1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,880 If you can, well, I can't hold it. Yeah, hold it right there. 2 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:12,900 This is a metaphor for my existence professionally. 3 00:00:13,340 --> 00:00:14,860 Do you want me to spray this back a little bit? 4 00:00:15,060 --> 00:00:16,820 Is it falling down? Just a little bit. Yeah. 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,500 I call them my grandpa monsters. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,840 That's where I'm at in life. I don't think so. Come on. 7 00:00:25,620 --> 00:00:27,740 Untold. We're just going to do one continuous take. 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:28,960 Here we go. 9 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:32,619 Edge is the tough son of a gun, a great challenge. 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,220 And look at this great blue! 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,460 And that's all of it. Edge will win his first match. 12 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:43,400 It's all... And the captain has won it. 13 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:45,200 Kirk doesn't look impressed. 14 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:48,200 Who in the hell are you? 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,640 Ruthless aggression. 16 00:01:02,410 --> 00:01:09,050 My goal was to have 0 % of the audience liking anything that Edge does. 17 00:01:09,590 --> 00:01:13,110 What I thought John needed was somebody that was willing to do that. 18 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:17,990 The WWE Championship is on the line here tonight. 19 00:01:19,130 --> 00:01:25,770 This night is not 20 00:01:25,770 --> 00:01:29,030 over. Edge is testing in. 21 00:01:29,610 --> 00:01:33,990 and casting it in big time when John Cena is at his weakest. 22 00:01:34,550 --> 00:01:38,310 Edge will spear John Cena over and over again if he has to. 23 00:01:38,530 --> 00:01:40,010 Oh, and again. 24 00:01:40,590 --> 00:01:47,130 He did it. I can't believe it. Edge had 25 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:48,130 sucked. 26 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:06,690 I think the reason that Edge or I think the reason that Adam and I fit so well 27 00:02:06,690 --> 00:02:09,330 is we're both from the same mold. 28 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:11,850 Adam's a wrestling man. 29 00:02:12,330 --> 00:02:13,950 Oh, my God, what's going to happen? 30 00:02:14,870 --> 00:02:15,870 Oh, my God! 31 00:02:16,210 --> 00:02:17,790 Oh, my God! 32 00:02:18,110 --> 00:02:19,410 Oh, my God! 33 00:02:20,710 --> 00:02:26,030 First time I met John, John was still in his wearing a different color to match 34 00:02:26,030 --> 00:02:27,430 every local team face. 35 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:31,030 Honestly, 36 00:02:32,810 --> 00:02:36,230 he got brought to SmackDown and they kind of put him under my wing a little 37 00:02:36,230 --> 00:02:40,630 along with Ray. And the three of us were the ruthless aggression guys. 38 00:02:41,090 --> 00:02:42,670 What kind of ruthless aggression do you have, Junior? 39 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:43,870 Huh? Oh! 40 00:02:46,170 --> 00:02:48,670 What the hell? 41 00:02:49,130 --> 00:02:53,170 I mean, clearly you could tell there's a look and there's something there. 42 00:02:54,270 --> 00:02:57,390 When I came into WWE, I failed. 43 00:02:58,030 --> 00:03:03,070 and then was given a chance to succeed at a very low level and worked my way up 44 00:03:03,070 --> 00:03:05,410 through every level. Hey, tons of fun. 45 00:03:05,690 --> 00:03:11,730 I know you listen, so I'm about to drop a heavyweight dose of drugonomics on 46 00:03:11,730 --> 00:03:12,629 you. 47 00:03:12,630 --> 00:03:16,570 And that's what I taught my sons all along. Hard work pays off. Stay with it, 48 00:03:16,590 --> 00:03:17,590 and you will succeed. 49 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:21,930 I guess I'm the crackpot that's going, come on, get in my booty, man. Look, he 50 00:03:21,930 --> 00:03:24,970 just pulled his hair. Come on, John. Don't take that. What's going to affect 51 00:03:24,970 --> 00:03:26,470 John Cena's wrestling ability? 52 00:03:27,670 --> 00:03:28,589 That will as well. 53 00:03:28,590 --> 00:03:30,090 You name it, it happened to me. 54 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:34,790 But what also happened to me was a chance to walk down that ramp every 55 00:03:37,090 --> 00:03:41,270 I've always said you can do all the wrestling moves in the world, but if 56 00:03:41,270 --> 00:03:44,630 character is not over, if your character is not established, and your character 57 00:03:44,630 --> 00:03:47,330 isn't fleshed out, it doesn't matter how many wrestling moves you do. 58 00:03:47,990 --> 00:03:49,190 John understood that. 59 00:03:53,550 --> 00:04:00,170 Here is a gentleman who was introduced with Christian as a pair, as lackeys 60 00:04:00,170 --> 00:04:07,070 in the brood, and then they managed to get themselves in a tag team, which they 61 00:04:07,070 --> 00:04:09,530 were really good at. 62 00:04:10,090 --> 00:04:11,090 Oh, look at that! 63 00:04:12,370 --> 00:04:13,790 Oh, my God! 64 00:04:14,010 --> 00:04:17,810 And it's for the 25 -meter with a spear on Jeff Hardy! 