WWE star Austin theory who has been drafted to the main roster from the NXT recently talked about getting career advisers from the sixteen times WWE World Champion John Cena. Theory worked on the NXT for two years before joining Monday night RAW recently as a result of the draft lottery of this year.
Austin Theory joined the world of professional wrestling in 2016 at a very young age of 18. He started working on the independent circuit at the beginning of his professional wrestling career and in a very short amount of time he became a household name on the Independent circuit. He worked on many independent promotion stages and earned many championships throughout the independent circuit.
WWE RAW – Austin Theory Reflects On Getting Advice From John Cena
In 2019, he signed a professional contract with the biggest professional wrestling promotion of them all, WWE and started working on the NXT. He was mostly treated as a jobber in the NXT. In 2020 he was given a chance to work on the main roster but his first main roster run did not work out pretty well. He went back to the NXT again after his failed main roster run and once again he was treated like a jobber, sometimes a lower mid card.
Recently, during the official WWE draft of 2021, Theory got another chance to work on the main roster. He has been drafted it to Monday Night RAW and surprisingly he is getting quite a strong booking. The status he had during his NXT career, it never seen the like he would be getting a good run.
He is being portrayed as a guy who is obsessed with selfies and he won some matches as well. Currently he is involved in a storyline with Vince McMahon directly. Surely, WWE is planning something big for the 24 year old.
Austin theory who has been drafted to the main roster from the NXT recently spoke to WWE After The Bell where he talked about getting career advisers from the sixteen times WWE World Champion John Cena. He said;
“It’s crazy with Cena and Randy [Orton], because for me growing up, that was my feud. That was the feud I would watch. It was either Randy and Cena, or Cena and Edge. I just talked to Edge this past Monday. It’s one of those things where you just have to take a second and just breathe.
“I remember the first time I met Cena, there was like a little altercation on the internet. I remember I did a promo for Evolve where I called him out and said he should pass the torch. I think the next day or the next week, he posted my picture, and there was a lot of stuff going on. I was like wow, he knows who I am.
“When I got signed to WWE, we were at the Performance Center one day and we were leaving. We got told that we need to stay and there’s going to be a meeting. We’re sitting there, and then we were told John Cena is coming in. Cena came in and he talked to all of us for about an hour. Then he specifically said, ‘Hey, I have nothing going on today, so if anybody wants to talk individually and privately, we can.’ I thought that was really cool.
“I remember waiting. Each person he would talk to, and they were trying to keep it at a certain time, but he talked to everybody for a while. I remember waiting for like, I think it was three hours, just to talk to him. There were only a few of us. I remember a lot of people leaving. I noticed that, and I was like, ok, the one person who was the face of WWE for so long and you have nothing to ask him? I remember waiting there and I went in. I was so nervous. I really didn’t even know what to say at first.
“The first thing he said to me was, ‘How are you? What can I help you with?’ I remember I was like, I don’t even know what to ask him. I have to tell this dude that he was such a motivation for me in my life. I think when I say it, people say, ‘Oh, you were a John Cena fan’, but it’s a little deeper than that just because as a kid, I think when you watch anything, you’re super influenced by it.
“So whatever somebody’s attitude or personality is like, or the decisions they make, it’s very influential. For me, it helped me a lot because when I was in middle school, people would say, ‘I would never see that happening to you’, but I was picked on a lot.
“A lot of it was because I watched wrestling, but I knew that if I could make it to Monday or Friday, I would be good, and I could just escape. I think that’s why it goes back to when I see a ring, it gives me this calm feeling because it’s always been my getaway from everything, and just watching Cena was always that pull away from real life, like I can get away and I can escape. That’s the deep story of that.”
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