Ilja Dragunov on How Special It Was to Share the Ring With Cody Rhodes

– During a recent interview with Nick Hausman for Haus of Wrestling, WWE NXT Champion Ilja Dragunov discussed getting to share the ring with WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes on NXT TV. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Ilja Dragunov on sharing the ring with Cody Rhodes being a special moment: “It was very interesting and absolutely a very special moment not only for me, but also for the audience in the arena and probably for the people watching on TV because it is as I said in the promo — meeting a person in the ring who stands, in a different way, for the exact same things that you stand for, that is something that very rarely happens.”

On what Rhodes brings to the table: “Look at Cody Rhodes, he brings an energy, a fire, a passion to the ring in front of those arenas, in front of those people that not a lot of other people can do. I do that too for NXT. People feel what I do, the passion, the fire I bring. This is something very similar and I mean, this moment standing me and Cody Rhodes together in one ring, I was scared that there was going to be an energy overload.”