1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: The volume. The Colin Cowherd Podcast brought to you by 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Fan Duel. It's never been easier to play fantasy on 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: Fan Duel. Will the love basketball, golf, soccer, or any 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: fantasy sport. There is a contest for every fan fan 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: Duel more ways to win. It is time welcome everybody 6 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: to our Saturday morning. That's when this will air. Triple 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: ight shoining us in five minutes. It's time for fake questions, 8 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: real answers. We do it every Friday. I've got things 9 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: I want to talk about. I don't want to wait 10 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 1: for you to ask them. So it's fake questions with 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: real answers. Here we go. Dear Colin, scale a one 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: to ten, How does the Raiders decision to bring back 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: John Gruden as a head coach look? Right now? It 14 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: actually one to ten. It's about a four to four 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: and a half. It actually looks a lot like I thought. 16 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: So when Gruden got hired, I know John very smart, 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: very funny, but he had become a television star. He 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: was the highest paid ESPN personality at the time. Television 19 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: and football are different. There's a lot of industries that 20 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: you can leave for ten years. Grocery stores, the post office. 21 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,639 Speaker 1: You can't leave tech in the NFL for ten years. 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: He did a quarterback show that's not really connected. In 23 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: the end, he's overly emotional. I would never give a 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: coach a ten year contract. They have too much power. 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: We've seen that Belichick, even with too much power, doesn't 26 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: relinquish power in the draft in the Patriots or a 27 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: poor drafting team. So I think he's about a four 28 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: and it's you know what. At this point, he's a 29 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: better SoundBite than an NFL coach. Dear Colin, we all 30 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: know you're an expert when it comes to NFL quarterbacks, 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: of course, so tell me what's the right team for 32 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: Derek Carr. Well, the right team for Derek Carr's the Raiders. 33 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: Despite what people think, he is the life preserver on 34 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: an otherwise would be sinking ship. I will say this, 35 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: though he's cheaper than Aaron Rodgers, he's younger than Aaron Rodgers, 36 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: He's not going to throw his team under the bus. 37 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: And Denver and Washington will both call Aaron Rodgers. If 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: I was Washington, I would call Derek Carr. I don't 39 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: think the Raiders would trade him in division, so Denver's out. 40 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: I think the Raiders would trade him to Washington and 41 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: try to get one of Washington's defensive linemen. They've got 42 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: four great ones. I think Washington's the perfect fit. Dear Colin, 43 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: do you think pro sports leagues have waited too long 44 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: to put teams in Vegas? No? Here's why. So there 45 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: were two concerns about Vegas. Number one, gambling. Supreme Court 46 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: says you can do gambling. That stigma's gone. The other 47 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: issue in Vegas was always a weird issue. So Vegas 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: is very unique. It's probably the only city in the 49 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: country where a lot of the big money works at night. 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: Your pit bosses, your executive, so a lot of people 51 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: would discretionary income work at seven thirty at night. That's 52 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: when basketball games start, That's when hockey games start, that's 53 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: when baseball games start. So to me, football was always 54 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: the easiest Sunday eight home games Vegas, NFL was always 55 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: going to crush. Little surprised hockey did as well as 56 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: it did. The arena is great, then the city's hungry 57 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: for it. I think baseball's got too many games, not 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: enough fortune. Five hundred companies here. I think the NBA 59 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: would work. Why UNLV's basketball history. Lakers are wildly popular here. 60 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: It's only forty one games. NBA guys would like living 61 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: here in the offseason. The NBA Summer League does awesome 62 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: in Vegas. I think that would work. Dear Colin, you're 63 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: also known worldwide really as one of the great betters 64 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 1: of all time. Thank you. What's the best betting experience 65 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: you've ever had? True story? It was in Lake Tahoe. 66 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: And I don't know if this happens in Vegas, but 67 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: I was in Lake Tahoe for a weekend and I 68 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: went to the table in the morning, and I had 69 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: a flight in two hours at Areno, and everybody knows 70 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: here if you've ever been to Tahoe. It's about an 71 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: hour drive Tahoe to Areno. So I had about twenty 72 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: minutes to gamble. It was five thirty in the morning. 73 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: I went down to the table. There was nobody except 74 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: about four dealers there, and I had doubled down on 75 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: the first hand one and I gave the dealer half 76 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: of it. She was a lady in her fifties. And 77 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: what I discovered is if you tip really really well 78 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: in Vegas, really really early in the morning, when nobody's playing, 79 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: the dealer will be your best friend. And for the 80 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: next twenty minutes she said, Darling, I wouldn't hit that, Darling, 81 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: I think you should hit that. I won twelve out 82 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: of thirteen hands, gave her half paid my hotel bill. 83 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,559 Speaker 1: That's the best betting I've ever done in my life. 84 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: There you go, she called me, darling for about twenty minutes, 85 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,559 Speaker 1: just tip really really well. There was one pit boss 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: on the whole floor and he wasn't paying attention. Deare 87 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: Colin you worked as a sportscaster in Vegas. Yes, I did, 88 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: many years ago. What's the memory that stuck with you 89 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: most since that time? I think I've told this on 90 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: the air one time. So Jerry Tarkanian was wildly popular 91 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: you and LV basketball was probably as good as anybody 92 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: in the country. I was always I want the teams 93 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: I covered to win, because it's more fun to cover 94 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: people that win, right, you don't want to cover bad teams. 