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02:56I'm
02:58I'm just a
03:00I'm just a Jew boy from the Bronx.
03:02How do I reveal myself just as me?
03:06I've never haven't done it in 40 something years except at home.
03:10And, and Van Damme says in his eloquent manner.
03:25So, I
03:26I
03:27I figured I
03:28I gotta, I gotta figure this out. I gotta ask someone who would understand what would I, myself, you know, just, just Paul, no middle name Haman is like.
03:36So, so I asked my son, Jacob, who's sitting right there.
03:46Next to his sister Azalea, my daughter.
03:52And they're sitting next to a man for whom I have indescribable respect.
03:58And, and
04:00I said to my son, Jacob, how
04:04do I present myself as me?
04:06And, and Jacob picked his head up and he said,
04:12Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:14Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:16The rest of the stash is in the car.
04:18And
04:20I said to my son, Jacob, how
04:22do I present myself as me?
04:24And, and Jacob picked his head up and he said,
04:26Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:28Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:30Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:32Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:36The rest of the stash is in the car.
04:38Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:40Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:42Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:44Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:46Ask Van Damme, Dad!
04:47I'm the beneficiary of mass praise for doing with my life exactly what I wanted to do with my life.
05:01I
05:07get to work
05:09with the men
05:11and the women
05:13in this beautiful
05:15performance art
05:17known as sports
05:19and professional
05:21wrestling.
05:23I
05:33am the first pick,
05:35the first person announced,
05:37the first headliner in a class completely picked by Paul Levesque.
05:45only one person can drive the car out of chaos.
05:58only one person can drive the car out of chaos only one person can assume true control of the
06:11locker room and the leadership that was sorely needed by the men and the women in this beautiful
06:19performance art has been bestowed upon us by that man sitting right there Paul Levesque
06:27of course I always break the rules when I come out here and do these promos and the one thing
06:42that Paul Levesque asked me was hey please don't speak about me but the way that this man had has
06:52assumed the pencil of this company and has led us to a creative freedom backstage where more
07:02are emerging into the main events in front of your very eyes
07:09and the manner in which he will let me tell you for prosperity into that camera for the rest of my life
07:23I will be a Paul Levesque guy
07:28role Cruz
07:32roleせ
07:36role
07:39role
07:45role
07:49role
07:51choose
07:55I will also call to your attention that his lovely bride, Stephanie, is here this evening.
08:16If my daughter grows up to be half the woman that Stephanie is, I assure you,
08:22I will have raised a great lady in my household.
08:29I would also like to call to your attention that Stephanie is wearing a cap adorned with the letters ECW.
08:41I think at this point, after all these years, it's time for Stephanie to admit she married the wrong Paul.
09:00If you'll indulge me for just a moment, and then we'll get to ECW.
09:13If you'll indulge me for just a moment, and then we'll get to ECW.
09:26To my children.
09:33This is what I want you to do with your lives.
09:49It's not about the money. I don't mean to do it on television.
09:54I don't mean that you get to sit in the front row with these luminaries whose accomplishments in life and in this industry pale by comparison to what I've done.
10:08And by the way, if anybody here screws with you, you're two seats down from Haku.
10:18It's not about the money.
10:33It's about being worthy of people's respect.
10:40It's about being worthy of their admiration.
10:44It's about pursuing your dreams and failing and going after them again and again and again and again and failing 101 times and succeeding on the 101st.
10:58It's about waking up the next morning and you can't wait to get into it because the world just isn't fucking ready for you.
11:16Pursue your dreams.
11:18Pursue your happiness.
11:20And I promise you one day you will be standing on a podium in front of a group of your peers and your fans and your friends and your family and your children.
11:34And you will hear the love for the body of work that you put together with the true passion of your lives.
11:48I have been an orator for 40 years of my life.
11:51My father was a far greater orator than I could ever hope to be.
11:57And I will never find the words to convey to the two of you how much I desperately love you both.
12:06If you'll indulge me for one more moment I would just like to publicly say I so wish my mother was here tonight to see this.
12:25I so wish my father was here tonight to see this.
12:53I so wish your father was here tonight to see this too.
13:21I love me too.
13:45Well, I think that covers all the mush, right?
13:57I guess now it's time to talk about ECW.
14:47Holy shit, the real one.
