Trey hit the open market a few years ago, and apparently didn’t handle it well. Luckily, IMPACT Wrestling was there to help out.
On the newest episode of Brian Hebner’s Refin’ It Up podcast, Trey further dove into the period of his career where he and his fellow Rascalz (Wes Lee & Zachary Wentz) all became free agents and those two ended up signing with WWE. He said it was a lot to process. Wrestling was his only source of income at the time and he was not working any shows. He stated that IMPACT ‘helped take care’ of him during that period.
“It was just a lot, you know?
[Miguel explained how he felt when The Rascalz departed IMPACT and all signs were pointing to WWE] It was a lot of pressure from — everything becomes public news and even before you can handle it privately, the internet finds out what it finds out and the amount of attention that all of that got kind of scared me at the time. I remember having the three months off that I took just wanting to have time to myself. It was the first time in X amount of years I could figure out anything. I had time to think and that’s just what I wanted to do so I just took the three months, weighed every option I had, thought about everything realistically and I decided to go back to IMPACT in January… And I didn’t take any indie bookings in between too so had completely gotten out of wrestling and one of the cool things about that, it’s… this is why I love working for IMPACT Wrestling and why it means so much. In that three months when you’re not wrestling on TV or the independents, that’s the only way I make money so, when I’m not doing that, I’m not doing anything to gain income and IMPACT Wrestling, they helped take care of me in those three months that I wasn’t doing anything because I opened up to them about like, ‘Hey, my mental health isn’t doing so well with everything that was going on.’”
When Miguel decided that IMPACT is where he wanted to be, he was welcomed back with open arms. He added that the day he chatted with Executive Vice President Scott D’Amore, they agreed to a contract.
“No [there was no bitterness from IMPACT that I took a break]. It was an immediate open arms. I mean, it was nothing but a conversation. It took not even a five minute conversation to go, ‘Hey, yeah, we understood everything.’ I stayed in contact with everyone in that in between time and I’m friends and close with almost everyone that’s at IMPACT and have been before I even got there. So it goes deeper than just a work thing. Everyone understood how hard of a decision that was for me to make and why I needed so much time to think about things and when I decided that I wanted to stay with IMPACT, there was no animosity. There was no hesitation letting me come back. The day I called Scott [D’Amore] and told him that, ‘Hey, this is where I wanna be,’ we had my contract signed that night.”
During the Q&A portion of the podcast, Miguel was asked if he would be open to Zachary Wentz coming back to IMPACT and here was his response:
“Yeah, 1,000 percent [I would be open to Zachary Wentz returning to IMPACT]. I couldn’t say yes a million times, but I would try.”
H/t Post Wrestling’s Andrew Thompson. Original article HERE
On the 10/13 episode of IMPACT on AXSTV, Trey Miguel defeated Alex Zayne, Black Taurus, Laredo Kid, Yuya Uemura & Kenny King. It was then announced the following week that there would be an X Division Tournament to crown a new champion at Overdrive.
On 10/27, Trey Miguel defeated Alan Angels in the first round of the X Division Title tournament to advance. Trey is currently set to take on the most recent former X Division Champion, “Speedball” Mike Bailey in the semi-finals of the tournament. The winner will advance to the finals to take on the winner of PJ Black and Black Taurus at Overdrive to crown a NEW X Division Champion.
Trey is a former X Division Champion who is hoping to capture the title yet again at Overdrive, and then who knows? Maybe he’ll follow in the footsteps of Frankie Kazarian and use Option C to get a World Title shot.
— Matches announced for 11/10 episode —
X Division Title Tournament
-Mike Bailey vs Trey Miguel
-Chelsea Green vs Mickie James
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-Bully Ray vs Zicky Dice w/Johnny Swinger
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