Yesterday, TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian was the latest guest on Insight with Chris Van Vliet. They spoke about a lot of topics and one of those topics was leaving AEW.
Below is what Kazarian had to say about departing AEW:
“No, I just re-signed the year before. I just re-signed for another three years. And then December of 2022, I get a call from a representative in the office, and they’re like, ‘Hey, just wanna let you know we’re gonna roll you over and we’ll just see.’ I go, ‘Whoa, wait about that. I don’t want that to happen.’ They’re kind of taken aback, and had a long conversation. I said, ‘Look, honestly, I would like you if I could just get my release.’ Everything I just explained to you, I explained to the people at AEW. They were, I don’t want to say shocked, because it’s not like I’m such a giant star, but they were like, just taken aback, because nobody had left AEW at this point. Cody did. Cody had left a few months before. So it was like, wow. ‘Well, what if we do like a per-show? What if we do this?’ I go, thank you, but I need to bet on myself. I need to just sever ties and go. A little bit of back and forth, and eventually the message came down to go, ‘Okay, well TK respects you as a man and as a wrestler, and if this is what you want, we can do your release.’ I said, ‘Can you please have it to me in writing by today?’ Because I hadn’t talked to anybody, WWE, TNA, I just needed out. I needed that safety net pulled away.”
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