One of the top stars who had recently jumped ship from the Jacksonville-based promotion AEW to WWE is former AEW World Trios Champion Aleister Black. He recently revealed that there was one match that he wanted to do in AEW, but his pitches were often turned down.
While speaking to The Wrestling Rap Game, Aleister Black shared that he and Will Ospreay had very good chemistry wrestling each other in the Indies. Thus, he wanted to wrestle Ospreay on the big stage in AEW. He had pitched the idea, but it never came to fruition.
“The Ospreay match is something that I actually pitched a couple of times. We had such good chemistry back then. We had some absolute barnburners and it’s also because I’m a bit of a calculus for him because I force him to do different things with his wrestling. When we did wrestle, I would work his leg, ‘Now you can’t fly. What are you going to do?’ I have a good relationship with Will. I remember sitting in his dad’s car and his dad was driving us from show A to show B, and I remember saying to him, ‘You’re going to be a big star. You’re going to be a really big star.’ At the time, the goal was Dragon Gate. I said to him, ‘That’s easy. That’s a matter of time.’ His road went the way it went, but now, he’s one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling,” Aleister Black said. [H/T Fightful]
Would you have loved to see Black and Ospreay battle it out in the Jacksonville-based promotion?
