Austin Aries finally dishes about his controversial shoot at last year’s Bound For Glory.
For those of you who have long forgotten about the controversial moment at last year’s big event, after Johnny Impact pinned Aries for a three count, the former Impact World Champion no sold the starship pain finisher and walked to the back flipping off Don Callis.
At the time, many fans were confused and didn’t know if the moment was a shoot or a work; however, it became clear that the incident was indeed a shoot when the promotion never followed up on the moment. Nearly a year later, the current MLW star finally speaks about that incident and it’s clear that Aries has no regrets over what he did at Bound For Glory 2018 (transcript courtesy of lordsofpain.net):
“When Conor McGregor lost, did he sit there rolling around on the mat afterwards. I lost, I was pissed. The Starship [Pain], that f*cking thing, that’ll get you down for 3.1 seconds. That’s a horsesh*t finisher. Let’s be honest. The thing that beat me was my brainbuster before it if you watch!”
“I sold. No-selling is what you guys do when you kick out of these finishers four times every match so you get ‘holy sh*ts.’ I didn’t kick out of anything that whole f*cking match. I took the pin 1-2-3 and then I got up 4-5-6 and I motherf*ck Don Callis, said ‘I hope you’re happy now. This is your guy. Let’s see what he can do.’ And I walked out.”
Aries also explains why he’s never returned to Impact since that moment:
“What I learned from that is you have to go fight sometimes. If you put me in a position to trust me to be that guy, then I should have a say and an opinion in what’s going on. That’s part of my issue that I had with this thing with Morrison. It wasn’t dropping the title, it had nothing to do with that.”
Check out the full interview below: