Former WWE Intercontinental Champion Apollo Crews made an appearance on Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast to talk about a number of topics such as how there was nothing happening in his career on the WWE main roster and how he didn't want to be competing on WWE Main Event anymore, which is why he did something for himself by heading to WWE NXT and asking if there was a spot available and since a spot was available he was 100% for it.
Apollo Crews said:
“It was weird that nothing was happening [in my career]. It got to the point where it was just like ‘man, I don’t want to be coming here and doing Main Event anymore. I want to be on the main shows. I want to be one of the guys here that’s a household name, right? I want to be one of those guys. So like, it wasn’t coming. So I made an approach and asked if there was any spot down here essentially for me at NXT and the opportunity came about and it happened. There happened to be a spot available. I was like, ‘Man, I’m 100% for it.’”
Apollo Crews also talked about how it didn't matter if his run in WWE NXT was going to be a long-term thing or a short-term thing because he just wanted to take full advantage of the opportunity that the WWE higher-ups presented him with as it was an opportunity to change the trajectory of his career and kind of really start over, which not a lot of people get to do.
Apollo Crews said:
“It was one of those things where it’s like, ‘Is it long term or it’s gonna be short term?’ and I was like ‘For me honestly. It doesn’t matter.’ I’m gonna control what I can control. You give me this opportunity. I’m gonna come out here and kill it.”
“If they bring me back to Raw or Smackdown two weeks later so be it. If they bring me back [in] two months, so be it. But in my head, I wanted to take full advantage of the opportunity that I was being presented with because essentially, I was presented with the opportunity to kind of change the trajectory of my career and kind of really start over which not a lot of people get to do.”
You can check out Apollo Crews' comments in the video below. H/T to SEScoops.com for transcribing the above quotes.
