One of the top stars who had recently parted ways with WWE and jumped ship to AEW is the former WWE Intercontinental Champion Ricochet.
Recently, while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, Ricochet reflected on his WWE run and opened up on why he chose to leave the Stamford-based promotion.
“Not even necessarily, no. So I knew my contract was ending in June, mid-June, give or take. But all the way up to that point there was never a point where I knew I was leaving. I think it was just again, there was a point three and a half years ago into my WWE career where I just said this isn’t what I want to do, but I’m just going to do whatever’s asked of me, whatever they need me to do, whatever they want me to do, whoever they need me to lose to, or whatever move they need to make look cool, …