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Samoa Joe Explains Why He’s Not Interested In ‘The Forbidden Door’

August 27, 2021 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Samoa Joe is with WWE, but he says that he wouldn’t have a lot of interest in going through the Forbidden Door if he wasn’t. Joe appeared on So Catch by Hal 2 and was asked if he would be open to working with other companies the way that AEW, New Japan, the NWA, AAA, Impact and the like have been doing. You can see the video and some highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:

On why he’s not interested in crossover work: “I work for a company. If I played for a major football club, you wouldn’t lend me out on the weekend to go play for the rival team. Messi’s ain’t doing day shifts over at Manchester United. I understand some fans want for that and they want to see that, but at the same time, just with the whole politics of that type of situation, it wouldn’t be a good outcome anyways. Nobody wants to look bad in that situation, everyone’s getting pushed and pulled in a certain way and it becomes a convoluted mess. If guys want to show and get down with Samoa Joe, get on my level, they come find me and let’s do this. I ain’t making house calls right now.”

On what advice he would give his younger self: “I think not to put a timetable on things. I think early in my career I’d always kind of put this…you know if you had asked 19 year old me where I would be right now, at this point I would’ve wrapped it up ten years ago. ‘I gave it this and this and I’m working on this.’ I never really envisioned it would be the lifelong pursuit that it’s become. It’s not that I didn’t want it to be, it was just young me always kind of thought in very blocked off time blocks. I wanted to be at certain places at a certain time in my life. And I think a lot of young me are very much the same. But yeah, it never occurred to me some twenty odd years later that I’d be here doing this.”

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