Will Ospreay has pulled off plenty of moves that look like they should come with a hospital bed waiting backstage—but one steel cage stunt left Alex Windsor hoping an AEW official would save him from himself.
Windsor told SHAK Wrestling that Ospreay’s Spanish Fly with Kyle Fletcher from the top of the cage was the one idea she desperately wanted somebody backstage to shut down. The second Ospreay told her what they had planned, Windsor had the same reaction as just about anyone with common sense: Who the hell would willingly do that?
“I don’t think there’s anything I’ve talked him down from. I think the thing I was most hoping someone else would talk him down from was when he had the cage match with Kyle and they did the Spanish Fly off the top of it. I remember him telling me, and as soon as he told me, I remember thinking, ‘There’s no way. Who in their right mind would want to do that?’”
Then Windsor heard something that gave her hope. Christopher Daniels had questioned whether Ospreay and Fletcher could physically pull off the move, and she thought an AEW agent raising concerns might finally be enough to kill the idea.
“He even told me beforehand, because I didn’t go to that show with him. I remember him telling me that I think it was Christopher Daniels who had said, ‘I don’t know if you’ll be able to physically do that.’ It’s one thing for me to tell him because, of course, I’m going to say that. I’m his partner. I’m always on the side of caution. But when you have agents at the show telling you, ‘I don’t know if that’s a good idea,’ I was thinking, ‘Okay, maybe they won’t do it.’”
Ospreay never told her whether the stunt had been scrapped. Windsor stayed up to watch the match with her friends—and the second Ospreay and Fletcher started climbing into position, she knew exactly what was coming.
“He didn’t tell me whether he was actually going to do it. I think I was at my friend’s house at the time, and we all stayed up and watched it together. I saw the setup and I was thinking, ‘They’re going to do it, aren’t they?’ It was one of those things where I didn’t want to look, but I had to look to make sure they both landed safely.”
They went for it anyway. Ospreay and Fletcher launched themselves from the cage, somehow pulled it off and walked away from a move that could have gone horribly wrong. Windsor has learned one thing from being with Ospreay: Trying to talk him out of these ideas is a losing battle.
“Of course, they pulled it off. It’s one of those things where you’re just like, ‘If there was anyone who was going to do it, of course.’ But in terms of talking him down from things, I’ve never been successful with it. I’ve learned not to.”
The Spanish Fly became one of the craziest moments of the match, but Windsor’s story reveals what was happening away from the cameras. While Ospreay was preparing to risk his neck, the person closest to him was hoping somebody at AEW would step in before it was too late.
Should AEW officials have stopped Ospreay and Fletcher from attempting the Spanish Fly from the top of the cage, or was the risk worth the payoff? Drop your thoughts in the comments.
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