Break It Down Ep10 - Sami Zayn and KO, Rock vs Cena & More
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Interacting within the Elses not on that show also also the pinnacle
History like human in it. Then really it's then you've really broke up the pinnacle did they just kind of it just wasn't anymore
I mean, I think obviously I know like the Wardlow MJF you just kind of like the end of that but there was never a oh and
The pinnacles over yeah, I mean I guess that is one of it one of the things for the W that is something that like it would be
Good if they had someone in to kind of be like I'm gonna fix this is like there's so many factions that either list like
They they they broke away because I feel like what we're gonna get is we're gonna get some sort of MJF and FTR thing with FTR
I like you've been a monster of a leader and so you never said that at the time
But now you're gonna say it because we need to try and
Shoehorn some story stuff and so I hope they've maybe got like a cleverer thing to do
Maybe they've got some stuff stuff in the bag that they can show to kind of make that MJF and FTR thing fuel
Even bigger than and maybe that's the double closely spot as well that you're talking about maybe that maybe we get it in the FTR match
Whenever that is so yeah, it's the best thing in a WTV right now
They've they've really kind of done better with a TV since double and nothing so yeah, I'm glad that they're on an upward trend quality wise
I'm gonna touch on the rock thing now, right? Of course because I need to get a bit and I'm listening to what Kenny is saying right now
And I'm getting fucking angry. Do you want me to read the to you want me to read the tweet first so that you can you can go on and set the table
Okay, so this was Ben on Twitter, right and this just kind of it must have
Been going on going on so vital of people just being like what a fucking idea that it got to me
So it's a photo of Cena in the rock from WrestleMania 28 and it just has hot take John Cena is better than the rock in almost every way
That is the take and I responded saying
This is an awful take and then I put in brackets because I knew there would be people who would say it
Except if it's make a wish stuff which Cena obviously trumps everyone and is amazing at because yes
Which is very valid. Yeah, it's very valid repeat response
You'll be pleased to know your
Quite treat is obviously what brought me to the
Yeah, it's like I don't know what it was maybe like 10 o'clock last night something like that
I was kind of getting ready for bed and then I saw it and I've got really good lately
Agents ignoring Twitter, right like I see lots of stuff happening on there and I like drama or arguments and I just think I'm gonna stay out of that
I don't need it, right
You anyone who's following me for a while will know that I
I'm still fairly active, but I used to be a lot more active. He used to be like my bread and butter
Whereas now I'll kind of promote my work and you know if I have something positive to say maybe
But I saw this and it was one of them were like I did I put my phone down and I thought no, I can't let that go and I
Had to say
That is to salute a crusade, right like to say not only that he's better than him
In everything
Right in every way. He's better than the rock. I was like good if you say that and
This is obviously what I replied you you can't have properly seen the rock in his pond like you just can't you can't have seen
him from when he went through
I went you know, let's say from the hill turn in
Nation of domination onwards, right? You just you just haven't seen him and
I'm gonna in a minute. I'm gonna read out some of the replies to my tweak as some of them are just baffling
Like the things that people like ration out as seen are being better and again, let me make this clear
No problem with John Cena here big fan of John Cena now. Yeah
I loved the first couple years of his career and I enjoyed the last two or three of his full-time career
The stuff in between wasn't for me, right? The Super Cena. It just wasn't for me didn't really enjoy it
But he had you know those moments. I'm not gonna detract from you know the CM punk money the bank thing
It was it was like a great match, right? And he's he's had
Some great matches, but you know has he has he had many great
rivalries and feuds
My tip really I know I know you've got stuff to do that
But just very quickly. Here's the two things I want to take away from it
So I got called Rob tweeted me back and said I don't think any year of rock and ring touches seen it in 2007
When he was even having great matches the Cali and Lashley and to that point I do want to say right
2007 was a great year for having the ring because he did have the Omega the Cali the Lashley matches, right?