14:52I think I broke this over the head of Sting
14:55when Rick Rude became the United States Heavyweight Champion
15:01and fucked up a company called WCW.
15:17There comes a time
15:37in the life of every man
15:42where he has to accept reality.
15:46The reality to this man
15:48is that in 1993,
15:51this industry sucked.
15:54Oh, we had your plumbers
15:58and we had your garbage men
16:00and we had your clowns running around.
16:03But what happened
16:04to the love of the art
16:07of professional wrestling?
16:08I was a kid running around
16:13both way into the back
16:15of Madison Square Garden
16:16and all I could think of was,
16:19man, let me get my hands on this
16:22and I will show them away.
16:24I will show them the way
16:26this business.
16:27Shut up, kid.
16:28Shut up, kid.
16:29Shut up, kid.
16:30Yeah, all right.
16:31Here's what happened.
16:33I go to WCW.
16:34They wouldn't listen
16:35to your wise man.
16:37And I said, well, okay.
16:38We need to find some place
16:40that will accept these ideas,
16:41that will accept this vision,
16:43that will look into the future,
16:44that will bring hip-hop
16:46into wrestling,
16:47that will bring heavy metal
16:49into wrestling,
16:50that will bring sexy women
16:52fighting each other
16:53and real men
16:54bashing each other
16:55right in the face.
16:56We need to put people
16:57through tables.
16:58We need to climb the ladder
17:00all the way up to the top.
17:01We need to create
17:03the tribe
17:04of the extreme.
17:10And it would never have happened
17:12any other place
17:14but in Philadelphia.
17:24Where did Stone Cold Steve Austin
17:27drink his first beer?
17:29Right down the road
17:31in a bingo hall
17:32on the corner
17:33of Swanson and Wittner
17:35called the ECW Arena.
17:41Where did Eric Bischoff
17:44get the whole idea
17:46for cruiserweights,
17:47Ray Mysterio,
17:49and Ciccosex?
17:50Where?
17:51Right down the road
17:52on the corner
17:52of Swanson and Wittner
17:53on the wrong side
17:55of the train track
17:56called the ECW Arena.
17:58Where did the Dudleys say
18:03you're going through
18:04the table tonight
18:05and everybody's
18:07going to like it
18:08so D-Von
18:09get the
18:10table.
18:11Oh!
18:18Where did Rob Van Dam
18:20light up an audience
18:20as much as he was
18:21lighting up the joints
18:22backstage
18:23and ECW?
18:35Bubba Ray Dudley
18:36says it best.
18:38ECW wasn't meant to last.
18:40We were meant to go out
18:40in a blaze of glory.
18:41We were Napster.
18:42We were here to change
18:43the business.
18:44We were here to disrupt
18:45the industry.
18:46And it's exactly
18:47what we did.
18:48For those of you
18:50who say
18:51that the concept
18:52of extreme
18:53died
18:54on the corner
18:55of Swanson
18:56and Wittner
18:56I beg to disagree.
19:00For those of you
19:01who will say
19:02that ECW
19:05lives no more
19:07I respectfully disagree
19:10with your assessment.
19:12And for those of you
19:13who don't realize
19:15that ECW
19:15is alive today
19:17in the matches
19:18that are performed
19:19in front of you
19:20in the concepts
19:21that have been adopted
19:22by the entire industry
19:24in the passion
19:25of the fan base
19:26that still comes today
19:27to WWE
19:29and any other
19:30wrestling promotion
19:31on the face
19:31of this planet.
19:34If you think
19:35that the spirit
19:36of ECW
19:38died
19:39in a bankruptcy
19:40court in 2001
19:42you can
19:43have a seat
19:55to the end
20:01of the day
20:02to the top
20:03of the week
20:03and to the point
20:04that you
20:05will ring the
20:06into the end
20:07of the day
20:07and to the end
20:09CM Punk just leaned over to my son
20:15and said, your dad just got himself
20:17cancelled again
20:18and here's the funny part of it all
20:25ladies and gentlemen
20:26they ain't gonna cancel me
20:29because they know if they do
20:30I'm coming back bigger, badder
20:33stronger than ever before
20:35they cancelled me and WCW
20:40I became the manager of the Samoan SWAT team
20:45they cancelled me with the Samoan SWAT team
20:47I became the manager of Mean Mark
20:50who I then passed on to Bruce Prichard
20:52behind WCW's back
20:54and he is forever the Undertaker
20:57they cancelled me with Mean Mark
21:01and I become Jim Ross' color commentator
21:03because somebody had to show that
21:05Okie had to do announcing
21:07when they cancelled me as a commentator
21:11I came back with the Dangerous Alliance
21:14when they cancelled me out of WCW
21:17I came back with ECW
21:21when they cancelled ECW
21:24I came to WWE
21:26and who do I end up with?
