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In an article for Billboard, it was revealed that WWE star Drew Gulak and WWE Producer Adam Pearce have been training Bad Bunny for several months to prepare him for his Wrestlemajnia 37 tag match. He began training regularly right after the holidays and has been doing it regularly with the exception of a brief pause last month.
“I think it was intimidating for him, like it would be for any new prospect walking into the WWE Performance Center,” Pearce said “I saw him looking around and marveling at the pictures and ring, like ‘Man, this is real.’” It got even more real when Bunny took his first “bump,” which is wrestling parlance for a fall onto the mat or ground. “I read somewhere that a backward fall onto a mat feels like a 30 mile-per-hour car crash. That first one, [Bunny’s] eyes got wide and his soul leaped out of his chest,” says Pearce.
The article presents Bunny's appearance at Wrestlemanian as a dream come true for him as he is a big fan. Damian Priest commented that there are times he sees Bunny being "mesmerized" backstage at seeing WWE talents. Miz, however, leaned into the idea that Bunny has taken a spot from someone else, using that to cut a promo that crosses real life into working mode and back again.
“Superstars work their entire life to get a Wrestlemania match,” Miz says, again partially in character. “This guy comes in a couple months ago and is now going against one of the most decorated superstars ever at Wrestlemania? I’m not just doing this for me. I’m doing this for every superstar who isn’t on the Wrestlemania card — the ones whose spot he took. He thinks he’s going to waltz in and embarrass me, but that’s not going to happen. You step into my ring, you are going to get hurt.”
As far as Bunny staying with WWE beyond Wrestlemania, Pearce commented, “I don’t know. I don’t think this guy has a pause button. If he’s interested in continuing in sports entertainment, I can’t see any reason why we wouldn’t want to have him.”
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