Austin Creed Says New Level’s Phones Were Ringing ‘Pretty Quick’ After WWE Exit With Non-Wrestling Offers

Austin Creed spoke about the aftermath of New Level’s exits from WWE.

The newest episode of Close-Up with Renee Paquette featured a sit-down chat with the New Level (Kofi & Austin Creed).

After more than a decade-plus with WWE, Kofi and Creed are no longer with the company. Creed said after their exits, they immediately started getting phone calls about non-wrestling offers.

“That was like it was a quick thought, but I feel like we do so much outside of wrestling that as quick as the thought came, it left because I’ve always had the mentality of, you know, we do a lot of stuff in the gaming space. We do a lot of stuff and just in just other aspects. So, not wrestling just meant now we have more time for these things, and not to sound pompous or anything, but our phones were ringing pretty quick and our schedule got filled pretty quick. Not even with wrestling stuff, just with anime conventions. We weren’t necessarily worried about, ‘Oh, how are we going to make a living?’ Like we’re very lucky to be prominent in those spaces already. So it just gave us more time for that, and so that 90 days was awesome with the kids, awesome with the family, and then every once in a while, we’d go out and do a signing somewhere, do some conventions. We learned a ton about trading cards and all that stuff, and so there were avenues for us to not only make money but still have a ton of time at home with the kids. So that 90 days it was just really nice to only do what we wanted to do to be our own bosses.”