Ryan Nemeth on He Initially Turned Down TNA After Being “Badly Burned” By Wrestling

A recent episode of the Death Arts Xiii By Ash podcast featured TNA talent Ryan Nemeth as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nemeth’s thoughts about how he had initially turned down joining TNA Wrestling and his reasons for his lack of interest at the time.

“The real answer that’s maybe not so pleasant is that I had politely said no thank you a few times because I was a little turned off by everything in wrestling in my personal life, which made it seem like I don’t want to have anything to do with this anymore ever again. It’s just so brutal, you know.

“You could find some gossip about that and maybe some half-facts, but the truth is I had some really horrible things continuing to happen, happened to me in wrestling, which really turned me off from it entirely.”

Nemeth also gave his thoughts about his talks with someone from TNA and how those talks led to him changing his mind and wanting to join the company.

“The TNA person said, ‘I have an idea for you and your brother. It’s a storyline. I can’t guarantee anything, but we could try it out and see how it goes.’ And I said, ‘All right, some time has passed. This actually sounds cool.’ To have a company have an idea versus, ‘Would you like to be cannon fodder for the people we really care about?’ It was a company saying, ‘You are special and we’d like to utilize that in our TV storylines.’ That was exciting to me.

So it was risky, but I said, ‘Sure, let’s try it.’ And we were kind of both giving each other a tryout. TNA was seeing how I am. I was seeing how TNA is. And luckily for everybody, it worked out great. So that’s like the gist of it, I think. At first I was trying to not do it because I was kind of badly burned from wrestling behind-the-scenes stuff.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com