TJ Charles Says The Biggest Change He Experienced As An Irish Wrestler Based In Spain Was The Style At The Time

TJ Charles says the biggest change moving to Spain was with regard to the style at the time.

Since moving to Spain in the late 2010s, TJ Charles has been an active part of the Spanish independent wrestling scene despite being an import from Ireland. For Charles, the biggest change for him was not only the language, but also the style at the time.

While speaking to Fightful in a new interview, TJ would be asked about what the biggest change for him was following his move.

“Yeah, I mean, the big change for me, and it was an unexpected one, honestly, was the style at the time. I mean, the style has even since developed since then, thanks to guys like Axiom, aka Carlos, as we know. Thanks to him changing the style and putting a lot of vision on Spain as an overall player, and it has changed a bit, but when I first came here, it was very much more based around like a Lucha Libre kind of like Mexican kind of spinoff of European slash Lucha Libre, weird mix and it has kind of evolved into its own thing since then. So it has changed a lot. So even that change, I mean, apart from the language, like you mentioned, which was- trying to call a match with someone in a different language is a challenge and it’s kind of- everyone has different words for everything and everyone calls things differently and just the style at the start was very interesting for me to be able to like jump into that. Because being primarily only ever having wrestled in Ireland first before that, it was very much like that classic kind of European Americanized style of wrestling, where things were very used to. Whereas coming here, then I was trying to find the blend of what I’ve already kind of learned in Ireland and then trying to learn what the guys do over here and how different it is. I mean, I think I was very fortunate at the time, and I only recently actually spoke to him for the first time in years since he got signed, was Angelico, who was based over here quite a bit, which was unusual for a South African man to be based over in Spain. But obviously with his connections to Mexico, and he’s over here quite often at the time, I was able to kind of pick his brain quite a lot, which even though I don’t use that style in my own sort of daily wrestling or training or matches or whatever, and I always find it very useful, if you ever get to work with someone who’s using that style often, you know, someone like, I mean, I’ll daydream and say someone like a Penta, if someone ever got booed against him and then he asked you to do a load of different Yaveo and you can’t do it. Like, I mean, it’s better to kind of have that in your tool belt rather than, you know, not know anything about it. So yeah, to go back to your question and not ramble on too much. It was, it was a bit of a change based on language and obviously based on the style, but i know i was very fortunate to be, to made a lot of really great friends here as well. Apart from being with someone as talented as Angelico for quite a while. I’ve made quite a lot of close friends and kind of integrated myself into it, but yeah, of course it was a big challenge to start trying to learn the language, trying to get used to everything over here. Just it being culturally very different than back home obviously was a really big change as well.”

You can check out the full interview with Charles above.