R-Truth: ‘My championship is those hundreds of millions of people’
R-Truth spoke about the support he’s received from the WWE locker room during a recent interview.
Truth was a guest on The Ringer’s Masked Man podcast last week, and was asked about his co-workers publicly supporting him following news that his contract would not be renewed earlier this year. He specifically mentioned Rhea Ripley wearing his shirt on Raw the night after the news broke, and the supportive message Road Dogg tweeted, then deleted, saying he was “heartbroken” by Truth’s release.
Truth said:
“Rhea wearing my shirt. Road Dogg, you know me and Road Dogg are like brothers from a different mother. I got calls. Kevin Owens come from one of his daughter’s.. she was doing a dance recital.”
“The unity, the love, there was just so much in that, it put an ‘S’ on my chest. I always call myself the Sun Tan Superman.”
Truth continued to talk about the support he received from both his co-workers and fans:
“People tell me I’ve helped them get through a certain time in their life. And I may look at it as, or somebody else may perceive it as, ‘Oh, he’s just doing this goofy…he’s just doing this,’ but moments, opportunities that I had, I made the best out of them. And I do that in the ring and in real life.”
“I don’t know if it’s just watching me, growing with me, them feeling something. That was an emotional roller coaster ride that the world had to experience. And there’s more to it than we’re even talking about now.”
“My title, my championship is those hundreds of millions of people. I don’t need no material, I got organic, living flesh proof that the love is the championship.”
Truth returned to WWE a week after announcing his release at the Money in the Bank PLE, taking out John Cena with a spear. He then defeated Cena via DQ on the June 20 SmackDown. He also defeated Aleister Black in two minutes on the July 11 SmackDown. Truth wrestled in triple threat matches against Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano at the June 26 and June 27 house shows in Mexico.
Truth’s full appearance on the podcast is available below:
