Mojo Rawley looks back on the combine at the WWE Performance Center.
The combine will come to wrestling at Black Label Pro on September 4 as BLP and DraftKings host the wrestler's combine in conjunction with Paragon Talent Agency.
The combine is nothing new in the world of sports as college athletes show off their talents in draft combines before going to the pros. WWE has adopted the combine at the WWE Performance Center, putting talent through drills to see who stands out.
Speaking to Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp, Mojo Rawley discussed the PC combine.
"That was Sean Hayes' baby. So Sean Hayes is one of my best friends. He was the strength coach at WWE for like 10 years, went on to the XFL afterwards, which is now the UFL. He's their head guy over there. But he came up with all those drills and all those tests back in the day. It was something that he had to put a lot of brain effort behind because he came from the NFL before that, you have to find a way to make these drills applicable for professional wrestling. But also do them in a way that wasn't going to risk injury when everybody's beaten the hell out of each other six, seven days a week. So it was tough," said Mojo.
When discussing who would stand out in the competition, Mojo named Mike Rallis (Madcap Moss AKA Riddick Moss), who played linebacker for the Minnesota Golden Gophers before moving to wrestling.
"For the guys, the only person I can actually talk about was Mike Rallis because at least the other three that are in the combine, none of them were there. But Mike Rallis was kind of where the buck stopped anyways. When he was there, when he was at the Performance Center, I mean, it was him. He had all of the records. When they would do these competitions back then, he smoked everybody at just about every single drill and when they did the final standings, he was like eight times the points of everybody else. It was crazy.
"So I mean, for me, it was always kind of one of those things where I was, I always felt like I was there almost at the wrong time. Because when I was there, I had all the numbers and then afterwards, you had Bron Breakker and he had all the numbers and there's been a handful of those guys over the years. Or it’s like, shoot if we all would have been there at the same time and able to compete together, who knows what the hell would happen? Then I mean now you got a guy like Eric Bugenhagen, who is just a total lunatic."
Rallis is set to be part of the BLP x DK Combine on September 4.
Elsewhere during the interview, Mojo commented on bringing the combine to BLP. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
Fightful will be on the scene for the combine on September 4.
Watch the full interview with Mojo in the video above.
