Caleb Konley is a wrestling veteran who has had the opportunity to compete for IMPACT Wrestling for a number of years and make a few appearances on AEW's YouTube programming, AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation.
Along with the rise of AEW Saturday Collision, a new program airing in primetime on TNT, AEW ended its YouTube programs for the time being.
Appearing on The A2theK Wrestling Show, Konley addressed the end of those programs, saying that it was only natural and he enjoyed his time appearing on those shows while he could.
“You know, it was wrestling on YouTube. It was super cool, and I enjoyed my time there and all of the matches I had, I thought, were pretty good. I was happy with all of it. It’s wrestling. They’ve got another show on TV, and then they’ve got Ring Of Honor on Honorclub, so how many wrestling shows can one company have at one time? Not only from a viewer perspective, but from the perspective of the talent that has to fly back and forth… I was at one of the Dark tapings, guys had just left from TV across the country, and they had to fly to Florida, and I think the next day, there was a signing somewhere else and a whole bunch of guys were on the signing in the morning, so they had to leave straight from there and it’s just like, do we really need these other shows? I get it in the beginning. It was probably great for them to have another place to work. Maybe some guys aren’t getting used on TV regularly enough, so this is giving them a spot. But for other people, especially with Collision and the Ring Of Honor shows, there’s only so much traveling you can do. It's not good for your body,” he said.
Fans can read Tony Khan's thoughts on the end of those programs here.
Elsewhere in the interview, Konley opened up about the end of his time with IMPACT. Read more here.
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