As you heard in my introduction,
we are celebrating Black History Month all throughout February so
just right off the bat, what does Black History Month mean to you?
>> Everything, everything everything I guess it means everything.
Thing is just shows like a whole like cumulation of like everything
like our culture has like upbringing, their efforts and their sacrifices for
all of us to get to this point.
So I feel like every year is just a year for us to like celebrate and
to continue to like just, Keep making history keep inspiring the next
generation just like they've inspired us.
So it's always a big deal every year every day.
>> King says we talked earlier this week for him a bunch of influences you have
inside and outside of the ring, sir let's take a look.
>> As we're going through thing we're given like, cares and
look like cuz like inspiration to like know like hey like no we don't you know
hey come from the exact similar backgrounds.
That go to December like Adapt patients and patients and willing and sacrifice and
all that stuff like I take especially like very very acceptance of like
being in this position to be the change you want to see in the world, so yeah.
>> Yes sir.
>> Tears as you carve out your legacy family inside of the ring outside of
the ring, how does it feel to know that you influence people like me and
others in WWE universe.
>> Thinks is 100% blessing man I always thank God for
the position I've been placed in to inspire man.
And like being on this platform as you all know, like there's so
many individuals in the world.
That look up to you and like even even in ways you didn't know like from like what
you may put out on social media to like everything they they're watching you so
like, I feel like is.
Always blessed and
like we're very fortunate to like be in this platform in this position to like.
Put out good in the world and to show examples in the world for like I said for
individuals that look like us that didn't have any superheroes or someone that looks
like them, but it was growing up so, Man is everything it's everything man.
>> So much as you would Bianca been celebrating
Black History Month in a very special and
unique way on your social media as we take a look at this year.
Educating a lot of people but this has been awesome and from all life and
from history from a while ago to current history here.
And as you look at all this had to be fun to do but you know,
how did you come up with this and what's the reaction been like so far?
>> So, last year, my beautiful my beautiful baby.
Last year she did like the books last year on our Instagram like giving out
different books last year and this year It was more about like,
the whole actual like, cosplay and reenactment.
And that was something like she said, Yeah, it'll be this will be fun for
us to do and like, you know, give us something to do and like, you know,
inform and, you know, educate a lot of people.
And even on this process, both of us have like, you know,
learn more stuff they're like we knew but just more in detail stuff.
And it's cool for us to do too because like we also want to highlight a whole
bunch of individuals that portrayed in the in the entire movement.
And a lot of people that probably necessarily isn't highlight as much So
we just want to give more insight to because everyone contribute in
their own way there were no big or small roles.
So I think that's like one of the what the ultimate best thing [LAUGH] for
us how we're doing it too just showing like,
every role is important everybody's doing something there's no big or small role.
There's no person is doing more than the next person everyone's like
everyone did their part in their own way.
And I think that's like the whole message we trying to put out as well, even today,
you know, like, you know, it's not a whole graph of who's doing the most or
who's doing the least like everyone's doing their part, you know.
and I think that's like, you know, the whole point of us trying to get across.
>> Montez something I just love getting to witness is you and
Bianca back stage Friday smack down watching each other during
your own respective matches and here is a perfect example.
You were watching her so intently from start to finish we are seeing you so
emotional here after she won.
Can you walk us through your emotions from the moment she walked out of the curtains,
and the moment she's here being embraced by you?
>> Yeah like there's like Tom stop sometimes like me watching I
get way more nervous for all of her stuff in their mind.
Like it's just because I always want her to do well and like succeed and
just like the range of motion that happened was just just being so
like happy it's just so happy.
So, so happy, so happy and blessed and just to know that everyone,
the person that I share my life with the person that I've seen all the sacrifices,
the hard work and the endurance and everything this person went through.
And to see them like Make history like that and to point that sign and
just see all of it like come together, that you've done in these last few years,
it was very overwhelming like, of emotions like type of moment.
And I'm just so so so so happy for, so happy for you, God is good but
yeah, it was it was crazy.
I guess one of the moments where you can't describe was like I said,
people you love and care about and
take care about it when they do well, it just means something, so.
>> Well [LAUGH] a couple days after she won that Royal Rumble she joined us here
on the Bump we asked her about they're very abrasive this is what she said.
>> Man, this moment here, like, it's so
amazing that I get to do what I love alongside the person that I love.
And when I came to the court and he was the first person that I got to go to this
moment it, I couldn't find my words in this moment and all I did,
I just hugged him and I didn't know what to do.
I was just looking at him and I'm like,
only thing I could think of was I just said, can we pray?
That's all I could think of and I asked him can we pray?
And he took me in and he prayed for me and he prayed on me in that moment and
so just to be able to share that moment with him was amazing I'm so blessed.
He's such a great man and I like that was the best moment there all I
could think of was the pray it was like picture perfect tears.
>> There's a couple parts of that because the history you just talked about of her
winning the Royal Rumble is one thing, but now.
Because our cameras are rolling,
we got to see that.And I feel like that's gonna be part of WWE history forever.
Just you two celebrating that victory what does that mean on top of everything else?
That's probably gonna be in WrestleMania, and Royal Rumble video packages for
the next 30 years, >> The rest of time.
Man is, the best way to describe it is like just seeing like, you know,
like with everyone knows like the current state of like what's going on with
the world right now so many hardships that people are going through.
And like how people have to adjust so much in this time and you know, so much like.
Like grievance and like for, for
us to like still push through all of this and still take on all that weight.
And still go out there and, and put our all into stuff and to succeed and
to still do it and still give people like inspiration in this time of need,
like That's what it's like all about.
And not I'm not trying to be real hard pressed but
[LAUGH] it's just hard explaining something Sometimes like and, and for
us to be doing it together it's just it's another blessing on top of a blessing?
And just to be there cuz like a lot of people right now that going through things
and I feel like There's been this platform and being the ability to show and
like steal give people like hey look like we are going through this together.
But like just just push together hope somebody embrace somebody lift them up,
still push them through so
they can still do the things that they need to do in life.
You know so it is yeah, let me stop rambling but yeah [LAUGH].