Former WWE star Eric Young appeared on the "Under The Ring" podcast. Young reportedly asked for his release in April and the 90-day non-compete expired just in time to allow him to return to Impact Wrestling at Slammiversary.
Eric Young on leaving WWE and returning to IMPACT Wrestling:
"There's lots of stories out there. Obviously, by law, I'm not allowed to really talk about it. I will say I signed up for one thing and was given the option to do something else and I made the right decision being back with IMPACT. There's no doubt about that, professionally, personally, morally, and more important for me just, it's my home, and in my opinion, the best minute-for-minute pro wrestling show on TV and I'm happy to be back.
On why he feels IMPACT is the right choice for him:
"I said it when I was there before. It is a collaborative process, and being a creative person and a person that you know, that's what draws me to wrestling, the creative aspect of it and the storytelling aspect of it. The physicality and stuff like that is obviously a huge part of it. Pro wrestling itself took the two loves of my life and smashed them into this kind of perfect cake where it's physicality, athletics and competition, surviving, and being honed in the same way as the creative kind of artistic storytelling, you know, acting. That's all kind of smashed into one thing and those are like the two loves in my life, sport and cinema."
Why he feels IMPACT has the best wrestling show on TV:
"I've said this before and it's the truth and it always comes off as biased, and I would have said this when I was working somewhere else if I was watching all the shows, which I am not. But I would say IMPACT is, minute-for-minute, the best professional wrestling show on television. It's a professional wrestling show, written for professional wrestling fans, and written by professional people that have done it before."
"I understand when things grow and things get bigger, you have to appease other audiences and other sides of it. I think that's a lot of times when fans of the other products complain, they're complaining about that. The people that are most vocal about it are the die-hard wrestling fans. The truth is they're watching the shows regardless and the big billion dollar companies aren't catering to them and we are because that's our audience. Make no bones about it, this show is written for the pro wrestling fan in mind, and that's why I think it's minute-for-minute, the best pro wrestling show. I mean, production wise and all that other stuff, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles. They can't compete in that way, but for storytelling, physicality, all the things that make pro wrestling great, characters and stuff like that, IMPACT Wrestling is just as good or better than any company out there."
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