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Dans une entrevue livrée pour SEScoop, le lutteur québécois Mike Bailey a livré plusieurs commentaires sur sa carrière actuelle et sa vie personnelle.
Voici quelques extraits.
– Bailey est très heureux d’avoir joint Impact Wrestling l’an dernier, après avoir dû mettre sa carrière américaine en pause durant cinq ans à la suite d’un problème de visa.
“The one thing that I’m certain of is I’m perfectly okay with how things are now. I think I did the best I could with what I was given. I’m with Impact Wrestling and couldn’t be happier and things are going absolutely well. However, there is this other possibility where I continue wrestling in the U.S. after 2016 and start making millions of dollars by 2018 and be able to retire and move to a big home in the Bahamas in 2022. That could have happened, but we’ll never know. All we can do is be grateful.”
– Le règne actuel d’Alex Shelley en tant que champion d’Impact Wrestling, de même que les succès de Chris Sabin, sont pour lui une belle preuve que la X Divsion peut être un excellent tremplin vers le sommet.
“Alex Shelley specifically is a huge influence to everyone at Impact and in professional wrestling. Alex Shelley individually and as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns. To see him finally win that Impact world championship was a great moment and truly one of the most deserved championship victories in recent memory.”
– Son excellent match contre l’ex-champion Josh Alexander, en décembre dernier (l’affrontement avait duré presque une heure) le laisse croire qu’il pourra à son tour remporter ce titre. Il est un grand admirateur d’Alexander, qui l’a convaincu en grande partie de joindre Impact Wrestling.
“Since signing with Impact Wrestling that was the match I wanted. Josh Alexander and I wrestled each other many times before Impact Wrestling in Canada for a year…A big part of the decision to join Impact was to have the kind of matches Josh Alexander was having over and what he was doing. That’s the kind of wrestling I wanted to do and the matches I wanted to have.
“So when we had to wrestle for nearly an hour, it just felt right. Of course, it was difficult, but it was exactly what I wanted. Looking back on it, I feel like no matter how well this would have been received, this match was only part of the story between me and Josh Alexander. We have a lot more left in the tank together.”
– Bailey a souvent mentionné que ses adversaires de rêve étaient John Cena et Hiroshi Tanahashi. Il était donc très heureux que Tanahashi remplace Will Ospreay lors de l’événement Multiverse United. C’est selon lui une belle marque de confiance de la part d’Impact Wrestling.
“If I’m wrestling either [Cena or Tanahashi], it means I’m doing very well in terms of how my career is going. Tanahashi is the ‘Ace’ of New Japan. He represents that company and is the face. The fact Impact would put me against him and put me to represent them. Of course, that meant a lot and it was an honor to share the ring with him. He is a complete master at the art of professional wrestling.”
Il espère par aillleurs affronter Himoru Takahashi, Will Ospreay et El Desperado.
“One is an IWGP junior heavyweight title shot against Hiromu Takahashi. He is the champion, and I did beat him as part of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament of which I was a part. That means I am owed a title shot. I think Philly would be a great place to do that. I was scheduled to face Will Ospreay, who then was removed with an injury. That wouldn’t have been my first match with Will Ospreay. All of them would have been amazing.
“This would have been the first one in the United States. I feel he still owes me that match. Another I would absolutely love because to me he was the MVP of the Best of the Super Junior tournament in Japan and that is El Desperado. He was the other semi-finalist. I think he absolutely put on some of the most impressive matches out of that whole tournament. He and I got to share the ring on the same team just a little bit on my last day of the tour. I would love a singles match.”
– Mike Bailey assure que sa conjointe Veda Scott – elle-même lutteuse et commentatrice de lutte – a été une grande inspiration dans sa carrière et sa vie en général.
“Veda really pushed me. The circumstances of our relationship really pushed me. To take my career in a much different direction. So when I couldn’t come to the US and Veda lives in the US, we worked really hard in order to find places in order for us to be together. We would book tours in Europe, be in Japan together, and travel to Canada. That has really helped me cultivate a worldwide presence.
“…Since 2022 we’ve both been living in the U.S. together, and my career with Impact Wrestling has really taken off. Veda has gone from being mostly a wrestler to being mostly an announcer and doing some work with Impact Wrestling, AEW, and most recently for New Japan Pro Wrestling doing commentary for Mercedes Mone matches. Watching Veda really grow as a commentator along with my career as a wrestler all coincided with us getting married last year. It has been a huge bonus. My wrestling career is a blessing, to begin with, but the fact I have someone to share all of this makes it even better.”
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