- 5 minutes ago
WWE: Unreal - Season 2 - Episode 04: Performance Art
Category
📺
TVTranscript
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.
00:03:46You gotta stay awake.
00:03:47You gotta stay awake, Hack.
00:03:49Come on.
00:03:50You gotta stay awake.
00:03:50You gotta get the camera all the way out of here.
00:03:51For five weeks, he never left his house.
00:03:57He didn't take his kids to school.
00:03:59He didn't go grocery shopping.
00:04:02and 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
00:17:00is
00:17:08which is great rock let'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!
00:18:39No!
00:18:40Ohoben under!
00:18:45It's Jelly with the right hand!
00:18:48Jelly with the right hand!
00:18:54No!
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
00:30:03from the ring
00:30:33Sky with a missile drop kick.
00:30:35I like height.
00:30:36Shots out.
00:30:37Oh, it's connected.
00:30:39And my finisher move is over the moonsault.
00:30:43Genius in the sky!
00:30:45Movesault!
00:30:46Cover!
00:30:49In our sky!
00:30:51World Games is my favorite.
00:30:53I did climb up the cage, and then I put on the trash can.
00:31:00Put on my head.
00:31:04She's the genius in the sky, but this is ridiculous!
00:31:08I'm kind of stupid.
00:31:10I didn't realize since I put on the trash can.
00:31:13I couldn't see anything.
00:31:14And so dark here.
00:31:21その私はなんてバカなんだって思いましたその時。
00:31:22And oh my gosh I get scared.
00:31:30すごく怖くなったんですけどああもうこれ以上怖いって思う前に飛ぶしかないって言ってもう飛び降りました。
00:31:33Oh my god!
00:31:37EOSCAR from the top of the cage!
00:31:40With a trash can on her head!
00:31:42Wipe it out everybody!
00:31:43We won it!
00:31:44Yes!
00:31:45Yes!
00:31:46Yes!
00:31:47Yes!
00:31:47So that's crazy.
00:31:49I know.
00:31:50Yes!
00:31:51Yes!
00:31:52Yes!
00:31:53I'm so short.
00:31:54My height is 5.2.
00:32:00158cm.
00:32:01So walking outside like I walk on the street so nobody think about I am a wrestler.
00:32:06EO from day one to me just had this innate charisma.
00:32:12EO Scott!
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 gonna have a female then that is going to be
00:32:25like this huge thing right?
00:32:26Like you'd be like get out of here.
00:32:27EO Scott!
00:32:29When she does it it's money it's spectacular.
00:32:32If I was to get decimated on a roster of people and say we gotta start over I would look
00:32:38at it and say if you leave me EO I'm good.
00:32:45EO Scott!
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 air time and investment in their stories as the male superstars
00:33:02do.
00:33:03So that's where the concept of Evolution came about and it carried on to then this past year.
00:33:09Where 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 one Rhea
00:33:19and EO have amazing chemistry.
00:33:22But also because Rhea Ripley who some may argue our biggest superstar in general has 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.
00:33:45And so that quest to kind of see Rhea finally conquer what she has not yet been able to conquer
00:33:51was 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.
00:34:10Rhea Ripley.
00:34:12Rhea Ripley.
00:34:17Rhea Ripley.
00:34:36Rhea Ripley.
00:34:40Rhea Ripley.
00:34:42Rhea Ripley.
00:34:46Rhea Ripley.
00:34:47The Money in the Bank briefcase contains the contract for you to be able to cash in on any champion,
00:34:53any time, anywhere.
00:34:55That's so much power.
00:34:58Rhea Ripley.
00:34:58Rhea Ripley.
00:34:59Rhea Ripley!
00:35:01Rhea Ripley.
00:35:02Rhea Ripley.
00:35:04and take it everywhere you go, but I also clean it out
00:35:09when I'm traveling so I don't get in trouble
00:35:12because I be having all kind of stuff in there.
00:35:15I'm just packing my briefcase, new caution belt.
00:35:19Mm-hmm, choke somebody.
00:35:20What you call this?
00:35:22A thong harness.
00:35:24It goes like...
00:35:26Mm.
00:35:27Ah.
00:35:28Okay.
00:35:29I like it.
