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Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGracca.

On today's episode, myself, Bullie Ray and Mark Henry talk all about AEW WrestleDream and the debut of Adam Copeland.

That's right, formerly Edge in the WWE is now all the lead in AEW. Also, we get into NXT No Mercy right now on the Busted Open Podcast.

Obviously this morning we're talking about a lot of WrestleDream, a lot of what we saw from Adam Copeland,

him making his debut during or at the end of that main event last night.

And then we heard from Tony Kyle, we played some sound from Tony Con, played some sound from Adam Copeland.

But I want to play a little bit more sound from Adam Copeland as well.

And the key word, and he said it a little bit in the last segment, a little bit about fun.

But I think another F word is freedom. And this is what Adam Copeland had to say last night after WrestleDream.

And I look at an entire fresh roster of faces and so many talent that I've never laid hands on before.

And that, that to me, as a person who is driven by challenges, that for me was the biggest thing.

Like, I've never been in a ring with some old Joe. I've never stood in a ring with sting before tonight.

And then I see a guy like Nick Wayne or I see Swerve. There's just so many possibilities here.

And for me at this stage of my career, that is so enticing, that is so exciting, that is so, you know, I set it out there after the fact

when I came back out there tonight, I felt free. That's just the word that I felt free.

And it felt fun. And I felt almost like the same feeling I would have when I'd come out for my indie shows.

You know, back when I was either at an impact or sexton or a castle or something.

And it was this brand new thing that I always wanted to do. And that feeling, I felt it out there tight.

And that at this stage of my career to feel that, that's special.

And bully, you know, like he just said, at this stage in his career, to have freedom and still have fun.

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