Prime Time Players Explain That They Have No Clue As To Why WWE Broke Them Up

Former WWE Tag Team Champions The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O’Neil) appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Talk Is Jericho recently to discuss how they became a tag team, WWE breaking them up as a tag team, and more. Here are the highlights.

On how they became a tag team:

“The backstage [segments] that me and [Young] had and the chemistry we have both inside and outside of the ring was kind of a natural fit and they gave us an opportunity to kind of go out and be ourselves in the backstage segments and that did well on the NXT and they said, ‘hey, lets give them an opportunity on Smackdown and see what happens.”

On WWE breaking them up as a tag team:

“There was no story behind it, like, he’s trying to get a singles push or he’s trying to [upstage] me, or vice versa. There was just nothing to it. He just turned on me. I mean, if there’s a story behind it, that’s great, but it was just, like, out of nowhere.”

On their run as single stars:

“It was a very frustrating time just because you pitch ideas and, like [Jericho] said, it’s a business of you get told one thing and then something else happens and this and that. You never really know what the truth is,” O’Neil stated, “and I definitely missed [Young].”

On what made WWE reunite the two stars:

“We just get a blanket text saying, ‘hey, bring your Prime Time Players gear’ and I texted [Young] and ask him if he knew what was going on and he told me ‘no’ and then we got to TV that Monday and I came in and saved him and then the next day on Smackdown he came in and did the save for me.”

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