Samoa Joe and Brock Lesnar were locked in a battle for the WWE Universal Championship throughout the summer of 2017.
Joe was unafraid to step to Lesnar, including in promos where he went face-to-face with "The Beast."
“Yeah, Brock was surprised too. [He didn’t know?] No, I mean, well a lot of that too and I’m not sure, there’s a lot of promos I had with Brock. But Brock really liked the kind of chaotic energy, I brought things and he loved that. I would say whatever I wanted to say to him and to his face because he understood what I’m trying to do, he understood. You want to flip off Brock Lesnar to his face and have people go, what are you doing, dude? That uneasiness, that kind of tension in the air. I think that also is just an important part of bringing interest and care into matches is building that tension, just knowing that when the dam finally breaks all hell’s gonna break loose," Joe told Chris Van Vliet on Insight.
Asked about the "look at me when I'm talking to you" line, Joe replied, "Yeah, I may have in the grand creative scheme of things went a little overboard there. It was fine. But I just remember when I walked back through the curtain, Hunter is like, Oh, awesome. Everybody’s stoked. And I remember I just looked over at Vince, and he’s just like, [flatly] ‘Yeah, good job.’ Because I think he wanted a different look to how everybody was in the ring. But sometimes when I’m out there, I’m on the mic and you get me jazzed up, and I’m all my sh*t, I just flow with the character, and then it gets wild.”
Joe challenged Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship at WWE Great Balls of Fire 2017, but came up short in his efforts to capture the title.
Elsewhere during the interview, Joe commented on his in-ring future. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
