Taz has been in a lot of locker rooms throughout his professional wrestling career and he doesn’t seem phased over what happened recently in All Elite Wrestling.
The Human Suplex Machine and current All Elite Wrestling commentator Taz recently sat down with Alfonso Castillo of Newsday to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about tonight’s AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam special in Queens, Taz spoke about being excited to call Wednesday’s match between Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson for the vacant AEW World Championship.
“It’s rare in wrestling that you do a stadium show. Stadium shows are no joke,” Taz said of the event, headlined by Danielson versus Moxley. “You put those two cats in the ring for the AEW world title—sign me up. I’m blessed that, as a commentator, I’m able to call it.”
When asked about the negative attention All Elite Wrestling has received following All Out, Taz noted that the spirits are high in the AEW locker room and that things are onward and upward.
“Anything that happened two weeks ago, last week, or last night, that’s in the rearview mirror. And we’re onward and upward. That’s how it’s been, no matter what,” Taz said. “The pro wrestling business is a train, and the train is going to keep on rolling.”
Taz was asked about his son, current FTW Champion HOOK and the ECW legend spoke about how proud he is of him and the rare connection he’s made with the audience in such a short time.
“As a dad, I’m extremely proud of him . . . I glow as he competes, no matter if it’s, maybe at a smaller venue in the Midwest, or a massive stadium like Arthur Ashe in Queens. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart,” Taz said. “Just to see him do what he really enjoys doing, and that he’s only in this thing for a year-and-a-half, two years, whatever it is, and the connection he has with the audience. It’s very rare. It’s amazing to see and experience. Anybody who knows him — who aren’t a lot of people because he’s very private and he has a mystique on him — knows that the Hook character is not much different than who he really is. He’s very cerebral. He’s extremely intelligent, and he only talks when he needs to. Obviously, he’s completely different than me.”
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