Eric Young wants everyone to know how special the IMPACT locker room is.
IMPACT Wrestling’s Eric Young was a recent guest on the Battleground Podcast. When asked about his decision to return to the company, Young said he could work anywhere, but he chooses to be with IMPACT.
“Yeah, I can say as a person that’s done this for a long time. I’ve got tons of credibility with the wrestling world and wrestling fans, and I can choose where I work. That’s the truth,” Eric Young said. “I’ve been fired before. That’s the only time I’ve been fired in my life. That was not the case this time. I chose to leave. And I believe if I want to, I could work at the other place too.
“I choose IMPACT. And part of that is that’s where a lot of my close friends work. That’s part of it. But the bigger part is the collaboration aspect of it and the locker room and how tight-knit it is. And I was just talking to Mike Johnson, and I’ll say it here too, after the pay-per-view on Saturday, 95% of the roster was in the same bar after. That doesn’t happen anywhere else; I guarantee it.
No Fluff
“I’m not saying that as a fluff. I’m saying it as I know, and that doesn’t go on anywhere else. And you got your groups and your people that you hang out with more this than the other. But it’s a really interesting locker room, and Scott D’Amore and Anthem and Ed [Nordholm], and Len [Asper], and the people that run the place, Lou [D’Angelo], and all those people have created a very, very special place to work.
“And I think anybody like you just said, you just had [Lio Rush] on. This guy has worked for every company. He’s worked all over the world. I mean, who would have a clearer vision than somebody like that? Right? It’s just the truth. And it will always sound like fluff when it’s coming from somebody that works there currently, but ask people that have worked there before or if people that are new to the roster, they’re gonna say the exact same thing.”
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