Various: Toni Storm on Decision to Leave WWE, Juice Robinson on Leaving NJPW, New Trademarks

Toni Storm Comments on Her Decision to Leave WWE

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast had Toni Storm as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Storm’s reasons for her decision to leave WWE this past December.

“I’m not saying that I have a problem with WWE at all. I’m actually really grateful for the time that I got to have there. I learned so much and you know what? It was so cool. It was real and it was cool but in the end, it wasn’t real cool and something just happened and I left and it felt… I felt like I was having an out of body experience to be honest. I just kind of — have you ever lost it? Have you ever just lost your mind? That’s kind of what happened. I guess the stress of not seeing family in years and then just so many overwhelming things all at once and yeah, I’ve been happier ever since.

It was just a moment where I realized it wasn’t for me and as much as I might have romanticized it as a child and thought that this is my dream and this is what I have to accomplish, I just realized, ‘Maybe it’s not and maybe it’s not the place for me’ and who am I to take someone else’s spot that actually wants to be here? That’s not fair and I just thought, you know, I’m still gonna be a wrestler, I’m still gonna be a wrestler. I spent years wrestling before WWE. I mean I loved it so I was like all there really is to go back to is doing something that I love so how bad can it be really? …

Yeah, there was really no point in going further and I didn’t leave [WWE] on bad terms or anything like that but it became abundantly clear that it just wasn’t the place for me at all and I love and respect all the women there. I think they’re amazing, they’re so hard working and they inspire but that wasn’t my place. Yeah, I don’t really know how else to put it.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Juice Robinson Expands on His Decision to Leave NJPW

As noted before, Juice Robinson is currently expected to leave New Japan Pro Wrestling once his contract expires at the end of this month.

Fightful held a recent interview with Robinson and one of the topics discussed included Robinson giving more details on his decision to leave NJPW.

“Yeah. It ended January 31st and then it was a three-month extension. So that puts me at the end of April. I will no longer be with New Japan as of April 30th. So this will be my last match, April 16th in the street fight. It’s pretty cool. My whole family’s gonna be there. It’s gonna be fun. It’s gonna be pretty emotional for me. It’ll be a great time.

It’s on good terms. It’s just I’ve gotten to a point where I understand what the job entails and I don’t know if I want to do that still. I don’t know if I can continue to do the job in which it needs to be done as far as travel, being away from home and it’s not fair [to them] if I can’t do the job, I can’t have the contract saying I do. So, yes, it’s on good terms.”

Robinson also gave his thoughts about his current plans for the future of his wrestling career.

“Definitely taking far, far, far less dates. Moving onto something else, pending and in the process of. But definitely far less dates.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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WWE & Sting File New Trademarks

WWE and Sting recently filed several new trademarks to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

A trademark for “Los Lotharios” was filed by WWE on April 11th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes.

Trademarks for “Roxanne Perez”, “Cruz Del Torio”, “Alba Fyre”, and “Katana Chance” were also filed by WWE on April 12th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes. Roxanne Perez is the new ring name of Rok-C, Cruz Del Torio is the new ring name of Raul Mendoza, Alba Fyre is the new ring name of Kay Lee Ray, and Katana Chance is the new ring name of Kacy Catanzaro.

A trademark for Sting’s Scorpion logo was filed by Sting on April 11th for wrestling and merchandise-related purposes.