I'm done.
I'm cooked, [LAUGH] I'm done.
[MUSIC]
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Hello, this is one half of the Street Province, Montez Ford and
to my left, your right is the EST of the WWE Bianca Belair.
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>> And now, we are going to playback my WrestleMania 38 match
versus Becky Lynch when I won the Raw Women's Championship.
Are you excited?
>> Excited.
>> Cuz I'm excited.
>> Play, play, play the match.
Play the match. >> So, let's play it.
Let's get into it.
Let's do it.
>> Well, well, well.
>> Here we go.
>> Coming with the big SUV, I mean, I guess it's befitting cuz it is Big Time.
>> Big Time Beck, so she gotta have a big time entrance.
>> That's true.
She, see the [CROSSTALK] I like the tease.
You think it's her getting out and
there she goes, >> [LAUGH].
She looks so cool.
It's like a futuristic look.
>> [SOUND] Cool thing about wrestling is always the theatrics-
>> It's always, yeah, it's always big.
>> It is expanded to the greatest proportions,
nothing about Mania is small, nothing.
The emotion, the gear, the passion, the entertainment,
the flash, the glamour, the glitz, everything.
But dang, wait till we see this next week.
>> Well, don't spoil yet.
>> I mean, I'm just saying I just know the reputation you have.
I'm with you every day and people see you for a couple of segments at a time, but
I see it all the time.
>> I mean, I remember being backstage watching her entrance.
I was, okay, Big Time Becks had a Big Time entrance.
I'm gonna have to keep that same energy.
>> Right. >> She definitely had a Big Time entrance.
Look at that, look at that.
>> Look at that make-up.
>> Look at that.
>> She rocking that mullet.
She was like, and I was if you like it, I love it.
>> But you cut that hair for her.
>> I did but you know what?
I didn't wanna resort to cutting hair but she tried to cut my hair so.
>> Yeah.
>> But we weren't gonna do no hair cut in WrestleMania.
>> So basically not only did you style your stuff.
Here we go.
>> Here we go.
>> The calm before the storm.
>> Here we go.
>> Look at that.
You see that shimmy?
>> I taught them all these moves before they walked out too.
>> Becky like- >> I told them how to hit it.
Hit it right.
>> Pow, pow- >> Pow, pow, pow, pow.
>> This is nostalgia.
This just brings back so
many memories from my childhood cuz my high school mimicked an HBCU band, and
I live literally less than a block from my high school.
So growing up, I could always hear the band practicing, and
I could hear the drumline, I could hear the horns.
And growing up you either wanted to be on the football team, a cheerleader, or
you wanted to be in the band.
And it was like the cool thing to do.
Our band was a hit.
Everybody wanted to be in the band.
The football games, everybody was just as excited to watch the band at halftime as
they were to watch the football team.
It's nothing like an HBCU band it's just culturally,
traditionally, the vibe, the energy, the showmanship.
Look at that.
>> This was epic though.
It was epic on so many levels.
>> You can have a dance.
>> Even if you try not to dance.
>> [LAUGH] >> You're just like
>> No, they really helped me shine.
I was, I wanna show up on a grandest stage of them all being unapologetically me,
bringing my full self to WrestleMania and they helped me do that.
They shined.
[MUSIC]
>> Gosh, like watch them.
>> And like hear your music through a band >> I'm a huge fan of horns.
I love horns.
I think horns are so epic.
No matter what you do, horns are just so great.
>> Remember when we first heard my entrance music?
And that was the first thing you said.
You said, the horns make it sound great.
It's like a Beyoncé concert, she has lots of horns in her music.
Look at the air whip.
>> It's crazy how those lips just floated there in the air, above the crowd,
and the crowd didn't say nothing.
I'm just like, I would've seen that thing going.
>> [LAUGH] It's a lip up there.
>> There she is, yes, come on, come on.
>> I've only watched this back once.
I had so much energy, that runway was so long.
But I had so much energy, I had an extra bounce going down.
This was- >> Becky was not liking it right now.
>> [LAUGH] >> I mean, she's like, hurry up and
get to this ring.
[LAUGH] Just the look on her face.
>> Maybe she was a little jealous.
>> No, I mean- >> [LAUGH]
>> I would be too with this type of
entrance, though.
Look at this, my man is spilling it.
Every word.
I never need a shell.
You're just going, man, passion.
But that's what WrestleMania is about, this is the showcase of the immortals.
>> I had so much going on, I had the gloves, the earrings, the bow.
