AEW world champion Will Ospreay: “I’m a cardio machine, ask the wife”

My mom put a trampoline in my back garden, and I used to watch the WCW cruiserweights. Now you’re really finding out what I used to watch. I used to watch them practice their tricks, and I would pause, rewind, and see where their arms were and stuff, and how they moved their bodies. Then I’d go on the trampoline and try it.

I just got sick of it, and my mom saw that I was getting into trouble with school and on the outside, so she was going, ‘How do I keep him in school? How do I keep him in my garden? How do I keep him safe in the house?’ Put a wrestling ring in his back garden.

So you can imagine how wonderful we were with all the neighbors, hearing ‘crash, bang, wallop’ all the time, and then it’s just me practicing stuff in the ring. So that’s how I was able to do it. I just had a little bit of a trampoline background, only a small bit, and then I brought it into pro wrestling.”