The Week in Wrestling / Titus O'Neil

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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dave LaGreca & Mark Henry look at the week that was in pro wrestling w/ analyst Justin LaBar, including breaking down the latest episode of 'Dark Side of the Ring' & AEW's announcement that they're getting back out on the road this summer; also, the guys talk to Titus O'Neil of WWE, & Mark has some words for Hulk Hogan. To visit our partners at Chewy, click here. The Master's Class is now available on its own podcast feed! SUBSCRIBE NOW to hear over 50 episodes of Dave, Bully, Mark, and Tommy taking you behind the scenes like only they can, plus BRAND NEW episodes every week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Busted Open ad-free and get exclusive access to bonus episodes. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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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.
0:14.3	Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode WWE Hall of Famer,
0:21.8	the world's strongest man, a world champion and not one, not two, but three different sports,
0:28.1	Mark Henry and I talk. As we always do on a Friday, we spar with Justin LaBarr, we get into all
0:35.2	the news and notes from the week that was in pro wrestling. And we also talk to now 2021 inductee
0:43.2	into the Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame, Titus O'Neill, right now on the busted open podcast.
0:50.1	Let's go to Dark Side of the Ring from last night, Justin. Man, Nick, the career of Nick Gage,
1:03.4	the life of Nick Gage, very interesting Dark Side of the Ring last night for sure, Justin.
1:10.0	Yeah, very interesting. I don't want to start because I don't think we've ever talked to, at least
1:12.8	I haven't with you guys. I think I think these Dark Side of the Rings are very entertaining. I
1:16.6	think the way they tell stories, the way they, you know, the reenactments are shot in the silhouette
1:21.2	style, so you don't have any cheesy poor actors. I think it's a lot of things they do in this,
1:25.8	really well done. This was fascinating to me. I mean, yeah, this guy, quite a life, Nick Gage,
1:33.4	and it just got me thinking, it got me going down like the deathmatch kind of rabbit hole of
1:37.2	research and just thinking about it and like, I got respect to the guys who have balls to go out
1:44.4	and have the courage to do it, chasing the pop and chasing the admiration to entertain the crowd.
1:49.7	But then I'm like, man, what a fine, careful, careful line there is between being a pro wrestler
1:57.2	who can do a deathmatch and then just being a dude who was just playing a Russian roulette with
2:04.7	weapons in what we call a pro wrestling ring by happenstance. Like, I just, I was just thinking,
2:10.0	I'm like, companies that are built on doing just this, like, no, a deathmatch should be a
2:15.3	stipulation. It should be a, you know, a one off. It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be a format.
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