Justin Credible Claims Vince McMahon Wouldn’t Let Him Go to WCW With Scott Hall and Kevin Nash

– As previously reported, Justin Credible was recently interviewed by Booker T during his Heated Conversations podcast. Below are some additional highlights from the show (transcript via WrestlingInc.com).

Justin Credible claiming that he wanted to leave with the Kliq to WCW but Vince McMahon would not permit it: “A lot of people know I was Aldo Montoya for the old WWF. I got my break there. I was a young guy. I didn’t know anything about anything. I was green as grass, but I got to work a lot on the road and learn from a lot of the veterans. And then, finally, contract time was up and I went to Vince [McMahon]. I was bold and I was so naive and stupid that I actually called a meeting with Vince and said, ‘I want my release’ because that was about the time that Scott [Hall] and Kevin [Nash] had gone over to WCW. And I was friends with Scott. I was his young boy. I travelled up and down the road with Scott. And Vince said, ‘it’s not the character we’re worried about you bringing over, it’s the perception of another one of our guys jumping ship. I don’t want to let you go to WCW, but I’ll let you go work with Paul Heyman in ECW.’ I wanted to go forward. They weren’t allowing me. And it wasn’t about the money, although I was really making only peanuts. Let’s put it this way: I wasn’t making six figures to wrestle 300 days a year. And when you’re on the road, spending that kind of money, you’re really losing money.”

Justin Credible on how he was scared of going to ECW: “At the time, I was scared to death of ECW. I thought it was a shoot. I saw guys hitting people with everything and barbed wire, but I wasn’t about that. I was just a wrestler.”

Credible on how matches were worked in ECW: “We came to a good understanding and a good formula with the chances we took. By the time Sabu and Cactus Jack and Terry Funk and [those] guys did it for real, we started to learn how to do it for fake. Like, fake hardcore. Like, me and Tommy Dreamer, when me and Tommy Dreamer would be main eventing a pay-per-view, we’d be talking about the match, clipping the barbs off of the barbed wire. We learned how to… look, this is my deal. Some guys may say, ‘hey, hit me hard’. I’m like, ‘please don’t kill me today.'”

Credible on how he was lucky that he or no one got seriously hurt in his matches: “It’s embarrassing now because you’re out there to protect your opponent and I’m blessed and I’m lucky too. Luck has a huge part of this because you can ask anybody in the [pro wrestling] business up and down and I have never hurt anybody ever. But I’m lucky I never hurt anybody because that’s irresponsible and I’m not proud of it. I don’t say that with a badge of honor and ‘I’m cool’. It’s real irresponsible.”