Eric Young built his name in TNA, but after a twelve-year run with the promotion, he felt he was being underpaid and chose to leave in 2016 for a new challenge. He’d go on to debut on NXT a few months later losing to Samoa Joe and clearly impressed WWE officials because he returned in October as the leader of SAnitY. His faction would be a featured act in NXT, but things went downhill once they moved to SmackDown in 2018. As part of the blue brand, they were mainly used to put other teams over, and at one point, even lost a three on one handicap match to The Miz. The group officially split when Young was drafted to Raw in April 2019, where his record ended up being 2-31. Exactly one year after his move to Raw, he was released as part of budgetary cuts.
Now Young has been interviewed on SiriusXM’s Busted Open by Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer and told them how he feels the WWE system is broken.
We don’t need to go on and on about it, but the system is broken. It’s hard to get a word in. Even when you’re doing nothing, it feels like you’re just trying to fix people’s mistakes all day. There is no creativity. They want everyone to do things the same and be the same and bump the same and sell the same. And there’s millions of rules, which I’m sure you guys have all heard and talked about on the show at length, and people talk about on the internet. The secret rules. Those change daily, and it’s just really hard to understand what’s going on and why it’s going on. The system is flawed. And I would say that to anyone there. I would say it to Vince himself.
Eric YoungHe’d add that while he had spoken to Vince McMahon during his time in WWE, it wasn’t a regular occurrence because he wasn’t prepared to wait around for hours.
I’m not gonna stand in a hallway for four hours to talk to him. I’m just not gonna do that. That could be wrong on my part. That could be stubborn on my part, but I’m a forty-year-old man, and I’m not gonna wait in the hallway like a child to maybe get five minutes to talk to him. I said my piece to him. He seemed to be responsive to it. And nothing ever came from it. I don’t take it personally. He made a mistake, and as a leader of the company and the person that decides everything, it’s a massive mistake to pass on somebody with me. You have a three-hour television show, and you can’t find five minutes for Eric Young? Your show is broken. It’s as simple as that.
Eric YoungYoung has now returned to Impact Wrestling and was a surprise participant in the five-way elimination match for the vacant Impact World Championship at Slammiversary. He wasn’t victorious but appears set to work a program with winner Eddie Edwards.
