AEW World Tag Team Champion Marq Quen of Private Party spoke with Instinct Culture’s Denise Salcedo on a number of topics, including Zay keeping him in the memories of the fans while he was away from the company for over a year due to a torn pectoral muscle.
Quen said, “It was very scary. I was super scared because all I knew was being in a tag team. I literally got out of wrestling training, straight into a tag team with Quen, so to have him not by my side was very scary. But luckily I had the likes of Matt Hardy and Ethan Page by my side and kind of literally walking me, holding my hand, going into this journey, and making me get my confidence and really find out who I am, and I feel like although it was a very sucky situation that Quen was gone, it was very beneficial to me because I found out who Isiah was, and I found out [how] to just be myself and just turn it up a notch when the gamer is on. It was very scary, but beneficial at the same time. It was definitely brutal. But there was an upside, which was watching Isiah grow and seeing that, I was always like, you know what, we gonna be alright because he didn’t let me die. So Isiah had it to the point where it’s basically like, you know Brother Zay, but it’s also like, where’s that other guy? So watching him grow was a good thing, and not being forgotten was better. So I always would take it to Isiah and I was just like, ‘Thank you,’ while I was gone.”
You can check out Quen’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
