Bryan Keith Says WWE Wasn’t Interested In Him, Says He Was a ‘WWF Kid’

In an interview with Talk is Jericho (via Fightful), Bryan Keith revealed that he watched the WWE a lot growing up but they never showed interest in hiring him. Prior to that, he wrestled for Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling. Keith is currently signed to AEW.

When asked if WWE had interest, he said: “No, nothing. I’ve been at Booker’s for a long time. I did extra work and things like that, but nothing like, ‘Hey, come in and we’ll take a look at you and things like that.’ I watched WWE all the time as a kid. I’m a WWF kid, I never even watched WCW growing up. But I feel like whenever I got older, I gravitated towards the Japanese style of professional wrestling, so in my head, I literally wanted to go to Japan. WWE or TNA and all these other places, it wasn’t the goal. I’d work for them. At the time, if they were giving it, I was gonna see what’s up. But in my head, I was like, ‘Japan, japan, Japan.’ I remember my parents being like, ‘How? How the hell do you think you’re gonna get on the other side of the world and do that?’ Actually, at the beginning of this year, I went for the first time for two weeks. DDT brought me out, and I wrestled out there.“