IWGP junior heavyweight champion and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) star Will Ospreay was recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Ospreay talked about his championship being more prestigious than WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins’, as well as his recent Twitter beef with Ospreay.
Here are the highlights:
His title being more prestigious than Rollins’: “My championship is a little bit more prestigious than your championship. More power to him, good luck, but my string of matches from this year alone has a lot of people talking about what I can do, and I’ll focus on that instead of what Seth Rollins is doing on social media.”
Twitter beef with Rollins: “The whole thing makes me laugh. He put out there, ‘Find me anyone alive that does the same schedule that I do and performs at the same quality.’ I just said, ‘I’m alive.’ Yeah, you’re on the road for 300 days a year, sorry I’m not–I’m doing 250. His response was to say, ‘Little guy.’ I’m the same bloody height as you. Then he said he has Ricochet, a better version of me.
“Why is he involving someone else? Ricochet is the man, and he’s one of the best at this style. But why get him involved? This is between me and you. I feel like Rollins has respect for me and I’ve got respect for Rollins, and I’d love to have a match with him one day, but right now, that’s not my vision.”
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