Deaner talks about The Design rising from the ashes of Eric Young’s Violent By Design.
Violent by Design, led by Eric Young, helped further the careers of Joe Doering and Deaner. However, Deaner has taken the group’s reins after stabbing Eric Young to death, ending his run in IMPACT Wrestling. Now, The Design continues on the legacy of VBD and promises a more violent future for anyone that crosses their path in IMPACT.
Speaking on Steve Fall’s Ten Count WrestlingNews.co, Deaner explains how the group is carrying on without its original leader and what the new vision for Big Kon, Angels, and Deaner will be moving forward.
“When we knew that we had to evolve the group and evolve the members, it was going to happen. It was a creative idea that came up,” said Deaner. “When the idea was presented to myself and Eric, we realized this is the absolute best idea we’ve ever heard. Man, it actually tells the story, the two-year story arc of my involvement with Violent by Design, my involvement with Eric Young, and how we wanted to move forward. Oh, man, there’s no better way to end this. There’s so much emotion and story involved with that. So we were completely on board.
“Once just that impetus of that idea occurred, then everybody started to get their ideas flowing,” Deaner continued. That’s the way things work in IMPACT Wrestling. It’s not just like, hey, one person’s idea, and they say, ‘Here is what you have to do.’ It’s like an idea gets presented, and then everybody gets to jump in. So like myself, Eric, the producers and the writers involved all started to chat and came up with what I think is one of the most creative and unique passing of the torch moments in wrestling history.”
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Deaner also spoke about his relationship with the remaining members of the group, saying that they are all bonded together by the chip on their shoulders.
“The chosen few are myself, Angels, and Kon. There’s a common thread with us, even though it might seem like well, what’s the connection with these guys? Maybe they’re like a mishmash of guys that don’t really fully understand their connection. But the common thread with all of us as wrestlers is we all have a chip on our shoulder,” Deaner said. “It’s the same chip. Kon has been in a team element and a faction before, but never been given the focus and given the opportunity and said, ‘Here. You get to be the focus and the star of this. Run with it.’ He’s never had that opportunity and he’s so talented. He hasn’t been given the chance to show the world just how talented he is. Angels, the exact same. He has got so much potential and so much talent, but he’s never been made the focus of what he’s doing in a faction and a group moving forward.
“Myself included, he continued. “I’ve always done things where I’m never like the main focus of what’s happening. I’ve never been given an opportunity. Now, we all are. Now, we’re all given, ‘Hey man, you are the focus now, guys. You get to make this what you want it to be, and it’s going to be as good as you guys make it.’ I’m telling you, we are going to make it good, not just good, we’re gonna make it great. We got some really cool, fun stuff planned that people are going to be seeing over the coming weeks with The Design.”
Next for the group, they will begin to initiate Sami Callihan into the fold as they shave his head on Thursday, January 12.
