Michael Oku Explains How AEW All In 2023 Appearance Came About
Michael Oku explains how his appearance at AEW All In 2023 came about.
Michael Oku discusses his appearance at AEW All In 2023.
Back at AEW All In 2023 in August, a pre-show segment took place where Miro and Powerhouse Hobbs would sign the contract for a match at AEW All Out 2023, which would take place a week after. During the segment, the ring was full of security guards. One of these security guards was Michael Oku, who is one of the most prominent names in the British wrestling scene and is the RevPro British Heavyweight Champion.
While speaking to Fightful’s Corey Brennan in a recent interview, Oku was asked how his AEW appearance came to be. Michael would explain before noting that maybe he might get another invite for the 2024 edition of the event.
“I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to talk about it. I don’t think it’s like super top secret. But it was AEW themselves that sent an email. I don’t know what the criteria was, but they had a cast and crew of pro wrestlers from either UK and Ireland who they brought over. I think that’s kind of what the big companies do. They’re like, ‘here’s some people that we know that are on the scene. Let’s bring them in to be extras’. There may be some ideas of what they might be doing during the show. ‘But let’s just have them in case we need them’ and I think that was it. I didn’t know what I’d be doing until I got there. So it was like, OK, show up, bring these items and clothing, and we’ll let you know what you’ll be doing, if you’ll be doing anything, at the show. But it was a very interesting time to just kind of be like, it’s been a while since I’ve been, I don’t want to say on edge, because it’s not like there was any intimidation. People weren’t being intimidating. But the scale of the operation made it intimidating. We’re like, just cool. I’m just in my head. It’s cool. But what was what did help things calm things down was again, like I said, there being a lot of roster members that either knew of me or that I’ve previously wrestled on the Indies before they went there. That company is full of so many stars of British wrestling, let alone independent wrestling. So there was that familiarity that helped things. Once i knew what i was doing, I was just trying to make sure that I just did the job to the best my ability. Being in the ring I think that was one of the first, I think that was the first segment on the show, so just getting to say, all right, I’m actually going to just be in the ring while there’s the AEW show happening in the center of Wembley Stadium. But that’s a victory that’s a little cool thing that i can at least say i’ve done. But yeah, did that, and then hopefully, I guess I’ll be waiting for an email this year, and there might not be a guarantee, but if not, there’s ReVPro the day before that I’ll be putting my all in to. Oh my god. That was unintentional, I promise.”
Oku recently finished up time on the Jericho cruise, where he would capture the Oceanic Championship.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Oku discussed Irish promotion OTT and the possibility of facing off with their world champion, Sammy D. You can read more about that here.
