Bobby Fish recently spoke with Inside The Ropes for an interview covering all things pro wrestling. During the discussion, Fish addressed the controversy between CM Punk and The Elite.
It was put to Fish that his comments about fighting Punk were like “hitting a bees nest with a baseball bat.” In response, Fish said that while he could see where that thinking comes from, Punk “challenged friends of mine” and took it there first.
With regard to his own feelings on Punk, Fish said that he doesn’t need to like everyone he works with, and his personal feelings won’t stop him from being professional.
“I have really no opinion on the man. I mean, it just is what it is. I don’t like or need to like everyone that I work with. And vice versa, but like, I’ll never not be professional, but that it’s in the eye of the beholder, you know, as to what’s considered professional and what’s not.
And people, human beings have a need to be tribal. So everybody’s looking to be on a team. So that means, if I like you, I gotta hate him. And if I hate him, I gotta like you. So it’s like, it’s just human nature.”
By the time Fish had left AEW, Triple H had assumed creative control of WWE and was rebuilding the main roster with a number of stars who he had worked with in NXT. This led to a great deal of speculation that Fish could head to WWE, and it was even reported that he would try and take Cole and O’Reilly with him.
However, Fish rubbished these claims. The former NXT star said that fans’ desire to know “the dirt” has meant that controversy can be created when there really isn’t any.
“Meltzer’s people at one point released some leak about me when I left AEW trying to get Kyle [O’Reilly] and Adam [Cole] to come to WWE, and that is accepted at this point as like gospel, and there’s no truth to it whatsoever.
But when somebody has, you know, low moral value reporting wise, and then it gets into that news feed. Like I said, the desire to know, the perceived dirt is such that fiction becomes fact. I’ve been victim of that more than once.”
Roderick Strong joining AEW:
“I will just say this, I’m just happy to see my boys at work. These are and have always been legitimate, close friends of mine. I think that’s why the Undisputed Era worked the way that it did in NXT because there was no fabrication to it.
We were four guys who, you know, were tight. What you saw play out on screen was four dudes who had each other’s back and that was marketable. It was real. I’m just happy to see two of my best friends back at work with jobs and able to support their families. This is real-life stuff. We do it in this fictional world of pro wrestling, but there’s real people here with real lives, real kids, real homes, real dogs, real bills.”
Potential return to WWE:
“I think there’s always a conversation that can be had with a lot of places. I’d like to think I have maintained good rapport, have friends, generally, in every place that I’ve worked.
They are and they will probably always be the big dog when it comes to pro wrestling. They have their pick of what they want, and what they want at times is very specific. So, if they see something that they want to create, or that they can use, they’re gonna go after it and get it and for some reason, if that ends up being me that, you know, happy to have a conversation with people and see if something makes sense.
But they’re — WWE is a machine man, and you don’t always know, and what you think you know, you probably don’t know 100% who’s in charge.”
Speaking of Fish, he recently joined PWMania.com‘s Lewis Carlan for an exclusive interview and discussed WWE under Triple H, his current relationship with Tony Khan, differences between Triple H and Tony Khan, if he is open to working for ROH, why his time in IMPACT Wrestling lasted only one TV taping, if we can expect reDRagon to reunite eventually, if he is disappointed the Undisputed Era never got to the main WWE roster and so much more.
(h/t to Nick Hausman and Inside The Ropes for the transcription)
