In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the Insight With Chris Van Vliet podcast, All Elite Wrestling star Ricochet discussed several topics, including his decision to leave his role with WWE and sign for All Elite Wrestling.

“I got to thinking okay, what will I be doing, where will I be in three years, and after that, where will I be, and again, anything can happen, you don’t know the circumstances, but you just kind of have to play from your experiences, because again, especially in the wrestling industry, everybody has a different experience.

Just from my personal experiences and what I feel like Ricochet has been put through, I don’t know, I felt like I had already, not paid my dues or whatever, but I felt like I was able to be on the next level of performers there, I guess, but I still feel like I was starting over again, I felt like I was starting over with the Bron Breakker’s and the Ilja’s and the Carmelo’s, and the new guys just coming in. I feel like Ricochet was with those guys coming back in, it’s like man, I’ve already been here for 5 or 6 years, I want to be doing something else.

Again, at the end of the day, I wasn’t going to go to the highest bidder, I was just going to go to whoever was going to make me feel good and ignite that spark again, because I felt like that fire that was burning inside of me was still there, but it was just like little embers that needed that gasoline on it to really make it ignite. At the time, I felt like AEW could be the gasoline for my fire.

Since being there, I feel like I made the right choice, just even getting to be in there with the guys that I’ve been in there with Lio, and AR Fox, and even Nick Wayne, someone I’ve never been in there with, Sammy Guevara, Beast Mortos, people I’ve never worked with that I’ve been excited with, but also people like AR Fox and Lio, who I’ve worked with before, years ago, now we’re both different performers, so I really think that had a lot to do with it, but there was no specific moment where something happened and I just flipped the switch and that’s where I’m going.

I just think it’s what felt right, even when I find myself walking around and looking, I know I made the right decision.”

The full interview is available at this link.