Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

Along with Justin Labar, I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we discuss the John Cena Invitational Tournament. Who will be the mystery opponent for L.A. Knight in round number one. We talk about it right here on the Busted Open podcast. This is the Busted Open podcast. John Sina will be retiring at the end of the year. And actually, I believe him. This is not going to be one of those sugar Ray Leonard situations or even Terry Funk and wrestling lore. No, I think that this will be it for John Sina. And this is a big deal. We talked about it last week and now it's coming to fruition even more so, Justin, about what's happening with this Sina tournament. W.W. announced Saturday that the 16 man tournament will unfold over the next six weeks

to determine who's going to get the honor of standing across John Cena for his farewell match on December 13th,

on Saturday night's main event.

And so the wrestler is featured in that announcement promo, The Miz, Rusev, Solo, Socoa, Seamus, L.A. Knight, Drew McIntyre, Penta, Carmelo Hayes, Bronson, Reed, Gunther, and Dominic Mysterio.

And we see the brackets, the bracket is starting to unfurl as well as far as matchups are concerned.

It is. I mean, I think we have to accept, though, that even those that were featured, even those that got a quick bit of FaceTime in that video package, that's not a, that doesn't necessarily mean that all them are going to be included. So I think that's interesting. That's point one we have to keep in mind is that that's not the, that wasn't an easy tell of who all is in it that

wasn't an unofficial tell it was just hey we got to show you some current superstars some of

these guys will be in it but not all of them and then of course there's the mystery of those

who are not and I want to go back to what you started with first because I think that's

that's to me that's the biggest point is I

absolutely I'll bet my kids about my dog about my wife I'll bet the whole house hey I bet

I bet I bet it all that this is the last match and so that as a wrestling fan to me

makes it the absolute I I mean, it's beyond world

titles. World titles get won and lost. This is John Sina, a generational talent. The way that we

talk about Hulk Hogan for a period of time, the way that we talk about Stone Cold Steve

Austin for a period of time, we talk about John Sina. We will forever talk about John Sina for a period of time. The way that we talk about Stone Cold Steve Austin for a period of time, we talk about John Sina. We will forever talk about John Sina for a period of time

that he led W.W.B. and led the business, and this is his last match. This is not a Terry Funk.

I can remember in 1999, the Beyond the Mat. Remember that documentary Beyond the Matt?

Nothing had been, it had a theatrical release. Nothing that was ever that mainstream that got to go behind the scenes, especially to WB, behind the scenes to that level. And one of the threads they followed was Terry Funk. And Terry Funk helping the young upstart ECW promotion and how he was going to retire. And we talk and he now and then and the final and like the final credits the

the narrator talks about how Terry Funk came out of retirement two months later.

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