Eric Young Says TNA Is The Nickelback Of Pro Wrestling

Dave Mortman and Dave LaGreca of Busted Open Nation recently spoke to former TNA World Champion Eric Young about TNA’s move to POP TV and more. Eric made a comment during the call where he compared the hate that TNA gets to the type of hate that the band Nickelback gets. You can check out some sound clips here and read a quote below.

“It’s a big, fat, juicy, delicious ray of sunshine. There’s no mystery, all the guys know, all the people in the office know, there’s been a black cloud over the company. Whether it’s deserved or undeserved, that’s all in the eye of the beholder I suppose. But I think somewhere along the line we became kind of too big to be the underdog where people are really rooting for us and not big enough to be taken all the way serious. We’re in this in-between, I like it for me, for people that don’t understand wrestling, we’re the Nickelback of pro wrestling right now. I don’t know when that happened. Nickelback doesn’t care that it happened. But they’re aware of it too, it became cool to not like Nickelback. I’m not a musician, I don’t know anything about writing music or whatever, but I like Nickelback’s music. I listen to it, I’ve been a fan. I saw them live in Toronto when no one knew who they were. They were awesome. He has a full size hockey rink in his basement. He gets drunk and plays with his buddies. They’re great and I think TNA’s great. I’ve always thought that. That will never change. It’s never going to be perfect. Nothing in entertainment is going to make everybody happy, but moving to Pop TV is a it’s a big, positive step for us. History’s the history and we’re all moving forward positive.”