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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.
00:03:48You gotta stay awake.
00:03:49Come on.
00:03:50Get the camera all the way outta 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.
00:04:02and we brought him back for his retirement ceremony it's a very sad moment sandman has
00:04:09already announced his retirement after being blinded the sandman peeled off the bandages
00:04:16from his eyes revealing that he wasn't truly blind
00:04:2831 years later people still talk about that are you kidding me
00:04:36now you tell me was that a work or was it just performance art in which the performance art
00:04:47was protected so that you were more emotionally involved in the moment when he revealed that he
00:04:55wasn't blind that's how we earn our living
00:05:10for a lot of business reasons events are coming faster and more furiously than they have ever
00:05:17come before you end up with a weekend like we're at saturday night's main event and evolution and oh
00:05:24by the way they're only three weeks out from summer slam it's incredibly challenging this weekend we're
00:05:30also 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 love donuts
00:05:47and my instead of calling me jelly donut she called me a little jelly roll and it just stuck
00:05:52i always thank my mama she might have called me slim jam i might have had a six pack i
00:05:56spent my whole
00:05:57life trying to live up to my name i am 40 years old and my normal profession is i'm a
00:06:03musician
00:06:12i 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
00:06:17going baby i want to tell you success is on the other side of it i want to tell you
00:06:21it's going to be
00:06:22okay let's party i'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
00:06:34people started noticing me it was like always kind of my north star i was like i wonder if i'll
00:06:39get
00:06:39famous enough that i'll actually get involved to be in one of these wrestling matches as a celebrity
00:06:46boom boom shakalaka a lot of times we're approached by folks not in the business and celebrities
00:06:54that think this might be fun it is fun you have to be able to do it
00:07:01it was monday night raw in nashville 2023
00:07:07and randy orton's there and it was super super cool and that was the first time i was like dude
00:07:13i'm famous enough they let me get involved so it was really cool
00:07:17the cma award winner just dumped dominic all i got to do was push dominic mysterio but i wasn't
00:07:23physically able to do much more summer slam 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 and at
00:07:35that moment i
00:07:35realized i was so big that it took two grown men to get me to stand 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 like
00:08:03what's up
00:08:04you know what i mean like i'm dead serious about this training for summer slam we're gonna see how
00:08:10much we weigh today
00:08:14will it stay on there when i get off because i can't even see i'm so fat and close to
00:08:17it
00:08:20327 pounds baby 300 pounds we're gonna walk to that ring that night under 300 pounds for the
00:08:27first time since i was probably 14 years old that exact number around 330 pounds was the exact time i
00:08:36jumped off the horse last time i tried to lose the weight on a selfish level i need this this
00:08:42this might
00:08:43motivate me to push me past that number i've never seen before on the scale jelly roll approached us
00:08:48he fought to be a part of summer slam then jelly roll moved got a house got two houses actually
00:08:57in orlando one for him and then one for his crew so that when he finished working out he went
00:09:05and
00:09:05wrote songs at night because that's his job walking in that first day and looking at matt bloom like
00:09:13my bubba i'm not even a good piece of clay here
00:09:17that's all right
00:09:22i have never done a flip ever
00:09:31every day it scared me
00:09:36my fear in wrestling was had i bit off more than i could chew
00:09:43was i physically going to be able 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 but uh that same dog that came out of me that was determined to make
00:09:58it as a songwriter
00:10:00started coming out of me in there
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
00:10:13wednesday jelly we're going to work on selling
00:10:26i've never been through something that was more grueling that i cannot wait to get back to doing
00:10:31dude i'm gonna fucking have a summer slam match it's gonna be the coolest thing ever
00:10:35where's the fucking rest of the ex you skinny motherfucker what are you weighing what are you
00:10:40weighing right at three months yeah first time since middle school first time since middle school
00:10:46yeah what's your spine feel like god i can feel it right
00:10:50i don't know where it's at my ass crack went down a little bit oh my gosh
00:10:54proud of you man it's fucking inspiring makes me want to go to the gym right
00:11:02i tell you what did you watch any of the video i did he's in better he's good he ain't
00:11:07fucking bad he ain't bad yeah that that was second time in the ring yeah but i mean like literally
00:11:13they worked out for like an hour or two and then he did like first five minutes of a match
