Wardlow Explains Why He Wants To Be An AEW Lifer

Wardlow Explains Why He Wants To Be An AEW Lifer

Wardlow seems primed for a breakout 2022 in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), with him slowly picking up dominant wins on Dynamite. He is set for the biggest match of his career tonight (January 12) against CM Punk.

Wardlow recently spoke to PWInsider, where he spoke about the pressure of working with CM Punk so early into his career.

Wardlow said:

“Well, for starters, we’re also off our first week of being on TBS, which we had over a million viewers. So we’re back on TBS this week, week two. Got to get over a million again and I think myself and CM Punk will deliver. As you asked, how does this vary from the other hype pressure situations? And if we could say one thing about my career in AEW is that they love throwing me in high pressure situations. You see me wrestle every few months, and it’s a big one every few months. We had the MMA cage match, as you said. We had Blood and Guts, Cody cage match, Jericho. All things leading up to those matches, the days leading up, I’m usually very intense, very focused. The difference this time with Punk is I seem to be much more calm. And I believe the reason is I simply don’t believe this is happening. It’s CM Punk. Jericho was always a possibility. A lot of names were always a possibility in my mind. But CM Punk was one of those guys who I never expected to step in the ring with. But after tomorrow, he might be back into retirement. I don’t think it’s going to be your typical CM Punk match. I know he’s put on a lot of bangers with the AEW roster. This ain’t going to be a five star pretty match. This is going to be absolute mayhem and CM Punk is probably thinking about retiring again.”

Wardlow continued on, explaining that to many, his wrestling career began in AEW. He then spoke about how he hopes to be a lifer in the promotion, saying:

“Yeah, I talked about this last night, actually. In 10 or 20 years, I am going to be so excited and proud to look back and say that I was one of the AEW originals and that means so much to me because my career started, obviously I did some indies, but the world didn’t know me. As far as the world knows my career started with AEW and it’s going to end with AEW, and I look forward to accomplishing and growing as much as humanly possible and reach the stars throughout the next 10 years. AEW made my lifelong wildest dreams come true. Tony Khan gave me that, Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, they gave me that. The way people are treated there, the schedule, I am so beyond blessed and I don’t think there’s any convincing me that the grass is greener on any other side. Very, very happy with AEW and the way I’m treated and just how the whole company is ran head to toe.”

It was reported earlier today that WWE is ‘extremely interested’ in luring Wardlow away from AEW when his contract expires, as many in the company ‘love’ his potential.

Wardlow is currently undefeated in AEW in the year 2022. For a list of all AEW win/loss records for the year so far, click here.

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2 years ago by Connel Rumsey

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