Ricky Saints could have sat at home, complained and let resentment eat him alive while fans questioned why he was missing from television. Instead, he found somewhere else to put that anger—and now he believes that decision helped fuel his WWE rise.
During an appearance on The Battleground Podcast, Saints was asked how he stayed prepared during the stretch when supporters were openly wondering why he wasn’t being featured every week. Saints admitted that feeling sorry for himself would have been the easy move, but he refused to give the situation that kind of power.
Saints explained that he made a conscious decision not to view himself as a victim, even when frustration would have been completely understandable.
“I think, man, I just had a conversation with someone last night about this. Instead of feeling sorry for myself or feeling angry—you know, it’s easier to feel like a victim, right? I think that I didn’t want to give too much energy to that feeling, and I’d rather use that to benefit myself on the other side of whatever the circumstance or situation was.”
Rather than sitting at home angry about what he wasn’t getting, Saints poured his energy into traveling, training and making sure he would be ready when another opportunity finally opened up.
“And so, instead of being at home and having all that anger and animosity, it was just easier for me to go out and travel, or to go to the gym, to lock in, or to find other things to pour all of that energy into. And I feel like it paid off.”
It is hard to argue with the results. Saints eventually landed in WWE, made an immediate impact in NXT and quickly moved onto the main roster. Instead of arriving rusty, bitter or desperate to prove everyone wrong, he showed up prepared to take advantage of the spotlight.
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