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00:00:06The reality of how much I was going to have to lie to all the people that I care about
00:00:13hadn't really hit me. You know, I can lie to the fans. That's fine. That's part of the business.
00:00:21Lying to, like, my friends and family. And so when it happened, everybody's texting me.
00:00:30And now a moonsault lands on his feet.
00:00:32Oh, fuck. Get Doc in there. Get Doc in there.
00:00:36That is a bleak sight seeing Seth freaking Rollins down and out.
00:00:44And he's not responding to anybody because, you know, he's going through all of this.
00:00:52So everybody's like, how's he doing? His dad is texting me. And I'm like, do I have to like your
00:00:58dad?
00:00:59Like, who do I have to lie to? So I was like breaking out in hives.
00:01:06I think she didn't anticipate having to be an accomplice. I think that part didn't occur to her until the
00:01:13night of.
00:01:14And she's the one answering all the texts while I'm, you know, ignoring them all.
00:01:18I'm much better. I'm a much better liar than she is. She'll be honest with you on that.
00:01:23She's a terrible liar.
00:01:24My manager called me and he's like, how's he doing? Is he okay? What's going on?
00:01:30Is he going to be all right? And I'm like, um, uh, yeah, he'll be fine.
00:01:37He'll be fine, you know? He's going to be fine.
00:01:40You know, and that was like my way of like not, of towing the line, of like not lying, but
00:01:46lying, you know?
00:01:48Okay, next time, just fucking don't tell me.
00:01:51Hmm?
00:01:52Just don't fucking tell me.
00:01:53With what?
00:01:55What's up?
00:01:56I got a fucking, you know, I got a fucking lie to everybody.
00:01:58I got a fucking lie to everybody.
00:02:00I got a fucking lie.
00:02:04Did, did, uh, did you know about it beforehand or after?
00:02:08Yeah, yeah.
00:02:08Okay.
00:02:19Any time I would go into public where there was a possibility that a picture might get out, we were
00:02:25on the crutches with the brace.
00:02:27Crutches were the fucking worst.
00:02:30I have stairs to go to my house.
00:02:32I couldn't do legs at the gym.
00:02:34I flew commercial in a GD brace.
00:02:37You know, you'd stop security.
00:02:38They got to pat the whole thing down.
00:02:40It was obnoxious.
00:02:43Everybody, except my daughter, played their role perfectly.
00:02:47She tried to ruin it immediately.
00:02:49You know, I told her, oh, daddy's got to pretend boo-boo.
00:02:52He doesn't really have a boo-boo.
00:02:53But eventually, she'll tell everyone, daddy doesn't have a boo-boo.
00:02:56And I'll go, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:02:58And everybody will go, oh.
00:03:00Literally the first day, send her into this little summer camp.
00:03:04She does her thing for a few hours.
00:03:05She comes back.
00:03:06She's got this teacher, Miss Joy.
00:03:08She says, I told Miss Joy that you had a pretend boo-boo.
00:03:11I said, no, Rue, you can't do that.
00:03:14She goes, na-na, na-na, boo-boo.
00:03:16I told Miss Joy.
00:03:18Oh.
00:03:22Miss Joy was in the inner circle from day one.
00:03:24And she kept up her end of the bargain, too.
00:03:26Appreciate that, Miss Joy.
00:03:40SummerSlam has always been arguably the second largest event that WWE does.
00:03:47The big tentpole event is the only way that I can think to say it.
00:03:51One of the greatest wrestling matches of all time has their second place here at SummerSlam.
00:04:01You run these big epic storylines through the summer.
00:04:05They peak at SummerSlam.
00:04:07Ray Mysterio has his son back.
00:04:10Oh, broke this on her side.
00:04:13Oh, my God.
00:04:14Give him the earth.
00:04:17History of the business as we move forward.
00:04:19There was so much talent, so much storytelling that could be done.
00:04:24This year, for the first time, SummerSlam now is a two-night event.
00:04:31In laying out the card for SummerSlam, we knew that night one would be headlined by Gunther
00:04:37defending the world title against CM Punk, with obviously the Seth Rollins cash-in surprise
00:04:42included with that, and also Jelly Roll teaming up with Randy Orton to take on Logan Paul and
00:04:49Drew McIntyre.
00:04:50One of the numerous benefits of working with an outside performer like a Jelly Roll is
00:04:55that they have different opportunities outside of our world in which they can promote WWE.
00:05:01We found out that Jelly Roll was actually going to be hosting an episode of the Jimmy Kimmel
00:05:05show, and thought that'd be a perfect opportunity to use it as a platform to kind of promote
00:05:10Jelly's tag match at SummerSlam.
00:05:13I guess we're going to go to commercial break.
00:05:15Commercial break it is.
00:05:17Oh, actually, no, I don't think we're going to go to commercial break.
00:05:22You, my friend, are a greasy, redneck prison rat.
00:05:28Who the f*** is this?
00:05:29Shut the hell up, Jelly Roll.
00:05:31There's your receipt, stupid.
00:05:32Hey, congrats.
00:05:33It's Logan Paul's show now.
00:05:35A real superstar.
00:05:36So, ladies and gentlemen, you want to see a real star?
00:05:40I'm here.
00:05:41Why don't you leave, huh?
00:05:53Getting involved in SummerSlam scared me.
00:05:56I haven't felt fear like that in a long time.
00:05:59I mean, it scared me.
00:06:00It kept me up at night some nights.
00:06:01I'd wake up out of sleeps about it.
00:06:03I wasn't nervous.
00:06:05That's something you feel before a concert.
00:06:06That's healthy.
00:06:07I was scared of, um, I was scared of being rejected.
00:06:16And I haven't had that fear in a long time, neither.
00:06:18It reminded me of, like, the early bar shows.
00:06:21Like, I don't really know how they're going to feel about me out here.
00:06:31You got 20 seconds for me to run somebody?
00:06:33Yes, sir.
00:06:34Is it too early in the day to talk about our finish?
00:06:37No?
00:06:39No?
00:06:39Don't go out here yet.
