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00:00Rock is a massive character within our universe
00:21He's one of the biggest stars in the world
00:30Coming off of last year's successful Wrestlemania run
00:34The final boss obviously has a huge legacy in WWE
00:40The final boss
00:44The greatest heel professional wrestling has seen
00:47Insurmountable antagonist
00:49There's nothing that the final boss can't do
00:53Because this is what happens when you fuck with the final boss
00:58There's nothing that the final boss can't say
01:03The Rock is a director of the board
01:06Which means he's your boss
01:07Becoming this new version has been the most gratifying decision
01:12That I've ever made
01:14And you did it
01:16But our story has just begun
01:20Dwayne Johnson and I go back almost 40 years to a childhood
01:30All of us in Honolulu, Hawaii
01:32Known each other for a long time
01:34What we found is that after Wrestlemania Philly
01:38And getting a couple months of The Rock back with WWE
01:42The WWE Universe had a huge demand to see him again
01:47One thing about Rock is
01:49Out of all of the businesses that he's across
01:52And he's had great success in
01:54If you gave him truth serum and said
01:55What's your favorite business
01:57He would tell you WWE
01:58So we were coming out of Royal Rumble
02:02Which is one of our most popular events
02:04And we were going into Wrestlemania 41 in Las Vegas
02:08Our Super Bowl
02:09Which we had big hopes for
02:11So Elimination Chamber again bookended
02:14Between Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania Las Vegas
02:16So here you had Elimination Chamber in Toronto
02:20With a tough Canadian economy
02:22And it was a little bit of a concern as to
02:26How did we over deliver
02:27We felt one big answer to that
02:30Was to get Rock
02:32We knew Travis Scott was coming to Elimination Chamber
02:36He's a big WWE fan
02:37We're obviously big fans of Travis
02:39Rock gets on the phone with Triple H
02:42They talk it through
02:43Beat by beat, pace by pace
02:46All I know is
02:47Each of them called me and said
02:49We think we got it
02:50For Elimination Chamber
02:51So how does the press
03:01Rock is going to be there
03:03In New Orleans
03:04And he will lead to
03:06A promo
03:08That will
03:09End that
03:11Elimination Chamber
03:13Trying to drive up
03:14Elimination Chamber
03:14Yeah, yeah, yeah
03:15So basically call Cody out
03:17That will lead Cody to
03:20Thinking about it
03:21And them saying
03:22I see an Elimination Chamber
03:23You give me an answer
03:24But I wanted to call you out here
03:30For something Cody
03:31Because it's important
03:32I want you
03:33To be my champion
03:37I want you to think about it
03:41At Elimination Chamber on March 1st
03:43You give me your answer then
03:46I love to watch Rock's promos
03:48Because he's like in concert
03:50But he doesn't have a script
03:52That he's going to adhere to
03:53Verbatim
03:55Every dream you've ever had
03:57I can make come true
03:59My brother
04:01I want your soul
04:04Rightfully so
04:09When The Rock shows up
04:11It can't just be for a special appearance
04:13And to wave some hands
04:15Raise an eyebrow
04:15And then leave
04:16I'll see you in Toronto
04:18On March 1st
04:20At Elimination Chamber
04:21It's got to be something seismic
04:24I think in the moment
04:27Fans were liking it
04:29But they weren't sure
04:30What it was going to be
04:31Oh my god
04:33He wants him to sell his soul
04:34That's crazy
04:35Chat, is Cody going to sell out?
04:38Will Cody Rhodes eventually turn heel
04:41Become corporate Cody?
04:42That's a very believable storyline
04:44There are a lot of different theories
04:46As to what WWE could be cooking up here
04:49And now we have more questions than answering
04:51I don't know what we just watched
04:53But I'm intrigued
04:54I thought it was perfect
04:55You always want to leave the fans
04:57Wanting a little more
04:58Whether they were going to get it or not
05:01We knew they would
05:03They didn't necessarily know that they would
05:05At Elimination Chamber
05:08We think we made wrestling history
05:10Tonight
05:29I officially announce my retirement from the WWE
05:33I wish physically I could do this longer
05:45From a professional standpoint
05:48I hope the investment that was made in me
05:50Returns a hundredfold
05:52I don't know if we've seen that before
05:55John Cena
05:59One of the greatest performers in the history of our business
06:03Is at a place in time in his life
06:08Where he is transitioning out of the business
06:10He is moving on to Hollywood
06:12He is doing other things
06:13And John is going to come back
06:16For right at about one calendar year
06:20With a limited number of dates
06:22And he has a 25 plus year career
06:29Of aches, pains, and injuries
06:32That will dictate the performance that he gives us
06:36If it was a movie
06:38We would CGI John Cena
06:40And make him look like everybody's
06:42Greatest memory of John Cena
06:44It's not a way it works in our business
06:47Reality drives what we do
06:49Loud and clear for John Cena
06:51I just want everybody to be
06:52Entertained
06:54I want to lead the business better than I found it
06:56And I want to get out of my health
06:57This farewell does not end tonight
07:00We are going to build
07:02So many unforgettable lasts
07:05The 2025 Elimination Chamber
07:08Will be my last
07:10Las Vegas WrestleMania 2025
07:14Will be
07:17The last WrestleMania I compete in
07:21I went out into the bowl with the people
07:27I was there
07:28And I couldn't really hear what John was saying
07:30Because the crowd was too loud
07:31So when we'd gotten back
07:33I was like, well, what was that?
