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Paul Heyman said the opposite from Cena. I remember during an interview, someone asked Paul about Shinsuke Nakamura coming to WWE. I remember it very well because Paul said if Nakamura does everything they tell him, he’ll be in the midcard, but if he goes out of his way to pitch ideas, the sky is the limit for him.

King's out here looking like Pirate Paul Burchill 🏴‍☠️

Exactly what John Cena said in an Interview with you a while ago chris : "control the controllable"

He looks like he's found himself. He looks confident. You can see it.

The Miz is the perfect example of what happens when your a true company guy and is willing to do the work. Except for winning the rumble , Miz has done everything that could be done in wwe, sometimes twice. His resume is even more impressive than a lot of hall of famers. He could have whined and complain about wanting to always face people in the main event or change his character but he didn’t . Now he a two time grand slam winner, one of if not the best IC champion we ever had. King got the right advice from Cena

Wrestling outside the WWE is like being a singer songwriter, You have a big amount of input into your work, who you work with, what style Wrestling in the WWE is like being an actor/stuntman, the Story writers will do their Job (some good, mostly trash and seeing what sticks) and you just need to act that out to the best you can Is one better than the other, that's for everyone to decide themselves

This interview really specified that Lexis King is the style of actor WWE likes. Just a performer to slot in wherever the writers want him. Best of luck to him!

dude has a bright future in wwe because he listens

He’s got the look and charisma to be a star he’s so great

I’d like to see him feature at the rumble…

Great Interview

King to the top. Dudes gonna have a hell of a promo soon.

That is Cena's favorite advice - focus on what you can control as opposed to on what you can't. I heard him saying it a couple of times

If you are a professional wrestler trying to advance your career why would you not go to a seminar with john cena being held at your training facility by your employer??? why was it even a question

Lexis is getting the advice in WWE he wishes and craved for in AEW. Good for him.

I love seeing him really thriving in the learning tree. You can tell he's appreciative and working at improvement. So far so good. Keep it up.

I get playing your role but there’s a lot of times where the writers and creative team just fall short and the performers have much better ideas

What Lexis King/Pillman Jr is saying in a nice way is - AEW is the way it is with Chris Jericho/the Bucks/Moxley/etc dominating the show is because they are pitching ideas to Tony Khan and Khan is using them. The ones that aren’t being used aren’t pitching ideas or are being ignored so they don’t bother.

I'm proud of him for wanting to learn and be better. No wonder he left AEW, everyone there thinks they are perfect already.

I see a lot of people going, “Well what about John Cena and the rap gimmick!” That came about because Cena was freestyle rapping backstage. If memory serves, Cena didn’t pitch it. Now, Shawn Michaels pitched DX to Vince, but Shawn Michaels was the top guy in the company and had the leverage of jumping ship to WCW if he wanted to. But also, it’s 2024. Not 2003. WWE in 2003 was a very different operation than it is today. It’s a machine now. It’s very corporate.

I think it depends on your leverage what you should do. If you're in NXT like Lexis, you probably don't have much leverage and should be careful about pushing creative. If you're someone like Rey Mysterio, you can kick down Vince's door and tell him what you want to do.

Whether he is playing himself, or a "grunge" character - this is a much needed piece on the WWE roster. We haven't had a serious grunge character since Raven.

Imagine being in NXT and John cena is there to teach everyone and actually thinking to yourself, ‘I guess I’ll go’

I always thought Lexi King was money. Now - I know it for sure.

Lexis king is definitely a future nxt north American champion or nxt champion

If u could control booking 99 percent of wrestlers would have different names and gimmicks but u just gotta be your best self and hope they will see u as that guy

Lexis King is a ⭐️

his audio is very low please have someone edit them louder in future uploads

I am a proud Lexual

I’m anxious to see how 2024 plays out for him in NXT. I think he has a bright future in the business.

So the main idea seems to be that wrestlers in WWE audition for type-cast roles which they will hold for quite a while unless the producers place a different role in the wrestlers’ lap based on how they executed their type-cast role for so long

Crazy to think John Cena has never pitched an opponent in his entire career. That’s insane. He totally could have, he was the top guy for decades. But he just let Vince and the team write all his stuff. Interesting.

