Thursday, March 28, 2024
NewsBig E. Says He Was Worried About His WWE Future Around Extreme...

Big E. Says He Was Worried About His WWE Future Around Extreme Rules 2014

533 views

TRENDING

During a recent interview with The Independent, WWE Champion Big E. commented on being worried about his future in WWE around the time of the Extreme Rules pay-per-view event in 2014, and more. You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On when he worried about his WWE future: “I was in a program with Bad News Barrett. He was super over and had that scissor lift and was getting great reactions. The night that I dropped the title, I was blowing my comeback and getting booed and, as a babyface, that’s the worst! When you’ve got your heel rocking and rolling and you’re getting booed… oh no! Things have gone awry! I ended up losing the title that night and it got to a point afterwards where [WWE agent] Road Dogg said: ‘We need to get you to work on something and find something because we have no plans for you right now.’ Thankfully, that same day [Xavier] Woods came up to me and pitched doing a faction [group]. That took some time to get going of course!”

On being restricted to one show before brand split: “It said that [I] wasn’t going to Raw anymore and was only needed for SmackDown… at the time it typically meant those people were either doing dark [non-televised] matches, and not long after were either back on [developmental show] NXT or were fired. For me that felt like, ‘Oh, my career is not going the way I wanted it to…” and that I was either going to be either demoted or let go very soon. Those were moments where I thought, ‘I need a life raft here,’ and I’m very grateful that some idea, some person came along at the right time and kept my career afloat. I look back at those moments and I’m thankful that I survived, thankful that I could ride those waves and those rough times, and I’m still here.”

On being seen as a nice guy: “I never want to lose myself to fit a certain mold or to feel like I need to be less nice to be a champion or a locker room leader. If that’s what it takes to be successful in this industry, that’s an industry I don’t need to be a part of. It is vitally important to me to be a human being I can be proud of and be the kind of person I want to be. That has been a point of emphasis for me during the pandemic: working on myself and growing. I feel like I have worked through a lot in my life, and I feel more clear about my purpose and direction. I don’t want to sit here and pat myself on the back for always doing the right thing, because I’m flawed, we all are – but it is very important to me to continue to do my best… to have a positive impact on people. There’s the mantra that people will often forget what you did for them, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel. I don’t know when my time on this earth will be over, but I hope that the world will be better off for having me.”

- Advertisment -

LATEST NEWS

- Advertisment -

Related Articles