Current WWE Star Says Road Dogg Saved His Career

While speaking to New Day on their Feel The Power podcast, current and 44-time 24/7 Champion R-Truth opened up about his relationship with current NXT trainer Road Dogg and how he saved his career.

Truth noted that while in WWE developmental he was considering quitting the company, but Road Dogg asked him to give it another month and promised to get Truth onto TV by then:

“The overwhelming feeling, I just embraced it and took it head on. Road Dogg saw me in developmental. I was about to quit because I was in developmental for almost nine months – they told me I would be there for six months. I was there for nine months and it didn’t seem like anything was working out,” stated Truth. “I was running out of money, I was sleeping on Daniel Bryan and Spanky – Brian Kendrick’s – and Shooter Schultz’s floor. I was ready to quit. I was discouraged because I was doing something new and different. It wasn’t a typical street. I was questioning myself. It was a whole different route that I embraced, and it was not paying off. It was not giving me what I thought I would have. I’m not a big wrestling star, so I was discouraged and ready to quit.

“Back then, it was Kevin Kelly, and Bruce Prichard, and Terry Golden, and I told them that I’m not re-signing. I’m done; I’m going back home, and Terry Golden was like, ‘You’re going back home to what? To do what?’ I wasn’t going to go back to the streets, but I didn’t know what I was going to go back to. I just felt that it was too overwhelming. It was too much for me. It wasn’t working out. Nothing was paying off, and Road Dogg came to the TV taping and saw me rap going out. I think I wrestled Jerry Lawler that night. When I came back to the locker room, two or three guys told me Road Dogg was asking about you. I said, ‘Road Dogg of DX?’ They said, ‘yeah’. Got in the locker room, and we all know Road Dogg. Road Dogg came to my face and said, ‘Was that you dancing and rapping to the ring?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Do you want to be my tag partner?’ I said, ‘Man, I was about to quit. I don’t think this is for me. I think I bit off more than what I can chew.’ He said, ‘I’ll tell you what – I know you have been discouraged. You give me one month and I will have you on TV.’ I said, ‘Alright.’

“It happened in less than one month. They were coming up with the idea of me and Road Dogg in New York at [The World], and it happened in less than a month. I was making my RAW debut.”

It’s great to see that Road Dogg saw something in R-Truth and great to hear that Truth was willing to give him that month instead of quitting. As we know, twenty years after his WWE debut, Truth is still on TV.

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Thanks to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.

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