[NOISE] >> Your challenge is accepted.
>> [NOISE] >> Two parameters, though.
Number one, if, if, if someone in that locker room is so
stupid that to be willing to team with you,
it has to be someone that wrestled this past weekend at WrestleMania.
>> [NOISE] >> And
now you're gonna realize how alone you are.
Because anyone who walks down that aisle and
agrees to team with you tonight against Roman Reigns and
Solo will never get another title match against
Roman Reigns as long as Roman Reigns is the undisputed
WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion.
So who you wanna
talk about
now, Cody?
>> [NOISE] >> God.
[MUSIC]
The Beast Incarnate is
here on Monday Night Raw.
Is Lesnar here to be Cody's partner?
[MUSIC]
>> Lesnar's definitely alongside the American Nightmare.
>> KP, do you realize what this means?
That stipulation doesn't apply to Brock Lesnar.
Brock Lesnar is already forbidden from challenging Reigns for the title.
Brock lost that right at SummerSlam last year.
>> And their opponents
first from Minneapolis,
Minnesota, weighing
in at 286 pounds,
Brock Lesnar.
>> [NOISE] >> And his tag team partner from Atlanta,
Georgia, weighing in at 222 pounds,
the American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes.
>> Wait a second, what the hell?
Lesnar just F-fived Rhodes.
>> [NOISE] >> What the hell are we witnessing here?
>> Another thunderous F-five, but why?
Why is Lesnar doing this to Cody Rhodes?
>> Cody still battered from last night's main event at WrestleMania.
>> Brock, you don't need to do this.
>> F-five across the announce desk.
>> [NOISE] >> No, no.
>> My God, the ribs against Cody's got to
be suffering serious damage right now,
in the clutches of the Beast Incarnate.
>> [NOISE] >> I'll be as honest as I can possibly be.
If the question is posed to me,
are you scared of Brock Lesnar?
>> [NOISE] >> Yes, yes,
I'd be crazy not to be scared of Brock Lesnar.
But I still wanna fight Brock Lesnar.
>> [NOISE] >> I'm so scared of Brock Lesnar and
what happened to me last week that when he blinks, I'm gonna strike.
When he breathes, I'm gonna kick.
When he stumbles, I'm gonna pounce.
I wanna make sure leave no stone unturned, no opportunity behind.
That when Brock Lesnar looks in the mirror the next time, he doesn't see predator.
For the first time in his life, he sees prey.
For the first time in his life,
he sees a victim, my victim.
>> [NOISE] >> So it can be anywhere,
anytime, any place.
But I know Brock Lesnar isn't here in Seattle.
>> [NOISE] >> So Brock Lesnar, what do you say,
face to face, eye to eye,
one on one, the first time ever
the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes
versus yourself at WrestleMania Backlash?
>> Answer the call.
[MUSIC]
>> Cody, listen to me, please.
>> [NOISE] >> Listen to me, do not listen to them.
Listen to me, please.
Think about this clearly.
We don't need this.
We certainly do not need this.
I need you to leave it.
And if you're not gonna do it on your own, then gentlemen,
please come help Cody Rhodes leave the ring tonight, please.
>> [NOISE] >> Discretion of a decision as it is,
Adam Pierce is trying to [CROSSTALK] >> I'm calling the chair to help, please.
Think about this.
Think about this, please.
This does not have to happen like this.
>> [NOISE]
[MUSIC]
Cody, listen to me,
don't do this.
[MUSIC]
>> The Beast Incarnate is here.
>> I know that's what you want, Cody.
I know that's what you want, but it can't happen.
Look at me, please, look at me.
Listen, you want the match with Brock.
I know you want the match with Brock.
I will give you the match with Brock.
May 6 in Puerto Rico at Backlash, Brock Lesnar versus Cody Rhodes at Backlash.
I make it official right now.
Please, don't do this.
Do it in Puerto Rico.
Do it at Backlash, not tonight.
>> [NOISE] >> Lesnar grinning ear to ear,
willing to take Cody Rhodes for
a trip to the train station.
>> [NOISE] >> Cody.
>> He's not backing down the American Nightmare.
>> Cody's not thinking straight.
I understand Cody's frustration, but it's gonna cost Rhodes a lot of money.
>> You said it already, Graves.
He's got fire in the eyes, and those eyes are checking out Lesnar.
>> Cody's frustrated.
Cody's blind with rage right now, and Lesnar's enjoying every second of it.
>> [NOISE] >> Lesnar knows exactly what
he's doing right now.
>> [NOISE] >> Uh-oh, don't do it, Cody.
And another wave of security keeping Rhodes away from Lesnar.
>> How does it feel to be looking at the only real cowboy in the state?
