At Ring of Honor Best in the World pay-per-view, Mike Bennett will get his shot at the Pure Championship when he challenges Jonathan Gresham.
Bennett has been making the media rounds to promote his match and Best in the World and one of the outlets he spoke to was ‘Metro’. Bennett was released from WWE in April of 2020 and has since gone on to sign with Ring of Honor and he works a select number of independent events. During his time in WWE, Bennett was almost paired with Bray Wyatt and was penciled in to portray one of the puppets that were a part of the Firefly Funhouse.
Bennett added that both he and Eric Young were going to be paired with Wyatt.
Early on when Bray Wyatt turned into The Fiend, Vince was always high on having Bray lead a group for some reason – he always wanted him to lead a group. We were about a week away from making it happen where me and Eric Young were gonna be part of Bray Wyatt’s group. We were gonna actually be – they were gonna bring to life the puppets. Each puppet was gonna represent an actual person. I don’t remember, there were talks that I was gonna be Sister Abigail and Eric Young was gonna be a buzzard.
It was one of those things where, ‘You guys will play these characters.’ He’s portraying them as the puppets [in the Firefly Fun House], but then they’ll come to life. I thought it was really cool, I was ready to sink my teeth into it. But then like most stuff there, right before it happens they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re not doing that anymore.’ You’re like, ‘Oh, oh OK cool. That would have been a really cool spot but I guess I’ll go sit in catering.’
Best in the World is being headlined by RUSH defending the ROH World Championship against Bandido. RUSH revealed during an interview with Sports Illustrated that he had knee surgery, but is now fully recovered.
POST Wrestling will have coverage of tonight’s ROH pay-per-view.
