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Sportskeeda meets IMPACT World Champion Eric Young
Just moments after his monumental World Championship win, Eric Young told us all about it - and that exclusive interview continues below...
You were just rhyming off names of people that have held the Championship Eric Young now holds. That is a good lineage right there, but if we go back to April, there is a little something that came out that I personally disagreed with.
Back in April, PWI released a list of World Championships they recognize as "legitimate" World titles. The IMPACT World Championship wasn't on that. Do you have any comment on that at all?
Yeah, I mean, that's their prerogative. If you watch CNN or you watch FOX News, that's their narrative. That's one source. I think if you ask any legitimate pro wrestling fan, they will tell you that's silly.
It's a TV product, it's on every week. We are viewed in homes all over the world. There are 30-100 people making a full-time living at IMPACT Wrestling and it's the only company that is growing, so for them to not view it as a World title is a mistake and it's their mistake to make. If that's how they view it, then that is how they view it but PWI is its own thing.
As a person, as a kid and a teenager that subscribed to it, I enjoyed it, I've always enjoyed it, there are a lot of talented people who work there, it's great for the wrestling industry but for them to not recognize IMPACT as having a legitimate World title is nonsense, complete nonsense and it should be corrected.
We mentioned last time that you're on an exclusive IMPACT Wrestling contract, but now that you're Champion, would Eric Young be open to defending that title outside of IMPACT?
Yeah, I mean, I'm open to it. As a company, it's something we would have to talk about for sure. Obviously, they're always looking for partnerships and to grow IMPACT as a brand and grow it as a television product.
Anywhere they want that title to be represented, I'm ready to represent this company. I feel I've earned that right, I feel I'm the right person to do it, and I would relish in an opportunity to defend it against everyone.
It's exciting. That's an exciting thought to be in other countries and work with other promotions or whatever but that's up to management, with that kind of thing. And I trust their judgment, man, I really do. I trust this place completely. Scott and his team are incredible and are going to do what's best for the product, and so am I.
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