1 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,760 The story is so much better if I'm honest. 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:12,460 I'm just going to talk. 3 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:17,720 In my long, almost year -long program with The Undertaker, I learned what a 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:19,920 receipt was the hard way. 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:23,820 So 6 00:00:23,820 --> 00:00:33,340 now, 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,300 he's 6 '10". So him on a knee. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,200 You know, he's still very tall, but he's considerably shorter than he normally 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,820 is. Now, there's a trajectory when you swing a chair, right? 10 00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:48,300 Keep that in mind. So he's on his knees. 11 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:51,760 So I back up, and I start to swing. 12 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:55,820 I was off by about this much. 13 00:00:56,260 --> 00:01:01,400 And when that chair came down, instead of hitting him here, I caught him with 14 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,420 the lip of the chair right about here. 15 00:01:05,030 --> 00:01:09,650 and I ripped the skin off of his forehead all the way down to the bridge 16 00:01:09,650 --> 00:01:11,590 nose, and he was covered in blood. 17 00:01:12,310 --> 00:01:13,610 That wasn't supposed to happen. 18 00:01:17,130 --> 00:01:17,530 The 19 00:01:17,530 --> 00:01:27,150 old 20 00:01:27,150 --> 00:01:31,290 school wrestling mentality is you get cracked in the chin, and you're like, 21 00:01:31,350 --> 00:01:33,890 okay, well, he ain't getting over on me, so I'm going to crack him back. 22 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:35,400 This is not ballet. 23 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,880 If you're going to be brutal, you got to be brutal. So I'm pants. 24 00:01:39,420 --> 00:01:40,420 We get back. 25 00:01:40,860 --> 00:01:42,280 I see him. I'm sorry. 26 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,760 I'm sorry. You know, I'm sorry. He just looks at me. 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Don't worry, kid. 28 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:47,920 Your receipts coming. 29 00:01:49,780 --> 00:01:53,720 So I'm like, oh, that sucks. 30 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,940 He's 20 years old. He's a third -generation superstar. 31 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:18,080 His father was Cowboy Bob Orton Jr., his grandfather the legendary Bob Orton 32 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,460 Sr., and Randy Orton has traveled to the OVW Training Center to hone his skills. 33 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:31,500 I had been in OVW, the WWE Developmental Territory, for six months, 34 00:02:31,660 --> 00:02:36,080 eight months, something like that. We used to run very small shows, but then 35 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:41,110 when we had our big show, When we had our WrestleMania, I believe it was an 36 00:02:41,110 --> 00:02:42,470 arena called Freedom Hall. 37 00:02:42,710 --> 00:02:48,530 And for my very first big show down there, I was wrestling a Rico 38 00:02:48,550 --> 00:02:54,890 But also on the card was Leviathan, Demon of the Deep, a .k .a. Dave 39 00:02:55,130 --> 00:03:00,070 And he was wrestling The Undertaker. And the first time I ever laid eyes on that 40 00:03:00,070 --> 00:03:04,150 man, he was standing in the back, looking tall, big, jacked, scary. 41 00:03:04,370 --> 00:03:06,750 He was observing who were going to be the guys. 42 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:11,340 that get called up soon that I might be able to work with. 43 00:03:11,580 --> 00:03:16,040 You have to remember, a lot of people have these preconceived ideas about who 44 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,040 Undertaker was. 45 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,760 I want to show my respect, and I want to move on before I do something stupid. A 46 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,580 lot of times, that's what I got. And until they were around me enough to 47 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:29,820 that I was there not only to be a talent, but I was also there to help and 48 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:30,940 of guide some of these guys. 49 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:32,340 I introduced myself. 50 00:03:32,740 --> 00:03:33,880 Hi, my name's Randy Orton. 51 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:38,620 And I'm sure he said something along the lines of, you're Bob's son, right? I 52 00:03:38,620 --> 00:03:44,160 said, yes, sir. And I remember Leviathan, Batista, and Taker went on to 53 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,920 up. Taker gave Batista so much offense and sold for him because that's what you 54 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,860 do. My job was not only to sell tickets and pay -per -views and put asses in 55 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:58,950 seats. But it's also to help that next generation to come along and keep the 56 00:03:58,950 --> 00:04:01,470 product fresh and keep it growing. 57 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:05,150 There's a lot of old -timers that didn't think that way. They would try and 58 00:04:05,150 --> 00:04:09,190 depress young guys and not let them develop because they were worried about 59 00:04:09,190 --> 00:04:10,189 their spot. 60 00:04:10,190 --> 00:04:14,590 And fortunately for me, I never really worried about that. With me, it was 61 00:04:14,590 --> 00:04:15,590 always business first. 62 00:04:18,050 --> 00:04:19,670 Undertaker was the measuring stick. 63 00:04:20,149 --> 00:04:24,590 And in order to step up and if you wanted to take your place, 64 00:04:25,570 --> 00:04:32,510 as a draw, and you wanted to take your place as a top performer, then you 65 00:04:32,510 --> 00:04:37,650 had to hold your own against The Undertaker. Because if you could do 66 00:04:37,650 --> 00:04:39,790 that meant you could pretty much hang with anyone. 67 00:04:40,210 --> 00:04:44,710 And if Undertaker gave you that endorsement, gave you that nod, 68 00:04:44,710 --> 00:04:48,330 little Undertaker dust on you, then you were good. 69 00:04:48,650 --> 00:04:53,350 Most times you're good for the rest of your career because you were able to 70 00:04:53,350 --> 00:04:59,270 in to that ring with the best and with the Godfather, if you will. 71 00:05:05,030 --> 00:05:06,770 You're Randy Orton. 72 00:05:07,010 --> 00:05:08,010 Yes, sir. 73 00:05:08,570 --> 00:05:10,050 He's getting a tryout match. 74 00:05:10,490 --> 00:05:13,950 Debuted on WWE television in 2002. 