Making Sense of the Week After Mania | Steve Maclin

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Justin LaBar and Denise Salcedo break down the week after Wrestlemania of John Cena and his interactions with his first challenger Randy Orton. Plus! TNA International Champion Steve Maclin joins the show to talk about becoming the first TNA International Champion and everything going on in TNA.

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0:00.0	This is Denise Salcedo with Justin Labar on the Busted Open podcast.
0:04.0	It was a crazy week after WrestleMania with John Cena's first appearance as the 17th time WWE champion.
0:11.4	Justin and I discuss his interactions with the first challenger for his title, Randy Orton.
0:17.0	Plus, TNA international champion Steve Macklin joins the show.
0:21.4	This is the busted open podcast.
0:25.4	After night two of WrestleMania, Justin, I was worried.
0:29.4	I started thinking to myself, oh shit, this stinks.
0:32.2	I'm not necessarily ready for what we're going to see with John Cena.
0:35.9	Do I even care?
0:37.8	And truthfully, I really didn't.
0:40.2	Coming off of that show, I thought, yes, this is great.
0:42.6	I'm so happy John Cena won the 17th world title.
0:45.3	But at the same time, I was so soured upon what we had seen in that main event that I really
0:51.3	didn't care.
0:52.2	I just thought, oh, okay, whatever, moving on.
0:55.1	I care about other people more so on this show than I do this.
0:58.3	It's not my top storyline is how I was feeling after this.
1:01.9	I will say this, though, I think Randy coming out and RKOing John on Monday, I was like, oh, thank God.
1:09.0	And, you know, we had pretty much speculated this at this point because Randy had mentioned to Cody Rhodes a couple of weeks prior that he was interested in Cody's title.
1:17.4	So I think we could have made a safe assumption that Randy was going to come out and go after John Sina.
1:23.8	And then on Friday, we kind of got a little bit more of a back and forth there with Randy and with John
1:29.3	and it went a totally different direction right.
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