Carmelo Hayes Sees His WWE NXT North American Title Loss As A Challenge

WWE NXT Superstar Carmelo Hayes was recently interviewed by Fightful to discuss several professional wrestling topics.

During the interview, Hayes discussed seeing his North American Title loss as a challenge, as well as his current mindset on proving himself.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On seeing the challenge in the North American title situation:

“I took the challenge on it. I said, ‘Okay,’ because it’s out of my control. At that point, it’s like, I’m not going to fight Shawn Michaels for this title. ‘Hey, give it to me. Come on.’ It was a challenge that I was looking at like, ‘Okay, if I have to prove it again. If I have to prove five times that I’m the man, I’ll prove it five times.’”

On his mindset of proving himself:

“That’s always my mindset. They keep throwing things at me to see if I’m going to miss, and I looked at this as another one of those. ‘Okay, you want to take my title and you want make me try…’ I didn’t win it back, so I guess I did miss. At the same time, ‘You want to put me in a ladder match, you want me to show out and get my title back, alright, that’s what we’re going to do.’”