Veteran manager Tully Blanchard has discussed his stint in AEW and why it was a difficult period for him.
Blanchard debuted in AEW in 2019, initially managing Shawn Spears, and was later paired with FTR. The WWE Hall of Famer stated in a recent interview on “Busted Open” that his tenure with Spears went well, but he couldn’t replicate the identical when he became manager of FTR.
“It was a unique time. Cody Rhodes got me involved when he was at AEW and wanted me to administer Shawn Spears. And that worked really, rather well,” he began. “After which they put me with FTR for some time and thought things were going well. I wasn’t really manager … well, I take that back — I do not know that I used to be a nasty manager, but during my profession, matches weren’t laid out like they at the moment are, and I had a really, very difficult time [to follow] ‘Okay, when this happens, you do that,’ moderately than flowing with the audience and stuff like I had all the time done.”
He emphasized how he wasn’t used to having pre-planned spots and had a tricky time remembering what he needed to do next during his time in AEW.
“And so I used to be inevitably within the fallacious place on the fallacious time,” he said.
He recalled a selected spot when he was managing FTR when he needed to knock the tag team’s opponent’s foot off the rope, which he didn’t do, that resulted in some people in AEW being unhappy with him. Blanchard was ultimately fired by FTR in storyline, after which he was moved to AEW’s sister brand, ROH, where he managed Tully Blanchard Enterprises, before he was let go by AEW.