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Will Ospreay Loved Wrestling Drew McIntyre, Would Happily Do It Again

September 6, 2024 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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Will Ospreay says that he looks fondly back on his match with Drew McIntyre. The AEW International Champion recently spoke with Inside the Ropes for a new interview and during the conversation he recalled his matches with McIntyre, then Drew Galloway, in WCPW in 2017. You can see some highlights below:

On the match with McIntyre: “I remember it super fondly. I have nothing but love for Drew and I hope he’s doing well. I haven’t kept in contact with him but I keep up with his work, and hope the same is mutual. If there was ever a chance to throw down I’d happily do it again. I think it was different as well because I had to work as a bad guy. That’s such a different thing for people because obviously when you see my aerial offence it is something that you can’t help but cheer. I had to pick those moments very well with those types of matches, and I had to really dictate the pace of that match so that when I did explode in my aerial offence, it was more out of desperation rather than to get a pop from the audience. It wasn’t difficult to put together because we’d wrestled each other beforehand, but I think it was more along the lines of we wanted to tell a bigger story within that building as well.”

On a potential rematch down the line: “So it was great, I flipping love wrestling with Drew and I’d happily do it any day of the week.”