Darius Carter recalls getting praise from Ron Simmons.
Before the February 20 episode of ASE Wrestling TV, Darius Carter took to social media to hype up his match with Darius Lockhart, teasing that Ron Simmons has special words for them after the bout.
While chatting with Jeremy Lambert and SP3 of Fightful's In The Weeds podcast for a new interview, Carter chatted about the tweet and said that Simmons watched every match on the show. Carter also revealed that Simmons praised his match with Lockhart, calling it the best match that he's seen in recent memory.
"The reason I tweeted it like that, was not to be secretive, but people won’t believe you if you say it. I remember thinking, ‘People won’t believe me if I say this,’ just because it’s me saying it. We come back from the match and it’s literally Ron Simmons standing there, not sitting and watching through the chair, which he was doing with other matches. He was watching every single match. A guy like me is seeing who is going up to Ron Simmons and asking for any advice. This is Ron Simmons. How often are you going to have him in your locker room? If he is in your locker room, how often is he going to have the time to sit and watch every single match? That’s what he was doing. I come to the back, and he said to me and my opponent, ‘That was the best professional wrestling match I’ve seen in recent memory.’ I’m hearing this from Ron Simmons. You obviously have to sell it, but you don’t wan to come out of your body because the first Black World Heavyweight Champion, who is actively watching wrestling and just watched every single match. He broke it down and explained it. Basically what Ron had said, the emotion we were able to evoke from people, ‘That’s what it has always been about. You committed yourself to making sure people responded emotionally to what you were doing.’ That’s what I focused on. It’s great to be seen and great to be seen by somebody standing on such a precipice in this sport. I’m so grateful. Having someone like that give you an eardrop, just take that water and nurture the soil."
Elsewhere in the interview, Carter recalled facing Christopher Daniels at an ECWA event just months before 'The Fallen Angel' retired from in-ring competition. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful's full interview with Darius Carter in the video linked at the top of this article.