75 00:05:14,530 --> 00:05:19,570 Randy Orton, face first goes hard for Holly. Over, over, may heaven hook to 76 00:05:19,570 --> 00:05:22,690 leg. Had a great 2003. 77 00:05:23,150 --> 00:05:24,150 Went on. 78 00:05:24,250 --> 00:05:26,530 2004, kept rolling. 79 00:05:26,730 --> 00:05:30,470 Worked with Mick Foley. Became the youngest world heavyweight champion in 80 00:05:30,470 --> 00:05:33,890 history at SummerSlam. The Legend Killer idea came up. 81 00:05:34,390 --> 00:05:39,270 And I love that idea. This is the fabulous Moolah, okay? 82 00:05:39,470 --> 00:05:40,530 Randy Orton. 83 00:05:42,130 --> 00:05:43,190 Legend Killer. 84 00:05:47,710 --> 00:05:50,930 Target slaughter. 85 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,620 And I remember the office. It was creative. It might have been Bruce 86 00:06:01,620 --> 00:06:06,620 even. But they came to me and they said, listen, kid, Undertaker wants to work 87 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:10,600 with you. And I just, with me? 88 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,560 Undertaker, you're 12 -0 at WrestleMania. 89 00:06:15,820 --> 00:06:17,920 You're undefeated at WrestleMania. 90 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:23,260 The Undertaker's streak, his winning streak at WrestleMania, it wasn't a 91 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:24,820 yet. He was 12 -0. 92 00:06:25,340 --> 00:06:30,180 And I went into WrestleMania as the legend killer telling everybody I was 93 00:06:30,180 --> 00:06:32,680 to be the Undertaker's very first lot. 94 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,120 But look into my eyes when I say this. 95 00:06:38,380 --> 00:06:45,280 Soon, very soon, you will 96 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,140 be 12 and 1. 97 00:06:51,380 --> 00:06:54,860 Not a lot of people have the nerve. 98 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:58,280 to slap The Undertaker. It had to be a great slap. 99 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,140 If he'd have pulled it or if he'd have made it look wimpy, it would have 100 00:07:03,140 --> 00:07:04,140 flopped. 101 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,160 No, it was important to me to relay to Randy that that slap is what's going to 102 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,620 set this whole thing off. 103 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:24,420 I needed to piss off the fans in some way, shape, or form. 104 00:07:25,260 --> 00:07:30,680 And we sat down and creatively figured out a way to where I could piss some 105 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:31,680 people off. 106 00:07:31,740 --> 00:07:38,400 I have a message for everybody that thinks that I'm going to be a victim 107 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,880 of the Undertakers. 108 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:46,900 The reason why I love Randy Orton and have loved Randy Orton for a long, long 109 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:53,680 time is because when he comes on television and lets you know that he's 110 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,680 of the earth. 111 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,220 There's not a moment in time where you don't believe him. 112 00:07:59,540 --> 00:08:00,540 Hey! 113 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,080 Oh, my God! 114 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:04,420 What? What? 115 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:06,900 What did you do? 116 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:08,460 Randy is sly. 117 00:08:09,580 --> 00:08:16,560 And Randy's so cool that even when he's bad, you gotta love him because 118 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,960 he's cool being bad. 119 00:08:18,620 --> 00:08:21,760 However, Randy can be it. 120 00:08:22,670 --> 00:08:29,630 And Randy knows how to tap into and push the buttons of people to 121 00:08:29,630 --> 00:08:33,549 go, all right, man, for a minute I thought you were cool and you were just 122 00:08:33,549 --> 00:08:36,250 of being cocky cool. But that was too far. 123 00:08:36,809 --> 00:08:37,809 That was after. 124 00:08:39,450 --> 00:08:44,510 I was back doing what I was comfortable doing, being a prick, being a bad guy, 125 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:47,130 being a heel in the wrestling business. 126 00:08:47,450 --> 00:08:50,750 It's what I've always felt the most comfortable doing, obviously. 127 00:08:52,330 --> 00:08:55,890 I was right there, right back where I was happy as a bad guy. 128 00:08:57,750 --> 00:08:59,670 We are live in Hollywood. 129 00:09:02,190 --> 00:09:04,510 And this is WrestleMania. 130 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:17,429 Everybody's nervous. 131 00:09:17,430 --> 00:09:18,630 Everybody's nervous at WrestleMania. 132 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,620 You put this incredible amount of pressure on yourself to go out there and 133 00:09:24,620 --> 00:09:25,620 to steal the show. 134 00:09:27,260 --> 00:09:30,240 Or even a young guy who's so poised. 135 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,960 Hope these men don't punch for punch here. 136 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,880 I can't believe that he's trading bulls out with the Undertaker. 137 00:09:38,580 --> 00:09:41,360 On the grandest stage of all, he delivered. 138 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,480 At WrestleMania 21, we had a little surprise. 139 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:11,120 If you remember Cowboy Bob Ward, if you remember WrestleMania 1, then you know 140 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,980 that my father had a cast on his arm because he just couldn't get that arm to 141 00:10:16,980 --> 00:10:17,980 heal. 142 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,440 People remember that about my dad, and we thought to have my dad come out and 143 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:24,600 hit Taker with the cast. 144 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,560 What was special about that for me? 145 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,080 was that I got to work with my dad. 146 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:41,160 My dad and I worked a little bit together when I first started, and then 147 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,100 to be in there with Randy, I was blessed. 148 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:51,540 Cowboy Bob Orton, a legend. I mean, one of the greatest heels of all time. 149 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,820 He was the classic tough guy, chicken shield. 150 00:10:58,460 --> 00:11:00,460 I got to see my dad smile. 