Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast.

I'm your host Tommy Dreamer and talking everything AEW Dynamites six year anniversary.

And I'm talking about it right now.

This is the busted open podcast.

I really, really enjoyed the show tonight.

I thought the show was very throwback to OG AEW.

Had a great feel to it. Crowd was very, very excited. I don't know if anyone has ever been to

Planet Hollywood there in Hollywood, Florida, but that theater, see a lot of concerts.

Very cool to see wrestling show.

I like that atmosphere.

At first, it looks cavernous, but how it opens up.

And then as you saw later on, as the Death Riders came, you know, they turn the back lights on where you could see the crowd goes up and it is a higher, higher view.

Excuse me here. I'm choking on something.

Listen, six years is a great accomplishment for any wrestling company to be on television.

If you really think back, and I did, I've been very reflective today about where the industry

has gone in just six years and it's constantly evolving, changing.

And those six years of the industry at that moment needed something.

They wanted something different, much different WWE than we're seeing now.

And AEW came out there and, you know, that whole press conference and the lead into it.

And then, you know, making the announcement of, you know, that whole press conference and the lead into it and then that, you know,

making the announcement of, you know, national television and they debut, it was an exciting time for professional wrestling. And they came out the gate kind of like they did tonight, like all

everything going out there, firing on all cylinders.

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