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Busted Open

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Dave LaGreca and Thunder Rosa weigh-in on the sports entertainment versus pro wrestling debate. Then, our very own World's Strongest Man Mark Henry joins the show to give his opinions on the main topic of discussion. Plus, Justin Labar is here to break down the week in pro wrestling and give his scorching hot takes.

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0:00.0	This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday
0:07.1	from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca on a fulls count anywhere Friday
0:20.2	edition of the Busted Open podcast. Myself, Mark Henry and Thunder Rosa continue to debate that
0:28.3	everyone is talking about pro wrestler versus sports entertainer pro wrestling versus sports
0:36.0	entertainment. What do you think? Is it a balance? Are you more on the pro wrestling side or
0:41.2	the sports entertainer side? We talk about it with Mark Henry and Thunder Rosa and get their
0:46.5	takes. Plus we're going to spar with Justin LaBarr and talk about all the big topics throughout
0:52.4	the week in pro wrestling right now on the Busted Open podcast. I was talking about the balance
1:00.0	between pro wrestling and sports entertainment when I fell in love with pro wrestling and I started
1:07.6	watching pro wrestling back in 1982. I always looked at pro wrestling as a sport. That's the way
1:15.5	I fell in love with pro wrestling. It was still the veil of this being 100% genuine and I fell in
1:24.4	love with the sport aspect of pro wrestling and obviously I fell in love with the sports entertainment
1:31.3	aspect as well as we got into the 80s the WWF especially was more of a gear toward younger kids,
1:40.8	more of the sports entertainment aspect and I think that kind of took over as the years went on
1:46.6	and then when you look at pro wrestling in the way that it is right now look at the WWE
1:51.2	doesn't really even call it pro wrestling they call it sports entertainment and I always kind of
1:57.9	looked at that as like oh you know I just hated the terminology of sports entertainment to me it
2:04.4	was pro wrestling but even I in my stance I it's kind of softened over the years but I think when
2:14.4	you go back and you look at especially in the 90s between that balance of sports entertainment
2:21.2	and pro wrestling nothing more signified that relationship than the feud between bread heart
2:29.7	and Shawn Michaels Shawn Michaels Mr. WrestleMania Shawn Michaels the showstopper and then bread heart was
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