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WWE: Unreal - Season 2 - Episode 04: Performance Art
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00:00:11Summer Slam.
00:00:12Summer Slam.
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.
00:00:28But we shoot with it like it's legit.
00:00:31Don't tell anybody.
00:00:33You know what I mean?
00:00:34Do the whole shebang.
00:00:36He's on crutches for a couple of weeks.
00:00:39He's got his leg brace on.
00:00:40And Summer Slam here comes Seth Rollins.
00:00:43Throws his crutches.
00:00:44Runs down the ring.
00:00:46Smashes him, cashes it in, and fucking takes the title.
00:00:49Walks out of there as the champ.
00:00:50Yeah.
00:00:52He'd be such an asshole, too.
00:00:53Because he'd probably hobble out for two, four seconds.
00:00:56And then just be like...
00:00:59Then 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.
00:01:06If we're going to do this, we've got to keep it like literally this team.
00:01:11Don't put that in the notes.
00:01:14And if we could sell it legitimately like he was fucking hurt and out of Summer Slam,
00:01:20you might have some people who I don't know.
00:01:22It might be a work or something.
00:01:24But what is a work?
00:01:26Yeah.
00:01:29This point, I would like to invoke my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
00:01:35Son of a lawyer.
00:01:37You know.
00:01:44Sorry to disappoint everyone, but I'm not a fan of this show.
00:01:51I 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.
00:02:06It's jarring to someone who grew up in the industry where secrecy was a matter of life and death of
00:02:17your career.
00:02:20I think this show is going to 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!
00:02:47It's America!
00:02:48Kevin Nash lives!
00:02:51Khali will crush his skull.
00:02:54Oh, no, no.
00:02:55Oh, my God.
00:02:56No!
00:02:56A work in wrestling.
00:02:57A 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 cane and cracked the Sandman in the other eye and the Sandman went down.
00:03:31Get some help!
00:03:32Get some help!
00:03:33Get some help!
00:03:34Oh, my God!
00:03:37And for five weeks on television, we were telling you that the Sandman was blind.
00:03:45Stay awake, Hack.
00:03:46You gotta stay awake.
00:03:47Come on.
00:03:48You got it.
00:03:49Come on.
00:03:50Get the camera all the way out of here.
00:03:51For five weeks, he never left his house.
00:03:57He didn't take his kids to school.
00:03:59He didn't go grocery shopping.
00:04:03And we brought him back for his retirement ceremony.
00:04:06It's a very sad moment.
00:04:08The Sandman has already announced his retirement after being blinded.
00:04:13The Sandman peeled off the bandages from his eyes, revealing that he wasn't truly blind.
00:04:21He can see!
00:04:25He can see!
00:04:27He can see!
00:04:28Thirty-one years later, people still talk about that.
00:04:34Cody!
00:04:34Are you kidding me?
00:04:37Now, you tell me, was that a work?
00:04:42Or was it just performance art in which the performance art was protected so that you were
00:04:50more emotionally involved in the moment when he revealed that he wasn't blind?
00:04:58That's how we earn our living.
00:05:11For a lot of business reasons, events are coming faster and more furiously than they have ever
00:05:17come before.
00:05:18You end up with a weekend like we're at, Saturday Night's Main Event, and Evolution.
00:05:23And oh, by the way, they're only three weeks out from SummerSlam.
00:05:27It's incredibly challenging.
00:05:29This weekend, we're also trying to do business with a guy like Jelly Roll.
00:05:37My 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 can imagine, like a super fat kid, and I loved donuts.
00:05:48Instead of calling me Jelly Donuts, she called me her little Jelly Roll, and it just stuck.
00:05:52I always thank my mama.
00:05:54She might have called me Slim Jim, I might have had a six-pack.
00:05:56I spent my whole life trying to live up to my name.
00:05:59I am 40 years old, and my normal profession is I'm a musician.
00:06:07I don't know where you're at in your life or what you're going through, but I want to tell you
00:06:16to keep going, baby.
00:06:17I want to tell you success is on the other side of it.
00:06:20I want to tell you it's going to be okay.
00:06:23Let's party, Nashville!
00:06:26I'm not a wrestler for those who's just tuning in.
00:06:30I watched all these celebrities get these cool matches, so when I started doing music and people started noticing me,
00:06:36it was like always kind of my North Star.
00:06:38I was like, I wonder if I'll get famous enough that I'll actually get involved to be in one of
00:06:42these wrestling matches as a celebrity.
00:06:48A lot of times we're approached by folks not in the business and celebrities that think this might be fun.
00:06:56It is fun.
00:06:58You have to be able to do it.
00:07:01It was Monday Night Raw in Nashville, 2023, and Randy Orton's there, and it was super, super cool.
00:07:12And that was the first time I was like, dude, I'm famous enough, they let me get involved.
00:07:16So it was really cool.
00:07:17The CMN award winner just dumped Dominic.
00:07:20All I got to do was push Dominic Mysterio, but I wasn't physically able to do much more.
00:07:25I remember SummerSlam 2024, when I'm getting up from doing the five-knuckle shuffle, I'm hanging on to a rope,
00:07:32and R-True's got one arm, and Miz has got another arm.
00:07:35And at that moment, I realized I was so big that it took two grown men to get me to
00:07:40stand up.
