Nic Nemeth: Moose Did A Great Job As TNA World Champion, It’s Time To Go Farther With The Company On My Back

Nic Nemeth says he’s the best choice to lead TNA forward.

Nic Nemeth says he’s the best choice to lead TNA forward.

Moose has been the face of TNA/IMPACT Wrestling in recent years, as he won the world title twice. Nic Nemeth kicked off a new era when he dethroned Moose at TNA Slammiversary. Moose will get his rematch for the title at TNA Victory Road.

Speaking with Bill Pritchard for WrestleZone, Nic Nemeth was asked to discuss why he was the best choice to be the champion and the face of TNA.

“I feel like the equity built into my character, whatever the name is, for the last 19, 20 years has been someone that one, can do anything in the business. There’s a lot of superstars in the world, there’s a lot of great wrestlers, and they’re like, ‘Oh, they’re really good at talking or really good at giving you goosebumps or really good at doing these moves or really good at tapping people out or really good at talking on PR moves or interviews during the day to other people or really good at guest starring on shows or really good at talking politics.’ Then there’s people like me, who are really good at talking at all of those items. You go, ‘What can I improve on?’ Every day, you can get better. Obviously, that’s great. Every wrestler wants to outdo themselves from the night before, I hope. But you ask yourself, ‘Who can lead as a champion?’ Moose did a hell of a job, no joke, a fantastic job. His presidency as TNA Champion was fantastic and unprecedented. Two and a half years, undefeated, knocked everybody down, but there’s a little bit of an asterisk, Barry Bonds style, to where it’s like, well, he was the champ, but there was always two or three or four people watching his back and helping him out. I go, I’m not a legacy, when I was in New York. I didn’t have anyone in the meetings pulling for me, and if he was, everybody else was pranking on him and making me lose instead to make it all even. So you have this person who’s genuinely a ten out of ten on every possible scorecard if you’re creating a wrestler, and someone who loves doing it, can still go, somehow looks like this at 44. I feel like this is the perfect person to lead TNA into another era of fantastic success. Moose did fantastic, and now he is no longer champion. Now, I am, and we continue to move on. We continue to get great gates, we continue to get great sold-out shows, a lot of buzz from fans. I don’t know the critics, I don’t know the situation at all. I know the fans are behind this product because they know how hard the roster works. In a business where every roster works hard, people are talking about TNA’s roster going above and beyond. I love to be this representative and ambassador because I freaking am, no matter what, but as champion, with the company on my back, Moose did a great job, but now it’s time to go a little farther,” Nemeth said.

Click here to see what Moose had to say about facing Nic Nemeth at TNA Victory Road.

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