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WWE: Unreal - Season 2 - Episode 05: The Pop
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00:00:06The reality of how much I was going to have to lie to all the people that I care about
00:00:13hadn't really hit me. You know, I can lie to the fans. That's fine. That's part of the business.
00:00:21Lying to, like, my friends and family. And so when it happened, everybody's texting me.
00:00:30And now a moonsault lands on his feet.
00:00:32Oh, fuck. Get Doc in there. Get Doc in there.
00:00:36That is a bleak sight seeing Seth freaking Rollins down and out.
00:00:44And he's not responding to anybody because, you know, he's going through all of this.
00:00:52So everybody's like, how's he doing? His dad is texting me. And I'm like, do I have to like your
00:00:58dad?
00:00:59Like, who do I have to lie to? So I was like breaking out in hives.
00:01:06I think she didn't anticipate having to be an accomplice. I think that part didn't occur to her until the
00:01:13night of.
00:01:14And she's the one answering all the texts while I'm, you know, ignoring them all.
00:01:18I'm much better. I'm a much better liar than she is. She'll be honest with you on that.
00:01:23She's a terrible liar.
00:01:24My manager called me and he's like, how's he doing? Is he okay? What's going on?
00:01:30Is he going to be all right? And I'm like, um, uh, yeah, he'll be fine.
00:01:37He'll be fine, you know? He's going to be fine.
00:01:40You know, and that was like my way of like not, of towing the line, of like not lying, but
00:01:46lying, you know?
00:01:48Okay, next time, just fucking don't tell me.
00:01:51Hmm?
00:01:52Just don't fucking tell me.
00:01:53With what?
00:01:55What's up?
00:01:56I got a fucking, you know, I got a fucking lie to everybody.
00:01:58I got a fucking lie to everybody.
00:02:00I got a fucking lie.
00:02:04Did, did, uh, did you know about it beforehand or after?
00:02:08Yeah, yeah.
00:02:08Okay.
00:02:19Any time I would go into public where there was a possibility that a picture might get out, we were
00:02:25on the crutches with the brace.
00:02:27Crutches were the fucking worst.
00:02:30I have stairs to go to my house.
00:02:32I couldn't do legs at the gym.
00:02:34I flew commercial in a GD brace.
00:02:37You know, you'd stop security.
00:02:38They got to pat the whole thing down.
00:02:40It was obnoxious.
00:02:43Everybody, except my daughter, played their role perfectly.
00:02:47She tried to ruin it immediately.
00:02:49You know, I told her, oh, daddy's got to pretend boo-boo.
00:02:52He doesn't really have a boo-boo.
00:02:53But eventually, she'll tell everyone, daddy doesn't have a boo-boo.
00:02:56And I'll go, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:02:58And everybody will go, oh.
00:03:00Literally the first day, send her into this little summer camp.
00:03:04She does her thing for a few hours.
00:03:05She comes back.
00:03:06She's got this teacher, Miss Joy.
00:03:08She says, I told Miss Joy that you had a pretend boo-boo.
00:03:11I said, no, Rue, you can't do that.
00:03:14She goes, na-na, na-na, boo-boo.
00:03:16I told Miss Joy.
00:03:18Oh.
00:03:22Miss Joy was in the inner circle from day one.
00:03:24And she kept up her end of the bargain, too.
00:03:26Appreciate that, Miss Joy.
00:03:40SummerSlam has always been arguably the second largest event that WWE does.
00:03:47The big tentpole event is the only way that I can think to say it.
00:03:51One of the greatest wrestling matches of all time has their second place here at SummerSlam.
00:04:01You run these big epic storylines through the summer.
00:04:05They peak at SummerSlam.
00:04:07Ray Mysterio has his son back.
00:04:10Oh, broke this on her side.
00:04:13Oh, my God.
00:04:14Give him the earth.
00:04:17History of the business as we move forward.
00:04:19There was so much talent, so much storytelling that could be done.
00:04:24This year, for the first time, SummerSlam now is a two-night event.
00:04:31In laying out the card for SummerSlam, we knew that night one would be headlined by Gunther
00:04:37defending the world title against CM Punk, with obviously the Seth Rollins cash-in surprise
00:04:42included with that, and also Jelly Roll teaming up with Randy Orton to take on Logan Paul and
00:04:49Drew McIntyre.
00:04:50One of the numerous benefits of working with an outside performer like a Jelly Roll is
00:04:55that they have different opportunities outside of our world in which they can promote WWE.
00:05:01We found out that Jelly Roll was actually going to be hosting an episode of the Jimmy Kimmel
00:05:05show, and thought that'd be a perfect opportunity to use it as a platform to kind of promote
00:05:10Jelly's tag match at SummerSlam.
00:05:13I guess we're going to go to commercial break.
00:05:15Commercial break it is.
00:05:17Oh, actually, no, I don't think we're going to go to commercial break.
00:05:22You, my friend, are a greasy, redneck prison rat.
00:05:28Who the f*** is this?
00:05:29Shut the hell up, Jelly Roll.
00:05:31There's your receipt, stupid.
00:05:32Hey, congrats.
00:05:33It's Logan Paul's show now.
00:05:35A real superstar.
00:05:36So, ladies and gentlemen, you want to see a real star?
00:05:40I'm here.
00:05:41Why don't you leave, huh?
00:05:53Getting involved in SummerSlam scared me.
00:05:56I haven't felt fear like that in a long time.
00:05:59I mean, it scared me.
00:06:00It kept me up at night some nights.
00:06:01I'd wake up out of sleeps about it.
00:06:03I wasn't nervous.
00:06:05That's something you feel before a concert.
00:06:06That's healthy.
00:06:07I was scared of, um, I was scared of being rejected.
00:06:16And I haven't had that fear in a long time, neither.
00:06:18It reminded me of, like, the early bar shows.
00:06:21Like, I don't really know how they're going to feel about me out here.
00:06:31You got 20 seconds for me to run somebody?
00:06:33Yes, sir.
00:06:34Is it too early in the day to talk about our finish?
00:06:37No?
00:06:39No?
00:06:39Don't go out here yet.
00:06:41You want to go heels up?
00:06:44I'm not opposed to it.
00:06:45I'm still mulling it over.
00:06:47I've got all the details.
00:06:48I'm weighing out the overall card.
