Davey Richards details what he won't do in future bookings.
Davey Richards returned to pro wrestling in 2021. Since then, he has been taking a wide variety of booking on his time as he continues to put in the work in his medical studies. Now, in a new interview, Davey Richards details what he looks for in bookings and more specifically, the kind of bookings he will not take. Specifically, Richards says he does not want to partake in deathmatches and says that he will "respectfully decline" intergender match ideas.
"I am not going to do deathmatches," he said on the Under The Ring podcast from USA Today Sports. "I would very much prefer no really early morning flights. Because you know, I would prefer that, but if it happens, it happens. I don't — I would respectfully decline intergender matches, that's just a personal thing. That's my — please don't put me at the end of the 27-match card. That'd be wonderful."
Davey currently wrestles for MLW. In MLW, styles make fights. In this interview, Davey also spoke about the stylistic matches he does enjoy.
"I like different kinds of styles. I mean, I've wrestled some guys you would never think, like wrestling Masada, he's a great wrestler," said Richards. "I like being tested. I mean, obviously, it's always fun when you get some guys who are like more of my — or cut from the same cloth as me, but I mean, the thing is, you'll only get better by wrestling people who are different than you. I mean, like, I can go out today and have a great match with Jonathan Gresham. Who can't, you know what I mean? Someone, not even saying that I'm better than him, or they're better than me, just different mentalities, different stylistic approaches. That's how you get better because you learn how to adapt your style and what you like to do to what someone else does, or what may make someone else or some other promotion money. So actually, that's how you grow and evolve as a wrestler."
Davey Richards made a surprise appearance at IMPACT Slammiversary and he was opposite his former partner, Eddie Edwards in a 5-on-5 tag team match. Learn more here.
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