Just before Beer City Bruiser made his Ring of Honor debut, he appeared on WWE television as the Fake Bray Wyatt.
Bruiser has made enhancement appearances for WWE in the past, but his brief time as the “Bray Wyatt” not only gave him tv time, but he also acquired a modified version of Bray's Sister Abigail finisher. BCB told Meat Sports Alcohol:
"The DDT came because I was the fake Bray Wyatt at a WWE show. It went over really well and he was like, 'Hey man, you should use my finishing move and make it twist.' So, I ended up throwing a DDT with it and that's my new finisher in Ring of Honor.”
Beer City Bruiser also explained the origins of his other signature moves. Bruiser discussed his Frog Splash, and said:
"The frog splash came because when I was with Harley [Race], he challenged all the guys over 300 pounds to do a splash off the top rope. I was like, 'Not only will I do a splash, I'll do a frog splash.' I did it and Harley loved it. I had gotten rid of it on the Indies, but when I did ROH, there was a match against War Machine [Viking Raiders] and they were like, 'it'd be really cool if you could hit something off the top rope.' 'Well, I used to do a frog splash.' 'Yeah, do that.' He was further out than I ever had someone and I ended up hitting it perfectly and everyone freaked out, so it became my finishing move in Ring of Honor for a bit."
After finishing up his comments about the Frog Splash, Bruiser also took time to discuss his signature cannonball to the outside maneuver. Bruiser stated:
"The cannonball off the apron came because I used to do the Cactus elbow off the apron and Mark Briscoe already does that so they were like, 'you can't do that here,' so I was thinking what else Cactus Jack did and he did that"
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)
