Jay Briscoe recently appeared as a guest on the Battleground podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the appearance, the ROH legend addressed his controversial homophobic and immature tweet from nine years ago and offered another apology for his insensitivity.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic.
On how he tweeted something homophobic and immature 9 years ago: "I want to say, thank you to the people who really know…we get labeled as homophobes. I put out a stupid tweet nine years ago, the most dumbest, immature, obnoxious shit I’ve ever done. I don’t want anybody, from any walk of life, to feel like they can’t care for the Briscoes because I promise we love everybody. We love everybody and we just want to go out there and be pro wrestlers and give the best match that we can. I said some dumb shit a long time ago"
On offering another apology for his insensitivity: "I apologized for it and I’ll apologize for it again. It was stupid. I feel like now there are people who look at us like, ‘we can’t cheer for them because they hate a certain group of people.’ We don’t hate nobody. We love everybody. We’re just some country boys. I thought I was taking a stand for the Lord back in the day."
On promising that he and his brother Mark are not like that: "I feel like people label us a certain way. Trust me, we’re not like that."
Check out the complete interview at YouTube.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
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