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Welcome in from wrestling fans here on the podcast edition weekend edition of Busted Open. I'm Ryan McKinnell got the world's strongest man Mark Henry alongside here on this edition and Mark what an edition of Busted Open we got for the listeners out there today and why? Well that's because we got a lot of talk about the forbidden door WWE and one Mickey James.

Man I'm so excited to see Mickey James get a chance at the Royal Rumble as well as maybe maybe this is put in the right direction towards her being in the Hall of Fame.

I like that I like that also on this edition of Busted Open we got an interview with your guy the captain Sean Dean Mark who really gives some insight not only on his journey and professional wrestling but a journey I think all wrestlers and really all humans can appreciate.

I think so you said it best we were always trying to make it about the wrestling world but I think it's all humans world. Just the guy that really works hard and makes itself available and you know just don't say no just keep keep hustling every day.

I like it I like it and it wouldn't be a Saturday edition of Busted Open if we didn't give you our weekly winner.

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What just happened on a Friday night you just heard it there Pat McAfee acknowledging acknowledge big word of the pro wrestling world these days.

Mark Henry Pat McAfee acknowledging Mickey James as the impact world champion and announcing her entrance entrance entrance into the Royal Rumble here in 2022 and had the internet mark in flames last night I don't know if you were.

Excuse me scrolling social media at all but when McAfee dropped that bomb and that graphic came on the television everybody that is a pro wrestling fan took the social media with their jaws on the virtual floor and I would imagine as we are just a few hours removed from that there's

a lot of jaws on the floor Mark Henry what did we just see on Friday night Smackdown you know a man you seen the influence of all of the talent from other companies coming on AEW finally show that the

forbidden door can exist everywhere the only thing that can happen now is if the reference of AEW end up on one of the shows

and there's some kind of cross branding maybe you see New Japan with some influence with WWE program like I mean it's it's an open door man it just got to choose to use it or not and this is the thing that the WWE is first it is their first

the last time you were trying to figure out when was the last time that happened and I said it had never happened before you say well it was ECW but I felt like the WWE had already acquired ECW and that they were using them as a you know means to the end that became bringing ECW into WWE

so but this is something all together different unless WWE is say you know what maybe we should look at impact as a brand I mean that's something to think about

it is and that's something that obviously I will get you know more thoughts on that will hear from the nation what they think about what this exactly means but you know you're not wrong

it could be a sign of bigger things to come right and when you talk about NXT 2.0 and we don't know exactly where that sits or what the plans are for that maybe I don't know maybe at WWE as different plans for developmental and what that could mean and maybe impact somehow fits in that conversation we don't really know what we do know is one of the greatest champions in the history of WWE

yes I'm talking about Mickey James current impact world champion obviously getting it in tonight at Hard to Kill against Deanna Parazo might not be impact world champion in 24 hours but for right now she is the impact world champion she's being build as the impact world champion

let me say this because I saw a lot of this last night on Twitter and I get where people are coming from right when we talk about the Royal Rumble so much about the Royal Rumble or surprises and that's what we love

and you love to be shocked and you never you know the music hits and everyone loses a shit and that's a great part of the Royal Rumble I understand that

so people are like why are you spoiling this why did you announce Mickey James why didn't you just let it be a surprise I'm actually glad they didn't mark for the exact reason that we're talking about right now you got promo out of it

impact is actually getting some shine if Mickey just shows up at the Royal Rumble and the music hits yeah that's cool and that's great but you don't get a month of build where you're calling and shouting out the impact world champion

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