Impact Wrestling and former NXT wrestler Sami Callihan recently conducted an exclusive interview with Fightful where he would discuss gambling on himself when he left NXT and becoming a mainstay with Impact Wrestling.
Callahan left NXT and became a free agent in 2015 and travelled around wrestling on the ‘indies’ before finding a new home with IMPACT. Sami would say the following during the interview:
“It was one of those things, I was always a huge IMPACT! Wrestling fan back in the days of the Wednesday pay-per-views. I was actually, before I was gonna get signed to go to the other place, there was some interest in bringing me into IMPACT! then and I was super excited. It was something that just didn’t happen. Then I got extremely lucky, I signed with Lucha Underground. Lucha Underground pretty much weren’t going to be running any more tapings so I had an opportunity to try to go wherever I wanted and I had a lot of friends at IMPACT! Wrestling. All it was, was a phone call saying I was interested and then we’re off to the races,” Callihan said, who also admitted he was very excited for this year’s nixed IMPACT vs. TNA show.
Unfortunately that show was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the interview Callihan would discuss how wrestling and the wider world has changed due to COVID-19. He tried to find a silver lining to the changes, as discussed below:
“I think it made people be more creative. It’s an unprecedented time in pro wrestling like none other. It gave people an opportunity to really step out of their comfort zone and do something different. Another positive was just seeing how much IMPACT! Wrestling actually cares for all of us. We all want to say, ‘Oh, well our company cares about us,’ even if it’s true or not true. But, it was truly proven how much IMPACT! Wrestling cares for us. They paid a lot of people when we weren’t doing tapings just to make sure everyone got by. Then all the protocols they took at tapings just showed that IMPACT! Wrestling, it’s really cliché, but IMPACT! Wrestling really is a family that does well to their own,” Callihan told us.
Sami has been working with some big names in the industry recently, such as Rob Van Dam and Ken Shamrock. He’ll be in the corner of the Shamrock as he takes on Eddie Edwards at IMPACT Wrestling Bound For Glory on Saturday October 24th.
You can see Sami Callihan’s full interview with fightful below:
Thanks to fightful for the quotes.
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