In a recent interview with Complex, WWE Champion Big E discussed several topics, including why he made the decision to announce his WWE Money in the Bank cash-in in advance of the WWE RAW episode where he cashed-in on Bobby Lashley to become the new Champion.

“I think there’s so many different ways to handle something like this, whether it be the element of surprise or saying hey, on this date, this will be my title match. I said why not Boston, I think the opportunity was there.

First of all, I have to give hats off to Bobby, I think Bobby’s had an incredible run, he carries himself like a Champion and in many ways he’s inspiration, because and I’ve told him this before, when I got signed in 2009, I was studying some older film, I was looking at more contemporary guys that I wanted to be like, I was watching Bobby Lashley film, there was a lot of Bobby Lashley film, he was a guy that, okay that’s a guy in a similar vein that if I work hard enough, one day I want to wrestle like that guy, I want to be like that guy, so hats off to him for having this incredible run. This dude is in his mid 40’s, but looks like he’s in his mid 20’s, all the credit in the world to him, but man I have so many, I think of Iowa, I say no, but in many ways, I have so many connections to Boston, both my sisters lived there for a while, my one sister just moved and she’s working on her PhD, but my extended faily on my Mom’s side, so many of them who moved to the States from Montserrat settled in Boston, my Mom went to BC, Tufts, Kofi is from Boston, lived there for so much of his life.

There’s so much about the city of Boston and about that moment that felt right and just the opportunity to be reunited with Woods and Kofi, why wait any longer, it’s just one of those moments where you kind of look at the landscape and say, why not today.”

The full interview is available at this link.