Eric Young Says IMPACT World Championship Win Is ‘Justification’, It Was Fate (Exclusive)
Photo Credit: AXS TV / IMPACT Wrestling
Eric Young says “it’s good to be king.”
Young spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard after winning the IMPACT World Championship on Tuesday’s episode of IMPACT Wrestling on AXS. In just his third match back with the company, Young won the promotion’s top prize by defeating Eddie Edwards in the main event.
Young says he is proud to have this opportunity to lead IMPACT as the new champion and says this was never personal with Eddie Edwards, but it’s a massive accomplishment for him.
“Yeah, it feels good. The big word for me right now is ‘justification.’ Being in wrestling, anyone that says they don’t want to be world champion or be ‘the guy’ for wherever they’re working, they’re either lying to you or they’re in the wrestling business for the wrong reasons. It’s a massive, massive accomplishment for me and it’s a massive responsibility that I take deathly serious. I’m very serious about making this place a destination for everybody viewer-wise, and being the flag-bearer of that is something that is super cool. It’s an amazing opportunity.”
“No, not personal for me. Eddie made his bed and I tried to warn him, to allow him the easy way but he didn’t want that because that’s not who he is. So I feel like all of this was created by him, all of the stuff that happened and the result was created by him. In the end, this was fate. This was always going to happen, he had no control.”