Bearhill dives into his exit from the company.
As a part of the 2022 Performance Center recruitment class, Tiller Bucktrot, who would go on to be known as Trey Bearhill, joined WWE.
Bearhill wrestled in a total of 17 matches for WWE before his release in May 2024. He spoke about his exit on Developmentally Speaking and explained why he was shocked but not shocked by it.
“I didn’t (see my release coming) ... I wasn’t too shocked in the aspect of any moment could be your last. I mean, we see it these last couple days. Any moment, it could be anybody. They could get the phone call and I knew that… Seeing the first releases when I was there, you know, those people that were on TV that were gone. So, I knew early that, okay, this definitely isn’t forever unless you’re able to stay exactly in the rise of where you need to be. So, I’m gonna do everything I can to potentially make that happen and if it happens, it happens. So, it was a little bit of a surprise. I remember getting that phone call and I was just like, ‘Okay. Understandable. Thank you guys’ and everything. But, it was a little bit of a shock, because it’s just like, there are some things that… I felt good about, felt really confident wrestling, felt really good with the coaches that I was working with, and by good, I mean just of like, picking their brains and understanding and asking a bunch of questions, and then, it kind of just happened out of nowhere. So, shocker. But, at the same time, I always knew that, hey, it could have been any minute. I’m glad it was later than earlier because how much I was able to retain and know was a blessing.”
Bearhill's last televised match for WWE was on a January 2024 edition of NXT during which he fell in defeat to Lexis King.
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