Bull James has fond memories of his Bull Fit gimmick from NXT.
During a recent interview with WrestleZone, Bull James (fka Bull Dempsey) spoke about the “Bull Fit” gimmick he had in NXT and if there were any long-term plans for the character. James said that it originally was just a comedy gimmick but he loved the fact that fans got behind it and wanted to do more with it.
“I just was trying to give everything I had to make it work,” Bull James said. “And it wasn’t until after the first couple of training vignettes aired. We were in Largo; I remember a fan came up to me, and they had a big baggy Bull Fit shirt on. They just released the t-shirt. And he’s like motioning up and down his body, and I was like, okay? And then he was like, ‘Do you notice I lost weight?’ This was a fan that came regularly, and I was like, oh, yeah, he did. And he’s like, ‘Yeah man, I’m getting Bull Fit.’ And then I started getting more and more messages like that on like Instagram or comments and stuff, and I was like, wow, people are actually using this as motivation. This is actually cool,∏ James stated. “Because you get the audience on Twitter that’s oh, they’re fat shaming him, and I was like, no I was on board with this from the minute that Hunter pulled me aside and asked me if I would want to do it. I wasn’t scared for my job to say no, I was like, this is something cool, unique. It’s coming straight from the boss’s mouth. So obviously, he believes in it. So let’s try it.
“And then when that kind of stuff started happening, that was where I was like, okay, we can really capitalize on this more. So I had pitched the old Hulkamania weight set, a pitch to bring that back but with me doing it,” he explained. “It’s cheap to make and a company like WWE is gonna want low production costs that they can mark up in price to make money on it. I pitched that. When Triple H did his workout video, I wanted to be the one guy in the background doing the assisted workout for people that maybe weren’t in shape that were doing the DVD. I think there were plans on the table and it just came down to like a budget thing, and it is what it is. But there were some ideas thrown around. Would have been nice to see them come to fruition obviously and see the hard work pay off but it was a lot of fun, and it was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in the wrestling ring in my life.”
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