AJ Francis has always been capable of main event performances.
Francis recently reached a huge milestone in TNA Wrestling, as he headlined TNA Final Resolution in a match against Nic Nemeth for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Despite not walking away with the win, Francis seemingly gained some fans from the match, with some people calling it one of the best matches of his career.
While chatting with the Nick Beasley Show for a new interview, Francis said that he's always had the ability to put on a lengthy main event match. Francis also looked back at his time in WWE and how he only got three to five minutes per match.
“That’s the thing, look at the TNA World Heavyweight Title match. That was a 20 plus minute match against Nic Nemeth, who’s one of the best in the business. I’ve always been able to do that, you know what I’m saying? That wasn’t — I didn’t just now be able to be good enough to pull off matches like that for the world title in the main event of a pay-per-view. That’s not a new thing for me, I’ve been able to do that, I just haven’t been given the opportunities to do that. Even when I was in WWE, my singles matches were like three minutes, five minutes, you know what I’m saying? Trust me, there’s nothing wrong with a five minute match, I can tell you a good story in a five minute match, it’s not gonna be a long story, it’s gonna be a short story. But, you know, I can tell it in a five minute match. Look at the match I had with LA Knight, three minutes long. Look at the match I had with Ricochet, three minutes long. You can get a good match in three minutes if you keep the intensity up and go spot to spot and do your thing. You can do that, that’s why they have the Speed title. You can do good matches in that time frame, but the thing is, if that’s all people see you do, they don’t know what you can do. Being able to have that long main event match with Nic Nemeth, it opened a lot of people’s eyes to me but I already knew I could do it.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Francis talked about his decision to re-sign with TNA Wrestling. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
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