Eric Young Shoots Hard On WWE's Booking Of SAnitY
"We were dead in the water!"
Current IMPACT World Champion and former WWE star Eric Young thinks SAnitY had no chance to succeed.
During an interview with David Penzer's 'Sitting Ringside' podcast, Young said that he knew the idea was "dead in the water" as soon as it moved up from NXT to SmackDown in 2018. Eric and pals were worried straight away when their debut was scrapped due to time constraints.
WWE knew they were running out of air time for that evening's broadcast, so they decided to hold back on a planned feud with The New Day and have the group beat down The Usos on the 19 June episode instead. Young was then disheartened further when the company shoved him into a last-minute 'Open Challenge' bid against then-United States Champion Jeff Hardy on the 26 June SmackDown.
He told Penzer that SAnitY were in a tough spot. They couldn't beat The Usos because Jimmy and Jey were going for the Tag-Team Titles soon, and he definitely wasn't going to win the US belt from Jeff. They ended up looking like losers for weeks before finally beating New Day in a Tables Match at Extreme Rules.
Young thinks that was too little, too late.