Tyler Breeze isn’t sure if Vince McMahon saw the same thing in him that Triple H did during his time at WWE.
Former WWE Superstar Tyler Breeze was a recent guest on Busted Open Radio. Breeze was asked why he thought he wasn’t able to sustain the same level of success on NXT as he was able to on the main roster. According to him, he just wasn’t sure that McMahon saw the same things in him that Triple H may have.
“I have an idea,” Breeze said. “So I knew once we started kind of got rolling with NXT, we were creating something special and the group of people that we had. And again, at the time, it’s all about time and place, and we were at the right place at the time with the right people.
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“Luckily, I was prepared enough and given the opportunities at these TakeOvers and these big events to deliver and kind of show what I can do. So once it got to that point in NXT, I knew it was a matter of time before I probably got called up. It’s just the nature of the beast and how it goes. You can’t stay in that atmosphere or stay the NXT guy forever.
“So when I got called up, I kind of had an idea, you know what I mean? It’s not like you’re clueless going into this thing that like, I’m not the biggest so that’s automatically working against you. And I was very much a character that you’re either gonna love it or you’re gonna hate it. I don’t know if there’s a middle ground and when I came up. I just don’t know if Vince saw the same thing that Hunter did and that’s why he paired me with Summer Rae immediately.”
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Breeze noted that he loved working with Summer Rae. But at the time, he wasn’t sure why he was partnered with her due to his character’s attitude.
“I love Summer, she’s great,” Breeze said. “But at the time, I was kind of in the groove of my thing. I was very specific on how I made Tyler Breeze. Where you didn’t really know if he was heterosexual or — I was right on the fence, you know what I mean? But the thing was that he was in love with himself so I didn’t need a tag partner. I didn’t need a manager, I didn’t need a girl, I didn’t need a guy, I didn’t need anything. So as soon as they paired me with her, I went, ‘Okay. This is already changing the dynamic of what it was in NXT.
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“So we’ll kind of have to see where it goes from here. And as the ball started rolling, I just went, okay, I don’t know if he takes this seriously enough. Or if he thinks I’m too small or whatever it is. And I just never really got the same opportunities on a TakeOver or something like that for NXT.
“And what it does is you blend into the pack of people that are there until you get proactive again. Because you go, man, I’m not getting used here. I should probably think of something. That’s when me and (Dirty) Dango found each other and started doing the Fashion Files and everything else…”
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