95 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: But I was very critical of tark because they'd had 96 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: some missteps. So Tark, like Frank Sinatra, always had a 97 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: reputation that he had mob ties. I never thought he did. 98 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: I thought Sinatra did. Just everybody liked tark they'd buy 99 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: him dinner. He had pictures where he was with, you know, 100 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: unscrupulous people, just like presidents. From time to time you 101 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: take a thousand pictures, there's a bad person in a picture. 102 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: So one time I'd been very critical of Tark about 103 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: something and I was getting back then you didn't have 104 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: the internet, you know, it was letters, calls to the 105 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: TV station. So i'd been really really critical of him. 106 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: In one morning, I was doing a sports report and 107 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: I was really baking Tark. So I go down after 108 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: the sports report and the elevator and there was a 109 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: guy I'm not going to say his name. I remember 110 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: it well. He was a big deal in Las Vegas 111 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: in catering. His initials were Ck. He's since passed. He 112 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: was big. He was the number one cater in town, 113 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: and he was Tark's buddy. So I came down the elevator, 114 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: I got off to get in my little CenTra, and 115 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: there was a town car and the window rolled down 116 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: and it was him with dark glasses on in a 117 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: parking garage, and I thought, I'm in big trouble. And 118 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: I remember thinking in that moment, I can remember my 119 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: mom was British. I remember thinking God, this is gonna 120 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: be a terrible headline. My mom's gonna read kid from 121 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: the Northwest shot in a parking garage by a mobster 122 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: in Vegas. And my mom, who was very protective, was 123 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: gonna be like, how did my son get killed by 124 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: a mobster. He just rolled his window down, he made 125 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: sure I saw him, smiled, rolled it back up. True story. Now, 126 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: maybe he thought I was somebody else, but I thought, wow, 127 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: that's real intimidation. He wasn't catering though. It's not like 128 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: he whacked guys all the time, but clearly he was listening. 129 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: Pulled into the garage and tried to intimidate me. All right, 130 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: that's fake questions, real answers, and here he comes, and 131 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: without further ado, let's welcome in Triple h that you know, 132 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: it's funny, Paul. They gave me all these questions, and 133 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: I thought, I gotta some of these I don't even 134 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: care about. Let's get to the real stuff. Yeah, you 135 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: look like you're in fantastic shape. Well, fantastic might be 136 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: a stretch. Apparently I didn't look that good. I had 137 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: to go in there and get shiny stuff on my 138 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: head so I didn't blind everybody I For me, the 139 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: gym is sort of the anchor in my life, right, 140 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: So I think everybody needs something that can level set 141 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: them on a daily basis. For me, it's training. And 142 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 1: if I don't, you know, if I'm not in the 143 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: gym training on a regular basis. I started when I 144 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: was fourteen, So if I'm not doing that on a 145 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: regular basis, I feel like I'm spiraling out of control. 146 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: Do you have another match in you? Could you be 147 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: talked into it? So I'm glad you stopped that. You 148 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: still got a jam because you don't know quite honestly, 149 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: need to do. I M. Yeah, Look, if if people 150 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: want it, if it's the right thing, it's got to 151 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: be intriguing for me, you know. So like just at 152 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: this point with his busy as as everybody is in 153 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 1: the WWE from a from a business side, for me 154 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: to get ready for WrestleMania, it's not at at my age, 155 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: it's not um something that you enter into casually. I'd 156 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: have to train a lot, a couple times a day 157 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: for you know, three months or show to get ready 158 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: for that in ring training everything. So I've already torn 159 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: most everything off my body, So you want to make 160 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: sure you're not ready to do that again. So the 161 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: training would be the tough part with the schedule. But 162 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: if it was something that people wanted and it was 163 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: intriguing to me, I would love to do it. I 164 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: would love to come back and hit a WrestleMania. But 165 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: I've said it before. I'd also love to, you know, 166 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: much like somebody like Seen is doing, which is you 167 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: sort of make the comeback and you do it, but 168 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: going to the to the towns, I'd love to, you know, 169 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: if I was to do something like that before I 170 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: called it a day, go to the garden again, you know, Um, 171 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: go to Japan, to go to different countries and have 172 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: that one more match, you know, Um, step into those 173 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: cities that you went to where you have twenty five 174 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: plus years of memories of all those things and opponents 175 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: and everything else, and be able to go out there 176 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: and do it again, um, in front of them one 177 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: more time. Now that doesn't have to be against the 178 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: same person you got against that WrestleMania. So you know, 179 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: for me, it's it's a matter of what we can 180 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: make happen. But but it's intriguing for sure. Very few 181 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: people have what I would call staying power and what 182 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean by that is Brett Farve was often more 183 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: popular when he when he lost, he was sympathetic. Connor 184 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: McGregor remains popular win or lose in some of your 185 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: biggest matches, your popularity, I would argue, increased win or lose. 186 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: That is very rare. Why what was it? So? It's 187 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: a funny thing. Entertainment WWE's an entertainment form. It's not 188 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: um and life is everything is right. It's entertainment. People 189 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: are jawn to other people emotionally, um their their their 190 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: