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00:12:53.920I mean, if you've watched, you know, WrestleMania was the most talked about, most watched on social media more than any other WrestleMania in history.
00:13:02.460So the fans are really getting involved with it.
00:13:04.760And it's allowing us to do different types of matches.
00:13:07.640Like, if you saw the Firefly Funhouse with John Cena versus Bray Wyatt, The Fiend, it was one of the coolest matches I've ever seen.
00:21:52.660then I it's my job to make sure that I make sure people believe it and it starts with the fans the
00:21:58.440fans start believing that you are worthy of the WWE title then guess what everyone else is going
00:22:05.020to start believing and everyone else is going to start coming around and it's your job to do
00:22:08.940everything you can to make sure that happens and if it doesn't I always blame you I always blame
00:22:14.880me that's just how I am yeah what are you doing uh when you're not on camera to to maintain that
00:22:21.720that uh i mean okay i'll give you for instance uh john morrison and myself uh decided that uh
00:22:28.920you know we were gonna write a rap now i am not a rapper by any means whatsoever but john morrison
00:22:36.600and i were driving in a car we were having a four-hour drive and we were like you know what
00:22:40.980we should write a rap and see if we can get a beat and see then we can do a music video
00:22:47.840and this could be a whole thing leading up to Wrestlemania so literally we we started doing
00:22:53.760uh rhymes started doing bars as they call them and in the rap world and then we uh then we we
00:23:00.980asked for a beat and WWE gave us a beat and then we went to our digital team and said hey can we
00:23:08.580can you film like a music video for us and they're like well what do you mean I was like I don't know
00:23:12.800we're just going to start doing the rap and you know do a music video so all leading up to our
00:23:18.780wrestlemania match we had a rap video basically uh you know talking about the new day talking
00:23:26.480about the usos talking about how great we are who the new day and the usos are the people that we
00:23:31.920are going up against so it was a diss track on the usos and the new day and why we are so amazing
00:23:37.240and why we are the smackdown tag team champions that is something that we went uh that's going
00:23:41.940above and beyond that is not something that is asked of you for smackdown on fox or whether if
00:23:48.780you're on raw on usa that is something that we went and said we can do this another thing john
00:23:54.000morrison and i did we did a trailer uh we did a ripoff of once upon a time in hollywood which you
00:24:00.060can see on wwe's youtube page uh we literally did uh wrote uh like kind of like directed uh you know
00:24:07.820had had a say in all the editing and all the parts and we did a trailer basically about the
00:24:12.920story of what we were doing for our match and so these are the little things the little nuances
00:24:18.500that we do you know a lot of new uh wwe superstars that are coming up into wwe always ask me advice
00:24:25.060i go listen you need to find every single avenue every tool that wwe has you need to utilize those
00:24:31.980tools and sometimes people aren't going to ask this of you it's your job to go out there and do
00:24:38.320the best possible thing you possibly can to get noticed to get talked about and that's what john
00:24:43.340morrison and i are doing right now i mean even with 14 years 15 years in wwe i'm still doing it
00:24:48.700to the day what about physicality y'all y'all are in great shape and so what does your workout
00:24:55.160routine look like so i have so uh as of like about almost a year ago i would say um my body wasn't
00:25:04.120where it was it it it was at like i'm i'm coming close to 40 and like i've never uh been injured
00:25:12.920per se in wwe where you know i had to take a long time a period out you know maybe one week here
00:25:20.200one week there but i've never been gone for so long with wwe and i'm trying to make sure that
00:25:25.360i'm able to do that while keeping you know while traveling how wwe you know before the whole uh
00:25:32.800thing that is going on right now you know wwe would travel every single week to so many different
00:25:37.840cities like how do you keep your body in shape how do you keep your meals correct so i hired a chef
00:25:42.380that basically got me gluten-free dairy-free uh and then i hired a uh a trainer to get me in shape
00:25:49.240I don't like going to the gym. As a matter of fact, I hate the gym. But I know that, like I was saying before, you need tools to get everything that you want. And if I want to be WWE champion, I have to look like a champion, present myself like a champion. And I have to be able to withstand anything in that WWE ring. So I have a trainer that understands that I'm not 25 anymore, that I'm 39, that I need to be that I need to train for what I'm doing. And it needs to be functional.