151 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,420 In a way that I hadn't really ever seen him smile before because he was doing 152 00:11:05,420 --> 00:11:06,419 what he loved. 153 00:11:06,420 --> 00:11:08,200 Better than most anybody. 154 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:12,380 Are you kidding me? What? 155 00:11:12,620 --> 00:11:15,820 Randy Orton's going to steal this because of his Hall of Fame dad. 156 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:17,680 What the hell is going on? 157 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,460 Here's the cutaway. 158 00:11:19,820 --> 00:11:21,640 Here's the cutaway. Here's the cutaway. 159 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:24,540 Wow. 160 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,640 Whoever I was working with, it would take forever. 161 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,620 For them to get me down. Everything that they've done and they've battled, I've 162 00:11:34,620 --> 00:11:36,120 finally done enough to stop him. 163 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:38,300 And they take that moment. 164 00:11:38,580 --> 00:11:41,840 They leave me there and they try to catch their breath. 165 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,660 That character sets up. 166 00:11:51,060 --> 00:11:56,620 Everybody and their mother and their grandmother was like, oh, now you've 167 00:11:56,620 --> 00:11:57,620 it now. 168 00:11:57,850 --> 00:11:59,790 Oh, you let him set up. 169 00:12:00,450 --> 00:12:03,610 That's your ass now. Oh, he's coming for you. 170 00:12:07,850 --> 00:12:10,110 I've got this move, the RKO. 171 00:12:11,030 --> 00:12:13,070 He wants to fit it in there somewhere. 172 00:12:13,810 --> 00:12:17,010 Not exactly sure where. It's not an established move. 173 00:12:20,350 --> 00:12:24,470 He goes to choke slam me. Now, this is one of those moves not everybody kicks 174 00:12:24,470 --> 00:12:25,470 out of. 175 00:12:32,010 --> 00:12:37,750 It's why my finishing move matters. It's why people chant RKO. Whether I'm a 176 00:12:37,750 --> 00:12:42,770 good guy or a bad guy, and one of the forefathers of helping me get that move 177 00:12:42,770 --> 00:12:45,150 over was The Undertaker. 178 00:12:46,370 --> 00:12:53,370 He understood what our business is, what it is to 179 00:12:53,370 --> 00:12:54,370 storytelling. 180 00:12:54,550 --> 00:12:58,630 And Randy's one of those guys that does the small things. 181 00:12:59,190 --> 00:13:00,770 He's going for the tombstone! 182 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,520 That means so much that people don't realize what they're seeing, but it ties 183 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,620 everything in so well together. 184 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:17,840 It was like water off a duck's back with Randy. He stepped up and delivered. 185 00:13:28,180 --> 00:13:32,320 So after WrestleMania in 2005, of course, The Undertaker beats me. 186 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:34,140 So now we're building the SummerSlam. 187 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:39,900 What are we going to do? Well, creative says, you know, you had your dad at 188 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:43,380 WrestleMania. Maybe we have him come back. We could have him sit in the 189 00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:44,960 Someone had an idea. 190 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:51,620 So a few years prior, they had a makeup artist come in, and they made up Eric 191 00:13:51,620 --> 00:13:53,020 Bischoff, and he looked great. 192 00:13:53,260 --> 00:13:55,320 No one ever knew that it was him. 193 00:13:59,890 --> 00:14:04,030 Fast forward a few years, we got my old man sitting in the crowd. 194 00:14:04,250 --> 00:14:08,550 But, you know, people know what Cowboy Bob Orton looked like, so we needed to 195 00:14:08,550 --> 00:14:12,710 disguise him. We'll get the same makeup artist that worked on Eric Bischoff, 196 00:14:12,770 --> 00:14:14,290 because he did a good job, right? 197 00:14:15,050 --> 00:14:19,670 Just brand new stuff for me. It was like being in the movies, I guess. 198 00:14:19,970 --> 00:14:24,030 Yeah, it was kind of fun getting made up and everything in the back and had the 199 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:25,890 little mustache and everything. It was great. 200 00:14:37,199 --> 00:14:41,020 I could have done a better job. My three -year -old daughter could have done a 201 00:14:41,020 --> 00:14:45,360 better job making up my father to not look like my father. It made my dad look 202 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,460 like my dad. 203 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:53,700 Fortunately, we've come a long way in special effects and our makeup artists 204 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,580 the way we do things now. But it was awful. 205 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:58,940 It really was. 206 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:07,190 The match goes down. 207 00:15:07,730 --> 00:15:10,370 My dad comes out, causes the distraction. 208 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,170 There's an RKO. 209 00:15:19,210 --> 00:15:20,210 One, 210 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:25,750 two, three, I win. 211 00:15:27,710 --> 00:15:33,030 We pull the makeup off, bit by bit, and it's just like... 212 00:15:33,340 --> 00:15:38,660 The reveal was nothing like when it was Bischoff because everyone knew it was 213 00:15:38,660 --> 00:15:39,660 Cowboy Bob. 214 00:15:43,260 --> 00:15:48,240 So if that makeup artist is watching right now, thanks for nothing. 215 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,640 Casket matches. You've done more than anybody. 216 00:15:53,740 --> 00:15:54,740 You think? 217 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:00,240 The match that favors The Undertaker. It is a casket match. 218 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,240 The match that The Undertaker has made famous. 219 00:16:04,540 --> 00:16:09,100 They're fun because it gives you a whole different element of the out, the end, 220 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:09,999 the finish. 221 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,760 And so it begins. 222 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,920 Not only do you have to incapacitate your opponent, you have to incapacitate 223 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,840 them enough so that you can roll them into a casket and shut the lid. 224 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:28,100 Hadn't been in many casket matches at this point in my career. 225 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,560 Actually, I had never been in a casket match, but I was in there with the man 226 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,580 when it comes to casket matches, the Undertaker. 