Professional wrestling legend Dean Malenko who is often regarded as the Man of Thousand Holds recently expressed his desire to wrestle AJ Styles and also praised the former NWA World Women’s Champion Serena Deeb. He also talked about some of the ideas that he pitched.
Dean Malenko is often regarded as one of the best technical wrestlers in the history of professional wrestling. But it is so unfortunate that the new generation of professional wrestling fans are not even aware of who he is.
Dean Malenko Praises AJ Styles And Serena Deeb
It is definitely a huge fault of the world of professional wrestling that such an amazing and charismatic wrestler never got the respect he deserved. No professional wrestling promotion ever give him the actual respect he deserved.
He is mostly remembered for his role in the cruiserweight division of the WCW. After he switched to WWE in the late 90s he was still seen a light heavyweight division wrestler only. Which is a shame, he was a main event standard wrestler who never ever got to wrestle in the main event standard in any professional wrestling industry.
There are a lot of moves that was actually discovered by Dean Malenko. He is often regarded as the man of thousand Holds because of his excellent moveset. Recently he joined the 80s Wrestling for a virtual Q&A where he phrase the Ranadeep and also said he would love to wrestle AJ Styles. He said;
“This little guy Rey Mysterio. Nah, [I’m joking]. I’m a big fan of AJ Styles. I love AJ’s work. I’d love to have a match with him.
“Serena Deeb. Actually, she just took over my moniker. She’s now Woman of 1,000 Holds. She’s very good, very talented.
“I actually pitched an idea years ago that I had Alzheimer’s and I kept forgetting my holds. I’m like Man of 1,000, Man of 618, Man of 320 and I got down to like one hold and I couldn’t remember it and I lost the match and my career was over.”
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