Tony Schiavone On Will Ospreay: I Don’t Know Anyone Who Has Come In And Captured Excitement As Quickly

Tony Schiavone speaks highly of Will Ospreay and Bryan Danielson.

Tony Schiavone speaks highly of Will Ospreay and Bryan Danielson.

At AEW Dynasty, Will Ospreay defeated Bryan Danielson in a dream match that sparked plenty of buzz and has widely been considered one of the best matches in recent memory.

Speaking on his What Happened When Podcast, Tony Schiavone was asked about AEW Dynasty, as co-host Conrad Thompson noted that Will Ospreay and Bryan Danielson had a great match.

“Yeah, didn’t we expect it, though? Didn’t we all know that it was going to be a great match? Listen, to me, Bryan Danielson not only is to me one of the greatest performers ever, but one of my favorite people of all time. You can sit and talk to Bryan Danielson for a long, long time about wrestling, just like you can with Chris Hero. Just sit and talk wrestling with them and just pick their brain and talk about the history of wrestling or moves or the business. So I knew it was going to be a great match. Will Ospreay to me has become like the…I don’t know, I don’t know how to describe him. If I say, ‘Oh, the greatest of all time,’ that would be wrong to say that. But I don’t know anybody that has come in in such a short period of time and captured the excitement of the fans as Will Ospreay has. Not only with what he can do in the ring, but his promos, with the exception of some of the things he said, his promos have been great, wonderful. So I’m just amazed at him. Every time I see Will Ospreay, I say, ‘Slow down, dude. You got a lot of wrestling ahead of you, you don’t want to kill yourself.’ He said. ‘I don’t know how to do it any other way.’ So yeah, the match was wonderful. I wasn’t on the call, but Okada and PAC was wonderful as well,” Schiavone said.

Jeff Jarrett recently called Danielson’s match against Ospreay one for the ages. Check out his comments here.

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