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Busted Open

The Master's Class: The International Language of Pro Wrestling

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

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Masters Bully Ray, Mark Henry, and Tommy Dreamer show you how they overcame the language barrier when working with international talent.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Busted Open podcast.

0:04.0

Yo, what's going on?

0:05.2

Busted Open Nation and welcome to another edition of the Masters class.

0:11.5

It's me, Uncle Bulley, along with my six-man partners for the day,

0:17.7

the world's strongest man and my fellow Hall of Famer, Mark Henry,

0:24.9

and the innovator of violence, the landlord of the House of Hardcore,

0:29.7

and everybody's favorite baby face, Tommy Dreamer.

0:35.3

Guys, today we are talking the international language of professional wrestling.

0:44.2

And when it comes to language, the first word that comes to mind is communication.

0:49.9

And sometimes the lack of communication between wrestlers, not necessarily wrestlers that are not on the same page when it comes to a certain match,

1:00.3

but the lack of communication when it comes to speaking a completely different language, English, Spanish, Japanese.

1:10.4

Those are the languages that immediately come to mind

1:14.0

with obviously professional wrestling and sports entertainment

1:16.6

being so popular in the United States, in Mexico, in Puerto Rico,

1:22.1

the luchadores, the lucha librae style, and obviously in Japan.

1:27.4

So, Mark, I want to start with you, my brother.

1:30.7

Have you ever been involved?

1:34.0

I know you predominantly, your entire career was in the WWE.

1:39.5

But have you worked with, come across men, women, where there was a complete language barrier,

1:47.3

whether you had to work with them in the ring, do a promo, interact with them in some business way

1:52.8

where you only spoke English, but they only spoke another language.

1:58.5

And how were you able to bridge the gap and actually get business done?

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