65 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:23,630 He broke in in a certain way, defined himself in a certain way, and then was 66 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:27,990 to redefining himself. But he was so good as a tag team competitor or a tag 67 00:04:27,990 --> 00:04:32,010 performer that when it was like, no, I think he should be on his own, that idea 68 00:04:32,010 --> 00:04:32,969 came up. 69 00:04:32,970 --> 00:04:36,250 Everybody's like, of course not. He's not going to make it. He's a tag team 70 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:42,670 For a while, I didn't know who Edge was. 71 00:04:43,050 --> 00:04:47,510 It wasn't until a certain point where I feel like everything kind of clicked in. 72 00:04:47,610 --> 00:04:48,610 You know, there was... 73 00:04:48,950 --> 00:04:51,850 There was treading water for a while. There was barely keeping my head above 74 00:04:51,850 --> 00:04:58,750 water for a while. But when I really felt like I started to swim and in deep 75 00:04:58,750 --> 00:05:02,030 waters, it would have been around like 06. 76 00:05:02,610 --> 00:05:05,470 That's when it felt like everything clicked. 77 00:05:06,150 --> 00:05:10,790 I understand that some people are calling me a cheap champion. 78 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:17,590 But the fact is, I won this title fair and square. 79 00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:26,490 And then you factor in that while John and Adam have some similar mindsets on a 80 00:05:26,490 --> 00:05:27,490 lot of things, 81 00:05:27,650 --> 00:05:30,430 John Cena and Edge are polar opposites on everything. 82 00:05:31,210 --> 00:05:35,490 And, you know, Edge is a rock and roll guy. He doesn't care if he's got to get 83 00:05:35,490 --> 00:05:39,650 his hands dirty, get in the gutter, and do whatever it takes to win. John Cena, 84 00:05:39,870 --> 00:05:44,830 by this point, had become this kind of bastion of never give up. 85 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,320 I'm sure a lot of kids, just like I did with Hulk Hogan with the train, say your 86 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,540 prayers and eat your vitamins, that that's what this was. 87 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,640 So when I started to look at it in terms of the historical aspect, which is what 88 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,900 I always do growing up as a fan of this, Hulk Hogan had Roddy Piper. 89 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:08,180 And I wanted to be Roddy Piper to John's Hulk Hogan. 90 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:12,180 The fact that we're doing this, I guess, means it worked. 91 00:06:19,210 --> 00:06:24,190 I think that essentially Edge and John Cena needed one another. 92 00:06:24,530 --> 00:06:31,510 And it was an opportunity at the time to show the work that, A, Edge 93 00:06:31,510 --> 00:06:36,150 had done up until this point to get to the position and company that Edge had 94 00:06:36,150 --> 00:06:41,550 gotten to. And John Cena needed a foe to overcome that had been along that 95 00:06:41,550 --> 00:06:42,550 similar course. 96 00:06:43,180 --> 00:06:48,520 So much emotion, so much athleticism, so much hatred between John Cena and Edge. 97 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:56,720 To me, Edge is John Cena's greatest rival of all time. And to 98 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,180 see these two fight, you're not only watching two guys who are fighting to be 99 00:07:01,180 --> 00:07:06,560 the top person going forward in WWE, you're seeing two guys fighting to 100 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,840 represent what the next era in WWE is going to be about. 101 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:19,920 So I loved the idea of trying to make things more personal. People always want 102 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,600 an answer to the question, why are these guys fighting? 103 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:27,280 So when someone was like, hey, we're going to bring Edge to West Newbury and 104 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:32,340 he's going to film with your dad, I was like, okay, now I have motive. 105 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,280 You mess with my family, that's the line. 106 00:07:35,180 --> 00:07:37,220 So I was like, okay, this is going to be great. 107 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,540 Then they went to West Newbury. 108 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:53,980 Welcome to West Newbury, Massachusetts, the home of the former WWE champion John 109 00:07:53,980 --> 00:07:59,040 Cena. You see, me and my lovely lady Lita, we came up here to see what makes 110 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,060 John Cena tick. 111 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,620 And we know exactly where we have to go to do it. 112 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:05,100 Ha! 113 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:13,600 So, we went to John's house, his boyhood home, and we met John Cena 114 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,600 Sr. 115 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:16,960 What are you doing here? Mr. Cena! 116 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:19,720 John Cena's father. 117 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:24,340 Right. In the flesh. I finally get to see the loins that inspired so many 118 00:08:24,340 --> 00:08:26,700 millions of posers around the world. 119 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:29,260 Nice. I get a call from WWE. 120 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,419 As a matter of fact, it was Bruce Prichard. Bruce said, hello, Mr. Cena, 121 00:08:32,419 --> 00:08:33,640 Bruce Prichard from WWE. 122 00:08:34,260 --> 00:08:39,020 Your son's in a program with Edge. We'd like to come down and do some filming at 123 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:39,759 your home. 124 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,240 I said, of course. Anything to help WWE and my son, I'll do it. I'll do it. Did 125 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,119 I invite you? 126 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,340 Well, it's just that... I don't know. Did you invite me? 127 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:48,799 Hey, pops. 128 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:49,880 Have a nice day, both of you. 129 00:08:50,820 --> 00:08:51,820 Don't think so. 130 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,280 Sometimes you have ideas in your head. 131 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,540 And you think about them and go, wouldn't it be cool if... And you could 132 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:02,360 this story from a different perspective. 