Former WWE star and a former seven times WWE 24/7 champion Mojo Rawley recently spoke on winning the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, the former WWE 24/7 champion also spoke on how it felt to him after he won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in 2017.
Mojo Rawley won the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal in 2017 at WrestleMania 33. But this victory could not help him in achieving anything for lifting himself up onto the main event status, not even on a mid card status. He was a jobber and he always remained a jobber in WWE.
Mojo Rawley Speaks On Winning Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Andre the Giant Memorial battle Royal could never help anyone achieving anything ever except Baron Corbin. Even though it is said that WWE already planned a push for the big guy. So winning this Battle Royal did not make any special mark on his career. Also there were winners like Braun Strowman, but he was already getting pushed, and his push did not have anything to do with winning the Battle Royal.
But of course, it was a special moment for Mojo since this was the only highlight of his WWE career. He worked in the way for over 8 years, and in this long time period, he could only win this Battle Royale and the WWE 24/7 Championship 7 times which is not a very big deal.
Recently Mojo Rawley appeared as a guest on Insight With Chris Van Vliet where he spoke on winning the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. He said;
“I think the plans all went into that [me winning]. I’ve come to learn that when you win the Andre it’s not to start a push afterwards. It’s either the lead in to a great moment sometime, or it’s a reward for a guy who’s been quietly busting his ass and here’s a thank you. It doesn’t always mean that it’s going to amount to a push.
“I don’t know what their thoughts were at the time, I know they put me on this path to win it, especially in retrospective. Looking at the weeks leading up to that, it made sense that I was going to take it. When I heard that it was probably going to be me, that’s when I had the idea to bring in Robbie G [Rob Gronkowski] and just hype it up even more. I always try and focus on big picture.
“I can do this myself and people are going to look at it as an average Andre moment. Or we can make it bigger than it is and get it out to more eyes and make it a bigger moment. They moved it to the pre-show, which a lot of people were upset about. But the pre-show was on cable, the pay per view was on the network, the pre-show gets more views by a mile than the network did. I was looking at it as a plus all around.
“But then afterwards they didn’t know what to do. I think I was doing some strange promos with kids or something. Honestly I think that was what my whole career boiled down to. It’s we got this guy, he is perfect for this one spot, high energy, hyped up dude. We are going to put him in this space and we don’t know what to do with him after.
“I remember meeting with Vince one time, I felt pretty boosted after it. He sat me down and went ‘Alright, you may be one of the best athletes in the company. You may be one of the strongest in the company. You have one of the best attitudes and one of the best work ethics.’ He literally went down the list of all these superlatives where I was number one or top three.
“Then he was like ‘We’ve just got to figure out what to do with you.’ I remember thinking to myself I think you just said it. How do we not use that? There are so many things you could do with it. But you never know what’s going on behind the scenes. All you can do is work your butt off. I was pitching things constantly, very seldom does that come to anything if at all.”