IMPACT Star Explains Why He Rejected WWE

If you’ve been watching NXT in recent weeks, you will have seen the team of MSK (Wes Lee & Nash Carter) making an impact in the promotion’s tag division.

Prior to singing for NXT, Lee and Carter were Desmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz in IMPACT as part of the Rascalz alongside Trey Miguel.

Interestingly, while NXT signed Xavier and Wentz, Miguel was nowhere to be seen. and he has now explained why he made the decision not to sign, instead staying with IMPACT.

Speaking on Taylor Wilde’s Wilde On podcast, he said:

“Zach is married and Dez is engaged now. They just need wrestling in a different way right now. They need [wrestling] to do different things for them than I do. I don’t mean to make it seem like I’m speaking bad about IMPACT, they ran out of things to do with The Rascalz. There’s no need in staying if there’s nothing to do. I have ideas for IMPACT and things I want to do and things that I didn’t get done yet. I don’t want to leave without getting that done.

“IMPACT also affords me the luxury of being able to stay home, which is super duper important to me because we have a wrestling school here. I’m one of the head trainers and I’m there every single day. I’m so close to the kids we have there and the other trainers. I have a lot of family here. Wrestling has my heart more than anything in the world, but there’s so much personally that I can’t pull myself away from my family right now. I can’t do that. I have a brother that passed away in 2013. It’s life.

“My oldest brother just had my most recent nephew and he was born two months premature because his mother fell ill, so they actually induced her. He’s home now, but he was in isolated care for two months. They named him after my late brother. I couldn’t imagine moving to fucking Orlando a month after this little miracle. That’s not it for me. It’s not like if I don’t go to Orlando, I don’t get to wrestle anymore. I still get to wrestle more than anyone at NXT. I train whenever I want.”

Miguel admitted that it was hard to lose Xavier and Wentz, and revealed that he has battled depression many times.

“It wasn’t easy, just having Dez and Zach being…taken out of my life, almost. Zach was a two-hour drive away and now we don’t get to wrestle each other anymore. The Rascalz aren’t a thing anymore. That’s been really rough on me. I’ve had so many bouts with depression. It’s not a secret and [Shelley] relates to that. He was there and knew it without me having to say a thing. Every day has been an endless conversation about mental health and wrestling. I honestly think he saved my life. I think that’s more full circle than having a dream to just be a WWE superstar. My favorite wrestler is now my big brother.”

Thanks to Fightful for the transcription.

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