Chris Hero made his return to the ring against Timothy Thatcher at West Coast Pro Whiplash, and he spoke about choosing Thatcher for the match in a new interview. Hero spoke with AEW Unrestricted about facing off with Thatcher at the November 17th show and why he wanted to battle the WWE alumnus in his first match back. You can check out some highlights below, per Fightful:
On returning against Thatcher: “He is just a tough, physical man. He has that catch wrestler thing about him, that Billy Robinson [style]. He’s so strong and physical, and his technique is exceptional. I just thought it would be a great test for me to go up against somebody that I’m familiar with, but at the same time, I know he’s not going to take it easy on me. It felt like the perfect situation for me, somebody that I have history with, somebody that can get people interested in us having another match.”
On the promotion done for the bout: Also, the work that other people put in to promote the match. Joseph Monticello made a nice rivalry video, a video essay. IQ Wrestler put together this kick ass music video just flashing through our seven matches that we had had prior. A lot of people wrote pieces, I did a bunch of interviews, and he’s somebody that I had history with and that I knew I wanted to wrestle again. That show that I announced myself as matchmaker, he wrestled Speedball Mike Bailey. Those are two guys that are uniquely them. What they bring to the table, if you want what they have, you can only get it from them. You can get people that have similarities, but they’re just so iconically themselves.”
