In a recent interview with Busted Open Radio, Trevor Lee (aka former WWE superstar Cameron Grimes) opened up on being informed of his WWE release.
“The last time I was at TV, I had a pretty high executive tell me, because you know, I was worried, starting this stock market gimmick, it made me see the businesses in a different light, you know what I mean, following these companies and playing with stocks, I would see things in a different light, so I knew that if someone was to look at the books, I’m going to be the first person that’s going to be cut.
If you’re looking at it strictly as money-wise, but if you’re looking at it as like, okay well if this is a talent that can do something for us, you know what I mean, they’re going to keep me. I was told by a high executive last week, on Friday, that I would always have a job here, I would never have to worry about losing my job here, after expressing my concerns like that to him, and then five days later, they called me and told that I do lose the job, so I don’t know.
I was just always told that they just didn’t really have an idea for me at the moment, I pitched a bunch of different ideas, I pitched a bunch of different character ideas, because I had a feeling that the money thing just wasn’t going to work up there, they had already kind of tried it with Baron Corbin before I had got up there with the JBL thing.
I feel like that was very much because of the success that I had with the character of Cameron Grimes in NXT, I think that’s why they kind of went with that storyline.
Over the past few months, I had been going to writers and stuff and saying like hey, I just want to work, at the end of the day, I just want to work, and I would hear that that would make me king of sound bitter.
I don’t understand that process, I don’t understand how I came off as being kind of bitter, I guess every week, when you’re asking to work, I guess it starts to start annoying people, you know. I mean, I guess I could see that.”
The full interview is available at this link.
