Samoa Joe isn’t going to allow anyone to disrespect pro wrestling.
Samoa Joe has wrestled all over the world, from his days in Ring Of Honor to TNA to NXT/WWE and now in All Elite Wrestling as the AEW World Champion. He has faced the best and has put down the greatest in the ring, but he has no plans of stopping anytime soon.
In a conversation with Joe Murray on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Joe was asked if All Elite Wrestling was the place for pro wrestlers.
“We call it pro wrestling. We’re very proud of that label. The sports entertainment thing, it’s a very debated thing, either or. I give credence to both. I think both are wonderful art forms, but when it comes to AEW, we’re pro wrestling, and we’re pro wrestlers, and we’re proud to say that. We’re not trying to morph it into something else that maybe is more palatable to the mainstream. I think the mainstream is totally fine with the label ‘pro wrestling.’ At this point, I think it’s just silly semantics on both sides, to be honest with you. I think both sides are just kind of being dumb about it. I think the major reason why they were being dumb about it on the other side is probably gone, so maybe they’ll switch up their tone,” Samoa Joe said.
Joe fought and defeated Wardlow on the March 13 edition of AEW Dynamite: Big Business to retain his AEW World Championship.
h/t from Fightful.
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