00:35:30Yeah, go ahead.
00:35:31Caution fan.
00:35:33Caution fan, got all faithful, fully charged.
00:35:39This is just in case you're trying to shock a bitch.
00:35:41Some pepper gel.
00:35:43Hey, hold on.
00:35:44Pepper gel.
00:35:44Hold on, what is it?
00:35:45The lock is on.
00:35:46It's on security.
00:35:47You don't even know how to use it.
00:35:49It's okay.
00:35:50I'll figure it out on the day of.
00:35:52Gear, fresh pack of blades, a little something to take the edge off.
00:35:57Always got to have a fresh wig on deck.
00:36:00Never know when this one's going to get snatched.
00:36:02Rat pellets, the poison jade ass.
00:36:04And my contract.
00:36:08Hold on, hold on.
00:36:09I got one more thing left.
00:36:10Hold on.
00:36:10Hold on, girl.
00:36:11Before you close that, go on.
00:36:12Go on and put this.
00:36:14Go on and put this right up in there.
00:36:15Hold on.
00:36:16You want to do some crazy thing about your boy?
00:36:18Oh, foofy.
00:36:21All right.
00:36:22I can't do nothing without my foofy foofy.
00:36:25You know that makes you an accomplice now.
00:36:28You're doing good, though.
00:36:30Love you.
00:36:31Love 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.
00:36:46Is that your regular legitimate suitcase?
00:36:49What the fuck is going on in there?
00:36:51Shot glass?
00:37:11I was telling Io to possibly make a moment out of this, like, climb up here, act like she's
00:37:18going to dive, then look up, go up further, if you think that's warranted.
00:37:25Edge will be right here.
00:37:27So you're going to be right there.
00:37:29That's the edge, right there.
00:37:31Yeah.
00:37:32Okay?
00:37:33Yeah.
00:37:34You want somebody to bring you a trash can?
00:37:37Right in.
00:37:38This is an area that we are prepping for one of Io Sky's high falls, you know, which she loves
00:37:45height.
00:37:50What's your, what is your concern?
00:37:55The bump that Rhea's got to take.
00:37:56Yeah, it's a hell of a bump.
00:37:57Are you padding this?
00:37:58Yes.
00:37:59I just want you to hit your head on the floor.
00:38:01Yeah.
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.
00:38:12Could you lay down?
00:38:21I have no words how I'm feeling, so I'm just nervous and excited.
00:38:28Show must go on.
00:38:30Come back to the two of you in the ring, like, both sitting in the corner, fucking selling,
00:38:34looking at each other, like, what the fuck, right?
00:38:37Yeah, you can.
00:38:39You can actually say that, like, what the fuck?
00:38:41Yeah.
00:38:41You know what I mean?
00:38:42What the fuck?
00:38:43Yeah, see?
00:38:44See, it still sounds cute.
00:38:46Phenomenal when you say it, yeah.
00:38:47It does.
00:38:48What the, you know, anybody else, you go their cuss, say, ah, it's Io.
00:38:52Too cute.
00:38:54Japanese accent.
00:38:55Yeah.
00:38:57That weekend of Evolution in Georgia ended up having a triple threat match.
00:39:02I'd had matches with Bayley, I'd had matches with Becky, but this time I had the two of them.
00:39:07I had been in a tag team with Bayley coming up to Mania.
00:39:11Bayley 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 Bayley's
00:39:24spot as my tag team partner for the biggest show of the year.
00:39:28Hey, hey, hey, hey, what happened?
00:39:29What happened?
00:39:30Are you good?
00:39:30No, no, no, you're not good.
00:39:31What happened?
00:39:31It was, like, bittersweet in a way when I was told that this was going to happen because,
00:39:37you know, I was excited to have Becky back.
00:39:39But, like, it started really singing, like, how much it sucks.
00:39:42Like, as professional as I can be, man, I worked for that, you know?
00:39:46I worked for that.
00:39:48Bayley deserved to have WrestleMania match.
00:39:51And I was taking her out.
00:39:54And really, right up until the last moment, I was like, ah, should we maybe do this differently?
00:40:28I'm not even on social media, so I don't know.
00:40:28I hear you.
00:40:30Let me think about it.
