Will Ospreay Reflects on 2022 Match Against Mad Kurt as Most Underrated Bout of His Career

– During a recent interview with Sun Sport News ahead of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, AEW star Will Ospreay discussed what he considers the most underrated match of his career, a 2022 bout against Mad Kurt that took place in RevPro. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Will Ospreay on his most underrated match against Mad Kurt: “Someone tweeted it to me a little while ago, and it just made me smile so much. I wrestled Kurtis Chapman in RevPro in 2022, it was just after I’d done the Forbidden Door match, which is another underrated match that I loved. I’ve always been an intimate wrestling guy. I don’t like the big arenas, I’ll be honest with you. I like it when they’re super close to you and you can hear every single little movement. But for the first time, I just felt so relaxed in there, and this audience was giving me so much trouble.”

On how the crowd was into the match: “Like, they were giving me everything, but they were biting on every single little kick out, and it was in front of, like, 300 people, mate. Like, it was so lovely, and just the fact that he’s not here anymore upsets me so much, but I can’t help but smile at that match because it was just, it was such a joy to just be wrestling with him, and, like, I think it’s one of those ones where, his style was always comedic, and he was always trying to make the crowd laugh with the inside jokes. ”

On why he enjoys those moments: “I was a dead serious (guy), everyone hated my guts at that time, and to be able to, like, see joy in their face, see, like, anticipation, and to see, like, ‘oh, we thought he had it there’, numerous times. I think they’re the moments where I generally think like they were some of the most fun times in my career.”

Will Ospreay is teaming with The Golden Lovers, Darby Allin, and Hiroshi Tanahashi this weekend at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. Theyw ill face The Death Riders and The Young Bucks in a Lights Out Steel Cage Match. The event is scheduled for Sunday, August 24 at The O2 Arena in London, UK. It will be broadcast live on pay-per-view.