Tyson Kidd Talks “Brass Ring” Comments, Team with Cesaro, and More

WWE Superstar Tyson Kidd was recently interviewed by Slam! Sports to promote WWE’s upcoming live event in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Feb. 1, 2015. Kidd, a native Calgarian, spoke on a number of WWE topics during his time with Jason Clevett of the website.

Kidd spoke on his time in NXT, in addition to the plethora of young talent WWE has in waiting there:

“The main thing is that everything is taped at Full Sail. It is kind of like competing on home turf every time in terms of the tapings and specials. The main roster travels, I am in Hartford for live Smackdown, then head to Edmonton and Calgary and Denver. It is travel travel travel. NXT is more stationary. Having a chance to work with Dusty Rhodes, he has helped me so much that I can’t even praise how much. The first time I saw him on WWE television in polka dots I never would have thought that guy would be such an influence on my career.”

“Those guys are unbelievably talented. We really can take nothing away. Just look at my match that aired this week on the WWE Network with Adrian Neville. The guy is phenomenal. It is really cool that they are being bred down there. Add in a guy like Tyler Breeze doesn’t have the publicity, background, or buzz, but is a sleeper — he is the one to keep your eye on.”

The former WWE Tag Team Champion spoke about his relatively new tag team with Cesaro, which has started to pick up some momentum:

“Two guys who are insanely talented, extremely shredded and a lot frustrated come together and decide to make a name for ourselves and show why we are who we are. Cesaro’s story is unbelievable; he won a green card lottery in Switzerland and now here he is. The man is a freak. He can clean and jerk 135 pounds with one arm. He is a freak in every sense of the word. Throw in the best guy pound for pound in the business as his tag team partner and I think our upside is limitless.”

Kidd’s partner, Cesaro, debuted a new “Brass Ring Club” t-shirt at the 2015 “Royal Rumble” pay-per-view, leading to Kidd being asked about Vince McMahon’s “brass ring” comments:

“I think it fired a lot of the talent up. We have a super talented locker room, for any that maybe were coasting it lit a fire under them and for the rest of us ensured we just keep pushing. Every day here is different. One day I was in Phoenix at Axxess wrestling Cryme Tyme in the worst match we ever had with them, which is saying a lot, 48 hours later I am clotheslining Mr. McMahon in front of 58,000 people at Wrestlemania. Things can change here quickly.”

Be sure to check out the entire interview in full, here.