So he's he's right there. However, what he is not mentioning there is the sort of you know almost a dozen years of
His end-ranked stuff where he was hokey. I mean at any point. I mean, I know the rock does a bad shot sure
So that's fine, but like that is true. I mean the cross face that he did when Steve Austin has to give you into trouble
Because you don't apply it properly on a network podcast that tells you all you need to know
He's not believable. He is a pantomime dame in disguise
He just he does not know subtlety if it hit him in the face
But the other thing that I think is just
For me is the the way that I rate between the two right now granted I am bias cuz I like the rock more
I don't love him as much as you do so. I'm not like in the fight as much as you are but to me
one of these two
Elevated people and one of them buried people and left a graveyard of people behind and I think we know who's who
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean there's so many different ways. I want
I could attack this like you know
Some people have to it me saying like well, you know seen it was a bigger draw
No, you know you're not a big a draw by being around by default right seen it was around
For 20 years the argument some people use it right that makes you a bigger draw
He was not a bigger draw. You're a bigger draw by selling out buildings selling pay per views
That the biggest pay per views that senior ever drew with the rock. So that is stupid. Don't be stupid to think that
Yeah, like and just some people as well
So like I've had a cup one saying and the only thing the rock does better than senior is comedy. What?
Like the rock the rock's promo right and again
This is people who do just didn't watch the rock every week, right?
And they're only they only know him from clips, which you know again
You don't have how many people sit there and watch a montage of senior
lips like interviews and stuff on YouTube. I'm not gonna imagine as many as the rock, but
You know he did used to sell
Pay with you. He sold events and he did that on the microphone in the ring that there is that there is this
Notion that because the rock's not like fucking dynamite kid or bright
But he wasn't good in the ring. Yes, he was he had plenty of really good matches, right? Great matches
I dare say we've a lot and with you know again Triple H had a whole catalog in 2000. We're talking I
Said I still stand by the fact that his match of Hulk Hogan is one of the greatest matches of all time
And you don't have to do like a million moonsaults or
Have a technical masterclass to have the greatest match. I think that's what a lot of people don't understand. They drew
Tens of thousands of people and had them going absolutely bananas for like half an hour
Like in the palm of the hand you could say that no
You the crowd investment and things like that. Has there ever been a match that's had it more than that on the on a grander stage
I would argue not right
Everything I'm saying here is not to diminish
John Cena in any kind of way
Yeah, he was the number one guy for a long time
Yeah, that's another common response. Well, there's a reason he was the number one guy for a long time
Yeah, they of course there is Vincent man made it that way like all the old years where fans said
Do you want him to be the number one guy? Yes, right?
Sin and it will go to turn hill so I kind of feel feel for him in that regard
But nothing like touches what Hollywood rock was doing for instance, right?
The rocks ability to pivot character and do that is one of the greatest hill
You know, it was only about six bums he ended up doing it. It was one of the greatest sort of pivots from a top guy I've ever seen
And and that comes off the back of you know 2000 2000 and one in 2002. He's
Literally with Steve Austin. Maybe the hottest baby face of all time. I mean Hock Hogan in his pump was was an incredibly hot baby face
But when was seen or ever that hot as a baby face? He was kind of hot
It was the rap gimmick as he got his made his way to the world title
And then it wasn't that long before they were booing him again
So like people talk about being number one and post-the-boy of a company
It's one thing to be it and it's another thing for Vince to make you it
Right, and I'm not I'm not saying like Vince you know Vince was pushing rock from the start incredibly strongly, but
He still had to kind of go around the houses have a hill turn make his way in the nation domination
You know, you have to have the crowd end up saying yes, we want this guy and the rocks reactions at the turn of millennium
Stand up against anybody ever in the business in terms of pops and and reactions
I mean, so again some of them so what I want to find one particular
Reply that I had because I just I just replied to him say you're just saying things
Just saying words now that you don't you know you don't understand
I need to find it you think that I'll just
Okay, I've got it. I've got it. I've got it right so I said
He was saying that this guy was he was saying he wasn't very good in ring basically and I was like we're there in lives of rub
What you or I think is good in ring?
Is really irrelevant right like what I like you know?
I love Kurt Angle Rob Van Dam that doesn't necessarily mean someone else does like the drawing does the moments that they create do the crowd
Investment for those matches matters, right? Yeah, and that's why I'll make the arguments I did earlier and he says by that metric
Xena has more polarizing and interesting reactions than rock
More iconic moments and has drawn more money overall. I mean John his name is I
You show his name's not mark any chance. No
Bio says is bio says very very
Fucking clear sighted. I don't think you are John. I've got to tell you
But
I feel like when you're when you're in one of these debates, right?
