Will Ospreay and Ricochet will meet again on December 17th for Irish Wrestling promotion, called Over the Top Wrestling. Their match, at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Best of Super Juniors Tournament, created lots of controversy. Some loved it while some people, like Vader, hated it.
Steve Austin enjoyed the match and said the following about it:
“The athleticism, incredible. The timing [and] the precision, unbelievable! Off the charts! A 10 out of 10! How these guys pulled off some of the stuff that they did is beyond me.” Austin continued, “as an athletic endeavor, a spectacle, it was just absolutely fantastic. I give both guys a big thumbs up for their performance. And it was almost as if this match was a little bit kind of performance art more so than wrestling, so to speak. But again, some of the moves Prince Puma or Ricochet just hit off the ropes, the kid hit him with a wheel kick in mid air. Again, the timing, the precision, the athletic ability, how they pulled this off, I have no idea. For something to kind of compare it to, I got on YouTube and I pulled up ‘Dynamite Kid’ versus Tiger Mask going all the way back to 7/23/1982. ‘Dynamite Kid’ versus Tiger Mask. That’s another one for you to watch. I’ll give it to you right now because I’m talking about it. So, just to have something to compare it to, I’ve never seen two guys so athletic at the same time in the squared circle and the way they executed this, the timing, it was just off the charts.” Austin added “but when I compare this to ‘Dynamite Kid’ versus Tiger Mask, it’s like no one can deny just the intent or the intensity of ‘Dynamite Kid’. It was just off the charts. The guy was a real bad ass and laid his stuff in and it looked so vicious. And Tiger Mask, of course, was unbelievable, so I just thought the match was tremendous.”