07:34And he's just like, oh, I just said I'm retiring
07:36He's earned the right to go out how he wants
07:40John will be in programming
07:43Which means a top character slot
07:47In your programming
07:48As amazing as that is
07:51It comes with a lot of
07:53Ifs
07:55A lot of questions
07:56And a lot of
07:58What are we sort of going to really get
08:01When we get into this
08:03So
08:03If you want some
08:05Hurry up and come get some
08:07Because the last
08:08Time
08:09Is
08:10Now
08:11Pretty crazy out here
08:18Right on
08:18That's me
08:21You're telling me
08:22Oh my god
08:24You almost had me tears back here, man
08:26I didn't know
08:27We've seen The Rock embrace the dark side
08:30In his latest return to the ring
08:32In this final run
08:33Do you think there's any chance
08:34We see a darker side of John Cena?
08:36I don't know how much impact that would have
08:38Because that goes heavily against what I value
08:41I got three words
08:48Die
08:49Rocky die
08:50That's the gratitude I get from you pieces of crap
08:54To be a heel first and foremost
09:01You've got to love people not liking you
09:05If you can dribble this basketball
09:07Fifteen times consecutively
09:10I'm going to give you $500
09:12Ready?
09:13Go
09:13Nine
09:14Ten
09:14Eleven
09:15Twelve
09:15Thirteen
09:16Fourteen
09:16Oops
09:17Wow
09:19We didn't get to fifteen, son
09:23I think there's many categories
09:26For being a good heel
09:28Are you kidding?
09:33What a despicable
09:34Act that was
09:36The truth of the matter is
09:38I'm your father, Dominic
09:41Am I making fun of you?
09:44Oh, no, sir
09:45No, sir
09:46No, sir
09:47Hulk Hogan's here
09:51Yeah, but whose side is he on?
09:53Oh, my God
09:54What the hell is going on?
09:56Probably the lowest shot
09:58Ever given to professional wrestling
10:00Totally fabricated emotion
10:02It doesn't sell tickets
10:04So my legal name
10:05And I need many of them
10:08Is Michael Joseph Seitz
10:10I have been known as Lord Michael Hayes
10:13Freebird Michael P.S.A.
10:15The P.S. stands for Purely Sexy
10:18Some people, they don't make good heels because they need adulation
10:28They need to be cheered
10:29They need to be approved by society
10:33The last thing I ever needed was approval by society
10:37We were rock and roll stars that fought for a living
10:41I made a lot of money looking up at the lights
10:53And what that means is it's laying on my back getting pinned
10:56Because I was the bad guy
10:58Michael Hayes and a war is taking place now
11:01I had my opportunities where I would win
11:04Leading to the big story
11:08The final chapter
11:09Where the good guy prevails
11:12Live with Michael Hayes
11:13On an attempted syntax
11:15At first, two, three
11:17And Gary Viner
11:18It turns it around
11:19In this industry
11:20Winning's important
11:21But it's not the only thing
11:22Creating interest for the fans
11:25That's what it's fucking all about
11:28Here's the winner
11:29In the confines of WWE
11:32A baby face is your good guy
11:35And a heel is your bad guy
11:37My government name
11:38My birth given name is Austin Watson
11:40And then when I started on the independent wrestling scene
11:44I was the Batman for a while
11:47But I was dressed in red, white, and blue
11:49And so my name eventually changed to Awesome Austin Creed
11:52Which also Austin Creed is my gamer team
11:55But then my WWE name is Xavier Woods
11:59I am a part of a group called The New Day
12:02It's easily the greatest tag team of all time
12:05The greatest trio
12:06The greatest group
12:07We took the world by storm
12:09We've been babyface for a very long time
12:11Very much the crowd favorite
12:12Very much family fun energy
12:14The members are myself
12:17Kofi Kingston and Big E
12:19A few years before now
12:33Big E had a terrible injury
12:35Where he landed on the floor
12:37On his head upside down
12:38And broke his neck
12:39And because of that
12:40He was no longer able to wrestle anymore
12:42And on December 2nd
12:43It was our 10 year anniversary
12:46And so on the day of our anniversary
12:48It's your boys
12:50The New Day
12:52He then decided to show up
12:55And it just wouldn't be the same without him
12:58You are seeing this hope of Big E
13:02The crowd's favorite person in all of wrestling more or less
13:06New Day have never truly felt like The New Day
13:09Without this man by their side
13:12I'm gonna be here to cheer for you
13:15To root for you
13:17To uplift you
13:18I'm gonna be here every single week
13:20To serve as your managers
13:29A heel turn
13:33Is when a baby face
13:35Flips to the dark side
13:37Now
13:37And they become a heel
13:40Now
13:41You wanna come back?
13:44E
13:45You left us
13:48I broke my neck
13:52Yeah you broke your neck
13:54So what?
