– Fightful recently interviewed wrestler Gregory Iron. Below are some highlights.
Gregory Iron on moments where fans can still suspend disbelief: “I mean, I love it because as professional wrestlers, we’re in this time where kayfabe is dead. The wrestling fans are a lot smarter to be ins and outs of professional wrestling, but I think the magic that we have is performers are those moments where we make the fans suspend their disbelief and I think a lot of the fans are chanting what they’re chanting and doing the things they’re doing because they’re in on the bed. I think they want someone to boo and they want someone to cheer because wrestling fans are smarter than most people give them credit for but there are those people that can blur the lines between reality and fiction and there is a genuine love for Nick Gage and guys like Effy and Allie Kat and Mance Warner and there’s a genuine hatred for anyone that opposes those characters and I think that’s a testament to the emotional investment that those characters have created for themselves and I think 44OH! that is just proof that in a day and age where I think a lot of people that follow professional wrestling have this belief that the athleticism is what really matters and there’s shades of gray and you don’t really need good guys and bad guys because everything is exposed. I think what 44OH! does is prove that people want to emotionally invest.”