If WWE had its way, the match between Damian Priest and Bad Bunny at Backlash would have been very different.
WWE Superstar Damian Priest was a recent guest on Delivering Happiness. While reflecting on his match against Bad Bunny at Backlash 2023, Priest revealed that the company initially wanted it to be a tag match due to safety concerns and Priest’s spot on the roster at the time.
“Then, it was like, ‘what if we do some type of tag match…'” Damian Priest said. “A lot of it had to do with me because I hadn’t proven myself in that sense yet. But, also with anybody, just in general, it’s just safer to add in more people. We’ve done that before; I’d teamed with Bad Bunny at a different WrestleMania, so to them it’s just safer.
“But, he was adamant that it had to be one-on-one on the island, and that I was adamant about it. But I had a lot less pull than he did, especially at that time. I really wanted it to happen there too, because I knew culturally and locally would help the economy on the island, and what it meant for Hispanics and Latinos just in general.
“Here we are, and they finally said, ‘yes, we’ll do a singles match,’ and I was flying to LA every week to train him, and help him out, and lock it in for this match. So when that day came, I knew that this was more important than just about anything I was ever going to do.” [H/T: WrestlingNews.co]
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