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Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca.

On today's episode, myself and Mark Henry talk to your new TNT AEW Champion Wardlow.

Also during our show, the Wall Street Journal article dropped on Vince McMahon and the WWE,

some new allegations on Vince McMahon. We talk about it right here on The Busted Open Podcast.

You're new TNT Champion the one and only Wardlow. Wardlow, good morning and thanks for the time today.

Appreciate it and congratulations.

Thank you, man. Yeah, it was very, very special. I'm still on a high from it. That's for sure.

Did you get a chance to see the aftermath of the the pyro going off and all of us confetti and the streamers?

Dude, I was in a sandstorm of confetti. I couldn't even see in front of me.

It was beautiful. Like from the fan perspective, from, you know, I, as you can hear in my voice,

I got a cold. So they, they made me leave the arena. And you know, Tony, Tony is a germaphob.

He was like, hey, do your job and leave. So I got kicked out, but I was in the hotel and I was watching.

And I will hell yeah. Like, just like the biggest fan of all time. And

to see all of that, the way that the fans saw it, man, I was like, this is, I hope he gets to see

this back because you, you truly were a star that night and you are a star. Everything

deserving. But did you think it was going to come this fast?

Oh, man. I, so, and it's not arrogant to say yes. It's not arrogant to say yes.

Yeah. So I'm very confident in myself. So in my eyes, I'm, I've been ready for a championship.

You know, in my eyes, I've been ready. So I guess part of me believes that yes, this is the right time.

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