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Yeah, welcome in Busted Open Nation here on a Saturday. It is a WrestleMania edition of Busted Open. I'm Ryan McKinnell. Got to one and only Jonathan Hood hanging out with me on this Saturday J. Hood.

We take a deep dive not only into WrestleMania, Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, but we also look back at last night and the Undertaker getting inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Yeah, Ryan McKinnell, we get a chance to talk about everything from AW to the WWE to Ring of Honor as well. This is just a great weekend for everyone that loves professional wrestling, including the workers. And so I look forward to what we're going to hear here on this podcast.

And speaking of all of pro wrestling, we got weekly winner as well on this Saturday edition of Busted Open because it wouldn't be a Saturday if we didn't give you the best show that was in the week of professional wrestling.

So sit back, relax, click play. Let's get it going. Busted Open on a Saturday.

Undertaker saying never say never. Why? I'm saying never. And dude, I like to say Undertaker. I went to Meyer back in the Midwest, Meyer, the Superstore. I went to our local Meyer in 1993.

And yo, he was not like, he was not dead man Undertaker at that signing that morning. I was 10 years old and he was like BSK Undertaker.

He had like the trench coat on and like the long red hair. And he was just like, he was just like giving his hand to people.

I have no idea what the night looked like before that. But man, I mean, for the length of this dude has been around.

I have watched him since I was a child. I'm almost 40 like dude. I love you. I would love to see one more match from you. But at some point we do have to call it quits.

But I also maybe maybe that's the inner pro wrestler in him, right? Just like leaving that tease out there and never say never. And maybe I don't. Maybe I'm overreacting.

No, it was a special night. Not the last John. Yeah, there's so many times where we've seen the Undertaker over the last few years. You say, okay, that's it. That should be a not right.

But I think that the matchup he had against AJ style should be the end. But then he opens the door jar and says never say never, which means that I expected to be at WrestleMania or at some show.

One thing for sure and just watching the interaction between Vince and the Undertaker and you know that Vince loves the Undertaker for a number of reasons, which we'll get into.

But you just know that if Vince picks up the phone and says, Deadman, do you have another one in you? I need you because I need you to fill this bill. I need you to put this guy over. I need you to help me out.

You know, the taker will do it. All he can to try to get back in the ring because Vince asked him. So this all goes back to the days of WCW and the WWE.

And when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman and others made this switch and went from the WWE to WCW, I thought that Vince probably saw those guys as disloyal.

Like, man, why don't you stick with me? Why do you have to leave? Bret Hart the same thing. Why do you leave? Because they want to be able to make more money and have different opportunities and a different brand.

And during that time Sean Michaels and the Undertaker easy could have went to WCW. They could have done that. So you know what? And I'm tired of roughly in Penn station are these high school gyms. Vince, this isn't working well. I'm going to go over to Eric Vischoff and WCW.

But taker stayed Sean Michaels stayed. And so those guys that did not leave. They'll always have a special place in McMahon's heart. And this is why the Undertaker McMahon have such a bond.

Taker could have left. I heard Vince say here yesterday. He's like, you know, WCW never called because they knew the undertaker wouldn't leave. Well, that wasn't guaranteed. It wasn't because business was down before the attitude era.

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