00:40:31Let me think about it.
00:40:32Is there anybody else?
00:40:33I got kind of pissed at Becky.
00:40:36But, like, I don't want to be put in the match because we begged for it.
00:40:41I had already accepted it at that point.
00:40:43So happy and excited.
00:40:45I'm so happy for you.
00:40:47So we took this thing that happened that we had no control over that was very real and used it
00:40:54on screen.
00:40:54I keep hoping things will go back to the way they were with us before WrestleMania, but you just won't
00:40:58let that happen.
00:40:59We went on from that moment and told the story with the three of us, Evolution, the women's show.
00:41:06It was so important that we had a banger.
00:41:10Welcome to Atlanta.
00:41:13Tonight, we get ready for an historic event, WWE Evolution.
00:41:18Here we go.
00:41:20Fuck yeah, Bayley.
00:41:24For Becky Lynch, it's about defending the title tonight.
00:41:27The Intercontinental Championship defended a triple threat match for the first time ever.
00:41:38The crowd sounds different, right?
00:41:40I think there's a lot more girls.
00:41:42I love it.
00:41:43Here we go.
00:41:51They're on their feet in Atlanta.
00:41:54Damn, they're going crazy already.
00:41:57First woman to gain pinfall or submission becomes the Intercontinental Champion.
00:42:08Dog eat dog world at the very top.
00:42:12They should bring all no friendship.
00:42:14Ignorance says you're new best friend.
00:42:17Ignorance says you're new 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.
00:42:32Hell yeah, Lyra.
00:42:33They won't get you anywhere.
00:42:36I'm not the same kid from your memory.
00:42:39Well, now I can fend for.
00:42:42So when I hear your sad song, I want to bring your pain.
00:42:45When it's all, it's my fault.
00:42:47You're not the same.
00:42:48I'm not the same.
00:42:50I'm not the same.
00:42:52I'm not the same.
00:42:54This crowd is red hot tonight.
00:42:57Well, they are getting a show from these three women.
00:43:00Three of the absolute best.
00:43:01They're doing fucking awesome.
00:43:09You'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?
00:43:28Oh, my God.
00:43:30Oh, 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 Lyra.
00:43:54Becky from behind.
00:43:56Nice.
00:43:59Becky returns.
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.
00:44:30All three women brought that absolute A-game tonight.
00:44:35Becky Lynch successfully retains the Women's Intercontinental Championship in a Classic.
00:44:44Is 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.
00:44:54I was just zapped back to 2018 to show myself one match.
00:45:00Just 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?
00:45:15No, 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.
00:45:29What a crowd.
00:45:30Oh my God, that before the foul right coming up.
00:45:31Oh yeah.
00:45:32Oh yeah.
00:45:33Oh yeah.
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 countouts, 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.
00:46:32You know, Wade, we were talking earlier today about whether Bianca Belair can call this one
00:46:36down 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.
00:47:10Here she comes.
00:47:12Spear by Cargill.
00:47:14And now a steel chain.
00:47:18Cleaning the clock from Naomi.
00:47:20Jade Cargill just grabbed the camera from the cameraman and now...
00:47:25Gonna be up close to personal.
00:47:29And Jade now measuring Naomi.
00:47:31Oh, and a bank kick.
00:47:33Weapons match.
00:47:35Jade beat the hell out of Naomi.
00:47:37Nice chair shot.
00:47:39We're working to the jaded.
00:47:41Please hit this, girls.
00:47:42From up there, she'll break her in half.
00:47:47Jaded.
00:47:47Good shift.
00:47:52Cargill with the win.
00:47:54Have them tell Naomi to sell big.
00:47:59B, tell Naomi to sell big.
00:48:01Naomi has to sell big no matter what.
00:48:04Tell Naomi don't move.
00:48:05Just stay down.
00:48:07I thought it was pulled off to perfection.
00:48:13When Naomi was in the ring, you think, I have seen the last of Naomi.
00:48:17You don't even think about the Money in the Bank briefcase.
00:48:22Do you have something to do now or do you want to go...
00:48:25I have to do this kind of running.
00:48:27Okay.
00:48:31Let me see if they want to glue it first.
00:48:34Are you doing it during this match?