00:06:51Do I need a babyface moment, or do I need a down moment that late in the show?
00:06:56If you ask me where I'm at right now, I'm 60-40, you go down.
00:07:01We get heels up, 60-40.
00:07:03But I want to feel that out for a little bit.
00:07:06I was campaigning to lose.
00:07:08Because we were also trying to clearly tell the story of a man that was unqualified to be in there.
00:07:11Well, I've been thrown through, like, 12, 15 tables getting ready for this.
00:07:15But I haven't actually been through an announcer table with somebody jumping me.
00:07:19You lay on this table just to feel what it's like?
00:07:21I bug y'all, man.
00:07:22I just, I don't want the first time I lay on it before I go through it to be in
00:07:25front of 60,000 people and have no clue what the fuck it feels like.
00:07:28This is the only thing that I'm going to do tonight that I haven't got to try at all.
00:07:34I have no clue how bad it is or isn't going to hurt.
00:07:36I just keep thinking about how far that jump is and how big Logan is.
00:07:40So it's kind of like a little bit like this, but also at an angle.
00:07:43So he'll come, boom.
00:07:44No, no, no, not that angle.
00:07:46Because he'll be coming ahead this way.
00:07:48I'll be on that table, right?
00:07:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:52Yeah, you'll be fine.
00:07:54And then just...
00:07:55Boom.
00:07:55Yep.
00:07:57This thing will break.
00:07:58Mm-hmm.
00:07:59Tuck the chin.
00:07:59It's a clean bump, right?
00:08:00Yep, yep, yep.
00:08:02I'll be okay.
00:08:03We'll be all right.
00:08:04My wife will be sitting right there.
00:08:05She's going to shit herself.
00:08:07She's going to lose her mind, dude.
00:08:10You got any words or advice for me here?
00:08:12Kind of sit up a little bit on impact.
00:08:15Sit up a little bit before impact.
00:08:17Well, I heard you.
00:08:18Yep.
00:08:19Just a little bit.
00:08:20Yeah.
00:08:21Kind of tighten up.
00:08:21Yeah, it'll be a snug shot.
00:08:24It may knock the wind out of you, but you'll be fine.
00:08:27You know, later.
00:08:29For sure.
00:08:31I got a minute to sail here.
00:08:32You probably won't feel much of it in the moment when you cool off.
00:08:38That's when you'll feel it.
00:08:40When the adrenaline comes out.
00:08:42When I go back there and sit down, I'm going to feel every one of these.
00:08:44Yes, you are.
00:08:45And you're going to feel it even more tomorrow when you wake up.
00:08:51Feeling good?
00:08:51Yes.
00:08:52So I got to say, at Saturday's main events, I felt really bad for Seth.
00:08:57Seth Rollins?
00:08:58Yeah, I felt really bad for him.
00:08:59Why?
00:08:59Then I came to you and it was like, hey, man, he's out.
00:09:02If you need me.
00:09:03Yeah.
00:09:03And you just didn't even acknowledge it at all.
00:09:05That it was like, hey, man.
00:09:07Suffice obvious.
00:09:08Yeah.
00:09:10Yeah.
00:09:10Look, I don't like giving people information they don't need.
00:09:14No, no, no.
00:09:14It's all good.
00:09:15It's all good.
00:09:15I think of it myself anyway.
00:09:16I wanted to tell him because I thought it was funny.
00:09:18Because in the first moment, I didn't have any mail.
00:09:19I didn't think of it like, hey.
00:09:21I don't know.
00:09:21I believed everybody.
00:09:22It was like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:09:24Poor guy.
00:09:24Yeah, yeah.
00:09:25And you know what we're doing tonight, right?
00:09:28Yeah.
00:09:30Thanks, son.
00:09:31Good, you?
00:09:33So, aftermath.
00:09:35You have a second.
00:09:35We'll talk about it again.
00:09:36Yeah, yeah.
00:09:37So, we want to paint the picture where you go over.
00:09:40But you're exhausted.
00:09:42You finally have that moment.
00:09:43We're getting Gunther out.
00:09:45You finally get the fucking ear on your knees or whatever that is.
00:09:47And they finally get that title.
00:09:48And they have that emotional moment.
00:09:49Like, fuck, you fucking did it.
00:09:51You know what I mean?
00:09:51And as emotional as possible, I'm going to get a camera in the ring to make it look like
00:09:55we're going off the air, you know?
00:09:57You can fucking get up on your feet.
00:09:58And you finally just give me that moment where you fucking look.
00:10:00And just before you even get it up, here he comes.
00:10:05And I feel like, you know, you take your time on all that, too.
00:10:09Like, you fucking can't fucking believe it.
00:10:12You cry if you can.
00:10:14And you know what I mean?
00:10:15As emotional as fucking possible.
00:10:16As soon as you just do this, it's like, fuck.
00:10:19I will milk that till it is bone dry.
00:10:24Bobby Likudny plans for post-match.
00:10:29Sounds awesome.
00:10:30Sounds good.
00:10:32Yeah, I felt like if you went through a war, you know, you went through a war, can barely
00:10:36get up and fucking, but you've overcome and all that shit.
00:10:39And holy shit, he finally fucking did it.
00:10:40Here's your moment.
00:10:41Bang.
00:10:43We are live at the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the finals of the 2026 FIFA World
00:10:50Cup, a neighborhood which has hosted a number of Summer Slams, but tonight makes history
00:10:56with the first ever epic two-night event.
00:11:00Over 50,000 WWE fans are expected tonight for the 38th annual Summer Slam.
00:11:13One minute to party.
00:11:15Hey, just take your time.
00:11:17We're in no rush, so don't feel like you got to rush.
00:11:19Take your time going up the stairs.
00:11:20Take your time doing all of it and have fun.
00:11:22All right?
00:11:23Let's go.
00:11:25Let's do it.
00:11:26It's so nice meeting you.
00:11:27All right.
00:11:30Hello, it's me.
00:11:32Hello, it's me.
00:11:33Hello, it's me.
00:11:35Hello.
00:11:56What's good, WWE Universe?
00:12:02Who's made a whip so bad?
00:12:28I am more tears in my head.
