Steve Maclin has praise for Mike Santana.
Steve Maclin wanted competition at TNA Rebellion, and he got it in the form of a returning Mike Santana. Santana had not been on TNA television since 2019 when he left the company and signed with AEW.
In a recent interview with Darren Paltrowitz, Santana had praise for Maclin, saying he's on another level.
Speaking to Jeremy Lambert, Joel Pearl, and Sean Ross Sapp on In The Weeds, Maclin was asked about the match with Santana and his comments.
"Surprise to me, just because I knew I demanded a match and I thought it would have been somebody from the back that I had known before. It was a fresh new matchup at Rebellion. It's good to get fresh faces, especially old faces, and here he is on a singles run. We're kind of very similar in many ways where we both dealt with a bunch of bullshit in our life and overcome it. Whether it's out of our control or in our control and we've fixed it. Now, here he is coming to show the world who he is. He did and he shut me right up. Not the outcome I wanted from it, but props to him for having the balls to come out there. It was a cool moment to be a part of on my end because I've been in those shoes. To come out to a new audience, even though they knew who he was previously, it's still a new audience. You still have those thoughts in your head, 'Do they remember who I am? Are they going to care?' You're going to get those kind of feelings. Even watching him fall off the one balcony trying to get up to the crowd kind of popped me. It was cool to see him firing up, feeling it, and enjoying the moment," said Maclin.
Elsewhere during the interview, Maclin explained his decision to re-sign with TNA Wrestling. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
Watch the full interview with Maclin in the video above.
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