And you know who it gets me sometimes is whenever something comes out on Twitter or like you know, there's a debate
So he goes
Who cares? It's like it's Twitter. You can say about anything who cares like a redundant thing to say is Twitter
You could say who cares about any topic we're talking about
But I think with the rock and Tina thing is that if the debate is who was better in wrestling in general then
They've got a lot because you can kind of even up and stack up
But I think if you're gonna go down the iconic moments route rock wins if you're gonna go down who was elevated more by working with somebody
Rock wins
Xena does have longevity, but I think
That if you look at it is like rock could I have longevity if you wanted to?
Yeah, he wanted to be willing you went to become the most famous literally in the top three or five famous people in the world
And I don't I think seeing a dead do a lot of good things, but I do think
You know, there's a lot of I mean Bray Wyatt
Rissage the mezz nexus jack swagger Dolph Ziegler. There's loads of people
Right back. You can even ride back like
I'm not sitting here saying right back to you know, but
The point is there was like a whole few years with Xena where he just got into feuds and he won every single time and nobody was richer for the experience
Right like it is with his look one of rocks hope one of rocks things that he was famous for was losing
More often than a top guy should because if you look back, there is no top guy in the history of wrestling whether it's Xena
Hogan Austin nobody
Well, no, do you know what I will give Xena this?
Xena dead lose a fair whack because he had to
But rock that a lot and he didn't really and it never really affected him
But you can see Austin heated to words heated
You can see with rocks title runs like I mean he's got ten of them
But I don't think he ever had one that went over three or four months, right?
And most of them were most of them were quite sure in fact
You know like he traded it with triple H quite a long 2000, but I would say also like is triple H
You know this worked both ways is the rock the big baby face and it triplets the biggest hill without each other
Right, and then you've obviously got the Steve Austin feud with speaker itself
He he has the moment with Hogan which is an all-time
WrestleMania moment and you know feud in many ways even though I could criticize the way they got to WrestleMania
But I wasn't
And I just think with Xena
At WrestleMania
Like what what is his legendary
Match-up feud
And
Because I don't think he really hit the mark with like gray wire
You know twice to that matter
But the undertaker thing was just to do it. It wasn't very good. I was there
Um
Yeah, I know he had that kind of stretch that involved sure Michael's in triple H, you know alternating years
What's just fine
The when you say WrestleMania John Cena to me I think of him lifting up big show which was quite cool at the time
um
And I don't have that much else. I mean you would argue it is the rock really and I don't think those matches were like incredible or anything
But like I thought the first I thought the first one was was was great
But the problem was I remember being at that WrestleMania, right?
I remember going and I was like I knew it for anyone who was my age
If you're in your
Oh, but I've been there like late late 20s, right?
