Daniel Cormier sits down with WWE superstar Omos in an exclusive interview ahead of his matchup against Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 39. DC gets into his past beef with Lesnar, and Omos insists he's going to "kick Brock Lesnar's ass!" And Omos fills us on in on why this fight is potentially the most important one of his WWE career. #Volume #Herd
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. You always look big, but you look bigger
in person. You know what's funny. Everybody always has been
a TV and they think, you know, yeah, it's an
(00:22):
em better strate of how large I am, until the
singing pression is like, holy shit, yeah, because you're not skinny. True,
you're that big. You're not skinny. Yes, I'm like four
hundred and sixteen pounds and Jack's you know what's crazy.
The other day you got on that scale at the
Winds and I saw them kind of playing with the scale.
(00:45):
But the scale like maxes out at four hundred polsle.
That shit kicked up to the top. It didn't move move.
You are overweight for what the scale can actually wait,
I was looking at the scale. I was like, I
want to see if you actually, like if they could
measure your weight, and it was just stuck at the top.
You must have stepped on an electric scale in the
back of so if I don't know how you got
four to sixteen, but I know you're absolutely over four hundred.
(01:07):
That's massive. Yes, sir, basketball player right graduated college four
years How was that experience for you? He was an
amazing experience. I learnt a lot played basketball, you know basketball,
This is something that I happen to do because that
got very tall being a nager and that's fall in
love with it. Yeah, you know when you came on
(01:29):
the scene, I would watch and I was like, Wow,
this guy's asked something. But you've been lucky enough to
work with two really big names. You had AJ Styles
on your side initially, now you would MVP. Yes, how
important were those guys to your development? And honestly, in
the AJ Styles storyline, it felt like there was more
that could have been done there. Do you feel like
there's more left to do with AJ when he comes back?
(01:52):
And also how good has it been to be with
those types of stars and veterans when you're trying to
get your feet wet wwbay Roster. First of all, I
cannot state how great both those individuals are, both AJ
and MVP. You know when I first got called to me, Roster,
every AJ he did, you need to know that his
(02:13):
wing and he taught me a lot, like a lot
because I was still very very green, and he did
you to show me the ropes and guided me through
this crazy business of ours. And then you know, I
felt there could have been more that could have done together,
but it's just the circumstances did not align that way.
(02:35):
And hopefully in the future, I really want to run
it back because I think there's the story had to
be told. Yeah, And as far as the verb goes, man,
he's just with the next step in my career and
the next of my career, and he is just continue
to guide me and teach me about the business and
how to be a monster and how to be the
(02:57):
man that owns the room. And you know, he's always
got he's been guided mean teaching me. That's about a
lot of things, not just wrestling, but about life itself.
So I'm extremely grateful the PUBLICI to have such iconic
figures in my life. Oh Moss, you are the first
Nigerian born athlete to be signed by the WWE. That's
(03:18):
a massive honor, right, It is a massive honor. It
means it means a lot to me. It means you know,
that means kids in Anigeria and kids in Africa watching
me and they can't be as an inspiration, you know,
I was. I worked for the UFC. I don't know
if you know, that's kind of what I did. What's
coming and um, we had like this explosion of African
(03:44):
athletes that became champions Kmoro, Usman, Israel, Edison and Francis
and Ghanu. Yes, you see the impact to the point
that Dana White said, we need to do USC Africa.
Do you feel like you could be the first of
many athletes to come into the w W. And I
know that you're taking an interest in trying to make
an impact on the effects that you have had in
(04:05):
that region of the world, to try to gain popularity
to the ww I mean, we we already said, we
already kind of set it on that part. On that part.
Last year we went to uh Nigeria to go you know,
set up activation for you know, recruiting a recruitment of
talent in that talent pool, not just for Nil, for
(04:27):
the whole of Africa. And on top of that was
my first time going back up in fourteen years, so
I kind of got like the group, he was welcome.
It was an experience, and I'm moving forward to the
talent that we can bring from the interior here because
you know, I just feel like Africa as a whole,
you know, has such an immense pool of talent that
it's just attacked. Yeah, for sure, because look at those guys,
(04:49):
Like I said, those guys were they ruled the world. Yeah,
ruled the world. They ruled the world, and uh, I
can imagine the world where you see it happening in
the WWE, but in the US. You walk into the room,
you're never afraid of anyone. You're seven foot five inches tall.
