AEW star Speedball Mike Bailey spoke with The Takedown on SI.com about various topics, including what it was like to promote Independent wrestling in the mid-2000s.
Bailey said, “I started wrestling in Quebec, in the French part of Canada in 2005, and if people don’t know what wrestling was like in 2005, this is pre-Facebook. So if you wanted to advertise your independent professional wrestling show, like you had to staple a flyer to a telephone poll and that was the most accessible means of advertising. So I wrestled for like almost 10 years in Canada making little to no money until I eventually made it to the United States, and started working on some of the major independent promotions there, one of which being PWG, which I think PWG is ultimately, and now like very intimately tied in to All Elite Wrestling.”
On how competing in AEW has always been the goal for him:
I started wrestling for DDT, which is the same promotion in Japan that Kenny Omega came up with. Trying to follow in his footsteps, and I mean that’s been the journey, that’s been the goal for me.”
You can check out Bailey’s comments in the video below.
