Will Ospreay (professional wrestling royalty) • Friday Rewind

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!

This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Will Ospreay, originally episode 98 from 2016-05-17.

Original writeup below:

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You are cordially welcomed, and tripley so, as we tiptoe ever closer to the Distraction Pieces milestone, the centenary, the HUNDREDTH EPISODE... But enough about that - let's concentrate on episode 98 and be present in the moment shall we... It's Essex's wrestling superstar Mr Will Ospreay! Ever since Pip had a chance meeting outside a Progress Wrestling event at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and then witnessed Will rip it up, it's been a matter of time until the two got together in the podcast ring and got their verbal grapple on and talk pure wrestling goodness, which will be a joy to wrestling and non-wrestling fans alike... A great chat with a very grounded and humble professional, who has made it up the ladder and continues to ascend, all the while keeping himself down to earth while working a DIY job. Career, personal life, goals, lessons learned, Progress, New Japan, and pure positive energy right here - get in!!!

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0:00.0	In Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, this is distraction pieces rewind. We're delving in, it's
0:06.3	Friday, so we're delving into the decade-long back catalogue. And this week's guest is, from back in
0:12.6	2016, it's Will Osprey, who at the time was an indie wrestler. Like, I recorded this in the
0:19.3	back room at his mum's house in Rainham. Will was an indie wrestler. Like, I recorded this in the back room at his mum's house in Rainham.
0:22.8	Will was an indie wrestler, was going over to wrestling Japan a bit.
0:26.6	Will today is one of the biggest names in wrestling.
0:30.5	Has headlined Wembley or the O2, I can't remember with A.E.W.
0:35.2	Became an icon in New Japan.
0:37.4	It's just a huge, huge name. So I thought this would be a
0:40.7	fun one to revisit. Because Will, when this came out, was a young, young lad. This was back in,
0:46.4	like we're going back almost 10 years, possibly the first podcast appearance that Willers
0:51.6	had ever done. So yeah, let's have a listen and see what you think.
0:55.7	This is my chat with Will Osprey from 2016.
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