In an interview with The Shoot, former TNA Wrestling superstar Christopher Daniels discussed TNA’s usage of cheap finishes, his opinion on Dixie Carter, his interest in working for the WWE and more.

Highlights of the interview are below:

On his opinion of Dixie Carter and if she has changed since becoming a bigger focus on television as a heel: “My opinion is that she’s always been the same, I mean I feel like because she’s taken on the responsibility of being a character on the show, she’s a little more stressed out maybe because there’s a little more responsibility rather than just her going out there and sort of being herself like she’s going out there and portraying a character. There’s a lot of effort, a lot of stuff going aroun when she became this character and there’s a lot of pressure for her to perform, so I think that affects you in certain ways, but she hasn’t changed in a negative way in that respect, she’s just got a lot of pressure on her now to perform and sort of hang with guys who have been doing this for a lot longer than her. It’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself, to go in there and sort of get some storylines across with a lot of the big guys. I think she’s got a good group of people working for her and she’s working hard to get as much done for the company as she can.”

On TNA’s usage of cheap finishes regularly in World Championship matches: “I don’t think it’s an idea where “oh well, here’s a World Championship match, lets dilute it down with wacky finishes”, I think whenever they use it, the mentality is that there’s a reason they’re trying to get a specific response from the fanbase at that point, they have their reasons for doing these things, do they always translate to the viewers, maybe not, but I mean like I said before, they’re making their decisions and they have a certain mindset, they have a certain goal that they’re trying to reach and the message that they’re trying to reach that goal with, whether they reach it or not is I guess up to the fanbase. If the fanbase is turning off the television when they see these things goin on, I mean that’s the message to send, but that’s up to the fans at that point to say well, we’re not going to put up with this, we want to see something different, let your voices be heard.”

The interview is available in full at this link.