On a recent edition of the “Insight” podcast, former WWE Superstar Zach Gowen revealed why his career in WWE was short-lived.
Gowen signed with WWE in May 2003 and was released from his contract in February 2004.
He said, “I didn’t have the wherewithal … or the emotional maturity. [I didn’t have] the self-control or the foundation to be able to handle the gift that I’d received. It was beyond my ability to just be a human being, or to be a wrestler, or to be someone responsible. I indulged quite a bit. Pretty much every opportunity. Because you have to understand, at high school, I never drank, I never smoked, and never went on any dates. So all of a sudden, at 19, a year later you’re a WWE Superstar, all of that becomes available, and it was like, ‘Yeah, finally. I’ve arrived. This is great.'”
He continued, “And it wasn’t so much the drugs and the alcohol at that time, it was the inability just to be a productive member of a team. The inability to conduct myself as a representative of a worldwide billion-dollar company. I didn’t have the tools to do it.”