13:55You are never going to be medically clear
14:00And since that's the case
14:04Get back to your desk
14:09Where you belong
14:11So now people despise us
14:17Because of that
14:18Because we shunned
14:19Because we told them
14:20No we don't want you to come here every week
14:21We want you to go back home
14:22Xavier's from Atlanta
14:25He got loose out of his building
14:27And now they're saying New Day sucks
14:29This chant that we have
14:32This rhythm
14:32This
14:33We had a group chat
14:35And we said we should do this chant
14:36This clap
14:37So that everybody knows
14:39That when you hear that
14:40It's us
14:40But now to hear that
14:41Turned against me
14:42We have
14:49Arenas of thousands of people
14:52Saying that we suck
14:53It
14:54It's wild
14:55Hold on hold on
14:56This is Atlanta's favorite son
14:58He's come home
15:00So now we get to
15:04Check out that
15:05Heel side of things
15:06And I want them
15:08To boo me
15:09That's what I define as success
15:11Nobody ever thought
15:14Xavier and Kofi
15:16Would become assholes
15:17And they did
15:18It's a thin line
15:19Between love and hate
15:20In this business
15:21His family
15:22Has arrived
15:23His father
15:25Alvin
15:26His mother
15:26Angelita
15:27His sister
15:27Amber
15:28Mom
15:31Dad
15:33Where have y'all been
15:34Oh my goodness
15:38Oh my goodness
15:40My sister
15:44My sister
15:46You suck
15:46Hey
15:47What
15:49Do better
15:50I cannot believe you
15:52Until we miss
15:52What a moment
15:55Little Yachty and
15:56Xavier Woods' parents
15:58Have turned
15:59Because of his actions
16:01Toward Big E
16:02And Rey Mysterio
16:03Trying to take advantage
16:05Of the distraction
16:06Cover by Rey
16:08Mysterio with the win
16:10What's wrong with him
16:21Man
16:21What's wrong
16:22I don't know
16:22I didn't raise him like that
16:24I didn't raise him like that
16:25I didn't raise him like that
16:26It's a classic big turn
16:28Got over amazingly
16:29The key to the new day
16:32Heel turn
16:32Was
16:33Not let the audience
16:35See this coming
16:36Audience loves to be surprised
16:39The hardest thing
16:41In this business now
16:42In this day and age
16:43Of
16:44Information
16:46And internet
16:47And people posting stuff
16:49And talking to their friends
16:50Who then posted
16:51And everything else
16:52Is keeping something secret
16:53There's not
16:54A show in the world
16:56From back in
16:58Dallas
16:59Dynasty
17:00Up until
17:02Game of Thrones
17:03If the scripts
17:05Would have been released
17:06Ahead of time
17:07The stories would never
17:09Have been that good
17:11I don't think people
17:12Need to know
17:13And I think the magic
17:15Is out there
17:15Under the lights
17:16I love the surprise
17:18And that's the end goal
17:21Whether your audience
17:22Is none
17:23One
17:24Or a hundred thousand
17:25For the last 20 years
17:29John Cena has been
17:30The ultimate good guy
17:31In WWE
17:32John Cena is
17:34The prototype
17:35If you will
17:35Of what you'd want
17:36A WWE superstar to be
17:37As far as your top guy
17:39Reliable
17:40Said yes to everything
17:42Just an unbelievable career
17:43Sometimes people want
17:47Some change
17:48And so you've gotten
17:48Some calls
17:49Over the years
17:50For
17:51Man wouldn't it be great
17:52If John Cena turned heel
17:53And for the longest time
17:54We decided
17:56Not to do it
17:57Because
17:57For all the make-a-wish
17:58Stuff that he did
17:59The face of the company
18:00The ambassador stuff
18:01That he did
18:02As far as the company goes
18:03That would have to be
18:03Taken away
18:04If he did something
18:06And fell to the dark side
18:07And became a heel
18:08When we looked at
18:13John's retirement
18:14We looked at
18:14How do we feature John
18:16And tell good stories
18:18Throughout the year
18:19And the easy answer is
18:21Well you feature John Cena
18:23And you put him against
18:24Marquee opponents
18:25For a year
18:26You know Cody versus Cena
18:27Good guy versus good guy
18:28Babyface versus babyface
18:30Top guy versus former top guy
18:32It's great
18:33It's a Wrestlemania main event story
18:35It's awesome
18:35I think for a while
18:37We were okay with babyface Cena
18:41Versus babyface Cody
18:42But it's always important to us
18:45To over deliver for our fans
18:47We felt we needed
18:48Elimination Chamber to perform
18:51What can we do to spruce up this show
18:53There's one move we can make here
18:55Let's call The Rock
18:57When The Rock gets called back to WWE
19:02I get called back into active duty
19:04So to speak
19:05To help work on the creative
19:07With whatever Rock's doing
19:09I used to work at WWE
19:11As a writer from 1999 to 2015
19:14Head writer from 2002 to 2012
19:17The prospect of babyface John
19:19And babyface Cody
19:21Fell a little dry to us
19:23But just looking at it from the outside
19:26Like let's throw some controlled chaos into this
19:30So myself and Rock
19:33We got together
19:34And we pitched something
19:35That was twofold
19:38I had the idea of Cody needing to be Rock's champion
19:43We had that as the hook
19:46My brother, I want your soul
19:49At Elimination Chamber on March 1st
19:53You give me your answer then
19:55We proposed Elimination Chamber
19:58Cody turning down the final boss
20:01And that was going to lead to
20:04Final boss making an impromptu title match
20:07Right then and there
20:07That resulted in Kevin Owens
20:10Who had been in a storyline
20:13With Cody during that time
20:15Leaving with the championship
20:16A new champion
20:20Kevin Owens winning the title
20:23Wasn't the end goal
20:26The takeaway was
20:27Whatever it is we do
20:29Needs to be seismic
20:31That's the big question
20:32What is Cody going to say?
20:34What is he going to do?
20:35How are you going to pay this off
20:37At Chamber?
20:38If you say to me
20:44Who said it first?
20:48I don't know
20:49Did Bruce remember?
