Keith Lee and Dominik Dijakovic had a feud for the ages on the indies.
AEW star Keith Lee recently appeared on the AEW Unrestricted podcast and delved into his feud against Dominik Dijakovic (aka WWE’s T-Bar) that spanned over promotions such as Ring of Honor and PWG.
“I would say that I began branching out around 2015 with my little bit of time in Ring of Honor teaming with my boy Shane Taylor, that but of traction led to getting the attention of other promotions. There was a young lady that lives in Canada that does some writing and she’d talk me up to promotions that I was interested in and that led to a match in 2016 and I actually still have the poster for it, it was at Beyond Wrestling and I thought I was going to do some things that I don’t usually do in one match. We go in there and I’m leap-frogging and drop-kicking a 6-foot-7 man in the mouth and I think at some point I pressed him and turned it into a standing moonsault,” Lee explained, “just things I didn’t usually do because I don’t have to and it doesn’t make sense because I should be flattening people, but Dijakovic is a big fella and he hits hard.
“We had never spoken outside of ‘hey how ya doing, nice to see ya’ because I was in ROH and that was locker room etiquette but we had an instant bond. Instant. We had never spoken outside of that but we blew the roof off and the rest of the card was destroyed because we were the first match after the intermission and the energy was taken out for the last couple matches. So, with that chemistry and the praise that, that match got, it led to that match at PWG and it was a real fortune because the guy was already signed with WWE but I knew he wanted to work PWG, so I said ‘hey, let’s make a thing out of it and let’s make this your last hoorah on the indies before you do the thing’ and we went out there and had the craziest match that I’ve probably ever been in,” Lee said. “You look back on that now and it’s like, ‘Jesus Christ, we did way too much.’ But the crowd was in it for all 120 degrees in that building that it was and it was absolutely brutal but somehow, someway we pushed through and I still had two matches after that.”
Lee went on to call the series was something that will be forever special to him, noting that Dijakovic is a brilliant guy that he will always be a fan of.
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