Top AEW star Will Ospreay appeared on Q101 to discuss various topics, including his struggles with confidence in 2015 and experiences with imposter syndrome.
Ospreay said, “I was a 22-year-old boy who was working at a mastic firm. If you don’t know what mastic is, it’s the rubber seals by your bathrooms and your windows. I would do that Monday to Friday, and then from Friday to Sunday, I’d be a professional wrestler. I didn’t have enough money to even afford a gym membership. I struggled so hard with imposter syndrome because a lot of the times, I would be the chosen guy to wrestle a lot of these imports [in RevPro]. I wrestled Matt Sydal and AJ Styles, and I struggled understanding who I was.”
On competing in the battle of the Best of the Super Juniors the next year:
“And as soon as that match was done, I had the New Japan guys and the office all come up to me and said ‘We’re going to bring you in for the Super Juniors.’ I always wanted to do the Super Juniors. It was like a mad crazy thing.”
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