On this episode of the busted open podcast we get into Mercedes-Mone and the pressure she must be feeling going into double or nothing.

Also, we have a must listen interview with Mikey Mando.

This is the busted open podcast.

Mercedes and Monnet and Willow Nightingale had that big contract signing on Wednesday. Monday and at the end putting Mercedes through a table and getting a reaction from the crowd.

It's interesting. Willow is getting a reaction from the crowd.

Mercedes, when she came out, really didn't get much of a reaction from the crowd at all

But by halfway through that segment she was getting a reaction for sure so neck I'll start with you like what did you think of the segment as a whole and do we finally think we're seeing a heal Mercedes as we get closer to double or nothing.

I think whether this was the plan all along or not, this is very much what you and I talked

about last week, leaning into, he said, I we should she should be leaning into I was at the Celtics game I was at this premiere as I was at this right and the first thing she does she rattles off that she does it but with just just a little bit more of sticking it in your side instead of just be letting everyone knows she's a star and I go I really think they might be doing what we said like planted those seeds all the way along to where it's like big star big star like oh this big star is real piece of crap and now I think possibly that could be and if it had it been just a little bit more and sooner,

people would be screaming for this to be in the main event period,

like this should be highlighting the show,

because years of being out of action into a match

and the story is there from the injury.

And now getting on the microphone,

I thought it was the best part of this story

was the mic this week.

But also I felt it just felt like Mercedes like I don't know if she was purposely doing it but it felt like totally

overacting fighting into that character of I'm leaning into this now because it was seen like

so over acted and so almost Saturday Night Live Q-cardi box coming out. You're like, is this purposely, is she purposely doing this because now we're starting to see through this or is it just not her strong suit? So I don't know the difference to the two. I love this segment clearly. I like how Willow, seeing a difference

out of Willow, fantastic because she's already getting over with the crowd. Like someone like me who's a casual

watcher of wrestling, don't know her from Japan, I don't know her from other stuff, like, oh, that's cool character, oh, she's getting into it now. Damn, okay, she wants to defend this title and even that I thought was like just a step off I loved it but it was like just a step of like

acting class 101 forcing it like I'm gonna defend this title but I still loved it so much because the

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