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Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGracca. On today's episode before GCW

Homecoming, later this month in Atlantic City, we talked to the one and only Nick Gaines.

That's right. For the first time ever, here on Busted Open, we get into that big matchup

with Matt Cardona that's happening on July 24th for GCW. All that right now on the Busted Open podcast.

Thank you for having me, man. I appreciate it, man. Shout out to you, bully, right?

Man, you're my man, man. I grew up on you, and I just want to say thank you for all the

shit you've done, man, because if there was no ECW, there would be no Nick Gage, man. I just

wanted to get that out real quick. Let's start the interview off, man. So I just wanted to say thank

you, man. That's very nice, you Nick. I do appreciate that, and I appreciate you. That's just

called the respect for the business right there. It's not about me. It's about respect for the

businesses and always appreciating those again before you. So thank you very much. I'll

start it off with you real quick. We were just talking before you came on with this match against

Cardona. He's never been in your world before. Do you think he truly understands what he's

getting himself into? I don't think so, man. I don't think so at all. I think it might be

whoever that actor was. I forget his name already. I don't think he knows what he's getting

himself into. And if he does, once he finds out, and that glass hits him, and he starts getting

up cuts in his body, man, he's going to find out real fast, because that shit starts burning.

I'm going to get that deep cut. You start bleeding. You know, two ways. He could feel the

fucking fire and get into it where he could be like, oh, shit, man, I might have fucked up on

this one. So we're going to find out. But I know one thing. I love what I do. And I'm the best

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