Did WWE Miss the Moment for Oba?
5/5/202627 min
Dave LaGreca & Bully Ray discuss Oba Femi's trajectory and how he should be positioned moving forward... Did WWE miss an opportunity with him?
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First 90 secondsDave LaGreca· Host0:00
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Bully Ray talk Monday Night Raw and Oba Femi, and has the WWE got an Oba wrong? We'll explain right now on the Busted Open Podcast.
Bully Ray· Co-host0:16
This is the Busted Open Podcast.
Dave LaGreca· Host0:20
You asked two great questions, Bully, and the one question we'll tackle first is Oba Femi because we talked about it. Do you go, do you go the long route or you do the Hogan route where Hogan just came on the scene, and at the snap of a finger, he's in the ring at Madison Square Garden against The Iron Sheik. He caught lightning in a bottle, and it changed, that changed pro wrestling. I mean, if that moment doesn't happen, do our, do, do we have WrestleMania? Does WWE go national? Like, that moment truly changed the landscape of professional wrestling.
Bully Ray· Co-host0:59
Vince McMahon went all in on that. B- b- they talk about how WrestleMania was the big gamble. Vince McMahon went all in at the Garden on h- pulling the trigger that quickly on Hogan, and it, it was an overnight thing. Like, legit overnight. Austin wasn't overnight. Like, it, it, Austin said the 3:16 thing, but it took a couple more months. Hogan, overnight.
Dave LaGreca· Host1:26
Yeah, and Vince McMahon pretty much went