Eli Drake Interview - Turning Down WWE! Refusing To Wrestle Tessa Blanchard! His Love Of The NWA! Almost Signing For AEW?!
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Eli Drake talks about having a blast in the NWA right now, the ups and downs of his time in TNA, turning WWE down three times, refusing to wrestle Tessa Blanchard, how he was extremely close to signing for AEW, and how he isn't ruling WWE out in the future?!
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| 0:37.7 | NWA tag team champions, Mr Eli Drake. Eli, how are you doing in these nuts times? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm doing good. I mean there's a lot of craziness going on outside my window right now. I feel bad for a lot of people out there dealing with it but I'm doing okay other than a little bit of the |
| 0:56.2 | emotional distress over the weekend and just seeing all the all the bad images that are happening. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah it's just like, yeah, 2020's been just a mad year, man. |
| 1:08.0 | Where are you based in the moment then? |
| 1:10.0 | I'm in Los Angeles. |
| 1:12.0 | So, you know, it's weird because like you listen outside. |
| 1:16.7 | Like there haven't been a lot of deaths or anything like that, but it sounds like a war zone |
| 1:20.9 | because you can hear like fireworks being set off at |
| 1:23.4 | at protests, you can hear the little tear gas |
| 1:26.2 | canvasters being shot off and whatnot. |
| 1:28.1 | So it's kind of weird to just sit here and hear it. |
| 1:31.1 | Can't really see a lot from where I am. I'm just like I'm kind of like I'm like in the mess but I'm removed enough. |
| 1:38.4 | But I don't know I feel for everybody out there who's who's dealing with this whole thing. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, how are you keeping your, because obviously the NWA at the moment as kind of, in terms of putting on live, |
| 1:50.0 | well, recording shows in terms of in-ring product is on hold for now. You guys are keeping |
| 1:54.3 | yourselves busy. I know Nicole this has got his what's causing all this. You've got the |
| 1:59.0 | Eli Drake show. There's obviously the 10 pounds of gold stuff up on YouTube to revisit and |
| 2:03.6 | and certain matches are being put up there. There's Carni Land as well, which is |
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