Very excited. Thanks, Danny. My sentiment, as I was coming off the mute, was Danny, you being from

St. Louis yourself and a lot of our friends at Fleischman and working with AWPR. We have a lot of friends

and family there in St. Louis. So I'm really excited about this show. Thanks for joining us all today.

I think this is going to be a tremendous event. And I'll try to get in as many of your questions as possible. And if there's anybody that I don't get to, hopefully I'll see you in St. Louis or on one of these calls in the future. But I'll try to keep it moving and get as many of your questions in as possible. Thank you.

That sounds great, Tony. Appreciate it. We're going to kick things off with John Alba from the

takedown on SI, followed by Courtney Rice with Women's Wrestling Talk. John?

Tony, you truly are a man of the people not being able to hear yourself and starting the call

muted. You're just like all

of us now officially. So, you know, I've been through enough of these. I think, you know, to be

fair, I have a perfect attendance record. It's true. That's a fair point. It's a fair point.

Certainly so. You are someone who so traditionally have been stuck to the parameters of contracts, very specific

with making sure that you're not dipping your toes into contracted talent or someone who might

be under contract to someone else.

The Andrade News is dominating the headlines today.

It seems like he was probably set up for a match at Russell Dream.

He's disappeared from

TV. Wrestling Observer just reported a few minutes ago that TCO has one year non-competes in some of

these contracts where a talent is let go for cause. What kind of comment can you share on Andrade's status

with AEW and where the situation currently stands.

Well, I would echo sentiments I had said at World Then, 2023, when Andrade initially left a few years ago. And I would say that I have a ton of respect for Andrade, I leave a

low. I think he's an amazing wrestler.

And I think that when he left in 2003, it was on a very high note. Just to reiterate everything

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