Nic Nemeth addresses MJF match cancellation
Nic Nemeth is “crushed” that his scheduled match against MJF is no longer happening.
On Busted Open Radio this morning, Nemeth addressed the news that he will no longer be facing MJF at an upcoming indie show. The TNA and AEW stars were set to collide for Create-A-Pro on May 1, but the match has now been canceled with TNA citing “partner conflicts.”
“You know, I was really looking forward to this. I was really, really excited,” Nemeth said. “But, yes, as of yesterday, as I was flying in, I found out, because of certain partnerships and brands, TNA President Carlos Silva had to make a difficult decision and protect a couple of brands down the line and things that are actually contractually obligated to happen — can’t just kind of do whatever we want. Even though I think some things were approved at a different time, when it became the situation that it is now with a couple of different things happening at once, I feel like — I’m crushed. Because I was very much looking forward to doing this, but it’s unable to happen at the moment.”
Nemeth and MJF are still working the May 1 event in Melville, New York but will now have different opponents. Nemeth is facing fellow TNA star Bear Bronson, while MJF will hold an open challenge.
“Still doing the Create-A-Pro show, and refunds will be available. MJF is going to do an open challenge there and he’s still going to be signing and doing all of the things at Create-A-Pro for that big show. All of those things will happen,” Nemeth said. “I’m going to wrestle Bear Bronson for the first time ever. I hate that it had to come out this way. I hate that this wasn’t all taken care of in the past. But that’s something we can all work on, I gotta start reading some fine print and we have to protect people that we actually work with and we have partnerships with. Usually I’m pretty great about that, so I’ll stay on that for everything that we do.”
Though it can’t happen now, Nemeth does still hope to make the MJF matchup a reality at some point. The two had been building up a feud on social media and through Nemeth’s regular co-host role on Busted Open.
“I’m bummed out. I’m going to try and make this match happen one day, and hopefully soon,” he said. “But at the moment, it is currently not happening.”
MJF took a less diplomatic tone while addressing the situation, sending out a tweet this morning where he called TNA President Carlos Silva a “dumb motherf***er” and said the pay in TNA is “sh*t.”
Other TNA wrestlers have also been pulled from scheduled matches against AEW wrestlers, including a Leon Slater vs. Ricochet bout that was supposed to happen at WrestleCon’s Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow on April 16.
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