Joey Janela Says Orange Crush Tried To Get Marcus Mathers To Burn His WWE ID Contract In The Middle Of A Ring
Joey Janela stands up for Marcus Mathers.
Back in July, Mathers was pulled from a PRODUCE show by WWE ID. The company’s promoter, Orange Crush, didn’t take likely to this decision, saying that he will terminate a wrestler’s future bookings if they decide to cancel a PRODUCE date for another independent contractor gig.
Appearing on Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds podcast, Janela praised Marcus for working hard and staying out of any drama in the world of wrestling.
“This shit with Marcus Mathers is such bullshit. Marcus Mathers, he’s the top of the top right now when comes to indies. Hard working, no drama, never gets involved in any drama. Just goes and wrestles his fucking ass off. To get brought into that like that is just such bullshit. It’s not even his doing. That’s someone that uses the WWE ID program to his full benefit. He sends X-PAC his matches, AJ Styles watches his matches. He gets those critiques. He goes to Nattie’s once a month when he’s down there at the performance center, twice a month. That’s just a hard working guy, then you bring him into this fucking bullshit because you’re like, fight the machine, fight fucking corporate wrestling and burn it to the ground. Indie wrestling forever. Fuck everyone else, don’t sign these contracts, but don’t prioritize a shitty 1PM show the day before my 8PM Monday pay-per-view. It’s just whatever dude. For him to bring that shit up, bringing Marcus into it which is just bullshit.”
Janela went on to say that Orange Crush tried to convince Mathers to burn his WWE ID contract in the middle of the ring.
“There’s other stories like him sending him like 30 text messages in a row trying to get him to burn the WWE ID contract in a garbage can in the middle of the ring and shit. Shit that Marcus would never even fathom doing, ever. This guy is that delusional or that hopped up on something that Marcus will be like, hell yeah, let’s fucking do it man, let’s burn that WWE ID contract. I don’t ever want to wrestle at WrestleMania, I just want to stay here with you Adam in fucking Brooklyn, New York in a fucking warehouse for the rest of my fucking life.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Joey spoke more about his personal issues with Orange Crush. Check out his full story by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful Overbooked’s full interview with Joey Janela in the video linked at the top of this article.
