Mojo Rawley recently spoke with Chuck Carroll of CBS Sports and talked about his recent character change on the WWE RAW brand. Mojo was asked about how difficult it is to push the character forward without becoming stale now that he’s been in WWE for a few years.
“You’re always reinventing yourself and looking for what’s new and what you haven’t done before,” he said. “We did the over-the-top, hyped-up, amped-up, crazy kind of character and now you kind of focus more on the reflective self. The man-in-the-mirror type of thing. I’m switching it up. It’s the exact opposite of what I’ve been, and it’s refreshing, and it’s been fun.”
Mojo, who won the fourth annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33, was also asked if he feels like he’s starting from scratch again, and having to work his way back up. Mojo said you’re always kind of starting from the bottom in WWE, as he did in football, but it’s fun, exciting and challenging.
“I think you always feel like that in a business like this, where you do get stale and the fans will kind of turn on you and get tired of you. You’re always kind of starting from the bottom. That’s how my career went in football, and that how it’s been here. I wouldn’t have it any other way. It keeps it fun and exciting and challenging,” he said.
There have been rumors of Mojo’s good friend Rob Gronkowski getting involved with WWE now that he’s retired from WWE. Chuck asked Mojo about Rob possibly working with WWE, and how seriously Mojo has talked with Gronk about beginning at the WWE Performance Center.
“He just wrapped up a decade-long career breaking records,” Mojo said. “For every record he had he probably had as many injuries or surgeries putting his body on the line for the team and the fans. Right now he’s doing nothing. He’s going to lay low and stay off the television a little bit and heal up. He’ll reflect and make that next move and make that decision carefully.
“But in the future, we have talked about it extensively. Wrestling is something that he both loves watching, and that little bit of taste he had in the ring with me at WrestleMania a couple years ago with me got him all fired up. So, he’s ready to do something at some point.”