Xavier Woods recently appeared as a guest on the Celebrity Jobber podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, The New Day member in WWE spoke about how AJ Styles is responsible for him getting his first contract with IMPACT Wrestling.
“I was in college, I was a senior, and my goal was to try to get a contract with a major wrestling organization before I graduated,” Woods began, when telling the story of how Styles helped him land an IMPACT Wrestling contract. “I ended up getting a shot on a big show because a guy by the name of AJ Styles vouched for me. He vouched for me, and I was in this match, sight unseen, and they let me wrestle on TV on the largest show of the year for them and I was in the first match against AJ and his tag team partner, and I was teaming with R-Truth. After that, I got a contract, and I hit my goal. I was a contracted TV wrestler before I graduated college because AJ took a chance on me.”
Woods continued, “One of my good friends, Sal Rinauro, he hit me up and said, ‘AJ has been in a tag team for a minute, he wants to go back to singles and get in ring shape for that. Do you want to come train with us?’ It was about two hours from where I was. I asked my boss, I worked in a daycare at the time, she knew how much I wanted to be a wrestler. She gave me the week off work, and I went up there every day and we worked out for four or five hours each day. After that, he called me up and said, ‘Are you busy this weekend?’ ‘No.’ He got me on the show and we went from there. It’s nothing but love to AJ.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
