Hour 3:  Guest Host O’Shea Jackson Jr. plus WWE Superstar Tiffany Stratton Talks SummerSlam

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0:49Our YouTube channel. Subscribe at youtube.com slash richeisenshow and you'll never miss a moment. Now, on with the show. This is the Rich Eisen Show. With guest host, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. If Aaron Donald's back, that's a problem, man. Earlier on the show, Big 3 basketball star, Montrezl Harrell. Fantasy football analyst, Matthew Berry. Coming up, WWE superstar, Tiffany Stratton. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's O'Shea Jackson Jr.

1:33Hey.

1:34O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Hey there. See you again. It's been a while. You know, guys, I've been thinking, uh-oh, which is usually an issue. You know, they don't pay me to think. They just pay me to smile and wave. You know, have these gorgeous, welcoming eyes. This soothing voice and oohs charisma. I get it. And just so much humility, too. Yeah, humility, let's turn it down a little bit. We get it. You're humble. Anyway, I give Seth Rollins so much crap. You do. And he deserves every bit of it. I don't know about that. But that Colby Lopez, what a guy. What a guy. What a guy. What a guy. And I just wanted to let you guys know that when I was in New York, courtesy of Paul Heyman, because I kind of like that.

2:27O’Shea Jackson Jr.:But while I was in New York, I saw Seth, spoke to him, and he spoke very highly of you guys. Of us? Yeah, I told you guys this yesterday. Whoa. Yeah, he said, you know, he said you guys are good guys, and I made sure that I told him your full names to make sure it was you. But, yeah, he called you guys good guys. He loves coming here. He loves doing this. And I'm so happy that you guys get to do work with your friend. you all get to just do work because this is Seth Rollins country aren't we doing that right now? By the way we're friends with you and you're here love you Chris love you too man love you too O'Shea you know guys Tiffany Stratton is about to come up and I can't wait this is going to be awesome if you've never seen Tiffany if you're not familiar with her it's going to be a good time soon the disrespect I love you Shay love you too Chris I love everyone TJ love you bro you know what's amazing to me is the fact that Matthew Barry basically credited me with the start of the fantasy football boom and that was pretty cool you didn't start the cake corner like me the fatigue they be talking about it's messed up it's real TJ needed more hugs man Well, you mentioned Seth Rollins.

3:51O’Shea Jackson Jr.:He's going to be here tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow and Friday. He's hosting tomorrow and Friday. We get it. Here's something funny. You know, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, obviously, two of the biggest names in the last 14 years of pro wrestling. But what Seth told us, I don't remember if this was off camera or not, so I don't feel like I'm, you know, saying it out of line. But he said he was kind of worried that maybe people wouldn't be that much to he and Roman because they didn't have a huge quick build up. I'm like, Seth, you've had a 14-year build up. People are going to care. I think he said he was shocked that he was a little worried that people wouldn't care, but come on now.

4:30O’Shea Jackson Jr.:He's one of those names that you can drop in anywhere and people are going to have interest. Once again, I get to use this, but looking at my Gucci, it's about that time. What time is it? I think it's Tiffy time. It's Tiffy time! Hey! Hey, guys. Tiffany Stratton, welcome to the Rich L. Eisen show. We've had her on no contest before. A couple times. Now, we on the big show. I'm hosting the big show. So, obviously, we had to have you to show some love to SummerSlam. SummerSlam on two nights. Live from Minnesota. How many nights? Two nights. Saturday, August 1st. Sunday, August 2nd. It will be double that SummerSlam.

5:17O’Shea Jackson Jr.:And, yeah, you got a pretty important match coming up, that ladder match for the interim women's title over there at WWE. How are you feeling having the home turf and also with so much on the line? Oh, I am so excited. You guys have no idea. And also, I'm pretty well-versed. I feel like when it comes to stipulation mats, to ladder matches especially, Actually, I had a ladder match back in NXT. I also had a ladder match at Money in the Bank. Yeah. And that's where I became Miss Money in the Bank. And that's kind of where my career took off, if you will. So I'm super excited. I'm walking in very confident.

