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Alex Riley Talks The John Cena Rumors That May Have Affected His Career, Broadcasting In WWE, GLOW – More

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Former WWE talent Alex Riley, was the most recent guest on the Two Man Powertrip Of Wrestling podcast and during the show, Riley reflected on his role in the Netflix series; GLOW, his backstage heat with John Cena that may have affected his career & much more.

Here are the highlights:

Did He Expect This Fan Response To GLOW:

“Absolutely not, when the WWE and I decided to part ways after ten years, there wasn’t much I didn’t do at WWE when it came to broadcasting and NXT back and fourth and the run with The Miz and all that stuff and the main event at WrestleMania, it was fantastic. I kind of got to the end of it and was trying to figure out what I was going to do career wise moving forward and I was trying to get into some broadcasting and acting which had always been a big dream of mine and obviously some of the WWE guys have gone on to do some acting; certainly The Rock and Cena is trying to parlay into some acting but I was just unsure and didn’t know. I had a tape put together while I was with WWE of the backstage things I had done and a lot of the broadcasting things I had done and sent it off to a bunch of people. One of them was a manager in Hollywood and he loved it and thought it was great and thought I could get some work right away or at least had a good shot at getting work, but I don’t think anyone could have predicted this. This has been so far an out of the park home run type of thing. For it just being this early in my acting career and it really being like the perfect role. When the audition came across his desk and he passed it down to me, I remember reading it and thinking (uh-oh), that it is kind of eerie the type of role that it was.”

“I just thought it was such an eerie thing and was a; Well what if I do get this? I thought it could be interesting. The fact that I got it and the amount of success that it has had has been absolutely incredible and I feel very fortunate to be a part of the whole thing and a kind of; stars aligning in the right way and here I am talking to you guys so I can’t complain.”

Broadcasting In The WWE:

“Did I like it, I guess. I’ve been asked this question before and this is how I’ve addressed it: No I did not, I don’t mean to be blunt but of course I didn’t. I went there to be a wrestler, I wanted to be a wrestler very badly and I certainly was athletic enough and certainly had the tools and a lot of tools to be the best wrestler there. I always felt like I had what it took to be the WWE Champion. To be 250lbs and ex-professional football player and to be sitting behind the desk was highly frustrating for me.”

“That being said, I loved when the red light was on and I was talking WWE because it was fun and I always was a huge fan of WWE and always knew the product better than anybody else and had a great perspective of what it took to not only climb through High School and College to be a semi-professional football player because I’ve been an athlete my entire life, so you weren’t going to put anybody on that panel that had more athletic experience in different realms and who could give a perspective of what happens inside of the ring. I had my ass kicked in the ring a lot of times and I kicked a lot of ass in the ring so I had perspectives on both. But no, absolutely not because I felt I should have been in the ring and it was about two years of my career that I was in great shape and proved it when I came off the desk and I wanted to be out there. That being said, I was apart of the company and was able to work extremely hard and give them what I had behind the desk so in that regard it was a good thing.”

Him Supposedly Having Backstage Heat With John Cena That Led To His Departure From The Company:

“I guess, I’m not saying anything that other people haven’t already kind of said. It is kind of out there but I’ll say this; there was an incident and it certainly affected the path of my career, however I am not going to talk about it right now and I’ve kind of gone back and fourth in my own times morally with do I say anything or do I not. I am not in the habit of destroying anybodies career so it is just something at this point that I don’t want to address further than that, but one day I certainly will, it was a hard situation to deal with.”

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