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Justin LaBar and Tommy Dreamer preview Sunday Night's Main Event in Atlanta giving their predictions for the card. Plus, they discuss the rise of PENTA after winning a World Heavyweight Title shot against Roman Reigns.

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I'll talk about the women's six man tag. If we have the strange friends of Alexa Bliss trying to bring her two worlds together of Charlotte Flayer and Tatum Paxley, they're teaming up to go against J. Cargill, B.Fab and Mieschen. What is your take? What we need to see or what we will see here in this match. It should be a very, very good match. I want to after seeing the match on Smackdown, I want to give it to the baby faces. I don't think the heels need it and I'd rather see the baby faces continue to build their equity. See, I kind of disagree. I enjoyed the match. By the way, that Tatum Paxley finished that cemetery driver or whatever it was. Those are creative looking things. As she used it a lot in NXT, she's, I feel she gave a little extra umph where you got to be careful because she may land on the person's head. But yeah, she's getting over and getting

over quickly. She is a star. Just keep you, I say this all time. NXT gave you the blueprint. Do exactly that. Yeah, a big fan of her. Big fan of her and I love this baby face trio. I guess it depends on where they want to go here, right? My, my, my initial instinct is to go, hey, Jade and company needs a W. They need a W and a big show like this to give them the win. But if that happens, it is very early on in this baby face trio. So if that happens, that would seem to spell that they're going to do the, oh, they couldn't, they couldn't work together or there's a miscommunication or whatever. You know, I could see a world and I wouldn't be mad about this. I would not be mad at the baby faces when I would not be mad if we eventually get right now where Charlotte's kind of, you know, ew and kind of turned off and you know, not, not completely feeling Tatum. I love for them to try to work to have this be the three best friends that anyone can have. Like I'd love for them to build to wear like the annoyance turns into appreciation and then they just become super over together. Like I love to see segments of

like Charlotte walking into the locker room and there's Tatum in front of a mirror trying on when a Charlotte's robes. Like I I would like for them to go down the comedy role and get some time in this before they do the eventual breakup. I like to get more out of this. If for nothing else, because I feel like not only for Tatum, it would be good. But I feel like Charlotte is this is the fans have been appreciating Charlotte. And I don't know if it took getting her out of the singles world title picture. I don't know if it had anything to do with that piece that she penned. And the players Tribune where she was just brutally honest about the ups and downs and her personal life. Or maybe it's a combination of all, but I feel like Charlotte is getting the kind of reaction from the fans that she always should have both of a baby face and appreciation. So we'll see which way they go here. I'm a heal side Jade phenomenal. And yes, can use the win B Fab improves every week. And I know there's for some reason hatred on me chin. Me chin is awesome. And

another person that if she scores this victory, it's going to be shocking. I still just want to see my baby faces continue to dominate. And a great heels could take losses. All right, we'll talk about heels and faces. This one's an interesting one. Normally it's the reverse here, but we have Baron Corbin the heel and champion, US champion. He's going to go up against a little yadi who needs to survive for five minutes. The baby face has to survive for five minutes and order for trick Williams to then get United States title shot. And if low yadi loses, then trick no longer gets any more title shots. So again, kind of reverse on an old, you know, pro wrestling trope normally it's you had a way to after the match to get five minutes with the heel, but here's a five minutes up front that low yadi's got to survive very entertaining training montage package on Friday with him getting ready. And I was and trick wasn't impressed by it. He said, all I see is shaking out there is booty you didn't see no no real work from low yadi to be a shaken and

diving to get away from Baron Corbin. So Tommy, this is going to be a very fun match to see how they lay this out. entertaining. I loved it's my first time I will say this I loved little yadi. And loved that segment that he did his training montage because that's exactly what I see listen and I don't know the guy what I'm saying is trick is a star. Does trick need little yadi? I guess it helps. I also guess he has committed he's there every single week. Where he doesn't need to be. And yep, you're right. So it is his hometown. But at the end of the day, you're still a baby face manager, which is a hard spot to be in. I think this will be entertaining. I think the crowd will eat it up. There's also a part where I want to heat up Baron Corbin more. And if all's it's going to

