In a recent interview with the Ringsiders Wrestling podcast, NWA National Champion Trevor Murdoch discussed several topics, including the origins of his tag team with Lance Cade on the WWE roster.

“When they brought me up to wrestle with Lance, we had to do two dark matches and it was kind of a tryout to a certain extent, even though I was with the company, already signed, they wanted to see how Lance and I looked as a tag team one weekend and then the next weekend, they were going to have Lance and Kevin Thorn tag as a team and at the time, Kevin wasn’t doing the vampire gimmick.

It was actually Kevin Thorn’s idea for the gimmick we were doing, the redneck or the trucker and the cowboy, they brought me in and I wrestled that first weekend with Lance and we’re coming to the back and John Laurinaitis stops us both and goes Lance, you’ve already wrestled with Kevin down in OVW, so you know what kind of worker he is, you know what kind of chemistry you have with him, you just wrestled with Trevor the last two days, which partner do you want and right when I heard that, I was like, oh well s***, I’m definitely going back to developmental because Kevin and Lance were friends in developmental, so I would assume that Lance would be like, yeah Kevin’s my guy, but he didn’t, he looked right at Johnny and goes, I’m going to be honest with you, I think I’ve got better chemistry with Trevor and Johnny goes okay, you guys are on the road next week and we were like, holy s***.”

The interview is available in full at this link.