Samoa Joe SHOOTS On Smackdown Live and Raw Locker Rooms

Samoa Joe is known for two things: intensely staring at you through the camera until you feel your soul start to leave your body, and choking people out from behind so often that you’re forced to wonder why WWE hasn’t implemented a backstage buddy system yet. Seriously Vince, you’re creating a hostile work environment!

 

Speaking of environments, Shiven Sachdeva of Sportskeeda recently spoke with the former ROH, Impact Wrestling and current WWE veteran about his experiences on both Raw and Smackdown Live. In particular, Joe was asked whether he has picked up on any differences in the backstage atmosphere between each brand. Surprisingly, the answer isn’t ‘terrified’, which is precisely what you would expect the environment to be whenever Samoa Joe is around.

“Well.. backstage, I do my own thing and have my own spots in the locker room so environmentally it’s not very different for me. But, the backstage environments are vastly different, but that is mainly because of the personalities. You’ve got some very unique individuals in the WWE and it’s a completely different nexus on Smackdown than it is on Raw.”

For someone who generally only expresses himself with a high degree of violence, that was an incredibly well articulated, diplomatic response…

Almost statesmanlike, in fact…

Oh my God, is Samoa Joe preparing a campaign to become the next mayor of Huntington Beach?! Probably not, but these are the questions we have to ask ourselves in 2018.

The ‘Samoan Submission Machine’ was also asked about his next opponent should he win the WWE Championship from AJ Styles, the man he faces in a few short weeks at SummerSlam.

“That answer is very simple. It would be whoever is worthy of being the number one contender. If we look up and down the Smackdown roster, we could see a lot of great possible match-ups. There are Jeff Hardy, Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton out there, not to forget Rusev. You know, there are a lot of first time ever match-ups there. After I win the championship, I’ll be happy to take on anyone.”

Did Samoa Joe just tease a future match against Rusev? Oh be still, my beating heart…

A full transcript of the interview, in which Joe goes on to hype Aleister Black and Velveteen Dream as potential future main roster call-ups, is available here.

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