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        NXT star Samoa, Joe Decision to leave TNA and more
   DIR By: spaintnafan
       Date: May 25, 2015, 4:33 pm
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       Samoa Joe was a guest on The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling this past
       Sunday and promoting his appearance for Smash Wrestling in
       Toronto on Saturday June 6th against Chris Hero. The full show
       is available at liveaudiowrestling.com and below are some of the
       highlights:
       Decision to leave TNA:
       "I think the decision was made in the final few weeks. I've
       often been called by people loyal to a fault, and I didn't feel
       the mission was accomplished in TNA yet. I'd done my best
       throughout my career to help try to build the company and bring
       it into prominence. It's had its ups and down and pitfalls here
       and there, and I don't feel that job was finished yet. Towards
       the end there, there were some apparent things and incidents
       that kinda showed me that maybe it was time for me to move on
       and maybe it was better for me, both personally and
       professionally, to explore other options and explore other
       things. I've gotta admit, I'm not unhappy with my decision. I'm
       unhappy that I didn't get the opportunity to kinda finish out
       what I wanted to start in TNA, but at the same time, so many
       great things have popped up since that I'm very, very satisfied
       with the decision that I made."
       TNA's identity as a promotion during his tenure:
       "I think at times TNA did have a defined identity, but the
       identity wasn't really supported, and it was restarted in favor
       of something else they thought would be somewhat better or was
       pitched to them as being better. With the X-Division being what
       it was, the level of athleticism and the guys we had prominent
       in the company at the time, it very much did have an identity.
       And then somewhere along the line, that identity was kind of
       pushed to the background in favor of trying to be something that
       I feel it never should have gone to be. TNA was unique in that
       it had a very high-level athletic style, and at times I felt it
       was trying to be transformed into something more sports
       entertainment-ish, when we were definitely an alternative to
       that particular kind of style. As time when on, it ebbed and
       flowed, and it'll come to the surface and then it'll be pushed
       to the background. Wrestlers were cycled in and out, and
       creative teams were regularly cycled in and out. That's I think
       where the identity started to get muddled."
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