MVP: New management in WWE ‘just wasn’t for me’

While speaking with 4th Rope Interviews, MVP addressed his decision to leave WWE.

MVP departed WWE this summer and has since arrived in AEW, reuniting with Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin as The Hurt Syndicate. He told 4th Rope Interviews that, with new management in place in WWE, it was definitely time to leave the company and head elsewhere.

“I left the first time [in 2010] to go to Japan. This time, I didn’t want to re-sign and I let it be known that I wasn’t going to re-sign because the new management in place,” MVP said. “Anytime — I don’t care where you work, whatever you do for a living — when new management comes in, it’s good for some people and not good for other people. New people come in, old people go. So I just felt that it was definitely time to go because the new management just wasn’t for me. And I ain’t for him.”

MVP previously made comments on Instagram that were critical of Paul “Triple H” Levesque for not bringing The Hurt Business back together in WWE. Lashley has also said he and Levesque did not have much of a connection, and Lashley preferred Vince McMahon’s booking.

At 51 years old, MVP will return to the ring against Josh Barnett at Barnett’s Bloodsport event on November 24. It will be MVP’s first match in more than two years.

When asked about goals he has for the next chapter of his career, MVP told 4th Rope Interviews that he still wants to have a few more matches.

“The next chapter currently is AEW. Got the boys back together, The Hurt Syndicate. I want to end that chapter the way it should have been ended,” he said. “So we have plans to do some really good business at AEW. And then, I got a few matches left in me. I’d like to have a few matches before I hang it up for good. I’m not officially retired yet, so I want to have my final retirement match. And then after that, we’ll see, man. I’m enjoying this role as a manager, a mouthpiece, doing commissioner work. So if somebody wants to keep paying me to come around and grab a mic and run my mouth, I’ll do it for as long as they pay me to do it. But otherwise, as far as wrestling, that chapter is coming to a close pretty soon. And, you know, right now I just want to have a good time making money with my friends.”