Nigel McGuinness Interview with Daily Star Newspaper

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The Daily Star in the UK has an interview up with new TNA star Desmond Wolfe Here's a few highlights from the man formerly known as Nigel McGuinness.

On where the new name came from:

"Everyone is asking me where I got the name from - someone said Withnail and I - but Vince said he did an internet search of the most popular British names and came up with Desmond Wolfe!"

On getting to make his debut against Kurt Angle:

"Who gets the opportunity to come in on their first day and beat up Angle, I mean that's huge! Kurt has been great, just like everyone else - he's really open to ideas."

On whether he went to TNA because he failed a WWE medical screening:

"I had a clean bill of health from my orthopedic guy and my local doctor, so it's not about that. I don’t hold against anything against them, it was a business decision, and they were only doing what they think is best for them."

It should be noted that Nigel/Desmond never actually says in the interview why WWE made that "business decision" to not bring him in.

still seems strange why would you go to TNA when you can get to WWE

He couldn't get to WWE thats the point!

To be honest when I heard WWE were signing Danielson and McGuinness I was a little surprised. I could understand them going for Danielson, but for some reason McGuinness just didn't feel like the right fit for them, and if he had signed he would likely have been poorly used.

Danielson on the otherhand does have a real chance in WWE, so long as they don't decide to team him up with Lance Cade just because they were both trained by Shawn Michaels.

I don't think McGuinness would have been poorly used although I think they would have paid him a good bit of cash to get the rights to his name since he is probably one of the most well known guys in the indy scene, I could see a CM Punk rise from McGuinness although with his history on injuries I don't know how the full time WWE scheduled would have helped him out.