do you have a moment that like stands out to you as like the craziest moment that ever happened to in your in your career dude i'm making a list um but like i'll give you an example of just something that one time rock kurt angle and myself were in a in a story line we're having a triple threat match with a big pay-per-view um steph's a part of that she's in the back we're as a part of that match kurt is going to get put through a table by me i'm going to pedigree him through
a table he's gonna get knocked out and they're gonna cart him off except we get up on the table i hook kurt's arms and as we're about to go for the pedigree the table breaks from underneath us and i'm looking down to try to protect kurt cause i got his arms and like i'm you know first rule right protect your opponent i'm trying to protect him but we come down and i watch his head smash into a control box right and we hit we yeah it's funny right we hit and i go down and i
hear kurt start snoring he's out like cold so i put my hand on him i go kurt you're okay and he wakes up and he starts trying to get up take a mouthpiece that he doesn't have in out of his mouth and he's like trying to get up so i grab him by his straps i pull him down i said dude don't move and i hold him there but i realize then i tell the referee like he's out so they take him on a cart to the back which was supposed to happen which was supposed
to happen except for he's out and has no idea where he is and we don't know if he's coming back and the whole finish is him coming from the back with steph and coming from the back and doing all this stuff now this is where the story gets terrible because today we know about concussions and right everything else none of this should have ever happened but we didn't know this at the time but um you know kurt goes in the back rock and i are just working now like oh now we're off script and we're
just working and i'm we're just talking to each other and at some point we're getting feedback from the back through the referee and like finally i just tell it was earl hebner i just tell earl earl do not tell me one thing with a lot of expletives in here that they say from the back i don't give a i need one thing tell me if he's coming back if he knows where he is that's it that's all i need to know and tell me when we'll just keep going until somebody tells me he can come
out or he ain't coming i'll figure out a finish about halfway through what we're doing you know where now we're just like in uncharted territory we get a note kurt can come back when you're ready he has no idea where he is so he met one of the parameters yes you know rock and i talk about it all right let's go here comes kurt we see him coming steph has him like a kid like walking him down the ramp and he's glazed over he has no like he has no idea where he is and now
rock and i start doing stuff with him and literally like just telling him what to do and like at one point like i go to punch him steps behind him i gotta i got a punch but he's got a duck to punch and i'm gonna hit steph and like he can see me rearing up but he's just looking at me like i know he is not ducking i had to i grab him by the neck and i pull him out of the way you know so i can hit steph like that's the kind of stuff
like you just can't you can there's no way to plan for it there's no way to anything right and when you watch that match back you go like oh my god i would never know anything was wrong i would never know anything was amiss any of it but for us we were we were flying without radar and just going and and when you get to that place you know you can do anything but it's it's it's a challenge and and stuff happens you know it just is what it is right injuries happen moments happen where
things change and you got to just be able to switch on the fly [Music]
