Carmelo Hayes had been the face of NXT in many ways, and he passed the torch to Trick Williams before he moved up to the main roster. Like Hayes had at one point, Williams now reigns supreme as the NXT Champion.
Speaking on The Ringer Wrestling Show, Carmelo Hayes discussed Trick Williams winning the NXT Championship. He noted that it felt like an accomplishment for him as well. (H/t Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling for the transcription)
Yeah, I think him, the culmination of it all and him winning the NXT Title, it feels like an accomplishment for me as well,” Carmelo Hayes said. “Just bringing him in early on and getting his feet wet and kind of helping him along the way and seeing him reach the top, you know what I mean? It was a very kind of proud moment in a way.
“Despite all the in-between and the this or that. It was a proud moment. It was just like, wow, who — not who would’ve thought… you can’t predict that it would’ve went that smooth. We both reached the pinnacle. Just us two dudes.”
Carmelo Hayes On His Chemistry With Trick Williams
Carmelo Hayes went on to highlight how well he and Trick Williams work together. He noted that he was able to make things happen and help Williams rise up the ladder as well.
“We had got just kind of thrown together. I’ve said it before, that’s what that was,” Carmelo Hayes said. “It was kind of like, boom! Hey, let’s get these guys TV time and see what happens and you know, along the way, creatively, we were able to make things happen to sway ‘em that way and thankfully with my skill and the wrestling-wise, I was able to make things happen and reach the top and then, you know, help him up as well.
“SI mean, like I said, it was just a very kind of poetic justice type moment of like, wow, who would’ve thought us two dudes dapping up, ‘Oh, you bout it-bout it?’ The beginning of the rainbow NXT, where everyone wanted to see us fail and here we go. These two dudes made history.”
While Williams continues to shine on NXT, Hayes is making a name for himself on WWE SmackDown. He defeated Baron Corbin to advance in the King of the Ring tournament on the May 10 episode.
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