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

On today's episode, myself and Mark Henry talk about SmackDown

from this past Friday and tribal combat that we're going to see at Somerset.

How did we get there? We'll explain on the Busted Open Podcast also.

We get into the current era of pro wrestling and is it the biggest ever?

We talk about that and also we get into the sleeper hit of the weekend and that's Athena and Willow Nightingale.

I have so many questions about the tribal combat.

Some of the things are kind of deluded to that it was an honor system type of thing.

Anything goes but it seems like Roman has basically been stripped of being the tribal chief

and now the mantle or the position of tribal chief is up and it kind of held like

you have to earn it and nobody likes to be stripped of their title.

I mean there's people that work in corporate America that you know they go from a VP to

you know now you got to be demoted to something else you know like I don't

nobody wants their titles to be stripped because of course you know you work for titles you

working for money placement. No you're right I think people have dealt with what you're talking

about when you have new ownership come at your job and like you have a position but you almost

feel like you got to earn that position again that's exactly what's happening here.

He took that family artifact and put it over the championship title meaning that both things

are on the line. It's not just the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship but really the head

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