David Otunga Says He Pitched A Stable Prior To Stopping Wrestling: It Was Kind Of What The Hurt Syndicate Ended Up Becoming

David Otunga recalls a stable that he pitched prior to stopping wrestling.

In 2015, David would wrestle his final match in the world of professional wrestling before stepping away from the sport. While Otunga doesn’t class himself as a retired pro wrestler, he does consider himself as a wrestler who hasn’t wrestled in a long time.

While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, Otunga spoke about when he knew it was time to step away.

“It wasn’t necessarily my last match. That’s the thing, in my mind, I’ve never had my last match. It’s just where I was in the company and becoming an announcer and doing all that they didn’t really want me doing in ring stuff. You actually get a different contract where you are on an announcer’s contract instead of a talent one. So it just was they weren’t even thinking about me, booking me creatively, although I did pitch some ideas, and was gonna have my own stable. I wanted to, got a little bit of traction.” 

Otunga was then asked who would have been part of the faction, noting that it would have been similar to what The Hurt Syndicate has become in AEW.

“Well, I don’t know. I pitched something, I don’t know if I called it The Firm or what it was, but it was kind of what The Hurt Syndicate ended up becoming. But it was before that, so it was three years before that. I don’t know when they came out. It might even been longer, because it was 2019, this is before COVID, at least. But anyway, I was going to be the leader of that as a heel lawyer. And, yeah, they liked it, but it obviously didn’t [happen], they liked me better as an announcer.” 

Elsewhere in the same interview, Otunga spoke about a clip featuring he and Arnold Schwarzenegger that made the rounds earlier this year. You can read more about that here.