Lexis King Calls AEW Departure A Necessary Transition, Says He Had A Great Run There

Lexis King discusses his decision to leave AEW and sign with NXT.

The former Brian Pillman Jr. spoke on this topic during a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vilet. King states that leaving Tony Khan’s promotion was a necessary transition, but adds that he enjoyed his time there and did do very well financially.

I mean, it wasn’t so much of a decision as it was just a necessary transition. I think my time came up at AEW, and it was a great, great run, a great deal financially, I did very well there. But like I said, just that sort of that self-doubt of not knowing the future, not knowing if I’m going to be used, or if I’m going to do anything? Well, it was pretty apparent when they didn’t re-sign me that I wasn’t going to be doing anything there anymore. So God bless agents and attorneys that picked up the phone that day, my contract was up and got the conversation started. I think I got a paycheck from both companies in the same month. That’s how quickly the ball got rolling. Because you’re so worried it’s like, Oh, my God, like, are they gonna pick me up right away? Am I gonna be able to go there? But now the ball got rolling and the King was crowned pretty quickly.

Elsewhere in the interview, King spoke about the advice that he received from John Cena. Find out what that was here.