Claudio Castagnoli recently spoke with Sports Illustrated to promote his ROH World Championship defense against PAC at the ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 pay-per-view tonight.
During the discussion, the ROH World Champion and member of the Blackpool Combat Club spoke about the off-air, post-match handshake between the BCC and The Golden Elite after their grueling Blood & Guts match at AEW Dynamite this past Wednesday night at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On how the BCC pushed the Elite to be even better after Blood & Guts: "It was the spectacle of blood and guts that people expected, and even exceeded that. We had modifications from last year with the separate entrances, which helped. There’s only been two other of these matches in AEW, but I thought it delivered. That’s what we wanted to come across. We lost that battle but we won the war. Thanks to the Blackpool Combat Club, now The Elite is better than ever. We brought them to a place they’ve never been."
On their post-match handshake: "The post-match between the BCC and The Elite, with Kenny talking and we all shook hands, that probably should have been on television, but it shows that there is nothing like being there in-person. There is nothing like being there live."
Check out the complete interview at SI.com.