00:26:17.240So I, I basically have, you know, kind of done that.
00:26:21.140Yeah, dude, I did, um, I did Lucha Libre for, for, for a show that I was doing called
00:26:28.500Logan Paul versus, and this particular show was Logan Paul versus Lucha, Luchador.
00:26:32.920And, uh, it was, it was one of the hardest, like physically taxing things I had ever done.
00:26:38.360I actually, um, I, I, I am unable to do it because of how hard and how, how rough it
00:26:44.740I think a lot of people underestimate just how hard it is to be throwing yourself off the top ring and slamming yourself onto the mat.
00:26:51.420Like, oh, yeah, I do. I got I got a concussion from this show and I've already I've suffered, you know, a handful of concussions from head trauma in high school and football.
00:27:01.060But I mean, is have you just mastered the the I guess technique or how are you not?
00:27:07.980I don't think you could ever master the technique of being a professional wrestler.
00:27:13.160you know it's it you know professional wrestling it's just so unique and if I mean if you look at
00:27:18.500you know Lucha Libre you look at guys like Rey Mysterio I mean he is the best I think at Lucha
00:27:26.020Libre and not only that but bringing it to the WWE style and I mean he is one of the most popular
00:27:33.020one of the most notorious for just being you know he I mean he's not the biggest guy but you believe
00:27:39.580Every time Rey Mysterio goes into that ring, no matter how big the competitor he's going up against, he can defeat that person.
00:27:46.480And that's the genius of Rey Mysterio, as well as, you know, just, you know, with moves and everything that we've done,
00:27:54.100I don't think you could ever master being a professional wrestler because there's just so much to digest.
00:28:00.120Every audience, every setting is different.
00:28:02.740you know whether it's zero audience in the crowd or there's you know a hundred thousand at
00:28:08.560wrestlemania there's just a difference between you know everything so you always have to make
00:28:13.480sure that you're doing that right we're watching a little ray mysterio right now this man is quick
00:28:19.220like these movies are crazy dude yeah my my i've literally felt my brain bouncing off of my skull
00:28:25.160and that's when i that's when i stopped doing that forever did you logan did you watch uh wrestling
00:28:30.040growing up uh a big wrestling a lot of my friends did i i'd i'd catch it occasionally i was a huge
00:28:36.080fan of the undertaker yeah and also the ultimate warrior i watched all that stuff growing up i'm
00:28:41.20035 mike so i have i'm probably you know in the similar class of what you watched when you grew0.84
00:28:45.800up is it the same undertaker yes how is that fucking possible he's gotta be he's gotta be0.65
00:28:52.700like the rumor right like there's there's another undertaker there's one undertaker let me tell you0.96
00:28:58.300something when you when you are standing in a ring and you get to watch the undertaker's entrance
00:29:03.740there is no one more intimidating than the undertaker it's it's it's there's only one
00:29:11.320and there only can be one and there will never be anyone like the undertaker ever again how tall
00:29:16.180is a one-of-a-kind talent it's six ten he's six ten six ten oh yeah that's yeah that's a scary
00:29:24.000dude yeah i don't want i don't want to not let this guy break into my house the mike the paul
00:29:28.040bear died right the what the the guy he used to come out with paul bear yeah yeah he unfortunately
00:29:34.200passed away yeah yeah yeah so so okay so i'm imagining that just looking through my soul and
00:29:39.400i say through my soul like specifically because he doesn't look at your soul he looks through
00:29:42.980mike do you mike similarly to to some people do with the rap game do you look at the days of uh
00:29:49.400like the days of the past is like the good old days.
00:48:14.140I think the one thing that you, him, Justin, and MGK all have in common is you're so obsessed with the thing that you're putting your energy into that it doesn't matter how long it takes, how much effort, how much energy.
00:48:27.180You're going to do your best, and you're going to learn how to be the best at it.