Former NXT Star Planned To Ask For WWE Release Before Coronavirus (Exclusive)

While he didn’t wrestle on the show, the final shot of Impact’s Slammiversary pay-per-view on Saturday night was former TNA World Heavyweight Champion, EC3.

Many people speculated that EC3 was going to be the final entrant in the Impact World Championship main event, but it seems like the promotion has other plans for the former WWE star.

Last week, WrestleTalk’s Louis Dangoor had the pleasure of interviewing EC3, where he spoke about his WWE release, wrestling Jon Moxley, his time in NXT, Vince McMahon thinking he was a weatherman and more.

During the interview, EC3 also interestingly revealed that he was actually planning on asking for his release from WWE before the Coronavirus pandemic:

“I realised earlier into especially the run on the main roster that I was not a very happy person. I realise financial means is not the only thing that matters to me. How much it is important for me to be able to express myself and create and do something not my way? I understand there has to be give and take when you work for somebody, you can’t do everything your way. If everyone was doing what they wanted to do it would be a catastrophe, but the fact that no amount of input or effort seemed to be rewarded, it just didn’t really matter.

“Honestly, I was going to ask to be released but the pandemic was the only thing that kept me there because I needed money to support my family in case something horrible happened, so they did it for me and that’s fine. I was fine, I was okay. I was actually very relieved. The man who called me seemed to be very upset having to do all that so I was like ‘this is fine. It’s okay. Like it’s going to be okay.’ I don’t have anyone to prove to anyone else or them at all because I don’t live in the past anymore.”

You can check out our full-length interview with EC3 at the link below, or by clicking here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZDAEFiD-2o&feature=emb_title