take his one move, you know, four minutes and 30 seconds in or 440. And he got some he hit some with and it and it screws over trick. And he could also be as a baby face. Hey, man, I let you down. I'm sorry, which then gets you sympathy. And as baby faces, we need sympathy training montage. Awesome. That's the entertainment I want to see from something like that. And I know he's a big wrestling fan. And I don't begrudge him for being in the in but he has cost trick already. And I don't know how much like it's like, all right, your friends, but like, all right, I'll leave my manager backstage as opposed to being out there. This is the first time where I feel he actually added to the act because trick Williams needs nobody. Correct. He does not need anybody. And this if if if Yadi survives, the match with trick and Baron happens right

right then there, right? This is not a case of Yadi survives. And so trick verse Baron next week on Smackdown. It's bizarre world because old school wrestling, dusty roads, wrestles, Ron Bass, and then he gets to face the manager five minutes in the ring. Right. But Dusty's the baby face and their heels. This is reverse world because the managers, the baby face, Corbin's the heel. This was happened because he got cained and Corbin got pissed a couple of weeks go on Smackdown. So the match was made. I like trick having to earn it, even though trick has lost again, I also don't think trick needs to go back to the US title. It's a nice way to get and now tricks like, A C M punk, I want to face you. Wow. So Suva was confirming he says that the trick would get the match tonight. So I assume Yadi survives. So then trick, if that happens, then trick needs to then win the title. Which I don't. Yeah, but neither. Well, but I think he needs to win the title back because I get what you're saying as exciting as it would be

and we talked earlier about punk taking on all kinds of challenges. But it's just it is just so busy at the top of that Smackdown world title picture. I just don't know like I just let trick, let trick dominate this US title picture. Let him dominate this quote unquote mid card picture right now. I you know versus him losing it just to go up and have to slam on the brakes and be honest with you this have our most beloved character in WWE. Dan Howson. Yeah, he won't want to face Gunther. But what if trick steps up. Now I have another trick and Gunther where this is also going to show if trick is really a good wrestler. And it's side tracks Gunther. And you could always curse Gunther with Dan Howson. There's a lot of place you said. Well, I don't hate that. I tricks going to trade in little yoddy for Dan Howson. It's ridiculous. It's probably it's all we're all ridiculous. Everything's ridiculous.

We are. All right. So I'm going to go to this match next. I'm going to the order building to what I think is going to end the match. I in the night. I think Cody and Randy in the night. So I'm going to go. Doba Femi versus Brawm Breaker. We talked earlier about the importance of this and the dubbing of who's the future and who if someone so loses, then what does that say about them? So give me your prediction, Tommy. I know it's tough. But if you have to, if you have to, if you have to place your bet somewhere, what is the finish of Oba Femi versus Brawm Breaker? And it is just as far as we know, it is just a straight up match. There's no, no DQ none of that. So at least as of now, they can always change it when we get to the show. But as of now, as as we're told, it's Oba versus Brawm straight up. All right. After talking to you, my decision has changed this entire time saying if it's the future, I'm going

Oba Femi. But then I'm also thinking of our conversation. And I keep forgetting, I think, Bronson Reed returns and Brown Breaker wins. And then as the heel, I get to say, I'm the future of the WWE, and it's going to be a heel heat line, like Larry Zabisco's 30 glorious years, or you can hang the heel can hang his head on, I'm the future, where the future is now, bro. And also, then I get a Bronson Reed, Oba Femi, I also get Oba Femi, Austin Theory, trust me, there was a whole world where I wanted Oba Femi and Dan Housen together as this comical tag, where Dan Housen thinks he's doing all the work, but it's really

Oba Femi. So I also think Oba can in loss get over even bigger because I just saw it with Brock Lesnar. Oba Housen. Oba Housen, you just said that isn't that like pants that the suspenders normal love? Well, that's the sum we'll look into it. So my my prediction for this match has been like an ongoing progression as the days have gone on. Earlier in the week, I had said, I can't see a situation where Oba Femi is on his back, looking up the lights for a three count. I still stand by that that I cannot see any which way that he gets pinned. I just don't see it. I kind of like where you're at with one modification. I think Bronson Reed returning would seem right based upon him teasing on socials and what have you Paul Heyman has kind of distant himself from Braun to a certain extent. I almost would wonder. And again, Braun being from Atlanta. So we talked about they've acknowledged that. I almost wonder what if Bronson comes in and what