00:11:19yeah it's
00:11:20pretty good it's like he was bouncing around the other day like in between and he was like
00:11:25throwing jabs and i was like this is dusty like 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
00:11:35dance around bounce around and i thought god damn there could be something there
00:11:42and in looking at different people to team with jelly roll you've got to have a leader you've got to
00:11:48have someone that can control everybody and everything randy orton was perfect for a tag team
00:11:55partner when you look at assholes to beat up you got drew mcintyre that's an easy one
00:11:59and then logan paul it really fell together very well
00:12:12are you ready for the time i'll be a lot more ready in three weeks i'm sore i'm still
00:12:17sore the first hill i'm still sore called off a weekend i'm sore now shoulder hurts neck hurts
00:12:22everything bruised everywhere when we once we get cameras out here and everything jelly we'll
00:12:27we'll uh we'll go over tonight probably when he comes face to face with you he'll throw the punch
00:12:33you block it lay his ass out now you go back to randy and we'll do the claymore does that
00:12:40make sense
00:12:42you feel good about everything sir yes sir the truth is in this business one of the hardest things to
00:12:47do is
00:12:49make everybody lose that sense of scripted or unscripted if we can make people believe
00:12:57that seth is injured there's a really cool payoff at the end there wasn't very many people in on it
00:13:04that knew about it very much like the john cena elimination chamber situation for this to work to
00:13:11perfection that circle of people that were in the know had to be very small okay i want to smart
00:13:17you up to
00:13:17something that nobody knows um so we're and and but i want you to not repeat it to anybody but
00:13:27you're our guy you need to know what's going on here okay we're gonna do an angle tonight where
00:13:35seth closes neo in this match of la night okay paul we're gonna we're gonna do this now because they
00:13:41gotta steal la we're kayfabe in the second so i don't want you to mention it to anybody because
00:13:47everybody will feel like we're gonna told everybody you know you know got out the only people that
00:13:52really know me boo said bobby rude seth la uh hayman knows because he was there when i came up
00:13:59with it
00:13:59yeah right now that's it i don't know what move they're going to do yet but it'll do something towards
00:14:03the end of the match where he like blows his knee out and that lake sets up for the next
00:14:08thing but
00:14:08like seth ain't there he's not coming he's down he goes to jess jess gives the x medical comes out
00:14:14legit goes to him he'll call an audible yeah which jess will go tell la night did the referee
00:14:22need to know no her responsibility is report if somebody is injured or not injured did medical need
00:14:29to know yes because i can't let them believe an injury is real if they believe an injury is real
00:14:35they have the power to shut it all down wise man once told me two people you can't lie to
00:14:40in life
00:14:41your lawyer and your doctor we'll take a bft from la night get beat la night will leave we'll help
00:14:48seth out
00:14:48of the ring yeah one of the few people that i couldn't in good conscience let think that this was
00:14:55real
00:14:56was la night i'm sure stuff will just say tell him to want to pull myself up tell him to
00:15:01give me his finish
00:15:03and just go over and like whether you kick him to give it to him or just he'll feed you
00:15:07and you just give
00:15:08it you know what i mean we'll figure that out but seth came to me and he said why does
00:15:13la night need
00:15:13to know i don't feel like he needs to know and i said seth if the roles were reversed on
00:15:18this and i didn't tell you you would be out of your mind pissed at me because you're a professional
00:15:24and you're in the ring and you're first year
00:15:25thought is make sure your opponent is safe and doesn't get hurt all these things and he gets hurt
00:15:30on your watch and then you find out later it was all you'd be out of your mind mad that
00:15:37i didn't clue
00:15:38you in on that and he paused for a few seconds looking at me like fair enough and he never
00:15:44brought it up
00:15:44again right he has to know if you if you're able to like if he just feeds you and you
00:15:49pull him out you
00:15:50just hit it as awkward as it could possibly look and be very careful hooking his leg but we're going
00:15:57to play it off as full-blown legit yeah this is going to hook him so he's out yeah wow
00:16:01that's great
00:16:02awesome okay
00:16:06happy day i was nervous about everything i was nervous about could i hurt somebody what if i come in
00:16:16this
00:16:17business and for just one night into their world selfishly and i hurt one of these guys you know
00:16:21i didn't want nobody to get hurt on my watch that was super important
00:16:24the hardest part of that night was fireworks happening inside of me and me not being able to
00:16:44be emoted tonight tonight everyone is buzzing about this spectacle
00:17:08that's great
00:17:12let's do this baby
00:17:14I am born today!
