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Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGretta. On today's episode WWE Hall

Famer TNA Hall Famer, bully Ray and I talk about Monday Night Raw that made event between

the Miz and AJ Styles and what happened immediately after that main event. We'll break it down

here on the Busted Open podcast. Also, we'll talk about that United States championship,

how you feel about it now, and the match between your champion Bobby Lashley and Hamasa

Champion. Also, we get into the judgment day all that right now on the Busted Open podcast.

First and foremost, what they've been able to do the last couple weeks with

that United States championship. They've built it up where that championship probably more

than any other time and recent memory actually means something. And all it took, bully,

was a two minute video to get everybody invested in that United States championship.

I like what they did a couple of weeks ago to reestablish and re-acquaint the WWE Universe with

the United States championship and the importance of it. We always talk about champion chips on the show.

I'm not a fan of all of these multiple championships because nothing means anything anymore.

We always talk about the intercontinental championship and how when we were growing up watching

wrestling, the intercontinental championship meant something, especially when it was around the

waist of a Don Morocco or a Pedro Morales. You understood it. You knew that this was the,

when you held the intercontinental championship, you were only one step behind the World Heavyweight

Champion and you could be the next in line to carry the big strap. Nowadays, I don't know what all

these championships mean. There's entirely too many championships for me in the entire world

of pro wrestling. But the WWE did a good job of reminding us what the US Championship represented,

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