During a recent interview with The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, former WWE Superstar and Cryme Tyme member JTG discussed the recent WWE releases, which one surprised him the most and more. Here are some highlights from the interview:
On Cody Rhodes Leaving WWE: When I was there (Cody) definitely “played the game”. The last couple of years I am not sure what was going on backstage but I could definitely tell by the way he was expressing himself in that release letter and the tweet that he put out that he was definitely going through some of the characteristics that some of the other talents go through when they get frustrated and they are contacting the writers and I spoke about that in my last book “How To Play The Game” and it’s when it’s time to start playing the game there are 10 ways to know because when you start talking to writers and they start ignoring you and dodging and avoiding you backstage and that was happening to Cody and I don’t know how that was happening to Cody because he holds some weight backstage with his father being Dusty Rhodes and his brother is an agent and also a future Hall of Famer, Goldust so I don’t know how the writers were avoiding him. I guess they got told by the “higher-ups” but I don’t know.
On The Struggles of Underutilized Talents: Talent are finally getting frustrated and definitely getting frustrated with the way things are getting handled backstage and it’s sad because it doesn’t matter how hard you work, you have to be chosen. You have to be handpicked and (Ryback) when he put out that statement a couple of weeks ago it made a lot of sense because it is the only business no matter how hard you work it can achieve to nothing.
The Release That Surprised Him: Definitely Damian Sandow. He got himself over and the response that he got from the WrestleMania Andre The Giant Battle Royal was WOW! I haven’t seen this guy in a while and he was getting a great reaction from the crowd and they had to do something with him and I did not see that coming with him in the releases and that goes to show that if you are not handpicked it doesn’t matter if you get a reaction or not if you are not selected by the “powers-that-be” or don’t play the game you are not going to be used.
