TNA Wrestling Star Shares Honest Thoughts On WWE Partnership

A TNA Wrestling star who used to wrestle for WWE has shared his honest thoughts on the partnership between the two companies.

Following a year of regular crossover between sides, WWE NXT and TNA Wrestling officially announced a multi-year partnership in January.

Speaking on The Mark Hoke Show, Steve Maclin – fka WWE’s Steve Cutler – noted that while he considers the business side of the partnership above his pay grade, he does think talent should be doing their best to pitch ideas which would benefit both companies.

When asked for a talent’s perspective on the partnership, Maclin said:

“Let’s see where it goes. I think as a talent, you can only control what you can control, and that’s above our pay grade in a sense. That’s up in the higher echelon of, I guess the promoters, bookers, investors, all that’s taken care of on that end.

“Carlos Silva is the one that deals with all that now. That’s his job and I don’t envy that, but I also love to throw him a few ideas here or there. Like, hey, this could possibly happen, this could be an idea.

“That’s then on us as talent to pitch ideas that could possibly work to make the company money, get more eyes on both, and that’s also what the relationship is doing too. It’s bringing more eyes to the TNA product, with the rebrand.

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Steve Maclin wrestled for WWE from July 2014 to February 2021. He signed with TNA Wrestling in June 2021.

Maclin has compared his current TNA Wrestling run with his WWE NXT tenure, click here to read more.

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