During his recent interview with WrestlingInc.Com, current New Japan Pro Wrestling Strong Openweight Champion "Filthy" Tom Lawlor discussed his exit from Major League Wrestling. Find out the details behind Lawlor's decision below.
On future plans in the world of pro-wrestling
“Yeah, I’m currently not under contract with any professional wrestling organization for anything other than single dates. Now, how long that will remain the case? I don’t know. Hopefully not very long, to be fair, but I have been contacted for some pretty interesting independent shows. I have to check on the dates of those. We’ll see what happens in the future, but I’m expecting something by the end of this week, if not sooner.”
On why he chose to leave MLW:
“I guess that’s one of the issues is I’ve been there for years. I’ve been there for four years. There comes a time, I guess, when you either move on, or you continue down the path that you’re going, and with so much uncertainty over the past year, the past two years, fortunately, unfortunately, I find myself in a financial position where I don’t need to really be under contract with anybody if I don’t want to. MLW and I talked. They gave me a great deal. I’m not going to complain about the offer that was out there, but at the end of the day, I think it was time to kind of move away from there. Hopefully, I will be back in the future. Hopefully, there’ll be a scenario in which I can step into the MLW ring again, but I don’t know when that’ll be.”
