MVP Says He Signed New Contract Extension with AEW, No Update on Potential New Member for Hurt Syndicate, & Still Has No Respect for Triple H and New Generation ‘Don’t Know That Guy Yet’

Adventure Games held a recent interview with MVP. One of the topics discussed included MVP revealing that he recently signed a new contract contract with AEW to remain in the company for the foreseeable future.

“I do want to say this. I want to say thank you to Tony Khan, because recently I signed an extension and I’ll be with AEW for quite a while in my current capacity and hopefully beyond in a managerial capacity and to whatever extent, possibly behind the scenes. I’m very happy where I’m at right now in my career at this stage to be able to continue to contribute to the business and make money with my friends and entertain at the level that we’re still able to maintain. I appreciate Tony Khan for giving me, Bobby and Shelton an opportunity to get the team back together for a final run and the future looks bright.”

MVP also gave his thoughts about him having no new update for a new member potentially joining his Hurt Syndicate group in the future, such as former WWE and current TNA talent Cedric Alexander, but it is still something that the group wants to do.

“None at all. We’re open to it. It’s something that we want to do. I don’t know what’s going on and it’s above my pay grade, but we’d love to have Cedric Alexander back. But that’s above my pay grade. But if Cedric’s not available, or for some reason we can’t have Cedric, there are a few other guys that we’ve talked about amongst ourselves that we’d like to have. But the issue with The Hurt Syndicate is that our relationship is organic. We weren’t just three random guys that were thrown together and had to learn to get along. We’re three guys that are legitimate friends that actually hang out away from work. We train together, we go to events together. We’re actually friends, so you can’t just throw some random guy with us that we don’t vibe with because then that throws off the whole group. It’s not organic and it comes across as such. So we would like it if at some point when a new member is added that we have some input into who that person is because we don’t want to throw off the chemistry of the group. It’s got to be an organic fit so that that younger person, whomever it may be, can vibe with us, learn from us, grow with us, and we can have a relationship. Because after every show, me, Shelton and Bobby go somewhere and we get something to eat and we talk about what happened that night, we’ll find a nice steakhouse and we’ll get some nice steaks and I’ll sip on some Macallen 18 or something, and then Shelton will sip on his Sprite and Bobby will drink his water. You don’t get a physique like Bobby and Shelton by drinking anything but water! Bobby will have a drink on occasion, but he’s not a drinker. Shelton, he doesn’t drink at all. Nothing. Not a drop. He drinks Sprite by the gallon. Sprite and Lemonade. That’s why I laugh, I see sometimes in comments or some of the talent going against us in promos will call us old and talk about how old we are. Dude, I can literally be your dad, but I’m more fit than you. I can beat your ass into a coma if I wanted to. There’s nothing you can do about it. So if you are calling me old and you don’t look half as good as I do, and I’m twice your age, what’s your problem? The fact that we’re all where we’re at, and we can still go the way we do. And like I said, Bobby and Shelton, they look better now than they did 10 years ago. I laugh at the old comments because yeah, I’m a grey beard, but you should be aware of an old man in a game where men die young.”

MVP also gave his thoughts about WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart’s recent comments about Hart’s long standing issues with WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque calling him a “phony” and his own personal issues with Levesque and still not having any respect for him.

“Man, I agree with Bret’s assertion. I’ve said before, I call him a coward and a liar. Let’s put it like this, if you really want to, you can go to YouTube and you can look up the interviews of various wrestlers through the years of what their opinion is of the man. Interviews of guys that were his friends, what they had to say about the guy. I can think of more guys that dislike him than I can think of guys that do like him, and people say MVP’s salty or bitter. Like, no, I have personal issues with the dude, stemming from professional stuff, but just the things that he does, how he carries himself, I just don’t have respect for the guy. The newer generation, they don’t know that guy yet. So the (ones) of those that came up underneath him in NXT, they think he’s brilliant and a lot of them should for the hand he’s had in their career. But the guys that had to work with him back in the day will tell you a different story almost overwhelmingly, and so it’s not just me saying it. There’s guys who are way up the totem pole than me that are telling you that this guy’s no bueno.”