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During an interview with Fightful, Scotty 2 Hotty spoke about his decision to leave WWE.
âIt wasnât an immediate thing. Well, it was building over the last six months. It all started during the pandemic and everything started to change. Moreso over the last six months, I started having thoughts come into my mind. I saw people outside of WWE independent wise, AEW wise, international wise out there having fun. I just wasnât having fun anymore. I had a great thirty years working for them and Iâm so thankful for everything they did.â
âThey gave me a platform. You and I probably wouldnât even be talking if it wasnât for my time that. So, thatâs why I say I have to be thankful for that, but I just wasnât having fun there anymore. Iâd be driving to work at the Performance Center every day and Iâd have my stomach in knots. I blame a lot of it on the pandemic because that started, which seems like it started the releases and all of these people that I had coached and been friends with. Some of them became like my kids and all of a sudden theyâre getting released and Iâm finding out about it on Twitter. Iâm their coach, Iâm encouraged to build a relationship.â
âI was finding out from you. I would literally be sitting in class with somebody and then three hours laterâthere was one person, in particular, Iâm having a heart to heart talk with and Iâve earned that personâs trust over the last couple of years and Iâm giving them the best advice I can and then three hours later my buddy from Nashville texts me and he says, âHey, looks like releases are happening again.â So I jump on Twitter and see this guy was just released. I always said, âI donât ever want to know that one of my talents was getting a release before they know,â but I feel like the coaches deserve the respect of being told as soon as the talent knows. I shouldnât be finding out on Twitter. That was, really, my biggest beef, if anything.â
âCâmon, man. Give me a little bit of respect. Give me a heads-up before Iâm finding out on Twitter and it goes back to the same thing as a guy like Otis and Tucker, who I had worked with. When Otis came to me and asked if he could do the Worm and I told him to hold off, go out there and get over first, and then add the Worm in. Thatâs what they did. Heavy Machinery went out there, had maybe six months, they started to get over and I pulled him aside one day. I said, âHey, go ahead. Add the Worm in now.â So he started doing the Worm and I had this relationship with him and I love the dude. I find out that theyâre going to RAW watching the show with everybody else. Like, dude. Câmon, man. Just a bit of a lack of communication there. I understand itâs a big machine, itâs running a hundred miles an hour and theyâre probably not worried about my feelings. Itâs an oversight. I donât believe itâs a deliberate thing. Itâs just an oversight.â
Scotty went back and discussed some of the younger talent having to deal with being put into high-pressure television situations when they weren't necessarily ready for it.
âMaybe it was necessary. I heard recently like 181 people since the pandemic started. Thatâs a lot of people that werenât being used, maybe. So I understand it from a business perspective. If you have a lot of people that youâre not doing anything with, you have to just let go. Thatâs part of what we do. But at the same time, just give us a bit of a heads-up. A guy like Maclin, him, and Wesley Blake, two of the best there are. We used to open a lot of the NXT road shows with Street Profits versus the Forgotten Sons. It was a perfect opening match and they understood how to go out there and work an opening match. Those are guys you can really use right now, in my opinion, when you have so many green people that youâre just throwing out there. Once you start throwing green people versus green it gets a little bit scary and dangerous, especially when itâs on live television.â
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