Does WrestleMania Need a Splash?
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What is the main focus of the episode and how do Dave and Tommy set up the discussion?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Tommy Dreamer talk about the road to WrestleMania. Do we need a splash? And what would that be? We discuss right here on the Busted Open podcast. Also, we go into NXT from last night. All that right now on the Busted Open podcast. This is the Busted Open podcast. Brom Breaker, you know, just gets injured. And I'm sure they had big plans for Brom Breaker. Again, I don't know. I can't foretell the future. If I had to make a guess. I think we would probably have gotten, you know, Braun Breaker versus a returning Seth Rollins if I had to make a guess of where they were going with that story. And I'm wondering now, Tommy, there's a trickle-down effect when an injury happens.
Hey, now you have a plan for WrestleMania. This is what we're going to do. And now there's an injury to Bron Breaker and you have to change those plans. And I'm wondering if that's exactly what's happening right now to the WWE where they're trying to figure out. Do they just plug and play? Do they put Logan Paul or Bronson Reed in the place of Bronson Reed? Or, Tommy, do they completely change the narrative and the story this close to WrestleMania XLII?
That's a lot. Depends on first when you get the injury news. When you first get the injury news, it's like, okay, he's out. He's not going to be at WrestleMania. If you think about what I feel as well, two great minds, I felt this was Seth Rollins' return against Braun Breaker. We saw what happened yesterday. at the Royal Rumble and the Masked Man.
How does Braun Breaker’s injury change WWE’s plans for the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania?
We actually saw it again on Monday Night Raw. Then you have to kind of reassess going forward. It's almost like an emergency creative and we have to decide what we're going to do because now it's not really about a brawn breaker WrestleMania moment. It's more still about Seth Rollins is going to return. Obviously, okay, is it going to be Logan Paul? Is it going to be Austin Theory? So these are all things you've got to think. I had talked with Coach about this mega four-person match, and I even threw Steve Austin out there before Steve Austin agreed to do the fanatic signing. But what if it was Seth Rollins, Steve Austin, or... I forgot who else I said. Oh, Adam Pearce, L.A. Knight versus The Vision. Now you could still do it as a sixth person.
But or is who's going to step up to become the interim president? person like the the leader of the vision i think it's going to be logan if you were going to swerve us and say it was logan all along guess what it's not because logan was chasing uh the mass man on monday though you still can do like oh i paid that guy to do that there's a lot of places you can go but i don't think you need to fracture frack break up the the The vision, but the vision might be a little snake bit, might be a little bit of the whole Seth Rollins karma for faking out the injury, and now you're getting people injured. There's a lot to think about when an injury again occurs. It is like, all right, let's reassess. Let's get us through Monday and then try to get us to where we think we need to be.
Yeah, I think like, and I'll just use this hooded figure. They brought the hooded figure back. Like we saw Austin Theory, you know, take off the hood and we find out it's Austin Theory. And it kind of got a meh reaction from the crowd. I mean, there's probably a lot of people in the crowd that didn't even know who it was. So now you're doing it again. And, you know, I was comparing it yesterday when I was talking to Bully. It's kind of like... The lights off, lights on situation. We see that in AEW a lot. Lights off, lights on. When you do that, you're expecting something big. Lights go off, you're like, oh shit, who's it going to be? And then lights on. You want it to be something that people are going to be like, wow.
Or it's a little bit of a surprise. Or the fans are in awe. The WWE is choosing to do this again with the hooded figure. I feel like it's got to be a pretty big reveal, Tommy, in my eyes. Because if it's like, say, a lot of people were speculating, let's just say, Grayson Waller.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main focus of the episode and how do Dave and Tommy set up the discussion?
0:00–1:49
2
How does Braun Breaker’s injury change WWE’s plans for the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania?
1:49–9:39
3
What are the arguments for and against adding a big “splash” moment at WrestleMania 42?
9:39–18:06
4
Why does the hooded‑figure reveal matter and which wrestlers could fill that role?
18:06–26:13
5
Which returning legends could provide the splash WWE needs before WrestleMania?
26:13–35:54
6
How does the new NXT champion Joe Hendry shape the future of NXT?
35:54–36:33