6:00O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I mean, she's already got some hardware. She does. You know, you walking in there already. Oh, there it is. I brought it. The champ is here. United States of Stratton out here. United States of Stratton. That's a good one. Hey, put it on a T-shirt. Come on now. Get the merch ready, baby. So, you know, going in, so far we only know it's you and Jade Cargill. Now, I am a fan of when you two go at it. It seems like, you know, that first run you guys had, it was like three or four matches where it was just like banger after banger, and then you guys just recently went at it. you guys got you know i know it's not always uh seeing the same way but you guys got chemistry can you talk about what it's like to have somebody like jay that you know like all right they're gonna bring it so you know you gotta bring it as well yeah i completely agree i feel like me and jade are kind of like wrestling soulmates almost i feel like we have such good chemistry and every time we get together we have these banger matches and i feel like people kind of don't expect it i I don't know why, but we've had a couple of really good matches.

7:14So when people are like, you know, they're wrestling again, it's like, guys, chill out. You're going to get a good match out of us. So I'm really proud of those couple of matches I've had with Jade. I'm proud of the storyline. So, yeah, going up against Jade Cargill, she obviously is a force to be reckoned with. And I'm going to be seeing her again in this ladder match. So maybe we'll do some some crazy spots together. You'll have to wait and see.

7:41O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah, there's got to be some sort of security as a performer to know that you're with somebody who can, you know, Jade for sure can do more power spots than most people. You know you're going to be caught a lot of times. That's got to be some sort of security, no? Yeah. I mean, we've all seen the video of me diving off the ladder back in NXT and, you know, not really getting caught. So maybe if I were to do that again, maybe I could do it on to Jade Cargill. And, you know, she's strong. So maybe she can actually catch me this time. See, TJ, that goes back to our conversation. We're like, I got to know somebody can, you know, take care of me, you know.

8:26O’Shea Jackson Jr.:It really helps, you know, if I know that, like, I don't have to worry about too much, you know. Exactly. Exactly. Now, Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota, talk to us a little bit about what it feels like to have one of the big four PLEs there and what it means to you. Yeah, so this is kind of my first big hometown moment. I feel like I've had one other match in Minnesota. It was in the tournament for the U.S. championship. It was when the championship was first introduced. and um i was in the tournament for it but i i won but then i think i lost the next match but um i remember wrestling in front of minnesota and the crowd was just so insane and there's so much wrestling history in minnesota and i believe i'm the only female that comes out of minnesota which is really cool so um to kind of have a full circle moment i feel like with you know not getting that u.s championship but being there for the tournament and now i'm walking in with the U.S.

9:32Championship, getting the opportunity to fight for the WWE Women's Championship. It's such a surreal moment. And to have that in Minnesota, it's just, it's such a perfect, it's like a perfect moment for me. It's a perfect time in my career. I feel like I'm, I'm so like developed. I feel like I have such a big resume now. So, you know, everyone understands the character so to have it be in summer slam have it be during this time in my career while i also have another title it's it's gonna be so surreal i'm gonna walk out as tippy two belts tippy two titles i'm gonna walk out as the wwe women's champion and the u.s women's champion and uh we're gonna get tippy two titles on a t-shirt oh absolutely stay tuned absolutely you

10:18O’Shea Jackson Jr.:know everybody tj everybody's talking about you know brock lesnar in minnesota they start talking What about Tiffy in Minnesota? She's a hometown hero as well. Right. Yeah. Some of the best wrestlers of all time come from Minnesota. So that's right, Tiff. For you to be the first female that comes up on that list, that is something because we're talking the Lesners, the Rick Rudes, the Mr. Perfects, the Fern Gagnas, people like that. And she is the first. Yeah, my man Chad Gable as well. Chad Gable as well. He's coming home too, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's really dope. Minnesota, look, he's stacked.

