Bullet Club leader, Jay White, was a recent guest on the Talk Is Jericho podcast where he revealed whether or not he would sign for WWE or AEW one day. Below are some highlights from the interview with a H/T to WrestlingInc.com for the transcriptions.
If he would join WWE:
“Before New Japan, I think for anyone that starts that’s kind of what you look to because that’s what you watched,” White claimed. “But then, once you realize there’s so much more out there, it’s not even like a thought on my radar. I’m happy where I am and it’s also what they do, the product and stuff. I enjoy pro wrestling as opposed to the entertainment TV stuff over there as well. And you have a lot of guys that have left and gone over and you hear that there it’s very different. And yeah, who knows? You never say ‘never’ with anything. You never know what’s going to happen in the future. When I was training and wanted to go to WWE, I never thought would have come here [to Japan].”
Would he sign for AEW:
“With the guys starting that AEW stuff, it makes it a very cool time,” White considered. “You don’t need to go there [to WWE]. New Japan keeps growing and obviously with a star of [Jericho’s] caliber it helps us to make it even bigger. So then, it’s easier for guys to stay here without having to go elsewhere as well. And also, people often ask, ‘hey, if you want to come here [to WWE], just let me know.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m alright, thanks’ because I don’t want to go there. A lot of guys sign there early and then they stay in the developmental, or NXT, or whatever for however long just because there are so many people there it feels like these days.”
How ROH treats him:
“They’re really good to me,” White stated. “I always see, not to go into much about the fans, but, ‘this person is getting wasted here.’ They’re not going to bring me in for a year and make me their star champion. Exactly, that’s why people don’t understand why they wouldn’t invest so much in me only for me to leave.”
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