00:07:43I knew that if I didn't do something, it was going to kill me.
00:07:47And I just remember leaving there and being like, I will be back next summer a different fucking human.
00:07:59I just kind of shot my shot, and I was like, hey, Triple H, I'm losing this weight, man.
00:08:03Like, what's up?
00:08:04You know what I mean?
00:08:05Like, I'm dead serious about this.
00:08:07Training for SummerSlam.
00:08:10We're going to see how much we weigh today.
00:08:14Will it stay on there when I get off?
00:08:15Because I can't even see how I'm so fat and close to it.
00:08:21327 pounds, baby.
00:08:23300 pounds.
00:08:24We're going to walk to that ring that night, under 300 pounds for the first time since I was probably
00:08:2914 years old.
00:08:31That exact number, around 330 pounds, was the exact time I jumped off the horse last time I tried to
00:08:38lose the weight.
00:08:40On a selfish level, I need this.
00:08:42This might motivate me to push me past that number I've never seen before on the scale.
00:08:46Jelly Roll approached us.
00:08:49He fought to be a part of SummerSlam.
00:08:53Then Jelly Roll moved, got a house, got two houses, actually, in Orlando.
00:08:59One for him, and then one for his crew, so that when he finished working out, he went and wrote
00:09:05songs at night.
00:09:06Because that's his job.
00:09:10Walking in that first day and looking at Matt Bloom like, my bubba, I'm not even a good piece of
00:09:16clay here.
00:09:16Every time I chew up, please, it's all right.
00:09:18We've got a lot to learn.
00:09:22I have never done a flip, ever.
00:09:25We've got a lot to learn.
00:09:32Every day, it scared me.
00:09:37My fear in wrestling was, had I bit off more than I could chew, was I physically going to be
00:09:44able to do it?
00:09:47You can imagine my first week, my body was going, no, you're not, you're not, there's no way you're going
00:09:52to be ready for this.
00:09:53But, uh, that same dog that came out of me that was determined to make it as a songwriter, started
00:10:00coming 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
00:10:10death.
00:10:11Let this fella go.
00:10:12Go ahead and go.
00:10:13Wednesday Jelly, we're going to work on selling.
00:10:16You get in your ass kicked.
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 going to fucking have a SummerSlam match.
00:10:34It's going to be the coolest thing ever.
00:10:36Where's the fucking rest of the ass?
00:10:37You skinny motherfucker.
00:10:39What are you wearing?
00:10:40What are you wearing?
00:10:41The Dwight had three months.
00:10:42Yeah?
00:10:43First time since middle school.
00:10:44Fuck.
00:10:45First time since middle school.
00:10:47Yeah, what's your spine feel like?
00:10:49God, I can feel it.
00:10:50Right?
00:10:50I know where it's at.
00:10:51My ass crack went down a little bit.
00:10:53Oh my gosh.
00:10:54I'm proud of you, man.
00:10:56Fuck.
00:10:56It's fucking inspiring.
00:10:58Makes me want to go to the gym right fucking down here.
00:11:02I tell you what, did you watch any of the video?
00:11:04I did.
00:11:05He's in better shoes.
00:11:06He ain't fucking bad.
00:11:08He ain't bad.
00:11:10That was...
00:11:11Second time.
00:11:11Right.
00:11:12Yeah, but I mean, like, literally, they worked out for like an hour or two, and then he did like
00:11:18the first five minutes of a match.
00:11:19Yeah.
00:11:20It was pretty good.
00:11:22It's like he was bouncing around the other day, like in between shit, and he was like
00:11:25throwing jabs, and I was like, this motherfucker's dusty.
00:11:29Like he's like a sloppier version of dusty.
00:11:33He'd get up, he'd get knocked down or whatever, and he'd get up and do the like dance around,
00:11:36bounce around shit.
00:11:37And I thought, god damn.
00:11:39There could be something there.
00:11:41And in looking at different people to team with Jelly Roll, you've got to have a leader.
00:11:47You've got to have someone that can control everybody and everything.
00:11:52Randy Orton was perfect for a tag team partner.
00:11:55When you look at assholes to beat up, you've got Drew McIntyre, that's an easy one.
00:11:59And then Logan Paul.
00:12:01It really fell together very well.
00:12:14I'll be a lot more ready in three weeks.
00:12:16I'm sore.
00:12:17I'm still sore.
00:12:18The first pill, I'm still sore.
00:12:19I'm a weekend.
00:12:20I'm sore now.
00:12:21Shoulder hurts.
00:12:21Neck hurts.
00:12:22Everything's bruised everywhere.
00:12:25Once we get cameras out here and everything, Jelly, we'll go over tonight.
00:12:30When he comes face to face with you, he'll throw the punch, you block it, lay his ass out.
00:12:37Now you go back to Randy, and we'll do the Claymore.
00:12:40Does that make sense?
00:12:42You feel good about everything, sir?
00:12:43Yes, sir.
00:12:45The truth is, in this business, one of the hardest things to do is make everybody lose that sense of
00:12:53scripted or unscripted.
00:12:55If we can make people believe that Seth is injured, there's a really cool payoff at the end.
00:13:02There wasn't very many people in on it that knew about it, very much like the John Cena elimination chamber
00:13:08situation.
00:13:10For this to work to perfection, that circle of people that were in the know had to be very small.
00:13:15Okay.
