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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 remember the great Mr. Wonderful Paul Ornder we share moments

and memories with you the busted open nation and we also have two amazing guests they're going

to share their memories about his life and career Ted DiBiasi is going to join us also a Hall

of Famer and another Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff all about Mr. Wonderful Paul Ornder who we

lost at the age of 71 right now on the busted open podcast and if you think about his career

and his entire career from day one I mean he was always a big star coming into the business

picked up the business and became a major star in every territory he worked and I mean

the list is going to go on and on and when I tell you just I know how when I go and we have our

Tommy Dreamer memorial show I want people to go back and watch my matches because that's my body

of work even his son said he loved that you hated him because he knew he was doing what he was

supposed to do and that's comforting because when you go back and you go on the peacock network

or you go on YouTube we stay young forever and he's got that unbelievable body his work rate is

always great even till later on in his career but like I said you stay young forever and those

are the memories that you want to keep for people and Tommy you know obviously Paul Ornder is

been on our minds over the last few months you know the reports that he was in ill health and then

we saw a picture that his son posted of him sitting on the sofa drinking a beer and I think everybody

had high hopes that maybe he was doing a little bit better and then finding out at the age of 71

yesterday that he had passed and 71 is so young but you know a lot of wrestlers from that period put

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