Fightful.com spoke to Moose recently and one of the biggest things asked was why Moose left ROH for IMPACT Wrestling. At the time a lot of guys were leaving the promotion, and Moose followed Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis-Bennett to IMPACT Wrestling. When asked about it, Moose said;
Everything with IMPACT Wrestling is going great. The direction Impact is going. I felt like I needed a change. I was with Ring of Honor for two years and I saw how the company was going and how I was being used. I felt like I could be used better and paid better, so I decided to leave.
Ben Givan of GG Media recently spoke to Paul London about several trends in the industry and his time in the WWE. When asked about the increased pace on the indies, Paul London echoed the sentiments of many veterans. The quote is too outlandish to sum up, so read it for yourselves;
I can’t say that I’m a big fan of it. I don’t really watch wrestling when I’m home just because it doesn’t excite me like I want it to. Just a lot of [TV wrestling] isn’t executed well, in my opinion, because of the climate of wrestling now. Nowadays you have to be part of this climate and things have to be in the climate. That stuff makes me sick and I want to spit all that out and do my own thing. That way I can dictate the pace, as opposed to live up to all of these ridiculous acrobatics, and car crashes, and all this crap that really doesn’t entertain me. If anything, I’m going to get hurt more trying to acclimate to the current style.
He then goes on to slam the group think nature of the industry by saying;
Guys would rather be liked and defy kayfabe or storytelling for the sake of being liked and that disgusts me. Social media and wrestling are poisonous. It’s a great tool for promoting, but if you are going to sit there and pull the curtain back, please don’t! You’re making this crap for everybody, you’re giving the tricks [away], you know what I mean? We need to maintain the aura of the excitement of the illusion, or whatever you want to call it. But, too many people would rather just be liked in real life, and not commit to storytelling and being performers.
Looks like Paul London is over it. He joins guys like Eli Drake who believe the industry has lost it’s way.
I had interest. And they had interest when I was with TNA. Then, for whatever reason, when I became available [in 2015], it was a different story.
Quite frankly, I had too many conversations with them where the first couple of times it was ‘no.’ Then it was ‘no, not right now.’ And then it was ‘let me talk to this guy, let me talk to that guy.’ I just got to a point where I just lost interest. That was all I ever wanted at one point, then for whatever reason it never materialized.
I feel like there’s something there that they are not telling me. I don’t know what it is. Frankly, we’re all adults. I’d rather them give me a straight answer but I could never get that from them.
There’s so many people and so many camps. There’s so many snakes in the grass. I’d rather just get a straight answer and they don’t want to do that. I just don’t have time to play games with them.