Tyler Breeze recently spoke with The Flagship‘s Jonathan McLarty while promoting an upcoming WWE live event in Richmond, Virginia.
Breeze talks about finding his character, who helped him develop it along the way, performing his own entrance theme song, and more:
Tyler Breeze talks about his different characters with NXT, how ‘Tyler’ finally came to be:
There were a couple – about two or three. All of them were very different. The names were different, the looks were different, and the character traits too.
I wanted to be here (in WWE). I had to find something that fans would pay money to see. It actually felt almost like the pressure was off. What I was doing before wasn’t working, so I was trying so hard to make that work and it wasn’t. I finally just let that go and was moving on to the next thing that I actually had some confidence in – a clean slate – and I had fun with it.
Was Shawn Michaels an influence on his character?
I was a big fan of Shawn growing up, but I never did try to emulate him. He had a lot of stuff that was good. I would take a little bit from him and look even further back to Gorgeous George. He had a lot of stuff that was so far ahead of his time. What I liked about Shawn Michaels’ style was that it was so athletic and innovative for its time.
Learning about how he would be performing his own entrance theme:
I got an email saying, “We’re going to need you to come in at 9 a.m., and record some voice-over stuff.” It was a whole sheet of lyrics. As I read them over, I was like, “Whoah, am I singing something?” They said, “Yeah, you’re singing your new entrance music.” I looked over the lyrics and there were a couple that I thought I could insert something that felt a little more “me.” We did a couple of takes, auto-tuned it, and you get what you hear now.
Tyler Breeze comments on possibly performing at Wrestlemania 32:
That’s the cool thing about what we do. Things are constantly changing. We just had the Royal Rumble, and that was my first. To me, that was a huge thing because it’s something I’ve grown up watching – a staple of WWE. The fact that I was in it was really cool; surreal. Now that WrestleMania is coming up, it’s one of those things I am looking forward to and taking it day by day. Fingers crossed, hoping to get on there.
