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Busted Open

BOAD: The Calm Before The Rumble

Busted Open

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Mark Henry gears up for the Royal Rumble by breaking down the Smackdown before the big event in Saudi Arabia. He covers everything from the opening segment to GUNTHER's latest face to face with AJ Styles.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on guys? This Mark here with the world strongest man on After Dark and we are going to get into Smackdown the night before we get to the rumble and it starts right now.

0:12.0

This is the busted open podcast. I have to talk about the environment. I have to talk about the setting. What was laid out, that crowd was as

0:28.5

ridiculous a crowd as I've heard in a long, long time. Just so you know, that stadium is outdoors.

0:37.6

For the sound to come back into the stadium like that means that they were just,

0:45.1

they were just off the chain.

0:47.0

And this was three hours of screaming and hollering and,

0:50.4

and just bringing the energy.

0:54.5

But it's hard not to bring the energy when you're hungry,

0:59.7

when you're thirsty for that entertainment,

1:02.7

which they don't get,

1:04.6

but once, maybe twice a year.

1:10.1

And the WWE and the Saudi,

1:13.4

I can't say it was the WWE.

1:16.1

I'm going to say that the Saudi influence on the WWE,

1:23.5

they went grandiose when it comes to the set,

1:30.3

the way that the stadium was put together,

1:36.3

the color, the light schemes, the laser shows.

1:41.2

And there was something that you, and I'm a man I hate I hate doing this I'm

1:46.1

because I just just tired of being right damn it they save something for tomorrow and

1:55.2

and that's always been a thing in pro wrestling leave them wanting more and they did a hell of a job of that

2:03.7

because you notice that there was not a lot of laser lights that the pyro was almost to a minimum

2:10.6

that the um the um the the graphics that they show.

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