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Former Ring of Honor Television Champion Marty Scurll is set to compete with one of Mark Haskins or current champion Ryan Smile for the Over The Top Wrestling 'No Limits Wrestling' Championship in the National Stadium at WrestleRama on August 5th.

Announcing the news over Twitter, the Dublin wrestling promotion revealed that guest General Manager; former WWE Champion Mick Foley, had decided Scurll would face the winner of Smile and Haskins, who face off at OTT's next Tivoli Theatre show; Born to Be Wasted.

"I've spent the last year or two competing at OTT after travelling around the World for years and I pride myself on being an antagonist," said Scurll in an exclusive chat with Irish Daily Mirror. "But in OTT I've come in and the crowds in Dublin have warmed to me each time I come.

"I feel like it was inevitable that I would get a title match, and that it will be at the National Stadium makes it that much sweeter."

Scurll has always had an affinity for the Irish promotion, with whom he has wrestled the likes of Matt Riddle and Jay White. He even announced that OTT was 'home' for him at ScrapperMania III in April.



(Image: © RING OF HONOR Oli Sadler)

"I only wrestle for a handful of companies now but I've always made sure to stick with OTT, because the passion for me lives in Dublin, in Ireland, in OTT.

"A massive part of wrestling is to create special moments, and create art and OTT have given me the platform to do that."

He is unphased by either of his potential opponents, but he didn't mince his words when referring to current champ Ryan Smile, who showed a different side of himself after defeating former UFC fighter Matt Riddle in his most recent defense.

"In terms of who I wrestle, be it Mark Haskins or Ryan Smile, who are both great wrestlers, it doesn't matter to me. I feel like I'm already the fans' champion, so now I get to add the physical belt.

"If you look at Ryan Smile as champion, who is a great wrestler, he wasn't even defending the belt at Scrappermania! He was in a six-man tag.

"He's supposed to be the champion, and he's coming out in silly pants dancing like an idiot. To me, OTT is better than that.

"Look at ScrapperMania [the last OTT show at the National Stadium], the big singles match was me [against Jay White]. The main event wasn't even a title match!

"To have your biggest show of the year not have a title match is a real disappointment. Ryan isn't giving that belt the pride and the honour that I could."



(Image: Over The Top Wrestling)

Scurll catapulted himself to worldwide notoriety when, as part of a ground-breaking storyline, he joined the most famous non-WWE faction in recent memory; Bullet Club.

"With me as champion, OTT can get that worldwide exposure... I can give the company even more of a buzz than it already has and I can bring eyeballs to the product, which it deserves, because it's a hell of a product. It's one of the best places in the world to wrestle.

"Bullet Club literally do rule the wrestling world. We were represented in the main event of Scrappermania, I'll be representing us in the main event of WrestleRama. That speaks volumes of our worldwide appeal... We have a lot of eyes on us, I saw somebody walking down the road today in a Bullet Club."

Scurll clearly has a deep love for the company, whom he has cancelled bookings to perform for in the past. "Obviously, wrestling is a business. It's how I pay my bills, it's how I make my money, but some things overcome that, and OTT is one of those things."

OTT WrestleRama comes to Dublin's National Stadium and Belfast's Mandella Hall on August 5th and 6th respectively, with tickets available on Eventbrite.ie.