Gresham is done with fans.
Jonathan Gresham is the former Ring Of Honor Champion and most recently won a fatal-4-way match on Ric Flair’s Last Match event to earn a progress championship shot. While his career is up in the air after recent news of asking for his release from ROH/AEW, Gresham still wrestled on the event. Gresham sat down for an interview with WrestlePurists that aired prior to him asking for his AEW/ROH release, Gresham talked about being criticized for his size, and how that factored into his decision to stop engaging with fans like he used to.
I got out of interacting with the fans a few years back because I realized they just want to spew whatever they believe as the gospel, the stats on Wikipedia, they take as the gospel. But the thing is, that Wikipedia could’ve been made seven years ago. Since then, of course, the person probably didn’t grow in height. But his weight has changed. Also, I’ve never been embarrassed by my size. So when wrestling promoters are like ‘What’s your height?’, I was like. ‘5’4”.’ They’re like ‘You want me to say 5’7″?’ I say ‘Nah, 5’4.’ I hear this thing a lot that I’m smaller than Rey Mysterio. I can assure you, I’ve met the man on three occasions. We are the exact same height. But for some reason, for some reason, I am 4’9 or whatever the f*ck. My mom is 4’10” and I can see on top of her head. It’s just ridiculous that people want to believe. My Wikipedia might say I weigh 160 something, but I literally almost weighed 200 lbs a few months back. I’m literally at 180 something right now.
– Jonathan Gresham via WrestlePurists
Jon’s wife, IMPACT Knockouts Champion, Jordynne Grace, also chimed in during the interview.
I get a lot of sh*t on Twitter for defending Jon about stuff, but I really feel passionately about body shaming in general. So let me leave you guys with a think piece, and you don’t have to answer this at all. Why is it that, when people like Eddie Kingston, Adam Cole, Deonna Purrazzo are body-shamed online, everybody jumps to their defense, but when someone like Jon is ridiculed for something that he has absolutely no control over, everybody piles on? That’s my thought.
– Jordynne Grace via WrestlePurists
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