Road Dogg States That He Left WWE Creative Because It Was ‘Moving Too Fast,’ Shuts Down Idea Of Producing For AEW

James is also asked about the idea of joining AEW.

In early March, Brian ‘Road Dogg’ James exited WWE. He was the co-lead writer of Friday Night SmackDown.

For the first time since his exit, James commented on why he left the company as he was doing a virtual signing.

“It was moving too fast… It was just moving too fast for me. We talked about my brothers and their grandkids and I didn’t get to spend a whole lot of time with mine so, I’m gonna do more of that now.”

James was featured on the WWE: Unreal series on Netflix during a creative writing meeting. He was asked if he believes it’s exposing the wrestling business too much.

“As an old timer, I think we always feel that way (that it’s exposing the business too much)… The idea behind it, in my opinion, is it’s an on-ramp or an exit ramp into the actual episodic television show, and I don’t know if there’s a metric that can tell you whether that works or not.”

Billy Gunn participated in the signing with James and was asked how much of the producing in All Elite Wrestling actually makes it to television. James chimed in and said he does not know the answer to that question because he’s not there. James was then asked whether he could know that answer in the future.

James: “I don’t know the answer to that. I’m sorry,” he laughed.

Gunn: “I don’t know the answer to that either.”

James: “No,” he replied when asked if he could know the answer sometime in the future.

Gunn: “No.”

Billy Gunn has a double contract with AEW. He is a talent and a producer.

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