Speaker 1: There three letters on the shirt of Roman Rains O
Speaker 1: T C. And I'm gonna take.
Speaker 2: A wild guess and say that that probably means original
Speaker 2: Tribal Chief. Hello everybody, and welcome to the Summer Slam
Speaker 2: post show. I'm Jackie Redman alongside Biggie Peter Rosenberg and
Speaker 2: way to bear it. There are a lot of layers
Speaker 2: to peel back on this Summer Slam Onion, but let's
Speaker 2: start with the big dog. Roman Rains returns to help
Speaker 2: of all people, the American Nightmare, Cody Roads.
Speaker 3: Look, I'll be honest, I had to put my worker
Speaker 3: broadcaster head side. I became a fan.
Speaker 4: I got chills. That was such a cool moment.
Speaker 3: I think people were ready for it, they were excited
Speaker 3: for it, and look I got giddy. It's very cool
Speaker 3: to see Roman Rains, a true tribal chief back where
Speaker 3: he belongs to.
Speaker 5: Ww RAE And I thought you said a really interesting
Speaker 5: thing just now while we were watching the match.
Speaker 6: Maybe less about helping Cody.
Speaker 5: Rhodes and more about showing solo shikoo what.
Speaker 6: Time it is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
Speaker 7: Absolutely not helping Cody Roads at all.
Speaker 6: He was just cub beneficiary.
Speaker 7: He's just so happy to be Okay, really, I'm coming
Speaker 7: after Solos and said some incredibly insulting things to me.
Speaker 7: Sometimes when you go away on vacation, squatters move in.
Speaker 7: And went away on vacation, a squatter moved into the
Speaker 7: seat at the head of the table.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: I don't know what Solo Socoa expected on Friday Night
Speaker 2: snackdown when he used the word week to describe Roman rains,
Speaker 2: but I think that that woke up the bear, and
Speaker 2: he showed up the straw.
Speaker 6: That broke the camel's back.
Speaker 7: Because there has been multiple instances of Solo talking a
Speaker 7: little snack here and there over the past few months,
Speaker 7: to which Roman has not responded. That perhaps was one
Speaker 7: step too far by Solo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Ande reading for a big moment, to make a big statement,
Speaker 2: and we certainly saw that from a Roman rains tonight.
Speaker 1: Shock excitement.
Speaker 2: I don't know what words to use an orment, but
Speaker 2: the words that my coleus were never in a millision
Speaker 2: years did I think I would see this transpire this way.
Speaker 1: Let's take it back to ringside for.
Speaker 2: Instant reaction from the guys who called this match Michael
Speaker 2: Cole and Corey.
Speaker 4: Grat and Pat McAfee's jacket.
Speaker 8: But the bottom line is this is the message ring
Speaker 8: side Okay, Boodline rules and I've still got goosebumps.
Speaker 9: I have chills over.
Speaker 4: This place was thunderous.
Speaker 10: You couldn't hear yourself fake with the return role, it
Speaker 10: was like.
Speaker 9: The walls were gonna cave in.
Speaker 10: One of the loudest experiences.
Speaker 4: I've ever felt for the return of.
Speaker 11: The original, the one and only Tribal Chief.
Speaker 12: I've been as baffled as anybody as the how this
Speaker 12: was gonna play out.
Speaker 10: Solo's gonna have the helgram.
Speaker 12: Yeah, when a goat walks into a stadium, you could
Speaker 12: feel him.
Speaker 4: And when Roman walked out and.
Speaker 12: Did what he did, and Solo's the car to tell him, hey, listen,
Speaker 12: I'm the OTC around here.
Speaker 10: You need to stuck with this stuff, and then.
Speaker 12: Let Cony Rhodes get the win, and then pointed back
Speaker 12: at the There's just so much to kind of unfolding tonight.
Speaker 4: That's been well, it's been.
Speaker 8: An incredible night. I mean, let's not forget but the
Speaker 8: living Morgan and Dominic mysterio, God knows where they are.
Speaker 8: The Honeymoon suite somewhere new World Heavyweight Champion good the
Speaker 8: Vin Valor turning on Damian Priest, I mean, Naya Jacks,
Speaker 8: the new champions. I mean, the whole night has been
Speaker 8: absolutely incredible. We're so privileged that we were able to
Speaker 8: spend the last four hours with you in your hold.
Speaker 8: Thank you for joining us through Summer Slam. Let's head
Speaker 8: back up to Jackie and Company.
Speaker 2: Thank you all COH boys, thank you so much. I mean,
Speaker 2: what an absolutely incredibly entertaining end to Summer Slam.
Speaker 1: Tonight here in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 2: We are gonna bring you all of the post show reaction,
Speaker 2: will take you live to the press conference momentarily.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from numerous people at the press conference, Paul T.
Speaker 1: H Levec. Of course, we'll hear from.
Speaker 2: New WWE Women's Champion Naya Jacks. I believe she'll be
Speaker 2: joined by Miss Money in the Bank, Tiffany Stratton. I
Speaker 2: believe we'll hear from La Night amongst others as well.
Speaker 2: So a lot to get to here on the post show,
Speaker 2: but I'm still I am still reeling well from the
Speaker 2: arrival of the tribal.
Speaker 5: And on that Jackie, you know what I enjoyed as
Speaker 5: a fan, and I loved watching big Ee like get chills.
Speaker 5: That was so cool because it was happening in real life.
Speaker 5: It was like the whole everyone's been wondering on the
Speaker 5: internet in the wrestling community, what's it gonna feel like?
Speaker 5: What's that reaction gonna be when Roman Reigns comes back.
Speaker 5: You could argue that was the greatest reaction Roman Reigns
Speaker 5: has ever gotten.
Speaker 4: And he's had some crazy reactions.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's definitely up there, and man, people are
Speaker 3: ready for it. People are excited for it. I don't
Speaker 3: know where we're going, but this possible bloodline civil war
Speaker 3: has got me excited.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 7: There is no civil war. Solo has a crew of
Speaker 7: guys right now, is on his own. He's got no
Speaker 7: for now.
Speaker 4: But but as we know, the fo in our family
Speaker 4: is very.
Speaker 6: Large, very long.
Speaker 5: It seems like time you think it's over, someone else
Speaker 5: shows up.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's never ending in a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: But to the point Cole just made to think about it,
Speaker 5: we're all so high off the Roman Reigns return. We
Speaker 5: can't forget about all the incredible things we saw to the.
Speaker 2: Exactly four championships changed hands tonight in this stadium behind us,
Speaker 2: We've got a new United States champion in l a Night.
Speaker 2: He has been working towards that for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has.
Speaker 2: Now Your Jackson mentioned is the new w w E
Speaker 2: Women's champion. Damian Priest loses his World Heavyweight championship to Gunther,
Speaker 2: gets betrayed in.
Speaker 5: The possle to say, is it time, guys? Is it
Speaker 5: time we pour out a little liquor for the Judgment Day?
Speaker 5: Because let's be let's let's be realistic.
Speaker 6: Who's running that show? Now?
Speaker 5: I don't over guys. Else Listen, I love Carlito, but
Speaker 5: if Carlito's running the Judgment Day, we have serious problems.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 1: The Judgment Day is in shamble, shambles today, shambles. It's
Speaker 1: an exclamation point.
Speaker 2: Like Vince Carter, it is over for the judgmental.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know the reason.
Speaker 4: What is the reason why?
Speaker 9: Benn?
Speaker 2: That's it's a question that hopefully we'll get an answer
Speaker 2: to in the coming weeks.
Speaker 1: But I would not want to be facing Damian Priests
Speaker 1: and how Monday night he grabbed Finn by.
Speaker 5: The throat and let's not let's not ignore the makeout
Speaker 5: scene around the world. I mean that was a dominick.
Speaker 5: I mean I knew he was disgusting, but this was
Speaker 5: a new level. I didn't know what was possible, and
Speaker 5: you talked about it earlier. This meant, Jackie, are we
Speaker 5: missing something in the charm of dominic Mysterio? Help me
Speaker 5: understand what Live Morgan Andrea Ripley have seen in dominic Mysterio.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes something's so bad it's good.
Speaker 7: I appreciate something to us three lack. He has an
Speaker 7: animal magnety?
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
Speaker 7: The women just ca resisted Live Morgan and dominant mysteria.
Speaker 7: This is true of full the Ages. I'm eye full
Speaker 7: on one day in Holy You know that that's a
Speaker 7: step too.
Speaker 4: I know that was really insane.
Speaker 5: But how about this, What a weird feeling to see
Speaker 5: Rea Ripley, one of the most dominant women I think
Speaker 5: already maybe we've ever seen a.
Speaker 6: W we in her short career.
Speaker 5: I actually found myself like feeling bad for her, Like,
Speaker 5: what a weird position to see Rhea Ripley in at
Speaker 5: the end of that match.
Speaker 3: More than anything, I think it's the ultimate betrayal. You know,
Speaker 3: she coming back from injury and now the person your
Speaker 3: your number one up decides to come around the judgment
Speaker 3: day and they're just glad handing with her and then
Speaker 3: to have this go down the way he did with
Speaker 3: dom Uh and to have.
Speaker 4: Her moment he's got a new number one up.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, he does serious. Yes, And if I was Domb,
Speaker 3: I would run exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For for Ria Ripley too.
Speaker 2: I think in a lot of ways, this is the
Speaker 2: person that she helped build up, that she helped find
Speaker 2: himself in w W E right, like he's never been
Speaker 2: as confident as we've seen him during his course of
Speaker 2: time with the Judgment dab but I mentioned four titles
Speaker 2: changing hands.
Speaker 1: We haven't got to all of them yet.
Speaker 2: Ron Breaker is our new Intercontinental Champion after winning.
Speaker 1: He rematch with Sammy Zane. I mentioned a lot of
Speaker 1: layers on this summer Slam Onion.
Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned Sampunk and Drew McIntyre and that insane
Speaker 2: match that has been building four months. Seem Punk in
Speaker 2: his first singles match at a premium live event in.
Speaker 1: Over a decade.
Speaker 2: What did you make of what happened there with Seth
Speaker 2: Rollins as the guest referee.
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre gets the win. But there is a lot
Speaker 1: more happening than just that.
Speaker 3: Look, you got a ring full of three hot heads,
Speaker 3: and Drew was the most level headed of the three.
Speaker 3: Great point in that moment. When you're up against a monster,
Speaker 3: a beast like Drew.
Speaker 4: You can't be worried about bracelet.
Speaker 3: I know that's my friend. I'll tell him that to
Speaker 3: his face. Look, that's not your actual wife and your
Speaker 3: actual dog.
Speaker 6: In the ring.
Speaker 3: Take care of finness. Worry about jewelry later, my man.
Speaker 6: Welcome to the dog side.
Speaker 13: Big.
Speaker 6: I will tell you this.
Speaker 7: I show the entirety of SummerSlam was fantastic, but the
Speaker 7: Drew McIntire CM Punk match hang it in the louver,
Speaker 7: it was perfect.
Speaker 6: Justice was seen today. Justice has prevailed.
Speaker 7: And finally McIntire has taken out CM Punk and he
Speaker 7: can move on with his life.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, is he going to move on
Speaker 2: Drew McIntyre, Because after that match was over, he made
Speaker 2: a point to take back that bracelet with CM Punk's
Speaker 2: wife aj Lee's name and their dog Larry, put it
Speaker 2: on his wrist and kiss it.
Speaker 1: Over CM Punk's like laid out body. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 6: It's spoils of war.
Speaker 7: You take a little memento and you pin it on
Speaker 7: your mantlepiece, and it's not.
Speaker 4: Gonna say even if it's over.
