This is The Busted Open Podcast.

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

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Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrec.

On today's episode, WWE Hall Famer, T&A Hall Famer, and one of the greatest tag team wrestlers

of all time, bully Ray and I have two amazing guests. Mickey James, your knockouts champion,

and an entrant in the Royal Rumble just coming up in less than two weeks joins us here on the

Busted Open Podcast and also Matt Cardona before his big match with Joey Janella at a sold-out

Hammerstein Ball Room on Sunday right here on The Busted Open Podcast.

Mickey James, who joins us here on Busted Open. Mickey, good morning. How are you today?

I'm so good. Good morning. Good morning. It's good to see you smiling. A smile from ear to ear.

You look happy. You look fantastic. It's great. I try to always be smiling, you know.

You got to fake it to make it sometimes. That's what, yeah, that's my, I think that's what my wife does

from time to time. I'm glad you said it.

So Mickey, what's new? A lot. A lot. Life is good. Yeah.

I want to ask you a couple of questions about the Rumble. And I like to go back to

the phone call. Like when you got the call, did you have a heads up that maybe you were going to

get a call? Or was it just a cold call? Did you see the 203 from Stanford and pick it up and,

you know, and how did the conversation go? I actually, because Johnny had called Scott first to

talk to Scott, you know, to see if it was something that was doable with an impact and all the

things. So Scott had already talked to me about it and run it by me to see kind of get my feelings

on it. So I kind of thought it was an idea. And so when I saw Johnny Colin, I was like, oh,

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