Pro wrestling legend and former WWE talent Nigel McGuinness recently appeared on the Into the Looking Glass, Darkly’ program, where he discussed a variety of topics such as competing against top AEW Star "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson in the past and how in one of the matches the crowd just roared because of the visceral connection they had with the crowd.
Nigel McGuinness said:
“I was watching some of the old stuff back and wrestling Dragon [Bryan Danielson] a few times and often times, a lot of stuff, you’re wrestling someone for 30 minutes, you can’t plan everything. It’s just impossible so a lot of stuff is just done off of feeling, etcetera, etcetera and that gives you the opportunity to adlib more and at the same time, communicate more as well and there was one moment in one of those matches, I can’t remember for the life of me what it was. But it was a moment where I think he got me in a submission and the crowd just roared. There’s a visceral connection with a crowd.”
Nigel McGuinness also discussed how ROH had a lot of Hardcore Matches as well as multi-man matches in the brand's early days and how Gabe Sapolsky was the one who booked those matches as that's what made him so brilliant in terms of putting the product together.
Nigel McGuinness said:
“I mean, you gotta think though, Ring of Honor did have plenty of Hardcore matches, certainly in the early days. They had a lot of multi-man matches with a lot of excitement going on. There was a little bit of everything, you know? I think that’s what Gabe [Sapolsky] was so good at in terms of putting the product together and letting everybody go out and emphasizing their strengths and hiding their weaknesses. That’s why he was so brilliant for.”
You can check out Nigel McGuinness' full comments at this link. H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