Have you ever walked into a room and goes man?
(05:10):
Besides today where you walked in with me and go
all right, this maybe one area in which you know
may not be the baddest man in the room, but no,
I'm just saying, have you ever walked in the room
and goes wild? I'm the biggest, I'm the baddest. Is
that every room you walk into pretty much? Pretty much
it's been that way. It's all sixteen years old. Yeah,
how tall were you at fifteen years old? I was
about seven foot six eleven seven six to eleven at
(05:31):
fifteen years old, pretty much? Yeah, oh my god. If
I saw you in the hallway, I go in the
opposite direction every single day at school. I'll do the same.
You say you're not afraid, though, another man that's never
afraid is brock Lesner. You brock Lesner got a tangle
this weekend. Sure, how much are you looking forward to
(05:55):
dealing with the beast because brock Lesner, and I will
say this from the US see, we would say brock
Lessner is not from this world. In the WWE I
heard Pat McAfee said that if the Aliens came down
to this Earth they wanted to take over, we'd sent
brock Lessner because we most people feel brock Lesser's the
baddest man on the planet. How excited are you to
(06:17):
tangle with that guy? Beyond excited? I mean, if it's
the baddest man of the planet, you know, I gotta
go show that. You know I'm the baddest on the
planet too, you know it's just him. You know, I'm like,
I am seven foot four, four hundred and sixty pounds
and may as come. They got to see me. He know,
it's crazy, like he's always the biggest. Him and I
had a thing where he came into the octagon and
(06:40):
he pushed me, and he like dwarfs me. But for
the first time I've ever seen somebody looked just bigger
than brock Lesner ever, was the first time you ever
s see blu tiny. He's bigger. No, no, he's not.
I'm bigger than him. Okay, I was the first person
to ever made brock Lessioner looks like a little child. Yeah,
you did exactly. You make him look small. But tomorrow night,
(07:03):
you guys gotta fight. You got fight. What's the approach
to fighting a guy like Brocks? What if brock Lesner
tries to put you on his shoulders with the F five?
How it's impossible? Right? Pretty much impossible? Like he has
to pick me up, Like that's if I let him
pick me up? No? How Oh, your brock Lesser had
(07:24):
a pre fight brawl. Two million views on that clip.
How excited are you about your guys? Is rivaling having
that type of impact because at the end of the day,
being next to a guy at the star level of
rock Lesner, it elevates you. How important is this to
your career? And is it unexpected? I don't think it
(07:48):
was an expected. I think I've been grooved for this moment,
and I you know, been waiting for this moment for
most of my career because you know, I hadn't mind
that there's a couple of guys that before this time
was up, I needed to face him and he's one
of those guys on that list. So tomorrow I get
a check off the checklist stuff to name some people
who are if you do one of the face and
he happens to be one of them, and just to
(08:09):
being that maybe him tomorrow. First of all this you know,
I'm make shim be grateful for the opportunity. It's like,
kind of I'm happy to be the guy that gets
to whoop his ass. Why why are you got to
push him in the face like that? You push Rock
in the face and he went over the top of roof.
I've never seen anybody man handle Rock. Look at the
size of your hands, man, I mean, there has to
(08:29):
be somebody to do it right. All these years, I
can attest to this. Right these whole years, he's been
much dominated everybody he's been in the ring with. Yeah,
it's about that time somebody comes to make him as
like a child. All right. Oh, outside of the literal size,
are you the biggest challenge in Rock Lesser's career? Absolutely,
I am the biggest challenge because not only I'm a large,
(08:52):
I'm pretty athletic. I played basketball for the years of
my life, so I'm pretty quick. I'm pretty fast. So
everything he think he's gonna hit me with, I'm ready for.
You're your fan base. They call themselves the Oma Sapiens.
What do you think of that? Man, it's got to
be a you know, playing in college sports is one thing,
(09:14):
but to have a sex to people who have given
themselves a nickname, that has to mean something to you, bro,
like as a kid from Nigeria. Man, it's it's been
pretty cool to watch it involved. It's pretty much become
its own thing. And I didn't even know where that
came from. I can't take ready for creating that and
the pretty much seeing a fuck up individuals suit truly
(09:35):
at matter what I do, and decided to cut themselves
to almost sapiens, which is very catchy by the way.
And I said, you know what, since they embrace me,
I'm going to embrace them. So that's that's how it happened.