21:28the 1 in 21 and 1
21:32Barack Lesnar
21:36and when the entire world got cancelled out
21:50by the zombie apocalypse
21:51that we've come to know as the pandemic
21:54and Brock Lesnar went home to Saskatchewan
21:58to kill things that he could put on the plate
22:01to feed his family
22:02that wasn't a knock on Hardcore Holly
22:07for those of you who don't understand
22:12Google it bitches
22:14I'm not here to educate you tonight
22:16and then
22:20I got cancelled
22:21as the executive director
22:23of Monday Night Raw
22:24and here I am in my mid-50s
22:27and my 800 pound gorilla
22:28is home in Saskatchewan
22:30and I'm out of any creative influence
22:32and you think
22:34I've been cancelled
22:36and I'm swimming in the ocean of obscurity
22:41and I'm rescued onto the island of relevancy
22:45by your tribal chief
22:49the head of the table
22:51the goat
22:53the greatest of all time
22:56Roman Reigns
23:00for the young men and women
23:11sitting around this ring
23:12and up on that stage
23:14the message tonight is simple
23:17they can't cancel you
23:20only you can cancel you
23:23only you can stop yourself
23:26from living out your dreams
23:29only you can let them cancel you
23:33I've been cancelled a hundred times
23:36in this business
23:37I'll come back a hundred and one
23:39they cancel me on a hundred and one
23:40I'll come back bigger
23:41better stronger
23:42more extreme and wiser
23:44in a hundred and two
23:45I have the honor
23:50and the privilege
23:52of working not only
23:54with Roman Reigns
23:56and the Usos
23:58and Solo
23:59and a Samoan dynasty
24:02that will rule for hundreds of years to come
24:06I work with the future of this business
24:09I get to work with Braun Breaker
24:13I get to work with Rhea Ripley
24:18I get to work with Carmelo Hayes
24:23I get to work with Trick Williams
24:26I get to work with Jade Cargill
24:29and I see the things in them
24:35that I saw the generation before them
24:38with Steve Austin
24:40and The Undertaker
24:41and Rikishi
24:42and CM Punk
24:45and Seth Rollins
24:46and Becky Lynch
24:48and she's sitting behind me
24:51and I'm probably next to her wonderful husband
24:55her biggest fan in the world
24:56I've gotten to work with Charlotte Flair
24:59so let's take this bitch home
25:09shall we
25:10ladies
25:14and gentlemen
25:17my name
25:19is Paul
25:21Haming
25:22welcome
25:23to the class of 2024
25:27Paul
25:28of fame
25:30I stand before you
25:31not only
25:32as the former advocate
25:34for
25:35Barack
25:36Lesnar
25:37I stand before you
25:39as the best friend
25:41and biggest fan
25:42of Chicago's very own
25:44CM Punk
25:47and I stand before you
25:50as special counsel
25:52and a wise man
25:53and a wise man
25:53to the reigning
25:55defending
25:56undisputed
25:57WWE
25:58universal
26:00heavyweight champion
26:02Roman
26:04Reigns
26:06I'm blown up
26:14I have to pee
26:15I've taken too long
26:18and I assure you of this
26:20this is not a lifetime achievement award
26:23I know everybody says
26:25I'm just getting started
26:26you ain't seen nothing yet
26:27yo bitches
26:28I'm just getting started
26:30you ain't seen nothing yet
26:33there's more disruption
26:35of this industry
26:36pumping through this heart
26:38and I guarantee you
26:41we're gonna disrupt it
26:43all over again
26:46and that's
26:49not
26:50a
26:50prediction
26:51that's
26:53a
26:54spoiler
27:16I'll see you
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