if it's a complete no contest? What if he what if he takes out both guys? What if he takes out both guys, Bronson's the heel, he calls us with Bronson, you know, Bronson basically saying to Braun, no, no, you're doing all this talk. You know, before you injured, I was injured. You know, like and and now you have three guys that you can work with in Bronson, Braun and Oba, but the kind of it's because I agree with you said this earlier and I totally agree. I did not expect to see that Oba Femi versus Braun breaker right now. That's a Russell Mania caliber main event. So I think a no contest, but giving people enough of a spectacle of Bronson Reed coming in a million tsunamis to both of these guys, it's not if it's not the last match, then that's fine. If this was the last match, that might be you might be like, we don't want to send the crowd home with that. But if it's the semi main, or if it's first even I'm not sure how they're building the card, you can get away with that knowing that there's still more to come for the audience. So I agree with the Bronson

Reed return, but I don't know if I'd go as definitive as Braun staying heeling, staying with him and getting the win as much as I would just say no contest. And now Braun breaker and Oba Femi are both kind of in the same situation. They're not best friends, but maybe they've gained a little bit of respect for each other. Yeah, she this and I'm going to go from when you were an active manager out there on the wrestling scene. I love Paul Heyman, Paul Heyman, the best to do it as a manager, the best to do it on the microphone. What is Paul Heyman's character? Without a top guy, Paul has nothing. Paul's not going to allow that to happen. Paul needs to be on television because of his ego, talking Paul Heyman, the character, everybody. And Paul attached himself to the top guy in the company, turning Oba massive mistake, goalberg losing to the street the way he lost. So I'm asking you, your

manager, who's the top guy you're you're attaching your cart to? Well, if I'm to be honest, I'm going to go with a video we had from our Sunday a few weeks ago, I was starting to think I'm wondering if the Cody Rhodes babyface runs running short and all the hints that were being dropped of nope, not a prediction. Here's a spoiler. I kept thinking Paul would eventually attach his cart to a heel Cody Rhodes, so I had to buy any means necessary to do what it takes to be Randy Orton. But I I get what you're saying, you're the future. Yeah. Who were you attaching yourself to? Who I've seen you have guys that you're like, no, he's my guy. And who would you attach yourself to? Is it just from the example we give? Is it going to be a returning Braun Breaker? I'm sorry, returning Bronson Reed, Ron Breaker or Oba Femi? And if Oba Femi is just, hey, we're going to keep him as a babyface, does Oba need Paul? No, no, no, so it would have to probably Braun Breaker, which was the plan for the vision all along.

Do you do you keep it as just Braun Breaker? And then if Bronson comes back also Bronson, or do you keep all you keep all parties? Do you keep the Austin theories, Logan Paul's the Maxine's do keep them all in there? I don't I think they're better off without Paul. Yeah. It's it's weird. Paul really did. I mean, on screen, he's distance himself from all correct. So unless the story is this was a plot all along to motivate you, because I keep saying why the hell does Braun Breaker even care about what Paul Hayman thinks? Yeah. Yeah, intriguing. A lot of a lot of dynamics have played. I was stacked. And yes, what is said is great. This is an intriguing show where Saturday's main event used to be one of the biggest shows of all time. It has trickled down to maybe one matches really, really big. This show they have built great to be must see on a Sunday night. Maybe change the name to Sunday nights, main event aside from aside from the Saturday nights,

main event last December, which is forever going to have the historic yes, relevance of seen as last match. Aside from that one, at least in this more recent modern era that they've resurrected this show card, this might have the most relevance in terms of the results in terms of what it means for who wins on these matches might have the most trickled down effect. Absolutely. From from any of the other ones. Okay. And lastly, Cody Rhodes in Atlanta up against Randy Orton, they have not been able to touch until tonight when the bell rings. I slipped and said it earlier that I kind of think Randy Orton's going to get the win here. It just feels like this whole thing feels like they are running back. What was originally planned, WrestleMania season and then and then corporate inserts, McAfee corporate inserts, jelly roll and the whole thing is off the rails. And this feels like they're running back the right way, the way they wanted to do it. And I think had the right way continued back in the spring that Randy would have got the win. So I'm sticking with that. I know others think that maybe Cody's