133 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,060 And you could go do things. 134 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,000 And in your head, you have it working out one way. 135 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:14,440 But when you're dealing with real people, children, and animals... 136 00:09:14,810 --> 00:09:15,950 Anything can happen. 137 00:09:16,370 --> 00:09:19,410 Oh, look what we have here. 138 00:09:19,610 --> 00:09:22,590 Larry Bird, babe. What you got? 139 00:09:23,850 --> 00:09:25,370 What the hell is his bed? 140 00:09:28,750 --> 00:09:32,430 I think we're in it. 141 00:09:32,970 --> 00:09:34,650 Get the hell out of my house! 142 00:09:35,470 --> 00:09:39,150 And we had a rough plan that, you know. 143 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,420 Lita and Edge would go throughout the house and kind of make fun of John's 144 00:09:42,420 --> 00:09:45,200 bedroom where there's a mattress on the floor and there's jerseys everywhere. 145 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,780 And surely John didn't get any action on this mattress, you know, things like 146 00:09:48,780 --> 00:09:53,780 that. And then finally we get down to the bottom room and John's dad was 147 00:09:53,780 --> 00:09:56,140 involved in this part of the package. 148 00:09:56,980 --> 00:10:01,560 John's dad has a very interesting delivery. 149 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,540 I don't remember inviting you here. 150 00:10:03,740 --> 00:10:04,880 Spit it out. Shut up. 151 00:10:05,550 --> 00:10:12,290 The best way I can put this, and I hope my father takes this with endearing 152 00:10:12,290 --> 00:10:15,170 respect, so this is the with all due respect, and then I say something. 153 00:10:15,390 --> 00:10:22,230 With all due respect, my dad's segment with Edge, he pretty much, 154 00:10:22,250 --> 00:10:27,730 I think he channeled his inner vaudevillian greatest showman sort of 155 00:10:28,090 --> 00:10:30,750 Take your ass and get out of my house! 156 00:10:30,990 --> 00:10:34,450 Both of you, now. I don't remember biting either one of you. I'm calling 157 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:35,710 police. Leave now. 158 00:10:36,370 --> 00:10:39,230 Now, I said. Hey, you can't go up there. Stop. 159 00:10:40,490 --> 00:10:41,510 John Cena Sr. 160 00:10:41,790 --> 00:10:48,030 kind of looked at things in a different light. He was always going to perform. 161 00:10:48,750 --> 00:10:52,630 So when you would give him lines and you would give him, here's how we'd like 162 00:10:52,630 --> 00:10:56,630 you to act, it would turn in from something being genuine and something 163 00:10:56,630 --> 00:10:59,770 heartfelt to, let me tell you something, chicky -do. 164 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:07,130 It was just, all right, buddy, I'm going to take you. It was 165 00:11:07,130 --> 00:11:12,970 brutal. What's up with this wall? Talk about the proud papa putting up all the 166 00:11:12,970 --> 00:11:17,350 Cena mementos. And, I mean, let's face it, that replica title, that's the 167 00:11:17,350 --> 00:11:19,490 closest that John's going to get to this thing ever again. You don't come into 168 00:11:19,490 --> 00:11:21,670 my house and talk that way about my son. 169 00:11:21,910 --> 00:11:26,990 You know what? My son is going to kick your ass at SummerSlam. 170 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,220 You know, it's freewheeling here. So what do I do? How do I do this? I go to 171 00:11:31,220 --> 00:11:34,660 living room. There he is making fun of the belts on the wall. 172 00:11:35,020 --> 00:11:38,600 You know what? I've had enough of both of you. I'm calling the police. I'm 173 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,440 of both of you. Hold on a second. Hold on. 174 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,800 Listen, just know that after SummerSlam, you and John are going to have a lot of 175 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,660 time together because after I beat him, he's going to have to come back here and 176 00:11:47,660 --> 00:11:50,120 be a nobody in this one -horse town once again. 177 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:53,260 And next thing I know, I said, slap me. 178 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:55,500 Bam! He slapped me. 179 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:56,920 Ah! 180 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:13,280 And so we filmed that portion of it, which ended with me, you 181 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:14,700 know, flapping John's dad. 182 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,080 And then, of course, the finishing line was, you really think that's it? Well, 183 00:12:19,140 --> 00:12:25,860 just wait. Just wait. I'll see you at SummerSlam. And it's going to be one, 184 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,400 three. You're out! 185 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:32,080 SummerSlam! One, two, three! 186 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,980 Is that right? 