Low Ki
spoke with The Miami Herald for a new interview promoting his appearance for House of Glory on Saturday. Check out the highlights:
On why he doesn’t think it would be different for him in WWE today: “It’s still the same management system in place. My issues were not with the wrestlers. My issues were with management. They fired me before Christmas, so that tells you something. It’s still run relatively the same. The only difference is you have a different person with a similar mentality in position, which is
Triple H. With Triple H, in all fairness to WWE, at least he was a wrestler. So his perspective on how to manage the company and arrange things may have a little more intimate detail in mind than what Vince [McMahon] would do because Vince was never a wrestler. At least Triple H has the in-ring experience to see things differently. The reason why I say
Vince McMahon has never been a wrestler is because he has never put his body through hell to the degree of what his performers do and then advance into management. At least Triple H has that insight into potentially directing the company into a different position.”
On how uncertainty of TNA’s future has helped the product: “In this case with the company being questioned about their future with TV network and where they are going to be, it seems to have ignited the product. The cool part about that is you see a little more traditionally how it should be with the management does the management stuff and the wrestlers do the wrestler stuff. You don’t interfere in each other’s responsibilities. I think because of that you are seeing a little more personality of the wrestlers. You are seeing a little more value out of them.
Bully Ray has not signed a new deal with TNA, and at this time, there are no new details on where he will end up
In
an interview with Fortune, Dwayne “
The Rock” Johnson gave his thoughts on his last run with WWE and his critics. Here are highlights:
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On returning to the WWE and winning back fans who felt he abandoned them: “We set pay-per-view buy-rate records and attendance records each time… I think fans realized, ‘Wow, you’re back, and you committed for three years, and you don’t have to be here.’ I had the balls to be authentic.”
On how moving from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to William Morris Endeavor (WME) led to his WWE return: “The management I had around me was adamant about shedding the moniker of ‘
The Rock,’ and I bought into it. In their defense, it made sense, because I was attempting to do something that nobody had done. If I want to be called ‘The Rock,’ I’ll be called ‘The Rock.’ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling. It’s all the same guy.”
On critics in online forums accusing him of using steroids: “Training is my anchor. Being on a regimented schedule, setting a goal, failing at a goal. It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today… Sure, you get a lot of people out there who will suspect, and say s–t. They want to negate the hard work you put in.”