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WWE: Unreal - Season 2 - Episode 04: Performance Art
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00:00:11Summerslam.
00:00:13Summerslam.
00:00:17Does Seth have a match two weeks out?
00:00:22Whatever it is, can blow his knee out.
00:00:26Like, bullshit blows knee out, but we shoot with it like it's legit.
00:00:31Don't tell anybody, you know what I mean?
00:00:34Do the whole shebang.
00:00:36He's on crutches for a couple of weeks.
00:00:38He's got his, like, brace on, and, you know, Summerslam here comes Seth Rollins,
00:00:43throws his crutches, runs down the ring, smashes him, cashes it in,
00:00:47and fucking takes the title.
00:00:48Walks out of there as the champ.
00:00:50Yeah.
00:00:52He'd be such an asshole, too, because he'd probably hobble out for two,
00:00:55four seconds, and then just be like,
00:00:58fucking run out, and then go running down that whole thing.
00:01:02This would be one of those ones where I wouldn't want to fucking tell anybody.
00:01:05Nope.
00:01:06Yeah.
00:01:07If we're gonna do this, we gotta keep it, like, literally this team.
00:01:11Don't put that in the notes.
00:01:14And if we could sell it, like, legitimately like he was fucking hurt and out of Summerslam,
00:01:19you might have some people who, I don't know, this might be a work or something.
00:01:25What is a work?
00:01:26Yeah.
00:01:27Uh, this point I would like to invoke my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
00:01:35Son of a lawyer, you know.
00:01:44Sorry to disappoint everyone, but I'm not a fan of this show.
00:01:52I grew up in an era where you defended the secrecy of this business.
00:01:58To the point where, if you didn't, you were beaten up and ostracized from the business.
00:02:07It's jarring to someone who grew up in the industry where secrecy was a matter of life and death of
00:02:16your career.
00:02:19I think this show is gonna flow a whole lot better if you simply just depose me.
00:02:27I'll treat this like a deposition.
00:02:30Ask me your questions.
00:02:31I'll tell you no lies.
00:02:34How important is a work in wrestling?
00:02:41How important is a work in wrestling?
00:02:44What?
00:02:45Look at that!
00:02:46Look at that!
00:02:47That's America!
00:02:48Kevin Nash lives!
00:02:51Khali will crush his skull.
00:02:54Oh, no.
00:02:55Oh, my God.
00:02:55No!
00:02:56The work in wrestling, a lot less important today than it used to be, except at a very top level.
00:03:10We had a very famous moment where Tommy Dreamer was in a match against the Sandman.
00:03:15And the Sandman lit his cigarette.
00:03:19And Tommy Dreamer hit the Sandman's hand and a cigarette went into the Sandman's eye.
00:03:24And Tommy Dreamer took the Singapore team and cracked the Sandman in the other eye and the Sandman went down.
00:03:37And for five weeks on television, we were telling you that the Sandman was blind.
00:03:45Stay awake, Hack.
00:03:46You gotta stay awake.
00:03:47Come on.
00:03:48Come on.
00:03:48You gotta shoot him.
00:03:49Come on.
00:03:50You gotta shoot him.
00:03:50Get the camera all the way out of here.
00:03:51For five weeks, he never left his house.
00:03:57He didn't take his kids to school.
00:03:59He didn't go grocery shopping.
00:04:03And we brought him back for his retirement ceremony.
00:04:06It was a very sad moment.
00:04:08The Sandman has already announced his retirement after being blinded.
00:04:13The Sandman peeled off the bandages from his eyes, revealing that he wasn't truly blind.
00:04:20What was this?
00:04:22He can see!
00:04:25He can see!
00:04:26He can see!
00:04:28He can see!
00:04:28He can see!
00:04:2931 years later, people still talk about that.
00:04:34Are you kidding me?
00:04:37Now you tell me, was that a work?
00:04:42Or was it just performance art in which the performance art was protected so that you were more emotionally involved
00:04:52in the moment when he revealed that he wasn't blind?
00:04:58That's how we earn our living.
00:05:11For a lot of business reasons, events are coming faster and more furiously than they have ever come before.
00:05:18You end up with a weekend like we're at, Saturday Night's Main Event, and Evolution.
00:05:23And oh, by the way, they're only three weeks out from SummerSlam.
00:05:27It's incredibly challenging.
00:05:29This weekend, we're also trying to do business with a guy like Jelly Roll.
00:05:36My name is Jason D. Ford, and my mama gave me the name Jelly Roll as well.
00:05:43I was a chunky kid, as you could imagine, like a super fat kid, and I loved donuts.
00:05:48And instead of calling me Jelly Donuts, she called me her little Jelly Roll, and it just stuck.
00:05:52I always thank my mama.
00:05:54She might have called me Slim Jim, I might have had a six pack.
00:05:56I spent my whole life trying to live up to my name.
00:05:59I am 40 years old, and my normal profession is I'm a musician.
00:06:07I don't know where you're at in your life or what you're going through, but I want to tell you
00:06:16to keep going, baby.
00:06:17I want to tell you success is on the other side of it.
00:06:20I want to tell you it's going to be okay.
00:06:23Let's party, Nashville!
00:06:26I'm not a wrestler for those just tuning in.
00:06:30I watched all these celebrities get these cool matches, so when I started doing music and people started noticing me,
00:06:36it was like always kind of my North Star.
00:06:38I was like, I wonder if I'll get famous enough that I'll actually get involved to be in one of
00:06:42these wrestling matches as a celebrity.
00:06:48A lot of times we're approached by folks not in the business and celebrities that think this might be fun.
00:06:56It is fun.
00:06:58You have to be able to do it.
00:07:01It was Monday Night Raw in Nashville, 2023, and Randy Orton's there, and it was super, super cool.
00:07:12And that was the first time I was like, dude, I'm famous enough to let me get involved.
00:07:15So it was really cool.
00:07:17The CMA award winner just dumped Dominic!
00:07:20All I got to do was push Dominic Mysterio, but I wasn't physically able to do much more.