187 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:46,140 I remember Edge calling me and being like, man, I'd like 188 00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:48,600 to think we did all right, but you're dead. 189 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:50,400 And he was trying to like, because it's my dad. 190 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:55,360 We flew basically straight from there, straight to Raw. 191 00:12:57,420 --> 00:13:02,520 We got there, and Vince saw the footage, and he goes, this is the worst thing 192 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:03,459 we've ever filmed. 193 00:13:03,460 --> 00:13:08,700 And as he said to Bruce Prichard, this is the worst I've ever seen. 194 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:10,560 That's worse. 195 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:12,640 The hell am I going to do with this? 196 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:14,620 Can you talk about that call? 197 00:13:15,660 --> 00:13:16,840 Oh, that was in person. 198 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,079 Shut up. 199 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,600 What? Are you going to put up a picture of me pinning your son? 200 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,680 You people want to see what happened? 201 00:13:26,570 --> 00:13:29,510 Let's roll it. Let's see for yourselves up on the Titan Shrine. 202 00:13:30,850 --> 00:13:33,210 Ah, there it is, the humble abode of the Cenas. 203 00:13:33,790 --> 00:13:40,770 So I had to ad -lib, VO, live, this 204 00:13:40,770 --> 00:13:46,530 footage. And then I find out that, wow, they really did get a lot of mileage out 205 00:13:46,530 --> 00:13:47,930 of this thing that wasn't so good. 206 00:13:48,270 --> 00:13:51,050 Come on, down goes Cena! Down goes Cena! 207 00:13:51,270 --> 00:13:52,390 Down goes Cena! 208 00:13:54,310 --> 00:13:55,710 It's a reprehensible game. 209 00:13:56,170 --> 00:13:58,270 Always there. 210 00:13:58,570 --> 00:13:59,509 Always on. 211 00:13:59,510 --> 00:14:01,570 So all I got to tell you is, mileage? 212 00:14:01,870 --> 00:14:04,950 I don't know what kind of truck you were driving, but you get a lot out of it. 213 00:14:12,430 --> 00:14:13,490 Tick. His. 214 00:14:26,190 --> 00:14:28,870 You pull into the Boston Garden and hear all these fans. 215 00:14:29,070 --> 00:14:30,070 How you doing, Mr. Cena? 216 00:14:30,190 --> 00:14:31,910 What do you think John's chances are? 217 00:14:32,190 --> 00:14:35,810 You know, it's like, I really don't know. I certainly hope he wins. 218 00:14:36,410 --> 00:14:41,390 Here's Massachusetts' own John Cena! 219 00:14:43,370 --> 00:14:47,550 Every time you see me come out, it's like I'm shot out of a cannon. 220 00:14:48,010 --> 00:14:52,210 Because I'm ready. I'm ready to go. And that's whether you're telling me I suck. 221 00:14:52,890 --> 00:14:56,210 or whether you're telling me that I'm great, it's why I orchestrate you to 222 00:14:56,210 --> 00:15:01,790 continue to make noise, because as a performer, this makes me feel 10 feet 223 00:15:01,930 --> 00:15:03,570 Just audible reaction. 224 00:15:04,750 --> 00:15:08,990 Here's the WWE champion, Ed! 225 00:15:10,510 --> 00:15:12,570 Again, my goal was always to get John cheered. 226 00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:17,450 And we thought maybe Boston would be an easy sell, and it turns out it wasn't. 227 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,760 I'm going to tell you a little story. I'm in Boston Garden. Here's John. 228 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,560 He's up front. He's in the ring. 229 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:31,020 Well, there's these five guys behind me, all chanting, Cena sucks. 230 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,260 So me, being the big mouth I am, I guess, I turned around to them. I said, 231 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:38,360 guys, it's okay to say Cena sucks. 232 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,920 They said, thanks, Mr. Cena. I said, but you've got to do me a favor. What's 233 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,660 that? Please take off his T -shirt. These five guys were in a Cena T -shirt 234 00:15:45,660 --> 00:15:47,080 going, Cena sucks. 235 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,320 Make up your mind. 236 00:15:52,010 --> 00:15:57,010 I love it when a group of people have so much energy that it's viscerally 237 00:15:57,010 --> 00:15:58,050 negative towards me. 238 00:16:00,870 --> 00:16:06,110 I also love it when the energy is so overwhelmingly positive, it does lift 239 00:16:06,110 --> 00:16:07,110 up. 240 00:16:09,150 --> 00:16:15,390 Like it's all so wonderful. 241 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:27,120 We had this match where if I get DQ'd, I lose the championship. 242 00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:34,440 And just that little stipulation adds so many different layers. 243 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,540 The brass 244 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:50,220 knuckles just felt. 245 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,600 Felt old school. 246 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,360 I believe that was an Arne Anderson call. 247 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,720 It was just trying to come up with a creative way to use something that 248 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:00,780 been used in a long time. 249 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:33,500 Was I disappointed? 250 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:38,580 I guess I was for the fans that were there hoping that this would be it. But 251 00:17:38,580 --> 00:17:43,120 was really happy to see that this feud wasn't done. It would go one step 252 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,780 further, and that would be in Canada. 