{"id":29421,"date":"2017-09-21T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=29421"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:20:09","slug":"johnny-impact-signing-impact-wrestling-learned-lucha-underground-champion-entering-impact-storylines-separate-taya-valkyrie-whether-rumors-impacts-behind-sce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/09\/21\/johnny-impact-signing-impact-wrestling-learned-lucha-underground-champion-entering-impact-storylines-separate-taya-valkyrie-whether-rumors-impacts-behind-sce\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Impact on signing with Impact Wrestling, what he learned from being Lucha Underground Champion, entering Impact storylines separate from Taya Valkyrie, whether rumors of Impact&#8217;s behind the scenes issues affect him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-341730831\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>Ring Rust Radio with Johnny Impact<br \/>\nHosts: Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin<br \/>\nAudio available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio\/2017\/09\/20\/ring-rust-radio-sep-20-w-wwe-no-mercy-preview-johnny-impact-interview\">Blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>On signing with GFW\/Impact Wrestling:<\/b> So I\u2019ve been in talks with people from TNA and GFW for a long time. Big John Gaburick, Taz, (Dave) Lagana, (Jeff) Jarrett, and really what it came down to was it was a great opportunity and it didn\u2019t feel like I was going to miss out or lose anything by signing with GFW. It\u2019s a deal that\u2019s been worked out with AAA where I\u2019m still going to be on AAA and Lucha Underground and now I\u2019m going to be on Impact and Pop TV every Thursday night too. So it seemed like a no-brainer. The circumstances under which I was approached prior to this time were not the same way. So right now it feels like I\u2019m getting my cake and getting to eat it too. Maybe like a protein cake maybe with paleo ice cream on the side cause you know how I feel about carbs. I do have a sweet tooth. My saving grace is that I\u2019m OCD about working out so if at night if I\u2019m eating ice cream the next morning I\u2019m doing cardio. That\u2019s only thing I\u2019ve ever been addicted to which I guess in the grand scheme of things isn\u2019t so bad to be addicted to training.<\/p>\n<p><b>Whether the question marks surrounding Lucha Underground influenced his decision to sign with Impact and whether he&#8217;s interested in being part of another Lucha Underground season:<\/b> I\u2019m very confident that there\u2019s going to be another season of Lucha Underground. The factor that went into my decision in going to Impact was really that it felt like it was a great opportunity for me to get to do everything. Impact, Lucha, AAA, and it doesn\u2019t feel like I\u2019m really given up anything. Lucha Underground was on hiatus for so long I haven\u2019t been doing any new wrestling for a TV show in over a year and I was starting to feel a little antsy in the pantsy to get out in the ring and do something in front of national audience. This opportunity with Impact came up and I felt like I needed to jump on it. Antsy in the pantsy? Ever see the movie Super Troopers? It comes from Super Troopers with the maple syrup and they get all syrupy and antsy in the pantsy, it\u2019s just a funny thing to say.<\/p>\n<p><b>What he learned from being Lucha Underground Champion:<\/b> Ultimately, the champion of a company is that company\u2019s brand ambassador. He or she is the guy or girl, you know what I mean it\u2019s 2017, that\u2019s going to be on the posters, that people are going to depend on to draw money. Ultimately, that\u2019s who becomes champion. Why am I prepared to do that for GFW Impact? Because I\u2019ve done it for the past 15 years. I won Tough Enough 3 when I started. I got signed and there is a learning curve when you step into the business. It\u2019s not like you can just step in the professional wrestling and be excellent at it, wrestling is not easy. If it was easy everyone would do it. Over that time that I spent in this business and my career, I\u2019ve continually evolved. I\u2019ve pushed myself with regards to training martial arts and parkour and MMA into my style of professional wrestling which in my opinion is the way the business has evolved over the past 10 years. To be able to talk about Impact and talk about myself and having other things going on the side is why I am the perfect person to represent Impact. All I have to do now is take Eli Drake to Slam Town at Victory Road and all that stuff is going to start happening and you are going to see a lot of good things happening to Impact.<\/p>\n<p><b>On coming into Impact Wrestling storylines separately from Taya Valkyrie:<\/b> That\u2019s funny. I feel like it\u2019s got a similar answer to the way I feel about when people ask me if I prefer tag team or individual wrestling. A lot of times the grass is greener. I love working with Taya and obviously we have chemistry on and off screen as well as we are engaged but everyone knows that. As far as being separate acts with Impact and GFW, I\u2019m really excited about it because it feels like she\u2019s really taking her queen thing with the music and made it her own. She\u2019s come into her own as a performer, she\u2019s got confidence, she believes in what she\u2019s doing, and it\u2019s fun for me to watch. I feel like this is the first time that she has really been out on her own and knocking it out of the park every week on Impact. It\u2019s a really cool thing. As far as where our paths are going to cross in the future, I don\u2019t know and it\u2019s hard to predict. It would be cool for me to see her do her own thing because I think she is doing such a good job. As far as I\u2019m concerned, I like working with her. I get to work with her in Lucha Underground, I get to work with her in promotions like Wrestle Circus and in AAA. I feel like I get to do a little bit of everything and that\u2019s the way Johnny likes it.<\/p>\n<p><b>On how the GFW\/Impact locker room different than WWE, Lucha Underground or other promotions:<\/b> I really like GFW locker room. It was so cool for me to see Chris Masters. He and I go way, way, way back. He and I went to the same elementary school in Los Angeles but we didn\u2019t even know each other back then. We were super bros in OVW when he got there in 2004. Then we got Trevor Lee and Moose who I became friends with doing independent wrestling for places like Pro-Wrestling Evolve. Then there is Bobby Lashley who is another super bro from OVW and then Jim Cornette comes back so it was like a weird flashback to 2005 at first. Lashley, Masters, and Eli Drake reminds me a lot of Rob Conway sometimes in the way that he talks and moves and performs. I got stuck with this weird sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu a couple times. It was cool but as cool as it was, the one thing that I felt like Impact needed was a quick evolution because 2005 is 12 years ago. It\u2019s time to do things a little bit differently because a lot of the shows that I\u2019m doing on the weekends, what I get from the crowd is that they want faster pace stuff, they want harder hitting stuff, and because people have consumed so much wrestling some the stuff that worked back then doesn\u2019t work the same now. You just need to update everything and I feel like that\u2019s what Impact needed when I got there was an update.<\/p>\n<p><b>On how rumors of what&#8217;s happening behind the scenes in Impact affect him:<\/b> Man, some of the best advice I got in wrestling I got from Matt Cappotelli who\u2019s dealt so much stuff, so much hardship, adversity and always remained positive. His biggest advice to me was worry about the things you can control, don\u2019t worry about the things you can\u2019t because that will drive you crazy. So, I take that to me meaning I can control what I do in the ring, I can control how jacked I am, how tan I am, how my hair looks, how I talk, how I walk, but if the company is sold it\u2019s going to be on a different network or its going to go bankrupt. On some level, worrying about that takes energy and I don\u2019t want to put my energy into worrying about something that\u2019s ultimately not my decision anyways. So I\u2019ve become good at just cutting that off and not worrying about it because it\u2019s either going to happen or it\u2019s not going to happen but regardless I know I am going to land on my feet because I\u2019m focusing on the things that I can control. I\u2019m a valuable asset to GFW, Lucha Underground, AAA, WWE and even Ring of Honor. Who knows, maybe Johnny Honor may make an impact too. 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