Current WWE superstar Curt Hawkins may be on an epic losing streak in WWE, one that may frustrate many other superstars if they were in a similar start, but Hawkins has the experience to know how to handle it.
Hawkins says that Vince McMahon has called him a good hand, due to his work in a WWE ring.
“He’s [Vince] obviously intimidating,” Hawkins said, during an interview on the Sam Roberts Podcast. “He’s the ruler of professional wrestling, but I’ve always had a good rapport with him. I am very comfortable talking to him and things like that.
“I think he has seen me wrestle all these years and knows that I am a very serviceable pro wrestler and knows that I work hard every night, and I think he appreciates that.
“I’m not Roman Reigns, but as far as where he sees me on a star level, but there is a value of Curt Hawkins for sure. He has called me a good hand several times in meetings and to my face.”
Hawkins knows what it’s like to work in WWE and the indies, and has advice for superstars who want to forgo an opportunity with WWE in favor of the indies.
“I try to give them my perspective” Hawkins explains.
“I had a great time on the indies. The experience was cool and I did some cool things, so, I love pro wrestling but it was a lot of hard work and a lot of hustle.
A lot of lonely ‘Virgil’ moments where you have to suck it up. That autograph line is not never ending wherever you go. There are moments where you have to check your ego and I don’t think that a lot of guys who have not done it don’t understand what the experience is like.
“If you do a good job and consistently work somewhere, and not work a lazy match and just take someone’s money, because I was doing the opposite. I told them that they don’t have to pay me this much, but that I would like to be involved with storylines and feuds and earn rapport of the fans where people are coming to see ‘The Prince of Queens’ Brian Myers and not Curt Hawkins, so that was my business philosophy.”