00:07:26SummerSlam 2024, when I'm getting up from doing the five knuckle shuffle.
00:07:30I'm hanging on to a rope and R-True's got one arm and Miz has got another arm.
00:07:35And at that moment, I realized I was so big that it took two grown men to get me to
00:07:40stand up.
00:07:43I knew that if I didn't do something, it was going to kill me.
00:07:46And I just remember leaving there and being like, I will be back next summer a different fucking human.
00:07:59I just kind of shot my shot, and I was like, hey, Triple H, I'm losing this weight, man.
00:08:03Like, what's up?
00:08:04You know what I mean?
00:08:04Like, I'm dead serious about this.
00:08:07Training for SummerSlam.
00:08:09We're going to see how much we weigh today.
00:08:14Will it stay on there when I get off?
00:08:15Because I can't even see it.
00:08:16I'm so fat and close to it.
00:08:21327 pounds, baby.
00:08:22300 pounds.
00:08:24We're going to walk to that ring that night under 300 pounds for the first time since I was probably
00:08:2814 years old.
00:08:31That exact number, around 330 pounds, was the exact time I jumped off the horse last time I tried to
00:08:38lose the weight.
00:08:40On a selfish level, I need this.
00:08:42This might motivate me to push me past that number I've never seen before on the scale.
00:08:46Jelly Roll approached us.
00:08:49He fought to be a part of SummerSlam.
00:08:53Then Jelly Roll moved, got a house, got two houses actually, in Orlando.
00:08:58One for him, and then one for his crew, so that when he finished working out, he went and wrote
00:09:05songs at night.
00:09:06Because that's his job.
00:09:09Walking in that first day and looking at Matt Bloom like, my Bubba, I'm not even a good piece of
00:09:16clay here.
00:09:16Every time I chew up, please.
00:09:17That's all right.
00:09:18You got a lot to learn.
00:09:20You got a lot to learn.
00:09:22You got a lot to learn.
00:09:22I have never done a flip, ever.
00:09:25You got a lot to learn.
00:09:28You got a lot to learn.
00:09:28Hey, my side is getting up in here to get this one.
00:09:32Every day, it scared me.
00:09:34Three, two, one, go.
00:09:36My fear in wrestling was, had I bit off more than I could chew, was I physically going to be
00:09:44able to do it?
00:09:47You can imagine my first week, my body was going, no, you're not, you're not, there's no way you're going
00:09:52to be ready for this.
00:09:54But that same dog that came out of me that was determined to make it as a songwriter, started coming
00:10:00out of me in there.
00:10:01You got a lot to learn.
00:10:04From 11 to 2 o'clock every day, I'd let Coach Matt Bloom, Coach Moss, Coach Brookside beat me to
00:10:09death.
00:10:11Let this fella go.
00:10:12We'll have him go.
00:10:13Wednesday Jelly, we're going to work on selling.
00:10:16You getting your ass kicked.
00:10:26I've never been through something that was more grueling that I cannot wait to get back to do it.
00:10:31Dude, I'm going to fucking have a SummerSlam match.
00:10:34It's going to be the coolest thing ever.
00:10:36Where's the fucking rest of the ass?
00:10:37You skinny motherfucker.
00:10:39What are you weighing?
00:10:40What are you weighing?
00:10:41The joint at three months.
00:10:42Yeah?
00:10:43First time since middle school.
00:10:44Fuck.
00:10:45First time since middle school.
00:10:47Yeah, what's your spine feel like?
00:10:49It's fun.
00:10:49I can feel it.
00:10:50Right?
00:10:50My ass crack went down a little bit.
00:10:53Oh my gosh.
00:10:54I'm proud of you, man.
00:10:55Fuck.
00:10:56It's fucking inspiring.
00:10:57It makes me want to go to the gym right fucking down here.
00:11:02I'll tell you what.
00:11:03Did you watch any of the video?
00:11:04I did.
00:11:05He's a better shit.
00:11:06He's a good dude.
00:11:07He ain't fucking bad.
00:11:08He ain't bad.
00:11:09Yeah.
00:11:10That was...
00:11:11Second time in the ring.
00:11:12Yeah, but I mean like literally they worked out for like an hour or two and then he did like
00:11:17the first five minutes of a match.
00:11:19Yeah.
00:11:20It was pretty good.
00:11:22It's like he was bouncing around the other day like in between shit and he was like throwing
00:11:26jabs and I was like, this motherfucker's Dusty.
00:11:29Like he's like a sloppier version of Dusty.
00:11:32He would get up, he'd get knocked down or whatever and he'd get up and do the like dance
00:11:36around, bounce around shit and I thought, god damn.
00:11:39There could be something there.
00:11:41And in looking at different people to team with Jelly Roll, you've got to have a leader.
00:11:47You've got to have someone that can control everybody and everything.
00:11:53Randy Orton was perfect for a tag team partner.
00:11:55When you look at assholes to beat up, you got Drew McIntyre, that's an easy one.
00:12:00And then Logan Paul.
00:12:01It really fell together very well.
00:12:13Are you ready for the punch?
00:12:14I'll be a lot more ready in three weeks.
00:12:16I'm sore.
00:12:17I'm still sore.
00:12:17The first hell, I'm still sore.
00:12:19I'm a weekend.
00:12:20I'm sore now.
00:12:20Shoulder hurts.
00:12:21Neck hurts.
00:12:22I'm bruised everywhere.
00:12:25Once we get cameras out here and everything, Jelly, we'll go over tonight.
00:12:30When he comes face to face with you, he'll throw the punch.
00:12:33You block it, lay his ass out.
00:12:37Now you go back to Randy and we'll do the Claymore.
00:12:40Does that make sense?
00:12:41You feel good about everything, sir?
00:12:43Great.
00:12:44Yes, sir.
00:12:45The truth is, in this business, one of the hardest things to do is make everybody lose
00:12:50that sense of scripted or unscripted.
00:12:55If we can make people believe that Seth is injured, there's a really cool payoff at the end.
00:13:02There wasn't very many people in on it that knew about it, very much like the John Cena
00:13:07Elimination Chamber situation.