00:17:16Megan is with a ring, being accompanied by a four-time Grammy-nominated country artist,
00:17:22Jelly Roll, from St. Louis, Missouri,
00:17:26The Viper, Randy Orton!
00:17:36Tremendous history between these two.
00:17:38They know each other extremely well.
00:17:45McIntyre's dominating early.
00:17:46Logan Paul enjoying what he's seeing.
00:17:49Jelly Roll, less soap.
00:17:51Logan and Jelly now. Here it is.
00:17:54Come on! You'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!
00:18:04Man, you're going wrong, brother! I'm pushing you, man!
00:18:07Logan Paul blocked by Jelly Roll!
00:18:11And Randy Orton hit on KO!
00:18:13Out of nowhere!
00:18:14Buddy Orton!
00:18:15Here'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 Paul, 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!
00:18:39Tall crossed the ring!
00:18:45Jelly with the right hand!
00:18:48Jelly with the right hand!
00:18:50Jelly Roll!
00:18:59No!
00:19:00A Claymore by McIntyre!
00:19:05jelly roll is a musician stay out of the ring
00:19:13if i were to uh describe jelly roll he's a natural performer he's someone who's performed
00:19:20all over the world he does shows where people come just to see him you could just tell that
00:19:27he he's a lifelong fan he loves this business and he's been watching because he knows what
00:19:33it takes to perform in that ring and he just did it so well hey randy me ah jelly how'd
00:19:42i do baby
00:19:42it was awesome it was fucking awesome man i was so impressed he blew anyone else out of the water
00:19:50that's ever tried to step out of their world and step into ours congrats man how'd i do fucking
00:19:57badass am i getting over fucking mad you heard him chanting jelly okay listen i'm gonna go home
00:20:03and watch this like i did last night make notes and get better dude you heard him you heard him
00:20:06chanting your name yeah fucking great when i heard the jelly roll chant it was like jelly jelly roll
00:20:11that's why i love wrestling unique to the wwe universe i'll never hear that again in a jelly
00:20:17roll show in my life unless god and and the wwe blessed me to come back there
00:20:23well what a what a for a megastar what what a down to earth dude
00:20:28what's up my brother
00:20:29do you see me yes are you being serious
00:20:33yeah you
00:20:34we didn't even know you were here we just came to see him
00:20:36good hey bad and good shit
00:20:38yeah yeah it's gonna be good man
00:20:40oh yeah
00:20:41yeah i wasn't really sure
00:20:42what was that i wasn't really sure when bruce first sat me down
00:20:49put it this way having having seen that motherfucker train because at first i was like
00:20:53i'll put him in a little something it'll be a fucking big deal i watched him go in and train
00:20:58twice they sent me the video so i was like okay now i'm thinking bigger and i was like
00:21:03he's all in dude i'm i'm very thankful for this part thank you let'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 this one i can't take
00:21:21full
00:21:21credit for what i saw when this idea was presented to me was an end game that created a moment
00:21:30that was special and memorable
00:21:35that's really what our industry is is a series of moments
00:21:39storytelling that builds to special moments that affect our audience on deep level
00:21:48if this was a real situation how would we all react i didn't want to overreact i think triple h
00:21:55as well and bruce and gorilla acted as if it was real there was only four people five people six
00:22:00maybe at the most that actually knew what the situation actually was two-time united states
00:22:06champion la night battling the five-time world champion seth rollins seth rollins and
00:22:12rollins now launched outside the ring to the pool that's how we keep going
00:22:18we did have to make sure that we didn't get the bell rung you know in situations like that when
00:22:23someone is actually hurt typically we'll ring the bell right away uh we had to be very very careful
00:22:28that we didn't do that brian k-feg just me and you a little bit of fucking uh
00:22:35fuckery here k-feg fuckery on the end of this thing
00:22:39do not let the fucking ring bell ring until the one two three episodes and i will tell you when
00:22:48as i wrapped my head around it i realized it was a brilliant piece of storytelling
00:22:53but you want to protect everybody involved you want to protect the company you want to protect
00:22:59your baby faces in this case la knight oh and the range of the midsection cross-flash coming
00:23:07the visionary now heading up to the top rope looking to put la knight away cross-flash to the
00:23:12injured midsection and rins rollins for the win hook to the leg and a kick out
00:23:19that's the fun part of what we do as performers you never know you never know when it's a work
00:23:23and when
00:23:24it's a shoot and that gray area is what makes us special as performers if you can see through
00:23:39every single thing that we do it becomes boring
00:23:52and rollins kicks it too when you get into the excitement of telling a story you look to exhaust
