Before his WWE departure and Bray Wyatt’s untimely passing, plans were in place for Eric Young to be part of Wyatt’s new faction.
TNA Wrestling‘s Eric Young was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about his brief return to WWE where he was never utilized on television, Young said —
“So I was employed by them for, I think eight or nine months,” Eric Young said. “Yeah, some people know, but I think the majority of the world doesn’t. They don’t understand, because I would never show up at TV. The truth is, I never left my house. So yeah, I was proposed a gimmick to work there with two guys, and was super excited about it.
“Then that didn’t happen, and one of them was Bray, and then Bray passed away, which sucked, and is unfair in every way possible. So then it’s like, well pitch some new ideas, and then the person I worked for before forced his way back in. I just kind of said, there’s a lot of reasons why I didn’t want to work there at that point, but the number one reason was I just don’t want to work for a person like that.
“And this is long before all the other stuff would come out. But I was pretty convinced I knew who he was and how he was professionally one, but more importantly, for me, morally, I just can’t work for a human being like that. So I asked for my release, and was granted it. And I’m not saying any of the stuff, because I had to sign an NDA. So yeah, it’s a whole weird thing.”
The original idea for the Wyatt Sicks?
When asked if he was going to be part of an early iteration of the Wyatt Sicks, Young said he believed that to be the case.
“I think the original idea was me, Bray, and Bo as a trio,” Eric Young said. “That’s what was told to me from Hunter, basically. So obviously I’m gonna jump at that. I’m friends with both of those guys. It would have been creatively just an unbelievable opportunity working there, working on the main roster wrestling all over the world with two guys that I get along with well, and obviously a huge part of the show at that point.
“The Fiend and Bray coming back was one of the most popular things at that time, one of the most viewed things. They put up those viral videos, they’d be viewed within six hours by millions of people. So being part of that was very appetizing. It’s kind of not in my wheelhouse, but close enough to my wheelhouse where I would have really enjoyed it. It would have been challenging, but in a really cool way.
Eric Young has no regrets walking away from WWE
“So I was obviously very excited, and then all the stuff happened with the sale and all this other weird stuff. All of a sudden, I wasn’t working for the person who hired me, and I wasn’t willing to do that. I don’t regret it, not at all. I think it’s the coolest. It’s not lost on me that I was able to walk away from money like that, stability like that, because of what I believe. Beliefs of the kind of human being that I am. Ten years ago, I don’t know if I would have been able to make that choice financially or personally or certainly not professionally.
“I’m in a position where I’ll be fine. I’ll figure it out. I hadn’t even talked to Scott at the time, or TNA, we had zero conversations about it. I just knew I wasn’t going to work for the WWE anymore. So it’s a wild one, but the truth is it was 100% my choice. I think there’ll be a lot of people that think that’s stupid. A lot of people that won’t make that choice. But I think for me in my career, I think it’s one of the proudest things I’ve ever done.”
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