WWE: Bray Wyatt on WWE Return, Karrion Kross on Roman Reigns as Modern Day Bruno, Finn Balor

WWE

Oct 9, 2022

Bray Wyatt Comments on WWE Return

Saturday’s WWE Extreme Rules 2022 event featured the official return of Bray Wyatt to the company. Prior to his return, WWE had been airing “White Rabbit” cryptic teasers in the weeks leading up to the show and revealed in the end to be for Wyatt.

Following the show, Wyatt reflected on his return to WWE in response to a fan who posted a reaction video of their little child going crazy over his surprise return.

This is why. I missed you too. All of you
— WYATT 6 (@Windham6) October 9, 2022

Karrion Kross Comments on Roman Reigns Being the Modern Day Bruno Sammartino

A recent episode of The Ringer Wrestling Show podcast had Karrion Kross as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Kross’ thoughts on Roman Reigns being the modern day Bruno Sammartino star for WWE.

“Roman Reigns [is who I wanna work with next]. I feel like everyone should wanna be in the ring with Roman Reigns. For me, I hope nobody minds that I’m comparing him but, to me he’s our modern-day Bruno [Sammartino]. What he’s doing right now in my opinion is historic for our company’s history, this art of storytelling. It’s an amazing thing and it’s going very, very well. People are having fun, they’re enjoying what they’re watching, it’s something different every week but it’s — I could go on and on. That’s the guy that I’d wanna be in the ring with. Aside from that, I mean, I’m a people pleaser so whoever people really wanna see me in the ring with, me personally, that’s the direction I’m gonna lean in. I like big fight feel, I like those freak show fights, those Superman versus Batman, this shouldn’t happen, we wish it would happen but there’s no way it does happen and then it happens and it happens at WWE and that’s why people come to see the show, to cultivate the energy in a building. I wake up every day for that, I train for that, I’m aiming for that, you know?”

Kross also gave his thoughts about his recent return to the company and the differences compared to his previous main roster run.

“Well, I don’t know if I’ve ever said this publicly but, the first time I came out with the mask, there were people laughing in the audience. They were laughing and I always remember getting into this business and thinking to myself, when this is all said and done, I wanna leave this place a better place than it was before I came in. You wanna make it better. You wanna make people around you better, you wanna make the product better, you want your performances to get better. For me, I’m always chasing the perfect match. That’s like my wrestling philosophy, I’m chasing the perfect story and I’ve just always wanted to contribute my best foot forward artistically and be work-driven. When I came out and I heard people laughing, I was like, you know, what I’m doing right now, to me at the time presently, it felt like I was betraying everything that I wanted to contribute to what I was doing [for] the fans because the fan in me is still alive. That’s how I know how to read an audience. If you become too high up on your horse and you disconnect from them, ‘I’ll them what they’re gonna like,’ that’s never gonna work. So the difference between then and now, tonight I walked out and they were singing our theme music, the entire audience was singing our theme music. That was a moment we wanted to get to before the pandemic and I got that tonight in a packed house in Philadelphia so that was incredible so I would say that is the major difference between last time and tonight.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Finn Balor Comments on Biggest Change to WWE Creative Since Triple H Took Over

A recent episode of the Superstar Crossover podcast had Finn Balor as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Balor’s thoughts on the biggest change to WWE’s creative system since Paul “Triple H” Levesque took over as Head of Creative.

“Just for me, the availability of Triple H at ringside before the shows to just ping ideas back and forth, that was something that wasn’t there in the previous couple of years. Obviously, the production meetings would happen separate to where the talent were. I feel like that has been the biggest difference in the last couple of weeks, just that availability of getting clear directions, and being able to collaborate on ideas.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com