Tim Storm On On-Ring Future And Desire To Be Full-Time With NWA

Tim Storm talks about his future in between the ropes and his desire to work with the National Wrestling Alliance. 

Tim Storm was an integral part of the growth of Billy Corgan’s NWA as one of its top stars and has continued to be a major part of the organization through his presence on commentary and behind the scenes as well. 

Storm recently spoke with Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling about his future between the ropes and how he felt when asked to transition to commentary. 

To answer your question (about whether I’ll be more active in the ring for NWA post-75th Anniversary), I don’t know. I’ve said this before and I wanna make sure I say it carefully because I don’t want anybody — here’s how it’s been… It was when Jim (Cornette) left, and then Wade Barrett came in and then Wade left. Because of the pandemic, we just basically shut down and then he’s gonna come out the other side with WWE.” he said. “They (NWA) came to me and they said, ‘Okay, bring a suit. We want you to do a couple of matches on the pay-per-view on the announce table.’ Okay. You know, whatever. I’m good. I didn’t have a match on the pay-per-view. That’s good. Joe Galli comes up to me and I’m getting dressed and he goes, ‘So I hear you’re here to do commentary’ and I went, ‘Yeah, a couple of matches. I don’t know which matches yet. But they haven’t told me which matches’ and he goes, ‘No, you’re doing commentary’ and I went, ‘I know! I just don’t know which matches’ and he goes, ‘No, you don’t understand. You and I are doing commentary, for the whole live pay-per-view’ and I went, ‘Okay’ and later, Pat (Kenney) comes up and he goes, ‘Are you nervous about this at all?’ I went, ‘No. Am I supposed to be nervous? I mean seriously, is this something I should be thinking about?’ And he goes, ‘No, no, you’re fine.’ So here’s what I say… I’m always careful. When they put me on commentary and I’m told, okay, at this point, you’re more valuable on commentary. In my mind, what I’m thinking is, oh, so you’re saying I can’t wrestle for you? Is that what you’re saying? Am I not good enough to wrestle? This is my ego inside. Now on the other side of that is if they say, hey, we got you with a match. Somebody else is doing commentary. Inside, I’m immediately going, oh wait, I’m not good enough to do commentary? … I wanna do well at whatever I’m doing.” 

Regarding potentially working behind the scenes as an agent, he says he has agented a handful of matches, and he hopes to one day be in a position where no matter what his role is, he will be able to quit teaching to work with the NWA full time. 

“Yes, to all of that (if he could see himself transitioning to a backstage role). There’s been lots of discussion off and on because I don’t know, I don’t know how long this has been now. Five or six years? It’s been discussed about Talent Relations. Pat Kenney’s there now. He does a fantastic job. I’ve agented a few matches but now if you say, okay, well look who we have agenting matches, we’re not talking about good wrestlers. We’re talking about wrestling legends. Homicide, Madusa has been there, Jazz, who should be in the Hall of Fame… I work with her for another organization and I agent matches with that one but I learn from her every time. She should be in the Hall of Fame and she may be the baddest — you know her catch line but she was one of the baddest women in wrestling for a long time… When you look at those people… I don’t fit into those categories. Someday, maybe. I’m gonna keep learning. I watch those guys and I saw Homicide handle a situation one day and I walked over and I went, ‘Could you walk me through that?’ It wasn’t a wrestling thing. It was a how did you handle that diplomatically without — so I’m always learning and so I don’t fit into that category yet. But I’ll keep working at it and maybe at some point but, yeah, I would do anything — you know,  my shoot job, you know I’m a teacher and my ultimate goal would be to get to a point where I’m not teaching and I’m doing something for the NWA full-time, whatever that may be,” he said. 

Storm recently wrestled at NWA 75, losing to Jax Dane by referee stoppage. 

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