Josh Mathews Talks Lucha Underground, Impact, XWF History, More

Josh Mathews recently interviewed by Wrestling Epicenter for a new interview. You can check out highlights below, and hear the full interview at this link.

On his Los Angeles offer:
"It was for Lucha Underground. I had a contract in my home office for both companies – A Lucha Underground one and one to come here to Nashville. I decided to come here. Lucha was kind of always there. I was in LA when they were getting ready to tape their first shows. I was working on another project. Their play by play guy couldn't make it. Again, they called me. "We know you're here. You're right down the street. You don't have to sign a contract. You can come up with whatever you want. We're really in a bind here." I stuck with the decision I made to come here to Impact and not pursue what they were doing even though it was very tempting after seeing an episode and seeing what they were doing, it was very tempting to go and be a part of Lucha Underground."

On his thoughts on Lucha Underground's product:
"Honestly, this isn't me trying to make a joke or be insulting but I don't watch it. The only wrestling that I watch is our product. Everything we produce, I watch. And then, I'm wrestling'd out after watching all of our stuff. (laughs) I have so many different interests and so many other things that I don't have time, or the desire quite frankly, to watch any other wrestling."

On returning to a sound stage like the XWF was filmed in:
"TThe same one. (Impact and XWF). Honestly, I don't ever really think about it. It isn't something that comes up in my brain. The only reason I know that it is the same sound stage is somebody told me the last time we were there. I'm a super forward thinker. I don't think about where I've been, what I've done. It is all about forward momentum and where we're going next more so than thinking about what I've done in my career."

On his on-air feud with Jeremy Borash:
"It was fun! It was a little uneasy at times. Looking back, and I don't look back at anything, I think the outcome got us to where we want to be and especially going forward. That is the most important thing to me."

On if Mike Tenay was considered to call Slammiversary 2017:
"Yes he was. I don't know what happened. But, I do know that yes, he was."

On if wrestling at Slammiversary made him want to wrestle more again:
"No, I think it put all of that to rest for me. No, I never had a desire to do that once my career went on this path. I did it willingly. I had fun. But, it is not something that I regret, the decision."

On the future of Imapct Wrestling:

"We're moving at 5 to 10 yard increments. We're not moving at Hair Mary's. It is one of those deals where, you know, stick with us. We're not going away. The reports of our demise have been greatly exagerated again."

Make sure to check out the full interview at this link.