WWE NXT's Carmelo Hayes talks about meeting Ilja Dragunov's aggression in their No Mercy rematch [...]
WWE NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes will put his Title on the line at No Mercy tonight against Ilja Dragunov, and if the last clash was anything to go by, tonight's rematch will be quite the physical and at times brutal match-up. Hayes has never lacked for challengers during his Championship reign, but Dragunov matches are always a beast unto themselves. ComicBook.
"I was going to have to get in there, and I was going to have to fight him, I was going to have to do his style. So now that I'm more prepared going into this with No Mercy, I think that that's what I got to bring to the table. I got to go at him with what he brings at me. As far as what he brings out at me, pretty much just that, he makes you realize that you are in a fight, and you either fight back, or you get eaten alive.
"He seems like ... You can't break the guy. That's why, going into this match, I'm coming in with a different IQ. Maybe it's to survive long enough to get him tired, and then turn it up on him or just to avoid certain things. I mean, that powerbomb almost took me out that last time. And, I mean, that torpedo, he hit me with it two or three times already, not in a match, thankfully, but I need to avoid that.
"I mean, those are all guys that I'm very, very high on, and that I know vice versa, they've been very high on Trick and I as well. Shoot, I wish the best for them. And as of right now, my main focus is what I'm doing here in NXT. I'm focused on just the NXT Championship run," Hayes said."I'm focused on holding the company on my back, I'm focused on that. So it's hard for me to have one eye over here, one eye over here.
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