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Welcome Busted Open Nation. This is the Saturday edition of the Busted Open

Podcast with me, Andreas Hale, and WWE Hall of Famer, Mark Henry.

We discuss SmackDown and the return of Hit Row. And we have a special guest,

Top Dollar, AJ Francis joins us to talk about the return and his relationship with Triple H.

That and so much more on the Busted Open Podcast. Tune in.

I think we need to discuss the return of Hit Row first, Mark. I think we have to,

because they have another group of Triple H's people that have been missed.

Obviously they were returned, but they do not have Swerve because Swerve is one half of the

AEW tag team champions, which is totally fine with me, but I loved the fact that they came back.

They came back against some jobbers and I was really, I didn't know that they were coming back in

the segment. What are you booing, Mark? Sir, those jobbers have names.

Not today, because I don't remember them. This was about Hit Row coming back.

I had no idea. I thought this was going to, I thought maybe almost is coming to SmackDown.

I was like, why are we doing the squash match? One, I love squash matches.

I think they serve such a great purpose and pro wrestling to establish talent.

And especially when you have somebody like AJ Francis who's a big guy who's pretty mobile,

he can do some cool things with some jobbers. I'm not going to, I don't know their names.

I forgot them already. I enjoyed the return of Hit Row. I enjoyed this. I think

they got the short end of the stick. They got called up and cut immediately.

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