In an interview with The WrestlingINC Daily Podcast, Matt Sydal discussed several topics, including the WWE’s decision to purchase the EVOLVE Wrestling promotion.

“I mean, that was all EVOLVE had left, it wasn’t very successful and it was the lowest pay that I’ve ever gotten in 5 or 6 years, I just did it because I didn’t have work that weekend and it would have been cool, like there’s good wrestlers there. At that time, I was running the WWN Training School, while co-running it with some bum, but yeah, it just was easy, it was good work and I really like Leon Ruff and AR Fox’s guys, so I just wanted to go in there and work with them. I wasn’t trying to get anything out of it or do anything, it was just a match, people try and make it a big deal, but a show is a show, work is work, if you haven’t wrestled in New York in a couple of months, it’s always good to take a booking there, because there’s a lot of great wrestling fans up there.

I’m just glad for EVOLVE to get that deal, we were talking earlier about how indie guys want to get a contract now, like that’s sort of the goal. When I started, there was no hope of getting a contract, there was no hope of doing anything, the only hope you had of becoming a star was taking your own organization and growing it to be the next ECW or something like that, which for example, PWG got started around the same time and they grew their own things so big that it basically expanded to its own TV deal with TNT through AEW.”

The interview is available in full at this link.