Sheamus recently spoke with The Whig to promote the upcoming WWE 2K17 video game, which is scheduled to be released in October on XBOX, PS4, XBOX 360 and PS3.
“Those guys in 2K, they work tirelessly with research and development, get the fans’ feedback, and everything they do is to make it better and better and better. They’re like perfectionists, they don’t want to have anything or any holes in anything they do. Bringing Goldberg back is great,” he said. “We’ve seen some great ones, Ultimate Warrior was one of my favourites. I loved him as a kid. Sting. Now having Goldberg in there is really cool, especially, I’m sure you watched Goldberg as a kid. He’d just kill everybody. He still looks great! He looks the same! Like a million dollars.”
WWE changed their product in 2008 and went from TV-14 to PG. According to Sheamus, WWE has gained new fans by going PG.
“I think that when we initially went to PG, and I was coming in at the tail end of the not-PG, whatever you want to call it — it was past the Attitude Era, the in-between stage — there were a lot of people hemming and hawing about this, but ultimately it’s brought in so many new fans.”
Sheamus has changed up his look and is now sporting a beard with a mohawk. Sheamus believes that a WWE Superstar should change up their look from time to time and if they don’t then they get boring.
“You’ve got to keep changing it up, otherwise it gets boring,” the six-foot-three Sheamus answered. “In fairness, I didn’t change or alter the look — I only altered my gear — for the first couple of years,” he qualified. “You’re only talking in the last two or three years that change with the Mohawk and the beads and stuff. But it’s good to change it, keeping it fresh. We’re on so much television now, people see so much of us. It’s not like the old days, where you’d be on TV once in a blue moon, or Saturday Night’s Main Event. You’re on all the time, so it’s good to keep it fresh, even if it’s just for yourself, to keep it interesting for yourself. I like this look now, man. I think it’s really cool,” he said, adding that the current look is far less maintenance than the last look, which saw his beard beaded. “The beads are something that I tried and they worked. I like the beard now …”
Sheamus also talked about WWE catering to kids and more. You can read the entire interview here.
