Welcome to this edition of the Bust Open podcast, along with Justin Labar. I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we talk about WWE's Crown Jewel. How does John Cena finish his career in WWE?

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We've been talking about a crown jewel from Perth, Australia at the RAC Arena.

And so I thought that as some have already told us on social media that this show is better than Russell Paloosa.

That's fine.

I just know that when you take a look at the overall card, you know it's going to be four or five matches. This one was five matches. And I think that for the most part, everything delivered. It gave you a variety of a lot of different things, including Cody Rhodes against Seth Rollins for the Crown Jewelman's championship. We saw Stephanie Vakere take another step as she wins against

Tiffany Stratton. We see Roman Raines lose, which is so rare in a pinfall scenario against

Bronson Reed, which elevates Reed to a different level. We get a chance to see O'Ska and Kari

Seine against E.O. Sky and Ria Ripley and just blew the the roof off because of the heat in that matchup and seen in A.J. Stiles. I just overall, I think it was a solid B. And I think that it delivered for an early PLE from Perth, Australia. Yeah, and I'm here for the early PLEs. And don't forget, tomorrow for Netflix, you You can watch if you're on the East Coast, you can watch Raw at 8 a.m. So more of it, start your day off. So we get a, so we get Dave and bullying with the post game for Monday Night Raw right into not Sam wrestling. They all have your post game for Raw, I believe. They will, they will. yeah, I know, you know, especially when you compare Crown Jewell and Russell Palozo.

Crown Joel, I know, you know, especially when you compare Crown Jewell and Russell Palozo, Crown Jool, of course, you know, of course we know that they have the gimmick of Crown Jewel, we're going to have the two, we're going to have the world champions against each other and the men's and women's side. The Crown Jull, even beside from that, everything felt more intentional. Whereas Russell Palooza now, in hindsight,

you could kind of tell that it was an event that ESPN and WB

put together somewhat last minute.

And that's not to say there weren't good things on Russell Palooza

and the mixed tag with Punk and AJ was entertaining. But when you look at the totality of things, I would almost say Russell Palozo was kind of in the way. It was something they had to do. It was kind of in the way, though. You know, like even that, you look at the mixed tag what's happened since then you know like

again it was just a show there was a show and it's like okay now we can get back on course

you know it's just kind of like this unnecessary detour that they had to take to satisfy

ESPN to counterprogram AEW whatever the reasons or all the reasons but crown jewel feels

much more intentional like there's some stuff that happen at Crown Jewel that is relevant to what we're going to see on TV in this upcoming week and beyond.

Yeah.

So would you give it a letter B for the show?

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