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Dan Moloney Wants to Face Will Ospreay, What To Expect From Him in Best of Super Juniors

May 9, 2023 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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Dan Moloney is part of the NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors 30 tournament, and he recently talked about being part of the tourney as well as his hopes for a match with Will Ospreay. Moloney spoke with NJPW about being part of the tournament and how he was supposed to face Ospreay in 2018 in a match that was cancelled due to Ospreay suffering an injury. You can check out the highlights below:

On what he brings to the Best Of The Super Juniors: “An older Japanese legend last year, I won’t say who, he talked about me as ‘the ultimate power junior.’ I like that label. I’ve packed 125 kg of heavyweight power into a 90kg body. So everyone in that tournament is going to feel like they’re facing a heavyweight. I’m not the risk taker that some of these guys are- I like to hurt people and I like to throw people around. That’s what you can expect.”

On wanting to face Ospreay down the line: “That’s all I wanted. I came into RevPro, kept building momentum, used the Drilla Killa as my finish. I wanted to wrestle him again so that I could say ‘if you saw something in me then, you should see me now.’ I had that same knot in my stomach, but it was from a place of confidence now, not fear. To get so close, and then for him to get injured… it’s another part of the journey. I have no doubt we’ll face each other again, even if it’s as friends rather than enemies, but there’s no way we don’t wrestle sometime.”