Why Trey Miguel Turned Down WWE For Impact Wrestling
The former Rascalz member didn't follow MSK's Wes Lee and Nash Carter to WWE NXT.
Trey Miguel was conspicuous by his absence as his former Rascalz allies, Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz, signed with WWE in December 2020 and were rebranded MSK (Wes Lee and Nash Carter respectively) upon debuting on television the following month.
It was later revealed the Miguel had opted, instead, to stick with Impact Wrestling. He returned to the promotion last month and has effectively picked up where he left off, with an X Division Title contendership match on the horizon at No Surrender 2021 next week.
Now, Miguel has explained his decision to stick with Impact, doing so on Taylor Wilde's Wilde On podcast.
Trey said that while the move suited Lee and Carter, who are engaged and married respectively and have different priorities in life, he needs wrestling to do "different things" for him at the moment. Here's why he didn't want to move to Orlando to start at the Performance Center (h/t POST Wrestling for the transcription):-
“…My oldest brother just had my most recent nephew and he was born premature because his mother fell ill so they actually induced her, and he’s home now but he was in isolated care for two months and they named him after my late brother and it’s just like I couldn’t imagine moving to f–king Orlando, Florida a month after this little miracle, you know what I mean? That’s not it for me, and it’s not like if I don’t go to Orlando, I don’t get to wrestle anymore. I still get to wrestle more than anyone at NXT. I train whenever I want.”
Impact, on the other hand, gives Miguel the chance to stay close by to his family and wrestle, which sounds like a better balance for him.
Though he technically left Impact in November, Miguel has effectively been with the promotion since the Rascalz debuted in late 2018.