Will Ospreay Wants Rematch With WWE Star
Will Ospreay has a big-name WWE superstar in mind as somebody he would love to wrestle again.
The current AEW International Champion Will Ospreay is locked into a deal with All Elite Wrestling for several more years, so it may be difficult for him to have a match with anybody on the WWE roster unless that person jumps over to AEW.
At AEW All In, Will Ospreay regained the AEW International Title from Maxwell Jacob Friedman, who had named it the American Championship for several weeks. It was yet another classic match, which is no surprise since Ospreay is known for being one of the best in-ring performers in all of pro wrestling, regardless of the promotion.
Drew McIntyre is one of the biggest names in WWE, who is a three-time former World Champion, and a man who is locked into a deal with WWE long term as well.
Prior to McIntyre’s WWE return in 2017, he faced many top stars in the indies including Ospreay. They had a match at WCPW’s Exit Wounds event that saw Ospreay as a heel challenger for the babyface McIntyre’s World Title.
While speaking to Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes for Issue 48 of the Inside The Ropes Magazine, Ospreay shared his memories of facing McIntyre.
“I remember it super fondly. I have nothing but love for Drew and I hope he’s doing well. I haven’t kept in contact with him but I keep up with his work, and hope the same is mutual. If there was ever a chance to throw down I’d happily do it again. I think it was different as well because I had to work as a bad guy.”
“That’s such a different thing for people because obviously when you see my aerial offence it is something that you can’t help but cheer. I had to pick those moments very well with those types of matches, and I had to really dictate the pace of that match so that when I did explode in my aerial offence, it was more out of desperation rather than to get a pop from the audience. It wasn’t difficult to put together because we’d wrestled each other beforehand, but I think it was more along the lines of we wanted to tell a bigger story within that building as well.”
“So it was great, I flipping love wrestling with Drew and I’d happily do it any day of the week.”
Will Ospreay Defending AEW International Championship At All Out
Up next for Will Ospreay in All Elite Wrestling is an International Title defense against Pac at the company’s All Out PPV in Chicago on September 7th. The current lineup for All Out looks like this.
* Steel Cage Match: Swerve Strickland vs. “Hangman” Adam Page
* AEW World Championship: Bryan Danielson vs. Jack Perry
* AEW International Championship: Will Ospreay vs. PAC
* MJF vs. Daniel Garcia
* TBS Championship: Mercedes Mone vs. Hikaru Shida
* AEW Tag Team Championships: The Young Bucks vs. Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta
* AEW Continental Championship: Kazuchika Okada vs. three opponents.
* CMLL Women’s World Championship Chicago Street Fight: Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander
There will likely be more matches announced on AEW Collision and Rampage, which air back to back for three hours of content on September 6th.