{"id":330327,"date":"2026-05-06T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=330327"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:38:26","slug":"he-wants-to-be-one-of-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/he-wants-to-be-one-of-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"He Wants To Be &#8216;One Of The Boys&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>WWE United States Champion Trick Williams has spoken about his friendship with\u00a0Lil\u00a0Yachty and praised the rapper for his dedication to WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Within the lead-up to Williams&#8217; WrestleMania 42 clash against Sami Zayn, Yachty started to appear alongside the previous NXT Champion. The rapper has continued to feature with Williams even after &#8220;The Show of Shows,&#8221; and through an appearance on Stephanie McMahon&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cE14EHpFkSw\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Your Story?<\/a>&#8221; podcast, Williams spoke highly of him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is what he told me. He says, &#8216;Trick, I can not imagine they let me do WrestleMania with you.&#8217; He said, &#8216;I do not wanna take no shortcuts. I do not wanna go straight to the highest.&#8217; He said, &#8216;I wanna go to Delaware. I wanna go to Baton Rouge.&#8217; He said, &#8216;I wanna be certainly one of the boys.&#8217; He said, &#8216;I really like this business. I have been watching this for years.&#8217; And he desires to be certainly one of the boys,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is my boy, man. And it&#8217;s crazy because we each have a desire for excellence. We wish to be good. We wish the whole lot that we do to feel like magic. You recognize, that very same feeling that we felt when y&#8217;all was doing all your thing within the Attitude Era. Like the whole lot has to feel real to the people.\u00a0And he loves it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams also revealed that Yachty desires to follow within the footsteps of other celebrities like Pat McAfee, Bad Bunny, and Jelly Roll and get within the ring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you realize, he said he desires to have a match. Yachty says he wants a match, man. He gonna get in shape, and we&#8217;re gonna do that,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Yachty has got physical within the ring since appearing in WWE earlier this 12 months, receiving a Helluva Kick from Sami\u00a0Zayn on the &#8220;SmackDown&#8221; after WrestleMania 42.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE United States Champion Trick Williams has spoken about his friendship with\u00a0Lil\u00a0Yachty and praised the rapper for his dedication to WWE. Within the lead-up to Williams&#8217; WrestleMania 42 clash against Sami Zayn, Yachty started to appear alongside the previous NXT Champion. The rapper has continued to feature with Williams even after &#8220;The Show of Shows,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[3492],"class_list":["post-330327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-boys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330330,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330327\/revisions\/330330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}