He’s big. He’s bad. He’ll bodyslam your dad. In line with former WWE star Jinder Mahal, Mason Rook may even make certain fans remember him for a very long time.
“I personally adore it. Anytime he comes on or anytime he pops up on my social media, I actually have to look at it,” Mahal said on “TMZ’s Inside The Ring” referencing Rook, a recent arrival to the “WWE NXT” brand. “I cannot turn him off. There’s just something about him. The ‘it’ factor. Now, the ‘it’ factor does not imply you are jacked and you may have a tan and also you dress very nice. To me, it means you simply have to look at it, whatever he’s gonna do. Very agile. He hits a crazy moonsault. Even his fashion selections, it stands proud. It’s something that you simply remember. I adore it.”
Rook, formerly often known as Will Kroos on the independent wrestling circuit, marked his WWE debut by landing a moonsault on NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo on the April 28 edition of “NXT.” Weeks later, he and D’Angelo then stood on opposite sides of the ring for a tag team match.
Rook’s tag team partner Kam Hendrix eventually cost him a shot at D’Angelo’s title by distracting him amidst a primary contender’s match on June 9. In turn, Naraku won the bout and vied for the NXT Championship on the “NXT” Great American Bash.
Mahal is not the only figure praising Rook recently. 17-time world champion John Cena did the identical when he pinpointed the “NXT” star as a future world champion himself in WWE.
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