Former WCW star Chuck Palumbo had a couple of stints with WWE in the early and mid-2000s, but the runs didn’t last for very long and he ended up leaving the company after a short while.
During a recent interview with WrestlingInc, the former tag team champion talked about his wrestling career and explained the reasoning behind his departure from the company.
Palumbo explained that the first time he left WWE in 2004 after a three year run with the promotion, it wasn’t really his choice:
“The first time, it really wasn’t my choice. I didn’t want to, but they weren’t doing anything with me, they did for a while, but then it got cut short.
I thought the FBI stuff was good. In this business, it’s kind of weird. One or two people, their opinion of you can often dictate your career.”
Chuck Palumbo was brought back to the promotion in 2006. However, his second run was even shorter and the former WWE star explained that he knew that it was going to be his last run:
“They paid me to sit home, and then I finally started to use the motorcycle gimmick. I signed a two-year deal in ’06. I knew in my gut that that was going to be it for me.
I didn’t want to stay any longer than that, unless things were really good. I knew I had the two-year deal. I tried to do the best I could with it, but I started making plans at that point for my future.”
Palumbo continued wrestling in independent circuit several years after his departure from the promotion. He quietly retired from the sport in 2012.
