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Sportskeeda meets Eric Young
Our interview with IMPACT Wrestling star Eric Young continues below.
I would be remiss not to ask you for an update on this person. Poor Rich Swann. He was on the receiving end of quite a bit of brutality from the World Class Maniac - Eric Young last week.
I need to ask - why Rich Swann? Does Eric Young know how he's doing? Or does Eric Young care how he's doing?
"Eric Young, the 'World Class Maniac', couldn't care less about Rich Swann. I warned him earlier to stay out of my way."
"IMPACT Wrestling ambassador, Eric Young, is excited to have Rich Swann as part of the roster. This is a guy with literally, in my opinion, limitless potential. As far as professional wrestling goes, there is nothing that he can't do. If he decides to come back ever again, I'll be excited to get my hands on him."
I have one final question. I recently put out an article on IMPACT where I noted this is not an overnight success. It might seem like it from Slammiversary but it took three years of hard work to get to this point. Now the eyes of the world are on this product maybe now more than ever. How far can IMPACT Wrestling go?
"Yeah, and I think a lot of the younger guys on the roster, like I said with Rich, it really is limitless."
"There's always confines of business and money, and then the reality of it is IMPACT Wrestling is a business. Just like WWE is a business, AEW is a business and there is always limits to what you can do. That's just the reality. It's living inside those limits and advancing, even when those limits exist, pushing past them."
"Like you said, it's definitely not an overnight success and I think me, the Good Brothers, Heath, EC3 are here as part of bringing these eyes. I've been on TV for 16 years."
"Me showing up on your show in the pro wrestling world is a big deal."
"Those guys coming here are choosing to go here. None of us had a gun against our heads. I don't need to work here. I'm working at IMPACT because I choose to. I don't need work. I've been very smart. I lead a very humble and smart life and the truth is that I don't need to be there. I choose to be there because that's what I want."
"I know the other guys are in the same position as me. No one financially needs to be there. They want to be there and business is business but the truth is, this has been three years of tons of blood, sweat and tears. Not mine, not Gallows and Anderson, not Heath, not EC3 - we were elsewhere."
"I'm not patting myself on the back for where IMPACT is," Young said. "But I am saying that I will be a big part of where it's going - and so will the other guys."
"I said it earlier in the interview. Everyone who is there, the guys that have been there, the guys that are there now and guys who have been there in the past and moved on, the wrestling world and myself owe them a debt of gratitude because they put them in a position to succeed and that is what we are going to do. The thing is with all the Slammiversary success, now the hard part starts. Now the eyes are on you and people want you to deliver."
"They are giving you their time, time is money and that is how the business of wrestling works, so you're going to have to make damn sure that you're ready to deliver, and I know I am."
Thank you so much to Eric Young for taking the time to chat with us, and to IMPACT Wrestling for setting up the interview. You can follow Eric Young here and IMPACT Wrestling here.
You can watch Eric Young on IMPACT weekly every Tuesday at 8pm PT on AXS TV in the US or via IMPACT's Twitch channel. UK viewers can watch IMPACT on Wednesdays at 9PM UK time on Fight Network UK.
Stay tuned with Sportskeeda for more IMPACT interviews coming very soon.
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