Tate Mayfairs reflects on facing Will Ospreay.
During PROGRESS Wrestling's Super Strong Style 16 tournament in 2023, Tate Mayfairs and Will Ospreay faced off in singles action for the first time ever. This bout was highly praised by fans, with some of them calling it one of the best matches of Mayfairs' career.
During a recent interview with Jordan of WombTravel, Mayfairs joked that he was happy to give Ospreay the rub before criticizing the star for taking thirty mintues to put him away.
“William Ospreay had a very high profile match with Tate Mayfairs last year. Yeah, I was happy to give the kid the rub. He did this call out thing in February last year, I spoke to him and said, ‘Is this real?’. He said, ‘It is.’ I put out my video and he felt a little bit embarrassed, didn’t he? He tucked his tail in between his legs, hid his head in the sand and went, ‘Oh no, don’t talk about the call out anymore.’ He tried to run, he got himself into Super Strong Style and then I got drawn too, and then we went in there and I gave him a great match where he struggled to put me away for over a half an hour. The supposed best wrestler in the world struggled.”
When asked about the idea of a potential rematch with Ospreay, Mayfairs shamed Ospreay for running away after saying that he'd like to run it back with him.
“He said he wanted to run it back, he got on the microphone after and went, ‘Woah, okay, fair play Tate. Fair play, Mayfairs. If you want to do it again, I want to do it’ and he was reaching out to shake my hand and give me a handshake. He’s a big fan, he wants to run it back, I said I’d run it back, he’s nowhere to be seen and he’s running away once again.”
Ospreay recently thanked Kazuchika Okada for the time that the two stars spent together in AEW. Fans can learn more here.
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