QT Marshall is once again part of AEW.
The star was part of the company since its inception, and in addition to being a member of the roster, Marshall was also a part of the production team and trained and scouted multiple stars who are now All Elite. In November of 2023, QT Marshall announced that his time with AEW was coming to an end, and reports soon emerged that he had been frustrated with a number of things about his time in the company.
However, in mid-February, Fightful Select reported that QT Marshall was on his way back to AEW despite previous frustrations. Speaking in a new interview with Bill Apter of Sportskeeda, Marshall opened up about his decision to leave the company in late 2023 and revealed that he had talks with recently-fired TNA President Scott D’Amore.
“I had given my notice (right before All In) that I was going to leave and go wrestle, and I had other things I wanted to do. Tony [Tony Khan] and I spoke, and he said, ‘Why don’t you stay? Maybe I can do something with you more as the Triple A Latin American Champion.’ ‘Yeah, sure.’ I didn’t know what I was going to do.
“I had spoken to Scott D’Amore at IMPACT and maybe I was going to do something for them. Tony was very understanding towards all of this stuff. I signed this extension and it came to the end of the year. Tony and I spoke a little about stuff, and my biggest thing was I didn’t want to sign a long-term contract but because of that, I had to resign from the job itself. I couldn’t do one or the other.”
Why Didn’t QT Marshall Want To Join WWE?
When asked about the possibility of joining WWE instead of returning to AEW, QT Marshall explained the reasons he didn’t want to join the sports entertainment giant.
“Tony and I have spoken numerous times about this. I’m not going to WWE just to be a producer. I can do that at AEW, where I can work one day a week, and I’m number whatever in the company, in the top ten, where as, I go to WWE, I start at the bottom, I make less money, I’m on the road more.
The only perk is that I get to be with my friend Cody [Cody Rhodes] and just to say that I work for WWE, which has been my dream since I was eight years old, but it’s not my dream to be a producer for WWE. I did speak to them, and we don’t know what could happen. Ideally, I’m back to AEW under an employee role.”
h/t Fightful