QT Marshall Is Excited For ROH Final Battle Match, Hopes It Brings Him Closure

QT Marshall is looking forward to his match with Jay Lethal at ROH Final Battle, calling it a full circle moment for him. Marshall spoke with WrestleZone’s Bill Pritchard for a new interview ahead of tonight’s show and you can see some highlights below (per Fightful):

On not being satisfied with his first ROH run: “In March of 2012, I was told in the Hammerstein Ballroom that I would have my first Ring of Honor match in April, in Baltimore. I was excited because I knew I would get to wrestle at Hammerstein Ballroom. If you fast-forward to Final Battle of that year, I was relegated to being a manager for RD Evans. I did wrestle before the show in a 29-second match with Grizzly Redwood. It definitely wasn’t what I perceived was going to happen, if you would have asked me in March. So by that point in Ring of Honor, I had already kind of disliked everything about the company. My first run in Ring of Honor was not great, and it wasn’t great for me because some of the things on my end, but also some of the things that I perceived on their end.”

On competing at the Hammerstein Ballroom under the current ROH regime: “So now, getting to come back and with the Ring of Honor leadership being under Tony Khan and the way people are treated now, it is full circle. It hopefully will bring me a little bit of closure, but at the same time, I want to go out there and steal the show and have a fun time in that atmosphere and get to feel that energy again. I was there in 2013, Supercard of Honor. It was a tremendous night for Jay Briscoe, winning his first ROH World Title, and I opened that show with RD Evans in a tag match, and I got to feel a little bit of it. But again, my head was a in a different place. So now I’m a lot different, I’m a lot more mature, and again, as we grow as performers, professionally, personally as well, it’s just something that I think is really cool to be able to go back there and be in a different head space but also get to face one of the greatest, the greatest first-generation wrestlers in Ring of Honor history, Jay Lethal.”