If you're in your late 20s
You did not want John Cena to win that match. There was just no
right
If you had pubes you did not want John Cena to win that match was the general rule but um
So the match is going on the match is going on and then rock one right and it was like that's like
It was like the bare-line wall had fallen down
But that was the way people were reactant as you know, Cena had been beaten
And eventually for about two minutes I was overjoyed and then it's sunk
and and I was like
They're gonna they're gonna have to do it again
And if they do do it again Cena has to win
So in part of me was going
I was because the problem they had going into that WrestleMania was there was no real win position
If rock one then Cena was the third timer who couldn't be the part timer
If Cena won the crowd would be would hate it
And so when we came back to following you it was like we all know what that's that's this is
We all knew
We all knew before we got there right like Cena
We weren't even before the real rumble
Rock's facing punk Cena's in the rumble we all know
What the result of those two matches we're gonna be and we were right
And then you're just on the road to WrestleMania where you're hoping they can make it as interesting as possible
But we knew what was going to happen at WrestleMania
Yeah
But I mean yeah
I think over I mean I think Hogan and Austin is in it is a more interesting debate to have
Because I think they are pretty much neck and neck
And I think you could kind of argue either way
With rock and Cena to me isn't it's not even a debate that rock was
Bigger slash better overall I mean because they were both
You know if you're gonna come at rock for the homophobic insults which I understand
Cena did them too just as much
So that kind of cancels each other out
But yeah I think overall
I think Cena redeemed himself a lot by
Those last couple of years like you say
But yeah I think
Yeah that makes it a conversation
And what he said like he comes to have his strong spots
That kind of longevity by him
Strong spots, bold spots
He's got all
Yeah
It's true
Why did you, why did John Cena, I mean if John, if you're listening to this
Go to Turkey
It's an in and out process now
Same day
I think you look, I think you look very handsome with his hair grown out as well
Like I went once when he first grew it I thought
Shouldn't have waited that long John
No, no, the hair length from his front looks great
But it's the side plate, chips, the whole at the back
That's the problem
I mean to be obviously fully transparent I assume most people listen to us
Realize what I'm like but um
Yeah we're just having fun
As a fan um
The rock was obviously my guy like where he's got me into the business he was like who I
Adored as a kid
I do like to think though
That in my career I've always maintained kind of objectivity and balance
So as much as I like you know the kid in me I guess is
Passionately defending the rock in this in this debate
I do objectively believe
Like he's highest highs in the moments
In the rivalries and everything that you cheat
I just feel like he does win that argument
Um not to disparage anything for John Cena obviously
But there you go
Trying to be as transparent as possible
I think you did a good job
I mean I'm way too opinionated as you know
I mean I remember I won't say who it was
But I remember once I sort of said something about a wrestler
Not then as a person but just a bit about their performance
And I think I felt you almost shits yourself
Because I had been so cut through to what I'd said about some of these charisma
Um which is which is actually good because that person has now developed charisma since
So it's not that bad anymore
But at the time yeah that wasn't post material
Yeah yeah they're having a good time now
Um
All right
Away from that and the many terrible tweets that I have
Who is he?
I just can't deal with
People it's people to say things Kenny
He has a big control
Well where's your substance behind it?
Anyway anyway
Moving on before another rabbit hole
Kevin Owens
Sami Zayn
Judgment Day main event this week
Seems like
There were some disagreements afterwards Kenny
But what do we think what do we need to tell the people about this incident
Yes I mean so yeah Seth Rollins
Sami Zayn Kevin Owens against Judgment Day
It's funny because I'm very aware
We're in the business of news right
We're in the business of wrestling news
I am guilty of that
I own a website that is a bit wrestling news
So I am not saying that we should not be discussing it
But I think it's a very overblown thing
Because
Yes
Close of news
I mean you cover real sports right
And in real sports
Like there are way bigger
Disagreements
And it's like
I read
So I got a follow on Twitter right
And I would really recommend following them
If you do not mind
Sami offensive tweets
And just someone who doesn't give a shit
His name's Ian Drew the Giants
That's the Twitter handle
And basically calls himself Ian Drew Dicequay
But he's like a guy who clearly
Watched wrestling in the 90s
And he just tweets what he likes about wrestling
And I live for them at all times
But he said something I thought was so true
And he was like
Thank God
The boys care again
Enough
To be like
Like see if this match was
If they weren't happy with it
And they had about that
Disagreement about it
Good
They care
They want it to be good
Like I don't see the down side too
I know it obviously
You know everything gets reported now
Everywhere
So like it's going to get out there
But
I don't really see a negative too
I actually kind of saw a positive
That the wrestlers are so
You know they
It makes me think they realize
How hot a period that I'm right now
And they want to do the best they can
So to me that's a good thing
What do you think?
