Former ROH Champion Believes His Character Could Be The Greatest In Professional Wrestling

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A former ROH World Champion believes his character could be the greatest in professional wrestling.

Despite a run with WWE in the 90s as Jean-Pierre LaFitte, most wrestling fans know PCO for his late career resurgence as “The French Frankenstein”. Perfect Creation One had a prominent run in Ring of Honor, where he won the ROH World Championship, Tag Team Championship and Six-Man Tag Team Championships.

After ROH went on hiatus following Final Battle 2021, PCO arrived in IMPACT Wrestling at Hard To Kill 2022 as a member of Honor No More with Eddie Edwards, Mike Bennett, Maria Kanellis, Matt Taven, Vincent and Kenny King.

In an interview with Denise Salcedo, the former ROH World Champion was asked to look back on his first year with IMPACT. Emphasizing the company’s grasp on his character, he said:

“Basically, the first year that I was in IMPACT, we took it three months at a time or something like that. I really enjoyed my time with IMPACT. I really thought that was the best company.”

“The company knew creatively where to go with my character, what to do, what really I had inside myself. They kind of were able to read me off. That’s a lot to me. That means to me.”

“That was one of the strongest points that made me re-sign for a full year with IMPACT because they exactly knew what they had to do in order to make this thing really, really work.”

Talking about some of the story beats the company borrowed from the past, PCO said:

“A lot of things, but I can tell you a few things. We redid the whole, ‘Okay, PCO’s dead. We’re gonna give him some current, put the electricity on him, put him back to life.’ They did my entrance video like that, where we did [it] with Vinny where he kind of revived me and everything.”

“That was one strong point, and then the way that I can wrestle in the ring, too. I can wrestle as I want as the monster, with the style that I want. Everybody’s on the bandwagon, with the producers, the promoter, everybody, the whole company, the roster, everybody’s with it.”

“So it’s not like I have to say, ‘Wait a minute, I should be doing this, or I should be doing that.’ Sometimes even producers or people on the roster, they’ll come up with great ideas.”

“So that’s another great thing. When Eddie buried me in the desert, that was awesome. The cinematic fight in the desert, that was awesome. The turn against Honor No More, that’s great.”

On his belief that his character is probably the greatest in professional wrestling, the IMPACT Wrestling star stated:

“Sometimes as a character, we think things could go faster, but in the meantime, I think it’s perfect the way they did it. Sometimes, as myself, I’m like, okay, I wish it could be a little faster, but I think it’s good, the fact that we plan something and we’ll let it grow before we reap it.”

“I think it’s been perfect timing. The other big part of it is the part that we haven’t seen yet. I think there’s so much potential. We’ve been discussing a lot of it lately, with a lot of people on creative.”

“I have the confidence that we can go there, and once we go there, I think it’s gonna be the greatest character in professional wrestler ever [laughs]. I don’t think any other characters can approach that character as far as what the character’s got in potential. It’s crazy.”

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