Credit:
Betweentheropes.com
Christopher
Daniels recently spoke about his TNA departure and more. Here are the
highlights…
If he saw
the writing on the wall that he might not be re-signed by TNA
Wrestling: I had heard as early as January that there were plans for
me to not get re-signed. And when I would read those things I thought to myself
now that can’t be right. I mean, we’re (Bad Influence) still and entertaining
tag-team, we’re still wrestling good. I don’t recall even coming through the
curtain after a match and having the powers that be sort of be upset about the
way my matches were going. When I heard those stories, I even made comments on
Twitter about it, when I started hearing them. I thought to myself that’s just
scuttlebutt, that’s just people assuming the worst. But here were are in May and
that’s exactly the way it went down. I was sort of trying to see a positive in
it or at least hold out hope and I ended up being incorrect in that
respect.
If all
things were equal, did he want to stay with TNA Wrestling: Yeah, I
would have been happy to stay there. I was really happy that they gave us the
opportunity to wrestle together, Frankie and myself. I thought when we were
given the opportunity to shine we did. Like I said, I don’t ever recall a
situation where they gave us the ball and we fumbled it. And if there was, they
never really specified or said to us this isn’t working. And I said to them
previously use us the way you see fit. If you think we’re better off separate
then split us up. If you think we’re better as faces than heels, turn us
babyface because basically the talent serves at the leisure of the creative
team. And I was never like I’m not going to do this, I’m not going to do this!
But I put the ball in their court and waited for something to come around and
nothing ever really did.
On still
teaming with Frankie Kazarian going forward in other promotions:
Absolutely! When I say that I feel that we haven’t even scratched the surface, I
think there’s a mentality on the independents and maybe even Ring of Honor that
that’s the case. I think there’s a very strong curiosity about what we’re going
to do next. That challenge of trying to do something fresh and exciting in a
different location and a different atmosphere, I’m looking forward to it and I
know Frankie is too. We’re definitely looking to keep our tag-team alive and
thriving in the professional wrestling landscape.