Speaker 5: For if it's over for Drew McIntyre, it's not over
Speaker 5: for CM Punk, it's not going to be over now.
Speaker 10: Positive note CM.
Speaker 5: Punk gets in the ring, gets to shake off some ring.
Speaker 5: Russ has a match. But obviously there's only one thing
Speaker 5: he wanted and was to beat down Drew McIntyre front
Speaker 5: of fifty thousand, and he did not get that satisfaction
Speaker 5: tonight for you.
Speaker 3: Look, but for Punk's sake, sometimes you gotta look your
Speaker 3: wounds and realize, look, this needs to be over.
Speaker 6: Let's move on.
Speaker 3: With his age, with his injury history, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: that it behooves him.
Speaker 4: You think he's to continue.
Speaker 3: I think it's best for him to move on, to realize, look,
Speaker 3: I lost this chapter.
Speaker 6: Let me move on.
Speaker 4: So are you gonna say this to you?
Speaker 5: You're gonna tell him number one, it's not really your
Speaker 5: wife and dog, it's just a bracelet, and number two, you.
Speaker 6: Need to move on, move on.
Speaker 4: I want to hear this conversame though, I'll give you
Speaker 4: a call.
Speaker 2: Yes, Drew McIntyre kissed the bracelet like that's too much
Speaker 2: for me, Like that those are the people that mean
Speaker 2: the most to you, and this man's kissing the bracelet
Speaker 2: in your face.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It is a little bit poetic, however, that all these
Speaker 2: times you've seen true McIntyre and there is the host
Speaker 2: of Summer Slam, the Miz taken off with his beautiful life.
Speaker 5: Good Night Race, good night for the Miz, good night
Speaker 5: for our truth, good night for jelly Roll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Jelly Roll was taking chairs to people.
Speaker 7: Head of a slam too, Oh my goodness, and closest
Speaker 7: to the in ring debut.
Speaker 1: Of listen, it's something I want to see. I mean,
Speaker 1: the man can use a chair.
Speaker 7: Right and the one hand I don't know.
Speaker 14: I was impressed.
Speaker 2: I do want to say one other thing though about
Speaker 2: about Drew and Punk, because in all these instances where
Speaker 2: you know, Punk costs Drew the shot at Championships, it's
Speaker 2: because he took his eyes off the prize and focus
Speaker 2: on Punk. And then tonight Punk takes his eyes off
Speaker 2: the prize being Drew McIntyre and focuses on Seth and
Speaker 2: it costs him. It's a little bit of karma coming
Speaker 2: around maybe for CM punk. But like I said, there
Speaker 2: has been so much to look at, analyze, digest from
Speaker 2: SummerSlam here in Cleveland. Let's take you now, uh live
Speaker 2: to the press conference. We've got someone taking the podium now.
Speaker 13: And now Mie.
Speaker 3: Harder Lemonade presents the Summer Slam post show.
Speaker 15: You ain't nothing better? Yeah right, yeah, you try to
Speaker 15: keep me down on the ground and.
Speaker 16: I can hear you.
Speaker 17: OK.
Speaker 13: Gonna start with our first question.
Speaker 18: Wait, now you're gonna start with everybody congratulating me first,
Speaker 18: go ahead, thank you. You have the Queen and the
Speaker 18: chap and miss money in the bank.
Speaker 19: It okay, God, Stephanie Hypes here with body slam. Neet,
Speaker 19: congratulations Queen, and congratulations Tiffy. It's been six years since
Speaker 19: you one. You're a Women's World tie the one WWE.
Speaker 19: How does this differ? Does it feel different? A lot's
Speaker 19: happened since then? So what do you think?
Speaker 18: Well, it is pretty incredible. It's actually our first Summer
Speaker 18: Slam ever. I've never been a part of a Summer Slam,
Speaker 18: so this is my very first Summer Slam. Uh So
Speaker 18: it does mean a lot. It was pretty incredible that
Speaker 18: TIF came out and shared the moment with me. My
Speaker 18: mother was there, my aunt was there. Uh so it
Speaker 18: means a lot because it's been quite a journey for me.
Speaker 18: But yeah, thanks.
Speaker 6: Kau Sama.
Speaker 18: Who are you asking next?
Speaker 6: Hey, it's just been here for.
Speaker 13: Hey.
Speaker 20: It's Adrian Hernandez with Unlikely Naya. A year ago right now,
Speaker 20: you weren't even in the company and now to have
Speaker 20: this championship, you brought up your family in a stadium
Speaker 20: sixty thousand people.
Speaker 6: How does it feel?
Speaker 18: It's pretty curdle just trying to get me cry. First
Speaker 18: of all, Chill, It's pretty incredible because a year ago
Speaker 18: it was a different position for me. But I I
Speaker 18: am extremely grateful for Triple h for taking a chance
Speaker 18: on me, not just a year ago, but ten years
Speaker 18: ago when he hired me here. So it's been an
Speaker 18: incredible journey and I'm grateful for the opportunity.
Speaker 21: Reggie Edwards Indie Sports Daily, Naya, you won Queen of
Speaker 21: the Ring in Saudi Arabia. I just want to know
Speaker 21: how that felt for you and how much that meant
Speaker 21: for you, winning that title in that location when just
Speaker 21: a few years ago, women weren't even on the show,
Speaker 21: and that show.
Speaker 18: You know, it's crazy because actually I remember before I
Speaker 18: went out for a my double ACL surgery, Vince had
Speaker 18: pulled me aside and said he had asked me because
Speaker 18: I had waited a while before my surgery, and he said, hey,
Speaker 18: We're going to have the first ever women's match in
Speaker 18: Saudi Arabia, and I would like for you to be
Speaker 18: a part of it. And you know, things happened and
Speaker 18: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Be a part of it.
Speaker 18: But when I was able to win Queen of the
Speaker 18: Ring there, it was a pretty cool moment. And when
Speaker 18: when Triple H came into the ring to crown me,
Speaker 18: it was even like it just hit the next level.
Speaker 18: So and Lyra Valkyria was such an incredible opponent to
Speaker 18: face in that moment as well, because she's so new
Speaker 18: but like very talented.
Speaker 6: It was cool.
Speaker 18: I feel like we need like music em only May
Speaker 18: with Wrestling News co.
Speaker 17: Hello, I want to talk about this alliance you've formed here,
Speaker 17: if you can speak to how important this was to
Speaker 17: get this win tonight with the help of Tiffany TIFFs.
Speaker 22: I mean, obviously I'm going to do anything for my girl,
Speaker 22: Nya Das inside Ring and tonight I came in and
Speaker 22: I helped her win the title, and I'm so happy
Speaker 22: I got to be there for her moment, and I'm
Speaker 22: just so proud of her, and I can not wait
Speaker 22: for the future and and everything that the future has
Speaker 22: in sorrow for us.
Speaker 18: In her little I mean, look at this custom briefcase
Speaker 18: I got for her.
Speaker 4: Come on, that's done.
Speaker 18: Me so stinking cute, Get out of here.
Speaker 1: She loved the handle.
Speaker 4: She's like a literal, real life Barbie Doll.
Speaker 18: Yes, we had a like, you know, mockt versus like
Speaker 18: the Chanelle we got in Saudi.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I bought my first Chanel bag in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 18: Baby's first.
Speaker 23: So this is like a little, you know, tribute to that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 18: So of course I'm like, how are we going to
Speaker 18: design this for my girl? So yes, we had to. Sorry,
Speaker 18: I'm covering up my my cleavage.
Speaker 6: That my title? What do we got?
Speaker 24: What?
Speaker 6: We got?
Speaker 25: One more question left?
Speaker 1: So we talk about Denise Alcedo instinct culture.
Speaker 26: So you guys were talking about your parent right now
Speaker 26: and the Shanelle bags and everything I've seen both you know,
Speaker 26: your on screen chemistry but also your off screen chemistry.
Speaker 1: So how did the bond between both of you guys begin?
Speaker 27: Go ahead, tiff, Oh, do you want me to start?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 16: I do.
Speaker 23: Okay, Well, she basically hand picked me to be her
Speaker 23: best sie. We were on our way to Australia of
Speaker 23: her elimination chamber and she sat next to me and
Speaker 23: she literally requested it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Well, she was a newbie, this is her first international tour.
Speaker 18: I wanted to make sure she was going to be
Speaker 18: okay and safe out there. You know, you never know,
Speaker 18: And we clicked right off the bat. I mean, let's
Speaker 18: be real, she's so cute and she's incredibly talented in
Speaker 18: the ring, and you know, it's she's like lightning in
Speaker 18: a bottle. It's very rare to see it here. You know,
Speaker 18: Like she's what two and a half years in, she
Speaker 18: gets it. She's athletic, she's got this aura about her.
Speaker 18: I mean we constantly go over, like how many merch
Speaker 18: options we.
Speaker 1: Can do for her. She pitches everything.
Speaker 18: Literally, I'm like, let's do this and this. So you know,
Speaker 18: I saw her and I instantly had like a connection
Speaker 18: with her, and I'm like, you know, you're going to
Speaker 18: be under my wing because Naya Jacks is quite the
Speaker 18: you know force, and she really had no choice. But
Speaker 18: I'm excited for this pairing and to Seaward.
Speaker 16: Goes.
Speaker 14: You heard that right.
Speaker 28: Thank you to the new WWE Women's Champion, Queen Naya Jackson.
Speaker 6: That's what I thought.
Speaker 28: Iron and miss Money in the Bank, Tiffany Stradden, thank.
Speaker 1: You all right.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to the new w W Women's Champion, nay Have
Speaker 2: jack She's gonna keep rocking that ground as she should.
Speaker 2: But we are joined on set now by Drew McIntyre, who.
Speaker 1: Is smiling ear to ear and much calmer Drew than
Speaker 1: the last time we had you on this show.
Speaker 10: One second.
Speaker 5: Oh oh no, no, I don't like it.
Speaker 6: I don't like it.
Speaker 4: He's like forst he's rubbing it in bracelet.
Speaker 10: Well, Drew, since you please continue.
Speaker 2: Well, since you brought out this bracelet which you made
Speaker 2: sure to leave here with tonight to kiss as cmpunk
Speaker 2: lay on the mat after you defeated him, I think
Speaker 2: the big question here is, and we've debated it, are
Speaker 2: you now done with Cmpunk?
Speaker 1: Is this over?
Speaker 11: Of course it's over. I did exactly what I said
Speaker 11: I was going to do. I defeated CM Punk. I
Speaker 11: humiliated CM Punk and I took everything from CM Punk.
Speaker 10: I should have took more.
Speaker 11: But this is gonna be a nice remainder of when
Speaker 11: Punk tried MacIntyre and failed.
Speaker 5: I feel a certain sense of satisfaction that there was
Speaker 5: at least a narrative that at WrestleMania, you took your
Speaker 5: eyes off the prize and it costs you. And tonight
Speaker 5: Cmpunk seemed to take his eyes off the prize, got
Speaker 5: too worried about zeth Rald. Is there any extra satisfaction because.
Speaker 10: Of the Yeah, I mean, I'll give Punk credit.
Speaker 11: I didn't expect him to bring the fight like you
Speaker 11: brought it, But realistically, in twenty twenty four, Drew McIntyre
Speaker 11: as the absolute best in the world, the total package
Speaker 11: in every way. And who's Punk gonna blame. I know
Speaker 11: he's gonna probably come out on WRAW. Maybe you'll post
Speaker 11: a little social media pro mode, but it was cessfo.
Speaker 10: Maybe it was a cameraman's fault.
Speaker 11: May make some kind of excuse in the end, not
Speaker 11: just Punk, but nobody on this planet is as good
Speaker 11: as Drew mackin tire, And Punk's found that in that
Speaker 11: ring on this microphone, Drew mac entire is.
