WWE: Unreal

SinceElimination Chamber,

I felt like I always kind of jokingly tell everybody it's postseason, right?

It's the playoffs. You…

you… you win or you go home, and I have treated every outing like that.

There's also a kind of shaping of our industry by John

in terms of there are people who have one idea on what a heel is,

and then there's the traditional sense, which is a heel gives you nothing

and takes away things you like, so they definitely don't do anything new.

They don't do new music, don't do a new look.

It's… it's sincerely… "I don't like you, and I don't want you to like me."

All you ever do is take.

My story changed.

"What do we get?"

"John Cena's coming to my town."

"What do we get?"

You get what you have earned,

and what you have earned is nothing!

I am not a heel.

I'm a human being.

And each and every one of you has been awful to me.

This. This!

Everybody, including that one kid right there,

is a toxic, dysfunctional relationship.

I was excited at the prospect

of going week-to-week, face-to-face with John Cena,

and instead, I gotthis.

So go find John Cena,

'cause I wanna wrestle him atWrestleMania 41,

not this whiny bitch.

Oh!

WrestleMania,

as you get closer to the event,

and where we stand now a month out,

you cannot have people begin to lose their mojo or their confidence

or their passion for it or anything else

because something went wrong. Something's always gonna go wrong.

We've got to…

…we gotta protect Jey.

We… we've gotta build him and be really, really careful with what we do.

Because people are seeing, "Hey, man, he's blown up."

You see it. You see that he missed the dive.

Jey Uso! Oh goodness.

-Yeah. -You all right?

-Yeah. I gassed out. I'll be honest. -All right.

-Get that wind up, baby. -Yeah.

I wanna make sure you got it all when we need it.

-Yes, sir. -All right.

We've seen during this

that the pressure's been getting to Jey quite a bit.

Make no mistake about it.

It was off-track for a couple of weeks, and everybody was worried.

Yeet!

Maybe Jey is struggling because we've said,

"We're gonna make you the guy."

We tell him, "Look, it didn't go in the right way."

"If it continues this way, when we get there,

we're not gonna pull that trigger."

"We're gonna have to go the other way."

Does that light a bigger fire under his ass?

Does that make him fight for it?

Well, if it doesn't, then we have our answer.

Exactly. That's… that's the point.

"The victory at WrestleMania is not guaranteed."

"It's up to you to… to show us."

"You gotta turn it around quickly."

And he can do it.

I think we allknowhe can do it.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have… we wouldn't be here.

But, again, it's up to him.

On the women's side,

since theRumble,

Charlotte Flair has now chosen

the champion that she will face atWrestleMania.

Tiffy,

"The Queen" chooses you.

Tiffany Stratton, she's our current champion

and new breakout star.

So it makes for a very intriguing story,

because if you're Charlotte Flair,

it can re-stamp your career as being one of the greatest of all time.

When there is as much on the line

and as much at stake as there is atWrestleMania,

and while what we do is a show

and is a "work,"

a lot of times, it can become very real very quickly.

Is Charlotte a good guy or a bad guy?

With Tiffany Stratton, I'm definitely the bad guy.

Um…

I was in front of a crowd in Chicago,

and they were booing so loud, it, like, rattled me.

What would Chica… Guys, what would you like me to say?

Man, this is really cool, because here's the thing.

Tiffany can win…

It was so intense

that I hadn't, like, thought of, like…

I wasn't two steps ahead.

You may be "The Queen" inside of the ring,

but outside of the… outside of the ring,

you ain't "The Queen" of shit.

I can't hear you. What are you saying?

I can't hear you, Tiffy.

You're so squeaky!

She stepped on Tiffany in a way that wasn't good for the story,

and I think that put Tiffany on notice.

Some real personal things were said.

When I beat you atWrestleMania, Charlotte,

you're gonna be just like you are outside of the ring.

Alone.

What is that record?

Like, what, 0-3?

Woo!

Hey, Tiffany.

Is that why Kaiser is in my DMs?

Was all of that on script?

-No. -No.

What part wasn't?

My part, the back end…

-Yeah, more like the… -The go-home lines.

The go-home lines after they booed the shit out of her.

Okay.

Uh, apparently, it was the divorce line

that sent over the edge. She's upset.

Uh, it obviously wasn't written in the promo.

So I need Tiffany to understand that's obviously not how we do this.

-Yeah. -Right? Uh…

So she needs to go to Charlotte and apologize,

and they need to get on the same page.

AtWrestleMania,

in the men's triple threat,

you end up with three of the biggest stars

in the history of our business.

Roman Reigns,

Seth Rollins,

and CM Punk.

And then you add Paul Heyman into that.

Paul Heyman is a real-life manager.

Usually, his on-air relationships carry over to personal relationships.

Him managing somebody always brings that person up.

Roman is probably the biggest beneficiary

of Paul Heyman's assistance.

Probably the most dominant champion.

Almost 1,500 days as champion in the last few years.

"Wiseman," I love you.

When you break down that men's triple threat match,

Paul's in the center.

CM Punk, his best friend is Paul Heyman,

and Paul owes him a favor.

That favor is for Paul to be in his corner.

AtWrestleMania,

inmycorner…

…your"Wiseman,"

Paul Heyman.

Oh!

And then you've got a guy in Seth Rollins

that looks at Paul Heyman,

and while they've never been associated with each other

from a working standpoint,

understands he's one of the smartest guys in the business.

To see which way Paul chooses

is one of the primary interests in that match.

Will he help CM Punk,

or will he screw Punk in favor of Roman Reigns?

Or… is there another alternative we haven't thought about yet?

What do you think is the best finish?

Personally, just your opinion?

Punk over.

All right, go ahead.

I think where we left off was sorta still on the Roman-Punk-Seth stuff.

I'm of the opinion that Punk should go over atWrestleMania.

I agree.

Is Heyman gonna fuck Punk over?

Like, he is in his corner,

but he's still trying to do the shit for… Roman.

Punk should go over,

and not only should Punk go over, but Heyman turns on him.

Doesn't work.

Punk overcomes Paul,

beats either Roman or Seth, whatever he's gotta do.

Right? Punk survives, and not only survives but thrives.

There's always logical roads to go down to get the story where you want it to go.

And sometimes the logical road becomes predictable.

If it becomes predictable,

you need to pivot.

-Not seeing that? -No, I see all of it.

I just hate the finish atMania.

What do you mean?

Punk going over is great, but Heyman decides to go with Seth

and ends up… That way, it feels much more shocking

of this whole time, Seth manipulated this whole deal.

I agree with that.

Seth going over just feels like a better story to me.

Roman and Heyman have had such a run where they've become so synonymous

that breaking them apart in the main event ofWrestleMania

is, like, something that's worthy of that.

This is finally starting to feel like a rich story that's worthy ofMania,

as opposed to just, you know, fighting over the love of Paul Heyman.

Yeah, I guess… I… I… I see your point. I'm not sure I agree with it.

I feel like in that scenario,

Roman's dead in the water.

As far as?