“There was one promo in particular. Recently, I actually just saw Shelton Benjamin tweet that if he could take back one thing in his career, it was a promo with Yoshi Tatsu. Same thing, kind of like a racial promo. So that day, I had the promo, I got the script from the writer ‘This is from Vince, he wants you to say this.’ I was like, Oh man, I don’t want to say [this], is there anything else we can do? He said, No, it’s come from Vince. So I even asked Vince, this is gonna get negative backlash. He said no, no, no, no, don’t worry. Who cares? It’s not you. It’s a character, just entertainment. So did the promo, was not happy with it and not proud of myself for doing it. I really wish that I could take that moment back but unfortunately, I can’t. And right when we came back and got a lot of negative backlash, like I remember coming back from Gorilla. I was still hanging out by Gorilla and one of the social media managers came up to me and said, Hey, this is getting a lot of bad PR and Vince wants you to tweet something, like a statement. I said, okay, cool. He came up with something, maybe the PR team wrote it, someone came up with a statement. And as we were about to tweet it, he said, Actually, Vince changed his mind he said No. So it was just one of those things where it is what it is, not proud of doing it. But on the plus side I don’t think something like that, a promo like that will ever happen again in WWE. Things changed, the regime changed, everything is much much different now. That was a different era, different time. Under Vince his style was different. Sometimes he was stuck in his ways.”
