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00:33And you are just a buck-tooth Nepo baby who ate dog food for a weird old man.
00:41Yeah.
00:42Just when they think they got the answers, I change the questions.
00:47Did he do it?
00:48Cover.
00:50Oh, and a kick out.
00:52Unbelievable.
00:53I will never repower.
00:55Turn too hot to handle and to call the horn.
01:00And I am a macho-kinman savage.
01:04Shut your mouth, you thong-wearing fatty.
01:06It's me, Austin.
01:08Whoa!
01:09Bang!
01:10I'm a fan of podcast.
01:13Jacob5-2 is all game.
01:16No breaks with it.
01:18Y'all are made.
01:20Fire.
01:21Fire.
01:21Woo-hoo.
01:23Baby, go.
01:27I said WWE stands for...
01:30Rock and the Lion.
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03:32Welcome to this episode of the Fro Wrestling Podcast.
03:34I am Dr. Fro.
03:36Thank you for joining us.
03:37And tonight, we're jumping into some of the news and rumors, starting with the people behind the scenes at WWE
03:43and TKO specifically
03:45are apparently surprised at the video that was put up by Dwayne The Rock Johnson earlier this week
03:51in response to the tragic news of the passing of AEW superstar PAC.
03:56Now, if you didn't see what Johnson had to say, it's a very long message.
03:59I'm not going to give you the whole thing because there's a lot there, but he did reference in there.
04:03There's a part here where he says he was a professional wrestler known to WWE as Neville.
04:08We had met him a few times, shook his hand, and most originally known as PAC in AEW, All Elite
04:13Wrestling.
04:14He said he passed away sadly young, too young.
04:18I believe he was 40 and just so sorry to hear this news.
04:21From there, he goes on to say, as global as professional wrestling is, as global as WWE is,
04:29as much as AEW is a growing into this phenomenal wrestling company, and wherever you're wrestling at around the world,
04:36Asia, Latin America, Europe, it doesn't matter.
04:39As global as professional wrestling is, we're still a very tight-knit unit and a tight-knit group
04:44because we share the same DNA, and that is our love and our passion for the squared circle
04:48and to perform for audiences around the world.
04:50I thought it was such an interesting, poignant conversation, the fact that he brought up AEW by name
04:55and called them and referenced them as a phenomenal wrestling company.
04:59Growing into this phenomenal wrestling company, that's powerful coming from somebody who sits on the board for TKO.
05:04It's even more shocking a little bit further down in his statement where he says,
05:08so to my friend Tony Khan, I'm so sorry for your loss, my friend.
05:13QT and the entire locker room, all the locker rooms, the men and women of AEW, I'm so sorry for
05:19your loss,
05:19and those, of course, my colleagues in WWE who knew him well, I'm so sorry, so sorry all around.
05:25That is powerful.
05:27That he gave a direct message to Tony Khan, the owner of the rival promotion.
05:32He gave them the credit for being a growing company, a great company, a phenomenal wrestling company,
05:37and then he directly calls out Tony Khan, apologizes for his loss.
05:42QT Marshall, if you don't know who QT is, he's a talent, but he also works in training some of
05:47their talent,
05:47and his backstage agent guy talked about their locker room first.
05:52He didn't even put WWE first.
05:53He put WWE last.
05:55All of this surprised people in WWE, but I'm going to be honest with you.
05:59I think it's phenomenal.
06:01The fact that he didn't take the easy way, stick with just calling him Neville,
06:07WWE whitewashing, or whatever terminology you want to use for it,
06:10trying to make it all about WWE and Vince McMahon's vision.
06:13It's not about that.
06:14This is about a bigger issue here.
06:16An incredible talent, Pac, who's a rock star talent, who he lost too early at 40 years old.
06:22This was classy.
06:23I appreciate it.
06:24I approve of it, and if anybody in TKO has a problem with it, you know what?
06:27Try to fire him from the board.
06:28I'm just saying.
06:30It was referenced by Dave Meltzer that he believes that they definitely ruffled some feathers,
06:34but he doesn't know that it did anything to the relationship he has with Nick Khan.
06:37He thinks they're just fine, but this definitely surprised some people.
06:41From there, some kind of exciting news.
06:43Sherilyn Guerrero, the daughter of the late, great Eddie Guerrero, is at the WWE Performance Center.
06:48She's been posting social media posts, talking about how she's been in Orlando
06:52and places around the Performance Center for quite a while now,
06:55and it sounds like maybe, just maybe, she's thinking about making a move into the pro wrestling world.
07:00She did start training at Reality of Wrestling with Booker T in 2025.
