Former professional wrestler and a former three times WWE Tag Team Champion Paul London who is also a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion recently talked about his time with AEW. He claimed the promotion shut him down while he was reaching to a coaching position.
Paul London made his WWE debut back in 2003 after pending a number of years on the independent circuit and a little time in the Ring of Honor. Upon making his WWE debut, he was started to be treated as a tag team wrestler as he was paired with Billy Kidman. The Tag Team of these two athletes became really famous among the WWE fans.
Paul London Shares His Story With AEW
After working as a tag team with Billy Kidman for a year or so, he was given a solo run and he started working on the Cruiserweight division of Friday Night SmackDown. He won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship one time. After his successful Cruiserweight division run, he teamed up with Brian Kendrick.
The team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick was one of the most famous tag teams of that time. They worked as a tag team for three long years before splitting up in 2008. In 2009 he was released from WWE and he started working on the independent circuit. In 2018, after working almost a decade in the independent circuit, he announced his retirement from in ring competition.
Paul London who is also a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion recently spoke to René Duprée’s Café De René podcast where he talked about his time with AEW. He claimed the promotion shut him down while he was reaching to a coaching position. He said;
“What a lot of people don’t know is that last year, there had been like some very loose discussions between myself and that company [AEW], not Ring of Honor and it was more so like, ‘Hey, I would like to help if there’s a way for me to help from a coaching standpoint or a producing standpoint.
“You know, I feel I have a lot offer’ and you know, without outright saying, ‘Hey, this doesn’t make any sense’ and, ‘Hey look, this is really bad’ and, ‘Hey look, this is pretty unwatchable,’ there was more so, ‘How can I help you guys kind of sharpen some of these things up a bit?’
“Because I had done that at Lucha Underground and I really excelled at it, I really enjoyed it, you know? I was part of that writing team, even though I wasn’t officially a writer there. I was part of the creative discussions and things of that nature and really enjoyed it and really excelled and it was probably the most fun I ever had in wrestling was my time in Lucha Underground.
“So I was hoping, hey, you know, maybe there’s a need for something like that and was shut down like immediately. Like, ‘No, no, no. We’ve got enough coaches, got enough agents.’ It’s like, really? I don’t think they’re doing their job [London laughed]. I don’t think they’re doing anything. Really?
“Okay, that’s surprising… it’s one thing to offer me a ‘look’ on their YouTube show which I can’t say was very flattering and then for Brian [Kendrick] to be released one day and then get put immediately on TV and then that whole thing blew up in their face, you know, because they didn’t vet somebody properly, was like, ah, well, you know, ah, good luck [London laughed]. Good luck.”
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