Nigel McGuinness Doesn’t Want To Be A Producer, Enjoys Commentary Role

In an interview with the Heel Shit podcast (via Fightful), Nigel McGuinness spoke about possibly taking a producer role in AEW, noting that he’s more comfortable working as a commentator. McGuinness has returned to the ring on occasion, most notably at last year’s All In.

He said: “I don’t think so. I appreciate that. It’s very kind of you to say that. I know that when I was in WWE, I oftentimes would go, ah, I really feel like I could say something about this match. I could have said beforehand that I think really would have helped them every now and then if some of the guys, like Grayson Waller every now and again, guys like that will come up and knew my history and asked me a couple of ideas and I’d be able to give them a little bit of input, et cetera, et cetera. But now I just.. commentary takes up so much of my time in terms of the preparation on the show, et cetera, especially when I’m still getting in the ring every week as well. With the possibility of wrestling again, then I don’t think there’s the time for it. I think I’m probably more valuable as the commentator in that regard. Also an agent, producer, whatever you want to call it, it’s a very, very difficult job. Very difficult job. There’s a lot of, I don’t want to say egos involved, but there are egos involved, and there’s also, you’ve got two people, if it’s a singles match or four people, or however many people who are in this match all have their own idea of what they want to do with the match. Then you’ve got the agent above that. Then you’ve got Tony (Khan). Everybody’s got a different idea necessarily of what this way is to go. You’ve got to somehow navigate all of this. It’s not for me, I don’t think so.”