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Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca.

On today's episode, WWE Hallfamer, TNA Hallfamer, bully Ray and I go back to Smackdown

from this past Friday and that awesome, epic, verbal exchange between Roman Reigns and of course,

one of the biggest and maybe at the end of Saturday at Summerslam, the most decorated champion

of all time, John Cena. Also, you talk about belt collectors, how about the one from Impact

Wrestling and now with Triple A Deanna Parazo right now on The Busted Open Podcast.

Okay, so obviously it was the promo that Cena cut on Roman. A lot of people were talking about it.

I think we're going to dissect it a little bit because I found it to be a quite interesting promo.

The timing of this promo is curious. Okay, all right. So you just said, you just said the timing.

Why is the timing curious of this promo? Because it's coming out of time when the WWE seems like

they're in a little bit of quote unquote trouble. And whenever you look to a company and wonder

why they're doing so well or not doing so well, what's normally the barometer?

What's that? The champion. Or I guess you can say the champions in this, you know, in this time,

Cena goes out there and speaks a lot of truth to Roman Reigns. Was there anything that Cena said to

Roman that you disagreed with? No, and really quick, Polly, let me just kind of jot down some of

the things that John Cena and by the way, this promo between Cena and Roman, it started with Cena,

commercial break came back with Roman. So you're talking about a good 23 minutes of verbal talking

in that ring to start off Smackdown. I don't think anybody that watched that show on Friday had any

problem with it. I will say trouble strong. Would it be better to say that the WWE has hit a

bit of a low at a difficult time like Summerslam? Would a low be a better terminology than trouble?

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