NXT North American Champion Wes Lee has gone through a great deal in his life before realizing professional wrestling was the path he wanted to be on.
Lee was a recent guest on Busted Open with Dave LaGreca and Bully Ray to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When Lee mentioned during the interview that professional wrestling saved his life, he was asked to elaborate on that statement.
“I did not expect to make it past 24. I had no outlook, no plan, no vision,” Lee said. “I joined the military at 18, and I got out at 23 and did not know what the hell I was going to be doing with myself. During that time period, I did start to train and kind of get my feet wet with professional wrestling, but nothing had really taken off, and I did not feel like this was going to be a path that I was going to be able to do until I truly dedicated myself to it.
“Even then, you never really know what’s going to come out of it. So the karma within this business blessed me in a way with opportunities that I was able to step up and knock it out of the park. I just continued to have those opportunities, and now I have a purpose. Like I didn’t know how I was going to impact the world, but I had a feeling that it was going to end up happening in some way.”
Lee continued by noting that, even now, he is only scratching the surface of his potential, and he knows there are ways he can continue to grow. He made it clear that he’s having a lot of fun, and he’s continuing to figure it all out as he goes.
“With it being on this path, I know that I’m only scratching the surface of my potential,” Lee said. “I know that there are more areas that I’m going to be able to pull from and new plateaus that I’m going to reach and breakthrough. I’m just having fun. I am having a lot of fun right now figuring this out because I’m still figuring it out. This is a constant ever evolving process, and if you feel like you’ve figured everything out, you’re wrong. There’s always something to learn, and there’s always something to get better at.”
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