AEW star and pro wrestling veteran MVP appeared on the Marking Out podcast, where he discussed various topics, including a time when fellow AEW star Chris Jericho advocated for him to defeat Jericho in WWE.
MVP said, “Chris Jericho campaigned for me to beat him one day in a match, and Chris Jericho said, ‘It doesn’t hurt me to lose to you, but it does a lot for you to beat me.’ And he campaigned for me to win.”
On how he used that later in MLW with MJF:
“And I learned that, and I went ‘Okay.’ There are certain…Like, when I was in MLW with MJF, we had a match, I put MJF over. And it reminds me of that period, you know? It didn’t hurt me, and where he was at in his time in his career coming up, it was a really good win for him. And that’s professionalism.”
On the value of house shows:
“AEW doesn’t do live events, but I wish that they did because that’s an opportunity for the less experienced talent to get reps. There’s nothing like polishing your craft in front of a live audience, and you get to try things. You don’t experiment on live TV, as a matter of fact, one of my mentors a long time ago said, ‘Don’t do the things on TV that you do good. Go and do the things that you do great.’ If you’re on live events and you got something that’s pretty good, you can polish it up and you can get it to the point where, [you say] ‘This is great now.’ And at live events, you’re not locked into a time, the producer or a coach, they would say, ‘Give me 12-15 [minutes]. If you go under or over, it doesn’t matter, it’s a live event.’”
On the ability for house shows to let talent have fun:
“But you also get to play around. You do things at live events that you’d never do on TV. You know, jokes, how you might clown around.”
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