This is Denise Salcedo and welcome to the premiere of Busted Open after dark on a Thursday.

On this episode, I react to TNA Impact on the road to Slammiversary and talk to TNA's first

class star A.J. Francis. Let's go. This is the busted open podcast. Let's go ahead and get into the show.

Now, the first thing that I want to start off with

in regards to TNA is you guys all know we're building towards Slammiversary. We're a couple

weeks out, July 20th, is when the show is going down. Now, one of the things that I first and

foremost want to say is that TNA, my favorite thing,

and this is what I personally enjoy about the show, is that there's always a little bit

of everything for each and every single person.

All pro wrestling fans, we all have such different taste, right?

Some of us really like the technical stuff. Some of us really

love to follow in ring psychology. Some of us just want to see, you know, spots, spot foo.

That's what we like to call it. Some spot food. We want to talk, you know, some aerial maneuvers,

you know, that type of stuff. Some people kind of like more that style of wrestling. And some people

care more so about the stories, right? So there's a little bit of everything in TNA. And that's

personally my favorite thing about it, which is why I was so excited to jump on board to cover

this show. Because there are so many wrestlers, and we all know this, that when it comes to our

favorites, people that we have seen, whether they're in WW now, or they're in AW or there any

place out, so many of them have gone through the TNA wrestling doors. Also, the women, TNA has really always been in the pulse when it comes to promoting women, having matches

with women, so many first four women.

When you talk to a wrestling fan, especially one that watch TNA wrestling, you're

going to hear them say, Gail Kim, Awesome Kong,

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