Yeah
I agree
No I agree
I was about to say I was
I mean I played football to a pretty good level
And I remember
When I
You know
Getting paid to play
It's very different than playing for fun
And
That was like a shock to the system
When I first started playing
How
Seriously people take it
Like it matters a lot
And to
Give relevance to what you just said
Like there'll be several times
On the pit
Or in the dressing room
Where
Tempers do flare
Right and you do argue
Because you do see things differently
Or no one's quite doing their job
Or their end of the bargain
And that just kind of seems to be what happened here
They were saying that
You know things changed last minute
And then as a result
Some things went wrong out there
I can't say it was glaring to me
Having watched it back at a glance
But you know great for them
That
As Kenny says
That
They take such pride in their work
That
They
You know
There was a discussion to be had
And we know that
You know especially like
Finn and
Sammy for instance
And Kevin
Like they are close friends
So
Yeah
I don't
I mean again
People are kind of gagging to write
Argument
Or
Confrontation
Or
You know
Whatever it is
You know
I think even on the Daily Mail
On our US side
They did it as Backstage Argument
Which I guess it is
But um
But that's the balance
Nothing more than that
Yeah I think that's the balance
Is that
Unfortunately you know
You work for someone
I
Work with stuff
Where we kind of have to cover it
And have to
Put a spin on it
For people to read about it
But at the same time
I mean I'll
Argument this fit
That's a mean I go into like a scuffle
Yeah yeah
I mean people always take
People always
Whenever you write something
In terms of a title
Or a headline
People will always take the most extreme
View of what that is
And then
Kind of a left-handed
They're like
Well
Argument can also mean
You know
Disagreement by
You know
Speaking
Does not mean a fight
But yeah I mean
To me it's like
It's wrestling
Wrestling should be
Wrestling should be a competitive
Sport where people are
You know
Really gung-ho to do
Do their best work
And
Passionate about it
And
I think if we get to a point where
That's not happening anymore
That's probably an issue
So
Yeah
I don't see a problem
Then you have to ask questions
Right
With that
You've heard enough from Kenny and myself
We will hand you over to
The undisputed tag team
Champions
I caught them just across the river
Or from the
0-2 ahead of money in the bank
And it's a really good chat man
Like the PR
He came over to me
Before we started
And he said
Look Kevin
Is not in the best mood
I was like
Oh okay
I haven't heard that before
But you know
They'd only just flown in
I think and he was really tired
Or he was struggling with the jet lag
But I will say this
He went out of his way
To to give me a really good
And
Right
Like he
You could tell he was trying
To to give me good stuff
Even though
As soon as the camera stood rolling
He was like
Like
Get me out of there basically
But yeah
Very good egg
Thank you for putting on a brave face Kevin Owens
And yes
Listen
To the dulcet turns of the tag team champions
Myself and Kenny will be gunning
For a third straight week
Next week
At break it down
I know Kenny's got a busy period coming up
With inside the ropes
Tell the fine people before we sign off Kenny
Yeah if you're
Some if somehow you're near Glasgow
Do the show with gangrel this Sunday
Glasgow should be very fun
I'm very much looking forward to
Spending a Sunday afternoon with him
And then
Before you know Eric Bischoff comes up in September
Lots of content
I'm actually going to be with
Seria
That is going to go up
This weekend
On the YouTube channel
So that should be good
And yeah
Lots of other stuff going on
You just follow me on Twitter
Kenny MCITR
If we're still using Twitter
That's the next week
I've got a thread tonight
I have a thread too
But then it looks like Twitter's made
You know kicked out of two maybe
You know
They've got rid of the rate limit
Maybe they're going to survive after all
I'm at a coffee 88
On Twitter
And don't forget Kenny will be
At SummerSlam
So in the coming weeks
Stay tuned for all of the good stuff
From us
And hopefully interviews
That will spawn out of that
But for now
Enjoy this interview
Of Sami Zayn
And Kevin Owens
I feel like every time I've interviewed you
Before I was like
When are you going to have a tag title run
When are you going to get together
I thought you meant the microphone here
We're talking earlier about how lightweight
The microphone is very progressive
It's finally here
We finally got you two with the tag belts
How does it feel to finally kind of
Got somewhere there
So many people have demanded for so long
It feels nice
I think
I feel it
Yeah you could end it in the air
In Summer
In short it feels nice
But to expand on that slightly
I'll say that
Given the history with he and I
I think it's
Obviously W or triple E quadrupley special
When you take into account the
Factors that got us here
Or how we got these
You know at WrestleMania in the main event
Together with one another
You know as everyone knows
We started out together 20 years ago
So when you
Factor all that in
It's almost like storybook type things
You know
So I think it's bigger than
Just winning the tag team championships
I think people recognize that
I think that's what's making this
Particular tag team championship reign
