What's up? I'm Justin LaBarre on the Busted Open After Dark podcast for Monday Night

Raw and Belfast Ireland. Goonther and AJ Stiles, they're going to have another match,

but with a big stipulation to it, we talk about it right now. This is the busted open podcast.

And we're going to start with that ring general, Gunther. You know, as he was walking to the ring in

Belfast Ireland, I'm thinking to myself, you know, he's probably the most intriguing character to

me in terms of what does the road to mania and then obviously the destination

of russomania hold for him right because we've seen him as the longest reigning iC champion

we've seen him as the world heavyweight champion twice at WrestleMania, mind you.

Then, of course, we've seen him retire

Bill Goldberg and John Cena.

And so he's, as I've stated before,

in this particular space,

he's elevated to a level that is almost above titles.

It's that rare air level of he's above titles.

He's that special attraction.

And the special attraction doesn't mean that he only has a few matches a year.

I think Brock Lesnar's schedule as a special attraction maybe has skewed that definition.

No, he's a special attraction in which every time he does anything, it's a big deal.

Again, it's kind of gotten beyond title.

So as I'm watching him walk to the ring, knowing what we just saw last week in the match with AJ Styles, which was a brilliant

creative finish, by the way.

It got me thinking, like, man, what do you do with Gunther here?

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