Cedric Alexander talks about his relationship with Triple H and Paul Heyman.
When Cedric Alexander competed in the Cruiserweight Classic Tournament in 2016, the crowd at the WWE Performance Center expressed an overwhelming desire for him to be signed, so much so that Triple H came out to acknowledge the audience's pleas and congratulate Cedric.
Now, Cedric Alexander is talking about his relationship with Triple H during an interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight. Alexander says that he never fully felt like a Triple H guy. He gives the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion credit for taking care of him during the days of 205 Live, but he admits that he's more of a Paul Heyman guy.
"Honestly, it didn't go past that, funny enough. You would think from that moment I'd be a Triple H guy. So there was a point where we were in 205 Live that he kind of had some say in there a little bit, and kind of took care of me. But I was never really a fully Triple H guy. I was more of a Paul Heyman guy. When he was writing Raw, and they drafted me out of 205 Live into Raw, I was more of a Heyman guy than anything else. Heyman give me a bunch of little sidebar conversations this, that and the other way more than Triple H did."
Asked about what he's learned from Heyman, Alexander says the former ECW mastermind taught him the value of patience.
"Patience, for better or worse, patience. I remember there was one point I went to Heyman and I was just like, I was probably on Raw for like a year, but they haven't really done anything with me. And I was like, Hey, Paul, What do you need for me in order to get to that next level? I think this is maybe right after we did the whole thing with AJ and the squash match we did on Night of Champions in Charlotte. He was just telling me just wait. We'll take care of you. If you gotta wait six months, wait six months. If you gotta wait a year. Wait a year. And I swear I'm going, I will be the best soldier I can be and just wait it out. And every time they called me for something, whether it was the Gary Garbutt thing or any other random thing they asked for. I was, hey, I'm here. What do you want me to do?"
Elsewhere in this interview, Alexander spoke about his desire to join MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Shelton Benjamin in AEW. Read more here.
Check out the full interview embedded below.
