{"id":144160,"date":"2024-01-16T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=144160"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:29:23","slug":"nxts-lexis-king-on-leaving-aew-to-sign-with-wwe-john-cenas-advice-no-longer-going-by-brian-pillman-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2024\/01\/16\/nxts-lexis-king-on-leaving-aew-to-sign-with-wwe-john-cenas-advice-no-longer-going-by-brian-pillman-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT&#8217;s Lexis King on leaving AEW to sign with WWE, John Cena&#8217;s advice, no longer going by Brian Pillman Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2621142826\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Insight With Chris Van Vliet with guest Lexis King<br \/>\nHost: Chris Van Vliet<br \/>\nPodcast available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.chrisvanvliet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcasts.Apple.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O1M4y6NsRjg?si=5eiM8stEvRlcI2pb\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>On leaving AEW to sign with WWE:<\/b> &#8220;I mean, it wasn&#8217;t so much of a decision as it was just a necessary transition. I think my time came up at AEW, and it was a great, great run, a great deal financially, I did very well there. But like I said, just that sort of that self-doubt of not knowing the future, not knowing if I&#8217;m going to be used, or if I&#8217;m going to do anything? Well, it was pretty apparent when they didn&#8217;t re-sign me that I wasn&#8217;t going to be doing anything there anymore. So God bless agents and attorneys that picked up the phone that day, my contract was up and got the conversation started. I think I got a paycheck from both companies in the same month. That&#8217;s how quickly the ball got rolling. Because you&#8217;re so worried it&#8217;s like, Oh, my God, like, are they gonna pick me up right away? Am I gonna be able to go there? But now the ball got rolling and the King was crowned pretty quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On not being Brian Pillman Jr. in WWE:<\/b> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get into the details. But like when I first got there, like everything was just Brian Pillman Jr, yada, yada, yada. And then I had some talks, they gave me the whole, you know, we can&#8217;t keep your name kind of talk. And I thought, well, I don&#8217;t want to make it seem like that&#8217;s a bad thing. Honestly, I&#8217;ve always sort of fantasized about having my own wrestler name. Because my whole career I&#8217;ve had his name. My whole life I&#8217;ve had someone else&#8217;s name I&#8217;ve been I&#8217;ve been walking around for 30 years with someone else&#8217;s name. Brian Pillman is a name that my father made. He made that name on his own. There&#8217;s not much I can add to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On advice from John Cena:<\/b> &#8220;He actually came in and did a seminar with us at the PC. And I thought, okay, I&#8217;ll go and see what see what&#8217;s going on. But man, I&#8217;m so glad I went. And it was the most enlightening. Like, it wasn&#8217;t just like, little questions that people would ask, like, Oh what&#8217;s your favorite food? No, we were getting into it, we&#8217;re talking about contract negotiations all this different stuff, I&#8217;m so glad I went. Yeah, it was amazing, and the amount of questions that we were able to ask and get to answer. And one of the coolest things he said, you can&#8217;t control the booking, you can&#8217;t control who&#8217;s wearing what belt or this, that or the other. He&#8217;s like, but you can be the best version of said character. And if you&#8217;re the best, like he was the rapper guy, if you&#8217;re the best rapper guy on the roster and creative goes, Oh, we want the rapper guy to take on a huge monster. Then they&#8217;re gonna pick the best rapper guy they have and put them against the best monster character they have. Then they go, oh what does the match look like?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s like, people say I&#8217;ll never pitch an idea again, let&#8217;s put it that way. He said, There&#8217;s no point in pitching anything, because if you pitch something and they don&#8217;t use it, now you&#8217;re disappointed. Now you&#8217;re upset. But if you just be the best version of your character and then they decide to choose you for these things that they created because they&#8217;re the writers, they&#8217;re going to come up with the ideas. And it&#8217;s like, they don&#8217;t want you pitching them stuff, they want to come up with it because it&#8217;s their job. 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