going to go away. Then he's got press for a movie. I know some as I alluded to him, I'm going to go we've talked about sometimes it feels like some of the cheers and some of the cities are dying down a little bit for Cody. So is it time to be ahead of the curve and for a change? All conversations that can be happened. I'm going to put my money down on Randy Orton, the win here tonight. I already said I like to precondition the crowd. Could you imagine if also Pat McAfee shows up or jelly roll? People like they're going to do it to us again, but they don't. It's a nice old wise to yeah, we fucked up. I say QB1, Cody, my baby face delivers in his hometown. He got screwed at summer slam. He's taking everything. I got it to I've lived this as the baby face. It helped draw money as a baby face,

where I can't touch you, Terry Funk, because I love you so much. And outside of Terry getting, you know, sick, it would have drew big money for us. And I've taken so much. Cody continues to take so much tonight will be his come up and then something else will happen where he gets to celebrate for half a second. And then something else happens or yay Atlanta, I did it, your hometown boy did it. And then something's going to happen on Friday and how it should because it's episodic television. Coming up next, we discussed the rise of Penta in WWE. The fastest growing pro wrestling show on the planet. Busted open every day, nine, new Eastern. Do you have a work injury? DT LA Law Group, California's injury law firm, we can get you compensation for your injuries. Pay zero upfront, text injury help to 40222 or visit us online

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with these two go out there doing, of course, they're fighting in the finals for the right to challenge Roman Rains later this month next week in Mexico City. Let's talk about Penta. Ray Phoenix, of course, is great to see him in that spot and getting to work with his real-life brother and then get the tear of the house down. But certainly, Penta has been the one who has had the greater momentum since coming to the company from making the debut and getting to cut a promo night one after that match in his debut, which I wasn't expecting all the way to winning Intercontinental title gold. So Penta, somebody who I know you've worked with in the past, I saw and was on several shows with him prior to his time in WWE and I was always just, I thought that this guy, he's got an aura about him. And he's a tremendous heel. He's also a tremendous face as he's showing in the WWE marketing machine. Talk to me about Penta and the rise that has been up to this point for him in WWE. Penta is special outside of getting injured if you continue this momentum.

He's a guy, listen, if everyone was talking about right place, right time with Sammy Zane winning it in Crown Jewel, Saudi Arabia. Right place, right time is Mexico for Penta. I don't know if they're going to pull it off. I doubt that they're going to pull it off. Thought of the best way to do it, but I'm just keeping it to myself. It's, you heard on Unreal, Paul Heyman talk about Penta. Everything that you said, he has it all. And if you talk about a great debut into the WWE where we have the vid yet, once he shows up and he has the match that he does, but why you connected to him was his promo, his passionate promo having his family there, his kids.

And it was like, this isn't scripted. This is very, very real. And it was he worked his ass off to get there. And I felt he followed the path that everyone should follow to you start off. I can't even say start off doing Indies. He was doing spots with his brother on street corners. And Conan sees him finds him. And like, I'm wrestling to make money for my family to the point of, and I'm talking spare change in the streets of Mexico. And you see his rise and where he has. He's a lot bigger than most people realize he is when she meet him. And he's really good in the ring. I've wrestled him. He's not dangerous. He does some crazy stuff. And like I always said, this is before both guys came to WWE, I always thought Ray Phoenix

was going to be the next Ray Mysterio. Because Ray is number one on the pecking order of Luchadors, especially to make it in the WWE. So because Ray was so innovative and so ahead of his time. So then it's, and I saw what Ray Phoenix does, or I should say Phoenix, with Penta. Penta is so unique. But we've also seen things where if you watch the match that he had with his brother, the desperation where he was like when his brother kicked out. And you saw it in his face. And everyone was talking about that. And I had to like stop when I was on the off the ropes with Rick. And I'm like, really? You're talking about a guy who wore a mask. And you're getting emotions. That's also in your body language. And these are things that he just has picked up.

Or like we were talking about, you know, Gargano, how you connect with people. Here's a guy that wrestles in a mask. His face, he does look like a crazed like evil character. But yet you like him. The walk. The entrance is one thing, but like the strut, how he puts up his hand and like, you know, we do the Seattle, or meadow. Like I've been there when he goes to do it in your face as a heel. And you'd stop it. People like, whoa, but as a baby face, people like, no, I want to see this guy raise his hand in another guy's face and do a lot of stuff. He knows how to pause in his moments. And those are why you connect to somebody like this. Evolutionary, how he has risen because in a company where you have a lot of luchadors, but there's Rey Mysterio and then there's everybody else.

