EC3 is now controlling his narrative. Since his release from WWE in April of 2020, the former TNA World Heavyweight champion and WWE 24/7 champion has reinvented himself as the “Essential Character,” who is laser focused on controlling his narrative and story. He recently launched his own feature wrestling project, the Free the Narrative event, which recently premiered on FITE TV and is available to buy now. Now, EC3 is scheduled to face Flip Gordon in a singles match this weekend at Ring of Honor’s Best in the World pay-per-view event. The show will be ROH’s first event in front of live fans in over a year since the start of the pandemic. EC3 recently joined the 411 Wrestling Interviews podcast to talk about his upcoming matchup, the return of live fans ROH Wrestling, developing his own projects such as Free the Narrative, and a lot more. Here is what EC3 had to say, since he destroyed his old self and became reborn in order to control his own story: