Robert Stone stays ready.
Since arriving in WWE, Stone hasn't wrestled much at all and has instead been used on-screen as a manager, commentator, and assistant general manager. As a matter of fact, Stone has only wrestled in ten matches since signing with the company back in 2020.
While speaking with Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, Stone talked about his lack of in-ring action, saying that everything just came to a complete stop once he started with WWE.
"About almost 25 years and basically I was still doing it full time up until I started with WWE and then it just came to a complete stop. Because you could say over the past six years that I've been with WWE, maybe if you count live events and stuff, maybe I'd had like ten matches. But a lot of those are one minute fun matches or I'm not really getting in there and wrestling."
Stone went on to state that in-ring action comes naturally to him, saying that he doesn't need extra time to train or get ready when he is needed for a match.
"But when I do have something, a lot of people would maybe want to go that week to train in the ring or take some bumps or hit the ropes. I didn't want that at all. It's the kind of thing for me where it just comes so naturally. Like I could not wrestle probably for—right now I'm 41—I could probably not go in a ring ‘till I'm 51 and you tell me that morning I have a match and I can just go do it. I think some people are like that and some people are not. It's like riding a bike— you just get on it and go. I feel for the most part I don't really lose a step when I do get in there. I almost feel like if I over thought it or over prepared for when I had these returns, it would almost make it worse. I like just letting it happen. But I did have a competitive match last year with Lexus King, which was maybe seven or eight minutes and, again for my cardio, I work out in the gym five six days a week I stay in great shape. I'm always ready. You could call me and I'm there."
Elsewhere in the interview, Robert Stone talked about his role on the commentary team for WWE EVOLVE. Check out his full comments on the matter by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful's full interview with Robert Stone in the video linked at the top of this article.
