Lance Anoa’i Says He Had Contract Talks With MLW, Wants To Go WWE

Lance Anoa’i is hoping one day he’ll be able to lace up his boots as a WWE wrestler.

Anoa’i has wrestled for a number of promotions throughout his wrestling career and even made a couple of stops in WWE. Anoa’i has also been wrestling for MLW a number of times and even revealed to Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling that the two of them were having talks of potentially signing with the company.

However, Anoa’i said he put those talks on hold because he wasn’t sure if there was a realistic he would go to WWE and noted that his ultimate goal is to land in the company.

“At the time, it was per-show. I was on vacation and this was the time they were running in Orlando in 2018. I was on vacation and then they hit me up, ‘Hey, you got anything going on?’ And they invited me down and that’s the show I wrestled MJF and man, they liked everything I had and kept inviting me because at the time, back in the day, my dad was basically one of the bookers for MLW so him and Court Bauer who’s the owner, they’re real good friends and Court man, he put a big donation in for my dad’s whole fundraiser and tons of respect for him and I help him with whatever he needs help with, I’m there for him. But yeah, he’s always had my back but the talks were for me to join full-time, but I did put it on hold. I didn’t know what exactly was gonna happen with me and WWE, and they [MLW] offered me a little too many years. I wasn’t ready to commit to [it] at the time. But if it comes around, maybe one day, you’ll see me there full-time. But for the moment, I’m just gonna keep grinding and WWE’s always my goal. For sure, it was difficult [to be in that spot]. It was difficult because like you said, I did that spot and after that, they were talking about bringing me back in for a tag match possibly against Shane [McMahon] and Drew [McIntyre] but I didn’t wanna lock myself in and lose all that opportunity so, that was one big one I just held on but like I told Court, I’m ready. Man, if you’re supposed to keep bringing me in, I’m cool with that also,” Anoa’i said.

You can check out the full interview in the video at the top of the page and you can read the full interview at this link. Anoa’i also spoke on seeing his cousins Roman Reigns and Jey Uso feuding over the Universal Championship and you can check out those comments at this link.