Cedric Alexander worked closely with Paul Heyman in WWE.
Going on to spend just under nine years with the company, Cedric Alexander first signed with WWE in 2016. Coming in as part of the Cruiserweight Classic, many would imagine that competitors worked closely with Triple H as the tournament progressed and throughout 205 Live, however the 35-year-old has now revealed that he wasn’t overly involved with ‘The Game’ during much of his WWE career.
Appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Alexander revealed that he actually worked more with Paul Heyman than Triple H in WWE.
“Honestly, it didn’t go past that, funny enough. You would think from that moment I’d be a Triple H guy. So there was a point where we were in 205 Live that he kind of had some say in there a little bit, and kind of took care of me. But I was never really a fully Triple H guy. I was more of a Paul Heyman guy. When he was writing Raw, and they drafted me out of 205 Live into Raw, I was more of a Heyman guy than anything else. Heyman give me a bunch of little sidebar conversations this, that and the other way more than Triple H did.”
-Cedric Alexander
On what he learned from Heyman, Alexander said that he picked up the key skill of patience.
“Patience, for better or worse, patience. I remember there was one point I went to Heyman and I was just like, I was probably on Raw for like a year, but they haven’t really done anything with me. And I was like, Hey, Paul, What do you need for me in order to get to that next level? I think this is maybe right after we did the whole thing with AJ and the squash match we did on Night of Champions in Charlotte. He was just telling me just wait. We’ll take care of you. If you gotta wait six months, wait six months. If you gotta wait a year. Wait a year. And I swear I’m going, I will be the best soldier I can be and just wait it out. And every time they called me for something, whether it was the Gary Garbutt thing or any other random thing they asked for. I was, hey, I’m here. What do you want me to do?”
-Cedric Alexander
Alexander took to social media on February 8 to confirm his release from WWE, having had his last match on the January 28 episode of NXT. While his next move is unknown, Cedric expressed interest during the interview in rejoining his former stablemates Bobby Lashley, MVP and Shelton Benjamin in AEW in the future, as well as possibly competing in Mexico or Japan.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Cedric Alexander as soon as we hear more.
