Road Dogg opened up on his WWE exit and weighed in on AEW on the Busted Open Podcast.
On leaving WWE: "I still love wrestling... I want to do it for somebody that wants it and needs it, and I feel like the WWE didn't want it or need it anymore."
"It got to be so much work that it stopped being fun."
"It felt like it turned into the business wrestling instead of the wrestling business... WWE right now, for me, was a money grab... it didn't feel right. I wanted to step away."
On what's next: "I'm going to help somebody before this year is up... somebody that's smaller, and that not only needs the help, but wants the help, wants to learn." ... "I am good at television wrestling. I'm not Brian Danielson, and I'm not the Rock, but what I can do is put on a great television show with wrestling involved in it, and make it pretty."
On whether WWE saw AEW as competition: "No, no, we didn't, and we probably should have... it was looked at like, oh, that's this other little money marks compa...
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