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The Joe Rogan Experience speaking of rock uh you mentioned WrestleMania 18. yeah and that what's crazy is that it's one of the greatest wrestling matches of all time like if I was going to show you literally and because I've thought about this because whatever a decade ago when we would have our crazy wrestling arguments I always I had to think to myself well what would I show Joe first and it would be probably that it was a uh definitely a moment I know the Rock says he's never experienced anything like that before I don't think anyone's seen anything like that it was it was it was crazy man it was it was much different than I expected I'll put it through that way how so would you expect well I'd been working for Ted Turner for like 10 years and I started that NWO thing with Eric Bischoff and Kevin Nash and Scott Hall you probably know who which was WCW the competitor so we've been trying to put Vince out of business for 10 years and we were killing him in the ratings for like 83 or 88 weeks you know we're just killing him then there was a turnaround he brought Tyson on and we we made a bunch of mistakes you know programming wise like we were live live and their stuff was all taped we go don't watch Monday Night Raw tonight because Mick Foley's going to beat the Rock and this guy yes we'd give him the finishes just dirty pool you know right so you need to watch show because we're gonna tell you he's already gonna win you know and so after 10 years with this craziness um I was pretty much done you know this was Hollywood Hogan the bad guy and I had this crazy run it was just as big as the red red and yellow around as Hall of mania was it was just as big or bigger and so at the end of the day I was done you know and uh Ted Turner merged with American online and where his office was they kicked him to the curb he was down at the end of the hall so Ted wasn't in charge you know and Ted's the one I made the deal with and Eric Bischoff and Harvey Schiller and all these guys and um
so I wasn't I wasn't really going to do anything I got a call from Vince you know he goes uh you know uh we'd like you to come up and work with the Rock at WrestleMania I said well yeah I can still go you know if you need me to come up there we can make it work and he goes well you know things he used to call me monster well you know Monster but you know things are different now up here I said what do you mean different and he goes well you know if you're going to come up here you got to really bring it because you know the rocky goes the rock does this thing and everything like bring it and so I didn't say anything as a smartass I'm thinking if you want me to bring it you're going to be asking me to take it back when I'm done with this [ __ ] so anyway you know we went up there had the match there was a bunch of stuff that happened before the match it was a little bit different the weeks before but when we when we when I went up there what we did on TV was I did everything I could to be a bad guy I was in Chicago place was just slammed in Chicago just crazy I mean I had so so many matches in Chicago in the past accolades were so intense there that when I came out as a bad guy that people were like with me you know and so all of a sudden the rock comes out gets in the middle of the Ring challenges me to WrestleMania I go to shake his hand he won't let my hand go you know he pulls me back in and right where face facing Rock bottoms me you know and dumps me in the middle of the ring on the back of my head so here come my guys I mean you have to realize that the this is these are the most electrical moments ever like in pro wrestling history the like if you saw it on video these things this is this is the epitome of the entire what makes the entire thing entertaining because you're kind of rooting for both both are kind of bad guys but have such likable qualities so it's a win-win no matter what I mean this stuff is Beyond like this is that's this here is like totally top shelf pro wrestling history I always loved the two-tone beard must touch combo yes so anyway after he dumps me on my head my guys come down Kevin and Scott and we just crucify his ass we
just we unload on him we just grind him so I go out of the ring and I got a toolbox and I dump the toolbox out and there's this ball peen hammer right so they got him hooked and I think I'm gonna hit him from the front I go and I and while he they got him hooked they thought I was going to blast you in the face of the hammer I hit him from behind with a hammer right I catch him from behind you know I'm not not killing him I'm pretty good at what I do is it an actual Hammer oh yeah oh yeah bro I can I can put this thing between your forehead I don't even please none but anyway it's a professional no but listen you're hitting him with a hammer yeah he actually hit him with a hammer oh yeah but it's he's a professional yeah I'm pretty believe me I can hit you with a hammer brother you'd be good you know but what yeah no it's a hammer you know you know who first if she says he's so good at pulling stuff up pull up Rock E3 where I get thrown in the corner I throw that straight in punch to him okay yeah because he said oh I don't want to get her I said you just stand there and don't move well this straight in punch he goes I've never had anybody throw a punch it looks like it was going to kill me it's yeah no I think this is it right here look look look that was straight into his forehead yeah he goes you didn't even hit me I said well I'm not supposed to but I did make contact so anyway long story short hit him with a hammer drag him outside the building put him in an ambulance put chains around the ambulance right I go get in a semi truck without the trailer on just the the cab of the semi and of course as I'm getting in the cab with somebody they pulled rock out of the ambulance and I and I run that ambulance over with a semi oh my God this goes do it again do it again yeah this is so hilarious so anyway I had the [ __ ] the ambulance is chained up yeah so dude so now the Rock's in there we just we slide him out when they cut to me here you go and so at the end of the day I did everything I could to be the worst most evil person in the world bad guy
and we go we go get in Toronto for Wrestlemania after I've done all these horrible things oh my God now I had to back up and run him over again now after I do all these horrible things and I come out of the building at WrestleMania and the place is cheering me out of the building yeah I'm going oh my God how are we going to fix this because the rock is splitting to go to The Scorpion King and I'm passing the torch giving him the rub everything I can to help him be the greatest wrestler ever you know and because that guy was so good in the ring bro and I never worked him before but second third generation wrestler Instinct timing placement he had everything it took us about seven or eight minutes I got it all turned back around you know and he had certain input that we did and I said well if some of that stuff doesn't work we're not doing it you know but it was just the craziest situation because this is it this is like the craziest [ __ ] of all time [Applause] I mean look everybody's arms are up in the air [Applause] against [Applause] Tony is aroused I mean it's unbelievable you have to realize that these this is like it to entertain how old were you at this time um I know it's 53 or 54. that's amazing yeah and I had a hip replacement that is amazing and two knee Replacements that at 54 you were still this jacked that's incredible another one another one WrestleMania 18 after being in one two three four five and the next year I took Vince McMahon in Safeco Field and and actually had a blast with Vince got to beat the [ __ ] out events that was fun and heat brought he's all in that crazy nut was all in he loved it