Matt Mako is set to challenge Lee Moriarty for the ROH Pure Championship at ACTION DEAN~!!!2 on Saturday, May 24th.
The event features independent talent mixed with ROH talent. Mako was part of the first ACTION DEAN~!!! event in 2024, taking on Arez.
Speaking to Jeremy Lambert & SP3 on Fightful's In The Weeds, Mako previewed his bout against Moriarty.
"I found out a week or two ago. I got booked for the DEAN~!!! show a couple weeks before that and didn't really know who the opponent would be. Lee was tossed around at the ROH show I was at," he said.
Speaking about Lee, Mako said, "When I first started on the scene, I was really trying to catch up to three guys: Wheeler Yuta, Lee Moriarty, and Daniel Garcia. The Killers. I was trying to catch up to these guys. I'm my own person and everybody is on their own path. I always refer to Lee as the one that got away because we never got to wrestle before he got signed. I wrestled Yuta like four times, I wrestled Daniel once. Me and Lee just never got in there. It was always kicked around. He was IWTV Champion for a bit and Yuta beat him, that's when I started feuding with Yuta and then they all got gobbled up by Tony. I'm very much looking forward to this and it's Pure Rules, which is great. I joke about The Killers things, but they all deserve the moniker, even though I feel like the apex predator. Me and him match up with similar styles that we utilize a lot of submissions and strikes. Lee is his own beast. He's a wizard in there. Lee is probably a better pure wrestler than me, but I'm a better fighter. I'm more aggressive and better at striking. I don't know what's going down, but could you imagine if the ROH Pure Title changed hands on an independent show? Wouldn't that be something?"
Fans can check out the lineup for ACTION DEAN~!!!2 by clicking here.
Watch the full interview with Mako in the video above.
