![]() It would just be tighter and snugger and faster and umph because we would just be bringing it because we love the other mother-brother and we wanna impress said brother, you know what I mean? And so we’re bringing it, they’re bringing it and it feels good. If I wrestled my brother, if I wrestled Jeff (Jarrett), if I wrestled Billy (Gunn), if I wrestled Truth, we would probably be stiffer than everybody, on everybody. It was competition and I’ll tell you what I loved about it. Well I think you (podcast co-host) said it best and this is a little inside baseball and this is as far as I’m gonna go but mutual competition indeed (between Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair). ![]() James added that it was a friendly rivalry that sometimes crossed over to scratching and clawing for a spot. He said he used their competitiveness to bring something extra out of them. James stated that going for the same spot as your friend at the same time does not end well in wrestling. You always have the naysayers and they’re the loudest so that’s a trick and I ain’t learned it yet, to drown those out.Įlsewhere in the conversation, James dove into the mutual competition between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair and what he liked about it. It felt pretty good, you know what I mean? It felt pretty good. I want the ratings to be –’ you know what I mean? So, I fight for it and I thought I was giving them some of what they wanted. What do you want to do?’ And so I would pitch what I wanted to do and make him tell me no. I mean, I think if you don’t bring it up, you’re selling yourself short and your show short and look, another Vince-ism he (Vince McMahon) gave me was, ‘Fight for your show. Yeah, it’s definitely something I bring up (a SmackDown talent winning 2018 Money in the Bank). He recalled Vince McMahon telling him to “fight for your show” so he did just that when it came to pitching ideas. James was the head writer of SmackDown at the time. It was brought up that no SmackDown talents won either of the Money in the Bank Ladder matches that year. ** WWE Money in the Bank 2018 was the focus of an episode of Brian ‘Road Dogg’ James’ Oh…You Didn’t Know podcast. Could you do like a quarter schedule? And then we’ll just put you a full quarter when you graduate.’ I was like, ‘Uh, yeah, sure.’ He’s like, ‘Alright, cool’ and then I was in TNA while I was still in college so, I remember we were in the dorms or in our apartments and my debut was coming on and we’re watching and we’re freaking out and we’re just… all my friends in college and we’re like, ‘Yeah!’ It was crazy. That’s not a question, and if that takes it off the table, I completely understand but I have to graduate.’ He was like, ‘Oh, that’s fine. This is what I want more than anything in the world but I have six months left in school and I have to graduate. So it was to Jeff Jarrett and I was like, ‘Well, I wanna sign this so bad. ![]() No contract, no anything and so I did well enough and they offered me a deal and this was one of the hardest phone calls I ever had to make. and I was on their opening match for Bound For Glory. was like, ‘Yeah, I got a guy’ and they let me come in, like I said, without even seeing any matches. a little bit a couple months prior and they needed a guy to tag with Truth so A.J. Bound For Glory was like their WrestleMania and sight unseen, they just went off of A.J. That was what I was dead set on so I was wrestling all throughout college trying to get looked at and I got to do some stuff with TNA. I was still in college when I got signed (to TNA/IMPACT Wrestling) so, my goal was to get signed before I graduated. Jarrett suggested putting Woods on a quarterly schedule and then bringing him on full-time once he graduated. He expressed to Jeff Jarrett that he wanted to finish school and if wanting that took the offer off the table, he understood. Woods received the contract offer six months out from his graduation. He looked back on signing with TNA/IMPACT Wrestling in 2007 while he was still in college. ** Joining Mark Andrews’ My Love Letter to Wrestling podcast was Xavier Woods. If any of the quotes from the following podcasts or video interviews are used, please credit those sources and provide an H/T and link back to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
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