During an interview with Chris Van Vliet, current AEW star Samoa Joe talked about his feud with Brock Lesnar over the Universal Championship on WWE RAW in 2017. Below are the highlights:
Promos without a fight:
“I’m real big on the small things. You know, I don’t, I’m not a huge fan of cutting promos with my opponents in a ring face-to-face and no action happening. Because I think at a certain point in life, if two people are arguing and throwing insults back and forth and hands aren’t thrown, you both look pretty terrible in that.”
Intense promo with Brock Lesnar on RAW in 2017:
“Brock was surprised too. He didn’t know (I was going to be that intense). Brock really liked the kind of the chaotic energy I brought, the things he loved that, you know, I would say whatever I wanted to say to him and to his face. And, you know, because he understood what I’m trying to do, you know, he understood.
You wanna flip off Brock Lesnar to his face and have people go, ‘What are you doing, dude?’ You know, like that uneasiness that, you know, kind of tension in the air. And I think that also is just an important part of kind of bringing interest into matches is building that tension just knowing that. When the dam finally breaks, all hell’s gonna break loose.”
Saying “you look at me when I’m talking to you” to Brock Lesnar during that promo:
“I went a little overboard there, but it’s a great moment. It was fine.”
Triple H & Vince McMahon’s reaction to this promo with Brock Lesnar:
“I just remember when I walked back through the curtain, you know, Hunter’s like, awesome. Everybody’s stoked. And I remember I just looked over at Vince and he’s just like, ‘Good job.’
I think you wanted a different look to how everybody was in the ring. But sometimes when I’m out there, I’m on the mic and you get me jazzed up and I’m all my sh*t. Yeah, I just, I’ll flow with the character and then it gets wild (laughs).”
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