Wade Barret

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"I met Sheamus and Drew I think it was in early 2006. We started doing a lot of shows together out in Ireland and across the U.K. The thing about the three of us was that I knew immediately that we were all standout guys, mainly based on our height. We were way bigger than any of the guys in the U.K. and we all looked good, we all worked out, which was quite rare for the U.K. at the time. Most of the independent wrestlers didn’t even lift weights or anything like that, so I knew that we looked like stars compared to everyone else. But I thought the problem at that time was the fact that with WWE there had never been that many foreign guys in the company at any one time. They always tended to have maybe one Englishman like a William Regal or going back further they just had The British Bulldog when I was a kid. So I thought it was going to be very difficult that all three of us would get signed. I thought maybe one of us might get signed and one of us may get a shot with WWE if we were lucky. I certainly never expected all three of us to get there. Sheamus, on the other hand, I remember him talking to us back in probably 2006 when we were still on the independent scene, he was very confident that one day all three of us were going to get there. So he predicted it.
In terms of working a program with those guys, I would love to. The problem is at the moment all three of us are guys that the crowd generally doesn’t like, so I don’t know how many people would want to see a Sheamus versus Wade Barrett match or a Wade Barrett against Drew McIntyre match being that the crowd is going to hate both guys in the match. But I could see one day certainly with Sheamus the fans really getting behind him. He’s got a very unique look and a good style as well. I think one day he’s definitely going to be a crowd favorite, and when that happens, I definitely look to lock horns with him and see where we can go."

[Modificato da Thinking Demon 20/11/2010 12:49]

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Wade Barrett is just your typical marine biologist turned bare-knuckle brawler turned WWE heel?

"I've had a really strange path to WWE, that's for sure" Barrett says with a laugh.

That's right, before Barrett was turning heads as wrestling's breakout star of 2010, he was the largest lab tech in England.

And like his road to success, Barrett's rise through the ranks of the WWE elite has been anything but typical.

In a matter of months, Barrett and his Nexus crew rose from rookies just trying to earn a shot on WWE's main roster to the talk of the entire wrestling world.

And this Sunday, Barrett gets his shot at the biggest prize of them all, the WWE Championship, as he takes on Randy Orton at Survivor Series.

While prepping for the main event, Barrett took time out to talk to ESPN about everything from his days working in the lab to what he learned from the veterans during Old School Raw to his downloadable character in "WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011." Here's what the baddest man in the business had to say.

Jon Robinson: How does someone go from a degree in marine biology to fighting in bare knuckles tournaments to the WWE?

Wade Barrett: I was always a WWE fan as a child and I fantasized about being a wrestler. But as I got a little older, I thought it was just a pipe dream, so I went out to get a degree and a normal job. So I started my degree at the University of Liverpool, got my degree and started working in a science laboratory. While I was doing that, I started bare-knuckles fighting as well in order to earn some decent money on the side. By then, I got a little older, and I felt with my size and my confidence and my fighting ability, it was something I could do if I worked hard enough. So I started wrestling independently in the U.K. and one thing led to another and I was offered a contract with WWE.

Jon Robinson: You must've been the most intimidating lab worker anyone had ever seen.

Wade Barrett: It's funny because when I turned up at the lab, they had to have a lab coat specially made for me. I was the biggest guy by far that they had ever seen. They had to get a coat with extended arms and widened in the back. It took them about four weeks to finally get me a lab coat.

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