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Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca on today's episode myself and bully Ray breakdown Monday Night Raw.

You're going to want to hear from bully Ray because he is livin' about what took place on Raw. You're going to want to hear it.

We also talk about Brock and Cody and where is that going? A lot to do on a Tuesday edition of the Busted Open podcast.

I've talked here on this show before about if you really want to get talent over, there's nothing wrong with some enhancement matches.

I don't think I'm being disrespectful at this point in saying that Dana Brooke is somewhat of an enhancement talent within the walls of the WWE.

I mean, that's not somebody other than the ill-fated 24-7 Championship. Is Dana Brooke somebody that's going to be chasing after a World Heavyweight Championship title? I don't think so.

Dana Brooke is not a waste of my TV time. Matches like that are a waste of my TV time.

Okay. You seem very, very passionate about this match with Dana Brooke last night.

No, I'm not. I just wanted to get out of the way. Now that we broke that down, we have two hours and 58 minutes left.

Okay. Well, there's a lot to get into for sure. But bully, and again, like with the Dana Brooke, if you have more to say, I mean, do you look at Dana Brooke as they're wasting the talent of Dana Brooke, that Dana Brooke should be doing more within the WWE?

No, I'm still pissed off about yesterday and the fact that they did not have the brains to do something different.

To shock the people a little bit, to do the right thing by a talent who's been there for a long time. I'm still on the Zalina Vega thing.

And you know what? We put up the video of you talking about that from backlash on Saturday. It's up at Busted Open Radio, your opinion, bully about what you just said that Zalina Vega should have won that championship on Saturday.

For a moment, because to your point with Dana Brooke, instead of having Rhea Ripley in the ring with Dana Brooke on Monday, Nairoa last night, that could have been a rematch between Zalina Vega and Rhea Ripley, where Rhea Ripley could recapture that SmackDown Women's Championship and then business as usual.

But you created a moment on Saturday that would have lasted a lifetime.

Or you could have given Zalina Vega one match against Dana Brooke in which she defended her championship just one night and then you could have had Rhea Ripley come out or you could have had Rhea Ripley come out in the middle of the match and destroy both women and challenge Zalina to a match next week.

They missed the boat. They missed the opportunity, just like we said yesterday on this show. And I thought about it even more.

There is a time to make people happy. The other night in Puerto Rico was the time to make the fans happy, to shock the fans, to give people something out of left field that they would have never seen coming.

Dave, have I been a massive supporter of Rhea Ripley from day one? Yes. Without a doubt, I even voted her versus Charlotte, best match at Mania when we did when there was COVID Mania.

Yes, you did. I have been on Rhea's side since the day I saw her. I'm the guy who's suggesting she should have lost.

And for good reason, because it would have taken absolutely zero away from Rhea Ripley, given a little something to Zalina, a feel good moment, right place, right time.

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