EC3 Discusses How He Plans To Follow Up Angle At ROH Final Battle

In an interview with ROH Strong (via Fightful, EC3 spoke about the arrival of Adam Scherr at ROH Final Battle and the angle that followed, as well as how he plans to continue that story. Here are highlights:

On having creative freedom for the segment: “Those are the moments you live for. This is where all the sacrifice and all the bad things, the subpar things, the meaningless things…the work you do on the back end and looks like it goes nowhere, to get that payoff and a moment is perfect. A moment is all you can expect from perfection. To have it, to live it, I have a couple of stories I can tell. I’m going nuts and losing my goose. I’m slightly cognizant of the fact that we’re on pay-per-view and time is running and I’m still a professional and I definitely want Jon [Gresham] to have his moment at the end of the show and everything. I didn’t want to rush it, but I knew I had to in a sense. Everything in wrestling is so manufactured nowadays from walkthroughs and scriptwriting and all this. I had things that I wanted to say, but I was like, ‘why am I trying to remember words? Speak from the heart, say the things you think. Let’s feel this.’ A lot new talent, which I’m trying to instill in them, is that the feeling is what makes it worth it. Going out there with nothing and creating, you feel so much better than going out there and doing all the things you talked about and rehearsed.”

On the reaction from the audience: “The second one, the Narrative guys, we’re on the road back and everyone is on their phones. It’s the first time I had the chance to look at my phone. I pull it out, I’m looking at my crew and what we accomplished and I’m like, ‘Not one person can say what happened because I felt what happened.’ I didn’t look at the phone, I just sat there in silence, very appreciative of what took place.”

On continuing the angle: “It’s about the follow through. When you’re doing business on other people’s terms, there’s going to be give and take. The control that I so desperately seek, exists in my realm, can it exist in other realms? Can this awakening take place in other three letter brands? I think it’s poised to be something so unique, hot, and profitable, and interesting to not only fans but to the companies that would allow this 4D chess to be placed on their platforms. The sky is truly the limit. We accomplished one thing, but the second I accomplish one thing, it’s onto the next. Control Your Narrative isn’t a faction, it’s an idea.”

On handpicking Eli Isom, Dak Draper and Brian Johnson for the segment: “They were named specifically by me, not only to the office, but allowed on pay-per-view because of what I see in them. That’s why I had them there. What was important to that whole segment was, I didn’t want them to be casualties at the expense of a name coming in to beat people up. They were not there to be warm bodies to be tossed around. They were there with reason and purpose and what I see in them. All three have lost their home, in theory, they don’t know what’s next and are jumping into the unknown. I’ve been there and know the feeling. They literally came to me asking, ‘what should we do?’ All three of them have had instances with, I want them to know that the unknown is not a safe place, but it’s the right place. Eli wasn’t on my radar until a couple of weeks prior to Final Battle, we had a one-on-one match. It meant a lot to me. As we’re having this match and I’m talking my shit, I can see it resonating with him. Now, he’s fighting back and he’s starting to get it. i think he took a step up in who he was in that match until we get to the back and I see him, and he’s emotional. Not like weeping or crying that he lost. He felt something different and felt what this industry should make you feel and that’s real emotion. He’s like, ‘that was maybe my favorite match of all time because I felt it out there.’ Him having emotion, I pegged him as a guy too.”