Ryan Nemeth remembered how he was downcast when he learned about falling down the pecking order in WWE and decided to leave wrestling and focus on acting.

“I wanted to quit and I remember having a lot of like emotional breakdown moments privately, you know, where I would, like a movie, I [would] like drive to the beach at like 11 at night on a Wednesday and be like, ‘What am I doing with my life, dude? Obviously, this guy wants to fire me,'” said Nemeth. “I was thinking, I got to just move to LA and just do acting and writing and, you know, if this is the only company in the world and whoever doesn’t like me that’s pretty much it.”

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He revealed that he moved to LA a month after his WWE release, despite enjoying the life he had in Tampa. 

“It was very quick. I, like, basically, suddenly moved to LA, I didn’t have even somewhere to live,” recalled Nemeth. “I think I went there with my car and like a few laundry baskets of clothes and just thought like, I have some friends there, I’ll figure it out and I did you know.

Nemeth added that his goal is to make people happy, be it with his wrestling, acting, comedy, or writing. He revealed that the AEW contracts he had signed stated that he can’t be penalized for taking up acting roles and said that the company was supportive of his acting endeavors.