WWE Elimination Chamber 2023 Post-Show Media Scrum: Samu Zayn, Triple H on Potential WWE Sale, Edge

WWE held a post-show press conference following Saturday’s Elimination Chamber 2023 event in Montreal, Canada.

Some of the notable highlights included Sami Zayn giving his thoughts about feeling “strangely detached” following his loss to Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in front of his hometown crowd.

“I want to apologize in advance because I’m feeling very strange. I know some of these answers are going to be, maybe not what you would expect. I feel very strange in that, I feel very strangely detached, which I don’t know if people want to hear. You want to hear, ‘Wow, I did this. It was awesome. I’m riding high.’ I normally am, but I’m feeling very strange, strangely detached, and I can’t quite put my finger on what it is. On a cognitive level, I know what we just did. I think I still have to see it back and see how it played. That’s a big lesson I’ve taken out of this storyline with the Bloodline over the past nine, ten months. I’ll feel good about something I’ve done, but I have to see how it played. What were the angles, did they get in tight, did the emotion come through. All that kind of stuff. I’ll see how it played. If you asked me these questions tomorrow, I might have very different answers for you, but I feel strange. That might be the recurring theme for some of these answers. The other part might be, it was kind of an unhappy ending tonight. I’d be lying if I said that didn’t affect me. Of course, it’s unbelievable…this is a dream come true. You ever have a dream, it’s going in a certain direction, and then you wake up right before. That’s kind of what this was. It was like a dream, it’s a dream come true, it’s surreal, it’s everything you could ever want, and a storybook ending obviously has a certain ending to it. That’s not what happened tonight. I can’t act like there’s not a small part of me that is like, ‘ahhhh, I wish I could have given that ending.’ To the people, to the story, to myself, my family, my friends, to Montreal. I know what this is, we all know what this is, but some of this stuff is real. You just kind of dream of that happy ending. So close, but no cigar. Maybe that’s a small part of this strange feeling that I keep coming back to. I don’t know. It’s also, looking out into the crowd after the three count. Seeing their faces, I was like, ‘Oh, this is not fun.’ They’re hurt. They were so deflated, but not in a storyline sort of deflated.

It’s almost if like GSP comes back to Montreal and…loses. That’s a bit of a downer [laughs]. Even if the fight is great. It was a great fight. On a cognitive level, I’m well aware of what we did was awesome. I’m giving you the most honest answer I can give you at this moment, even if it’s not the best answer. I might feel very different if you ask the exact same question tomorrow once I watch it back and watch it play out. ‘What was wrong with me. They were on their feet, beginning to end.’ Of course, that was magic, but at this exact moment, I feel strange.”

On the topic of WWE’s potential sale to a new owner, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque stated that he hopes whoever becomes the new owner would allow himself and WWE’s talent to continue to work the way they currently are doing so in the company.

“Depends on who is buying, I suppose. What the offer is, what the outcome is. Stay out of it, to me. That’s not a cop-out answer. I have the greatest gig in the world. I helped tonight, in some small way, create the magic we did here tonight. To me, it’s the best gig on the planet. As long we get to do this, as long as we get to create the way we get to create it, as long as we get to do our jobs and we get to go out there and put our passion on display, as long as our talent are allowed to put their passion on display and do what we do, I’m good. It is what it is.”

On the topic of his career’s future, Edge stated that while he still has plans to retire in Canada, it is something that he is currently not thinking about for the time being for his career.

“I try not to make any firm decisions, but here’s what I can say about tonight. For nine years I was retired. I come back and I get to team with my wife, who I married while I was retired and had two beautiful little girls with. The fact that we get to do this at all, I never thought this would happen. We’re out there, and if it looks like we’re having, it’s because we are, we’re having a blast. I get to stand shoulder to shoulder with this woman. We get to hit a shatter machine, which we have never even attempted before, and pulled off. She hasn’t wrestled a match in a year and one month. Hops in there tonight in that kind of pressure cooker against two talents like that, and man, I’m just static. I’m not really thinking about what I’m having for breakfast tomorrow, let alone what I’m going to do five, six, seven, eight months from now. I will say, I would like it to be in Canada.”

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Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1, 2, & 3