personality draws them in, It keeps them bind it that 191 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: they it makes them feel something inside themselves that person does. 192 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: It resonates with them somehow. It's not about whether they 193 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: win or lose. Mike Tyson lost a lot, especially later 194 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: in his career. No matter what, when Mike Tyson came 195 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: back for the next fight, people would go, yeah, but 196 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: he's really gonna come back, and this one knocked this 197 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: guy out, and so like this is this is the 198 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: old Tyson again. It was every time. McGregor is the 199 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: same thing. I believe that, and people would I'll say 200 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: this and people are gonna gonna blow up about it 201 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: in some way. But if Ronda came back to fight 202 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: tomorrow in the UFC, I think everybody would go, oh 203 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: my god, and they'd be enamored with it. Right, Um, 204 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: you had that state. That's why you could fight again. 205 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: You have staying power. I think, Look, I had to 206 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: have because I had like the worst record in history 207 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: of SummerSlam. I had the worst record, like second worst 208 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: record in history or maybe the worst of WrestleMania. Like 209 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: I could be by everybody, but it was a lot 210 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: of really talented people. So I feel honored to bend 211 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 1: in the ring with him, you know. So for you, Um, 212 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: you're now in the talent I could say almost talent 213 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: acquisition business. As you are looking football players. I mean 214 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: you're looking all over the world now global talent. Yes. 215 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: Do you know it's very interesting you were rebranded multiple times. Um, 216 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: A lot of people did not start. I mean rock 217 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: Rock was not a star's first match, right, not when 218 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: they were chanting Die Rocky Die. No. So when you 219 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: are looking globally, Paul, for all this talent, what are 220 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: you seeking? What is the it? What is the Because 221 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: I remember talking one time to Dana White about this 222 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: and he had he had dinner with Connor and he 223 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: go and he said, I don't know if he can 224 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: fight a lick, but he's got star appeal, similarly to you, 225 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: did you know immediately Sina was gonna be big? So 226 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: it's funny. The first couple of times I saw Sena, 227 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but but no, no, no, but 228 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: but I but I only saw him briefly, and I 229 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: only saw him in the ring. I didn't get to 230 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: see his personality. I didn't know him. So the very 231 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: first time I ever saw him, I was filling in. 232 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: I think it was for Taker. They asked me to 233 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: go make an appearance at an event for like a 234 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: smaller promotion, and John was on the card, and I 235 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: remember somebody saying to me right before I saw him, Hey, 236 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: this kid's gonna be something big. Now. They had seen 237 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: him a lot, they knew him. I just watched him 238 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: go out there for five minutes and have a match, 239 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, no, I don't see that 240 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: at all. Once I got to meet John, and no, John, 241 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: no brainer, right, It's it's his message. Yeah, it's not 242 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: about it is about the in ring and when people 243 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: when you say it to people where you go, it's 244 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: not about the in ring they go. It has to 245 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: be about that. It is. But to your point Dana 246 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: White saying, this kid's a star. I don't know if 247 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: you can fight, but he's a star, right, Um, it's 248 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: not about that. Hulk Hogan wasn't the greatest wrestler of 249 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: the generation. The Ultimate Warrior was not the greatest wrestler 250 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: of that generation. Right. There are a lot of people. 251 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: I can make a longer list of people that weren't 252 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: the greatest in ring performer of that generation, that were 253 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: the biggest stars. Who is the most underrated in your opinion? 254 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: The fighter that maybe didn't quite get to your level 255 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: or stone cold but you look back and you're like, 256 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: hell of a wrestler, athletic, just a game in the ring. Well, um, 257 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: you guys help out with that. Feel free. Um, well, 258 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: it's a hard thing to say because what you're saying 259 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: to me is who's the best? You know if you're 260 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: looking at technical in ring wrestling, right right? Like, okay, 261 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: so let's look at WrestleMania three. Huld Cogan, Andre the Giant, 262 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: Andre's older broken down at that point, can can't move 263 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: a lot. Hogan's Hogan and people think that's an not 264 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: the most athletic performer of the generation, great crowd, psychology, 265 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: unbelievable charisma, all those things. Ninety thousand people Pontiac Silver Dome, 266 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: right because of that match Savage Steamboat on the card. 267 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: Steamboat one of the greatest in ring performers at all time. 268 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: If that match wasn't on the card, they still would 269 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: have put ninety thousand people in any Acts Silverdome to 270 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: watch Hogan and Andre That's what they paid to see. 271 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: The match that stole the night. The fight was that 272 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: one was the Savage Steamboat. Right, that was by far 273 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: the greatest match in the card, but it didn't draw 274 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: the crowd. Right. So you know, there are a lot 275 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: of fighters out there that, even in the legit fight business, 276 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: great fighters, they don't capture the imagination of anybody, so 277 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: they're always underco have the magnetism that you did. Stone 278 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,719 Speaker 1: called Hulk the Rock. Look, Floyd Mayweather. You can make 279 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: an argument that Floyd is the greatest boxer of a generation. 