Welcome to the Bust Open Podcast.

Along with Justin LaBar, I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we talk about WWE's influence on TNA's future business.

You catch it right here on the Busted Open Podcast.

This is the Busted Open Podcast.

I want to make sure I give my flowers to my partner, my longtime partner, Justin LaBar.

We're going to start there. Instead of you just being dead and me saying things, you know,

LaBar was a fine partner. He was a man on the wrestling scene. Instead of doing that,

I thought I'd give you your flowers now while, you know, while you're alive.

Oh, okay.

Well, thank you.

I don't know why, but thank you.

Well, I think it's appropriate to give you your flowers because my partner was the first one on busted open pro wrestling nation 24-7. He actually said it in the busted open era that there was a possibility that the

WWE would have a relationship with TNA in which the

WWE would hope that TNA could supplant AEW as a second

best major company in North America.

This is your thought all along. And you thought,

hey, because there was a relationship between TNA and NXT, there's something going on there.

Now, again, NXT could have still on its own. But NXT is actually more interesting and TNA is more

interesting because of the crossover.

But you were hitting at this and this may come to pass. This might be something that actually

happens. Yeah, and I have been saying this for a while. And the thing is that people, you know,

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