Elijah Burke recently spoke with Pro Wrestling Mania about his WWE departure,
Vince McMahon, CM Punk and more. Check out the highlights:
On his WWE departure & a potential return: “No main
reason for departure except with all of the creative changes, writers switching
from brand to brand, I kinda got lost in the shuffle. “Black Thursday” came and
almost 15 wrestlers got let go. It was their call, I wasn’t in any program or
being used as I was in a rebuilding faze. I look forward to returning to the WWE
when the time is right for both parties, and hopefully that will be sooner than
later.”
On Vince McMahon: “Vince is great. He was one cool cat!
Never had a bad experience with him. Anytime you can walk up to boss and say,
What’s up dawg and give some him some dap, that should let you know what type of
man he is. As a matter of fact, when he came out on ECW with the doo-rag on
after Wrestlemania 23…. Take a wild guess who that doo-rag belonged to???”
On CM Punk’s comments about him: “Never heard them… People
mentioned it to me via social media, but I have no thoughts on it. EVERY thought
that I ever had about Phil, he knows them because I told him to his face, and
I’d like to think that he’d do the same, but I have no thoughts or comments
about what was or may have been said. What would that say about me to say
something behind Phil’s back or in an interview where he can’t respond for
himself?? I mean, what type of person would do such a thing?? Not I, not
Pope.”
On his TNA run: “I enjoyed my time with TNA as they gave
me the ball and allowed me to run with it. What was really awesome was that Pope
was NEVER scripted as Vince Russo allowed Pope to be Pope and would literally
say, “Nobody knows what Pope would do except you.” I enjoyed working with him
and others in TNA.”
