Posted on 2/11/126 by Colin Vassallo
Appearing on the AEW Close Up show with Renee Paquette, new
TNT champion Tommaso Ciampa admitted that the biggest factor
joining AEW was money.
Ciampa said that when he was in NXT and moving to main
roster, he was not financially stable to take the risk at
the time so he decided to stay put.
But now, with two children and financial stability, Ciampa
said he was ready to bet on himself and make the leap of
faith.
“That’s the biggest thing that you start to go is like we
are getting a definitive income, it’s a salary,” Ciampa told
Paquette.
“When I left NXT to make the move to the main roster,
financially, we were not ready to do that, and we knew it,”
he continued. “So, there was not really a question of,
‘Okay, let’s take a risk. Let’s bet on ourselves.’ We got at
that time a three-year-old, now a seven-year-old. It just
wasn’t in the cards. Yeah…but now I’m starting to go, yeah,
I think we are at the point financially, let’s take the
risk!”
Ciampa won the TNT title in his first match in AEW, so for
now, betting on himself is paying dividends.