Talk is Jericho Recap w/ Sami Callihan – IMPACT Baseball Bat Incident, Dealing With Online Criticism, Promoting Indie Shows, More!

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Callihan informs that he’s making more money now than he ever was in WWE. He’s one of the business workers on the independent scene and worked more dates last year than most WWE Superstars. He points out that if he’s main eventing an indie show they nearly always sell out because he’s in demand.

Callihan talks about his career in NXT. He points out that he was there for over three years, but he spent a lot of that time working at the Performance Centre when he felt like he should have been wrestling on television. When his “hacker” character was initially developed he had several conversations with Dusty Rhodes.

They combined to develop several creative ideas which would accompany his character, such as WWE sending out mass texts to their live audience when Callihan was cutting his promos. He’d take credit for the mass texts, claiming he had the power to hack them all. Unfortunately, creative ideas like this were never able to see the light of day in NXT.

Callihan is working for several indie promotions now, as well as Impact Wrestling and Lucha Underground. Jericho asks him which company he’d choose to work for if he had to pick and Callihan says he’d probably pick Lucha Underground, because even Impact officials are starting to tell him to ease off the pot stirring concerning the controversy surrounding the bat incident.

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