NXT Superstar Keith Lee Talks Being Rejected Three Times By WWE, Current NJPW Star Got His Foot In The Door

WWE almost forgot about Keith!

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Jan 21, 2020

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Keith Lee is one of the biggest stars in NXT.

The 2019 Breakout Star of the Year award winner appeared on a recent edition of

WWE's After The Bell podcast

and told host Corey Graves about how a current NJPW star got his foot in the door back in 2008: “About three years in

(...to his career)

, some people know him as Lance Archer, some people know him as Lance Hoyt, was in the WWE and said to somebody that I should be one to look out for.

"Then, I got invited to do some work. In my case, I got thrown into a barricade by one Mr Triple H and also got poked in the eye by Shane McMahon and punched in the face by Vince. That was my introduction to the bosses of today.

“At some point, I gained interest in that first meeting and ended up with my first tryout. That was in 2008 - I was turned down. In 2011, I did some extra work, and I got asked to come back for another tryout - I was also turned down.

"I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do-wrestling wise going forward. In 2013, when the Performance Center first opened up in the fall, I was part of that first class. Then, I was turned down a third time, so, I wasn’t really sure if I was going to continue wrestling.”

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