00:48:35Next time.
00:48:36Okay.
00:48:36You got like 30 minutes.
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.
00:48:55I'm going to do what the fuck I want to.
00:48:59The following contest scheduled for one fall is for...
00:49:05The Women's World.
00:49:09The Women's World Championship!
00:49:12The audience doesn't want good, clean, squeaky girls.
00:49:15They want badass bitches.
00:49:17That's why they love her.
00:49:18Exactly.
00:49:23Rhea 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.
00:49:37From Tokyo, Japan.
00:49:38EO SKY!
00:49:43Remember what happened back in March when EO SKY shocked everyone taking 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?
00:50:28Rhea Ripley is really rough here now.
00:50:31Rhea Ripley is really rough here now.
00:50:36Rhea Ripley is going to turn the second and then the powerbomb.
00:50:45There were so many counters as Io's go, oh my god!
00:50:49Oh my goodness!
00:50:50Oh shit!
00:50:51Oh god, a poison rana!
00:50:54Are we okay?
00:50:55God, you just feel the adrenaline in this arena.
00:50:58They're witnessing something very special.
00:51:01After no referee, he's gonna go fucking apeshit.
00:51:06Io, top, oh no!
00:51:09Rhea ducked out of harm's way, and he didn't hardly hit the official.
00:51:14Rhea Ripley now, with a left tie in the sky.
00:51:17One, two, three!
00:51:20Rhea Ripley has got pinned, but there's no official.
00:51:26The referee was taken out of this match.
00:51:29Rhea Ripley had the damn match won, but there was no official to count.
00:51:33Well, this must feel like a curse to Rhea Ripley.
00:51:38Nice, Rhea.
00:51:40Good shit.
00:51:45How does her little body take all that?
00:51:53This is spelling out all over the place.
00:51:57Ripley and Skye fighting into the WWE Universe.
00:52:01Rhea Ripley, understandably, has now completely lost it.
00:52:05I am not quite sure what Rhea Ripley is capable of in the state of mind that she is in
00:52:10right now.
00:52:12Try not to see the floor at their feet if you can until we get over there.
00:52:16And now on the equipment case, it's over there in the corner of this arena.
00:52:20Once Io counters this, she's gonna go to that first level.
00:52:23Well, it's gonna be nasty as hell!
00:52:26Then pause, look up, and go one step higher.
00:52:32Oh, no!
00:52:35Don't do it, Io!
00:52:38Io, climbing up high!
00:52:40Why now, why now, why now?
00:52:42Don't get too close to it.
00:52:43I want to see crowd behind it.
00:52:44I want to see how high she is.
00:52:46The genius in the sky with Ripley in trouble!
00:52:49Why now, why now, why now?
00:52:50The highest risk superstar of them all!
00:52:53Io and a cross body!
00:52:54Io and Rhea are down!
00:52:57Nice!
00:52:58Io to be 20 feet down!
00:53:02And both women are down!
00:53:07Everybody okay?
00:53:10Two women knocking the hell out of each other in pursuit of excellence, in pursuit of greatness, in pursuit of
00:53:19history.
00:53:20You ref coming?
00:53:22Let me see you're coming in.
00:53:23The official's coming too!
00:53:27Io Sky hits it!
00:53:30He over the moon saw that Rhea kicked the toe!
00:53:33Rhea kicked the toe!
00:53:34Now it's Io Sky's turn to say, what the hell do I do now?
00:53:41Holy hell!
00:53:43Nice!
00:53:44I don't want to cover this shit, Pete.
00:53:46That's storytelling.
00:53:48Rhea Ripley tapping into something different tonight!
00:53:52And it needs it against this version of Io Sky!
00:53:55Rhea Ripley!
00:53:56Oh my goodness!
00:53:57Manish fly!
00:53:59Both women are down!
00:54:01Io's out!
00:54:03Rhea's out!
00:54:04World title's on the line!
00:54:07I'm ready.
00:54:08You ready, Hunter?
00:54:09Yeah, okay.
00:54:10Here we go.
00:54:19Oh.
00:54:21My.
00:54:22God.
00:54:23Naomi!
00:54:25Naomi!
00:54:26Miss Money in the Bank!
