Shawn Spears, the former Tye Dillinger, spoke to Chris Van Vliet of WSVN-TV recently. You can see the full interview above, and check out submitted highlights below.
Why he thinks he was granted his release from WWE when so many other Superstars did not get theirs:
"That's tough to answer because no one else was granted their release. And it's one of three things, maybe it was a mutual respect that I had built up with them. I was with them for eight and a half years total including my first time around. I did things right, I never got into any trouble. I was professional and I carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do. So that was one thing, the other thing is that statement that I put out later that evening on February 19th kind of handcuffed them a little bit. If they would have kept me, that might have made a lot of people unhappy. If they would have kept me and utilized me in a negative way or have me get killed on TV every week that would have made people upset. I think it put me in the best position possible to get what I was looking for. And the third possible reason is maybe they didn't see anything in me and they go 'You know what? We don't see any value. It is time to go, so go ahead and to be honest with you I really hope it's that one. I really, really do because that just fuels a little more fire."