00:13:16I want to smarten you up to something that nobody knows.
00:13:19Okay.
00:13:21But I want you to not repeat it to anybody, but you're our guy.
00:13:29You need to know what's going on here.
00:13:31Okay.
00:13:33We're going to do an angle tonight where Seth closes Neo in this match with LA night.
00:13:37Okay.
00:13:38Paul, we're going to do this now because they've got to steal LA.
00:13:43We're kayfading this like a motherfucker, so I don't want you to mention it to anybody because everybody will feel
00:13:48like,
00:13:48well, Connor told everybody, and now, you know, I got out.
00:13:51The only people that really know me, Bruce, Ed, Bobby Roode, Seth, LA.
00:13:57Heyman knows because he was there when I came up with it.
00:13:59Yeah.
00:14:00Right now, that's it.
00:14:01I don't know what move they're going to do yet, but he'll do something towards the end of the match
00:14:04where he blows his knee out.
00:14:06And LA sets up for the next thing, but like Seth ain't there.
00:14:09He's not coming.
00:14:10He's down.
00:14:10He goes to Jess.
00:14:12Jess gives the X.
00:14:13Medical comes out legit.
00:14:15Goes to him.
00:14:16Wow.
00:14:17He'll call an audible.
00:14:19Yeah.
00:14:19Which Jess will go tell LA night.
00:14:21Did the referee need to know?
00:14:22No.
00:14:24Her responsibility is report if somebody is injured or not injured.
00:14:28Did medical need to know?
00:14:30Yes.
00:14:31Because I can't let them believe an injury is real.
00:14:34If they believe an injury is real, they have the power to shut it all down.
00:14:38Wise man once told me two people you can't lie to in life, your lawyer and your doctor.
00:14:43He'll take a BFT from LA night and get beat.
00:14:46LA night will leave.
00:14:47We'll help Seth out of the ring.
00:14:49Yeah.
00:14:50One of the few people that I couldn't in good conscience let think that this was real was LA night.
00:14:58I'm sure Seth will just say, tell him to, when I pull myself up, tell him to fucking give me
00:15:03his finish and just go over and like, whether you kick him, you give it to him or just he'll
00:15:07feed you and you just give it.
00:15:08You know what I mean?
00:15:09No.
00:15:09We'll figure that out.
00:15:11But Seth came to me and he said, why does LA night need to know?
00:15:13I don't feel like he needs to know.
00:15:15And I said, Seth, if the roles were reversed on this and I didn't tell you, you would be out
00:15:21of your mind pissed at me.
00:15:22Because you're a professional and you're in the ring and your first thought is make sure your opponent is safe
00:15:27and doesn't get hurt and all these things and he gets hurt on your watch and then you find out
00:15:33later it was all bullshit.
00:15:35You'd be out of your mind mad that I didn't clue you in on that.
00:15:39And he paused for a few seconds.
00:15:41Looking at me like, fair enough.
00:15:43And he never brought it up again, right?
00:15:45He has to know.
00:15:47If you're able to like, if he just feeds you and you pull him out, you just hit it as
00:15:51awkward as it can possibly look.
00:15:54And be very careful hooking his leg.
00:15:57But we're going to play it off as full blown legit.
00:15:59Yeah, this is going to hook him.
00:16:00So he's out.
00:16:01Yeah.
00:16:01Oh, that's great.
00:16:03Awesome.
00:16:03Okay.
00:16:12I was nervous about everything.
00:16:14I was nervous about could I hurt somebody?
00:16:16What if I come in this business for just one night into their world selfishly and I hurt one of
00:16:20these guys?
00:16:21You know, I didn't want nobody to get hurt on my watch.
00:16:23That was super important to me.
00:16:24All right.
00:16:36All right.
00:16:37All right.
00:16:37Yeah, there you go.
00:16:38The hardest part of that night was fireworks happening inside of me and me not being able to emote it.
00:16:45Tonight, everyone is buzzing about this spectacle.
00:16:49Saturday night's main event.
00:16:52Saturday night's main event.
00:17:11Let's do this, baby.
00:17:36Tremendous history between these two.
00:17:38They know each other extremely well.
00:17:45McIntyre's dominating early.
00:17:47Logan Paul enjoying what he's seeing.
00:17:49Jelly roll less.
00:17:50So.
00:17:51Logan and Jelly now.
00:17:53Here it is.
00:17:54Here it is.
00:17:55You're in the wrong arena, buddy.
00:17:57And I posted on yesterday.
00:17:59And I'm going to tell you again.
00:18:01You're in the wrong arena.
00:18:02You're fucking wrong.
00:18:04Yeah.
00:18:05You're going wrong, brother.
00:18:06I'm pushing you, man.
00:18:07Logan Paul's right by Jelly Roll.
00:18:11And Randy Orton can't KO out of nowhere by Orton.
00:18:15Here's the cover.
00:18:17Orton with the win.
00:18:19Let's see Jelly fire up.
00:18:21Nice.
00:18:24And now, Logan Paul and Lucky Punch to the jaw of Randy Orton.
00:18:30And now, Logan Paul unloading on Orton.
00:18:33Jelly Roll has seen it off.
00:18:35Jelly Roll is not a fighter.
00:18:39Oh.
00:18:40Paul costs the ring.
00:18:46And Jelly Roll with a right hand.
