Pretty Deadly express their excitement about their arrival on WWE SmackDown.
Kit Wilson and Elton Prince, collectively known as Pretty Deadly, had a successful run in NXT, as they held the NXT Tag Team Championship and the NXT UK Tag Team Championship at different points. On the "NXT Spring Breakin'" special episode on April 25, they lost to Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo in a Trunk Match. Later in the show, D'Angelo and Lorenzo seemingly got rid of them by driving them out to the water, and "The Don of NXT" claimed that they were swimming with the fishes. Wilson and Prince were later selected by SmackDown during the WWE Draft.
Speaking on WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves, Wilson and Prince shared their reaction to getting drafted. Wilson stated that they had been working towards joining the main roster for a while, so they were quite excited.
"When I heard the call, there was two words going on on my brain, and that was, ‘Yes, boy.’ I was pumped. We’d been working towards this for a while. Big Road Dogg himself said our names, and a beautiful day. I can’t complain," Prince said.
Prince then described how their NXT run ended with an "attempted murder", but luckily he and Wilson are the best swimmers in the world. He stated that they felt like they had a good chance of getting drafted, but they didn't know they'd be moving up to SmackDown until Road Dogg announced the move during the WWE Draft.
“Obviously nobody knew, but for those watching the NXT product, there was an attempted murder against us the week before. Up until the draft, no one actually knew that luckily me and Kit are the best swimmers in the world. We actually grew up giving Michael Phelps someone to race with while he was training. That’s just sort of something that we haven’t really bragged about before. But we managed to make it out alive. We felt like we had a pretty good chance of being drafted because our presence on NXT, hence the attempted murder, but we didn’t know when Road Dogg said my name. We always talk about how we heard Elton, and that was it. We were up and excited, and everyone in the room was cheering and clapping. It wasn’t until we sat down that we were like, ‘Wait, where are we? What brand are we going to?’ Our minds didn’t even hear that part. It was just ‘Elton’ and we were just excited," Prince said.
Pretty Deadly will make their in-ring SmackDown debut on the May 19 episode of WWE SmackDown, where they will face Ridge Holland and Butch of the Brawling Brutes.
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