Kit Wilson Reveals Original Idea Behind His New WWE Character

Kit Wilson has a new character on WWE TV as he battles toxic masculinity, and he recently revealed the original idea behind the character. Wilson is currently going it solo with Elton Prince out due to injury, and he spoke about the inspiration for his character on Insight With Chris Van Vliet.

Wilson noted that he pitched five ideas for his singles character and the toxic masculinity one won out. You can see highlights below:

On the Character Coming From Early Pretty Deadly Ideas:

“So I guess with all of this, you have your character, and then often there’s only so much of the character that you see on screen. Then as certain people, and especially me and Elton and Pretty Deadly, we have so much of the character behind the scenes that never actually comes to the forefront, but we’ve got it in, and a whole big section of the Pretty Deadly character was toxic masculinity. I’m sure there’s tons of early promos, even on the independents, even maybe in stuff that we sent over to the company, maybe when we were trying to practice for promos that had stuff based on toxic masculinity. It just didn’t end up being the main thing we focused on. So it’s always been there, it’s always been a part of how we saw the characters and if everything was needed, then we would explain that, and we would bring up to the forefront.”

On Pitching the Idea:

So then, when it came to me being on my own, I was pitching ideas. I had five big pitches I went for, and then the one that turned out to be the toxic masculinity one, I think the word document was labeled Limited Edition Kit Wilson, because again, actually shout out to [my cat] Luna. We call Luna Limited Edition, because she’s got no tail. Can you see how I’ve loosened up and got more excited when we talked about the cat? Maybe part two is cat-exclusive.”