Damian Priest Praises Oba Femi, CM Punk Reveals Why He Visits The Performance Center Often

Damian Priest has been extremely impressed with Oba Femi’s work in WWE NXT thus far.

During a signing for UpUpDownDown’s Fanatics Fest last weekend, the former Judgment Day member expressed his belief that Femi has all the tools to become a big star. He said,

“Ridiculously impressive. Especially the fact that he has limited time in the business and what he can do already — that’s gonna be a megastar. You can just tell sometimes — it’s all setup for him.”

Priest added, “He just has to not take his foot off the gas, but he’s gonna be fine so, I feel like that’s going to inevitably happen anyway… I’m not looking forward to that one though [laughs].”

CM Punk often visits the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, FL to give back to the talent who are training there.

During a recent appearance on the “No-Contest Wrestling” podcast, Punk revealed why he likes working with the younger talent.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On his visits to the WWE Performance Center: “I go home to my wife just completely humbled and emotional about it. I woke up one day and I was this dude. When kids come up to me and they’re comfortable enough to be like, ‘Hey, look at this,’ and it’s a picture of them when they’re little at an autograph signing and they tell me, ‘Hey, you inspired me to do this.’ It’s just like me getting to tell Roddy Piper, ‘Hey, you’re the reason I did this,’ and I don’t know if it meant anything to [Piper], but it meant something to me to be able to tell him that.”

On trying to make sure talent doesn’t have to go through what he did during his OVW run: “There’s a handful of indies in different places, but if they run once a month, how much experience are you getting?, When I signed and I got shuffled down to Kentucky to go to OVW I was like, ‘I don’t want to be here… The conditions were drastically different than they are now. Like NXT, the way it’s set-up now is just like a sports college program. They have everything in house and they have air conditioning [laughs].”

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