Speedball Mike Bailey Wants To Wrestle In South America, Explains Names Of Their Finishers

Speedball Mike Bailey has their eye on potentially branching out to South America in the future when it comes to exploring the world.

Speedball is a professional wrestler who has wrestled all over the world, ranging from the United States to Mexico, to Japan and across Europe. However, there is a continent that they are looking to explore in the near future both wrestling wise and travel wise.

While speaking in a new Q and A posted to their channel, Speedball Mike Bailey was asked what country in the world they would like to wrestle in that they haven’t yet, with Speedball pointing to the continent of South America.

“I don’t think that there is one country that I can- I would like to wrestle there. But I can very clearly say, I have never wrestled in South America before, and I know that there is a great wrestling scene. I know Chile. Shout out Guanchulo, who I met in DDT in Japan a long time ago and has really, through his work, let me see a lot of the Chileans in general. He’s banging. I have a lot of friends in Brazil. I know that Brazilian wrestling is huge and popping right now, and yeah, I’ve never been to South America, never wrestled in South America. So I’d love to go out there and wrestle.”

Another question that Speedball was asked in their Q and A was how they come up with their finisher names for the various moves they use to end matches.

“In terms of finishers, I don’t even know what move I have that qualifies as a finisher now. There’s obviously Ultima Weapon, right? Which is the Shooting Star Double Knee Drop, which is specifically named after the sword that Cloud uses in Final Fantasy VII, in the final scene of the game where he slays the one-winged angel, Sephiroth, and I think that’s just a cool name. It’s a cool sword. I love Final Fantasy. The Flamingo Driver, right? Which was named by Colt Cabana. It was just me messing around. I remember it was at Revolution Pro Wrestling in England, RevPro, as the kids call it, and I just had Veda sitting on the top rope and I was just tying them in weird submissions for no reason, and I ended up with the one hand behind the back, both legs trapped, hooked over the head that I could walk out with, and I was like, ‘oh, this is cool. This could become a thing. Maybe it’s stupid. Maybe it’s too dangerous.’ Then Colt Cabana was like, ‘what’s that move called?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know. It’s not even a move.’ He was like, ‘oh, Flamingo Driver.’  I was like, ‘oh, that’s pretty cool.’ I might have been practicing the driver motion on the crash pad then, and that’s why it was a driver. Then Time Adventure, the spinning leg lariat that I use, specifically while I was at home, just waiting for my visa to be processed and just training my heart out every single day, just watching the time pass and Adventure Time is one of my favorite cartoons of all time and the last episode is called Time Adventure, and it’s specifically named after a song that all the main characters use to defeat the big evil guy, which is basically the embodiment of chaos, and it’s the harmony and togetherness of their song that defeats the bad guy. I was just, I was listening to the song at the gym off my mind, off pre-workout and deadlifts, and it’s just like I felt the song and its meaning in my soul, and I was like, ‘I have to bring that to AEW somehow,’ and then I had it. I’d also been working on the finisher for months, just workshopping it in training as often as I could, and I was really excited to debut it on AEW, and I used it to defeat Mortos in my debut.”

Elsewhere in another recent vlog, Speedball spoke about how watching Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay at AEW All In. You can read more about that here.

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