Former four times WWE 24/7 Champion EC3 aka Ethan Carter III who is also a former two times TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently looked back at his WWE run that ended last year. He gave his opinion on why this run of him with WWE failed miserably.
EC3 started his professional wrestling career back in the mid 2000s. In 2010 he came to WWE as a participant of the original NXT Talent Hunt competition, he participated as a contestant in the third season of the NXT.
EC3 Reflects On His Latest WWE Run, Why It Failed
He was renamed as Derrick Bateman during the time. He failed to win the competition but he got a contract in the newly formed NXT brand. He kept on working in WWE till 2013 before he got released by the promotion.
He joined the independent promotion on the same year he was released by the WWE. On the same here he also joined TNA Wrestling. WWE fails to utilize his prospect when TNA used him properly and made him a star. He spent a total of five years in the TNA Wrestling and and on the independent circuit as well. During this five year time period of his career, he won so many important championships including the TNA World Heavyweight Championship two times in total.
In 2018 he returned to WWE and everybody expected a very good run for him this time in WWE. When he started his second one with WWE, he was doing quite well in the NXT. He was presented as quite a strong force in the NXT until he came to the main roster where he was completely buried. It looked like WWE intentionally buried in on the main roster. He tried really hard but WWE was determined not to push him. In 2020 he was released and right now he is active on the independent circuit.
EC3 aka Ethan Carter III who is also a former two times TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Insight with Chris Van Vliet where he looked back at his WWE run that ended last year. He gave his opinion on why this run of him with WWE failed. He said;
“I think it was the first segment where I came out and didn’t speak. I just let Ambrose jab me a bit, it’s fun, and whatever. He shouldn’t have been a babyface, but he had that great run with the company and now he is leaving, so people are cheering for him.
“I think the debut had no purpose. They called up a bunch of people in a rash decision, and I think they could have lived or died on their own. They didn’t need a bunch. But it doesn’t matter. There’s no point to any of it.
“On my end, dropping the ball was not doing anything to make them give it to me. I tried a few things. One thing I promised myself when I got there was I will never be that guy who’s miserable and it doesn’t matter, and I became that, and that’s on me. But maybe it happened for a reason.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcript