This is the Busted Open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday

from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on Series XM, Fight Nation Channel 156. Welcome to the Busted

Open podcast. This is Dave LaGracca. On today's episode, the innovator of violence, the landlord

of the House of Hardcore and the heart and soul of professional wrestling is celebrating

his 50th birthday. That's right. Tommy Dreamer. We celebrate his birthday. We celebrate his

career just days before his big championship match with Impact Wrestling for the Impact World

Heavyweight Championship against Rich Swann right now on the Busted Open podcast.

This is probably going to be my last title shot. It'll be my last

Haram, not that I'm retiring, but I do believe I'm going to be slowing down a little bit

just because, I don't know, it's like I said, there's other men and women in the back. This just

fell right place right time unless I'm going to have a match at 100, which would be my next 50 years.

So I don't think that's going to happen. So this is kind of it for me and I know that and I just

want to go out there and, you know, if I win, it's one thing if I lose it's another than that's

why I never gave my answer until yesterday because it was a lot to think about.

Yeah, and I know I'll be watching. I know the nation will be watching and I also know that the

nation is going to be coming out in full force today to celebrate your day. And I know your

birthday is not until this weekend, but Tommy, you know, today is your day here on Busted Open.

We're going to have a bunch of guests on today, Tommy, that want to celebrate on this day with you,

you know, because this is a milestone birthday and I'm a birthday mark as well. So

there was no way that myself, Gabby and Ed, we're going to go past this week and not celebrate

your birthday. So there is going to be a lot of people that are going to want to join in. But I

think to me and I know for you, there's probably no bigger person that's been a mentor to you

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