Will Ospreay Names 2022 Bout With Mad Kurt As His Most Underrated Match

Will Ospreay looks back on wrestling Mad Kurt.

In late 2023, British Wrestling lost one of it’s brightest lights as Kurtis ‘Mad Kurt’ Chapman would tragically pass away. His passing was felt throughout the wrestling industry, as many fans were familiar with him thanks to several viral videos, including one involving a match with Will Ospreay.

While speaking to Sun Sport in an interview filmed earlier this year, Ospreay was asked to name the most underrated match of his career, with Will naming a 2022 bout with the late Kurtis ‘Mad Kurt’ Chapman in RevPro.

“Someone tweeted it to me a little while ago, and it just made me smile so much. I wrestled Kurtis Chapman in RevPro in 2022, it was just after I’d done the Forbidden Door match, which is another underrated match that I loved. I’ve always been an intimate wrestling guy. I don’t like the big arenas, I’ll be honest with you. I like it when they’re super close to you and you can hear every single little movement. But for the first time, I just felt so relaxed in there, and this audience was giving me so much trouble. Like, they were giving me everything, but they were biting on every single little kick out, and it was in front of, like, 300 people, mate. Like, it was so lovely, and just the fact that he’s not here anymore upsets me so much, but I can’t help but smile at that match because it was just, it was such a joy to just be wrestling with him, and, like, I think it’s one of those ones where, his style was always comedic, and he was always trying to make the crowd laugh with the inside jokes.  I was a dead serious (guy), everyone hated my guts at that time, and to be able to, like, see joy in their face, see, like, anticipation, and to see, like, ‘oh, we thought he had it there’, numerous times. I think they’re the moments where I generally think like they were some of the most fun times in my career.”

Ospreay is currently scheduled to compete at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door this weekend, where he will compete in a multi-man tag team Lights Out Steel Cage match. You can read more about that here.

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