On being quizzed on his current training and preparations, The Celtic Warrior revealed that his meticulous preparations remain mostly the same for each match. He added that he's looking forward to kicking Drew McIntyre in the head many times.
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00:00 Welcome to Outlook India.
00:01 And let me begin by congratulating you
00:04 for entering Elimination Chamber.
00:06 - Oh, thank you.
00:06 Appreciate it.
00:07 - So let's begin.
00:09 So if I may say so, you have had a diverse career.
00:14 You're doing so well from wrestling to movies.
00:17 You know, so according to you, how has your journey been?
00:21 - It's been a bit of a roller coaster.
00:23 It's definitely, it definitely has its ups,
00:29 some amazing ups and some pretty low downs.
00:32 But, you know, I'm still here.
00:34 I'm still kicking.
00:35 I'm still, I'm really, I think,
00:37 feel like right now in my career,
00:39 I'm doing my best work of my career.
00:42 I'm in the best shape of my career.
00:43 So I feel like,
00:46 I feel really, really good where I'm at right now.
00:48 I mean, from when I started,
00:52 debuted at Beats Cena to where I am now,
00:55 that obviously, you know,
00:57 there's been some stuff that obviously wasn't great.
01:00 But as I said, you can only look forward.
01:02 And this Sunday, the elimination chamber,
01:05 I'm looking forward to becoming a four times,
01:10 five times, sorry, five times to be champion,
01:13 to be world heavyweight champion.
01:15 - Great.
01:16 So how do you balance, you know,
01:17 how do you balance between movies and wrestling?
01:20 Because when you are wrestling,
01:21 you have to be a certain weight.
01:23 You have, you know, a certain specification.
01:27 Probably the character you're playing in a movie
01:29 might not demand so.
01:30 So how do you balance between the two?
01:33 - Luckily enough, the roles I do play
01:35 are pretty much about the way I look.
01:38 I don't really do any, like,
01:40 I haven't got any crazy character-based stories
01:43 where I've had to drop it,
01:44 like, you know, 20 pounds or 50 pounds or something.
01:47 But the hardest part, obviously,
01:49 is making the time to do movies between wrestling.
01:52 Because obviously we were on Raw every week.
01:54 So you have to be there on a Monday.
01:55 And then once a month we have the pay-per-views,
01:57 like a domination chamber.
01:58 So it's just about getting the balance.
02:00 And if an opportunity does come up,
02:02 that we're able to do it without conflicting
02:05 with our TV, Raw TV schedule.
02:10 So it's just a matter of moving things around.
02:13 It's not too bad.
02:14 It's actually great.
02:15 A lot of guys have done movies and done TV shows.
02:18 So that's something I'd like to do more of.
02:20 - Right.
02:21 And what made you choose your ring name?
02:25 What was the reason behind it?
02:27 - The Celtic Warrior?
02:28 - Yes.
02:30 - Because I wanted to bring a very, very positive
02:33 Irish stereotype to WWE,
02:35 as opposed to like plastic paddy sort of stuff.
02:38 And, you know, all the stereotypes of Ireland
02:41 that are around now.
02:42 So I wanted to bring a strong Celtic vibe to WWE.
02:47 It's something that's very integrated to our culture,
02:51 the Celts, the Irish Celts.
02:54 So I wanted to bring that to the more fierce
02:56 kind of warrior vibe, which I feel is a big part of me.
03:00 - Right.
03:01 So tell us something about, you know,
03:03 WWE Elimination Chamber.
03:06 How have you prepared yourself?
03:08 You know, how many hours do you practice?
03:10 Things like that.
03:11 - I'm ready every day.
03:14 I train every day.
03:16 I don't take a day off.
03:17 I'm in the gym.
03:18 I just did fast cardio now.
03:21 And then I'll go back to the gym later on
03:22 and I'll work out.
03:23 I train twice a day, every day.
03:25 - I saw your screen.
03:27 - Oh, you did?
03:28 Thank you.
03:29 I'm most prepared for Elimination Chamber
03:32 as I am for RAW.
03:32 Every week for me is a training week.
03:36 As soon as I leave RAW, I go home on Tuesday.
03:39 I train the entire week at box.
