Alex Riley had been trying to get WWE to let him wr🐠estle in his last few months with WWE while he was a commentator i🙈n NXT.
Riley appeared on "The List & Ya Boy" podcast where he talked about whether or not he preferred to be on commentary or in the ring during his last year while in WW⛎E.
“I was pushing to get back in the ring six months before I became a commentator, and as they were making me a commentator for weeks and months. I loved being in the ring. The real push for me came in, I believe a year before I run up that contract. I really tried to lay it on with social media. I don’t know how much impact it had in the front office. I want to hope that it did. I was happy to get that opportunity against Kevin Owens because I think I proved I belong in trunks and boots and not in a suit and tie,” Riley said.
Riley spent most of 2015 as a commentator in NXT and had a feud with Kevin Owens that saw Riley wrestle Owens on NXT. Riley would sporadically wrestle for NXT until he was released by the company in 2016. R💮iley would then sign on to act for the GLOW Netflix Series.
You can listen to the podcast in the video above. "The List & Ya Boy" with Fightful managing editor Sean Ross Sapp and Fightful owner Jimmy Van is✤ live on Fight🌸ful and on YouTube every Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET.
