The Master's Class: The Over 45 Club

Busted Open

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

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On this week's Busted Open "The Master's Class", our Masters Dave LaGreca, Mark Henry, Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer discuss those wrestlers who are over the age of 45 but are still going strong. They describe the years of seasoning it takes to get to this point and how having all that experience can be advantageous over the younger generation.Want even more? Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on our Apple Podcasts show page to unlock exclusive bonus content, early access, and ad-free listening to new episodes.

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0:00.0	This is The Busted Open podcast.
0:04.2	You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m.
0:08.0	to noon Eastern on Sirius XM Fight Nation Channel 156.
0:13.5	Welcome to Busted Opens the Masters class and I'm here with our teachers, our Masters of the Ring.
0:22.2	Bully, Tommy, Mark.
0:24.0	How are you guys?
0:26.0	Awesome, awesome.
0:27.3	What's happening?
0:29.0	Oh, I'm excited.
0:30.3	I'm excited for this.
0:31.0	You know why?
0:33.9	Because I now belong to this club,
0:41.4	and I've been a member of this club for a few years now and that is over 45 and still going strong age don't mean a thing in pro wrestling and we can come up with some of the reasons
0:48.3	why and bully you've mentioned this over the years here on busted open it takes a while
0:53.8	before you really learn this
0:55.8	business. And sometimes the age of 45 bully is prime time age to be a pro wrestler.
1:03.5	If you go back and you look at history before this youth movement started, I'd say maybe 10 to 15 years ago, maybe even farther back than that,
1:14.9	pro wrestlers when they were their most successful, when they were in their prime, was like between
1:20.2	40, 50, 60 years old because it takes a long time to truly grasp this art form that we do, this performance art
1:32.9	that we do, this sports entertainment thing that we do, this pro wrestling thing that we do.
1:38.4	Because it's not only about the physical, it's mostly about the psychological, the mental, the how and the why we do
1:46.9	things and the when we do things and why we say things and when we say things and how I look at you
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