James Storm had a brief run with WWE NXT in 2015, but it was over almost as quickly as it began.
Former TNA World Champion James Storm was a recent guest on Wrestling Life with Ben Veal. When asked why he didn’t sign with WWE back in 2015 when he made appearances for the NXT brand, Storm said it came down to there being too many dates while he and his wife were trying to have a baby.
“Yeah, everybody thinks it’s because of the money and all of this, whatever,” James Storm said. “I’m one of the guys, even Hunter [Triple H] told me, ‘Look, you won’t be here long.’ He goes, ‘Vince [McMahon] loves characters and you’re a character that can work and you’re great on the mic so you won’t be here long at all in NXT.’ Which is fine, I wouldn’t have minded wrestling in NXT, a lot of my friends were there as well because they went to the main roster.
“It was something where they sent me the contract first, and I ran through it and stuff, but when I got down there to talk to them about signing it, the dates had changed. It went to a lot more dates, which it’s fine or whatever, but at the time, me and my wife were trying to have a baby, and we had to do all this other stuff or whatever.
James Storm believes TNA was a better option for him at the time
“The dates just wasn’t going to match up, and TNA was the way better option because they wasn’t running that many house shows at the time, it was all just TV and pay-per-views. Hunter just told me, he goes, ‘Hey, you know, you never know way down the line, just keep yourself in shape and you never know what can happen.’
“It’s just one of those things where I don’t know, I’ve always kept myself in shape. I remember Jim Ross saying on his podcast, he goes, ‘Whenever you get the call, they’re not going to wait for you to get in shape. They want you ready to go.'” [H/T: Fightful]
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