227 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,280 But we threw him a curveball. 228 00:16:41,580 --> 00:16:43,720 It's a first -ever handicap casket match. 229 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,280 Both those men got to go in the casket for the Undertaker to be victorious. 230 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,740 You know, not only am I dealing with Randy, I'm dealing with his dad, who's 231 00:16:51,740 --> 00:16:55,180 interjected himself time and time and time and time again, so it made sense. 232 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,400 So now it's cool, like... All right, two on one. 233 00:16:58,740 --> 00:17:02,500 Are they going to be able to put Undertaker in a casket, or is Undertaker 234 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:04,480 to have to put both of those guys in a casket? 235 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:09,140 You 236 00:17:09,140 --> 00:17:15,859 sit 237 00:17:15,859 --> 00:17:17,560 somebody on the top turnbuckle. 238 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:21,920 Both Randy and Bob Orton, they know now they've got the dead man. Where the hell 239 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:22,920 they want him? 240 00:17:23,060 --> 00:17:26,079 And then you just climb up there with them, and boom, away you go. 241 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:27,720 Can he do it? 242 00:17:29,540 --> 00:17:32,900 It turns the heck out of you when you do that. 243 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,680 A super play by the Orton to the Undertaker. 244 00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:47,020 I don't really know if mom jeans were a thing then, but I do remember they were 245 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:52,000 a little baggy, and it was not your typical cowboy Bob Orton Jr. 246 00:17:52,460 --> 00:17:53,460 look. 247 00:17:56,580 --> 00:17:59,380 Yeah, jeans and a shirt and everything to cover up the belly. 248 00:18:00,140 --> 00:18:06,700 It was a little like, 249 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:10,780 I think you could have got some tighter jeans. 250 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:15,280 You know, I'm not, they'd have to be nut huggers, but I mean, come on, help me 251 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,740 out a little bit here. I can't be getting beat up when you're looking like 252 00:18:19,740 --> 00:18:22,180 you're about to go out and mow the lawn, man. 253 00:18:31,260 --> 00:18:38,020 I believe we pushed the casket up the 254 00:18:38,020 --> 00:18:42,340 stage because, well, we had to get away from the fans because I was about to 255 00:18:42,340 --> 00:18:43,840 light the son of a bitch on fire. 256 00:18:44,060 --> 00:18:49,340 Now the Orton's symbolically wheeling the casket, which contains the 257 00:18:49,340 --> 00:18:54,200 inside, out of the Toyota's denner. It's funny because during the day, you're 258 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,200 thinking rationally. 259 00:18:55,630 --> 00:19:00,010 Now, at the end of a match and the end of a segment, your adrenaline is kicking 260 00:19:00,010 --> 00:19:02,610 now, and you want this thing to be money, right? 261 00:19:02,990 --> 00:19:04,210 It was a money segment. 262 00:19:04,430 --> 00:19:06,730 No. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on now. 263 00:19:07,310 --> 00:19:08,450 What the hell is Norton doing? 264 00:19:15,470 --> 00:19:16,530 Stop. Stop. Hold. 265 00:19:17,110 --> 00:19:18,190 God. No. 266 00:19:18,650 --> 00:19:19,650 Oh, my God. 267 00:19:20,350 --> 00:19:21,490 Come on, guys. This is. 268 00:19:21,710 --> 00:19:23,350 The gasoline. 269 00:19:23,610 --> 00:19:24,610 What the hell are they doing here? 270 00:19:24,780 --> 00:19:29,460 So by the end of it, they're like, ah, screw it. Let's drop it on there, and 271 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:30,540 he'll be all right. 272 00:19:31,380 --> 00:19:33,280 It's The Undertaker. He's going to get up regardless. 273 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:37,620 Come on, no. There's a man in there. Enough with this. 274 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,740 And I'm getting into it. My adrenaline's pumping. I'm about to set a casket on 275 00:19:41,740 --> 00:19:46,540 fire with The Undertaker in it, so I'm not thinking necessarily about my 276 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,940 So I'm dumping all this kerosene all over this. 277 00:19:51,210 --> 00:19:55,130 casket and it's dripping everywhere and it's splashing and it's hitting me and 278 00:19:55,130 --> 00:19:59,750 it's on my boots and I didn't even realize it but my boots up to my knees 279 00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:05,490 soaked in kerosene WWE is great when it comes to making sure we're safe as 280 00:20:05,490 --> 00:20:09,610 performers and there was plenty of guys off to the side with fire extinguishers 281 00:20:09,610 --> 00:20:14,070 at the ready and apparently they thought they were going to need to use them 282 00:20:14,070 --> 00:20:16,770 because I was soaked in a flammable liquid 283 00:20:19,980 --> 00:20:20,980 You hear me? 284 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,920 You hear the burn? 285 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:30,880 I don't think it's on camera anywhere, but I was standing at the barricade, 286 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:37,500 ready to run in, to grab Randy, to, like, try to stop him, to flip him 287 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,500 lighter. 288 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:45,140 And as I'm starting to go, it's like, okay, he might have it, he might have 289 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:46,440 Thank you, Jesus. 290 00:20:50,830 --> 00:20:55,810 I lighted on fire, and I think, if I remember correctly, as I did that, I 291 00:20:55,810 --> 00:21:01,790 stepped back just in the nick of time where you saw the fire take over the 292 00:21:01,790 --> 00:21:02,790 casket. 293 00:21:05,230 --> 00:21:09,110 And I think it missed the tips of my toes by like this much. 294 00:21:11,950 --> 00:21:17,970 I'm not real sure that the folks in the arena and what have you were real happy 295 00:21:17,970 --> 00:21:22,030 with how well the casket went up. It was a spectacle to say the least. 296 00:21:22,910 --> 00:21:25,670 Those are the kind of moments that people remember forever. 297 00:21:30,530 --> 00:21:34,550 Most of those people, they're in tune with what's been going on, and they know 298 00:21:34,550 --> 00:21:37,990 one thing about that character, the Undertaker character. 299 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,480 is he's going to come out of that casket eventually. 