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Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca.

On this exclusive edition, we talk to Jimmy Raive, a guy that has given so much to the world of pro wrestling.

Even his body. We'll talk about it right now with our very special guest, Jimmy Raive,

right here on The Busted Open Podcast.

Let's go back to November 28th when you sent out that tweet about what it took place.

How difficult was it for you to send out that tweet and how hard was it?

And what kind of response did you get from that tweet that you sent?

Yeah, so really the surgery had happened a couple days before, and I was just trying to delay

putting that tweet out throughout my whole career. I've been mainly a hero in pro wrestling,

and so I tended not to have a lot of interactions with fans, and I try to keep my Twitter that way,

but I knew this was something that I was going to have to address, and I had conversations with

my girlfriend, and I actually reached out to Zach Gowen before I put it out, and he just told me

to be honest and let everybody know what was going on. So this is pro wrestling's all I've known

since I've been 14 years old. That's just all I've been doing. I think the longest time I had off

was maybe nine months, but that's over 21 years. So it was super hard to have to put that out.

I was really surprised that I had a very overwhelming response of people

really positively saying things to me and about me. That was super awesome. There was one little

incident, but I think I got squashed real quick. I've always tried to pride myself,

especially in the wrestling community, to be somebody that might peers can always rely on.

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