00:24:01whatever resources you have to tell that story in the best possible way and rollins
00:24:09with a buckle bomb i don't think there's any line that can't be crossed it's just you got to figure
00:24:15out what's worth crossing and now rollins oh there's that flying senton springboard senton
00:24:22by rollins and now a moonsault lands at his feet may have tweaked his knee
00:24:27all right you all right and now la knight with an opportunity it's not okay rollins into the corner
00:24:33the official area to check on rollins oh no back off la back off la back off la tell him
00:24:41tell him to give him a minute rollins tweaking his knee hayman over to check on his man let's let's
00:24:46get we need dog do we need the dog
00:24:51he said he needs a dog
00:24:56the ringside doctor now is over consulting with the official on the the situation with rollins
00:25:03what's he saying jess is he all right
00:25:07you hear that you good with that who's that he what said he said he said la hit his finish
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 with that's what's going to do with that's what's going to do with that
00:25:36and that is a bleak sight seeing seth freaking rollins down and out get that lay out tell him to
00:25:44sell up the ramp
00:25:48truly catastrophic moment here is that his bad knee the knee that he's i don't know just give him some
00:25:55right
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 the art of it
00:26:21anybody that doesn't need a beard get everybody out of here so he can get through
00:26:27what 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 don't
00:26:45know how did it come off okay unbelievable just yeah out of nowhere out of nowhere yep the way they
00:26:51shot it just is everything everything was really good how did it feel out there
00:26:57feel legit awkward awkward yeah yeah 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 can you spot the cameras off for just two seconds please
00:27:24la night played it perfectly his facial expressions were on point of oh no you could see his confusion
00:27:34and you could see his ah shit it helped fans to believe in the moment that
00:27:44something 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
00:28:10i got hurt you had speculation all over the internet about what what this was going to lead to if
00:28:18it was
00:28:18real if it was not real wow that's wrong really might be injured
00:28:24there was every story under the sun and so when everything was flooded you had no idea what the truth
00:28:31there was
00:28:47no one really knew what was going on
00:29:11the most important thing about five minutes handstands like 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 it i can do it i have to do it because i am the
00:29:42champion
00:29:42of my first name is masami in real name so masami but nobody called me masami because i started
00:30:04as always i used to use my real name of is Jiyoshi
00:30:13awo what wasscawai yes
00:30:16uh right now um and now my name is ios remaining um and now
00:30:24Well, my style is like...
00:30:28I'm going to jump from the top of the top.
00:30:30Of course, I'm going to jump from the top of the cage.
00:30:35I like height.
00:30:39And my finisher move is over the moonsault.
00:30:51World Games is my favorite.
00:30:54I did climb up the cage, and then I put on the trash can, put on my head.
00:31:05She's the genius of the sky, but this is ridiculous!
00:31:09I'm kind of stupid. I didn't realize since I put on the trash can.
00:31:13I couldn't see anything, and so dark here.
00:31:18I was like, what a fool is going to do.
00:31:21I was like, oh my gosh, I get scared.
00:31:25I was so scared, but I thought I was going to jump on it.
00:31:28I was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to jump on it.
00:31:33I was like, oh my gosh, I get scared.
00:31:39I got the trash can at 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, 158 centimeters.
00:32:01So, walking outside, like I walk on the street, so nobody think about, I am a wrestler.
00:32:07EO, from day one to me, just had this innate charisma.
00:32:15When she walks out, there's just little things she does.
00:32:19If I said to somebody five years ago, hey, we're going to have a female,
00:32:24that is going to be like this huge thing, right?
00:32:26Like, you'd be like, get out of here.
00:32:29When she does it, it's money, it's spectacular.
00:32:31If I was to get decimated on a roster of people and say,
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 kind of dates back about a decade to around 2015.
00:32:51Our audience kind of took to social media.
00:32:54They wanted our female superstars to have as much airtime and investment in their stories
00:33:00as the male superstars do.
00:33:03So, that's where the concept of Evolution came about.
00:33:05And it carried on to then this past year, where we did our second Evolution POE.
00:33:12The main event with Rhea Ripley versus EO Sky was a perfect main event for that show because,
00:33:19one, Rhea and EO have amazing chemistry.