00:06:41You want to go heels up?
00:06:44I'm not opposed to it.
00:06:45I'm still mulling it over.
00:06:47I've got all the details.
00:06:48I'm weighing out the overall card.
00:06:51Do I need a babyface moment, or do I need a down moment that late in the show?
00:06:56If you ask me where I'm at right now, I'm 60-40, you go down.
00:07:01We get heels up, 60-40.
00:07:03But I want to feel that out for a little bit.
00:07:06I was campaigning to lose.
00:07:08Because we were also trying to clearly tell the story of a man that was unqualified to be in there.
00:07:11Well, I've been thrown through, like, 12, 15 tables getting ready for this.
00:07:15But I haven't actually been through an announcer table with somebody jumping me.
00:07:19You lay on this table just to feel what it's like?
00:07:21I bug y'all, man.
00:07:22I just, I don't want the first time I lay on it before I go through it to be in
00:07:25front of 60,000 people and have no clue what the fuck it feels like.
00:07:28This is the only thing that I'm going to do tonight that I haven't got to try at all.
00:07:34I have no clue how bad it is or isn't going to hurt.
00:07:36I just keep thinking about how far that jump is and how big Logan is.
00:07:40So it's kind of like a little bit like this, but also at an angle.
00:07:43So he'll come, boom.
00:07:44No, no, no, not that angle.
00:07:46Because he'll be coming ahead this way.
00:07:48I'll be on that table, right?
00:07:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:52Yeah, you'll be fine.
00:07:54And then just...
00:07:55Boom.
00:07:55Yep.
00:07:57This thing will break.
00:07:58Mm-hmm.
00:07:59Tuck the chin.
00:07:59It's a clean bump, right?
00:08:00Yep, yep, yep.
00:08:02I'll be okay.
00:08:03We'll be all right.
00:08:04My wife will be sitting right there.
00:08:05She's going to shit herself.
00:08:07She's going to lose her mind, dude.
00:08:10You got any words or advice for me here?
00:08:12Kind of sit up a little bit on impact.
00:08:15Sit up a little bit before impact.
00:08:17Well, I heard you.
00:08:18Yep.
00:08:19Just a little bit.
00:08:20Yeah.
00:08:21Kind of tighten up.
00:08:21Yeah, it'll be a snug shot.
00:08:24It may knock the wind out of you, but you'll be fine.
00:08:27You know, later.
00:08:29For sure.
00:08:31I got a minute to sail here.
00:08:32You probably won't feel much of it in the moment when you cool off.
00:08:38That's when you'll feel it.
00:08:40When the adrenaline comes out.
00:08:42When I go back there and sit down, I'm going to feel every one of these.
00:08:44Yes, you are.
00:08:45And you're going to feel it even more tomorrow when you wake up.
00:08:51Feeling good?
00:08:51Yes.
00:08:52So I got to say, at Saturday's main events, I felt really bad for Seth.
00:08:57Seth Rollins?
00:08:58Yeah, I felt really bad for him.
00:08:59Why?
00:08:59Then I came to you and it was like, hey, man, he's out.
00:09:02If you need me.
00:09:03Yeah.
00:09:03And you just didn't even acknowledge it at all.
00:09:05That it was like, hey, man.
00:09:07Suffice obvious.
00:09:08Yeah.
00:09:10Yeah.
00:09:10Look, I don't like giving people information they don't need.
00:09:14No, no, no.
00:09:14It's all good.
00:09:14Yeah, yeah.
00:09:15It's all good.
00:09:15I think of it myself anyway.
00:09:16I wanted to tell you about it.
00:09:17It's funny because in the first moment, I didn't have any mail.
00:09:19I didn't think of it like, hey.
00:09:21I don't know.
00:09:22I believed everybody.
00:09:22It was like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:09:24Poor guy.
00:09:24Yeah, yeah.
00:09:25And you know what we're doing tonight, right?
00:09:28Yeah.
00:09:30Hey, son.
00:09:31Good.
00:09:32Good, you?
00:09:33So, aftermath?
00:09:35Yeah, a second.
00:09:35We'll talk about it again.
00:09:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:09:37So, we want to paint the picture where you go over,
00:09:40but you're exhausted.
00:09:42You finally have that moment.
00:09:43We're getting Gunther out.
00:09:44You finally get the fucking year on your knees or whatever that is
00:09:47and they finally get that title and they have that emotional moment
00:09:49like, fuck, you fucking did it.
00:09:51You know what I mean?
00:09:51And as emotional as possible, I'm going to get a camera in the ring
00:09:54to make it look like we're going off the air, you know?
00:09:57You can fucking get up on your feet and you finally just give me that moment
00:09:59where you fucking look and just, before you even get it up,
00:10:04here he comes.
00:10:05And I feel like, you know, you take your time on all that too.
00:10:09Like, you fucking can't fucking believe it.
00:10:12You cry if you can and, you know what I mean?
00:10:15As emotional as fucking possible.
00:10:16As soon as you just do this, it's like, fuck.
00:10:19I will milk that till it is bone dry.
00:10:24Bobby Likudny plans for post-match.
00:10:29Sounds awesome.
00:10:30Sounds good.
00:10:32Yeah, I felt like if you went through a war, you know, you went through a war,
00:10:35can barely get up and fucking, but you've overcome and all that shit.
00:10:39And holy shit, he finally fucking did it.
00:10:40Here's your moment.
00:10:41Bang.
00:10:43We are live at the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets,
00:10:47the finals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
00:10:51A neighborhood which has hosted a number of Summer Slams,
00:10:54but tonight makes history with the first ever epic two-night event.
00:11:00Over 50,000 WWE fans are expected tonight for the 38th annual Summer Slam.
00:11:13One minute to party.
00:11:15Hey, just take your time.
00:11:17We're in no rush, so don't feel like you got to rush.
00:11:19Take your time going up the stairs.
00:11:20Take your time doing all of it and have fun.
00:11:22All right?
00:11:23Let's go.
00:11:25Let's do it.
00:11:26It's so nice meeting you.
00:11:27All right.
