AEW Superstar and former world champion recently appeared on Busted Open Radio to hype up his grudge matchup against Ricky Starks at the March 5th Revolution pay-per-view.
During the interview, The Ocho spoke about the generational greatness that he sees in the Absolute One, even recalling a promo he saw Starks cut at an event in San Antonio that sold him on their feud. Highlights from the interview can be found below.
Says he sees greatness in Starks just like he saw in The Rock:
When you first stand in the ring with The Rock, you talk about a generational talent, that’s a different level. The thing with Ricky is, I’ve seen glimpses of that, which is great. He’s still harnessing and the idea for this program was to continue to build. He did a great promo in San Antonio when we started that really blew my mind, I thought it was awesome.
How Starks has excelled at little nuances that make him stand out:
Then there were some moments that weren’t quite as good just because that’s how it goes. I thought last night [Wednesday] was the best Starks has been in our program so far. Nuances. A lot of the younger guys, they’ll talk with deep breathing because they are afraid to be like, ‘I want to say this. Pause. Let the crowd react.’ He really had some great nuances with that. That’s what Sammy Guevara and Danny Garcia are learning. Guys have to learn when they haven’t had a lot of promos, really how to hone in what you are and how to hold the crowd in the palm of your hand without saying a word. At the click of a pen, shall we say. Ricky is really starting to hone in on that and figure it out, which has been great.
In March AEW will be in Jericho’s hometown of Winnipeg. He spoke about how excited he was for that show in the same interview with Busted Open. You can read those comments here
.(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)