TNA World Heavyweight Champion Ethan Carter III recently spoke with Brian Fritz to promote this Sunday’s TNA Bound For Glory pay-per-view event. Here are the highlights.
On the future of TNA:
I think you just can’t worry about anything and you trust those that you work for and when the time comes for you to do your job, you do it the best you can. You continue to support the product because you want to see it grow, you want to see it succeed, you want to see that negative stigma dissipate. You have to be on the forefront of that.
On his current run in TNA:
Yeah it’s cathartic. All I needed was the opportunity. TNA has been kind enough to give it to me. It’s been gangbusters ever since. They’ve given me the opportunity which came with a lot of confidence and a lot of great people to work with, turning me into the performer that I am today and I’m doing the best job that I can to represent our brand and hopefully push it forward.
On his release from WWE:
If you look at it like it was easy and everybody can do it, yeah, you look at a lot of guys who are hand-picked and gifted opportunities and they’ve never struggled or strived to earn them so they kind of flounder. Being released, was it a good thing that happened to me? It was probably the best thing that happened to me in my career. It was at a weird time in the company and I think the power was changing. If I did stay on in some role on the WWE main roster I would probably be a lost mid-carder, just miserable every day. No matter how hard I try. It turned out to be the best thing that could happen to me because I had this opportunity to come over here, be given the ball, run with it, show who I am.
You can read the entire interview here.
