WWE superstar John Morrison was a guest on this morning’s episode of WWE The Bump, where he discussed his decision to return to the WWE, noting that he only wanted to take a year off, but that one year off turned into 8 years before it was confirmed that he would be making his return.

“When I left in 2011, I meant to take a year off, I wanted to make some movies and do my own thing for a little bit. That year turned into 8 years, it’s crazy how fast the time flew and part of it was because I was having a lot of fun wrestling for all these other places. Every time you wrestle for another place, you sign a contract and then, they want to have you sign for longer and extend and extend and I felt like I was really a big part of all these organizations, Lucha Underground, IMPACT, 5 Star Wrestling, I was like, the guy, the brand ambassador, it was cool having all that autonomy.”