Ron Killings Speaks On Locker Room Support After WWE Departure, ‘The Love Is My Championship’

Ron Killings (R-Truth) returned to WWE less than a week after announcing he had been released from WWE.

Crowds chanted “We want Truth” on WWE Raw, WWE NXT, and WWE SmackDown before his return at WWE Money in the Bank. Along with the fans in the arena chanting for Truth, his peers in WWE posted messages of support online.

Speaking on The Masked Man Show, Killings was asked about the support of those in the locker room after his release was announced.

“Rhea (Ripley) wearing my shirt. Me and Road Dogg are brothers from a different mother. I got calls. Kevin Owens was at his daughter’s dance recital. I’m talking about thousands of text messages. The unity. The love. There was so much in that. It put an S on my chest. I always call myself the Suntan Superman, but it made me feel…the phrase The People’s Champ, that was it. People see me and I’ve helped them get through a certain time in their life. Somebody else may see it as, ‘He’s just goofy.’ Moments and opportunities I have, I made the best out of them. I do that in the ring and real life. A lot of that, people relate to it in their lives. That was powerful. Everything was balled up into that. I don’t know if it was watching me, growing with me, them feeling something. That was an emotional rollercoaster that the world experienced. There is more to it. I still go back and try to pick things out. ‘What does that mean?’ You gotta stop and smell the roses. I could’ve forgotten who I was. As a person, we get knocked down in life a lot. That kind of love, support, and motivation that put an S on my chest. ‘You are our champ. We love you and what you represent and how you make us feel.’ My title and championship is those hundreds and millions of people. I don’t need no material. I have organic living fresh proof that the love is the championship,” he said.

Elsewhere during the interview, Killings commented on the decision to cut his hair. You can find his full comments here.

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