Austin Aries is a professional wrestling veteran, and he’s certainly no stranger to championship gold.
The former Impact World Champion has wrestled some of the best wrestlers in the world, so fans were excited when he signed a WWE contract a few years ago.
However, his WWE run didn’t last all that long, and when he was asked about his release during an interview on VOC Nation’s In The Room podcast he went into detail about why things didn’t work out.
“I can give you six different answers depending on what talking point I want to use, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t my decision there. It was nothing that I asked for, and it was nothing that I was given a heads up that was coming. That question is probably better to ask Vince or to the people that were in charge. I’ll be honest, I came in as a short, old white dude. I’m 5’8, 5’9 in my boots. I was 38 years old. I came in basically on secret, double probation that’s what I was told.”
Aries also noted that he was told to be on his “best behavior” when he joined the company.
“I came in being told that, not that I wasn’t welcome, but that I had to be on my ‘best behavior.’ Despite all of that and them really not having a plan for me, I get my eye hole broken and I offer to do commentary and I spin that into the main roster run into a WrestleMania match. I did all of that in 18 months. I don’t know what else I was supposed to do or what people were expecting.”
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