00:11:28Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:30Hello, it's me.
00:11:32Hello, it's me.
00:11:33Hello, it's me.
00:11:35Hello.
00:11:55What's good, WWE Universe?
00:12:01Who's made a website?
00:12:28I have more tears in my head.
00:12:31Yeah, they count for me, they understand, they talk to me.
00:12:36Jelly Roll weighs in at 299 pounds, the lightest in many, many years.
00:12:41Jelly Roll has been doing all the right things.
00:12:44He's been training with some of the absolute best.
00:12:47What he hasn't done is actually have a match.
00:12:51They talk to me.
00:12:57As the bell rings, Jelly Roll tags himself in.
00:13:01We're going to have to see what Jelly Roll has learned over the past number of weeks as he starts
00:13:06things off.
00:13:07I'm about to get a little flurry here from Jelly Roll.
00:13:13And a big elbow by Jelly drops Paul.
00:13:21Don't get a tag to the big drink.
00:13:24Now the game changes.
00:13:25Yeah, Jelly, you might want to make a tag now to Mr. Orton while you have the opportunity, because here
00:13:29comes McIntyre.
00:13:32Randy trying to psych up Jelly Roll.
00:13:37Now they realize he made a mistake.
00:13:41It is every celebrity's dream to get in this ring until you face reality.
00:13:49Want to put Jelly on the table?
00:13:52Look at your big table spot.
00:13:55Oh man, this is, things are getting out of control here.
00:13:59There's no way to feel what this is going to feel like.
00:14:01I look up and I see him clap those two water bottles together.
00:14:07I'm petrified at this moment.
00:14:12Don't be sick! Don't be sick! Don't be sick! Don't be sick!
00:14:22Jelly Roll is going to rue the day that he wanted to become a WWE superstar.
00:14:35Check on everybody, please.
00:14:38the medical personnel at ringside have got jelly roll to his feet everybody's good everybody's good
00:14:45a two-on-one situation logan paul drew mcintyre continue to pummel away on
00:14:53logan paul laughing and mocking at jelly roll
00:15:00me and shane the producer shane we talked about it all night like this is where windsor dies when
00:15:06you turn around it's either going to be one of the pops of the night or it'll fall flat
00:15:17when i turned around for that comeback it was like it happened
00:15:24i don't know what jelly's thinking he's trying to drag himself back in
00:15:32we gotta applaud jelly roll to not leave his partner high and dry here in this match
00:15:38randy orton is gonna tag in jelly roll and here he comes
00:15:44and jelly roll with a clothesline
00:15:48just fighting on pure adrenaline here
00:15:51watch for the claymore stay here stay here
00:15:56claymore
00:15:58logan paul up top
00:16:04for the win
00:16:09well there's no fairy tale ending for our celebrity here tonight
00:16:14he showed us all something here jelly roll went out on his shield
00:16:22that was awesome
00:16:23it was great
00:16:25first of all shout out to triple h for believing it
00:16:27right because imagine there's a 480 pound musician and gorilla taking up the space of three men
00:16:33going dude i'm gonna lose a bunch of weight and kick a wrist and match i've been a fan my
00:16:37whole life
00:16:37and triple h believe me
00:16:40love you
00:16:41i'm in brother i'm in fucking in
00:16:43congratulations
00:16:44love you
00:16:45you're fucking
00:16:46you said you will you worked your fucking ass off man
00:16:48i know i made a couple mistakes but i did pretty good
00:16:50but dude nobody even noticed those
00:16:52i only say this to people that get it
00:16:54respect
00:16:55respect
00:16:55fucking respect
00:16:56okay
00:16:57thank you
00:16:57fuck yeah
00:17:04are you on your bus
00:17:07yes
00:17:08so i'll come out to see you
00:17:10let's make sure it's exactly how we want it
00:17:13and the next time we come in we're going for it
00:17:19punk wins
00:17:22we get the title in punk's hands
00:17:27when he lifts the title in the air to give it to the audience that chanted his name for 10
00:17:32years
00:17:33we hit your music
00:17:35talk through an hour later
00:17:36i'll talk to you now
00:17:37okay
00:17:38we're doing a cash in okay
00:17:39okay
00:17:39so seth is coming back
00:17:41so when you get to the bottom of the ramp
00:17:43just kind of wait
00:17:44because seth is going to come out
00:17:45we come out on the stage
00:17:47i have the briefcase
00:17:49you're on crutches
00:17:50crutches and the brace
00:17:53seth is coming down and seth is going to grab you
00:17:55he's going to slide in
00:17:56he's going to whack punk a bunch of times
00:17:58he's going to come to you
00:17:59say he's going to cash in
00:18:01walking up for the fucking best in the world baby
00:18:03are you cracking him with the briefcase
00:18:05oh yeah
00:18:06i can't wait
00:18:07many times
00:18:08if i can
00:18:10stomp
00:18:11you do the cash in
00:18:12he's going to stomp him
00:18:12you count the one two three
00:18:13oh on the ring
00:18:14we do that okay
00:18:15thank you
00:18:16we stay in the ring
00:18:18we stay in the ring
00:18:19we stand over the dead body
00:18:21get the heat
00:18:22get out one time
00:18:23you call it
00:18:24we'll go with your gut
00:18:25that's great
00:18:26yeah i like that
00:18:33from chicago
00:18:35illinois
00:18:37see
00:18:39him
00:18:42you can have all the cockiness
00:18:44and arrogance
00:18:45in the world
00:18:46when you're in your 20s
00:18:48but right now
00:18:49old father time
00:18:50is catching up with cm punk
00:18:52it's a win now situation
00:18:54jess i don't know exactly how it's going to go
00:18:57but just be at the bottom of the ramp
00:18:58so if seth points at you
00:18:59or grabs you
00:19:00just go along with it
00:19:08sun's gone to hell
00:19:09the moon's riding high
00:19:11and we are ready
00:19:12and we are ready for a main event
00:19:13for the ages here
00:19:18oh
00:19:19oh my goodness
00:19:22again
00:19:22a shotgun-like blast
00:19:25stay here
00:19:26i'm going to get a chop fast
00:19:27my gutter
00:19:28and now a chop to the back
00:19:30and punk's in trouble now
00:19:32keep chopping
00:19:33one in the belly
00:19:33the body of cm punk is being broken down
00:19:36before our eyes
00:19:38stacks him up to retain
00:19:40and punk kicks it too
00:19:41not quite sure
00:19:42how punk still has anything left in him
00:19:46can you make sure that hayman's up here please
00:19:48paul hayman
00:19:56it's tough to keep her surprised now
