Rowan spoke to Sportskeeda, where he revealed he pitched many ideas to Paul Heyman and other WWE creative heads. However, none of them were approved.
“All that build for something so trivial was kinda sucky for me,” he added. “Cause we go to work and we put in all these things and you have all these ideas in your head, and then that’s what it is. I sent messages to Heyman. I sent messages to the writers. I wrote out long things about what I thought it should be. Here’s what we could pitch. I had over the top ideas about it.”
He also pitched an idea of bringing in Jyoti Amge from American Horror Story. She is the world’s smallest woman and Rowan wanted her to play the part of something he needed to protect.
“I’m so large and she would be so small, and delicate. It would show a different side of me to the fans,” he explained. “Everyone is trying to humanize people in wrestling these days, and I thought the most un-human characters are the best. That’s the most intriguing when you watch a movie. You watch a movie and you see people that you can relate to as being your creepy uncles in prison. That’s interesting to me. And that’s what I like. I like the horrors of the world and how they have feelings as well, but no one can sympathize with them because they’re such horrible people.”
Ultimately WWE went with a fake spider, but that was clearly not something fans wanted to see.
