WWE Superstar Isaiah “Swerve” Scott appeared as a guest on a recent installment of the NotSam podcast hosted by WWE pre-show panelist and WWE Network host Sam Roberts for an in-depth interview.
During the discussion, Scott explained to Roberts why he ultimately decided to hold off on signing his first contract with World Wrestling Entertainment.
Featured below is an excerpt from the new Isaiah “Swerve” Scott interview on the NotSam podcast where he talks about this subject.
“Prior to coming to NXT in 2019, I was contacted from them around 2018? 2017? And I was still in the Lucha Underground phase of my career. And I still felt like I wasn’t finished with a lot of things I wanted to do, especially with Lucha Underground and especially on the independent scene. And around that time me and Aleister Black — especially on his career on NXT, he was taking off. He was an NXT Champion, he was doing big things with the company. He was my mentor. Him, Sami Callihan were like mentors to me. So I was like being mentored by Sami Callihan on the indies and Lucha when he got there, and then then, Aleister Black on the other side of the fence.
“So Sami kept telling me, ‘There’s more we can do, there’s more we can do.’ And the Aleister on the other hand was like, ‘I’d give it one more year. Give it one more year, go out there, do as much as you can. Be the man in a lot of places.’ And so that was the guidance for that 2018 year that I had with going in all these independents, winning all these championships, and traveling around. Like, having these top matches with some of the best in the industry could ask for from Japan, from the UK, from America, Mexico, and building these bonds with these people.”
Check out the complete episode of the NotSam podcast featuring the full Isaiah “Swerve” Scott interview via the audio player embedded below, or by visiting Omny.fm.
