QT Marshall comments on not going to WWE.
QT Marshall had been with AEW from the start, and he became Tony Khan's right-hand man, but he announced that he was resigning in November 2023. His absence was short-lived, as he returned at the beginning of 2024 and resumed his role as Vice President of Creative Coordination.
Speaking with Steven Muehlhausen The Takedown on SI, QT Marshall commented on the rumors that he could have gone to WWE, given his friendship with Cody Rhodes.
"I have so many positives in wrestling when it comes to what I bring to the table. I make too many to the point where no one has a clue what to do with me, which is why I fit in so well at AEW because I don't have just one role. I just do as much stuff as I possibly can. Of course, it dawned on me to think about it. I remember telling Tony a long time ago when Cody first went to WWE, ‘I'm never going to leave AEW to go work in the office at WWE. I just won't do it. That's such a large system’. I'm like Tony's right-hand man. So why would I leave to go be number 7,000 in a company, work more hours, more days on the road, just to say I work for WWE? Like 20 years ago, of course, I would have done anything to work for WWE. Now, it's different. If it was just talent related, and I told Tony this as well, ‘If they came to me and we spoke about just being a talent on the main roster, of course. I mean, that's the dream,'" Marshall said.
The article notes that Marshall had a conversation with WWE in the beginning of 2024, after the end of his short-term extension with AEW. Marshall noted that he got "rubbed the wrong way" during the conversation, and he had already spoken to Tony Khan about coming back to AEW.
"I had one conversation with somebody that doesn't even work there anymore. I just got rubbed the wrong way during the conversation. It was like, ‘Hey, yeah, oh yeah, that's great. All right. I told him, like, yeah, all right, we'll stay in touch’. To me, it was like I'm not staying in touch. I had all that time between November and January, so that on January 1 when that conversation did arise or January 2, whenever it was. It was like I kind of knew plus I had already spoken to Tony before that, so I kind of knew. I think I was just looking for a reason to say no," Marshall said.
Marshall previously discussed his return to AEW. Check out his comments here.
Marshall is set to face Costco Guy AJ on the Zero Hour pre-show of AEW Full Gear 2024.
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