A little Q and A
Posted by Jake Donovan on 29 Jul 2014
A brief interview with WrestleCoast Magazine.
Recently, Karl Brenner of WrestleCoast Magazine caught up with Jake Donovan at the airport while he was waiting to fly out to ComicCon. Donovan, wearing his green and aqua face paint, seemed excited to be taking part in the upcoming event and dropped hints that he just might be doing more than just signing autographs at the convention. During the wait, he was more than happy to answer a few questions.
Karl Brenner:
Jake, you’ve been very vocal lately about Curtis Penn and his Curtis Clutch challenge being a fraud. How does it feel to finally have an opportunity to prove that?
Jake Donovan:
It’s about time, really. Penn has been humiliating fans for weeks and running his mouth about how he is the best Southern Heritage Champion DEFIANCE has ever seen. It’s time that stops. No one else has been willing to come out from the back and say anything to him about the way he’s been treating people, and that’s fine, that’s on them, but I wasn’t going to stand for it. He wants to show off the Curtis Clutch, fine, then show it off on someone who can fight back, don’t be a bully and go out there and slap it on some teenager who doesn’t have a clue how to get out of it. That doesn’t make him a tough guy, all that makes him is an embarrassment to the entire sport. I don’t just plan to go out there and break the Curtis Clutch, I plan to go out there and break his spirit. Then maybe he understand how those people he humiliated felt.
Karl Brenner:
Have you considered what you will turn your focus towards once the match with Penn is over?
Jake Donovan:
No, I haven’t. I don’t like to look ahead like that, it feels too much like looking past my opponent and Penn is too good of a competitor to look past. That’s the kind of arrogance that can cost me a match. When the match is in the record books, then I’ll take some time to decide what’s next for me and what I want to pursue, though I am never adverse to the idea of teaming up with a few people somewhere down the line and trying out this whole trios thing.
Karl Brenner:
You recently lost a very close match to Sam Turner Jr. that saw you use a wide range of the fast paced, off the top rope techniques in your arsenal. Are you finding your style to be a detriment to you? Have you ever considered bulking up and going with a more ground based, hard hitting fighting style?
Jake Donovan:
If I changed my style every time I lost a match, it would be more random than my hair color. Seriously though, no, I don’t feel as if my style is detrimental to me, I wrestled a solid match, Sam just wrestled a slightly better one. It happens, it’s something that I can go back, watch and learn from so that the next time the results come out in my favor. I’m not anywhere near a point in my career where I would be willing to sit down and say that high flying isn’t working for me, or that the fast pace is costing me victories because it isn’t. There were moments in that match when I had the upper hand, when I could tell that I’d stunned him and I went for broke to try to end it and it just didn’t pay off.
One thing that makes the wrestling community so amazing is that we are all individuals. If everybody needed to be six foot six and two hundred and eighty pounds in order to succeed than wrestling would get really boring, really fast. There are a wide variety of fans who come to watch our shows and those fans expect variety, they expect to see guys like me out there mixing it up with monsters, hell it gives them something to cheer for, so why would I ever consider taking that away from them.
-WrestleCoast magazine would like to thank Jake for taking the time to answer our questions, showing what a class act this young talent truly is.
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