Dixie Carter recently spoke to The Independent about CM Punk and Vince Russo. Read some highlights below:
“CM Punk’s in a place right now where he’s happy and I wouldn’t attempt to try to get him to come wrestle for us until he’s in a place where he wants to wrestle. I respect what he’s done so much, he was in my opinion at the top of his game, and it’s hard walking away from a big paycheck, but he did it. You wouldn’t want to ask him to walk to a new paycheck until his head is in the right place,” Carter said. Punk left TNA after a short tun in 2003.
“We’ve got some exciting storylines planned, and we have our eye on a handful of talent that I think might compliment that,” she said.
“I’m a fan but it wasn’t the time to take it to another level. Vince has worked with us three different times, and the one thing I’ve learnt in wrestling is that you never say never and I’ll never say never on Vince,” Carter said. She also compared him to a star football player that causes a distraction to the rest of the team.
“I think it’s very important, and that’s my goal for 2015, to distinguish our product and brand even more. We don’t need to be another wrestling company, we need to be something unique, different and special and some of things we’ve done, the way we do backstage pre-tapes, the way we shoot stuff, I think has been amazing and I take it as a sincere compliment when other companies in your competition try to replicate that,” Carter said.