03:41 I do some MMA, do cardio, lift weights.
03:45 I keep a good eye on what I'm eating, my diet.
03:47 So then when I come back to TV the following Monday,
03:50 I'm ready to go again.
03:51 I prepare every single week.
03:53 And I don't take a week off.
03:54 - Great.
03:56 And you know what inspired you?
03:58 What made you choose wrestling as a career?
04:01 What was that one thing that made you decide?
04:04 - It's fun.
04:05 Wrestling is fun.
04:06 - Is it?
04:07 - Yes, it's fun.
04:09 I mean, watching as a fan, I love it.
04:12 It's entertaining.
04:13 It's action-packed.
04:15 It's like watching real life superheroes
04:18 in the ring as a wrestler.
04:21 And obviously it's a lot more physical in the body,
04:24 but at the same time, it's a lot of fun to get in front of,
04:27 have the crowd watching you.
04:28 But I just enjoy it.
04:29 I enjoy the feedback from the fans.
04:31 I enjoy the actual physicality in the ring.
04:34 I love everything about it as a fan and as a competitor.
04:37 I've fallen in love with wrestling.
04:40 I just knew it was all I wanted to do.
04:42 - Yeah, it's fun to watch.
04:43 I don't know how about being in the ring, but yeah.
04:47 - It's tough, it's tough, but it's fun.
04:48 It is fun in the ring.
04:49 We all have fun.
04:50 You can see the girls have fun, the guys have fun.
04:52 You know what I mean?
04:53 It's very physical, but like, you know,
04:55 putting on a wrestling match and wrestling in the raw
04:57 in front of millions of people all over the world,
04:59 it's not many people can say they get to do that, so.
05:03 - Of course.
05:05 So, you know, you have been away from the main event scene
05:08 for quite a long time.
05:10 And a win here will catapult you to the top of the card.
05:14 What do you have to say about it?
05:17 - I think it's about time.
05:18 I think it's overdue.
05:20 I feel it's over five years, I think,
05:22 since I won my last world championship.
05:25 So it's way overdue.
05:27 And the way I'm training right now,
05:29 the way I'm performing in the ring,
05:31 my backstage promos, everything I'm doing,
05:33 I feel like nobody can touch me.
05:35 I feel I'm ready to take that part of back.
05:39 Thank you.
05:40 - And how has the pandemic been for you?
05:43 Did it change the game for you?
05:45 Did you come up with new strategies or something?
05:48 Did it help you in a way?
05:49 - Say that again?
05:51 - Like this time?
05:53 The pandemic, did it help you in a certain way?
05:56 Like, you know, building your strategies
05:58 or something like that?
05:59 - Oh yeah, well, physically more than anything,
06:02 it helped me when I was off.
06:03 Physically, the time it took away was really good.
06:05 I went to physical therapy and I worked on some,
06:07 like, mobility stuff.
06:09 And I worked on, like, a lot of core stuff
06:13 that was gonna help me, like, keep longevity to my career.
06:17 So I did a lot of more physical stuff,
06:19 like just working on my posture,
06:21 working on my form and my flexibility and my movement.
06:25 I worked a lot on more.
06:26 And I worked on, I started boxing and doing MMA,
06:29 kickboxing and stuff.
06:30 And that helped me with my movement in the ring,
06:33 my footwork, and just overall how I move.
06:37 All that stuff has completely changed
06:38 how I move in the ring.
06:39 And that's basically what I did.
06:41 I just, I went back to, I started from scratch,
06:44 started from zero again while I was off.
06:47 And I worked on things that needed to be addressed.
06:49 And here we are.
06:51 - Yeah.
06:53 So, you know, the first thing that comes on Google
06:56 when I type your name is you're the first Irish
06:59 world champion in WWE history.
07:01 - Yeah.
07:02 - How does that feel?
07:03 How does it make you feel?
07:05 A completion all around.
07:07 - Yeah, it's a tremendous, a tremendous honor for me
07:10 to do that, you know.
07:11 To be WWE champion, no matter what country you're from,
07:14 it's a huge, huge feat, you know.
07:17 But to do it as first Irish is,
07:19 it's pretty special for me.
07:20 It's really, really special.
