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Welcome to the Busted Open podcast, the Masters class.

Here we are with our Masters of the Ring, Mark Henry, Bully Ray, Tommy Dreamer.

And this past week on Busted Open, it's been 80s week.

And each and every day we had a different 80s superstar throughout the week.

And a lot of those superstars and wrestlers have influenced generations of wrestlers that came after them.

So I thought today would be a good day where each one of you will pick one wrestler from

the 80s that influenced you and maybe gave advice to you with your career.

So I know I have a couple people from the 80s that I'm going to talk about with what I do

here. I'm busted open, but I'm sure Mark, Tommy, and Bs that I'm going to talk about with what I do here.

I'm busted open, but I'm sure Mark, Tommy and Bully, you're going to have some influencers in

your career.

So Tommy, let's start with you, somebody from the 80s that definitely gave you advice along

the way.

When this topic was hit to me, I had to really think back, you know,

first I'd, I'd say Dusty Rhodes and Terry Funk, but they didn't start in the 80s. And then I

really had to think about, and it wasn't a hard think. There's two people that helped me. One,

started in the 80s, is Paul Heyman, even though he wasn't a wrestler, but helped me so much in learning this industry behind the scenes and really was the first person to really, really believe in me.

But when we're talking about wrestlers and the first person to not only offer

me advice, but really, really helped me along the way was Cactus Jack Mick Foley. And early

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