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This is Denise Alcato with the Innovator of Violence Tommy Dreamer and this is the weekend edition of the Busted Open podcast.

John Cena finds his partner Ali Knight for Fastlane. What do we want to see come out of this? Plus Tommy Dreamer almost died? What happened here?

And we get into the full cards from AEW Wrestle Dream and NXT No Mercy.

We got some pretty interesting things that came out of the show and we're gonna get right into the biggest one of all that felt like a massive moment.

So the thing that I'm referring to is that last night on the show, we were basically getting Jimmy Uso and Solosakowa kind of going like running rampage throughout the entire show.

Like they were just, you know, beating up anybody that they saw anybody that they were, you know, confronting with on the show.

And earlier in the night Paul Heyman had said that John Cena was stuck in traffic that he was having traffic issues.

So John Cena finally comes out at the closing of the show. And during this, John Cena basically says that he was willing to take on willing to face the bloodline by himself if that's essentially what it took.

But lo and behold, somebody had his back and the person who had his back was LA Knight.

LA Knight came out basically signed the contract and had this moment with John Cena where John Cena is kind of like shocked that LA Knight basically kind of volunteer himself to be John Cena's partner.

So it was this big moment that kind of a really huge for LA Knight. I mean, he's gonna be teaming with John Cena.

Would you make of all of this?

Oh, man, I enjoyed it. There was what keeps me involved in a television show is threads. And when I say threads, it's a constant thread throughout the show.

And last night on Smackdown, they gave us three. Number one, John Cena. Will he make it to the show?

Two, the bloodline is running amok. Three, John Cena needs a partner.

Three storylines that they kept reminding going backstage, seeing the bloodline running amok. Paul always being on his cell phone.

And the announcers keep on talking to him. Finally, we get John Cena.

And when you talk about a boost and when you talk about getting the rub, John Cena, LA Knight, John Cena did everything in his power to help endorse LA Knight.

Very, very happy for LA Knight. You heard the massive pop when his music hit.

And when he signed that contract and how John Cena reacted to it, really, really made it so much more over the top in the sense of, wow, this guy's coming to tag with me.

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