American Alpha’s Jason Jordan recently participated in a conference call promoting WWE’s upcoming European tour.
Jordan talks about Kurt Angle being an inspiration to him, the comparisons to the World’s Greatest Tag Team, and more. You can read a few excerpts (transcribed by ESPN.com) below:
Jason Jordan comments on Kurt Angle being an inspiration, but trying to make American Alpha stand out on their own:
“Kurt’s a huge inspiration. I grew up watching Kurt and so I’ve studied him a lot and figured out what it is that made him so great, what made him so amazing to watch. So trying to make sure that I picked up some of those things, but at the same time being myself, because I never wanna try and mimic somebody else. I wanna be myself and be the first Jason Jordan. I don’t wanna be the second Kurt Angle.
“And it’s the same concept where we always get a lot of comparisons to the World’s Greatest Tag Team. We wanna be the first American Alpha. We don’t wanna be the second Team Angle or World’s Greatest Tag Team. We’ve worked so hard to get to where we are, and we feel like we’re unique and different. Yes there are similarities but we’re still different. As much as we look to Kurt, and as much as I’ve studied him and been a fan of Kurt Angle’s, he’s been an influence, but it’s nice to have a little bit of a separation between us.”
Jordan comments on the thrill of winning the NXT Tag Team Championship:
“That was an amazing feeling. So many times throughout my life that I’ve worked so hard for a thing, then been so close to achieving the goals that I’ve set, and fallen short sometimes. To have people constantly telling me, ‘Don’t worry, hard work pays off, hard work pays off’ — you hear it, and you wanna see the results, so that you can truly believe them.
“And that was just literally everything coming together where it was, ‘You know what? Everybody was right.’ I’m so happy that I didn’t get lazy, that I didn’t get complacent, and I continued to put in the effort, continued to put in the hard work, and tried to make sure that no matter what happened, at least I can walk away saying that I gave it my all. But for everything to finally work out, to achieve our goal and achieve our dream, and to win the tag team championships in NXT, it was the best feeling of my career to that point.”