That's beautiful. Do you take a do you take note
of everything going on with the product you're watching? Logan Paul.
I watched every part. I watched One Night Raw, I
watched n XT, I watched Friday, I watched everything that
(09:58):
everybody's doing because at the end of the day, I
want to be at the top of my game, ready
for whatever they throw at me. What do you think
of Paul as a wrestler? Come again, Logan, Paul? What
do you think of Logan Paul? I mean, it seems
like he it seems like impossible. Are unfair that he's
like that good that quickly? You know, to give Paul
his credit, right, you know, Paul is h Logan. Paul
(10:19):
is one of those guys that he's just a natural athlete, right,
no matter what support you put him into, he's gonna thrive.
And I'm not surprised at the fact that he's done
to walk in ww because she's just a natural athlete. Yeah,
he's a fantastic athlete. Is there's gonna be sixty thousand
people there tomorrow. Have you allowed for yourself to like
just close your eyes and go, man, I've come along way.
(10:43):
I'm wrestling at WrestleMania against brock Lesner like that. Have
you allowed yourself a moment to really just kind of
take it in to be honest, that moment is gonna
come after I finished whooping broadcast an ass smorrow. So
you locked it. I'm locking this, So I'm gonna take
a deep graph after I'm done whooping his ass as
I'm like, yeah, I'm the guy that findally conquered the
giant that conquered the beasts, the giant that conquered the Okay,
(11:07):
I got another question for you that I was kind
of going to wrap, but like, how much material do
they used to make your suits? They look fly? Though?
I gotta be you know, you know, my sister comes
straight from the bubbland. You know, they got to started
like soft cattles and yeah, it's nice a whole bunch
of like thirteen thousand sheets to make you know, But
I'm gon should be goodful that I have a group
(11:28):
of tailors back home that welcome my susits and make
sure I'm flying TV. Make sure you fly on, Sarah.
Was there a ready like of your background that went
into the outfit? Like the ring Gatar trying to pay
hor much to anything in story, the colors, the design.
I wanted something that spoke that was very vegal and
he felt warrior like then when you saw me and
(11:48):
knew that this gay me in business? Yeah mean business, Yes, sir.
I can't wait to watch you and Brockles the fight.
I can't wait to watch back there's in the bar.
I think it's gonna be a fantastic event. I think
you got blew the roof all that we are, that
we are OMS has been very good to watch your journey,
watch you elevate
The volume. You always look big, but you look bigger
in person. You know what's funny. Everybody always has been
a TV and they think, you know, yeah, it's an
(00:22):
em better strate of how large I am, until the
singing pression is like, holy shit, yeah, because you're not skinny. True,
you're that big. You're not skinny. Yes, I'm like four
hundred and sixteen pounds and Jack's you know what's crazy.
The other day you got on that scale at the
Winds and I saw them kind of playing with the scale.
(00:45):
But the scale like maxes out at four hundred polsle.
That shit kicked up to the top. It didn't move move.
You are overweight for what the scale can actually wait,
I was looking at the scale. I was like, I
want to see if you actually, like if they could
measure your weight, and it was just stuck at the top.
You must have stepped on an electric scale in the
back of so if I don't know how you got
four to sixteen, but I know you're absolutely over four hundred.
(01:07):
That's massive. Yes, sir, basketball player right graduated college four
years How was that experience for you? He was an
amazing experience. I learnt a lot played basketball, you know basketball,
This is something that I happen to do because that
got very tall being a nager and that's fall in
love with it. Yeah, you know when you came on
(01:29):
the scene, I would watch and I was like, Wow,
this guy's asked something. But you've been lucky enough to
work with two really big names. You had AJ Styles
on your side initially, now you would MVP. Yes, how
important were those guys to your development? And honestly, in
the AJ Styles storyline, it felt like there was more
that could have been done there. Do you feel like
there's more left to do with AJ when he comes back?
(01:52):
And also how good has it been to be with
those types of stars and veterans when you're trying to
get your feet wet wwbay Roster. First of all, I
cannot state how great both those individuals are, both AJ
and MVP. You know when I first got called to me, Roster,
every AJ he did, you need to know that his
(02:13):
wing and he taught me a lot, like a lot
because I was still very very green, and he did
you to show me the ropes and guided me through
this crazy business of ours. And then you know, I
felt there could have been more that could have done together,
but it's just the circumstances did not align that way.
