Newsweek.com’s Tufayel Ahmed had a chance to talk to Impact Wrestling President Ed Nordholm and Vice President’s Don Callis and Scott D’Amore about the recent departures of EC3 and Jeremy Borash.
Jeremy Borash:
“[Borash] is leaving and joining the WWE,” Nordholm told Newsweek. “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.”
“This company has historically given new people opportunities,” said D’Amore. “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.”
EC3:
“His contract was not up. He came to us, we had a frank discussion about where he saw himself going,” said D’Amore. “We decided to sit down and work something out that worked for us on how we’d wrap up this portion of his career.
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,” said Nordholm. “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.”
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It was not mentioned in the article but Lashley is free to sign with anyone on February 1st so he could pop up on WWE TV soon. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported on Sunday that there was interest from New Japan Pro Wrestling but those talks have ended and the impression being given by people close to Lashley is that he is WWE-bound.
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