Heath Slater Says He Pitched The Idea Of Punching Brock Lesnar In Their Segment
The former WWE superstar Heath Slater recently had an interview with Table Talk and spoke about an idea he pitched for his popular segment with Brock Lesnar in 2016.
In 2016, August 15th episode of Raw, the free agent Heath Slater interrupted Brock Lesnar for match to get Raw Contract but that segment ended with Brock Lesnar attacking Heath Slater.
During the interview, Heath Slater revealed that he pitched the idea of hitting Brock Lesnar on his face. However, it didn’t happen at all, even though, Brock Lesnar booked to dominate Heath Slater in the segment.
“I just wanted to give Brock one punch, that was it. Paul was like, ‘If you hit Brock, you really have to hit him.’ Dude, whatever. I know how to throw a punch, I’ll make it look good. He says, ‘I don’t give a damn about your kids,’ BOOM! And then he kills me. The fans would have loved it. That’s all I pitched.”
Heath Slater further said that that segment helped him to put on the map and helped to get merchandise out his lines – ‘I got kids, I need this job’
“That segment put me on the map, but slapped me in my face too, literally. The whole, ‘I don’t give a sh*t about your kids’ was supposed to be ‘I don’t give a damn about your kids.’ I guess the crowd was into it. I got a shirt out of that segment because if you give me bullet points and tell me the ending, I can come up with the right words to where my fans can translate and be with me. When you hand me a four page script and you’re changing it every hour and 20 minutes before I go out, you give me a new script, I’m like ‘what the hell is going on?’ I was literally like, ‘I’m just gonna go out there and do my sh*t.’ I’m out there with Paul and Brock, I damn near forgot my next line and was shooting off the hip. I said, ‘Damnit, all these people know I’m gonna get my a** kicked. I know it, but I have to do this. I have kids! I need this job!’ Next thing I know, I catch Vince in the back and he’s like, ‘Woah, I got kids, I need this job. Print that out!'” (H/T: Fightful)