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I look back at some of the decisions I made, and I was pretty hot-headed back in,

and I was always a business guy, and I was always there early and I stayed

late.

But it's a different animal to deal with.

Yeah, yeah. And I can see that now. Yeah. I didn't see it then. I was so far in the forest. I couldn't see the trees. It's, yeah, big time. And then here's another instance of why you even got deeper.

So the first... And then here's another instance of why you even got deeper.

So the first, before, it wasn't WrestleMania, it was a water settle the score that started everything.

And all of a sudden, they want me to take a dive for Hulk in the war to settle the score. Now, he's a champion, and all of a sudden, they got a heel that in five weeks, six

weeks is harder than any yield they've had.

Right.

So, but New York, under the thinking of the business, the big guy, babyface territory,

they wanted me to, and I said,

I'm sorry, I can't.

Well, why?

Because it's wrong business.

If I'm coming back in a tag, right, like, da, da, da, da.

So you want to squeeze this your bees out and then do the tag and then we run it.

That's different.

They died.

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