Wardlow has drawn many comparisons over the last year or so, but one that has rarely been mentioned is comparisons to Jeff Hardy.
While Wardlow is a big guy, he is athletic as hell and can do an awesome swanton bomb, as we saw a few months ago. Wardlow has drawn comparisons to Batista a lot as of late, but Wardlow says he originally wanted to be the next Jeff Hardy.
In a new interview with The Wrestling Classic, Wardlow talked about looking up to Jeff Hardy in high school:
“I don’t really comprehend how I look. I understand I’m 6’3, I’m 265 [pounds] and I look like a Viking comic book character. I feel like people judge me on that, and I think a lot of people, especially in the world of wrestling assume that [I’m] some dude that didn’t make it as an actor, didn’t make it as a professional athlete, didn’t make it as a bodybuilder, whatever he was trying to pursue so he just giving this a shot. Nope, I’m just like every 5’5, 160 pound backyarder because I was a 5’5, 160 pound backyarder. I was a runt, bro.” Wardlow said. “I anticipated being the next Jeff Hardy, that was my initial goal in wrestling. So I spent years doing swantons and teaching my body to flip and twist and corkscrew. I was like ‘Oh yeah, I’m gonna sell my ass off and I’m gonna do really cool stuff.’ And then I blow up during my Junior and Senior year [in high school]. Your body, muscle memory, your body still remembers that stuff. So I spent all of these years teaching myself high-flying stuff and then blew up physically. So I’m capable of doing things guys my size shouldn’t be capable of.”
Wardlow on The Wrestling Classic
It looks like Wardlow wanted to be Jeff Hardy long before he stepped into the ring for AEW. Wardlow is set to face Scorpio Sky for the TNT championship on Wednesday night’s Dynamite, and the match is set to be a street fight.
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