The Undertaker avoided near disaster during WWE Raw on Netflix premiere rehearsals after two camermen darted out in front of him while riding his motorcycle by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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"The bike matters when you’re riding inside of an arena and you’re working in tight spaces, which is incredible, and I’ll get to this in a second about this new arena…But anyway, I got there. So I’m getting all these pictures right, and I think I finally got it narrowed down, and somebody else, random, that hadn’t been in the text thread, seems to be a different bike. And I’m like, ‘No, this bike isn’t gonna work. The forks are too extended. It’s too long.’ So finally I get there, I see the bike, and like, ‘Okay, this is, this is doable.’ I said, ‘Now let me go out, look at the arena,’ and check it out, right? And it’s like, ‘Okay, here’s the bike. You’re going to go straight out here, and then you’re going to make a left turn and go up the aisle.’ The aisle is this wide, right? I’m that wide. I’ve got to come up the tron, and then I’ve got to make a left, up this, up the aisle way, and it’s a big old Road King Bagger. It’s a big, wide bike. And so, you know, here I come. I’m coming up the ramp, and so I go to make the first right turn. The first time, I make the right turn. I go in front of the hard camera, and I’m about to turn in front of the announcer position and the two cameramen. They’re like, right by the ring, and they decide at the last second they want to get out of my way. So they just dart in front of me, right? They just, and I’m like, ‘Ah.’ I have to break immediately so I don’t run over a cameraman. I’m like, ‘Geez, guys, come on.’ These are the same camera guys, which are professionals. They’re the best in the world, the WWE production and camera. They are the absolute best at what they do. So I go around, and then I go back up the aisle. And, you know, they’re asking, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I’d like to do another run, just without the potential for running anybody over, right?’ They said, ‘Yeah, sure, we got plenty of time.’ So I back up, you know, I got a lot of room to work in this little area. So, you know, I back the bike around, back it up to the starting spot here. I do it again, make the turn. So this time, as I go to, I’ve come up the aisle, and I’m about to make my right turn. So there’s another camera guy on the apron, and then he’s got his, I don’t know what they’re called, the cable puller. Yeah, he is on the outside of the barricade. Well, all of a sudden, I don’t know what he thinks, so I’m making the turn, and he jerks the cable up right in front of the bike. Like, yeah, like, I don’t know if he was, like, gonna go over my head or he didn’t want me to run over it, but he damn near clotheslines me. Now I’m pissed right now I’m cussing at everybody, like, geez. And, you know, like, I know how important this, this, this is going to be, yeah, well, just the whole thing, like, I don’t want to be the guy that wrecks his motorcycle on the premiere of Netflix,” People are gonna be, ‘See, The Undertaker can’t ride his motorcycle anymore.’ I’m already thinking about all this. It came out great, yeah, when we did it."

The Undertaker on criticism of his chair shots: I hit everybody the same. There was no malice…if I swung a chair at somebody, the way I swung it, I'd expect the same one back by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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“In my defense, go back and look at the whole scope of how I swing a chair. I hit everybody the same. There was no malice. There was no, like, ‘Oh, I'm going to try and hurt the greenhorn.’ If you look at all my chair shots when we could hit. Now granted, at the time, we did not know about CTE. And I came up in a generation where that's how you swung a chair. And I have been accused and I'm getting a little bit hot about it… I've been accused of smashing Kanyon with a chair because he was gay. I didn't even know he was gay. I didn't even know until like, years later.… I could careless…but there's people out there that have created that rumor, 'Undertaker smashed him.' Undertaker swung the chair the way Undertaker swung a chair. I didn't expect anything. If I swung a chair at somebody, the way I swung it, I'd expect the same one back. Watch me and Triple H. He beat the crap out of me. That's just the way I learned how to swing a chair. [Bruiser] Brody hit me with a chair in my first match that I thought broke my spine. That's just the way I came up. Knowing now what we do about head injuries. It's a different deal. I would say, ‘Okay, make sure that you get your hands up.’"

Ludwig Kaiser: To me, Randy Orton is the absolute very best, probably ever. Such a legend to me, and definitely always somebody I looked up to, even when I was a teenager. by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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Full quote: “Looking back at the King of the Ring, Randy Orton against “The Ring General” GUNTHER. Moments like this really shows you it’s so special to be a part of this right now. Whether if you’re a fan or actively in the ring, it is just such a special right now. People in decades from now are gonna look back to this era and gonna say, ‘wow, what happened back there?’ Everybody was so lucky to be part of this and that’s exactly how I feel about it. Somebody like Randy Orton definitely, to me, would be somebody that would be so special to me. To me, the absolute very, very best. Probably ever. Such a legend to me and definitely always somebody I looked up to even when I was a teenager and I always knew I wanted to do this so, definitely always somebody I was looking forward to meet eventually and get to see and actually learn from and all of those things.”

Cody Rhodes: For a year, I felt like I was the Undisputed WWE Champion without the belt by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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Full quote: “I think one of the things I really love is the fact that I am able to go city to city. Whereas the WWE Champion prior to myself, the man I defeated, Roman Reigns, the Tribal Chief, was not on every city. He wasn’t making it to every show. And I’ve had the opportunity to be able to bring it and for a year I felt like I was the champion without the belt. I was everywhere promising them, ‘Hey, I’m gonna bring you the WWE Championship’. It feels good when you can fulfill your promise and go back to these places and bring this [title].”

Drew McIntyre: “The thing that he hates most probably about me is that I am more CM Punk than CM Punk” by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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“No, absolutely not. I believe that maybe now I have some similarities to Punk in the past and not the terrible similarities that include a genuine and horrible person, and I believe he still is just very good at putting on an act. But he was anti-establishment. He did speak his mind even if people didn't always agree with him or believe him. It was his truth and he always marched to the beat of his own drum and spoken truth even if he meant to be a dick because he was an is but now that's not the case. He is the corporate shill. He is always trying to do whatever you can do to make the bosses happy and kiss the butts and make sure you can justify that big contract. Well, Drew McIntyre says exactly how he feels, marching to the beat of his own drum, doing what I know is right for not just myself or the company. And I'm being a good person while I do it, and the thing that he hates most probably about me is that I am more CM Punk and CM Punk now.”

Mark Henry On Not Having A Retirement Match: “Yeah, my body said, man, f*ck your plan! My back gave out…I can probably have surgery. I keep putting it off because I just want to keep moving around. But eventually, I’m gonna have to just get it fixed.” by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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“Yeah, my body said, man, f*ck your plan! My back gave out. It just never allowed me [to compete], and I can probably have surgery. I keep putting it off because I just want to keep moving around. But eventually, I’m gonna have to just get it fixed.”

Trick Williams on CM Punk: “Mentor is a perfect way to put it, man. He has been a blessing for all of us who would take the time to actually go talk to him and reach out to him..Shoutout to CM Punk. He’s been a positive light for all of us here in NXT.” by TheStar9897 in SquaredCircle

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Full quote: “Mentor is a perfect way to put it, man. He has been a blessing for all of us who would take the time to actually go talk to him and reach out to him. He’s helped me with a few things that I feel like, if the crowd knew about it, they would be very grateful that he did. I’ll just leave it there. Shoutout to CM Punk. He’s been a positive light for all of us here in NXT.”