Carmelo Hayes Says Not Getting Drafted to Main WWE Roster Didn’t Bother Him

– During a recent interview on Cheap Heat with Peter Rosenberg, WWE NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes spoke about not being drafted to the main roster during this year’s WWE Draft. He stated the following (via WrestlingInc.com):

“It didn’t bother me one way or another. Obviously, we all want to go, we all want to move up and be able to experience main roster and that grind and everything, but I had just been focused on everything I was doing now … My time is my time, and when my time comes, that’s when I’ll go. I’m trying to do the best I can possibly do down here in NXT before I leave, leave a legacy, have a couple of banger title defenses, and just go out on top. It would have been too early for me to get pulled up at that point, I think.”

Carmelo Hayes retained his title last Sunday at NXT Battleground. He defeated former champion Bron Breakker in the main event.