The Mighty Don’t Kneel: “We Want to Make Tag Team Wrestling What It Should Be”

The Mighty Don’t Kneel is going to be a massive tag team for NXT and most likely WWE. Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste are the original members of the Australian tag team, and they’ve recently signed with the company after a tryout. 

To give them some exposure, WWE.com did an exclusive interview with their new tag team as they enter the company’s developmental system. Simply put, they’re impressive.

You can read the full interview right here. Below are some of the highlights:

What goals have you set for yourselves at the WWE Performance Center?

“NICHOLLS: Obviously, the end goal is the NXT Tag Team Titles. For now, that’s the be-all and end-all of why we’re here. But the best part of that is the process to get there involves such great coaching staff, and the Performance Center equipment and the whole atmosphere around you. I’m looking forward to and making the most of what we’ve got here.

VERYZER: Everywhere we’ve gone, we’ve started at the bottom. We started in Australia at the bottom, started in Japan at the bottom and we’re coming here as fresh faces. We know what we’ve done before here does matter, but in another sense, it doesn’t. So, we have to start at the bottom and work our way up. Like Mikey said, the tag titles are our goal, but our ultimate goal is to main event a TakeOver for the NXT Tag Team Titles. We want to be in the first tag title main event, and if we’ve got to take a while to get there, then so be it. We want to bring tag team wrestling up and make it what it should be.”

For fans that have never seen you, what can they expect?

“NICHOLLS: We’re a little bit old school, a little bit new school. We’re serious, we’re dumb [laughs]. Me and Shane bring out the best in each other, but we also tend to bring out the worst in each other.

VERYZER: We’re not a tag team that’s buddy-buddy all the time. You know a lot of tag teams are like brothers. We’re even more like brothers in the way that we fight a lot. We’re not always on the same page, but we understand where we want to go.”

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