Ricochet says he made the right decision in leaving WWE and coming to AEW.
Ricochet spent several years in WWE and won multiple titles during his time in the company, including the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Over the summer, he left WWE after putting in his notice and signed with AEW. He made his debut at AEW All In, and he has been featured with the company ever since.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Ricochet was asked to discuss what became the deciding factor in his decision to leave WWE and join AEW.
“I got to thinking, Okay, what will I be doing? Where will I be in three years? And after that, where will I be?” Ricochet said. “And again, anything can happen. You don’t know the circumstances, but you just kind of have to play from your experiences. Because again, especially in the wrestling industry, everybody has a different experience. Just from my personal experiences and what I feel like Ricochet has been put through, I don’t know, I felt like I had already not paid my dues or whatever, but I felt like I was able to be on the next level of performers there, I guess.
“But I still feel like I was starting over again. I felt like I was starting over with the Bron Breakkers and the Iljas and the Carmelos and the new guys just coming in. I feel like Ricochet was with those guys coming back in, it’s like, man I’ve already been here for five or six years, I want to be doing something else.
Ricochet: Joining AEW Felt Right
Ricochet continued by saying that he was going to go wherever he felt good and reinvigorated. He stated that he felt like AEW could reignite his fire, and he said that he made the right choice.
“Again, at the end of the day, I wasn’t going to go to the highest bidder, I was just going to go to whoever was going to make me feel good and ignite that spark again,” Ricochet said. “Because I felt like that fire that was burning inside of me was still there, but it was just like little embers that needed that gasoline on it to really make it ignite. At the time, I felt like AEW could be the gasoline for my fire. Since being there, I feel like I made the right choice.
“Just even getting to be in there with the guys that I’ve been in there with Lio and AR Fox and even Nick Wayne, someone I’ve never been in there with, Sammy Guevara, Mortos, people I’ve never worked with that I’ve been excited with, but also people like AR Fox and Lio, who I’ve worked with before years ago, now we’re both different performers. So I really think that had a lot to do with it. But there was no specific moment where something happened and I just flipped the switch and that’s where I’m going. I just think it’s what felt right. Even when I find myself walking around the bowl and looking, I know I made the right decision.”
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