TJP doesn't know if WWE needs him.
TJP had a run in WWE from 2016 to 2019, and he won the Cruiserweight Classic. He had a run as the WWE Cruiserweight Champion, and he was released in 2019. TJP then returned to NJPW, where he has been featured as a member of United Empire. He has won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship three times.
Speaking on Straight Talk Wrestling, TJP was asked whether he would consider going back to WWE now that Triple H is in charge.
“Yeah, I mean I would have always had that answer. For whatever goes on or has been on with Vince [McMahon], my experience with him as a boss, that’s all it was, was a good one. Same as my experience with Hunter. So that answer would be the same either way, as far as that goes. It does seem like the landscape’s changing over there. I don’t know if that means that’s a good thing for me or not a good thing for me. Who knows? It could be a bad thing [laughs], could be the floodgates are so wide open now that it’s like, ‘Hey, we don’t need this guy.’ I am very different now. I would not be interested in going back and being the guy that left there. It’s been so long since I was that guy, and that was only…everything I do, Puma, Su, everything, is an extension of who I am in real life. That’s only a fraction of who I was in real life. In a lot of ways, it was not at all who I was in real life because it was a product of a creative team that didn’t know me, unfortunately. But what I’m doing now is about as authentic to me as anything I’ve ever done. But I feel like they don’t need what I am now. So I don’t know. If they were to say, ‘Hey, we want what you are now and who you are now, and we don’t want to obscure that art in any way, present it as you are,’ then yeah, I would love to. But I just feel like they don’t really…that’s not a player that they need on the roster, I don’t think. But would I love to do it? Yeah, I would love to do it," TJP said.
TJP previously said that he did not have any regrets about his WWE run. Check out his comments here.
Click here to see what TJP had to say about trying to write his own WWE storylines so he could be featured on television.
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