Keith Lee made a comeback to AEW on February 17th, 2023, episode of AEW Rampage after being written off his television in December 2022. Swerve Strickland, who had smashed a cinder block into Lee’s chest in December, was the prime target of Lee’s return.
The limitless superstar discussed in-ring training and the process of his return to AEW in a recent interview with Fightful’s Grapsody podcast. The former NXT Champion explained by modestly boasting of his ability to perform athletic maneuvers like moonsaults and dives without having ever trained for them.
“Here’s a great example. The time Dijak monkey flipped me in one of our first matches in NXT—even before then, we can take this back to the independents—a match I had with Raymond Rowe. People would know him as Erik today. Guy tried to monkey flip me and I flipped to my feet. I had never trained to do that. I never worked on doing that. I just said, ‘I’m going to do this,’ and then I did it.
The first time I ever dove out of the ring, I’ve never trained to dive out of a ring. I’ve never worked on diving out of a ring. I’ve never worked on moonsaults. If I choose to do a thing, I just go do it. That is not normal. I will tell you that right away. People hurt themselves trying to do these things on the regular. So in terms of what and physics itself I am, and I have learned this. I didn’t understand years ago, but I am an anomaly. I’m not the best person to ask, ‘What do I do to learn about this?’ ‘Cause I don’t know. I just go do it.”
Keith Lee
Keith Lee has reigned as a former AEW Tag team champion in the past. We will have to wait and see if championship glory would once again knock on his door and if he would bask in the glory of another title victory in Tony Khan’s promotion.
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