[SOUND] This is one of my favorite years, though.
And the crowd was going crazy.
I dreamed of this moment since SummerSlam.
Since [SOUND] I had 26 seconds and to get all the way
back to WrestleMania this like full circle moment.
And everyone thought the worst of SummerSlam when I lost 26 seconds but
worth it all come together at WrestleMania for me to get my redemption here.
That's why I went straight to that handshake.
You can't forget, can't forget that handshake from SummerSlam.
>> Yeah, she's- >> She said forget that handshake,
I ain't shaking no hand.
>> No, you thought, you thought, you thought, nope.
Still coming.
>> [SOUND] Wait, everybody- >> [SOUND]
>> It was not again, not again.
>> So my daddy [LAUGH] my daddy after the match,
he said that when I kicked out at the last minute he looked at my mom.
He said that wasn't funny.
That was not funny.
He was about to get his stuff and leave.
He was, I was about to leave and be be gone.
>> No I just got to think for except for something like that to happen at
SummerSlam is probably a lot of post traumatic stress for a lot of people.
>> Yeah, PTSD.
>> Seeing that again and obviously you see Becky now being very, very, very intense.
>> She was trying everything.
>> Because what happened at SummerSlam did not happen at WrestleMania.
[LAUGH] Yeah,
she even put a fin in the Rose, she really wants it, she really wants it.
The last thing is something happens when Nash was on to that.
Here we go, [SOUND] rode through.
>> Let's give her another one.
Damn, that took too long.
t's like everything I was trying to do She hat an answer to it.
>> Well, you guys faced each other so many times in between too, so
you gotta think, you guys just know each other.
And just, what's next and knowing your strengths and
knowing that they possibly go for.
Especially in reversals up front.
So like- >> Yeah, we really got to know each other.
I felt we both studied each other so much before this match.
I went in saying, I don't wanna play her game, I want her to play my game.
I think she went in with the same mentality.
So, you know what, let me just put her move on her.
>> Yeah, give her her own piece of medicine.
You know what I'm saying?
Sometimes that's what it takes.
>> That's what it takes sometimes.
>> This is really good.
Like I said, I remember seeing this match but like watching again this is amazing.
Thank you so much.
>> Of course, of course, the hair, the hair.
That just gave me a headache, just watching that.
>> Try watching it live and then not knowing what's happening.
Talk about a headache [SOUND] dang.
>> Yeah, that hurt.
>> I don't know who's more hurt, you or the steps.
The steps went flying, I think the steps are hurt too.
Somebody check on the steps.
>> I don't know, I remember going into this match thinking, I know she is gonna
pull my hair, I know she is gonna grab it >> But
I wanted to show that I don't need my hair.
I wanted to stick to not using my hair for
this match to show that I can win without my hair, even if they resort to cheating.
>> But see, what I like too is just the change of pace in the match,
the frustration starting to build, stuff tried at SummerSlam didn't work and
all these pins didn't work.
Now she's going up again, okay.
She tried this earlier, now, we're going again, hiya.
How did that feel?
>> How do you think it feel?
>> I mean- >> I mean, you take a leg drop to the back
of the neck with them on the top rope, and I'm dangling over the top rope.
It hurt.
[LAUGH] >> You took a lot of damage in a short
period of time.
>> Yes. >> So.
>> Yes.
>> I mean.
>> Well, this was big for me cuz from SummerSlam and then everything I had
to get through to get to this moment, I had almost beat every girl on Raw.
Then Elimination Chamber, I had to win that to get here.
She told me get to the back of the line, I literally went to the back of the line and
worked my way to the front, so.
Said I can't get all the way to WrestleMania-
>> But you know what I always say about
the back of the line?
You can see everything.
>> It's true. >> You can see where you need to go,
you see where you're headed.
>> I like that. >> See how much work you gotta put in.
So sometimes back of the line is not bad.
>> I like that, she's grabbing my hair again, look at it.
>> I feel I went into this match with the mentality of,
I'm gonna be pretty banged up, but you know what?
That's just what it is.
WrestleMania, you just gotta give it your all cuz everybody dreams of being
in Mania.
But the way that we're going at it with each other shows
how much we both wanted it.
>> [SOUND] on the outside.
>> I don't know people understand how much a suplex hurts on the outside and
not just for the person you're giving it to.
But when you're giving it,
it's like I had to put my body on the line in order to hurt her.
It hurts >> Sacrifice.
>> [LAUGH] It's a sacrifice.
>> Here we go.
