New WWE NXT Champion Bron Breakker recently spoke with Fightful Select for a future interview, which was conducted after his big title win over Tommaso Ciampa at NXT New Year’s Evil last night. Below are a few highlights:
* He found out about his NXT 2.0 debut the day before it happened. Before that he was just worried about learning and practicing his craft
* For his New Year’s Evil entrance where he smashed through the giant X, he didn’t receive a lot of advance notice, and was admittedly cautious of something going wrong and the set being pulled down
* Breakker said he actually had his first wrestling match in the fall of 2020 when he went to a signing with uncle Scott Steiner. Scott told him, ‘Hey by the way, you’re wrestling,” and he had a match without knowing what he was doing
* Breakker said he always wanted to wrestle, so as soon as football was over for him, he wanted to get to WWE
* He attended an AEW show while in college, but wasn’t actively recruited by the promotion. His dad Rick Steiner had a lot of contacts at AEW and was visiting friends
* Breakker spoke highly of WWE’s new NIL program with college athletes
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