Royce Keys reveals that the internet speculation about his WWE absence got under his skin “for a hot second”
While speaking to Sam Roberts, Royce Keys addressed his absence from WWE television after the 2026 Royal Rumble PLE. Keys said the following in regards to the internet speculation…
“It got under my skin for a hot second, and I had Hunter [Triple H], Bobby Roode—I had Cody [Rhodes], Randy [Orton]—I had a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t let that sh*t bother you, because they don’t know what you’re doing.’
It got out there. I did some dark matches, but I asked Hunter, and he agreed, if I could do these darks. Like, who wouldn’t want to wrestle in front of a live crowd, open up the show, get everybody ready, get it going in two different cities a week? I did Raw and SmackDown every week until my debut.
I put that GIF out with the dude with the seasoning—we was cooking. And just for Paul to be like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ Like, you want to get after it—hell yeah, I want to get after it. I’m here. I’m not content with just being here—I want to effing work. I’m with it. I’m with the grind. I’ve been grinding my whole life.”