Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast.

You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, eastern, on Sirius XM, Fight Nation Channel 156.

Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast, the Saturday edition with myself, Paul Erlich, and the world's strongest man, a Hall of Famer, not one, not two, but three, different Hall of Fames, Mark Henry.

And we are going to break down the news of yesterday, which of course was Vince McMahon retiring from WWE.

We're going to talk soup to nuts about it, and we're going to break down his legacy, what it means for the future for WWE, and everything in between.

You won't want to miss it. It's a once in a lifetime event. So stick around. Fire it up! This is the Busted Open Podcast.

We're on the pre-show talking about how we were going to have an issue this morning because there's just really no big news, no topics really of discussion to talk about this morning on a Saturday.

Pretty bland, boring Friday, nothing happening, right up until about 4.05 p.m. when Vince McMahon with the bombshell news.

Of course, you know, waiting until after Busted Open's off the air, he wants to make sure that Busted Open can't get a jump on it.

We know, they listen. That's what we've heard. They listen.

So Vince McMahon's tweet at 77, time for me to retire. Thank you, WWE Universe, then, now, forever together.

And I guess my first question to you, Mark, is after everything, and as we know, on a Monday, we had the Wall Street Journal writers on.

They were the ones that conducted all the research that had the findings about Vince McMahon's NDAs and everything that was uncovered.

And then now Vince McMahon retires whether it was forced or not, we'll get into it.

But my first question for you would be, you know, were you shocked when you heard the news?

I was not shocked because I was under the impression that Vince had done things that they really couldn't account for.

And that the company is going to keep going on.

And Vince has contingency plans for his contingency plans.

So the company has to do the same. So why would the company let itself be vulnerable?

I think that all of this time, since Vince came on raw and didn't address the issue, but just said that we're going to go through this together, which I didn't agree with, by the way.

I think they have been planning this all this time.

And it wasn't a surprise, but it definitely was shocking, if that makes any sense.

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