Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host Tommy Dreamer. OTC, OTC is alive in Birmingham, and I'm going to talk about it and acknowledge him now.

This is the busted open podcast. OTC, OTC, OTC starts the show, Roman Reigns. They started the chance before he came out.

They told you that he was coming out this week on social media and they also told you he was coming out first.

And when I tell you, when you are over,

you don't have to do anything. We always say this, stand in the middle of the ring and see

your reactions. Well, the reaction was off the charts. The people in Birmingham cheered, sang, got everything that you thought out of their system,

and then it just continued.

I want to say it was about four minutes of just crowd noise, crowd reaction.

Finally, he goes, I could say get into this all night, but let's start with it and then

acknowledge me that restarts all the chance. Roman Raines is phenomenal and I think about this

because, you know, hey, from me to all of the other hosts on this show, Mark Henry, Bully, Ray, when this thing was all kind of going, you know, I've seen it now twice. We've seen it with John Cena. We've seen it with Roman Reins. Roman Reins was different. John Cena, they would always cheer, react. They fell in love with him and then they kind of turned on him like they did Hulk Hogan back in the day. But with Roman Reins, they just never wanted to accept him. Then he turned on them. And it's like this masterful plan of even though he's the guy, no matter which way or how we get him to become the guy,

he became the guy that kind of was rejected by a lot of people at first. And when you wanted

them to cheer for you, they didn't cheer for you. Then when you finally get them behind you,

of course he goes away.

But when he comes back, when he's the ultimate baby face, you know, coming back from leukemia,

he turns heel.

Off goes the bloodline storyline.

He's one of the top heels in the business, best storyline in the history of the business.

Always works for the reactions, but also works for the reaction as a heel they get over all his signature stuff with the spear the wow when he

loads up his superman punch pissed people off when he won uh people celebrated when he lost, even though that wasn't

many. And so now, like, I'm just looking at him. I'm looking at his mannerisms. You also,

you have something with the one simple, with John Cena going away, and I know Roman

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