Tyson Dux Reveals The Original Plans For Him In AEW, & More

During a recent interview with Spencer Love for Love Wrestling, Tyson Dux said that he was originally going to be Shawn Spears tag-team partner in AEW prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On plans for him in AEW: “It was supposed to be a thing with Spears when Spears was having people come out and doing tags with him. It’s of course switched since then, but they wanted me to come down and tag with him, be his partner, and run that kind of angle. That’s all gone now but we’ll see what happens. We’ll see him down the line.”

On Shawn Spears: “With Spears it’s one thing, and this is the hardest thing in professional wrestling to learn. It’s only when you start in this business that you really get a sense of it, but it’s timing. Shawn is a good big guy, attractive, athletic, all this stuff , but what sets apart (more) than anybody else is his sense of timing is perfect. He knows when to sell, when to fire up, when to go back to the sell, when to change gears, all this stuff where I don’t have to tell him. I don’t have to plan anything, we can just go out there and do it. He’s just got a real natural gift for timing. A lot of guys, I have to pull along. Like I either (say) like ‘slow down,’ or I was like ‘pick it up,’ you know what I mean? I never, I have never had to give him one of those calls ever. Like none of those cues. Whereas like guys on – usual guys that think they know what they’re doing in this business, you know how it is, they go a long time, but all it is, is they just know how to do wrestling moves. They don’t know when to put the wrestling moves and why they’re putting the wrestling moves. Shawn knows how.”

On if there are any wrestling styles he’s uncomfortable working: “Without a doubt. Okay, yes, there is one style that I can’t work. It’s not because I can’t work it, it’s because I choose not to work it. I won’t do the hardcore stuff anymore – no, there’s a couple, then. There’s two. So I’m not going to do hardcore stuff anymore because to me, I’m a true – I’ve said this, with this coming year that I want to be known as the modern day Lou Thesz. I want to bring wrestling back, because there’s such a – we’re so off kilter with balance, where we made everybody part of an inside joke and it’s not even a funny joke. It’s like guys are doing really, really silly stuff or really over the top, very dramatic with no reality base to it at all. They just do (it) because they can. I don’t want to do that anymore. So going forward, it doesn’t matter what anybody else does, I’m not gonna yell at him, I’m gonna never shit on this stuff. They want to do whatever they do, that’s fine. That makes them money, so be it. But me going forward, I’m going to be strictly professional wrestling the way wrestling was intended to be.

So like anything with four ways and three ways and all that stuff, I say no. Anything with hardcore, I say no, because that’s not wrestling to me. That’s, you know, you’re just smashing up lawn furniture. I’m not going to do any of the silly comedy stuff. I’m not going to be a part of it, I’m not going to be a part of anything that feels as though it’s damaging the integrity of professional wrestling. Because there’s been countless guys that are in the grave now. We’ve got countless guys that have come and gone and been in the grave that put their whole life and body and limb and everything on the line, and the more we make it into a silly, silly joke, we take away the fact that these guys are risking life and limb every time for your entertainment. There’s guys out there that are really busting their ass that are taking major, major risk where they could be hurt severely and not only not wrestle anymore, but maybe not walk anymore, and then we make light of it because we can. Silly spots where guys have remote controls and slow down the action stuff. In the past I might have done it, but going forward, with the balance being so off and everything needs balance, I’m pulling back the reins on it. I’m bringing back grappling and professional wrestling the way it used to be.”

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