13 Essential Tips For Passing A WWE Try-Out
8. Actually Want It
Despite turning up for multiple tryouts (or so he says), Impact's Moose revealed that he wouldn't have said yes to WWE even if he'd passed, because he was already comfortable where he was.
"It was just one of those things where I just felt comfortable with where I was at. I'm not saying that WWE is not somewhere I wouldn't want to work at some point in my career because it is. Every wrestler in the world would tell you that... But I felt comfortable staying where I was currently at... Not that WWE ever offered me anything because they didn't. With what I had in front of me and the choices and the options available to me, staying in Ring of Honor was the best possible choice."
Quite why you'd even turn up in that mind-set is baffling, but it might explain why nobody offered him anything. Likewise, The Stoner Brothers were called in for a tryout and after the first day - which was punishing enough to have Dustin spewing in to a trash can a couple of times - just didn't care enough to go full time with WWE:
"We got up the next morning and Derek and I had a heart-to-heart and realized we were acting like marks. Our heart is in Oakland with Hoodslam, our students and our school. Weve been building this for five years and not so we can go to WWE.
Brushing aside accusations that they took someone else's spot, the Stoners basically pulled a hipster reverse, seemingly preferring the underground appeal of Hoodslam to WWE's glitz:
"It's not even about drawing the thousand plus people, it's all about the vibe. It's about the boys and having fun. No one's stressing on anything or dealing with assholes. It's like a big party with dancing and a live band. It's not traditional wrestling. There's athleticism and wrestling, but it's more pop culture.