There Were People In WWE Who Were Upset About Not Signing Will Ospreay

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Now that Will Ospreay has started to make waves in AEW so soon in his official AEW tenure, many feel that WWE missed out on signing him as they were interested in him.

Talks

As previously reported, some people in WWE think Triple H gave him a lowball offer while in talks before Ospreay signed with All Elite Wrestling last November.

While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that some viewed Ospreay as a younger version of AJ Styles when he first joined the company in 2016, and some people were upset that the company didn’t land him because of how highly they thought of him.

International reaction

“With Will, it was just that they saw him as maybe AJ Styles when he first came in, maybe not even at that level because AJ Styles had a little bit of a name in the United States from TNA. Not realizing that again, he's at a different level...and so much better personality, but I mean, the whole thing and more, so much more charisma. But the thing is not that AJ doesn't have charisma or anything like that and that he is not a great wrestler. AJ when he first came in there, and still now he's a super talented guy, but the thing with Ospreay, it's I know people in that company who are very, very high on him, and that were very upset. I don't say very upset, but upset surely they didn't get him because they knew he was this good. And they just thought that he's a guy who can be like a real major player here." Meltzer stated.

Ospreay is slated to work with Bryan Danielson at Dynasty next month.

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