Kris and David are back this week to discuss the week that was July 30-August 5, 2006. Topics of discussion include:

• WWE bringing back Jeff Hardy and the message that sent at the time about their stance on drug issues among top talent.
• Raw featuring the wacky "Orton Knows Best" skit with Larry Sweeney, Mick Foley talking about Christy Canyon, and more craziness.
• ECW on Syfy at the Hammerstein Ballroom, featuring CM Punk's TV debut and Batista vs. Big Show being booed out of the building, resulting in Batista losing his mind.
• SmackDown featuring the debut of MVP and Diva Search contestants taking pies to the face.
• Toshiaki Kawada returns to AJPW after a year-long absence.
• Cibernetico not quite being ready to go technico in AAA.
• CMLL doing major business every Friday at Arena Mexico with a gaggle of top stars at their disposal.
• Vampiro announcing the birth of RXLL.
• Bryan Danielson vs. Samoa Joe going 60 minutes in quite the weekend for ROH.
• TNA possibly expanding to two hours on Spike.
• Why did all of the interesting TNA news appear in the Torch and not the Observer, anyway?

All of this and so much more on a stacked BTS!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWE

2:40:32 Classic Commercial Break

2:44:02 Halftime

3:25:36 Continued 10th anniversary voice messages

3:52:27 Eurasia: AJPW, NJPW, BJPW, Dragongate, Muga World, Osaka Pro, Ring Soul, NEO Ladies, EWP, & EWA

4:10:00 Mexico: AAA, CMLL, IWRG, & Vampiro/RXLL

4:41:49 Other USA: ROH, IWC, IWA East Coast, & WSX

4:54:28 TNA

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