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       Davey Richards Talks About WWE Tryout And Why He Didn't Sign,
       Working In Japan
   DIR By: tnafan
       Date: June 27, 2015, 9:53 am
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       TNA star Davey Richards spoke to The News Hub recently about his
       career prior to TNA. You can read the highlights below, and
       check out the full article at this link.
       Working in New Japan:
       "It was a great experience. It was absolutely phenomenal. I was
       pretty much there full time for over two years. That was always
       the one company in Japan that I wanted to work for. I always
       wanted to be in the Super Juniors and I did that and wrestle in
       the Tokyo Dome and I did that. It was great and it really helped
       me to understand how a big company like that works. I always did
       the independents so it was a phenomenal thing and I learned a
       lot from those guys and I still carried a lot of what I learned
       there and work ethic and the professionalism that they embedded
       in me there carried it on to now. It approaches my style a lot
       to where wrestling is first and foremost as a sport and a time
       that I hold very near and dear to me."
       WWE Tryout:
       "We couldn't commit to going down there and going into their
       system. I can't go down there and train 5 days a week at NXT
       because I'm in school, I'm in medical school full-time. It is
       very important for me to get my doctorate and I'm also a full
       time firefighter/paramedic and that's something that's very near
       and dear to me to. For me, I operate best just in life just to
       being having Davey time, wrestling time, and then coming home
       and having Wes time. I love wrestling, I also love saving
       people's lives and helping and medicine and things like that. So
       I don't love one more thing than another so for me it's just
       doesn't work out for me to go 100% into wrestling and that's
       just my personal thing.
       They were very kind to us. They were very generous. They were
       very fair and nothing to absolutely have to say to them. They
       were absolutely great people. They are obviously doing great so
       were all very happy for them. It's just didn't work for me
       personally. Pursuing my doctorate is kicking my butt, so I have
       a full time job and I wrestle full time and I go to school full
       time so for me to give up all of that just to go to NXT wouldn't
       work out. I have to concentrate on that. They had some names and
       I said well could I be something Billington because well Tommy
       Billington is The Dynamite Kid, my number one inspiration in
       wrestling. They were cool with it and it was all good."
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