Chris Adonis talks about working with Eli Drake in Impact Wrestling

“He’s been kind of a homegrown talent in Impact and has worked really hard to get where he’s at. People are really starting to react to him, so it’s really the right time for them to do something with him. In terms of a split, it needs to be something that’s in the long-term plans, the long-term direction. We can do something really interesting and cool with this … to help send Eli into his babyface run. There are ways to do that which are really cool, and there are ways to do it which aren’t, so we just need to make sure it is. Then all of this can be for a reason at the end of the day. And it can help both characters get to where they need to be.”

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