Independent pro wrestling sensation Dan The Dad recently appeared as a guest on Fightful’s “On The Spotlight” program for an in-depth interview.
During the discussion, the indy wrestler spoke about his viral video from the weekly AEW Dark series.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On pulling a Dad joke on Toa Liona on AEW Dark: “It’s my first incident being accused of being an unsafe worker, but I think Toa is okay. I did reach out to him to make sure to apologize for working stiff on Dark. I think he’s alright, he won the Six-Man Tag Team Championships, so he’s having a better week. He got his comeuppance on me if you saw the whole match, you saw he squished me in the corner. He’s okay, he’s a good guy.”
On how he’s been using the joke for years: “That was early on. A lot of this came with be with Alpha-1 Wrestling in Ontario, which is a place that was run by Ethan Page at the time and he would bring a lot of great talents. It was a four-way or six-way match of some sort, maybe my third or fourth time even trying the character out. I pitched it to Rickey Shane Page, ‘what if I said you have something on your shirt and flick your nose.’ He laughed so hard at the pitching of the spot and was like, ‘You know what, let’s give it a try.’ Then it worked and became a staple of what I do and find different creative ways to find something on someone’s shirt and make them look foolish. It was very early on, one of the first dad jokes or dad things to incorporate into almost every match that I’ve done.”
Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