John cena is one of the greatest of all time

Future king of the ring winner

i had this mentality back then when, i just started working for our company, where i want to take control of every work given to me, but it does not work like that you have to be a team player and actually do you're part and be patient for opportunities because if rush things its gonna crash and burn much faster. thats why being a team player is important and do not rush at anything.

King praises and buries Cena at the same time.

Like his shirt

".. because there's not much of a writing team there." You don't say lol

When you beat the artist so much that they finally believe your way is the right way.

John cena Stone Cold Steve Austin the undertaker Kane

And people wonder how R-Truth and Jinder Mahal still be kicking on the main roster…this explains it

He's getting there...... Love his drive.

Chris, the volume of your guests is always lower than your own. Please fix that!

It's weird that cena would say that considering on the stone cold podcast, vince and steve said people weren't getting over because they weren't speaking up.

cvv you need to either force the guests to talk into the mic or look into an audio engineering (or an engineer) to compress your mics audio so the volume isn't so low and dynamic

insight into a fundamental difference between AEW and WWE.

If he cleans a few things up in the ring. His roof is beyond the ceiling.

Listen to Creative... except for when they tell you to say "Sniveling Sufferin' Succotash Son" on live TV

That looks like Brian Pillman

Dropping Pillman name yet evrey phase of his career is mimicking Brian pillman. He will turn to the loose cannon, but can he pull it off?

So wild to see someone really extolling the virtues of being an absolutely creatively bankrupt cookie cutter fed drone

What I get out of this is he'll never be the guy fully because he's content with w.e they give him and not bring ideas to the table.

He’s like the opposite of Dean Ambrose. :)

I get what Cenas is saying about not pitching the ideas because there is probably a line 3 miles long of guys who pitched ideas constantly and never got them followed through and they became disgruntled and disappointed and it didn't end well for them in the company. Not saying pitching ideas is bad it's not because times you can have an idea that you know will draw money greatest example stone cold Steve Austin who pitched that to JR so sometimes you're idea can work and get big time over but it don't happen to often so you get what cenas saying just be the best version of what you are and that can get over and you can have longevity. Guys like the miz,R truth etc they've rolled with what the WWE have given them and they did it the best they can and it's given them a job there for 15-20 years and miz for example has had his huge moments. Obviously aswell guys can get shit gimmicks that won't work but sometimes it's about the perfomer aswell. Look at the undertaker that was a cartoonish 90s character that people thought wouldn't last a year but it lasted 30 years because mark Callaway made it his own. Goldust aswell a pretty out there gimmick that Dustin got over because he's a quality perfomer.

We see what happens when the wrestlers have all their ideas listened to and put on TV. It's called AEW and it's the drizzling shits.

Doing better than what he was doing at the comedy botch gymnastic circus show

Sorry, but John Cena telling an up and coming talent that "you can't control the booking", is just laughable coming from someone like him. Like, you were "controlling the booking" ever since you became a top star in the mid 2000's, bro. Don't give that crap. Lol.

He's good at cutting in and out of character, so you never know when he's shooting or working.

He’s so full of himself like Buff.

Charisma vampire

i always heard to always pitch ideas so idk.. also bottom line of this inmates really do ruin the asylum in aew ..

This is literally everything wrong with wwe imo. Every character is exactly the same. They all wrestle the same, they all act the same and they all talk the same. Because the same creative team write and come up with everything for the wrestler. How can you be the best version of your character if you as a wrestler has no agency regarding your character? I watch wwe now and im so bored because its so repetitive, to the point where i thought i just didnt like wrestling anymore. Till i started watching other promotions and realised "oh, i do like wrestling. Just not watching the same two characters wrestle the same match over and over again". Theres a reason why most wrestling fans only follow wwe between the rumble and maina then ditch the product till next year.

Man there is a big gap between the guys from the 70s and 80s to now. When I watch a show the crowd doesn't even react the way the system wants them too. Yet put the blame on the performer and not themselves. I heard from one legend "to not be afraid to steal from the past" LA Knight is the perfect example he studied and learned. Just because you have stuff written for you is your job to get it over. But then sometimes good writing goes to the wrong person.

