Welcome, welcome, welcome to After the Bell.

I am still Corey Graves and to those faithful ATB listeners who caught it last week.

I promised you.

That's Vic Joseph this week and that's exactly what I'm going to deliver.

I'm just sort of joking around.

Vic is still part of the show, an integral part of the show.

A very important, essential, valid, valued, great co-host, coworker, great friend, wingman,

wheelman, all of the above, Vic Joseph, but he's not here.

Instead we're doing something a little different.

I was busy at the commentary table all WrestleMania weekend, but our podcast crew was also on the

ground in Tampa with former Intercontinental Champion Big E.

From the moment he woke up in his house in Lando Lakes, Florida, a beautiful summer with

Tampa, it's kind of creepy that the podcast crew was in Big E's bedroom, but it was that

level of commitment we brought.

They followed E all the way up to us.

Final moments at Raymond James Stadium later that night, capturing one of the most important

days of Big E's career, his first singles match at WrestleMania against Apollo Crews.

We captured him talking about the day in an extremely candid fashion this week.

We here at After the Bell present to you, the WrestleMania audio diary of Big E.

It is, I need to be precise here, it is 9.32 Sunday, April 11, 9.32 AM, that is, we are

at my home here in Lando Lakes.

And although I am laying down under a blanket and I don't really want to get up, we are about

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