20:53The three people that were involved
20:55Were myself
20:56Paul Levesque
20:57And Ed Kosky
20:57And
20:59And we were challenged
21:01With
21:02With an idea
21:04In a way it's like
21:05Marvel and the multiverse
21:06And all that stuff
21:07There's all these
21:08Alternative universes
21:09Where
21:09This happens
21:11Or that happens
21:12So you have to like
21:13Kind of like
21:14Play them out in your mind
21:15As to where do they go to
21:16And what is the best
21:17Rock and his team
21:19Made out the original
21:20Offer as far as
21:22You know
21:22What we could possibly do
21:23At Elimination Chamber
21:24The overall framework
21:26From Rock's team
21:27Worked
21:28The one issue we had
21:29Was
21:30Changing the championship
21:31That close to Wrestlemania
21:32All that being said
21:34The idea from Rock's team
21:35Did set the tone
21:36For how impactful
21:37This moment needed to be
21:38So we were trying to figure out
21:40What could we do
21:41The initial conversation
21:43I would say
21:44Probably consisted
21:45Of 45 minutes
21:47Just the three of us
21:48On a zoom call
21:49On a Tuesday night
21:51Just got together
21:52And basically
21:53Said like
21:56Well
21:56We've got to do this
21:57We've got to figure this out
21:58And we came up
22:01And we came up with
22:01What if scenarios
22:02What if
22:03The Rock makes an offer
22:04For Cody's soul
22:05In New Orleans
22:05Then at Elimination Chamber
22:07We wait until
22:08John Cena wins
22:09John Cena
22:11With his fourth win
22:12Inside Elimination Chamber
22:14Cody comes out
22:16To congratulate him
22:17So you've got
22:17Both guys in the ring
22:19Now Rock decides
22:21To upstage that moment
22:22And he comes out
22:24And wants his answer
22:25From Cody
22:25The moment
22:26Has arrived
22:28And I think
22:28I was the first one
22:29To say
22:29What if Cody
22:30Accepts the offer
22:31And drops John Cena
22:32And sells out to The Rock
22:33I want it all Rock
22:35And it was actually Bruce
22:41Who said
22:42What if
22:43We turn John Cena
22:55Oh yeah
22:59This is
22:59This is it
23:00It checks all the boxes
23:02Cena turning heel
23:04Adds a whole other layer
23:07To the
23:07Not just the Cody story
23:09But the whole farewell tour
23:11And the whole rest of the year
23:12If we could do that
23:14That would be awesome
23:15But we needed to get
23:16Other people on board
23:17There are five people
23:18That I talk to
23:19With a move
23:20This big
23:21That's Rock
23:23Obviously it's Cody
23:24Cena
23:25Travis Scott
23:27We want to help
23:28Build this idea around
23:29And then
23:30WWE president
23:31Of course
23:32Nick Khan
23:32So my first call
23:34Is to Nick
23:35Who's also a board member
23:36Along with Rock
23:37I run the idea by him
23:38Nick basically says
23:40Love all of it
23:41So my next reach out
23:43To that point
23:43Is to Rock
23:44I hit him with
23:48What if
23:49What if
23:50Hear me out on this
23:51And he just listened
23:52And every now and then
23:53Through the conversation
23:54He would go
23:54Mm-hmm
23:55Mm-hmm
23:57I wasn't sure
23:58If he was giving me
23:58The mm-hmm
23:59Just get to the end
24:00So I can tell you
24:00How much I hate this
24:01Or
24:01Right
24:02And I got to the end
24:04And he was like
24:05Wow
24:06Man
24:08I gotta tell you
24:09I think that's genius
24:10Like let's
24:11You know
24:11And he immediately
24:13Started riffing thoughts
24:14And ideas
24:15Right
24:15So we spent probably
24:16Like another 30 minutes
24:17On the phone together
24:18Talking about this
24:19And the more we talked about it
24:21The more we were both
24:22Getting excited about it
24:23And like into it
24:24My next conversation
24:27Is with Travis Scott
24:28I make sure Travis
24:31Is comfortable
24:31With the creative
24:32He loves it
24:34And says
24:34Let's do this
24:35Somewhere near Cody
24:41Hits me back
24:41I get with Cody
24:43When I hit him with it
24:44And he's like
24:44Like holy shit
24:46I didn't think
24:46That's what you were
24:47Going to say
24:47Blah blah blah
24:48Wow
24:48That's really cool
24:49Then
24:51I talked to John
24:54John's the best
24:56With like
24:56He's like
24:57Well before you say it
24:58Like just know
24:59If this is what you believe in
25:00I'm in
25:01I said John
25:02Okay
25:02Let's take the bullshit
25:04Hat off
25:04Now
25:05This is not
25:06They had a creative
25:08Talking to you
25:09And you know
25:10You the performer
25:11I said I am asking
25:12John Cena
25:13The human being
25:14Paul Laveck is talking
25:15To you
25:15Give me your gut
25:18This impacts
25:20John Cena
25:21The real life human being
25:22And it impacts
25:23His movies
25:23And it impacts
25:24His PR schedule
25:25And impacts everything
25:27We're honest with each other
25:28I said give me your gut
25:29You like it
25:30Or you don't
25:30And he was like
25:32I like it a lot
25:34Actually
25:34And when I hung up
25:36The phone with him
25:36Within a minute
25:37Minute and a half
25:38I've gotten like
25:39Three different texts
25:40From him
25:40Of thoughts
25:41Ideas
25:42And so I'm like
25:42He's engaged
