Shane Haste discusses TMDK's ROH appearances in 2012.
Shane Haste, formerly known as Shane Thorne, has made the most out of his 19 year career in the wrestling industry. Haste has competed all around the world including in promotions such as WWE, NJPW, and Pro Wrestling Noah throughout his tenure in the business. Plenty of Haste's time in wrestling has been spent alongside his tag partner Mikey Nicholls.
In a new interview with Fightful, Haste discussed TMDK's short stint in Ring Of Honor and how visa issues prevented the team from working with the company any more.
"Yeah. The only problem was that I didn’t have a working VISA and at that point they weren’t doing VISAs for people. So it was my fault. It was just me. They let us know that they loved us, that we had what they wanted and it was just unfortunately the timing of I couldn’t get a VISA. They were like, ‘If only you had a working VISA or a green card. But we had NOAH at the time, so I wasn’t too stressed out. My main goal was working in Japan and from there we went from doing the three month VISAs to the six month VISAs, so we were living in Japan six months on, come home for two weeks and renew our VISAs, and go back to Japan."
Haste is in action at NJPW Strong on August 21 in LA. Elsewhere in our exclusive interview, Haste talked about his contractual status. To learn more, click here.
If you use any of the quotes above, please credit Fightful with a h/t and link back to us for the transcription.