00:13:10For this to work to perfection, that circle of people that were in the know had to be very small.
00:13:15Okay.
00:13:16I want to smarten you up to something that nobody knows.
00:13:19Okay.
00:13:21But I want you to not repeat it to anybody, but you're our guy.
00:13:29You need to know what's going on here.
00:13:31Okay.
00:13:33We're going to do an angle tonight where Seth closes Neo in this match of L.A. night.
00:13:37Okay.
00:13:38Paul.
00:13:40We're going to do this now because they've got to steal L.A.
00:13:43You guys...
00:13:43We're kayfaving this like a motherfucker, so I don't want you to mention it to anybody
00:13:47because everybody will feel like, well, Connor told everybody, you know, got out.
00:13:51The only people that really know me, Bruce, Ed, Bobby Roode, Seth, L.A.
00:13:56Heyman knows because he was there when I came up with it.
00:13:59Yeah.
00:13:59Right now, that's it.
00:14:01I don't know what move they're going to do yet, but he'll do something towards the end
00:14:04of the match where he, like, blows his knee out.
00:14:06And L.A. sets up for the next thing, but, like, Seth ain't there.
00:14:09He's not coming.
00:14:10He's down.
00:14:10He goes to Jess.
00:14:11Jess gives the X.
00:14:13Medical comes out.
00:14:14Legit.
00:14:15Goes to him.
00:14:16Wow.
00:14:17He'll call an audible.
00:14:18Yeah.
00:14:19Which Jess will go tell L.A. night.
00:14:21Did the referee need to know?
00:14:22No.
00:14:24Her responsibility is report if somebody is injured or not injured.
00:14:28Did medical need to know?
00:14:30Yes.
00:14:31Because I can't let them believe an injury is real.
00:14:34If they believe an injury is real, they have the power to shut it all down.
00:14:38Wise man once told me two people you can't lie to in life, your lawyer and your doctor.
00:14:43We'll take a BFT from L.A. night and get beat.
00:14:46L.A. night will leave.
00:14:47We'll help Seth out of the ring.
00:14:49Yeah.
00:14:50One of the few people that I couldn't in good conscience let think that this was real was L.A.
00:14:56night.
00:14:58I'm sure Seth will just say, tell him to, when I pull myself up, tell him to fucking give me
00:15:02his finish and just go over and, like, whether you kick him, you give it to him, or just he'll
00:15:07feed you and you just give it, you know what I mean?
00:15:08No.
00:15:09No.
00:15:09We'll figure that out.
00:15:11But Seth came to me and he said, why does L.A. night need to know?
00:15:13I don't feel like he needs to know.
00:15:14And I said, Seth, if the roles were reversed on this and I didn't tell you, you would be out
00:15:20of your mind pissed at me.
00:15:22Because you're a professional and you're in the ring and your first thought is make sure your opponent is safe
00:15:27and doesn't get hurt and all these things.
00:15:29And he gets hurt on your watch.
00:15:32And then you find out later it was all bullshit.
00:15:35You'd be out of your mind mad that I didn't clue you in on that.
00:15:38And he paused for a few seconds.
00:15:41Looking at me like, fair enough.
00:15:43And he never brought it up again, right?
00:15:45He has to know.
00:15:46If you're able to like, if he just feeds you and you pull him out and you just hit it,
00:15:51as awkward as it could possibly look.
00:15:53And be very careful hooking his leg.
00:15:56But we're going to play it off as full blown legit.
00:15:59Yeah, this is going to hook him.
00:16:00So he's out.
00:16:01Yeah.
00:16:01Oh, that's great.
00:16:02Awesome.
00:16:03Okay.
00:16:06Oh, happy day.
00:16:08Oh, happy day.
00:16:10Oh, happy day.
00:16:11Oh, happy day.
00:16:12I was nervous about everything.
00:16:14I was nervous about could I hurt somebody?
00:16:16What if I come in this business for just one night into their world selfishly and I hurt one of
00:16:20these guys?
00:16:21You know, I didn't want nobody to get hurt on my watch.
00:16:23That was super important to me.
00:16:24Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:16:27Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:16:29Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:16:30Ba-la-la-la-la-la.
00:16:32He taught me how.
00:16:35All right.
00:16:36All right, yeah, there you go.
00:16:38The hardest part of that night was fireworks happening inside of me and me not being able to emote it.
00:16:45Tonight, everyone is buzzing about this spectacle.
00:16:50Celebrity night's main event.
00:16:52Arrow.
00:17:00Ah, good, good, good, good.
00:17:04Okay, everybody, we're good.
00:17:07Okay.
00:17:08Great straight rock and roll.
00:17:12Let's do this, baby.
00:17:14I am gorgeous.
00:17:16Making his winner race, being accompanied by a four-time Grammy-nominated country artist,
00:17:22Jelly Roll, from St. Louis, Missouri, The Viper, Randy Ortex.
00:17:36Tremendous history between these two.
00:17:38They know each other extremely well.
00:17:45McIntyre's dominating early.
00:17:47Logan Paul enjoying what he's seeing.
00:17:49Jelly Roll, less so.
00:17:51Logan and Jelly now.
00:17:52Here it is.
00:17:54Come on.
00:17:55You're in the wrong arena, buddy.
00:17:57And I told you that yesterday.
00:17:59And I'm gonna tell you again.
00:18:01You're in the wrong arena.
00:18:02You've brought me off more times.
00:18:04Man, you're going wrong, brother.
00:18:06I'm pushing you, man.
00:18:07Logan Paul's run by Jelly Roll.
00:18:11And Randy Orton hit RKO out of nowhere.
00:18:14Buddy Orton, here's the cover.
00:18:18Oh, you're in the win.
00:18:19Let's see Jelly fire up.
00:18:21Nice.
00:18:23And now, Logan roll the lucky punch to the jaw of Randy Orton.
00:18:30And now, Logan Paul unloading on Orton.
00:18:33Jelly Roll has seen it off.
00:18:35Jelly Roll is not a fighter.
00:18:39Oh, post the ring.
