Global Force Wrestling star Sonjay Dutt recently appeared on The Rack Radio Show with hosts Lindsey Ward and Sir Rockin. The show can be heard Live Thursday Nights at 10pm ET via www.rackradioshow.com, and you can listen to the entire Dutt interview at this link. Below are some interview highlights.
Former TNA and current Global Force Wrestling Superstar Sonjay Dutt joined “Multi-time Award Winning” the Rack Thursday Night. In a nearly 15 minute interview, he discussed his involvement with Global Force Wrestling and what it’s like to get in on the ground floor, how the Grand Slam events recently held are different than traditional arena style events, what it would be like to become the first ever GFW NEX*GEN Champion, his reaction to seeing Jeff and Karen Jarrett back on TNA television publicizing GFW, whom he’d like to see added to the GFW roster and who he’d like to face, his thoughts on best friend Jay Lethal winning the ROH Heavyweight Title, his favorite moment of his career so far, who he possibly sees becoming the first ever GFW Global Heavyweight Champion and and much more.
If he’s excited to take part in the launch of Global Force Wrestling and being a part of the NEX*GEN Championship Tournament:
“Yeah, absolutely. I’m just really excited to be a part of something new, on the ground floor and in the first stages of this brand new company. It’s very similar to back in 2003 when I started with TNA and it was about a year old, or barely a year old and Jeff Jarrett had just started a new company and I climbed on board and here we are in 2015 and we’re doing it all over again.”
If GFW Grand Slam events are different than traditional indoors events and how so:
“You know, being outside and outdoors is a completely different monster; you’ve got a lot of the elements to deal with and you’re just not sure of the weather and constraints so it’s just hard being outside. Noise travels all over the place but it’s a really cool atmosphere and a really fun time. We’re trying to be the most fan interactive group that you can possible go to a show for; we’ve got the fan meet-and-greets at 5:30, before bell time for about an hour, talent is very easily accessible; no one is hiding out and everyone is mingling with the fans. It’s just very cool to get up with the fans that I might not normally be able to at other shows.”
If he took anything from his early days with TNA to use as examples here or is he just taking it as it comes:
“I think the presentation of the product is a little different, I guess very different, so you can’t really predict how things are going to go but I do know that we’ve got an awesome roster and I think the one thing that separates us for every other wrestling promotion is talent and we’ve got a loaded line-up next Friday at our first TV tapings; our Grand Slam events had loaded line-ups as well. We’re not just looking for the world-wide international stars but we’re looking for the regional stars and the diamonds in the rough, the ones the fans might not know about that need that stage to shine.”
What would it be like to be the first NEX*GEN Championship for GFW:
“It would be amazing. It would be awesome; being a part of something brand new and being crowned the first ever. The first ever anything is kinda cool but especially in this environment where it’s the kind of wrestling I excel at and honed over the years and perfected, that kind of adds to it.
I think all that stuff is going to come to life not just next Friday, but as the days and weeks go by. The NEX*GEN division is going to be very similar to the X-Division but we’re going to be focusing on the next generation of high-flyers, the next generation of hybrid wrestlers out there, basically taking every style here is out there in pro wrestling and meshing it together and there’s a lot of guys out there that have traveled the world, much like I have, and perfected your Lucha style, your Japanese style, your American style and bring them all together and get this one big, hybrid style of wrestling and we truly think that is the next generation of wrestling. Gone are the days of the slow, and I don’t want to say boring, but action-based pro wrestling is the future and action-based pro wrestling is the next generation.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