25:44So once we get
25:45To that point now
25:46It's a coordinated effort
25:48Everybody is getting together
25:49Rock's reaching out
25:50To Cody
25:51Nick reaching out
25:51To Rock
25:52Cody's reaching out
25:53To Cena
25:53Cena's reaching out
25:54To everybody
25:55So one of the things
25:56That we all talked
25:57About on the phone
25:58Was let's keep this tight
26:00Nobody gets this information
26:02That isn't on this phone call
26:04This is a
26:11PL lead
26:11That is in a stadium
26:13It's not called
26:14Wrestlemania
26:15That alone
26:16Stadium business
26:17Is what we're in now
26:18It's a beautiful thing
26:19The main event
26:26Spot of Wrestlemania
26:27Is still undecided
26:28This year
26:30So much of it
26:31Depends on the
26:33Elimination chamber
26:34You have
26:37A who's who
26:37In an era
26:38Of who's who
26:39Vying for the opportunity
26:40To the main event
26:41Rock is very much
26:49Interlinked with my career
26:51Now
26:51It's not something
26:52I ever really had
26:53On my bingo card
26:54It's not something
26:54I really ever
26:55Could have foreseen
26:56He wants me
26:57To be his champion
26:58Representing his bidding
26:59In WWE
27:01Or he just wants to
27:02Who knows
27:04Whip me
27:04And rip my face off
27:06I think it's really fun
27:07Because this is the most
27:08Confused the WWE audience
27:11And wrestling fans
27:12And WWE universe
27:13Has ever been
27:13Just because this story
27:15Has really been a fun mystery
27:16So we'll know tonight
27:18Place is gonna be nuts
27:19I know
27:19It's giving Wrestlemania vibes
27:21Fucking crazy
27:22Yeah
27:22It's huge
27:23I don't know
27:24Sentimental value
27:26They don't work anymore
27:28At all
27:29They don't stay up
27:31No
27:31They don't
27:32Whatever
27:33Look at that
27:34Could assume
27:35Yeah still wearing
27:36The Kmart jorts
27:37Yeah
27:39Yeah
27:40These knee pads
27:42Are original
27:43OVW knee pads
27:44Because I used to have
27:45Like four or five sets
27:48That I'd wear
27:48With different gear
27:49And these are
27:50These ones
27:51Have just gone
27:52On the way through
27:52So this is
27:53This is it
27:54These are
27:542001
27:56One thing
27:57I'm not hearing yet
27:58And maybe you guys
27:59Have this
27:59And we're just doing
28:00The Reader's Digest version
28:01Cena kicking out
28:02Of something
28:03And feeling him
28:04Almost getting eliminated
28:06Those nuances
28:07To this
28:08Desperation
28:09Last match
28:10Possibly
28:11I need to feel
28:12You almost
28:12Just gotten eliminated
28:13That dream evaporated
28:15I don't think
28:16There needs to be
28:17Anything special
28:18Done with that
28:18What I don't want to do
28:19Is overtell that story
28:21No
28:22In the end
28:23It's not as
28:26It's not a
28:27Shot value
28:27What an image
28:29It is a unique position
28:30When you're looking at
28:31Seth Rollins
28:32Logan Paul
28:33Damien Priest
28:34Drew McIntyre
28:35CM Punk
28:36And John Cena
28:36And they're in a match
28:38To determine
28:39Who gets to wrestle you
28:40That's why
28:41I had an idea
28:42Where
28:43We do something
28:44And I do kick out
28:45Of the hand
28:46So your facial expressions
28:48Could be like
28:48That's what we
28:49Didn't lean into
28:49That didn't work
28:50Leading into
28:51What's he got to do
28:52And
28:53What's he willing to do
28:54In my head
28:55It's probably
28:56I'm always too cute
28:58But
28:58At the end
28:59When I get stomped
29:01My idea is
29:02You're going for the hold
29:03And I'm scrambling
29:04And I make it to the ropes
29:05And I kick you off
29:06So you land on your ass
29:08So you have a clear view
29:09Of all of it
29:10And as I'm pulling myself up
29:12Here comes a stomp
29:13Stomp
29:14That's great
29:15And you see it
29:16And then instead of
29:17Going for this
29:19Because it already
29:19Didn't work
29:20I'm already there
29:21You grab my ankle
29:22You pull me
29:23And I'm looking at him
29:26Like fuck you
29:28You know
29:28So Seth is watching
29:31As he fades
29:32Nice
29:33Can we go
29:34Can we go
29:34Can we go in the ring
29:35And we're going to
29:36Reuse this rehearsal time
29:37While we can
29:37Yes
29:37Yes
29:38We're going to leave it
29:39No they're going to
29:40Leave it down for us
29:40While we do it
29:41And then raise it
29:41You can't prepare
29:43For an Elimination Chamber match
29:45It's possibly
29:47The stupidest match
29:50That we do here
29:51The structure is
29:53Unforgiving
29:54Not in like a PR way
29:55In a very much
29:56A
29:57It hurts like hell
29:58And it doesn't move
29:59And it doesn't make any noise
30:00So
30:00It's your worst enemy
30:02Like whoever designed this
30:04Really doesn't like
30:04Human beings
30:05Or at least us
30:07It's just so high
30:09It's just so fucking high
30:11Do you think
30:11At TV that day
30:15I basically said
30:17When this match is finished
30:20There's aftermath
30:21They didn't know any of it
30:22Talent didn't know
30:24Except for people
30:24That had to be in there
30:25You know
30:26I think at that point
30:27They started thinking
30:27Well something big's
30:28Going to happen
