Priest injured at Aggression, walks out
Empire Pro Wrestling star Priest injured his triceps against his Russian Roulette opponent Dis at this past Aggression in Tulsa, Okla., and he has reportedly walked out on his contract with EPW.
Sources say that Priest was visibly upset after the match and refused medical attention from Empire trainers. He walked out of the arena before the event was over. Sources also say just as cameras went off the air, Empire Pro chairman Dan Ryan received a phone call from a payphone at a Tulsa area hospital from Priest saying that he wished to be released from his Empire contract.
"His heart was never in wrestling," close friend and Empire Pro Intercontinental Champion JA said. "He wanted to be The Rock, but he didn't want to work the way The Rock did."
Priest was notorious for being unhappy and haphazard everywhere he went. Sources say Priest was never unhappy with the people around him, but with the business himself.
"I never had any problems with any of the guys in the locker room," the former Empire star said. "It's just wrestling was never for me."
Priest was fined half of his guaranteed earnings for breaching his Empire contract despite his injury. A spokesman from Empire said that the company would have gladly paid for his medical fees had he gone about things the right way.
Hans "Eisenkreuz" Gluck, who had an on-screen role as Priest's bodyguard, has not left the company, but will not continue as an on-air personality. He has accepted a job on the training staff and on security.
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