Elias: “The fact that I just kinda was relegated to like short backstage – it was so frustrating that I was like, ‘You know what? Maybe I’m done with wrestling."
“The fact that I just kinda was relegated to like short backstage – it was so frustrating that I was like, ‘You know what? Maybe I’m done with wrestling. Maybe I’m just you know, I’m just over it.’ It beats that fun thing you have as a kid when you want to wrestle and you want to be in WWE… And someone like me, I didn’t like just to sit by and just collect the paycheck. I wanted to be in the mix.”
“I wanted to show you that I could be right in there with any of those guys. And to not have that happen was really just disheartening, you know what I mean? So I didn’t really know what I do after. I was trying so hard to make so many things happen. I was willing to do anything and I was willing to play any character. There was a time me and \[Rick\] Boogs were gonna be two muscle head guys and, dude, I thought we could have had a blast with that,”
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Beloved WWE superstar, 36, was 'close to retiring' from 'frustrating' exit