00:33:22But also because Rhea Ripley, who some may argue our biggest superstar in general,
00:33:28has never beaten EO Sky.
00:33:30And so, it was kind of that quest to kind of, you know, win back the title that Rhea has
00:33:34lost.
00:33:36EO Sky conquers!
00:33:38Over to the left zone!
00:33:39Connects!
00:33:39Sky!
00:33:40Cover!
00:33:41Puts the lead!
00:33:42EO Sky is the world champion!
00:33:45And so, that quest to kind of see Rhea finally conquer what she has not yet been able to
00:33:51conquer was just kind of a natural kind of big fight feel storyline for that show.
00:33:55At Evolution, I can choose who to defend the women's world championship.
00:34:04And that means we are Rhea Ripley!
00:34:25ベ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なんでかっていうとエボリューションはこう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Rheaが表現しなきゃいけないと思ってたので。
00:34:40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。
00:35:00ロシ連
00:35:00Whoever has the money in a 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 so I won't get in trouble because I'd be having
00:35:13all kind of stuff in there.
00:35:15I'm just packing my briefcase.
00:35:18New caution belt.
00:35:19Mm-Hmm, itện RHODE1加る
00:35:20What your coat is?
00:35:22A thong harness.
00:35:24I was like,
00:35:26hmm ah okay yeah go ahead caution fan got all
00:35:37faithful fully charged this is just in case you're trying to shock a bitch
00:35:41some pepper gel hey pepper gel it's the lock is on it's on security you don't even know how to
00:35:48use
00:35:48it it's okay i'll figure it out on the day of gear fresh pack of blades
00:35:55a little something to take the edge off always got to have a fresh wig on deck never know when
00:36:00this one will get snatched rat pellets the poison jade ass and my contract
00:36:08hold on hold on got one more thing there 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
00:36:17boy oh foofy all right i can't do nothing without my foofy foofy you know that makes you an accomplice
00:36:27now i love you you're doing good though thank you love you love you love you so much
00:36:41naomi did you get all your junk out of there before they take it away from you
00:36:44when the 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 there shot glass
00:37:11i was telling io to possibly make a moment out of this like climb up here act like she's gonna
00:37:18dive
00:37:19then look up go up further if you think that's warranted
00:37:25edge will be right here so you're gonna be right there that's the edge right there yeah okay yeah
00:37:34you want somebody to bring you a trash can
00:37:37this is an area that we are prepping for one of your sky's high falls and you know um which
00:37:45she loves
00:37:50height
00:37:50what's your what is your concern
00:37:55the bump that ria's got to take yeah it's a hell of a bump are you patting this yes
00:37:59i just want you to hit your head on the floor yeah
00:38:02it's always a challenge to creatively make it look like it's part of our backstage gear
00:38:09but to also give her a safe platform could you lay down
00:38:21i 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 fucking selling looking at
00:38:34each other like what the fuck right yeah okay you can actually say that like what the fuck
00:38:41yeah you know what i mean what the fuck yeah see see it still sounds cute phenomenal when you say
00:38:46it
00:38:47yeah it does what the you know anybody else you go their cuss say ah i see you
00:38:52too cute
00:38:53that weekend of evolution in georgia ended up having a triple threat match i'd had matches with bailey i'd
00:39:04had matches with becky but this time i had the two of them i had been in a tag team
00:39:09with bailey
00:39:10coming up to mania bailey and valkyria are heading to wrestlemania to take on the tag champs
00:39:17and then we found out that becky was returning and she was essentially going to take bailey's spot
00:39:24as my tag team partner for the biggest show of the year what happened are you good no no you're
00:39:31not
00:39:31good what happened it was like bittersweet in a way when i was told that this was going to happen
00:39:37because you know i was excited to have becky back but like it started really singing like how much it
00:39:42sucks like as professional as i can be man i worked for that you know i worked for that
00:39:48bailey's deserved to have wrestlemania match and i was taking her out and really right up until
00:39:55the last moment i was like ah should we maybe do this differently i'm not even on social media so
00:40:01i
00:40:01don't know but i believe the vibe is like they're like oh it's gonna be becky yeah that's gonna
00:40:06uh when you feel bad for bailey so in the last minute picture you can tell me to go off
00:40:10so
00:40:11wrestlemania is like christmas you're being good all year long so that you get the most amount of
00:40:17toys on christmas day like that's how it works it felt like i was the grinch like i'm taking all
00:40:23your
00:40:24toys i know you don't want to take away from her i i hear you you know i hear you
00:40:29let me think let me
00:40:31there's anybody else i got kind of pissed at that heat but like i don't want to be put in
00:40:39the match
00:40:39because we begged for it i had already accepted it at that point so happy and excited so happy for
00:40:46you
00:40:46so we took this thing that happened that we had no control over that was very real
00:40:53and used it on screen i keep hoping things will go back to the way they were with us before
00:40:57wrestlemania but you just won't let that happen we went on from that moment and told the story with
00:41:02the three of us evolution the women's show it was so important that we had a banger
00:41:10welcome to atlanta tonight we get ready for an historic event wwe evolution here we go
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
00:41:51they're on their feet in atlanta they're crazy already first woman to gain pinfall or submission
00:41:59becomes the intercontinental champion
00:42:08the
00:42:09dog eat dog world at the very top there's no friendship
00:42:13oh
00:42:14Ignore it, says you're no best friend.
