Reno Scum’s Adam Thornstowe On Returning To IMPACT Wrestling, Their Current Contract Status

Yeah, we’ll be be back for a few episodes right now.   We don’t have an official deal; I don’t know if that’s news or not but I don’t know.  The door’s open, we talked to all the suits up there and stuff so we’ll see what comes in the future.  …The goal is by summer to be back full time with IMPACT.

On Getting Released the First Time and Their Return in 2019:

When we got released the first time I had torn my bicep (his first bicep injury),  I rehabbed and I’m ready for Slammiversary and it was the “Ah, we don’t have anything for you guys”.  Then October 2017  they just let us go.  Cus I was still e-mailing Bob Ryder about all these indy bookings, and I was all ‘Do I gotta clear these with you guys or whatever?’  …It was nice. There was no heat or anything that I know of. I’m sure I have heat with somebody, I don’t give a shit.   I’m 36 years old, I’m too old to worry about the wrestling drama.

…We got released, It was kind of a blessing cus every month we’d get an e-mail,  like ‘you might be doing something’ or ‘I don’t know if we have anything for you this time or this taping’, it’s like, ‘fuck man like, I feel like you do.’.  Cus like, oVe had just came in and LAX and that’s like all the tag depth – er..Fallah and, wait no KM and Fallah weren’t even tagging, so I don’t know I feel like there’s something there that you could do.

But we weren’t salary, we were only paid per tapings, so it’s not like it was costing them anything to keep us home.  We got our release, said ‘see you down the road’, and they contacted us, I don’t know, it was only six or seven days before Vegas.  ‘Hey, we got something for ya’, we just went down, did what was asked of us, and talked to Scott D’Amore I think yesterday or the day before, said yeah, the door’s  open for us to come back.  So we’ll be talking to them in the future, probably put some ink to paper eventually.  They just have to put some paper in front of us too.

How was Alberto El Patron Backstage?

He was super professional, he was one of the boys.  That whole week of tapings he would just show up, and you don’t see everything, like…those top level guys they have to go into an office sometimes or to a meeting.  They have more creative control and you just get brought into a company and their like, ‘You know this is what we got for you tonight, you got 12 minutes so go out there and do it’ and I’ll take every second of that 12 minutes; but those guys, I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors.  I don’t really give a shit.  Sometimes I feel like that works against us, we literally just want to show up and work.  Like, I don’t care about anything else, you know?  I think a lot of times that rubs wrestlers the wrong way,  I’m not good at small talk and stuff like that.  it’s not that I don’t like people.  There’s an age gap now.  As I said, I’m 36 and some of these younger wrestlers I’m like ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’.  You’re not going to know what I’m talking about.  Let’s just get through the match and make it really good.

What’s Your Interactions with IMPACT’s Bob Ryder like?

Yup, very easy to talk to.  My interactions are ‘Hey, Bob.  Where’s my paycheck?’.