Chris Hero believes the Forbidden Door will be what opens the door.
Hero shared his belief that in a few years from now, someone will have seen Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay's Forbidden Door match, and that will be the one that made them decide to be a wrestler.
Hero was the guest on the July 10th episode of Fightful's Wrestling Perspective Podcast with Ace Steel and Dennis Farrell. The former WWE NXT Superstar would discuss many topics.
The Wrestling Perspective's Dennis Farrell asked Hero if he noticed a change in the Independent Wrestling scene after he was released from his WWE contract in 2020.
Hero said, "It changed because I started back with NXT in January 2017. Then, you know, let go in April 2020. So, almost 3.5 years, and that was when everybody got signed right. Then there was a brand new company, and even more people got signed. It depleted the scene so much, and I'm a firm believer that talent will always find a way. You're always going to find these generational talents that pop up and people that really love it and want to get good at it; they're always going to be there, but they just did not have the resources that we had coming up."
Chris has been instructing seminars and would talk about some of the misconceptions that are out there. Chris would talk about how he believes there is a misconception regarding the younger generation of wrestlers. The misconception could lead to missing out on generational talent.
"Wrestlers are young and hungry, and they want to learn. There is this misconception about the younger generation that they don't listen, right? You will always have that in every avenue of entertainment, sports, or whatever. You will have some talents that are just like that, and they're fine. You will find people that are so hungry. They're so thirsty for knowledge."
"I do some of these seminars, and sometimes there are 35 to 40 people [there], and you're like, holy shit, is it like a gremlin situation? Did somebody pour water on a wrestler, and overnight they sprouted 20 new wrestlers, right? So, it's up to us to provide as much information and a much life experience and career experience that one of them, two of them, three of them can latch on to that, and it can take their career and, and places that they didn't expect and not just them, the people that they influence." Hero said.
Hero believes Will Ospreay and Kenny Omega’s match at Forbidden Door will be a match that will get people to want to be in the wrestling business.
"It's like you just had that Osprey vs. Omega match, right? There are polarizing thoughts in it, but I guarantee there will be wrestlers that broke into the business, you know, five years from now that, that is the match that they saw that made and think, fuck, I want to do this. We're not even talking about the wrestlers that are in the locker rooms. Now, we're talking about the wrestlers that are going to be in the locker rooms, that will be main eventing shows and opening shows, and coming up with new characters and concepts that we probably aren't hip enough to understand yet. Still, we're going to try; we're going to try." Hero said.
"It's not over. I'll be back."
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 29, 2023
Kenny Omega has a message for Will Ospreay following their incredible match at #ForbiddenDoor!
Watch #AEWDynamite on LIVE on TBS!@KennyOmegamanX @WillOspreay pic.twitter.com/TWkYPg7XGv
In an exclusive from FightfulSelect.com, Fightful Select reported last month that Chris Hero was working with All Elite Wrestling on a trial basis. That story can be viewed by clicking here.
