On the latest “Hall of Fame” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer/NXT commentator Booker T gave his thoughts on Will Ospreay signing with AEW. Booker said that his signing is a good thing for Ospreay because of the amount of money he will be making. Ospreay said during the Full Gear press conference that the deal will allow him to keep him from moving his family. WWE’s schedule might have made that more difficult.
“I think it’s really, really good for Will Ospreay,” Booker said. “I’m sure Tony Khan took care of him. I’m sure he’s probably making more money now than he’s probably made in this business. That part right there is good for him. I just hope that they make this guy a household name and it makes him a legendary figure that this business has seen here in this new age.”
Booker then criticized the way Kota Ibushi has been booked, specifically the bicycle spot he did last week on AEW Dynamite. “
“I wonder if these guys are gonna become legends,” Booker said. “The reason I say that is because I watched a minute of AEW last week, a minute. All it was was one minute, and it was the minute when I saw Kota Ibushi coming down on a 10-speed bicycle binking guys and binking guys and binking guys and then getting hit with a clothesline and knocked on the back of his head. Now if I was a fan watching wrestling for the first time and I saw a guy riding down on a 10-speed bicycle with a pipe in his hand, binking guys on the head, and they’re flopping for it, and then he gets knocked totally out pretty much with a clothesline backflip right on the back of his head.”
Booker continued, “One of the best Strong Style wrestlers that Japan has ever produced and that’s what they had him doing. So if Will Osprey is going to be doing anything like this, I feel sorry for him in a lot of ways, but as far as him getting paid, big ups for Will Ospreay going out there and doing the big signing, but as far as this guy’s career and the legacy that he’s gonna leave in this business, the legacy he’s gonna leave in AEW hopefully, those guys, think about it because he is truly one of the best wrestlers in the world. Tony Khan, he actually mentioned, he said he was the best wrestler in the world, and that just says a whole lot about your talent, your roster, when you bring in somebody like that and he said, ‘He’s better than everybody I got on the roster.'”
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