During a recent interview with BRM Media, indie wrestler LJ Cleary discussed his experience interacting with Becky Lynch during her match with Lyra Valkyria at WWE Backlash: St. Louis, highlighting the fan reaction to his cameo.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On the fan reaction to his moment at WWE Backlash: “Yeah, definitely. I did have a lot of fun with it. Again, that was, it was kind of the perfect blend of the people who did know who I was and that supported me a lot over the years. Especially even like from the fans in Ireland that kind of watched me grow up. Like I started wrestling when I was 13. So they really watched me grow up and then into the fans that I built up over the years and made in Japan when like some of the funny tweets went up. I’ve very thick skin, I chuckled, like, I genuinely, I can honestly say, like, I saw someone, man, I just chuckled, but then to see the support, it was an overwhelming support, it was a very nice feeling.”
On his strong fan base: “I’m thankful that I have such a, in my opinion, like I have quite a strong one that the work speaks for itself, that it wasn’t just a case of like, oh yeah, there’s that like guy we saw in the crowd at the pay-per-view. It was like, oh wow, like he’s a wrestler, but not just a wrestler. Like he’s… I’d like to consider myself a very well-traveled and very, very sought after, I would say maybe commodity, especially in Europe and then going to Japan. I felt like that has, like I said, blew the lid off in the best way possible now. I feel like people are saying that, which is obviously the support was, it was very nice. It was a very nice feeling.”
Deonna Purrazzo joined TNA Wrestling in June 2020 and soon became Knockouts World Champion by defeating Jordynne Grace, who felt “off-put” and “expendable” after losing the title she held for six months.
During a recent interview with “Uncrowned,” Grace said, “I’ve been lifting for years, since I was 15 years old, but I never dieted and I never really did cardio at all. Honestly, those are two of the main things that you have to do, unfortunately, to get your body to look in any type of way you want it to look like. I had just won the Knockouts Championship for the first time, and Deonna Purrazzo had come over to TNA, and she won the title from me her very first weekend there. And I remember feeling so expendable and so just off-put by that, I just thought to myself, well, something has to change, because if someone can just come in here and just take my spot, I have to do something. I have to change something in order for that not to happen ever again… I actually got my first (fitness) coach that following week.”
