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Welcome to Busted Open's podcast to Masters class.

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

Don't forget, you can listen to Busted Open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon Eastern Time on Sirius XM Fight Nation.

But we drop our master's class each and every Sunday exclusively on the Busted Open podcast.

So let's bring in our first Master of the Ring,

WWE Hall of Famer, Mark Henry, and Mark,

what do you think of when you hear betting on yourself?

Well, Dave, I'm going to get to me,

but I don't think that there is a greater option of betting on yourself than

Chris Jericho. But my personal experience, I've been, I was a contracted talent with WW for 24 years straight.

At that point, I had never worked for anybody else.

That was all I knew.

But I did like 10 different jobs.

I wasn't just the talent.

I really paid attention and helped with production.

I really helped and paid attention with the community service and efforts. I was always the first person they called when,

hey, Mark, we want somebody to do an upfront to go and hang out with the with the brass tax the the big wigs the USA

upfront events the the military events like I was all I was doing so many different things

not to mention I was asked like hey do you know if there's any up-and-coming talents that

want to wrestle? So once I got asked, I started looking for talent. And I never got paid

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