280 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: You could make an argument that he's one of the 281 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: greatest of all time, right technically even statistically beyond others. Right, 282 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 1: when did he really become a box office jaw? When 283 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: he creates a character called Money Mayweather, and he pitches 284 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: a show to HBO called twenty four seven right, and 285 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: he goes on HBO and he gives them a character 286 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: every single week against a bunch of fighters, didn't matter 287 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: who they were, And Floyd gives you a spectacle where 288 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,400 Speaker 1: everybody was caught up in this guy. And he knew, 289 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: if I can make them hate me and want to 290 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: see me get knocked out and then no one touches 291 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: me and I win every time, I'm gonna make a 292 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: boatload of money. That was a success for him. The 293 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: personality was a success. The image, the Money Mayweather image 294 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: was the success for him. He happens to be the 295 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: greatest boxer of a generation, but the character is when 296 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: it took off. Are you surprised at all by the 297 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: growth of the women's side. Charlotte Flair is a rock star. 298 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: By the way, Charlotte will be here with Renee who 299 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: was a member of the volume, Renee Picat, that'll be 300 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: after this. So, I mean, Charlotte's got amazing Like on Twitter, 301 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: she owns it every day. Are you surprised that there 302 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: are nights where that crowd is as big as the 303 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: male headline? Or are you surprised at all. I'm not 304 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: surprised one bit by it. To me, it doesn't you know, 305 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: maybe there was a time in the world, generations in 306 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: the world where they looked at it differently. I do 307 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: think there's a generation, either one or two prior to 308 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: this one where they would have been like women athletes, 309 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't think that exists today. 310 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: I don't think people care. I think they want to 311 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: see athletic performances and they want to see personalities. Doesn't 312 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: matter if it's a male, doesn't matter if it's a female. 313 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: They're drawn by that. And I think that especially, which 314 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: is one of the things that I think is really cool, 315 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: is youth today are taught almost that there is no 316 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: sort of bias there. I see as many little boys 317 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: walking around with Charlotte Flair's shirts on, or Becky Lynch 318 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: shirts on, or Sasha Bank shirts on as I do 319 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: little girls walking around. So it's not just like, well, 320 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: little girls gravitate towards them and little boys gravitate towards 321 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: the males. Now they do in some manner, but I 322 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 1: think it's Talent is talent, Charisma is charisma, personality is personality, 323 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: and I think you reward that in the way that 324 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: it is to me when when the women have headlined 325 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: and they've been in the main event spots because they 326 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: should have been, it's because they were the attraction. That's 327 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: to me, that's all that matters. It's no different put 328 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: in the performance, put in the work, be the personality 329 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: or in the spot, it's yours. When there's been some 330 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: celebrities who have come into WWE, some click, some don't. 331 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: Is there a celebrity out there that you look at 332 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: and think he should give this a try? There's just 333 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: one guy making movies. I've always wanted to whip his 334 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: ass the rock. I think I feel like he might 335 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 1: have potential to be pretty good at this. Yeah, yeah, 336 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: he's got a certain in quality, doesn't he. You know, 337 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: it's um when you ask the question. There are are 338 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: certain celebrities that there that their charisma and their personality 339 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: is when they play another character. Right, So you go 340 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: in a movie, I love that guy in movies. He's 341 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: great in that movie, he's great in this, But when 342 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: you see him or you see her in an interview, 343 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: you're like, that's no personality, right that You've got to 344 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: give him a character do the thing. Then there are 345 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: other people, um, and it's interesting to see to me 346 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: in this day and age that like YouTube influencers like 347 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: the Paul Brothers and people like that that who love 348 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: them or hate him, right, Like he's a character and 349 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: it resonates. And then people wonder why he goes in 350 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: a boxing ring and does bigger business than anybody in 351 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: boxing or MMA and some some capacity, and people are 352 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: stunned by that. And it's it's the it's him. You 353 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: know Paul too, what I just interviewed him two days ago. 354 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: You want the one thing he does as a consumer, 355 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: he really cares, He's all in. This is not a stick. Yeah, 356 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: and it makes me want to buy him. So if 357 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: a celebrity decided I'm gonna do this and I'm all in, 358 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: like I'm and I want to see you working out, 359 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: I think the audience can sense phonies and people who 360 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: are totally committed. Yes, And I think I think that 361 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,719 Speaker 1: I'll find that celebrity it would work. Yeah. Also, if 362 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: you're a fan, look when you know, it's hard to 363 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: put yourself on the other side, But before I got 364 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,719 Speaker 1: into this, I was on the same side as you, Right, 365 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: So sometimes a celebrity would come in, I'm into it. 366 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: Other times the celebrity comes in, you're like, God, I 367 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: don't want to watch that crab. You know, it's just 368 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: something you don't want to see. To me when you 369 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: go when I go back and look at those, it's 370 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: really their passion level for doing it. Are they here 371 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: for bullshit reasons? Are they here because it's a good 372 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: payday or I need to increase my viewership or my 373 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: fan base? Or are they here because they love the product? 