Brian Cage talks about how his career has changed
Before joining other federations and making himself known to the general public, Brian Cage was in WWE development territory, signing with the company in 2008 to be awarded to Florida Championship Wrestling, when NXT didn’t exist yet.
Although he enjoyed FCW, WWE sent him away shortly after, in 2009, and the wrestler was surprised, telling it to the Going Broadway Podcast: “Being released was a shock to me. I remember, but literally everyone was, except behind the scenes, everyone was, they walked in and said one of us was going on the road.
And, literally, everyone thought it was just me for how well I was doing, for how great I was doing. And I also knew that I was going to get a raise. I’m in the gym and everyone talks about it, all the FCW coaches, about how one of us will go on tour next week.”
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Then Brian Cage went on to say, “So I’m in the gym and I’m missing a call. I’m like, ‘Oh man. Is that my raise? Am I going on the road? Maybe it’s both.’ So I’m ecstatic and I call them back.
I tell him, “Oh, hey”. He goes, “Oh, hey, Brian. How are you?” I go, “Oh, I’m fine”. Like I’m trying to calm my excitement. And he: ‘Oh, that’s great, that’s great. So … I-I have some bad news.
A difficult part of the job. ‘ And I’m like: ‘What are you talking about?’ Like I still have no idea because I still think it’s, you know, different from a normal situation. So he tells me: ‘Yes, so we’ll have to deal with your release.’
And this is the phone and I’m like [pulls the phone out of his ear to look at it], and I look at it to make sure it’s the right number I’m talking to. And again, I’m not trying to be smart or anything else.
This, I’m just legitimately shocked.” AEW superstar Brian Cage has been in the middle of a lot of news recently. His wife Melissa Santos publicly announced that AEW was mistreating Cage. She reminded everyone how big of a star Cage is.
“You see, Brian Cage is a superstar. Those people who know him from indies,…
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