8 Questions With TNA Superstar Ethan Carter III
6. The Bitter Taste Of Defeat
As you noted earlier, Mike Bennett was the first wrestler to defeat you by pinfall or submission in TNA. He used the old Bret Hart/Roddy Piper finish from WrestleMania VIII to pin your shoulders to the mat on the April 26 Impact Wrestling. This might sound like an absurd question, but I’m going to ask it, anyway: was Bennett worthy of this honour?
“Yes, because he wanted it. He wants it as much as I do. He wants to be the face [of the company], he wants to change the game, so to speak, just like I did. I respect that. I respect what he has done since he came up here.
“For someone to finally pin me, it needed to be somebody that could be built upon in the future — someone new, someone fresh, someone intriguing, someone who had an upside and could be a foundation of this place in the future.”