Jonathan Coachman never wanted to be a professional wrestler.
Former WWE Superstar Jonathan Coachman was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about never wanting to be a wrestler, Coachman said it was never something he aspired to be.
“But it’s usually people that their lives are wrestling, you know what I mean? That’s what they aspire to be,” Jonathan Coachman said. “That’s not who I aspired to be; I got lucky. And then there were things that happened in the last five years that make me not want to go back, you know, I was 100% loyal to that company and to Vince.
“So when things happen, sometimes you got to draw a line in the sand and say, I can’t be treated that way, and still go back and be loyal to that company. It’s not like they need me anyway. They’re not crying over spilt milk. But I like to think I treat people a certain way. And I want to be treated that way. So yeah, I would never go back.
“So I reflect now. And when I think about the the cool things that people have done for me when I was in the WWE, whether it’s fans, wrestlers, whatever, that might still be the coolest thing. And it was my very first night on the air. I’d already been there for a few months, but the first time for him to do that was still such a cool thing.
“And I have people that will send it to me every now and then on Instagram or whatever but completely unselfish. Which a lot of people I hate when people say oh, The Rock was selfish back then. Everybody had to be selfish back then. People don’t understand; they look at what it is now. You hear it all the time; the best time of wrestling was the Attitude Era was 2000 to 2004.
“Because you had Imagine having 15 LeBron James, and then your NBA finals or your Super Bowl is only two guys. And you got 15 guys that can be in that spot. Well, that’s what you aspire to be. You’re talking about a million-dollar bonus to be in the main event at WrestleMania. Would you be unselfish, or I mean, would you be selfish? 100% You would be.
“So when I hear that narrative about The Rock was selfish back in the day, you had to. Stone Cold was selfish. Triple H was selfish. Undertaker was selfish. Shawn Michaels was selfish. Mick Foley was selfish. They had to be because everybody fought to get in that spot. If more people in wrestlers thought today to get in that spot, I think we’d have better storylines. We’d have more competition, we’d have better promos, we’d have quicker, whatever. I really believe that.”
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