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** While guest appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Otis looked back on winning the 2020 men’s Money in the Bank Ladder match. He does not think there was a long-term plan for him and added that his brain did not allow him to think he’d end up as WWE World Champion. He also shared a note from the 2020 court case segments and said Teddy Long was ‘getting hot’ because him and John Morrison were joking around and prolonging the filming of the segment.
I don’t think there was a plan (for me as Mr. Money in the Bank). No. It was kind of a shock because the whole day was like, we couldn’t get up on the roof for the longest time because of COVID stuff and it was like, just sitting, sitting, sitting. Do one thing and shoot it so you were basically just sitting there in your gear. They were kind of bullsh*tting with all the boys and kind of calling stuff, ‘We’ll give you more of a spectacular –’ like the plate or Baron (Corbin) using, ‘Oh, let’s throw the plate at the mirror.’ Get it approved. Gets it approved. So it’s just like a long day and then finally, Jamie’s like, ‘You thinking King Kong up in there?’ I go, ‘King Kong!?’ He goes, ‘Yeah! Come with me.’ Jamie Noble, one of the producers. Jamie’s all fired up. He walks up and he’s just climbing this ladder with his cowboy boots. I’m like, ‘Babe, I’m not going up there. I hate heights. That’s why I only go on the second rope.’ He’s like, ‘Get yo ass up here. Come on…’ and it was a long way down. I mean, it’s a headquarters, babe. So we got out there and he goes, ‘Alright, I’m gonna take a picture of you. Take your shirt off and roar.’ I go, ‘Okay.’ ‘Like King Kong, like really roar’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, we’re roaring.’ Sorry, I’ve been sitting for 14 hours. Then all of a sudden, I’m gonna win it. I’m like, ‘Oh, okay,’ and then, yeah, from there, but I think everything was always like, again, who’s healthy, who’s not so, that could have been a factor there with testing about COVID and all that so, it was a bunch of changes going on.
My brain doesn’t think that way (Otis responded when asked if he thought he would win the World Title). That’s a million-dollar question (how my brain operates). Basically, it’s like how can I make this bigger than what it can be? And it’s tough without the crowd too because again, you’re not getting that reaction live. You’re getting it online mostly or through the boss so it was kind of — it was just one of those things where, you know, we could do a few things but then it was kind of like, we did the Otis court case. What was that? The court case with Miz and that was a hilarious day by the way… Well, you got (John) Morrison and me in a room. You can’t have the two boys in a room there. Morrison gets excited and he gets me going and then, next thing you know, ‘Guys, we gotta get this done!’ ‘Okay.’ If Teddy Long gets hot, you know something’s wrong. Teddy goes, ‘Alright, boys. Shut the hell up.’ I’ve been known to be very quiet in the locker room, boys.
** Episode #3 of HUGE POP featured a chat with J.B.L. (John Bradshaw Layfield). He was asked about Wade Barrett potentially returning to the ring and JBL supports the idea. Barrett has not wrestled since April 2016.
He’s (Wade Barrett) still young. He was a good worker. So, yeah, I think it probably will and if I were him, do it. You got all your life to do commentary, and you don’t have all of your life to get into the ring and if I’m him, if you still have that urge, just try it and you know, if it doesn’t work out, so what? Go back to commentary. If it does, you’ve got something and then go back to commentary.
** In Shingo Takagi’s latest diary entry, he wrote about the build-up and preparation for his 20th Anniversary Show. Takagi added that for his 25th Anniversary, he’d like to bring in 2,500 fans if an event takes place to celebrate the milestone.
** The newest episode of WWE – Die Woche featured Byron Saxton.
** September 17th birthdays: Daniel Garcia and Masahiro Chono.
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