Currently, Will Osprey is a confidently decorated champion and could now become the next world champion of AEW. But rewind in 2015, he was drawing another picture of himself.
“I was a 22-year-old boy who worked for a mastic company,” Ospreay recently told Q101. “If you don’t know what the mastic is, it’s the rubber seal by your bathroom and by your window. I’m going to be a professional wrestler, Monday to Friday, and Friday to Sunday. I couldn’t even afford a gym membership. [in RevPro]. I struggled with Matt Sidal and AJ Styles and struggled to figure out who I was. ”
He may have doubted his own success and abilities at the time, but since a key figure saw potential in him, new Japanese professional wrestling officials ultimately invited him to the 2016 Best of Super Junior Tournament. The offer comes after a brave effort at Revpro Global Wars UK in October 2015 against Kazuchika Okada, then IWGP heavyweight champion.
“And as soon as the match was completed, I came to the office with new Japanese people and said, ‘We’re going to take you for Super Junior.’ I always wanted to do Super Junior.
OSPREAY’s tenure at NJPW was ultimately extended when he inked a format agreement with the Promotion. He stayed there until the early months of 2024 and he left for all elite wrestling.
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