374 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: Are they here because they want to be in the 375 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: ring because somebody like um bad Bunny who who like 376 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: you know, people talk about his appearance with us. He 377 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: was talking about WWE, and he's another guy that that 378 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: celebrity is just it's all over him, right, talk about WWE. 379 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: Massive fan has been his whole life. Gets the opportunity 380 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: to do this with us and live his dream be 381 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: AWE Superstar. They make him the offer. He grabs a 382 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: house in Orlando. He moves his entire crew there. He's 383 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: at the performance center every day. Every day I walk 384 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: in there. They're like, you know, and I, Hey, what's 385 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: going on? Bunnies in the other room training? Wow? Yeah, 386 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: I mean just getting battered, Like you know, he spent 387 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: three months every day just like anybody trying to be 388 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: a superstar would. I was so glad that worked out 389 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: as well for him as it did, because he put 390 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: his heart and soul into it and they loved it. 391 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,479 Speaker 1: Because he put his heart and soul into it. That's right, 392 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: And they could tell you buy in, they buy in. Yeah, 393 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: So it wasn't just about him increasing his fan base 394 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: or right. He loved right, and he put the effort 395 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: in and he delivered. Well, you could see his passion. Yeah, 396 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: you're authentic. You're an authentic This is a weird question. 397 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: You don't have to answer it, but it's fascinating to me. So, um, 398 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: you marry the boss's daughter, Stephanie shrewd, right, shrewd because 399 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: she's hot, absolutely, and I'll just tell you that and 400 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: getting hotter. I'm like the luckiest guy in the world. 401 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: So I don't see you as you know, some guy 402 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: with a schmaltzy line. But where that you decided I'm 403 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: a king her out? Um? Yeah, why is that a 404 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 1: bad question? You guys all cared about that. I hit 405 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: her with a pickup line that she couldn't resist, and 406 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: the rest was done, you know, but I don't want 407 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: to share that with you because it's you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 408 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: at some point I'll sell that information. No, it's a 409 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: funny thing. We didn't know each other at all. We 410 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: when you when we did the storyline on TV, um 411 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 1: around the wedding and you know, like all good marriages, 412 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: I make either drink, get her bachelorette party and took 413 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: her passed out through a Vegas wedding chapel here with 414 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: a white chapel, totally illegal and um, but uh, we 415 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: didn't really know each other hardly at all at that point. 416 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: I think I'd bet her a couple of times at 417 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: that point. And um, but you know, you start working 418 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: together on TV. We'round each other every day, and it 419 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: just she's sharper, she like you. She's quick. Yeah, but 420 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: it just happens over time, and she's like a sponge 421 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: for the business and was just coming in. So if 422 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: we were doing an angle, and you gotta understand at 423 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: that point in time, you know, we're doing the stuff 424 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: with her dad. But it's like Rock and Austin, and 425 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: it's the right, it's as high as it gets. She's 426 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: like just wants to be there to hear every word 427 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: we're saying and how we're putting it all together and 428 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: every thought, and you know, she'd hear us all put 429 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: stuff together and then walk away and she'd come to 430 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: me and be like, so, why are we? Why is that? 431 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: And why is this? And she just wanted to know everything. 432 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: We were together all the time, you know, and just 433 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: like any other relationship over time. The funny thing is 434 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: a lot of people in our lives were calling it 435 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: out before we were. Her mom said something to her 436 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: about it. She's like, what's with the triple edged thing 437 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: with you? She's like getting the talent in the way. 438 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: My mom said something to me, said said, what's with 439 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: you and the Stephanie. I said, Mom, it's Vince's daughter. 440 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. She goes, I saw you on TV. You're 441 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 1: not that good of an actor, right. I was like, oh, 442 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: you know, but at that point in time, I honestly 443 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: was like, no, ridiculous. But then you start to realize, no, 444 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: there is more there. Before we talk, John seen and 445 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: Roman reigns tomorrow, by the way, in a football stadium. 446 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: So this is it's gonna be electric that It's just 447 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: going to be an incredible scene I want you to 448 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: go back to your career. I want you to go 449 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: back to the match. Maybe it was the size of it, 450 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: it was the opponent that was the most exhausting that 451 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: when it was done, I mean, Paul, you really felt 452 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: like I left every ounce. You had the toughest physical 453 00:27:50,080 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: match you ever had in your life. So it's it's hard. 454 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: It's hard to say because there's moments in your career. 455 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: Adrenaline is a magical thing, right, So there's moments in 456 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: your career where you do get you know, you get 457 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: beat up, you get battered, and you get injured along 458 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: the way. You know, it's not a secret. Everybody knows it. 459 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: I'm not bragging about it. But like you know, I 460 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: tore my quad twice on live TV finished the matches. 461 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: I U the first elimination chamber we were in, and 462 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: I hate even bringing it up because it wasn't Rob 463 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: Van Dam's fault in any way, shape or form. None 464 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: of us had ever been in that thing before. And 465 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: part way through the match, which was, you know, an 466 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: amazing amount of talent, but as Rob came off the 467 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: top of the cage, he went on top of a pod, 468 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: which wasn't as didn't have as much space on it 469 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: as we envisioned it having. He couldn't stand up straight. 