Former WWE superstar Tyler Breeze sat down with Chris Van Vliet on Insight to discuss a variety of topics, the first of which being whether or not he plans to continue wrestling following his WWE release.
āIt depends. I mean there is a lot happening in wrestling right now. Itās cool and itās something we tell our students at Flatbacks Wrestling School. We say to the students āGuys itās not as far away as you think. The students we are training now have been on AEW Dark and NXT. Itās right there. Right now is a good time in wrestling. But right now, letās say on AEW, there are a lot of people debuting and there are a lot of people moving around all over the place. If I go there, I donāt know if it would make a massive impact. Now itās kind of the norm, people are going over there and there might be some big names going over there. Nobody knows what is happening, but I donāt think now is the right time for me to go towards there. At the same time, I have wrestled for 14 years straight. Iām OK with taking a little bit of a break.
My body likes it and I am getting enough wrestling at the school to keep my body good. Iām not currently taking any bookings. Going out there and getting injured, it doesnāt really appeal to me. If there was a match that was fun, I think I might do it. But I have scratched the wrestling itch, but if it comes back, then maybe.ā
Breeze revealed that he feels comfortable retiring if that's what ends up happening.
āIām very, very happy with everything that Iāve accomplished. Now at 33 years old, if I really wanted to, I could say Iām retired. I could go, āyeah this is about as retired as Iām going to be. Iām going to run the school, Iām going to teach peopleā. I have no surgeries, Iām very, very healthy. Like that is a good accomplishment for me and in the end, overall more than anything wrestling is always wrestling. It is off to the side. You have to be happy in life and Iām very happy in my life. I love my life, I think itās great. No matter what people want to say, Iām very happy.ā
He followed up with explaining how he's been trying to build his brand outside of WWE in the meantime.
āBuilding our value outside of the ring was always the goal for us. Luckily, UpUpDownDown has done wonders for us. Creed is awesome like that. He will take guys that you just know from their matches. Maybe they donāt get to talk a lot and you get to know what kind of a person they are and they have really good personalities. So he will put them in a spot where you will get to see that personality. All of a sudden you go āWow I want to see more of that guy, he is really cool.ā Maybe the only place that you get to see that is UpUpDownDown. Now, not only is he building his own stock, but he is helping everybody around him. Rising tides lift all boats, he lives by that. Itās not just for him, itās as many people as he can help, and he will. If I didnāt do this, I would just be another random guy trying to get my foot in the door.ā
And finally, Breeze discussed WWE's controversial Twitch ban.
āSo it was a little different. So obviously everybody kind of threw their hands up in the air when they kind of stopped everything. Thereās a saying thatās been around and will last; āThe boys will mess it up for the boys.ā I was streaming on Twitch for 2 years and no one was really paying attention to anything, because I was doing it properly. In the end, when you are under a certain banner, itās like media training. If something happens, letās say Iām live, and I represent myself horribly. When you sign onto a big company, the headline doesnāt read āMatt Clement does thisā¦ā It now says āWWE Superstarā¦ā or āAEW Superstarā¦ā did this. Now you have to be mature enough to realize you represent a bigger entity and conduct yourself accordingly.ā