Professional wrestling legend and former WWE cruiserweight champion Brian Kendrick who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently looked back at his first run in WWE and he also discussed the selling process of WWE.
Brian Kendrick started his professional wrestling career back in 1999 and after working in various independent promotions, he went to WWE for the first time in 2002. But in 2004 he was released again just to be signed back in 2005 once again. This time WWE post him as a tag team wrestler along with Paul London and together they won the WWE Tag Team Championship two times in total.
Brian Kendrick Remembers His First Run In WWE
Soon after WWE decided to split the Tag Team, Kendrick was started to be given singles push and surprisingly main event push. He received a number of World Championship shots against different world champions but he failed to win the title.
In 2009 he was released from WWE and he started working in different professional wrestling promotions including some independent circuit promotions and the likes of TNA Wrestling.
He was quite successful elsewhere as he won multiple championships from different promotions. In 2013 he opened his own professional wrestling promotion. WWE brought him back in 2014 once again but this time as a trainer.
He also worked as a part of the newly founded Cruiserweight division and even won the Cruiserweight Championship. Recently he is only active in his own professional wrestling promotion.
Brian Kendrick who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to PW Mania where he looked back at his first run in WWE and he also discussed the selling process of WWE. He said;
“So yeah, my first short run on TV was in 2002, and I was so young, like 23, on television so I didn’t realize what it was I was dealing with. Even at the beginning, one of my first little bits was as the singing telegram, and I go and get chokeslammed by The Undertaker.
“Like man, that’s huge to be in the ring with such a legend, but I didn’t realize how significant a moment that was. So I suppose I didn’t fully appreciate my first run and some of the big moments I had.”
“It seems so up in the air. I don’t know. I just hope it’s healthy. I hope it survives. I hope it doesn’t evolve into something that will make me miss what it is today too much. You know, if I had my say, I hope it stays in the family forever and ever. That’s my hope.”