Pat McAfee made his NXT in-ring debut last night at TakeOver XXX against Adam Cole, and Triple H has discussed what the future may hold for McAfee.
Cole won the match but McAfee put in an impressive performance for his debut match and got a considerable amount of offence in against the longest reigning NXT Champion ever.
On the post-TakeOver media call, Triple H said:
“One of the first times I ever met Pat, he looked at me and he said, this was his term, ‘I want to be a weapon for you, man, and I want you to to grab it and utilize it and I want to be here. I want to I want to be a talent, and I want to go.’ I thought he meant as an announcer. That isn’t what he meant. Pat has every intention of doing this and being not only a NXT Superstar but if the time is right, a WWE Superstar. He has a lot of other commitments from his podcast to everything else he does. He has a lot of commitments and a lot of things across the board, but he’s very serious about this, and we’ll see where it goes.”
He continued praising McAfee’s outing, saying:
“When we first talked about this process from the in-ring having the match idea of it, he said to me, ‘let’s remember this phone call and you can tell this story when you do my hall of fame speech.’ Pat doesn’t lack for confidence, and that’s amazing. To me, he showed why he is the elite athlete on the level that he showed, why he had so many full-rides in college and so many different sports. He showed why he played professional sports at the highest levels and has succeeded in all the things he has done. He has the personality. He’s got the gift of gab. He has the charisma. He’s got all of it. He’s a heat magnet.
“When you add in an incredible athlete on top of that and just a gift to have a feel for the business, what he wants to do, he can do. I’m here to help him do it, and I look forward to that future. I don’t know what it will be, but we’re going to have that conversation, and I can certainly say, I do not believe at all that it is the last time that you will see Pat McAfee step through those ropes and do what he does again. Like I said, he silenced a lot of critics tonight. A lot of people that were in the, ‘ugh, celebrity’ camp left with a different opinion when he stepped out of that ring, and I also will say my hat’s off to Adam Cole.
“Having done this before, getting in the ring with somebody who it’s their first match ever and working with them, it takes a lot, and there’s a lot that goes into it. There’s a lot that that has to be done, and Pat and Adam tore it up Adam is the consummate pro. I’ve said that numerous times. I can’t say it enough, on every level from a leader in the back to just a pro on every level, and he showed it again tonight why he is, as anybody, NXT. Couldn’t be more proud of what he did in the ring tonight with Pat. So my hats off to both of them, to Pat McAfee, just respect and Adam Cole, just on a ring general standpoint.”
Transcription via Wrestling Inc
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