Grayson Waller enjoys being a heel, and he doesn’t want to turn babyface and have to pretend to love the fans.
Waller has been featured as a heel throughout his time in WWE, and he has shined in the role. However, the combination of his promo skills and in-ring work could make a potential babyface an easy shift.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Grayson Waller was asked whether he could ever be a babyface.
“It’s possible, but I don’t really want to,” Grayson Waller said. “The one thing I hate about being a babyface is, I don’t think I’d be honest. I think you have a lot of these babyfaces that have to pretend they love the fans, and I can’t stand the fans. I think wrestling fans are the worst fans in the world. Not the fans who pay to come and have a good time on a Friday with the family and all that kind of stuff. That’s fine. These flop fans online, these smart guys who think they know wrestling, they’re the worst. They will turn on people in an instant. It doesn’t work on me.
“You have no power over me because I don’t care what you say. I can do whatever I want. You hate me? Good. It doesn’t affect me. So I feel bad for the good guys who have to pretend they like these people and give them a hug and sign their stuff at the airport at 3 a.m. I don’t have to deal with that.
Grayson Waller: Being A Babyface Isn’t Me
Waller reiterated that he did not want to be a babyface, as he didn’t want to lie and pretend to like the fans.
“So my main thing is, I don’t want to be a babyface because I don’t want to lie and pretend I like these people,” Grayson Waller said. “I can’t stand them. I don’t think being a babyface is me. Maybe there’s a scenario, like in Australia, when I wrestling in Australia, it kind of naturally happened where people started cheering me, but I didn’t change who I was. They kind of just respected what I was doing at the time and got behind me. I went back to Australia two weeks ago, and there were fans there who were cheering for me.
“But that’s not what I do this for. I do this for the seven-year-old kid who, it’s his first time experiencing wrestling, and he’s so happy, he brought his ‘Wrestling is good’ sign, and I get to hit that sign as hard as I can and he starts crying. I’m here to have grandma yelling at me as loud as she can because she hates what I’m doing. That’s where I get glee from, and I think that’s what sets me apart from a lot of people.”
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