Originally published at Flash Morgan Webster believes WWE 'missed the boat' on Subculture
He shared the moment that was the validation they needed.
There was a period of time on WWE’s now-defunct NXT U.K. show that the trio known as Subculture (Flash Morgan Webster, Mark Andrews & Dani Luna) existed under the brand.
Once NXT U.K. closed, all three of them were let go from the company. Wrestling With Johners conducted an interview with Morgan Webster and the former NXT U.K. Tag Team Champion feels WWE missed the boat on them as a trio. He added that they got the validation they needed after becoming IMPACT World Tag Team Champions.
But, there’s this lovely little moment where we kind of walk into the corridor (after we became IMPACT Tag Team Champions), obviously, it’s just under a year we’d been released. Me, Dani (Luna) and Mark (Andrews) and just validation because you hear it all the time about people being released from WWE and I know it sounds a bit cliché, people say they felt like their validation and their worth is tied up in that job and it is hard, as I was there for over three years and as a kid growing up watching WWE, you wanna kind of succeed and you believe that what you’re doing there is the absolute best and then to be released does kind of make you question your — ‘Are we worth it? Are we good? Are we not good enough to stay there? Did they not see anything in us? Are we not made for TV wrestling? Is there not a major promotion that values us?’ So, being in Canada as the IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Champions and know that we were about to embark on this little tour around the U.K. defending these championships for the company, it was just that validation of like, they were wrong. They shouldn’t have released us. They missed the boat on Subculture. Subculture has this incredible branding, it has this chemistry between all three of us and we go out there and we just work our asses off everywhere we are and just try to steal the show and it only took us one appearance at IMPACT/TNA, for them to kind of see that and go, okay, we’re gonna give these guys more opportunities and we did and it was just almost like a ‘screw you’ to the people who didn’t think we were good enough or the people who laughed when we got released or the people who didn’t (think) that we should be on a major outlet and as much as it was a kick in the teeth to them, it was a kick up the ass to us to let us know we are good enough and validation for the hard work we put in over the years.
Dani Luna is signed to TNA Wrestling and Morgan Webster stated that the door is open for him and Mark Andrews to return to the company. He shared that there were contract talks and to read more on that, click here.
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