Grayson Waller made his NXT debut in 2021 and was called up to the main roster two years later. He's since become the host of "The Grayson Waller Effect" and one-half of the WWE Tag Team Champions alongside Austin Theory as A-Town Down Under.
Talking to Chris Van Vliet, Waller explained how his pairing with Theory came to be. "I think we’re just two incredibly good looking, humble dudes, and they’re like, this is gonna work," he started. "We met each other a few times before I got called up, but we just got along really well straight away. We have similar mindsets when it comes to the business, too."
"We did a few little things together, and I was like, we’re both here to be great, and we’re not going to let anyone get in our way, and we’re going to work hard for it too. We started working together a bit and then we started traveling more. We had the same schedule. We got to wake up early because we got to get to the gym, like, all those types of things."
"We have similar mindsets and it just kind of worked. I don’t think it was a long-term plan," the SmackDown Superstar admitted, "but it’s one of those things that just works so well that it stuck."
WWE had been teasing a split for the tag team, though that idea appears to have since been put on hold (a shame when WWE appeared to be building to a babyface turn for Theory).
Waller would go on to talk about hosting his own WWE chat show. "My main thing is I don’t want it to look like anything else. I don’t want it to be so cookie-cutter. I really wanted to have like a First take, Stephen A Smith kind of vibe with a desk, almost like the desk I have now and have the desk there and the guests around it."
"I wanted to do the Instagram stuff and just make it look as different as possible from anything any other talk show has done."
Asked who he would like to work a program with down the line, Waller didn't hesitate to single out CM Punk. "I feel like I could make magic with CM Punk because I think the way CM Punk does his business, the way he talks, I could have so much fun with that, and I can just feel it."
"Even the small interactions that we’ve had, you know, I threw a bit of trash talk at him before he even got here just in case he ever did, and now that he’s here, I feel me and Punk would have a lot of fun," he teased.
We'll see what happens. For now, you can watch the interview in its entirety below.