You can listen to the full interview right here. Below are the highlights:
The feud that never was with Sting:
“I started doing the stuff with Sting, and that was the period of time where I had the face paint. It was an angle that Vince Russo had come up with. And, for some reason, I felt they never really pulled the trigger on it. Like, they had me talking about doing stuff with Sting, and they had me interacting with Sting, but I felt like they were still doing other things with Sting that never made me the focus of Sting’s attention.
So I always felt like by not making me seem like the most important thing on Sting’s plate, that it sort of hurt me. It made me look like I wasn’t important enough for the fans to care about either. So that was the end of the whole “Fallen Angel” character with me, just because I felt like it wasn’t working, I felt like I had gone as far as I could go in TNA with that mentality and that style of promo.”
Was Daniels underutilized in TNA:
After the Sting angle, “I pitched the idea of doing Curry Man with them, and they gave me a year while I was doing Curry Man as a character,” Daniels explained. “At the end of that, they got rid of the Curry Man character, they fired him, and I came back for a short period of time.
First as Suicide, because the person that was doing Suicide got injured right away, and so I took his place for a couple of months. And then I was back [as] myself, then just near the beginning of 2010, they basically let me go. They said that they really didn’t have anything for me, and so they were going a different direction.”