Former WWE Star Took A Pay Cut When They Joined NXT

Fans have seen some familiar faces pass through NXT over the last few years and a lot of people were happy to see EC3 join NXT in 2018. The former Impact Wrestling World Champion worked in NXT for some time before debuting on the main roster in 2019, but he recently explained to Sportskeeda’s The Wrestling Outlaws that he actually had to take a pay cut when he first signed with the company.

“I took a pay cut to go to NXT… And by doing that, hopefully at the end of the tunnel would be the very high reward that I knew if I had who I am and what I was, then A) Under their guidance and tutelage and umbrella and brand, what I made could be inherited and exemplified to an extremely high level and be uberly successful. So that was my mistake, thinking that anybody there would be looking out for me.

Because the realization was that I was already over. I became nobody’s project to create. You know what I mean? A mercenary in a sense. I was paid to be there. And by not being a creation of anybody pushing for you – you’re there, you’re in the talks, but there’s nobody really thriving for you to succeed because nobody can take credit for your success.”

EC3 was later released from WWE in 2020 and he went on to work in Control Your Narrative, Ring of Honor, OVW and the NWA where he is the current NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion.

H/T Sportskeeda