Ryback Reeves has been a busy man since leaving WWE and seemingly has no interest in ever returning to the company.
During a recent interview, however, the now independent wrestler talked about the way he left WWE and why he chose to handle his departure the way he did. Reeves also talks about his final day in the company and the fact he doesn't ever want to speak to Vince McMahon again.
"I told them f**k you, take me off TV and I left. I walked out of St. Louis and I went home. They tried to stop my pay and they weren’t going to pay me while I rode out my contract so I went on injury pay and got my ear and nose fixed and they paid me all the way up until my contract expired on August 8th I believe. If you remember, I released them and wished them the best in their future endeavors in an online video because they were trying to fire me. They wanted me to get cleared and I didn’t get cleared until the day my contract ran up so that they could not publicly say they fired me because that is what they will usually try to do to talent to make them look bad in the situation. But you guys didn’t get me.
"I left and I didn’t talk to anyone. I think me and Dolph Ziggler went and got wings at Hooters. I go to St. Louis and I saw the booking for the day and I hadn’t started the new contract they have given me so the games had already started. I just knew I was done. I sat there for a bit and I thought it through fully and I was already pretty close to leaving, I was just waiting. And I said this is it. I went and said what I had to say and they said ‘Do you want to go talk to Vince’ and I said ‘I never want to f**king talk to him again’ and I left."
There was some speculation that Reeves could wind up in All Elite Wrestling but it's now become clear that the company won't be filling its roster with ex-WWE talent so that seems unlikely. We spoke to Reeves earlier this year and he talked about healing up before making any decisions about his future so time will tell what he does next.
Where would you like to see him land? AEW? IMPACT? Or somewhere else entirely?