Recently, former WWE Superstar EC3 was interviewed by PWMania. The current NWA star opened up about a lot of stuff. One of the things that he opened up about was one of his biggest rivals in the National Wrestling Alliance. It was none other than Thom Latimer.
According to EC3, Latimer is one of the best wrestlers in the world. The current NWA World Heavyweight Champion also mentioned that Thom Latimer was one of the inspirations for him to sign with the National Wrestling Alliance.
“We freaking brought it. Thom is one of the best in-ring people in the world. Part of the inspiration for me coming here was seeing him. I thought to myself, can I shed some light on how good this guy is? He had a troubled past, and kind of got thrown away. There’s something about the accolades that don’t come with a guy who’s 6’3, looks like a movie star, jacked out of his mind, where people don’t resonate with his work rate online. I can guarantee he’s one of the best wrestlers in this world. I’m very proud of that match.”
EC3 also named Matt Cardona as one of the people he loves working with.
“Cardona is another guy I despise but love working with. He pushes himself out of his comfort zone, he’s very creative, completely self-made, and is killing it short of his pec falling off. Sorry buddy, but it’ll come back. When it does, I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do,” EC3 said.
WrestleZone recently spoke with Thom Latimer, who reflected on his best work from several different eras in his wrestling career.
Latimer pointed out how he got a run as a hardcore wrestler in TNA. Despite not understanding why TNA saw him as a hardcore guy, he does have fond memories of his work with Abyss.
“Abyss passing the torch to me a little bit there with his Monster Ball matches and Stairway to Janice and the feud with Abyss, just because I’m a new guy coming in and he doesn’t have to put me over or help build me. [Abyss] is such an amazing, great guy anyway, ahell of a talent. So it was really cool to work with him and have him sort of guide me and help try and elevate me when I got there, doing his shtick. Then I enjoyed my feud with Ken Anderson, even though I feel like it was kind of short-lived. They were ones that stand out to me and that were fun.”
Now with the NWA, Latimer is proud of his work with Royce Isaacs and against Da Pope.
“Me and Pope worked really well together. It was the first time we’d wrestled and we went, ‘Oh, we’ve definitely got something.’ Unfortunately, there’s never been a time to sort of do anything more with it, but I got a lot of love and respect for Pope. He’s a hell of a talent. I know that if I was in a feud with him, it’d be a lot of fun. We could really do some cool stuff.
“I want to be in that position where I’m doing that. I want to be like my wife being in these main events and killing it and having some good storylines to sink my teeth into. Because you can have good matches and you can have a good match, but it helps if there’s some substance and content to it. It really does, for the fans and for yourself too. I could name a handful of good matches, even one that had with EC3 a while back. I don’t know if it was TV or a pay-per-view or what, we had a good match, but it wasn’t really for anything. So I’m still yet to sort of have those matches that I want now and and I’m ready for. I feel, for me, it’s still ‘watch this space.’”
