At AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025, the Death Riders brutally attacked Will Ospreay at the top of the show, causing him to miss six months of motion as he badly injured neck needed treating. Fast forward to the 2026 Forbidden Door event, and the Death Riders were cheering a completely recovered Ospreay on as he defeated Swerve Strickland to win the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament.
Ospreay joining forces with the Death Riders since April 2026 has been something that has not only intrigued AEW fans around the globe, but has confused them just as much. Nonetheless, when he was asked about why he accepted Jon Moxley’s help during a recent interview on “107.7 The Bone,” Ospreay explained that it was simply a case of the Death Riders offering him a probability when nobody else would.
“Who got here to avoid wasting me? Like Swerve weren’t there, none of my mates backstage were there, not one of the United Empire were there. They got here to assist, I had a possibility to take back what was mine, like I had Jon Moxley on the bottom, I could have put that chair around his neck and I could have done the identical thing that he did to me. Or I can accept that I want help, they usually’re offering to show me into something greater than just a professional wrestling, to show me right into a weapon.”
Ospreay went on to clarify that prior to now, he hesitated when it got here to delivering the vital blow, or within the case of Ospreay, the Tiger Driver ’91. Nonetheless, that hesitation not exists because of the Moxley and the Death Riders, and while he hasn’t forgiven Moxley for injuring him in 2025, he compares his situation to Batman learning the League of Shadows from Ra’s al Ghul.
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