Josh Mathews not too long ago appeared on Street Dogg’s “Oh You Did not Know” podcast to replicate on his days as a WWE commentator and to debate his present function in Impression Wrestling. Throughout the dialog, Mathews opened up about how his mentality has advanced since his time in WWE.

“I want I might have had the mentality then. Like I used to be in WWE after I was 20 to 30 no matter, proper, however I used to be mainly a child, and now I look again in my early 40s and it is like, ‘Man, not a missed alternative, an awesome alternative,’ and I discovered a lot. Like I went to WWE College. I used to say that after I labored there on a regular basis.”

Mathews continued, “However then I, for no matter motive, would discover myself on the jet going again with them most weeks as a result of I needed to be again in Stamford within the morning. It wasn’t as a result of they needed me on the aircraft with them. It was as a result of I needed to be again there. And it was only a totally different world. Everybody was simply chill, hanging out. Should you needed to have a beer, a glass of wine, you could possibly, or regardless of the case. I used to be simply so like, ‘Argh,’ but it surely did not should be that manner.”

Mathews labored for WWE from 2001 to 2014 after initially attempting out on “Powerful Sufficient.” He served as a backstage interviewer and commentator till his 2014 launch. From there, he joined TNA (now Impression) to function their play-by-play announcer. In 2021, Mathews transitioned to a behind-the-scenes producer function.

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