Jack Swagger recently spoke on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness. Among other topics of discussion, he talked about the angle he pitched to Vince McMahon before his WWE departure, how there should be breaks in wrestling.
According to Swagger, there should be an offseason in professional wrestling since he was with WWE for a decade without having any breaks.
“From ’08 to ’18, so 10 years. Yeah, it flew by,” Swagger said. “I don’t know if it was a gift or a curse. I never really got injured, so I never went away, so I never got to have that big comeback type of deal and all fresh again. I was always kind of there. I feel like that kind of changed the dynamic a little bit. I feel like pro wrestling definitely needs a season, like, at least have it nine months a year, so you can go away for three months and be fresh with it and be fresh with storylines and make it easier again.”
Swagger pitched an angle to Vince McMahon where Swagger would leave WWE for MMA, return to WWE and feud with Vince McMahon.
“Before I left, Vince had caught me in the hallway and he told me that they were wasting me and I said, ‘man, that’s awesome to hear. Thank you for saying that. I’ll be in your office next week with ideas.’ And I pitched him an idea about leaving and having me go fight MMA and come back and kind of be a little controversy between us or something and then comeback type of deal. And he didn’t really want to do anything about it. And after that, not with him, but with everyone else, the communication really broke down, so I was like, ‘okay, it’s time to go.'” Swagger added, “and so [MMA] was on my mind. I wanted to do [MMA] then.”
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h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
