Bear Bronson Felt Like A ‘Signed Extra’ During His Time With AEW

Bronson compares his AEW and TNA runs.

Present day, Bear Bronson is signed to TNA Wrestling and is one-half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions as a member of The System.

Before arriving at TNA, Bronson had been under contract to All Elite Wrestling. During an appearance on Busted Open After Dark, Bronson stated that the entire time he was with AEW, he felt like a ‘signed extra’ talent.

“So I could explain the difference between the two (TNA & AEW) and I’m not throwing any shade here but when I was with AEW, in all of five years, from start to finish, I felt like a signed extra, if that makes sense. Where you’re just kind of there… Whether you’re there or not, it doesn’t really make a big difference, and on the complete other end of the spectrum is with TNA, I actually feel like an important part of the piece moving forward, and it’s funny because I came to the company at the same time as The Righteous who I’m very close with, and we both have very similar journeys, where we feel like we found a new home, where we are like, ‘We can really sink our teeth, and give all of our talents and give everything we have to push a company forward…’ I feel like even in my first weekend with TNA, I felt welcomed immediately by the entire roster, all these people I don’t know. The team, the entire team I just met, I felt welcomed immediately, and I feel like now — even looking at just when we were in Syracuse, I had this feeling that the entire roster’s firing on all cylinders, because we all want this to succeed. It’s not every day wrestling companies land on major networks, right? So with us landing on AMC, and now the announcement of Slammiversary and the announcement of Lockdown returning, I feel like everybody’s just hungry. People talk about top one, top two, top three companies, it’s like, we wanna be the top and you feel it from everybody on the roster and it feels really, really good to be a big part of that.”

Bronson and Brian Myers will be defending the TNA World Tag Team Titles on the 5/7 Thursday Night iMPACT against the makeshift duo of Nic Nemeth and K.C. Navarro.

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