00:42:17Ignore it, says you're no best friend.
00:42:19And this is the best thing that could have happened any longer and I would have made it.
00:42:25It's not a war, no, it's not a rapture.
00:42:28I'm just a person, but you can take it.
00:42:31It's a trick set.
00:42:32They won't get you anywhere.
00:42:36I'm not the same kid from your memory.
00:42:39Well, now I can fend for you.
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.
00:43:02They'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 would look like fucking Marge Simpson, right?
00:43:27Maybe trying to Rose Plant here.
00:43:29Oh!
00:43:29Oh, my God!
00:43:38Bayley saves the matchup.
00:43:40Perfect time.
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 Lila.
00:43:54Becky from behind.
00:43:56Oh, nice.
00:43:59Becky returns.
00:44:01Oh!
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 pin I have ever seen in my entire time watching wrestling.
00:44:24One, two, three!
00:44:30All three women brought that absolute A-game tonight.
00:44:34Becky Lynch successfully retains the Women's Intercontinental Championship in a Classic.
00:44:44Is that all right?
00:44:45Yeah.
00:44:45No, more than all right.
00:44:46Hell yeah.
00:44:48You okay?
00:44:49Let's go.
00:44:50Let's go.
00:44:51Let's go.
00:44:52Let's go.
00:44:52Let's go.
00:44:53Let's go.
00:44:54I was just zapped back to 2018 to show myself one match.
00:44:59Just even the flash of the match graphic of me, Becky and Bayley.
00:45:04I genuinely wouldn't believe it.
00:45:05That finish was awesome.
00:45:07The back side, it looked great.
00:45:09I'm a fucking athlete.
00:45:12Not the only athlete in Ireland now, huh?
00:45:16No, honestly, I'm not that great of an athlete.
00:45:18So, like, that was the most athletic I've ever felt in my entire life.
00:45:23I'm in there with two of the best.
00:45:25And it's an honor to be right there side by side.
00:45:28Oh my God, that crowd was wild.
00:45:29Oh my God, that before the Valorant coming up.
00:45:32Oh yeah.
00:45:32Yeah.
00:45:33My favorite thing about what we do has always been the magic you feel when everyone in the
00:45:37room is on the same journey watching a wrestling match.
00:45:41Like, 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.
00:45:55The following is a no-holds-barred match!
00:46:04In this match, there are no count-outs, no disqualifications, no holds barred!
00:46:14Time to make order.
00:46:17Here to get the girlies in check.
00:46:19Tonight, this is done.
00:46:20Please welcome special guest referee, Bianca Belair!
00:46:31You know, Wade, we were talking earlier today about whether Bianca Belair can call this
00:46:35one 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.
00:46:44We knew where we wanted to end.
00:46:47We 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-barred match in WWE history.
00:47:05Naomi 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!
00:47:15And 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 to 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.
00:47:41Please hit this, girls.
00:47:42From up there!
00:47:43She'll break her in half!
00:47:46She'll break her in half!
00:47:47Jade in!
00:47:47Good shift!
00:47:52Cargill with the wind!
00:47:54Have them tell Naomi to sell big.
00:48:00Tell 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?
00:48:24Or do you want to go cut?
00:48:25I have to do this kind of running.
00:48:28Okay.
00:48:31Let me see if they want to glue it first.
00:48:34Yeah.
00:48:34Are you doing it during this match?
00:48:35Next time.
00:48:36Okay.
00:48:36You've got like 30 minutes.