30:29And they're just
30:30Not sure what
30:30It wasn't till
30:32The day of
30:34That he pulled me aside
30:36And he said
30:36Hey you seen this
30:37Turning heel tonight
30:38And I went
30:38That makes sense now
30:40There were so many people
30:41That are nine times
30:43Out of ten
30:43In the know
30:44That were not in the know
30:46On this one
30:46It was very
30:47Well guarded secret
30:49Let me
30:51Grab you along
30:52As quietly as we can
30:54At the very end of the night
30:56We did
30:56How we get him out of there
30:59We had a bunch of producers
31:01And referees
31:01To help him out of the ring
31:02So I'll be sitting there
31:03Going oh my god
31:04I mean I don't think
31:06They're going to fucking
31:07John's not going to cripple him
31:08He's going to beat him up
31:09Hey man
31:10How are you
31:11How are you
31:12I'm good
31:12Self
31:13Great
31:14Feeling good
31:14How's everything for you
31:15Good
31:16Good
31:16Good
31:17Good
31:17Yeah
31:17Everything's great
31:18I'd love to talk to you
31:20About a couple of things
31:21On the execution of tonight
31:23Just on
31:23Yes we should
31:24My opinion versus
31:25You know
31:26What we want to do
31:27And just hash that out
31:28I get Trav
31:30The story is
31:31But in this
31:32You're going to be way bigger
31:33Yeah
31:34I feel like
31:35As soon as he's in position
31:36We transition out of his music
31:38To your music
31:39That it just feels like
31:40The final boss
31:42Should be the last
31:43Absolute
31:44Thing
31:44Yes
31:45I love that
31:46And they're waiting
31:46That's what I'm saying
31:47Like they know
31:48Okay
31:48Okay
31:49They haven't been out yet
31:50Shit's coming
31:50Yes
31:51And let me ask you this
31:52In your mind
31:53Do you see this as
31:55You already had a plan with John
31:56Or do you see this
31:57Okay
31:58Okay
31:58Yes
31:58And I think
31:59We discussed it today
32:00We were like
32:00Is this
32:01Yeah
32:01He already talked to you John
32:03And the plan is in place
32:05Or is this
32:06John was like
32:07He told him to go
32:08Fuck that
32:09I'll take that
32:09Yeah
32:10You know what I mean
32:10I don't know which
32:11I think the whole time
32:12It's business
32:12Okay
32:13John
32:13I don't think it has to do
32:14With our souls
32:14His soul
32:15It's just business
32:16I also think
32:17What that does
32:17It puts us in a position
32:18Where then it all
32:19Becomes unpredictable
32:20Yeah
32:21If there's a moment
32:22Happening between
32:23Cody and John
32:26Do we hold on you
32:27Doing anything physical
32:28Where it's just
32:29You sort of
32:29Overseeing all the shit
32:30And I sort of felt like
32:32Leave the physical on John
32:34The heat is that
32:35You orchestrated it
32:36And sort of like
32:37In the movie
32:38The top fucking
32:39Ultimate bad guy
32:40That you've got to get through
32:41Doesn't do physical shit
32:42Until later in the film
32:43Yeah
32:44Tell me what you think of this
32:45I agree
32:45I feel like
32:46He tells me
32:47Go fuck yourself
32:48Yeah
32:48Right
32:49Let that cook
32:50Look at John
32:54Whatever the fuck it is
32:58Yeah
32:58Bang
32:59Once the beatdown happens
33:01Come in
33:03Final boss comes in
33:04Reveal the belt
33:05At that time
33:09John would have
33:10Ripped his shirt off
33:11And I think he should
33:11Go full on
33:12Yeah
33:13Hyper snooker
33:14Yeah
33:14Everything gets ripped
33:15Take 10 minutes
33:18John
33:19Hold his feet
33:19Trap
33:20Hold his arms
33:21And just one big
33:24Yeah
33:24Something like that
33:26Yeah
33:26Yes
33:27Let's all get together
33:28And chat about it
33:28Just make sure
33:29Everybody's on the same page
33:30But I'm feeling that
33:30Love it
33:31It's gonna be bonkers
33:34Bonkers
33:37Bonkers
33:37Should be good
33:39Excited
33:40The elimination chamber
33:45Slowly being lowered
33:47The survivor of this match
33:49Will face Cody Rhodes
33:50At Wrestlemania
33:52Let's go baby
34:01Come on
34:01Come on now
34:02Come on
34:03It's that time
34:03This is it
34:04It's that time
34:05Come on
34:06Woo
34:06The following
34:09Is the men's
34:11Elimination
34:13Chamber
34:15Match
34:17The gun
34:24Is here
34:25John Cena
34:27Has 10 months
34:29Left
34:29In his WWE
34:31Career
34:32You got your chapstick
34:36Ready Michael
34:37Come on
34:37Like kissing
34:39Some John Cena
34:40Ass
34:40Yeah
34:41Your lips are
34:42Whistering
34:43Well it doesn't come much bigger
34:47Than the elimination chamber
34:48And the prize for the winner
34:50Of going on to challenge
34:52Cody Rhodes
34:53At Wrestlemania
34:54Dude that is great
34:57A guy
34:57Nobody gets hurt
34:58Inside with the ring
34:59I'll fuck this one up
35:00They just broke the chamber
35:06A light fell off
35:07On the inside
35:08With the force
35:08And threw McIntyre's body
35:10And Sia Punk is just
35:12Peggy Ball
35:13It's on
35:14Oh yeah
35:15The Maverick
35:16Logan Paul
35:18Enters the chamber
35:19For the second time
35:20In his career
35:20Love him or loathe him
35:22He's always appointment viewing
35:24Because of this
35:26I like it
35:31I like it
35:32I like it
35:34Sia Punk and Cena
