“What is a Brass Ring Moment?” asks the new ROH World Champion.
Claudio Castagnoli was crowned the new Ring Of Honor World Champion at Death Before Dishonor when he defeated former champion Jonathan Gresham. This would cap off a whirlwind month for Castagnoli, who debuted for AEW at Forbidden Door last month.
During the ROH Death Before Dishonor media scrum, Claudio was asked if winning the ROH World Title was his “brass ring moment.”
“What is a brass ring moment? If somebody can find that out and explain it to me, that would be amazing. It’s definitely an awesome moment and I feel life and wrestling is all about moments and how you seize them, how you act in them, and how you succeed in the good ones and the bad. That’s the journey. Everything I did in my life and in my career led up to this. If that’s a brass ring…I would say the first month was kind of a brass ring moment because it was ‘okay, how do you replace arguably one of the best wrestlers in history in Bryan Danielson?’ I have to step up. I don’t want people to be like, ‘Well, I kinda wanted…(Danielson).’ To be able to pull that off, then go into Blood & Guts. To me, this is great and a fantastic challenge. If this is the culmination of my brass ring month then it’s a good one,”
Claudio Castagnoli at ROH Media Scrum
Tony Khan also revealed that Claudio was originally going to be a surprise for ROH Death Before Dishonor but his return to wrestling was brought up following Bryan Danielson’s injury.
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