Current time is 10:05PM, it is Sunday, WrestleMania Night 2.
I legit just came out of gorilla, out of the curtain.
I came straight back here to talk to you fine folks.
And it is also past my bedtime, I usually go to bed around 9, 9:30.
So yeah, that's our predicament.
I feel good, man, the nice part is it was if we did that for
25 minutes, your boy will be hurting, but I feel all right, man.
He was wearing my ass out with that kendo stick right before he put me on the table.
I legit I was curling up like a ball to protect myself because those kendo sticks,
when people ask, hey, how does it feel?
There is no getting used, I've been hit with a kendo plenty of times,
the thing stings, man, there's nothing like it in what we do.
So I take my hat off to him cuz he steps it up, man, and people like that,
when they bring it they force you to bring it.
And those are the people that I wanna be in the ring with,
guys that bring their very best, that bring that intensity,
that you don't have to say, come on, man, pick it up.
And he's one of those guys, and in many ways I'm proud of him for what he's done.
He's a guy who went from, he could have easily been underutilized forever.
And he's one of those guys who, what could have been.
And now he's not, and I'm proud of him for that.
That's what I love seeing that now.
It's funny, I talked to Kofi and Woods, and I've had so many Manias where I just
had this sinking feeling afterwards where it just kinda let me down.
And I always talk about the time we hosted WrestleMania as one of the moments that
wasn't like that, where I walked away with this really good feeling and feeling like,
man, we were part of some cool.
And this Mania, for me, I feel like for many reasons feels like that too.
It's also [COUGH] as much as I have no doubts I can go out there and
be cheered, per se.
But one of the things you worry about I guess with breaking away from a group is,
hey, is it the group that's over, is it just Kofi and Woods that are liked.
And to go out there on your own and people are behind you,
wanna see you do your thing.
I think is rewarding but it's, like I said man,
so many things, it's why I live.
A good friend of mine, one of my favorite rappers,
it's Tampa, everything we keep saying.
But it''s real, it's really real, man, this is where I grew up,
this is where I live now.
And to have an opportunity to do this at WrestleMania at home
with all the ups and downs.
Man, they told us too, hey man, we might have a storm roll through mid match.
This is like 30 minutes, 20 minutes before,
I guess there was something approaching.
So now we're thinking, hey man, what if we're out there and our match get stopped?
So there's so many obstacles for this Mania, but
we're here, we made it, and it feels good.
As far as moving forward, I honestly don't know.
My goal was to have a very long Intercontinental Championship reign and
to run with that thing for a year, more than a year.
I love the idea of having the Intercontinental Championship throughout
all of 2021, coming back WrestleMania season and
trying to be a double champ, to be a world champion, I think was really dope.
And that's not what it is right now, so there will be no capitulating.
There will be no rolling into my grave, I will go home, I'll get some sleep.
I will wake up in the morning and I will do squats, some heavy squats, and
then I don't know, figure something out.
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