Randy Orton Gives Advice To WWE NXT North American Champion Myles Borne, ‘This Is A Long Career, You’ve Gotta Protect Yourself’

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Randy Orton Gives Advice To WWE NXT North American Champion Myles Borne, ‘This Is A Long Career, You’ve Gotta Protect Yourself’

WWE NXT North American Champion Myles Borne has commented on the advice he’s received from Randy Orton and how he’s used it in his career.

Borne has drawn comparisons to Orton since the day he signed with WWE in 2022, first due to his appearance, but also due to the way he moves in the ring and even using some of Orton’s signature moves.

Speaking on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, Borne opened up about learning from Orton but also how he’s trying to make sure he creates his own path as well.

He said:

“He’s told me many times – we have similar body styles. He’s much bigger obviously, but our shape and everything, the way he moves, I felt that was natural for me so I started watching the way he would wrestle and the moves he would do.

“And he would tell me… because I had back surgery before I got here, so learning from him, I started soaking in everything he was telling me. ‘This is a long career, you’ve gotta protect yourself,’ and the way that he wrestled to have that long of a dominating career, I was like, ‘Okay, I wanna follow that blueprint.’

“So I started picking some things here and there to try to advance my career very fast. But now I’m trying to create my own path, so slowly but surely, I’m figuring out who I am.

“But yeah, Randy was kinda the foundational block that I stuck onto to at least help me get through that door and navigate in the ring for the first few years.”

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Myles Borne One Of Many New WWE NXT Main Eventers

With all the recent WWE main roster call-ups for NXT talent, Myles Borne is a name that will likely step up to the true main event scene sooner than later.

It’s clear that has long been the plan, and Borne has excelled every step of the way as far as not just his matches but also getting the fans behind him, especially after he had the first chance to open up about his life story.

Borne is probably quite high on the list of names set to be called up to the WWE main roster, whether that be around this time next year or potentially even sooner than that.