Released WWE Star On Creative: ‘They Just Said No, No, No’

When you’re one of WWE’s top guys, you have the freedom to suggest storyline, help book your character, and you can rest assured that even if you lose, you’re probably going to be back at the top within a few weeks.

For the guys and girls at the bottom of the card however, it’s a very different story, as recently released star Heath Slater explained during a recent interview with former ring announcer Lilian Garcia.

Slater explained that, while he didn’t request his release, one of the reasons he didn’t mind being released was the lack of creative freedom he was given.

“I did try to go in and I did try to talk to them and push, but they just [said], ‘No, no, no,’. I heard no too many times to where I said, ‘You know what, s**t, I’m not going to push no more.’ Because when I do, it goes nowhere, or if I do pitch something, they give to someone else. I was sitting like, ‘Hello, come on now.’ When you get tired of hearing, ‘No, no, no, not for you, you can’t do that,’ you kind of start believing it.

“Like I said, getting fired, I really believe I needed this. The times are crazy and the times are weird now ’cause you can’t go out and make money and stuff, but I believe I really needed this to get the fire, to get the hunger [back] and to focus.”

He was also asked whether he, like his former 3MB stablemates Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre, would have liked to have been champion.

“Hell no. Opportunities, man. I was there for a decade, a whole decade like this [he motions his hand like an ocean wave]. I might have a faction here, a faction there. I was always that little puzzle piece to a group. I didn’t see myself being [a] champ, why? Mentally, I wasn’t there.”

Thanks to WrestlingInc. for the quote transcription.

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