Lexis King Thinks Career Has Done A 180 Since AEW Exit

Since leaving All Elite Wrestling Lexis King hasn’t looked back, with the NXT star believing his career has done a ‘180’ since joining WWE.

The former Brian Pillman Jr. appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, describing how he feels now he is King:

“I mean, it wasn’t so much of a decision as it was just a necessary transition. I think my time came up at AEW and it was a great, great run, a great deal financially, I did very well there. But like I said, just sort of that self-doubt of not knowing the future, not knowing if I’m gonna be used or if I’m gonna do anything. Well it was pretty apparent when they didn’t re-sign me that I wasn’t going to be doing anything there anymore so, God bless agents and attorneys. They picked up the phone the day my contract was up and got the conversation started. I think I got a paycheque from both companies in the same month. That’s how quickly the ball got rolling. Because you’re so worried. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, are they gonna pick me up right away? Am I gonna be able to go there?’ But, the ball got rolling and the King was crowned pretty quickly,” said King.

Whilst King’s run in AEW as part of the Varsity Blonds started well the team eventually cooled off, but King still gave thanks to AEW for his run there despite feeling he’s on better footing in NXT:

“I’m just sitting in it (on the throne for his NXT entrance) and I’m backstage and I’m thinking is this real?… This isn’t a knock on anybody but I spent so many months of my career at the previous company just second-guessing myself, ‘Am I really any good? Am I worth it?’ A lot of self-doubt. And just to see how my career has done a total 180 since then, you know? I went from just sitting in the back and filming a few dark matches in Orlando here and there, six-minute tag matches, barely getting in the ring and feeling the canvas to now I’m sitting on a throne and I’m making my entrance in the biggest wrestling company in the world and they have this confidence in me and it kind of fuels me. I now have confidence in myself. Hell, they gave me the name ‘King’. It doesn’t get any better than that. So, just to feel that 180 and to go out there and perform with a certain level of grit and attitude. I’m gonna prove everyone wrong that didn’t believe in me. It’s a dream come true.

“Absolutely, absolutely (I would not be where I am without AEW). Like I said, there’s no ill will but it’s sort of just that mindset. I put myself in that mindset. Nobody else put me in that. It’s just I put myself in that mindset of like, what’s going on here? Sort of that self-doubt, and then I kept grinding. Like I said, I moved back home, I kept grinding, going to the local school, trying to find out what makes me tick as a performer, and just the experience living there, the experience I gained traveling with AEW made me the performer I am today,” said King.

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