Will Ospreay recently spoke with ESPN.com‘s Nicolas Atkin, talking about his highly successful year; you can read a few highlights below:
Will Ospreay talks about what it meant to win the 2016 Best Of The Super Juniors:
“Hands down, it was one of the most surreal moments in the world, looking up at the bloody confetti falling down. I’d seen this on TV so many times. It’s weird, isn’t it?
Oh mate, it was just the most insane thing. My heroes have all won the Best of Super Juniors. Ibushi, Prince Devitt, Kushida, Ricochet. All those guys I’ve always looked up to have won that trophy and held it up in the air. And then I’m the guy who held it up after them. I’m the youngest ever to do it, Britain’s first. It’s a dream come true.”
Ospreay talks about getting praise for his match with Ricochet in the tournament:
“Ah, the Ricochet match. It’s weird when you get guys like Stone Cold doing it, and guys like William Regal coming up to you. Guys like Chris Jericho talking about it, Seth Rollins. Yeah, there’s some things that they would change, but other than that it was one of the most insane matches they’ve ever seen. And I was like, ‘Aw! That’s cool!’ Those are my heroes, the guys I watched on TV once upon a time.”
Ospreay comments on winning the Ring Of Honor TV title in his company debut:
“Ah man, that was cool. No one can argue with the pedigree and the prestige of Ring of Honor. To walk in there and straight away go for Bobby Fish — man, it was a huge, huge deal.”
Ospreay says he’ll entertain WWE when the time is right:
“I just feel like right now it’s not the time for me. Trust me when I say this, WWE has always been the thing I’ve grown up watching — guys like Paul Heyman, who I’ve met, and Matt Hardy, who I’ve met. So many names who I can mention who have inspired me. The WWE will be the dream; however, I wanna go in there with a big splash. I don’t wanna go in there and be thrown in the shallow end of the pool. I wanna be thrown in the deep end, and trust me when I say it, I’ll swim.”
