Erick Rowan was recently interviewed by Sportskeeda. During this, he shared some insight into his storyline on RAW where he brought a mysterious cage to the ring with him. Later on, it was revealed to be a fake spider.
Rowan revealed that he pitched WWE for Jyoti Amge from American Horror Story to be inside of his cage. For those who don’t know, Jyoti is the world’s smallest woman. Here is what Rowan said about that pitch (h/t to Pro Wrestling Sheet for the quote below) :
“I’m so large and she would be so small, and delicate. It would show a different side of me to the fans. Everyone is trying to humanize people in wrestling these days, and I thought the most un-human characters are the best. That’s the most intriguing when you watch a movie. You watch a movie and you see people that you can relate to as being your creepy uncles in prison.
That’s interesting to me. And that’s what I like. I like the horrors of the world and how they have feelings as well, but no one can sympathize with them because they’re such horrible people.”
Rowan also said WWE’s original plan was for a rodent or a rat to be inside of the cage. The idea was that the rat would eventually get killed by a babyface wrestler, in order to show that Rowan cared about something. They ended up scrapping these ideas and went with the spider instead.
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