In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the INSIGHT With Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE NXT superstar Lexis King discussed several topics, including the advice he received from John Cena at the WWE Performance Center.

“He actually came in and did a seminar with us at the PC and I thought okay, I’ll go and see what’s going on, but man I’m so glad I went and it was the most enlightening, like it wasn’t just like little questions that people would ask, like oh what’s your favorite food, no we were getting into it, talking about contract negotiations and all this different stuff.

I’m so glad I went, yeah it was amazing and the amount of questions that we were able to ask and get to answer and one of the coolest things he said was you can’t control the booking, you can’t control who’s wearing what belt or this, that or the other, but you can be the best version of said character, and if you’re the best, like he was the rapper guy, if you’re the best rapper guy on the roster, and creative goes, oh we want the rapper guy to take on a huge monster, then they’re going to pick the best rapper guy that they have and put them against the best monster character that they have and then they’ll go, oh what does the match look like.

It’s like people say I’ll never pitch an idea again, let’s put it that way and he said, there’s no point in pitching anything, because if you pitch something and they don’t use it, now you’re disappointed, now you’re upset, but if you just be the best version of your character and then they decide to choose you for these things that they created, because they’re the writers, they’re going to come up with the ideas, and it’s like, they don’t want you pitching them stuff, they want to come up with it, because it’s their job.

I think it’s kind of a contrast from the company I was at before, where that was where our success came from, because there was not as much of a writing team there, so anytime I would pitch out, and I’ve had successful pitches in AEW, I pitched Julia Hart to join The Blondes and I pitched the name, so I had, like my pitch was successful, I must be doing something right, but it’s like, here in WWE, we have people for that.

We have creative, we don’t have to pitch ideas, we just have to be the best in-ring performers and on the mic performers and be the best f***ing rock and roll sleaze ball, conniving, pick me, look at me kind of guy, and then if I’m the best dirtbag that they have, that dresses like a rock and roll wannabee, then they’re going to pick me for those roles, you know what I mean, they’re going to go, you know what, we really want the sleazeball guy to take on our top babyface Carmelo Hayes and then, he’ll prove them wrong and prove all the haters wrong and it’ll be a good story.”

The full interview is available at this link.