Low Ki should have been much higher up the card in WWE based on his experience, according to a WWE writer.
The former ROH star had a short stint in the WWE between 2008 and 2010. He was a part of the NXT game show in its second season where he greatly impressed in the ring. However, he stupidly named TNA during a rap promo segment, which greatly annoyed Michael Cole.
As Kaval, Low Ki won the second season of NXT. Sadly he was gone from the company by the end of 2010, even considering attacking Drew McIntyre in the ring due to his dissatisfaction with his booking.
Low Ki appeared on Thats Wrestling! (H/t to Fightful for the transcription) to discuss his disappointment with his booking in the WWE. The former ROH Champion revealed that he had to deal with “carny nonsense” when getting answers to questions all the time.
He added that one writer told him that if he were in any other job, he’d be much higher up on the card instead of a rookie. This was due to Low Ki’s experience before signing for the WWE as one of the top indie stars in the country.
“Everything that I had to go through in that company, I had answers for to try to improve upon, and I was still being met with resistance. I was still being met with the carny nonsense from these office people,” he said. “Hell, I had one of the writers tell me, ‘With your qualifications, if this was any other job, you would have been brought in as a CEO, but for whatever reason, they bring you in as a rookie.'”
Low Ki Pitched A Rey Mysterio Clone Gimmick In WWE
Low Ki pitched for him to be a “bad Rey Mysterio Clone” for a feud in WWE.
He recently appeared on on Thats Wrestling! where he discussed a pitch he made for a rivalry with Rey Mysterio. The former ROH star wanted to be a clone of Rey Mysterio, getting the legend fired. Additionally, he would take his place before a WrestleMania mask vs mask match.
“I tried to maximize every opportunity I had in WWE. Every match after I won NXT. I always came back with a script of where to go next. I incorporated everything that they had tried to throw at me. They had me losing all of my matches.” Low Ki said. “They had me in throwaway matches that had no advancement potential. They were just bare matches, so I was still having decent matches with everybody, but I wasn’t excelling. So every match that I had on SmackDown, I wrote into a script and documented everything. In order to use everything that they threw at me to develop into me going into the Survivor Series.”
“Then from the Survivor Series leading into WrestleMania. Where I would end up getting Rey Mysterio fired and end up becoming a bad Rey Mysterio clone. It would have led to Rey Mysterio vs. Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania. Mask vs. mask, because I can match him in almost everything that he does physically. So I actually came back with better ideas than the own writing team.”
