Welcome to the Sunday edition of The Bust Open Podcast, along with Justin LaBarre, I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we discussed the plight of the big man in pro wrestling and why

Braun Strowman was cut from the WWRoster.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

We know that with every business, I mean, I'm an adult with a mortgage, so I think we all know this.

Like, we know there's always budget cuts in any Fortune 500 company, any company.

You hate to be laid off or you hate to be, you know, let go.

I just think that with WWE, TKL, whatever it is, every year we're going to go through this where there's this chunk of talent that's that's cut off the roster and ultimately it's either the fault of the wrestler

because they didn't do enough but ultimately it's also on backstage where you didn't put them in a position to succeed

you could you had another creative has nothing for you I'm telling you is that if you have one company, I get that, but you have multiple platforms to be able to stash the talent if you want to for them to get some work and then maybe you come up with something.

You don't have to, you know, front facing talent, some of these wrestlers that we talked about earlier, Ron Strowman, Shana Basler, Dakota, Kai,

Caden, Carter, Tana, Chance,

and a bunch of NXT players.

I think that you could have been able to do something with them,

but they did not.

But you had something specific about the big man, Braun Strowman.

Yeah, and it's great.

It's a great point, first of all,

I want to know, it's a great point by you the fact that now more than ever, W.B. has more, as you said, more

places to put talent, you know, as they're, as they're expanding with NXT and evolve and now

we're acquiring AAA. So that, that further kind of just, you know, you know, it looks bad. Like, man, we've got to be cutting talent. You know, Braun, Braun, Stromen, obviously, the highest profile of the guys.

He's main event in some other major PLE, so, you know, obviously you would assume he was the, probably the highest paid out of all of them.

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