Will Ospreay Recalls Being Laughed At In School For Wanting To Be A Wrestler: ‘It Was Not Nice’

Will Ospreay reflects on wanting to be a pro wrestler since his school years, noting that ‘it was not nice’ to experience.

For many professional wrestlers, early ridicule for wanting to achieve the dream of stepping into the ring as a wrestler is not uncommon. For Ospreay, it was something that made his school life less than fun.

While speaking during the latest episode of his Rebuild & Destroy vlog series, Will Ospreay reflected on his school life while visiting his old school grounds.

“I’m standing on my old school grounds. I have a lot of great memories in here, like, so many, like, friends that I’ve had from this school that I still carry over to now. Just a lot of, like, happy memories, but I won’t lie to you, I flipping hated school, and I think it was a lot of people used to take the piss out of me because I wanted to pursue pro wrestling. I wanted to do something that was different and I could never shut it off in my brain. Everyone from school knew that I was mad into wrestling and that I just wanted to do this. I wasn’t good at my schoolwork. I wasn’t good at any of that. So the fact that I got like embarrassed so much because I remember being in school and they would be like, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up? I remember standing in front of everyone saying a wrestler,’ and they were just… I got laughed at, man. It was not nice, but… Heyo.”

Elsewhere in a recent interview, Ospreay spoke about how expensive his neck surgery was. You can read more about that here.

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