00:20:01keeping a return
00:20:03a secret
00:20:05not letting people know
00:20:07that seth rollins
00:20:08doesn't need crutches
00:20:11this makes it so much more difficult
00:20:13it's all it takes
00:20:15is one person
00:20:16goes
00:20:17shh
00:20:21what goes into a reveal
00:20:23everything
00:20:26we're doing theater
00:20:27and the audience
00:20:29is our chorus
00:20:34we're building to something
00:20:36and we're asking you to pay
00:20:39to enjoy the ride along with us
00:20:44what can make this moment
00:20:47that memorable
00:20:50that's the assignment
00:20:52that's the job
00:20:54that's what we do
00:20:59it's a miracle
00:21:00you got the crutches
00:21:03are you going to wear the
00:21:04take the brace off too
00:21:05what's that
00:21:05taking the brace off as well
00:21:08welcome back
00:21:11these fucking crutches
00:21:12are the death of me Larry
00:21:14guther's taking a victory lap already
00:21:18wait a minute
00:21:19cm punk back at his feet
00:21:20and guther may have made a critical error there
00:21:22this is going to be fucking great
00:21:24i think so
00:21:25oh my goodness
00:21:26oh my goodness
00:21:28wow
00:21:28the world champion
00:21:29has been busted open
00:21:31gunther is busted open
00:21:34god
00:21:34i don't know if i've ever seen gunther
00:21:37covered in his own blood like that
00:21:39gunther trying to beg off
00:21:40i don't remember to your point
00:21:42the last time gunther's tasted his own blood
00:21:44in a match
00:21:45forget everything that's happened previously
00:21:47the game has changed
00:21:58oh yeah
00:21:59punk delivers it to gunther
00:22:01and punk could be closing in
00:22:03on his championship
00:22:04cm punk still with some life left
00:22:07punk now with gunther up on his shoulders
00:22:10punk for the gts
00:22:12a go to sleep to the champion
00:22:14punk's gonna go for it again
00:22:16punk for the second gts
00:22:20punk into the cover
00:22:22punk is the world champion
00:22:25cm punk is a world champion
00:22:27here is your winner
00:22:31the new world heavyweight champion
00:22:38c.m.
00:22:43and milky motherfucker
00:22:47an emotional c.m. punk
00:22:51filled with tears
00:22:52has finally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt
00:22:56that he is the best in the world
00:23:00on me
00:23:04now
00:23:25once the audience hears the music
00:23:28i was worried
00:23:30i was worried
00:23:30they would know
00:23:31what was happening
00:23:33even when i came out on the crutches
00:23:35with the brace
00:23:37and i thought
00:23:38maybe the ruse at the end of the ruse
00:23:42was a bit surplus
00:23:46and the second pop wouldn't be as big as the first pop
00:23:49that's always the big fear
00:23:51is that you know you want your pops to elevate
00:23:53you know you want the excitement to increase
00:23:55as you're moving towards the moment
00:24:05seth will take a step to lead like he's going back through gorilla
00:24:07and then we'll get all of our shakespeare
00:24:10that was the only concern i had was whether we were going in the right direction
00:24:15by doing the walk away
00:24:16and oh he's just here to remind people that he's still got the case
00:24:20that moment i didn't know if that was going to play well
00:24:34when i heard the noise when the crutches drop
00:24:37i was like oh
00:24:39oh yeah
00:24:43oh i'm sorry were some of my posts misleading
00:24:56oh my god
00:24:59oh no
00:25:00oh no
00:25:03not tonight
00:25:05not tonight of all nights
00:25:08i call it a miracle but i don't think it's that
00:25:12and see a punk and seth rollins down
00:25:14going after one another
00:25:24and another one
00:25:26another one
00:25:27and another one
00:25:29punk getting the hell beat out of him by seth rollins
00:25:33cash it in
00:25:35cash it in
00:25:36cash it in
00:25:37cash it in
00:25:39right there
00:25:40right there
00:25:42that's your shot
00:25:43that's the one
00:25:44he's the one
00:25:45he's the only thing in your way
00:25:47this is the vision
00:25:49punk is helpless
00:25:51i'll stop the punk
00:25:53you gotta be kidding me
00:25:55a cover by rollins
00:25:58oh my god rollins is the world heavyweight champion
00:26:02here is your winner
00:26:06and new world heavyweight champion
00:26:13seth rollins
00:26:21seth rollins outmaneuvered c.m. punk again
00:26:31that's the ultimate indicator
00:26:33that's the ultimate indicator
00:26:34how's the payoff
00:26:35if the payoff worked then everything else worked
00:26:37and i believe that it worked perfectly
00:26:41i'm just so happy that i don't have to lie anymore
00:26:50this is what we've been dreaming of
00:26:53this is what we've been dreaming of
00:26:55this is the beauty
00:26:58of the work ethic
00:27:00this crazy ass performance art
00:27:04that we lovingly call professional wrestling
00:27:14you're lying motherfucker
00:27:18you guys man
00:27:19learn from the best
00:27:20you know what i mean
00:27:20that was badass dude
00:27:21thank you
00:27:22thank you
00:27:22thank you
00:27:27bye bye crunches
00:27:28i got him with the lion
00:27:33finally getting the title
00:27:35moving forward with myself
00:27:37and hayman and breaker and reed
00:27:39it felt like now we're here
00:27:41now we've arrived
00:27:42and we can really start to do some fantastic work
00:27:46for wherever this leads
00:27:48i am beat the fuck up
00:27:50i need an ice bath
00:27:51and some ice cream
00:27:52and some ice
00:27:55it's nights like that
00:27:56that remind me of
00:28:00what i fell in love with
00:28:01to start this entire journey
00:28:06it's a physical business
00:28:07but
00:28:07it's about
00:28:09it's about making people feel
00:28:10what you're feeling
00:28:12you know
00:28:13sometimes you put yourself through hell
00:28:15to uh
00:28:17for your art
00:28:18for your art
00:28:23it's about emotion
00:28:28thank you for the opportunity
00:28:30i hope that was everything you want
00:28:31oh my god that was fucking bad
00:28:32that had to feel good
00:28:33oh i mean
00:28:34yes and no
00:28:35yeah
00:28:36a lot of it didn't feel good
00:28:38yes but it had to feel good
00:28:39no but that's what it needed to be
00:28:40dude
00:28:40and then you played that shit on the end
00:28:42with the tears in your eyes
00:28:44all that shit
00:28:45was so fucking good and emotional
00:28:47you'll get sick of me saying it
00:28:48but thank you for the opportunity
00:28:49you brought me back here
00:28:51and i think we're doing great things
