Since making his official singles debut in AEW all the way back in June of 2022, securing a win over Dax Harwood at Road Rager, Will Ospreay has never lost a match for Tony Khan's company, earning a perfect 12-0 record against many elite talents like Kenny Omega, Bryan Danielson, and Chris Jericho along the way.

And yet, at Double or Nothing, Ospreay wasn't working a singles match, not really anyway, as any time Roderick Strong gets into the ring, you just know the other members of the Undisputed Kingdom, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, and Wardlow, will be following close behind.

Taking the ring in the opening match of the Las Vegas Pay-Per-View in front of a white-hot crowd, Ospreay rapidly found himself challenging more than just the “Messiah of the Backbreaker” in the pursuit of the AEW International Championship, a challenge that even the best professional wrestling in the world today – which Ospreay very much is – may find too difficult to overcome. Still, Ospreay persisted, and like a game of wack-a-mole, whenever a member of the Undisputed Kingdom member popped up, Ospreay beat him down, at least until Wardlow locked him up from behind in what looked like an easy out to keep Strong in the championship picture.

Fortunately, Ospreay worked his way out of it, and after the rest of the faction was ejected from ringside, the “Aerial Assassin” worked over on the champion, leaving him iced out in the middle of the ring with a particularly stiff Oscutter that required medical to check on his health. Downtrodden that he may have injured another foe, Don Callis rushed to ringside to talk to his ward, asking Ospreay to finish his foe with the Tiger Driver 91, the move he retired at Dynasty. Would Ospreay risk-taking Strong out for good with such a dangerous maneuver just to become a champion? Well, he almost did, but he decided against it, a move that almost led to Strong retaining his belt, but in the end, nothing can cool off Ospreay's hot streak, as the “Billy Goat” hit the combination Hidden Blade-Storm Breaker for the 1-2-3 and officially became the International Champion in his first reign with AEW gold.

Will this decision keep Ospreay satisfied for the time being? Or will he still throw his name into the Owen tournament in pursuit of winning the AEW World Championship in front of his home crowd in England? Needless to say, this is only going to get more interesting, not less, as in professional wrestling, no one is hotter than the “Commonwealth Kingpin.”

Will Ospreay reveals how he became one of the best in the world.

Sitting down for an interview with The Mark Hoke Show before AEW Double or Nothing, Will Ospreay was asked how he became one of the best professional wrestlers in the world today, to which the new International Champion revealed that, in his opinion, it all comes down to one thing above all else: humility.

“I mean, look, it's about humility, most of all. It's about realizing that you're not good at everything. And the way that you're going to get better at this is by throwing yourself into the deep end, man. That's what I did when I went to Japan,” Will Ospreay explained via Fightful. “I was 22 years old, boss. 22 years old. I didn't know a lick of Japanese at all. I could barely speak English, mate. I could barely speak English as it is now. So, for me, it was all about just applying myself and learning from all of my peers over in Japan. And, man, listen, I don't say it often, I do feel like right now I'm the best in the world at what I do, and I'm doing my very best to just live up to everybody's expectations. But, like, a lot of this is all about humility, and a lot of it is about saying, like, I don't think I'm the best all the time, but as long as I'm giving everything that I've got, I believe in that ring. Right now, bell to bell, no one's doing better than me.”

In professional wrestling, like in all things in life, no one ever knows it all. In the pursuit of greatness, one has to keep grinding, keep working on what they can do, and remain firmly aware that there is always more to learn. If that's the pathway Ospreay followed to get where he is today, then maybe others should follow in those footsteps too.