Speaker 7: The mac the true best in the world. And Drew,
Speaker 7: I have a quick question for you. I know you
Speaker 7: like going to the pub. I know you like your beers,
Speaker 7: your buck fast. What tastes better beer or all the
Speaker 7: tears of the CM punk fans around the world who
Speaker 7: saw their hero annihilated by the Scottish warrior here at SummerSlam.
Speaker 10: Oh the tears so sweet.
Speaker 11: I actually want to bring us some beers out here,
Speaker 11: but the office Wind approved Drew and Wade celebrating I
Speaker 11: justified victory out here.
Speaker 10: I'm just hoping people open their eyes.
Speaker 11: Some people are slower than others, especially you know in America,
Speaker 11: to see the truth. People you've saw Punk lose. Now,
Speaker 11: just look at the evidence. My degrees in criminology, Seth
Speaker 11: and Punk Wind no about college. They never win my
Speaker 11: degrees in criminology. What's the goal proved beyond reasonable doubt?
Speaker 10: Somebody's guilty.
Speaker 11: Look at my character background, look at the evidence, look
Speaker 11: at testimonies, ab dream back entire then check out see
Speaker 11: him Punk's background.
Speaker 10: He is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Speaker 11: People are opening their eyes and they see what kind
Speaker 11: of personally truly is a prick.
Speaker 3: I just got a quick question, are you too bringing
Speaker 3: up alcohol because Punk is straight edge.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, maybe should take up drinking to his sorrows.
Speaker 6: At the pub and become a comfort.
Speaker 1: True, this is this is my final question, and he
Speaker 1: could like what's the joke?
Speaker 10: Always make it's straight edge.
Speaker 11: He doesn't drink it, doesn't do drugs, but he spends
Speaker 11: all his time in rehab and he could start drinking.
Speaker 10: He can go to all kinds of rehab.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, true, are you not worried at all?
Speaker 24: That?
Speaker 13: I mean?
Speaker 2: You see him punk off in the past, and he
Speaker 2: has made it his mission to keep you from well
Speaker 2: ever becoming a champion in WW You're not worried that
Speaker 2: this is going to motivate him even further to keep
Speaker 2: you in any way he can from winning a title
Speaker 2: in your next opportunity in.
Speaker 11: The slightest Now that he's felt the back kind of McIntire,
Speaker 11: the chops of McIntire, the claymoor of McIntyre, he know's
Speaker 11: how dangerous I am.
Speaker 10: And you just prove what I've said all along. He's
Speaker 10: a big hypocrite.
Speaker 11: He's only the one person to blame CM Punk, screwt
Speaker 11: CM Punk.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Drew, I will let you go. Now
Speaker 2: you can go celebrate, maybe have some of those beers
Speaker 2: you refer to.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Joining us on set and being much calmer than you
Speaker 2: were a last time.
Speaker 10: We appreciate that it was a cucumber.
Speaker 11: Sometimes the road as long as bumps in the way,
Speaker 11: but the good guys always win.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, listen, we're gonna turn our attention back
Speaker 2: to some Nights winners.
Speaker 29: As these two hug it out, I'm gonna turn our
Speaker 29: attention to one WWE superstar tonight who is walking out
Speaker 29: with gold around their waist.
Speaker 1: GIRTHA went in to his World Heavyweight championship, Notchigan.
Speaker 2: See me in Priest fighting a six to zero hot
Speaker 2: streak from WrestleMania to now, and he is going home
Speaker 2: the world heavyweight champion. Here he is with Kathy Kelly.
Speaker 30: Yeah, Jackie, I'm here with the new World heavyweight champion.
Speaker 1: Gother, goother.
Speaker 30: You predicted this win, But how does this feel? Having
Speaker 30: the title around your waist?
Speaker 13: Feels deserved?
Speaker 1: Well, we did.
Speaker 30: See a massive betrayal between two members of the Judgment Day.
Speaker 30: Your opponent, Damian Priest betrayed by his friend, his brother,
Speaker 30: Finn Balor.
Speaker 1: Does that taint this victory?
Speaker 31: At all, nothing saint it, no reservations, nothing to be
Speaker 31: ashamed of. From this day forth, Monday Night draw and
Speaker 31: the legacy of the World Heavyway Championship belonged to me.
Speaker 31: And if anybody out there thinks I don't deserve this,
Speaker 31: they know where to find me.
Speaker 10: Donka got it?
Speaker 2: Send it back to you, Jackie Kathy, thank you so
Speaker 2: much so, our new world heavyweight Champion.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the pre show.
Speaker 2: He rarely, if ever loses on the premium live event
Speaker 2: stage and he gets the winside with a little help
Speaker 2: from Finn.
Speaker 5: Valor listen, help or not, this is a guy who
Speaker 5: just does not relinquish titles. This is the guy who
Speaker 5: broke the Honky top Man's record with the Intercontinental Championship.
Speaker 5: This guy weighed could be World heavyweight Champion for a
Speaker 5: very long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's usually a surprise.
Speaker 7: It feels strange when a guy who's never been world
Speaker 7: champion before finally gets a title. But we've gumped the
Speaker 7: The first time you set eyes on this guy, which
Speaker 7: for me was about eight years ago, you knew instantly
Speaker 7: this guy is gonna be a world champman.
Speaker 2: Here we are listen, he was he spent six hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty six days as champion before. We'll see how
Speaker 2: long he goes on this rain as the world heavyweight champion.
Speaker 2: This is day one of that rain we're gun through.
Speaker 2: We also have a brand new United States champion, la
Speaker 2: and Night. He's taking the podium.
Speaker 27: Now, yeah to me, I'm on now, okay, good, I've
Speaker 27: had about ten mics hard lemonades here, so let's get nuts.
Speaker 14: I'm lying, I've had water. But what do you want
Speaker 14: to ask me? Why are you directing questions or am
Speaker 14: I just picking them out? Well, see, I'll start with
Speaker 14: the first question. Pick a good week and row congrats
Speaker 14: on the moment.
Speaker 6: Looking at the matchup to that's.
Speaker 14: A terrible well, let's call it somebody else.
Speaker 32: That's fine, go ahead, Looking at Justin Brossos Sports Illustrated. Looking
Speaker 32: at the matchup, it's a guy who's wrestled twenty one
Speaker 32: years against the guy who's had less than I gotta
Speaker 32: tell everybody that that's quite quite accomlishment.
Speaker 6: Guy who had all right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 32: Less than a dozen singles matches. You've worked so hard
Speaker 32: to get here. We know how talented you are. You
Speaker 32: know how time did you are there's been so many
Speaker 32: moments though you've been overlooked. This is a great chance
Speaker 32: to reflect on how you didn't allow doubt to cripple ability.
Speaker 32: How did you make that how did you overcome that
Speaker 32: doubt when things weren't going your way?
Speaker 33: Let me get on the couch here, because anybody have
Speaker 33: the sad music look for me. There was never a
Speaker 33: chance to doubt. There's always plenty of times where it's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 33: maybe things aren't quite going my way. Maybe I'm not
Speaker 33: quite getting the things that I'm looking for. Maybe I'm
Speaker 33: not quite getting the recognition I'm looking for. But at
Speaker 33: the same time, if I don't see it, then damn
Speaker 33: sure nobody else is going to see it. So for me,
Speaker 33: I don't know if I'm just empty headed enough or
Speaker 33: what it is. But I don't know how to I
Speaker 33: don't know how to quit. I don't know how to stop.
Speaker 33: And that's that, as legit as I can be. I
Speaker 33: just don't know how. I'll give you a stupid little story,
Speaker 33: but I can remember going to a friend's eleventh birthday party.
Speaker 33: We were getting our asses whipped in some kickball, I mean, destroyed.
Speaker 6: The whole team.
Speaker 33: I'm not this is one true story. The whole team quit.
Speaker 33: I'm still out there, like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: Right now?
Speaker 33: You have to keep playing? Like for me, it's if
Speaker 33: nobody else believes in it. Who's talking? Calm down out there, sir,
Speaker 33: you're drunk, you've had too much.
Speaker 6: Let's seeing Parky hasn't had anything.
Speaker 33: But no, for me, if I stop believing, nobody else
Speaker 33: is ever gonna believe.
Speaker 14: So there's not a chance for me to do that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 14: Now that you're done, are we done? Who else can
Speaker 14: I get it?
Speaker 24: Go? No?
Speaker 34: Austin Montgomery, iHeartMedia, Kentucky kind of media too. That's right,
Speaker 34: kind of piggybacking off of his last question. You've been
Speaker 34: doing this for quite a while. It's a long journey.
Speaker 34: What was that moment like when the refs hand hit
Speaker 34: three and you finally host up one of the most
Speaker 34: prestigious trophies championships in the company.
Speaker 6: Long overdue.
Speaker 33: I don't know if anybody could read lips out there,
Speaker 33: but most of the stuff I was saying you probably
Speaker 33: can't say right now because it is a lot of
Speaker 33: f and right and you know, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 33: Because yeah, it is long overdue, and I guess let's
Speaker 33: come back to your question, sir.
Speaker 14: You talk about the fact that maybe it's long overdue,
Speaker 14: maybe it's right on time.
Speaker 33: I don't know, but at this point it's feeling like
Speaker 33: the right time to me, because I mean, I think
Speaker 33: a lot of people, especially you, look into the wintertime.
Speaker 14: Look I see the talk, and people.
Speaker 13: Are like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 14: I think I think l A Night's falling off? Am
Speaker 14: I falling off now?
Speaker 33: Because I think last night when I walked out there
Speaker 33: and everybody got standing up yelling La night, my guy,
Speaker 33: new US Championship. We're only taking off from here. Anybody
Speaker 33: else be done now you'll fall asleep. Sorry, I bored
Speaker 33: everybody to death right here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 33: Hello, my name is Malcolm, so oddly enough you're in
Speaker 33: the middle.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 13: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: The question for you, mister champions, I think the world
Speaker 3: is very happy to see Logan Paul loose a nicety Championshi.
Speaker 33: Everybody I ran into was like, beat the brakes off
Speaker 33: at some betch ya.
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 35: What does it mean to you to be the man
Speaker 35: that beat La or Logan Paul?
Speaker 33: I should say, man, you're doing some Corla heyes stuff,
Speaker 33: aren't you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, what man? What I mean? Am I lying anyway?
Speaker 6: Would you ask me?
Speaker 33: I totally forgot those my cards got me? Oh that's
Speaker 33: what you asked me.
Speaker 36: Uh?
Speaker 33: What's it mean to beat Logan Paul? Look a lot
Speaker 33: of people are looking for that. For me, I'm just
Speaker 33: looking for this. It doesn't matter if it was Logan
Speaker 33: Paul anybody else walking around with it. I want this now.
Speaker 33: I got it. It's got those Logan Paul nameplates on there.
Speaker 33: We're gonna have to get that little change. But uh yeah,
Speaker 33: at this point, now for me again, I talked about
Speaker 33: twenty twenty three being the foundation. Twenty twenty four, now
Speaker 33: is the time to start building that legacy.
Speaker 6: Start building that. Uh we'll call it the legend of
Speaker 6: l A.
Speaker 13: Knight.
Speaker 6: Why don't we call it that?
Speaker 14: What else we got?
Speaker 6: Final question?
Speaker 14: Thank you?
Speaker 10: Bill Apter?
Speaker 6: Wait a ny Wait a minute? What wait? What's the problem? What?
Speaker 14: What didn't I talk to you enough last night?
Speaker 10: We did talk like and.
Speaker 14: You yours I was going to see you out there.
