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Busted Open

Has Gunther Lost Some Steam?

Busted Open

SiriusXM

Ring Of Honor, Leisure, News, Bully Ray, Tommy Dreamer, Nxt, Wwe, Sports, Mark Henry, Wrestling, Dave Lagreca, Sports News, Professional Wrestling, Njpw, Aew

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bully Ray and Denise Salcedo talk Gunther & Cody Rhodes and whether or not Gunther has lost steam since retiring several wrestling legends... if so, how can he get it back?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, what's going on, Busted Open Nation?

0:01.7

And thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Busted Open podcast.

0:05.5

Today, for the second time ever, Denise Salcedo and Uncle Bulley get together to talk about all things.

0:14.6

Pro wrestling.

0:15.5

More specifically, Gunther, is the luster gone and can they get it back?

0:24.9

Only two weeks left until the big showdown against Cody Rhodes in Turin and me and

0:31.6

Denise will break it down.

0:34.0

Turn it up right here on the busted open podcast.

0:36.8

This is the busted open podcast.

0:41.4

My question and my topic that I want to bring up to you and to everybody here is, do people care?

0:49.3

Do people care that we're about to get Gunther, the man who retired Goldberg, John Cena,

0:55.6

AJ Stiles versus Cody Rhodes, who is one of the biggest baby faces in WWE? Do people care?

1:03.5

Or has the heat for Gunther died down? Because I'm going to start you off here and I'm going to

1:09.9

tell you, I don't really feel like the fans are that that gogo-go-gaga over it right now.

1:15.5

Okay. You bring up a very interesting word, care. It's a word that means a lot in the professional wrestling industry.

1:23.7

It's a word that means a lot in life. You have to care about things to be fully emotionally invested in them.

1:32.3

So before I get into my answer, I want to set the table and define the word care, at least the way you define it or see it.

1:43.3

I want you to tell me one wrestler, I don't care who it is,

1:47.8

tell me one wrestler you care about these days. Darby Allen. I care a lot about Darby.

1:53.9

I knew you're going to say that. I knew. Oh, did you really? Was it in my face?

1:57.3

Oh, absolutely, absolutely. You got it written all over your face. Come on. But tell me why you care

2:02.4

about Darby Allen. Because he's passionate and because he gives his heart and soul every single

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