Will Ospreay Reflects On Hitting The Black Arrow And PAC Tribute Show

Will Ospreay reflects on PAC’s tribute show where he would hit the Black Arrow during his match with Ricochet at the event.

The September 30th edition of AEW Dynamite would serve as a tribute show to PAC after his tragic passing just a day after competing at the AEW All Out pay-per-view. Among the matches and tributes on the show was a bout between AEW World Champion Ospreay and Ricochet in which the pair would include many tributes to PAC’s move set, including Ospreay hitting the Black Arrow for the pinfall victory.

While speaking to Real Radio Monsters in a new interview, Will Ospreay spoke about PAC’s passing and the tribute show the AEW roster put on, noting that being able to give the AEW locker room one last Black Arrow ‘means more than any world championship.’

“We had an unfortunate passing, PAC, and we had this memorial show, so we had to like cut all of our storylines just to dedicate a show, and honestly, if you asked PAC, he would have hated it. He would have been like, please stop it. One of the things that I feel like brought the locker room a little bit together is I think we were still processing something that was so tragic and so awful, and the one move that he did was called the Black Arrow, which is a shooting star press with a 360 corkscrew. It’s the most difficult move in pro wrestling. It’s so hard to hit. I did it eight years ago when I was like 15 kilos lighter. So it’s about like 30 pounds American or something along those lines. I remember I got to the arena at call time. I done my little video message. I came out and I got in my gear and I was practicing like from 2 p.m. to the moment the doors open at 6 p.m., and I couldn’t get it off the top rope. Like I could get it on the ground, but like I was so scared of doing it off the top rope and I had the guy in position and I can just feel everybody behind me at that moment, and I just busted it out. I felt like it was just such an emotional release for everybody because we all thought that maybe that move was probably long gone and never going to be seen again, and that was my way of showing my love to someone that was such a huge inspiration for me, especially as a British man. He was the first British guy that made the bridge for all of us Brits to go over to Japan. He was the guy. So to be able to give that to the locker room, to me, that means more than any world championship ever.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Ospreay spoke about kayfabe in modern day pro wrestling. You can read more about that here.

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