EC3 is spending his post-WWE life working on controlling his narrative.
Since his WWE release, EC3 has worked hard in not only being able to control his own narrative, but encouraging others to do the same. EC3’s trip through promotions in 2020 has not only helped him do that, but helped him find what seems to be a creative freedom he hasn’t seemed to have in a while. And while he has done his best to make sure he’s had complete freedom in all of it, sometimes changes have had to be made.
During his return to Impact earlier this year, he and Moose had a cinematic match that was set for Bound for Glory. The two filmed the match and Impact rejected their version, replacing it with one the company was more hands on with. Talking to Fightful, EC3 talks about the rejected cut and his thoughts on the one the world eventually saw.
“Okay. Did it go how I originally planned, me and myself? No. But, I don’t expect it to because at that point I’m working for a company. Control your narrative. I control mine. They control theirs. Having said that, was I happy with it? Extremely happy. I thought it was a great story arc. I think the only hold ups to it was getting from point a to point b with so much time in between to not do so much physicality that maybe there’s a little bit of redundancy. But, a necessary evil to save the sanctity for where we were going at Bound for Glory. The original plan was, and this is why the Narrative extended—available on my website, FreeEC3.com—has what I filmed with Moose prior to my return to IMPACT!. Because prior to my return to IMPACT! part of my conditions were I’d like to produce use him in my thing and I would like to build on the side going forward and I will do this with him and we will culminate at Bound for Glory. it’s somewhere in between that. They decided they wanted to do a ‘cinematic’ match for Bound for Glory, and that’s fine. Kind of leaving me with what we shot on the ground floor on the table just sitting there. I was very happy with how we did the match. I thought the match told a great story. I thought it put Moose into position—I think the last shot of his sitting on the ring apron with that look in his eyes made him. Now, I’ve done everything I could for him. Let’s see where he takes it.”
So while the things didn’t exactly go completely how EC3 planned it, he did reveal what his original idea was for what was to happen between Moose and him.
“Originally my intention was for half-way through this angle for him to come looking for me, come to my Narrative, we have a fight. It’s not a win or a loss fight, but it’s a fight. But, therefore, he learns more about himself within it, we go to Bound for Glory in a normal match and then he becomes who he’s supposed to be. He’s victorious. He conquers the challenge. EC3, the character, can go die on his sword, having destroyed his past by allowing himself to be destroyed by who he deems the person that can control the future of the company, so to speak. So, it didn’t happen that way. Still very happy with how it came out. I’m sitting there with that match with Moose and I thought it was his best performance. The one I had with him, in the extended Narrative, that it just seemed like an opportunity to throw it out there, see what happens. It’s cool.”
While it may not have gone all how EC3 wanted, he still seems content with how it went down. Meanwhile, EC3 has left the door open to returning to Impact, but he wants to see through his work with Jay Briscoe in Ring of Honor first. You can watch the interview below.
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