Oba Femi has commented on his face-off with Brock Lesnar in the WWE Royal Rumble and a potential future match between the two.
Femi and Lesnar had a couple of notable moments during the Rumble where they’d laid everyone else out and came to face-to-face with each other.
Their physicality was limited, but Lesnar did eliminate Femi from the match.
Appearing on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, two-time WWE NXT Champion Femi has addressed the interaction and potential future match. He said:
“There’s so much nuance to that moment. Because it’s one thing to have buzz online, but a lot of times, buzz online doesn’t necessarily translate to what the casual crowd or the live crowd really wants.
“So at the beginning stages of the face-off, me and Brock know that based on our reaction, we both have the understanding that, ‘Wait, there might be something here, there might be something here, oh, they’re getting louder, they’re getting louder, it’s rumbling – we have something.’
“So in that moment, you have that mental agreement, like, yes, we know we have something, so let’s not give away too much right now.
“I’m glad it got the reaction, I’m glad the IWC desires actually translate to the live crowd and what the casual fans want to see, and that’s an amazing realization.
“So we have something there, it’s a big money fight, we’re not going to blow our load on just a Rumble interaction. There’s so much more that can happen there, so we’ll see down the line.
Femi was also asked if he’d had any interactions with Lesnar prior to the match. He replied:
“I got to interact with him, but not too much on the wrestling, because it was always designed to be a teaser. Just to see how the people react to it.
“That’s what a lot of wrestling is. A lot of times it’s just like, let’s do this, let’s plant this seed, let’s see what the crowd does, and based off of what the crowd does, that’s going to be our next move.
“So there wasn’t too much interaction. It was a face-off, it was a teaser, we knew what it was from the jump.
“Now we know we have something, like we really have something, I think going from here now, we’ll probably have more interaction down the line.”
Brock Lesnar is set to appear on the February 23 episode of WWE Raw in Atlanta, Georgia.
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