Ari Daivari was interviewed on the latest “AEW Unrestricted” podcast. Here are a few transcribed highlights:
Daivari explained how the Trustbusters idea came to be:
“I showed up one day and I found out that on tagging with a guy named Slim J. I said, ‘Okay, that’s interesting.’ Then Tony showed up later and I kind of talked to him a little bit. He just lays this whole idea on the line for me. I’m with the Trustbusters and Parker Boudreaux, and he has ideas for other members, which turned out to be Sunny Kiss and VSK. It all just kind of happened one day, but that’s what led to me getting my full-time job. So, you know, if that’s what the boss wants, that’s what the boss gets.”
“It was Tony’s idea. It’s something he wanted to do and it was just kind of presented to me. The funny thing was, a lot of it was kind of just some last minute stuff, just like, ‘Hey, this is what I want you to talk about. This is your new name. You’re in the Trustbusters.’ This was like minutes before I was about to go out there. Part of me took it as like a test because I get all this information and he’s like, ‘Go do it’, and I go, ‘No problem. I’m gonna knock this out of the fu**ing park first try’, and I feel like I did. I got I got to the back and he was like, ‘Hell yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted.'”
On working with the talent in AEW:
“Tony said, ‘I think you’re a good veteran leader for some of our younger wrestlers.’ Tony is really good about developing the younger wrestlers, younger talent, and asked me, and even said that about Parker, you know, Parker Boudreaux who’s in my group. He’s like, ‘I think he’s really good. He’s a young guy. I think he’ll do great learning from you’, and stuff like that. I said, ‘No problem’, and I kind of mentioned that I’d like to do that for all your talent. I would love to help out. So that’s how that kind of came about. Then I started working with the girls. Here in AEW, we have an extremely talented roster, and I’m not just saying that. Literally from top to bottom, our men’s division, women’s division, everybody’s good and it’s kind of obvious because Tony Kahn really prides himself on having banger matches and work rate. His roster is stacked. So a producer here, I kind of feel like almost sometimes like reigning talent back just a little bit for their own good. We got some some wild, crazy guys and girls who are dedicated to the business, and if you don’t reign them back a little bit, they’re gonna go out there and potentially kill themselves for the love of the business, which ain’t a bad thing to have that mentality, but sometimes you just want to kind of reign it back just a little bit like, ‘Hey, we got week to week TV. I need you here next week. You can’t kill yourself on this show because we need you here next week and the week after and the week after that and all that kind of stuff. So, being a producer, you just sometimes want to help instill the psychology, make sure some of the old school rules live on while still adding a new school flavor to it.”
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