10:50It is. I feel like Minnesota's kind of slept on in that regard.

10:55O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah, like me, all I know from Minnesota are the T-Wolves, Target, Prince. And Kirby Puckett. 3M. You know, like, what are some other, like, what are some things about Minnesota that people need to respect out there? Well, we've got the Mall of America. Right. All right. Obviously the biggest mall in the entire nation. Famous episode of WCW Nitro took place there. right oh wow that's cool um what else you know there isn't really much um we've got the vikings right oh yeah randy moss you know yeah the couple things that we have here in minnesota we're proud of so um obviously our vikings that's a big one that we're proud of um minnesota twins as well yes um and like you said the timberwolves so see wolves are looking nice right now by the way just It's a little side note.

11:51O’Shea Jackson Jr.:It's a little side note. One of the most exciting players in the world. Yeah, going to be very interesting to watch. Shout out to LaMelo Ball and, of course, Anthony Edwards. Now, you are going into a ladder match. You know, you've had some success. But for us mere mortals who will be watching on the couch and all the commenters who will be picking potato chips out of their beards, please let us know what goes through your mind in something so chaotic because it's not just one-on-one. You got to watch bodies. So you got to not only are you keeping yourself safe, but you're trying to make sure the chaos doesn't get too crazy for everybody else involved.

12:27O’Shea Jackson Jr.:So what goes through your mind when you know you're going into a match like that? Well, in the moment, I can tell you nothing is going through my head. You cannot think about spots because you psych yourself out. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It froze a little bit. Yeah, it froze a little bit, but we could still hear you. I don't know if you can hear me now. All right, there you go. Okay. And obviously, I've had, you know, the couple of ladder matches in my career already. So I just refer back to those, and I use those as inspiration or, you know, as confidence boosters because I feel like not a lot of people have had multiple ladder matches within their careers, and this is going to be my third one.

13:13So that already kind of gives me a leg up from everyone. So I'm super excited.

13:19O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Absolutely. We still, you know, as fans, don't know how this list is going to fill out. Yeah. You know, we still have to wait and see how stacked this match is going to get. You and Jade being in it alone already stacks it. But something that I have a gripe with, TJ, as a WWE fan, is that it's in a row. I don't like it. I don't like that. You know, if I'm going out there, my body on the line, and entertaining at SummerSlam, and you're telling me that I'm just a temp, Rhea's going to have to win whoever wins this. So as you're going into the match, are you thinking of, you know, if once I get this, I know that Ripley's got to come take it from me?

14:05Well, I don't think I'm just going to give it back to her. That's not how that works. No, no, no, no, no. she's going to have to fight me in order to get that title back. I will give her a match. However, I will not just be giving her that title back. I won that fair and square. So if she wants to take a stab at it and wrestle me one-on-one, then I will totally give that to her, but that's up to her.

14:30O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Well, that's definitely going to happen. Are you kidding? She's going to want what she thinks is hers back. I really need this Tiffy two bells to happen, TJ. You don't know how much I need it, too. yeah walking around with the u.s title and the women's that's never been done before never been done history maker let's make some history out here i like some tiff street

14:56O’Shea Jackson Jr.:del tufo write it down oh i love it i gotta i gotta introduce oh yeah mike del tufo tiff is a big supporter right here oh my god love you tiff love you mike del tufo is uh he's near and dear to my heart, but he is all about Tiffany. Oh, yeah. Hi. Thank you. We put him on to you when we interviewed you first for No Contest. He does our audio, and he just became a Tiffany strategy. Big fan. Big fan. All the best. Thank you. Thank you so much. Always. Absolutely. So, Tiff, you know, for people who might not be familiar with you, you are a former gymnast, right? So, can you just share with people how that helped your transition to becoming a WWE superstar?

