Eric Young Discusses TNA Management Telling Talents About Staying Within Their Allotted Match Times
A meeting was held about going overtime.
Guest appearing on an episode of HUGE POP! was Eric Young. The two-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion opened up about a meeting TNA management held that had to do with talents staying within their allotted match times.
He said TNA is clamping down on that, and it made a set of television tapings run smoothly. Young said talents were told they have to stay within their times, or management will find wrestlers who will do that.
“If you go under, or you go over, you’re in trouble, and I always say this to the younger guys, saying, ‘When I was a younger guy and I was in the middle of the show or the beginning of the show, and I went long, I had to go tell A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle that they’ve got three less minutes because I used it.’ That’s unacceptable, and right now, it’s something that the company is definitely clamping down on. Last TVs went really, really well, because management said, ‘Look guys, if you can’t hit times and you can’t do what we’re asking to do in those times, we’ll find people that can,’ and that’s just the nature of the business.”
Young is currently engaged in a program with EC3 on TNA programming. They’ll be in a No DQ match on the 5/7 Thursday Night iMPACT.
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