253 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:53,540 Let's move on to the spinner belt. How the hell did that come around? Because 254 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:54,179 was cool. 255 00:17:54,180 --> 00:17:55,580 So you're the guy who thought it was cool. 256 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,800 How I was about the spinner championship belt. 257 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:06,080 I was much more involved and meticulous about the design, where the diamonds 258 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,780 should be, the size of the diamonds, the shape of the spinner, the size of the 259 00:18:09,780 --> 00:18:13,560 diamonds on the inside of the spinner, where the colored gems should be, the 260 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,160 difference in metal, what the leather should feel like. Like, I was so much 261 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,160 into that. 262 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,780 I hated the spinner belts. 263 00:18:22,620 --> 00:18:25,020 Despised them. When they came to me and said, we're going to do a rate at our 264 00:18:25,020 --> 00:18:26,560 championship, I was like, right, let me get to work. 265 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,240 I went home, I drew up a beautiful championship. 266 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,420 I mean, this thing was badass. 267 00:18:32,340 --> 00:18:35,740 And then I show up and they're like, well, no, we're just going to put your 268 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:37,580 in. It's like, that's it? 269 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,940 Because Edge wouldn't want a spinner belt. 270 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:47,160 That, to me, is the one championship that needs to look like a championship, 271 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,280 like somebody's hubcaps. 272 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,020 Why, look, it's my WWE title. 273 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,360 But truth be told, it's really more like John Cena's title. 274 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,120 I think we should remove the last remnants of John Cena. 275 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:04,480 So, Lita, babe, will you please do the honors for me? 276 00:19:05,740 --> 00:19:07,820 Babe, it would be my pleasure. 277 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:11,700 Take burial at sea? 278 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,360 Wait a minute, what? Oh, my God. 279 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,560 Oh, there it goes. 280 00:19:19,580 --> 00:19:21,260 Goodbye, sayonara. 281 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:26,240 Lita throwing the championship into the Long Island Sound, what a great... 282 00:19:26,410 --> 00:19:27,690 vehicle for our story. 283 00:19:28,070 --> 00:19:29,490 Man, I loved it when they did that. 284 00:19:30,010 --> 00:19:32,730 So what? It's the end of a chapter and we'll start a new one. 285 00:19:33,010 --> 00:19:34,510 What the hell is going on? 286 00:19:38,470 --> 00:19:39,470 Oh my. 287 00:19:42,490 --> 00:19:43,490 Isn't it beautiful? 288 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:44,950 Isn't it gorgeous? 289 00:19:45,410 --> 00:19:48,170 But the cool thing is, it kept us going. 290 00:19:56,649 --> 00:20:01,810 No random force blew up or destroyed or sunk the championship. It was directly 291 00:20:01,810 --> 00:20:03,370 involved in the narrative. 292 00:20:03,810 --> 00:20:05,170 We're fighting to see who's the best. 293 00:20:05,850 --> 00:20:06,850 Bad boys. 294 00:20:07,570 --> 00:20:10,810 You took my property and you threw it away. 295 00:20:11,430 --> 00:20:15,070 A place where I couldn't get it. Something that I really, really covet. 296 00:20:15,070 --> 00:20:18,490 stole from me and then you threw it away. 297 00:20:18,899 --> 00:20:20,700 Ed's just trying to run away from Cena. 298 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:21,900 Get the camera back there. 299 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:24,640 Ed's just trying to run out the back of the building. 300 00:20:27,620 --> 00:20:29,540 Ed's out running out the back door. 301 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:31,160 We need more help out there. 302 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,200 After last night at Summer Slam and after the history of these two men, the 303 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,660 things that Ed has done to John Cena. 304 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,080 Interesting story about Long Island Sound. 305 00:20:39,860 --> 00:20:43,160 I didn't realize that it's the most polluted body of water in the United 306 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:04,640 I started to get an inkling of that when the divers that were there 307 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,700 to help pull me into the boat were fully, fully covered. 308 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,940 And that's when I went, hmm, I'm in tights. 309 00:21:18,379 --> 00:21:20,980 And then I went home and was sick for a week. 310 00:21:46,670 --> 00:21:50,950 I remember driving to Rochester, New York, because I went to my son Stephen's 311 00:21:50,950 --> 00:21:57,130 house, and Steve and I got into his little old putt -putt car, and we drove 312 00:21:57,130 --> 00:22:00,330 Toronto, Canada, to watch his brother Russell. 313 00:22:04,130 --> 00:22:07,750 I tell you, I thought it was a short ride from Rochester to Toronto. 314 00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:15,570 It was a day filled with... 315 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:16,719 Question marks. 