Joe Gacy Details Turning Down Idea To Breakdance On NXT TV

The idea was brought to Joe Gacy after he mentioned that he used to breakdance.

There’s a new interview with former WWE wrestler Joe Gacy a.k.a. Joseph Sawyer that was conducted by The FiveMarks.

Gacy dove into his NXT 2.0 days and remembers there was a time when he mentioned that he used to breakdance. NXT overseer Shawn Michaels asked Gacy if he wanted to do that on television.

“So the Performance Center, from time to time, we’ll do group activities and I guess to keep morale up. So, they were doing a talent show, and this was only in-house. Just the roster was there; nobody else. So there’s a guy that works there named Ryan Katz. Does a lot of work behind the scenes and helps out a lot at the Performance Center. So he basically had sent out an email and asked everybody, ‘Hey guys. We’re doing this talent show. Is there anybody that has a talent that people might not know?’ And I said, ‘Well, I have been known to breakdance in the past,’ which I should have known immediately was a mistake. So, they set up this whole thing. This is when Hit Row was still there, and we did this whole thing where Hit Row came out and then, it was really silly. I got wheeled out in a box. I came out of the box, and I did like a whole breakdance thing with them… This was like a Friday I think, and then the next Monday, I’m in class, and Shawn Michaels comes over, pulls me out, and this is maybe the second conversation I’ve ever had with Shawn Michaels, and he basically asks me, ‘Hey, would you wanna do the breakdancing on TV?’ And the first thing I said to him was, ‘No. I don’t wanna do that…’ He was great about it, first of all. He understood, but at the same time I feel like, ‘Oh no. Did I just shoot myself in the foot? Did I just screw myself over?’ I had a conversation with my wife about it. I’m like, ‘You know what? If he comes to me again with another idea, I don’t care what it is, I’m just gonna say yes.’”

Sawyer and the entire Wyatt Sicks (Bo Dallas, Nikki Cross, Dexter Lumis & Erick Rowan) were released from WWE in April.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit The FiveMarks with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.