NEWS: Jay Lethal on Who is Responsible for His TNA Release & His Hatred for a Fellow Wrestler

NEWS: Jay Lethal recently appeared on Colt Cabana's hit podcast, the Art of Wrestling. During the show, ala Cabana's best friend CM Punk, Lethal dropped a couple of his own pipe bombs. When Cabana asked Lethal about his TNA firing and who was to blame for the decision to let Lethal go, Lethal responded, "No, no, that's a good question because sometimes I think about it. To be honest, and it's a shocker, I think maybe it was Vince Russo even though he called me to say it was not his decision because the weird part to me was, and I don't think I've told anybody this, after my stint with Ric Flair, after I did the thing and we just finished, in my second or third match with him, Ric Flair created this group called Fortune. It was him and AJ Styles and a bunch of other people. Then, Tommy Dreamer came and created a rival group and he had asked Vince Russo, 'hey, Jay just finished this thing with Flair. Can you write him into our group?' And Vince told him 'no'. He didn't want it to happen. I didn't understand." Lethal, who is usually considered one of the most easy going wrestlers in the business, offered up this gem on the only other professional wrestler he actually hates, "I trained at Mikey Whipwreck's school and Roadkill came in. He's probably one of the only guys I hate in the professional wrestling business. Yeah, so he quote, unquote beat me up. Punt to the ribs, splashed me with all his weight, told me, 'man, you talk too much', mounted me and tried to give me these punches, clubbing me as hard as he could, putting all his weight down on me like a fat piece of s--t. I hate him. I hate his guts. It's like, I don't understand. Like, if you want to fight, call me outside and say, 'okay, I'm mad at you and let's fight for real. I would never, ever get mad at someone and take out that anger on them in the ring, especially in a situation where it's not even a fight. They're not defending themselves. They're allowing me to hurt them, which is the worst possible situation."