Andrade causes a stir with comments about WWE’s preferential treatment of ‘Samoans’

It ended up being steamrollered by talk of the New Level’s interview with Ariel Helwani, but a quote by AEW National champion Andrade El Ídolo also drew a big reaction from the wrestle web yesterday (Sept. 1). Speaking with Latin Lover on his Luchando Por Tus Sueños podcast, Andrade spoke about the challenges he experienced during his two stints with WWE. It led to him contrasting how people of Latin and Polynesian ancestry are promoted by the company (thanks to Fightful’s Luis Pulido for translation): “When WWE wants to push you, they will push you, it’s that simple. There are wrestler who have been given a chance WWE about 20 or 30 times and they still push them until they become stars. It doesn’t matter how bad you are because they want to make you a star. “I feel that I never got to be given the opportunity, they never gave me a chance, but when it was my turn to be on television, I took advantage of it. If I won or lost, those 10, 15, 20 minutes, I took advantage of them and I so