470 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: Whether I was in too far or too close or 471 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: not sure, but just came off funny and he tried 472 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: to pretend me but landed on my throat. Um. You know, 473 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: I could hardly breathe the whole match, and they brought 474 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: a doctor out under the ring. And you know you 475 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: have matches like that were you're just trying to get 476 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: through it. Adrenaline probably gets you through it. Yeahs and 477 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: and those are those are difficult things. And again, like 478 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: you said, adrenaline that they were all chanting take her 479 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: a minute ago. And uh, I when when Taker and 480 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: I wrestled, not Hell in the Cell, but the year before. 481 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: I'm terrible with numbers, those of WrestleMania something, thank you, um, 482 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: but but wrestled the year before. It was so physical 483 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: and I remember walking out of there thinking, like Jesus, 484 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: that was brutal, like on both of us. And and 485 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the people you're closest to you can 486 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: hit the hardest in our business. I don't know why 487 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: that is. It's just the thing. Um, we beat the 488 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: hell out of each other when it was over. I 489 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: walked to his locker room to talk to him, and 490 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: he couldn't get up off the floor. I went back 491 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: to his locker room like two hours later, and he 492 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: was still sitting there. He had moved to a chair, 493 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: but he couldn't get out of the chair. Damn it, calling, 494 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna make my makeup run? I didn't show it 495 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,719 Speaker 1: earlier today. Yeah, yeah, and I am more makeup im 496 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: than she did. Um. You know that's leaving it all 497 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: out there, but that's what we do. And there's you know, 498 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: are there matches where it's harder. Yeah, there's matches where uh, 499 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: but I've seen everybody do it. I watched Austin in 500 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: the heyday. One time. I wrestled him for like forty 501 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: minutes in a town in the middle of nowhere, and 502 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,239 Speaker 1: I didn't know he was sick walking in and uh, 503 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: I thought he looked a little funny when he We 504 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: hadn't talked, you know, I hadn't really seen him much 505 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: during the day because what I didn't know was he 506 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: was sick in a room. We got to the ring 507 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: and I remember looking across the ring and I'm thinking 508 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: it looks a little green. Maybe it's lighting in here 509 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: or whatever. But anyway, we went like forty minutes and 510 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: when we got done, I walked in the back and 511 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: he was like laying down and he was just shaking, 512 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: and he was green, and he had an infection in 513 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: his elbow. You know, he had staff. I didn't know it. Wow, 514 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, And but he was just the pride of 515 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: the performer. And what we go through for you, you don't. 516 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: You know. People respect it and they get it, but 517 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: they have no idea, no one. And I'm glad it's 518 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: changed somewhat today we have the medical protocols that we 519 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: have and everything we protect talent. There's an old saying that, 520 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: you know, you have to put a rider on a horse, 521 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: on a on a racehorse, because if you don't have 522 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: a rider to stop it, it'll just keep running until 523 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: it dies. A lot of ways performers in our industry 524 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: used to be like that. Yeah, and we put those 525 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: medical practices in place because you have to pull those 526 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: rains because they will just keep running. And you have 527 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: to protect We have to protect ourselves from ourselves in 528 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: some manner, and so I've seen a lot of people 529 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: do it. But on any given night, most everybody's leaving 530 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: everything they got in that ring. So tomorrow Sena and 531 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: Roman rains. Um, what do you foresee in terms of 532 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: the physicality they've been chirping at each other. What kind 533 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: of match do you foresee? It's a funny thing that, Um. 534 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're in the midst of entertaining, it becomes real. 535 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're in the in midst of now I'm 536 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: just promoting, it becomes the second thought from the other guy. 537 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: But like I was a little bit tight that that 538 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: shot was a little bit so let me hit you 539 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: with back one back. If we're gonna go there, let's 540 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: go there where it goes from being clever and entertaining 541 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: to okay, and now you're in a different level, still entertaining, 542 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: still performing, personal, but personal. And I think this one 543 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: has crossed into a different realm for me. Nobody likes 544 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: that all the time. So this one to me, like 545 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: you got two total pros in the ring. See, you know, 546 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: you can make the argument that in the generation, the 547 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: best of the best. Some people say greatest of all time. 548 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: Maybe right, you can make a lot of arguments for that. 549 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: I look at Roman to me right now, Roman's on 550 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: a different level from anyone, anyone in an era where 551 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: there weren't people there, he was on a different level 552 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: from anyone. He has taken it now to another level 553 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: beyond that. He's one of those guys I feel like 554 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: is changing sort of the business a little bit as 555 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: he's moving forward to where he is pulling people back 556 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: into a different realm of character work and what that means. 