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Busted Open

Aftermath of The Rock's Return | The Good and the Bad of AEW After 5 Years

Busted Open

SiriusXM

Sports, Wwe, Ring Of Honor, Aew, News, Nxt, Wrestling, Sports News, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Dave Lagreca, Leisure, Njpw, Professional Wrestling, Bully Ray

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Hood and Justin LaBar give their thoughts on the shocking appearance of The Rock this week and how he fits into the plans for the Road to Wrestlemania. They also reflect on the positives and negatives of AEW since the promotion's inception five years ago.

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0:00.0

This is The Busted Open Podcast.

0:04.3

You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, eastern on Serious

0:09.9

XM Fight Nation Channel 156.

0:13.0

It's the Sunday edition of the Busted Open podcast.

0:16.1

With Justin Labar, I'm Jonathan Hood and Justin today.

0:18.8

We talked about The Rock returning to the WWE.

0:21.6

Yeah, he got all the headlines now we know the

0:23.4

match is gonna happen with roman but when yes is it going to be an elimination

0:28.2

chamber is gonna be at Russell media will it be both I'm excited to find out it's the

0:32.0

hottest topic to talk about right now.

0:33.2

Also, A. W. turns five years old. We talk about the good and the questionable about A. W.

0:38.6

It's not necessarily bad when you've got TV. The point is, though, A. W. got some things to work on. They do. And the company, it's

0:45.4

grown a lot in the five years. We've seen a lot of memories, but there's definitely things to praise. There's definitely

0:49.8

things to question if they should be doing more or less of.

0:53.0

Enjoy the Sunday edition of the busted open podcast.

0:57.0

Just to be able to see the rock be able to return.

1:03.3

Again, let's start off with all that hype that you talked about from Michael Cole

1:08.0

say a former W.W. Champion is going to be here.

1:10.4

And as soon as you heard the first chord of the Jinder Mahal song you can see the

1:15.4

audience and their shoulders slumped sad like oh this guy gender Mahal now here's the

1:22.2

thing before we get there, let me tell you something.

1:26.0

Jinder Mahal, that promo, promo of his life, number one. And number two, I'm like,

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