On tearing his bicep and pec:
“I tore my pec in my other bicep which I never got fixed because I had one torn bicep from 2000.
It was the only time that I wrestled a singles match against Kurt Angle. We were supposed to go into a program together. That was the first match we did.
I did a thing where it was outside the ring, and I used to grab somebody by the back of the trunks and the neck and I would throw them against the bottom rope from the outside so they could spring towards me and I could nail him.
As I did that, the right bicep just went pink. So I got through that match, but that gave me two or three weeks off. I wouldn’t get it fixed. We got back from Europe.
Now I could have this in a bit of the wrong order, but when I was on RAW in a Battle Royal, and it was Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, and I had to knock them both out. I never clothesline people, and I clothesline both of them out. I felt my left pec rip and my left bicep rip.”
On wrestling Daniel Bryan with an injury:
“Once I tore my meniscus in my right leg, but the next night, I was with Bryan, and they were going ‘No, you can’t wrestle.’
I said ‘No, I want to put him over because this is the person who stuck around me and listened to all my nonsense. I’ve sent him to places and put good words in for him and whatever else. If there’s one person I want to have my last match with, it’s him.’
So if you watch that match, you will see me walk down to the ring, and then they actually played a rib on me and played my old ‘Man’s Man’s’ music halfway down the ramp.
I’m glad because he was there to help me in the building that day. I couldn’t walk. If you watch that match, it’s 17 minutes of him carrying me because I can’t walk. He did a masterful job. He actually even did stuff on my leg without bending it.
If you know that, you can watch what a masterful job he did of carrying me. He looked like he bent my leg around the corner post. We came out there and I was happy I put him over, and hopefully somebody was going to pay attention to this because this lad is something special, which they already were.
I came back and Mr. McMahon was there. He watched Superstars. He was right and he shook hands. When Bryan walked off, he said, ‘Thank you very much. That was a good old proper wrestling match. That lad is going to make a good villain.’”
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