Former WWE United States Champion and current AEW star Samoa Joe has reflected on his chaotic moment with Brock Lesnar.
Almost eight years ago, in 2017, fans witnessed Joe and Lesnar locked in a heated battle for The Beast Incarnate’s Universal Championship. A memorable feud, fans still vividly remember Joe standing up to Lesnar without any fear, and matching it up with him during promos and physical matches.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Joe recalled those segments. Calling out the ‘chaotic’ energy present in those segments, he said:
“Yeah, Brock was surprised too. [He didn’t know?] No, I mean, well a lot of that too and I’m not sure, there’s a lot of promos I had with Brock. But Brock really liked the kind of chaotic energy, I brought things and he loved that.
I would say whatever I wanted to say to him and to his face because he understood what I’m trying to do, he understood. You want to flip off Brock Lesnar to his face and have people go, what are you doing, dude?
That uneasiness, that kind of tension in the air. I think that also is just an important part of bringing interest and care into matches is building that tension, just knowing that when the dam finally breaks all hell’s gonna break loose.”
The current AEW star further shared insights about the “look at me when I’m talking to you” line, which went massively viral on the internet.
“Yeah, I may have in the grand creative scheme of things went a little overboard there. It was fine. But I just remember when I walked back through the curtain, Hunter is like, Oh, awesome. Everybody’s stoked. And I remember I just looked over at Vince, and he’s just like, [flatly] ‘Yeah, good job.’ Because I think he 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, I just flow with the character, and then it gets wild.”
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The two men squared up for the title at WWE Great Balls of Fire 2017, where Lesnar came out victorious.
Former WWE Star Samoa Joe Opens Up On His Retirement Plans
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet, the former WWE star and ex-AEW World Champion, Samoa Joe, opened up about his retirement plans.
“Yeah, I do [think about the end of my career] a lot. It’s probably coming sooner than later, which is fine.
I think a lot of people from my generation, from what I’ve seen, if that they have the ability, we’ve done our best to kind of save up and we definitely don’t want to out stay our welcome, because we may have been privy to a few people may have done that in their careers. So I definitely don’t want to be that guy in mind.
No, I think it’s just really based on when my contract runs out. I think exploring those options as they go. I hate just saying retirement, because how many pro wrestling retirements never stick? All of them. So yeah, I will do this for a little longer and then yeah I think the end is probably sooner than any new deal being signed.”
In other news: Vince McMahon and WWE have filed to dismiss the Ring Boy lawsuit against them.