557 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: And I love it right. So maybe I'm biased because 558 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: it's more in my wheelhouse of performance, but I do 559 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 1: think he's on a completely different level. When you get 560 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: into the match. What do I believe happens in that? 561 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about what we do or you know, 562 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 1: finishes or anything like that. What do I believe happens 563 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: When you walk for a while and you come back, 564 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: it's a big hill. I know. I've been there, and 565 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: I've been there multiple times. It's it's tough, and your 566 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: mind's in the same place. It's just not quite where 567 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: it was before, even though you believe that it is. 568 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: When you're doing this every day, you're you're in a zone. 569 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: You don't think about it, you don't have to question it, 570 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: you don't have to nothing. There's no path from here 571 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: to here to there. It's just here to there. It 572 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: just happens like that. That's where Roman is and there's 573 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: something for that momentum, and there's something to be in 574 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,799 Speaker 1: the guy that's here every single day, and I think 575 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: he goes through this. I think it's uh. I think 576 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: from a performance standpoint, when the day is done, eyes 577 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: are on Roman Reigns as what this business is about 578 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: today and not John Cena. That's my prediction. I want 579 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 1: to circle back to the beginning. You get to pick 580 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: the fight, you get to pick the match, you get 581 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: a call tomorrow, you get to pick the match that 582 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: would pull you back. Who would it be? I don't know. 583 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: So there's so many talented guys out there to perform against, 584 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: but it's not about the individual. To me, it wouldn't 585 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: be about me as the individual. Wouldn't be about that 586 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: person as the individual. It's about the Yeah, yeah, what 587 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: you know, if you look at the build to a 588 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: fight like a movie, what's the movie we can tell 589 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: to get to the climactic fight at the end. What's 590 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 1: that movie? So? What is the story that get you 591 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,919 Speaker 1: through that movie? That would be the thing I would 592 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: need to think about. What I what I wanted to 593 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 1: be one of the great workers of today to make 594 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: it easier for me. What I wanted to be an 595 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: incredible character person, I'd be nice because then it's it's 596 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 1: more character based and more storyline. What I wanted to 597 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: be someone brand new or or coming in from the outside. 598 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,400 Speaker 1: Maybe it really depends. Um. So I think for me, 599 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: it's it's looking at if I don't know that there's 600 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: anybody that they could say this name and I go, 601 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: oh done. If they even if they said here's the name, 602 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: I'd have to say, well, what's the what's the lead up, 603 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,839 Speaker 1: what's the story, What's why? Why why are we fighting? Well, 604 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,440 Speaker 1: unless unless it was like and this will open up 605 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,760 Speaker 1: a can of worms, but like unless it was something 606 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 1: that was so far back into me and and we 607 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,840 Speaker 1: talked about it before, and this is not a suggestion, 608 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: and I'm not This is not like one of those 609 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: things where later there's a meme where it's like confirmed. Um, 610 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,360 Speaker 1: but like no, but like if Rock called me tomorrow 611 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: and said, hey, let's do one more you know we 612 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: did that video a few years ago because he came 613 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: up to me and he was like, hey, dude, I 614 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: want to do one more matchup on to with you, 615 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 1: let's do one more. I was like, okay, sounds great 616 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: to me, and so we shot a video around it. 617 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: And then of course, you know, like he's the biggest 618 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,479 Speaker 1: actor in Hollywood, so his schedule changed and it didn't 619 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: work out. Would have been amazing if it was something 620 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 1: like that, because just because like in so many ways, 621 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,280 Speaker 1: and I'm just talking about our business in so many ways, 622 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: like he and I just kind of did this a lot, 623 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: you know, Hunter Hurst, Helmsley, Rocky my Va, right, and 624 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 1: and he comes in and we're going at it over 625 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 1: the Intercontinental title. Then the Nation comes along, and DX 626 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: comes along, and we're going at it over that, and 627 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: then we move up the line and now we're WWE 628 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: champions going at it. It's there was we We just 629 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: kept mirroring each other along the way in some manner, 630 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,840 Speaker 1: and I feel like there's a connect action uh always 631 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: with that for for he and I and I'm just 632 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: talking about within our business. Um So if it was 633 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 1: something like that, yeah, but any anything else, I'd want 634 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,880 Speaker 1: to know what what the setup was the match tomorrow 635 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: we're not talking about that will surprise everybody. What do 636 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: you guys think? It's it's so hard for me to say, Um, 637 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: I feel like when you try to predict, like what's 638 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 1: what's the thing you should be talking about? It depends 639 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 1: on the It depends on the delivery at every moment 640 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: in time. Do you believe, like, if you want to 641 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 1: talk about seven edge, I mean they're talking about it 642 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 1: like I want to see it? Hell yeah, Hell yes. 643 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: Do you believe the environment in an NFL stadium will 644 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:14,879 Speaker 1: change the night? I believe that in today's day and age, Like, Look, 645 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: there was a time just a few months ago where 646 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: we put like three hundred people in a building and 647 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,759 Speaker 1: we're like, oh my god, it was so loud. It 648 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,479 Speaker 1: was the greatest thing ever, right, And if you would 649 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,560 Speaker 1: have said that two years earlier, we'd have been trying 650 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,799 Speaker 1: at three hundred people in a building. Um, you put 651 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 1: fifty plus thousand or whatever. It's going to be in 652 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 1: a stadium with the level of talent that are going 653 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: to be there, the best athletes in the world, the 654 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 1: best superstars in the world, it's gonna be electric. And 655 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,880 Speaker 1: I think that that at this point, people are so 656 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: excited to get out of the house, to be entertained, 657 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,160 Speaker 1: to go all there and see what their passion is 658 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:10,959 Speaker 1: again I say this a lot that like WWE, it's 659 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: it's it's not something you watch for most people. It's 660 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 1: a lifestyle, right right, it's a it's a passion, it's 661 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,440 Speaker 1: a lifestyle. It's a it's something that drives them on 662 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,279 Speaker 1: a twenty four hour and that got taken away from 663 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: them for a long period of time. So they're back 664 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,919 Speaker 1: and they're in a stadium and it's fifty thousand people. 