Last December, newly crowned Middleweight Champion Myron Reed re-signed a new contract with Major League Wrestling, which wasn’t much of a surprise.
Ever since his debut with the promotion in 2018, the company has featured Reed as one of the prominent acts of MLW, first as an exciting up-and-coming high flyer to a dastardly villain who continues to cheat his way to victory with the help of Injustice members Jordan Oliver and Kotto Brazil.
To Reed, he’s in no rush to make the jump over to WWE or anywhere else right now, as the MLW Middleweight Champion loves the creativity and overall freedom he gets (Transcript courtesy of PostWrestling.com):
“I’m still really, really young, early twenties. If I sign another two, three-year deal, I’m still gonna be younger than half the guys in WWE right now. I’m okay. I’m with a company that respects my vision, my creativity, and they wanna see me succeed. And they’re putting me on the platform front and center for people to see what I can do and who I am. If I went to WWE or anywhere else right now, who knows what I’d be doing right now.
I don’t know, because when I first went to MLW, I wasn’t doing anything. I really wasn’t. I was just that [guy who] was having good matches but I mean, they pretty much helped me be better at promos and find myself, more confidence and shit like that so I wanna be with a company that’s helping me grow. If I’ve grown so much in a year, two years, then I can only imagine how much I’m gonna grow in two to three years being with the same company so, and money has to do with it.”
December was also the month that the 22-year-old won the prestigious middleweight championship from Teddy Hart; however, speculation surrounding the match was that the third-generation star wasn’t happy about dropping the belt, and Reed himself confirms the rumors:
“Nah, man, I’m gonna be real with you. Going into that match that day, when they knew your boy was winning, folks weren’t happy about that. Teddy wasn’t happy about that shit, like for real. He was hot. Dude didn’t want me to win. I knew what I was getting myself into. It was a chaotic situation. It was one of the most chaotic situations I’ve ever been in, especially at that time. You know how wrestling is. It was crazy because, they’re like, ‘As soon as you win the belt, get out of the ring. Get out of the ring. You gotta go. You gotta go. You don’t know what’s gonna happen. Teddy’s a loose cannonball,’ but I’ve wrestled Teddy before. He ain’t crazy like that. He’s cool, and so, match happened, it was cool.
He was doing some extra shit he wasn’t supposed to be doing and I was like, ‘It’s cool, I’m still gonna win,’ and then when it finally happened, that was really raw emotion because I’m thinking, ‘I might not get this W. This shit might break down and actually turn into some crazy shit.’ But everything went down as planned and I mean, it was just the most surreal moment because when I won, I’m looking in the crowd and what made me yell — I’m looking in the crowd and these folks in Orlando never really saw me [before], and so they’re like, ‘Who the f— is this kid?’ And they’re looking at me like, ‘How the f— did he just beat Teddy Hart?’ And when I saw that, that’s kinda when the whole ‘Young GOAT’ thing started. I was like, ‘Yeah bro! I did it,’ and right after I screamed, I was just talking mad shit.”
Check out the full interview where Reed talks about working the joint AAA show in the midst of the coronavirus, being the MLW Middleweight Champion, and so much more regarding his career thus far.