You never know what’s going to happen when you watch a professional wrestling show and this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite featured the debut of Tommaso Ciampa. Recently the former NXT Champion confirmed that his deal with WWE would be expiring, and he let the wrestling world know that he planned on leaving the company.
During a recent interview with CBS Sports, Tommaso Ciampa confirmed that WWE did make him an offer, and he also made it clear that he has nothing bad to say about the company.
“We chatted a handful of times in the last two or three months. I just needed to do what was right for my wife and me,” Ciampa explained. “I have not one bad word to say about WWE. They gave me an incredible opportunity and platform. Over the last 10 years, I learned a ton. I evolved a ton. It’s time for me to take all that and really apply it. The biggest part was the leap.”
While talking about the move to AEW, Ciampa noted that he had been thinking about parting ways with WWE for some time, and that he had one foot out the door.
“My interest in doing this has been for at least two or three years. For the last six months, I’ve had a foot out the door. It was one of those things: do you bet on yourself, see this through and see if you were right, or do you stay put and take the safe bet?
“I have a seven-year-old. I want her to know that you get one life. You get one career, you get one chance at this. You don’t want to leave it with ‘What if?’ That was the final determining factor.”
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