Will Ospreay admitted his feelings of accomplishment following his match with Bryan Danielson at AEW Dynasty 2024, on a fresh edition of the podcast “Insight With Chris Van Vliet”. He confessed,
“We’re standing in there looking at one another, he’s got this big smile on his face. I just couldn’t help but look around just being like ‘Man, there’s 7,000 people in here.’ I thought for the life of me I would have been just a kid in Japan for the rest of my life. I thought that was going to be me, and then just to stand there and look at him and just be like ‘Oh my God, here it is.’
He added, “I said ‘Sir, this is going to be a pleasure,’ and then we backed up and the bell rang. I was just like ‘Let’s go.’ I felt like I finally did it. When Brian and Kenny stood in the ring, the bell rang and the place stood up, I always wanted to be one of those guys. At that moment I was like, ‘Oh s**t, I finally did it. I’m one of those guys now.’”
During a subsequent conversation with Denise Salcedo from “Instinct Culture,” Swerve Strickland talked about his intense rivalry with Ricochet in AEW. The onetime AEW World Champion shared,
“Honestly, what you’re seeing is over ten years of animosity between two guys. Truth be told, me and Trevor, Ricochet, haven’t always gotten along, and you’re seeing that play out. Now, you’re seeing also someone be pushed to the brink of snapping, someone who’s literally taken a lot of crap over the last couple years in his career, to finally finding his footing in a place where he honestly feels he belongs, and he’s still not good enough, he’s feeling, and he’s taking that out on me. I’m someone that’s kind of pushed past the expectations because Ricochet was always deemed the golden boy of our era in the 2010s and that era, and I was kind of just [a] floating fish until I found myself. So now, I found myself quicker than Ricochet found himself, but he also found himself because of me, so there’s a lot of dynamics being played here, and it’s just psychological warfare before we even get in the ring.”
He mentioned further, “If you’ve noticed, we’ve only been in the ring twice now since Dynamite, but there’s been psychological warfare for two months now, and it’s also something that people didn’t expect Ricochet to be on the microphone telling his story that way. So we’re bringing a lot of different elements and new elements to someone that you’ve seen for the past 10 years, but also seeing something new. Myself, you know me, I like the bear, I make it personal, I’m always gonna bring something new and something wild out of somebody, and I’m the vehicle of that for All Elite Wrestling. But I also make the show better in a way because of that. I’m like, ‘Okay, if you got here for some reason, you must be good. Now, it’s time for you to show it.”
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