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Pro wrestling prima Austin Aries made a astonishment instrumentality to Major League Wrestling (MLW) past period arsenic helium enactment a headset connected and called Battle Riot VII alternatively of performing successful the ring.
Aries, whose existent sanction is Daniel Healy, has been successful respective antithetic promotions passim his career, including WWE, TNA, DEFY and others. He was astatine MLW from 2018 to 2019.
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Austin Aries talked to Fox News Digital astir his caller commentary endeavor. (MLW)
Though battling an illness, Aries hopped connected the mic with Joe Dombrowski to telephone the event.
"It feels good," Aries said of his instrumentality to MLW. "Just benignant of readjusting. I hadn’t been astatine MLW for a fig of years, worked with them a fewer times implicit my career, ne'er thing sustained. It’s conscionable been breathtaking to ticker the maturation of the company, the momentum they’ve been gathering and a batch of the names they’ve been bringing in.
"And truthful erstwhile the accidental presented itself for maine to get backmost into the fold and to bash it down the commentary desk, it was decidedly thing I wanted to instrumentality them up on."
Aries had erstwhile acquisition astatine the announcer’s table.
He called matches for WWE NXT’s Roadblock: End of the Line premium unrecorded lawsuit with Michael Cole and Corey Graves successful December 2016 arsenic good arsenic immoderate of their play programming.

Austin Aries concisely wrestled for MLW. (MLW)
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He told Fox News Digital helium derived his inspiration from legendary commentators and managers Bobby Heenan and Jesse Ventura.
"I’m trying to beryllium the mentation of myself, but those guys decidedly power my benignant arsenic acold arsenic a bottommost commentator that’s going to adhd a small spot much of a slant," helium said. "I deliberation the different happening I enjoyed astir those guys, and I deliberation arsenic a colour commentator, is erstwhile you tin bring the position of really being successful the ringing having competed. It’s a full position that you tin springiness the views that a commentator who hasn’t been successful the ringing can’t offer."
Aries has been a decorated champion successful the ring.
He was a three-time TNA satellite heavyweight champion, a six-time TNA X-Division champion, a two-time Ring of Honor satellite champion, and helium was ranked No. 12 connected Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Top 500 wrestlers database successful 2013.
Now 47 years old, Aries said the relation to modulation to a commentator was the close move. It doesn’t needfully mean he’s finished successful the ringing conscionable yet.
"I had an accidental to bash commentary erstwhile I was with WWE. It was thing that opened up aft I got injured, and I truly enjoyed it and I felt comfy doing it. And truthful it was thing that – astatine the backmost of my mind, I thought possibly down the road, arsenic I started to dilatory down my in-ring vocation – would possibly beryllium an accidental I’d similar to pursue.
"MLW approached maine and asked maine if it was thing I was funny successful doing. So I felt, you know, I’m 47, I bash inactive wrestle. I conscionable benignant of prime my spots carefully. There’s thing saying that down the roadworthy I mightiness not measurement successful the ringing with MLW. But for now, it’s a large mode to get myself backmost into the fold with the company. The accidental was to beryllium a colour commentator, truthful I’m going to instrumentality that relation and bash my champion with it, and we’ll spot what happens from there."
Aries is acceptable to beryllium connected the telephone for MLW’s adjacent event, Azteca Lucha, connected May 10 successful Chicago.
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Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder exertion for Fox News Digital.