10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Ricochet
10. His Match With Will Ospreay Broke The Internet
It's hard to produce a match that shocks fans these days, and perhaps even harder to produce, well, anything that shocks the internet, a place where full-throttle nudity is never more than a few clicks away.
But Ricochet managed both a couple of years ago when he stepped in the ring with fellow indie high-flyer Will Ospreay, who teamed up to put on one of the most thrilling, action-packed 20-plus-minutes of wrestling you're ever likely to see.
More than that, it also became the focal point of a heated generational debate about the direction in which the industry is headed. Is it really a good thing that kayfabe, thanks to heavily choreographed matches such as these, is slowly being eroded?
In the opinion of tough, hard-nosed veterans like Vader - who took to Twitter to decry what he referred to as "acrobatics" without a story - the answer is no. Everyone else, however, was pretty enthused, including Stone Cold Steve Austin, another no-nonsense old-timer, who waxed lyrical about it on his podcast.