Bron Breakker, Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes became topics of conversation.
Over the weekend, NXT’s Carmelo Hayes and Bron Breakker entered the 2024 men’s Royal Rumble match. In a post-event interview, Breakker called the main roster his new home.
Breakker is scheduled to compete in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic finals at NXT Vengeance Day and on the 1/29 Raw, a vignette aired to promote him. His name was also brought up by SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis.
While on the Battleground Podcast, Shawn Michaels said Breakker has more to do in NXT and he’s not letting him go that easily. He added that if Breakker wants to do both levels, he can.
Well look, he may feel like that’s his home but he’s still got work here in NXT to do whether he likes it or not (he laughed). I’ll tell you this much… Strangely enough, that’s our job, right? Our job is to lose talent. But, I gotta tell you, he’s one that I’m gonna have trouble letting him go so look, I can assure you that there is more left for Bron Breakker here in NXT one way or another and so, he’s an incredibly talented, very gifted young man. Far as I’m concerned, he’s young and as we say, full of piss and vinegar so, if he wants to double-time it, he can certainly do it but I’m not letting him go that easy.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Michaels remembers chatting with Trick Williams and Williams expressing that he wanted his shot. Michaels talked about watching him take the opportunity and succeed. He agreed with the notion that Williams stepped out of Carmelo Hayes’ shadow.
Both of them (Carmelo Hayes & Trick Williams) step out and become these two incredibly talented young men and again, form this duo that is easily one of the hottest things that NXT has ever seen. But then you watch Trick, again, somebody that, you know, I can remember him coming up to me and saying, ‘I don’t know any other way to tell you this than I want the ball. Give me my opportunity’ and then, to watch him do that and then to get to be a part of it, I don’t know. To help guide and nurture along the way has just been a sheer joy for me, for, you know, to the both of them but again, I think what makes Trick’s obviously also special is that you see him where he started from as being, you know — Carmelo, who everyone could see had that talent, had that ability, had that gift but then you watch Trick, to step out sort of the shadow of Carmelo Hayes and begin to start something that’s almost, I don’t know, like a groundswell we haven’t seen before and again, it’s when it happens from the very beginning. It’s ever-organic and you watch it just get bigger and bigger and even shades of it getting bigger and bigger when you see him run out on SmackDown and listen to the whole arena chanting, ‘Whoop that Trick.’ That’s when you know, it’s something even bigger than I think he imaged so, it’s the reason we do this which is again, allowing these young men and women to be able to go out there and have those moments that we remember having.
The 1/30 NXT is the go-home show for Vengeance Day. After the show concludes, the Poisonrana Podcast is going to be live on the POST Wrestling YouTube channel with their review of the program.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit the Battleground Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