15:38Yeah, so we have so many girls that are former gymnasts as well. We have Sol Ruko, we have Kalani Jordan done in NXT. So I feel like gymnastics helps so much just because gymnastics teaches you body control. It teaches you rolling. It teaches you how to flip, obviously. So a lot of that has to do with the foundation of wrestling, the basics. When you first get into a wrestling ring and you take your pro wrestling classes, the first thing you do is a forward roll. And that's like the foundation of everything in wrestling and also in gymnastics. So I felt like I already knew the foundation of wrestling going into it because of gymnastics.

16:16And then obviously, a lot of the moves that I do within the ring, my entire moveset is a lot of the things I used to do in gymnastics. So I've kind of just found a way to take my gymnastics background and completely transform it into my moveset within the ring. And my moonsault actually is something I used to do every single day in every single competition in my compulsory routine. It was a move that you had to do so I can do my finisher in my sleep. And that's because of gymnastics. And like I said, we have so many former gymnasts that are excelling at pro wrestling and gymnastics just does that for you.

16:59It sets you up for not only wrestling, but I think any sport, truly.

17:04O’Shea Jackson Jr.:So Tiff, let them know the name of the move for those people who aren't familiar. Tell them because it's a great name. So my moonsault is called the prettiest moonsault ever because obviously I do it prettier than everybody. And the reason I do it prettier than everybody is because we got judged on how I did it in gymnastics on the trampoline. So I had to have my toes pointed, my legs perfectly straight, my fingers perfectly straight, my arms perfectly straight. So that's why I do it so perfect is because I used to do it every single day in gymnastics. TME, pretty smooth salt ever. Yeah, pretty smooth salt ever, man.

17:44O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Now, Tiffany, I got my nine-year-old daughter who loves, you know, she's into just flipping and falling and anything to stress me out. And, you know, she's really kind of, like, tested the idea of gymnastics. And, like, she just knows. I think the most dangerous words my daughter tells me are, Daddy, watch this. When she says that, it's like, oh, please don't hurt yourself on my watch, please. Do I just got to just suck it up and just let her hit the foam pit? Yeah. What's the way to go? Like, get a trampoline? You know, she's trying to get her handstand down right now. Now she's got the cartwheel down, but like, she's trying to work on her handstand.

18:30O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Help me out. What are some things I got to get her? Well, is she in gymnastics classes? She's, she like test the waters, but she's nervous about it. But like everything you do is gymnastics. You're jumping off stuff. You're tumbling. Like she's got it down, but she's just from YouTube. So what are the steps I got to take? I love a DIY queen. I would take her to an open gym at a gymnastics school and just kind of let her flip around and do her thing. I think that's the best bet. And sometimes, too, they'll have coaches, like, kind of walking around so they can come and help her and kind of teach her some things.

19:07And sometimes they'll, like, recruit them over to classes and stuff like that. But I definitely think that's your safest bet, especially if they have a foam pit. I wouldn't say put her in wrestling classes just yet because I don't think they got any soft mats in those wrestling rings. So, yeah, gymnastics, open gym. If you can find a foam pit, please do that.

19:30O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah, when she was five, we were watching. She saw Bianca. She saw Alexa Bliss. And she goes, Daddy, I want to do that. And as a wrestling fan, I like, you know, you start to, like, get the sweats. Like, yo, are you serious? Like, are you for real? and uh you know she got behind the curtain in the living room uh we played her music she came out she got on a little karaoke machine she can't cut a promo quite yet we were working here we were working on that she was five she's nine now we're gonna go back to it and uh yeah she whooped my my sisters behind for about half an hour it was great man so like that on top of the gymnastics thing you know i i just want to ease her into it i don't want to put that pressure of like please do this and uh i just i don't want my baby to get hurt tiffany you know it's just hard but it's gonna happen you know it's a lot of tumbling dude yeah it sounds like she's ready she sounds like you're building the perfect wv superstar really yeah but i'm not ready you're not ready for her to be on top of a ladder with Tiffany and have Tiffany push off through the tables.

