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Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode,

the innovator of violence, the landlord and the house of hardcore and the heart and soul

of professional wrestling Tommy Dreamer and I talk about a stacked NXT from last night top to

bottom. My gosh, that was almost like a takeover last night. Speaking of stacked, we get into the

stacked AEW Dynamite for tonight and who better to talk about it than president and owner

of AEW Tony Khan right now on the busted open podcast.

But how are you today Tommy? I'm doing wonderful David and you know,

where we talk about professional wrestling we talk about how much I'm going to go a little

factual knowledge here. I got some facts, not my usual malarkey that I like to just make up or

sometimes give away people's all the famerings. Did you know, David, that in the last seven days,

we're all was number one on cable. I know you don't like that, but it happens. No, but wait, wait,

wait a second. I gotta put you on pause for just a second Tommy. Well, you don't like with some

of the things that parts of the program. I want raw to be successful. I want all pro wrestling shows

to be successful. But if I had to pick my top 10 pro wrestling shows at a week,

Raw would wind up at number 12 or 13. Okay. AEW as we know, we'll save that for the wrath of

Khan. He was number one on Wednesday on cable and Smackdown was number one on the network on Friday.

Think of that. Yeah, pro wrestling is back. The fans are back and we saw a bit,

a bit of a lull during the pandemic. And there was some growing pains. Tommy, when it came to

wrestling at the Thunderdome or no fans and attendance, but as things are opening up around the

country, the fans are watching pro wrestling once again. So in a lot of a lot of shows, the numbers

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