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Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca.

On today's episode, by self, bullie ray and Mickey James get into night number one

of Halloween havoc and the shock of your new WWE NXT Women's Champion,

Lyra Valkyria. Also, we speak to your Smackdown,

General Manager, the one and only, Nick Aldis, right now on the Busted Open Podcast.

Gotta tell you, I loved it last night and I was shocked.

Bullie, I want to get your take because we just spoke to Lyra last week.

And when we spoke to Lyra, she admitted on our show that this was the first time ever that she had done an interview in any capacity under the WWE umbrella.

She got signed by the WWE back in 2020. So she's never done a media appearance, never asked to do an interview.

And she was on our show last week. I'm sure we'll release that again now that she's your NXT Women's Champion, Bullie.

But I literally, when she pinned Becky yelled at Holy shit, I did not see that coming.

Bullie, how surprised were you by that victory last night?

I wasn't shocked at all just because I'm so desensitized to stuff in the wrestling business that nothing shocked me.

I thought it was a great decision though. Young, up and coming superstar in Lyra, the story is there.

You know, they both trained at the same place, they come from the same hometown or basically, you know, they're very similar paths on their way to the WWE.

And you could tell last night after the match was over with the hug that was exchanged between Becky and Lyra of how much it meant for Lyra to be able to defeat Mickey.

But I think that it meant just as much to Mickey. I'm sorry too.

No, because she beat me, Bullie.

You're right, you're right. She can't beat the woman.

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