GCW owner Brett Lauderdale spoke with Game Changer Weekly about several topics, including whether the PCO situation is a work.
Lauderdale said, “PCO is a longtime friend of ours. He’s a longtime friend of GCW. I’m a big fan of his, personally and professionally. I admire him, and I have a lot of respect for him. So in most circumstances, I give him the benefit of the doubt or I trust him or whatever. What happened, what he ended up doing and what I thought he was going to do beforehand was a little different. I was under the impression that we were kind of…that we were assisting in a storyline for him, and I think maybe either…let me just be clear, maybe we are. I don’t know. Maybe there’s a work going on and I don’t know. I just don’t know. But what happened and what I thought was gonna happen were slightly two different things, and I thought we were kind of doing him a favor by letting him advance a storyline and returning to GCW at the same time, so I only kind of realized that it was more than that after the fact when I started reading reports that he may or may not have done that on his own. So I don’t know. It is what it is. I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like an end-of-the-world scenario here. I guess the only people that really know what the situation is are PCO and TNA. If I would have known exactly what was gonna happen, I probably would have either suggested maybe doing it a little differently, or I probably would have reached out to TNA to make sure that they were in on it. But again I give PCO the benefit of the doubt, and I respect him as a person and a performer, so I really tonight we were kind of more doing him a favor than assisting in anything that would have been over the line. Again, I don’t even know. Maybe we did assist them in a storyline. I honestly don’t know. I don’t know if this is something that’s gonna play out later. I was just happy to have him back on the GCW show, and whatever. It was cool to see him. No. I know a lot of the people at TNA, so I feel like I would have been contacted if there was any major issue that would have been on us or if they had questions about it. That’s why I think maybe there is still a storyline going on with it because I feel like maybe if there wasn’t, after the fact, they would have said, ‘Hey, what happened?’ I can tell you one thing that’s 100% true. PCO is crazy, okay? PCO is actually crazy, and he’s been crazy since the day I met him, so I mean he’s crazy. I know that, and TNA knows that. So nothing should be surprising when it comes to him.”
You can check out Lauderdale’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