(02:35):
And hopefully in the future, I really want to run
it back because I think there's the story had to
be told. Yeah, And as far as the verb goes, man,
he's just with the next step in my career and
the next of my career, and he is just continue
to guide me and teach me about the business and
how to be a monster and how to be the
(02:57):
man that owns the room. And you know, he's always
got he's been guided mean teaching me. That's about a
lot of things, not just wrestling, but about life itself.
So I'm extremely grateful the PUBLICI to have such iconic
figures in my life. Oh Moss, you are the first
Nigerian born athlete to be signed by the WWE. That's
(03:18):
a massive honor, right, It is a massive honor. It
means it means a lot to me. It means you know,
that means kids in Anigeria and kids in Africa watching
me and they can't be as an inspiration, you know,
I was. I worked for the UFC. I don't know
if you know, that's kind of what I did. What's
coming and um, we had like this explosion of African
(03:44):
athletes that became champions Kmoro, Usman, Israel, Edison and Francis
and Ghanu. Yes, you see the impact to the point
that Dana White said, we need to do USC Africa.
Do you feel like you could be the first of
many athletes to come into the w W. And I
know that you're taking an interest in trying to make
an impact on the effects that you have had in
(04:05):
that region of the world, to try to gain popularity
to the ww I mean, we we already said, we
already kind of set it on that part. On that part.
Last year we went to uh Nigeria to go you know,
set up activation for you know, recruiting a recruitment of
talent in that talent pool, not just for Nil, for
(04:27):
the whole of Africa. And on top of that was
my first time going back up in fourteen years, so
I kind of got like the group, he was welcome.
It was an experience, and I'm moving forward to the
talent that we can bring from the interior here because
you know, I just feel like Africa as a whole,
you know, has such an immense pool of talent that
it's just attacked. Yeah, for sure, because look at those guys,
(04:49):
Like I said, those guys were they ruled the world. Yeah,
ruled the world. They ruled the world, and uh, I
can imagine the world where you see it happening in
the WWE, but in the US. You walk into the room,
you're never afraid of anyone. You're seven foot five inches tall.
Have you ever walked into a room and goes man?
(05:10):
Besides today where you walked in with me and go
all right, this maybe one area in which you know
may not be the baddest man in the room, but no,
I'm just saying, have you ever walked in the room
and goes wild? I'm the biggest, I'm the baddest. Is
that every room you walk into pretty much? Pretty much
it's been that way. It's all sixteen years old. Yeah,
how tall were you at fifteen years old? I was
about seven foot six eleven seven six to eleven at
(05:31):
fifteen years old, pretty much? Yeah, oh my god. If
I saw you in the hallway, I go in the
opposite direction every single day at school. I'll do the same.
You say you're not afraid, though, another man that's never
afraid is brock Lesner. You brock Lesner got a tangle
this weekend. Sure, how much are you looking forward to
(05:55):
dealing with the beast because brock Lesner, and I will
say this from the US see, we would say brock
Lessner is not from this world. In the WWE I
heard Pat McAfee said that if the Aliens came down
to this Earth they wanted to take over, we'd sent
brock Lessner because we most people feel brock Lesser's the
baddest man on the planet. How excited are you to
(06:17):
tangle with that guy? Beyond excited? I mean, if it's
the baddest man of the planet, you know, I gotta
go show that. You know I'm the baddest on the
planet too, you know it's just him. You know, I'm like,
I am seven foot four, four hundred and sixty pounds
and may as come. They got to see me. He know,
it's crazy, like he's always the biggest. Him and I
had a thing where he came into the octagon and
(06:40):
he pushed me, and he like dwarfs me. But for
the first time I've ever seen somebody looked just bigger
than brock Lesner ever, was the first time you ever
s see blu tiny. He's bigger. No, no, he's not.
I'm bigger than him. Okay, I was the first person
to ever made brock Lessioner looks like a little child. Yeah,
you did exactly. You make him look small. But tomorrow night,
(07:03):
you guys gotta fight. You got fight. What's the approach
to fighting a guy like Brocks? What if brock Lesner
tries to put you on his shoulders with the F five?
How it's impossible? Right? Pretty much impossible? Like he has
to pick me up, Like that's if I let him
pick me up? No? How Oh, your brock Lesser had
(07:24):
a pre fight brawl. Two million views on that clip.