00:18:46It's Jelly Roll with a right hand.
00:18:48Jelly Roll with a right hand.
00:18:50Jelly Roll with a right hand.
00:18:59No!
00:19:00A Claymore by McIntyre.
00:19:05Jelly Roll is a musician.
00:19:08Stay out of the ring.
00:19:13If I were to describe Jelly Roll, he's a natural performer.
00:19:18He's someone who's performed all over the world.
00:19:22He does shows where people come just to see him.
00:19:26And you could just tell that he's a lifelong fan.
00:19:29He loves this business.
00:19:31And he's been watching because he knows what it takes to perform in that ring.
00:19:35And he just did it so well.
00:19:38Hey, Randy.
00:19:39Me?
00:19:39Ha-ha!
00:19:40Fucking Jelly.
00:19:41How'd I do, baby?
00:19:42How'd I do?
00:19:43How'd I do?
00:19:44It was awesome.
00:19:44It was fucking awesome, man.
00:19:46I was so impressed.
00:19:48He blew anyone else out of the water that's ever tried to step out of their world and step into
00:19:53ours.
00:19:55Congrats, man.
00:19:56How'd I do?
00:19:57Fucking badass.
00:19:58Am I getting over it?
00:19:58Fucking badass.
00:19:59You heard him chanting Jelly?
00:20:01Listen, I'm gonna go home and watch this like I did last night and make notes and get better.
00:20:05Dude, you heard him chanting your name?
00:20:07Yeah.
00:20:07Fucking great.
00:20:08When I heard the Jelly Roll chant, it was like, Jelly, Jelly Roll.
00:20:12That's why I love wrestling.
00:20:14Unique to the WWE Universe.
00:20:16I'll never hear that again at a Jelly Roll show in my life unless God and the WWE blessed me
00:20:22to come back there.
00:20:24Well, what a, what a, for a megastar, what a down-to-earth dude.
00:20:29What's up, my brother?
00:20:30I love you so much.
00:20:31Do you see me?
00:20:32Yes.
00:20:32Are you being serious?
00:20:33It was awesome.
00:20:34We didn't even know you were here.
00:20:36We just came to see him.
00:20:37Hey, bad ass, that's good shit.
00:20:38Yeah, yeah.
00:20:39He's gotta be good, man.
00:20:41Yeah.
00:20:41I wasn't really sure when he sat me down.
00:20:44What was that?
00:20:45I wasn't really sure when Bruce first sat me down.
00:20:49Put it this way.
00:20:50Having, having seen that motherfucker train, because at first I was like, ah, I'll put him in a little something.
00:20:55It'll be a fucking big deal.
00:20:56I watched him go in and train twice.
00:20:59They sent me the video, so I was like, okay, now I'm thinking bigger.
00:21:02And I was like, he's all in, dude.
00:21:04I'm, I'm very thankful for the spot.
00:21:06Yeah.
00:21:07Let's not lose sight of the fact.
00:21:14A lot of the creative ideas that I've had in my career have been mine.
00:21:20This one I can't take full credit for.
00:21:23What I saw when this idea was presented to me was an endgame that created a moment that was special
00:21:31and memorable.
00:21:35that's really what our industry is is a series of moments storytelling that builds to special
00:21:41moments that affect our audience on deep level if this was a real situation how would we all react
00:21:51i didn't want to overreact i think triple h as well and bruce and gorilla acted as if it was
00:21:57real
00:21:57there was only four people five people six maybe at the most that actually knew
00:22:01what the situation actually was two-time united states champion la night battling the five-time
00:22:09world champion seth rollins seth rollins and rollins now launched outside the ring to the pool
00:22:15that's how we keep going oh we did have to make sure that we didn't get the bell rung you
00:22:21know in
00:22:22situations like that when someone is actually hurt typically we'll ring the bell right away
00:22:26uh we had to be very very careful that we didn't do that brian k-feg just me and you
00:22:32a little bit of
00:22:33fucking uh fuckery here k-feg fuckery on the end of this thing do not let the fucking ring bell
00:22:42ring
00:22:43until the one two three happens and i will tell you when as i wrapped my head around it i
00:22:50realized
00:22:50it was a brilliant piece of storytelling but you want to protect everybody involved
00:22:56you want to protect the company you want to protect your baby faces in this case la night
00:23:13oh that's the fun part of what we do is perform is you never know you never know when it's
00:23:23a work
00:23:23and when it's a shoot and that gray area is what makes us special as performers
00:23:38if you can see through every single thing that we do it becomes boring
00:23:54when you get into the excitement of telling a story you look to exhaust whatever resources you
00:24:04have to tell that story in the best possible way and rollins with a buckle bomb i don't think
00:24:11there's any line that can't be crossed it's just you got to figure out what's worth crossing
00:24:18and now rollins oh there's that flying senton springboard senton
00:24:22by rollins and now a moonsault lands on his feet they have tweaked his knee
00:24:27all right you all right and now la night with an opportunity
00:24:31sounds okay rollins into the corner the official air to check on rollins oh no back off la back off
00:24:39la
00:24:40tell him tell him to give him a minute rollins tweaking his knee heyman over to check on his man
00:24:44let's let's get we need doc do we need the doc
00:24:56the ringside doctor now is over consulting with the official on the
00:25:00the situation with rollins what's he saying jess is he all right
00:25:07you hear that you good with that who's that he said he said he's fucked he said la hit his
00:25:13finish
00:25:14okay you got to do it tell la tell la what set this whatever seth told him
00:25:26that's what's going to do it tell him to do it tell him to do it tell him to sell
00:25:36up the ramp
00:25:36and that is a bleak sight seeing seth freaking rollins down and out get la out tell him to sell
00:25:45up the ramp
00:25:47it's really catastrophic moment here is that his bad knee the knee that he's i don't know
00:25:54just give him some room
00:25:58moments ago rollins tweaking the name it appears to be much more serious than we first thought
00:26:08when the time comes everything changes
00:26:12and i think that suddenness is what alerts people to believing that it's real and that's
00:26:21the art of it anybody that doesn't need a beer get everybody out of here so he can get through
00:26:26what matters this much this much doubt that's all we need this much doubt if you have that
