Former WWE Superstar Konnor of The Ascension was recently the guest on The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast. Here are some highlights….

On if he and Viktor knew they were getting released:

“We knew. I think the one thing that anybody knows about us is we’re not big social media guys. We don’t go out there, and we don’t blast our problems out anything like that. We try to keep everything under the umbrella. There had already been talks that were discussed as far as there wasn’t really a purpose.”

“We loved being there, but you can only sit around for so long before you start twiddling your thumbs kind of like, ‘ok guys, what are we doing here?’ And when you’re kind of told so many things [where] nothing comes to fruition, you get that opportunity, it’s kind of like, ‘well, do you want to sit there for another three years or five years?’ Not like it’s a toxic relationship. It’s just one of those things where there’s no need to pay, and we knew we weren’t going to re-sign. There was no intention of re-signing, and that’s nothing against WWE. It was more along the effects of the situation and the circumstances as far as them not really having anything for us just keeping us around.”

On the message it would send to his son if he stayed in WWE for financial reasons:

“One day I’m gonna have to look at my son and tell him really go for what you believe in. How can you say something like that when all you’re thinking about is the money, and that’s not why I got into this business, and I’m pretty sure that’s why I succeeded as far as I did. It was never really about the money, but I think for the last three years, it just started to become a numbers game. I hate saying that, but that was kind of the reality of it all.”

On how much time was left on their contracts before being released:

“We only had two more months left. We literally had two months left. We had been sitting at home for almost nine months. They literally had taken us off the road. We literally just sat there through the last portion of our contract. It’s just one of those things where it was nice to be honest with you. There’s some more backstory to why things went the way that they did. Basically, I had a discussion with one of the gentlemen that were there where they were talking about possibly making some things happen. My only question to them was why. There was really no point. There was nothing going on for us. We were clearly there to do one thing and that was to be ‘enhancement talent’, and that’s just the reality of it. So you kind of just take a step back and [say], ‘this isn’t why I got into this business.'”

On their working relationship with Vince McMahon:

“We didn’t really have much of a working relationship with him to be honest with you. It wasn’t a ‘hey Vince, how you doing’ type thing. We always said hello and stuff like that, but we would try to get meetings with him. You just never know around that place. Some guys would just knock on the door, but for the majority of the time, Vince was either busy with writers. It just seemed like, at the time, it was always something. We threw pitches out. Some of the greatest stuff that we did that we really enjoyed was the Fashion Files, and it was a lot of fun because you got to see a new side of us or at least a different side of us. I always knew we could be goofy at times, and that was a lot of fun. I think they pulled the plug on that too because Vince wasn’t quite buying it. I don’t know. It’s just one of those things where us personally, we didn’t have a very close relationship with him. Some guys get that benefit, and some guys don’t. We, unfortunately, were the ones that didn’t get that one-on-one time.”

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