Jai Vidal is bringing confidence to the IMPACT Wrestling locker room.
During a recent interview with WrestleZone, Jai Vidal spoke about signing with IMPACT Wrestling and what’s changed since the last time he appeared as an uncontracted wrestler. Vidal worked two matches against Eric Young and JONAH, and he says that he’s a much more confident performer than the last time around.
“I think what’s changed now, if anything, at least on my end, I feel, is confidence. Before I felt like a kid in a candy store, right? I was like, ‘Whoa, I’m over here with people that I grew up watching on TV and in a company that I used to watch since I was a teenager.’ But now it’s a year later, I’m here, but I feel like I belong here. These are not just people that, yes, I looked up to when I was younger and watched on TV and such, but now they’re my equals in a sense. I’m more confident in my ability to perform inside the ring and outside the ring. I think that is seen on TV whenever I’m doing the backstage stuff with Gisele Shaw, who in her own right is a tremendous top-tier talent.”
Vidal worked as a go-go dancer prior to becoming a wrestler, and he says that definitely helped build confidence and allowed him to connect with a crowd.
“I say once you’re a performer, you’re always a performer, right? So that’s why I think anybody who’s done any type of performance, whether it be gogo dancing or whether it be even anything in theater, you like being the center of attention in a sense. You’re able to connect with the crowd the same exact way. It almost — part of me wants to say it almost knocked down the butterflies, but I mean, hey, the butterflies are still there. Every time I am about to go out to the ring in any form, the butterflies are just like shooting through me. But I definitely do think it helped build confidence. There are different ways that they both intersect.”
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