Today on the Busted Open podcast, before we see Madison Square Garden Smackdown on a Friday night,

we get stories from Nick Nemeth on wrestling in the Mecca of pro wrestling. Also, we talk about K-Fape is it dead in

two thousand and twenty four all that right now this is the busted

open podcast.

Nick you mentioned Madison Square Garden.

Smackdown tonight is at Madison Square Garden.

Kind of cool because Cody Rhodes is going to be showing up at the garden with the championship,

something that his dad tried to do at Madison Square Garden.

So it's going to be a special moment for Cody.

But Nick, you know, talk about your first time wrestling at Madison Square Garden.

There's a couple different times like first you have there and it's so weird like someone like me 19 years at W. W. There's so many first

you get like action figures being in a video game getting a win getting your hand

raised getting a championship and And it really is, no matter how bitter or jaded you are,

there's something special about,

even the old, old Madison Square Garden.

And it's like, it just has this history

and you get this electric feel. It's a real thing. And there was, man, I got to have a triple threat with some friends. I got to fight with buddies. I got to fight for championships, I main evented a Madison Square Garden

Joe. Basically, John Cina made event the Madison Square Garden Joe, but I was the heel and you know, a guy

who had a money in the bank contract in a briefcase big

he and a jay watching his back and sometimes just the the most perfect times in

the Northeast it just works out and then you get to be in Madison Square Garden and no matter what we say now about my old boss

There were times when everybody was so excited and they'd go just a little bit longer just to feel that emotion out there and there was a special cut-off time for Madison Square Garden and if you don't hit that exact time and get the hell out of there, they add something ridiculous, like an extra half a million dollars of rent.

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