00:54:28With a referee in toe!
00:54:31Okay, once they announce it as a triple threat, briefcase shot to Io.
00:54:35You can hear this.
00:54:40Ladies and gentlemen, Naomi is cashing in!
00:54:44We're putting in the bank contract!
00:54:46This is now a triple threat match!
00:54:48It's a triple threat match!
00:54:50Anything goes!
00:54:51They're only going to swallow locations under triple threat rules!
00:54:54Officially cashing in against two completely decimated women!
00:55:02One leg of Moonsoft!
00:55:04Covered by Naomi!
00:55:07Naomi's the world champion!
00:55:10Holy cow!
00:55:12Here is your winner!
00:55:16The new women!
00:55:20Fucking A.
00:55:20Whoa!
00:55:22Fucking awesome!
00:55:23That fucking one motherfucker himself.
00:55:25Naomi!
00:55:31Take that, motherfucker!
00:55:38Hey, that was awesome top to bottom.
00:55:44It was a holy shit moment.
00:55:47She's the new champion, and she is on top of the world.
00:55:52Me returning, I wanted to be better, do better, become better.
00:55:56This solidifies that.
00:55:58It improves that.
00:56:00It's very emotional.
00:56:01I'm trying to keep it together.
00:56:03First time ever being the women's world champion.
00:56:07Who knows what's ahead of me now?
00:56:09You're badass!
00:56:10Thank you, thank you.
00:56:12How'd that feel?
00:56:13Amazing!
00:56:14It just shows that as women in wrestling, we're still progressing, we're still getting better.
00:56:20For those who have been watching me since 2009, if I could just sum it all up, my journey is
00:56:27just to keep going.
00:56:29Evolution is such a massive deal for us women here in the WWE, and just women in general.
00:56:33There's a lot of male dominated things.
00:56:35Sports, businesses, etc.
00:56:38So to have something that's like all women is such a massive, massive deal to us.
00:56:44Give me a rock star.
00:56:45I'm so glad.
00:56:46I'm so glad.
00:56:48Thank you so much.
00:56:49Thank you for giving me this opportunity.
00:56:51Oh, so great.
00:56:52You were great.
00:56:53You always believe in me.
00:56:54Thank you so much.
00:56:56I always will.
00:56:56You were looking great.
00:56:58Rock star.
00:56:58A lot of times, backstage, I could just call her rock star.
00:57:03Because I don't know how to put a label on her for anything else.
00:57:07She's just the nicest human being of all time.
00:57:10We'll do whatever you want, and we'll come back and just, she's just hoping that you tell her it was
00:57:15good.
00:57:15And when you tell her it was good, it's like the world lit up for her.
00:57:18You know, most people, when they're up high, they 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.
00:57:29Oh, okay.
00:57:30Oh, thank you.
00:57:31There you go.
00:57:33Is that scary?
00:57:35No, no.
00:57:36I wanna be special.
00:57:39I will take any risk to become I am superstar.
00:57:47This is what we work so hard for, and it's all accumulated to this moment right here.
00:57:53Because this is what the future of the women here in WWE are going to show.
00:57:59And we're gonna take our opportunities.
00:58:00We're not gonna wait for them anymore.
00:58:02And this is exactly where we start.
00:58:04So 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 in this industry, all of it has been raised so high.
00:58:20Man, they showed tonight what a change that business has been for them.
00:58:25Incredibly proud of them.
00:58:27I'm sure somebody here will ask about Seth.
00:58:30He came here tonight.
00:58:31He was not going to miss his wife's performance tonight.
00:58:34He will be in Birmingham tomorrow with Dr. Dugas.
00:58:37I'll just say right now a little bit inconclusive.
00:58:40Doesn't look good.
00:58:41But we'll get MRI and hope for the best.
00:58:47So keeping a secret?
00:58:50Not letting people know that Seth Rollins doesn't need crutches?
00:58:56That's part of the thrill.
00:58:58Is it secrecy?
00:59:01Is it a work?
00:59:03Or is it simply the planning of performance art?
00:59:12On me.
00:59:14Now.
00:59:15Now.
00:59:16Burn it down!
00:59:45How may you want to see the victory?
01:00:03Go go half!
Comments