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Busted Open

Is WWE a Wrestling Company?

Busted Open

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Aew, Bully Ray, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Nxt, News, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Dave Lagreca, Sports, Professional Wrestling, Leisure, Wwe, Njpw, Wrestling

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dave LaGreca and WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray dive into comments made back in April from WWE President Nick Khan (which recently resurfaced). He says WWE isn't a 'wrestling' company, but an 'entertainment' one (but still describes their talent as 'wrestlers') ... but does this sense of perception hurt WWE in their focus? And how do their competitors view themselves? The guys talk it out ...

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0:00.0

This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday

0:07.1

from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156.

0:13.6

Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode, WWE Hall of Famer,

0:21.2

TNA Hall of Famer, and the greatest tag team wrestler of all time bully Rey talk about

0:27.3

the controversial comments from Nick Khan months ago on Cal and Cowler. We talk about why all

0:34.4

of a sudden it's come to light and what did he say that was so bad? We talk about it right now

0:40.1

on the busted open podcast. Evil Ed Robinson, I know you're up to date with everything that's

0:45.8

going on. What exactly is this about Nick Khan? So I don't know how or exactly why this started,

0:55.1

but the quote that was making the rounds both yesterday and now today, it actually dates back

1:00.4

to this April just prior to WrestleMania. WWE president and chief revenue officer Nick

1:06.0

Khan was a guest on Colin Calhards podcast, which is far from a coincidence because well,

1:12.0

Khan used to represent Calhard in his previous life as a talent agent, but suffice to say

1:18.6

this quote from Nick Khan is now everywhere on the old interwebs.

1:23.4

But it's interesting because this is going back to April, so almost four months ago. Also,

1:27.8

bully, as you know, Colin Calhard is a pro wrestling hater. That's why a lot of people

1:32.7

called him an hypocrite because when Fox made the deal, Colin Calhard was actually doing spots

1:39.3

with WWE talent after years and years of bashing pro wrestling. So it's interesting that Nick

1:47.1

Khan used to represent Colin Calhard used to make a living of bashing pro wrestling. So Ed,

1:54.1

do you have the, because I haven't heard it. So I don't want to talk about it because I haven't

1:58.3

heard it. Do you happen to have the sound of Nick Khan? Why, yes, I do. Would you like me to play it?

2:06.4

Please. Here you go. It's not a wrestling company. In fact, we don't use that term here.

2:12.8

It sports entertainment. It's world wrestling entertainment, which obviously makes up for WWE.

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