Welcome to Wrestling Inside the Ropes with James Stewart.

I'm the best. I'm the best in the world.

I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company

and I've been vilified and hated since that day.

And Mike Sarge Riley.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but you're trespassing of private property.

When you walk through here, through these ropes, you're in my yard.

Bad things happen in my yard.

Wrestling inside the ropes.

It looks like there's a new WrestleMania match in the works.

Can the elite be all in on a new wrestling promotion?

And are fighting champions a thing of the past?

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Mike, how was Thanksgiving?

Oh, it was great, Jimmy.

I am still recovering from my food coma, but here we are now and had a lot of pumpkin

pie and apple pie, but we're going to rock and roll.

How about yourself?

Had a delightful ham, some turkey, and all the sides that you can imagine.

And I tried, oh, yeah, ham's a staple. Really? Yeah. With Thanksgiving, huh? Yep. Absolutely. I'm not a huge turkey person. So give me some red meat and I'm good to go. So you could always go in my mom's route too because she's Italian and have some meatballs for the turkey as well. Really good.

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