300 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,380 And when he does, there's going to be hell to pay. 301 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:52,840 After the casket match, Taker disappeared for a few weeks. I went on 302 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:53,840 Series. 303 00:22:10,890 --> 00:22:16,630 I won the match, and I was being hoisted up on everybody's shoulders, and, you 304 00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:18,130 know, all right, we did it. 305 00:22:18,790 --> 00:22:20,110 Take a look at him, guys. 306 00:22:20,310 --> 00:22:21,710 Randy Orton right there. 307 00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:24,390 And then I heard it. 308 00:22:45,879 --> 00:22:48,360 There's pops, and then there's rumbles. 309 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:01,900 That rumble is just, there's just that energy, that anticipation of what is 310 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:02,900 about to happen. 311 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,320 Oh, my God! 312 00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:12,180 It worked against me a little bit, because, like, I'm in the inside. I can 313 00:23:12,180 --> 00:23:13,180 the crowd. 314 00:23:13,340 --> 00:23:15,320 It's my cue to bust out of that thing. 315 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:17,380 I'm juiced up. I'm ready to go. 316 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,100 So I hit that door. 317 00:23:19,540 --> 00:23:24,880 It was just for a second, but, I mean, I could feel it, right? Big ball of fire. 318 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,080 And then I had to take a little half second there to assess, like, I wonder 319 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,640 there's anything on me on fire right now. 320 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,540 I really hope not, because that would really spoil this. 321 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:42,780 Tonight, Randy Orton has seen a ghost. The Undertaker is back now. But the 322 00:23:42,780 --> 00:23:46,280 has come to the ring, and I don't think he's here to stay. Celebrate! I'm 323 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,060 standing there. People are going nuts. 324 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,240 Everybody's, you know, reacting in the ring. And boom, 325 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:54,120 then I start that march. 326 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,460 Yeah, it was just magical, man. 327 00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:01,380 The Undertaker is cleaning house! 328 00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:06,140 The Undertaker did it! 329 00:24:15,310 --> 00:24:21,090 So as a fan, there are these moments in storylines where you go, I can't go that 330 00:24:21,090 --> 00:24:22,090 far with you. 331 00:24:23,690 --> 00:24:29,090 But then if you pass that moment and you go even further. 332 00:24:34,410 --> 00:24:34,970 And 333 00:24:34,970 --> 00:24:42,310 you 334 00:24:42,310 --> 00:24:44,230 go so far over the top. 335 00:24:44,540 --> 00:24:46,860 You're going into terrain we've never seen before. 336 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:51,300 What separates the good from the great? 337 00:24:53,460 --> 00:24:58,140 I'll tell you what. The ability to play mind games. 338 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:03,820 Oh, yeah! 339 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,900 Oh, man! 340 00:25:06,620 --> 00:25:07,760 Undertaker's got radios! 341 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,300 You have to submit to it and just go, okay, I'm on board. Let's go. Where is 342 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:13,300 this going to go? 343 00:25:22,850 --> 00:25:26,970 Now we needed to up the ante. Now we needed to do some wild stunt. 344 00:25:27,690 --> 00:25:34,090 So on TV, I think it was late November, I take Taker, I hit him with the tire 345 00:25:34,090 --> 00:25:38,730 iron, and he falls on the back of the lowrider. Now we're parked at the bottom 346 00:25:38,730 --> 00:25:42,590 of the ramp. Now back then, we taped SmackDown. People at home didn't see 347 00:25:42,870 --> 00:25:46,550 But for the live crowd, I get in this car, I got to start it up. 348 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:56,720 Well, I flood the engine. 349 00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:02,680 And you had our stunt coordinator. 350 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:07,720 He's off to the side going, lay off the gas, lay off the gas. 351 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:20,740 So finally, I get it to start. Now, I've got an undertaker in the back that I 352 00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:22,660 got to drop off somewhere. 353 00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:23,980 What do I do? 354 00:26:24,650 --> 00:26:27,870 probably one of the craziest stunts I've ever been involved in. 355 00:26:30,910 --> 00:26:37,010 And I'll never forget, I started going backwards up the ramp at a little bit of 356 00:26:37,010 --> 00:26:40,650 an angle, and I could tell, like, I had to straighten it back up, but I had to 357 00:26:40,650 --> 00:26:43,810 pick up speed, too, because if I wasn't going fast enough, we were just going to 358 00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,410 hit the set and nothing. 359 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,960 The wild part about it, and I can't do it justice explaining it, but I had just 360 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:02,320 a couple inches on each side of that set that I had to 361 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,120 run that lowrider. 362 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,220 Had a few angels with me that day, so did Taker. Any kind of reservation that 363 00:27:13,220 --> 00:27:16,380 you have about doing anything, it goes out the window when you're live. 364 00:27:19,820 --> 00:27:24,200 You just don't really, you stop thinking about anything bad happening and you 365 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,320 think about making a moment. 366 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,320 Man, what would Vince say? 367 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,840 It was good. 368 00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:44,640 You are looking live at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode 369 00:27:50,670 --> 00:27:52,430 This was a long angle. 370 00:27:52,790 --> 00:27:57,250 And there was some really, really good stuff that we did through the course of 371 00:27:57,250 --> 00:27:58,250 all of that. 372 00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:02,450 Just kind of reiterated to him, not that I had too much, but he's about to get 373 00:28:02,450 --> 00:28:04,850 locked in hell in a cell with the Undertaker. 