What's up, Busted Open Nation? Denise Salsato here with Mark Henry, and we are breaking down

Paul Heyman returning to Smackdown with CM Punk and how it affects war games as well as the

hard truths thrown between Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens. And it starts right now on the Busted Open

podcast. This is the busted open podcast.

CM Punk comes out and I think for the most part there was a, you know, this was speculation, right?

Like a lot of people had speculated like, hey, if it's not going to be Seth Rawlins,

if he really does stick to his guns and doesn't join the bloodline, either version of them,

then hey, it could be CM Punk.

And we were talking about it last week, and here we are.

To you, seeing CM Punk come out and be the guy.

Do you think that was the right pick for the fifth man?

I 100% unequivocally believe that.

Even though Paul swerve me when he said five,

and he emphasized the five,

and I'm thinking, oh, my Lord, no, he's not.

And I thought it was F5.

But that was an intentional, like, swirling. he was not. And I thought it was F5. But he,

that,

that was intentional,

like swerve.

Good,

good gamesmanship,

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