Welcome to the Busted Open podcast, along with Justin Labar. I'm Jonathan Hood. And on today's show, we discuss Drew McIntyre and his victory over Cody Rhodes to win the Undisputed Championship and much more. Right now on the Busted Open podcast. This is the Busted Open podcast. Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes. My initial thought, and you heard me to say this before,

like I was indifferent to Cody Rhodes versus Drew McIntyre because I feel from a creative

standpoint that WWE did not do right by Drew McIntyre. Like maybe from Drew standpoint,

like, hey man, I'm just, I'm getting a check. I'm entertaining. At least I got TV time. I'm able to do my thing on social media. No one really stops me. I'm happy for Drew that he won the championship, Justin. But the point is, though, is that, man, this is a long time coming. This could have happened months ago. And it's so rare a title change of this significance happening in January.

Didn't expect it, but here we are.

I'll give you how much I'll add on to that.

I'm pretty sure, and Susumu or the nation could double check me,

but I'm pretty sure that WWD title, that WWB championship,

that Cody walked into that Smackdown as champion,

prior to that,

John Cena was champion.

Prior to that,

it was Cody again.

That WWE title has not changed hands on a show other than WrestleMania or SummerSlam since 2022.

So that right there puts your emphasis on just the

we're going into this, you know, they're advertising this match for several weeks

in Berlin.

And it's one thing when you advertise a title match on Smackdown of how much

or, you know, a world title match, I should say, of how much belief do you even have of, oh, it's must see. Oh, there's a chance the title might change. Or oh, there's a chance that the outcome is going to be, the finish is going to be something that I, that I really need to see that's going to, you know, dictate

storylines.

It's one thing just to try to get yourself

to believe that with how

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