QT Marshall made a recent appearance on the AEW Unrestricted to discuss a wide range of topics.
During it, he talked about the critics who were not happy with his feud against The Butcher and The Blade being dropped following the Bunkhouse Brawl match
“That was a storyline that started. It was supposed to be a little fun, and then I had gotten taken away from TV due to COVID and all this other stuff, and then they got taken away and it was just a whole bunch of stuff,” Marshall recalled. “So we kind of just dropped the storyline, which I know fans are very upset about, but here’s the thing, I hate some of the fans, and the reason why is because they’re like, ‘Why did you guys just drop that storyline?’ Well, mother-fers, you’re the ones that didn’t like the storyline because you said that both of us were married in real life so screw you guys. We’re trying to put on a TV show.
“So because of that, it put too much pressure. Then Tony was like, ‘Hey, I got this idea. What if you guys did this bunkhouse match?’ And I’m like, okay, so then I’m Dark a week before. We ended up going out there. They attacked me and all this stuff, and then we attacked them. And it was just supposed to be violent, and it was supposed to be fun. I remember thinking, okay, this is a Dustin style match. So I’m gonna conform, I’m gonna wear the jeans. I’m gonna wear the cowboy boots. What can I do though that can really, hopefully get in the people’s memories forever?
“And then I remember just walking around and seeing that ladder thinking, oh, I’m going to jump off this ladder, not realizing how much it was going to hurt. I didn’t wrestle after that until the new year, and that was the one where I should have told Doc Sampson, but I didn’t. I was just able to maneuver my way into not working a whole bunch of times because I could barely walk.
“So that was a lot of fun, and it was a big moment for me in my career. I always say we didn’t capitalize on the moment, but that’s because I physically couldn’t, but I didn’t want anyone to know either because I’m very old school in that mindset of if you’re hurt, you can’t wrestle, and if you can’t wrestle, I mean, we still make money because we have the greatest job in the world, but I don’t want to be that guy that’s not wrestling all the time when when I know I can.”
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