20:46O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I get that. I'm not ready either. I'm not ready. Alright, you know, something that is in the news right now is, once again, Unreal is back. And everybody's mad that they know a little bit too much or, you know, just information that they probably shouldn't have, but you watched it, so like, you know, why are you watching it? How do you feel about the unreal series and people kind of learning what goes into uh making this event that we all love yeah i i really enjoy it i like unreal i think it gives fans a different perspective on everything that kind of goes on and it kind of gives them a new respect for the business because i don't think people understand how much truly goes on behind the scenes and how much you do kind of have to go with the go with the flow or go off the cuff and um you know stuff like that and i feel like having it be on netflix and having it say unreal and having wb superstars on it like i just feel like it draws um a different kind of fan or a different kind of um person that maybe isn't a wrestling fan into it and and then they can watch it and hopefully become a wrestling fan from that um but yeah like i said or like you said you know the people that are crying about it online are the people that are also sitting down and watching it so it doesn't really check out hurting yourself yeah but you don't watch it exactly it it i dig it because you know from from my actor's point of view the thing that you guys do to be able to not only have a character but no cuts, no redos, having to do it live, also your own stunts, and also you have to add to your character every week.

22:42O’Shea Jackson Jr.:I like to call it Broadway with violence. And so with people being able to finally see and appreciate it, the newer fans I'm talking about, I think it's a cool thing. And it kind of lets you know what you're watching. You know, people have their own tropes about wrestling, but the more you can get them to appreciate the details, I think the better, but that's just me. You know, that was my soapbox moment. Welcome to my 10 talk. So Tiffy tell the people why they need to be behind you going into SummerSlam live from Minnesota as you go for the title. Well, obviously we all want to be two titles to happen.

23:23So, um, And hopefully you guys have seen all the hard work that I put in for the past five years. I know I've seen it. I've been going through it for the past five years. So I'm walking in as the U.S. champion. And hopefully I'm going to walk out as Dippy Tutorials with the WWE Women's Championship. And in my hometown to make it even better. And in front of my family and family that has never even seen me wrestle before. So I'm super excited. I hope they're super excited to see this ladder match. Hopefully it's stacked thus far. I believe it is stacked. You know, you have me and Jade Cargill, a former WWE Women's Champion as well.

24:06So I think it's going to be one of the more interesting matches out of the entire weekend. I can't wait to perform in front of Minnesota. And hopefully it's one that's memorable. Bowl.

24:18O’Shea Jackson Jr.:That is Saturday, August 1st, Sunday, August 2nd, WWE SummerSlam live from Minnesota. Y 'all give it up for Tiffany Stratton. My goodness. Thank you so much for your time, Tiffy, and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you, you guys as well. Stay safe. You too, guys. Great job. That was cool. What a great job, dude. It's just, you know, I get to talk to people that that I'm interested in and I like and just ask them whatever I want and they pay me like human money. Human money. Human money. I think that's really dope. She said it. She's been doing this about five years. That's not very long, man.

24:59O’Shea Jackson Jr.:And for her to be top of the heap as the women's champion, also United States champion, what she did in NXT, it's like, man. And you're giving a gymnastics. She's setting a bar high, man. What's that? You're giving somebody from gymnastics a ladder. This is going to be exciting. Yes, it is. It's going down and it's going up. All together. Brockman, you happy for Raw? You excited for Raw? Yeah, yeah. Raw's coming to L.A. on Monday. Me and Cage are going to be there. Let's go. Can't wait. I got to get my dad to go. By the way, Dad, I got to get you to go. I know you're watching. I see you. You're on TV.

25:37O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Voice in my head. Are we going to break? We are. 5-4. We'll be back with more Rich Eisen show. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast.

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