This is The Busted Open Podcast.

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Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast, Dave LaGrecca, and the innovator of violence,

the landlord of the House of Hardcore, and the heart and soul of professional wrestling,

Tommy Dreamer and I, recap NXT, and this is after everything that took place with

Carrying Cross on Monday Night Raw. Did we have the feels for NXT on a Tuesday night?

Also, we talked to Mickey James, that's right, NWA Empower coming up at the end of August,

and we talk about it with the hard core legend herself, Mickey James, right now on The Busted

Open Podcast. It was upsetting what happened on Monday, and it was hard for me to buy in,

but when Carrying Cross and Samoa Joe are involved, they grab you and you get invested.

I love the story that's going on between Samoa Joe and Carrying Cross right now, Tommy.

Up until, yes, Tuesday, yes, Monday completely affected that.

I agree, I can understand that, and I can't fault you for feeling that way,

but they do a good job of getting you reinvested, and I want to see the next chapter,

and hopefully this Monday Night Raw appearance, Tommy, is going to be forgotten about,

put it in our back pocket and forget about it, as obviously heartbreaking as it was for us to

see for a minute and 39 seconds on Monday, and then we got to get into the main event

between Ziley and Rockal Gonzalez. To me, a little rushed, I don't, you know,

why not build on this story? Why not have this play out for a little bit longer,

but they decided to put it on, Ziley, obviously, you know, that rib injury affected her to take

the loss last night to Rockal Gonzalez, but I thought a solid match between those two in the

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