00:12:31they count for me they understand they talk to me jelly roll weighs in at 299 pounds the lightest
00:12:39in many many years jelly roll has been doing all the right things he's been training with
00:12:45some of the absolute best what he hasn't done is actually have a match
00:12:56as the bell rings jelly roll tags himself in
00:13:01we're gonna have to see what jelly roll has learned over the past
00:13:04number of weeks as he starts things off i'm about to get a little flurry here from jello
00:13:13and a big elbow by jelly drops paul
00:13:20don't get a tag to victory now the game changes you might want to make a tag now to mr
00:13:27orton
00:13:27while you have the opportunity because here comes mcintyre
00:13:32oh randy trying to psych up jelly roll
00:13:37now may realize he made a mistake
00:13:41it is every celebrity's dream to get in this ring
00:13:46until you face reality
00:13:49you want to put jelly on the table look at your big table spot
00:13:55oh man this is things are getting out of control here
00:13:59there's no way to feel what this is going to feel like i look up and i see him clap
00:14:04those two water
00:14:05bottles together i'm petrified at this moment
00:14:22jelly roll is going to rue the day that he wanted to become a wwe superstar
00:14:35check check on everybody please the medical personnel at ringside have got jelly roll to his feet
00:14:42everybody's good everybody's good
00:14:45a two-on-one situation logan paul drew mcintyre continue to pummel away on orton
00:14:54logan paul laughing and mocking at jelly roll
00:15:00me and shane the producer shane we talked about it all night like this is where windsor dies when
00:15:06you turn around it's either going to be one of the pops of the night or it'll fall flat
00:15:17when i turned around for that comeback it was like it happened
00:15:24i don't know what jelly's thinking he's trying to drag himself back in
00:15:32we got to applaud jelly roll to not leave his partner high and dry here in this match randy
00:15:39jordan is going to tag in jelly roll and here he comes
00:15:44and jelly roll with a clothesline just bites it up pure adrenaline here
00:15:51watch for the claymore stay here stay here
00:15:55fly bar logan paul up top
00:16:04for the win
00:16:09well there's no fairy tale ending for our celebrity here tonight
00:16:14he showed us all something here jelly roll went out on his shield
00:16:22that was awesome it was great
00:16:25first of all shout out to triple h for believing it right because imagine there's a 480 pound musician
00:16:31and gorilla taking up the space of three men going dude i'm gonna lose a bunch of weight and kick
00:16:35a
00:16:35wrist and match i've been a fan my whole life and triple h believe me
00:16:41i'm in brother you got
00:16:43congratulations
00:16:44love you man you said you will you worked your
00:16:47fucking ass off man i know i made a couple mistakes but i did pretty good
00:16:50but dude nobody even noticed those i only say this to people that get it respect respect
00:16:55fucking respect okay thank you thank you
00:17:03are you on your bus
00:17:08so i'll come out to see you let's make sure it's exactly how we want it
00:17:13and the next time we come in we're going for it
00:17:19punk wins
00:17:22we get the title in punk's hands
00:17:27when he lifts the title in the air to give it to the audience that chanted his name for 10
00:17:32years
00:17:33we hit your music
00:17:35talk through an hour later i'll talk to you now okay we're going to cash in okay
00:17:39okay seth is coming back
00:17:41so when you get to the bottom of the ramp just kind of wait because seth is going to come
00:17:45out
00:17:45we come out on the stage i have the briefcase you're on crutches
00:17:51and the knee brace
00:17:53seth is coming down and seth is going to grab you he's going to slide in he's going to whack
00:17:57punk a
00:17:58bunch of times he's going to come to you say he's going to cash in walking up for the
00:18:02fucking best in the world baby are you cracking him with the briefcase
00:18:07many times if i can
00:18:10stomp you do the cash in he's going to stop him you count one two three
00:18:13oh on the ring we do that thank you we stay in a ring we stand right we stand over
00:18:20the dead body
00:18:21get the heat get out one time's right you call it we'll go with your gut that's great
00:18:26yeah yeah i like that
00:18:32from chicago illinois c
00:18:43you can have all the cockiness and arrogance in the world when you're in your 20s but right now
00:18:49old father time is catching up with cm punk it's a win now situation jess i don't i don't know
00:18:56exactly
00:18:56how it's going to go but just be at the bottom of the ramp so if seth points at you
00:18:59or grabs you just
00:19:00go along with it thank you
00:19:08sun's gone to hell the moon's riding high and we are ready for a main event for the ages here
00:19:27and now a chop to the back and punk's in trouble now keep chopping one in the belly the body
00:19:34of cm punk is
00:19:35being broken down before our eyes stacks him up to retain and punk kicks it too not quite sure
00:19:42how punk still has anything left in him can you make sure that hayman's up here please paul hayman
00:19:56it's tough to keep a surprise now
00:20:01keeping a return a secret
00:20:05not letting people know that seth rollins doesn't need crutches
00:20:11this makes it so much more difficult because all it takes is one person goes
00:20:22what goes into a reveal everything we're doing theater and the audience is our chorus
00:20:34we're building to something and we're asking you to pay to enjoy the ride along with us
00:20:44what can make this moment that memorable that's the assignment that's the job that's what we do
00:20:59it's a miracle you got the crutches hey you're gonna wear them to take the brace off too what's
00:21:05that taking the brace off as well welcome back these crutches are the death of me larry
00:21:14guther's taking a victory lap already wait a minute cm punk back at his feet and guther
00:21:21may have made a critical error there this is gonna be great i think so
00:21:25oh my goodness oh my goodness the world champion has been busted open gunther is busted open god
00:21:34i don't know if i've ever seen gunther covered in his own blood like that gunther trying to
00:21:40beg off i don't remember to your point the last time gunther's tasted his own blood in a match
00:21:45forget everything that's happened previously the game has changed
00:21:58oh yeah punk delivers it to gunther and punk could be closing in on his championship
00:22:05cm punk still with some life left punk now with gunther up on his shoulders
00:22:10hook for the gts i'll go to sleep to the champion hook's gonna go for it again
00:22:18hook for the second gts
00:22:20puck into the cover puck is the world champion
00:22:25here is your winner
00:22:31and new world heavyweight champion
00:22:41and milky
00:22:47and emotional cf punk filled with tears has finally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt
00:22:56that he is the best in the world
00:23:00on me
00:23:04burn it down
00:23:05burn it down
00:23:25Once the audience hears the music, I was worried they would know what was happening, even when
00:23:34I came out on the crutches with the brace. And I thought maybe the ruse at the end of the
00:23:42ruse was a bit surplus. And the second pop wouldn't be as big as the first pop. That's
00:23:49always the big fear is that, you know, you want your pops to elevate, you know, you want
00:23:53the excitement to increase as you're moving towards the moment.