374 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:07,390 A pissed off Undertaker at that. 375 00:28:09,450 --> 00:28:12,530 That's what your facial expressions need to tell your audience. 376 00:28:14,530 --> 00:28:15,890 It's either eat or be eaten. 377 00:28:33,199 --> 00:28:39,540 From Death Valley, weighing in at 305 pounds, 378 00:28:40,540 --> 00:28:44,160 The Undertaker! 379 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,680 There's a lot of legends in the WWE. 380 00:28:50,510 --> 00:28:54,330 But there's something special about The Undertaker's legend. 381 00:28:55,130 --> 00:29:00,950 You almost can't really put it into words, but I'd say respect. 382 00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:05,530 When I think of The Undertaker's legend, I think of respect. 383 00:29:07,030 --> 00:29:08,670 So it has come down to this. 384 00:29:08,910 --> 00:29:13,370 At WrestleMania, Undertaker won. At Summer's Glam, Randy Orton picked up a 385 00:29:13,370 --> 00:29:18,030 victory. And tonight, scores will be settled inside Hell in a Cell. 386 00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:22,720 I think that's something that's lost on people. They don't really realize that 387 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,260 it is a competition. You're always competing against your opponent. 388 00:29:27,340 --> 00:29:31,860 Like, I would never say it at the time, but internally, I'm thinking, like, I'm 389 00:29:31,860 --> 00:29:33,940 not letting this kid get over on me. 390 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:36,560 Yeah, 391 00:29:41,420 --> 00:29:43,460 I'm going to make him look as good as I can make him look. 392 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,320 because that's what's right for business, and that's what's right for 393 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,260 Now, he on the other side is looking at me. He's like, yeah, this has been your 394 00:29:49,260 --> 00:29:50,360 yard for a long time. 395 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,520 I'm going to show this old -timer what I got and who I am and where I'm taking 396 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:55,520 the business. 397 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,700 You can't be content with where you're at. 398 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,580 You always got to be reaching for the brass ring. 399 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:05,240 Sometimes that's what makes matches so great is that internal competition. 400 00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:11,200 I told him how I was going to be. 401 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,080 I'm going to be snug. 402 00:30:13,370 --> 00:30:15,210 I'll be safe, but I'm going to be snug. 403 00:30:15,410 --> 00:30:18,310 Because you have to be. You can tell in the cell. The violence had to be 404 00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:19,310 violent. 405 00:30:20,090 --> 00:30:22,630 The Undertaker shows no remorse. 406 00:30:22,890 --> 00:30:23,990 No doubt about that. 407 00:30:25,070 --> 00:30:28,590 We're both rampside on the floor out of the ring. 408 00:30:29,450 --> 00:30:30,810 He grabs a chair. 409 00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:37,110 He walks over, has the chair down by his side. 410 00:30:37,830 --> 00:30:42,030 I'm up leaning against the apron, and he comes over to me, and he just looks at 411 00:30:42,030 --> 00:30:44,280 me, and he goes, That receipt's coming now. 412 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,400 Okay. 413 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,120 What am I supposed to do about that, right? 414 00:30:53,760 --> 00:31:00,640 But even though he owed me one 415 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,020 because I busted his ass open, he took care of me anyway. 416 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,680 Because anyone else would have hit me as hard as they could. 417 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,740 I learned an important lesson that day, and that lesson was that your number one 418 00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:16,820 priority needs to be to take care of your opponent. 419 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,260 Hell in a cell. 420 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,100 You better go in there and do some crazy shit. 421 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:27,980 And 422 00:31:27,980 --> 00:31:35,400 when 423 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,460 you got two guys beating the shit out of each other. 424 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,660 chances are somebody's going to be bleeding. 425 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:47,060 Talk about an adrenaline rush. Talk about living in the moment. Talk about 426 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:52,980 feeling invincible, feeling the roar of the crowd, feeling that warm blood drip 427 00:31:52,980 --> 00:31:53,980 down your face. 428 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:00,620 There's nothing quite like it. I might sound like a lunatic right now saying 429 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:04,140 this, but any of the boys in the back, you know what I'm talking about. 430 00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:06,940 It is what it is. It's not comfortable. 431 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,480 And it's very visual, and it's easy to understand. 432 00:32:12,340 --> 00:32:19,340 When it comes to using inanimate objects, if you're going to 433 00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:21,020 use them, you've got to use them. 434 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,000 You can't pitter -patter around. 435 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,760 If you're going to hit somebody, you've got to hit them. 436 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:29,500 That's business. 437 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:31,540 That's the business that we chose. 438 00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:45,420 And that's kind of one of the things that I've always felt and I've always 439 00:32:45,420 --> 00:32:46,440 brought to the table. 440 00:33:07,090 --> 00:33:13,810 Randy has such unbelievable instincts and understands 441 00:33:13,810 --> 00:33:17,150 who he is. He is the Viper. 442 00:33:18,550 --> 00:33:21,810 One thing about Randy, he doesn't waste movement. 443 00:33:22,890 --> 00:33:26,170 Hell in a Cell is an interesting animal. 444 00:33:26,470 --> 00:33:32,170 One of the biggest things with Hell in a Cell is coming up with original stuff. 