Ilja Dragunov has had some special moments in his career over the past few weeks since capturing the NXT World Championship.
During a recent appearance on the Haus Of Wrestling podcast, "The Mad Dragon" spoke about a special moment he had with "The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes during a recent episode of NXT on USA.
"It was very interesting and absolutely a very special moment not only for me, but also for the audience in the arena and probably for the people watching on TV," Dragunov said. "Because it is as I said in the promo — meeting a person in the ring who stands, in a different way, for the exact same things that you stand for, that is something that very rarely happens."
Dragunov continued, "Look at Cody Rhodes, he brings an energy, a fire, a passion to the ring in front of those arenas, in front of those people that not a lot of other people can do. I do that too for NXT. People feel what I do, the passion, the fire I bring. This is something very similar and I mean, this moment standing me and Cody Rhodes together in one ring, I was scared that there was going to be an energy overload."
Check out the complete interview at Spotify.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