Special to the audience
Because they
They know the story
They know the back story
They know
How and why winning these was so special for us
Yeah
And as you mentioned
The significance of it
Being a tag team
Main event at WrestleMania
That had never been before
With the belts I should mention
Like
Winning them as part of a grand story
That means much more
So like
Now that you have them
What does that mean for you moving forward
You want to
Help bring other people into the picture
To lift the division
Is there something you want to
Stories you want to achieve
Like how do you see that
Well so
One of the things that I was
Concerned about before winning them
Was that when we did get them
I want to live up to the
Usos title reign
Because they
Man they did a lot for these titles
They worked very hard to get them to the point
Where they could main them at WrestleMania
And that's
You know the lot of credit goes to them for that
So honestly I don't I don't feel like we've
Really so far in our run
I don't think we're anywhere near that
I really want to work very hard to
Once we're all sitting down with these titles
And you know somebody else
Takes them from us
I want to you know
I want to run to be talked about in the same
Bane as the Usos
So that's a challenge in itself
Because man they did really incredible
And you know
What
Those guys are
If anything now finally they're getting their flowers
But they've been in my opinion
Unappreciated for a long time
So that was a big concern
I mean like I just don't
I want to live up to the work they've done
And we're obviously working our hard
Out to try to make sure that happens
So I guess that's the one concern for us
And that you know
And that part of it
Is just to make sure these titles stay
At the forefront of the stories
And keep being as important as they've been the last few months
Yeah, we're telling that value
But sorry yeah thank you
And that's the thing as well
The Saturday Raving Match was another great beat
In the Bloodline story
Awesome
That moment for you in before the match began
And I know that you guys hadn't been to Saturday before that
So how much more special was it that you got to kind of
You know it was much more than just the wrestling match in many ways
I felt
Yeah that was a pretty big deal for me
For a number of reasons
But that whole trip was really really really remarkable
I guess on some level
Even as a child right
Being in an Arab or Muslim growing up
And never really seeing a positive representation of that
In media or whatever right
I always just assumed that if I ever got to WWE
I'd have to play like a terrorist or something like that
I don't know if you can use that
But you know what I'm saying
But like because that was just the perception
And that was the portrayal of Arabs and Muslims on television
Never mind WWE just in media
So it was all sort of a thing in the back of my head
Like man I'd love to change that one day
Yeah
So to be able to kind of really embrace that
And for the fact that even a major premium live event like that was coming
And it was a
It wasn't just sort of like
Those early Saudi Arabia shows
Felt very
Not WWE-ish
Yeah, yeah
They felt like here is a WWE show taking place somewhere else
I agree
And we happened to be able to watch it
But now that was just a seamless part of the show
It was like you said a progression in the story with the bloodline
And everything else
And it just so happens to be in Saudi Arabia
So for that to converge with this wonderful story that I've been lucky enough to be a part of for the last year
For that to kind of converge with this moment of me being able to
Kind of come before my people or whatever you want to call it
But to be there and to have that sort of return
And under those circumstances was very very special
Yeah
We had a little love for the Usos a minute ago
If Sami and Kevin couldn't be the ones to defame Raymond
Would you like to see Jay or someone like that?
Yep
Yeah
Yeah, so either Jay or Jimmy
I think both those guys deserve the world
And you know, both those guys would be fantastic
Universal World Champions, whatever you want to call that title now
Forget what they say
But I think they'd be a shoe-in for that spot
They'd do great at it
And honestly, with the way everything's progressed and the new heights they've reached
It certainly wouldn't look out of place
So I think that would be a great idea
For sure
What do you think?
Do you think you should defame Raymond?
You can have it back
I appreciate it
Yeah, I think from a character and a story perspective
It does make sense to see Jimmy or Jay do it at this point
I think a lot of characters have kind of come along
Throughout the last three years that could have been
A very fitting ending
There's a few
There's a few
I think I was one
I think Cody was one
I think even Drew to a certain extent
Maybe not totally because of the story
You know, the broader story
But I'm saying there's been a couple of moments
And a couple of people
Even Kevin
Could have been points where there's a little bow on the story
The culmination of this whole thing
But um
You know
It does seem at this point after everything else
That Jimmy or Jay
Would be the most fitting for the story
I have some quick fire to finish on
All right for you guys
You can take that
Okay
There you go
Uh
When was the last time
And who you star struck by?
