Will Ospreay Responds To Those Who Say He Doesn’t Sell In His Matches

In an interview with The Masked Man Show (via Fightful), Will Ospreay spoke about the criticism that he doesn’t sell in his matches, as a number of fans have suggested. Particularly the criticism is about Ospreay getting hit with a big move, then firing up and hitting a move of his own.

When asked about it, Ospreay said: “I just feel there are different aspects in what people say with selling. If you understand and look at the backstory that I go through, who were the guys that I was training alongside? Okada, Ishii. You don’t think at any point in those training sessions and Japanese camps where you’d land on your fucking head and they’d be like, ‘Get up and just swing.’ If you don’t have that small burst of energy before you’re about to do something, they’re going to get the upper hand and win. If people don’t actually understand where I come from, think about this, Japan took a 22-year-old and taught him how to fight, and fucking tortured me. They beat the fucking piss out of me. I got chopped so hard my eardrum burst. I say to all those people who say ‘you don’t know how to sell,’ you don’t know the backstory. You don’t know how I fucking got here. You’ve never been in a situation where you’ve been in a moment where if you don’t put your fucking foot on the gas pedal, you die. To those people, I get where they’re coming from, I understand, but if you pause your opinion for a second and take a wide look at the arena, they’re standing up. You can’t tell Picasso how to paint.“