NJPW star David Finlay spoke with Fightful on a number of topics, including the company putting their faith in him over the past year-plus.
Finlay said, “It was a lot of years of hard work that finally paid off for me. I came into New Japan, April of 2015. Did a best of the Super Juniors tournament. It wasn’t really quite good enough to not be a young boy, so I kinda got like backtracked to young lion status and then I went through the whole system and a lot of years were hard. There was a lot of spinning my wheels and treading water. So to be on a stage that big in a match with Jon Moxley, who is great and Will Ospreay, who is also great and to come out on top, you know, just confirmed everything that I believed in myself for years. I like that it kind of pissed people off that I beat them both after they tried to gang up on me. So that always makes me happy.”
On being proud of carrying the NJPW banner:
“Yeah, of course. Of course I do. I mean, Wrestle Kingdom on my Titan Tron. Big bold letters, Savior of the Company. That is what I am. Whether people want to admit it or not, I am the one that’s going to drag New Japan up and make us the number one company again.”
You can check out Finlay’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
