Damian Priest revealed that Triple H gave him the same advice The Undertaker once shared with him.
In an interview with WFAN, Damian Priest was asked about his journey and how he fully stepped into his identity as a WWE Superstar. He explained that, early on, he tried to be what he thought WWE wanted rather than being himself. Triple H approached him and told him that the moment he stopped pretending and truly embraced who he was.
“It was what I thought they wanted me to be. I remember my boss, Triple H, came up to me one day. He was like, ‘The day you stop trying to pretend to be you and you’re just you, you’re gonna make a lot of money in this business.’ He goes, ‘Undertaker told me the same advice. I know it’s weird, right? Because how’s somebody telling you how to be yourself, that you’re not being yourself? You know you, but one day, it’ll click.’ Sure enough, one day, it just did. I remember I was in a match in NXT with Finn Balor, and that was the first time that I felt that it clicked. Then, I got called up to the main roster.”
While Damian Priest talked about turning point came during a match with Finn Balor in WWE NXT, where he felt everything finally clicked. However, after being called up to the main roster, he found himself slipping back into old habits of being someone else.
Damian Priest says Triple H & The Judgment Day helped him find confidence again
Damian Priest mentioned that Triple H called him out again, telling him to let go, loosen up, and stop holding back.
“Somehow I ended up going down that road again of trying to be what everybody wanted me to be. Same thing again. Triple H just being like, ‘You’re like, tense. You’re holding back. Just let loose. Who cares?’ He goes, ‘I’d rather tell when you get back to the curtain, ‘Hey, relax, don’t do that, or you’re going too far.’ Then tell you, ‘Hey, man, I need more from you. The moment he said that, it was another one of those things of, ‘Okay.’”
Priest also credited his former faction members of The Judgment Day for helping boost his confidence. “Obviously, it helps when you have your friends around you. Being in the Judgment Day, helped my confidence a lot. Just having them in the ring with me, whether I was talking or just in a match, I just fed off of them, and then it was just this calm and smoothness that I just started to feel, and that was a game changer.” [H/T: Fightful]
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