Carmelo Hayes comments on dealing with online critics.
Carmelo Hayes is a relative newcomer to the WWE main roster. Still, whether you are a veteran or just getting started, odds are you will face your fair share of criticism on one of the many platforms available on the internet. Criticism can be seen as a part of the job, especially in entertainment, but everyone has their own strategies to deal with the armchair quarterbacks.
Speaking with Denise Salcedo in Berlin prior to the WWE Bash in Berlin event, Carmelo Hayes spoke about how he deals with criticism on the internet. He said that he's receptive to all criticisms as he's always trying to improve himself no matter what. Still, he did take the opportunity to comment on the rush to assumptions that any talents who don't immediately skyrocket to the top can be saddled with the label of "jobber" by some critics.
"Sometimes it's hard to not see. We all face that where we all kind of like, you know, especially when you open the app and it's the first thing you see is criticism, which is okay. Fans are allowed to have their criticism and other things like that, especially in sports and entertainment. You open yourself up to that and it's okay. But at the end of the day, it's like you have to know who you are and what you stand for and what you do and what it took you to get to this level. There's so many things that, you know, people would never understand that happens behind the scenes and the hard work that we put in to get to this level. Also, how difficult it is to do what we do. I think it's easy to sit in armchair quarterback. We all do it to every sport, TV. We say, I would have did this different. I would have did that different. It should have been this. It should have been that. But until you're in that person's shoes, you'll never truly understand.
"I'm open to all the criticism and the critique. I don't really hear it because I force myself to get better anyway. These are all things that people will say that I've already told myself. You think I haven't struggled with doubt on my own self and things like that. But I just continue to be him and continue to progress, keep learning still so new in this main roster thing. People, if you're not champion or you're not beating everybody in the first two months, you're a failed, or you're a buried, or you're a jobber. That's a new thing, right? Everybody's a jobber. Everybody's buried. So we on a journey y'all. It's a marathon, not a sprint."
Carmelo also recently spoke about how he has taken inspiration from his matches with Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton to realize that there are still levels in this wrestling game for him to conquer. Read his comments here.
Carmelo Hayes will next wrestle Andrade on the September 13 episode of WWE SmackDown on USA. Learn more here.
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