Congratulations.
>> Thank you very much. >> Man, it's so
good to have you here on Talking Smack.
>> What a Christmas we had.
>> What a. >> What a great Christmas.
>> Right. >> [INAUDIBLE]
>> What about your style?
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've got this great hair style. >> Yeah.
I heard you guys talking about people being better fighters,
better wrestlers, better husbands and better fathers.
Now I know, listen these are things that I know, right?
I'm not the best husband in the world but I try to be.
I'm not the best father in the world, but I try to be.
And if you're just comparing me, this is a question for you, Paul.
Do you think I'm a better fighter than somebody like Roman Reigns?
Do you think I'm a better wrestler than Roman Reigns?
Here's an easier one.
Do you think I'm a better husband, better father?
Do you think that I, because I'm not in first place, and
focusing on the person who's in first place, what ostensibly you said,
because I'm not in first place, do you think I'm focusing on Roman Reign's ass.
I think a lot of women might be.
I'm not particularly doing it, but that's okay.
So there's just, we just have different view points.
And that's sometimes what I want to represent here on Talking Smack.
It's just a different view point, right?
I am not, by any means in first place.
I don't lay claim to first place.
But my match with Jey Uso, my fight with Jey Uso may not have been for first place.
But before I went out there, even though I got jumped,
there's an energy that circulates out of my body.
And I can feel it.
And it almost feels like it can fill up an entire room.
And every time that he punches me and every time that he hits me and
every time that I hit back, and it feels like grit, and it feels like a fight.
I don't care if I'm first place or not, because the energy that comes out of me,
I feel, Paul.
I feel alive. [BLEEP] I feel alive, and
that's why I love.
Love this. Not because I'm trying to be in first
place, not because I'm staring at Roman Reign's ass.
But because being in a fight like that,
against somebody of the quality of Jey Uso, makes me feel alive on Christmas.
>> Wow. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah, yeah, let's get into it.
>> Yeah. >> What else you got for me?
>> Well, we talked on Friday Night SmackDown about what's next now that
Jey Uso is seemingly in your rear-view mirror.
And you said something that you have not got to check off the list yet,
is winning the Royal Rumble.
>> Yeah, we don't know, one of the things that I appreciated
about being forced to retire is that you never know when this is gonna end, right?
You never know.
So you have to appreciate it every moment, and even though it's been a couple of
years now since I've come back, I still cherish that.
I still cherish this feeling.
And you come up with these things knowing that it could end at any time.
These things that you want to check off the list.
And in my 20 plus year career, I have never won a Battle Royal.
Isn't that crazy?
And I wrestled in crazy places where people aren't very good, right?
In Battle Royals with a bunch of people that you would have
never heard of that aren't overly good and for whatever reason,
some of them were good for whatever reason I could never win a Battle Royal.
But this might be my last chance so
I'm making it a go to win the Royal Rumble,
to win a Battle Royal.
And if that happens, if I win the Royal Rumble,
that means that I will go to WrestleMania and
face whoever is the Universal Champion.
And Paul I don't lay claim to be better
than many people at certain things.
I'll tell you this.
I'm a better fighter than Roman Reigns and
I sure as hell a better wrestler than Roman Reigns.
And if I win the Royal Rumble,
face Roman Reigns at WrestleMania,
if he's still the champion I will beat him for that championship.
Here's another thing.
He's not champion.
Somewhere down the line, I'm gonna beat him anyway.