07:22 And of course, I'll be going in against
07:24 the first ever British WWE World Heavyweight Champion,
07:27 Drew McIntyre.
07:28 So that's going to be a,
07:31 that's very, very interesting situation right there.
07:33 So the Scots and the Irish,
07:35 it's going to be a massive one.
07:37 Scotland versus Ireland, the Celts,
07:40 Battle of the Celts, the Battle of the Causeway.
07:43 So it's huge, huge connection between Scotland and Ireland.
07:46 I've been friends with Drew McIntyre for 20 years
07:49 and that friendship is pretty much over.
07:52 - So now we'll move to our, another section,
07:56 which is rapid fire, which is like,
07:57 I'll be saying something and you just have to quickly answer
08:01 what, whatever the first thing comes to your mind.
08:04 Okay.
08:04 WWE Championship, that title.
08:09 - Oh, mine.
08:13 - Ah, I like it.
08:15 - Yeah.
08:15 - Your favorite wrestler?
08:17 - My favorite?
08:19 - Wrestler?
08:21 - Favorite wrestler from the past would be Macho Man.
08:25 - Okay.
08:27 And among your contemporaries?
08:30 - Favorite wrestler, Cesaro.
08:32 - Okay, okay.
08:35 Your favorite movie?
08:41 Could be your own movie.
08:43 - I have a lot of movies I liked from the 80s.
08:49 I'll say Back to the Future.
08:51 - Okay.
08:53 And a character you would want to play next,
08:56 like a dream character?
08:58 - I wanted to play Venom, but Tom Hardy took that role.
09:03 What character would I like to play?
09:06 I'm trying to think.
09:07 There's a couple of characters I liked.
09:11 Wolverine, I'll be the new Wolverine.
09:14 - You'll do good, I think so.
09:18 So what would you call your autobiography as?
09:23 - The Warrior's Way.
09:26 - Nice, nice.
09:29 UFC or WWE?
09:31 - WWE.
09:32 - Okay.
09:34 Your favorite fight?
09:35 - My favorite match would be
09:39 I'd say for, as a child, would be Warrior and Hogan.
09:44 And then as a wrestler herself,
09:53 would definitely be Taker Sean from WrestleMania 26.
09:57 - Okay.
10:02 So my last two quick questions.
10:05 First is what's next?
10:06 What should we expect?
10:08 - What's next is for me to go into the elimination chamber
10:10 and take back the WWE Championship.
10:12 There's nobody that can touch me in there.
10:14 Nobody's as passionate, nobody as driven as I am.
10:17 I feel like I'm starting all over again.
10:19 And I feel like those other guys are just in the way.
10:22 They're all passers between me and Drew.
10:24 There's nobody, nobody can match me and Drew,
10:27 and Drew can't match me.
10:28 So that's the story, that's the plan, the WWE Champ.
10:32 - Okay.
10:33 And my last question would be a message
10:35 for your Indian fans.
10:37 - Oh, I love India.
10:38 I was in Jaipur,
10:39 and I had an absolutely unbelievable time there as well.
10:45 I think I was in Delhi as well.
10:49 It was not Delhi, it was somewhere else.
10:52 I was just, everything's a blur right now,
10:53 but Jaipur was really special to me.
10:56 I've actually wrestled in India as well.
10:58 So I'm looking forward to going back.
11:00 I definitely miss it.
11:00 That's one thing about WWE I miss,
11:02 is being able to go back to beautiful countries like India
11:05 and see all the amazing fans.
11:07 I've never seen fans as passionate as Indian fans.
11:10 It's insane.
11:11 You guys are like,
11:12 you're so much fun to meet,
11:15 to meet and to perform in front of.
11:17 - We are waiting for your win.
11:20 - I appreciate that.
11:21 Hopefully I can come back to India
11:22 with the WWE Championship for you guys.
11:24 You guys are phenomenal.
11:25 I appreciate you.
11:27 Have a great time.
11:27 Everybody in India, how's it going?
11:29 Make sure you watch Elimination Chamber
11:30 and watch the Celtic warrior rise back to the top.
11:34 - Yes.
11:35 - People love you in India.
11:37 And yeah, with this, I come to the end of my interview
11:41 and it was great talking to you.
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