Subhojeet Mukherjee on October 19, 2023
Tommaso Ciampa was certainly one of the best things about NXT throughout his run in the developmental brand. He was eventually called up to the main roster and is an integral part there now. That said, Ciampa addressed rumors that he didn’t want to get called up to the main roster.
The Sicilian Psychopath was eventually called up to the main roster last year and he immediately started working under The Miz, before that fizzled out due to injury. He is now back on track and is teaming up with Johnny Gargano once again.
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Tommaso Ciampa addressed rumors that he didn’t want to get called up to the main roster. Ciampa made it clear that it is nothing but a false narrative and explained his point of view.
“When we were in NXT, there’s this false, awful narrative that has now since been created that drives me crazy because people will look back at some of the NXT stuff and just be like, ‘Yeah, well, they didn’t want to go up’, or ‘They didn’t want to get called up’ or like, ‘They were scared of this.’ It’s like no. We were creating, like, that group of guys. NXT blew up when it came from like Sami Zayn and Claudio, Cesaro, to the Kevin stuff to Bayley and Sasha and then our group coming in with Finn and Shin and then into like Johnny and I and Undisputed.
If you were in that room at that moment, you knew how special it was. It would be like going to ECW and saying, ‘Hey, Tommy Dreamer and Sandman and Raven, you guys don’t want to leave this place and go, you know, because WWE, that’s where the big stars are. Do you want to go do like WrestleMania? Yes, but I want to see if we can make this WrestleMania first. That’s literally what it was. It was like, can we get 10,000 people? Can we get a million-dollar gate?
Can we do that multiple times? Can we get TakeOver to be equivalent to Mania? Can we do 20,000? Like our mindset was like, Oh, we’re gonna get TV now. How far can it go? It wasn’t like it was a weird us against them and it wasn’t like we don’t want to go there. It’s the same company, same umbrella. We’re not stupid. We know. We want to make this thing bigger than that.”
Interestingly enough, Tommaso Ciampa had previously stated that he would retire from pro wrestling if he was ever called up to the main roster due to the hectic schedule. Regardless, he is happy working in the main roster right now and that’s all that matters to him.
What’s your opinion on what Tommaso Ciampa said? Are you happy he is part of the WWE main roster? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
October 19, 2023 3:23 pm
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