Mark Davis On His Transition To Singles Wrestling, Says He’s Enjoying It

Mark Davis says he’s been enjoying his singles run as of late, taking about the transition from tag team work. Davis has been best known up to now for his work in tag teams, first with Kyle Fletcher in Aussie Open and then with Jake Doyle. However, he is currently running as the AEW National Champion and will defend it against Andrade El Idolo at AEW Redemption this weekend.

Davis spoke about his singles run in an interview with The Wrestling Classic. He noted that he’s been working to make sure his cardio is up to snuff and that he’s been enjoying being able to finally enjoy singles success. You can see highlights below:

On Moving From Tag Team to Singles Wrestling:

“Yeah, it’s just like a different mentality towards professional wrestling. I think with tag wrestling, there’s a little bit like it’s — I think with Kyle specifically, it was easy for me to be the bigger one and him the leaner one. Because then you can rely on each other for different strengths inside of a match. And then switching that to Doyle, we were just both big meat men and it was like, we just impose our win will upon anybody uh inside of the ring.

“So switching and having to make that step towards singles wrestling from that has just been a lot of making sure my conditioning is up to scratch. Getting myself in a little bit better shape to perform at the level that I need to be doing to be a elite singles wrestler.”

On Being Happy Getting To Do Singles Work:

“I don’t think anybody necessarily steps into professional wrestling to just be in a tag team, if that makes sense. I think there’s unique cases towards it. I think, you know, people like the Young Bucks who are the Young Bucks and they’re both fantastic singles wrestlers on their own. But like that’s their identity. So, it has been a nice liberating, fun feeling for me to get out there and just do singles wrestling for quite a while. And this is probably the longest run that I have had in quite a while, just doing singles matches. So, it has been cool finding like my footing doing that 20 years into wrestling.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The Wrestling Classic with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.