Speaker 36: You didn't still do it later after LA tonight, after
Speaker 36: tonight in the parking lot.
Speaker 10: That's my question.
Speaker 36: I'm not that kind of guy.
Speaker 6: No problem with that.
Speaker 13: My question.
Speaker 14: Shake hands or something.
Speaker 6: Okay, we can do well.
Speaker 36: My question is, and I'm who are you looking at for?
Speaker 36: If you right now, I know that I'm looking right
Speaker 36: at you two, we're together a l A.
Speaker 1: Knight, all right.
Speaker 36: So my question, of course, tell me is that if
Speaker 36: Logan Paul, Logan Paul doesn't come back for a rematch
Speaker 36: right away, who's the next guy that you see on
Speaker 36: the entire w W roster that L. A. Knight would
Speaker 36: deem a worthy challenger for that United States heavyweight.
Speaker 6: I just won the damn thing.
Speaker 14: I know that at this point. Look, you gotta ask
Speaker 14: the guy who's gonna challenge me.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 33: Uh, Look, there's a whole myriad. We've never been in
Speaker 33: a boom period like this. Everybody across the board, from
Speaker 33: top to bottom is bringing it right now. Everybody is
Speaker 33: killing the game right now. So there's anybody who could
Speaker 33: come along and want to challenge me for this. But look,
Speaker 33: you gotta understand something. This has been, like you said,
Speaker 33: long time coming, long long time coming, and there's no
Speaker 33: way I'm letting go of this anytime soon.
Speaker 14: Everybody come on and see me.
Speaker 6: L A.
Speaker 28: Congratulations on becoming du That's it. You knew United States Champion.
Speaker 28: I'm just gonna hang out. We got some more questions.
Speaker 10: No, I'm kidding, not gonna get the hell out of here.
Speaker 10: Put your hands out.
Speaker 9: Huh oh.
Speaker 2: It's a long time coming for La and Night our
Speaker 2: new United States Champion.
Speaker 1: More to come here.
Speaker 2: On the Summer Slam post showscluding Paul Triple, Ah Levk,
Speaker 2: bron Breaker, and the American Nightmare. Cody Rogue, who retains
Speaker 2: his undistreted WWE Championship after the Tribal Chief Roman reigns
Speaker 2: himself shows up. He can't wait to hear what Cody
Speaker 2: has to say. He's coming up next.
Speaker 24: Don't go anywhere?
Speaker 16: Yeah right, yeah, how'll that?
Speaker 37: Few roads we travel in life are straight. The journey
Speaker 37: lies in how we navigate the turns and forge the
Speaker 37: paths before us. The path the WrestleMania of forty has
Speaker 37: had more curves and corners than anyone imagined. At the
Speaker 37: helm of this multimillion dollar venture is WWE Head of
Speaker 37: Creative Paul Levac.
Speaker 8: That man tremble As is a fourteen time world champion.
Speaker 13: The guy at the top has been there, He's been
Speaker 13: to the top, knows what it takes and has an
Speaker 13: open mind. I look at creative like a GPS, right.
Speaker 13: I put in the destination and if you do that,
Speaker 13: then the GPS just tells you the turns to take
Speaker 13: along the way. But you know what your north star is.
Speaker 37: For Cody Rhoads, the journey starts in his home state
Speaker 37: of Georgia. For nearly two years, Rhodes has made it
Speaker 37: his mission to win the WWE Championship, a promise he
Speaker 37: may do his father, the late great Dusty Roads.
Speaker 38: I'm going to give the distinction that my family has
Speaker 38: long since been denied, and I am going to do
Speaker 38: it for the American dream.
Speaker 9: Dusty Roads.
Speaker 4: Well, Cody Roads to finished the story.
Speaker 13: A year ago.
Speaker 37: Cody took on the head of the table the undisputed
Speaker 37: WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns for the title at WrestleMania
Speaker 37: thirty nine.
Speaker 16: No It's bad.
Speaker 13: Moment the referees hand hit three.
Speaker 12: At WrestleMania thirty nine, Roman Reign successfully defended the title.
Speaker 13: The audience was clamoring for the rematch.
Speaker 37: Despite the loss, Cody remained focused on finishing his story.
Speaker 39: I've spent an entire two years fixated on the title
Speaker 39: that Roman has. People kept saying, you know finish the story.
Speaker 39: I was saying, finish the story, but there's plenty of
Speaker 39: things that could stop me. You don't always get the
Speaker 39: fairytale ending, as we already found out, but we're still
Speaker 39: gonna try.
Speaker 13: The intent was, do you give Cody a hot year, Right's.
Speaker 40: To the top?
Speaker 4: They understoot it Tag Team Champions.
Speaker 13: And we get to WrestleMania forty with Cody Rose versus
Speaker 13: Roman Rains. We had that story and that match planned out,
Speaker 13: but there was another story, a blockbuster story. We had
Speaker 13: been talking about it for years, just a matter of
Speaker 13: finding the right opportunity and which to tell it. Roman
Speaker 13: Reigns and The Rock.
Speaker 41: We had an opportunity to create another main event in
Speaker 41: The Rock and Roman Reigns, something that fans have been
Speaker 41: waiting for for years, something that we have been building
Speaker 41: to adjacently quietly four years.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2: This SummerSlam press conference is presented by.
Speaker 1: Mike's Harder Lemonade.
Speaker 2: Hard days deserve a heart lemonade, But when you've had
Speaker 2: a really hard day, like some of these w w
Speaker 2: SER stars in the ring, a lemonade that hits harder,
Speaker 2: you need to fte Harder Lemonade. Well, this has certainly
Speaker 2: been one epic Summer Slam here in Cleveland, oh Ohio,
Speaker 2: and it ended with the American Nightmare, Cody Roads retaining
Speaker 2: his undisputed w w E championship after Roman Rage showed
Speaker 2: up with a Superman plunch and a spear for one
Speaker 2: solo socoa.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what he has to say. He is running
Speaker 1: us now live at the podium.
Speaker 24: I need.
Speaker 4: Hello, Welcome Cody, head to the front row for your
Speaker 4: first question.
Speaker 42: Hi, Cody Hailey Miller with Comic Book. So, you mentioned
Speaker 42: that this was Pharaoh's last ride with you, and I'm
Speaker 42: just wondering, like, how important has it been to half
Speaker 42: him as part of this journey with you and on
Speaker 42: this ride.
Speaker 13: That's a hard one right now.
Speaker 38: Okay, you know Pharaoh's Pharaoh's thirteen years old. For those
Speaker 38: who who don't know, Pharaoh's my husky. He's my dog.
Speaker 25: He's thirteen years old.
Speaker 6: The idea, isn't it.
Speaker 38: He's thriving, he's doing great, but the pack is at
Speaker 38: home now and he's more Libby's dog than he is
Speaker 38: my dog anymore.
Speaker 14: But something about Pharaoh that.
Speaker 38: Some people know this, but anytime I've had like you know,
Speaker 38: highs and lows, and particularly the lows in my life,
Speaker 38: I'm not always the easiest to reach. And man, I
Speaker 38: remember one time I just set outside when I had
Speaker 38: a home in Dallas, and I just couldn't go inside.
Speaker 38: I couldn't function, I couldn't think, and that dog set
Speaker 38: with me from I don't know ten pm to four am.
Speaker 38: He just never moved. You know, people who have dogs,
Speaker 38: they get it right. He's really man's best friend, and
Speaker 38: I don't want to keep dragging him on the road
Speaker 38: if he just wants to be home. So we had
Speaker 38: a fun, fun time here, lots of treats. The bus
Speaker 38: driving crew clearly giving him food they shouldn't. But I
Speaker 38: was happy that I got to take that that walk
Speaker 38: with him. And you know, my other my other dog,
Speaker 38: Yetti Pinkerton, is just a jobber, just an He's an
Speaker 38: enhancement dog. But now it's now it's his time to
Speaker 38: step up and I love him, and uh, you know,
Speaker 38: so it's really nice. I thank WW for Yeah, it's
Speaker 38: a pretty ridiculous ask. Yeah, I have my dog here, Okay,
Speaker 38: no problem. So it was very kind of WW to do.
Speaker 38: I really appreciated it.
Speaker 43: Hi, Cody, Hey, how are you, Chris to be with
Speaker 43: those wrestling girls. First off, congratulations on your win.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 43: What was your thoughts about going into a Bloodline's Rules match. No,
Speaker 43: you just had when I wrestle in your forty and
Speaker 43: then having Roman Reigns come and give you the assist
Speaker 43: against Sola Soka.
Speaker 38: I actually think Bloodline Rules as a match is my match.
Speaker 38: We've had two of them and I've won them both,
Speaker 38: and it's not supposed to be for me, and I
Speaker 38: don't think I have the authority to call for one
Speaker 38: by any means, but I have one in both, and
Speaker 38: it's a situation. Like I said on SmackDown, it's a
Speaker 38: dumb decision. It's not the smartest thing to jump into that,
Speaker 38: but it's the only decision I know how to make.
Speaker 38: As the type of you know person that I have
Speaker 38: been groomed to be here at WW I can't say no,
Speaker 38: and I don't want to fill the room with positive
Speaker 38: platitudes and hot air about you know, the real tribal
Speaker 38: chief Roman Reigns returning. But without a doubt, that probably
Speaker 38: would have gone a different way. I probably wouldn't be
Speaker 38: sitting here with the north star of the industry had
Speaker 38: it not been for Roman reigns, so he's certainly I've
Speaker 38: got quite a list of people.
Speaker 13: Who I owe one.
Speaker 38: I might owe him more than one. And again, no
Speaker 38: love lost. That's as much a shoot as it gets.
Speaker 38: There's a unique relationship I suppose haven't seen or spoken
Speaker 38: since WrestleMania. I think the WWE fans, wrestling fans, ww universe,
Speaker 38: they wanted him, and SummerSlam delivered and gave him, and
Speaker 38: that I'm always very happy about.
Speaker 25: Hey Cody, Hey, Chris family within.
Speaker 38: Yeah, let me tell you something, Chris. The other day,
Speaker 38: I did it. You all should hear this, Gabby, you've
Speaker 38: heard this. I'm terrified of doing media guys, because I
Speaker 38: did an interview with Chris that I thought was a
Speaker 38: home run. I just, oh, man, I killed it. Didn't
Speaker 38: say anything dumb. That's a big thing. I didn't say
Speaker 38: anything dumb. I didn't whatever. Found out on social media
Speaker 38: that it was not the best interview and a lot
Speaker 38: of people were really upset. So if you wonder why
Speaker 38: certain wrestlers have become gun shy about doing interviews and stuff,
Speaker 38: it's just because it's terrifying.
Speaker 6: I know you do.
Speaker 14: You have a question now, because I'm sorry no, I enjoyed.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed, I did, and thank.
Speaker 13: You for it.
Speaker 6: That well, yeah, oh boy.
Speaker 13: There we go again.
Speaker 25: That last crossroads you gave tonight to Solo felt like
Speaker 25: it was delivered with a purpose. You're staring at Roman
Speaker 25: as you're doing it. Where do things go from here?
Speaker 25: With Roman and with that championship?
Speaker 38: Well, you're a wrestling fan, where do you think they go?
Speaker 13: Hey, so you're leaving.
