On a recent episode of
The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast, former WWE
NXT Tag Team Champion Vik The Spacelord (fka Viktor of The Ascension) sat down with Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman to discuss his time in
NXT. Vik revealed that he was almost part of The Wyatt Family before being paired with Big Kon (fka Konnor).
“I suffered a couple little minor injuries while I was there. I just started rolling, this was kind of before I got put in Ascension,” Vik recalled. “I’d been working with Seth [Rollins] a ton, and I was in a three-way dance with him and Leo Kruger (Adam Rose) somewhere three hours north of here. And it was one of the very last things in the match, and Seth was just throwing me back into the ring.
Former WWE
NXT Tag Team Champion Vik The Spacelord was on today’s episode of
The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast. Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman asked Vik about how The Ascension’s WWE contracts changed when they got called up from
NXT.
“I made so much more money that first year. It was great,” Vik expressed. “So a lot of people back then used to get to double dip. You wouldn’t sign a new contract yet, but you would get a month or two on the road usually where your hotels and cars were taken care of, and you would get paid per show that you were doing or whatever. But then you’d still make whatever you were making in