My name is James Stewart. His name is Mike Riley, nicknamed by Tony Maserati as Sarge.

Starting with this episode and on a weekly basis, we'll be talking about the great sport known as professional wrestling.

Some of you call it sports entertainment. I'm a wrestling guy. I can't speak for anybody else, but that leads to the title of our show.

Welcome to wrestling from inside the ropes.

Mike, what's going on?

Jimmy, Maz told me today the worst thing he ever did was giving me that nickname,

and he literally created a monster, so you're working with that monster right now.

Here we go.

I would agree with that wholeheartedly.

So one thing, the big story from today is at 305 today, World Wrestling Entertainment,

WWE sent out a press release saying that Daniel Bryan has been medically cleared to compete

in a WWEWE ring.

And they did the big speech on SmackDown about two hours ago from when we were taping about 8 o'clock

Eastern time.

And they wasted no time in getting him right into the physical action where they had at the end of Smackdown,

they had Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane beat up Daniel Bryan after he was

fired. The crowd was there for it. The crowd was there for it. The real newsy part of it is

according to Dave Meltzer today of the Wrestling Observer, Brian went to Dr. Maroon, who is the

prime physician for WWE and asked him for the list of the doctors that he needs to go to and get cleared from.

Daniel Bryan did that.

He did some therapy, and all the doctors within the past year cleared him.

And actually, according to Meltzer, some of them actually were very aggressive in saying that if you need me to get your back and push hard for you to come back, we will do that.

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