Former WWE NXT Superstar KUSHIDA recently revealed something major that WWE would not let him do whilst with the company.
Speaking to NJPW1972.com about his time with the WWE, the former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion revealed he was not allowed to move from Florida to Los Angeles.
“Well, to set the scene a bit, the turnover in WWE is really relentless. In August of 2021, there was a really sudden change in thinking there. Essentially they wanted to train young wrestlers, under 30, that didn’t have pro-wrestling experience and had come from other athletic backgrounds” the NJPW star began.
KUSHIDA on WWE
“When it comes to me, I don’t think it’s controversial to say that left me redundant, effectively. You have to remember I was 36 when I got an offer from WWE.
“It still really seems kinda hard to believe that HHH would reach out with an offer’¦So with this youth push on over there, it wasn’t like I had a shoot time machine of my own, so it became ’˜OK, what can I do here?’.
“Everyone was asking the same questions, I think, actually. And NJPW immediately popped in my head. I felt really strongly right away that LA would be the best place to base myself” he added.
“Even when I was in WWE, I had wanted to move from Orlando to LA, but the company wouldn’t let me; that hurt my motivation a little, heh. I think there’s a little bit of magic around LA that made it somewhere I always wanted to live” KUSHIDA concluded.
