Colt Cabana On Who Pushed For Him To Sign With WWE, Why His Tryout Was Scrapped, Turning Down TNA

Source: The Art Of Wrestling

On episode 300 of The Art Of Wrestling, Colt Cabana conducted a Q&A with questions from fans. Cabana talked about turning down the chance to work for TNA, getting signed by WWE, his one and only meeting with Vince McMahon, and wrestling as Dan Severn.

According to Cabana, he is at a point in his professional wrestling career where he does not need to sell himself to promoters anymore, as he is a known quantity with nearly 20 years of experience and goodwill in the industry. Cabana said that he turned down the opportunity to work for TNA insofar as he has asked colleagues to not bring him up in pitches for storylines in TNA.

“I’ve had a couple of people say, ‘hey, I want to pitch you for [blank]’ and I don’t want to have to, like, prove myself because I had to do that in WWE, where I was like, ‘oh, if only this guy would understand’. I had to sell myself and it’s like I’ve set this thing up for myself where I don’t have to sell myself to anybody, so if Dixie [Carter] or ‘Big’ [John Gaburick] or whoever it was, was like, ‘we need Colt, and, hey, we’re going to give you this. We’re going to give you this and you could wrestle this.’

“I almost think of that Desmond Wolfe scenario where they were just like, ‘wow, let’s do it!’ And then, maybe I would, like, think about it, but it was a lot of, like, ‘hey, would you be cool if I sold this idea?’ And it’s like, ‘no’. I don’t want to have to go into a room and sell myself to anybody. Like, if you’re all about me and you get it, I just feel like they, those two specifically, still don’t even know …

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