Here goes the shoulder thrust.
Here we go.
It's lit.
She turned.
Ref gotta get off, get off, I'm going back.
>> You see that chin?
>> Yeah. >> When I get mad-
>> It's that Catherine chin.
>> I get my grandma chin, [CROSSTALK] that long chin.
>> Yeah.
>> [LAUGH] It's my greedy chin.
>> [SOUND]
Dang, my back hurts from the suplex to steps.
>> Everything hurt at this point.
>> [NOISE] >> I trained so much.
>> [NOISE] >> Whoop.
>> It's a cool count.
>> I was asked they raised on to get ready, but I trained so much for
this match.
>> I did too.
>> You was right there with me, no?
>> I was just, very cool, [LAUGH] here we go.
>> I got sosme momentum, I got some momentum.
>> Moves up, pow.
>> Gosh, this is good though.
Going to the top, all right, here we go.
What is happening up here?
A fight, that's what's happening up here.
A fight.
>> We fight. >> A F-I-G-H, capital T, a fight.
>> [LAUGH] >> I
thought about pressing her at one point.
>> But I was so tired.
>> Look at the crowd.
>> I was so tired and, you know what, let the ropes do the work.
I was so tired.
>> It's just every time there's something having the crowd,
like getting up and there's so many people at Mania every time.
>> So this is a second rope 450.
So my first week being at the PCN XT, I was scared to go to the top rope and
actually hit a second rope 450 the very first time I ever did a 450.
And my coach was, that was impressive, the second rope?
And I was, the second rope is easier than the top rope to me cuz I'm too scared to
go to the top.
But then they were, no, that's more impressive.
I was, I did it my first week at the PC but
I waited until WrestleMania to bring it out.
>> Look at this intensity, look at these camera angles, look at the poor steps.
Everything is just carnage everywhere.
Here everywhere.
Becky's trying to figure out where she's at.
You're trying to figure out what's next so you can put her down for the title.
The intensity is WrestleMania, [SOUND] .here we go.
All right.
>> I took too long.
>> [SOUND]
That kick, kick straight- >> Don't say kick just yet cuz.
>> Yeah, [SOUND].
>> Becky was- >> So
this right here is where I thought that I was gonna have to run out there.
Her face was swollen for, like, weeks, and I remember-
>> Weeks?
>> Months, actually.
[LAUGH] >> I would forget that I would have
a black eye and people wouldn't look me in the eye when they were talking to me.
Like, why aren't they looking at me?
But man, Beck with the big boot, straight to the eye.
I had a black eye for at least three months.
It did not go away.
My whole eye was red the next day.
I remember, I slept on my face, so when I woke up the next day,
I couldn't even open my eye.
I was trying to hit that KOD.
>> Yeah.
>> I was trying, she was not letting go she had a death grip on that rope.
>> It's like dang.
>> We'll just take this KOD outside.
I was trying everything to get her.
She was trying to get away.
>> Well, you learned firsthand why we always say, don't try this at home.
>> My heart is beating.
I thought this was over at this point.
>> Gosh, and them steps are so unforgiving.
>> Yeah. >> They just don't.
>> It hurts.
>> It's just complete malice and treachery.
>> Do you know the amount of damage that we have done to each other at this point?
I'm like done.
I'm cooked.
Like [LAUGH] I'm done.
I took a boot to the face, took the stairs, took a Rock Bottom to the stairs,
took a Rock Bottom at the beginning.
What else?
>> My eye and body hurts from watching this, man.
>> I had one eye at this point.
Knowing what was on the line is what kept me going at this point.
I'm done, but I had to give it all that I had.
SummerSlam was replaying in my mind at this point.
My parents being in the audience, the fans, they're all watching.
I had this burst of energy just from all of that.
It's kind of like they say, your life flashes before your eyes before it's over.
My life was flashing before my eyes, and that's what drove me to that point.
>> [SOUND] It was good.
>> And at this point, this is when I felt my eye.
[LAUGH] I was like, why is my face feel so heavy and droopy?
[LAUGH] >> It's like a time warp sometimes.
It's like hypnotism, that the bell rings, you ready
>> And as soon as it hits,
whatever pain you had or endured through the match, it just seeps.
>> It was all worth it.
>> It was all worth it though.
>> It was all worth it.
>> A couple of ice, some Sprite.
>> I just didn't, I dreamed of this moment for
what, eight months and I have goosebumps right now.
And this moment meant the world to me.
It really, really did, and at WrestleMania, back to back, back to back.
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