Speaker 38: See she's gone, She's gone, and she's gone. Listen, this
Speaker 38: current ww landscape, you can't call it. We just had
Speaker 38: a behind the scenes documentary on how the best laid
Speaker 38: plans can just go to hell in one moment, because
Speaker 38: it's just a kind of controlled chaos where these beautiful
Speaker 38: things happen. I don't know in terms of certainly Roman
Speaker 38: reigns is entitled to not just a rematch. I mean,
Speaker 38: Roman reins held this title for so long that match
Speaker 38: it has to happen. And it's one of those where,
Speaker 38: to a degree, it's it's rather you know, you're not
Speaker 38: supposed to say this when you're a baby face, but
Speaker 38: it's rather scary. The idea I've been in there twice
Speaker 38: with him and Brother hits hard. So the idea of
Speaker 38: that is there to do? You know, I don't know
Speaker 38: if anyone saw, but I was tapping the title like
Speaker 38: this because I know there's a third one somewhere, some somewhere.
Speaker 13: Down the line.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 38: I'm not his friend. He didn't do that for me.
Speaker 38: He did that because of what's happened with the Bloodline
Speaker 38: and Solo. I think that's something to stay tuned for,
Speaker 38: probably on SmackDown in a sense of what happens with
Speaker 38: the bloodline. The blood line has been the anchor of
Speaker 38: WW for some time, and what happens next, not just
Speaker 38: with Solo, not just with Roman, but Jacob Fatu, who
Speaker 38: is as we all can see, there's something unbelievable. I
Speaker 38: don't have to like them to tell you that there's
Speaker 38: something special there. But there's a lot of match options
Speaker 38: that are in front of us, and that's for the
Speaker 38: man who's going to be up here next to kind
Speaker 38: of decide what happens next. I'm always ready. Last question,
Speaker 38: Oh come on, Byron, they tell me this.
Speaker 20: Stuff hopefully strong. Adrian Hernandez of Unlikely Cody and your entrance.
Speaker 20: Before you went out, you got to have a discussion
Speaker 20: of pep talk with Arn Anderson. How did that feel
Speaker 20: and how'd that come to be?
Speaker 16: For people who.
Speaker 38: Followed just the general story and the road I've been on,
Speaker 38: Arn is a huge part of it. I had made
Speaker 38: that decision when I was with AW. I had made
Speaker 38: the decision that, hey, I can't have my dad for
Speaker 38: this stuff. He's not here physically. I want someone who
Speaker 38: was with him. And they could have even been They
Speaker 38: didn't have to be an ally, they could have been
Speaker 38: an adversary. He came in and he was such a
Speaker 38: piece of sanity for me during a really chaotic time.
Speaker 38: And just Arn is one of the smartest people you'll
Speaker 38: meet in pro wrestling and sports entertainment. But he's also
Speaker 38: so ahead of the curb and since like, hey, I
Speaker 38: see where this is going, I get a feel for
Speaker 38: what the business evolves. Like all sports, the business evolves,
Speaker 38: and and Arn has always been able to be there
Speaker 38: for me. It was just special to have a moment
Speaker 38: with him, particularly one where he wasn't threatening to shoot
Speaker 38: me or something of that nature. Uh it was It
Speaker 38: was nice because he means He means a great deal
Speaker 38: to me. I hope we see more of double A
Speaker 38: and and something that this is. This is an internal thing.
Speaker 38: It's inside baseball. If I get in trouble for sharing this,
Speaker 38: I apologize. But something that w B did today that
Speaker 38: I thought was incredible. I've never seen this before was
Speaker 38: all the wrestlers got a text, all of us Byron.
Speaker 38: You got it, We all got it about the legends
Speaker 38: that were going to be here tonight, and not just hey,
Speaker 38: the legends are be here tonight. Go say hello, go
Speaker 38: say thank you. There was a one shooter with each
Speaker 38: of their pictures in a biography, because you know, we
Speaker 38: got a lot of young guns, Tiffany Stratton for example.
Speaker 38: They may not know everybody probably does. But just the
Speaker 38: idea that the legends are going to be treated that
Speaker 38: way here as ww's entered its greatest era ever. Really
Speaker 38: hats off to Crystal Gentle, Matt Altman, Nick con Triple
Speaker 38: H Bruce, whoever came up with it. I thought it
Speaker 38: was a really brilliant thing. Again, back to arn, I
Speaker 38: hope we see more of them, and I hope he's
Speaker 38: next to me.
Speaker 10: Let's do one more Byron, one more?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, to the second row.
Speaker 44: Hey, Gody Gurviyer Bra from TMT Sports.
Speaker 6: So it's a little long.
Speaker 44: Winded, but Oh yes, I've seen you go from like
Speaker 44: Ted Reeves Arena in Mississauga, Ontario, to now headlining stadiums
Speaker 44: at WrestleMania now here. You've always wanted to be the quarterback.
Speaker 44: You've always talked about how you want the ball, and
Speaker 44: now it's a time when you're basically the return of
Speaker 44: Roman reigns and it feels like.
Speaker 10: It's the biggest thing that just happened.
Speaker 44: Sure, where's your head as far as what this next
Speaker 44: challenge is? Because you finished the story, But what's this
Speaker 44: next new opportunity to look like?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 38: It's a great question and a couple people have kind
Speaker 38: of asked it behind the scenes in terms of what
Speaker 38: does that look like? There can't be you know two right,
Speaker 38: And you mentioned the journey I've been on. Cleveland specific
Speaker 38: is where Stardust started. So I said it earlier. An
Speaker 38: enhancement guy is now standing here, the guy with Roman's return.
Speaker 38: I would say the same thing I said going to
Speaker 38: WrestleMania last year and maybe a backfired. I'm not flinching,
Speaker 38: not one bit, and I think he isn't either. And
Speaker 38: that's what again, WW is in the stadium business.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 38: God bless you guys for making making that a real thing.
Speaker 38: That's great for that stadium business because it's a good
Speaker 38: problem to have. And that's a great question, and I
Speaker 38: want how he feels about it, but not flinching.
Speaker 28: Cody, thank you so much for your time and congratulations
Speaker 28: on retaining the undisputed WWE Championship.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Greg.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Cody Road, who is still our undisputed WWE Champion.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned a few times.
Speaker 2: Four titles changed hands tonight, including the Intercontinental Championship and
Speaker 2: walking on set right now, I can see him in
Speaker 2: my boat roll.
Speaker 1: You can hear the crab doing the thing.
Speaker 2: Braun Breaker joins us now on set with a little
Speaker 2: gold over the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Braun Congratulations.
Speaker 2: What's the first hour or so been like carrying that
Speaker 2: title around?
Speaker 4: It's been it's been a bit surreal.
Speaker 45: I mean, it's it's been crazy, crazy, undescribable.
Speaker 5: We saw the shot earlier of your dad and your
Speaker 5: uncle in this in the Legend suite taking it in
Speaker 5: and you could see how emotional they were. Have you
Speaker 5: had a conversation yet? What was that conversation like with
Speaker 5: the Legends.
Speaker 45: Yeah, I went up to their booth and gave them
Speaker 45: both the hug and just you know, they both told
Speaker 45: me they loved me.
Speaker 4: And it was it was just it.
Speaker 45: Was cool, man, this wholesome moment like that. And I'll
Speaker 45: remember that stuff forever, you know what I mean. That's uh,
Speaker 45: that's cool stuff.
Speaker 6: Cool bron I.
Speaker 7: I read an interview you did, I think a couple
Speaker 7: of days ago. Wait, you said tonight, it's somemma slam.
Speaker 7: We were gonna find out full yourself if you are
Speaker 7: a main event level guy or if you're just another guy.
Speaker 7: Now most of us already knew the answer. Have you
Speaker 7: found out that answer for yourself?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: I think I proved that.
Speaker 45: Tonight what the answer was. All yeah, I belong in
Speaker 45: that position. And then it's just a beginning. We're just
Speaker 45: getting started.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 45: Man, I've uh, I've only been up here a few months.
Speaker 45: So we got we got a long roade ahead of us. Man,
Speaker 45: we got so many years ahead to have so much
Speaker 45: fun and chick a lot of ass along the way.
Speaker 45: So I'm I'm enjoying tonight, and you know, we'll move forward.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, you're you're clearly a physical freak. We've talked about
Speaker 3: the numbers. We know your lineage, what your dad and
Speaker 3: your uncle have done. But we've had the opportunity, you know,
Speaker 3: we had Big twelve media Day. Recently, you've had other opportunities.
Speaker 3: I even remember doing a meet and greet with you
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and I've always been impressed,
Speaker 3: even with your lineage, even with your stats, the way
Speaker 3: you carry yourself, I consider you a sponge. You're someone
Speaker 3: who was always looking to learn. You're always trying to like,
Speaker 3: how can I get better? And that is one of
Speaker 3: the things that I am really impressed with. Apparently I
Speaker 3: don't have a question. I'm just gonna have his praise
Speaker 3: on you. But no, man, I think if you stay
Speaker 3: on this track, if you stay a sponge and you
Speaker 3: keep that humility about you, the sky is truly the limit.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Anyway, have you have you noticed, like I remember we
Speaker 5: talked a while back when things were getting started, you
Speaker 5: had you had such an epic run in NXT, right,
Speaker 5: and then you get up here, and this happens sometimes
Speaker 5: to new superstars.
Speaker 4: At first, you're not sure where it's gonna go.
Speaker 5: Did you feel that you got to another gear recently
Speaker 5: in the last couple of months, did you sense that
Speaker 5: there was a difference.
Speaker 45: Yeah, I mean I think you know, everybody can feel
Speaker 45: that there's a difference. You know, it's it's my Time's
Speaker 45: it's time for brown Breaker.
Speaker 4: It's time for the dogs, you know.
Speaker 45: And I know how big this opportunity is and what's
Speaker 45: at stake, and I know how important particularly tonight was
Speaker 45: as a turning point in my career.
Speaker 6: Like you said, it's either.
Speaker 45: I was gonna go one way or I was gonna
Speaker 45: go another. Right, I was gonna be either guy that's
Speaker 45: gonna be successful in the main event, is gonna prove
Speaker 45: himself here to be, you know, in the top top
Speaker 45: guy discussion, or you know, I'm just gonna be another guy.
Speaker 45: So I think I proved tonight beating Sammy's am becoming
Speaker 45: the new intercontinental champion that you know I'm here to stay.
Speaker 10: And I'm gonna be a dominant and.
Speaker 13: Big player here.
Speaker 1: Well you're here now you are a champion.
Speaker 2: What can we expect from braun Breaker as intercontinental champ
Speaker 2: had a champion going to be.
Speaker 1: Intense.
Speaker 45: You know, I'm gonna carry this championship with with the
Speaker 45: most prestige and honor that I can hold it to
Speaker 45: the highest standard in the highest level.
Speaker 14: That's that we can do it on Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm.
Speaker 45: Hoping to elevate this championship along with myself along the way.
Speaker 4: And I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 45: And I I can't wait too to get to work,
Speaker 45: challenge myself and and put myself up against the best
Speaker 45: and defend this championship, you know, this prestigious title that's
Speaker 45: had so much history and so many great champions And
Speaker 45: you know, I think I think we all should, you know,
Speaker 45: pay our respects and and and big shout out to
Speaker 45: Sammy's a in here today.
Speaker 13: Sammy's ain.
Speaker 45: You know, I've said it before, I've said it during
Speaker 45: this this period of time that I've had with Sammy
Speaker 45: that you know, Sammy is has been on top for
Speaker 45: quite some time. He's may have been in WrestleMania, He's
Speaker 45: he's had the Continental Championship, multiple times, World Tag Team Champion.
Speaker 4: You know, he's had a Hall of Fame career. There's
Speaker 4: no doubt he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 4: one day, right, you know.
Speaker 45: And then he he gave me an opportunity at the
Speaker 45: Intercontinental Championship.
Speaker 4: When I was, you know, a new kid. You know
Speaker 4: what I mean, No one really, no one really.
Speaker 45: Know like what I was capable of or what I
Speaker 45: was going to do up here or any of that.
