Source: Busted Open Radio — Oba Femi Shocks the World | Roman & Punk's Microphone Trilogy
Duration: 34 min
Oba Femi's push
What Brock Lesnar did for Obafemi last night in less than 60 seconds is more than most talents at Brock's level can do for others in an hour. Obafemi was made right in that moment.
Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk feud
Roman got under the skin of CM Punk by calling him one word and that word was old. Now I want to know why. Does he feel he's that old? Does he feel this is the end of his career?
Roman knows what Punk's trigger is now. What does Roman have to do for the next four weeks? You're old, Phil. It has to be old, old, old because he knows what the trigger is now.
Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar segment
I hated the fact that Brock beat up all of them. It seemed superfluous to me. If ten of us bail because we're scared shitless, but one Oba comes out and says, 'I could take you face-to-face,' that makes Oba look better.
Selling injuries in wrestling
We see somebody get beat down or somebody get injured... and then we see them 24 hours later on Raw or a few days later on a Dynamite or what have you. And they seem perfectly fine. It's a lost art.
Wrestling promo psychology
You never want to call somebody old because then if you get dropped by them like Roman did, you got dropped by an old man. Or if you got beat by them, then you got beat by an old man.
Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk promo battle
When it comes to just the verbal last night, I think it was Punk [who won]. I think it was Punk by a lot actually.
Paul Heyman's selling
The injuries matched the move. So that was dead on balls accurate as far as the physical manifestation of what that injury would look like two weeks later.
Michael Cole's commentary
I love the fact that last night on Raw he said, 'holy shit.' It's a-okay we love it and that's why I love our great sport and this form of entertainment that we label as professional wrestling.
