3-Time WWE Champion Admits His Firing Was Deserved

A former three-time champion in WWE has admitted that the company was right to fire them.

2005 saw the ascent of John Cena to the top of WWE, the complete capitulation of Evolution as Triple H and Batista went to war for the World Heavyweight Championship, Randy Orton becoming the Legend Killer, and WWE pull a character from TV after causing international uproar with a supposed terrorist attack on The Undertaker on the same day as the 7/7 bombings in London, England.

The year also marked the end of the WWE career of the first male Tough Enough winner, Maven. A three-time Hardcore Champion in the company, he is best remembered for eliminating The Undertaker from the 2022 Royal Rumble. And it seems, he’s only blaming himself for how things ended.

Maven Says WWE Right To Fire Him

Speaking on Mic Check with Mr Anderson, former WWE star Maven explained why he thinks John Laurinaitis, who called him to tell him he was fired, was right:

It took me years to admit this; he wasn’t wrong. He told me, he was like, “Maven, for years we’ve told you to get your ass to the ring and get better.” And I just never did. I attribute it to being young, and I, at the time, liked the life and what wrestling gave me more than what I could give wrestling. If I could go back and redo things I would.

Elsewhere in the interview, Maven admitted that he would never return to WWE under Triple H’s regime.

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