After a while in TNA, maybe two months, I saw what direction they were going in and for the next 20 months, I came to pick up my check. I didn’t care what those guys did. I thought about continuing on to just keep getting the check, but I said let me bounce off this because now my legacy is in jeopardy at the same time. I’m sure a lot of these guys may be thinking the exact same way.
Sting is an anomaly. Anybody you’re ever going to deal with in the wrestling business who can keep their equity as long as they have because Sting changed with the times. As far as having the older guys in the ring perform and the younger generation watching them, I said this and I’ll say it a thousand times, it’s hard for a 21 year old kid to aspire to be 56. It’s just hard.
To see a 56 year old with the title, that’s unattainable for that young kid. That young kid goes I gotta wait till I’m 56 years old to get this kind of rub? I got to wait that long to be a part of this game? I’m not willing to wait that long.
I’m not willing to pay those kinds of dues. I believe in respecting your elders but my new slogan is respect your young people. They are the future, they’re the ones that are going to do the big shows at 30-35 and hopefully they have that knowledge to be in that position and be able to hold that.
My thing is, you invest in the young talent, you bring the young guys up and you give the young guys the rub. The ones that figure it out, they get it, the ones that don’t you push them to the side and keep rolling. I’m not tryna build my company from an in-ring perspective with guys that I know can throw a hip, blow out a quad walking to the ring, I’m just not going to do it. That’s my personal opinion.
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