Former WWE Superstar and current ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli recently made an appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, where he spoke about a number of topics such as how he came up with his big swing maneuver by watching Dancing With The Stars.
Claudio Castagnoli said:
“When you don’t have the option of Netflix or anything, and you just have cable, I don’t know why but “Dancing With The Stars” was on, and they always have the cool lifts, right? Where they flow people around and everything. One of my Mexican teachers, Skayde, he watched like gymnastics or whatever and just figure out new moves watching anything. So, I watched that because they always had really cool lifts the way they picked people up … and they did a variation of that, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ so I went and tried it out and came up with the move pretty much.”
Claudio Castagnoli also spoke about how he thinks fellow AEW Star Orange Cassidy was the first person he did the big swing maneuver on.
Claudio Castagnoli said:
“I don’t know, maybe Orange Cassidy back in the day, it actually could be.”
You can check out Claudio Castagnoli's comments in the embedded audio player below. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
