Moments from Ricochet’s time with WWE.
One of the stops that Ricochet made along his post-WWE media run was an appearance on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast.
They dove into Ricochet’s six-year run at WWE and one of the stories he recounted was being told not to lift up Drew McIntyre again in a match. He stated that it was relayed to him that it made McIntyre look bad.
He then remembered being in the ring with RETRIBUTION members and doing a few spots. When he got backstage, Vince McMahon told Ricochet that it looked ‘too spectacular’ and not even John Cena could do what was done out there.
I didn’t even really wrestle people my size. I didn’t wrestle A.J. Styles a lot or I didn’t wrestle Johnny Gargano. I was always in there with Drew McIntyre or Bobby Lashley or Sheamus. I was always in there with the biggest dude. (It’s still a big man’s territory) Which is fine, which is great…
And to add on to that, it’s like, I can give you a suplex or I can give — I can’t give Bobby Lashley a suplex or like, even one time, me and Drew were in there and we did something and I did something, obviously I went to pick him up and I couldn’t pick him up and then we did a story where I gave him a couple kicks and he fell into the ropes and he came out and I used his momentum to pick him up and give him a move, and I came to the back and they said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ Literally, they told me, ‘You can’t do that. You can’t pick Drew up. It makes him look bad.’ But I can squat over 400-plus pounds, so it’s like, you know what I mean? … One time, I was wrestling RETRIBUTION. It was (Mustafa) Ali, (Donovan) Dijak, who was T-BAR. Mason Madden, one of the big models. So they were a big group. They used to just beat my ass every week. It went from Hurt Business beating my ass to RETRIBUTION beating my ass, for like weeks. But I did one spot in the match where one guy would get a dropkick and duck one. Then one guy gets something and then do a thing on the something. Anyways, I still lost the match but it’s like my one spot in the match, and then it ends with a dive and then it ends with something, and then I just remember coming to the back, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s great’ and then, I remember Vince (McMahon) being like, ‘Yeah, that was too spectacular.’ He goes, ‘John Cena couldn’t even do that.’ In my head I’m thinking, well no. No, he can’t do that. He literally can’t do that. I understand. I agree with you. But, I’m just so confused and… But I’m the type of person, if I start to say something, I’ma say too much (he laughed). I’ma say too much. Ask anybody who knows me. I get it from my mom. So I just say, ‘Okay…’ What am I gonna start an argument with Vince? No.
Coming up for Ricochet, he’ll have the opportunity to become AEW International Champion when he challenges Will Ospreay for the title at the Dynamite Five Year Anniversary show.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Talk Is Jericho with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