00:18:48Jelly with a right hand.
00:18:59No.
00:19:00A Claymore by McIntyre.
00:19:05Jelly Roll is a musician.
00:19:07Stay out of the ring.
00:19:13If I were to describe Jelly Roll, he's a natural performer.
00:19:18He's someone who's performed all over the world.
00:19:22He does shows where people come just to see him.
00:19:26You could just tell that he's a lifelong fan.
00:19:29He loves this business.
00:19:31And he's been watching because he knows what it takes to perform in that ring.
00:19:36And he just did it so well.
00:19:38Hey, Randy.
00:19:39Me?
00:19:39Ha-ha.
00:19:40Fucking Jelly.
00:19:41How'd I do, baby?
00:19:43You did?
00:19:43How'd I do?
00:19:43You did?
00:19:44It was awesome.
00:19:45It was fucking awesome, man.
00:19:46I was so impressed.
00:19:48He blew anyone else out of the water that's ever tried to step out of their world and step
00:19:53into ours.
00:19:56Congrats, man.
00:19:56How'd I do?
00:19:57Fucking badass.
00:19:58Am I getting over it?
00:19:58Fucking badass.
00:19:59You heard him chanting Jelly?
00:20:01I've got...
00:20:02Listen.
00:20:02I'm gonna go home and watch this like I did last night.
00:20:04Make notes and get better.
00:20:05Dude, you heard him?
00:20:06You heard him chanting your name?
00:20:07Yeah.
00:20:07Fucking great.
00:20:08When I heard the Jelly Roll chant, it was like, Jelly, Jelly Roll.
00:20:12That's why I love wrestling.
00:20:14Unique to the WWE universe.
00:20:16I'll never hear that again in a Jelly Roll show in my life unless God and the WWE blessed
00:20:22me to come back there.
00:20:24What a...
00:20:25For a megastar, what a down-to-earth dude.
00:20:29What's up, my brother?
00:20:30I love you so much.
00:20:31Do you see me?
00:20:32Yes.
00:20:32Are you being serious?
00:20:33It was awesome.
00:20:33Yeah, you...
00:20:35We didn't even know you were here.
00:20:36We just came to see...
00:20:37Hey, that's good shit.
00:20:39Yeah, yeah.
00:20:39It's gonna be good, man.
00:20:41Yeah.
00:20:42I wasn't really sure when Bruce first sat me down.
00:20:45What was that?
00:20:45I wasn't really sure when Bruce first sat me down.
00:20:47Yeah.
00:20:49Put it this way.
00:20:50Having seen that motherfucker train, because at first I was like, I'll put him in a little
00:20:55something.
00:20:55It'll be a fucking big deal.
00:20:57I watched him go in and train twice.
00:20:59They sent me the video, so I was like, okay, now I'm thinking bigger.
00:21:02And I was like, he's all in, dude.
00:21:04I'm very thankful for this part.
00:21:07Let's not...
00:21:08Yeah.
00:21:08Sign of the fact.
00:21:15A lot of the creative ideas that I've had in my career have been mine.
00:21:20This one I can't take full credit for.
00:21:22What I saw when this idea was presented to me was an endgame that created a moment that
00:21:30was special and memorable.
00:21:35That's really what our industry is, is a series of moments, storytelling that builds to special moments that affect our
00:21:43audience on deep level.
00:21:48If this was a real situation, how would we all react?
00:21:52I didn't want to overreact.
00:21:53I think Triple H as well, and Bruce and Guerrilla acted as if it was real.
00:21:58There was only four people, five people, six, maybe at the most, that actually knew what the situation actually was.
00:22:05Two-time United States champion, L.A. Knight, battling the five-time world champion, Seth Rollins.
00:22:11Ooh.
00:22:12Seth Rollins, and Rollins now launched outside the ring to the pool.
00:22:16Time to keep going.
00:22:19We did have to make sure that we didn't get the bell rung.
00:22:21You know, in situations like that, when someone is actually hurt, typically we'll ring the bell right away.
00:22:26We had to be very, very careful that we didn't do that.
00:22:30Brian, K-Fig, just me and you, a little bit of fucking fuckery here.
00:22:37K-Fig fuckery on the end of this thing.
00:22:39Do not let the fucking ring bell ring until the one, two, three happens, 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.
00:22:56You want to protect the company.
00:22:58You want to protect your babyfaces.
00:23:01In this case, L.A. Knight.
00:23:04Oh!
00:23:04Knee right to the midsection.
00:23:06Frog splash coming.
00:23:07The visionary now, headed up to the top rope, looking to put L.A. Knight away.
00:23:11Frog splash to the injured midsection and ribs.
00:23:14Rollins for the win.
00:23:15Hook to the leg and a kick out.
00:23:19That's the fun part of what we do as performers.
00:23:21You never know.
00:23:22You never know when it's a work and when it's a shoot.
00:23:26L.A. Knight for the towards line.
00:23:29And now Knight looking to rally.
00:23:33And that gray area is what makes us special as performers.
00:23:37If you can see through every single thing that we do, it becomes boring.
00:23:45L.A. Knight!
00:23:47Yeah!
00:23:48Elbow delivered.
00:23:50Knight cover.
00:23:51One, two, three, four.
00:23:53And Rollins kicks it, too.
