QT Marshall recently appeared as a guest on the “Talk Is Jericho” podcast with Chris Jericho for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, the QTV leader spoke about how he pitched the “I’m Gay” segment for Anthony Bowens on AEW Rampage that went viral.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On how he had reached out to Anthony Bowens about doing the segment because he thought it would go over well with it being Pride month: “If it was a terrible segment, I would have blamed it on someone else. I texted Bowens and said, ‘I have an idea. With it being Pride month, you’re obviously someone that talks about this, you have the YouTube channel, is there a way with [Harley’s] character being naive that you say this in the ring.’ ‘I’d love to.’ ‘Okay, if you don’t want to do it, delete this text message. If you’re okay with it, I think it can be really special.’ I thought the crowd would pop. I didn’t think the whole arena would chant ‘he is gay’ in a positive way.”
On how he is incredibly proud at how the angle was received and reveals that the segment has surpassed five million views on Twitter: “I told Billy (Gunn) and was like, ‘How do we do it? How do we set it up?’ ‘You need to stay in the back, have her come out by herself because if you’re out there, they’re just going to chant QT sucks and no one is going to see the whole thing.’ I was overly joyed with how it came out. The Twitter video, I texted Tony (Khan) the next day, ‘We’re almost up to five million views on this thing. Next week, we need to show this again. Don’t share our part, show him.’ We took a chance.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/ T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