35:35Chomping at the pit
35:36To get into the action
35:39Cena looks like
35:42A goddamn video game character
35:43In the pod
35:44He looks like
35:45A video game character
35:47In the pod
35:47There
35:47Yeah
35:48Stay with John here
35:51It's a John comeback
35:52A couple AA's
35:53In the middle of it
35:54Stay with John
35:54John Cena
35:56Enters the final
35:57Elimination match
35:58Of his career
35:59Doing my best out there
36:01To get him
36:02All I got
36:03Every ounce of energy
36:04I'm trying to give away
36:05John Cena
36:07Takes out Paul
36:09And the goat is out of the way
36:11John Cena
36:15With a five knuckle shuffle
36:18Punk's been waiting
36:20Since Rumble for this
36:21John Cena
36:22With an opportunity
36:24To get back to Wrestlemania
36:26And perhaps win a 17th
36:28In record setting world title
36:30Punk has yet to enter
36:31He will in 15 seconds
36:33I mean let's just say it
36:35How it is
36:35This is a must win
36:36For CM Punk
36:37And now Punk
36:39Who was eliminated
36:39By Logan Paul
36:41At the Royal Rumble
36:42Gets a chance of revenge
36:44Now
36:45Now it's me over the front
36:48And we're on the way
36:51Everybody's into the matchup
36:53Two eliminations
36:54To stop
36:55Punk is fired up
37:00And he'll never get
37:01A better opportunity
37:02Than the one
37:03That has been presented
37:04To him now
37:05Carcasses lying
37:06Around the ring
37:07Bang
37:08And now
37:09CM Punk promised
37:11That Paul was gonna go to sleep
37:12GTS connects
37:14Punk cover
37:15And we are down to
37:18Three
37:19Logan Paul
37:23Has been eliminated
37:25CM Punk out here
37:27Burying the dreams
37:28Of the maverick
37:30And here we go
37:33Punk and Cena
37:34Moving such a fabric
37:36Of this company
37:37In many different ways
37:38Over the past couple
37:39Of decades
37:39Everybody's on their feet
37:41Not one person
37:43Sitting down
37:44Two of the best
37:47In history
37:48To try and see
37:49What they believe
37:50Is their destiny
37:51Cena looking for an AA
37:53CM Punk now
37:54With Rollins up
37:55We're gonna go to sleep
37:57Into a
37:59AA
38:01Cover by Punk
38:03We are down to Punk
38:06And Cena
38:07Cena and CM Punk
38:10Let us turn back the clock
38:13Some 15 years
38:16To one of the great rivalries
38:18In WWE history
38:19Two legends
38:22Two icons
38:23Two Hall of Famers
38:24One shot at Wrestlemania
38:27Oh wait
38:29Oh God
38:30Oh God
38:31Oh God
38:32A stomp by Seth Rollins
38:34A stomp onto the steel
38:36Outside of the chamber
38:38And John Cena now
38:42A desperate Cena
38:44A desperate Cena
38:45Dragging Punk
38:46Center of the ring
38:47STF is in
38:49Rollins gonna stop
38:51The Punk
38:51Punk is fading
38:53CM Punk is fading
38:55Punk trying to survive
38:58There's no fight in it
39:01Chuck Rollins
39:02Just screwed CM Punk
39:03John Cena's going to Wrestlemania
39:05Here is your winner
39:09John
39:10John
39:12John
39:13John Cena
39:17Has tied Triple H
39:19With his fourth win
39:22Inside elimination chamber
39:24What feels better to me
39:30Than them cheering
39:31Or booing
39:32Is when I know
39:33That they're satisfied
39:34They're special
39:35The surprise is special
39:36The end of that match
39:39Nobody knew
39:40John's gonna turn heel
39:41We have a truck
39:43With a director in it
39:44And you know
39:45All the technical people
39:47That need to run stuff
39:48The truck didn't know
39:51What was going to happen
39:52Take five
39:54My name is Marty Miller
39:56I'm a director
39:57I've been with the WWE
39:58Almost 30 years
39:59So basically responsible
40:01For what you see
40:02Live on television
40:04Which is the actual
40:05Cutting of cameras
40:07And the flow of the show
40:09At elimination chamber
40:11When the Cena segment
40:12Was gonna happen
40:13Paul had come to me
40:15And said
40:16Look
40:17Just follow along
40:18And everything will line up
40:19That doesn't happen every day
40:21I was on a headset
40:24I basically said
40:25Everybody lay out
40:27And I'll walk you through
40:28The shot step by step
40:29Cody's gonna come out
40:31Biggest night of
40:40The American Nightmare's life
40:42So he and John
40:44Are gonna face off
40:45When they shake hands
40:46We'll give it a second
40:47And we'll interrupt
40:48With Brock
40:49Here they come
40:50Here we go baby
40:51What's up Jack
40:56Badass
40:58Fall
41:01There's a lot of people
41:02There we go
41:03Yep
41:04Hang on
41:04And go
41:06Cut it
41:08Rock
41:08Break break
41:09Take break
41:10Push
41:10We're usually
41:18In on all the meetings
41:20We know what's gonna happen
41:21When it's gonna happen
41:22And how we're gonna try
41:22To execute that
41:23But with that particular segment
41:25We were kinda
41:27You know
41:27We were just kinda
41:28Following along
41:29They're gonna get in the ring
41:30Rock's gonna cut a promo
41:31Cody's gonna cut a promo
41:32He's going to tell Rock
41:35To fuck
41:35Go fuck himself
41:37I'm okay not clipping it
41:38Okay
41:40Everyone needs to let this air
41:42Cody and John
41:44They're gonna hug
41:45They're gonna disengage
41:47And from there
41:49As long as you're on
