In a recent interview with Fightful, former IMPACT Wrestling star Sami Callihan discussed several topics, including departing the company following the expiration of his contract, free agency, potentially returning to IMPACT if both sides can strike a deal, and more.

Callihan noted that there is no bad blood from either side about his contract expiring and it is simply a case where the two sides could not agree to terms on a new deal.

“It is something that came up rather quick, I went through that horrendous leg injury and halted my career and put me at a stop still for almost a year and a half, hell I just started to feeling like typical Sami Callihan probably two months ago.

It was one of those things, we are on extremly good terms, I’m not one to come say, you know what, screw you, you’re a piece of s***. I’m not going to bury your company, I would never do that, I don’t want to do that, because I do love IMPACT Wrestling.

It’s one of those things, we could not come to an agreement on what I need to be paid to stay, because I believed I offered more than what was really happening. In professional wrestling, I think I’m more than just a professional wrestler at this point, I think I’ve proven that time and time again. I think my fingertips and blueprint is all over professional wrestling, not only on an independent scale, on a national television scale at this point.

We just could not come to terms, I think both parties thought we were going to figure out something, so it kept kind of getting pushed back and pushed back. Then, when push came to shove, it just didn’t work out.”

The full interview is available at this link.