During a recent appearance on the “Insight” podcast, Grayson Waller discussed Australian wrestlers and revealed which Superstars inspired him to chase a career in WWE.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On rarely seeing Australian wrestlers in WWE until The IIconics: “I rarely saw Australians [in WWE]. There’d be one or two here or there, and I was like, it didn’t seem like a possibility. But then when I saw Peyton [Royce] and Billie [Kay] get on NXT — they’re from the same school as me — then I was like, ‘Oh wow,’ and they came back and, like, did a little seminar.”
On Rhea Ripley cementing his decision: “I’m like, ‘It’s possible,’ and I think Rhea [Ripley] was the one who really cemented it. I think she showed the rest of Australia, ‘Hey, this is possible,’ and that opened the door. Then you get Bronson [Reed], you got Indi [Hartwell] there already, you had TMDK [The Mighty Don’t Kneel] doing really good stuff before they left, there’s so many people.”
While speaking on a recent edition of the “Before the Bell” podcast, WWE broadcaster Cathy Kelley clarified why fans should not expect to see her or fellow broadcaster Jackie Redmond stepping into the ring anytime soon.
As Kelley pointed out, neither of them is a wrestler. She said,
“I think she said it best, neither of us are wrestlers. I don’t have the muscles, as we’ve discussed several times, to be a wrestler. I think I’m going to leave it to the superstars to do that.”
