Cage has been with AEW for three years.
The 100th episode of AEW Rampage is airing tonight on TNT and as a part of the Blind Eliminator tag team tournament, Brian Cage is tagging with Big Bill to face Matt Sydal and Trent Beretta.
Ahead of the match airing, Cage joined David LaGreca and Thunder Rosa on Busted Open Radio and as the conversation rolled on, Cage was asked if he feels underappreciated in general. He said in certain regards, he does and when it comes to AEW, he gets the feeling that the core audience hates on him ‘a little bit’.
LaGreca listed Cage’s attributes and strong points and Cage feels a lot of those ‘scream WWE’ so he thinks the core AEW audience feel like he’s playing on the wrong team.
In certain regards, yes (I do feel underappreciated in wrestling) but also, I feel like with especially our core audience at AEW, I feel like they almost hate on me a little bit because of all of those attributes you just said about me. I almost feel like that screams WWE, right? So I almost feel in some regards, people are always anti-me, like, ugh, he doesn’t belong here, he’s too jacked, he does this, which are all positives in my book but I almost feel like they feel I’m on the wrong team and you know, I can toot my own horn and be like, okay, well maybe that’s just because they can’t be me and they’d rather attach onto a Darby Allin or something who they could live more vicariously through as opposed to someone like me so…
Cage is a member of Mogul Embassy with Swerve Strickland, Kaun, Prince Nana and Toa Liona. The trio of Cage, Kaun and Liona are ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions. Brian expressed that he’s enjoying working with Nana and he adds value to the overall on-screen presentation.
He went on to share that comradery amongst the group members has naturally developed off-screen.
(Prince) Nana’s great, Nana’s great. I love the guy, he’s phenomenal and you know what too? I actually was just watching a match with Nana with Melissa (Santos) actually as well who does brighten the room and steal the camera. But she even said, ‘Man, Nana’s really good at what he does’ which is really special because in this day and age, being just a manager is a lost art and it’s not really necessarily needed or anyone who’s a valet or a manager, whatever is usually a wrestler themselves and I know Nana was a wrestler but I feel Nana does bring something to the table that is needed, that is appreciated, that does add value. He’s not just another person out there just to be out there, you know what I mean? And yeah, he’s a great dude, I enjoy him tremendously and even that whole Embassy and Mogul Embassy faction as well, there’s definitely more of an actual legit comradery amongst us as well that just kind of naturally formed. We’re at catering together or go to the gym together. Maybe Nana doesn’t go to the gym but (Cage laughed)… he holds us down. He holds our table down for us to join him later.
Ring of Honor’s next pay-per-view is Death Before Dishonor on July 21st and the headlining bout is Claudio Castagnoli defending the ROH World Championship against Mark Briscoe.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Busted Open Radio with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
