Five years ago, Alberto El Patron formerly known as Alberto Del Rio left WWE and was finding a wave of momentum. Fast forward to 2018 and he has had nothing but bad news and drama linked to him. It’s possible that no United States based wrestling promotion will ever sign him again.

Patron was scheduled to wrestle in the co-branded wrestling event Impact vs Lucha on WrestleMania weekend but ended up no showing the event. Due to him not showing up Impact decided to terminate his contract. That also led to a change in the main event of Redemption.

Scott D’Amore, one third of the Impact Wrestling Excutive Committee recently spoke with Sports Illustrated about the release of El Patron. Scott stated that instead of focusing on all the bad Impact was going to focus on the wrestlers who actually showed up for the event.

Here is a quote from D’Amore’s interview:

“It was obviously an unfortunate situation,” said D’Amore. “When Alberto failed to show up to the event, we made our decision on a new main event for the show. It was important for us to give our fans, in a capacity crowd at the Sugar Mill in New Orleans, a great event, and we did not want them to focus on someone who wasn’t there. We wanted them to focus on the match we were giving.”

You can see the entire interview here.

From the business side of things this was the best decision that Impact could’ve made since for the past few weeks they have been riding a wave of momentum. Their viewership has been up and they have been getting a lot of praise recently so in the end they chose to focus on the good instead of the bad.

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