00:23:54When you get into the excitement of telling a story, you look to exhaust whatever resources you have to tell
00:24:04that story in the best possible way.
00:24:08And Rollins with a bustle bomb!
00:24:11I don't think there's any line that can't be crossed.
00:24:14It's just you got to figure out what's worth crossing.
00:24:18And now Rollins.
00:24:19Oh, there's that flying senton.
00:24:21Springboard senton by Rollins.
00:24:23And now a moonsault lands on his feet.
00:24:25They have tweaked his knee.
00:24:27It's all right.
00:24:28It's all right.
00:24:29And now L.A. Knight with an opportunity.
00:24:31It's not okay.
00:24:32Rollins into the corner.
00:24:33The official air to check on Rollins.
00:24:36Oh, no.
00:24:38Back off L.A., back off L.A., back off L.A., back off L.A.
00:24:41Tell him to give him a minute.
00:24:42Rollins tweaking his knee.
00:24:43Heyman over to check on his man.
00:24:45Let's get...
00:24:46Do we need the doc?
00:24:48Do we need the doc?
00:24:50What's he saying?
00:24:51He said he needs a doc.
00:24:53Fuck!
00:24:54Damn it, man.
00:24:56The ringside doctor now is over, consulting with the official on the situation with Rollins.
00:25:03What's he saying, Jess?
00:25:04Is he all right?
00:25:07You hear that?
00:25:09You good with that?
00:25:10Who's that?
00:25:11He said Seth is fucked.
00:25:13He said L.A. hit his finish.
00:25:15Okay.
00:25:15You got to do it.
00:25:16Tell L.A.
00:25:17Tell L.A.
00:25:18Just whatever Seth told him.
00:25:21Rollins hobbling back up into the corner.
00:25:23L.A. Knight.
00:25:23BF BF T by L.A. Knight.
00:25:26This is the finish.
00:25:27Finish, finish.
00:25:28Hover down.
00:25:29Hook of the leg.
00:25:30And that's a win.
00:25:33Go, Larry.
00:25:34Here is your winner.
00:25:36Get Doc in there.
00:25:37Get Doc in there.
00:25:38And that is a bleak sight seeing Seth freaking Rollins down and out.
00:25:43Get L.A. out.
00:25:44Time to sell up the ramp.
00:25:49Truly catastrophic moment here.
00:25:52Is that his bad knee?
00:25:53The knee that he's...
00:25:53I don't know.
00:25:54Just give him some room.
00:25:58Moments ago, Rollins tweaking the knee.
00:26:02It 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.
00:26:20And that's the art of it.
00:26:22Anybody that doesn't need a beer, get everybody out of here so he can get through.
00:26:26What matters this much, this much doubt, that's all we need.
00:26:35This much doubt.
00:26:37If you have that, that's where the magic happens in our business.
00:26:41That's what makes it special.
00:26:43Just that little bit of I don't know.
00:26:46Did it come off?
00:26:47It's unbelievable.
00:26:48Just out of nowhere.
00:26:49Out of nowhere.
00:26:50Yep.
00:26:51The way they shot it, Jess is...
00:26:53Everything.
00:26:54Everything was really good.
00:26:56How did it feel out there?
00:26:57Did it feel legit?
00:26:58Awkward.
00:26:58Awkward, yeah.
00:26:59Yeah.
00:27:00It was supposed to feel awkward.
00:27:01It was awkward backstage, too.
00:27:02It was great.
00:27:08It was awkward as hell, but that's kind of what sold it.
00:27:10So with it being that awkward, it just kind of, you know, it probably felt flat in the moment.
00:27:16But that also allowed people to be like, oh, shit.
00:27:19Okay.
00:27:19Yeah, dude's really hurt.
00:27:22He's about the camera's off for just two seconds, please.
00:27:25LA Knight played it perfectly.
00:27:27His facial expressions were on point of, oh, shit.
00:27:31No.
00:27:32You could see his confusion and you could see his, ah, shit.
00:27:38It helped fans to believe in the moment that, hmm, something real just happened.
00:27:49LA did great.
00:27:50Played it to a tee.
00:27:51We were able to get out of that situation, making it look like it was an actual real injury.
00:28:08From the second I got hurt, you had speculation all over the internet about what this was going to lead
00:28:17to, if it was real, if it was not real.
00:28:19Wow, Seth Rollins really might be answered.
00:28:24There was every story under the sun.
00:28:26And so when everything was flooded, you had no idea what the truth 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.
00:29:25Of course, it's 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.
00:29:43Four, three, two, one.
00:29:55My first name is Masami, in real name.
00:29:59So, Masami, but nobody called me Masami, because I started wrestling since 16 years old.
00:30:07I used to use my ring name, Io Shirai.
00:30:17But now, my name is Io Shirai.
00:30:22Um, so, well, my style is like, like, I'm going to go from high, from the top, from the top,
00:30:31from the top.
00:30:35I like high.
00:30:40My finish moves.
00:30:42Over the moonsault.
00:30:43I like high.
00:30:51My finisher move, over the moonsault.
00:30:57And then I put on the trash can. Put on my head. She's the genius of the sky, but this
00:31:07is ridiculous! I'm kind of stupid. I didn't realize since I put on the trash can. I couldn't see anything.
00:31:14And so dark here.
