He expressed that he only continues to wrestle because he loves what he does.
The newest episode of Donnie DaSilva and Jimmy Korderas’ HUGE POP! podcast included an extensive interview with Eric Young.
The TNA Wrestling talent and 26-year veteran states that he’s aware he’s in a position where if wrestling stops being fun for him, he can just stop. Young added that he thinks he could go back to WWE right now if he wanted to, but he’s enjoying what he’s doing in TNA.
I even said this when I was 17: ‘I’m not gonna do this if it hurts me. I’m not gonna do it if I don’t like it.’ If I go to Spartanburg on Friday and I don’t have fun, I’ll quit and fly home on Saturday morning. 100 percent… And it’s not lost on me that I have that choice. I’ve walked away from a whole pile of money in the WWE. I could work there, I think, right now if I felt like it. But I am where I am and I’m enjoying what I’m doing. So I’m gonna do that and the minute that I don’t like it or it hurts me or it’s hard to do or I feel I need to be pulled through, I’ll quit, because I love it and respect it too much and the truth is-is a lot of it, it gets irritating. Flying on planes and living out of a suitcase and away from your home. The only part that I fully really enjoy is the creative process and actually doing it. Unfortunately, that’s only 10-to-20 minutes of my day. I think it was Christian said, ‘They’re not paying me to wrestle. I’d do it for free. They’re paying me to live out of a suitcase, live in a hotel, crammed in a car for 300 miles, sitting in economy 24F beside the bathroom on overseas flights. That’s what they’re paying me for. The other stuff I do for free.’ As long as I can do it at a high-level and I don’t think, I know I can still do it at a high-level, I will continue to do it. That could end this weekend and I’d be fine with that. But, as long as I can do it at a high-level and I can, I will continue to do it.
On the docket for TNA is their television tapings in Nashville, Tennessee. The proceeds from the tapings will go directly to Hurricane Helene relief efforts in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Spartanburg was scheduled to host the aforementioned television tapings but due to severe weather alerts, the tapings were postponed and ultimately canceled.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit HUGE POP! with Donnie DaSilva and Jimmy Korderas with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
