Davey Richards Explains Why He Left Global Force Wrestling

Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards found success in GFW wrestling together as The Wolves. As a team they managed to capture the TNA World Tag Team Titles 5 times, and they also proved they worked well together as enemies when they split apart and feuded with each other.

But GFW fans won’t be seeing Davey Richards anytime soon, because at the end of July he announced his departure from Global Force Wrestling. The former TNA World Tag Team Champion recently spoke to USA Today’s For The Win, and he explained that right now he’s made getting an education his priority.

“I’ve done a pretty good of trying to juggle the very high demands of wrestling and school, but it’s gotten to the point where my school load would be so much that I couldn’t do both. The last little while, I couldn’t give 100 percent to wrestling or to medicine because I was being pulled in both directions. I didn’t think it was fair to anyone who pays to see me not to be able to give 100 percent. I can still wrestle a part-time schedule, but it’s not really right to expect TNA to pay me a salary with my hopefully being able to commit to a schedule. School needs to come first. That’s the point where I am.”

Richards noted that he may rethink his situation when he’s done with school, but for now the travel is just too much for him.

“I’ve always been the kind of wrestler, nine times out of 10, I would take a booking, no matter how much the travel is because I like to wrestle,” Richards said. “I want to get out there, and I want to stay on the top of my game and compete against the best people. The more bookings I take, the more I have to travel. It got to be too much. We’d fly to Seattle to leave David with my mom and then fly to Florida to do tapings and then fly from Florida to Seattle to get David. Then fly back home to St. Louis. Add in my school schedule, and it just became impossible. This is definitely for the best for right now. Maybe when I’m done with school, that will change.”