During a recent interview with Josh Martinez, AEW star Wardlow spoke about the infamous “Man of Steel” shot with him being escorted to the ring with security at his side.
Wardlow claims the shot was not planned and was done spontaneously. He said,
“No, that’s what’s crazy, man. Manifestation is real. So nobody even knows, I’m a huge Superman mark. I have a bookshelf full of comics. I just watched Man of Steel and Batman v Superman the other night. Nobody knows that. This is completely unplanned and just all of a sudden, I’m watching Man of Steel and I go, “This looks real familiar.” I pulled up my picture and I’m like … I grew up, everybody thought Goldberg was cool. Now, there’s a lot to be said about Goldberg and his wrestling abilities, but all that shit aside, the character Goldberg in 1999 was awesome. Dave Bautista was awesome. Brock Lesnar is a monster. You grow up like, “I want to be that guy. They’re the monsters. They run the company. They’re the most popular. That’s what I want to be.” Superman. Obsessed with Superman. Now I’m opening up Twitter and there’s comparisons to Goldberg, there’s comparisons to Batista, there’s comparisons to Brock Lesnar. There’s side-by-side pictures of me and my security and Goldberg with his security. There’s side-by-side pictures of me with my security and Superman with his security. I open up Twitter every day and my mind just explodes. All of this stuff just happened organically. I didn’t come in saying, “Hey, I want to mimic Superman. Hey, I want to mimic my favorite wrestlers.” No, this just all happened organically. I didn’t come in wanting to do powerbombs, but here I am doing powerbombs that I did for years because I was obsessed with Kevin Nash. My friends were getting jackknifed powerbombed on trampolines all day long. It’s just absolute insanity how my life has come to this.“
