Episode 437: SummerSlam Ticket Truth

Uh, Eric, I, I hate to start with, with a bad anniversary, but I think we all know what this past week was.

It was the one-year anniversary since the passing of the late, great Terry Bollea.

Of course, we wrestling fans will never forget Hulk Hogan and, well, no one else will either.

It was memorialized, uh, at the front of Madison Square Garden, and it feels like there was a rush of postings of Hulk Hogan memories and memorabilia.

And I know that, you know, we all celebrate birthdays, and sometimes occasionally we do celebrate the passing and try to honor their memory.

But I don't know, it feels awkward to have our first time doing that for the Hulkster.

What was it like this week for you, Eric, as you reflect on a year without Mr. Bollea?

You know, I think about Hulk on a pretty regular basis.

I, I won't say daily, but, you know, throughout the week, probably half a dozen times, something will happen or a conversation will, you know, be occurring where there's a reference made that, you know, kind of makes me think about him a little bit.

But also, and I think more importantly, um...

I'm gonna be really careful here because I want to say this correctly.

What I'm doing right now at Real American Freestyle is significant.

What Real American Freestyle do- is doing right now in the world of sports and television is very significant.

I- I'll just say significant.

The- if- for people who feel the need to kind of throw headlines on top of, of what they're doing, you know, the longest-running, the best-tasting [laughs], the best price, whatever it is.

I think it's honest and safe to say that right now Real American Freestyle is the fastest-growing sport, at least in this country.

Now, that's all relative.

Let's be real.

Mm.

It's all very relative.

But when you look at w- from a business perspective, where we started less than a year ago.

Well, a- actually, the company was formed about 16 months ago.

If you look at where we were 16 months ago, we were sitting around a table with Hulk Hogan, by the way, in Florida, and I'm sitting with a guy by the name of Chad Bronstein, who I'd never had a conversation with before.

I didn't even know who he was.

I think I may have heard Hulk reference his name a couple times in conversations where we're just checking in with each other, but I didn't know Chad anything about him.