Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast.

I'm your host Tommy Dreamer, and all roads are heading to deadline.

And the biggest thread throughout the show are surprises.

You won't believe who showed up on NXT.

This is the busted open podcast.

We got three big surprises as well as I think this is the biggest topic to talk about.

Surprises.

First off during Trick Williams promo, Eric Bischoff.

He's back and better than ever.

Eric Bischoff shows up on the screen,

basically starts to have a conversation,

and says he is going to be showing up next week.

Followed up right after that, we got Xbox tweets out. He misses coming to Orlando and he's going to come to NXT to watch it live. And that's the use

of the veterans. That's the use of the legends. Rob Van Dam talked about when he came on this very show and talk about you're going to see more and more use of the veterans within the WWE with these legends deals. I think it's a smart move. I think it's a smart move if you look at the ratings that the NXT in Philadelphia did with the bringing back of,

you know, our very own bully Ray in competition, Rob Van Dam, who then said on his own

podcast, he was supposed to wrestle.

But for other reasons, he did not, but he still was there.

Dormory, Francine, Guido had a match.

It was proven successful.

It was proven successful in what?

The ratings, and this is all about a business, also showing up of who's in the crowd,

stuff like that.

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