Don Callis previews the kind of audiences AEW can expect to encounter in Canada.
AEW are currently in the country for tapings in Toronto. Speaking with McCully on Rock 95, Callis would preview the event, admitting he is looking forward to how AEW do in the Canadian market.
“My experience with Toronto audiences is, they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. I’m someone who, in my entire career, I never worried or cared about what the audience thought about what I was doing. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve been reviled, I suppose, that and the jealousy. You can’t worry about what the audience is gonna do. You have to do what you do. Tom Cruise, in the middle of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, doesn’t pop out from behind the screens in the movie theater and go, ‘Oh, you’re not liking it? Let me change the storyline.’ You have to be who you are, and that really is one of the secrets to success in professional wrestling. The Toronto crowd isn’t gonna be this way or that way. What it’s gonna be is hot. What it’s gonna be is passionate. You go and do what you do, and let them enjoy it,”
“I’m even more excited that AEW is coming to Toronto, which Toronto is clearly one of the best wrestling markets in the world. I fully expect that when I walk around Yorkville and give those vendors my money, like I will all week when I’m in Toronto, you’ll find me in whatever the hottest clubs are. I will be there, I’ll be in the best restaurants, and people will come up to me and say, ‘Don Callis, thank you for coming back to Canada,'”
Don Callis to Rock 95
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite hails from Toronto and is a stacked show with a Ring Of Honor world title match between Chris Jericho and Bryan Danielson in the main event.
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