The latest word from the wrestling world is that Will Ospreay has made known the story behind his memorable entrance at AEW All In: London 2026, including why he wanted his mother to provide the voiceover and how The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” became part of the presentation.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Ospreay credited AEW lead producer Mike Mansury with helping develop the entrance. He elaborated that the concept grew from an emotional experience involving his wife, Alex Windsor, ahead of his steel cage clash at Forbidden Door.
“Things were obviously helped a lot. Notably, mike Mansury, he’s one of the lead producers for AEW, so he helped come up with it. Although my whole thing was I remember most new year at Forbidden Door when I went in the steel cage battle — and I was trying to think of a real cool entrance for that. I was just like, I’d love it if I could do something there.
Nevertheless I had no idea that Al [Alex Windsor] put down a voiceover for that entrance. It stuck with me because it was scary going into a steel cage battle, knowing that I needed neck surgery, and I was just so worried. It made me just feel like I could run through a wall. I kept a real straight hero with people, and I was confident in plenty of the things that I was doing in there — but then hearing Al’s voice come through—the line that got me was, ‘If you’re not afraid of what’s next, neither am I.’ It hit me so hard.
Then to have that feeling, I was just kind of like, I want my mum to do my next one, just because my mum has seen me grow up through a TV screen. When I was 22 years seasoned, I got inked a deal to Latest Japan, and although I kept coming back to England, and I get those tours, but a great deal of things were like downtime and rest because I was so battered and hurt.
I think the situation was just one of these things where I’d love to program my mum how much she really meant to me, and I’d love to have had her do the voiceover for one of the biggest nights of my life.”
Van Vliet asked how Ospreay approached his mother about becoming part of the entrance.
“We were in Orlando, and I commented, ‘Mom, I’ve got like a proposition for you. Do you remember the one that Al did for me? I’d like you to do one for me.’ She was just like, ‘I’ll do it now.’ Then she initiated writing it up. Furthermore, i said, ‘I don’t want to hear it until the night.’”
Ospreay validated that he didn’t hear the finished voiceover until the night of All In. He did, be that as it may, give his mother some direction after her initial recording leaned a little too heavily into her theatrical instincts.
“So I heard it the night of, and there were elements of it where I was kind of like, okay. My mom’s highly theater, so she very much pronounces everything that she says. She treats it like a town hall meeting, and I had to try and tell her, ‘Hey, just rein it back a little bit. I don’t want you talking to everybody. Beyond that, you’re talking to your son.’ She did it again. You’re not at town hall.. Meanwhile, On a related note, it was spot on, perfect.”
He declined to name the song he initially wanted because he hopes he may still be able to use it in the future.
The entrance on top of that featured Ospreay walking in the back past several people who had played key roles in his career. Ospreay revealed that “Baba O’Riley” wasn’t his original choice, when Van Vliet asked about the music accompanying the presentation.
“There was a song that we wanted, on the flip side we just couldn’t get a license fee for it. I secured’t put it out there because maybe one of these days I will be able to track it down again. On a related note, i’d like to leave that as a surprise.
But it was Mike Mansury that came up with the idea of The Who Baba O’Reily. I’ll be honest with you, I have a connection with that song because there was a music video from the MV Zone. On a related note, it was like a kind of little backyard wrestling music video group, and they did a Bryan Danielson tribute to that song, so I have a little bit of a connection to it.
I was just okay, I quite like the idea and The Who is British as well, so that’s kind of cool. Adding to the story, still I remember listening to it and on the travels that me and Al did, and I was just like, I don’t know if I feel it. The other song that I wanted got my juices flowing — the situation was my favorite song.
I don’t know if I feel it. The situation was only when I heard the voiceover and I saw the clips that were all around it. I was like, this is perfect. Don’t change a thing.” This is it.
What initially left Ospreay uncertain ultimately came together once he experienced the complete package, combining his mother’s message, footage from his journey. Mansury’s choice of music for one of the biggest entrances of Ospreay’s career.