>>19074330Busted Open Radio type shit is indicative of nothing. What happens outside of WWE genuinely doesn't matter. WWE has the Midas touch with that shit. This can be a disadvantage, as you will never be recognized for doing good work on your own, but you can shit the bed elsewhere and come back like nothing happened. Half the audience doesn't even know other wrestling companies have ever existed, and will never find out.
In 2023, CM Punk was fired after wrestling in front of 70,000 people in a major world stadium to open up the biggest non-WWE wrestling show in history. Despite happening only 2 months before Punk's WWE return, this was still so insignificant to the general public that barely anyone in the crowd knew about it. It was referenced in live WWE promos to absolute confusion.