Peter Avalon addresses taking bookings outside of AEW.
Appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Peter Avalon spoke about his character development and said that he initially had an idea to be called “Prince Peter Avalon” instead of going with his “Pretty” moniker.
“I wanted to be Prince Peter Avalon. I wanted to write myself as a Spaniard prince and put a little italic over one of them,” he explained. “It was a little idea I had for Hollywood that I never ran with.”
Avalon also had a Librarian gimmick during his tenure with AEW, and he credits Tony Khan for coming up with the concept.
“That is all Tony, it’s Tony Khan’s idea. I had Cody when he was there and it was when AEW was still an idea that people were talking about. I had a DM from him after working at Championship Wrestling. He DM’d me saying ‘Hey. Hold whatever date in May.’ It ended up being the first Double or Nothing. May 25th, hold that date. So I said OK. So at a Bar Wrestling show at The Bootleg we are downstairs and I think The Bucks came,” Avalon shared, “Chris Daniels maybe, Scorpio Sky was booked. And they all just started telling me this idea about The Librarian, and it was Tony’s idea.”
“After then explaining it to me and after Tony explained the idea, [they] thought that the only person that could get this over and play this well is Peter Avalon. I said, ‘oh thank you.’ So they explained the idea and they explained this and they filmed a bit for BTE and then it was kind of off to the races. They would still kind of describe what the character was going to be as time went on. So the idea that Tony wanted was that he wanted a librarian,” he noted. “It was a character that got heat by saying shush to everyone, I work at the library. And that was pretty much the gist of the idea.
“The Bucks wanted to do a take on it where I am Peter Avalon and I am going to take this dumb part because I want my foot in the company by any means necessary. So we are kind of acknowledging that this gimmick is dumb but I am going to do it because I want the job. We then kind of played it like that on BTE,” Avalon explained, “and ultimately I just kind of became a librarian and started to believe it. Then the team with Brandon happened and then the split happened.”
Avalon went on to share that Khan wanted the character to be in the same vein as Lanny Poffo/The Genius, but he didn’t want it to be a direct copy of the character. Avalon says that Jenn Sterger was also a great source of information for him to lean on as well, as she would help him with sports-related stats and information to use in each respective town AEW was in.
“Maybe I won’t do poetry, let me dive in and actually see what a librarian actually does. I know he is not someone who just reads books, a librarian just doesn’t read books, he is Google before Google. You go and talk to him and you can find out information or he can point you in the right direction. So that’s what I will do, I will spit facts, maybe I will find some sports facts and start reciting some facts. So that became my fame for a little bit as I come out and try to take the little jabs at the sports teams.
“I had Jenn Sterger there at the time, she was my clue into anything that was sports related. She knew her stuff man. I would be like ‘OK, where are we at? What team?’ And she was hammering off like current stuff like ‘This guy is this, this guy is injured…’ I’m like sh*t I don’t know any of this stuff. I don’t give a sh*t I am not an NFL or an NBA guy. So she helped me big time with those promos.”
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