{"id":158871,"date":"2023-05-16T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=158871"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:59:52","slug":"grayson-waller-discusses-role-reality-tv-played-in-his-wrestling-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/16\/grayson-waller-discusses-role-reality-tv-played-in-his-wrestling-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Waller discusses role reality TV played in his wrestling career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3207703502\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Reality television was a prominent factor in the professional wrestling career of Grayson Waller.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/wwe\/inside-aussie-wwe-star-grayson-wallers-tom-brady-moment-and-the-bag-of-chips-on-his-shoulder\/news-story\/4309413f510ffdb3d5d03cfd8ce89e7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Sports<\/a>, Waller talked about what his stint in reality TV did for him in pro wrestling and how it prepared him for his time in NXT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very smart about that, because I got to a stage of Australian wrestling where &#8211; you\u2019ve been around the scene &#8211; it\u2019s hard to actually get your name out on a level outside that indie wrestling bubble,&#8221; Waller said. &#8220;There\u2019s like a bubble. And it\u2019s impossible to escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I looked around and like, I love reality TV, and managed to find my way onto Survivor. And I think that just opened some eyes, and I went into that show being like, I want to be Grayson on this show. I don\u2019t want to go in there and just be this boring person, I want to be Grayson. And I think I was largely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem was I had no food and was sitting in the cold all the time, so energy levels were lacking, whereas if I think if I\u2019m got like a Love Island, or one of those stupid shows, you would have seen the full Grayson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut just having that TV experience, being behind the camera, and being able to talk and those type of things, I think that benefited me hugely. And obviously as well, it got enough eyes on me that a lot of people started paying attention who weren\u2019t before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grayson Waller competed against Carmelo Hayes for the NXT Championship at NXT Spring Breakkin. Waller was then called up to the main roster and selected by Smackdown in the 2023 WWE Draft. On this week&#8217;s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/12\/wwe-smackdown-results-5-5-kellers-report-on-wwe-world-title-tournament-theory-vs-lashley-vs-sheamus-styles-vs-edge-vs-mysterio\/\">WWE Smackdown<\/a>, Waller will welcome A.J. 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In an interview with Fox Sports, Waller talked about what his stint in reality TV did for him in pro wrestling <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/05\/16\/grayson-waller-discusses-role-reality-tv-played-in-his-wrestling-career\/\" title=\"Grayson Waller discusses role reality TV played in his wrestling career\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":130411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,3],"tags":[6645,124,72,71,117],"class_list":["post-158871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_nxt","category-news_wwe","tag-grayson-waller","tag-nxt","tag-smackdown","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-8.10.32-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158872,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158871\/revisions\/158872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}