Quotes from Lance Archer

I was at an autograph show, and there were a lot of people from TNA there doing meet and greets. One of the girls from TNA there asked me why I hadn't joined yet and I said I'd tried and it didn't work out. She asked me to give her a video and pictures, and a few days later I got asked to do a tryout.

The things that we have, the opportunities that we continue to do with the backstage vignettes, throwing guys into ceilings, trash cans, lockers, and everything I can find to put them in and through, that itself has been fun for me.

It's fun living the life and traveling and getting to do things that I otherwise probably would never do but it comes with a cost of loss of privacy and being away from loved one a lot.

I worked with Kenny Omega in Japan. But we never wrestled each other.

I think initially with the ECW product it was a perfect place. Even though it was WWE's ECW, it was a perfect place for the young talent to kind of get their feet wet and figure out the lay of the land and to figure out how the WWE works and then you can transition better into Raw or SmackDown.

It's never a good feeling when leaving your dream job.

That's the cool part about it is AEW is a very open company to moving forward and changing wrestling as a whole.

As far as me, I'm just looking forward to the future. There's a lot of people that look to the past. I've learned from the past, absolutely. I know my past absolutely. I'm not discrediting or... ignoring my past in any way, but my focus has always been moving forward, moving forward into the future.

My interpermotional dream match would be with Undertaker. I respect who he is and what he has done in this buisnesss and is someone I've tried to mold myself after in many ways. I think it would be a classic Big man match.

I simply believe that I am that star that WWE is looking for. But in this business you have to be put in the right spotlight for that to be recognized. Give me that spotlight and you won't be able to look away.

I've been battling a sciatic issue for a long time. It comes and goes, goes up and down, but I've already worked through it.

I'll just say it was a combination of a lot of people within the AEW upper office that decided that it was a good idea to have the 'Murder Hawk Monster' on AEW television.

This business changes on a dime daily. You have your ups and downs, goods and bads.

My best moment with Sting was when they made a little movie, this kind of biopic of him. I go to be in it and hit him with a chair.

Michael Hayes was the one that brought me up to be part of ECW. I had long hair, a braided goatee.

I'm looking forward to making people open their eyes and recognize exactly how good I am at what I do.