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Busted Open

BOAD: NIL vs. Indy Rising Stars on NXT?

Busted Open

SiriusXM

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Dreamer breaks down tonight's NXT, where he dives into the NIL era of NXT stars, and whether that is a more successful route to the main roster over paying your dues on the indies. Plus, Tommy talks about who the face of NXT is.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer. NIL athletes or independent wrestlers coming up the scene on NXT. Who's better? Who's worse? The history of it. And I'm going to talk about it right now.

0:17.8

This is the busted open podcast.

0:22.7

Right off the bat, I got to tell you I liked NXT for a lot of different reasons.

0:27.7

And it, you know, before we do the show, we actually do research.

0:30.5

I log on now at 930 just because I want to talk so much about NXT.

0:36.0

And I'm talking to our producers.

0:37.0

And we got a team and

0:38.2

just so you know

0:39.9

there's a whole other subject

0:41.7

but I'm going to jump on it

0:42.9

a lot of people wanted to

0:45.7

talk

0:46.7

a busted open after dark

0:49.7

or a show after

0:51.2

for NXT, I'm sorry

0:53.2

for the weekend but it's Memorial Day weekend. And yes,

0:56.5

I as a host, because I saw a lot of people comment about it, I as a host volunteered, but there

1:02.0

is a team, a team of really, really good people that have helped build this 24-7 juggernaut

1:09.4

that we got going on.

1:11.9

We got producers.

1:12.7

We got interns.

1:15.8

We got people back at SiriusXM studios that I don't even know.

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