SportingNews.com’s Brian Fritz has released a new article featuring an interview he conducted with new WWE Cruiserweight Champion and the winner of the Cruiserweight Classic, TJ Perkins. You can find an excerpt from it below:
SN: When did you find out that the finals match was not just going to decide the winner of the tournament but was the cruiserweight champion?
TJP: Pretty much when everybody saw the belt along with me in front of everybody. I didn’t get a chance to see it or understand that that was what the stakes are. You get a feeling that a lot of this stuff is going to be correlated and, definitely, winning the tournament is going to mean something, but until everyone has a chance to see it … I found out like everyone else (laughs).
SN: I think now everyone is very interested in seeing the cruiserweights officially returning to WWE television. What do you think it will be like for you and everyone else involved to bring it back to that stage where it hasn’t been for years?
TJP: I always liked being able to do things that my heroes did and accomplish certain things and being in those atmospheres because that’s what my heroes did. I like following in their footsteps. Now, to be the first of something, to be at the start of a new path that’s going to define and inspire a generation, that’s opening gates for something. I don’t want to make it sound too epic but I don’t know how else to describe it. That’s kind of what it is. I can’t even begin to describe what that’s like and the magnitude of that. It’s a special time. I’ve been saying it this whole time: This is a special time. This tournament is going to be something that history looks back on and it’s going to be more than just a footnote. To have gone this far and come out of it how I did, I couldn’t have imagined that in a million years.
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