Despite finding a huge amount of success in NXT, Samoa Joe has faced a lot of bad luck on the main roster thanks to a series of injuries. After breaking his hand, he started doing commentary on RAW, but later stepped back into the ring...only to then suffer a concussion while shooting a commercial for WWE.
Now, it's hard to say what comes next for him inside the ring, though he has definitely been kicking ass behind the commentary table on Monday nights.
"I’ve had zero media aspirations," Joe admitted during an interview with WWE's The Bump when asked if this was something he always aspired to. "I pretty much kind of just drift through life and just let things kind of hit me as they come. I got on the commentary table and it was funny, when the lights shined on me and I started to hear the angels sing, I said to myself ‘I think this might be a good fit, I think this might work out.’"
"I remember I put on the headset and Vince came through and he goes ‘I don’t know why, it feels right.’ I go, ‘I know, right?’" he continued. "It’s been a really weird journey and I’m still on it, it’s a quest. I’m just trying to take the world along with me."
Unfortunately, Joe didn't address his future as a pro wrestler, but it is likely he's been put on the shelf for the foreseeable thanks to that concussion. There's no denying that he's doing a great job as a commentator, though, and that he's infinitely better at his job than the man he replaced, Jerry "The King" Lawler.