PCO: My Impact persona will be ‘greatest character in professional wrestling ever’

PCO has returned to action in Impact Wrestling and is heading to this month’s No Surrender in a four-way no. 1 contender’s match for a future World title shot.

It could begin a run that the Canadian feels could be the greatest character in professional wrestling ever.

Whether it’s in the ring or on social media, PCO has gotten fans accustomed to expect the unexpected. In past social media clips, he has been seen getting electrocuted with car batteries, lifting insane amount of weight while his arm is on a board of nails, smashing down nails with his palms, and much more.

It’s safe to say he is really living up to the tagline that “PCO is not human.” So what does he think is the craziest thing that he has ever done?

“In the ring, I took a power bomb over the rope to the floor, to the straight floor, with a little mat. That was pretty crazy because that was about a ten foot, 12-foot bump straight on the cement, straight on my head. That goes up there as one of the craziest things,” he said.

Additionally, he recalled getting thrown off a “pretty high” stage and landing on chairs in a match against Heath. He also shared thoughts on an incident that landed him in the hospital and getting 14 stitches.

“The craziest one was at Center Stage. I had an electrical malfunction where I kind of lose sight with the reality and I think there’s someone and I jump into space. I cleared all the mats, banged my head on the cement floor, and I had 14 stitches inside and outside my eyebrow. I spent the night in the hospital,” he recalled.

PCO said that when promotions try to prevent him from going too far with big bumps, he fights for those things really hard. He understands companies have protocols they need to follow, but that he feels like he’s not human. 

“Sometimes companies or Impact, they want to be safe. They’ll say, ‘Maybe it’s better if you don’t wrestle tomorrow.’ But I really fight those things really hard. I know it’s a question of health, and I know there’s protocol. But I just feel like I’m not human,” he said, adding that he really believes that he can “do something inhuman.”

One of those occasions he got pushback was in New Japan Pro Wrestling. 

“I remember doing a show with New Japan where I wanted to get power bombed on the floor. The officials at New Japan came up to me like maybe ten times, ‘No, PCO. We catch, we catch.’ No, if you catch, I’m human. If you don’t catch, I’m not human. That was going on for maybe ten times, maybe for an hour, an hour and a half, and I had to really fight over (it).”

What drives him to put his body on the line and why does he push the limits? He said it’s his passion for the business.

“For me, it was always like, I’m willing to do things that maybe others aren’t willing to do. It started like that, just to say, ‘Yeah, I’m really dedicated to this business.’ But, also knowing that I was able to maybe pull it off. Even as a kid, I would always do some pretty crazy things. So I always knew I was that guy who could take a lot of pain, absorb a lot of pain, and pretty much get away with it in a way.”

In regards to Impact, PCO made his return to the company at January 2022’s Hard To Kill and it was revealed that he had signed with the promotion. PCO said one of the “strongest points” that made him re-sign for a full year last October was because they knew creatively where to go with his character.

“I really thought that (it) was the best company. The company knew creatively where to go with my character, what to do, what really I had inside myself. They kind of were able to read me and that’s a lot to me. That means a lot to me. That was one of the strongest points that made me re-sign for a full year with Impact because they exactly knew what they had to do in order to make this thing really, really, really work,” he said.

He feels the best part is what the fans haven’t seen yet, noting that there is so much potential and that his gimmick can be the the greatest character in professional wrestling ever.

“We’ve been discussing a lot of it lately with a lot of people on creative. I have the confidence that we can go there. Once we go there, I think it’s going to be the greatest character in professional wrestling ever. I don’t think any other character can approach that character as far as what it is and potential what the characters got in potential in store. It’s crazy.”