BOAD: A Sit-Down with TNA Champ Mike Santana | Shida Back in AEW

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Denise Salcedo interviews Mike Santana, TNA World Champion about his TNA World Championship reign. She also breaks down the return of Hikaru Shida at AEW Collision!

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0:00.0	Hey there, everybody. You're listening to Busted Open after dark. And today I am joined by the TNA world champion Mike Santiana. Let's go.
0:08.4	This is the Busted Open podcast. Hey, hey, hey, what is up everybody? I'm reunited once again with the TNA world champion.
0:19.2	We got Mike Santana, Mike.
0:22.0	Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today.
0:25.6	How are you?
0:27.2	I'm doing great, Denise.
0:28.5	How are you?
0:29.6	I'm doing awesome, man.
0:30.8	I just saw you last night on NXT.
0:33.7	Wait, no, sorry, two nights ago on NXT, my bad.
0:36.1	It's Thursday now.
0:37.6	But Tuesday night, you were on NXT.
0:40.6	You were in New York, your hometown.
0:43.2	Talk to us about how all of that went down.
0:46.3	Oh, man, it was such a great time.
0:49.7	As you saw, like, the reaction and just, like, it was it was super like I was blown away.
0:55.6	I was it was definitely like humbling and just being back there.
1:00.0	The last time I wrestled there was in 2019 and you know, it was there in front of my whole
1:07.8	family and that was the last time my dad got to see me
1:11.3	wrestle live before he passed away so going back there was definitely
1:15.9	emotional and dealing with that but also validation it was like yo I now I
1:22.6	made it back by myself and on my own and as a world champion and yeah it was I was just living in
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