Tyler Breeze On Origins Of Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger NXT Match

Former WWE star Tyler Breeze has revealed when he found out he was going to face Jushin “Thunder” Liger at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015.

Ahead of the first Brooklyn-based NXT TakeOver, it was announced that Tyler Breeze would be going one-on-one with the Japanese legend at the event.

Speaking on the Straight Shooting podcast, Breeze revealed that NXT management didn’t give him much notice before he filmed the segment where his opponent was revealed.

Noting that Finn Balor gave him a heads-up about his NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn match, Breeze said:

“Liger is very different. I was kind of running out of people to work and I went, ‘Who am I working on the next TakeOver?’ Nobody would tell. Finn actually came up and was like, ‘Hey man, you’re working Liger.’ I was like, ‘What? He doesn’t even work for the company. How do you know? Are you kidding?’ He goes, ‘No, Liger trained me and they had me reach out to Liger to see if he would be interested in coming over.’ I went, ‘Oh my God, really? He’s doing it?’

“I knew before anybody else, but they didn’t tell me until like the day of the show. They were like, ‘You’re gonna have a quick enhancement match then Regal is gonna announce who you’re against, we’ll put a graphic on the screen, and it’ll be Liger. I went, ‘Cool.’ It was very last minute. Literally, day of the announcement (is when I found out)”

“I never met him until Brooklyn when I met him in catering. I saw some guy who is not normally there and I went, ‘Hey man. is it me and you tonight?’ He goes, ‘Yes, yes, yes. Please, put the whole match together, I don’t know this style.’ I put the whole match together, I think we ran over the whole thing and that was a tilt-a-whirl. He was awesome. He’s the chillest guy ever.”

Liger officially retired from wrestling last year, wrestling his final two matches over the two nights of Wrestle Kingdom 14.

Breeze was released by WWE on June 25, along with a number of other NXT talents.

Quote via Fightful. 

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