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edition of busted open on your weekend host Ryan McKinnell got the world's strongest man Mark Henry along for this ride and it is a good thing because we are talking friendship here on a Saturday

Sammie Zane Kevin Owens rekindling reuniting their respect their friendship last night on Smackdown. We talk about that moment and how it came to be also

with a little help of the one from the American nightmare Cody Rhodes bridging that gap. You tell you how that all came to fruition last night on Friday night.

We're also talking about the great triple threat match now scheduled for WrestleMania between Gunther Shamus and Drew McIntyre Shamus and Drew having an absolute banger shocking last night on Smackdown.

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But when you look through the last 20 years of professional wrestling few have been closer and more inexplicably licked than one Kevin Owens and Sammie Zane and last night with the little help right of some mediation courtesy of the American nightmare Cody Rhodes which we will talk about right Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane Mark Henry they had themselves a moment last night on Friday night Smackdown.

Man, I'm just going to say it like there's very few all very few times that you get the feel good moment to where it makes you almost cry.

Like the movie when the dog saves the baby and everybody you know it's just like Disney you know the Disney finish yeah give me the good bro that was a Disney finish last night man I found myself going whoa that was heavy.

Like it was redemption it was forgiveness it was grace mercy like all those things that make you feel like you know a man like my heart feel better it was a heartfelt moment and it's hard to create because it's wrestling and it's so big boots people hitting each other but then you get to be able to get that emotion like that.

That's a skill that's a art it was well well done it really was and it was well done on on every front right I feel like we and we will talk about Jusso and his involvement and his emotion right and selling and what he brought to that situation but.

The pure joy and the genuine sort of embrace that Kevin Owens and Sammy Zayn shared.

At the end of the show and we'll walk you through how we got there last night in the moments and Cody Rhodes had a great promo at the beginning of the show actually involving Kevin and Sammy where it started the show it kind of looked like hey you know Kevin Owens is not going to have

Sammy Zayn's back right like we didn't know where they stood at the beginning of the show their friendship it's still very much looked to be on the outs then through a course of some motivation and then a beat down by the Usos right Kevin Owens comes out and saves the day but.

Right yeah where people have to go it could we put a clip of the finish of the whole sequence of it oh i'm sure we can read that i'm sure it's on ww yeah yeah i was going to say because yeah I think that people are going to have to go and see it from the you know from the time that the promo starts until the end where it was a great build there was nuance to it it wasn't.

It wasn't just the embrace and like I mean they were the payoff right it was a lot that happened in between that but one thing I want to ask you just before we dive into the nuts and bolts of this and and and really pick at it and try to.

I guess really figure out exactly how it's going to play out in two weeks I think we kind of hope and know what the end game might look like but there's still two weeks of stories that we got to tell him I imagine it's going to be strong story telling because when you bring in.

This story of Owens and and Zane and their their history I mean it's been so.

Brothers yeah brothers and that is what I wanted to talk about getting to work with people that you genuinely like I mean this has to mark you've gotten the pleasure of doing it throughout your career I know how highly you think around Simmons i mean we've talked about it on the air off the air.

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