00:31:29私はなんてバカなんだって思いましたその時すごく怖くなったんですけどああもうこれ以上怖いって思う前に飛ぶしかないって言ってもう飛び降りました
00:31:33Oh my god! Mio Starr from the top of the cage! With a trash can on her head! Wipe it
00:31:43out everybody!
00:31:47So that's crazy. I know.
00:31:53I'm so short. My height is 5.2. 158cm. So walking outside, like I walk on the street, so nobody
00:32:05think about I am a wrestler.
00:32:07Mio from day one to me just had this innate charisma. Mio Starr!
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. Mio 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.
00:32:41Mio!
00:32:45The impetus for the Evolution POE kind of dates back about a decade to around 2015.
00:32:52Our audience kind of took to social media.
00:32:54They wanted our female superstars to have as much airtime and investment in their stories as the male superstars do.
00:33:03So that's where the concept of Evolution came about, and it carried on to then this past year where we
00:33:10did 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
00:33:20and 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
00:33:35lost.
00:33:46And 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.
00:33:56At Evolution, I can choose who to defend the Women's World Championship, and that means we are Rippley.
00:34:37ベッスルマニアでチャンピオンシップをやったことよりも、エボリューションでメインイベント、なんでかっていうと、エボリューションは女子だけの、ウィメンズディビジョンだけのショーなので、っていうことを、私とRheaが表現しなきゃいけないと思ってたので、感情が、ものすごく責任感と緊張感と、重みが、ものすごくのしかかってます。
00:34:47The Money in the Bank briefcase contains the contract for you to be able to cash in on any champion,
00:34:53anytime, anywhere. That's so much power.
00:35:00Whoever has the Money in the Bank briefcase, you have to keep it with you and take it everywhere you
00:35:05go.
00:35:06But, um, I also clean it out when I'm traveling, so I don't get in trouble, because I be having
00:35:13all kind of stuff in there.
00:35:15I'm just packing my briefcase.
00:35:18New caution belt.
00:35:19Mm-hmm. Choke somebody.
00:35:20What you call this?
00:35:22A thong harness.
00:35:25It's like...
00:35:26Mm.
00:35:27Ah.
00:35:29Okay.
00:35:29Okay.
00:35:30Yeah, go ahead.
00:35:31Caution fan.
00:35:33Got all...
00:35:37Fateful.
00:35:38Fully charged.
00:35:39Just 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.
00:35:45What 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.
00:35:53Fresh pack of blades.
00:35:55A 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.
00:36:02Wrapped pellets to poison jade ass.
00:36:04And my contract.
00:36:08Hold 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.
00:36:13Go on.
00:36:13Put this.
00:36:14Go on.
00:36:14Put this right up in there.
00:36:15Hold on.
00:36:16You want to do some crazy thing about your boy?
00:36:18Aw, foofy.
00:36:19Thank you, sir.
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.
00:36:28Love you.
00:36:29You'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
00:36:43before 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,
00:37:16like climb up here, act like she's going to dive,
00:37:19then look up, go up further.
00:37:22Do you think that's warranted?
00:37:25Edge will be right by here.
00:37:28So you're going to be right there.
00:37:29That's the edge.
00:37:31Right there.
00:37:32Yeah.
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
00:37:42high falls, you know, which she loves height.
00:37:51What's your...
00:37:51What is your concern?
00:37:55The bump that Rhea's got to take.
00:37:57Yeah, it's a hell of a bump.
00:37:58Are you padding this?
00:37:59Yes.
00:38:00I 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?
00:38:14Yeah.
00:38:15Yeah.
00:38:19All right.
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,
00:38:33fucking selling, looking at each other like, what the fuck, right?
00:38:37Yeah.
00:38:39You can actually even say that, like, what the fuck?
00:38:41Yeah.
00:38:41You know what I mean?
00:38:42What the fuck?
00:38:43Yeah.
00:38:44See?
00:38:44See, it still sounds cute.
00:38:46Phenomenal when you say it.
00:38:47It does.
00:38:47What the fuck?
00:38:48You know, anybody else, you go their cuss, say, ah, I see you.
00:38:52Too cute.
00:38:54Japanese accent.
00:38:55Yeah.
00:38:57That weekend of Evolution in Georgia, I 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.
00:39:28Bayley, Bayley, Bayley, Bayley, Bayley, 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.
00:39:45Man, I worked for that, you know, I worked for that.
00:39:48Bayley's deserved to have a 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?
00:39:59I'm not even on social media, so I don't know.
00:40:01But I believe the vibe is, like, they're like, oh, it's going to be Becky, ah, that's going
00:40:06to, ah, when you feel bad for Bayley.
00:40:07So, in a last minute picture, you can tell me to go fuck off.
00:40:11WrestleMania is like Christmas.
00:40:13You're being good all year long so that you get the most amount of toys on Christmas Day.
00:40:18Like, that's how it works.
00:40:20It felt like I was the Grinch.
00:40:23Like, I'm taking all your toys.
00:40:24I know, you don't want to take away from her.
00:40:26I don't want to take away from her.
00:40:27I hear you.
00:40:28I hear you.
00:40:30Let me think about it.
00:40:31Is there anybody else?
00:40:33I got kind of pissed at Becky.
00:40:35Fuck off.
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
00:40:53used it on screen.
