Rocky Romero recently appeared as a guest on the latest installment of the AEW Unrestricted podcast for an in-depth interview.
During the discussion, the pro wrestling veteran who is best known to AEW fans as one-half of the AEW tag-team Vice Roppongi along with Trent Baretta spoke about the reason why he used to wear an eye patch when he would wrestle.
Featured below is an excerpt from the episode where he touches on this topic with the explanation.
“There’s a rapper called Slick Rick from the 80s and early 90s. I don’t know why, but maybe somebody in a song was talking about Slick Rick and I thought it would be cool if I add an eye patch, but I’ll do something cool like, I’ll put my face on it or I’ll put like a really cool design on it or something. So then I came up with the ideas of having different eye patches for different outfits. Then I started to think like this is going to be an easy merch thing. You know, because everybody’s selling T-shirts. Everybody’s selling hats. Nobody’s selling custom eye patches.
“That was kind of the inspiration for merchandise. Then it became fun because I was designing eye patches for different situations. I just kind of stuck with it. Now I’ve simplified it a little bit more. I’ve just got like one or two eye patches. But I don’t know, I think it’s just a really cool look coming to the ring and making it a part of the entrance gear. There’s no story. I didn’t get blinded in one eye or something.”
“I think I did Dark or something and Mark Henry was on commentary. I don’t know if he started to make up the story. When I walked to the back, he said, ‘I didn’t know what to say about your eye patch, so I just made up a story. What’s the story with the eye patch?’ I said, ‘I just wanted to sell merch and make money.’”
Check out the complete AEW Unrestricted podcast episode featuring the new Rocky Romero interview by visiting Apple.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