00:24:04Seth will take a step to lead, like he's going back through Gorilla, and then we'll
00:24:08get all of our Shakespeare.
00:24:10That was the only concern I had was whether we were going in the right direction by doing
00:24:16the walk away and, oh, he's just here to remind people that he's still got the case. That
00:24:21moment, I didn't know if that was going to play well.
00:24:34When I heard the noise when the crutches drop, I was like, oh, oh yeah.
00:24:55Oh, my God. Oh, no. Oh, no. Not tonight. Not tonight of all nights. I call it a miracle.
00:25:10But I don't think it's that. And see how Punk and Seth Rollins now going after one another.
00:25:25And another one. Another one. And another one. Punk getting the hell beat out of him by Seth Rollins.
00:25:34Cash it in. Cash it in. Cash it in. Cash it in.
00:25:40Right there. Right there. That's your shot. That's the one.
00:25:44He's the one. He's the only thing in your way. This is the vision.
00:25:49Punk is helpless.
00:25:51I'll stop the Punk. You gotta be kidding me.
00:25:55A cover by Rollins.
00:25:59Oh, my God.
00:26:00Oh, my God. Rollins is the World Heavyweight Champion.
00:26:02Here is your winner.
00:26:07And new World Heavyweight Champion.
00:26:13Seth Brickin Rollins.
00:26:22Seth Rollins outmaneuvered CM Punk again.
00:26:31That's the ultimate indicator. How's the payoff? If the payoff worked, then everything else worked. And I believe that it
00:26:38worked perfectly.
00:26:41I'm just so happy that it's over. Now I don't have to lie anymore.
00:26:50This is what we've been dreaming of. This is what we've been dreaming of.
00:26:55This is the beauty of the work ethic. This crazy ass performance art that we lovingly call professional wrestling.
00:27:14You're lying, motherfucker.
00:27:18You guys, man. Life from the best. You know what I mean?
00:27:20That was badass, dude. That was fucking badass.
00:27:24We got it. We got it. We got it. We got it.
00:27:26We got it.
00:27:27Bye-bye, Crutches.
00:27:28We got him with the lion.
00:27:29We got him with the lion.
00:27:31We got him with the lion.
00:27:34Finally getting the title and moving forward with myself and Heyman and Breaker and Reed, it felt like now we're
00:27:41here. Now we've arrived. And we can really start to do some fantastic work for wherever this leads.
00:27:48I am beat the fuck up. I need an ice bath and some ice cream and some ice.
00:27:55It's nights like that that remind me of what I fell in love with to start this entire journey.
00:28:06It's a physical business, but it's about making people feel what you're feeling.
00:28:12You know? Sometimes you put yourself through hell for your art. For your art.
00:28:21Oh, man.
00:28:23It's about emotion.
00:28:28Okay. Thank you for the opportunity. I hope that was everything you wanted.
00:28:31Oh, my God. That was bad.
00:28:32That had to feel good.
00:28:33Oh, I mean, yes and no.
00:28:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:36Yeah. A lot of it didn't feel good.
00:28:38Yes and no.
00:28:38But it had to feel good.
00:28:39No, but that's what it needed to be.
00:28:40Dude.
00:28:41And then you played that shit on the end with the tears in your eyes. All that shit was so
00:28:46fucking good and emotional.
00:28:47You'll get sick of me saying it, but thank you for the opportunity.
00:28:50You brought me back here and I think we're doing great things.
00:28:53You make me and Mick look like fucking geniuses.
00:28:55Magic. Magic.
00:28:56Fucking A.
00:28:58So night one was epic.
00:29:00Went about as well as I think it could have.
00:29:03But we still got a whole nother night to go.
00:29:24I got this thing a long time ago and this finally found an excuse to use it.
00:29:27I was like, yes, I'm pumped.
00:29:29After WrestleMania and after losing to John Cena, I took a little time off.
00:29:36Inhale, left arm up.
00:29:38The biggest thing from yoga is being present.
00:29:41My mind runs at a pace where I often don't take any time to realize where we're at.
00:29:50This is modern WWE where the athleticism is through the roof.
00:29:53And if you're not doing the things that fix your body, then you end up not being able to do
00:29:59it for very long.
00:30:03Look at WrestleMania and when you lose the title, no matter what anyone tells you, if they tell you it
00:30:08doesn't matter or it doesn't feel a certain way, they're lying to you.
00:30:12I didn't like the end result, not in terms of finish, in terms of execution.
00:30:17I think it was beneath what we can do.
00:30:21I need far better.
00:30:23And not just I need far better, WWE needs far better.
00:30:26So I think that the reason that a lot of people were down on the Cena Cody WrestleMania match was
00:30:38that it didn't translate and it didn't feel genuine.
00:30:42Because you know what, John?
00:30:44They love you.
00:30:45They appreciate you.
00:30:47You've done maybe more than anybody's ever done for this industry.
00:30:51And you're not going to be able to take that away from them.
00:30:54They're not going to hate you like you want them to hate you.
00:30:58It's not going to happen.
00:30:59Just go out there and tear it up.
00:31:02That's what they want.
00:31:04If people were disappointed, let's round this out.
00:31:07Let's remind them that WWE always does have not just a happy ending, but a conclusion.
00:31:15The goal would be to get back to the title match, wrestling against John Cena at SummerSlam.
00:31:21Namaste.
00:31:22Namaste.
00:31:23John really wanted to make up for the Mania match.
00:31:27Bad.
00:31:28He felt he owed Cody that.
00:31:32The only thing left to was to determine how and when we were going to get John Cena back over
00:31:38to being classic babyface John Cena.
00:31:40John Cena is going to defend that title against Cody Rhodes, but it's no DQ or just street fight or
00:31:46whatever.
00:31:46Does he fucking shake Cody's hand, do all that stuff, like have a moment there.
00:31:53Let the end of the heel run resonate as Cody did it, then get it done on the other side.
00:32:01Yeah.
00:32:01Is the flip side of that John then coming to Cody's aid?
00:32:08Yeah.
00:32:09Right?
