In an interview with Fightful, Steve Maclin spoke about the possibility of becoming a coach after his in-ring career ends, stating that he would have to truly stop wrestling to even consider it.
He said, “Probably. I don’t know. I would have to take away all the elements of wrestling that I want as a competitor, because then I would have to shut that off and become a coach. I can’t sit down and tell somebody to wrestle the way I wrestle. I have to be myself, I have to be my own character, I have to find myself. So then I have to shut off my competitiveness, my creativity of what I want to do, and project that onto the other person, figure out what they want to do, and help them as best I can with my ability, if that makes sense. When I do seminars and stuff on the indies, it’s fun, but it’s also very difficult because I like to do it a certain way. For me, if that’s the foundation of anything in wrestling or in life, I like the basic fundamentals.” Whatever career you’re in, if you have the fundamentals down, you start from there and it determines the path you should take. It’s the same with interviews, I’m sure you have certain questions. You have the set-up. You have your way of setting up the mic, etc. It’s the same with wrestling, I want to know how to move from place to place safely, appropriately informed and organically.”
He also talked about the fun of working with Mike Santana. He added, “Yeah, he’s one of my favorite guys to work with because he comes from a different base and it’s fun working with Mike backstage. I have my own way of doing TV wrestling that I learned in WWE. I did a couple of matches on the indies and he was like, ‘Why did you come here?’ ‘No, I was working the house.’ He’s like, ‘No, you don’t have to work.’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m working the whole perimeter so I can move the crowd, I can move the hard camera.’ I’m not going to shut myself off from that. The creative part, as competitors or just colleagues, is the fun part of wrestling, learning from each other. I get in his mind, he gets in mine, and we learn from each other and make each other better that way.”
