Pro Wrestling Star Austin Aries Talks Mlw Return As Commentator, Drawing Inspiration From Some Of The Greats

Pro wrestling prima Austin Aries made a astonishment return to Major League Wrestling (MLW) past period arsenic he put a headset connected and called Battle Riot VII alternatively of performing successful nan ring.

Aries, whose existent sanction is Daniel Healy, has been successful respective different promotions passim his career, including WWE, TNA, DEFY and others. He was astatine MLW from 2018 to 2019.

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Austin Aries talked to Fox News Digital astir his caller commentary endeavor. (MLW)

Though battling an illness, Aries hopped connected nan mic pinch Joe Dombrowski to telephone nan event.

"It feels good," Aries said of his return to MLW. "Just benignant of readjusting. I hadn’t been astatine MLW for a number of years, worked pinch them a fewer times complete my career, ne'er thing sustained. It’s conscionable been breathtaking to watch nan maturation of nan company, nan momentum they’ve been building and a batch of nan names they’ve been bringing in. 

"And truthful erstwhile nan opportunity presented itself for maine to get backmost into nan fold and to do it down nan commentary desk, it was decidedly thing I wanted to return them up on."

Aries had erstwhile acquisition astatine nan announcer’s table.

He called matches for WWE NXT’s Roadblock: End of nan Line premium unrecorded arena pinch Michael Cole and Corey Graves successful December 2016 arsenic good arsenic immoderate of their play programming.

Austin Aries concisely wrestled for MLW. (MLW)

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He told Fox News Digital he derived his inspiration from legendary commentators and managers Bobby Heenan and Jesse Ventura.

"I’m trying to beryllium nan type of myself, but those guys decidedly power my style arsenic acold arsenic a bottommost commentator that’s going to adhd a small spot much of a slant," he said. "I deliberation nan different point I enjoyed astir those guys, and I deliberation arsenic a colour commentator, is erstwhile you tin bring nan position of really being successful nan ringing having competed. It’s a full position that you tin springiness nan views that a commentator who hasn’t been successful nan ringing can’t offer."

Aries has been a dressed up champion successful nan ring.

He was a three-time TNA world heavyweight champion, a six-time TNA X-Division champion, a two-time Ring of Honor world champion, and he was classed No. 12 connected Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Top 500 wrestlers database successful 2013.

Now 47 years old, Aries said nan domiciled to modulation to a commentator was nan correct move. It doesn’t needfully mean he’s vanished successful nan ringing conscionable yet.

"I had an opportunity to do commentary erstwhile I was pinch WWE. It was thing that opened up aft I sewage injured, and I really enjoyed it and I felt comfortable doing it. And truthful it was thing that – astatine nan backmost of my mind, I thought possibly down nan road, arsenic I started to slow down my in-ring profession – would possibly beryllium an opportunity I’d for illustration to pursue.

"MLW approached maine and asked maine if it was thing I was willing successful doing. So I felt, you know, I’m 47, I do still wrestle. I conscionable benignant of prime my spots carefully. There’s thing saying that down nan roadworthy I mightiness not measurement successful nan ringing pinch MLW. But for now, it’s a awesome measurement to get myself backmost into nan fold pinch nan company. The opportunity was to beryllium a colour commentator, truthful I’m going to return that domiciled and do my champion pinch it, and we’ll spot what happens from there."

Aries is group to beryllium connected nan telephone for MLW’s adjacent event, Azteca Lucha, connected May 10 successful Chicago.

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