In a recent interview with ComicBook to promote this Sunday’s AEW Revolution pay-per-view, where he will be challenging Samoa Joe for the AEW TNT Championship, All Elite Wrestling star Wardlow discussed his AEW run in 2022, his feud with now-AEW World Champion MJF and much more.
“Man, I think about this a lot, and I was just thinking about this very in-depth recently, because I feel like I took it for granted a little bit. Few reasons, so I’m a negative thinker, I’m my biggest critic, I don’t think at the time I allowed myself to comprehend just how big I was and how popular and how just outrageous the idea of Wardlow was at the time.
Also, I think there’s a little bit of truth to Max calling himself the devil. Right around the time Max and I started our feud, I really just lost myself and I just wasn’t myself in that whole stretch of time, I was just a different person and I was a ball of stress and I really couldn’t focus, or grasp, what my life was or should have been, and even after I beat Max, the devil wasn’t gone, he still had his claws in my back, and the next night, here I am, Wardlow, getting my name chanted by a sold-out crowd like we haven’t seen in decades and the next episode, I’m back to doing nothing and Max is dropping this bombshell of a promo and now, the show’s still all about him.
I beat him, but I didn’t beat him, so there’s a lot to be said there, all I’ll say is I’ll dance with the devil again and that time will come and things will be a little different next time. I guess I have a lot to prove to myself, and I have a lot of wrongs to right and this opportunity with the TNT Title gives me that. After Sunday, I look to be calling myself Mr. Revolution, because yes last year, it was the big ladder match, it was the moment with the ring. This year, if I can recapture the TNT title, when I recapture the TNT title, I will be Mr. Revolution.”
The full interview is available at this link.