665 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,800 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be incredible. I want you to 666 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: take everybody that's here to a place that none of 667 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 1: us would understand except you. So I want you to 668 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 1: go back. You're from New Hampshire. Roll on. My wife 669 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:58,960 Speaker 1: walked by and they're all getting distracted because wow, hey, 670 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 1: so like earlier, earlier, I said, she's getting hotter the 671 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,439 Speaker 1: older she gets. Right, You notice how much bass tone 672 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:13,919 Speaker 1: there was in that chance. So I want right, yeah, 673 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:19,080 Speaker 1: damn straight. So I want you to take when Sena 674 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 1: and Roman Rains walk out tomorrow, I want you to 675 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 1: go back, young kid, New Hampshire. I know your story. 676 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 1: You'd been rebranded a couple of times. Take me to 677 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 1: the match, your first big match. You're walking out and 678 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,719 Speaker 1: you knew in that moment Holy shit, this is it 679 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,879 Speaker 1: my dream I hit it. Take me to that moment, where, 680 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 1: when and where were you? Because tomorrow that's going to 681 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,360 Speaker 1: be the biggest moment, I mean one of the biggest 682 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,600 Speaker 1: moments in ten years in Wwe take me to your moment? 683 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,399 Speaker 1: What is it like and where were you? Well, it's 684 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,560 Speaker 1: it's hard for me to say, because there's so many moments. 685 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 1: I worked with so many you know, I was fortunate 686 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 1: to be in a time frame where on any given 687 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: day prior to the Attitude area I was working. You know, 688 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,600 Speaker 1: I'm working with Bret Hart, Shawn Michael's, Razor Ramone. Uh, 689 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: like bright, it's a who's who of the best? Uh 690 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,319 Speaker 1: you flash forward to then we start to come into 691 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 1: our own I'm working with Austin rock taker fully, uh 692 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: you know, who's who of the best historically best in 693 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,320 Speaker 1: the business ever right. So there there, But there is 694 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:47,239 Speaker 1: a moment for me, I think when sort of the 695 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: pressure of okay, they've given you the ball and you're 696 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: in a position where this this match can probably change 697 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: a lot of opinions on you, and it's a royal 698 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: rumble two thousand street fight myself and Mick Foley, Because 699 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,360 Speaker 1: if you look at it this way, and this I 700 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,640 Speaker 1: please don't take this as a knock to anybody, but 701 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,360 Speaker 1: if you look at it this way, Foley is not 702 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,439 Speaker 1: a main event, main event guy at that point in time. 703 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,600 Speaker 1: He's not a marquee guy. He's a guy that is 704 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,880 Speaker 1: like me, maybe better, maybe more up the line, but 705 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,640 Speaker 1: like he's kind of a guy that is against a 706 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,399 Speaker 1: lot of really good people, and I'm a guy that's 707 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,280 Speaker 1: coming up and against a lot of really good people. 708 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,480 Speaker 1: It's the rumble. The rumble is the rumble, but we're 709 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,480 Speaker 1: giving the shot to main event, the Royal Rumble for 710 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:48,120 Speaker 1: the WWE Championship. So it's two sort of not solidified, 711 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 1: proven box office commodities yet in that spot, and we 712 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,759 Speaker 1: kill it right and and my hat's off to Mick 713 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,200 Speaker 1: for all of that and for everything that that did 714 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,279 Speaker 1: for me and for him for whatever. But like, you know, 715 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,200 Speaker 1: that's a moment I knew walking into the garden um. 716 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:13,399 Speaker 1: This is like there are certain you know it's it's 717 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,319 Speaker 1: there's never one moment, but there are certain places where 718 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,000 Speaker 1: you know you're taking another big step. Sure, and this 719 00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,640 Speaker 1: is one of those another big steps. But I know 720 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,480 Speaker 1: this is a big step, Like we're put into a 721 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,880 Speaker 1: position where if this pay per view sort of feels 722 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: lackluster other than the rumble itself, that's probably on us. 723 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:38,600 Speaker 1: If it delivers big time, that's probably on us. And 724 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 1: it does so and it and it changes the trajectory 725 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,040 Speaker 1: of both of us, I believe, even though Mick was 726 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,160 Speaker 1: about to retire in some manner and I knew that 727 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,319 Speaker 1: sort of going into all of this, but it really 728 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: changed the trajectory for both of us because it put 729 00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:00,480 Speaker 1: us out there as marquee guys. And to me, there's 730 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,880 Speaker 1: a difference. There's a lot of top guys. There's a 731 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,560 Speaker 1: few guys that are marquee guys. And what by that, 732 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,880 Speaker 1: what I mean is if if if you put if 733 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: you say right now, oh w W he's in town tomorrow, Oh, 734 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 1: who's there? And someone goes Roman Range, you go, oh great, right, 735 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:21,279 Speaker 1: you don't go, but who's your wrestling? Top guys you 736 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: get who's your wrestling? They want to know what the 737 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:30,279 Speaker 1: match is, not the person John Cena wrestles in his 738 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:35,719 Speaker 1: heyday or any even in at his peak, And you say, 739 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:40,480 Speaker 1: WWE's in town, who's there John Cena? Oh, let's go right, 740 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,640 Speaker 1: that's the difference. And I think that put both Folly 741 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,279 Speaker 1: and I into that category. Yeah, Stephanie's still here. Just 742 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:55,799 Speaker 1: waved to the audience. Please, there's seventy acknowledge your existence. Please. Um, 743 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,440 Speaker 1: it's gonna be an amazing night, a great weekend. Renee 744 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:05,080 Speaker 1: pacat the way for you. Here, there's Renee. Renee, come up, 745 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,879 Speaker 1: come here for a second. Here, Renee. She was our 746 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 1: biggest hire and has been. She's amazing, grateful. Thank you 747 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 1: Triple Hs, ladies and gentlemen. You Paul, absolute pleasure, Thank 748 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: you so much. There we go, Thank you everybody. They