00:28:53you make me and mick look like fucking genius
00:28:55magic magic
00:28:58so night one
00:28:59was epic
00:29:00went about as well as i think it could have
00:29:02um but we still got a whole nother night to go
00:29:24i got this thing a long time ago and just finally found an excuse to use it so i was
00:29:28like yes i'm pumped
00:29:29after uh wrestlemania and after losing to john cena i took a little time off
00:29:36inhale left arm up
00:29:38the biggest thing from yoga is being present
00:29:41my mind runs at a pace where i often don't take any time to realize where we're at
00:29:50this is modern wwe where the athleticism is through the roof and if you're not doing the things
00:29:55that fix your body then you end up not being able to do it for very long
00:30:03look at wrestlemania and when you lose the title no matter what anyone tells you
00:30:07if they tell you it doesn't matter or it doesn't feel a certain way they're lying to you
00:30:12i didn't like the end result not in terms of finish
00:30:15in terms of execution
00:30:17i think it was beneath what we can do
00:30:20i need far better and and not just i need far better wwe needs far better
00:30:26so i think that the reason that a lot of people
00:30:31were down on the cena cody wrestlemania match
00:30:37was that it didn't translate and it didn't feel genuine
00:30:42because you know what john they love you they appreciate you you've done maybe more than
00:30:49anybody's ever done for this industry and you're not going to be able to take that away from them
00:30:54they're not going to hate you like you want them to hate you it's not going to happen
00:30:59just go out there and tear it up that's what they want
00:31:04if people were disappointed let's round this out let's remind them that wwe always does have
00:31:09not just a happy ending but a conclusion
00:31:14the goal would be to get back to the title match
00:31:17wrestling against john cena at summer slam
00:31:22namaste
00:31:23john really wanted to make up for the mania match
00:31:27bad he felt he owed cody that
00:31:32the only thing left too was to determine how and when
00:31:35we were going to get john cena back over to being classic babyface john cena
00:31:40john cena is going to defend that title against cody roads but it's no dq or just street fight or
00:31:46whatever
00:31:46does he fucking shake cody's hand do all that stuff like have a moment there let the end of the
00:31:54heel run
00:31:56resonate as cody did it
00:31:58then get it done on the other side yeah is the flip side of that john then coming to cody's
00:32:07aid
00:32:08right like to turn back babyface somewhere in august because cody now is in trouble and the guy that actually
00:32:15saves him is john cena
00:32:17under the
00:32:19i i fuck it i fucked up and i i got ahead of myself here and i realized that i
00:32:25thought you weren't the guy and you are and i fucking support you and believe in you and now he
00:32:30finishes out august to december
00:32:33clean as a babyface is what we were originally thinking and is that the is that the scenario
00:32:42we didn't know at the time cody was going to be then going away to make a movie
00:32:45for six weeks i gotta get with john
00:32:49the cody going away thing changes a bunch of shit
00:32:52on the backside of summer slam i am going to australia to shoot street fighter
00:32:56uh where i will uh be playing the character of guile
00:32:59which is dope um i grew up playing the character
00:33:03so they kind of got me sight unseen which i hope i don't blow it
00:33:12the thought was at that point of let's just get to
00:33:16seen it the night before and kind of pull him back so that scene was made whole
00:33:20and back on the good side of things heading into that match
00:33:24a good face turn is never meant to really be a shock
00:33:31a good face turn should be something you're feeling
00:33:34and you already were like come on man we're cheering for you now like just come on
00:33:45and a really good babyface turn is one that we're leading the audience to but also the audience is
00:33:50leading us to uh john's being a prime example of a face turn where he basically said i'm a babyface
00:33:58now mark your calendar cody august 1st 2025 newark new jersey the day that john cena
00:34:07came back to the wwe
00:34:13john doing it in the fashion that he did where he told the audience i i'm gonna be me
00:34:18very john and let me make it even cleaner for you i'm gonna tell him i'm back
00:34:23he's back i'm gonna be me at summer slam and me at summer slam is one of the greatest babyfaces
00:34:29if
00:34:30not the greatest babyface of all time
00:34:40the easiest way for us to get you involved if you don't mind yeah would be having these accessible
00:34:46you have me get one of these okay i just take it yeah okay that's all right totally fine with
00:34:52me
00:34:52do you want us to use the thing in the match or like sure okay cool cool because i also
00:34:57don't
00:34:57want to put you in a spot where you feel uncomfortable no not at all i'm excited you
00:35:02yeah awesome awesome i think i think the story that we wanted to tell was
00:35:10we're willing to both go to the lengths that a street fight demands but we don't have to do it
00:35:16without respect i wanted every bit of it to be a warrior's death if you're refusing to hand the
00:35:23torch i'm gonna murder you for it i'm gonna take it by force some of these versions where i'm standing
00:35:32there and watching them come up it's a lot of just looking at it with uh love reverence but also
00:35:37like we're at it i think so and also i don't know is there a little salute in there that
00:35:42whole
00:35:42fucking i love you but i'm sorry you know what i mean kind of thing
00:35:55this was the big finale to me and becky's feud the ultimate battle at the end of our story
00:36:05i felt a lot of pressure going into this one because it was a no disqualification match
00:36:11the main event on the show was john cena and cody rose also with a no disqualification stipulation
00:36:18how are you doing you look so cool so it was very hard to come up with some unique ideas
00:36:24i get a chain um tighter in her mouth pull her pull her into the steps knock the steps
00:36:32and we are using the box right there right next maybe we don't do that so in what we call
00:36:38gimmick
