Former AEW star Brian Pillman Jr. now goes by Lexis King in WWE NXT. He was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast. During the episode, King revealed that John Cena once conducted a seminar at the Performance Center, and he got valuable advice.
The former AEW star mentioned that the seminar was very enlightening. Lexis King also revealed that everyone in the PC was asking a lot of useful questions.
“He actually came in, did a seminar with us at the PC. And I thought, okay, I’ll go and see what see what’s going on. But man, I’m so glad I went. And it was the most enlightening. Like, it wasn’t just like, little questions that people would ask, like, Oh what’s your favorite food? No, we were getting into it, we’re talking about, contract negotiations all this different stuff, I’m so glad I went. Yeah, it was, it was amazing, and the amount of questions that we were able to ask and get to answer it.
Lexis King on the coolest thing John Cena said
John Cena also advised the upcoming stars to try and be the best version of the character that he or she has been given.
“And one of the coolest things he said, you can’t control the booking, you can’t control who’s wearing what belt or this, that or the other. He’s like, but you can be the best version of said character. And if you’re the best, like he was the rapper guy, if you’re the best rapper guy on the roster. And creative goes, Oh, we want the rapper guy to take on a huge monster. Then they’re gonna pick the best rapper guy they have and put them against the best monster character they have, and then go, oh what does the match look like? So it’s like, people say I’ll never pitch an idea again, let’s put it that way.”
John Cena: There’s no point in pitching anything
The 16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion also mentioned that pitching ideas is of no use as that may lead to disappointment if the pitched idea is not used.
“He said, There’s no point in pitching anything. Because if you pitch something and they don’t use it. Now, you’re disappointed. Now you’re upset. But if you just be the best version of your character. And then they decide to choose you for these things that they created because they’re the writers, they’re going to come up with the ideas. And it’s like, they don’t want you pitching them stuff. They want to come up with it, because it’s their job. So I think it’s kind of a contrast from the company I was at before where that was where our success came from because there was not as much of a writing team there.”
Lexis King has had successful pitches in AEW
Lexis King also shared that he has pitched some good ideas in AEW. But he also understands that there are people specifically assigned to pitch ideas and storylines in WWE.
“So anytime I would pitch out and I’ve had successful pitches in AEW I pitched Julia Hart to join The Blondes and I pitched the name, so I had Oh, like, my pitch was successful. I must be doing something right. But it’s like, here in WWE, we have people for that we have right we have creative we don’t have to pitch ideas. We just have to be the best in-ring performers on the mic performers.
“And be the best f*cking rock and roll sleaze ball, conniving, pick me, look at me kind of guy. And then if I’m the best dirtbag that they have, yeah, that dresses like a rock and roll wannabee, then they’re gonna pick me for those roles. You know what I mean? They’re gonna go, you know what we really want the sleazeball guy to take on our top babyface Carmelo Hayes and then he’ll prove them wrong and prove all the haters wrong, and it’ll be a good story,” Lexis King said.
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