00:26:38that's where the magic happens in our business that's what makes it special just a little bit of i
00:26:44don't know did it come off okay unbelievable just out of nowhere out of nowhere yep the way they shot
00:26:52it
00:26:52just is everything everything was really good how did it feel out there feel legit awkward awkward
00:26:58yeah yeah yeah it's supposed to feel awkward it was awkward backstage too it was great
00:27:07it was awkward as hell but that's kind of what sold it so um with it being that awkward it
00:27:13just
00:27:13kind of you know it probably felt flat in the moment but that also allowed people to be like oh
00:27:18shit okay yeah dude's really hurt just about the cameras off just two seconds please la night played
00:27:26it perfectly his facial expressions were on point of oh no you could see his confusion and you could see
00:27:35his ah it helped fans to believe in the moment that something real just happened
00:27:49la did great played it to a tee we were able to get out of that situation making it look
00:27:54like it was an
00:27:54actual real injury
00:28:07from the second i got hurt you had speculation all over the internet about what what this was going to
00:28:17lead
00:28:17to if it was real if it was not real there was every story under the sun and so when
00:28:29everything
00:28:29was flooded you had no idea what the truth was
00:28:47no one really knew what was going on
00:29:10the most important thing about five minutes handstands
00:29:16like uh keep my mentality
00:29:24of course so hard five minutes handstands i really think about it i want to fall
00:29:36but uh i always think about i can do it i have to do it because i am the champion
00:29:56my first name is masami in real name so masami but nobody called me masami because i started
00:30:03i used to use my ring name
00:30:33sky with a missile drop kick i like high
00:30:39and my finishing move
00:30:44the world games is my favorite i did climb up the cage and then i put on the trash can
00:31:00put on my head
00:31:29私はなんてバカなんだって思いましたその時すごく怖くなったんですけどああもうこれ以上怖いって思う前に飛ぶしかないって言ってもう飛び降りました
00:31:33oh my god
00:31:35oh my god
00:31:37イオスカー from the top of the cage
00:31:39with a trash can out of her head
00:31:42wipe it out everybody
00:31:47so that's crazy i know
00:31:53i'm so short my height is 5.2
00:31:57uh 158 centimeters so walking outside like i walk on the street so nobody think about i am a wrestler
00:32:06you know from day one to me just had this innate charisma
00:32:13eo sky when she walks out there's just little things she does
00:32:19if i said to somebody five years ago hey we're gonna have a female
00:32:22that is going to be like this huge thing right like you'd be like get out of here
00:32:27eo sky
00:32:29when she does it it's money it's spectacular if i was to get decimated on a roster of people and
00:32:35say
00:32:35we got to start over i would look at it and say if you leave me eo i'm good
00:32:45the impetus for the evolution poe and it dates back about a decade uh to around 2015. our audience
00:32:52kind of took to social media they wanted our female superstars to have as much airtime and
00:32:59investment in their stories as the male superstars do so that's where the concept of evolution came
00:33:05about and it carried on to then this past year uh where we did our second evolution poe the main
00:33:13event with ria ripley versus eos guy was a perfect main event for that show because one ria and eo
00:33:20have
00:33:20amazing chemistry but also because ria ripley who some may argue our biggest superstar in general
00:33:28has never beaten eoskai and so it's kind of that quest to kind of you know win back the title
00:33:34that
00:33:34ria has lost
00:33:45and so that quest to kind of see ria finally conquer what she has not yet been able to conquer
00:33:51was just kind of a natural kind of big fight feel story line for that show at evolution i can
00:33:58choose
00:33:59who to defend the women's world championship and that means we are
00:34:08rippling
00:34:08ria
00:34:37レッスルマニアでチャンピオンシップをやったことよりもエボリューションでメインイベント何でかっていうとエボリューションは女子だけのウィメンズディビジョンだけのショーなのでっていうことを私とリアが表現しなきゃいけないと思ってたのであの感情がものすごく責任感と緊張感と重みがものすごくのしかかってます
00:34:47the money in the bank briefcase contains the contract for you to be able to cash in on
00:34:51any champion anytime anywhere that's so much power
00:35:00whoever has the money in the bank briefcase you have to keep it with you and take it everywhere you
00:35:05go
00:35:06but um i also clean it out when i'm traveling
00:35:11so i don't get in trouble because i'll be having all kind of stuff in there and i'm just packing
00:35:16my
00:35:17briefcase new caution belt choke somebody what you call this a thong harness
00:35:23it goes like
00:35:28okay yeah go ahead caution fan got all
00:35:37faithful fully charged this is just the case you're trying to shock a
00:35:41bitch some pepper gel hey pepper gel it's the lock is on it's on security you don't even know how
00:35:48to use
00:35:48it it's okay i'll figure it out on the day of gear fresh pack of blades a little something to
00:35:56take
00:35:56the edge off always got to have a fresh wig on deck never know when this one will get snatched
00:36:01wrap pellets the poison jade ass and my contract
00:36:08hold on hold on i got one more thing hold on hold on girl before you close that go on
00:36:12go and put this go and put this right up in there hold on you want to do some crazy
00:36:17thing about your boy
00:36:18oh foofy all right i can't do nothing without my foofy foofy you know that makes you an accomplice now
00:36:28you're doing good though thank you love you love you
00:36:41so much
00:36:41naomi did you get all your junk out of there before they take it away from you
00:36:44the time is right i'll pull her out is that is that your regular legitimate suitcase what the
00:36:50fuck is going on in the shot glass
00:36:55we are ripple is special so that's why i want to make special match with her which means your sky
00:37:03is
00:37:03special we are going to be main event that's like a dream coming true i was telling io to possibly
00:37:14make
00:37:14a moment out of this like climb up here act like she's going to dive then look up go up
00:37:21further if
00:37:22you think that's warranted it will be right here so you're going to be right there that's the edge
00:37:30right there yeah okay yeah you want somebody bring you a trash can this is an area that we are
