Out With The Old, In With The New?
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What do Dave and Nick introduce as today’s WWE debate about Seth Rollins and LA Knight?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Nick Nemeth look at Seth Rollins' promo and LA Knight's interruption and what it means for the landscape of the WWE. All that right now on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. Sometimes, and maybe in Kenny Omega's circumstance, he has to move on due to injury. You know, we know that Kenny Omega, you know, at one time was the greatest wrestler in the world. People were talking about that when he was IWGP champion, when he first came into AEW. And you talked about it, Nick. Your body's going to tell you when it's time for you to step aside. You're going to listen to that. And it's going to be difficult because we know this.
I mean, it's as old as time. You know, an athlete doesn't want to step away, but sometimes he's told he has to step away. But an athlete like yourself, Nick, you're going to know when your body is going to say, hey, enough's enough and it's time for me to quit. Correct?
Absolutely. And there's tons of stuff. There's times, you know. In the last 20 years, it was just like, hey, man, I think I have a very bad injury, but I have to get through this and make it happen. And sometimes when you're younger, you don't get it checked out.
How do athletes know when it’s time to step away from wrestling?
You kind of play through the pain. You get through it. You get to a certain point where you can't fight through it. And sometimes you get to a point to where you go – I can't stand on my foot. I hope I can do this 45-minute show-stealing match. I can find a way, and you can hide it, and the person you're in there with, you can work around it. A few weeks ago, I had an independent show with a younger guy. He goes, I can't stand on my leg, but I wasn't going to get out of this match. And I was like, holy crap. All right, here's what we do. We're going to work it. Nobody had a clue. We did 25 minutes. No one had any idea because I have a special skill and he was very good too. So when you have those moments, there's, that's what you get paid the big bucks to work around and be able to like anybody look good.
But when you get to a certain point where you can't make yourself look the best. then it becomes how do i live with this choices do i stop now i've seen for years in wwe we would come to a certain city and outside of vince's door it's not just the usual bunch of us waiting to go complain about our creative or ask to do something different you get four people who are legends who you've looked up to and you watch for years but they're in their 70s and they're lining up to talk to vince oh to say hi to vince No, they're looking for a push. Oh, is a manager for somebody who's fighting for the world title? No, for a chance to fight for the title. And you're like, are you kidding me? What is wrong with these guys?
And now me, not at 70, at 45, I'm going, oh, right. I will not go quietly into that night either, damn it. Because I don't ever, first of all, I don't ever want to stop being honest. awesome at this and stealing the show let alone being okay at this and getting by I don't ever ever want to stop and it's something we have mentally in our head that we like oh yeah sure when I break both my legs and I can't get off the couch okay I guess I'll have to deal with it I'll deal with it then but there are times before then to where you go my body is hurting and my health for the next 50 years is much more important than one more year of some dream matches or getting, no matter how much in your head you think that's the case, and you have to deal with all these different things, let alone regular people health issues, let alone outside things, family things at home, deaths in your family, things that you have to, all this mental health stuff, there are all these factors going through.
And some of us will fight until our legs fall off in the ring and we can't stand anymore. And some of us who are fortunate enough to, whether we saved or did okay, like I could always be okay, I don't have to keep working. There was a generation or two back before us where they had to work because they didn't save or they didn't pay their taxes or they lost their house or got divorced and lost their money.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What do Dave and Nick introduce as today’s WWE debate about Seth Rollins and LA Knight?
0:00–1:23
2
How do athletes know when it’s time to step away from wrestling?
1:23–8:39
3
What mental and lifestyle challenges do veteran wrestlers face when considering retirement?
8:39–33:27
4
How did Seth Rollins’ Raw promo set up a generational tension on Monday Night Raw?
33:27–38:01
5
Why did LA Knight’s interruption on Raw resonate more with fans than Seth’s promo?
38:01–39:56