07:03Has not had a match yet, but perhaps this is somebody who is on WWE's radar,
07:08and how could she not be?
07:10Think about the lineage there.
07:11Think about everything that's going on.
07:12And they said it's kind of poetic, because we just had Aaliyah Mysterio is there.
07:16Dom has done so well.
07:18Their families are so close, so tight.
07:20This would be really exciting for, I think, Aaliyah as well,
07:22to have somebody who I'm sure she probably has a wonderful pre-existing relationship
07:26to be a part of her journey.
07:28They could be a tag team.
07:29Bring them in.
07:30You know, they can challenge AJ Lee and Paige when they win those women's tag team championships
07:37from the Bellas once they finally acquire those championships somewhere down the line.
07:40I have to keep beating that drum every time I do an episode, because it's killing me.
07:43We haven't gotten there yet.
07:44Got to give an update on the bizarre situation with Keanu Carver,
07:48the NXT talent who had a protective order filed against him by Ariana Grace.
07:52Originally, it was unknown who the filey was.
07:55Turns out it's Ariana Grace.
07:56If you don't know who that is, that's Santino Morello's daughter,
07:59who has been on NXT and TNA Wrestling in the last year.
08:03Now, I'm not going to go into the specifics of this,
08:06but there is a list of text messages online between the two.
08:09Some graphic stuff in there.
08:11Some very graphic stuff in there.
08:12And it's concerning, definitely.
08:14And now a report came out that I believe was also Wrestling Observer Network,
08:18where they said that they believe that Keanu Carver probably has his time in WWE has come to an end.
08:23His last appearance was September 8th for NXT.
08:25He hasn't been back to television since.
08:27This has all been going on for quite a while now.
08:29And it sounds like his career may be over with WWE.
08:32And quite frank with you,
08:34AEW has been really good about not hiring people with these horribly jaded backgrounds
08:38when they easily could have and just turned a page.
08:41They haven't.
08:41I don't expect he's going to get an opportunity with AEW.
08:44Certainly not with the stuff that's in the tech messages that are out there.
08:47So this guy, he really screwed up.
08:50Very much so.
08:50So I don't know where his career is going to go from here.
08:52I don't know if he's got something to fall back on.
08:54He was a football player for Temple University, who you guys know I care a great deal about.
08:59I'm a Temple alumni myself.
09:02But bad decisions, man.
09:03Bad decisions.
09:04And way too overbearing for his relationships, just saying, based on what the text messages say.
09:10Got to address something else that's kind of exciting.
09:13TNA, we had reported previously about a week ago about their ticket sales lagging,
09:17virtually non-existent for Bound for Glory, one of their biggest pay-per-views of the year.
09:21And now, the show that takes place on October 11th is going to be a sellout because they have seen
09:26tickets just explode in sales.
09:28Another $1,447 sold this week, bringing the total to $2,203.
09:31They only had the place set up for just around 2,000 tickets to begin with.
09:35And now they had to open some more tickets.
09:37So as of right now, there are 537 tickets left.
09:41An average price of $59.35.
09:44That's kind of exciting to get into a show for that kind of price point when you have WWE gorging
09:49people for their pricing.
09:50I encourage you, check out Bound for Glory if you can on October 11th.
09:54It should be a great show.
09:55And then the last thing for this episode that I find wildly exciting, and I don't know why it's such
10:01a big deal to me,
10:01but Asuka was being interviewed and made it very clear.
10:05Somebody asked her basically about her status and whether she's left WWE or whatever.
10:09And her statement was, I haven't left the group.
10:12I haven't quit.
10:14Asuka is still with WWE, even though she's off television doing whatever it is that she's doing right now.
10:19Taking some time, let's be honest.
10:20Other than injuries, she really hasn't taken any time the whole time she's been with WWE.
10:24So it sounds like maybe she has not hung up her wrestling boots for good.
10:27And maybe we'll see her back in the ring.
10:29She had that beautiful emotional send-off with Kairi.
10:31I'm sorry, I was going to say Kairi Sane.
10:33Scratch that.
10:34Let's go back to EO Sky.
10:36Had that beautiful emotional moment with EO Sky earlier this year.
10:38And if she comes back, I think it would be phenomenal for business.
10:42She's an incredible in-ring talent.
10:44And she really proves that just because the women's division can have people who are in their late 30s
10:49does not mean they can't still go.
10:51She's still one of the best wrestlers in the world.
10:53And I can't wait to see her back in the WWE ring.
10:55For now, that's all the time we have for this episode.
10:57Check back with us next episode.
10:58We'll run down the latest wrestling news and rumors.
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