Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast, along with Justin LaBar. I'm Jonathan Hood. And on today's show, we discuss C.L.O. Punk's favor from Paul Heyman and how it affects Punk's match at WrestleMania.

This is the Busted Open Podcast.

Let's just jump right into it because not only AEW Dynasty is tonight in Philadelphia, the things that we've seen in

WWE, things you know, so much stuff that's going on. But first, let's start off talking about

what happened in my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Allstate Arena, the favorite arena of Stonecold

Steve Austin. And many others. Many others. They, they love that building.

And of course, the proper booking is, well, it's WrestleMania season. So why not make a stop to Chicago

on your way to Las Vegas? So on Smackdown, we were able to see CM Punk, Roman Rain, Seth Rollins, and Paul

Heyman in the ring. And the favor was revealed in Chicago on Friday night Smackdown.

Just LaBar, you speculated what the favor would be and CM Punk confirmed it.

He did. He did.

And I'm not just going to take a victory lap to be correct.

I'm going to take a victory lap because it's the right call.

It makes sense.

So that's, you know, let me just, you know, before we go any deeper, you know, yeah, I'll take a victory lap of being right. Yeah, I got a, I got a right prediction, you know, you know, good, good, good, good, good, good analyst over here. But I'm also taking a victory lap for the sake as a fan just saying, yes, this was the correct favorite to have because it makes a lot of sense, as we'll, as we'll discuss.

Long term booking, long, long-term booking.

Let us take you back to 2013 when CM Punk and Paul Heyman were together.

And Paul Haman said, one day, I'll be with you at WrestleMania walking you down the aisle.

The internet is undefeated, isn't it?

The internet is absolutely undefeated because that's been popping up in our feeds for the last, I don't know, week or so of

Paul Heyman saying on raw, you know, one day you're going to be at Russell Maine. I'm going to walk

down the aisle with you. Now here we are in 2025 and it comes to fruition. Yeah. And it's it's awesome too, right? I mean, like, because you're right. The internet's

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