Speaker 45: So you know, he he gave me an opportunity. He
Speaker 45: gave me a chance at the Intercontinental Championship, and I
Speaker 45: think we all have to really respect that.
Speaker 1: And you know, well well said by you, very very
Speaker 1: well said.
Speaker 2: Congratulations again on becoming the Intercontinental Champion. I remember when
Speaker 2: you showed up on Raw you were demanding opportunity from
Speaker 2: Adam Pearson. You have certainly made the most of it.
Speaker 2: So congratulations and thank you for doing this.
Speaker 14: Than you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, I've mentioned it a few times. Four titles,
Speaker 1: including this.
Speaker 2: Intercontinental Championship, changed hands tonight. We also had two massive
Speaker 2: betrayals within the judgment day.
Speaker 1: It is a shifting landscape with that. Let's hear from Paul.
Speaker 13: Hey, how's it going. Thank you guys all for being here.
Speaker 13: As usually, I want to thank all of the media
Speaker 13: here for being here tonight. I would like to thank
Speaker 13: all our sponsors. We had a record sponsorship revenue for
Speaker 13: this and our partners are one very important to us
Speaker 13: allow us to do so much stuff. But it also
Speaker 13: our partnerships with our with these groups, Mike's Harder Wingstop,
Speaker 13: Primes is a whole bunch of others. But they're coming
Speaker 13: in and they're staying with us longer, which is wonderful
Speaker 13: for us because it makes it feel like they're a
Speaker 13: part of what we do and not just in for
Speaker 13: a one off, So very important to thank them. I
Speaker 13: want to thank Cleveland Brown Stadium and Rocket Mortgage field
Speaker 13: House for their hospitality and just being incredible partners in this.
Speaker 13: I also want to thank the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission.
Speaker 13: We didn't just worked this show was so big. We
Speaker 13: didn't just work with a regular Cleveland Sports Commission. We
Speaker 13: worked with the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, which is greater
Speaker 13: than the regular one as you might imagine, and they
Speaker 13: did a great job, so spectacular. Mostly want to thank fans.
Speaker 13: You know, sometimes when you do these events, you do
Speaker 13: these massive events, and you're looking at where you're going
Speaker 13: and you say to somebody, oh, that's going to be
Speaker 13: in Cleveland. It's not a normal stop for us along
Speaker 13: the way or one of the biggest stops along the way,
Speaker 13: But man, did they show up. So I have the
Speaker 13: thing Miz for inviting us into his house. But the
Speaker 13: fans here were crazy from yesterday the kickoff show, just
Speaker 13: thousands of people showing up to today all through the
Speaker 13: countdown show. It was hot, but they were there, they
Speaker 13: were excited, they were fun. And then you know, fifty
Speaker 13: seven seven and ninety one in attendance here tonight. Just
Speaker 13: to wrap up an incredible weekend, we set records across
Speaker 13: the board for SummerSlam in gate, sponsorship, merchandise, social media,
Speaker 13: and I think what's really cool about that is we
Speaker 13: are now coming up against our own records that we
Speaker 13: smashed last year and set last year, and we're coming
Speaker 13: up against those records now and crushing those records as
Speaker 13: we've moved forward. So I'm very excited about that. Shut
Speaker 13: thought the show was spectacular. One last thing I want
Speaker 13: to thank is thank MGK for being here and being
Speaker 13: in the show and walking Logan into the ring. And
Speaker 13: also have to thank Jelly Role just for lending us
Speaker 13: his incredible voice with an amazing rendition of God Bless
Speaker 13: America coming out and playing Lire and just then transforming
Speaker 13: to the largest child of all time and living out
Speaker 13: a childhood fantasy of choke slamming Austin theory, which who
Speaker 13: hasn't dreamt of choke slamming Austin theory at some point
Speaker 13: and then delivering what I thought was one of the
Speaker 13: coolest I guess it would be a fifteen knuckle shuffle
Speaker 13: with MZ and our truth. So when you get to
Speaker 13: work with artists outside of what we do, but they're
Speaker 13: so massively invested in what we do and fans of
Speaker 13: what we do, where they are like little kids just
Speaker 13: having a fantasy moment, it's the greatest thing of all
Speaker 13: time because we're all fans of theirs and vice versa,
Speaker 13: and it makes for the best experience where everybody just
Speaker 13: wants to have fun. Everybody just wants to come here
Speaker 13: have a good time, and really that's what it's all about.
Speaker 13: So thank you to Jelly Roll for first participation here.
Speaker 13: Whole week of events here, from Sammy's comedy show to
Speaker 13: Priests twenty four documentary, the premiere of That Undertaker's One
Speaker 13: Dead Man Show to SmackDown last night. Just an amazing
Speaker 13: week here, and so thank you to everybody for being
Speaker 13: a part of it. I thought the show from start
Speaker 13: to finish was incredible. Tonight you just heard bron Breaker
Speaker 13: talking about winning the Intercontinental Championship and thanking sammy' zaying,
Speaker 13: which I think needs to be done. Sammy is just
Speaker 13: one of those just his money. He's constant. He's just
Speaker 13: always there, always steady, you know, he's always going to deliver.
Speaker 13: I can't thank him enough. And I think we watched
Speaker 13: the star be born tonight in bron Breaker. I think
Speaker 13: a lot of people knew where his what his trajectory was,
Speaker 13: and where he was headed. But I think he closed
Speaker 13: that deal out tonight and I think there's a new
Speaker 13: star on the horizon here with bron Breaker. So congratulations
Speaker 13: to him as the new Intercontinental Champion. Logan Paul in
Speaker 13: La Night La said it here a little bit ago,
Speaker 13: just long time coming. So happy for him, you know,
Speaker 13: at a point where he had a long career and
Speaker 13: then sort of even got to the end of that
Speaker 13: career and it seemed like it was over to get
Speaker 13: that opportunity to to not have given up at that point,
Speaker 13: to just grab the bull by the horns at that
Speaker 13: point and just take his career in his hands and
Speaker 13: just run with it. Incredibly happy for him, and then
Speaker 13: Logan Paul just continues to amaze me from his performance,
Speaker 13: just doing stuff. I mean, I just don't even know.
Speaker 13: I don't even know if I've ever seen anybody do
Speaker 13: that back whatever you want to call that. There's too
Speaker 13: many flip names out there for me to figure out
Speaker 13: what they all are. But he's incredible and his work
Speaker 13: ethic is off the chart, and I can tell you
Speaker 13: that as a performer. My respect for him now is
Speaker 13: in a different place because he's gotten to a place
Speaker 13: where now he doesn't want to just have a good match.
Speaker 13: He wants to be great at this long term, and
Speaker 13: he's putting in the time, he's putting in the effort,
Speaker 13: he's dedicating himself to it. He's kind of stopped a
Speaker 13: lot of other He's not boxing, he's not right. He
Speaker 13: just wants to be a WWE's superstar. He wants to
Speaker 13: be great at this and he wants to be the best,
Speaker 13: and he's dedicating itself himself to it. So that's awesome
Speaker 13: to see Bailey and Nya, much like Sammy's Ain. Bailey
Speaker 13: just that constant. You know, she's always going to deliver it.
Speaker 13: That's just how great she is. Sometimes she gets overlooked
Speaker 13: for it, but she's just always on, always, and it's
Speaker 13: great to see Nya Jacks to me, and what was
Speaker 13: a really special moment both the Queen of the Ring
Speaker 13: and tonight, First of all, her first Summer Slam she
Speaker 13: ever competed in. Second of all, becoming champion tonight in
Speaker 13: a period of time where I think when she first
Speaker 13: came back, there's a lot of people doubted her, like
Speaker 13: why why are we bring an eye back?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 13: You know, just a lot of questions about her dedication
Speaker 13: or ability, whatever that is. And I think she's, at
Speaker 13: least to me, she's proven everybody wrong. She's proven that
Speaker 13: she belongs, she's proven that she wants it, She's proven
Speaker 13: that she's really good at this, and I'm really happy
Speaker 13: for her to have that success and have that to
Speaker 13: have this second chance kind of at this whole thing.
Speaker 13: And I can just she's having a blast doing it,
Speaker 13: which is the coolest part of it for me. She's
Speaker 13: really enjoying herself. Live Morgan and Rhea I thought was
Speaker 13: off the chart. Good Live Morgan has just come into
Speaker 13: her own as this incredible performer. Riha Ripley to me,
Speaker 13: coming off of a fairly big injury, coming back not
Speaker 13: missing a beat. Yeah, I be honest with you, as
Speaker 13: much as there's a lot of people out there saying, man,
Speaker 13: I'd like to be dumb, I wouldn't want to be
Speaker 13: dumb because it's I'm an this is gonna not it's
Speaker 13: not going to go well. There's a lot of ass
Speaker 13: kickings coming for don. I got a feeling see him Punk,
Speaker 13: Drew McIntyre, Seth Rollins. I thought it was a masterpiece.
Speaker 13: Just what a story, the moments all the way through.
Speaker 13: You know, when you when you really break it down
Speaker 13: and you think, like so much drama and tension and
Speaker 13: just how good it all was based on a what
Speaker 13: a one dollar or fifty cent bracelet? Right like, that's
Speaker 13: part of that storetelling. The storytelling was epic off the chart.
Speaker 13: You know. A lot has been said about Punk's return.
Speaker 13: I'm thrilled for him as a as a human being.
Speaker 13: I'm thrilled for him to have the opportunity to do
Speaker 13: this late in his career and sort of put everything right.
Speaker 13: And for most with most people, you're never going to
Speaker 13: put anything right. So I don't mean that in people's opinions.
Speaker 13: I mean that in his opinion, in his life and
Speaker 13: his journey through this to to to make it right
Speaker 13: and to have this opportunity for him, so I was
Speaker 13: so excited for him to you know, when he came
Speaker 13: back and he got injured, man, it was it's kind
Speaker 13: of a downer. We've been able to tell this story
Speaker 13: all through this and keep it hot, and for him
Speaker 13: to be able to come back tonight and deliver like that,
Speaker 13: just incredibly happy for him. Drew McIntyre just incredibly happy
Speaker 13: with everything he's doing. He's just he's just on fire
Speaker 13: right now. Priest and Gunther. Tough to find a more
Speaker 13: deserving guy right now than Gunther. He's just on He's
Speaker 13: playing on a different level than a lot of people
Speaker 13: with his own style, and he's very unique what he
Speaker 13: brings to the table. So like he's in the spot
Speaker 13: he's supposed to be in. And then Damian Priest I
Speaker 13: said this to him after the match. When he became
Speaker 13: world champion, a lot of people doubted it. A lot
Speaker 13: of people doubted him, and I think over this period
Speaker 13: of time since WrestleMania, he has proved them all wrong.
Speaker 13: He walked in as a guy like they put the
Speaker 13: world title on him, and he walked out as world champion,
Speaker 13: like really as world champion. That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 13: My hat's off to him because that's a hard road.
