John Skyler Discusses Working With No Way Jose on Raw, His Thoughts on the Backstage Atmosphere After WrestleMania, and His Previous WWE Work

– Sportskeeda and Riju Dasgupta recently interviewed indie wrestler John Skyler, who discussed his match on Raw after WrestleMania against No Way Jose. Below are some highlights from the interview.

Skyler on his post-WrestleMania Raw appearance: “So, I’ve done a lot of work, part-time, for WWE now as an extra. They contacted me about a month out of WrestleMania week and I was backstage for all the festivities at the Hall of Fame, TakeOver, RAW and SmackDown and I really didn’t find out until the day of, when I walked into the building on Monday.”

John Skyler on his other WWE matches in the past such as Ryback: :Yeah, that match with Ryback was the first time I was in WWE (as Tony Andriotis). I got thrown out there from the get-go, which was a good experience. But, I’ve done enhancement work where I’ve wrestled the likes of Ryback, American Alpha, The Revival, Primo and Epico on Monday Night RAW and had dark matches against Kane.”

“All sorts of interesting stuff like that. And other things too. I got a role one time as a druid for Undertaker and Kane. It was cool to come out with The Undertaker and make the elaborate entrance like that. That’s when the kid in you really appreciates what you’re doing. That’s somewhere I never thought I’d find myself when I was in wrestling school. So, very cool moment. And it’s often not limited to TV stuff. They used my tag team partner and I, Corey Hollis for several of the NXT Live Events. When they first started taking NXT on the road. Me and Corey did a lot of those NXT Live Events. We also did matches at WrestleMania Axxess, All sorts of interesting stuff.”

John Skyler and his thoughts on No Way Jose and following his work: “Oh, yeah. No Way Jose broke in through North Carolina. I’m from South Carolina and I do a lot of work in the independents in North Carolina so it was very cool to step into the ring with No Way Jose on a worldwide stage.”

John Skyler’s thoughts on the Raw atmosphere after WrestleMania: “Oh, the atmosphere was insane. Because you know it’s going to be the most watched RAW of the year. It’s not just people from New Orleans converging to go to Monday Night RAW. It’s fans from all over the world coming to be a part of this exciting night. It was almost like there was more added pressure to everything that day, when you take that into consideration. You are going to be part of the most watched RAW of the year. So, it was interesting to see some of the faces popping up throughout the day. So, Bobby Lashley, Jeff Hardy…people like that making their return.”