Former WWE Star Bronson Reed Admits He Was ‘Angry’ After Release

One of the most surprising names on WWE latest batch of releases was former NXT North American Champion Bronson Reed, who now goes by Jonah in both Impact Wrestling and NJPW.

Speaking to Denise Salcedo, Jonah admitted the current NXT 2.0 product is not something he personally would want to be part of, as he doesn’t feel like he would fit in with the direction of the brand.

“Myself watching the product, and it’s no disrespect to anyone that’s on 2.0, but that is not where I would want to be if that was the direction. It’s never good to lose a job but I don’t think I’d fit in there anyway. I do think I had a lot that could have been done RAW & SmackDown-wise. All us guys and girls that get into the wrestling business want to be at a WrestleMania or a Royal Rumble, and I didn’t get to do those things”

He also revealed he was angry when he was released, rather than feeling upset or sad.

“I didn’t have any emotion of sadness or being upset, which a lot of people do when they get released. That’s the instinct that you go to and of course you should. But I’ve been through so many ups and downs in my professional wrestling career where I’ve had things like this happen before where I was told, ‘no’ and that was it. But this time around, I was more angry because I’d worked so hard through NXT and believed in the black and gold brand.”

Credit to WrestlingInc for the transcription.

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