{"id":30171,"date":"2016-08-23T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=30171"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:14:48","slug":"will-ospreays-wrestling-status-going-forward-new-japan-deal-roh-vs-evolve-scaling-back-2017-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/23\/will-ospreays-wrestling-status-going-forward-new-japan-deal-roh-vs-evolve-scaling-back-2017-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Ospreay&#8217;s wrestling status going forward &#8211; New Japan deal, ROH vs. EVOLVE, scaling back &#038; 2017 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2898653405\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>By PWTorch Staff (Sean Radican &amp; James Caldwell)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting year for international star Will Ospreay, who started the year with a contract offer from TNA, signed an exclusive deal with New Japan, wrestled for PWG in the U.S., teased signing with WWNLive\/EVOLVE, will be making his ROH debut on the U.K. tour in November, and is planning to take fewer independent dates in 2017, while keeping WWE on his radar.<\/p>\n<p>The information we previously received was that Ospreay signed a deal with\u00a0EVOLVE, as teased by Ospreay and Paul Heyman during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/12\/712-paul-heyman-u-k-tour-recap-heyman-offers-ospreay-evolve-contract-talks-brock-lesnar-ufc-200-brock-breaking-streak-brock-vs-orton-wont-part-creative-commentary-fir\/\">Heyman&#8217;s one-man show in the U.K.<\/a> in July. The information was that EVOLVE would take care of Ospreay&#8217;s U.S. work visa, which would indirectly\u00a0prevent Ospreay from wrestling for ROH in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ospreay did not sign the EVOLVE deal. He noted in a recent interview that the unsigned contract is currently hanging on his wall. He also noted that New Japan would have to approve any other contracts or agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Since New Japan has a working relationship with Ring of Honor, it&#8217;s unlikely that New Japan will approve Ospreay agreeing to a deal with EVOLVE &#8211; if Ospreay desired to sign that deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On that note, it\u2019s my\u00a0decision whether I want to go or not, but I think people need to\u00a0understand\u00a0that New Japan work very closely with Ring of Honor, and if they would like\u00a0me\u00a0to sign any contract with any American company it would probably be for Ring of\u00a0Honor,&#8221; Ospreay told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetagrope.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tag Rope podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, it is my\u00a0decision what I want to do. But it\u2019s a very selfish thing that I\u2019m\u00a0about to\u00a0say, but I need to think about me. I don\u2019t see my friends as much, and I don\u2019t\u00a0get to spend as much time in England, so I would really like to think about\u00a0what I would\u00a0like to do and what is best for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ospreay is getting his feet wet\u00a0with ROH on\u00a0their &#8220;Reach for the Sky&#8221; U.K. tour in November in his home country. That might lead to more ROH dates in 2017, even though Ospreay is looking to scale back on his schedule next year.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-24956350\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In 2017 I\u2019ve made it\u00a0quite clear that I\u2019m going to stop doing as many independent\u00a0dates. Recently\u00a0I\u2019ve just had an idea, I don\u2019t want it to be said now because I feel like\u00a0someone might steal my idea, but it\u2019s going to be coming up quite soon and it\u00a0involves\u00a0the trios division. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying,&#8221; Ospreay told the Tag Rope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like maybe I\u00a0need some time out. Just to let my body heal a little bit, so I have\u00a0not signed\u00a0anything. I should leave it at that because I have had other offers come in\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019m just trying to swim in an ocean full of talent and stay relevant,&#8221; Ospreay said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I\u2019ve\u00a0always wanted to do is that I don\u2019t want to leave. A lot of people\u00a0have asked\u00a0when I\u2019m going to WWE, and I am interested, but I\u2019m not interested right\u00a0now.\u00a0I\u2019m so happy in England, it\u2019s been an incredible journey and I want to keep it\u00a0going, I want to help out, I want to do more things. On that note, the EVOLVE\u00a0deal is\u00a0unsigned right now but the contract is up on my wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another significant factor for his status going forward is Ospreay working through several injuries, including a nagging shoulder injury. Ospreay&#8217;s idea to wrestle more trios matches in 2017 is along the lines of a plan to tone down the number of bumps he takes. He&#8217;s especially learned from the New Japan stars, who wrestle a lot of multi-man matches in-between big shows, on how to take care of his body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CHAOS faction has\u00a0looked after me so well, and taught me wrong from right. I can\u00a0see that\u00a0somewhat now in my movement and how I move as a wrestler. I don\u2019t even\u00a0know if\u00a0people notice it these days but I hardly ever go to the top rope. I\u2019ve toned it\u00a0down a little bit. I can still do it if I want to, but I save it now for the\u00a0big moments. I\u2019ve\u00a0just learned to pick my moments. I guess that\u2019s the thing\u00a0I\u2019ve learned most in Japan,&#8221; Ospreay told the Tag Rope.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3871223768\"><div id=\"pwtor-727954992\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By PWTorch Staff (Sean Radican &amp; James Caldwell) It&#8217;s been an interesting year for international star Will Ospreay, who started the year with a contract offer from TNA, signed an exclusive deal with New Japan, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/23\/will-ospreays-wrestling-status-going-forward-new-japan-deal-roh-vs-evolve-scaling-back-2017-plans\/\" title=\"Will Ospreay&#8217;s wrestling status going forward &#8211; New Japan deal, ROH vs. EVOLVE, scaling back &#038; 2017 plans\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,6,3,244],"tags":[488],"class_list":["post-30171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indies-news","category-news_japan","category-news_wwe","category-wwnlive-news","tag-will-ospreay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/05\/OspreayRicochet.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30176,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions\/30176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}