Tyler Rust Reveals What Vince McMahon’s Scouting Trips Were Like At WWE Performance Center

In a recent interview on The Wrestling Inc. Daily, Tyler Rust, who was released by WWE on August 6, discussed the backstage atmosphere during the recent WWE releases, Vince McMahon’s scouting trips, and much more. Here are some of the highlights:

Tyler Rust on the backstage atmosphere in NXT during the recent WWE releases: “I don’t want to speak for how it is now. I talk to people that are still there. They told me their feelings and their thoughts. It’s their perspective of everything. But even before, once the clean up round started happening, it was very odd because usually WWE, they do their firings like spring cleaning as everybody calls it, but they’ve done a few of those rounds since then, and it was just odd that they were releasing more and more. And we kept hearing random reasons as to why. You figure as long as you’re part of the product in some useful way, as long as you’re being used in the storyline, you’re good, but when I saw Aleister Black and when I saw Buddy Murphy get released, I was like, man, nobody’s good. These guys were solid players, had a lot to offer here. I think everybody just kind of embraced that it is what it is. One day we’re all gonna have our time and when that comes, it comes.”

On Vince McMahon’s scouting trips to the WWE Performance Center: “I think most of us were there. It happened a few times actually. He didn’t really come in and look too long. I want to say he was only there for 10 minutes. There were a lot of people that work with him. They were hands-on. They were more there with little binders, looking at everybody. I wouldn’t say that his team is there regularly. There were two times, I think, he came by. His team was kind of there all day, but I didn’t really see him honestly more than 10 minutes.”

On whether it was more stressful when Vince was at the PC: “No, I embrace it. This is what we’re here for. We’re here to perform. We’re here to show how good we can be. I want every opportunity to do that. If you want to have the big guy come down and watch us train, I embrace that side. It’s how you’re going to get ahead. This is how you’re going to prove you are worth something. All these years of experience, I’ve harnessed into myself. If I’m nervous about showcasing it, I’m doing a pretty bad job.”