00:36:38matches you know no dq street fight they're hard to prepare for because you can talk them through
00:36:46you can't actually go through them at full speed because you have to save that for the match otherwise
00:36:53you're going to kill the guy or girl before the match and they're not going to be able to perform
00:36:56to their best so you can't do that maybe sometimes maybe how would she get out you get one try
00:37:04at this
00:37:04stuff and it's in front of 60 000 people we're not doing the old music no we're just going straight
00:37:11into it straight into it we were debuting my new entrance music by the wonder years who were one of
00:37:17my favorite bands new freaking song oh i love it man i love it i i reached it to the
00:37:24wonder years
00:37:25um big fan of them and uh dan campbell the the singer the songwriter of the band i was like
00:37:33man
00:37:33would you guys be interested in doing my song if i can if i can't like two seconds later he
00:37:40wrote
00:37:40right like fuck yeah yeah we would love to within like two days he had written this binder of a
00:37:48song
00:37:51he had lots of little easter eggs in it one of them is uh i talk to your ghost every
00:37:59night
00:38:02and i looked where my dad was sitting you know six years ago
00:38:22one of them is uh yeah
00:38:28yeah oh man i did not um i got quite emotional on that day
00:38:34sorry all good last time we were here but but i was in the front row and there's that line
00:38:41and
00:38:41the song you know i talked to your ghost everything like till just kind of got me i got you
00:38:46all good
00:38:48yes so good yeah yeah yeah i'm good good good good just got me a bit emotional there you know
00:38:57last time i was here my dad was sitting there yeah my poor dad with cancer was just sitting there
00:39:04with this fucking blanket on you know for the whole show the whole show
00:39:15good to get in there yeah sometimes good to remember where you come from
00:39:21and um yeah got me good got me good
00:39:56metlife stadium if you thought last night was something you ain't seen nothing yet
00:40:07i have one question for you are you ready
00:40:14i said are you ready
00:40:28i always feel on fire internally i always do but like every time i i feel like this every time
00:40:34and then like it always just seems to to be magic so hopefully it's always gonna stay like that
00:40:40but again i'm always like really nervous and trying to put out the fires in my head and and stay
00:40:45on top
00:40:46of things and you just can't freak out you just can't like it's just we've got it we gotta go
00:40:49wow i'm freaking out
00:40:53the following is a no disqualification match for the women's intercontinental championship
00:41:06she is the woman's intercontinental champion
00:41:11she is the women's intercontinental champion
00:41:13the man Becky Lynch
00:41:20the man Becky Lynch
00:41:21Becky Lynch has been the standard of irish dominance for the past 10 years and she is not ready to
00:41:28relinquish that role to a young up and coming pretender in the world.
00:41:32lyra valkyria not sure i would use the word pretender when it comes to lyra valkyria
00:41:39in the summer slam match i think i'd already lost the battle with that one before i went
00:41:44through the curtain i just didn't switch on i felt a lot of pressure
00:41:52i'm always able to live in the moment and for that match i just couldn't
00:41:57introducing the challenger lyra valkyria
00:42:05when i was making my entrance i was just thinking let's just get the bell ringing
00:42:11let's just do this and that's how i knew i was not in the zone that i needed to be
00:42:18anything that could have gone wrong went wrong lyra now break to the midsection of becky lynch
00:42:24one of the first things i threw becky into the photographer becky oh that poor still photo man
00:42:33she said sorry to him she's so nice i was like oh sorry
00:42:39a dangerous place to be for anyone near this ringside area here come the reveal of the zip ties
00:42:47nothing that happened with the weapons went the way it was supposed to becky's got a zip tie
00:42:54zip tie the hands together literally handcuffing valkyria here perfectly legal michael cole guess
00:43:01what valkyria this is what you asked for that was my idea i was like that would be a really
00:43:09cool
00:43:09moment if even though becky had completely incapacitated me i still ended up beating her up
00:43:16with zip ties and now she's got becky trapped in the waist lock and now lyra valkyria using headbutts
00:43:23what happened however was when i was supposed to be stuck in the zip ties they came off
00:43:43i'm trained when something happens that's not planned you throw the plan out the window and you go
00:43:50they're off but in the moment when they came off i was thinking what if the cameras didn't catch that
00:43:58if they missed that then it's like she was zip tied a second ago and now she's not whereas if
00:44:03i slip them back on and hope the cameras didn't see it same match the cameras did catch it which
00:44:10is
00:44:10another unfortunate thing from the match did it come out and done then she put her own hand back
00:44:17in there uh how soon feels she gets out of it she's gonna go under the ring and we're gonna
00:44:22lose
00:44:22lyra and then he's at the end of these zip ties and becky looking oh and lyra was under the
00:44:29ring with a
00:44:30fire extinguisher in hand and when i was supposed to free myself from the zip ties they stayed on
00:44:43i don't know why she's not using the ring like we talked about taking off the zip ties i couldn't
00:44:49get them off it's like to crawl under the ring and get someone to cut them and it was a
00:44:54nightmare
00:45:01how are we doing timewise on this we are heavy as far we're almost five minutes
00:45:05happy right now i just didn't respond to things going wrong the way i wish i had
00:45:12lyra's gonna put her foot out on the table run becky backwards into the post
00:45:16or not i'm not exactly sure what's happening
00:45:23becky lynch who's got lyra trapped now standing on the spanish announce table
00:45:26and becky lynch oh with a kick right to lyra
00:45:31here's the main streak from the man becky lynch is bailey in position okay thank you
00:45:37here comes the finish and now becky went for the manhandle slam nice arm track take down
00:45:41and barely oh my goodness took a swinger becky lynch missed and caught valkyria
