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Busted Open

The New Day, with Mark Henry and Andreas Hale

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

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Big E and Xavier Woods of the New Day sit down for an exclusive conversation with WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry, and Andreas Hale. The four celebrate Black History Month by discussing how E and Woods have changed the world of wrestling, whether they want to believe that they're pioneers are not. How has the perception, treatment, and opportunities of Black talent changed in wrestling since Mark's rookie year of 1996, and since the debut of the New Day? And where it can go from here?

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0:00.0

This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday

0:07.1

from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156.

0:14.0

Welcome to a special edition of busted open radio for black history month. It's a black

0:20.0

ass episode. I am Andre Sal. That is Mark Henry and we are joined by our brothers, the

0:27.6

new day minus one. Biggie and Xavier Woods. What's going on, brothers? Nothing much, man.

0:34.9

I'm good. We're happy to talk to you guys. Haven't seen either of you and what seems

0:39.2

like forever. So I'm happy to sit down and talk with you for a little bit.

0:42.4

And yeah, it's always always always. I feel like I've seen you all. I mean, I talked to

0:47.8

Andreas pretty much every single day. My good friend and business partner. But I saw

0:52.6

you in San Antonio's the rumble. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good to see everybody. I tried, you

0:59.6

know, like he was so jacked that I tried to not have a conversation with him because, you

1:06.0

know, he making me look small now. That's not a lot. I was intimidated. Uh-huh. We don't

1:14.0

have to worry about that. Nice try. I'm Mark Henry by the way. How y'all guys doing? Hello, Mark Henry.

1:23.9

Yes. I got a question for you guys. And this is straight up series. I know I'm a clown, but this

1:33.0

is serious. Did you ever think in your wildest dreams that you would be a walking living black history

1:43.1

moment? It's weird to especially to hear someone like you say it because you you are that most

1:54.7

definitely like you you are someone that I looked up to and that's that's what I saw in wrestling.

2:00.2

I saw Mark Henry and I saw oh, there is a strong driven black man who knows what he wants and

2:07.5

is a force in this industry and like that's that's why we're here today is because it's been like

2:12.4

you so to hear you say that about us is very humbling, but I don't I don't think it's something

2:18.0

that you think about as a kid of like of being able to empower people in that way so specifically.

2:23.1

So to be in this position now is it's absolutely unreal to hear people say things like that and

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