00:40:55I keep hoping things will go back to the way they were with us before WrestleMania, but
00:40:58you just won't let that happen.
00:40:59We went on from that moment and told the story with the three of us.
00:41:04Evolution, 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.
00:41:16WWE Evolution.
00:41:19Here we go.
00:41:20Fuck yeah, Bayley.
00:41:24For Becky Lynch, it's about defending the title tonight.
00:41:26The 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.
00:41:44Here we go.
00:41:51They're on their feet in Atlanta.
00:41:54Damn, Maragon went crazy already.
00:41:57First woman to gain pinfall or submission becomes the Intercontinental Champion.
00:42:09Dog eat dog world at the very top that should bring all those friendships.
00:42:14Oh.
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.
00:42:22Any longer and I would have made it.
00:42:25It's not a war, no.
00:42:27It's not a rapture.
00:42:28I'm just a person, but you can't talk to me.
00:42:31The same tricks that always told me.
00:42:34They won't get you anywhere.
00:42:36I'm not the same kid from your memory.
00:42:39Well, now I can fend for a day.
00:42:42So when I hear your sad song, I want to be the same.
00:42:45When you tell us I'm not full, you're not the same.
00:42:48We're not the same.
00:42:50But we're not trusting.
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.
00:43:01Red hair is so fucking awesome.
00:43:12Bayley's hair is magnificent.
00:43:14Like 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?
00:43:29Oh, my God.
00:43:38Bayley saves the matchup.
00:43:40Perfect time.
00:43:41We're heading home right here.
00:43:43Here comes our finish, guys.
00:43:49Rose Plant, finally.
00:43:52Bayley stacks up Lila.
00:43:54Becky from behind.
00:43:56Nice.
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.
00:44:16This is the coolest pin I have ever seen in my entire time watching wrestling.
00:44:31All three women brought their 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.
00:44:47Oh, yeah.
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?
00:45:16No, honestly, I'm not that great of an athlete.
00:45:19So, 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.
00:45:28That crowd was wild.
00:45:30Oh, my God.
00:45:30That before the bell, right?
00:45:31Oh, yeah.
00:45:32Yeah.
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.
00:45:56The following is a no-holds-barred match!
00:46:05In this match, there are no cutouts, 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.
00:46:20And please 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?
00:46:40Hasn't spoken to either Naomi or Jade really since Elimination Chamber.
00:46:45We knew where we wanted to end.
00:46:46We knew that we had Naomi that was going to cash in.
00:46:52We 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!
00:47:15And now a steel chain.
00:47:18Cleaning the clock from Naomi!
00:47:20Jade Cargill just grabbed the camera from the cameraman and now...
00:47:25Gonna be up close to personal!
00:47:29And Jade now measuring Naomi.
00:47:31Oh!
00:47:32A big 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.
00:47:59See?
00:48:00Tell Naomi to sell big.
00:48:01Naomi has to sell big no matter what.
00:48:04Tell Naomi don't move.
00:48:05Just stay down.
00:48:07I thought it was pulled off to perfection.
00:48:12When Naomi was in the ring,
00:48:14you think, I have seen the last of Naomi.
00:48:17You don't even think about the Money in the Bank briefcase.
00:48:22Do you have something to do now,
00:48:24or do you want to go...
00:48:25I have to do this kind of running.
00:48:28Okay.
00:48:31Let me see if they want to glue it first.
00:48:34Are you doing it during this match?
00:48:35Next time.
00:48:36Okay.
00:48:36You got like 30 minutes.
00:48:37Okay.
00:48:40I would just let the blood drip and dry.
00:48:43Okay.
00:48:45All right, Brewer,
00:48:46we're every bit of 25, 30 minutes.
00:48:48Can 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.
00:48:55Oh, damn right.
00:48:56I'm going to do what the fuck I want to.
00:48:59The following contest scheduled for one fall is for...
00:49:04The Women's World Championship!
00:49:12Audience doesn't want good, clean, squeaky girls.
00:49:15They want badass bitches.
00:49:17That's why they love her.
00:49:18Exactly.
00:49:20Exactly.
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?
00:50:09I can't remember when EO sky.
00:50:19Oh!
00:50:22Oh!
00:50:24Oh!
00:50:25Oh my god!
00:50:26Oh my god!
00:50:27Oh my god!
00:50:31He's here now.
00:50:36Grazer's answer in a second.
00:50:40Into a power bomb.
00:50:46There were so many counters.
00:50:48Oh, my goodness!
00:50:50Oh, shit!
00:50:51Oh, God, a poisoned Rana!
00:50:54We okay?
00:50:55You just feel the adrenaline in this arena.
00:50:58They're witnessing something very special.
00:51:01After no ref, Rhea's gonna go fucking apeshit.
00:51:06EO top. Oh, no!
00:51:09Rhea ducked out of harm's way.
00:51:11Oh, EO inadvertently hit the official.
00:51:14Rhea Ripley now.
00:51:15And the ref tied to Sky.
00:51:17One, two, three.
00:51:20Rhea Ripley has got pinned,
00:51:22but there's no official.
00:51:24EO!
00:51:25EO!
00:51:26The referee was taken out of this match.
00:51:29Rhea Ripley had the damn match won,
00:51:31but there was no official to count.
00:51:34This must feel like a curse to Rhea Ripley.
00:51:38Nice, Rhea.
