Former AEW Star Details Triple H Conversation Prior To WWE Signing

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Former AEW star Shawn Spears has detailed WWE CCO Triple H having a conversation with him prior to his signing with the company.

In February, Shawn Spears made his return to WWE after five years away and wrapping up his stint in All Elite Wrestling.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Spears discussed his comeback to WWE and not wanting to go anywhere else after his return. He said:

“Maybe it’s human nature to always wonder if you made certain right calls at certain things as opposed to sitting back and going, eh, I did okay. Some things, I am.”

“I know for certain, I am in the right spot, right now, in it with everything and all the time has gone by and all the decisions that I have made, I can say wholeheartedly that I am in the right spot, right now in WWE and NXT, and I am very confident to say that I will retire and finish everything here.”

“I don’t wanna go anywhere else and that’s not a shot to anybody else. It’s just I feel that everything that has happened in my career, everything’s taken place in my life, as a human, as a performer, it is all led to be in this exact spot, sitting with you right now talking about how good things just happen to work out. Life is good.”

Spears revealed that he reached out to WWE CCO Triple H to let him know that he had become available after his run with AEW ended, saying:

“I immediately reached out to Hunter (that’s how the conversations between WWE & I started) and just said — I’m paraphrasing. I can’t remember exactly what I said.”

“Just like, look, I’m free if there’s interest. The ball’s in your court kind of thing and he just says, ‘What do you wanna do?’ I said, ‘I want to contribute,’ and he said, ‘Okay. Let me see what can happen,’ and then not long after that, I was in touch with here and when this presented itself, the chance to come back here, I thought, hold on a second.”

“So you’re telling me, I get to go back to a time frame, that was one of my favorites in my career. I get to be around a lot of the coaches that help kind of build me up to this point and I get to be under Shawn Michaels? I get to understand how he thinks? I get to work and see how he operates?”

“And then I get to kind of pass that knowledge down to kids and I get to pass that on to students at Flatbacks? And I get to be in my bed every night? Like, yeah, let’s go, let’s do this. So it was kind of a no-brainer. Yeah, I jumped all over it.”

On making his return to the NXT brand and doing more than his on-screen role, Spears said:

“Yeah (I’m doing more than what people see on-screen in NXT). My responsibilities are more than just what you see on-camera.”

“So, I relish in that opportunity. I enjoy it, it’s a learning curve, it’s a lot. But, being on TV for as long as I have and being able to multitask on live television with 15 things happening at once that you have to be aware of, I feel that it’s helped me behind the scenes.”

“Being able to adapt quickly and the best thing is I know what a lot of young talent are going through. So when they cease up or they panic or they have a great match and that excitement, I know all of those feelings so I’m able to kind of — when things go well, I’m able to kind of, ‘Hey man, yeah, enjoy this.”

“Remember what this feels like, you know what I mean? Because there’s gonna be down-points and just remember, keep your eye on the prize’ and then when things don’t go well or when things are really hard or they’re in a tough spot mentally, I’m able to really understand.”

“Because I’ve had a lot of down-points too, if we’re looking at in a totality type way. But I’m able to understand and put myself in those shoes and I’m able to kind of guide in the right way.”

Shawn Spears is currently involved in a storyline with Brooks Jensen on WWE NXT TV.

The NXT brand is about to make the move to The CW Network with next Tuesday’s October 1 episode.

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