How excited are you about your guys? Is rivaling having
that type of impact because at the end of the day,
being next to a guy at the star level of
rock Lesner, it elevates you. How important is this to
your career? And is it unexpected? I don't think it
(07:48):
was an expected. I think I've been grooved for this moment,
and I you know, been waiting for this moment for
most of my career because you know, I hadn't mind
that there's a couple of guys that before this time
was up, I needed to face him and he's one
of those guys on that list. So tomorrow I get
a check off the checklist stuff to name some people
who are if you do one of the face and
he happens to be one of them, and just to
(08:09):
being that maybe him tomorrow. First of all this you know,
I'm make shim be grateful for the opportunity. It's like,
kind of I'm happy to be the guy that gets
to whoop his ass. Why why are you got to
push him in the face like that? You push Rock
in the face and he went over the top of roof.
I've never seen anybody man handle Rock. Look at the
size of your hands, man, I mean, there has to
(08:29):
be somebody to do it right. All these years, I
can attest to this. Right these whole years, he's been
much dominated everybody he's been in the ring with. Yeah,
it's about that time somebody comes to make him as
like a child. All right. Oh, outside of the literal size,
are you the biggest challenge in Rock Lesser's career? Absolutely,
I am the biggest challenge because not only I'm a large,
(08:52):
I'm pretty athletic. I played basketball for the years of
my life, so I'm pretty quick. I'm pretty fast. So
everything he think he's gonna hit me with, I'm ready for.
You're your fan base. They call themselves the Oma Sapiens.
What do you think of that? Man, it's got to
be a you know, playing in college sports is one thing,
(09:14):
but to have a sex to people who have given
themselves a nickname, that has to mean something to you, bro,
like as a kid from Nigeria. Man, it's it's been
pretty cool to watch it involved. It's pretty much become
its own thing. And I didn't even know where that
came from. I can't take ready for creating that and
the pretty much seeing a fuck up individuals suit truly
(09:35):
at matter what I do, and decided to cut themselves
to almost sapiens, which is very catchy by the way.
And I said, you know what, since they embrace me,
I'm going to embrace them. So that's that's how it happened.
That's beautiful. Do you take a do you take note
of everything going on with the product you're watching? Logan Paul.
I watched every part. I watched One Night Raw, I
watched n XT, I watched Friday, I watched everything that
(09:58):
everybody's doing because at the end of the day, I
want to be at the top of my game, ready
for whatever they throw at me. What do you think
of Paul as a wrestler? Come again, Logan, Paul? What
do you think of Logan Paul? I mean, it seems
like he it seems like impossible. Are unfair that he's
like that good that quickly? You know, to give Paul
his credit, right, you know, Paul is h Logan. Paul
(10:19):
is one of those guys that he's just a natural athlete, right,
no matter what support you put him into, he's gonna thrive.
And I'm not surprised at the fact that he's done
to walk in ww because she's just a natural athlete. Yeah,
he's a fantastic athlete. Is there's gonna be sixty thousand
people there tomorrow. Have you allowed for yourself to like
just close your eyes and go, man, I've come along way.
(10:43):
I'm wrestling at WrestleMania against brock Lesner like that. Have
you allowed yourself a moment to really just kind of
take it in to be honest, that moment is gonna
come after I finished whooping broadcast an ass smorrow. So
you locked it. I'm locking this, So I'm gonna take
a deep graph after I'm done whooping his ass as
I'm like, yeah, I'm the guy that findally conquered the
giant that conquered the beasts, the giant that conquered the Okay,
(11:07):
I got another question for you that I was kind
of going to wrap, but like, how much material do
they used to make your suits? They look fly? Though?
I gotta be you know, you know, my sister comes
straight from the bubbland. You know, they got to started
like soft cattles and yeah, it's nice a whole bunch
of like thirteen thousand sheets to make you know, But
I'm gon should be goodful that I have a group
(11:28):
of tailors back home that welcome my susits and make
sure I'm flying TV. Make sure you fly on, Sarah.
Was there a ready like of your background that went
into the outfit? Like the ring Gatar trying to pay
hor much to anything in story, the colors, the design.
I wanted something that spoke that was very vegal and
he felt warrior like then when you saw me and
(11:48):
knew that this gay me in business? Yeah mean business, Yes, sir.
I can't wait to watch you and Brockles the fight.
I can't wait to watch back there's in the bar.
I think it's gonna be a fantastic event. I think
you got blew the roof all that we are, that
we are OMS has been very good to watch your journey,
watch you elevate
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