Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer. And for the first time ever, Smackdown is broadcasting from Dublin, Ireland, and we have a master's class in promos, and I'm going to talk about it right now.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

Enjoying everything that I saw, and as always, that overseas crowd just brings it.

Looking forward to the clash in Paris, but I'm going to be talking everything Smackdown.

I put it on Twitter, or X, I should say.

Sorry, I'm old.

I truly, truly feel I'll give her her props before I give it to him.

Becky Lynch could be the best on the mic, and here's why.

She opens the show to a massive, massive pop.

It's also a nice surprise for your hometown.

And it is very, very hard to cheer.

I'm sorry, to boo the hometown person.

And she takes you on such a great ride.

She takes you on this ride with her promo,

Pure Babyface 101, and then she turned on him.

And when I tell you, to get those reactions, especially in the UK, man, you got to give such kudos to her.

She did everything that you want to be the bad guy. She did everything that you need.

And when I tell you this, it's ingrained in me where ravishing Rick Rude, I remember him like,

in my face telling me, I don't care if I was in my hometown on my birthday.

It is my job to go out there and make the people hate me. And that's what I go out there and do.

When she, I saw what she was doing and I was just like, man, is she really going to go this route?

And for the fans to accept her as the bad guy and it was almost like, we're not so much buying into the character.

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