IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. spoke with the company on several topics, including Ricochet’s evolution as a performer since they last wrestled.
Sabre Jr. said, “We wrestled and travelled around the world together. In both our cases we’ve had a lot of changes, because the last we wrestled, I hadn’t gone to NJPW, he hadn’t gone to WWE or AEW. So both of us have changed. Ricochet has always been very flexible as a wrestler, but he’s a strong wrestler that still has grace as a flier. He definitely belongs as a heavyweight.”
On whether he wanted a different finish to his win over Shota Umino:
“I’m not one to approach a match by thinking of the finish and working backward like that, but nobody has more choices of finishing their opponents in wrestling than I do. So there’s a little practicality there when it comes to keeping my opponents guessing but also keeping myself interested and to keep people interested in me. There isn’t much interest in keeping to the same techniques.”
