'The Masters Class': Long-Term Storytelling

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Masters Dave LaGreca, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, and Bully Ray discuss the resurgence of long-term storytelling in the world of pro wrestling today. Does long-term storytelling help or hurt the business and fill up arenas? The Masters answer it all.

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0:00.0	This is the Busted Open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday
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0:13.7	Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode it's the
0:20.0	Masters class which drops each and every Sunday with our Masters of the Ring,
0:25.0	Bully Ray, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, guys. How are you today? I'm wonderful, David. How are you?
0:33.1	I'm great, Bully. All good. Let's rock. All right, let's do this. Don't forget you can listen to
0:40.0	the Busted Open podcast and the Masters class for free. On the Busted Open podcast, make sure you
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0:55.7	don't forget to go to podswag.com slash Busted Open for our brand new merchandise that we just dropped
1:02.5	the week of WrestleMania. And one thing, gentlemen, I don't want to talk about with you today is
1:08.5	long-term storytelling. And it's something that probably over the last 10 to 15 years, we haven't
1:16.6	really seen a lot of, but it seems over the last year we've seen more and more of it. The
1:23.7	bloodline probably being the biggest example of long-term booking and long-term storytelling.
1:30.8	And Bully, it's something that we talk about a lot you and I on Busted Open about it and how
1:36.6	it's missing. Do you feel like it's come back? And if you do, why? I think there are some storylines
1:44.9	that have come back that are being told long-term fold. Obviously, the bloodline is the first one
1:54.4	that comes to mind with Romans championship reign closing in on a thousand days now. And everything
2:01.5	that we've seen with him, with Heyman, with the Usos, with Solo, with Sammy, with Kevin, with Cody,
2:12.3	and everybody involved. I've always been a fan of long-term storytelling, long-term storytelling,
2:18.3	in my opinion, has always worked in the wrestling business. I don't know why there was a portion
2:25.1	of wrestling history that got away from it. I think we do live in an age of instant gratification,
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