Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

This is Dave Legreca.

On today's episode, myself and Natty Nightheart get into Monday Night, Roy,

and your new women's champion, Stephanie Vakere.

Also, what happened between Aska and Ria Ripley in the main event of Raw,

all that right now, on the heartbeat portion of the busted open podcast this is the busted

open podcast i've been a big fan of what a e w has done lately i thought last night was a miss because

how much i love their pay-per-view on on saturday And this is where I love the pro wrestling fan.

They're so passionate about what they see. And they're so passionate about pro wrestling.

Whenever, even though I'm an AEW fan, whenever I say anything negative, they jump on me.

Today is definitely a day. I got a lot of people riled up,

but it's because I have to give my personal opinion on how I felt. And also that's what I

love about the industry in general, you know, whether it's WWE, whether it's AEW, whether

it's New Japan, whether it's even smaller promotions all over the world.

Like, I like that people, you know, we're all allowed to like what we like. And our fans get

to be passionate about what they like, what they don't like. I like that people want to have a voice.

People want to get involved. People want to feel engaged. I think the dangerous thing is when

people aren't talking. Let them talk. Let them feel how they want to feel engaged. I think the dangerous thing is when people aren't talking.

Let them talk. Let them feel how they want to feel because here's my thing. There's lots of

stuff I like and there's lots of stuff that I don't like. And that goes for even with WWE,

there's even throughout my whole career, obviously I've been with WWE. We're closing in on close

to two decades. There's things that I've loved and there's things that I've been like, oh, I wish that I could have done that differently or I wish we, I wish that storyline would have played out like this or, you know, storylines with other people that I wish would have happened and been different. But I love that everybody has a voice,

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