Remember Odyssey Jones?
He had a blink and you’ll miss it run on the main roster as the former WWE superstar finally made his debut with The New Day after being inactive for a number of months. But then, Jones’ ex-girlfriend, Meileth Nunez, accused him of physical abuse and WWE immediately pulled him from television.
Jones was quietly released in 2024 and the former WWE star has been competing on the indies ever since. Jones has finally opened up about the situation on the Generation Of Wrestling podcast and he feels that WWE mishandled it (Transcript courtesy of Fightful)
“First thing, before I say anything, I thank God that it happened this way because this whole thing, like I said before, it made me grow as a man, I grew more confident, I grew closer to Christ. I got to a low point and got to build up the right way, so to speak. But yeah, I think they mishandled it. Even when I talked to them about the situation, when they called me and first told me, I laughed on the phone, because I know what happened… I won’t dive too deep into it. I won’t drop names or anything. At the end of the day, it was a woman upset I was making moves without her.
The narrative is it was my girlfriend and you know, this is kind of throwing me under the bus. It wasn’t my girlfriend. It was one of my girls. One of my women that I was seeing when I was traveling, and you know, she got upset that she wasn’t the one. She got upset that she didn’t get access that she felt she deserved, and most of its public. You could even look deeper in it. I’ve had prior problems with her so this goes to my ignorance and naivety, naiveness to it, and lust so to speak, that I gave her a second chance that she shouldn’t have got.
I was dealing with someone who wasn’t equally yoked as me, and instead of trying to work to be on on the same level, she said she’s just gonna tear me (down), which is fine, because the end of the day and I tell a lot of my friends this, it’s my turn to be in this kind of perspective, in this time of transition. The cream always rises to the top. I think the talent will show. I think TKO was transitioning to more corporate, and they were just scared.
I still think to this day — we’re almost actually a year after — still to this day, I don’t even know what was said. I don’t know what even was fully told. (They) got me jumping through hoops just to get information, and the young lady isn’t answering nothing. She didn’t come to any court cases. She’s not answering any summons or nothing so, it was really just a hurt person trying to hurt someone one more time, when they had a chance and kind of stab me in the back and run away with it so to speak. But, like I said, it is what it is. I say this often, ‘Let’s see what happens.’ I’m living my dream right now. I always said that I wanted to go to Japan."
Not alot of people would see their WWE release as a blessing in disguise, but Jones feels that it was really necessary.
"But what really, truly pushed me — and this is why I thank God for this moment — was getting released. Because my two biggest fears at the moment was, one, losing my dream job because nothing hurts more than when you work hard for something and put so much time and energy and sacrifice and the pain and the objectification. When you put all this to it, all these resources to your dream, and you get it, you wanna hold on to it and hold fast to it. So that was one fear and the other fear was this woman attacking me because she was — I’m not gonna talk too much about her, but she’s a cruel person.
She was very mean to me. She wasn’t a nice person at all, and I shouldn’t have let it go so far, I shouldn’t have gave her so much access to me. I shouldn’t have let her into the gates, so to speak. But, I did because I was operating in grace and empathy and love as always. That’s all I know… I say this was a great moment because I got torn down to the lowest point I’ve ever been in while this happened.
Last August was a rollercoaster. The debut, the three weeks, to get released. I wake up one day, was trending to a half a million people calling me a wife beater and that I should burn in hell and this, that and the third and they don’t even know what’s going on, and I don’t know what’s going on and I have to basically sit and wait. I couldn’t work, basically because no one was willing to operate with me, and I’ll never forget, man, I had a day that was just so bad. I was so defeated”
These days, Jones works in All Japan Pro Wrestling. He goes on to say that he enjoyed the three weeks that he was on the main roster and Jones felt that he accomplished alot during that short period of time.