316 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:21,080 Questions like, how are the fans going to react when this John Cena kid comes 317 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,240 out? Obviously, they're going to boo him. What are they going to do when Edge 318 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,720 comes out? What if Edge loses? 319 00:22:25,980 --> 00:22:28,000 What's going to happen? What will be the response? 320 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:31,780 And so all those things are going through your mind. And the closer we got 321 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:35,480 Toronto, as I spoke to my son Steve, he said, Dad, just relax. 322 00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:37,360 Take it easy. It's going to be all right. 323 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,400 16 ,000 fans have subbed out the Air Canada Center. There have been four 324 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,180 Canadian WWE champions in the history of this company. 325 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,280 Will you listen to this ovation? 326 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:02,040 Indeed, a huge home field advantage for Edge, who grew up in the shadow of 327 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:07,680 Toronto, who dreamed quite frankly unsure of this moment as a young man. 328 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:11,240 Honestly, I think when I first came out, I knew it was going to be special. 329 00:23:11,780 --> 00:23:15,620 And I prided myself on always being the bad guy. 330 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:17,720 But that reacted with me. 331 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:28,480 To be main eventing your hometown for the WWE Championship in such a high 332 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,920 -profile match against that generation's Hulk Hogan. 333 00:23:33,620 --> 00:23:38,180 That... Just very, very special. 334 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,940 Well, maybe the first time I've ever heard anyone cheer this guy. 335 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:44,240 But you're right. 336 00:23:45,070 --> 00:23:48,950 Almost everyone in this arena are on their feet for their hometown favorite. 337 00:23:50,550 --> 00:23:51,550 I'm telling you. 338 00:23:52,170 --> 00:23:59,130 Me not being able to control my pride, my 339 00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:05,910 little kid happiness, that's the one thing that I wish I could go, oh, what 340 00:24:05,910 --> 00:24:07,010 could have turned that crowd? 341 00:24:07,550 --> 00:24:09,210 Maybe I could have turned that crowd. 342 00:24:09,950 --> 00:24:13,530 Because if I could have turned that crowd, now, 343 00:24:15,070 --> 00:24:16,130 Now you're talking. 344 00:24:16,770 --> 00:24:23,730 And that's one thing that if I could have a take back, I'd try for that. 345 00:24:42,350 --> 00:24:46,850 So many times the daunting task as a performer is to 346 00:24:46,850 --> 00:24:51,650 decide like, okay, what do we paint today? 347 00:24:55,090 --> 00:25:01,910 When you walk into a TLC match with Edge, it's a 348 00:25:01,910 --> 00:25:02,910 day off. 349 00:25:02,930 --> 00:25:06,310 Like he invented it. 350 00:25:06,590 --> 00:25:13,160 The match can only end when one man. to climb the ladder and retrieve the WWE 351 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:19,500 championship belt that is currently around the waist of the champion, Edge. 352 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,160 Plus, Edge has never lost a tables, ladders, and chairs match. Again, he's a 353 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:25,999 solid guy. 354 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,740 He's a guy that if you're going to go to battle, you want to go to battle with 355 00:25:28,740 --> 00:25:30,220 him, you know, shoulder to shoulder. 356 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,400 That's really what a TLC match is. 357 00:25:33,940 --> 00:25:35,520 You're going into the trenches together. 358 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,080 And hopefully... 359 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,560 you come out relatively unscathed. 360 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,600 We're off and running here again. No pitfalls, no submissions, no 361 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,500 disqualifications, no count -outs. 362 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:50,040 Only one way to win. 363 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:53,940 Find the ladder, retreat the title belt, which is hanging high above the ring. 364 00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:58,580 My philosophy on the contact nature of sports entertainment is we're in control 365 00:25:58,580 --> 00:25:59,239 of this. 366 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:05,740 If you don't feel you can do something, you shouldn't do it. 367 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:06,880 Oh, boy. 368 00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:14,320 It's not the first time you put on skates and pads or pads 369 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,700 and a helmet for football, or it's not the first time you put two feet in the 370 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:19,780 paint in basketball. 371 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:26,280 The joy is being able to play the game. The game comes with its contact. 372 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,180 John's a very physical performer. 373 00:26:37,199 --> 00:26:42,180 It was a hard match, but you know that going in, you know what you're in for. 374 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,160 It was great. 375 00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:52,460 It was great. 