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Chaos Project regularly competes in AEW programming, but occasional viewers may not be familiar with Luther and Serpentico. The duo recently appeared on AEW Unrestricted and looked back on their careers in professional wrestling.
In a climax, Serpentico explained why his first AEW match should have been his last contest in the ring. It was ready to withdraw and explore other avenues due to the financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“[My AEW debut] it was right before, in fact right after, that match was right after the whole reservation stopped, “Serpentico said.” Everything stopped. The Indians are closing. Because I’m local, I had at least 10-15 reservations at [WrestleMania] week alone and one by one, they kept calling and saying, “Sorry, sorry, sorry.” Well, I’m fine, that’s my rent. Because at that time, I was actually living from independent struggles and I’m very proud of that. But at the same time, because I lived from independent struggles, once it stopped, which no one thought would happen, now I don’t know how to pay rent.
“What will I do? I have some savings, but eventually it will disappear. And I knew QT [Marshall] for such a long time, we trained together at Bubba and D-Von School in Florida. So he reached out to me and said, “Hey, I know it hurts for reservations and stuff, and this might not lead to anything, I can’t promise anything, but it shows up, you want to fight me , that would be cool. ‘
“And I personally thought that, okay, that would be a nice way to go out, right? Fight one of my friends, fight Dustin [Rhodes] and then both. He’s leaving at sunset because I didn’t expect anything to come from him. ”
Serpentico then described how, despite this mentality before the match, Marshall and AEW brought him back, so he managed to continue his fighter career.
“They kept calling me back and I told QT that Monday after that, that was it, my intention was [for] that should be my last match “, said Serpentico. “I want to go out, because I didn’t think, I’m very thoughtful and I didn’t think I could start my career after a global pandemic, as far as I was … [the business] will start again. But, like, you’re not going to make a living, so this was my last game. And he kept calling me, calling me back and here I am now. ”
Later in the podcast, Luther recalled how much fun he had by crashing Brodie Lee Jr.’s birthday party earlier this year on AEW Dynamite. But he did not look fondly at the painful impact of the meal when he got a face full of cake.
“[Crashing the party is] 100% the only thing I would do again without thinking “, said Luther. “I want the anger I received online because I ruined his birthday party every day. It’s like a drug.
“[But] that table did not falter. It’s like I landed on the cement. I went down so hard and it didn’t even come [move] little bit. Not even a little one [bit.] I hit and I was like oh … ”
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The full episode is available here: