Eric Young Confirms He Didn't Want To Work Under Vince McMahon In WWE

When Eric Young returned to IMPACT at Slammiversary 2023, it brought the curtain down on a WWE run that hadn’t even started.

Young re-signed with WWE in late 2022, but left before making a single appearance, with subsequent reports stating that Young didn’t want to work for Vince McMahon after Vince returned to the company following sale to Endeavor.

Now in a new interview with PWInsider, Young has opened up on his exit from WWE and return to IMPACT:

“The thing with me in front of the laptop was a side project that I'm working on,” said Young in response to a social media post he made earlier this year. “The thing with Anthem, truth be told, I've never not worked for Anthem since leaving IMPACT. I've been appearing sometimes four times a week on Game Plus Network for the last three years. I was still linked to them when I was under contract at the other place. I signed up for one thing and it turned into something completely different. Personally, professionally, and more importantly for me, morally, I just couldn't work there anymore. If you're a wrestling fan and you know what's going on, it was not a super difficult choice for me, to be honest.

“It was a dream come true, going back, the contract was fantastic and all this other stuff, and what I was poised to do on the TV show was excellent, but in the end, I would have had to answer to somebody that I'm just not willing to do. That's where we ended up now. I'm not mad or bitter about it, just like I wasn't last time. Obviously, it's a massive mistake on one person's part, but a huge gain for IMPACT Wrestling. I'm still very good at this and it's something I'm very passionate about and something that I work myself to the bone to make the best possible outcome of each thing I'm in."

H/T: Fightful

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