Steve Maclin has learned from some of the best.
Since arriving in TNA in 2021, Steve Maclin has been in matches and feuds with plenty of top performers in the company. In 2023, Maclin was slotted into the company's top spot, as he won the TNA World Championship after Josh Alexander was stripped of the title due to injury.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, Maclin named a few performers and producers that he's learned from since joining the company.
"Frankie, E-Y, Josh Alexander, and then even my producers, Ace Steel and Lance Storm. Those are, those are guys I kind of go to where if I have an idea, I run it by them and I'm like, ‘Hey, what do you think of this?’ They'll tweak it a little bit and it's just always having another third party where if you and I are having a match, we have our producer there and even when it was a referee sometimes too, with ref Eddie Oregno in WWE, we'd have tag matches and I would love it because I'm like, ‘Hey Eddie, what do you think of this?’ Like, ‘Oh, you're kind of doing this. Maybe like this, [if] you just eliminate this part and it'll just simplify it.’ I'm like, ‘Oh, okay.’ It just, it dumbs it down and helps you make it simpler and the ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’ method is very true to pro wrestling. It just resonates towards fans where you can sit there and go, ‘Oh, okay.’ Where you don't want to bury a referee or you just don't want to ruin a spot. I love to just try to make things simpler and that's kind of how I try to work and navigate with producers and other talent as well when I go to them for advice."
Elsewhere in the interview, Maclin talked about potentially becoming a coach after his in-ring career is over. Learn more about those comments here.
Fans can check out Fightful’s full interview with Steve Maclin in the video linked above.
