Brian Cage discusses his evolving style.
Brian Cage is built like a powerhouse, but he is one of the most athletic men in wrestling and has not been afraid to show off his aerial display in the past with various flips and dives.
Speaking to Taylor Wilde on Wilde On, Cage discussed how his style has changed over the years and how he's toned down the dives in AEW.
"Also, a lot of people thought that I was this crazy high flyer. I’ve always been athletic and stuff, but I actually did more flips and tricks so to speak as I got bigger more so than I was smaller. I kinda just started trying it. I remember I did some stuff in FCW when I got signed when I was smaller, but just on the crash pad messing around, but I never really incorporated it in any of it or much of it. It really wasn’t until 2013 or 2014 until I started doing stuff. There was one six man match where I was like, ‘I’m gonna moonsault to the outside’ and everyone’s like, ‘What?’ It got such a huge reaction that I just kinda kept doing stuff and it would be so over because it’s my size doing it. Then I started doing it like all the time, way too often just to stand out and get more over. Now I do it very rarely. I think I’ve done a total of like three dives in my AEW career. I know everybody knows I can do it but since I don’t ever do it, when I do something, it’s like it’s the first time so it gets more of a reaction," he said.
Cage is currently part of the Mogul Embassy alongside Swerve Strickland, Toa Liona, Kaun, & Prince Nana.
He, Toa, & Kaun failed to capture the AEW Trios Championships from Billy Gunn & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) on the January 24 episode of AEW Dynamite.
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