Christopher Daniels Recalls Briefly Working For TNA And ROH Simultaneously

Christopher Daniels recalls when he was walking through the Forbidden Door before it was cool.

Back in the early portion of the last decade, Christopher Daniels was briefly working in both Ring of Honor and TNA Wrestling. Daniels joined Fortune in a lethal lockdown match because the group needed a fourth man and at the same time, he was a part of the House of Truth in Ring of Honor.

Daniels was okay with working in both promotions and enjoyed the dichotomy of the characters he was playing but Jim Cornette, who was booking Ring of Honor at the time, wasn’t very trusting of TNA Wrestling booking Christopher Daniels to the same capacity that he was using the veteran.

Christopher Daniels further explains this brief time in his career while speaking with Chris Van Vliet.

“It culminated with me going back to TNA because Ring of Honor got bought by Sinclair and at that point, I started doing both,” Daniels recalled. “There was a moment where I offered to be able to do both. I said, ‘Let me be evil Fallen Angel in Ring of Honor and I’ll be the up-and-coming babyface in TNA.’ At that time, Jim Cornette, and rightfully so, was like, ‘I can’t trust TNA to book you with the same strength that we would.’ My argument was always, ‘anyone watching TNA and Ring of Honor, they know the score and what’s going on.’ I think they would have been very forgiving if…his example was, ‘What if they book you to lose to Rob Terry in 60 seconds?’ My response was, ‘[fans] will probably boo TNA, not boo Christopher Daniels and say that guy sucks. Just, oh, TNA is missing Christopher Daniels again.’ That was the argument I made and understandably lost, unfortunately. That was sort of like the Forbidden Door before the Forbidden Door, the opportunity to be in both.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Christopher Daniels talks about never winning the TNA Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship. Read more here.

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