Over the last few years we’ve seen a lot of wrestlers from NXT get called up to the main roster. Some have found success on the main roster while other acts struggled to catch on.
Sanity seemed to be one of the most popular groups in NXT during their run with the brand before they were called up to the main roster in 2018. However, after they got called up they were barely used.
While talking to Chris Van Vliet about what went wrong with Sanity’s main roster run Eric Young said, “I don’t really know what happened. Nobody can tell me, the person in charge, we all know who that is, not allowed to say the name, just kind of didn’t like it. Although it was his choice to bring us up in the first place.”
Eric Young then went on to explain that at one point he interrupted a meeting so that he could talk to Vince McMahon. Young noted that the conversation with Vince seemed to go well, but it ended up making things worse.
“I talked to him like I talked to anybody. I interrupted [him], and I was told to do it by people there, and I went and interrupted a meeting he was in. We had a very good conversation, and he said, Do you have ideas? I said, Yep, sure do. Came in the next week, pitched ideas. He was very open and very complimentary. Thank you for bringing this in, and thank you for showing initiative.
Then they sent Damo and Wolfe back to NXT, and then I got sent over to Raw and it got worse. I mean, I didn’t do anything. I didn’t make him mad. I didn’t have a bad match, there’s nothing I did. He just decided that I was no good at whatever I was that I was doing, I wasn’t doing anything.
I don’t know how you came to that decision, and I’ve said this before too, I’m not the first person that he’s missed out on. Won’t be the last, right? Well, hopefully I’m one of the last. But Kenny Omega was there and didn’t last eight months, so the one of the best bell-to-bell ever in the universe, and he couldn’t survive. So it’s frustrating more than anything. I’m not mad about it. I moved on, for sure, with my life and very fulfilled, very happy person. I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. But it’s a very disappointing thing, yeah, very disappointing.”
H/T Inside The Ropes
