Carmelo Hayes is a name many have their eye on, and that includes Shawn Michaels.
Speaking to Cameron Hawkins for The Ringer, Hayes discussed working with Michaels in NXT and the similarities between the two.
“You’d be surprised how often [Shawn] pulls me back,” Melo said. “And there’s times where I have to be like, ‘Hey, don’t forget who you were.’ But he reminds me, like, ‘Hey, don’t do as I did. Do as I say.’ And he reminds me [that it] was a different point in his life. And if he could go back, I’m sure he probably would change a lot of those things.”
“It’s like a cheat code. I got it on my own. But it’s like somebody that just makes you so much better, you know what I mean? He complements me so well. I complement him so well. And there’s so many different things that we can do as a duo in one match. There’s so many different backstage segments, promos; it’s endless with Trick and I, we’re just so creative individually. Then we put it together, and we just make what we do every week on TV. [Shawn] told us, ‘Hey, we need to get you guys doing something, but maybe we’ll throw you guys in a barber shop or something like that.’ OK, no problem. We get a couple of people, and we really just riff, man. We just sit in the barber chair and we just talk how we would talk. And obviously we still got to pull back on a lot of things that we would say we would do, but yeah, man. So smooth, man,”
Carmelo Hayes On The Ringer
Hayes will compete at NXT Halloween Havoc as he tries to regain the NXT North American Championship in a ladder match. He is also a former multi time North American Champion.
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