This is The Busted Open Podcast.

You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern,

on Series XM, Fight Nation, Channel 156.

Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. I'm Tommy Dreamer, along with my host,

Mickey James, in the first-ever hardcore country edition of Busted Open. And we discuss many,

many topics first, Mickey James' decision to step away from professional wrestling if she loses a match.

Yes, the last rodeo, a road to success, the quest to be the best. We also address all the turmoil

going on in AEW, as well as we're talking NXT on this very, very first edition of Hardcore Country.

Mickey James or myself, just listen to it right here on The Busted Open Podcast.

There's a lot going on in the world of professional wrestling, Mickey. I don't know if you heard,

there's a lot of rumors, a lot of speculation, but we got to cover a lot.

I've heard there's a bit of news, if you will. There's some things happening in the biz,

in on-camera and outside the scenes. But one of the most important things,

another time, Mickey James' trending last week, you make a very, very shocking announcement.

You were toying with us with your social media and putting out, as they like to say, cryptic tweets.

So you made the decision that if you want to be the best, the quest to the best,

your last rodeo, that if you lose a match across platforms, any company, it's going to be your last.

And the people, you literally had the people out the edge of their seat when you said they're like,

then you got them back up, but you got them back down. What is going on with you?

Thank you, Tommy. I appreciate it. And you know, the

promo's are so hard, but I really just wanted to speak from my heart. And I think, you know,

you know, it's been a journey for me. You've watched me in this business from pretty much a day one.

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