Former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion Tyler Breeze who got released from WWE a number of months ago revealed how he got to discover his professional wrestling gimmick and how he worked out.
Only this year WWE have release almost 40 wrestlers which include some of the shocking names like Aleister Black and Braun Strowman. During the latest releases, WWE mainly focused on the names in the NXT.
Tyler Breeze On How He Discovered His Character
Some of the names that have been released by the way this time were pretty shocking. Among them were Bobby Fish, Mercedes Martinez, Bronson Reed were really shocking. There are more NXT wrestlers who got released, it is really shocking that WWE released so many names in such a short amount of time.
Breezango recently won the NXT Tag Team Championship, and it was seeming like they had a bright future in WWE. Just a month ago WWE released a total of 6 wrestlers, it did not look like WWE would release more wrestlers, but they did, and the latest one was the biggest lot of them all.
Tyler Breeze who got released from WWE a number of months ago recently spoke on Renee Paquette’s Oral Sessions podcast where he revealed how he got to discover his professional wrestling gimmick and how he worked out. He said;
“During that time, I found Tyler Breeze and he found his thing with Enzo [Amore] and it completely 180’d to where, ‘No, we can’t fire these guys, they’re doing good now.’ He said this in front of everybody for the first time and we went, ‘Oh my God. The thing we were excited about we were going to get fired at the end of?’ We had no idea. Fortunately for me and Cass, we found something that saved us, a common pattern. I debuted (the character) and everyone was like, ‘Okay, cool, there’s something here.’
“They’d book me in matches where the crowd was learning who I was and they started to get into it but I was never going towards the NXT Title or being ‘the guy’ or towards a big babyface turn. The first test, because they were like ‘it’s a cool gimmick, he takes pictures, he wrestles a bit, and away we go, let’s see if there’s any substance to it.’ I had a match with Sami Zayn at the first TakeOver and after that, Triple H pulled me aside and said, ‘Kevin Dunn called, he said he loves the Tyler Breeze character.
“Vince also saw it and he likes the character. This was the proving point that there is more to Tyler Breeze than the gimmick. Now you can have a match and we can do something with this.’ Then I worked with everyone coming in that they were going to go with. It wasn’t so much a push as to now I proved that I could be a reliable guy. You can toss me in there with whoever and we can make them look really good.
“Triple H said it a couple of times, ‘There’s a certain quality some guys have and some guys don’t. You can lift people up to a certain level without bringing yourself down to a different level. You keep yourself a star while bringing them up to a star level.’ Obviously, if you’re introducing somebody like a Finn or a KENTA, that’s a huge thing because the first impression of a new person, we need to make sure we knock it out of the park if we’re going with them. You need a gatekeeper to be like, ‘Welcome, here’s what we can do.’”
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