Spens1 wrote:Scott Hall wrote:
Interesting hearing your guys stories about Elgin I honestly never heard about them. I just knew he was a bland
generic looking guy that can have good matches working Japanese style. The vibe I got was he was a solid quiet
guy that loved wrestling would never expect him to be this wild.
Well, there was the Kevin Owens podcast and what he said on that (something to the affect that he urinated on a woman even though she didn't consent or something like that).
Also their was a sexual assault allegation against one of his students and he covered for his student and more or less threw the student who was sexually assaulted under the bus, not to mention I think their where allegations against him as well.
Add that to the fact he had some choice words for Jeff Cobb (said to the extent he smells bad) and was talking all sorts of nonsense (i.e. he was the main gaijin that people went to other than Kenny for the new guys) and he more or less got x-pac heat from the non japanese audience for new japan (was still incredibly popular within Japan which saved his job honestly, but all of this did get him depushed from being a guy who could challenge for the IC belt to basically mid card fodder mostly).
Now that you mention it I think I vaguely remember the student scandal that wasn't to long ago was it? The
other stuff I never heard of though.
I was pretty hyped when he debuted in Impact at Rebellion last year I was at the show and actually popped. I liked
him in NJPW but he didn't seem to really translate over here to me. His promos and lack of character just made him
seem dull.
I wonder what his options are now? Will a Japanese promotion take him back?