Amazing Red States That He’s Not Bitter About Not Receiving His Flowers In Pro Wrestling
A candid chat with Amazing Red.
A new interview with 28-year wrestling stalwart Amazing Red was conducted by The Takedown on Sports Illustrated.
As the conversation moved along, Red expressed that he is not bitter about not receiving flowers for his contributions to the pro wrestling business. He shared that there was a moment when he did feel that way, and it came after an injury.
“I am not bitter. I’ve grown to understand I’ve given to pro wrestling. Pro wrestling doesn’t owe me anything and my stuff is there for the taking.
I see this a lot on social media for me. (People) saying Red deserves his flowers and, ‘Oh my gosh, if Red had $1 for every time someone did his moves.’ Listen, I legit had a bitter moment for a couple of months when I tore my ACL and broke my tibia. That’s when I got super bitter and it was very bad, but I’ve grown, I’ve humbled myself. (I’m) very close with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That changed a lot out of me. It got out a lot of bitterness, because I was very, very upset and it ruined how my life was moving. I guess you live and learn, but I’ve grown so much. I’ve taken it as a respect thing.”
On April 16th, Red will be in singles action against ROH World Champion Bandido at House of Glory’s show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Red said there have been a multitude of times when he’s been called out for matches, but he only wants to go through with those that make sense for him.
“Bandido was one of the guys that was on my list for a long time. Awesome wrestler. Amazing wrestler, and you know, people before him. I just pick guys that are just intriguing to me. I’m so humbled and blessed to even be in the predicament like that. Like, who am I? Humbly speaking, a lot of people were just calling me out, and saying, ‘Hey, I want to work for you guys,’ and we start picking people and they go, ‘I want to wrestle Red…’ I’m still young, you know what I mean? But there’s just certain injuries where you just can’t get it better until you get some time off. But, then a lot of these matches started happening where they were calling me out and it kind of gave me like a motivation to just stick with it. But, I want to be very smart about this. I don’t want to wrestle everybody that calls me out. I want to wrestle matches that I think make more sense for me at this point.”
On the lead-up to TNA Wrestling’s 2025 Bound For Glory pay-per-view, Amazing Red made his on-screen return to the promotion as part of Mike Santana’s video package.
