Butch Hopes For WWE Main Roster Story With Fellow NXT Alumni

Newest SmackDown arrival Butch was the hottest visitor on Mark Andrews: My Like Letter to Wrestling by BBC Wales. The former Pete Dunne mentioned his shift from NXT to the blue model on March 11.

Now formally relocating up to the major roster on a everlasting foundation, the previous WWE United Kingdom Winner exposed some of the matches he would like to have.

“Part of it is matching up with people I have some sort of background with, proper? Like, Riddle would obviously be 1 of the principal names since we in no way definitely bought exactly where we ended up trying to go with that,” Butch explained. “You know, naturally, I was the tag winner when I experienced to depart for the reason that of the pandemic, and of course he’s carrying out the stuff with Randy [Orton] at the moment as well. So that’s a further name that would be excellent.

“In phrases of on SmackDown, I believe it would be fantastic to get in there with Shinsuke [Nakamura]. That is a match I needed for years and a long time, even ahead of his WWE time. I believe the working day that we get to go in there would be fantastic things. But there are so a lot of people today up there that – and I come to feel like if I do not get up there now and get these matches in, it may well end up remaining much too late, proper? It is been so prolonged, people like AJ Kinds, he’s even now absolutely killing it.”

The former NXT Tag Crew Champion elaborated more on a probable come upon amongst him and “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles.

“Whenever I was a kid, he was my preferred wrestler by far,” Butch spelled out. “This is like wrestling Matt Sydal and persons like that. So, people matches were being large for me when I was acquiring into wrestling, so he’s, of system, a title on that listing. But a great deal of these men, I don’t want to overlook out on, suitable? So acquiring up in this article now and potentially possessing a bunch of these matches and becoming capable to develop operate, I’m happy of and hopefully, the lovers will be actually fascinated in it. And once more, now’s the time.”

Total, the England-born Celebrity disclosed that William Regal would have been a dream match he would have appreciated to have had, having said that, his sights are firmly centered on AJ Designs.

“It could hardly ever come about, correct, but the clear identify, [William] Regal,” The previous NXT Celebrity stated. “What he’s performed for all of our occupations truly, but especially, you know, you see I wear the similar shades when I wrestle and stuff like the impact he’s had on my job. He’s the clear title and I believe for the admirers way too. Which is the 1 I listen to all the time. ‘Oh, I would like I could see that matchup. I would like I could see that matchup’. It is got more than him. And if we’re talking a more sensible alternative, definitely, like we explained before, AJ Models.”

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