Did Bruce Prichard enjoy his time in Impact Wrestling?
Who better to ask than "Brother Love" himself.
During the latest recording of Something To Wrestle with Bruce Prichard, Bruce and Conrad Thompson discussed Prichard's days as an exectuive in Impact Wrestling. Check out an excerpt from the podcast below:
“Look, there were moments, I’ll be really honest with you here. At this point in my life I was looking for a steady paycheck with insurance. I had a wife at home that had cancer and needed treatment and all these things. I needed insurance, so I needed to have a steady check because I hadn’t been with WWE for over a year and it was that constant, ‘Hey man, no we’re starting this in three months. We’re starting this in six months. We’re working on this project, working on that project.’ I had so many irons in the fir, none of them ever got hot and this came along and it was real money. And it’s steady and it was insurance and I thought, ‘Well, here’s an opportunity to do something that I know what I’m doing, that I’m familiar with, and get a check and get back involved.' A lot of times when you’re working, more opportunities come to you while you’re employed than when you’re not. When you’re employed, nine million things come at you. All these great opportunities. When you’re unemployed and you’re looking for something, man there’s nothing. You go back to all those guys and gals and say, ‘Hey what about this, we talked about that.’ No, it just kind of dried up. So, this period of my life I’m telling you, as much as I love the business I took this gig for the check and for the insurance. Now working in it, I enjoyed myself working in it, I did. Because I just love, I still love the business. I love to do what I do. You look at the opportunities that existed with that brand with the TNA brand and look at and go ‘Man if we could just make some big cuts over here and refocused and repackaged in a different way, holy s*** you’re never gonna go oh hey we’re the next WWE.’ No chance in hell that was ever going to happen or even come close. However, I do believe that they could have been a very profitable business that guys could go and have a place to work and learn. So, yeah, I was optimistic, yes.”
Bruce worked for Impact from 2010 until 2013, and returned to the company for one year in 2017.