00:32:09Like to turn back babyface somewhere in August because Cody now is in trouble and the guy that actually saves
00:32:16him is John Cena.
00:32:17Under the, I fucked up and I got ahead of myself here and I realized that I thought you weren't
00:32:26the guy.
00:32:26And you are.
00:32:27And I fucking support you and believe in you and now he finishes out August to December clean as a
00:32:34babyface is what we were originally thinking.
00:32:37And is that the, is that the scenario?
00:32:41We didn't know at the time Cody was going to be then going away to make a movie for six
00:32:45weeks.
00:32:46I got to get with John.
00:32:49The, the Cody going away thing changes a bunch of shit.
00:32:52On the backside of SummerSlam, I am going to Australia to shoot Street Fighter, where I will be playing the
00:32:59character of Guile, which is dope.
00:33:01Um, I grew up playing the character, so they kind of got me sight unseen, which I hope I don't
00:33:07blow it.
00:33:12The thought was at that point of let's just get to Cena the night before and kind of pull him
00:33:18back so that Cena was made whole and back on the good side of things heading into that match.
00:33:24A good face turn is never meant to really be a shock.
00:33:31A good face turn should be something you're feeling and you already were like, come on, man, we're cheering for
00:33:36you now.
00:33:37Like, just come on.
00:33:45And a really good babyface turn is one that we're leading the audience to, but also the audience is leading
00:33:51us to.
00:33:51Uh, John's being a prime example of a face turn where he basically said, I'm a babyface now.
00:33:59Mark your calendar, Cody, August 1st, 2025, Newark, New Jersey, the day that John Cena came back to the WWE!
00:34:13John, doing it in the fashion that he did where he told the audience, I'm gonna be me.
00:34:18Very John, and let me make it even cleaner for you.
00:34:21I'm gonna tell him I'm back.
00:34:23He's back!
00:34:25I'm gonna be me at SummerSlam.
00:34:26And me at SummerSlam is one of the greatest babyfaces, if not the greatest babyface of all time.
00:34:39I think the easiest way for us to get you involved, if you don't mind, would be having these accessible.
00:34:47You have me get one of these.
00:34:49Okay.
00:34:49And just take them in the ass.
00:34:50Yeah, okay.
00:34:51That's alright.
00:34:52Totally fine with me.
00:34:52Do you want us to use the thing in the match, or like?
00:34:55Sure.
00:34:55Okay, cool.
00:34:56I also don't want to put you in a spot where you feel uncomfortable.
00:35:01No, not at all.
00:35:02I'm excited you are.
00:35:03Awesome.
00:35:03Awesome.
00:35:04I think the story that we wanted to tell was, we're willing to both go to the lengths that
00:35:13a street fight demands, but we don't have to do it without respect.
00:35:18I wanted every bit of it to be a warrior's death.
00:35:22If you're refusing to hand the torch, I'm going to murder you for it.
00:35:26I'm going to take it by force.
00:35:30Some of these versions where I'm standing there and watching them come up, it's a lot
00:35:34of just looking at it with love, reverence, but also like, we're at it.
00:35:38I think so.
00:35:39And also, I don't know, is there a little salute in there?
00:35:42That whole fucking, I love you but I'm sorry, you know what I mean, kind of thing.
00:35:55This was the big finale to me and Becky's feud.
00:35:59The ultimate battle at the end of our story.
00:36:05I felt a lot of pressure going into this one because it was a no-disqualification match.
00:36:11The main event on the show was John Cena and Cody Rhodes also with a no-disqualification stipulation.
00:36:18How are you doing? You look so cool.
00:36:20So it was very hard to come up with some unique ideas.
00:36:24I get a chain, tie it around her mouth, pull her, pull her into the steps, knock the steps off.
00:36:33And we are using the box.
00:36:34Right there.
00:36:35Right there.
00:36:36Maybe we don't do that.
00:36:37So in what we call gimmick matches, you know, no DQ, street fight, they're hard to prepare for because you
00:36:44can talk them through.
00:36:46You can't actually go through them at full speed because you have to save that for the match.
00:36:52Otherwise, you're going to kill the guy or girl before the match and they're not going to be able to
00:36:56perform to their best.
00:36:57So you can't do that.
00:36:59Maybe sometimes.
00:37:00Maybe.
00:37:01How would she get out?
00:37:03You get one try at this stuff and it's in front of 60,000 people.
00:37:08We're not doing the old music, no.
00:37:10We're just going straight into it.
00:37:11Straight into it.
00:37:12We were debuting my new entrance music by the Wonder Years, who were one of my favorite bands.
00:37:19New frickin' song.
00:37:21Oh, I love it, man.
00:37:22I love it.
00:37:23I reached out to the Wonder Years.
00:37:25I'm a big fan of them.
00:37:28And Dan Campbell, the singer, the songwriter of the band, I was like, man, would you guys be interested in
00:37:35doing my song if I can?
00:37:36If I can.
00:37:38Like, two seconds later, he wrote the band.
00:37:41Fuck yeah!
00:37:42Yeah, we would love to.
00:37:45Within, like, two days, he had written this banger of a song.
00:37:51He had lots of little Easter eggs in it.
00:37:55And one of them is, uh, I talk to your ghost every night.
00:38:02And I looked where my dad was sitting, you know, six years ago.
00:38:07And so did it to us every night in my street.
00:38:20Hey, Finn.
00:38:21Oh.
00:38:23Want to go over some of your ideas?
00:38:25Yep.
00:38:28Yeah.
00:38:29Oh, man, I did not, um, I got quite emotional on that day.
00:38:34Sorry.
00:38:35All good.
00:38:35Last time we were here, my dad was in the front row and, you know, there's that line and the
00:38:41song, you know, I talked to your ghost every night till just kind of got me.
00:38:46I got you.
00:38:47All good.
00:38:48Yeah, so.
00:38:49Good?
00:38:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:51Good, good, good, good.
00:38:52Just got me a bit emotional there, you know.
00:38:58Last time I was here, my dad was sitting there.
00:39:02Yeah, my poor dad with cancer was just sitting there with this fucking blanket on, you know.
00:39:06For the whole show.
00:39:07For the whole show.
00:39:08The whole show.
00:39:15Good to get in there.
00:39:16Good to get in there.
00:39:16Yeah.
