Former WWE Talent Tried To Get Fired By Punching A Writer

A former WWE talent's run with the company would have ended much earlier if other talents and Triple H hadn't been nearby.

Appearing on Sunday Night's Main Event, Lince Dorado revealed that he decided to try and get fired by punching a WWE writer, only for him to be stopped by Triple H and others in the vicinity. This came after Dorado allowed his unhappiness with the rejection of a creative pitch to fester. Dorado ended up being sent home for five months because of his actions.

"So what happened was 205 (Live) came around and without going into mega details but I'll say the gist. When 205 came around, again, I always felt that I was different than all the other luchadors and no offence to them but being able to speak English and do all the styles, not just lucha libre, I thought made me very unique and special. So I would be one of those guys who would be proactive and pitch ideas like, 'Hey, this, this idea and this, this' and a couple of other guys too like TJP and some other friends and I would always get the nod that, 'Oh yeah, this is a good idea' but then give it to somebody else. I was like, 'Oh, okay, cool.' I’m flattered that my ideas were being used for somebody else, but it's also p*****g me off that one, I wasn't getting used. Two, I was doing the job of somebody else, you know, writing for them because they weren't creative enough to come up with these basic ideas that I did and now they're taking credit and giving it to this person and that person," Dorado began.

"So finally, one day, I gave an idea and then - he got a lot of respect for me. But I gained a lot of respect for him because he said, 'Hey man, this is a good idea, but for somebody else' and I was like, 'Alright.' But for some reason dude, that festered in my head for a long time. I was like, no thank you, no payback, no nothing, no hey, let's put him on the show or something. So one day, just grabbed the writer. I said, 'Yo, pick a spot, pick a spot. I don't care where you pick' and because at that point, I had this flash moment, I never wanted to be WWE Champion, I didn't really care. I just wanted to say that I was in WWE and I was a WWE Superstar which nobody could take that away from me," he continued.

"So at that moment, I was like, you know what? This is how I'm gonna go out, legend style. I'm gonna knock this motherf*cker out and Cedric (Alexander), Triple H, a couple of other people grabbed me, 'You can't do that man' and sent me home for basically for... s**t man, five months. It was a long time. But I was getting paid. I was getting paid, I was bettering my body, I changed my mindset so then I came back, I was shredded and built and ended up getting put on TV. I ended up having a conversation with that same writer and apologising like, ‘Hey man, sorry. I just needed to grow up' and we had a conversation. We were able to have a conversation. I told him why I was upset, he agreed and ever since then, that's when I learned the word compromise, you know?"

Lince Dorado wrestled for WWE from 2016 until his release in 2021. He wrestled for the likes of All Elite Wrestling, TNA, MLW, and CMLL in 2023.

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