“There was rumblings of two that I had heard about after the fact that were denied by management for, you know, whatever political reason there was with them not wanting me to lose or something like that. And then there was one offer on the table for me to do like a big run and then wrestle for the title on a pay-per-view — or a Stand & Deliver, I think it was — and I had actually turned that down because it just didn’t fit with what my goals were coming into contract time and stuff like that with negotiations coming up.”

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“I think from my perspective, I can’t speak for everybody in the locker room, at times mutually beneficial for sure. I mean, when you put somebody like Joe Hendry or anybody else on a Tuesday night NXT and they come back to TNA, you obviously saw more interest come to the company because of that platform that they were on. But in terms of like wins and losses and trading back and forth, it felt like it was pretty heavy towards the WWE end from time to time. But that’s just the business portion of it. They have a bigger platform.”

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