Nigel McGuinness had exhausted every possible option to wrestle in the United States, so he retired at the end of 2011 with a three-week retirement tour that was documented in his highly successful documentary "The Last of McGuinness." McGuinness, though, believes that, with the benefit of hindsight, Japan could have been an option for him.

"Sometimes I think about it and I go, 'Well, maybe I should have just gone to Japan,' because if you look at the guys like Fergal [Finn Balor], and Jay [White], and Kenny [Omega] who made their own career, and the independent wrestling world should forever be thankful for them being able to make a career outside of WWE. Maybe I could have done that, but I think I was just so ... I don't know, I felt so kicked in the balls by fate, I was like, 'f**k you.'

McGuinness also revealed that the documentary idea came about after the success of Colt Cabana's "Wrestling Road Diaries," with Cabana encouraging him to buy a video camera and document his retirement tour. The teaser trailer generated over $50,000 in less than a week, giving McGuinness the chance to make the film, which he cited as one of the best self-made wrestling documentaries of all time. McGuinness got to live out his WWE dream in some capacity years later when he signed as a commentator in 2016, with the company making their version of his documentary, that aired on the WWE Network.

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