Maven On Being Bitter After Getting Fired From WWE In 2005: ‘I Blamed My Lack Of Success On Everyone Other Than Me’

Maven says he was bitter after WWE released him in 2005.

Maven first joined WWE after winning Tough Enough in 2001. He would go on to win the Hardcore Championship three times during his run, before getting released.

Speaking with Ken Anderson on the Mic Check with Mr Anderson podcast, Maven talked about his WWE release in 2005.

At that time, Maven believed he had failed due to outside factors. But over the course of a decade, he realized that he just wasn’t ready.

“I’m not an overnight product. I was bitter for years after I got fired in ’05. It took the better part of 10 to 15 years before I wanted anything to do with wrestling. I blamed my lack of success on everyone other than me. Then once I finally sat down and realized, ‘You know what, you didn’t make it because of you.'”

Maven realized this upon watching an old match with Triple H, where the wrestler couldn’t adapt in the ring and was waiting for Triple H to call the shots for him.

“I’m watching a match I had with Hunter, and we’re both coming up off a double down. He goes to punch, and he tells me, ‘block.’ I block, I give him one, and I stand there. You can see me waiting for him to tell me what to do, and I’m thinking, ‘I wasn’t ready.’ Because now I know [to] stay on. He’ll cut me off. He’ll get me to where he needs to be.

But at the time, I didn’t know that. You can’t spoon-feed people through every aspect of a match. At the time, I’m thinking, ‘Wow, they’re not giving me the run I need.’ But I wasn’t ready.

Now I know what to do. Stay on him, let him break me out, break me in the eyes, let him kick me, let him do something. But at the time, I didn’t. So, in fact, when they let me go, [it was] probably the only thing they had to do.”

Maven was offered a job in WWE in the late 2000s, but he rejected it because he wasn’t ready.

In another interview, Maven talked about his favorite wrestler today. Fans can read his comments here.

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