ROH Star Dalton Castle recently had a conversation with WrestleJoy on a variety of topics such as how he wasn't playing the character he currently portrays on television early on in his career and how he would get the opportunity to try out with the WWE.
Dalton Castle said:
“It was probably 2013 or 2014, I started getting a lot more bookings and traveling on the road. I wasn’t doing the act that you see today, I was still Dalton Castle, I was still a peacock, but I wasn’t coming out in the jumpsuit with The Boys. I had tassels and a lot of color, but I didn’t really have a lot of direction in what I was doing. But because I was still functional in the ring and was still charismatic, I got the opportunity to try out with WWE.”
Dalton Castle also talked about getting a 3-day tryout in FCW and how he was told to come down to the third day of the tryouts as he wanted, but he had no doubt in his mind that he crushed the tryouts.
Dalton Castle said:
“Being young, I was on the radio at the time, and I hated my job, and I got called down. At the time, I was like, ‘This is it, this is everything I’ve been working for’. I go down to WWE, I go to one of those 3-day tryouts at FCW. I felt like I was crushing it. I felt so good! Day 3 was promo day, they said come as you want, come comfortable, come as you are. I wore flip-flops, and went up, and I did my promo. Like, there’s no doubt in my mind that I didn’t crush it, because I’m really good! Even then I was really good, I obviously got invited down.”
Dalton Castle then talked about how he got chewed out by a number of legends that he used to respect, but the only one that was nice to him was the late Dusty Rhodes.
Dalton Castle said:
“They just dressed me down the second I stopped talking. They didn’t say one positive thing about the way I talked. They just shit on me for wearing flip-flops. Seven men that I looked up to, that I grew up watching and respecting, they were just running me down. I think the only person who didn’t say something mean and was just kind of nice, was Dusty Rhodes. That was something, that’s kind of nice.”
You can check out Dalton Castle's full comments at this link.
