bloodsport because we came from the same lineage.

And then Josh Barnett asked me about it then.

If I faced anybody, I think Brian would be the person that I would need to face in that type of thing.

because he's a brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt like he'd he'd be fantastic at that but um yeah i still want to team with vinnie i want to team mashaza i want to do stuff like that but i was supposed to wrestle in august i was going to do that it was going to be a four-way but apparently that ain't happening so

Oh, wow.

So

here's the thing.

We're going to talk about it on The Hump today, but I'm going to post an article on FightfulSelect.com because I want our subscribers to get it before anybody.

But here's the reality.

I will have people that are like, well, why aren't you talking about this? And I'm like, I can't just blurt shit out.

Like, it's not what we do.

It's what we do.

Anywho...

go, really? Really?

Well, that makes an awful lot of sense considering what's going on right now with Steve Macklin.

I expect Steve Macklin and AEW.

And now I expect some other website to be like, Steve Macklin heading to AEW because they're watching this show right now.

That's how it always works.

They hear me on a Q&A or one of these shows and they post the official report, right? I suspect he's going there.

Now...

And the two people around me were like, yeah, that didn't look good.