Big E explains why he isn’t interested in having a weekly commentary role with WWE
While speaking to The Takedown on SI, Big E commented on the idea of having a weekly commentary role with WWE now that he has retired as a wrestler…
“It’s possible. I think it would have to depend. I will say, I think the idea of being on the road every single week for an extended period of time is something that I’m just not really open to doing right now. God bless the amount of people who’ve come to me—or even tweeted at WWE—’Get him on commentary. He deserves to be on commentary.’
Look, I’ve been approached multiple times by people within the company, people who’ve gone to bat for me. Michael Cole has definitely been someone in my corner, and I’m very thankful for all the lovely things he’s said about me. But man, when you’re on that WWE hamster wheel—when you’re on the road every single week—I tell people all the time, when I first started on the road, we would do five shows a week, every single week. I was happy to do it. We were getting paid per show. Being young, being 26 when I first got called up, I wanted to be on every show. I loved the road. I was gung-ho about it.
But once you’re able to get off that hamster wheel and you realize, man, I have my weekends back again—or when I first started dating Kristen, my fiancée, I was able to be out for a chunk of 10 days or two weeks—and man, life is good out here. Life is good off the grind. Not living the circus life.
I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a part of the pre-shows and post-shows for the PLEs. I love that it’s allowed me to still stay around the locker room, to see the boys and the girls. I also love being a supportive voice for so many of the young talent coming up.”