Impact Global Champion Eli Drake recently appeared on Wrestling With Ideas to talk about winning the title. If you Drake won the Global Championship on the August 24 episode of Impact Wrestling by winning a 20-man gauntlet match to claim the vacant title. Here is what he had to say:
“I say it was probably around a week or 2 before the show which kind of came as a shock to me just because I think leading up to it I was almost like ‘Guys, I’m here, what are we doing with me?’ And then it was all of a sudden like ‘Here you go!’ I was like ‘What the? Ok. All right. Cool!’ But I’m not complaining in the least because I think those kind of surprises work out really well,” Drake said.
“I think especially, when you look at a guy like Johnny Impact coming in. Here he comes at the gauntlet match. Gauntlet for Gold,” Drake said. “I think a lot of people were like ‘(sigh), Here comes this Johnny Impact. He is going to win it.’ Wrong! Wrong! It’s this guy, Eli Drake coming out on top and now it’s just been a helluva ride and I get to have all the responsibilities and all the perks of being champion. So I’m really digging it.”