Speaker 13: It's a hard road and a lot of pressure and
Speaker 13: coming off all the things that he's been through in
Speaker 13: his life to be where he is right now. Thrilled
Speaker 13: for him, and then Cody and Solo. Then Cody said it,
Speaker 13: you know, Solo, imagine being a guy a very short
Speaker 13: period of time in the business, gets an opportunity to
Speaker 13: come up here, stand next to the biggest star in
Speaker 13: the business in Roman Reigns, and be a part of
Speaker 13: the biggest storyline. And then Roman goes away and they're like,
Speaker 13: when you're going to take his spot and all these
Speaker 13: guys are going to be in that spot with you,
Speaker 13: the hottest thing in the business. You're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 13: sort of replicate that and that's the new story. Like,
Speaker 13: imagine that pressure. Thrilled for him. What an incredible accomplishment
Speaker 13: they've all been able to do that whole group, especially Solo,
Speaker 13: And then I have to mention Jacob fought too, because
Speaker 13: he's like a force of nature and it's amazing to
Speaker 13: see him. Unfortunately, got a little bit banged up on
Speaker 13: that in that last match, So hopefully the don't two
Speaker 13: real Logan's a little banged up, as he should be,
Speaker 13: and Jacob's a little banged up. I'll see where that
Speaker 13: net's out here in a little bit. Hopefully nothing serious,
Speaker 13: but it was bugging him a little bit the leg,
Speaker 13: So we'll see where he is before I open it
Speaker 13: into questions. One last thing I just wanted to say
Speaker 13: is I'm as thrilled as I am where this where
Speaker 13: we are in the first half of this year. I'm
Speaker 13: excited where we are going in the second half of
Speaker 13: this year. You know, Nick and I had a very
Speaker 13: very specific agenda and how we wanted to approach this
Speaker 13: year and the way we wanted it to roll out.
Speaker 13: And I think you've seen that in all the international
Speaker 13: events we've done, on the size of these events and
Speaker 13: where they're located and how we've done them. But the
Speaker 13: second half of this year Bash in Berlin August thirty, first,
Speaker 13: Bad Blood October five from Atlanta. You've got Crown Jewel
Speaker 13: with our partner Turkey Alisk in Saudi on November two,
Speaker 13: which he's an amazing partner. Here for the Terrence Crawford
Speaker 13: fight right now, which is probably taking place shortly which
Speaker 13: Terrence is a huge wwfan. And just had a childhood
Speaker 13: moment himself, much like Jelly Roll just a few a
Speaker 13: week or so ago. And then of course Survivor Series
Speaker 13: War Games, which we just announced on November thirtieth from Vancouver.
Speaker 13: So this year is going to close out big. I'm
Speaker 13: excited for all of it, and I just the future
Speaker 13: is bright. These talent. This is the most amazing roster
Speaker 13: I think I've seen, most talented, most dedicated. Everybody's having
Speaker 13: a blast right now, including me, which is the best
Speaker 13: part of it. And we're all just charging ahead. So
Speaker 13: if what I believe to be true coming is true,
Speaker 13: you ain't see nothing yet, so that I'll open it up.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 13: We will kick things off in the second row.
Speaker 32: When it comes to the direction of creative, that responsibility
Speaker 32: belongs to you. So much of what you accomplished in
Speaker 32: that role in NXT, especially with that big match takeover
Speaker 32: field is on display in WWE. For me, it's the
Speaker 32: bill to Knockamora's debut. I think it was twenty sixteen.
Speaker 32: You talk about sammy' zain, but were there are key
Speaker 32: moments to help shape your vision as head of creative
Speaker 32: while you were at NXC.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, so many moments. Right. It's funny, I
Speaker 13: don't necessarily always look at it as like what moments
Speaker 13: did we create that shape the vision of what went
Speaker 13: what didn't. I sort of always approached this, just what
Speaker 13: do I want to see? Luckily for me, I think
Speaker 13: you've heard Sean say this as well. We approached this
Speaker 13: like fans, right, We approached this. I'm a kid sitting
Speaker 13: on the couch. How would I make this the biggest
Speaker 13: thing I've ever seen? And I was fortunate in my
Speaker 13: career that kid was fortunate in his career to sit
Speaker 13: next to some of the greatest minds in this business.
Speaker 13: So you know, I sat next to them and absorbed it,
Speaker 13: and you know, paid attention to all of it, whether
Speaker 13: it was you know, the guys I was in the
Speaker 13: ring with on my side opposite side of the ring
Speaker 13: for me, or the people like Dusty that I got
Speaker 13: to go and create with an NXT and create a
Speaker 13: lot of those incredible moments and along the way learn
Speaker 13: from those successes. But I think I also learned, you know,
Speaker 13: as much in those failures. You know, as much as
Speaker 13: the Internet likes to point out failures, the people that
Speaker 13: point them out to the most are the people creating them.
Speaker 13: We're the most aware of them, and they're the things
Speaker 13: that keep us up at night. So the things that
Speaker 13: you honestly, I don't believe in them being failures. I
Speaker 13: believe in them being opportunities to learn. So the things
Speaker 13: that work there I learned from. But the things that
Speaker 13: didn't work there, I really learned from the things when
Speaker 13: I was here that I watched that I thought that
Speaker 13: didn't work. Why how would I get there a different way?
Speaker 13: What would I have done differently? That's how I approach it.
Speaker 13: I think it's how Sean approaches it. I think that
Speaker 13: if you're a fan, great man once told me, put
Speaker 13: yourself in the seat, you'll never go wrong. If you
Speaker 13: can keep that mentality your whole career, then I think
Speaker 13: you're onto something. So that's how we approach it. If
Speaker 13: it's working, I'm.
Speaker 1: Happy Selseto Instinct culture.
Speaker 26: So, speaking speaking of NXT, I did wanted to ask
Speaker 26: because we're seeing this collaboration with TNA, and so I
Speaker 26: wanted to ask first and foremost why wwe decided to
Speaker 26: pursue a longer I guess you can say relationship here
Speaker 26: with TNA from what we've been seeing and also what
Speaker 26: we can expect from that, what the endgame is, what
Speaker 26: the fans can expect from that.
Speaker 13: So I think, as we've said before, we're open for business. Right,
Speaker 13: whether that's what you see in NXT with TNA, or
Speaker 13: whether that's different international opportunities. We're going to look at
Speaker 13: what's best for WWE. But how does that benefit us,
Speaker 13: How does it benefit them? How does it benefit us?
Speaker 13: You know, I think there's opportunities. As you look at NXT,
Speaker 13: a lot of those those kids are young, and what
Speaker 13: they really need is repetitions. They need opportunities to go do.
Speaker 13: We can only create so many of them. So when
Speaker 13: we have opportunities to partner with others help their business
Speaker 13: at the same time, you know, get them on a
Speaker 13: platform that is seen by so many more people, use
Speaker 13: the strength and the power of our brand across social
Speaker 13: media to help them. I think you'll see more of that, right.
Speaker 13: So when we have the opportunity to help them, while
Speaker 13: at the same point in time, getting the future of
Speaker 13: not just us, the future of this business, more opportunities
Speaker 13: and more reps to improve what they do as performers,
Speaker 13: to improve what they do on every aspect of what
Speaker 13: they go out day in and day out, and do
Speaker 13: you know the world is different now, There is no
Speaker 13: There aren't territories where you're out there working a couple
Speaker 13: hundred days a year, and I don't know that anybody
Speaker 13: would want to, but we all did it. But it's
Speaker 13: how everybody got where they got to and how they
Speaker 13: got good and how they learned this. So we have
Speaker 13: to create that and we have to give those opportunities
Speaker 13: to other people to grow and to have that because
Speaker 13: the only way they're going to learn how to do this,
Speaker 13: the only way you learn to go out there and
Speaker 13: feel that crowd and understand it and change what you're
Speaker 13: doing and have that dynamic. Could you plan it all
Speaker 13: you want in the back when you get out there,
Speaker 13: and that's where the magic happens. I don't care what
Speaker 13: anybody says. And those decisions that those in the moment,
Speaker 13: game day decisions that are made their live, your nuances,
Speaker 13: that's what makes this great. So it's reps. It's really reps,
Speaker 13: especially when you're just starting in the business. So I
Speaker 13: want them to have that. So when we can create
Speaker 13: those opportunities to me whoever that's with, I'm excited to
Speaker 13: do it. Thank you.
Speaker 46: Sean Ras Sappa fightful, We've seen Sure, We've seen Stephanie
Speaker 46: pop up a few more times.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I was excited about it.
Speaker 46: Does she have an official role with WDV now? And
Speaker 46: if not, do you think that she would be opposed
Speaker 46: to doing it again in the future or maybe resuming
Speaker 46: any prior roles.
Speaker 13: So she does not have an official role right now,
Speaker 13: But like I can tell you this, she loves this,
Speaker 13: absolutely loves it. Sometimes harder to love it and sometimes
Speaker 13: easy to love it. It's easy to love it again
Speaker 13: for her. She's enjoying watching it, you know, she's enjoying
Speaker 13: coming to the show. She's enjoying seeing everybody in the back.
Speaker 13: She loves it. So she's if I'm the little kid
Speaker 13: booking or writing or however you want to say it,
Speaker 13: sitting on his couch, But she's sitting there right next
Speaker 13: to me, a little kid enjoying it and loving it.
Speaker 13: And this is it's been her whole life since she
Speaker 13: was little. No official role right now, right now, her
Speaker 13: official roles, she's enjoying. Our kids get too old, too fast.
Speaker 13: But we'll see see what the future holds. Just I
Speaker 13: would expect to see her around because I think she
Speaker 13: just loves it and she's enjoying being around it again. Fine,
Speaker 13: a question.
Speaker 14: Bill After from sports Kida.
Speaker 13: Sorry, what was your name? Sir?
Speaker 6: Bill After?
Speaker 10: It doesn't matter what my name is.
Speaker 13: What was the last name as?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 13: Yes, good to see you, Yes, Sam.
Speaker 36: And this is wonderful because in the quote unquote territory days,
Speaker 36: we never had this, you know, we had to sneak
Speaker 36: around to find out what people are.
Speaker 13: I don't know. I feel like the journalism was the
Speaker 13: same thing. PWI. You guys just made up stories, right.
Speaker 36: No, that's a long story. We'll have a discussion about it.
Speaker 13: We'll have a discussion about it.
Speaker 36: But my question is one of the people who hasn't
Speaker 36: been talked about on WWTV or on the pay per
Speaker 36: views that I haven't heard recently is John Cena made
Speaker 36: a whole big thing about him coming back for this.
Speaker 36: Where are you with discussions or program with him for
Speaker 36: WWE currently?
Speaker 13: So, as John mentioned, he has sort of a expiration date,
Speaker 13: if you will, on his career that he sees and
Speaker 13: he's going to come back soon. I think I can't
Speaker 13: remember exactly what we said or what he said. I
Speaker 13: believe and he look, John has earned the right in
Speaker 13: his career to do whatever he wants, when he wants,
Speaker 13: and I'm happy to be there for him. I believe
Speaker 13: it is the beginning of the year. John will come
Speaker 13: back and it's sort of like the the Farewell Tour
Speaker 13: that has an end to it, and John's going to
Speaker 13: come back and just have a blast everywhere he goes
Speaker 13: like he always does. But he's going to come back,
Speaker 13: and you know, he's going to be there for the
Speaker 13: Royal Rumble and so that'll be his last Royal Rumble.
Speaker 13: He's going to be there for the Elimination Chamber and
Speaker 13: that'll be his last Elimination Chamber. He's going to be
Speaker 13: there for WrestleMania and that will be his last WrestleMania.
Speaker 13: And then it will continue and by the end of
Speaker 13: twenty five, that will be the end of John Cena.
Speaker 13: Not in ww RE, not in Hollywood for sure, or
Speaker 13: anything else that he decides to do, but it will
Speaker 13: be the end of seeing John Cena competitive and active
Speaker 13: in the ring. Very few people in this industry that
Speaker 13: You've been a part of for a long long time,
Speaker 13: and I'm happy that you're still here and a part
Speaker 13: of it right as much as like I am of
Speaker 13: arn and Kevin and Kid and all the people, you know,
Speaker 13: the Steiners that I saw upstairs today, like we want
Speaker 13: them to feel and embraced by what they helped pave
Speaker 13: the road for. John, paved the road for so much stuff.