00:45:49the manhandle slam the man retains
00:45:56here is your winner how heavy was that at least 10 minutes
00:46:05you've got to be tough you've got to be talented but most of all you've got to be
00:46:09lucky and luck was smiling on becky lynch tonight congratulations to becky lynch
00:46:16oh she's gonna be so mad when she comes back and everything else sorry uh-uh
00:46:23it wasn't great huh it wasn't great it's pretty good it wasn't great i know
00:46:31it's pretty good it's not good enough
00:46:38i don't think it was the drizzling shits like it wasn't the worst match of all time but
00:46:44i think that we had such high expectations maybe it didn't match up to that
00:46:54i want to be the person that people say i absolutely loved wrestling her she gave me
00:46:59my best match ever and i felt like i let myself down or didn't rise to meet the occasion
00:47:05i didn't even want to go back up to gorilla i felt so overwhelmed
00:47:11she was very upset with herself and she just started apologizing to me and i was like it's fine
00:47:18like it's it's fine it's just wrestling and then she was like no it's not fine i need you to
00:47:23yell at
00:47:23me and i was like no i'm never going to be upset because a wrestling move or moves don't go
00:47:32our way
00:47:34she's great and she cares but also that mindset is why she's so great and that's why she's going to
00:47:40continue to be great and that's why she's going to get better because she doesn't want to kick love
00:47:45she she wants to be told that's both a great and terrible mindset great for progress terrible for
00:47:54mental health and i know this i i am this i came to the back and a lot of my
00:48:02co-workers
00:48:04commended the creativity and a lot of the things that we did out there
00:48:09john cena came up to me after that match he said very complimentary things about it
00:48:15that's that was the chair there's no way i'd ever said yes to them like that was violent and brutal
00:48:22and we got bailey back in the fray and now it's like mixed emotions and
00:48:25shit like it's it's way better than you think it's just there was no changing my mind on it
00:48:32so that was very hard
00:48:36honestly everything everything up to now has been so amazing but uh you know when you
00:48:42this is everything like this is everything so uh when it when it doesn't when you don't feel the
00:48:48magic or whatever this is the first time i've felt this way so uh
00:48:54you want me to be real that's as real as i can can be right now
00:49:02sometimes just anything that can go wrong does go wrong especially when you're
00:49:07you know using weapons and stuff and you got one take at all this it's it's it's it's not a
00:49:13movie
00:49:14we don't go out and rehearse stuff like actors and stuntmen and all this and that sometimes just
00:49:20doesn't go the way you see it in your head and it's just what happens sometimes um but it's it's
00:49:28only
00:49:28like i think this happens to everyone at some point and the only way you can really judge a talent
00:49:33is
00:49:34on what they do afterwards how they handle that and they don't do this let me tell you like you
00:49:39can feel it in the moment then you just have to pick up and move on because we've always got
00:49:42raw on
00:49:43monday we've always got the next big show and no one like ever has the perfect streak and you have
00:49:49to just like get knocked down and get back up again so i've got raw on monday i'm gonna have
00:49:53to just
00:49:54fucking get back up and be okay
00:50:00anyway that's about as real as i can be and as much as i can say right now so i'm
00:50:04gonna go eat a
00:50:05cookie or something
00:50:08you're you're always telling me to be present and soak it in just had one of those moments where i
00:50:12want to
00:50:13say thanks thank you my man congratulations congratulations let's go let's go you've made
00:50:23this long time do your thing you know how much i'm up with can't wait till you're back dog i
00:50:28know it i know it
00:50:31it is main event time for the sixth time in his career and the final time ever john cena will
00:50:39main event summer slam against the former champion the american nightmare cody rhodes
00:50:59nina claims he saw the error of his ways knows he has four months left here in wwe
00:51:06all right leave this sit for a second
00:51:14everybody's standing fucking badass
00:51:26you ready
00:51:45in front of
00:51:4660 000 561 wwe fans at summer slam the old john cena is back much like he proclaimed friday night
00:51:56on
00:51:56smack down
00:52:15being in the ring at summer slam i'm glad selfishly that i got to be part of the old john
00:52:22cena
00:52:22of stepping back into the light
00:52:30long-form storytelling
00:52:31the hardest thing is to be patient
00:52:41john cena really has tapped back into what made him great
00:52:45in the first place this evening but superman meets superman and after the show of respect here we go
00:52:54cody and steve
00:52:55remember street fight rules anything goes you got to win via pinfall or submission
00:53:01john cena gonna reverse cody shoulder first into the steps john's gonna get these stairs and put him in the
00:53:07ring
00:53:07uh
00:53:08Cena has four months left in his career here.
00:53:11He wants to go out as the champion.
00:53:13And Cena, oh, actually throwing the steps at Cody.
00:53:19We're going to work our way to Halliburton's crutch here.
00:53:24John will grab it.
00:53:26That's Tyrese Halliburton of the Indiana Pacers.
00:53:30Out after an Achilles surgery.
00:53:33And now John Cena using the crutch.
00:53:36Again, perfectly legal tonight.
00:53:38Anything goes for the championship.
00:53:44Cody quickly drops Cena to the table.
00:53:48The body of John Cena has been through wars for the past 20 years,
00:53:51taking way more abuse than most.
00:53:54Eventually, it does catch up with you.
00:53:58John is, in many ways, doubting himself more than I believe we are doubting him.
00:54:06So he is in a place now where he's saying, I can't do what I used to do.
00:54:11I can't deliver that level.
00:54:15And the truth is, he really still can.
00:54:23John Cena has the experience to never run out of options.
00:54:28He's been in the deep waters more than anyone.
00:54:32Oh, God.
00:54:33Oh, my God.
00:54:34John Cena!
00:54:34Are you kidding me?
00:54:36Are you kidding me?