00:39:17Sometimes good to remember where you come from.
00:39:19Yeah.
00:39:24And, um...
00:39:29Yeah, got me good.
00:39:30Got me good.
00:39:30I'm a man.
00:39:33Yeah.
00:39:57He has gone.
00:39:57I know.
00:39:58And, um...
00:39:59He's got you!
00:39:59He's got you!
00:40:00When he was a man!
00:40:00In the name of his dad's cave.
00:40:00something you ain't seen nothing yet I have one question for you, are you ready?
00:40:13I said, are you ready?
00:40:28I always feel on fire internally I always do but like every time I feel like this every
00:40:33time and then like it always just seems to to be magic so hopefully it's always gonna
00:40:39stay like that but again I'm always like really nervous and trying to put out the fires in
00:40:44my head and stay on top of things and you just can't freak out you just can't like it's just
00:40:48we got it we got to go wow I'm freaking out
00:40:53the following is a no disqualification match for the women's intercontinental championship
00:41:05she is the women's intercontinental champion the man Becky Lynch
00:41:20Becky Lynch has been the standard of Irish dominance for the past 10 years and she is
00:41:27not ready to relinquish that role to a young up-and-coming pretender in Lyra Valkyria not
00:41:34sure I would use the word pretender when it comes to Lyra Valkyria in the SummerSlam match
00:41:41I think I'd already lost the battle with that one before I went through the curtain
00:41:44I just didn't switch on
00:41:48I felt a lot of pressure I'm always able to live in the moment and for that match I just
00:41:57couldn't introducing the challenger Lyra Valkyria
00:42:05when I was making my entrance I was just thinking let's just get the bell ringing
00:42:11let's just do this and that's how I knew I was not in the zone that I needed to be
00:42:18anything that could have gone wrong went wrong
00:42:21Lyra now boot rake to the midsection of Becky Lynch
00:42:24one of the first things I threw Becky into the photographer
00:42:27Becky oh that poor still photo man
00:42:33she said sorry to him she's so nice
00:42:36I was like oh sorry
00:42:39a dangerous place to be for anyone near this ringside area
00:42:44here come the reveal of the zip ties
00:42:46nothing that happened with the weapons went the way it was supposed to
00:42:51Becky's gotta zip tie and she's gotta zip tie the hands together
00:42:55literally handcuffing Valkyria here
00:42:58perfectly legal Michael Cole guess what Valkyria
00:43:02this is what you asked for
00:43:05that was my idea
00:43:07I was like that would be a really cool moment
00:43:10if even though Becky had completely incapacitated me
00:43:13I still ended up beating her up with zip ties
00:43:18and now she's got Becky trapped in the waist lock
00:43:20and now Lyra Valkyria using headbutts
00:43:23what happened however was
00:43:25when I was supposed to be stuck in the zip ties
00:43:27they came off
00:43:31oh shit
00:43:34what was it off?
00:43:37actually
00:43:37was she out of those?
00:43:38yeah
00:43:38she gotta just fucking get out of them
00:43:41they're loose then tell her just that they're off
00:43:44I'm trained when something happens that's not planned
00:43:47you throw the plan out the window
00:43:49and you go they're off
00:43:51but in the moment when they came off
00:43:53I was thinking
00:43:55what if the cameras didn't catch that?
00:43:58if they missed that
00:43:59then it's like
00:44:00she was zip tied a second ago
00:44:01and now she's not
00:44:02whereas if I slip them back on
00:44:04and hope the cameras didn't see it
00:44:05same match
00:44:08the cameras did catch it
00:44:10which is another unfortunate thing from the match
00:44:14did it come up?
00:44:15undone
00:44:16then she put her own hand back in there
00:44:19how soon until she gets out of this?
00:44:21she's gonna go under the ring
00:44:22and we're gonna lose Lyra
00:44:23and then he's at the end of these zip ties
00:44:27and Becky looking
00:44:27oh! and Lyra was under the ring
00:44:30with a fire extinguisher in hand
00:44:32and when I was supposed to free myself
00:44:34from the zip ties
00:44:35they stayed on
00:44:38Lyra trying to use the sharp edge
00:44:39of that fire extinguisher
00:44:40to break the zip tie here
00:44:43I don't know why she's not using the ring
00:44:45like we talked about
00:44:48taking off the zip ties
00:44:49I couldn't get them off
00:44:50so I had to crawl under the ring
00:44:51and get someone to cut them
00:44:53and it was a nightmare
00:45:08I just didn't respond to things going wrong
00:45:10the way I wish I had
00:45:12Lyra's gonna put her foot out on the table
00:45:14run Becky backwards into the post
00:45:16or not
00:45:17I'm not exactly sure what's happening
00:45:21fuck
00:45:22Becky Lynch who's got Lyra trapped
00:45:24now standing on the Spanish announce table
00:45:26and Becky Lynch
00:45:28oh! with a kick right to Lyra
00:45:30here's the main streak
00:45:32from the man
00:45:33Becky Lynch
00:45:34is Bayley in position?
00:45:36okay, thank you
00:45:37here comes the finish
00:45:38and now Becky went for the manhandle slam
00:45:40nice arm track
00:45:41take down
00:45:41and Bayley, oh my goodness
00:45:44took a swing of Becky Lynch
00:45:46missed and caught Valkyria
00:45:48the manhandle slam
00:45:50the man retains
00:45:56here is your winner
00:45:58how heavy was that?
00:46:00at least 10 minutes
00:46:05you've got to be tough
00:46:07you've got to be talented
00:46:08but most of all
00:46:09you've got to be lucky
00:46:10and luck was smiling
00:46:11on Becky Lynch tonight
00:46:13congratulations
00:46:14to Becky Lynch
00:46:15ah, she's gonna be so mad
00:46:17she's gonna be so mad
00:46:18she's gonna be so mad
00:46:20sorry
00:46:21huh?
00:46:23it wasn't great
00:46:23huh?