00:51:40Good shit.
00:51:45How does her little body take all that?
00:51:53This is spilling out all over the place.
00:51:57Ripley and Sky
00:51:59fighting 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
00:52:08in the state of mind that she is in right now.
00:52:12Try not to see the floor at their feet if you can
00:52:14until we get over there.
00:52:16And now on the equipment cases
00:52:17over there in the corner of this arena.
00:52:20Once EO counters this,
00:52:22she's gonna go to that first level.
00:52:24Well, it's gonna be nasty as hell.
00:52:27Good pause, look up,
00:52:28and go one step higher.
00:52:32Oh, no!
00:52:35Don't do it, EO!
00:52:37EO!
00:52:38EO!
00:52:38Climbing up high!
00:52:40Why now, why now, why now?
00:52:42Don't get too close to it.
00:52:43I wanna see crowd behind it.
00:52:44I wanna see how high she is.
00:52:46The genius in the sky with Ripley in trouble!
00:52:49Why now, why now, why now?
00:52:50The highest risk!
00:52:52Superstole of them all!
00:52:53EO and Rhea are down!
00:52:57Nice!
00:52:58EO to be 20 feet down!
00:53:00Oh, he's in!
00:53:01Oh, he's in!
00:53:02Oh, he's in!
00:53:04Oh, he's in!
00:53:05Oh, he's in!
00:53:06Oh, he's in!
00:53:06Oh, he's in!
00:53:08Oh, he's in!
00:53:08Oh, he's in!
00:53:08Everybody okay?
00:53:10Two women knocking the hell out of each other
00:53:14in pursuit of excellence,
00:53:16in pursuit of greatness,
00:53:18in pursuit of history.
00:53:20The ref coming?
00:53:22Let me see you're coming in.
00:53:23The official's coming too!
00:53:28EO Sky hits it!
00:53:30He over the move!
00:53:31And Rhea kicked it down!
00:53:33Rhea kicked it down!
00:53:34Now it's EO Sky's turn!
00:53:36To say, what the hell do I do now?
00:53:40Holy!
00:53:41Hell!
00:53:43Nice!
00:53:44I had a way to cover that shit, Pete.
00:53:46That's storytelling.
00:53:49Rhea Ripley tapping into something different tonight!
00:53:52And it needs it against this version of EO Sky!
00:53:55Rhea Ripley!
00:53:56Oh, my goodness!
00:53:57Manish fly!
00:53:59Both women are down!
00:54:01EO's out!
00:54:03Rhea'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.
00:54:20Oh, my God.
00:54:24Naomi!
00:54:25Naomi!
00:54:26Miss Money in the Bank!
00:54:28With a referee in two!
00:54:31Okay, once they announce it as a triple threat,
00:54:33briefcase shot to EO.
00:54:35You can hear this.
00:54:39Ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:41Naomi is cashing in!
00:54:43We'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 known to swallow locations under triple threat rules!
00:54:54Officially cashed in against two completely decimated women!
00:55:01One leg and moonsaults!
00:55:04Covered by Naomi!
00:55:06Naomi!
00:55:09Naomi!
00:55:12Naomi!
00:55:21Naomi!
00:55:23Naomi!
00:55:25Naomi!
00:55:28Naomi!
00:55:31Naomi!
00:55:32Take that motherfucker!
00:55:34Naomi!
00:55:38Naomi!
00:55:39Naomi!
00:55:39Naomi!
00:55:39Hey, that was awesome top to bottom.
00:55:41Naomi!
00:55:44Naomi!
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 and become better.
00:55:56This solidifies that, it improves that.
00:56:00It's very emotional.
00:56:02I'm tryin' to keep it together.
00:56:03First time ever being...
00:56:05a women's world champion!
00:56:07Who knows what's ahead of me now.
00:56:14It just shows that it's 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, sports, 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.
00:56:47I'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.
00:56:55Thank you so much.
00:56:56I always will.
00:56:56You were great.
00:56:57Rock star.
00:56:58A lot of times backstage, I could just call her rock star because I don't know how to put a
00:57:04label 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.
00:57:22Yeah.
00:57:22Right?
00:57:22No jump.
00:57:23You jump up.
00:57:24Oh, yeah.
00:57:25I did.
00:57:25I did.
00:57:25Very good.
00:57:26Oh, thank you.
00:57:27Yeah.
00:57:27I enjoyed it.
00:57:28I enjoyed it.
00:57:29I enjoyed it.
00:57:29Oh, thank you.
00:57:30Oh, thank you.
00:57:31There you go.
00:57:34Does that scare you?
00:57:35No, no.
00:57:36I want to 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 because this is
00:57:53what the future of the women here in WWE are going to show.
00:57:59And we're going to take our opportunities.
00:58:00We're not going to 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.
00:58:12Just what a night.
00:58:15The bar for what women do in this industry, all of it has been raised so high.
00:58:20And 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'll 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.
00:58:48So 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.
00:59:15Burn it down!
00:59:19Burn it down!
00:59:19Burn it down!
00:59:20Burn it down!
00:59:21Burn it down!
00:59:23Burn it down!
00:59:29Burn it down!
00:59:31Burn it down!
00:59:31Burn it down!
00:59:33Burn it down!
00:59:33Burn it down!
00:59:34Burn it down!
00:59:35Burn it down!
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