Wardlow will challenge Samoa Joe for the AEW TNT Championship at Revolution this Sunday.
To promote the match, he was interviewed by Comicbook.com. Wardlow looked back on a portion of his run from 2022, including his win over MJF at Double Or Nothing. He said,
“Man, I think about this a lot (2022 run), and I was just thinking about this very in-depth recently because I feel like I took it for granted a little bit. Few reasons. So I’m a negative thinker, I’m my biggest critic. I don’t think at the time, I allowed myself to comprehend just how big I was and how popular and how just outrageous the idea of Wardlow was at the time.
“Also, I think there’s a little bit of truth to Max (MJF) calling himself the devil. Right around the time Max and I started our feud, I really just lost myself, and I just wasn’t myself in that whole stretch of time. I was just a different person and I was a ball of stress and I really couldn’t focus or grasp what my life was or should have been. And even after I beat Max, the devil wasn’t gone. He still had his claws in my back. And the next night, here I am, Wardlow, getting my name chanted by a sold-out crowd like we haven’t seen in decades. And the next (episode), I’m back to doing nothing and Max is dropping this bombshell of a promo and now the show’s still all about him. I beat him, but I didn’t beat him. So there’s a lot to be said there. All’s I’ll say is I’ll dance with the devil again, and that time will come and things will be a little different next time. I guess I have a lot to prove to myself and I have a lot of wrongs to right. And this opportunity with the TNT Title gives me that. And after Sunday, I look to be calling myself Mr. Revolution. Because yes, last year, it was the big Ladder match, it was the moment with the ring. This year, if I can recapture the TNT Title… when I recapture the TNT Title, I will be Mr. Revolution.”