00:37:40prepping
00:37:40for one of your sky's high falls and you know um which she loves height
00:37:50what's your what is your concern
00:37:54the bump that ria's got to take yeah it's a hell of a bump are you padding this yes
00:37:59i just want you to hit your head on the floor yeah it's always a challenge to creatively make it
00:38:06look
00:38:06like it's part of our backstage gear but to also give her a safe platform could you lay down
00:38:20i have no words how i'm feeling so i'm just nervous and excited show must go on
00:38:30come back to the two of you in the ring like both sitting in the corner if i can sell
00:38:34them looking
00:38:34at each other like what the right yeah you can actually even say that like what the
00:38:41yeah yeah see it still sounds cute phenomenal when you say it yeah it does what the you know anybody
00:38:49else you go their cuss say i'd see you too cute japanese that's it yeah that weekend of evolution
00:38:58in georgia ended up having a triple threat match i'd had matches with bailey i'd had matches with becky
00:39:05but this time i had the two of them i had been in a tag team with bailey coming up
00:39:10to mania
00:39:11bailey and valkyria are heading to wrestlemania to take on the tag champs and then we found out
00:39:19that becky was returning and she was essentially going to take bailey's spot as my tag team partner
00:39:26for the biggest show of the year what happened what happened are you good no no you're not good
00:39:31what happened it was like bittersweet in a way when i was told that this was going to happen because
00:39:37you know i was excited to have becky back but like it started really singing like how much it sucks
00:39:42like as professional as i can be man i worked for that you know i worked for that bailey deserved
00:39:49to
00:39:49have wrestlemania match and i was taking her out and really right up until the last moment i was like
00:39:56ah should we maybe do this differently i'm not even on social media so i don't know but i believe
00:40:02the
00:40:02vibe is like they're like oh it's gonna be becky yeah that's gonna uh when you feel bad for bailey
00:40:07so in the last minute picture you can tell me to go off so wrestlemania is like christmas you're
00:40:14being good all year long so that you get the most amount of toys on christmas day like that's how
00:40:19it
00:40:19works it felt like i was the grinch like i'm taking all your toys i know you don't want to
00:40:25take away
00:40:25from her i i hear you you know i hear you let me think let me think is anybody else
00:40:32i got kind of
00:40:34pissed at that heat but like i don't want to be put in the match because we begged for it
00:40:41i had already
00:40:42accepted it at that point so happy and excited i'm so happy for you so we took this thing that
00:40:48happened
00:40:49that we had no control over that was very real and used it on screen i keep hoping things would
00:40:56go
00:40:56back to the way they were with us before wrestlemania but you just won't let that happen we went on
00:41:00from
00:41:00that moment and told the story with the three of us evolution the women's show it was so important
00:41:07that we had a banger welcome to atlanta tonight we get ready for an historic event wwe evolution here we
00:41:19go
00:41:20fuck yeah bailey
00:41:24for becky lynch it's about defending the title tonight the intercontinental championship defended
00:41:29a triple threat match for the first time ever
00:41:38the crowd sounds different right i think there's a lot more girls i love it here we go
00:41:52they're on their feet in atlanta
00:41:55crazy already first woman to gain pinfall or submission becomes the intercontinental champion
00:42:08dog eat dog world at the very top there surely are no friendship
00:42:23Oh!
00:42:32Hell yeah, Lyra.
00:42:54This crowd is red hot tonight.
00:42:57Well, they are getting a show from these three women, three of the absolute best.
00:43:01They're doing fucking awesome.
00:43:12Bayley's hair is magnificent.
00:43:14Looks like Michael Hayes in the morning.
00:43:17She looks insane.
00:43:19Like, if it was blue, she'd look like fucking Marge Simpson, right?
00:43:27Might be trying to run from him.
00:43:29Oh!
00:43:29Oh my God!
00:43:34Oh my God!
00:43:38Bayley saves the matchup.
00:43:40Perfect timing.
00:43:41We're heading home right here.
00:43:43Here comes our finish, guys.
00:43:49Rose Plant, finally!
00:43:52Bayley stacks up Lyra.
00:43:54Becky, from behind.
00:43:56Nice!
00:43:59Becky retains!
00:44:00Oh!
00:44:03Here is your winner, the man, Becky Lynch!
00:44:13That was great.
00:44:15I'll tell you right now, this is the coolest pit I have ever seen in my entire time watching wrestling.
00:44:30All three women brought that absolute A-game tonight.
00:44:35Becky Lynch successfully retains the Women's Intercontinental Championship in a Classic.
00:44:44You're right?
00:44:44Is that all right?
00:44:45Yeah.
00:44:45No, more than all right.
00:44:46Hell yeah!
00:44:47Thank you!
00:44:48You okay?
00:44:49Just got it!
00:44:50I'm sorry!
00:44:50Let's go, Robert.
00:44:52Thank you!
00:44:53I'm pretty good!
00:44:54If I just zapped back to 2018 to show myself one match, just even the flash of the match graphic
00:45:02of me, Becky and Bailey. I genuinely wouldn't believe it.
00:45:05That finish was awesome. It looked great.
00:45:09I'm a fucking athlete.
00:45:12You're not the only athlete in Ireland now, huh?
00:45:16No, honestly, I'm not that great of an athlete, so, like, that was the most athletic I've
00:45:21ever felt in my entire life.
00:45:23I'm in there with two of the best, and it's an honor to be right there side by side.
00:45:33My favorite thing about what we do has always been the magic you feel when everyone in
00:45:37the room is on the same journey watching a wrestling match. Like, there's nothing better.
00:45:42And to have had that evolution, like, to wrestle two women that really made me want to do this
00:45:46on this specific card, you just can't summarize how special this is to me and how much it means
00:45:50to every woman in this locker room today.
00:45:53Breathe.
00:45:56The following is a no holds barred match!
00:46:05In this match, there are no cut outs, no disqualifications, no holds barred.
00:46:14Time to make order. Here to get the girlies in check. Tonight, this is done.
00:46:20Please welcome special guest referee, Bianca Belair.
