Sami Callihan disucsess his recent depature from IMPACT Wrestling.
Former IMPACT Wrestling star Sami Callihan recently sat down with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful. When asked about his recent departure from IMPACT, Callihan said there’s no bad blood, but the two sides couldn’t come to terms on a new deal.
“It is something that came up rather quick,” Sami Callihan said. “I went through that horrendous leg injury and halted my career and put me at a stop still for almost a year and a half. Hell, I just started to feeling like typical Sami Callihan probably two months ago. It was one of those things, we are on extremely good terms.
“I’m not one to come say, ‘You know what, screw you. You’re a piece of shit. I’m gonna bury your company.’ I would never do that. I don’t want to do that because I do love IMPACT Wrestling. It’s one of those things, we could not come to an agreement on what I need to be paid to stay because I believed I offered more than what was really happening.
“In professional wrestling, I think I’m more than just a professional wrestler at this point. I think I’ve proven that time and time again. I think my fingertips and blueprint is all over professional wrestling, not only on an independent scale, on national television scale at his point.
“We just could not come to terms. I think both parties thought we were gonna figure out something, so it kept kinda getting pushed back and pushed back. Then when push came to shove, it just didn’t work out.”
Sami Callihan won’t rule out a return to IMPACT
When asked if there was a possibility that he and IMPACT could still come to terms for him to return to the company in the future, Callihan didn’t rule that out.
“100%. At this point in my career, it’s not like I’m some young upstart just fiending for a contract at this point,” Sami Callihan admitted. “It’s one of those things, with IMPACT I think it really did get pushed ‘til the last minute because I don’t think as many people knew my contract was coming up like it did.
“Because my contract was supposed to end last December, but because my leg got broken—we talked about this before—I was supposed to be out of my contract December 30th of last year. I broke my leg and like any contract, I got time tacked onto that. I don’t even think I kept extremely good track of it. It’s like, ‘Yo, my contract’s coming up, contract’s coming up, contract’s coming up.'”
Sami Callihan wants to create great content
When he was asked what he looking to do now that he’s no longer with IMPACT Wrestling, Callihan said he wants to create great content and leave his mark on the industry.
“Great content. In today’s day and age, content equals money,” Sami Callihan said. “Content equals everything. We’re in a rare time in society that anything you do is gonna be put out for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. I want to leave my mark, not only on professional wrestling, but just people in general.
“I’ve always lived my life like that. I’m never just gratified by one thing. I’m never content by like, ‘You know what? I’ve been World Champion, I’ve wrestled for every promotion on the planet.’ That’s not good enough for me. I want to continue to evolve, I want to continue to recreate myself, I want to continue to make other people.
“I want to continue to take people that I think have potential and help them get to that next level because I’ve seen someone that you have your hands on make it to the next level, getting on television, scoring the contract, having their entire life change. That? That’s its own form of gratification.” [H/T: Fightful]
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