00:46:24it wasn't great
00:46:25it was pretty good
00:46:27it wasn't great
00:46:29I know
00:46:30it was pretty good
00:46:33it's not good enough
00:46:38I don't think it was the drizzling shit
00:46:41like it wasn't the worst match of all time
00:46:43but I think that we had such high expectations
00:46:48maybe it didn't match up to that
00:46:52yeah, it wasn't great
00:46:55I want to be the person
00:46:56I want to be the person that people say I absolutely loved
00:46:58wrestling her
00:46:58she gave me my best match ever
00:47:00and I felt like I let myself down
00:47:02or didn't rise to meet the occasion
00:47:05I didn't even want to go back up to Gorilla
00:47:07I felt so overwhelmed
00:47:11she was very upset with herself
00:47:14and she just started apologizing to me
00:47:16and I was like
00:47:17it's fine
00:47:18like it's fine
00:47:19it's just wrestling
00:47:20and then she was like
00:47:21no, it's not fine
00:47:22I need you to yell at me
00:47:23and I was like
00:47:24no, I'm never going to be upset
00:47:27because a wrestling move
00:47:30or moves don't go our way
00:47:34she's great and she cares
00:47:35but also
00:47:36that mindset
00:47:38is why she's so great
00:47:39and that's why she's going to continue to be great
00:47:41and that's why she's going to get better
00:47:43because she doesn't want to kick love
00:47:45she wants to be told
00:47:47that's both a great and terrible mindset
00:47:50great for progress
00:47:52terrible for mental health
00:47:54and I know this
00:47:55I am this
00:47:59I came to the back
00:48:01and a lot of my co-workers
00:48:04commended the creativity
00:48:05and a lot of the things that we did out there
00:48:09John Cena
00:48:11came up to me after that match
00:48:13he said very complimentary things about it
00:48:15yes
00:48:15that shit was a chair
00:48:16there's no fucking way
00:48:17I'd ever said yes to them
00:48:19like that shit was violent and brutal
00:48:22and we got Bayley back in the fray
00:48:23and now it's like mixed emotions and shit
00:48:26like
00:48:27it's way better than you think
00:48:29it's just the problem
00:48:30there was no changing my mind on it
00:48:31so that was very hard
00:48:36honestly everything up to now has been so amazing
00:48:39but uh
00:48:40you know when you
00:48:42this is everything
00:48:43like this is everything
00:48:44so uh
00:48:44when it doesn't
00:48:47when you don't feel the magic
00:48:48or whatever
00:48:49this is the first time I've felt this way
00:48:51so uh
00:48:54I want me to be real
00:48:55that's as real as I can
00:48:56can be right now
00:49:02sometimes just anything that can go wrong
00:49:04does go wrong
00:49:05especially when you're
00:49:07you know
00:49:07using weapons and stuff
00:49:09and
00:49:10you got one take and all this
00:49:11it's
00:49:11it's
00:49:12it's not a movie
00:49:13we don't go out and
00:49:15rehearse stuff like actors
00:49:16and stuntmen and all this
00:49:18it's just a mess
00:49:18it just doesn't
00:49:20go the way you see it in your head
00:49:22and
00:49:24it's just what happens sometimes
00:49:25um
00:49:27but
00:49:27it's
00:49:28it's only like
00:49:29I think this happens to everyone at some point
00:49:31and the only way you can really judge a talent
00:49:33is
00:49:34on what they do afterwards
00:49:35how they handle that
00:49:36and
00:49:37they don't do this
00:49:38let me tell you
00:49:38like
00:49:39you can feel it in the moment
00:49:40and then you just have to pick up and move on
00:49:41because we've always got Raw on Monday
00:49:43we've always got the next big show
00:49:45and
00:49:46no one
00:49:46like
00:49:47ever has the perfect streak
00:49:48and you have to just like
00:49:49get knocked down
00:49:50and get back up again
00:49:51so
00:49:52I've got Raw on Monday
00:49:53I'm gonna have to just fucking
00:49:54get back up
00:49:55and
00:49:56be okay
00:50:00anyway that's about as real as I can be
00:50:02and as much as I can say right now
00:50:03so
00:50:04I'm gonna go eat a cookie or something
00:50:08you're
00:50:08you're always telling me to be present
00:50:10and soak it in
00:50:11just had one of those moments
00:50:12where I want to say thanks
00:50:15thank you man
00:50:18my man
00:50:18congratulations
00:50:20congratulations
00:50:21let's go
00:50:22let's go
00:50:23let's go
00:50:23you've made this long time man
00:50:24do your thing dude
00:50:25you know how much I'm up with this music
00:50:26can't wait until you're back dog
00:50:28I know it man
00:50:29I know it
00:50:30I know it
00:50:43the American nightmare
00:50:44Cody Rhodes
00:50:45let's go
00:50:48let's go
00:50:51let's go
00:50:53let's go
00:51:02let's go
00:51:04let's go
00:51:06let's go
00:51:11let's go
00:51:11let's go
00:51:12let's go
00:51:14let's go
00:51:15everybody standing
00:51:15fucking badass
00:51:25you ready?
00:51:45in front of 60,561 WWE fans at SummerSlam
00:51:51the old John Cena is back much like he proclaimed Friday night on SmackDown
00:51:57now
00:51:59y'all know what time it is
00:52:02time to go to work
00:52:15Being in the ring at SummerSlam, I'm glad, selfishly, that I got to be part of the old
00:52:22John Cena, stepping back into the light.
00:52:30Long-form storytelling, the hardest thing is to be patient.
00:52:41John Cena really has tapped back into what made him great in the first place this evening,
00:52:47but Superman meets Superman.
00:52:51And after the show of respect, here we go, Cody and Cena underway.
00:52:57Remember, street fight rules, anything goes, you got to win via pinfall or submission.
00:53:02John Cena going to reverse Cody's shoulder first into the steps.
00:53:05John's going to get these stairs and put him in the ring.
00:53:08Cena has four months left in his career here.
00:53:11He wants to go out as the champion.
00:53:13And Cena, oh, actually throwing the steps at Cody.
00:53:20We're going to work our way to Halliburton's crutch here.
00:53:24John will grab it.
00:53:26That's Tyrese Halliburton of the Indiana Pacers.
00:53:30Out after an Achilles surgery.
00:53:33And now John Cena using the crutch.
00:53:36Again, perfectly legal tonight.
00:53:38Anything goes for the championship.
00:53:44Cody quickly drops Cena to the table.
00:53:48The body of John Cena has been through wars for the past 20 years,
00:53:51taken way more abuse than most.
00:53:54Eventually, it does catch up with you.
00:53:57John is in many ways doubting himself more than I believe we are doubting him.
