WWE superstar Xavier Woods recently joined the Celebrity Jobber program with Jeff Zito to discuss a wide range of topics, including how former multi-time world champion AJ Styles got him his first pro-wrestling contract. Highlights from the interview can be found below.
How AJ Styles vowed for him and got him a contract with TNA (now IMPACT):
I was in college, I was a senior, and my goal was to try to get a contract with a major wrestling organization before I graduated. I ended up getting a shot on a big show because a guy by the name of AJ Styles vouched for me. He vouched for me, and I was in this match, sight unseen, and they let me wrestle on TV on the largest show of the year for them and I was in the first match against AJ and his tag team partner, and I was teaming with R-Truth. After that, I got a contract, and I hit my goal. I was a contracted TV wrestler before I graduated college because AJ took a chance on me.
Why Styles decided to take a chance on him:
One of my good friends, Sal Rinauro, he hit me up and said, ‘AJ has been in a tag team for a minute, he wants to go back to singles and get in ring shape for that. Do you want to come train with us?’ It was about two hours from where I was. I asked my boss, I worked in a daycare at the time, she knew how much I wanted to be a wrestler. She gave me the week off work, and I went up there every day and we worked out for four or five hours each day. After that, he called me up and said, ‘Are you busy this weekend?’ ‘No.’ He got me on the show and we went from there. It’s nothing but love to AJ.
In a separate interview, Woods spoke about the work Bad Bunny and Logan Paul have done since joining WWE. You can read his thoughts on that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)