Steve Maclin reflects on his run with Westin Blake as the Forgotten Sons and says they always supported each other.
During their days in WWE, Maclin and Blake were respectively known as Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake. They were paired up with Jaxson Ryker, and the trio was known as the Forgotten Sons. After a somewhat prominent run on NXT, they were called up to SmackDown in 2020 and subsequently taken off TV due to some controversial tweets from Ryker. Cutler and Blake briefly returned to television in December, but the two stars were released over the course of the next few months.
During an appearance on The Angle Podcast, Maclin looked back on the Forgotten Sons chapter of his career. When asked, he described how there wasn’t any adjustment in competing as a team or in singles competition because they always had the same mindset. He also emphasized how they worked hard in order to reach their goals.
“No just because Blake and I were brothers, and we always supported each other, whether he was succeeding on his own or us together, and it’s the same for me as well,” Maclin said. “That’s one of those things where we both pick each other up and we support each other, no matter what we have to do to get the job done, to be a world champion, to be a world champion, to be a tag team champion, we always took care of each other.
“The mindset doesn’t change. It’s just we’re gonna put our full effort in. That’s why we were the way we were as a tag team. For how underrated people say we were, we worked hard, and that was the one thing we took pride in. That’s what got us to succeed and get to SmackDown.”
After his WWE release, Maclin signed with IMPAT Wrestling, and he remains a featured member of the roster. Blake has competed for several promotions, including Control Your Narrative, and he recently guest coached at the WWE Performance Center. The duo reunited at the Wrestling REVOLVER’s Swerve’s House event in April and won the tag team titles. The OGK dethroned them at the Cage of Horrors show in July.
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