Bodyslam’s own Cassidy Haynes and Dom Mallon recently sat down for a wide ranging interview with wrestling legend Vampiro. The interview was largely about the documentary “Nail In The Coffin: The Fall and Rise Of Vampiro” and can be listened to below.
Wrestling Inc. also hosted a podcast with Vampiro, and the discussion naturally led to WWE. Vampiro went into a lot of information about his past, his troubles with addiction and his time with WCW. He went into detail over how toxic the WCW environment was. When WWE bought out WCW, the Invasion angle occurred and a lot of ex WCW talent made the jump to WWE.
Vampiro opened up that he did in fact have a discussion with Bruce Pritchard, but Pritchard made it clear that WWE had no plans for his character. Vampiro stated that he didn’t feel bad about the decision, in fact he had no hard feelings on it at all.
Vampiro stated,
“I don’t really remember, everybody has their version, but I’ll say it like this, if WWE wanted Vampiro, Vampiro would be there. There’s a reason I’m not there. Everybody might say you missed your opportunity. No, that’s not true. I had an amazing career. Every single place I went, I was in the main event. I had great story lines. I had great interactions with the fans for the last 39 years. This is my 39th year. I have nothing bad to say.
“If I was that good and that important, WWE would have signed me on the spot. It’s that simple, so it wasn’t meant to be, and I was going through divorce. I was injured, and I didn’t know what was going on. My daughter was just born, and I had an offer to go to Japan and I was trying to save my marriage. The last thing on my mind was the WWE, and again, if they wanted me, of course I’d be there, but I didn’t make the cut. It’s that plain and simple. It just wasn’t my time. They didn’t need me. That’s that. No big deal.”
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