Carmelo Hayes is ready to continue progressing on the main roster.
Since coming to SmackDown earlier this year, Carmelo Hayes has found some success, picking up wins over the likes of Andrade and Baron Corbin. On the other hand, Hayes has come up short against some top tier opponents like Cody Rhodes, LA Knight, and Randy Orton.
Even with the losses and the criticism, Hayes is still holding his head high.
"It's definitely been a learning experience. I've been talking about the fact of making that transition, especially coming in as a first round draft pick, where all eyes are on you. You know what I mean? There's really the most criticism I've ever faced in my whole career." Hayes said while speaking to Denise Salcedo just days before Bash In Berlin. "But that's OK, because at this time, that's what you get when you get that first round draft pick label. If you want to be him, you open up yourself to that type of criticism. But really, it's just of like that up in my game to that next level, because there's so many guys up there. that I've got to work with Cody and Randy and things like that that have taught me that there are so many different levels to this game and there's levels that I would have never knew if I wasn't in the ring with those guys. So it's been an amazing process and I'm just getting started really and I'm looking forward to see what's next."
Elsewhere in the interview, Hayes stated that he plans on getting some from John Cena during his retirement tour. Learn more by clicking here.
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