Carmelo Hayes: There’s No Evidence I Attacked Trick Williams, I’m Tired Of People Assuming I Did It

Carmelo Hayes is tired of people assuming he attacked Trick Williams. 

Carmelo Hayes is tired of people assuming he attacked Trick Williams. 

On the October 17 episode of WWE NXT, Trick Williams was added to the #1 Contender’s Match for the NXT Championship. Carmelo Hayes teased turning on Williams, but they remained a united front. However, Williams was attacked ahead of the bout, and he was removed from the match. Hayes went on to win the contest and earn a shot at the NXT Championship. Hayes has denied that he was the perpetrator, but fans continue to accuse him of the attack.

Speaking on the Black Rasslin’ Podcast, Hayes was asked whether he is tired of people assuming that he did it, and he pointed out that there is no evidence.

“I mean, I’m not tired of people asking. I’m tired of people assuming. Because you gotta understand, there’s no evidence that I did that. I could understand if it was this or that, and it’s like, ‘Oh, Melo did it.’ But it’s people kind of disrespecting my name a little a bit, disrespecting my character a little bit, assuming that  I would do something like that without even, ‘Well, let’s see the facts,’ you know what mean? It really exposes people on how easily they switch. That’s been my biggest revelation in this whole thing. I’m like, ‘Damn, they really switch up on you so quick without even knowing.’ So it kind of makes you realize, ‘Oh, y’all ain’t really for me.’ If y’all was really for me, y’all would be like, ‘No, you know Melo. Melo would never do that.’ But instead, it’s like everybody turning their back on me. So it really opened by eyes on a lot of the way people are,” Hayes said.

 Hayes was also asked whether he and Williams ever talked about a potential split and if it looked like this. He stated that they have supported each other, and there is room for them to both be successful. Hayes made it clear that they both want to thrive, and it never came down to trying to get one over on the other.

“No, we always talked about, ‘Yo, bro, you gotta go do your thing. I’m gonna do mine,’ which played out on TV. It was never like a, ‘Hey, screw you.’ It was never that. It didn’t even need to be that. Why can’t we both be successful? Why can’t we both succeed? It was never a, ‘Let me get one on you, you get one.’ It was never that. It is still that. That’s why I don’t understand why people, they were trying to turn us against each other before anything even happened. That’s become a them thing, it’s not a  what it is thing. You’re almost trying to manifest it into something that it’s not. I understand, outside viewers, people don’t know what’s really going on inside. But me and Trick, we just both want to kill it. There’s no animosity of, ‘I’m gonna get one on you, you get one on me.’ No, it’s like, why can’t we both be successful? There’s enough room for all of us to eat,” Hayes said.

Hayes recently said he has accomplished everything he can in NXT. Check out his comments here.

Click here to see what Hayes had to say about his off-screen moment with The Undertaker.

Hayes will challenge Ilja Dragunov for the NXT Championship on the October 31 episode of NXT. Fightful will have live coverage of the show as it airs.

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