Austin Creed Reveals His & Kofi’s Phones Started Ringing Pretty Quickly Following WWE Departure

Austin Creed recently opened up about his and Kofi’s mental state during their 90-day non-compete clause with WWE.

Kofi and Austin Creed departed WWE in early May after rejecting a restructured deal offered by TKO. The duo debuted in All Elite Wrestling at All In: London last month, teaming with Swerve Strickland and capturing the AEW World Trios Championship.

Speaking to Renee Paquette on the latest episode of AEW Close Up, Austin Creed revealed that, considering he and Kofi have done much outside pro wrestling, they never worried about how they’d make a living post-WWE departure, and their phones started ringing pretty quickly regarding opportunities outside the world of pro wrestling.

Here’s what Austin Creed said [via F4WOnline]:

On receiving phone calls regarding opportunities outside pro wrestling following WWE departure

“That was like it was a quick thought, but I feel like we do so much outside of wrestling that as quick as the thought came, it left because I’ve always had the mentality of, you know, we do a lot of stuff in the gaming space. We do a lot of stuff in just other aspects. So, not wrestling just meant now we have more time for these things. And not to sound pompous or anything, but our phones were ringing pretty quickly, and our schedule got filled pretty quick. Not even with wrestling stuff, just with anime conventions.”

On their mind space following WWE departures

“We weren’t necessarily worried about, ‘Oh, how are we going to make a living?’ Like we’re very lucky to be prominent in those spaces already. So it just gave us more time for that. And so that 90 days was awesome with the kids, awesome with the family. And then every once in a while, we’d go out and do a signing somewhere, do some conventions. We learned a ton about trading cards and all that stuff. And so there were avenues for us to not only make money but still have a ton of time at home with the kids. So that 90 days it was just really nice to only do what we wanted to do to be our own bosses.”

Check out the interview below: