Former ROH Pure champion Josh Woods recently appeared on the AEW Unrestricted podcast to discuss his admiration for JAS member Jake Hager, which included Woods recalling his training with Hager for an MMA fight, and how he would love to wrestle the one-time WWE heavyweight champion in a Pure Rules match. Highlights from the interview are below.
Says Hager is an incredible athlete and hopes he joins his faction with Tony Nese:
Jake is an incredible athlete and we were training for a couple of months leading up to a fight he was going to have and that got changed and moved around and stuff. So I got to get close with Jake just doing grappling and working on wrestling and stuff in preparation for that fight. So yeah, that would be awesome to have him with us or us with him or however that would be or not at all, or just a one-time thing. But yeah, I think Jake’s incredible. So any sort of combo of that would be really cool.
How he would love to wrestle Hager in a Pure Rules match:
Dibs. I’m thinking like a series. First, amateur [rules], which people may hate but I don’t care, then normal, then Pure.
On his boxing skills:
I’m really good at boxing, I suck at chess. So I’m not going to move the whole time and go, ‘We’re waiting.’
(H/T and transcribed by WrestleZone)