{"id":6591,"date":"2017-07-20T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:08:09","slug":"donovan-dijaks-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/07\/20\/donovan-dijaks-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Donovan Dijak’s Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speculation continues to swirl over the future of former ROH star and indie standout Donovan Dijak<\/strong> after his announcement yesterday on the New Age Insiders<\/strong><\/a> podcast that he was no longer accepting indie booking dates.<\/p>\n

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Dijak himself quickly dispelled the notion that his “announcement” was his retirement and re-iterated he was just finishing up his booked dates.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not, as far as I know, I\u2019m not retiring from professional wrestling. I am, you know, finishing up, certainly, the dates that I mentioned – I do still have some other dates on the horizon, I\u2019ve been announced for PROGRESS in New York, I\u2019m super excited about that, PWG BOLA is a little bit of a ways away, so I\u2019m still excited for that too. There\u2019s obviously going to be a lot of speculation as to what I\u2019m doing \u2013 my future isn\u2019t 100% completely set in stone yet, so there\u2019s no official announcement or anything like that to be made. I definitely have some promising and exciting things on the horizon that I\u2019m really, really, really looking forward to and it\u2019s a pretty big step and a pretty big chapter in my life and my family\u2019s life, so we\u2019re all super excited about it. I\u2019m sure it will, sort of, come to light sooner rather than later. It\u2019s not the kind of thing I can hide forever. I\u2019m sure people will find out sooner rather than later.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout the interview, puns insinuating Dijak was NXT<\/strong> bound were a-plenty from the hosts and Dijak laughed them off. He also never weighed in when it was\u00a0repeatedly brought up that Global Force Wrestling<\/strong> wasn’t\u00a0a\u00a0possible destination (although this could simply\u00a0have\u00a0been deflection).\u00a0NAI further pushed the NXT speculation with the wording of “next” as “NeXT” in their tweet to promote the interview after it concluded.<\/p>\n

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You Heard it here FIRST – @DonovanDijak<\/a> tells #NAIpod<\/a> he is no longer taking Independent Dates#NeXTBigThing<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wyuNjJ9wTS<\/a><\/p>\n

— The New Age Insiders (@NewAgeInsiders) July 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n