Titus O’Neil Recalls Vince McMahon’s Reaction To His Sliding Under Ring at Greatest Royal Rumble

Titus O’Neil’s greatest in-ring claim to fame is sliding under the ring at the Greatest Royal Rumble, and he recently recalled the reaction backstage to the viral moment. O’Neil instantly became an internet legend when he tripped coming down to the ring at the 2018 Saudi Arabia event.

O’Neil reflected on the moment in a recent appearance On TMZ’s Inside the Ring. You can see highlights below:

On His Immediate Reaction To Sliding Under the Ring:

“People ask me all the time like, ‘Were you embarrassed?’ And I’m like, ‘For a brief second I was while I was under the ring. But then I got up and I kept going and kept it moving. And I wasn’t hurt, my house is paid off, My kids went to private school in high school. I don’t pay any money any of them to go to college. I’m debt-free, I’m stress-free…

“So from a business perspective for me, it is a business. You have to understand it is a business. So, I’ve never kicked myself or wondered after the fact, man.”

On the Reaction Backstage After the Moment:

“Everybody asked me, ‘Are you okay?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m okay.’ And then people started laughing. I looked at Vince McMahon and I say, ‘So I get a new t-shirt now, right?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, absolutely.’ And he just laughed. And you know, I got the t-shirt and the action figure with the t-shirt, and the whistle and yada, yada, yada, yada.”

“So like I said, people people wake up and they stub their toe on the side of their bed, And they still got a mortgage to pay. I slid under a rain in Saudi Arabia. I don’t have a mortgage to pay anymore. So you can laugh at me all you want, but I’ll laugh to the bank.”