00:48:37Yes.
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.
00:48:48Can 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.
00:48:54Oh, 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 the 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,
00:49:38Io Sky!
00:49:43Remember what happened back in March
00:49:46when Io Sky shocked everyone,
00:49:49taking the championship from Rhea Ripley.
00:49:54The two best female wrestlers on planet Earth in 2025.
00:49:59The question remains though, who is one and who is two?
00:50:17E.R.are like oh a 2000 baby will come down.
00:50:18Real Sky DT.
00:50:20Oh.
00:50:22Oh I protest does.
00:50:27Ripley!
00:50:27Shocked in the midsection.
00:50:29Ripley is really rough here now.
00:50:36Razor's answer in a second
00:50:39Into a powerbomb
00:50:45There were so many counters
00:50:47Oh my goodness
00:50:49Oh shit
00:50:50Oh god, a poisoned Rana
00:50:53Are we okay?
00:50:55You just feel the adrenaline in this arena
00:50:58They're witnessing something very special
00:51:00After no referee
00:51:03He's gonna 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
00:51:15And a left tie in the sky
00:51:17One, two, three
00:51:20Rhea Ripley has got pinned
00:51:22But there's no official
00:51:26The referee was taken out of this match
00:51:29Rhea Ripley at the damn match won
00:51:31But there's no official to count
00:51:33This must feel like a curse
00:51:36To Rhea Ripley
00:51:38Nice, Rhea
00:51:39Good shit
00:51:45How does her little body
00:51:47Take all that
00:51:53This is spelling out all over the place
00:51:57Ripley and Skye
00:51:59Fighting into the WWE universe
00:52:01Rhea Ripley understandably
00:52:03Has now completely lost it
00:52:05I am not quite sure
00:52:06What Rhea Ripley is capable of
00:52:08In the state of mind
00:52:09That she is in right now
00:52:12Trying to see the floor
00:52:13At their feet if you can
00:52:14Until we get over there
00:52:15And now on the
00:52:16Equipment case
00:52:17It's over there
00:52:18In the corner of this arena
00:52:20Once EO counters this
00:52:21She's gonna go to that first level
00:52:23Well it's gonna be nasty as hell
00:52:26Then pause
00:52:27Look up
00:52:28And go one step higher
00:52:32Oh no
00:52:35Don't do it EO
00:52:36EO
00:52:38Climbing up high
00:52:40Why now
00:52:41Why now
00:52:41Why now
00:52:42Don't get too close to it
00:52:43I wanna see crowd behind it
00:52:44I wanna see how high she is
00:52:45The genius in the sky
00:52:47With Ripley in trouble
00:52:49Why now
00:52:49Why now
00:52:50Why now
00:52:50The hottest risk
00:52:51Superstole
00:52:52The ball
00:52:52EO and a crossbody
00:52:54And EO and Rhea are down
00:52:57Nice
00:52:58EO to be 20 feet down
00:53:02They're both women are down
00:53:08Everybody okay
00:53:10Two women knocking the hell out of each other
00:53:14In pursuit of excellence
00:53:16In pursuit of greatness
00:53:17In pursuit of history
00:53:19Your ref coming
00:53:21Let me see you're coming in
00:53:23The officials coming too
00:53:27EO Sky hits it
00:53:29The over the moon
00:53:30And Rhea can get down
00:53:32Rhea kicked the toe
00:53:34Now it's EO Sky's turn
00:53:36To say
00:53:37What the hell
00:53:37Do I do now
00:53:40Holy
00:53:41Hell
00:53:43Nice
00:53:43I don't want to cover that shit
00:53:46That's storytelling
00:53:48Rhea Ripley
00:53:49Tapping into something
00:53:51Different tonight
00:53:52And it needs it
00:53:53Against this version
00:53:54Of EO Sky
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
00:54:03World titles 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 my god
00:54:23Naomi
00:54:24Naomi
00:54:25Miss Money in the Bank
00:54:28With a referee in tow
00:54:30Okay once they announce it as a triple threat
00:54:33Briefcase shot to EO
00:54:35You can hear this
00:54:39Ladies and gentlemen
00:54:41Naomi is cashing in
00:54:43Her money in the bank contract
00:54:45This is now a triple threat match
00:54:48It's a triple threat match
00:54:49Anything goes
00:54:51There are no display locations
00:54:52Under triple threat rules
00:54:54Officially cashed in
00:54:55Against two completely decimated women
00:55:01One-legged moonsault
00:55:03Covered by Naomi
00:55:06Naomi is the world champion
00:55:09Holy cow
00:55:10Here is your winner
00:55:16And new women
00:55:19Fucking A
00:55:20Whoa
00:55:21Fucking awesome
00:55:22That fucking one motherfucker
00:55:24Of the show
00:55:24Naomi
00:55:31Take that motherfucker
00:55:38Hey that was awesome
00:55:40Top to bottom
00:55:43It was a
00:55:45Holy shit moment
00:55:46She's the new champion
00:55:48And she is on top of the world
00:55:52Me returning
00:55:53I wanted to
00:55:54Be better
00:55:55Do better
00:55:55Become better
00:55:56This solidifies that
00:55:57It improves that
00:56:00It's very emotional
00:56:01I'm trying to keep it together
00:56:02First time ever being
00:56:04The women's world champion
00:56:07Who knows what's ahead of me now
00:56:09That was just badass
00:56:10Thank you, thank you
00:56:11That was badass
00:56:12How'd that feel?
00:56:13Amazing
00:56:14It just shows that
00:56:15It's women in wrestling
00:56:17We're still
00:56:17We're still progressing
00:56:19We're still getting better
00:56:20For those who have been
00:56:22Watching me since 2009
00:56:23If I could just sum it all up
00:56:25Of my journey
00:56:26It's just to keep going
00:56:29Evolution is such a massive deal
00:56:30For us women here in the WWE
00:56:32And 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
00:56:39That's like all women
00:56:40Is such a massive, massive deal to us
00:56:44Give me a rock
00:56:44I'm so sorry
00:56:47I'm so sorry
00:56:48Thank you so much
00:56:49Thank you for giving me
00:56:50This opportunity
00:56:50Oh, so great
00:56:52You were great
00:56:53You always believe in me
00:56:54Thank you so much
00:56:55I always will
00:56:56You were great
00:56:58Rockstar
00:56:58A lot of times
00:57:00Backstage
00:57:00I could just call her rockstar
00:57:03Because I don't know
00:57:03How to put a label on her
00:57:06For anything else
00:57:07She's just the nicest
00:57:08Human being of all time
00:57:10We'll do whatever you want
00:57:11And we'll come back
00:57:12And just
00:57:13She's just hoping
00:57:14That 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
00:57:19When 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
00:57:24I did, I did
00:57:25Very good
00:57:26Oh, thank you
00:57:27I enjoyed it
00:57:28I enjoyed it
00:57:29Okay
00:57:30Oh, thank you
00:57:31There you go
00:57:32Lucky
00:57:33Does that scare you?
00:57:35No, no
00:57:36I want to be special
00:57:39I will take any risk
00:57:41To become
00:57:42I am superstar
00:57:47This is what we work so hard for
00:57:49And it's all accumulated
00:57:51To this moment right here
00:57:52Because this is what
00:57:53The future of
00:57:55The women here in WWE
00:57:57Are going to show
00:57:58And we're going to take
00:58:00Our opportunities
00:58:00We're not going to wait
00:58:01For them anymore
00:58:02And this is exactly
00:58:03Where we start
00:58:03So it was a really cool experience
00:58:10Let's talk about evolution
00:58:11Just what a night
00:58:15The bar for what women do
00:58:16In this industry
00:58:17All of it has been raised
00:58:19So high
00:58:20Man, they showed tonight
00:58:21What a change
00:58:22That business
00:58:23Has been for them
00:58:25Incredibly proud of them
00:58:27I'm sure somebody here
00:58:28Will ask about Seth
00:58:30He came here tonight
00:58:31He was not going to miss
00:58:32His wife's performance tonight
00:58:34He will be in Birmingham
00:58:35Tomorrow with Dr. Dugas
00:58:37I'll just say right now
00:58:38A little bit inconclusive
00:58:39Doesn't look good
00:58:41But we'll get MRI
00:58:43And hope for the best
00:58:47So keeping a secret
00:58:49Not letting people know
00:58:52That Seth Rollins
00:58:53Doesn't need crutches
00:58:56That's part of the thrill
00:58:59Is it secrecy?
00:59:01Is it a work?
00:59:03Or is it simply
00:59:05The planning of performance art?
00:59:11On me
00:59:13Now
00:59:14Burn it down
00:59:18Burn it down
00:59:18Burn it down
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