Eric Young On His Main Roster Debut

May 13, 2017 at 5:14 PM

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Eric Young On His Main Roster Debut

NXT star Eric Young recently spoke to E&C Pod Of Awesomeness where he shared his feelings on working on the same roster with his former TNA colleague Bobby Roode, his main roster debut plans and other stuff:

“It has been cool, man. It’s like nothing but respect. Everyone treats us both great and coming in from the outside, you never know how that’s kind of going to be and working on TV for 12 or 13 years, like, you’re not sure how they’re going to look at that. Yeah, they’ve been really awesome and it has been great. It’s making me really like wrestling again.”

“In the dream, he had this like the huge beard, like, giant, full beard and he was like, ‘well, I can’t do that.’ So he grew this [five] o’clock shadow thing or whatever that he has and he [has] had it ever since.” Young recalled, “I sat up like The Undertaker and I was like, ‘dude, you’ve got to grow a beard’ and he was like, ‘what are you talking about?’ And I was like, ‘I had this dream. I’m dreaming about you. I’m five feet from you and you grew a beard and now you have no choice but to grow a beard.'”

“I think Ohio Valley had just opened like it had just started, and we were hoping they would maybe send us there. I was working at a brass foundry in Cambridge [Ontario], like, living on a mattress on milk crates in the basement of this house I owned.” Young continued, “and we were asking just to go there, pay us whatever and let us wrestle for a living and be there and [Laurinaitis] said to me and Bobby, the problem was we were TV ready and they were viewing OVW as a place where they would hire NFL players and bodybuilders and train them to learn their system. And there were a few guys that could work that there, but I think they were more body-doubles for the guys that they wanted on TV to learn so in a way we kind of dodged that bullet.”

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