Is Simon a FAN of WWE? 👀 Superstars Seth Rollins & Becky Lynch join W&J to preview Money in the Bank

for now a change of mood because the

three of us has become the five of us

um a huge event coming up uh here in the

UK in London at the O2 on Saturday we

are talking about a massive event in the

WWE

let me tell you two superstars husband

and wife team of the WWE are in studio

with us right now Seth freaking Rollins

and Becky Lynch it is a very warm

welcome to talk sport good morning how

are you both doing great yeah we just

got off the plane a few hours ago but we

got some coffee in our bellies and we're

feeling surprised fantastic you come

straight here have you yeah oh yeah yeah

yeah we landed 6 30 this morning from

New York City last night we were in New

York doing Today's Show and ESPN

yesterday and here we are with you guys

today Talking Money in the Bank talking

all things WWE you are indeed this is

what it's all about

no it's all about money this fella Seth

was once worth a hundred million quid he

still could be for all I know money in

the bank wow what is this all about how

do you begin to explain it so let me

explain it because I'm gonna be in the

Money in the Bank ladder match and so

right the object of the game is you have

to climb a ladder and and retrieve the

briefcase when you retrieve the

briefcase in there is a contract that

you can cash in at any time for the

championship so you can have a

championship match any moment at any

moment so that means that the champion

could be down and out knocked

unconscious and you can call your shot

right there and then so it's very it's

very very exciting and just a clarify

while you you don't get a free pathway

up together you don't get a free pathway

no no no

there is a ladder match and so so we're

talking six buddies six six six buddies

in this match a bunch of ladders strewn

all over the ring and it's a race to the

top

but you know everybody's trying to bash

you into ladders

we are very much assure that reacts to

everything that's going on right here in

the UK back with you in a second we're

off to the cricket at Lords because a

significant uh scene taking place there

John Norman what can you tell us yeah

well there were fears that this was

going to happen at some point in the

summer indeed the start of the the

summer the waters Championship final

which took place at the oval two

separate strips were prepared in case

just stop oil protesters made their way

out onto the field they have of course

made a name for themselves uh the

protest group on disrupting uh sporting

events

um and the fear is is that if they carry

out their customary orange powder attack

then the pitch would be rendered

unusable so the world test Champions

final prepared two pitches there are

only one or there's only one pitch here

at Lords and uh it's due to the quick

thinking of the security here at laws as

well as the players themselves that has

stopped two protesters from making their

way out onto the pitch and actually

scattering the powder onto the onto the

strip itself onto the Wicket John what

am I hearing did I hear that Johnny

bairstool virtually lifted one of the

has to manhandle them off Johnny

bairstow has just helped the security

here at Lords left one of the protesters

essentially rugby tackled one of the

protesters to the floor and then

assisted in helping to pick them up and

move them off the field I mean you know

he is an old-school Yorkshire type so

you can't be too surprised but at the

end of the day Cricket is back on Stuart

broad has just bowled his first delivery

of the match parsley outside edge

Elizabeth but the two protesters who

made it onto the field they did scatter

the orange powder they weren't able to

uh affect the actual strip itself which

would have been calamitous because I'm

not sure how you'd have got it off

um but essentially had been removed from

the field of play and play is continuing

now okay John thank you very much indeed

back there that was a development we did

not expect Seth freaking Rollins and

Becky Lynch of the WWE are in studio

this is what happens Becky in this show

um

back this could happen at your event

chaos I hope not I hope nobody rushes

The Room well if they do at least you

better pants

to be brave to get in with him wouldn't

they oh I I've had it I've had multiple

people yeah I had someone catch me on my

entrance or my exit one one time not too

long ago we were in Brooklyn and I was I

just finished a match I was heading out

wasn't thinking about anything but the

cameras and the crowd and the vibe and

all of a sudden some guy had just hopped

the barrier and he made it all the way

boom tackled me right on the uh like a

little bowling balls boom really brought

me yeah he had been catfished I believe

I was a protest about it there was no

protesters

or someone pretending to be me on the

internet that it like did he did he hurt

you uh no no no thankfully he didn't

have anything on him he was just

gripping and pulling our security got

him you know kind of right away but yeah

it was uh

I tried he was uh he was he was no joke

but he came out I came out of nowhere

like I wasn't you know you're not

anticipating something like that well

listen this this is the first

london-based WWE event in 31 years money

in the bank at the O2 on Saturday these

events I mean Becky and your husband and

wife team are going to get to that

shortly these events are enormous aren't

they and there is no holding people back

the clamor for WWE in this country is

enormous isn't it yeah no it's huge it's

huge we have we have such a big

following internationally but uh for me

this is a special one because I'm from

Ireland and I started when I was 15

years old so we're talking 21 years ago

and I would come over to England and I

would do these summer camps in Kent

there was a a place called hammerlock

NWA UK and I would come over and fly

into Heathrow stand by my mom was a

flight attendant so we got the we got

the cheap airfare

the train down

um and uh and and train there and to

think that I would ever be in the WWE

was just so beyond the realm of

possibility so to be able to be back

here and performing in um in the money

in the bank at a premium live event it's

it's mind-blowing man it's huge Simon

you know the following is it's no matter

if you look at people like Vince McMahon

and their initiatives from the and you

look at the the Genesis of people like

you know Gorgeous George that influence

people like Muhammad Ali to come out

with his shtick you know we've had you

know big daddy and Giant Haystacks and

Nick McManus but these guys are a

different gravy these guys are a

different gravy well I used to my oldest

boy I mean I took him when he was young

and I've also taken my younger son in

previous years and I was completely

gobsmacked by the amount of numbers and

the excitement and the seeing what some