376 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,620 The Canadian fans are going crazy, and right behind me is Edge's mother. She 377 00:26:57,620 --> 00:27:00,940 said, I hope they're going to be all right. I said, yes, it's a good match. 378 00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:01,939 work well together. 379 00:27:01,940 --> 00:27:03,900 Very good chemistry between these two. 380 00:27:07,970 --> 00:27:08,970 Furniture. 381 00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:12,750 Now what John Cena got in mind, JR? Cena thinking here. 382 00:27:13,050 --> 00:27:18,550 At one point, John put me in the STF while I was trapped in a ladder. 383 00:27:20,070 --> 00:27:25,350 Because the ladder added an extra distance from his arms, he actually 384 00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:27,710 out. And you can watch me pass out. 385 00:27:30,750 --> 00:27:33,950 I mean, he's going to have to tap out, but it's not going to mean anything. 386 00:27:34,830 --> 00:27:36,110 He's just tapping out. 387 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:44,380 I just remember hearing an alarm and thinking I was late for an Air Canada 388 00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:50,580 flight and hearing this weird... When I came to, it was me making the noise, 389 00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:55,280 and I was looking up at the Air Canada Center logo that had never been choked 390 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,280 out before. 391 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:03,020 And then it was just, you know, get to the next thing. I never knew that Adam 392 00:28:03,020 --> 00:28:06,980 was in any sort of jeopardy. And that's also one of those things that, like... 393 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,560 to do a submission hold with a bulky ladder, those are two creative guys 394 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:17,480 like, we're in this match where these things are different than a normal 395 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,440 We get to use tables, ladders, and chairs. And I think that's all we were 396 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,620 to do. But in looking back on it, probably could have got the point across 397 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:30,780 without it. I know, I think he's passed out. Remember, submissions and pinfalls 398 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:31,920 mean zero. 399 00:28:32,959 --> 00:28:34,260 Oh, good grief! 400 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:35,840 Right between the eyes. 401 00:28:36,060 --> 00:28:39,820 Cena wants this WWE title. Wait, wait, wait, wait. And he'll do any damn thing 402 00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:40,820 he can to get it. 403 00:28:42,860 --> 00:28:44,140 So I have a fear of heights. 404 00:28:46,740 --> 00:28:49,200 John's like his old man. I have a fear of heights myself. 405 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,040 When I climb a ladder, my kids laugh at me because I'm hugging the ladder like 406 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,100 it's my last day. 407 00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:58,820 Yeah, sure, John Cena was afraid of heights. Okay. 408 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:00,780 Have a good match. 409 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,980 But once again, I only did what I knew I could do. 410 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:14,460 And I knew it was, you know, hopefully a new take on a maneuver they'd seen 411 00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:17,680 tens of thousands of times before. 412 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:25,420 He had to get through a lot of nerves to do that. 413 00:29:25,940 --> 00:29:29,960 But he did it. I think it's because it hurts every time you fall down. You kind 414 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,240 of get a gauge for, oh, this one's going to hurt. 415 00:29:32,620 --> 00:29:36,360 Edge, trying to fight, climb back into it. There's Edge. 416 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,300 Edge. Oh, my God. 417 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,100 Ladder to ladder. 418 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:42,580 Oh, this one's going to more than hurt. 419 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:43,840 Leader. 420 00:29:44,140 --> 00:29:45,140 Leader. 421 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,840 Leader. Leader. 422 00:29:47,340 --> 00:29:48,780 Oh, my God. 423 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:50,920 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 424 00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:55,140 Zena has passed. 425 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:56,900 He has burned. 426 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:01,220 John also was very trusting with me. I think he knew. 427 00:30:01,780 --> 00:30:06,360 that if I were going to throw something at the wall as an idea, it wouldn't be 428 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,360 something I would do myself. 429 00:30:09,020 --> 00:30:09,420 And 430 00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:16,500 I 431 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,820 was probably going to do much stupider things within the match anyway. 432 00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:24,180 There was another moment where I got pushed off the ladders through tables 433 00:30:24,180 --> 00:30:25,320 overshot the tables a little bit. 434 00:30:27,460 --> 00:30:28,680 It was a pretty bad landing. 