Konnor who was once part of The Asecension with Viktor , recently spoke to Nick Hausman of The Wrestling Inc Daily podcast and commented on a variety of topics such as which team they pitched to form a stable with in WWE. Konnor also spoke to Nick about the upcoming match against The Headbangers for the Atomic Revolutionary Wrestling Tag Team Championship.
Konnor mentioned which team The Ascension wanted to form a stable with:
“It’s really cool too because I’ve known Chaz (Mosh) since 2003. So we have some history, and of course, back in 2017 they came in. We actually tried to pitch a faction with them because we were unsure if they were going to be with us at time or not. I love both of those guys. They’re really tight with my family. For me, it was a no-brainer, and so I was kind of like, ‘Man, we should try to talk to the writers and pitch angle where it could be some mosh pit or something like that.’ Sometimes if it makes sense, it just doesn’t make sense to them. So it’s going to be exciting. When I heard that this match at ARW was going to happen, I was stoked man. I was like, ‘This is going to be awesome.’”
Konnor went in more detail about how he pitched the idea of The Headbangers and The Ascension together in a stable:
“I started back in 2000. So for me, I was a sponge around him, and I would try to learn as much as I could. And we were on shows regularly down in south Florida. You just build an organic relationship. So eventually what ended up happening, of course, I got hired in 2005, and I hadn’t seen him since. And then all of a sudden in 2017, he comes rolling in with with Glen (Thrasher), and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, it writes itself. It’s so good. How could you not want to do something with this?’ So we had pitched an idea to where we built a faction with them, and I told them that later on, of course, at ARW actually. I just thought it writes itself. It’s cool, and like I said earlier, I’m tight with them. And I love those two. So for me, it was like why wouldn’t I want to work with them? But nothing came of it and it’s kind of one of those things where if it makes sense, maybe it’s just doesn’t make sense.”
Konnor also talked about the future of The Awakening (FKA The Ascension) :
“We’ve been in contact with a couple of companies. Obviously, with the whole COVID thing, everything’s real iffy right now just because of the testing and things like that and you want to make sure that when you bring talent in — they don’t know us personally. So it’s like, ‘We want to bring them in but things are kind of weird right now. So we’re just going to wait till things slow down a little bit,’ but there are two specific companies, and Vik and I have also talked about heading out to Japan as well. We’d love to get out there, but right now, for me, it’s just been about the wrestling school that me, and Jay Lethal and David Mercury are doing. We’ve got over 40 plus students that are just hungry. They’re ready to learn. So that’s just been my big thing right now is the school and my family. It’s Tampa Bay Pro Wrestling. All we ask is bring in a good attitude and a want to learn.”
Credit The Wrestling Inc Daily Podcast and H/T to WrestlingInc for the transcription
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