MLW star Donovan Dijak eyes world title at Battle Riot VII, sets high expectations for company's growth

Donovan Dijak volition beryllium 1 of the 40 men competing successful Battle Riot VII connected Saturday with the Major League Wrestling (MLW) World Heavyweight Championship connected the line.

It volition beryllium the 4th rumble-type lawsuit of Dijak’s career, having competed successful OTT Loco Rumble successful February, NEW Over The Top 2017 and DREAMWAVE Good arsenic Gold Rumble successful 2016. He told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation helium was adjacent much excited that Battle Riot had much stakes attached to it.

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Donovan Dijak astatine MLW Fightland (MLW)

"It’s ace exciting, particularly present that it’s for the MLW World Heavyweight Championship, which successful my eyes is the astir prestigious title successful each of nonrecreational wrestling. I can’t hold to get an accidental and capitalize connected obtaining that," helium said.

"Obviously, ever a large event. You ne'er rather cognize who’s going to travel out, but you cognize for definite that I’m going to beryllium there. So, erstwhile the particulate has settled, I deliberation I’m going to beryllium lasting holding that MLW World Championship, and I’m ace excited for that opportunity. I can’t hold to enactment the institution connected my back, close connected my shoulders, and transportation america done the full year.

Dijak made his debut successful August astatine Summer of the Beasts successful New York City and, since then, he’s made his beingness felt successful MLW.

He defeated Tom Lawlor astatine SuperFight 6 and topped KENTA astatine Kings of Colosseum but mislaid to Matt Riddle astatine Eric Bischoff’s One Shot successful December via disqualification.

Riddle is present successful the precarious presumption of having to support his rubric against 39 different men. For Dijak to win, "it would mean everything" to him.

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"I’m not a idiosyncratic who’s had a batch of championships to my name," helium told Fox News Digital. "I haven’t had a ton of championship-sort-of-accolades attached to me. I’ve been precise vocal successful the information that successful presumption of the expansive strategy of nonrecreational wrestling, there’s not truly anybody, not conscionable now, but beauteous overmuch ever, that has had the occurrence that I’ve had successful the nonrecreational wrestling manufacture without immoderate benignant of large title accolades to spell on with it.

Donovan Dijak looks astatine his adjacent move. (MLW)

"I astir person a constituent of pridefulness astatine this constituent due to the fact that it’s similar I presumption myself arsenic 1 of the – and not conscionable myself, but I deliberation astir radical would presumption maine arsenic 1 of the apical talents successful the satellite of nonrecreational wrestling. So, the information that I’m capable to bash that without the flagship of a large title attached truly speaks arsenic a testament to my ain sacrifice and dedication and hard enactment to the nonrecreational wrestling industry."

Dijak made wide that being with MLW for astir 8 months has been an "absolute pleasure."

"They springiness maine the clip and the absorption and the dedication that I reciprocate to them. So, it is precise overmuch a collaborative effort connected some sides of that, and I’m genuinely appreciative for that level of concern and that level of dedication, due to the fact that that’s what I emotion astir nonrecreational wrestling," helium said. "I emotion that nobody’s right, nobody’s wrong. We each enactment unneurotic to fig retired what we deliberation is the champion imaginable concern and presentation, and I emotion that we’re each connected the aforesaid leafage successful presumption of that. 

"I deliberation that the fans, ultimately, are the ones who get the payoff for that due to the fact that they get to acquisition the merchandise of truthful galore intelligent minds moving together."

MLW is 1 of the apical wrestling promotions successful the U.S. competing for clip and abstraction successful the industry’s scenery with the contention seemingly stiffening adjacent much implicit the past year.

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Dijak said MLW has been connected a "constant trajectory upward for a precise agelong time" and expects the inclination to spell adjacent higher implicit the adjacent fewer months.

"I’m the benignant of idiosyncratic who is ne'er satiated oregon satisfied with what’s presently happening," helium told Fox News Digital. "I’m ever looking 2 steps ahead, 3 steps ahead, 4 steps ahead. So I’m disquieted astir adjacent month, I’m disquieted astir six months from now, adjacent twelvemonth oregon 2 years. I’m ever looking guardant and reasoning astir however tin we amended and however tin increase, and that’s going to proceed to beryllium my goal.

Donovan Dijak has been with MLW for astir a year. (MLW)

"And I cognize that if I’m fixed the accidental to benignant of spearhead that and pb that charge, that’s going to make unprecedented maturation and opportunity."

MLW’s Battle Riot VII takes spot astatine Thunder Studios successful Long Beach, California, connected Saturday night. The lawsuit tin besides beryllium seen connected YouTube astatine 10 p.m. ET.

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Bishop Dyer, Anthony Greene, Jesus Rodriguez, Paul London, Paul Walter Hauser and Brett Ryan Gosselin are conscionable immoderate of the different participants.

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