00:54:51At some point in time, Father Time beats us all.
00:54:55But I'm watching him do certain things, just like he always did.
00:55:00And it's magic.
00:55:02Look at him!
00:55:03How is Cena still able to do this?
00:55:05Come on!
00:55:07Come on!
00:55:08Come on!
00:55:10Come on!
00:55:11Come on!
00:55:12Come on!
00:55:13Come on!
00:55:14Come on!
00:55:14Come on!
00:55:16Come on!
00:55:16Come on!
00:55:16Come on!
00:55:24It's just a real love between him and the fans right now.
00:55:28John's as popular as he's ever been and as over as he has ever been.
00:55:33And I have to deal with that.
00:55:47That's where it gets tough for fans.
00:55:50Moments where they see their all-time favorite getting beaten up.
00:55:56Cody Rhodes!
00:55:58Cody Rhodes!
00:55:58Oh, God!
00:55:58Oh!
00:55:59With a pile drop of a Cena!
00:56:01From their side, it's disrespectful.
00:56:05Cody's face is good and it sees second-guessing himself, so I've done that.
00:56:11Yes, we're going at it, but I really love this guy, too.
00:56:15I know John does not like to tell the fans how we do it, and I respect that.
00:56:19I will tell you something that John Cena told me in the ring that I'll never forget.
00:56:24They were booing.
00:56:25This was right before I stomped on his ankle.
00:56:27And he just looked up and said, be yourself.
00:56:30It's what you want!
00:56:32It's what you want!
00:56:35This is very John because the moment was there to be a bad guy, to beat him up with malice,
00:56:43to beat him up and be that heel.
00:56:46John can figure that out and realize, no, just be yourself.
00:56:51Because the story that we wanted to tell was two characters being virtuous.
00:56:58Let them go through absolute hell, knowing I'm not going to stab you in the back, but I will stab
00:57:03you in the front.
00:57:04Stay with Cody.
00:57:05He's going to undo that bottom rope.
00:57:08He should refuse to hand the torch.
00:57:11Well, cool.
00:57:12Then I'm going to take it by force.
00:57:14What exactly is Cody doing here?
00:57:16Screwing that turnbuckle.
00:57:18The rope's down.
00:57:19Cody Rhodes with that piece of steel.
00:57:22To be able to tell that story through our faces.
00:57:26Cody having doubts again here.
00:57:27Well, I mean, he's looking at the all-time great.
00:57:35Cody Rhodes doing anything he can to try to fill the champion.
00:57:40That's the beauty of a match like that.
00:57:42It's very real.
00:57:43Up top.
00:57:45Cody Connor through the table.
00:57:48If you're a babyface, you have to stick to those virtues.
00:57:53Even if it's not something that is making them happy, if you're beating up someone that they really love, I
00:57:59don't want to do that with any dishonor.
00:58:01I want you to know that.
00:58:04In a final salute to the greatest of all time, Cody Rhodes with a crossroads to Cena.
00:58:11Into the cover.
00:58:12Hooks the leg.
00:58:14Cody Rhodes is champion.
00:58:31It is a passing of the torch from the greatest of all time, John Cena, to the man who will
00:58:36carry WWE into the future.
00:58:39The new undisputed WWE champion, Cody Rhodes.
00:58:48Cody's getting emotional.
00:58:50To be around the literal greatest of all time in our business, that situation is extremely special.
00:58:56I drove John around for two years.
00:58:57I learned everything I could from him.
00:58:59He didn't know I was learning from him.
00:59:00That's what I told him in the ring.
00:59:02I told him, sorry it took me so long.
00:59:05Cody Rhodes is, once again, the undisputed WWE champion.
00:59:15Always the gentleman, Cody Rhodes, the American Nightmare, will leave the ring to the one and only, the greatest of
00:59:22all time, John Cena, to bask in the glow of over 60,000 people.
00:59:27And what is his last SummerSlam?
00:59:42Nobody's leaving.
00:59:45Our business is about telling stories.
00:59:49Truth is, John can still do that better than almost anyone.
00:59:59But the reality of it is, on the other side of this, you only have 12 dates left in arguably
01:00:06the greatest career, one of the greatest performers of all time.
01:00:10Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this while you can.
01:00:14So, how do you make that work in a way that is a rollercoaster ride?
01:00:20Where are they bringing him by?
01:00:21Bottom of Gorilla?
01:00:24Anybody that doesn't need to be up here in Gorilla needs to get the fuck out of here.
01:00:28You go into John's rivalries and histories.
01:00:34How you doing?
01:00:35Good.
01:00:36Hey, Bruce.
01:00:37How are you, sir?
01:00:38Good to see you, man.
01:00:39Well, one of John's greatest rivalries was with Brock Lesnar.
01:00:43Brock Lesnar, I think it was like 2014, gave John Cena his most lopsided loss in John's illustrious career.
01:00:54Brock, 16 suplexes to John Cena.
01:00:59That is the most dominating performance I have ever seen in a championship match in my life.
01:01:06It wasn't even close.
01:01:09Brock vs. Cena is a big, huge marquee matchup.
01:01:15It's Army-Navy.
01:01:17It's Georgia-Alabama.
01:01:20Coupled with the fact that I think Brock was gone from the ring two years,
01:01:25when you don't see something coming, it's really good.
01:01:29I'll let him come.
01:01:34We have four months left to enjoy the greatness that is John Cena.
01:01:44What?
01:01:48Oh, my God!
01:01:52It's the beast!
01:01:54It's the beast!
01:01:56Brock Lesnar!
01:01:58Hell has come to the Battlelands!
01:02:05John Cena once called this man his toughest rival, his most physical rival,
01:02:11and Brock Lesnar is here, and he's as massive as ever!
01:02:19This is a man built for one thing.
01:02:22And now Lesnar into the ring, and Brock Lesnar with John Cena on his shoulders.
01:02:25Brock Lesnar with an F5 to John Cena!
01:02:31A message has been sent, and everything we thought we knew about WWE just changed.
01:02:39John Cena's got four months left, and it could be a nightmare.
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