Jack Gallagher On Expecting Fans To Boo Him At WWE CWC, Preference On Playing The Good Or Bad Guy
Jack Gallagher spoke with Ring Rust Radio on a number of wrestling topics. You can hear the full interview in the video above. Here are some of the highlights:
Thinking he would get booed out of the building at the CWC:
"I was first approached by William Regal who had sent me an email saying that there was something, nothing specific, but something coming up and that my style in particular and the way I carry myself probably best translated in a live environment, compared to sort of seeing me work out in the ring and go through drills and the usual try-out stuff. So, he had been helping me in that manner. I was overwhelmed because wrestling in the Classic was the first time I had ever competed in America at all, so I actually had no idea how Americans would take to me. Typically speaking and historically speaking, the English are put as the villains in your films over here, so I thought a very typical English person would get booed out of the building."
Preference on playing the good or bad guy:
"I've always preferred being a good guy, but I think a lot of that has stemmed from being a smaller competitor. There's a certain amount of menace that is difficult when you're being villainous. I think every good and interesting bad guy in fictional history has had a certain amount of menace and danger to him. In terms of overcoming that physically that's kind of difficult for me since I'm a smaller guy. I tend to default to things like Hannibal Lecter and people like that for influences; kind of an intellectual sort of scary people. It was a strange trait and change I thought myself. I was enjoying what I was doing but then again, I thought this was something no one is going to see coming so it'll probably work when I did a little bit of a switch."
WWE's influence on the British wrestling scene:
"I think it's mostly positive because trying to think for worse, how it is negatively affected, I'm not sure about the worst because I'm out of the scene. I think from looking outside of the scene now, it seems like it goes from strength to strength. A lot of people here who have been forced to pursue this part-time can now do this full-time. It has more exposure, more potential for travel which means more potential for earnings, so people can earn a better wage, and also it's a glass ceiling that has been broken. It's a path people can travel now. When I was beginning to train, I was thinking there were guys like Doug Williams who were phenomenal performers, but they still weren't in WWE. Doug is a big stocky guy and whatnot and skinny little five-foot-eight me didn't even have the dream or thought that I could make it to WWE. I thought at best I can make it to Japan and work there. Now you got guys like me, guys like Noam Dar, obviously Zack Sabre Jr. who competed in the classic, Pete Dunne the UK champion, Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, more than a handful of guys that have proven that there is a path from the training school to the top of the business and that's the main takeaway I think."
Again, you can hear the full interview in the video above.