grown adults were doing I was like what

is going they're crazy our fan bases are

they're one of a kind man there's

nothing like them they are so passionate

about what we do at WWE and professional

wrestling as a whole I mean they they

make it really special Saturday 802 is

going to be like molten hot it's gonna

be wild can you let us into this Seth I

mean it's all choreographed in fine

detail

well no it's not and it depends on the

event you know it depends on what we're

working with here it's it's a it's a mix

of choreography and improvisation so

we're artists in the sense that we're on

a stage and we're performing so it's

kind of like theater in the round in the

sense that you know we've got to perform

for all all sides but we're also

athletes kind of doing our own stunts

taking Falls you know at danger all the

time but there's like this element of

interaction with our audience where you

can never because there's such a big

part they're a character in the play

themselves you never know what you're

gonna get you know when you get to a

certain level you can kind of assume and

that's what you plan for but you never

know you never know what you're going to

get without when you get out there and

you have to be able to adapt and so you

have to be able to work with them to get

that kind of ebb and flow and find that

perfect Synergy to really take your

match take your story to the next level

and speaking of today there's an extra

element of the Ladders because you never

know what those things are gonna do they

sometimes have a mind of their own you

know really yeah yeah yeah because you

know you're getting thrown into them and

so so you'll want to climb one but next

thing you know it's all broken and

bended up until you got to get rid of

that one and find a new one so yeah

trepidation going into it or you just

you just literally threw yourself into

it no no I mean do you do you second

guess yourself good internet event like

this oh always always I mean you've been

in a bunch of them I've been in a bunch

for them the ladders are dangerous man I

mean there's no there's no like you're

not pulling the ladders when you fall

onto a ladder or you fall off a ladder

you're falling from an extra six feet an

extra eight feet or you're falling on to

Solid Steel like there's just no bones

about it and so anytime you go out there

and you know that that's the task at

hand you're you're nervous I mean

there's an extra element of nerves but

you mentioned kind of the the Rabid fan

base I mean that Adrenaline Rush it's

like a drug man it's like a shot have

you been here before and and competed

over here before in London yeah oh yeah

yeah I've been over here for over a

decade what's the difference in reaction

from the audience you've got this rabid

fan base in America that's committed

named next to the sport I don't mean

rabbit in terms of loons but in terms of

focus are diseased but is there a

difference or is it just you get the

same reaction

it's a great question it's a great

question I think there is the extra

element of of distance like we're not on

hand here all the time so it's it's more

of a rare occasion so I think you get an

extra element of excitement because

we're not here all the time it's more of

a verified

exactly a lot of people will be here to

see you I mean you know I would have

thought you know there's great

excitement that you're in town Becky

yeah yeah no it's it's it's fun you know

we're just across the pond and because I

have you know like I was I was

performing in front of

30 people maybe if we were lucky when I

was 15 16 17 and uh to be able to go out

there in front of I don't know how many

people are going to be there on Saturday

yeah

it's just yeah

you're massive you're Superstars aren't

you uh June are you relaxed in the

knowledge that this thing is consumed by

so many people

yeah I think so I mean gosh we've both

been doing it at such a high level for

such a long time I I think there are

instances where you you get struck by

how

I guess big of a deal you are even in

your own little kind of circle kind of a

big deal well you know what I mean

today at the end of the day you're

you're you're you're still just this kid

who kind of grew up and you know for you

who's double and I grew up in a small

town in the midwest in the states and so

like I'm still that kid at heart and I

I'm I don't know that that's ever going

to go away so I'm never gonna feel like

that dude who's on a poster on a

billboard or main Eventing a sold out yo

yo too like I'm never gonna feel that

way so there's always kind of that

element of humility that goes along with

it you have to really like you know for

example I mentioned that the media in

New York the other day we were outside

the Today Show and there's just people

showing up I don't even know how they

knew we were going to be there but

they're there asking for autographs and

taking pictures and we're there in New

York and it's moments like that where

you go oh yeah man I put a post on my

Instagram

but I think I think part of it is that

you you never really have time to digest

it because we're 52 weeks a year we're

constantly going so you just move and

you're what what's the next town what's

the next story what are we doing your

wife team yeah I mean is is talk of WWE

banned at home absolutely not

no no we can't you can't shut it off

because she mentioned there's no off

season you just live it you breathe it

and to be super successful in this gig

you kind of have to there's no other way

to do it and for each of us to have

reached essentially the Pinnacle of our

our sport like we have to live it

breathe it think about it all the time

it's just it's part of a it's part of

our life and so yeah we all we do is

it's all about this there it is it's all

about money in the bank so Seth um if

you want to take it away what can we

expect Becky if you want to tell us as

well what can we expect then from the

show dude it's just gonna be like I said

molten hot crowd you're gonna get some

of the best sports and entertainment Bar

None and if you just want to go there to

people watch you're gonna get that in

Spades because it's a party I mean it's

going to be just athleticism

entertainment drama comedy emotion all

of these things kind of wrapped into one

and that's what we do at WWE fantastic

you couldn't sell it better no no no no

guys Becky Lynch Seth Rollins I'll leave

the freaking bit out listen good luck

thank you so much for being with us

sorry about the interruption but we had

to go to the cricket who knows we might

get more of it obviously you don't see

anything like that at your event that's

going to disrupt it in any way it's been

fantastic the number of messages coming

in for you guys it's significant they

love you out there thank you for being

with us this morning wonderful wonderful

WWE is in town

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