Johnny Swinger has signed a contract extension with Impact Wrestling with a deal that will see him remain with the company for another year.
Swinger confirmed the news while speaking with Tommy Dreamer on the House of Hardcore podcast:
Dreamer: “And other big news, I understand you signed another contract with IMPACT Wrestling.”
Swinger: “Yeah, one more year in the sun, right?”
Dreamer: “Now you’re doubling your run brother. Four years.”
Swinger: “Brother, I’m telling you man and he [Scott D’Amore] said to me, he called me on fourth of July 2019, I was out by the pool so that’s why I remember — he didn’t call me, he sent me a text, said, ‘I got an idea for you in IMPACT, it’ll be fun and easy’ and my response was, ‘When do I start?’ I didn’t ask what it was, I didn’t care because I knew that he knows what to do with me so I’ll just trust in that so it was three weeks after that before he told me what I was finally doing and when I talked to him, he goes, ‘We’ll either get three months out of this or we’ll get three years out of it,’ and you know, obviously he’s still happy with it. They’re offering me another year and there’s a lot of people — I started thinking about all the people I’ve worked with there over the last three years that aren’t around anymore that were really big time talent so, you know, I was just in awe of Ken Shamrock when I first came in, because I never really knew him before that but I got to kind of be friendly with him, really cool guy and I was thinking, you know, after a year-and-a-half, he was gone and I’m still here three years — that makes me feel good that I’m a pliable character that you just cameo into something and you have a good idea and it’s like boom, it’s an easy, simple thing and everybody gets it and I’m just grateful for the chance to come back on a TV level and do this character which it’s not really a character. It’s just what I am and what I’ve seen and I add a lot of color to it and I watch a lot of people.”
Swinger’s role is to mainly provide comedy relief to Impact Wrestling with backstage segments such as Swinger’s Dungeon etc.
His last match was a loss to Dirty Dango on BTI which aired last week.
You can listen to the complete House of Hardcore podcast below:
(H/T to Post Wrestling for the transcription)