41:50A wide two shot
41:51You'll see what happens
41:52I cut it in real time
41:59Big decision for that man
42:02Cody Rhodes
42:04The moment
42:05Has arrived
42:07So Rock's got a promo
42:10Cody's got a rebuttal
42:11That ends in
42:12Go fuck yourself
42:12I want your mind
42:15I want your soul
42:18I need your soul
42:21If the answer's yes
42:24Then the American nightmare
42:25Will live forever
42:27If your answer is no
42:30Then tonight
42:31The dream dies
42:34My soul
42:38No longer belongs to me
42:41I gave my soul
42:44To this ring
42:45And these people
42:47A long time ago
42:49Hey Rock
42:53Go fuck yourself
42:56What
42:59One of the most shocking things
43:03I've ever heard said
43:04In the history
43:05Of saying things
43:06Yeah don't get too tight here
43:09Watch for Cody
43:12And Cena
43:12Rock's gonna start to walk
43:13And watch for Cody
43:14And Cena
43:15To go for the handshake
43:16And the hug
43:16Ready for it
43:17Ready here it is
43:18Two
43:19Give two camera
43:20Two camera
43:21John's face
43:22Take three
43:23Rock's face
43:25Take three
43:26Take three
43:27Big shot
43:28Everybody
43:29What the
43:48Oh my god
43:50John
43:51What the hell
43:51Are you doing
43:52So listen to me
43:54John is going to
43:55Beat the shit out of him
43:57Stay on Cena
43:59John
44:01What the hell
44:02Cena
44:04With brass knuckles
44:06It's a Rolex
44:08It's a Rolex
44:09Cole
44:10John
44:12John
44:13You wanna go out
44:15Like this
44:16Let me see Cody's face
44:20Cody's face
44:21Retreat the three
44:22See
44:23Fighter
44:23Here on Travis
44:25Watch Travis
44:26Somebody stop this
44:30Cena
44:32Cena
44:33Cena
44:33After everything
44:35He's accomplished
44:35In his career
44:36He's gonna stoop
44:37To this shit
44:38This is one of the most
44:40Disgusting
44:42Displays
44:43That I've ever witnessed
44:44Nope
44:48So we're all the way
44:48Down to the end
44:49We're gonna get a three
44:50Shot of him
44:51At the end of the walkway
44:52Take six
44:52Take six
44:54Nice shit guys
45:02Fucking A
45:06It was like
45:08A really cool moment
45:10For all of us
45:10There's very few moments
45:12In time where that happens
45:13John Cena turns heel
45:16If that got out
45:19We wouldn't be having
45:21This conversation right now
45:23Cause it wouldn't have been
45:24That big a deal
45:25But when you hold it
45:27As tight as you can
45:28You get the honest
45:31Reaction of the audience
45:33Thank you
45:37Let's uh
45:41Take a ride
45:42Hey
45:44That was fucking awesome
45:45Feel good?
45:46Yeah
45:46Fucking incredible
45:47There was a collective gasp
45:51From the audience
45:52When they saw
45:54Cena's face
45:55And his expression
45:56Change
45:57That's where the money is
45:59That's why you have to be able
46:01To keep secrets
46:02And it's harder to do now
46:05Than ever
46:05Hey, that was awesome
46:07Dude, that was awesome
46:07Good shit
46:08In a million years
46:09In his retirement year
46:10There's no way
46:11John was turning heel
46:12You guys had no idea, right?
46:14No
46:14Yeah
46:14We hadn't killed anybody
46:15This is all
46:16Paul Levesque
46:17Dwayne Johnson
46:19John Cena
46:20Cody Rhodes
46:21Rock's creative team
46:23Our creative team
46:24And ultimately our fans
46:25And their response to it
46:27It made magic
46:28To me, that's the purest form
46:32Of what we do
46:33When
46:36Gotcha
46:37The moment he held
46:40And looked at me
46:41And I went
46:41Yeah, yeah, yeah
46:43Oh, yeah
46:45No
46:48No
46:49No
46:50I have never once
47:17Not been surprised
47:18By our audience
47:19They're incredible
47:21They all just want
47:22To be involved, man
47:23This is one of the
47:29This is one of the most
47:30Disgusting displays
47:34That I've ever witnessed
47:35I hate them so much
47:39I hate them
47:40Oh, I heard it
47:48Boom
47:49Yeah, yeah
47:50There was nothing
47:52I could do
47:55Hey
48:03Are you okay?
48:06I'm good
48:07Are you good?
48:07It's always crazy
48:09Being in there
48:09I know you've been
48:10In front of the biggest
48:11Crowds in the world
48:11It's a nuts scenario
48:12Out there
48:13Well, that's it
48:21You got the fever
48:22Bro
48:23Anytime
48:24And whenever the next segment is
48:26Whatever it may be
48:27I'm here for you
48:28So whatever you need
48:29As far as the heel turn goes
48:30I appreciate the question
48:32But anything in the realm
48:35Of what we do
48:35I don't like to spoil it
48:37WrestleMania season
48:40Just got a whole lot
48:42Different
48:43John Cena walks away
48:44As your winner
48:45Is headed
48:45To WrestleMania
48:46When I give you this information
48:49If I do
48:50It might
48:51Spoil it
48:52For somebody
48:53Do you understand?
48:59Many other performers talk
49:01About the dopamine rush of
49:04When your music hits the noise
49:08I much more prefer the surprise
49:12Is that the answer
49:14You're looking for?
49:15It's the answer you get
49:16Alright
49:17I bet
49:18Very good
49:42Opa
49:47Ho
50:04Ho
50:05Ho
50:07Ho
50:08Ho
50:09Ho
50:09Ho
50:09Ho
50:11Ho
50:11Ho
50:11Ho
50:12Ho
50:12Ho
50:12Ho Ho
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