Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast.

I'm Justin LaBarre, along with Denise Salcedo.

First up, Drew McIntyre.

Can he make it to WrestleMania as WWE champion?

This is the busted open podcast.

Justin, I haven't had the opportunity to get your feelings and your thoughts on Drew.

I'm a big Drew fan. So this was a long

time coming. I feel like he has, uh, he's worked extremely hard and the fans recognize that.

They root for them. They're excited for them. And let's start there. How did you feel about

first and foremost seeing Drew McIntyre become champion?

And what do you think about the first week of his championship run?

You know, I'm not mad about him being champion.

You know, I said to Jay Hood several times, like, once they had advertised that match

between he and Cody for the three stages of hell, it was like, all right. Here we go again, given Drew a title match, you know, presenting him as a, and he's always a serious contender for the sense since he's, he's Drew McIntyre. He's, but, you know, how many times have we seen them, you know, just dang with that carrot out there and it's nothing. And I'd say that if he doesn't beat Cody, he might as well not even into the Royal Rumble. Don't even, if you're not going to beat Cody straight up, don't tell me you're going to be 29 other guys in the Royal Rumble. So I was very happy he did win. I thought that it was a surprise, but I thought it was a welcoming surprise. it felt like there need to be a shakeup. It felt like we kind of run a little stale for Cody.

Not so much even necessarily a damnation on him, but just like what opponents do we have for him?

It just felt like we were just kind of running dry.

So I welcomed the Drew McIntyre title, title change, title win.

And I don't know about you, but I got to say watching him in London and he comes

and they give him the bagpipes and obviously he's getting the European welcome from the fans.

We're very excited for him. Even though this is what I think, what, his, technically his fourth world title win

in WWB, it felt like he was his first. You know, when he walked out on that stage and he's just

opening the jacket and he's showing the belt around his waist. And again, just the, just the

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