Nic Nemeth is excited to walk through a new door in his career.
Nemeth spoke with the New Japan Pro-Wrestling website about his debut with the company and what he’s been up to since leaving WWE. Nemeth says he considered leaving WWE for the past several years, but something (or someone) always drew him back in.
“I would say for the last six or seven years I would think about finishing up (with WWE) and there would always be another guy that I would want to wrestle, or the company would want me to help one of the young guys, and the next contract came up, and so on,” Nemeth explained. “During that time I was fortunate to wrestle someone who at first I didn’t know very well at all, and that was Shinsuke Nakamura.”
Nemeth says he forged a good relationship with Nakamura, who told him he could help set him up in Japan if WWE was no longer his home.
Shinsuke Nakamura
“After beating one another up for a while, I learned that he’s an ass kicker and he’s also a sweetheart. We built up a relationship to the point where he said ‘if you’re ever getting out of here I can help you’ and I said ‘I might take you up on it one day’. That’s when I started exploring what was going on in Japan,” Nemeth said. “Not just what matches were happening, but looking for clips of people, especially people like me who was coming out of their element in one place and seeing what they were doing and making happen that got people talking to the point where they were assimilating right into the roster.”
Nemeth said that he wanted chances to steal the show, and not just have it be a catchphrase on a t-shirt. He says that knowing that there was a whole world outside of WWE that gave him a chance to do that made him excited to “walk through the door and see how this goes.”
Nic Nemeth says that he’ll keep the same mindset overall for wrestling, noting how there’s a reason he was in the spot he had in WWE for a reason. However, he has watched New Japan content and questioned if he could keep up, so he tripled his cardio in the past few months. Now, he says, he could do an hour-long match if needed.
