Barrett informs that he would try to better his physique or put in more time to earn his was into a top position, but he seemed to be moving backwards on the card. In 2015 and 2016 he felt as if he was being used basically as an enhancement talent. He was often used in the ‘filler segments’ on RAW and would lose in 2 or 3 minutes without any storylines.
He says that he arrived at a Smackdown show one day and had a huge blow up with Talent Relations. He had been arguing back and forth with talent relations for a while and on this day it reached it’s climax. He wasn’t on the show anyways so he grabbed his bags and left the building. As he was driving away from the building he met Jericho who was driving into the building. Jericho flipped him off jokingly, not knowing about what had transpired in the building, and that was Barrett’s big goodbye to WWE.
Jericho asks Barrett what the point of the League of Nations was. Barrett thinks the purpose of that group was to put some credible guys with Sheamus in order to get him some heat. Sheamus was pretty cold at the time and had just won the MITB briefcase, so the company wanted to build him up before he cashed in. However, Barrett doesn’t think it worked that well since they were booked to lose every week.
He recalls one night when the League of Nations faced Roman Reigns in a 4 on 1 Handicap match and Reigns won. He doesn’t think that helped Reigns at all, noting that strong babyface booking like that is counter-productive at times.
