So Triple H, news broke just moments before this press conference
today that Cain Velasquez retired from UFC and is now signed to WWE.
How huge of an acquisition is that for us?
>> It's big.
You know whenever you can get a level of of athlete like a Cain Velasquez,
it's a it's a Ronda Rousey moment.
It's just doing this with Tyson Fury but at a different level.
He is now a WWE superstar.
He is now fully engaged with us.
Its phenomenal.
Household name, amazing.
The biggest thing for me is world class athletes, right,
to be able to take WWE to that next level of athleticism.
And when you talk about somebody like Cain Velasquez,
the elite of the elite, right, and so getting him to be a part of WWE is huge.
>> Kane and Brock, of course, have met before, but this is Brock's home.
So who do you think is gonna have the advantage?
>> I would put it on Lesnar.
You know, If you look at Rhonda's transition into WWE as the example,
there were moments where your instincts aren't what they need to be for
this, right?There are instincts where the rules of MMA don't apply here.
When weapons become involved or anything else, there's just moments
in time that it will become clear to Cain Velasquez that he is in Brock's world.
You go in the water and the fish has the advantage.
And he is now in, we have a big shark here named Brock Lesner,
and Cain Velasquez just jumped into his pool, and he bites hard.
>> Well, these were two huge marquee matches that were announced today.
A lot of personalities up there.
So, what do you think the WWE Universe can expect?
>> Well, I, I've just spent a good part of the last week
with Tyson Fury in Orlando at the Performance Center.
You know, he is.
When you talk about the dedication that it takes to be a pro at the highest level,
to be the linear World Heavyweight Champion like Tyson Fury,
that's as much dedication as it takes and
he's the kinda guy that has now said okay for this period of time, I'm in the WWE.
I'm gonna take that level of laser focus and dedication and apply it to WWE.
It was harder for
me to get him to not do stuff than it was to get him to try to do anything.
He wanted to do everything and wanted to do it now.
And I kept having to tell everybody like pull him back,
don't let him do that yet, pull him back.
Somebody has got to ride the thoroughbred and pull the reins.
So, that level of dedication is gonna make him be phenomenal.
He is not looking to walk into WWE and kind of just have,
I'm gonna have a moment and I'll punch Braun Strowman in the head
the one time and then I'll leave and make a paycheck.
He's looking to make an impact on the world and
he's looking to raise his stakes in the world.
Like he has said, he's custom made for American television, right?
He wants to >> [LAUGH]
>> Yes.
He wants to come in here and be a WWE superstar.
He's like Rhonda, he wants to come in here and
win everybody over that goes, why they brought a boxer in the WWE, why?
He wants to prove why he's here.
He's been a fan since he was a kid, loves this and wants to do it and
make every WWE superstar go, man, Tyson Fury really put something into this and
I was impressed and want to see him again.
>> Last question.
I know you said he spent a week at the Performance Center.
How's he taking to it?
>> Like a fish to water.
Today's my fish reference day.
Yeah, he, you know, there are certain athletes that they step into this and
the athleticism is kind of easy, but the showmen aspect of it right, we're
sports entertainment and entertainment being such a big aspect of it,
it's counter to what their their instincts are in the sports world sometimes.
Tyson is an entertainer first.
And he's a boxer second, I believe, Happens to be one of the best boxers ever.
So that bodes well for him, but the entertainment aspect's of it first.
You see his entrances, you see how he fights when he's in the ring.
It's all about entertaining fans.
You see his suits, yeah.
So that level of wanting to be the entertainer is perfect for
us, and then the level of athlete that he is,
pretty much everything that we were working with him on was just like done.
Do this, done.
And just done right every time.
There's very few times I've been that impressed with people in the business.
Rhonda, obviously, being chief among them, but
he's near that level of ease of picking this up.
>> I'd like to see how it all goes down.
>> Yeah, I'm telling you right now, Cain, Brock,
the story is there for that to be just a monumental fight.
Braun and Fury, it's gonna be something special, that's gonna be epic.
It really is.
He wants it to be epic and it's gonna be.
Thank you.