435 00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:34,680 You just kind of shake it off, and we're this close now. 436 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,820 Well, he knows he's in the driver's seat right now. 437 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:44,200 Edge and Cena both are the type competitor and the type performer that 438 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:49,220 it's almost the opposite. They're going to have more energy, and they're going 439 00:30:49,220 --> 00:30:53,700 to have more ability at that time to do the hardest stuff. 440 00:30:54,740 --> 00:30:56,380 You know, looking back at the... 441 00:31:02,390 --> 00:31:08,750 The finish of this match needed to be that exclamation point, not just a 442 00:31:09,210 --> 00:31:12,810 We needed an exclamation point to finish this. 443 00:31:13,150 --> 00:31:14,750 That's what you came here for, John. 444 00:31:14,990 --> 00:31:17,230 You came to win the WWE title. 445 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:21,790 Cena placing that ladder, well, this is the smartest thing that Cena can do. 446 00:31:22,930 --> 00:31:28,940 I remember really asking him, Like, is this necessary? 447 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:32,660 It's pretty adamant. I figured that's the way it needs to go down. 448 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:35,240 Adam 449 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:42,000 is 450 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,120 comfortable knowing what falls he can withstand and what falls he can't. He is 451 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,960 much more of an iron man than me. I wouldn't do it. 452 00:32:00,159 --> 00:32:04,160 That's what we try and do is create those moments that will live on after 453 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,160 do. 454 00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:13,480 But it also speaks to the trust that I have with John. 455 00:32:14,340 --> 00:32:18,680 I knew I could trust him with my body to help me survive that. 456 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:25,060 I knew by the time we performed, I wasn't going to do it if I couldn't hit 457 00:32:25,060 --> 00:32:28,770 target. And here's John on top of the ladder. John, don't do this, John! 458 00:32:29,330 --> 00:32:30,410 John turned him. 459 00:32:31,430 --> 00:32:32,430 Edge posted. 460 00:32:33,110 --> 00:32:34,370 He let Edge go. 461 00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:37,290 The God Almighty! 462 00:32:39,210 --> 00:32:40,810 Jesus Almighty! 463 00:32:42,150 --> 00:32:46,090 All I can tell you is, my heart went in my throat. 464 00:32:48,330 --> 00:32:51,370 Because this kid is going through these tables. 465 00:32:53,820 --> 00:32:57,460 And when he hits the bottom, it doesn't move. 466 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,880 And I'm going, oh, man, get up, get up, get up. 467 00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:13,580 I just remember a huge sense of relief because I felt like it was a job well 468 00:33:13,580 --> 00:33:18,900 done. And I feel like Toronto got one hell of a main event. 469 00:33:24,239 --> 00:33:28,960 This was the storyline that truly 470 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,240 made sure that Edge was going to be there. 471 00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:35,100 John, to his credit, was already there. 472 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,360 He was able to help me get to a point where it was going to be sustainable 473 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,360 this. 474 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,340 What you hope for and what you strive for and what the goal should be out of 475 00:33:47,340 --> 00:33:52,120 every storyline is that both characters come away from it stronger. 476 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:58,900 And I'd like to think that both characters made massive leaps and bounds 477 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:00,580 through that storyline. 478 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:15,880 I really hope everyone watching knows just how gifted and caring and 479 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,120 amazing Adam is. 480 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,300 He's a good human being. 481 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,139 He's a great human being. 482 00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:27,260 He loves sports entertainment. 483 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,800 He's given so much to you guys. 484 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,780 And I also think he's aware of what you've given him. 485 00:34:45,940 --> 00:34:49,580 I loved, loved that match. 486 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,440 And the only one I could celebrate with after was my dad because he's the only 487 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,640 swing in the whole building that was cheering for me. 488 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,920 He didn't know I was going to do that. 489 00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:05,460 I just wanted to hug my dad. 490 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,300 For that moment, I can't hear anything. I can just, I can hear my father's 491 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:12,300 breath. 492 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,080 That's a way for me to tell my dad I love him and to mean him. 493 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:23,960 That's something that you can never take away. 494 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:25,800 He's my son. 495 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,060 I love you, John. 496 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,740 I'll always love you. 497 00:35:35,580 --> 00:35:36,580 Love you, kid.