Will Ospreay Names His Top 4 Wrestling Factions, All-Time Dream Opponents

Will Ospreay recently weighed in on his personal top four wrestling factions as well as his dream opponents from any era. Ospreay spoke with KRON 4’s The Finish ahead of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door and at the end of the conversation he was asked the questions.

Ospreay, who won the men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament at last night’s show, named AJ Styles, Hayabusa, and Amazing Red as his dream opponents. While acknowledging that he was avoiding picking obvious choices like DX and the nWo, his stable list consisted of the Bullet Club, United Empire, and TNA’s Fortune and the Main Event Mafia. You can see the highlights below:

On His Dream Opponents From Any Era:

“AJ Styles was a huge influence in in my career, so I couldn’t leave him off the list. Hayabusa was a Japanese wrestler that I took a lot of inspiration from, And I’ll throw in Amazing Red, who’s a New York wrestler like developed that style in TNA. That whole New York crew back then was incredible. I was a big TNA X-Division guy… those guys really opened up gateways to my brain that I didn’t realize I had and inspired this crazy little move set that I’ve got.”

On His Top Four Wrestling Factions:

“I think you have to say Bullet Club, just for the influence that they’ve had. I’m very much — like, I’m not a big like marketing guy. So, I’m not going to say the nWo, I’m not going to say D-X because I just — that’s the easy ones to pick. But I love the Bullet Club. United Empire was my faction that I made in Japan, and we [did] great merchandise numbers. And like, in a time period that New Japan needed it, we were very, very much like a good piece of fresh air for them.

“Fortune. I love Fortune. Like AJ, Kazarian… And I will say this one as well. Main Event Mafia. That was — I love [the] Main Event Mafia, man. Like I thought that was such a sick little time period in wrestling. They’re my guys. But Bullet Club, you can’t argue with like the influence that they’ve had in wrestling, man.”

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