After eight years in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Will Ospreay signed up with AEW earlier this year, quickly becoming a top star in the company. On Sunday, during AEW’s flagship All In pay-per-view, Ospreay captured the International Championship, but also debuted brand-new gear and entrance as a tie-in for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Shadows game.
Ubisoft made Ospreay an official ambassador for the game, even having Roger Craig Smith reprise his role as Ezio Auditore da Firenze, narrating Ospreay’s own story as part of his entrance for his match. The wrestler’s infatuation with the series is well known to fans, with Ospreay donning the top hat and hidden blade of Jacob Frye this past January at New Japan’s Wrestle Kingdom event. Ospreay explained that working with Ubisoft in an official capacity was a dream come true as he’s been made an ambassador for the game.
“I’ve got an amazing team. One of my guys, [media coordinator] Farbod [Esnaashari] put me in contact with Ubisoft at the beginning of the year with Wrestle Kingdom in New Japan to do the Jacob Frye entrance,” Ospreay told GameSpot. “This year they were so stoked with how that went down, right? They were as happy as Larry and it just culminated to be like we’re doing Shadows, which is obviously based in Japan. With my story and my history in Japan, it was almost like I was the perfect candidate to promote this game coming out. So it was just a perfect combination and my team sorted this out and made it so easy to communicate with Ubisoft to be an amazing ambassador for Shadows to be released later this year.”
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