There's finally someone knocking on the door of that Rey Mysterio. No one else will pass Rey, but it's a new generation of, oh, Rey Mysterio is great, but this guy is something different. Yeah, so you touched on so many good things there, Tommy. Yes, when we're at right now, I would say Penta has been the most successful masked wrestler that I'm not talking about, like the Keynes of the World, but you know, most successful luchador since Rey in WWE. And they've had some attempts. You know, 16 years ago, they did a lot of hoopla in Pairo Valley who for scene car to come in. And that's going to be our next Rey. And that's going to be who takes us into the, and obviously that didn't pan out. And I'm so amazed that I'm so happy that Penta's worked out the way he has. And here's why. First on my soul pen to ever, at least definitely in person was at luch underground being there.

And I'm surrounded by a couple hundred of the people. I don't, I hardly speak any Spanish, you know, but I'm still feeling the emotion. I'm watching him and he made, and he, he was a great heal at one time in that, in that program. And of course, the look, you know, he's got a, he got a, he can, he could scare you with his look if he wants to. If he locks eyes, that mask on you, I mean, it's, it's awesome. And so I always thought having seen him work other places, I always thought, okay, if he ever gets to WWE again, because of their run or lack of run with successful baby face mask wrestlers, not name, remisterio. And because he has, he can have a menacing scary look. He's probably going to be a heal. He can, he can just talk a whole lot of Spanish and yell and that'll be that. And I'm so happy that I'm wrong. And that's the, they went the completely opposite direction. I'm so happy that he got to cut a promo that had emotion and it was, it was, it was, it was going back and forth between English and Spanish on his very first night in the emotion we saw. And then they given the big entrance, which you wouldn't give necessarily a heal to that extent. And then they gave the merchandise, this guy's a merchandise machine for them.

So we're definitely not leaving the baby face territory anytime soon. That's cool. It, the mask is cool. It makes for good shirts. You know, again, either the gloves and doing the, you know, the way he, he daps the fans up as he goes down. So I am pleasantly surprised that he what made his debut, I think it was what January of 2025. And here we are in September of 2026. And he's about to challenge Roman Reigns in Mexico City. The first time we're all has been in Mexico City in decades. I would love to, you know, I would love again, going to my argument earlier. I know you said you had an idea, but you didn't share it. Going to my point earlier of where we are in the, in the calendar for WWE to wear. There's some flexibility so to speak on the timing of world championship matches and Achilles that need a world champion to headline. Boy, the thought of them taking advantage of that, even if it was only for a brief run.

But, but the timing of. Pentes rise, the timing of the calendar, triple mania, world's collide coming up. If there was it, and then you have money in the bank, we're coming up in a, in a less than a month and we've seen cash in happens sometimes on that night. So, I don't know, there's a lot of, a lot of different factors that I just laid out there that like, if there was ever time to kind of do a stunning win, but you're trying to get a luchador over and you're trying to get your work in Mexico over and you're trying to get triple A over. And Roman Reigns can go away without being champion for a few weeks and he's got other stuff going on with family, feuding and what have you, if there's ever a time, Tommy the Dreamer, this will be the time. Yes, I'm thinking about luchadors, right? I'm talking top luchadors. Millmaskress, legend, first mass wrestler to wrestle in Madison Square Garden, never could do it.

Drew good money. But for all those factors, because at first, when this tournament was announced, I'm like, no one's beating Roman, but for a lot of that, you laid out and then also think of one your relationship with triple A, the other part, like think what it does for him, if he wins. Think of what it does for Mexico, if he wins. Ray Mysterio is Ray Mysterio. But if this kid does it, I don't mean kid, I just use it because I'm older. And I say it, he's a kid who wrestled in the streets for money and he gives you hope if you're from Mexico, if you're from the United States, it gives you hope that I could be poor

and I could ascend to the highest of highs in my wrestling career. And I'm also going to go back because it's what I always look at the past, right? Think of all the times where we talk about the phantom title switch that we never acknowledge. But the reason why they didn't acknowledge is like one because the companies weren't for it, but they all worked. When Ric Flair dropped the title in Dominican Republic, it worked for the night. And yes, we didn't acknowledge it, but you should. Or when Boba wins the title, when a no key wins the title, you don't it, why not? You then acknowledged it later in their careers. This is something that could where people, first of all, he becomes an instant top guy of all top guys. The other part of it is it's the anybody can do it in the sense of he made good. And wow,

