Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane, and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno).

Russo opens today’s show speaking about the rumours that The Undertaker will be returning to the ring at WrestleMania 34 to face John Cena. Russo hopes these rumours are untrue, and he hopes that The Undertaker remains retired, especially after the huge retirement display that we saw at the end of WrestleMania 33.

He adds that Undertaker needs to think about his legacy in the business at this point, because his worst mistake would be returning for more matches when he’s clearly not the same competitor that fans remember from the prime of his career. Russo goes out on a limb and predicts that Undertaker will not be returning to face John Cena at WrestleMania this year.

Gilbertti doesn’t have any issue with Undertaker returning for one more match at all. He thinks Undertaker carried himself pretty well during his last couple of matches, and he still has the best entrance in the business. As long as Undertaker can sell tickets for WWE and cash a big WrestleMania paycheque, Gilbertti has no issue with him returning to the ring.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno).

Lane mentions that GFW put out a statement last week, informing that Jeff Jarrett will be taking an indefinite leave of absence to take care of some personal issues. The dirt sheets have been reporting that this situation has been building for months, and Jarrett’s ‘erratic’ behaviour has been a distraction over the last few months.

In addition, there’s footage online of Jarrett walking to the ring at a recent Triple A show where Jarrett appears to be overweight, and it took him a strange amount of time to make his way to the ring.

Gilbertti says he likes Jarrett, and he considers this story to be disturbing. Russo likes Jarrett as well, but he points out that karma will eventually catch up with everyone. Russo adds that he always defended Jarrett because he was such a good worker in the ring, and he was also very dependable in terms of staying healthy.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-h0st Jeff Lane and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno).

Russo opens today’s show by asking Gilbertti about the Japanese style of wrestling. Gilbertti says that even 20-30 years ago the Japanese style of wrestling was still ‘strong style’, and when all the great North American wrestlers worked over there they had to adapt to that style. However, when they returned to North America they never thought about bringing that Japanese style back with them.

Over the last few years wrestlers have become marks for reading about how good their own matches are, and when someone like Dave Meltzer continuously promotes the ‘strong style’, wrestlers began adapting that style. This is a huge mistake in Gilbertti’s opinion, but wrestlers continue to suck up to these dirt sheet writers in an attempt to impress the writers as well as their followers.

In Gilbertti’s opinion, another failed concept in today’s business is the thought process that every match on a card should be the best match on the show. If every match is laid out to be the best match on the show, only one match is going to achieve that status, and all the other matches will fail. The show needs to be laid out in a way that promotes big crowd reactions throughout each match, but not every match has to be a 30- minute spotfest.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane and Glenn Gilbertti (Disco Inferno)

Gilbertti discusses WWE’s steadily dropping ratings. He says that wrestling is a star-driven business, and until WWE finds another Austin or Rock, their business is going to suffer. It’s pretty incredible to think that the biggest star in Hollywood was actually a professional wrestler on WWE’s roster for a number of years. Since Rock left, they haven’t been able to fill that void.

Lane points out that WWE might be turning away the next Austin or Rock because they’re too busy looking for the best ‘workers’. Gilbertti says that today’s promos are all heavily scripted and none of the competitors are able to deliver the promos believably. He says it’s almost like all the talents are in a library because none of them even raise their voices while delivering a promo.

Lane informs that Al Snow was arrested late last week because of a typo in the police’s systems. Lane thinks it’s ridiculous that all the dirt sheets posted a picture of Snow’s mug shot, taking advantage of this unfortunate situation.

Gilbertti says that whenever anyone with any notoriety gets arrested their mug shot is going to be posted on the news and online. That’s simply the way it is. Russo says that he does agree with the heart of Lane’s point, in that the dirt sheets continuously post these stories as ‘news’ when they’re nothing more than errors and lies most of the time.

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