Wednesday, January 31, 2018

IMPACT EXECUTIVES TALK DEPARTURE OF BORASH AND MORE

Talk about toeing the company line and trying to play it off like it's no big deal, when it really is and everyone knows it.

Newsweek featured an interview with Impact Wrestling's Ed Nordholm, Scott D'Amore and Don Callis, discussing where the company stands and their recent exodus of talent, including Jeremy Borash.

Nordholm on Borash: "“[Borash] is leaving and joining the WWE.  We wish him all the best. He’s a talented guy and has been with the company forever. But we have a lot of talented guys—change is good and it gives other guys a chance to step up.”

D'Amore on Borash: "We always wish Jeremy well. I got one of my first breaks [from him]—Jeremy hired me to be a producer at World Wrestling All-Stars. But we have editors on our team who don’t get the notoriety that Jeremy does. We have great players ready to step up."

D'Amore on EC3: "His contract was not up. He came to us, we had a frank discussion about where he saw himself going.  We decided to sit down and work something out that worked for us on how we’d wrap up this portion of his career.  I didn’t  watch NXT TakeOver but when he showed up on screen and my phone started blowing up, I texted him: ‘Congratulations. All the best to you. You’ve got nothing but love and support from us here. And if you need anything, you know where we are.’ And he wrote back the same thing.”

Nordholm on Bobby Lashley: "Bobby is free to figure out what he wants to do next, whether it be wrestling or mixed martial arts. We wish him all the best.  He’s a great talent, it’s foolish to say, ‘No, we wouldn’t want to retain him,’ but he has his own ambitions about what he thinks is good for him next in his career."

Don Callis categorized the change as good, pointing out the recently influx of Brian Cage, Austin Aries and John Hennigan into the company.

To read the complete article, click here.

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