Low Ki comments on ideas he pitched during his time in WWE.
Low Ki was briefly known as Kaval in WWE in 2010 and while he did challenge Dolph Ziggler for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at the WWE Survivor Series that year, not much is remembered from his time with the company.
Low Ki, however, did his best to maximize his time with the company. During an appearance on Thats Wrestling!, Ki recalled pitching ideas that would have seen him portray an evil Rey Mysterio clone and work an extensive program with the WWE Hall of Famer.
"I tried to maximize every opportunity I had in WWE, every match after I won NXT. I always came back with a script of where to go next, and I incorporated everything that they had tried to throw at me. They had me losing all of my matches. They had me in throwaway matches that had no advancement potential. They were just bare matches, so I was still having decent matches with everybody, but I wasn't excelling. So every match that I had on SmackDown, I wrote into a script and documented everything in order to use everything that they threw at me to develop into me going into the Survivor Series," he said. "Then from the Survivor Series leading into WrestleMania, where I would end up getting Rey Mysterio fired and end up becoming a bad Rey Mysterio clone. It would have led to Rey Mysterio vs. Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania, mask vs. mask, because I can match him in almost everything that he does physically. So I actually came back with better ideas than the own writing team."
"Rey actually hooked up a conference call between he and I and Michael Hayes. I made the pitch with all the information that incorporated everyone from John Morrison to [Alberto] Del Rio to the dramatic effect of why I aligned with Del Rio to take Rey out and get him fired, which ultimately led to the exposure of why all of this has happened. Michael Hayes said, 'Wow, that was really well thought out. Thank you for doing that.'"
The former TNA X-Division Champion went on to say that he believes the angle could have gotten him to become Low Ki on WWE television instead of "Kaval" and that it could have added another year on to his rivalry with Mysterio after the mask was off.
"We had a money match potential of Rey vs. Rey. You just you take the mask off of me at WrestleMania, and now who do you have? It's either Kaval or Low Ki. Low Ki would have fit better as far as, 'Holy shit, that's him.' We would have had mileage with Low Ki, as a heel, versus Rey Mysterio as a babyface, and run that bitch for another year."
Low Ki would also claim that the storyline idea would be given to CM Punk and Big Show. However, the storyline where CM Punk put on his mask to hide his shaved head was already underway while Low Ki was still in NXT. WWE would, however, utilize an evil doppelganger gimmick for Sin Cara in the spring of 2011.
Learn more about Low Ki's time in NXT and what he thought about working with Michelle McCool and Layla here.
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