Speaker 13: And he's earned the right, as I said, to call
Speaker 13: his out, and so few people get the opportunity to
Speaker 13: do that. This is awesome. It's almost overwhelming to me
Speaker 13: that as this starts to become real, one that it
Speaker 13: will be the end of his in ring career, but
Speaker 13: two that I get to sit with him and craft it.
Speaker 13: That's a huge honor for me. I was there when
Speaker 13: he came in here, I saw him before he came
Speaker 13: in here. I was there for a lot of the
Speaker 13: ride so and to see the performer that he became
Speaker 13: and all the things that he would do and where
Speaker 13: he's gone since then. To be able to sit next
Speaker 13: to him and UH help in some way drive the
Speaker 13: car that is him calling his out is a huge
Speaker 13: honor to me. So I look forward to doing it.
Speaker 13: I look forward to working with him and uh, once
Speaker 13: it's all done and his in ring career is done,
Speaker 13: I look forward to just seeing him all the time.
Speaker 13: Like every other legend that none of us would be
Speaker 13: here if it was without them, right, They paved the
Speaker 13: way for us to be here, and this will always
Speaker 13: be home and always be a family environment for them
Speaker 13: that they can come to and you know, be a
Speaker 13: part of. So that's exciting and it's I'm thrilled for John,
Speaker 13: I really am. Yeah, do one more?
Speaker 4: One more?
Speaker 13: One more question?
Speaker 35: Hey, Paula Daniel trainer from US Weekly.
Speaker 25: Who are you man?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 35: You mentioned sort of the future. You know, in two years,
Speaker 35: we know we have a two night Summer Slam in Minneapolis.
Speaker 35: We know we have a two night er in Indianapolis
Speaker 35: on the horizon. I'm curious if you think there's a
Speaker 35: chance that tonight was the last ever one night wrestling
Speaker 35: I'm sorry, SummerSlam. What that says sort of about the
Speaker 35: business and if there have any been any conversations about
Speaker 35: going two nights for any other pls, I'm thinking the
Speaker 35: Roy rumble.
Speaker 13: Please let's take it one step at a time. Yeah,
Speaker 13: you know, who knows what the future brings. But I
Speaker 13: do think that even tonight, seeing this Summer Slam seven
Speaker 13: match card goes almost four hours to me, and yeah,
Speaker 13: there was a lot of stuff we could have put
Speaker 13: into this, and you know, and even some people saying, well,
Speaker 13: why wasn't that in there because it would have been
Speaker 13: eight hours, right, And you still need stuff for raw,
Speaker 13: you still need massive content for SmackDown, right, you still
Speaker 13: need all that stuff. As we continue to grow, We'll
Speaker 13: take it, like I said, step by step. So is
Speaker 13: this the last Summer Slam that you see? That is
Speaker 13: one night? I think so, But we'll see where that
Speaker 13: goes long term. I'm excited about that opportunity. As far
Speaker 13: as other poes going that way, we're always you can
Speaker 13: never say this is just what we do and then
Speaker 13: that's it and that's locked in and we're just that's
Speaker 13: what we do and that's just the way it is.
Speaker 13: And if you go back five years, who would have
Speaker 13: thought we would have been doing two night WrestleManias, let
Speaker 13: alone to night WrestleManias and two night Slummer Slams. So
Speaker 13: we'll see, we'll see where it goes. And you know,
Speaker 13: that's an important part of where we go with it.
Speaker 13: But important part of where we go with that also
Speaker 13: is bringing these events around the globe. We are truly
Speaker 13: a global company. There is no place that WWE is not.
Speaker 13: There's no place where we don't have a massive fan
Speaker 13: base and following. We want to bring WWE to the world,
Speaker 13: not just you know, be seen as a as a
Speaker 13: US based company, but that's seen everywhere else. We want
Speaker 13: to literally be everywhere else and be as big as
Speaker 13: we possibly can be everywhere. So it's always a sort
Speaker 13: of a moving target, but makes for all and exciting ride.
Speaker 13: So I'm excited. Thank you all for being here. Really
Speaker 13: appreciate it. You'll see you down the road.
Speaker 1: Here you have it called triple h I love that. Guys.
Speaker 1: This show is winding down, but at Money in the Bank.
Speaker 2: Biggie, you came in hot with your three stars, so
Speaker 2: we thought that we would turn that into an even
Speaker 2: bigger segment, right, Yes, you're gonna take us through our
Speaker 2: highlights of the night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, we have a brand new segment for you.
Speaker 6: We're referring to as.
Speaker 3: Biggies five count we know to my old NXT days,
Speaker 3: where I will run down my top five performers of
Speaker 3: the night. First of all, we got to start with
Speaker 3: the man they call elm Hey night Yea also known
Speaker 3: as Sean Ricker, also known as Slate Randall, also known
Speaker 3: as Eli Drake, also known as Max Dupree. And I
Speaker 3: give you all those names because they give you some
Speaker 3: insight into this man's journey, all the ups and downs
Speaker 3: he's been through to get to this top spot. Next,
Speaker 3: I got to go with Bailey in a losing cause.
Speaker 4: That power bomb from Naya Jacks, the way she tell
Speaker 4: her up.
Speaker 3: Power bomb, emphasis on power is the most physically impressive
Speaker 3: feet of the night.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Bailey.
Speaker 3: Next, at number three, we have dirty, dirty domb misterio.
Speaker 15: Dirty.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard or seen a story where there
Speaker 3: are two women and they're both beautiful and they both
Speaker 3: end up dating the same man and you ask for
Speaker 3: a picture.
Speaker 4: What does this man look look, look look like?
Speaker 3: Surely he's male model, Sure he's the most it's a
Speaker 3: man you'll ever see.
Speaker 4: And then and then you see the picture and.
Speaker 7: It's him driving these two boxes.
Speaker 4: Crazy.
Speaker 1: That's stumbach Aura points must be through the room.
Speaker 4: Worts are high. I don't get it, but somehow very high.
Speaker 6: Still a real risk.
Speaker 4: Kid space, Uh nothing, I gotta shout out your boys.
Speaker 6: Drew mass Hire.
Speaker 4: Look, obviously Punk's my friend. But Drew was the one
Speaker 4: who kept.
Speaker 3: The main thing the main thing, and he focused on
Speaker 3: winning the match, which is what we're here for.
Speaker 13: So shout out to Drew.
Speaker 4: And last whatnot least.
Speaker 3: I gotta save my fifth star for the returns.
Speaker 4: The trifle cheap grown in Hurriy. What a night, What
Speaker 4: a night.
Speaker 3: Indeed, those are my top five performers in Big East.
Speaker 4: Five cows. I like the five count five con.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you nails it absolutely nailed it said,
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: You know, the fans have been chanting we want Roman
Speaker 1: for weeks. They got them tonight.
Speaker 2: As we close this show, I'd be remiss if I
Speaker 2: didn't ask for your final thoughts, if you got your
Speaker 2: five Big Ones, gentlemen, final thoughts on the night, from.
Speaker 7: Top to bottom, one of the most impressive delivering in
Speaker 7: ring cards of all time. Absolutely incredible. There was not
Speaker 7: a week spot in the entire night. And if you're
Speaker 7: an up and coming wrestler, if you dream of one
Speaker 7: day being a WWE superstar, the bar just got even higher.
Speaker 7: You've got to put some real work here.
Speaker 2: So you're calling this one of the best Summer Slams
Speaker 2: of all time, not just.
Speaker 6: Summer Slams, wrestling cards of all time.
Speaker 7: Top top to bottom, seven matches that all delivered like
Speaker 7: a main event.
Speaker 6: It was incredible. It was I was personally blown a wall.
Speaker 5: It was a clean show, it really was. But my
Speaker 5: biggest takeaway is whether whether it's Mondays or Fridays, we
Speaker 5: have must see TV because now on Monday Night we
Speaker 5: need to know what is going on with the judgment,
Speaker 5: day to story, the new romance that Wigh so excited
Speaker 5: about between Live and Dominate, mysterio jealous about, and then
Speaker 5: and then on Friday night, what is going to happen
Speaker 5: with Solo Socoa when Roman Reign shows up to smack down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of.
Speaker 2: Questions and fallout coming out of this Summer Slam. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, an epic night. I've mentioned it numerous times.
Speaker 2: But two champions retain right, four new champions. I've mentioned
Speaker 2: that a bunch. Congratulations Sanaia Jack's brown breaker, Gunther, I'm
Speaker 2: missing one, help me out?
Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
Speaker 6: La night?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, thank you, my bad I congratulations to all them.
Speaker 2: Two massive betrayals. I think my big takeaway from tonight
Speaker 2: is DTA, don't trust anybody. You can't, you cannot do it.
Speaker 2: Not family, not friends, not chosen.
Speaker 4: Family, Eta and OTC.
Speaker 7: Tonight, I don't trust this post show because it seems
Speaker 7: to be going so long.
Speaker 6: The pub is going to be closed.
Speaker 1: I got good news for you. We are all out
Speaker 1: of time. You can go get that beer you.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Live and Cody entertaining, and congratulations to the
Speaker 2: four new champions walking out of Cleveland with a little
Speaker 2: goal over their shoulder.
Speaker 1: For Wade Bears, Peter Rosenberg.
Speaker 2: And Biggie I'm Jackie Redman, thank you so much for watching.
Speaker 1: Safe to say this Summer Slam was one for the ages.
Speaker 1: Roman reigns. He's back.
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 9: What's going on?
Speaker 15: You ain't nothing better? Yeah, you try to down, try
Speaker 15: to underground manage.
Speaker 6: Cleveland.
Speaker 33: You have set an all time American attendance record.
Speaker 9: Hold on a.
Speaker 5: Second, killy roll with the any man in history to
Speaker 5: make music worse than Otres.
Speaker 6: Oh go left, Go Summer Sam. I'm just a none
Speaker 6: to thank you.
Speaker 15: No, we're using towel trying to show fuse and getting
Speaker 15: me mile.
Speaker 13: O.
Speaker 14: They're boeing Dominic.
Speaker 9: What you just want him?
Speaker 6: Tell me you can't win it?
Speaker 40: Idle like this, die can't find the brain and my
Speaker 40: barganim Ham from Sun Devil Radshaga knows Alan Crash and Murder.
Speaker 1: Could not have laid a hand.
Speaker 15: I need a turner from too fine.
Speaker 9: I'm never gonna make it on them seeds.
Speaker 15: Ago welcome Gonau break your era.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a.
Speaker 10: Win in the world from me.
Speaker 16: Any kind of feels too good to.
Speaker 6: Come running off.
Speaker 1: These they say.
Speaker 6: I'm just too.
Speaker 9: Lay ahead, and I know I need to turn around.
Speaker 4: For him to mess funny out the back. I gonna
Speaker 4: make it all them.
Speaker 24: See it's a go.
Speaker 9: I got cleaning and all they did.
Speaker 47: Lets the following contested, so the world hoy ware, champing
Speaker 47: and shcause it's.
Speaker 9: Don't tell what the hell?
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 16: Then?
Speaker 9: S Yeah, I'll walk right out the fire.
Speaker 41: Yeah.
Speaker 40: You try to keep me down, trying to put me
Speaker 40: on the ground, Bud, I'm only going how.
Speaker 4: I can hear you in my head and my ball
Speaker 4: when I'm dreaming you.
Speaker 15: Trying to me, my friend Brookes, You're glow and slow
Speaker 15: Hold me now mine scared.
Speaker 10: Of telling you you can go.
Speaker 48: Because this has been a special presentation of w w
Speaker 48: A for over seventy years, the global leader in Sports
Speaker 48: and Entertainment.
Speaker 24: Mm hmm.
Speaker 13: You spent your whole life