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Busted Open

The Master's Class: Riding the Pine

Busted Open

SiriusXM

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

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a wrestler is hurt or just not being utilized properly in wrestling? Dave LaGreca & The Masters Tommy Dreamer, Bully Ray and Mark Henry use their personal experience to reflect on the toll it can take on their well-being, plus they discuss whether or not management has a right to use sit talent on the sidelines at their discretion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Busted Open podcast.

0:04.0

Welcome to Busted Opens the master's class with our Masters of the Ring,

0:09.4

Bully Ray, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry.

0:12.2

You only get the master's class as part of the Busted Open podcast family.

0:18.0

And we have a topic for you today. It's called writing the pine. When you have a

0:25.1

contract with the company and you ain't being used and he ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

0:32.0

Tommy, your thoughts on when you know what? You still have length of time left on your contract,

0:37.4

but the owner

0:38.5

of the company is deciding not to use you uh if i could talk from experience for a moment uh i would say

0:48.2

keep your head in the game keep uh trying to pitch ideas if you feel they're going nowhere, then it's time to

0:57.6

quit. I think for me, for bully, but I'm just going to speak for myself. I've been there. I've

1:04.0

been there many times. I went to the boss being at that time, Vincent McMahon, and was just like,

1:10.6

hey, man, you're not really doing much with me.

1:13.1

I think it's time for me to go, blah, blah, blah.

1:17.3

He said, no, I went into the office.

1:20.3

But I stayed in the game, and I actually learned a lot from my time in the office to have a nice second run within the WWE.

1:32.9

It's a different generation, right?

1:34.6

It's a different world.

1:36.5

If you are so fed up where, because for me, Dave, there was a point where I just, I hated pro wrestling.

1:41.0

And for those words to come out of Tommy Dreamer's mouth, I hated going to work

1:44.9

because I was like, man, you're just, you're not using me, blah, blah, blah, and I cannot

1:51.1

hate something that I loved. So I had to disattached to it. And that happens for a lot of men and

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