Um
The last time was probably
And it was several years ago
But first time I met Sean Michaels
Because he's the reason I do this
So first time I got to meet him
I was really really
Just couldn't believe I got to meet him
Couldn't believe I got to
And now you know
Now
See him every couple of eggs every few months
And he's just
He acts like one of our peers
But to me he's always going to be Sean Michaels
You know
So it never gets old
Who about you?
It's a non-wrestling answer
Sure
Um
A few years ago I was at a
A punk rock concert for a band called The Interruptors
I was there with Corey Graves
And um
We're in their dressing room somehow
And
And Fat Mike from No Effects
If you know who that is
Pretty neat shot in here
He's a really really famous punk rock
Singer
And he just walked into the room
And because I had no idea he was going to be there
I was like oh my god
It just
Kind of took me a back a bit
Um
So I know not
A pretty niche answer
You have to be really into punk rock
To kind of
Appreciate that one
But that was the last time I was like
Oh my god that's that guy
I've been listening to for so many years
And it kind of took me a back
I mean Bianca was Kelly Ryland in a corridor
Oh there you go
That's a pretty good one
Most expensive purchase since you joined WW
We kind of saw Matthew McConaughey backstage once
Right
We didn't get to actually
We didn't get to actually either talk him
Because there's a line of 17 people
To get his attention
But it was like
Oh that's Matthew McConaughey
Wow
You know that was
That would be a big deal
I guess that's something
He counts
Counts it
You're in the same place
Most expensive purchase since you joined WWE
I'm not going to talk about that
That's a weird question now
Yeah
That's not for you to know
Yeah
What about
I mean a house
A house
Yeah
It's a great person
Yeah
I'm most people say that house
Which is right
The thing you hate about the gym is a particular exercise
Or anything like that that you don't like going to do
You know I don't like the doors
That's what you like
It doesn't like the entrance
I don't like the entrance
So I just don't go
What's the question here
Is about the process of working out
Or like actual gym things that happen
I don't see you don't like it
Oh well of course I don't
I don't love doing legs but I have to
But I'm like oh man
This is going to be sore for three days now
And whatever
But yeah
Legs but they're fun to do
But they're
They come with a
A heavy price
Favorite place of travel to perform
Don't have second time
Man that's just tough
But obviously going back to Canada every time
Is you know
It's a special treat for us
And the crowds are always pretty phenomenal
So you know
If we're talking
I know it's kind of going back home
But you know
That's still
We don't get to perform there as much as we as we wish
So Canada is a double list for me for sure
It's very hard for me to answer this question
I get asked a lot like
Where's the favorite your favorite place you've been
And I like a lot of places
So it's very very hard to choose
I don't have
No, no, no, no
Yeah for sure
I make a point of it actually
And the UK I've been coming here for a while
And I know you said don't say the UK because you're not
But it is very special for me to be here
Europe in general
But South America, Japan
Saudi Arabia, or Canada, Montreal
I just I really appreciate being everywhere
Everywhere is kind of great in its own way
You know what I mean
I like you
I have the diplomats
Well but it's just being very honest
It's not
I wish I could give you a concrete answer
Say like
You know I just was saying in a different interview
I love wrestling in Santiago Chile
I think they might be the best crowd in the whole world
But that's not to say that I don't love
Being in other countries
And performing in front of other audiences
Very last one
Who made you laugh the most during your W10 year backstage
Who's Joker in the locker room
For me it's C.J. Parker
Who's now known as Drus Robinson
Probably the funniest person I've ever met in my life
Have you seen that?
Oh man, that's such a tough one
I don't know
I guess I'm going back to NXT as well
But
Adrian Neville
Who's now known as Pac
We used to have a lot of laughs together
And I really miss him
He's a great guy
Yeah he's a great guy
Yeah
Yeah is that it?
He's a great guy
Yeah
Yeah he loves his
Toon army
He loves them
He loves them
He's a good never-ending guy
Yeah yeah so I really miss him a lot
And we used to have a lot of laughs together
That's the first one that comes to mind