Will Ospreay Opens Up About His Iconic AEW All In: London Entrance

Will Ospreay recently opened up about how his iconic entrance at AEW All In: London came together. Ospreay challenged Kenny Omega for the AEW World Championship in front of his home fans at Wembley Stadium on August 30. He had a special entrance for the career-defining match, with “Baba O’Riley” by The Who playing in the background.

Before that, his mother narrated a video package highlighting Will’s pro wrestling journey, as he passed through the likes of Zack Sabre Jr., Ricochet, and Jon Moxley backstage. During an appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Will Ospreay detailed how his All In: London entrance came together. Below are the highlights:

On how he came up with the idea of his All In 2026 entrance

“It was obviously helped a lot. Mike Mansury, he’s one of the lead producers for AEW, so he helped come up with it. But my whole thing was, I remember last year at Forbidden Door when I went in the steel cage match, and I was trying to think of a really cool entrance for that. I was just like, ‘I’d love it if I could do something there.’ But I had no idea that Al [Alex Windsor] put down a voiceover for that entrance. It stuck with me because it was scary going into a steel cage match, knowing that I needed neck surgery, and I was just so worried.

“I kept a real straight face with people, and I was confident in a lot of the things that I was doing in there, but then hearing Al’s voice come through—the line that got me was, ‘If you’re not afraid of what’s next, neither am I.’ It hit me so hard. It made me just feel like I could run through a wall. Then to have that feeling, I was just kind of like, ‘I want my mum to do my next one,’ just because my mum has seen me grow up through a TV screen. When I was 22 years old, I got signed to New Japan, and although I kept coming back to England and I get those tours, but a lot of it was like downtime and rest because I was so battered and hurt. I think it was just one of these things where I’d love to show my mum how much she really meant to me, and I’d love to have had her do the voiceover for one of the biggest nights of my life.”

On his conversation with his mother regarding the voiceover

“We were in Orlando, and I said, ‘Mom, I’ve got like a proposition for you. Do you remember the one that Al did for me? I’d like you to do one for me.’ She was just like, ‘I’ll do it now.’ Then she started writing it up. I said, ‘I don’t want to hear it until the night.’”

On whether he heard the voiceover for the first time during his entrance

“So I heard it the night of, and there were elements of it where I was kind of like, ‘Okay. My mom’s very theater, so she very much pronounces everything that she says, and she treats it like a town hall meeting,’ and I had to try and tell her, ‘Hey, just rein it back a little bit. I don’t want you talking to everybody. You’re not at town hall. You’re talking to your son.’ She did it again. It was spot on, perfect.”

Will Ospreay ultimately went on to defeat Kenny Omega and capture the AEW World Championship for the first time in his career. Elsewhere in the interview, the British wrestler touched upon the last-minute changes that he and Kenny had to make to their bout. Check his comments RIGHT HERE.