00:46:32You know, Wade, we were talking earlier today about whether Bianca Belair can call this one down the middle.
00:46:36Yeah, where do Belair's loyalties really lie?
00:46:39Hasn't spoken to either Naomi or Jade really since Elimination Chamber.
00:46:45We knew where we wanted to end.
00:46:46We knew that we had Naomi that was going to cash in.
00:46:51We knew we were going there.
00:46:53But first, the culmination of the Naomi-Jade rivalry.
00:46:58This is the fourth women's no-holds bar match in WWE history.
00:47:04Naomi not thinking about the contract tonight.
00:47:07She's thinking about surviving Jade Cargill.
00:47:11Here she comes.
00:47:12Spear by Cargill.
00:47:14And now a steel chain.
00:47:18Cleaning the clock from Naomi.
00:47:20Jade Cargill just grabbed the camera from the cameraman and now...
00:47:25Gonna be up close and personal.
00:47:29And Jade now measuring Naomi.
00:47:32And a big kick.
00:47:33Weapons match.
00:47:35Jade beat the hell out of Naomi.
00:47:37Nice tear shot.
00:47:39We're working to the jaded.
00:47:40Please hit this, girls.
00:47:42From up there to break her in half!
00:47:46Jade and...
00:47:47Good shift.
00:47:51Jade Cargill with the win!
00:47:54Have them tell Naomi to sell big.
00:47:59B, tell Naomi to sell big.
00:48:01Naomi has to sell big no matter what.
00:48:04Tell Naomi don't move.
00:48:05Just stay down.
00:48:07I thought it was pulled off to perfection.
00:48:12When Naomi was in the ring, you think, I have seen the last of Naomi.
00:48:17You don't even think about the Money in the Bank briefcase.
00:48:22Do you have something to do now or do you want to go...
00:48:25I have to do this kind of running.
00:48:27Okay.
00:48:28Okay.
00:48:31Let me see if they want to glue it first.
00:48:33Are you doing it during this match?
00:48:35No, that's me.
00:48:36Okay.
00:48:36You got like 30 minutes.
00:48:37Okay.
00:48:40I would just let the blood drip and dry.
00:48:43Okay.
00:48:45All right, Brewer.
00:48:46We're every bit of 25, 30 minutes.
00:48:48And you go 20?
00:48:49Fuck no.
00:48:50Okay.
00:48:51You make the others do their fucking times.
00:48:53I'm the fucking main event.
00:48:55Oh, damn right.
00:48:55I'm going to do what the fuck I want to.
00:48:59The following contest scheduled for one fall is for...
00:49:04The Women's World Championship!
00:49:12Audience doesn't want good, clean, squeaky girls.
00:49:15They want badass bitches.
00:49:17That's why they love her.
00:49:18Exactly.
00:49:22Rhea looking to win her fourth world championship.
00:49:26She's won tag titles and NXT titles in the Royal Rumble.
00:49:31But tonight would feel oh so good for the Eradicator.
00:49:35From Tokyo, Japan...
00:49:39EO SKY!
00:49:43Remember what happened back in March
00:49:46when EO SKY shocked everyone
00:49:49taking the championship from Rhea Ripley.
00:49:54The two best female wrestlers of planet Earth in 2025.
00:49:59The question remains, though,
00:50:00who is one and who is two?
00:50:03The two best female wrestlers of planet Earth in 2022.
00:50:36The Razor's edge here in a second.
00:50:40Into a powerbomb.
00:50:45Oh!
00:50:46There were so many counters.
00:50:48EO SKY!
00:50:48Oh my God!
00:50:49Oh my God!
00:50:49Oh shit!
00:50:51Oh God, a poison rana!
00:50:54We okay?
00:50:55God, you just feel the adrenaline in this arena.
00:50:58They're witnessing something very special.
00:51:01After no referee, he's going to go fucking apeshit.
00:51:05EO topper.
00:51:07Oh, no!
00:51:09Rhea ducked out of harm's way.
00:51:11EO inadvertently hit the official.
00:51:14Rhea Ripley now with a rep tied to Sky.
00:51:17One, two, three.
00:51:20Rhea Ripley has got pinned, but there's no official.
00:51:26The referee was taken out of this match.
00:51:29Rhea Ripley had the damn match won,
00:51:31but there was no official to count.
00:51:34This must feel like a curse to Rhea Ripley.
00:51:38Nice, Rhea.
00:51:40Good shit.
00:51:45How does her little body take all that?
00:51:53This is spilling out all over the place.
00:51:57Ripley and Sky fighting into the WWE Universe.
00:52:01Rhea Ripley, understandably, has now completely lost it.
00:52:05I am not quite sure what Rhea Ripley is capable of in the state of mind that she is in
00:52:10right now.
00:52:12Try not to see the floor at their feet if you can until we get over there.
00:52:16And now on the equipment cases over there in the corner of this arena.
00:52:20Once EO counters this, she's going to go to that first level.
00:52:23Well, it's going to be nasty as hell.
00:52:26Then pause, look up, and go one step higher.
00:52:32Oh, no!
00:52:35Don't do it, EO!
00:52:37EO!
00:52:38Climb it up high!
00:52:40Why now? Why now? Why now?
00:52:42Don't get too close to it.
00:52:43I want to see the crowd behind it.
00:52:44I want to see how high she is.
00:52:46The genius in the sky with Ripley in trouble!
00:52:49Why now? Why now? Why now?
00:52:50The highest risk!
00:52:51Super stole them all!
00:52:52EO across body and EO and Rhea are down!
00:52:57Nice!
00:52:58EO to be 20 feet in the air!
00:53:02They're both women are down!
00:53:07Everybody okay?
00:53:10Two women knocking the hell out of each other
00:53:14in pursuit of excellence, in pursuit of greatness, in pursuit of history.
00:53:20The ref coming?
00:53:22Let me see her coming in.
00:53:23The official's coming too!
00:53:27EO Skye hits it!
00:53:30The over the moonsault and Rhea kicked it down!
00:53:33Oh!
00:53:33Rhea kicked it down!
