Ilja Dragunov will defend the NXT Championship against Carmelo Hayes next week at WWE NXT Halloween Havoc (Night Two).
On a recent edition of the “Haus of Wrestling” podcast, Dragunov discussed sharing the ring with WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes on NXT TV.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On sharing the ring with Cody Rhodes being a special moment: “It was very interesting and absolutely a very special moment not only for me, but also for the audience in the arena and probably for the people watching on TV because it is as I said in the promo — meeting a person in the ring who stands, in a different way, for the exact same things that you stand for, that is something that very rarely happens.”
On what Rhodes brings to the table: “Look at Cody Rhodes, he brings an energy, a fire, a passion to the ring in front of those arenas, in front of those people that not a lot of other people can do. I do that too for NXT. People feel what I do, the passion, the fire I bring. This is something very similar and I mean, this moment standing me and Cody Rhodes together in one ring, I was scared that there was going to be an energy overload.”