445 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:39,580 to do one of my advantages in 446 00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:46,260 2005 that armageddon with taker was that i was in a hell in a cell with the 447 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:51,460 undertaker so it didn't matter what we did me being stuck in a cage with the 448 00:33:51,460 --> 00:33:57,440 dead man that was enough of a story to keep people tuned in for 30 minutes 449 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,700 there it is 450 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:12,340 Here you have, like I said, you have this established older guy and now this 451 00:34:12,340 --> 00:34:13,340 -and -coming guy. 452 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,540 You've had great chemistry together, and this is going to be it for a long 453 00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:22,639 while. You're not going to work with this guy again. So you definitely, for 454 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,780 other, I think not only your fans, obviously you always go out and perform 455 00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:29,340 your fans, but you also want to perform for that guy because you all have 456 00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:33,060 invested so much time and energy together. 457 00:34:34,540 --> 00:34:38,100 You know, you really want to pay off. You really want to pay it off, all the 458 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:39,100 things that you've done. 459 00:34:39,380 --> 00:34:44,980 You just want to make sure that you both leave, and it's like, yeah, man, we did 460 00:34:44,980 --> 00:34:46,400 it. What the hell is this? 461 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,920 Through the timeout. 462 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,639 Splash. Almost going for a ride, my friend. 463 00:34:52,940 --> 00:34:54,000 Went for the last ride. 464 00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:57,240 An undertaker with the right hand of a referee. 465 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:12,460 Cowboy Bob Horton Jr., you could tell he was having fun. 466 00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:17,000 Early on, he didn't want to step on Randy's toes. 467 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:23,480 But as the story went on, and as he became more and more involved in it, I 468 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,160 he loosened up along the way, too, and then really started letting the real 469 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,740 Cowboy Bob Horton Jr. out. 470 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:39,960 I was just happy to be there. 471 00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:44,920 Being able to come back and get involved in something that was so high caliber 472 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,540 was just, you know, great. 473 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,340 Shoot, I was in hog heaven. 474 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:54,560 We had all these things to play with. Everyone knew the RKO at this point. 475 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,100 Everybody knew the choke slam. 476 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,560 But there's one thing that didn't get reversed a lot. When Taker picked you up 477 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,140 for a pile driver, chances are... 478 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,420 You were getting a piledriver. 479 00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:09,500 He 480 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:24,760 had 481 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,020 me reverse out of a piledriver. 482 00:36:29,580 --> 00:36:30,860 and give him a pile driver. 483 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:34,520 Now, the only person that's pile driving anybody is the undertaker. 484 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,600 It's a rule. 485 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,740 But here Taker puts his life in my hands, puts his body in my hands, trusts 486 00:36:42,740 --> 00:36:46,100 that my number one priority is taking care of him. 487 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:53,220 It's strange when someone gives me my finish because I know that that finish, 488 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:57,880 you're only a couple of inches away at any time, really, of that finish being 489 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:58,880 catastrophic. 490 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:04,680 But it's an unnatural feeling because, obviously, all these years, I haven't 491 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,700 taken very many of them. 492 00:37:05,940 --> 00:37:09,540 Because I know how I like to grab somebody. I know how I like to put them 493 00:37:09,540 --> 00:37:12,880 my shoulder. I know how I like to position them. Of course, he kicked out 494 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:13,880 whipped my ass. 495 00:37:13,980 --> 00:37:19,400 It was like, oh, 496 00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:24,340 you know, that's what you feel. Oh, you should have done that. You shouldn't 497 00:37:24,340 --> 00:37:25,600 have tombstone the Undertaker. 498 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,100 It's going to be bad news, brother. 499 00:37:28,540 --> 00:37:29,620 Oh, my God. 500 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,240 How about you, Taylor? 501 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,720 Try to keep the legend down. 502 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,500 I never saw anybody refresh the tombstone on the Undertaker. 503 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,240 And Randy Orton believes it's over. 504 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,680 Randy Orton believes that he's talked it over. 505 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,400 Not so fast, my friend. 506 00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:52,080 Hey, tell me, Bob, what the hell? 507 00:37:57,100 --> 00:37:59,580 Then he had to give my father a piledriver. 508 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,400 Oh, the tank is in control. 509 00:38:02,420 --> 00:38:03,660 Now, boy, bomb one. 510 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:07,660 And I'm looking, and I'm like, oh, no. 511 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:11,640 Welcome to the two. Let's go, piledriver. 512 00:38:12,020 --> 00:38:14,920 But then, of course, he gets them. 513 00:38:15,980 --> 00:38:17,920 Boom. One, two, three. 514 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:19,620 And now we're in the army specs. 