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Recently, fightful.com spoke to Impact Wrestling announcer Josh Matthews. Below are highlights from that interview
On Lucha Underground Talents Working Slammiversary:
āI think thereās some changes that have been made at Lucha, I donāt know what those changes are, but I think it opens up their contracts a little bit,ā Matthews said. āObviously it did, because it allowed those guys to come over and compete at Slammiversary. Itās cool and itās good for everybody. I remember when Lucha was starting and here I was, ready to go to Nashville and sign my contract with Impact. Lucha Underground approached me with doing their shows and their first episodes. I flew out to Los Angeles and I saw the thing and I was blown away, but their contracts were pretty iron-clad and I wasnāt ready to sign that deal.ā
On Being offered The Play by Play Job & Why He Didnāt Take The Job:
Yeah it was [a seven-season type of deal] and I was in L.A. doing Undercover Boss, a lot of people donāt know I did work on that show for a couple of seasons,ā Matthews said. āWe were shooting an episode of Undercover Boss in L.A. and Lucha Underground called me and said, āOur play-by-play announcer canāt get into the states. Heās in Mexico and canāt get into the shows tomorrow. Could you please do it?ā I couldnāt do it. It didnāt work out. They flew Matt Striker from the East Coast, but it came very close. I was in the same zip code as they were in.ā
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