00:53:34Now it's EO Skye's turn to say,
00:53:37what the hell do I do now?
00:53:41Holy hell!
00:53:43Nice!
00:53:44I had a way to cover that shit, Pete.
00:53:46That's storytelling.
00:53:48Rhea Ripley tapping into something different tonight!
00:53:52And it needs it against this version of EO Skye!
00:53:55Rhea Ripley!
00:53:56Oh my goodness!
00:53:57Manish fly!
00:53:59Both women are down!
00:54:01EO's out!
00:54:02Rhea's out!
00:54:04World title's on the line!
00:54:07I'm ready.
00:54:08You ready, Hunter?
00:54:09Yeah, okay.
00:54:10Here we go!
00:54:20Oh.
00:54:21My.
00:54:22God.
00:54:24Naomi!
00:54:25Naomi!
00:54:26Missed money in the bank!
00:54:28With a referee in tow!
00:54:30Oh!
00:54:31Okay, once they announce it as a triple threat, briefcase shot to EO.
00:54:35You can hear this.
00:54:40Ladies and gentlemen, Naomi is cashing in!
00:54:44We're putting in the bank contracts!
00:54:46This is now a triple threat match!
00:54:48It's a triple threat match!
00:54:50Anything goes, there are no display locations under triple threat rules!
00:54:54Officially cashed in against two completely decimated women!
00:54:59It was about five to five, two completely decimated!
00:55:02Yeah you can look out somewhat.
00:55:02Two is a triple threat!
00:55:02One-leg and moonsault!
00:55:04Covered by Naomi!
00:55:07Naomi!
00:55:08Who is the world champion?
00:55:10Holy cow!
00:55:12Here is your winner!
00:55:16Hell no!
00:55:19Willie!
00:55:20Fucking A.
00:55:21Fucking awesome.
00:55:23That fucking one motherfucker himself.
00:55:25Naomi!
00:55:31Take that, motherfucker.
00:55:39Hey, that was awesome top to bottom.
00:55:44It was a holy shit moment.
00:55:47She's the new champion,
00:55:48and she is on top of the world.
00:55:52Me returning, I wanted to be better,
00:55:55do better, become better.
00:55:56This solidifies that. It improves that.
00:56:00It's very emotional. I'm trying to keep it together.
00:56:03First time ever being
00:56:04the women's world champion.
00:56:07Who knows what's ahead of me now.
00:56:09You're badass.
00:56:10You're badass.
00:56:12How'd that feel? Amazing.
00:56:14It just shows that it's women in wrestling.
00:56:17We're still progressing.
00:56:19We're still getting better.
00:56:20For those who have been watching me since 2009,
00:56:23if I could just sum it all up,
00:56:25my journey is just to keep going.
00:56:29Evolution is such a massive deal for us women
00:56:31here in the WWE, and just women in general.
00:56:33There's a lot of male dominated things.
00:56:35Sports, businesses, etc.
00:56:38So to have something that's like all women
00:56:40is such a massive, massive deal to us.
00:56:44Give me a rock star.
00:56:46I'm so glad.
00:56:47I'm so glad.
00:56:48Thank you so much.
00:56:49Thank you for giving me this opportunity.
00:56:51So great.
00:56:52You were great.
00:56:53You always believe in me.
00:56:55Thank you so much.
00:56:56I always will.
00:56:56You were great.
00:56:57Rock star.
00:56:58A lot of times backstage,
00:57:00I could just call her rock star.
00:57:03Because I don't know how to put a label on her
00:57:06for anything else.
00:57:07She's just the nicest human being of all time.
00:57:10We'll do whatever you want,
00:57:11and we'll come back and just...
00:57:13She's just hoping that you tell her it was good.
00:57:15And when you tell her it was good,
00:57:16it's like the world lit up for her.
00:57:18You know, most people, when they're up high,
00:57:20they just dive.
00:57:21Yep.
00:57:22Right, no jump.
00:57:23You jump up.
00:57:24Oh, yeah, I did, I did.
00:57:25Yeah, it was very good.
00:57:26Oh, thank you.
00:57:27Yeah, I enjoyed it.
00:57:28I enjoyed it.
00:57:29I enjoyed it.
00:57:29Oh, thank you.
00:57:30Oh, thank you.
00:57:31There you go.
00:57:34Does that scare you?
00:57:35No, no.
00:57:36I wanna be special.
00:57:39I will take any risk to become I am superstar.
00:57:47This is what we work so hard for,
00:57:49and it's all accumulated to this moment right here,
00:57:52because this is what the future of the women here in WWE
00:57:57are going to show,
00:57:59and we're gonna take our opportunities.
00:58:01We're not gonna wait for them anymore,
00:58:02and this is exactly where we start.
00:58:03So it was a really cool experience.
00:58:10Let's talk about Evolution.
00:58:12Just what a night.
00:58:15The bar for what women do in this industry,
00:58:17all of it has been raised so high.
00:58:20Man, they showed tonight what a change
00:58:22that business has been for them.
00:58:25Incredibly proud of them.
00:58:27I'm sure somebody here will ask about Seth.
00:58:30He came here tonight.
00:58:31He was not going to miss his wife's performance tonight.
00:58:34He will be in Birmingham tomorrow with Dr. Dugas.
00:58:37I'll just say right now,
00:58:38a little bit inconclusive.
00:58:40Doesn't look good,
00:58:41but we'll get MRI and hope for the best.
00:58:48So keeping a secret?
00:58:50Not letting people know that Seth Rollins
00:58:53doesn't need crutches?
00:58:56That's part of the thrill.
00:58:58Is it secrecy?
00:59:00Is it a work?
00:59:03Or is it simply the planning of performance art?
00:59:12On me.
00:59:13Now.
00:59:16Burn it down!
00:59:30The add��다.
00:59:47After a 13 hour.
00:59:51Are by..
00:59:51Here with that!
00:59:51The rain.
00:59:51Dead.
00:59:52Out!
00:59:59actors.
01:00:00It's a work.
01:00:03Oh, my God!
01:00:50You
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