Big E States That He’s Been Approached By WWE Multiple Times About A Commentary Role

Big E is not interested in being on the road on a consistent basis.

Following the official announcement of his retirement from in-ring competition, Big E talked with Jon Alba of The Takedown on Sports Illustrated.

He revealed that there have been multiple times when people within WWE have approached him about taking on a commentary role.

“It’s possible. I think it would have to depend,” Big E said in response to whether he’d like to lend his skillset to WWE on a more consistent basis. “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 not really open to doing right now, and 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 been someone who’s definitely been 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, and I was happy to do it. We’re getting paid per show, so being young, being 26 when I first got called up, I wanted to be on every show, and I loved the road and loved my time and I was gung-ho about it. But, once you’re able to get off that hamster wheel and you realize, like, man, I have my weekends back again or when I first started dating Kristen, my fiancée, I was able to come out for a chunk of 10 days for two weeks and man, life is good out here. Life is good off the grind, you know what I mean? Not living the circus life, and I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a part of the pre-shows and post-shows for the PLEs.”

In addition to outside projects, as mentioned, Big E co-hosts the Kickoff and post-shows for WWE’s Premium Live Events.

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