I shouldn't say anyone could do it. Anything can happen on Monday night raw, which was a key thing when they were in a war a long time ago. And you're like, what the hell am I witnessing? And you could change it at any time, any place. But now he is up to that upper echelon because he did it. Another thing that when I say I'm going to go back to it, if it wasn't for Paul Heyman, Lucha Libre is not in the lexicon of American pro wrestling because he brought it to the states in ECW with who? Ray Mysterio and his Ray in psychosis and Ray in Hoover. And then these names become big and then they all go to WCW. But Paul Heyman who obviously has influence, think of that if you're like, well, it did good business. Well, it's him coming out the next week

is going to be even bigger. And yes, you could take the title off him and it's not going to hurt you. It's going to just like, it'll be elevated. I really do feel that there's ever a chance to shock the wrestling business, but shock it in a good way, not like shock and awe of like a turn. Or also elevate your potential money earnings. You may want to switch that title. He would instantly be a top guy, Penta. You're exactly right. I mean, he even if he only holds it for less than a month, it doesn't matter. The moment we'll never be able to be taken away. And then then the story in which WB does great with this, if they, if they tell some story, if they have some video footage that they can get a hold of that that's that there are a lot to use. I mean, to have that moment happen in Mexico City, and it's not like they just, it's not like they just went to Mexico and they just arbitrarily say, hey, he's going to take on Penta. You know, they did an entire build of a tournament to get to this. And now it's going to result in Roman having his wrestling his first match on Netflix and we're all sense the debut. So I mean, it's a big, big deal.

So it's not just a random throw. Okay, we just got to put a luchador up against them because we're in Mexico City. No, they built to it to make it make sense and had a whole tournament of luchador's competing. So I agree. If Penta was to win his status as he, he, he has cemented. He is, you know, they all, they've leaned on Rey Mysterio for the last 20 years as being raised the biggest little man. And it doesn't matter if Ray loses to this guy. This guy, he's, he's Rey Mysterio. He's, he's, he's forever Rey Mysterio. You'd be ascending Penta and air similar, rare, air that'd be similar to where from this point on, you could have a perpetual baby face in Penta. And he's going to be over for you. If you use him on Ross Macdown, he's going to be super over. Of course, if you use him for AAA, anything you do, you would have made him a made man. So and nobody's going to think he lots of Roman Reigns. Nobody's going to think he's going to throw. If Roman Reigns takes Mexican destroyer, people will go insane. It's going to be a different

type of match. But like if Roman just takes that maneuver or somehow some way because he's, he has a, I mean, he's an athlete. If he's able to counter it, the way his brother did, I mean, I'm sorry, the way Ray Phoenix did somehow. Like it's next level. It's also in Mexico. Like there's so many, I said, this is my last hope for a riot in wrestling because I said if there was ever going to be a riot, it was going to be where one Roman beat Sammy. It does, it doesn't add to Roman by beating him except for it's just a promo. That's it. I beat you in your hometown because I don't think they go back to it. But if he wins, because here's another part, you're seeing the rise of a dragonly. You see the rise of his brother, Ray Phoenix. Now if you have the three of them, all risen. What do you got? A Usos and Roman versus Phoenix Penta, dragonly. You also have the rise of

OTM and Royce Keys. Oh yeah, you also have solo LA Knight, who's their friend. You could have a magical war games in November. They've done them with three teams. Could you imagine if they did them with four? There's so many different places you could go. Or if you're not going to have who I think they need to be in there. The the the bloodline, any version of the bloodline, if it's Jacob, all that stuff, they need to be in that war games. But if they're not, Penta is one hell of a guy to have a world title match. And at the end of the day, Jacob and the Usos could lose in war games. But Roman Reigns retains his title at that same time. There's a lot of places you can go. A lot of places you want to go. Will they go? I don't know. But yes, there's you can't deny the money that

Roman Reigns has given you. But then on the other hand, look at the money that you might get for masks for for t-shirts, for all that stuff. Sammy Zayn winning the title, elevated him to he's worth more money now. So it's definitely a conversation that you need to have in that room. Catch the full three hours of Busted Open every day of the week at 9am Eastern on WWE Radio on SiriusXM Channel 156. Why wait?

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