As the match begins, Michael Cole remarks about how many times, as part of the Tribute to the Troops' tour to see the soldiers, they've had to sleep on army cots just like the ones featured in this match. JBL hilariously replies, "I've slept in several of Saddam Hussein's palaces", much to Cole's outrage, and when he asks how JBL pulled it off, he replies, "It's who you know, Michael". Do we even want to know what JBL means by that?