During a recent appearance on the Cheap Heat with Peter Rosenberg podcast, WWE NXT World Champion Carmelo Hayes shared his thoughts about not receiving a main roster call-up during this year’s WWE Draft.
Hayes said, “It didn’t bother me one way or another. Obviously, we all want to go, we all want to move up and be able to experience main roster and that grind and everything, but I had just been focused on everything I was doing now … My time is my time, and when my time comes, that’s when I’ll go. I’m trying to do the best I can possibly do down here in NXT before I leave, leave a legacy, have a couple of banger title defenses, and just go out on top. It would have been too early for me to get pulled up at that point, I think.”
Hayes successfully defended the NXT Title against Bron Breakker in the main event of NXT Battleground this past weekend.
