The following are highlights of a new Channel Guide Magazine interview with NXT’s Tyler Breeze:<\/p>\n
On watching WWE developmental go from FCW to NXT: \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to see it go from FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling) and something that was very small. We had FCW TV, but the audience wasn\u2019t the same. A lot of people didn\u2019t even know it was on TV. It was just local Florida stuff. The production wasn\u2019t what it is today. I was watching these matches with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. They were great matches then, but nobody was watching because nobody knew we even existed. There was no WWE Network back then, so you couldn\u2019t even watch what you wanted to unless you were local. I was part of the initial pilot episode to test out Full Sail University to see if it would work for our NXT tapings. I watched the entire transition from something small to something that now millions of people can watch on WWE Network each week. Just the production alone is fascinating. Every time we show up for TV tapings or the live specials or anything, they always have something new added. A screen here or some sort of effect there. Everything feels big and important. To be a part of that from the start to what is now, it\u2019s really cool for me to take it all in and watch it grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
On not getting called up to WWE’s main roster yet: \u201cYou can\u2019t get frustrated by stuff like that. It\u2019s been like that since I got down here at FCW. I was the one who had Cesaro\u2019s first match. I\u2019ve watched Seth go. I\u2019ve watched Ambrose go. I\u2019ve watched [Erick] Rowan and [Luke] Harper go. I\u2019ve seen everyone kind of come and go. The thing is these are my friends. These are people who I am happy for. I\u2019m not going to have any ill will toward them. They just happen to be ready quicker or what WWE needed at the time. It\u2019s nothing that frustrates me, because it\u2019s not like Harper and Rowan are taking a spot that Tyler Breeze would be in. We are completely different marketable assets to the company. It\u2019s just a matter of time before Tyler Breeze is what they are looking for and need. Then nobody else is going to take that spot but me. So it\u2019s not a frustrating thing for me, I\u2019m happy for my friends who go on and succeed and make it all comfortable for me when I get up there.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what he does in his down time: \u201cI\u2019m a big Netflix guy unless there is something I\u2019m really watching. My girlfriend and I are watching \u2018Devious Maids\u2019 right now. It\u2019s a little addiction of ours. On Netflix we watch \u2018The Following\u2019 and reruns of \u2018Friends\u2019 and \u2018Parks and Recreation.\u2019 There are also so many new shows out there and not enough time to watch them all. \u2026There is always that one character in each show that I can always pull a line or mannerism from. There was a show a while back called \u2018Blue Mountain State.\u2019 Thad was kind of funny, loose cannon. He would lose his temper right away and say some funny stuff. I pulled a lot of stuff from him. There is stuff I got from Ben Stiller that I\u2019ve taken and used. There are things that pop up that you don\u2019t even realize. When you hear something and just realize it\u2019s something you can use.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his inspirations in wrestling: \u201cEarlier in my career it was very much Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart and other guys in the ring who were untouchable. Everything they did was so crisp and clean. I loved the athletic part. I just wanted to see everything they did. As I kind of made the transition to Tyler Breeze, I decided to look at the other end of the spectrum. I looked at the character and the over-the-top flamboyant gestures and mannerisms. I watched a lot of Buddy Rogers and Gorgeous George and took from them. It\u2019s certain things that have fallen by the wayside of how they did it. I don\u2019t know if it was ahead of its time, but you just don\u2019t really see it anymore. People just don\u2019t do it. I started watching that and mixed it with my other influence to have a nice complete package.\u201d<\/p>\n
Check out the complete interview at ChannelGuideMagBlog.com.<\/p>\n
The following are highlights of a new Channel Guide Magazine interview with NXT’s Tyler Breeze: On watching WWE developmental go from FCW to NXT: \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to see it go from FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling) and something that was very small. We had FCW TV, but the audience wasn\u2019t the same. A lot of people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}