Professional wrestling talk often isn’t a huge sports talk needle mover, which is why it doesn’t get much of any attention outside of an occasional interview with a performer. But there is an audience for it. It’s why the cast of The Michael Kay Show — including Don La Greca — on 98.7 ESPN New York doesn’t shy away from it.
Kay and co-host Peter Rosenberg were absent Wednesday, so Don La Greca was joined in studio by Dan Graca and Dave La Greca, Don’s brother.
Dave co-hosts the wrestling show Busted Open on SiriusXM Fight Nation, and obviously the subject of pro wrestling came up. Dave knew Rosenberg is big into wrestling, but Graca isn’t. Still, Dave knew that wrestling isn’t a foreign subject on Kay’s show.
“You guys do a lot of wrestling. I know the mainstream sports fan gets very upset when you talk to a Charlotte Flair or a Cody Rhodes, but the numbers go up when you talk to the professional wrestlers,” Dave said.
Don La Greca responded jokingly that the average listener to the show can’t stand when wrestling comes up even if it piques the interest of the broader audience.
“They do, but it aggravates our normal, everyday listeners because they don’t understand why we talk to them,” Don responded.
Dave La Greca got to plug the wrestling award show Busted Open was doing live on YouTube tonight as well as an upcoming live show he’s doing in New York City in February. Dave encouraged his brother to come be a guest at the show, even though Don doesn’t care for wrestling, so that Don could share stories of growing up around a wrestling fan and not being a wrestling fan.
“I would love for you to be there and experience it and also a little bit of back and forth on why you don’t like wrestling and what it was like growing up with me as a wrestling fan. And the moments and the memories and the games that you missed because of professional wrestling. I want you to share those stories.”
