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Busted Open

Royal Rumble Iron Man Je'Von Evans Interview

Busted Open

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Mark Henry, Professional Wrestling, Nxt, Njpw, Dave Lagreca, Tommy Dreamer, News, Leisure, Sports, Wwe, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Aew, Bully Ray, Wrestling

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dave LaGreca & Nattie Neidhart are joined by the "Iron Man" of the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble, Je'Von Evans! Je'Von talks about being in his first rumble, his experience thus far on the WWE main roster, dream matches and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

0:02.5

This is Dave Legreca.

0:04.4

On today's episode, myself and Natty Nighthart talk to new WWE Raw superstar Javon Evans right now on the Busted Open podcast.

0:16.0

This is the Busted Open Podcast.

0:20.0

Javon Evans.

0:20.9

Javon,

0:21.4

thank you so much for the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Appreciate y'all. Thank you all for having me. Devon, we're so excited to have you on the show. And I was telling Dave before you got on that before you got signed to WWE, you had come to the dungeon and trained. And I remember Gabe Sapolsky saying,

0:38.6

hey, Natty, like, I want you to take a look at Javan.

0:42.1

I was introduced to you as Malachi.

0:45.5

Yeah.

0:47.1

So that's how I know you.

0:48.9

But I remember just being blown away by your work,

0:52.4

your passion, your work ethic in the dungeon. And I said to TJ, after watching you that very first night in training at the dungeon, I was like, this kid is, he's got something. He's got like that Jeff Hardy, like it factor, which you cannot. It's hard to, hard to explain, but you just have so much going for you. You're so special. You're so unique and you're

1:12.4

so authentic. But how are you feeling? It's your breakout year in WW. How does it feel?

1:18.9

Oh, man. First, I appreciate you. Appreciate you with saying all that. Um, oh, no, I feel. I feel like it's great.

1:29.5

I also feel like, you know, we're just getting started, but we haven't even started yet, if that makes sense.

1:35.5

You know?

1:37.6

I've gotten so many opportunities so far, and I've just experienced so much so far.

1:43.5

And with all the Europe tours and the traveling

1:47.0

we've been doing this the past two months and I just got here. So it's just kind of like everything

1:51.5

is going to thrown in me, but I'm having a great time with it. I'm just having fun with it.

1:55.0

And I feel like you're doing such great work under pressure. I'm just going back to the

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