WWE NXT star Bobby Roode recently spoke with ESPN to promote Saturday’s WWE NXT Takeover Toronto event and below are some interview highlights:
On returning to his hometown for Takeover Toronto:
“Starting back with WWE over six months ago, it’s been an amazing experience. Being part of Takeover: Brooklyn was pretty cool, thinking back to my very first match in England. Here I am now, just days away from another Takeover, [and now] I’m gonna perform on probably the biggest night of NXT in my hometown at the Air Canada Centre … It’s been great — better than I ever expected.”
On not getting a WWE contract in the past:
“That’s the goal, right? You want to get a job, get hired, want to be seen. You go do these dark matches, you network and show your face as much as you can.
“I believe in life that everything happens for a reason,” he said. “The timing back then with WWE didn’t work out. It passed me by the first time. But there was a reason for it. I made a name for myself.”
On if he still keeps in touch with TNA star James Storm:
“I have not spoken a word to James since I left in March. I’m not sure what his plan is. We haven’t spoken.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
