Steve Maclin Names Three WWE Superstars He Would Like To Face Off With
Steve Maclin discusses three WWE superstars he would like to face off with.
Steve Maclin discusses three WWE superstars he would like to face off with.
The TNA and WWE partnership that was established in the past year has led to several crossover matches between the promotion and WWE’s NXT brand, including the fact that Trick Williams remains the TNA World Heavyweight Champion while Jacy Jayne recently lost the TNA World Knockouts championship at NXT Heatwave to Ash By Elegance.
While speaking to Inside The Ropes in a new interview, Steve Maclin was asked what WWE talent he would like to face off with as part of the TNA/WWE crossover if given the chance. Maclin would go on to name Drew McIntyre, Pete Dunne and AJ Styles.
“I would love to get in the ring with the Phenomenal One, the one they called the standard of TNA Wrestling, or the man they call TNA Wrestling.”
Earlier on in the interview Maclin had spoke on the effectiveness of the crossover between the two companies.
“It’s given us so many moments now that we never thought would happen, with AJ [Styles] coming home at Slammiversary after 11 years. We never expected that to happen, and there he was in front of a sell-out crowd in UBS Arena, New York, in Long Island. It was a moment that I won’t forget, and it was just so cool to talk to him behind the scenes and get to talk to him for the first time in a while. To see him back in a TNA ring, which we never thought would happen, but with that partnership, that’s what has happened, and it has given us a ton of exposure. Granted, Trick Williams is our World Champion right now, but I’m not a big fan of that as well. It has given us across the board, some great moments with Jordynne Grace when she was the Knockouts Champion, and then you have Joe Hendry in the Royal Rumble, Jordynne in the Royal Rumble and then Joe Hendry at WrestleMania and the crossover with NXT, and hopefully that RAW and SmackDown crossover at some point would be awesome for TNA to get that exposure but it’s also just everybody’s getting to know what TNA Wrestling is once again from that rebrand that we had about a year ago, over a year ago. It’s really cool to be a part of, just because I went through that boom in NXT, when it was happening in 2014, and it feels the exact same way.”
Maclin recently sat down with Fightful’s In The Weeds podcast and discussed the possibility of defending the TNA International Championship abroad. You can read more about that here.