00:54:06So he is in a place now where he's saying, I can't do what I used to do.
00:54:11I can't deliver that level.
00:54:15And the truth is, he really still can.
00:54:23John Cena has the experience to never run out of options.
00:54:28He's been in the deep waters more than anyone.
00:54:32Oh, God.
00:54:33Oh, my God.
00:54:34John Cena.
00:54:34Are you kidding me?
00:54:50At some point in time, Father Time beats us all.
00:54:55But I'm watching him do certain things, just like he always did.
00:55:00And it's magic.
00:55:02Oh!
00:55:02Oh, how is Cena still able to do this?
00:55:05Oh, God.
00:55:14Who can be?
00:55:24It's just a real love between him and the fans right now.
00:55:28John's as popular as he's ever been and as over as he has ever been.
00:55:33And I have to deal with that.
00:55:38Who?
00:55:43Who?
00:55:46Who?
00:55:47That's where it gets tough for fans.
00:55:50Moments where they see their all-time favorite getting beaten up.
00:55:57Cody Rhodes.
00:55:58Oh, God.
00:55:58Oh!
00:55:59With a pile drop from a Cena!
00:56:01From their side, it's disrespectful.
00:56:05Cody's face is good in the seas.
00:56:07Second-guessing himself.
00:56:09So I've done that.
00:56:11Yes, we're going at it.
00:56:12But I really love this guy, too.
00:56:15I know John does not like to tell the fans how we do it.
00:56:18And I respect that.
00:56:19I will tell you something that John Cena told me in the ring that I'll never forget.
00:56:23They were booing.
00:56:25This was right before I stomped on his ankle.
00:56:27And he just looked up and said, be yourself.
00:56:30It's what you want!
00:56:35This is very John.
00:56:38Because the moment was there to be a bad guy, to beat him up with malice, to beat him up
00:56:44and be that heel.
00:56:46John can figure that out and realize, no, just be yourself.
00:56:51Because the story that we wanted to tell was two characters being virtuous.
00:56:58Let them go through absolute hell, knowing I'm not going to stab you in the back, but I will stab
00:57:03you in the front.
00:57:04Stay with Cody.
00:57:05He's going to undo that bottom rope.
00:57:09He should refuse to hand the torch.
00:57:11Well, cool.
00:57:12Then I'm going to take it by force.
00:57:14What exactly is Cody doing here?
00:57:16Screwing that turnbuckle.
00:57:18The rope's down.
00:57:19Cody Rhodes with that piece of steel.
00:57:22To be able to tell that story through our faces.
00:57:26Cody having doubts again here.
00:57:27Well, I mean, he's looking at the all-time great.
00:57:35Cody Rhodes doing anything he can to try to fill the champion.
00:57:40That's the beauty of a match like that.
00:57:42It's very real.
00:57:43Up top.
00:57:45Cody Connor through the table.
00:57:48If you're a babyface, you have to stick to those virtues.
00:57:53Even if it's not something that is making them happy, if you're beating up someone that they really love.
00:57:58I don't want to do that with any dishonor.
00:58:01I want you to know that.
00:58:04In a final salute to the greatest of all time, Cody Rhodes with a crossroads to Cena.
00:58:11Into the cover.
00:58:12Hooks the leg.
00:58:14Cody Rhodes is champion.
00:58:31It is a passing of the torch from the greatest of all time, John Cena, to the man who will
00:58:36carry WWE into the future.
00:58:39The new, undisputed WWE champion, Cody Rhodes.
00:58:48Cody's getting emotional.
00:58:50To be around the literal greatest of all time in our business, that situation is extremely special.
00:58:56I drove John around for two years.
00:58:57I learned everything I could from him.
00:58:59He didn't know I was learning from him.
00:59:01That's what I told him in the ring.
00:59:02I told him, sorry it took me so long.
00:59:06Cody Rhodes is once again the undisputed WWE champion.
00:59:15Always the gentleman, Cody Rhodes, the American Nightmare, will leave the ring to the one and only, the greatest of
00:59:22all time, John Cena.
00:59:24To bask in the glow over 60,000 people in what is his last SummerSlam.
00:59:42Nobody's leaving.
00:59:45Our business is about telling stories.
00:59:49Truth is, John can still do that better than almost anyone.
00:59:59But the reality of it is, on the other side of this, you only have 12 dates left in arguably
01:00:06the greatest career, one of the greatest performers of all time.
01:00:10Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this while you can.
01:00:14So, how do you make that work in a way that is a rollercoaster ride?
01:00:20Where are they bringing him by?
01:00:21Bottom of Gorilla?
01:00:24Anybody that doesn't need to be up here in Gorilla needs to get the fuck out of here.
01:00:28You go into John's rivalries and histories.
01:00:34How you doing?
01:00:35Good.
01:00:36Hey, Bruce.
01:00:37How are you, sir?
01:00:38Good to see you, man.
01:00:39Well, one of John's greatest rivalries was with Brock Lesnar.
01:00:43Brock Lesnar, I think it was like 2014, gave John Cena his most lopsided loss in John's illustrious career.
01:00:54Brock, 16 suplexes to John Cena.
01:00:59That is the most dominating performance I have ever seen in a championship match in my life.
01:01:06It wasn't even close.
01:01:09Brock versus Cena is a big, huge marquee matchup.
01:01:15It's Army-Navy.
01:01:16It's Georgia-Alabama.
01:01:19Coupled with the fact that I think Brock was gone from the ring two years,
01:01:25when you don't see something coming, it's really good.
01:01:29I'll let him come.
01:01:34We have four months left to enjoy the greatness that is John Cena.
01:01:44What?
01:01:48Oh, my God!
01:01:52It's the beast!
01:01:54It's the beast!
01:01:56Brock Lesnar!
01:01:58Hell has come to the Battlelands!
01:02:05John Cena once called this man his toughest rival, his most physical rival,
01:02:11and Brock Lesnar is here, and he's as massive as ever!
01:02:19This is a man built for one thing.
01:02:22And now Lesnar into the ring, and Brock Lesnar with John Cena on his shoulders.
01:02:25Brock Lesnar with an F-5 to John Cena!
01:02:31A message has been sent, and everything we thought we knew about WWE just changed.
01:02:39John Cena's got four months left, and it could be a nightmare.
01:02:42Go on!
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01:02:46Who's next?ウェル!
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