We wouldn't get some great things if people didn't pitch them though

Cant wait for him & Dango to get back together. . .Breezango was dope!

WWE creative is trash, it creates ZERO stars. Most stars in WWE are self made or born from pitches and opportunities created by the stars themselves. Very rarely, does the shitty wwe booking work.

Jericho really needed this advice from Cena

I don’t agree with that mindset yes you should work with the writers for pitches and such but if your not pitching ideas your being snuffed creatively

I’m sure he’s a great dude but he’s just so dull, nothing about him seems natural when it comes to wrestling.

Vince McMahon and HHH have both been known to be open to collaboration from the wrestlers. Not pitching anything sounds like ignorant advice and remember that Cena has a skewed perspective. He was their protected top guy for a decade.

That's dumb. It works for some, Cena's the perfect example of that, but then one day they tell you "creative has nothing for you". Then what?

I think this just shows how professional wwe is and how AEW doesn’t know what they are doing.

But John Cena Rapper was his idea yes he didn't actually pitch it but it was still his thing just happed to be in right place right time and no one ever really had to write for him after that

He's gonna make his father proud a pillman

Dressing like his dad 😂

Not a fan of his gimmick, but I do enjoy his work

That’s why AEW won’t ever be that polished show like WWE. And probably better for the older than the younger guys. Older wrestlers go to AEW a because they wanna do their ideas but younger talent still needs to learn what good ideas are. It’s also why AEW is always gonna appeal to wrestling nerds like myself more than those who aren’t. More forgiving for messier shows. As a fan, I don’t need AEW to be as big as WWE. It’s just nice that a different type of show now has a slightly bigger spotlight

Lmao he know John cena is full of shit to say that like he hasn’t politic to creative before

Alexis Lost both parents to drug related deaths.. Its tragic.

I dont know. Hey 90% of that take is right. But Jericho had the best take of it. Do what they want you to do. But if you are going to pitch an idea, make sure you have something better than them.

Of course Cena would say that lol

Wow, he looks exactly like his father.

Puppet

Let's get to the real questions Lexis, who attacked Trick Willam's?

It’s funny how everyone in the comments knows exactly what’s needed to become a superstar 😂

John Cena never pitched an opponent? He's the one who pitched the idea to go over the Nexus. One of the dumbest ideas in pro wrestling.

Giving to much of the sauce away in my opinion

Not surprised Cena never pitched ideas, he was the same character for a decade with almost no good creative around his character.

WWE is always destroying legacy with dumb names.

Imagine being a wrestling company and not having a writing team..no wonder it's chaos land.

Everything he said is what is wrong with the business. And sadly these new kids are actually buying it. "They don't want you to pitch ideas, they want to come up with them because it's their job, I'll never pitch an idea again". Let's not forget what the writers had for cena was a white meat babyface in orange trunks feuding with billy Kidman. Cena was on the chopping block, with their ideas. Then cena pitched "hey on that Halloween special let me do my vanilla ice that I always do backstage for the boys" and boom he's a gazillionaire. Imagine if he didn't pitch it out of respect for the writers. I think the writers have bigger egos in 2024 than pro wrestlers did in 1997.

I think that’s great advice for a john Cena and terrible advice for anyone else and a massive indictment of the WWE creative system.

all the king stuff but still a pillman and that will come back eventually

So he basically got brainwashed by Cena to shut up & do whatever WWE pitch .Be a sheep & not question anything.Lmao😭

soooo WWE = ZERO CREATIVITY AND ORIGINAL INPUT ? GOOD TO KNOW !

He literally explains why wrestling has lost the majority of its viewers. Someone else tells them what to do and and what to say at all times, the emotion is not real hence the product look and feel fake and phony. But todays sports entertainers see this is a great thing.. oh well.

Why does he look so cringy

Really crappy advice from Cena. It's easy for a guy like him to say you don't need to pitch ideas. If Stephanie never found him rapping he would be a nobody due to such an attitude

John Cena, the guy who used to steal the ideas from the midcard guys. Not pitching ideas because of rejection sounds like an awful advice lol