Former Reality TV Star Explains Why WWE Deal Fell Through

Former Reality TV Star Explains Why WWE Deal Fell Through

UK independent talent and former reality TV star Adam Maxted has opened up about the reason why he was denied a WWE contract.

Earlier this year, it was reported that WWE was interested in signing Adam Maxted to the NXT UK brand. It was later revealed that Maxted hadn’t been backstage at any tapings, despite NXT UK being his rumored future home.

Speaking on Bodyslam’s Tea and Tights podcast, Maxted claimed that some within NXT, including William Regal, did indeed want to offer him a deal.

Explaining how past work as a Buff Butler hurt his chances with WWE, Maxted said:

“So, here’s where the story takes its turn. So basically, and this is the truth, when I was younger I, when I worked in Belfast, I used to do do some work as a Buff Butler. Which involved wearing a bowtie and an apron and I’m mainly working at hen parties or you know women’s events I’m walking round with Champagne, passing their drinks, nothing crazy, and I did that because it was easy money, I was in good shape at the time, I was like 17, 18, 19, you know just trying to earn some money.

“So I did that, but funnily at the time I did my try out in 2017 a couple of news article came out “Belfast stripper gets WWE try out” or “Belfast stripper is close to signing with WWE” so, I didn’t think anything of those articles because I was like well no one is gonna even see those so doesn’t even matter, I knew it wasn’t true anyway, I never got fully naked, you can google my name there’s nothing like that out there, you know what I mean because I checked all this and didn’t do it any way there might be the odd picture of me in an apron?

“So basically background check gets done I was in Greece at the time I get the phone call from a lady that works for the WWE, she says ‘look Adam what’s this stripper thing about we need to talk about this’”

“I pleaded my case for about 30 minutes on the phone, I didn’t do it, WWE was always the goal for me why would I want to jeopardise myself and my career by doing something silly like that when I know you can’t be naked there can’t be footage of you out there do you know what I mean I am not silly. Even when I went on love island, I portrayed myself in a certain way as I was always worried about the cameras, how I was coming across, because WWE was always the goal.

The producers took me outside one day, and told me like, you’ve never sworn once on your season of love island, you’ve never said a bad word. Because I was always thinking don’t say anything silly because you know with WWE it can always come back to haunt you.

“I guess this happened at a very similar time that the speaking out movement came out, so one of the emails I got was basically, you don’t want the scrutiny of “’why have you released some super stars from the brand, but all of a sudden you’re signing a, a stripper?’ which really got to me and really annoyed me because I know that that’s not the work that I did and it wasn’t true, yeah I did some ‘Buff Butler’ing’ but there was nothing ever flashing or nothing ever involved, because I wouldn’t have done that anyway, my Mum wouldn’t have let me, let me do that stuff! Do you know what I mean?, she’d have went through me if she thought I was like, to Tom Jones, swinging it around.”

Maxted notably was a contestant on the second season of UK reality show Love Island in 2016.

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