00:00Three, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
00:13Mauro Ranallo, and this is AEW's maestro of malice, Winnipeg, Manitoba's Dawn Palace.
00:26Tell your friends, tell everyone you know on TSN, daddy's back.
00:38The hardest part about carrying a championship that means so much is that I get to be the one with
00:47a target on my back.
00:49And you see, that's where I thrive.
00:50I'm the most dangerous when I know everybody's after me.
00:55And as long as I'm carrying the Maple Leaf Canadian Championship on my shoulder, I will never run out of
01:02the good for it.
01:03What I want fans to see when they see the Maple Leaf Canadian Championship is I want them to understand
01:09and live wrestling with us.
01:12This is going to carry honor.
01:15This is going to be the symbol of excellence.
01:18Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling will be the Canadian wrestling company that we have been waiting for for so long.
01:24And this championship will be its heart and soul.
01:27This is what it means to be a Maple Leaf Canadian Champion.
01:36Representing Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling feels heavy.
01:39Mostly being champion while we enter the world of television.
01:44Because I feel like there is a lot of pressure on me.
01:46I must be a symbol of excellence for the company.
01:50I must lead this company into a bright future.
01:53Representing Maple Leaf comes with a lot of weight because Canadian Pro Wrestling can't afford to mess this up.
02:02Wrestling Jonathan Gresham tonight was a heck of a challenge.
02:06He is one of the best technical wrestlers in the world.
02:10For him, any of my limbs is a tool to use against me.
02:15And I've barely ever in my career been in the ring with people like that.
02:20Training for a guy as good as him, it's almost impossible.
02:23So I had to just go out there and go in instinct.
02:27It's the fighting spirit that needed to take control.
02:30I needed to find a way to take down Gresham.
02:32And I honestly believe that the only way I could take him out was by outlasting him.
02:37Because that's what I do.
02:39I dish out punishment.
02:41But hell, I can take far more than anyone else.
02:43I went from being a man holding no gold at all to then representing Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling as the
02:51Maple Leaf Canadian Champion.
02:53Which means that now, I feel like I have to outdo myself every single night.
03:00Under pressure, with my back against the wall, that's where I thrive.
03:05Northern Rising feels like it's another opportunity for me to prove who I am, what I am,
03:12and what I'm capable of.
03:14Which means every single time I am given a challenge to step inside the ring, I see it as a
03:20reward.
03:22Well, during the MLP Mayhem debut, I gotta say that we saw so many stars' stock rise.
03:28But I must say that it starts and ends with the championships.
03:32And Stu Grayson and Giselle Shaw continue to maintain their hold on their respective gold,
03:38proudly representing Canada, proudly representing Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling's DNA.
03:53I think what bothers me more is him holding the championship because I've already beat Stu Grayson.
03:59So, I should have just been handed the championship.
04:02I don't know why I was put in a gambler, and I don't know why I'm not the champion,
04:06and I don't know why I'm not the face of the company.
04:09Because it doesn't make sense for it not to be me, because I'm the pinnacle, and I'm the standard bearer.
04:18I don't need to hope that they're going to remember me.
04:20I beat down Stu.
04:21I made a statement without even stepping foot in the ring.
04:25So, they're not going to remember Stu.
04:26They're not going to remember he retained the title.
04:28They're not going to remember anyone else on the show besides me.
