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“I Get My Eye Hole Broken”- Former World Champion Austin Aries Looks Back At His Disastrous WWE Run

Published 06/04/2020, 3:08 PM EDT

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Austin Aries is one of the biggest names in wrestling. He has won multiple championships across different promotions even being the Impact Wrestling Champion. He slowly made his way to WWE. Big things were expected from him, but his run with the company was short-lived. Aries recently appeared in VOC Nation’s In the Room podcast where he talked about his career in WWE.

Austin Aries on Why he left WWE 

Aries initially was part of NXT. He had many title shots but never won any championships. Aries said that none of it was his decisions and he hadn’t asked it to be done in any way. 

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It wasn’t my decision there. It was nothing that I asked for, and it was nothing that I was given a heads up that was coming”, Aries stated. 

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Why the WWE doesn’t let their wrestlers have constructive and creative freedom has been the question of the decade. Writers simply wish to portray angles that will sell, but missing out on Aries was a major screwup.

Aries takes a dig at Vince McMahon

WWE universe knows well that Vince McMahon prefers buffed up wrestlers with a superhuman like charisma in-ring. Aries says he wasn’t like that; he was short and was 38 years old, which could be a reason why he was underutilized by the company.

That question is probably better to ask Vince or to the people that were in charge. I’ll be honest; I came in as a short, old white dude. I’m 5’8, 5’9 in my boots. I was 38 years old”, Austin said.

Despite the fact that he put it out all there, Aries says he was asked to be on his best behavior backstage. He got injured and even went through all odds to reach a WrestleMania match, but yet the company never gave him chances.

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I came in being told that, not that I wasn’t welcome, but that I had to be on my ‘best behavior.’ Despite all of that and them really not having a plan for me, I get my eye hole broken and I offer to do commentary and I spin that into the main roster run into a WrestleMania match. Did all of that in 18 months. I don’t know what else I was supposed to do or what people were expecting”, Austin Aries explained.

How things ended

Aries knew from the start that this wasn’t gonna be his forte. He also says that in the end, WWE decided to move on from him, and he did not show any refusal.

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I don’t think walking in there I felt like this was going to be a fit for the next 10 years of my career. Ultimately it was their decision to move on and I can only go by what I’m told“, Aries concluded. 

It’s a shame to see WWE underutilize the talents they bring in. Austin Aries never got the right chances to prove himself. Meanwhile, since leaving WWE, Aries has mostly performed as a free agent across many promotions. Like many others, he does not regret moving away from the company and is back doing what he does best.

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Hrithik Unnikrishnan is an eSports and WWE author at EssentiallySports since April 2020. A journalism undergraduate with experience in creative design, Hrithik has a profound love for everything competitive. He grew up watching WWE and playing various titles like Call of Duty, FIFA, and Hitman.
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