>> [NOISE] >> Brock, seriously, Brock,
we cannot do this tonight.
I've asked respectfully.
We have business to discuss tonight.
Draft business trumps everything.
I need you to leave the ring, Brock, please.
And if you won't leave, my gentleman will help you leave.
With all due respect, please.
>> With all due respect, it's gonna take a hell of a lot more men than that.
>> Come on, guys.
>> [NOISE] >> Good on Adam Pierce for
reinforcing our security tonight.
But Lesnar doesn't look like he has intention of going anywhere.
>> [NOISE] >> Please,
Brock, please.
>> [NOISE]
[MUSIC]
>> Cody Rhodes from behind
just dropped The Beast.
The American Nightmare just knocked down
the Beast Incarnate before being swarmed by WWE Security.
>> [NOISE]
[MUSIC]
>> Brock Lesnar, the most decorated.
>> Look out, Cody Rhodes, Rhodes before
the opening bell bringing the fight to The Beast.
This match isn't even underway.
And Cody Rhodes has locked himself into The Beast and
now using the cowl for our now table to take out Brock Lesnar.
>> Before we talk about tonight, let's talk about Backlash.
>> [NOISE] >> The biggest, most washed Backlash of
all time from the island of Charm there in Puerto Rico.
All the pomp, all the circumstance.
I didn't get to experience it that way because I had the daunting task ahead
of me of competing against The Beast, the most decorated combat sports athlete.
I'm talking about Brock Lesnar.
>> [NOISE] >> And here is
what I discovered.
I discovered what Brock Lesnar is made of because it was literally all over my fist.
I discovered that Brock Lesnar can
be defeated because at Backlash,
I beat Brock Lesnar.
>> [NOISE] >> Cody's feeling it, crossroads.
>> Cody looking for a little insurance.
>> And a second crossroads.
>> Will the third time be the charm?
>> Here we go.
Can Cody Rhodes, the American nightmare put away The Beast to advance?
>> What the hell?
Brock Lesnar, F-five to Cody Rhodes.
And there's no disqualification in a Triple-Threat Match.
>> [NOISE] >> Coup de grace.
>> Back inside we go, and Finn Balor now can capitalize and advance.
[SOUND] >> Here is your winner, Finn Balor.
>> Good God.
>> [NOISE] >> So Cody,
what do you wanna talk about?
>> [NOISE] >> Look at this face.
Look at this face.
>> [NOISE] >> What do you wanna talk about, Cody?
What do you wanna talk about?
I wanna talk about me.
Me, Cody, I wanna talk about me.
Me, me, me, me, me,
Cody Rhodes, look at my face.
You wanna take credit to this, Cody?
You lucked into this face.
You lucked into the victory Saturday night.
I wanna talk about a fight.
I wanna talk about a fight, a fight.
I wanna fight.
>> [NOISE] >> You, me,
Night of Champions, a fight.
>> [NOISE] >> What do you got to say about that?
>> [NOISE] >> Who is the coward now?
>> [NOISE]
>> It is Brock Lesnar's
nature to hunt.
Brock Lesnar must be hunting.
But make sure, Brock, if you're the one who's hunting, let me ask you something.
How's your face?
>> [NOISE] >> I know, brock Lesnar,
you look in the mirror, you see a lion.
You see the alpha male of our species, but
you should also see a black eye, a set of staples.
And when I look in the mirror, I see the man who put them there.
I see a man who busted Brock Lesnar's face and
maybe broke his spirit and beat the biggest bully in WWE history.
So I gladly accept Brock Lesnar's challenge at Night of Champions.
And I'm not gonna go out of bounds on Brock Lesnar.
There's always been this talk about his ego,
his manipulation on the roster, his dates.
You wanna know why Brock Lesnar is on top and has been on top?
Because Brock Lesnar is better than 99.9% of the superstars who come in this ring.
But at Backlash, Brock Lesnar was not better than me.
He called it a cheap win,
a wrestling counter to a wrestling move in a wrestling ring.
How cheap that is.
Brock, even if I had been imbued with the powers of a god and
beat you in 20 seconds, you still would have hunted me.
Because this isn't about a championship.
This is about something else.
This is about who is the big
thing on Monday Night Raw.
>> [NOISE] >> The next big thing,
that's what they always said about Brock Lesnar.
The next big thing, the next big thing, the next big thing, and they were right.
But eventually, Brock,
what happens when they just say next?
You have conquered WWE.
You have conquered sports entertainment.
You have conquered this sport.
But we are at the point where I need you to take your busted face.
I need you to step aside.
Because you, sir, are not the big thing around here anymore.
You are simply in my way.
>> [NOISE]
[MUSIC]