Brian Myers Recalls His Epic Losing Streak Angle in WWE, On If He Had a Vision for How He Wanted It To End

During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, TNA Wrestling star and TNA World Tag Team Champion Brian Myers discussed his iconic losing streak angle in WWE. After his return to WWE, Myers amassed a 269-match losing streak in the company.

Ultimately, Myers and Matt Cardona (formerly Zack Ryder) snapped the losing streak at WrestleMania 35 in 2019, when they beat The Revival (aka FTR) to win the Raw Tag Team Titles. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Brian Myers on the Point Where He Asked To Continue the Losing Streak

“I was gonna beat Heath Slater on Main Event because we were in Brooklyn, and Vince was just like, oh, it’s Hawkins’ hometown. Let’s give him one. Then the writer came from the meeting to tell me, I was like, No, that’s a terrible idea.”

On How Many Losses He Had at That Point

“It had to be 100-something at this point. Because when the article came out, I embraced it, and I was like, oh, that’s kind of cool. That’s like, see what comes to this. So I was beating Heath, no offense, it’s gonna be forgotten by tomorrow by everyone. I was like, let’s see where this goes. I’m sure a lot of people in WWE don’t politic to lose. But I was really trying.”

On if He Had a Vision for How the Streak Would End

“I tried to not even think about it, because I think it would drive me nuts. It was more productive to come into work and be like, what’s your finish? Great. I can’t wait to take it the best I can. That was instead of thinking, maybe I’m gonna roll Braun Strowman up today. I didn’t want to drive myself nuts doing that every day.”

On Breaking the Losing Streak With a WrestleMania Moment

“I mean, that was another thing, Matt and I were very spoiled that first one. We ran in the main event of WrestleMania 24 and attempted to attack the Undertaker. I think we were 22 years old, it’s a wild way to start, you know, and then you come down. The next year, Matt says it all the time. He’s like, just assuming we’ll probably have a three-way with Edge next year, and we’ll be like, who’s breaking up and stuff, and we were like, anonymous lumberjacks or something on a pre-show. So it didn’t really turn out like that.”