NXT championship challenger Kyle O’Reilly recently sat down with The Gorilla position podcast and talked about WWE embracing Indie Talents
It’s so crazy to think that so many guys that I shared locker rooms with all over the world in small bingo halls, and now we’re together under the biggest wrestling company in the world. It’s super surreal. And there’s a lot of guys who’ve paved the road for us to make that happen. You know, guys like Daniel Bryan, like Cesaro. These are guys that cut their teeth on the independents and WWE saw something, and [said], ‘Alright, let’s take a chance.’ Because they weren’t really hiring the typical quote-unquote ‘indie guys’ at the time. So I think they helped sway the opinion of the powers that be.
O’Reilly then was asked who he’d like to see WWE bring in
Someone that we should get in WWE that’s not here right now? Hmm, that’s a really tough question. A guy I’ve been a fan of for a while and friends with is Jay White. He’s a guy I saw go through the dojo system in Japan. And he’s really grown into himself and I think he’s an elite performer and he’s one of the best in the world right now so I think it’s only a matter of time until Jay White is a top guy in WWE in my opinion.
Kyle O’Reilly made his NXT debut in 2017 after 12 years in the wrestling industry
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(H/T 411mania for transcript)
