Will Ospreay On Competing At AEW All In 2023: I Was Shitting My Pants
Will Ospreay looks back on All In.
AEW All In 2023 was the biggest show in company history as the event drew over 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.
It was a homecoming for Ospreay as he wrestled in front of the largest crowd he had ever seen in his home country.
Speaking to Jarrett Bailey of SBNation, Ospreay looked back on the moment.
“I was sh–ting my pants, mate,” Ospreay said with a laugh. “I did an indie the day before, and we wrestled in front of 4,000 people, which was a big number for Revolution Pro Wrestling. It was huge – it was five percent of the audience that we were going to wrestle in front of. I had a genuine moment of like, ‘Oh, my God, maybe I’m a bit out of my depth here. I don’t think that many people know me.’ So to come out on that first night and hear people singing my song, I was blown away.
“Tony Khan put a lot of trust me to be in that because once again, I wasn’t signed to AEW. I was brought in as a favor that New Japan really wanted. They thought it would be a real cool opportunity for not only me, but for the company to showcase themselves and say like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is our boy.’ They allowed me to do it and Tony allowed me the good gracious to come out and to perform, and after that, there was a level of trust between us.”
Ospreay hopes to return to Wembley Stadium as the challenger for the AEW World Title.
To do so, he’ll need to defeat Swerve Strickland at Forbidden Door on Sunday.
