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#2 James Storm on why WWE retracted a contract offer

James Storm was close to joining WWE

We learned earlier this week that James Storm was set to make his RAW debut before WWE pulled their contract offer due to the pandemic. The former IMPACT Wrestling star was recently interviewed by Michael Morales Torres of Lucha Libre Online. During the interview, he opened up about WWE retracting their contract offer:

"You know us on the contract and all that stuff, and I was just waiting to take the physical exam, and I was supposed to take it a couple of days right before WrestleMania. Then they had called me and just told me, 'hey, it's going to be put off just because of all the stuff going on.' I completely understood and then once I saw that they were going to, they were making all these cuts with all these different guys and stuff. Like I just knew it was a matter of time before they just retracted the contract, which I mean it's business. It's no big deal. That's how business goes, and I completely understood it, and I can't tell you like, so many people have problems with this guy named Canyon, seemingly always. People talk bad about it. But for me, this guy was nothing but professional, and he was also just like man, like I just have bad news. I really hate to give it to you, and I was like, hey man, like it's no big deal. "

James Storm added that even though he was disappointed, he hoped to do business with WWE in the future. He also said that there were no hurt feelings on his behalf and said that even though it didn’t didn’t work out for him, a lot of people have been cut loose during the pandemic.