515 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:21,780 Undertaker stalking his man. 516 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,340 The end is near, Paul. 517 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,700 The end is near, I'm telling you. 518 00:38:33,270 --> 00:38:34,270 Wow. 519 00:38:37,210 --> 00:38:38,630 The legend continues. 520 00:38:39,070 --> 00:38:40,070 Here's your winner. 521 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,120 That wasn't planned. 522 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:05,000 It was just like I was feeling it. I knew we had just blown off a 523 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,020 great story. 524 00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:12,260 We just had an awesome Hell in a Cell match, and it was just me feeding off of 525 00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:16,960 not only the story, the match, and the reception from the audience. It was just 526 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:22,660 like, all right, I'm going up. I'm going up, and this is going to be the icing 527 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:25,680 on the cake. This is the exclamation point. 528 00:39:26,090 --> 00:39:31,170 At the end of the sentence right here, darkness prevailed in the end. 529 00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:36,830 It comes up every once in a while when my old man's taking me to the airport, 530 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:42,670 you know, to go to work, and we'll talk about it. And sometimes we just look at 531 00:39:42,670 --> 00:39:47,110 each other like we've got to pinch ourselves because we were blessed to be 532 00:39:47,110 --> 00:39:53,910 to be put in that situation as father and son, having fun on that kind 533 00:39:53,910 --> 00:39:55,310 of a stage with... 534 00:39:55,690 --> 00:40:01,210 That kind of a talent. It's really amazing when you think about it. And the 535 00:40:01,210 --> 00:40:07,890 older I get, the more I look back and realize, man, I was lucky. 536 00:40:08,850 --> 00:40:10,250 I was very lucky. 537 00:40:13,490 --> 00:40:19,850 To this day, Randy Orton is the guy. And Randy Orton is the best from a veteran 538 00:40:19,850 --> 00:40:24,670 standpoint right now that can go in, make anybody, make himself. 539 00:40:25,770 --> 00:40:27,810 And make it look easy. 540 00:40:28,330 --> 00:40:30,110 Make it look effortless. 541 00:40:32,490 --> 00:40:33,890 I got a little side story. 542 00:40:34,110 --> 00:40:38,770 It doesn't really show me in the best light, but let's face it. I was 24. 543 00:40:39,050 --> 00:40:40,750 I was a little bit of a prick back then. 544 00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:45,550 So, we have the Hall of Fame and we have WrestleMania. 545 00:40:46,090 --> 00:40:50,190 The day of the Hall of Fame, that morning, we had rehearsal. 546 00:40:50,410 --> 00:40:53,650 It was my father, John Laurinaitis. 547 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,340 who was our agent, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, who was also our agent, one 548 00:40:58,340 --> 00:41:03,700 the referees, I believe it was Michael Chioda, and The Undertaker were all a 549 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:04,780 part of this rehearsal. 550 00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:09,640 But there was a sixth man that was supposed to be there, too. 551 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,160 It was me. 552 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,760 Let's just say I got into a little bit of trouble, didn't get much sleep, just 553 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:17,900 in case my kids are watching. 554 00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:20,060 Now, keep in mind, this is my second WrestleMania. 555 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,319 I'm 24. 556 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,980 I'm being given the world. 557 00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:25,580 My dad is there. 558 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,640 Taker's there. 559 00:41:27,740 --> 00:41:31,400 I got down there just as they were finishing up, and they were walking out. 560 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,640 I worked with The Undertaker for a year, and it all started off with me missing 561 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,520 rehearsal for the biggest match of the year. 562 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,600 A lot of people may have opinions about me earlier in my career, but nobody 563 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,860 considers myself more of an asshole than I do. 564 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:56,310 So, Taker, if you're watching, Thank you for not bitching me out, cursing me 565 00:41:56,310 --> 00:41:59,510 out, or chokeslamming my ass to hell after I missed that rehearsal. 566 00:42:00,710 --> 00:42:06,470 That's probably one of my biggest regrets in the business, letting you men 567 00:42:06,470 --> 00:42:07,470 that night. 568 00:42:08,490 --> 00:42:15,190 But now as a father, a husband, a 40 -year -old man, I think that I see 569 00:42:15,190 --> 00:42:20,070 now how wrong that was. And when I'm in the locker room and when I'm talking to 570 00:42:20,070 --> 00:42:22,050 the young guys and girls in the back, 571 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:28,600 Trying to teach them about the little things, I always go back to where I 572 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:34,080 started, and I knew that if it wasn't for Undertaker, none of this would have 573 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,080 ever happened. 574 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:46,340 I was handed a gift when Vince gave me, you know, he gave me that character. 575 00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:51,540 You know, I realized the importance. 576 00:42:52,540 --> 00:42:55,260 That character has over the last 30 years of our industry. 577 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,380 And it's humbling. 578 00:42:57,740 --> 00:43:00,020 And I hope it's inspiring. 579 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,400 I was told before I come to WWE that no one would ever pay money to see me 580 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,140 wrestle. I've wrestled men. 581 00:43:06,380 --> 00:43:07,640 I've wrestled their son. 582 00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:15,160 I mean, how blessed can you be to do something that you enjoy so much 583 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:21,460 for so long and still be here and able to talk about it? 584 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:30,180 I mean, really, I've led a very blessed life over the last 30 585 00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:32,640 years, and I take nothing for granted.