Steve Maclin Reflects On TNA Departure: “I Kind Of Felt Towards The End Of My Fifth Year, I Was Just Spinning The Wheels”

Steve Maclin looks back on his departure.

There’s an extensive interview with Steve Maclin that TSN released ahead of Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s Northern Rising show.

Maclin further opened up about his time in TNA Wrestling and stated the following:

“I kind of felt towards the end of my fifth year I was just spinning the wheels where I was throwing ideas to creative and they were taking them and then nothing would come of it,” Maclin said. “Even when I became International Champion [in April of 2025], it was like, ‘All right, cool, where are we going to? Am I going to Mexico, Japan? How are we going to make this title mean something?’ Every pitch that I threw just never came to fruition like I imagined. It just felt like I was always fighting an uphill battle where I just folded every time, like, ‘Okay, cool, whatever you guys want, then.’ For me, that’s not something I like to do, especially when I try to put every bit of me into a story to better the product, to better the company and to better the person I’m in the ring with.”

Maclin will be facing Adam Copeland at Northern Rising.