Dijak recalls Vince McMahon wanting Mia Yim to have an attack as part of a retaliation move, or feeling betrayed by Paul Levesque, expressing his frustration over WWE contracts

By Jason PowellProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)

Pro Wrestling Bits Interview with Donovan Dijak
Interview conducted by Alfred Konuwa
Available on Pro Wrestling Bits YouTube

Dijak on Vince McMahon wanting Mia Yim to have an attack as part of a retaliation move: “This was Vince’s idea. Vince wanted Mia to fake a seizure. He wanted her to fake a seizure. And we got this from, I don’t know, the writer or the producer, and we didn’t want to shoot the messenger. You could see, I don’t remember who it was, but you could see on their faces, they were like, ‘I’m sorry, but Vince wants you to have a seizure.’ And she said, we all said, ‘What are you talking about? We can’t do this.’ I was talking to Pat Buck (on AEW Forbidden Door) about this. He was a producer at the time, and he may have been our producer, I don’t remember, but he was in the room when Vince came back and he pitched the seizure thing. But that’s the way production meetings worked under Vince back then. He’d say something and everyone would just go wide-eyed because you couldn’t call him out on it.

Dijak on being fired from WWE and whether he feels betrayed by Paul Levesque: “I don’t know if I would say betrayed is the word I would use. And a lot of this has to be taken with a grain of salt because at the end of the day, I don’t know. I never got an explanation, which is not cool. I wanted an explanation and I asked a lot of people for an explanation. I didn’t get one. Again, it’s a business. They don’t owe me anything. They’re not legally obligated to tell me anything. That being said, I felt like my time with WWE and my performance with WWE warranted at least some sort of explanation of what happened and I never got it. And that’s disappointing. The word I would use most to describe how I feel about WWE and the WWE entities and how this happened is disappointed. Not disgusted, not angry, none of that.”

Dijak on the status of independent contractors of wrestlers and the need for unions: “I don’t think it’s any secret at this point that no one is a fan of the WWE contract, which is not a real contract, where they can fire you at any time for any reason. I think that’s bullshit. I don’t know why that’s even legal. It just feels illegal to me, and I feel like no one has taken the time and the financial effort to challenge the legality of it, because we’re clearly not independent contractors. That’s the most made-up bullshit in the history of the world, and people have talked about it ad nauseam. Something has to be done about it. It’s just bullshit. It’s bullshit. That said, when you let people’s contracts expire, I think there has to be more communication, obviously.”