Welcome to the Bust Open podcast, along with Justin LaBar. I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we discussed the number one contenders match for the WWE undisputed championship Royce Keys against Gunther.

It's coming up next right here on the Busted Open podcast.

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We're trying to determine on Friday Night's Smackdown who's going to be the number one contender for Cody Rhodes Heavyweight Championship.

Brother, let me just tell you. We see Gunther out there and you say, okay, Gunther is just kind of playing cat and mouse with Cody Rhodes.

And it's just the weird thing always, right, when the baby face is chasing the contender.

It's strange, right? But this is what professional wrestling is at times. When you have a champion

that's just waiting for challengers, but here is Cody chasing Gunther, the challenger for a clash

in Paris, in Italy, right?

Yeah, it's an odd dynamic, as you just said.

Normally, the champion is the one who's, you know, fending off all, all challengers and everybody trying to climb up the mountain.

It's an odd dynamic.

And it gets even odder, well, I don't mean it doesn't get otter, but it, it's further the conversation because I'm like, all right, Cody's kind of chasing Gunther.

But Gunther has ascended himself to a level, which we've talked about about, I've talked about the past,

that he,

he's perpetual championship material,

even if he doesn't have a title around his waist.

The guy retired John Cena,

the guy retired Goldberg,

the guy retired AJ Stiles.

I mean,

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