Mike Santana isn’t sugarcoating how the TNA roster felt when WWE NXT stars began snatching their championships—and now, he’s the one holding the flag.
Ever since WWE and TNA kicked off their crossover partnership in January, NXT expertise like Trick Williams, Jacy Jayne, and Kelani Jordan have all captured main TNA championships. However behind the scenes, that domination didn’t sit effectively with the TNA originals.
Showing on No-Contest Wrestling with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Henderson, Santana mentioned the locker room took it personally.
“They positively weren’t jokes. Everyone was simple and pissed off. Particularly the unique core guys like me, Eddie Edwards, Moose, Kazarian. We had been like, ‘Yo, now we have to alter this.’”
Santana admitted that seeing outdoors expertise parade round with TNA gold stung greater than most would admit—nevertheless it additionally lit a hearth.
“You don’t prefer to take heed to what different persons are saying, however that type of will get to you. I really feel like one of the best factor that got here out of it was it motivated everyone. The fireplace that was lit backstage was, ‘We ain’t popping off like this. This isn’t occurring.’”
That frustration rapidly became resolve. Santana says the TNA locker room unified with one aim: take their firm again.
“All of us banded collectively and had been like, ‘We now have to do one thing about it.’ That’s when every part began to kick off and we began making extra strikes.”
When Santana made the journey to NXT, he made it clear that issues had been about to alter.
“I bear in mind once I first went to NXT, I made it very identified, in Trick’s face, ‘We ain’t residing like this.’ I’m glad I used to be the one to do it. It simply motivated the hell out of everyone. I believe it did some good.”
That assertion wasn’t simply speak. Santana went on to defeat Trick Williams at TNA Certain For Glory, bringing the TNA World Championship again to the house aspect the place, so far as he’s involved, it belongs.
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