When Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling bring the G-1 Supercard event to Madison Square Garden next week, it will be the first time in almost 60 years that a wrestling promotion other than the WWE has been booked in the historic venue. To main event participant Jay Lethal, this isn’t lost on him.
As Lethal prepares to face Marty Scuril and Matt Taven in a three-way ladder match for the Ring of Honor Championship, he recently spoke to the Tampa Bay Times about the long journey it’s taken him to get where he is. “I feel like my career is like winning the lottery. Everything just seems to go right.” he said.
Besides the deep dive on his career, the interview also touches upon his thought on what it’s like to wrestle there for a non-WWE production. “Every wrestler from my generation thought that the only way to work in Madison Square Garden was to work for the WWE or fill out an application to work security,” Lethal said. “I get to go there without doing either of those two things.”
As Lethal prepares to defend his Ring of Honor championship, it hasn’t been lost on him how his story has turned out. “I couldn’t write my story any better,” Shipman said. “We are wrestling a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden and I am champion. A few years ago, I would have said this is impossible. But it is a reality.”
